Paul Finebaum on College Football Chaos

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🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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As the college football season starts, the PAC-12, ACC, and Big Ten announced a new alliance. The purpose of the teamup is unclear...but no doubt is influenced by power and money, and the looming specter of the Southeastern Conference in the college football sphere. EPN’s Paul Finebaum walks us through the implications of the changes off the field, and who might dominate on the field. Then, former NBA champion J.R. Smith is now a member of the North Carolina A&T State golf team, so current student East L. Dockery shares reporting on Smith’s next act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	ESPN Daily is presented by Goodyear, helping you discover the road ahead.
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0:10.4	There's no signed contract. There's an agreement among three gentlemen, and there is a commitment
0:15.5	from 41 presidents and chancellors and 41 athletic directors to do what we say we're going to do.
0:22.5	If there's any lack of specificity in the press release, it's because we want to make sure
0:28.3	we could deliver 100% of what we promised. So we're aligned in how we want to approach this,
0:34.0	but there's no contract. There's no signed document and that doesn't need to be.
0:45.3	That is PAC 12 Commissioner George Kleofkoff, doing something no lawyer would advise when it comes to a critical, ostensibly life-changing agreement. Forgo paperwork entirely. But despite its lack of signatories or specificity, the keys to this new alliance between
0:57.0	the Pact 12, the Big Ten, and the ACC are obvious.
1:02.0	Money, power, and respect.
1:06.0	So today, with the college football season almost upon us. We measure the sports most recent earthquake
1:12.2	and brace ourselves for the aftershocks to come.
1:18.2	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Friday, August 27th.
1:22.4	This is ESPN Daily.
1:27.0	I hear you, Pablo.
1:28.8	Awesome. There we go.
1:31.0	So Paul Feinbaum, we're going to talk about actual football in a second here, but I want to
1:35.1	begin by talking about like the risk board of college football, the map that is continually
1:41.9	getting redrawn, or at least there are gestures that
1:45.4	indicate it's about to be redrawn. So when you were watching that press conference this week, Paul,
1:51.5	the press conference with the commissioners of the PAC 12 and the ACC and the Big 10,
1:55.4	all making this announcement about an alliance. What was going through your mind?
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