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On The Midday Show, Andy and Abe dive into the growing debate over NIL, recruiting, and the future of college football. With prominent voices like Nick Saban calling for congressional involvement, they discuss whether federal oversight is needed to bring order to the sport's rapidly changing landscape—and what it could mean for players, coaches, and programs across the country.

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00:00be thinking yeah for sure um i just i wonder if in this era where we're in right now in
00:05college
00:05football if there's even more guys that are just like you know what i am a coordinator i think this
00:11is what i want to be i don't really have any interest in having to ceo this thing in the
00:17middle of all of some of them just don't want to go recruiting yeah and so they're like i'll be
00:21a
00:21coordinator you figure out recruiting going recruiting it's having those extortion meetings
00:25where the yeah second string cornerback comes in and tells you he wants two hundred thousand dollars
00:29and a ferrari and it's like dude you no we can't do that you're not a ferrari type player this
00:37is why
00:37i want an inside look at like three weeks in arthur smith's current life yeah yeah he's kind of a
00:46good
00:46example of this like there's just no way he's taking visits or those meetings no there's no
00:52world in which he's recruiting the players done to ohio state but he can coach some offense yeah
00:57they want him there well they did the same thing with chip kelly right like chip kelly but where is
01:02he now didn't he just get hired i was about to say he'll never be a head coach again but
01:06it's possible
01:06that he just got hired to be a head coach somewhere um like oregon state or something anyway uh he's
01:13uh
01:13at northwestern northwest no he's he i think he's done head coaching i think he mentioned that but he's
01:17the oc at northwestern he should be like he's he's a perfect fit to just sort of be uh a
01:23gun for
01:23hire every couple of years in a different college football situation it works if you have works at
01:29ohio state all those guys yes sure and it really here's the thing it really only worked its best
01:35for four games like they kind of had a bumpy road and then got beat by michigan and then they
01:41were
01:42like you know what we'll do we'll just throw it to jeremiah smith a whole bunch and hand it to
01:45quenchon and it worked when they got to the college football playoff um yeah i know that's
01:49the thing about that's been true of chip kelly for like 15 years now what he certainly was
01:55revolutionary there's no question about it but now everybody does it everybody caught up to him
01:59and he still gets treated as this offensive genius which he was an innovator at the time
02:04at the time i don't know very key words here i don't know that he's innovated his innovation but
02:09anyway that's neither here nor there i just wonder we'll get more into some college football i just
02:13like sour coaches like really going after it and jim schwartz was like ready to get after and also
02:18coaches that are kind of like i think i've kind of done what i'm gonna do that's the other part
02:22of it
02:22yeah he was a head coach and he's you know he's been around and it's like look my my resume
02:27speaks for
02:28itself at this point i'm in the fraternity i'm gonna have jobs as a coordinator i might not be a
02:33head
02:33coach again and i'm like 65 so let's just let it fly let's let's see let's just answer these questions
02:39honestly um we're saying we'll get more into some of the college football conversation tomorrow i know
02:46that the hearing on the protect college sports act was today and so we'll have some commentary coming
02:52out of that of course the big 10 and the sec opposed it which i do think like i under
02:56i understand
02:56their opposition of it i do find the headlines funny of the big 10 and sec banned together against
03:02the protect college sports act that's just like reading that sentence is kind of oxymoronic like yes
03:08they do in fact do not they do not care about protecting college sports that seems very obvious
03:13anyway we'll get to that uh tomorrow let's get to the big story of the day now kick off the
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03:25robinson with pennix there we go here's the snap they bring five again they'll throw for london
03:30did he hang on he did touchdown atlanta oh this is an unbelievable drake london has done it again
03:41oh my goodness drake london has called his third touchdown pass of the day oh man remember that
03:48and atlanta within an extra point of tying the score with 440 to go was that against the patriots
03:53i think it was what a what a performance um i was gonna ask was that the did we miss
03:59that extra
03:59point i think so that was that extra point and lost 24 23 i think so we missed that extra
04:06point
04:06yeah i think probably oh what a season man what a season that's not the point or the extra point
04:12the point is that drake london signed a four-year contract extension yesterday with the falcons
04:17worth up to 150 million dollars 100 million of it is guaranteed it makes him the third highest
04:22paid wide receiver as we stand right now and locks him up as the uh the the wide receiver one
04:27in the
04:28falcons offense for the next handful of years which is great he's earned it and we we've talked a lot
04:34of different sort of angles on on this thing um throughout the the show today one of my main
04:40takes on this is to earn it under these circumstances pretty impressive he's had four different quarterbacks in
04:49four years who have varied from awful to like kind of okay i guess there was a stretch with kirk
04:58cousins
04:58that was pretty good at the beginning or in the middle of year one with kirk uh but by and
05:03large
05:04he's just had to figure out how to play with a bunch of different quarterbacks and a couple of
05:08different offensive coordinators as well uh to put up these type of numbers in those in under those
05:14circumstances is impressive hopefully now the next phase of drake london's career here in atlanta
05:19doesn't have to we don't have to say that we don't have to caveat right imagine what he could
05:23do if he actually had some competent quarterback play we'll see like obviously that's the biggest
05:27question mark they have going into this year but uh good on drake london man yeah i think and i
05:32know
05:32there are some people who are saying this but i think the biggest compliment to drake is i'm not
05:36really hearing there's that's too much money for him or this is a bad deal i i just a lot
05:41of that's what
05:41he deserved and he's in line and a lot of actual measured approaches in terms of the value as we
05:47continue to see other wide receivers surpass him i think it's a great deal and i compared it to aj
05:52terrell and what he signed a couple years ago when he became one of the top paid cornerbacks and now
05:57he's you know number nine and dental ward's gonna pass him he'll be number 10 and and whatever uh i
06:03just
06:03view this is is the same way and it just feels like a good value for the franchise and it
06:11just
06:11it also just answers one of the big questions of the offseason it was always going to be hanging
06:17around their head we don't have to go into training camp asking him every day asking cunningham every
06:22day asking stefanski every day hey what are the conversations like is this going to continue into
06:28the season or is it being cut off like all that stuff is just off the table and i did
06:32kind of mention
06:33like i i also felt there was a little bit of awkwardness potentially if you had signed bajon to
06:38extension but not drake that's also gone now yeah it's nice you don't have to deal with any of the
06:42potential like five stories negative training camp yeah narrative stuff yeah like he's a really good
06:49player that you like at a really important position sign him up keep him long term same thing is true
06:54with bajon and and i assume that they'll do that before training camp comes around there as well
07:01um oh i lost it i had one last oh yes here found it there it is you're looking at
07:06me i got nothing
07:07where was it there it is the other thing too and i this doesn't this isn't like that big of
07:11a part of
07:11it but it's a it's part of it is they just really like him in the locker room yeah like
07:17guys rave about
07:18the type of teammate that he is the type of worker that he is like they put zachariah branch's locker
07:23right
07:23next to him for a reason so he could sort of learn under his wing as a wide receiver like
07:28there's something to be said about having and at that position specifically we're not everybody's
07:32built like that right um there's something to be said about having a wide receiver that you can trust
07:37as sort of like a like a leader of your team type of guy again you don't give him 35
07:42million dollars
07:42because he's a nice teammate you give him 35 million dollars because he can catch touchdowns and
07:46he's productive but that doesn't hurt so this is going to be a movie reference that maybe not
07:51everyone gets but there's a little bit of link what do you think i'll do you think i'll get it
07:54no okay uh maybe i don't watch that many movies maybe okay there's a little bit of lincoln hawk
08:00to uh i never even heard of that to drake london because when he gets on the field he's a
08:06different
08:06dude lincoln hawk is sylvester stallone in the movie over the top where he turns his hat around he
08:10becomes a different guy got it okay
08:12okay
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