Welcome to the Audible.

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I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman.

Bruce Big News in our world this week, and I'm not talking about how Tom Brady is going to be your co-worker soon.

Or that, what I just see, Lou Mount Adis, your favorite, favorite, favorite, favorite pizza place coming to Columbus, Ohio next time you're out of Buckeye game. I was hoping you're going to say it's coming to Southern California. It doesn't do me really, it helps Bill Landis, and it doesn't really help. Yeah. I feel like you end up, both of us end up in Columbus at least once a year.

The NCAA issued new guidelines Monday to clarify, to try to get started on some sort of

crackdown of these booster collectives that we've been talking about for many months now

that are quite clearly

using NIL as an excuse to pay for play.

We were all in Scottsdale last week.

It was the talk of the town.

They're tired of the NCAA sitting on the sideline.

Gene Smith, the Ohio State AD, Rick George, the Colorado AD.

A lot of these people, they're fed up.

They want the NCAA enforcement to get off their butts and go bust some collectives.

And so they put out this memo, clarifying that collectives fit the definition of boosters and these third-party

memos?

What do you call them?

I don't know, release.

I mean, memos feel like they're from like 1979.

Well, a lot of things about the NSA, I feel like they're from 1979.

They did both.

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