What Is The Future of College Athletics?
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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With the news that the SEC and the Big 10 are "uniting" to solve major issues in college athletics, Mike, Rico, and the guys predict what the future of college sports will look like.
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| 0:00.0 | Somehow I imagine that's the inner monologue of NCAA leadership. |
| 0:05.0 | Oh Greg you beauty we are talking about this meeting between the Big Ten and the |
| 0:10.0 | SEC they're calling it accelerating what we're already working on. They claim |
| 0:16.1 | it's not this thing that's going to separate them from the NCA that we need a |
| 0:21.2 | strong national leader organization. It's a lot of word soup. |
| 0:27.0 | Ross Delinger's got a very expansive piece on Yahoo. You can read it if you like. |
| 0:31.0 | RICO and I are talking about it. R's asked a question if you had an audience with Greg Sankey and Tony Petiti |
| 0:37.6 | What would you advise them on? Because I think Rigo and I are in Lockstep. All this is just the first step in the big ten in the SEC breaking away from college football and thereby killing the sport. |
| 0:51.0 | Why? Because the TV deal will be worth more money and the Blessed TV networks |
| 0:56.0 | run the whole sport and I I'm not here for it but they don't care they'll move |
| 1:01.8 | on without me and that's fine I'm not some self-important |
| 1:05.0 | douche. But I just I don't have to say I like it when I don't. I'm not Ryan Clark on Brock Purdy. What? |
| 1:15.0 | Sorry, if you know that reference, you know. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, I know. |
| 1:21.0 | Sorry about that. |
| 1:22.0 | Take a simple water, You'd be okay. |
| 1:23.0 | Two, four, eight, five, three, nine, 97. That's where we're at. Rico, did I miss anything? |
| 1:28.0 | No, because I think this is the beginning of that 48-team super conference, where right now you have 34 teams |
| 1:35.1 | because it was funny because Beanie was like |
| 1:36.7 | what do you think they would get rid of some teams and contractually? |
| 1:40.1 | Probably no. |
| 1:41.6 | It's buying property when it was dirt cheap and now it's prime property |
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