00:00Mike Rapoli, the vitamin water guy, is making a commitment to making sure that St. John's
00:08is going to be a national championship basketball program with all the money that he's going to start
00:16pushing into the program. This is absolutely sensational. Also, the co-owner of the UFL
00:22is saying that he is going to make sure that Rick Pitino and everyone there in Jamaica, Queens
00:29is going to have the opportunity to try to win a national championship and get some of the greatest
00:35college basketball players in the country to go to St. John's. This is exactly where college sports
00:41is going. It's called sugar daddies. If you got yourself a Mark Cuban, Indiana, you got one with
00:49Mike Rapoli. This is where college sports is today. All about the sugar daddies putting money into the
00:55program. I mentioned a guy earlier in the show, Sherwood Blunt. Sherwood Blunt will go down as
01:01one of the biggest villains in the history of college sports. He was the architect of the money
01:06that was given to the SMU guys where that sports program and that football program was put on the
01:12death penalty. That was the guy that was paying all the kids. That was the guy that was getting all
01:17the
01:17funds for SMU. Funny, we see Sherwood Blunts today like Mike Rapoli, but now it's legal.
01:24And I'll go back and make this comment. I want to show you something here. Here's my Corvette right
01:29here when I was at the University of Miami. Let's show them guys. Look at that bad puppy there.
01:34Look at that baby there, man. Oh, look at Big Cell sitting there back in the day there,
01:39right there at the University of Miami's parking lot. I remember when Rick Riley from Sports Illustrated
01:44came down and was looking at that bad puppy. Then he saw 17 other cars like it in the parking
01:50lot.
01:50He said, holy cow, look at this, man. It's like a new car lot here. Me, of little means. How
01:57was I
01:57driving a Corvette around at the University of Miami? And when Jimmy Johnson asked me, and when people
02:02asked me, I said, I found it. And I found it under a tree. Because back then, that's all you
02:07could do
02:08is say you found it under a tree. Are you under the impression, like I said earlier, that college sports
02:14was not paying kids? And that college sports was not doing things? Barry Switzer came on this program
02:21and told you when he was the head football coach of the Oklahoma Sooners, it cost him two national
02:28championships. Because if a kid needed clothes or a kid needed money, he would open up his wallet and
02:34he would help the kid out. If a family wanted to come down and watch some of these kids, there
02:39was no
02:39problem. Now you've got this open in the opening college sports today. I love the fans and I love
02:46people that are sitting there saying that college sports is going to be ruined by people like Mike
02:51Rapoli. No, college sports is exactly what's perfect for guys like Mike Rapoli. He's got a love of St.
02:59John's. He's got a love of winning. He's got a love of being a billionaire. And he's an alum of
03:04St.
03:05John's. And all he wants to see is that basketball program win a national championship. Hey, nothing's
03:11free in life. And if you want to pay for this, you pay for greatness. If you want to pay
03:16for
03:16mediocrity, you pay for mediocrity. That's exactly what these programs are now doing. Look, go around
03:23the landscape of all the big time programs in college sports. Are you under the impression that
03:28Arizona or Illinois, who has now punched their ticket to Indianapolis, that those guys didn't
03:33maximize nil about the Florida Gators? $22 million. They spent on nil alone and expenses for that
03:42college basketball program. Look at how much money Miami paid this past year for that football program
03:50or Ohio State spending over $75 million in nil to get players to go to Columbus. I got to tell
03:57you, I
03:58absolutely love where college sports is today. And it's about time to hear people say that I'm
04:03going to be kicking money in and I'm going to be giving money to programs so that those guys can
04:07excel to win championships. I love the fact that it's in your face and you think the president of
04:13the United States or some of these other guys are going to stop this process. This process has been
04:18going on for a hundred years in college sports, the paying of athletes. Do you think that's some sort of
04:25new wave of thing that's happening? You think it's about kissing cheerleaders and cashing paychecks?
04:31This is about commerce. This is about being in the open finally. This is about college sports
04:37finally having the onion peeled back. Hey man, some of you don't like it because you were under some
04:42delusion, I should say, of college sports being amateur sports. It's not amateur sports. It's never
04:50been amateur sports. It's always been professional sports. But this is what we did before. Don't tell
04:58anybody. Don't tell anybody. Hey, how did you get that 50 grand? I found it. Hey, the landscape of
05:08college sports is in a good place. And I can't wait to see what the future is.
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