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The colleague football landscape has been described as the Wild West in recent years, as athletes have earned sums of money on their names, pictures and similarities as well as been able to use the transfer portal to find the best schools that fit their needs.
Tom Brady admitted in a conversation with Fox Sports College football analyst Joel Klatt that he was glad he didn’t have to deal with some of the things that college football players are dealing with today while in Michigan.
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Tom Brady appears at American Dream for the large opening of short vault by Tom Brady, a sports card and Memorabilia dealer, East Rutherford, Friday 11 April 2025. (Anne-Marie Caruso / Northjersey.com / USA Today Network via imagn images)
He suggested that players are not necessarily better off due to zero and the frequent use of the transfer portal and put onus on the athletes’ parents to incorporate resilience into them at a young age.
“They’re young. They don’t have life experience,” Brady said of “Big Dinner Calls.” “It should be the parents. Be a good parent. Teach your child the right values. What will maintain them in their careers over a period of time? Whether it is football or whether it is business, or whether it is teaching or legal school or medical school or a trade, whatever you want to do, you have to go through hard things in your life. You will have to make hard choices. The value is not always the last dollar.
“So I think all these things that happen in college sports prioritize the wrong things. We value the wrong things. I’m not saying it’s not important. It is one of 10 things that is important and determined to me, that’s not the most important thing. So when the kids go through the right way, they actually learn the right values.
Michigan Wolverines Quarterback Tom Brady (10) in action against Ohio State Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium. Ohio St. defeated Michigan 31-16. (US Today Sports)
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Brady wondered if athletes in college football will be able to learn “the sustainable features that I think are invaluable to their lives and life experience” and disagreed that money was the only thing that had value in college.
He expressed some gratitude for having a challenging time while he was in Michigan. Brady was not thrown into the fire as a starter immediately. Instead, he drove the bench for two seasons before becoming a starter for Wolverines in the 1998 season.
“My college experience was very challenging. It was very competitive. These traits transformed my life as a professional. I was ready to compete against someone because competition in college sharpened me so much that I had a confidence and confidence in myself what I was facing, I could overcome it,” he said.
Michigan QB Tom Brady (10) in Action vs Wisconsin, Madison, Wi. (John Biever/Sports Illustrated Via Getty Images)
“I think if we take it away from a young student athlete to say, ‘You know what, I know it’s hard to compete, but what we need to do before you have to compete. We’ll actually put you somewhere else so you don’t have to compete.’ It’s definitely the wrong thing to do for a small child.
