Matt Baker
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I mean, the Congress option is one because it could allow for some real teeth to this where it's much harder to sue.
Or you'd have to have everybody agreeing to follow the rules, and these are the rules.
We're going to follow them.
Whatever the NCAA decides, that's it.
That's probably not going to happen.
Or kind of the other prong in all this is collective bargaining.
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
If the players agree to all these rules and then figure out how it would be adjudicated, that's one scenario.
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.
I just think the way things are going is not a healthy place.
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.
I think eventually, in that scenario, something is going to snap.
And for all we know, the brinosaurs we think is the shot that broke the camel's back.
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.
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?
Who let them into this party?
Why is Mississippi State here?
Shouldn't we just ask those guys to leave?
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.
Big gap between FBS and FCS.