00:00Dan, quite frankly, the president came out with an executive order.
00:04I don't believe this is my opinion,
00:06that I don't think that this is going to hold up in court.
00:08You know, we usually get four years.
00:10You got five years to play four years, and we had one transfer, you know,
00:15but you had to sit out back in my day.
00:17Well, today, now you get an opportunity to transfer to multiple programs.
00:22And I get what he's trying to do, but, again,
00:25I don't think that's going to hold up in court.
00:27Just your opinion on how you think transfer and the transfer portal should be handled.
00:33And do you think it's being abused right now in college sports,
00:36in both football and in basketball?
00:39Well, you know, it's the confluence of the transfer portal and NIL and revenue share
00:43that has made this such a challenge for schools to manage
00:46and how, you know, players move so frequently, you know,
00:49going to several schools during their four years of college eligibility
00:52rather than just one or two.
00:53I do think it's a challenge.
00:55I worry about the impact that long-term on players
00:58and their development as human beings to bounce around like that.
01:02That's not the real world.
01:04They're going to find that out the hard way when they get out of school.
01:07So I do think, you know, that if we could ever get congressional help,
01:13which is critical because, as you know,
01:15this would not probably withstand a legal challenge.
01:20But I would make a case that, you know,
01:22student-athletes should have a chance to transfer once and play immediately.
01:26But doing that two and three and four, you know, three and four times is,
01:29I don't believe healthy.
01:31And I think, you know, if there's a way to, you know,
01:33to provide that one opportunity,
01:34but then to have some more skin in the game for student-athletes
01:37if they transfer a third or fourth time is probably a better outcome.
01:40But we'll need congressional help to do that.
01:42That can't be something that's done without the help of Congress.
01:4730 seconds here.
01:48In your opinion, has it made the game better, though, Dan,
01:51with people wanting to stay in the game longer?
01:54Because they can be monetized.
01:57Yes.
01:58I do think the talent level in college basketball,
02:00on the men's side in particular, is near an all-time high
02:03because, you know, we were losing so much talent to the NBA
02:06after, you know, one-year players, you know, wanted Dunn's.
02:11And then even players that never came to play college basketball
02:13from Europe or other locations that went over to Australia
02:16or to the G League Elite program.
02:18So I do think that the talent level is at an all-time high
02:21because you can make money because there's great exposure.
02:25And I do think that's good for the health of the game on the court.
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