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NIL SHAKEUP Senate pushes major college sports overhaul · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Well, the push to reform college sports is getting some
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  Speaker 1: momentum in Washington. The Senate is planning to hold a
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  Speaker 1: final floor vote on the Protect College Sports Act next week. Some,
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  Speaker 1: pardon me, key provisions of that bill. Athletes can transfer
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  Speaker 1: schools only once without penalty. Coaches cannot leave one school
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  Speaker 1: for another during the season. The bill also protects the
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  Speaker 1: NCAA from lawsuits for things like eligibility issues. It would
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  Speaker 1: preempt state laws that regulate NIL. Also, schools would face
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  Speaker 1: a three-year probationary period as an independent before joining a
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  Speaker 1: new conference. Let's bring in Craig Carton, host of the
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  Speaker 1: Craig Carton show on Outkick, which made its debut earlier
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  Speaker 1: this month. Congratulations on that, Craig. So let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: this legislation. What do you think of it overall?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's needed. I think we're living in
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  Speaker 2: the wild, wild west right now. The NCAA has become
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  Speaker 2: a feckless, powerless organization. And we don't know where the
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  Speaker 2: money is coming from for these kids. We don't know
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  Speaker 2: who's giving up payments under the table to the kids.
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  Speaker 2: We're not sure which conference is actually acting as a
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  Speaker 2: watchdog against it. And we've created a system that was
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  Speaker 2: based in something good, which is that athletes that produce
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  Speaker 2: a significant amount of income for their schools should be
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  Speaker 2: able to profit in that income. But that's not what
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  Speaker 2: NIL does. It started off where you can profit off
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  Speaker 2: your name, your image, your likeness. So jersey sales, you
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  Speaker 2: get a piece of. Mugs that have your name or
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  Speaker 2: your number on it or your autograph on it. But
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  Speaker 2: now it's just a cash. It's a pay-to-play league right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's effectively become a professional league that acts as a
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  Speaker 2: minor league for basketball and for football. So I think
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  Speaker 2: we need to protect college sports. I think we need regulation.
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  Speaker 2: And we need to decide if the powers that be
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  Speaker 2: with the NCAA... or even the right organization to oversee everything.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it comes from a very good place.
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  Speaker 1: The Arkansas basketball coach, John Calipari, says he thinks this
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  Speaker 1: bill is going to be good for especially young players. Listen.
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  Speaker 3: They're limited because we coaches are taking older players, waiting
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  Speaker 3: on transfers. going over to Europe, getting an older player
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  Speaker 3: at Europe, and at the expense of young American kids.
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  Speaker 3: I coached at UMass. In this environment, I would not
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  Speaker 3: have been able to move that program. My staff and
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't have done what we did there in this environment.
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  Speaker 3: I was at Memphis. What we did there in this environment,
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  Speaker 3: we couldn't have done.
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  Speaker 1: So he seems to think that this is all going
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  Speaker 1: to make, well, sort of level the playing field, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: for schools.
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  Speaker 2: Well, John, what he's saying is he's looking out for
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  Speaker 2: the high school seniors. High school seniors are the largest
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  Speaker 2: group of young athletes that are getting screwed by the
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  Speaker 2: current status of the NCAA. Let me explain that real quick.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm a coach, a college football coach, a college
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  Speaker 2: basketball coach, and I have the opportunity to poach every
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  Speaker 2: kid that's playing college basketball right now that's already become
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  Speaker 2: more physically developed, you know, a 21-year-old, a 22-year-old, as
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  Speaker 2: opposed to trying to recruit an 18-year-old high school kid
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  Speaker 2: that hasn't had the benefit of better coaching, a better
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  Speaker 2: workout system, a better weightlifting system, John's right. It is
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  Speaker 2: negative for the 18- and 19-year-old high school graduate, or
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  Speaker 2: even college freshman. The problem with John Calipari being the
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  Speaker 2: messenger there is that he's had a scandal-ridden career as
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  Speaker 2: a head coach, and he's a fantastic head coach. So
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  Speaker 2: I think in this case, don't mind the messenger. Let's
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  Speaker 2: pay attention to the message, because what John is saying
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  Speaker 2: is right. We need some type of reform, some type
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  Speaker 2: of regulation. And to be fair about it, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: a guy that thinks the government needs to get involved
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  Speaker 2: in every aspect of our lives. But this cannot continue
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  Speaker 2: the way it's continuing or the way it's begun over
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  Speaker 2: the last three to five years. And this ends in
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  Speaker 2: a good place. We need to fix it. We need
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  Speaker 2: to regulate how much money agents can take from these kids.
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  Speaker 2: Think about this for a minute. If I'm an NFL player,
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  Speaker 2: the max amount my agent can take from my contract
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  Speaker 2: is 4%. But there are no rules in the NCAA.
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  Speaker 2: So if you take a kid who doesn't know any
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  Speaker 2: better and he's got a sweet talker in his ear saying,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get you the best NIL deal from
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  Speaker 2: the best college. I'm going to make sure that you
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  Speaker 2: go pro one day. And oh, by the way, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to take a 25 percent fee from all the
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  Speaker 2: money you make. That's happening right now. So there are
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  Speaker 2: things that we need to put in place really to
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  Speaker 2: protect the kid more than to protect the academic institutions.
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  Speaker 1: One of the holdouts on this bill is the former
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  Speaker 1: Auburn coach, Tommy Tuberville, now a senator from Alabama. He
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  Speaker 1: has changed his mind. He's voting for it. And this
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  Speaker 1: is what he says about why. He says, I voted
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  Speaker 1: against it just to show my disapproval. It could be better.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to see it overshadowed by the federal government.
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  Speaker 1: We can't get anything else done. Something has to be done.
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  Speaker 1: Let's try it. But the problem is when you do...
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to retract anything. It's kind of a lukewarm endorsement,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, but the guy they know as coach says
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  Speaker 1: he's for it now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you have to be for it. The
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  Speaker 2: major upside for all of this is twofold. One, athletes
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  Speaker 2: are going to get paid. There's a value for what
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  Speaker 2: they bring to the table, and they should be paid
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  Speaker 2: for that. So let's put that aside because no one
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  Speaker 2: disagrees with that conceptually. The other part of it now is,
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  Speaker 2: for a long time, the schools that were doing untoward
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  Speaker 2: things under the table— where the schools have the most
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  Speaker 2: success and the continued success. Jay Williams, the former Duke superstar,
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  Speaker 2: talked about this past week on a podcast. Even Duke,
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  Speaker 2: the almighty Duke, with Mike Krzyzewski, bags of cash, exchanging
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  Speaker 2: hands to get the best players. Alabama did it back
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  Speaker 2: in the day. My alma mater, Syracuse, did it back
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  Speaker 2: in the day. So the upside of all this is
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  Speaker 2: once you level the playing field, You get great stories
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  Speaker 2: like we had last year with Indiana winning a college
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  Speaker 2: football championship. For the last hundred years prior to Kurt
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  Speaker 2: Cignetti getting there and the NIL thing being in full
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  Speaker 2: steam ahead, Indiana was the single worst, most losing team
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  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten in its history. Now it's a powerhouse.
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because guys like Mark Cuban and his other brethren, wealthy graduates,
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  Speaker 2: are willing to stroke a check.
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  Speaker 3: St.
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  Speaker 2: John's basketball, Mike Rapoli, the founder of Vitamin Water, loves St. John's,
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  Speaker 2: willing to stroke a check. And now that we level
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  Speaker 2: the playing field and we know where the money comes from,
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  Speaker 2: your alma mater can win a championship too. And I
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  Speaker 2: think at the end of the day, that's what we want.
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  Speaker 2: We want a fair competitive balance when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: the college sports that we love so much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Couldn't agree with you more. Craig Carton. Craig,
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  Speaker 1: thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime.
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  Speaker 1: You can watch Craig's podcast, The Craig Carton Show. It's
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  Speaker 1: new and it's on OutKick.