Although there is overlap, pooling and realignment should have been separated from the general topic of shoehorning big business back into the amateurism model
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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You're definitely way off the mark regarding his ability to politic. He is almost solely responsible for engaging Dem Maria Cantwell to co-sponsor a bipartisan bill that has a chance to pass either this year or next.
And Fed legislation was absolutely required for an anti-trust exemption, codifying House and amending the SBA (which is obviously the first step to market solutions).
and the thing that sucks about the whole thing is schools like Maryland, Northwestern, Rutgers, Iowa, Minnesota, Miss State, Kentucky, Vandy, Purdue, etc..get to ride on the gravy train. What do those schools have over most of the ACC and Big 12? The answer is nothing. Winners and losers are picked by association. None of the schools above would have good ratings if they had to play only each other without blue bloods on their schedule to boost their ratings. If you are going to have the sport, just make one tv contract for all the schools that play power 5/4 football. Without that, it is just a built in unfair advantage. If it doesn't get resolved that way, there needs to be the break away. Go play in your own league. And as Jamie says, take volleyball and golf with you.
LOL, this is one warped hot take on your end.
Regarding Vannini's post, of course he is absolutely right and thank goodness for ISU's sake that Campbell engaged Cantwell to legislate some semblance of financial protection for ISU and other B12/ACC schools who obviously don't want to be needlessly victimized like Wazzu and Oregon St were.
Nope, early bot software (pre-AI) purchased by CC.
Pooling, 7x10, greedy ESPN/FOX, evil Petitti & Sanky, love self-serving Senators
Stop the presses! The president wants to do what a billionaire wants!?! My goodness what a shocker lol
Now it’s for sure DOA
They supported SCORE which included preempting state laws and that element of SCORE is included in Cruz-Cantwell.
The selfish pricks are now changing their tune on that and other aspects that were also included in SCORE because SCORE didn't include pooling, anti-expansion and anti-Super League language.
I think the premise of the bill is very sound. But all it will do is speed up the process of the B1G and $EC leaving the NCAA to form their own league (unless there is stipulation in this bill that prohibits universities from leaving the NCAA)
So I'm not exactly sure what this will accomplish long term IMO. But lots of people are far more intelligent than me here who could enlighten me
I get it, you have never understood any of this. You’ve been posting nonsense for 5+ years, since OUT.
Coupling pooling and realignment to things like labor politics is needlessly risky
If the realignment and pooling issue solved, much of the other things less threatening or urgent
For instance, if elites were subsidizing non-elites equally, which should be politically feasible as it’s a win for M2 and elites, things like salary cap, transfer, etc are nearly moot in terms of schools surviving
Bwahahaha, CC looking out for the little guys! The fact you believe that is beyond comical. Carry on White Knight.
I think Steve Scalise meant to say this:
"Nobody can credibly say they're going to move a bill to address college athletics and have opposition from ESPN and FOX
In a manner that has the two most important conferences against it.
He’s needlessly made adversaries instead of increasing the coalition that should want change to how the sport monetizes the best brands
The Congress bailout is your last hope. The truth of the matter, is that most of the teams that are left behind probably shouldn't even field football teams at the FBS level. If you can't afford it, for the love of God don't bankrupt your university to cosplay as a big time football school. Pollard is going to have to come to grips with that soon enough.
I’m not sure there is that stipulation. They would think about it, that’s for sure, but several things will cause them pause: their media partners, the DOJ pursing an anti trust action (it’s been done before, NFL,NCAA, MLB, have all been in the cross hairs); what to do with their Olympic sports, a lot of unknowns on revenue projections,, being considered Triple AAA for the NFL, and perhaps most important, congress could rewrite the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 to make it TV rights a pain for them. Also, they might have to alienate several teams in their conferences, too.
Right now, they have the best of both worlds, they have their own super league as a division of the NCAA.
The "labor politics" is a secondary issue given the language to explore unionization at a later date. It has been essentially punted to be dealt with later and rightly so to increases the odds of the bill passing this year or next.
And "elites" being threatened by this bill is comical. They will make more money with pooling and also benefit from unequal revenue sharing as Campbell has pointed out. ESPN and Fox don't benefit and are using their puppet boy commissioners to lobby on their behalf.
Tell that to Gary Barta, who stuck you and me with a $50 million welfare “loan” Iowa has no intentions of paying back.
Did SCORE mandate that the SEC/B1G could not undergo any further conference expansion?
