This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is the best of two pros and a couple of Joe with LaVar Arrington,

Brady Quinn and Jonas Knox on Fox Sports Radio.

We've got some biz nass to get to.

And it starts off with the U.S. Senate.

Are they coming to the rescue of the NCAA?

Well, we've got five senators, Richard Blumenthal, Jerry Moran, Corey Booker, Chris Coons, and Ted Cruz.

They met several times in recent weeks in connection with a potential build.

Now, the bill, if it moves forward, it's expected to have three major components.

And these three major components are important because they basically help college football

get back to some sort of foundation and structure.

So we're not dealing with a lot of what we're hearing,

for example, the NICO I. Maliava situation.

So the first would be a federal preemption of any state-based NIL bill.

What that essentially means is the federal law will rule over state law.

The second would be a declaration that athletes are students and

not employees, which is interesting and key in all of this. I think it's key for keeping the

academic component as part of how they're able to participate. Third, a limited antitrust

exemption that would allow the NCAA and major conferences

to enforce eligibility and transfer rules without fear or liability. And that's probably the most

important because whether it's the NCAA and it's interesting how this is worded and major conferences

because the reality is the power for conferences that exist control college football.

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