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👇🏽this @Realrclark25 is right
As college football players entertain us today, we cannot lose sight of what’s happening to these young men. A 24-team CFP on the horizon. The “Protect College Football” Act. More money, more control, more decisions about their futures.
The NCAA continues to treat these athletes like professionals without accepting the responsibility that comes with it.
The people in power keep making decisions driven by money and control while preventing the players who generate that revenue from having a meaningful seat at the table.
@ThePivot Sports on @Youtube
#ThePivotSports #ThePivot #CollegeFootball
👇🏽always follow the money (who’s backing the bill)
👇🏽why it is so hard to trust the NCAA
RodGilmore retweeted
So now you think Donald Trump called Stephen A Smith to discuss the “needs of Black community?” That’s what you think this dinner was about? Come on, now. I’m supposed to believe something serious is going to be accomplished at a dinner Kid Rock — who started cosplaying as a southern racist to save his career — and Bill Maher?
If you’re trying to find common ground with someone on the opposite side, both sides have to come into it with honest intentions. Has that EVER been Donald Trump? No. We have had six years of Trump and he has never shown any interest in serving anyone but himself. He has put most of his supporters in a worse position than they were previously, but I’m supposed to believe he suddenly cares about the “needs of the Black community?”
And don’t give Trump the excuse of ignorance. He knows exactly how he has screwed over Black folks and he relishes in it. If he cared about the needs of our community — or the American people overall — then Project 2025 doesn’t exist.
You can’t appeal to a bully. They don’t care.
With all due respect, Miss Hill, you know I love you like a little sister. You may be right about Donald Trump. But if he called me, you, or anybody on this app and said, “Let’s sit down and talk about the needs of the Black community,” I believe we have a responsibility to go and make those needs clear. Our people deserve that advocacy.
I don’t just talk on this app. When I went to get $20 million, $16 million, and $5 million for parks and a high school football stadium, along with $3 million for my youth program, I had to work with people in city government, the county, and the school board—including Republicans who love and support Donald Trump. If I refused to have those conversations, what would I have gotten done for my people?
It’s easy to talk on this app. When you’re in these streets seeing how people are suffering, you understand why every opportunity to get resources matters. Having a conversation doesn’t mean giving somebody a pass. It means bringing our needs directly to the people with the power to address them.
And while we’re talking about standing up for our community, I didn’t see that same energy from a lot of y’all when Debbie Wasserman Schultz ran for a historically Black congressional seat. We can have that conversation another time, because I do have a problem with the people who sat back and said nothing.
👇🏽yup @JayBilas is right.
. @JayBilas argues that college sports is financially healthy and competitively strong—not chaotic—and that all the turmoil surrounding it stems largely from the NCAA’s own policies.
puck.news/jay-bilas-has-a-fe…
This👇🏽just the facts!
The so-called Protect College Sports Act is a bad deal for athletes and fans. Thank you to @MarcIstook for the straight talk here.
Man, the players are battling against all the powerful players 👇🏽
👇🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 good to see his great work acknowledged!
Charles Davis standing out on CBS after reassignment, layoff by NFL Network awfulannouncing.com/college-…
RodGilmore retweeted
So? You act as if players are irrelevant. They are not. Nobody is arguing for coaches to accept less. They argue for fair market value for players. Why are we lamenting player value right now? Because they are commanding more value than ever, and the system wants them restricted. That means a bigger piece of the ever expanding pie for coaches and administrators. You seem to suggest coaches have value untethered to the brand and players don’t. Again, if the brand is so valuable, offer less money. Simple.
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Earlier this week, the brilliant Tom Ley of the Defector gave me an opportunity to lay out the case against the so-called “Protect College Sports Act.” I hope you read and perhaps look at the #PCSA a little bit differently from before: defector.com/an-antitrust-ex…
He’s right 👇🏽
The Protect College Sports Act sells out college athletes and bails out the NCAA. Here's what I told @stephenasmith
The mantra of Saban & supporters of the Act: “capitalism and free market for me but not for thee!”
"Why should players accept financial guardrails when coaches don't have to?" The Protect College Sports Act is a bad deal for college athletes, who fought for years to secure the rights they have today.
op: @benmalleronfox | @foxsportsradio
👇🏽why the ncaa has no credibility in court.
RodGilmore retweeted
Spot on from @bomani_jones here. I filed this amendment—and I'm going to keep pushing for fairness for athletes. The House of Representatives should stand with the players and reject the Protect College Sports Act.
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They are not “losing” money. It’s irrational to assert that athletic department spending magically rises to the level of revenue, and does so everywhere. A large portion of athletic revenue is paid to the school. It is a money transfer from one school account to another. Scholarship costs are booked to athletics. Where does that money go? To the school. That not every school can generate revenue or can pay the at the same level means that athletes alone should accept less than market value? No. “Sustainability” has been used for 100 years. Only athletes threaten sustainability? No.
RodGilmore retweeted
Mit Winter wrote on X: "The NCAA self-created the situation where eligibility decisions are left with courts & where some class of 2022 players will be eligible and some won’t." My comment: One would think that has to be addressed soon by the NCAA.
👇🏽this is right
Listen to @JayBilas . College athletes create enormous economic value for schools, conferences, the NCAA, broadcasters, media companies, and more. It’s fundamentally unfair to restrict athletes’ rights while leaving other powerful actors in the college sports ecosystem largely unconstrained.
op: @YouthInc
