Protect College Sports Act Fuels Athlete Labor Debate

Hey, Chuck, a little bit on this Protect College Sports Act here. Yeah. You know, this was really kind of pushed forward by the president. And you see Nick Saban, too, and you see also, you know, the television networks. I think it's really a disservice when you see Game Day really pimping this thing because it's a network vehicle for them to control the players, in my opinion. What says you? Well, that's the thing. Like, look, I am empathetic that the system needs guardrails. So I don't wanna sit here and crap on the entire bill. But it is the two networks, ESPN and Fox, who benefit the most from preserving the system in its old ways. And I just don't think, look, I just don't think any of this solves the problem. Because until you can't arbitrarily let one side decide what labor can make or not make. And until you get collective bargaining, I mean, look, I know we don't wanna accept the premise that college athletes are employees. And I understand, I don't wanna get into a legal argument about what's an employee, what's a student athlete, all of this stuff. But at the end of the day, this isn't gonna get resolved until the collective bargaining happens. And I think the real problem is, do you create a players union or a players association by conference or by division? And I think that is, honestly, I don't know what the right answer is. I mean, that's something you as a player, how would you have felt? Miami was an independent when you were a player. So obviously, where do you get your representation if you do it that way? And it takes the power out of the conferences. And so my issue with totally getting rid of the conferences is what do you do for those smaller sports? What do you do for those other sports? And I don't know if you saw the interview that Joe Echeverria, the president of Miami, did with Yahoo Sports a couple of weeks ago. But he basically implied that it may be better for Miami to go independent for their football program. The question is, I actually think that not only would that make sense, then Miami should rejoin the Big East for basketball. And then you'd have Miami, Villanova, that makes a ton of sense. And I bet you Notre Dame would do the same thing. Who knows, maybe North Carolina would think that was a good idea too. I think that's what's coming here actually with the 2014 playoff.