Colin Cowherd Podcast - Michigan & Jim Harbaugh Under Fire, Big Ten Will Overshadow The SEC

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guest on in about ten minutes, ten minutes. Dan Morgan is a managing partner at Morgan and Morgan. You know this is a guy that knows nil. We'll be able to sort of put his arms around for all of us. The Michigan situation. Harbaugh, Michigan, ncaa big ten compliance penalties going forward. But I wanted to start about this years and years ago. It was about probably fifteen years ago. It could have been a little bit longer. Fifteen eighteen

years ago. I went to a couple of the big shots at ESPN and I said, if I was you, I would buy the UFC. And ESPN had a lot of East Coast people, a lot of Baseball seam heads in management that just you know, lived for the Yankees and Red Sox, that thought that was much bigger than the NFL anything else. And I said, I know it's not for you guys, and from here it's Vegas, La. But UFC is exploding, and they just didn't have They

just didn't have the stomach for it. And I'm like, trust me, it's celebrities, it's high end, it's middle class, it's all classes.

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the Big Ten. By adding the West coast Seattle, Eugene, Los Angeles markets to the midwest Chicago, you know, Columbus, Ohio and Arbor Detroit markets, you already have the East coast markets with Penn State, Philadelphia market, Rutgers, the New York New Jersey market. You not only have three time zones represented, but the three biggest cities in those time zones, LA Chicago, home of Northwestern and the Big Ten offices. And you know, Rutgers may not be a power, but

you know it's the New York New Jersey market. That's much more attractive to advertisers than an Alabama Auburn audience. The biggest money in this country is north It's in Seattle, Chicago, Boston, New York, Philadelphia. So advertisers are going to love this new conference. The biggest cities are now in each time zone represented New York, Chicago, LA, not to mention, you know, Detroit, Philadelphia. So but by having three time zones and foxit it

this weekend, it lets you stager games. So at nine Pacific, where I live, you could have the East Coast game. You could have Penn State hosting Oregon, pretty good game. In the next time zone you could have Michigan hosting UCLA, and then late late afternoon you could have Ohio State in Seattle or in Oregon or at USC and then in the late window you could have Oregon, Washington USC UCLA hosting another big ten team back to back to back to back, multiple games that don't have to overlap

with each other. In the SEC, you only have two time zones, and overwhelmingly the conference is based in one time time zone, the Eastern time Zone, and so you're going to have all these great games that are overlapped on top of each other. So the Big Ten is going to be going forward starting next year, just game after game, week after week of high profile programs in affluent, wealthy Northern markets, biggest cities, LA Market, Chicago Market, Philly Market,

New York market. It's a huge advantage for advertisers, and it's a huge advantage for the conference.

Over the next five to six years watch the Big Ten. Value explode, profile, explode, television ratings explode. I was talking to an executive months ago about Washington, Oregon, UCLA USC added to the Big Ten, and he said, if sports were starting today, if you were creating a college football conference, you would literally create the Big Ten. You'd have like an La San Francisco, Seattle represented. In the Midwest, you'd want Chicago represented, and then in the East you want Philly, Boston,

New York. At least two of those three created. And he said, I mean, just think about this. He said, look at our presidential election, like what states will matter Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania. He said, these are the discussed states. They decide our election. He goes, if you were starting today from scratch and creating a college football conference, you would create going forward what the Big Ten is. The economies, the cities, the discussion points, all different time zones.

forget Oregon and Washington aren't just good programs. They're much closer to Ohio State than they are Iowa or Michigan State and Nebraska. Washington's had a great coach four times, Don James, they won a national title, Rick new Heisel they won Rose Bulls. Chris Peterson they made the playoffs, Kaylin de Boorr. They haven't lost in a year and a half.

Nobody would dispute that, but you could argue Texas is the most underachieving program in the country for the last fifty years. I love Texas and I certainly would in Oklahoma. Is Brett Venables the right coach. We'll see, We'll see. I think they're going to have some recruiting issues eventually in the SEC, but we'll see. But regardless of the

hardball thing, and I'm an SEC fan. Next year, if you're giving me Oregon, Ohio State, Michigan USC, followed by Penn State UCLA, I may watch parts of one SEC game. And now I am not in any way saying the SEC won't have good recruiting classes and good teams. That's not what I'm saying. Watch the profile shrink of the SEC. Just go look at the Big Ten schedule. As somebody who's not an SEC or a Big Ten fan, you're me, You've moved all over the country.

Hell yet, but I think the one thing Dan that jumped out to me, you know, there's always been sort of this presumption of innocence, and yet they suspended Harbaugh flying to the game. It almost felt punitive retribution for embarrassing the conference, retribution for embarrassing Michigan. It felt odd to me. But is it that strange?

and kick the can, just deny and to move on. Now, if there is an actual breach of contract or if you know, the conference did kind of come to a decision without following their rule book or their discretionary stuff, then a judge, Mike come in and say, no, you didn't play by the rules, this is a breach of contract and allow them to play. You know, my gut is that the civil justice system is going to get

too involved here in football suspensions. But we have seen in the past where these conferences and n c DOUBLEA in general kind of think they are the end all, be all rule rule maker and you know, we've successfully have suited n C Double A in the past and have had decisions that they've made overturned.

making money down the road. You know, I think if Jim Harborough is still in Michigan next year, he's obviously going to be making the same amount of money. If he's not in Michigan, he's probably making more money somewhere else. So you know, the monetary damages might be tough for him to draw towards from a compensation base. But as far as hey, you guys are defaming me. You said I'm a cheater. I'm not a cheater. Yeah, there could be a legitimate claim there.

vacating wins, multiple year long suspension. How do you if you represented Michigan, wouldn't you be a little concerned if Jim just, I mean, he didn't have to be truthful exactly, he could, right, he doesn't. What's he held to if he's got a job in Chicago with the Bears, what does he care exactly? You're representing Michigan, your thoughts on that?

their national championship, potential. They're trying to protect their their their wins they've already had, and they're also trying to protect making sure that if everything does go to plan, they can keep Jim Harborough as their head coach, because I think if Michigan was joined in with you know, the Big Ten right now and saying we agree with the suspension, it'd be a lot easier to see Jim Harborough in Chicago next year, you know, or Vegas or

Tampa or whatever else that needs a good offensive mind a head coach. So they're kind of in a position where they want to support and they want to make sure that he knows your support, and I think to

kind of keep him on the Michigan path. But yeah, I definitely think that they run some risk too of if this investigation leads where it kind of looks like it's leading, which is if the NCAA finds in concert with the Big Ten and wins are vacated and you know, bowl games are suspended and playoff breaches in the future are had to be missed, and the Michigan's going to at least twice.

that in that one area to pay the player. You know, we've we've seen that more and Morgan we do deals of all sizes with an IL, So we've done deals with low level softball players, and we've done deals with you know, lottery picks and basketball and you know, top

five picks in the NFL draft. So we've kind of seen how it all shapes out, and you know, a lot of what drives that are the agents, and the agents are kind of coming in tune to it too because they know they want to have players that get deals and that's what's going to sign them at an early time. But right now in Michigan, for instance, you know, they're selling a Michigan versus Everybody shirts. All proceeds are going to NIL players. This is going on with Jim Harborough.

So all the fan base, you know, ten million fans are now galwan eyed to buy these shirts. Hundreds of thousand dollars are pouring in and those are being distributed directly to the players, you know, so they're obviously winning

when that's happened. So anytime you can have an opportunity to get the money to the players, to the actual students in a clean, legitimate way, I think that's what's going to kind of favor because you know, we see it with an offensive guard isn't going to get the same looks at the quarterback gets.

I think you're going to see coaches like Jim Harborough and you know Nick Saban that don't want to compete in that type of environment where they might say, hey, you know I had my run, we did my we we did the whole school way. Now NFL or you know, Saving will probably keep doing it, and il because he has one of the biggest Mercedes Dealers ships in the country. But as far as doing it with the players, I think you're gonna have a new style of coach, a

new style of system. It's gonna be a heavily collective basis, and you're going to see these one off deals where you know, the right, players will will be making sept seven.

could see a decision being made. I could see him potentially, you know, if they're going to hold the coaches responsible no matter what, even if he had no idea, gave no direction, it couldn't bat for drym Harboro.