The SEC needs your help. *Cough*
The SCORE Act will preserve the recent gains made by student-athletes to maximize their talents and ensure that academic and athletic opportunities created by women’s and Olympic sports do not disappear. Specifically, the SCORE Act delivers a better future for all college sports by:
- Replacing the patchwork of state name, image, and likeness (NIL) laws with a national standard that creates a fair recruiting and competition environment for all student-athletes and all sports programs.
- Protecting a student-athlete’s right to control and monetize his or her NIL, and codifying a fair and transparent process for regulating NIL agreements.
- Enshrining the groundbreaking economic benefits of the historic House v. NCAA settlement, which includes the opportunity for schools to share athletics’ revenues with student-athletes, in addition to increasing and protecting scholarship opportunities, extended medical coverage, mental health resources, academic support, and degree completion opportunities.
- Preserves student athletes’ status as students, not employees, which is critical to ensure that universities of all sizes across the country have the resources to fund women’s and Olympic sports.
“Patchwork of state name, image, and likeness” is doing some heavy lifting here. With state governments working behind the scenes to sweeten the NIL pot while ignoring more pressing issues that affect our communities, the NIL cash grab is reaching lunatic fringe levels of impact.
Would a return to balance signal a return of potential dynasties? Would it reduce the current parity we’re experiencing in sports? As Texas Tech has suddenly risen to Top 10 status while watching the Vanderbilts of the world suddenly attain football relevance, the NIL era has been a weird one to watch, at best. How would the SCORE Act effect what we’re seeing now, if at all?
Only in favor if bill includes abolishing the NCAA and implementing a new independent governing body that is not controlled by the federal government nor the college presidents. Each sport gets a commissioner reporting to the governing body who have term limits.
I’m for this.
If the Act creates a governing body then isn’t it a government body? I get that some government bodies such as the federal reserve are not controlled by the white house or congress, other than appointments (which is a manner of control) but how will the Act compel the Georgia Bulldogs or the Oregon Ducks or any other Power 5 teams to follow its regulations? When you say you don’t want the college presidents to control the body you also mean the Power 5 athletic departments would have no control over the formulation of the governing body’s rules. Do you really want the 16 SEC schools to have no input into the rules governing their multimillion dollar enterprises?
All I know about the SCORE Act are the bullet point from its supporters. The important stuff is in the details.
Whatever this legislation is supposed to accomplish, you can count on one thing: The fans will have to continue bending over and taking it in the shorts.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/46545303/in-college-squabble-booster-rips-commishes-say-know-talking-about
Not sure I trust this Cody Campbell guy or his bill, but he is definitely “over the target”…. Why the University Presidents and ADs continue to allow someone like Sankey to lead them over the cliff is beyond me…. Like everything else in our society, they are all probably just hoping to make as much as they can, while they can, and keep it together until they retire, then its not their problem anymore if things go to **** after that!
Has anyone here ever tried to herd cats. College football is just like it. Every team is quasi independent, sure there are conferences but you still have every school trying to game the system. As it has always been it will always be. Cheaters going to cheat.
I will say, all you need to herd cats is a laser pointer.
Anything that requires this Congress to fix it, I’m immediately suspicious.
It only suspicious, but outright thievery. They have never gotten anything right.
Why don’t they just call it…we want to get control over these kids again so we can make the $$$ they are getting act?
Wake me up to let me know when they have fixed this.
Not gonna wish you any bad luck or anything related, it looks as though you will be in hibernation for a few decades or so….GO DAWGS!!
Just call me Rip Van Winkle
Will call you Rip, will send you Pappy Van Winkle, in reserve…GO DAWGS!!
I’m good for some Pappy any time.
Genie is out of the bottle. The big money will have the best roster. It’s the NFL with no salary cap or free agency rules. Only way I see to reign it back in – if all the schools/conferences collude and require athletes to sign over NIL rights in order to play.
The NFL has had a free feeder system for a very long time.
It’s their turn to fund it, not Johnny Alum’s.
What are the odds that this passes? What are the odds it even gets a vote?