Caller Roman has just triggered everyone!

0:00the car skater out today 248, 539, 97, 97. Oh, let's get back to your open line calls. We got a Roman in Sterling Heights. You're on 97 one. Hello, Roman. Hi, Doug. I got a comment on eligibility. Really, you talked about that earlier. Yeah. Just a little background by myself. I watched the NFL. It's my favorite sport, but I don't watch college football. Okay. But and you're not going to like this comment. I'm going to say it anyway. I think once a player goes to college, it's an extra career clarity activity football is, but once you start paying them, becomes a job. And I don't think I don't see how anybody could say you only have five years to do a job unless it's the school. We're talking about outside entity. So, um, and let me give you another example. I used to work for new for new shipbuilding. And he has something called a apprentice program there. And what it is, you go to school and you pay, you're going to go to school and you work. And it used to be, you have to be under 24 years old,

1:02because they want your work a long time. But what happened is people, people start suing. And it was the judge rules. There's a stereotyping. So I could see a point in time when players could sue the NCAA for a stereotyping. What do we, what do we talk about? We're talking about eligibility. I think, I think a player should be able to play college football and receive an income as long as they want. Okay. Well, it's a school says you have to be making, you have to be a student, a registered student, making progress towards your undergraduate degree. You have five years to do so. And if you, once you've got that undergraduate degree, you're done playing college sports, you think you should be able to keep going. Yeah, I think you should be able to keep going because you know, it's all of a sudden it's an income. It's not extra correct. So you, so you want grown men who are like 30 years old, let's say,

2:04who have been in college football for 10 years to go compete against kids that are coming in and playing as freshmen as 18 year olds. Well, you already have 23 year olds competing against each other. Okay. I'm a job in Fesecious. I'm dangerous. I keep, pardon me. I'm being Fesecious too. You can't have, do we want this? Roman, is this something you want? Well, like I said, I don't want college football, but yeah, I think I want it because I think it's fair. Because all of a sudden it's a job and they want to work at that location or another college, you should be able to do well. Well, there's other places you can get that job once you've graduated. Yes, exactly. Go to the UFL, go to the NFL, go play arena ball. Exactly. But let's say you want to go, he want to keep going to college. I mean, I think you get more exposure going to college because there's other players, you know, you know, with the, and helping. They're allowed to make rules. Yeah. Yeah, but I'm not pointing. Okay, all right. Roman.

3:04I mean, I, I guess in this day and age, we should be cognizant of the fact. And we cognizant of the fact that every, many decisions are made because of a lawsuit or to avoid a lawsuit. In fact, I feel like that's how rules are being shaped. True. That's why they didn't see that. Oh, you really getting to the point that our guy Roman Watts, because it's fair. That players after five years of eligibility are up, somebody's going to sue to keep playing college football. You know what? I'm suing. I want to play. I want to play for Roman. I'm 67 years old. Damn it. I can still play. That's a stupid. I don't want to be dismissive of a Roman who says I don't even really watch college football. But it just thinks it's fair. I don't know. I want to be just, I want to be dismissive Roman because of one of the stupidest things I've ever heard my life. Yeah.

4:04I'm just going to keep playing. I'm going to keep playing college sports for like five years for ten years. What about high school, Roman? Of course, it sounds stupid, but I think I'm trying to think what Roman, what's going through his mind, right? Why would he bring this up and he says fairness? Like, so if you guys both have kids that went to college, right? Go to college. Yes. If they got a job with the university while they're in college, and then after they graduated, the university still wanted to employ them. They would be able to work there, right? Yeah. This is Roman's argument, essentially, isn't it? Kind of like, hey. Wait, that's what they could. I still want to work here. You know what I think I'm right. It's an argument like. I don't mean this in a bad way. But I hate Roman. I don't hate Roman. I hate the idea of what are we doing? What are we doing? Well, that's where we're at now, unfortunately. And we have people coming over these ideas now because college football has no guardrail.

5:04Here's the other thing. They are not employees. That is not theirs. Not the collective bargaining. They are not employees. So I think the school can make rules for its students. Yes, I can. I think the schools can make rules for the students. So maybe that's as simple as it is. The schools also can determine who gets paid NIL money. And schools can say we're stopping your contract after your 50 years. Why are we even doing this? I look. I have no idea. I like the bet on calcium. Romans IQ right now. Wow. I did say I hate the guy. I don't hate the guy. But it's just. I hate his idea. Yeah, it's more on it. Roger and waterford. What's up, Roger? Yes, I'm calling just to follow up really on Romans call. Only in the regard of this. A lot of the people NIL, they're not going to school at all. So in reality, the eligibility rule is a farce because they're not even going to school.

6:12Who do you know that you're not going to school? They're going to they might not be actually in a classroom. They're going online stuff. They're not doing that. They're not taking any. If you did a survey of all the NIL players that are being paid throughout the landscape of college football, what percent are actually going to class and what percent are only there because they're being paid by the university. If you are two separate things, but if you are counting online classes, I would say the percentage would be 98%. I will tell you that I have these kind of gross grand statements. They're not even going to class. Right. If somebody's caught not going to class and take care of that, they should be going to class. There is eligibility deals. And you know, that again, I'm not going to co-sign on this.

7:13They're not even going to class. No. You know, there's one of the things that that Western Michigan president said is that he was a former prosecutor, which is probably why he talked to everybody involved. But the one thing I realized is he wanted accountability to the people involved. So he reached out and talked to all kinds of people. The officials involved in the play, the big 10, the people in the big 10 in charge of officiating, people at the American conference, like he talked to everybody and as a prosecutor, I got the sense of what he was doing. He was looking for accountability. And I take this job so seriously that I look for accountability from our audience as well. This guy calls up and says they're not even going to class. I want to name him. Tell me who. And people get cynical and say, come on, don't kid yourself. None of these guys are going to class. I operate in a world where you got to know before you say something like that. Like, I look to some of them go to class and they get grades whether they take tests or not.

8:13Yeah, probably is there is an academic fraud happening in collegiate athletics? Yes. I would I would bet that there is. Yes. But I wouldn't make that the basis for making any decision. Right. Which is what which is what has happened in this conversation. Look, there's been athletes who say, look, I've not I don't go to a classroom. What's his name? Actually, sellers from South Carolina. When our sellers, he's got a internship at a driving range, but he got his degree before that. Yeah. You know, they go. I'm not naive here. Don't get me wrong. But people are talking about changing the rules based on, you know, give me some data. If the data is overwhelming or something, but I'm not going to base it upon hyperbolic feeding of rumors. Brad and Windsor. Hi, Brad. Hey, how are you doing? What's up? So the Roman guy, I mean, the minute he said that he doesn't watch college football, I'm not sure why he would even have a comment then because he clearly doesn't understand the whole thing about college.

9:17And you know, neither do I for that matter. When I first heard a little while ago that they were going to start paying players in college, I was like, well, is that only because they're making so much money off these guys is back. I mean, I think that's the reason why I think that somebody feels that the players deserve some money. But I think it's a very real thread on on on disrupting the actual college game. I mean, the whole idea was these guys are hungry and they're trying to prove themselves and they're playing through in. But to do to make it to the next level, that's what the whole game used to be about. And how it's worked in and I again, I don't know if it's going to wreck the game eventually, but so that was my thing as I didn't really understand the whole money thing and the fact that it's now here, well, it's not a job, but I don't know how that's even working. But I just Roman just, I don't understand what he was even thinking. It's intriguing that he parachute sin as a non college football watcher with this opinion.

10:20But as he said, he wants it all to be fair. For people miss a call, Roman called and said players should be able to, he wants to see him sue to get eligibility beyond five years. Yeah, I don't think anybody who watches college football would be in favor of that. No, let's go to shaky and Orton Villiar, 97 one. Hello, shaky. Hey, what's going on guys? Well, hey, with that caveat, you just put on it as far as players being able to sue. Like I don't agree with the way Stony put it. Yeah, you can't be 67 years old and decide you want to play college football and sue to play. I don't necessarily think that's what shaky saying, but I never thought about it before and you guys can beat me up after you hang up on me. But the guy's kind of got a point. You know what I mean? I mean, if a guy's, it is a job. I'm sorry, you want to work money into the college game. They're no longer amateurs, right? This idea that they're all going to class, yes, they've got internships and card dealerships, they've got internships at TV studios,

11:24and all these kinds of things. It's become a job for them. If a guy can still play, you can still play the game, you can still perform in his position. Doesn't he ever write to keep that job if the team wants him and he wants to play? Not right now. It's not collectively bargained. It's not a job. It's not technically a job. If it gets collectively bargained, it becomes officially a job. And did you refer to yourself in the third person? I do that all the time. I've got named shaky. My press for hippies, of course. I do. I give third myself in a third person. Wow. Nice. Stoney does not approve. Ain't Hutchinson next. Nice one.