It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine
day, Now here's Nick Coffee. I thought about going outside during the uh
during well, not going outdoors, but just walk into the window here at
four Street Live to see if the weather was getting nasty yet. But how
we're set up, I wouldn't really be I would actually have to walk all
the way outside and like leave where. I mean, you can't really tell
in four Street, can you, I guess are We're such a shaded area
compared to you know, downtown Louisville, it's tough to really tell what the
weather's truly, like I feel like, yeah, I mean, I guess
the best way would be just walk out of these doors here where we are,
just take a rite and you can see through that like alleyway as far
as like what's happening out on the street. That is one of the benefits
of being here at Force Street Live, which I do love our studio setup,
but we have a covered garage that we park in every day, and
like even the walk from the office to the car is covered, and you
know, we're kind of weather protected. So it's another one of the perks
we have when it comes to, you know, being located here. I'll
say this. My wife's done in Lichfield right now, and she says,
tornado sirens are going off. So I don't know the situation down there,
but it doesn't sound good if you're hearing tornado sirens. Yeah, not great,
So I don't I have not seen outside. I actually started the show
today mentioning that I feel like it's going to be another one of those days
where the look outside when I leave here will be much different than when I
arrive because we've got tornado warnings. This is from our own, I say
our own, because our partners are over there at WLKY and they are blessed
with the great chief meteorologist that is Jay Cardosi. But he's got torn warnings
in effect and the storm is moving northeast. So the latest update here,
uh, is that Breckenridge, Grayson, Harden County's tornado warning until five forty
five. So again that's that netwhere Lichfield is, Grayson County, Yes,
so Harden County, you say that though, yes it is both. I
know it's kind of in that general area. Breckinridge, Grayson and hard And
have a tornado warning and in effect till five forty five, and it looks
like storms could be popping off in southern Indiana. And I'm I'm saying popping
off because that's literally what it says here on the wok wive breakdown. So
yeah, it looks like it's not currently right here in the Louisville area,
but certainly close and could be heading our way. So everybody else stay safe.
What do we do if something were to happen, I don't know.
I mean, wouldn't that be something that I don't want that to happen.
There was one day where I got really scared because we were you could hear
like how I mean you could hear it. It look if you're in your
home, you can clearly tell. You can hear pretty clearly if a storm
is there, and it's it's pretty serious where we are. I mean we're
in a huge build. I mean, like it would be there's no windows
where we are, you know, if something that was happening unless somebody came
and told us, because we could hear, like, I mean, was
it thunder or was it was it? And we thought it was a storm,
but I think it was the air show for thunder over but there was.
There was one time where we were leaving right at six o'clock and the
latest traffic update that came through was like the wind had had completely blown a
semi truck over in the middle of the interstate, like in southern Indiana.
And at that point I was a little worried, but thankfully, you know,
we were. It wasn't as bad when whenever I walked out of here.
But yeah, stay safe, everybody. I know the wind is expected
to be pretty brutal. I think the the worst of it is believed to
be north of us, but as we've learned over the years, they're not
They're not often times correct, So hopefully everybody can stay safe. All right.
It is Coffee and Company here in the five o'clock hour. We are
fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety nit coffee. That is me the
company mana John all In alongside. Been a busy show so far today,
We've been all over the place. That's kind of what happens here on this
show periodically, and certainly whenever we are in the month of July, where
you know, we wait impatiently for football season to start, but we will
get basketball in July with the tvt and I want to encourage Louisville fans to
buy tickets if you haven't, and I'm not getting any kind of you know,
I'm not getting any kind of benefit from from telling you to do that.
There's no business relationship here with the TBT in myself and our company or
anything like that. But I do want Louisville to have a great turnout because
that'll help these guys potentially get out of their own little region here that they're
hosting in Louisville. And also, if they sell more tickets than the UK
TBT team in Lexington and both teams advanced out of their own regions that they're
hosting, the team that sold the most tickets Louisvill or Lexington will be able
to host. And I want Louisville to be able to host, so again,
I hope that they can break that record. Right now, they've got
rough lif the thirty seven thousand, thirty seven hundred tickets that have been sold
for the first game, and it's still, you know, a couple of
weeks away the record. We talked about it a couple of weeks ago,
maybe it was last week when they announced this this cool thing they were doing
with the ticket sales really deciding who gets to host. I think the record
is under eight thousand, between like seventy five hundred and eight thousand, and
I mean, yeah, you'd clearly have to really put in some some you
know, you'd have to double what you're doing right now. But I don't
think that's that I don't think that's that crazy. Like, I think you
could do it. And you know, I know I've said it many times,
but I really do believe that for this event, the TBT Louisville and
Lexington for that matter, like this could this could be our thing. I
mean, obviously there's gonna be a lot of other participants and whatnot, and
you're not gonna win it every year, and neither team's ever won it.
In fact, this is just the second time Louisville's ever had a team,
and I'm not Yeah, Kentucky had a team I think many years ago and
they got humbled and I think they lost both games and went home with a
team that was full of former UK guys. So but we care like this,
this is our time to shine. And maybe that's not the right way
to describe it, because again it's not really UK basketball or U of L
basketball. It's former players competing for money. But we're still gonna care about
it because some of these guys like Russ Smith and Peyton Siva are guys that
played here in Montrez, Harrald, Kyle Kerrick. I mean, these are
legends here, So you know, I just feel like this is something we
will be interested in more than most. We've already shown that with the ticket
sales up to this point and the turnout at last year's event. But I
think, you know, you make a run here and you get out of
your own region, which Louvell wasn't able to do last year. I mean,
that'll even I think take it up a notch for the next year.
And I've talked about it here and there as far as the the guys that
I just hoped would play but for some reason didn't, And there's so much
more that goes into it. And I've had some people that were part of
helping last year's team together that have kind of confirmed, like it's not just
like, hey, do you want to play, Sure, I'll show up.
Like you know, these guys who don't live here, they're not going
to pay for a hotel for a month, they're not going to I mean,
like these guys are clearly probably doing it because they just mean, I'm
sure there's real excitement about being able to play in front of Louisville fans once
again. Because to be fair, when these guys are playing professionally and it's
not in the NBA, I mean, they're not playing in front of crowds
like like what you're going to see freedom all. I mean maybe in certain
situations depending on where they play overseas, but you know, I'm sure there's
more to it than just money. But let's be real, the biggest motivator
for these guys, I think is money. So it's one thing to you
know, spend a couple of nights and have to cover your own you know,
travel and stay and whatnot. But like, you know, think about
how much it would cost if you are Shannano and Owaku. You don't live
here, but you want to be here for two straight weeks getting ready and
you know you got to get a hotel. Well, I'm sure he's not
going to get a cheap hotels parakly gonna want to stay somewhere nice and you
know it, it's not easy to just throw a team together with guys that
you know could probably play. You've got to make it attractive enough for them
to want to do it. So yeah, I'm excited. We'll have that
before you know it and think it'll is it? Is it two weeks away?
I think? Yeah, July nineteenth is when the TVT gets rolled.
Yeah, so it starts on the nineteenth. Louis first game is going to
be that Saturday at Freedom Hall. So hope to see you guys there.
I'm gonna be there. I'm gonna be rowdy. Hopefully they sell bush light
at Freedom Hall. I don't know. It was never old enough to drink
beer when there were games at Freedom Hall, so we'll see. I doubt.
I doubt they have bush light. I don't know. They do have
the Kentucky State Fair there at the fairground still, so maybe that that gives
me it, that gives me, you know, some hope that they may
have bush light. Maybe they'll sell the corn cans that help out help out
farmers and stuff like corn cans, the ones that they're the cans that have
like not like corn in them, but like the design of the cans,
like a corn cobbo oh, you mean like the bush light cans. Yes,
okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, look those are
those are a big hit during the summertime. But I'll take it anyway,
bottle can, with the corn can, with the old school logo, I'm
loyal, all all different types of bush light. All right, So let's
see here too quickly recap where we've been. For those just now joining in
on the fund, we did talk about not conference realignment, but really,
I guess more than anything, conference Media Days that are coming up, because
you know, that is talking season that gives you a you know, another
sign that college football will be here sooner rather than later. But it's always
a tease because there's rarely a whole lot that you know that comes out of
it. And the ACC. I mean, look, Louisville's fortunate to be
in the ACC and not left out like other schools were many years ago.
But at some point, like everybody's got to just read the room and acknowledge
this thing for what it is. I mean, I don't mean like just
close down the league because that wouldn't happen, but like I know, when
the ACC Media Days happened later this month, there's going to be this notion
that everything's fine from the commissioner and probably some other ads, And I don't
expect them to to, you know, take the podium and talk about,
you know, the death of the league and how much it sucks, like
that's not realistic. But like I'm so overhearing that they're third in the power
for when it comes to revenue, like as if that's something worth bragging about.
Well, how about you do some creative things to make some more money.
How about you do some creative things to close that revenue gap. How
about you, know, you, as the commissioner, Jim Phillips, do
something to maybe have Clemson in Florida State drop their lawsuits. I mean,
that's it is crazy to say it out loud. You have two members of
the conference that have the most value as far as brand and reach, and
that's Clemson in Florida State, and they're suing the conference and the conferences countersuing
them, like it's ridiculous. So the media days for your conference, it's
usually just a big kumbah yah, right, like it's what it is.
But nobody in the ACC can feel as if like things are going great,
right, And that's unfortunate, and it makes it even worse when I see
the Big Twelve, which right now does not have the exact same revenue that
the AEC has. Right now, they're in fourth place, but you know
what, they're going to get a new deal before the ACC can re up
THEIRS. And they've got a commissioner in Brett Yormark who has really been creative
and innovative and trying to keep eyeballs on the league doing things that other leagues
would not do in order to bring more revenue, like, for example,
right now they're in fourth place as far as revenue sharing among league members.
The Big Twelve is they're the first conference that threw it out there. We
may change our name. We may be you know, All State Big twelve
or okay, whatever was like what I can't think of the I think there
was an actual insurance company, one of the big corporations that you know is
in the insurance game that has already been I guess discussing with the Big Twelve
to have naming rights. It's going to be the something something Big twelve conference.
Well I don't know what that kind of money would look like, but
you know what, it wouldn't shock me if it's enough to be distributed between
the members to where maybe their neck and neck with the acc And you know,
they've launched their own radio network where twenty four to seven, you're gonna
have a big twelve conference radio station on the tune in app. Again,
I don't know what kind of money's involved there, but it's something, you
know. So I just I wish, you know that the ACCOUD would step
their game up a little bit now. To be fair to Jim Phillips,
he inherited the league in this awful situation with the grant of rights arrangement,
but I just don't get any sense that he's proactively trying to improve the league
and make you know, And there's no perfect solution, right because the reality
is this. I feel like Clemson in Florida State probably feel pretty good about
their likelihood of landing an invitation. They may already have a behind the scenes
invitation to the Big ten of the SEC and if they know that, then
they're gonna do whatever they can to try to get out of it. I
mean, the gloves are off. They fouled a lawsuit, so it's not
like they're hiding the fact that they want to leave. But I wish Louisville
at some point would be in the Big Twelve, especially if you end up
losing somehow. I mean, if you lose Clemson in Florida State again,
like you still exist, I suppose as a league, but I mean,
who are you gonna go get that gives you anything close to that? And
yes, the same can be said for the Big Twelve. They lost Texas
and Oklahoma and there's nobody they can go get that's going to it's going to
you know, close that or to fill that gap that they just lost.
But they're at least being proactive and trying to do things to at least keep
eyeballs on the league. I've said it for a while. I feel like
they've got the cool factor going, and certainly the ACC doesn't. So all
right, uh, let's see here. I'm trying to manage the clock because
obviously we don't have to go to break right now. But I don't want
to get into something that's going to take a ton of time, So let's
do this. So I found this to be interesting, and hopefully you guys
will too. So the Team USA, of course, they're getting set to
head off to Paris and probably dominate once again like they always do. And
if you really look at the roster, I mean, the fact that the
worst player for Team USA this go round is probably Devin Booker or Tyrese Halliburton
tells you just how loaded Team USA is once again, which is awesome.
But there there was something that kind of took off yesterday on social media that
surprised a lot of people, and it surprised me a little bit too,
to be honest with you, But it was how many players are unable to
spin a basketball on their finger? When I say that, John, do
you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, like the Harlem Globe Trotter's typical
little little spinny thing. Yeah, like where you can just keep slapping the
ball around and it's just spinning. And yes, I'm glad you said.
I'm glad you said the Harlem Globe Trotters because that's what I think as well
whenever I uh, whenever I whenever I think of that. But the by
the way, don't is your internet working? Yes? Anytime I click click
on a link. Anytime I click on a link, now it says my
connection is not private. Yeah, my Internet's working. Can you you can
click on stories and stuff. So I just opened up another Twitter tab.
Let me try to find something else, like go to go to CBS sports
dot com. This is great live radio. But like I now can't,
I now cannot reference what I was. Yeah, I'm on CB it lets
me do it. Okay, I don't know what's what's going on here,
but I can't. Well again, it's crazy to me that people used to
do live talk radio before the Internet. But the difference is they would hold
the newspaper in front of them, right, and that kind of what they
would do. There's still some people to do that in this building actually,
but you know, like, what does this mean? Your connection is not
private? Okay, I don't care. Turn on enhanced I mean, come
on now, I mean I can't. I mean, can you open other
links that take you elsewhere other than CBS Sports. Hmm, Nope, nothing's
working. I did just get a an email from let's see here. This
is again great live radio here. This is about the VPN outage notification because
I got that earlier. Yeah, because that was back at three o'clock that
I said that have something to do it, says the erper, Because again
I have connection, like the Internet is connected and it is like I'm connected,
but I can't, like it's not letting me do anything. It's see
the email I got is talking about an outage in San Antonio, which I
wouldn't think would affect us, And I know that's where the lead iHeart headquarters
are, but I wouldn't think that that would have anything to do with Louisville.
Anyways. There are a handful of NBA players on on of course,
Team USA that cannot spin the basketball on their finger without you know, without
it falling within like a few seconds, and that had like the Internet losing
their mind, like wait a second, these guys, these are some of
the best basketball players of all time and they can't spin the ball on their
finger, and you know, like, I don't think it's that big of
a surprise. I'll be honest with you. I can't do that. I
mean I'm not an NBA player, but like I played basketball a lot,
but I've never been able to do that. Like I can. I can
hold it in my hand, like in my palm and just spin it and
then you know, you know, kind of lift it up to where it
gets to my middle finger and then I can like maybe slap it one time,
but then it's gonna fall like there's some people who can do it.
For there are people who probably have that can do it longer than any NBA
player that may not. Actually it's not it's not at all something you need
to be a good basketball player. It's really just something you kind of teach
yourself how to do. But I would be willing to bet that there's a
lot of really good basketball players, not just in the NBA, maybe college
players that have that they would not be able to do that. And it
just I don't know. It's to see it turn into like a national thing
where people were losing their mind because Steph Curry couldn't do it. Was was
wild to me. Are we doing live it support here? We could be
all right? So it's just Google Chrome, which and I'm on Microsoft Edge.
So there's the difference right there. Oh you don't use Chrome not here?
Why? I don't know. I think whenever I first moved into the
studio, I defaulted Edge and I just never left it. I like it.
I mean, obviously there's a reason having gone to Chrome. And I
think you're also an Android Gaal, Let's be honest. I think Edge might
be the better browser though, Oh there's you are. That's you would get
more pushed back from that than you would doing the Android iPhone. Thing like
Google Chrome is is it's synonymous with the Internet. I get it, But
you know what else. It used to be synonymous with the Internet. Internet
Explorer. Oh no, Internet Explorer sucked for fifteen years. But I feel
like it used to be back in its day, but it was. It
never had a heyday. It was the only one. That's true. You're
look, you're a lot younger to the Internet than me. Like Internet Explorer
was always a piece of garbage. It never worked. And then I mean
you had Chrome, of course, which I think is great. You have
Safari, you can use you have Firefox, and I will say Microsoft Edge
is by far the best browser that they've ever had. But which is the
same thing. I mean, it's it's it's the new version of that.
But I e was trash and never worked, right, But yeah, I
don't don't. I don't know what's going on because now I can go to
sites, but I can't click on anything. So anyways, good time for
a break. Then we'll figure it out again. If anything, I'll just
give props to all those that did talk radio for you know, many many
years without having the Internet to help them. It's a different time. Even
if I'm not using the Internet, but I know it's not working. I'm
spas it out, man. I'm like, without the Internet, how can
I There's no way I could do this? All right? Stick around.
As much as I've called the conference media days before football season really a tease
because it's talking season and it just makes me even more hungry for football season
actually start. And usually coaches give you, i mean canned answers, right,
they they they're excited about their team, really like what we have here,
you know, just the cliches that you hear. It's usually not that
interesting. But there's always at least one coach or two along the way that'll
say something that'll get some attention. They'll get people talking. They'll you know,
say something controversial, say something really funny, you know, for example,
Dino Babers. I remember at the two thousand and seventeen acc football kickoff,
Dino Babers was walking near It was one of the in the I think
it was the hallway of the hotel the I think of the name of the
hotel they put it in it's in the same hotel every year, but they
the players coaches were kind of making their way I think for like a big
team photo or something like that, and Dino baber As, a Syracuse head
coach at the time, had walked up to Lamar Jackson and touched him like
twice as if, like you know, like just kind of odd, and
I think Lamar looked at him like what are you doing, and he said,
I just wanted to tell my team it is it is possible to touch
you, because they certainly couldn't in last year's game. So that's kind of
funny, right, Like that's self deprecating, that's kind of funny, showing
some personality. But we do have an example today of a coach that you
know wasn't funny, but said something that you just can't say. I mean,
I don't want to act as if like it's the end of the world,
but like this is really avoidable and really stupid. And it's none other
than Mike Gundy at Oklahoma State, who, by the way, has always
been pretty upfront about what he thinks and what he believes and doesn't doesn't usually
care what people have to say about it, which I think there's clearly some
value in that as a person, but you also just like have to like
I'll just let you guys hear what he said. But he has a star
player, I mean, one of the best running backs in the country.
Ali Gordon was arrested for a dui last week, and he did make the
trip for the Big twelve media age today with Oklahoma State despite his recent arrest,
and Gundy had said that it was because he still wants him to be
accountable, uh and you know, not run from it and be able to
kind of face questions he's going to get about it from a mistake that he
made and gundhy, I suppose when trying to like minimize it. This is
this is what he had to say. And this audio is not great because
it's somebody who just recorded it from their from their from their phone. It
looks like while watching it on TV. But you should still be able to
hear it, and I mean you just can't, Like, I mean,
it just is really stupid. First, Okay, so I looked it up
on my phone. What would be the legal limit like in Oklahoma's point and
oli was point one. So I looked it up and it was based on
body way not to get into the legal side of it, but I thought,
really, two or three beers or four. I'm not justifying what all
I did. I'm telling you what decision I made. Well, I thought,
I've probably done that a thousand times in my life, and you know,
it's just fine. So I got lucky. People get lucky. So
I mean, he's claiming that the decision he made for him to not miss
any games is because he wasn't hammered. He was just over the legal limit,
and then went on to say, well, I've done it a thousand
times, meaning you've had you know. I mean, what he's essentially saying
is that, like ever, you should drink and drive, just be careful.
I mean, like, is that like or you know, I shouldn't
say he's saying that you should do it, but to then say that you
I mean, that's a coach saying that I've had four beers a thousand times
and then and then got in the car and drove, Which even if you've
done that, don't say that as the coach of us. Don't do that.
I mean, even if it's the truth, and you just are that
addicted of being honest, like you just I mean, you're just setting a
bad example. I feel like for the rest of your team. You know,
he's bringing up body weight too, like you know, like for him
to be point one or which is I guess it wouldn't be point zero.
I guess it's point zero eight is the legal limit. I guess he was
point one to oh, not point zero one, because if it's point zero
one, that would mean that he wasn't drunk. He wasn't and he wouldn't
be I mean, that's not a duy. If you get pulled over and
you had a beer or two and you're you're at zero point five, if
you are of legal age, you're not getting a DUI like, you're not
that that you've not had too much. But he brought a body weight,
which makes me feel like, you know, he's almost saying like for him
to get to a one point oh or a zero point one whatever it is,
like the you know, two point slightly above the legal limit of zero
point eight. I mean I got the the way I heard that was as
if like it would take a lot for him to be at that because of
his size and weight. I mean, he's a running back at a high
level college football program. I mean, you can give answers that aren't super
politically correct and boring, and you know it sounds like you're reading it from
a prepared statement from their university pr People like you could avoid saying that and
still give an honest answer. But I mean, even if it's true,
you just shouldn't go out and say I drink and drive all the time and
I'm lucky. And are you lucky because you haven't killed somebody? Are you
lucky because like you just haven't been pulled over? Like that's just that's such
an avoidable thing that is going to end up being a major talking point from
the big twelve media days. And you know, Gundhy, if anything,
he's consistent, you know, I mean, he's he's he's never shied away
from, you know, saying whatever the hell he wants. But I mean,
I mean, here's the thing. It's definitely going to put the attention
on him and not so much the player. And that's what he's always you
know, wanted it to be. If you go back to his famous oh
come at me, yeah, he I mean, that's really that's what he
It's funny though, because he's that I don't think of that initially when I
think of him anymore. Whereas for the first you know, ten years of
his career, I did. But he's, first of all, he's been
a pretty successful coach, but he's also you know, put his foot in
his mouth, set things and and don't I don't even know if he's been
like crazy controversial. He's just been different than most coaches, which isn't necessarily
a bad thing. But I mean, how many coaches in college football would
say that, not because like, you know, it's the worst thing in
the world. It's just like, why are you He's just stupid? And
I don't know, I feel like, in a way, maybe I'm overreacting
about it a little bit, but to say that you're not minimizing what he
did, but then bring up like weight, how close he was to the
legal limit he was barely over, and then saying that you've done it a
thousand times in your life, like you actually are minimizing it, like it's
not a big deal and that's why you decided not to suspend him any games,
and that the university is going to deal with some other punishment that'll have
nothing to do with with football. But yeah, I mean, don't don't
drink and drive. And I'm look, it happened. If people have done
it, and it's it's cost them their life, and it's cost somebody else
their life because they hit them. Like you know, it's it's there are
enough examples to where it shouldn't be something that has just done so casually the
way that it is. But yeah, I mean, if anything, Gundy
has taken the attention off of his player, because I think it's the attention
is now going to be uh is going to be on him. So there
you go. It looks like the Internet is fixed, which my panic attack
is now over and uh he shout out to Google Chrome. Now yeah,
Google Chrome has come through. Just a simple power up, power down the
computer. But I just close up Chrome and opened it again and now we're
up and running. And this isn't this isn't actually controversial. This is actually
kind of funny, to be honest with you. But guns just different and
I could appreciate that. I actually like that in coaches that are and I
don't mean you have to have some big bull personality, but just you know,
don't feel like you've just got to give coach speak at all times.
And certainly that was not coach speak what he just said about his player's DUI.
But earlier, somebody, I guess was treading lightly with the question because
you know, it's an obvious question that's expected, but you know it well,
bit it this way. I'm trying to find the actual quote. But
a reporter said, Hey, coach, I'm sorry, but I have to
ask you this question. What can you tell me about, you know,
your thoughts on now coaching in the same conference with prime meaning Deon Sanders,
which, like you wouldn't ask anybody else what it's like to coach in a
league within Like I'm sure there's a new coach in the Big Twelve this year
that's not Deon Sanders that nobody's gonna ask, Hey, what's it like to
be in the same league with this guy? Deon Sanders has what four wins
to his name as a as A as A as a Colorado coach. Like
you know, he's clearly a legendary player and poor personality, but like it's
just the Deon Sanders stuff has annoyed me more than I thought it would be.
It'll be different if he actually reproves that he can win. And I
know last year you know, they they were in year one and all that,
but like nobody's going to be shocked deep down if Colorado is asked once
again this year, Like let's just be real with ourselves. So anyways,
with all that said, Gundhi responded to the question, that's it, that's
what you are apologized for having to ask. I thought you were gonna ask
me who I was going to vote for in November. Like he's clearly very
politically open about his thoughts and whatnot, which there's something wrong with that.
You have, you know, you can, you know, you've got to
be prepared to deal with you know, the way people react to that,
right or wrong. But like, hey, I have no problem if somebody
wants to be you know, I think you can be pretty open about your
beliefs but not make everything political and be an ass about it. But yeah,
I'm I'm curious to see in twenty four hours from now, will that
be Like not, it's not gonna be the lead story in all of sports,
but like that's not something that a coach would be expected to say,
or I mean, I doubt he gets in trouble because he's kind of a
made man there in still water but I kind of feel like there's no scenario
that those that kind of work in pr for the university as athletic director,
like they can't be happy that he said that. No, but it was
just within the last you know, twenty minutes or so. So it hasn't
become like a big story yet. Maybe I'm way wrong. Maybe it won't.
Maybe it'll just be you know, Gundy being Gundhy. We shall see,
all right. So we talked about we have talked about video games a
lot more here than we ever would because of the NCAA EA Sports game that's
coming out here. It's coming out any day now, Like it's it's got
to be getting here soon. Yeah, I don't know why. I can't
think of the exact day, but I think I think it might be soon
within the next week or so. And everybody's all bricked up and excited,
and you know, the nostalgia's going to be there, and you know,
some people probably will quit their jobs and just play this game, and that'll
be sad, but you know, that's the love that people have for this
video game. But the this is another video game story that you know,
doesn't surprise me. But maybe gamers will be surprised to hear this. So
you may not even have known this, tonge, because you're not a gamer
either. But did you know the NBA had its own NBA two K League?
No? I didn't know that. Yeah, So the NBA had like
a draft and Woje broke the story on Twitter years ago when they launched it.
And gamers, people who are like really good at two K get drafted
by NBA franchises and there's a league where like this is the guy who plays
for the Mavericks, doesn't play for their team. You know, he's a
five foot eight, two hundred pound normal dude, but he's a gamer and
he plays as the Mavericks in the two K league, and and you know,
he became kind of cool. It's dead, it's like nerdy, but
like it's like I kind of see what they're going for. Well, it's
cool when it comes to like you know, like it's a cool idea,
but like, yeah, it's not a business. Like who I mean,
how are you watching that? Yeah? How do you monetize that? Yeah?
And the reason I bring it up is because at one point, and
this is crazy, this like I remember talking about this on the show when
I was on at noon. This is how long ago it's been since this
whole thing became a thing. That the NBA G League minimum was lower than
the minimum salary that these gamers had, and it made the NBA realize,
uh, oh, we can't have video gamers making more than people who play
in the G League. So they upped the minimum salary for the G League
players because of that, And I just remember thinking like that is crazy,
like how little? Like why would anybody play in the G League if you
can, you know, go overseas and make triple that. I mean,
the minimum of the G League was like twenty six thousand dollars a year,
which you know, if you're playing playing the game you love and you've got
other money than whatever. But anyways, the league is now like done.
So it says here that, yeah, the NBA two K League may very
well be dead. This is from somebody who reports on sports gaming, E
gaming. I guess just what they call it, just uh, there's a
new CEO for There was a new CEO appointed for the NBA two K League
that had an eight minute zoom call pretty much laying off the entire league.
Uh, and they're going to go on a hiatus with rumors to reformat the
league uh and play with NBA players and celebrities instead of because again, these
gamers are interesting to other gamers, but that's a small, very segmented group
of people. If you've got like each week a player for the team that's
going to be playing against another team that's got another play like that, that
that to me is not interesting. I don't. I don't. I mean
I sound like an old boomer here. I don't know how people watch other
people play video games for hours on end. It happens like, I mean,
it's a real thing, and I don't on twitsch Yeah, I don't.
I don't get it. I mean, it's it's clearly a big I
mean, there's enough people doing it to where like, you know, I'm
not, I'm not like there's a market for it, yeah, even if
it is a knee. Yeah. But you know, like I'm not surprised.
But the reason this story came up is because just five years ago the
Ted Leoni sis I guess he was the former CEO of the two K League.
He said, quote, I believe that in ten years an NBA two
K player will be a more well known, popular and better compensated player than
Lebron James. It's just the math. They expected the gaming boom and in
the end it's over in five years. So just you know, that's insane.
Yeah. Look, I know video games are super popular. I just
you know, I can't relate. I used to love video games. Yeah,
video games, video games. Yeah, I love video games, and
then I lost my virtuinity. And that's why I'm gonna win tonight. Let's
throw it to break, we'll come back and wrap it up. On the
other side. Yeah, out of surprise, it's now the only thing I'm
really seeing on the on the timeline here on Twitter on the four U side,
which is uh, Mike Gundhy's comments beca. I mean essentially what what
he what he said was that what he did, that he's illegal, that
you shouldn't do, which is, you know, driving to the influence.
I mean, I've done it a thousand times in my life and it's been
fine. So I'm lucky. And that's why I decided not to suspend him
any games. If anything, the man is just honest. I think that's
a that's a I mean, I think that's the god's honest truth. For
Mike Gundy, how we've used the situation. Uh but you know, I
mean peak Mike Gundy, no doubt about that. All right. I feel
like for the last few weeks, every now and then in the last segment,
when we have very little time, always end up finding a way to
sneak in something about Hawktua girl. Last week it was the confirmation that she
let everybody know all the horned up dudes on the internet. She'll never have
an OnlyFans account. But now she's now started booking appearances and she's got her
first appearance that's gonna be at a Miami club and John she will make thirty
thousand dollars for the appearance, just dancing. No, I mean just to
be there, just to be there. I mean I'm not talking about a
strip club. Ok But I mean I said club, not strip club.
Right now, you've got me thinking I said strip club. That's just where
my mind went in the well. Okay, but she has to wear it
to a jersey because it's like a dolphins thing. I'm not sure. Okay,
that's nice marketing right there. But I mean, God bless America,
right, I mean, she goes viral on the internet for saying something like
that, and there's no way in her mind anybody could have envisioned. Uh,
there's no way in her mind she could have envisioned this thing playing out
the way it did to where you know she's now. I mean, it'll
it'll die down, right, like she'll probably have a normal life again in
you know, maybe year or two. I don't know, but for now
she's gonna be able to cash in, and uh, you know, good
for her, I guess good for I think the biggest surprise to me is
that she was so young, like she was twenty years old. I think,
so she is she even gonna be able to get into this club?
I could have swore heard on one of the clips that came out that she
was just twenty one. Okay, maybe she just turned twenty one. Can
you how do you have to be to be a bartender? That's a good
question. I don't know, because I feel like you can. I don't
know. Maybe there's something to where you can. I don't know, and
it's probably different in each state, but you know whatever, she worked at
some factory and now she's quit that job and she's gonna be making appearances and
probably selling merch and you know her life has changed thirty thousand dollars just to
show up somewhere. It's good work if you can get it, it is
good work, all right. Good work to you, my friend today,
and thank you everybody for hanging out with us. We'll be back at tomorrow.
Stay safe. I have no clue how bad the storms are, because
you know we're in the cave here, but yeah, sounds like more tornado
sirens were going off near Etown. That's the last I saw, So stay
safe out there. We'll be back at it tomorrow, and I hope you
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