College Football Playoffs: Money's Impact on Team Success

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00:00Will the college playoff in football be about, I mean, it would seem to me it's going to be about money.

00:08Who spends the most money will be in that pack of 12, or when it goes to 14 or 16, it's going to be who's got the highest payrolls.

00:16Like Ohio State will be automatic.

00:18I mean, some of that's sort of self-fulfilling, though, Scott.

00:22I mean, the schools that have traditionally been successful are the schools that have the 100,000-seat stadiums

00:28and the schools that have the most booster and donor interest.

00:32So it's self-fulfilling.

00:34I don't necessarily think it changes the identity of the participants,

00:38but it has opened up the possibility for teams like SMU and for Indiana,

00:44programs that had not been successful in the past.

00:47SMU hasn't really been relevant since the Pony Express.

00:52They got into the playoff.

00:54Indiana never even had a Pony Express, Scott.

00:57They had you sitting in the stands watching 2 and 10.

01:01Right.

01:02Well, let me ask you this.

01:03Like, so, you know, I'm from the Bob Knight school of if you don't go to class,

01:10you're going to, A, never play again.

01:12B, you're going to run stairs for three hours at Assembly Hall.

01:16No one ever missed class, and every 100% of them in 29 years graduated with a degree

01:21and amounted to something in life.

01:23I have to tell you, I believe in that.

01:26I want to know if when this, as you as a, I'm, look, I don't know if I can say you're

01:31a traditionalist, but you're as old school as me in terms of our age bracket covering

01:37sports.

01:38None of this bothered you at all when they started giving all these kids.

01:41Now, like, even some of these chicks, like, don't get me started with those Cavender twins

01:47are worth a million and a half each.

01:48They both suck.

01:49No, I think I don't have a problem with any of it because you only are granted the money

01:56you're worth.

01:56Now, sometimes you're granted less money than you're worth.

01:59That's, that happens.

02:00But no one is giving you money, millions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars,

02:05because it makes them feel good.

02:07They're doing it because you're of some value.

02:09Now, whether that is in the case of the Cavender twins, those, they are mostly compensated for

02:16their name, image, and likeness, and not necessarily their name, image, and likeness, the value to

02:22the brand as Cooper flag, Juju Watkins are commonly Cooper with Gatorade, AT&T, Juju Watkins

02:31with State Farm.

02:32Those circumstances are true name, image, and likeness deals, and they are compensated for

02:38that.

02:38But there are other athletes out there that are basically compensated for their value to

02:43their team.

02:44And we see that all the time.

02:46I think it may change if the house settlement, which you may have heard about, which is still

02:52in the process of being negotiated, and maybe not, maybe not negotiated, but the fine points

02:59are trying to be corrected.

03:01It still hasn't been approved by the judge.

03:03She, she heard the last court hearing last Monday.

03:06We'll know soon what her thoughts are on whether or not it's going to go forward, but when

03:11it does, there will be something similar to a salary cap, and there won't be the kind

03:18of name, image, and likeness that is bothering you where players are being paid for their value

03:23to the team.

03:23The only name, image, and likeness that will remain then will be the Cooper flag, Juju Watkins

03:29style doing commercials for people.

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