Colin Cowherd (3:54)
The whole taking off and landing thing is good though, for sure. So. Okay, okay, here we go. Cooper flag. He what a summer league debut. The highs, the lows, the fight. I'm here for all of it. It lasted two games. I'll get to that in a second. The summer league is a little, you know, it's fun for fans. And I think the NBA has done a great job with Vegas. I like the highlights. It's fun. I like watching it. I don't think you can take a lot out of it, but there's two things I've taken out of it. Number one, Yang Hansen, who was called a reach when the Blazers drafted in middle of the first round. Yeah, that, that, that's not a reach. That kid, man. That is Jokic handles IQ. They're not a lot of 7 foot 120 year olds that elevate others. They're just trying to figure out themselves. That kid is I Mean feel, touch. It's a little Yokich Shen Goon from Houston. Like I'm sorry, that kid's got something. And again, NBA physicality is different. You're playing against a lot of rotational guys in summer league or guys that don't make the league, whatever. That guy is something else. And he showed on draft night. He has a sense of humor. What are some of your interests and what do you think you'd be doing if you weren't playing basketball? Sometimes I sleep. All time sleep and I like play PS5 and I like eat. Yeah, that, that. There are some things you know that are overvalued but touch and feel and the elevation of other players around you, you could see that from LeBron James in high school. You could see that very early as Jokic was trying to refine his game as a second round pick. This kid's got some real, some real finesse touch. How does he deal with the physicality of the NBA? That was shockingly impressive. That kid can. There is a feel that you cannot teach and that kid has it. And that's exciting. The second thing is Cooper flag did not need more than two games. So I've been on. This is one of my theories that because you get such young players in the NBA, like in the NFL, you get guys that are 23 years old, they're men, they're developed. Jared versus a man, he walks into the league. Jalen Carter's a man. I majored in baseball. You get drafted, you go to the minors. By the time you're in the bigs, you're a man. Same with the academies, the MLS. But in the NBA you're dealing with 17, 18, 19, 20 year old kids. So I've always had this theory. I would put every rookie, every rookie on a minutes restriction and a game restriction. Everyone. Because in college football you go from 14 games to 17, they're 23 years old, let them play. But college basketball is 35, 36 games. Much slower pace, much less physical. You've got a shot clock. Okay. The NBA is the bullet train. Even at Duke, how often does he go up against an NBA player? So NBA is faster, more physicality. 37 games of college to 82 games of bullet train Basketball, I would limit rookies. Even like a Cooper flag. You're going to play 65 games. You're not doing back to backs. I'm going to, I'm going to take, I want the home fans to see a lot. I'll reward the home fans. I'm going to give you some night games off, some road games. Excuse me, some road games off. So I don't. I would be minute restriction for all rookies because I think the Jump from college basketball, 18, 19 years old, to the severity and intensity of the NBA is too big a leap to do 82 games. Physical pace of play wouldn't do it. College football is different. You're older, your body is more refined. You're more of. You're more of a grown man and you're going from 14 games to 17 with a buy in between. I'm good with that. So anyway, that's my. Take the kid in Portland. Wow, that's impressive. Okay, so, you know, it is, as they call it, the silly season. So people like me in this industry, you could be a columnist. You're kind of trying to fill space. So one of the things I heard over the last week is Nick Saban is going back into college football. So I do not buy it. Although Lane Keffin, who knows Nick Saban. Well said. He does. First of all, I have no knowledge that he's coming back. I don't think anybody does that. I just. He's so sharp still. I almost feel like it's a waste that he's not. No disrespect to the media and what you guys do, but his ability to coach players and change lives in that and he's so good at it. I just think he'll be back, whether that's NFL or college. Okay, so I don't buy it, first of all. And I don't know what he makes. He's probably making 10 million bucks a year to work 25 days. He could play a lot of golf. He can be on. He doesn't have boosters. He's not dealing with the ncaa. And I don't think he's going to go back to begging high school football players to come to a college campus. I don't think Kalyn DeBoer is going to get fired. The bottom line now with nil schools don't have the money to buy out coaches. Lincoln Riley's not going anywhere. Calyn DeBoer is not going anywhere. You're paying 25 million. 20 million. 15 million for players. You can't do those buyouts anymore. The other thing is. So there's not going to be that many openings. And. And Nick Saban's not going to go back to Michigan State. If he's going to an opening, he's going to a top five program. I think college football right now is a 24, 7 turnstile of recruiting. I think it's daunting. I think it's a young man's game. And I mean, honestly, there's a reason Jerry Seinfeld's not going to do another sitcom. Why? 17 years, six national titles at Alabama. The only thing you can do is hurt your legacy. And I was never a big believer in legacy. But when it's as good as Nick Saban's, don't screw with it. It's Seinfeld doing another sitcom. Don't screw with it. And my thing is being a TV analyst is not as rewarding. And there are times I think he gets frustrated. I mean, every time I watch him on Saturdays on television, I want more of him and less of everything else. I could just watch Nick Saban talking college football for an hour. I think he's that good. But. And I think maybe he gets frustrated with that. He wants more time to expound upon his incredible knowledge. But when he left college football, he felt still pretty young and dynamic. And I think he comes that way across on television. I don't think he goes back now. I don't think it would be a Mack Brown feel where you could see the age very quickly. But you got to remember this. Now with the nil, there's about six schools that, that, that. I mean, that. That feel like it's different. Texas, Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia. Even if a coach was struggling at one of those schools, how are you going to buy them out? So you'd have to pay for Nick at 15 million a year and buy out your coach. Have you looked at the buyout for Caleb DeBoer and Lincoln Riley? You can't do it anymore. The boosters are paying too much money for nil. So it used to be when you weren't paying the players anything, you'd get two or three boosters, pay 30 million bucks and get rid of the coach. You're not doing that anymore. So you're going to see. I mean, in my opinion, you're going to see fewer coaches getting fired, more players getting paid big money. And I. I don't buy. I don't buy Nick Saban. I think there are a handful of legacies that are too great to tamper with Jerry Seinfeld and sitcoms. Don't mess with it. Nick Saban coaching college football. Yeah, don't mess with it. To me. And he's also. He's very good on television. So, you know, what's the point? All right, J. Mac gonna be watching the All Star Game tonight on Fox.
