Matt Baker

Yes, you need your Alabamas and Georgias and Texases and Michigans.

You need those guys to be good and relevant.

Maybe not all of them every year, but you need Blue Bloods to be Blue Bloods.

But I think the sport is at its best.

when you still have some of those upstarts who can come along, UCF in 2017, right, where they come out of nowhere, they're undefeated, we're talking about them, and did they belong in the playoffs and what have you, that's really good.

You need some fresh names in there as well.

So at least the system, for all of its flaws, which are many, has allowed for Indiana and Texas Tech to improve themselves and become national names that they weren't in the past.

And Vanderbilt could be another example of that.

It would be really, really complicated.

It's not impossible to,

But it would be really, really complicated.

Just like as one practical matter, you're talking about – just in the SEC, you're talking about a bunch of different states with a bunch of different state laws in terms of what the union right to work, all that type of stuff.

Now, let's just do SEC and Big Ten.

The Big Ten, generally speaking, those states are much more pro-union than the SEC states, again, generally speaking.

So how is that going to work on a practical level?

Like if Penn State and Michigan decided they wanted to try to unionize their players, okay, cool.

Could Florida and Florida State do that?

Like what are the politics involved with that?

So there's so many different layers to all of this.

It is insanely complicated.