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Tony Bennett Retires from Coaching Amid College Sports Turmoil
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10/18/2024
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So, of course, if you remember yesterday, we gave you that story about Tony Bennett
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retiring as the head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers.
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Here he is this morning at his press conference, guys.
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It's not got nothing to do with health.
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It's got to do with the state of college athletics.
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No, this, this game, I think it's right for players, student athletes to receive revenue.
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Please don't mistake me.
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I do.
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I think it is.
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But the game and college athletics is not in a healthy spot.
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It's not.
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And there needs to be change.
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And it's not going to go back.
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I think I was equipped to do the job here the old way.
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And there's, that's who I am.
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And that's how it was.
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And my staff has buoyed me along to get to this point.
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But there needs to be change.
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It's going to be a closer to a professional model.
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Coach Carlisle, I think it is, where there's got to be collective bargaining.
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There has to be a restriction on the salary pool that teams can spend.
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There has to be transfer regulation restrictions.
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There has to be some limits on the agent involvement to these young guys.
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And there are good agents and there are bad agents.
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And they're driving some of this stuff that we're in.
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And I worry a lot about the mental health of the student athletes as all this stuff
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comes down.
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And it's, sometimes when you're in it, you have to step away.
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And maybe I can be an advocate for the student athletes and the coaches to get the changes.
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You know, that, I mean, that was so unbelievably poignant.
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And I thought he made a lot of fresh comments that need to be heard.
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And I think what he's doing is brave.
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That he's walking away from the bullshack that college sports has become with the haves
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and have-nots and agents and paying these kids millions.
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And some get all this money and others get nothing.
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I think it's a joke.
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I think it's ruining college athletics and so does he.
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That's why he walked away.
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I don't blame him.
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I don't blame him either.
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And I think others have.
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He's just the first one to admit that's why.
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I think other guys have done it too.
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Saban.
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I think that's the same reason Chip Kelly left UCLA.
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He just wanted to go coach.
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And he went to go be an offensive coordinator.
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They don't want to deal with the nonsense that what college athletics have become now.
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