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Ted Cruz: “It's even worse than that because they lose essentially all…”

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You do what you just described and have them two come together. Every other school in America is a loser now. And by the way, It's even worse than that because they lose essentially all of their TV revenue which funds the rest of their athletic department. So other schools cancel all the non revenue sports. They slash athletics altogether, they eliminate scholarships. So you end up with millions of kids over time not being able to go to school to play sports. (30:54–31:01)

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Asserts that schools would lose TV revenue, impacting their athletic departments, if a super league is formed.

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