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00:00Mike DeCourse, he's a legendary scribe with the sporting news.
00:03You see him on Fox Sports with college basketball and on Big Ten Network.
00:06He's on a take for the Indiana Hoosiers.
00:08By the way, they got that kid today from Sam Houston.
00:13Did you see that?
00:13That kid scores 20 a game.
00:15That's not a bad snag.
00:16He does.
00:16He also shoots over 40% from three-point range.
00:20This may be even more important at this point because you know that shooting travel, Scott,
00:26the points are not going to stay the same more than likely.
00:28But you get a guy open, and he's going to make the shot if he's capable.
00:32And so that's the best news for the Hoosiers.
00:35So let's talk about this mess in Tennessee that you wrote about with this quarterback.
00:42I am a Lee Ava who has tried to demand all kinds of money.
00:49And then they just said, you know, see you later.
00:52We're not interested.
00:53And, you know, it was funny when he, like, demanded the money.
00:58I remember I was at the gym.
01:00I was shooting, getting up shots, and somebody brought it up to me.
01:03I said to the guy, I said, that guy's not even good anyway.
01:09I don't think he's a great quarterback at all.
01:13I think he's average.
01:14And he must be imagining things.
01:16Who's filling his head that he's worth all this money?
01:19Well, he was a quarterback on a playoff team.
01:25So certainly he had success team-wise.
01:28Individually, it was about the 55th passer, somewhere around there.
01:32Accuracy, not super strong.
01:35I think total offense was not elite.
01:38There were no categories in which he was top 25 that are significant, Scott.
01:44He certainly did win a lot of games in the SEC, but didn't win the league.
01:49And he was only a redshirt freshman.
01:51It was his first year out.
01:52So he certainly has promise.
01:55But you don't pay for promise.
01:57And he'd already been paid for promise, in a sense.
02:01Every report says that he had signed for four years $2 million a year.
02:06That's a pretty substantial payday.
02:09And if other quarterbacks subsequently were getting more, well, that's okay.
02:13You're in a great situation.
02:15You're making a lot of money.
02:16You're also in a situation whose last two quarterbacks both went to the NFL.
02:21Both are making multiple millions of dollars with the promise of more if they continue their careers.
02:27Scott, there's so much money in being an NFL quarterback.
02:30And I'm not even talking about being a good one.
02:32A good one, like Dak Prescott, gets you a ton.
02:35A great one, like Patrick Mahomes, gets you lifetime security.
02:38And if you are just an average quarterback, a quarterback who can stay in the league and make a living, if you're Mason Rudolph, you can make $4 million a year.
02:50That kind of money, you don't mess with that.
02:53You don't say, oh, I can make another million now.
02:56No, you say, how do I get to that?
02:58I'm making good money now.
02:59How do I get to that money that I can make in the NFL?
03:02And you certainly don't do it by taking a chance on anyone that will take you now.
03:08It is so unbelievable.
03:09You're right, Mike.
03:10Guys like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Joe Flacco just got a bunch of money.
03:16Kenny Pickett got a bunch of money.
03:17He never plays.
03:19He got a bunch of money in Pittsburgh, then got money in Philly.
03:22Now he's getting even more money in Cleveland.
03:24Famous Jameis just got a bunch of money.
03:26And I'm talking about, I have yet to not mention a hack.
03:29I'm like, all of them are hacks.
03:31Now I'll give Joe Flacco a Super Bowl ring.
03:34Fair enough.
03:35And Kenny Smallhands got a Super Bowl ring.
03:38Not that he deserved one, but he got one.
03:40I think that was because the Steelers gave up on him that he got that.
03:43He had nothing to do with the Eagles.
03:45But all you have to do, Mariota just got a bunch of money.
03:49When's the last time he even played in a game?
03:51They all make a fortune.
03:52But I got to tell you, Mike, it bothers me horrifically about, I got a real problem,
03:58as I've told you before, with these kids making money in college.
04:01Football and basketball.
04:02I just have a, I think it's ruining the game.
04:05I really do.
04:06It's not.
04:06It's got the evidences there.
04:09You saw last Monday night, a lot of those guys were making money.
04:13And the game was brilliant.
04:15It was a phenomenal contest.
04:17It would have been brilliant if they weren't making money, Mike.
04:19Well, it was, but it wasn't necessarily great for them.
04:23They didn't make the kind of money that they were worth.
04:27I don't think it's affected the game at all, to be honest with you.
04:31It has affected roster continuity, but it hasn't affected the game.
04:36The games are still outstanding.
04:38It hasn't affected the audience.
04:39The audience is still coming.
04:41And I don't mean just...
04:41Listen, we see guys still graduating.
04:45I know there are players who are going to three and four schools that are impacting their
04:50educations.
04:51But the players that are transferring once, more often than not, are graduating on time
04:56if they don't have the ability to go to the NBA or NFL early.
05:01They're still graduating on time.
05:03So I don't think it's had a bad impact.
05:05But it does bring up the possibility of circumstances like these.
05:10And I think that Tennessee managed it really well.
05:13Now, here's the thing that I will say.
05:15I am not holding up Tennessee as the example until we get to the fall and see who their quarterback
05:22is going to be.
05:23Because if they go out and get a quarterback from some other school, State Tech or good
05:27old State U or whoever, if they go out and do that, then they're just the same as whoever
05:32picks up Nico.
05:33I just...
05:34I think that we have to see in time how they handled this end of this situation, not just
05:40how they handled Nico on the way out.
05:42Will the college playoff in football be about...
05:48I mean, it would seem to me it's going to be about money.
05:50Who spends the most money will be in that pack of 12 or when it goes to 14 or 16, it's
05:56going to be who's got the highest payrolls.
05:59Like Ohio State will be automatic.
06:00I mean, some of that's sort of self-fulfilling though, Scott.
06:04I mean, the schools that have traditionally been successful are the schools that have
06:09the 100,000 seat stadiums and the schools that have the most booster and donor interest.
06:15So it's self-fulfilling.
06:16I don't necessarily think it changes the identity of the participants, but it has opened up the
06:22possibility for teams like SMU and for Indiana, programs that had not been successful in
06:29the past.
06:30SMU hasn't really been relevant since the Pony Express.
06:34They got into the playoff.
06:36Indiana never even had a Pony Express, Scott.
06:40They had you sitting in the stands watching 2 and 10.
06:43Right.
06:44Well, let me ask you this.
06:45Like, so I'm a, you know, I'm from the Bob Knight school of if you don't go to class,
06:52you're going to, A, never play again.
06:54B, you're going to run stairs for three hours at Assembly Hall.
06:58No one ever missed class.
06:59And every 100% of them in 29 years graduated with a degree and amounted to something in life.
07:05I have to tell you, I believe in that.
07:08I want to know if when this, as you as a, I'm, look, I don't know if I can say you're
07:14a traditionalist, but you're as old school as me in terms of our age bracket covering
07:19sports.
07:20None of this bothered you at all when they started giving all these kids.
07:24Now, like, even some of these chicks, like, don't get me started with those Cavender twins
07:29are worth a million and a half each.
07:31They both suck.
07:32No, I think, I don't have a problem with any of it because you only are granted the
07:38money you're worth.
07:39Now, sometimes you're granted less money than you're worth.
07:42That's, that happens.
07:43But no one is giving you money, millions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars,
07:48because it makes them feel good.
07:49They're doing it because you're of some value.
07:51Now, whether that is in the case of the Cavender twins, those, they are mostly compensated for
07:58their name, image, and likeness.
08:00Not necessarily their name, image, and likeness, the value to the brand.
08:05As Cooper Flagg, Juju Watkins are commonly, Cooper with Gatorade, AT&T, Juju Watkins with
08:13State Farm.
08:14Those circumstances are true name, image, and likeness deals, and they are compensated for
08:20that.
08:21But there are other athletes out there that are basically compensated for their value to
08:25their team.
08:26And we see that all the time.
08:29I think it may change if the House settlement, which you may have heard about, which is still
08:34in the process of being negotiated, and maybe not, maybe not negotiated, but the fine points
08:41are trying to be corrected.
08:43It still hasn't been approved by the judge.
08:45She heard the last court hearing last Monday, will know soon what her thoughts are on whether
08:52or not it's going to go forward.
08:53But when it does, there will be something similar to a salary cap, and there won't be the kind
09:00of name, image, and likeness that is bothering you where players are being paid for their value
09:05to the team.
09:06The only name, image, and likeness that will remain then will be the Cooper Flagg, Juju Watkins-style
09:12doing commercials for big companies.
09:14Donald Trump says no one has to listen to judges anymore.
09:17That just came across the wire.