GOP lawmakers get heated over college football and money
The booming business of college sports is getting out of control, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree, but whether Congress should intervene and how to effectively level the playing field between premier universities and smaller schools is a heated debate on Capitol Hill.
The stalemate was highlighted last week by the death of the SCORE Act, a bill designed to regulate the compensation college student-athletes earn from their name, image and likeness (NIL), after several hard-line conservatives in the lower chamber expressed opposition.
The debate over NIL in college football reached a new inflection point when former Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin left Oxford for its conference rival Louisiana State University (LSU), a decision Kiffin said was in part driven by LSU’s ability to lure more and better recruits with NIL opportunities.
Kiffin’s decision angered not just the Ole Miss faithful, but fans of college football across the country who say his ditching of the playoff-bound team he spent six seasons building is emblematic of a broken system where coaches and athletes chase paydays over school pride, eroding competitive balance and disrespecting longstanding cultures in intercollegiate athletics.
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