Saving College Sports

Great and important questions

Did @finebaum ask @GregSankey the size of the budget deficits his athletic departments ran in 2025, especially when excluding student fees, taxpayer money, and tuition dollars diverted to subsidize sports? Are these deficits sustainable? Was he asked about the dire financial straits of those conferences that receive less TV revenue than the @SEC, and how sustainable their financial situations may be? Will these conferences be able to afford to maintain their women’s and Olympic sports? Does he care about the plight of these other conferences and does he care about preserving the institution of college athletics, as a whole? The current financial situation is equally (if not more) threatening as any other issue facing college sports. This is a plain fact.

More Saving College Sports: 🧵 Three articles. Three structural indictments of how college athletics got here. Article IV is about the people the whole enterprise is supposed to be for. Not the quarterback making $2M. Not the five-star with 40 offers by breakfast.The other 99%. 31% of D-I athletes who entered the transfer portal last year never found a new school at the same level.That's the NCAA's own data.That's 17,000 people per year — scholarship gone, eligibility clock still running, often without a degree. In FBS football? 40% of portal entrants don't land a comparable scholarship. Men's basketball? 2,400 players entered the spring portal. 30-40% found nothing. We didn't build a free market for student-athletes.We built a buyer's market. And the sellers carry all the risk. Article IV: Student. Athlete. In That Order — Or So We Were Told.The reform window is open. Here's what Congress must add to its mandate. Read: app.box.com/s/ctuh2x207ss1…

This bill filed tonight by @SenatorCantwell and @Eric_Schmitt is a great signal that bipartisan (and even non-partisan) support can be mustered for critical issues around college sports, especially revenue generation. This, combined with the passion, support and interest demonstrated today by @realDonaldTrump, and meaningful progress on in the House on the SCORE Act probe that there is tremendous momentum on this issue currently, and I am hopefully that we will soon reach a solution that will #SaveCollegeSports. The athletes, the schools, then conferences, our communities, and the entire country are counting on us. Let’s make it happen!

.@CodyC64 joined President Trump’s roundtable on the future of college sports yesterday, outlining solutions to bring order to today’s “Wild West” system and protect opportunities for all 500,000 student-athletes, including women’s and Olympic sports. Watch his interview on Fox News here: foxnews.com/video/63905157…

Almost every college athletic department is making impossible decisions: drop swim & dive, cut women’s tennis, shut down non‑revenue sports so they can try to stay afloat. This isn’t progress. It’s shattering dreams and threatens college sports as we know it. usatoday.com/story/sports/c…

Imagine giving college sports the ability to negotiate one national broadcasting package for college sports…just like professional football is permitted to do. If Congress grants college sports the same ability to do that it will immediately lead to more revenue, boost every athletic department in the country, and save women’s and Olympic sports programs. That’s the goal. frontofficesports.com/cody-campbell-…

Cody Campbell lays it out straight: college sports budgets are bleeding all across the country, cuts are happening and many more are to follow, and student-athletes dreams are at risk. We need a system where all college sports programs survive—and every university is able to compete. usatoday.com/story/sports/c…

He knows what he is talking about!

“Many Olympic and Paralympic programs exist at the collegiate level not because they generate profit, but because they serve broader missions… We encourage Congress to consider a model that ensures proportionate investment in operating costs and scholarships across sport programs.” - USOPC bigwest.org/news/2025/7/21…

Nearly 100 women’s collegiate programs have already been cut. More and more schools are being forced to choose where they will cut from next. That will inevitably lead to many more athletes losing scholarships across women’s and Olympic college sports. Softball, wrestling, track and swimming…all under threat unless Congress acts now. savingcollegesports.com

Cutting college sports programs isn’t abstract. Every school outside of a handful are already under grave financial threat. So too are their women’s sports and Olympic teams. It’s time Congress takes action by modernizing the Sports Broadcasting Act, which will bring in billions of dollars of new dollars for college athletics each year. usatoday.com/story/sports/c…

We can't take half-measures to fix what is broken. We need to make sure we expand revenue in order to protect these programs. frontofficesports.com/dozens-of-olym…

College sports are in trouble. We need to save ALL of them - From big schools to small schools and from big money sports like football and basketball to non-revenue Olympic sports like wrestling, swimming, track, tennis, golf, and volleyball. I’m on a mission to make sure that all 500,000 student athletes in this country continue to have the opportunity of education and character development. Join me and help. Go to savingcollegesports.com to learn more.