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We had the Dion tax in college football this past year.

They got the Caitlin Clark tax in the WNBA.

I guess this concept is pretty universal.

In the modern age of technology, you learn that, hey, free speech is a great thing.

Technology means a lot of people can hear a lot of different voices.

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, terrible.

You got to take the good with the bad, I guess.

We took it with Dion Sanders.

Do you remember how many people started talking about college football, who you knew good and well could barely spell college football?

They couldn't tell you the mascot of Arizona State, but all of a sudden they knew what was best for college football and how Dion Sanders was going to revolutionize it.

And you found yourself, you can hear me right now. I got my hands over my face. You found yourself in this weird situation because you want to defend Dion. Like if you're like me, I can tell you the situation I was in. I like Dion. Got no problem with him. I think he's done really good things. I still do at Colorado. And then he starts to garner the kind of attention that transcends the sport.

So then people from the outside come in.

And instead of just speaking reasonably about Dion and saying, hey, he's got Colorado in conversations.

They normally aren't.

They got a long way to go.

He's trying to do some very radical things in terms of talent acquisition, you know, basically just measured, logical takes. You got someone who comes in from left field saying, Dion's going to win the Big 12. Well, then you have to fight against that, because obviously they weren't going to win the big 12. And then you get labeled a Dion Hater when you're still speaking the obvious, which is, no, he's not close. They're not close to winning the Big 12.

Will you just hate Dion?

No, I have functioning eyeballs, man. I just see. By the way, who are you? Where did you come from? So, yeah, you guys have fun with that in the WMBA. We got plenty to discuss over here on our own in our little backyard of college football. Hey, it's a loaded mailbag. It's the Lakeick Extra podcast.

I do this version once a week.

It's all mailback.

It's just you submitting questions and me trying to give you the best answers I can. A lot of it's college football. Some of it's not college football. We'll get it started here. Robert from Fort Wright, Kentucky. Why is it a big deal for teams to play two or three times? We've already had years where teams played twice and it was great in my opinion. The committee won't let conference matchups be first round games

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