All right, it's Matt Jones show episode five and, you know, everybody listening.

Kentucky fans, Louisville fans, college sports fans, you know that the college sports environment is changing by the minute.

And Ross Dellinger might be the best person, might be, he is the best person at knowing what's happening in the national landscape of college sports.

I'm not sure there's any story that breaks Ross that you're not the first one to have said it.

Thank you very much for coming on and sort of catching us up on this.

Yeah, no problem, Matt.

It's going to be on.

So, Ross, let's just start with this.

Going into the 2025 college football season, where would you say college athletics is going into, would you say this will be like the most tumultuous change in a year of all time?

Yeah, yeah, probably so.

And we've, that's saying a lot because we've certainly had a

lot of changes the last few years. You know, I like to often say that college sports doesn't run or jog,

but it crawls. But we've been moving a little faster lately.

And the changes have come much quicker than they have in the past.

When you look at, you know, they're all, most of these changes are are all driven by athlete groups, advocacy groups, by state lawmakers,

and by court rulings.

And they're all based around providing athletes with more benefits in compensation.

And the biggest one yet, obviously, has been this onset of Rev Share that will start,

expected to start at least on July 1.

So July 1st, as I understand it, and if anything I say here is wrong, please correct me.

$20.5 million each university, they can, but they don't have to do. Am I correct about that?

That's right. It's kind of permitted. The revs share is permitted, but it's not required.

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