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Good afternoon. This is the second of a series of tamils on College Athletics. Thank you for joining us here today in washington, d. C. , online, and on cspan as well. The numbers in College Sports are staggering. Something easily be we are talking in terms ofs of points scored, yards gained, or a number of things ushered quantitatively attendance, participation, and money. According to filings with the department of education, in 2011, the most recent year for which the numbers are available, College Sports generated 12. 6 billion. Last year, the university of texas alone took in more than 265 million. Espn is paying in excess of 600 million a year to televise the College Playoff system. The price tag for the ncaa basketball tournament, march 10 20 billion for a 14 year deal. Athletic departments at many schools, and in fact most schools, operate in the red. The star player on the Championship Team that won the mens basketball tournament last year said that some nights, he goes to bed
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Initiative is so important. It only covers one small slice of abuse, it covers ofeally important part abuse, one that needs to an dressed and we do need to bring to bear. Urce on the hope solo situation and the Michael Phelps situation, you know, both of those cases ie pending and it would be think inappropriate for us to comment on what may have happened or what should happen we have a version of the facts that either has been party ord by a third that all of the parties have acknowledged. Expect future repper kegses the the phelps . Clauses haveal been part of those contracts for a long type. We have a code of conduct that we ask each much our athlete to sign and they do sign. The truth is that if you look at of london, they were almost without exception, incident, buty almost would you exception the american athletes comported way that made us all proud to be americans. So one of the things were trying to do is focus the athletes attention on it in opposed to after the fact. So we a