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My name is Beaumani Jones.

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Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. He only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. We have got Stephen Godfrey with us. And I have to say this because normally I have a way intro this on Wednesdays, a way intro this on Thursdays. And we thought originally this is going to go on Thursday. But then that boy, Lane Kippen popped up got got a little too hot for TV, and that's so if we're going to talk about, like, you know,

the seemingly impending financial doom of college sports. We'll get to that, but first,

Lane, all right, so, and this, this happened, I'm not making this about me, but I did the thing

on Trinidad Chamble's

for Vanity Fair. I had no idea that at the same time, there was Elaine Kiffin article in the hopper.

Not that they owed me this information or anything like that, but I had absolutely no idea.

And then I found out it was happening because Elaine posted pictures online from the photo shoot.

And I'm like, oh, this will be interesting.

And overall, I got to tell you, I read the article.

I think Chris Smith was the author.

I read the article.

I thought the article was interesting, though interesting in the way that Lane Kiffin

keeps getting people to believe that he ain't that bad a guy.

Right.

Like, and not even that, because he might not be, I came away from reporting on the Chamberl's story without talking to Lane, being like, oh, he's not as bad a guy as I thought he was. But he always makes people think he's just around the corner from some major breakthrough, right? He has always turned over some new leaf, even if the reason you're there is because

you don't feel, you feel like you got fooled one more time, but he always gets people on it.

But what has been fascinating to me about this one is the quote that got everybody riled up,

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