WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:63000 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.000 I think one of the big things that's happened over the last year of name, 2 00:00:03.010 --> 00:00:07.320 image and likeness is that it's freaked out. A lot of people who, 3 00:00:07.740 --> 00:00:12.160 for the entirety of their careers in college sports are used to operating by a 4 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:13.280 certain set of rules. Now, 5 00:00:13.860 --> 00:00:17.440 we can have a conversation about whether those rules have been followed in the 6 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:20.030 past, or whether people, uh, 7 00:00:20.030 --> 00:00:23.110 have been cheating to get players since time and Memorial, 8 00:00:23.110 --> 00:00:24.390 which we know that they have. 9 00:00:25.090 --> 00:00:29.230 But when the college athletics paradigm shifted 10 00:00:29.860 --> 00:00:31.070 into name, image, and likeness, 11 00:00:31.070 --> 00:00:33.950 it went from a world where people knew what the rules were, 12 00:00:33.950 --> 00:00:37.630 what they were supposed to be to a world without a lot of rules, really. 13 00:00:37.850 --> 00:00:41.460 And so you've seen all these different things pop up around name, image, 14 00:00:41.460 --> 00:00:45.380 and likeness. The booster collectives are those legal, are those not legal? 15 00:00:45.380 --> 00:00:48.140 There's not a lot of answers. Everybody's a little bit confused. 16 00:00:48.720 --> 00:00:51.860 And so you now have this environment where, uh, 17 00:00:52.010 --> 00:00:55.540 some schools are maybe a little bit more on the cutting edge than others, 18 00:00:56.120 --> 00:01:00.250 but a lot of the stuff that people used to whisper about, Hey, you're cheating. 19 00:01:00.250 --> 00:01:04.210 This guy is running a dirty program. This guy's buying players well, 20 00:01:04.270 --> 00:01:06.650 now everything sort of seems to be in a gray area. 21 00:01:07.230 --> 00:01:08.730 And so for guys like Nick Saban, 22 00:01:09.320 --> 00:01:12.210 they're looking at Texas a and M getting this number one recruiting class. 23 00:01:12.590 --> 00:01:17.200 And they're saying, this is part of the ni L reality. 24 00:01:17.430 --> 00:01:22.280 They are through a booster collective that is somewhat loosely connected to the 25 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:22.630 school. 26 00:01:22.630 --> 00:01:27.520 They are getting those players at Texas a and M and players that maybe Alabama 27 00:01:27.940 --> 00:01:28.773 is used to getting. 28 00:01:29.420 --> 00:01:34.310 And so I think that's why you saw Saban maybe kind of lose a little bit of 29 00:01:34.310 --> 00:01:35.830 his decorum. Uh, 30 00:01:35.900 --> 00:01:39.710 he's probably frustrated by everything that's going on right now with name, 31 00:01:39.710 --> 00:01:40.550 image and likeness. 32 00:01:40.970 --> 00:01:45.630 And obviously Jimbo Fisher interprets that as Saban saying, 33 00:01:46.530 --> 00:01:50.070 you're cheating, but Saban actually didn't say that a and M was cheating. 34 00:01:50.070 --> 00:01:53.100 He just said that they were using this name, 35 00:01:53.110 --> 00:01:55.460 image and likeness to quote unquote by players, 36 00:01:55.790 --> 00:02:00.100 which technically might be somewhat legal or somewhat not legal. 37 00:02:00.100 --> 00:02:04.060 Nobody really knows. And that's, I think the semantic confusion over all this, 38 00:02:04.440 --> 00:02:09.300 but to see Jimbo Fisher react so strongly towards Saban to 39 00:02:09.890 --> 00:02:14.010 basically say their relationship is over to bring up past, 40 00:02:14.790 --> 00:02:19.770 uh, innuendos about maybe the way Saban did business in the pre I L era. 41 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:21.250 That is pretty shocking. 42 00:02:21.650 --> 00:02:25.850 I didn't necessarily think that Fisher would go scorched earth to that degree, 43 00:02:26.270 --> 00:02:29.880 but he did. And how, uh, it's gonna be up to Greg. 44 00:02:29.970 --> 00:02:33.440 Sanky the S sec commissioner to try to cool tensions.