Could the $8 million QB be underpaid, 5-star QBs fair market value & Oregon's CFP path
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Is there a world where the reported $8 million QB is underpaid? Andy reveals why that could be the case. What is the fair market value for a 5-star QB? Is Oregon's path to the College Football Playoff relatively easy? Plus, should we reconsider our SEC job rankings based on future scheduling?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. It's a Dear Andy edition. Your first dear Andy |
| 0:15.2 | question, if you listen to Monday's show, maybe what the heck happened with jury duty? |
| 0:19.1 | I went to jury duty. I was not |
| 0:21.2 | selected to serve on the jury despite a full day of sitting there listening to other prospective jurors |
| 0:27.3 | being asked questions about how they would handle certain situations. They never even bothered |
| 0:31.6 | to ask me how I'd handle any situations, but I would say that probably everyone is better off |
| 0:36.4 | that an idiot like me is not helping decide anybody's fate. I think say that probably everyone is better off that an idiot like me is not helping |
| 0:38.8 | decide anybody's fate. I think that's probably the best outcome for everybody. But I figured |
| 0:47.2 | I'd turn the show over to you today. You have been asking some great questions. There were some |
| 0:51.6 | ones that I could not get to in the mailbag column on The Athletic last week, and I do want to get to him. And there's a couple that I'm better |
| 0:58.6 | qualified to answer after this past weekend, because I was up in Knoxville doing some stories. |
| 1:05.1 | I've got some stories on the current Tennessee football team that are coming out in a little bit. I've also got a story that |
| 1:12.5 | came out Monday on a Nico Iama Leava. I've got it. Nico Iama Leava, the quarterback who is |
| 1:20.8 | committed to Tennessee's a five-star quarterback in the class of 2023. Everybody seems to think he is |
| 1:26.5 | the $8 million mystery man recruit. And when I asked his dad about |
| 1:31.8 | it, he said, no comment. And you try asking a six, eight, 300 plus pound dad if his kid is the |
| 1:40.1 | $8 million man. It's awkward. It's awkward. But he was cool about it. He understands that. |
| 1:45.7 | I think they're getting that question a lot. But that whole situation has generated a lot of |
| 1:52.8 | good questions. And I think this is also new to everybody. And we're all just trying to process |
| 1:58.9 | how this works. And I think we're going to be getting some more news here about other NIL deals involving different collectives that are adjacent |
| 2:06.9 | to different schools. And I say, I know I'm using all the BS words like adjacent to. We all know how |
| 2:13.2 | this is going. These collectives are attached to the schools, whether directly or indirectly, |
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