Mike Pesca

There is no what's best for college football.

It is great for college football.

If there's an opportunity for a Cinderella, we want to, you know, it was great to see George Mason make that run to the final four.

Right.

That was really cool.

It was awesome when Butler got to the end of the final of the NCAA tournament.

Right.

That was something we were curious about.

That was great.

And yet we also want to see Kentucky and North Carolina or Kentucky and Duke, because that's awesome, too.

So I I get the need for that.

I do think people don't realize in the coverage of college football is terrible.

The reason they had to do that is they were preventing a lawsuit from the other conferences from basically, you know, they can't legally keep these other, they had to give a pathway to prevent a lawsuit from all these group of five conferences who would have said that the big four schools in ESPN were essentially, um,

violating, you know, violent, we're a monopoly, right.

Violating antitrust.

Um, so that's why it exists.

And they had to put the rules in, wrote the rules the way they did it.

That was a lawyer telling them, well, you need to at least give the group of five conferences a chance that, Hey, if your champion is in the top five of all champions, right.

Then, then you can say, no, no, no, we're not blocking them out of it.

Um,