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004 - Capitol Hill hearings on college athletics and what could be next 060426

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🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Capitol Hill hearings on college athletics and what could be next

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0:00.0

Welcome back to The Michigan Insider here on the Big 1050 WTKA online at the Big 1050.com.

0:04.6

We don't spend a lot of time obviously talking politics here on the show.

0:08.8

But when there are hearings on Capitol Hill for a bill called the Protect College Sports Bill,

0:16.0

which is obviously very relevant to us here on the show.

0:18.9

And so there were a lot of conversations that came out of that were had yesterday,

0:22.3

came out of yesterday.

0:23.9

But I can't get past just the initial part of this whole thing, which is the Protect

0:29.1

College Sports Act, had hearings on Capitol Hill.

0:32.4

And most of the people that were called to speak on Capitol Hill are the ones that helped break college sports.

0:40.9

Or they don't want to send it back so far into, you know, prehistoric ages, relatively speaking,

0:46.3

that it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense because it's not going back that far.

0:49.6

So you have coaches advocating for caps on players and I understand that that's fine coaches

0:57.4

advocating for caps on players but coaches aren't going to advocate for caps on

1:01.2

coaches I know it's kind of a crazy idea because if you look at the NBA or the NFL model

1:08.0

for example coaches can make whatever they want and players are under

1:11.3

specific rules of how much they can make.

1:13.8

Well, that's all been collectively bargained.

1:16.6

We get back to that and there was a, you heard yesterday one of the few that are not part

1:21.9

of the group that broke the whole thing that we're speaking on Capitol Hill is Utah,

1:24.7

defensive end Lance Holtzglaw.

1:26.8

I've experienced the impact of NIL, the transfer portal,

1:29.3

conference tree alignment, evolving eligibility rules, and the many changes shaping

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