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 well-being and academic success of our student athletes is much appreciated. it's an honor for me this afternoon to represent the 1600 plus institutions and 11,000 plus members of nafta where the practitioners of our enterprise representing in excess of 500,000 student athletes across all three ncaa divisions as well as the neia and junior community colleges. nafta serves for those in the field of the intercollegiate operation. it serves as a vehicle for networking the else change of information on behalf of the association. my career includes positions as a head baseball coach, director of alumni, 36 years as a division i athletic director at three universities. my athletic career includes three years as a student athlete, one as a walk on. i trust my ankles are safe with you washington senators here today. these prove valuable to my 36 y

mr. bradshaw. now, dr. richard southall, university of professor at south carolina, director of college sports research institute. >> thank you for the opportunity to speak for you today. my initial draft of my comments was only 35 minutes, so thank you for giving me the advice. as direct other of college sport research institute at university of south carolina, my comments today are not off the cuff remarks but informed by sociological, organizational and economic theories as well as empirical studies. in drawn extensively from ncaa documents that reflect not only my work but numerous colleagues and scholars. while i'm well aware there are distinct sociographic differences between ncaa division as well as between nablg revenue and olympic sports, my testimony today will focus on how within big-time college sport ncaa members have sought to protect their business interests at the expense of the well-being and academic success of ncaa profit athletes. for several decades the ncaa was aware that as the scale

mr. bradshaw. i know you played sports a couple of years ago. five or seven years ago. >> thank you so much. >> not 45. my question is as you've had a lot of experience and looked at this opportunity as well as the challenges that come with the opportunity from multiple angles, what kind of progress have you seen over the last three decades or so as we wrestled with some of the challenges that are going to be future challenges and certainly are present challenges? sometimes, we miss the progress we've made along the way. >> and certainly, all of us think we can do better. there's no question about it. >> we should. >> we spend most of our time talking about how we can be better, but as a former assistant coach back in the day and head coach and student athlete, it's night and day. the changes. the quality of physicians, trainers. we didn't know what a dietician was. the changes are enormous. they're compelling and i think one of the things i would recommend that you get some student athletes to talk to. there's a balance. obviously, there's outl

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mr. bost voted for him to receive one. i ask for your support. thank you. >> moderator: paula bradshaw.] bradshaw: it is time for a change. i am a change from one corporate politician to another corporate politician. a real change. the republicans after 34 years of corporate welfare and deregulation kaman corporations have been on a massive crime spree with the bankers and the war criminals, they continue to insist the corporate welfare this time will trickle down on you. but democrats, they promised that they are there for the workers, but they take the same corporate money and they have the same corporate agenda. it is time for agreed new deal which would lead to a stable prosperity. we have known for decades that we need to switch to renewable energy in both of my opponents acknowledge that, but not yet. it reminds me of saint augustine who once said lord, make me chase, but not yet. that's how they are. we know call my name is dangerous to the environment. we know it's dangerous to people in the minors. we know that global warming is a danger to everyone. we know that we can't affor