Pablo Torre

Cool.

Yeah, that rocks.

Amazing.

He was not known to have been in the relationship that came to the fore when it was announced that Larry Ellison had called up Dave Portnoy, the proprietor of Barstool Sports, to get involved in the recruiting of Bryce Underwood, who was a top quarterback prospect.

And he was doing it at the behest and the encouragement of his partner.

who is a woman who no one knew existed, it seems, but was revealed, Mike, in the course of their funding of, oh, Larry Ellison's now underwriting University of Michigan's football team.

And it was a thing that I don't totally understand except to say that it seems to have worked.

And I fully support it.

I want to just give you the last paragraph of this fortune story because I think it's a time capsule we should consider for a bit.

For Michigan, landing Underwood was also about proving they could compete with the financial firepower of SEC programs in the new NIL landscape.

As Portnoy said on his podcast, quote, when Larry Ellison targets someone, it's essentially a foregone conclusion.

End quote.

End of story.

Footnote.

For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with initial draft.

An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing, period.

Oh, gosh.

Nice.

Love that.

This is good.