Hour 1: Sign Here
The Paul Finebaum Show
ESPN Radio
3.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The pride, passion, and pageantry of college football lives here. |
| 0:09.7 | This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, Our One podcast. |
| 0:15.3 | This might be college football. |
| 0:18.7 | And welcome in. |
| 0:20.0 | It is national signing there. Remember when that day used to resonate, we all wake up early, put on ESPNU and see wherever our favorite players were going. Well, not anymore. We'll talk about it as we work through the hour. But it's all about what's happening now. And this is what it looks like in case you're still keeping track |
| 0:38.6 | USC in Oregon two big 10 teams at the top there comes Texas Notre Dame Alabama at 5 |
| 0:45.3 | Georgia and a bunch of other main lane school mainline schools up in the top element and how about story? This is a story getting everybody's attention. |
| 0:58.0 | Joey Aguilar gets a restraining order versus the NCAA. What does that mean? What exactly happened? |
| 1:03.9 | Did the judge just go ahead and say, go vols? We'll let it happen. Here is the NCAA statement. |
| 1:09.9 | We will continue to defend the NCAA's |
| 1:11.7 | eligibility rule against repeated attempts to rob high school students of the opportunity to |
| 1:18.0 | compete in college and experience the life-changing opportunities. Only college sports can create. |
| 1:22.8 | Only the NCAA could come up with something this senseless. The NCAA and its member schools are making changes to deliver more benefits to student athletes, |
| 1:31.3 | but the patchwork of the state laws and inconsistent conflicting court decisions |
| 1:36.3 | make partnering with Congress essential. |
| 1:39.3 | Only the NCAA would still be leaning on Congress when the door has been slammed in their little finger. |
| 1:45.3 | That's where we are right now. |
| 1:47.1 | So let's try to unpack what is happening in Knoxville. |
| 1:51.6 | Adam Sparks, now the legal editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel joining us. |
| 1:56.8 | Adam, good afternoon. |
| 1:57.7 | So update us on what we have missed since we have been |
| 2:01.4 | wandering around aimlessly this winter yeah signing days a little different these |
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