Matt Brown

I also think that.

I also don't think that Tony cares about being a bad guy or the bad guy.

I don't think it matters to him.

I don't think he, I think it matters to Sankey in a way that it doesn't matter to Tony because I think Sankey being a college sports lifer has, has legacy in air quotes more on his mind.

because he i think is like if if greg sankey leaves the sec like what's greg sankey gonna do not that greg sankey can't get gainfully employed but you know what i mean if tony patiti leaves he's just gonna go run where was he at when are you doing a video he did a year at activision that didn't work out so well but he's been an executive in major league baseball and if he left any number of um

I mean, they consider why, at least at the time, the private capital thing, PC thing failed.

It failed because you didn't get Michigan and USC on board.

Now, potentially a different commissioner or a different structure would have brought

the michigans and the uscs and the ohio states into the tent and say hey fellas i know you guys don't really need this but xyz what is it that we can give you concession wise to get you on board or what have you if that would have succeeded then you roll it out and you know that ruckers who i

I'm pretty sure we're going to talk about, uh, Rutgers for instance, needs it and would love it, but no, they did not politically do that very well.

And so they ended up looking bad when that gets thrown back in their face.

And you've got Michigan, uh,

publicly, very publicly, you know, volleyballing the corpse of this deal as a political football.

Mixed metaphors there.

Sorry, Alex.

I don't think non-Rutgers Big Ten schools are generally okay, buddy.

There are some of them that certainly are.

And I've talked, they were basically looking at like a 20th school.

Probably not.

Probably not.