Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
On Friday, and I was looking forward to this, I wanted to hear what some of the people had to say that was a part of it.
Chapter 2: What was the purpose of President Trump's commission on college sports?
President Trump put together a commission to save college sports. And he had all these people involved, the NCAA, head by Charlie Baker, the former governor of Massachusetts. He was a Republican governor. And I think I... Told you this. I interviewed him when he first got the job to become president and CEO of the NCAA.
And the reason they put him in there is because he's a political guy and he can get both sides to put all of this together.
Chapter 3: Who were the notable figures involved in the college sports commission?
And he, Randy Levine, Nick Saban, people like this. We're all a part of this commission on Friday. I'm sitting here. We're in the middle of bombing the crap out of Iran. And you have this going on as if nothing's happening in the world.
Well, yeah.
Chapter 4: How has the NCAA's role changed in college sports?
I mean, you do have to multitask, I think, when you're at that level. But there was also Miami FC had visited the White House when all this stuff was going on.
Yeah, all this stuff was going on. And Nick Saban actually gave a pretty good... He had a good read on things and talking about things. And then right after he spoke, you remember the running back Trent Richardson? Yeah, he was drafted by the Browns and he sucked. But he played for Alabama. Yeah. And pre-NIL.
And he came out and said, it's interesting listening to Nick Saban saying what he's saying because they gave me $75,000 to go to Alabama and gave me $10,000 a month. Trent Richardson saying that. That's what Trent Richardson said.
Yeah. I mean, we all knew that that stuff was happening under the table.
It's not a shocker. Yeah. Well, the reason, you know, and obviously the NCAA is essentially feckless in all of this, and they own the rights to college basketball. That's basically what they have. That's where they make most of their money. It's really the commissioners of the respective Big Four conferences who
or five if you want to count the Big East, that have to come up with something that's workable for everybody, as opposed to having it being the wild, wild west. And Charlie Baker finally got all the political people together because this is supposed to be nonpartisan. Everybody's supposed to be in favor of this and trying to somehow, someway, grab hold of what is happening.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think that college sports as a whole has taken a hit at all. I mean, I think it's just as popular as ever, but there's just certain schools who cannot compete any longer.
The two things that I would just love to see is, one, a realignment, once again, that makes sense with these conferences as opposed to some of the nonsense that we're seeing when everything broke down, and a salary cap on what you're allowed to spend. Those are the two things.
Well, supposedly there is a salary cap, but there's always a way around it. So basically all of these major conferences have to share, what, up to $21 million or $22 million with their athletes, and they have to spend it how they deem the way that they want to spend it. And, like, if you're a basketball coach at a major football school, guess what?
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Chapter 5: What impact does NIL money have on college athletes?
So hopefully he can be a difference maker, and he has been a difference maker even as a freshman he was.
Yeah, I mean, here's one thing that nobody ever really thought about is the situation that's going on with Darren Peterson, where you have a guy who has to go to school. He's getting paid a lot of money, but he's still protecting himself as the number one pick in the NBA draft.
And that's where stuff like this and this big business where he's still getting paid, and he's getting paid a great amount of money, but he's going to get more in the NBA, and he's basically just using this college thing to stuff some money in his pockets and show up when he wants to show up.
Yeah, and by the way, there are a million examples of other things that have gone on pre-nil, like the Jose Alvarado thing with Rutgers and Georgia Tech. Something went on there with Georgia Tech. Obviously, Georgia Tech called up and offered him something that Rutgers was not going to do and was not going to cross the line. And Georgia Tech probably or most likely did, it sounds like.
But I just ā you know, it's completely out of control. And to see guys like Randy Levine and even Nick Saban and Urban Meyer and all these guys that have been in this sewer pit of college athletics ā Because Randy has been running, obviously, the bowl game over there, so he sees a lot of this stuff.
They're the ones that have to make it so that everybody can compete in some way, shape, or form. I just don't know how they're going to do it.
Well, not everybody's going to be able to compete. It's just that's the way it is.
You want to make the playing field even, but not everybody's going to be able to do it. I think they're going to expand the college football playoffs. That means another game for college football players. It's hard enough to play. In college, when I played there, we played maybe 13 games, I think, including our bowl game. It's up to 16 games now for some kids. That's insane.
I mean, the season goes from Labor Day to, if you're in the championship game, the middle of January.
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