Lyndon Blake

Yeah, okay, I'm going to say tee things off because it is Masters Week, so we'll go with golf for our sport of choice today.

But yeah, the college athletic space is a mess right now for a lot of people that are working in it, for a lot of fans that are confused of who's even on the team.

Because we've started this world now where players are getting paid for their name, image, and likeness, which if you talk to people that are close to the situation, say that's not even really the problem.

The problem is the transfer rules.

You have people that are in their mid-20s still playing college sports.

It all started with COVID because you got granted that extra year of eligibility because of COVID, but then you kept building upon it.

And now you have people in school for seven years trying to milk a doctorate degree and still compete in their sport.

So it's not sustainable.

And that's what so many coaches and the president have been discussing over the last several years.

And now action is being taken.

So in Trump's order, he says let college athletes have five years of eligibility, and he now is going to restrict most athletes to one transfer, and you get an additional transfer permitted after earning a four-year degree.

So the order is going to seek to ensure that the transfer window does not incentivize interference with athletic seasons or academic year or otherwise undermine the integrity of participation in

and competition in college athletics.

Because what did we see this past year with the college football playoff?

You saw Lane Kiffin leave his team, went to a different school because he had to start recruiting these players for LSU and building next year's team while Ole Miss...

was in the playoff.

So it is a total mess.

This is what Trump order states.

He said, fair competition cannot occur without a consistent set of rules concerning pay for play or player eligibility that cannot be endlessly relitigated in court.

So that is meaning you're having all these scenarios and it's still gonna become a problem, I think, with this, with these lawyers taking it to court and taking cases.