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Ted Cruz: “There is an exception for the military, explicitly.”

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

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Published May 29, 2026 | Video Starts at 25:56

My sports brain is going insane right now. I have a question. What if you serve in the military, is there a, is there a. Yes, there is. There is an exception for the military, explicitly. Okay. So if you're over 24, you go serve, you come back, you can play again. It also specifies pros can't go, go in and play college sports. (25:56–26:00)

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“You have players playing seven years, you have players playing college sports when they're 27, 28 years old.”
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“The vast majority of schools right now are losing millions and in some cases tens of millions of dollars on sports.”
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“In college football, there are two conferences that account for more than two thirds of the revenue, and that is the SEC and the Big Ten.”
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“The number one source of eyeballs in revenue in TV is the NFL. The number two is college football.”
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“Even though a lot more people watch college football than the NBA, the NBA makes billions more in its media contracts.”
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“I introduced a major bipartisan bill that I wrote alongside Maria Cantwell.”
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“We introduced [the Protect College Sports Act] with two Republican senators, two Democrat senators.”
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“Right now, I believe college sports is in absolute crisis.”
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“We have chaos in a college sports.”
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“You've got athletes that are transferring two, three, four, five times, going every year to a different school.”
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“Every week a different college program across the country announces they're cutting a sport.”
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“Arkansas canceled both men's and women's tennis.”
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“The overwhelming majority, the vast majority is men's football. That is the driver of revenue.”
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“If Congress doesn't act in three to five years, we will see 30 to 50 colleges across America that will still have football teams and it'll…”
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“If the system continues on the path it's on, there are only two schools that I am certain would survive [in Texas]: University of Texas and…”
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“The old system that was around for a long, long time, athletes could not get any compensation.”
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“This bill protects the right of every athlete to get compensated for real nil name, image, and likeness.”
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“It also protects the rights of athletes to participate in revenue sharing.”
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“What it doesn't allow is fake nil deals.”
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“One of the things this bill protects explicitly is the ability of programs to cover travel expenses for the family of players.”
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“This bill also ratchets up health and safety standards for student athletes.”
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“It requires far more extensive health insurance for student athletes than you have right now, including five years of health insurance after…”
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“This mandates zero out of pocket expense for the athlete for those five years that it has to be covered by the insurance.”
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“It also creates a $60 million medical trust fund so that institutions that don't have the resources to provide that insurance, institutions…”
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“Every athlete is entitled to one free transfer.”
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“If your coach quits, you can transfer somewhere else.”
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“If your program is canceled, you can transfer somewhere else.”
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“If you're a victim of sexual assault or sexual harassment, those exceptions are carved out. You can have a second transfer.”
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“If you transfer a second time, you're required to red shirt for a year.”
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“Every athlete's entitled to five years of eligibility and a hard cap of age 24 is the oldest you can be.”
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“Pros can't go, go in and play college sports.”
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“Anytime your coach quits, it's not fair to you to punish you if you were recruited.”
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“We introduced it this week and there's been surprisingly little pushback. It has been very well received.”
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“The extreme far left is listening to union bosses and trial lawyers that want a system where there are constant lawsuits.”
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“Every student athlete is an employee. They're unionized. They're union members. They're paying union dues.”
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“Historically black colleges and universities have said if [student athletes are unionized], they'll shut down their entire athletic…”
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“There has been a lot of talk in those two conferences about merging and forming a super league.”
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“It's even worse than that because they lose essentially all of their TV revenue which funds the rest of their athletic department.”
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“This bill explicitly prohibits a super league. It prohibits the Big Ten and the SEC from combining.”
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“This allows conferences to come together. It's voluntary. So no one's forced to come together.”
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“If you get joint media rights, you must maintain every single roster spot and every single scholarship spot for women's and men's sports.”
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“The leadership of the SEC has said that they're not interested [in the proposed bill].”
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