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- On one hand, you want to give
the NCAA credit that is taking

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another step toward
giving athletes

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the same economic rights
as literally everyone else,

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including every other student.

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But then you listen to Mark
Emmert, who has changed

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his tune, really, at every turn
in this from when he first got

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the job to athletes will never
be compensated on my watch

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to saying, you know, in the
O'Bannon case under oath,

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that athletes should never
be shills for a product

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and it's exploitation to now
saying that they've been trying

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all along to help athletes,
and they're just-- you know,

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they're getting tripped
up by litigation.

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You know, the NCAA is
still going to Congress

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and asking Congress
to bail it out.

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All it needs to do is just
say that athletes can earn

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or accept whatever they
like in the marketplace,

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just like any other student can.

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And they don't have to
worry about any state laws.

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It's just simple free
market economics,

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and it's really, really simple.

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But they're trying to put up
all these guardrails and all

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these other restrictions.

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And I don't think
it's going to work.

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The only thing
that's going to work

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is allowing athletes
the same economic rights

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as everybody else.