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Michael Bratton Talks SEC Football and the NCAA vs. Tennessee · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Michael Bratton that SEC podcast. You can find him on x just search SEC
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  Mike. Find him on Apple iTunes YouTube Unbelievable SEC Football Show Year Round three
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  sixty five twenty four seven, three sixty five. Mike, Welcome in,
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  sir. How are you hey? Doing good and speaking of good? And
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  that's that's where I'm ready to put the NCAA. Man. I'm right to
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  where I wanted to go. So, man, this story is so fascinating,
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  and that on several levels, because you know, we've watched the NCAA
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  kind of crawl around here in pop Florida state, going after Miami, going
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  after Florida, now after Tennessee. We saw Charlie Baker. You know,
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  he's he's wanting to push people into this subdivision that he wants to create to
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  control nil and the dollars that come in and and and you know Greg Sank
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  he wants none of this. The big players want none of this. So
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  he has decided that he is going to wage war with his member schools.
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  And now he is on the doorsteps of Tennessee. But it looks like he
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  might have been off more than he could. You here, yeah, and
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  I you didn't even reference the part where when this Baker got in there,
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  Jake, I mean, what what did he say? He just said,
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  you know, we got we gotta have the federal government do something. I
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  mean, how worthless is this guy? I mean, I mean, I
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  have no no knowledge of any inner workings of the n C double A or
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  the federal government. But I could have told you that was that was just
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  not even a hail Mary, it was. It was worse than that.
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  So, uh, just total incompetence in my opinion of what they're trying to
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  do. They're trying to retroactively punish Tennessee for something that was not against the
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  rules at the time, and as Tennessee has stated, I mean, it's
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  and as we all know there what are the rules? I mean that it's
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  not even clearly defined and it never has been. And at the end of
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  the day, I don't I don't think Tennessee's got anything to worry because five
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  years ago, ten years ago, they have got pop for this, of
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  course, but to my knowledge, they've broken no laws and their nil spire
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  grewp is. I mean, they have done the contract, so to speak,
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  so that so none of this is even Tennessee related. So just to
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  be clear, is this all about a propos a flight for Nico Iamalva or
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  LoVa pounce his name, everybody does it differently. Is this about a flight
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  that he took on a Booster's plane? Is that? Is that what the
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  rub is here? No? I think, ultimately, and the details are
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  still yet to come out fully, but I think what they're trying to get
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  him on is just essentially inducement giving an nal contract to attend the University of
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  Tennessee. Now I have seen the contract and it doesn't even say anywhere in
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  there the University of Tennessee. It doesn't mention playing football. It just says
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  wherever you go, you know, you get X amount for however long you're
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  there. It goes into much further detail, but at no point does it
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  say, I mean he could have went to Alabama, he could have went
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  to Georgie and it would not have affected his deal. Now, common sense
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  Tennessee collective signs them they want him to go to Tennessee. I get it.
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  But again, that's why there's lawyers, and that's why a sports agency
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  is at the top of Tennessee's collective because there's laws and guidelines given and they
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  followed it to a T Michael Bratton on your radio. That SEC podcast is
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  where you can find his work. Of course, find him on x at
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  Michael W. Brtton just search SEC Mike and find his podcast on YouTube,
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  Apple, iTunes and several of the platforms as well. Yeah, you know,
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  that's what's interesting about this. And I always go back to the twenty
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  twenty one one sheet, as I call it, just a simple white paper
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  the NCAA put out on nil name, image and Lightness and collectives. It's
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  about four bullet points. It's very vague giving clearance to this to create rules
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  within your state and now the NCAA, And I like, how I know
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  you retweeted at jd paqul with on three frame that he said, this is
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  not tennis versus the nc double A, This is college football versus the NCBA.
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  This is Charlie Baker trying to strong arm college football. And I just
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  don't know that this is going to turn out the way he thinks it is.
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  No, No, it's certainly not. Because I'll tell you, Jake,
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  if Tennessee is guilty of whatever they're saying they're guilty of, then every
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  SEC school short of banker Belt is just as guilty because we all know what's
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  going on behind the scenes. And again, this was just this could have
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  all been avoided had they found a way to pay the players long ago.
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  But they decided, hey, we're not going to pay him, but we'll
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  make it legal to where others can pay him. Just you know, don't
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  do it as an inducement. But that's exactly what it was, and that's
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  what it is across the board. But again, how do you prove that
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  Tennessee's collective is not going to come forth and provide that information in the NC
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  double A. Nico and his family's not going to come forward and provide that
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  information in the ncuble A. So I think this is you've already seen there.
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  They to Tennessee the State of Virginia's filed lawsuit against the NC double A.
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  And last I checked, Jake, the NC double A is about over
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  in the last ten years of any kind of lawsuit. Yeah. Yeah,
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  they have not won any of these, and I don't expect them to do
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  that as well. Hey, let's talk a little on the field stuff,
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  as we believe it or not. You know, second signing days coming up
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  here in a few weeks. Then we've got spring practice coming up. I
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  know you on your podcast today had George Stoyer on Sooner scoop dot com.
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  You know, Oklahoma, we talk a lot about Texas, Texas, Texas
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  Texas, rightfully, So coming into the SEC, what do you expect to
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  see out of Brent Vnables in Oklahoma? You know, they made a big
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  jump from year one to two under Venables, but the transfer portal has dissected
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  that program a little bit, some coaching changes. How good can Oklahoma be
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  in the SEC this year? Yeah? I think potentially it's going to be
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  a struggle, Jake, because I like what they have at the skill position
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  talent, and I like Jackson Arnold. What little will we seen of him?
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  I know he was it was an up and down performance in the bowl
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  game and the loss to Arizona, but he showed massive potential and by all
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  accounts the people that I've talked to there that they think he could be,
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  you know, the next great Oklahoma quarterback. But as we all know,
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  in this league, you could have all that. If you don't have strength
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  in the line of scrimmage, you got nothing. And Oklahoma's gonna be replacing
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  all five on the offensive line. I think that's that's a huge red flag.
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  Now they've attacked it via the transfer portal, but they've not really gotten
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  any stars, and they're another one that has kind of fallen behind. They've
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  lost a key transfer target from LSU, a guy named Lance Hurd, who
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  interestingly enough landed at Tennessee. I wonder how that happened, but again maybe
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  that's Tennessee who get sued over that one day too. But they are striking
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  out and their collective game, from what I understand, is not where you'd
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  think it would be for a college football power, and I think that's something
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  that they're significantly gonna have to adjust if they're going to compete at an elite
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  level in the SEC. So where are you at on Ole Miss watching Lane
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  Kiffin maneuver Speaking of maneuvering through the transfer portal, getting an A plus every
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  it would be Lane Kiffin now picks up last week two offensive linemen from Washington
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  who both guys were you know, full time starters, played you know,
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  a full season national championship game. Now they're coming to Oxford. What is
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  your level of expectation with Lane Kiffin and what they've been able to do even
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  though they lost Quinn Shine Judkins Ohio State. Where are you at with what
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  he's doing? Yeah, I mean you can't be anything other than impressed with
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  what they've been doing. But Jake, honestly, they've been doing this for
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  several years. They've just kicked it up to another notch. And I think
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  the under discussed topic when it comes to Ole Miss, and for good reason
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  because because you get so many headlines with all these transfers coming in and a
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  lot of key players coming back. But I think the thing that is just
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  not being discussed enough is it's going to be a year two under Pete Golding
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  at the defensive coordinator position. So again, I don't think Old Miss is
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  gonna be some elite, nationally great defense, but I think if they can
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  take big strides this year, with a lot of production returning on that side
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  of the ball and a lot of key additions via the transfer portal, if
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  they could just shoot up kind of the defensive efficiency rankings, maybe twenty or
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  thirty spots. I mean, I have gone from saying this is a playoff
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  contender to this is a national championship contender, and I think that's that should
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  be the expectation in Oxford right now, same question for Mississippi State, and
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  obviously a different different level of what Jeff Levy has to work with. I
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  mean, there's a lot of rebuild going on there in Startville. What has
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  been your thoughts of what he has done in a short period of time.
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  Well, I've been impressed with their ability to kind of rework the roster via
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  the transfer portal as well as obviously a different fashion than Old miss not getting
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  many of the elite, high profile type players. But they have reworked the
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  offensive line that was a need. They have reworked the quarterback room also via
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  high school recruiting in the receiver room, which playing in this Jeff Levey offense,
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  that's exactly what they're going to need. And they needed to add speeding
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  athleticism to this roster. So I like what I've seen early during the Jeff
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  Leby era, But I still I'm just kinda I don't know what to make
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  of them because Leby's never been a head coach, and the defensive coordinators never
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  called defensive players. I mean, this is these are critical positions, particularly
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  for an offensive minded head coach. You know, the defensive coordinator higher is
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  going to be paramount to his success. And I could sit here and blow
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  smoke and say he's gonna be great. I could sit here and say he's
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  gonna be awful. The truth is, I don't know, and I don't
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  think anyone knows until we see them hit the field this fall. Make sure
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  to get him on social media, the platform acts. You can find him
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  at Michael W. Bratton and of course go to that SEC podcast dot com.
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  You can also grab them on x as well as at that SEC podcast.
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  All kinds of great stuff going on every day throughout the week on his
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  x feed and of course his podcast as well. Mike, I appreciate your
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  time. Look, if you need to come up here and help wrangle the
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  NCAA with Tennessee, we'll come do it. It's nice to know you got
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  my back, Jake. I appreciate you. I got your back, brother.
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  We'll talk soon. I appreciate it. Well. Bye,