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House, Senate members drum up support for compensating college athletes
ESPN ^ | Oct 16, 2019 | Dan Murphy

Posted on 10/18/2019 5:36:27 AM PDT by FatherofFive

"The reality is Congress is going to act," U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Wednesday. "We're coming for you, [NCAA]." Romney participated in a roundtable discussion with several other politicians, advocates and others involved in the sports world such as NFL Players Association attorney Joe Briggs and ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas. Romney told ESPN he was committed to finding a better way to compensate college athletes.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: congress; mittromney; romney; romneyagenda; romneycare; romneymarriage; romneytaxes; sports
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To: babble-on

Not a fan of Big Government sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong. Not a big fan of Mitt Romney.

HOWEVER....

This could not happen to a more deserving bunch of people than the NCAA.


21 posted on 10/18/2019 5:59:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: FatherofFive

Because college athletes aren’t catered enough to already. Jeezez. Fame, fortune, and being 19 don’t mix well.


22 posted on 10/18/2019 6:00:14 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: FatherofFive

Somehow I missed this as an enumerated power granted government by The People via the Constitution.


23 posted on 10/18/2019 6:02:23 AM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: FatherofFive

With the realization that Hillsdale College will be immune from any college stupidity written IRS law for these proposals, the rationale for not taking any federal monies is all the more the reasonable approach. The corollary to this, is that the Feral Govt’s subsidies, loans, regulations and laws should be removed. Let colleges fend for themselves, and the Government butt-out.


24 posted on 10/18/2019 6:02:52 AM PDT by C210N (If you dislike productive billionaires, be 1,000 times more suspect of one confiscatory trillionaire)
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To: FatherofFive

Another thing Congress has ZERO business being involved with.


25 posted on 10/18/2019 6:03:06 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: babble-on

Me too.


26 posted on 10/18/2019 6:03:32 AM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: Drango

The NCAA only brought this on themselves with obscene coach and AD pay. Saban is making $8 million a year to coach “amateur” athletes.


27 posted on 10/18/2019 6:03:38 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Westbrook

Easy way to placate the masses.


28 posted on 10/18/2019 6:04:23 AM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: pburgh01
Cheating programs like Georgia, Alabama and Clemson in sweaty armpit Southern towns are deeply saddened. Could be the end of their life as they know it in those states. Not being able to vicariously live through the athletic accomplishments of 20 year old young men.

Oh please....you're telling Notre Dame, Penn State (aka pedaphile U), USC are as pure as the driven snow??

29 posted on 10/18/2019 6:04:30 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: lodi90

I’m not defending the NCAA.


30 posted on 10/18/2019 6:06:35 AM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: babble-on

‘It will destroy college sports as we know them, and therefore I support it.’

for what imaginable reason do you wish to destroy college sports...?


31 posted on 10/18/2019 6:08:26 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Drango
Me to 5 star recruit: “If you play football at [my university], I’ll buy 5 of your signed jerseys for $10,000 each.”
5 star recruit: Deal!
Alabama: $20,000 each!
Clemson: $30,000 each!
What could go wrong?

You really nailed it. It won't be the schools, it will be the "Booster" groups. The richest schools will make the best offers.

32 posted on 10/18/2019 6:08:33 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: ealgeone

Strike a nerve I see with goobers and gumps. PSU, USC and Notre Dame have an actual university connected to the football complex. Look at Alabama’s academic ranking , I’ll save you the trouble..it’s 110...that is 109 public universities are better than it. Notre Dame, USC and PSU are all in top 1/3. This is a stupid argument, Bama , Clemson and Georgia are about jock sniffer alumni in states when it’s not bass fishing season or get drunk down at the beach house season, it’s about living vicariously thorough black athletes. The kids should get paid


33 posted on 10/18/2019 6:10:29 AM PDT by pburgh01 (Negan all the MSM)
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To: Flycatcher

With sponsorship rather than scholarship, they’ll start kneeling.


34 posted on 10/18/2019 6:10:50 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: DakotaGator
Somehow I missed this as an enumerated power granted government by The People via the Constitution.

Look again. It's just after the right to abortion.

35 posted on 10/18/2019 6:11:27 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive

If they just swear their allegiance to communism, the government will make sure they get paid. You know, like the NBA.


36 posted on 10/18/2019 6:14:07 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: IrishBrigade
for what imaginable reason do you wish to destroy college sports...?

Being routinely stuffed into your own locker by the Team?

37 posted on 10/18/2019 6:18:24 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Is it time Claire?)
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To: FatherofFive

with the Romney Agenda,
do homosexuals get only three times as much?
what bonus is given for attacking America or conservatives?
is it yearly or only during college?


38 posted on 10/18/2019 6:19:29 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: pburgh01
Strike a nerve I see with goobers and gumps. PSU, USC and Notre Dame have an actual university connected to the football complex.

Dude...sit down.

Bryant–Denny Stadium. Bryant–Denny Stadium is an outdoor stadium in the southeastern United States, on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

Sanford Stadium (in full Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium) is the on-campus playing venue for football at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

This is a stupid argument, Bama , Clemson and Georgia are about jock sniffer alumni in states when it’s not bass fishing season or get drunk down at the beach house season, it’s about living vicariously thorough black athletes. The kids should get paid

As yes, the veiled false charge of racism rears its ugly little head.

You're asserting there are no black athletes at Notre Dame, USC or Pedaphile U?

You're asserting that Yankees don't get drunk on the weekend or folks from NYC don't head out to the beach?

Your sectionalism and racism and general ignorance of the topic are shining through your posts.

39 posted on 10/18/2019 6:22:08 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: IrishBrigade

Because it’s a cesspool of corruption and exploitation and there’s no logical reason that the university system should be operating multi-billion dollar entertainment corporations under the guise of educating students.


40 posted on 10/18/2019 6:22:12 AM PDT by babble-on
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