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We need to stop stealing money out of college [and] university institutions for education, for tuition, for professors, and putting it into an arms race on sports. … But compensation on revenue sharing is probably the most important thing we could possibly enshrine in federal law today. This is [Congress] saying, for the first time, that an athlete gets a percentage of the media rights, the ticket sales and the sponsorship.

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