The article says revenue. Which raises a few key questions for me:
1) revenue, really? Surely not as that would mean even the football programs aren't financially viable.
2) doesn't this violate Title IX?
3) the bill name implies race, but I don't see anything in the bill related to race, wtf?
1.) It is based off of revenue which is even dumber than doing it off of profits. If this passes, I’m sure the big boys like USC will make it work but losing half of your revenue every year would probably shutter most FB, MBB, and WBB in the state. It assumes the tuition and board is all that’s being ponied up for the student athlete vs how much goes into running a CFB program. They want SA to share in the revenue but not to share in the costs of actually running the program. Talk about killing the golden goose.
2.) it says they had title IX protections in the bill that have been stripped out.
3.) I think the idea is that these are the three sports that are predominantly AA and students don’t graduate at a high level, so instead of a degree, they get cashish too.
It isn’t even out of committee, no way this passes, even in California. Really dumb idea, and would ensure most colleges would stop these three sports.