Ross Bjork
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 16 Jan
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Absolutely.
Yeah.
You know, what do they say?
History repeats itself.
You know, there's probably lots of phrases around things that happened in the past.
And, you know, I'm I love history.
You know, I love your, you know, Jim Thorpe picture back there that we were talking about off air.
And, you know, actually in the very first intercollegiate athletic event was a rowing race in 1852, Harvard and Yale.
And there was a railroad baron who gave away prize money, gave away sponsorship money, was giving away cabins, and was basically inducing people to either one, come to the race or participate in it.
Later, it was discovered that some of the rowers were not students.
They were hired to try to what?
Win the race, right?
At Ohio State in the early 1950s, we got put on probation because we had football players
that were supposed to show up for a job.
They didn't show up, but they got paid.
And there was a report that came out from a professor here, Professor Fullington, that said, you know what?
It's time to pay the athletes some of the upside.
That was 1957 is when that report was published.
So the point is, anytime there's been money and anytime there's been restrictions in college athletics around benefits, money,
Whatever it is, what do people do?
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