And let’s also get a bill to prohibit professional sports teams from setting minimum age limits. Football players are required to wait three years and basketball players one year before going pro in the US domestic leagues, losing out on millions of dollars (far more than the existing proposals will provide).
I agree! These limitations on labor are simply abusive to the kids they apply to and enable a predatory monopoly of old white men (the NCAA and universities and the coaches) to continue to profit on free labor.
Europe has a more sensible policy it seems... Athletics are attached to cities not universities and participants are paid.
It passed 72-0? Why only now is this finally happening? People have been talking about this issue for years, and apparently it's not controversial at all (in California).
I have a personal rule - never, ever criticize politicians when they do something right. The last thing I want is for them to think "We could solve this issue. But then the voters will ask why we didn't do so earlier... better do nothing and not draw attention to it."
If passed this would immediately give all California schools a big recruiting advantage. Other states would need to follow suit. It would also set an interesting precedent if California unanimously resolved this issue that's been discussed for years. Like emissions regulations before and the GDPR like law coming in 2020... one could argue California is setting much the legislative agenda for the country.
It's not an argument as much as it's just how it is for the past few decades. They are like 7th in the world in GDP or something.
Rather than settling the agenda, I’d say they’re willing to experiment with policy that is then vetted before exporting.
I’d see it more like a laboratory.
it's only a big recruiting advantage until the NCAA boots out any participating CA schools. or makes participating players ineligible to play in any other state. expect it to be a nasty fight.
That would be highly unlikely due to the population of CA and hence it’s overall pull within the NCAA. Not to mention that wouldn’t it be considered discriminative if there is a law allowing something but then the NCAA says “”we don’t like that law”? Wouldn’t this be the same as a private university saying “you aren’t admitted because you are gay”?
If NCAA exits CA because CA bans the NCAA's behavior, where is the discrimination?
Is that really a smart fight for the NCAA to pick? California has some big name sports programs, and the NCAA is an organization whose legality is not really firmly established. If the California AG decides to open a case investigating whether the NCAA is an illegal cartel existing to exploit the labor of their ‘amateur’ athletes, I can’t imagine it would go particularly well for them.