Welcome back to the latest condition of Good Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Bruce Feldman joined as almost always by my colleague from the Athletic

Stuart Mandel. We appreciate our buddy Max Olson for filling in last week.

Stu you couldn't be couldn't join us on the podcast last week but you have a... I think I had a valid reason yeah not to go all dark on the

podcast but my mom passed away last Monday, April 29th.

So I was back in Cincinnati for about eight or nine days.

Just coming back to work now,

obviously it was shocking, sad, but also a lot of joy that's common in the last week from here,

seeing all her friends, seeing all my friends,

my friends, family, reminiscing, going through her stuff,

you know, pretty much every emotion, Bruce,

every emotion you can experience, I've experienced in the last nine or ten days.

But as people always say, like, I've experienced in the last nine or ten days.

But as people always say, like, one of the things that helps

is a return to normalcy.

So my mind was definitely not in a college football

space for a while there, but I'm catching up now. I'm glad to be back.

And as I kind of got back online in the last couple of days, one of the first things that caught my attention. Is Brian Kelly, think it's 2013 or 2021, maybe,

with some of his comments about NIL.

Yeah, it definitely caught, got some traction and I think, I don't know, if it was a polarizing kind of comment, how it landed, To me it's hard to,

I mean I'm trying to say it's like if you are the LSU coach,

did it seem like it was taken out of context or, I don't know, it was one of those...

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