UMASS Def. Coordinator Keyte Joins! What does Keyte think of the player money?

University of Tennessee FB to have a payroll of $40M for players? UMASS Def. Coordinator Keyte Joins! What does Keyte think of the player money?

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00:00it's jared kite how you doing i'm very good how are you great i want to get to wiggies kids uh or

00:06starting hot or uh or as we refer to him as a sports parent dion uh but we we we've been talking

00:15a little bit about tennessee i don't know if you heard the show this morning but they're gonna have

00:19a why i call it a payroll texas texas we're gonna uh they're gonna have a payroll of 40 million

00:25um uh is that good or bad for college football you know i think the the players i think it's right

00:33they're getting paid you know and different levels are going to have different pay levels um you know

00:39so i i think opinions are going to vary good or bad i think it's the right thing that they're getting

00:42paid so um you know that's my opinion does it change the does it change the player like do they

00:50change when they get that money they get it now before you know you still have to wait you still

00:54have to work to get to the nfl to get the money yeah i think naturally you know an 18 year to 22

00:59year old getting that level of money um certainly there's going to be some changes in life but i

01:04think the foundation around them the culture that's built you know the family support i think all of

01:09those things come into play so um you know when you have those things i don't think you see that much

01:13change does it change at all their relationship with the coach because i always think before they were

01:18getting paid and i'm with you i want them to get paid but but if they're now making more than

01:22some coaches does it give them an upper hand that they didn't have before you know i in my

01:27experience when the relationship is there you don't see that as much so i think it starts there

01:32you know there isn't a relationship i think it truly becomes a business where you know in college

01:36football you're building relationship between coach and player player to coach i don't think you

01:40see much that was an issue with brockton when he was making 100k the kids were making nothing

01:43yeah well the high school kids but i i would say that's the great thing about what i'm loving about

01:49umass now is the culture and the relationship between coaches and players and they're doing a

01:55great job and the biggest thing is transparency and that's something that i've seen that you guys

02:00have really brought in accountability transparency and culture and if you have coaches like that

02:05i don't think there is an issue but umass is that's what it looks like you guys are building on

02:10yeah i'm happy you said that um that's where we want to start you know i think if you have

02:15a care level and the kids know that you're coaching them hard that's when you're going to see the most

02:20growth