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Michael Bratton on the NCAA · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Michael Bratton that SEC podcast. You can find him on x just search SEC
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  Mike. Find him on Apple iTunes YouTube Unbelievable SEC Football Show Year Round three
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  sixty five twenty four seven, three sixty five. Mike, Welcome in,
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  sir. How are you hey? Doing good and speaking of good? And
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  that's that's where I'm ready to put the NCAA. Man. I'm right to
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  where I wanted to go. So, man, this story is so fascinating,
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  and that on several levels, because you know, we've watched the NCAA
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  kind of crawl around here in pop Florida state, going after Miami, going
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  after Florida, now after Tennessee. We saw Charlie Baker. You know,
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  he's he's wanting to push people into this subdivision that he wants to create to
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  control nil and the dollars that come in and and and you know Greg Sank
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  he wants none of this. The big players want none of this. So
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  he has decided that he is going to wage war with his member schools.
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  And now he is on the doorsteps of Tennessee. But it looks like he
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  might have been off more than he could. You here, yeah, and
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  I you didn't even reference the part where when this Baker got in there,
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  Jake, I mean, what what did he say? He just said,
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  you know, we got we gotta have the federal government do something. I
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  mean, how worthless is this guy? I mean, I mean, I
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  have no no knowledge of any inner workings of the n C double A or
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  the federal government. But I could have told you that was that was just
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  not even a hail Mary, it was. It was worse than that.
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  So h just total incompetence in my opinion of what they're trying to do.
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  They're trying to retroactively punish Tennessee for something that was not against the rules at
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  the time, and as Tennessee has stated, I mean, it's and as
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  we all know there what are the rules? I mean that it's not even
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  clearly defined and it never has been. And at the end of the day,
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  I don't I don't think Tennessee's got anything to worry because five years ago,
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  ten years ago, they have got pop for this, of course,
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  but to my knowledge, they've broken no laws and their nil spire grewp is.
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  I mean, they have done the contract, so to speak, so
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  that so none of this is even Tennessee related. So just to be clear,
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  is this all about a propos a flight for Nico Iamalevo or LoVa pounce
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  his name? Everybody does it differently. Is this about a flight that he
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  took on a Booster's plane? Is that? Is that what the rub is
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  here? No? I think, ultimately, and the details are still yet
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  to come out fully, but I think what they're trying to get him on
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  is just essentially inducement giving an nal contract to attend the University of Tennessee.
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  Now I have seen the contract and it doesn't even say anywhere in there the
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  University of Tennessee. It doesn't mention playing football. It just says wherever you
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  go, you know, you get X amount for however long you're there.
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  It goes into much further detail, but at no point does it say,
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  I mean he could have went to Alabama, he could have went to Georgie
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  and it would not have affected his deal. Now, common sense Tennessee collective
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  signs them they want him to go to Tennessee. I get it. But
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  again, that's why there's lawyers, and that's why a sports agency is at
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  the top of Tennessee's collective because there's laws and guidelines given and They followed it
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  to a T Michael Bratton on your radio. That SEC podcast is where you
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  can find his work. Of course, find him on x at Michael W.
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  Brtton just search SEC Mike and find his podcast on YouTube, Apple,
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  iTunes and several of the platforms as well. Yeah, you know, that's
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  what's interesting about this. And I always go back to the twenty twenty one
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  one sheet, as I call it, just a simple white paper the NCAA
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  put out on nil name, image and Lightness and collectives. It's about four
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  bullet points. It's very vague giving clearance to this to create rules within your
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  state and now the NCAA, And I like, how I know you retweeted
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  at jd paqul with on three framed it he said, this is not tennis
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  versus the nc double A. This is college football versus the NCBLA. This
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  is Charlie Baker trying to strong arm college football. And I just don't know
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  that this is going to turn out the way he thinks it is. No,
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  No, it's certainly not. Because I'll tell you, Jake, if
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  Tennessee is guilty of whatever they're they're saying they're guilty of, then every SEC
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  school short of Banker Belt is just as guilty because we all know what's going
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  on behind the scenes. And again, this was just this could have all
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  been avoided had they found a way to pay the players long ago. But
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  they decided, hey, we're not going to pay him, but we'll make
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  it legal to where others can pay him. Just you know, don't do
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  it as an inducement. But that's exactly what it was, and that's what
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  it is across the board. But again, how do you prove that Tennessee's
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  collective is not going to come forth and provide that information in the nc double
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  a. Nico and his family's not going to come forward and provide that information
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  in the ncuble A. So I think this is you've already seen there the
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  state of Tennessee, the State of Virginia's filed lawsuit against the NCAA, and
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  last I checked, Jake, the NCUBLEA is about over in the last ten
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  years of any kind of lawsuit. Yeah. Yeah, they have not won
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  any of these, and I don't expect them to do that as well.
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  Hey, let's talk