Richard Blumenthal: “And I'm assuming that you will let this Committee know of any contacts between you or any of the commissioners and the…”

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…

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

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