Coalition for the Future of College Athletics
Welcome to the Coalition for the Future of College Athletics.
We are a unified front working diligently with members of Congress to ensure that the rights of college athletes are upheld through fair and forward-looking federal legislation on name, image, and likeness (NIL).
C4FCA is dedicated to the mission of forging a balanced pathway that respects the rights of college athletes while preserving the integrity and tradition of collegiate sports. We believe that by collaborating with Congress, we can create preemptive federal legislation that benefits all stakeholders.
C4FCA is dedicated to the mission of forging a balanced pathway that respects the rights of college athletes while preserving the integrity and tradition of collegiate sports.
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Guiding Principles
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To preserve the central role of academics in the collegiate athletics experience, emphasizing academic progress and degree completion.
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To ensure established baselines for academic support and degree completion funds both during and after athletics participation, guaranteed healthcare for sport-related conditions during and for a reasonable period of time following participation in college, provide life skills and financial literacy training, and ensure access to mental health and well-being resources.
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To pre-empt divergent state-by-state laws that disadvantage certain students, academic institutions and states.
a) To enact a single national standard allowing targeted regulation with appropriate enforcement mechanisms to:
i. protect student-athletes: provide an appropriate, transparent framework to protect student-athletes from unscrupulous actors on the issue of NIL licensing;
ii. prohibit pay-for-play: reaffirm that NIL transactions should not be a proxy for pay for play, whether from boosters, collectives or other third-parties;
iii. prohibit improper inducement: protect the integrity of recruiting rules by prohibiting the use of NIL as an inducement to enroll or remain enrolled at a specific university or college.
iv. maintain a national standard under which universities of varying sizes, budgets, and fan bases can compete against each other.
b) Preserve Student Status: To establish consistency across public and private institutions by clarifying that student-athletes are students, not employees.
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To maintain an enterprise that fully appreciates and recognizes the diversity of our student-athletes, breadth of sport offerings, and ensures protection under Title IX for female student-athletes.
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To provide governing bodies the ability to regulate in the specified areas of student athlete welfare, support and NIL. Such regulation would be overseen by an entity with the ability to enforce the regulations and without legal repercussions.