Challenges in College Sports: Pay, Education & Sustainability

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00:00You know, it's so screwed up the way it is now, Smiley.

00:04You're going to have a different team every year,

00:06and, you know, kids are just going to the highest bidder now,

00:10so you don't know what players you're going to have until the season starts.

00:14You know, I played golf with Coach Saban recently,

00:16and that guy I admire and respect the hell out of him,

00:19but he's the greatest college football coach ever.

00:21And, you know, just talk about ways to fix the sport.

00:25I don't know what you're going to do,

00:26because I don't know how you're going to be able to put the toothpaste back in the tube.

00:32And, you know, he was picking my brain because I want to fix it

00:37because my thing is we have screwed up college sports

00:41for like 1% of the players who probably should be getting paid.

00:45Yeah, but the other 99% are getting a free education,

00:50which is the most important aspect from where I look at it,

00:53because most of these kids are black kids.

00:55And I want them to get that free education because it's a big deal.

01:00But because some guys who are not getting paid,

01:03and I'm not opposed to players getting paid,

01:05but not the numbers they're getting paid,

01:06because that's an unsustainable business model.

01:09To come up with $10, $20, $30 million every year.

01:13And basketball, the thing that sucks about basketball, Smiley,

01:17if I'm going to pay, I have to pay a kid millions of dollars

01:20to be at Auburn for six months.

01:21I'm not getting any return on my investment.

01:25That makes zero sense.

01:27At least in football, you get a great player.

01:29You can pay him for three years.

01:30He's there.

01:32But to pay a basketball player millions of dollars

01:36to be at Auburn for six months.

01:38And, like, Cooper Flagg is amazing.

01:41Like, he got Duke to the final four, which is incredible.

01:47But, like, if you're going to pay guys millions and millions of dollars,

01:50you've got to at least get a championship out of it.

01:53And he just wanted...

01:54You can't guarantee it.

01:56You can't guarantee it.

01:57And he is phenomenal.

01:58I cannot wait to see Cooper Flagg in the NBA.

02:01And they had a bunch of NBA players.

02:03I think...

02:04I forget the kid from...

02:06He went to Charlotte.

02:09Can't think of his name.

02:10He had the kid who went to the...

02:11They had three NBA players.

02:13And they didn't even win the whole thing.

02:15So, I just don't understand how we're going to fix this thing.

02:19It's going to be very interesting in the next few years.

02:22Well, even, too, the last thing I'll kind of touch on

02:25with this college and NBA stuff, too,

02:28is that you have a player like Chad Baker-Mazzaro,

02:30who's one of the best players at Auburn over the last couple of years.

02:34He obviously was up for a renegotiation process,

02:37ends up taking more money,

02:39or allegedly takes more money and goes to USC.

02:42Reminder that he's a player that's 25 years old,

02:45the same age as Zion Williamson,

02:47who's just finishing up his fifth year in the NBA.

02:50So, all of a sudden, you have these super, super, super seniors

02:54that are taking advantage of the system

02:57by making more money in college.

02:58Because, is Chad Baker-Mazzaro going to be a good pro?

03:01Maybe? Doubtful? I don't know.

03:03But there's plenty of really, really good college players

03:06that aren't going to be pros

03:07that are just maximizing the amount of money

03:09that they can make in their career,

03:11which, would you blame him?

03:12Probably not.

03:13Well, I blame the NCAA for that.

03:15Listen, man, we got some guys that had COVID

03:18for like five years now.

03:21Like, listen, I think there should be a max

03:24you can be in college, probably five years.

03:27You can't stay in college forever.

03:30Even if you're making money.

03:31I don't think it's fair.

03:32You can't have 25-year-olds playing against 17, 18-year-olds.

03:36I don't think that's healthy.

03:39I mean, the COVID thing is over, first and foremost.

03:42But, there's two problems in this whole thing.

03:46Think about this, Molly.

03:48Of every sports league in the world,

03:50in the entire world, think about that,

03:53overseas, wherever,

03:55college sports is the only league in the world

03:57that don't have a salary cap.

03:59That's ridiculous.

04:00Think about that.

04:00Yeah.

04:01Every single sports league in the world

04:04has a salary cap,

04:06except the NIL.

04:09That's the first problem.

04:10And secondly,

04:12they get to renegotiate.

04:13Like, if people get to renegotiate,

04:15I want to renegotiate every year.

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