Richard Blumenthal: “I know there's a tendency sometimes to be dismissive about these kinds of recommendations. I hope that you will make…”

Sen. Blackburn and I will fight as long and hard as necessary to pass this bill.

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 fails to provide for adequate enforcement.

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