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Matt Baker

πŸ‘€ Speaker
231 total appearances

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The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

I mean, the Congress option is one because it could allow for some real teeth to this where it's much harder to sue.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

Or you'd have to have everybody agreeing to follow the rules, and these are the rules.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

We're going to follow them.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

Whatever the NCAA decides, that's it.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

That's probably not going to happen.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

Or kind of the other prong in all this is collective bargaining.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

Again, it depends on what issue we're talking about exactly, but collective bargaining would be a way to fix some of the issues in terms of eligibility and what have you where it's

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

If the players agree to all these rules and then figure out how it would be adjudicated, that's one scenario.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

But look, there's no easy solution to all of this because if there was, it already would have been done years and years ago.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

I just think the way things are going is not a healthy place.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

I don't know that you can keep having these instances like this where everybody's upset with everybody all the time and everybody's only looking out for themselves.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

I think eventually, in that scenario, something is going to snap.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

And for all we know, the brinosaurs we think is the shot that broke the camel's back.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

I would not be shocked at all if in five years we look at that as kind of the first major domino that fell to getting into a college sports 2.0, whatever that looks like.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

When Texas and Alabama and Ohio State and Michigan and those guys look at the television contracts and look at the money and just need to make more and more and more, and they wonder, why is Purdue here?

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

Who let them into this party?

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

Why is Mississippi State here?

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

Shouldn't we just ask those guys to leave?

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

And they decide to break away because the gap between, used to be the gap was between Florida and Alabama and Stetson, okay, like Stetson.

The Program
H4 N2K, Matt Baker, The Kicker

Big gap between FBS and FCS.