Sep 14, 2024
THE PRICE: What It Takes to Win in
College Football’s Era of Chaos w/ Sports Writer John Talty
AZ TRT - S05 EP35 (251) 9-8-2024
What We Learned This Week
- NCAA fought lawsuits for years to avoid paying the players, had chance to solve the issue
- Sonny Vacarro (Nike fame) convinced Ed O’Bannon of UCLA to sue, led to NIL
- NCAA cannot enforce rules on NIL, free for all
- Transfer Portal happens 2x / year, can change teams 2x in the same year!
- Nick Saban quit at Alabama because of the chaos
- Likely resolution is a Salary Cap in College Football
Guest: John Talty, CBS Sports College Football Writer
College Football Segment with John Talty on What It Takes to Win in This Era of Chaos in College Football and Their New Book THE PRICE
“THE PRICE: What It Takes to Win in College Football’s Era of Chaos” (Harper, August 27, 2024) by six-time New York Times best-selling author Armen Keteyian and award-winning national college football reporter John Talty, is an in-depth and revealing investigation into the tumultuous state of college football—and the financial, physical, emotional, and psychological toll taken on everyone involved. Keteyian and Talty pull from over 200 interviews to exposes everything from the fall of the Pac-12 to the exploitation of underprivileged young athletes.
Their research culminates into a meticulously constructed portrait of the NCAA’s crumbling foundations and new inside information on college football’s biggest names—Nick Saban, Jim Harbaugh, Kirby Smart, Jimbo Fisher, and Lane Kiffin.
Two of the nation’s most respected sports journalists team up for a vital, hard-hitting investigation into the tumultuous state of big-time college football.
We are living in the Wild West of college sports. Name, Image and Likeness endorsements, the transfer portal, collectives, conference realignment, the powerful influence of media companies have all rendered the notion of amateur athletics a quaint relic of the past, replaced by a Brave New World where money and self-interest rule.
About the Authors
Armen Keteyian is an eleven-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and the author or coauthor of six New York Times bestsellers, including The System and Tiger Woods. He lives in Connecticut.
John Talty is the national college football
writer for CBS Sports and 247Sports and the author of
the Wall Street Journal bestseller The
Leadership Secrets of Nick Saban. He lives in
Alabama.
https://www.cbssports.com/writers/john-talty/
Here are some of the reveals in THE PRICE:
- Exclusive behind-the-scenes reporting on the bitter legal battle between University of Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh and the NCAA, and his chilly relationship with athletic director Warde Manuel
- An inside look at Nick Saban’s final year in college football and what ultimately drove him away from the sport
- New detailed, behind-the-scenes reporting surrounding the shocking demise of the Pac-12
- Inside the feud between Nick Saban and Jimbo Fisher
- The bombshell details behind a top college quarterback demanding tens of thousands of dollars from his head coach in order for him to play in an important game
- Exclusive reporting on the rise of Arizona football under head coach Jedd Fisch
- The behind-the-scenes story of Julian Sayin, a top-rated quarterback in the Class of 2024 and his decision to play for Nick Saban and the University of Alabama – a decision gone wrong when Saban suddenly retired
- A major profile on quite possibly the sport’s biggest power broker: The uber successful yet mysterious agent Jimmy Sexton
- A rare interview with controversial Auburn University trustee and mega-booster Jimmy Rane, the only billionaire in the state of Alabama
- Behind-the-scenes reporting on the rise and fall of Jimbo Fisher in College Station
- Unique access to and interviews with high-ranking members of the NCAA Enforcement staff, including Vice President Jon Duncan
- The inside story on Jaden Rashada and his college-aged agent who sent the sport into a tizzy when his $13.8 million deal to Florida blew up spectacularly
- Exclusive interviews with former NCAA president Mark Emmert who describes a broken system, assesses the mistakes he made during twelve-plus years guiding the organization, and his surprising predictions on where it’s all headed.
Notes:
Seg 1
The book is a deep dive into college football, the NIL and paying players.
John got into sports at age 14 writing for scouts.com. He has been in the business 20 years already, and covering college football for the last 15 years.
NCAA had their chance to change the system about playing paying players, but fought it for years. NCAA had beat prior lawsuits for years, where they would either win or pay very small amounts.
Sonny Vaccaro of Nike shoe fame had a moral reckoning. In the early 2000s he convinced UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon to sue.
Ultimately this partially led to the NIL - multiple lawsuits, and eventually California overturned the rule that the players need to be paid. Ed O’Bannon was the face of the lawsuit.
NCAA does not make money off football. They do make $ billions off of basketball and other sports.
A school might make $200 million in a year. Problem with the NIL - now that you have to pay players, lesser or non-revenue producing sports could be canceled. Example: women’s sports like softball or volleyball.
NCAA cannot enforce rules on NIL, it’s a total free-for-all, wild west with kids switching schools for paychecks.
Seg 2
The transfer portal is two times a year. A player can literally change schools every year, and even two times in the same year. Currently colleges are pushing for a salary cap, and this could be the likely solution.
Coach Nick, Sabin of Alabama quit after the 2023 season because of the chaos. Saban is someone who is all about control and likes to have his day planned to the minute.
Part of the reason he quit was because of the breakdown structure and players jumping ship. Saban worked on agreements, no promises, the players he recruited must work hard. Money portion blows out that plan.Game is changing rapidly and he decided to get out before it got bad. He did not want to leave Alabama Football in a bad position.
Jim Harbaugh of Michigan was busted on NCAA rules during 2019 in Covid. He received a multi-year penalty because they felt he was lying and denied the cover-up.
Similar situation for Bruce Pearl of Tennessee, basketball coach busted for lying about a barbecue with athletes.
Boosters spend $ millions currently on college programs. Unsure to see the future of where boosters will be in the new NIL or salary cap system. Salary Cap system may be coming in the next one or two years, 2025 or 2026 and a revenue sharing plan also.
Currently there is a potential settlement in legal action dealing with the whole issue as well as Title IV.
Related Article –
How Sonny Vaccaro accidentally created the Ed O'Bannon case
Jon Solomon explores the genesis of the Ed O'Bannon trial
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What We Learned This Week
· You don’t work in the NFL. You live in the NFL. – Al Davis, Raiders Owner
- White Oaks of Football – 5 Coaches who revolutionized how the game is played
- Paul Brown’s Operating System – responsible for so many of the ways football teams are run, from headsets, to play calling & playbooks, to scouting systems
- West Coast Bill Walsh – created an offensive philosophy by passing early to get the lead, and running late to keep the lead
- Pete Rozelle (former NFL Commissioner) propelled football into the #1 sport thru Television, starting with Monday Night Football in 1970
- Scouting for players is about elimination, never about finding. Need a Profile to know what you are looking for.
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