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The Valenti Show

Has NIL Given College Athletes Too Much Power?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Mike brings up the news that Oklahoma State RB Ollie Gordon won't miss any time this season after getting arrested for a DUI on June 30th. This turns into a conversation about whether or not college athletes have too much power.

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0:00.0

Best press conference ever. Thank you, Kauai. And one note before we get into Rico's topic, if you miss the top of the show, Odyssey.com Rewind, I offered an olive branch. I just wondered if we could settle the debate

0:14.7

peacefully regarding the Tigers. Four in a row, six out of eight. All right, big picture,

0:19.8

14 out of first, seven out of the wild card.

0:23.6

Nothing changes for me unless it's a sustained run of

0:27.8

unforeseen baseball.

0:29.3

And last night's game, it just got us talking

0:32.0

and we had a stat for you. you can go listen to that I want to ask

0:35.4

RICO a question and I know where this is headed it's headed to a bad place I'm gonna be

0:40.8

mocked and made fun of and probably called a boomer.

0:43.2

But here we go.

0:43.8

We seriously like horse racing.

0:45.2

We really.

0:46.2

No, no, no, no.

0:48.2

That report about Ollie Gordon, who's, maybe your presumptive favorite to win the Heisman potential.

0:53.6

I mean, he's going to carry the ball five hundred times this year,

0:56.7

a zillion times.

0:58.1

So he gets a DUI.

1:00.8

Gundy comes out and brazenly is just like, no, you're not going to be seeing games and in fact I'll give him the ball 50 times and I was thinking about it.

1:10.0

NIL and and now it's wait a minute wait a minute ollie got in trouble well we're paying

1:16.3

him a million dollars literally if you go to sit that kid because he got a

1:22.0

DUI the first phone call that comes in is from the

1:25.9

booster who actually signed the check. No you're not. Like we have lost any

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