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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583
23 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What insights does Jeremy Bloom share about the NCAA's amateurism policies?
Pretty clear now that the NCAA has stolen trillions of dollars from student-athletes. We're talking six, seven decades.
Chapter 2: How could AI referees change the landscape of sports officiating?
There's 350 million student-athletes. Just do the math. They stole it under the guise of what's called amateurism, which has always been a sham.
Chapter 3: What are the challenges faced by referees in the age of sports betting?
Amateurism means free labor, and free labor is a hell of a drug. You're a billion-dollar company. We don't pay our employees because we want to keep the purity of them and we only hire 18 to 22 year olds and we give them continue education credits to go to school. That's really the absurdity of what the NCAA had gotten away with for six or seven different decades.
Chapter 4: How is AI technology revolutionizing sports judging at events like the X Games?
Okay, guys, we got Jeremy Bloom here. We are at the AI4 conference. Man, how you doing? Doing good.
Chapter 5: What impact does streaming have on the future of sports broadcasting?
Just got in. Yeah, you've been doing some really cool stuff with AI in X Games. I just want to say that. And I think it's removing the human error from refereeing sports, right?
Chapter 6: What are the implications of the NCAA backpay lawsuit for athlete rights?
Yeah.
Chapter 7: How is Jeremy Bloom contributing to philanthropy through 'Wish of a Lifetime'?
Was that the main goal for you?
For sure.
Chapter 8: What closing thoughts does Jeremy Bloom share about the future of sports?
I mean, I grew up in subjective sports. So I was an Olympic skier for Team USA. It's a judge sport. It's not like track and field. You know, who crosses the finish line first wins. And then I played football and referees still to this day get it wrong. And, you know, I think about these really big moments. I think about like the 2018 NFC Championship game.
The Saints lost the game due to a bad call. And they got people on their team who never got a chance to play in the Super Bowl because a referee who admitted it was a bad call. And these things happen, right? The tuck rule, the figure skating scandal, the Russian figure skating scandal at the Olympics. Like, when you're an athlete, you dedicate your whole life, man.
Like, you don't go to prom and homecoming, and you don't do normal things because you think you dream about going to the Olympics, dream about going to the NFL, you dream about being in the Super Bowl, dream about winning an F1 race. And I just can't believe we still live in a world where human referees and judges are getting it wrong.
And it's changing the course of history for these athletes, these teams, these fans. And I'm just so happy that we're finally at the point in technology where technology can solve that. I really believe it can.
And that's why we started OWL. Exciting times. I'm a big NBA fan. And now they have that review you can do, which I think is the first step, I'd say. Yep. And hopefully they could get to some sort of AI ref in the future, right?
For sure. And the other thing that we've learned since starting this adventure, I'll call it, is even at the big leagues, these major leagues, there's no pipeline for refs. They don't want to ref anymore. I mean, think about it this way. Sports betting was a $400 million business in 2018. It's now $16 billion. Holy crap. $16 billion. they're getting death threats.
You know, they go home and they don't have a good quality of life because of fans. There's just too much on the line. So even the biggest leagues in the world, they will tell you one of their biggest threats right now is they don't have a pipeline for refs. And so, you know, our focus is having the technology sit amongst the humans so that we never make mistakes.
Whether they ultimately replace the humans or not, we're not sure. That's not how we position ourselves. But we just want to leverage this incredible technology to make sure that the right outcome always happens for any sport.
Wow, I didn't know they were getting death threats like that. Yeah, it's bad, dude. I did not know that. But it makes sense because if people are betting their whole income on a game. Totally.
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