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I got to tell you, I saw a headline in the athletic this morning.

I just smiled and laughed.

The headline in the athletic.

Three seasons ago, college basketball had no juice, no household names, and now it's better

than ever, and we have the NIL to thank.

Here, here, it's what I've been preaching.

College sports, it's different now.

I think it's better. You may argue it's not, but what it really is, it's different.

And I'm watching this tournament. There's like seven freshmen that are, it's college basketball now is such a global sport because the NIL money,

you can go by 20 kids, 30 kids from Europe because our economy is so much bigger than Europe.

So we're, this sport, I mean, Rick Petino told us a month ago, there's no valor in complaining.

Adapt or die. And there's three big winners in the NIL transfer portal era.

Number one is the Big Ten. There's a lot of money at the Michigan's and Michigan States,

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