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Changing the Game
Public Sentiment on College Sports

Source: Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics / Elon University Poll, August 6, 2025

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Slide 2: How would you rate your level of interest in the following?

Slide 3: Do you consider yourself a fan of these college sports?

Slide 4: Sports participation

Slide 5: Overall, how would you describe the impact of the many changes (transfer portal; athlete name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation; conference realignments) taking place in Division I college athletics?

Slide 6: How has the increase in college athlete transfers between Division I schools impacted your interest in college football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball?

Slide 7: How has the increase in college athlete transfers between Division I schools impacted your interest in collegiate Olympic sports (sports other than football, men’s and/or women’s basketball)?

Slide 8: How has the change to allow college athletes to receive name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation from third-party entities impacted your interest in college football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball?

Slide 9: How has the change to allow college athletes to receive name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation from third-party entities impacted your interest in collegiate Olympic sports?

Slide 10: Who should be primarily responsible for regulating the business of college sports?

Slide 11: What is your opinion about the creation of federal laws that would allow the NCAA to enact rules that apply nationwide, superseding any individual state laws related to college sports programs?

Slide 12: What is your best guess for how much money the NCAA receives annually from the College Football Playoff, which is the national championship for major college football?

Slide 13: What is your opinion about the creation of a new governing entity for major college football that would operate separately from the NCAA?

Slide 14: What do you think about requiring college sports coaches to have a “coach credential” certifying their knowledge and training in areas to support athlete development, mental health, physical health and safety?

Slide 15: How important is it for college athletes to be enrolled as full-time students and taking classes at the school for which they are competing?

Slide 16: How important is it for college athletes to graduate?

Slide 17: Division I college teams are required to be on track to graduate at least half of their athletes to be eligible for postseason competition. How important is this rule?

Slide 18: Should Division I college athletes be considered employees of their schools?

Slide 19: Should Division I college athletes in sports that generate significant revenue be considered employees of their schools?

Slide 20: Should Division I college athletes in all sports, regardless of revenue generation, be considered employees of their schools?

Slide 21: What do you think about universities negotiating with college athletes, like professional sports leagues do with their players’ unions, to decide on pay, rights and responsibilities?

Slide 22: What do you think about the current rules that allow college athletes to transfer between schools as often as they choose and be immediately eligible to compete for their new school(s) without penalty?

Slide 23: What do you think about having Division I college athletes sign a multi-year contract with an institution, but not legally be considered employees?

Slide 24: How strongly do you agree or disagree with this statement: Division I college athletics programs adequately care for athletes’ health and safety?

Slide 25: Overall what will the impact be of Division I universities providing direct payments to athletes for the use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL) – payments that for the past several years have been paid to college athletes by third-party entities like companies and fan/booster groups (Collectives)?

Slide 26: How supportive are you of the following forms of payments/compensation for college athletes?

Slide 27: If athletes receive direct compensation (in addition to any scholarships) from Division I universities, what should be the annual limit (if any) for that compensation for an individual athlete?

Slide 28: Division I universities face higher costs for athletics because of new rules that allow athletes to be compensated. How much do you support or oppose using the following to help cover those costs?

Slide 29: When it comes to providing female college athletes with equitable opportunities compared to male college athletes, do you think colleges and universities have:

Slide 30: How important is it for NCAA Division I universities to offer opportunities for students to participate in varsity sports other than those that are tied to generating revenues, like football and basketball?

Slide 31: How important do you think college programs in Olympic sports like gymnastics, hockey, swimming, and track & field are to the success of Team USA in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games?

Slide 32: How important is it for Team USA to be successful in the Olympics?

Slide 33: What is your best guess on how much of the cost of the development programs for TEAM USA Olympic athletes is covered by direct funding from the U.S. government?

Slide 34: What is your opinion of using federal funds to support college sports programs that are designed to develop USA Olympic national team members?

Slide 35: What is your opinion of a fee or federal tax on sports gambling operators to create a national fund to support collegiate sports that develop USA Olympic national team members?

Slide 36: Have you placed a monetary bet on a college sports event or athlete’s performance in the past three years?

Slide 37: Do you support a ban on placing prop bets on college athletes?

Slide 38: How important is it for college sports to exist?

Slide 39: How much do Division I college sports benefit the following?