1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time. 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 2: Luck and load. So Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 3: We have specific officers and agents that have bounties that 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 3: have been put out on their heads. It's been two 5 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 3: thousand dollars to kidnap them, ten thousand dollars to kill them. 6 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 4: Christy Nome saying she's going to deploy more special operations 7 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 4: to Chicago. Here's what this says. Today in Chicago, members 8 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 4: of our brave law enforcement were attacked, rammed, and boxed 9 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 4: in by ten vehicles, including an attack or with a 10 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 4: semi automatic weapon. I'm deploying more special operations to control 11 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 4: the scene. Reinforcements are on their way. 12 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 5: DHS says that CBP officers shot and wounded a woman 13 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 5: in Chicago yesterday after they say she allegedly rammed a 14 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 5: law enforcement vehicle and agents were boxed in by multiple cars. 15 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 5: The spokesperson for DHS, Tricia McLaughlin, accused Chicago police of 16 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:16,119 Speaker 5: leaving the scene and refusing to assist agents in securing 17 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 5: the area. 18 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 6: Well, we don't have a lot of facts what happens 19 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 6: in these sorts of incidences. Typically ICE puts out a 20 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 6: press release before anybody else can speak with the press, 21 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 6: and then it gets reported on social media and elsewhere. 22 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 6: They are just putting out their propaganda, and then we've 23 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 6: got to later determine what actually happened. 24 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 7: All right, And nine ninety nine just took him from a. 25 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 8: Thirty nice place and Kezzie. They were saying that they 26 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 8: were being surrounded by that large crowd and they were 27 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,639 Speaker 8: requesting the police. We're not sending I'm calling waving off 28 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:33,639 Speaker 8: all the cars heading the thirty nine slaves. 29 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 2: And CATSI again go over being given. 30 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 8: Okay, some more and again for ally it is that 31 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 8: we called to go over that way, thirty nice places 32 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 8: and Kezzy, if you could just hold off, just disregard 33 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 8: that thirty nice places and Cazzi. 34 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 2: Game time. 35 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 9: There are a number of people, including the President of 36 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 9: the United States of America, that have decided to declare 37 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 9: war on poor people and on working people across the country. 38 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 2: And this raid that you are describing was. 39 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:25,119 Speaker 9: On the South side of Chicago, where black folks live. 40 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 9: This is not about safety, it's not about deportation. 41 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 2: Amac This is about the President. 42 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 9: Of the United States of America and his kind that 43 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 9: are looking to stoke and foment chaos and fear within 44 00:03:53,640 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 9: our streets of cities across America. 45 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: I'm so exhausted. The term is black fatigue, as most 46 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: Americans are by people who continue to talk about blackness. 47 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 1: It's not that interesting, it's not that important. If the 48 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: most important interesting thing about you is your skin color, 49 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: then you don't have a lot to offer the world. 50 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: I am so tired of hearing as an excuse that 51 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: someone is black. A murder is a murder, a beating, 52 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 1: a rape, a carjacking. The act in and of itself 53 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: is an awful thing. In race doesn't make you do it. 54 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: I am so tired of this idea that somehow black 55 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: people are under at white people. It is so ridiculous 56 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: as to be laughable. It really is a joke. Everyone 57 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: in this country knows that almost every crime that occurs 58 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: across the races is a black person attacking a white 59 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: person in almost every circumstance. This idea of roving mobs 60 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: of white people beating up black people, there was a 61 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: time of that, but not in my lifetime, and in fact, 62 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: not in the lifetime of very many people alive today. 63 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 1: But there is today, in reality, in almost every major city, 64 00:05:55,320 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: an epidemic of black on white violence. Being said, it 65 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: is not the largest category of violence. It is not 66 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: the group that blacks attack the most. Blacks attack blacks 67 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: the most, a subject that most people don't want to 68 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: talk about. Leave whitey out of this for a moment. 69 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: Black people attack black people in record numbers. There is 70 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: no other group that conducts as many attacks as blacks 71 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: do in our country. It's not even close. 72 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 10: It's a staggering number of attacks, in fact, so much 73 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 10: so that you start looking at root causes. 74 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: You've got to really. 75 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 2: Be busy. 76 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: To have as much violence coming from a community that 77 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: only comprises thirteen percent of your population. And the people 78 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: most at risk of black violence to be the victim 79 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 1: of it are blacks, a subject that gets almost no 80 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: attention because it's inconvenient. It's inconvenient to say black people 81 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: stop attacking other black people, and you'd think there'd be 82 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: more black people that would step forward and say, stop 83 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: acting like whites are attacking blacks. Our neighborhoods are terrorized 84 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: Black neighborhoods by blacks, including the blacks who live in them. 85 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: There aren't white gangs. There are black gangs. Every major 86 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: city has them. There aren't white drive by shootings. There 87 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: are black drive by shootings. There aren't white carjackings. There 88 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: are black carjackings, and a number of white violent criminals 89 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: are people who fell in with blacks in their neighborhood 90 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: because they grew up in that neighborhood and they so 91 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: desperately want to be approved of by them. Chris Rock 92 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: has a great comedy bit on that. You see four 93 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: black dudes and a white dude with him, get away 94 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: from that white guy because whatever he had to do 95 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: to fit in with that group, he's the scariest one 96 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: of them. 97 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 8: All you are listening to the Michael Berry Show. 98 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,719 Speaker 1: I want to be clear and how I characterize this. 99 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 2: This is a mostly approaches. 100 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 11: Ayhood. There was a secret ark who's violence saying to 101 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 11: please do look, but that's not what. 102 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 2: You hear from the media. 103 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 11: The Democrats just be the fifth and all along governments 104 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 11: abandon asked you were look on Antifa, it's anti takeover. 105 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:09,959 Speaker 2: It's as you should know. 106 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 11: Maybe it's anti it's anti. 107 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 2: Let's be spread quickly and questions. 108 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,599 Speaker 11: Yes, their name seemed good, but I needed proofs, so 109 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 11: I looked up videos on YouTube. It turned out that 110 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:37,719 Speaker 11: their name was meant to fool up the lattic so 111 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 11: they could scare you interthinking that it's fair to appunt 112 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 11: anyone who. 113 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 7: They cans Andifa. 114 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 11: It's anti fa, it's anti, it's antifa. It's anti. 115 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: Is an idea, not an organization occupation. 116 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 11: They claim that we have been here before in Germany 117 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 11: nineteen thirty for when people claim that one race was superior. 118 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 11: But they're the ones that sark and say the communists is. 119 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,199 Speaker 1: The way our comes are bad? 120 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:43,079 Speaker 11: Why the racestil It's anti, it's anti, it's anti, it's anti. 121 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:57,439 Speaker 11: They do not blow through speech above religious dogma that 122 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 11: they love. They'll cancel anybody sees through them. It's not 123 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 11: a fight for civil rights. It isn't those who are 124 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:19,079 Speaker 11: seeing the light. Ironically, it's fascism one day. It's santifa, 125 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 11: it's anti, it's sanci fa, it's anti. 126 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 8: Fat. 127 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: There was a segment on CNN over the weekend where 128 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 1: they were basically stomping their feet like Lena had all 129 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: go late for a concert in the middle of a 130 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: commissioner's court meeting and pouting, and one of their panelists said, 131 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: I just hate for Trump to get credit for this. 132 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 1: It was the ceasefire deal, in Gaza and a war 133 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,839 Speaker 1: that has been ravaging the area going back to the 134 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: October seventh attack, the hostages, both sides taking some pretty 135 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:37,199 Speaker 1: heavy losses and damage, and I think it's fair to 136 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: say that most of the world would like to see 137 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 1: him knock it off. Nobody's been able to reason between 138 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: the two of them, with each side and get this 139 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: to stop. But Trump was able to do it. And 140 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: the CNN guests were lamenting the fact that a thing 141 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: which most people would argue is good for the world, 142 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:05,839 Speaker 1: certainly for the people there, that bullets stop flying and 143 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:11,719 Speaker 1: people stop dying, that they were disappointed, even angry at 144 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: that because Trump would get the credit. And that is 145 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: as perfect an allegory of anything I can give you, 146 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:27,719 Speaker 1: an example of anything I can give you of everything 147 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 1: that is wrong with the Democrats in America today, That 148 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: is it in perfection. They don't care what's good or 149 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:43,839 Speaker 1: bad for people. They care about winning elections. They care 150 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:48,320 Speaker 1: about getting credit for things that are positive and preventing 151 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: the other side from getting credit, even if they're getting 152 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: credit for something they accomplished. There is not a person 153 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 1: alive who believes that a ceasefire would have occurred. But 154 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's involvement. It didn't naturally organically occur. And everybody 155 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: knows that there's no doubting that he's not beating his 156 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: chest and taking credit for something that happened to happen. 157 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: He made it happen, He willed it to happen. He 158 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: invested a great deal of capital and time, energy and patience. 159 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: He called in every favor he possibly could. He did deals. 160 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: You could argue that you don't like the deal. You 161 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: could argue that you don't like the ceasefire or the 162 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: terms of the seasefire. You could argue they don't like 163 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: one or the other side. You could argue that you 164 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: don't like either side. All of those are fine, But 165 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: it cannot be argued that this is anything other than 166 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's deal. Neither side had expressed publicly any interest 167 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: in ending this thing anytime soon, but Trump made it happen. 168 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: The fact that the panelists who every night talked to 169 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: Americans MA but talk to Americans, said that they're bummed 170 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: out that this happened. Because Trump's going to get credit. 171 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: That means there is zero concern for how many people 172 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: die in that conflict. It's all about who will get 173 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: the credit. And keeping Trump from getting the credit is 174 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: worth people continuing. 175 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 2: To die by that. 176 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 1: Anybody, your naive neighbor, needs to see that, because there 177 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: it is. Nobody wants to believe the evil that people 178 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: can do and how petty they can be until that 179 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: moment occurs, and that tells you everything you need to know. 180 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: Right there, That tells you everything. 181 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 2: You need to know. 182 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: In the last two weeks, we've come to learn that 183 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: the superintendent of the largest school district in the state 184 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: of Iowa is in this country illegally. We've come to 185 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 1: learn that he doesn't have a PhD, but insisted on 186 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 1: being called doctor and claimed he did, in fact claim 187 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: to have a PhD from a program that doesn't even 188 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: exist at that particular university. That's not very smart. We 189 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: also learn that he has no work permit that I mentioned. 190 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: He's in the country illegally. We came to learn there 191 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: are a number of things he's run a follow of 192 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: the legal system in a number of different ways, and 193 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: he's had a deportation order for well over a year. 194 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: So the Iowa school district that hired him, the chairman 195 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: of which is the former chiefest staff fro Michelle Obama, 196 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 1: either didn't check his record when they should have or 197 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: checked it and decided to hire him in defiance of 198 00:16:55,560 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 1: the law when college football started this year just a 199 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: few weeks ago. But now we're getting a better sense 200 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: of the quality of the teams as opposed to the 201 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 1: hype ahead of time. Three of the top four teams 202 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: in that poll are not only not in the top 203 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: ten in the country in the rankings this week, they're 204 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 1: not in the top twenty five. The number four Clempson 205 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 1: Tigers are awful to start the season. Number two Penn 206 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 1: State Nittany Lyons terrible. Although I gotta tell you it 207 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 1: was kind of fun to watch new Heeiseel's Sun win 208 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: that game and the thrill he had. Sort of sad 209 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 1: the state of UCLA football because they get this big 210 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: win over Penn State and there's nobody there to see it. 211 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: The stadium looks like a COVID era event. And the 212 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: number one team to start the season, the University of 213 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: Texas Longhorns, not in the top twenty five. Three of 214 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 1: the top four teams that were projected at the beginning 215 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 1: of the season are no longer are not even in 216 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 1: the top twenty five. Texas A and m Aggie's have 217 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 1: made it all the way up to number five at 218 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: five and oh their highest ranking since I think twenty 219 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: twenty one four years ago, Ole miss at number four, 220 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: Oregon at number three, Miami at number two, and Ohio 221 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 1: state holding firm at number one, number six, Oklahoma number seven, 222 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: Indiana number eight, Alabama scratching their way up number nine, 223 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 1: Texas Tech, the Red Raiders guns up, number ten, Georgia eleven, 224 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: LSU then Tennessee, Georgia Tech, Missouri, Michigan, Notre Dame, Illinois BYU, Virginia, 225 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 1: Vanderbilt with a loss, Arizona State, Iowa State, Memphis, South Florida, 226 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:21,359 Speaker 1: and Florida State. Some names you would expect to see 227 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: in that list not in that list, and some names 228 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: you don't expect to see in a top twenty five, 229 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: like Virginia, Georgia Tech, and Indiana in the top twenty five. 230 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: Interesting times in college football. I keep having this discussion 231 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,920 Speaker 1: with people who will say to me, we got to 232 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: fix nil. And it's interesting how many people repeat things 233 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 1: because they've heard them, but that don't even know what 234 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: it means. They don't know why they feel this way. 235 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 1: And I say, well, what needs to be fixed INIL. 236 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: That's not an answer. What needs to be fixed? What 237 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: is wrong with the NIL? Well, you're paying players. We've 238 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 1: been paying players a long time. We just ran it 239 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: through the school and called it books and tuition for 240 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 1: a very long time. Yeah, but I mean, if they're 241 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: getting books intuition, why should we pay them. Okay, let's 242 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 1: step back and stop repeating what you've heard everybody else 243 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: say and think for yourself for just a moment and 244 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: then come to your own conclusion. But don't start with 245 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 1: a conclusion you don't like INIO because Nick Saban told 246 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: you you didn't like INIO. That's not a good reason. 247 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: Let's go back to the beginning. College sports is entertainment. 248 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 1: We can agree with that. Nobody's living or dying, and 249 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: it's not necessary. We would survive without it. It's not 250 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: food or shelter or transport to it's not critical. It 251 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 1: is fun. Okay, so we agree it's fun. It's entertainment. 252 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 1: It's some of the best entertainment out there. It's the 253 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: most entertaining form of football. 254 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 2: We know that. 255 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,919 Speaker 1: Most of watching the NFL now is so you can 256 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,919 Speaker 1: see where the guys you followed in college ended up. 257 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: It's not. I think most people would argue that college 258 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: football is a more entertaining product than NFL, not that 259 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,640 Speaker 1: the NFL is not, but that college football is more entertaining. 260 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: So let's chat back and think about this for a moment, 261 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: and let's use a better thought process. We have paid 262 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: young men for many years to run up down the 263 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 1: field and entertain us. And that's what they're doing. It 264 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,439 Speaker 1: is all that they're doing. Anyone that wants to tell 265 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 1: you no, no, they're being there being role models. 266 00:21:59,560 --> 00:21:59,919 Speaker 11: For the key. 267 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 1: That's not why we show up on Saturday. Yep, we're 268 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: all here because we're going to cure cancer and cerebral 269 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 1: palsy and MS. These kids, right, these guys right here 270 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 1: are going to inspire people to do that. That's not 271 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: why we're here. Why shouldn't they get paid. We pay 272 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 1: other people to perform tasks while they're students. We pay 273 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,719 Speaker 1: people to perform tasks while they are students, to who 274 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: are also on scholarship. Well, it just seems to me, 275 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: if we're already giving them food and board and tuition, 276 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: that we shouldn't also be paying them. Are you sure 277 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 1: are working hard to make sure that somebody else doesn't 278 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: get paid. You do understand this is a consensual relationship. 279 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: This isn't tax dollars. This is rich car dealers who 280 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 1: write checks to players because they want their team to win, 281 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 1: because they enjoy the entertainment and the feeling they get 282 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 1: when they win. But he's making you participate in that. 283 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: It's not costing you a penny, it's not coming out 284 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: of your tickets. And you don't even go to games anyway. 285 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 1: What are you bitching about because you heard somebody else 286 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,160 Speaker 1: bitch and you want to have something to bitch about 287 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: because you think it makes you sound smart. But he 288 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: doesn't to people who think for a living. But let's 289 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: go back to that. Well, already paying for their room 290 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,199 Speaker 1: and board, and well, you know, alright, got tuition. I'll 291 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: tell you what. Give the player the option. He'll say, 292 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: don't pay for my tuition. I don't want to go 293 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 1: to class anyway. Let's stop with the student athlete. Do 294 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: you know why they keep telling you these are student athletes. 295 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: Hey's our student athletes. Look at Bob over here, Hey 296 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 1: went on to be a doctor. He's the exception to 297 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,479 Speaker 1: the rule. You know this number of people go to college. 298 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: They go to college and they don't want to go 299 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: to college. Ask them if they wanted to go to college, 300 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 1: you wouldn't have to hire all these tutors to be 301 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: there for them, to follow up on them and make 302 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 1: sure they go to class. If they wanted to be there, 303 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 1: you wouldn't have the coach wouldn't have to tell them, hey, guys, 304 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 1: you can't fall out of your class. We make them 305 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 1: pretend to be scholars by keeping their grades at a 306 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: minimal level so that we can continue with this ruse 307 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: that we're supporting kids going to college. We're not. We're not, 308 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: and that's okay. We don't go to midget wrastling and 309 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 1: say we're all doing good here these little fellas. It's 310 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,680 Speaker 1: keeping them off the streets and giving them opportunity to 311 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: be somebody. No, they're entertaining us, and we pay for 312 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 1: them to entertain us. And that's perfectly natural. It's the 313 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: same reason we go to a movie, or to a concert, 314 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 1: or to any number of other things. But some people 315 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: need to keep up this ruse. It makes them feel good. No, no, no, 316 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 1: they're going and getting their college degree. Okay, they don't 317 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: want their college degree. They want to make money and 318 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,640 Speaker 1: they want to play pro FOOTB and guess what, that's 319 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 1: a career choice too. Well, if they don't play pro football, 320 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 1: they should have a degree. Why how did you decide 321 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 1: that these young men it's so important that they get 322 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: a degree. What about all the other people that don't 323 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: get a degree. You don't worry whether they're getting a degree. 324 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: I think the game is better. I think college football 325 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: is better. I think you've got more parody. I think 326 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: you've got programs that could never be in the top 327 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: twenty five that are now. The point is, the entertainment 328 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:28,479 Speaker 1: value is better than it's ever been. 329 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 11: You are listening to Michael Barry's Shaw. 330 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: As always, phone lines are open seven months, three nine 331 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 1: to one thousand. Let me continue on this point for 332 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 1: a moment. There has always been the influence of money 333 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 1: in college sports. Wink wink, nod nod. Eric Dickerson's gold 334 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: trans Am. I've had people tell me stories who played 335 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 1: college ball about touring SMU back in the day. The 336 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: private jet arrived, he hopped on the plane, they flew 337 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: up to Dallas, they toured the place, and some money 338 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: may or may not have changed hands. Because he was 339 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: an All state superstar football player in the era of 340 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: Eric Dickerson. The question is, how do people argue that 341 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: young people shouldn't get paid for delivering services in a 342 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: consensual relationship, who themselves five minutes earlier say yeah, I 343 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: ain't getting paid enough? Well, why should you be paid? 344 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 1: You're already being paid something. Why are you complaining? How 345 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: you get more money? I'm worth more? No, I think 346 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: it's better you not make any money. I think it's 347 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: do it for the purity of the work, the dignity 348 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: of it all. You don't need to get paid. You're 349 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: already getting paid something. You don't need more. You haven't 350 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 1: historically made more. Why do you need more now? I 351 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: think it would, It would ruin it. Then you're not 352 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: doing the work for the sake of the work and 353 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,680 Speaker 1: the passion of the work. You're just doing it for 354 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 1: the money. I'd rather you not get paid. But that's 355 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: the argument we use with college athletes. Isn't it silly? 356 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: Why are Republicans worried about somebody else getting paid? Since 357 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 1: when did we become Democrats? Since when did control some 358 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:55,120 Speaker 1: silly sense of community that they claim collegiality jealousy? Where 359 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: does this come from? If an alumnus has made a 360 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: lot of money and been blessed with it, and they 361 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: choose to share it with a player to get them 362 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,639 Speaker 1: to come to their school and wear their jersey to 363 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,160 Speaker 1: run up down the field. Why is that so bad 364 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: for everybody else? Because other alumni are not willing to 365 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: put up as much money and that player is going 366 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 1: to go to this school instead of that one. How 367 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,919 Speaker 1: did the player make the decision where he went before 368 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: the money? He made the decision based on where he 369 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: was most likely to get playing time. First, you got 370 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:32,879 Speaker 1: to get out on the field to ever play pro 371 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 1: in hopes of going pro, and in a program that 372 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: would most likely launch him to the pros. The reason 373 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: Nick Saban left, and I'm as big a Nick Saban 374 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: fan as there is, the reason Nick Saban left the 375 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: game is he couldn't dominate the game anymore. And he 376 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 1: couldn't dominate the game anymore because now you had other 377 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: elements who were affecting where the kids went to school. 378 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: Nick Saban was lining up eleven professional players on both 379 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: sides of the ball to knock the snot out of 380 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 1: your kid kids because you couldn't recruit as well as 381 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 1: he could. When you hear that he's a great recruiter. 382 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: He's a great recruiter. There is something to be said 383 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 1: for going and sitting in these young men's grandmother's house 384 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 1: on her couch and eating her food and telling her 385 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: it sure is nice. And her grandson's going to have 386 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: meals with you and your wife in Tuscaloosa. And there's 387 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: a skill to that. But that's not where he's why 388 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: he's choosing where he's going. His kids all want to 389 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 1: play pro football, period, end of story. And they're going 390 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 1: to go where they feel like they have the best 391 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: chance of playing pro football. No, Michael, used to be 392 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 1: players who played for the school, and I'm an Aggian, 393 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: and they were proud Aggies or they were proud Longhorns, 394 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: and they would put their horns up and they loved it. Michael. 395 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: They loved my school and I loved my school, and 396 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: we loved my school together. Really, what did they get 397 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: their degree in? Oh they didn't. What was their major? 398 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: Pe they go to school. You tax them with going 399 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: to school, that's what that is. You force them to 400 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: do some charitable work to pretend to be students, because 401 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: that's part of the whole game. Otherwise, what is this, 402 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 1: it's semi pro football? And that's what it is. It's 403 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: semi pro football. But we like to weave our whole 404 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 1: college experience into the entertainment. It's a game we play 405 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 1: with ourselves. You know, like the preacher who preaches on 406 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: Sunday and then it goes out on Monday with you know, 407 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: a bottle of whiskey to prostitutes and cocaine, and back 408 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: by next Sunday is preaching the word again. He doesn't 409 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: mean a word he's saying. It's all performative. So I 410 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: don't mind the game. In fact, I quite enjoy it. 411 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 1: I look forward to college football. I just don't like 412 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 1: when people aren't honest with themselves or other people, or worse. 413 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: Worse than being dishonest is not being aware of what's 414 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: going on, being so naive that you believe that a 415 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: kid who grows up in Calcashue Parish his whole life 416 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: has wanted to end up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to play 417 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: college football because he had such respect for where bar 418 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: Bryant coached. They teach those kids that that's in media 419 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 1: training one oh one, because they used to not go there. 420 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 1: They used to go to LSU or the University of 421 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 1: Texas and many of them still do. But maybe the 422 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: worst of it all is to hear UT fans talking 423 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 1: about we got to fix Nil, you dumb ass, you're 424 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 1: King of the Hill. It may not be this year 425 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: because I don't think Arch. I'm sure Arch Manning's not 426 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 1: there yet. He may never get there. I don't know. 427 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: But that team is a quarterback short of a national 428 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 1: championship team, and I do believe that. But if they're 429 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: not this year, they will be within five because they 430 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 1: got more money than everybody else. And you know who's 431 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: the other big winner out of this, Texas Tech, Because 432 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 1: you got Cody Campbell and Gary Peterson and a handful 433 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: of guys willing to spend whatever it takes, and they 434 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 1: have it to put a winner on the field. And 435 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 1: why shouldn't they Why shouldn't they be able to spend? See, 436 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: for years, we've let them pay the coach every college, 437 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:34,080 Speaker 1: every college wants to every group of umni, alumni want 438 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: their team to win. And the alumni have been for 439 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 1: decades doing everything they can to help their team win. 440 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 1: So that's how you got into a bidding war for coaches. 441 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: Did you pay the coach more and more and more 442 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: money to get the best coach, because best coach meant 443 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,840 Speaker 1: most likely you were going to win, and when you're winning, 444 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: kids want to come to your program. So it's not 445 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: like money just entered the fray. It's that the money 446 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: conversation and exchange was going on outside the presence of 447 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: the kids, because by god, we're not going to let 448 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: those kids make a penny. Those kids need that money 449 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: more than anybody else. Why shouldn't that kid get to 450 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: take his skill and get paid for it for delivering 451 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: it to the university. The only program at the top 452 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: fifty schools that makes money and doesn't drain money is football. 453 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 1: Football's paying for all the stuff that nobody goes to. 454 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:33,800 Speaker 1: Did you really need a women's swimming team, Michael, Why 455 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: daughter's on the swim team? Great? The swim team costs money. 456 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 1: It's the only program that makes money. It's the only 457 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,720 Speaker 1: reason most alumni ever go to a college is to 458 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,080 Speaker 1: the college football game. You don't go for the graduation, 459 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: the lecture series, or to tour the opening of a 460 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 1: new building. You don't give a damn about any of that. 461 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: It's the college football team, and maybe the basketball team, 462 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,320 Speaker 1: and occasionally the college baseball team, but only a few 463 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: programs college football is recruiting. Georgia gets more applications ten 464 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: times what they did twenty years ago because they've had 465 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: a winning football team. The school didn't change. People care 466 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,360 Speaker 1: about football, and there's nothing wrong with that. Let it 467 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 1: be a business. That's what it is.