Save College Sports Act

1 hour ago, Burnt Orange Horn said:

University athletic programs are not profit generators for the vast majority of universities.  Varsity Sports are  extracurricular opportunities for their students to represent the University in athletic competitions.  Intramural sports are on campus activities open to all student participation levels at the University's expense.

Economic models like capitalism and socialism are inappropriate, at best.

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And yet they attempt to restrict what should be a free market.

1 hour ago, Burnt Orange Horn said:

The pros are a free labor market. The have player associations.

College student athletes still have academic requirements at most universities.

The NCAA is broken and only its University members are maintaining its illusion of relevance for the media cash flow it enables.

The NCAA has always been broken. What you believe in in how these kids are student athletes doesn't exist anymore. Most of these "athletes" probably don't even go to class anymore. Gerry has hinted at this on numerous occasions. The genie is out of the bottle and it ain't going back in. Forget what college sports used to be. This is a new era, embrace it or move onto something else.

That's nonsense when you say, "it's not fair." These are student athletes. They are not getting a salary for a job.

No one is arguing they should not be able to profit off their popularity, hence NIL legislation, but that is a long way from pay to play. 

Again, if this is going to be nothing but a G-League for the NFL where players are paid for a job, then the schools need to divest of this nonsense and let the NFL find investors for each team, a city to locate them in, and finally a NFL club to link them to. 

If on the other hand they want to preserve college football and the collegiate athlete, then they need legislation that allows them to do that. 

3 hours ago, Longhornlove said:

This Act is anti-capitalistic, it protects the weak and has no business being passed.

So is the NFL. 

They should be student athletes.  They should have to attend classes.  Carson Beck received far greater benefit from college football than he gave to it for example.  As I understand it, he wasn’t actually a student attending classes.  That’s ridiculous.

The SEC is protecting Kentucky and Vanderbilt and maybe some others.  The Big 10 is protecting others yet little talk about kicking them out.

lots of talking out each side of the mouth.

4 hours ago, GoHorns1 said:

There’s going collective bargaining because it won’t work without it.

While I agree, we're a lonnnnng way from that. It starts with the schools conceding that these revenue-sport athletes are employees, and they won't do that. 

When enough schools cry uncle, things will change, but not until then.

In the meantime, the schools have no business trying to limit compensation for a legal activity. Supply and demand for the win!

2 hours ago, mmdaytontexas said:

That's nonsense when you say, "it's not fair." These are student athletes. They are not getting a salary for a job.

No one is arguing they should not be able to profit off their popularity, hence NIL legislation, but that is a long way from pay to play. 

Why are they popular enough to be paid?

2 hours ago, mmdaytontexas said:

Again, if this is going to be nothing but a G-League for the NFL where players are paid for a job, then the schools need to divest of this nonsense and let the NFL find investors for each team, a city to locate them in, and finally a NFL club to link them to. 

If on the other hand they want to preserve college football and the collegiate athlete, then they need legislation that allows them to do that. 

The colleges want it both ways. They were the ones that built the huge stadiums (many larger than those used by actual pros). They took in all the money and paid it to people of their choosing, who were not the ones actually playing the games, because they relied on the public believing that it was an activity engaged in by everyday students.

The financial part relies on the loyalty of college grads who lived the experience and want it to continue. Removing the college connection will cause it to crash (which is why the schools, who control the money, are doing all they can to keep it flowing while still paying the athletes as little as possible.

The problem is that the courts are no longer looking the other way when the NCAA says, "This is how we've always done it."

At least in the Senate the tide may have turned again. According to Dellenger the 2 conferences are close to supporting it now.

Of course still a long way to go. But with the cap going to 50 million, get ready for patches on all UT Jerseys 🤣

https://x.com/RossDellenger/status/2083345491635446035?s=20

May be on the brink of a deal . At least for now, but such a long way to go even then.

https://x.com/RossDellenger/status/2083349983437156769?s=20

They pulled a rabbit out of the hat . Big Ten  now voted to support the Bill. SEC later tonight it seems.

https://x.com/RossDellenger/status/2083354216962072946?s=20