night regarding the buying
as save and put it of players by
the school that Deion Sanders now coaches.
So the NCAA doesn't get some protection from litigation.
Whether we got to get an antitrust or whatever. It is
from a federal government standpoint.
This is not going to change because they cannot enforce
their rules. Just like Nate said, we have a rule right now
that says you cannot use name image, or likeness to entice
a player to come to your school.
He'll read about it in the paper.
I mean, Jackson State paid a guy million dollars last year.
That was a really good division. One player to come to
school. It was in the paper and they bragged about it.
Nobody did anything about it?
And that sparked a reaction from Deion Sanders. Who
first of all, it was reported by Jean-Jacques, Taylor of
an escape.com that it was 250,000 in pending and future
and IL payments for the player in question. Travis Hunter.
I believe was his name
what Deion Sanders said and this gets to the point. We were
just making Peter coach. Saban wasn't talking to me. The coach
Saban wasn't talking to Jimbo Fisher. He was talking to his
boosters. He was talking to his alumni. He was talking to
his givers, he was trying to get money. That's what he was
doing. He was just using us to get to where he was trying to
get to Sanders is right. Now the personal history wasn't
there between Deion
Sanders and Nick saving that was there between Jimbo Fisher.
And Nick Saban. So didn't go down that ugly path
and Sanders
pretty much took the high road.
Although he made it clear. He don't want to talk to Nick
Saban save and try to call him. I don't want to talk to you
privately. You talk about me publicly. I don't want to talk
to you privately. I'll talk to you publicly. If you're going
to talk about me publicly. I like that approach.
Let's hash it all out. Like you said,
let's see what's going on. Let's have some transparency
and let's find out what used to happen. You know, I was
a little
disappointed yesterday
in the gym. So Fisher rant
when he was saying. Go talk to people who worked with Nick
Saban about what he does. Well, you did
you, did you got something to say say it, go talk to people
about what Nick Saban. Did,
you're one of them? Keep talking, tell us what he did.
Tell us.
If you got something to say
that that kind of bothered me.
It would be different if he was a guy who's never worked with
Nick Saban, and is just heard rumors over the years from
people who did hey, you know, I've heard plenty. Of stuff
about Nick Saban, that's fundamentally different from
I worked with him.
So, regardless of what used to happen,
regardless of what's Happening Now the bottom line is, as Dion
said, Peter, Nick Saban
needs more money. He's trying automatically
to get more money until he gets the protection
of a federal law.
That would it some weight limit?
What can be given to the players.
I keep wondering when I
saw the Saban. Versus Dion thing. I kept saying
if I were the vice president of marketing
for Affleck right now,
what I would do
I would say we are leaning into this.
Because look Mike, you wrote about it this week. I wrote
about it on Monday in my column about Jerry Jones. Hey, look,
conflict cells,
you know, anger cells, bad news, sells
and all I can say, is
that the most watched commercial
in the southeastern United States
from Miami to Houston from
the Florida Keys.
You,
you know, to North Carolina, the most-watched commercial
and the most anticipated commercial,
if people found out that they did a commercial together. This
year would be the Aflac commercial where Deion Sanders,
you know, it does something to,
you know, to Nick Saban. Like it's got a
it has to happen. It absolutely has to happen. I don't mean to
be making light of this but
give the people what they want
and we're going to talk later about the excellent work that
you did. Getting the comments from Jerry Jones about how in
the NFL, anything and everything. That brings
attention
to the product is good.
I thought yesterday Jerry Jones is
sitting on his superyacht
contemplating the ways. He can maybe Stoke Mike McCarthy
to start a public battle with some other rival coach.
Hey, Mike. And I'm kidding but I'm not like
Jerry Jones had to see that yesterday
and think this is great. This is perfect because now October
8th,
Texas A & M versus Alabama must see TV.
I don't watch a whole lot of college football, especially
when I travel on Saturdays.
I'm going to make sure that I see Texas A & M versus Alabama
on Saturday. October the 8th. That's for damn. Sure.
Look, here's the one other thing I would say, just about
this little triumvirate, the Dion Fisher Saban thing.
And that is that at the absolute base of this, at
the core of, this
are three men who were very, very good at what they do. Who
are very strong-willed
and really believe strongly in what they do.
They are not going to go hide in some corner,
you know, you may.
Been disappointed at the fact Fisher, didn't go farther in
what he said,
but they're not going to go hiding in some Corner. That's
why to me this really
legitimately has a chance.
To even though Saban yesterday apologized and said, hey,
I shouldn't have singled people out even though he apologized
for it.
It's done. Damage is done. It's too late. You can't put
the genie back in the bottle.
And so,
The thing that everybody should hope for is a further airing of
the problems of the
ni L hurricane that is hit college sports.
And and again,
I think it's better than not paying players, but you can
just see right now.
There are problems here that are going to become relatively
speaking ruinous
to the game.
If everybody is just allowed to go do whatever they want to do.
And again, this is the chaos they deserve for all those
years of denying players, Fair compensation for their skills,
their abilities, their hard work and their physical
sacrifices. So
I sit back and I say Let It Burn Peter, they'll put
the fire out, eventually. It's too big to fail. There's too much
money in play for college football to Fay.
There will be some fundamental shift people care,
too many people care,
right? And I I look, I understand that
the
West Virginia University,
30 miles up the road for me, where I went to law school and
I've gone to plenty of college football and basketball games
in Morgantown. Over the years. I fear that that organization
is going to end up third tier or fourth tier, because that's
just the way it is. You can't compete when you're talking
about gigantic money, falling out
of the trees, but that's the way it is. It's a system
that that was founded on
a fundamental attitude of corruption
in that the players were exploited.
It for decades. And now we're in an age where the players
aren't being denied
and and it's going to be messy
for a while, but that's what they deserve because that's
what these institutions
set up and they delayed the Reckoning as long as possible.