It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven to
nine day, now Here's Nick Coffee. I've mentioned it for the last couple
of weeks. I can't relate. I can't match any level of excitement and
anticipation for this new EA Sports college football game that's returning. But clearly I
can tell that it is a big deal to a lot of people, and
I get it the nostalgia, especially if you're someone that really only played video
games that were sports games, because you know, Madden's still a thing,
and I'm sure every like is FIFA is still around, John, Sure it
is. You've got two K, which you know that's a that's a big
deal. What's the Could I take a guess at what the baseball game is
called? Sure the show? It is? Okay? Is that an EA
Sports to you? I believe it is. So you know, I'm sure
those are still the thing, but you've you've had those for a while.
This went away unexpectedly because of a lawsuit, and uh now it's coming back,
and everybody's excited and good for them. But a couple of things I've
seen just today that that really, you know, really point out how popular
it is and how excited everyone is. Kenny Dillingham, who by the way,
is the youngest Power five coach in college football. Uh, he did
something that was was was kind of mean, but he he had a plank
contest for a copy of the EA Sports College Football twenty five with his team
and you know, it lasted forever until you know, who couldn't who was
the last person left that could still hold the plank? And uh, it
ended up being a big hoax, like there was not a game like the
that's rough. The case was like, you know, made and it looked
like it was real. It was a case. I think I can't.
I'm not. I didn't listen to the whole video, but it looks as
if he's holding it up as if like they sent us a copy and it's
got Arizona State on the cover, like each program is getting the copy.
I'm gonna give it to whoever can plank the longest. And you know it
didn't. It didn't trick though. Yeah let me this, let me play
this for you. I had a coach on our staff say we should playing
a practical joke on our guys, and I said, okay, let's do
it. Yeah, we got the idea, we went to our graphics team.
They did it. And then I'm like, all right, I want
to do something that is not going to affect workouts that you know, guys
could compete in, but they could drop out if didn't want it, But
all right, planks Like whatever, whoever you want to compete for it longest
plank, it's good for you can't do enough planks. So I'm like,
all right, we're gonna plank and uh, you know, it was seven
minutes of pure comedy. Guys fired up, and then when they opened the
box, it was just hilarious. And I think that's just the relationship and
the culture that we have is we can do that stuff. My wife was
like, I don't know if you should play jokes like that, and I'm
like, you know what if people are that sensitive, And then I'm sorry
because it was a joke that our players loved that they'll remember forever, and
it's a story they'll tell the rest of their lives. So I don't know
if it's about being sensitive. I think more than anything, it's it's that
like they that's a that's a really important thing to these guys. Clearly the
video game, which I would have had like a gift card or something in
there as a consolation. And if anything, you proved like if you won,
you proved to be the you know, the who can plank the longest.
And you also maybe kind of told them yourself, like if it was
somebody who like usually doesn't you know, really stand out in those kind of
things, but he did in that situation. You know, you you did
show out, but you also might have like made your coaches realize, hey,
you can do a little more than you've been doing. All right,
let's see here the uh. The other one I saw was a high school
coach here in the in the area. Uh. He had a he had
a player of his put together a video presentation explaining why when the game is
released, they should have the day off for practice to play the game because
it could be educational, uh and help them as football players with things that
the game offers, which I think he's I think I saw that he gave
him, you know, an eight plus for effort. But you know,
they got a lot of work to do and they're not taking the day off.
So hey, I wouldn't call it fomo. It's just you know it
I like to be excited about stuff too, and I can tell you I'm
not sure if there's anything that's on the horizon, uh that that it's about,
that that's about to be released, video game, movie, music,
whatever it may be that you know that that I can that I can be
that excited about. So anyways, all right, uh it Coffee and Company.
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All right. So this is one of those college basketball report graphics that I
do find myself, you know, bringing up on the show pretty regularly,
and it's good research that is done. But I sometimes wonder did anybody fact
check it. It's just a graphic that somebody put together. It looks pretty
good, but like, there's no there's no reference as far as where the
information is coming from. And there's also you know, not anybody that I
know of it is actually going to fact check to see if all this is
like legit. But it's the highest all time win percentages from Division one college
basketball programs, and it's not a surprise to see who's at the top.
Kentucky has the highest win percentage all time, it's seventy six. Coming in
at number two is North Carolina It's seventy three point four, Kansas Is its
seventy two point nine, Duke Is its seventy one point two. I could
give you from now until the end of the year to guess who's number five,
and you probably wouldn't get it unless you're a fan of this team,
or unless you know you just happen to be the college basketball statistical guru.
It is where a former coach of Louisville currently coaches Charleston. The kicker here
is that they were not always Division one. Since they've been Division one,
they have won sixty nine percent of their games, which is impressive. I
don't really know when it was they went D one, but since they've been
D one, they've been very good, and it's been a place where I'm
pretty sure every coach that's been there in the D one ranks. I mean,
let me look it up here. I mean, obviously that's where Chris
Mack is now, and that's where Pat Kelsey just came from. But you
know, every coach that's been there's probably been able to turn that into a
pretty good gig. I mean, was it Bobby Kremens who was there long
ago? Louisville played them, and I think they played them at Charleston when
Rick was here, like in two thousand and twelve thirteen during that era,
and you know, it was a tough game. I think they came here
and nearly beat us once. But their coaches, let's see here they've had
well it's not showing me their list of coaches here, but because now,
yeah, so here here are their eras. So they let's see in nineteen
eighty three they were in AI. It was a long time ago, and
it looks like in for some reason, it's not you would think that,
you know, this would explain when they became Division one, because that's a
huge deal for a program when they make that jump. Yeah, they became
a Division one school in nineteen ninety one, So John Cress I think I'm
saying that correctly. He was their first coach. He was there for quite
some time, and you know, they won the a Son many many years.
But Bobby Krimin Tom Harrison took over and it looks as if he was
look well, actually know he was eighty and thirty eight, so he won
there. And then Bobby Crimins took over towards the end of his career.
Following his run at Georgia Tech, I think he retired for actually no,
he went straight from Georgia Tech to Charleston and obviously he had success there one
hundred and twenty five and sixty eight. And then Doug Wochik was a coach
there for two years. I guess we can throw him in as the guy
who did not succeed there. He only won thirty He went thirty eight and
twenty nine, which is a winning record, but a far fall from where
they once were. Earl Grant he was there for quite some time, turned
that into a new job. And then obviously Pat Kelsey was there for looks
like four years and has success. And now Chris Max there. So you
know, they've been successful at every level they've been. But since Division one
they've won sixty nine percent of their games, and that's since nineteen ninety one,
so low key, I mean, this is it's not crazy to say.
Again, we're not saying because when you consider the most accomplished, the
most successful, the best, we're talking final fours and championships. That's not
realistic for Charleston. I mean, maybe one day that happens. We've seen
Sister Gene roller ass all the way to the Final four, like it can
happen, but you know, it's just not realistic. But when it comes
to just winning and competing at your level, they are one of the most
winningest programs in division and basketball, which I would have never guessed that.
I mean, I would have never said it was a bad job, but
I didn't realize they've won sixty nine percent of their games since you know,
since then, since they've been D one. The rest of the list here,
you've got UCLA at six, UNLV, Syracuse, North Dakota State.
They've got to be another school that is in by the fact that you know,
since they've been D one, they've been the low level and they didn't
have a tough time transitioning from D two or whatever it was to low,
low level D one. Memphis is at number ten. I would not get
that. But then again, let's keep in mind Memphis has benefited in the
last at least ten years, maybe even fifteen years because they were never able
to jump to a bigger league like Memphis Basketball. Of course, they were
really good in the Metro. They have a lot of tradition Cal when he
was there, and when Cal took Memphis to the final four in the National
Championship game. What conference was that? Was that? Conference USA? I
feel like it was because the American formed And yeah, so Memphis is always
I feel like since the Metro when they were competing against and by the way,
you know, I wasn't alive and certainly not old enough to remember a
lot of the the big moments in the big days of the Metro, but
I know all about it at the time. That was a competitive league.
But a lot of the other members of that league since moved on to bigger
conferences and have since jumped to multiple conferences level being one of them. Memphis
never really did that. They never really had the chance to do that,
so it's not a shot at Memphis. They do win, they've never had
to compete in a really good league. So we're not going to go through
the rest of the top twenty five here, but I will mention some other
local teams. Western Kentucky not a surprise there at number it looks to be
number fifteen. It's sixty five point eight percent, which Western's always been successful.
They've had some down years. They missed the tournament for a long stretch
there until just recently when they got in in their first year with their new
head coach who was there one year and then took the job it was at
Oklahoma State. I think it was. Yes, So Western's a good job.
Man Like Western to me is like if you're gonna be coaching at that
level, if you're taking a step down as a coach, or if you
are, you know, making a jump up from like low low level D
one, like Western's a dream job because you can win there. It's been
proven, they have history, they have support. I mean, I don't
think it was ever the way they wanted to go about it, but I
always thought Tom Crean should have landed at Western at some point. But I
think it's been quite clear that they don't. They never wanted to really go
that because we're here's what works for Western. It's not retread. It's not
going to get a coach who's been successful elsewhere. In fact, the one
time they did that was very underwhelming. Rick Stansbury brought a lot of talent
to what to Western Kentucky, a lot of talent. There were some Western
teams that Stansbury had that I would put above multiple in fact, nearly half
of like the acc at times. I mean, they had Charles Bassie who
was really really good, you know, tavy On Hollingsworth was was an absolute
stud. Like Western had some dudes with Stansbury, but they never broke through
and won the tournament. They were always underwhelming. So I think that's probably
a sign for them that hey, we're not going to go that path.
We're going to actually go and continue to hire up and coming coaches and let
them really break through here and if we got to go, if they leave
us elsewhere, we'll go do it again. But Louisville is not in the
top fifteen. They do fall at number eighteen, and it's at sixty five
point three percent, and that's you know, that's not really a surprise in
the grand scheme of things. But there's a couple of ways to look at
this one, and I'll start with positive. You're still at that spot sixty
five percent point sixty five point three percent winning percentage all time D one,
and you had these last three years counting against you. I mean, Louisville
in the last three years collectively, they have won twenty five percent of their
games. I mean they won I think it was let's see here in twenty
this past season, they won twenty five percent of their games. The year
before that, they won twelve percent of their games. The year before that,
Max last year where he left and then Pegist took over, they won
forty percent of their games. So you know that's that's roughly twenty five percent
in the last three years, and yet you still can crack the top twenty
like that. That speaks to that you have always held your weight and been
a very accomplished program throughout, like even in years like That's what's that's what
really really stood out to me in the last three seasons, among many other
things, we would have years where we would make the tournament and call it
a bad year. Because we got in as an eight seat. We call
that a bad year. And honestly, I don't want to change expectations.
I don't want to act like that's a good year for the Louisville Standard,
but like we experienced what truly a bad, bad season was in a way
we never thought possible for Louisville. So, you know, if Pat Kelsey
is half the coach I believe he is, Louisville will be fine. Now
will they be making Final four? Is? That remains to be seen.
That's where he's really gonna have to show what he can do at this level.
But he's got resources here, He's got things in place at a program
of this caliber to where it ain't gonna be nothing like what we saw in
the last few years. Now, again, if he's just you know,
a lot better than Kenny Payne in the end of the mac Era, yet
Louisville is still you know, barely getting to the tournament. That's still not
good enough. Because Louisville, oh, they can be better, but man,
we were awful the last few years. And what's so crazy? And
here this is where it kicks in and I kind of have a tough time,
you know, I have a tough time, you know, balancing the
Uh. I don't want to go down that path because nobody wants that anymore.
But sometimes I can help myself. But like Louisville went four in twenty
eight and eight and twenty four with talented players, like not to the level
of like winning championships, but like there are teams that Louisville had that went
you know, eighteen and twelve that did not have the caliber talent that those
last two teams had. But anyways, not trying to pick on Indiana,
how are they not on this list? How high does it go to?
Thirty? Yeah, that's surprising. I mean, they had the terrible couple
of years under the first under Tom Crean that I'm obviously aware of, but
I don't really know. I mean, you have five national titles, most
of them in the seventies and eighties, but that surprises me. Yeah,
I mean, maybe they've just i mean I'm looking here, just going through
the Basketball Reference of their seasons. I mean yeah, I mean, especially
when you have Bob Knight, who's one of the winningst head coaches of all
time, that surprises me. Yeah, I mean, I mean, going
back to the last so the last ten seasons they've only had it looks like
three seasons where they won more than sixty percent of their games. So I
mean that's a decade to where, you know, yeah, that's a long
time eighteen sixteen, sixteen, fifteen, nineteen and sixteen twenty and twelve,
twelve and fifteen. So I mean, honestly, the end of Cream was
just inconsistent. Yeah, and then Archie was bad. I mean, that's
there's no way around it. And Crean was there a long time man,
ten years, right, Yeah, and then Mike Davis. I mean,
gosh, I didn't realize Mike Davis coach there that long. Yeah, I
mean, he obviously had a phenomenal first season, and uh he just wrote
off the coattails of Biden Knights players. Yeah. So I don't know.
And again, Indian has been Division one. It looks like, I mean,
I think it's probably pretty tough to. I don't know. I was
gonna say it's tough to when you have that many seasons and you know there's
gonna be some in there from like the fifties that you know you would never
know about, but hey, they're factoring in that too. But when I
see schools like Illinois in there, like that surprises me that Indiana wouldn't be
and Cincinnati. And then there's other schools again, like there's a handful of
schools sprinkled in here. We talked about Charleston and Memphis, but like North
Dakota State, same thing. South Dakota State's in here, Belmont, Grand
Canyon VCU. I mean those are quite literally schools that are there because they've
not been d one that long, and they've been pretty good. But they
win a lot of games because they play a lot of bumps. Like that's
just you know, that's how it breaks down. But here's what's crazy.
If you looked up Indiana's all time winning percentage and it was good enough to
be in the middle of this, I wouldn't be surprised. But again is
why I always feel like conflicted about even referencing these graphics that are made on
Twitter that everybody shares, everybody reacts to, but like nobody knows if it's
if it's legit or not. So all right, let's get to a quick
break. We'll come back on the other side. Keep the party going along.
It is a Friday, It's coffee and company, and we are feel
about Thorton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety listen to this that what are
the lyrics of? This? Is this chumble womba? It is what's the
name? What's the song called? Tub thumping? Tub thumping? It is
one word? All right, because I'm pretty sure let's see here, piss
in the night away, right, is what you're referring to? Is that
what it says? I think that's what they're doing. I mean, I
feel like it's always been believed to be kissing the night away, but it's
pissing. Yeah, it's pissing the night away. Okay, like actually yeah,
pissing the night away. Like I remember as a kid thinking like can
they say that? Are they like? Is that like that? Isn't that
a cuss word? But it's not even radio edited like it's I mean,
and this is the radio edit version. There you go? Yeah? Are
they one hit wonder? Yeah? Couldn't tell you another song of there?
Man? You were you were bringing the hits from? Uh, they're all
late nineties, aren't like? Oh this is ninety seven again ninety seven?
Once again, it's been ninety seven. It has been the era today,
which I like it, which are so all the songs you played you are
familiar with? Yes, so that like, honestly, I would say eighty
eight was when I was I'm not familiar with eighty eight songs the way you
would be ninety seven. I don't know if that speaks, And I think
that more so speaks to just the fact that you are more you know,
into music than I am. Or maybe just ninety seven was a better year
of music. It probably was, like I don't even know what was a
big song in nineteen ninety eight, like one thing and one fun fact.
I know the number one song in America the day that I was born was
Mo Money More Problems by Notorious Big. That fits because you, that's just
you, like you are a very I mean when I think of Notories Big,
I think of the company man John Alboy. So in nineteen eighty eight,
that's the year I was born. In July nineteen eighty eight, the
number one song was the Flame by Cheap Trick. I know, cheap Trick,
Yeah, I know cheap Trick. I don't know the Flame. Pebbles
had a song called Mercedes Boy, Oh Poor some sugar on Me. That's
like me, that's that's yeah, Dirty Diana by Michael Jackson, Poison,
Nothing but a Good Time, that's a good one. I would say of
these songs, this was the top that I'm looking at the top ten when
I was born, and I would say that, like, the most notable
song has got to be Poor Some Sugar on Me, followed by Nothing but
a Good Time. Yeah, those are big hits. And then there's also
some songs here that I feel like if I heard them, I would know,
but just boy title I don't recognize, like Richard Marx hold Onto the
Nights. I feel like I would probably know that if I heard it.
Maybe I'm crazy, but yeah, i'd say you're more. I mean,
honestly, regardless of just memory or being into music, I think ninety seven
was a better year. But you know, maybe I'm biased because that's like
around the time when I was, you know, knowing, like what I
mean, not to say I was musically inclined as a nine year old in
nineteen ninety seven, but you know it's fair. I love nineties and early
two thousands. Oh yeah, But I do feel like though for me,
whenever I kind of get lost in that nostalgia, I feel like the stereotype
fits that a lot of people just feel like their era when they were get
like their era was better, you know what I mean. Like, yeah,
I don't think I would say that. So for me, I guess
that would be the late two thousands into the twenty tens. I don't know
that I would personally say that that's the best era of music just for me
though, But again, I'm somebody who you know, I dive into all
sorts of eras of music from time to time. Yeah, and I've always
really not I mean, since I've been an adult, I don't often seek
it out, but I've found myself really liking music made long before I was
even born or thought of. Like, I mean, there's there's like not
that I ever go there, but like there's music from like the fifties that
I'm like, man, this is good stuff, like this is creative,
like this is this is just different. So yeah, shout out to ninety
seven. Ninety seven was a good year. We got the company man John
All the third right, correct, that's right, So good stuff and good
music too. All right. So the new NBA deal has been a big
story this week. When I see the new NBA deal, I mean the
new NBA media rights deal, and it I mean the amount of money it's
I mean, we're talking five hundred plus billion. I think it is.
I mean a lot of money, and it did essentially. Yeah, it's
let's see here, it's seventy six billion over eleven years. And where did
I see. I thought I saw something that was in closer to maybe it
is it seventy six billion over that time or is it seventy six billion annually?
Maybe I got caught up in the fake news stuff because I thought that
I'd saw a much bigger number. But either way, you know, it's
a lot of money, and it really is going to change how we consume
the NBA content. And I don't consume a lot of it, and I
know a lot of you don't either, But this is just this is what
the NBA did here is they've kind of changed the game a little bit as
far as being the first major net major league, like major professional sports league,
to make it to where if you do find yourself really wanting to consume
the product and you want to as much as it's gonna be available you want
to watch it, you have to have streaming services, You have to like
there's no way around it. Like the NFL, you can still get heavily
involved in the NFL without having Peacock or Amazon. You might you're gonna miss
the Thursday night game. You're gonna miss maybe a Sunday night game. But
like every week, you're gonna get three games to choose from just by having
standard television. And I don't mean like non HD, I just mean like
CBS, Fox. They're gonna have NFL games, right, and it may
not be the game you want to watch, but you will have the ability
to spend all day watching. I mean, heck, if you look at
it from from Sunday, you'll have all day. You'll have the game at
one, whatever's on in your market, you'll have the game at four thirty.
Was that whatever's on in your market, you're gonna you're gonna Sunday Night
football that's on NBC. Well, the NBA, I mean, they're gonna
have games that are gonna be on you know, NBC, ESPN, that
kind of stuff, ABC, But they're also gonna have games where you're gonna
have to stream. So, starting not this upcoming season, but the twenty
twenty five to twenty six season, the NBA is going to feature nationally televised
games seven days a week once the NFL season concludes. And you know what
that does. That tells you they know where they stand, and everybody does.
But trying to compete against the NFL is just foolish and nobody would ever
do it, including the NBA. So on Monday, you'll have a game
that's on Peacock. You will have to have Peacock on Tuesday, NBC,
Wednesday, ESPN, Thursday, Amazon, Friday, ESPN and Amazon, Saturday,
ESPN and Amazon. So I guess that's given you the option to watch
it on both and then on Sunday you will be able to watch it on
NBC and ESPN. So I've seen a lot of uproar about this just because
you know the NBA. I mean, I'll go to Charles Barkley's comments because
he I think, I think is being genuine when he says this, and
I'll read the quote here. It says and this is from NBA centralists,
as Charles Barkley calls out the NBA for not caring about its fans quote,
they don't really care about anything but how to make the most money possible.
We should never put money above the regular fan. Everybody can't afford streaming.
There's nothing wrong with streaming, but when you start just going to the highest
bidder and you're not on the regular television, I think you've done a disservice
to the fan. So you know, there's a lot of people having Chucks
back because you know, Chuck's Chuck. But also you have to keep in
mind Chuck is negatively impacted by this. Not I mean he's gonna be fine.
I mean, he can do whatever he wants. I don't believe he's
gonna retire. I think he's gonna end up being a guy that'll do something
in television, and he'll probably sign a deal that will be the highest paid
deal for anybody that has ever been. I mean, I'm not even sure
what he's gonna do, because Chuck can do stuff. It's not just sports,
not just basketball. I don't know if he's gonna want to, but
he'll he'll land somewhere because he has it in his clause that TNT he can
get out of his deal if they don't have the NBA, and sure enough
they don't have the NBA. They lost it. So you know, I
think some of what he is saying as far as where it's coming from is
based off that, and I don't I don't blame him, like you know,
I mean he in the NBA here, here's what I'd say, is
just a fan myself, not somebody that's making a gazillion dollars like Charles Barkley.
The NBA is dumb by basically disassociating, disassociating themselves from the most followed
and entertaining crew that covers their product inside the NBA is not something that can
be recreated elsewhere on any other market and any other network with any other sport,
right, Like, it's it's that popular, it's that good, and
obviously the it's business, right, it's it's it's about money and it's about
partnerships. But like you have now taken away an element that helps the NBA
in my opinion, I mean, I'll tell you this, I'm not I'm
not. I'm not gonna listen and watch no offense to these people. I
don't know them. But like if it's Kendrick Perkins and Steven A. Smith
and Malika Andrews and you know formerly JJ Reddick sitting around, you know,
Rob what's his name rob something, the guy used to be the GM of
the Warriors. If you know they're on a halftime show or they're doing you
know, their postgame studio coverage of the NBA. You know what I'm doing,
not watching that. I don't care what they say. They're not entertaining
to me. It's Michael Wilbond. Don't care what he has to say,
because you know, the end of the day, it's entertainment and those guys
are not entertaining at all. Charles Barklay Shack, Ernie Kenny. That is
entertainment. That's really all it is. Like not to say they don't have
great basketball knowledge. They're I mean a lot of them are legendary players,
right, But it's entertainment and those guys I can't. I'm sure there's no
way to pull in any any any type of metrics that'll tell you how much
viewership an interest level that they bring to the NBA because of their show.
But it's certainly there and now it's gone. So like you know, Chuck
clearly is biased. But like I'll say it myself, like I have no
skin in the game. I'm not losing any money. But as somebody who
already kind of feels like I'm as a basketball you know, super fan my
whole life. Like I feel like I don't watch as much NBA and keep
up with it like I used to. Maybe it's just because I'm getting older.
But one thing I will watch and tune into is these guys. And
now they're not going to be a vision. They're not going to be I
mean, they're not gonna be affiliated with the NBA in any way. That
sucks, So, you know, I think the NBA is just foolish not
to consider that. However, this is about money. It's a business,
and they're making a lot of money. And TNT and whoever owns TNT,
I can think who it is, Turner, I mean obviously Turner, but
they're owned by a parent company. And they just didn't they didn't they didn't
bit as high. And Chuck referenced that in that quote, saying that it's
going to the highest bidder. But what are we going to get to the
point where it's like, you know, extremely streaming. It's not that expensive,
like I know, everybody is select like it put it this way,
everything's expensive right now. People have everybody's got different income and you know,
some don't have the ability to pick and sign up for eight different streaming services.
They have a budget to where they can only pick a few. But
like, if you really like the NBA, you can get it very affordable.
And honestly, who's like do people watch live TV other than sports?
I don't, And clearly people do, or it wouldn't exist, but like,
I don't know, Like I just that's one thing that that still can't
quite understand is the oh you kid me? They put it on a stream
First of all, again, the cost is is pennies per year. It's
that's literally what it is. And if you care enough, I don't,
like I don't. Again, everybody's financial situation is different, but like,
if you are a fan and you got to pay four ninety nine a month
or something to get to get an NBA game on Peacock, I feel like
you could probably make that work if you really want to, right, And
then as far as people complaining about the streaming element and the inconvenience of doing
it, like, wake up, guys, Like it's twenty Anybody who claims
I can't watch the game because it's only being streamed in twenty twenty four,
you know, go read a book, dude, Like, do you realize
the internet and technology is running this entire world? Those are the people who
still say, like they use the verbiage it's the games on the computer.
Yeah, I mean, like that's what that's Those people have not adapted to
this. I remember in twenty ten, twenty eleven, there was a like
it wasn't that convenient if you were on ESPN three, which is what they
called it then, because quite literally you had to get a laptop, computer
and an HDMI cord and that was not I mean that just sounds like some
pilgrimage stuff this day and age, does it not? Well now, like
you know, and I know there are many people that don't have a smart
TV, they don't have a Roku, And maybe that's why I'm just kind
of like, you know, I can't relate because I've had that, but
I feel like I was late to the streaming stuff, right, like I
had Direct TV forever and then we moved at one point and I just said,
you know, what the hell with it, let's give it a shot.
And now like that's all I would ever want is just to have a
rope. I mean, it's it's not only is it easy and convenient.
It's it's I mean, I'm prices have clearly gone up, but like I'm
now, I mean, I'm still paying way less for YouTube TV than I
was paying for DirecTV. But like that's again, the price is one thing.
Because again I don't want to sound like, oh, you're a poor
bum if you can't afford it, because again, everybody's financial situation is different.
But the whole inconvenience thing, like I I mean, eventually you're gonna
unless your days are numbered and you just know, like, hey, I'm
ninety seven years old, I've held off on technology this long. I'm gonna
I'm gonna kick the bucket never doing anything with technology. Like then you know,
what do you But if you're somebody that you know plans to be around
for a while, get acclimated with technology to where when you hear that something
is streaming, you don't assume that it's being you know, like streaming something
is not the dark web, folks, it's not the black market. It's
it's it and it's not even new anymore like this in like the New World,
I mean, it's newer than you know, hooking up a coax cable
the back of your TV or putting those bunny ears on the back of your
TV. But like that, I don't know. I'm not much of like
a technology snob, but when I hear people like my age or people you
know, relatively older not old, people like oh, it's on the stream,
Like do you realize how quickly you could you could stream something? Like
I would never do this because it's just to me, it wouldn't be practical
with how I watch. But you can actually download the app if you have
a smartphone watch it there and you can you can actually even if you don't
have I guess, yeah, you don't have to have a smart TV.
You don't have to have a real crew. You can actually what do you
call it, scaling it to your to your device or I can scream mirror.
Yeah, you can scream mirror like I mean, And again I wouldn't
recommend doing that if because I just think that could like if you get a
text message obviously while the game's on, it could be distracting. But like,
I don't know, like maybe that's a business we can tap into.
John. It's like educate people that like it's this easy, I'll come to
your house. I'll plug something in, you give me your WiFi password,
and we've changed the game. Like you I mean, you know, but
here's then they won't pay for streaming. They wouldn't pay for that. Yeah,
I guess you're right. I mean, it's not that difficult. And
I feel like if you like, this is the way I look at it,
just me. If you feel like, oh Man's streaming and I can't
do that, I feel like you are take take the NBA out of it,
take foot sports out of it. I feel like you're missing out on
so much, you know what I mean, Like there's a world out there
that you don't even know about. That's great. You can I mean,
I've I've I mean any show I watch now or any movie I watch like
it's through one of the streaming platforms and it's worth it, you know.
So yeah, I didn't mean to get so worked up about that, but
like, I just don't. I can't. Like, it's not that difficult.
And again, if you're not, I mean, you're gonna have to
do it at some point, because there's gonna be a day where you won't
be able to watch TV the way he used to that And by the way,
that's probably not that far away. For we're being honest here, all
right, stick around coffee and company. Philbuth Thorton's right here on Sports Talk
seven ninety. I want to give some credit to somebody that you guys may
not even know who he is, but his name is Jay Norvell and he
is the head coach of Colorado State. I don't remember the specifics, but
he did become more talked about name last year when Colorado State and Colorado played
each other, there was some kind of I don't remember something he said or
something Deon Sanders said, but before they played each other, he was I
think he said something and everybody was like happy that he wasn't afraid to,
you know, call the Deon Sanders thing out for like what it is.
But either way, he went to the Mountain West Media day today maybe it
was yesterday, and he mentioned tampering and a lot of coaches do that,
and I'm annoyed by because to me, it's if you're not going to put
a name on it, it's it's just to me, it's air, and
it's just you throwing out a potential excuse in case something doesn't work out right,
like or you lost a player like you could lose a player and have
nothing to do with tampering, but you can just say, oh, they're
tampering, and you know it's it's gonna happen regardless. I think every college
football coach knows, no matter what the rules are, there's going to be
coaches that been the rules and do things they're not supposed to do. And
right now, I mean, I think it's absolute free for all because I
don't think the NCAA like I don't think people are worried about getting in trouble
with the NSABA like they once were for obvious reason. So he did what
a lot of coaches did, but he went a little further where he actually
mentioned someone and he mentioned the school, and he mentioned the amount of money
that was thrown at a player who was not in the portal, which again
is technically against the rules. And I don't know if he's going to turn
into an NSABA investigation. I'm not sure if you know it's going to turn
into anything. But this is at least somebody putting a name on it and
not being afraid to say, hey, yeah, there was tampering going on,
and this is who was doing it, and this is what they offered.
Braydon had the same kind of offers, you know, and you know,
and you can't if you have enough evidence, you can prove it.
But you know, smoking gun, smoking gun, you know, he said.
He said, guy from Kansas State called him offer him six hundred thousand
dollars because they lost their quarterback. And if he got in the portal.
And I'm not accusing Kansas stateum anyday. I'm just telling yeah, you are
told me. And so they they don't want their name throwing in it.
I think they should probably get a handle on their people. But there's a
lot of that going on in college football and that's just the way things are
right now. So two sides of that. I do like that he said
Kansas State. Somebody, a guy from Kansas State called him and offered him
six hundred thousand dollars because they lost their quarterback. That's more than most are
doing now. There's also a little bit of like, I'm not a ye.
I mean, like, if that's not accusing them, what are you
doing. I guess you're sharing what somebody told you. And maybe you could
say, well, I'm just sharing hearsay. But there's also okay, well
if it's here said, why would you even share it? So the end
of that is such a filler thing for coaches when talking about the portal and
about nil. That's just where we are, just the way it is now
things have changed. Why do so many coaches feel the need to say that,
like everybody's benefiting from it For the most part, the ones who complain
about it are the ones who who is it? Lane Kiffin? And this
is maybe not the good example. Maybe he's not a good example he used
because Len Kiffin is a character, but like he was, how much did
he bitch about the portal and tampering for the last two years yet he's actually
been, in the eyes of some the best coach at working the portal.
So maybe you're just mad you have to do it and you don't like it.
But like, I don't know, Like there's just something about coaches always
wanting to make it out as if their job is being made harder than it
needs to be, but it's not. It's just not really the true I
mean, like every I mean, I'm sure coaches did like it whenever they
didn't have to worry about a guy transferring as much as they do now because
kids wouldn't leave because they didn't want to sit out, and you didn't have
to worry about somebody offering them more money because at the time, if you
were getting money. I mean again, let's be real, players were making
money before NIL was a thing, but it wasn't probably nearly at I mean,
in fact, it wasn't nearly at the level it is now. And
it was done you know, off the books essentially right, Like it was
low key. It was you know, somebody you know, dropping a bag,
right, and now you can, you know, drop a bag,
I guess through in a business sense in regards to like, you know,
you can give somebody a check because it's now you're now allowed to do that
when it comes to NIL. But I don't know, like it's somebody going
to embrace it. Like I think, you know, I'm being biased here,
but I think Jeff Brohm has has you know, never gone out of
his way, but when asked about the portal, he just I think his
answer every single time has kind of been I mean, that's just that's that's
that's I mean, that's what we have to do now, Like that's what
we're doing. Like even if you're killing it, I still hear coaches acting
as if they're at a disadvantage, and I just I guess that's just coaches
being coaches. But there's also a part of me that's like, you have
to work harder now, like your job has changed a little bit, like
you have to do like in every in every industry, over time, there's
there's changes, there's things evolve, and your job can still have the same
title, you can still be called the same thing, and technically you're still
doing the same job, but there's layers to it that are different, and
there's components that are different. And that's what's happened in college football. And
I won't minimize it as if it's not a big difference. It is.
It's it's totally different. But you know, you got a pretty good I
mean, who has it better than college coaches that can suck and still get
paid after they're fired, like and they make a ton of money, Like
most of these coaches at these high level schools, they're the they're the the
highest paid public the highest paid public employee in their state. And they've had
to, you know, maybe monitor how they talk to kids a little bit
better and manage relationships better because coach, because kids may leave and they maybe
bothered to know that the guy in the parking lot might have you know,
he might be driving a nicer car than your wife or something like. It's
different, no doubt about it, but like you're not. It's not as
if you're being asked to, you know, go out and work eighty hours
a week, you know, doing manual labor. All right, we got
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