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right, all night, Kaoway talk about to that Broncos Country Tonight. Nick
Fergus in bedgement, Oli Bright grat Smith's going to be back from Mobile,
Alabama. Special thanks to Eric Lala and film Alani for filling in for me
while I was While I was down there, I was appreciate those guys and
anybody we have filling in. Prettymacist who fills in from time to time as
well. Yes, absolutely, I always appreciate that. A couple of texts
principals Team ninety five ninety six. I remember the magic carpet. See I'm
not going crazy. Guys are killing me. I thought maybe it was like
the Mandela fact or something. Yeah, with the with the Shack movie that
did everybody thinks the Shack was in a movie called the was a Shazam or
something, and there was a Couzam movie. But everybody thinks Sinbad was in
this genie movie that it never existed. I don't believe that there's a Sawid
as a kid. There's like a collective delusion about this. That movie Shaq
was in, Kazam Sinbad was not in a genie movie. Well Gren said,
he's seen it. Just this collective delusion though, so he's kind of
someone. He's saying that Grant is delusional. Well, yeah, I'm saying
that that's probably fair. But it's just like the Fruit of the Loom thing
that's going around the internet right now. What was going on with that,
Like they used to have like some little other part of their logo, but
they're saying that it never existed. I listen, I know you love a
conspiracy theory, Nick, Well yeah, I mean, okay, I remember
the Fruit of the Looms guys. It was great, the Apples and you
know all those guys. So you're saying what's now is an issue, and
so the logo used to have like this other little part of it. I
can't remember what it's called. Well, they think, but it didn't really
used to have. It's like this saying, people who think that Britney Spears
wore the headset and the oops I did it again video, but she didn't
actually ever wear a headset in that I think she wore a head Oh my
god. No. Are the people that think Jeff Peanut Butter used to be
Jiffy. It was never Jiffy. So why would anyone say something was Jiffy
when it was just jiff It's all about the mind control. Nick. Are
people that think the Curious George used to have a tail but he never did.
Oh, someone out there right listening to the show, was it Jeff
or Jiffy? The Curious George actually have a tail or? Did he not?
And sendbad was in that movie? He was not in that movie.
It never happened. I saw it. Are people that think that the Monopoly
Man had a monocle. He never had a monocle. You never seen all
these things, like people think the the stunt. It's like, He's understand
why people would say that about Monopoly because on the game itself, as McDonald's
wouldn't advertise it every single year he would have a mononical. So that's probably
why you know, everyone to mister Peanut had a monocle. Hmm, yeah
he did. I'm just saying I don't know the thing. It kills me
because uh the uh there's the sindbad one is the one that everybody insists I
saw that movie. Fret said he saw the movie, so I'm gonna trust
his eyes. I'm gonna trust his eyes, dude. I yeah, Kazam
was a movie. It starts Shaquille O'Neil as a genie. Yeah. I
mean, I hate to say that I did see that movie. So but
I'm still going to side with Grant on this one. If he say he
saw it, he saw it, just don't go down the reddit rabbit hole.
Yeah, crazy, because people would insist that they were in the movie
and saw this in the theater, saw this movie that does not exist.
So serious, it's a conspiracy theory. Now it's all about mind control.
Maybe they were drinking a six pack. It's time for the NFL sixth path.
I'm gonna trade a lot of beer, insight and inside information you can't
find anywhere else. No. Six the top six NFL headline. What oh,
let's see here, old friend Teddy Bridgewater was named head coach and is
Alma Modern Miami Northwestern. That's right, Teddy Bridgewater retiring, but he's sticking
around the game of football, something we first reported in the Broncos game right
before the Detroit Lions. The Teddy Bridgewater was going to get back to high
school coaching, and according to the portal, he has been named the head
coach of is Alma Modern Miami Northwest High School. SI dot com reporting that
they parted ways the former head coach michae Lee Harris after one season. That
opened the North Bridgewater to fill the vacancy. Quarterback was the school's first choice,
but was not availble to formally take the position until the Lions season obviously
had ended Detroit's loss to San Francisco. He's now at the Helm Bridgewaters.
For his career, passed for six thousand, seven twelve yards and seventy touchdowns
in his high school career. The number thirty two overall pick of the twenty
fourteen draft, Ridgewater peers the seventy nine games sixty five starts over ten seasons
with Minnesota, New Orleans, Carolina, Denver, Miami and Detroit, win
sixty six percent of his passes fifteen twenty yards, seventy five touchdowns at forty
seven interceptions. I think he's gonna be good at this. What do you
think about Teddy Bridgewater becoming a high school hit football coach. You know,
the first at first glance, I don't like it. And the reason why
I don't like it because Northwestern High School is my high school's right rival,
right and we could never beat him. So understanding the fact that Teddy has
been around some great coaches, He's gonna bring arsenal of plays. But all
that being aside, man call back down to talk to some relatives down in
Miami. Everyone is really excited about it because you know, when you have
a high school guy that ends up going to the NFL, and Teddy was
drafted first round by the Minnesota Vikings, and the fact that he's played in
the league as long as he did, he spent one two season with the
Miami Dolphins, great for him. It is good for him, great for
Miami high school football scene. So I love it. I'm uh yeah,
I'm happy for him. Teddy kind of told us this when we were there
at Detroit. He kind of told us this off to the side. That's
how we knew it was gonna happen. But I'm happy for him. He's
beginning the next phase of his career and you know, going on to coach
high school ball. I think that that appeals to him in a lot of
ways, and I think he's gonna be bro good at it. Two.
Gardner Minshew says, I'd love to settle down and find somewhere to call home.
Quarterback Gardner Minshe wound up in the Pro Bowl this week and he's the
first Colts quarterback to make it there since Andrew Locke, but he might be
moving on this offseason. The Colts had signed Minsheet a one year deal last
offseason. He became the team starter after Anthony Richardson's season ending shoulder surgery.
Colts went seven and six with Minshew. With the Helmes, he came close
to a Week eighteen win that would have made them division champs. Richardson was
a first round pick last year, so minshe will either be returning as a
backup and moving on. He said on Friday, has no idea how things
are going to play out this offseason, but it wouldn't mind a long stay
summer after bouncing from Jacksonville Toffility to India over the last four years. Same
quote. I'm a rambling man a little bit my soul, but man would
love to settle down and find somewhere to call home. But until then,
we're gonna keep on rolling. Guaranteed. Started job might not be a Minshe's
future, but he could get a chance to compete for a job with the
other tables, the cults. Would you be okay with Gardner Minshew here in
Denver doing what being the starting quarterback? Now? I'm good, I'm good.
I mean more people compete with Grant for best mustache. Okay, listen,
I get the whole idea. Yeah, I mean the mustache thing.
I mean it was. It was very popular when he was a member of
the Jackson the Jaguars at a certain level of excitement. Is Gardner Minshew d
quarterback that the Broncos need? No, but it is a very interesting name
to just kind of toss out there as we have these particular conversations. He's
a guy that can excite a fan base, but he's also a guy that
could really make you angry as a one year bridge quarterback. You have no
interest. I mean, there are other options for bridge quarterbacks. I gave
you a couple of weeks. I mean, right, I'm asking you to
rank where you put Gardner Minshew in there? Well, well, in the
quarterbacks that would be considered for Bridge quarterbacks. I might put him maybe six.
Okay, yes, I mean that's not bad. Three. The Raiders
are adding a couple of former players as assistant coaches. On Antonio Pierce of
staff thoughts you might appreciate that. Mike garra Fuller reporting that Las Vegas will
hire my good buddy Deshaun Foster as the running backs coach away from UCLA,
and Rapport said they're also expected to hire Andre Carter as a pass rush from
specialist. Foster, of course been coaching running backs at UCLA, where he
played College Bosses twenty seventeen. The year before, he worked under Cliff Kingsbury
at Texas Attack. That's where the connection comes from. Foster played seventy nine
games forty two starts over his years in Carolina and San Francisco from all three
to eight. Carter serves as the Dolphins assistant defensive line coach twenty seventeen to
twenty eighteen, was the defense defensive line Chivy Jets defensive line coach in nineteen
twenty twenty, and elis Huge defensive line coach in twenty twenty one. Nick
as a former player, how do you feel about more former players something you've
actively stopped for get these assistant coaching jobs. I love it. I put
something out the other day when Alex van Pell got the offensive coordinated job for
the noon of the Patriot Listen, I love it. I would love to
see more former players get opportunities. And the spell that rumors that former players
don't want to work, I still have no idea where that came from,
but I love the idea because adding former players, they can really help the
players at their positions because they can tell them what the expectations are, look
the real expectations. But also it helps those players grow as man. So
I'm all for even though they're working with the Raiders, I applaud the fact
of more former players get an opportunity. Well, I texted to Sean and
I told them congratulations. But also I have to hate you, so I'm
just just give it your heads up row listen. I mean the hate doesn't
on that deep. Just twice a year, it's a strong dislike. It
just a te strong dislike twice. Don't up to wait other games and win
the division either, so it's a little different. Yeah, I'm just saying
four. But these Saints are working to hire Clint Kubiak as offensive coordinator.
Saints can't make an official till after the Super Bowl, but they reportedly have
found their guy New Orleans. He is working to hire their passing game coast
San Franciscos passing game quarter at Clint Kubiak for the role. Kubiak's working next
week's game in Las Vegas, obviously, so these Saints have to hold off
on making an announcement. Kubiak is thirty six, joined the Niners after one
years the Broncos passing game coordinator in quarterbacks coach spent the previous three seasons as
with the Vikings as quarterbacks coach from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty and then offensive
coordinator in twenty twenty one. Of course, the son of Texas and Broncos
head coach Gary Kubiak, Clint also coached coach Denver from twenty sixteen to twenty
Eighteen's an offensive assistance. Saints fired long time offensive coordinator Peter Carmichael. That's
finishing number nine and points scored in fourteen in total yards this past year.
The Carmile Cole course caught on in Denver. Kubiak was also on Dan Quinn's
short list for offensive coordinator there in Washington ultimately chooses New Orleans. We think
about Clint Kubiak taking over the Saints offense. I love this because he's a
guy who has been on both sides of the ball. When he was at
CSU Rams, he played safety, then he made that transition over to the
office side of the ball. And I'll say this as well, remember when
his father was officsive coordinator with the Minnesota Vikings and then his father retired,
Clinton took over and Kirk Cousins had a phenomenal season. They did right.
So I'm not saying that we can see Kirk Cousins in New Orleans, but
if it happens, I understand. I yeah, I don't think that there's
the money available to do that. Obviously they've got Derek carr d contract down
there as well, but I like to hire. Of course, he was
on Washington shortlist. Like like I said, with Dan Quinn, will see
who they ultimately get. Whether these Chip Kelly rumors come to fruition. Although
I've told that that was not as big a thing as it was out to
be, they could ultimately circle around and make that a thing. Good for
Klint Coobie five. You talked about this to me a little bit earlier to
a talk about law on a long term deal with the Dolphins, says he
believes it will happen. Dolphins lost to the Chiefs in the playoffs last month.
Miami GM Chris Greer says the team's goal was to have in their long
term playing at a high level, but put a long term for t might
look like what the Dolphins is currently unclear. Tager Lewis said in Orlando at
the Pro Bowl Games this week he shares the same goal when it comes to
a second contract with Miami, saying quote, I believe that will happen.
He didn't deal further into the status of potential contracts talks with the organization,
saying quote, I'm gonna let you know my agents, Chris Mike McDaniel talk
about that. Let them move forward. Accordingly to a Turns twenty six in
March, Is entering last year his rookie deal. Miami picked up his fifth
year option last spring, coming off his best season of his career, large
part because he finally stayed healthy for an entire season in seventeen games to a
complete sixty nine point three percent of his throws for a league leading four six
and twenty four yards, twenty nine touchdowns, fourteen picks. It was good
for a one to one point one PA rating. To us say, quote,
my main goal this year was to play seventeen plus games. I was
able to accomplish that goal, and just very fortunate that I was able to
do that. Very happy too. Of course, some frigid conditions of Dolphins
were not very competitive in their playoff loss to the Chiefs, and he finished
his postseason first post he's to start twenty or thirty nine one hundred ninety nine
yards with a touchdown and a pick. Miami enters twenty twenty four a clubhusse
to determine what kind of contract that's going to give him. They do have
two franchise tags and they could use on him as well. Would you sign
to to a long term deal? Yes, I was. I know that
sounds crazy, but if you look at his numbers over the past two years,
the numbers have gone up as far as a number of yards from thirty
five hundreds about forty six hundred now. His interceptions have gone up in twenty
twenty two twenty five touchdowns, eight interceptions to twenty nine touchdowns and fourteen interceptions
this year. And when you look at the round the NFL, you want
to make sure that you have a veteran quarterback. And the more years you
could spend in a one particular position at one in one offensive scheme, it
helps you out. So su it seemed like he works well with what Mike
mcdaney wants wants to do. And when you have James Watt, who in
tyree Q, how may hell can you go wrong? Yeah? I think
the thing that Miami has to say is, Okay, are the injury issues
behind to are we going we getting a healthy guy who can continue to do
this or is this going to be somebody that we're worried about? Is reliability
long term? And I think that's the to me, that's the distinction.
You've seen that he can thrive in the offense and obviously he's going to better
with more experience in that offense. Of course, the speed they have makes
it great. The question for me is health. I didn't believe in him
that he was going to stay healthy this year. He proved me wrong on
that. Now can he do that long term? Sick? Well, this
one's a follow up, as the Jacksonville Jaguars are asking fan Duel to reimburse
them twenty million dollars that a Bit Patel stole for gambling. You guys,
remember we talked about this story a couple of weeks back. Former Jags executive
Bit Patel and bezzle more than twenty million dollars from the team, mostly for
gambling. The Jaguars are now taking gutsy to the next level. According to
ESPN dot com, the Jags vest FanDuel to reimburse some or all of the
money that Patel stole on A source familiar with this your situation told ESPN in
an article that contained no byline that discussions are ongoing among FanDuel, the Jags
in the NFL regarding a settlement. Our Vanduel's attitude is it got the money
fair and clear. That's not their problem, and I'm gonna be honest with
you, it doesn't feel like it is. The Jags created a virtual credit
card system that allowed Petel to steal the money. The idea whether the entity
who received the stole of money for gambling or cars or booze or whatever it
has pay it back is ludicrous. It's possible. Jags think FanDuel can be
squeezed into doing it given the importance a broader relationship with the NFL. However,
it's another example of the league's decision to flip the customers always right on
its head. The league has no qualms about pushing the partners who give it
millions or billions for more and more and more. The FanDuel is standing firm.
It'll be interesting to see how far the NFL and Jags push this Patel
developed obviously an addiction. Instead of trying to squeeze FanDuel to refund the mone
either Jacks negligence and enabled them to steal, and the Jags in the NFL
should take a step back and ask themselves how many other admit potels are being
created with the systems that they have created. Do you think fan duels should
have to pay back the twenty million dollars that mean, to be honest with
you, they didn't have anything to do with other than receive it. No,
I don't think they should because they would just kind of on the opposite
end of what we would call a business transaction. Now here's where the dilemma
starts, because the NFL is partners with FANDU as well as other some other
sportsbook agencies. Now, this doesn't look good for the other thirty one owners.
So my solution would be come to somewhat of a financial settlement, not
to detune the twenty million dollars, because how is it that the Jags somehow
overlooked this twenty million dollars and all other funds going out of the door,
So they have some culpability to as well. Yeah, I don't think the
FanDuel's responsibility should be refund that. I think the other question is how much
did amit Ptel win back from them? We know how much he lost.
How much did he win back from them? And if that, wherever the
case were, they had to refund the money, shouldn't that be credited against
us since they paid out on the Well, this is why you come up
with the settlement what he lost versus what he won, which apparently was not
much but the world's worst gambling Okay, Well but then wow, then he
really put himself in somewhat of a spot. But uh yeah, man,
this is something that the league is going to have to fix out, find
a way to figure out, because this is one of their partners. Well,
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Broncos cut for you tonight. Ben's with all Bran, Nick Ferguson, Grant
Smith and I'm happy to be back with you from mobile personally keeping an eye
on this about the Creighton game, mostly from my wallet as always. I
mean, why would I not. That's an interesting conversations got there and some
stuff came across I think social media that I wanted to get to. One
of these is coaches in college football bolting for the NFL. And we saw
at Boston College Halfney headed the Green Bay's defensive coordinator obviously Jim Horball with the
Chargers. And I'll say this, this is a conversation I've had multiple times
over and they all say the exact same thing. Coaching college football, being
a head coaching college football is not fun anymore. You're not a coach.
In most cases, you're not coaching. You are a figurehead, a fund
raiser, and you are recruiting and re recruiting your own roster. The NIL
has made it incredibly difficult. It's about money and who can pay the largest
sums to the right people to come to their schools. And that's why I
think a guy like Deon Sanders has an innate advantage because Colorado may not have
the most money, but they've got the right sales pitch and they got the
right environment. But you look at guys, I mean Nick Saban retired,
We're talking about guys jumping ship to the NFL, and and every coach that
I thought to you says, it's just not fun. It's not fun coaching
college football anymore. It's a wildly different landscape. Some guys have adapted to
it, but a lot of them haven't that. A lot of them are
looking for parachutes to the NFL because they don't believe they can compete at the
collegiate level when it comes to coaching G five programs without the cash to be
able to bring NIL guys in on the transfer portal. Yeah, it makes
things really difficult for a lot of these coaches because you know, you have
some talented coaches on the collegiate side of things, and you hit the nail
on the head when you look at Dion And this is why last year,
in his first year, he took a lot of straits from a lot of
coaches criticizing him because well, why is it that CEU, a program that
hadn't done that well, was receiving a lot of praise. I mean,
you got Amazon Prime from Prime Time and then you know things that are happening
with his sons and the notoriety that comes along with that, and some coaches
are realizing, one they can't compete with that because they don't have that prime
coach, prime type personality. Then the other side is it's the money aspect
of it. Like when you think about Jeff Hafley leaving Boston College after being
at Ohio State and leaving Ohio State to become the head coach for Boston College,
there's the money aspect. I mean, yeah, every single year you're
trying to make your team competitive. You go out and you recruit, and
you think that you have just as much of a chance as some of the
other collegiate coaches to get a lot of these kids decide and you realize,
hey, man, we can't bring in those dollars like I mean, we
were in the ACC, but we can't bring in ni own money like Dabbo
Sweeney. We can't do what Nick Saban was doing down at Alabama. And
this is kind of a situation that caused him to Nick sabments are just kind
of abruptly retire. But think about that conversation that's taking place now with Chip
Kelly, the whispers that Chip Kelly could join dan Quinn with the Commanders as
their office at Coordinating. You're like, well, how does that make sense?
Wouldn't that be kind of like a step down? You're going from head
coach at UCLA in Los Angeles to the DMV up in Washington. Well,
but I mean, flip side of that, you get to coach football again.
I mean, you're a coaching football in college, are you? I
mean you spent as a head coach. You spend so much time as a
figurehead. There's donors to glad hands, you got dinners to go to television
appearances. As an OC in the NFL, man, you got to craft
a game plan that week. So as OC and NFL, you're not doing
a lot of interviews. Now, you may do that one weekly interview here
that kind of like Joe Lombardi would do here. But other than that,
everyone wants to talk to the head coach after every single game. Yeah,
that's one less worried so much off your back. And if you're a Chip
Kelly, if you if you know Chip Kelly, he hates that stuff.
He hates it. He does. He said, well, look, man,
I've seen him do a couple of interviews and he doesn't seem to be
bad at it. He's comfortable, but he hates doing them. And he's
always hated doing them. It was different when you're at Oregon and pre at
il and you are flush with cash and you're the flashy uniform school and yeah
that coach that you get to UCLA and it's a different ball game. You
don't have that Nike anymore, you don't have Phil Knight lying in the pockets
to you know, to do all this kind of stuff. Oh, by
the way, you've got to compete with them because they're in your conference.
It's just different. And I think that people are, you know, college
coaches are starting to realize like, look, you know, if you're gonna
be a head coach in college football, you gotta be a salesperson. You're
not an ex as an old guy. You're not nitty grig getting your hands
dirty coaching football, not as much as you want to be. So well.
Programs should do now instead of going out getting I guess cover to high
school coaches or coaches who were on certain staffs that did well as either position
coaches or officer coordinators. Instead of doing that, what they should do is
peruse the used car sells lots around the country to get those guys, because
they have to initially go out there, sell the program, sell the players,
and procure nil money. Yes, I mean, I'm not saying you
need to go out and hire Mary Kay ash or Mary Kay Cosmetics. I'm
not saying, you know, I'm not saying that, But I am saying
that you know that that that you've got to go out there and you've got
to find a way to market, and the head coach has got to be
a marketing person, you know. I mean, it's one of those things
that in addition to selling the program, you've got to rerecruit your roster year
after you You've got to say, hey, look, everybody's got money.
Why Why is the grass greener here? And your offensive cordator and defensive coordinator
are likely doing the most of the coaching for you. Aw, this is
crazy. This could turn the tables on college football as we know it,
especially with the College Football Bowl commit expected to expand to like twelve teams.
We can see more coaches deciding, you know what, enough is enough and
they're trying to get back into the pro. And I'll tell you what we're
talking about right now. It is definitely true. Right, I'm not going
to tell you. The coach that I spoke to like two days ago,
well, we were just having with regular conversation, how your family doing,
whatever, and he said to me, just randomly, out of the blue,
you know what, I got to get to the NFL. And I'm
like, you know why you got to get to the NFL because that's kind
of a dream job, well partially being a dream job. But he's like,
college football is killing him. Yeah, not literally, but figuratively,
it's killing him because there's so many factors that you have to deal with now
that you really don't have to deal with on the professional level. Well,
and then I think that's it. I mean, you look at you know,
you talk to these guys and they're also telling you the same thing.
They're t I got to get to the league. I gotta get out of
this man. This is this is I got a twenty hour a day grind
where I'm trying to try to sun. And I'm not saying everybody used to
be Alma Wheeler. You know, And for those of you who don't know
that is that's the guy who coined celvices. Will not stake, But I
mean it's it is a tough environment now that I think a lot of hardcore
football people don't understand how to navigate that landscape like they used to just five
years ago. The transfer portal has exploded, NIL has exploded, and I
think there are guys who are struggling to adapt to that that would otherwise be
great coaches. I also think that there are guys like Athlete who want to
coach football and don't want to be knee deep in Donor dinners every night,
cold calling recruits and trying to sell them on coming to my program. How
you sell in Boston College? Nowadays? You can start here. I mean
you can start a lot of places. Yeah, well, but you can
start a lot of places, and you start by saying, look, you
can come here. You can play right right away. If the NFL is
part of your journey where you want to get to, we can help you
get to because we play in the ACC. Right now, we may not
be considered one of the top teams, but with your assistance, that can
get us there. But our games are televised and as things start to expand
more, that's more visibility for you. Now you can choose to go to
go out west and go to one of those schools, but now you have
to sit for two years and there's a possibility that your NIO money can increase.
Whether it be like some of the guys at Bama, probably not,
but they would be a lot better than the schools that are on your list.
But if you're BC, which by the way, has a sixteen percent
emission rate and you have to have a three nine nine GPA to get in,
I mean, if you're Boston College, and what do you do.
You can start here and then you're gonna transfer. What are we a feeder
school for a We're gonna become a minor league school, And man, do
you want to be that head coaching? No? You know you don't want
to. But once again, we got to face the facts of where college
football is right now. It's you either bear part of the game or watch
other people step over you. Now, if for some reason you perceived as
being somewhat of that bridge school, that okay, well we're going to we're
your starter school. We're gonna put all the hard work in, we're gonna
develop you for you to go somewhere else. Hey man, that's just kind
of part for the course. But that's where college football is at this particular
moment. Yeah, I mean there are schools that have recognized or been ahead
of the curve in terms of how to deal with with with some of these
things. Like, for instance, Arkansas State a few years back, they
realized that we are a feeder school, right right, They realized this and
that we're not a major program, and we have some options in terms of
how to make money to get us there. We know where we want to
be, but we know we aren't there. And this was after Steve Roberts
was the coach there from two thousand two to two twenty ten and they went
thirty five and sixty three. So they took a chance on a guy named
Hugh Freeze, and they said, you, if you can give us a
year, give us two years, whatever, we'll put in a buyout here,
and we're going to continue to put buyouts in these hot up and coming
offensive coordinators and give ourselves a chance to make money on coaching contracts in an
effort to build our program where we want to go. He Freez gave him
one year, they went, he went ten to two, and then of
course he got hired. So they decided to do it again and take another
chance on a guy named Gus Malsan. Malzon went nine to three. So
they decided to do it again with a guy named Brian Harson. Harson,
of course ended up getting the Auburn job after then then they did it with
Blake Anderson. Blake Anderson was there for six years, and then they did
it again this past year with Butch Jones tried to give it, you know.
And so what they did was they were ahead of the curve. They
said, look, we've got these coaches, we're gonna put max buyouts in
here and have these schools that want to get these guys. We'll give them
a head coaching experience. We'll get the money and we'll be able to build
up our program over the years to become that. But nobody, nobody has
a plan for that with nil and how to do any of this stuff.
Now, it's just a it's just a free for all. There's chum in
the water that haves spend more money to get the get the players they want.
Everybody else is settling for what's the table scraps. But this is why
a lot more coaches, better better, phrase will end up making that jump.
Like we've seen it in basketball college basketball for a while, the one
and done right. We could even see that with college coaches because every coach
is looking for that next opportunity to basically set their their families up and on
the service. I know a lot of you know, college athletes get mad,
and you know members of them, media criticize them, but I understand
that we're all in that right race of life and we're trying to find a
way to better our families position financially. So I get it. So there
has to be something in place. And I still am a fan of players
get paid for their production because the NCAA and a lot of high high profile
programs have been doing that for years. But it's time for regulations. It
has to be regulated in some way because if not, we could see a
large influx of quality college coaches trying to make that jump to the NFL.
And I know there's only thirty two teams, right and not everyone's going to
get a job, but it could find a way a couple of years down
the road end up hurting college football as we know it. I think it's
already hurting college football. The six oh five says, what's so sad about
NIL is designed to pay for name, image and likeness, but instead has
become pay to play. Yes, depending on what you ask. But this
was a thing fifteen years ago when you asked me should we pay players?
And I'm like, well, no, unless you've got something that's set up,
that's structured, because otherwise what you're gonna have is just wild free for
all. And then you've got universities like Tennessee, you were getting dings because
they're exploiting the edges of this, and that's what everybod's gonna do. They're
gonnaxploit the out of it until you get a standardizedetting. If you don't have
a standardized way to do this and there's no way at all. And I
said, back then, what's to stop t Boone Pickens at the time,
who was living from saying, Hey, you come play at Oklahoma State,
and I guarantee you're gonna get commercials advertising for VP Capital and I'm gonna I'll
pay you more than anybody else can you get. We'll get Weizure nil to
endorse BP Capital, which you know, I mean what eighteen year old is
even knows what that is. And that was gonna be the thing. You're
going to have wealthy donor types that are going to come in and buy the
best players, and that was gonna be it. Well, people started preparing
for it back then, and you look at the schools that have the money
to do this stuff now, and those kinds of schools that have massive amounts,
they've been prepping for it for years. They got ahead of the curve,
and it would be hard to compete with schools with like Texas Longhorns.
The alumni have a deep pockets, they have a lot of oil money,
and I knew that it had the petition to kind of get out in the
hand. When you know that the Longhorns have their own network, they don't
need ESPN or anyone else. They do their own stuff in the house and
that takes a substantial amount of money to be able to do that. And
with that being said, you were able to hire some of the best trainers,
best nutrition is offer kids a great college atmosphere and lifestyle and Austin.
So I was like, well, can you really compete with that? And
coaches are starting to realize, like, look, man, I'm not set
up to compete with those schools now. I thought, based on our roster
we were set to compete on the field, and that could be true,
right, but set to compete financially. That's where things are changing for the
words for a lot of coaches, and that's why as a head coach you're
more of a fundraiser than anything else at this point. By the way,
Tennessee has the largest NIL Aspire Sports Group. Tennessee is the largest clear number
one ATIL in terms of funding. If I told you that Texas was number
nine overall, would you believe that? No, they are now the number
nine? Ye give me the top five. John Ruiz of Miami is the
second largest NIL person a and m is number three with the fun Division,
Street and Oregon is number four, Gator Collective obviously Florida number five, Boulevard
LLC at USC is number six, The Foundation at Ohio State is number seven,
the Mattador Club at Texas Tech is number eight, and then Clarkfield Collective
at Texas number nine. Mamma's tenth, by the way, with high tight
traditions. Listening to you right off those names, I think of the first
name that came to me, like a couple like Goldman tax right, So
I to say, you know what, they make us money over there,
right, how about we give out money to make money as well that we
can see, you know, big conglomerate type companies digging into nils because it's
a lucrative opportunity for them as well. I agree. I just like I
look at this and it's it is a It is an interesting it is an
interesting setup because you know, for years I was like, man, it's
just gonna be the people who are set up to have the most money to
pay the most place. Is what's going to happen? And we're here.
I also three or four years ago, I said, you know what,
we're getting to the point where as soon as we start paying, we're going
to have kids trying to decide whether or not they need to stay in school
for the money, and we're here when you were stayed in school for the
money, he knew he wasn't going to be drafting the first two rounds when
you were stayed in school for the money. I never thought we would get
to a point where that would be part of the conversation because most kids,
they get basketball. And John Kyla Pyrie, what what what? What would
he always say? And wiz model, he's his job was to get players
to the NBA one and done. And then now you think about it,
if John Wall was still playing at Kentucky, Nah, I'm good, I'll
see you down the road. Inverse, thinking, especially in college basketball,
how long can I keep these guys here with your money in order to be
a COMPETI and you know what, think about it. Here is the problem,
like marsh Maddness is coming up up soon, and people would get upset
because you didn't have any more of those kind of dynasty teams anymore because guys
were leaving to go to the NBA. For coaches, this may be the
coach's dream from a basketball standpoint, they can keep their core guys together and
make these wrong runs. It's good to have our core back together. Roccos
Country. The night rolls on after this