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Should semipro/college players be paid, or allowed to sell their stuff? (NIL and Revenue Sharing)
- By ScriptOhio
- College Football
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Big Ten, SEC support college sports bill, reviving Senate chances
The Big Ten and SEC agreed Friday night to support a Senate bill that seeks to regulate college sports, ending a breakneck week of negotiations and pulling the bipartisan measure out of what looked like a certain death spiral.School presidents from both conferences voted to back the bill after receiving last-minute concessions over language regarding third-party name-image-likeness deals and the so-called "associated entities" that often broker those arrangements between players and schools.
More details need to be worked out, but the bill still has a chance to earn the 60 votes it needs to halt debate and head to an up-or-down vote before the Senate heads for summer break next Friday.
The summer recess is increasingly looking like an intractable deadline for the Protect College Sports Act, a bipartisan effort headed by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.
After the conferences, which had balked at large sections of the bill, put out a short release announcing they supported the act "as currently drafted," Cruz put out a short statement on social media thanking the leagues and saying: "Let's save college sports."
Cantwell said: "Good. Now progress can be made in protecting women and Olympic athletes and moving the legislation closer to the President's desk."
President Donald Trump, who has also been seeking fixes for an industry that now pays its players millions, got involved late Thursday, which helped push the parties back to the negotiating table.
Cody Campbell, the Texas Tech regent who has played a big role in shaping this policy, called the SEC and Big Ten support "a major breakthrough that moves us closer to a Senate vote -- and a better future" for college sports.
Increased salary cap, new language entice holdout leagues
The most groundbreaking part of the reworked deal is the $27.5 million that schools would be allotted to retain players, in addition to the $21.3 million cap that already exists.
It could represent a major reworking of the House settlement -- the groundbreaking agreement that governs paying players. The idea is that the extra money will take the place of payments from "associated entities" that were allowed above and beyond the $21.3 million cap. It was those payments that, many schools complained, obliterated any idea of a cap or controlled cost.
The SEC and Big Ten sought stronger language in the bill to guarantee that any third-party deals are truly outside deals and not coming from the schools' multimedia-rights partners, which currently arrange the majority of those deals.
Among the questions still unanswered are whether the new cap will comport with the House settlement, which had specific instructions about the hard cap (22% of a certain part of athletic department revenues, which equals $21.3 million this season).
Also, what would happen to the College Sports Commission, the main NIL enforcement arm that spends the bulk of its time analyzing third-party NIL deals that would be greatly reduced under this arrangement?
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Compromise comes on a day where NCAA loses two more court rulings
Almost everyone involved in college sports agrees that the status quo isn't working.
The news broke only hours after the NCAA lost a pair of key court cases involving its new rule that would give most Division I athletes five years to complete five seasons of eligibility.
Using those losses as another chance to urge for passage of the bill, NCAA president Charlie Baker said: "It is long past time leaders across college sports call for the immediate passage of the bipartisan Protect College Sports Act."
Two-time national champion hoops coach Dan Hurley of UConn used social media to outline the stakes in more colorful terms: "Somebody please come and fix College Sports. It's a complete [expletive] show," he said, using an emoji where the expletive would go.
Jayden Fielding Exploring Return to College Football After Judge Grants Fifth Year of Eligibility to 2022 Class
Former Ohio State kicker Jayden Fielding is exploring a return to college football after a court order granted a fifth year of eligibility to players in the 2022 recruiting class.
Following the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney on Friday, a host of athletes whose college careers ended last year have declared that they will seek the opportunity to play another year of college sports
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PK Jayden Fielding (All B1G, National Champion, Ottawa Redblacks)
- By ScriptOhio
- Buckeye Alumni
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Jayden Fielding Exploring Return to College Football After Judge Grants Fifth Year of Eligibility to 2022 Class
Former Ohio State kicker Jayden Fielding is exploring a return to college football after a court order granted a fifth year of eligibility to players in the 2022 recruiting class.
Jayden Fielding Exploring Return to College Football After Judge Grants Fifth Year of Eligibility to 2022 Class
Jayden Fielding could be returning to college football.
247Sports’ Chris Hummer reported Saturday that the former Ohio State kicker is exploring a return to college football for a fifth year of eligibility after a Colorado judge issued a court order on Friday requiring the NCAA to grant a fifth year of eligibility to all athletes in the 2022 recruiting class.
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Fielding, who did not redshirt at Ohio State, exhausted his eligibility after playing his fourth season as a Buckeye last year. Following a June rule change last month to eliminate redshirts and grant all players five years of eligibility, however, the NCAA has faced a host of lawsuits from athletes in the 2022 recruiting class who exhausted their eligibility last year but are now seeking an opportunity to play a fifth year of college sports because of the recent rule change.
Following the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney on Friday, a host of athletes whose college careers ended last year have declared that they will seek the opportunity to play another year of college sports, and Fielding is now joining that group.
It is unlikely Fielding’s return would be at Ohio State. Baylor transfer Connor Hawkins is expected to be the Buckeyes’ new starting kicker this season, while Ohio State also added Notre Dame transfer Marcello Diomede and freshman Cooper Peterson this offseason to back up Hawkins.
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Re: The former Ohio State kicker signed with the Canadian Football League’s Ottawa Redblacks on Tuesday.
Just sayin': Yeah, but he already signed a pro contract....
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Off season thread. Post the view of where you are right now.
- By BuckBackHome
- Open Discussion (Work-safe)
- 55 Replies
Sugar loading before back to reality.
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2026 Countdown Thread (25 Days)
- Buckeye Football
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Tommy Eichenberg, a Buckeye stalwart!
Matt Wilhelm, a Buckeye legend!
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