Shehan Jeyarajah

You have to do, for the most part, Friday and Saturday of that week because people are still working.

It's not a holiday weekend or anything like that.

So I do think that eventually, even if it's just going to 16, we're going to have to move to some sort of model like that.

Now, again, the thing that sort of happens in exchange is that all of a sudden,

these games are a little bit less eventized than they would have been in this previous model, right?

Where everybody's tuning into the same game, everybody's talking about the same game.

Well, you know, again, it becomes a little bit more of a normal college football Saturday, as opposed to, you know, a big giant, everybody's talking about it,

post-season games.

So again, it's a trade-off that you have to, I think, weigh in some ways.

And again, that's why, for example, you know, if you're paid X amount for first round games right now, it's not necessarily going to be as simple as, you know, the network come to you and say, we want to do double what that was because these games are going to have diminishing marginal value.

But I do think that eventually out of necessity, frankly, we are going to move to having these staggered starts and potentially having games going on at the same time, because again,

Again, when we start going to eight first-round games or even more than that, potentially, if we get to 24, it's going to be hard to avoid those situations.

Yeah, I mean, it's a big deal, right?

Because I think that with Texas Tech, I mean, they obviously invested handsomely to get him on campus.

He was the number one quarterback on their board in all of the transfer portal, number two overall transfer in the 247 sports transfer rankings.

Now, I think that Texas Tech, even without Sorzi in the lineup,

still has a very good chance to win the Big 12.

I'd still consider them to be the favorite just because of what they bring back on defense and what I think that their offensive line has a chance to be with so many returners as well.

But

You know, look, one, I mean, he is somebody who saw himself as a potential first-round prospect, somebody who I think that's stepping into a more structured role, had a chance to be a real breakout player in college athletics.