Andrew

But functionally, like, practically, he ran unopposed for the executive director role.

So you whittle it out from 300 candidates to three.

And one of them is J.C.

Tratter, and the other is the commissioner of the sixth most important college football conference in the country, and then a Hollywood movie?

You need an exec guy?

I mean, that's functionally unopposed.

And then with Jalen Reeves-Maben...

We don't even know if anyone ran against him.

So these guys are just walking back into power.

And the question that I and players and other journalists have, what is that mechanism that is operating in the shadows that is allowing this to happen?

And how much is it worth?

Because now we're coming up on a new CBA negotiation.

They're probably going to get an 18-inch game.

You have gone from, in 20 years, you've gone from a spot where you had revenue majority, even if it wasn't the 60%.

It was 52, 53.

That's better than 47.

And the literal death of Gene Upshaw.

Yeah.

It killed this union in a way that I don't know if it's recoverable from.

Because you've set a precedent over two CBAs, likely to be three, that you will give up anything.