The Beat of Sports

$951 million dollars that is how much the NCAA has to spend every year after all the money they make from the championships they host. Marc talks about how all of that money is allocating and when you look through the ledger they don't have the funds to handle paying all of the players from all of the sports.

From the UCF Football broadcast team Gary Parris joins the show to preview UCF-UCONN and how the Knights bounce back after last week's loss at Pitt.

DirkChatelain of the Omaha World Herald joins the show to discuss his book "24th and Glory" and how Nebraska fans feel about year two under Scott Frost

Mike O'Donnell joins the show and shares thoughts on the return of Markelle Fulz and how LeMelo Ball might be a top pick in next year's NBA Draft. Plus he gives his thoughts on the new rule proposed by the G-League where one free throw shot counts as 2 points.

The NCAA leveled accusations over institutional control against the Kansas Jayhawks and coach Bill Self, Richard Hale joins the show to talk about what this means for the university. Then he and Marc discuss another incident involving Antonio Brown this time it involves throwing things out of a hotel window. And they talk about Major League Soccer and supporter groups feuding over "politically motivated" signs.

Marc has a crazy idea for the NFL when it comes to the number of games they play, don't add more regular season games but add more playoff teams. He proposes a 16 game schedule over 18 weeks but then 20 teams make the playoffs. The more playoff games the higher the ratings for tv partners which means more revenue for everyone, win-win right?

Paul Lukas of Uni-Watch joins the show and takes us back to a Gumball Machine favorite...the mini NFL Helmet and how they are alive and well today.

On today's edition of The Bridge, Mike and Marc discuss the latest with Jalen Ramsey and the Jaguars, this time he is dealing with a back injury. Then they talk about the big story in town about the workout Markelle Fultz had in front of the media with the team saying the point guard is 100% ready for the start of training camp.

Josh Robbins The Athletic's writer for the NBA and Orlando Magic talks about Markelle Fulz being cleared to play and Chuma Okeke's redshirt season.

During a recent radio interview Urban Meyer was asked if he would interested in the Michigan job if they parted ways with Jim Harbaugh. Naturally he dismissed that talk but Marc brings up that for programs all across the country the level of coaches available if they make a coaching change isn't high. And that some schools need to be realistic with their expectations about finding a new coach.