N.F.T.S are coming to the world of college football now.
An N.F.T in case you don't know is a non fungible token,
it allows you to buy pretty much anything digital. S
we're talking artwork, music or even someone's tweet.
It's fascinating This week the company, campus legends
is launching digital collectibl for current and past
athletes in University of florida and several other
colleges. The company is owned by the Heisman Trophy
winner and two time national champion florida tim T
who joins us this morning. Good to see you, my friend.
So you've done an awful lot. You jammed it in national
champ. NFL quarterback, major league baseball player
broadcasting whiz. So we get to put a different hat on
you and your professor this morning teaching us a thing
or two about N.F.T.S. What is a non fungible token
Honestly, that's a really good question that I'm trying
to learn right now and I like it. I like in the intro
that y'all show one of my most vulnerable days of all
time. What if I showed y'all start to stay and that's
how I enjoyed you guys, you know, man, honestly, thank
you. Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it in
FTS. Honestly, the easiest way I think to, to think
about it for someone that's never heard or never seen
one. I've never been a part of, you know, a premiere
marketplace is back in the day when we used to collect
trading cards, You get your favorite team of I got
Emmitt smith or frank thomas or ken Griffey, we have
the cards. Well just think about it today as a digital
version of your favorite cards or your favorite place
or your favorite things, you know, whatever that is, it
could be a painting like you said, it could be a tweet,
I probably would lean away for more of the tweets and
maybe more for some of my favorite players. But I thin
that's one of the more kind of, I don't know, easy ways
to explain it is, it's still a collectible of your
favorite things and whatever area that is interesting.
Okay, so I want to learn more about campus legends
you tell us in the viewers, you know, kind of what
you're doing with campus legends and what inspired it.
Well, um, honestly what inspire was a few things is so
all the new rules with the N I.L. Name image and
likeness and opening up a lot of new doors and it's
something that, you know, I think a lot of people are
trying to figure out this new marketplace and so I just,
honestly talking with a few people that were in this
space and thinking, you know, I wonder if there's a way
that we could do something that is for profit, but also
for a purpose and it's, you know, anything that time I
get involved with something that is for business, it's
not just because I want to make money or succeed at,
but it's also got to be for a purpose. And for me
that's what campus legends is all about is. We think
that we can be a premier option for people with
and their favorite teams, their favorite universit
but also for a purpose. We actually have two really
cool things associated with Campus legends. One is a
five for all fund, which in schools were giving 5% to
spread out to all of the athletes, even the ones tha
aren't necessarily making the money and also helping
Hands foundation is tied to it as well um where we want
to be able to take a portion of profits and be able
help student athletes or former student athletes who
are down on their luck and maybe hurting or maybe thei
families struggling and we can step in and help them.
And I think also something I was very important to me
and this was, you know, we're connecting the univ
with the student athlete or the former student athlete
with the fan base and so all of them is coming together
to celebrate their old times to celebrate their
favorite games, to celebrate Nebraska in the nineties
and Tommie Frazier to celebrate this is hard for me to
say, but florida state with coach Bowden and charlie
Ward and worked on and all those guys and being able to
connect them with their fan base, the university and
it's a win win win for all of them And when we're able
to kind of finalize some of this stuff, we're like, man,
this could be really cool is we're connecting the fan,
we're connecting the university, we're connecting th
coaches and the players. So they all get to relive all
of these awesome moments. I'm guessing a few people
want to relive the jump pass against Oklahoma down
there inside the 10 yard line, one of the all time
great sports moments. Um, you mentioned there the name
image and likeness changes to the N.C double A. What do
you think of those And how can this help guys that,
that haven't been able to make the money like you did
or like joakim Noah did with the florida Gators
basketball team. How can it really help level the
playing field for those guys that aren't able to
capitalize Well, honestly, when the name image and
likeness thing came out, I was kind of skeptical like
man, how are we going to, you know, stop this from, you
know, getting all the way down to 12 year olds, you
know, and I still think there needs to be a little bit
of work and figure all this out and in the recruiting
game. But I also think it gives an awesome opportunity
for student athletes now and then with campus legends,
former student athletes and I think for for student
athletes to be able to be part of this, to be able to
um to be able to make a profit from it and the studen
athletes get 25% of this on the premiere and that's a
primary and then there's also a secondary will continue
to make money from it, the more it sells and it can
sell and sell and sell, just like if someone re put
something back up on Ebay with campus legends, you will
be able to do that as a primary and also has a
secondary, which is really cool and so they'll be able
to make profit from it. But I also think it connects
them with their fan base. I think it connects them with
the university and it really ti it in for them to be
able to come up with fun things with their use their
personality. You know, some of the players, they love
wearing both sides are fancy suits before games and so,
you know, for some of them they're like, hey, can we do
something like that It's like, absolutely, that's so
that's you, that's personal to you. And so their fans
can really connect with them in a real personal way,
but it also gives them a chance to, you know, succeed
financially as well. And so many times, I mean, you
feel like these professional athletes or colleg
athletes, they have this screen in front of, you can't
really touch them, you can't really talk to them. So
I'm assuming that connection is going to be really huge,
but I want to switch gears a little bit here. So your
former coach at florida urban Meyer took a lot of heat
early in his tenure with the Jacksonville jaguars.
lived in Jacksonville, so I know th thank feel it's
just not packed how at all. Um but they beat the Bills
last week and nearly upset the colts. So how do you
think he's doing well just for the last two weeks You
can so that you can see that they really started to I
think turned the corner a little bit. I think their
team is playing really hard. I mean look at the way
that they played yesterday and they're flying around
their defense is playing so hard, special teams playing
hard offenses, improving. Um You know, I think that,
you know, obviously hasn't probably been the season he
was hoping for, but I think that um you know, they're
working hard. I know he's always gonna be someone
that's you know, gonna miss a lot of sleep because he's
putting in so many hours and but I think the one thing
you can say is this team is playing extremely hard
honestly that's that's the most that you can ask. Yeah,
he's a lightning rod, but anytime you've got guys
flying around and not quitting at that level says a lot
about what he's brought to Jacksonville tim Tebow, the
website is campus legends dot com can't wait to check
out some of these n f t s.I appreciate the time. Mayb
you want to make, maybe have to make one for you guys.
Perfect. Okay. We don't have quite the highlight reel.
You do, but we're working out of tIM. We're working on
it. Thanks. Thank you.