Washington – A bill to regulate university sports presented in the Chamber on Thursday would offer limited antimonopoly protection for NCAA, while prohibiting schools to use student rates to pay university athletic programs.
Copatrochinters of the score law include seven Republicans and two Democrats, which gives the bill a fair possibility of approval in the Chamber. He would need at least seven democratic votes in the Senate, where his possibilities are considered scarce.
The bill includes the three elements for which the NCAA has pressed: antitrust protections, preference of state laws that regulate the name, image, similarity payments and a section that prevents athletes from becoming employees of their schools.
The main objective of the bill is to establish national standards for null payments that dominate the industry following the approval of a demand agreement of $ 2.78 billion that allows schools to pay athletes.
It also includes a section that aims to protect the Olympic programs that some see as threatened due to the increase in financing that will go to football and basketball. That part calls schools with at least one coach who earns more than $ 250,000 to offer at least 16 sports programs. This language reflects a rule already in force for the first -level FBS schools of the NCAA.
The prohibition of using rates to compensate for costs in the center of some schools to finance sports programs, which seek ways to pay up to $ 20.5 million that they will share with athletes.
Clemson at the beginning of this year announced that it would implement a “sports rate” of $ 150 each semester for students from this fall. Fresno State approved additional $ 495 rates per year, approximately half of which will go to athletics.
Other schools, such as Tennessee, have announced a “talent rate” that will be added to seasonal ticket renovations. Arkansas is increasing the prices of the concession and many more schools report reinforcements about the increase in prices for sports programs they support.
