Sens. Tuberville, Manchin Leading on NIL Bills

Submitted by L'Carpetron Do… on August 3rd, 2022 at 6:05 PM

While I haven't followed the ins and outs of NIL very closely, I found this pretty interesting: Tommy Tuberville leading new congressional push for NIL regulation - Sports Illustrated

So, Tuberville and Manchin, in cahoots with Nick Saban, are crafting a bill to standardize NIL rules across the 50 states. Citing the Wild West nature of current NIL laws, the patchwork of legislation on the state level and the fecklessness of the NCAA, Tuberville and Manchin claim that Congress needs to establish a level playing field.

Normally, I'd welcome something like this, but I'm concerned about a few things. First, Tommy Tuberville is an idiot. And Joe Manchin is fairly corrupt and not exactly trustworthy (he was a QB for WVU before an injury ended his career) and has been tight with Saban since childhood. I'm very afraid that whatever legislation comes out of this is going to seriously favor Alabama. Saban is sly as a fox and knows what he's doing. It probably won't affect Michigan that much because their approaches are probably very different, but this will impact all of college football. 

And if there was any doubt if Saban was the most powerful man in Alabama, well...

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WorldwideTJRob

August 3rd, 2022 at 6:23 PM ^

Congress has WAYYYY bigger things on their plate right now, instead of worrying about payments of 18-22 year old athletes. This should be lower on their docket.

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Phaedrus

August 3rd, 2022 at 11:16 PM ^

Congress has WAYYYY bigger things on their plate right now,

You're right. You should check out what Congress actually does. Unbeknownst to most people, they are actually very productive and pass bipartisan bills all the time. Pretty much every year they pass law after law doing important things such as naming a post office after some local veteran, naming a highway after some local veteran, or sometimes even naming a naming a room in a Federal court house after some local veteran who also served as a bailiff.

Lest you think I'm exaggerating, check it out. You can go back year after year and naming a post office after a local veteran is the most common activity that congress partakes in.

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Sopwith

August 3rd, 2022 at 6:27 PM ^

Good to know that while veterans with chronic health problems from burn pit exposure aren't a priority, NIL regulation is. Just saying "Senator Tuberville" is a pretty good indication we've transitioned from comedy to farce. To be joined someday by Senators Petrino and Kiffin, no doubt.

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Blue@LSU

August 3rd, 2022 at 7:36 PM ^

Nope. Earmarking is allocating money for a particular purpose.

The PACT Act moves the $400 billion that was previously authorized from discretionary to mandatory spending. Republicans are complaining that this could open up $400 billion in the discretionary spending to be used for other purposes, but the bill itself does not fund any additional programs in the discretionary budget. In other words, no money was earmarked for anything.

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Qmatic

August 3rd, 2022 at 10:39 PM ^

I haven’t watched Fox News in 15+ years. I have a Masters of Social Work Degree from U-M (pretty sure you can assume correctly my political leanings). I read the bill over the weekend, and I do in general have reservations on moves between discretionary and mandatory spending in a lot of congressional situations. 

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Nervous Bird

August 3rd, 2022 at 9:00 PM ^

Al Franken has a Poli-Sci degree from Harvard! Walker is not only semi-literate, but he's a habitual prevaricator with an acknowledged mental illness. Republicans have no ethical, moral, nor intellectual standard for their political candidates. There is simply no parallel on the the left for the right's lack of respect for competent governing.

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uofmfan_13

August 4th, 2022 at 5:29 AM ^

Al Franken wasn't too smart with that photo of him pranking the young woman while she slept though, was he? Lotta "Harvard education" displayed there I'm sure. 

Stop with the pretentious smug sanctimonious scribe. Walker is a dumb celebrity choice for Senator but honestly it's reached clown car status long before 2022. The clowns can't even pass a balanced budget. Senators are 95, 96 years old and can't stay awake in meetings. Senator Diane Feinstein should have retired 29 years ago. You want to rage on Walker fine.  I guarantee he's above the mental function of Diane Feinstein right now.  You think Mazi Hirono is some kind of savant? 😆 

A long time pharmacist on capital hill claims that all kinds of prescriptions are doled out to senators and their staffs. Stuff would stun Americans if we got actual reporting by Corp media instead of cheerleading.

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Bo Harbaugh

August 4th, 2022 at 12:21 AM ^

LOL...comparing Franken to Walker.  Don't care what your political leanings are -

you are not at all a serious person and have zero credibility if you are comparing the intellectual capacity or qualifications of these two individuals.

Walker can not put together a coherent sentence, this was his word salad when asked about gun violence...

“Cain killed Abel and that’s a problem that we have. What we need to do is look into how we can stop those things. You know, you talked about doing a disinformation — what about getting a department that can look at young men that’s looking at women that’s looking at their social media. What about doing that? Looking into things like that and we can stop that way."

and pollution

"Since we don't control the air, our good air decided to float over to China's bad air, so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move," Walker said. "So it moves over to our good air space. Then, now, we got we to clean that back up."

You want to vote for team GOP, that's your right.  But don't make false equivalencies between an individual woefully unqualified and uninformed on issues, to a qualified and coherent individual whose opinions you may disagree with. 

 

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uofmfan_13

August 4th, 2022 at 5:34 AM ^

He's likely more coherent and more alert, and I admit it's a closer call then it should be, then 96 year old Diane Feinstein. 

How much of the 30.6 trillion in debt (reported, actual real number is much higher) did Walker vote for? Answer: none. That was all done via previous congress people. The "geniuses" of Harvard, Yale who can't bother to plan, budget or think ahead 2 years past an election cycle. 

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Phaedrus

August 3rd, 2022 at 11:56 PM ^

There are so many great coaches to choose from:

  1. Urban Meyer: Natural politician. Lying is second nature to him.
  2. Rick Pitino: Think of the fundraisers with strippers/hookers
  3. Steve Sarkisian: With his drinking problem, he'd fit right in with the Senate
  4. Jimbo Fischer: The perfect Manchurian Candidate for Texas oil barons
  5. John Calipari: Just looks like a politician.
  6. Les Miles: For the bizarre and incomprehensible speeches. Is he filibustering or is he just rambling?
  7. Mike Leach: You may not agree with any of his positions, but it's damned entertaining to listen to him espouse them.
  8. Hugh Freeze: Hypocrite.
  9. Coach K: Like the Devil's Advocate but he's a politician.
  10. Coach O: Succeeds despite not being particularly good at anything.

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getsome

August 3rd, 2022 at 6:41 PM ^

any rule will favor the bamas of the world bc they intend to win.  michigan stands 2 steps behind the line while bama and the like continue stepping all over it.  

also theyre all clowns - if theyre not losers prior to office, they transform within 1 year in DC

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Jonesy

August 3rd, 2022 at 6:45 PM ^

wtf does the avatar of coal get out of NIL changes? Saw his name at a glance and hoped he was retiring or worse. Nothing good can come of work between these people.

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