Blank Check? Easier for the powerful to stay that way?
“For context, the 11-page university participant agreement would bind SEC, ACC and Big 12 schools to the terms of the House v. NCAA settlement and to the enforcement decisions of the new CSC, which stipulates that they waive their rights to contest whatever sanctions or rule changes the commission would make in the court of law.”
That headline is misleading. He didn’t “block” them from signing.
He simply ADVISED that they not sign it.
So far, only Tech and Baylor have expressed objection.
As long as UT and aTm sign it, UH would be stupid not to. Neither has expressed an objection; only Tech has because they don’t want their sugar daddy to be reined in as far as his ability to buy players. There was a whole string on this that you apparently missed.
I posted that article a few days ago in another thread. You have to look at the source ( local rah rah paper) the Lubbock Avalanche is playing fast and loose with the facts. He didn’t forbid anything he advised. Complete difference. Also let it be known the President of TT signed the CSC unbeknownst to Cody Campbell, started his pushback.
This is far from an agreed upon framework. Universities should practice due diligence:
A group of Senate Democrats has sent a letter to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, imploring him to reject the “broad antitrust exemption” for the NCAA contained in the proposed SCORE Act.
In the letter, seen by Sportico, Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) argue that shielding the NCAA from litigation would serve to entrench the organization’s “exploitative practices” and undermine ongoing efforts to ensure fair treatment and compensation for college athletes.
“This antitrust exemption is the top priority for the NCAA because it would permit coordination between the NCAA and its member institutions in ways that primarily serve their own financial and competitive interests,” the letter states. “It’s no surprise that the NCAA is asking Congress for antitrust immunity: The NCAA keeps losing in court because of its repressive rules that harm athletes.”
Nailed it. NCAA should be banned/eliminated. total fraud.
As UH has been stung in the past. This CSC looks to be a renaming of the old NCAA Enforcement group where the sins of the mighty slide whereas others severely suffer, to show no tolerance for rule breaking.
Tejas and aTm are some of the mighty, so why would they not sign.
When reduced to its bare essence, who, in their right mind signs away their right to redress in perpetuity?
There’s no reason why they wouldn’t, and likewise, no reason that we wouldn’t.
Not signing can cost a school a year’s worth of conference distributions, or result in loss of bowl eligibility; if a conference really gets pissed off they might even kick out anyone that doesn’t sign.
So don’t expect UH to follow Tech in a fight that Tech definitely doesn’t have the clout to win.
We don’t want to risk anything like that.
As long as UT and aTm sign, which they likely will, then we should sign as well. Failure to do so might cost us everything we’ve worked for in trying so long to join the P4.
Be kicked out by whom? By what authority? Just because powers that be, say they can? I think it takes the conference schools to do that the way things are structure presently. I don’t see the B12 kicking out anyone in their conference. Maybe this maybe incorrect ( correct me if I am incorrect on this) that CSC has to be accepted by all 68 schools, if not it’s DOA.
Disagree, you think ut & aTm have any warm and fuzzy feelings for us? Conference wouldn’t send a bowl eligible team for the money… to greedy for that, just try and steal the money more likely.
Exactly right. Don’t pay any attention to the dramatic arm-waving and pearl-clutching about “getting kicked out” by THEM.
Nobody has signed yet, because the agreement isn’t final, and Baylor has also publicly expressed reservations about some of the same clauses. And in the scheme of things, our interests are much more closely aligned with Tech’s than with the two SEC schools in the state.
What reasonable person doesn’t understand this?
No, but I won’t have UH risk getting kicked out of the P4 by siding with Tech’s losing cause.
If UT or aTm, which have the clout to successfully oppose something like this protest, then we’ll adjust.
But absent that, we need to behave like a P4 and go along with the rest of the P4.
Siding with Tech means you sign the agreement. Right?
Siding with UT and aTm means we sign the enforcement mechanism, UNLIKE Tech.
Let Tech lose on its own.
Are you going to deny that uta and atm cheated and paid their athletes under the table too?
It is either:
Yes they have paid some athletes under the table.
or
No they never paid their athletes under table.
It is not complicated. Which answer will it be?
No one denies that.
But that’s irrelevant and neither here nor there.
We have one or two rogue schools (Tech and Baylor) that don’t want a mechanism in place to enforce the new rules under House.
Everybody else believes……CORRECTLY….that such a mechanism is necessary, otherwise, House will have no teeth, and sugar daddies like Tech’s will operate without limits or restriction.
This……we CANNOT allow.
Everybody has to abide by the rules and be subject to the same rules enforcement.
Again, if UT and/or aTm refuse to sign this, maybe we’ll reconsider.
If not, then we need to act like a P4 and agree as the rest of the P4 will.
By signing this agreement you are letting these same schools cheat again. That is what you want? That is your prerogative.
Where did we hear, read the following:
We have to pass it to read what’s in it?
It is dead on arrival and everyone knows it.
No we are not.
We are making sure that everyone is bound.
And that people like Tech can’t cheat.
Without such a mechanism in place, there’s no stopping their sugar daddy.
What makes you think for a second that they will not cheat again?
Nothing in this agreement precludes them from doing so. Nothing does. They are the authority. It is as clear as it can be. Everyone can see that. That is why they are pushing for it.
What teetech is doing is what these blue bloods have done for decades without any ncaa repercusions. The ones that tried to do the same thing like us or others got either the death penalty, close to it or be relegated to Conference USA.
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