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Ryan McGee

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Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

But the cars are, particularly in Indianapolis, where they're qualifying at averaging 230 miles an hour, which are the speeds that you and I used to see back in the day. But IndyCar ripped itself in half. I lived through all that and covered all that in the late 90s. I say this all the time.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

in terms of collegiate athletics, which is NASCAR made a lot of really bad decisions in the mid-2000s and ran a lot of people off. IndyCar ripped itself in half. I mean, killed the goose looking for golden eggs. And I always throw those out as cautionary tales.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

in terms of collegiate athletics, which is NASCAR made a lot of really bad decisions in the mid-2000s and ran a lot of people off. IndyCar ripped itself in half. I mean, killed the goose looking for golden eggs. And I always throw those out as cautionary tales.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

in terms of collegiate athletics, which is NASCAR made a lot of really bad decisions in the mid-2000s and ran a lot of people off. IndyCar ripped itself in half. I mean, killed the goose looking for golden eggs. And I always throw those out as cautionary tales.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

Yeah, and I throw these things out as cautionary tales to our friends in collegiate athletics because – All of these things are done with the assumption of your core audience is just going to – we can't do anything to run them off. Yeah. Yeah, you can.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

Yeah, and I throw these things out as cautionary tales to our friends in collegiate athletics because – All of these things are done with the assumption of your core audience is just going to – we can't do anything to run them off. Yeah. Yeah, you can.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

Yeah, and I throw these things out as cautionary tales to our friends in collegiate athletics because – All of these things are done with the assumption of your core audience is just going to – we can't do anything to run them off. Yeah. Yeah, you can.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

You totally can. Or they age out. And so the question isn't, you know, what are you doing to make the gray-headed guys and the colored Blazers mad? The question is, what are you doing – to make the 20 year olds decide they want me to do something else.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

You totally can. Or they age out. And so the question isn't, you know, what are you doing to make the gray-headed guys and the colored Blazers mad? The question is, what are you doing – to make the 20 year olds decide they want me to do something else.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

You totally can. Or they age out. And so the question isn't, you know, what are you doing to make the gray-headed guys and the colored Blazers mad? The question is, what are you doing – to make the 20 year olds decide they want me to do something else.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

And so it's, it's a really, I use it. I wrote when Oklahoma, Texas, when the sec, I wrote that, or no, it was during the, is when USC and UCLA went to the big time. I wrote that column, like be careful because you think, uh, They'll just stick around no matter what. But the reality is if it looks too far away from what they grew up loving, then they will 100% go find something else to do.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

And so it's, it's a really, I use it. I wrote when Oklahoma, Texas, when the sec, I wrote that, or no, it was during the, is when USC and UCLA went to the big time. I wrote that column, like be careful because you think, uh, They'll just stick around no matter what. But the reality is if it looks too far away from what they grew up loving, then they will 100% go find something else to do.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

And so it's, it's a really, I use it. I wrote when Oklahoma, Texas, when the sec, I wrote that, or no, it was during the, is when USC and UCLA went to the big time. I wrote that column, like be careful because you think, uh, They'll just stick around no matter what. But the reality is if it looks too far away from what they grew up loving, then they will 100% go find something else to do.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

Yeah, what I worry about, I think that while everyone is so distracted by NIL and all that stuff, transfer portal and all that, I worry more about the calendar.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

Yeah, what I worry about, I think that while everyone is so distracted by NIL and all that stuff, transfer portal and all that, I worry more about the calendar.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

Yeah, what I worry about, I think that while everyone is so distracted by NIL and all that stuff, transfer portal and all that, I worry more about the calendar.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

Because the season's getting too long. Okay. You know, the reality is that the ratings were up until they got to the national championship game with two of the biggest brands in the history of the sport, you know, in the game. And, you know, basically had two weeks between the semifinals and that.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

Because the season's getting too long. Okay. You know, the reality is that the ratings were up until they got to the national championship game with two of the biggest brands in the history of the sport, you know, in the game. And, you know, basically had two weeks between the semifinals and that.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

Because the season's getting too long. Okay. You know, the reality is that the ratings were up until they got to the national championship game with two of the biggest brands in the history of the sport, you know, in the game. And, you know, basically had two weeks between the semifinals and that.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

And at this point, college football had been going on, if you go back to week zero, it's just the third weekend in August. So – you know, the reason that spring football games were a big deal is the same reason that the NFL draft became such a big deal, which is it's all you had, right? You had nothing from January 1st until Labor Day. And so you're talking about