Senator Ted Cruz

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Verdict with Ted Cruz · MASSIVE Victory for Student-Athletes & Fans as 3/4 of the Senate Votes for the Protect College Sports Act · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

New athletes, but you can take your existing. voice-verified

So if you have a star running back, you can say, okay, we're gonna share revenue, we're gonna give you a million or two million bucks a year to stay. voice-verified

And that's decide designed also to produce some continuity, to keep the teams together, to keep student athletes there for four years. voice-verified

The retention bonus is designed to make people stickier at the schools they're at. voice-verified

And then we sep sec thirdly put in that there's an additional five. voice-verified

million on top of all of that can be spent specifically on women's sports and and non-revenue sports. voice-verified

And that that five million does not count to the cap. voice-verified

So there's an additional five million because we said look we don't want to use just just stick. voice-verified

We want to have some carrot. voice-verified

And so the carrot is hey if you spend an additional five million on women's sports and Olympic sports and non-revenue sports, that doesn't count against your cap at all voice-verified

And so it sets a total cap at at just over 47 million. voice-verified

Look, forty-seven million is a lot of money. voice-verified

But if you compare to what the really big schools are are making, you've got schools that are spending seventy, eighty million or more. voice-verified

And and so having some competitiveness of bringing it down, even the schools that are not spending that much now, it it that they feel like, okay, we can compete. voice-verified

We can't compete at seventy, eighty million. voice-verified

So schools like Penn State, schools like Rutgers are just hemorrhaging massive amounts of money. voice-verified

Um and and by having some enforceable caps we you allow some some competitive d balance w which ends up preserving the whole ecosystem. voice-verified

So it it was negotiated and it was a long, arduous negotiation. voice-verified

So if you look at college football, voice-verified

The two eight hundred pound gorillas are the SEC and the Big Ten. voice-verified

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