Federal bill introduced to replace NCAA

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and athletes would be able to transfer “freely” and do so without penalty or restrictions, according to the bill.

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This is what actually needs to be reigned in. Make them sit out a year after their first "free" transfer or at least require a "'student' athlete" to honor his/her commitment to the school for one year.

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Under the bill, conferences would need to include teams within the same time zone, with travel and academic concerns cited as reasons.

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This is stupid. Half of the SEC are in the Central Time Zone and the other half are in the Eastern Time Zone.

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This is what actually needs to be reigned in. Make them sit out a year after their first "free" transfer or at least require a "'student' athlete" to honor his/her commitment to the school for one year.

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100% agree. This would slow that shite down and those clowns that are negotiating.

Make them sign contracts

As bad as things are, we don't need politics in college sports.....we need common sense rules!

Simple, neat, and wrong

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the bill calls for NIL funds and revenue directly shared with the schools to be distributed “equally among all student athletes of such institutions within the ACSA.”

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So the starting QB and the walkon swimmer get equal revenue share when they and their sports generate vastly different amounts of revenue?

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Broadcast revenue would also need to be distributed equally,

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So athletes of sports thats are not even broadcast on tv are entitled to the revenue of those that are?

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and athletes would be able to transfer “freely” and do so without penalty or restrictions, according to the bill.

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So they should have all of the benefits of highly compensated employees with none of the restrictions?

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Under the bill, conferences would need to include teams within the same time zone,

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Syracuse and Miami are in the same time zone and are 1400+ miles apart.

Auburn and Georgia are in different time zones and 170 miles apart.

Are arizona schools switching conferences during the year?

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A coach’s maximum annual salary would have a cap of, “10 times the full cost of attendance at such institution,” according to the text.

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Athletes are entitled to uncapped NIL but coaches aren’t?

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Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA)

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Is a fricking idiot and further proof that an iq test should be required for members of Congress. He should be banned from society for being so stupid.

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This is what actually needs to be reigned in. Make them sit out a year after their first "free" transfer

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Make them sit after the first transfer.

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because the government is so amazingly great at running shite.

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Oh come on now. It always works great when the government gets involved to fix problems it created in the first place.

Why should Nuss be paid the same as a scholarship swimmer? No offense to the swimmer, but football is the only sport that matters. The NCAA holds university feet to the fire on the student side. Progress toward degree is required to remain eligible. 89% of LSU athletes graduate within 6 years. I trust NCAA more than politicians to sustain this focus (i.e. the current system is not broken on this issue). This legislation is reinventing the wheel with a different and non-market based distribution model and possibly less enforcement of academic rules.