Barry Svrluga
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They're going to get paid by somebody.
But DeChambeau is the one that's hanging out there.
He doesn't have a contract beyond this year.
What's going to happen with him?
How can this CEO...
sell his league to potential investors without knowing whether his biggest star is going to be on board.
So there's tons of existential questions going forward.
So Patrick Reed is already on it, right?
And he's also sitting out.
He can't play on the PGA Tour for, I don't know the amount of time, but he's not allowed back on for X amount of time.
And then he's not allowed...
And Brooks Koepka is doing this right now already.
He's not allowed to tap into all the bonus money that you get for, you know, being prominent on social media and in mentions and the bonus money for competitive stuff that the tour established after Live kind of made them.
reassess how they valued their players who bring the product to fruition.
But it did recenter the way the PGA Tour thought about itself by saying, you know, the players basically saying, wait a second, we bring the value here.
We're not paid what we're worth.
And so it reset the system.
It's not really unlike a different version of NIL in college where, you know, players eventually were like –
everybody kind of recognized, well, without the athletes, there is no product.