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REShow: Dan Wetzel/Jason McCourty - Hour 2

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July 22, 2022 3:25 pm

REShow: Dan Wetzel/Jason McCourty - Hour 2

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July 22, 2022 3:25 pm

Yahoo! Sports Columnist Dan Wetzel tells Rich if we can expect Notre Dame to join the SEC or Big Ten in the wake of UCLA and USC leaving the Pac-12, what the future of the College Football Playoff looks like and which of the Power 5 conference will control who gets in and who’s left out, and discusses how the Big Ten will handle scheduling games for all sports when the Bruins and Trojans join the conference.

Michigan alum Rich frets over the possibility of his Wolverines having to play USC every year when the Trojans join the Big Ten and gets called out by a viewer for his UM “arrogance.”

Newly hired ‘Good Morning Football’ host Jason McCourty tells Rich why he’s excited to embark on his TV career after retiring from the NFL, says why Josh Allen would be his go-to QB if he needed to win just one game, says why Bill Belichick’s ‘Patriots’ Way’ is different from the other teams he played for during his career, and if Kyler Murray’s big new contract will translate to more wins on the field for Arizona.

TJ Jefferson lists his top 5 MLB teams heading into the 2nd half of the season among the Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, Astros and one more surprising team.

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We call college football professional sports. You mean the Kirby smarts paid like a professional football coach we we seen more more name, image and likeness deals a players were there making more money than rookies at their position in the NFL. We reach the point yet were. I don't know why we wouldn't notice that you made amateurism of the claimant. You don't have to pretty good low pretty good low back by yeah I mean that the consistently get more and more particularly in the wake. The television that works really well in the sport now it it at the decider. Talk to literally sitting in on the Big Ten feeding negotiations with other partners and the decisions now are just in the family and yet again it's not your style, and we had USC and UCLA are stronger we guesstimate a competitor in the past 12 in the supply and demand were even more valuable because we can't supply and increase our target demand. It typically more cutthroat business wise you know it how we can find playoff to maximize the profit off, maybe not. You know, improve the entire sport and all that college is very little going on at the upper level, let alone the cash. So what's the next Alaska same question asked. For example, our colleague at ESPN yesterday is the USC UCLA joining the Big Ten even though the governor of this great city, California seems to think UCLA shouldn't go. It seems more needs need some reasoning as to why the UC system needs to be subsumed by Big Ten football is that the last step is at the last big kaboom this year Morgan's play football and see how it all plays out over or there's still more to come. Right now things that happened, one would be at Notre Dame and that is going to happen anytime soon.

Notre Dame what what playoff will look like, as long as their access and a large number of at-large spot for Notre Dame to make the college. Playoff than they should be fine. They also want to see what they can get on the market with with with the renewal as long as that number is incredibly behind. Shouldn't the Big Ten and FTC be the same. But if it's in the 60 or $70 a year range while Big Ten because making 100, maybe that's enough of them so it would Notre Dame jump Notre Dame to make that decision.

Right now they don't have their only desire to. The only other thing would be what happens with the big 12 in the pack.

Right now the packet impact well now Pac-10, but whatever it is, together were going to go out to market, negotiate RTL in the end were not well as long as that's the same little concert on fairly family bought while can convince particularly the Arizona Arizona State Utah Colorado any of those school okay you're better off without were more stable than the pack 12 could fall apart if the pack the remaining Pentax while schools want to stick together then I think will hit a little bit of a calm for the time being, but those are really the only two things that happen. The ACC can't really move yesterday. She is looking to expand anymore the good kind of pretty happy at 16 in public. I know would Notre Dame want to do so. I think it's all about the pack 12 stay together and if they don't how many schools jump to the big 12. My guess is and will remain kind of five major call Dan Wetzel, Yahoo sports, seer Rich Eisen show so let's then get to the college football playoff is just a couple times you've mentioned, you know folks will see how it shakes out how that shakes out. Certainly Notre Dame being the most interested party on all of that whose deciding what's the decision-making process and what it's going to be and what's the timeframe in because I would imagine that that will be the impetus to create more super leagues super conferences and things like that, wouldn't you agree not what the structure so they quickly find a 12 year yellow on the college, 14 and before that or at-large that and that and after the 20 2015. There is no rollover of something new have to be created for her after 2020, which is working out a plan and in right now to have a plan in place to go to 12 teams with six automatic dead all the major the top six conference W would get it. So you have your FTP Big Ten ACC big 12 and plus you know you're really good Boise State PMR big Mid-America conference key or someone from the amount whatever would be. They would also get the real life like smaller and at-large spot, switch, help the FTC get to 314 then Notre Dame and multiple self that plan with their under the old will a single conference could say we don't like that in the you would not get changed because they were trying to alter the current cost of the ACC pack 12 Big Ten block, much to the disastrous decision by the ACC impact well because right now they have automatic access to the player if they take an IPO in January going forward new geologist, a new deal. Yes you see in the Big Ten have the majority of the time school, they can essentially create whatever playoff they want to say this is how were doing it your reader and in your because you can't really have a playoff with the SEC in the big so basically everything we want, in 18 playoff with all at-large spot even though working to get 67 about spot that your Notre Dame. I say worrying everyone else would have to go along with what enough to try to create their own playoff will kill that recruiting so this is going forward.

This decision is almost essentially whatever you see in Big Ten and that's not get the pack 12. The big 12 or the ACC, let alone the mountain wax and all of that so it's a precarious spot FTC that really drive the spoke of the big Kentfield so that it's a weird process because you to create a system for all college football but not all college football is really saying what I mean. I think what ends up happening then you tell me is that you got 16 teams in the Big Ten right now right and the SEC's got this same number one so that 69 soap you could just stop it right there in a way I normally because no one else in the NSF correct and then girl playoff right they do and then they meet in what's called to the Super Bowl. I think you've heard of it yet. But, what popular event this college is more profitable yes but college football has obviously more teams than just those 32, of interest, and not all those 32 were terrific just like the NFL as well. So what I'm thinking is, you create another situation where one 16 team conference exists in another 16 team conference exists. Everybody has their own playoff and you have a 14 playoff situation based off of those 64 and some of those 64 make a deal that can get relegated out relegated in things of that nature and everybody's gonna have to race for those 64 seats and that's can be a free-for-all that's going to come based on may be. The accelerants is the name, image and likeness deals that some of these teams can offer or some conferences will close up their ranks to have their own NIL rules because they're not waiting around for anybody else, and some might be more of interest to others, and that's how players are to get there and that's how this is all going to go. I have no idea we can run it may be if Sankey I don't know but what you think of that idea that that that idea by the way, and that would be up good solution, but that would allow that would mean the big hand would be feeding equal power to the other. Everybody else right now they control workers. Note we are where does Notre Dame fit in on that, but it's certainly possible. There are three or four complicate anything is on the table. At this point and that's why getting rid of that playoff plan in January was such a terrible vision for everyone else in college football because the SEC was was driving it, and they were very magnanimous something hey you guys are in the big 12 is going to get in. Even though they're not even close to the pack 12 going to get in.

Even if you lose UCLA and USC and Enfield right now you be sit there in the pack 12 in your organ delegate is terribly thought USC to make as much money but you know what other schools which we can be playoff. We can do this right, going back out just when the Western ticket can recruit lottery pics every year.

They have a path to the final port doesn't matter that there in the West Coast conference.

Are there small Jesuit. They have a path when you get rid of that Now you hope yet that under your plan, FTC and Big Ten say we wanted partners with all the rest of you. They may not. They make it there if they were to go 20 each urinary route and Notre Dame have to jump and climb the gotta find a way out of everything like that so it is just very very unknown and very uncertain. I don't think an even I don't think anyone in college athletics has the chess pieces designed out far enough to know exactly how to be, but this people will be left behind. Good programs with lots of fans are going to be left behind and that the encampment and the path which would teams and it could happen in the future and that's it. If you really love all college football is a fairly depressing time building it up with more good games and things like that you don't really want to see yellowtail Washington state get left out in the cold. It's like they got fans and their fun to watch some time. They you. You want that hope that they can be good people to get left behind Wetzel here in the rich doesn't show last one for you, sir, no little more deeper arcane and a moment for that.

That is a little bit I guess for me as a scheduling work in the Big Ten. I mean, you sent me like just as Michigan have to play UCLA, USC, Ohio State Penn State Michigan State.

Every year when Wisconsin and Iowa thrown in. I mean how does that houses can work. What now that USC UCLA seer West Coast trips right at me like that's got to be sick, African wind when you make them.

You know that USC could set you know what to say USC goes to both Ohio State and Michigan would just throw that out there, but Ohio State you let you know Michigan gets USC in September. Unusual nice but Ohio State gets him in November where you know kids from Rancho Cucamonga like the last time quarterback might have to put their hands in the Fanny pack to keep them warm. No, that was a shot. I just made it Ohio State you want to be not you want to be the part of salesman USC athletic yes that yes there will now be in winter clothing.

It USC might not need in previous hours worked during while they will probably nine names three but think your beloved Michigan test right you want to have your three rivalry games that you must play every year that have Michigan play Ohio State right Michigan play Michigan correct and maybe they play Minnesota at the Little Brown jug trophy or somebody else. Whatever it and then you cycle through the rest of the kings and you should be of the get everybody home in a way you would maybe find a USC every other year every four years you would either travel narrative which you travel. There are quite HomeAway but you could stack up that way. So there's a way to codify cyclic regions applying everybody fairly often, but you do not lose the big television draws in the hard-core rivalry that you that you need such as that. There's no way you're not having Michigan Ohio State player for your yearly when expanding to lose 10 million person gain get more pump for UCLA and USC extremely calculating In the other day talking I'm every coach USC talk about when they would go play Notre Dame every other year and it was a big deal of land you because you gotta get acclimated and so they would leave on Thursday or Saturday game and get in early and grind nothing in the middle of the plate. Notre Dame games in Atlanta to do it at the end of year. Now you like week after week after week because you know there's certainly true road games in a row is not uncommon. So you might be USC or you feel like it would apply to Illinois to come back and I want to go play markers. The next week and we got ago so it that the travel purple USC football and and and usually football is enormous and same thing for Odyssey doctors basketball which people care about the long road trips and all that you going to put that has a baseball team or a softball team or Socrates you signed a place you like to play in the warm weather not like, you know, winter, spring baseball game in Lansing you are signing up for something else up for the nonrevenue sports harder though make it work for football. But it will be a challenge in the NFL. You know when you're going west to east.

It is to say it's a challenge for that last was a perpetual challenge now for UCLA and USC compatible with time and look for my call is a season approach is more thanks thanks to sense really appreciate any direct right back at you, Dan Wetzel, one of the best and finest right here in the rich doesn't show from Yahoo sports. Let us take a break beyond time relatively for Jason McCourty about to join me. Good morning football breakfast table, but he will join our program next on the rich doesn't show. Having just spoken with Dan Wetzel of young sports about the college football world and diving into him, his knowledge about that world and the Big Ten scheduling that's coming to say something that definitely backs up the sentiment from so many other Big Ten fans that Michigan Wolverine alums like myself are arrogant and put our our our program on a pedestal. I know I know TJ on what I'm about to say will upset Penn State country were there from. I got but with all of the additions with UCLA and USC and Dan Wetzel same wall there to take away rivalry games with the additions of these new two new teams and that the whole idea is to create more watchable games not to take away the rivalry games so you still have those and then you'll figure out what the signal still play nine games. But then I do take away the rivalry games naming another Big Ten rivalry game that does not include Michigan naming one naming one Iowa Iowa State they're not. I was to extend the Big Ten I say something thinking and jailhouse tell Jeff that the rich history of that need to doesn't have the 100 year history Michigan who was Wisconsin's rival great asked him who is Michigan name that one. Ask any badger. The one team they want to be the most in the Big Ten's name Michigan State's name Ohio State us now, the broad shoulders broad shoulders, but now he is coming and USC coming in USC Plato penciled was great. USC Penn State matchups row you there's controversy where USC penis on touchdown in the Rose Bowl during the college years so it's just gonna be another layer of God play Michigan in the but Michigan's irrelevant. I hear that all the time. I just want to know.

That's why want to know how we can schedule these things, Michigan, UCLA, and his injury is amazing.

The granite was always schemes it was my last close last game as coach of Michigan.

I can't say I was literally everywhere on the field that day so I just want what's in scheduling and a big and how you balance it out. How do you keep complaining about this program for what I said.

I still have this platform is trying to spit truth and go blue back here on the rich doesn't show 844204 rich number to dial Jason McCourty is now going to sit at the breakfast table of the minute I got the notes from firm for for this interview.

The Emmy award-winning show good morning football I'm aware of that. We lost but it's an outstanding program. As you know, that of the network family known as you on the number of times that I have said over and over again, but hosting NFL total axis for a decade that there's going to be another temples I'd love for more temple shows to show up on NFL network, and good morning. Football has become one, not just a temple for NFL network, but for the entire industry in the morning and Jamie heard all formally of CBS's Natalie taking that spot pate items has been sitting in and Jason McCourty joins the breakfast table on Monday so I'm thrilled to have here on the rich so I guess it's sort of as an entry interview, intent on network is none other than Jason McCourty how you doing Jason congratulations I'm excited a great opportunity to be transmission out of a ball into a gray role.

Good morning football.

So how are you are you are you getting ready to to do this thing. Jason you ready to wake up in the morning what your normal time you hit the alarm what's normal time to get your wake up man. I got very young.

By like 630 7 o'clock on the usual so now good morning football I have to be up around 430. I've never been much of a coffee drinker, but that may have changed in the near future. Jason, I'll just let you know right now.

I never used to be much of a coffee drinker, but I became one. I've got my annual physical sharing coming up after this program I am doing this entire show, with no food and no caffeine and I am freaking out right now I'm I'm losing my mind. So you don't drink coffee cup never got so even in your your tenure with the patriots never had a Duncan, I mean I think Heather never have never had one document on the big Strawberry frosted sprinklers optional are not that important. Now my fair share of donuts over you.

Jason McCourty get ready to join the breakfast table that will be a lot of fun and you know you are you joining in a outstandingly talented crew, outstandingly talented near here you get a good spot. Jason you really are no congratulations on the menu at Kyle Brent's angry runs yet all all that coming up you get are you have your own your own sort of segments. Yet something like that cooked up Jason when he got high motel so I'm looking forward to bringing those 13 years, one year when all another year gone on so