Jun 11, 2026 · 55 min · 27 segments
Andy Staples covers college football for ON3. He is the host of Andy & Ari and has previously worked at Sports Illustrated and The Athletic. Matt and Andy discuss the state of college athletics…
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I wanted you to come on here to talk college athletics, specifically kind of the state of college athletics.
Just yesterday, Brandon Sorsby, the quarterback at Texas Tech, a judge in Lubbock ruled him eligible, even though he admitted to betting on football games when he was the quarterback at Indiana.
It seems like the common narrative out there is college sports is a mess and might be unfixable.
Anything that somebody is willing to pay billions of dollars to televise is fixable.
And how is that? I mean, is it if you listen to the NCAA, they say we have to have Congress get involved.
I think the NCAA and the schools would love if Congress were to just grant them some blanket antitrust exemptions that would allow them to resume breaking the law when it comes to price fixing the labor market in college sports.
And that would be just awesome for them because then they wouldn't have to really ask the players questions.
about what they would like, or they could just unilaterally impose rules on them and then enforce them, and then nobody would ever say boo.
And so yeah, it's a great deal if you can get it, but I don't think Congress is going to give them that deal.
And yeah, unfortunately, the SEC and the Big Ten just learned when Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell dropped this bill in the Senate, oh, you mean when we spend all this money lobbying, we don't always get exactly what we want?
Who maybe Texas Tech got what they wanted and the Big 12 got what they wanted instead of what we wanted.
And when I first saw the release, I thought, Andy, OK, if it really is the case, they can get 60 votes with this bill.
I wanted you to come on here to talk college athletics, specifically kind of the state of college athletics.
Just yesterday, Brandon Sorsby, the quarterback at Texas Tech, a judge in Lubbock ruled him eligible, even though he admitted to betting on football games when he was the quarterback at Indiana.
It seems like the common narrative out there is college sports is a mess and might be unfixable.
Anything that somebody is willing to pay billions of dollars to televise is fixable.
And how is that? I mean, is it if you listen to the NCAA, they say we have to have Congress get involved.
I think the NCAA and the schools would love if Congress were to just grant them some blanket antitrust exemptions that would allow them to resume breaking the law when it comes to price fixing the labor market in college sports.
And that would be just awesome for them because then they wouldn't have to really ask the players questions.
about what they would like, or they could just unilaterally impose rules on them and then enforce them, and then nobody would ever say boo.
And so yeah, it's a great deal if you can get it, but I don't think Congress is going to give them that deal.
And yeah, unfortunately, the SEC and the Big Ten just learned when Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell dropped this bill in the Senate, oh, you mean when we spend all this money lobbying, we don't always get exactly what we want?
Who maybe Texas Tech got what they wanted and the Big 12 got what they wanted instead of what we wanted.
And when I first saw the release, I thought, Andy, OK, if it really is the case, they can get 60 votes with this bill.
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