Matt Jones
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But what's the greater good?
Is the greater good that football, basketball players make the money that they're bringing into the university?
Or is the greater good that these people that make the money share the money with swimmers?
It all depends on how you define the greater good.
I think there are people who would have two completely different answers to that.
But what's interesting to me is the supporters of capitalism tend to be the biggest people in favor of the socialism in sports.
That Texas Tech guy that ran all those commercials.
Cody Campbell is an oil billionaire who donates all of his money to Republican and capitalist causes.
And he's running commercials advocating for socialism in college sports.
It's going to save his university.
But that's interesting, though, right?
Whereas a lot of people like me, who tend to be more, let's think about the greater good in society, because I root for Kentucky, are like, screw them.
We're in the SEC.
Capitalism, we're in the SEC.
So it's just interesting.
It makes for a weird, difficult thing to figure out.