Welcome to my redshirt diaries. I was tied up for three days covering the damn U.S. Open so I have a lot to catch with you on with respect to the settlement. The good news is the U.S. Open only comes around every 9-10 years so I am done with that for a while. There have been so many developments since we last checked in on the settlement so I am just going to try and make sure that I get to them all. Karl did a bang up job the last few days keeping up on all the developments with respect to the huge weekend of recruiting. This has been a much bigger two weeks than anyone could have anticipated and that speaks volumes about how hard Narduzzi and company work at recruiting. And the thing is there is a lot of quality and really good recruiting wins in this class. I bet, once it is all said and done, it will be a top 30, maybe a top 25 class and considering some of the things we have talked about limiting Pitt, that would be amazing.
This will be my final installment focused on the settlement stuff and then we will go back to normal Redshirt Diaries focused on Pitt and Pitt related tea. I am still pushing for us (the media) to get an audience with Allen Greene, which would answer many questions for us.
At any rate, let's get started....
* As I said when we last met I would be monitoring the Congress's push to try and get into regulating college athletics. I am happy to report like pretty much everything else Congress touches, they pretty much screwed this up as well. They can't agree on much, they have a bunch of posers with opposing ideas and thoughts and so these hearings have been a big waste of time. And look, I will put this in all caps just in case some people have forgotten the rules about politics - THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL TOPIC - so please don't spiral into idiotic "MAGA People are to blame" "no it is the libtards" and all that mess. I am going to present the facts and hopefully if there is a discussion it is on the merits of the arguments being made. In general, Republicans are siding with the NCAA and trying to "codify" the settlement as the rule of law to offer protection from many of the legal challenges and lawsuits and whatnot. The Republicans basically want to offer some protection to the NCAA. Democrats, IN GENERAL, have been very skeptical of the move because they believe that it will basically reverse the progress made by athletes in terms of gaining their voice and their rights. That is in a nutshell - again in general - where both sides are at. It is pretty much on brand as Republicans, in general, are going to side with protecting the big guys and Democrats are, in general, going to side with protecting the little guys. The crux of it all is the SCORE act - (The Student Compensation and Opportunity through Rights and Endorsements) is - aimed at standardizing name, image and likeness opportunities for student athletes. There are many quotes out there but this probably is the most direct quote about what the opposition to this bill is:
"Rep. Lori Trahan further eviscerates the discussion draft bill: “I just want to get this straight. This committee is considering a bill that rolls back athlete rights, blocks progress and gives little in return? I think we can do a lot better.”
This is why there have been 13 hearings on this and none of them have produced any progress at all. I honestly think that this will never see the light of day.
This will be my final installment focused on the settlement stuff and then we will go back to normal Redshirt Diaries focused on Pitt and Pitt related tea. I am still pushing for us (the media) to get an audience with Allen Greene, which would answer many questions for us.
At any rate, let's get started....
* As I said when we last met I would be monitoring the Congress's push to try and get into regulating college athletics. I am happy to report like pretty much everything else Congress touches, they pretty much screwed this up as well. They can't agree on much, they have a bunch of posers with opposing ideas and thoughts and so these hearings have been a big waste of time. And look, I will put this in all caps just in case some people have forgotten the rules about politics - THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL TOPIC - so please don't spiral into idiotic "MAGA People are to blame" "no it is the libtards" and all that mess. I am going to present the facts and hopefully if there is a discussion it is on the merits of the arguments being made. In general, Republicans are siding with the NCAA and trying to "codify" the settlement as the rule of law to offer protection from many of the legal challenges and lawsuits and whatnot. The Republicans basically want to offer some protection to the NCAA. Democrats, IN GENERAL, have been very skeptical of the move because they believe that it will basically reverse the progress made by athletes in terms of gaining their voice and their rights. That is in a nutshell - again in general - where both sides are at. It is pretty much on brand as Republicans, in general, are going to side with protecting the big guys and Democrats are, in general, going to side with protecting the little guys. The crux of it all is the SCORE act - (The Student Compensation and Opportunity through Rights and Endorsements) is - aimed at standardizing name, image and likeness opportunities for student athletes. There are many quotes out there but this probably is the most direct quote about what the opposition to this bill is:
"Rep. Lori Trahan further eviscerates the discussion draft bill: “I just want to get this straight. This committee is considering a bill that rolls back athlete rights, blocks progress and gives little in return? I think we can do a lot better.”
This is why there have been 13 hearings on this and none of them have produced any progress at all. I honestly think that this will never see the light of day.
