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00:00I want you to just kind of talk about the time when you were in college with, you know,
00:09guys like being, being able to be coached harder and, and also just having just the,
00:15the funds now that, that these guys didn't have back when you were playing.
00:19Well, I, uh, so it's a lot of layers to that question.
00:22First of all, the, the check that was in there, the envelope that was in your, uh, hotel room
00:28was $13.
00:29That was your per diem for one night away and you did, you got a per diem.
00:33I don't know if you got one smiley at LSU, but like we got, um, and I'm like, what are
00:39we supposed to, what do I need a 10 and three ones for?
00:42Like the vending machine doesn't even take ones like this is just, you know, it was ridiculous.
00:47Um, long story short, the NIL world has made it a lot tougher on coaches because there's
00:56a few different layers to this one.
00:59The coaches are all now in the fundraising mode, like they're all having to go out.
01:03They're essentially politicians.
01:04They're having to go out and fundraise during the season, during the off season, going to
01:11try to generate enough interest in their program amongst their boosters to support their NIL
01:17program.
01:18So the coaches are out there trying to get as much money as possible for their collectives.
01:24That's the first layer.
01:25The second layer is that the coach has to manage the expectations by those that are
01:29already on the roster versus the freshmen that are arriving.
01:34So if you want to land like a hotshot freshman, you might get into a bidding war.
01:38And ultimately that number that this freshman now expects is higher than that of what maybe
01:44your best player at that position makes on your roster already.
01:49So you get the freshmen and he's earning more having never played a snap than a guy that's
01:54been an all-conference performer for two years.
01:56How does that make sense?
01:57Well, the all-conference guy hears about it, he's like, hang on, I want more than the freshmen.
02:00I've actually done something in college.
02:03And then all of a sudden you have to leverage him up and then everybody else is mad because
02:06he got leveraged up and you got to balance things out.
02:09So you're basically playing the salary cap game, which is why a lot of the coaches have
02:15hired general managers because they don't want to be hands-on in the negotiations.
02:19That's the last thing these guys want to do, right?
02:22Yeah.
02:23I'll delegate that to the third party.
02:26I'm not going to be responsible for what you make.
02:29Let the GM handle that.
02:30Nor do they want to know.
02:31Take up your frustration with the GM.
02:33I think that would be challenging.
02:35Thirdly, if a booster pays a lot of money to the collective in an effort to get one
02:42particular guy and that one guy isn't the best player available, then you have an NFL
02:47dilemma on your hands where the backup quarterback is actually better than the starting quarterback,
02:51but the starting quarterback's owed a bunch of money because the owner decided to pay
02:54him or they drafted him in the first round and the backup, RG3 versus Kirk Cousins, like
03:00RG3 was better at the beginning, but over the course of time, because of RG3's injuries,
03:06Kirk Cousins became the better option, but he was the fourth round pick when RG3 was
03:09the second overall pick.
03:10And that was a difficult thing for the coaching staff to deal with.
03:13That's a hard dilemma.
03:16And that happens a bunch.
03:18I remember in a less popular example, Matt Flynn at Green Bay was a seventh round pick
03:25and Brian Brom was a second round pick at Green Bay and Matt Flynn actually beat out
03:31Brian Brom.
03:32And they were drafted the same year, same draft class.
03:35Russell Wilson was the other one in Seattle with Flynn.
03:38Right.
03:39Well, Flynn got to Seattle to be the starting quarterback and Russell beat him out in camp
03:43and it was like, this is a disaster.
03:45It's 100% right.
03:46It's like, it's a little bit of a challenge because I think the people that write the
03:50big checks expect to see that money that they paid used on the field or else it's going
03:55to be harder to get those people to write big checks again next year.