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NIL Gone Wild: Georgia's Quarterback Sues Florida's Head Coach · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Wednesday, May twenty second. I'm your host,
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  Tom Moore. The Akron game in one hundred and one days, the
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  game against Michigan in one hundred and ninety two days. It has been a
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  tumultuous, let's say, year or two in the college football world, and
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  things got a little crazier on Tuesday with the announcement that there's a lawsuit between
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  a college football player, a current college football player, and the sitting head
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  coach of what is now his team's arch rival. Oh boy, it's about
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  nil. Just when you thought it couldn't get any crazier and you or any
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  stupider here we are Jaden Ershada suing Billy Napier at Florida. Oh man.
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  So we're gonna try to be talking about this because this feels like this might
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  not be the last time you hear something like this happening. And boy,
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  I don't know how school how much schools are going to like this. I
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  suspect not very much. We're going to bring in Tony Gerderman if Buckehuddle dot
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  com to talk about it. Tony, I guess let's start with well,
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  first of all, Jade Rashada is now the quarterback back quarterback at Georgia.
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  I did not realize that until that until that story story came across. He
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  was at Arizona State last year. So the backup quarterback at Georgia now suing
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  the head coach of Florida among others. Can you explain a little bit about
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  why he's doing that well? And the lawsuit says that Florida coach Billion Napier
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  and a Florida Gator booster and part of their collective defrauded reshout out out of
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  quote millions of dollars by backing out on a promised thirteen point eighty five million
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  dollar agreement over the course of four years. I think that comes out to
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  about three point five million per year had he stayed all four years and didn't
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  receive any of that. In fact, another part of the lawsuit is based
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  on the fact that by agreeing to this lost agreeing to this deal that never
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  came to be. He missed out on what he said like a nine million
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  dollar deal from Miami. So there's some damages there for that, but also
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  like some of the only money, or maybe the only money that he got
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  from Florida he had to use to pay back Miami and Miami booster John Ruiz
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  for the money that he got fronted. Basically, so this one is a
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  boy. This is straight out of the program. If they reboot the program
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  the movie the program Fame to College Football movie from the nineties, it would
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  involve something like this. Yeah, it is a pretty wild tale. And
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  this was one of the This is one that you sort of knew was kind
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  of going off the rails even as it was happening. You sort of heard
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  the You heard the talk that you know, he had gotten some enormous sum
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  of money from from Florida or had at least been promise that, and then
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  very quickly, as soon as this, as soon as he signed, you
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  heard, well, now you know, now this has sort of fallen through
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  and he transferred virtually immediately. This is where I'm sure there are going to
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  be other cases like this. I'm going to be so fascinated to see what
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  documentation is there, because you hear all of these crazy NL numbers, and
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  you know, behind the scenes we get told sometimes you know, you hear
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  a number and you behind the scenes you get told like a third of that
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  that's not that's not even close to the actual number. I am going to
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  be so interested to see was an SEC head coach stupid enough to put something
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  in writing, either via text or via I don't know, contract or something.
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  That's going to be fascinating to see. I'm going to be also interested
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  to see how how strongly does Florida defend itself here because Florida is not actually
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  a named party in this. The university is not a named party in this.
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  It's the head coach. So the university, which is probably not all
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  that thrilled with Billy Napier's on field performance since he took over as the head
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  coach, this might actually be an opportunity for Florida to if Billy Napier has
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  done something stupid and put something in writing. Boy, this feels like this
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  might be a real opportunity for Florida to rid itself of a rittenself of a
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  football coach that they might not be all that thrilled with right now. Yeah,
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  Billy Napier eleven and fourteen at Florida six and ten in SEC place and
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  is coming over from Louisiana Lafayette, So yeah, this would be an easy
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  way to get out of what is I'm sure still a very fat contract.
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  But yeah, I'm interested to see there are some text messages coming out now,
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  and with the attorneys that are involved, and the fact that you have
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  agents on attorneys trying to make these deals happen, there's going to be such
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  a paper trail that is going to really put people in a really bad light
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  or in a light. I do wonder can will the NCAA do anything about
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  this, because right now any type of punishment about some nil stuff is going
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  to be almost like instantly litigated. All though, as you said, Florida
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  might be like, uh, we're not this is We're not part of this.
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  This is all on the napyersel. If you want to go after him,
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  more power to you because we will help you. And so I'm still
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  fascinated to find out what happens with the Miami aspect of this, because the
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  lawsuit alleges that there's a promise from Miami or the collectives or John Ruiz Life
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  wallet, the money people at Miami of nine and a half million dollars,
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  and John Ruiz on Tuesday came out and said, no, it was never
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  anywhere near that amount. We offered him a much smaller amount, and so
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  just the the correspondence that will come out of this. And the thing is
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  to the thing I love about this is players have been going to school for
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  money because they've been offered they've been paid or offer of payments for ever,
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  and players have been getting the the money. People have been backing out on
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  those on that money forever as well. Don't tell me this is the first
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  time this has ever happened. But you couldn't go forward anymore. It's like
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  calling the cops to say, hey, somebody just tell my drugs, you
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  know, can can I can I get some help here? You can't do
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  anything about it before. Now you can actually do something about it because it's
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  it's out in the open. And so I do wonder how much more will
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  see of this or how much you you If you are going to make promises,
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  you better file a few on them. That's both the player and the
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  outlets, you know, promising the money. Because look at look at Marvin
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  Harrison and fanatics. Right now, Marvin Harrison is being to by fanatics,
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  so like we're getting into a uh retigious college football has been for the last
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  couple of years. Now you're seeing it individually as well, and if promises
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  are made, promises better be kept. Yeah, and then the question is,
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  now now the players have more recourse in this kind of thing. The
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  question is what kind of recourse does the NCAAA have, Because you get to
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  remember, the NCAA was going after Tennessee in a sort of a related matter
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  a little while ago, and then the Tennessee state legislature just said, nope,
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  now you can now this is all legal. Crime is now legal in
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  the state of Tennessee. And so that has kind of brought the NCAA enforcement
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  thing to a halt, which means there's a pretty good roadmap if the NCAAA
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  wants to go after schools for this. So I don't know how much they're
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  going to be able to go after them. That's that is all kind of
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  TBD at this point. So that covers one big money college football news story
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  on Tuesday. Another one coming out of State College a bigger sum of money,
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  much bigger sum of money. Penn State is announced the board approved a
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  up to seven hundred million dollar renovation of Beaver Stadium. You know, Tony,
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  we have been to Beaver Stadium many times over the years. We are
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  going back there again this fall. I can't wait to bump my head on
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  the ceiling in the press box, which is too low because there are exposed
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  beams. That is a tradition unlike any other. This is you know,
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  Penn State's you know, Beaver Stadium. Also from the outside, people have
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  long said it looks like an erector set. Like it's it has been done
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  very piecemeal over the years, and they've added stuff here and there. They've
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  done a major renovation in more than twenty years. Though now it sounds like
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  big, big changes are coming. You see some of these renderings and it
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  looks like the erector set aspect of it is gone. And I think that's
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  obviously a step in the right direction. But the first time I saw this
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  seven hundred million dollars, I was like, for for what, like what
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  does a new stadium cost? Like twice that? And and this is this
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  is something where you immediately think, like, Ohio Stadium has been around for
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  over one hundred years now, there's been no talk about anything, and then
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  to Penn State just to pop up with like seven hundred million dollars or proposed
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  this is, Hey, this is all it's gonna cost, and this is
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  what it's going to be. And it's the modernization of you know, widening
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  concourses, escalators. Fortunately, some press box amenities and and and I do
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  know that they when when we complain or when I complain about the press box
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  is somebody at Penn State it's like, well it was just renovated recently,
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  and I think you said twenty years. I don't know if if that was
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  part of that, but it's a dangerous place. I mean, you got
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  some wonky steps, you got some narrow walkways. It's like you ever see
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  like like like a cat try to walk through a tube and turn around in
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  that tube and it's like, you know, you don't really have that much
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  room. That's that's what the food line is in a Penn State press box.
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  Or you're going through these narrow, narrow walkways and you're trying to come
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  back. So it's it's a terrible venue. Now that's just one aspect.
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  I'm sure more there's a reason that you want to do this and that people
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  want this done. Recruiting is one small aspect of it. But I do
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  wonder Tom, once this happens, does this start forcing other Big ten programs
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  to start looking at what they've got, and we know Ohio Stadium, did
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  the facade gosh, what was that twenty years ago? Now at this point
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  does this start to kick off another arms race? That's I think the answer
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  to that is, let's find out what happens with the House case, because
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  speaking of college football litigation, there's you know, there is a looming this
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  could be you know, seven to ten million dollars a year per school in
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  terms of annual payouts that you've got to have for players. That's a whole
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  separate conversation. We've talked about it on the show before, but that's a
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  whole separate conversation. I don't know that any one has a tremendous degree of
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  confidence that they know exactly what their budgets are going to look like five years
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  from now, let alone thirty years from now or whatever the time horizon on
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  paying off seven hundred million dollars worth of debt is, that is a that
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  is a gutsy move to do that right now. But Northwestern, of course
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  is torn down Ryan Field, that is building its own shiny palace that one
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  is supposed to be just privately funded and just you know, they just get
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  their new stadium and tadah, that's it. But yeah, this is this
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  is a a dicey time to be looking at at big facilities changes like that.
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  Ohio State has talked about real redoing the Woody Hayes Athletic Center or upgrading
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  it or whatever whatever that ends up being. That's another one where boy,
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  there's that's a lot of money tied up there, and you know that,
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  I don't know how confident they are that they know exactly where that money's coming
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  from yet, because there are a lot of there's a lot of uncertainty,
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  unbalanced sheets these days as you're sort of trying to project things moving forward in
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  the college sports realm. One thing Tony that I did think was interesting they
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  had, even if this had not gotten through, they had a list of
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  changes that we're going to get made this year at Beaver Stadium anyway. One
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  of them winterization, Tony. I think the college football winter. Winter is
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  coming, as they said on Game of Thrones, and winter is coming to
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  college football. As you may have you may be hosting college football playoff games
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  at home, and you can no longer just shut your stadium down on Thanksgiving
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  weekend. No, you got to keep that plumbing intact and ready to go
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  at a moment's notice, and it reassures that if Penn State is hosting as
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  the opportunity to host the game, they won't move it to Indianapolis or I
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  don't even know what kind of Syracuse Like, what's the closest dome stadium to
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  to Penn State at this point, I don't know. Yeah, either either
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  the Syracuse Carrier Dome or the practice Bubble at Rutgers I think would be the
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  closest domes to to Penn State. But yes, that's one of those one
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  of those little sign of the times things that you know, there's plenty of
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  change coming to college football. That's just one little small indication of what those
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  changes are going to be. If you actually want to hear us talk about
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  just did a Buckeye Weekly episode on Tuesday drafted all of the things that are
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