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Dabo Exposes Ole Miss Tampering, Deion Fines Player, Miami takes Mensah · Unafraid Show with George Wrighster

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the College Football Show. We got so much
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  Speaker 1: to talk about jam packed show today because Dabo Sweeney
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  Speaker 1: went in on Old Miss and we got to discuss
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  Speaker 1: it from beginning to end so we can understand it
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  Speaker 1: in the way that that's not just surface level because
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  Speaker 1: there have been some really bad takes on this. We
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  Speaker 1: got to talk about Dion Sanders finding his players and
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  Speaker 1: why it's honestly bigger than that, and how it also
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  Speaker 1: translates to the Darien Mensea case where he's leaving Duke
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  Speaker 1: now to go to Miami and they were able to
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  Speaker 1: reach a settlement which I told you was going to
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  Speaker 1: change college football forever. And speaking of college thing changing
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  Speaker 1: college football forever, Kurt Signetti and Indiana, this story from
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  Speaker 1: the last year with them winning the national championship is
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  Speaker 1: honestly one of the best stories in sports history. But
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  Speaker 1: it also may be bad for college football. And now
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  Speaker 1: now it is time to go. Yes, we've had it
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  Speaker 1: this goes, but we are going to start today with
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  Speaker 1: Dabo Sweeney. And Dabo Sweeney, he's a man who I've
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  Speaker 1: had a chance to interview. Gonna get him on the
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  Speaker 1: interview tour again this year, and this is the man
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  Speaker 1: who stands on business and stands on principles, and him
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  Speaker 1: versus Old Miss surrounding the transfer portal and everything else
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  Speaker 1: is just a fascinating story because Dabo Sweeney was looked
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  Speaker 1: at as a guy who he wouldn't go into transfer
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  Speaker 1: a portal, wouldn't adapt to college football. Well, when I
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  Speaker 1: interviewed him last year, one of the things that he
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  Speaker 1: pointed out was I'll go into portal. I have no
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  Speaker 1: problem with going to the portal. But what he was
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  Speaker 1: not committed to doing, which he said he would never do.
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  Speaker 1: He will not push players into the portal, which I love,
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  Speaker 1: which is fantastic. And then the second thing that he
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  Speaker 1: said that he wouldn't do is sacrifice graduation and these kids'
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  Speaker 1: personal growth.
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  Speaker 2: Fo wins. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: But now with this situation with Cale transferred a linebacker
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  Speaker 1: and Oh Miss, things got a little tricky. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a quote from HBO's The Wire that a man's got
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  Speaker 1: to have a code, and that's from Omar Little, And
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  Speaker 1: that got me the wondering, is Dabosweeney College Football's Omar Little?
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, that's the comparison that I never thought I
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  Speaker 1: would make in a billion years. But last week, the
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  Speaker 1: Clemson head coach, he held a nineteen minute press conference
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  Speaker 1: that it honestly felt like a whole lot of Omar
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  Speaker 1: testifying at the wire, talking about the Barksdale's and you know,
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  Speaker 1: Stringer Bell and everybody else. And then he went into
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  Speaker 1: detail about how cal transferred linebacker Luke Farelli, how he
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  Speaker 1: had committed to Clemson after he entered it to transfer portal,
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  Speaker 1: and then sixteen days later entered the portal again with
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  Speaker 1: Old miss as his next destination. And if you listen
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  Speaker 1: to Dabbo, he talked about that old missus, not not
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  Speaker 1: a staffer, not anybody else, but their head coach Pete
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  Speaker 1: Golding was texting Farrelli directly while he was enrolled at Clemson.
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  Speaker 1: And then he accused Golding of acknowledging that Farelli was
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  Speaker 1: signed and then asking about his buyout how much it was,
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, Dabbo, he then asked his administrators
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  Speaker 1: to communicate a warning shot to old miss telling them
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  Speaker 1: to cease communication or get turned then. And people looked
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  Speaker 1: at that like, oh, look at Dabo being a snitch
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  Speaker 1: and all of this stuff. But you gotta go back
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  Speaker 1: to what Dabo Sweeney said about the transfer portal when
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  Speaker 1: people ask him at the end of the season if
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  Speaker 1: he was gonna use the transfer portal at all. Dabo
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  Speaker 1: was like, Yeah, we're gonna use the portal, but we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do it the right way. We're not gonna tamper
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  Speaker 1: with players. We're not gonna do any of these things.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to a bide by the rules. And
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of people that look at that
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, man, everybody's.
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  Speaker 2: Doing it and this and that.
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  Speaker 1: But isn't that the point of being a personal principle
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  Speaker 1: is that even if it is allegedly to your detriment,
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  Speaker 1: that you're gonna stand on business and not just do
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  Speaker 1: what everybody else is doing. Like, isn't that the definition
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  Speaker 1: of character? And what we want, like to teach our
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  Speaker 1: kids and to teach and for our coaches to teach
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  Speaker 1: our young men who are gonna grow up to be
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  Speaker 1: leaders in the world, To stand on principles and do
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  Speaker 1: what's right and follow the rules.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're having to rule of law and all.
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  Speaker 1: Of this stuff, right, and yes, we're living in the
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  Speaker 1: wild wild West of college football, but there have to
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  Speaker 1: be some guardrails. And if nobody is willing to stand
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  Speaker 1: up and tell the truth and do the right thing,
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  Speaker 1: we're never gonna get it. So all you fans that
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  Speaker 1: sit up there and complain all college football is broken
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  Speaker 1: and nobody has any rules, They're buying players, all this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: how can you look at Dabbo and be upset? And
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  Speaker 1: the crazy part of this whole situation is is that Dabbo,
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  Speaker 1: having the administration talk to Old Miss, actually might have
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  Speaker 1: got Golding to up the offer to Ferelli. And then
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  Speaker 1: Dabbo says that Ferelli's agent then tried to use the
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  Speaker 1: situation to extort another year on his already existing deal
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  Speaker 1: out of Clemson. And you know, Dabbo, if he stood
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  Speaker 1: on his principles about that, you don't think he gonna
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  Speaker 1: stand on his principles about this.
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  Speaker 2: And he told the agent to shove it, he told him,
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  Speaker 2: and then turned in Old Miss to the NCAA. And
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  Speaker 2: then not only that, he went public about it.
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  Speaker 1: He was even keeping for rallies roster page up on
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  Speaker 1: the team website with a link to the news conference.
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  Speaker 2: That's standing on business.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the cool part about it, because Golding is
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  Speaker 1: a first time head coach and he's trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: navigate his way back to the college football playoffs, like
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  Speaker 1: he got gifted this year.
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  Speaker 2: And Dad was like, I don't even want the golden fired.
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  Speaker 1: He just wants enforceable rules, which is what all of
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  Speaker 1: these coaches they publicly say that they want, but none
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  Speaker 1: of them have been willing to stick to the stick
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  Speaker 1: to their guns, or stick their neck out and have
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  Speaker 1: their own pissed personal misdeeds or potential misdeeds by somebody
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  Speaker 1: on their staff getting dragged out into the light, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's public as allegations or accusations or something else. And
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  Speaker 1: here's what Dabosweeney had to say, if you if you
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  Speaker 1: didn't get it, Dabbo is one hundred percent right, and
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  Speaker 1: we all know that there need to be guardrails on this.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is nobody's willing to sacrifice anything for that.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's willing to sacrifice it. Are you willing to sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: a player out of.
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  Speaker 2: The portal for it.
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  Speaker 1: Dabbo is, are you are you willing to for all
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  Speaker 1: the complaining and the being moaning.
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  Speaker 2: About college football. Oh, it's changed.
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  Speaker 1: There's no loyalty, there's no contracts supposed to be contracts
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  Speaker 1: and all of this stuff. You gotta have that same
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  Speaker 1: energy you have to risk something. Think about the history
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  Speaker 1: of the world, the history of America. Think about the
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  Speaker 1: Civil Rights movement, think about the Civil War. Think about
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  Speaker 1: every single time that great things have happened, people have
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  Speaker 1: been willing to risk something. Free agency in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: the Ed O'Bannon versus NCAA, anytime somebody had to be
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  Speaker 1: willing to risk something. And look at Old Miss, and
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  Speaker 1: Dabbo just said it, Oh Miss going into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the plucky underdog role, Lane Kiffin abandoning them
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  Speaker 2: to baton ruge, tampering with their players, all of this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Every it was a feel good story. So then you
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  Speaker 2: go do it too.
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  Speaker 1: Because there's definitely a portion of college football fans that
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  Speaker 1: are calling Dabbo soft for calling Pete Golding out. And
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  Speaker 1: then Dabbo even goes on to talk about that coaches
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  Speaker 1: have been texted him about it, like yeah, man, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't cool. And he called them out. He was like, YO,
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  Speaker 1: say something, don't just stand idly by. And this is
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  Speaker 1: why it's like the wire, because he said, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to say something, don't text me about it.
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  Speaker 2: Just sit over there and shut up.
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  Speaker 1: So whether you are old miss or whether you are
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  Speaker 1: anybody else, you better look out because O.
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  Speaker 2: Mar's coming.
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  Speaker 1: That whistle coming at you, man. And honestly, Dabbo is
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent right, man, one hundred percent right. We
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  Speaker 1: need rules in college football and enforcement and until there
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  Speaker 1: is enforcement, people will just be running wild with everything
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  Speaker 1: that is going on.
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  Speaker 2: The schools included.
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  Speaker 1: The next thing that we got to talk about is
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  Speaker 1: Dion Sanders. So, Dion Sanders, I just put up his
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  Speaker 1: fine schedule that he is going to be enforcing on
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  Speaker 1: his players. And I'm just here to say, Dion, Dion,
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  Speaker 1: don't find me. I'm just here so I don't get
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  Speaker 1: fined Marshawn Lynch style.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: In a team meeting this week, Dion Sanders he presented
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  Speaker 1: a new player accountability plan, and he emphasized that his
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  Speaker 1: players are now receiving significant nil compensation that they got
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  Speaker 1: to be held to a professional standard. Now I can
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  Speaker 1: attest to this that the NFL keeps players partially in
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  Speaker 1: line by finding them whether it's illegal, hits of being
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  Speaker 1: late for meetings, anything like like that. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: same system. It looks like it's coming to college football.
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  Speaker 1: Like prime example. I remember I got fined three significant
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  Speaker 1: times in the NFL, No, well four. Once I got fined.
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  Speaker 2: For my socks.
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  Speaker 1: I got fined five thousand dollars because I wasn't showing
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  Speaker 1: enough white in my socks. And there's a whole story
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  Speaker 1: about this, because in the NFL they want to dress
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  Speaker 1: code a certain way, and if you're not showing enough
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  Speaker 1: white in your socks, showing too much white, different color cleats,
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  Speaker 1: any of that stuff, you are subject to be fined
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  Speaker 1: five thousand dollars fine for that. Got a ten thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars fine for a personal foul I grabbed a face
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  Speaker 1: mask in a complete accident, but that one got reduced
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  Speaker 1: to twenty five hundred okay fine. Then I also got
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  Speaker 1: fined for wearing the wrong T shirt in pre pregame.
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  Speaker 1: There was nobody in the stadium, it was Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 1: I had a Grinch T shirt on. I got fined
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  Speaker 1: five thousand dollars for that and then another time and
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  Speaker 1: then so those are just the on game, on field fines.
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  Speaker 1: But then I also got fined. I mean I've seen
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  Speaker 1: teammates find I saw Donovan Darius get fined seventy five thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Dollars for a hit.
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  Speaker 1: But but speaking of these fines that Dion Sanders is
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  Speaker 1: talking about, in the NFL, you are fined for being
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  Speaker 1: late to meetings. Now, the NFL has collective bargaining, which
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  Speaker 1: why did this matters? And the NFL they cap how
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  Speaker 1: much you can find for a mised meeting, a late meeting,
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  Speaker 1: any of that stuff, right, a whole misdaate any of that.
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  Speaker 1: How much there's a maximum that can be fined. The way,
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  Speaker 1: it's not arbitrary because it's what collectively bargained. So Deon
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  Speaker 1: Sanders arbitrarily chose these amounts of money. Now, mind you
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  Speaker 1: for being late to practice five hundred dollars fine. That
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  Speaker 1: might not be much if you are Travis Hunter and
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  Speaker 1: you're making that type of money. But if you are
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  Speaker 1: making but if you are one of the lower play
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  Speaker 1: paid players on the roster, that is a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: That is a lot of money if you are one
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  Speaker 1: of the lower paid players on the roster. Therefore, it's arbitrary,
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  Speaker 1: and this is why collective bargaining needs to happen. One
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars for being late to treatment, twenty five hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars no show to practice.
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  Speaker 2: So this got me to thinking a few things.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I was like, is this a big
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  Speaker 1: problem on your team, Dion?
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  Speaker 2: I generally hope that it is not.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the first thing, because if you got to
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  Speaker 1: keep players in line just with this, that's a whole
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  Speaker 1: nother situation. And going back to the NFL for a second,
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  Speaker 1: I remember that there was a time because you could
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  Speaker 1: be fined up for like eight thousand dollars for a
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  Speaker 1: missed meeting, but then if you're late to a meeting,
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  Speaker 1: you could actually end up being fined more depending on
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  Speaker 1: how late you are. Like, I remember I was late
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  Speaker 1: for a meeting one time. I was gonna be so
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  Speaker 1: late it was gonna exceed the eight thousand dollars fine,
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  Speaker 1: So I missed the damn meeting on purt I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to that meeting. I will wait to
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  Speaker 1: the meeting me number and just take my eight thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars fine.
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  Speaker 2: And we are here. This is the world that we
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  Speaker 2: live in.
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  Speaker 1: And this goes to the Dabbles twinny thing, to the
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  Speaker 1: Darian minsa thing that we're gonna talk about in a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes because it is right here on our doorsteps.
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  Speaker 1: Because coaches are doing it at other places than Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: and this is bigger than Colorado. And the NCAA has
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  Speaker 1: been finding individual players for years. They even made Memphis
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  Speaker 1: basketball player James Wiseman donate eleven five hundred dollars to charity.
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  Speaker 1: They made him donate it to charity because his head coach,
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  Speaker 1: Penny Hardaway, paid his mom's moving expenses. And speaking of
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  Speaker 1: Penny Hardaway, though he's one of the only coaches that
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  Speaker 1: we have on record saying that he find players like
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Bradshaw three grand here and there to help motivate
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  Speaker 1: him to show up on time and a bye by
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  Speaker 1: team rules. Now, mind, I have no problem with a
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  Speaker 1: fine system, none at all. I think it is appropriate
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  Speaker 1: because this is big boy business. This ain't high school business.
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  Speaker 1: This is professional sports. As I know that everybody wants
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  Speaker 1: to call them kids and everything. Yes they are still young,
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  Speaker 1: young adults, They're still kids, but this is professional business.
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  Speaker 1: It is professional for the media, it is professional for
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  Speaker 1: the athletic directors, for the coaches, for everybody else. And
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  Speaker 1: once you start getting paid, expectations change.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the truth.
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  Speaker 1: But now here's where it gets tricky, because there are
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  Speaker 1: some issues surrounding the legality of the fines that Dion
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  Speaker 1: Sanders is talking about. Because the thought was that the
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  Speaker 1: fines are deducted from players nil earnings, but the University
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  Speaker 1: of Colorado said that the fines are completely independent of
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  Speaker 1: a player's NIL licensing agreement and are permissible by the NCUBA,
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  Speaker 1: and that the money received from the fines will go
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  Speaker 1: back to the operating funds.
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  Speaker 2: For Colorado's athletic department. What then you got.
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  Speaker 1: Darren Heidner, the lawyer who represented Darien Minsa and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of other people in cases and who finds himself
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  Speaker 1: on the player's side of a lot of NIL dispute, said,
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  Speaker 1: if players are employees in all but name, in terms
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  Speaker 1: of being fined for tardiness, required to attend, and then
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  Speaker 1: here's the biggest one, subject to performance obligations, that means
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  Speaker 1: that they can cut you, force you into the portal,
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  Speaker 1: not renew your NIL deal any of that. Then they
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  Speaker 1: deserve employee protections, which is why you have to collectively bargain.
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  Speaker 1: But anyways, he goes that you can't have it both
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  Speaker 1: ways because either of these are real licensing deals, and
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  Speaker 1: you can't find somebody for being late to practice or
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  Speaker 1: admit that it's a that it's compensated labor, which is
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  Speaker 1: what I've been saying. There is a big difference between
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  Speaker 1: pay for play, which is most which is ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: percent of the money that college athletes are getting is
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  Speaker 1: pay for play. Name, image and likeness is completely different.
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  Speaker 1: This is why there has to be a cap on
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  Speaker 1: it as well. And people are like, well, you shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: cap people's earnings. You do it in professional sports all
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  Speaker 1: the time, NBA, NHL, MLB, all of them cap earnings.
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  Speaker 1: Lebron James can make a finite amount of money from
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, the in the college I'm sorry, in the NHL,
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  Speaker 1: there's a finite amount of money that Ovechkin can make.
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  Speaker 1: There is a finite amount of money in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: how much Aaron Rodgers can make. But off the field,
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  Speaker 1: there is an infinite amount of mone and there is
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  Speaker 1: a defined like there is a difference between it and
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  Speaker 1: the owners are not allowed to give players additional compensation
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  Speaker 1: outside of it, like college players are able to get.
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  Speaker 2: This makes no sense.
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  Speaker 1: So on one hand, you got them trying to act
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  Speaker 1: like players are employees when they're not, because employees get
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  Speaker 1: protections out in the workplace.
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  Speaker 2: They do.
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  Speaker 1: They get workers compensation, they get injury protections, discrimination protections,
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of things that employees get. So you can't
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  Speaker 1: have it both ways. And then there's no enforcement either
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  Speaker 1: because you got conflicting opinions out here on social media.
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  Speaker 1: And it begs the question, what if a player then
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  Speaker 1: refuses to pay the fine?
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  Speaker 2: What's the recourse?
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  Speaker 1: What happens when a player that you know isn't making
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: solid money on the roster finds themselves hit with the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: same thousand dollars fine that the star lineman gets or
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the quarterback. Because I have been in situations. I was
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: in this situation after my first year in the league.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: There was a guy that I knew who was a
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: third round draft pick. He was broke and he needed
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to borrow money. And you got a lot of these
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: college players that are broke right right now. They are
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: living paycheck to paycheck and getting paid five thousand dollars
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: a month, ten thousand dollars a month, twenty thousand dollars
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: a month, and are broke.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: At the end of the month. They're living paycheck to paycheck.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Now, granted, I talked to the guys that I mentor
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: get him to understand things are completely different. But you know,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: everybody doesn't listen. Everybody doesn't participate. And this is why
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: this matters and why collective bargaining is a one hundred
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: percent must. You have to have rules, and everybody is
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: tired of these lawsuits. You got Darrin Mensa so and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Duke you I'm sorry, Duke Sue and dary and Mensa.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: You got Washington get ready to file suit against Demand Williams.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: You got Trinidad Chambliss filing suit, well, the school filing
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: suit on behalf of him for his eligibility rules. You
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: got professional players going to go play at Alabama and
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Basketball and BYU and other schools because there's no general
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: rules and there's no enforcement. This is why you need
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: collective bargaining because then when somebody tries to come from
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: another league or do something else that's against your collective
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: bargaining rules which everybody has agreed to. It won't be
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: permitted and the lawsuits will get just thrown out.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: And you gotta think about it.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: The ACC, Big ten, Big twelve ACC, they all have
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: too willing to see power to one entity to negotiate
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: on everybody's behalf. And I've heard people as a retort
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to that they would never give up power. They would never,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: They wouldn't have a choice. Man, This is the way
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: it is done. And we already agree and live by
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the same rules in other places.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: We know what the targeting rules are. Everybody lives by.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: We live by the same clock rules. Every game is
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: sixty minutes. We live by play clock rules. We live
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: by you know, everybody agrees on who the national champion is.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: We live by a lot of rules, so this could
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: be no different. And we're gonna see how the NCAA
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: handles a lot of these things, all right, Next thing
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: up and why this matters a lot. We got to
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: talk about Darien Menza because Mensa is now in a
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: situation where he is now.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Being allowed to leave Duke to go to Miami.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: And mind you, when we started talking about this a
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: week ago, so Darien Mensa entered the well, he was
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: attempting to enter the transfer portal right before the portal
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: was opening, and people were like, no, he shouldn't be
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: allowed to get in, and this and that and all this.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I'm like, why shouldn't the kid be allowed to get
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: in the transfer portal? Now he was under contract with Duke.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: He was under contract and he decided that he was
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: going to hop into transfer portal and people were like,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this and that. Now he's under contract,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: so should he be allowed to leave?
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: No? Right?
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: But the issue is with these contracts is is that
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: there is.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: No buyout, like, there is no.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Select set of rules surrounding it. And this is where
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the problem comes into play. Is that dary and Mensa
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: well that Miami they were desperate for a quarterback, and
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Miami being desperate for a quarterback, they said, we gotta
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: go find one. So they said, it doesn't we don't
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: even care how much it costs to get dari and
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Mensa out of his contract. We will get him and
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: we will pay that money. So Duke was like, we
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: not letting you out without it. So and he was
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: under a two year, eight mil up to up to
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the kids up to eight million dollar deal. Now, mind
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: you you have to assume that the fact that he
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: was second in the nation in passing through the second
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: or third most touchdown passes in the whole country got
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Duke to win the acc that those things would have
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: upped that up to close to that four million dollars
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: a year, which is what is essentially, you know, what
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: it was thought to be. So if he got up
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: to that, Duke then sues him doesn't allow him to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: get in the transfer portal. There was a hearing on
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: JET on February the second about whether he was going
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: to be in the portal, but they came to a
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: resolution today which then allows him for the last day
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: to be able to register the classes for Miami, so
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: then he can participate in springball. So the only way
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: that Duke would be able to do that or be
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: willing to do that, because they're going to be left
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: without a quarterback and significantly and they lost their top
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: wide receiver as well.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Who's going to Miami.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: There has to be some remedy, and so one of
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the ideas that you can have is that players then
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: have buyouts in their contents the same way that coaches do.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: So you you ever got like Dan Lanning buyout is
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: twenty million dollars right now. The next year's twenty million dollars.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Other coaches have descending buyouts where it starts high twenty million,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: then fifteen, then eight, and you know, four, than two,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: than one, depending on the year, if they so choose
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: to leave and break their contract. And this is why
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I said that this Darian Mensa case would change college
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: football forever because him essentially being able to get out
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: of a contract that didn't have a specific buyout. That
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: means either one or two things is gonna happen. Either
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: we're going to get closer to collective bargaining, which is
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the only possible way forward to stop all of these
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: lawsuits and this nonsense, or we're gonna get to a
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: point in the and that's probably the long term play.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: But in the short term, what we're gonna get is
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get buyouts, and the buyouts are probably gonna
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: be high, and players are going to be compensated.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Even more for buyouts, and schools are.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Gonna have to stand on business and say, nah, we're
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: not doing this contract without a buyout.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: We're not.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So if that means that you gotta go somewhere else,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: go ahead and we'll and we might just take you
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: from them later, because that right now, the players are
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: living in an era where they get all the benefit,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: getting money, scholarship, all of this stuff, but then don't
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: have to necessarily uphold their end of the bargain outside
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: of playing football. That's not the way big boy world works.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: So stuff has to absolutely change. The next thing that
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: we get and you guys, make sure you guys put
• 28:54
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• 28:56
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• 29:03
  Speaker 1: football show and the place that you get the truth
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: about everything. On the next thing up, we gotta talk
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: about Kurt Signetti. Lord have mercy, because Kurt Signetti has
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: lit college football on fire, and honestly, his story with
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Indiana one of the greatest college football stories of all time.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: The losing his program in college football turns itself around
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: and wins a national championship in two years without five
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: star players. Well, and it sounds like it's good for
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the game, and on one end, it is, but it
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: ain't good for everybody because most college football fan bases,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: you know their coaching staffs and administrations. Kurt Signetti and
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Indiana winning is the best thing that could have ever happened.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: You know why. It gives them hope, hope because hope
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: is the thing that we need out in the world
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: more than anything else. If you don't have hope, you
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: are doomed.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: But hope can be dangerous, especially for college football fans,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: because hope changes to delusional college football fans. It changes
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: from what's possible to what's expected. Think about that. It
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: changes what's possible to what's now expected. So now people
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: are expecting a two to three year turnaround to win
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: a national championship. That is unrealistic. This was a once
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: in a lifetime story. This is the miracle. This is
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you know, a Buster Douglas beating Mike Tyson. This doesn't happen.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: And the other reason why it's dangerous because if the
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: school with the most losses in NCAA history can take
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: over college football through common sense scouting, solid coaching staff, continuity,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and administrative buy in, then your school can do it too.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Right North Carolina State, right Kentucky, right Kansas.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Think about it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Schools that you would never associate with being national championships
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: or national championship contenders in football, all of a sudden
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: got they got a north star. They got somebody to
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: point to and look up in the sky and be like,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: wish upon a star.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: We can do that too, And that's where the.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Hope can turn to delusion because not every school. Every
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: school shouldn't feel that way because some fan bases Indiana
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: winning a national championship is one of the worst things
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: that it could have possibly happened, because it murdered every
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: single excuse that has been built up by the current
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: powers that be because we were told you can't win
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: if u chip Ratio ain't over fifty percent. Because before
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: this season started, Texas head coach Steve Sarkizi had said
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: a sixteen to oher undefeated season is unlikely to ever
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: happen again. And not only did it happen, it happened
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: in Indiana, and truthfully, it was a logical observation with
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the portal players being spread out everything else. But then
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Indiana went and did it, and how they did it
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: with a strength of schedule that was one spot below Texas. Now,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the logical observations they looked like
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: an excuse for Texas underachieving their number one ap Pole
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: preseason ranking.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Look over there at USC.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: USC's Lincoln Riley has been out here preaching patients saying
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: that after year four, because he's going in the year five,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: there his program overhaul could create a championship window that
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: it's now open.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: If you're USC fan, maybe you could have swallowed that
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: idea in a vacuum and been like, Okay, cool, I
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: get it.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: It takes a while. This is the real world.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Knowing that you just came off a nine win season,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: you got your quarterback returning, and you're bringing in one
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: of the best ranked recruiting classes in modern recruiting history.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: But Kurt Signatty did it in year one, made the playoff,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and then won it all in year two. So now
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: you got to turn around and explain to them same
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: fans why it takes you five years and if you
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: don't win it this year or you don't even make
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, how that's gonna work?
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Like? How can Indiana be fifth in.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: The country in total penalties while USC is sixty third
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: is disciplined something only taught in year five Indiana they
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: won with two different quarterbacks last year. A different quarterback
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: this year a different quarterback and won a Heisman Trophy.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: And if they look good with John Whover next year
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: under center, what's gonna be the excuse at Florida State
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: for not being able to accurately will adequately replace Jordan Travis.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Indiana is winning with values in discipline in addition to
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: some heavy nil investment, which a lot of other people
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: are doing too, with little return. They're using a portal wisely.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: And do we think that Clemson fans aren't looking at
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Indiana and asking why didn't they take their values based
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: approach and embrace the portal several years ago? I mean,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: do we really think that Penn State gives up on
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: James Franklin without the rise of Indiana and Kurt Signetti?
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Probably not right.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Do we think that famously impatient Auburn is gonna be
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: more patient with their third head coach in five years
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: if they don't see immediate results. No, Kurt Signetti has
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: blue blood. They they're on notice. And Indiana has eighty
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: percent of college football fans asking why not us? Why
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: not us? And also why not now? And then the
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: other twenty percent is got I'm asking they gotta take
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: an internal look like what's wrong with us? What are
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: we doing wrong? Just reality are The next thing that
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: we got to talk about is my way.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Too early top twenty five people.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, this is way way, way, way way too early,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: but you know what it's fun to do anyway, So
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: y'all can look at this and be excited and and
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: you know and tell me how great this is, because
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I'll wait on the applause.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: You're welcome, You're welcome, You're welcome.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Best top twenty five that there is around preseason. And
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: it was funny because I had some people where I
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: put it out on Twitter and people were like, oh, George,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: you always put Oregon first. Actually that's completely not true.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: That that is actually false. I haven't put Oregon is
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: number one in preseason rankings. And maybe maybe once in
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the last four or five five years, maybe I had
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Clemton number one. I had Oregon number five coming into
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: the season, which proved about right. They were somewhere in
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: between three and five this year. I'm just saying, but
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: they returned so many starters and all this that the
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: only other team I considered putting a number one was
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame because they CJ.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Carr is returning. They returned some really good dbs.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: And defensive line, and Marcus Freeman's a hell of a
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: coach and everything, like.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame could win a national championship. Next year.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Ohio State they return a lot quarterback Jeremiah Smith. You know,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: they return a lot, but they're also going to be
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: replacing their offensive coordinated who's now the head coach at
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Tulane hell of a recruiter as well. They're replacing him
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: with Arthur Smith, now granted with Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: for this last year, former Atlanta Falcons head coach. I'm
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: not a huge fan of Arthur Smith's offensive coordination in
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the NFL, but maybe it works in God's football. Who knows,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: We'll see. I got questions for Ryan Day though. Another
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: team that people were questioning me about was Miami at
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: number eleven. So I was debating between Miami at four
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and Miami at eighteen. So I cut the baby in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: half because Darien Mensa was not committed to them yet
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: and we had a February second court date, so we.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Ain't know what was gonna happen. So I was like,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: we'll we'll put them in the middle of that amount.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: So I believe that.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: So I would probably put Miami around number four right now,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: with Darien Mensa and that wide receiver coming over too,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: because that's gonna be a hell of a football team.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Indiana fans are very upset, very upset they should be
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: a top five team.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: When teams lose as much as Indiana did.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: And then Indiana they looked like they did a wonderful
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: job in the transfer portal. Again, but this is too
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: small of a sample size to believe. I mean, you're
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: already getting credit for being number number seven. You're not
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: gonna win the national championship every year. I'm sorry to
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: break it to you, Indiana fans. I know you're on
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: on high right now and you can't possibly hear anything negative.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: But being a top ten team in the preseason that
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: means you got a shot. That means you got a shot.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: This is way too early ranking. So this means that
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: everybody believes that. I believe in what Indiana is doing.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: People were shocked at Michigan at number nine. Do you
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: know their coach coach is Kyle Whittingham. Dude as a dog,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: you better believe in Kyle Whittingham. I'm just telling you
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: that and then he will get this crew together, and
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Michigan is already crazy talented. They added players in the portal.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: What do you think is going to happen at Michigan?
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Duh?
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: And I feel like I am the only preseason way
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: too early that appropriately ranked the SEC. We got Georgia, Texas,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Texa and him in the top ten.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Three in the top ten, that's it. And then you
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: got Lsu hell of a transfer portal hall and plus
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: on a talented roster, Old miss at fifteen, so you
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: got five in the top fifteen.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Reasonable. Then we got Oklahoma.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: They kept their same offensive coordinator, so I'm not sure
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: we think anything's gonna be better. Alabama lost a lot,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: and we got to see if they can block anybody,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: even though they got Adrian klem as their officer coordinator now,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: which should be a significant improvement. And we got Missouri
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: at number twenty one. But I'm not sold on Austin
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Simmons yet, but they're doing some decent things over there
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: at Old Min's.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: So we got eight SEC teams.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Feels appropriate for the second best team in college second
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: best conference in college football. We're not falling victim to
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: it again over here on another fraid, Joe, it's not.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: The Big Ten is the best conference, and it's reflected
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: in the rankings. And then we got teams like Texas
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: A and IT Texas Tech at number six, b YU
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: at ten. People are sleeping on Washington and USC which
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: I got twelve and thirteen. Iowall, if they can put
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: together some offense, Lord have mercy, they are gonna be
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: a significant problem.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Virginia is much improved.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: People are sleeping on Houston and people are sleeping on
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Arizona as well. With nor Fafida, they bounced back, they've recruited. Well,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good football team. But you guys,
• 41:07
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• 41:15
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• 41:19
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten rankings.