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The #NCAA once again has opened a Pandora’s Box of trouble that cannot be closed at this point. · The Facts with Jamal 🇺🇸🦅👊

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  You know how they say that those that are late to the party
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  always try to play catch up and when it happens, it usually ends
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  up back finally on them when they join.
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  Enter the NCAA. So the NCAA once again has found
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  themselves and yet another situation of their own creation.
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  In case you don't know what I'm referring to.
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  So today, athletes that athletes that were granted a temporary
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  restraining order, meaning that they could go back to college.
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  Now mind you, this was 30 players that would grant to that
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  today, 16 of them NFL players. Meaning as far as the NFL is
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  concerned, 'cause I really can't speak on the other sports for
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  that matter. But if NFL teams don't keep the
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  guys that you know let's say were undrafted free agents who
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  were invited to let's say rookie mini camps, even training camps
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  or OT as they aren't on the team's roster by September 1st.
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  Or even in the case of a late round pick, if by September 1st,
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  if they're not on the active foster, they can go back to
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  their college team. This is the result of the NCAA
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  once again of making two things apparently.
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  Number one, they are, as I mentioned at the top, once
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  again, being late to the party of adapting the mind times.
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  But the second thing, and this is the most glaring problem,
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  it's them trying to appease the masses by essentially trying to
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  do the right thing in the wrong way.
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  Here's what I mean by this. And look, for those of a certain
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  generation, you probably know I'm going with this.
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  For as long as the NCAA has been around, it's always had it's own
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  such rules, regulations in the way they did.
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  And especially if you are a College War fan, you know what's
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  in, again, for a certain generation.
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  You essentially watch college football at a time when it
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  seemed like every noble school, you know, as far as you know,
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  the blue chip type programs. You will hear different things
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  come out there about, you know, recruiting violations, players
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  getting paid under the table, you know, great tampering 'cause
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  really, nobody really goes class nowadays.
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  I'm sure they didn't do that back then.
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  But if it wasn't those three things, you heard of, you know,
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  boosters funneling money to players and obviously you've
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  seen programs get hammer home with severe violations for
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  breaking NCAA rules. And of course we all know about
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  SMU and how they got the quote UN quote death penalty for two
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  straight years after they were told multiple times by the NCAA
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  to knock it off or this is what's gonna happen.
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  Now obviously as in US come a long way from that.
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  We took it with two decades of being a wealth and they won't do
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  it. And like I said, we've seen how
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  they are doing now today. And like I said, this is this
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  wasn't just us and you OK. There have been handful of
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  programs in college football with the generations that have
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  done some more stuff to what SMU did back then.
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  But this is what the NCAA pretty much deserves, what it's about
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  to be at this point. So not only did you have this,
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  you know, supposedly ruling today, well, let's really go
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  back for the last really three years, ever since this
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  introduction of NIO name, image and likeness was put into place
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  where athletes can finally get compensated after they, and I'm
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  also referring to the previous generation of athletes have been
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  fighting for some sort of compensation that's now being
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  given. And of course, the expansion of
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  the transfer portal and all that.
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  They have opened a Pandora's box that is not going to be closed.
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  And I remember my dad asked me one time, he said, hey, what do
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  you think about NIL? Do you think it's sustainable?
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  And I looked him dead in the eye.
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  I said I give it three years at pass before it becomes a
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  disaster. Fast forward to three years
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  later and look where we are now. And that's why I said at the top
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  of all this, this was essentially the NCAA once again
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  being late as usual to the party and trying to essentially clean
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  up some things by doing it the right way but not understanding
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  they have been doing it the wrong way.
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  Here's the problem, you know, with this rule of diamonds from
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  earlier, the problem is if you're a college athlete that,
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  well, what's this say for the sake of argument, OK, 'cause
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  this is mostly college football and basketball.
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  OK, if you are an athlete that had, let's say you graduated by
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  this point or left really to give the pro aspirations to try
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  and yet you wanna go back because either you're supposed
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  to tracks your draft stock isn't high or that you essentially
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  just, you know, wanna stay in college a little longer.
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  Do you realize how selfish that is?
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  Because in a way, you're not only depriving other athletes
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  that are on the horizon, that's coming into college, depriving
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  them with an opportunity to show what they can do, but you are
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  also costing yourself a chance to see what's out there in the
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  real world. And I get every situation
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  scenario fails, but This is why this ruling today.
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  And not only this ruling, but you know, if you've heard about
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  the last 2-3 weeks, whatever, you know, former college
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  football players that were either, as I said, on training
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  camp lobsters or invited to rookie main camps that you know,
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  didn't go, that didn't get drafted.
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  If you left college, regardless if you signed the contract or
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  not, you shouldn't be allowed to come back.
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  Especially the first part, if your name is on the dotted line,
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  it has signature you 'cause it's like if you are really, if
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  you're young to the right that it is 'cause if you are allowing
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  these guys to go back to coverage even after their
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  eligibility is up. And in this case, we don't know
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  what the maximum number of years is at this point or if they left
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  early. But like I said, you signed a
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  contract or I've been given a substantial amount of money at
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  this point, you shouldn't be allowed to even consider coming
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  back. So it's like, why are you
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  ultimately letting these guys come back once they left?
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  This is what happens ultimately when and again, you can kind of
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  tie this in a way to society, but this is the result of people
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  not wanting to grow up. Now that part of it, you know,
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  it's kinda underlined, but Theresa's own.
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  But the thing I don't understand it.
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  And again, This is why the NCAA has only themselves blameful.
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  And I'm going to mention one name that's been focal about
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  this for some time now, who happens to be the greatest
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  college football coach of all time.
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  And that's Nick's shape. Nick Saban, right up until his
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  retirement a couple years ago. He has said that once in IL and
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  the expansion of the transfer portal was installed, he said
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  there had to be some form of structure in place because he
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  essentially forewarned that if there wasn't some sort of
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  agreement place or structure, this would get out of here.
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  And of course, not surprisingly, those that were against it were
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  those that just simply hated the guy 'cause he won pretty much
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  all the time. But do you know who fell in that
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  same category? And it wasn't just safe, OK, You
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  had. And even though some of them
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  were getting older at that point, it wasn't Saban, just him
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  alone. It was my success key from Duke
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  legendary basketball coach, it was Roy Williams at one point,
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  you know, Tom ISO, I believe, had said something along those
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  lines. But he's obviously still
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  coaching who knows for how long at Michigan State.
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  And then you got the ones, you know, going back to college
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  football, you know, Kurt Ferns, you know, who was one of the
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  saving systems at one point? PSS Something about it, who was
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  elected to Iowa? Kurt Ferns.
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  I'm sorry. The point is when you
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  essentially try to do too much to try and make sure everything
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  is, you know, right and all that, if you're the NCAA, you
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  essentially unknowingly create a whole mess of problems that
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  really didn't need to happen. And if you're wondering if I was
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  on the fence about, you know, players getting some sort of
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  financial compensation, all that, you know, it was pretty
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  much back and forth with me because on the one hand, I
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  wanted to see maybe some structural short take place
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  where maybe something like that happens down the line.
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  The only thing was I said if there was going to be something
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  of that sort, there has to be structure, there has to be a
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  clear level of OK, if we wanna do this, how is it going to
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  happen? How is it going to be, you know,
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  in a way kinda even out if you will, so that you know, it
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  doesn't screw everybody. And lo and behold.
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  And again, this is what the NCAA ultimately gets for century
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  trying to do too much. So in a way, not only did they
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  go about this the wrong way, but they essentially with this
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  ruling coming down today and you know, you see the plethora
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  players, college football and basketball, you know, trying to
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  make a comeback into college. What they are essentially saying
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  is not only did we do this the wrong way, but we essentially
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  messed this up. And that's me being or me using,
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  I'm sorry, a cleaner version, but it was essentially them
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  saying we messed up here. And now you're seeing the
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  aftermath of all this. I can't sit here and tell you
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  how many times that you keep that I would, you know, you
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  watch one of the Sports Hawk shows or you know, just having
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  to score on ESPN app. I can't tell you how many times
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  I have looked into things where somebody were to say, well, what
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  was the NCAA thinking as far as this?
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  They weren't thinking at all. And here's how I know this
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  because they were so I guess hell bent on trying to
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  essentially find a way to get this done, that they didn't
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  ultimately factor in the long term and the repercussions of
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  what this could be if they went through it.
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  But because they wanted to essentially try to make sure
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  everybody got theirs and that everybody, you know, was
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  satisfied this was the end result.
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  Or this is, I'm sorry, the end result.
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  But the one thing that really sticks out to me more than
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  anything is that none of this thing needs to happen.
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  And here's what I mean by this. None of this needs to happen
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  because again, when you try to ultimately catch up at the you
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  have been late to the party and set in your own ways millions of
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  times going back again from the really a certain generation, the
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  70s. This is what you get.
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  And on top of that, when you try to ultimately appease the masses
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  and making sure everybody's happy, you're going to end up
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  looking completely foolish by the end of all.
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  And so do I have any sympathy for the NCAA?
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  Absolutely not. Cause again, they bought this on
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  themselves by gaining their own way once again.
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  Now, do I believe they are going to find a way to seek outside
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  help to clean up this mess? I mean, they probably don't have
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  any other choice, but I'm the same right now.
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  The next time you try to make everyone happy and try to make
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  sure that everything is quote UN quote balanced and fair, why not
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  go through and evaluate every single repercussion that could
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  come with trying to make it happen as far as an idea?
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  'Cause ultimately you're going to end U on the wrong side of a
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  lot of things unfolding. There you go, as you see right
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  now.