00:00it's got to be tougher to win a national title today than it was back in my
00:03day. Don't you agree?
00:05Yeah. I think with everybody playing nine games in their conference,
00:08for the most part, I think that is, you know, kind of up the ante.
00:12It's made some of the non-conference games, not so good, but you know,
00:16you can talk all you want about Indiana having, you know,
00:18three cupcakes to start the season and that warmed them up.
00:21And then nobody else barely touched them after that. So yeah,
00:25I think it's tough to go in 16 and Oh, you know,
00:27didn't used to be 16 games either.
00:29Don't have to go through the college football playoff situation.
00:31So if you went, you went 12 and Oh, or 11 and one,
00:34and the polls were voting for you, whatever the case might be,
00:38that was a heck of a lot easier than playing basically an NFL schedule almost,
00:42you know, if you're going to get to that point to get to the 16th game,
00:46but it's tough all around. You know,
00:50I think the teams that are always going to be up there,
00:52the ones that have the most money and the ones that have the biggest names,
00:55I don't think we're ever going to see,
00:57if we get to a 2014 playoff,
00:59I would bet my mortgage and I don't have one. I own this place,
01:02but I would say that the 24th ranked team's not going to win the national
01:06championship. So you can have all the playoff extras you want,
01:10and it's still going to be the same 10 teams that got a chance to win.
01:14So we're basically in the era of the Dodgers and college football.
01:17You spend the most money. You're going to win the national title, right?
01:20So the Ohio States now, the Miami's believe it or not,
01:23that are starting to shovel this money.
01:25And you mentioned Darian Mensah making $6.5 million to be a starting
01:29quarterback.
01:29He makes more money than a starting quarterback at Arizona when it comes to
01:33the Cardinals with Jacoby Brissett, which is insane.
01:35So it's really coming down just to the finances and the money that's being
01:39generated.
01:40So you're only going to see basically the top 20, 25 programs, right, Brad?
01:45Win a national championship because that's where the money is.
01:49Absolutely. You know, Texas Tech's going to spend and spend and spend and spend.
01:52Ohio State's going to spend and spend. Texas is, you know,
01:55everybody's in that 40 is low right now.
01:59Everybody's in that $50 million range that thinks they have a chance to win the
02:02whole thing. And that's,
02:05that's what's going to keep happening because the best players are going to go
02:08where they're going to get the best deals. And, you know,
02:11talking about Darian Mensah is a great example.
02:13I did their bowl game last year, the Sun Bowl, you know,
02:15and he's such a nice kid and everything.
02:18And the other two or three kids, we had players in there, you know,
02:21they were all Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke. And I go, well,
02:24you're coming back next year to Duke, right? And he looked at me, said,
02:27absolutely, sir. And I looked at Jenny Dell and I went, yeah, right.
02:31It's going to be a better offer out there someplace. So, yeah, that's,
02:35that's kind of what it's come down to, which I don't know if that's good or
02:38bad, but if you've got a team,
02:39that's got a lot of money and a lot of donors and high-end people,
02:43you know, like a Texas tech or Indiana or wherever it might be,
02:47you got the best shot.
