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The landscape of university football has been described as the Far West in recent years, the athletes, the athletes have won sums of money on their names, images and similarities and have been able to use the transfer portal to find the best schools that meet their needs.
Tom Brady admitted to a conversation with Fox Sports College Football Analyst Joel Klatt that he was happy that he did not have to deal with some of the things that the university football players are business today in Michigan.
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Tom Brady appears at American Dream for the great opening of Card Vault by Tom Brady, a retailer of sports and souvenirs, East Rutherford, Friday April 11, 2025. (Anne-Marie Caruso / Northjersey.com / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
He suggested that players are not necessarily better due to zero and the frequent use of the transfer portal and put the burden on the parents of the athletes to instill them resilience at a young age.
“They are young. They have no life experience,” said Brady on “Big Noon Conversations”. “It should be parents. Be a good parent. Teach your child good values. What will support them in their career for a period of time? Whether it is football or whether it is business or a law school or a medical school or a profession, everything you want to do, value is not always going.
“So, I think that all these things that happen in university sports, we favor bad things. We value bad things. I am not saying that it is not important. It is one of the 10 things that are important, and for me, it is not good values.
The quarter of the Michigan Wolverines Tom Brady (10) in action against ohio state buckeyes at the Ohio stadium. Ohio St. beat Michigan 31-16. (USA Today Sports)
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Brady wondered if the university football athletes could learn “these lasting features which, I think, are invaluable for their life and their experience of life” and did not agree that money was the only thing that had value in college.
He expressed a certain gratitude for having a difficult period in Michigan. Brady was not thrown into the fire as a starter right away. Instead, he traveled the bench for two seasons before he became a starter for the Wolverines of the 1998 season.
“My university experience was very difficult. It was very competitive. These features transformed my life as a professional. I was ready to compete with anyone, because the competition in college hardened me so much that I had self-confidence and self-confidence in myself that everything I faced, I could overcome this,” he said.
Michigan QB Tom Brady (10) in action against Wisconsin, Madison, Wi. (John Biever / Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)
“I think that if we delete this to a young athlete student, to say:” You know what, I know that it is difficult to compete, but what we are going to do before having to compete. We will actually put you elsewhere so that you do not have to compete. “It’s absolutely the bad thing to do with a young child.”
