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[QUOTE="Sherman20, post: 5698438, member: 6357"]
This letter is a great breakdown of what’s at stake and what’s needed:

“That's the landscape Louisville says is unsustainable: 50 states, 30-plus NIL laws, constant litigation and no central authority with real enforcement power.

So what are they asking for?

Three things.

First, congressional action to create uniform national NIL rules and legal protections. Second, a governing body that can actually govern, whether that's a strengthened NCAA or something new. Third, a hard and enforceable spending cap, modeled after professional sports leagues, to slow what they describe as an escalating financial arms race.

And there is one more idea tucked inside the letter that would fundamentally reshape the system.

Louisville suggests Congress consider amending the 1961 Sports Broadcasting Act — the law that allows the NFL to bundle all of its television rights together and sell them as one national package.

College sports don't work that way. The SEC negotiates its own television deal. The Big Ten negotiates its own. The ACC negotiates its own. Everyone is selling separate inventory in the same marketplace. Louisville's argument is that this fragmented system is widening the financial gap between the richest conferences and everyone else. If media rights could be negotiated more collectively — even partially — the overall revenue pie might grow and the financial floor might rise for schools outside the Big Ten and SEC.”
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