90 degrees to the other side, but
I thought it was
an absolutely apt coincidence
that on the same day in the same week that all of this is
happening a guy. Most Americans don't know who he is. A guy
named Jordan Addison
a wide receiver from pitt
transferred to USC.
And who cares? Everybody's just says whatever.
Well, Jordan Addison is probably going to be a very
very high draft choice
in the NFL when he comes out
are in the NFL draft when he comes out.
And there are many rumors
out there and I don't cover college sports. So I don't
know. But there have been reports that one of the reasons
why he is going to USC
is because he can get so much more.
Ni El money by going to,
you know, a school, in a bigger Market, a bigger city,
trumpeting more, headlines, all that other stuff. So and I have
no idea whether that is going to happen or whether it's not
going to happen, but
you can see exactly what is happening. Now that if schools
in big cities
are going to be able with tremendous amount of money
behind them. Are going to be able to use the market that
they're in
to help recruit players to get more in il money. Then it won't
just be you know, the traditional College powers
in Tuscaloosa, you know, and in Athens, Georgia and everything,
it won't be just those places
that's going to have that are going to have a lot of Ni L money
to spread around. It's also going to be in
places that are a little bit. Own
the recent college football, pecking order
places like USC,
you know, and and that to me
is a byproduct of what we saw yesterday in the Skirmish
between Nick Saban and and Jimbo Fisher. But
as far as their Skirmish goes,
I think that as I said,
I think it's good to get a lot of this out in the open
instead of having it,
you know, under underground, where everybody always talks
about it, you know, at the bar
and, and all that stuff, but it's never really
talked about openly. That is a vitally important thing.
I believe to making sure that this thing gets fixed
and this is also Peter. The consequence of
Corrupt system that exploited players that deny them Fair
compensation for their skills and abilities. When you have
years
decades, multiple Decades of college football basically becoming
professional football with different helmets in uniforms
in younger players, but you see how many people are there? You
see how many networks Vie for the rights to televise
the games. The Big Ten package is going to
generate some record.
Shal windfall, not that. It's a windfall because
the school's deserve and ultimately the players deserve
it, but the players have been denied. I've said for years,
you go to a college football game. Everybody working there
is getting paid except the players.
And when you have that kind of corruption that is baked in for
so long. And it finally, blows up the Reckoning, finally
comes. It's going to be messy and it's messy, they're getting
the chaos.
They deserve. And everything that's happening, is a direct
result of years and years and years. Exploiting young
athletes
and not giving them
anything
in exchange for what they were bringing to the table. Other
than the wholesale cost of letting one more kid. Go to
class who doesn't want to go to class anyway, or maybe isn't
even going to class. How
much is that really cost?
How much are they really getting
that to me? Is the bottom line in all of this and
it's their own damn fault that they have allowed it to get to
this point. It's their own damn fault that R. Now caught in
this crazy. New reality
where Nick Saban realizes. I'm going to have a hard time
competing and to the people out there who still believe that
this is some sort of a long con by Nick Saban where he's firing
a warning shot. Basically. Hey if all these other schools are
going to
do it, I'm going to do it too.
He would just do it.
He's not going to say well, maybe I'll do it in a year or
two if everybody else keeps doing it know, he would be
doing it. This is not a warning shot. This is an SOS from Nick
Saban to try to get things back to where it was.
Where everything was equal at some level
and he could close the deal
in whatever specific way. He, he closed the deal
Jimbo Fisher. May have some things to say about what Nick
Saban would do to close the deal. So this is what Satan
wants. They moved his cheese
and instead of instead of adjusting. Tony wants to change
to go back to where it was.
Well, here's the other part of it Mike. You know, I don't
know. What is true. And what is false here,
but I certainly don't dismiss what Nick Saban said out of hand.
I mean, I don't think that
this is some sour grapes version of Nick Saban,
you know saying something.
I don't doubt that what Nick Saban has said
he has Absolute Total. Belief
is true and what Truth is, I don't know. We don't know.
I think the only
the only overriding thing
in this whole situation is that
you know, the the NCAA
has the in essence
washed, its hands of the affair
once the ni L thing started. They may say that
they are policing this but clearly, they aren't, they
can't, it's impossible.
It is it's a it's a
Them run wild. Remember when the my University of Miami
basketball player about a month ago, started saying, Hey,
listen, here's a warning shot to everybody
if I don't get more n IL money, I'm transferring.
I mean, I forget how he worded it, but that's in essence. What
he was saying. I read the Miami Herald story about it.
And I just said, my god did nobody see this coming?
Did nobody see this, you know, whatever, whoever this guy was
at Miami. I didn't even know how good he is. But did anybody
didn't someone see it coming?
That players were going to start to,
I don't even want to say abuse the system
but I'm saying use the system
in an incredibly distasteful way,
you know, here's a player and I'm sure he's not the only one
who is said to his coach,
you know,
listen, if I can't make any more money here doing this.
I'm going to leave.
I went to Ohio University
to and they had a very good basketball team the last couple
of years. Well, two of their best players, maybe their two
best players transferred this year.
I think 12, Alabama,
12, Virginia, and my first thought was they're going to
get more money
in the SEC and in the ACC than they would in the Mid-American
Conference, for doing the exact same thing
playing basketball.
And and and look, I have no idea why they transferred,
but that was the first thought that came to my mind.
When guys enter the transfer portal. Now,
all you can think of is,
hey, you know, it's like
the great front page
of the New York Post a long time ago.
When Ivana Trump was fighting Donald Trump in divorce court,
and she didn't take the offer.
That Donald Trump gave her
and on the front page
of the New York Post was a headline,
Ivana better deal,
and that's what all these basketball and football players
are doing now, to the ones who enter the transfer pulled
portal. They want to play more and they want a better in il
deal.
And this is the chaos that the system deserves for years of
denying the players not only direct payment but the ability
to earn anything
from their name image. Likeness. Not only, are we
going to set up a system that says, thou shall not receive
anything more than room board, tuition, fees,
and snacks from your school.
You can't even Market yourself. You can't enjoy the benefits
of your Fame and your notoriety.
Oh, we're going to sell jerseys with your number on it,
but
and we're not putting your name on the back. Everybody knows
it's just the number. You where
everybody knows that for the two or three or four years.
You're here. If it's number one on this. Fools day. That's you.
That's why they're buying it. They're not buying it because
they like the number. They're buying it. Because they like
you and it's the number you wear but you don't get paid any
of it
that you know, use the word distasteful Peter as it relates
to how the Miami basketball players handling his situation.
It's distasteful that for decades the NCAA and
the school's hiding behind the NCAA logo.
Kept the players from getting
anything anything and so now
They're in a position where they can get everything
and they should I got no problem with it. Go get paid
what you can while you can for the skills and abilities that
you have for the work that you put in
to maximize them. For the physical risks. You take
especially in football. Go get paid what you can while you can
however you can
because the guardrails are off the guardrails that were there
were antitrust violations.
So now they're waiting and what they need, what they need and
this is one area where Jimbo Fisher. Xavier degree Peter.
There needs to be Federal legislation. That is fair and
appropriate to everyone that properly regulates this
scenario. But even that is that I mean, should there be?
I don't know. There's no federal
legislation that regulates how NFL players get paid
or any other. Professional athletes get paid.
It's like anything else.
Somebody has a skill set
that they are making available
and the marketplace decides
what they get for it.
And if they think they can get more somewhere. Else
they go try. What's wrong with that? It's the American way. So
why do we have a problem
with athletes trying to get more money for the things that
they can do and maybe they get it. Maybe they don't maybe
the successful. Maybe they fail. But you know what, there's such
a small percentage, especially in the NFL and and in college
basketball have guys who make it
to the professional level and get paid.
I think it's good that they're getting money now
because the vast majority of them are never going to get.
It's all the promise of going to the NFL. They all think
they're going to the NFL. It's all that lore of going to
the NFL
and how many guys never make it and never have anything to show
for it other than the degree that they may get. And I'm not
discounting that. But you also should be getting a piece of
the pie
that this giant billion-dollar pie
that you're contributing to
while you're playing and it's good
that some of that money is being reshuffled
and the players are getting
something more than what traditionally they have gotten,
which is nothing.