Episode 1: Amateur Hour

Game time, everybody. Just like on Entourage, it’s pilot season, and just like Vinny, we’re getting the part.

Here’s Episode 1: Amateur Hour (first on Apple, then Spotify).

Guests featured (in order):

• Jay Bilas: College Basketball Analyst, ESPN

• Jeffrey Kessler: Lead Attorney, NCAA v. Alston

• Andrew Zimbalist: President, Drake Group

• Charles Grantham: Fmr. Executive Vice President, NBA Players’ Union

• Cody McDavis: Fmr. College Basketball Player, Univ. of Northern Colorado

• Bubba Cunningham: Director of Athletics, UNC Chapel Hill

• Jennifer Heppel: Commissioner, Patriot League

• Blake Lawrence: CEO, Opendorse

• Stewart Mandel: Editor-in Chief, College Football, The Athletic

• Jason Gay: Sports and Humor Columnist, Wall Street Journal

Hit us with a 5-star review and you’ll make our day. Share the podcast on your group chats and you’ll make our week.

Since we’re putting this out on our own, we’ve got the tiniest of little baby promo budgets. Nice as that would be, I regret to report that we can’t afford to buy praise. Instead, we have to earn it. Lame! How devastatingly provincial.

With that in mind, it’ll be word of mouth that makes the difference, so please, share this far and wide if you like what you hear.

Or even if you don’t, I guess? All press is good press? Should we try and trigger a scandal?

I’m gonna go. Catch you next week.