Richard Blumenthal: “I would certainly want to gather the facts, and based on what I've seen, I would be very concerned that there is harm to…”

Despite my bipartisan amendment to increase conference access, the legislation still does not adequately promote vigorous competition among teams and conferences and instead preserves the exclusive club of the current Power Four membership…

It’s illogical, illegal, intolerable — and that’s in effect what the court found.

After all the years I’ve spent working on this issue, I could never for one minute trust the NCAA to police itself.

It fails to provide for adequate enforcement.