Arrr mateys, Kirk Herbstreit speaks on college football's woes as NCAA loses grip on power. Aye, the ship be sinkin'!
2024-02-27
Arrr, ye scallywags! The infamous Kirk Herbstreit be talkin' about settin' sail on the high seas of college football! He be suggestin' that the college conferences should mutiny against the NCAA and chart their own course in this vast ocean of sportin' adventure! Aye, we be creatin' our own world, mateys!
In the language of a 17th-century pirate, me hearties, Kirk Herbstreit, a former Ohio State Buckeyes quartermaster who now be a college football analyst on ESPN, be spillin' the beans Monday on what he foresees as the next steps in the sport amid the NCAA’s latest legal rumble over name, image, and likeness (NIL).A federal judge on Friday put the kibosh on the NCAA from enforcing rules that prevent NIL compensation from bein' used to recruit athletes. The judge penned that the NCAA’s ban likely violates federal antitrust law and harms athletes, arrr!Herbstreit swung by OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich" and shared his perspective through the spyglass of college football, suggestin' that some of the top college football conferences may break away from the NCAA, aye."I feel like the NCAA has lost any power whatsoever in college football," he said. "I feel like, at this point, as we sail into this new world, I would not be surprised. You’d take the Big Ten, the SEC, the ACC, and the Big 12 and form yer own world. Garrr!"Create yer own governing body. Get one voice, one commissioner, instead of everyone havin' to agree – these scallywags don’t always see eye to eye – get one voice!"Herbstreit suggested that commissioners like the SEC’s Greg Sankey, the Big Ten’s Tony Petitt, and the ACC’s Jim Phillips should have "one voice" for their conferences and college football, matey."I would pull away from the NCAA, create me own governing body, I would partner with the players. I think ye need to make some changes like NIL and address revenue sharin'," he said, addin' that the new league would need to address things like the transfer portal too, arrr!Herbstreit opined that this course be the most sensible to avoid legal skirmishes or antitrust laws, matey. "I don’t know how ye'd get there, but I reckon that’s where we be headed," he said. "Players may become employees; ye be late to a meetin', ye be fined. It’s basically goin' to be the NFL in college football. We still have to talk about education, even though nobody wants to hear that, arrr!"Aye, I reckon the NCAA be losin' power by the day, and I foresee a time when they’ll have to form their own world for college football, arrr!"Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter, ye scallywags!
Read the Original Article