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Seg 5 - MBB Show Oct 31 w Tom Moore · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Well back with Tom mother Ben's Basketball Coaches show now
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  Speaker 1: shifting over as a general manager dealing with all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of things regarding personnel and il let's just get that
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  Speaker 1: cleared up, Tom, if you would name image likeness, people
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  Speaker 1: ask me about that generally, what that is really how
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  Speaker 1: does that actually play into what a player can earn
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  Speaker 1: as a player at the University of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this I think started my way back in I
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  Speaker 2: think nineteen ninety six if I'm not mistaken, and it's
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  Speaker 2: taken roughly twenty five to thirty years of court cases
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  Speaker 2: and judge's rulings to finally get the thing where basically,
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  Speaker 2: as an athlete in college can benefit financially from their
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  Speaker 2: name or their image or their likeness. So way back
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  Speaker 2: in the day, we used to just have the kids
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  Speaker 2: sign something and they wouldn't even read it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: back then where it was just like, you know, basically,
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  Speaker 2: Yukon owns their their name, their image and their likeness,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, and you can't benefit from it. And
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  Speaker 2: the kids didn't really even think twice about signing. It
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  Speaker 2: was like a one paragraph thing. Ed O'Bannon, who used
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  Speaker 2: to play at UCLA and was on that team in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety five that beat us in the final eight
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  Speaker 2: in Oakland. I think he was the first person to
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  Speaker 2: get a lawyer where I think his image was on
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  Speaker 2: one of the video game covers and he just I
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  Speaker 2: think had dawned on him, like, you know, they got
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  Speaker 2: my image, and they're selling millions and millions of these
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  Speaker 2: video games and everyone's profiting. But me and a lawyer
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  Speaker 2: sort of took his cause. And like I said, twenty
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  Speaker 2: five years later, we have the athlete's ability to earn
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  Speaker 2: money off, you know, being in a commercial social media
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  Speaker 2: post or something like that. So that's that's basically the
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  Speaker 2: nuts and bolts of it. And we're in a unique
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  Speaker 2: situation in college athletics now is that there was a
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  Speaker 2: the Revshaer model has now taken a act on July
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  Speaker 2: one of this past year where here at the University
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  Speaker 2: of Connecticut, all of our athletes are pay through revenue sharing,
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  Speaker 2: and we used to be in the last couple of
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  Speaker 2: years we were mostly a collective based situation where we've
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  Speaker 2: had some excellent collectives that helped us through those first
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  Speaker 2: I think three years of this being in place where
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  Speaker 2: we had Bleeding Blue for Good was a popular one
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  Speaker 2: stores Central, the Dmeilio Husky Fund. We had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of great boosters and donors and people who love Yukon
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  Speaker 2: athletics step forward and help organize those and a lot
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  Speaker 2: went into that, making many corporations basically in order to
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  Speaker 2: help us in those first couple of years of this
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  Speaker 2: NIL era, and it shepherded us into this new world
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  Speaker 2: where again, when the court case happened and it landed
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  Speaker 2: in favor of the revenue sharing model, everything switched over
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  Speaker 2: on July one, and we're in sort of a new
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  Speaker 2: space where it's it's at at least at Yukon, it's
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  Speaker 2: being driven away from the collectives and driven all by
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  Speaker 2: revenue sharing. There are some sec Big ten, Big twelve,
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  Speaker 2: obviously the powerful all the Power four conferences that are
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  Speaker 2: still using collectives. And what happens with that mic is
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  Speaker 2: the kids. Any kid who gets a deal over six
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars in value has to submit it to a
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  Speaker 2: national clearinghouse to get it approved. So the NCAA wants
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that there's fair market value and that
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  Speaker 2: these athletes are doing something to justify, you know, some
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  Speaker 2: of the deals that they're getting. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of red tape involved right now. It's a slow process
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  Speaker 2: right now, and a lot of the Power four conferences,
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  Speaker 2: especially on the football collectives, are really losing patients with
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  Speaker 2: the speed at which some of these deals are being adjudicated,
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we'll see it's we're at a really
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  Speaker 2: critical point, especially among the Powerfool conferences, as to how
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  Speaker 2: this is all going to play out in the next
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  Speaker 2: couple of years. But we're blessed at Yukon where David Benedict,
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  Speaker 2: our athletic director and the whole university to President Ridenka
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  Speaker 2: March is there. They've really supported us and supported all
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  Speaker 2: the sports here at Yukon through rev sharing, So we're
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  Speaker 2: blessed to be in a good situation.
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  Speaker 1: Tom. The follow up to that is, is Yukon able
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  Speaker 1: as you view it, to compete going forward with those
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  Speaker 1: Power for conferences and the kind of money they're throwing
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  Speaker 1: around to their schools on average annually they're getting from
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  Speaker 1: TV deals like the Big Ten over sixty million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: the SEC over fifty million for each school.
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  Speaker 2: How does Yukon keeped.
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  Speaker 1: Up to that and compete because obviously revenue sharing for
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  Speaker 1: them it seems like could be a bigger number, wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: it for those schools would have an advantage.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what the NCAA did, Mike, was they capped. There's
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  Speaker 2: like basically every athletic department has a salary cap that
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  Speaker 2: they can pay a maximum amount of money that they
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  Speaker 2: can pay all their athletes in totality. This year it's
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  Speaker 2: twenty point five million, and not every school. Some schools
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  Speaker 2: are going right to twenty point five Obviously, all the
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  Speaker 2: powerful schools that have huge football programs are going past that.
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  Speaker 2: And how they go past that is again they're keeping
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  Speaker 2: some of these collectives alive and trying to get some
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  Speaker 2: deals through that way. That's where a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: sort of chaos I guess what's happening with are these
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  Speaker 2: deals legitimate and are they being ruled on quick enough?
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  Speaker 2: Here at Yukon, we are all of our athletic teams
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  Speaker 2: are managed under the twenty point five million dollar cap.
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  Speaker 2: Next year the cap will go up for every NCAA school.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure, but it'll go up a percentage
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. But yeah, it's uh, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: crazy times. Like I said, more so for the schools
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  Speaker 2: in the power forwards with the football programs because something's
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  Speaker 2: gotta something's got to give. Either the NCAA is going
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  Speaker 2: to enforce some pretty severe penalties or well, they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to get some of these deals sort of ruled
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  Speaker 2: upon quicker. There's going to be some court cases and
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a very uncertain future in the next
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  Speaker 2: year or two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking about Tom Moore a general manager now
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  Speaker 1: the Yukon basketball program. More big picture stuff, a little
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  Speaker 1: bit on the roster and the schedule coming up when
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  Speaker 1: we return on The Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show.