College Sports, Radical Democrats & the Broken Ivy League

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What is the opening discussion about the recent college football weekend?

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Ben Ferguson 0:04
Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Senator, let's just start off by saying you have a huge IQ advantage today. I am on one hour sleep. Hoarse voice. That means Ole Miss Rebels won. The greatest day of my life. It was incredible, but you are going to be superior for the next whatever minutes we do the show, and I feel good about that. I just wanted to start with that. So Ben,
Ted Cruz 0:25
were there any college football games this weekend? Did did anything happen?
Ben Ferguson 0:29
There was only one that mattered. There was no other game that's a little bit more than that. So walk us
Ted Cruz 0:34
through. You were there. I w
Ben Ferguson 0:36
so I was there and you
Ted Cruz 0:38
you got to warmly welcome Lane Kiffin back to Mississippi with with gentle embrace.
Ben Ferguson 0:44
Yes, with gentle embrace. If you watch game day, you know how gentle that embrace was from the students at Old Miss. It was incredible. And there's something that it's fun. So if you go to Old Miss, if you've ever seen it, they do the walk of champions at the beginning of the game. Now, I've never in my whole life done the walk of champions. I've watched it a ton, but it's where the players come through, the coaches come through, and you walk all the way from the student union all the way through the grove. All the way to the stadium. And so a buddy of mine, uh, Mike Wallace, was getting inducted to the Hall of Fame at Ole Miss. He played in the league for uh 10, 11 years in the NFL. And uh he said, Ferguson, I'm gonna get inducted, you gotta go.
Ben Ferguson 1:20
It's like I'm in, I'll go.

How does the Protect College Sports Act aim to change NIL and coaching recruitment rules?

Ben Ferguson 1:22
So I get there and they're like, they we're getting there, and he's gonna do the walk of champions with the team because he's the big alum. They look at me, and one of the guys like, he's like, Ferguson, you wanna do it too? I was like, I absolutely will do the walk of champions. So I got to do the walk of champions. Well, so I have video, and I'm like, I mean, I'm seeing the kids, it was amazing. Then we got in the stadium before anyone else, and we got to play football on the field. So I'm throwing with with with with Mike, and and we're getting to play on the field, and he was like, See if you can catch me. Really? And that video makes me look very, very, very slow. Uh, and then all these other uh famous uh omest players are there, they're throwing the ball, so it's like our most
Ben Ferguson 1:59
Dex McCluster. I mean it was all these famous guys that played there and it was just one of those it was probably the coolest day of my when you love a team, that is like the best day ever. And then I got to stay on the sideline the entire game. Oh, you were on the sideline for the first time. Oh, you were on the
Ted Cruz 2:10
sideline for the game. I didn't know that.
Ben Ferguson 2:12
The whole game. So the entire game. And and he got out there at half you know, it w at one of the stops in the game and they play the highlight video and everything. And so we were there the entire time on the sideline. And I got to be on the field when we won. And then when we got the touchdown, our end zone, I was like four feet from the ball. So if my phone blows up 'cause people that were watching on ABC they see me like losing in the i by the end zone. So it was like it was like the best day. Everybody was like, man, like uh they're you're all over TV right now, which was like it's so funny. You and I do TV and that's like normal. No one really texts, you know, when you're on Fox. But if you're on the end zone in the corner at the LSU almost game, your phone lights up.
Ben Ferguson 2:49
So it was it was the best day ever and it was fireworks and everything. It was just and the Lane Kiffin when that when LSU came out, I have never heard a more extreme Scream of booing in my entire life and I enjoyed every I was like insert this directly in my veins and I can't I have as you can hear my voice last night I ha I didn't get home last night There was so many people there. It took me an hour to get off campus. Took me another two hours to get home. So I got to my parents' house at 3.20 in the morning. My flight I had to be there at 5 a.m. So I took a 45 minute nap.
Ted Cruz 3:22
Well and and I will say you very kindly invited me to come to the game and and and I you would have been on the field.

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