Joey Votto

What's going on?

Well, you're not doing what you were able to do and nobody else could do that before.

You got three of the top five recruiting classes are in the Big Ten.

Oregon and USC are one and two.

The Big Ten has the last three national titles.

4-0 against the SEC in the last three seasons head-to-head in college football playoffs.

The money with NIL changed everything here.

That pipeline, hey, you're going to get these guys, they're going to go to your school, that's not the case anymore.

Indiana won a national championship.

And because of that, everybody has to think, if you have a quality football program, why not us?

And the SEC still stands alone as the best conference, top to bottom, but I think things have changed.

I don't know if it's

and it's not coming back because, as my college football source said, you've got to have tech money or oil money.

If you want to sustain your treasure trove, and teams are spending upwards of $40 million a year on their football teams, $20 million, if not more, on their basketball teams, depending on the importance of that.

That's why everybody wants more money in the college football playoffs.

The SEC is fighting that right now.

And look, anything Greg Sankey says, I believe, I trust.

But this is a situation where I think they're just looking for how do we monetize this so it benefits the SEC.

I don't think anybody has had this altruistic approach and said, let's do what's best for college football.

Okay, when have you ever done anything that's best for college football?