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BREAKING NEWS: The SEC and BIG 10 form advisory committee · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Inhale two three Full Exhale two three Full five six Ladies and the Steel bring
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  the heats. Mix it NonStop, stop, non stop with a Happy Friday
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  quick cast coming up right now on your podcasting device wherever you're at. Happy
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  Friday. I hope you're having a great day. We will not be on
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  three to six today. I have so personal stuff I have to take care
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  of this afternoon back Monday three to six with Chris Landry as we get ready
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  for the Super Bowl. But we have breaking news in college sports right now,
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  breaking news and college sports coming your way right now, breaking news coming
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  out of the SEC office. That's the Southeastern Conference. The SEC and Big
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  Ten have a fly formed an advisory group. This is massive, massive news
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  in the college world as the NCAA continues its onslaught or attempted onslaught, onslaught
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  on its member institutions. Before I get into this, I'm going to take
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  you back in time. This is highly pivotal to the breakaway that I've been
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  talking about for years now, and others have talked about it as well.
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  My producer just yesterday Bev said, Jake, you've been talking about this breakaway
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  for over five years. I don't think it's ever going to happen. I
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  said, the wills are turning. The wills are turning. And if you
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  listen to my show, you know that I've always held Greg sank in high
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  regard Nick Saban in high regard. And then at some point those two figures
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  would lead a charge for a breakaway in college football. And you look at
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  name, image and likeness and the collectives and everything going on with that that
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  this thing is just out of control and it needs reform. The NCAA cannot
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  bring reform. Greg Sanki gave the NCAA all the opportunity that he could give
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  them, even back a year and a half ago, said hey, we're
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  going to let them try to fix this, and if not, we may
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  have to take matters into our own hands. So he let them fumble this
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  thing around and go to Congress and do this and do that, and you
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  know, nothing has gotten done, nor will it get done. As a
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  matter of fact, it's gotten worse. Charlie Baker, the stutent new president
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  of the nc double A, has said he wanted to start wants to start
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  a subdivision where you have to get into it to find out what's in it
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  similar to if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Got
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  to buy into this bill, you know, government rhetoric, and that the
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  NCAA was going to handle paying players, but they wanted it across the board,
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  Soccer players made as much as football players, as much as basketball for
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  inclusion. Well, Greg Zanki and other commissioners, particularly the Big Ten and
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  the ACC Big twelve said, hey, they have not spoken with Charlie Baker.
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  He will not speak with them on this, even though Charlie Baker says
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  he's open to talk. Well officially after these lawsuits going on over the last
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  several months with the NCAA, and you look at the NCAA which has targeted
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  Florida State for probation, looking into the University of Miami, looking into the
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  University of Florida, the University of Tennessee. This week, as the University
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  of Tennessee now gets ready to sue the NCAA for what is honestly crappy investigating
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  work, crappy penalties that don't even relate to name, image and likeness,
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  the SEC has had enough. So today the SEC announces an SEC Big Ten
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  Advisory Committee. It reads like this quote from the SEC offices. These challenges,
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  including but not limited to recent court decisions, pending litigation, a patchwork
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  of state laws, and complex governance proposals, compel the two conferences to take
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  a leadership role in developing solutions for a substantial future in college sports. The
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  advisory Group will engage with other constituencies as necessary, including consultation with student athletes
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  and key leadership groups from within both conferences. The Big Ten and SEC have
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  substantial investment in the NCAA, and there's no question that the voices of the
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  two conferences, or our two conferences, are integral parts to governance and to
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  other reform efforts, said Big Ten Commissioner Tony Ptetti. We recognize the similarity
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  in our circumstances, as well as the urgency to address the common challenges we
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  face. Continues on it says there are similar cultural and social impacts to our
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  student athletes, our institutions, and our communities because of the new collegiate athletics
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  environment, said SEC Commissioner Greg Sank. We do not have predetermined answers to
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  the myrid questions facing us. We do not expect to agree on everything,
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  but enhancing interaction between our conferences will help to focus efforts on common sense solutions.
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  The advisory Group will have no authority to act independently and will only serve
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  as a consultating body. Its composition, character and timetable, as well as
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  specific questions it might examine, have yet to be determined. All right,
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  So it's key here that you understand they say in this we do not expect
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  to agree on everything, but enhancing interaction between our conferences will help us focus
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  efforts on common sense solutions. They do not have authority to act independently yet
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  yet. So this is a major step in what's coming in college sports,
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  particularly college football, in that there will be a breakaway of the two biggest
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  conferences and possibly some other teams to form basically a National Football League type model
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  where you have a stalar recap, where you have a commissioner, where you
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  have a players union, and multiple TV contracts. So this is the first
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  major step to see the Big ten in the SEC join on this because they
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  don't particularly agree on anything. Remember COVID, the SEC wanted to play the
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  Big ten said no, I mean, there's so many of these, right,
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  and then the battles on the field. The Big ten versus the SEC,
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  but they have to come together on this. They have to come together
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  as the two power brokers in college sports. This is big, This is
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  massive. Do not underestimate what has happened today. The Big Ten and the
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  SEC officially a form an advisory group. Tony Pattetti and Greg Sank have joined
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  forces, which means the clock is ticking. The n C Double A is
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  on its deathbed, as it should be. Have a great weekend late