Chuck Klosterman

So like, let's say, I don't know when our first podcast was, 20 years ago.

If we would have said, you know what's going to happen in about 20 years?

Indiana is going to be the clear favorite to win the national football championship, and Nebraska is going to be 16-0 in basketball, and they could win the Big Ten.

What?

Big Ten?

None of it makes sense, right?

None of it seems possible.

Now, in the short term, these things, NIL stuff, Portland stuff, is going to slightly boost the popularity of these college sports because now people in Indiana are able to watch football in a way for the first time in this way.

Anytime you professionalize something, it does have a short-term benefit, a short-term gain.

But over time, I do think this is probably going to be a disaster for college sports.

They'll always be places though.

Like in Tennessee, they'll always care about Tennessee volunteer football.

And maybe that is true.

It's not even poorly governed.

It's ungoverned.

It's ungoverned.

It's a wild west.

So, you know, and now in the present moment, we can't really blame these guys, right?

Like you can't look to a kid and, you know, like I saw today or whatever, I think like the Arizona state quarterback is like, he's transferring to LSU.

I think I saw this morning.