Any chance Congress gets involved in this before? It goes too far? There
Is a lot of politics involved and realignment. Going to be a lot of unhappy constituents. If their in-state rival gets a bid to a power to conference and they get left to play in the minor leagues. I just see this whole thing falling apart so fast I’m not sure there’s any other way it could be fixed. But what do I know?
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jumps in with a very heavy hand. If VT is screwed, then I want everybody to feel the pain: union disputes, workman’s comp, unscrupulous agents, full taxation, etc. I want it all to come crashing down.
This has the added benefit of temporarily preventing Congress from screwing up something that actually matters.
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1. Is there money involved in it?
2. Will I look like the champion of X?
If the answer is yes to either one or both, then congress will get involved.
So, the answer is and will always be yes.
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Seriously, no matter which side you fall on why do you want them involved?
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"much worst" !
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...and the politicians would somehow get richer from it. ;)
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No, they have bigger and better things to screw up.
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THING FOR A VOTE, I DON’T CARE WHAT PARTY YOU THINK IS YOUR SAVIOR, THEY ARE JUST THERE TO KEEP THEIR POWER AND LIFESTYLE. THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU AND HAVEN’T FOR A LONG TIME , ONLY GOOD THING IS OUR FOUNDERS DIVIDED UP THE POWER. PLEASE DON’T LET THEM PUT ALL THE POWER IN ONE PLACE LIKE THE KINGS, WE FINALLY WON THAT IN YORKTOWN VIRGINIA in October of 1781.
I would say I am sorry for yelling, but SOME THINGS ARE WORTH YELLING FOR!!!
** Edited by Stech at 3/31/2024, 9:33:07 PM
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WHOA! Weren't you the one wanting the ACC to put its HQ in the DC Swamp?
What's changed?
** Edited by Maroon Baboon at 3/30/2024, 11:11:41 PM
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Stech
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them, but even then don’t count on it. Put them in a position that what is good for the game, is good for them. They follow public opinion, they don’t lead it.
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Just because politicians will screw something up doesn't mean you don't want to be close by to them to try to make sure that they don't screw it up to badly
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Stech
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VTCALS72
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When I used that opening, your emojis were the most common response.
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They'll just make things worse.
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This affects passionate fan bases and if any legislative action affects negatively that team ability to win they will vote them out..
Better stay away
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that's rich
Congress represents the monied interests and industries. Eat your bug sandwich serf and be lucky you have electricity. You just lost 14 social credit points, btw.
But don't worry, the Easter Bunny will deliver us a P2 invitation on Sunday.
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the schools could be forced to treat the athletes as employees. Since the P2 schools are currently only schools in position to financially afford it, the politicians may not want to act prematurely and do something that could screw the other schools. Instead, let things play out and the problems may take care of themselves.
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thing up. Too many people are making too much money off of this scam for anyone with influence to rock the boat too much.
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athletes as employees, then it makes it much easier for them to break off to do their own thing. It solves the problem for the politicians and the schools.
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They are going to determine that all college athletes are employees of the schools.
That will be that, no exceptions or opt outs.
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reduce the portaling?
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TerryD
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Non-compete agreements need to be limited in time and geography or the courts strike them down.
So, it all depends.
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have an option to opt out because it would impact NCAA DII, NCAA DIII, NAIA DI, NAIA DII, JUCO, and community college schools too. All the focus and discussions have only been on NCAA DI schools. I am not even sure the courts have dealt with any cases involving non-NCAA DI schools yet.
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I would have thought that the politicians and courts would have been much
more deeply involved by now. But after we watched the SEC skim off the top of the BigXII and the B1G do the same to the Pac-12...this all went down with little more than a whimper (a little Calimony, that's about it).
And I've got to tell ya, I'm a little surprised about it to be honest. I do think the feds have the legitimate power to regulate all of this under the interstate commerce clause. I see college athletics as basically rudderless at this time and it is long past due for a governing authority to right the ship. That being said, without getting too political here, I don't really have the confidence that the feds as an institution wise enough to fix it. And I think they know this, and that's why they are staying out of it.
For my money, I'd just make Josh Pate the commissioner, and grant him dictatorial powers to fix college sports and particularly college football. I would pay him one dollar more than that dope NFL commissioner for his troubles. But I suspect that Josh would work for free.
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Pate would want to go back to 10 member regional conferences.
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