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Pay to Play: The NCAA’s Big Payout Era Begins

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The NCAA’s $2.8 billion settlement doesn’t just change the rules—it rewrites the entire playbook. Mike talks with Gabe Feldman, director of Tulane’s Sports Law Program, about what happens now that schools can pay athletes directly. They get into how the money will be split, why Olympic sports are suddenly on the chopping block, and whether this new system can survive Title IX scrutiny.

Produced by Corey Wara


Production Coordinator Ashley Khan


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0:00.0

It's Monday, August 4th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

0:07.4

It's the gist.

0:08.4

I'm Mike Peska.

0:09.8

In the first days of August, of course, put you in the mind of nothing so much as college football.

0:15.3

Wait, it does?

0:16.1

Yeah, they've been practicing for a while.

0:18.4

College football other than professional football,

0:21.6

is basically the glue that holds two-thirds of the nation together.

0:26.1

Not my third, not the Northeast.

0:28.3

But today on the show, I will be conducting an interview.

0:32.2

I do this from time to time with a leading expert in the field because there are many legal issues, issues of form, substance,

0:40.5

and rules concerning college football.

0:42.9

Once for amateurs, now admittedly for professionals.

0:47.8

That's the big part, admittedly.

0:49.4

So have you heard the stories of college football, the big ones?

0:53.4

The Florida Gators have recruited Olivier Rue, who's a 7-foot-9 guy who plays for the basketball team,

1:00.7

so he's already under scholarship on campus, to try to jump up and block field goals.

1:06.6

Here's a problem.

1:07.6

Olivier Rue has an 11-inch vertical jump, so it hasn't happened yet.

1:12.9

And apparently Dion Sanders, known for flair and rebelliousness, went on a screed against

1:21.1

players wearing biker shorts under their uniforms.

1:24.0

These are big college football stories as we buy the time before the traditional

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