Get some facts and come back and seebe. Get some facts and come back
and Seebee. Don't throw out salaries or other things. Get some facts and
come back and Seebee. You can't handle the true now told our players you
need a bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch of cats
in here looking in the mirror. But I look good. I got my
extra bands on, I got my other shoes. Be a doll. We
don't need no meals. We don't need no cats. We need more dolls.
Why you're not a detain Oh you're not. At the time, we
weren't good. There's no sense of asking me things about the game. I'm
telling you we laid an egg. So I'm not gonna break it down for
you. He sucks. He sucked. He laid an egg. That's all
I have to say. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm not gonna break it
down for you. Nothing went well for us. It's on us. We
have to figure it out, and we went dad. You know that first
clip from Jim Callahan, You know of Yukon head coach. People were asking
about his salary. He had no problem accepting it, nor should he,
because of the amount of money that he brought into the school Kirby Smart.
This goes back to what we were just talking about. Kirby Smart brings in
a lot of money. University of Georgia makes a lot of money. He
should bring in a lot of money to the school. He should because of
the stuff that he gets paid. I mean, you're talking about thirteen million
dollars. It's crazy. Welcome back. Final hour of the program, Exes
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ninety eight. The Bucks are out. Indiana will play New York because the
Knicks beat the Sixers in Philadelphia one eighteen to one fifteen. Jalen Brunson had
forty one points in twelve assists. We talked about that a little bit earlier.
Some of the lesser known people in the NBA or where they were drafted
and things of that nature. Some of the lesser known people who are becoming
bigger names, and Brunson is one of them, a former second round pick.
Tigers are in New York for a weekend series against the yank He's starting
tonight. It will be Resulson against Marcus Stroman. Stroman coming off his shortest
start of the season, just four innings. The Yankees lost to Baltimore yesterday
seven to two. We go to the full lines and the Meyer hotline eight
sixty six, eight three, eight forty eight forty three. Freddie has been
standing by. Good morning, Freddy, how are you, Bud? Good
morning chef. You You might have touched on my my point. I was
gonna make a different angle on it. But first of all, I will
tell you I I agree with the money in sports is is ridiculous. It's
not just college football, obviously, it's it's every sport. It bothers me
more in college because college was, you know, an old guy like me,
It was just so pure and fun to watch and it just seemed like,
uh he watched the games, they were they were I mean, maybe
I'm wrong, maybe I'm right, but it just seemed like the players play
for for the game and it was more than it was. It was about
winning. And it's just it's different now, and the money has ruined a
lot of it. So I so I'm with you on that. I I
mean, I got a fourteen year old, and I see it with I
mean, my wife hides hides how much she spends on travel volleyball, you
know, because she knows, uh, you know, how furious. And
then and then we got to center her the Grand Rapids too to play a
game, and we're playing in Northville. Why don't we have to go to
Grand Rapids? Why why are we making parents spend all this money? Why
can't we you know, stuff like that. Look, I mean, those
are those are slightly different things, and I can relate, and I think
it's great. I do. I think it's awesome that your daughter's in travel
volleyball. It can be really expensive because I've got friends who had the same
thing. My kids were in travel hockey and travel lacrosse and travel baseball,
So I get it. It's a commitment by parents because you want the best
for you kid at the time of their lives. Give them the opportunity to
experience things that maybe you never did, or give them the opportunity to play
athletes who are as good, if not better than they are, test them
against the ultimate competition. Nothing wrong with that. I think it's great.
I think it's slightly different at the collegiate level. You know. My question
to you, and it would be to myself too, why are you doing
it? Then? What's the payoff? Why don't you just have to play
quote unquote house then? And here's the reason, at least it was for
me. I think, first of all, I think travel sports in general
are watered down. I'm not saying volleyball or your your daughter's volleyball team.
I'm saying in general. I can't tell you how many people are running.
My kid plays travel baseball. He's eight years old. For crying out loud,
Okay, when I was eight we were playing T ball. Maybe that's
where some of the fundamentals are lost. But the reason you do it is
because you want your kid to participate in play against the very best, and
you want them to be able to measure themselves. And that's a good thing.
I think. Yeah, I my thing is to travel for the parents.
I guess that's what it is. It just it just puts a stream.
What else you're gonna do? What else you're gonna do? Okay?
You you've had your time as a kid and a young man, not that
you're old, but what what's wrong with going on? What? Watch your
kid play in Grand Rapids. That's fantastic, great city. And what else
are you gonna do? I don't get I don't I don't get to go
though. The wife gets to go with. Okay, Well, what are
you gonna do? Okay? What I mean? What are you gonna spend
your money on? Spend your money on your kids? Well, well I
do, but I tell you, but I'll tell you. I'll tell you
a funny story. Shop. You know, because I've been listening to you
for so long, over ten years. You usually tell this story all the
time. One of your favorite things were sitting in practice and watching your kids.
Do you realize that's one of my favorite things to do. My eight
year old, Well, she goes and plays volleyball at the church. I'm
the only parent there now, sitting on my phone I'm sitting there watching my
daughter practice, and nothing brings me more joy than watching my eight year old.
Well she's ten now, but watching my eight year old learn how to
play volleyball. And this year for ustrations. Yeah, yeah, I absolutely
I have nothing. I mean, I can have the worst day at work
and I generally don't works usually good for me. But when I go see
my ten year old now, but when she was a incredible I never I
never experienced anything like that in my life. It's the best day, best
day of your life. It makes up for a really tough week and all
everything goes. It's good for you. I knew you were a good dad.
I'm glad you did that. Thanks for the phone call. I have
a great weekend. That's what it's about. Man. There's I drive by
the other day. My wife and I were going for a walk with our
dogs in the neighborhood and I heard you could hear a little league baseball game
going on, and I said, we should go over there, let's go
watch those kids play. I miss that part. There's some really good songs
where you've heard the phrase you know you don't know what you got till it's
gone. You're gonna miss this. Absolutely, you'll miss it. There's nothing
like going to watch your child play. What pisses me off as much as
anything in life, is going to something like that and watching parents self indulge
rather than give their time to their child. Parents who are up in the
stands on their phone, because that's more important to follow social media than it
is to watch your child participate in an event. Parents in the stands reading
the newspaper, reading a book. Think of that for a minute. You
got an hour. You can't give a kid an hour because they notice it.
Don't kid yourself. If they notice it, they know what's going on.
I miss those days more than anything. And if you're going to get
your child involved in travel athletics, and I encourage you to do so,
and I would encourage you to go outside the state. My son missed.
He missed trips, family trips to play travel lacrosse in Maryland and places out
east. It's what he wanted. He wanted to measure himself against the best,
and then he was fortunate enough to play in college. I loved it.
I encouraged it. If that's what you want, do it. Just
understand this. If you're going to do something like that. If that's what
you want, make the commitment you want a financial commitment from me. The
financial and emotional commitment needs to come from you. Back with more on Exs
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think I'm a hypocrite, because I was saying, you know, if you're
a if you're a parent, what else you get to do if you give
a kid an hour if you're at a practice or something like that. And
I had mentioned my son, one of my sons had gone to he had
missed a family trip to King Cod because he'd rather have gone to a couple
of his travel across team tournaments out east, uh to measure themselves against some
of the best who play the sport, some massive tournaments that saw college coaches
come from all over the country. We did go to some of the tournament,
but you know, we're still as a family. You're gonna you're gonna
take your family vacation. It was just a choice of his. We didn't
necessarily say, hey, listen, you've got to do one or the other.
He chose to do it and it did pay off for him, but
we were used to that. I do believe, and again this is not
on any one particular sport or age group or area, but I do believe
we have watered down travel athletics. I think you can find a travel team
in just about every city in any state you live in, and to me,
travel everybody has different definitions, I suppose, but to me, travel
is a little bit more than just going in the state of Michigan, for
example. I mean go outside the state, go places. My oldest boy
played on a travel baseball team. There were people going to Texas and Arizona
and Colorado for tournaments. I'm like, wow, Freddie's right. The amount
of money you could spend is incredible. I think a guy once told me,
I want to make sure I get the number right. I think with
sixteen thousand dollars he spent on some travel baseball for one summer, it's over
sixteen thousand dollars. That's a hefty sum. That's a really hefty sum.
Speaking of travel, Jack Nicholas has traveled all over the world. As the
greatest golfer of all time. I believe he's the greatest golfer of all time.
I suppose that's up for debate. Here's what we do know. Jack
Nicholas is the greatest champion. He's won more championships, more majors than anybody
else eighteen and he has finished second more than anybody else. Whether it's he
or Tiger Woods is not what the topic is about. But Jack Nicholas,
who doesn't play golf really that much anymore because of injuries and his age and
so on and so forth. He's eighty four, all right, We all
know that. It wasn't long ago when the Masters concluded and Scottie Scheffler won
his second Green jacket in three years. Well, according to reports, Jack
Nicholas stuck around Augusta to play the course three times. He did a really
nice job as a guest analyst on Golf Network when they were asking him about
how would you play certain shots? He knows that course so well. It's
amazing. He knows the course so well. He was able to describe just
about every single shot you need, where you want to be on every single
hole. It's amazing, simply amazing. When I watched him do an interview
on the Golf Channel for an extended period of time, but he stuck around
Augusta to play and he played it three times, three times. Now.
This is he said this. He says, they don't have forward teams at
Augusta. It's hard for me to play long courses. I can't play sixty
four hundred yards because on a good day, I'm hitting the ball one hundred
and ninety yards now. Scotty Scheffler won the tournament. Everybody knows that his
final score was eleven under par. He shot sixty six. He shot seventy
two, seventy one, sixty eight. Parer is seventy two. The yardage
is seven thousand, five hundred and fifty five yards at Augusta. That's long.
I don't know how many of you guys out there and you lady out
there play golf. I love the sport, absolutely love it. I could
play it every day. I don't hit it very far. I played yesterday
with two of my sons, had an absolute blast. I think the course
was maybe sixty five hundred yards. I played well on the front. We
played for the Blues. Okay, I'm probably better off playing from the whites.
We played for the Blues. I played really well on the front shot
of forty three. Feel pretty good about that, right. My goal is
to break ninety. Get that done. I feel good, okay. Jack
Nicholas is eighty four playing arguably the most prestigious golf course in the country,
maybe the world. At age eighty four, he shot an eighty eight,
a ninety and a ninety one. Now, before you sit there and say,
what's so great about that, he hasn't played that course since two thousand
and five. Don't give me this honorary starter stuff. All right, he
hasn't played the course since two thousand and five. I mean he's played in
the par three contest, I guess, but he finished doing that in twenty
twenty two. So he hasn't played the course since two thousand and five.
He's eighty four years old. And on top of that, think of this,
even at his eight how many times is he playing three rounds of eighteen
in as many days you and your buddies go on golf trips in the summertime,
you're playing, you know, maybe thirty six holes one day. Then
you have a rough Friday night. I'm speaking from experience here. You have
a rough Friday night, you play eighteen the next day, and then maybe
you play eighteen on the getaway day unless you had another rough night Saturday.
And again speaking from some experience, yeah, it's it's really hard. And
yet at age eighty four, he goes out there and puts together a total
three rounds of two sixty nine the worst score at Augusta This past year,
twenty twenty four, there were a number of scores in the eighties. The
worst score came from Emiliano Grillo. He shot in eighty three in round two.
He's thirty one years old. Jack Nicholas is fifty three years older than
Emiliano Grillo, and Grillo beat him by five strokes on his worst day and
Jack Nicholas's best. That is a wide gap in age, but not in
playing that course. Muscle memory to me, that's that's a that's a muscle
memory type situation. Amazing his body. I mean, he just wouldn't you
love to know if he has ever duffed one? Would you love to know
if he's ever topped one off the tee? There's no way that could have
happened recently. What an amazing story. I find that fascinating. Our phone
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so. It doesn't make him the most popular, but I do belie Leave
it makes them different. There are certain sports I really love, probably sports
that you don't necessarily love as much, because I like people. I like
the toughness of them. It's one of the reasons I've always said, I
don't get why more people don't gravitate in this country. You don't gravitate toward
the sport of lacrosse. It has everything you want. It has the toughness
of hockey. It has the high scoring more than hockey. The high scoring
if you will, of well, it's not one hundred and twelve points like
in basketball, but I mean there's there's scoring. There's a lot of scoring
and a lot of scoring chances. Sure as hell isn't soccer, I'm telling
you right now. And then it has the physicality of football, where guys
are just you should see the amount of I mean, the stick wax on
people's arm, the checks, the shoulder checks, the body slams. You
got to be a tough hombree to play it. Hockey. Same thing.
Love football, love hockey, love lacrosse. It's not that I don't love
the other sports, because I do. I marvel at the athleticism in basketball.
I've always loved baseball, but I've really grown an appreciation and I've always
loved football, played it ever since I was a little kid, but I've
really grown for the appreciation of hockey lacrosse particularly anyway, when you think of
hockey, I think a lot of people do think of the toughness. Recently,
an ESPN program, the Pat McAfee Show, had Matthew could Chuck on
he of the Florida Panthers after the eliminated Tampa and he said, the host
said, this guy's one of the toughest dudes ever. Last year saw him
literally with a broken stern a broken femur which I don't recall that, a
broken hand, Yeah, beat up shoulders, fractured skull. Taped him up,
went out on the ice, pushed his way through and played. Why
is hockey so different and why can they do that? Why do they feel
it's necessary playing through a fractured sternum? Remember what Nick Lidstrom did back in
two thousand and nine, what Mark Stone did this year from Las Vegas.
It's a different mindset. Man, it's a different feel, it's a different
expectation, obligation. Where does it stem from. Who knows? Everybody's different,
right. It's not to say that other players and other sports aren't tough
or as tough or tougher or more dedicated, but there is something about being
raised as a hockey player. Now maybe things are changing a little bit.
I don't know, because a friend of mine recently told me he was disgusted
when he took his little one into a rink and he saw parents carrying their
kids' bags. So maybe it's a little bit of a softness from that standpoint.
We never did that with our kids. Our kids had to carry their
own bag. Son. My sons could fit inside their hockey bags. They
were just little kids when they were four or five years old. They could
fit inside the hockey bag, crawl in there. If you take all their
pads out, they could crawl in there. We could zip it up and
carry them off. But they carried those bags into the rink every single practice,
in every single game, two sticks in one hand, bag over the
shoulder, the other, leaning forward like they were running downhill and going into
the arena. That's what I love most about it. And I sure hope
parents aren't replacing that. I think it's an important part of the sport,
I really do. I hope you're not saying, you know what, six
am is too early for me, so I'm not going to get up and
take my kid to practice. No, man, it's a great way to
start the day. I think you can get up for six am t time,
couldn't you? Or at six am tailgate at U of M for a
Neon game. You can make a flight at six am, can't you.
That's kind of in my mindset when I read the article. It kind of
took me back a little bit to those types of days because Matthew Kuchuk and
others have mentioned the same thing, speaking of toughness. It's one of the
reasons I love the Lions draft pick of Terry on Arnold. It would be
interesting to know how many teams, scouts, assistant general managers, general managers,
whatever call the coaches of some of the players they're considering drafting. Nick
Saban said something pretty interesting draft night. It's not many teams that call him.
There's a documentary called the Art of Coaching. It kind of put on
display the bond between Bill Belichick and Nick Saban, and Saban had kind of
gone off rather showing some frustration and being upset on how NFL teams evaluate talent,
and he said this. He said, one thing that you do referring
to the NFL that a lot of NFL guys don't do. And he was
referring to Bill Belichick here. He said, one thing that you do that
a lot of NFL guys don't do. I don't know if you've ever picked
one of your guys, if you've before talking to me. In other words,
I'm thinking about drafting this guy who played for you at Alabama. Tell
me what you think of him. Doing your homework, Saban said, there's
a few other guys in the league that do that, but not many.
Then there's a number of teams, thirty tams, he said, that I
never hear from. And they picked somebody and I think you picked that guy,
and after a while they'll say, well, we didn't know this.
Well, that's because you didn't make a phone call. It sure seems like
the Lions have called him on more than one occasion. When you're drafting guys
from Alabama who played for Nick Saban, it seems like Brad Holmes and his
staff have at least touched base there to see what kind of player is Brian
Branch, Jamison Williams, Terry On Arnold. First of all, I love
that about Brad Holmes and his staff. That's number one. Number two,
I love the fact that Saban was a tough as nails coach. Not every
coach has to be tough, grinded out tough love okay with every single player
because players are different, different players I like in coaching to being a father
all the time or being a parent. Just because you have four children doesn't
mean that you parent them all the same. The rules can be the same,
This is my belief. Now, the rules can be the same doesn't
mean that you go about it exactly the same with every single one of them,
because not all of them. Not every person responds to things. I
mean you know this. You have a working environment, You're probably respond to
certain type of criticism or critiques. Let's do critiques different than others. Now,
I don't want to be surrounded by a bunch of people who constantly have
to be patted on the butt or pat it on the back. And I
sure don't want to be around people who feel like you can never do anything
right either. But the belief is that Nick Saban is that tough love guy.
So that's awesome. He's a tough love guy. And Terry On Arnold
responds. Jamiir Gibbs has responded. Branch has responded. Williams has responded,
you would expect the same from this guy who, at one point during his
career was benched and rather than crawling away, hiding in a corner, sucking
a thumb, threatening to transfer, giving up, down playing everything that took
place, bad mouthing the guy who took his job, what did he do?
He was there to be supportive, and he was there to try and
get better and regain the position. Professional example, a couple nights ago,
Matt Verlin gets pinched hit four. He's playing his hometown team, Saint Louis,
He's got friends and family in the stands. He's disappointed. Carrie Carpenter
comes in, gets a sacrifice, fly gets the job done, first player
out of the dugout, first player at the top steps of the dugout to
congratulate Carpenter for a job well done. With Matt Verlin, those are the
guys you want on your team. We all want stars, we all want
guys who can produce, but we want guys who understand the process, understand
what it takes to be better, are willing to sacrifice to get better,
and are willing to listen to the hard coaching of a proven coach to get
better. That to me, makes it a really good pick. If you
have to constantly massage an ego, constantly massage feelings on the football field,
you're in trouble. With over one hundred guys on the field. For Alabama,
that's impossible. With eighty or fifty four guys on the field for the
Lions, it's challenging too. You have to take you can't dedicate it to
one guy all the time. So I love that and it makes me happy
and even solidify more when you read stories like this, solidify more of the
reasons why Detroit may have drafted him. Willing to accept hard coaching. That's
awesome. I would hope that's the way it is in a lot of different
moments for athletes or for people in general. Did you see the video.
It's a really good I think people what they want out of sports because every
game's on TV, and because so many interviews are done with players in front
office personnel, and you get video and audio clips and various social media sites
and online. It's really hard to perhaps keep people's attention for an extended period
of time on one thing. But what the Eagles did recently was brilliant,
and I think the Lions do it. I'm sure every team does it.
They put a camera and a microphone on people, just to give you an
idea of what the process is all about. What's it like being in the
draft room. Well, we're going to show you. The Eagles did that.
They put a camera and they had their general manager miked up how he
rose, and they in the second round, they really wanted Iowa corner Cooper
dejen. They were trying to figure out a way to trade up. Now
they had already selected Quinnon Mitchell in the first round, the kid out of
Toledo, but they wanted another defensive back. So here's what they did.
They're planning to trade up to the eighth pick of the second round, number
forty. Remember I told you the other day, general managers, front office
personnel do not use rounds. They use picks overall picks. And if you
listen to the video, of this behind the scenes Philadelphia Eagles draft room,
you'll notice the same thing Roseman. That's all he does. He just says,
taking pick this, this, this, for this, this and this.
He was hoping that Degene would fall. The Rams had just trade it
up to number thirty nine, so he thought for sure that the Rams were
going to take him. And he was a little disappointed, like, ah,
that's it. They didn't take him. They took Florida State defensive tackle
Braden Fisk instead, former Western Michigan guy who transferred to Florida State. And
upon hearing this, he pumped his fist, screamed how much jubilation he had,
hugged his owner made the pick, and then quickly got him on the
phone. That full access video the team has a YouTube account. That full
access video is there for anyone to see. And he brought up a great
point following that. Wearing the microphone, he says, you don't know how
everyone else sees things. We know how we see things, and you get
into your own head where you go every but he's got to see it the
same way. It doesn't work out that way. So the Eagle secondary might
be the best in football. You got Queen Men, Mitchell, you got
Cooper Dejeen, You have Darius Slay and CJ. Gardner. Johnson Dejeene can
play safety your corner. It goes to show you you and I have different
opinions on players. Doesn't mean that one person is always right or wrong.
But if you and I are going to have different opinions, you don't think
front office personnel are going to have different opinions, especially with all their scouts
watching different people. I read an article yesterday where people thought Detroit showed some
arrogance by drafting Rakestraw on the second round. My immediate thought was, are
you kidding me? Arrogance? I think it's brilliant. It's where they had
him on their board. They actually had him higher according to Brad Holmes,
and knowing that this team is only going to have one cornerback under contract after
this year before the draft, tells you even more about the need for that
situation and take the need out of it. It's just where they had him
graded, which is the first and foremost most important thing as far as I'm
concerned. They saw it in a different way. Let's see if the lines
can prove them wrong. Let's see if Rakestraw can prove them wrong. I
thought it was fantastic. It's another example of what makes sports so great.
I think it's just how people feel differently about different things when it comes to
the draft specifically. But I loved the comment from Nick Saban and I thought
it just kind of went back to just how important it was. You know,
we see Detroit moving up five spots for Dallas to get terry On Arnold
and thinking to ourselves, Oh, they traded up for a need. They
traded up for the player, not for the need. They traded up for
the player. They didn't trade up for the pick. They traded for the
player. That's the most important thing to remember moving forward in any draft,
I hope with any general manager, picks are great. Oh they gave up
a couple of thirds to get this guy. You got the player you wanted.
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