Hey there, it's Gary Harris. It's Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Welcome back to the Ion College

basketball podcast. Matt Norlander is here with me and earlier today. The Commissioner

on College Basketball led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced their

recommendations to, in essence, help fix the sport of College Basketball. Among other

things they want, the one and done rule gone, they want independent investigations into

alleged rules violations. They want harsher penalties for cheaters. They want players

to be allowed to return to college and play if they want. If they enter an NBA draft and

then go unselected, there are some good ideas in there, even a skeptic like I can admit.

But as expected, they completely avoided the central issue, which is amateurism. And so

they might be improving the sport slightly, but they're certainly not fixing anything.

That's my opinion at least. And I'm going to get into it more specifically momentarily.

But first, Norlander, I'll open things up to you. What did you make of the announcement

from the Commission on College Basketball, this AM? I made that it was too early, by the

way. The thing got going at eight in the morning. Like, yeah, you cannot start at 7 AM

central press conference. That's rough stuff. Rider problems. There's no doubt about

about what are we doing? What are we doing with an 8 AM, you're in 7 AM central, 5 AM

Pacific whole reveal with this thing. That was bizarre. But anyway, I got a lot of take

away, but I'm going to be really abbreviated here just because I think we could honestly

talk about this perhaps way longer than we need to. But in listening to Condoleezza Rice

explain the Commission's proposals, she started off by saying her quote was talking to the

stakeholders at times, it was like talking to a circular firing squad. It was always somebody

else's fault. And what I thought was interesting was when you got to so much of what she was

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