More Of How Money Has Engulfed College Sports
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, let's get to the people. I just wanted to start with something non-lines because we've done so much of it. |
| 0:05.0 | We're going to do more of it later. Every reality is you're driving around. You feel the same way. Just go play the damn game. What are we going to do here? |
| 0:11.7 | Thank God it's Thursday and not Sunday. |
| 0:13.4 | Correct. |
| 0:14.6 | So we're talking about, look, Michigan bombed Auburn by 40. |
| 0:18.0 | They look incredible. |
| 0:19.0 | But then you get into the meat and potatoes at a tournament they're in. |
| 0:21.9 | It's not even about if you win. |
| 0:23.9 | You've got to win by how much. And teams who win, get left behind. And in the end, it's a pay-to-play tournament. So, look, I'm not bent out of shape about the bonus structure. But I do wonder. No, no, here is the difference between this tournament and every other tournament. Money goes straight to the players. Doesn't go to the school. School could get the money. It should go to the players. I'm tired. You know what? Here, I don't care. It's the airing of the grievances. Tomorrow I'll air all the reasons I'm thankful in life. Today, just things I want to break a bat over their skull. You know what, F these schools. |
| 0:56.9 | I've had enough of all these schools getting all this money and then crying poor. STFU, the players do deserve the money. I'm tired of this. And this is it. Like normally if you win, the money goes to the school, school then divvies it out to go to the athletic department. It can go to the coach. It can go to the coaching staff. And the players |
| 1:11.3 | can get a little taste. Now, this is all the players money. This is there. So yeah, winner tonight, |
| 1:15.9 | 67,000 loser gets about 33. My whole point, I just want to add to this is guys, like for instance, I don't, RICO, |
| 1:22.4 | I would lean on you a little bit more for basketball, but I mean, you have rotational players |
| 1:31.2 | at major schools making almost a half million dollars, just rotation guys, not starters. |
| 1:37.6 | You know, in the end, how much is enough? |
| 1:44.5 | See, this is where I do think we've hit a point where... |
| 1:47.3 | No, no. |
| 1:50.7 | Because, Mike, it has moved at brake-like speed. |
| 1:52.0 | Going back in the time, I think, like Tyson Walker, when he got to Michigan State, I want to say it was like about $70,000 in a car. |
| 1:57.2 | And now that's peanuts. |
| 2:06.1 | That's what, right. |
| 2:08.6 | And that's my point. |
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