Extra Points is presented for the people by Caesar Sportsbook, the greatest sports betting app of all time.

Download it. It must be 21 years or older. Yes! Welcome extra points, listeners, and congratulations on making it through yet another week.

Good news, the weekend awaits with its enchanting promises of endless sports and free time, that ends up with you screaming silently at some jerk in the Costco parking lot instead. Or maybe I'm just projecting. Either way, we know how hard you work, and while we hope listening to all our shows makes that time go a little faster, we don't want that to feel like work in and of itself. So we've had our producers pick out their favorite bits and put them together in a half-hour super cut for you to sample. I know. I can't believe we have producers either. If you like something, check out the full episode of the next week, wherever you get your podcasts. In the meantime, thanks for supporting the network. And let me just say from the bottom of my heart as the co-founder that I sincerely hope your favorite team still loses to mine.

Enjoy the shows.

Starting off this best of, I am the guest this week on Trendy.

And I joined Toby Mergler on Wednesday discussing college football and if they should adopt the soccer method of promotion and relegation.

As I think probably most of you know who are listening to me, soccer is one of my things

that I love the most. I host Covered in Glory here on the network. And the thing that makes

soccer the most glorious, organized sport in all of the professions is promotion and relegation.

And if you look at the United States landscape, there is only one organization that can actually

do promotion and relegation.

The enterprise values of these franchisers are wildly too high.

The infrastructure has been in place for 100 years.

There's no way the NFL, the NBA,

MLB, NHL, none of those are ever doing promotion or relegation because it would require the people

that are the haves to vote against their own interest. Like, you're not getting 24 owners

who currently own $5 billion teams to suddenly have, you know, relegation in the NBA.

Like, it's just not happening. But college, Eddie, college is the one place. Not only it could

happen, it should happen. So when you hear me say all those words in that order, Eddie,

as a massive college sports fan, do you immediately bristle at it? You say, oh, that's stupid. It'll never happen. Or is this something like the NBA tourney where we're going to have to bring it up once every six months for 15 years? And then eventually maybe somebody will listen and it'll be the best thing to ever happen to the sport. The only reason why, I mean, I like the idea of relegation and theory, but the only reason why I'm against it right now for college football is because the amount of changes college football is going through currently. And like maybe we had this conversation X amount of years ago when it was still the BCS and it was still the same old, same old winning and there was no NIL and the conferences that we, you know, knew for years and years and years were still in place. But like we're losing conferences. It's going to end up being more of like an NFL style, probably like just two giant conferences eventually. It'll be the SEC and the Big Ten. Buddy, you're making my point for me. But in a time of turmoil, in a time of turmoil, this is the exact time to do it because you're right, we are heading to the Big Ten in the SEC, like AFC, NFC, NFC. But so many teams are getting left out right now, which is why if you try to force a vote, I guess the SEC might stand against it. But otherwise, like, it should be for like, let's put the other sports aside. Let's put basketball aside, every other college

sports aside. Shouldn't it just be four 16 team conferences that each have two divisions

and then each division head plays one, you know, plays a conference championship and all four

...