Welcome to the sports media podcast.

I'm your host, Richard Deich.

My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

One guest on this episode, but if you're an NFL fan, he really does not need an introduction,

though I will give him one anyway.

Troy Aikman is the lead analyst for ABC SPN's Monday Night Football,

and it's been so now for a couple years, obviously prior to that,

a long broadcasting career on Fox.

And before that, of course, Hall of Fame quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys.

He and Joe Buck, along with Lisa Salthers and Laura Rutledge, get a very, very big game coming up. Charges Eagles, and we will talk about that. Troy's been on this podcast a number of times. It's always great to catch up with them. And with that, I bring back Troy Aikman. Troy, Troy, welcome. Thank you. Great to be on with you, Richard. Yeah, and I will say just so the audience knows, we had some tech issues on our side. Troy, very kind enough to reschedule same day. Did not have to do that. So shout out to you, Troy. Thank you.

You bet. All right. Here, before we get into some broadcasting stuff in the NFL, this came up in sports and was a significant story.

And I just wanted to get your take on it because I thought you'd have an interesting perspective.

What did you make or what have you made of Lane Kiffin moving from Ole Miss to LSU?

And then the discussion around that in terms of, you know, when or when a coach can't move, what kind of responsibilities does a coach have to the players he recruited? If you're old miss, do you let a guy coach in the playoffs, even though he's now gone to a competitor? My thought is, you know, your football fan, obviously, in a great analyst, my thought is you'd have some interesting thoughts on this.

Well, yeah, I mean, it's an interesting take.

It's the college football has become the Wild West, as everybody knows.

And it's really kind of starting with the NIL, forget about Lane Kiffin for a minute,

but starting with the NIL, there just has been no guardrails. I'm on the National Football

Foundation board. And so I hear firsthand from a lot of the commissioners and the athletic

directors and the people that are involved in all of that. And it's,

it's just got to get cleaned up first and foremost. As far as what I used to always think, I was a transfer,

went from Oklahoma to UCLA, and I've always felt that if a coach is able to pick up and leave, that a player then should have the same opportunity,

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