Jeremy Bloom
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Trillions.
Trillions from student athletes.
We're talking six, seven decades.
Wow.
Six, seven decades.
There's 350 million student athletes.
So, you know, just do the math.
And they stole it under the guise of what's called amateurism, which is what's always been a sham.
amateurism means free labor and free labor is a hell of a drug.
I mean, imagine starting a company, right?
And you're a billion dollar company and you say, well, we don't pay our employees because we want to keep the purity of them.
And we only hire 18 to 22 year olds and we give them continue education credits to go to school.
That's really the absurdity of what the NCAA had gotten away with for six or seven different decades.
And so we saw Nancy Skinner in California, a state representative say, in the state of California, we are going to allow our student athletes to accept endorsement money for their name, image, and likeness.
They own their name, image, and likeness, not the NCAA.
And that was the tipping point.
It happened at the state level three years ago.
And once Florida...
heard what California was doing and once Texas heard what California was doing, they're like, oh my God, California's got a huge recruiting advantage and all the California schools are going to get the best high school players because they can go make money.
And so then Texas adopted that legislation and Florida and then New York.