Thanksgiving event Vegas to pay millions in NIL; which college coach is going to the NBA next? Jerry West’s immense 🏀 legacy
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
What is the Player's Era Festival, and why are so many top-tier programs interested in joining it? Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander expound on this new NIL-based tournament and why it may be the future of all MTE's.
(00:45) - What is the Player's Era Festival?
(17:40) - Who's the coach you can see making a jump to the NBA?
(34:36) - Remembering Jerry West
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there it's Gary Parish welcome back to the CBS Sports I own |
| 0:08.8 | College Basketball Podcast where we sometimes discuss Camel fighting |
| 0:12.2 | Dodo Birds, |
| 0:13.6 | Leaky Black Mountain Orlando is here with me. |
| 0:15.7 | If you're watching on YouTube, you know what the like button. |
| 0:18.9 | Shouts to Brandon Davies. |
| 0:20.7 | And if you're not subscribed to the CBS Sports College Basketball |
| 0:24.6 | YouTube channel yet please also do that while you're here let's get into it big |
| 0:28.8 | headline from Norlander on a Wednesday morning the Players era festival is now official. It's going to be in |
| 0:35.2 | Las Vegas later this year during the week of Thanksgiving and it's going to be |
| 0:39.4 | lucrative for the schools that are involved. We're talking about Alabama, Creighton, Houston, |
| 0:45.4 | Notre Dame, Oregon, Rutgers, San Diego State, Texas A and A. |
| 0:49.4 | Each of those schools is gonna get a million dollars of NIL money just for participating. |
| 0:55.1 | Norlander you handle the reporting on all of this. |
| 0:58.4 | So what else do we need to know about this first of its kind? |
| 1:02.2 | Yeah. See an event that's happening later on this year. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, so a few things to dig into with this. |
| 1:08.0 | We actually haven't talked this, |
| 1:10.0 | I first reported on this like five weeks ago or so but with the I guess the |
| 1:17.1 | cadence of how the story rolled out in addition our podcast we actually haven't |
| 1:20.0 | really talked about this on the show yet. So the official announcement that this |
| 1:24.1 | was going to be happening came out on Wednesday and we got a few additional details |
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