00:00College football, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sent a former letter to the Big 12
00:06threatening legal action if the conference moves to sanction Texas Tech over its support
00:12for quarterback Brendan Soresby. Talk about one of the more complicated stories in college
00:18football going right now here, Joe. Soresby, who allegedly was caught betting on sports
00:25on some unders, yes in some small amounts, is now being allowed to play college football next season
00:32because of a judge in Texas. To be clear, he has been suspended for the first two games,
00:38but that's not even a slap on the wrist, Joe. That's like a slap on the finger.
00:42If we're going to allow our college athletes, regardless of the amounts of the bets, to bet on
00:48sports without taking a full suspension of a year or longer, I kind of understand what some
00:55of these teams are thinking. And I know it feels like sour grapes from some of these teams are
00:59saying that they won't even want to play this team if they're going to allow this kid to play.
01:02Do you think we've seen the end of this story?
01:07Absolutely. I mean, all of this hand-wringing and moral posturing, and this is all the NCAA's fault.
01:16This entire situation was created by them years ago here because they didn't handle this situation.
01:25Back in the day, when guys were just asking for stipends and things, can we get a little something
01:31while you're raking in billions of dollars to the point where here we are now, all of a sudden,
01:37we've got guys that are being allowed to play that broke some sort of unwritten rule about betting
01:42on their teams. Don't hate the player. Don't hate the school. Hate the game because this is exactly
01:49what the NCAA set up and it's exactly what they were hoping for. So now they can go to Congress
01:55and say, if only we had, you know, an antitrust exemption here, then we could actually, you know,
02:01we can step in and do something about it. The whole thing, it just pawns on a chessboard is all
02:08this is
02:09here, Greg. The University of Florida Gators are going to be upgrading the swamp. The cost is $1.45
02:17billion. Now, there's a lot in play here. Number one in play is that you understand the need to
02:25upgrade the swamp. It hasn't been upgraded ever, basically. You know, I mean, they did add some
02:31boxes there years ago, but that's been it. Look, the Gators and the University of Florida are one of the
02:36most popular schools in the country. Their football team certainly has not been anything special over
02:42the last few years. This is the biggest number in the history of the SEC. It's the biggest number
02:47in the history of any kind of expansion for any college football stadium. But this price tag of
02:52$1.45 billion seems to be more than a renovation, Joe. Like, this seems to be like a new stadium
02:58here.
02:59I wonder if they're even going to be able to play in the stadium for a year while they renovate.
03:04Yeah, it's funny, Greg. You know what it is? It's at that old building trick here. Like, you know this
03:09in South Florida, right? Instead of knocking the whole house down, you leave one wall up and call it
03:15a renovation instead of a new build, and you save all that money on the new impact fees and everything
03:20else. It feels like that's what they're going to do. They're going to knock down everything, and they're
03:24going to leave up one brick wall, and they're going to be like, it's just a renovation. That's all it
03:29is,
03:29to the tune of $1.5 billion. That's not a renovation. That is a—we're blowing it up and starting from
03:36scratch.
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