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Big Changes Coming To The Big Ten's Availability Report · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Monday, August 31st. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom Orr. The Ball State game in five days.
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  Speaker 1: officially an Ohio State football game week. and welcome in
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  Speaker 1: Tony Gerderman of BuckeyeInsiders.com because we were going through our
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  Speaker 1: game week plans and putting together the 57, maybe slightly exaggerating,
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  Speaker 1: but probably not by much, 57 podcasts that we are
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  Speaker 1: looking at doing in the advance of the first game
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. And one of the things that is going
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  Speaker 1: to be very different this year is the availability report
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  Speaker 1: that has in the past been something that we would
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  Speaker 1: get on Saturday morning, be able to talk about on
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  Speaker 1: the pregame show and just say, hey, Here's the list.
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  Speaker 1: These guys are out. These guys are questionable. These guys
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  Speaker 1: are game time decision, whatever it is. Tony, that is
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  Speaker 1: going to be very, very different in several ways, starting
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  Speaker 1: with the fact that we're going to get that much
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the week. Sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Much earlier in the week and much more often. Now
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  Speaker 2: the initial availability report will, if you're playing on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: you'll get one on Wednesday or they'll put one out
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  Speaker 2: on Wednesday and And that's for every Big Ten team.
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  Speaker 2: And then each day up until kick, there will be
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  Speaker 2: another update to that availability report leading up to the
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  Speaker 2: standard two-hour prior to kickoff final availability report, which we've
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  Speaker 2: all known and loved over the last few years. As Tom,
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  Speaker 2: you were talking about the podcast. It just made me
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  Speaker 2: realize that that's three more instant reaction shows every time
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  Speaker 2: there's There's a new availability report. Is it different than yesterday's?
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't matter. It's out now. We need to talk
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we have lots of time to have editorial meetings
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  Speaker 1: about those new availability reports and how we're going to
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  Speaker 1: handle them. Because does that mean all the stuff we
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  Speaker 1: just said, does that mean that it's going to happen
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  Speaker 1: this Wednesday? No, friends, there is not going to be
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  Speaker 1: a new availability report this Wednesday because this is just
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  Speaker 1: a Big Ten rule. So it just applies for games
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  Speaker 1: between Big Ten teams. Because if you're playing a team
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  Speaker 1: from the SEC, like they are in week two against
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  Speaker 1: Texas or Kent State in week three against the MAAC team,
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  Speaker 1: they have different rules. And you're not going to give
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  Speaker 1: your availability to report rules out and give that away
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  Speaker 1: if the other team isn't following the exact same procedures.
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  Speaker 1: So this doesn't actually start until the first Big Ten games,
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  Speaker 1: which are the week of September 19th. And even then,
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  Speaker 1: it's only games between two Big Ten teams. This is
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  Speaker 1: a huge change that's coming. Is it coming this week? No,
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  Speaker 1: it's coming later. We'll get there in a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that we're not going to have an availability
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  Speaker 1: report this week for Ball State or for the Texas game,
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  Speaker 1: that's a little bit new as well. But when we
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  Speaker 1: do have availability reports, how guys are categorized on that
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  Speaker 1: is going to be, for Big Ten play, that's going
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  Speaker 1: to change a little bit as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's classifications and designations, as I say. You've
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  Speaker 2: got Probable, questionable, doubtful, out, and out, parentheses, first half.
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  Speaker 2: And that could be for any couple of number of
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  Speaker 2: reasons that somebody's missing the first half of a game.
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  Speaker 2: Generally won't be because of the targeting rule, which has
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  Speaker 2: been a little bit abolished in terms of somebody having
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  Speaker 2: to miss the first half of the next game. But the.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, what is the threshold between probable and questionable, doubtful,
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  Speaker 2: like all of these things. And then as you're watching
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  Speaker 2: it from day to day, well, you know, so-and-so is probable,
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  Speaker 2: now they're doubtful. It's like you skipped questionable, you just
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  Speaker 2: went from probable to doubtful. We've missed something. What has happened?
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  Speaker 2: And so there'll be maybe some drama that way or
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  Speaker 2: you'll be watching each day where somebody is doubtful and
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  Speaker 2: then the next day he's questionable. You're like, oh, come on.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, let's see probable. Let's see probable.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: you know, Tom, I think this is just all, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is the Big Ten looking out for content.
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  Speaker 1: Is the Big Ten looking out for content? Yes. But
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  Speaker 1: it also feels like, you know, we were talking before
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  Speaker 1: the show, why is this a thing now? Why did
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  Speaker 1: this become a thing? And Tony, I can't help but
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  Speaker 1: notice that this really became a thing nationally to different
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  Speaker 1: degrees in different conferences. But boy, howdy, that sure did
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  Speaker 1: correspond with the rise in sports betting, didn't it?
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  Speaker 2: It sure did. And I think one of the, the
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  Speaker 2: main driving force was basically to just put the information
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  Speaker 2: out there so that nobody's being pressured to give it,
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  Speaker 2: or so nobody's getting, you know, roped into something that
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  Speaker 2: would get them kicked out of school, suspended and no
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  Speaker 2: longer allowed to play college football or college sports, what
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  Speaker 2: have you. So this is just kind of open source
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  Speaker 2: situation where nobody can now monetize it and everybody has it. And,
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  Speaker 2: You just go from there. And now this takes it
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  Speaker 2: to another degree, which I don't know how necessary this is,
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  Speaker 2: but clearly it's been an issue or else they wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have opened it even more, I would say.
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  Speaker 1: I think my big question here, and this is far
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  Speaker 1: from the thing that would be the top of the
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  Speaker 1: list of questions I would ask under this umbrella, that
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  Speaker 1: umbrella being no one is actually in charge of college football.
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  Speaker 1: There is not a, you know, there is not a
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  Speaker 1: college football commissioner. There is not, it's like the NCAA
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  Speaker 1: sort of oversees it, but do they oversee the postseason? No.
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  Speaker 1: Do they oversee, you know, a lot of the rules involving, like, no,
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  Speaker 1: there's not, there's not a person who just is like
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  Speaker 1: the commissioner of the NFL who just says, I'm in
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  Speaker 1: charge and these are the rules. That's not how it works.
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  Speaker 1: My question with this is, why can't all these conferences
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  Speaker 1: get together and just have like, here's the policy, like
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  Speaker 1: figure it out. Like what, what is the policy? And
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  Speaker 1: you want to bring in your overlords from the sports
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  Speaker 1: book of your choice to, to tell you how you want,
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  Speaker 1: how they want you to do it. Like, fine, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Just figure out a consistent policy. Cause there's no reason
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  Speaker 1: we shouldn't have an availability report for the Texas Ohio
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  Speaker 1: state game. That's I'm going to guess that one or
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  Speaker 1: two people are going to throw down a few shekels
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  Speaker 1: on that game, one direction or another. So, Why would
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  Speaker 1: you not have this for a, just having, they have
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  Speaker 1: a college football playoff policy. Why don't you just make
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  Speaker 1: the college football playoff policy, the policy for the entire sport? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You understand why the big 10 is not going to
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  Speaker 2: do it for non-conference games because it's all about the
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  Speaker 2: playoffs now. And so why give Texas an advantage over
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  Speaker 2: Ohio state or whatever? So like I get that, but also, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like if you're trying to, Protect players from gambling. What
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  Speaker 2: is more important to you, protecting your conference in terms
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  Speaker 2: of making the playoffs or protecting the players from the
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  Speaker 2: gambling that you say is the reason why you've done
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  Speaker 2: the availability report? So if you're not making this mandatory,
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  Speaker 2: like if the Big Ten's not making it mandatory for
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  Speaker 2: all games, then it would seem like, well, if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have them weigh the two, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: side with, look, nobody's going to get in trouble for gambling,
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  Speaker 2: but we could lose a game if somebody knows that
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  Speaker 2: somebody's going to be out. So let's just go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and we'll risk it. so that Ohio State can make
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. But overall, yeah, you've got so many different
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  Speaker 2: arms of this wanting to get rid of prop bets,
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  Speaker 2: which for sure, right? And all of this trying to
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  Speaker 2: keep players not just safe from themselves, but safe from
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  Speaker 2: others attacking them for a fumble or not. You were
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  Speaker 2: three yards short. I had you at 82 yards. You
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  Speaker 2: rushed for 79. I hope you die. That sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: where if you want to protect them, absolutely have one
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  Speaker 2: universal rule. But again, now we're at the point we're
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  Speaker 2: dealing with the Protect College Sports Act where conferences are
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  Speaker 2: kind of being forced to set their own rules so
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  Speaker 2: that they can have them. And then even with a
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  Speaker 2: conference like the SEC that has their own rules, now
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  Speaker 2: you've got like a local Baton Rouge judge saying, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: you don't. And it's, Tom, I'm so glad the games
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