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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 5266821, member: 10435"] The reason there has to be a federal solution is because any system that tries to regulate the portal and NIL and which necessarily imposes contracts, buy outs, salary caps, restrictions on transfers, limits on salaries etc. will need anti-trust exemption which only Congress can give. Otherwise the regulations will be monopolistic and illegal and the current Wild West system will continue and get worse. There is already a bill being formed in the Senate and supposedly co-sponsored by Booker of New Jersey and Cruz of Texas to address the issues. As the OP already noted, the courts created the Nil and that rabbit ain't going back in the hat by itself. I also dread the idea of legislation happening but the NCAA is soon paying out 2.7 billion in a settlement for athletes going back to 2015 if the Court approves it and they will not try anything new at all unless they know it is airtight and legal. Like I said previously, we all need to have better information about what is happening and why. I know we blame the NCAA for so many things but they are almost pathologically consistent in their failures and missteps. This latest Regional misadventure in Spokane for the basketball women with the teams having to stay in Idaho was just emblematic of the worst sports management one can imagine. Like Geno said, imagine if the men had to do the same thing. [/QUOTE]