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Bill Bender Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 3: With Jake Wibley, our two on your radio show.
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  Speaker 4: Will tee up b Bill Bender here in a bit
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  Speaker 4: Maloney's text sign Reber Godfather says, can we make Swaney
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  Speaker 4: our permanent SEC opponent.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. That is fantasmic.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, everybody would want that, right, everybody would absolutely want
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  Speaker 4: that or want that team as their permanent SEC opponent.
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  Speaker 3: Bill Bender.
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  Speaker 4: You can find him on ex Bill Bender ninety two
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  Speaker 4: and of course he is part of the Sporting News
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  Speaker 4: lead writer National Cap, the football NFL writer for the
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  Speaker 4: Sporting News.
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  Speaker 3: Bill Welcome in, sir, How are.
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  Speaker 1: You, hey, Jake, Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 3: How are you Bill? We're good.
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  Speaker 4: We've got so much going on here in the world
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  Speaker 4: of sports, you know that, from the professional side down
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  Speaker 4: to the college World Series, and then there's the ongoing
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  Speaker 4: talks at SEC spring meetings, what to do with this
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  Speaker 4: playoff everything at Washington with you know, Ted Cruz and
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  Speaker 4: Maria Cantwell's bill that they're putting out here. Bill, I
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  Speaker 4: found this line funny. I wanted to get your your
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  Speaker 4: thoughts from Maria Cantwell. She said, if the quote media right,
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  Speaker 4: where if the media rights are pulled? The bill is
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  Speaker 4: written to encourage conferences to return to a more regional competition,
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  Speaker 4: and eventually Cantwell hopes that the leagues to return to
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  Speaker 4: their previous regional makeup. She says, regionalism feels a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Regionalism feeds a lot more sports viewership. So people have
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  Speaker 4: been having fun on the text line and over the
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  Speaker 4: last twenty minutes, like how far back does she want
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  Speaker 4: us to return to? Is Swanee coming back to the SEC?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know some of us long for that a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. I do on some level, Like you rewind
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  Speaker 1: time and go back to the Big Ten in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty four, and there were ports of that I like.
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  Speaker 1: But as I've said, Jake, like you and I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be friends if college football didn't go national, correct, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like when I was growing up
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  Speaker 1: in Central Ohio, I didn't really watch the SEC with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fervor or care. You know, you knew
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  Speaker 1: who the helmets were, but you didn't know the inside
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  Speaker 1: stories that you guys know down there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And getting to learn those traditions and watch and care about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, SEC football and their fans, it's been really
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  Speaker 1: cool and I wouldn't. I think she has a point
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  Speaker 1: though that some of the regionalism has been lost, but
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  Speaker 1: that's the cost when you grow the game nationally.
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  Speaker 4: Like we have Bill Bender on your radio talking National
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  Speaker 4: College Football. Wind the edition to the program, So you
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  Speaker 4: got that going on. I'm very much a pessimist on
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  Speaker 4: anything coming out of these see I don't expect that
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  Speaker 4: thing to get off the ground. Now what's interesting, though, Bill,
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  Speaker 4: is I didn't realize this. You probably knew this that
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  Speaker 4: they need if it can somehow get off the floor.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm paraphrasing here, they need to. They have a
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  Speaker 4: minimum threshold of seventy five percent of the one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and thirty eight FBS schools to reach. You know this
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  Speaker 4: this collective, you know, revenue stream coming in here says
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  Speaker 4: if the SEC and Big ten didn't sign off on
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  Speaker 4: it and everybody else did, they would be over that
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  Speaker 4: seventy five percent. I don't see Notre Dames signing off
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  Speaker 4: on something like this. Is this a real possibility that
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  Speaker 4: the SEC and Big ten may have to eat a
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  Speaker 4: revenue share of all of college football?
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  Speaker 1: I hold not. I mean, I gues but you know
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  Speaker 1: when you hear talk about those conferences breaking away, I
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  Speaker 1: hope that doesn't happen either. You know, it's the SEC
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  Speaker 1: were to break away from the rest of college football
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  Speaker 1: at the Big ten, then you're leaving out a large
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  Speaker 1: portion of the country. And this is the needle. We
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  Speaker 1: have to thread the NFL, which you and I talked
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  Speaker 1: about all the time. I mean, I think where they've
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  Speaker 1: got college football lick is they do you care about
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  Speaker 1: a Jacksonville Houston game. You find a reason to care,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's fantasy football or something else, or you know
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  Speaker 1: who the players are, and you know, granted there are
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  Speaker 1: some Thursday nights snoosers, I'm not saying that, but they
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  Speaker 1: find a way that makes you care across the across
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  Speaker 1: the entire country. And despite college football being the national game,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's quite the same.
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  Speaker 3: No, I would agree with you. I would agree with
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  Speaker 3: you one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 4: And when you look at the SEC down at the
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  Speaker 4: spring meetings, you've got a smorgas board of comments. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: obviously Greg Sankee at least publicly is saying, hey, look
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  Speaker 4: we're not coming off the sixteen teams.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You got Danny White at Tennessee saying, hey, we need
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  Speaker 4: more uh you know, need more opportunities. So he's for
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  Speaker 4: the twenty four Kirby Smartest saying hey, I'm here for
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  Speaker 4: the breakaway. Let's let's get it on. So, I mean
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  Speaker 4: it is across the board. Everybody's got their opinions down.
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  Speaker 1: There a lot to sort out, and you know, not
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  Speaker 1: just pointing. You know, I think with the twenty fourteen
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  Speaker 1: playoff and there was more division than I thought there
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  Speaker 1: would be. You know, you saw it the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty everybody in locksteps saying the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: giving us the same quote sixteen times. Not so much
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  Speaker 1: at the SBC meeting, some different topics being spread around.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of tend to agree with Greg Thanky that
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we're like it's imminent, but they may
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  Speaker 1: head and toward that direction. And I'm surprised there's very
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  Speaker 1: little to know talk about a sixteen team format, so
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  Speaker 1: that that's the first step in them skipping right through
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  Speaker 1: that and going to twenty four So it could be inevitable.
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  Speaker 1: I get where the coaches are coming from. But I
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  Speaker 1: really liked what Mike Elko said, you know, and that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of where I stand on it. It's like it
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  Speaker 1: has to be hard. It should be hard to get
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  Speaker 1: into the playoff. It does mean something. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: channeling Jimmy Diggan from a league of their own. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, you want to be great, you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: mean something.
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  Speaker 3: No, I agree with you one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 4: Let's let's stay at college fool and pivot over to
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  Speaker 4: the Brendan Soresby saga. Obviously, the NCAA is saying no
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  Speaker 4: way know how on reinstatement, and I totally get their
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  Speaker 4: stance on this. But if I'm reading this correctly, this
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  Speaker 4: will now go to a local court and very similar
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  Speaker 4: a totally different scenarios, but very similar to Trinidad Chamberlass
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  Speaker 4: and some others we've seen. A Lubbock judge could allow
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  Speaker 4: him to play in twenty six. Is that correct?
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  Speaker 1: This could happen Monday. I don't think it will, but
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  Speaker 1: I would never rule it out. As you and I
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  Speaker 1: both know college football never disappoints in that regard, but
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  Speaker 1: it could and if it does, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying not to use too much hyperbole, but I've
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  Speaker 1: used words like catastrophic, chaotic. If you have a system
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  Speaker 1: where they allow players who have bet on games to
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  Speaker 1: continue playing, and all you have to do is I'm
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  Speaker 1: not minimizing gambling addictions by any means, but if you
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  Speaker 1: go to rehabit then you can play man. That opens
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  Speaker 1: up a huge can of worms to the integrity of
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  Speaker 1: the game and I think that would happen. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why I think he won't get it. But again, college
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  Speaker 1: football at times governed by high emotions more than logic,
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  Speaker 1: and who knows what's been on Monday.
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  Speaker 4: So let's say he obviously you know, again, there's two things. One,
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  Speaker 4: if a judge was to alive him to play, then
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  Speaker 4: that just totally almost wrecks anything. The NCAA says it's
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  Speaker 4: almost there any way. But let's say that a judge
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  Speaker 4: doesn't allow him to play. What's what's the options for Soresby.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously we want him to, you know, course
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  Speaker 4: correct on all of his you know, things that are
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  Speaker 4: going to personally. But from a football standpoint, what can
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  Speaker 4: he do?
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  Speaker 1: I pray end up the supplemental draft, right or maybe
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's something I should probably look into.
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  Speaker 1: Is could he go play an I n ai A
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  Speaker 1: or you know, something like that, a lower level DOCO
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  Speaker 1: and then come back. I guess that would be seasible.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how that would help him developmentally. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's very quarterback, but I think supplemental draft would be
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  Speaker 1: the next discussion we would have, and maybe he would
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  Speaker 1: face a punishment at the NFL level, But then maybe
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  Speaker 1: again he wouldn't because he you know, he wasn't betting
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  Speaker 1: on NFL games at the time, So I think those
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  Speaker 1: would be the options. Probably the most viable option too,
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  Speaker 1: is to give him an outlet to the supplemental Draft
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  Speaker 1: and then if he continues his career as a free agent,
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  Speaker 1: we go from there. But again think about the money
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  Speaker 1: involved from the nil piece of that, and this will
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  Speaker 1: be this is a gambling case, but there are other cases,
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  Speaker 1: and that's just going to continue to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Get him on X You could find him at Bill
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  Speaker 4: Bender ninety two. Check him out on the Sporting News
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  Speaker 4: and of course saw a lot of great stuff always
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  Speaker 4: on their site. Bill always appreciate your time and commentary. Look,
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  Speaker 4: have a great rest of the week and we'll do
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  Speaker 4: it again very soon.
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  Speaker 1: Hey anytime, Jake, thanks for having on man.
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  Speaker 3: Take care YouTube Bill Bender on your radio.
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