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Congress Attempting to Create Framework Around a College Athlete's Bill of Rights

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PhillyNut's picture
August 13, 2020 at 9:46am
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https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/29651474/senators-lay-fra...

NCAA cannot figure this out on their own so they decide to go to an even more dysfunctional organization to get help to set this up.  That aside some of the concepts make sense but it is always in how you execute that things get tied up in knots. This one in particular will be a challenge to do right:

• Create revenue-sharing agreements with associations, conference and schools that result in "fair and equitable compensation"

If you do not standardize this across all conferences and schools as to what the payouts would be, if you do not pool all the monies that will be used for compensation then all you are going to do is make college football like major league baseball - the richest schools will be able to provide the most compensation as will the richest conferences so the gap between the haves and have nots will get even bigger. Being an Ohio State fan as long as the decision to not play this fall does not have a long term impact then if it is not standardized at the national level then we will still be one of the "haves" so selfishly that works for me but just do not believe it will be good for the long term health of the sport.

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