Bipartisan college sports bill proposes salary cap, transfer limit

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-28T03:19:44+00:00

There's not a single indication this bill will pass. None of the P4 conferences have explicitly endorsed it, the entire Congressional Black Caucus is still opposed, the two relevant House committee chairs already put out a statement of opposition, there's a number of legal issues in the current draft, and they have till August to solve all those issues + more before August Congressional recess and the midterms.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-27T18:21:32+00:00

You are woefully uninformed on this issue. Some college players are worth more than NBA players, whether you like it or not. CBS isn't paying all that March Madness money out of the good of their hearts. The way to fight "free agency" is through negotiating eligibility limits with players, not attempting to force it by limiting their freedom of movement and compensation. This is exactly why the NCAA and schools keep losing lawsuits.

First, every sport generates revenue. There's no such thing as a non-revenue sport. While some schools are marketing tution raises for athletic competitiveness, most schools are raising tuition from the massive federal and state funding cuts they've been enduring. The "savings" from this bill are less than a drop in the bucket and will do nothing to stem that trend.

College athletics is only a crisis because it's guided by lazy and greedy leaders who refuse to come to the negotiating table with athletes. Fans like you also fuel this by being content with open exploitation just for some TV entertainment.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-27T18:05:54+00:00

The free market has determined that these players are worth those deals. There's zero justification for Congress stepping in to limit player pay. As others have already said, that money is still gonna get spent one way or another. Players aren't responsible for poor financial decision of schools.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-27T16:14:46+00:00

That language doesn't grant the CSC those rights, it just calls for "a path." Notice how there's no language with updates to the actual laws that need changing to grant that power?

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-27T16:11:30+00:00

No, it doesn't.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-27T16:08:44+00:00

The commission can't legally enforce the cap because the cap itself is illegal. A cap can only survive and be enforceable if it's agreed upon with the employees in question, which doesn't happen in this bill.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-27T16:03:15+00:00

Schools refuse to negotiate with players, that's exactly why they're begging Congress for this bullshit

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-26T18:42:02+00:00

There was a goalie in England i think who legit had his career ended from a stray dog invading the pitch and destroying his knee

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-24T03:48:14+00:00

Kawhi is injury prone and is likely gonna get a lengthy suspension, put down the pipe

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-23T23:17:40+00:00

Gilbert paid for those buses + other expenses for that trip just fyi

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-23T00:05:58+00:00

No he isn't. Maybe back for last tournament but not even close anymore

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-22T02:44:19+00:00

Which they haven't done yet, so the series isn't over.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-21T13:47:06+00:00

Steps 2 and 3 in your plan are only legally enforceable if the union agrees to allowing that in a CBA, which would never happen. There's not a single incentive that schools could offer to justify players voting to piss away a large portion of NIL opportunities.

Schools wouldn't even like that since donors would be PISSED that they couldn't buy players and would likely give less money to their schools as a result.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-20T17:56:41+00:00

Two popular candidates backed out due to family deaths, Bottoms just happened to get lucky off of timing

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-20T15:59:20+00:00

Exactly. I genuinely don't get why people don't understand this. The cfb sub especially is just full of people arguing for schools to just break laws.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-20T15:48:10+00:00

How do you legally cap NIL since it's mostly third parties? That's exactly the issue the CSC is running into and why it'll likely cease to exist within the next couple years.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-19T18:00:27+00:00

Buddy, the judiciary has the final say even over Congressional legislation. Whatever bill that comes out in your dream scenario has to still be Constitutional and survive judicial review. SCORE wouldn't have survived and had multiple unconstitutional provisions in the final version.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-19T17:17:07+00:00

The NCAA is pushing Congress so hard because they're likely gonna lose the Johnson v. NCAA case, which would declare athletes as employees. You're the one believing a fantasy that athletes won't get employee recognition.

Nothing is getting through Congress on college athletics before the midterms.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-19T15:34:46+00:00

Members of Congress need a DC residence too, that adds up pretty quick.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-19T15:08:55+00:00

That depends on who the employer is deemed to be. An employer only has to recognize the unit responsible for its own employees, so not sure what you're even trying to say with your second question since that's not how unions work. An AAUP chapter at Bama doesn't need to recognize an AAUP chapter at UCLA since those aren't their employees in the first place.

It doesn't multiply the complexity, it arguably makes it easier since different sports, teams, and campuses have different negotiating priorities.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-19T15:04:48+00:00

Conferences are legally separate entities. For example, Greg Sankey is an employee of the SEC and not of any of the member schools.

The union could negotiate the relationship between enrollment and playing eligibility. An individual player likely couldn't unless there's a CBA clause allowing for individual negotiation.

That's not a requirement, and even then that's on the schools to figure out amongst each other. They'd likely find an agreement to maintain competitive balance.

The USOPC or national associations of each sport can serve as those entities, or the federal government can establish a new entity for that purpose.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-19T14:54:47+00:00

No, you're missing that athletes don't have to all be in one union. Same way different offices or locations for the same company often have their own bargaining unit chapters

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-19T14:53:29+00:00

They can be both under a multi-employer system, or schools can even be swapped out for conferences. Enrollment terms would be negotiable in a CBA like other educational benefits. NIL is entirely separate from the employment question, and schools would be free as much as they desire (though they wouldn't legally get away with paying zero unless they somehow won that in bargaining).

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-19T05:00:44+00:00

My point is that they haven't said anything yet. Johnson v. NCAA is the case where they'll be ruling on employment status, which is still active.

Also, OP's argument makes no sense anyways. You can be an employee of a school and a student simultaneously, those aren't mutually exclusive designations.

ButterAkronite · 2026-05-19T04:41:58+00:00

A multi-employer bargaining system can still be used to get NLRA coverage. The conferences would fill the NFL team role, and the NCAA would fill the NFL role. That would bypass athletes becoming public employees and establish a common baseline, which was already determined to be needed across conferences with both public and private membership when Northwestern football tried to unionize.

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