00:00So let me take you into the landscape of college sports now.
00:03Do you believe the federal government should be involved in kind to reign in, so to speak, nil transfer?
00:11You saw the president come out with an executive order to try to deal with transfer.
00:16He doesn't want guys playing nine years in college sports any longer.
00:21I mean, in your opinion, Kevin, should the federal government get involved because of the amount of revenue and money
00:26that's being generated?
00:28I think it's a good protection to have the federal government as a backstop.
00:32I think overreach is always dangerous.
00:34You know how I feel about that.
00:35But that said, we've got haves and have-nots, and we've always had haves and have-nots.
00:40The problem now, Dan, as I see it, is a kid could transfer every year, four years in a row,
00:47absolutely no possibility of graduating.
00:49I transferred college once and lost a ton of credits, and it took me an extra semester to graduate.
00:56So you can imagine a kid starts out as a freshman in Florida, decides, eh, I'm not playing enough.
01:01He goes to, let's just say, Rice and gets a little time and performs well, and now he wants to
01:07go play for, say, I don't know, Penn State.
01:11And they're like, hey, this kid was all conference.
01:12Let's snap him up.
01:14How's that kid going to graduate?
01:15If this is not about also playing sports and working toward, remember, this is under the auspices of a university,
01:22a learning institution.
01:25If we don't tweak around the edges, I think we're really endangering not just the athletes, but the integrity of
01:31the sport.
01:31So I'm glad the government is stepping in a little bit.
01:34I'd be very wary of overreach here.
01:37You know how they get.
01:38Give them a little.
01:39They'll want more.
01:40But I do think something has to be done.
01:42And by the way, if I could say very quickly, I'm happy for schools that can have massive booster input
01:49and great dollars.
01:51I love that.
01:52Good for you.
01:52I write a check every year.
01:54That's great.
01:56But I have to say there should be some mechanism to maybe just a bit more level the playing field.
02:02I'm not saying we have to cap what they offer student athletes, because if it's your name, image, and likeness,
02:08you do you.
02:09Make all the money you can.
02:11But I do think there has to be something set aside.
02:14Maybe there, again, some tweaks around the edges.
02:16I have my own ideas.
02:17I'm sure you do, too.
02:18But I do think it needs a closer examination than what we've had over the last three years, which has
02:24been more or less the wild, wild west.
02:27You know, let's not kid ourselves, folks.
02:29The transfer was Harvard.
02:31So it wasn't just a junior college that he's talking about here.
02:36He's talking about Harvard here, too.
02:38Oh, you're so funny.
02:40You're in favor, then, of the kids getting paid.
02:43So me, I am, too.
02:45I'm in favor of the guys getting paid.
02:47And I think that this has been long overdue.
02:49Is there some sort of guardrail you'd like to see, though, around the paying of these student athletes?
02:55Yeah, a couple things stand out right away for me, Dano.
02:58I'm all for the players getting paid, because I remember as an RA on a football floor, there were guys
03:05on my floor that couldn't afford to get home for Thanksgiving,
03:09couldn't afford to get home for the holidays because their parents were so poor that they had to stay on
03:16campus.
03:16And back then, things have changed.
03:18I get it.
03:18I'm a dinosaur.
03:19Back then, there wasn't a training table on weekends, and guys were struggling.
03:24So to me, I'm like, good.
03:26Get money.
03:27But here's what I would do to make sure it's a little bit more level so that there's more actual
03:31competition in college sports.
03:33Because the way it's going now, I believe, you're going to end up with basically 12 programs that genuinely compete,
03:39maybe 16.
03:39And then every once in a while, you'll get one team that has a special year.
03:43But that's about it.
03:45So here's what I would propose.
03:46I would propose that you can make the money, but some of it has to be set aside with markers.
03:52Hopefully, the idea being we can maybe encourage more savings, maybe make some incentives.
04:00If you reach these academic markers, you also get more of your money earlier.
04:04But ultimately, I just would like to protect the kids and their resources because I know how quickly you can
04:09run out there and buy a Range Rover, wreck it, not have anything to graduate on, tear a knee, and
04:14now you're basically back to square one.
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