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Let's go ahead and dive in. 78 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,480 To a couple of items. A much requested item. 79 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:11,320 That we had was a review of college football 20. 80 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,880 Five and. I got the early access. 81 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,519 Version of this game. I paid for it, they didn't send 82 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:21,920 it to me directly, and so I've been playing it pretty 83 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:23,760 consistently. Over the course of the last. 84 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,640 Week and I wanted to kind of. Try to give everybody. 85 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,720 My reflections on what we've seen so far, it's, it's 86 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,920 interesting. I remember about a year and a 87 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:34,800 half. Or maybe two years ago. 88 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,080 When this first got announced? We did. 89 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,240 A segment on the. Podcast where we talked. 90 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:43,840 About whether or not this was. Something that we were excited 91 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:45,920 about. Obviously the concept of a 92 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,000 football game coming back at the college. 93 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,040 Level for any video. Gamer, especially if you're Gen. 94 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,280 Xer or Millennial, this was something that was exciting to 95 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:58,440 you because this was I think for people who listen to this 96 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,600 podcast and people. Who are of that particular age 97 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:02,480 this. Was always one of the. 98 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:06,920 Favorite sports titles had a lot more soul historically than 99 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,000 Madden did. You really felt like you were. 100 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,960 Building your own program in the dynasty mode and. 101 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:14,880 You know, I think for a lot of people. 102 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,920 Even if the numbers didn't. Necessarily reflect it if you 103 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,240 were a college sports fan at all. 104 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,880 This was the game you tended to gravitate towards, and 105 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,280 certainly. You know, I think for a a whole. 106 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:29,480 Generation now, about 10 years, it's been something you've. 107 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,000 Heard about if you're younger? But you didn't get a chance to 108 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,120 play. And so all of those things were 109 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:36,400 positive. But one of the things that we 110 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,160 tried to point out. Back a couple of years ago was 111 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,720 that. EA Electronic Arts, the company 112 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,640 that makes the college football game, hasn't always been the 113 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,680 most. Reliable partner, a lot of the 114 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:53,000 issues that we saw. In the college football game 115 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,000 series back in. The late 2. 116 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,120 Thousands and early 20 tens were things that should have been 117 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:01,920 addressed and weren't. You know, they were quality 118 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,120 control issues, there were issues with features not working 119 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,960 properly or there were issues. With the game not running. 120 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:12,160 Particularly smoothly. Like this was a pretty 121 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:16,000 consistent thing that we saw in really the last six or seven 122 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,680 years of the title. And we did talk at the time 123 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:23,560 about the concerns that I had knowing that, about EA being 124 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,000 able to actually. Pull this off. 125 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,240 And you know, that was at a time when it looked like the game was 126 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:29,720 going to come out last summer. It got. 127 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:34,200 Delayed a whole nother year, finally gets released in July of 128 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:35,800 this year. And. 129 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:37,560 I got to tell you. After playing it for a. 130 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,600 While there's things about it I really like, but there there's 131 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,200 also a lot of quality control issues. 132 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,280 Which do not allow me at this point to recommend that you run 133 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:51,720 out and buy it if you haven't already, if you have, I mean, 134 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:53,200 obviously. You're in the same boat. 135 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,480 As me and I don't. Think it's a lost cause of a 136 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,920 game but I had a. Lot of people messaging me on 137 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,480 social media saying. I'm thinking about. 138 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:04,320 Buying a whole new gaming system just for this game and 139 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:05,760 certainly. A lot of the hype. 140 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,160 That we saw around the game leading up to it, it looked like 141 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,640 it was going to be an automatic purchase. 142 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,200 And like, yes, if you've been on the fence about buying a next 143 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,240 Gen. system and getting yourself out there and starting a video 144 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,880 game again, this might be a great launching point. 145 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:20,560 So I'm. Going to talk about some of the. 146 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,280 Issues that we've seen also some of the good things and then 147 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:25,920 also. You know why or what? 148 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,480 I guess I would suggest. People do as we move forward 149 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:30,640 with everything. So let me start with the good 150 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,120 First off, the gameplay, the actual. 151 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:38,360 Playing of the football game. Is really, really well done. 152 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,920 The graphics are awesome, the the player movement is awesome. 153 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:43,880 The player movement I think feels natural. 154 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,880 A lot of people have been. Complaining a little bit. 155 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:48,720 Who have been, you know. People who are. 156 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,440 Veterans of the old game have been complaining about the 157 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,160 passing system because it did change, but frankly, I found the 158 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,240 passing system so far to be. Really enjoyable to use, it's a 159 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:02,320 little more intuitive. And maybe it's just the way my 160 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:04,040 brain works. But but I've really. 161 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,720 Found it to be a good one. I found that the. 162 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:09,360 The way that you control the receivers in the. 163 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:14,880 Passing game feels more natural than it did in the past, so a 164 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:16,400 lot of the actual gameplay is good. 165 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,240 The defense. Playing defense is definitely 166 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,360 hard in this game, a lot harder than I think any other football 167 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:23,000 game I've ever played. But I actually think that's a 168 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,080 good thing. It's it's one of those 169 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,880 situations. Where you're you're really. 170 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,440 Having to. Utilize football coverages the 171 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:34,960 way. That they are meant to be used 172 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,039 in real life. You can't just simply say that 173 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:39,960 you're going to. You know, blitz. 174 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,480 On every down or that you're going to use the same defense 175 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,600 consistently, you got to change up. 176 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,440 Your your coverages you got. To change up, you know what 177 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,560 you're doing with your players while using similar shells like 178 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:53,760 you basically have to confuse the computer offense and that's. 179 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,200 How it's supposed to be, frankly. 180 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:58,680 So I like. All of that and I I've found 181 00:08:58,680 --> 00:08:59,720 that all of the. Games that I've. 182 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,360 Played have been fun. As I've tried to adapt to 183 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,440 learning how to play. Defense all over again, but. 184 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,280 Overall, I think they got. The gameplay itself, The actual 185 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,720 game. Of football. 186 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,320 Is is among the best representations that I can 187 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,160 remember. You know, it's not quite like 188 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:18,600 the, you know. The the. 189 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:23,600 Famed and, you know, NFL. 2K. Five the that ESPN game that 190 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,320 came out that. That still gets pointed to. 191 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,640 Is kind of the gold standard of football games playing wise. 192 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,400 It's not quite at that level. But I do think that overall, 193 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:32,800 once you get used to the settings. 194 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,240 It's a really. Enjoyable game of football. 195 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,720 The problem is kind of creep in everywhere else and this is 196 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,760 where I think EA. Was always potentially 197 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,120 susceptible. To not doing what they should 198 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:49,000 have done within the game. And what I mean by that is this 199 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:53,480 the what makes these sorts of games work? 200 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,080 Is. Not just that, you have the 201 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,160 names of the. Features, but that the features. 202 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,560 Actually have some corresponding reality. 203 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,320 That. Players can subsume themselves 204 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,840 into you know you want to be able to have immersion, 205 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:13,520 relatively speaking, when you ask somebody to play a dynasty. 206 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:15,880 Which you know, essentially. If you if you haven't played the 207 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,520 dynasty mode in the college football game before, you're 208 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,240 asking someone to take on a team. 209 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,520 To take on a coach. And to essentially. 210 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:25,600 Role play with that coach by building up certain. 211 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,200 Skills while simultaneously using that coach. 212 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:31,880 To recruit your own program to feel like you're part of the. 213 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,840 College football environment and to. 214 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,160 Move up the ladder. Either move your school up the 215 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:39,800 ladder. Taking a small school and 216 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:44,760 building it into a dynasty. Or moving your coach up to where 217 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:46,720 they're. Coaching a big school and then 218 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:50,680 you're forming a, a, a quote UN quote dynasty there and you're 219 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,640 you're playing multiple seasons. And so much of that. 220 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,840 Gets tied up in, not. Just the recruiting of new 221 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:00,360 players, but also the way that your current players are 222 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,880 progressing. And understanding like how they 223 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:04,320 fit. Within the larger structure of 224 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,880 your program, how they fit within the larger structure of 225 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:11,280 the college football. Environment at the time and I 226 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:13,200 think what one of the things that. 227 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:17,040 The historical college football series really did well. 228 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,080 And this was, you know, granted this was back in the. 229 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:24,240 PS2 PS3 era was it really did give you a. 230 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,200 Sense that you were part of a living, breathing environment 231 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,320 and that when you went out and you were recruiting players. 232 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:32,400 There was, you know, the. There were. 233 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,400 Personalities involved. There were reasons. 234 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,880 Why they were choosing your? School or not choosing your 235 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,840 school you know is it a realistic no it never has been 236 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:43,200 but I think the problems that I'm seeing right now in this 237 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,080 game are that there's a lot of things that the. 238 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,720 Game is really struggling with. And some of them are surprising. 239 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,960 Some of them are not surprising. The surprising things, frankly, 240 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,480 are things that the quality control team for the game 241 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,200 should. Have picked up early on there's 242 00:11:58,200 --> 00:11:59,680 a real. Problem right now. 243 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:03,680 With the way that this. Game handles the simulations of 244 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:06,000 other games, not your own games necessarily. 245 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,440 But the way that like Georgia. When they're playing against 246 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,600 opponents, how they're faring what we're seeing and and this 247 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,720 has been, I've seen this in my own dynasty. 248 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:18,080 Play, I've seen this. Elsewhere we've seen situations 249 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:19,600 where. You know Georgia. 250 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:21,720 Will end up with like. Four or five losses. 251 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,680 During the season and look, I mean, could that happen? 252 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,680 Certainly. But it's the losses to like FCS 253 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:31,640 schools. Or, you know, not particularly. 254 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,760 Good schools in college football's FBS. 255 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,320 Division you know we've seen situations where you've got like 256 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,360 six or seven win teams in the College Football Playoff and 257 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:43,360 again while. That's theoretically possible. 258 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,640 It's happening. At a really, really prominent 259 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,160 clip and in a way that is essentially immersion breaking 260 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:56,280 for a lot of people, you know, even within recruiting, you 261 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,200 know, I I actually. Really like the new recruiting. 262 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,680 System. I think it feels more more 263 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:05,680 natural and realistic. But I it also kind of appears 264 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:08,320 that the way that. Recruiting is running. 265 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:10,320 There's, there's. It doesn't. 266 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,040 It's not very intuitive. For a lot. 267 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,560 Of people now. Part of that is players. 268 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:18,240 Still needing to get used to the new system and not being used. 269 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,240 To the old system. Or or being too. 270 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:21,560 Used to the old system, I guess you could. 271 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:24,720 Say, But it brings up another problem with this game right 272 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:26,360 now. Which is that there are. 273 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:27,960 Not that. At least to what? 274 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:30,640 I've seen there's no tutorials or explanations about how any of 275 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,000 this stuff works. You know, we got some. 276 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,160 Developer Diaries. We got some videos that kind of 277 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:38,840 showed. What features were going to look 278 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:40,840 like? And those are up on YouTube, but 279 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:42,840 they don't really explain how they're going to work. 280 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:46,800 Now we've seen some some vloggers go out and. 281 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:48,640 Actually figure some of this. Stuff out. 282 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,280 There's some really good tips on how to. 283 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:53,080 Effectively recruit, but the fact that there's. 284 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,280 There's nothing really that effectively explains how most of 285 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:57,920 these modes are supposed to work now. 286 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,040 Is a bit of. A of a confusing thing as far as 287 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,680 I'm concerned. We're also seeing issues. 288 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:06,600 With like scheduling like I've. Seen. 289 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,680 A lot of reports of people that have gone forward four or five. 290 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:11,760 Years in their dynasty and they're looking at other teams 291 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,880 and they're playing like. Four or five FCS opponents. 292 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:19,320 In the same season, which never would happen, a lot of that 293 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:24,640 seems to be tied to. The fact that we're we're. 294 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,320 E as video game is essentially trying to simulate an 295 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,040 environment that doesn't exist yet in terms of scheduling. 296 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:35,360 In that you now have a mega. Big 10 you have a mega. 297 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,440 SEC. You have a PAC 12. 298 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:40,600 That's in the game and has two teams in it, and and. 299 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:44,440 Obviously that's been utilized, you know, for people to go in 300 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:46,800 and like. Create a custom PAC PAC. 12 or 301 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:47,880 PAC10 or. Whatever. 302 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,680 But the game doesn't do that on its own, and So what you'll get 303 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:53,640 is people launching a dynasty and then things. 304 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,720 Are going really Askew because. There's not. 305 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:58,520 Really a logical scheduling. Pattern. 306 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:00,400 I mean, one of the things that was nice about. 307 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,520 The previous games was that. Even when you did custom 308 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,840 conferences, it would the. The game would largely match. 309 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:08,640 What you would see? In real life so far. 310 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:10,760 We're not seeing that in this game. 311 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,280 So those are the kinds of things where. 312 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,800 You know, it does appear that. You can go in do conferences 313 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,880 that look more. Like the old days where you've 314 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:21,960 got. Divisions and you've got, you 315 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,000 know, fully stocked conferences and the scheduling does work 316 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,800 better, but again. I think there's a lot of. 317 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,680 Users that don't. Realize that that's a 318 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,080 possibility. And so then they struggle with 319 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,200 some, I think, immersion breaking game issues. 320 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,160 There's also some other detail. Related items that really need 321 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:44,080 to be fixed online is already a problem from from what I've 322 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,360 seen. If you save your. 323 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,880 Dynasty Online. The servers haven't. 324 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:50,560 Been able to handle. The traffic, there's been 325 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:51,400 people. That haven't been. 326 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,000 Able to load their dynasties. I've had. 327 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,280 I've had. Problems with that on a couple. 328 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,800 Of occasions and yes. You've got the flood of new, new 329 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,320 players. Coming in and they'll probably 330 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:00,800 adapt the. Servers. 331 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:05,120 Least we hope, but. Again, it's tough with any with 332 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:09,640 any game company at this point. Struggling with a large influx 333 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:13,400 of users it it is a bit of a. Concern that that wasn't 334 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,920 something that was anticipated upon launch, and I do. 335 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:21,560 Worry a little bit about. The the long term ramifications 336 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,960 of an online save system for dynasties. 337 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,080 I would highly recommend everybody save their dynasty 338 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:32,120 offline, unless you're running an online dynasty yourself and 339 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,680 then you're kind of stuck with that details in some of the 340 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:39,200 other game modes. Outside of dynasty I've I've not 341 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:40,680 done a. Whole lot with Road to Glory, 342 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,120 but I've talked with people. Who have and it and it just kind 343 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:47,240 of feels like a limited games process at this point not. 344 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,520 Particularly well fleshed. Out some of the logic and it 345 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:53,720 doesn't seem to work that well the commentary in the game. 346 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,920 Is really bad I've. Been playing sports video games 347 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:00,480 for a long time and. You know the I don't. 348 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,920 It's easy to get. Bored with commentary 349 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:06,200 eventually, because there's only so many lines that commentators 350 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:10,000 can record. Realistically though, they're 351 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,839 normally a lot. Better aligned with what you see 352 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:15,119 going on in gameplay. Than. 353 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:19,760 What we're seeing in this college football game, the the 354 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,079 commentary just sounds hokey. In a lot of places. 355 00:17:22,079 --> 00:17:24,480 It doesn't really match the excitement it's. 356 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,840 Over voiced in a lot of cases it the the the the. 357 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:32,160 Triggers for certain lines don't seem to line up with. 358 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,760 Reality in a lot of. Cases and. 359 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,320 It just kind of feels. Like a very sophomoric effort 360 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,720 for commentary and it's very puzzling. 361 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,400 Because, you know, you go. Across a lot of different games 362 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,200 in the spectrum and they've been able to. 363 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:47,920 Figure this out. And and do it very. 364 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,160 Well. In games that are faster paced 365 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,680 than football, You know, I think the NBA. 2K series has. 366 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:54,680 Done a good job with it NHL. Does a good job. 367 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,320 With it, you know FIFA. Has done an OK job with it. 368 00:17:58,320 --> 00:17:59,680 It's. Weird that this game. 369 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,240 Has these struggles in terms of. How it's commentary sets up. 370 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:04,880 Is it game breaking? No. 371 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:06,200 It's annoying though, to the point. 372 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,920 That like the last couple. Of games I've played, I haven't 373 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:11,320 even bothered turning the sound on, I've just listened. 374 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:12,880 To music while I've been playing. 375 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:14,920 The game. So that's what probably what. 376 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:16,920 I'll do in the future like again, I would never say don't 377 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:18,240 buy the game 'cause the commentary. 378 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:22,120 Sucks, but man, after two years with a lot of other examples you 379 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:23,280 would have thought that they would have at least. 380 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:28,840 Gotten that down. So anyway, again, I I wanna. 381 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,760 You know, reinforce that the core. 382 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,880 Football game plays really good and a lot of these other items, 383 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:36,520 I think they're going to be. Able to fix? 384 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,280 It's a little concerning that you know, as of Saturday 385 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:41,160 morning, I don't there. I don't believe there's been any 386 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,600 kind of official note from EA. About Hey, a patch. 387 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,040 Is coming to fix some of these issues with simulations and 388 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:50,040 whatnot. But you know right now. 389 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:54,080 That hasn't happened and while I think they will be able to patch 390 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,840 things in the future, I am a little bit concerned that there 391 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:01,200 were so many like detail oriented items that were not 392 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,680 addressed in the programming of the game or the play testing of 393 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:06,120 the game that are clearly going to have to be. 394 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:08,240 Addressed through a patch or through. 395 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,000 Something secondary. The fortunate thing is that in 396 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,080 this era, you can throw. A patch out there, Pretty. 397 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:16,600 Quickly and fix. A lot of these problems, you 398 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,200 know, easier said than done, says Crowdstrike after they. 399 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:20,960 They crashed the planet yesterday. 400 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,360 But normally, like, I mean, I'll, I'll use an example of 401 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:27,960 another game that I've been playing lately called City 402 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,120 Skylines 2. Some of you may be familiar with 403 00:19:30,120 --> 00:19:32,080 it. It's, it's about the opposite of 404 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,160 what you can get from a college football game. 405 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,120 It's a city. Builder but that that. 406 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:39,880 Game has been plagued with issues since it launched last 407 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:41,720 summer. That team. 408 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,760 Released a fixed pat. Like a patch to fix things and 409 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:45,960 then had to release another patch. 410 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,320 Immediately afterwards to fix. Some other items that broke. 411 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,520 They did though. And now that game runs pretty 412 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,720 well, and that settled down a lot of the complaints about the 413 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,400 game. So I think that'll happen. 414 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,880 With NCAA 25. I just hope that they're. 415 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:00,040 Conscious that there are some of these glitches and. 416 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,720 Again, like for someone like me and for a lot. 417 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,040 Of people, what people really want to play. 418 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:09,040 Is the dynasty mode in this game and you've just got to make? 419 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:10,960 Sure that you got the. Details down. 420 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:13,480 I know that's a difficult thing to do in an era where. 421 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,040 College football itself is. Changing the thing you're trying 422 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,280 to simulate isn't there. Like yet we really. 423 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,280 Don't have a lot of examples of it, but we know what it. 424 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,320 Should generally look like. Given how college football is 425 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,880 played in the past. That's where. 426 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,320 I'm a little bit hesitant. I would be hard for me to 427 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,480 recommend to somebody who hasn't bought the game that they go buy 428 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,520 the game, and I would. Absolutely put the stop. 429 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:38,520 Sign up on somebody who's like, I want to go buy a system and 430 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,240 also buy this game. Don't do that yet. 431 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:44,240 I would wait a couple of weeks. Let's see if they get this patch 432 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:45,880 sorted. I will say for those who. 433 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,920 Own the game now. It's not a lost cause. 434 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,960 I'm. Still having fun with recruiting 435 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:52,840 and dynasty and kind of. Learning the ropes. 436 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,880 I think some of the underlying fundamentals won't change and 437 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,040 what I'm essentially doing and frankly I do this with. 438 00:20:58,120 --> 00:20:59,600 Every year that I've had a college. 439 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,720 Football game to play. I spend that first month 440 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,840 essentially running a mock dynasty to try to figure out the 441 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,360 controls and figure out the systems, and then I always 442 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:10,960 restart the dynasty when the college football season itself 443 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,160 starts. That's essentially how I'm 444 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,680 approaching this unfortunately. We've still got a. 445 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:18,200 Solid month plus until that happens, so I'm hoping that 446 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,480 they're able to take that time to fix some of those. 447 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,320 Issues so if you got. Questions, shoot them our 448 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,200 direction, happy to answer those questions, but that would be my 449 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:32,000 review right now of everything. Second and last topic for today 450 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,080 that I wanted to tackle is the nil settlement question mark. 451 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,800 We we've talked. About this nil settlement for a 452 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,480 while it got announced. A couple of weeks, I guess it 453 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:43,960 was. Almost like a couple months ago 454 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,600 now where? Supposedly there was this. 455 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,200 Settlement in the NCAA versus. House case. 456 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:51,720 It also folded a couple of other. 457 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,960 Cases into it and yet we haven't seen the settlement announced 458 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,120 yet and we talked about on one of our. 459 00:21:57,120 --> 00:22:00,880 Podcasts about how there was a. Possibility that this might not 460 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,800 actually be a settlement that gets accepted. 461 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:09,200 By the courts or by the the. Parties involved, and I think 462 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,680 it's worth revisiting at this point. 463 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,560 There's an interesting article. If you haven't subscribed to 464 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,520 this yet and you're at all interested in name, image and 465 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,680 likeness related items or just kind of the changing business of 466 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,320 college sports, I highly recommend if you're on LinkedIn, 467 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:31,440 Darren Heitner, HEITNE. R Former Former. 468 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,200 Lecturer at Indiana University taught. 469 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:33,560 A. A. 470 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,120 Sports agency management class for me. 471 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:38,160 Back about a decade ago. Good guy. 472 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:40,200 Really. Really. 473 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:45,920 Sharp mind on on everything related to IP and sports and 474 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,600 entertainment, but he's been publishing. 475 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,120 This regular newsletter called Newsletter. 476 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:56,400 Image likeness is already up to the 89th volume and he had a 477 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,680 really interesting one. That he published a couple of 478 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,320 actually, this was. Yesterday, the 19th about how 479 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,480 this settlement being. Delayed is really, really weird. 480 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:10,160 And and fascinating and really. Odd, I think in general, because 481 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,960 the fact that it's. Delayed at this point. 482 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,320 Is. Is pretty peculiar. 483 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:18,480 This should have been something where the. 484 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,560 Parties involved were were, you know, ready to roll on it. 485 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,760 But there's a lot of things that are now getting wedged in to 486 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,200 this settlement that probably shouldn't be there in the 1st 487 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:29,480 place. And I think that there's a real 488 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,520 argument to be made that it is creating it could create some 489 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,080 real problems with the settlement overall. 490 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,480 So there was an article in. Sportico also a good 491 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:38,920 publication. If you're interested in anything 492 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,240 sports business related, by Daniel Libbit. 493 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,600 Which is. Titled NCAA House settlement 494 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,240 delayed by infighting. Per plaintiff's lawyers, I'm 495 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:52,080 going to just quote a couple. Of items from this this article 496 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:54,640 and we'll put the link for this in our sub stack if you want to 497 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,160 go check it out Jeffrey Kessler. The lawyer. 498 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,840 That's involved in this settlement had a telephone 499 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,320 interview on Monday morning and he he blamed, quote infighting 500 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,720 between the NCAA and its. Power League Co. 501 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:12,920 Defendants for the hold up and essentially back on May 30th, 502 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:18,240 both sides of this settlement filed a joint stipulation asking 503 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,000 for the court to pause deadlines to iron out a long form 504 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,680 agreement and some of these items in the agreement that are 505 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:26,560 being now debated that we're hearing are things. 506 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,280 Like what are scholarship? Limits for football going to be 507 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,560 and you know. There's also some other items 508 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,760 related to what are. What are going to be the limits 509 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,840 on what type of nil? Athletes in the college level 510 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,280 would be able. To take advantage of the NCAA 511 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,240 trying to essentially establish a litmus test for whether 512 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,560 something is pure NIL or pay for play, and trying to forbid 513 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,080 athletes from taking advantage of the. 514 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,600 Ladder and. The idea behind all? 515 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,720 Of this is ultimately. That all the athletes are 516 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,960 supposed to opt into this settlement because they're going 517 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,600 to get access to money, but that money is not all coming from 518 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,160 like the power. Five schools, it's also. 519 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:08,880 Coming from the rest of the NCAA. 520 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,640 And so there's like a corollary issue going on right now with 521 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,360 this university called Houston Christian University. 522 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,960 Who has asked? To intervene in this because 523 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:19,040 they don't feel. Like they should be a. 524 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,040 Party to the damages. So there's just a lot of messy 525 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,040 things going on, but it kind of comes back to this core point. 526 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:28,760 Which is there's two. Elements to it one Everybody 527 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,280 just assumed when this thing came out that the settlement was 528 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,960 going to happen but it. Requires a all the parties to 529 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,720 agree to a core set of. Items and B. 530 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,120 The judge to say. Yes, this settlement works. 531 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,440 The second item is. That it also requires that. 532 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:48,040 The NCAA and the Power 5 conferences be recognized as the 533 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,760 authorities in this and that. Everybody else has to go. 534 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,840 Along with whatever the settlement is and that's 535 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,280 creating a lot of problems at the NC. 536 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,920 AA level. And as as has been noted in in 537 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:03,360 Darren's newsletter. There's just a. 538 00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:05,680 Lot of question marks about whether the NCAA. 539 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,160 Really has the authority to. Speak on this. 540 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,360 There's a quote from Richard Johnson, who's a lawyer, you 541 00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:13,520 know, and. And I'm just going to quote 542 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:14,760 this. Verbatim, because I think it's a 543 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,880 really interesting quote. As far as this continuing fake 544 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,600 settlement. Not a single defendant. 545 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,400 Has authority to settle. In this case so. 546 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,840 It'll be awkward for the. Defense counsel to explain that 547 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,840 to the court. No, your Honor, the NCAA doesn't 548 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,280 or didn't have a member. Vote to approve this. 549 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,560 The NCAA board does not have the authority to do its own do. 550 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,760 It on its own. No, your honor, not a single. 551 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,760 Public university board of trustees. 552 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,280 Authorized their president to vote in favor of this at 553 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,000 conference meetings the. Absurdity of it all was. 554 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,200 Mind boggling. And so there's a real chance 555 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,160 that they're going to bring this settlement to court and the 556 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,960 judge is going to be. Like, do you have the authority 557 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,520 to actually speak on behalf of all the? 558 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,520 People that you're speaking on behalf of and they're. 559 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,720 The the parties. Are going to have to say no, 560 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,560 your honor, we actually don't which then will bring the whole 561 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:03,600 thing into question. The judge in this case is. 562 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,080 Not likely to allow this. Settlement to be used as a 563 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,320 backdoor methodology for legislating college. 564 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,840 Sports, but that's really what. These terms of the settlement 565 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,160 seem to be. That you're going to create. 566 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,600 This nil fund that all of these. Parties are going to agree to 567 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,080 that. All the athletes are going to be 568 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,760 required. Essentially to take part in and 569 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:25,640 that all. Schools, whether they're Power 570 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,320 Five or Power 4. Schools or not will be living 571 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,000 under. The whole idea that people keep. 572 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,120 Missing in this. Is that the? 573 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:39,040 Courts are forcing the NCAA and its member institutions and the 574 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,160 conferences that those institutions are a part of, 575 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,200 which are not the same thing as the NCAA. 576 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,640 The courts are forcing them to do things that they don't want 577 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,400 to do. And they've been dragging their 578 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,080 feet on those things because they don't want to do the things 579 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:55,440 that the court is telling them. And you know, even NIL. 580 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,160 That what kicked all of this off. 581 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,400 It was not the NCAA saying we're going to provide NIL. 582 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,080 It was the courts. Saying NCAA, you cannot forbid 583 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,600 your athletes from making money on name, image and likeness. 584 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:08,920 You. You can't do it legally. 585 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:15,560 And So what you've got now with this settlement is the NCAA and 586 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,560 its member. Schools at the Power 5. 587 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:21,080 Level and the conferences trying to use this settlement to 588 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:25,960 essentially legislate their own sport without actually going 589 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,440 through the. Process of what you would do to 590 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,200 legislate? Your own sport, and what I mean 591 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:33,920 by that is like when the NFL in the offseason wants to create 592 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,280 new rules or change existing rules about pass interference, 593 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,440 about when timeouts can happen, things like that. 594 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,600 Those things have to get. Proposed they go through a. 595 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,200 Rules Committee and then the owners have to vote on whether. 596 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,480 They approve or disapprove those. 597 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,960 Things you've seen? Stories about that before 598 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:51,920 they're supposed to be a process. 599 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,520 Internally through which you make changes. 600 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,080 You're not supposed to use. Court settlements that you know, 601 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,760 focus on the rights of individuals to make money off of 602 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,800 their name, image and likeness to then legislate your own 603 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,600 sport. Because you can't. 604 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,720 Do it through the means. That your sport itself, 605 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,600 actually. Employs and that's essentially 606 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,200 what's going on here, you know, normally. 607 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,840 What you would have? In in any kind of a circumstance 608 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,760 it. Globally with sport or locally? 609 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,280 In the United States, is you would take these items, you'd 610 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,000 put them in front of a a. You know the representatives of 611 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,960 each of the. Teams or each of the conferences 612 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:29,920 and they would have to vote on changes. 613 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,760 And the problem is that the NCAA as it's currently constituted. 614 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,160 As we've talked about before. Isn't just those top teams, it's 615 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,640 everybody. And so you either in that case 616 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,160 have to split the top teams from everybody else and let them have 617 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,720 their own set of rules and have them vote on those rules and 618 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,400 codify things. And then let everybody else. 619 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,640 Do things on their own, which would effectually break the NCAA 620 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,960 as an institution. Or you do it this. 621 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,160 Way which is. You try to backdoor. 622 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,000 Things and try to hammer them into a legal agreement. 623 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,560 It's essentially the difference. If I was going to try to to put 624 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:07,720 it into more like general terms, it's the difference between 625 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:14,120 Congress passing a bill and then the president signing it versus 626 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,880 the Supreme Court ruling that something's constitutional or 627 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,000 unconstitutional and that creating a new vacuum within 628 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,360 which things have to be built. It's almost as if the NCAA and 629 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:24,720 its member schools are trying to. 630 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,400 Do the latter rather. Than simply work out an 631 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,200 agreement amongst all parties. And the reason they're not doing 632 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,920 that is that they don't want to bring athletes to the table as a 633 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,560 bargaining entity. You know the the. 634 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,160 The colleges and universities, like there's just so many things 635 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,360 going on. You've got, you've got. 636 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,640 The the top conferences who want to separate themselves. 637 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,040 From the lower. Conferences and teams within the 638 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:51,040 NCAA, that thousand plus set of schools you've got. 639 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,920 The the you know. Kind of team stuck in the 640 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:54,880 middle. Who aren't quite at the. 641 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,200 Top level but want to get. There you've got athletes. 642 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,120 Who want to seat at? The table but also. 643 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,960 Just want to get paid for what they're doing and. 644 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,200 Ultimately, I don't know where. All of this lands, but I do 645 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:07,960 think that. It's a real possibility that. 646 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:09,920 A. The settlement might never get. 647 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,000 Hammered out to everybody's. Satisfaction and B. 648 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,680 Even if it does. That the court might say this is 649 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,640 not a settlement for these cases, this is something else. 650 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,320 Entirely. You have to go back. 651 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,480 To the drawing board, which could mean we don't actually 652 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,840 have a settlement until the end of the calendar year or beyond. 653 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,040 That was always a possibility with this and the longer this 654 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:31,600 goes. The more. 655 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,880 Likely that you know one. Of those two scenarios is going 656 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,000 to happen that either the teams in the conferences are just like 657 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,480 we're not going to sign on to. This or you'll get you. 658 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,160 Know universities like Houston Christian saying why are we 659 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,920 being expected to pay 2 or $3,000,000 for something that we 660 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,000 never did? And their, you know, and their 661 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,240 argument is essentially we've never restricted an athlete 662 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,440 from, from taking advantage of name image and likeness. 663 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,040 That was an NCAA thing. Now we're being asked to pay for 664 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,360 this. So there's all these different 665 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,520 factors that I think you're going to come crashing together 666 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,520 with this. And so here we go. 667 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:10,160 And, and I again, I do think ultimately what you're going to 668 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,080 see the NCAA continues to put all of its eggs in the basket of 669 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,880 Congress is going to go and they're going to give us a. 670 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,320 Bill. That's going to, you know, 671 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,960 codify amateurism and and basically say athletes can't be 672 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,520 considered employees. I still don't think that's 673 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,280 happening. You know, we heard noise a 674 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,440 little, you know, a few weeks. Ago that maybe there was 675 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,440 momentum, momentum for that. It's not. 676 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,960 It does not appear to be occurring anytime soon. 677 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:38,240 And again, Congress being in position to do anything on this. 678 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,400 Front to ride. It and save the day for the 679 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:41,800 NCAA. Doesn't look like it's going to 680 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,800 happen if you don't have this settlement. 681 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,880 That takes a huge chunk. Even out of that effort, and one 682 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,320 can only wonder at that point what ends up. 683 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,920 Occurring so we'll keep you posted. 684 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,320 On things, but a a fascinating space for everybody to be in 685 00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:01,720 right now, and certainly not, not not looking like it's going 686 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,480 to get solved anytime soon. So anyway, we'll take a break 687 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,000 here. TuneIn next week we'll have some 688 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,040 more podcasts coming up and should be a fun next few weeks. 689 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:17,560 Obviously IU basketball alums playing in the TBT tournament. 690 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,560 They won their first game last night against. 691 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:25,760 I think the the Valparaiso. Alumni and I'm not sure who 692 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,200 they're playing next. They might be playing the Purdue 693 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,720 team next, so should be fascinating to. 694 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:30,560 Watch that. So check. 695 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,960 That out and I hope. You all have a good. 696 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,400 Rest of the weekend should be a a nice weather weekend here in 697 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:38,640 the Midwest. For most people. 698 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:40,880 Thank you for listening to Crimson Cast. 699 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,760 Thank you to our sponsors. 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