
50 years after the passage of title IX, females are being annually shortchanged by a billion dollars in athletic scholarships.
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50 years after the passage of title IX, females are being annually shortchanged by a billion dollars in athletic scholarships.

Do you agree that in those instances they should also be required to provide the same level of support to all athletes in their program regardless of their race, their gender, the sport they play?

We would very much like to see in Federal legislation policies that make clear that institutions... are doing so in a way that is completely equitable across genders.

Any Federal action we take to deliver for the people who have always been what matters most in college sports--and that is the athletes--that means guaranteeing them the maximum freedom possible to be compensated for the use of their name…

if deals started to take the shape of resembling pay-for-play, which has been discussed today, it just highlights what we have known for years, and that is that there is a market for paying college athletes.

I wouldn't be where I am today without that scholarship.

I am a proponent of giving athletes the power to organize and collectively bargain for fair and better treatment.

I think it is fair to say that for a long time the main argument against allowing college athletes to be compensated for the use of their NIL was that it would effectively end college athletics as we know it.

the national standard should be as pro-athlete as possible?

It is clear that years of reluctance to embrace the inevitable shift on NIL means athletes are now operating in a patchwork of State laws governing their rights.

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