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Kelley Ford talks about what needs to happen in College Athletics · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Let me get you one college football question. We got about two and a
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  half minutes here. Everything going on on Capitol Hill this week, Nick Saban
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  in DC, along with a lot of talking heads with senators and congressmen,
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  shaking hands, talking in aisle transfer portal, all this stuff. Do you
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  anticipate anything coming out of Washington or is this going to have to be handled
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  by the conferences, specifically the Big ten in the SEC before it's said and
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  done. I think college athletics as a whole. Jake is going to need
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  Washington Congress to step in and at some point do something to help legislate,
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  regulate, and govern college athletics, and I don't believe football is exempt from
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  that at this point. I do believe that college football should break away from
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  the rest of college athletics. I do not believe that college football is the
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  same as other sports. The revenue generated from it certainly is not the same.
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  With the exception of the March Madness contract with CBS Turner, no other
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  sport in college athletics even comes close in terms of revenue to what college football
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  or presents. So to me, college football should be pulled away, it
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  should be treated separately. Let all the other sports continue to be governed by
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  the NCAA run by the n double A. I mean, right now,
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  the NAA doesn't even govern the college of the FBS football. That playoff is
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  governed by the CFP. But to me, Congress is going to have to
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  step in for college athletics as a whole. And there's probably some truth to
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  the notion that Congress is going to have to sep in Washington will have to
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  step in and help govern college football as well, because right now there's different
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  rules depending on where you are in the country, which state you're in,
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  which conference you're in, and when you have that disparity in resources and rules,
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  I don't think it's good for anyone. And I'm not suggesting I want
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  to see a power to breakaway, I certainly don't, or even a power
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  for Power five breakaway, I don't. I just think the sport of football
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  needs to be pulled out of the rest of college athletics because it is so
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  different, really in terms of everything, including revenue. Kelly Forward good stuff.
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  Make sure to find his rankings and of course his projections k Forward Ratings,
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  kfoard Ratings dot com. Kelly appreciate your time as always, we'll do
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  it again next week. We'll have the bracket set, we'll have the field
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  set, and it should be really, really fun. My friend. I
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  appreciate it. Thanks Jake, always fun with you. Appreciate it.