Speaker 1: May I be hypocritical for a handful of minutes here, Okay,
And I'm going to tell you all something. And I
don't think I'm a minority on this or I shouldn't
say I shouldn't minority. I'm not the only one that
thinks this. And it comes to college football, and it's
the last night's championship game, which I tried to watch.
I didn't have any interest in either school. I had
it all, so it was a casual watch for me
at best. Last pretty good game, pretty good game. But again,
I wasn't on the edge of my seat or the
playoff games of the NFL, even though I have a
dog in that fight. I was on the edge of
my seat for that Buffalo game with Denver. The Rams
game with the Chicago was awesome as I got in
the car after the Rockets game. So I can be
captivated by an NFL game, but I don't care about
the two teams. College is a little more work for me.
So here comes all the hypocrisy. So we're watching this
brand new football team, and not Indiana's on brand new,
but brand new to the landscape of of being good.
They were good last year, they were great this year,
they were superior that insight. For a single loss, they
were college football's best team. And it's an interesting storyline
that you don't have Alabama, and you don't have LSU,
and you don't have Michigan, you know of Ohio State.
You've got this brand new school and the reality is this.
I spent a lot of time last night looking at
the salaries of not necessarily every Indiana player, but I
looked at their payroll and how much Mendoza was going
to be getting this year, and everything is approximate, but
they're saying approximately he made two point seven million dollars.
And if there's been anything that I have done since
you and I have don this show together, as I
have changed my opinion in large part about compensation for
players because the money that is being produced at the
collegiate level was absurd and now these athletes should g it.
But here comes the hypocrisy part. I didn't take great,
great joy in Indiana doing it because they spend a
lot of money to do it. They if not for
the money, Indiana is not where they are. And you
could say that for a lot of schools. You could
say that for everyone. No school not spending and winning.
I know, stay with me on this. I really really
really want a salary cap in football, and I don't
think college football. Yeah, and college football because here's the
reason why. Because if you just can outspend everybody, that's
going to give you a significant chance of getting there.
Not guarantee, but it's going to give you a good
chance if you manage your money right and you have
a salary cap. That's where I go, man, good job
by you, Indiana. You got the right players at the
right amount, and you did it the right way. Where
all now everybody is doing is they're going to their
boosters and saying, hey, I need like Michigan took the
Underwood kid from LSU because somebody stepped into the very
last second and just said, let's just throw as much
cash as we can in them. So that's hipocracy part.
And I don't expect you to say, Matt, I understand
or Matt, you're crazy. I don't. I don't know what
you want me, what you want to say in return.
But I watched Indiana, and when I watch Indiana, I go, Okay,
you just got a cash infusion. If not for the
cash infusion, you're back to what you normally are. They're
in al spending though, isn't it like up to what
Tech cram. They have a lot of developed players they have.
They hit the portal well and they selected well. Kurt
Signetti does his own scout. He does not have a
general manager, right, He does his own scouting and finds
his players. I would think if you're you're upset with
the current state of college football, you should be fully unblotted.
I'm not upset with Indiana per se, because I'm upset
about the fact that, like next year, if Texas Tech
wins the national championship, Missus Thomas will be very happy.
My oldest will be extremely happy. But there's no ifans
or butts. What's going on. Our guy, Clay Campbell, all
he pushed to Cody, whatever his brother Kit Clay. All
Cody wants to do is just flood the market with
this money. I do believe that there should be some
sort of science to it where every school gets an
nil max of forty million dollars. Now, it doesn't mean
you got to spend it, but it means you can't
go over that forty million threshold. That's all I'm saying
is the hypocrisy of this is that I would like
to see some sort of small regulation to it. And
I guess I don't think you can do it that way,
but I'm just saying, I just if you're going to
try to level the playing field a little bit, because
it's if it's not for Indiana, it could be Rutgers
in three years, it could be I don't know, University
of California. Just throwing money at him seems to be
It hollows it for me a little bit. In terms
of enjoying the national championship experience. I didn't think about
that at all. And also I will say with the nil,
what we've wanted for years and years and years is
the word parody. So Kurt Signetti is a great coach.
They didn't wallet whip everybody, they didn't overspend, and you're
in Texas Tech and Cody Campbell's the perfect example that
just spending money doesn't lead directly to winning. How about
Phil Knight in Oregon as well. Yeah, I mean we
can point to any Texas spent a ton of money
this year and didn't do anything. So I mean this
should be the perfect example, the golden example that you
can still do it in the nil era that it's
not only that they won. They didn't fall bass ackwards
into this and get a bunch of turnovers and get lucky.
They went sixteen in freaking oh like they they went
sixteen and oh and beat down Alabama, They destroyed Oregon
and they won a close game against a very good
Miami team. And this is the this is what we
were looking for and what we were worried about when
nil happened. Oh, the haves are going to stay the
haves and the have nots have no chance. Indiana Indiana
Hoosiers football. But here's my question now, is initially Sandiana
going to be on the on the top of the
lodder or near it for a long time or are
they going to go to Miami mornings route, win their
championship and then the money. They're not gonna sell a
bunch of pieces. No, I don't think they're gonna sell
off a bunch of their team. I think we'll see
what happens and how what the staying power is. But
the bottom line is you can do it. I told
you it was hypocritical. I just did. I told you,
and I'd come to you and say, yeah, I don't
know what the spending is of the Indiana Hoosiers. Nobody's
making it this far without doing that way. Yeah, Indiana's
not probably even the top ten, to be honest with you.
But I'm thinking more of a MAC review of this.
And they went sixteen and oh, this is great parody.
They've never won a football championship. Correct, Correct, they did
in like eighteen ninety nine or something. No, so I
mean this is this is great for the overall health
of college football. And I bet you the ratings are
going to be pretty good because they built themselves. They
have a great, huge alumni base, and I found them
compelling to watch and follow because the way that they
were destroying the blue bloods. As we mean, they what
was it thirty eight to three of the Alabama Alabama
are thirty eight to three. What was the nil money
for Alabama relative to the Hoosiers. Well, I don't know
if I think Alabama is a little under the norm
of the other schools. That's why part of the well,
all right, get your weight up, son, let's go. So
that's what I'm saying. If you're gonna get your weight up,
that's good. But shouldn't I guess my question, my thought
is I feel like I'm knowing the trend's coming up.
I'd like to see a cap and maybe and look,
there's no one even talking about a cap. It would
probably not pass any any sort of legislation. Why should
Texas and A and M spend the same amount as Baylor? Like,
how do you get they they're rev their athletic departments
generate way more revenue because I like level playing fields.
Because in the NBA, I have Sacramento and San Antonio
can win just as much as New York and LA
can absolutely can. Look as Sam turned, you get the
in the NBA, you get the soft cap. The guys
go way over. That's how the Golden State kept That's okay,
cam In these I'll give you a better example. Carolina
and Green Bay can win as much as the Giants.
It's a hard cap. It's a hard cap from a
collective team where they they're sharing TV revenues, they're sharing
Jersey revenues, and college football is not doing that. No,
they're not. And there's no reason why would I. Why
would I, as Crystal Conte, athletic director of Texas, come
to the negotiating table and say, you know what, Yes,
I want to be able to spend the same amount
of There's there's no way in the world the SEC
want or Big ten wants this because they're the ones
that are carrying it. I'm just telling you this is
just me as I was watching the game last night,
going Okay, I'm supposed to embrace this story, but I
can't fully do it. And again, I'm just coming to
you open and honestly, I'm just telling you. It's your opinion. It'sion,
it's opinion, and I think it's a great story. It
might change, but I'll say this for the underdog world,
yesterday was a great day for college football because it
wasn't flittered with SEC in Big ten. Well Big ten.
I'm Indiana obviously, as far as powerful programs, Indiana Hoosiers
have been as anept as it's gotten, I mean, Vanderbilt
has been getting in the game. It's I think it's great.
But it's like, as they were calling the game last night,
their last conference championship was nineteen sixty seven. Yeah, was
Lee Carsel the coach of that team. I don't think
he was. I think in the seventies, yeah, before, I
don't know. I it doesn't make sense, But I'm just
coming to you open and honest, I just am. I'm
just I was like, you know what I mean, if
it's next year it's Texas Tech, nobody's gonna nobody's gonna
say wow, thank you very much for all the great coaching.
And it was because Cody Campbell when they're in uh
and Ward. At the check, they were one hundred and
fifty one to win the college football Championship in the preseason.
I saw this earlier. Indiana was even after making the
playoff last year. Really, that seems way too high. That
was the same odds as the Marlins to win the
World Series, as the Suns to win the NBA Finals,
and for Utah State College Basketball to win it all
in March madness. This is from a bleacher report posted
last night. All Right, so os and the Marlins win
the World Series. I mean, this is this is an
insane story. Okay, So I know it feels kind of
like it was gonna happen because of how dominant they were,
So maybe that takes some of the sting out of
how crazy this is. But it's still crazy. I think, yeah,
as all thrown out wonderful story or a byproduct of
a school that got money thrown into it. Like again,
where here's a better question and we're gonna get your
break here, let me ask you, if there was no
nil Indiana's this is not Indiana, right, I don't know.
I mean, Signetti is a great coach. I think he's
a bad human being, but he's a great coach. I
I mean that they're generating these millions of revenues. I'm
glad the players are getting their slice. I guess we
wouldn't even be able to know because if that was
the case, if we already know the issues, and Kurt
two years ago, when there was no nil, Indiana wasn't
on the radar. Kurt Signette's looking like the truth. Now
we'll see, time will tell all. But he's he looks
like the real deal, right, there's no reason to doubt him.
After the six sixteen and oer with the Indiana freaking Hoosiers, Yeah,
and beat up everybody basically and even being Miami in
their home field,