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All right, 19 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:19.519 So we'll start with what we led with, which is Coleman Hawkins. He 20 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:26.359 is scheduled to visit Louisville according to reports from On three Sports. I believe, 21 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:29.200 and I know, you know, not to discredit On three, but 22 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:30.359 I think, you know, there's some folks that you know, they want 23 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:34.400 to see it from a big name when it comes to you know, their 24 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:38.280 coll it. You know, they don't trust some of the trilly Donovan's out 25 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:42.680 there because you know they're not working for the big time outlets. But I 26 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:46.079 believe it was ESPN Jeff Borzella who also put it out there, and I 27 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:49.480 think by now if it wasn't real, we would know. But Coleman Hawkins, 28 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:52.280 we've talked about him here and there really for a few weeks. But 29 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:55.680 I just assume once Louisville landed the thirteenth player that it would be done. 30 00:01:55.719 --> 00:02:00.519 The roster is set. But that's not the case because they're still actively recruiting. 31 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:04.159 I don't think they're going after a bunch of guys. I don't think 32 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:07.239 they're desperate to add another piece, but I think they know that they can 33 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:09.560 make room for somebody. I don't know how they're gonna do it, but 34 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:13.919 they clearly have a plan. And they also have some money for men for 35 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:15.800 menil available to go get a good player. And there's not many of those 36 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:20.159 guys left, but Coleman Hawkins is one of them, and on three Sports 37 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:23.680 reported earlier today that he's going to visit Loiell this weekend, and this made 38 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:27.120 it real. Doesn't mean you're gonna get him. Maybe the visit doesn't go 39 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:31.120 well, maybe he visits elsewhere and you know, ends up playing for Georgia. 40 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:32.960 I think George is making a push. I don't know if there's some 41 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:37.759 kind of a connection there, and then I can't think of it. There's 42 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:43.759 another random school involved that I was really surprised to see was Oh yeah, 43 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:46.879 SMU. SMU apparently is in play here. Maybe it's because they've got money, 44 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:53.000 but Andy Enfield left USC to go to SMU. I mean, SMU 45 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:54.240 is gonna be in the ACC this year, so you will be playing in 46 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:58.360 a in a you know, you know, you're not gonna be playing in 47 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:04.560 the American like they were last year. But yeah, I just think one 48 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:07.479 of the things that helps Louisville is apparently they do have money. I don't 49 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:09.960 know if I believe that they'll pay two million, but if they have it, 50 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:16.039 then they can afford it. Why not. But the other schools that 51 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:21.280 were believed to be, I guess in the running here have taken players in 52 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:23.319 the last twenty four hours. That makes it appear that they're getting out of 53 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:28.560 the mix. They're pulling themselves from contention essentially, or maybe they were never 54 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:32.240 in contention and that's why they took these other players U Goo and Yensue from 55 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:36.000 UK. He went to Kansas State yesterday. Kansas State was apparently in the 56 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:39.639 mix for Hawkins and then Arkansas. I mean I always thought that that's where 57 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:44.960 he would end up, and they ended up bringing back Trevon Brazil, who 58 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:47.719 was in the portal had played at Arkansas previously, and that's another big guy, 59 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:53.000 six ten six eleven big. So I think that eliminates those two schools. 60 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.159 So now you know, I think Louisville looks like the clear leader here. 61 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:00.319 I mean, it's going to happen, but looks good right now at 62 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:03.919 this point. And Louisville right now on paper thirteen scholarship players. I think 63 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:06.439 they've got a good team. I think fans are justified in thinking, hey, 64 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:10.479 we could make the tournament. This is going to be a solid debut 65 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:13.240 season for Pat Kelsey. You know, we believe in him as a coach. 66 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:15.360 None of us know how it's actually going to go down, but all 67 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:19.040 the components right now as we speak, make it to where you can go 68 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:24.279 into this first season being excited and feeling like you're not just a homer for 69 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:27.879 thinking your team could be pretty good. But if you add Coleman Hawkins, 70 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:30.199 it upset a little bit more. Right. I'm not going to throw some 71 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:34.639 crazy expectations to put pressure on Pat Kelsey if he lands Coleman Hawkins, but 72 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:40.120 that's a nice added piece, a guy that in the eyes of some, 73 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:42.040 I'm not sure if I believe it, but in the eyes of some, 74 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:45.680 he would instantly be your most talented player. And you already have some pretty 75 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:48.120 good talent on that team. So now we wait again. The visit is 76 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:54.160 set for this weekend, and Pat Kelsey, when he gets guys on campus 77 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:56.680 for a visit doesn't mean you know, he didn't get didn't get all of 78 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.199 them. There's been plenty that had visited and moved on and went elsewhere. 79 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:02.120 But you know, I like the idea of you know, putting on the 80 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:05.959 full court press here and really you know, showing out here for for Coleman 81 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:14.279 Hawkins. So that was really what we started with. And I'm not sure 82 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:18.439 if there's an added development here, but he's doing it again on Twitter. 83 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:25.240 John Coleman he's well, he's up to his antics. Yeah, I guess 84 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.839 that's the right. So he tweeted thirty four minutes ago, taking a break 85 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:38.040 from this app please don't believe everything you see on the internet. So I 86 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:42.720 mean, first let me say this, sorry to butt him. Oh you're 87 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:45.279 fine. I was at a loss for words anyway, because I don't want 88 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:46.319 to start, like, you know, I don't know if he's if he's 89 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:51.040 upset by the way people are maybe responding to his tweets. First, he 90 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:56.839 probably needs to be more aware of when when you when you're when you are 91 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:59.680 who you are. And I know he's not the biggest name in college basketball, 92 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:03.399 but when he's getting the attention that he's getting right now, he should 93 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:09.279 be more aware of how people, even if it is in negative ways, 94 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:12.399 how they're going to respond to some of the things that he's putting on social 95 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:15.759 media. But but like what's he putting on some like what do you mean 96 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:19.240 what he's putting like kind of just being I mean he I know, he's 97 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:23.920 having fun and that's it's it's it's really harmless whenever it's all whenever it all 98 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:27.800 comes down to it. But yeah, yeah, because because some patrolling can 99 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:29.759 be harmless, and I think that's the way he's doing it. But what 100 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:30.360 I what I don't like, what does he get out of it? Like 101 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.519 I guess just amusement, you know, like h like for example, he 102 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:39.079 deletes stuff, which I don't understand. Like yesterday there was somebody one of 103 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:44.920 the Arkansas sites, their official account tweeted out, you know, calib which 104 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:47.279 is actually rich to read, knowing the Calip Perry. You know, like 105 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:54.519 Cali Perry clearly has has Let's be real, Before ANIL existed, players were 106 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:57.639 making money somehow, and Kentucky was probably one of the many schools that was 107 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:04.439 doing that. But Arkansas lost out on There's two players, two transfers that 108 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:09.519 Arkansas didn't get and one of them was Hawkins, and they were applauding Calipari 109 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:14.000 for not paying the asking price, and he shared that and like mocked him, 110 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:17.120 like you know, wow lol, But again, like does that mean 111 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:20.720 they're sore losers because he was never going to go there and they're just making 112 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:25.639 it up about money or he's you know, claiming that you know, they're 113 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:27.639 I don't know, like I you know, And I think that's what he 114 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.199 gets out of it, is that he'll put stuff out that's kind of cryptic 115 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:31.680 you don't really like. For example, there are already people that are sharing 116 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:36.000 this tweet from Colvin Hawkins thirty four minutes ago that are asking if he's insinuating 117 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.920 that the visit is not real, And I don't think that's what it is. 118 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:42.639 But I don't know, like you know, I don't, I don't 119 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.839 know. So he's had some fun on social media. He said some things 120 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:49.199 at the NBA Draft Combine that you know, are harmless, but just kind 121 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:54.199 of seemed odd to hear somebody say, especially when you're at the NBA Draft 122 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:57.279 Combine. In a sense, you're a job interview, are you not? 123 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:01.240 I mean, like you're auditioning in every way or the NBA. So for 124 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:03.959 him to say if he goes back to college, he would never go to 125 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.800 the Big ten and would never play in the Big e like it just to 126 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:11.680 me it seemed odd like even if you feel that way, what's the mean, 127 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:13.519 I don't know, you gain nothing from saying yeah, yeah, and 128 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:18.879 it's not controversial, it's just it's just unusual. Yes, So here is 129 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:20.240 Sam Vessini and I talked about this earlier in the show. He was on 130 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.600 his podcast I Guess with the last couple of days, and he had some 131 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.759 interesting comments about why NBA teams may have passed on Coleman Hawkins, and I 132 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:31.639 thought in this one minute clip he did a pretty good job of kind of 133 00:08:31.559 --> 00:08:37.240 describing it better than I can. And I'm clearly failing at doing it right 134 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.279 now because I don't act like this guy's like immature and he's childish, but 135 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:43.759 he's he does like to toy with people on social media, which again is 136 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:48.759 harmless. But you usually don't see this from somebody who's going to be going 137 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.919 into his fifth year of college basketball. But here here's what Vassini had to 138 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:56.120 say. I think that like teams just want to see like a little bit 139 00:08:56.120 --> 00:09:01.600 more maturity. Maybe he's like to put it like in terms of like on 140 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:05.159 court, and you know, did some like did some things that like I 141 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:09.759 enjoy off the court, like give it like didn't you give like the Maryland 142 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:16.559 team like the finger like on their plane and all that stuff like there there 143 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:20.039 was like some fun things and like if the combine like said, you know, 144 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.320 I'm not going to the Big East. I won't go to another Big 145 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:24.039 Ten school, like I want to go to like a football school where I 146 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:26.080 can go to football games and stuff. And it's just like, well, 147 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:33.480 hm, that's all what teams want. Like I enjoy the Colemanhawkins experience. 148 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:39.279 I want to be very clear about that. I don't know that what I 149 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:45.039 enjoy personally for my amusement and clearly for Coleman's amusement, because I think he 150 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.559 has a blast like doing all of this. I don't know if it's what 151 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:54.919 teams want for their non amusement. Maybe it's the way to put it so 152 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:03.720 again, it's harmless. It's just hard for me to understand what he gains 153 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:05.799 out of it. Again, and the only guess I have is what you 154 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:09.679 heard there is just it's amusing to him to kind of toy with people and 155 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:11.320 get fans, you know, and either troll fans and like you know, 156 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:15.960 I guess make fun of their program or you know, get their hopes up 157 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.399 for only to only maybe let them down. I don't know. But when 158 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:22.919 you do that, like I said earlier, you were inviting people are insane 159 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:24.879 on the internet to say things that they shouldn't say. Oh, I mean, 160 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:28.000 I mean clearly, and you are like it's you know, it's your 161 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:33.720 doing now again you can because when you're and I've done this before, when 162 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:37.519 you troll people and you realize they don't realize you're you're you're joking, you 163 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:41.519 know, then you kind of like, you know, like for example, 164 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:45.080 if he was to and I don't even want to put this out there and 165 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:48.039 make it be real because like I don't want to act as if I'm I 166 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:52.120 don't even want to think about him like teasing us and then like not coming 167 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:52.840 to Louisville. I have no cluvie he's gonna come to Lovell or not. 168 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.519 But what I'm saying is like if he got Arkansas fans hopes up and really 169 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:58.960 did a lot of teasing about like how he loved you know, he was 170 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.080 going to go there and send out some cryptic stuff to insinuate that that's where 171 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:05.919 he was going to end up playing for Caliparia Arkansas and then he like burned 172 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.679 them and they all came after him. He would have to know that was 173 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:13.159 coming. You would also have to think that that's probably what he wanted, 174 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.559 and he would probably then continue to engage with them and just you know, 175 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:18.720 be that guy on the internet, which hey, it had. You know, 176 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:24.559 it's just unusual we'll see a college basketball player who right now probably has 177 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:28.879 the highest price tag of anybody that is available still. And you know, 178 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.279 but it has led to throughout the entire thing. And I guess it's been 179 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:39.159 roughly a week since it seemed as if Okay was there something here. He 180 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:43.480 deleted the big Frank tweet that he sent out. You know, he deleted 181 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.039 the tweet that I said earlier, that I mentioned earlier. When it comes 182 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:50.679 to the Arkansas fans that were the Arkansas site that was claiming you know that 183 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:52.679 Caliperry did the right thing by passing on this guy and not paying him, 184 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:58.200 and you know that's hard, you know, I just I feel like when 185 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.720 you delete it, especially when it was you know, somewhat of like a 186 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.799 tweet to get people roll, to get people going on something, almost as 187 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:07.159 if you didn't get the reaction you wanted, so you delete it. You 188 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:09.879 know, I don't know either way, I don't care. He can do 189 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:16.159 whatever he wants on Twitter, X, Facebook, MySpace. I don't care. 190 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:20.320 He's a really good player and he from when I you know, I 191 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:24.440 don't want to act like I'm an Illinois insider. However, he's really he 192 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:28.080 was very close to Brad Underwood. Bred Underwood's a hard coach, meeting a 193 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:30.759 guy who will you know, he's very hard on his players, very intense, 194 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:35.799 and I think Coleman Hawkins really really liked that and and responded well, 195 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:37.879 and he was a good player for him. And also he seems to be 196 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.919 somebody that was very well respected by his teammates. So I don't think you've 197 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:43.759 got like character issues. I just think this is somebody who likes to have 198 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:48.919 fun with fans and you know, trolls on the internet. He trolls them 199 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:52.639 back, or he you know, is I actually think it's really really refreshing 200 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:58.039 at times to see people that do not take themselves that serious at all and 201 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:01.080 like, you know, have fun but also, you know, are like 202 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:03.519 clearly competitive and really good at their craft, and I think he is that. 203 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:09.279 So if there were like character issues or baggage or something, I mean, 204 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:11.960 I think we would know that. It's just he likes to mess with 205 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:16.480 people on Twitter, which, you know, whatever, it's harmless. And 206 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.159 to be fair, he hasn't done any He hasn't said anything about Louisville. 207 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:24.039 He tweeted out the picture of him and Big Frank when they were in high 208 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:26.960 school together and got us. That got people at least thinking, Okay, 209 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:28.360 what's he doing here? And you know, I don't know this for sure, 210 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:33.720 but I was told two days ago that the reason he might have deleted 211 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:37.080 that was because while he was still talking to Pat Kelsey and the staff, 212 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:41.960 they wanted to keep it very quiet that they were working with him. And 213 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:45.639 then I think that's kind of been the case for the last five days or 214 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.200 so, and then yesterday, I believe it was Jody Demmling who kind of 215 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:50.480 put it out there that they're working on getting him in for a visit. 216 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:56.559 And Jody putting it out, I believe would tell you that they're now cool 217 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:00.639 with If they're now cool with it being public and it may be because of 218 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:05.039 those other two schools taking other players. So either way, he'd be a 219 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:07.480 big addition, no doubt. And he's going to visit this weekend unless something 220 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:13.480 changes, and we'll see. Now we wait, and some people have asked 221 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:16.279 about timeline. He can make a decision whenever he wants. I mean, 222 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:20.759 I don't think he would do this. But technically you can enroll in school. 223 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:24.960 You can roll in school in August. I mean again, I don't 224 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:30.240 think anybody would do that, especially if Nil is going to be part of 225 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:33.320 your you know, your reason for coming. The sooner you get here, 226 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.360 the sooner you can start making some of that in al money. So I 227 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:37.200 would imagine as soon as he decides what he's gonna do, you know, 228 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:41.360 pull the trigger, make a decision. And I hope that it's Louisville. 229 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:45.840 I hope that if you are buying and selling a home, that you keep 230 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.159 my friends in mind. That's Evelin and England. 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Maybe you're just selling, maybe you're 249 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.679 just buying. Whatever it is, reach out to my friends at Eedlin andeedland 250 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:56.679 Eland dot com is the website E D E L e n dot com and 251 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:00.000 you can give them a call five O two five nine nine at twenty eight 252 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.440 hundred. All right, before we get to our first break here in the 253 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:07.960 four o'clock hour, this story fascinates me in a major way. And this 254 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:17.399 is not a sports story at all, but there is a Minnesota trial for 255 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:22.759 I think it's seven people that are being charged with stealing more than forty million 256 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:26.559 dollars from a program that was meant to feed children during the pandemic. So 257 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:33.399 essentially taxpayers in Minnesota got cheated out of two hundred and fifty Is that two 258 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:40.759 hundred and fifty Let's see, wow? Two hundred and fifty million dollars? 259 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:45.240 Is that right? Is that a typo? Goodness? Gracious? Either way, 260 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:49.720 there are seven scumbag criminals that are being held accountable and going to trial 261 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:55.759 to face the consequences for again stealing money from taxpayers that we thought was going 262 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:56.840 to go. You know, I shouldn't say we I'm not in Minnesota, 263 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:00.919 but the Minnesotians. Is that a word? Gonna say that Minnesotans, Minnesotans 264 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.680 that they assumed was going to help feed children during the pandemic. In fact, 265 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:07.319 they just pocketed a bunch of you know, scumbags, right. So 266 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:15.680 one of the jurors in that trial was dismissed from the multimillion dollar fraud trial 267 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.799 because she claimed that a woman who's one of the well, I don't know 268 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:25.279 if she's one, but a woman dropped a bag of one hundred and twenty 269 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:32.319 thousand dollars cash at her home over the weekend with the note urging her to 270 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:38.319 acquit. So this has become a national story because it's led to people asking 271 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:44.279 would you do that? Would you take one hundred and twenty thousand dollars cash 272 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:51.119 money and do what you have to do to, you know, get these 273 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:56.400 people to be found not guilty. I gotta be honest with you, I 274 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:59.119 don't know what I would do, because I don't think you know until it 275 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:00.440 happens, right, Like there's a lot of things in life. We think 276 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:06.839 we know how we'd react, We think we know what would be an automatic, 277 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:10.799 instinctual thing to do when it comes to a lot of things, but 278 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:15.160 you never know until you're there. And I believe my fear of getting in 279 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:21.200 trouble with the law is so profound that I would be scared to death that 280 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:23.519 like, even though I'm gonna call the cops and tell them what happened, 281 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:26.319 They're not gonna believe me. They're gonna think I'm in on it. They're 282 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:30.640 gonna, like I would be. Just being in that situation would scare me, 283 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:33.799 and I would not at all. I don't believe that I would think 284 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:41.359 at all about taking that money and following through with it. I don't. 285 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.319 What about you, John, I feel like you're in the same boat as 286 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:47.279 me. Yeah, I like to believe that I would do the right thing, 287 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:48.599 and I think that I would, But again, like you said, 288 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:52.079 there's no way to truly know until you're in that position. But I don't 289 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:56.920 think I necessarily have the same fear of the law as you might. But 290 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:00.079 I also you do well in the pin Yeah, oh yeah, definitely better 291 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.960 than me. Yeah, who knows. I got a beer, you got 292 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:07.200 a beard, You look tough. I can't g's I can at least put 293 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:08.839 the look up. Yeah yeah. But at the same time, yeah, 294 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:11.039 I don't think I could. I don't think I could do it. And 295 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:17.279 you know, I am someone that has you know, never seen one hundred 296 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:22.680 and twenty thousand dollars in cash. So if it was in front of me, 297 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:25.559 maybe I wouldn't do what I think I would do because I would think, 298 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:26.920 like, oh my god, this is one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, 299 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:32.519 which you know, that's a lot of money, but it's not like, 300 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:36.480 you know, I, I don't know many people that have ever you 301 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:40.359 know, earned one hundred and twenty million dollars and just or one hundred and 302 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:42.359 twenty thousand dollars and just you know, cash being given to you. I'm 303 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:45.839 sure it's happened, but those aren't people that I run around with. Obviously, 304 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:48.200 I know people who make way more than one hundred and twenty twenty thousand 305 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:49.240 dollars year. So it's not like this is light. This put it this 306 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:52.839 way. This is not life changing money, which makes makes me think that 307 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:56.759 most people would see that as not life changing money long term, to where 308 00:19:56.799 --> 00:20:00.759 you would bypass this and things like, hey, this would be cool, 309 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:03.400 but like eventually it would run out. I'd probably get caught and then my 310 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:07.200 life would be ruined because I'd probably be, you know, going to prison. 311 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:10.519 So if it's a million dollars, I think it's a much different situation. 312 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:11.720 But I think the amount of it, and I don't want to act 313 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:15.839 as if one hundred and twenty thousand dollars is nothing. It's not chump change. 314 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:18.119 I mean, in fact, to someone like myself, like one hundred 315 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:19.759 and twenty million, one hundred and twenty they keeps saying millione hundred and twenty 316 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:25.720 thousand dollars. I mean, I could invest that and potentially change my life. 317 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:27.960 But again, that's in the grand scheme of things. That's not an 318 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:32.880 insane amount of money to where I think most people probably would do the risk 319 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:37.079 reward and realize it ain't worth it. I'm gonna have to But again, 320 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:41.400 I'm such a I'm such a paranoid person in general that I would be thinking, 321 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:42.480 well, now I've got to turn them in because I don't want to 322 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:45.960 go to prison. But are these criminals Are they going to you know, 323 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:48.039 cause they're gonna get added charges right like that. You can't try to bribe 324 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:51.680 somebody on the jury. Now you got to be worried about looking over your 325 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:55.039 head because you turn somebody in like it's But I would imagine this is pretty 326 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:57.960 you know, this seems to be white collar type crime to where maybe they're 327 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:00.400 not going to, you know, put a hit out of you. But 328 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:03.079 the reason I wanted to bring that up is because one, it's a small 329 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:06.519 small town in Minnesota too, by the way, which is crazy. But 330 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:10.279 also I think people think they know what they would do. But it's one 331 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:11.200 of those things that until it happens to you, I don't know if you 332 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:14.799 really know. All right, quick break, we'll come back on the other 333 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:17.559 side. Keep this thing rolling along again. It's Coffee and Company Field about 334 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:22.160 Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. That's right, it's Coffee and 335 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:25.640 Company, feel About Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety. As the fancy voiceover 336 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:27.119 guys said there, if you guys want to join us on the show, 337 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:30.160 you can five two five, seven seventy nine hundred is the number if you 338 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:33.119 want to give us a call. We'll get back to the text line here 339 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:36.000 shortly. But let's go to the phone line, shall we. Let's welcome 340 00:21:36.039 --> 00:21:38.480 in Robert. How are we doing today? Brother? Hey? Nick? 341 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:44.559 Great, and I'm kind of excited to say you get that kid. Let 342 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:48.359 me ask a question, could they pale grant that kid? I remember Coach 343 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:52.599 dum did that one, so Peep back in nineties, I think, but 344 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:56.519 I don't know if that's still in an option or whatever. There's something they 345 00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:57.839 can do. I don't know what it is, Robert, but they've got 346 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:03.319 some kind of plan because uh, they're they're pursuing. Yeah, dude, 347 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:06.799 they have a maximum ride and if they didn't figure there was a way to 348 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:08.799 do it, I'm just wondering if they had like a maximum amount of kids 349 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:12.680 that carry on the roster. Yes, so you can have thirteen relationship you 350 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:15.880 can have thirteen scholarship players, and they already have that. However, two 351 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:19.319 of those guys are not playing next year because of an injury, so there 352 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:22.519 may be one of the kids be by you. Yes, he's not gonna 353 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:27.200 play next year. So I so the Waterman transfer, He's he's good to 354 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:30.599 go. Khalifa is the first b YU kid that transferred. I think the 355 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:34.759 plan is to have him set out and and get healthy and get in better 356 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:37.200 shape because he hasn't been able to really. I mean, he's he's getting 357 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:41.400 better shape from his injury. However, I think if in fact he is 358 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:45.680 in good shape and his injuries recovering nicely, like he may end up playing. 359 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:51.920 But yeah, so he's kind of a lumpy guy. But yeah, 360 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:53.720 like I said, oh, and then ask your political question. I know 361 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:57.160 it's not a political show, but first I was yes, I take one 362 00:22:57.200 --> 00:23:00.599 hundred twenty grand. Yeah. Second, there's no way in the world that 363 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:04.400 guys, you're going to expose himself just close and all of a sudden he's 364 00:23:04.519 --> 00:23:08.599 in a trial, so payns lay off and then now he's gonna pay something. 365 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:11.880 That's crazy. But yeah, what would you do with the one hundred 366 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:15.720 and twenty grand, Robert, I'll tell you I would probably give it to 367 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:18.759 my kids or set up put up trust for my grandchildren. I got Tiger, 368 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:25.480 and my oldest grandchild's going to nursing school there, and I probably set 369 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:29.200 it up for them and then probably ball it from them all the time. 370 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:32.000 Yeah, I hear you well, Robert, I appreciate the call. Man. 371 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:33.640 Good to hear from you. How about that, you know he would 372 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:37.640 risk potentially getting caught up in a crime because there'd be one hundred and twenty 373 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:38.960 thousand dollars and he didn't want it for himself. He wanted he wants it 374 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:41.240 for his kids and his grandkids. What a guy. I love that, 375 00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:45.119 But don't you see it's not like blood money, right, but it's one 376 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:48.440 of those things where like if your kids now have the money that's stolen money, 377 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:51.519 that could be a problem, couldn't it. Yeah, Yeah, that's 378 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:53.880 true. And then like you know, I would Again, this is just 379 00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:59.440 me being somebody who panics about stuff that probably I don't need to panic about. 380 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:00.640 I mean, if I did this, I would be panicking, and 381 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:03.839 I think it would be justified because I just you know, put myself in 382 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:04.799 a position where I could get caught up in this mess and you know, 383 00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:07.519 potentially go to prison, which I don't want, but I would worry that, 384 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:10.960 like if I did give the money to my kids or something, then 385 00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:12.839 they could somehow get caught up in the conspiracy or something like that. So 386 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:17.160 again, I'm not built for life as a criminal. You know, I 387 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:19.680 did get a speeding ticket not that long ago. And that's that's the extent 388 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:25.160 of my of my wild side, right, one of that blue mustang that's 389 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:26.759 pretty hidden on sixty five. Oh yeah you're saying that. Yeah, I 390 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:30.160 see him get some guys every once in a while, well, and he 391 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:32.440 hides out, well, and he got me. You know, there's no 392 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:36.000 doubt I believed what he told me that I was speeding and I got a 393 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:37.400 ticket and I paid it, and you know, I learned my lesson. 394 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:41.599 It was wild. So there's I don't know what the ad was for, 395 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:44.359 but you know when you go to to websites. I mean, I assume 396 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:47.160 a lot of people still use computers, but I know the majority of our 397 00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:51.079 of our time looking at stuff on the World Wide Web is on our phone. 398 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:52.640 But you know, like the top ad that you see on a website 399 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:56.839 on a desktop, or you know, like the wide ad, the billboard 400 00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:00.440 ad or whatever. There was one of those on one of the local news 401 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:03.960 stations yesterday, might have been wok why our Partners? And I'm not sure 402 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:07.799 if it was a specific ad for LMPD, if it was just Google ad 403 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:12.079 Sense where they're filtering different ads, but they were either promoting like applying to 404 00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:15.640 be a law enforcement officer with LMPD, or they were doing something to promote 405 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:21.200 something within LMPD. And sure enough, like the officer they used in the 406 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:26.680 advertisement the ad was the guy who pulled me over. So he's he's the 407 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:29.799 man appairent in that day that I mentioned, like, you know, he 408 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:32.359 was in a Mustang. Didn't think it was a cop or I didn't see 409 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:33.559 him initially, wouldn't have known it was a cop, and he got me. 410 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:37.400 And then three days after that, I saw him the same spot on 411 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.039 the way to work. The next three days I saw him that he had 412 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:44.039 people pulled over in the exact same spot. So wherever he was hiding out, 413 00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:45.440 it was working. He was catching people, he was giving out tickets. 414 00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:48.559 But after talking about it on the show, other people like on text 415 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:52.000 line, but like I know exactly what you're talking about, he'll get you. 416 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:53.799 You better be careful. So yeah, you shouldn't speak. You should 417 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:57.720 drive safe. And I learned my lesson. Thankfully that did not come with 418 00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:06.799 any any hard jailt but I did get something in the mail about verifying like 419 00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:07.839 that, my well, I got something in the mail remind me that I 420 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:10.799 had to pay the ticket, but I'd already done it, but they put 421 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:14.519 it in the mail, you know, I guess before it it went through, 422 00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:17.640 and you know, the letters pretty direct like if you don't get this 423 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:21.000 taken care of by this date, you will have a suspended license and there'll 424 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:22.720 be a warn out for your arrest. And I'm like, oh my god, 425 00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:25.519 So I'm calling these one eight hundred numbers verifying that I did in fact 426 00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:30.119 pay it off. So, yeah, you had a speeding ticket. I've 427 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:33.400 been pulled over, not for speeding. I turned so this is in he'llview, 428 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:36.720 and it was during COVID. I believe I was doing delivery driving at 429 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:40.480 the time and I turned right on a red light. It's again, you 430 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:42.319 probably know what I'm talking about in hellview that you're not allowed to turn it 431 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:47.480 right on when it's read. And a guy who was not in a marked 432 00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:49.880 car got me just warning. I guess no I got a ticket for it. 433 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:55.279 You did. Yeah, that's harmless, I know it. That was 434 00:26:55.319 --> 00:26:57.880 the first time I never ran a ticket. Yeah, they should give you 435 00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:02.720 a warning. Burns me up. It happens. So yeah, I got 436 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:07.440 pulled over but didn't get a ticket one morning for not It was I you 437 00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:10.240 know, it was ice outside, Like I here's what I was doing. 438 00:27:10.279 --> 00:27:14.079 I was leaving to go in to work when I was doing the morning show, 439 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:18.680 and at that time had started icing, like not snowing, icing. 440 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:22.960 So I got right to sixty five and I just knew if I got down 441 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:25.359 there one I was gonna get stuck. But I saw me like every few 442 00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:30.359 minutes I would see somebody just slide off the interstate into the concrete barrier there 443 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:33.119 or off the side of the road. So I decided to turn around instead 444 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:37.240 of making the trip downtown. And I was on Preston and there was a 445 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:42.799 yellow light, but I couldn't stop because you know, I would have slid 446 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:47.960 and there was there was an ambulance on the other side of Preston, literally 447 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:52.680 the other side, and it wasn't turning where I was crossing that intersection. 448 00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:56.359 It was just going straight. But because I didn't come to a complete stop 449 00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:02.200 as the ambulance was driving on the other side while there was ice everywhere. 450 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:03.680 I mean I wasn't speeding. I was probably going under the speed limit, 451 00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:07.880 but I didn't want to slam on my brakes and I got pulled over and 452 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:12.920 got a warning. But I remember at that point being very irritated, not 453 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:17.480 to the officer, but like there's no way it should have taken that long 454 00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:21.039 for him to do whatever he needed to do to run my ID my insurance, 455 00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:23.119 only to give me a warning. Like I think they feel like, 456 00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:27.119 you know, they'll be real slow in It's almost like there's a build up 457 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:30.799 for him, like the right they think you are under the impression you're gonna 458 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:33.799 get a ticket, and that's why it's taking so long. They're dragging it 459 00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:37.680 out, you know, not doing anything quick. And then in the end 460 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:41.359 they surprise you with the and we're gonna give you a warning here, and 461 00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:44.240 that usually will work, right because you'll think, okay, well, I 462 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:45.599 guess it was worth the wait because now I'm not going to get a ticket. 463 00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:48.880 It's just a warning. But that morning I thought I was not gonna 464 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:52.119 be able to make it to my house to get connected to do the show, 465 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:53.839 which was you know, which was an issue. But anyways, drive 466 00:28:53.880 --> 00:29:00.880 safe everybody. All right, let's see here the college football playoff schedule has 467 00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:04.759 been unveiled, and it just gets me more and more excited about the fact 468 00:29:04.759 --> 00:29:08.839 that the playoff is expanding. Who knows when one of the local teams will 469 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:14.519 realistically make the tournament or make the playoff or even really compete for spot, 470 00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:17.799 because look, you're gonna have to have some things play your way. It's 471 00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:19.599 not just going to be dependent upon you. It's still going to be dependent 472 00:29:19.640 --> 00:29:23.599 upon everybody else. Right, Like in the college basketball they put sixty eight 473 00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:27.160 teams in, right, you can control your own resume by winning. But 474 00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:30.079 at the end of the day, if you're a bubble team, sometimes it 475 00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:32.680 just comes down to what other people are doing right. Louis Will learned that 476 00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:34.960 the hard way in twenty twenty one when they were in the tournament barely and 477 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:40.680 then two teams stole bids and that put them out. So the fact that 478 00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:47.799 you can realistically see your team having a special season, a similar season that 479 00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:52.799 you know they can put together because they've already done it, and if they 480 00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:56.000 have those seasons, they could be right there with a shot to make the 481 00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:02.599 playoff. Like the fact that there's now more inclusion the top of the sport 482 00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:07.000 in this event, I think it's great for college football now. I still 483 00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:10.279 believe that in twenty five years, the twenty you know, the same teams 484 00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:12.920 that have been winning national championships in football for the last twenty five years, 485 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:17.359 I think it's still gonna be still gonna be those same teams. I mean, 486 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:22.119 we haven't had a first time national champion in football since Florida won it 487 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:27.480 with Spurrier. I think. So, you know, it's a very top 488 00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:30.880 dominant sport. There's not a whole lot of parody at the tip top, 489 00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:36.400 but if you're gonna let twelve teams in to compete for the national championship in 490 00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:40.880 this event, even if it's still gonna come down to the same few teams 491 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:45.480 every year, If you're in the playoff, I think you can justifiably say 492 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:48.200 that you've accomplished something special. I think it's gonna be equivalent to a Final 493 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:52.920 four parents in basketball. Now, if you're a bam, Like, here's 494 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:55.279 one thing that I didn't think about it, and I'm glad somebody mentioned this 495 00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:57.160 on the text line because it's true. But you know, my mind wasn't 496 00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:00.960 going there because Louisville's not one of these teams. If you are a Georgia 497 00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:07.400 in Alabama, hell even in Oklahoma, who's fallen off a little bit, 498 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:11.960 but Clemson, I mean teams that have been frequent participants in the playoff since 499 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:18.279 its existence ten years ago. Making the twelve team playoff like, it's probably 500 00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:19.680 gonna it's probably not gonna be much for you, right, Like you're gonna 501 00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:22.640 still feel like you did enough to get there. And I don't think anybody 502 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:26.200 would would be able to tell you that it was a bad season. But 503 00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:30.440 you know, like, let's be real, we would celebrate that a lot 504 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:37.440 more than Georgia or Ohio State or Michigan, you know, And I'm fine 505 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:42.119 with that because, you know, nobody wants to think about it because it 506 00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:45.720 I think you like to dream big and think like you could potentially win the 507 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:52.559 whole thing. But college football does not have a lot of parody in the 508 00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:56.039 tip top of the sport, and it hasn't impacted it negatively because again, 509 00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:00.400 people still watch it and love it. It's you know, outside of the 510 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:06.599 NFL, college football is what dominates viewership. So the schedule is this the 511 00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:09.519 first round. Again, these are going to be home games for four different 512 00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:13.319 teams. So you'll have on Friday, December the twentieth, you will have 513 00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:20.079 a Friday night game at eight o'clock that'll be on ABC or ESPN, probably 514 00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:23.519 ABC, and then Saturday you have three games. At noon, there'll be 515 00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:27.000 a game that's going to be on T and T, which is going to 516 00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:29.759 be weird to think about, but if you remember that there's there, it's 517 00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:34.200 not just one network that's running the entire playoff now. And then also at 518 00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:39.000 four o'clock there'll be another game on on at T and T. And then 519 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.799 at eight o'clock they'll be the last game also, and this will with this 520 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:45.799 one will be on ABC, ESPN, that those family and stations, So 521 00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:51.559 that's your first round and then and the quarterfinals that's where you have the actual 522 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:55.880 like these are bowl games still, right, So on Tuesday you'll have the 523 00:32:57.319 --> 00:33:00.880 looks like the Fiesta Bowl, and that'll be on New Year's Tuesday, seven 524 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:05.759 o'clock i'm sorry, seven to thirty. And then on Wednesday, New Year's 525 00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:09.599 Day, there'll be a ton of games. You'll have one o'clock on ESPN 526 00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:14.839 the Peach Bowl, and then at five o'clock the Rose Bowl on ESPN, 527 00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:19.440 and then on at eight forty five it'll be the Sugar Bowl, which will 528 00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:22.079 be also on ESPN, and then the Semis again. When it gets down 529 00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:24.920 to just four. It'll be on January the ninth, you'll have one game 530 00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:30.960 seven thirty that'll be the Orange Bowl, and then the Cotton Bowl will be 531 00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:34.880 on Friday night at seven thirty on ESPN, and the National Championship Game, 532 00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:37.680 of course, is going to be on ESPN exclusively, not on ABC, 533 00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:42.640 and it'll be on Monday, January the twentieth. So what stands out to 534 00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:45.319 me is one, it's just gonna be insane but awesome to see postseason like 535 00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:51.079 college football playoff games taking place on campuses. That'll just be the first first 536 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:58.960 four games that'll be on that late December weekend. But Tuesday night college football 537 00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:02.720 playoff game seems odd, but then again, it's the holiday, right, 538 00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:06.240 so like it doesn't feel like your typical Tuesday, Tuesday and Wednesday or New 539 00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:10.480 Year's Eve and New Year's Day and then that week for us, Yeah, 540 00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:17.039 it will be weird. And honestly, the Thursday night semi final game on 541 00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:22.719 January the ninth, meaning the first you know, the first day of games 542 00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:25.440 or the first of the you know, when it gets to four teams, 543 00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:29.360 there'll be a Thursday and a Friday game. Thursday's gonna be weird because that's 544 00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:32.199 just like that'll be a normal That'll be a normal Thursday, and it'll just 545 00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:36.480 kind of feel like, okay, you know, what are we Like we'll 546 00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:40.440 be kicking off conference playing basketball too. Yeah, that's true, and I'm 547 00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:45.800 sure when this does happen there'll be people complaining, but there is gonna be 548 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:50.119 one team that has an extra day rest compared to the other, because again, 549 00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:53.079 you've got a long gap. So maybe by then everybody's healthy. But 550 00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:55.719 one team's gonna play on the ninth, the other team's gonna play on the 551 00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:58.800 tenth, and the winners of those games will play on the twentieth. So 552 00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:01.480 if you're in the the Orange Bowl instead of the Cotton Bowl, you're going 553 00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:05.000 to have an extra day arrest, which to me, by that point, 554 00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:07.800 I think you've had enough time to get ready for the National championship game. 555 00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:08.800 But you know, coaches are going to complain and act as if they've got 556 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:12.320 a disadvantage, because that's what they do. All right, we got to 557 00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:14.320 take a quick break. We'll come back on the other side. Keep this 558 00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:15.400 thing rolling along. If you want to join as you can, we'll get 559 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:17.920 back to the text line on the other side. FABO too, six five 560 00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:22.000 three zero seven ninety. It's the ln N Federal Credit Union text line. 561 00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:27.440 Keep it locked right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. That's right, Coffee 562 00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:30.880 and company rolling along here on a Wednesday afternoon. Appreciate you hanging out with 563 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:37.239 us. So what I want to get to in the five o'clock hours Some 564 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:42.239 things I want to make sure we save some time for with schools now being 565 00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:45.360 allowed to pay. I mean, it's funny to frame it that way, 566 00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:47.880 schools are now allowed to pay twenty two million dollars to their student athletes, 567 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:52.079 which you know that insinuates they're allowed to like they've been begging to know, 568 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:55.280 they now have to come up. Look, if you are in the business 569 00:35:55.280 --> 00:36:00.840 of college athletics, meaning you invest money and you care about being successful athletically 570 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:02.840 as university, you know you want to win and you can't win unless you're 571 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:07.199 paying players now, so it's just essentially the cost of doing business. So 572 00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:10.719 there's gonna be cuts, there's gonna be sacrifices, and again, only time 573 00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:15.880 will tell as far as what sports get eliminated at certain schools. I'm sure 574 00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:20.840 there's gonna be some real creative ways these universities fine to get to get, 575 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:23.639 you know, to create money, rather it be you know, raising money, 576 00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:28.360 rather it be cutting here and there. So it'll be fascinating to see, 577 00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:30.199 at least to me because you know, I'm a nerd. But what 578 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:32.199 I want to take a look at is a good a good breakdown that really 579 00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:37.880 tells you at each level G five and Power five, how many schools can 580 00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:44.400 can claim that their football and basketball makes enough money to pay for everything, 581 00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:47.599 right, Because there's some schools that just really won't be that big, Like 582 00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:51.320 it's probably not something they want and they're gonna have to do something to, 583 00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:53.559 you know, like make it to where they have that money available every year. 584 00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:58.719 But then there's something that like they know right away like hey, we 585 00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:00.000 can't we ain't gonna be able to pay twenty two million. I know that's 586 00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:02.800 the max, but like we may be able to do twelve, or hey, 587 00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:05.599 if we're gonna do this, we're gonna have to cut sports. So 588 00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:07.199 it's it's it's fair. And again, only time will tell as far as 589 00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:10.239 what ends up happening. But there are schools out there that I would have 590 00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:15.239 assumed were in pretty good shape financially because I would have assumed that they're football 591 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:17.280 and basketball make them a lot of money. And that's that's not the case 592 00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:21.360 according to this to this study. So we'll get we'll look at that on 593 00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:25.039 the other side. However, before we get to the top of the hour 594 00:37:25.079 --> 00:37:31.400 here, let's talk about this recent sports betting scandal in Major League Baseball. 595 00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:36.960 So four players have been suspended for an entire year for betting on baseball, 596 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:42.199 while one player, a padres infielder, has been banned for life. And 597 00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:46.599 you know, I'm not head on a swivel trying and I'm not following every 598 00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:51.639 one of these stories as far as the reaction you get from those that find 599 00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:55.039 out professional athletes that participate in some of these games that you bet on, 600 00:37:55.599 --> 00:38:00.480 they're in on it. But I don't feel like there's a whole of shock 601 00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:05.559 and surprise there. And I think that's because it was a given right, 602 00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:12.519 Like nobody who really was in charge that that really made some moves to make 603 00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:15.440 it happen to where we could bet on sports legally, rather it be you 604 00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:17.880 know, each state by state who decided to make it a thing, or 605 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:22.559 rather or maybe somebody who you know is the is the commissioner of Major League 606 00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:25.159 Baseball or the NBA or NFL. You know, they know going in, 607 00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:29.920 Yeah, we're getting in bed with the sports betting world, and it's going 608 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:31.599 to be very lucrative. It's gonna be good for business. There's clearly an 609 00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:35.920 appetite for it, and there's a lot of money there. But we know 610 00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:38.119 that there's like nobody came into this thinking that there wouldn't be this kind of 611 00:38:38.119 --> 00:38:42.400 an issue. Rather it be college players betting on sports or whether it be 612 00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:45.360 NBA or NFL or Major League Baseball players betting on games they're playing in. 613 00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:50.119 I mean, it's shameful, and you got to handle it the way they're 614 00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:54.599 handling it by banning people from the sport. But I think it was such 615 00:38:54.639 --> 00:39:00.760 an unheard of thing to even. Like, again, I I really got 616 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:05.000 into sports betting right around the time I started working at iHeart, But at 617 00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:08.559 that time, twenty sixteen, I mean, you couldn't bet on sports legally 618 00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:14.400 anywhere around here other than like Vegas maybe Atlantic City. So you know, 619 00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:16.559 the Bravadas, the bet nows, the offshore sports books, they were pretty 620 00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:21.880 common, but you never saw it being mentioned or featured during live sports. 621 00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:27.840 And now it's everywhere, right, so you know, it's still there's still 622 00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:30.280 some shock value for me when I'm like, oh my gosh, that NBA 623 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:35.800 player for the Raptors was in on it, because again, it's still relatively 624 00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:39.159 new, but it came so quickly to where now you've got a situation where 625 00:39:39.239 --> 00:39:45.119 this let me get the specifics of this, because the network has changed ownership 626 00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:47.239 a bunch of times. Yeah, so FANDUL is nearing an agreement to purchase 627 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:52.719 the naming rights on the eighteen regional sports networks owned and operated by Diamond Sports 628 00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:59.880 Group. So I believe Diamond Sports Group acquired those regional stations from Sinclair Broadcasting 629 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:04.400 and nobody's been able to make it work right. Those things have been a 630 00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:07.679 mess for a while, and somehow they still have game like a lot of 631 00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:10.440 baseball and gave some NBA like that's that's primarily where most of their games are 632 00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:14.760 on one of those networks. And as we've learned as Louisville fans, you 633 00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:17.960 can get a Bally Sports South game previously of you know, a Fox Sports 634 00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:22.679 Ohio or a Fox Sports Florida or Fox Sports Ohio, you'd get one of 635 00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:28.280 those games because of the ACC's agreement that you know has been in place forever, 636 00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:31.440 and it they'd be hard to find because this is where you know, 637 00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:35.599 I won't pretend to know how this how this works as far as the ends 638 00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:40.599 and the outs, but those networks were not available, like even if you 639 00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:44.840 wanted to buy, like even if we add them to your your subscription, 640 00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:47.159 you couldn't do it. Like at one point, I think Dish might have 641 00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:52.440 been Dish maybe direct, like they were the only providers that could even get 642 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:53.480 those channels, like even if you wanted to pay for them, like you're 643 00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:57.920 a lot of providers didn't offer them because I don't even know why, but 644 00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:01.239 still it was difficult. So fan To would acquire the equity stake in the 645 00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:06.559 company, would acquire I'm sorry at equity stake in the company and involve its 646 00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:10.719 programming for the channel. So essentially what they're doing is they're buying a big 647 00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:15.920 chunk of this company to where I think the production of it will probably still 648 00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:19.840 be the way that it is, but it's going to be basically wrapped in 649 00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:22.719 a Fandel sportsbook from top to bottom. It's going to be on the Fandel 650 00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:25.559 Sportsbook channel that is now on a lot of networks, including my YouTube TV. 651 00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:30.960 And it's just crazy to think how quickly this thing has exploded to where 652 00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:37.719 seven eight years ago, you never heard anybody on a platform television, radio 653 00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:40.599 talking about like legally betting on sports because you couldn't do it really anywhere. 654 00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:45.920 Now, I mean, in a year or two, whenever this happens, 655 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:47.519 if in fact, this deal does get closed, you may be going to 656 00:41:47.639 --> 00:41:52.920 a sports books television station to watch your team play. And I'm not against 657 00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:55.880 it. I love it. I mean, I love sports betting. I 658 00:41:55.880 --> 00:42:00.639 think it's added and it's added an entertainment component that didn't exist previously. When 659 00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:05.440 we watch sports. You can now really get into and be invested in a 660 00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:07.079 game where you don't you don't have rooting interest because you're a fan. You're 661 00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:10.519 rooting because you want to win money. All right, quick break, we'll 662 00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:14.719 come back on the other side five o'clock hours coming up next. Keep it 663 00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:15.400 locked right here on Sports Talk seven ninety