Welcome to this edition of the podcast. I'm Chase Parm.

And talking today with Walker Jones, the head of the Grove Collective.

Ole Miss is wrapping up one of the top portal classes in the country, probably the number

one portal class in the country and still work to do.

The portal opened back up in the spring, but as Walker and I talk about today, it never really

ends for a lot of different reasons and there's a lot of uncertainty about the future,

but how soon that future comes and some changes.

No one really seems to know.

However, NCAA president Charlie Baker, he's got a plan that he has pushed to the Division

1 Council.

Among those topics is potentially bringing NIL houses, collectives, inside the university or the foundations in some way.

It talks about a potential revenue sharing system and maybe even a new bowl subdivision

for the top of the college football landscape as well.

So I want to talk to Walker about those items and much more.

He recently spoke to Congress a couple months ago, has a good idea of where

things are potentially going when it comes to collectives and maybe what needs to be changed

and what's going well as Ole Miss has become one of the permanent collectives in the country.

So all that conversation and more coming up on today's show with the Grove Collective's, Walker Jones.

Walker Jones, joining us now on the show.

Walker, just another day, another week, more portal, more stuff.

You, uh, you know, we've talked about this, how this job was nothing like what you thought

when you, uh, when you took over.

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