Blair Kerkhoff

The Wolverines have an opt-out clause in their contract.

Should another event offer to pay more than the Players' Era?

But at the same time, Players' Era also has a chance to match the payouts.

So I think we're a little ways away from this being a

The other thing is about this, like if Kansas is going to go play in this Diamond Cup, then that means the players era, Kansas wouldn't be there, which is one of their biggest draws.

And the Big 12 has an equity stake in that.

So this to me seems like, OK, the players era said, OK, we're going to go through the conference and we're going to get the teams.

And this said, well, what are we screwing around with a conference?

Let's just go get the teams we want.

We don't want Central Florida out here.

You've got to take all our schools and rotate it.

No, we just want Kansas.

We want Kansas and Arizona.

Those are the two big ones.

We'll just take them.

You fart around with the rest of them out there.

If we could get both, if they could pick different weekends?

I still come back to, I don't know why, with the football playoffs are going to expand.

They're going to dominate the mindset of people.

Why basketball?