Why is player workload, or player overworkload, I should say, a trend?

Well, I have to say, this is not necessarily new in my experience.

I've seen any number of players who were injured from training, and usually it has to do with bad trainers and bad coaches, and work out until we blew our shoulder out.

Uh, th- this, you're talking, at that time, this is before NIL made all college athletes more or less professional athletes.

You're talking about students who were not making any money out of this, uh, and who would not have lengthy careers in the sport, and you were injuring them for the rest of their lives.

Uh, I, I know a former student who was a volleyball player who has back injuries, uh, and will carry them for the rest of her life as well because of, of in part overtraining and just the stress of playing volleyball.

So it's, this isn't particularly new.

What does this say about sports culture in general?

But as Durbin points out, network TV was an advantage 50 years ago.

You think about that as not having the viral nature of online communication.

But remember, online communication is siloed as well.

You can get a million followers like that online.

Getting to 70 million, that.

had to be on major media to get the audience back in 1976.

But any major media, newspapers and television particularly, you get onto those, you automatically, you can have 20 million people before you even get to the word go, 20 million people who are aware.

Here's Durbin again.

But as Durbin points out, network TV was an advantage 50 years ago.

You think about that as not having the viral nature of online communication.

But remember, online communication is siloed as well.

You can get a million followers like that online.

Getting to 70 million, that's a problem.

had to be on major media to get the audience back in 1976.

But any major media, newspapers and television particularly, you get onto those, you automatically, you can have 20 million people before you even get to the word go, 20 million people who are aware.

Here's Durbin again.

Does it seem like, and I know this is very early in the tournament, that the U.S. is accomplishing this? Or is it kind of the U.S.'s desire to be seen as much more international, considering some of the issues they've been facing? Is it being undermined?

Thank you, Doug.

I think Nick did a great job of outlining your typical goals with hosting a mega event.

And to a great degree, I think the United States has the we're still here message that it's putting out.

There's also a secondary message of we're going to play in the sandbox well with everybody else, because the United States has been dominant financially and in many other respects globally has been a dominant power, has asserted its power in the war with Iran.

And so we have this perception that we are separated out and we are playing the role of the one last true mega power.

But there's also, when you bring together three countries, the United States didn't need Mexico and Canada in order to put on the World Cup, it could have put it on all itself.

And other countries, like say the DRC, trying to use it as a way to remind us that we are more than just an Ebola outbreak.