All right, let's bring him in It to our boy Nick Coffee three pm
to six pm on Sports Talk seven ninety every single day. He is the
voice the authority that is sports in this town. And no one will question
it. Coffee or I will fight you if you question it. Coffee,
May coffee. How you doing? I'm doing well. That may be the
best introduction I've ever received. So thank you. My day that was already
going good, is going better. Now, what was it deal with the
naked guy at McDonald's yesterday? Ye had a naked guy mill It was exactly
what you think it was. I was taking a left there on I believe
it's Muhammad Ali where that no, I'm sorry, Market Street with the McDonald's
is, and was going to head up to Fish Street and wasn't even really
paying that close attention to the sidewalk. But then you kind of catch You
look once and you think, wait a second, and you look back again,
and there was a man with just a look to be a tank top
around his neck, not on, and then no cants or anything. Se
Yeah, butt naked. And what really really stood out was that what you
know, it wasn't an industry. There were many people driving and it's just,
I guess become somewhat normal. It has a lot of naked I'm used
to it now, I kind of dude. Like I was shocked when I
pulled out of the parking garage and the naked dude was walking around, But
so it should. Here's the question should have been, question does it does
it? Does it give you more of, like, you know, an
interest in doing it knowing that others are doing it. I'm kind of interested.
I might want to take a stroll through the gallery of the problem here,
Nick, is that that second look is kind of a leer, you
know at that point. Yeah, all right, all right, Nick,
we just we just had to Bloomberg moneyment it on and they are He told
us the price point for this, for this possible new network that will be
a streaming app with ESPN, TNT and Fox Sports, would be forty dollars
a month. I mean that would lead to a lot of people probably canceling
what ever service they have that gives them any level of live television. And
forty dollars a month, I mean that's all massive in regards to how expensive
that was. But like, yeah, that's the only thing I watch live
So what I what I was curious about is this. I mean, this
clearly will give those sports networks more power. I think they're well aware that
they are one of the last things that people truly consume live and they make
sure it's something they see when it's happening live. But you know, do
the schools, you know. I'm just curious how this would factor those contracts
because technically the Fox and ESPNS they own the rights to it. But I
just if there was some burbage in there that that means you're going to be
on lineing your television, because yes, the sports fans will get it because
they're gonna want to watch. But I still think initially you would have an
overall you know, you would lower your overall viewership. However, it may
not matter because again, the reason they give you all that money is because
they own those rights and they'll do with them whatever they want. Well,
they screwed me on the peacock thing. Couldn't watch the Dolphins Chiefs game without
buying that I and I have the TECHNI on the peacock yeah, I'm suppoll
yeah on the Cocks to get all of the NFL games, and I did
not get that one. Is this gonna further erode that too. Yeah,
they're gonna keep doing it. Yeah, I don't know they're gonna do it.
I I remember, you know, I guess about five years ago everybody
kind of saw this was where we were headed. And sure enough, I
think it's actually gone quicker than most realized. But Nick, at that time,
though the streaming services were five dollars, he was like, oh,
it's like six dollars you download the streaming ab Now. Oh, I'm sorry
that we just heard it's gonna be forty dollars. We just asked him that.
So but five dollars was okay. You're like, oh fine, I'll
do it for five bucks. But you're you're gonna run people off at some
point. And I don't care. No gambling is gonna carry this thing into
the next century. I just don't think it can. Nick, come on
forty bucks. No, I I think it's not an issue with the product
that is NFL college sports. You know, whatever it is you consume live.
It's not that the product getting worse and there's less interest. It's just
we've never had more things to occupy our time with. And honestly, it's
just doing stuff on our phone more than I mean, I think when you're
a diehard fan of a team, it's really just part of your lifestyle.
But there's a lot of people out there. It blows my mind because it's
all I've ever known. But they don't really get into sports like that.
They keep up, they know what's going on. They listen to sports radio
here and there, but like they're not in you know, they're not crying
themselves to sleep like I am every night because Louisville basketball is a mess.
So yeah, those people, you know, they may just feel like I
can. I don't need to watch I'll know the score, I'll know who's
good, I'll know what's going on. I don't need to actually pay for
that and watch it live. So I think you're onto something. I mean,
I just think it's more so us evolving, as you know, society,
different habits as far as how they spend their time. I start have
a promotional night for the Cardinals of the Young Center, naked people night,
you get in free, and all the naked people from downtown Low would just
go in and fill the seats. Well, now, Nick speaking to Louisville
basketball the other night, they looked as good as I've seen them in a
long time. Tyler Johnson was unstoppable. Question for you were more the Cardinal
fans happy with that performance are disappointed. I think they're happy because it's a
real good distraction, and I think it fades pretty quickly. But that was
the best I've seen Louisville look since the twenty twenty season, when they were
legitimately going to be a top three or four seed in the tournament and were
number one in the country. I mean, that was a really, really
good performance. They were the better team really from start to finish. Not
that Florida State didn't hang around and make some runs of their own, but
I mean, Brandon only had Phil's duncan on everybody's head. Tyler Johnson clearly
the best player on Florida and statistically did something that has never been done before
by any Louisville guard, which is saying something Curtis Williams junior, He's as
smooth as as I've seen a Louisville freshman, just really good offensively. It
was impressive. You know, I'm somebody then maybe it's just the way I'm
wired that you know what it did to me is it confirmed what I've believed
for the entire season. And I think I've said it to you guys many
times. This team does not have seven wins in February because they don't have
capable players. I mean, I've watched them play against Clemson the game they
lost. I've watched them play against I mean even Virginia when they played them
there. I mean again, they got in both games. But it's not
like you see a humongous gap. This isn't when Tom Crean took over Indiana
and he literally started two walk ons. These are capable players, and I
get more frustrated when I see that, because there's just no excuse to be
this bad. Was well to answer, I'm answering with you, Yes,
I think it made people happy. But on the second part of that is
these idiot U of L fans that say, dude, what if he runs
six in a row? And they look at the rest of the schedule and
they're like, he could get six, he could get six wins out of
this, And it's like, what if what if we go ten to nineteen,
Well, ten wins, this whole team's back if they do that.
Well, see, that's that's another thing that I don't want to mislead anybody
like I have any kind of information, But if you're paying any attention to
how college sports works in the last two years, the belief that any despite
these guys playing hard for Kinny Payne and apparently still you know, supporting him
when asked, that does not mean that are going to come back. No,
you could keep Kenny Payne and lose half this team, the whole team.
That's just where we are because they're gonna get away and they're going to
realize. Man, I've been here a year or two and we sucked.
This is not a good situation for me. I mean, it's that's just
delusion, I think. Now. Another part of it is that I've tried
to figure this out in my head, and my brain doesn't work very well,
especially whenever I'm just irritated by people who are doing what you mentioned,
just acting as if a few wins here and there would make it that this
should continue to keep going on, we should sustain this awful era. And
I just think there are certain fans that are wired that way. They know
it, they don't want to acknowledge it, they don't want to hear it,
and if you say it and you're somebody that they believe is supposed to
be, you know, shaking the pom poms leading the pep rally, they
attack you. And it reminds me a little bit of you know, because
there were people who called it in the post game show Saturday that wanted it
to be a party, and that's just I couldn't fake that if I tried.
We talked about the good stuff, but that's just not me, and
I don't think that'd be good radio. But when Saturdayeople was here, we
all knew that the ceiling wasn't high and he wasn't terrible, but man,
everybody was bored. There was no interest. I feel like they should have
done something to make a move in the end, you dow, But I
got crushed for that, Okay, And when he left, nobody complained because
everybody knows down this is what should happen, and same things gonna happen with
Kenny payn. These people out there that claim he should get a third year.
When he gets canned and they move on with somebody else, will never
bring it up again. Nope, Okay, we go. We got two
minutes here, So I want to mention this Dartmouth men's basketball players have basically
they want to be employees of Dartmouth, which would allow them to move forward
as electing a union. Uh. The Supreme Court or which what body of
work? Baby baby basically said that's fine. You are now in the labor
organized Yes, an l RB. Yes. I said, yeah, that's
fine. They ruled that you can be employees. This is a way out.
I think this is a way If you're going to be a union,
then then there's a negotiation table. Then we could say, fine, you
want to be a paid employee, then here's a contract, like Rick Patino
said on Twitter and said, you got to stay two years, you have
to stay three years. If you're going to be a union and you're gonna
be an employee, then let's set some ground rules. And right now we
don't have any yep. I think we'll see what happens with this appeal.
But yeah, I mean, first of allf Dartmouth wants to be employees,
they'd instantly be fired because they're literally one of the worst teams in the country
and they don't bring in any money. So their case is interesting because of
who it is. Cause reality like when it comes to being a student athlete
is a choice. Nobody's making you do it. You don't have to do
it, you choose to do it. And yeah, you may have to
balance some things, but if you want to be an employee and make money,
you probably will get capped out to where you won't make the money you
could make through NIL. And oh, by the way, if you suck,
they'll fire you. I mean, like I just there's NIL is such
a mess. We don't really know exactly how it works, and it needs
to be regulated more than it is. There's no perfect solution. But as
far as players want to be wanting to be taken care of and paid,
the way it's currently going is their best case scenario. Because if they want
to be employees again, they're going to be required to do things they're not
required to do now they can be fired and again they'll be capped out.
I mean, it's just that's and I would be willing to how many players
truly would consider that it actually still say yeah, I want to be an
employee. Nick Coffee three pm to six pm on Sports Talk seven ninety will
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