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Outlining concerns, SEC’s Sankey worries Senate bill could produce more lawsuits, not fewer
Greg Sankey said the bill’s lawsuit protections are too narrow and urged revisions on preemption, NIL disclosure and media-rights pooling.
- Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey sent a letter to SEC presidents and chancellors last week warning that the Senate's Protect College Sports Act, as drafted, would likely increase litigation rather than reduce it.
- Introduced on May 27 by Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Maria Cantwell, the 111-page Protect College Sports Act prompted Sankey and Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti to discuss roughly two dozen revisions with Cruz on June 4.
- Sankey urged broadening preemption to cover recruiting inducements, tampering, and non-NIL compensation, writing that the bill must require NIL disclosure to a national entity like the College Sports Commission to ensure independent enforcement.
- The SEC and Big Ten oppose rewriting the Sports Broadcasting Act, citing concerns that pooling postseason media rights could squeeze them out of a new football postseason potentially replacing the College Football Playoff.
- While the leagues have not backed the bill, Sankey believes targeted revisions could deliver "meaningful stability and accountability needed in college athletics," though the bipartisan measure requires 60 votes to clear the Senate.
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Washington TimesOutlining concerns, SEC’s Sankey worries Senate bill could produce more lawsuits, not fewer
One of Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey's concerns with a recently introduced Senate bill designed to fix college sports is that it could…
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Outlining concerns, SEC's Sankey worries Senate bill could produce more lawsuits, not fewer
One of Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey’s concerns with a recently introduced Senate bill designed to fix college sports was that it could increase the likelihood of the very type of litigation the measure proposes to reduce.
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