College athletes ability to earn money from endorsements. They spoke at a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing. Good morning, everyone. The committee the subcommittee will come to order. Were honored to have the chairman with us this morning, and i expect senator blumenthal to join us momentarily. As chairman of this subcommittee with jurisdiction over amateur athletics i welcome all of you to todays hearing entitled name, image, likeness, the state of intercollegiate compensation. The expectation or hope is that we might limit ourselves to that kuip of conversation but i have no control over my colleagues or what the witnesses may say that may take us broader in scope. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses. Im appreciative of all of them being here but especially the chancellor of my alma mater the university of kansas, the president of the collegiate Athletic Association and two former student athletes. In my home state we have a rich history of College Athletics. The womens s
College athletes ability to earn money from endorsements. They spoke at a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing. Good morning, everyone. The committee the subcommittee will come to order. Were honored to have the chairman with us this morning, and i expect senator blumenthal to join us momentarily. As chairman of this subcommittee with jurisdiction over amateur athletics i welcome all of you to todays hearing entitled name, image, likeness, the state of intercollegiate compensation. The expectation or hope is that we might limit ourselves to that kuip of conversation but i have no control over my colleagues or what the witnesses may say that may take us broader in scope. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses. Im appreciative of all of them being here but especially the chancellor of my alma mater the university of kansas, the president of the collegiate Athletic Association and two former student athletes. In my home state we have a rich history of College Athletics. The womens s
Have the chairman with us this morning, and i expect senator blumenthal to join us momentarily. As chairman of this subcommittee with jurisdiction over amateur athletics i welcome all of you to todays hearing entitled name, image, likeness, the state of intercollegiate compensation. The expectation or hope is that we might limit ourselves to that kuip of conversation but i have no control over my colleagues or what the witnesses may say that may take us broader in scope. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses. Im appreciative of all of them being here but especially the chancellor of my alma mater the university of kansas, the president of the collegiate Athletic Association and two former student athletes. In my home state we have a rich history of College Athletics. The womens soccer team won their first title last year. In my hometown of Manhattan College football at kansas staet university and a legacy continued by the current coach and Athletic Director gene taylor and who c
One of the things of the Derek Sheely Foundation and the ncaa wanted to do was to find a way to do research that is going to be meaningfully impactful. So we have heard so much today about making datadriven decisions or informed decisionmaking, and that is really important. When we cannot make decisions from science, we try to get the best consensus as possible. But science is coming forward. The department of defense and the ncaa is coming together, as they started something called the grand alliance, and the grand alliance has two parts to it. One is something called mind matters. It is a grand challenge. How do we gather education and research to know that we can better inform the public of everyone about the safety of concussions . Or better put, to improve the culture of concussion safety. How do we get Young Athletes to report concussions and not try to hide them . How do we make sure coaches are never asking their players to play through concussions . We are asking for the best
The replay will be available on the as. Pn dereksheely. For those of you that may have come in late one of the things that this foundation wanted to do together was to try to find a way to do research that is going to be meaningful and impactful. Weve learned so much about doing datadriven and informed decisionmaking and that is really important and when we cant make decisions from science would try to make the best consensus possible. Science is coming forward. I mentioned earlier today that the ncaa has come together and started something called the grand alliance. The grand alliance has two parts to it. One is called mind matters. It is a grand challenge. With that how do we actually gather education and research to know that we can better inform the public and everybody about the safety and improve the culture of concussion safety. For example how do we get Young Athletes to report concussions and not try to hide them. How do we make certain that coaches are never asking the player