The power of the modern college football QB in the NIL era
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Bruce Feldman welcomes Max Olson to the show! Star QBs are starting to be seen with luxury vehicles thanks to NIL money. Quinn Ewers, who has never started a game for Texas, is currently driving an Aston Martin. The modern college football QB is one of the most interesting positions in all of sports thanks to the transfer portal and NIL. Ryan Day said Ohio State needs a 13 million dollar NIL budget. Penn State's James Franklin said the real number to be competitive is higher. Is this good for the game? Max gives the three most impactful players that came out of the portal this offseason.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:23.1 | Special guest today, Stu is on vacation. |
| 0:27.3 | I think he's out of the country. |
| 0:29.4 | We know Stu fancies himself now as like our own resident Steve Wilfong. |
| 0:37.6 | But instead, we are going to bring in a real recruiting authority for the |
| 0:41.5 | athletic. This is Max Olson. Max actually goes to |
| 0:46.7 | campuses and is around recruiting camps. |
| 0:52.7 | So sorry, Stu, you probably listen to this much, so I'm not going to bag you. |
| 0:56.5 | But let's just call because our producer, John Hayes, seems to be amused at not for the podcast. |
| 1:02.7 | Little disclosure that I put, let's call this whole episode, not for the podcast, since it's a |
| 1:07.4 | stew-free environment. |
| 1:08.7 | Max, thanks for joining us today. |
| 1:11.0 | An unauthorized edition of the Audible. Yeah, I'm happy to be here. |
| 1:15.5 | Okay. So last weekend, I went out, the Elite 11 was at a regional camp here in Los Angeles. |
| 1:21.5 | I went out to that. You were on the road in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and saw probably a lot more prospects at TCU. |
| 1:32.7 | And we would like to share kind of what we saw, not just on quarterbacks because you saw more than just quarterbacks. |
| 1:38.2 | But we want to start there. |
| 1:40.1 | And we'll get into some other things among NIL chatter, as well as in the wake of Ryan Day made some interesting comments to Cleveland.com about what, I don't want to say a salary cap would be or kind of a budget for what a top program should be right now, as well as a few other things in the offshoot of that. |
| 2:02.9 | Since Max is here, |
| 2:04.1 | and he's the foremost authority on things in the portal, |
| 2:07.4 | we will kind of pick his brain on that. |
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