Unpacking College Sports Business Turmoil with Matt Brown
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
Split Zone Duo LLC
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Matt Brown, publisher of the Extra Points college sports business newsletter, joins Alex to discuss a handful of big business stories that are all coming to a head around the same time. In this show:
* The status of the not-quite-finished House settlement
* Do we believe in the NCAA’s attempt to make sure that future “NIL” deals are really about the use of a player’s name, image, or likeness?
* How power conference schools might divide up the $20 million per year that they will share directly with their athletes
* Why Group of 5 and FCS payments will not be what they seem
* Is the settlement going to provide a big leg up for basketball schools?
* Nebraska’s AD will have the most interesting job in college sports
* How might tariffs and a bad stock market affect athletic departments?
* What about federal attacks on higher education?
* Sacramento State is trying to move to FBS. It’s questionable.
Also, here’s a cool offer for Split Zone Duo subscribers: 25 percent off a monthly or annual subscription to Extra Points by clicking this link. Matt’s newsletter is an essential read for keeping up with the off-field developments that shape college football, and we’re excited to have him stopping by.
Host: Alex Kirshner
Guest: Matt Brown
Producer: Anthony Vito
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're coming, and we ain't backing down. |
| 0:02.1 | We don't need a bunch of cats in here looking in the mirror. |
| 0:04.8 | Everybody just do your job. |
| 0:07.0 | You understand that? |
| 0:07.9 | Hey, will you shut up? |
| 0:08.9 | I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today. |
| 0:11.4 | Guys being dudes. |
| 0:12.6 | And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man. |
| 0:14.9 | Ah, fuck it. |
| 0:16.9 | Thank you, Lee. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm Alex Kirshner, and I've got a special guest with me this week. |
| 0:22.5 | It's the, oh, let's name it right now. |
| 0:25.5 | The Splitzone Duo Extra Points Sports Business Hour featuring Matt Brown. |
| 0:29.5 | Matt, how are you? |
| 0:30.9 | That really rolls off the tongue. |
| 0:32.8 | I like that. |
| 0:33.1 | The only thing that would make that better is if we had some kind of elaborate corporate |
| 0:37.2 | sponsorship tied to that, the sports business hour brought to you by players' health, brought |
| 0:42.6 | to you by MasterC. Brought to you by the Don't Pay College Athletes Pack, making a difference |
| 0:47.9 | in Washington, D.C. brought to you by the Saudi Royal Family. Let's, yeah, sounds great. |
| 0:54.6 | Matt, thank you for coming on. |
| 0:56.2 | You are a program regular. |
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