00:00Absolutely. So let's go over to a ruling that came down, basically maybe a mandate that came down from the
00:08White House.
00:09President Trump, he ended up putting an executive order in when it came to transfer portals.
00:14Now, Coach, I don't know if this is going to hold up in court or not, but what was your
00:19takeaway on that?
00:21It's not going to hold up in court, Big Sills.
00:23I mean, I actually did my show, The Coach's Edge with JY, which just got released on YouTube that I
00:29really kind of got into it.
00:31It kind of broke it down. I spoke to some powerful coaches on the men's and women's side, major coaches,
00:37people connected with the NAL, and even some, you know, agents.
00:42Not even agents, but, you know, player families.
00:46Big Sills, here's the issue.
00:50I get the five and five.
00:52This is what we used to do. Remember, back in the day, this is what happened when we were younger.
00:55You had five years to play your four years.
00:58So I get President Trump's thought process.
01:02Let's get politics out of it, because I don't want to go there because that's not my lane.
01:06I'm not paid to do that.
01:08It's more about, to me, there is an unequal, it's not apples to apples how you're dealing with how the
01:15sport payouts are.
01:16For instance, you know college football better than anybody.
01:19College football playoff, that money is taken, and those shares are being sent by ESPN, the $7.8 billion deal
01:26to 31-32, and it's funneled to the conferences.
01:31And then the conferences then decide how it gets distributed.
01:34If I'm not mistaken, I think Miami got a lion's share of the ACC payout because of their run.
01:40Other leagues do other things differently.
01:41Go to the men's and women's basketball, right?
01:45Big sales, $1 billion a year in March Madness, $900 million comes from the NCAA tournament.
01:52And it's a six-year unit model of how the money is paid out.
01:56But the NCAA folks, ready for this, keeps 75% of the revenue.
02:02They keep it themselves.
02:04Then the other 25% goes to the schools in a unit model.
02:08So what am I saying?
02:09The players have no stake.
02:11The players have no equity.
02:13And they're the ones that are going to be out there tonight trying to hit jump shots in front of
02:1870,000 people in a football stadium.
02:20I've said it before, and maybe I'll get myself in trouble by saying this.
02:24The biggest mafia in the country is the NCAA.
02:28They've got their hands on everything.
02:32AAU circuit, hands in it.
02:34Tournament, hands in it.
02:35The only thing they don't got their hands in is college football with the playoffs, which is smartly done by
02:39ESPN.
02:40But there still needs to be a talk.
02:42Ready, folks?
02:44Collective bargaining.
02:45I'm going there.
02:46We've got to collectively bargain with these kids.
02:48Because I'm telling you right now, Phil Moritale, your friend, I had him on last week, said it best.
02:52It is pay for play.
02:55So if we're doing it, let's go to the bargaining table and give these kids what they're worth.
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