Another Regulator With No Teeth: Who Defines This Body's Authority?

Here's the trap: 'Creates a new regulatory body for college athletics' tells me absolutely nothing I need to know before I'd let a client sign onto this framework. In contract work, when someone writes 'creates a new body' without defining jurisdiction, appointment authority, enforcement mechanisms, or appeal rights — that's not legislation, that's a placeholder. Who sits on this body? Who appoints them? What's their standard of review when they rule against an athlete's equity claim? What's the timeline for decisions? Can their rulings be challenged in federal court? The NCAA spent decades operating as exactly this kind of undefined 'regulatory body' — and athletes had no leverage because nobody nailed down the rules in advance. Now Congress wants to replace one vague authority with another vague authority and call it reform. 'Limited legislative movement publicly available' in the status notes tells me the sponsors themselves haven't stress-tested this language yet. That's the quiet admission buried in the fine print. Before anyone — athlete, university, or conference — celebrates this bill, someone needs to ask the one question this passage deliberately avoids: who watches the new watchdog?