If you are a D2 football player, and you want to go into the transfer portal to play this fall, you need to do it today, the deadline is up. https://t.co/UsNWYvSXvE
@SenTedCruz Senator, you can’t restrict citizens from making money legally. I’d also point out that these schools are the same organizations who you’ve said are involved in ideological indoctrination. Now you want to give them special protections to engage in anti capitalism?
@NILnotNLI Translation: administrators get all the money these kids work their tails off for, and the kids get nothing but a degree, if they are lucky, which they also work the tails off for. Not going back to that share cropping model pal, forget it.
@tommyreamon That’s life, it’s why college football allowed so many of us to go on to thrive as adults. Adapt and overcome. I’ve seen 17 year olds beat out 23 year olds in college football. Quit whining and put the ball down. Don’t want to run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.
@LBknowsBall If sports are a marketing arm of the University, then marketing comes at a cost. The fact that, by denying players market worth for so many years prior, football proceeds were used to cover those costs, should be of no consequence. Easy fix: set budgets, work within those means
We are all still reading this bill, but its primary effect seems to be to limit the compensation of athletes while protecting the huge salaries of all the adults - coaches, ADs, sports industry executives - who are getting rich off the performance of the players. And it gives the NCAA an antitrust exemption that no other industry gets just so they can keep underpaying the athletes. Sure, there are some good things for players in this bill, but this seems like a great deal for the NCAA and the rich guys who run college sports, and a bad deal for athletes.
@SenEricSchmitt@SenTedCruz@SenatorCantwell@ChrisCoons College sports aren’t on the brink of collapse. You shouldn’t embrace that hysterical narrative pushed by self serving college administrators, to restrict the rights of US citizens to earn what the market will bear. Cut it out.
@SenateCommerce@tedcruz@SenTedCruz@SenatorCantwell As one of your constituents and supporters, this smells an awful lot communism Senator. A US citizen’s right to earn from their work cannot be restricted without a collective bargaining agreement. Love to discuss it with you some time.