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We had another big bill

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this week with name

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image and likeness, or NIL.

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Tell us about that, Anya.

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You're a huge sports fan.

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I know. So NIL deals.

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This comes out of a 2021 sort

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of change in how college

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athletes are treated.

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They're no longer amateurs.

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They can get paid for their

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work and they can kind

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of wrangle these deals

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according to how popular

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the sport is or how good

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they are at their sports.

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But so what this bill

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would do is

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put $14.5 million

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towards UW-Madison

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for athletic facilities fees

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in order for the school to have

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a pot of money

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to make these deals

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with players.

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So the idea is that

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they'd be able to bring in

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top football and basketball

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talent in particular.

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This passed out of the

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Assembly

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almost unanimously.

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And then it became this

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big open question at

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the Senate

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because it was a

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LeMahieu bill.

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But then he was losing a ton

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of support within his caucus.

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And so the question up until

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basically the day of the

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floor vote was will

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he spike his own bill in order

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to maintain the rule of 17

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or will he go to Democrats

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for support?

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There wasn't a lot of debate

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or any that I remember

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in the Senate.

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But just kind of pulling back

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a little bit, I wanted to say

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that it's interesting to see

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Republicans

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any Republicans

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send more money to UW-Madison.

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Just basically overall

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they have been

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pretty distrustful

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of the university on all kinds
of fronts.