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Proposed bill
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There are ways around the “restraint”.
Seriously this is needed … the exemption is sorely needed.
Truthfully the B1G and SEC are not acting in the best interest of college sports. And maybe they need to be restrained. The NFL and MLB and NBA have anti-trust exemptions.
Seriously this is needed … the exemption is sorely needed.
Truthfully the B1G and SEC are not acting in the best interest of college sports. And maybe they need to be restrained. The NFL and MLB and NBA have anti-trust exemptions.
Sorry, I can't get on board more restraint. Propping up schools that can't and don't provide enough value on their own isn't how things should run.
The NFL and NBA have anti-trust exemptions. This is needed because left alone Green Bay wouldn’t exist. If left alone the KC Royals would be in Nashville or San Antonio not Kansas City. Same for the Chiefs. The playing field isn’t level to start with.
Do you think Nebraska is at the same starting spot as Ohio State? It isn’t of course … enrollment, alumni, endowment, population … so on and so forth.
Without guardrails and boundaries … which is the current environment … the weak will perish and the middle class will never have great success.
Want to see CFB without an anti-trust exemptions?
- Look at MLB …
- Crimson Tide, Buckeyes, Ducks = Dodgers, Astros, Yankees.
- Huskers, Hawkeyes, Badgers = Brewers, Royals, A’s.
- The end of Olympic sports
- The end of Title IX
- The literal closure of athletic programs if not universities.
If skyrocketing roster values good for anyone but the athletes?
Is unfettered player movement good?
We are not putting the genie back in the bottle but it’s time to reign in some of the idiocy.
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One of the stipulations of this bill is that no movement - player or coach - can happen until the season is complete.
Awesome...enjoy watching the same 32 teams play each other every Saturday.....oh wait, that already happens every Sunday (and Monday, and Thursday, and sometimes Friday and Wednesday)
Just to verify, does the "season" also include all bowl games, including the playoff championship game?
I don’t think the details are finalized. The bill proposed mandates a no-movement moratorium but the details haven’t yet been fleshed out.
I’m not sure this is an accurate portrayal. Just one version. My take is the SEC and the BIG are headed a direction that the NCAA should have taken college football all along and that is a separation of the 140 division 1 entities into two separate divisions. Week in and out there are way to many worthless overmatched games being played.
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Restricting player movement would probably be adequate to nullify coach movement midseason. As it stands, you want your head coach and staff early enough to deal with a transfer window that opens while games are still being played. That part is crazy.
It’s one more issue that would be solved by having collective bargaining and making the players employees of the schools. You could implement a salary cap, contractually limit outside employment (giving a true mechanism to limit NIL abuse), have annual contracts which make player movement a lot more orderly when there are transfers.
Also, it would withstand the type of antitrust infractions that many fear will upend the clearinghouse model, as soon as it’s legally challenged.
We would finally call a spade a spade, and the players would be student-employees rather than the facade of amateurism.
It’s one more issue that would be solved by having collective bargaining and making the players employees of the schools. You could implement a salary cap, contractually limit outside employment (giving a true mechanism to limit NIL abuse), have annual contracts which make player movement a lot more orderly when there are transfers.
Also, it would withstand the type of antitrust infractions that many fear will upend the clearinghouse model, as soon as it’s legally challenged.
We would finally call a spade a spade, and the players would be student-employees rather than the facade of amateurism.
You're using an employer/employee model.
That isn't what we have here. If we do move to that, things will be worse.
Exactly. It already happens. Most people don't watch teams 40 and up.
Model for what?
I am arguing an anti-trust exemption is necessary. Depending on how that exemption is written by Congress will determine whether it is an employer/employee relationship or not.
The framework proposed by Ted Cruz puts limits on player/coach movement, it puts limits on what the B1G/SEC can do … once those limitations are in then the “model” will take shape.
Bottom line is without anti-trust legislation the players will litigate the sport into oblivion. The gambler Sorsby stands a chance of winning because he will claim individual harm from the rules in place. Player movement, player pay, player benefits are already without control parameters in large part because there are no guardrails in place.
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Do you want Congress putting limits on who in your industry can move around and how much they can make?
What have you ever seen the government get involved with and it's better?
Why should the B1G/SEC have limits placed on them because they're the most successful and popular? Why does Fresno State get a reward for being horrible at sports?
