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Ted Cruz: “Every athlete gets five years of eligibility. You get a hard…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Sen. Ted Cruz on his quest to change college sports

Published | Video Starts at 13:27

By the way, in a lot of conferences they would do that. Right? That was the old rule and then it got struck down. Court. Like all a lot of these rules, eligibility we put in, Every athlete gets five years of eligibility. You get a hard cap of 24. So you're not going to have 28 year olds competing against 17 year olds. But let me ask you this. The issue of employment, of how you classify these, these one of the hardest things to work through. (13:27–13:32)

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States that the proposed bill sets a five-year eligibility limit and a maximum age of 24 for athletes.

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