it's despicable that a reputable head
coach
could come out and say this when he
doesn't get his way or things don't go
his way
a narcissist in him doesn't allow those
things to happen
it's ridiculous but when when he's not
on top and the parody in college
football he's been talking about
go talk to coaches who coach for him
you'll find out all the parody go dig
into wherever he's been
you can find out anything some people
think they're god
go dig into how god did his his deal you
may find out about about a guy
a lot of things you don't want to know
we built him up to be the czar of
football go dig into his past
have you had any
contact with nick since
oh he's called
you just didn't take the call not going
to we're done
and uh he shows you who he is
and then i just wanted to he's the
greatest ever huh
and then i just want you got all the
advantages
it's easy you can call me anything you
want to call me you ain't call me a
chief
i don't cheat and i don't lie
so i learned that when i was a kid if
you did the old man slapped your side of
the head maybe somebody should have
slapped him
is it going to be awkward
and walker about what
when you
have to face it or have to i don't mind
conversation
live with my whole life i kind of like
it myself
like we said never has been parody
certain people never followed the rules
anyway
four days later that is as powerful as
it was we didn't get a chance to hear
from chris about it though because on
friday he was in the hammock with the
pina colada in one hand left hand
there's probably something smoking on
the end down there big fatty
peter king and i spent a full hour
talking about it on friday and i don't
have much more to add to it i'm just
curious about your thoughts on it
because to me it was seismic and in west
virginia as a west virginian with nick
saban who grew up 20 minutes away jimbo
fisher from the town that's connected to
the town we live in he's from clarksburg
and and and saving again from just up
the road and it's hatfield and mccoy
stuff guys who worked together at one
point
this explosion that happened last week
all driven by the fact that we are in
the wild west days of name image and
likeness and you know people had still
been saying up until last week this is
nick firing a warning shot at college
football it is not a warning shot it is
an sos he knows he is not going to be
able to compete i think that's where all
of this comes from and it's coming to
fruition in for example texas a m as he
said buying its entire recruiting class
and emerging with a better class of
recruits than nick saban could i i think
it's a little bit of all of it i do
think he cares about college football i
think to also yeah he might be worried
about his advantages yeah texas a m as
if anybody knows anything about college
pool man they got a lot of oil cash
there so that maybe scares him to a
degree but
when it comes to this argument i'm on
team saban with this one i am first off
all saban just said was they paid for
all their players with a name image and
likeness deals he didn't accuse them of
cheating or doing anything dirty or
anything you know jimbo crossed the line
and went personal on nick saban so that
that to me is the first thing wrong all
right and then he wants to talk about
jimbo wants to talk about oh it's been
uneven it's been on even because nick
saban's great that that's why it's been
uneven alabama wasn't good and he got
there and they went great now is he a
boy scout so certainly not i'm sure
alabama hasn't been the perfect nobody
is in college football and i think
saban's probably the least of the crew
the crew let alone i mean alabama all
the players they are have there all the
good players they have there all the
stand-up kids that come out of that
school almost nobody ever in trouble
once they get to the nfl i mean it's
limited so to me i'm more on the sabin
side here saban just said they paid and
i think he said it one because he's
worried about college football and two
probably because he's worried about his
own burst boosters and he's going hey uh
alabama boosters i've given this school
97 zillion dollars since i've been here
can we throw some cash up here you know
that that's what i think it's also about
too but you know as far as the
argument's concerned first off i think
jimbo went below the belt and um
he's not nick saban
and i think seaman's kind of doing both
a little are you doing a few things
there with those comments
well saban said the texas a m bought
their players and that's not how it
works the name image and likeness money
comes from a different
pool altogether the school isn't allowed
to coordinate the booster money to
funnel to the players and what saban
said brought it all together and implied
if not expressly accused the program of
buying the players program still can't
buy the players and he got into it with
dion sanders the jackson state head
coach too he had some comments about an
nil deal overstated the value apparently
and and saban backtracked saban said i i
shouldn't have singled them out and i
was making more of an observation about
the fact that this money's there and
it's unchecked and one thing saban and
fisher agree upon chris is that there
needs to be some sort of
national legislation congress needs to
get involved to put some guard rails on
what can be done but i said this friday
why would congress want to in any way
impede the ability of people to give
money to other people
what is american about that well we
don't like the idea that this guy wants
to give money to that guy we don't want
that to happen
well
people give money to people all the time
you choose to do what you want to do
with your money
i don't think the federal government is
going to create some system that freezes
out
and limits the ability of people whether
it's oil money or coal money or whatever
money yeah to give it to these players
is an inducement to get them to go to a
given school i just don't think congress
is going to get in the middle of that
this is something the ncaa is going to
have to figure out 100 the ncaa's got to
figure it out i mean they're crazy of
course all the boosters are involved in
this what are you talking about some of
these name image and likeness things you
go where's the name image and likeness i
don't the guy they're not doing anything
with them what what what is what is
there what is what are we paying for oh
that's right they just paid for them to
come to school here because it was just
a way to hide around that so that that's
where i think nick saban was making the
point and
and taking a shot you know at a m as
well but i think it's it's everybody i
think that's the the thing you hear if
you read or follow this at all you know
that's going to be the dirty part of it
yes the boosters from these schools are
going to get together and come together
with some nil package for these players
whether it's legitimate or not and
they're going to frame it that way and
that's where the ncaa is going to have
to figure out some bylaws or how they
want to approach this if even if they do
but you can't but i know any rules that
you put on it become anti-trust
violations for years the schools hid
behind the ncaa which created uniform
rules that applied to all of these
different businesses
that were hiding behind these rules and
they've been exposed as anti-trust
violations there's no easy way out of
this but it is one hell of a grift and i
don't want big college coming after me
okay i don't i got enough issues without
the university system
taking me on however i will say this i
am very impressed by the entire grift
i've commented in the past on the retail
price of a college education and all the
scholarships they start giving you hey
you get the i know my own name
scholarship congratulations you get the
oh you're at least 16 years old
scholarship congratulations you get the
can walk in a straight line
scholarship congratulations you know
like they give out they they have this
huge price they chop it down there's all
these games that are played there's
still a lot of money that flows into the
system and on top of it chris the whole
concept of the booster
think about that for a second we talked
about this on friday i want to get your
take on it though
what nfl teams what professional sports
organizations have this group
of fans who are so over the top they're
just throwing money at the players
they're just here here's a million
dollars for nothing here's
like there's there's not a compulsion
by rich people to help professional
football teams but there's this
over-the-top desire by plenty of people
see the shining sea to fork over big
money to help tip the scales in some way
to help their favorite college football
team win games and it is weird when you
think about it it is weird that that it
happens because what are you really
getting out of it as a booster what are
you really getting and why aren't you
boosting other programs too that you
care about well because most of them
it's it's they're they're boosting the
program that they're indebted to that
they went to school at that they have a
real
you know like affection for and their
their heart and soul is with the culture
of that that's what's cool about college
football that's where there's a
following i mean the pros yeah you know
again the players are making money
college it's kids and i think the other
play that plays into this mic and we you
hit on this a lot
it's
it's semi
for lack of a better way for me to
figure out how to say this right now
oligarch
it's just on a smaller level it's it's
guys it's a bunch of rich guys at a
school who they can't own a professional
team and they're never gonna but this
kind of feels like they're part of an
owner of a professional team hey i got
this guy here the coach sends me all
this gear and i get to go to practices
when i want and i'm standing on the
sideline during the game exactly right
on tv that's where i think there's the
other aspect of that to the college
level it is amazing when you think of it
that way and and
i
i can't help but wonder whether or not
the nfl looks at this and say gee is
there a way we can get some fans
sufficiently inspired to give us and our
players a bunch of money for nothing a
little circumvention of the salary cap
it really is amazing though that it
never comes up in the nfl but it's so
ingrained in the way college sports are
and and i i went down that path the
other day chris because i said look
the solution is
unionize all the players
then you can have set rules
then you can have a salary cap then you
just make it basically professional
football in a different environment once
that happens maybe that's when the
boosters start saying why do you need us
why do you need us you've got your
system you're basically nfl junior why
do you need us but but it's a good it's
a good point it's an opportunity for
the fat cats to be big shots and feel
like they are in some way helping the
cause and getting access and getting
gear and getting you know getting to do
all sorts of stuff with their money you
know how much how much other crap can
you buy so you go out and you try to you
try to make a difference that way anyway
it's it's not going away for college
football it's not going away there's no
easy solution and expect more chaos not
less as time goes by
hi i'm mike tarico and thanks for
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