00:00So it looks like there's a new horse right now leading the race here when it comes to college sports,
00:04and that's the Big Ten, according to Nick Saban.
00:07He's saying right now that the Big Ten is now a more dominant conference than what the Southeastern Conference is.
00:16Saban has gone into the SEC meetings here in Tampa and made those comments and said, look, the Big Ten
00:23is spending the money, and the Big Ten right now is the premier conference over the Southeastern Conference.
00:29Well, if you take a look at what they've done, three straight national championships in college football with three different
00:36programs, both men and women, they own the national championship.
00:41Those are the moneymakers, folks.
00:43Those are the ones that move the needle when it comes to generating revenue.
00:48The rest of the programs, track and field, baseball, what have you, those are minor compared to college basketball and
00:56the men and the women and also college football.
00:58And here's why.
01:00The Big Ten has the money on the table now.
01:02And when the money was put on the table, the Southeastern Conference, all those years were paying people under the
01:09table.
01:10All those side deals that the conferences were doing back in the day or the programs in the conference were
01:16doing back in the day, now when you had to put that money on the table, now it's a fair
01:21fight.
01:21And the Big Ten is now battling the SEC.
01:25Why?
01:25How has that happened?
01:27Well, you've got more money being dissed out by the Big Ten because the Big Ten is now being proactive
01:34when it comes to nil.
01:36They're spending buckets of money on getting these programs and all of their programs.
01:42They're not just looking for some of their programs.
01:44Folks, Indiana winning the national championship.
01:49You know, I saw the ESPYs last week and I made the comment, are you really telling me you think
01:55the New York Knicks are the number one story and the number one team in all of America?
02:00Are you crazy?
02:02For over 136 years, 136 years of college football, Indiana football blew.
02:11It was terrible.
02:12And now they're the national champions, 16-0.
02:18That program is gone.
02:20Incredible.
02:21That's the story.
02:23And they did it with spending money.
02:25Look, that conference is now the preeminent conference in all of college sports because they're spending the money.
02:33They're getting great ways of how they're bringing money in.
02:36They're generating Buku money and they're also paying their college coaches.
02:41What does the Southeastern Conference do?
02:43The Southeastern Conference at their meetings in Tampa said, hey, you know what might be in the best interest for
02:50us?
02:51Let's get out of the NCAA and become more like the Premier League.
02:56Hey, you want to take your bat and ball?
02:58Well, because the Big Ten is beating you over the head with that bat now when it comes to economics
03:03and finances and they're beating you at the gate and they're beating you on the field and they're beating you
03:10on the court.
03:11They're doing everything that you used to do to them because the money is on the table.
03:17Look, I'm going to say it again.
03:19Them getting USC, UCLA, and Oregon into the Big Ten has been a massive influx of money that has gone
03:29in to the Big Ten.
03:30Again, Southeastern Conference, they got a big haul here to try to get back into that picture.
03:36That's why they're spending the money like they're spending at LSU to go and get a guy like Lane Kiffin.
03:42Look, Alabama is not where it once was because why?
03:45Look at where the money is now going in the SEC.
03:48The money is now going to Texas.
03:50All those Texas schools that you're seeing poor money in, get used to it.
03:55You're going to see more schools out of the state of Texas that are going to spend all of this
04:00money when it comes to trying to win a national championship.
04:03And you've got great television deals going on right now in the Big Ten for the football and basketball programs.
04:10Look, the Big Ten right now is rolling.
04:13And the Big Ten, could they even more so expand to try to put a team down in the state
04:18of Florida, like maybe bring in a team like USF in?
04:22They are being proactive.
04:24That conference is definitely taking the lead over the SEC, which I thought was not possible.
04:30Look, when you still look at the NFL draft, the Southeastern Conference right now are still putting the most players
04:37into the NFL draft.
04:39But that's changing.
04:40Look at the teams that right now that put all those first-round draft choices in this recent NFL draft.
04:46The SEC fell behind the Big Ten again.
04:50And Saban is right.
04:51All that money, all that money that used to go and being poured into the SEC is now being poured
04:57in to the Big Ten.
05:00Look, SEC's got to change their road.
05:02And they've got to get things rolling in the right direction here because at the end of the day here,
05:07the Southeastern Conference,
05:09they have won three straight national titles in football with three different programs, and they own the women and the
05:16men's national championship in hoop.
05:19That's where your money comes from.
05:21That's where all the generating income is going into all these programs in the Big Ten.
05:26SEC's got a problem, and it's called the Big Ten.
05:29And they've got to do something, and that's called winning because right now the Big Ten is taking it.
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