Bonus: Jay Bilas on March Madness & NCAA's Student-Athlete problem

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🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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ESPN's Jay Bilas talks to Chuck about college basketball, the problem with the NCAA's student-athlete rules, and why the bracket ranking was so problematic in 2018.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the priest.
0:03.6	Meet the priest.
0:05.0	The priest.
0:06.0	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:11.8	If you haven't already heard, it's kind of a big college basketball tournament that's
0:15.6	about to start.
0:17.0	So my guest today is Jay Billis.
0:18.5	He's an analyst for ESPN and CBS Sports.
0:22.4	March Madness, of course, is already kicked off.
0:25.5	Many of you already filled out brackets, and we're going to talk—maybe I'll talk a tiny
0:29.5	bit about the actual on the court with Jay a little bit.
0:32.6	But Billis has been just as well-known of late for taking a pretty hard line position when
0:38.7	it comes to the world of college sports, particularly college athletes, and whether they should
0:43.0	be paid.
0:44.0	He's been an outspoken critic of the NCAA, and it looks like this news, supposed to scandal,
0:49.8	and we'll put that in quotes.
0:51.7	The college basketball is facing now.
0:53.8	Might actually be the breaking point, and I feel like Jay Billis has been probably
0:59.2	as articulate about this issue as anybody there is.
1:02.9	Mr. Billis, welcome to 1947.
1:04.9	Great to be with you, Chuck.
1:05.9	I'm a longtime fan of yours, and I'm also a fellow Dodger fan.
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