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Vince Ferrara on Tennessee and the NCAA · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  But this Charlie Baker n C Double A Tennessee story is wild and it looks
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  like, kind of take us through this and your thoughts on this. It
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  looks like though the n C Double A may have bitten off more they can
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  chew here with Tennessee. Yeah, there's some of these layers. I'll just
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  try to you know, be general and fly through it. Basically, you
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  had the s story from PAS forty. It was kind of you know,
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  it didn't have super specifics in it in what the investigation was pertaining to The
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  New York Times. You had a follow up and said, it's about a
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  private jet flight of Nico and you know it could have been from a booster,
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  which the NCAA now is sort of trying to redefined a lot of those
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  collectives as boosters, and they're trying to retroactively put in punishment and they're starting
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  to go after schools for that. So they After that story came out,
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  Donne Plowman, the chancellor at the University of Tennessee, she came out with
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  a strong statement saying that hey, this, uh, you know, this
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  whole setup is chaotic. The guidelines are you know, are just you know,
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  terrible to be able to or inconclusive and some of the the alleged facts
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  of some of the points of the investigation are are just actually untrue. And
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  she took a strong statement. She tried to, She says, they tried
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  to meet with Charlie Baker and and talk about the NIL landscape and what what
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  could do because so many of the rules, as everybody knows, is really
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  vague, and they couldn't get a meeting with with him. He wasn't available,
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  but they were disappointed in that. And then there's so many aspects of
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  it. So then the Spire Sports came out. That's the big collective that
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  really is in the nation's leader and collectives that they really got the ball rolling
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  and maybe the most prominent of all the collectives around the country based here in
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  notxll. So they they came out with a statement saying, look, this
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  the deal was for you know, for Nico, not for any specific school.
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  It applied for him as a college athlete until he went pro. And
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  plus it's all of it is legal based on state rules in California. And
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  that's really a lot of where the angst is from Tennessee and from other states
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  too, is that you have the NCAA with their set of alleged rules which
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  aren't really rules, and they're trying to retroactively and act them. And then
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  what the states are allowing varies and is different than a lot of times with
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  the NCAA will. So there's so many elements of it. And then today
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  the Attorney General for the state of Tennessee and Virginia jointly filed suit against the
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  NCAA for how they're handling the the Nile landscape. And and so you know,
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  the governor came out and support of it. Cz A D. You
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  know, everybody's shiming in really in supporting the president of the university. So
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  everybody's in support of this. Uh it. There's so many more layers to
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  it than I could kind of get to just in our convo. But you
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  know, Tennessee is a target for the ncaa A because Aspire Sports and now
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  you know how they are the leader of the NCAA is going to show that
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  they have teeth and try to keep the pay for play set up. That's
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  the wail wild West right now that they're they're going to have to do it
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  against a big schools. They do it against somebody from the bottom of them
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  of a group of five conference, that's not going to move the needle.
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  They need to to bring it to one of the big schools. That's why
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  you're seeing Florida State, Florida and now Tennessee. Really so Tennessee is standing
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  their ground and they're going to defend themselves big time. And now you have
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  you know, government and politics and involved in it. So I think it's
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  going to be is going to be way more than what the NCAAA can deal
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  with with everything else they're already dealing with. But it definitely is something to
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  talk about and then we'll continue to develop. In one other quick thing that
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  she mentioned, they have not been there's not been a notice of allegations submitted
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  to Tennessee, but that is expected to come soon from what I've heard legal
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  analysts say. Vince Ferira breaking down the Tennessee situation with NCAA. When's the
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  edition of the programming should find him on Exit Vince Sports and the Events,
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  just a comment on that. It just feels like, you know, Charlie
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  Baker who came out with a subdivision idea and he loft at it to Congress,
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  and hey, you know we got this new deal we want you guys
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  to opt into. And then you know, Greg Sankie said, hey,
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  look, we haven't really taught to Charlie about that, and I'm paraphrasing,
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  and then a lot of other big players in college sports said the same thing.
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  So this feels like his way of trying to strong arm the you know
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  players, the big players in sports. And I don't think it's going to
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  pan out.