GOP rep rips Big Ten commish after SCORE Act vote gets delayed

Rep. Michael Baumgartner, R-Washington, ripped Big Ten Conference Commissioner Tony Petitti connected Wednesday aft a ballot connected the SCORE Act successful the House of Representatives was delayed.

The Student Compensation and Opportunity done Rights and Endorsements (SCORE) Act is national lawmakers’ effort to modulate name, representation and likeness deals successful collegiate athletics. The measure passed a procedural ballot to bring it to the House level but the last ballot was canceled 2 hours earlier it was acceptable to instrumentality place.

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Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti speaks during an NCAA assemblage shot quality league astatine Lucas Oil Stadium, July 23, 2024, successful Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Baumgartner is 1 of the Republicans successful the House who is not connected committee with the SCORE Act. He wrote connected X that the measure doesn’t dainty athletes crossed each sports equally, doesn’t prohibition backstage equity from entering assemblage sports, doesn’t headdress coaching salaries, doesn’t hole the chaotic westbound of NIL and the transportation portal, doesn’t extremity wide realignment nor does it enactment the due radical successful complaint to marque decisions that would impact the scenery of assemblage sports arsenic a whole.

"If the Commissioner of the Big 10 would walk LESS wealth trying to bargain votes w DC lobbyists and marque MORE of an effort to STOP being a bullying jacka--, past Congress could get connected with passing immoderate tenable authorities to hole assemblage sports," helium added.

He agreed with Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, that the measure "isn’t acceptable for premier time."

Ohio State Buckeyes linebacker Arvell Reese (8) tackles Michigan Wolverines moving backmost Bryson Kuzdzal (24) during the NCAA shot crippled astatine Michigan Stadium successful Ann Arbor, Michigan, connected Nov. 29, 2025. (Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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"Congress should (form) a prime committee connected College Sports to untangle galore of the morganatic issues raised by below," Baumgartner wrote connected X pointing to Roy’s concerns. "One of the problems this twelvemonth is that 4 Committees person jurisdiction implicit the contented and their isn’t the coordinated absorption indispensable to make a request bi-partisan solution. Ultimately, it volition besides necessitate the President’s engagement (precedent - Teddy Roosevelt helped Congress prevention assemblage shot 100 yrs ago)."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Big Ten for comment.

The White House endorsed the enactment connected Tuesday but Roy, on with Reps. Byron Donalds, R-Florida, and Scott Perry, R-Pennsylvania, voted with Democrats to support the enactment disconnected the floor.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, speaks during a quality league connected Capitol Hill connected Oct. 20, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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The SCORE Act would springiness the NCAA a constricted antitrust exemption successful hopes of protecting the NCAA from imaginable lawsuits implicit eligibility rules and would prohibit athletes from becoming employees of their schools. It prohibits schools from utilizing pupil fees to money NIL payments. Republicans could effort to ballot connected the enactment arsenic aboriginal arsenic Thursday.

Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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