I understood Del. Kirk Cox's frustration nearly three years ago when he proposed tapping the brakes on state schools that were funding their athletic programs on the backs of students.
At the time, he had a son at Longwood University and was appalled when he learned he was paying more than $1,700 in athletic student 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 expected to become Speaker of the House in January introduced a bill known now as the "Cox bill" that was signed into law by Gov.