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Jayden Daniels has sent a cease and desist letter to LSU after they gave his former jersey number to another player this season. Does Jayden Daniels have a valid argument, or is he acting entitled?
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00:00We're talking about Jaden Daniels playing well yesterday in the first joint practice
00:06against the Miami Dolphins.
00:08He was in the news yesterday for another reason, hearkening back to his days at LSU when he
00:13won the Heisman Trophy.
00:17He's in a dispute right now with LSU.
00:22He sent the cease and desist.
00:24Not happy.
00:26That they can no longer use his name, image, and likeness according to an August 5th letter
00:31sent to the Tigers athletic director.
00:35Right now, the Tigers are allowing sophomore cornerback DJ Pickett to wear the number five
00:42jersey that Daniels wore when he won the Heisman Trophy.
00:45He's a cornerback or cornerback?
00:46Corner.
00:46Defensive back.
00:47Okay.
00:48Defensive back.
00:50Listen, I don't think it's a big deal.
00:53I understand he's a little bit bitter about it.
00:55He won the Heisman there.
00:56He wants his five.
00:57They're selling all these five jerseys.
00:59He's not really getting anything out of it.
01:00Now they're going to give it to somebody else.
01:02He's a little bit bitter.
01:03So he sticks a lawyer on him or a lawyer said, hey, we'll handle this.
01:06Well, I don't think it's going to affect his play.
01:08No, of course not.
01:09I don't think LSU has let anybody wear number nine since Joe Burrow won it.
01:13Is that true?
01:14Yeah.
01:14That's what I read.
01:15Yeah.
01:15Okay.
01:16Has anybody asked for it, though?
01:18That's the question.
01:19I don't know, but they haven't handed out number nine.
01:22That's been seven years?
01:24I find it hard to believe, and maybe he'll win this case.
01:27I find it hard to believe that he can win this case.
01:28Who cares?
01:29Like, the university, I would think, can choose to do what they want with the numbers.
01:36Right.
01:36He's moved on.
01:37And this said, I'm going to put this up as our poll of the day.
01:40Are you on Team Jaden Daniels or Team LSU?
01:43Like, to me, Jaden Daniels doesn't have a right to just own that number for the rest of his life.
01:49They can choose to move on.
01:50He might not have a big problem with it if they allowed number nine to be used since Burrow won
01:58it.
01:58But since they haven't, that's probably why he's a little bit pissed.
02:01Now, the part that I don't know, name, image, and likeness is kind of a nebulous term, right?
02:06Well, it means his name, his image, his likeness.
02:09No, but are they using...
02:10Okay, but the number itself on a different player, I think that's fine.
02:17Like, if they're using him to mark it, I get that, right?
02:20Yeah.
02:20But he can't just own that number.
02:23Right.
02:24And so he's saying, because of that, and I'm a little bit pissed, I wish you didn't...
02:28Don't use my picture anywhere.
02:30Don't use my picture on t-shirts.
02:31Don't use my name anywhere.
02:34Just, yeah, I don't want to be...
02:35I don't want you making a penny off of me because I'm pissed about that.
02:39And do I think he's really thinking about it all day?
02:43No.
02:43Probably thought about it for five minutes.
02:44Talked to somebody.
02:45Said, yeah, go ahead.
02:46Go after him.
02:46What's his mom's deal?
02:47I don't know.
02:48Who cares?
02:49It doesn't affect...
02:50It's not going to affect his play one iota.
02:52No.
02:52That's never been an issue.
02:54I don't think we brought that up.
02:55That's not why it's a story.
02:56Nobody brought up his play.
02:57That's not why it's a story.
02:58Well, people are like, oh, it's a distraction.
03:00Is he thinking about the wrong things?
03:02Is his priorities in the wrong place?
03:04Yeah, it didn't bother him yesterday.
03:06Yeah, I don't think it matters.
03:08No, but just as a side story...
03:11It's a good side story for radio.
03:12If they had...
03:14Like, some schools retire their Heisman Trophy winner's jerseys.
03:17Florida State has done it.
03:18Miami has done it.
03:20You know, I'm sure a bunch of guys.
03:22Auburn's probably done it.
03:24Now, I would say this.
03:25In LSU's defense...
03:27If LSU doesn't allow anybody to wear No. 9, but they haven't officially retired it,
03:31that's probably why he feels different.
03:34He's being treated differently.
03:35I'm sure it's a factor.
03:35Yeah.
03:36But also, in LSU's defense...
03:38And by the way, I don't carry the way.
03:40They have like 6,000 people in the NFL.
03:43What, are they going to retire every NFL star from LSU?
03:45You can't do that.
03:46No, just Heisman Trophy winners.
03:48I think they've had three.
03:49Okay, that you're making a different distinction.
03:51He is a Heisman Trophy winner, but he's...
03:54Well, that's why jerseys are retired, because they've probably won...
03:58Not just because you win a Heisman Trophy.
03:59You don't...
03:59Not only Heisman Trophy winners get their jerseys retired.
04:03Other guys get retired.
04:04Well, I mean, Shadir Sanders got his jersey retired.
04:06Okay.
04:06Yeah.
04:07But...
04:07Well, that's stupid.
04:10But I think what he's pissed at is because he won the Heisman Trophy.
04:14Well, it gives him more...
04:15And Joe Burrow also won the Heisman Trophy.
04:17Gives him more credence.
04:18They don't allow people to wear No. 9, so why should people wear No. 5?
04:22Yeah.
04:22We know that for sure, that they don't allow people to wear No. 9.
04:26They say it's...
04:38It's...
04:38Like, in this case, DJ Pickett is wanting to wear No. 5.
04:42We don't know if he's asked to wear No. 9.
04:45Well, I mean...
04:46You could assume...
04:46Let's assume they have...
04:47That they have eight quarterbacks every year...
04:49Let's assume they have, and LSU says no.
04:51Yeah.
04:52The Burrow wore it.
04:53It's not unpopular.
04:54On LSU's website, they have a note here, a provision that explains their jersey retirement.
05:00To me, it's...
05:01I don't know if I really understand it, but it says...
05:04They list all their retired jerseys, right?
05:06They say these numbers can never be worn again.
05:11Pete Maravich's numbers, Shaq's, Cannon, who won the Heisman Trophy, and they say these
05:15numbers were all retired prior to 2007.
05:18It says any number retired after 2007 does not preclude a current student-athlete in
05:25that sport from wearing that jersey.
05:27So you can retire the number, but you can still use it again.
05:30Yes.
05:30It's on their website.
05:31That's what they're going to have to do, honestly.
05:33I don't understand that.
05:34They're going to have to retire the number and put the name on top.
05:37Yeah.
05:38Because there's so many numbers, unless we're going to go to triple digits.
05:42Right.
05:43And football's just a massive sport.
05:44So in this case...
05:46I actually think that that's a good policy.
05:48Lane Kiffin promised the kid that he could wear No. 5 when he signed with the Tigers in
05:54December.
05:56He wore that number in high school.
05:58He was the No. 2 cornerback in the class of 2025, according to ESPN Recruiting.
06:04Yeah.
06:05So he said, I'm going to give you the number.
06:08And he gave the kid the number.
06:10Can I tell you a funny recruit?
06:10Are you Team Jaden on this, or are you Team LSU?
06:13I'm Team LSU.
06:15I'm Team LSU.
06:15Well, none of us care, but I would be Team Jaden because...
06:20I understand why he's pissed.
06:21Because I understand if someone was wearing No. 9, he probably wouldn't even talk about
06:25it.
06:26Don't you think this is a bad look for Jaden?
06:28I do.
06:29It's petty.
06:30I think I'm Team LSU on this one.
06:32Look, Tim Tebow's number is being worn at Florida.
06:35Bryce Young's number.
06:36Kyler's number.
06:37Baker's number.
06:38They're all being worn by current players on those teams.
06:41Yeah.
06:41I don't think it's a big deal.
06:42Tebow's number wasn't retired?
06:44If you think bad about him for one second.
06:45Graham Mertz was number 15 for the game.
06:47So he has pride.
06:48He doesn't want his number to be worn.
06:49That's okay.
06:50I think it's petty.
06:51I'm not saying...
06:52I don't know if it's petty, but...
06:54It's just like bad PR.
06:57It's so unneeded.
06:58It'll last for a second.
07:00I think he's destroying his relationship.
07:03It's bad PR.
07:03It looks bad on him, but I understand why he's pissed.
07:07He's acting entitled.
07:09Yeah.
07:09All right, and there's no reason to act entitled.
07:11You won the Heisman Trophy.
07:12It's great.
07:13It's LSU's choice to retire a number, whether or not to hand out your number to other players.
07:19I think I'm Team LSU on this one.
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07:39Are you Team Jaden on this?
07:41Maybe people are all going to be Team Jaden.
07:43I think it's a little entitled when you're out of college.
07:46You've had all these accomplishments.
07:47Some other guy who's a top recruit, who Lane Kiffin, you want your team to be successful,
07:52right?
07:53I'm sure he wants LSU to win another national championship.
07:55How is it entitled to say, okay, if you want to give my number away, that's fine.
08:00Just don't use my name, image, or likeness on any of your stuff anymore.
08:04I don't think that's entitled.
08:06Okay.
08:06It's like, I prefer you, you know, if you retire my number or you don't give out my number,
08:12then I'm okay with you kind of maybe selling some stuff with my name and just likeness.
08:15But if you're just going to give it away and make it like everything else, then you could
08:18stop.
08:19I don't think that's entitled.
08:21Okay.
08:21That's fair.
08:21I think it's fair to say, hey, don't use me on the marketing, the whole name, image,
08:26and likeness stuff.
08:27I think it's a little, yeah, I'll go with petty.
08:31I think it's a little petty.
08:32And especially like it's a top dog who I guess Kiffin promised the number.
08:36And most of these guys are very proud of their, you know, their universities and they want
08:42their, I mean, he'll go to games and be on a sideline and cheer for them and want them
08:46to win a national championship.
08:48Guys, number two corner in the country, according to ESPN recruiting, Lane Kiffin says, hey,
08:54I'll give you the number to probably help them get there.
08:58Man, we're talking a lot of uniform numbers this week.
09:01Retired uniform numbers.
09:03I'd tell you, I don't think LSU is like selling Jaden Daniels merch to profit off of it.
09:08Are they?
09:09I don't know.
09:09So you're telling me if I'm Jaden Daniels, I sue you, you can't use my face in the weight
09:20room that's in LSU when me holding up the Heisman?
09:24No, that's different.
09:25I think he's saying to sell.
09:26Yeah, but I don't think LSU is selling Jaden Daniels merchandise right now.
09:30I don't know.
09:31I don't know what they're doing.
09:32But he's saying don't do it.
09:34So isn't there a difference between Jaden Daniels' tenure at LSU and Joe Burrow's tenure
09:39at LSU?
09:40I don't know.
09:41I mean, who was better?
09:42Both guys transferred in.
09:43One guy won a national championship, went undefeated.
09:46The other guy went to a Citrus Bowl.
09:48Right.
09:48But they both won Heisman, so I don't know.
09:50Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't diminish what Jaden accomplished at LSU.
09:54I do think it's a little petty.
09:56Here's the statement.
09:57The statement from Jaden Daniels was, Jaden made it clear that he did not want his number
10:02given to another player.
10:03And he believed his wishes would be respected.
10:06His Heisman Trophy winning season and everything he accomplished on and off the field cemented
10:11his place in LSU history.
10:12To see his number given to another player is incredibly disappointing and feels like a
10:18failure to honor the significance of what Jaden accomplished at LSU.
10:23Look, I failed the bar.
10:25It's been a long time since I was in law school.
10:28Feelings isn't law.
10:30Like, he's talking about being hurt.
10:32His feelings are hurt.
10:33Or if he's not filing a lawsuit against him.
10:37He's just saying, don't use my name, image, and likeness.
10:39He's not filing a lawsuit.
10:41Well, he's not doing anything illegal.
10:43It's pretty legal.
10:44He's just saying, just don't use my name, image, and likeness.
10:47If you were selling jerseys with your name on the back on campus, now you can't do it.
10:52Yeah.
10:52Just don't do it anymore.
10:55It's a little petty.
10:56Okay.
10:57It just seems like he's only really affected because of how they've treated Burrow.
11:04That's the way it's portrayed.
11:06You're saying that.
11:07Did his representation say that?
11:09I don't know what his representation is.
11:10I don't know what they said.
11:11You're assuming it's because of Burrow.
11:13I'm just assuming that if they didn't allow anybody to use Burrow and he won the Heisman
11:19Trophy, then why are you allowing a player to use mine?
11:22That's my common sense.
11:25Again, we don't know that.
11:26In this case, a guy wanted No. 5.
11:31Lane Kiffin said, I'll give you No. 5 because you're a stud and I want you to stay here and
11:36come to this university.
11:37I don't know that anybody wanted No. 9.
11:40If he was just an average player, why would he be pissed?
11:42No, no, no.
11:43I know.
11:43You're saying it's unfair.
11:45Who said it's the Heisman Trophy or bust?
11:48They haven't retired his number.
11:50Who are you talking about?
11:52You're saying it's unfair because they both won the Heisman Trophy.
11:55Yes.
11:55That might not be LSU's bar for retiring a number.
11:59It might be Heisman Trophy and National Champion.
12:02No, you might be National Champion only.
12:03I don't think they've retired Burrow's.
12:05They haven't.
12:06They haven't officially retired it, but they still haven't handed it out.
12:11And apparently they did the same thing with Jaden until now.
12:13You know what Kiffin should do?
12:14He should give somebody No. 9 today just to shut the people up.
12:17Let's go to the phones.
12:181-800-636-1067.
12:19That's why I think he's upset.
12:20Can I tell you?
12:21I will say the early results are Team LSU on this, on the voting.
12:25You can vote at Junk's Radio.
12:26I'll tell you a funny story.
12:27So when Stephen decommitted, he originally opened up a commitment.
12:33We were going around, and when we went to Marist, which is a small Division I, we went in
12:40a locker room, and they had his 11 high school jersey in the locker.
12:44And that made an impression on us.
12:45So I was just this little kid, you know.
12:47They have his 11 jersey, and they're in the locker, and they have all his gear and everything
12:51to try to impress the kid.
12:52Trying to get him in his feels.
12:53Yeah, get him in his feels.
12:54So then we commit, and then when they issue the numbers, they issue him 41, and we go,
12:59well, what happened to 11?
13:00They go, oh, we gave that to a diphole.
13:02They gave it to another guy.
13:03They gave it to another guy.
13:04So they do this kind of stuff all the time.
13:07All right, let's go to the phones.
13:09Jeremiah is on line one in Fairfax.
13:11What's up, Jeremiah?
13:12Hey, how y'all doing today?
13:13Thanks for taking my call.
13:15So my opinion on this is, I agree with what y'all are saying.
13:18I understand why Jaden is upset.
13:20I think everyone should be able to understand why he's upset.
13:23Yeah.
13:23But to take action on that, and to send a cease and desist makes it petty.
13:28You can be upset, but you don't have to lawyer up and send a cease and desist out to the
13:33school.
13:34And on top of that, LSU's only retired one football number ever in their whole history.
13:39So it's kind of like, I don't know.
13:40He's not saying retire it.
13:42He's just saying, my feelings are hurt that you're giving it away, that you, you know,
13:47two years after I left or whatever.
13:48And if you're going to do that, don't sell jerseys with my name on it.
13:52This is just my way of expressing my displeasure.
13:57All right, let me ask y'all this.
13:58I'm a 24-year-old guy.
14:00Y'all are a little bit older than I am.
14:02A lot older.
14:02Have you ever seen that?
14:03Have you ever, I was trying to be nice.
14:05Have you ever seen a former college player send a cease and desist to their former school
14:09for this issue?
14:10I can't remember.
14:11I haven't seen it.
14:12I don't know.
14:13I don't pay attention to that stuff, but I haven't seen it.
14:16I think that's a fair point.
14:17I'm saying Jaden Daniels is the greatest college player of all time.
14:20So if there's players above him and Thatcher who haven't even had that honor and they haven't
14:24done this to their school and their number was passed down, like dude said, Tim Tebow,
14:27I haven't heard him complain about it, although he's kind of a special case.
14:31And the last thing I'll say, last thing, Joe Burrow was arguably the quarterback of
14:35the greatest college football team of all time, not LSU, of all time.
14:42I haven't seen in the reports that his lawyers specifically mentioned Joe Burrow,
14:46but every article I've seen about ESPN, they were reporting on this, they mentioned that
14:51there's a Joe Burrow connection somewhere.
14:53He doesn't feel like he's being treated the same as Joe Burrow.
14:54Well, just that nobody's used the number nine.
14:56But again, we don't know that for sure.
14:59Thanks for your call, Jeremiah.
15:00I have a problem with him not wanting someone to wear his number.
15:02Would you agree with this?
15:06It's not the best look for Jaden Daniels.
15:09No, it doesn't look good.
15:10It does look petty.
15:11I can just understand why he's pissed.
15:12I guess for a half second, I don't think anybody's going to think about this in a week.
15:17I mean, he can mention it publicly, but I don't know why I have to file the cease and
15:20assist.
15:21I mean, that's...
15:22Well, it's just his way of tit for tat.
15:24Yeah, I understand.
15:24If you're going to give away my number, don't sell shersies, don't sell caricatures or anything
15:28with my...
15:29Don't sell the bobbleheads.
15:31Just don't use me anymore.
15:32I would appreciate any reporters out there at training camp to ask him about it when he's
15:37on the podium.
15:37I'm sure you should comment it.
15:391-800-636-1067.
15:43Are you Team LSU on this or Team Jaden?
15:46It doesn't mean you're against Jaden as a player for the commanders.
15:49What do you think in this case where he has issued a cease and desist, apparently because
15:54he's upset that Lane Kiffin has handed out the number five to a cornerback?
16:01Not a quarterback, a cornerback.
16:03Are you Team Jaden or Team LSU?
16:05Give us a call.
16:06Can I tell you this?
16:07At 1-800-636-1067.
16:10If you go to the LSU Fanatic shop, they're selling Jaden Daniels jerseys with five and
16:15Daniels name on top of it.
16:18Are they selling Burroughs?
16:20I assume they are.
16:21I don't know.
16:21You'd have to look.
16:23But...
16:23Yeah.
16:24So he's like, all right, if you're going to give my jersey away, that five is special
16:27to me.
16:28If you're going to give it away, then stop selling my jersey.
16:30Stop selling my jersey.
16:30Unless you're going to put DJ Pickett's name on it.
16:32Yeah.
16:33All right.
16:33We'll take your calls next here on the Jockeys.
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