Save College Sports Act

[Bobby Burton]

For those interested, this Twitter thread by Ross Dellenger of Yahoo gives the most authoritative update on the current situation.

Unfortunately, Cody Campbell also remains in the discussion somehow.

 

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[Bobby Burton]

 

[Bobby Burton]

 

[Bobby Burton]

 

[Bobby Burton]

 

[Burnt Orange Horn]

Depressing how these half assed measures are being pressed!!  Typical government failure 

🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿

[CutaneousHorn]

Why is the president of the Yankees involved?

[Arch2025]

Just don’t Vote for Ted in next election if passes. 

[Steamboat Willie]

19 minutes ago, Bobby Burton said:

For those interested, this Twitter thread by Ross Dellenger of Yahoo gives the most authoritative update on the current situation.

Unfortunately, Cody Campbell also remains in the discussion somehow.

 

 

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I'm not against a bill. NIL, the portal, enforcement, that stuff needs a federal fix. You can't run college sports under 50 different state laws with nobody able to actually enforce anything.

But we started out trying to fix that, and now Congress is setting spending caps, deciding who's allowed to expand, and rewriting how TV rights can be pooled. That's not cleanup anymore. At that point they're writing the operating manual for the whole sport, with everybody in the room lobbying for their own piece.

And the funny part is the SEC and Big Ten opposed the committee bill and now look like they're getting a lot of what they wanted anyway. Not exactly shocking. Those two conferences cover 26 states, that's 52 senators, and you need 60.

If a compromise ends the chaos, fine, I'll take it. I just can't shake the feeling that we're not fixing college sports so much as creating the next mess we'll all be back here arguing about in five years.

[Lnghrn]

Bobby - any idea what is captured in the restrictive NIL language?  Not sure how you can restrict legit nil.   Generally UT is going to be in a good position with legit nil due to size of Austin, UT brand in Texas and nationally.  Hopefully this would get rid of schools that are calling crap nil that is really pay for play.  

[Little Carmine]

Throw the Notre Dame AD out of the decision-making process. Stop treating that place like it's special because it's definitely not

[Beldar]

36 minutes ago, CutaneousHorn said:

Why is the president of the Yankees involved?

Trying to put together as many AH as they can.

 

[.45s]

38 minutes ago, Arch2025 said:

Just don’t Vote for Ted in next election if passes. 

If you live in her state, don't vote for his co-sponsor.

[Beldar]

25 minutes ago, Steamboat Willie said:

I'm not against a bill. NIL, the portal, enforcement, that stuff needs a federal fix. You can't run college sports under 50 different state laws with nobody able to actually enforce anything.

But we started out trying to fix that, and now Congress is setting spending caps, deciding who's allowed to expand, and rewriting how TV rights can be pooled. That's not cleanup anymore. At that point they're writing the operating manual for the whole sport, with everybody in the room lobbying for their own piece.

And the funny part is the SEC and Big Ten opposed the committee bill and now look like they're getting a lot of what they wanted anyway. Not exactly shocking. Those two conferences cover 26 states, that's 52 senators, and you need 60.

If a compromise ends the chaos, fine, I'll take it. I just can't shake the feeling that we're not fixing college sports so much as creating the next mess we'll all be back here arguing about in five years.

They can put in rules but if no enforcement, solves nothing.

 

[Cujonation83]

17 minutes ago, Lnghrn said:

Bobby - any idea what is captured in the restrictive NIL language?  Not sure how you can restrict legit nil.   Generally UT is going to be in a good position with legit nil due to size of Austin, UT brand in Texas and nationally.  Hopefully this would get rid of schools that are calling crap nil that is really pay for play.  

Texas will definitely still be one of the HAVES! Austin is POWERFUL resource UT!

[.45s]

19 minutes ago, Lnghrn said:

Bobby - any idea what is captured in the restrictive NIL language?  Not sure how you can restrict legit nil.   Generally UT is going to be in a good position with legit nil due to size of Austin, UT brand in Texas and nationally.  Hopefully this would get rid of schools that are calling crap nil that is really pay for play.  

Restricting NIL sounds like something the courts will strike down.  I am not sure any cap, if total and includes restrictive NIL, can withstand the courts if there is not some kind of collective bargaining agreement on the part of the players.  

[Jarveaux]

Our Government needs to stay out of college sports. 

[Maddog109]

Unfortunately this whole “Save” act is ALL political. And anytime a politician says they are going to fix something. It turns into bat guano very quickly. The Yankees CEO and Cody just happen to be big donors and buddies of guess who. Enough said. Their interests are not good for the universities involved for athletics or academics. Run like the wind from this bunch.

[Steamboat Willie]

11 minutes ago, Beldar said:

They can put in rules but if no enforcement, solves nothing.

 

Exactly. That's really the whole point. National rules don't accomplish much if nobody has the authority to enforce them and the penalties don't stick. Give college sports one set of rules and real enforcement behind them. That's where Congress can actually help. It's when they start trying to manage conference expansion, TV rights and the entire economics of the sport that they lose me.

[pinkman_90]

Randy Levine is one of the worst people to have involved in literally anything that you want to be successful.  He’s played a critical role in turning the Yankees from powerhouse to bloated and underperforming. 

[Hal Kemp]

8 minutes ago, Jarveaux said:

Our Government needs to stay out of college sports. 

Totally agree with you! Not a federal issue, nor a federal problem.

I hope it doesn’t pass.

[Tuco Ramirez]

One encouraging statement from Dellenger, “ Many of the SEC/Big Ten’s proposed changes in Title II - expansion and pooling rights - are in a “good place.”

Also, he has stated a few times that this bill needs the full support of the sec and B1G in order to pass. So much for cantwell’s arrogance in dismissing and outright targeting the two conferences who are college football. 

[Buck Travis]

The closer CFB gets to Triple A baseball the less interested I will be in watching. 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49441655/stanford-football-players-join-push-collective-bargaining

[watty7796]

Im not against a bill that reigns schools in.  I am however against all schools are equal.  Texas brings in significantly more than Baylor for example.  It should be tiered.  The other issue I have is limiting actual NIL because some players are highly valued and will push this cap way over.  You can not restrict a player on how much they can earn.  By this way of thinking it would be a detriment to other players on the team.  For example Arch, Simmons, Cam, Wingo, and Goosby will probably equal 70% or more.  Where would that leave guys like Biles, D Will, Mosely etc.