Richard Blumenthal: “I think education, Ms. Patten, is a very important component here.”

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.

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.