NPDS - John Calipari joins on transfer rules, NIL, Super Leagues, tampering, March Madness expansion and more! (Episode 1339 Hour 2)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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John Calipari joins us this morning! And he tells it like it is on transfers, NIL, expansion, and more! (30:00) The Big Ten wants 28 teams in the College Football Playoff? What? (35:30) Let’s take a look at what’s going on at Middle Tennessee State University. No more alternate jerseys. Wow. They also have a plan for NIL and how players get that money. (44:00) Trey Hendrickson is still out for the Bengals. Not playing. No deal. Wants a trade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. Welcome back to our two of nothing personal on this Tuesday. And you know what Tuesday means?
0:39.9	It means that we have a guest. And this is a special Tuesday because up early and ready to go,
0:46.1	we have, you may know him as the head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks. You may know him as the
0:51.1	2015 inductee to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, or you may just know
0:56.1	him as coach.
0:56.9	John Caliperi is joining us.
0:59.0	How are you, John?
0:59.8	Thank you for joining us, coach.
1:01.1	David, thanks for having me.
1:03.2	So there's so much to talk about as we are approaching the season.
1:07.0	So many changes have taken place, and we are not going to get political unless we want to,
1:12.9	but we have to talk about money because it used to be that we could go on a show and just talk
1:17.5	about players and talk about picking roles with Red Halsman and Pat Riley.
1:21.7	But now the real talk of how to put an athletic department together starts with money,
1:28.5	like the professional ranks, frankly. So I was wondering how it is with you and with NIL, with all the changes
1:34.3	that have been made and your career obviously so long and storied. What would you say is the biggest
1:38.6	change from day one when you started coaching to today? Well, the biggest thing I'm battling, the biggest thing that I want to make sure I
1:48.7	stay on the right side of is my career, we've always been about being transformational,
1:56.9	helping families.
1:58.5	It wasn't just a player, it was a family and doing many draft picks and
2:05.4	lottery picks and all the other stuff, max contracts, transformational. I don't want this to become
2:12.4	transactional, which, all right, I'm paying a kid to play for me.
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