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Yeah, we do it here. This is the Lake Kick Extra podcast. I'm Josh Pate. And if you will do one thing, subscribe to this podcast, I'll keep it free for you forever. And I will waste no further time. We will dive right in. Check. Did you subscribe? Did you go check if you subscribe? Okay, you're subscribed. Good. Let's dive into today's mailbag. I wanted to get to our buddy Chris here. He's talking about what everyone's been talking about, but I get the sense that, number one, a lot of you are very confused about lawsuits and about NIL and about the future of collective bargaining in college sports. And you really just want to watch the game on the field in

the fall hey secret here don't tell my employer but i do too i hate talking about this so what i

want to do is i wanted to hit this because chris asked everything that needed to be asked and i want

to break this down on sort of a macro level of here's the stuff you don't need to

waste your time on.

Here's the main thing.

Like what's the main thing?

So Chris said when this new college football world happens where employees collectively

bargain all that, a couple of questions, will recruiting still be a thing?

Will being a student still be a thing? Will we see SEC and

Big Ten bottom teams like Vandy or Rutgers get kicked out and leave? All right. So I could do

two hours on this, but I'm not a psychopath, so I'm not going to do two hours on this. So a lot of

you are following this closely. Infinitely more of you just know it's going on, but you don't really care. You just want someone to tell you, hey, when it's over, you know, dust settles. Let me know where college athletics are. So here's the very, very, very quick version of what you should actually care about. Right now, obviously, there's a lot of upheaval and no one knows what the future of

anything is. And that's been the case for several years now. There are a couple of things going on.

Number one, you've got the NCAA being threatened by their own member institutions because those

member institutions are like, hey, you guys wrote these rules, but you keep changing the rules,

and then, you know, we do something because we don't know what the rules are any given day,

and you're overreaching. So you need to get back in your place. And then the NCAA is like, well,

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