I understood Del. Kirk Cox's frustration nearly three years ago when he proposed tapping the brakes on state schools that were funding athletic programs on the backs of students.
At the time, he was appalled when he learned his son, a student at Longwood, was paying more than $1,700 in athletic fees.
"We simply cannot ask students who will never play a minute of college sports to bear such a disproportionate share of these costs," Cox said in 2014.
The Colonial Heights resident, who is expected to become Speaker of the House in January, introduced a bill now known as the "Cox bill" that was signed into law by Gov.