Seth Davis
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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you have named uh first of all it's amazing to hear you say that i've done 21 shows because i'm only 26 so obviously uh i'm the dude i'm the doogie hauser of sports broadcasting uh you you've actually named in one of the shows i actually watch uh i am not a shows guy or a movie i'm even worse with movies so i've watched a few shows i i am not caught up on white lotus i am
100%. First of all, part of it is I usually watch it at night with my wife and I'm 54 and I'm lazy. So, yeah, by the time we get about halfway through, I nod off and then I have to watch, you know, the last 15 minutes the next morning during my workout or something to stay caught up. So these are first world problems for sure.
No, because he can win. you know, the, uh, the ability for people to get past certain things is directly correlated to your ability to win. And no one can ever, um, question Rick's ability to win. You know, it's, it's interesting, Dan, the thing that he was eventually fired for in relation to the, um, FBI investigation was like the biggest nothing burger of all time.
I mean, that case was an incredible waste of time, money, energy, attention. Basically, these FBI agents heard all these low-level scammers scamming each other, and they thought they were telling the truth. So when one guy tells another, hey, man, I got Patino, I got Self, I got Laraneg, I got this guy, the FBI thinks, hey, all we got to do is move in on those guys, and they'll flip.
Well, it turns out there was nothing to flip to. So the problem with Rick was the optics of his being even tangentially linked to that case on top of the other things that had happened, some of which were directly his fault, some of which were his fault by responsibility. It was that accumulation. But there were other places, Kansas in particular, basically said to the NCAA, like,
Give us everything you got. And they stuck by Bill Self and nothing happened to him. And he was in it considerably deeper than Rick was at the time. So there might be a little bit, I don't know what the opposite of buyer's remorse is at Louisville with Patino, maybe firer's remorse, if that's a thing. But no, I'm not surprised because he's a great coach.
And in today's era, Dan, with the portal, you can rebuild very quickly. And when you have a coach like Rick Patino, you got guys who want to play in the NBA. And so they want to play for Rick Patino. So not surprised at all.
Well, I think it's a great question. I think they thought they were above it or at least didn't have to do it. You know, it's a different type of culture, different type of setup. I mean, there are some private schools inside the ACC. There are, you know, public schools that are not necessarily as invested even in the concept of college athletics. You know, even Syracuse is a private school.
It's big. But, you know, I mean, let's be honest. In the SEC, you know, some of these places – have been operating like this for a very long time. So this is just a matter of paperwork. Now everything is above board. And it's the old saying, adapt or die. And the ACC might have a storied history, but it's past history. And if you're not forward-looking, you're in trouble.
I mean, for example, North Carolina has been struggling again. And North Carolina, just in the last couple of weeks, hired a general manager. I did not know that they didn't have a general manager. I kind of assumed they did. John Shire was the first person in sports to even think of this position at the college level. Now, everybody not only has one, but you have to have one.
News this morning that Steph Curry is going to be the assistant GM at Davidson. I mean, all he has to do is cut one check and his job is over. So it's a great life lesson, really, for college. Teachers and parents and all of us and business leaders, especially, that you cannot be stuck in past thinking. You cannot think about, well, this is the way we've always done it.
It's like that old Wayne Gretzky saying, you know, what made Gretzky great isn't that he skated to the puck. He skated to where the puck was going. The ACC skated to where the puck used to be. And now they're paying the price. They have a lot of catching up to do.
It's where we are, man. I mean, it's just the reality. And it's funny, you mentioned about Miami having fallen on hard times. But when they made the Final Four, they had their own version of Steph Curry named John Ruiz. I think he's a Miami grad, but he's a Miami booster and a billionaire guy. And he gave them a lot of money to buy players that helped them get to the Final Four.
And then he and his business fell on hard times. There was a SEC investigation and all kinds. And so he's not He's not paying the piper anymore. And look what happened in Miami.
So but the real coming change, Dan, is is the is a genuine revenue sharing model where beginning in July, assuming this case settlement gets approved, which looks like the judge is going to do, every school now can spend up to they're not required. up to $20 million to give to their athletes.
Now, they can spend that however they want, and it's going to be fascinating to see how that all breaks down. Because if you're at a place like Auburn right now, which is one of the top teams in college basketball, Alabama certainly, obviously the first dollars out the door are going to football. And so how much really is left for men's basketball?
And then you have all the other women's sports and this big question of how Title IX is going to play into it. So there's a lot more unknown than known. But the only thing we know is that players are going to have money in their pockets.
And if you don't have money to put in your players' pockets at a competitive rate, whether it's directly through revenue sharing or through the Steph Currys and James Hardens of the world or other NIL arrangements, there's not as much money out there as maybe some people think. But this is the new paradigm.
And if you're in the business of college sports, you better be adjusting to what's happening and what's going to happen as opposed to the way things used to be.
Well, Jessica, let me put it this way. There's a better chance that I will play next season for Duke than Cooper Flagg.
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