The Right Time with Bomani Jones - Ryan Day & Ohio State blow it vs. Texas + ESPN’s Absurd College Football Agenda | 09.13

Episode Date: September 13, 2026

Bomani Jones reacts to Arch Manning & Texas' stunning comeback win over Ohio State.  Bomani says he still has major concerns about Steve Sarkisian after the win and wonders if Ryan Day will ever be happy at Ohio State.  Later, he rips ESPN & College Gameday for having Ted Cruz for allowing Ted Cruz to "shill" for the Profect College Sports Act & why he finds the narrative around the proposed bill so offensive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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When the, when the college football season has dictated that is what I'm doing. Right. You know, or, you know, if I ain't going to go nowhere for the weekend. But nonetheless, I feel pretty confident. We're going to be back next week after Ole Miss LSU. I mean, LSU Texas A day. It was the week after that. But either way, every now I did on Sunday, we're going to pop up.

And this one is funny. because I text Ryan on Saturday and was like, hey, you know, what do you think about maybe jumping on and doing something on Sunday for college football? And he's like, well, barring some great comeback in Austin, I don't think that's going to happen. Then look down to the phone says, so it happened. Right. Texas was down 23 to 3. Wonder gave 24, 23.

There was no way to think at 23 to 3 that here, what you didn't think they were. going to do was score any more points, let alone 21 of them. Right. And a game that Archmanning still didn't play that great. He did not, but okay, let's think about it. Let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, Yes. Instead, it was some old like Murphy's Law shit. Don't catch it, bounce up in the air, intercept it, goes the other way. I did not feel like the squad was doing their part to help Arch. And the squad includes that sark. Yeah. Like, it really feels like the Mac Brown years over and over again watching him in so many ways. And one of them was them looking scared playing early, right? And running an offensive game plan that it's the kind of game. playing you run when you're scared of your probable first round pick quarterback. I watch Matt do stuff like that too. That's the Chris Sims era right there. Like, hey, you don't want to let the big guy throw the ball to those really good receivers?

You don't want to do a little bit more. But at the same time, if you want to be fair to Sart, them boys didn't look like they was ready to be out there playing. And you know when that happens, when you got a coach that's a little wound up tight. And if there's anything that we see about Sark on a regular basis, wound up tight. However, they were playing against Ohio State and Ryan Day, who also has a tendency to suffer from. Wound up tight. They had this.

They lost this because they attempted four field goals. Right. They had chances to score points. Like, they could have put this game so far away so early. And I guess they feel like they did put it away, right? Like, you could say they were up 20. You still attempted four field goals. goes. You not go win like that. With by far right now two weeks in the best player in the country.

Okay. I understand we probably shouldn't be giving so much attention to the losers. He's not fair. No. He's not fair. Like at this school that just keeps cranking out wide receivers, right? And I guess what I'm going to say is a little tricky because it's going to be easy for us to get a bit revisionist on what's his name? The one, his daddy played in the NFL. You know what I'm talking about? Yes. Yes. Yeah, yeah, good enough, good enough, good enough. He was so good enough when he was there and it hasn't worked out in the NFL. So it becomes kind of easy to go back and be like, I don't know. But at the same time, to me, number one and number two on Ohio State receivers of my lifetime,

number one is Chris Carter. Number two was David Boston, that a man of your age is not going to have the same memory of, but a man of my age also from Houston. Boy, I had Joel on here. Boy, Joe go off. David Boston was probably the best Houston area athlete while I was there, right? Like, David Boston probably could have played in the NBA

if it had come to it. Then he got to the NFL and he was cold and then he, shall we say, started lifting a whole lot of weights. Like, how is it possible that you can lift so many weights? Yes. Anyway, incredible receiver. Smith is on that tier. Did you see when they started talking about how big his hands were?

Yes. What a random way to make. millions of dollars, by the way. Yeah, just having, you know, like pancakes for him. Yeah, like throw something at me. Watch what happens. Right? Yeah. That's a $30 million in your skill. What do you do? Catch stuff. That's all it is. Like you see Chris Carter talk about what his life

would be if his hand, if he did not have the hands that he had. There's nothing like evolutionary that really helps you about being able to catch. No, there's no life skill besides, you know, playing football. No, no. And in fact, it's counterintuitive. Like my brother made a point was, And I realized after I had not played any sort of baseball for a while, I forget what I was doing, but it involved, like, catching some kind of pop-up. And that was not as easy as I remembered it to be. And my brother made a very good point.

He was like, from, you know, being team captain of the softball team at work, you know, he learned something he hadn't thought about, which is, standing under a falling object is an unnatural act. It's not a, why would you do that? Yeah. Something is falling out of the sky. You get out of the way, right? Like, that's, that's, that's what you're supposed to do.

We have developed this counterintuitive skill around this ridiculous game and some others and turn it into a $30 million skill. Anyway, he's so good. And I know them Alabama fans, they thought they had one like that in Ryan Williams, but I don't know if it's appropriate for me to say what I think is obvious about why things have gone the way they have for Ryan Williams. Why didn't he do that? You know what that is? I'm pretty aware of that. Yes. Yes.

Nobody, nobody can help, huh? No, no one can say anything. Nobody. That's what happens when these boys got too much money. It's really the truth. You'd have headed a household now at 17 years old. Now he's the capital H head of the household. Anyway, what's talking about Ohio State, Jeremiah Smith?

Like, I don't know if he wins the Hizman. because he's, he's got to be the best player. Right. In the country. Now, that dude, I mean, I'm not in on the saying dude. I'm not there.

No. There's that no, I mean, Ryan Day obviously messed up the end of the clock and it didn't do well in that situation. But at no point once Texas got inside the red zone that I think Ohio State was going to come back down and score. He just doesn't have the arm.

No, no, no, no, no. They don't. It is very interesting to me in this era, now with NIL, I feel like if you are Ohio State, never should he doesn't have the arm. Correct. Be the answer to what's going on with your quarterback. You guys got to go get one of those. Yes.

I mean, he seems like a good player. But for what your ambitions are and it's no longer get through the season, win one bowl game, get a championship, perhaps sort of thing. you've got to go through a gauntlet. Hey, you might want to make sure that you got somebody that can throw the ball. But I feel like this season going to go to say for both of these teams, Ryan, which is to say,

these feel like teams that could have gone 11 to 1, 12 or no that are probably going to go 10-2-9-3, yeah. It's so funny. We look at Ryan Day. He wins the national title a year and a half ago. And the only thing I have to say about his job or negative. I mean, they had what, like five of the top 10 in this upcoming last NFL draft.

Yes. And now you blow a 21 point lead in the fourth quarter to Texas. I know you're on the road. I know it's a million degrees, but still. Yes. And now we get the same phrase things like this. You're never going to beat Indiana playing like that. But like, but like, but I mean, Kirk Stignetti watches that and he's licking his chops. Right. Well, so is, is the Ohio State coaching job becoming what legendarily guys, me and Spencer always tell you about the Alabama job, like just the worst job in the world. The difference is Ohio State, they're not really going to run you out the way they run guys out at Alabama over and over again. But in the sense of nobody's ever going to be happy.

Like if you're, why are you still here? Right. So like if, and I mean that in this sense, guys like Woody Hayes and Jim Tressel had that job and kind of moved into folk hero status, right? Tressel won that one championship. And look, they were getting a little grumpy at the end. Like, there's a reason why they let them run him out of their overdose tattoos, right? Because they were getting a little grumpy and feeling like it could have gone a little farther.

They went and got Urban Meyer and then they got even farther. So Urban Meyer gave them a serious proof of concept of the idea that this doesn't just have to be the best school in the Midwest. It can really be the best school in the country, right? Consistently. And I think most of us would argue that, the floor on Ohio State football is higher than the floor anywhere else. Okay. But you have to beat Michigan literally every year.

And there's no excuse now for you to lose to anybody ever, ever. What is Ryan Day's record now? I know it's something in 13. I mean, it is, I mean, he's probably won 87% of his games. I would get, I bet it's 86 and 13, 88 and 13. It's 83 and 13. 83 and 13. Okay.

Now I'm asking you, what can he do to make them feel good? What can he do? And I feel like jobs like that would get harder and harder as the more and more and legends come in. Yes. Like who's going to ever think Ryan Day did a better job

than Urban Meyer? Who's going to think urban, you know, Ryan did a better job in Jim Tressel or Woody Hayes? And I mean, Alabama, you can see the same thing about, DeBoer has, oh, great. Nothing you can do.

Nothing you can do. There's no way you can satisfy that customer base. So if your day, like, what are you sticking around for? The problem is, where are you supposed to go after this? Like, what job are you going to go to? That's better than this one. Alabama's very similar. You go tell them, I need this.

It's for the football. They're going to get it for you. It's not necessarily going to be the case anywhere else. Where else do you go, right? Then you get a job like Texas, which is interesting, where in the last. 50 years, they haven't had a coach worth being happy about. Like, even with the run, I always said about Max time, I thought the first half of Max

run, he was maybe a little underrated, but then the last half, at certain points, it was like maybe a little overrated. But the bottom line is he had that job, I want to say 17 years and won the conference twice, consistently embarrassed against Oklahoma. You can go up and down the list on it. The Big 12 met them where they were. a conference that was basically designed for your success, right? All of these things being the case.

They haven't had anybody like there's a ceiling still to be unlocked at Texas for somebody to walk in and really be the coach that everybody loves. It was almost Nick, almost savings. It was just close. It was this close. It was this close. It's almost being saving, right? It was possible.

Ohio State, I mean, I feel like everybody's really done a really good job. Except like Cooper, you got a different argument, just about that. everybody's done a really good job. And Ryan Day, one could argue, done a really good job. Yet all of us understand why they feel the way they feel. You know what I mean? Like it's not as though we watch the Ryan Day stuff and we're like, yo, man, they're being ridiculous.

No, no, no, I don't think they are. Right. Which is, why are you, what's there to still do? That man is 47 years old and it's never going to get any better than it is right now. That's like, Dabo, Dabo, I'm sure Dabo would love to quit. But he's 56 years old, he still was the coach. Yeah. Right, what do you do? What do you do? But, no, I felt like those programs are mirror images of each other in a lot of ways in terms of what it is that can

stop them from achieving a certain ceiling. And I get it also. Our players are better than your players. Why don't we just keep this simple? You know, I get that. But I don't think you go through everything you go through if you're Texas to get Arch to call games like that one was called. And I don't think that you get all these dudes that Ohio State has to consistently kick field goes. It just can't. It just can't be that. And then Sark acting like a jerk at the end of the game. I thought that was a little whack. Why? Yeah, for those who don't know, they couldn't get Sark on the halftime interview because they had some technical difficulty. And I believe that that was a great inconvenience to him. You saw him running into the tunnel to go,

hurry up and get there and talk. ESPN was I don't remember the words going to say. They apologized a lot. Yeah. Right? Profusively apologized. That's what I was going for, but I almost said profusive. Yes.

And I felt like that was a recipe for ridicule. But yes, yes, there was profuse apology in that moment. And then at the end of the game, it comes to interview him, he just goes, Texas fight, hook him, and then runs away. Hey, look, man, I think the interviews are stupid too. But come on, man, he was just being a jerk. He was just being a jerk. And you're not good enough at this to act like that.

Right? Like, you can't hear a consistent underachiever and act like that. Because I will say this. I know who wouldn't have done that. Mac Brown. He'd have put all the big-ass shit and grin. Ain't a better. Oh, Holly.

What a great performance by these young men. Right. Leeds said all the right stuff. At least Matt could make you feel good. This is why you come to Texas. This is blah, blah, yeah. There, that's exactly it. Sark.

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Don't like to get into like what I would turn media criticism. I don't think we're about to do, I don't think this counts as media criticism. I don't either. Yeah, I think this is something a bit larger. And I think is important, full disclosure, you know, I guess for people who know,

I work for ESPN for the better part of like 20 years at a point. Okay. I always felt when I worked there that the idea that the place had, some sort of political agenda was a bit overstated, no matter what direction people talked about with that political agenda. And I guess to a degree, if you're talking about it in the context of right versus left,

I would still say that that's the case, particularly based on what it is that I want to discuss right now, which is the, what is it, protect college sports act? Is that what it's called? Right. Okay. So for those of you who've been paying attention, it's a little bit chaotic in college sports.

There basically are no rules. Why are there no rules? Well, people started suing, and we basically found out that every rule that college sports ever had was against the law. So, you know, things have been up in the air trying to figure out what's going on.

It's hectic. It doesn't make a lot of sense. I think that most people would argue that the current state of affairs in college football is unsustainable. do agree with the people who think it's going too far to say that college sports are dying, but I would also say on the other hand that we cannot use is the only metric of the life of college sports television ratings or how much money people are making and whatever it is.

This stuff exists for cultural reasons, largely, and I do think those things are somewhat imperiled by what the current state of things is. That being said, I also don't believe that if the only way to maintain the essence of this sport or this whole world of college sports is to do things that work to the detriment of the players, then the whole thing does have to die. Right. It would be a net loss for my life. It would be a net loss for a lot of people. But if what is needed to keep this thing alive is to do wrong by the young men who

literally risk their young men and women who literally risk their lives and bodies to participate, then the thing probably should burn down and maybe we start over. That I firmly believe. Okay. The Protect College Sports Act is the biggest point that I can make to you about it, because I understand it, but I'm not a scholar on this matter, so I don't want to get too far over my skis and trying to tell you what it is. The biggest point that I think that you need to know and understand and why I stand in opposition to it is that it would effectively eliminate the ability for players to collectively bargain, and by removing antitrust exemptions, it takes away the greatest leverage that players have had to enact any change to give them

anything out of these games, right? Once you give this whole thing an antitrust exemption, you basically say you're not obligated to play fair when it comes to the players. The other thing to keep in mind that I think is very important is that the Protect College Sports Act would come with a cap on how much players could be paid. And if you go over that cap in paying players, this is no longer an LOL NCAA violation. It's now a federal crime. So it's one thing when you got the NCAA and their crew of mall cops coming for you. It's another thing when it's the FBI. Right. Right. So like we are talking about a hard cap that interferes with the player's ability to earn. Yet nobody has ever thought to do this with coaches.

because that just wouldn't be right. It is only the mobility of players that they find to be problematic. And for what it's worth, I do think the mobility of players is different than the mobility of coaches. Right. However, that is what the Protect College Sports Act

does that I particularly find to be problematic and is specifically why I personally oppose it. Right. And by the way, it's a bipartisan opposite. position to it also. What is interesting, though, and I want to be one thing very clear, under the Protect College Sports Act, the players would forever be, or the previous act, the score act, the players would always be non-employees. This one, it's neutral about

employment, but there would be an antitrust exemption, which again, blocks collective bargaining, which again, takes all power away from players. You know, that's, that's where my comes up with what this is. But as I said, there's bipartisan opposition to this. Like far right wing, like what is the American Economic Liberty Project? They're opposed to this.

Yeah, that sounds like some heritage foundation stuff of I've ever heard in my life. Yes, yes. Yes, it does, right? However, there's obviously a lot of right wing support for this. The opposition and the support of bipartisan, which is weird. realize it was a really clunky way of me saying all of that. I stopped and went back a few times. Sorry about that, y'all. Bottom line, bipartisan for, bipartisan against, which is why it's

really interesting to see whether or not this is going to go through. We don't get a lot of those, these anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right, right. You know why? It's because this game doesn't make any fucking sense. That's why. And that the interest in the things that people like about them are not really rational. It's not ideological. The idea of paying players, that used to be ideological. That used to be very much so correlated to how people felt about civil rights. There's been economic, I mean, academic studies

on that. Now you wind up in a case where on this act, Byron Donald as opposed to it, the Congressional Black Caucus with the Score Act was in support of it. Now the CBC is opposed to it, as is the NCAA,

because they are trying to use that as leverage for their cause when it comes to voting rights, But the folks at the CBC, for whatever reason, we're perfectly willing to sacrifice these young men, even though this seems very obviously to be an issue where liberals would be very much aligned with the labor, one would think. But I just don't think that this is a world that people properly understand.

Right? We saw this in many cases where when, I don't talk about this with North Carolina. My guy, Justice Bob Moore, formerly of the North Carolina, a Supreme Court had never really paid attention to the NCAA stuff. Bob's a conservative guy, not a Trump conservative guy, but a conservative guy. Bob had never really paid attention to the NCAA stuff until Carolina got in trouble. And then he got in there and was like, yo, this is crazy. This doesn't make any sense at all.

Right. Whenever you try to explain to someone from not from this country, same deal. Always say it. Makes no sense. It just goes completely outside. Or people from this country who just don't pay attention. What do you mean they don't get paid? At least that's what it used to be.

You know, all of this goes around. Okay. So bipartisan for, bipartisan against. ESPN has spent this college football season on game day shilling for the Protect College Sports Act. The ethics of this are murky. Not even murky. I think the ethics of it are pretty clear and they're on the wrong side of it. And the reason for that is the trade org that they are a part of is actively lobbying Congress

on behalf of this act. And then one week you get it out there and Nick Saban gets up and does this whole spiel in support of it. And then you come back the next week and Ted Cruz and man who's amazing piece of irony

roundly disliked but is paid to win popularity contest. And it's very good at winning popularity contest. Yeah. And people are like, well, they just voted for his politics but shit he had to beat out some of the other ones to get there. Yeah.

I know somebody. I know what the college with Ted Cruz. People have hated him since then. Universally. He's getting booed on game day and it doesn't phase him at all. That shit happens all the time. Right. Like he looked like somebody for Chicago with 50 degrees. Like, I don't need no jacket. What are you talking about? This is every day. This is just another day for me. Yeah, yeah, every day. Baby, it happens all the time. And so Cruz is on television shilling for this act. Again, an act that the network itself is lobbying for.

What? Like, we're seeing all these commercials, right? They run it, you know, PSA is running. We're now seeing the coaches really get behind it. Dionne Sanders, that guy, he's a, I used to call it Pollittrix, but now I'm for the preserve, protect college sports act. You're working in opposition of your players. Sabin, who I did not think of as this type, actively working in opposition of the players.

With your understanding of where they come from and everything else in the work that they put in, you're actively working in opposition of the players. And a big part of that is the players have so little leverage and ability to speak for themselves in this case. As is always the case when it comes to these matters, there is no place where the players get to sit down and be taken seriously when it's time to talk about this. it just doesn't happen, right? But for the network, not to present this as there are arguments on both sides, right? Because I don't think the average fan understands what this is. I'm not sure the average fan cares.

I do think the average fan cares about the future of the game or the future of college sports. And so when you have somebody saying, we're here to save the day, people are like, Hell yeah, save the day. We need that. Without giving much consideration to how they also might be ruining the date at the same time of what this matter is. You can't let somebody just get up and shill for this without giving something on the other side.

It's completely wrong, completely wrong. And then after seeing that in the morning, I'm watching Texas Ohio State. And for those of you who don't know, I used to rule for Texas and then I stopped. And it wasn't even because all that fucking loose. that they did for like 15 years. No, it's because of that damn song, right? Black people on campus, black people around the team, like, hey, man, we find the eyes of Texas to be offensive

because of the history behind the song. We'd like you stop, okay? And in 2020, the players there asked for a lot of stuff when everybody was asking for stuff in 2020 that summer. But they didn't ask for nothing really about their own conditions. One of the things they asked for was, hey, man, We chill out on this song, and that is where the white man put his foot down on that one. Many of us believe that's a big part of why Tom Herman got fired because when the players

didn't want to stand for eyes of Texas, he's still with the players. And he was out of there. I mean, I want to say they fired him after a nine and three year. Okay. Steve Sarkeesian got that job and at the opening press conference was like, yes, we're going to stand for the eyes of Texas. Like that was very clearly a prerequisite to getting that job, that that, damn song was so important to them, regardless of somebody being like, yo, man,

this don't really work for us. That they would run a coach out for it and make somebody stand there behind it. Okay. Like, it was that big of a deal. But this was in the air, and I guess people don't really talk about it that much anymore. But I need to know why it is that ESPN thought that it was necessary, number one, to play the national anthem. I found that to be unnecessary.

But, okay, I get it. It's not 11 weekend. But then right after that, the. guys in Texas. Like with a scroll with the lyrics to it. And the lyrics are not offensive on their face just to be clear, right? But why are you doing this? Like for me, I was furious because it was my reminder why I had to get off of this was I can't forget why I'm mad because it comes up every time you score. And we have an understanding that this is the issue around that song. You don't have to put that on television. My guest, Texas wants it on television.

want that as part of the experience. You still don't have to do this, right? And so it just felt, and I guess that's not a political issue, that song, and maybe that's somewhat separate. But, you know, for those of us who live through the stick to sports era, Ted Cruz on your show is not sticking to sports, even if Ted Cruz is talking about sports. It's just not. It's not what it is. But this is the politics of sports when you have crews out there. You're making it very clear that that's what it is. And you are making it very clear that you are pushing a legitimate political agenda.

Yeah, right before this comes up for a vote. Right, right. And it could go either way. Like, they've been making all kinds of tweaks and trades and everything else that you need to have. Like, there are serious consequences to what ESPN chose to do. The second thing about the song,

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