Sankey Wants Congress To Do Something To Restore The Old Ways Of The College Sports Industry [Video]

The times, they are a changin’

Dear Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey, don’t expect Congress to bail out college sports and restore the industry to where an athlete gets a scholarship and then devotes his or her body to the school that has given that athlete a scholarship. The athletes are the stars of your show and deserve a piece of ticket revenue, of television and now stream revenue and a piece of the revenue that the college sports industry gets from marketing partnerships including casinos and sports gambling companies. The athlete also needs better health care, particularly the football players who do suffer head injuries although the concussion issue seems to have been buried as it is not a concern of the sports media.

Sankey is imploring Congress, a group where all 435 House seats are up for grabs and where about a third of the Senate is out campaigning and forgetting about facing issues, …