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Tommy Tuberville Transfer Portal Plan BACKFIRES, CFB Recruiting Holdbacks, NFL Draft Cities & More · Unafraid Show with George Wrighster

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. I got a lot to explain
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Speaker 1: to you guys today. First of all, Tommy Tubberville, former
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Speaker 1: Auburn head coach, putting out a new bill. He believes
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Speaker 1: that the transfer portal and NIO have ruined college football.
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Speaker 1: You should only get five years to play five and
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Speaker 1: if you transfer for a second time, you should be penalized.
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Speaker 1: I have to sit out of here. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: explain to you while that is total BS and it
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Speaker 1: is a manipulation of what's really going on out in
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Speaker 1: the world. Second thing that we got to talk about
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Speaker 1: is the Big Ten. They're talking about putting up a
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Speaker 1: proposal that allows teams to re sign their players above
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Speaker 1: the twenty and a half million dollar cap, and why
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Speaker 1: it's total BS and why it doesn't even matter, and
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Speaker 1: what the NCAA and all of these people who are
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Speaker 1: trying to go talk to President Trump. They're trying to
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Speaker 1: create their own bills. This is about power, and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to explain to you they're nefarious, right like they
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Speaker 1: have an underhanded the reason for doing this. Can't wait
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Speaker 1: to explain that to you. We are going to talk
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Speaker 1: about the holdback culture and how that's a thing and
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Speaker 1: how is it beneficial for kids to hold back one year,
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Speaker 1: two years and everything in between. We got to talk
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Speaker 1: about kids to getting pushed it to the transfer portal,
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Speaker 1: and of course we got the top ten cities for
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Speaker 1: these players to get drafted in when they go into NFL.
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Speaker 1: That and so much more here on the show. Keep
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Speaker 1: Comy Tullberville, former coach at Auburn who's been at over
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Speaker 1: four different colleges as head coach because he chose to
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Speaker 1: go do something else, wants to block players and send
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Speaker 1: things back to the Stone Ages. Let me explain to
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Speaker 1: you how this all you know started out. Here's the
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Speaker 1: tweet from Tommy Tubberville, coach for governor. Right, is that
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Speaker 1: the transfer portal has screwed up college sports. My bill
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Speaker 1: is simple. You get five consecutive years to play five seasons,
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Speaker 1: and you get one transfer after that. If you transfer again,
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Speaker 1: you sit out a year. This will fix eighty percent
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Speaker 1: of the issues in nil Right, that's actually comedy. It's
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Speaker 1: comedy hour. So then you had a reply to it
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Speaker 1: from Jamil Hill. You want to legislate and control the
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Speaker 1: movements of players that you refuse to concede our employees.
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Speaker 1: What happened to that free market capitalism that you speak
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Speaker 1: so glowingly of one hundred percent? Right now, let me
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Speaker 1: break this down for you, because what Tommy Tubberville is saying,
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Speaker 1: most people don't have a disagreement that players should have
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Speaker 1: five years to play five right. I also think that
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Speaker 1: that medical years should still be a thing because sometimes
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Speaker 1: players have significant injuries and there's nothing that they can
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Speaker 1: do anything about, and just having their clock running, especially
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Speaker 1: if they're gonna miss two years of sport, that's outrageous. Right.
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Speaker 1: And the reason why five for five is important just
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Speaker 1: in general, is because you get a chance to you
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Speaker 1: don't have to worry about the red shirt year and
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Speaker 1: who's going to and fighting in court about this and that. No,
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Speaker 1: it'll just cut it down instead of coaches having to
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Speaker 1: worry about, oh that this game, that this guy played
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Speaker 1: four games. What happens if we get somebody hurt and
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Speaker 1: we need them for a game and everything else. What
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Speaker 1: happens then and then he's eligible for bold games. It's nonsense.
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Speaker 1: So it's time to stop that. But let me explain
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Speaker 1: to you the part where Tommy Tubberville is trying to
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Speaker 1: send things back to the Stone ages because he said
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Speaker 1: that you should get a one time transfer, then anything
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Speaker 1: after that you should have to sit for a year.
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Speaker 1: And my immediate response is a couple things. First thing
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Speaker 1: is why on earth should players have to sit if
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Speaker 1: coaches don't have to sit when they change change jobs.
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Speaker 1: And remember we talked about it on the last show.
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Speaker 1: Everybody is trying to do the same thing. Geographic desirability,
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Speaker 1: of financial stability and upward mobility for their job. This
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Speaker 1: all everybody wants. So now they're literally trying to put
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Speaker 1: all the aspects of professional sports into college sports without
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Speaker 1: naming them, without naming them employees. So I think about that.
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Speaker 1: They want a salary cap, they want contracts that are enforceable,
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Speaker 1: they want concessions, all sorts of stuff, which is professional sports,
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Speaker 1: which is an employer employee relationship. So they don't want that,
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Speaker 1: but they do believe that Tommy Tumberville said eighty percent
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Speaker 1: of problems get solved. Absolutely not, because it includes one
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Speaker 1: big false lie and proposal and everything that's been put
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Speaker 1: out is that players leave in the transfer portal because
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Speaker 1: they want to no most players leaving the transfer portal.
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Speaker 1: Most players leave in the transfer port because their coach
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Speaker 1: forces them to. They are cores to, so they either
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Speaker 1: look at the player in his face when they're in
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Speaker 1: their postseason and value after the seasons with in their
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Speaker 1: evaluations and they say, look, you're never gonna play here.
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Speaker 1: I'll help you go find somewhere else. And you know,
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Speaker 1: it is what it is. And the players like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I feel rejected. You've told me that you don't want me,
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Speaker 1: so why would I stay somewhere where you don't want me?
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Speaker 1: And you're actually going to make it increasingly difficult and
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Speaker 1: less desirable for me to be there because you want
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Speaker 1: that scholarship back. That's what happens, or what they'll do
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Speaker 1: is is if a players had an injury or two,
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Speaker 1: they'll say, well, we need to medical you, because then
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Speaker 1: that puts you in a different bucket. Your scholarship is gone.
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Speaker 1: You are off the team. So here is where the
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Speaker 1: n Cuba pr They put out an insane tweet and
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Speaker 1: I just had to say the audacity and the nerve
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Speaker 1: of them to put this out. Let me read this
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Speaker 1: to you, they said in response to Jamil Hill saying
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Speaker 1: scholarships are one year renewables. They are not for all
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Speaker 1: four years. The quiet part nobody is talking about. Now,
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Speaker 1: if a coach doesn't want a player, he can simply
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Speaker 1: not renew the scholarship. N C double A their official
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Speaker 1: PR account. For over a decade, schools in the Power
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Speaker 1: Autonomy Conferences have been required to provide four year scholarships,
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Speaker 1: and the twenty twenty four deal mandated D one schools
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Speaker 1: do the same. Schools cannot reduce or cancel scholarships for
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Speaker 1: athletical reasons, including injuries, performance or roster management decisions, unless
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Speaker 1: a student athlete decides to transfer, Plus those guaranteed scholarships
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Speaker 1: have to be available to those student athletes for ten
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Speaker 1: years after they leave college. Sat I was like the
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Speaker 1: audacity of you, because for some reason people don't believe
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Speaker 1: or know that the majority of players hop in the
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Speaker 1: transfer portal because they are forced to. They don't hop
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Speaker 1: into transfer portal because they desire to. Yes, there are
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Speaker 1: plenty of players who do. There are there's a bucket
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Speaker 1: of players that say, I have more opportunities somewhere else,
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Speaker 1: so I'll go make some more money elsewhere. This is
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Speaker 1: why you have more kids stuck in the portal than
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Speaker 1: kids who transfer. Think about that. There are more kids
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Speaker 1: who go into the transfer portal come out of the
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Speaker 1: transferport So you think that all these kids had this
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Speaker 1: magic idea and they were all wrong, that they're gonna
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Speaker 1: go for big riches elsewhere. No, that's not the case.
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Speaker 1: That's not the situation. And it's a full fledged lie.
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Speaker 1: It's not even a you know, a mischaracterization or no,
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Speaker 1: they know what they were doing. They set up there
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Speaker 1: and lied in your face, set up there and played
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Speaker 1: in your face, and they wanted us to believe it
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Speaker 1: because that's the lie that they keep trying to sell us.
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Speaker 1: And the transfer reporter won't fix eighty percent or anything.
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Speaker 1: Coaches will still leave, players won't be employees, none of that.
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Speaker 1: What's going on is you have the leadership in college
8:43
Speaker 1: football trying to retain power. They want to make all
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Speaker 1: the decisions without the players, when in reality, college sports
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Speaker 1: are the entertainment business. This is no different than professional sports.
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Speaker 1: Their designation is to make money. It is not anything else.
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Speaker 1: Because if that were the case, if it were for
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Speaker 1: a higher learning really at this point in time, you
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have coaches who are graduating high percentages and just
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Speaker 1: not winning enough football games be fired. You wouldn't. This
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Speaker 1: is a money making think, that's why they're doing it,
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Speaker 1: So make make no mistake. So we need to understand
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Speaker 1: what it is. This is an entertainment business that has books,
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Speaker 1: that has books, So let's stop pretending that it is
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Speaker 1: anything other than the entertainment business. They want to make money,
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Speaker 1: and then they use that money to subsidize some of
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Speaker 1: the other sports that don't make money. So we need
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Speaker 1: to look at it like a business and stop trying
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Speaker 1: to pretend that all these powerful people are doing something
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Speaker 1: noble for college athletes, because that, my friends, is not
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Speaker 1: the case, not even a little bit. Nothing about this
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Speaker 1: is noble, which they are doing the next thing. And
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Speaker 1: I found this interesting too because the Big Ten they
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Speaker 1: decided that they were going to put out a tweet
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Speaker 1: that essentially says, well and a proposal that basically says
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Speaker 1: the salary cap limit that twenty and a half million
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Speaker 1: dollars that nobody is at heering to for the most part,
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Speaker 1: unless they just don't have the funds to do it.
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Speaker 1: Nobody is at hearing to because it's supposed to be
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Speaker 1: twenty and a half million for all your sports so
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Speaker 1: how do we have an LSU forty million dollar roster?
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Speaker 1: Ohiose state forty million dollar roster and a lot of
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Speaker 1: people in the twenties. You got Organs in the twenties,
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Speaker 1: you got Washington's in the twenties, like all of these people.
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Speaker 1: Come on, man, we know what it is, so stop
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Speaker 1: trying to pretend it is anything other than what it is.
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Speaker 1: So what the Big Ten proposed is is that you
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Speaker 1: were allowed to go over the cap to re sign
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Speaker 1: your players, like having bird rights. So if all of
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Speaker 1: the if pretty much all the contracts are one year, anyway,
11:20
Speaker 1: everybody has bird rights. Think about that. There's nothing special
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Speaker 1: about an individual player that bird rights allow you to do.
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Speaker 1: In the NBA, which if you don't understand what they are,
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Speaker 1: let me give you a quick synopsis. In the NBA,
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Speaker 1: you are allowed to go over the cap if you
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Speaker 1: are re signing your players that you have their bird
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Speaker 1: rights too. That's it. And in the NBA you can.
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Speaker 1: It's not that it's when you draft them. Well, if
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Speaker 1: you drafted them, how long they've been on your team
11:54
Speaker 1: after you trade it for them. There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: complicated things, but in college football, players change and turnover
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Speaker 1: so much that doesn't even make any sense. We first
12:03
Speaker 1: have to get a system in place that gives players
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to make money and to be able to
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Speaker 1: transfer freely. So the idea that you're going to get
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Speaker 1: people to stop transferring and all of this stuff with
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Speaker 1: any of these rules, it's not gonna work as long
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Speaker 1: as and none of this is going to work until
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Speaker 1: the players are involved in negotiations. Until the players are
12:31
Speaker 1: involved in negotiations, that's it. That is the only way,
12:38
Speaker 1: that is the only way that this is going to happen.
12:43
Speaker 1: Roman is that is that the only way that this
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Speaker 1: is going to happen. See even Roman told you that's
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Speaker 1: the only way it's gonna happen. So we are going
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Speaker 1: to stop pretending like this is real life, that these
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Speaker 1: people have any interest in this. And another propose today
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Speaker 1: that came out today was that the NC Double A
13:04
Speaker 1: is considering starting the season a week early. Sounds like
13:09
Speaker 1: a great idea, right the way, when we've all talked
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Speaker 1: about it, Move it up to week zero, start the
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Speaker 1: season earlier, and then back to calendar back. No, that's
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Speaker 1: not their plan. Their plan is to get the season
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Speaker 1: starts week zero. N C Double A no longer has
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Speaker 1: to give you a waiver to play in week zero.
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Speaker 1: That way, every team can then have two bye weeks,
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Speaker 1: and if every team then has two bye weeks, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't move the schedule up at all. And they have
13:40
Speaker 1: already made it clear that this does not mean that
13:43
Speaker 1: they're backing out the rest of the schedule, that they're
13:46
Speaker 1: moving it back a week. So how does this make
13:50
Speaker 1: any sense? It doesn't, people, it doesn't. But you, guys,
13:54
Speaker 1: we got more to talk about because we have the
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Speaker 1: home back situation. What is going on with the whole
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Speaker 1: backs in college sports? And the Wall Street Journal just
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Speaker 1: put up an article about this recently, and the article
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Speaker 1: specifically says that players, well that this is like a
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Speaker 1: new thing, the whole back for all the Nio riches.
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Speaker 1: This has been going on since I was in high school,
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Speaker 1: talk to you guys about holdbacks, right because the Wall
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Speaker 1: Street Journal came out with an article that basically talked
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Speaker 1: about that parents are holding their kids back in in
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Speaker 1: eighth grade for riches. And I've read the headline, Ralph,
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Speaker 1: and I was totally confused. I could not have been
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Speaker 1: any more confused, because how this has been going on
16:13
Speaker 1: since I was in high school. The first player that
16:16
Speaker 1: I ever knew to hold back and repeat eighth grade
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Speaker 1: and mind people either do it in kindergarten, sixth grade,
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Speaker 1: or eighth grade for the most part, was this kid
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Speaker 1: named Brandon full of who went to see me Valley
16:29
Speaker 1: High School. I'll never forget it. We were at I
16:32
Speaker 1: went to Snow Valley basketball camp with him, and then
16:36
Speaker 1: I went to high school a couple of years later,
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, I'm in high school
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Speaker 1: and I see him and we played against each other
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Speaker 1: in some some of the things. I was like, Oh,
16:49
Speaker 1: where are you going to going to school? Blah blah blah.
16:52
Speaker 1: He was like, oh, no, no, I'm only a sophomore. It
16:53
Speaker 1: was like wait what we were in the same class
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Speaker 1: or he was a year in front of me. I
16:59
Speaker 1: was like, how are you a year behind me? Now?
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Speaker 1: This is crazy. He was like, yeah, yeah, my dad
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Speaker 1: helped me back blah blah blah. So let's explain, Ralph.
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Speaker 1: I'll let you explain to people what the actual holdback
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Speaker 1: is and where the origin was in the state of Texas.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, the eighth grade repeating eighth grade is referred
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Speaker 2: to as a Texas red shirt. This is something that
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Speaker 2: has been going on, I want to say, for more
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Speaker 2: than twenty five years. So it very much feels like
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Speaker 2: the dragging this issue into the light now is like
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Speaker 2: writing an article saying like the hot new toy is
17:44
Speaker 2: the game Boy exactly. This is This's been a thing.
17:49
Speaker 2: I've been a high school sports reporter covering high school
17:54
Speaker 2: football since twenty twelve, and I remember one of the
17:58
Speaker 2: first four year group of athletes that I covered included
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Speaker 2: an athlete who got a scholarship to Stanford, and some
18:07
Speaker 2: of the other athletes I covered reached out to me
18:09
Speaker 2: and they're like, wait, how is he still in school?
18:12
Speaker 2: Because they had gone off to college. How is he
18:14
Speaker 2: still in school. We all went to eighth grade together,
18:17
Speaker 2: and we went to separate high schools, and I had
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Speaker 2: to explain to them the concept of a Texas red shirt.
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Speaker 2: This is well over a decade ago now, and for
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Speaker 2: this kid, it worked and way he got to go
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Speaker 2: to Stanford. I mean, he was tall and big, but
18:30
Speaker 2: he wasn't a star high school football player. He was
18:33
Speaker 2: just physically more mature. He was the son of two
18:36
Speaker 2: college athletes, and they kind of manipulated the process, but
18:40
Speaker 2: within the rules. And then one of the most high
18:43
Speaker 2: profile coaches in Arizona, one of the most high profile
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Speaker 2: high school coaches in Arizona, held his son back in
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Speaker 2: eighth grade and gave interviews about this is almost ten
18:53
Speaker 2: years ago now, gave several interviews about it, and he
18:55
Speaker 2: ended up being a collegiate long snapper and helped him
18:58
Speaker 2: be physically ready for that. And so it's been so
19:01
Speaker 2: commonplace for such a long time that I was genuinely
19:05
Speaker 2: shocked to see like the Wall Street Journal, you know,
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Speaker 2: and other publications reignite this debate as if it hasn't
19:14
Speaker 2: been regular and commonplace. And it just feels very much
19:17
Speaker 2: like another thing that boomers started, that millennials are going
19:23
Speaker 2: to take the heat for participating it.
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Speaker 1: Yes, dude, that's the thing is that they want to
19:33
Speaker 1: make it seem like the kids are soft these days. Oh,
19:37
Speaker 1: these kids participation in trophies. They are soft. It's the
19:41
Speaker 1: parents who did it to them, who stopped who started
19:44
Speaker 1: being helicopter and bulldozer. Parents knocked down all the obstacles
19:48
Speaker 1: in front of the era kids. Now. Mind you, there's
19:51
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons why kids hold back now when
19:54
Speaker 1: we were younger. It used to be because it used
19:57
Speaker 1: to only be for educational reasons. It should only be
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Speaker 1: for educational reasons, and now people hold back for educational reasons,
20:04
Speaker 1: sometimes your kids are too small, and sometimes it's a
20:07
Speaker 1: birthday thing. So in all transparency, I have one son
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Speaker 1: who went straight to college at seventeen and turned eighteen
20:17
Speaker 1: shortly after he got there, so because he checked in
20:20
Speaker 1: in January and February, he was eighteen. Then to have
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Speaker 1: another son who plays football as well. He is fourteen now, right,
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Speaker 1: he repeated eighth grade. But it's different because at the
20:34
Speaker 1: school that he goes to, you can actually move forward
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Speaker 1: in a lot of your academic classes, so it's not
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Speaker 1: like he's not, you know, advancing in his learning right.
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Speaker 1: And he begged me to do it, where like a
20:46
Speaker 1: lot of other parents, they forced their kids to do it,
20:50
Speaker 1: which can have negative social impacts and all these sorts
20:54
Speaker 1: of things. But the important thing about this is that
20:57
Speaker 1: this entire concept came more mainstream from a book, a
21:03
Speaker 1: book by Malcolm Gladwell called Outliers, and in the book
21:08
Speaker 1: he details and it's not just about sports, it's about
21:11
Speaker 1: why birthdays matter in general. With cutoff dates and It
21:15
Speaker 1: talks about how January first birthdays, right that if you
21:20
Speaker 1: look at MLB and NHL, there are more players born
21:26
Speaker 1: between January and April in those professional leagues than were
21:31
Speaker 1: born in all the rest of the months combined. My
21:36
Speaker 1: son plays foot Yeah, my son plays football in Catley
21:39
Speaker 1: at least, and a lot of other states too. The
21:43
Speaker 1: cutoff date is August, I'm sorry, is July thirty first,
21:47
Speaker 1: So an optimal birthday is August first. The worst birthday
21:53
Speaker 1: that you can have is the third is July thirty
21:57
Speaker 1: and third thirty first worst birth my son has a
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Speaker 1: July twenty seventh birthday, so he would have graduated high
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Speaker 1: school at seventeen years old, been damn near on his
22:11
Speaker 1: way to college. Well, especially if he checked in in
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Speaker 1: January and he plays quarterback. And I'm like, this ain't
22:19
Speaker 1: exactly the optimal move. And I will tell you for
22:22
Speaker 1: me and my family, this has been when I look
22:25
Speaker 1: at his maturity, his maturation and what not, not even physically,
22:32
Speaker 1: even though that that's had a significant impact, it's the thinking.
22:35
Speaker 1: It is staying on top of stuff with school, all
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Speaker 1: of this stuff that is dramatically improved. This was by
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Speaker 1: far the best decision for him. Now, parents, I believe
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Speaker 1: Ralph have to assess what their goals are because some
22:52
Speaker 1: of these parents are like, yeah, I'm my kid's gonna
22:55
Speaker 1: be a beast, he's gonna go to the league and
22:57
Speaker 1: all of this stuff. No, no, no, no. The only thing
22:59
Speaker 1: that that you your mind should be and what should
23:04
Speaker 1: be a thing is like, oh and where like you said,
23:07
Speaker 1: the Stafford kid is getting your kid to college, because yes,
23:12
Speaker 1: he should excel against people that he's older than. But
23:15
Speaker 1: in my kid's case, he's going to be the same
23:17
Speaker 1: age as the people that he's playing with.
23:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have three sons, I have three holdbacks. So
23:26
Speaker 2: when it comes to transparency, I didn't. It wasn't eighth grade.
23:31
Speaker 2: It wasn't a true Texas red shirt, right, I think
23:35
Speaker 2: in your case it was. But I did a double seventh,
23:42
Speaker 2: double sixth, and double second. And because all of my kids,
23:46
Speaker 2: like you said, they're the first week of July to
23:49
Speaker 2: the first week of August, that's where their birthdays fall.
23:53
Speaker 2: And I started them all in school early to see
23:56
Speaker 2: if they could hang and they were doing. They were doing. Oh,
24:00
Speaker 2: but COVID came along and I reassessed where everybody was
24:05
Speaker 2: at and so for one kid, it had a very
24:09
Speaker 2: very big academic benefit, For another kid, it had a
24:12
Speaker 2: very big social benefit. And for a third kid, it
24:16
Speaker 2: had an athletic benefit. Not the difference between going to
24:19
Speaker 2: college to play sports and not going to college to
24:21
Speaker 2: play sports, but truly the difference from playing sports and
24:25
Speaker 2: not being able to hang. And I think that for
24:29
Speaker 2: him that was probably the most important thing. Like, I'm
24:32
Speaker 2: not necessarily trying to send my kids to college to
24:36
Speaker 2: play sports unless that's something they want to pursue. They
24:38
Speaker 2: got a bunch of other stuff going on, But you
24:41
Speaker 2: do have to It doesn't necessarily make sense, I think
24:44
Speaker 2: for a parent to just say, Okay, we're definitely doing
24:47
Speaker 2: this to give or a kid an advantage, you really
24:50
Speaker 2: do have to individually assess. Because what you and I
24:53
Speaker 2: went through the other day is the difference between the
24:56
Speaker 2: first round and the NFL Draft and the third round
25:00
Speaker 2: the NFL Draft. The average age of a first round
25:02
Speaker 2: pick is twenty one. Those are not holdbacks. Those are
25:07
Speaker 2: the people who excel no matter who you put them
25:09
Speaker 2: up against. The average age of a third ground NFL
25:12
Speaker 2: Draft pick is twenty three. Now, you might say that
25:15
Speaker 2: that has something to do with COVID and extra eligibility.
25:19
Speaker 2: But you can even go you can go back a
25:21
Speaker 2: long time. You see the increase in age as the
25:24
Speaker 2: as the draft goes on, and it's very possible that
25:26
Speaker 2: some of those kids were put in a position to
25:31
Speaker 2: be physically more ready. George, here's what I got to
25:35
Speaker 2: ask you, because I don't view this it's all within
25:38
Speaker 2: the rules. I don't view it as evil. I think
25:40
Speaker 2: that parents should have say over what their kids are
25:45
Speaker 2: doing and where they go and win. But what is
25:48
Speaker 2: the difference between a parent doing this in eighth grade
25:52
Speaker 2: and a coach giving you a red shirt ear when
25:54
Speaker 2: you hit campus to get you more physically ready? What's
25:58
Speaker 2: the difference?
25:59
Speaker 1: Exactly? Exactly now, now here is the part that parents
26:03
Speaker 1: really need to know. So on three put out a study.
26:07
Speaker 1: Like anybody who is considering this, take all the points
26:09
Speaker 1: that we just said, but don't do this because you
26:13
Speaker 1: believe you're it's gonna help your kid have a better
26:16
Speaker 1: opportunity to become a professional athlete. It's not true. It is.
26:20
Speaker 1: The study show same thing in basketball holdbacks, outside of
26:25
Speaker 1: like Derek Rose, the majority of whobacks don't go out
26:28
Speaker 1: to be NBA stars like some of them will be
26:31
Speaker 1: college stars and and or you know, they'll have a
26:34
Speaker 1: flash in the moment of excitement in the NBA or something,
26:37
Speaker 1: and then it'll be over. Because what happens is the
26:40
Speaker 1: balance of the of the age balance is out the
26:43
Speaker 1: higher level that you that you go and now if
26:48
Speaker 1: you're not an exceptional player, it is going to show.
26:52
Speaker 1: Now this and the Wall Street Journal article alleges that
26:58
Speaker 1: parents are doing this for Nio Riches. Now, yes, that's
27:01
Speaker 1: probably true on some case, because there are a lot
27:03
Speaker 1: of coaches who don't care whether a kid is nineteen
27:06
Speaker 1: is freshman year, twenty years old going into his freshman year,
27:11
Speaker 1: none of that, Like they don't care. But there's a
27:14
Speaker 1: study on three and it talked about like from the powerhouse,
27:18
Speaker 1: and this is part part is interesting too. It talked
27:21
Speaker 1: about the powerhouse high school college football programs. We're talking
27:25
Speaker 1: about modern day Saint John Bosco, Bishop Gorman, img A,
27:34
Speaker 1: Saint Francis in Baltimore, and a few other schools, about
27:39
Speaker 1: how many of their five stars end up going to
27:43
Speaker 1: the because being a five star means you're expecting to
27:46
Speaker 1: be a first round pick. They're projecting that. You know
27:49
Speaker 1: that forty years later you'll be a first round pick.
27:52
Speaker 1: The hit rate from those schools is super low, and
27:56
Speaker 1: you do get a lot of holdbacks at those schools.
28:00
Speaker 1: The hit rate is low. The hit rate is low
28:02
Speaker 1: on their four stars. Hip rate is low on their
28:04
Speaker 1: three stars as well in terms of getting drafted. So
28:07
Speaker 1: the idea that you are going to hold your kid
28:10
Speaker 1: back into professional sports, no, you may be able to
28:13
Speaker 1: hold your kid back into a scholarship like Ralph just
28:16
Speaker 1: talked about, and that, honestly, it makes sense. And this
28:20
Speaker 1: is also why I've pressed the issue of your kid
28:23
Speaker 1: needs to be a professional in sports, not a not
28:27
Speaker 1: aiming necessarily to be a professional athlete. We got Ken
28:32
Speaker 1: Griffy Junior taking pictures a photographer now that he's finished.
28:36
Speaker 1: People do music for sports, general managers, owners, you know,
28:43
Speaker 1: like there's graphic design, people, social media. There's so many
28:47
Speaker 1: ways to stay in sports if you become a professional
28:51
Speaker 1: at sports and understanding the business and the inner workings
28:55
Speaker 1: of it. Hell, you can even be an entrepreneur, an
28:58
Speaker 1: inventor and we ate a new mousetrap, create something that
29:02
Speaker 1: helps play the sport better or push the sport forward.
29:06
Speaker 1: There's so many options for that. So Ralph the hope
29:11
Speaker 1: back thing and the idea that this is for Nio
29:14
Speaker 1: Riches is also crazy to me because what happens to
29:19
Speaker 1: players Ralph when they go to a school and they
29:22
Speaker 1: don't perform at the level that the coach is expected.
29:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean again with the with the whole thing
29:32
Speaker 2: of the first round picks being younger. Ultimately your money
29:34
Speaker 2: is going to depend on what you do against competition.
29:38
Speaker 2: That money that comes early on to get you to
29:41
Speaker 2: a place that's not going to be what sustains you.
29:45
Speaker 2: You know, we had a Jaden Quainten's go to Arizona
29:48
Speaker 2: State at seventeen years old and look like a star.
29:53
Speaker 2: And because he looked like a star, he turned that
29:56
Speaker 2: into a two million dollar check from Kentucky. Now he
29:59
Speaker 2: got me swelling. He got held out this year. He
30:03
Speaker 2: I think he ever made one hundred Yeah, uh, well
30:07
Speaker 2: twenty points two million dollars is one hundred thousand dollars
30:09
Speaker 2: per point. Good for him, But he's going he's going
30:12
Speaker 2: to the NBA Draft Like he's not. He's not going
30:14
Speaker 2: to stick around in college. But what earned him that money,
30:19
Speaker 2: what earned him that money, It was the year he
30:21
Speaker 2: played at Arizona State at seventeen and eighteen years old.
30:26
Speaker 1: Yep.
30:27
Speaker 2: It wasn't being held back. He already was very physically impressive.
30:31
Speaker 2: It was playing up, leaning into his potential, and he
30:35
Speaker 2: was able to cash an nil check off of that.
30:39
Speaker 2: You you should never do anything for short term gains
30:46
Speaker 2: in athletics. You shouldn't break the rules of success for
30:50
Speaker 2: the sport on the periphery of the sport. As a parent,
30:54
Speaker 2: you you really shouldn't. And I get that. It's a
30:57
Speaker 2: dog eat dog world and there's a million stories of
31:00
Speaker 2: people being innovative to find little ways to make it
31:02
Speaker 2: here and there. And you know, you and I talked
31:04
Speaker 2: the other day about how everybody's mad about people putting
31:08
Speaker 2: AI highlights up, and I said.
31:09
Speaker 1: Go ahead do it.
31:11
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter me because the truth is gonna get
31:14
Speaker 2: told eventually. So you can hold your kid back. They
31:18
Speaker 2: can go to school at twenty one, but if seventeen
31:21
Speaker 2: year olds are tearing them up on the field when
31:24
Speaker 2: they're twenty one, that's where the money's gonna go.
31:27
Speaker 1: Yep.
31:28
Speaker 2: Eventually, the truth gets told. So all shortcuts lead to
31:32
Speaker 2: the same destination the field, the court, and that's where
31:37
Speaker 2: we find out. Yep, So go ahead, cut corners cheet.
31:42
Speaker 2: I don't feel like Texas red shirt is necessarily that.
31:46
Speaker 2: I feel like, if you know your kid and you
31:47
Speaker 2: know what's good for your kid, if we want to
31:51
Speaker 2: talk about what's like, what's really possibly detrimental to these
31:55
Speaker 2: it would be the four high schools in four years, yes,
31:58
Speaker 2: five school you know from been full school to senior
32:01
Speaker 2: year five schools five years. It would be the sending
32:04
Speaker 2: your kid to IMG and paying ninety thousand dollars a
32:06
Speaker 2: year to get a forty five thousand dollars a year scholarship.
32:10
Speaker 2: It would be like, some of the stuff that's going
32:12
Speaker 2: on is beyond comprehension, But saying like, oh, I want
32:17
Speaker 2: I want my kid to physically be able to hang
32:19
Speaker 2: in sports is not one. But I don't necessarily think
32:23
Speaker 2: it sets them up. Maybe if you get that five
32:25
Speaker 2: star designation because you're physically developed. But these companies are
32:29
Speaker 2: going to catch up and catch on. Their ratings are
32:31
Speaker 2: going to start to reflect the age that you're playing
32:34
Speaker 2: at and the people that you're playing at, because they're
32:36
Speaker 2: going to see the data that twenty one year olds are.
32:39
Speaker 2: So if you're going into college at twenty and most
32:42
Speaker 2: first round picks are twenty one. You'd think they're going
32:44
Speaker 2: to give you that five star. No, no, because you
32:50
Speaker 2: go way, you're gonna be a twenty four year old
32:52
Speaker 2: first round.
32:52
Speaker 1: Pick exactly exactly, And that's not It doesn't happen. Yeah,
32:58
Speaker 1: and yes, that has happened in occasional situations like bo Nick's,
33:05
Speaker 1: Michael Pennix because of the COVID year. But this is
33:08
Speaker 1: not a trend, like we have sustained data for this
33:14
Speaker 1: that that's not what happens. So I pray for these kids.
33:20
Speaker 1: I pray for these parents, Ralph, because there's a lot
33:23
Speaker 1: of them who don't understand it. And the Wall Street
33:26
Speaker 1: Journal is right that they do see riches of nil.
33:29
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean it's going to show up at
33:31
Speaker 1: your door. That's the issue is that you can want
33:36
Speaker 1: that all you want, but at the end of the day,
33:39
Speaker 1: what's for you is for you and what is not
33:41
Speaker 1: is not And what I mean by that is of course,
33:45
Speaker 1: hard work, dedication, all those things matter to it, and
33:49
Speaker 1: you can't get any of those things without it. However,
33:53
Speaker 1: you also have to like you can't skip steps. You
33:57
Speaker 1: cannot skip steps. Is highly important to UH to do
34:03
Speaker 1: the mental, emotional, physical development and if you are going
34:08
Speaker 1: to hold back, that actually needs to be more of
34:11
Speaker 1: a mental emotional growth than even the physical growth. Thank you,
34:18
Speaker 1: because you're.
34:19
Speaker 2: Just and I'm not I'm not trying to gas you
34:25
Speaker 2: up here, George. But like your son who keeps popping
34:27
Speaker 2: up on screen, I got a nickname for him. I
34:31
Speaker 2: don't know if you heard me say it. I say
34:32
Speaker 2: it to my wife, Renaissance Roman right like and and
34:38
Speaker 2: as a dad, you've been very intentional about making sure
34:42
Speaker 2: your kids have experiences from every walk of life, every
34:49
Speaker 2: possible interest like and and that, and that's just it.
34:54
Speaker 2: Like if you pull your kid out, And this is
34:59
Speaker 2: a message directly to anybody who's hoping to hold their
35:03
Speaker 2: kid back in eighth grade, get them more physically ready,
35:05
Speaker 2: and have them cash in on anil dollars. So let's
35:08
Speaker 2: say that you hold your kid out in eighth grade
35:09
Speaker 2: and all they do is train. All they do is football,
35:13
Speaker 2: that's it. All they do is basketball, that's it. When
35:16
Speaker 2: it comes time for a company to hand over money
35:20
Speaker 2: to somebody that they feel can enhance the visibility of
35:26
Speaker 2: their product, they're going to be looking for kids who
35:29
Speaker 2: have interests, who have personalities. Yes, and if all you
35:36
Speaker 2: are is an athlete, you aren't going to have an
35:40
Speaker 2: interest or a personality to tap.
35:43
Speaker 1: Into correct correct. And that's the thing that you see
35:48
Speaker 1: so many people doing like they are, Like, look at
35:51
Speaker 1: a guy like PJ. Tucker. PJ Tucker not the best
35:55
Speaker 1: NBA player of all time. Good, it's like solid NBA
35:58
Speaker 1: player for the majority of his career. Now he's old.
36:01
Speaker 1: What do you know? What is PJ. Tucker probably more
36:04
Speaker 1: known for now than playing in the NBA His shoes
36:09
Speaker 1: and fashion.
36:10
Speaker 2: I mean love shoes, yeah, I mean love shoes.
36:13
Speaker 1: Yes, Hank Hank Basket who was married to Kendra, His
36:20
Speaker 1: son plays basketball now at Oakes Christian. But what is
36:24
Speaker 1: but the thing that he's more famous now for that
36:26
Speaker 1: most people don't even know unless you're in his circle
36:29
Speaker 1: building computers and playing video games, like building computers, and
36:34
Speaker 1: you have people that are into like Myron role, what
36:39
Speaker 1: does he care about being a doctor all like? And
36:43
Speaker 1: that's the thing that drives your visibility and true NIL
36:48
Speaker 1: value is being able to show people that you are
36:51
Speaker 1: more than a one trick pony. There's a reason why
36:57
Speaker 1: they are trying to craft Fernando Mendo this brand right
37:01
Speaker 1: right right now, because he's about as interesting as a
37:04
Speaker 1: as a as a salteen cracker, but what but what
37:10
Speaker 1: have they marketed him as? He's all business LinkedIn so
37:16
Speaker 1: they like because he talked about the only thing that
37:20
Speaker 1: he really uses is LinkedIn in YouTube. That's pretty much it.
37:24
Speaker 1: That's it. So you have to lean into the things
37:28
Speaker 1: that matter to you the most, right, So the main thing,
37:35
Speaker 1: like Fernando Mendoz exactly here you go, well, sorry, the
37:43
Speaker 1: main thing that you have to do is lean into
37:45
Speaker 1: the things. And this is why they're trying to craft
37:48
Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoz's brand because he's about as interesting as a
37:52
Speaker 1: as a salteen cracker, but LinkedIn because he's all business
38:00
Speaker 1: and YouTube. Yeah, and you have players that are into
38:04
Speaker 1: anime and whatever like. Those are the things that people
38:08
Speaker 1: need to know about you. If you draw, if you sing,
38:11
Speaker 1: if you like all those parts of players that get hidden.
38:15
Speaker 1: You need to put those things out that you enjoy
38:17
Speaker 1: doing because that will get you the brand deals. That's
38:21
Speaker 1: where your true nil value comes in, because I believe
38:25
Speaker 1: all of this pay for play money it is going
38:27
Speaker 1: to get cut down, but your true nil value will
38:31
Speaker 1: be unlimited. So you need to be an nil beast.
38:35
Speaker 1: And how you be a beast at that is, by
38:37
Speaker 1: doing the things that you love outside of sports and
38:41
Speaker 1: putting them on the Internet and talking about them the way.
38:43
Speaker 1: Then it's easy for brands to be like, oh my
38:45
Speaker 1: god when they go to your social media, like, oh
38:48
Speaker 1: my god, this dude loves dogs. Okay, let's get them
38:52
Speaker 1: a you know, a Heels sponsorship or something that has
38:59
Speaker 1: to do with pets. You can do an ASPCA commercial,
39:03
Speaker 1: you can do all sorts of things. Yeah, that that
39:06
Speaker 1: relates to pets. So I, well, you got to.
39:09
Speaker 2: Have something in common with people with purchasing power, because
39:12
Speaker 2: do you know what they don't have in common with you? Yes,
39:16
Speaker 2: you know what I don't have in common with you, George?
39:18
Speaker 2: What is that I'm not a high level athlete. Most
39:23
Speaker 2: of us are not. Most of us are not, And
39:27
Speaker 2: so like, we need to have some type of link
39:30
Speaker 2: to your your humanity, right, Like David Stern knew that
39:36
Speaker 2: with it he launched. I'll never forget how funny it
39:39
Speaker 2: was that like David Stern who was like, we got
39:40
Speaker 2: the reputation problem in the NBA, so he launched the
39:44
Speaker 2: NBA Cares and then all of a sudden, there's a
39:46
Speaker 2: million commercials of Kenyon Mark NBA kattuned from head to
39:50
Speaker 2: his toenails, reading to kindergarteners and that and you know what,
39:55
Speaker 2: it worked like it made these people because there's no
40:00
Speaker 2: kings relatable than a seven foot man.
40:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I can attest it. I see him all
40:05
Speaker 1: the time in school. He is a great father. He
40:09
Speaker 1: shows up for him and he's helpful around and it's yeah,
40:13
Speaker 1: so they get a chance to see your actual true personality.
40:17
Speaker 1: So to go back, holding back, there's nothing wrong with that,
40:20
Speaker 1: but make sure that you're doing it for the right
40:22
Speaker 1: reasons and also having the right expectations. That's the key.
40:28
Speaker 2: But you got absolutely and don't don't expect these people
40:31
Speaker 2: to cater to you because eventually your son and you
40:36
Speaker 2: as a parent are not gonna have any power over
40:38
Speaker 2: what happens. It's gonna be their coaches, it's gonna be
40:41
Speaker 2: the field. So it don't don't hold on too tight
40:46
Speaker 2: to these kids because when when you lose power, it's
40:49
Speaker 2: gonna feel like they get ripped away from you. You
40:52
Speaker 2: don't want it to feel like that. You got to
40:54
Speaker 2: help them fly.
40:55
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42:40
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42:44
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43:46
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43:57
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Speaker 1: loved it there, had a good time. But when I
44:22
Speaker 1: went to New York, oh, I saw how big of
44:24
Speaker 1: a difference it was when people how they treat the franchise,
44:27
Speaker 1: how much they love it, the history and everything else.
44:30
Speaker 1: Now Jacksonville's older, now they're fifteen years older than when
44:33
Speaker 1: I was there last, but still it's still not a
44:36
Speaker 1: historical franchise. That's why I had to go with Washington
44:39
Speaker 1: at number five. You are so close. You can get
44:42
Speaker 1: on a train or a short plane ride, get up
44:45
Speaker 1: to New York City, get up to Philly, anywhere in
44:48
Speaker 1: the Northeast. You can get down to the Carolinas, get
44:51
Speaker 1: down the Florida very easy. It's conveniently located. It's easy
44:56
Speaker 1: to get to Europe. It has a lot going on
44:58
Speaker 1: if you're into polit if you are, there's so many universities,
45:02
Speaker 1: there's professional basketball teams, there's baseball, so many college games
45:07
Speaker 1: going on around. There's a lot that you can build
45:10
Speaker 1: in your community there and a lot of off the
45:13
Speaker 1: field opportunities in Washington. So no problem with going to Washington.
45:17
Speaker 1: Number four the Houston Texas, Oh, I would have no
45:20
Speaker 1: problem going there. The ownership is doing a good job now,
45:24
Speaker 1: they got a good coach and the city of Houston.
45:27
Speaker 1: They love the Houston Texas and there's a lot of
45:30
Speaker 1: pressure there. But not the same as you know, going
45:33
Speaker 1: to Dallas or going to a you know, a historical franchise.
45:38
Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that. Now this is a newer franchise
45:40
Speaker 1: like the Jacksonville Jaguars, But the city of Houston. There's
45:44
Speaker 1: oil and gas there, and for me, it always comes
45:47
Speaker 1: down to can you raise a family there? Yeah, you
45:50
Speaker 1: can raise it there. There are no state taxes in
45:55
Speaker 1: the state of Texas, huge bonus. And then another thing
45:59
Speaker 1: is is that they rally around their star players around
46:05
Speaker 1: they're better players, They're going to be opportunities off the field,
46:08
Speaker 1: and then they're more likable players. Plenty of opportunities off
46:11
Speaker 1: the field as well. So Houston is a place that
46:14
Speaker 1: you would want to get drafted to. Number three, the
46:17
Speaker 1: third place I would want to get drafted to. And
46:19
Speaker 1: this is strictly for football reasons. This has nothing to
46:23
Speaker 1: do with the living there or anything. It is the
46:26
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. This is a serious franchise. Their fans
46:31
Speaker 1: love them. They have fans all across the country. Anywhere
46:35
Speaker 1: you go it is probably going to be a home game.
46:38
Speaker 1: Outside of playing against you know, like the Giants and
46:42
Speaker 1: Washington and the Bears outside in Kansas City. Outside of that,
46:49
Speaker 1: most places that you play are gonna be home games.
46:51
Speaker 1: You have so many fans. It's the only NFL franchise
46:54
Speaker 1: that doesn't have a singular owner. Technically, the public owns it.
46:58
Speaker 1: They love it. Lambeau Field. This is one of the
47:00
Speaker 1: greatest places to play. You can literally feel the ghosts
47:04
Speaker 1: of history running around with you on the field. You
47:08
Speaker 1: got a signature, Lambeau Leap all of that. I love it.
47:12
Speaker 1: And there's not a whole lot to do there, so
47:15
Speaker 1: it allows you to stay focused on football. And if
47:18
Speaker 1: you're a dude who can do without the nightlife and
47:23
Speaker 1: just be content with what you got. Oh, this is
47:25
Speaker 1: an absolute great place for you. City number two that
47:28
Speaker 1: I would love to get drafted to. How about them Cowboys?
47:32
Speaker 1: Oh Dallas? What if you are a Dallas Cowboy? You
47:38
Speaker 1: are the most talked about franchise. There will be no
47:42
Speaker 1: shortage of media opportunities, marketing opportunities, and if you turn
47:46
Speaker 1: out to be a baller, what you will be a
47:50
Speaker 1: household name every anything that you want to get your
47:54
Speaker 1: hand in. If you want to get your hand in business,
47:57
Speaker 1: you want to get your hand in television, want to
48:00
Speaker 1: get your hand in podcasting, you want to get your
48:02
Speaker 1: hand in art, you want to get anything is available
48:05
Speaker 1: in Dallas. And again there's no state taxes in Dallas,
48:11
Speaker 1: so you're going to keep more money in your pocket
48:14
Speaker 1: as well. Jerry Jones, you see how he treats the
48:17
Speaker 1: people that he loves. He'll give you some grief. Yeah,
48:21
Speaker 1: he's gonna talk in front of the media and everything,
48:23
Speaker 1: but when it comes down to play paying the players.
48:26
Speaker 1: Oh and you're one of his guys, Oh, he's gonna
48:29
Speaker 1: give you that coin. Look at the way he treats
48:31
Speaker 1: Michael Irvin. Look at the way he treats other people.
48:33
Speaker 1: And yes, I know. Historically the man has said that
48:37
Speaker 1: past players have no value. But his past players, they
48:40
Speaker 1: clearly got value. All of the former Dallas Cowboys players
48:44
Speaker 1: they're working on TV, Tony Robo, Troy Aikman of Nova.
48:50
Speaker 1: Check anybody that would Darryl Johnston, any of them, Michael Irvin,
48:56
Speaker 1: all of them working because they was Dallas Cowboys. Baby.
49:00
Speaker 1: Now for the one place I would want to get
49:02
Speaker 1: drafted too. And I know that this is cheating because
49:06
Speaker 1: it's two locations, but you can pick either one. Give
49:09
Speaker 1: me New York or give me La. Now, if your
49:14
Speaker 1: first round pick or you're a high pick, it is
49:16
Speaker 1: going to put all the vices in front of you.
49:19
Speaker 1: You are gonna be invited to the nicest restaurants, You're
49:22
Speaker 1: gonna be rubbing shoulders with the politicians, with the business people,
49:26
Speaker 1: with everybody that you could possibly make an extra buck from.
49:29
Speaker 1: But it also puts you at risk as well, because
49:33
Speaker 1: you are gonna have all your vices available to you.
49:37
Speaker 1: You are gonna have distractions everywhere that you can go.
49:40
Speaker 1: But if you can stay focused in New York, you
49:44
Speaker 1: will get that cash. You will get that cash, you
49:47
Speaker 1: will get to the bag, you will have every single
49:50
Speaker 1: TV opportunity, you will have opportunities in whatever it is
49:55
Speaker 1: that you enjoy. If you are into racing and driving car,
50:00
Speaker 1: you're in the horse racing, you are into you know, painting,
50:06
Speaker 1: you are into collecting things. Everything is available in those cities,
50:11
Speaker 1: and there is so much opportunity when you retire. If
50:15
Speaker 1: you can retire in that city and establish your name,
50:18
Speaker 1: the networking there everything, Oh my gosh, New York or LA,
50:22
Speaker 1: please say yes and then LA for me. The weather,
50:27
Speaker 1: what you can train all year. You can be at
50:31
Speaker 1: the beach in the morning, go snowboarding in the afternoon.
50:35
Speaker 1: You can get a great of food. You can get
50:38
Speaker 1: some great tai food. You can go get a Philly
50:41
Speaker 1: cheese steak, you can go get a great fried chicken.
50:44
Speaker 1: You can go get anything that you want within a
50:48
Speaker 1: twenty minute drive love La Man. So yeah, so those
50:54
Speaker 1: are the places that I would love to get drafted
50:58
Speaker 1: if I were in a I know that doesn't mean
51:01
Speaker 1: all the other places are raggedy, but those are the
51:04
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