We're feeling good. Weekend is upon us Father's Day this weekend? Are you
kid me me? That's right? That's snuck up. Happy early Father's Day.
Thank you. It's still the dad of dad. It's still relative.
So I'm gonna ask dads to chime in here, and you guys can call
in at some point or text in whatever you want to do. And I
don't want to make it dominate the show. But if we do make it
dominate the show, who cares. It's a Friday. We're feeling good,
it is Father's Day, and i'd say a good chunk infect the majority.
It's not, you know, I would hope. I like to think we
have female listeners, which I know that we do, but I don't know,
you know, I don't know how you know what our percentages are male,
female and whatever you want to identify as. But regardless if you're a
dad or not, you probably have a dad or had a dad if he
hasn't passed away, so like you probably have a father figure. So if
we want to make this a Father's Day Friday, we can certainly do it.
But my daughter's eight, my son is just turned four, and Father's
Day is a holiday. That really sneaks up on me because it's just like
I mean, and when I think of Father's Day, I still at times
don't even really think of like the fact that I'm a father. I think
of my dad, my stepfather, and you know, I unfortunately don't have
any grandparents left. But nonetheless, like it's kind of like a sneaky surprise
type of holiday because Sunday, you know, I'm gonna probably do a lot
of the same things I typically do on a Sunday, but you know,
you know it's my day right with my kids, and their mother is going
to remind them, you know, to really really love on Dad because it's
Father's Day. So I'm curious when you get older does that change, right,
Cause, like my kids aren't at the age where they're going to go
buy me gifts. You know, they don't have money their young children,
and they don't have a calendar to where they know Father's Days coming up.
I better go make plans for Dad. But my wife does a good job.
So I'm just curious, like when you get older, And I guess
my dad could answer this. You know's he's my father and we celebrated Father's
Day every year. Is he thinking like, hmm, I wonder what Nick
and his sister Emily are gonna get me for Father's Day, you know,
because we've got we've got you know, we've got plans. But it's like
a selfless holiday, right, like I never think, you know, I
don't. I don't. I didn't become a father so I could have this
day to celebrate, right, Yeah, but you know, it's it's it's
a lot of fun. It's busy, but it's it's a lot of fun.
So yeah, it's a Father's Day Friday. Here Coffee and Company,
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start of the show up as an issue. It's just the the button bar
disappeared, which you didn't say it, I'll say it. That means somebody
was in there messing with stuff like that's how that happens. Yeah, something
that I'm not used to and usually I'm I got in here a little bit
early, and usually the same kind of clicks over. But like I said,
we got we got to talking, and you know, just a couple
of guys like us ramble and you know, and now has gone by so
and before you know it, I'm like, oh, I don't even have
show open. But don't say a word. If in fact the last person
that logged into that computer is who I think it is, that's all I
needed enough. Yep. So the reason I ask that is because if this
type of situation were to happen with that person, it would have been called
nine one one. I mean, it would have been crazy. So anyways,
we're ready to rock and roll again. It's a Friday. We've got
a couple of guests can and join us coming up at four o'clock. We're
going to talk to the one, the only, mister Jeff Greer, which
I got to figure out, how are we going to like, how am
I going to introduce Jeff Greer? Because I think still most people know Jeff
around here because he was somebody covering Louisville basketball for a long time during some
of the better years the program has had. And I still I mean,
it's impossible for me to bring Jeff on and not talk hoops with him because
that's you know, he's a hoophead like myself. But he now works for
the brass at Soccer Holdings, which of course is the ownership group of Racing
Louisville in Louisville City FC. And we we had Jeff on for a little
while there and then I went on vacation and we kind of got off track.
But we're bringing him on at four o'clock because there's a big game tomorrow
with Racing Louisville taking on a team that isn't real. So I don't know
if you if you're familiar with with with the the in again, I'm doing
a disservice to our partners here by not remembering the name of the league they
play them, but I know that it is the National Women's Soccer League.
I think it is the n w SL, right the prof I mean,
it's it's truly the only major pro sports franchise we have here in Louisville,
right, Racing Louisville right because lu CITYFC. They're kicking ass once again,
that's what they do, but they're in that lower level like right below MLS.
So this is the you know, the women's version of the MLS,
and we've got some momentum for racing lou And they play a team tomorrow that
is really good. I think they're actually the defending champs. Yeah, they're
the ragining champs. The game is going to be on national TV. It
isn't noon tomorrow, and you're going to hear it tomorrow on our sister station
right here, ten eighty. If you want to listen on the radio,
i'd encourage you to go out because they're taking on yeah, the NWSL champions.
Gotham FC. Oh, Gotham's not a real city. No, it's
not. I mean, like people know that such a cool name though,
yeah, but it's not real, Like it's fraud, Like you know,
you can call yourself Gotham, but like that's Batman man, like, yeah,
it's not. It's not the same thing. So, like, I
mean, I want to go to in New York. Yeah, they are
New York, New Jersey there, but they call them Gotham Gotham FC.
But it's still like Gotham's not real. Okay, yeah, can you even
do that? I mean they're doing it, but I want to go to
the game tomorrow at noon and just yell at those fans and let them know
they're frauds, because again, it's not a real like. That's not a
like. Gotham's not a real place. That's like if we did Derby City
Racing or if we were Derby City Racing FC or Derby City. But no,
no, no, Derby City is actually better because Derby City is not
claiming that it's an act like Gotham's from Batman. Let's be real here,
I mean, did it come from anything else? I no, I only
know of Gotham from Batman. I know, and that's the city that you
know Batman, you know, the whole series, movies, all that took
place. Unless I'm forgetting something. But again, they can they can have
their championship from last year, which they do, and they can have fun
with it. But to me, it doesn't count because it's not real.
Gotham's not real kind of like. And this actually reminds me of this.
I sent this to Jeff gre earlier, Like, Western Kentucky. Do you
realize this austin Western Kentucky. Wk U is not in Western Kentucky. No,
it's in south central south Central, which took me back to this vibe
check where I you know, I had to. I had to call them
out, what's your connection in Western you from out there? I'm from Boreenya.
Does it bother you that Western Kentucky University is actually not in Western Kentucky.
It's more in central Kentucky. It is south central Kentucky, but not
Western. No, So it's like fraudulent school. I mean, you've got
to call people out for their nonsense. And that's what's happening tomorrow with Gotham
because they're coming to town. They're they're reigning champs. It's gonna be on
national TV. But they're gonna get a beat down. They don't know what's
coming for them tomorrow when Racing Louisville gets a hold of them. So again,
we'll talk to Jeff coming up here at four o'clock and I got a
few different things I wanted it to start with. But before we do that,
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sure if anybody really cares about the portal when it doesn't relate to their team.
And I get it if you're somebody that really is only interested in the
portal, if it's players you're losing to the portal, or if it is
players that your team is pursuing in the portal. And you know, I'm
kind of in the same boat, however, as somebody who loves college basketball,
and I try to keep up with you know, where the big names
end up that kind of stuff, because we're now at a point where when
you are looking at off season projections, these off season rankings that we've referenced,
it used to just be who you brought back on your own team,
and I guess who you brought in from the freshman class, right, I
mean, Kentucky would have a down year, right, they'd underachieve under Caliperi.
Not often, Let's be real, they were pretty good. But me
let me give you an example in twenty thirteen when louisll win the National Championship.
Kentucky that year had a really rough year. They didn't make the tournament,
they lost to Robert Morrison the NIIT, and then the next year they
ended up being preseason I think like number one or number two because they once
again brought in a loaded freshman class. So now when we look at teams
heading into the upcoming season, I feel like the majority of what you're factoring
in as far as rankings and predictions expectations, it's based off of what you
do in the portal. So because of that, I still follow along with,
you know, the top names that are in the portal, regardless of
where they're going, because where they end up it could be a big deal.
So Coleman Hawkins a name we talked about for quite a bit, I
think it was a week ago. Today we found out that he is in
fact not going to visit Louisville. And you know, I took some backlash
from you know, the toxic world that is Twitter for stating that Louisville is
the one who backed off here. They decided to say, you know,
respectfully, I'm sure thanks, but no thanks. We've decided to kind of
stay put where we are and I have no clue that's a good decision or
a bad decision, right, like maybe Coleman Hawkins, who by the way,
has now committed to Kansas State. Maybe it turns out to where you
think, like, damn the guys that we decided to prioritize and not bring
in Coleman Hawkins, that was a bad idea. No clue. We'll have
to wait and see if that all plays out. But for better or for
worse, I can tell you the reason he didn't visit Louisville is because Louisville
decided no longer to recruit him. And it could have been money, it
could have been And in fact, I know you know what I was told,
which I believe, is that they really like the chemistry they have as
of now. And I don't mean because they've played together for years, clearly
it's a brand new team. But what I mean is that they knew by
bringing Colemanhawkins, it was going to leave one, maybe two players in a
position to where they'd have to consider do I want to bail? Because you
know, I don't have a lot of time left. I don't have you
know, I got one year, maybe and I know now with them bringing
this guy in, I'm either going to be sharing minutes or I'm going to
be on the bench. And some would say, well, that's lame.
You should want to compete. Totally get it, but these you know,
these kids got to do it's best for themselves. So I believe, just
my opinion, the root of Louisville not wanting to bring in Colemanhawkins for a
visit is because they did not want to lose anybody on this team, and
by doing that bringing in Hawkins, it could have led to them losing one.
I think they would have lost one, they might have lost two.
So I'm not saying it's the right decision, wrong decision, or whatever.
But Coleman Hawkins good player. Now going to Kansas State, and the reports
are this, and I I don't tend to believe the number that you typically
see that's attached to these players, and it's just because I think it's exaggerated.
It makes the school look good that they have resources that can pay you,
and it makes the player look good because hey, that means that by
definition, if somebody's paying you north of two million, which is what the
report is for Colemenhawkins. Then that's what you're worth. So it's a mutually
beneficial situation because it means you can pay if you're the school. And again,
the player looks good because he's worth that. So what I've seen today
is a little bit of a surprise for me. And that's the reaction here.
And it's not because people are, you know, saying that Kansas State's
going to be the favorite in the Big Twelve. It's not that people are
claiming that they're about to win the national championship. But I feel like Kansas
State is kind of getting mocked for how much money they were able to pay
for their starting lineup, essentially from the portal. And I'm gonna try to
get the you know. And again, even if we had a breakdown from
somebody that showed what every player that Kansas State bought was making, I'm not
sure if I'd believe it, because again, I think all these numbers are
extremely exaggerated. But from our own Kevin Sweeney, I can say our own
because he's been with us for just about every week of the calendar year talking
college basketball. Here's what he reported earlier. Kansas State has pushed the chips
in with one of the most aggressive, nil driven rosters Bill built the spring,
capped by winning Coleman Hawkins in the sweepstakes, a deal that is north
of two million dollars. So this is what's out there. The Wildcats meaning
Kansas State, welcomed in yugana On Yinsu and a Corra Corps who is the
kid from Samford who I really really liked, and I'm glad Louis Will ended
up with Casein Pryor. But they've got three players that the total number for
these guys, and again one of them is Ugo and ugan On Yinsu Ugo,
which again, if you're paying north of a million dollar for that guy,
money must just be unlimited or or it's all a lie and nobody's paying
that. But anyways, the belief and I say belief because I think these
guys that cover college basketball, like Kevin Sweeney, like Joe Tipton, like
Rob Dowster, and I don't see the you know, the the top tier
of college basketball's coverage, right, that's Goodman, that's I would say Dowster,
that's Rostein. Who I'm missing Austin who who do you feel like is
in the is in the is in the you know, the top end of
college basketball reporting, Rostein Goodman. I mean, do we throw Andy Katz
in there? Maybe? Yeah, what I was about to say, what's
Andy Katz been up to? I mean, to be honest with you,
Trilly is Is is the guy that's as plugged in as anybody, but it's
it just still doesn't feel natural to like cite him. He just came out.
Yeah, Like, imagine Sports Center crediting a report to Trilli Donovan.
They wouldn't do it. Yeah, So I can't even think of who like
ESPN's lead guy is. It's Jeff Bordello. It's Jeff Worzello. And I
like Jeff, but he's just not as big of a name. So,
like, those are the guys that I don't see putting numbers next to players'
names, because I don't even think they believe what they're told. But still,
like we live in this world where apparently four million dollars was paid for
those three players, a guy from Sanford, Ugo who was not even in
like I mean he I mean, could you call him? Could you call
him a serviceable? I mean, you know, you just happen to play
in a big time program team that yeah, I mean Louisville was was was
in on him, but they weren't going to pay what he was asking,
and they decided to go in a different direction, in fact, from what
he was asking. And that's when they took Big Frank from Georgia Frank anselom
Ivy. But I mean Ugo three point six points, four point eight rebounds
a game last year and he played twenty minutes a game nineteen. Excuse me,
Like, if you play half the game and that is your stat line,
you've got some real balls on you to ask for a million dollars to
transfer and play somewhere. And apparently he did, and we're supposed to believe
that Kansas State was willing to pay it. But the reason I'll bring all
this up it's not jealousy, because again, you know, I don't even
think that, like, I mean, they let Arthur Columba walk, who's
transferring from Kansas State. I think he's better than everybody they just brought in.
I think Arthur Klum is a better player than Colmon Hawkins. Both are
good. But my point is this, there's now been some real like shade
thrown at Kansas State from not only fans, but like Kevin Sweeney, who
I should you know. I don't know if he's throwing shade, but this
is the first time I've really seen the nil money that is believed to be
spent on a team turn into pressure in regards to expectations, right like they're
some and I don't, I don't. I wish I could give you specific
names, and I don't want to put words in anybody's mouth, but it
just seems as if the vibe as well. Damn, Kansas State paid this
much money for these guys. That's a big price tag. They better win,
And I'm just curious. Is that what it's going to turn into?
Like is that what college sports is going to turn into? To where you
hear number, you believe it if it's true or not, and you're not
just thinking, Hey, we better win because our coach is on the hot
seat, we better win. We missed the tournament two years in a row.
Is it going to also turn into we better win because a lot of
money was paid for these guys? It's in What makes it so odd is
that, as we speak now, it's not money from the school, it's
not money from fans. I mean, I guess it can be like it's
money from like a rich donor, and I guess if your collective is really
able to raise a ton of money, like the five of two circle has
done a great job at that, but you don't know what your money's going
towards, right, Like if you're paying fifty bucks a month for a subscription
to the nil circle, to the you know, five x two circle,
which is the Lowsll's nil collective, Like is that I mean you don't.
I mean, I'm sure they're sharing with you certain things, like what they're
doing to help out teams, but like it's really just a big sham to
be honest with you. So I don't know. I in a way,
I kind of hope that we do end up at some point knowing, and
we're not entitle to know because it's private matter. Like I don't I wouldn't
want my financial situation being public for a variety of reasons. But if we
do ever get full transparency as far as okay, now that the schools are
going to be paying these guys, and they're going to pay them twenty to
twenty two million a year, and by the way, that That's another question
that I'll have to wait and see if we get the real answer, if
there's transparency there. But twenty two million is the cap as far as what
a school can pay an entire athletic department when it comes to student athletes.
Are we going to get full transparency as far as what the percentages are as
far as eighty percents go into football and then the rest let everybody everything.
I mean, again, those are questions that we don't know the answer to
just yet. But I kind of like the thought of knowing that school.
You know, basketball programs, football programs are also going to be evaluated on
not just winning and losing, but like did you overpay? Did you get
a return on your investment? I just think it adds a different element to
how we how we talk and cover college sports. Like, for example,
I have no clue if it's true or not. I have no reason to
think it's a lie. But Texas A and M during the Jimbo Fisher era,
you heard the noise Austin, they had the bag. They were going
to be willing to pay anything and everything, and they'll pay whatever it takes
Texas money. Yeah, they and they stunk like they weren't good, and
that's why Jimbo got fired. But if there was, if the perception wasn't
that they were building rosters with unlimited money, would there would there have been
as much pressure to get rid of him. Probably so because they were not
just like kind of bad, they were really bad. I mean, I
think the last two years he was there, they mean, they were they
weren't even competitive at times. So I don't know. Just every now and
then it hits me how different college sports has become. And I try at
times to kind of not really focus on that because I'm someone that naturally fears
change and the thought of college sports and not being what it's always been to
me would make me sad. So I'm gonna, you know, I choose
to believe I'm going to adapt and adjust and always love it because I can't
imagine not. But I don't know. Just seeing all the reaction from the
Coleman Hawkins news today, it just made me, you know, more aware,
and I guess just a reminder overall that this is pro sports now,
folks, and every aspect, this is professional sports. And I don't say
that to say we're screwed. It's the end because you know, for me,
again, I'm gonna I'm gonna support it and watch it and consume it
until it no longer exists. And I hope that that never happens. But
there are some that I think found a level of wholesomeness, if that's a
word, purity, playing for the name on the front, not the back,
that if they're reminded, if it's in their face, that this was
all a transactional situation, they're going to be turned off by it. I
don't know how many people are like that. I don't know if that's widespread
or if that's just maybe the older generation, but that is something to monitor.
And here's what I'll tell you. If you're somebody that's in that space,
meaning you don't like the thought of these guys going to your school because
they're paid, You don't like the thought of them doing it only because they
know where that's where the money's at. And you know, I don't agree,
but you know, everybody's entitled to their opinion. You can have your
own belief on it. But I'll just tell you this, it's kind of
been that way for a while. I mean, maybe not to this extent.
I don't think everybody was getting paid, but clearly guys were getting impermissible
benefits as they call it, to go to certain schools for generations. Right
go back to like the seventies. I bet somebody's dad got a pickup truck
to for their kid to go to a certain school. If you've seen the
movie Blue Chips, that wasn't just a script movie, a script from a
writer for the film like that was kind of what everybody knew what was going
on. So if you are somebody that's turned off by it, I get
it, you know, I don't agree, but just know that when you
were worshiping college sports twenty years ago, there was still a level of it
being a transactional situation. The issue now is that it's right in your face.
And I still don't know why you care. But if you do,
you know you do. Everybody's wired differently. They see things that they view
it differently. But I'd say, as of right now, I mean,
this will be the year where if you are still trying to live in that
world where this is amateur it's for the love of the game, it's about
these kids are students first. I mean, I think this will be the
year where that completely is just a race from your brain because it's going to
be right in your face. Well, you talked about, you know,
just with with the change in college sports just a couple of years ago,
when the transfer portal really became like a big thing, even before nil was
really in your face, you saw these kids really kind of showing their allegiances
towards the coaches, and when the coaches would leave and get transferred somewhere else
and always that's what really kind of kickstarted the rule that how come they can
go coach immediately, But if we leave and that's not the original coach we
committed to, we have to sit out a year or you got to do
that? Or how come they get paid all these big this big money and
why they get paid all this and they can and they can get fired like
Kenny Payne. Kenny Payne will make more money this year to not coach Louisville
basketball than Pat Kelsey's going to make to coach loivel basketball. Crazy, say
it out loud. It doesn't even seem possible, but it's it's just how
it works. So you know, I agree with every Like we had a
caller earlier this week who made a point about how this is ruined college athletics
and it sucks and it's terrible, and I agree that it's a big change.
And the days of guys maybe playing in your program for many years and
being lifers that you remember forever, like that's probably dead and gone unless you
know you're in that upper tier, which is that you're succeeding in a major
way. You're YUCONN right now. Yeah, exactly. Like the best case
scenario if you'd ever have that is dudes who are on your team that are
really good, that don't translate to the NBA, you're having success and the
NIL money is there because then they wouldn't leave, Like they're going to stay
in college for four years maybe five. Heck, some guys are playing six
seven years now, So like that's the best case scenario. But I agree,
like it's going to be different and some of the best like, for
example, I don't think Louisville Basket. I don't know this for sure,
and we'll never know, but I have a hard time believing Louisville's last national
championship in twenty thirteen would have happened if things were the way they are now,
meaning back then, like if guys could, like Russ would have been
gone. And Russ is one of the best players that's ever played here.
It's a legend, and he was about to leave when they're when he was
gonna have to sit out. So, you know, I hear all the
frustration and worry that like college sports will never feel the same for fans.
I totally get it. But for about five years now this has been a
talking point, right like, should you know, should players be allowed to
transfer whenever? How do they not get any of the how do they not
get even a teeny tiny crumb from the billions of dollars the NCAA generates from
the NCAA tournament. And it's really two conversations. Yeah, it's it's gonna
be different, and I'm sure there will be some that will turned off.
They'll be turned off by it, and they'll just change it in a major
way, and that's unfortunate. However, there's really, like, I don't
I've never heard anybody claim that these students should have to sit out because they
transfer to that they shouldn't be allowed to make money from people who want to
give them money. And I think what it comes down to is that there's
a fear of change, right, Like you can claim it's going to be
awful, but you're saying it's going to be awful compared to the way you
got used to it for generations. I mean, college athletics never changed as
far as what like the imateur is a model from the NSABA has been the
same for no joke, seventy years. So it's not that it's terrible.
It's just so different than what you're used to, and that's what bothers you.
But it doesn't mean that it's not right. Like nobody's ever told me
why a player shouldn't be able to transfer wherever they want, whenever they want,
and be able to play Why white white, you know, because it
makes it harder for a coach because fans won't be able to have a guy
around for five years, Like just because you know, we get so sucked
up in being a fan, because that's at the end of the day,
we're all fanatics, right, and that leads to a level of emotion kind
of overtaking you to where you you don't really think totally rationally. But a
player in college sports, there's no reason why they would ever need to sit
out if I'm in the band at EKU and I transferred to be in the
pet band at Wku. They'd never make me sit out, why would they?
But in sports they did it because they wanted they were looking out for
the competitive product, and that was their inconsistency. That was where they contradicted
themselves. This was clearly professional sports. There were clearly rules that prohibited players
from doing what they wanted to do. And if that's the case, you
know what that means. It's pro sports their employees. So the only I
guess counter that comes up every now and then, which is true, and
it kind of at times makes me just, you know, want to side
with those that say we should have these rules in place where players shouldn't be
able to be paid and they shouldn't be able to transfer. And that's this
making you go play, right, Like, if you're that good, you
don't have to go to college and play. You can go the G League,
you can go overseas. It's like, because they're not forcing you to
do it. I guess in a way, you could say, well,
if you don't want to, you don't have to. But that's also a
dangerous line to kind of toe, given the fact that if you did make
it to where it was inconvenient for every great player coming out of high school,
then the NBA would actually have a legitimate farm system because they wouldn't want
to go to college. So I don't know, I've always, I guess,
had my blinders on, thinking like, no matter what happens, no
matter what's done, college sports is going to be something I love forever,
and I'm going to embrace it regardless of the changes that are coming. But
for some reason, today it was like one of those days where it hit
me like wait a second, like now this is pro sports. It is
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company rolling along here on a Friday afternoon, a very disgusting friday. And
I say that because it's just so humid, and uh, I hate the
humidity. I do I'd rather I mean, I don't know about you,
Austin, I'm a sweaty guy. Myself. I don't like the hot weather.
You live in Arizona forever, so I'm sure you used to hot weather.
Yeah, but I mean like I would take still hate it, give
me snow over the heat index that we're about to get here, because it's
just never been a fan of the humidity, the stickiness. And you've even
said it on the show before. You don't even like being places that are
hot. I just I just like you. I look around and I'm like,
why is everyone outside? Why would you choose to be out in this
you know, disgusting, disgusting heat unless you're like right by a pool,
which I was earlier. I just would stay pull up in the backyard.
Ice was really good, maybe had a little marg nice. It was a
real yeah yeah yeah, frozen on the rocks. It was on the I
have one of those little I have one of those little stainless steel like alls
that you freeze. Oh okay, and uh you so like it's like an
ice ball, right, just like an ice ball, but it's not really
ice. Yeah. Yeah, No, it's just like a little stainless steel
ball and it's, uh, it's pretty clutch if you're gonna be out and
again, it's it's not it's not as if it's a thousand degrees outside.
But this is a day where I feel like the heat index is a real
reminder of what it feels like because it could be the same temperature, but
if the humidity's not crazy, it's still gonna be hot. Yeah, but
not you know, not just like thick and disgusting. When I say thick,
I mean the air quality. Yeah, I mean I got a sickness
for the thickness in a different way. But I don't want the thick air,
you know what I mean. I don't want the thick air. No,
it's not that kind of thick that makes me uncomfortable. My worst the
worst thing I hate about it is getting in your car after it's been there,
like just been in the heat all day, and I don't it just
might be a little bit different for me. I have all leather interior,
so like it's just it's, yeah, a little sick brag, little peanut
butter, a little peanut butter inside outside jelly shout out the project Pa.
But like it's it's it's ridiculous. It's so much easier, especially you know
you said you're a sweaty guy yourself. I'm a bigger, heftier guy like
you. It's so easier for me to warm up than cool off. Like
you could just go inside and then just sit in front of a fan for
god knows how long, and then you're still you walk away from it's still
not satisfied. But I thrown a couple of coats and put on a blanket
when I'm freezing cold. I'm good. So what what parts of the country
are mostly known for having very very hot temperature, But everybody says, oh,
it's a dry heat, which I assume means no no humidity, like
Texas, Arizona, maybe because Mexico. So you you lived in you lived
in Arizona, Arizona, baby, And is that like, is that like
the desert Arizona, Arizona where it snows right? So yeah, southern Arizona
in my lifetime, it's snowed there three times. So for the most part,
it was very hot, right, very very very hot. So I
mean, compare it to heat here is it? I mean I've been to
Arizona once and it was Phoenix, which I feel like is the desert,
Like I actually have been to Phoenix a couple of times. I've been to
Vegas a few times. I actually think Phoenix was hotter than Vegas when I
was, so you've been there during like the summer or the warm months.
So I mean, I remember the first time I went to Phoenix is about
ten years ago, and I landed. Of course, big time change,
so I left in the morning, but it was even It was really early
when I landed there in Phoenix, and it was a it was a direct
flight, so I remember knowing I was going in in it was August.
It was really hot, and I knew to be prepared for heat. But
everybody said, oh, it's a dry heat. It's dry heat, it's
not that bad. And I remember walking from the rental car checkout enterprise,
and I probably walked one hundred yards to get to the car from the you
know, from where I was maybe maybe not in that, maybe eighty yards.
And I remember thinking like, Okay, well, I now need a
bath or a shower because I've walked you know, a few minutes at most,
and I went from being comfortable to where I'm soaking wet in every part
of my body. And I remember thinking like, what does a dry heat
mean? Because I'm wet and this is disgusting. I don't like hot temperature,
you know, extremely hot temperature and under any circumstances. But you know,
and then I'm into Vegas where you can't even go outside. Yeah,
I mean, like it like it's just like, I don't know, it's
just a I think it's just a myth to get the East Coasters on the
west side of the country to where they won't be afraid of the heat because
we complain about how hot it is here at times, and over there it's
like fifteen degrees hotter, and yet they act like, oh, it's not
as bad though, because it's dry, and like, what the hell's that
mean? Well, I guess, like, well, let me tell you
this. When it's like one hundred and ten degrees there or one hundred degrees
in Arizona, or like it's straight on, that's that's heat from the sun.
Like there is no like thick humidity through it. That's just like literally
the sun beaming down or just a scorching area of the country, so like
it is literally like an oven. And it's like we're and I haven't seen
it here too much, but you know, like when you look out you
kind of see like the waves like little ripples like mirages kind of like that.
That's what Arizona was all the time looking out my way. You get
used to it, I guess, Oh yeah, I was used to it.
I was. I was used to it. It took me a while
to get used to the cold here. Like I just feel like if it
was a hunt, if that temperature that you just described was to happen here
today, like in my home or not in my home, but you know
where I live, I feel like there's no way my air conditioning would work.
Yeah, you know what I mean. I had to blast it does.
Like does AC work there effectively? Yeah? It does, it does.
It's just it's a it's a little bit easier to get used to,
rather than what they call like the thickness and the wetness of the humidity here.
Like you get back in your car, turn on the AC or you
should be good like immediately here I have to wait till the AC kicks on
rolling for a couple of minutes to kind of just get unsticky. But when
it's hot there, it's it's hot. I still even after living here for
eleven years and now ten years now, I still don't know which is worse
because I really do not like the humidity. But like over there, I
mean it was it was I like to give my other hometown props in this
sense. It's pretty hot there too, so you go there, if it's
one hundred degrees that's straight from the sun. Well it works out well for
for us tomorrow because I think it's going to be pretty sticky tomorrow too.
And my daughter who plays in the Miracle League shout out to the Miracle League
special Needs Baseball League, which you guys hear me talk about all the time.
It's it's awesome, tomorrow's our last game. I can't believe how quickly
the wow, the season went by. But given out awards and trophies and
stuff, no, I mean they do enough throughout the season two where it's
like, you know, it's it's I still can't, you know, get
over how much they go above and beyond for these for these special needs not
just children, but you can also you can also participate if you're an adult
as well. But they put their name on this. They've got a big
video board where they've got their picture up there. The announcers, the announcer,
you know, they walk up music the announcer calls out their name.
Now up to bad and you know it's Maya Coffee and all Maya scores are
run and it's just so it's just so freezing. Yeah, it's great.
But she plays tomorrow at nine am, which is the first time we've had
a game that early, which makes me, you know, happy to know
that it's not going to be you know, it's not going to be that
crazy. And here I am complaining about, you know, how how sticky
and hot it is, but it's like it's not even ninety degrees right now.
It's just a little bit under that, and tomorrow the high is ninety
but it's gonna be sunny. So once we finish up our our baseball game,
we're probably just going to head to the pool and hang out. And
that's the way to do it. You go, a family has pool or
you got to a pool. So we don't have a pool, but my
mother and stepfather have a very very nice pool set up in ground and it's
it's you know, they've they've been they've been very nice to us to let
us have all of our kids birthday parties there. Yeah, and it's kind
of an o. Well, I feel like it's an open invite thing.
We kind of just show up whenever we want. But like, I don't
know, like maybe I should ask, like, hey, you know,
I do try to give Yeah, I do try to give him a heads
up if we are coming. But yeah, I mean it's it's we're very
lucky to have open policy at Mom and Dads. Yeah, but you know,
like you can only you know, I don't know, they've never told
us like not take so much. Yeah, they've never told us not to.
They've never they've never said, you know, hey, you know,
just so you know the next couple of weeks, but you don't want you
here because they would never do that. But I don't know. Now you've
got me thinking, probably nice to give them a warning because you know,
bringing the family over, you kind of got to be mentally prepared for that.
Love for them to death or not. But like, let me take
a couple of minutes to decompress what's going on. Maybe give me enough to
make a lie or something. That's what I liked if it was just me
the wife, I mean, I think you'd be fine. But I also
know that if there's ever like a day where they're kind of not into hosting.
They got stuff going on, like they prefer to kind of have a
chill day. Yeah, once my kids get there, it's all off because
they just get so excited to see grandkids. Like that's you can take it.
When you have kids and they've got grandparents who you know, love being
around them and love really embracing the grandparent role. First of all, it's
awesome to see and it'll melt you hard, but also like it can help
you out because you know they can quit. Put it this way, even
if my mom, my dad, my stepdad did not want to, like
and you know, have a day where they're doing grandparents stuff. Once the
kids are in front of them and they asked, they're not gonna say no,
right, you know what I mean, Like they're not gonna tell them
no, you can't. No, I don't want to go play baseball with
you. No, I don't want to let you the tractor at the house.
Like it's just you know, we shouldn't have to take advantage of that.
But you know, you didn't use your kids as a cheat code every
now and there exactly exactly. All right, let's get to a quick break.
We will come back on the other side wrap up at three o'clock hour.
Don't forget coming up at four o'clock. We're gonna talk to our man,
mister Jeff Greer, and I believe at four thirty we're gonna bring in
doctor Eric McElroy pro have physical therapy to join us, and I'm curious to
get his thoughts on the news over the last couple of days in regards to
the UFC, I know the Connor McGregor fight got changed because of an injury,
you know, Mike Tyson. I know that fight's been rescheduled with one
of the Paul brothers, but there's some people that still believe that that will
never end up happening because of Mike Tyson's situation. So we are loaded the
rest of the way and towards the end of the show in the five o'clock
we're gonna have some real fun because Austin and I are going to be drafting
TV dads. Let's go for the three round TV dad draft, which I
have a feeling that you're not going to be stealing picks for me, and
I'm not going to be stealing picks down you know, I'm looking at my
I've been looking at my big board board here, and I think, I
know, I know we're gonna have different ones, gonna be some, gonna
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should have led with the last points you made when it comes to nil.
Nobody's forcing these college kids to go and play. Therefore, nobody had to
do anything to rock the boat. You're right. They could have kept it
as is and had that stance. Well, if you don't like the way
college athletics is set up, if you don't like our amateurism model, then
you don't have to be a part of it. You can go to the
G League. You can go get a job. You can be a regular
student, you can you know, you can go play overseas. But that
was their stance forever. And what happened is a lawsuit took place, and
that's what that's why now the schools are having to pay money to previous athletes
who clearly, i mean, let's be real here, we can we can
acknowledge that nobody was forcing them to play, right, nobody told them they
had to do it. They weren't forced to do it. Again, that's
quite clear. And there are many, many, many, many, many
many student athletes across the country that were not exploited because the school didn't profit
a ton of money from them. There are some exceptions, right, Like
clearly when you've got the marketing juggernaut that is Tim Tebow at Florida, Lamar
Jackson at Louisville, I mean, maybe even Anthony Davis at Kentucky for basketball,
Like there's no way to really pinpoint the exact amount of money that was
generated for that school because of that person playing there. But like there's there's
brand value there, so like all that's true. However, if you look
at it and just see the NCUBLEA, there's an event called the NCAA tournament
that they've been profiting an insane amount of money on every year. I mean
it's a billion dollars. The NCAA wouldn't exist without the NTABAA tournament because what
most people don't realize is that they don't make any money on football. The
ESPN owns the College Football Playoff, the NTABA does not. NCAA doesn't own
any of these bowl games. The TV networks do. So it's still is
just it's just it's it all that money being generated and the people who actually
work and participate and perform the entertainment, the talent, the workers that are
involved in the NCAA tournament did not get a single thing. And yeah,
you can say, well, but they got a free education, they got
you know, they got a room and board, they got a stipend that's
from the school. The nc DOUBLEA itself profited an insane amount of money and
they didn't pay the people who really put on the event and or part of
it. And again, like I'm not even trying to convince you that that
we should be paying players or we should not. I'm just like that's not
normal. Like even if even when I wanted to live in the world to
where they shouldn't change anything. I just it's impossible to look at the amount
of money generated from the NCAA tournament and really just the money that the NCAA
makes every year annually, and Mark Emmert's getting his two million dollar bonuses to
go on top of his insanely lucrative salary, and yet the people who are
playing the sport don't get any They don't get a crumb let alone a piece
of the pie. Like that just is not that's that's illegal, which is
what the courts determined, which is why we're in this situation now. So
if you want to blame somebody, it really comes down to blaming the nc
DOUABLEA for not getting ahead of this and figuring out some kind of a system
to where there was some level of profit sharing from the nc DOUBLEA to where
it's not you know, you're not having to get into the nil world and
you're not paying players based off of performance. It's just a stipend essentially,
that is from the NCUBLEA itself. All right, two hours left, stick
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