Never in my professional life did I think the college athletics legal landscape could get more complicated, but here are we are with this absolute mess.
Every serious bill is imperfect. Thatโs not the issue. The issue is that PCSA will likely take a chaotic legal landscape and make it more chaotic โ not less (FWIW, that takes real skill so kudos to the crafters of this legislation for that. ๐๐)
Here are six recommendations to fix this mess:
1. Condition the antitrust immunity on supervision. Everything hangs off this. Right now Sec. 118 shields private enforcement with no governmental supervisor. But we already have a doctrine built for exactly this problem. In NC State Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC, the Court held that private actors get antitrust immunity only when they're actively supervised by the state. Borrow it. Condition the immunity on a federal active-supervision mechanism โ FTC review, or an independent oversight board โ so immunity attaches only when enforcement actually meets it. That single change turns "federally protected private governance" into governance that's accountable to someone.
2. Give that enforcement a spine of due process. Eligibility determinations, NIL-deal rejections, and agent decertifications (Secs. 103, 114) are private adjudications shielded from challenge. Require notice, a neutral arbiter, and a right of appeal โ and tie the immunity to meeting those standards. Private power plus federal cover plus no process is how you generate the next decade of litigation, not how you end it.
3. Define "valid business purpose." Sec. 114 bans circumvention but leaves the meaning of "real NIL" to the College Sports Commission's discretion. A standardless test is litigation bait. Write safe harbors and valuation benchmarks into the statute so the line is knowable in advance instead of fought over after the fact.
4. Stop punting employment. Sec. 122's "neutrality" doesn't resolve the labor question โ it just relocates it to the courts. Either resolve status or build a defined collective-bargaining-style mechanism.
5. Give Title IX a rule, not a lawsuit. Revenue-sharing, roster limits, and medical benefits will all generate Title IX disputes. Spell out in the text how revenue-share interacts with Title IX rather than outsourcing the hardest allocation question in the bill to years of litigation.
6. Narrow the immunity itself. "Compensation, eligibility, transfersโฆ and related matters" is open-ended. Enumerate what's covered, attach a sunset and mandatory review, and require the Commission (Sec. 116) to report to Congress before any renewal. Tailored cover, not a blank check.
None of these are radical. They're the difference between an antitrust exemption and an accountable regulatory regime. The bill already has the good parts โ NIL uniformity, medical and academic protections, real agent regulation. Fix the governance spine and it becomes defensible.
"No bill is perfect" was never the objection. The objection is that these problems are fixable now, before enactment โ and the rush to avoid fixing them is itself the tell. Slow down and supervise the supervisors.
in the US, about 95% of men identify as straight. so 5% are not straight. there are ~2,400 active players in the big 4. basic math says there should be ~120 non-straight players then. and yet there are 0 OPENLY gay/bi players. maybe pride is a little more necessary than you think
If you need to "fund" cancer research for 40 years, you arent even trying to find a cure. Maybe with $300 billion we could solve a fake kidnapping plot.
With $300 billion, we could end homelessness, fund cancer research for 40 years, and give every child free pre-K for over 7 years. Instead, Trump is sending it to Iran. This is not America First. Not even close.
The real issue is not even that @elonmusk is a trillionaire, but it is how a country that is producing such unprecedented wealth can fail to provide healthcare for all its citizens.
It is a values issue.
We need a New Deal for our time.
@EleanorClift@MarkHalperin
โHeโs a big kid that can do it all. He does not turn the ball over and does not miss open guys. He is about as good as you can be at all the stuff you canโt coachโthe off-platform throws, the tight-window throws.โ
Just how good is Brendan Sorsby? We have the intel here: https://t.co/ZabLY85EFs
Israel's total GDP is $540 billion. Iran's heavily sanctioned rump economy is $437 billion
An unsanctioned and reconstructed Iran will be many times more economically & strategically important to the world than Israel
This is why Israel finds a deal intolerable
They could have put those verses on their caps any other month and have could have done it for the whole year on non-major League baseball caps. But they decided to do it pride month because they have to let everybody know how selfish and insecure they are because they have an imaginary friend who allegedly doesn't have much acceptance or tolerance for gay people
I don't understand why Elon is a trillionaire but I worked as a public school teacher for 57 years with almost no sexual assault allegations and I'm broke.
How about you do something that truly fixes SS? Why not raise the retirement age and eliminate SS eligibility for anyone with a 401k over XXXโpick a number above 5 million? That would do more to fix SS than Elon and every other billionaire combined. You won't do it because you're too much of a pussy and worried about the damage it would do to your party. So if you're not interested in really fixing it, but instead professing your faux rage at the people who are smarter and work harder than you, kindly go fuck yourself
The worldโs first trillionaire pays the same amount into Social Security as an American making $184,500.
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Social Security is currently set to run out by 2032. We need to lift the cap on taxable income NOW and hold Elon Musk and the ultrarich accountable.
SpaceX stock is up $100 billion today
In one day.
And you're telling me Elon Musk can't pay a $100 billion annual wealth tax to the European Union?
It's literally just one day of wages for him.
Tax Elon Musk NOW.
Iโm confident @ByronDonalds will come back next year with a plan that gains the support of all Floridians if the ballot measure doesnโt succeed in November. Heโs committed to efficiency in all levels of government, and providing Floridians with the relief they deserve.
Florida's net gain of just 815 retirees in 2025 signals a growing trend of older residents leaving the state for South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee, driven by soaring insurance costs, extreme heat, and a cost of living that has outpaced expectations.
Read: https://t.co/IzF8iNSKb0
Florida RB Jadan Baugh is an easy watch when looking for a pro skillset
228 pounds with patience, short area quickness, finishes runs with power and looks like a plus in multiple areas of the pass game