Saving College Sports
Boomer & Gio
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | on Friday and I was looking forward to this I wanted to hear what some of the people had to say |
| 0:04.8 | that was a part of it. President Trump put together a commission to save college sports and he had |
| 0:11.5 | all these people involved, the NCAA head by Charlie Baker, the former governor of Massachusetts. |
| 0:17.1 | He was a Republican governor. And I think I told you this. I interviewed him when he first got the job to become president and CEO of the NCAA. |
| 0:24.5 | And the reason they put him in there is because he's a political guy and he can get both sides to put all of this together. |
| 0:32.3 | And he, Randy Levine, Nick Saban, people like this were all a part of this commission on Friday. And I'm sitting here, we're in the middle of bombing the crap out of Iran. And you have this going on as if, like, nothing's, nothing's happening in the world. Well, yeah, I mean, you do have to multitask, I think, when you're at that level. But there was also, like, Miami FC had visited the White House where all this stuff was going on. |
| 0:57.1 | And, you know, Nick Saban actually gave a pretty good, he had a good read on things and talking about things. |
| 1:03.5 | And then right after he spoke, you remember the running back Trent Richardson? |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, he was drafted by the Browns and he sucked. |
| 1:12.5 | But he played for Alabama. Yeah. And pre-NIL. Yeah, he was drafted by the Browns and he sucked. But he played for Alabama. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.8 | And pre-NIL. |
| 1:15.6 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:21.1 | And he came out and said, it's interesting listening to Nick Sabin saying what he's saying because they gave me $75,000 to go to Alabama and gave me ten thousand dollars a month |
| 1:27.7 | Trent richardson saying that's what trent richardson said yeah i mean we all knew that that |
| 1:32.7 | stuff was happening but under the table it's not a shocker yeah well the reason you know and |
| 1:38.5 | obviously the ncala is essentially feckless in all of this, and they own the rights to college basketball. |
| 1:47.3 | That's basically what they have. |
| 1:48.4 | That's where they make most of their money. |
| 1:50.4 | It's really the commissioners of the respective big four conferences, you know, or five, |
| 1:56.7 | if you want to count the big east, that have to come up with something that that's workable for |
| 2:01.8 | everybody as opposed to having it being the wild wild west and charlie baker finally got all the |
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