{"id":1512112,"date":"2026-06-03T07:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512112"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:33:16","slug":"citing-critical-issues-sec-big-ten-withhold-support-for-bipartisan-college-sports-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512112","title":{"rendered":"Citing &#8216;critical issues,&#8217; SEC, Big Ten withhold support for bipartisan college sports bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP) &#8211; The two biggest conferences in college sports <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SEC\/status\/2061930866507383180\">released a statement<\/a> Tuesday saying they do not support the current version of a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nil-college-congress-cantwell-cruz-b715ea4cb6ffbc302bfc3fd41b00e157\">bipartisan bill designed to regulate an industry<\/a> struggling for answers in a quickly changing era in which some players make millions.<\/p>\n<p>The Southeastern and Big Ten conferences said the \u201cbill leaves critical issues unresolved,\u201d including not \u201cmeaningfully\u201d preempting state laws with a federal one, which has long been considered a key element for a measure to get support from the NCAA and the conferences.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview last week, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who drafted the bill with Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., told The Associated Press \u201cthe bill is drafted to preempt state laws that conflict with the provisions in this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SEC-Big Ten statement came out less than 24 hours before a scheduled hearing about the bill in front of the Senate Commerce Committee. Cruz chairs the panel and Cantwell is the ranking Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation has received support from the Big 12 and Atlantic Coast Conferences, but the Big Ten and SEC, as the two richest leagues that also have decision-making power over the future of the College Football Playoff, hold the biggest cards.<\/p>\n<p>One of the bill&#8217;s key provisions would give conferences an option to pool their media rights \u2014 an idea the Big Ten and SEC have long claimed would not result in a financial windfall that proponents suggest. The leagues&#8217; statement did not speak to that issue.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Commerce Committee that Cruz chairs acknowledged the Big Ten-SEC position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP) &#8211; The two biggest conferences in college sports released a statement Tuesday saying they do not support the current version of a bipartisan bill designed to regulate an industry struggling for answers in a quickly changing era in which some players make millions. The Southeastern and Big Ten conferences said the \u201cbill leaves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512112\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Citing &#8216;critical issues,&#8217; SEC, Big Ten withhold support for bipartisan college sports bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 21:14:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512113,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512112\/revisions\/1512113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}