The Long Game: Andrew Luck & Condoleezza Rice on the Future of College Sports | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

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The past several years have seen consequential changes for NCAA schools and their athletes: the introduction of name, image, and likeness rules; the establishment of the transfer portal; and the realignment of the conferences in which all major college teams and athletes compete—and critically, the distribution of the TV monies the conferences generate.

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0:00.0	The student who played for the love of the game.
0:04.0	That was the old ideal. Here's a glimpse of the new reality.
0:08.0	At the University of Utah, a couple of organizations have just offered each scholarship member of the football team a new pickup truck.
0:16.0	On the future of college sports, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former
0:21.0	quarterback of the Colts, and quarterback of the Colts and quarterback of the Stanford University football team
0:26.1	where he played right here Andrew Luck on Uncommon Knowledge Now. common knowledge now. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson. There are two Condoleezza Rice's.
0:52.6	One is a scholar and a diplomat's diplomat.
0:55.6	The other, an athlete and sports fan,
0:58.5	who was a competitive figure skater as a girl
1:00.9	and is now a member of the ownership group of the Denver Broncos.
1:05.2	This past year the second Condoleezza Rice, now director of the Hoover Institution, served as
1:10.6	Special Advisor on Athletics to the President of Stanford. We'll be coming back. served as
1:13.4	special advisor on athletics to the president of Stanford. We'll be coming back to that.
1:16.0	Just as there are two Kondi Rice's there are two Andrew Luck's
1:20.1	one is of course Andrew Luck, the star quarterback.
1:23.0	He broke record after record here at Stanford.
1:26.0	Then in 2012, he went to the Indianapolis Colts
1:29.0	as the top draft pick in the entire NFL.
1:32.0	I find that more impressive than a Nobel Prize.
1:34.5	So I'm going to say it again. This man in 2012 was the top draft pick in the
1:40.0	entire NFL. We were the first pick in the 2012 NFL draft.
1:45.0	The Indianapolis Colts select Andrew Luck,
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