Texas Sen. Ted Cruz relentlessly booed in Austin while trying to promote Protect College Sports Act on 'College GameDay'

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Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) did not get much crowd support during his appearance on ESPN's "College GameDay" on Saturday.

Cruz did a live interview with the pregame show in Austin to promote the Protect College Sports Act ahead of No. 1 Ohio State's visit to No. 4 Texas. Cruz, who is a co-sponsor of the bill for federal legislation to govern college sports, was met with boos as he tried to advocate for the Senate bill. "Ted, you suck" chants even emanated from the crowd.

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This was the second week in a row that "College GameDay" had a segment in support of the Protect College Sports Act. Last week, it was a conversation between hosts Nick Saban and Pat McAfee.

Cruz said the Senate is expected to vote on the bill this week after a summer vote had been delayed ahead of the Senate's August recess. The bill needs 60 votes to pass the Senate, and then needs to pass the house and be signed by President Donald Trump to go into law. Trump has signaled his support for the bill and is expected to sign off if the bill gets through both chambers.

Though the bill has bipartisan support — Cruz's co-sponsor is Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) — it is not without its detractors. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) has been one of the most outspoken senators against the bill. Murphy even engaged in a social media back-and-forth with Texas Tech board of regents president Cody Campbell over the bill earlier in the week.

Campbell is funding television ads supporting the bill, and those ads have included Saban and Colorado coach Deion Sanders.

Cruz said in his appearance Saturday that his confidence in the bill passing the Senate was "very, very high."

The college sports landscape has drastically changed since the creation of the NIL initiative. When it was created, it was intended to compensate players for their autographs or to include them in an annual video game, but it has become a yearly bidding war for both recruits and transfers.

The PCSA itself is 230 pages long. Rather than going through the entire bill, the Congress website offers a summary.

"This bill establishes requirements for name, image, or likeness (NIL) agreements for college student athletes and provides a limited antitrust exemption for schools and conferences to pool and sell certain college sports media rights. The requirements address elements of the court-approved agreement to settle In re College Athlete NIL Litigation (i.e., Housesettlement).

First, the bill statutorily prohibits institutions, conferences, or interstate intercollegiate athletic associations (e.g., the National Collegiate Athletic Association [NCAA]) from restricting student athletes from entering NIL agreements (subject to specified limitations). Students must report to their institution NIL compensation greater than $600.

The bill requires agents to register with a state and caps agent endorsement contract fees at 5%. The bill also provides student athletes with one transfer without losing athletic eligibility and restricts football personnel from becoming the head football coach at a different institution during the same season.

Further, the bill prohibits institutions, conferences, or specified entities acting for the benefit of an institution from providing athletes with compensation that circumvents the limit on sharing revenue with student athletes established under the House settlement. The bill also makes the limit permanent and provides for an annual inflation adjustment.

Additionally, the bill establishes (subject to specified conditions) a limited antitrust exemption for institutions or conferences that form joint agreements to transfer their sports telecasting rights to a third party. Such an agreement requires participation from at least 75% of the institutions in the Football Bowl Subdivision."

On the one hand, college sports fans will be intrigued by the inclusion of new rules regarding transfers and coaches leaving for other programs.

On the other, there is assuredly plenty of nitty gritty details and information about the NIL compensation, what is capped and what is allowed. One of the main opposing viewpoints of the bill is that it includes legislation that would limit how much players can earn, but not coaches or schools who benefit from them.

This intersection of sports and politics may continue, and in a big way. In a previous appearance discussing the bill, Cruz mentioned that if it passes, President Donald Trump would sign it into law on an episode of "College GameDay."

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