003 - SCORE Act is terrible for the athletes 071525
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🗓️ 15 July 2025
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SCORE Act is terrible for the athletes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back inside the Ann Arbor Studios of the Big 1050 WTKA online at the big 1050.com. |
| 0:04.9 | Tying into what I was just talking about in the last segment, in particular Brian Kelly's comment. |
| 0:09.3 | We've got to take this stand that transparency, consistency, ethics, and morality are at the core of this. |
| 0:15.5 | First of all, again, that's a laughable statement. |
| 0:17.9 | There's no question about that. |
| 0:19.5 | That is a laughable statement. |
| 0:20.7 | That's the first thing. |
| 0:21.4 | The second part is that this kind of goes back to, say, the score act. |
| 0:26.5 | And the score act, which has been introduced, a bipartisan bill. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm not going to get too far into it. |
| 0:32.2 | But it is a bipartisan bill. |
| 0:33.6 | That was put forth last week. |
| 0:36.8 | Well, we had a statement yesterday from the Major League Baseball Players Association, |
| 0:42.2 | the Major League Soccer Players Association, the National Basketball Players Association, |
| 0:46.8 | the National Football League Players Association, and the National Hockey League Players Association, |
| 0:52.1 | a.k.a. the Players Associations, they issued a statement yesterday, more or less defending or speaking for college athletes. |
| 0:58.6 | Because if you look at the score act, it gives a lot of control and power first to the NCAA and then to the schools. |
| 1:07.9 | It seems like it gives the NCAA antitrust immunity and monopoly power to put caps on athletes how much they can earn. |
| 1:18.2 | But without the athletes coming to the table for any sort of collective bargaining does not allow that part of it. |
| 1:24.2 | It gives basically it's setting a cap. That's part of it is it gives, basically it's setting a cap. |
| 1:29.9 | That's part of it is it sets a cap. |
| 1:31.7 | And it creates this artificial salary cap for something that the athletes don't agree to. |
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