Washington – A Who's Who of the Big Ten, SEC, Big 12 and ACC met in Capitol Hill on Wednesday to meet with state representatives and press for federal NIL guidelines, a strong sample of the unit of the largest and most rich conferences of the NCAA only a few days after a federal court heard university athletics close to a historical agreement.
Presidents and Foreign Ministry of the University, Directors of Athletics and some coaches and players completed the day with a reception of cocktails at the Andrew W. Mellon auditorium, where the SEC Greg Sankey commissioner, the Commissioner of Acc Jim Phillips, the Big 12 commissioner, Brett Yormark, and the Big Ten Petiti commissioner, participated in a brief panel that participated in a brief panel that participated in a brief panel that participated in a brief panel He recapitated the day.
“We are in a seminal moment,” said Phillips. “We are trying to find something that has sustainability. It is a modernization of university sports. I think that for all of us, we are passionate about access and affordability to higher education … In the heart of this thing there are opportunities for young men and women. Times have changed, and if we like all the things that have happened, or do not, we are in a position in which we are the main administrators of the future of the future of university sports.”
Although the commissioners have made multiple trips to the capital of the nation to boost the federal legislation, it is not frequent, if it does, that such a great contingency of their respective leagues has joined them, and four at the same time.
Auburn's male basketball coach Bruce Pearl, just out of an appearance in Final Four, attended the event, along with Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian.
“We have been repeatedly here,” Sankey said about the commissioners. “The reality is the time for the settlement of the camera, the new congress and when we really planned months ago to be here, there was a link of problems. We know that there are conversations that are in power.
On Monday, there was a federal court hearing in Oakland, California, with respect to the highly publicized chamber agreement in which the NCAA agreed to pay approximately $ 2.8 billion in damages to past and current athletes.
Wednesday's meeting also arrived immediately after March Madness and a week since the opening of the spring transfer portal window.
“Everyone knows that there is a feeling of urgency,” said Yormark. “Time is not on our side, so we have to move quickly and quickly.
“The agreement is one thing, but it must be encoded in the hill.”
