Is a college football SUPER LEAGUE coming!?; When do MLB teams press the panic button!?; Is Sacramento trying to steal the Athletics? (Episode 1025)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘super league’ as in college football as in promotion as relegation as in no more conferences. That’s what’s happening now. We have leaders of the new college world trying to do things to fundamentally change college sports. Is a super league even able to happen? Even college basketball is looking for more alternatives. Fox is launching its own NIT alternative. (12:50) Let’s talk about when to hit the panic button in baseball. Steve Cohen spoke with CNBC about the slow start, about spending money. What about the Marlins? (25:00) We still have to talk about LIV and PGA. The drama continues. The merger has yet to happen. And now the players are starting to get upset. (33:30) Review: About Time. (38:10) Let me discuss Larry Lucchino and his life, and legacy. (41:01) NPPOD. (42:40) Another update on the Oakland Athletics. The team reportedly met with Sacramento officials about playing there for the next 3 seasons. Or is Sacramento trying to leverage a moment? (50:20) Let’s end the show with some settlement talk. Pat Fitzgerald filed a huge lawsuit against Northwestern over wrongful termination. Northwestern wanted it to go away… a judge has said not so fast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.2	2024 and John Skipper is the man of the moment.
0:58.6	For those of you who listen to the sporting class there's another episode coming out tomorrow, April 5th.
1:05.7	John Skipper has been talking for months
1:09.0	about his view that college football has a problem and he's got the solution.
1:15.0	And it's a Super League, of course including North Carolina.
1:19.0	And we debated a little bit, and I've thought about Super Leagues.
1:24.0	I even did a show with Mike Ryan and Chris Whittingham about relegation and promotion and
1:29.5	what that would look like in North American sports.
1:32.3	And we concluded quite definitively that it would be absolutely impossible to do promotion and relegation because of the cost of teams, because of TV deals, because you cannot subject a team
1:46.9	to that sort of revenue loss in North America,
1:50.5	not going to have.
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