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phatdog
01-24-2024, 02:51 PM
The PASS Act sponsored by Tuberville-Manchin has some interesting things :

Specifically, the PASS Act would:
* Protect student-athletes by:
1. Requiring collectives and boosters to be affiliated with a college or school.
2. Establishing a national standard for NIL.
3. Preserving Title IX and ensuring that nothing in the PASS Act affects the rights of any student-athletes or any programs funded through Title IX.
* Protect higher education institutions by:
1. Ensuring that schools, conferences, and associations are not liable for their efforts to comply with the PASS Act.
2. Prohibiting NIL agreements that involve alcohol, drugs, or conflict with existing school and conference licenses.
3. Requiring student-athletes to ask permission to make use of existing intellectual property (IP).
* Preserve the future of college sports by prohibiting inducements.
* Improve transparency of NIL activities by:
1. Requiring agents and collectives to register with a regulating body.
2. Establishing a public-facing website to publish anonymized NIL data.
3. Requiring all NIL contracts to be disclosed within 30 days.
* Moderate the Transfer Portal by:
1. Requiring student-athletes to complete their first three years of academic eligibility before allowing them to transfer without penalty, subject to a few exceptions.
* Ensure the health and safety of student-athletes by:
1. Guaranteeing health insurance for sports-related injuries for uninsured student-athletes for 8 years following graduation from a 4-year institution.
2. Requiring institutions generating more than $20 million and $50 million in athletics revenue to pay out-of-pocket expenses for two and four years, respectively.
3. Requiring institutions to honor the original scholarship commitment made to a student-athlete.
4. Implementing a Uniform Standard Contract for student-athlete use for NIL deals.
5. Enhancing curriculum on financial literacy, NIL rights, and related legal and regulatory issues.
* Strengthen enforcement and oversight by directing the NCAA to oversee and investigate NIL activities and report violations to the Federal Trade Commission.

CaptainObvious
01-24-2024, 04:59 PM
We All know who is going to oppose this legislation so it has no change of seeing passage.

Pancho
01-25-2024, 08:07 AM
I am afraid you are correct.

BrunswickDawg
01-25-2024, 03:32 PM
If you are a fan of small government, you should be against this. It is government intrusion into an area they have no business being in.

viverlibre
01-25-2024, 03:55 PM
As far as FB, the SEC and B10 need to break away soon. Bring whatever other teams left that are worthy. CFB is two conferences are the rest.

Coursesuper
01-25-2024, 06:25 PM
As far as FB, the SEC and B10 need to break away soon. Bring whatever other teams left that are worthy. CFB is two conferences are the rest.

Who do you think is gaining the advantage from this? The Big Ten and the SEC that’s who, why should our league and the big 10 look for a different approach, it is serving these leagues just like they want it to. The haves are getting richer and the rest are beginning to wither already.

magrooder
01-26-2024, 06:58 PM
Congress should have better things to do than worry about how college players are being compensated. Just let it run it's course and see what happens when everyone is sick of it.

DesotoDog1967
01-29-2024, 04:40 PM
Just read on Twitter by Adam Housley:


22 COLLEGE student athletes are currently making more money than Brock Purdy who is taking San Fran to the Super Bowl.

Commercecomet24
01-29-2024, 04:47 PM
Just read on Twitter by Adam Housley:


22 COLLEGE student athletes are currently making more money than Brock Purdy who is taking San Fren to the Super Bowl.

It really has gone from the ridiculous to the sublime. It's like we're watching a bad futuristic movie!

dawgday166
01-29-2024, 05:29 PM
As I said in another thread, I was floored about 10 to 12 years ago when I found out Saban was making almost twice what the highest paid NFL coach was making (including Belichick). I remember thinking that probably rankled ole Bill since Saban was a protege of his.

NFL fixed that but he still made as high as the high paid (or right there at it) this past year. And Saban was/is a State of Alabama employee.

Johnson85
01-29-2024, 05:53 PM
If you are a fan of small government, you should be against this. It is government intrusion into an area they have no business being in.

This legislation seems awful, and it's not clear it will really even address the problems (it could, or it couldn't, depending on what they mean by "prohibiting inducements"), but the government is already intruding (I'd guess inadvertently from Congress's perspective) because of the laws the courts appear willing to apply to college athletics.

redstickdawg
01-29-2024, 06:01 PM
Congress should have better things to do than worry about how college players are being compensated. Just let it run it's course and see what happens when everyone is sick of it.

the problem with this take is that it is likely to be a total catastrophe before we get this to a point of organic change. It would have to hit rock bottom, sort of like how an addict or alcoholic hits a point of no hope before they seek help. By the time that this happens college sports at most schools will have failed before the $$$$'s at TAMU, UGA, Meatchicken, UTa and others are finished with turning it into the NFL light.

Coursesuper
01-29-2024, 06:16 PM
the problem with this take is that it is likely to be a total catastrophe before we get this to a point of organic change. It would have to hit rock bottom, sort of like how an addict or alcoholic hits a point of no hope before they seek help. By the time that this happens college sports at most schools will have failed before the $$$$'s at TAMU, UGA, Meatchicken, UTa and others are finished with turning it into the NFL light.

You get it.

CaptainObvious
01-29-2024, 08:06 PM
There is no governing body to manage this and no one wants to try and fix it right now because the elites are still running the show. The sports media wants the same 8-10 trans on top because their loyalty is to the $$$$, not to the interests of fairness and a level playing field. Coastal Carolina and Liberty are cute stories for them to write about or talk about, but they aren't going to elevate programs like that into the top 12 and upset the Apple cart. State and Ole Miss was a cute story in 2014 but they couldn't have been more happy when both programs slipped back into anonymity. But then, Lane Kiffin! And all of a sudden Ole Miss is a media darling. I said what I said.

phatdog
01-29-2024, 08:28 PM
The legislation just needs to ban NIL.

Coursesuper
01-29-2024, 09:51 PM
The legislation just needs to ban NIL.

That ship has sailed.