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

You have people playing at age twenty-seven, twenty-eight against seven. voice-verified

seventeen year olds, which is not remotely fair. voice-verified

Uh y you have pros playing against college kids and and and and it is i it it is the wild west and it it also has caused this bidding war. voice-verified

Where almost every college athletic program in the country is losing tens of millions of dollars. voice-verified

They're hemorrhaging cash. voice-verified

And so what it means is everything except college football gets slashed. voice-verified

And so women's sports get cut, uh Olympic sports gets cut, tennis gets cut, golf gets cut, track and field, swimming, wrestling, volleyball. voice-verified

All of those are just getting decimated. voice-verified

And and we're we're in a a a spending shootout that that that if we don't do something voice-verified

Look, I think within three to five years there will be thirty to fifty competitive football programs and everyone else goes under. voice-verified

And when everyone else goes under, it is college football that pays for everything else. voice-verified

If you look at the economics of college sports, and if you don't examine this much you may not realize it, but voice-verified

Basically no other sport makes money except football. voice-verified

Men's basketball makes a little, and there are occasional exceptions. voice-verified

Uh, you know, when you have say a Caitlin Clark or something, that that you'll have a moment, but but as a general matter, the only sport that makes money is is football. voice-verified

And and so at virtually every college, it is football that pays for every other sport, that pays for all the men's sports, all the women's sports, everything else. voice-verified

So it's voice-verified

If most of the colleges in the country, if their football programs go under, it means the revenue for the rest of athletics go under. voice-verified

And and it's not even just so listen, if we did nothing uh of the roughly five hundred thousand college athletes in America right now, two to three hundred thousand would would lose their roster slots, would lose their scholarships. voice-verified

I mean, we're at risk of seeing over the years millions of young men and women lose their avenue to voice-verified

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