Welcome to the Andy Staples Show.

Happy, whatever the reverse of NIL Eve is.

This is the day after college athletes could start making money.

And as we're recording this, it is the first day.

We're about 12 hours into college athletes being able to make money. I am seriously regretting,

not putting out, you're not at a barbecue, you're at a cookout t-shirts in 2013. I could have

made some dough. Now I'm realizing I just can't compete with Graham Mertz and his sweet logo or Spencer Rattler in his sweet logo, but it'll be fine. It'll be fine. To break all this down, because this is, I think this is more fun than anything else. But to break all this down, I'm bringing on one of my favorite people in the whole world. Bruce Feldman, my colleague at the athletic, you also know him from Fox Sports,

and Bruce obviously talks to tons of coaches, players, you name it. So he is very plugged in on all this

stuff. He's already got his NFTs ready to be auctioned off. So Bruce, are we doing highlights for your NFT?

Or are we going to do? Is it going to be like one of your sideline hits from a game at Fox Sports?

Yes, Andy. I think it's going to be one from when I performed, in quotes, with the Texas

marching band before I did. Yes, let's do it. That should be my go-to. I want one from the Apple Cup when it was snowing a couple years ago. That was my favorite. I just remember looking at every time I glanced up the TV, I'd be like, poor Bruce. Those games are fun, actually, I thought. Like, just because at that point, you're like, nobody expects you to have your, you know, for your hair not to be a mess or whatever.

So, yeah.

I kind of like that one especially just because, you know, honestly, I will take snow and snow and blizzard over like windy, Oklahoma and 38 degrees and 25 mile per hour winds any day.

I think oppressive heat would be bad too.

I've never been a sideliner reporter, but obviously I know you.

I talk to Cole Kublich a lot, and Cole and I are similarly built, if we want to put it that way.

I just can't imagine sweating through my shirt on national television like Cole has to do in those September games.

You know, I don't want to out him, but like our friend Dusty Dvorchek, who is in the booth, like, I forgot what game he did early in the year.

And you could, like, they went to the shot and it was like he had norm Peterson going like there and dusty's got himself

in good shape but i just think it was he was just roasting and i i assume like some of those booths may not

you know the best you may have is like a fan in there so yeah i would definitely be bruce pearl

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