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00:00What's up everybody? My name's Trey. This is Ramsey. Welcome back to Better Days Sports

00:05because we have an amazing episode for you today because the college landscape kind of

00:12got turned on its head a little bit this past week and we have a lot to go over. But if

00:17you are somebody new to the channel, new to the podcast, make sure you hit the subscribe

00:20button and the notification bell to be notified every time we post a video. And leave a comment

00:23in the comment section down below. What was your favorite storyline from this past week

00:28in college football? But the first one we're going to kind of get into and probably the

00:33most talked about game that happened this past week was UCLA's just come out of nowhere upset

00:41against Penn State. If you don't know, UCLA fired their head coach. Tim Skipper actually took

00:48over as the interim coach and he talked about in his interview that he had never called

00:53plays from his headset before. He was clicking the wrong buttons. He didn't know what to do.

00:58He was talking without the actual headset down. So not a great look, but a beautiful

01:03win by UCLA. We learned a lot about not only Nico, their quarterback, when it came to his

01:10development because a lot of people really wrote him off after leaving Tennessee. They

01:15said that he left so much money on the table to go to a school that has not necessarily dominated

01:22in football in the slightest over its last 10 years, really. And everybody wrote him off.

01:29He was supposed to be a top pick. He's going to go in the first round, potentially if he

01:32stayed at Tennessee. So it's actually really nice to kind of see him get back in the saddle

01:36and play with a different type of intensity and a different type of aggressiveness that

01:40I just did not see him playing with the beginning halves of this year. He improved in basically

01:46all areas in this game. And I think this is going to be a real turning point for UCLA when

01:51it comes to their season. They had a very rocky start. It seemed like they just didn't have

01:55an identity, but such a gritty win, such a underdog story is kind of transitioning into

02:03what UCLA is. So it was really good to see. But how are you feeling about this monumental

02:09upset that was UCLA over Penn State? Well, when I look at this in the grand scheme of

02:15things, I think that it is the ultimate pitfall and hardship of Penn State as an organization,

02:24as a school institution, as a football team, right? And it just snowballed out of nowhere

02:31for them. Like you said, you know, the first, it started with losing at home against Oregon.

02:35Very big time matchup. It happens. Loss in overtime. Get over it, move on, go to the next game.

02:44And then they lose to UCLA. That is a problem. Because why, if we are the institution that we

02:53call ourselves Penn State, why are we doing this? And we saw this similar to what we experienced

02:58with Clemson early on in the year, where they're just dropping multiple games back to back to back.

03:03And I think when you look at Penn State as a whole, I don't understand why they have fallen so far

03:13based on what we saw from them last season and how well they performed last season.

03:19Drew Aller looks so great that we thought that he would be draft eligible last season. Now,

03:24we don't even know if he's going to be a first rounder based on his season ending injury that has

03:29resulted in this loss that they just experienced this past weekend as well.

03:33So, I think this is more a testament to Penn State and less a testament to UCLA. Because while I do

03:41respect the camaraderie that they have rallied around their team with the back-to-back wins against

03:47Penn State and Michigan State, but if we look at their schedule, they have a bye week. So, they're riding high

03:57into the bye week. Great. They'll get to rest. They'll get to recoup, study the playbook a little

04:02bit more. After that bye week, they play Maryland. Great matchup for UCLA based on who they've beat in the

04:07past couple of weeks. And then they play Indiana, who just beat Oregon. We'll talk about that in a

04:14minute. Then they play Nebraska, who's also in the top 25. And then they play Ohio State, who is also the

04:19top team in the country. I don't see them going anywhere anytime soon. And they also play USC,

04:23who just beat the brakes off of Michigan. So, I don't really think that we should be focusing on

04:29how great of a win this was for UCLA. And more so, how bad of a dismantalization, if that's even a

04:36term. If it is, I'm going to create it right now. That wouldn't happen with Penn State and their

04:40football team. So, that's really how I feel about it. You know, kudos to UCLA, right? Nico, he has a lot

04:47of strides to prove after what happened last year with him and his departure from Tennessee. But I

04:53think this is more a testament to how that game kind of fell into UCLA's lap. And they just took

05:01advantage of it. That loss kind of, you know, started the pitfall of that team and the

05:06fake ascension of UCLA. I don't see them going anywhere. I don't see them being ranked at any

05:13point in time this season. I think that this is a great rah-rah story that they can talk about at

05:19the end of the season so they can have something good to talk about for this season.

05:25Well, don't worry, UCLA. I believe in you, okay? This man has no faith in you. I might have no

05:30faith in terms of you being ranked, going to the playoffs. But you know what? With this type of

05:36momentum, I have faith that going into next year, we might see some good things come out of UCLA.

05:41Answer me this. Go ahead. What you got? Is UCLA going to a bowl game this year?

05:47Probably not, but we're not worried about that, okay? We are here for the excitement in the storyline

05:52that is UCLA did something beautiful that I was not expecting. On the flip side, Penn State,

05:58what are you doing, baby? What's going on here? Now, the whole reason we have coaches getting fired,

06:06we have players talking about how they want to transfer midseason, is because these are the type

06:11of games you simply cannot lose if you're Penn State. Now, the lost against Oregon, I understand,

06:16another top-ranked team, winning overtime, it's a great game, I understand. If this was another

06:22top 10, even a top 25-ranked team, you lose close to them, also I understand. But losing to a winless

06:30UCLA team who absolutely dominated the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball is the main reason I

06:37think the firing happened, simply because this cannot happen if you're Penn State. You went from

06:42we are supposed to be a title contender, we're trying to make the BCS championship, and now

06:47we're not even going to be ranked, and we have to change up pretty much our entire organization and

06:53how it's structured, because we might have every single person on our offense transfer, especially

06:59because our injury to our quarterback that just happened. So, a lot of bad things I see from Penn

07:05State, and it's just the future does not look very bright in my humble opinion. Now, next we have

07:13Michigan's fall out of the top 25, and we kind of talked about this, I guess, last episode when we did

07:22the top 25 rankings, and this just fall from being the beloved smash mouth, we, you know, are coming

07:31off a championship. Michigan team is just far, far forgotten, it seems like. Like, Michigan just

07:40needs to find an identity, and I think they are going to have a really hard time doing it, but how are

07:45you feeling about Michigan falling outside the top 25? I think that this shouldn't necessarily be a

07:51shock to some, because it's, and I don't mean that in a bad way, I mean that in the sense of, as we had

07:58stated before, that this is going to specifically depend on Bryce Underwood's development as a

08:06quarterback. He is an undisputed, true freshman quarterback in a Power 5 school, trying to figure

08:12it out, seemingly on the fly for the most part. Not necessarily his fault, they paid that man $12.5

08:19million in NIL money to figure it out. So, I think that he will be okay. I think we just

08:26need to understand that he's not even a month removed from his 18th birthday, and he needs

08:35to continuously have reps in this fast-paced, intense system so that he can evolve into the

08:42quarterback that they fully believe that he will transform into. So, I don't think that we can

08:48focus too much about how Michigan has faltered, because they've had a tough schedule. Big 10

08:54football is no joke, as we can see with how these teams have ascended this year in terms of Big 10

08:59play. No shade to the SEC, but Michigan is going to be okay. You have to look at how they can regroup

09:06after this and see how they can come back as a better team. They play Michigan State, which is

09:11always a tough game. They play Washington, which is always a tough team. But these are winnable games.

09:17It's more so just allowing Bryce to be himself. He has to grow, and with that are going to be growing

09:23pains. And unfortunately, in college football, those growing pains usually amount to losses.

09:27But these are good losses, if that makes sense. He's going to be better from this. And we just

09:36need to understand that this is going to take time. You know, I think Bryce is going to be okay. Bryce

09:42Underwood is the Michigan Wolverines. And running back is very solid. Haynes is a great running back. I

09:49think that their run smash mouth type of football is effective with Bryce Underwood being an RPO option as

09:56well. It just needs time to jail. But in terms of the Wolverines football, do you feel that I'm just

10:03thinking that we just need to be patient with Bryce Underwood's development? Or is there more of a bigger

10:08issue here of them falling out of the top 25? I think it's a combination of a few things. Like,

10:16Michigan, at least when they won their championship, said that we are going to dominate both sides of the

10:23ball, we're going to be able to run the football, and we are going to be able to stop the run. And I

10:28thought they were going to build on that. Like, yes, you had a lot of players go to the NFL, you had

10:32coaches leave, you had players transfer away, you had players decommit because their coach went to

10:38the NFL. But I thought that was kind of ingrained in Michigan. Even when Michigan is not necessarily

10:44a powerhouse of a team, they're still a team that you don't want to play simply because they're going

10:48to run the ball down your throat. And it seems like they are now trying to make this like an

10:54air it out type of offense. And with the quarterback who looks like he's just having a hard time

10:59seeing the field, just because like I said, he is younger, he's understanding the system is just a lot

11:05of transitions between high school and college. I, I don't know, I just don't feel good about Michigan.

11:11But we talked about that. But last week, week before, I just feel like it's going to be a real

11:17transition for Michigan, because especially in college football now, there really isn't a

11:24time in which you can say, okay, I see my quarterback is struggling, he really just needs

11:30a year or two years to develop. Because with the transfer portal with five star recruits getting

11:35recruited every year, you don't have that time to develop, you either get good quickly, or we find

11:41somebody else who can get good quickly. So that's kind of my only issue with Michigan is that they're

11:46going to ride with this quarterback and he shows struggles next year, I think with how much you're

11:53paying him, and just kind of the landscape, which is college football, where if these are no longer

11:59really college athletes, these are essentially professionals who just happen to be in college

12:05because of how highly they're paid. And it's no longer well, you're a college athlete, we're going

12:11to go through these growing pains together, we're going to grow together, you are my quarterback for this

12:15organization. It's hey, can I go find a quarterback who might be a backup from Ohio State? Can I bring

12:21him over here and tell him he can get the starting job tomorrow? So I just feel like it's right now in

12:26college football, there is really no longer a I understand you need time to develop when I can go

12:32find somebody who is already developed and allows me to compete for a championship next year. So the

12:38landscape, I think is a little bit different now, but it's going to be interesting to see what they do

12:41kind of going forward. I mean, that's very valid. You know, it's, it's more so run like an organization

12:49now, because we're paying 17 year old kids $12.5 million to play college football, not professional

12:55football. So it's a little bit different when you know you do have, that's what the analogy says,

13:00you know, you have bird in the hand, two in the bush, right? Well, if we're going to invest almost

13:0813 million dollars in a freshman, I don't think we have the option to go another direction.

13:14Right? You know, when you put that amount of zeros into a player, you kind of have to grow,

13:22grow and roll with those punches, however they may look, regroup, see how you assess after one year,

13:29and see how you can improve on the next year. He's not gonna he's not going anywhere. This is his team.

13:35I mean, if he does it right, and he follows the system right, we'll be talking about Bryce Underwood,

13:41the same likes that we talked about Johnny Manziel, Reggie Bush, Saquon Barkley, names that are

13:48synonymous with longevity on the college spectrum of greatness. So we have to give him time. And I know

13:58that sometimes time is precious, especially in college football. But right now, from what I've seen,

14:07the talent is there. The potential is there. You just have to sculpt it out a little bit.

14:12More reps, more experience. Yeah, and there's still a lot more football to be played the rest of this

14:18year. So obviously, he's gonna have a lot more growth. But if he continues to play poorly, and they

14:23just kind of have a sour taste in their mouth going into the offseason, I think this conversation is

14:28going to be very different come like this summer or something like that. But I definitely understand.

14:34Now, next up, we have Indiana. And I'm gonna let you take this one away, because you called this,

14:39and it was like one of your main calls from our last podcast is are you upsetting Oregon. But go ahead

14:46and tell us about that. Well, you know, I hate to be the person to say I told you so. But all I'm

14:53going to say is, I had a really good feeling that this was going to be the game that showed us what

15:00IU is really about. And if you can march into Autzen Stadium and beat the Ducks who are on a winning

15:08streak, mind you, in their home, where it's extremely hard to beat them in general, and not only beat

15:15them by two or three points, they beat them by 10. Yeah. And for the most part, that game was mostly

15:21in IU's control for majority of the game. And

15:28for a team that has zero five star recruits, less than 10 four star recruits to be able to march into

15:40one of the most heralded Big Ten programs, and beat them while they are a number two seed,

15:48lets us know nothing more than that IU is a problem. They're legit. And that is a true testament to how

15:58Kurt Signetti has rebuilt the culture within Hoosier football, because we have never seen IU beat a team of

16:07that magnitude ever in their history. Look it up. Never seen it. So this is their statement win of

16:16all time. We're talking about a statement win for one of the most storied institutions in the Big Ten.

16:22We witnessed it. So I hate to say it, but I told you so.

16:27I told you so. And now, I think they might run the table. Like we said, Penn State, James Franklin got

16:35fired. Drew Owl is out for the season. Biggest game of the season is now behind you. All you have

16:41to do is stay the course. Yeah. And run into Ohio State in the Big Ten championship, but.

16:48That's, yeah. So yeah, that's gonna be the most important one right there. This is easily the most

16:55interesting, because I don't think anybody saw what happened last year as what's gonna be the staple

17:04for Indiana. A lot of people saw it as a flash in the pan. Indiana had that one good year. Sure, they had a

17:09new coach who had a new culture, but maybe he won't win as much next year. Sure, they'll still be hard to play.

17:15They're gonna have, they're gonna be the underdog. There's still gonna be all these storylines that if

17:20you play Indiana, that should be an easy win. I don't really care what they did last year. And I

17:24think Indiana now has asserted themselves as a powerhouse, specifically in their conference.

17:31IU has always been known as a basketball school. And with, like I said, Penn State falling from grace,

17:38Michigan really fading, and they're no longer the, you know, mountaintopper that they used to be.

17:43Indiana's positioned perfectly to really run the table. And I would argue, now that you have the

17:53culture of the future, as long as you can continue to recruit and play well, this is gonna be an

18:00Indiana team that's gonna be ranked and has a very bright future ahead of them. And that's the best

18:06part about this. They are doing this, and they are beating these teams without the level of recruits

18:11that other teams have, including Oregon. Just wait until IU gets a couple of five-star recruits.

18:18Just wait until the amount of four-star recruits start committing to the Hoosiers. You see what

18:23they're doing with what they have now. Winning by committee. Add the talent that these other teams

18:30have and are not utilizing to the best of their abilities. Give it to Kersiknetti and see what he

18:34can do. We see what he can do with less. Let's see what he can do with more. And that's all I'm gonna

18:40say on it. Because I'm trying not to get excited about this. Because, you know, it's been a lot of

18:46what the hell is going on instead of, wow, this is amazing going on in college football. I think

18:51this is something that is amazing. The fact that we are talking about IU football in the same breath

18:57as we're talking about Miami and arguably Ohio State. They're in the top three. It's not a crazy

19:03thing to say anymore. IU is number three right behind Miami in the top three. And with their schedule,

19:10they could stay there. This is also one of the few times that I can remember where we're seeing kind

19:20of, I don't want to throw this term around loosely, but it is what it is. A dynasty in college football,

19:28not when it comes to like winning championships, but just like building a legit organization happens

19:34so quickly without a major transfer, without a major five-star recruit coming to them, without

19:40a first overall pick potentially at quarterback. Like this was really a, hey, I feel like I'm the

19:46best coach. I have a great organization. I have a great staff and we're going to put our players in

19:52the best positions possible to win games. And as you said, as they continue to get better players,

19:57I really think Indiana is going to be a problem going forward.

20:01I am going to do the war chant when it allows me to serve itself. But right now I'm not going

20:09to do it. I did it enough this weekend. And I think that I'm just going to ride this out until

20:14the next time we discuss it, because right now I already have my mark in the column that I was right.

20:20So I'm, I'm on cloud nine right now. But so since you're on cloud nine, I guess kind of to flip the

20:28feelings. So since you're feeling so high at IU, has your feelings changed at all on Oregon or how is,

20:34how has that kind of shifted how you feel in Oregon? Well, so even though Oregon lost to IU,

20:40I don't want to say that we need to cause panic, right? It's they, they, they lost a big game,

20:49but they will recover. I think that the only loss that Oregon is going to experience this season is

20:53at the hands of IU, which is fine. That is not going to affect them too much come playoff time.

21:02I still think that they have a very, very good chance to be one of the top 10 seeds in the CFP,

21:09even though they have that one loss on their record. I even went as far as to saying initially,

21:15I thought that IU, Michigan, Penn state, Ohio state, are all going to have one losses. And I was wrong

21:26on two out of those. All right. You know, so fair enough, fair enough. But you might go undefeated.

21:34Yeah. Now, my only problem with this loss, I think for the public, I think the public is still

21:44like greatly sleeping on IU. And because of that, Oregon's going to really take a hit when it comes

21:51to the polls, just because people are still going to say, yeah, I use good. Yeah, they're undefeated.

21:56They won a couple of big games, but it's still IU. So I can definitely see them kind of tanking the

22:01rankings until the end of the year where you do look up and you're like, oh yeah,

22:04they did only lose one game to an undefeated team. And then we'll really have some conversations.

22:09But these next one or two weeks, people are going to say, well, were they always frauds?

22:15Uh, you know, Penn state, oh, they had to fire everybody. Like if there's definitely some

22:20narratives that are going to be spun that may make like Oregon not look as good as they potentially

22:25are just because they lost to arguably one of the best teams in college football who might go

22:31undefeated. Now, next up, kind of the last thing we're going to touch on is just this overall top

22:3725 ranking, which is college football. And the fact that we only have two, two lost teams in the top

22:4425. And for these two teams specifically, I feel like there's a lot of bias and these teams could

22:50definitely be outside the top 25 and I would not be mad at it. First one we're kind of going to look at

22:55is Notre Dame. And second is Texas, because I really don't know how Texas is here. If I'm being

23:04completely honest with you, um, we've seen the struggle against big teams, good teams. Sure.

23:09They have their win against Oklahoma who had an injured quarterback, who in my opinion,

23:14obviously looked like he was injured. So I almost don't even count this win as a major victory.

23:21Like sure. Don't get me still. It's a good win, but this was, this was not the Oklahoma team that

23:26we were expecting to see play just because of the, some of the injuries that they had in Notre

23:31Dame. Look, I have no faith in you. I apologize. Notre Dame fans. I really have never had faith

23:36in Notre Dame. So they're just biased. They really want you in there. I think it's just because of your

23:40helmet colors. I'm not going to lie to you, but how do you feel about that?

23:44First of all, before we get any further into this, what is the animosity that you have with

23:49Notre Dame football? Because, you know, I've noticed on our conversations, when we have

23:54discussed Notre Dame, that you have some moxie in your tone when you speak a lot of fighting Irish.

24:01So I got a lot of, I have, I have a lot of it because throughout my memory, Notre Dame has

24:08always stacked their schedule to essentially play nobody every single year to find a way to get into

24:15the playoffs and get blasted. And I have felt that just because you go undefeated or you only lose one

24:22game, if you don't play anybody, that doesn't make you one of the top five or top 10 teams in college

24:29football. It's great. It looks nice on paper, but if you're not tested at all during the regular

24:35season, I don't want to hear that you really can compete for a championship. And that's just always

24:39been my stance on Notre Dame specifically because how they're structuring their schedule. Now, a little

24:44bit different. They're actually going to play a few teams. Are they playing absolute powerhouses

24:50like that CC? Not really, but it's what it is. It's what it is. I mean, if we're going to get into

24:59the nitty-gritty, I think that when I saw that Notre Dame was 0-2 and still in the top 25, I had my

25:07questions. I don't know how an 0-2 team is in the top 25. I'm pretty sure I've said this on numerous

25:13occasions, but I digress. They do get the benefit of the doubt more often than they do not. They did

25:19lose to Miami, who was number two in the country. They did lose to Texas A&M, who is number four in

25:26the country. So this may be one of the rare times I give Notre Dame a little bit of grace

25:37just because they did lose to two top five teams to start the season off. Looking at it in the grand

25:49scheme of things, it makes sense a little bit. It's not like they get blown out in those games either.

25:55That's true. That's true. So in that aspect, I will give them the benefit of the doubt. But if they

26:01lose to USC, I'm going to take back everything I said. Okay. So then if they lose to USC, that'll be

26:09my Notre Dame being Notre Dame moment. So yeah, because I'm already waiting for it. As soon as

26:15they play somebody, I'm like, oh, Notre Dame is going to have a few mistakes. It's going to cost

26:19them the game. And it just seems like they get outcoached or they get outplayed in the biggest

26:26games in the biggest moments. And that's my biggest issue with Notre Dame. I understand.

26:32And your issue with Notre Dame is valid. And after that USC game, they don't really play anybody.

26:39Boston College. So right now, it looks that if Notre Dame is going to be a college football

26:48playoff team, they have to beat USC and finish out the rest of their season. And they will only

26:53have those two losses to those top five teams on their record, which knowing how CFP is going to

27:00be will bode well for their chances to make the CFP. Yeah, it's going to be good. And that's another

27:06thing. So like, if they ever do play somebody like they played this year, it's at the beginning of the

27:11season where it's relatively early, they're going to win out the rest of the year. And then everybody's

27:16going to say, oh, those two losses they had were two amazing teams. Those were kind of just flukes

27:21waiting until they get into the playoffs. And then they play real caliber teams. And then they're

27:25kind of shocked at like, oh, what's going on here? We were undefeated coming into this. We were on a

27:31roll. Like, yes, you didn't play anybody. I'm just, uh, Notre Dame, man. I, I digress. I digress. So

27:40with this as well. Oh, so how do you feel like Texas or, um, how do you, how do you feel about

27:45Texas with their, you know, two losses in top 25 now? Um, I think that they got put in the top 25 a

27:55little bit too early, but some of that was beyond their control. They beat a, at the time, top five

28:03team in Oklahoma, who was not at a hundred percent. That is not Texas's fault. On paper, they beat a top

28:11five team. Can't take that away from them, right? So now I, knowing what we've seen from Arch

28:22and how Steve is running that offense down there, I just don't know if there's enough to write home

28:32about when it comes to Longhorn football this year. The roster is crazy talented. They're just not

28:36producing at the level that they need to produce. And they're in the SEC where no game is a game off.

28:43And just like Oklahoma, they are going to go through the brunt of their schedule too. They have

28:48Kentucky, they have Mississippi State, which with Arch playing at quarterback, it's a wild card. We

28:53don't know if he's going to throw for 250 yards or 68 yards and two interceptions. We just don't

29:00know. They have to play Georgia still. I'm very excited to see what's going to happen when Texas

29:05goes down to Georgia and see how Arch handles that environment, since we saw how he handled

29:12the Ohio State environment opening up the season. Don't really have much excitement when it comes

29:17to that game, other than hoping that he does not fold like a lawn chair like he did at Ohio State

29:24to open up the season. So if we're really going to come down to the comparison of Texas and Notre Dame,

29:29I think Notre Dame is the better team right now. I think Texas has the better win on paper.

29:41But if that was an actual game where Mater was fully healthy, I think that that game would have

29:47been a little different. So Texas having the better win on paper bodes well for them if they can

29:54continue this momentum. But based on their schedule, I don't know. Notre Dame on the other hand, all they

30:01really pretty much have to do is get through USC and then not have any hiccups for the rest of the

30:08season and they'll be fine. Texas, we don't know if they're going to finish the season with two losses

30:13or four losses. And four losses is being generous. They could have five. They very well could. They

30:23end the season at Texas A&M. So between Texas A&M, Georgia, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Kentucky,

30:32and Arkansas, do you see Texas winning a third of those games? To be honest, I don't know. Right now,

30:40I'm going to say definitely not. But if Arch has any inkling of being the quarterback that everybody

30:49has told me that he is, they have some good wins under their belt. Well, you know, this one actually

30:55right now, they look like they have some momentum going into what would be the hardest part of their

31:00schedule, which is this SEC gauntlet. And if they truly like right at the ship when it comes to their

31:06play calling, how Arch feels in the pocket, just his overall presence as the quarterback, I feel like

31:12this could kind of be the turning point for Texas. Now you're playing some teams that all are trying to

31:19get into the playoffs. If you have some really meaningful wins, you go into someplace, maybe we have

31:24an upset or two. I think this could change the trajection of Arch when it comes to some people

31:31are calling him an absolute bust. Some players are saying that he needs to transfer, go to a smaller

31:35school, like they're saying all types of crazy thing about Arch right now. So this is really going to

31:39tell me a lot, not only about Texas, but Arch when it comes to just his progression of like, what are you

31:46really as a quarterback? Are you going to take this Texas team to the playoffs? Because they really are

31:52going to ride and die based on how Arch plays. And kind of the last thing we're going to get in on

31:57this is, I think we are seeing more and more that this NIL era is changing the landscape of college

32:05football. More and more teams are paying players to come over and small teams. Montana has a wide

32:12receiver that I'm like, could he be a first round wide receiver? Like, where was he supposed to go?

32:17Where did he verbally commit to that he decided he just wanted some money to go to?

32:21Like NIL is making college football, in my opinion, a lot more exciting than it's been in years. It's

32:28no longer the same top 10, top 15, absolutely dominating college football. Players are

32:34transferring, they're moving, they're getting recruited to schools that I was like, they're not

32:39even a powerhouse. Why would you put, like, why are you going over this? Oh, because you're getting

32:44$10 million a year that, you know what, that's, that's probably why you're going over there.

32:48And because of that, some of these schools that I thought were going to be absolutely dominant

32:53are now above average in teams where I was like, you might not win a game. You're like,

33:00oh, are you sneaky good now? Can you upset maybe a top 15 team just because of the talent that you

33:06have in the roster coming in? But how do you kind of feel that NIL has, you know, shifted the

33:10landscape of college football? I think NIL is part of the big reason why Nick Saban left

33:15and retired as soon as he did. I'm pretty sure he has not been bashful about his opinion on how

33:21the NIL was going to shape the landscape of the college football persona as we know it. But

33:28on the flip side of that coin, I'm going to say respectfully that Saban has, he has some gall to

33:34have some type of feeling about that because are we going to sit here and act like Alabama has not

33:38done the same thing, just not on paper. And all of these other big name programs in the SEC,

33:43the ACC, the Pac-10, the Big Ten, all of them are guilty. Okay, let's just stop saying the quiet part

33:53and keeping it quiet. Let's just say it out loud. If you were doing it before, do not get mad when

33:58other people now have the resources to do what you used to do to other teams to exploit them for

34:02their players in their area. It's not fair for you to be able to say, we're Bama, we have better

34:07boosters, we have more money so we can get that player. They can't afford him. We can buy him.

34:13It's just going to be under the table. So now it's just all legal. You know, it's just, hey,

34:20we're going to give you X amount of dollars for you to leave that college and come play for us.

34:24You want the money? Now, if the player says yes, that is completely up to the player. I think that

34:29it's great. The players are finally getting paid for the NCAA making millions and millions of dollars

34:34off of their productivity for all of these years. It's finally for them to start getting

34:39their just due. I think that this is a good thing for college football. We're going to see

34:46teams to have opportunities to play for natties that we have never seen. Imagine if Washington

34:54had a full four years of NIL capabilities when Pennix and the Dunes, they were still there.

35:02Or imagine how IU is going to transform now that they are relevant in college football. Now,

35:09Mark Cuban being a former alum, being one of their boosters, watch how they might transform over the

35:15next couple of years due to NIL benefits. As a whole, NIL is good for the league because it gives

35:23players the ability to have their own decisions and choose their own destiny when it comes to

35:29how they want their college career to play out. It also gives them the ability to get paid for their

35:35services since they are now being nationally broadcast across the world and they deserve to

35:40be compensated for it. It is good for colleges that never had the opportunity to compete at the

35:48level of some power five colleges because if they have the resources now, they can kind of buy their

35:54way into the competition. It's just like how we are with video games. You go play Fortnite and you spend

36:00$50, you're going to be better than somebody who didn't spend $50. Or if you go buy 2K, you're going

36:04to spend $200 and get you some VC, you're going to be better than a person who doesn't spend any money

36:08in your VC. It's the payment by society norm that we are used to now and not only in society but in

36:18college football. And I think it's going to be good. It's just going to continuously get better.

36:23Arch makes a lot of money. Bryce Underwood makes a lot of money. Shador, when he was in college,

36:28made a lot of money. But we saw how that bodes for them now and how it fared for them once they

36:35got into the league. How is Shador Sanders leading the team in jersey sales and he has not played a

36:42down of regular season NFL football? Yeah, this is no longer a free-to-play, free-to-play league.

36:50This is, and also it really has changed my outlook when it comes to head coaches. Your head coach no

36:58longer has to be the best when it comes to schemes. Because you've always had to be a good recruiter.

37:03But now recruiting is so much more than just saying, hey, if you come here, I'm going to

37:08grow you as a person. I'm also going to make you really good in football and you're going to go to

37:12the pros. Because you have to then explain to a kid who could potentially make $10 million

37:17somewhere else, oh, as our second spring quarterback, you want to be here because of, think of all

37:23the future endeavors that you could get by going to our school. I know you're not going to get paid as

37:28much. I know you're not going to get looked at like you're the man starting out. It might take you

37:32a year to develop. It might take you a year to kind of understand the system and sit behind

37:36somebody. But you don't need to go play right away. It's going to tank your draft stop. There's

37:42a lot more things coaches have to do now compared to what Saban had to do when it seemed like all

37:47he was doing was focusing on X's and O's and coaching players. And I think that's what's going

37:52to be really interesting going forward. Because now coaches who used to be fine in terms of like

37:58they're amazing with X's and O's, they're amazing with players, and maybe they were just bad

38:02recruiters. Those coaches are no longer going to be there because recruiting is such a high level,

38:09high importance when it comes to all of these schools.

38:12I agree. I agree. And I'll tell you what, I think that we not only as you and I as, you know,

38:19critics and commentators of the sport, but fans alike are going to really like what we see

38:24on how NIL continues to shape and evolve college football and college sports as a whole. I think

38:30the future is bright. Very bright.

38:33All right. Well, really appreciate y'all stopping by for another episode of the podcast. Like I said,

38:38leave a comment in the comment section down below. What was your favorite storyline so far in college

38:42football? As there were a lot, but I'm still going to go with USC biggest upset possibly in the last 10

38:47years that they've had. And IU actually starting this dynasty, you know, I'm gonna call it a dynasty.

38:53They might, they don't even need to win a championship and just putting a culture and

38:56putting IU on the map. They are no longer just a basketball school. This is now a football school

39:02or maybe now they're only a football school because they, now they suck in basketball. I'm

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