That these refuses benefit College Athletes and their student bodies at large. But i think we have to consider whether the lure of such riches could corrupt the basic mission of Athletic Programs. Winning teams get higher payouts than losing teams which creates a strong incentive to win. An incentive which land grant public universities and others are more than happy to follow and win at any cost. Much of the money is often funneled right back into the sports programs in the form of multimilliondollar coaching facilities and state of the art facilities many of it paid for by the taxpayerses to perpetuate the cycle of winning. I think somewhere in my reading here, about 48 million of all the 900 million that ncaa gets from, you know, their broadcasting, march madness and all the rest of it, a very small portion goes specifically to academics. But even thats hard to figure. Because nobody has the figures. Mr. Emmert works for them. They make the decisions. He carries out what they want.
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Where ever possible, make College Athletes fair and competitive. Recognize the rights. Uphold the rights of College Athletesmp. Et give them a voice and challenge universities, in turn, to make wise, straight forward decisions about the compatibility of commercialized sports with education. Thank you. Thank you very much, mr. Branchtn. Es the general rule around here ist that witnesses speak for five or six minutes. But i failed to make that clear. It says five minutes right here, but i wasnt watching. Sorry. Anyway, just keep it to five or six or seven minutes. And i thank you for your testimony. And it was my fault. Mr. Bradshaw, a former director of athletics at temple university. We welcome you, sir. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen of the committee, good afternoon. Your invitation to me to testify today about promoting the wellbeing and academic success of our student athletes is much appreciated. Its an honor for me this afternoon to represent the 1600 plus institutions and 11,000
And a total scam that defrauded the government for well over a decade. Do you know how much he makes in retirement . And what are you doing to make sure that the scam doesnt continue, that a complete fraud who said he was a member of the distinguished cia and no one even bothered to check . Its almost the incompetence is beyond belief. Do you know what his retirement is this year . I do not know. Can you get it back to the committee . We can get it back. Can you give us the steps . If you say you cannot get it, you cant stop it because of bureaucratic regulations, then i believe in a bipartisan effort we would join in a single bill to stop it and to stop anyone else who defrauds the taxpayer of getting a retirement benefit. Its beyond belief. He scans the taxpayer, scams the agency, scams the government and a row to the confidence we have in government and then gets a retirement . I, for one, hope we can stop it at the very least. These retention benefits that my colleague was talking
Live in some kind of second class status in the United States, and it is long past time for us to make sure there is a pathway to citizenship. The last point i want to make is, you will hear lots of excuses if you hang around this town, excuses for why someone should not vote for something. In this case, you might hear people say, even though there were republican senators from arizona, who care more about Border Security than anyone in the senate, that there is not enough Border Security in this bill. Or excuse after excuse. What i want to leave you with is, this bill, if it passes, will reaffirm to ideas that make america a special place. One is that we subscribe to the rule of law. The other is, unlike any other country in the world, we truly are a nation of immigrants. When you hear people making excuses about the bill, i hope you will push them into it, because i know how hard these guys negotiated for so long, for , at seven or eight months work product that is the best i have se