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The Valenti Show

Taking Your Calls On NIL In High School

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The people chime in on the absurdity of there now being NIL for high school athletes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right. Let's get to the people.

0:02.5

Kind of a, I don't want to call it breaking news. It's more of a community news thing.

0:07.9

We talked to Eric Scuba earlier because of the J-RAM deal in Cleveland.

0:12.2

We got into Ginger Jesus making a Super Bowl and other things that we didn't think we'd live to see.

0:17.6

But the MHSAA has approved NIL for high schools. I leave it to you. I'm not going

0:26.8

to feign outrage. I could say something's a bad idea or it's stupid. It doesn't impact me.

0:33.2

But if I were a coach, if I'm an administrator, or if I'm a parent, I just, it feels like we have,

0:42.7

we are redefining the bottom of the chili pot with every decision as it pertains to youth sports,

0:49.4

college down.

0:50.6

So you tell us.

0:52.4

We'll go to Derek 971. Derek, how you doing, buddy?

0:56.8

Hey, guys. All right. So I come with an optimistic take on this thing. Okay. So high school football

1:03.5

coach in Plymouth Canton, counselor, yada yada. So, I mean, this whole thing was inevitable, right?

1:09.9

This was going to happen.

1:11.3

And here's my optimistic spin on this thing.

1:13.5

Okay, so we lose kids to private schools all day, every day, all our best kids from our community.

1:18.3

Not all our best, many of our best.

1:20.2

Now, if a community really wants to buy in to their school sports programs, you know,

1:26.3

who's to say that Cadillac of Plymouth can't sponsor little Jimmy and, you know, throw him a quick 10 Gs a year to be doing commercials for him. And now we keep that kid in Plymouth, and he doesn't go to C.C. You know, just little things like that give me a little hope with this that it's not just going to ruin everything. All right.

1:45.2

So, no, question mark.

1:46.6

No, but Derek, you know what?

1:48.1

Point proof.

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