Maybe this article has already been linked and I missed it. It is not usual for me to search for something Ted Cruz has said. Take it as I'm not in Texas.

Will Congress pass NIL legislation soon? Is time running out?

"Since the advent of name, likeness and image rights in college sports, the case can be made that no teams have benefited more than those of the University of Texas and other Texas universities, like Texas A&M. With the influx of money and agency that players are seeing across the country, there have been calls for regulations on what some have described as a hands-off system with few to no rules.

Now, years after the arrival of NIL, one of the biggest voices advocating for regulation in college sports is Texas' U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who spoke Tuesday about the possibility of regulations at a panel in Washington.

At that panel, Cruz said there was a 50% chance that regulations will be seen and that negotiations are ongoing."

"It's not too late to get it done, but we're getting close to it being too late to get it done," he said. "I still think there are elements there of getting bipartisan agreement. We just have not been able to get everyone to the table to sign off."

"What would regulations look like?
Concrete regulation was not discussed, but Cruz expressed that he hopes something will get passed that will standardize how athletes can be compensated for their names, images and likenesses."

"The idea behind standardization is that it would give the NCAA, and its various conferences, the ability to govern college sports without the looming threat of lawsuits and state laws hindering their ability to enforce regulations.
One possibility, which has been suggested by NCAA President Charlie Baker, is that a new tier of Division I sports be created as a way of requiring certain schools, with more lucrative operations, to pay their athletes.
Baker has expressed that he would like to avoid college athletes being declared employees of their universities."

Do you expect within two years or so there will be a new tier in Division I?Is that anticipation partly behind the P2+ developments?


https://www.statesman.com/story/business...957520007/

This Congress? These guys couldn't agree on wiping their own asses as being a good idea so they'd walk around with brown streaks.

(03-17-2024 01:01 PM)bronconick Wrote:  This Congress? These guys couldn't agree on wiping their own asses as being a good idea so they'd walk around with brown streaks.

This could have some level of bipartisan support, but agree, the ball will keep getting kicked down the road as the neglected mess will get to a point of demanding intervention perhaps with an impasse.

Carson Beck, Georgia quarterback,” was in Atlanta getting fitted for clubs thanks to a new partnership agreement between the Players’ Lounge”

https://www.dawgnation.com/football/cars...U4KFHE7KQ/

Topps launches first-ever March madness cards.


https://www.si.com/fannation/name-image-...d-michael9