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US Senate passes NIL bill

well, I certainly think there need to be rules to protect the athletes and the schools - BUT... having the federal givernment step in
and start regulating it scares me. Just about everything the government EVER DOES, eventually turns into a cash grab where THEY
start taxing and fining everyone then the corruption starts when there's money flowing.
Just check Medicare, various other social benefits, the VA system, all the welfare fraud in Minnesita & LA, etc....
The taxpayers are going under with overregulation and fraud.
We also have a lot of that locally, and nobody ever seems to be held accountable..
 
The House needs to pass this to as it is the best plan to save college sports. The only ones that decide to vote against this are obviously not real fans of the game. Everybody by now should understand that college sports cannot survive with the way it has n
been run these last several seasons.
 
tomahawk chop said:
The House needs to pass this to as it is the best plan to save college sports. The only ones that decide to vote against this are obviously not real fans of the game. Everybody by now should understand that college sports cannot survive with the way it has n
been run these last several seasons.
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when you say "can't survive" , what do you mean? There's some truth to it but for the most part, college sports are more popular than ever.
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I think we need to go back to a system where amateurism is the central concept in college sports (as it once was and still is in high school ball)
If they want to get paid, let them turn pro - there's plenty of pro opportunities out there.
 
yoda said:
I think we need to go back to a system where amateurism is the central concept in college sports (as it once was and still is in high school ball)
If they want to get paid, let them turn pro - there's plenty of pro opportunities out there.
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I remember the days when athletes were students first, stayed four years at the same school (with a few rare exceptions), and pursued meaningful degrees. Good luck getting this to happen, again. When the "free for all" transfer portal and NIL overwhelmed college sports, a Pandora's box was opened. If things hadn't gotten to this point, the feds and Congress wouldn't have had to intervene.
 
64NIT said:
The curious timing of Ted Cruz' Protect College Sports Act
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Opinion | The curious timing of Ted Cruz’s Protect College Sports Act

Keith Reed: The bill is all about putting athletes back in their place
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Pardon me for a short rant... That article is a bit of a distorted and biased interpretation of what the bill is intended to do. First, the writer tries to paint this Protect College Sports Act as some kind of draconian set of unfair rules created solely by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. He suggests the Act is racist and will create a form of modern slavery, which punishes athletes and rewards "wealthy institutions and their benefactors" and "brings college athletes to heel after those athletes finally won a modicum of control over their bodies and labor".

First, the bill is not solely a tyrannical piece of legislation from the mean old Senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, as the writer seems to try to fool readers into believing. The bipartisan primary sponsors of the bill are Republican Senator Cruz and Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Massachusetts). But it also has a bipartisan group of several co-sponsors, who, IMO, are not extremists- Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT), Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Se. Ben Lujan (D-NM), Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), and Jerry Moran (R- KS).

And it passed the Senate with huge bi-partisan support (77-22). It simply attempts to create a structure to college sports that benefits the athletes, and creates a uniform system nationally that preserves college sports and protects the system from the constant landslide of legal battles like we've already seen. The writer seems to think there should be no rules, restrictions, or limitations on athletes transferring nor any limit on how many years they can keep playing college sports. That is exactly what is damaging college sports now. I'm not suggesting this Act is a perfect solution, but it's a step in the right direction, IMO. Every pro sport has restrictions and limitations on free agency, how contracts between athletes and teams are structured, and how revenues are shared. So why shouldn't college sports?
 
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