Could We See Major Changes In The College Football Playoffs After This Vote?

0:00 Big news coming out of the American Football Coaches Association,

0:03 which is the union for the coaches.

0:05 They voted uh in a vote last week, the AFCA board swung its support behind one,

0:10 a playoff with max participants, 24.

0:13 Two, discontinuing conference championships as a whole, okay,

0:16 the game that decides the champion where you

0:18 play all season to earn your way in there.

0:20 that has become quite a hot button topic over the last few years as teams

0:24 that are trying to make it into the playoff

0:26 are forced to play in a conference championship,

0:27 don't want to play in a conference championship

0:29 because if they lose in a conference championship,

0:31 it's going to be held against it for the playoff.

0:32 But if they didn't play in the conference championship like some of their foes,

0:34 they wouldn't have another loss.

0:35 So now all of a sudden, this conference championship game matter.

0:38 Why are we doing this?

0:38 It's an extra game for people to get hurt that are going in the playoff

0:41 or somebody to potentially work make

0:42 their resume even worse going into the playoff.

0:45 A lot of the big conferences have hated

0:46 the conference championship game over the last few years.

0:48 I assume that the fans will still love it and everything

0:50 like that, but the coach association said we're good with it.

0:52 And then also, we'd like to end the college

0:54 football playoff by the second week of January.

0:56 Okay.

0:56 Second week of January.

0:58 This year, the um upcoming national championship is January 27th.

1:06 Damn.

1:05 second week or second Monday of January could be January 8th technically or uh

1:10 if the math was to work out with a Monday being January 1,

1:14 which would obviously be great uh great

1:15 for everybody's schedule as you start a new week, you start a new year.

1:18 But nonetheless, they're trying to take a few weeks off.

1:21 They're trying to say no more conference championship games.

1:23 Uh there's also, I think, a by-week that goes from two down to one.

1:27 So this has been voted on by the uh American Football Coaches Association.

1:31 Now, upon hearing this, we go, "Oh, this ain't a bad idea." Okay.

1:34 Okay.

1:35 He's nice.

1:36 He This certainly does mean something.

1:37 Then we reach out to source and they told us basically that's cute coaches.

1:43 Okay.

1:43 We're[ __] in reality here.

1:45 All right.

1:46 We got five, six, seven more years of deals with a lot of money

1:50 going to a lot of your pockets and a lot of your schools,

1:53 okay, that are having a conference championship

1:56 game and the dates have already been.

1:58 So, we appreciate your vote.

2:01 duly noted is kind of what we were told

2:04 that this vote was kind of a piece of it,

2:07 but the AFCA has voted in things in the past

2:10 and it's gone publicly broadcasted and then ended up happening.

2:13 So, I do think this is a massive

2:15 sign of like the coaches just basically saying, "Hey,

2:18 we would be good with this if you guys were to pass

2:21 this." And I think the people that are to pass it say,

2:23 "Okay, well, wouldn't it have been nice to maybe vote on this if you understood

2:27 what we kind of have to do and are kind of a part of." So,

2:30 I think that is kind of where we lie right now, AJ.

2:33 Man, yeah.

2:33 I guess just putting it out there on the radar,

2:35 but I when I first saw this, I'm initially thinking,

2:37 okay, like what if us as a show got together

2:40 and we voted something we wanted the NFL to do.

2:42 We're just suggesting something.

2:43 That's basically what's happening, right?

2:45 Yes.

2:45 That is kind of what this funny you weren't in.

2:47 So, we made multiple calls this morning just to kind of see what this meant.

2:50 You were not here.

2:51 You did not get to experience this.

2:52 I'm appreciative of you thinking the same exact

2:54 way that I kind of thought as well.

2:55 As soon as I heard this, I was like, I don't think this matters.

2:58 So then we call a couple people and everybody that we called that would know was

3:01 like cool thank you we hear what you're

3:05 saying but this doesn't know this means absolutely

3:09 nothing and we're also told that the coaches

3:10 were not given any information or ask

3:12 for any information about things that are like

3:14 kind of non-negot you know so from my understanding

3:17 this is the coaches saying we'd be okay with this but the actual you know

3:22 decisions that have to be made are happening

3:24 by people that are like we can't thanks

3:26 for putting that out into the universe now

3:27 we look like even bigger[ __] whenever we have to do what we have to do

3:30 because that's not the reality of the current situation.

3:32 Because although people hate it and it certainly

3:34 is something that people can say ruins things,

3:37 the money and the business behind it all,

3:39 especially now for college football, is a massive piece of it.

3:43 And there's some things I think that like some

3:45 of the people that are voting on this are like,

3:47 are you taking pay cuts then so we can get out of if that's what you're voting,

3:52 is that what you want to do?

3:53 cuz we have to find a billion dollars somewhere

3:57 to give back if we want to do all these changes.

3:59 So, I think we're nowhere near a final decision being made on all

4:03 this, but I do appreciate the fact that we're all trying to push it to like,

4:06 hey, we need a better schedule.

4:08 Uh we need better this, we need this.

4:10 I think the coaches are saying that as well.

4:12 Yeah.

4:12 Like it's it's cool for football, for the coaches like yes,

4:15 all these things are done one last game.

4:19 uh the season's over basically before the portal or around when

4:22 the portal is so those teams don't miss out on as much.

4:24 But we celebrated it yesterday.

4:26 The Big 10 made what 1.3 or 1.4 billion

4:31 dollars and every single school got 75 or 78 billion.

4:35 Like those conference games uh more games in the you

4:39 know entire year basically like that is what it's all about.

4:42 And it's not just football like that that money that the schools

4:45 get it helps a lot of sports not just football.

4:48 So, like even if it's just the football coaches,

4:51 like you would also think the schools themselves would probably want

4:54 it to be the way it is now and not these changes.

4:57 The funny just the reaction of okay was awesome.

5:02 Yeah, I'm telling you it was one of the greatest

5:04 reactions I've seen to something in in a while.

5:06 Multiple multiple responses just going we already got enough on our plate.

5:10 We we know gez we got a thousand things

5:12 we got to answer and now coaches are doing

5:14 a vote without information and now it's getting public

5:17 and it's like I think everybody wants the right thing.

5:19 What is the right thing?

5:20 What's reality too?

5:21 Like what's actually possible in it all because

5:25 January 27th National Championship that one's locked in.

5:28 Yeah.

5:29 I think that one is is locked in.

5:30 That's the one that needs to be figured out cuz the last week of the season

5:33 25th, sorry, not 26th, the regular season is what?

5:36 November 28th or whatever it is.

5:38 It's the last week in November.

5:39 Thanksgiving weekend like and then you have three or four

5:42 weeks off till the playoffs and then after the semifinals

5:46 you have I think last year it was like

5:48 13 days or whatever between the semi-finals and the finals.

5:51 That's absurd.

5:52 Like the coaches are putting these things out

5:53 just kind of trying to throw things out there.

5:55 I think the schedule because we've talked to coaches.

5:56 I think the schedule is the one that they

5:58 probably feel most passionate about ending closer to January 1st.

6:02 Maybe not January 1st.

6:03 That's probably why they didn't put it there.

6:04 But for the portal and everything,

6:05 the coaches want it to end earlier than January 25th.

6:08 Yeah, it's late.

6:09 We would like to for the players like that.

6:13 Yeah.

6:13 The player safety the long season end,

6:15 you know, the players going to the next level.

6:17 Like you're in the at end of January.

6:20 The combine is what a couple a few weeks later days you got prep for draft.

6:24 Like that's a long long time

6:27 right in the longest season of your life coming up in the NFL,

6:29 which is obviously hard.

6:30 The rookie wall is a hit for everybody,

6:32 especially for those that play late into the college football playoff.

6:34 If it gets to 24 teams, I mean,

6:37 if without any adjustments that these coaches have voted for, I mean,

6:40 this thing's going to go till past Super Bowl.

6:42 Yeah.

6:42 You know, so hopefully there is some changes.

6:45 I also can appreciate the fact that the coaches are like, "Nobody listens to us.

6:49 Nobody listens to us.

6:50 This decision is being made by suits and people

6:53 that aren't a part of this entire thing.

6:55 Maybe we should just[ __] we'll just put out everything that we

6:59 have all agreed on.

7:01 We would like the world to know that we

7:02 as coaches think that this would be the right answer.

7:05 And then the suits that have to make decision are like that's not possible.

7:10 I wish we had a golden plated road that we

7:13 could all just walk down in this entire thing.

7:16 It's like well we're just letting the world know this what we want.

7:18 So[ __] make it happen.

7:20 It's like we got four different networks, five different streaming companies.

7:24 Uh we got five different leagues that have five different contracts.

7:27 We have uh deals that were just negotiated.

7:30 We got some off games to CW I think is having something like

7:34 we got a lot of there's a and there's a lot of sports.

7:36 There's a lot of timing.

7:37 They did go down from one transfer portal though, right?

7:39 It used to be two now went down to one.

7:41 Coaches voted for that publicly.

7:43 That ended up happening.

7:44 So I think they are trying to get it done.

7:46 I think everybody is in the mindset of trying to make it better.

7:49 I I do believe that.

7:50 How we get there though.

7:53 So much money on the line.

7:54 That's what I'm saying.

7:54 You got to if you have an you have like a solution,

7:57 you got to find a way to make up for the money you

7:59 would lose if you didn't do it the way they're doing it now.