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Sam Webb, Mr. Irointraub on the other side.

You know, you wonder if there would be a market.

Sometimes the market corrects itself, right?

You know, you're from an NIL perspective.

You definitely need the NCAA.

The NCAA wants government intervention.

Maybe that will be a part of this.

But we are also looking for the circumstances to sort of have, be part of the course correction too, right, to have some of the stories kind of correct the course, like the stories of players entering the portal

and never exiting.

That story hasn't really been covered to the level that it should be.

Maybe that's a story that's covered in time, Ira.

Like over the court, maybe after five years, the story of how many players entered the portal that never come out.

Maybe that will be a deterrent.

Or maybe the story is we bring in our good friend, Mike Spaff, the story of Niko Iamaleva,

of how he turned down what would have been a raise.

And Ira, I told you, if he had just stayed quiet and negotiated this behind the scenes, he would have gotten more money.

Not that he would have deserved a raise over the what 1.8 that he was getting.

He probably would have gotten more money just for the convenience, to get rid of the inconvenience of having to deal with

the haggling just said just we don't want to deal with it they wouldn't have gotten four

but they would have given them more money but once it becomes a holdout and it becomes public

they forced Tennessee's hand to do the only thing that they could do,

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