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Vince Ferrara Joins the Show to Talk About Tennessee Taking on the NCAA · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Vince Ferrara. You can find him at Vince Sports on X. Also co
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  hosts six A to nine A in the Great State of Tennessee, The Sports
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  Animal ninety nine point one, also part of the Balls Radio Network. He
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  is on the Maloneroofing Call on Vince. Welcome in, sir, how's you
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  Wednesday. It's good. It's good. Just catching up on some Senior Bowl
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  practice. Tennessee didn't have a big representation there, but they do have Joe
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  Milton. That quarterback has done a nice job, so obviously he is so
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  the lightning Rod, a lot of different opinions on him. So I'm good,
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  just catching up and just for your listeners, six to nine am Eastern
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  time. Thanks up to eighth Central. So a little bit a little bit
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  earlier when I did the show from SFCY Football Media Days, that was a
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  tough wake up to get to five am the local. But anyway, great
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  to be on with Jack. Hey, thank you so much. I appreciate
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  the correction. Yeah, I want to come back to Joe Milton since you're
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  covering Senior Bowl and such. But this Charlie Baker in CUAA at Tennessee story
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  is wild and it looks like, kind of take us through and your thoughts
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  on this. It looks like though the NCAA may have bitten off more they
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  can chew here with Tennessee. Yeah, there's so many 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 story from PAS forty. It was kind of you know, it
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  didn't have super specifics in it in what the investigation was pertaining to. The
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  New York Times, you know, had a follow up and said it's about
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  a private jet flight of Nico and you know, it could have been from
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  a booster, which the NCAA now is sort of trying to redefined a lot
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  of those collectives as boosters, and they're trying to retroactively put in punishment and
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  they're starting to go after schools for that. So they After that story came
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  out, Donne Plowman, the chancellor at the University of Tennessee, she came
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  out with a strong statement saying that hey, this, uh, you know,
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  this whole setup is chaotic. The guidelines are you know, are just
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  you know, terrible to be able to or inconclusive. And some of the
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  the alleged facts, some of the points of the investigation are are just actually
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  untrue, and she took a strong statement. She tried to, She says,
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  they tried to meet with Charlie Baker and get and talk about the nil
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  landscape and what what could do because so many of the rules, as everybody
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  knows, is really vague, and they couldn't get a meeting with with him.
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  He wasn't available, but they were disappointed in that. And then there's
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  so many aspects of it. So then the Spire Sports came out. That's
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  the big collective that really has been the nation's leader and collectives that they really
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  got the ball rolling, and maybe the most prominent of all the collectives around
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  the country based here in Naxall. So they came out with a statement saying,
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  look, this the deal was for you know, for Nico, not
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  for any specific school. It applied for him as a college athlete until he
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  went pro. And plus it's all of it is legal based on state rules
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  in California. And that's really a lot of where the angst is from Tennessee
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  and from other states too, is that you have the NCAA with their set
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  of alleged rules which aren't really rules, and they're trying to retroactively and act
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  them. And then what the states are allowing varies and is different than a
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  lot of times with the NCAA will. So there's so many elements of it.
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  And then today the Attorney General for the state of Tennessee and Virginia jointly
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  filed suit against the NCAA for how they're handling the Nile landscape. And and
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  so you know, the governor came out and support of it. N's a
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  d you know, everybody's shiming in really in supporting the president of the university.
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  So everybody's in support of this. Uh, there's so many more layers
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  to it than I could kind of get to just in our convo. But
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  you know, Tennessee is a target for the ncaa A because Aspire Sports and
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  now you know how they are the leader of the NCAA is going to show
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  that they have teeth and try to keep the pay for play set up.
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  That's the wild wild West right now that they're they're going to have to do
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  it against a big schools. They do it against somebody from the bottom of
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  the of a group of five conference that's not going to move the needle.
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  They need to bring it to one of the big schools. That's why you're
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  seeing Florida State, Florida and now Tennessee. Really so Tennessee is standing their
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  ground and they're going to defend themselves big time. And now you have you
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  know, government and politics and involved in it. So I think it's going
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  to be it's going to be way more than what the NCAAA can deal with
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  with everything else they're already dealing with. But it definitely is something to talk
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  about and then we'll continue to develop. In one other quick thing that she
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  mentioned, there have not been there's not been a notice of allegations submitted to
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  Tennessee, but that is expected to come soon from what I've heard legal analysts
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  say. Vince Ferira breaking down the Tennessee situation with n c DOUAA. When's
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  the 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,
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  Charlie Baker who came out with a subdivision idea and he loft at it to
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  Congress and hey, you know, we got this new deal we want you
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  guys to opt into. And then you know Greg Sankie said, hey,
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  look we haven't really taught to Charlie about this, and I'm paraphrasing. And
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  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 players,
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  the big player in sports, and I don't think it's gonna pan out.
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  Speak speaking of big players, Joe Milton. You mentioned him Senior Bowl.
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  A lot of big quarterbacks in this draft from Cayla Williams, Drake May,
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  jenj McCarthy, will see what he does, Bononix, and Jayden Daniels.
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  Where is Joe Milton in this process? I mean, he had a
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  nice year, It wasn't a great year. We know about the talent,
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  We know about the arm talent, never really fulfilled that potential in college.
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  But what are you hearing as far as a possible pro route for him?
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  I think he's gonna be a middle round pick. Look, there's gonna be
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  some that are are are going to see some of the things that maybe held
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  them back from making the big plays this year, and the offense not being
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  quite as dynamic even though completion numbers, his numbers weren't terrible overall protected the
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  football, So it's not like he was a terrible quarterback. Like I've heard
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  some fans that are frustrated with him describe him as he just wasn't elite to
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  the level of you know what Hendon Hooker was prior to. So there's gonna
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  be some they're going to look at it and say, no, this is
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  not gonna this is not gonna work for us. We want to go a
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  different direction. But there are others that are going to fall in love with
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  those physical tools. And he's not the runner that Anthony Richardson was, but
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  he's still very athletic. He's got an even bigger arm, and honestly,
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  he won more games with this team than Anthony Richardson did. He's a little
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  bit older, so that takes him back also. But I think what Anthony
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  Richardson and Frankly on a smaller scale, Will Levis was able to do.
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  Those were those were arm talent guys that impressed in their limited playing time in
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  the NFL. So I think some NFL coaches are feel like their system and
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  their coaching can fix anybody. I think there's gonna be enough teams, not
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  everybody, but it was going to be you know, at least one of
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  them that's going to feel like, hey, I can't pass up on this
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  rare arm strength. We don't have to you know, playing right away,
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  but I think somebody's gonna take a you know, flyer on him, third
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  round, fourth round, something like that. He is having a very good
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  first two days at the Senior Bowl. So how you doing the interviews on
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  the on the you know, whiteboard, all that kind of stuff will will
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  go a long way. But he's a you know, excellent teammate. I
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  think he's off to a good start. We'll see what kind of other things
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  he does in terms of those measurables at the combine. Check him out at
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  vinceports dot net on part of the Tennessee Ball Radio Network, and of course
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  you can grab him five A to eight A. That's Eastern. Orsue me,
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  that's Central time, six to nine Eastern. Thank you, vit sports
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  May animal nine to nine point one, Vince. I appreciate your time.
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  Look, we'll catch up and we'll actually get into some basketball and baseball.
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  We'll do that very soon with you appreciate it. Yeah, people are a
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  little a little upset about what happens, but in terms of hoops and you
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  know, baseball is a little more than two weeks away, so glad to
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  do it anytime. Ja