Scott Dehl
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Scott Dehl
@smdbuckeye
Professional bitcher, amateur drinker & concert goer, professor of bad takes, lover of my family.





Commissioners Greg Sankey of the SEC and Tony Petitti on the Big Ten say, in a statement, that they held productive conversations today with Sen. Ted Cruz, and while they continue to oppose the bill in its current form, they plan to keep working toward a solution.







We are all still reading this bill, but its primary effect seems to be to limit the compensation of athletes while protecting the huge salaries of all the adults - coaches, ADs, sports industry executives - who are getting rich off the performance of the players. And it gives the NCAA an antitrust exemption that no other industry gets just so they can keep underpaying the athletes. Sure, there are some good things for players in this bill, but this seems like a great deal for the NCAA and the rich guys who run college sports, and a bad deal for athletes.







The American stock market isn't only larger than the European ones. Its extraordinary wealth is more widely shared with households. And it would be even more widely shared if the U.S. had adopted George W. Bush's private accounts for Social Security two decades ago.






















