Chris Murphy: “We could have done what happens in most industries, which is just say to the NCAA and to the colleges, tough luck.”

The crisis, it appears to me, is pretty simple: young athletes who perform a service that would be worth billions in the free market are finally getting what they lawfully deserve.

Students are not dumb. They're not going to sit in college sports with a cap on their earnings.

So long as these advisory boards, which are authorized by Congress, are attacked, eliminated, and restricted from meeting, you are not going to rebound the public's support for independent FDA decision making.

The way to save college sports was to admit that these kids provide an incredibly valuable service, as the Supreme Court has judged as well, and they deserve to be fairly compensated.