House of Reps bill on NCAA issues

[t4pizza]

New bill in the House, not expected to prevail in the Senate, would be good news for many on here. Among other things, a prohibition against using student fees for athletics, antitrust exemption (probably partial), preemption of state law on NIL, and prohibition about student/athletes being employees (would kill any CBA ideas). Interesting to see what becomes of this.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/45 ... l-payments

[ASUTodd]

I'm not sure why athletes can't be employees..... I was an employee of the school as a student. I went to class as a student and worked at Legends as an employee.

[KentHogan]

I'm not sure why athletes can't be employees..... I was an employee of the school as a student. I went to class as a student and worked at Legends as an employee.

I think making them employees opens the door to a player filing a lawsuit saying that he shouldn’t be required to attend class as a student, he would argue that the cafeteria workers aren’t required to be students, I’m just hired to play football so you can’t force me to be a student.

I’m no lawyer but I have no doubt that argument would be made, whether it would prevail is an interesting question.

If it did prevail, then college sports are truly over.

[ASUTodd]

I'm not sure why athletes can't be employees..... I was an employee of the school as a student. I went to class as a student and worked at Legends as an employee.

I think making them employees opens the door to a player filing a lawsuit saying that he shouldn’t be required to attend class as a student, he would argue that the cafeteria workers aren’t required to be students, I’m just hired to play football so you can’t force me to be a student.

I’m no lawyer but I have no doubt that argument would be made, whether it would prevail is an interesting question.

If it did prevail, then college sports are truly over.

Part of my hiring to work at Legends was contingent on going to school at App. They can say that they were hired only for football and take it to court but if the contact they sign stipulates they must be enrolled and maintain a certain GPA, then they can be terminated. It's no diff than any other job. People treat these athletes like that are some superior being that can do what they want. If I don't go to my mandatory training each year the Sheriff's Training and Standards are going to pull my certificate and I'm going to get canned by the sheriff. Schools just need to draw the line. If you want to come to school, get an education, and play some sports....so be it. If you are only interested in money then go elsewhere.