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003 - SCORE Act is terrible for the athletes 071525

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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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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