the long-term effects
of what we're starting to see right now
and it isn't only that maybe
a program like USC with an Innovative offensive coach like
Lincoln Riley might now start to get especially after even
though he didn't do it,
the eighth pick in the draft, this year. The top-rated
receiver are the top chosen receiver in this draft rake.
London
is a SC kid, I think you're going to look at and wonder
right now. Mike
not only could players
follow
Lincoln Riley. A really good smart, innovate and offensive
coach
to USC. They might also say,
hmm. Second biggest Market in the country. I want to go to
Los Angeles
mean because there's the potential for more money there
and it just Leads me to believe
if you look at all of the schools
in the country, you know all of the big schools in the big
conferences.
Who has the best alums who really desperately want to see
their team's win
and I start to think of okay,
can Michigan and Ohio State? Now, recruit
some of those players
that the SEC
were the, were the total province of the SEC and can
they recruit them now? Because they're going to be able to pay
more money in Ni L deals.
With their rich and and kind of storied alumni history,
you know, can they do that? Is that going to be a factor here?
And is that wrong?
All I'm not, I don't I'm not really passing value judgment
on it. But I am only saying one thing
it's going to be chaotic
and who is going to want to go play in Champaign, Illinois.
Who's going to want to go play in some of these smaller. Towns
in the huge conferences
right now. And so
there's the upshot of this
man. If we covered college sports all the time. This would
be a treasure Trove of stories
and information. I'm telling you
that
there ought to be a college football. Talk. He Autumn, you
ought to be the founder of that right now there. And why like
five people they I remember.
And you want to find like
I have people who can cover it and go crazy with it.
Yeah,
there's a lot out there and you're right and the chaos is
going to continue. And we already saw a Separation by
the SEC, primarily from the rest of college football and a small
handful of teams. The best teams in the ACC,
the best teams, the Big 12 jumping to the SEC, but it's
the usual, suspect Big Ten as well, Ohio State, or Michigan,
Alabama, Georgia.
Clemson for a while, they'd fallen off a little bit. But
you know, Nick Saban was very comfortable with the prior
system because he could close the deal and make
the difference. When there was
a parody of resources. Now that that parody of resources is
gone. He's threatened by it. And he's also
I think concerned
that there's only so many total dollars to go around
and every dollar that a booster gives to a fund aimed at
funneling and All money to players is one less dollar,
the player gives to the school and those dollars fund the coach's
salary. And what you
need to do is find a way to shake more dollars talent, tree
great. And that's and that
many believe many are saying
that's the point that Sabin was trying to make Wednesday night.
It was an SOS not to Congress or the NCAA or anyone else to
change the rules. It was at least for now an SOS. S to his
boosters,
his alumni. His money people in Alabama, to dig deeper
because now not only does the program have its requirements.
The players have requirements. We need more total dollars in
order to get this done Peter.
And, you know, Mike over the years
you've heard about these NFL coaches and unemployed college,
coaches Butch, Jones, Bill O'Brien, you know, have gone
and had like
almost a gap year
and it's for some of them maybe longer.
It's almost like a gap year where they get fired and Nick
Saban brings them down and they've got some area of
expertise
and it isn't just bill. Brian going to Tuscaloosa for a year
or longer to essentially train or pass along his knowledge to
the players. He's coaching the coaches. They did that a few
years a few years ago, with an NFL assistant coach had been
a quarterback. Coach Jake Pete's who came down and taught him
a lot of the RPO stuff at Alabama. And so, what
they're doing. Are doing is not just is not just doing this for
n. IL quite honestly,
they are doing it so that
so that they can get their staffs better so that they can
get their facilities better. And I think you make
an excellent. Excellent point,
you know, the ni L thing just appeared kind of out of nowhere
with a lot. I'm sure of boosters
who are already giving to the university into the foot.
Program as much as they thought they could. So now there's this
new
pool of money that has to be funded.
So they're going back to these boosters and saying, hey,
you got to dig deeper. You got to help us.
I mean, how much money can all these guys have and so that
or and women to, I'm sure. But that to me is going to be
a huge part of this story going forward.