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[00:15:24] Thursday

[00:15:56] You know

[00:15:58] Chose to keep their eligibility

[00:16:00] Had you know the 29th was their last chance

[00:16:02] To come back to school

[00:16:04] And Alabama got Jaren Stevenson

[00:16:06] And Mark Sears back

[00:16:08] We've talked about it before

[00:16:10] But this has to be the best

[00:16:12] Roster in Alabama basketball history

[00:16:14] If you go read

[00:16:16] All these

[00:16:18] You know early top 25s

[00:16:20] Bracketology

[00:16:22] Blah blah blah

[00:16:24] Yeah I've seen Alabama

[00:16:26] No lower than second

[00:16:30] It's crazy

[00:16:32] You know you gotta go play the games

[00:16:34] And gotta hope everybody stays healthy

[00:16:36] And you know

[00:16:38] As always

[00:16:40] And as always with our

[00:16:44] Our offense you know

[00:16:48] You gotta hope you don't go cold in March

[00:16:50] But

[00:16:52] Man

[00:16:54] Man it's a

[00:16:56] Definitely the most

[00:16:58] Talented in our history

[00:17:00] On the bottom

[00:17:02] Definitely I would say

[00:17:04] You would have to say right up there is one of the most talented

[00:17:06] Roster's in the whole country

[00:17:08] For this coming up season

[00:17:10] Now the main thing

[00:17:12] With this is you know for the first time

[00:17:14] Ever I mean it's gonna be a lot of expectations

[00:17:16] Coming off our first

[00:17:18] Final four

[00:17:20] This roster bringing so many folks back

[00:17:22] You know

[00:17:24] Do they you know are they able to live

[00:17:26] Up to those expectations

[00:17:28] You know that

[00:17:30] That'll be the big thing

[00:17:32] Really it's hard

[00:17:34] We have a target on our back

[00:17:36] You know these teams are gonna want to come in and beat us

[00:17:38] To get set their own statements

[00:17:40] So

[00:17:42] But hey

[00:17:44] It'll be interesting

[00:17:46] To see I don't think we've ever really been in this situation

[00:17:48] Before

[00:17:50] So it'll be interesting to see how they respond

[00:17:52] I will say though

[00:17:54] We do have quite a few senior

[00:17:56] Guys who you know been there

[00:17:58] You know

[00:18:00] They have a long experience you know

[00:18:02] And a lot of these

[00:18:04] Great college teams as of late

[00:18:06] Have been a mix of young and old

[00:18:08] We have a great mix of young and

[00:18:10] Old players so I mean

[00:18:12] They

[00:18:14] Everything is looking up

[00:18:16] For what should be a hell of a season

[00:18:18] Yeah you mentioned expectations

[00:18:20] And it's not just

[00:18:22] Not just the expectations of competing

[00:18:24] Getting back to the final four trying to win

[00:18:26] The title but you're gonna be

[00:18:28] Probably overwhelming SEC favorites

[00:18:32] Those guys like Sears and Nelson

[00:18:34] Are gonna be high expectations with them

[00:18:36] To have kind of SEC player of the year type seasons

[00:18:38] Exactly

[00:18:40] Jaren Stevenson he's gonna be expected to make a leap

[00:18:42] Those high profile

[00:18:44] Recruits coming from high school they're gonna

[00:18:46] Be expected to contribute right away

[00:18:48] The whole team is gonna be expected

[00:18:50] To play better defense than last year

[00:18:52] You know they're gonna be

[00:18:54] And then they're gonna on the flip side they're gonna be

[00:18:56] Expected to keep up the scoring from

[00:18:58] Last year you know

[00:19:00] Which really hasn't been a problem

[00:19:02] Of the NATO terror

[00:19:04] Scoring has never really managed

[00:19:06] The defense is wild though

[00:19:08] I saw I don't can't remember where I saw it

[00:19:10] Now the exact numbers but it was like

[00:19:12] The last

[00:19:14] Four or five years

[00:19:16] Defensive ratings are like first

[00:19:18] Then a hundred thirtieth second

[00:19:20] A hundred seventieth you know third

[00:19:22] So they're really

[00:19:24] So you know we're after last year

[00:19:26] One of the worst defenses were

[00:19:28] Maybe we'll jump back to one of the best defenses

[00:19:30] That would be

[00:19:32] Amazing

[00:19:34] Like we said we just had

[00:19:36] To play okay defense

[00:19:39] Just have to be

[00:19:41] Average to above average

[00:19:43] Defense

[00:19:45] If we have a top fifty

[00:19:47] You know we were

[00:19:49] A hundred and twenty something this year

[00:19:51] I mean if we had a fifty even seventy five

[00:19:53] I mean

[00:19:55] We're miles ahead of where we were

[00:19:57] You'd think

[00:19:59] A big cliff coming in would definitely help our defense

[00:20:01] As far as his ability

[00:20:03] I mean he was

[00:20:05] Averaging three almost three blocks

[00:20:07] Of game in there

[00:20:09] It's not like you get from a mid major either

[00:20:11] Yeah and they play that down

[00:20:13] And dirty inside basketball so he was used to rim protecting

[00:20:15] Yeah so

[00:20:17] It's not like you just

[00:20:19] You know

[00:20:21] You don't know if he can move up to the next level or not

[00:20:23] So

[00:20:25] Yeah but it's going to be fun

[00:20:27] But yeah those expectations are going to be huge

[00:20:29] And one of those

[00:20:31] Rare times where if you know

[00:20:33] Football disappoints people will be

[00:20:35] Ready for basketball by the time

[00:20:37] November rolls around

[00:20:39] Which is the first time ever

[00:20:41] Yeah

[00:20:43] I've even seen early predictions

[00:20:45] Early things where like there's

[00:20:47] A better chance of Alabama

[00:20:49] Winning the national championship in basketball

[00:20:51] Or football

[00:20:53] I think we're going to surprise

[00:20:55] Some folks with football but that's

[00:20:57] We got a while before we talk about that

[00:20:59] That just tells you kind of where the

[00:21:01] Mindset is as far as how

[00:21:03] This team could be that we'd ever see a day

[00:21:05] Where we're

[00:21:07] More favored better odds

[00:21:09] Of winning a national championship on the hardwood

[00:21:11] Than the gridiron

[00:21:13] It's definitely if not the

[00:21:15] First time one of the very few

[00:21:17] Times that basketball will have

[00:21:19] Higher expectations than football

[00:21:21] The last time that maybe I

[00:21:23] Can remember would have been

[00:21:25] Was it 2006 when we

[00:21:27] Had Ron Steele

[00:21:29] And Richard Hendricks down

[00:21:31] Low

[00:21:33] A couple people did think we were a final four

[00:21:35] We had a great caliber team that year

[00:21:37] Of course Ron Steele

[00:21:39] Couldn't stay healthy

[00:21:41] I don't even know if they made the tournament

[00:21:43] That year

[00:21:45] No they didn't I think we went to the

[00:21:47] NIT

[00:21:49] Was that the U-Mass

[00:21:51] NIT

[00:21:53] But yeah

[00:21:57] Like I said

[00:21:59] It was just a

[00:22:01] Great

[00:22:03] Great day for

[00:22:05] Basketball fans

[00:22:07] They waited until the last minute

[00:22:09] To announce

[00:22:11] Refreshing stuff

[00:22:13] Checking Twitter

[00:22:15] What's going on

[00:22:17] Almost what

[00:22:19] 5am

[00:22:21] Almost 6am

[00:22:23] Get the little notifications

[00:22:25] That are coming back

[00:22:27] It was tough

[00:22:29] But yeah

[00:22:31] Keeping with Alabama sports

[00:22:33] Softball and baseball both

[00:22:35] Had their seasons in this weekend

[00:22:37] Softball did make it

[00:22:39] To three games in

[00:22:41] To the college

[00:22:43] World series

[00:22:45] Lost tough one to Florida today

[00:22:47] The late

[00:22:49] Home runs in both games

[00:22:51] Killed us in both the losses

[00:22:53] First game

[00:22:55] I think it was bottom of the sixth

[00:22:57] They had a three run shot

[00:22:59] UCLA and went 4-1

[00:23:01] But late one tonight

[00:23:03] The Gators did

[00:23:05] We had a nice little comeback in the bottom of the sixth

[00:23:07] To get it down and back to two runs

[00:23:09] But little much there

[00:23:11] That would be interesting

[00:23:13] To see what this team does going forward

[00:23:15] I mean you would hope that

[00:23:17] They build off

[00:23:19] You have a pretty young team

[00:23:21] A lot of people should be coming back

[00:23:23] Hopefully don't jump into portal or anything

[00:23:25] You never know with this portal stuff

[00:23:27] Where people mindset are

[00:23:29] You just have to find more consistent hitting

[00:23:31] I mean that's been the thing for a long time now

[00:23:33] Yeah

[00:23:35] Yeah and that's been

[00:23:37] A weird just struggle

[00:23:39] The past hour of many years

[00:23:41] Now

[00:23:43] Yeah

[00:23:45] Just the hitting has just not been there

[00:23:49] You know as we talk

[00:23:51] Like you said a tough one

[00:23:53] Tried to make a little comeback today

[00:23:55] Really

[00:23:57] Even if we had beat the Gators

[00:23:59] I mean we know you twice

[00:24:01] In the next two days

[00:24:03] Probably not great

[00:24:05] Not great no

[00:24:07] But yeah

[00:24:09] Like

[00:24:11] Like you said

[00:24:13] The Gators got a big

[00:24:15] Three run homer on top of the sixth

[00:24:17] Which put them up what like six to two

[00:24:19] I think

[00:24:21] You know we can't put up runs

[00:24:23] Yeah exactly

[00:24:25] And you know that's got to be in the back of their heads too

[00:24:27] Yeah it's hard

[00:24:29] They know they struggle to put runs across the board

[00:24:31] When you go down four lead in a game

[00:24:33] It's like one game

[00:24:35] But yeah so

[00:24:37] You know Oklahoma did beat UCLA

[00:24:39] So they

[00:24:41] They played Florida

[00:24:43] They will play Florida tomorrow

[00:24:45] Right now Stanford is

[00:24:47] Beating UCLA in the bottom of the sixth

[00:24:49] The winner of that plays Texas

[00:24:51] The loser is out

[00:24:53] Looks like maybe

[00:24:55] We're headed straight for a Texas

[00:24:57] OU final which would be wild

[00:24:59] Just looking that way

[00:25:01] Baseball side

[00:25:03] Yeah the guys

[00:25:05] Yeah not pretty

[00:25:07] Friday wasn't bad

[00:25:09] I mean we had chances

[00:25:11] Of being UCL there

[00:25:13] I mean it was a good game to report

[00:25:15] 8-7

[00:25:17] But man just got

[00:25:19] Just got

[00:25:21] You know

[00:25:23] 4-0 to Stetson couldn't even score a run

[00:25:25] Yesterday like wow

[00:25:27] Yeah just the bats

[00:25:29] Bats fell asleep against

[00:25:31] Stetson yeah could not get anything

[00:25:33] Going and

[00:25:35] Stetson just added a couple here and there

[00:25:37] And won the game

[00:25:39] Tough Florida State of course

[00:25:41] Ran through that

[00:25:43] Regional as they should have probably

[00:25:45] Yeah I mean we probably

[00:25:47] Chances of being Florida State

[00:25:49] Probably not the best

[00:25:51] You would really like the least kind of

[00:25:53] Regional

[00:25:55] Yeah but

[00:25:57] Let's see elsewhere you know

[00:25:59] 1C Tennessee advanced easily

[00:26:01] Let's see who else

[00:26:03] Has advanced so far Tennessee Florida State

[00:26:05] Georgia

[00:26:07] Advanced from their regional

[00:26:09] They were

[00:26:11] What were they the overall I can't

[00:26:13] I don't even know overall seed NC State

[00:26:15] From their regional

[00:26:17] The biggest shocker to this point is

[00:26:19] Arkansas got eliminated today by

[00:26:21] SEMO

[00:26:23] SEMO and then Kansas State

[00:26:25] Kansas State took that regional

[00:26:27] The 3 seed

[00:26:29] In that regional but Virginia

[00:26:31] They will play Virginia in the supers

[00:26:33] They will go to Charlottesville

[00:26:37] And then there's a couple other

[00:26:39] Arizona has been eliminated already

[00:26:41] We had

[00:26:43] A big Texas A&M

[00:26:45] Texas matchup A&M

[00:26:47] 1 and then Texas got

[00:26:49] Smashed by Louisiana the

[00:26:51] Rage and Cajun's who right

[00:26:53] Now are kind of getting smashed by A&M

[00:26:55] In the final for that regional

[00:26:57] So it looks like A&M will go

[00:26:59] On the win

[00:27:01] LSU had to come

[00:27:03] Backward but they put it on

[00:27:05] Wofford and then took game 1 against

[00:27:07] North Carolina so they'll play a winner take all game

[00:27:09] Tomorrow

[00:27:11] In Chequahill

[00:27:13] For a team that come out with a national title

[00:27:15] They struggled so much this year compared

[00:27:17] To what people thought they would

[00:27:19] They're getting the right at the right time

[00:27:21] And they lost 2 guys that immediately

[00:27:23] Went and have already

[00:27:25] Played in the majors and Paul Skues

[00:27:27] And Wyatt

[00:27:29] Already put enough numbers in the league

[00:27:33] I think the craziest regional we mentioned

[00:27:35] That Arizona one it's also worth

[00:27:37] Mentioning that the two seed in that

[00:27:39] Regional Dallas Baptist is out too

[00:27:41] So your final for

[00:27:43] It is West Virginia and Grand Canyon

[00:27:45] University our friends from the

[00:27:47] Basketball tournament who had that

[00:27:49] Yeah right exactly

[00:27:51] It looks like right now

[00:27:53] West Virginia's up in the fourth

[00:27:55] But you'd have to think like

[00:27:57] In Grand Canyon

[00:27:59] They could have a shitload of

[00:28:01] Fans in Tucson and West

[00:28:03] Virginia's gonna have nobody

[00:28:05] Yeah right but

[00:28:07] It'd be interesting

[00:28:09] If they win that

[00:28:11] Regional I guess they would probably go to

[00:28:13] Definitely would go to Chapel Hill if

[00:28:15] UNC wins and would probably go to Baton Rouge

[00:28:17] Let's see other

[00:28:19] Regionals round away Oregon right now

[00:28:21] Is leading UC Santa Barbara

[00:28:23] Santa Barbara needs to win two games

[00:28:25] To take that

[00:28:27] Their own regional there too

[00:28:29] Oregon the three seed in that one

[00:28:31] Stillwater

[00:28:33] Oklahoma State and Florida and a good one

[00:28:35] Right now Florida

[00:28:37] Florida needs to win two there

[00:28:39] Oklahoma's up to one

[00:28:41] The Okies

[00:28:43] Let's see

[00:28:45] In Norman

[00:28:47] Right now Oklahoma

[00:28:49] Surprisingly lost to Yukon

[00:28:51] Yesterday and they're tied to them

[00:28:53] Right now bottom of fourth

[00:28:55] Yeah and they need to win both of them

[00:28:57] To the Huskies maybe

[00:28:59] A little big upset their baseball

[00:29:01] Another

[00:29:03] Kind of big news we had

[00:29:05] Starting Friday

[00:29:07] I guess that was in the Greenville

[00:29:09] Carolina regional ECU

[00:29:11] The number one seed Wake Forest

[00:29:13] And number two seed they both lost on day

[00:29:15] One

[00:29:17] Meaning that they played in the first

[00:29:19] Elimination game which East Carolina won so

[00:29:21] You know last year's one seed Wake Forest

[00:29:23] Didn't even win a game

[00:29:25] And right now

[00:29:27] East Carolina did win

[00:29:29] Twice today to force

[00:29:31] A winner take all game against Evansville

[00:29:33] On tomorrow

[00:29:35] Who had that one

[00:29:37] Who had that one on the local

[00:29:39] Exactly

[00:29:41] So small schools keep up sometimes

[00:29:43] Kentucky also we mentioned

[00:29:45] We should mention Kentucky I think they just finished off

[00:29:47] Indiana State

[00:29:49] So they advance

[00:29:51] And they will play the winner of

[00:29:53] The Corvallis regional

[00:29:55] Which right now Oregon State is leading

[00:29:57] UC Irvine in the fourth

[00:29:59] Oregon State just needs

[00:30:01] The one win

[00:30:03] I mean that's been one of the most

[00:30:05] Promise I've talked about

[00:30:07] I guess because they're so far west

[00:30:09] We don't really

[00:30:11] Able to follow them

[00:30:13] As you would think but yeah I mean they're just an excellent

[00:30:15] Program throughout

[00:30:17] It'll be interesting to see

[00:30:19] You know just so weird just to see where

[00:30:21] You know long term where Oregon State

[00:30:23] And Washington State

[00:30:25] Will end up or win you know different

[00:30:27] Things because I mean that's just

[00:30:29] So weird and of course

[00:30:31] You know tonight in that softball matchup

[00:30:33] You know it's kind of crazy

[00:30:35] Stanford UCLA the final

[00:30:37] You know matchup

[00:30:39] As far as

[00:30:41] Pac 12 teams

[00:30:45] And then OKC

[00:30:47] You know the

[00:30:49] The loss of the

[00:30:51] Pac 12 I mean they're

[00:30:53] Going strong as far as the conference

[00:30:55] You know made that

[00:30:57] I mean made a heck of a run there

[00:30:59] In football with Washington the national

[00:31:01] Title game

[00:31:03] And then side with

[00:31:05] Basketball tournaments you know

[00:31:07] Some teams doing

[00:31:09] Well in the college

[00:31:11] And softball so I mean

[00:31:13] As one of the consider the week

[00:31:15] Conference they get rid of I mean

[00:31:17] They're going out with a bang

[00:31:19] All around

[00:31:21] It's crazy still crazy to think about

[00:31:23] Get your head around the game of it's

[00:31:25] Not going to be a conference at all anymore

[00:31:27] Yeah it's just

[00:31:29] Might get this started with

[00:31:31] Next is it officially July

[00:31:33] When the conference is officially

[00:31:35] Realized

[00:31:37] I think so something like that

[00:31:39] It definitely doesn't

[00:31:41] Feel right we mentioned it talking about

[00:31:43] EA Sports College football

[00:31:45] Game next week but

[00:31:47] I imagine there's going to be a lot of old heads

[00:31:49] Like me you that

[00:31:51] Immediately going to make the conferences what they

[00:31:53] Used to be

[00:31:55] I know one of my first moves is always getting Maryland's

[00:31:57] Ass back to the ACC where they belong

[00:31:59] Yeah

[00:32:01] Talk about some teams you know with the

[00:32:03] Alignment it's whatever like Texas

[00:32:05] Oklahoma and the SEC you're like it's not

[00:32:07] Traditional but it's not terrible

[00:32:09] But then there's like Maryland

[00:32:11] And the Big Ten SMU

[00:32:13] And the ACC you know it's like that

[00:32:15] That's not right it doesn't feel right

[00:32:17] Even Stanford in there

[00:32:19] I mean Stanford yes

[00:32:21] Academically but man and the ACC

[00:32:23] Really

[00:32:25] The Pacific

[00:32:27] Team them and Cal Pacific teams

[00:32:29] Going in

[00:32:31] The Atlantic conference it's just craziness

[00:32:33] Yeah

[00:32:35] But it looks like

[00:32:37] Stanford's now won out to

[00:32:39] Go to win

[00:32:41] Knock UCLA out

[00:32:43] Speaking of late game tension

[00:32:45] Right now Western Conference

[00:32:47] Finals in the Stanley Cup playoffs

[00:32:49] Edmonton trying to

[00:32:51] Clench on their home

[00:32:53] Ice they got a minute left they're up one

[00:32:55] And Dallas has got empty

[00:32:57] Net so some exciting

[00:32:59] Finish here

[00:33:01] In the background

[00:33:03] Steve Gangstavin

[00:33:05] I'll say casual stars

[00:33:07] They can't see

[00:33:09] But

[00:33:11] It'll be fun to see

[00:33:13] I know yeah and we've talked about it before

[00:33:15] You know I grew up playing hockey I used to love

[00:33:17] I was a big Penguins fan growing up

[00:33:19] Actually and then just

[00:33:21] All the lockouts and stuff I just kind of stopped

[00:33:23] Watching NHL as a

[00:33:25] Routing for a single team but also

[00:33:27] Anytime hockey's on

[00:33:29] Oh oh oh

[00:33:31] Yeah anytime

[00:33:33] Stanley Cup playoffs

[00:33:35] Are on I'll tune in cause

[00:33:37] Oh man there

[00:33:39] Yeah it is

[00:33:41] Exactly it is

[00:33:43] It's just exciting as we got

[00:33:45] Like 15 seconds ago here Dallas

[00:33:47] Is last

[00:33:49] Shot

[00:33:53] One of the unique things too hockey

[00:33:55] That shot has to be in the net by the

[00:33:57] Time the buzzer there is no buzzer beater

[00:33:59] Right yeah

[00:34:01] Edmonton

[00:34:03] Edmonton and Florida

[00:34:05] Yep Edmonton

[00:34:07] Oilers and the Florida Panthers

[00:34:09] Two very opposite ends of the

[00:34:11] Hockey spectrum

[00:34:13] I saw something that's been like

[00:34:15] 5, 3 years of the Florida team has been

[00:34:17] In the Stanley Cup Finals

[00:34:19] Really? That is

[00:34:21] Insane if that's true

[00:34:25] I saw that last night

[00:34:29] Yeah

[00:34:31] Let's see if I can

[00:34:33] Find that

[00:34:35] Real quick that's an interesting little bit of trivia

[00:34:37] Let's see if we can find that

[00:34:39] Champions where is it at

[00:34:41] Come on

[00:34:43] Last five

[00:34:45] One, two, three

[00:34:47] Yeah this will now be the fifth straight year

[00:34:49] Last year was

[00:34:51] The Panthers again and then three straight

[00:34:53] Years before that Tampa Bay made it

[00:34:55] Wow

[00:34:57] And of course it's different because of

[00:34:59] Other players of course not from Florida

[00:35:01] But still

[00:35:03] Just being old school thinking

[00:35:05] That the team is winning

[00:35:07] Going to Stanley you know it's just

[00:35:09] Crazy to think about still

[00:35:11] Mm-hmm

[00:35:13] This will be

[00:35:15] Edmonton's first trip since 2006

[00:35:17] They're trying to win their sixth

[00:35:19] Finals overall

[00:35:21] That will be their first win

[00:35:23] Since 1990

[00:35:25] Since the Redskins were there right

[00:35:27] That seems

[00:35:29] Almost like

[00:35:31] So long ago that even seemed weird

[00:35:33] ESPN had just been so long since Wayne

[00:35:35] Was there

[00:35:37] My goodness

[00:35:39] It's weird you know I remember that

[00:35:41] ESPN did a good 30 for 30 about it

[00:35:43] I think it was the very first one about the Gretzky

[00:35:45] Trade but

[00:35:47] I remember being a big deal

[00:35:49] And I definitely grew up a big Kings fan

[00:35:51] Because of him

[00:35:54] This Florida's third trip

[00:35:56] To the finals

[00:35:58] They've never won it so they'll

[00:36:00] Be trying to win their first cup

[00:36:02] But yeah

[00:36:04] Always excited to watch

[00:36:06] Like we said we don't have a lot of skin in the game

[00:36:08] But it's always a fun watch

[00:36:10] As just a sports fan

[00:36:14] Let's see elsewhere

[00:36:16] In the sports world real quick before we get

[00:36:18] To talking about what we said we would last

[00:36:20] Week

[00:36:22] Okay Major League Baseball

[00:36:24] Kind of rolling along I don't think

[00:36:26] There are any more huge

[00:36:28] Injuries this week

[00:36:30] Aaron Judge continues

[00:36:32] To just

[00:36:34] Smash home runs

[00:36:36] Made me wonder if

[00:36:38] We'll be making more

[00:36:40] Aaron Judge interruption

[00:36:42] Jokes this fall

[00:36:44] If he's going to start

[00:36:46] Chasing another record

[00:36:48] He's been on a heater as of late

[00:36:54] That was so fun you know

[00:36:56] When they interrupt college

[00:36:58] Football I put it in the corner

[00:37:00] Because there's a group of folks

[00:37:02] Who care less about that

[00:37:04] Home run chase

[00:37:06] Than college football fans on Saturday

[00:37:08] It's probably not

[00:37:10] It's probably not

[00:37:12] College football fans get

[00:37:14] Upset when there is like a tornado

[00:37:16] Warning that takes over

[00:37:18] The broadcast you know so

[00:37:20] They of course they're not going to want

[00:37:22] Their game gets rain

[00:37:24] What the fuck are games done on for

[00:37:26] Dude it's in the lightning delay

[00:37:28] Chill out

[00:37:30] Yeah they're not happy about it

[00:37:34] Yeah that was funny stuff

[00:37:38] Just what can you do

[00:37:42] Let's see I think

[00:37:44] I don't think anything else

[00:37:46] From let's see

[00:37:48] We had Real Madrid win

[00:37:50] Yet another Champions League

[00:37:52] Another one

[00:37:54] 15th I think

[00:37:56] That's just insane

[00:37:58] Wow

[00:38:00] They were a great team overall this year

[00:38:02] They won the Spanish league as well

[00:38:04] La Liga

[00:38:06] But just how good they are

[00:38:08] When they get to that competition

[00:38:12] And then

[00:38:14] It was kind of an end of a few eras

[00:38:16] Tony Cruz leaving

[00:38:18] Madrid, Marco Royce

[00:38:20] Leaving Dortmund

[00:38:22] Dortmund played really well

[00:38:24] I got to watch the second half

[00:38:26] Of it at least and they kind of were

[00:38:28] Outplaying them for a while

[00:38:30] Real Madrid is inevitable

[00:38:32] Right

[00:38:34] When it comes to Champions League

[00:38:36] And they're not going away

[00:38:38] Anytime soon

[00:38:40] No ever

[00:38:42] Pretty much

[00:38:44] Exactly yeah

[00:38:46] Of course next year it is

[00:38:48] Expanding to

[00:38:50] 36 teams

[00:38:52] So it will be a little bit different

[00:38:54] Format next year

[00:38:56] But

[00:38:58] Yeah I think

[00:39:00] That's it for

[00:39:02] Current topics in the sports world

[00:39:04] As far as on the field stuff

[00:39:06] Now last week we did

[00:39:08] We mentioned

[00:39:10] The big ruling of course

[00:39:13] That

[00:39:15] NCAA

[00:39:17] Will be able to

[00:39:19] Pay players now

[00:39:23] Schools reached

[00:39:27] The NCAA Power 5 conferences

[00:39:29] With the states reaching an agreement

[00:39:31] As a result of all the

[00:39:35] Lawsuits

[00:39:41] So basically what they said is

[00:39:43] That players will be able to

[00:39:45] Get paid for playing the sport

[00:39:47] And we said last week

[00:39:49] We'd probably come in with more questions

[00:39:51] Than answers

[00:39:53] The answers just aren't there right now

[00:39:55] But

[00:39:57] I think among the stuff we mentioned last week

[00:40:01] What does this do to NIL

[00:40:03] I think you mentioned

[00:40:05] That one that would be a pretty big one

[00:40:07] How does that tie into it

[00:40:09] Are schools going to be required to pay

[00:40:11] From their own

[00:40:13] Accounts

[00:40:15] Are they going to be able to

[00:40:17] Use the booster money that comes in through

[00:40:19] Donations

[00:40:23] This pretty much kills

[00:40:25] The concept of

[00:40:27] Amateurism as it pertains

[00:40:29] To major college athletes

[00:40:31] It's been dead forever

[00:40:33] But officially

[00:40:39] How does this tie into Title IX

[00:40:41] How does that affect the smaller

[00:40:43] Female sports

[00:40:45] Just the smaller

[00:40:47] Non-revenue sports in general

[00:40:49] Pretty much all your Olympic sports

[00:40:51] Out of the

[00:40:53] Your track

[00:40:55] Your swimming

[00:40:57] Golf

[00:40:59] And then there's so many schools

[00:41:01] That have stuff

[00:41:03] Of course Alabama

[00:41:05] They have men's

[00:41:07] Gymnastics, there's men's volleyball

[00:41:09] In schools

[00:41:11] There's all types

[00:41:13] Of Olympic sports in schools

[00:41:17] Can the schools keep

[00:41:19] All these

[00:41:21] Programs alive

[00:41:23] Who knows

[00:41:27] I think that's one of the major questions

[00:41:29] If we had to

[00:41:31] Let's see if our exercise right now

[00:41:33] Is to come in and say

[00:41:35] What are the say three

[00:41:37] To five biggest questions of this

[00:41:39] I think that's probably top

[00:41:41] Of the list right like what does it do to

[00:41:43] Olympic sports what does it do

[00:41:45] To the small sports

[00:41:47] Can they survive with this or does it somehow

[00:41:49] Make them better because are they

[00:41:51] Going to get paid too

[00:41:57] I think my two big ones

[00:41:59] That I thought of were

[00:42:01] Where is it like I say where's this money

[00:42:03] Come from does it how does

[00:42:05] How do the TV deals now change

[00:42:07] Or do they have to get reworked

[00:42:09] Do the players get some of this

[00:42:13] Is this going to be a situation

[00:42:15] Yeah and this kind of ties into my other

[00:42:17] Big question but how does

[00:42:19] Do the players form unions you know if you

[00:42:21] Look at pro sports they all have players unions

[00:42:23] And they all

[00:42:25] You know they have

[00:42:27] Representatives and lawyers

[00:42:29] That go to negotiations

[00:42:31] For them to make their collective

[00:42:33] Bargaining agreements look out for them

[00:42:35] You would think that

[00:42:37] The players are going to need

[00:42:39] That too in the college

[00:42:41] Is that

[00:42:43] Is that

[00:42:45] Yeah is that one big group

[00:42:47] Is that by sport

[00:42:49] Is it by conference

[00:42:51] Exactly

[00:42:55] I don't you know I think we're far away

[00:42:57] From having definite athletes

[00:42:59] Yeah because

[00:43:01] You got to look at it I mean

[00:43:03] Pretty much

[00:43:05] Blitzen took out the NCAA

[00:43:07] I mean the NCAA had no

[00:43:09] Plan about NIL at all

[00:43:11] As they normally don't

[00:43:13] We don't expect them to

[00:43:15] But I mean now you know

[00:43:17] We've been in the wild for a couple

[00:43:19] Of years good or bad I mean it's just

[00:43:21] Kind of where we're at I mean

[00:43:23] You know people are just getting

[00:43:25] Paid whatever and you know it just

[00:43:27] Kind of is what it is it was

[00:43:29] Legal to do so

[00:43:31] As you know the Tennessee ruling and everything

[00:43:33] But now

[00:43:35] That we've gone from collectives band

[00:43:37] To schools yeah

[00:43:39] You said how does it change

[00:43:41] Because if it's coming just from the schools

[00:43:43] And the collectives can't be involved

[00:43:45] And that changes a lot because

[00:43:47] The schools themselves how much

[00:43:49] Money and even

[00:43:51] Some of the smaller D1 schools within

[00:43:53] The big conferences can

[00:43:55] You know as we said you know some are

[00:43:57] Going to get pushed out and this is going to be quicker

[00:43:59] To do so than others

[00:44:01] Because I mean of course you know the

[00:44:03] You know the Mississippi states

[00:44:05] The Ole Miss there's some money but I mean

[00:44:07] Of course don't have the Alabama

[00:44:09] Money or you know

[00:44:11] The USC money

[00:44:13] And you know how does that

[00:44:15] Affect these even the mid

[00:44:17] Majors of the power five conferences

[00:44:19] So it's going to be interesting

[00:44:21] Yeah how does this

[00:44:23] You know how does this

[00:44:25] Affect the conferences in general

[00:44:27] Is there do they rework

[00:44:29] You know in an effort to

[00:44:31] Save money because they'll have to cut

[00:44:33] Costs somewhere to pay players you know because I

[00:44:35] Don't imagine that the presidents and athletic

[00:44:37] Directors and coaches

[00:44:39] Take pay cuts

[00:44:41] So

[00:44:43] Does this mean that we get yet more

[00:44:45] Realignment either in the sense

[00:44:47] That do we finally get the big

[00:44:49] Super league in college

[00:44:51] Football and basketball

[00:44:53] Maybe or do

[00:44:55] We see kind of a

[00:44:57] Return to regional based stuff to

[00:44:59] Cut down on travel cost

[00:45:01] Because you know especially for sports like football

[00:45:03] Where you got so much equipment everything like

[00:45:05] Travels a bitch and then if you got

[00:45:07] You know

[00:45:09] Instances like UCLA

[00:45:11] And USC and Oregon and Washington

[00:45:13] Joining the big ten

[00:45:15] You really expect their softball team

[00:45:17] To travel

[00:45:19] Thousands of miles for every

[00:45:21] Road game yeah

[00:45:23] A midweek

[00:45:25] Midweek thing in

[00:45:27] Columbus Ohio if you're

[00:45:29] Flying in from LA

[00:45:31] Yeah

[00:45:33] Or do you know we see something where maybe

[00:45:35] Football gets a big super league

[00:45:37] But everything else kind of goes back to

[00:45:39] Traditional conferences and that

[00:45:41] Would mean long

[00:45:43] Term you would have to think that's

[00:45:45] The most

[00:45:49] That would make the most sense because

[00:45:51] I mean I because obviously

[00:45:53] All these movies are football based

[00:45:55] Clearly I mean nobody

[00:45:57] Thought about any other sport whenever

[00:45:59] These realignments occurred

[00:46:01] Like that I mean that's the give and take of

[00:46:03] They can conferences can say what they

[00:46:05] Want but this is clearly all about football

[00:46:07] I mean nothing else

[00:46:09] Is considered

[00:46:11] Of course that's the king that's the cash cow

[00:46:13] So of course you're going to look at that as the biggest thing but

[00:46:15] Yeah I mean outside I mean

[00:46:17] Football can survive with the long

[00:46:19] You know because it's one game a week if

[00:46:21] You know you're going across country there's a lot

[00:46:23] Of money and revenue

[00:46:25] That they're going to be fine

[00:46:27] Even the worst of the

[00:46:29] Teams within a power

[00:46:31] Conference probably make a positive

[00:46:33] Money there but you look at a lot

[00:46:35] Of these other sports I mean you'd be shocked

[00:46:37] Like even there's

[00:46:39] Like even

[00:46:41] Basketball you know

[00:46:43] Power flying that are not making

[00:46:45] Money so I mean

[00:46:47] There's very few sports

[00:46:49] For some basketball yes but outside

[00:46:51] Of football there's very few sports

[00:46:53] That actually make positive money

[00:46:55] For schools

[00:46:57] One day I was bored

[00:46:59] And I started looking you know

[00:47:01] With all this realignment stuff and you know

[00:47:03] As the ACC starts you know

[00:47:05] It started to look like it was breaking down

[00:47:07] Completely you know

[00:47:09] I was just looking at stuff and it's amazing just

[00:47:11] How many sports do not

[00:47:13] Make positive money

[00:47:15] As of now and you know

[00:47:17] They get supported by the football

[00:47:19] And you know they

[00:47:21] Stay afloat but

[00:47:23] As we move and schools are

[00:47:25] Getting paid and you know the schools are paying

[00:47:27] The players themselves I mean that's

[00:47:29] Something gets cut

[00:47:31] Something gets pushed back

[00:47:33] Or you know

[00:47:35] Cutting scholarships or whatever

[00:47:37] The case may be but

[00:47:39] It's not going to end well

[00:47:41] For some sports some schools

[00:47:43] At some point that's just a reality

[00:47:45] Of where we're headed unfortunately

[00:47:50] Yeah

[00:47:52] And I think maybe

[00:47:54] You kind of danced around

[00:47:56] There but I think the biggest

[00:47:58] Question probably out of all this is

[00:48:00] Is this the final death

[00:48:02] Nell for the NCAA as

[00:48:04] An organization

[00:48:06] Historically

[00:48:08] They've been one that just not really adapt

[00:48:10] To change well we just talked

[00:48:12] About it how they did had no plan for NIL

[00:48:14] For the transfer

[00:48:16] Portal you know

[00:48:18] For the you know conference

[00:48:20] Realignment you know

[00:48:22] Who was it was it

[00:48:24] Chip Kelly had that you know rant

[00:48:26] Post came this year where he talked about

[00:48:28] You know how come we're not working together how come

[00:48:30] We didn't all band together at some

[00:48:32] Point all the conferences and

[00:48:34] Negotiate a TV deal you know

[00:48:38] And I'm sure there will be

[00:48:40] Probably you know some

[00:48:42] Pretty good books written about

[00:48:44] This from journalists you know that

[00:48:46] Go all the way back to starting with the big

[00:48:48] Supreme Court case that

[00:48:50] I forget the schools who brought it on

[00:48:52] But back in the 80s it said the

[00:48:54] Conferences could control

[00:48:56] TV rights over

[00:48:58] The NCAA because you know if you hear

[00:49:00] You know like people from our parents

[00:49:02] Generation of my dad let's talk about you know there

[00:49:04] Was one game a week on

[00:49:06] This big and then you know

[00:49:08] We grew up with

[00:49:10] All you know each conference had its own

[00:49:12] TV station affiliation you know there are

[00:49:14] Games from 11 in the morning

[00:49:16] Until 2 in the morning you know

[00:49:18] If you watched it right you know we could watch a

[00:49:20] Born ACC game

[00:49:22] In the morning or the three days broadcast

[00:49:24] For that you know SEC game

[00:49:26] Your big SEC

[00:49:28] Game 230

[00:49:30] Kind of some solid games around

[00:49:32] Five or six and then a big prime time

[00:49:34] Game and then you know your Pac 12

[00:49:36] After dark or your Hawaii game

[00:49:38] Late night

[00:49:40] I mean it was still regionalized to

[00:49:42] A certain extent but yeah I mean you could

[00:49:44] Give full days work

[00:49:46] Yeah it's crazy to think

[00:49:48] That you know even when we weren't

[00:49:50] I mean they still had pay per view games

[00:49:52] Oh god yeah that's right

[00:49:54] Man one game a year yeah

[00:49:56] It's why I did not get to see the

[00:49:58] UL Monroe loss that's a bright side

[00:50:00] I didn't

[00:50:02] Watch it you know the first part of it

[00:50:04] I was at work and then when I went home I had

[00:50:06] To listen to it on the radio even though

[00:50:08] At the time I lived about two blocks

[00:50:10] In the stadium

[00:50:14] I could hear the disappointment

[00:50:16] It was just crazy to think about

[00:50:18] You know we had pay per view games

[00:50:20] You know that was insane yeah

[00:50:22] Yeah with ESPN game plan

[00:50:24] Or something where you could buy all your

[00:50:26] Out of market games for the season

[00:50:28] It was like $200

[00:50:30] I did it a few times

[00:50:32] Growing up for you know an Alabama game that

[00:50:34] You know maybe wasn't on

[00:50:36] A regional broadcast but was big enough where

[00:50:38] I wanted to see it you know

[00:50:40] Because you got to think like back in the day

[00:50:42] You know I remember

[00:50:44] Really I mean Alabama for sure you would get

[00:50:46] Nationally you could see the Tennessee

[00:50:48] Game you could see the iron ball

[00:50:50] Outside of that it was a

[00:50:52] Toss up

[00:50:54] You might get

[00:50:56] Teams would go I mean you might get

[00:50:58] Yeah I could usually see the LSU game

[00:51:00] Even before LSU was a big thing I could usually

[00:51:02] See that like that was usually an

[00:51:04] Evening ESPN game

[00:51:06] ESPN's 6 or 7 o'clock game

[00:51:08] Yeah but like I wasn't

[00:51:10] Seeing the Mississippi State game

[00:51:12] I barely saw the Ole Miss game you know

[00:51:14] Unless like a couple years

[00:51:16] With Ole Mississippi State was really

[00:51:18] Good with Jackie Shepard

[00:51:20] You know they got him in the Tuscoo Sun defeated

[00:51:22] That got on TV and stuff

[00:51:24] But yeah I mean it was hit or miss

[00:51:26] Because you know they were just

[00:51:28] Now regionalized TV works and now you can

[00:51:30] Watch all your teams games

[00:51:32] Somewhere you just stream in

[00:51:34] Or on that channel it's crazy

[00:51:36] So

[00:51:38] You know you want to

[00:51:40] You can watch every

[00:51:42] You know every

[00:51:44] Any and every game you want to is

[00:51:46] Somewhere for you to watch whether it be on

[00:51:48] TV, streaming

[00:51:50] And you're not even paying

[00:51:52] A lot of money really

[00:51:58] But yeah

[00:52:00] So it's

[00:52:02] You know just a huge

[00:52:04] Decision another huge

[00:52:06] Change in college sports coming in

[00:52:08] It probably really won't

[00:52:10] See

[00:52:12] The final results of it for a while

[00:52:14] Yeah that's one of those things where you don't

[00:52:16] See it from within there

[00:52:18] Just because it's new

[00:52:20] But

[00:52:22] You know eventually it's going to take over

[00:52:24] You know NIL at first where we knew

[00:52:26] It was there but you know it wasn't

[00:52:28] The biggest thing

[00:52:30] You know transfer you know the transfer portal started off

[00:52:32] I mean

[00:52:34] People did it but it wasn't the talk of their

[00:52:36] Whole you know off season

[00:52:38] That's what it's turned into so I mean

[00:52:40] I think eventually it will become

[00:52:42] A much bigger pain to what

[00:52:44] People are really giving credit to right now

[00:52:46] Just because you know we're people

[00:52:48] At the moment and I think most people

[00:52:50] The average card football fan is just

[00:52:52] Thinking about the card football game right now

[00:52:54] To be honest

[00:52:56] Like yeah no

[00:52:58] Honestly yeah

[00:53:00] I don't think a lot of people just have the mind

[00:53:02] To not really think it man

[00:53:04] You know some of us are but most people

[00:53:06] Aren't thinking man 10 years down the road

[00:53:08] What is this going to look like you know

[00:53:10] Are we going to even have

[00:53:12] You know are we going to be down there

[00:53:14] For four major conferences

[00:53:16] Is there's going to be regions going to be like

[00:53:18] Over south east west division

[00:53:20] You know what is it going to look like

[00:53:22] It's going to be crazy

[00:53:24] I think we're headed that way

[00:53:26] And realistically

[00:53:28] You know it all comes from the NCAA

[00:53:30] To simplify it

[00:53:32] I mean if they had given people

[00:53:34] Money for the college football game

[00:53:36] Back in the day or you know

[00:53:38] Got paid for that or you know

[00:53:40] Make a couple thousand on the jersey

[00:53:42] Sells and move

[00:53:44] Out of grass remember Bill

[00:53:46] You were much more

[00:53:48] What we were accustomed to

[00:53:50] Still to this day because I mean

[00:53:52] I think people would have been okay with

[00:53:54] You know getting a couple thousand here and there

[00:53:56] No absolutely

[00:53:58] I think you nailed it

[00:54:00] Like you said if players had gotten

[00:54:02] A little bit of their

[00:54:04] Their fair share for

[00:54:06] Their likeness you know like their use

[00:54:08] In video games their conference

[00:54:10] Their jersey sales

[00:54:12] You know any

[00:54:14] Official you know any type of video

[00:54:16] Whatever that the university

[00:54:18] Sold you know with those players on it

[00:54:20] And then if you allowed

[00:54:22] Them to yeah do autograph signings

[00:54:24] To have endorsement deals

[00:54:26] To just you know I think that and that was

[00:54:28] The easy way for the NCAA

[00:54:30] And the schools could have let other people

[00:54:32] Put the bill they could have

[00:54:34] You know like let the local car dealers

[00:54:36] Exactly Nike could sign

[00:54:38] The star athletes yeah

[00:54:40] For smaller

[00:54:42] Schools or yeah

[00:54:44] You could have your local car dealerships

[00:54:46] Throw money at guys just to say you know

[00:54:48] Roll Chevy roll

[00:54:50] Get him a loaner car

[00:54:52] For the semester or something you know

[00:54:54] Exactly

[00:54:56] You know and you could have you could have

[00:54:58] Set up parameters and laws

[00:55:00] To prevent you know

[00:55:02] People using that as a recruiting

[00:55:04] Tool you know

[00:55:06] It would have been something you would have got once you were playing

[00:55:08] Exactly yeah

[00:55:10] Maybe you know I've talked

[00:55:12] About it before you know and there

[00:55:14] Was a former player I wish I could remember who

[00:55:16] Now I want to say it was

[00:55:18] A Stanford player

[00:55:20] But talked about you know some type of

[00:55:22] Fund that that type of money

[00:55:24] Would go into at least you know

[00:55:26] Directly from the universities and the

[00:55:28] Like your jersey sales etc

[00:55:30] Would go into a fund

[00:55:32] An account that you would get once you graduated

[00:55:34] And if you like went to the draft early

[00:55:36] That just you forfeited

[00:55:38] That because you're going to get paid you know millions

[00:55:40] Of dollars anyway

[00:55:42] Or if you transferred you know you kind of forfeited

[00:55:44] You know you could set up rules like that

[00:55:46] Right

[00:55:48] And then again I think the big thing was just not allowing

[00:55:50] Guys you know we had

[00:55:52] We had guys get in trouble

[00:55:54] You know Tuscaloosa for selling

[00:55:56] Textbooks

[00:55:58] People getting in trouble

[00:56:00] For you know because they made

[00:56:02] An appearance at you know

[00:56:04] A men's dress shop

[00:56:06] Right or they got a

[00:56:08] Yeah that whole thing it was crazy

[00:56:10] Or they you know people

[00:56:12] Just schools you know guys

[00:56:14] Even some of

[00:56:16] You know got in trouble for getting

[00:56:18] Free meals from restaurants because they're

[00:56:20] The star of the team exactly

[00:56:22] Which is ridiculous

[00:56:26] Because

[00:56:28] How can they say who a restaurant can

[00:56:30] Offer free stuff to I mean that

[00:56:32] Has nothing to do with it

[00:56:34] That does not make you a better player

[00:56:36] Does not give you some superpower

[00:56:38] To get to get a free

[00:56:40] You know Big Mac from the McDonald's

[00:56:42] You know

[00:56:44] But yeah you know like

[00:56:46] He wrote a week or whatever

[00:56:48] Exactly yeah right you know a couple

[00:56:50] Free drinks at the bar who cares

[00:56:52] As with a lot of things

[00:56:54] Yeah the NCAA could have prevented

[00:56:56] This and instead they just

[00:56:58] Shot themselves in the foot and then they might

[00:57:00] Be going away soon

[00:57:02] They've always done it they've never made

[00:57:04] Any decision that made any sense

[00:57:06] At any time and they've been

[00:57:08] I mean this has been building forever

[00:57:10] And they just perpetuate

[00:57:12] A build and build and eventually

[00:57:14] You know just as society

[00:57:16] Has changed and you know

[00:57:18] Younger people have been given the opportunity to

[00:57:20] Speak more and people taking their

[00:57:22] Opinions more seriously

[00:57:24] I mean that's what it comes down to

[00:57:26] I mean you know back in the day

[00:57:28] People said man shut up and

[00:57:30] That would have been the end of it but now

[00:57:32] People are confident in being able to speak

[00:57:34] Up for what they believe in and you know

[00:57:36] News organizations and people just

[00:57:38] More I guess

[00:57:40] Overall I mean

[00:57:42] Of course there's always going to be some push back

[00:57:44] From some of the older folks and that's just natural

[00:57:46] Way of things but I mean

[00:57:48] There's a lot more openness to this than

[00:57:50] Than there has ever been before

[00:57:52] Within the last decade so

[00:57:54] But man we have

[00:57:56] An interesting road ahead for sure

[00:57:58] Yeah

[00:58:00] See

[00:58:02] Yeah I think that pretty much

[00:58:04] Ties it up

[00:58:06] Something else notable

[00:58:08] Birmingham Southern's run

[00:58:10] If anybody doesn't know their story of course

[00:58:12] A small Division III

[00:58:14] Baseball school a little small liberal arts college

[00:58:16] Here a private school in

[00:58:18] Birmingham is actually closing

[00:58:20] They just don't they've run out of money

[00:58:22] Basically yeah they've actually

[00:58:24] Already closed the 31st of May

[00:58:26] But their baseball team made the D3

[00:58:28] World Series

[00:58:30] Lost their first game won in a walk

[00:58:32] Off in their second game and then

[00:58:34] Today Sunday lost

[00:58:36] 11 to 10

[00:58:38] So their season's over

[00:58:40] Their program is shuttered now

[00:58:42] Sad for all those guys

[00:58:44] You hope that you know the underclassmen

[00:58:46] Get chances to play elsewhere

[00:58:48] Somewhere yeah

[00:58:50] Sad story

[00:58:52] Overall you know anytime a school closes

[00:58:54] It always just

[00:58:56] Yeah that could be a whole other

[00:58:58] Episode but

[00:59:00] Because eventually

[00:59:02] Like I said I mean

[00:59:04] Realistically there's certain schools

[00:59:06] Even at a higher level

[00:59:08] It will be for you often

[00:59:10] I mean if

[00:59:12] Just because the funding

[00:59:14] The resources

[00:59:16] Just aren't there for everybody

[00:59:18] The same clearly it's not a

[00:59:20] Never has been a

[00:59:22] Plan for that so yeah

[00:59:24] We'll definitely see

[00:59:26] More sad stories as

[00:59:28] We continue on this path

[00:59:30] Yeah and

[00:59:32] This is rants I've made elsewhere

[00:59:34] You know not on this podcast but on social

[00:59:36] Media sometimes but

[00:59:38] If we continue to run schools like

[00:59:40] Businesses then they're gonna fail because

[00:59:42] They're not businesses and you can't run them that way

[00:59:44] Yeah

[00:59:46] But yeah sad story

[00:59:48] I hope all the

[00:59:50] Best for those players

[00:59:52] Let's see what else happened

[00:59:54] This week yeah yeah Caitlin Clark

[00:59:56] Had that little dust up

[00:59:58] It was kind of

[01:00:00] Overblown story but yeah it was you know

[01:00:02] Basketball

[01:00:04] It's definitely

[01:00:06] Something that you know it's

[01:00:08] Gotta

[01:00:10] It's going to

[01:00:12] Everything is gonna make a story this season

[01:00:14] Yeah

[01:00:16] If she gets found the wrong way

[01:00:18] If she gets a big shot if she's upset with

[01:00:20] Her teammates I mean

[01:00:22] She's 24-7 Caitlin Clark

[01:00:24] Whether you love it or hate it

[01:00:26] That's just where we are and of course

[01:00:28] It's kind of a very mixed thing

[01:00:30] I mean you can almost compare it to the whole

[01:00:32] You know at this point to

[01:00:34] Travis Kelsey

[01:00:36] And Taylor Swift it's in your face

[01:00:38] It's there it kind of is what it is

[01:00:40] Long term I mean

[01:00:42] The WNBA has got to

[01:00:44] Know it for what it's worth because it's

[01:00:46] I'd say it's great for them it's attention yeah

[01:00:48] Whether you love it or hate it

[01:00:50] It's bringing attention

[01:00:52] Eyes are on the games

[01:00:54] Like I mean people

[01:00:56] Were definitely watching

[01:00:58] The other night when Indian Play

[01:01:00] Chicago

[01:01:02] I mean that's just

[01:01:04] And

[01:01:06] There's no time ever

[01:01:08] What they've ever been in the actual audience

[01:01:10] Were Indiana versus Chicago

[01:01:12] WNBA on

[01:01:14] You know Friday night or whatever

[01:01:16] Or whatever night that was

[01:01:18] You know and there was

[01:01:20] Millions of eyes on it so

[01:01:22] Regardless it's

[01:01:24] It's bringing

[01:01:26] Attention to the game I guess

[01:01:28] Long term it'd be interesting to see

[01:01:30] You know

[01:01:32] How do they build off this? Can they sustain

[01:01:34] This? How do they become

[01:01:36] You know you would love to see them

[01:01:38] You know become as successful

[01:01:40] As what the college game has turned into

[01:01:42] It's been a long tough run

[01:01:44] To the WNBA

[01:01:46] But in the grand scheme of things

[01:01:48] I mean it's not a league

[01:01:50] That's been in the business for a long time

[01:01:52] I mean what they

[01:01:54] Created in the 90s

[01:01:56] Was the first year like

[01:01:58] 96, 97

[01:02:00] So I mean

[01:02:02] Long term I mean it's not a long

[01:02:04] It has been a league

[01:02:06] That's been in business for a long time

[01:02:08] So

[01:02:10] I mean there's still

[01:02:12] A lot of things but it'd be interesting

[01:02:14] To see with this current push

[01:02:16] You know if they can sustain

[01:02:18] Or build

[01:02:20] Long term from that

[01:02:22] So it'd be interesting

[01:02:24] Where that goes

[01:02:28] Yeah I think

[01:02:30] That probably does it for us unless you have

[01:02:32] Anything you wanted to touch on

[01:02:34] Well

[01:02:36] I can't think of too much

[01:02:38] Yep

[01:02:40] Well with that what has been done up

[01:02:42] Real good for you this week

[01:02:44] This week

[01:02:46] You know I'll probably just say

[01:02:48] The Mavericks making the finals

[01:02:50] I mean it was

[01:02:52] A long time thing

[01:02:54] It's only third time in history

[01:02:56] When I was a little kid

[01:02:58] We were pretty bad

[01:03:00] You know it was a time that

[01:03:02] Yeah those 90s math were rough

[01:03:04] Yeah I mean it was fun

[01:03:06] When we had Jason Kidd

[01:03:08] And Jamal Mastburn and Jimmy Jackson

[01:03:10] When I was in elementary school

[01:03:12] I think we win like 10 games

[01:03:14] Under 500 and I was like oh man

[01:03:16] We're on the way

[01:03:18] And that kind of all blew up

[01:03:20] I'm not

[01:03:22] Was it Howdy Berry or

[01:03:24] No it was Tony Braxton the singer

[01:03:26] And Jason Kidd and Jimmy Jackson

[01:03:28] And that kind of blew that up

[01:03:30] And then had to restart everything

[01:03:32] And then dirt brought on

[01:03:34] The next wave and now we're on the new wave

[01:03:36] Of loopers so

[01:03:38] It's not an every year thing

[01:03:40] For us so it's a fun

[01:03:42] Run there but

[01:03:44] That's it for me

[01:03:46] How about you?

[01:03:48] Took the kiddo to see his first

[01:03:50] Braze game this week

[01:03:52] We went over to Atlanta

[01:03:54] I'm sure he'll remember

[01:03:56] Oh well

[01:03:58] 18 months

[01:04:00] He kind of liked the

[01:04:02] He liked some people watching

[01:04:04] Liked when they did tricks with the lights

[01:04:06] Like watching a big screen

[01:04:08] What is this?

[01:04:10] Got himself a little squishy toy

[01:04:12] Thanks

[01:04:14] But it was fun we actually ended up staying

[01:04:16] Watched two games lost both so that sucked

[01:04:18] But also took him to

[01:04:20] The Georgia Aquarium which was fun

[01:04:22] He had fun there

[01:04:24] He started to get really into it toward the

[01:04:26] End there probably

[01:04:28] Maybe a year away from really enjoying

[01:04:30] Both of those

[01:04:32] It was just a nice little trip

[01:04:34] Out of town

[01:04:36] But yeah so that was it

[01:04:38] You know next stop

[01:04:40] Got to get him his first football game

[01:04:42] That might be maybe a

[01:04:44] Next season thing

[01:04:46] Let him get a little bit older

[01:04:48] I think my parents

[01:04:50] Took me to my first football game

[01:04:52] They told me of course I don't remember it

[01:04:54] It was early

[01:04:56] Well of course in the 80s

[01:04:58] It was I think it was

[01:05:00] SMU versus A&M

[01:05:02] When SMU was super good

[01:05:04] But

[01:05:06] They said

[01:05:08] The Aggies shot off the cannon

[01:05:10] And I started hollering

[01:05:12] I think that ruined the rest

[01:05:14] I think that ruined the rest of the day

[01:05:20] Yeah I was

[01:05:22] I actually

[01:05:24] My first

[01:05:26] That was the one thing I didn't go to

[01:05:28] Growing up I went to basketball games

[01:05:30] Went to of course a ton of baseball games

[01:05:32] At Cannon Yards went to hockey games

[01:05:34] Never went to a football game

[01:05:36] My first

[01:05:38] Football game period was

[01:05:40] A CFL game

[01:05:42] Back when the Baltimore

[01:05:44] Had the team

[01:05:46] The one in the gray cup they played at Old Memorial

[01:05:48] Stadium actually

[01:05:50] And then my first

[01:05:52] College game wasn't actually until I was in school

[01:05:56] Yeah in Alabama it was that

[01:05:58] Who was it freshman year that we played

[01:06:00] At Legion Field I want to say Middle Tennessee

[01:06:02] State maybe

[01:06:04] I think Freddie Roach had to pick six or so

[01:06:06] Yeah it was USF I want to say

[01:06:08] sophomore year I believe

[01:06:10] Yeah I think that was sophomore year

[01:06:12] Middle Tennessee was our freshman year

[01:06:14] And that was it that was the only two

[01:06:16] Legion Field games we had because after that

[01:06:18] They stopped playing there

[01:06:22] And then I still have never seen

[01:06:24] A regular season

[01:06:26] NFL game I've been to a couple pre-seasons

[01:06:30] Dickets is just so ridiculous

[01:06:32] Yeah that's what it is

[01:06:34] It's ridiculous I did go to a Saints

[01:06:36] Ravens pre-season game a few years ago

[01:06:38] Because one of the other sous chefs

[01:06:40] At the restaurant I worked at also happened to be

[01:06:42] From Baltimore and his parents though were

[01:06:44] Season ticket holders for the Saints

[01:06:46] So we went they had great

[01:06:48] Seats it was a fun little time yeah

[01:06:50] But pre-season you know

[01:06:52] Yeah but still a good time

[01:06:54] No still fun yeah

[01:06:56] Tickets are just so ridiculous

[01:06:58] By the time you

[01:07:00] Take your family to the game

[01:07:02] And you buy food or buy some

[01:07:04] Merchandise

[01:07:06] Man you spend near a thousand dollars

[01:07:08] In one day

[01:07:10] That's crazy and that's why

[01:07:12] I'm not a Falcons fan by

[01:07:14] Any stretch but I respect Arthur Blank

[01:07:16] Because he has a cheap food at least

[01:07:18] It does yeah when he built Mercedes

[01:07:20] Men's Stadium he made it mandatory that they would

[01:07:22] Have affordable food stands

[01:07:24] And they still have their fancy ones

[01:07:26] They got like Jim and Nick's in there and stuff

[01:07:28] But they have regular

[01:07:30] Me and my now wife

[01:07:32] When we were dating we went to that Alabama

[01:07:34] Florida State game that was played there

[01:07:36] Yeah

[01:07:38] Yeah sure enough you go in there there's like

[01:07:40] Two dollar sodas two dollar hot dogs

[01:07:42] You know you get cheap popcorn

[01:07:44] And pretzels you know the old school

[01:07:46] Stadium food as it yeah

[01:07:50] So that was cool but

[01:07:52] So hopefully maybe

[01:07:54] More teams start doing stuff like

[01:07:56] That just make the basic stuff cheap

[01:07:58] Yeah because I mean you guys

[01:08:00] Are making money hand

[01:08:02] Over fist yeah

[01:08:04] NFL is that's

[01:08:06] That's one league that will never have to wonder

[01:08:08] Who

[01:08:10] Even the worst

[01:08:12] Organizations are making money

[01:08:14] Hand over fist

[01:08:16] Yeah they're not hurting

[01:08:18] No no one's hurting

[01:08:20] Because they're well run business

[01:08:22] You know you may not like

[01:08:24] Everything about the NFL and there's a lot

[01:08:26] To like and dislike but no

[01:08:28] Matter what they keep it rolling

[01:08:30] There's money and they're always

[01:08:32] Looking for ways to keep making money

[01:08:34] Why did they add in

[01:08:36] More regular season games more playoff

[01:08:38] More international games

[01:08:40] They're always gonna make

[01:08:42] Yeah but

[01:08:47] That should do it for us this week folks

[01:08:49] Probably be

[01:08:51] Actually next week I think talking

[01:08:53] Assuming NBA

[01:08:55] Finals the first game or two

[01:08:57] Probably

[01:08:59] Yeah probably Thursday

[01:09:01] Sunday

[01:09:03] Yeah

[01:09:05] I haven't even went through the schedule

[01:09:07] But um

[01:09:11] Yeah

[01:09:13] So that'll be it we'll be back

[01:09:15] Probably yeah like I said talking NBA Finals

[01:09:17] Talking probably you know

[01:09:19] The end of the college women's college

[01:09:21] World Series maybe a little

[01:09:23] NCA baseball and of course

[01:09:25] Any off the field stuff that

[01:09:27] Comes up

[01:09:29] And maybe I'll

[01:09:31] Dig back into that

[01:09:33] Crazy ideas

[01:09:37] Thing concept we thought about

[01:09:39] Back in February

[01:09:41] Have to think about that but

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