08-01-2026, 01:06 AM
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/stor...te-chances
With the senate scheduled to go on recess next Friday, it wasn’t looking good for the “Protect College Sports Act”, but after a few more concessions strengthening the cap to prevent “associated entities” from being used to circumvent the cap, the two holdout conferences signed on, so things are looking better.
Some of the key measures in the bill:
NCAA and conferences get a limited antitrust exception to:
Establish a more strict cap by including into the cap all affiliated NIL deals, aside from those authentic deals that are ratified through the attestation process.
Raises the athlete cap from $21.3 million to $48.8 million. (Adds a $22.5 million retention pool for schools to use on retaining athletes in addition to the $21.3 million original cap, plus $5 million to be spent only on women and non-revenue sports)
Re-implement the one-time transfer exception
Standardize a five-year eligibility policy (which incidentally the NCAA lost two court cases today on)
Ban professional athletes from returning to college
Establish an agent registry and maximum fee (5%)
Not sure where a lot of schools will get nearly $50 million.
BC
With the senate scheduled to go on recess next Friday, it wasn’t looking good for the “Protect College Sports Act”, but after a few more concessions strengthening the cap to prevent “associated entities” from being used to circumvent the cap, the two holdout conferences signed on, so things are looking better.
Some of the key measures in the bill:
NCAA and conferences get a limited antitrust exception to:
Establish a more strict cap by including into the cap all affiliated NIL deals, aside from those authentic deals that are ratified through the attestation process.
Raises the athlete cap from $21.3 million to $48.8 million. (Adds a $22.5 million retention pool for schools to use on retaining athletes in addition to the $21.3 million original cap, plus $5 million to be spent only on women and non-revenue sports)
Re-implement the one-time transfer exception
Standardize a five-year eligibility policy (which incidentally the NCAA lost two court cases today on)
Ban professional athletes from returning to college
Establish an agent registry and maximum fee (5%)
Not sure where a lot of schools will get nearly $50 million.
BC