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Ted Cruz: “If we don't do something, I think we're going to wake up…”

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Bruce Pearl On the Scary Truth About How NIL Is Destroying College Athletics

Published | Video Starts at 24:05

We're in the Olympics. And we're seeing that schools are canceling programs every day. They're doing it now. And smaller schools are also in trouble. Yep. Division two, Division three. Yes. If we don't do something, I think we're going to wake up soon and there's going to be 30 to 50 programs and. And the top programs will survive and have all the money. And I think everyone else goes under unless we do something correct. All the. I'm one of those. I rarely get mad. (24:05–24:17)

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Predicts that without intervention, only 30 to 50 college sports programs will survive, with top programs having all the money.

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