Manny Diaz

“It's extraordinarily hard to look to the future, and extraordinarily frustrating because our regular season ends in five weeks, and we know the portal is coming, and we do not have any guidance, you know, in terms of what the rules of engagement are going to be going into '27. And this is exactly the same thing that happened last December.”

“The issue is our rules are being litigated in courtrooms, and so we're always bouncing from one ruling to the next ruling, and then somebody will make a ruling, and then we have to, that has to survive appeal, and so it's just it's just really, really difficult. And then that's why people have capitalized on it. Just, you know, people who don't want the rules to change that are on top right now because they're just the big spenders. They're the most quiet ones because they don't want the system to change, and right now they feel like they've got it changed.”