419: Sports Economist Dr. David Berri

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🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

HEADLINES

MEMMEL: Like a beacon in the darkness, Chellsie Memmel came the closest she has ever come to announcing a comeback by saying she is kind of playing around and maybe training. We proceed to put her on 18 Olympic teams and give her all the world beam gold medals. Not sorry.
SIMONE: Simone spoke for the first time to communicate her nuanced thoughts on Olympic postponement, not having a dumbbell (ADRIA!), and ugh having to deal with USAG more
NEWLYMPICS: New Olympic dates have been announced. Spencer and Jessica break down what this means for meets and schedules, while taking different sides on Christine Brennan's editorial about this being disrespectful.

GAME TIME

How would a one-year delay have affected previous Olympic teams? We discuss what gymnasts would or wouldn’t have made Olympic teams if those games had been delayed a year.

GYMTERNET NEWS

COVID-19 fallout in Russia (featuring Khorkina and Valentina both being THE MOST), Tom Forster's questionable decisions, and [SIGH] the deal with Ashton...

INTERVIEW (1:23:09)

This week, Jessica chats with professor David Berri, an expert on sports economics, about COVID-19 and the NCAA, how much a gymnast is worth in actual dollars, and the realities of college athletes being allowed to profit from their likenesses.

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0:00.0	On BBC A
0:02.0	I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me
0:06.0	I'm pregnant
0:08.0	Dredge just go easy on pregnant women
0:10.0	I've been old my electricity that's all
0:12.0	don't think I should even be in here.
0:14.0	A new series of the Bafter Award winning time.
0:18.0	You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you
0:22.8	starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow Lawrence and Bella Ramsey time
0:27.8	watch on BBC I player so we're talking about the the image and likeness stuff, right?
0:33.6	Right.
0:34.6	So here's what I think is going to happen on that.
0:37.0	This is my thought process is, I think universities are going to start using this to recruit players.
0:44.0	So there's actually going to be people hired at universities to help athletes maximize this revenue.
0:51.0	And so you're going to do that to recruit the athlete.
0:54.7	You're gonna say, look, if you come to our program,
0:58.0	we have people on campus who are experts at marketing you
1:02.2	and we are gonna get you these deals.
1:04.7	So then the question is well what's happened to men's gymnastics?
1:08.8	You know there's hardly any programs left.
1:10.4	Okay this is what's happening.
1:12.0	Men's football and men's basketball are just a total beast.
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