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Posted on 05/27/2026 1:20:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A group of U.S. senators introduced new and wide-sweeping legislation Wednesday that aims to address many current issues in college sports, including an effort to restore some rule-making power to the NCAA and open the possibility for conferences to sell their lucrative television rights as one large group.
The Protect College Sports Act, written after months of negotiation between Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Maria Cantwell, would provide the NCAA with an antitrust exemption to enforce several rules that have been challenged in court in recent years. Those rules would include:
Limiting athletes to transferring schools only one time without penalty
Limiting athlete eligibility to a maximum of five years
Prohibiting former professional athletes from playing in college
Prohibiting schools from poaching a coach from another school during their sport's season
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WHY - does the US Senate and Fed.gov feel it necessary to get involved in the management of players and eligibility for college sports?
Even Ted Cruz wants to play the marxist central planner and social engineer.
The NCAA wants them to do it, because the situation is out of control. The NCAA can’t establish any rules, because of rulings by courts in every state. Congress is the only one that can do anything about this situation.
How about taxing universities that run an untaxed pro sports league? It’s bad enough they have multi-billion $ endowments and charge $100k for worthless degrees and indoctrination.
Look how much is spent buying NLI talent for football and basketball. This money spent fir the mist part at state supported institutions.
That may be true. I don't know the in-and-outs of the various governing laws and court cases. I am sure they are many and complex.
I'm not picking on Ted Cruz either.
My point: How can we claim to live in a "republic" where civil society and human freedom and enterprise can exist outside of state control - when Congress needs to get involved in the minutiae of how universities pick their student athletes?
“and open the possibility for conferences to sell their lucrative television rights as one large group”
sounds like the only way telecasters will be able to afford to pay for those rights is pay-per-game for ALL NCAA Division I football games [all the other NCAA sports that no one wants to watch, but are paid for from NCAA football, will be free.]
greed will eventually kill all of college sports, since only the wealthy can afford to pay to watch ... the rest of us will find other things to do with our time ...
Well, this is a case of interstate commerce, so there is a wedge for Congress to deal with it.
They opened the floodgates with the NIL stuff.
Have fun putting that genie back in the bottle.
Because existing government laws have been used in ways that are destroying the sport. Only congressional action can save it
Because existing government laws have been used in ways that are destroying the sport. Only congressional action can save it
That was a court decision, not an NCAA decision.
No one notices an 11-year-old can pitch 70 MPH.
One life, live it!
Why waste a minute of our short time here on earth spectating?
We’re all slaves to Congress!
Indeed. Can’t get election integrity passed but this is clearly much more important! It’s comical, or it’s a diversion - a new thing for people to talk about. Trump should just threaten to veto this and any distractions from the mission and demand Congress get their butts in gear.
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