The two major money-making collegiate sports – football and men’s basketball – have never been more popular. And the multi-billion dollar annual TV contracts help subsidize the cost of ALL the other men and women’s sports – from badminton to cross country.

The two mega conferences, the Big Ten and the Southeast Conference tend to dominate viewership and thus money from about $2 billion in TV contracts.

Now, Congress has concocted the so-called “Saving College Sports” plan, which would create a government “oversight” panel that would negotiate media rights on behalf of colleges and conferences across the country. The idea is to share the wealth: bring socialism to the football stadiums and the basketball arena.

The new NIL and transfer portal rules have certainly complicated “student athlete” sports. These rules need to be fixed.

But the “SCS” proposal is an idea that only Bernie Sanders could love and is likely to generate less revenue for all NCAA men’s and women’s sports.

Advocates warn that under current rules only the big, rich schools get richer and win all the titles.

Wait. Indiana, the losingest team in college football history just won the national championship without buying one single five-star recruit on the roster. A few years ago tiny Villanova beat all the SEC and BigTen behemoths to win the NCAA basketball championship.

Surely Congress has better things to do than impose price controls and socialist revenue sharing requirements on college sports.