Another Body. Another Room With No Players In It.

They want to 'create a new regulatory body for college athletics.' I've heard that before. New body. New acronym. New letterhead. Same people who never played a minute making decisions for kids who give everything. Here's what I know about bodies. They proliferate. They protect themselves. They hold meetings about meetings. And the kid — the one with the torn ACL, the one sending money home, the one whose eligibility clock is ticking — he's not in that room. Every time we build a structure around athletes without building it WITH athletes, we're just rearranging chairs. The NCAA was a regulatory body. Look how that went. I'm not against accountability. I'm against theater. If this new body doesn't have binding athlete representation at the decision-making level — not advisory, not ceremonial, BINDING — then we haven't restored anything. We've rebranded the same problem. The bill mentions equity and governance structures. Fine. Good words. But governance without power is decoration. So here's the question: Who sits at the table when this body makes its first ruling — and do they have a vote, or just a chair?