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Restore College Sports Act (H.R. 2663) - threepointer - 04-09-2025

Eventually, things get to a point when regulatory organizations lose control and something or someone steps in to regain control.  This proposed legislation has some good some bad, some ridiculous.  But it is the first step in a process that will take years with all of the legal challenges that will arise.  Change will eventually come to the NCAA or its offspring.

Major changes outlined by the proposed legislation:

  1. Create a new association to replace the NCAA, known as the American Collegiate Sports Association.  The entity would replace the NCAA and, “oversee and regulate college sports.” 
  2. The ACSA would have a commissioner appointed by the President with advice and consent of the Senate. The commissioner would serve four-year terms.
  3. Require all NIL $ from schools & collectives to be distributed equally to all (men & women) athletes at ASCA schools.
  4. Coaches’ maximum annual salary would have a cap of, “10 times the full cost of attendance at such institution.”

Federal bill introduced to replace NCAA, limitless transfers, shake up conferences, cap coach salaries

Mudhead - Mudhead - 04-09-2025

threepointer dateline='[url=tel:1744240262' Wrote:  1744240262[/url]']
Eventually, things get to a point when regulatory organizations lose control and something or someone steps in to regain control.  This proposed legislation has some good some bad, some ridiculous.  But it is the first step in a process that will take years with all of the legal challenges that will arise.  Change will eventually come to the NCAA or its offspring.

Major changes outlined by the proposed legislation:

  1. Create a new association to replace the NCAA, known as the American Collegiate Sports Association.  The entity would replace the NCAA and, “oversee and regulate college sports.” 
  2. The ACSA would have a commissioner appointed by the President with advice and consent of the Senate. The commissioner would serve four-year terms.
  3. Require all NIL $ from schools & collectives to be distributed equally to all (men & women) athletes at ASCA schools.
  4. Coaches’ maximum annual salary would have a cap of, “10 times the full cost of attendance at such institution.”

Federal bill introduced to replace NCAA, limitless transfers, shake up conferences, cap coach salaries

Interesting approach. Will get a lot of support in California, not so much in Midwest, Southeast and 
Southwest.  If the approach focused on the portal , on capping money which could be spent by a school without telling them how to distribute it, and left coaching salaries up to the school paying the money, it might fly. (Thought on portal is that you could have one portal period per year for all sports, probably in July and limit  transfers to one , it might fly)   But good luck with any approach that gets the discussion going. Some change is needed

RE: Restore College Sports Act (H.R. 2663) - Giants - 04-09-2025

threepointer dateline='[url=tel:1744240262' Wrote:  1744240262[/url]']
Eventually, things get to a point when regulatory organizations lose control and something or someone steps in to regain control.  This proposed legislation has some good some bad, some ridiculous.  But it is the first step in a process that will take years with all of the legal challenges that will arise.  Change will eventually come to the NCAA or its offspring.

Major changes outlined by the proposed legislation:

  1. Create a new association to replace the NCAA, known as the American Collegiate Sports Association.  The entity would replace the NCAA and, “oversee and regulate college sports.” 
  2. The ACSA would have a commissioner appointed by the President with advice and consent of the Senate. The commissioner would serve four-year terms.
  3. Require all NIL $ from schools & collectives to be distributed equally to all (men & women) athletes at ASCA schools.
  4. Coaches’ maximum annual salary would have a cap of, “10 times the full cost of attendance at such institution.”

Federal bill introduced to replace NCAA, limitless transfers, shake up conferences, cap coach salaries

Dead on Arrival…

In the present political climate (poisonous), any legislation that permits the President to select the Commissioner has zero chance of approval.  IMO, the Collegiate Commissioner should be selected by the collective conference leaders. 

Anything short of an antitrust waiver will prevent significant rule changes that apply to the distribution of NIL monies.  The Supreme Court has made it clear antitrust violations (as they pertain to college sports) are a non-starter. 

A salary cap on coaching salaries is a laughable idea. Good luck with that.  

The only way to a sensible landscape is collective bargaining.  We are on that road but still a long way from seeing it in place.

RE: Restore College Sports Act (H.R. 2663) - fullmetal - 04-09-2025

The fed gov does not need to be sticking its nose into the entertainment sector like this.  Talk about overreach.

RE: Restore College Sports Act (H.R. 2663) - Goose - 04-09-2025

(04-09-2025, 06:05 PM)fullmetal Wrote:  The fed gov does not need to be sticking its nose into the entertainment sector like this.  Talk about overreach.
I half-way agree with you. I don't think a government run "new" NCAA with "special" powers is a good idea. However, anti-trust laws DO massively insert the government into entertainment and all other business types. Businesses are not free to make certain kinds of mutual agreements that restrain trade. Most of the public agrees this is a "good thing". There are IMO specific situations where such agreements should be allowed. College athletics is IMO one of them. An anti-trust exemption would be necessary to restore anything close to "amateur" status for college athletes. I realize many people on this board do not agree it would be desirable to restore at least some semblance of amateur sports. That's fine, but if the government is going to "intervene" such an exemption should be the limit of it.

RE: Restore College Sports Act (H.R. 2663) - Treebound - 04-10-2025

Thank you for the post.  Here's a link to the congressman Baumgartner's page on the bill.   I'm thrilled that someone is trying to wade into this mess and agree that it's going to take time to sort out.   My biggest fear with all of this is that it will lead to fewer and fewer funded programs in the non-revenue sports as schools flow all dollars and attention to the revenue sports.  That will in turn, tank the level of competition (fewer programs) and schools like Stanford will be unable to fund as many Olympic sports.   Fewer teams, less competition, fewer medals, less interest...

https://baumgartner.house.gov/media/press-releases/baumgartner-introduces-restore-college-sports-act-bring-sanity-and-fairness

RE: Restore College Sports Act (H.R. 2663) - Spiny_Norman - 04-10-2025

Why would the representatives of states with schools in the SEC and perhaps the Big 10 support this bill? The status quo is working very well for them.

RE: Restore College Sports Act (H.R. 2663) - paloalto - 04-10-2025

Stanford WVB coach Kevin Hambly and star player Elia Rubin are in Washington DC.  Anyone know if they are there about this?   Hambly should be at Stanford conducting spring practice unless there is an important reason for him to be elsewhere.