Kirk Herbstreit on how to solve the transfer portal, NIL & the playoff
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Jason Fitz with Yahoo Sports hanging out with the great Kirk Herbstreit joining us on behalf of Purina Pro Plan.
Start with what you actually think is realistic for what college football will look like in 5 years.
I'm just taking it day by day like you are to imagine, hopefully in 5 years, we will have some, some concrete, this is who college football is decisions.
And I feel like we've been drinking out of a fire hose for the last 3 or 4 years.
And I don't see that going away for the next few years anyway.
I think there's so many layers to it.
There's the postseason part, you know, we're at 12, the contract's up.
Are we going to 14, are we going to 16?
Is it a 4-4-2-2-1-1?
Is it a 5 and 11?
Like what, what are we going to?
And then the obvious is the transfer portal, NIL Revshare.
I would love to see us somehow get to a point where we would have a collective bargaining agreement with somebody that's representing the players.
And, you know, the conference commissioners or, or college football.
And I would love to see us be able to agree on a lot of those issues, NIL portal, and all those things that drive all of us crazy.
And then have an agreement, and then you don't have to worry about antitrust laws.
My hope is we have some kind of CBA and some kind of understanding the players are essentially employees.
And that doesn't mean school's not still important for some of these guys, doesn't mean you still shouldn't go get a degree.
It just means we need to find a way to knock down the threat of litigation.
You are sitting next to Purina Pro Plan.
Talk to me about it, brother.
What do you love about this?
I'm very big into the ingredients that are in it.
That they put in their dog food.
The more real and the more organic, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
That's why with this, what we've done, you know, over the last, oh, I don't know, 2 or 3 months, having a chance to do this fueled by docuseries with George Kittle.
We had Sophia Wilson, Rose Lavelle, elite athletes in their own field.
We had a chance to visit with them and, you know, they train hard, but they also fuel their body with the right food.
No different than humans, anybody out there that tries to stay in good shape.
Well, why shouldn't we be doing that for our dogs?
And no matter what their age, no matter, no matter what their activity level or their breed, and it's so important to be able to give our dogs, it's our responsibility to give our dogs the right food and the right lifestyle.
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