Jessica Smetana

I mean, they signed him to a huge extension last year.

Clearly, you don't want to see him go.

If you were asking me to speculate on, like, Notre Dame's financial –

acumen in this situation like i think they have the money to do that obviously it doesn't mean they have the appetite to pay someone that much money um and i think a lot of these college coaching contracts are a little bit absurd if you're talking about coaches getting

hundred million dollar buyouts to stick around in 10 years and we have absolutely no idea what college football is going to look like in 10 years but also marcus freeman's current contract is not public uh speculated that he's paid among the three highest paid coaches in college football so i mean i don't know we'll have to wait and see speaking of money what did you make of the holiday bowl exploring the idea of a college football bowl game in saudi arabia oh come on

Oh, man.

This was one of those things that came out of some of the public records requests, I believe, from North Carolina.

And from my reading on the topic, the Holiday Bowl has a bit of a financial strain because of the two games being canceled in 2020 and 2021 because of COVID.

So they are looking to recoup some of that and be a bowl that can

offer a higher payout to teams and would get more money if they did play in Saudi Arabia.

It sounds like the ACC pretty quickly shut it down, but they were exploring that.

The other part of it that's sort of funny is that the Holiday Bowl gets money from the city of San Diego because it has an obvious big economic impact on the city when they host the bowl game.

And so if that were to be the case, if they were to move the game, they would have to give that money back.

Of course, it's not really that much money in the grand scheme of things, but it is to sort of demonstrate like the financial situation of a lot of these bowl games that have become a lot less prestigious now that there's 12 teams in the playoff.

And, you know, the Holiday Bowl used to be a game that was two of the better bowl eligible teams would play and had a lot of good ratings in that bowl game.

It was one of the higher tier, like premium tier bowls.

Really?

and yeah yes greg really um remember that i mean it's not like i mean it's yeah the one in san diego i mean it's the arbor day of holidays it's not a new year's six bowl obviously but it's also not like you know the bahamas bowl or one of these other smaller smaller team bowls um it'd usually be like two i think pac-12 and acc are the two teams in the holiday bowl

Anyways, I digress.

I think the point is that this kind of demonstrates the financial strain on a lot of these bowls in the 12-team playoff era.