College sports is in shambles

Tennessee is dropping $280 million on a hotel and entertainment district next to Neyland Stadium while the coalition pushing the Protect College Sports Act, Ted Cruz, Nick Saban, Pat McAfee and now Deion Sanders, tells you college athletes are bankrupting the sport. Big Ten revenue is near $1.5 billion.

Miami and Nike agreed to a 10 year deal worth more than $200 million. Ohio State's roster budget runs $54 million.

Nobody is broke. The anti-NIL push is about restricting how much of that money reaches predominantly black rosters, and it keeps getting sold to the public through a rotating cast of black faces: Jay-Z during the anthem protests, an HBCU player, and now Deion Sanders fronting an unpaid ad.

Colin Kaepernick's memoir tour lays out that pattern, including Robert Kraft confirming he blocked Macklemore over his Palestine comments. Also in this one: why Ben Johnson's Bears look like themselves in week one instead of a quarter of the way into the season. 01:00 - Ben Johnson commits to the run game from week one 06:55 - Kaepernick's memoir: the NFL used Jay-Z as its black face 22:03 - College sports is a cesspool, starting with Ted Cruz on GameDay 24:00 - Breaking down what the Protect College Sports Act actually caps 28:56 - Tennessee's $280 million stadium hotel kills the broke argument 33:46 - Miami's Nike deal and the Big Ten and SEC's billion dollar years 37:52 - Why student athletes were never really students [chat] 46:17 - Marshall Falk says the quiet part: Southern had no shot against Houston 55:03 - Howard's Kedrick Green becomes the bill's HBCU black face 01:04:53 - The real roster budgets, from Ohio State's $54 million to Boston College's $8 million 01:08:17 - Deion Sanders signs on as the bill's second black face 01:17:00 - Colleges love NIL because it still isn't their money 01:26:41 - NAACP's Derrick Johnson rebuts Ted Cruz on SportsCenter 01:31:19 - Kaepernick: Robert Kraft's Macklemore ban is open collusion 01:34:26 - Leagues cry about betting threats to players while FanDuel tracks bets live on Amazon Prime For all pod and video content hit up -> TIP JAR: Subscribe: Sports/Media/Culture YT -> Thee Sam D YT Tech YT -> Shill Free Tech YT Never Forget: #phillywillALWAYSletYOUdown #blackvoicesmatter