Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - BOMBSHELL: Clemson's ELITE Receiver Corps DOMINATES College Football | Can ANYONE Stop Them?

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Starting point is 00:00:40 He is Kenton Gibbs from Lockdown Wolfpack. I am Alex Dono from Locked on Cains. So it looks as though that monumental House versus NCAA settlement might be a few weeks away from getting finalized, but the judge wants them to clarify and tweak a few things. And after looking this over, I definitely think they need to tweak a few things. the transfer portal opens on April 15th, but if you listen to Mario Cristobal, head coach of the Miami Hurricanes,

Starting point is 00:01:09 the portal never really closed. But let's start with a team that doesn't use the portal a whole lot, but they did dip in this offseason. So Kenton Gibbs, the Clemson Tigers just had their spring game over the weekend. One of the first wave, there's a lot more coming up this weekend. Now, Clemson, like a lot of other teams this year,

Starting point is 00:01:28 even though they had the spring game, it was not televised. They did have a pretty full stadium, though they're at Death Valley. So a lot of the feedback that's coming out of Clemson, South Carolina is that their wide receiver core looked incredible. In fact, Davosweeney has said that he's got six wide outs on his roster that he believes are capable starters in college and that are going to make the NFL in the future. He believes that Tristan Smith, along with Antonio Williams, Bryant Westgo Jr., T.J. Jay Moore, Tyler Brown, and Cole Turner, they're going to come in and what he refers to as waves of terror. When you rotate those guys in and out of game.

Starting point is 00:02:11 So, I mean, factor fiction. Would you take what Clemson has over what Ohio State has from top to bottom? Oh, that's tough. That's tough. But I think the last words you said there is what gives me the ability to say Clemson has the edge here. what I take from top to bottom, right? If you're talking about the first three guys in, your typical starters,

Starting point is 00:02:36 I've got to give Ohio State that edge because, again, Jeremiah Smith is so far above everybody else that he brings Innes and those other guys up at Ohio State. He just does. But then you look over at Clemson, you say top to bottom. If I'm talking about two waves of guys who all have had production at least some modicum,

Starting point is 00:02:58 of decency. If you're talking about guys, I want you to think about this for a second, I don't know, of all of their leading receivers last year, the ones that have

Starting point is 00:03:07 five receiver next to their name, I believe all of their top five except one came back. The tight end running school is the only one that I know left, but he has tied in by his name, not receiver. This receiving core is going to be dynamic.

Starting point is 00:03:20 I talked about the fact that Williams was the showstopper and he was going to be the guy ahead of Brown last year. And everybody called me crazy and they're saying, well, Kenton, Brown was injured.

Starting point is 00:03:28 last year. He's going to be back and healthy. Williams are still Williams. But Westco is the one out of that first group that's like, wait, what do y'all mean he didn't know the playbook last year? What do you mean he was ripping off Chuck like he was and didn't really fully know all of the playbook in a meaningful way? That young man is going to be something special. And then you talk about the second wave, again, of guys who have played meaningful football. I am going to tell you, I'd be I'd be hard pressed to say that there's a definitive edge either way. I wouldn't be upset if you said it was 1A, 1B. But if you're telling me that you would prefer Clemson over Ohio State,

Starting point is 00:04:10 you're saying I want proven product over potential. And I'm always going to be okay with that. As much as we talk about potential and all that, we see it every year in all of these drafts, the NBA and NFL drives. We see it all the time throughout all the leagues where it's like, oh, yeah, they took a flyer on this guy because they think, thought he was going to be good. And then the steal of the draft is always the guy that produced a ton, but everybody said, oh, he's a little too short. Oh, he runs a little too slow. Oh, he can't jump

Starting point is 00:04:37 his high. And then it's like, well, turn the damn film on. What does he do with the film on? Clemson's guys have the better film so far. Again, potential and upside, you can talk me in Ohio State. Top three alone, you don't even have to talk me into it. I'm taking Ohio State. But top to bottom, no six, give me Clemson. Even like the top three that are all returning from Clemson last season. Antonio Williams, 904 receiving yards and 11 touchdowns last year. That was an insane year. Wesco, 708 receiving yards, five touchdowns.

Starting point is 00:05:07 T.J. Moore, 651 receiving yards and five touchdowns. You know, Cole Turner, who was like, you know, the last guy on that list, who's probably going to have a good year coming up, 229 yards and two touchdowns. So they return a bunch of that production. And also, like, Clemson's got the combination where, you know, Cade Clubnick, he's going to be one of the more talked about returning quarterbacks in the country this year. You know, of course, DJ Lagway at Florida is really high up on everybody's list. You know, a lot of people are curious about Carson Beck at Miami,

Starting point is 00:05:40 who's not actually throwing yet coming off of his elbow injury. So there's a little bit of enigma still there. But, I mean, everyone seems to agree that Clubnik, he's the guy who like should be on a preseason Heisman list with a few others, right? And a big part of that stability. with the coaches, same offensive coordinator, same head coach, same quarterback, that Trinity returning, and so many of his weapons being back this year. And not only so many of the weapons, I think one of the biggest things that's going to go into

Starting point is 00:06:10 settling this debate next year, a lot of people like to take things out of confidence. And taking these things out of context in this realm is definitely going to help Clemson next year. Because like you talked about, Kay K. K. Klobnik is not only one of the best, I give him credit and I give him his praise as I gave him much lament and torment about his decision-making early in his career, something clicked. That light went off and he made a bunch of really good decisions at the end of last year. His decision-making and processing has hit exponentially better levels than it was originally coming in, and he's combining that with the fact that we already knew he's a stellar athlete.

Starting point is 00:06:50 He's a white guy and nobody says a sneaky fast. Think about that for a second. That's the type of athlete this young man is, right? So you get those two things together, and you're going to have much, much more production than you'll probably see on the top six of Ohio State. But again, that's not even a factor or feat of their outright talent advantage over Ohio State. It'll much more be an advantage of, hey, our quarterbacks is married to your guy.

Starting point is 00:07:18 We don't know who Ohio State's guy is. Everybody's saying, oh, we know this guy's looking great in spring ball. going to be the guy. How many times have we seen that scenario play out? Whereas, oh, this guy's definitely going to be the guy. And then through fall camp, that other guy seems to be the guy that seems to be the first one on the field in the first game and whatnot. So Kaine Klobnik is a proven product. He's going to help out this while receiving court in making this argument for we're the best in the country. And again, that continuity of he's played with him, he knows what West Coast Nine looks like. He knows what Williams Drag looks like. He knows

Starting point is 00:07:52 what Brown's Pogo looks like. He knows what everybody's routes look like at Clemson in a way that whoever is the starting quarterback at Ohio State will not have with his guys. So in the case of Clemson, they've got a quarterback who is, should be one of the very best in the country in Clubnick. They've got a receiver room that should be among the very best in the country. How many other position groups in the ACC can we say that about? I mean, I can definitely say for Miami, probably one of the best offensive lines in the country.

Starting point is 00:08:27 I'm pretty confident about that heading into 2025, the big Markell Bell, probably Matthew McCoy at left guard, James Brockermeyer at center, and as Cooper, right guard, big CC Maui Noah at right tackle, like that Miami should be up there from an offensive line standpoint. Any other units come to mind in the conference? And maybe Clemson has another one where he say, could be the very best in the country. You know, I thought Sammy Brown and that Clemson lineback is going to be a wrecking crew next year. But then I thought to myself, wasn't there a team in the ACC

Starting point is 00:09:02 that ran the ball all over them easily? And that's when it hit me. The Louisville Cardinals in that backfield and take out. Oh, my God. That's a good one. Imagine saying, oh, God, this freshman from Louisville, he's going to have to jump at the portal. He's too good.

Starting point is 00:09:22 And then his backup is also giving you the beats. His backup, the guy that you're like, he can't stay there. He's too good. His backup is giving, I'm telling you right now, that Louisville running game is going to be such a prolific help to Miller Molls because there are two scenarios in which quarterbacks in these new situations perform very well. Number one, you're a generational talent.

Starting point is 00:09:48 We saw it from Cam Newton. we saw it from Justin Fields. We saw it from a bunch of guys who were top five picks in terms of like transferring in and being good year one. But you know what the other indicator? Oh, Cam Ward is another one. I'm sorry. How'd I forget Ken Ward?

Starting point is 00:10:02 Another guy, generational. He's not, you don't see Cam Ward's in every draft. But then you look at the other situation. Is there a path to a quarterback being successful in year one if he doesn't have that generation of talent? Yes. The path is the guys around him being so good that it's like, hey, we don't need you to be a quarterback we win because of.

Starting point is 00:10:22 We just need you to be a guy that we win with. Don't be a guy that we have to say, please stop turning the ball over and they'll be okay. And Louisville's running back duo, I mean, you look at those two. And what can you not say about those two guys? Both of them have excellent contact balance in terms of they're not the biggest, most powerful guys in the world, but you know what they are going to do? They're going to get you that extra yard is. They're always going to fall forward.

Starting point is 00:10:48 They're always going to find a way to just lean the forward to make a three-yard gain, a five-yard gain, so on and so forth. And then you combine that in with Bram and his ability to call up these games. I'm telling you right now, do not be shut. If we see that duo both go for over 1,200 yards combined. 1,200 yards each, rather, not combined. Right, so 1,200 each. Yeah, I got what you meant there.

Starting point is 00:11:14 And I'm not going to call you on that. Well, the other thing that's going to be happening in just a matter of days, we're six days away from the next transfer portal date. Now, if you listen to the head coach at Miami, transfer portal never actually closes. We'll explain why. And also we'll explain why this might be like the final really, really, really crazy transfer portal period coming up next week. You want to keep it locked right here. We're only getting started on this brand new episode of Lockdowny. Get the supplies you need from the site made for the skilled trades.

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Starting point is 00:12:59 For your next listen, check out our other shows. Kent and Gibbs and Grayson Boone talk everything NC State on Locked on Wolfpack. I talk everything Miami on Locked on Cains. So Kenton earlier this week after Miami football practice, Mario Cristobal taking questions from the media. And a reporter from the Miami Herald asked him, like how do you get ready for the next, over the next few days, how do you get ready for the next transfer portal and the chaos that comes with it?

Starting point is 00:13:27 And Christobal's answer was, in his mind, the portal never actually closes, he says. The portal is always open, regardless of the dates that are prescribed. Everybody is in the portal. That is the reality of where we are in college football. You adapt or you die, he said. Now, Christopal emphasized because a lot of other coaches have had their complaints about the portal and, oh, my gosh, my guys are going to to be tampered with so we can't we got to close our practices we can't have a spring game this and that like christopov said it plainly um i'm not complaining like we have to adapt and thrive

Starting point is 00:14:02 in this era adapt or die he said uh so you know and i know a lot of people are taking what he said to be oh you see miami's in that tampering business but the other side of that kenton is you have to realize you're a head coach of a major college football program your players are constantly being tampered with. That's what it means. When you say the portal is always open, not only are you, you know, maybe back channeling players on

Starting point is 00:14:29 other rosters, that happens all over the country, but believe me, your guys are getting back channeled. So you're constantly having to not only recruit others, but recruit your own players to stay around. That's the reality of the transfer portal. I want to

Starting point is 00:14:45 make something very clear to everybody here. Turnabout is indeed fair play if you are that terrified if you think oh Mario crystal ball in Miami they're doing all this tampering tell your boys get to temper it tell your boys get to call it tell your hey hey listen they're not following the rules over there and either we're going to cheat with them or we're going to pick or or you know for those who are going to say oh can we have integrity and we're so much better than that we're so much above that sure go show me a school with no scandals ever and

Starting point is 00:15:18 And I'll show you a school that doesn't exist. But let's just pretend for a minute. Your school is that much better than everybody else. You're that much more righteous and upright and moral. Go report them. Go report them. If you believe, hey, Mario Cristobal, tamper with the kid from Wisconsin,

Starting point is 00:15:34 that's how he's down there now. Well, Badgers, show and prove. Your AD is a former head football coach. Barry Alvarez, go do the thing. that's you know so yes the the portal is always over he's absolutely right about that and yes you either adapt or dot what what is confusing about that what is confounding or what is is so oh my god we just don't understand why he would say such a thing i do because he

Starting point is 00:16:06 knows the reality of the game he gets paid millions of dollars to do this dom and i do not get paid millions of doubts to talk about this and yet even we can see um Yeah, that transfer port of might be a thing you want to meaningfully address. That may be a thing that you either fill holes out of or at bare minimum.

Starting point is 00:16:24 Keep your boys in house. Keep your guys. Hey, listen, we love you. We're going to develop you. You may not be playing this year. But stick with us. You're going to be the guy and you're going to get all the NIO

Starting point is 00:16:35 you can ever imagine. You're going to have all those things happen and you're going to be developed out of places getting you ready for the NFL. How about it? How about it? Whatever the pitch is, whatever the deal is that you tell these

Starting point is 00:16:46 guys, hey, this is why you want to stay here. You figure that out of. And then keep your guys in the portal if you're not going to use it. But again, that's going to handicap you. That's going to put you at a definite disadvantage to everybody else. So Mario Cristobal didn't say anything wrong. He didn't say anything that's factually inaccurate. I mean, what's the average turnover rate in college football right now?

Starting point is 00:17:07 40% of rosters or something like that, something insane along those lines that getting a portal at some point in time. So what are we really doing here if we're saying, hey, a thing that accounts for two out of every five players, we don't need to, you know, figure out a way to utilize that tool for our benefit. If you are not using it, you are tying one hand behind your back trying to win a fight. And I get it. We all saw Popeye FDA dispense, but his bice up wasn't that big. Use both hands. Well, and I'll be honest. Like a lot of people when they heard his comments, they kind of took it as like him being on the offensive, like talking about.

Starting point is 00:17:43 the moves Miami's making. I took it more as on the defensive that like, you know, believe me, this stuff is happening behind the scenes with our own players. You know, the way other coaches have talked about, hey, like, that rule was one of the friends. A lot of teams have done this now canceled their spring games because they didn't want to, you know, put their players on TV to get tampered with. I think that was Mario's way of addressing that. You adapt or die, right? Yeah. And everybody trying to take a little of my homes. junior from over there at Nebraska. Anybody trying to take that boy?

Starting point is 00:18:16 Leave me alone. Leave us alone, Matt Rule. Okay? You ain't got nothing worth plundering over there. Let's be very honest. It is a little strange how he lives his entire life as a Pat Mahomes cosplay. Like, it's very odd. It's so weird.

Starting point is 00:18:32 Why is your drip exactly like it? Same sleeve, same numbers, same headbed. Ew, brother. Ew, what's that? What's that, brother? It's gross. But here's why I wonder if this is going to be potentially like the last really crazy transfer portal period. I had a conversation about this recently on the portal podcast with our guy Brian Smith,

Starting point is 00:18:55 you know, who mentioned like I basically ask him, is this going to be the craziest portal ever coming up in April? And he said, or it's now April, but coming up later on this month. And he said he doesn't think it's going to reach like the craziness of just the sheer number of players who enter. but he thinks it's going to be really bitter in terms of players getting induced to enter, right? Big stars around the country getting back channeled by other programs. Hey, maybe a little bird told me we could get you this NIL deal if you come to our school. So he thinks it's going to be a really bitter one with a lot of, you know, tampering accusations around the country. And here's the thing, Kenton.

Starting point is 00:19:32 I assuming, and we're going to talk more about the House settlement, assuming this thing passes into the form that it's been written without drastic changes coming down. This could be like maybe the last really crazy NIL transfer portal because NIL in the near future is going to be more your baseline comes from the revenue sharing agreement. And I think guys understand if you're going to get your last big deal like with a collective or a third party, you better get that big deal now because that big deal may not be there you know, in a few weeks time once the House settlement passes. So that may be another incentive for players to jump and lock in their final deal with that

Starting point is 00:20:14 car dealership that's paying you $600,000 to write one tweet, you know, like something like that. This may be the last chance to get that. I'm going to say something here and I don't want people to get a pen. I black, and that's okay. I thought that the porter was going to be a problem for all of like three, four years. and then these young men and women were going to see like, oh, this ballgame is not what we thought. The grass is not greener on the other side. The grass is greener where you water it.

Starting point is 00:20:45 What I underestimated is how much bad counsel is in these young men and women's ears saying, hey, you go over there, you're going to get paid. Hey, you go over there. They're going to take care of you. You go over there. There are people in the portal, which is, and, you know, I'm going to tirade about this for preventive in a day, I know we got to go to break here so we can cut out to this. I really and truly think that the NCAA should have an objective third party that is not there to represent the NCAA,

Starting point is 00:21:13 not there to represent any university that just watches the film and says, hey, this is the level I think you can play. This is the level. Because it's too many people in the portal that's like, where does it get better for you? Where does it get better? What happens to you in the portal, brother? of you, how many times have we seen players who have been all conference performance,

Starting point is 00:21:38 who have been conference player at a year? We talked about it earlier in terms of basketball, of 30 conferences, one third of the players of the year were in the portal. And so many of these guys are going to go to universities where you then put up five points a year or five points a game and that's it. That's, you go from being the guy that's trusted to take the shots hurt to barely getting PT or barely getting your shots up. So, you know, I really and truly look at this thing and say the NCAA needs an objective third party to come in, evaluate them and say, hey, I think that you're ready.

Starting point is 00:22:12 I think there's a jump available for you as opposed to, you know, having nobody who is working in these athletes' best interests to tell them the truth about what they are, not just some agent saying, hey, I heard that over at Xavier, they're giving out this type of deal. Over at Texas, they're giving out this type of deal. Miami's got all these things on South Beach going. These deals are getting crazy. I think somebody needs to step in in that regard. Well, coming up next is the $2.8 billion House versus NCAA settlement about to change all of this. And is it going to pass the way it's currently written? You want to keep it locked right here.

Starting point is 00:22:51 We're not done yet on this brand new episode of LockdowneCC. So the latest hearing, Kenton, on House versus NCAA, overseen by the Honorable Judge Claudia Wilkin concluded on Monday afternoon. And I've read several different post-hearing breakdowns, some of them a lot more detailed than others. But it seems like a lot of the legal analysts and sports analysts like can't seem to agree how much Judge Wilkin really likes the way it's currently written, right? Because she did say, and this was her quote, I think it's a good settlement.

Starting point is 00:23:34 Don't quote me on that, she said. But then she also had critiques about. it. And to me, if I read the language in plain English, it sounds to me like Judge Wilkin will not in a few weeks pass the settlement if the lawyers don't tweak a few things. Others say, you know, maybe that's just her kind of bluffing and she'll pass it anyway. But there's a few things that Judge Wilkin takes issue with. First of all, this idea that under the settlement, athletes will have to report any third-party NIL deals greater than $600 and that these could get scrutinized and potentially rejected.

Starting point is 00:24:13 Now, the idea behind that, I think it's a noble idea, Kent, because most of the money that athletes are going to make is going to come through the revenue sharing agreement, right? With every school will have up to a little more than $20 million to share among their athletes. That's where the bulk of their NIL money is going to come from. So the third-party deals are going to become more of an icing on the cake situation. situation, but the idea of potentially capping those at $600, the idea is we're going to avoid, you know, schools basically, you know, laundering the money and then skirting around the rules that,

Starting point is 00:24:47 hey, you know, you can get Ed's, uh, Ed's gas station is going to give you a six million dollar NILD. How amazing is that? Uh, but I think the point being, and Olivia Dunn was one of those who actually argued against this and made a statement against it is the idea of like trying to, define an athlete's value at a cap of $600. It seems a little ludicrous because, yeah, there are people out there done. You know, the Cavender Twins at Miami, whose brand names and name image and likeness have been worth a lot more than that. Before LeBron James ever stepped on the NBA court, he signed with Nike.

Starting point is 00:25:26 Yeah. There was a lot of talk recently, recently, 20-some years after that original deal was done about why LeBron did it. Did he want to be like Jordan? Did he have some ulterior motive? Did he just like the shoes? Whatever. You know what LeBron said in his interview with Pat McAvig?

Starting point is 00:25:43 They gave me $90 million. That's why I someone was. Before this young man had played an NBA game. Wow. He could have been, with all due respect to this young man, 6'9 Sebastian to health fair. And then what? Then what? Right?

Starting point is 00:26:01 But Nike got to determine, this is what we believe your value that. This is what we're going to pay you. If Ed's gas station got $6 million to give away and they choose to give it away to some 65 point guard

Starting point is 00:26:17 on Southeast Midwest Midwest Missouri's women's basketball team, that is their money to do with as they please. I'm sorry to tell you. Oh, well, it's not fair and you should have to make

Starting point is 00:26:32 a deal that's commensurate with the market value. Since when have we ever in America decided, hey, everything has to be fair and even with the market? Not to talk politics or anything like that, but did we have anything that says, hey, the wages have to keep up with the cost of living? Everything has to be fair and even and equal. No, our dad's going to have second families off a amendment.

Starting point is 00:26:58 You know, we're not going to go there. But the reality of this thing is, simple. If somebody decides, hey, we want to pay Little Dono X amount to be our striker, guess what? Y'all aren't going to turn it down. You're not going to say, oh, our house doesn't need to be any bigger. We don't need any more money. We don't need anything else. You're going to say, hey, son, if they're going to pay you and that's where you want to be. That's where you feel like you develop as a soccer player, go there and so on and so forth. So I really and truly, when I look at this settlement, that's the ridiculous part of it. And then the other

Starting point is 00:27:28 ridiculous part of it, what do you do with the deals that were already brokered? Brice Underwood, who already signed for 12 million, allegedly being the number. And trust me, I tell you all when I have sources close to a situation of what I don't. That one, I have people very close to it. They're like, yeah, that's about the floor of the deal. I said, the floor. They said, yeah, man, I said, oh, my God. And you're, what are you going to tell him?

Starting point is 00:27:52 Oh, you can only have a, we're going to take you from $12 million to 600 times for $2,400. Yeah, sure. I bet that's going to work out just fine. I'm sure he will not be motivated to fight tooth and nail and hair follicle and every damn thing else to prevent his $4 million a year or $3 million a year from going down to $600 a year. Yeah. Yeah. Another thing that Judge Wilkin has concerns about is, you know, what the new scholarship limit and imposing roster limits is going to do. Because a lot of, you know, because part of the whole spirit of the student athletes.

Starting point is 00:28:32 thing is walk-ons. And a lot of walk-ons are already being told by their schools, like, hey, because of the scholarship, the new format and the roster restrictions, like, we can't have you back next year. And obviously, they're not necessarily the ones who bring in most of the money. But I think she is concerned about preserving some of that. And so, yeah, I wonder, I just wonder how serious, like, her threats are because it seems like the lawyers for the plaintiffs for the house side are not really interested in reworking any of this. They've already worked on this for years and they've needed, you know,

Starting point is 00:29:07 over 100 universities to essentially agree on this. So it seems like in their minds, they feel like it's done. The judge doesn't think it should be done. So I wonder if she'll pass it with no changes. No, I highly doubt this gets passed with no changes. I very highly doubt that, you know, for the people who are like, oh, she's bluffing. What does she gain by bluffing? Just out of curiosity, what does the judge actually gain here from this tactic? Because I can understand if there was like a situation where she was incentivized to be on one side of the other here, but I don't see any material gain.

Starting point is 00:29:40 And if you do, please comment below and tell us, hey, this is what the judge has a gain. I personally don't see it. So with that in mind, I mean, with all the respect to the walk-ons, and I mean this as respectfully as possible, like you said, Dono, you're not the ones bringing in the money. as much as we love movies like Rudy and all that good stuff,

Starting point is 00:30:00 okay, all right. And, you know, I know you're a Miami fan, I'll say that movie might make you throw up in your mouth a little bit. I get it. But he's not the one bringing in the ticket sales. The walk-ons are not the ones driving all these massive TV deals. We had a segment about who has the best wide receiver court, and how many walk-ons did we mention there?

Starting point is 00:30:21 You get what I'm saying? Like, eh, I'm sorry. And I really do, trust me, I play with guys who went on to walk on and go earn the scholarship and all that. I was a guy who came in on scholarship, had to be medically retired. I get it. I do. But at the end of the day, in some of these deals and some of the way that these things are shaken out, you cannot please everybody with everything. There is no 100% perfect solution that includes everybody, that wraps everybody in and comes in complete fairness.

Starting point is 00:30:52 I mean, for crying out loud there. Earlier in this segment, we talked about one player getting a $12 million deal, that is as much as some team's entire offense or defense will get paid this year. And really, beyond what a lot of teams' entire offense and defense will get paid this year, if we're including group of five. So, you know, it's one of those things where it's like, can't please everybody, can't make it all perfect and fair, that just ain't how this thing is going to work out.

Starting point is 00:31:19 You know, that's how the cookie is probably going to crumble. Yeah. So just so I'm clear on this because I am not a lawyer. Like I guess they don't technically need the judge. The judge's full approval to pass the settlement, but they certainly want it. So Wilkin, the judge still wants to know what happens if she or another judge decides that a future objector has a significant problem to merit a change in the agreement. Kessler, one of the lawyers, says a judge would then be allowed to terminate the settlement. So maybe so.

Starting point is 00:31:51 but Judge Wilkin, this according to USA today, is interested in approving parts of the universal multi-case settlement. But NCAA lawyer, Rakesh Kilaru, says NCAA and the conferences will not be interested in a partial settlement. They want full approval or not. So they're not, doesn't sound like they're interested in making any tweaks. It's you take it or leave it. Looks like where we're at right now. Yeah, we're playing a giant game of chicken here. If the housing company don't need the full judges,

Starting point is 00:32:21 the purple hair, I think. Again, what are you gained from the bluff? What are you gained? Yeah, well, we'll certainly talk more about this in a few weeks if this gets passed or not. He is Kenton Gibbs from Lockdown Wolfpack. I am Alex Dono from Lockdowne Canes. Make sure you're checking out all the awesome shows on the channel, including Lockdown NFL draft. Guys, for your second list, check out Lockdown NFL draft with Damien Parson and Keith Sanchez. As your favorite collegiate players get ready for the next level, get the latest draft rankings, rumors, and news every day. Find Lockdown NFL draft on YouTube or wherever you listen to your podcast.

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