00:00Hey, I want to ask you a question about the landscape of college sports right now.
00:04Are you a fan of nil?
00:06Do you think there needs to be more guardrails on how it's being delegated?
00:11Does there need to be some type of commissioner?
00:14Just an opinion here, Dan, on how, first and foremost, you see nil.
00:18We'll talk transfer portal here in a minute.
00:19But what's your takeaway on paying the college athletes now?
00:24Yeah, I mean, I think that that cart has left the barn.
00:27I do think that it's here to stay.
00:30I think that there's very good reason for sharing revenue with student athletes who generate for their schools an enormous
00:37amount of revenue with the popularity of college sports.
00:40So, you know, I think that's a healthy thing.
00:42Managing it for their own effectiveness in their future as well as for the schools that have to manage it
00:47is another issue altogether.
00:48I think that still needs to kind of find its level.
00:51I don't think we're in a healthy or sustainable place right now, but we're working on it.
00:57You know, Congress may have to help to ultimately to help in that regard and the conferences as well.
01:04But I do think, you know, this is the new reality of college sports.
01:08And it's not unhealthy for student athletes to share in some of the proceeds and benefits of what college sports
01:15makes from a revenue standpoint and makes it so popular.
01:19Dan, do you think that this is going to separate, though, the haves and the have-nots?
01:24And what I mean by that is, obviously, the Southeastern Conference and the Big Ten or the big horses and
01:29this whole thing, in your opinion, do we have to kind of gauge?
01:33Because we want to make sure every kid has an opportunity of playing for a national championship.
01:38A team like Miami of Ohio deserves that opportunity and bite of the apple, right?
01:43So how do we kind of come up with a guardrail here for that?
01:46Is that still something that you just said, you can't put the toothpaste back into, you know, the container here?
01:52This thing's out already.
01:53We've got to come up with a way to be able to figure this out here on how we can
01:57make it beneficial for all women as well.
02:01Yeah, without a doubt.
02:02And that's kind of what we're going through right now is this correction period, you know,
02:06where we find out how to make this work, you know, to provide that opportunity for competitiveness across the country
02:13at different levels.
02:14It's going to be different.
02:16The haves and have-nots are going to be different going forward.
02:20But there's still opportunity, especially in the great sport of basketball.
02:23There's such depth of players and talent in basketball that I do think with five players on the court and
02:2940 minutes on the clock,
02:30you know, there's still going to be opportunity for Cinderella teams and stories and moments in March Madness that have
02:36made it so special over the years.
02:39Miami of Ohio is a really good example of that.
02:41You know, what they did to SMU in the first four was impressive following on the incredible regular season they
02:46had.
02:47And then they met a better team in Tennessee that sent them home.
02:50But, you know, High Point did that during the men's tournament as well.
02:54And Miami of Florida in the women's tournament got to the Sweet 16 as a 10 seed.
02:58So I think there's still a lot.
02:59But we are going through a correction period.
03:01There's no doubt about that.
03:02And we'll, you know, see how it plays out here in the next couple of years.
03:05We'll see you in the next couple of years.
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