The People Chime In On The Proposed Big Ten Private Equity Deal
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | straight to the people talking a little bit about this it's a wild time that this is a real story |
| 0:05.7 | but private equity is trying to buy a 10% slice of the big 10 unequal tiers right where |
| 0:11.3 | michigan osu and psu get 195 Oregon and USC get 155 everybody else gets 110 and we've asked look |
| 0:20.7 | Michigan whether it's jordanacker whether it's Mark Bernstein, two regents, I agree with a lot of what they're saying. I don't agree with the idle threat of leaving the Big Ten. That's laughable. The point is, I think that's their strong arm. If you don't agree with me, we'll leave. Hey, Newsflash, I'll give Michigan credit on one thing. |
| 0:38.3 | I don't have to like them to credit them for it. |
| 0:40.3 | They will stand up for themselves. |
| 0:42.1 | Meanwhile, MSU just holds the boom mic. |
| 0:45.8 | No, it's the truth. |
| 0:47.5 | Where the hell is MSU to talk? |
| 0:49.5 | Look, this is a separate topic. |
| 0:51.6 | We don't have to go down this now. |
| 0:53.1 | But J-BAT has to explain why he'd say yes to this private equity when a school like Michigan is saying no. |
| 0:58.6 | He has to explain why that that milk toast statement after the NCAA's misappropriation of justice, |
| 1:05.0 | he said nothing. |
| 1:06.0 | But Mark Coyle, the AD at Minnesota, basically did Jay Batt's job and said this is BS. |
| 1:29.1 | And then I would like Jay Batt to say something about the football program. Is he a real person? No, right. Mike, people always say, well, you get angry because apparently he just doesn't talk to you. He doesn't have to talk to me. Just say something. Yeah, I don't want to talk to me. He did one press conference where he did a media roundtable, |
| 1:35.4 | and then he just, he walks around at every game, him and his two boys, and they really just talk amongst themselves. They're in the shadows. And it's like, they're the bobs from office |
| 1:40.0 | space. What, guys, say, like, Spartan fans just want to know something. |
| 1:45.5 | And it's like, if you're just going to be there to raise money, then stop calling |
| 1:49.8 | yourself athletic director and call yourself fundraiser. |
| 1:53.0 | And then, you know what, go do your job. |
| 1:55.3 | But yeah, say something about the athletic program because a couple of things have gone |
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