Ted Cruz: “There are more than 500,000 college athletes competing at…”

“And I think that would be a terrible outcome. And it would also be a terrible outcome. Do you know right now There are more than 500,000 college athletes competing at any given time. Yep. If we allow this chaos to continue to play out, hundreds of thousands of those slots will disappear, Those scholarships will disappear.” (15:57–16:04)

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