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Matt Jones

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4675 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

When I first saw the letter, I was going to blast it because my natural reaction is blast something UofL because it's fun.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

And I was literally writing the tweet to blast it.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

And then I looked that the person who wrote it was Larry Benz, who's one of the co-owners of OVW.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

I was like, oh, wow.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

Larry's one of my favorite people.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

He has an interesting life, by the way.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

He started court physical therapy, sold it, then started another physical therapy place, sold it, and then started a third physical therapy place.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

So chances are, if you've got physical therapy in Kentucky, Larry Benz had something to do with it.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

He owns part of OVW, and he owns the Prague Lions European American Football League team.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

He's double dipping here.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

I've wanted to get involved in the prog just to be part of it.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

It'd be cool to have that on the resume.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

Anyway, so when I saw that he wrote it, I was like, great letter.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

You know, at its core, this debate is Louisville and schools like Louisville want all the college sports teams to share their media rights, sell them collectively, because they think it'll get more money.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

And if you're Louisville, that's probably true.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

But the SEC and the Big Ten are like, why would we want to do that?

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

So this is the case of, think about what baseball's like.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 32 - It's The News

Back in the day, all the baseball teams were individually owned.