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Burgess Owens: “Athletes kind of drive the process. If the coach says…”

Featuring: Burgess Owens, Republican | U.S. House Utah, District 4

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OWENS joins Fox Business to discuss the NCAA's new 10-year revenue sharing agreement

Published | Video Starts at 00:16

Unfortunately, I think what's going to get hit is what we've all believed coming out of sports, and that's character. You know, we now have it where Athletes kind of drive the process. If the coach says something they don't like, if it gets too tough, they go into a portal, they leave. and we're losing that. That. That idea of grit and tenacity and loyalty. So there's going to be another piece of that in terms of the culture part that I think is we're going to get hit in the long term. (00:16–00:23)

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Asserts that athletes have significant control over their college sports participation, including transferring if dissatisfied.

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