Donna A. Lopiano

“The NCAA is the biggest, most powerful, unregulated monopoly in the United States.”

“Don't call them student-athletes. They are employees of the university.”

“The problem is not that men have too much, it’s that women have too little.”

“Title IX is not about taking anything away from boys' sports. It's about giving girls the same opportunities.”

“There is no question that the commercial model of college sport is broken.”

“Football and men's basketball are driving the bus, and unfortunately, they are driving it over a cliff for the rest of intercollegiate athletics.”

“We have to stop pretending that college sports are about education. For the top programs, it's a business.”

“You can't have a system where the athletes who are generating the revenue are the only ones not getting paid.”

“The argument that there isn't enough money for women's sports is a myth. It's about priorities.”

“Sport is the one area of our society where we have not yet achieved gender equity, but it is the place where we can teach it.”

“What we have is an athletic system that has been created by men, for men.”

“The real value of sports is in teaching life lessons: teamwork, perseverance, and dealing with winning and losing.”