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That SEC Football Podcast

Revenue-Sharing Era Going To Be The Death of "Everything Schools"? Adam Sparks interview!

That SEC Football Podcast

Michael Bratton/SEC Mike

Football, Sports, Games, Sports News, Leisure, News

51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Adam Sparks of the Knoxville News Sentinel joins the show to discuss the dilemma facing SEC programs in the revenue-sharing era: Can every sport be good? SEC schools facing dilemma: Can every sport be good in the revenue-sharing era? (1:15), Under the table money returning? (6:15), how will revenue-sharing money be spent? (9:30), thoughts on new Tennessee QB Joey Aguilar (13:15), could this be Josh Heupel’s defining season at Tennessee? (16:15), Tennessee unranked in preseason? (20:20)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Pleased to be joined by Adam Sparks from the Knoxville News Sentinel.

0:12.7

He's a Heisman Trophy voter and his wife loves the show.

0:16.2

Adam, thanks for coming on.

0:18.0

It's good to be on.

0:19.0

Yeah, this is the I made it moment once my wife watches this.

0:24.0

This is, she's a religious watcher.

0:26.9

I do admit I watch a good deal, but she's the fan and the family for sure.

0:32.7

She's more of a cousin Shane, you know, but she loves both of you guys.

0:39.4

And I obviously watch too, especially during the season.

0:42.3

I love the recaps of the games.

0:45.0

They sort of off-the-wall recaps.

0:47.7

Well, I'll be honest, Adam.

0:48.8

That used to hurt more when fans were like, yeah, this is Cousin Shane shows what it really is.

0:52.9

That's why we're tuning in.

0:53.9

But I got over that years ago.

0:55.8

So I've used to hear that.

0:57.3

That's great to hear.

0:58.7

But, you know, obviously this is a time of the calendar where there's not much going on,

1:03.4

but they have somehow managed to keep college football in the news for seemingly 12 months this year.

1:09.9

And the big thing that everybody's got their eye on

1:12.4

and it even goes over a lot of fans it goes over my head to be quite honest with you Adam is

1:17.2

you know the revenue sharing and everything and you did a really good article recently the

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