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Protect College Sports Act is AWFUL+The Truth About Indiana Football · Unafraid Show with George Wrighster

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 2: Indiana is college football Cinderella story? How did this happen?
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Speaker 2: And what does the future look like going forward under
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Speaker 2: Kirk Signetti and this team. In twenty twenty six, Nick
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Speaker 2: Saban he headlined the Saving College Sports bill talk on
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Speaker 2: Capitol Hill, and you are in luck if you didn't
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Speaker 2: understand it or you miss some of it, because I'm
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Speaker 2: going to break down everything important that this man said.
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Speaker 2: Notre Dames athletic director. He says the salary cap is
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Speaker 2: too low in college sports. I'm going to explain to
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Speaker 2: you why he is one hundred percent right. NC State
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Speaker 2: in Virginia. They had a game canceled that was supposed
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Speaker 2: to be played in Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, and
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Speaker 2: fans are hot.
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Speaker 1: I'm George Reiser.
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Speaker 2: This is the unaphrase show George Reiser's College the Football Podcast.
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Speaker 2: them comments and tell me what you're excited about.
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Speaker 1: Let's get to it. The best thing that.
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Speaker 2: I saw today, man, I love recruitment commitment videos. And
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Speaker 2: this kid who committed to West Virginia, this offensive lineman
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Speaker 2: Ethan Lawson. He announced his commitment to West Virginia by
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Speaker 2: burning a couch while the song take Me Home Country
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Speaker 2: Roads is playing in the background.
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Speaker 1: What does everybody I remember you? Now? amNY to West Virginia? No?
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Speaker 2: Take me Home Country Roads? And yes I am a
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Speaker 2: country music fan. Next thing, Obviously, there were hearings on
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Speaker 2: the Saving College Sports build. There was testimony from players,
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Speaker 2: there was testimony from Nick Saban, testimony from other people
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Speaker 2: as well, but Nick Saban he dominate the headlines because
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Speaker 2: he's Nick Saban's person that people are bandied about.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he should be the leader in college.
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Speaker 2: Football, maybe he should be the commission And I'm going
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Speaker 2: to explain to you why, as accomplished as he is,
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Speaker 2: how respected as he is, that he should not be
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Speaker 2: the commissioner of college football.
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Speaker 1: Now, we've been.
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Speaker 2: Talking about this Saving College Sports bill for the last
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Speaker 2: couple of shows, So you can either go back and watch,
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Speaker 2: or we can put together a compilation. If you want
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Speaker 2: to hold compilation, put it down in the comments and
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Speaker 2: we'll get.
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Speaker 1: It for you. A quick synopsis.
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Speaker 2: This has come about because Cody Campbell, who's Texas Tech's
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Speaker 2: owner booster Guy. He has helped co sponsor a bill
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Speaker 2: even though he's not in the government, with Campwell who's
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Speaker 2: in the Senate, and Ted Kruz, and they're coming out
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Speaker 2: and they're like, we're.
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Speaker 1: Gonna save college sports.
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Speaker 2: All these things need to be fixed, the lane kipping rule,
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Speaker 2: the transfers, the nil there have to be guardrails, all
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Speaker 2: these things right, And then they got Nick Saban on
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Speaker 2: board because he's notable, and we're gonna go through all
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Speaker 2: the things that Nick Saban said, because he's the most
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Speaker 2: notable one and really the loudest voice in the room. Quote,
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Speaker 2: if you had the biggest, baddest Forerrari that you could
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Speaker 2: ever have, and it was going one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: miles an hour toward the Grand Canyon, somebody needs to
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Speaker 2: tap the brakes. That's all we need to do here.
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Speaker 2: We must pay attention to that. Nick Saban's initial salary
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Speaker 2: at Alabama in two thousand and seven was three million dollars,
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Speaker 2: and at the time of his retirement he was making
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Speaker 2: eleven point four and made over one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 2: million dollars as the coach. There was no talk of
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Speaker 2: Ferrari death race into the Grand Canyon. Over his year
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Speaker 2: to year increases, and nobody's talking about the guardrails. Nobody's
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Speaker 2: talking about putting a cap on the billions. Now, nobody's
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Speaker 2: talking about that. But this, oh, we got to fix this.
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Speaker 2: And he is right on some level that And here
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Speaker 2: here's where he is right is that, yes, you are
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Speaker 2: clearly headed over the edge. But the problem is is
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Speaker 2: that you don't just need to pump the brakes. You
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Speaker 2: need to make a U turn because you are going
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Speaker 2: the wrong direction. This whole saving co Sports bill, it
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Speaker 2: just pumps the breaks. It slows you to getting to
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Speaker 2: the Grand Canyon. And the Grand Canyon is a place
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Speaker 2: where college football splinters, college sports, the women's sports, Olympic
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Speaker 2: sports actually get splintered. Just listen to what Nick Saban
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Speaker 2: said about nil budgets going forward and how it was
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Speaker 2: well he was coaching versus Now.
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Speaker 3: Let me give you the history. My first year, we
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Speaker 3: had collective at Alabama two point seven million, next year
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Speaker 3: seven million, next year ten million. I've retired, next year
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Speaker 3: of seventeen million, next year twenty four million. Now you
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Speaker 3: have schools that have close to forty million dollar rosters.
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Speaker 3: So if we continue to do that, we're gonna lose
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Speaker 3: Olympic sports. We're gonna lose non revenue sports, We're gonna
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Speaker 3: lose scholarships. And basically what's gonna happen is we're gonna
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Speaker 3: have football and basketball succeed, and we'll have club sports
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Speaker 3: for everything else.
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Speaker 2: Here's the point that I find interesting is that Nick
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Speaker 2: Saban and other people are saying, oh, thee's forty million
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Speaker 2: dollar rosters.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's break it down.
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Speaker 2: What difference does it make whether it's a two million
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Speaker 2: dollar budget or a forty million dollar budget. If you're
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Speaker 2: paying your coach one million dollars or if you're paying
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Speaker 2: the lane kipping money in thirteen million, it doesn't. It
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Speaker 2: all matters how that fits into the budget itself. So
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Speaker 2: some people are getting upset at the big number forty
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Speaker 2: million dollar roster, fifty million dollar roster. If everybody has
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Speaker 2: a competitive roster and the same can afford to pay
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Speaker 2: the same amount, then there there is no issue. It's
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Speaker 2: just like in the NBA you have guys making sixty
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Speaker 2: million dollars. But is that a problem. Absolutely not. It's
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Speaker 2: not because the business model supports it. Here is the
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Speaker 2: problem with college sports. The business model does not support competition.
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Speaker 2: That's the issue is that if you have a forty
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Speaker 2: million dollar roster playing against a twelve million dollar roster,
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Speaker 2: that doesn't feel fair unless you're Indiana, which was able
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Speaker 2: to have you know, a you know, eighteen to twenty
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Speaker 2: some million dollars eighteen to twenty million dollars roster and
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Speaker 2: beat big time rosters and big time five star players
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Speaker 2: to win a national championship, which goes down to coaching,
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Speaker 2: culture and all of those things. But when I say that,
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Speaker 2: the budget that it has to match what's going on
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Speaker 2: so college sports it is not operating like a big
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Speaker 2: time franchise. You have these conferences, Big ten, SEC, Big twelve,
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Speaker 2: even down to the Mountain West, the American They are
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Speaker 2: operating in what is best for them, not what's best
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Speaker 2: for college sports, not what's best for college football. Competition
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Speaker 2: is not at the forefront of everything. They're pointing at
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Speaker 2: NIL like nil's this runaway train, and yes it is
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Speaker 2: on some level, but think about this conference realignment.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't about the fans. It was about money.
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Speaker 2: It was about the schools and the conferences making more
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Speaker 2: money and more power.
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Speaker 1: So who started this? Coaches?
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Speaker 2: Remember coaches that are talking about all these players suing
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Speaker 2: the NC DOUBLEA over money. The coaches sue the NC
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Speaker 2: DOUBLA over their earnings being capps, and they want so
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Speaker 2: all of this is hypocrisy. They want guardrails for the
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Speaker 2: players because there's this nostalgia about what college sports used
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Speaker 2: to be. The scholarship used to be valued way more
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Speaker 2: than what the players and the and the teams were
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Speaker 2: actually able to bring in in terms of revenue. But
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Speaker 2: once the TV viewership has gone skyrocketing and the money
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Speaker 2: has skyrocketed, the value of what they're bringing into the
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Speaker 2: university far out paces justice scholarship, which is why they're
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Speaker 2: willing to pay what feels like insane amounts of money.
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Speaker 2: It's like when you say, oh, there's an NBA player,
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Speaker 2: he should never make sixty million dollars. If the owner
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Speaker 2: is willing to pay him, and these are shrewd billionaire
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Speaker 2: businessmen willing to pay him sixty million dollars, then you
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Speaker 2: know that there's a reason why, because it makes good
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Speaker 2: financial sense for him. And that's the same thing with
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Speaker 2: these schools. That's why they're paying forty million dollar rosters
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Speaker 2: because they feel like it makes good financial sense for them. Now,
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Speaker 2: I've been a big proponent of there being a salary
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Speaker 2: cap for competition purposes in terms of pay for play,
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Speaker 2: But then nils should be real, nil should be unlimited,
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Speaker 2: but that the salary cap for rosters to keep things
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Speaker 2: competitive in college sports the way Rutgers has the same
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Speaker 2: budget in their pay for play money as Alabama does
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Speaker 2: because Rutgers, if they get the right coach, the right recruits,
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Speaker 2: the right funding, and you know, land On all the
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Speaker 2: build the right culture, that they have a chance to
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Speaker 2: not only win a conference championship, but go to the
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Speaker 2: College football playoffs and have a chance to win a
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Speaker 2: national championship. I'm a firm believer in that. And that
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Speaker 2: goes through collective bargaining, which is the U turn that
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Speaker 2: Nick Saban and the college leaders don't want to do
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Speaker 2: because they like the old system. They want to stay
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Speaker 2: in charge. Now go on to the next thing. Then
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Speaker 2: Nick Saban talked about Right now, in college football, we
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Speaker 2: have no rules. We have state laws, we have different
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Speaker 2: in every state. We have litigation.
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Speaker 3: The NCAA cannot enforce their own rules because every time
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Speaker 3: they try to enforce the rule, there's a lawsuit. So
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Speaker 3: I mean an example would be old Missus quarterback. They
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Speaker 3: say you can't play next year. He's playing next year
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Speaker 3: because of litigation. So, but this is just the way
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Speaker 3: it is. It's become an arm race. Who spends the
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Speaker 3: most has got the best chance to win. But I
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Speaker 3: think it's a race to the bottom because if you
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Speaker 3: don't spend to win, you lose your fan base and
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Speaker 3: you don't have any revenue.
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Speaker 2: Now, Nick Saban, he is one hundred percent right about
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Speaker 2: that that you do have to spend to win. But
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Speaker 2: it's just like anything else in life. The most expensive
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Speaker 2: thing is not always the best thing. Sometimes it's just
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Speaker 2: the most expensive thing and you have to find value.
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Speaker 2: And that's what Indiana did last year. They found value.
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Speaker 2: Yes they spent a lot of nil money, but they
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Speaker 2: had great coaching, they had great culture, they had everything
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Speaker 2: that you need to win a national championship. So on
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Speaker 2: one hand, he's a little bit right, But it's the
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Speaker 2: same thing with coaches. Fans believe if we spend the
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Speaker 2: most on our coach, then then we get the best one.
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Speaker 2: That's why LSU, instead of going to go find an
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Speaker 2: assistant coach that turns into Nick Saban or Dan Landing,
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Speaker 2: they were like, let's go still somebody's head coach and
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Speaker 2: pay him way too much. It is rules for thee
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Speaker 2: but not for me. So Nick Saban also talked about
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Speaker 2: why he supports the bill, and he said Congress does
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Speaker 2: not need to micro manage college athletics, but Congress does
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Speaker 2: need to fix the mess in courts and create a
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Speaker 2: national framework so the people inside of college sports can
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Speaker 2: enforce fair rules. Without that legal certainty, every rule becomes
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Speaker 2: another lawsuit, every standard becomes another risk, and the system
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Speaker 2: keeps drifting forward toward a professional model without ever admitting
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Speaker 2: that that's what's happening. I do not believe that most
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Speaker 2: fans want university simply sponsoring professional teams. I believe that
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Speaker 2: they want an education based model that compensates athletes fairly,
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Speaker 2: protects athletes properly, and still preserves development, competition, opportunity, and tradition.
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Speaker 2: And this is exactly why Nick Saban has no business
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Speaker 2: being the commissioner.
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Speaker 1: Of college football. Now.
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Speaker 2: I respect the man so much, but this is like,
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Speaker 2: you know, when we're watching Congress and you know, the
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Speaker 2: old people up there and they're trying to legislate and
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Speaker 2: understand TikTok and Instagram, and they're.
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Speaker 1: Like, what's a finch stuff? What is this?
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Speaker 2: What is that trying to understand it, and they don't
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Speaker 2: because they're not boots on the ground. They're not there
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Speaker 2: with their kids every single day. They don't understand the lingo.
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Speaker 2: They don't understand what's fully going on because they don't
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Speaker 2: use it, and they still have nostalgia for the good
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Speaker 2: old days, and the good old days ain't coming back.
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Speaker 2: The answer is not to keep the old system in
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Speaker 2: place and make it some tweaks. It's like trying to
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Speaker 2: turn a nineteen fifty seven pickup into a Tesler cyber
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Speaker 2: truck by just changing the motor and adding a bunch
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Speaker 2: of wires. Yet it may run for a little while,
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Speaker 2: but guess what, it is going to break because it
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Speaker 2: is not built with the same technology and the same aerodynamics,
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Speaker 2: the same everything.
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Speaker 1: It's not gonna work. This era is like five years.
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Speaker 2: Old, nil transfer portal and all of that, and it
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Speaker 2: is more different than the fifty years before it combined.
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Speaker 2: The only solution is to blow it up. You have
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Speaker 2: models that work in pro leagues with a player's association
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Speaker 2: and the league, but they refuse to do it because
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Speaker 2: they want to stay in power. Tony Petiti and Greg
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Speaker 2: saying they want their league to be above everybody else's.
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Speaker 2: They don't want to seed power and pool meteorites. Which
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Speaker 2: is a good thing in this bill is that you
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Speaker 2: can pool media rights that you can get around the
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Speaker 2: Act to do that. That's great because all the conferences
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Speaker 2: would and all the teams as a whole would make
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Speaker 2: more money. Alabama, Oregon, all the big ten SEC teams, Georgia,
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Speaker 2: all of them. LSU are going to make more money
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Speaker 2: by pulling media rights. The other leagues have proved it.
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Speaker 2: But the issue is this that then levels the playing field.
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Speaker 2: Your level the playing field. You no longer have your advantage.
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Speaker 2: That means you just got to find other advantages or
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Speaker 2: just be better, and they don't want to do that.
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Speaker 1: They don't want to do the hard thing.
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Speaker 2: And one thing that Nick Saban mentioned that deserves credit though,
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Speaker 2: is that student athletes are actually being pushed into the
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Speaker 2: transfer portal. And this goes to the one time transferred
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Speaker 2: thing that people have been discussing. He said thirty percent
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Speaker 2: of athletes that go in don't come out, and it's
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Speaker 2: actually significantly higher than that, but he's talking about all
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Speaker 2: sports and football it is way higher than that. And
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Speaker 2: he also mentioned that he wants protections in place for
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Speaker 2: those players, but he does see this bill potentially offering
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Speaker 2: those protections in a way that collective bargaining wouldn't. That
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Speaker 2: doesn't make sense to me, because if players are being
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Speaker 2: pushed into the portal, but then you only allow them
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Speaker 2: to transfer one time, that means that they were not
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Speaker 2: given an opportunity on the first place. And when I
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Speaker 2: say pushed into the portal, what coaches do is, hey, son,
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Speaker 2: you're never gonna play here. You should probably go somewhere else.
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Speaker 2: Or oh, you've been hurt for a little bit. We're
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Speaker 2: gonna medically retire you against your will so we can
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Speaker 2: get our scholarship back. And yes, we will pay for
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Speaker 2: you to go to school for free, but we need
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Speaker 2: this scholarship and this NIO money back. That's how they
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Speaker 2: push players into the portal. And then you have the
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Speaker 2: player who's like, I know I'm going to develop, I
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Speaker 2: want to play college football. So then they quote unquote
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Speaker 2: voluntarily lead and then they go down. Now, if that
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Speaker 2: player then plays well and wants to come back up
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Speaker 2: because somebody wants to pay them the hundreds of thousands
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Speaker 2: or millions of dollars, he shouldn't be able to do that.
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Speaker 2: It's very Unamerican. So yes, those protections do need to
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Speaker 2: be in place. And this is why I feel like
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Speaker 2: this bill is a non starter because college football and
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Speaker 2: college sports keeps looking to the government to help them.
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Speaker 2: But what does the government tell us all the time,
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Speaker 2: pick yourself up by your bootstraps, You gotta work a
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Speaker 2: little harder. Figure it out. Well, college sports, figure it out.
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Speaker 2: You know what the answer is. And if that causes
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Speaker 2: the system to break, so be it.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: The last point is is that people are talking about
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Speaker 2: Olympic sports, especially from the third party like liar.
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Speaker 1: Field and Playfly.
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Speaker 2: They're discussing whether the money that is being go into
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Speaker 2: football instead of to the university in terms of paying
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Speaker 2: players and athletes through nil money that's not getting pushed
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Speaker 2: through through the College Sports Commission, Well, that money could
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Speaker 2: be going to Olympic sports. Excuse me, do you think
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Speaker 2: that liar Field and Playfly shoe companies, You think the
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Speaker 2: school is then gonna take that money and give it
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Speaker 2: to Olympic Sports.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely not. History says they would not do that.
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Speaker 2: To do not expect you guys, go down in the comments,
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Speaker 2: tell me what you think about this. Should this bill pass,
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Speaker 2: what parts do you like, what parts are terrible. Let's
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Speaker 2: continue to talk about this in this conversation. Next topic
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Speaker 2: up Notre Dames athletic director Pete Bethquad. He said that
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Speaker 2: the salary cap is too low in college sports, and
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Speaker 2: the salary cap right now you're looking at twenty and
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Speaker 2: a half million dollars for all the sports, and he said, quote,
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Speaker 2: we need a realistic cap. We need to clear that up.
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Speaker 2: We need to be forthright with one another. If we
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Speaker 2: have these continuing runaway roster fees, primarily around football and
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Speaker 2: men's basketball, I think it's going to think there's going
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Speaker 2: to be two inevitable outcomes. You're going to have a
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Speaker 2: super league because there's only going to be a small
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Speaker 2: number of universities that are going to be able to
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Speaker 2: wake up year in a year out and say, okay,
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Speaker 2: we can still invest this type of money to fill
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Speaker 2: the nationally competitive football team.
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Speaker 1: Now, on one hand, he's one hundred percent right.
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Speaker 2: And this goes to the point in the bill they
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Speaker 2: sat an artificial cap at twenty and a half million dollars.
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Speaker 2: Where did this come from? This is why you need
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Speaker 2: collective bargaining because it should be based upon like it
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Speaker 2: is in all the other leagues a percentage of revenue,
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Speaker 2: and that's how you get the cap. Easy work, and
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Speaker 2: if you pool media rights, it makes it so much
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Speaker 2: easier to assess what that number should be instead of arbitrarily.
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Speaker 1: Picking numbers out of the skot. When you have a
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Speaker 1: school like.
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Speaker 2: LSU, they're paying a lot of money for football, but
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Speaker 2: they also have one of the best women's basketball teams.
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Speaker 2: Same thing with South Carolina, same thing with UCLA. So
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Speaker 2: you have to have some way to divvy up the
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Speaker 2: money or allow the school to do it by having
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Speaker 2: a bigger cap, because twenty and a half million dollars
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Speaker 2: is not realistic and it's not commensurate with the amount
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Speaker 2: of money that is coming in. The Other thing about
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Speaker 2: this is that it's interesting that Notre Dames Athletic director
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Speaker 2: is talking about this because we've had Dabosweeney on this
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Speaker 2: show and he's talked about Notre Dame. He said they
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Speaker 2: got their own money printer. He's like, they got their
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Speaker 2: own deal. But the question is what defines realistic and
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Speaker 2: I believe that that is a percentage of revenue. So
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Speaker 2: in BEVQUA at their ad Also, like he used to
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Speaker 2: help run NBC, he knows that if there's ever a
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Speaker 2: Super League, Notre Dame is going to be a part
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Speaker 2: of it. They've already had more five star recruits in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six than the ACC and the Big Twelve combined.
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Speaker 2: So he knows that Notre Dame will be fine no
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Speaker 2: matter what happens, and that this could actually be evidence
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Speaker 2: that he's actually speaking on behalf of what's best in
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Speaker 2: the interest of the common fan. I would set this
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Speaker 2: cap based upon a percentage of revenue, and I do
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Speaker 2: not believe that this is a scheme for the super leagues.
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Speaker 2: I just think that they're trying to bandy about every
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Speaker 2: option that doesn't include blowing up the current system, which
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Speaker 2: is the only answer. Next thing up, this is a
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Speaker 2: very cool story. So there is a player named Jordan
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Speaker 2: Adams who is going to play at SMU. He is
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Speaker 2: twenty six years old. He has never ever ever played
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Speaker 2: college football before. He's now a freshman at SMU. But
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Speaker 2: he did just have an eight year pro career as
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Speaker 2: a baseball player. You might be like, what so, Jordan Adams.
19:12
Speaker 2: Jordan Adams was two four to sevens, number fourteen overall
19:15
Speaker 2: player in the class of twenty eighteen, and that class
19:18
Speaker 2: included Trevor Lawrence, Jamar Chase Alman, Ross Saint Brown, like
19:23
Speaker 2: guys who are already in the league and established already.
19:27
Speaker 2: And he originally signed with North Carolina and intended to
19:30
Speaker 2: play football and baseball, but them plays changed when the
19:35
Speaker 2: Angels picked him the number seventeen overall pick in the
19:38
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen MLB draft and they signed him away from
19:41
Speaker 2: all the colleges and he signed a deal worth you know,
19:44
Speaker 2: over three million dollars, might have made like four point
19:47
Speaker 2: three throughout his whole career. He only played from twenty
19:50
Speaker 2: eighteen to now, thirty eight major league games, thirteen hits,
19:55
Speaker 2: six run scored, one home run, five RBIs, and the
19:59
Speaker 2: dude spent the overwhelming majority of his career in the
20:02
Speaker 2: minor leagues. He doesn't even have a full year of
20:04
Speaker 2: service time in the MLB and in the minors six
20:08
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy eight games, twenty four hundred at bats. Now,
20:11
Speaker 2: the question is how good is the fourteenth overall prospect
20:15
Speaker 2: supposed to be? Well, that's a five star. Any kind
20:18
Speaker 2: of projection of that is a first round pick, because
20:20
Speaker 2: that's what five stars are supposed to do. You might
20:22
Speaker 2: be saying when has this ever happened? Why had it happened?
20:25
Speaker 2: When I was in college, we had a military dude,
20:27
Speaker 2: you know, and he was old as well. You've also
20:30
Speaker 2: had former Major League outfielder Monte Harrison. He joined Arkansas
20:34
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three after being in professional baseball for
20:38
Speaker 2: a decade.
20:39
Speaker 1: He was a former.
20:39
Speaker 2: First round pick. And then you have former first round
20:42
Speaker 2: pick Brandon Whedon. He became Oklahoma State starring quarterback in
20:45
Speaker 2: twenty ten after years in the miners. And perhaps the
20:49
Speaker 2: most famous example is Chris Wink, who spent six seasons
20:53
Speaker 2: in pro baseball in the minors before enrolling in Florida
20:56
Speaker 2: State and eventually winning the Heisman Trophy in two thousand
21:00
Speaker 2: at age twenty eight. The question is, how will being
21:03
Speaker 2: out of football for over eight years impact? Will the
21:05
Speaker 2: physical maturity be enough to make up for the time gap.
21:08
Speaker 2: I'm interested to see and this type of kid needs
21:11
Speaker 2: to be able to play next thing. In c State
21:14
Speaker 2: and Virginia, they had a game schedule in Rio Dijoniro
21:17
Speaker 2: and it got canceled and you're like, why does this even matter?
21:20
Speaker 1: Why were they playing in real?
21:21
Speaker 2: Desion narrow to begin with, Like everything else, it's about
21:25
Speaker 2: money for them. It ain't about the health of the players,
21:27
Speaker 2: it ain't for the good of the game, growing a game,
21:29
Speaker 2: none of that.
21:30
Speaker 1: It's about money.
21:31
Speaker 2: Both of those schools, Virginia and inc State, they used
21:34
Speaker 2: a company called Athlete Advantage to schedule them in an
21:38
Speaker 2: international game to kick off the twenty twenty six season
21:41
Speaker 2: in Week zero, and this would have been the first
21:43
Speaker 2: college game in Rio Dejonio, even though the NFL has
21:46
Speaker 2: already played there, and it would have resulted in a
21:48
Speaker 2: revenue sharing deal to make each team millions and millions
21:51
Speaker 2: of dollars. And as of six days ago, they were
21:54
Speaker 2: still posting on Instagram that the game was a go,
21:57
Speaker 2: prompting people in Brazil to buy tickets in their Portuguese
22:01
Speaker 2: language official Instagram account. And what a lot of people
22:04
Speaker 2: don't realize is just how much gets outsourced when it
22:07
Speaker 2: comes to these neutral type games.
22:09
Speaker 1: An Athlete Advantage probably.
22:11
Speaker 2: Saw a lack of ticket sales pulled the plug when
22:13
Speaker 2: it became obvious that this was not going to make
22:16
Speaker 2: them enough money to be able to cover the.
22:18
Speaker 1: Costs for everybody involved.
22:19
Speaker 2: So then, according to some of the online sources, Athlete
22:23
Speaker 2: Advantage they still might have to cut a check to
22:25
Speaker 2: the schools to get out of the deal, but it
22:28
Speaker 2: is likely going to be way less than they would
22:30
Speaker 2: have been on the hook for being at the game
22:33
Speaker 2: ended up a flop. So Ryan Miller, who's the head
22:36
Speaker 2: of Athlete Advantage and started this business as a way
22:39
Speaker 2: to aid Kentucky athletics with their nil needs. But not
22:43
Speaker 2: everything needs to be scaled on an international level or
22:48
Speaker 2: a national level. Sometimes local things are more important. And
22:52
Speaker 2: maybe some lessons were learned here and maybe that's going
22:54
Speaker 2: to help Athlete Advantage scale and you know, help more
22:57
Speaker 2: programs nationwide. But as of now, it's not even confirmed
23:01
Speaker 2: that the game is going to be carried by ESPN
23:04
Speaker 2: on August twenty ninth because the kickoff time it could
23:07
Speaker 2: actually conflict now with other programming that ESPN already has
23:11
Speaker 2: scheduled for the day. And what actually sucks is that
23:14
Speaker 2: most people who arranged their travel outside of the official
23:18
Speaker 2: ticket package being offered by Athlete Advantage, they're gonna be
23:22
Speaker 2: out of the plane, tickets, hotels and everything that they
23:26
Speaker 2: paid for on their own. This is just gonna be
23:29
Speaker 2: a vacation now, or they're gonna be out of their money,
23:32
Speaker 2: So that actually sucks. I mean, I don't believe that
23:35
Speaker 2: these international games should be played at this point in
23:38
Speaker 2: time because you've already had ASU Kansas and London on
23:42
Speaker 2: Week three. That's at least something that ASU's London campus
23:47
Speaker 2: could promote. But they ain't going to the game. That's
23:50
Speaker 2: a nine to ten pm am kickoff. We've had teams
23:53
Speaker 2: play in Australia, We've had teams playing, teams play in
23:59
Speaker 2: Ireland as well.
24:00
Speaker 1: What good does this do?
24:01
Speaker 2: Last thing, I want to give some props to Zachari Branch,
24:03
Speaker 2: Zachariah Branch. So Georgia players are notably talked about for arrests,
24:09
Speaker 2: particularly for speeding, and Zachariah Branch his charges were dropped.
24:14
Speaker 2: They deserve to be reportedly as widely as his arrest was,
24:18
Speaker 2: because Georgia is not getting credit for getting things under
24:21
Speaker 2: control as far as players having incidents with the athletes police,
24:25
Speaker 2: especially with the traffic stops. But one of them instances
24:28
Speaker 2: was recently with Zachari Branch who got arrested in April,
24:32
Speaker 2: right before the NFL Draft and charged with obstructing public
24:35
Speaker 2: sidewalks and streets, prowling and obstruction of a law enforcement official.
24:40
Speaker 2: And then his charges got dropped. They sounded serious. But
24:44
Speaker 2: is clearing a sidewalk too slowly a high bar?
24:47
Speaker 1: No? Not really.
24:48
Speaker 2: They released the statement after his charges got dropped. Zacharia
24:51
Speaker 2: fully cooperated with law enforcement. It did not commit a
24:54
Speaker 2: crime on the night of his arrest and never should
24:56
Speaker 2: have been arrested. Where glad this matter is over and
24:59
Speaker 2: mister Brett's excellent reputation and good name will be restored.
25:03
Speaker 2: The only reason why I'm talking about this is that
25:05
Speaker 2: we have to be as loud about people getting cleared
25:08
Speaker 2: as we are about getting them in trouble. So congratulation
25:11
Speaker 2: Zach Ryant branch On, putting this behind you, and best
25:14
Speaker 2: of luck this year with the Atlanta Falcons. Y'all hopp
25:17
Speaker 2: in the comments. Now, tell me what you thought about
25:19
Speaker 2: all the news stories, and up next we gotta tell
25:22
Speaker 2: the truth about the Indiana Hoosiers and what's going on
25:26
Speaker 2: with them, how they got here, and what's going on
25:29
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six in the future, and can they
25:31
Speaker 2: keep it up because everybody.
25:33
Speaker 1: Saying they're gonna win that a game.
25:35
Speaker 2: Let's see, we have to talk about Indiana Hoosiers football.
25:41
Speaker 2: Imagine that sentence being said out loud, just three years ago,
25:45
Speaker 2: people would.
25:45
Speaker 1: Have turned off the video. They'd have been like, what
25:47
Speaker 1: the hell is there to talk about?
25:49
Speaker 2: This ain't Indiana basketball, not Bob Knight, not assembly Haul
25:53
Speaker 2: Indiana fans, they just kicked down the door. They didn't
25:55
Speaker 2: let us, folks in the media have any time to adjust.
25:58
Speaker 2: Them and their five billion alumni get on our assets
26:02
Speaker 2: anytime we try to temper expectations. They're acting like new money.
26:05
Speaker 2: And you know new money. New money buys the loud
26:08
Speaker 2: car before it buys the house that is Indiana football
26:11
Speaker 2: right now, and you know what they earned it. I't
26:14
Speaker 2: even gonna lie Indiana fans. They are disconnected from reality,
26:17
Speaker 2: but their team has absolutely earned them the right to
26:20
Speaker 2: be disconnected from reality. When your program goes from college
26:23
Speaker 2: football witness protection in the most losing its program to
26:27
Speaker 2: national champion, you.
26:28
Speaker 1: Don't have to be humble immediately. But here's the warning.
26:32
Speaker 1: The same rules still apply to Indiana that still apply
26:34
Speaker 1: to everybody else. You still have to block Ohio State,
26:37
Speaker 1: you still have to tackle Michigan. You still have to
26:40
Speaker 1: cover USC's receivers in space. You still have to go
26:43
Speaker 1: on the road to Seattle and Eugene.
26:45
Speaker 2: You still have to wake up the week after a
26:48
Speaker 2: big win and act like Northwestern can ruin your life
26:51
Speaker 2: if you play sloppy. And that's where the new money
26:53
Speaker 2: gets humbled because old money programs they know the tax
26:57
Speaker 2: bill always comes due. Alabama, nos Ohio State knows Oregon
27:02
Speaker 2: if they didn't already know, they learned it from Indiana
27:05
Speaker 2: last year, and USC has learned it the hard way
27:08
Speaker 2: about twelve different times for about twenty years straight. The
27:11
Speaker 2: sport doesn't care that your story is cute. The sport
27:14
Speaker 2: does not care that your fans bought championship March and
27:17
Speaker 2: started tweeting like SEC message board moderators. The sport asked
27:21
Speaker 2: you one question every single Saturday, can you do it again?
27:25
Speaker 2: And honestly, Indiana fans, they should be unrealistic. They should
27:28
Speaker 2: look at a ten win projection and say that's it. Well,
27:32
Speaker 2: especially with that raggedy non conference. Let's hold another story,
27:34
Speaker 2: because for once Indiana football, it gave them permission. Kurt
27:38
Speaker 2: Signetty dragged that fan base out of the basement and
27:42
Speaker 2: handed them a national championship and then told them to
27:45
Speaker 2: stop apologizing for wanting more. So, yes, Hoo's your fans,
27:49
Speaker 2: you are absolutely new money. But buddy, the check clearers,
27:52
Speaker 2: and now we find out whether they can build wealth
27:55
Speaker 2: or whether they just bought the whole bar one round
27:58
Speaker 2: and forgot that the mortgages do. Kurt Signetti, he did
28:01
Speaker 2: not walk into Bloomington asking people to believe in fairy tales.
28:04
Speaker 2: He walked in asking people to believe that you could
28:07
Speaker 2: stick to a recipe, you.
28:08
Speaker 1: Can cook, and now Indiana's cooking.
28:10
Speaker 2: At his introductory press conference, kurse Signetti said, produce sucks
28:15
Speaker 2: sodas Michigan and Ohio State, and then he dropped the
28:19
Speaker 2: line that became prophecy, I win google me, and that
28:22
Speaker 2: sounded arrogant when it was said. Now it sounds like
28:24
Speaker 2: a man reading his resume out loud. In fifteen seasons
28:28
Speaker 2: as a head coach, kurse Signetti has never had a
28:30
Speaker 2: losing record, not even one single solitary time. And he
28:34
Speaker 2: explained it perfectly. If you want to be good in
28:37
Speaker 2: anything at life, you gotta have a goal, and then
28:40
Speaker 2: you got to be committed to it, and then you
28:43
Speaker 2: have to discipline to stay in it day in and
28:46
Speaker 2: day out and work towards your goal. You need the
28:48
Speaker 2: work ethic and the mental toughness to persevere, and that
28:52
Speaker 2: in a nutshell is the foundation of Indiana's rise. It
28:55
Speaker 2: ain't the portal, it ain't in il, and it ain't
28:58
Speaker 2: a quarterback because it's this discipline in the portal, discipline,
29:01
Speaker 2: in nil discipline when you're looking for your next quarterback.
29:05
Speaker 2: And Signetti's version of discipline is not don't jump off sides.
29:08
Speaker 1: It's deeper than that.
29:10
Speaker 2: In coaching, you get what you demand and if you're
29:13
Speaker 2: not coaching it, you're allowing it to happen. That's what
29:16
Speaker 2: coach Signetti says. And you notice we're not talking about
29:18
Speaker 2: Indiana's history because outside of this last season or the
29:22
Speaker 2: last two, there's nothing really to talk about outside of
29:25
Speaker 2: you know, Nolan Harrison and Antoine Randall l and George
29:29
Speaker 2: Tellaferro or Michael Pennick's leaving and going to Washington when
29:33
Speaker 2: you see old highlights of him.
29:34
Speaker 1: That's pretty much it.
29:35
Speaker 2: Because for years Indiana football had a ceiling because the
29:39
Speaker 2: expectations worthy ceiling, and the whole fan base they wanted competitive,
29:45
Speaker 2: the administration they wanted respective, like the national media wanted
29:49
Speaker 2: a cute underdog story like when Michael Pennix Junior helped
29:52
Speaker 2: him upset Ohio State. Signetti on the other hand, he
29:55
Speaker 2: didn't want any of that. He wanted a monster, and
29:58
Speaker 2: he built Indiana like a man who understood the modern sport. First,
30:02
Speaker 2: he bought his own proof, like when he came from
30:04
Speaker 2: James Madison, he brought players who already knew what his
30:07
Speaker 2: standards felt like. And CBS Sports they reported that his
30:10
Speaker 2: first Indiana signing class included thirteen players from James Madison
30:14
Speaker 2: with dudes like Aiden Fischer, DiAngelo Pons, Elijah surat Bara.
30:19
Speaker 2: That they became foundational pieces to what they were building.
30:23
Speaker 2: That was stage one, bring the culture, which stage two
30:26
Speaker 2: was the twenty twenty five roster rebuilt, and that was
30:29
Speaker 2: when Indiana stopped hoping and started hunting. Fernando Mendoza came
30:33
Speaker 2: in from cal and he became the kind of quarterback
30:35
Speaker 2: who changes what your offense can be. Think about when
30:38
Speaker 2: Signetti talked about Mendoza, he talked about his arm, talent
30:42
Speaker 2: and the fit at Indiana and that Indiana beat out
30:45
Speaker 2: bigger brand names because the program had a plan and
30:49
Speaker 2: not a sales pitch. And then they added better in
30:51
Speaker 2: pieces around him, offensive line help, skill, talent, defensive depth,
30:57
Speaker 2: and the kind of grown man roster construction that doesn't
31:00
Speaker 2: just care what your recruiting ranking was when you were seventeen.
31:03
Speaker 2: It only cares whether you can help them win right
31:05
Speaker 2: now on Saturdays and are you developed? Because this is
31:09
Speaker 2: where the transfer portal conversation where it really honestly needs
31:12
Speaker 2: to mature, because people keep saying that the portal is
31:14
Speaker 2: ruining college football.
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Speaker 1: No, not at all.
31:17
Speaker 2: The portal is exposing which coaches actually know what they're
31:20
Speaker 2: looking at. Because Signati, last season, dude had a list,
31:24
Speaker 2: he had a demand, he had discipline, and Indiana won
31:27
Speaker 2: the national championship.
31:28
Speaker 1: Now here's where.
31:29
Speaker 2: Things get really interesting for the Indiana Hoosiers because a
31:32
Speaker 2: lot of programs they reached the mountaintop and then they
31:35
Speaker 2: immediately started acting like they found a golden ticket after
31:38
Speaker 2: winning the national championship. Signetti, he didn't even sound shocked.
31:42
Speaker 2: He actually said, the college football now requires a team
31:45
Speaker 2: quote ready to compete for championships every single year. Now, Signetti,
31:50
Speaker 2: he don't speak in Cinderella languages. He talks like an emperor.
31:55
Speaker 2: And Indiana's twenty twenty six roster Bild saw plenty of talent.
31:59
Speaker 2: You had Joshua transferring from TCU, Nick Marsh from Michigan State,
32:03
Speaker 2: Joe Brunner from Wisconsin, Toby Usuinsomni from Kansas State. Two
32:08
Speaker 2: four to seven Sports reported that Marsh, Brunner, Toby that
32:12
Speaker 2: they all finished inside of the top one hundred of
32:15
Speaker 2: transfer rankings. Now look at Josh Hoover specific he's the
32:18
Speaker 2: biggest name because replacing a championship quarterback is never easy.
32:21
Speaker 2: And he doesn't need to be Fernando Mendoza because that's
32:24
Speaker 2: the actual trap. He needs to be the best version
32:27
Speaker 2: of Josh Hoover inside the Signety's offense. And he needs
32:30
Speaker 2: to learn not to get shook up on the road
32:32
Speaker 2: because that's where he's been shaky and often below average.
32:36
Speaker 2: People want to compare him to Fernando Mendoza, but Fernando
32:40
Speaker 2: Mendoza's interception percentage at CAL was the exact same as
32:45
Speaker 2: it was at Indiana. Versus Josh Hoover, even though he
32:48
Speaker 2: was playing in an air raid offense, his interception percentage
32:52
Speaker 2: was like three times as high. So that's something that
32:55
Speaker 2: absolutely has to change. Then you got Nick Marsh. He
32:58
Speaker 2: has to become a difference maker on the outside, not
33:01
Speaker 2: in a couple games, but immediately. Then you look at
33:03
Speaker 2: Joe Bruner, like he has to help the offensive line
33:06
Speaker 2: state physical enough to survive Ohio State, Michigan, USC and Washington.
33:13
Speaker 2: Then you got Toby Osumtomni, who gives them an edge
33:17
Speaker 2: pressure in the Big Ten. This ain't a seven on
33:20
Speaker 2: seven league. Then they bring in Turbo Richardson, Preston, Zachman,
33:24
Speaker 2: Joshua would burn him and the rest of the portal
33:27
Speaker 2: class just to prove that Indiana just did not buy names.
33:30
Speaker 2: They bought what they believe or fits. Because Signetti's discipline
33:34
Speaker 2: quotes discipline on the field is getting eleven guys to
33:38
Speaker 2: do their job. Because when you got eleven guys that
33:41
Speaker 2: do their job consistently, play in and play out, it's
33:44
Speaker 2: not addition, it's multiplication. And if we're being honest, that's
33:47
Speaker 2: football gospel. But that's the biggest question about Indiana in
33:51
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. When Signetti brought those guys over his
33:55
Speaker 2: first year at Indiana, they developed for two years and
33:57
Speaker 2: then they were able to win a national championship after
34:00
Speaker 2: adding Mendoza. So is this another two year thing or
34:04
Speaker 2: can they win the championship in twenty twenty six?
34:07
Speaker 1: That's the question.
34:07
Speaker 2: Championships are multiplication, eleven guys doing their job, and that's
34:12
Speaker 2: why Indiana's defense became such a problem. And that's why
34:16
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator Briant Haines had every right to get spicy
34:20
Speaker 2: after the Alabama game. Because after Indiana took Alabama behind
34:24
Speaker 2: the woodshed thirty eight to three in the Rose Bow,
34:27
Speaker 2: Alabama quarterback Ty.
34:29
Speaker 1: Simpson said that Indiana's defense.
34:31
Speaker 2: Oh, it wasn't overly complicated, and that Alabama knew what
34:34
Speaker 2: was coming, but Indiana was always in the right place.
34:37
Speaker 2: Haines then responded on social media by claiming, oh, that's adorable,
34:42
Speaker 2: and then told Alabama fans to grow up after they
34:45
Speaker 2: got mad. I actually think that Simpson was giving Indiana
34:48
Speaker 2: a compliment and not trying to diss them. But I
34:51
Speaker 2: also understand why Haines took it as disrespect because when
34:54
Speaker 2: you watch Indiana on defense, yes they do simulated blitzes
34:58
Speaker 2: and everything, but they run very basic stuff, but they
35:02
Speaker 2: run it to perfection. Last year, Indiana has to prove
35:06
Speaker 2: that discipline travels into twenty twenty six. And what better
35:09
Speaker 2: way to jump start than manufacturing some bulletin board material
35:12
Speaker 2: so your players don't just start assuming success produces itself.
35:16
Speaker 2: Because Fox Sports they listed Indiana as the top contenders
35:20
Speaker 2: to win in twenty twenty six in terms of the
35:23
Speaker 2: Big Ten, with the odds right behind Ohio State, and
35:26
Speaker 2: in the same conversation as Oregon Covers listed Indiana with
35:30
Speaker 2: a regular season win total of ten and a half.
35:32
Speaker 2: But part of that is preseason schedule, which I have
35:35
Speaker 2: to say. When Kursingnety changed the schedule and he was like,
35:38
Speaker 2: we're going to the SEC model, I wasn't mad at it,
35:41
Speaker 2: and mind you, I shamed him for that point point
35:43
Speaker 2: in time because he knows Indiana was going to be
35:47
Speaker 2: so good and what he was built us college football fans.
35:50
Speaker 2: We deserve more games. So I am not going to
35:53
Speaker 2: let him off the hook. Indiana's regular season win total
35:56
Speaker 2: of ten and a half that's tied with Miami, Oregon,
35:59
Speaker 2: Texas Tech. Indiana football has reached a point where ten
36:03
Speaker 2: wins actually might feel disappointed. And yes, Indiana's scheduled like
36:07
Speaker 2: a program betting itself to hit the over because this
36:11
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six schedule starts with North Texas, Howard, and
36:15
Speaker 2: Western Kentucky all at home, then Northwestern comes to Bloomington
36:20
Speaker 2: before the Hoosiers get into the heavy Big Ten stretch,
36:23
Speaker 2: but Indiana's official schedule it includes Ohio State at home,
36:28
Speaker 2: Michigan on the road, USC at home, Washington on the road,
36:32
Speaker 2: and Purdue at home. I absolutely hate this with the
36:35
Speaker 2: power of a thousand suns. I do this non conference schedule,
36:39
Speaker 2: but at least Kurt Signetti admits that it's part of
36:42
Speaker 2: his strategy. Indiana trains like a prize fighter fighting against
36:45
Speaker 2: some unqualified sparring partners before you turn those habits loose
36:49
Speaker 2: on the conference opponents. And it is true that you
36:53
Speaker 2: do not get extra credit for making your life harder
36:56
Speaker 2: when the Big Ten already put Ohio State, Michigan, USC,
36:59
Speaker 2: and Washington on on your plate. But the fans deserve it.
37:02
Speaker 2: And right now the target it is on Indiana. Ohio
37:06
Speaker 2: State in coming to Bloomington for a celebration tour, Michigan,
37:10
Speaker 2: they letting Indiana walk into ann Arbor on an act
37:13
Speaker 2: like that. The Big Ten belongs to Bloomington. Now USC
37:17
Speaker 2: they bringing big time athletes. They might not bring no defense,
37:20
Speaker 2: but they bringing that perdue. They would absolutely throw a
37:23
Speaker 2: parade for ruining Indiana season, even if they finished three
37:27
Speaker 2: and nine. Kurtse Signetti said it himself. The challenge is
37:30
Speaker 2: not to only play in its entirety. It's to play
37:33
Speaker 2: all the plays, and it's not being affected by the
37:36
Speaker 2: success or being affected by the failure. Never be satisfied.
37:40
Speaker 2: And that's the twenty twenty six Indiana season, right. Can
37:43
Speaker 2: they be unaffected by success? Can they win while everybody
37:48
Speaker 2: has spent eight months telling them how special that they are?
37:51
Speaker 2: Can Josh Hoover? Can he leave without trying to be
37:54
Speaker 2: Fernando Mendoza? Can Nick marsh become wide receiver one? Can Brune?
38:00
Speaker 2: Can he stabilize with Carter the offensive line and be
38:03
Speaker 2: one of the best in the nation. Can Osuinsomni and Burhm?
38:08
Speaker 2: Can they keep that defense not only strong and physical,
38:11
Speaker 2: but violent Because Indiana they are not the underdog anymore.
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Speaker 2: They ain't a feel good story. They ain't gonna sneak
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Speaker 2: up on anybody. Kurt Signetti wanted Indiana to stop thinking
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Speaker 2: like Indiana. Mission accomplished. Now, the question is whether Indiana
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Speaker 2: can handle the role of defending national champion. Because it's
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Speaker 2: one thing to say Google me, and it's another thing
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Speaker 2: when everybody already has googled you, because I gotta saying
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Speaker 2: you do it once. It's an accident. You do it twice,
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Speaker 2: you can really do it. Make sure that you guys
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Speaker 2: the other schools that we've done, and the college football news.
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Speaker 1: I'm George Reis. Peace out, Catch you guys. Le