The Lack of Parity in CFB, Realignment With Barry Alvarez, Plus NFL Agent Don Yee on His Career and Repping Tom Brady

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the historical lack of parity in college football (0:29), before talking with former Wisconsin football head coach and current athletic director Barry Alvarez about conference realignment, the inception of the Big Ten Network, the state of NIL after a year, being an athletic director vs. being a coach, and more (12:10). Then Ryen talks with sports agent Don Yee of Yee & Dubin about his unique path to representing athletes, signing Tom Brady out of Michigan, the case for dissolving the draft in sports leagues, Jimmy Garoppolo's future, creating Tom Brady's deal with Fox Sports, and more (29:42). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:09:03). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Barry Alvarez and Don Yee Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pact show for you.
0:12.5	A lack of parody in the history behind it in college football.
0:15.3	We're going to talk with Donnie, Tom Brady, Jimmy G's agent, longtime guy.
0:18.9	I'm going to throw a bunch of stuff at him and Barry Alvarez on the Big Ten's future and
0:23.8	all the stuff that's going on in college football and a big life advice.
0:27.2	Enjoy.
0:28.2	We're getting ready for the college football season.
0:30.5	I want to talk about the lack of parody because I think at times it can be thrown out there,
0:33.8	but it's a problem right now.
0:35.0	It's a real problem.
0:37.7	I don't know if that's the main factor or the main reasoning for a playoff expansion
0:41.5	push or it could just be people think that four teams being in a stupid and that we
0:45.0	should have all the power five conferences and then one group of five which actually
0:49.7	kind of against that.
0:51.8	If it's not six, there's seem to be more of a push for 12 this off season which again,
0:56.2	it doesn't make any sense to me because it's like, why don't we just play for four months
0:59.0	in the team lost three games.
1:00.4	Now they're going to be like the 12 team in.
1:02.0	Are we going to be arguing about whose three losses are better losses in the other team
1:05.6	and then they have a chance to play and I understand there'd be different versions of
1:08.0	it.
1:09.0	There could be buys where it should be a little bit harder.
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