Protect College Sports... Red Lines Drawn
- ljm623
- 7 hours ago
- 2 min read
The United States Congress is currently considering legislation called the “Protect College Sports Act”. The bill would provide the NCAA with an antitrust exemption to enforce several rules that have been recently challenged in court.
Within the NCAA, battle lines are already drawn. The ACC and Big-12 are in favor, while the SEC and Big Ten are against it.
History for most proposed legislation reflects an outcome somewhere in the middle of the disagreements.
CaneReports has reviewed the proposed act and suggests the following compromise.
Anti-Trust Exemption:
Congress should give the NCAA an ant-trust exemption to protect the association from legal law suits. However, this exemption should be for only five years, giving college athletics time to save their problems.
Media Rights Pooling:
Congress should give the NCAA’s conferences the right to pool media rights revenue. The SEC and Big Ten do not feel this action would improve the financial parity of conferences. The ACC and Big 12 feel it will help balance the competitive financial balance of college athletics. If it does, great. It will be in the interest of all college athletics. If this move fails to deliver, then the SEC and Big Ten have lost nothing.
Transfer Portal:
Congress should allow the NCAA to place restrictions on student transfer eligibility. While student-athletes should be able to transfer as often as they wish but only with continued eligibility once. This action would eliminate college athletes competing at 26-27 years old against 17-18 year old athletes.
Name-Image-Likeness: (NIL)
Legislation should limit university NIL contracts to no more than 20% of the athletic department’s annual approved budget. Violation would result in the forfeiture of post season and or bowl eligibility.
Stepping Up:
Hall of Fame head coach Nick Saban recently testified before a congressional committee in support of the "Protect College Sports Act". He made a compelling plea for congressional action. Watch below.
BOTTOM LINE:
The “Protect College Sports ACT” would protect the NCAA, conferences, universities, athletic departments, student-athletes and the fans, while promoting parity on the field.
Should congress and the NCAA fail to support these basic RED LINES, then the Department of Justice should move to break up the NCAA through judiciary anti-trust action.
GO CANES!
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