Laughable, these schools are trying to claim they are not employees - they are not in favor of granting them collective bargaining rights and other mandatory employee rights that they will ultimately forced to do without an Antitrust Exemption from the Federal Government (CFB is "Interstate Commerce" and without an Antitrust Exemption they are subject to Federal Law including the Sherman Antitrust Act). The NCAA is asking for an Antitrust Exemption because, among other things, they are claiming that they are "Student-Athletes" of their respective schools, not employees [Antitrust Exemption also allows them to restrict things such as Eligibility, transfer regulation, Rev-sharing Cap, etc....]). The NCAA, CSC and the Protect College Sports Act is trying to protect College Sports and College Athletic Departments for all current, and future, Student-athletes, which it would do. This nonsense that the fraud being perpetrated by the revenue sports must be extended to the maximum benefit of what are clearly fraudulent student-athletes (the athletes in the revenue sports are hired-gun mercenaries that the schools fraudulently claim are student-athletes so they can pay them to play, but not recognize them as employees. They want to "have their cake and eat it too" violating NCAA Rules, and the new CSC Rules that they must clear their athletes thru, with the "hired gun" fraud student-athletes they're attempting to use, but then out of the other side of their mouth they want to claim they're "student-athletes" so they can avoid declaring them as employees and granting them collective-bargaining rights as well as many other mandatory rights if they are forced to recognize them as Pro Athlete Employees which they are without immediate reforms this Legislation applies.).
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