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Based on an article in the N Y Times,
A bipartisan Senate bill is coming to stabilize college sports. What’s in it, and will it work?
Probably paywalled unless you subscribe. Sorry.
Protect College Sports Act is the U.S.Senate bill, different from the recently failed House bill called the SCORE Act.
The bill would allow the NCAA to
1) limit transfers and eligibility,
2) enforce a spending cap,
3) give conferences the ability to pool their television rights and
4) prevent coaches from leaving their teams before the end of the season.
5) create a narrow antitrust exemption regarding athlete transfer and eligibility limits, which would shield the NCAA and conferences from legal challenges on rules established to regulate those areas.
It also includes language to prevent a possible breakaway “super league” by the Big Ten and SEC.
However, the bill is still a long way from being ratified and will face significant steps and hurdles in the coming months, including likely resistance from the Big Ten and SEC, a polarized Congress and political climate, and this fall’s midterm elections functioning as a de facto deadline.
I will add some personal attempts at pros snd cons for each major point in the bill and invite debate.
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Let me start with (5) the anti-trust exemption. pro: necessary to allow the rest. con: once created, these are nearly impossible to undo, for political inertia reasons.
1) limit transfers and eligibility- pros-
reduce portal madness, chaos, gross roster instability. Allow coaches to return some energy to traditional recruiting and player development instead of being purchasing agents.
con: biggest P4 conferences will lose some ability to buy championships at the expense of the other ~320 D1 teams.
How about we debate that much before wading deeper into the muck?
A bipartisan Senate bill is coming to stabilize college sports. What’s in it, and will it work?
Probably paywalled unless you subscribe. Sorry.
Protect College Sports Act is the U.S.Senate bill, different from the recently failed House bill called the SCORE Act.
The bill would allow the NCAA to
1) limit transfers and eligibility,
2) enforce a spending cap,
3) give conferences the ability to pool their television rights and
4) prevent coaches from leaving their teams before the end of the season.
5) create a narrow antitrust exemption regarding athlete transfer and eligibility limits, which would shield the NCAA and conferences from legal challenges on rules established to regulate those areas.
It also includes language to prevent a possible breakaway “super league” by the Big Ten and SEC.
However, the bill is still a long way from being ratified and will face significant steps and hurdles in the coming months, including likely resistance from the Big Ten and SEC, a polarized Congress and political climate, and this fall’s midterm elections functioning as a de facto deadline.
I will add some personal attempts at pros snd cons for each major point in the bill and invite debate.
—————
Let me start with (5) the anti-trust exemption. pro: necessary to allow the rest. con: once created, these are nearly impossible to undo, for political inertia reasons.
1) limit transfers and eligibility- pros-
reduce portal madness, chaos, gross roster instability. Allow coaches to return some energy to traditional recruiting and player development instead of being purchasing agents.
con: biggest P4 conferences will lose some ability to buy championships at the expense of the other ~320 D1 teams.
How about we debate that much before wading deeper into the muck?
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