Almost every college athletic department is making impossible decisions: drop swim & dive, cut women’s tennis, shut down non‑revenue sports so they can try to stay afloat. This isn’t progress. It’s shattering dreams and threatens college sports as we know it.
Saving College Sports
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Saving College Sports is dedicated to fighting for a college sports system that protects both student athletes & the future of college athletics at every level
Joined July 2025
- Imagine giving college sports the ability to negotiate one national broadcasting package for college sports…just like professional football is permitted to do. If Congress grants college sports the same ability to do that it will immediately lead to more revenue, boost every
- Cody Campbell lays it out straight: college sports budgets are bleeding all across the country, cuts are happening and many more are to follow, and student-athletes dreams are at risk. We need a system where all college sports programs survive—and every university is able to
- We can't take half-measures to fix what is broken. We need to make sure we expand revenue in order to protect these programs.
- Nearly 100 women’s collegiate programs have already been cut. More and more schools are being forced to choose where they will cut from next. That will inevitably lead to many more athletes losing scholarships across women’s and Olympic college sports. Softball, wrestling, track
- “Many Olympic and Paralympic programs exist at the collegiate level not because they generate profit, but because they serve broader missions… We encourage Congress to consider a model that ensures proportionate investment in operating costs and scholarships across sport
- Cutting college sports programs isn’t abstract. Every school outside of a handful are already under grave financial threat. So too are their women’s sports and Olympic teams. It’s time Congress takes action by modernizing the Sports Broadcasting Act, which will bring in billions

