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Ted Cruz: “If football goes under, it means those schools, they lose…”

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

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And what that means, by the way, that's not just college football going under. The way athletics works in colleges is football pays for everything else. And so If football goes under, it means those schools, they lose women's sports, they lose their entire athletic program. It means our Olympic athletes are just devastated and the college programs where they develop their skills right now go away. And I think that would be a terrible outcome. (15:37–15:44)

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Claims that the collapse of college football would lead to the loss of other sports programs.

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