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This.
Georgia is second out of the gate and promptly shoots themselves right in the foot. It's kind of remarkable actually.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
5 Star recruit: I won't come to Georgia if you make me contribute 74.99% of my NIL money to a common fund. What's mine is mine.
3 or 4 Star recruit: I won't come to Georgia if you don't set up the 74.99% to the common fund, etc. I want my share too.
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5 Star recruit: I won't come to Georgia if you make me contribute 74.99% of my NIL money to a common fund. What's mine is mine.
3 or 4 Star recruit: I won't come to Georgia if you don't set up the 74.99% to the common fund, etc. I want my share too.
3 stars are about to learn a lesson in economics. There are a whole lot more 3 stars than their are 5 stars.
"The 3 star behind you will come for less than 74.99%. Let me know your answer by Friday" etc etc etc
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The idea of “pooling” the money one person makes and giving it to other people who don’t make any has a name.
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Chairmans Mao and Stalin would have to weigh in here.
Pooling is a nice sounding, new way to say the same old thing though.
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Onebuckfan
classof76
If the electorate falls for it it’s socialism.. if it’s done at gun point it’s communism.
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Or to put it another way, you can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Congressional bill introduced would allow college athletes to form unions, become employees
College athletes would be able to form players' unions and would be considered employees of their schools if a new Congressional bill introduced Thursday morning is passed into law.
The College Athletes Right to Organize bill, co-authored by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., presents a direct challenge to the NCAA's foundational premise of amateurism. It asserts that any college athletes who are compensated by their school for their athletic ability -- whether through a scholarship or other means -- should have the right to organize and collectively bargain. A companion bill is also being introduced in the House by Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), Andy Levin (D-Mich.) and Lori Trahan (D-Mass).
"Big time college sports haven't been 'amateur' for a long time, and the NCAA has long denied its players economic and bargaining rights while treating them like commodities," Murphy said in a statement Thursday morning. "...It's a civil rights issue, and a matter of basic fairness."
Murphy has pushed for aggressive NCAA reforms in Congress since March 2019 when he began publishing a series of reports questioning the multibillion-dollar business model of big-time college sports. He and Trahan have also introduced one of several Congressional bills that would guarantee college athletes' ability to make money from third-party sources by selling the rights to their names, images and likenesses (NIL). While major changes related to NIL rights are expected to redefine the way college athletes can receive compensation from third-party groups starting this summer, Thursday's bill goes a step further than almost all of the other NCAA reforms that have been pushed by federal and state lawmakers in the past year by attempting to significantly reframe the relationship between athletes and their schools.
The new bill would establish each athletic conference as a bargaining unit, giving players in those conferences the ability to organize and bargain for changes in compensation, working conditions, hours and more. The bill also includes language that would make sure the current tax status applied to sports scholarships is not changed and that being considered an employee would not create additional tax burdens or impact an athlete's federal financial aid status.
Entire article: https://www.espn.com/college-sports...college-athletes-form-unions-become-employees
College athletes would be able to form players' unions and would be considered employees of their schools if a new Congressional bill introduced Thursday morning is passed into law.
The College Athletes Right to Organize bill, co-authored by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., presents a direct challenge to the NCAA's foundational premise of amateurism. It asserts that any college athletes who are compensated by their school for their athletic ability -- whether through a scholarship or other means -- should have the right to organize and collectively bargain. A companion bill is also being introduced in the House by Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), Andy Levin (D-Mich.) and Lori Trahan (D-Mass).
"Big time college sports haven't been 'amateur' for a long time, and the NCAA has long denied its players economic and bargaining rights while treating them like commodities," Murphy said in a statement Thursday morning. "...It's a civil rights issue, and a matter of basic fairness."
Murphy has pushed for aggressive NCAA reforms in Congress since March 2019 when he began publishing a series of reports questioning the multibillion-dollar business model of big-time college sports. He and Trahan have also introduced one of several Congressional bills that would guarantee college athletes' ability to make money from third-party sources by selling the rights to their names, images and likenesses (NIL). While major changes related to NIL rights are expected to redefine the way college athletes can receive compensation from third-party groups starting this summer, Thursday's bill goes a step further than almost all of the other NCAA reforms that have been pushed by federal and state lawmakers in the past year by attempting to significantly reframe the relationship between athletes and their schools.
The new bill would establish each athletic conference as a bargaining unit, giving players in those conferences the ability to organize and bargain for changes in compensation, working conditions, hours and more. The bill also includes language that would make sure the current tax status applied to sports scholarships is not changed and that being considered an employee would not create additional tax burdens or impact an athlete's federal financial aid status.
Entire article: https://www.espn.com/college-sports...college-athletes-form-unions-become-employees
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Lawmakers agree NCAA needs NIL help, but how much and when?
A federal law governing how college athletes can earn money off their fame and celebrity seems certain to pass – at some point.
There is no real debate among lawmakers on Capitol Hill about whether athletes should be permitted to monetize their name, image and likeness.
“There is broad consensus that Congress should pass a law that grants athletes NIL rights,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said Wednesday during a hearing held by the Senate Commerce Committee.
But less than a month before NIL laws go into effect in several states, NCAA President Mark Emmert was back in Washington renewing his plea for help from Congress – help that is unlikely to come as soon as the NCAA would like.
For some lawmakers, federal regulation of college sports should not end with NIL and the time is right to tackle other issues – from long-term health care and educational opportunities for athletes to more uniform and enforceable safety standards.
“To race to just an NIL bill and not address these injustices is tragic,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a former Stanford football player, said before Emmert and five other witnesses testified before the committee.
Wicker wants to take a different approach, calling for a “more focused bill on a faster timeline.”
Emmert said the NCAA plans to act on its proposed NIL legislation soon.
“Preferably by the end of the month,” Emmert said.
Entire article: https://collegefootball.nbcsports.c...ee-ncaa-needs-nil-help-but-how-much-and-when/
A federal law governing how college athletes can earn money off their fame and celebrity seems certain to pass – at some point.
There is no real debate among lawmakers on Capitol Hill about whether athletes should be permitted to monetize their name, image and likeness.
“There is broad consensus that Congress should pass a law that grants athletes NIL rights,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said Wednesday during a hearing held by the Senate Commerce Committee.
But less than a month before NIL laws go into effect in several states, NCAA President Mark Emmert was back in Washington renewing his plea for help from Congress – help that is unlikely to come as soon as the NCAA would like.
For some lawmakers, federal regulation of college sports should not end with NIL and the time is right to tackle other issues – from long-term health care and educational opportunities for athletes to more uniform and enforceable safety standards.
“To race to just an NIL bill and not address these injustices is tragic,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a former Stanford football player, said before Emmert and five other witnesses testified before the committee.
Wicker wants to take a different approach, calling for a “more focused bill on a faster timeline.”
Emmert said the NCAA plans to act on its proposed NIL legislation soon.
“Preferably by the end of the month,” Emmert said.
Entire article: https://collegefootball.nbcsports.c...ee-ncaa-needs-nil-help-but-how-much-and-when/
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"Hi. I'm running for (random elected-office) and I'm here to help."
"Hi. I'm from (random gov't agency e.g. IRS) and I'm here to help."
"Hi. I'm Mark Emmert and I'm here to help."
Hey, I know; instead of figuring out which of those phrases is the most distasteful, let's put them in a blender and see what comes out. Yeah, that'll be great.
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