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00:00:35.000And again, the Daily Wire, we're about unifying with other people in the conservative movement like Clay, which is why both Clay and I are going to be tomorrow at the RNC in Dallas discussing all of this even further.
00:01:21.000And they were talking about, man, you know, taking over a team that's awful, that's three and nine or, you know, four and 13 in the NFL and building them into a playoff team is way more fun than taking a playoff team and trying to win a Super Bowl.
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00:03:03.000The absolute latest is in the wake of Sophie Cunningham coming out and saying, hey, men shouldn't be able to compete in women's sports, the WNBA lost its mind.
00:03:13.000And a lot of players, coaches, and owners said, hey, you know what?
00:03:16.000We actually would welcome men who identify as women into the league.
00:03:21.000And Being as inclusive as I am and being as committed to the trans agenda as I am, I said, I want to get a WNBA franchise.
00:03:32.000We will call them the Nashville Balls.
00:03:35.000Nashville does not have a WNBA franchise yet.
00:03:40.000And in an effort to be the most inclusive team that has ever existed in the history of mankind, we will have a 100% roster of men who identify as women.
00:03:55.000And we will, I believe, embark upon the greatest dynastic dominance in the history of sports.
00:04:02.000We will make the Brady era Patriots seem like, you know, also Rams.
00:04:07.000And I also, following the logic of the WNBA players, coaches, and owners, I also stepped up and I said, look, I will pay $10 million to the Las Vegas Aces.
00:04:19.000People probably don't realize this, but they're the defending WNBA champs right now, Ben.
00:04:24.000They make $7 million for the entire year.
00:04:27.000If they can beat a high school boys state champion team of my choice, I will give them $10 million.
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00:05:54.000You know, the fact is that again, your mattress matters a lot.
00:06:15.000And I have to say that these women, you know, they're shortchanging their own players because obviously these women would be slated to make a lot more money if they were to take you up on your offer.
00:06:24.000The WNBA would become far more popular.
00:06:27.000The skill level would improve radically.
00:06:29.000But I guess they don't care about any of those things because they just wish to discriminate against trans people, which is a shocking thing from such a A league that has based itself on the idea of tolerance and inclusivity.
00:06:42.000So, I wanted to also get your take, Clay Wallier, here on this controversy over whether NFL players should be able to play college football.
00:06:49.000So, apparently, there have been a couple players who were drafted by the NFL.
00:06:51.000They actually played brief stints in the NFL, and now they are going to go back to college.
00:06:56.000These are two players who I guess played for Olmis, and now they're going to go back to college to play because, again, the distinction between amateur and professional sports has basically been obliterated.
00:07:09.000Yeah, what you hit on is the key here.
00:07:12.000How do you distinguish between what is and is not a college athlete when college athletes are often making more money to play college than many pros are?
00:07:22.000And what happened here was players went into NFL preseason camps, they were cut, and then they decided, wait a minute, I still have eligibility in college.
00:07:32.000I want to go back to college and be able to make money to play college football.
00:07:36.000And the SEC, the Southeastern Conference, decided we're going to have to draw a line here.
00:07:41.000We're not going to permit this to occur.
00:07:46.000Now, it seems like, at least this morning, it seems like LSU has kind of basically relented and said, okay, we won't roster these guys.
00:07:57.000But the SEC has a hearing today in a federal district court in Alabama where they are seeking the right to kick LSU out of the Southeastern Conference as the most significant of the penalties if LSU will not accede to conference rules.
00:08:18.000Stepped off the brinksmanship here and is not going to try to roster these NFL, former NFL players now.
00:08:25.000But I think it speaks to the larger issue that you just laid out, which is for a long time, college said that all of the athletes were student athlete amateurs.
00:08:34.000The Supreme Court said 9 0, the NCAA is a restraint of trade.
00:08:38.000We can't keep players from being able to be compensated for their talents.
00:08:43.000And now it was initially name, image, and likeness, which is basically just you could do endorsement deals.
00:08:54.000Well, again, the thing about college sports, and again, I'm not a huge college sports guy, I like professional sports, but the thing about college sports is it was always pay to play.
00:09:02.000Everybody was always bribing each other under the table, going all the way back to the 50s and 60s.
00:09:08.000The way that you recruited players to your basketball team back in the 80s and 90s was that you slipped a truck to mom and dad.
00:09:14.000I mean, this notion that pay was never moving, or that most of these players were getting into school based on their scores and stellar GPA, and that they were really working hard for that engineering degree.
00:09:24.000I mean, it was a professional team that was basically attached to a school as a fundraising ploy.
00:09:29.000And now all of that has sort of been exposed.
00:09:32.000I'm kind of on the side of the players in LSU.
00:09:33.000I kind of think that you should be able to just go back and play college ball.
00:09:36.000And by the way, in my opinion, this is not going to hold because there will be some D3 college that doesn't make that much money off its sports team right now that will decide, hey, I'll take those NFL players and then we will go compete with another team and we'll just dominate them because we have NFL players on our roster.
00:09:51.000Well, look, I mean, this is one of the things that I think Congress has to fix because what you've hit on is.
00:09:56.000In the wake of a 9 0 Supreme Court case.
00:09:59.000By the way, can we just mention the NCAA lost 9 0?
00:10:03.000We can't even get the Supreme Court to agree men can't compete in women's sports.
00:10:06.000To lose 9 0, as you well know, is pretty difficult to do in this day and age.
00:10:12.000They have to have an antitrust exemption because really what the NCAA is dealing with is any attempt to put in place a rule that cuts what someone might be compensated is immediately challenged.
00:10:25.000There's a great deal of forum shopping going on here, which you can appreciate.
00:10:29.000If you want to play in Mississippi, you're filing in local Mississippi courts, right?
00:10:33.000If you want to play in Texas, Texas courts, you're getting some home cooking in terms of the rulings.
00:10:38.000Right now, the LSU versus SEC is Louisiana state court against Alabama federal court.
00:10:45.000And so the challenge is without that antitrust exemption, putting in place any form of restraint of trade is immediately seen as an antitrust violation in the wake of that Supreme Court case.
00:10:56.000So this is one of the few opportunities where Congress actually does have a role to play.
00:11:01.000In terms of trying to figure out what the rules going forward are for college athletics.
00:11:07.000Yeah, and again, I think that probably Congress won't be able to do anything because Congress is never able to do anything.
00:11:11.000And college sports will basically end up like the Olympics, where it used to be that the men's basketball team in the Olympics was a bunch of amateurs.
00:11:17.000And now it's just a bunch of people from the NBA because the dividing line between amateur and professional has completely collapsed.
00:11:23.000Well, if you want a ton of great Clay Travis content, not only should you head over to Sport and State, but you should obviously also head over to DailyWire.com because, again, the partnership between us means that.
00:11:33.000His content is coming to dailywire.com.
00:11:35.000The Clay and Buck show will soon be available for streaming as well.
00:11:38.000Clay, again, very excited about the deal.
00:11:39.000And we'll see you at the RNC tomorrow for what will be interesting, fascinating, and we'll see how the ratings go against the NFL because, again, the RNC intuition is more iconic, I think, than to put them head to head with the NFL kicking off and putting the game on Wednesday and Thursday head to head against the NFL, particularly when Republicans are trying to appeal to young men.
00:12:02.000I would have said, hey, maybe we could pick another week, but this is the week they picked.
00:12:07.000I'm looking forward to hanging out with you tomorrow in Dallas, and I know you guys have a great setup down there, and.
00:12:11.000This is going to be a great partnership.
00:12:13.000And I think many people are going to enjoy in both directions all of the sanity that they're going to be able to find.
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