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The Freak List! (Mon 8/10 - Seg 9)
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Bruce Feldman released is Freak list and Matt dives into it.
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Family man Josh Odson Family man Matt mc. You're kidding me, right? They want me to read this. Okay. Family man Josh Hodson Family man Matt mc. I'm sorry, there's just no way I'm gonna get through this. You're listening to Middays with Matt on 1620 the Zone. Still no update from the football playoff committee's meeting that they will have today. Going to be discussing potential expansion for the College Football Playoff. Everything is on the table. ESPN would prefer them not to go above 16 because if they were to go above 16, that means that other networks such as Fox or NBC of the likes would be able to get some packages to go ahead and broadcast these college football playoff games. It's one of the better investments that ESPN has made over the last couple of years and definitely a mistake that Fox made in terms of not really seriously bidding to broadcast these college football playoff games. Which is why a lot of this college football playoff expansion from the Big Ten being a big point of emphasis isn't necessarily fully about, oh, we want more teams in the Big Ten, which it is like that is a factor. The Big Ten wants more Big Ten football teams because they stand to benefit from reputation and financially from it as well. But also Fox in the Big Ten have a very big partnership in terms of their TV contract and it only scans could benefit Fox and in tow the Big Ten. If Fox is able to make a lot of money broadcasting these college football playoff games. At this point it seemed like it was either 16 or 24 when it came to expansion. Now apparently there's 20 could potentially be on the table, which would be really interesting, I think the format if we have to expand, which I do not support. If we had to, we had to expand, I would go to 16. And I actually do like the idea of having 13 play 16 and fort. Like they would do kind of like a play in for the final couple of spots and it wouldn't just be like one versus like they. There's like a plan idea that would happen which I'm kind of cool with that because the games would be more competitive in, in that way. And then you kind of, you know, you give the other teams an advantage in terms of rest because of their what they played throughout the season. So if they were to do 16 but they decided hey we're not going to do 1 through 16 and you know 2 versus versus 15 they were going to do it another way that would interest me because those games would inherently be more competitive. But it'll be interesting to see what they come away with. During this meeting we'll be following Ross Dellinger and Heather Denature, two very good sources on anything, everything that has kind of been going down. I'm really just ready for all of this non football talk just to stop and we can get all these things passed and I don't have to read legislation anymore. This is what Dellinger talked about by the way, what I was explaining. ESPN, the rights holder of the playoff is socializing with CFP leaders. A 16 team format with 44 playing games for the final four spots into the field, seeds 13 through 16. So that's one of those where. So I got that wrong a little bit. They would have a play ins to see who's 13 through 16 and so it would involve 13, the 13 team but the 17 team and the 18 team 19 team. The Big Ten is not in supportive in support of this format. And part of the reason why ESPN would want to do it this way is so FOX and CBS and NBC don't have the opportunity to bid on these games. We will see. Once again too much about college athletics is us talking about not the actual sports. The Bruce Feldman Freaks list came out today. This is a, a crown jewel of the college football season where Bruce Feldman releases this list and it's not ranking the hundred best players, right? It wouldn't rank the hundred best players but instead it would rank the freakiest athletes who are the best athletes right across college football. And so this is not a these are the hundred best players. These are just the hundred freaks according to Bruce Feldman who does a very good job of writing a bio, a fairly detailed bio of each player on the Freaks list. The University of Nebraska got no players on this list. No players from Nebraska are a freak. However, there are plenty of Nebraska ties to this list. Kate, you know what? So I'm just going to go with the success of seance. Kate Peeper of Norfork made it. Donovan Jackson who played at Burke, he made it for Oregon. Jackson Cantwell who has, you know, his family from Crete, Nebraska, everything like that he plays for Miami. He made it. Trey Steven played for Millard west, offensive tackle for North Dakota, who will play the Huskers this season. He made the list. And then here's a really good one. North Dakota skates Quarterback Chase Mason played baseball at Nebraska his first semester of college and then he transferred to NDSU to be their quarterback. He's actually 28th on the freak list according to Bruce Felt. Here are the list. So Nebraska will play 12 players on this list. Oregon has two of them. Ohio State has two of them. Iowa has three of them. Washington has two. Illinois has one, which by the way Illinois's one is Caden Fegan who's a tight end who formerly was a running back who then they put like £40 on him and now he's just this freak tight end athlete. Michigan skates got zero. Like I said transition year for the spartans. Maryland has zero which was sort of surprising. Yeah but Rutgers has two. They have two players on the freak list. The first one obviously is KJ Duff who's like 6 foot 5, just an absolute stud of an athlete. Had a really good season for Rutgers last year. The other player is Kobe Asamoa who they got from Ohio State and police started 25 games for them at right guard in the past few seasons. He's 6 foot 2310 pounds but here's the thing. He has a 6 foot 10 wingspan with 34 inch arms and 11 inch hands. He squatted 605 pounds and performed pull ups at 305 pounds with with an additional 105 pound pounds attached to him whilst doing pull ups. That's a freak K.J. duff. For those who don't know he had a th yards last season. He led the country with 22 contested catches according to PFF. That's your PFF scout of the day. He also ran a 4.16 shuttle with a 103 broad jump. They their Feldman's got a great quote from his from one of KJ Duff's teammates Kamar Archie who said we call him Mini Ray Lewis but I don't think Ray Lewis ever caught 60 passes for a thousand yards in his career. Duff is 6 foot 6£225 which apparently Jeremiah Charles is having a really good training camp for Nebraska up to this point. Gonna need more of that. So a couple of guys across for no no Nebraska Cornhusker on this list but guys who were in state players at some point or have some previous connection to Nebraska. Mike in our chat bed Free Mike goes wouldn't the 16 team College Football Playoff, wouldn't it be 6 versus 19, 10 versus 15? Four games, get 16 to 12, then 12 to 8. That's what I thought it, it essentially is, though, you're just doing playoff games. Could get 13 to 16, and then I think you would go 1 through 16, 2 through 15, all of this stuff. Once again, I just, I'm done talking about all of the semantics that, that go into college football, and I would just prefer to talk about the games and have the games be played and not worried about what's going on in Capitol Hill. Real quick, I don't know if anybody will, but I, I mean, I don't think it's a referendum on the program that they don't have a quote unquote freak on this list or on this team. You know, Ohio State only has two, Oregon only has two. Nebraska has the same amount of freaks on this list as Indiana. You know, like, this is a fun little thing that Feldman does, and it is sort of interesting that he's able to grab all of these numbers and, you know, like, put like, you know, hey, he squats this and he box jumps that and he broad jumps this. And, and, and I'm, I don't think it's a referendum in the slightest that they don't have somebody who made this list. Once again, the national champions of last year don't have anybody on this list. This is Bruce Feldman having fun. I don't want some people might take it that way. I wouldn't take it that way. Now, if you want to say it's a referendum that Kate Piper and some of these guys who were in the state and, you know, some of which were in Nebraska's backyard, in terms of very talented players who ended up going elsewhere, you know, you, you want to make that play on it, you know, Sure. I mean, I, I think that some of these guys, they were in a different era too, in terms of when they were recruited. You know, Matt Rule didn't necessarily have a shot at all these guys could potentially go and play football in Nebraska. So I'm just, I, I don't, I think this is a fun little thing, but I don't think it's anything to, to write home about. Kenneth goes talking about the College Football Playoff. They're going to galaxy brain it and make it somehow even worse than it is. Well, yeah, because, I mean, once again, it's just all about money and TV networks and TV deals and networks protecting themselves only for the good of themselves and only for cash could go in their pocket and not necessarily the good of the game, which the Save College Sports act, while it needed a lot of work and it still does need some work. And we'll talk about it at some point in terms of, you know, what the effects might be in terms of conference movement with some of the, you know, new rules that they put in, in terms of the limiting of movement for teams, you know, when the Save College Sports act comes through. In particular, if you're going from power conference to power conference, you have to spend five years as an independent. But now there is a, like, there's a fine writing in the first 180 days of the Save College Sports act going through that you can move without having that penalty and that could cause absolute chaos. And so, like, there's still a lot of things that they have to figure out and work through. But I'm, I'm, I'm once again just, I will keep reiterating this. Like, I'm, I'm, I'm sick and tired of all the discourse that isn't the actual sport. And, you know, we're going to continue to have some of that discourse with Robin Washington coming up next, who we're going to talk about certain guys who are going to get fifth years who didn't know that they had more eligibility to use in college basketball this time last year. But I will say that maybe the one shining light, the one shining light of the save. Well, I mean, there's plenty of shining light with the same college sports act like some of it would. A lot of it would, would bring the chaos down quite a bit in college sports, even though I don't think chaos will ever fully not be in college sports. Part of the beauty of college sports is that chaos is involved more so than professional sports, where things are pretty shut tight in comparison. But the one, the one a shining light of it all is there are actually people who are willing to come together and team up to make sure that this sport and college athletics as a whole is, is actually like manageable and, and can continue to survive and maybe even one day thrive unlike they are now, where just every rule feels like it's getting changed at every single moment. Jimmy goes, they don't actually know or understand the industry. They are in charge and. Well, that's the thing, Jimmy. It's like I will, I've, I've had this conversation when it comes to Nebraska athletics in in particular football. Like, how many times can you go to the well of goodwill when it comes to Nebraska football fans until you it's gone until people are like, ah, I'm sick and tired of this crap. Right. And I think that, well, is not, not dry in the slightest. And I still think that there is still plenty of, of goodwill between Nebraska football fans and the Nebraska athletic department. I believe that. But I think there's also plenty of goodwill skill between college football and college football fans where we're not going to, you know, a lot of the decisions they make while they are ridiculous and a lot of people don't like them still. Matt Rule brought this up in Big Ten media days. We're watching the sport more than we ever have before. We're tuning into the sport more than we, we ever have in the past. We're still, you know, drooling at the mouth to have football come back despite all of the hoopla that's gone on around it. I just wonder and I worry, you know, what is the straw that breaks the Campbell's back? If there is one, if there even exists a straw that could break the Campbell's back. And maybe your argument would have been Brendan Sorsby being allowed to play it. It would have gotten very, very close to being that Strawberry. But I'll say this, college sports has gotten way too close over the last couple of years to answering what that question actually is. Jimmy goes. I was referring to CEOs and people who run things around the world. But he ended up agreeing that the NCAA definitely that's the one thing too about the Save the Save College Sports Act. It's so funny to me that like, the people who want this thing to get through and who want the power to run college sports are literally the people who ruined it too. Like the College Sports act is going to put power back in the hands of people who frankly have proven they shouldn't have that power to begin with, which I think is one of the more overlooked parts of that bill. Once again, we'll get there when we get there. We gotta take baby steps here. I can't expect too much from the NCAA real quick before we hit a break and get to Robin from Big Husker. Not sure if anyone else feels this way, but all this insanity in college football has turned my attention to the NFL by tenfold over the last 4ish years. I'll say this like, you know, we talk about college football doing really well. The NFL is killing it, right? The, I mean the NFL is also hasn't done better. And you, you want to know why? You know how I know the salary cap in the NFL around 2020 was $190 million. And people ask, wow, running backs are getting paid a lot of money. Running backs are getting paid a ton of money. Now are we finally valuing the running backs, you know, from a market perspective in the NFL? Well, no, not really because running backs still aren't getting the years and the guaranteed money and even the salary that wide receivers are getting. Zay flowers is making $35 million a year next season for the Baltimore Ravens. He had four touchdowns last year. Jonathan Taylor is going to make $13 million less than that guy. Who would you rather have on your team? Jonathan Taylor is a. Flowers. The unequivocal answer is a, is tra. Jonathan Taylor. The reason why, though, running backs are getting paid so much is that the salary cap has increased about $110 million in the last five years of the NFL. Teams can now spend $31 million on their rosters. In the NFL, you could spend a quarter of a billion dollars to pay 53 men to play a child's game in front of 70, 80,000 people on a weekly basis. All right, the NFL is doing incredible right now. And maybe two Big Huskers point it might have to do with the fact that the product is great. The quarterbacks are great. You know, they understand their TV product. But secondarily to big Husker's point has just have people just been so soured by the craziness that have happened within the nf, within college football, that they said, you know what, if college football is going to be the NFL 2.0, I might as well just watch the better product. Might as well just watch it. Something to think about. A lot of great comments coming in. We'll get to them at some point in the show. But coming up next, let's talk to Robin Washington, Fosker Line and all three here on Middays with Matt.
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