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Front office sports just now reporting that ESPN president of content Burke Magnus.

Magnus? I think it Burke Magnus. Magnus?

I think it's Mingus.

Mingus.

Yeah.

Says he wants more college football talk on his network.

That he believes the sport was under discussed relative to its national popularity, sources say.

And they actually use a picture of Josh Pate. I was about to say it's good news for Pate. That's what it says. ESPN wants more Josh Pate is. That's when Pate says, I'll have my agents called. Yeah, I was asking Brown about that a couple of weeks ago, like what ESPN's endgame is with Pate, because if you're paid, you don't give up what you got.

For a price you do because McAfee did. Well, McAfee didn't give it up. Remember, he still owns it. He still owns it, but he's got the agreement, the financial agreement with ESPN. Yeah. I mean, to a certain extent, he's not wholly independent anymore, I guess is what I would say. I mean, there are some guidelines that for a moment,

McAfee was like us.

Like there was nobody telling McAfee you can or can't say that.

He's got a little bit of that now with ESP. Well, you know, and McAfee is twofold, you know,

NFL and college. Pade is all college, which shows you now the emphasis in the growth of college football as the number

two sport right now in America.

Yeah.

I think that's what Mangus is saying that we need to talk more about this as opposed to the NBA.

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