College Football Shakeup: NCAA's Rules Under Scrutiny
Ex-NFL players eye NCAA return, stirring major shifts in college sports and sparking debates on amateur status. College sports have a huge problem to sort out.
Video Transcript
Man, there is just an absolute craziness going on with college football right now, and really college sports for that matter.
Southeastern Conference and Big Ten are now debating whether or not to accept players that were in the NFL to come back into college football.
I love the fact that they're challenging every single rule that the NCAA and their pathetic ways have been trying to install for the last 75 years.
I love the fact that kids today are challenging all these idiotic rules.
What's to say if a kid had eligibility left that he can't go to college?
Why?
Because the National Communist Association of America tells you so?
That that's their way of making laws and saying bylaws that will never hold up in court?
SEC and Big Ten has made it clear that they don't want these players to come back.
You know why they're doing that?
Because they're doing it for public appearance.
This will get annihilated in a courtroom.
You're not gonna go to a judge and say to a judge, "Hey, Your Honor, I'll tell you what I'd like to do.
I was there in the NFL.
I was at a job, and you know what?
The job fired me.
I still had an opportunity to go back because I had another year of eligibility to go play in college."
These kids are now professional athletes now in college.
That notion that you are amateur sports does not exist, and quite frankly, it hasn't existed for over 40 years.
The only reason that you couldn't go back to college is because the NCAA and all of the conservative people that are in the media were saying this: "Hey, we gotta keep and protect the sanctity of amateur athletics."
This is not amateur athletics.
Not when coaches are making $15 million a year.
There's a quarterback right now at the University of Miami.
His name is Darrian Mensah, and this kid's making six and a half million dollars.
Do you know he makes more money as the starting quarterback for the University of Miami than Shedeur Sanders will make this year as a quarterback for the Cleveland Browns?
I mean, he's gonna make more money than potentially a starting quarterback in Arizona with Carson Beck.
He's gonna make as much money as Jacoby Brissett.
Don't tell me about amateur sports.
College sports is no longer amateur, it's professional sports.
You got both sides now paying exorbitant amounts of money, and I don't belittle the kids.
By the way, there's an old saying that goes like this: "Hey, dude, don't hate the player, hate the game."
Trump came up with something years and years ago.
"Hey, you don't like the tax code?
Change it.
You don't like the way things are going?
Change it."
There's no way the SEC and the Big Ten are gonna win these cases in court.
There's already an injunction with a player that's going to LSU, and they're allowing him because guess who sparked this?
That was Lane Kiffin.
Lane Kiffin, again, you could say whatever you want about him, but LSU was the first school, and now you have Texas Tech saying, "Yeah, we'll look at kids that were potentially gonna be NFL players and bringing them back to the Red Raiders program."
I don't have a problem with that.
Why should you?
I love it.
I love the fact that these kids today are getting the opportunity to do those things and to get a chance to make as much money as they possibly can.
For decades, conferences, television networks, and coaches have made millions and millions of dollars off of the cattle that they called student athletes.
I'm not gonna use the word that I'd like to use, but I'll use the word cattle.
These guys are like cattle, and it-- we were cattle for years, that coaches made money.
Listen, I don't have a problem with a coach making $14, $13 million a year.
But when you start saying that a kid, there's a problem with a kid making money off his name and likeness, what's your issue with this?
Could you imagine what a guy like Tim Tebow would be making today, or a guy like Deion Sanders, or a guy like Michael Irvin or Brian Bosworth?
These guys would be taking out mortgages with homes in eight different states.
It's great that the NCAA is finally getting called out for what they have done for decades.
That is holding student athletes back.
You know, college is supposed to be a place where, guess what?
Like Mark Zuckerberg, he goes and creates Meta, Facebook.
Or Bill Gates, you know, these guys go and they create great brands.
It used to mean that.
Well, guess what?
That's what kids are doing now in college.
They're creating brands.
They're creating business.
They're creating wealth, and I love it, and I love the fact that you're seeing college football scrambling right now, and they're trying to put the genie back in the b- in the jar.
They're never gonna be able to do this.
And in light of that, you have gambling involved now in sports.
Gambling and paying student athletes.
You gotta love it.
