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Wham Hey, welcome back to any of the Ball here on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay, and now we have Adam with
breaking news. This is I on the Ball breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. All right, so some breaking news out of the NFL last night
during the draft broke a record with six quarterbacks and the top twelve note defenders
were taken, so pretty offensive. Sure, And I think even Saban was
talking about this where somebody was how in today's NFL, if you're not scoring
points, you're gonna lose, doesn't matter how good of a defense you have,
because that's and it's always kind of like a copy it's a copycat league,
and everybody wants to score because Mahomes just kind of changed the mean is
the complexion of the league, and then they want to find the next guy
who's like him. Yeah, I mean the first defensive player was selected fifteen
Yeah, Yatu Latsu out of UCLA to the Colts. So there was a
lot of Pac twelve dudes. I don't know if you noticed that, Jay,
and you're thinking the Pack twelve was pretty darn good. But no one
will ever know that. No, no, yeah, no, yeah,
I'm what's his name? John Kenzon had a really snarky remark about that.
He said he said the Pac twelve had uh two quarterbacks drafted in the first
round, that had a team in the National Championship Game. All these things
said, and they couldn't get a TV deal done. Yeah it makes no
Yeah, it makes no sense. Also, the league, Roger Goodell said,
in an eighteen game regular season, isn't unreasonable. They're good right now
at seventeen, but you never know in the future, which is not good
for the players. But you got that whole dynamic between owners and players.
So you guys, you must be happy. No, no, no,
no, from your Chicago people. Oh from the draft. Yeah, that
was a great Maybe by the time you turn fifty you might have a Super
Bowl. Damn, I'm the grumpy guy you are. I think we're headed
in the right direction. Some baseball news we talked about a little earlier.
Anthony Ron don he towards hamstring. He's out and definitely. Again not surprising.
He's been for his entire Angel tenure. So tough break for the Angels
again. Yeah, and he's and he's just been. They spent a whole
ton of money on that guide and nothing. You know, he can't Yeah,
you can't stay on the field. He can't stay on the field.
College Football News athletes tried to get Iowa gambling probes. There are athletes tied
to Iowa gambling probe damages in civil lawsuits. Oh yeah, because they cleared
everybody, or they ready cleared everybody. Yeah, for most everybody else,
yes, So they're trying to clear their name. And then the ex Iowa
offensive coordinator, Brian Ferentz, he joins Maryland as an offensive assistant. So
he joins, uh for you. The head coach, Kevin Summon, say,
did you say that because he's an offensive guy. I think he's the
quarterbacks coach. He's yes, yes, he'll be working with the offense.
And yeah, the guy, the guy couldn't score ten points a game.
Honestly, that's why he was fired. Oh yeah that I had a great
defense, so that's what kept him in games until it didn't. Absolutely out
of the NBA, Amazon is nearing a deal to acquire NBA broadcast rights,
which would be big for them, one of the primary broadcasters for the league's
games. This contract would expect Amazon to show Marquee regular season games, playoff
contest, including the possibility of conference finals games. They're looking for six all
in the world wide web, right, No more TV. I want to
sell them. You want to be screen TV, I'll sell to you.
It's not gonna be worth anything anymore. I'm gonna watch it on my computer,
on my phone, your computer to your TV. Will you have to
go over and set it up for me? Thank you. No, I'm
not to do that myself. It's easy, but kid, do it for
me. It's easy. Also in the NBA, Nets are hiring ex Michigan
head coach Juwan Howard as their assistant. They just hired a new NBA coach
from Sacramento. So this assistant from Jody Fernandez. So Jowan will be his
lead assistant. And that was pretty much okay. So, so mine is
wait, I have breaking news. Oh, don't don't screw with me.
I find out how to get the spring tickets. Oh okay, no,
go ahead, yeah, okay. It was such a basic thing as my
fault. I'm here with Matt with matt Ins, and they're like, I
know, the two of them are sitting in the rocks the way that guy's
not really very smart. Okay. So okay, go to the u of
A website. On the U of Athletics website, there's three different links,
you know, stories about the Spring game. So you go there, you
click on one of the links, uh, and you go to a page
and it'll give you a link to the ticket page the ticket site. Click
on that link and you got to put and it gives you just this mint
and it just a place you got to put in a code and the code
it says it in the release. The code is spring in all Cats.
And then you can get your tickets. Okay, so it's not hard,
okay, So Athletics, there's no Wildcats dot com or Arizona Arizona Waldcats dot
com. Okay, all right, And then on any one of the they're
like the first the first two on top News, the first two items are
about the Spring game. Click on one of those, uh. You go,
then you'll find a link it says click here to claim your community ticket.
And that's where and it said right there. It says, use the
promo code spring. Okay, that's the thing that I wasn't seeing. Okay,
I am a bode Okay, that's how you get your tickets and tickets
you want. Okay. So my breaking news is kind of a kind of
a big one. You remember Ray Smith put here under Sean Sean Miller at
the time he brought he hurt his knee. Then he came back at the
time Sean Miller said he was going to be the best player that he ever
recruited here, and then he got hurt twice. A really good kid,
really likable kids. Okay, you felt bad for you? Hold that thought
because yesterday or Wednesday? Do you guys know what I'm talking about? You
know what I'm saying. So okay, So he he's a teacher now in
Vegas. He's from Vegas. Was he the one on that video? He's
the one on the video who knocked out the kids who said and now he
was arrested. He was arrested, and now he's he's going to face some
assault charges. And they let him out today pending some restrictions, of course,
and now he's probably never going to teach again. And he knocked the
hell out of that. I saw, well, I saw those videos were
popping up, and that was the race. And I didn't know that race.
I mean, how many people in this country named Ray Smith? Right?
And he goes by ri Kwan Smith, now a substitute teacher who has
been with the district since November, was booked into Clark County Detention Center on
a film account with battery with substantial bodily arm. The dude went down,
he did. I saw it, And you know, I know that.
You know, there's people out there saying, well, how much does a
teacher have to take? Well, you know what, as a teacher,
you have to take everything. Yeah, which is very sadly, you can't
do that. And and and kids, you know, kids are kids,
and they're you know, they're a lot of bad ones in the idiots.
But there's certain things you can't do. And that's one of them. Pre
pre COVID, I taught at a local junior high during all this craziness for
a friend who was a principal or is a principal, and I went,
Okay, cool, it's gonna be fun with the kids. It was the
most unbelievable thing of about to never do it again. I heard words I'd
never heard before, and the kids didn't give a crap. Steve, And
you know, twenty years ago, you know, I even longer ago than
that is when I was still at the paper and I would get asked to
go talk to kids at high school, you know, cools about sugar and
stuff like that. And there was one of the times I went and there
was a substitute teacher and they didn't care. Probably Oh my god, I
wanted to stand at the front of the room and you tell at all of
them. Yeah. What I've learned, when I learned, is that as
long as the building's not on fire, it was a good day. Yeah,
I mean, which is sad to hear. And you guys have been
students, not you know, students back then, not too long ago.
Are we wrong? No, No, it sucks. But I mean they
feel like they could get away with anything, and well, yeah, because
you can't. You can't touch them, you can't say things to him.
There's so much you can't do now that. Did you ever get swats when
you were gets paddled? Oh god, no, god no, no,
you never did. No, No, were you crazy? I've never done
a drug in my life or a gun swat. I'm pretty proud of that
I got. I went to a Catholic she got paddled in the fourth,
fifth, sixth, and seventh grade. And I'm the back guy, you
know, and my parents went to the grave and never knew. Well,
well you're rick. No, No, now he does, and now he
didn't know nobody what what he what would he have done? How do you
know? Then kick the crap out of me? To you he thought you
thought you thought you got a beating at school? Here comes right? Yeah,
yeah, yeah, no, no, I would never. I went
to Catholic school too, and they didn't take it easier. Yeah, no,
I got to know paddled four grades in a row. Write this stuff
down, guys, if you didn't witness, it's not gonna be him.
I'm sort of proud of this because I look what I've become. Yeah what
I got hit. I got hit in elementary school, and I came out
kind of semi normal. So that's where we went from racist and jay being
paddled at schools and seventh grade transition. I give, I can't remember I
can even name the teachers, man, okay, okay, So that that
was my breaking news. Un Fortunately I didn't know that was him. Yeah,
I had to say, I had to look at the photos and stuff,
and yeah, that was him. He was a very good guy.
I'm sure he still is. But when you get pushed to him to a
little you know, teachers can like everybody else, you know, you have
a limit, but there's still a line you cannot cross. And I'm afraid
that that's a line that you cannot right. And and he's twenty seven years
old. God he was. He was eighteen years probably old, nineteen years
when he was here, fantastic player. And then he got hurt. Maybe
he blew out in the Red movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the
Red Movie. He kept getting hurt and he kept coming back and people thought
he was gonna, uh, you know, be you know that guy,
and he just couldn't. He just couldn't stay. He just couldn't stay in
the in the lineup right. Bad. That's right. I think that's all
I had. You got your you got your internet thing fixed or realized.
So okay, So yeah, the tickets are available to go on. Go
on to the athletics website, click on the link that takes you to the
ticket form and the and the code is spring all all cats and tickets are
available there no no charge. Show. Hey, Tony just went you art
again? Seventh of the year. Yeah, Dodger stuff one zip, one
zip already top of the first. Okay, uh, you want to take
a break since we're dying here, and then we'll have maybe maybe maybe Grammar
will give us a call. Yeah, we won't keep him on a long
because I'm sure he's working the story. Okay, where, okay, where's
that where Let's go back to the raceman thing. Where was he? Where
is he that this happened? It was in Las Vegas. He's from Las
Vegas, so that's where he was. And he was a substitute teacher,
as a substitute teacher, right, so I'm sure that was. You know,
when you're a substitute teacher, you're a target man, even if you're
six five sixty seven whatever. And and you saw the disparity in the the
guy must have been fifteen sixteen whatever talking crap. You know, let me
get my hands on they can't do Yeah, I hate that, I really
hate that. Yeah, what are you what are you going to do as
a teacher? Your your dignities being question your everything. It's not it's not
a good look, and what do you do? Walk away and hope it
doesn't retire. Yeah, there's no right or wrong answer. Yeah, dang,
all right, let's too bad. Okay, Yeah, let's go take
our break. We're gonna come back. We'll talk more about whatever you want
to talk about. Five two zero four one six seventy four forty trying to
reach Jeff Grammar to talk more about Rubert Douglas and him and and him passing
away and then you know, I I don't want to go to I don't
want to go knee deep into the Raysmith thing. No, no, no,
I just wanted to bring that up because it's involved a form of guy.
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Salez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to I on the
Ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve. He's Jay. Now on
the phone, we have Jeff Grammer from the Albuquerque Journal formerly of the Tucson
Citizen. Him and I are colleagues there. Jeff, how way are you?
Thanks for taking a call. I'm doing good, man, I was.
How's Tucson doing. I haven't been back in a long time. Yes,
it's fine that it has a little Albuquerque flavor today, little windy and
not like Tucson is normally. But you're working on a story. We saw
that you had retweeted a story about Ruben Douglas, a former guy from here.
Yeah, so I was. I got a text message this morning that
was a tweet from EuroLeague Basketball announcing that Ruben had died. Ruben Douglas,
who was at Arizona what was at the ninety nine two thousand season, I
believe right, Yeah, and he had transferred to un M played three years
here, was a scoring champion in two thousand and three, three years all
Mountain West, and a really good college career here with some teams that weren't
all that good, and then went on and had a great career overseas in
Europe, one of EuroLeague Finals MVP one year. And apparently, as we
reported earlier today, he had died earlier this week. From that I just
got off the phone about ten minutes ago with his brother. He actually did
die last Friday in Costa Rica with still somewhat kind of unknown infection that he
came down with. But he had been spending a lot of time in Costa
Rica and and in Arizona where he lived, Okay, so he wasn't on
there competing or anything like that. He was just yeah, had made some
connections and some friends and and it sounded like he was kind of living in
both places, both extended vacations kind of what this was. But maybe not
at a hotel or anything, but somewhere he kind of had the had been
living and staying for a while, but there. The family still isn't entirely
sure what he came down with or what it was, but it was he
was in good health and came down with something and passed away last Friday.
As before you came on, I was Jay and the guys that if you're
Ruben Douglas or a guy like him, and you're that guy in Albuquerque,
you probably don't have to buy a beer by a meal, you don't have
to be anything over there because he was so good. And just if you
even look on just on social media, to go on x or or Twitter
as I still call it the you look at some of the replies U and
M has put a story out that we have a story out on the Albuquerque
Journal. You just look at some of the replies on social media, and
it's people telling stories. And I remember him doing this. I remember this
about him, and it's he wasn't just a guy who scored a whole bunch
of points on a horrible team. There was some truth to that as well
too. They weren't the best of teams, they weren't winning the titles or
anything. He was a guy that was as good as scorer by the end
of his college career kind of developed into just a fantastic score now he saw
I believe why he came to New Mexico is he realized he probably wasn't going
to start, if I remember, if I have my years lined up correctly,
he came in on a one heck of a recruiting class I think was
like Richard Jefferson with Walton maybe. And then the year after was Gilbert Arenas.
Is that right, that's w Gilbert Arena's coming in and decided maybe he
could take his chance and somewhere else, and uh just flourished. And then
one year McKay, yeah, well it was it was Reuben. Two guys
came in, Luke, Grecor, and Gilbert came in and he said,
well and he liked to score. He liked to shoot, and then Luke's
system that didn't work. Everybody has some shooting and he played. Have you
talked to fran at all because he played for sholl Yeah, yeah, I
reached out to friend. I texted him. He was traveling to New York
when I first reached out to him, So I haven't heard back from him
or McKay, but I've reached out to both of them today to talk with
both of them, and hopefully I assume both of them will get back to
me. But I do know fran On social media. Uh shared the link
I had sent him in a text message, which was just announcing that Reuben
had died. It's just stunning when you see something like that, right,
And I mean I didn't know Ruben Douglas from Joe Schmoe, but you know,
I read that and I go, God, here's the you know,
dude, forty four years old and all of a sudden, he's just gone
just like that, you know, you know, in supposedly you know,
fine health, and all of a sudden, something sudden like that happens and
a life ends, and it's just it just it just kind of shocks you
to your core when when something like that happens. And that's that's how it
was for me. And like I said, you know, I mean,
I yues, you know, I was at the stat table and I saw
Ruben play in the whole bit. But it's kind of like more of a
just stunning that an athlete in good health that this can happen. It's yeah,
kind of everybody here in Albuquerque certainly off guard too, because he was
a guy that you know, Steve mentioned never En have to buy a beer
in Albuquerque, and that was true. But I don't think he'd been back
much. He'd been They did an alumni All Star game here, I want
to say twenty fifteen, and as far as I know, that was the
last time he had been back to Albuquerque, and man, people just you
know, loved seeing him in twenty fifteen, and a bunch of the former
logos, you know, Danny Granger came back and some guys that global fans
were just happy to see. But Ruben Douglas was sort of the old guard
of the bunch that still played. And you know, there were some older
Lobos too that didn't play. Ken Thomas was there, didn't play. Some
of the older guys that played in the nineties and eighties weren't playing. But
of the group that actually still got up and down the court a little bit,
Ruben Douglas in twenty fifteen was there, and there were kids there that
had never seen him play, you know, born after his time in the
pit. But there are also some Lobo diehards that were wearing number five Lobo
jerseys, and you know, you don't see that at a whole lot of
players. So that was twenty years ago that we played here, and a
lot of people showed up with number five jerseys. Though that day you spoke
to his brother, did you is his father still around? So his father
passed. I want to say it was five years ago. His brother called
me four or five years ago and yeah, So his father was from Panama,
and Rubin did play him the Panama national team a little bit. I
don't know if he ever I don't know what level he played at, like
he was on their national team, but I don't know if it was ever
on a cycle where they were playing like an Olympic years or qualifiers. But
he did play something for the Panama national team. And his father was from
Panama. Came to the States to play college at somewhere in Wyoming, not
the University of Wyoming, but that's what brought his family to the States.
His mother and one older brother, Ramone, are still living in California,
and then he has another older brother named Russell, who's living in Washington,
d C. Neither one of them played basketball to Ruben's level. And just
speaking with Ramone, you know a little bit of a little while ago,
he just said watching Rubin play, especially kind of come that senior year when
he's leading the nation and scoring, averaging twenty eight a game. He just
he said, he's putting up you know, at the college level, he's
doing Kobe like things. Where there were games just there was nobody that could
stop him. The only thing that would stop him as if they couldn't get
the ball to him. And uh, and it's true he was. He
was pretty special by that senior year. And it just would have been crazy
to think had he stayed at Arizona. I don't know how it would have
worked. I don't know. Probably wasn't you know, There's only one ball
in the quarter at the time, so who knows if it would have ever
developed into what he developed into it New Mexico. But uh, there was
so much talent on those Arizona teams and uh and Ruben was very much a
guy that at least offensively, could have held his own with those guys had
he stuck around. So it would have been interesting to see. Yeah,
no here average points and would not That's one of the reasons why he left,
because he wanted the ball and wanted to score. And the reason I
asked about his dad is because his dad I remember talking to him a lot
because he was always in Loot's office. Why isn't Ruben playing and let's listen,
let's change the subject real quick. Uh you covered you covered New Mexico
while you covered New Mexico full time. They played at Clemson in the first
round. Everybody in the world had New Mexico beating Clemson and they didn't.
And uh what happened? Well, two things surfire signed that they're not going
to win is when everybody just jumps on board, right like the On the
one hand, I'll say that, like they ended a decade long NCUAA tournament
drought and they've never had a decade long drought like that. It's it's been
a while, so they were rebuilding. There was a sense of kind of
happy to be there. I don't think any of them would admit that.
But they did win four games in four days to win the Mountain West Tournament,
you know, the week prior, first team that ever did that.
So there was a little bit of all that, like maybe they maybe they
were tired, But I think the most part was, like there's one type
of team that was a horrible matchup for them all year, and that was
a big team and and Clemson was bigger than them at every single position,
all five spots, on the floor had two maybe three inches on every player
they were going up against. And this was a Lobo, a un M
Lobo team that had a six foot point guard in Jalen House, who,
by the way, was tremendous, and there was on a state and transfer
Mike Babies nephew, Henry Biby's grandson and obviously Eddie House's son. He was
tremendous, but he was six foot tall. And the other two guards they
played were six two and six two. Jamal Mashburn Junior was one of them.
So they played three guards who were six two and shorter, and if
those three guards were having trouble getting their shots up, it was gonna be
a long game. And they had a few of those this year where they
played a Boise State that was a bigger team, and they would play Clemson
that was a bigger team, and they just could not score and he got
ugly and the NCAA turn up matchup tournament matchup ended up being just like that.
We're talking to Jeff Grammer, reported the Albuquerque Journal on the working on
the rub In Douglas Strubber and I also asking you, but some New Mexico
questions related to Arizona. So what have they got here on the football staff
and Danny Gonzales man Danny was the saddest thing about Danny not working out in
Albuquerque for un M is that he was a local kid, went to Valley
High School here in Albuquerque. Absolutely just lived and breathed un M athletics,
not just football. But he could hold his own in this conversation about global
basketball and tell you stories about Ruben Douglas that I've never heard. He went
to every game in the pit, huge global fan. He'd show up to
women's soccer matches, he'd show up to tennis matches, he would do all
of that, and and everybody here wanted it to work out so much,
and it just didn't. You know, I don't know if it's entirely any
indication that of him as a head coach. He but it wasn't working out.
They were never turned a corner. They weren't really embracing the nil world
two years ago when when other teams, you know, when the MTAA started
allowing it, and when they jumped on the nil kind of train about you
know, just last offseason. It was it was a little too little,
too late. I guess, and he wasn't able to recruit at a very
high level. And I just you know, everybody here was pulling for him.
I don't think his departure from here was a whole lot of people fed
up with Danny. And anyway you would, you would always give you time.
He would talk to everybody, media, fans, people, the grocery
store and makes himself better available. And he is a good defensive mind,
very good defensive mind. So you know, I think he's a good piece.
I think he's a really good piece. But a lot of people were
pulling for him to make it work out here because you know, he wanted
it so bad. Yeah, and real quick. Maybe last question, Nil,
how is it affecting New Mexico? Because we know how the big schools
deal with it and how much money they have they have tons. Arizona's kind
of like middle of the road maybe as far as we know, but the
schools like New Mexico, Colorado State, stuff like that. How is it
going? So? New Mexico has a retired New York Brooklyn real estate attorney
was well off went to school here in the seventies. A guy named Kurt
Roth who's sort of taking up as his retirement gig. Running the NIL here
and New Mexico for two years has sort of been the not sort of.
It has been the best NIL collective in the Mountain West. Now there's a
jump between the best in the Mountain West and what the Power Conferences NIL money
is like. If there's a reason they're recruiting pretty well, now there's a
reason there probably unless he decides to stay in the NBA Draft. They're retaining
a six foot nine freshman of the Year and JT. Toppin and when they
have the former California Player of the Year Donovan Dent, who could have gone
elsewhere to make you know, probably four or five hundred thousand. They're keeping
players here and retaining players here because they're ANIL collective. At New Mexico,
it's much better, frankly than San Diego States. The UNLV and Boise State
have really kind of gained ground a little bit, but New Mexico kind of
set the bar for the for the non Power Conference. I would say NIL
collectors around the country, not just in the West, and they're doing really
good. They got a lot of money, a lot of local fans are
buying into this. It's called the five or five Sports Venture Foundation, and
for twenty dollars a month membership, you know, they give them exclusive content,
some some Instagram video, some interview stuff like that that these players agree
to do and go do some charitable stuff around town. But they have a
whole there's not a whole lot of major individual donors in New Mexico and Albuquerque.
But what they have is is fifteen thousand fans to show up to the
pit all the time for games. And if you get a good chunk of
that paying twenty dollars a month, that adds up quite a bit. So
it makes sense their their collective is over a million dollars for men's basketball alone.
Makes sense, makes sense. Good idea. Wow, Okay, now,
if that Patino guy can just coach, you'd be all right, I'm
telling you, man, If yeah, he can recruit and you can recruit
and kind of coaches where we're at, so he can improve the kind of
part of that, I think I think they should be pretty good. I
do think they're probably gonna be one or two in the in the Mountain West
next year. But yeah, the pressure's on. We better you better do
more than just get to the tournament. Right, we had a who's the
eighty unis? What's his name? Oh yeah, Edie? And so he
was fun. He was good. I said, you know, make sure
that the Graham grammar doesn't bully you, you know, stuff like that.
How's he He sounded pretty good. He's good. I think. So he
came from he's from Miami and he was a you know, walk on for
like a Billy Donovan Florida team basketball wise, way back when, and so
he has some athletics roots to him as a player as well, but went
kind of grew up and did his progression in the administrative role at LSU and
some MESSYC schools, and I think he wants to get back to a big
time program. The big thing for him is if he can get football right.
And they made a really good hire in Bronco Mendenhall. If he can
get football right, he'll he'll probably be moving on to the next ad job
as soon as somebody somebody offers him the gig. But he's been here like
six years now too, so it's not like it was just a one to
two kind of year deal or he moved on. But he's he's pretty good.
He kind of came into a mess. There were a couple actual criminal
cases kind of pendings within the athletics department when he got here, in some
financial messes, and he kind of navigated through all that. So they're kind
of coming out the other end of all that. Okay, well thanks,
yeah, appreciate your time. You know you're gonna be busy today. Get
back to work. Yeah, yeah, I'll get appreciated. Thanks, thank
you. Jud Jeff Caremer. He was actually named the Sports Rudder of the
Year in the country last year. Really, well, let's tell you,
let's stories kind of dictate these things. You know that in the story it
was the shooting, the shooting between and the death. He was all over
that. So the story makes the stories come to you, and you can
you can get awards like that, right right, So I need to dial
a great job without him, and him and a cohort worked the cop beat
for a long time and your mixico see gout all those things, you know
whatever. Okay, so that was good. That was good. At least
we got caught up. Yeah, all right, so that was really good.
All right, let's put a break. Yeah, I'm trying to see
what time it is. Yeah, it's just perfect. Let's take our last
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It's Steve Rivera and Jacin Salvinz. This is I on the Ball on Fox
Sports fourteen. The Hey, welcome back to my on the ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty m Steve, he's Jake got at them with us,
saying Juan to finish off the show here on Friday, it's been a good
week. We only have sixteen minutes to screw it up. We're capable very
much. We have the technology. That's fifteen minutes too much, Uh,
Adam, go ahead and give us what you have. So round two has
just started in the NFL Draft. The first pick in the second round was
Keon Coleman out of Florida State. It's followed up by Charge the Chargers taking
Ladd McConkey from Georgia and Atlanta Washington both just took defensive tackles. In New
England took another receiver in Jalen Polk from Washington. Okay, those are those
are pretty good two one two combination, right Washington Polton. Well again,
and going back to the whole I'm gonna I'm gonna beat, could continue to
beat this dead horse. You know, you know, Jane Daniels had a
receiver with their their the pick or something like that, the Lake Nivers number
six sick. Okay, so you had that guy and you still wind up
in a crap bowl game and then you won the freaking Heisman Trophy. I
mean, it's just it just continues to boggle my mind. Then, well
what we do here? I think in that case, I think that you'll
agree that it was an East Coast bias totally. And it's always like that
step again. You know, when when Toby Gerhardt, Andrew luck And and
Christian McCaffrey all should have won a Heisman Trophy and then gave it to an
Alabama guy each of those years, especially the McCaffrey he was better than Henry.
I agree with you on that an Alabama guy got it because they gave
it to the best guy on the best team, so the best guy.
You know, this time they gave it to a good player on a crap
team instead of a guy who was in the national championship. I think to
your point, I think the first time or one of the first or early
times that they actually saw Penis was in the semi final game. Remember,
he was fantastic and he couldn't miss, and he was getting pinpoint, and
they said who is this guy? And by that time everybody voted exactly exactly.
I mean, look, I mean I saw jayde and Daniels enough to
know that Michael Pennix was the way better college quarterback. And I get it,
Jayden and Dan you know, the NFL Scotts, they think Jade and
Daniels a better quarterback. They drafted him second. Penix was later. You
know how much of that had to do with Pennix's age, But if you're
telling me who had a better college football season and meant more to their team,
it was Michael Pennix by a lot, by a lot. Yeah,
I liked him, and I liked Nicks even more, you know at the
time, and I thought Oregon would beat Washington to move on, and it
didn't happen. Michael Pennix was better than Caleb Williams last year. Right now,
again, you know the NFL. You know, when you're talking about
who's going to be the better pro quarterback, Okay, I'll give it to
the NFL Scotts say those two guys. But the Heisman Trophy isn't about who's
going to be the better NFL quarterback. The Heisman Trophy is about who was
the best player in college football in a given year. And they gave it
to that guy. You know, they gave it to Jade Daniels because he
played at LSU and not because he was the best. And that Pennix went
undefeated going into the title game too, right, like, yeah, no
question, no question. He had a better resume overall. Yeah, in
all, in all areas, yeah, across the board. So anyway,
Okay, I may, I may let that go, but then I may
not. We have twelve minutes. Bone, screw it up, screw it
up. Okay, everybody, our buddy Don was on social media, tell
me I saw that well yesterday, right, yeah, yeah, let it
go, let it go. Okay. And then when the Cardinals they got
two guys, right so far, Yeah, they got two guys. They
have Harrison, uh for you know, probably one of the better players.
I thought they were going to trade, and there was a lot of discussions
they were going to trade that we'll get some more guys as opposed to one
really good guy. But I know it sounds like Kyler Murray was like pulling
for Marvin Harrison, which very selfishly right, generational type wide receiver. His
dad's a Hall of Famer. Yeah, and uh Murray needs to Yeah,
guy, I don't have anybody. They lost Hollywood Brown. They traded Rondelle
Moore, so that that was a needed position. They needed a lot of
stuff. But you lock up maybe a wide receiver one for ten years maybe,
yes, hope. Yeah, I mean, you know, people are
you know, I'm saying, well, you know, he could be in
the Hall of Fame. And I'm like, dang, I mean, how
you know how good? We don't know how good he is, but he's
pretty damn good, looks like. And I you know he was he was
my number three. He was my number three. Uh, I had him
in the third spot in the Heisman vallet you know, so I know I
saw him play enough. You know he was really damn good. Yeah.
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they need, they needed some peace support. Man. They got beat in
the first round. It's a there are one loss from being out of the
playoffs, so you know they got they gotta win these next two and they're
at home. So you'd like to think that they can do that. But
that's tough to lose. The first lose the opener of a and it could
be and it could be the end of the room. Wow, this could
be the last time we see him, right, uh you know this season
because it looks like they're head into Phoenix. So absolutely absolutely do they play
game three or over there? No, all three games are here. All
three games are here because they you know, they're they're minor league hockey.
They trying to limit the traveler. So the whole three game series is here.
But you know they're down one ztep. Another thing that we missed that
we didn't talk for breaking news enough that you would know this, but Ken
hockey is the new A d oh. I didn't see that. He saw
that he was was between him and uh A Cosgrove, we're both being under
consideration. Yeah, so he's he continued to be the baseball I don't,
I don't I read the press release didn't say, but I'm sure it's in
there somewhere. Congratulations can't hacky me. You know he got that because he
was no Jigs on the show a couple of weeks. Yeah, and what
else on our show? Well, I know, yeah, you know,
you don't want to talk about I'm not going to bring it up. You
brought it up. I'm not breaking I'm not talking about it. Well,
the Bucks have taken the lead on on on the Pacers. They were what
were they did you say they were down seventeen at the end of the year.
Yeah, fifteen seventeen points. Yeah, yeah, they're they're up by
one with nine minutes left, pullly cow. He will remain the baseball coach,
according to Javier, who wrote a lot of work. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, Well there's kind of like maybe give him pay raise, but
you kind of eliminate, you know, a position saves some money. Yeah,
give him and he's he studied to be this, you know, administrator.
Yeah, I think at his college. Yeah, thanks Xavier for that.
Well, good and good good for can't hockey. Congratulations on that.
Look, you know, uh, jer Monica leaves leaves a great program behind.
He did a lot of great things. The program is in is in
incredible shape with you know, the quality of other programs, you know,
whether it's soccer or basketball or baseball or softball or whatever. You know,
there's a lot of good things going on over there. And it's like,
okay, Ken, it's all yours right, you know, don't screw it
up, don't mess it, don't come on out of the ball. And
he's his baseball season is still gonna. I'm going and it looks it looks
good. I think we won't talk about the women's softball. You butchered that.
No tell you tell you, tell you you tell good and tell the
kids. Well, you know, we have kind of this reputation is being
the kiss of death. Not everything that we thing is him. We so
you know, PA softball has been going through this long winning streak. You
know, I kept thinking, would bring him on this. I'm like,
I'm a superstitious guy on that stuff. You don't want to blow the mojo.
I said it. You know, I sit in the same seat.
I will put my socks on, you know, right whatever when when my
team is in a streak. So we waited and wait a wait. Finally
got to twenty six twenty six wins. We thought, you know, we've
got to get them on, so we do on Monday, on Monday,
on Monday, yeah, okay, yeah, and they got swept in a
double head on Tuesday, and we do the thing about it, think about
it. We joke, we kind of joked about it, and she was
odd. No you know, no, no, no, no, they
not only lost, they lost twice. Yeah, so she may never be
back, I know. And you know what if I were her, I
would never come back or at the beginning of the year, just not to
mess with yeah, exactly, all right. Dodger just went up Tuesday for
Stephen Casey care no, I don't and Freddie Freeman with an RBI single,
okay, do nothing, top of the third against the Blue Jays in Toronto.
I just took a ten second nap right there. An you think you
guys want to talk about guys, you're gonna are you gonna be with us
next week? Yeah? Okay for another week and that's it. Yeah.
I might have a couple of classes. And you were you You were not
a COVID guy, right, You came in from somewhere else, you transferred.
What are you gonna miss the most that's lee, uh, just the
people here, the the environment, I like, I liked it. I
was a big fan of you. It so athletically football, basketball. Was
it what you thought it would be when you came here, because I'm sure
that was a big reason why you came here. Yeah, No, I
definitely like the basketball is a crazy environment. You just know that's that's you
of a. That's their basketball. You're gonna rep and rock with that.
And then football, just enjoying the progression that fish came in with. Last
year I was here, they got better and then this year double digit win
plus a ball game. So yeah, all I know is you better not
have been that student, lady f bombs. That was that was you were?
You were only that brownie were you? No? No, I don't,
I don't. That was an s C right. They were booing Brownie
James for whatever reason. I don't. I don't even know. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, And the U c l A was not you know,
the situation with the spit gate, right, Okay, I'm gonna have to
do your evaluation so that in there. This is what you're up against.
One pretty simple, it's pretty simple. He says, he's ready, He's
ready he's five ten and ready. Yeah, they start to shrink. One
had a good day, then you'll never here. We don't have good days.
Sometimes you do. The one thing about the show one I think jail
agree and so adam. If it's a good show, it goes by quick.
Two hours is nothing, and sometimes we wish we had three hours.
And then we say no, we don't want to because people ask us,
right, why did you go three number of times? No, then it's
a job. Yeah, we don't want to work. Uh, it's fun,
it's fun. The Dodgers are killing him now. They just hit a
three run home. No, he's just showing up. It's six. Nothing,
just showed Max months. He just hit a three run dong after Freddy
Freeman. No, it wasn't Freddy Freeman who knocked in a run. I
don't know, but it's it is now six against the Blue Jays who the
Dodgers were the Dodgers warmly. It was a minus one twenty two on the
money line. So this is actually a nice little a nice little get here
because the Dodge has been getting terrible odds on the money line. Oh that
they just showed the replay and that was like he crushed that. He crushed
that. Steve, guess what the scores in Indiana and Milwaukee. It's ninety
six, ninety five. Nothing happens, yea seven left is what I have.
Nothing happens to the point time the Bucks have to win this, right,
it would be nice to steal back home court. Yeah they lost one,
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Phoenix is on tonight tonight, seven seventh
year. Yeah right, what's the make of that team? You know,
six and a half. I just don't trust them, but I and when
I've lost that, it's over. Honestly, it's like you a we talked
about it all year after maybe January fifteenth. Do you trust them? You
just trust you had no idea what you were getting. Yeah, yeah,
I saw somewhere and I don't want to use the source of this, but
uh, one of the websites or one of the Facebook guys is he's hearing
hearing, and I use those quotes that that Caleb is thinking about coming back.
I heard a report that he'd come back to transfer. It's another school
to the school. Yeah, so yeah, who do you believe? Right?
Who do you believe in? And what does it matter? Because it
doesn't think matters about above Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and would break your
heart? Would it break your heart? No? Exactly, neither. Go
get the next guy, like I always say, just go get the next
guy. They have the freshman guy, Tell me who is what his name
is? It's coming, Yeah, that's carbon. But the other guy can
score too. To Jalen, that's it. That's it. They have people,
when don't they have people? No, that's and that that's and that's
what it's become when all these people lose their minds about this guy leaving or
that guy leaving. Next there's right there guys out there and they and and
they know where they are in fact, and I'll give you this and I'll
concede something because we talk about blue blood blah blah blah. We know this
is a good program and we know that. And that's beyond. And that's
the point where it's just it's a it's a conveyor belt. It is.
And and at all the schools, I mean the other day, what was
what school is it? Oh? God, tuy uh No? Was it
Louisville who had no players left? Zero? There wasn't a single guy from
last year. I don't know if it was lois But there's one of those
schools like a Louisville or a Kentucky or somebody that they that the entire roster,
all of it, what's going on. It was probably Louisville's gone because
a new coach. Everybody was bad tire roster left and they're starting, I
mean, a brand new team from not even like the scrubs weren't even there
anymore. Everybody left right right. There was a great tweet from somebody kind
of a power he talked about he talked to a good coach, a big
time coach anonymously actually saying that this is going to ruin everything. And it
started to ruin everything because you start new rosters every year, payments, all
this and it's just a crazy, crazy time that they need to stop this.
How they stop this, I don't know, but it can't sustain.
And we had Corey on yesterday who explained a lot of things to us.
And it's not thinking that eventually two three years they become employees at the very
least, or should be again. Contracts. It sounds like, you know,
con when players have to enter into contracts to play and then they have
to fulfill those contracts. That's what can stop what's happening right now. The
question is does it and what when does that eventually happen? Because I think
we're still years away from it, you know, Truse Again, there's some
parties that don't want they don't want it. And if I were, absolutely
I don't want it. I don't want it because here's free rain. It's
free rain, right, you know, because Joe, you know, Joe
blow quarterback and go negotiate a you know, million dollar contract while his center
is getting twenty five thousand dollars, right, you know. And so no,
I mean correct, I mean, if you're if you're if you're one
of those players, you don't want it. But if you're somebody who's if
you're the center, you do because maybe you get the minimum of X,
right, you know, and it's and it's more than you would have gotten
any of course, any any updates, we've got to go about ninety nine
ninety seven the Pacer ninety nine ninety eight, the Pacers lead the Bucks Dodgers
up six nothing not that score score. Well, thanks guys for being in.
Hey, thank you, We'll see you around. We'll see you here
later, Adam, Thanks a more one more gig for you man next week.
All right, thanks for being here, everybody, have a great weekend.
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