Welcome to Andy Staples on three and boy do we have a matchup for you in one corner

the NCAA in the other corner the University of Tennessee this one is scheduled

for 10 rounds I'm doing it like a boxing match I should be doing it more like a wrestling match this bout is scheduled for 10 rounds. I'm doing it like a boxing match.

I should be doing it more like a wrestling match.

This bout is scheduled for one fall.

Entering the ring to my right.

Tennessee Chancellor Donda Plowman.

Entering the ring to my left NCAA President Charlie Baker.

Wow.

Who to thunk that the NCAA's decision to enforce NIL rules that don't

really square with reality would cause so many problems. But yes, here they are right now.

So let's start on Tuesday afternoon. All the wheels were in motion for this and have been for a while.

Keep that in mind.

Keep in mind that NCAA's been looking into Tennessee for a while.

Tennessee has obviously known this for a while.

So all of this stuff is not as off the cuff as it might seem all coming out at once on Tuesday. But this has been a

collision that has been set up for a while, and it could be a very, very impactful collision,

because I don't know that it's just going to be Tennessee when the dust

settles. This is the NCAA potentially versus a lot of its schools. And now we see what happens next.

So let's back up and tell the story a little bit. So on Monday, excuse me, on Tuesday, Pat 40 Sports Illustrated reports that the NCAA is

investigating the University of Tennessee. Shortly after that, Donnie Plowman, the

chancellor of the University of Tennessee, releases a letter that she sent to NCAA President Charlie Baker

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