00:00All right. Hopefully this tournament is as fun to watch as that one was. And hopefully the U.S. does
00:04as well in this one as they did in that one as well. So this is ongoing and I think
00:10that it will continue to be ongoing. I don't think there's any resolution in sight as it relates to the
00:16Protect College Sports Act that was put forth by Congress this week and or sorry, by by the Senate this
00:23week and college football and the folks that make these decisions.
00:27The Big Ten provided another joint statement with the SEC clarifying their opposition to it because they came out and
00:34were like, yeah, we don't like this. They dug a little deeper into why they don't like it. And I
00:39understand from their perspective why they don't like it. It's pretty beneficial for everyone but them. It's also pretty restrictive
00:46to like they're never going to agree to something that says that they can't expand and they shouldn't.
00:52Honestly, like it would just be bad business for those two conferences to agree to say that, yeah, we can't
00:58add new members, but other schools are allowed to. They're going to have to revise a lot of this stuff.
01:04But even still, I don't know. It's kind of feels like they're so far apart in in what the revisions
01:12would have to be that I don't know that this is ever actually going to happen.
01:15Well, the SEC and the Big Ten want a checklist. Here's what we think is wrong. Here's what we want
01:20you to fix. Do not go beyond this checklist. Do not address any issues you feel are problematic that we
01:27do not feel are problematic.
01:28And if that's part of and if that's what they want to do, then just. Well, where are you going?
01:34Just have someone be in charge. Oh, OK. Like don't. I thought you were going to say break off. No,
01:38no, no, don't. Because I don't think that's realistic. Again, I don't know.
01:41It gets more realistic when it's the pair of. This is now their second joint statement. I know. I know.
01:46After two months of being on opposite ends of all of this. Years. Like they can't. I mean, they've been
01:52fighting over everything in this NIL era because they want to be the powerful one.
01:58I guess more directly in the format, the playoff format has been A versus B, SEC versus Big Ten more
02:03direct. But yeah. Absolutely. The fact that they're agreeing on something is troubling if you're looking big picture.
02:10Or if you're the ACC in the Big 12. Like you have to start looking at it. Totally. Totally. But
02:15then the other part of it is they're the ones who've been asking for help the most.
02:20Like the the the presidents in in the SEC, some of their schools. I mean, the Georgia president last week
02:28said this is anarchy and we need someone to get control of this thing.
02:32And then when they try to get control of it, they're like, yeah, but no, not like that. So get
02:36control of it. Like we want you to have control of it where we continue to make the most money
02:40and can dominate.
02:42And we don't care about anybody else. But you just kind of restrict some of the stuff that the kids
02:47can do. Let's say I wanted to mess with our TV money.
02:49Let's say I wanted help with the ATL show. And I go to Mike Connie and say, hey, here's a
02:55couple of things that I kind of look at.
02:57And I just don't know if it's working right now. Let's see if we can help. And then he goes
03:03through it.
03:03He comes back to me. He's like, I figured out how to make the ATL show better. New host.
03:11We went from, hey, here's like a segment I'm not sure works to like, what if we changed everything? I
03:17think that's better.
03:18Yeah. And totally. I mean, the bill that they proposed has way too much stuff in it.
03:23Yeah. I think Seth Davis hits the nail on the head with with his tweet here. I'll read it.
03:28Obviously, Seth Davis, longtime college basketball insider. I think he always provides pretty, pretty level headed analysis when it comes
03:36to the games, but also the state of things in college sports.
03:39He says, I honestly don't know how things in Congress got so off track. Now, that's he's off to a
03:45bad start there in general.
03:47But I know what he means in relation to this bill. The purpose of legislation was to carve out the
03:52bare minimum antitrust exemption so that the NCAA could enforce the basic outlines of the House settlement.
03:57Yeah. Basically, just reining in all of the craziness and trying to get things back on track from a calendar
04:03perspective, maybe a transfer portal perspective and whatnot.
04:07When did the whole thing become about narrowing the gap between the Big Ten, SEC and everyone else and preventing
04:12a Super League?
04:13Why don't we start with the smallest stuff and work our way bigger?
04:16This whole thing is supposed to get passed by August 1st, and they're debating something that wasn't supposed to be
04:21at the center of the debate.
04:22Yeah. Like, if this is the debate, then it's not going to get done by August 1st, and it's not
04:27going to get done ever.
04:29There's just so much stuff in there that no one's ever going to agree to.
04:33They need to focus on the stuff that we were talking about yesterday, the calendar issues, the transfer issues.
04:39I do think the money will probably figure itself out if you just let the market dictate over time.
04:43It is going to leave a lot of schools behind, but I think a lot of the schools that are
04:48going to get left behind have already been left behind.
04:51There might be a bigger gap between the haves and the have-nots in college football.
04:54That might happen.
04:55But there's always been a really large gap between the haves and the have-nots in college football, so it's
04:59not that different.
05:00You know, it's frustrating for the fans because there are problems in the sport that could be dealt with with
05:10a relative minimal level of conversation, and you start to tick those off.
05:17Like, that's, again, everyone in every workplace, even self-employed, like, you have, here are the big issues that we've
05:27got to address at some point.
05:29Here are the medium-tiered issues that, you know, we can get to them, and then here are the small
05:34issues.
05:36Like, almost everyone tacks off the five things on the small issues list immediately.
05:41Same thing with spring cleaning, right?
05:43All right, we need to reorganize the closet.
05:45We need to do this.
05:46We need to do this.
05:47How about we just start by putting the toys away?
05:49How about we start by organizing the shoes?
05:52And then we can get to, do we want to change the artwork in the, you know what I mean?
05:57Yeah, they're talking about, I don't have a foyer, but whatever.
05:59I know, yeah.
06:00Start with the small stuff that can be fixed, that can be addressed, and then once you get a couple
06:05of those things ticked off, maybe start to address.
06:08This bill was like, hey, let's remodel the whole house from the studs, which maybe needs to happen, but it's
06:15hard to start there.
06:16That's not the process.
06:16Yeah, it's not the process that you go by.
06:18I mean, look, I do think, again, from a big picture perspective, the sport was built on such a fraudulent
06:25foundation in the first place.
06:28Student athlete?
06:30Yeah.
06:30Like, the people doing the thing weren't getting paid for it forever and ever and ever, and so much money
06:36was being made by so many people on that foundation that maybe in order for it to get to where
06:44it needs to go to, it had to get insane for a while.
06:47Because for 100 years, we've been doing it like this, and it grew increasingly ridiculous with just, you know, with
06:54the money that was being spent and the money that coaches were making and the money that was under the
06:58table and just, like, the TV money.
07:02Like, there was clearly so much money everywhere, and we were still trying to pretend that the players shouldn't be
07:06paid.
07:06Well, now, the overcorrection to that insanity is also insanity.
07:11It's just way over here on the other side.
07:14Obviously, they need to do some things to rein it in and fix it and clean up, like you said,
07:18some of the easy small issues, but maybe this had to happen.
07:22Like, maybe it had to get completely, like, lawless for a while because of what the sport was built on.
07:28Well, I also think there's a question about whose job it is to reel it back in.
07:33Is it conference commissioners?
07:35Is it school presidents?
07:37Is it the ADs?
07:39Or is it the coaches?
07:40Because in my opinion...
07:41I don't think it's any of those people's job.
07:43I would allow the coaches to tackle it first because I think they're looking at it from a football perspective
07:49more than the school president.
07:53The AD, I think it's just so much more business.
07:56I think you would argue, to some extent, the commissioners as well.
08:01But no coach is ever going to do anything that gives his team less of a chance to win, right?
08:07Correct.
08:08So asking them to compromise, I think, is really hard.
08:11But maximizing revenue for the school may still not be his number one priority.
08:15I think if you look at that from the president and maybe even from the AD perspective, it is.
08:20The hard part is the only way that any of this gets done is if the folks that are in
08:26the most power, however you want to slice it.
08:28If you want to make it the coaches, if you want to make it the ADs, the presidents, the conference
08:33commissioners, the TV folks, in order for this to actually get done in a way that is equitable, people are
08:40going to have to make compromises.
08:41And there's just nothing about what's happened over the last five to ten years that says anything about compromise.
08:47All anyone's doing is what's best for me right now where I can get the most and give us the
08:51best chance to win.
08:52And then by winning, get more and make more money and build bigger stadiums and get more lavish and all
08:59of this.
09:00Like asking these folks to compromise feels almost impossible.
09:05But that's what has to happen in order for this to work.
09:08And none of those folks you just listed are going to be willing to do that.
09:11So I don't know.
09:11That's why Congress had to get involved.
09:13But I don't think they fixed it either.
09:16So we're probably the players have a crack at it.
09:19I mean, sure.
09:22They're just as likely to compromise as anyone else.
09:26So anyway, I don't think we're all that close to any of this getting resolved.
09:30That's fine.
09:31The games are still fun.
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