00:00And I'm going to ask Tim Brando a question here.
00:03These are my two national championship rings right here for the University of Miami.
00:08Right here, right here, Tim.
00:10So I'll ask you a question, Tim.
00:12You think it's harder right now to win a national championship in college football than it was, say, back in
00:17my day because of this tournament?
00:18I mean, look, you had to play a bowl game.
00:20You had a really challenging schedule back in my day.
00:23But that tournament, my school, Miami, had to go Ole Miss, Ohio State, A&M, and all that.
00:30I think it's harder.
00:31Do you think it's harder today to win a national championship in college football?
00:36Why do you think Saban got out when he did?
00:39Right on.
00:40Right on, right?
00:41Right on.
00:43Listen, Dan, I just turned 70, okay?
00:48And I've still got a lot of tread left on my tires.
00:51And I'm happily here to report to all the Brando haters on social media.
00:57I'm not going anywhere, okay?
00:59I love it.
01:00I still love what I do.
01:01I love what I do.
01:04And I think that Nick Saban would still probably be coaching because he loves what he did.
01:10But the task at hand and the job for all these coaches now is so much more difficult.
01:16And when you're plus 70, maybe you want to have a little time off in the spring, okay?
01:22Today at Creighton, a coach that was really a bad call away from a Final Four just a couple
01:28of years ago, Coach Greg McDermott is walking away after 16 years.
01:33He's the winningest coach at Creighton.
01:35And he's going to play in the crown.
01:37And you know what?
01:38I think he's a sentimental favorite to maybe win it.
01:40Maybe his players will play hard for him.
01:42But he would probably still be coaching at Creighton, were it not for the fact that every
01:47coach in America in college basketball, as soon as this Final Four is over, their season
01:52just begins in the portal.
01:54I mean, there's really no time off.
01:56You might get two weeks off in basketball.
01:58And in football, those coaches, and you remember this, you know how much Spurrier loved to have
02:03his time off to go play golf?
02:04You can't do that anymore.
02:06There's just no time for it, all right?
02:08And the responsibilities for coaches, as you know, a little bit greater than that of a
02:13broadcaster.
02:15We have to manage our families and our time and our bodies a little bit to stay fresh.
02:20But we're not responsible for all those players and trying to help them.
02:25And I do think that coaches, for the most part, want to still, even if in this transactional
02:31period, they still want to be transformative in the lives of the players, even if they have
02:35them for a year or two instead of four.
02:38It's just much harder to do.
02:40And that's one of the reasons why I think that a lot of guys have gotten out, Nick, at
02:47the top of that list, okay?
02:51There were times, and by the way, for fans that say that are my, and the fans that say
02:55the people that are my age and older, that want to go back, we're not bringing the ship
03:00back into the dock.
03:01That's not happening.
03:02It's sailed.
03:03There's way too much at stake financially for these schools.
03:06They know that.
03:08And that's one of the reasons why we've got to do some of this.
03:11I know you want to go down the road of what the president just did.
03:14And I'm fine with talking about that.
03:16But we do need to regulate what's transpiring, because while the money is magnificent and
03:22the sport has flourished and become the second most popular sport in America, without a doubt,
03:28it's not sustainable what's taking place.
03:30And we've got to do something about it.
03:32I think, in large measure, these coaches that have left have left because they feel like
03:40that's not the job they signed up for.
03:42Now, those that have stayed are fine with embracing it and lean into it.
03:46And by the way, if you don't lean into it, you're not going to be successful.
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