(05-06-2022 08:15 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  Some quotes from Senator Blackburn:

https://twitter.com/espnrittenberg/statu...L2TrRl0_qg

Needless to say, a lot of quotes about protecting student-athletes and not a single word about worrying about how colleges are impacted (along with critiques of the NCAA). As I’ve said many times here, letting student-athletes get paid as much as possible seems to be the one thing that Republicans and Democrats are united on here. We may get federal legislation in order to address the patchwork quilt of state laws, but anyone that thinks that politicians on either side of the aisle are interested in actually capping or reducing NIL compensation are seriously misreading where the general public (not old school fans posting on message boards) is on this issue.

Agree, although we’ve seen a lot of things done under the ruse of “protecting student athletes”. Just as you say, it wouldn’t be prudent to sell changes that limit compensation as anything but protecting the students. Well have to see how genuine this is, but her constituents are likely paying 7 figures to restart their football program, so I doubt she has political reasons to be viewed as limiting compensation

College ADs and Administrations are now soapboxing how they need to protect athletes from NIL. To protect them from the burdens of having to navigate business dealings and all the exploitation of lawlessness. Working hard on the false dilemma of either the worst of NIL or protect the athletes. Frank, there are horror stories of players selling a lot of future upside to agents and not aware of tax laws.

I hope legislators are wise enough to see that employment and CBAs have been successful in preventing this at the professional levels.