Richard Blumenthal: “I think it is a red herring to threaten taking games off broadcasts unless we get this antitrust exemption for local…”

It fails to provide for adequate enforcement.

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

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…

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