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The Valenti Show

Hearing From The People On Money In College Sports

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The guys take your calls and read your ticket texts on the college sports topic.

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0:00.0

All right, checking on the ticket text briefly.

0:01.9

We'll get the prop back casino.

0:03.6

We'll turn our attention to the Lions at 3 o'clock. Kenny, what do you got, buddy? More money in college sports? Great. That's just what we need. This sucks. It's interesting, though, is like, Kenny, I don't know what the ratio is on ticket text. People calling in seem unbothered. That's fine. I don't expect people to agree.

0:23.6

But it's just... take a text. People calling in seem unbothered. That's fine. I don't expect people to agree.

0:24.0

But it's just college was distinctly different, and that is, it's gone. And all it's going to be is a way worse version of professional sports. That's the problem. The fast money ain't good money.

0:37.1

Good way of putting it.

0:38.7

And the ratio, you asked about how many people it kind of is on the ticket text.

0:42.5

Most of the people are saying that they hate this and more money in college sports is only going to ruin it even quicker.

0:47.9

Yeah, because again, I mean, look, we all love the NFL, right?

0:51.6

College football from a product standpoint is nowhere close to the NFL.

0:56.0

In fact, it's garbage if you stack it up.

0:58.4

But here's the difference.

1:00.2

College football was unique.

1:01.6

It was different.

1:02.7

It was volatile.

1:04.1

All they're doing is homogenizing it to where it is the USFL comparative to the NFL.

1:10.4

Why?

1:13.6

Money. That doesn't serve the product.

1:20.4

This is just another dagger to college sports. Money has been wrecking the college sports landscape for me for a while now. I think the last five years. Would you say that's fair

1:24.8

Rico? That COVID basically made people even more

1:27.5

desperate. And you've ended up in a four to five years span. It's been a hurricane in college.

1:34.3

No, I think COVID is a good point of delineation where you can say before COVID and after

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