Hour 2: Sparking Conversation
The Paul Finebaum Show
ESPN Radio
3.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 40 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 2 podcast. |
| 0:15.3 | This might be college football. |
| 0:17.8 | Second hour is live. |
| 0:19.1 | We appreciate you being here on a Friday afternoon good afternoon and |
| 0:22.2 | welcome if you're just joining us we have a number of interesting stories today that we are |
| 0:26.2 | looking into and how about this one from Knoxville Danny white the AD says Tennessee |
| 0:31.3 | won't sheet in NIL like other schools in the portal Adam sparks with the story |
| 0:37.2 | that headline needs some |
| 0:39.9 | explanation. Adam, always great to hear from you. I, and I think many others, are eager to find out |
| 0:47.0 | what exactly is Danny White talking about here. Good afternoon. Good to be on, Paul. Yeah, |
| 0:53.2 | Danny's complaint specifically is about how he says he believes that NIL money is being offered in the portal. |
| 1:01.6 | There's a lot of ways to cheat in the portal in NIL, but specifically he says that a lot of schools are promising money that they can't guarantee. |
| 1:12.7 | What that means is schools can offer money in revenue sharing, |
| 1:18.2 | but they're not allowed under the rules to guarantee a certain amount of third-party money. |
| 1:22.9 | That's supposed to be done by third parties, by collectives and so on. |
| 1:26.8 | So that's his first complaint. |
| 1:28.1 | Number two, he thinks that schools are offering money to players in the portal |
| 1:34.6 | that they have no intention of submitting to the clearinghouse. |
| 1:38.5 | If NIL deal is over $600, the rule is you're supposed to submit it to NIL Go, which is the NIL Clearing House. |
| 1:46.6 | And if it's a legit, if it's legit name image and likeness, you know, it's supposed to go through. |
| 1:54.3 | Any corporate deals you do, like any ads, commercials and player do with like a corporation, those go through easily. |
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