University sports are currently experiencing the chaos they deserve. After decades of corrupt athletes under the guise of amateurism, the effective application of antitrust laws has turned things up.
Now there is an effort at the congress to launch university sports a life buoy.
Via Nick Schultz de On3.com, a bill presented to the House of American Representatives on Monday SCAT LA NCAA For an American College Sports Association.
Subjected by the representative Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), his name is the Restore College Sports Act.
Asca would have a commissioner, appointed by the president. The terms would include the sharing of zero funds between athlete students, the equal distribution of dissemination income and the ability to transfer “freely” from one school to another.
Here is a facet intended to draw a painful objection from the coaching profession: the maximum annual salary of a coach would be limited to “10 times the full cost of attendance in such an institution”.
Frankly, this provision gives the impression of not being serious legislation. But the underlying problem remains very serious for university sports.
They need a solution. They could get one from the congress. It would be very preferable to find their own response than to leave politicians.
Here is the essential reality. The best effective response-and perhaps only-is to unionize the workforce and secure the antitrust exemption which comes from a multi-employee negotiation unit.
This would allow the NCAA to operate like the NFL, with a salary ceiling and other rules to balance the compensation of players with competitive actions.
