Trump advisor, ex-NFL player Cody Campbell warns Protect College Sports Act is final chance to restore order

The FIFA World Cup has transformed North America into the halfway of the shot world.

For astir 2 weeks and counting, fans from astir the globe person poured into the United States, Canada and Mexico, filling stadiums, instrumentality festivals and ticker parties crossed the 16 big cities.

Former Texas Tech and Indianapolis Colts violative lineman Cody Campbell joined Fox News Channel’s "The Will Cain Show" connected Tuesday. During the wide-ranging conversation, Campbell expressed optimism astir the mode planetary visitors person embraced immoderate of the champion the United States has to connection during the World Cup.

"It's large to person everybody here. And I've loved the comments connected societal media from radical from astir the satellite conscionable saying however bully and however amazed they were with however large the United States is. Because I don't deliberation we're portrayed that mode successful planetary media. So it's a fantastic accidental for america to showcase the full country."

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Norway fans execute the Viking enactment successful Times Square successful New York connected June 21, 2026, up of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group I lucifer against Senegal. (John Sibley/Reuters)

Campbell, who advises President Donald Trump connected assemblage sports issues, was asked astir the Protect College Sports Act and its way to the Senate level arsenic the authorities continues to determination forward.

"The Protect College Sports Act is the archetypal viable assemblage sports measure that has made it retired of committee successful either house. At this point, it's our acold and past and lone accidental to reconstruct immoderate measurement of bid and halt the chaos successful [the] assemblage sports landscape. You're going to look astatine the precocious (level) things, limiting transfers, limiting eligibility, uncovering ways to get existent power implicit (the) quality to enforce rules. But it does a batch much than that, it thinks astir the aboriginal of assemblage sports and however those look. We cognize however overmuch it's changed implicit the past decennary oregon truthful and truthful the measure has built into it provisions that volition let america to really code what happens next."

Cody Campbell stands backstage during ESPN's College GameDay astatine Texas Tech University successful Lubbock, Texas, connected Nov. 8, 2025. (John E. Moore III/Getty Images)

Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., person spearheaded the Protect College Sports Act. The authorities would assistance the NCAA a constricted antitrust exemption, allowing the governing assemblage to enforce restrictions connected jock compensation.

A Senate sheet approved authorities supporters accidental would bring stableness to assemblage sports arsenic critics pass it expands national involvement. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The measure besides addresses eligibility and transportation rules crossed assemblage athletics.

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The connection could pave the mode for colleges and universities to consolidate their media rights nether a azygous entity, replacing the existent conference-by-conference structure.

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