The first California law on compensation for college athletes’ NIL rights hasn’t even gone into effect yet, and there’s a new bill being offered already. It’s totally bonkers.
Say hello to AB-609 — “The College Athlete Race and Gender Equity Act.”
It’s not merely groundbreaking. It prevents breaking ground, literally.
The bill requires California universities to pay football and men’s basketball players tens of millions of dollars in royalties for the use of their name, image and likeness.
One of the stipulations in AB-609 would bar universities from building athletic facilities (locker rooms, weight rooms, arenas, etc.) just to keep up with their peers.
Another stipulation would force universities to suspend athletic directors for three years if their departments fall out of compliance with Title IX.
Overall, AB-609 is a whopper — progressive to the point of radical, punitive to the point of debilitating and, in sections, deeply confusing.
And yes: It requires name, image and likeness payments from schools to athletes even though the NCAA has already approved NIL compensation for athletes from the private sector. (Implementation is awaiting oversight from Congress.)
“The bill is saying that NIL isn’t enough just going through the private industry,” said a source who has read AB-609, “so the schools that exceed the benchmarks cited in there would have to give that money back.”
To give you an idea of how off the wall this really is…
The ‘Fair Pay To Play’ law that takes effect in California in 2022 (if not sooner) doesn’t allow schools to compensate athletes directly for NIL. Instead, it prevents schools from interfering in payments to athletes from the private sector.
“That’s designed to keep the schools out of it,’’ the source said.
Nothing says progress like overriding landmark legislation.
Believe it or not, this is probably too much for California. But it’s a good example of the risk the NCAA is taking by stalling on athlete compensation. There’s always somebody more stubborn than you, Emmert.
TFW committees decide “hey, let’s do this, seems right, all the other government bodies are doing whatever they want”.
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Legislation as trolling. Nice.
We see this in the media, where outlets compete to see who can come up with the purest form of a media take, right or left.
I hate the NCAA!
Yeah? I hate them more!
Oh yeah? No one hates them more than me!
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Well, anything worth doing
Is worth over doing
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I wonder if our home and homes with UCLA will be cupcake games by the time we get there.
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Uhmmm!! Cupcakes!! Yummy!
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If this were to pass I think there would be no more California teams in the Pac 12, they would drop football, except for USC which would just pay them above the table for a change.
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My compliments on your comment in the “Manball” thread today(2/22). I can see it now in lights…”JT and the Runnin’ B’s”!!! it’ll be a hit! The thread got shut down before I could comment.
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College sports as we currently know them are on the endangered list.
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You must kill college sports to make it fair.
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Geez, TN!! This isn’t Cancer, ya’ know!!!
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“Overall, AB-609 is a whopper — progressive to the point of radical, punitive to the point of debilitating and, in sections, deeply confusing.”
California never disappoints.
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Beautiful state run by clowns.
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Cali is a ship of fools that has run a ground a loooong timmmme agoooo……
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“But it’s a good example of the risk the NCAA is taking by stalling on athlete compensation.” I don’t disagree… I also think it is a window into what could eventually be. The notion that NIL saves CFB/CBB/NCAA from itself is noble but this bill tees up the realization that it is only a stepping stone to something else.
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Emmert is going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg in the name of trying to protect the goose that laid the golden egg.
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Emmert isn’t going to kill anything. He is simply a highly paid figurehead for the Universities. The NCAA is a sacrificial anode.
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“One of the stipulations in AB-609 would bar universities from building athletic facilities (locker rooms, weight rooms, arenas, etc.) just to keep up with their peers”
Huh? What is the litmus test that will determine the reason for building new facilities?
California is such a joke. Can’t they just break away and do their own thing?
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Why not then just say Amazon or Google can’t build better systems to keep up with their competition?
Insanity.
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I always like it when people blame an entire state for the fever dreams of a single legislator.
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To be honest, I blame them for a lot of other things than just a single legislator…
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Do you blame CA for the three presidents it produced as well?
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3? I guess you are counting Kamala in that? That how you got 3?
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Reagan, Nixon and Herbert Hoover, if you consider the states each considered as home states, regardless of where each was born. For example, Eisenhower was born in Texas but raised in Kansas. He considered himself and the public considered him a Kansan.
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LOL.
It’s not like anyone’s making you live there.
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good luck with that blame game, biggen. your blame and $5 will get you a matinee.
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If this were an isolated instance of insanity from a California elected official, I’d agree. But this is just another legislative day for them. There is a reason people and companies are packing up and leaving in huge numbers.
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Guys, let’s save the Cali bashing for the Playpen, okay? That’s where you should share your take on how the world’s fifth-largest economy is on the brink of collapse because you don’t share its politics.
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When you thought the NCAA couldn’t ever be seen in a sympathetic light on this issue, a California legislator has done exactly that.
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Late Sunday, why not?
Now, who is behind HR 127? It is every bit as egregious.
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18) is the author of the bill.
Egregious? That’s an understatement. Probably a more suitable topic for Wednesday.
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Indeed.
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If you’re talking about the gun law proposed in the House, it’s none other than Sheila Jackson-Lee.
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I thought I already made it clear this is a topic for the Playpen.
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Sorry, I didn’t know. I was only responding. I won’t say anything else.
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