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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. We are rolling through the Thursday edition talking about a lot of different stories. I'm going to unpack them all for those of you maybe waking up on the West Coast. We have got the final four. Obviously that is taking place on Saturday. Santa Clay is trying to come to town here in early April. Happy April Fools Day. Be careful on the internet today.

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All right. As we finished the second hour there, I'm talking about the Supreme Court hearing a case involving whether athletes are being having their antitrust rights violated by the way that they are compensated in order to play sports.

And you were talking off the air after I finished this segment. It's really very complicated and the the underlying story here of should athletes be paid or not.

Everybody wants to argue yes or no to a question that has like 10 different sub parts. And I think the most complicated part of it is most athletes are being compensated more than their talents would reflect that they are.

On a marketplace by which I mean if you were just saying should we have a track team or not the answer would be no because a track team would lose money at virtually every university.

If you were saying should we have a men's or women's soccer team the answer at most universities would be no because those sports would lose money at a university.

So anybody that is getting a scholarship and you could say swimming and diving you could say it for lacrosse you could say it for tennis you could say it for virtually every sport other than football and men's basketball.

Because even in women's basketball they lose money hand over fist everywhere except for a couple of exceptions maybe the university of Tennessee which has a huge women's basketball fan base and you con which has had a traditionally huge women's basketball fan base as well.

Everybody else loses money hand over fist.

So those athletes are actually being compensated well in excess for what their overall value would be on an open marketplace.

The guys who are not being paid fairly are football players and men's basketball players who are being compensated underneath what their actual value would be because fans show up and often those sports make money.

Now the challenge is the money that those men make for the most part is used to pay other athletes their scholarship costs and fund the athletic department that otherwise would not justify it.

So the challenge that you have is you have some people saying yay capitalism and other people saying socialism is the matter here is is the way this is being run and let me explain this to you in a way that is maybe a little bit simpler.

Effectively the money that men's basketball players and football players make is being redistributed to all of the other athletes in the athletic department in the way of scholarships and allowing their sports to even exist.

And so if you were running. Athletic departments as if they were just businesses and the only way you could justify running those businesses was if they made money then every college in America would only have two sports they would have football and they would have men's basketball.

Okay. So there isn't a fundamental fair marketplace here because these are theoretically nonprofits at educational institutions now let me also add this the other complicating factor and the NCAA has has been dealing with this for a long time but the courts being involved in the case being argued in front of the Supreme Court is also a big storyline.

The other complicating factor is whatever you give to a male athlete total scholarship numbers cost of attendance airplane flights whatever you give to a football or men's basketball player or any other male athlete.

The same thing has to be given to women's athletes under title nine even though those women do not have the same market value as a football player or men's basketball player would be.

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