Ethan Budowsky

Cote d'Ivoire is back in the World Cup, but I'm not going to be taking them.

I'm going to take Ecuador.

This is a sneaky, sneaky good team with two very good center backs, including William Pacho of Paris Saint-Germain.

Look out for him.

He might be a breakout star in this tournament.

I like Ecuador to win this game, get out of their group, and I like them to go to the round of 16 as well and win a knockout stage game here.

So Ecuador against Ivory Coast.

Yeah, I think the thing that you're missing, Dave, is that there are no rules in college football anymore.

And all you have to do now is go out and find a judge that either went to your school or is in your school's jurisdiction or you can maybe slip a big paycheck to and say, hey, you should probably think about what this will do for your community and your chances of getting reelected if you deny our quarterback to play.

Like,

It is such a mess.

And this goes well beyond all the problems people have with NIL and all the problems people have with the transfer portal and whatever.

This is just simply about the fact that the NCAA has no power and all these teams are just running rampant doing whatever they want because they've been able to take advantage of the NCAA for so long.

No, I completely agree with you.

This does rise to another level, but it just kind of shows that there is nothing the NCAA can do right now.

All you have to do is go out and find a guy that'll give you the ruling, or a girl that'll give you the ruling that you want that says your quarterback can play.

And it's really bad.

It's a terrible, terrible mark on the sport right now that this guy is seemingly going to play.

And Fuentes, we've been talking about this in the office, they moved the trial back to

It also has to do with the blurring of lines on gambling, right?