Jason Busby

College football keeps trying to regulate NIL without the one mechanism that actually makes regulation legal: collective bargaining. As long as athletes aren’t part of a negotiated labor framework, caps on pay, transfer limits, and recruiting restrictions will keep running into antitrust problems. Revenue sharing + a players union negotiating contracts, transfer rules, and NIL oversight feels like the most realistic path to stability. Curious how others think this evolves over the next decade.

@PSU_FB_Thoughts The history of the sport didn't allow anyone to come to IU and drop tens of millions of dollars to buy players. It's hard compare. He didn't do it the way other coaches had to. If you took his NIL away, Ohio State is still the entire conference in terms of relevance.

Dude took the worst CFB team in history and won a championship in 2 years. No one can ever humble that.

@Smitty_904 Take NIL away and he never got near this. Being able to buy players is the only reason they're relevant. Ohio State is the Big Ten until big money got involved. OSU deserves the majority of credit for the entire conferences relevance for decades.

You can’t humble a guy who went 16-0 at Indiana in Football 😂😂

@Bad_JuJu86 @AriWasserman I played for 16 years. I assure you that ALL division 1 teams had bag men. People are way off on what is happening here. The SEC still has the bulk of talent. But, now its spread all over their conference instead of just 2 or 3 teams. That's the biggest change that happened.

@AriWasserman Guys it’s VERY simple… For 15+ years the SEC used bagmen (starting with Bama) while most of the country wasn’t. Look at the trend. NIL legal in 22-23 range, and who wins? Michigan. Who wins next? OSU (spent money to answer the Michigan title), and then Indiana (Mark Cuban money)

Indiana’s Curt Cignetti BLASTS the SEC: “We don’t run a hype machine up Full show: youtu.be/LJXfJU5gyc4?is…

@AriWasserman 'We don't run a hype machine up in the mid west. We just spend all our money to recruit players from the south who would otherwise never attend our schools'

@DylanEveryday @ZoomerXavier He's slow. He'd be a bigger asset if they put 30lbs on him, taught him to block, and turned him into a TE instead of just a red zone jump ball guy.

@ZoomerXavier You should prob watch osu’s spring game Hes a freak

Over/ Under 8 Touchdowns for Chris Henry Junior in 2026

@AndyStaples He should've added 'We want to thank Ohio State for being the entire conference until we got word that we could go buy players who otherwise would never attend our schools'.

“We don’t run a hype machine up here in the Midwest.” — Curt Cignetti On today’s show, we broke down this shot at the SEC from the coach of the reigning national champ.

@On3 Ohio State was the entire Big Ten until other teams got word that they could go buy players who otherwise wouldn't go to their school.

NEW: Indiana's Curt Cignetti says the Big Ten is the best conference in College Football👀 "We don’t run a hype machine up here in the Midwest. We believe everything is earned, not given. When we fall short, we say we fell short. We don't cry a river and whine and complain. All right, and that's why we're the best." on3.com/news/curt-cign…

@BuckeyeNatty Big size. But, that 4.65 means he's going to get covered tight. Should put some weight on him, teach him to block, and you'd have a nightmare TE to try to matchup with.

Holy hell his arms are long 😮😯

@crainandcone @JakeCrain_ @Blain_Crain @davidadamcone @On3 Bama, LSU, Georgia, Texas, OU. A&M is a hard one to not add. But, someone has to be left out and if we end up getting new rules on NIL from congress I think A&M would take the biggest from that of the 6.

Keep 5, Cut 5 SEC Teams

@AriWasserman Jeremiah Smith doesn't run a 4.65 forty. I think Henry will do great. He's nothing near Smith. Very different skill set. Henry would be a better player if they put 20lbs on him, taught him to block, and made him a nightmare matchup at TE.

We know what Jeremiah Smith is going to do. But if you don’t know who’s next, I’d encourage you to go look at what true freshman Chris Henry Jr. looks like.

@CFBTalkDaily 100% Disagree and I respect Ryan Day. He's not an elite coach. He's a good coach at an elite program. Ohio State is why Ohio State is good. You could fire him and hire any top 10 coach and they'd win 90% of their games.

Ryan Day is the BEST coach in college football. at Ohio State: • 82-12 (.872 winning % — best among active FBS head coaches) • 5 College Football Playoff appearances (most of any program in that span) • National Champion • 27-11 vs. AP Top 25 teams • 16-10 vs. Top 10 teams

@TheBuckeyeNut It'd have to be someone who cared enough to change from the number they prefer. Smith and Inniss I don't think would have any want for it. Maybe Jackson.

One of Ohio State’s biggest individual honors is up for grabs. Who deserves the Block O this season? 👀🔴⚪️ Kenyatta Jackson Jr.? Brandon Inniss? Austin Siereveld? Jeremiah Smith?

@RecruitsBama @espn I despise this position. No NIL/Portal team could've competed with the prior era teams. The talent all spread out. 23 Michigan???? 25 Indiana??? Those teams would've been absolutely destroyed by the other teams in that list. Go look at the NFL players from them.

Top 10 CFB Playoff Teams of All Time: 1. 2020 Alabama 2. 2019 LSU 3. 2022 Georgia 4. 2025 Indiana 5. 2023 Michigan 6. 2018 Clemson 7. 2021 Georgia 8. 2017 Alabama 9. 2018 Alabama 10. 2024 Ohio State (via @espn)

@TheBuckeyeNut With this years challenges I’d say 10-2. Could be 9-3 if they lose to Michigan, though.

When it’s all said and done, what’s Ohio State’s regular-season record? Drop your prediction below. 👇🏈

@CellyMontanna @_tylerdixson @JBook_37 I'm sure he could block in some manner. But, why put a RB in to block instead of an actual blocker. Like a TE or something. People don't use 2 HB sets for reasons.

@_tylerdixson @TheBusbyProject @JBook_37 Literally who the fuck do these people think they are 🤣🤣🤣 like he’s never seen him bloack he hasn’t played 1 snap yet

Ohio State run game will be different this season. Much more physical under Arthur Smith. Locklyn said in the spring that the physicality mindset was missing last year. Locklyn also said he's pushing to have packages with Bo Jackson and Legend Bey on the field together.

@Uaremad425610 @woodyVSworld I don't much about Walker. Kenyatta is steady. Smith and Russaw got handed their walking papers by Alabama because they had the worst run defense in modern Bama history. They got pushed around a lot. Wouldn't we think the Big Ten will be even harder?

@TheBusbyProject @woodyVSworld Call me crazy but I like the transfers that are coming in this season. Walker, Smith, Russaw, and getting Kenyatta back was huge.

Rank your confidence level in these position groups going into the season QB, OL, DL, LB

@AUBradLaw I really like Byrum Brown. But, I don't like how much they ran him at USF. If they run him 175 times in a season in the SEC, I'd be concerned about his health.

Auburn will finish closer to first than 12th

@freddy2chains Texas's D-Coordinator got rolled up and smacked by Saban at half time after that. I remember that play. Saban was yelling at half time 'How do you call that? You KNOW they're going to run either a screen or a draw.'. Guy was losing his mind on that call by UT.

TreVeyon Henderson with the house call