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Let's start with college football.

I've heard from so many, even of my friends, let's say, at college football. I've, I've heard from so many, even of my friends, let's say at college football

system is broken. It is broken. College athletics is broken. It's broken. And look, I have been someone who has said, and I will continue to say,

that many of the businesses which have gone or will go out of business because of the

pandemic, the pandemic didn't cause them to go out of business.

It just sped up the process of it.

Sped up the process of it. Sped up the process of it.

And I think that's what's happened with college football and what will happen with college athletics, but not in the way in which many of you and many of my media brethren thought.

See, it's fascinating.

When I hear the commissioner of the Big 12 talk about trying to play because, among other

reasons, the players themselves want to play,

you start to get a completely different sense of how the players felt like they're being treated.

Then you read that the Big 12 returning to play,

this from Bruce Feldman,

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