06-10-25 Pete Fiutak with KOA Sports

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pretty significant ruling NCAA versus the House, and the NCAA
is now going to have to pay players.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's a pretty pretty big deal.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
And we're going to see if our guy p Futec,
who's joining us right now in the Kawai Thomas Burd
Health Hotline. You can find them on Twitter at Petefutech
and College Footballnews dot com. Pete really appreciate the time,
hoping you can give us some insight.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
How are you.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
I'm doing just fine. I'll start with I think I
got this right where you kind of introduced it wrong.
The NCAA isn't paying the players. It's that they can,
or actually the schools can pay the players, and the
NCAA doesn't really have anything to do with it anymore.
Like there's no there's this new Collegiate Colleges Association or

(00:47):
whatever thing that's going to kind of oversee it all
through the delays, counting, accounting, stirm uh and the NCAA
is going to kind of do the nuts and bolts,
you know, how to run Olympic sports and things like that.
But going forward, it's it's basically that the big part
of the pooling is saying that okay, if you're a college,

(01:09):
you are allowed to play pay players, but only to
a certain extent because there's a salary cap. And I
don't think anybody's going to follow that, but that was
basically the rule.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
So pete in a nutshell if you can, let's just
say university A. Besides, yes, we're now allowed to pay
twenty point five million dollars to our athletes. Theoretically, with
with all of the sports involved, how how would you

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envision that working.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
This is where it's going to get tricky. Well, there's
also NIL, so you can also So basically that's the
UH cap that's being allowed to from these schools to
spend money on. On top of that, you can still
have your NIL collectives and that's still the wild West.
You still can do basically whatever you want. Now. Part

(02:04):
of what's going forward is this this new formation of
this new UH ahead of the program and this new
overseeing body is going to take those NIL deals and
kind of make them a little more kosher, you know.
So for example, remember the Matthew Sluka thing of last
year where the UNLV quarterback says, uh, well, UNLV said

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that we're gonna they're gonna pay me one hundred thousand dollars.
UNLV doesn't remember saying that, And there's a whole big thing.
And now because a James Madison, well, uh, those things
aren't going to really happen Amore. It's gonna be a
little more of a clearinghouse for that. But in terms
of the salary cap, this is where it's gonna get
really tricky because it's how do you pay all the players?

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And how does Title nine get involved in this? Where
is that money coming from? And our Olympic sports still
part of this, and well, we think of is a
football thing. You need a lot of players to have
a good football team. You only need a couple of
basketball players. So some schools, you know, like a Saint
John's or something like that, I'm gonna be able to

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have a pretty awesome basketball team, will just take all
that money and use it for that. So we're gonna
care more about the women's sports side of things. It'll
be it'll be interesting to see just how they kind
of figure this one out, Pete.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
With everything that's going on, do we anticipate anything like
more rules and more structure when it comes to guys
just taking that kind of money and saying, hey, you
know what I'm going. I'm out, like I'm gonna start
training for the draft, because that bothers me the most
in December, where you start seeing guys dropping out and
saying they're not gonna play.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
I'm a college football guy. I'm the opposite of that.
I'm like, if you're good, if you're gonna play in
the NFL, you shouldn't be playing it down to college
football more than you have to go. If college coaches
can switch before bowl games and you're a player and
you've got you know, right now, we're talking about twenty
million dollars salary cap. Justin Herbert's going to make fifty
million dollars this year. You know, if you are ANFL player,

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what are you doing playing college? Unfortunately, that's kind of
where this is because we have this dumb rule every
three years out of high school. But to your point, yeah,
this is gonna get sticky because on the one side,
if you're signing up a player and you're saying you
are going, we're going to pay you five million dollars
in the next three years to come here and play

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for XYZ State, Well what happens if, like you said,
what happens if you you want to pull a cam
Ward and you quit on your team at halftime. You
know what happens if you don't play those teams? Or
if you have a quote unquote injury, it's a little
bit questionable. Or where if you're bad? What if you
sign this deal and the school well you're you know

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you're going to go to second or third string? Now,
well then what happens? You still have to pay that money?
Can you just cut them? There is no players union
though you have no breevance so file too. So it's
really really a big time mess that's waiting to happen.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
The last one I have for you, I just wanted
to ask you, I guess your question a general idea
of what you think see you with Dean Sanders? No
Sure Sanders, no Travis Hunter there anymore? What are your
expectations for see you this year?

Speaker 4 (05:17):
We're about to see the problem with the buff is that?
And I say this as a humongous on Sanders fan.
I don't know if there's any there there still. I
mean I've always kind of called this the you know,
you did exactly what you're supposed to do with a
program that's been struggling is you go get better players.
The problem is it's all frosting and no cake so far,
where there's just there's not enough recruiting infrastructure that's been

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built over the last few years. Now, if this wasn't
Deon Sanders and this was just some average coach and
you didn't have all the heights and everything, you look
at Colorado said this is great. This is exactly what you're.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Supposed to do.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
You're supposed to build year after year and a year
and after reading from nothing in year three, all of
a sudden, they keep getting better and better. Now we're
going to see if all of a sudden that infrastructure
is the place for the lines to build the things
up to make the defense even better. If you do
have the right players in place without the you know,
the superstars, those schedule are carrying the offensive times. If
there's a little more of a running game, we'll see

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how that's going to work out. And the other big
proft for Colorado is the Big twelve is nasty. You know,
remember last year at this time everyone said, well the
top teams are Arizona, Oklahoma State, in Utah, and they
none of them made a bowlgain they're all awful. Those
guys are good now, Kansas State's good. Texas Tech go
to the nil thing. No one spent more money on

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players than Texas Tech. They are loaded. They bought a
great team almost in the system, and they're good now.
So Colorado, it's every week is going to be a fight.
But yeah, go back to a bowl game and still
be interesting. And you know I'll beyond that. Hope coach
Crime fields better.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, no doubt about that. Pete. Really appreciate the time,
Appreciate the inside man.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Thank you, Thanks appreciated, guys,