SEC Media Days: Popularity vs. Frustration, Alex Golesh’s Fitting Fit, and Auburn as a Sleeper Team with Matt Barrie

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**Ike Jones** (2:29)
We are live here, SEC Media Days, Digital Drive, Auburn Express TV powered by The War Rapport. You got Ike Jones here and across from me now, Matt Barrie, SEC Now. Well, we're not on SEC now, we're on our show.

**Matt Barrie** (2:42)
We're on your show now and then we'll be SEC Nation this fall. I can't wait, yeah.

**Ike Jones** (2:47)
But Matt, you've had the opportunity to hear a lot of things from our commissioner. Today, I think some interesting things said by him. The first thing I just want to drill down on is this idea, I think that's kind of prevailing amongst a lot of fans is that the products of college football just isn't as appealing anymore. But if you listen to the numbers, it's still one of the most appealing sports out there in the world.
From your perspective, how is NIL all this stuff dampen? Or is that just?

**Matt Barrie** (3:24)
Well, so there's a couple of ways to attack that because I think there's a lot of frustration within college football.

**Ike Jones** (3:29)
For sure.

**Matt Barrie** (3:29)
I think it's as popular as it's ever been. Both can be true, right?

**Ike Jones** (3:33)
Yeah.

**Matt Barrie** (3:34)
You can have a lot of frustrations with the NIL and the transfer portal, and rightfully so because there are things about that that aren't good for the sport.
But in terms of the entertainment and everything we're seeing on Saturdays, it's more popular than it's ever been. I mean, it's the second most watched sport in the country behind the NFL.

**Ike Jones** (3:50)
Right.

**Matt Barrie** (3:51)
So there are ways to tweak it to make it better than it is right now, but I think there's a difference between the frustrations and the popularity, and there's a way to merge the two of them, and we've seen that now for a couple of years of all of this.

**Ike Jones** (4:05)
Yeah. So let's talk about NIL for a second, not necessarily the entirety of the concept, but I want to talk about Auburn, the Aflac kickoff game there at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta. How much do you know about what's going to be happening? Are you guys going to be there? Is that one of your games?