"[The TV network] said they pay us to play football but I don't see it that way, football pays them. You [TV networks] have to become a part of football again and not just the squeezer."

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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/judolphin on 2024-05-03 16:49:11.

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This is actually a quote from Jurgen Klopp, the coach of Liverpool in the English Premier League, with a great quote about television broadcasting in European soccer.

It struck me how much this quote cuts to the heart of one of the main problems with American College Football.

ESPN, Fox, etc., seemingly not content to simply make a wild profit from broadcasting college football, far too often work to squeeze a lot of what’s good out of the sport.

Here’s Klopp’s quote regarding English Premier League needing to draw a line in the sand with TV networks:

"I had a chat with TNT [UK sports network] and they said they pay us to play football but I don’t see it that way, football pays them.

“You [TV networks] have to become a part of football again and not just the squeezer, that is some advice from an old man on the way out.”