Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Right, it was the worst thing for the first 20 years and then it was the best thing. Good point, yeah. I think the biggest players getting paid in the NCAA right now with the sort of weird way that the booster stuff works is like $2 million. They're not competing for talent. I don't think the NFL will start trying to sign earlier college players. I don't think they'll be competing directly or in the same order of magnitude. ‍ The revenue that big colleges make and that these conferences make isn't NFL size, but these are huge deals. The NFL for comparison has a $12 billion aggregate set of media rights that it sells. The Big Ten deal is a billion dollars a year. They just signed a seven year deal at a billion dollars a year, which is twice their previous deal from 2016. All this to say, the business of college football is still much, much smaller than the NFL, but it'll be really interesting to see sort of how it, as players start to get paid more where it finds its footing in the landscape. And if it changes at all from where it is today. Yep.…

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