OT: Congress interested in NCAA dealings
This topic has been discussed on this blog for quite a while and even a post yesterday about the B1G president's statement on a reform package to address student-athlete support. I found this story, sorry for the source, on a US Representative (Tony Cardenas, D-Calif) who is involved in getting answers from the NCAA and "that lawmakers are pressing for action to address perceived inequities." Some very familiar sounding information from some student-athletes in there, stuff we attribute to SEC schools, but hopefully this will lead to some significant attention on the necessary reform. Link: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/11128414/congress-hikes-scrutiny-ncaa-actions. A lot of quotes from Jim Delany in there as well.
Great this is just what we need. One corrupt group looking into another.
oh good, one inept body trying to fix another one....
because clearly our government has nothing better to do....
I'm sensing a trend...
Politicians see an organization with money to burn in midst of a controversial subject and see an opportunity to get their hands on the money. I highly doubt this is for any sort of good or ethical reason.
They already have the power to tax this stuff and largely don't. Besides, we're talking about large sums of money in regular person terms, but to the federal government a couple of hundred million dollars is pocket change.
they can find a way.
donations. I don't think anyone is concerned with the pocket change.
Yes, thank you BlueCube. BiSB obviously knows a lot more than me about the taxation of it and all, I was implying some of them trying to get a little, or a lot, on the side to back off I guess.
Gotcha. Yeah, they'll do that.
I just saw it more as an issue where come Congressmen could jumpt out front and say "HEY LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME SPORTS FOOTBALL THESE ARE INTERESTING THINGS LOOK AT ME."
Take your new-fangled devil tricks elsewhere, you crazy dog.
/s will not go well here.
since congress is already badly investigating several 'issues' , what the hell is one more that they can screw up....
Ugh.
Just like the baseball scandal, congress needs to mind their business. The government is a mess, perhaps they should worry about that first and not amateur athletics.
If the NCAA and its member institutions didn't receive tax exempt status for all of their activities including sports, and billions of dollars in Federal direct grants and aid, then I might agree with you, it's not "their business" (ironic choice of words). But, they feed at the Federal trough, and unlike you or I they are largely tax-exempt, so yeah, it's Congress' business.
I think this is much different than the baseball situation. This essentially involves the regulation of labor and industry which is definitely Congress' business, as it has been for much of our history. Doesn't mean they will get it right, but it is their business.
Again. Amateur athletics. I would consider the economy or war in the Middle East as a bigger issue to worry about.
Because if there's a major ongoing issue, Congress isn't allowed to talk about anything else? You can walk and chew gum at the same time.
All the way to #12 before the obligatory "Congress has better things to do" post...
smells potential lobbyist money
It's about to come in handy ....
...it's just a facade.
my athletic association composed of institutions that receive federal funding allocated by Congress and have been exempted by Congress from numerous federal laws including from antitrust statutes!
Who cares. The shear majority only care about filing up their reelection coffers from lobbyists than the actual and urgent needs of their constituents.
fuck congress.
If I had it my way we would have immediate election reforms (including the repeal of Citizens United) and dissolution of all current representatives and senators, with an immediate elections to refill those seats.
Yeah, that'd really change things.
Ok, mandatory executions for those that violate election reform.
Thanks, Congress!
Signed: people with an Internet message board on college football that bans politics.
the op didn't mention politics once. way to go and ruin this for everyone else you troll monger.