July 2, 2025 • 36 mins
College Football Playoff format changes, Nick Saban rumors, preseason Top 25, and NIL-GO enforcement—this video dives deep into everything shaping 2025 college football. From mediation talks between the SEC and Big Ten to wild rumors about Saban’s potential return, I break down the power plays behind the scenes. I reveal my full preseason Top 25 and highlight which teams are sleeper threats. You’ll also get an insider breakdown on Deloitte’s NIL‑GO platform, the algorithmic crackdown on pay‑for‑play, and what that means with state laws already pushing back (Tennessee, Texas, Missouri). This is unfiltered, high‑stakes CFB talk—for coaches, fans, boosters, and anyone who loves the game. If you want the no‑BS truth behind the headlines, this is your must‑watch breakdown.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Oh, the College Football Playoff. We are gonna need mediation
for the big ten in the SEC to get a
new playoff for a mat for twenty twenty six. There
are rumors about Nick Saban coming out of retirement, and
I'm gonna tell you whether they are true or false,
and what Nick Castianos is over there talking about. When
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it comes to the Alabama game in Florida State and
I revealed my preseason top twenty five, there was some
commotion about it. So I'm gonna explain how this whole
thing works. And also nil go is a real thing
when it comes to name, image and likeness. I'm going
to explain to you the challenges that are going to
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be faced in college football as we go through this
whole transition into the salary cap era. And let's get
to it. And if you don't know, I'm George Reister,
former NFL tight end, former College Football All Conference player,
and a man who's covered college football, Fox, ESPN, everywhere
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else and the man that you will see on the
tube this year as well. So welcome in. This is
where college football is explained simply. You're gonna get it. Truthfully,
You're gonna get it. Honestly, and you're gonna get it
real even if it hurts your feelings a little bit.
But let's get to it, and you guys make sure
that you guys like share, subscribe, tell a friend about
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the show. So we're gonna start though with the college
Football playoff format because right now we're at twelve teams.
It was modified from last year when it came to
you know, the conference is getting automatic buys and all
of that, right, so now we're in a situation where
it's straight seating. So yes they will there will be
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automatic berths for the ACC, Big Ten, Big twelve, an SEC,
and yes there will be a group of five one
as well, but instead of them being seated one through
four the highest four, now it'll be wherever they are ranked,
which does make a little more sense. But we are
going to end up needing mediation for the SEC and
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the Big Ten to get a new college football playoff
format in twenty twenty six because right now, neither side
can bend without seeming weak. But if a third party
is involved, like a mediator or a former judge retired judge,
then they can always be blamed for any concessions that
they may and This is the problem with college football
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right now, is that you have so many cooks in
the kitchen and everybody has competing interests. The Big Ten
has competing interests against the SEC, against the ACC, the
SEC with the Big twelve, and so on and so forth.
That's the thing, and that's the difference between the NFL
and college football is that the NFL they all have
the same interest, which is money, and college football has
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the same interest, except for there's a consolidation of power there.
And so this is where we are going to kick
it off, because for twenty twenty six, people are anticipating
the playoff getting expanded from twelve teams up to sixteen teams.
But there's a difference in how we get to sixteen teams.
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There's a five plus eleven method which is similar to
what we have now. And then there is what Tony
Pettiti at the Big Ten is proposing, which is basically
a play in which I absolutely hate. But the sticking
point of all of these negotiations is whether the SEC
is going to play nine conference games or whether they're
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going to play eight conference games. So I need everybody
to throw your bias out the window and listen to
actual facts, because there are numbers and facts that matter
very deeply in this The SEC wants you to taken
to the count the FPI from ESPN, which is clearly
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biased to the SEC, and I've made videos about it,
because how in the hell could you have Alabama ranked
in front of Oregon at the end of the season
and ranked them from the other teams that were in
the College Football playoffs makes no sense to anybody else where.
The four loss Alabama team and including their bowl game, Yeah, how.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Could you do that?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But the difference is is that the Big Ten, which
is the other power conference, they're saying, we play nine
conference games, so why shouldn't you. So here is where
the math matters, because if you average it out, when
you play nine conference games, that averages four and a
half losses per team that has to be spread along
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the conference. Well, when you play eight conference games, that's
only four losses. So now when you play a non
conference schedule like some of these SEC teams play.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Now mind you, it's not everybody. Well, when you are
only playing nine.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Power five games as an SEC team, that means that
you have three free wins. Now, when you are in
the Big Ten, you must play a Power four team now,
so then that puts you into territory of that's ten
power four games, ten Power five games, Power four. However
you want to say that's the difference, is that half
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a game loss when you spread it over to the
conference and then you add in the November cupcake when
everybody else is playing conference games that are you know,
number fifteen versus number eighteen, and then the SEC is
playing you know, Devirve or East Middle Tennessee Tech State.
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That's not the same. So it's an artificial inflating of
the rankings, which then makes your schedule seem that much
tougher because the teams are that And if we're being honest,
Alabama and Georgia have been carrying the water for the
rest of the SEC. Outside of outlier years like that
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twenty nineteen LSUTA.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It just is what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And neither one of these people wants to blink first.
And the reason why is because bending makes you look weak,
and neither Greg Sanki nor Tony Pettiti wants that to happen.
And that's why a third party is going to be
necessary to get this done. If there is going to
be a change at all in the college football playoffs.
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But the reality is if they don't do that, we
are going to be stuck in the system where we're
at right now. Now, the automatic qualifiers. I haven't spoken
on this outside of you know, outside of social media,
but the automatic qualifiers, Now, on one hand, I hate
it because it's not competitive, right, But on the other hand,
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here is the part that it does do. It also
allows teams to not just try to scrape in their
worst teams into it. But it does devalue the regular
season because the difference between finishing first in the SEC
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and like eighth in the SEC last year, because these
conferences are so big, was one game, and the difference
in the Big Ten between finishing third and eighth was
one game. So the difference is is that you're still
going to have, if you did have the automatic qualifiers,
teams jockeying for position at the end of the season.
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Now that's a positive thing. I know people are of
the opinion at first that yes, it would devalue the
regular season, but it would also allow there to be
significantly more games at the end of the season that
matter in terms of seeding. Like, yes, the top two
that are gonna go and play in the championship. Game
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may be resolved already, but the other ones may not.
Look at last year, we knew Texas going into the
last game basically that Texas was going to be in
the SEC championship who they were going to be playing.
That was a whole different story. Now if you're a
jockey and for a position in three and four, same thing,
same thing in the Big Ten as well, not map
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all right, Next thing up, Nick saban the king of
college football, may be returning to the sidelines. That's what
rumors are saying. And if this is the first time
that you've heard this, first time you've been here at
the Unafraid Show, here's what you need to know right
now and the thing that you need to learn. I
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don't come on here with nobs. I don't come on
here with rumors and innuendos and all of that stuff.
If I tell you I know something, I know it.
But I'm going to tell you this. There are Nick
saban us and the people that these rumors have come
from have also been right about Dion going to Colorado
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before the whole Jackson State thing blew up and he
decided to go there. The same people that were right
about Nick Saban retiring are the same people telling me
right now that Nick Saban may be ready to come
out of retirement. And a lot of it has to
do with the legislation that has passed with the House settlement.
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Now the question is where would Nick Saban go. That's
a whole different story because he is the goat and
there will be no shortage of teams or people that
would want him on their sideline. But the team that
he just left, Alabama, they're in a situation where bringing
back Nick Saban ain't really a reality. You have Kaylin
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de Boor, who they signed to one hundred million dollar deal,
and when you look at the amount of buyout money,
that's very prohibitive. We're talking if he doesn't perform to
Nick Saban's standards or what Alabama fans have grown accustomed
to for the seventeen years of Nick Saban, then people
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are gonna want him out. But firing him is jimbo
Fisher level prohibitive. We're talking seventy plus million dollars. And
then the coaching staff as well. So for Greg Sanki,
no excuse me, Alabama's athletic director who has been talking
about funds and nil and all of this stuff. We
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don't have the funds as everybody else paying that sort
of buy out don't really seem realistic. So the question
is if Nick Saban did come back, where would he go?
Where would fit? Because he spent the majority of his
career in the South, that's the question. Where would he
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be willing to go? Yes, he went to Michigan State,
but where would he be willing to go? And because
there's not a question of who would want him, it
is where he would go and if he wants to
be there. So now the next thing is, in terms
of the Nick saving thing is Alabama has a game
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on what's that August thirtieth? Alabama plays on August thirtieth
versus Florida State. And why does that matter? It matters
because this man right here, mister Thomas Castiganos, has been
sitting there talking big trash about Alabama. He has been
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talking big and talking greasy. Now, Thomas Castiganos, who is
the quarterback over there at Florida State right now? He
was at Boston College the previous years, and he made
two statements in an interview with Pete Nakos from on
three he said, Nick Saban isn't walking through that door,
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which is one hundred percent right, but came to the boar,
ain't no slouch. And then he said, I feel like
I tore up the acc by my damn self for
the last two years and now I'm with the squad. Now,
I gotta be honest with you. Thomas Casianos has had
some nice, nice moments, but he has not been a
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force in the world of college football. Yes, he has been, okay,
and I'm not getting ready to sit here and act
because playing college football and playing quarterback is very difficult. However,
when we look at his stats, when we pull them up,
we're looking at Thomas Casianos sophomore year nine for three
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thirty fifty seven percent completions, twenty two hundred yards, fifteen touchdowns,
fourteen interceptions. And then last year with Bill O'Brien, him
and Bill O'Brien fell out, so that went away, and
he was completing sixty one percent of his passes for
eighteen touchdowns and only five interceptions. So last year he
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was playing pretty good if we're being honest. But the
idea that you would say this prior to the season, Yo,
this is wild, but that also shows what's been going
on at Alabama and people are not scared of Alabama
right now. So on one hand, you got Thomas cat Calcianos.
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Because listen, you guys have seen on the Unafraid Show.
I've interviewed Dabo Sweeney, interview Dan Lanning, Jeff Fish, Whittingham, Mulling,
a whole bunch of other coaches which you guys should
go and check out. And I, of course athletic directors,
players all this stuff. I want them to say things
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like this when they are interviewed, but I would also
be sitting there like, yo, did he just say this today?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Did he just say this?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Because this is going to automatically draw a headline. And
I'm not one of them people as a former player,
because people will sit up there and tell you, oh,
don't give people bulletin board material.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
That's bs.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
If somebody is interested in beating you, then yes, they
are going to be beating you already, or they are
going to care already. Do you think that Alabama's gonna
be walking in with any additional motivation after last season
and the disappointment that they put up because Thomas Castiano
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said Nick Sabantas are walking through that door. Man, I'm
gonna be honest in my football experience, that lasts about
one quarter. That's it, one single solitary quarter, that energy
and excitement. And yes, Thomas Casianos is going to have
to put up or shut up because Florida State's coming
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off of two to ten season last year, and that
ain't gonna cut it over there at Florida State. But
the thing is, there is blood in the water in
Tuscaloosa and all the college football sharks are circling. So
let's talk about it. Because first of all, I could
talk all day about that candid interview with Thomas Casianos.
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But here is the thing is that he said, I've
dreamed of moments like this. I've dreamed of playing against Alabama.
They don't have Nick Saban to save them. I just
don't see him stopping me. Now. When I read that quote,
I thought back to my interview with Dabosweny earlier this
week spring where he repeatedly said the Clemses accomplishments over
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his tenure are only second to Nick Saban, not Alabama,
just Nick Saban. And remember, Davo has no reason to
disrespect Alabama. He's an alumni and tabuas Casianos might have
been bold, but he ain't speaking out a turn because
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nobody's afraid of Alabama right now. Yes, their roster is
still pretty damn good. But I guarantee you that Wisconsin
is sitting up there in Madison thinking them same thoughts
that Thomas Casiano just expressed. They they're looking at that
date saying, oh man, that could be nice. That could
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be a nice win right there. And Kaitlin Debor is
a great coach. He has not had Nick Saban's success.
Nobody has. And you know that Alabama needs defending. When
none other than Paul Finnbaum is out here responding to
on Alabama's behalf, saying that Cassiano's comments are a terrible
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look for him diversity, and that Alabama will go in
there and obliterate them. Are we sure, though, because August
thirtieth is coming and somebody is going to get humble.
Do you think it will be Thomas Cassianos or do
you think it will be Alabama?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Or will it be.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Paul fine Bam whose show is going to blow up
with callers if they lose that game? Oh they are
going to the Boosters. Ain't gonna be paying for that
that house no more. They are going to be red
thirty eight hot with Kaitlin Debor, and they're gonna be
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starting a different quarterback. Will it be Killing Russell, Will
it be Austin Mack, Will it be Ty Simpson? We
think it's gonna be Ty Simpson, but we shall see.
So now let's get on to the good stuff, though,
because I put out my preseason college for Football Top
twenty five and here's how it looked. So this was
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the subject of debate, and I've told people my college
football preseason rankings they are based upon, yes, the things
that matter in the off season, which is recruiting, coaching, transfer, portal,
returning roster, and your schedule. Those are the things that matter.
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But the difference between my preseason top twenty five and
other analysts out there is the fact that they take
their preseason top twenty five and they let that impact
what happens with the rest of their rankings. And I
can tell you this, if we start the college football
season and we get games played, and I don't care
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if who it is, if you have not played a
good schedule, you will not continue to be ranked high.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's just a fact.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
But the thing is that people allow their rankings in
the preseason to control and dictate the rest of their schedule,
the rest of their rankings. No, because at the beginning
of the season, we have some very good games at
the beginning of the college football season, including like what
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we got Texas Ohio State. So yes, the winner of
that game is probably probably going to end up very,
very highly ranked in the seasons. Now, I want to
go to the to the schedule at the beginning of
season because I have Clemson number one, and Clemson starts
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off with LSU my number eighteen. So if Clemson starts
off and mind you, because I throw the rankings away. However,
we do know that LSU has a good roster, just
the fact they are coach well with Brian Kelly, despite
the results of the last three years on defense. So
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if Clemson put goes out and puts on a really
good show, yes you're gonna have an opportunity to be
ranked number one. But at the same time, if we
look at that game between in Week one between Texas
and Ohio State at nine am on the thirtieth, if
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we look at that game and in Ohio State or
Clemson just absolutely just knocks the skin off the other team.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Then yes they may go to number one.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
But if you don't play nobody in the beginning of
the season, no, you are going to be ranked significantly
lower no matter what happens. But there were some teams
that people were upset about. You had BYU. Fans all
upset the Utah is ranked. Oh BYU. We had a
great season last year. You schnuck through the cracks last
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season and your quarterback may or may not be there.
And if we're being honest, you don't have a great roster.
You have a good roster, not a great roster. So yes,
Utah with two potential first round linemen with an upgrade
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at quarterback after playing with their fifth string last year, Yes,
they're gonna be ranked tired in you. But I want
to look at number three Penn State because if you
followed my timeline, everybody knows not a huge Drew Aller
fan in terms of I don't think that he's the
next Josh Allen like other people are saying.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Believe the kid is.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Good, he's talented, but he's got to put way more
on film than what we've seen for me to believe
that this is the year that Penn State and their
head coach James Franklin get over the hump that they're
gonna get over the Ohio State hump, that they're gonna
beat Oregon in the white out at the end of September,
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that they're going to be able to win a national championship,
win big games. Are we supposed to believe it? But
here's the thing, the reason why they're ranked number three.
Good offensive line coming back, two of the best backs
in the country coming back.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
They have a veteran quarterback.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
If he takes a leap like k Klubnick did last year,
then yes, hold it for story, and so yes, those
are the ones that just drove people upset.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
They were like, come.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
On, man, look at them. How could you have Clemson
ranked number one coaching returning quarterback, best defensive line in
college football, probably good offensive line, two of the top
five or six wide receivers in all of college football,
same offensive coordinator for years. They put out a good defense.
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What are we talking about? There is nothing to discuss
when it comes to Clemson except for yeah, they're probably
playing good football. Because I'm looking at rosters coaches, stability,
dominant position groups, everything in between. And in the coming
weeks I will be putting out My next week will
be the college football playoff predictions. You guys are gonna
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love that, the bold predictions for the college football season.
Gonna love that too. I know you know you will,
so make sure you come back to the Unafraid Show
for that as well.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
But one of the other ones that I'm big on
is Illinois at number twelve, and people are confused by this.
They are the Indiana of this season. They avoid Penn
State and they avoid Oregon on their schedule, so that
helps them out.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
But here is the thing.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
They're coached by Brett Beilamo, who's coached and had much
success in Wisconsin, coach in the SEC against U well
at OURC and SAW. But now he's been able to
build a roster and retain his roster. They from a
ten win season last year, sixteen returning starters, eighteen from
the bowl game. That's a recipe for success and having
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a good season. So yes, Illinois belongs there.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
The one team that I am a little bit weary
of in this top twenty five is the Florida Gators
because what's the status of DJ Lagway and his shoulder.
What's the status because their schedule, we know it's tough,
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but what's the status because they could go, you know,
anywhere from two to ten to ten and two.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
The range is huge. So that's the question.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
But remember the final rankings will look significantly different than
the rankings at the beginning of the sea. All right,
next thing up, So we got nil go and the
war on booster money.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yes, you heard it right, there is a war.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
If you listen to the news that everybody they'll tell
you it's a war, old Christmas war, old Christianity war
out there, war on this There is a war on
booster money happening right now. And you gotta buckle up
because the new villain in college football it ain't Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It's not even the NC double A.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I'm talking about Deloitte, who has started nil go. That's
the financial consulting giant, and they're behind that new nio
go system, which is part of the NC doublea's new
enforcement strategy when it comes to the NC DOUBLEA House settlement,
and the new enforcement arm is the College Sports Commission.
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But the question is what does it do? Because it
forces athlete to log their NIL deals over six hundred
dollars into an online system. Now that system is then
going to use an algorithm to flag pay for play deals.
Now they're gonna check player's market value, try to sniff
out booster connections because boosters have to register with them
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as well. And Deloitte claims that seventy percent of booster
deals from the past would have been denied, but ninety
percent of deals with publicly traded companies would have been approved.
Now this is not small. It just means that the
old system of handing the player one hundred thousand dollars
to sign autographs at a car dealership, that's probably over.
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This move, honestly, is about power. It's about control and
trying to clean up the chaotic NIL space. Let's be real,
the money that kids are getting paid right now for
inio is not INIL.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
It's pay for play. It is one hundred percent pay
for play.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And I believe, now this is coming from a guy
who has a son playing college football. I would love
for him to be making millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Would love it.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
That would make my life a lot easier, make his
life easy. But here is the point is that if
we're being honest, yes, the players, mind you, I'm the
guy who's testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee
on name, image and likeness. But the money that the
players are getting paid now is not commensurate with their
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actual nil value. It's not this is pay for play.
These are schools that are saying we want this kid,
we will pay him more than another school will pay
him because we gotta have them. Okay, but the issue
is that does not create a level playing ground. And
in college football, the most important thing that the game
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can do is create parody because for fans, every fan
of every university needs to believe. For college football to
thrive and continue to grow, particularly at the pace that
it is, fans need to believe that over a three
year span that if they get the coach right, if
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they get high school recruiting right, and they get the
transfer portal right, then they can have a chance to
win their conference. Every school in a major conference needs
to have that type of hope for their fans. If
they can get them three things right, they'll be Okay. Well,
the issue is, now, that's not the reality, because if
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we're being real, under what circumstances. Could Vanderbilt or Rutgers
win a national championship or Stanford none, zero zilts not
no circumstances, So there need to be circumstances why that
can happen. But what's going to happen with nil go
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is this is that first thing, you have a lot
of players who have signed deals.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
That are not going to get pushed through.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
So they have a signed deal with a collective for
a certain amount of money. Let's say it's a half
a million dollars, but with the salary cap at twenty
and a half million, let's say you're at a big
football school, that's seventeen million dollars for football at eighty
five scholarships, we're not even to talk about when it
goes up to one O five eighty five scholarships, that's
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only two hundred thousand dollars per player. So to get
one kid up to half a million dollars, three kids
gotta go down. Sorry, excuse me, four kids got to
go down to one hundred thousand dollars. That's just for
one kid on eighty five scholarships. So now imagine the
map to get somebody or two or three players to
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like seven hundred thousand dollars because these players do have value,
but their name, image and likeness, we're being real, ain't
worth that much. Because let's look at the NFL. There
are very few players in the NFL that have significant
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that have significant endorsements. One of the greatest defensive linemen
of all time, Aaron Donald, was signed with Nike, making
about one hundred thousand dollars a year from Nike Aaron Donald,
So why on earth would you think that if one
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of the best defensive ends who's popular with its flexing
and workout videos playing with knives are super popular, likable
everything else, If he's only making one hundred thousand dollars
from Nike, what makes you think that your defensive end
coming out of high school who ain't played a damn
snap is worth five six seven hundred thousand dollars worth
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of NIL not He might be worth that in pay
for play, but not INIL. Those are two separate things.
So they're trying to get a salary cap FUR and
an enforceable way to do that for college football. But
the question is obviously the enforcement is the biggest issue,
but how much money can they get to kids through
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NIL and that's going to be through publicly traded companies
because you are going to have boosters who try to
push it through.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
And that's where the gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Is going to be because there are going to be
lawsuits that happen when a school, let's say that number
that I said, half a million dollars, the kids signed
a deal for a half a million dollars, when the
school says, y'all, we only got two hundred thousand dollars
for you from from the school, and then we got
to figure out how much of that three hundred thousand
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dollars we're really going to be able to get to
you through nil. That's where you are going to have
lawsuits because families are basing their living lifestyle. Now I've
talked to parents about this based upon those numbers, and
that's where it's gonna get tricky.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Tricky, And you might say, oh, they're just gonna skirt
the rules.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Well, the issue is is that if the enforcement is possible,
if the enforcement is real, athletic directors, head coaches, and
school presidents are going to get hit with one hundred
thousand plus fines.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And as soon as you start hitting, the coach might
take one on the chant.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
But after you start hitting the athletic director and the
president with with with fines, oh yeah, oh yeah, this
is gonna get stopped immediately. That's gonna get that's gonna
get nipped in the button. I'm gonna tell you that
right now. And that's where the first set of lawsuits
is going to come from. And then obviously the second
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set of lawsuits was from Title nine, but we're not
even gonna get into that right now.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
But then the other part of it is, in addition
to kids.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Suing schools, schools and boosters are then going to sue
nil GO when they get blocked. They are going to say,
you are stopping people from making money and that's Unamerican.
And that's where the gotcha, gotcha is going to be
is that are the courts going to hold up the
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nil ghost status? And this is where the university is
potentially signing on with the enforcement agency and saying that
no matter what the state laws are, that they are
going to abide by it and they are going to
have no right to appeal in terms of fight it legally.
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That's where the question is going to be because you
have the university, well, you have the state of Tennessee.
And there's a video up on Unafraid show about this
right now that I put up today where the University
of Tennessee has put in a new bill that says
that if Tennessee, Memphis, or any of the others, Vanderbilt,
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any of the state law of state schools, if they
violate NCAA law, that they cannot be punished.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Do you realize what are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
On one hand, they're asking Congress to act, but then
on the other hand you got states and acting laws
that are going to run counter to that. This is
the problem with college football. We do not have everybody
on the same page trying to make college football better.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
It is all self interest.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And if you love college football like I love college football,
then we need to figure out somebody to be in
charge to be able to do this. And honestly, and
I'm not just saying this as a self serving interest,
but people like me are the people that need to
be making decisions for college football.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Study the game.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yes, the presidents and former athletic directors they know things
and all of this stuff on the College Football Committee
and all of.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
That, but they got other full time jobs. They not
in this.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
In the trenches on a day to day basis. Who
else to govern this besides somebody who knows loves college
football and is in this knee deep. Come on, man,
just the truth. But here is the thing in Iogo
is the biggest threat to booster the lab programs that
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we've ever seen. So the question is what's going to
happen and we will talk about that more as the
weeks come on. You guys, make sure that you gotta
subscribe to Unafraid Show. We got a discord coming, we
got game watches coming, everything to engage you guys with
our community. So be one of us us, get it
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one of us. But that's a wrap for today. From
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Rumors Top twenty five talk nil Wars. We are just
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Oh, the College Football Playoff. We are gonna need mediation
for the big ten in the SEC to get a
new playoff for a mat for twenty twenty six. There
are rumors about Nick Saban coming out of retirement, and
I'm gonna tell you whether they are true or false,
and what Nick Castianos is over there talking about. When
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it comes to the Alabama game in Florida State and
I revealed my preseason top twenty five, there was some
commotion about it. So I'm gonna explain how this whole
thing works. And also nil go is a real thing
when it comes to name, image and likeness. I'm going
to explain to you the challenges that are going to
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be faced in college football as we go through this
whole transition into the salary cap era. And let's get
to it. And if you don't know, I'm George Reister,
former NFL tight end, former College Football All Conference player,
and a man who's covered college football, Fox, ESPN, everywhere
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else and the man that you will see on the
tube this year as well. So welcome in. This is
where college football is explained simply. You're gonna get it. Truthfully,
You're gonna get it. Honestly, and you're gonna get it
real even if it hurts your feelings a little bit.
But let's get to it, and you guys make sure
that you guys like share, subscribe, tell a friend about
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the show. So we're gonna start though with the college
Football playoff format because right now we're at twelve teams.
It was modified from last year when it came to
you know, the conference is getting automatic buys and all
of that, right, so now we're in a situation where
it's straight seating. So yes they will there will be
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automatic berths for the ACC, Big Ten, Big twelve, an SEC,
and yes there will be a group of five one
as well, but instead of them being seated one through
four the highest four, now it'll be wherever they are ranked,
which does make a little more sense. But we are
going to end up needing mediation for the SEC and
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the Big Ten to get a new college football playoff
format in twenty twenty six because right now, neither side
can bend without seeming weak. But if a third party
is involved, like a mediator or a former judge retired judge,
then they can always be blamed for any concessions that
they may and This is the problem with college football
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right now, is that you have so many cooks in
the kitchen and everybody has competing interests. The Big Ten
has competing interests against the SEC, against the ACC, the
SEC with the Big twelve, and so on and so forth.
That's the thing, and that's the difference between the NFL
and college football is that the NFL they all have
the same interest, which is money, and college football has
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the same interest, except for there's a consolidation of power there.
And so this is where we are going to kick
it off, because for twenty twenty six, people are anticipating
the playoff getting expanded from twelve teams up to sixteen teams.
But there's a difference in how we get to sixteen teams.
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There's a five plus eleven method which is similar to
what we have now. And then there is what Tony
Pettiti at the Big Ten is proposing, which is basically
a play in which I absolutely hate. But the sticking
point of all of these negotiations is whether the SEC
is going to play nine conference games or whether they're
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going to play eight conference games. So I need everybody
to throw your bias out the window and listen to
actual facts, because there are numbers and facts that matter
very deeply in this The SEC wants you to taken
to the count the FPI from ESPN, which is clearly
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biased to the SEC, and I've made videos about it,
because how in the hell could you have Alabama ranked
in front of Oregon at the end of the season
and ranked them from the other teams that were in
the College Football playoffs makes no sense to anybody else where.
The four loss Alabama team and including their bowl game, Yeah, how.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Could you do that?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But the difference is is that the Big Ten, which
is the other power conference, they're saying, we play nine
conference games, so why shouldn't you. So here is where
the math matters, because if you average it out, when
you play nine conference games, that averages four and a
half losses per team that has to be spread along
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the conference. Well, when you play eight conference games, that's
only four losses. So now when you play a non
conference schedule like some of these SEC teams play.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Now mind you, it's not everybody. Well, when you are
only playing nine.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Power five games as an SEC team, that means that
you have three free wins. Now, when you are in
the Big Ten, you must play a Power four team now,
so then that puts you into territory of that's ten
power four games, ten Power five games, Power four. However
you want to say that's the difference, is that half
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a game loss when you spread it over to the
conference and then you add in the November cupcake when
everybody else is playing conference games that are you know,
number fifteen versus number eighteen, and then the SEC is
playing you know, Devirve or East Middle Tennessee Tech State.
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That's not the same. So it's an artificial inflating of
the rankings, which then makes your schedule seem that much
tougher because the teams are that And if we're being honest,
Alabama and Georgia have been carrying the water for the
rest of the SEC. Outside of outlier years like that
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twenty nineteen LSUTA.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It just is what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And neither one of these people wants to blink first.
And the reason why is because bending makes you look weak,
and neither Greg Sanki nor Tony Pettiti wants that to happen.
And that's why a third party is going to be
necessary to get this done. If there is going to
be a change at all in the college football playoffs.
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But the reality is if they don't do that, we
are going to be stuck in the system where we're
at right now. Now, the automatic qualifiers. I haven't spoken
on this outside of you know, outside of social media,
but the automatic qualifiers, Now, on one hand, I hate
it because it's not competitive, right, But on the other hand,
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here is the part that it does do. It also
allows teams to not just try to scrape in their
worst teams into it. But it does devalue the regular
season because the difference between finishing first in the SEC
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and like eighth in the SEC last year, because these
conferences are so big, was one game, and the difference
in the Big Ten between finishing third and eighth was
one game. So the difference is is that you're still
going to have, if you did have the automatic qualifiers,
teams jockeying for position at the end of the season.
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Now that's a positive thing. I know people are of
the opinion at first that yes, it would devalue the
regular season, but it would also allow there to be
significantly more games at the end of the season that
matter in terms of seeding. Like, yes, the top two
that are gonna go and play in the championship. Game
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may be resolved already, but the other ones may not.
Look at last year, we knew Texas going into the
last game basically that Texas was going to be in
the SEC championship who they were going to be playing.
That was a whole different story. Now if you're a
jockey and for a position in three and four, same thing,
same thing in the Big Ten as well, not map
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all right, Next thing up, Nick saban the king of
college football, may be returning to the sidelines. That's what
rumors are saying. And if this is the first time
that you've heard this, first time you've been here at
the Unafraid Show, here's what you need to know right
now and the thing that you need to learn. I
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don't come on here with nobs. I don't come on
here with rumors and innuendos and all of that stuff.
If I tell you I know something, I know it.
But I'm going to tell you this. There are Nick
saban us and the people that these rumors have come
from have also been right about Dion going to Colorado
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before the whole Jackson State thing blew up and he
decided to go there. The same people that were right
about Nick Saban retiring are the same people telling me
right now that Nick Saban may be ready to come
out of retirement. And a lot of it has to
do with the legislation that has passed with the House settlement.
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Now the question is where would Nick Saban go. That's
a whole different story because he is the goat and
there will be no shortage of teams or people that
would want him on their sideline. But the team that
he just left, Alabama, they're in a situation where bringing
back Nick Saban ain't really a reality. You have Kaylin
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de Boor, who they signed to one hundred million dollar deal,
and when you look at the amount of buyout money,
that's very prohibitive. We're talking if he doesn't perform to
Nick Saban's standards or what Alabama fans have grown accustomed
to for the seventeen years of Nick Saban, then people
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are gonna want him out. But firing him is jimbo
Fisher level prohibitive. We're talking seventy plus million dollars. And
then the coaching staff as well. So for Greg Sanki,
no excuse me, Alabama's athletic director who has been talking
about funds and nil and all of this stuff. We
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don't have the funds as everybody else paying that sort
of buy out don't really seem realistic. So the question
is if Nick Saban did come back, where would he go?
Where would fit? Because he spent the majority of his
career in the South, that's the question. Where would he
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be willing to go? Yes, he went to Michigan State,
but where would he be willing to go? And because
there's not a question of who would want him, it
is where he would go and if he wants to
be there. So now the next thing is, in terms
of the Nick saving thing is Alabama has a game
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on what's that August thirtieth? Alabama plays on August thirtieth
versus Florida State. And why does that matter? It matters
because this man right here, mister Thomas Castiganos, has been
sitting there talking big trash about Alabama. He has been
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talking big and talking greasy. Now, Thomas Castiganos, who is
the quarterback over there at Florida State right now? He
was at Boston College the previous years, and he made
two statements in an interview with Pete Nakos from on
three he said, Nick Saban isn't walking through that door,
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which is one hundred percent right, but came to the boar,
ain't no slouch. And then he said, I feel like
I tore up the acc by my damn self for
the last two years and now I'm with the squad. Now,
I gotta be honest with you. Thomas Casianos has had
some nice, nice moments, but he has not been a
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force in the world of college football. Yes, he has been, okay,
and I'm not getting ready to sit here and act
because playing college football and playing quarterback is very difficult. However,
when we look at his stats, when we pull them up,
we're looking at Thomas Casianos sophomore year nine for three
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thirty fifty seven percent completions, twenty two hundred yards, fifteen touchdowns,
fourteen interceptions. And then last year with Bill O'Brien, him
and Bill O'Brien fell out, so that went away, and
he was completing sixty one percent of his passes for
eighteen touchdowns and only five interceptions. So last year he
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was playing pretty good if we're being honest. But the
idea that you would say this prior to the season, Yo,
this is wild, but that also shows what's been going
on at Alabama and people are not scared of Alabama
right now. So on one hand, you got Thomas cat Calcianos.
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Because listen, you guys have seen on the Unafraid Show.
I've interviewed Dabo Sweeney, interview Dan Lanning, Jeff Fish, Whittingham, Mulling,
a whole bunch of other coaches which you guys should
go and check out. And I, of course athletic directors,
players all this stuff. I want them to say things
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like this when they are interviewed, but I would also
be sitting there like, yo, did he just say this today?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Did he just say this?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Because this is going to automatically draw a headline. And
I'm not one of them people as a former player,
because people will sit up there and tell you, oh,
don't give people bulletin board material.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
That's bs.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
If somebody is interested in beating you, then yes, they
are going to be beating you already, or they are
going to care already. Do you think that Alabama's gonna
be walking in with any additional motivation after last season
and the disappointment that they put up because Thomas Castiano
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said Nick Sabantas are walking through that door. Man, I'm
gonna be honest in my football experience, that lasts about
one quarter. That's it, one single solitary quarter, that energy
and excitement. And yes, Thomas Casianos is going to have
to put up or shut up because Florida State's coming
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off of two to ten season last year, and that
ain't gonna cut it over there at Florida State. But
the thing is, there is blood in the water in
Tuscaloosa and all the college football sharks are circling. So
let's talk about it. Because first of all, I could
talk all day about that candid interview with Thomas Casianos.
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But here is the thing is that he said, I've
dreamed of moments like this. I've dreamed of playing against Alabama.
They don't have Nick Saban to save them. I just
don't see him stopping me. Now. When I read that quote,
I thought back to my interview with Dabosweny earlier this
week spring where he repeatedly said the Clemses accomplishments over
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his tenure are only second to Nick Saban, not Alabama,
just Nick Saban. And remember, Davo has no reason to
disrespect Alabama. He's an alumni and tabuas Casianos might have
been bold, but he ain't speaking out a turn because
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nobody's afraid of Alabama right now. Yes, their roster is
still pretty damn good. But I guarantee you that Wisconsin
is sitting up there in Madison thinking them same thoughts
that Thomas Casiano just expressed. They they're looking at that
date saying, oh man, that could be nice. That could
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be a nice win right there. And Kaitlin Debor is
a great coach. He has not had Nick Saban's success.
Nobody has. And you know that Alabama needs defending. When
none other than Paul Finnbaum is out here responding to
on Alabama's behalf, saying that Cassiano's comments are a terrible
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look for him diversity, and that Alabama will go in
there and obliterate them. Are we sure, though, because August
thirtieth is coming and somebody is going to get humble.
Do you think it will be Thomas Cassianos or do
you think it will be Alabama?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Or will it be.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Paul fine Bam whose show is going to blow up
with callers if they lose that game? Oh they are
going to the Boosters. Ain't gonna be paying for that
that house no more. They are going to be red
thirty eight hot with Kaitlin Debor, and they're gonna be
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starting a different quarterback. Will it be Killing Russell, Will
it be Austin Mack, Will it be Ty Simpson? We
think it's gonna be Ty Simpson, but we shall see.
So now let's get on to the good stuff, though,
because I put out my preseason college for Football Top
twenty five and here's how it looked. So this was
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the subject of debate, and I've told people my college
football preseason rankings they are based upon, yes, the things
that matter in the off season, which is recruiting, coaching, transfer, portal,
returning roster, and your schedule. Those are the things that matter.
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But the difference between my preseason top twenty five and
other analysts out there is the fact that they take
their preseason top twenty five and they let that impact
what happens with the rest of their rankings. And I
can tell you this, if we start the college football
season and we get games played, and I don't care
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if who it is, if you have not played a
good schedule, you will not continue to be ranked high.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's just a fact.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
But the thing is that people allow their rankings in
the preseason to control and dictate the rest of their schedule,
the rest of their rankings. No, because at the beginning
of the season, we have some very good games at
the beginning of the college football season, including like what
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we got Texas Ohio State. So yes, the winner of
that game is probably probably going to end up very,
very highly ranked in the seasons. Now, I want to
go to the to the schedule at the beginning of
season because I have Clemson number one, and Clemson starts
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off with LSU my number eighteen. So if Clemson starts
off and mind you, because I throw the rankings away. However,
we do know that LSU has a good roster, just
the fact they are coach well with Brian Kelly, despite
the results of the last three years on defense. So
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if Clemson put goes out and puts on a really
good show, yes you're gonna have an opportunity to be
ranked number one. But at the same time, if we
look at that game between in Week one between Texas
and Ohio State at nine am on the thirtieth, if
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we look at that game and in Ohio State or
Clemson just absolutely just knocks the skin off the other team.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Then yes they may go to number one.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
But if you don't play nobody in the beginning of
the season, no, you are going to be ranked significantly
lower no matter what happens. But there were some teams
that people were upset about. You had BYU. Fans all
upset the Utah is ranked. Oh BYU. We had a
great season last year. You schnuck through the cracks last
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season and your quarterback may or may not be there.
And if we're being honest, you don't have a great roster.
You have a good roster, not a great roster. So yes,
Utah with two potential first round linemen with an upgrade
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at quarterback after playing with their fifth string last year, Yes,
they're gonna be ranked tired in you. But I want
to look at number three Penn State because if you
followed my timeline, everybody knows not a huge Drew Aller
fan in terms of I don't think that he's the
next Josh Allen like other people are saying.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Believe the kid is.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Good, he's talented, but he's got to put way more
on film than what we've seen for me to believe
that this is the year that Penn State and their
head coach James Franklin get over the hump that they're
gonna get over the Ohio State hump, that they're gonna
beat Oregon in the white out at the end of September,
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that they're going to be able to win a national championship,
win big games. Are we supposed to believe it? But
here's the thing, the reason why they're ranked number three.
Good offensive line coming back, two of the best backs
in the country coming back.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
They have a veteran quarterback.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
If he takes a leap like k Klubnick did last year,
then yes, hold it for story, and so yes, those
are the ones that just drove people upset.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
They were like, come.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
On, man, look at them. How could you have Clemson
ranked number one coaching returning quarterback, best defensive line in
college football, probably good offensive line, two of the top
five or six wide receivers in all of college football,
same offensive coordinator for years. They put out a good defense.
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What are we talking about? There is nothing to discuss
when it comes to Clemson except for yeah, they're probably
playing good football. Because I'm looking at rosters coaches, stability,
dominant position groups, everything in between. And in the coming
weeks I will be putting out My next week will
be the college football playoff predictions. You guys are gonna
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love that, the bold predictions for the college football season.
Gonna love that too. I know you know you will,
so make sure you come back to the Unafraid Show
for that as well.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
But one of the other ones that I'm big on
is Illinois at number twelve, and people are confused by this.
They are the Indiana of this season. They avoid Penn
State and they avoid Oregon on their schedule, so that
helps them out.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
But here is the thing.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
They're coached by Brett Beilamo, who's coached and had much
success in Wisconsin, coach in the SEC against U well
at OURC and SAW. But now he's been able to
build a roster and retain his roster. They from a
ten win season last year, sixteen returning starters, eighteen from
the bowl game. That's a recipe for success and having
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a good season. So yes, Illinois belongs there.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
The one team that I am a little bit weary
of in this top twenty five is the Florida Gators
because what's the status of DJ Lagway and his shoulder.
What's the status because their schedule, we know it's tough,
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but what's the status because they could go, you know,
anywhere from two to ten to ten and two.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
The range is huge. So that's the question.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
But remember the final rankings will look significantly different than
the rankings at the beginning of the sea. All right,
next thing up, So we got nil go and the
war on booster money.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yes, you heard it right, there is a war.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
If you listen to the news that everybody they'll tell
you it's a war, old Christmas war, old Christianity war
out there, war on this There is a war on
booster money happening right now. And you gotta buckle up
because the new villain in college football it ain't Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It's not even the NC double A.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I'm talking about Deloitte, who has started nil go. That's
the financial consulting giant, and they're behind that new nio
go system, which is part of the NC doublea's new
enforcement strategy when it comes to the NC DOUBLEA House settlement,
and the new enforcement arm is the College Sports Commission.
(25:55):
But the question is what does it do? Because it
forces athlete to log their NIL deals over six hundred
dollars into an online system. Now that system is then
going to use an algorithm to flag pay for play deals.
Now they're gonna check player's market value, try to sniff
out booster connections because boosters have to register with them
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as well. And Deloitte claims that seventy percent of booster
deals from the past would have been denied, but ninety
percent of deals with publicly traded companies would have been approved.
Now this is not small. It just means that the
old system of handing the player one hundred thousand dollars
to sign autographs at a car dealership, that's probably over.
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This move, honestly, is about power. It's about control and
trying to clean up the chaotic NIL space. Let's be real,
the money that kids are getting paid right now for
inio is not INIL.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
It's pay for play. It is one hundred percent pay
for play.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And I believe, now this is coming from a guy
who has a son playing college football. I would love
for him to be making millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Would love it.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
That would make my life a lot easier, make his
life easy. But here is the point is that if
we're being honest, yes, the players, mind you, I'm the
guy who's testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee
on name, image and likeness. But the money that the
players are getting paid now is not commensurate with their
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actual nil value. It's not this is pay for play.
These are schools that are saying we want this kid,
we will pay him more than another school will pay
him because we gotta have them. Okay, but the issue
is that does not create a level playing ground. And
in college football, the most important thing that the game
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can do is create parody because for fans, every fan
of every university needs to believe. For college football to
thrive and continue to grow, particularly at the pace that
it is, fans need to believe that over a three
year span that if they get the coach right, if
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they get high school recruiting right, and they get the
transfer portal right, then they can have a chance to
win their conference. Every school in a major conference needs
to have that type of hope for their fans. If
they can get them three things right, they'll be Okay. Well,
the issue is, now, that's not the reality, because if
(28:37):
we're being real, under what circumstances. Could Vanderbilt or Rutgers
win a national championship or Stanford none, zero zilts not
no circumstances, So there need to be circumstances why that
can happen. But what's going to happen with nil go
(28:58):
is this is that first thing, you have a lot
of players who have signed deals.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
That are not going to get pushed through.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
So they have a signed deal with a collective for
a certain amount of money. Let's say it's a half
a million dollars, but with the salary cap at twenty
and a half million, let's say you're at a big
football school, that's seventeen million dollars for football at eighty
five scholarships, we're not even to talk about when it
goes up to one O five eighty five scholarships, that's
(29:31):
only two hundred thousand dollars per player. So to get
one kid up to half a million dollars, three kids
gotta go down. Sorry, excuse me, four kids got to
go down to one hundred thousand dollars. That's just for
one kid on eighty five scholarships. So now imagine the
map to get somebody or two or three players to
(29:52):
like seven hundred thousand dollars because these players do have value,
but their name, image and likeness, we're being real, ain't
worth that much. Because let's look at the NFL. There
are very few players in the NFL that have significant
(30:13):
that have significant endorsements. One of the greatest defensive linemen
of all time, Aaron Donald, was signed with Nike, making
about one hundred thousand dollars a year from Nike Aaron Donald,
So why on earth would you think that if one
(30:33):
of the best defensive ends who's popular with its flexing
and workout videos playing with knives are super popular, likable
everything else, If he's only making one hundred thousand dollars
from Nike, what makes you think that your defensive end
coming out of high school who ain't played a damn
snap is worth five six seven hundred thousand dollars worth
(30:55):
of NIL not He might be worth that in pay
for play, but not INIL. Those are two separate things.
So they're trying to get a salary cap FUR and
an enforceable way to do that for college football. But
the question is obviously the enforcement is the biggest issue,
but how much money can they get to kids through
(31:18):
NIL and that's going to be through publicly traded companies
because you are going to have boosters who try to
push it through.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
And that's where the gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Is going to be because there are going to be
lawsuits that happen when a school, let's say that number
that I said, half a million dollars, the kids signed
a deal for a half a million dollars, when the
school says, y'all, we only got two hundred thousand dollars
for you from from the school, and then we got
to figure out how much of that three hundred thousand
(31:51):
dollars we're really going to be able to get to
you through nil. That's where you are going to have
lawsuits because families are basing their living lifestyle. Now I've
talked to parents about this based upon those numbers, and
that's where it's gonna get tricky.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Tricky, And you might say, oh, they're just gonna skirt
the rules.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Well, the issue is is that if the enforcement is possible,
if the enforcement is real, athletic directors, head coaches, and
school presidents are going to get hit with one hundred
thousand plus fines.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And as soon as you start hitting, the coach might
take one on the chant.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
But after you start hitting the athletic director and the
president with with with fines, oh yeah, oh yeah, this
is gonna get stopped immediately. That's gonna get that's gonna
get nipped in the button. I'm gonna tell you that
right now. And that's where the first set of lawsuits
is going to come from. And then obviously the second
(32:52):
set of lawsuits was from Title nine, but we're not
even gonna get into that right now.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
But then the other part of it is, in addition
to kids.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Suing schools, schools and boosters are then going to sue
nil GO when they get blocked. They are going to say,
you are stopping people from making money and that's Unamerican.
And that's where the gotcha, gotcha is going to be
is that are the courts going to hold up the
(33:26):
nil ghost status? And this is where the university is
potentially signing on with the enforcement agency and saying that
no matter what the state laws are, that they are
going to abide by it and they are going to
have no right to appeal in terms of fight it legally.
(33:47):
That's where the question is going to be because you
have the university, well, you have the state of Tennessee.
And there's a video up on Unafraid show about this
right now that I put up today where the University
of Tennessee has put in a new bill that says
that if Tennessee, Memphis, or any of the others, Vanderbilt,
(34:07):
any of the state law of state schools, if they
violate NCAA law, that they cannot be punished.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Do you realize what are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
On one hand, they're asking Congress to act, but then
on the other hand you got states and acting laws
that are going to run counter to that. This is
the problem with college football. We do not have everybody
on the same page trying to make college football better.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
It is all self interest.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And if you love college football like I love college football,
then we need to figure out somebody to be in
charge to be able to do this. And honestly, and
I'm not just saying this as a self serving interest,
but people like me are the people that need to
be making decisions for college football.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Study the game.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yes, the presidents and former athletic directors they know things
and all of this stuff on the College Football Committee
and all of.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
That, but they got other full time jobs. They not
in this.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
In the trenches on a day to day basis. Who
else to govern this besides somebody who knows loves college
football and is in this knee deep. Come on, man,
just the truth. But here is the thing in Iogo
is the biggest threat to booster the lab programs that
(35:35):
we've ever seen. So the question is what's going to
happen and we will talk about that more as the
weeks come on. You guys, make sure that you gotta
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(35:58):
one of us. But that's a wrap for today. From
Power Plays in the College Football Playoff to Nick Saban
Rumors Top twenty five talk nil Wars. We are just
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and most importantly share, I'm George Reister, former NFL player.
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