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The Valenti Show

Should NIL Deals Include A Bowl Contract? | In Football Today

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

David joins for an "In Football Today", focusing on college football first by bringing up the subject of players not playing in bowl games, asking if there's a fix to this.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm going to start in the college ranks here because I think this one's pretty interesting.

0:04.0

Rico, you and I actually discuss this a little bit pre-show yesterday.

0:08.0

Sure us Sanders, overrated. Not that one. Yes, I agree.

0:12.0

But the NIL deals may include bowl games. So now they may put in NIL contracts that you have to play or requiring players to participate in ball games.

0:23.6

Do you like that?

0:26.5

Not really.

0:27.8

I think the ball games should be handled separately.

0:30.3

I think the ball games are trying to get off cheap and I think they're trying to ride the coattails.

0:35.0

If I'm a bowl game here's what you do.

0:37.0

Hey Jeff I want you to play in the game well I don't know about it I could get hurt I'll give you 70

0:44.6

grand and I'll take out an insurance policy on you in case anything happens

0:49.6

but will you play in the game for more than a half?

0:54.0

Because I need you for a draw, because if you're not playing, nobody cares.

0:58.0

It's like, like I always go back to the Peach Bowl when Kenny Pickett and Kenneth Walker weren't playing.

1:04.8

It was like bad football.

1:06.6

It was a New Year's six day game, but it was, it might as well have been played at Ford Field.

1:12.4

Like it was horrible football.

1:13.8

So what I'll say this and then I'll land the plane.

1:18.0

The bowl games should front the money themselves

1:20.8

because they have big time sponsors backing them use that money to pay

1:25.4

your star players to play in the game. I love the idea. I also like the idea of when you sign a kid to an NIL deal, like can we just make it a one, two, three year

1:38.0

deal? Can't we just do this already? Make it just like the pros.

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