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All right, let's bring him in
It to our boy Nick Coffee three pm

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to six pm on Sports Talk seven
ninety every single day. He is the

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voice the authority that is sports in
this town. And no one will question

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it. Coffee or I will fight
you if you question it. Coffee,

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May coffee. How you doing?
I'm doing well. That may be the

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best introduction I've ever received. So
thank you. My day that was already

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going good, is going better.
Now, what was it deal with the

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naked guy at McDonald's yesterday? Ye
had a naked guy mill It was exactly

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what you think it was. I
was taking a left there on I believe

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it's Muhammad Ali where that no,
I'm sorry, Market Street with the McDonald's

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is, and was going to head
up to Fish Street and wasn't even really

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paying that close attention to the sidewalk. But then you kind of catch You

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look once and you think, wait
a second, and you look back again,

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and there was a man with just
a look to be a tank top

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around his neck, not on,
and then no cants or anything. Se

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Yeah, butt naked. And what
really really stood out was that what you

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know, it wasn't an industry.
There were many people driving and it's just,

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I guess become somewhat normal. It
has a lot of naked I'm used

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to it now, I kind of
dude. Like I was shocked when I

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pulled out of the parking garage and
the naked dude was walking around, But

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so it should. Here's the question
should have been, question does it does

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it? Does it give you more
of, like, you know, an

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interest in doing it knowing that others
are doing it. I'm kind of interested.

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I might want to take a stroll
through the gallery of the problem here,

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Nick, is that that second look
is kind of a leer, you

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know at that point. Yeah,
all right, all right, Nick,

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we just we just had to Bloomberg
moneyment it on and they are He told

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us the price point for this,
for this possible new network that will be

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a streaming app with ESPN, TNT
and Fox Sports, would be forty dollars

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a month. I mean that would
lead to a lot of people probably canceling

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what ever service they have that gives
them any level of live television. And

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forty dollars a month, I mean
that's all massive in regards to how expensive

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that was. But like, yeah, that's the only thing I watch live

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So what I what I was curious
about is this. I mean, this

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clearly will give those sports networks more
power. I think they're well aware that

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they are one of the last things
that people truly consume live and they make

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sure it's something they see when it's
happening live. But you know, do

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the schools, you know. I'm
just curious how this would factor those contracts

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because technically the Fox and ESPNS they
own the rights to it. But I

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just if there was some burbage in
there that that means you're going to be

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on lineing your television, because yes, the sports fans will get it because

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they're gonna want to watch. But
I still think initially you would have an

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overall you know, you would lower
your overall viewership. However, it may

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not matter because again, the reason
they give you all that money is because

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they own those rights and they'll do
with them whatever they want. Well,

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they screwed me on the peacock thing. Couldn't watch the Dolphins Chiefs game without

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buying that I and I have the
TECHNI on the peacock yeah, I'm suppoll

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yeah on the Cocks to get all
of the NFL games, and I did

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not get that one. Is this
gonna further erode that too. Yeah,

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they're gonna keep doing it. Yeah, I don't know they're gonna do it.

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I I remember, you know,
I guess about five years ago everybody

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kind of saw this was where we
were headed. And sure enough, I

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think it's actually gone quicker than most
realized. But Nick, at that time,

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though the streaming services were five dollars, he was like, oh,

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it's like six dollars you download the
streaming ab Now. Oh, I'm sorry

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that we just heard it's gonna be
forty dollars. We just asked him that.

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So but five dollars was okay.
You're like, oh fine, I'll

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do it for five bucks. But
you're you're gonna run people off at some

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point. And I don't care.
No gambling is gonna carry this thing into

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the next century. I just don't
think it can. Nick, come on

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forty bucks. No, I I
think it's not an issue with the product

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that is NFL college sports. You
know, whatever it is you consume live.

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It's not that the product getting worse
and there's less interest. It's just

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we've never had more things to occupy
our time with. And honestly, it's

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just doing stuff on our phone more
than I mean, I think when you're

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a diehard fan of a team,
it's really just part of your lifestyle.

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But there's a lot of people out
there. It blows my mind because it's

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all I've ever known. But they
don't really get into sports like that.

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They keep up, they know what's
going on. They listen to sports radio

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here and there, but like they're
not in you know, they're not crying

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themselves to sleep like I am every
night because Louisville basketball is a mess.

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So yeah, those people, you
know, they may just feel like I

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can. I don't need to watch
I'll know the score, I'll know who's

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good, I'll know what's going on. I don't need to actually pay for

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that and watch it live. So
I think you're onto something. I mean,

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I just think it's more so us
evolving, as you know, society,

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different habits as far as how they
spend their time. I start have

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a promotional night for the Cardinals of
the Young Center, naked people night,

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you get in free, and all
the naked people from downtown Low would just

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go in and fill the seats.
Well, now, Nick speaking to Louisville

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basketball the other night, they looked
as good as I've seen them in a

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long time. Tyler Johnson was unstoppable. Question for you were more the Cardinal

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fans happy with that performance are disappointed. I think they're happy because it's a

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real good distraction, and I think
it fades pretty quickly. But that was

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the best I've seen Louisville look since
the twenty twenty season, when they were

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legitimately going to be a top three
or four seed in the tournament and were

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number one in the country. I
mean, that was a really, really

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good performance. They were the better
team really from start to finish. Not

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that Florida State didn't hang around and
make some runs of their own, but

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I mean, Brandon only had Phil's
duncan on everybody's head. Tyler Johnson clearly

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the best player on Florida and statistically
did something that has never been done before

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by any Louisville guard, which is
saying something Curtis Williams junior, He's as

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smooth as as I've seen a Louisville
freshman, just really good offensively. It

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was impressive. You know, I'm
somebody then maybe it's just the way I'm

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wired that you know what it did
to me is it confirmed what I've believed

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for the entire season. And I
think I've said it to you guys many

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times. This team does not have
seven wins in February because they don't have

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capable players. I mean, I've
watched them play against Clemson the game they

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lost. I've watched them play against
I mean even Virginia when they played them

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there. I mean again, they
got in both games. But it's not

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like you see a humongous gap.
This isn't when Tom Crean took over Indiana

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and he literally started two walk ons. These are capable players, and I

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get more frustrated when I see that, because there's just no excuse to be

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this bad. Was well to answer, I'm answering with you, Yes,

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I think it made people happy.
But on the second part of that is

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these idiot U of L fans that
say, dude, what if he runs

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six in a row? And they
look at the rest of the schedule and

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they're like, he could get six, he could get six wins out of

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this, And it's like, what
if what if we go ten to nineteen,

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Well, ten wins, this whole
team's back if they do that.

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Well, see, that's that's another
thing that I don't want to mislead anybody

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like I have any kind of information, But if you're paying any attention to

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how college sports works in the last
two years, the belief that any despite

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these guys playing hard for Kinny Payne
and apparently still you know, supporting him

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when asked, that does not mean
that are going to come back. No,

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you could keep Kenny Payne and lose
half this team, the whole team.

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That's just where we are because they're
gonna get away and they're going to

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realize. Man, I've been here
a year or two and we sucked.

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This is not a good situation for
me. I mean, it's that's just

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delusion, I think. Now.
Another part of it is that I've tried

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to figure this out in my head, and my brain doesn't work very well,

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especially whenever I'm just irritated by people
who are doing what you mentioned,

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just acting as if a few wins
here and there would make it that this

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should continue to keep going on,
we should sustain this awful era. And

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I just think there are certain fans
that are wired that way. They know

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it, they don't want to acknowledge
it, they don't want to hear it,

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and if you say it and you're
somebody that they believe is supposed to

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be, you know, shaking the
pom poms leading the pep rally, they

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attack you. And it reminds me
a little bit of you know, because

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there were people who called it in
the post game show Saturday that wanted it

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to be a party, and that's
just I couldn't fake that if I tried.

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We talked about the good stuff,
but that's just not me, and

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I don't think that'd be good radio. But when Saturdayeople was here, we

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all knew that the ceiling wasn't high
and he wasn't terrible, but man,

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everybody was bored. There was no
interest. I feel like they should have

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done something to make a move in
the end, you dow, But I

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got crushed for that, Okay,
And when he left, nobody complained because

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everybody knows down this is what should
happen, and same things gonna happen with

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Kenny payn. These people out there
that claim he should get a third year.

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When he gets canned and they move
on with somebody else, will never

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bring it up again. Nope,
Okay, we go. We got two

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minutes here, So I want to
mention this Dartmouth men's basketball players have basically

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they want to be employees of Dartmouth, which would allow them to move forward

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as electing a union. Uh.
The Supreme Court or which what body of

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work? Baby baby basically said that's
fine. You are now in the labor

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organized Yes, an l RB.
Yes. I said, yeah, that's

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fine. They ruled that you can
be employees. This is a way out.

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I think this is a way If
you're going to be a union,

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then then there's a negotiation table.
Then we could say, fine, you

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want to be a paid employee,
then here's a contract, like Rick Patino

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said on Twitter and said, you
got to stay two years, you have

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to stay three years. If you're
going to be a union and you're gonna

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be an employee, then let's set
some ground rules. And right now we

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don't have any yep. I think
we'll see what happens with this appeal.

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But yeah, I mean, first
of allf Dartmouth wants to be employees,

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they'd instantly be fired because they're literally
one of the worst teams in the country

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and they don't bring in any money. So their case is interesting because of

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who it is. Cause reality like
when it comes to being a student athlete

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is a choice. Nobody's making you
do it. You don't have to do

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it, you choose to do it. And yeah, you may have to

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balance some things, but if you
want to be an employee and make money,

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you probably will get capped out to
where you won't make the money you

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could make through NIL. And oh, by the way, if you suck,

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they'll fire you. I mean,
like I just there's NIL is such

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a mess. We don't really know
exactly how it works, and it needs

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to be regulated more than it is. There's no perfect solution. But as

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far as players want to be wanting
to be taken care of and paid,

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the way it's currently going is their
best case scenario. Because if they want

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to be employees again, they're going
to be required to do things they're not

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required to do now they can be
fired and again they'll be capped out.

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I mean, it's just that's and
I would be willing to how many players

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truly would consider that it actually still
say yeah, I want to be an

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employee. Nick Coffee three pm to
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have a great day. Thanks guys,

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