Tolja!!!

"Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives pulled a bill scheduled for a final vote on Wednesday, Dec. 3 that would have allowed the NCAA and its newly-formed College Sports Commission to create and enforce national rules that have been under legal dispute in recent years.

The SCORE Act (Student Compensation And Opportunity Through Rights and Endorsements) sought to provide more regulation and calm the chaotic environment created by the introduction of name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation, revenue sharing and the transfer portal to college sports. It passed a procedural vote on Tuesday, 210-209, but the legislation drew bipartisan backlash as a final vote neared.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and the Congressional Black Caucus were among the vocal critics, and issues with how the bill infringed on athletes' rights inspired competing legislation from House Democrats earlier this week. The move to pull the SCORE Act by House GOP leaders about two hours before it was originally slated for a final vote was seen as a sign it no longer had enough support to pass.

"The SCORE Act was pulled from consideration because it simply didn't have the votes, a clear sign that Members on both sides saw it for what it was: a gift to the NCAA and the Power Two conferences at the expense of athletes. This bill would have imposed new restrictions on athletes," Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) wrote in a social media post after the vote was scuttled."




https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2025/12/03/congress-score-act-college-sports-vote-ncaa-nil-transfers-latest-news/87590900007/

northeastag said:

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JohnClark929 said:

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Leave the NCAA and form a professional super conference league like the NFL. Then we would have some semblance of rules among the large programs with massive fanbases. There needs to be rules and order.

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Well the only thing left is to do away with the whole "student" farce. It would get pretty easy after that (although I'm not sure why any of us would still be interested). Might kill the golden goose.

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exactly

the NFL has been killing any and all competition for decades, and then college football grew up right under their nose.

northeastag said:

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JohnClark929 said:

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Leave the NCAA and form a professional super conference league like the NFL. Then we would have some semblance of rules among the large programs with massive fanbases. There needs to be rules and order.

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Well the only thing left is to do away with the whole "student" farce. It would get pretty easy after that (although I'm not sure why any of us would still be interested). Might kill the golden goose.

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I totally agree! Why should they have to be enrolled in classes? It's a complete gimmick, tbh. Yet half the time I see their posts online, they're still mixing up "your" and "you're", it's so irritating. How do you finish college and not grasp that basic grammar?

I think you all probably still watch college football so you're a bunch of flaming hypocrites!!!

So LSU gets to pay high school kids for at least another year.

Nothing says NIL like paying kids who's names, images, and likeness don't bring a single cent of revenue or recognition to a brand.

Tergdor said:

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So LSU gets to pay high school kids for at least another year.

Nothing says NIL like paying kids whose names, images, and likeness don't bring a single cent of revenue or recognition to a brand.

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Sour grapes or envy? Which is it…

greg.w.h said:

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Tergdor said:

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So LSU gets to pay high school kids for at least another year.

Nothing says NIL like paying kids whose names, images, and likeness don't bring a single cent of revenue or recognition to a brand.

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Sour grapes or envy? Which is it…

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More annoyed that Louisiana decided to make cheating legal by letting LSU pay for players that don't work for them. Meanwhile every other state and school gets handicapped because their legislatures know how ridiculous that is.

Questions about the competing bill. I do realize it will never become law, but that doesn't mean that some of the ideas in it won't find their way into the Score Act (could be in there already for all I know).

https://trahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3689

There's a bit in the press release reading

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Increases Revenue for All Schools: Amends the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 to allow schools to pool media rights, strengthening revenue for all stakeholders, particularly non-Power Two schools and HBCUs, and ensuring resources for women's and Olympic programs.

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Does anyone know anything about the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961? I'm not certain what pooling media rights means. I am concerned about the words "strengthening revenue." I can't imagine how you could get more revenue from broadcasting without raising my bill.

I'm also concerned about

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Protects Opportunities for Women: Enhances Title IX reporting requirements to improve transparency and accountability, including revenue sharing, roster spots, expenditures, and travel.

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As far as I'm concerned, college athletes are now professional entertainers. Like any entertainer, they should be paid what the market dictates. If there's no NIL market for athletes in certain non-revenue sports, that's simply how capitalism works.

Tergdor said:

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greg.w.h said:

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Tergdor said:

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So LSU gets to pay high school kids for at least another year.

Nothing says NIL like paying kids whose names, images, and likeness don't bring a single cent of revenue or recognition to a brand.

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Sour grapes or envy? Which is it…

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More annoyed that Louisiana decided to make cheating legal by letting LSU pay for players that don't work for them. Meanwhile every other state and school gets handicapped because their legislatures know how ridiculous that is.

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You want pay for players to be suppressed because that's what the NCAA brainwashed you to believe is a superior contest. They also suppress pay for research assistants and teaching assistants and generally overtax federal grants and pay for too many administrators all of which inflates cst to students. Plus they generally allow non-religious ideology that is anti-faith and pro-dumb,

If we are going to complain, let's admit the problems with colleges. And fix them all. I'm fact: there are so many that it might be impossible to save th as institution so stop subsidizing them and stop treating them as too important or big to fail?

Does this mean I won't have to see the annoying commercial for it anymore? That would be nice

dabo man said:

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Questions about the competing bill. I do realize it will never become law, but that doesn't mean that some of the ideas in it won't find their way into the Score Act (could be in there already for all I know).

https://trahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3689

There's a bit in the press release reading

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Increases Revenue for All Schools: Amends the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 to allow schools to pool media rights, strengthening revenue for all stakeholders, particularly non-Power Two schools and HBCUs, and ensuring resources for women's and Olympic programs.

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Does anyone know anything about the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961? I'm not certain what pooling media rights means. I am concerned about the words "strengthening revenue." I can't imagine how you could get more revenue from broadcasting without raising my bill.

I'm also concerned about

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Protects Opportunities for Women: Enhances Title IX reporting requirements to improve transparency and accountability, including revenue sharing, roster spots, expenditures, and travel.

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As far as I'm concerned, college athletes are now professional entertainers. Like any entertainer, they should be paid what the market dictates. If there's no NIL market for athletes in certain non-revenue sports, that's simply how capitalism works.

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It's a Cody Campbell plan designed to boost Tech. He's bought off Chip Roy and is behind the opposition to the SCORE Act, because he doesn't want limits on NIL. While he decries limits on NIL as anticompetitive, his legislation would grant an antitrust exemption for a college organization of all school to negotiate media rights. Since Tech is not in a big boy conference and doesn't share in the big TV money, he wants to blow that structure up, and put in a new one where Tech would get the same money as the SEC and Big Ten schools. I don't think he actually believes this will ever happen; he's just trying to block the SCORE Act, and using his alternative as a smoke screen.

JohnClark929 said:

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Leave the NCAA and form a professional super conference league like the NFL. Then we would have some semblance of rules among the large programs with massive fanbases. There needs to be rules and order.

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So you're saying there should be a draft with multi year contracts instead of high school kids picking where they want to go? That's truly the main difference between college and NFL and why the NFL has the control over players that they do

The NFL has NIL and free agency just like college, but they also have contracts that essentially give the teams control of the players as long as they are under contract

northeastag said:

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JohnClark929 said:

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Leave the NCAA and form a professional super conference league like the NFL. Then we would have some semblance of rules among the large programs with massive fanbases. There needs to be rules and order.

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Well the only thing left is to do away with the whole "student" farce. It would get pretty easy after that (although I'm not sure why any of us would still be interested). Might kill the golden goose.

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The golden goose is already walking the mile ...

12thMan9 said:

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phillytex24 said:

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northeastag said:

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JohnClark929 said:

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Leave the NCAA and form a professional super conference league like the NFL. Then we would have some semblance of rules among the large programs with massive fanbases. There needs to be rules and order.

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Well the only thing left is to do away with the whole "student" farce. It would get pretty easy after that (although I'm not sure why any of us would still be interested). Might kill the golden goose.

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I totally agree! Why should they have to be enrolled in classes? It's a complete gimmick, tbh. Yet half the time I see their posts online, they're still mixing up "your" and "you're", it's so irritating. How do you finish college and not grasp that basic grammar?

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Hopefully they don't come to this site to learn grammar.

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https://egrammarbook.com/usage-of-hopefully-correct-vs-incorrect/

College players have more flexibility and negotiating power than NFL players. One year contracts and free agency every year.

It's no wonder we see so many 28 year old, 6th year seniors.

BTW - as much as we dislike it, the players and their agents LOVE it.

Can someone explain this reasoning?

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) today in a news conference ripped Republicans over the SCORE Act, referring to it as the “Lane Kiffin Protection Act” and suggesting that “big donors at LSU” were behind Mike Johnson and Steve Scalise’s motives to bring the bill to the floor.

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) December 4, 2025

aggiehawg said:

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Can someone explain this reasoning?

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) today in a news conference ripped Republicans over the SCORE Act, referring to it as the “Lane Kiffin Protection Act” and suggesting that “big donors at LSU” were behind Mike Johnson and Steve Scalise’s motives to bring the bill to the floor.

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) December 4, 2025

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You're asking for logic on this topic? Good luck! Best I can do is that the Congressional Black Caucus has bought the pitch of the agents that the House settlement is intended to help the schools (and coaches, read, white folks) at the expense of the players (black people).

That's all I've got.

Well, guess it just shows how national the Kiffin story has become that Dems are citing it for some BS reason they only know.