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00:00Will the college playoff in football be about, I mean, it would seem to me it's going to be about money.
00:08Who spends the most money will be in that pack of 12, or when it goes to 14 or 16, it's going to be who's got the highest payrolls.
00:16Like Ohio State will be automatic.
00:18I mean, some of that's sort of self-fulfilling, though, Scott.
00:22I mean, the schools that have traditionally been successful are the schools that have the 100,000-seat stadiums
00:28and the schools that have the most booster and donor interest.
00:32So it's self-fulfilling.
00:34I don't necessarily think it changes the identity of the participants,
00:38but it has opened up the possibility for teams like SMU and for Indiana,
00:44programs that had not been successful in the past.
00:47SMU hasn't really been relevant since the Pony Express.
00:52They got into the playoff.
00:54Indiana never even had a Pony Express, Scott.
00:57They had you sitting in the stands watching 2 and 10.
01:01Right.
01:02Well, let me ask you this.
01:03Like, so, you know, I'm from the Bob Knight school of if you don't go to class,
01:10you're going to, A, never play again.
01:12B, you're going to run stairs for three hours at Assembly Hall.
01:16No one ever missed class, and every 100% of them in 29 years graduated with a degree
01:21and amounted to something in life.
01:23I have to tell you, I believe in that.
01:26I want to know if when this, as you as a, I'm, look, I don't know if I can say you're
01:31a traditionalist, but you're as old school as me in terms of our age bracket covering
01:37sports.
01:38None of this bothered you at all when they started giving all these kids.
01:41Now, like, even some of these chicks, like, don't get me started with those Cavender twins
01:47are worth a million and a half each.
01:48They both suck.
01:49No, I think I don't have a problem with any of it because you only are granted the money
01:56you're worth.
01:56Now, sometimes you're granted less money than you're worth.
01:59That's, that happens.
02:00But no one is giving you money, millions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars,
02:05because it makes them feel good.
02:07They're doing it because you're of some value.
02:09Now, whether that is in the case of the Cavender twins, those, they are mostly compensated for
02:16their name, image, and likeness, and not necessarily their name, image, and likeness, the value to
02:22the brand as Cooper flag, Juju Watkins are commonly Cooper with Gatorade, AT&T, Juju Watkins
02:31with State Farm.
02:32Those circumstances are true name, image, and likeness deals, and they are compensated for
02:38that.
02:38But there are other athletes out there that are basically compensated for their value to
02:43their team.
02:44And we see that all the time.
02:46I think it may change if the house settlement, which you may have heard about, which is still
02:52in the process of being negotiated, and maybe not, maybe not negotiated, but the fine points
02:59are trying to be corrected.
03:01It still hasn't been approved by the judge.
03:03She, she heard the last court hearing last Monday.
03:06We'll know soon what her thoughts are on whether or not it's going to go forward, but when
03:11it does, there will be something similar to a salary cap, and there won't be the kind
03:18of name, image, and likeness that is bothering you where players are being paid for their value
03:23to the team.
03:23The only name, image, and likeness that will remain then will be the Cooper flag, Juju Watkins
03:29style doing commercials for people.