“It’s A TERRIBLE System!” Bill O’Brien GOES OFF on NIL • The Hypocrisy Is UNREAL

[00:00:00]Look at this NIL conversation. This is This is wow.

[00:00:03]Look at these coaches all sudden now now everybody got to something to say about these college players. Now Now this is strong though. I give them props, but where was all this when them coaches were making all that money and just moving team to team when they wanted to, huh?

[00:00:18]>> I'm not going to be careful about how I say this. It's It is a It's a terrible system.

[00:00:23]I mean, the the fact that Look, the players to some level should be compensated. But there has to be some type of salary cap eventually a CBA.

[00:00:35]And the >> [laughter] >> It got to be a salary cap. Why? They got the money. They going to spend it somewhere. Why not give it to the kids?

[00:00:43]Let's go.

[00:00:44]>> I trust laws because you get too much disparity, right? The transfer portal has to be relegated or >> We got to put a cap because there's too much disparity. All the kids who not making money got to be on the same team with the kids making money. And I dare you let them live like that at 21. But it's okay if they go to the pros, they live like that cuz at 22 it's going to be disparity on that team, too. Or you going to the real world it's going to be disparity in that damn executive office.

[00:01:11]You think that CEO with that corner office is making the same as the mailman, the dude in the mailroom?

[00:01:18]It's a crock. It's a crock. It's okay.

[00:01:21]Everybody tries to protect their status quo so they could keep eating if they're eating.

[00:01:26]>> You know, regulated, excuse me, regulated. Regulated is a bad word.

[00:01:29]Regulated.

[00:01:31]To So you ain't got got guys transferring every year three three three four time transfers. I mean, I don't think that's the That's not a sustainable model. This is >> Okay, we don't Look, I I I Look, don't get it twisted. I agree. I don't want to see if it were my son going to nine different damn colleges. And I don't want that. At the same time, if if that's o- if that's open for discussion, why not? Like I don't see the hazards, even though I don't think it's the best route. You get it? Because look, these these schools are offering I know a kid the kid uh uh Johnson forget his first I think it's a Josiah Johnson.

[00:02:10]He went from high school where did he go Campbell Hall did he go to Campbell Hall?

[00:02:14]He went to college at Colorado year one.

[00:02:16]Year two he's at Texas. Then all of a sudden Spears Jr. reclassifies now they going to be teammates at Texas. And when I say he is the best point guard I've ever seen with my eyes at that young level not gigantic though smaller 6'1 6 ft I don't know where he is in his measurements.

[00:02:35]IQ floor general like never before. He sets traps and then he just gets there and detonates traps and laughs at you.

[00:02:43]He's insane. Watch when he go to Texas now. Bigger platform bigger school bigger institution obviously NIL more.

[00:02:51]And then you get the reclassifying of Spears and they're teammates people ain't even put that together in the media yet I ain't seen it. Maybe it's out there.

[00:02:59]What's wrong with that? That's his second that's his second college in two years. Watch what happens this year. You going to be like oh I'm glad they did that.

[00:03:06]>> This is not a sustainable model for college football.

[00:03:09]When you think back to the NIL NIL was meant for the Joe Hams the Doug Fluties the Matt Ryans you know the Bo Jacksons. Those were the faces of the program that brought the money their jersey sales and they they brought the money. That doesn't mean that kids shouldn't be compensated. I'm not saying that I think >> Nobody said you weren't saying that or you were saying that.

[00:03:28]>> [laughter] >> Stop it Bill LeRoy. Look.

[00:03:30]You went back to Doug Flutie and said that's what NIL was intended for and we just now getting NIL a few years ago.

[00:03:36]So that means we we a little late.

[00:03:39]This milk is spoiled.

[00:03:41]Okay?

[00:03:42]Let these kids be kids at the same time let them have the business success that comes with them being high profile kids.

[00:03:52]They're not normal so why you trying to give them normal rules? Right? That's like all of a sudden you grab a a jungle animal and we do it, domesticate it, that's fine, but you going to have to put some respect on that is a wild animal.

[00:04:07]You got to put some respect on how you treat it.

[00:04:10]Treat them like everything else. They not normal students. No Nobody has ever ever seen 80,000 people gather and tailgate for a damn chemistry test. It ain't happening and it won't happen. So, stop acting like you going to treat them like a chem major. You ain't.

[00:04:28]>> He should, but like it's a little bit crazy to where there's no rules. Like you don't know you have no idea what to believe. Every guy's got an agent. Some agents are very reputable, some of them are not.

[00:04:41]>> Oh, we don't know who to believe. Don't you have an agent?

[00:04:44]We don't know who to believe. Everybody has an agent if you got you got some dough coming in. Come on, man.

[00:04:49]>> Um, you know, charging these kids 10 to 15% on what they're making. Other agents that are very reputable are doing a great job with their with their with their clients, but every every high school kid that you're recruiting has an agent.

[00:05:02]Uh, is that what it was meant to be?

[00:05:04]>> [laughter] >> Well, that I don't give a damn what it was meant to be. This is where we are.

[00:05:08]You know what I mean? Like Listen to how slick it gets and I I I like Bill O'Brien. I have no problems with him. I just got problems with what he's saying right now. He stops saying this, we'd be perfect again. What are you talking about, dog? This is see-through.

[00:05:20]>> I don't know. I don't think so. I am old school. I love college football. I love my job at Boston College, but how in the world is this a sustainable model? I don't I think the more >> Well, that's on you. If you can't sustain the model, don't act like the car is the problem. Like you can't drive it. Like you ever think that? The car is not the problem. Maybe you just don't know how to drive.

[00:05:38]Don't get rid of that car. I need a car that could drive itself. Okay, that's the only car you could ride? And that actually happens. They say that the self-driving cars are making us worse drivers.

[00:05:48]Good, because when they're all when it's all autonomous, when everyone buys into self-driving, watch the traffic go away.

[00:05:57]Watch the accidents almost disappear.

[00:05:59]It's going to be insane, but until you have full adoption, you have this issue right now of chaos, cuz we got some driving, some automated, and this is a problem. I can't wait though when it's the Jetsons, when it's the Jetsons, it's going to be next level.

[00:06:14]>> Or you hear from Coach Saban and some of those the Urban Meyer and those guys. I mean, that'll help us hopefully to get a hold of it, but it's it's the toothpaste is out of the tube.

[00:06:23]So, if somebody says, "Well, what if they go to a cap?" Well, well, let's say the cap is 25 million. All right, well, what about these schools that are now at 50 million? Are they going to come back to 25 million? How does that work?

[00:06:36]>> Uh figure it out.

[00:06:37]>> [laughter] >> Figure it out. Blah, blah, blah. Like this whole Ooh, that was a Look, that was recruiting. That was just straight cap recruiting. Right? Straight cap recruiting. Come on, coach. Better than that. No, you're not. Actually, you got to always recruit, so I'm not trying to trip on that. But, let's not get into the guise of, "Oh, we don't know what to do with the money, and the kids don't know what to do with the money, and they're acting crazy and stuff." Yo, adjust.

[00:07:03]Just like when you tell the kids there's rule changes, adjust. "Oh, you can't hit them here anymore." Adjust. "Oh, we don't get that much time when we do this now. We only got a recruiting season during this. We can't text you here."

[00:07:16]Adjust. The ones who adjust and the ones who stay on the right side of it are the ones who succeed.

[00:07:22]Kirk Ciarrocca just fooled all y'all coaches.

[00:07:26]He was like, "Wait a minute.

[00:07:27]I see how this NIL's working. I see all these people over there getting these five stars, and then the five-star 17, 18 years young, and he ain't ready fully, but he's still a beast.

[00:07:38]I see y'all, and y'all wondering why y'all not winning those national championships, all you big story programs, or it's shifting. It ain't no more Alabama or even before that SC. It ain't no more of that. Why? Cuz y'all keep paying these young kids that money.

[00:07:52]He said, "I'mma get that money, the same amount, but I'mma spread it to these old cats that ain't as good maybe, but boy, they grown."

[00:08:01]They going to buy in. They going to be more professional.

[00:08:06]Me at 18 versus me at 23, I'm mopping 18. Mopping. I never did squats for real until I was 18.

[00:08:16]At 23, I was squatting 695 lb.

[00:08:21]Went from I don't know what I squatted at 18. What?

[00:08:24]135? 220? I don't know. It wasn't 695.

[00:08:30]>> [laughter] >> And imagine if I was still in college when I was in my second year in Buffalo.

[00:08:34]What? I WOULD HAVE DESTROYED THAT DUDE WHO JUST GOT OUT OF HIGH school named me.

[00:08:39]Simple as that.

[00:08:41]I was bench pressing 495 at 23. You know what I was bench pressing at 18?

[00:08:48]135? 155?

[00:08:51]Come on, man. Kid Signetti just fooled all these coaches. So now the coaches don't try to fool us as parents, fool us as as as players, fool us as youth level growing up, graduating to this level.

[00:09:03]Don't do that. High schoolers, don't fool us. We see you.

[00:09:07]I ain't going to call it BS. I'm just going to say you got to adjust, brother.

[00:09:11]To the East Blackwards, CC.