SEC & BIG TEN League IMMINENT?! | Iowa Self Reports | Tennessee Investigation

Jay dives into The SEC & Big Ten creating their "advisory group" that sounds like another alliance but hopes it actually does something and discusses how the Iowa self reporting tampering situation and Tennessee being investigated for improper benefits to Nico might have somethign to do with it...

Episode Transcript

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A new alliance has been fostered together, but will this one actually do something
or even last for the most part, because we had one of them and
it fell apart between what was atthe Big ten, the ACC and the
PAC twelve, and then PAC twelvedissolved. But the Big ten and the
SEC are coming together. They've createdan advisory group that's going to advise.

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I'm assuming, but I'm gonna behonest. This feels like the first move
towards an NFC AFC setup in thecollege football ranks where the two big dogs
bounce from what the NCAA is doing. We're gonna dive into that. Also,
Iowa self reports infractions sounds bad becauseI think it might be. And

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lastly, Tennessee is in under investigation, and honestly, I think that has
everything to do with what the SECand Big Ten is doing. We'll dive
into all of that here on UnfairSports, where we take a pensive approach
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this first topic, the Big Tenand the SEC creating alliance. We're all

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together. So now, as along standing member of the SEC, my
Oklahoma sooners, we have some skinin this game, right. You know,
it's been years of us being partof this SEC, as in like
one month, so we are gonnafeel what's going on here. So let's
talk about what this means. Sostatement came out Big ten SEC. The

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two commissioners have decided to work closelytogether, and their whole purpose behind this
is let me just read what itsays. The Big Ten in the SEC
have substantial investment in the NCAAA,and there is no question that the voices
of our two conferences are integral togovernance and other reform efforts. We recognize

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the similarities in our circumstances as wellas the urgency to address the common challenges
we face. So basically, that'sthe statement from the Big Ten Commissioner SEC
s there are similar cultural and socialimpacts on our student athletes, our institutions,
and our communities because of the newcollegiate athletic environment. Sankie said in

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a statement, we do not havepredetermined answers to the merit questions facing us.
We do not expect to agree oneverything, but enhancing interaction between our
conferences will help to focus efforts oncommon sense solutions. So basically, they
saw that the NCAAA generated one pointthree billion on its own and said,

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nah, we need to talk aboutthis. And then the NCAAA is coming
down on Tennessee and an investigation thatthey broke some nil rules. SEC's like,
nah, we ain't working on that. And in Iowa it's self reporting
violations of tampering, and the BigTen said, hey, man, can
we talk about this. It feelslike all of this is tied together,

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because that's what happened to start theweek was Tennessee in Iowa's situation, and
now we have the Big Ten andSEC working together. Coincidence possibly, I
don't know. I'm kind of questionedif it's a coincidence or not. And
I say that mainly because we allknow that the NCAAA is in turmoil right

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now, right the bringing in billionsby themselves. Remember the one point three
billion in revenue that the NCAAA generated, about what's that nine hundred million of
it is like for the March Madnesstournament, So the rest of it is
like just other little stuff. Imean, it's you know, it's over

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sixty nine percent of it. It'sfrom March Madness. So you may be
asking yourself, all right, Jade, that meaning one point three billion,
that doesn't sound like a lot withas many teams are in the NCAA,
And you're right, But remember theNCAAA has nothing to do with the conference's
TV deals, So this is kindof like icing on top of all the

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big cakes that's built by all theseconferences. The NCAA is uh making money,
right, And I don't think it'sa money grab for these two schools
because these two conferences, because theygot their own big TV deals, so
they're good when it comes to that. But I think it's the NCAA doing
this. The NCAA going through alltheir lawsuits, they're not asking questions of

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does it make more sense for usto make our own league and do our
own thing, or should we continueto should we continue associate ourselves with the
NCAA with all the stuff they're goingthrough. Personally, I think that's right.
Like what sense does it make tostill maintain this relationship with the NCAAA.
You're still gonna be able to havelike association with schools and stuff.

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I mean, there's all kinds ofways you do that you did with like
licensing deals and stuff like that tohave the teams and everything, keep the
kids in school. You know,you can bring in revenue and actually start
paying them. I Mean. Theone thing is at some point the NCAAA
is about to lose enough antitrust lawsuitsthat they're gonna have to find a way
to pay the players like as employees, because they're generating so much money I

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could I mean if this was like, you know, a few hundred thousand
dollars in rev no, NCAA Collegefootball is a massive business, massive business.
They make a ton of money doingthis. And so with these two
schools looking at these two conferences lookingat this saying, hey man, that's
gotta be a better way to runthis, especially now with the way the
transfer portal's going. You got themultiple windows. That's weird. You've got

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nil, which seems to be gettingweirder for people. There's got to be
a better way to run this organization, to run this business, and so
how an advisory board makes sense now? I think the funny thing I saw
in this is that this advisory boardwill not have authority to implement any type
of change. It's more so justlike a consultant. But I feel like

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that having a consultant like that isbasically to figure out what makes the most
sense moving forward for the conference,what makes the most sense moving forward for
college football. There's a chance thatthe Big Ten and the SEC could break
off do their own thing because theyare the powerful conferences in college football.
Ain't nobody else as strong asm Imean, look at it. SEC just
added Oklahoma and Texas to the largestbrands in college football, and then the

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Big Ten added USC, UCLA,Washington, Oregon for more massive brands in
college football. And so both ofthese conferences basically own all of the top
ten brands in college football for themost part. I mean, you'd probably
say that Florida State's up there insome capacity right say that they can breach

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the top ten potentially but at leastthe top five brands outside of Notre Dame
who probably need to join the conference, they probably will. But I digress.
We won't dive into the Notre Damecontroversy. But it's kind of interesting
to see what's gonna come next.I don't see any changes eminently, but

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I do see changes within the nextfive years. For the next five years,
there's gonna be a big change.It's gonna be led because of what
the Big ten and the SEC isdoing when it comes to this little advisory
board. Now, like I saidat the beginning, they had an alliance
before, and we didn't see anythingcome from the Big ten acc PAC twelve

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alliance. Besides that PAC twelve beingpoached for all their teams. Does that
change this time around? Now?The good thing is that the Big ten
and SEC are so big that theyain't gonna be able to really just snatch
each other's change, Like right,that's not some thing it's gonna be happening.
They're gonna have to work together.They're two behemoths. But I'm hoping

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that this advisory board actually finds truesolutions for what problems we see in college
football and i'mnna be honest. Asmuch as I love NIL and transfer portal,
there are gaps in there. Thereare blind spots that needs to be
fixed. And I think the biggestone to be fixed with the transfer portal
is how they have the scheduling ofit, because it sucks, and it
only sucks because it all aligns withthe school schedule. The school schedule.

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It's is aligned with classes because technicallythese are supposed to be student athletes,
which I don't see where the studentpark comes. And this besides the fact
that they give them a scholarship.Because all these dudes are athletes, all
they do is will go to work. They go to class, and nego
straight to work. That's it.So since that's the case they have,
they're gonna have to make school exceptionsfor these athletes. It's probably the one

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thing that's gonna come down the linebecause it can't change. It's the academic
schedule. Academic schedules, the academicschedule. They're gonna have to make some
sort of exceptions for these student athletesso that they can line up with this
transfer a portal window. That waythings aren't rushed, especially when your coach
leaves can't do anyth about that.And please believe it's gonna be more coaches

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leaving college football very soon. SoI'm intrigued to what y'all think. Hop
into comments, let me know whatyour thoughts on this new alliance created by
or advisory group created by the BigTen and the SEC and what do you
think is gonna come from coming fruitionfrom that, Let's talk about that a
little bit more later on. Allright, The next thing I want to

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talk about is that what led tothis. To me, what led to
this advisory group coming together is theIOWA. One piece is the IOWA self
reporting themselves for Level three violations.And so the Athletic reported Scott Doctorman reports

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that an assistant coach at allegedly xProctor while he came and Proctor the offensive
lineman, the freshman offensive line,and it started at Alabama. He got
text and while you know, afterout he had a tough game for Alabama,
and so being that he's currently onthe roster at Alabama playing and Iowa
was in the running for his services, that ain't a smart thing to do,

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right, Well, this all cameto fruition because came and Proctor kind
of snitched on hisself. Check thisout. No, no bridges were burned,
you know what I'm saying. Sothat that's why it was so easy
for me to pick them when Idid answer you the transfer Porto, because
we still have those relationships. Andeven even after I was doing bad and

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a sec you know, and youknow, struggling, they hit me up
and said, you know, we'reproud of you. You're gonna get through
this. And that's what that's whatultimately helped me with my decision because you
know it still they still believed inme. It feels good, you know
what I'm saying. Like as soonas I came in here, everybody,
everybody you know, cheering me on, happy for me, and I know,

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like, yeah, I did leave, and uh, you know it
hurt people's hearts, and you knowthat it kind of equated into you know,
them showing hatred. But I mean, like I said, that's that's
what every fan base does. It'sbasically King Proctor opened his mouth talking about
them hitting him up and tell himkeep his head up. That really is
tampering, right, And the badpart is is that you guys recruited this

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kid back. But y'all didn't puthim through pa PR conversations. This is
the thing about it. Then letme let me preface why I say this.
It's when it comes to student athletes. There's one thing that we always
hear from coaches, coach speak,right, this is the coach speak we

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hear. It is that they're leadersof men, right, that they're supposed
to be leaders, and they're supposedto be teaching and helping these players.
Right. This is what bothers me. If you're a leader of men,
shouldn't you be making sure these dudesare you know, prepared for every just
about if any situation it can comedown. And if any situation and we

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knew was gonna come down, isthat Procter is probably gonna talk to somebody
in the media. They're gonna everybodywants to know, So, what made
you leave Alabama and come back toIowa and come back home. Everybody's gonna
ask that question. PR team shouldbe prepared for that gave him a statement
something to say, John shouldn't havelet this man go out there and say

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that that y'all hit him up.That's not good, right, Like we
gotta think about it in that capacity. That's not a good thing that he
got. He opened his mouth andsaid that. And so this is nothing
but a major problem that's been goingon. I know that when as soon
as Nick Saban left, had somebodylet me know that there's a ton of

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temper and that was going on withthe players even before Saban left. And
it looks like a lot of thoseplayers that are leaving, which is a
very common thing, that yeah,they're tampering the coach leeds and then everybody's
bouncing. And I mean the rumoris is that Alabama was given the the
players were giving them the Alabama discountbecause of the competing of national championships,

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going to the league, playing forNick Saban, all of that stuff has
a lot of weight. Well nowhe ain't there, no mo kids like
h So why am I taking adiscount just to be here? So Alabama's
got a lot of work to doon that capacity, which I think they'll
be fine. But the thing isI or self reporting themselves fascinating because they

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knew something heavier is coming down theline, right, so self reporting is
supposed to lighten up the penalty,similar to what Michigan did, Like you
know, Michigan, you know,took the self and posed three games suspension
to start the year, and thenhe got another three game suspension for hardball.
With all this, you know,cheating stuff and you know and contacting,

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well, I think it would boughta cheeseburger for a recruit, something
like that, something silly like.I don't think it was actually cheeseberger.
I think that's just everything everybody madeup just for the fun of it.
But self reporting this, I don'tsee any value to you all Iowa,
besides putting yourself in front I guesstrying to get in front of it.
But I don't see that that's gonnahelp you. Because if there's true tampering,

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there needs to be consequences. Ahammer needs to be dropped for tampering.
Quite seriously, tampering's gonna happen becausethe players are gonna talk to each
other regardless of what you do.But player to player tampering that shouldn't be
anything. That shouldn't just stay.The coaches shouldn't be involved. The coaches
shouldn't be contacting players that are noton their team unless they're like actual family

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members, and that's almost questionable too. So I don't know which I think
about Iowa self reporting basically snitching onthemselves because Cayden Proctor decides to snitch on
themselves. Hop in the comments.Let me know how you feel about that.
I think that that's a kind ofan interesting topic to talk, so
I had to give an opinion onit, all, right, last one

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on this one, let's talk aboutTennessee's whole situation with them being under investigation.
And I'm gonna be honest, theVall's ad Danny White, kind of
dropped a bar on the NCAAA withthis. So the NCAA is opened an
investigation on Tennessee, saying that theyhad broke some rules in their recruitment of

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nico IAmA Liava, saying that youknow, I guess he must have potentially
got a flight that the team paidfor it, that they weren't supposed to
this allegations or whatnot. And sothat's the focus of it, right,
And so it's funny if the NCAAdecided to send out and say, yeah,
we're gonna investigate y'all for this.And of course all week everybody's been
asking about you know, Nil,you know, people breaking rules and doing

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stuff they're not supposed to blah blahblah. I mean, Harball got the
three games basically for well six gamestotal. I guess you could say for
the situation with the recruit during COVIDor whatnot, in proper contact or buying
cheeseburgers with some bs, but inwhich they still got the whole cheating scandal
deal that's still in the air thatno one knows what's gonna happen with that.

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We're not talking about Michigan, talkingabout Tennessee here. They're gonna try
to bring the hammer on Tennessee andtheir nil and I'm and supposedly these are
major based upon some of the reporters, they're saying that these are some major
violations that Tennessee committed and that thiscould be a huge deal down the line.
I don't see how it could bethat big. Just what the NCAA

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said. While the NCAA generally doesnot comment on specific infraction cases, it's
important to remember that NCAA members schoolsand conferences not only make the rules,
but routinely called for greater enforcement ofthose rules and holding violators accountable. In
recent years, this has been especiallytrue as it relates to establishing and enforcing
a constant set of national rules intendedto manage the name, image, and

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likeness environment. This legal actual willexaggerate what our members themselves have frequently described
as the wild West atmosphere, furthertilting competitive imbalance among schools in neighboring states
and diminishing protections from student athletes frompotential exploitation. The NCAA remains firmly committed
to protecting and in expanding student athleteNAL rights and opportunities. However, our

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membership has that fastly supported the prohibitionon impermissible recruiting contacts, booster involvement in
recruiting prospects, and the use ofNIL offers as recruiting inducements. Hilarious that
this is the statement that the NCAAdecided to use because the ad over at

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Tennessee decided to fire back with hisown bars, and this is basically what
Danny White said. The NCAA generallydoes not comment on infraction cases because there
is a rule against it. However, that has not stopped them in the
past from leaking information to the mediaas they did this week about us.
Their actions made this ill conceived investigationpublic enforced us to defend ourselves. I

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would like to go even deeper intothis, but dall, that was the
bar right there. Y'all. Y'alldon't because y'all don't comment on this stuff
because there's rules, But then y'allwill leak all this stuff to the media.
The NCAA is putting themselves in somehot water, and honestly, I
think this piece here, the incompetenceof the way that the NCAAA is ran

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is what's leading to that big tenSec alliance and them gonna, well,
you know, Alliance Advisory Group,but it's an alliance. They're gonna find
a way to get the heck upout from underneath the NCAAA because the NCAA
right now is in turmoil. Butthis investigation is dumb so supposedly it looks
like they're using fat past infractions togo for them with current stuff like this.

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Is wild to me that the NCAAis really going after Tennessee like this,
because yeah, I think Tennessee probablydid some stuff that they weren't supposed
to do with nil Heck, Ithink every school in college football is doing
stuff they ain't supposed to do withNIL, I mean the games. The
game. You want to make iteasy, pay the kids and then let

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them go sign their own endorsement dealsoutside of your collectives in your schools,
because technically that's what NIL is.It's endorsement deals which is now funded by
the fans because collectives are getting donationsfrom fans to be able to pay for
players to bring them in when itshould be just kids can get their endorsement
deals in which honestly, most ofthese players are not really endorsable because you

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got to have kind of a personalityto really do commercials and such. It's
kind of like the way the NFL. If you notice that there's only certain
players that do a lot of commercialsand a lot of endorsement deals with big
companies and such, or local companies, it's because of personality usually. But
nil's now turned into a way topay the players to come to your school.

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That's why you're hearing about Offensive Linemengetting you know, five to seven
hundred thousand to come play at saidschool, because those positions are a premium
and in the NFL they're expensive.You cost a lot of money to get
into Offensive Lineman. You know,your top some of your top players are
quarterbacks, offensive lineman, and defensivelineman when it comes to pay and then
you go around the circle of allthe other players, in which the running

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back is at the bottom of thetotem pole, right next to the kicker.
But outside of that, the NCAAA, thinking that they're gonna enforce something
like this, we've got to beserious about it like that. I guess
they feel like that is the bestthing that they have on these teams,
even though Iowa just self reported themselvesfor reaching out to a player while he

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was on another team and then theysomehow landed him in the transfer portal,
even though I don't think the tamperingportion was the reason why they landed them.
I think he was gonna go backhome regardless, and s Nick sab
him retired. But the fact thatthe NCAA think that this is something that
this is their smoking gun, thisis their concrete evidence against Tennessee, it's

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kind of ridiculous, Like let's getsome real stuff, like there's real there's
real evidence out there somewhere. Ijust don't think that the NCAA is trying
to be absolutely honest. I thinkthat they're really just just letting it play
through, and they're hoping things justwork itself out, or they hope that
Congress will throw them a bone andsave them from themselves, which is really

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bad to see that they're desperate enoughto let somebody else do their job for
them. They could have had theserules in place. They could have made
it easy for these kids to getpaid. They could have helped build some
of these unions to where these thingscan be collectively bargained and players can start
getting checks. They could have donethat. They didn't want to. They
just want things to be there howthey are. And now as all these

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anti trust lawsuits start to play outin court next three to five years,
man NCAA will probably not be here. Well in a capacity, they'll be
here, they won't be over footballno more. Football is gonna change,
which it needs to change. Itneeds to change to where it's something that's
actually viable, actually realistic, becausewhat we've got today ain't. It ain't

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gonna work long term. And ifit means that some schools got to lose
their teams, were they actually gonnacompete for a national championship anyway? I
mean they're kind of here just toget beat up by the big schools.
Most of these teams here are justhere to be, you know, warm
ups. And I feel bad forsaying that, but it's the truth.
Go look who has actual chances ofwinn national championships? Not very many.

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The window is very small, verysmall. Certain schools got it because you
got to have the resources to doit, and ain't no way of equaling
that playing field. You can't.You cannot equal out of playing field of
donors donating to your school. There'sa lot of schools that got a lot
more money than these, than thesebig college football programs, and they just
don't put it on football because theydon't want to. They ain't interested in

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that. They interested in other stuff. So that's what it is. How
in the comments, let me know, do you I think TENDE broke some
rules' I think the NCAA actually hasa leg to stand on. You think
that they can win this fight?Because I'm being honest, I don't see
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