WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:07.839 It's time for Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:09.439 Sports Talk seven. 3 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:11.560 Nine day, Holy crap, I don't know who the hell 4 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:15.119 we think when we are get off our show, idiot. 5 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:17.640 The kids are playing to tail off. The countries are 6 00:00:17.679 --> 00:00:18.320 screwing it up. 7 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:21.640 Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, gold Play Inner Murals. 8 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:24.760 They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not. 9 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:26.519 Who's the kid here? 10 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:28.399 Who's the kid here? 11 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:43.719 Are you kidding me? Now? Here's Nick Coffee? 12 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:50.320 All right, Happy Tuesday, So you welcome in Coffee and Company, 13 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:54.240 Fueled by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety Nick Coffee, 14 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:58.280 Austin Montgomery taking you up until six o'clock. As mentioned 15 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:00.880 on a Tuesday after an it kind of feels like 16 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:03.920 evening because it's been gloomy, kind of dark outside. I know, 17 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.680 we got another batch of storms coming in this evening. 18 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:10.280 So we'll let you know if in fact there's any real, 19 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:13.359 you know, news that you need to be aware of. 20 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:15.599 I doubt that you typically would think, hey, we need 21 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:18.640 to listen to Nick and Austin on Coffee and Company 22 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:21.719 to keep us safe from storms, but hey, we might 23 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:24.439 as well utilize the platform for something positive here, right, 24 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:27.120 I mean, the rest of it's probably going to be nonsense. 25 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:28.959 I mean, we'll have some fun, hopefully you'll have some 26 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:31.159 fun with us along the way. But as far as 27 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:34.599 how productive we are over these next few hours, we'll 28 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:37.799 have to wait and see. But given that we had 29 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:42.920 such a devastating storm that is killed twenty people roughly, 30 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.280 I think the debt total is still at nineteen as 31 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:50.480 of earlier this morning Governor Basher's latest updates. So it's 32 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:53.560 going to be nasty, but again, hopefully it's not anything 33 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:56.719 close to what we had just just before, four or 34 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:00.359 five days ago, whatever it was. And I'll see the 35 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:04.239 devastation in the London area in Laurel County. I mean 36 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:07.560 there's houses, really just a section of a neighborhood that 37 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:12.159 looks completely i mean completely demolished, where there's really no 38 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:15.759 I mean, it's just completely demolished. If you've seen it, 39 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:17.439 you know exactly what I'm talking about. But there are 40 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:20.400 other areas, I'm sure where maybe they just had some 41 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:22.759 roof damage, or maybe they had their roof ripped off, 42 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:25.400 and they're still trying to salvage whatever they can of 43 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:27.759 what's left of their home. And I know, it's been 44 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:30.360 a big push to get tarps and whatnot out there 45 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.960 because they're trying to cover up. I mean, it's the 46 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.159 area that just got hit really bad. I mean it 47 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.319 sounds like they're going to get it again, which is terrible. 48 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:40.759 Hopefully nothing close to what we saw at the end 49 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:42.639 of last week, though. Rd If you guys want to 50 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:44.000 take us with you wherever you go you can. You 51 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:46.000 can listen live on the Aheart Radio. I've also listened 52 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:48.879 live at seven ninety Louisville dot com. We'll let you 53 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:50.319 know how you can be a part of the show 54 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:52.560 and contribute here in just a moment. But I do 55 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:54.919 want to start with what I think is some pretty 56 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:59.680 substantial news when it comes to the future of college athletics, 57 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:02.599 and it is getting a lot of attention. But obviously 58 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:06.240 there's not as much interesting as much interest in college 59 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:10.439 sports nationally as there is in certain markets like this 60 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:14.520 where you know our college teams here Louisville, Kentucky. I mean, 61 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:18.520 they're basically the pro teams. But it's been such a 62 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:20.560 I guess, a big question mark when it comes to 63 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:26.240 the future of college sports with the insanely different landscape 64 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:28.439 that we've had in the last four to five years 65 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:33.800 with the portal and nil and they're really being no control. 66 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:36.919 You hear people say things like, well, it's the wild 67 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:41.039 wild West, and it pretty much is and all of 68 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:42.919 this and we don't need to get into it. As 69 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:44.800 far as just how we got here, I think we've 70 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:46.599 touched on that enough in the last few years. But 71 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:49.080 it really comes down to the UNSTABLA just trying to 72 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:54.919 maintain their archaic amateurism model and never realizing that that 73 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:58.360 was not sustainable, never realizing that, you know, that's not 74 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:02.680 something that they can expect to be the way things 75 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.800 are for the rest of time. As society evolves and 76 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:08.520 people realize, you know what, doesn't really make a lot 77 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:10.879 of sense for there to be so much money made 78 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:14.280 off college athletics and these guys don't get These guys 79 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:16.920 and gals I should say, they don't get paid for 80 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.199 performing and they really don't even get a share of 81 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:21.800 the revenue. Well that's how we ended up here in 82 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:25.399 the grand scheme of things. But this House bill settlement 83 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:29.439 that's been out there for how long now, it's been 84 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:32.560 pretty much a weekly thing as far as looking for 85 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:35.360 updates to see, okay, how far have they gotten on this, 86 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:38.920 and a lot of people understandably so wouldn't really want 87 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.360 to know nerd out and look at what really is 88 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:44.399 in place here. And I get it. I'm kind of 89 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:46.079 the same way, but I feel like, considering that it's 90 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:47.800 such an important thing when it comes to the future 91 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:50.879 of college sports, I mean, I'm interested. I want to 92 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:54.399 know what's going to happen, and each update we've got 93 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:56.000 I feel like in the last couple of months is 94 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.800 there's always one little hold up that has kept them 95 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:03.040 from fully saying, Okay, here's what we're doing, this is it, 96 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:06.680 it's final. Here are the rules, Here are the guardrails. 97 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:10.519 Here are the list of things that programs need to 98 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:14.319 be aware of as far as doing everything by the book, 99 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:18.120 not breaking the rules. And I don't say this to exaggerate. 100 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:20.639 I don't say this for effect. I think there's been 101 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:22.639 some times here recently in the last couple of years 102 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:24.839 where you don't really know what the rules are. And 103 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:28.079 I don't mean like fans who follow it, I mean programs, 104 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:31.600 head coaches. Because it seems as if you do something 105 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:36.279 that might be against NCAA bylaws, you hire a lawyer, 106 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:38.439 you take the nc DOUBLEA to court, and more often 107 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:41.600 than not they've been losing, and that was going to 108 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:43.800 be something that probably was never going to go away. 109 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:49.519 Schools realizing well, we get it. This rules in place 110 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:52.399 because you need to have some level of enforcement, you 111 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:57.680 need to have some level of guidelines that everybody has 112 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:01.160 to follow to make things equal, make things fair. But 113 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:03.720 there's always a lawyer that can maybe find a loophole 114 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:06.519 and try to stick to the NCUBA, because to be fair, 115 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:09.680 the NABA, even if they are trying to get things 116 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:13.240 in order, trying to regulate college sports to where it's 117 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:15.240 not such a free for all, there's going to be 118 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:17.000 certain things that they try to put in place for 119 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:20.600 good reason, but technically a judge may say you're not 120 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:24.560 allowed to do that. That's really been their biggest battle 121 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.079 in the last couple of years is even when they 122 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:31.000 are trying to not necessarily just roll with an iron 123 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:36.279 fist and nitpick and keep programs and student athletes from 124 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:38.800 doing certain things that you know, even when they're trying 125 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:40.879 to do what we want them to do, they run 126 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:44.839 into issues with a judge telling them, hey, you're not 127 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:47.120 actually allowed to do that, and that really puts them 128 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:49.720 in a tough spot. So I guess I'll start with 129 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:53.439 the big news that has been confirmed by Front Office Sports. 130 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:56.199 I think Ross Dellinger is the one who I saw 131 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:58.519 that put this out there first last night, and it's 132 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:04.199 pretty much been confirmed that the Power Conferences are now 133 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:09.160 in charge of enforcing amateurism the NS double A will 134 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:13.160 seed enforcement, meaning they're no longer claiming they are responsible 135 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:17.160 to determine who and who is not technically eligible, don't. 136 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:19.399 I mean, I have no clue how they're going to 137 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:21.879 work it all out, because again, what's happened, and I 138 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:24.040 guess I'll buy it started with last night where Ross 139 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:26.720 Ellingrew broke a pretty big story that the Power Conferences, 140 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:29.240 meaning the SEC, the Big Ten, the Big twelve, and 141 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:33.360 the ACC are putting together and I guess they've been 142 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:35.319 working on this for a while. They've drafted a contract 143 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:38.800 that would bind schools to new enforcement rules and require 144 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:42.480 them to waive the right to sue over decisions. And 145 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:47.759 what it sounds like is Tennessee recently filed some Let 146 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:50.120 me make sure I've got my info correct here, because 147 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:53.800 going back to what I said a moment ago, anytime 148 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:57.040 you take steps towards figuring out okay, here are going 149 00:07:57.120 --> 00:07:59.600 to be the this is the guidelines. This is now 150 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:01.920 the rule or the rules I should say that everybody 151 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:05.240 has to follow. Yet you find some type of loophole 152 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:07.439 to where somebody hired a lawyer and they're going to 153 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.000 be able to sue in order to get around following rules, 154 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.519 which again is an issue that makes the NC DOUBLEA, 155 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:18.439 to be honest with you, pretty pretty helpless. So this 156 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:20.560 document that they put together that I guess has now 157 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:23.879 been stamped for approval, so much so that the NC 158 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.680 DOUBLEA Charlie Baker, who again is now the new Mark Emmert, 159 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:28.920 he is now claiming, yes, they are now in charge. 160 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:32.440 They don't have the resources. So what this does is 161 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:35.679 this is and I'm reading here directly from Ross Dellinger 162 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:41.440 of Yahoo Sports. The document, described as affiliation or membership 163 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:44.759 Agreement isn't final, but a draft of the contract has 164 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:49.039 been distributed to dozens of school presidents, general counsels, and ads, 165 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:52.720 some of whom pushed back against some of the concepts 166 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:57.519 which are now being refined. The document is basically you 167 00:08:57.639 --> 00:09:00.559 signing over, you signing off on saying that all seventy 168 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:03.360 plus Power Conference schools, if of course you sign off 169 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:05.919 as well as others if they opt into this agreement. 170 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:10.000 It's a way to bind everybody together into a group 171 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:13.120 to provide stability around the enforcement of rules, including the 172 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.960 NIL Clearinghouse LBI caps. So there's a new it was 173 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.639 a new Tennessee state in IL law that came out 174 00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:23.120 late last week and it provides an example of why 175 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:26.759 this agreement is necessary to have stability and regulation in 176 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:32.039 the rev Share era. So never say, I mean, it's 177 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:34.919 tough to know if this wouldn't shock me in any way, 178 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:36.279 if by the end of the show today there's some 179 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:39.639 kind of a pushback and this won't happen because you 180 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:44.480 have what you're relying on. For there to be clear guidelines, 181 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.960 rules that everybody has to follow, you need like everybody 182 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.440 to agree and be on the same page. And that's 183 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:52.240 really hard to do with a lot of things. It's 184 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:57.000 even harder to do when it comes to these schools, 185 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:01.039 these universities coming together to a agree on something, yet 186 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:05.919 they're always competing and what eighty percent of these schools 187 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:09.080 might agree on, maybe there's twenty percent that say, hey, 188 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:11.360 agreeing to that will put us at a disadvantage. I mean, 189 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:15.519 it's really tough to envision everybody being one thousand percent 190 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:18.679 on the same page. But it sounds like, you know, 191 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:21.919 it sounds like they're getting close. So I mean this, 192 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.200 this would be huge, and this would make it to 193 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:29.480 where you sign off claiming that you are you are, 194 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:32.200 you are agreeing to follow these guidelines and if you 195 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:34.919 do and you break said rules, or maybe if you 196 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:36.879 don't even agree to sign it, you can be kicked 197 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:40.039 out of your conference. That's the one thing that Trust me, 198 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:42.240 I'm far from a legal expert, but I don't know 199 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:43.559 how you could come to a school and say, if 200 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:44.840 you don't agree to sign this, then we're going to 201 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:46.080 kick you out of the conference. I mean, I don't 202 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:47.679 really know how you'd be able to do that. But again, 203 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:51.519 what do I know? So I'm kind of excited about 204 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:54.080 this because it does give us some I mean, it 205 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:58.840 gives if this works out, this will give us a 206 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:03.080 much more I guess, less hectic version of college sports 207 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:04.919 to where you really just have no clue what's allowed, 208 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:07.279 what's not, what's going on. And I think for us, 209 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:09.320 you know, we care about it so much where we 210 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:13.120 love the college programs in this state U of l 211 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:16.240 UK to where really regardless of what's going on, how 212 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:20.039 messy it is, how confusing it is, how unregulated things are. Like, 213 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:21.559 we're still going to care, we're still going to be 214 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:24.000 into it, but for the greater good of college sports 215 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:26.320 for the foreseeable future, there needs to be some level 216 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:30.399 of regulation, and it sounds like this is a big 217 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:35.120 step in that direction. So again, what this would do 218 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:36.960 the Big Ten, the SEC, the Big twelve, and the 219 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:42.240 ACC this membership agreement. It would bind all these schools 220 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:45.960 to follow new enforcement rules and would keep these schools 221 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.039 from being able to sue overrule enforcement. Meaning if you 222 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:53.039 sign off and you don't follow the rules and you 223 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:55.399 get in trouble, you can't go file a lawsuit. You 224 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:57.600 can't you know, you can't get to get your attorney 225 00:11:57.639 --> 00:11:59.279 to just say, hey, we'll fight it in court. We're 226 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:01.799 gonna keep breaking the roles because we know technically if 227 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:05.320 it gets to that point we're going to win. They're 228 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:07.320 going to lose because they're not technically allowed to tell 229 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:09.000 us we can't do that. It's against the law in 230 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:13.679 some way. So this is if this works out. Where 231 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:15.879 this is great is that you no longer have to 232 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:22.159 worry about the seemingly never ending situation where we'll do 233 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:25.639 whatever we want and if the NCUBA tells us we can't, 234 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:27.799 we'll hire a lawyer and will win. I mean, there's 235 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:32.039 been some athletes that have hired attorneys that tried to 236 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:34.960 sue the nc DOUBLEA and not had success. We learned 237 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:38.039 that recently. All those players that just wanted to randomly 238 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:40.240 just claim that they have eligibility left and nobody knows 239 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:42.440 where it comes from, they actually did not have success 240 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:43.960 in court. We learned that last week and that's not 241 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:46.720 a surprise. Although it is seems like a rare thing 242 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:49.200 for the NCUABLEA to have success in the court room. 243 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:50.960 That doesn't seem like it's happened in a long time. 244 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:57.480 But any recent lawsuit that has been I think out 245 00:12:57.480 --> 00:12:59.519 there as a story when it comes to a school 246 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:02.639 and fighting the n C double A. I don't know 247 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:04.639 what the success rate is, but it feels like the 248 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:06.440 NC double A has lost a lot of them, and 249 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:08.960 to me, it seems like it never you're never gonna win. 250 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:11.559 This would change all that to where all these schools 251 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:14.879 are agreeing enough is enough. It's way too chaotic. Nobody 252 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:16.679 really knows what the rules are, and if you do, 253 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:19.080 you can break them and fire and hire a lawyer. 254 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:22.879 If everybody agrees to this, which again I think that's 255 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:25.360 easier said than done, that would make it to where 256 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:28.000 you know, you've you've signed off saying that if you do, 257 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:30.639 in fact break rules and don't follow them, you'll suffer 258 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:32.799 the consequences and you won't be able to just sue 259 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:36.799 to get out of it. So again, I feel like 260 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:38.720 that's huge news. But I don't know, maybe it's just me, 261 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:42.440 maybe I'm maybe I'm more interested in this stuff than others. 262 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:44.360 But and it's not like it's really that interesting, like 263 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:46.639 it's entertaining, but it's it's it's it seems like it's 264 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:47.960 a big deal when it comes to the future of 265 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:50.200 college sports, which is something I know that a lot 266 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:52.879 of us care a lot about. And the n C 267 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.639 double A, I mean that that alone, just just reading 268 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:59.159 that headline, I mean, that's that's huge. That the n 269 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:03.600 C Double A will seed enforcement of amateurism to the 270 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:08.960 power conferences. And I guess Charlie Baker is looking at 271 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:13.480 this as a situation where he realizes they are they're powerless, 272 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:19.200 they can't really enforce anything, so they're letting these power 273 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:22.919 conferences work together to say, Okay, everybody's going to have 274 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:26.320 to agree, we'll work together and have our own system, 275 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:29.440 and you're in or you're out, meaning you sign off 276 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:32.759 and we all follow these rules. We don't hire lawyers 277 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:36.840 and fight it in court or we you know, or 278 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:39.120 you're out, which I don't really know how they could 279 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:43.000 do that, but I think that would be because again, 280 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:47.519 if you are someone willing to I guess, be against 281 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:51.120 it and fight against it. The thought of you no 282 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:54.080 longer being able to, like if you're if you're one 283 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:58.759 of these schools in the Big twelve, Big ten sec ACC, 284 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:01.840 if you if you felt that there was fear that 285 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:03.440 you could be booted from your league, I mean, that 286 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.039 would really make it to where your athletics department would 287 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:11.600 no longer exist because not every school but nearly all 288 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:15.799 of them rely heavily on the annual check they get 289 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:17.799 from their conference as far as the revenue share, the 290 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:21.759 grant of rights. So anyways, we'll keep you updated that 291 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:25.519 that's been developing throughout the afternoon. Again the Front Office 292 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:29.919 Sports story as far as as the NCAA, I guess 293 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:33.240 confirming the report from Dellinger that yeah, we're we're we're 294 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:34.679 going to. I mean that that just came out within 295 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:37.320 the last couple of hours, so we'll keep you updated 296 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:40.159 if there's more info that comes from that along the way. Today, 297 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:42.080 a lot of other things we'll get into and as 298 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:44.200 I try to make the most of these last I 299 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:48.759 guess this is the eighth show left, so we'll finish strong. 300 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:51.240 We've got this week and then next week before I 301 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:55.240 make the move to early early mornings on news Radio 302 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:58.600 eight forty whas which I woke up this morning at 303 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:02.799 three forty five, just randomly, and I got up use 304 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:05.360 the restroom. I went and got something to drink, and 305 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:10.440 I realized starting June, in June, I'll be like I 306 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:13.240 will have already had to have been up for probably 307 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:15.559 twenty thirty minutes, which is a really it was a 308 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:18.360 pretty scary thing to think about. But you know, I'm 309 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:21.080 sure I'll Here's what I'm hopeful for, Austin, is that 310 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:24.600 I'll I'll adjust, But I don't know if it ever 311 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:26.720 gets easy, right, I'll get used to it. But I 312 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:30.039 just I don't think there's a scenario where I just 313 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.279 wake up automatically ready to start the day at three 314 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:36.440 point fifteen in the morning. Yeah, just I mean, that's impossible. 315 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:38.559 I think kind of makes you feel more appreciative of 316 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:41.080 how mister Kruz does it and now just the company man. 317 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:42.720 Company man's been doing it for a long time. 318 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:46.559 I see he's got a newborn baby. My heart goes 319 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:49.399 out to him for being able to do that. But 320 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:52.759 maybe him and his wife have made it work. So yeah, 321 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.039 he doesn't. He does a good job of not like 322 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:58.399 of leaving everything at home kind of like at the 323 00:16:58.440 --> 00:16:59.960 door unless she's just kind of tell you about like 324 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:01.919 what's going on with like his family, but you wouldn't 325 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:04.279 be able to tell you, like if he's stressed or 326 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:06.319 not outside of work, because he's a company man. He's 327 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:08.720 a true pros he's the he's earned the title. 328 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:10.960 I mean, I can see and I'm not speaking for 329 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:13.559 him at all, so trust me, if you know, John, 330 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:16.519 we're just we're just remove him from the conversation because 331 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:17.839 I don't want to make it seem as if like 332 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:19.519 I'm sharing something that he's shared with me, because I 333 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:20.799 don't bring any of that stuff up and I talk 334 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:22.599 to him because I just feel like, hey, I don't 335 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:24.720 want to over you know, I just leave him be 336 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:27.079 because I just imagine the early wake up call, the 337 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:28.920 early wake up calls that he has. But also like 338 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:30.400 you know, he's probably not getting a whole lot of 339 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:32.279 sleep before he has to get up at three thirty 340 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:34.720 in the morning because he's got an infantite home. But 341 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:39.359 like I know, whenever, whenever we had our first I 342 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:41.400 was eager to get back to work. Like I was, 343 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:43.680 I was to the point where I needed to get 344 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:45.480 out of the house. And it was nice to kind of, 345 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:48.240 you know, just just not not like I was running 346 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:50.519 away from my responsibility of you know, taking care of 347 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:53.039 a human being who I you know, brought into this 348 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:55.519 world with my lovely wife, but just you know, some 349 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:58.200 time to yourself, and even if that's work, it does 350 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:00.119 kind of just get you away to you know, know, 351 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:02.720 right to breathe a little bit. It probably sounded bad 352 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:05.559 if you if you know you've never been in that situation, 353 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:08.680 but I think it's not like to go get some milk. Yeah. Well, 354 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:11.240 And also it was great, like as much of it, 355 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:14.559 as much as it was a challenge for for my 356 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:16.319 wife and I'm sure a lot of other wives to 357 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:18.480 have to go back to work for the first time 358 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:21.240 after you've had your first kid, because you've got the 359 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:24.920 postpartum and you know, you're you've probably been attached to 360 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:28.759 your infant nearly every second of the day until that 361 00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:30.799 day happens whenever you have to go back to work 362 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:33.680 and your maternity leaves over. But it's also good for 363 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:35.559 you and I I mean, I know for my wife 364 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:37.079 it was hard at first, but in the end of acting, 365 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:39.759 when once you find that balance, it's it's you know, 366 00:18:39.799 --> 00:18:42.119 it all works out. But yeah, I'll be up early 367 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:44.960 starting in June. And again I'm not I'm not sure 368 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:47.799 it's ever gonna be easy, but over time, I suppose 369 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:50.400 I'll get I'll get used to it, and uh yeah, 370 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:52.480 looking forward to it, but also gonna you know, gonna 371 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:54.400 be sad to move on from seven to ninety. But 372 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:56.400 we'll make the most of the time we have left, 373 00:18:56.440 --> 00:18:58.119 that's for sure, all right, coming up what I want 374 00:18:58.119 --> 00:18:59.599 to get to. On the other side, we talked yesterday 375 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:02.680 about a new addition to the Louisville roster, somebody we'd 376 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:07.240 never heard of, Mohammed Kamara, who is from the NBA 377 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:10.519 Academy Africa. I'll admit, and I talked about this yesterday. 378 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:12.079 I don't know anything about him. I just know that 379 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:14.319 he committed to Louisville yesterday, and that's the first time 380 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:17.000 I've heard of him. There's not the exact same situation 381 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:19.160 going on in Lexington, but there is a you know, 382 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:22.680 top thirty five ish recruit that is going to announce 383 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:26.920 his college decision, I believe this evening, and he's considering 384 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:29.119 Kentucky among some other schools. I won't lie and act 385 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:30.799 like I know a whole lot about like his recruitment 386 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:32.279 and where he's going to go, But this, to me, 387 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:34.319 I think will be a similar situation of what happened 388 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:36.880 with Louisville, to where you just kind of ended up 389 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:40.599 with somebody you'd never really heard about or knew much 390 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:43.119 about that ends up taking one of your final roster spots. 391 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:44.960 And I just think that's going to maybe be a 392 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:49.000 new norm moving forward, because there's a lot of moves. 393 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:51.160 It's really a game of musical chairs when you're building 394 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:53.440 your roster in the off season right now with the portal, 395 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:58.319 with you know, the high school recruits and guys that 396 00:19:58.440 --> 00:19:59.920 you know you're hope and come back, and then you' 397 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:02.640 got guys that maybe are testing the NBA process and 398 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:04.480 then you think they're gonna come back but they don't, 399 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:06.599 so you may end up with, Okay, here we are, 400 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:08.599 the dust is settled. We still have a couple of 401 00:20:08.599 --> 00:20:12.519