Collectives 1, NCAA 0
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The House settlement was supposed to create a clear line between “legitimate” NIL deals and so-called “pay for play” from NIL collectives. It took three weeks for the NCAA to make a major concession. Front Office Sports reporter Amanda Christovich joins Alex for a quick subscriber episode explaining how the House settlement lawyers and the NCAA are already changing the way college football’s new economy will work. The big winner? Collectives, who may have prevented their own obsolescence. And the big question: How much different is the outside NIL world now than it was a few months ago?
Producer: Anthony Vito
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| 0:00.0 | We're coming, and we ain't backing down. |
| 0:01.8 | We don't need a bunch of cats in here. |
| 0:03.4 | Looking in the mirror. |
| 0:04.5 | Everybody just do your job. You understand that? Hey, were you shut up? I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today. Guys being dudes. And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man. Ah, fuck it. Thank you, Lee. It's a special bonus episode of Split Zone Duo. So you might have noticed that in the past few days, there have been a lot of kind of legal machinations in the world of the house settlement between collectives and the lawyers who have worked on the settlement, both for the athlete, plaintiffs, and the NCAA. And if you're like me, even if you follow this stuff pretty closely, |
| 0:39.2 | maybe you've been pretty confused about what's been happening |
| 0:41.6 | just in this first month of this new economic order in college sports. |
| 0:46.0 | But someone who I don't think is confused by it, |
| 0:48.3 | because she's covered it in a lot of detail for front office sports, |
| 0:51.8 | where she is a sports business reporter, |
| 0:53.8 | is Amanda Christovich, who |
| 0:55.3 | covers the health settlement and the business of college sports and this entire new world that |
| 1:00.6 | we're living in, in a ton of detail, in as much detail as pretty much anyone. |
| 1:04.3 | Amanda is nice enough to join us for our subscribers right now from a hallway at Big Ten Media |
| 1:09.5 | Days in Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon. So if you |
| 1:13.2 | hear a little bit of humdrum, that's the sound of Midwestern football talking season going on. Amanda, |
| 1:17.9 | thank you for coming on. How are you? I'm doing well. Thank you so much for inviting me on to the show. |
| 1:23.5 | I was going to say there is some West Coast humdrum here, too, because UCLA and USC are here today. |
| 1:29.5 | So, you know, Big Ten in Las Vegas, coast to coast conference, it's a new universe, right? |
| 1:34.9 | Does it feel Big Ten at all in Las Vegas? |
| 1:38.7 | I have to ask. |
| 1:40.0 | I would say it feels Big Ten to the extent that we are in a large convention center that could be literally anywhere in the country. |
| 1:50.8 | And so because there are Big Ten folks here and there's Big Ten paraphernalia, it feels Big Ten. |
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