Speaker 1: I'll start to it.
Speaker 2: You got to present some off the bench with Jacob
Hester and T.
Speaker 3: Bob Abert.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Off the bench with Jacob
Hester and T. Bob Abert. Off the pitch.
Speaker 2: Now here's Jacob.
Speaker 1: Hester and T. Bob Abert handing y'all. Welcome back ot
Bear out number two. Uh oh guys, uh oh oh?
Speaker 3: Can you feel it depends?
Speaker 1: What were we talking about? Little wind beneath your wing?
Bette Midler, cool cool Pelicans? Oh, Jake, guess who just
hit double digit wins last night? The New Orleans Pelicans
beating the Dallas Mavericks one nineteen one sixteen. What is
that make now winners of three of the last four. Yep,
are you kidding me? Seven point fifty win percentage? I mean,
second night of a back to back, no zion, no problem.
Did Jontay Murray drop in thirty Trey Murphy dropping another
twenty four ten boards from Murph coming up with a
goalten that they didn't call at the end of the
game to win the game. Hell yeah, we'll take it.
Bro All tongue in cheek stuff aside, all sarcasm aside.
This is both exciting me and depressing me because you
are kind of seeing some of the potential of what
this team could be if they were healthy. Because me,
SI's really good. He's a rookie starting down low and
really playing well. I mean, last night plus nine and
the plus nine is twelve point six boards. Jontay Murray,
now that he's health he's producing every single night. Trey
Murphy's starting to really I'm going his own field the
potential we always knew he had, and now you have
zion available whenever you have. Jordan Hawkins drops twelve last
night off the bench. I mean again, this is a
year wasted and the whole two deep, but there's no
way they do anything with it. But I'll be damned
if they're not kind of giving me something a little
stern in my loins here as of late. Yeah, it's
too little, too late, And I agree with you.
Speaker 3: It's like two different ext's like probably three different feelings
of what you actually feel for the Pelicans. Because you
get mad because you're like, this is what it should be.
Then it's like you get excited because they are winning games.
But then you get mad again because you're like you're
screwing up your draft choice in a lost season. So
it's like three different kind of feelings that you feel
for the Pelicans and what they're.
Speaker 1: Doing right now.
Speaker 3: And it is a team that if maybe sort of
kind of one day they could be healthy.
Speaker 1: Three or four guys, three or four. Look, we're gonna
ride this thing all the way until when Zion gets
hurt in another week, and then we'll just like and
then we get back off again. But for now, okay, Pels,
I see you. I'm not going to grant you the
rank of making me happy. I am not going to
call you back and talk on the phone, but I
may send you alike on social media. Maybe I tell you, oh,
good job, you know it looks Oh you look like
you're doing well. Okay, we're not getting back together. I'm not.
I'm not giving in, but I'm happy. I'm happy for you. Right,
you look like you're doing well. You look like you're
getting things together. See you've been in the gym. That's
good for you. Okay, keep it up. But you ain't
gonna get me again. But I'm happy for you. Be
you kind of gonna get me again. Maybe if you
want me, do you want me? You sure you want
to talk, I'll talk how long. Anyway, they're gonna get
you again, three or four guys if they keep this
up seventy five percent win rate, let's go. Well, now,
like what do you want him to do? Though, I
don't know that that's yeah, that's the problem. That's the problem.
That's the problem. It really is the nightmare purgatorial situation
where they play great and you're like, oh man, this
is what it could be if they're fully healthy. I mean,
are you gonna run it back? I don't know, I
don't know, I don't know. But whatever wins, he's still
still still credit still credit to the Pels. No, he says,
I feel like Pelicans sock is seating enormous ground in Murphy,
Sam and Jody. No way, he'll catch Cublic and back
right now.
Speaker 4: True, dang, I was gonna say they got like a
couple of games coming up that they can win against
the Jazz. Jazz or sucond to list Pelicans.
Speaker 1: Not made the jazz good?
Speaker 5: No, not like not like he he's done with this
with the Celtics.
Speaker 3: And they try to tank to get wimby though, and
then they were like actually like decent.
Speaker 5: That's when Jordan Clarkson was averaging, like when they.
Speaker 3: Put like a bad roster together and what they thought
was going to get them wimby, and then they like
were five hundred.
Speaker 5: And here.
Speaker 1: Laundra is going straight from the Tim Duncan era and
they're getting wimby.
Speaker 4: Okay, there was there was a period there where it
was not good, Like it was not good.
Speaker 1: It was still not like it was, but it got
it got a little bit.
Speaker 2: It was pretty bad. It got a little bit for
a few years there.
Speaker 1: Mark Coumby says, pels suck and will always suck. Avo says,
imagine wasting energy on the Pelicans.
Speaker 5: A lot of positive comment.
Speaker 1: Uh, I feel like they're rooting their chance for to
tank for flag. Yeah, okay, I get it, guys. We
can move on. Nobody cares about the Pelicans. That's that's fair.
That's fair. But I see you, guys, I see all right.
Do we want to go ahead and knock out? Let's
go ahead and do that. Let's talk the Hut Palmer
Portal player profile. It's a series that we've been doing
daily inspired by Hunt's work on Louisiana Sports dot Net,
in which look, the offseason is crazy. Portal combat is
every day, and rosters change seemingly unceasingly, And yeah, we
might talk about a guy when he signs that day,
but it's worth going back and looking and saying, Okay, well,
who is this guy really? Our next up in the
list is Virginia Tech transfer Braylan Moore. This guy is
a prototypical interior alignment here six three three to h
three that is perfect center height and weight. The last
two years he has started twenty four games for Virginia Tech.
In twenty three he played left guard and in over
six hundred STAPs do not allow sack only you have
seven hurries. In twenty twenty four he played center and
in seven hundred and forty one steps he did give
up three sacks, which is a little heavy. But look
at his PFF grade seventy six point nine in pass protection,
sixty seven point five in the run game. Compare that
to DJ Chester as Hunt does. Chester graded out at
a sixty five and pass and a forty nine in
the run, so a significant upgrade. That is from a
grading perspective. It's a fourth year player, very experienced. Teaming
up with a fifth year quarterback should be a great
combination there in terms of not being frazzled or rattled,
being able to pick up the offense quickly. And here's
I view Brailon Moore. The floor is that you have
an excellent, experienced rotational piece that can either start or
play anywhere on the interior. So even if he's not
as good as you were hoping, he still represents a
piece that every great team has to have. He's a
guy that can play left guard, center, right guard whenever
you need it. The ceiling is that you have a
great starting center, which in freeze up DJ Chester, and
then you have a two guard positions that'll have a
lot of young unproven talent canpete but a lot of
them right if you have me Binga Chester, Cohen, Echo's
boat border on Josh Thompson, Tyler Miller Carr's Kerrn Like,
I don't know who would win those jobs, but I
would feel pretty good about them considering the kind of
raw talent a mass there. So the Braylan Moore pickup
is so shrewd and impactful to me because I don't
see how it ends up being bad. There's no way
that it just doesn't work. Maybe it doesn't work out
as well as you want, but he still didn't hear
out that you could either be his first off the
bench six man or you need to starting guard. Well maybe,
but like he could, he could work fit in a
million different ways.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you had to put all these kind of pieces
together from what you saw on the ball game, what
you're getting in the transfer portal, and now you've got
to figure out your best five.
Speaker 1: I don't think that best five is settled anywhere.
Speaker 3: I don't like I don't think there's one position on
this offensive line where Brad Dave's like, no, this is
our starting left tackle, this is our starting left guard,
this is our starting center, and across the board.
Speaker 1: I don't think he has that information.
Speaker 3: But I don't think it's like in a bad way,
because we could say that in a bad way if
you like, ha, man, you ain't got no players.
Speaker 1: I think you got players.
Speaker 3: Now you just have to figure out where they're going
to be pieced, Where do they help the team, Where
did they play the best? Because you do have a
lot of different pieces who have played tackle, who have
played guard. Now you would like to have would you
like to have a Will Campbell and Emery Jones every
single year? Absolutely? Now that's rare. And with this group
who played well the ballgame. You go back, you watch
that tape. They played well against Baylor. You have to
figure out, Okay, who are the best five, who is
the interior swing guy, and who's going to be the
tackle swing guy. Now you again, you've got some pieces
to choose from. And now that's what this spring practice
and kind of building into the season is going to
find out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and a really good job this portal season of
getting the majority of pieces in place for spring. In
the past, it feels like they haven't fully committed or
they've missed and then they've had to go scrambling afterwards.
You pretty much again, now with the addition of safety,
the safety of Vincy State cool, you pretty much have
everything in place. What's the one is it offensive tackle?
Did we get a tackle? No, that's the one thing.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: You got Josh Thompson, who people think and play tackle,
but when he was in the portal, he was listed
his interior offensive linement, and even Solomon Thomas and carrieus
Kern they were more interior line as well. Like, I
still think you need a tackle.
Speaker 1: But outside of tackles, Tyree Adams, they like Bordelawn at tackles,
So I mean you got you got pieces. So it's
a situation where you pretty much have all the pe
Like if you didn't add anybody in the next portal window,
you would feel really good still about where you're at.
And so the point of that is it's good roster
management to have all those pieces ready to go for spring.
So because spring is when you start the crafting of
the new team, I mean you know, really it's like,
right now, you're working out fourth quarter all that sort
of stuff, right, but springball is where you really start
to see I always describe it like a qualifying for
a NASCAR race. It's gonna tell you who's in pole
position going into the fall for these starting jobs. And
unlike the last couple of years, this is a much
more complete roster going in the spring, and that should
excite you, especially because it's led by a quarterback who
is the second highest odds to win the Heisman. We
kind of gloss over that, and it's because we're spoiled
now and we've had two Heisman winners at quarterback in
the last five years. But you are entering a year
with a quarterback who has the second best odds doing
the most prestigious trophy in college football. That doesn't get
you a little excited, That doesn't stir your loins. You
should go to Goodwe because it should. It's very exciting.
Speaker 3: You got the number four and number five interior offensive
lineman in the portal, so you've gotten some talent back
into the room. And again, that bowl game is going
to pay off for so many different players.
Speaker 1: We talked about it at the time.
Speaker 3: For trade As Green, he's never going to get live,
you know, run blocking reps like he got in that game.
For Kaden Durham, he's never going to get live pass
protection reps like he did in that game.
Speaker 1: So same thing for these offensive linemen like.
Speaker 3: That was so valuable those practices leading into it, but
also that game time.
Speaker 1: The confidence man, So now show yourself you can do it. Yes.
Speaker 3: So now when you're going to Little Death Valley in Clemson,
South Carolina, it's not going to be really the first
time you're thrown into the fire. You can go back
in your memory, Bak, you can reach and say, man,
went against a Baylor team that had won six in
a row, and we went out there and we were dominant.
We won that game, the offense certainly moved the ball
up and down the field, and so you get to
pull from that, and so that experience, just in that
one singular game, I think it's going to pay off
for this team. And then like as far as a
tackle position, we talked about like a Weston, Dave say, Okay,
well what can he give you? He was a five
star guy, he had a freshman year to sit and
watch and learn. Can he compete for a right tackle position?
Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, it's And you know what, Jake, I hope
they lean into the Clemsons, maybe enough to be all
like fucking my day guy. But like again, I remember
day one of workouts in January, Tommy Moffatt yelling at
us going into twenty eleven about Oregon and how fast
they are in the pace with which they play. And
it became this this buffer against lackadaisic. Catty became a
buffer against complacency, against wanting to be lazy, maybe not
doing the work that you need to. You knew you
had to bring it every day because immediately out of
the gates there was going to be hell to pay.
And I hope this team leans into that and they
don't adopt the like, well, we don't want to make
it too big. We just want to stick to ever yutine. No,
how about from day fricking one, you're talking about Clemson
and how they want to take the name Death Valley
from you, and how they want to prove they know
they are the actual Death Valley, they are the actual Tigers.
They want to prove to you that now you're you,
You're still not that guy, You're still not they good
hand you a six season opening lost in a row.
I'm not shying away from that. I'm leaning into it
all off season, as should this team. I hope they do.
But Brailer Moore, it's a good pickup, man, It's a
good pickup for an offensive line that again a lot
of talent lacking in experience. What is brailor Moore bring?
It is his greatest asset, a lot of experience. Good
job by Brad Davis and the LSU staff. Yeah, I
mean you bring in more and you bring in Josh
Thompson as well. I mean it's a red shirt junior
play a lot of football, more so redshirt sophomore. So
you've brought in guys that have played, you know, in
power for major conferences, acc Big ten, That's what you needed.
Nookie says this like a bully taking the classmates lunch
money team Bob in the hall with Hunting the headlock. Look, man, Flaw,
you better post that or you better post that portal stuff. No,
this is a way of creating synergy and conversation because
Louisiana Sports that it is powered by us. Here in
this way of featuring the website, which I've been using
for show prep and absolutely love Ross Hunt Mara. The
team's doing a great job. But yeah, also, like I said,
like the portal stuff happens so fast and heavy that
sometimes it's good to take a step back and say, Okay,
what did we really get? How do they fit in
the puzzle? And it gives you a very clear picture.
And let's be clear, my expectations are sky high for
this team. Next year. There will be no excuse. There
will be no excuse next year. This is a team
that has to compete for championships. They have all of
the elements, and I think as we continue this series,
it's going to continue to prove that give you this
number one portal class in America right now, all right,
when we get back here and off the band. So
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Speaker 1: Back to sports talk, maybe off the bench and y'all
look back go TV. I feel this is my windshield
is a new massive crack along the bottom. So I'm
just gonna ride. What do y'all do about cracks in
the windshield? Y'all immediately get them fixed.
Speaker 2: I usually ignore it.
Speaker 1: Yeah me too, I like never get them. My front
windshield looks so ratchet. It's literally I think got like
three or four cracks in it.
Speaker 5: I have these two long cracks in my windshield that
have been there since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, okay, good, so I'm not I'm just making
sure that I'm among friends here. Yeah, it's a safe space.
What are you supposed to do? Do you pay out
a pocket? Do you go through insurance?
Speaker 2: Out of pocket?
Speaker 1: Right? Insurance? That I'm guessing. I get so triggered by
that stupid commercial where the two guys are so happy
their windshield broke there on the road trip and the
guy's a dumb hat on we got to go to THAFE.
Speaker 4: I have the definition of like, you know, those means
of like, I'm just a girl when it comes to
cars and like car stuff. That's me like, and that's
probably the most girl.
Speaker 2: Thing that I'm about. It's like I don't I don't.
Speaker 1: Do that me too.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: We never had autoshop or anything when I was in
high school. Like, I don't know. I don't know anything
about how a car works. It's like that Nate Bargazi
bit we were talking about yesterday, like you go to
the past, can you actually prove you're from the future. Yeah,
Like we drive around in cars? How do they work?
You know, combustible engines? Right, I don't know fire gas?
Do you know what gases?
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: If I poured in the car goes I don't. I don't. Yeah,
I know. I don't know how anything works either.
Speaker 2: I don't how to change a flat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, But I don't know how like
any change. I could change the oil. I could change
a flat changes Who told you to change the oil? Grandfather? Okay,
I mean you know you can like any you can
look anything up on that if you want to.
Speaker 3: So it gets harder now to change oil because skid
plates and different things, like the older cars didn't have
those and so you just get under the car and
you change the oil. Now you had the skid plate
that's kind of protecting all of that in case you
hit a bump or anything, and it is more difficult now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't no, No, There's like one time,
though I did my window, my driver's side window wouldn't
roll down, and my dad was like, well, you got
to replace the motor, and I'm like, how do I replace?
So he ordered me like the part or whatever. But
I had to figure out how to do it myself. Yeah,
so I looked up a YouTube video. I had to
take my whole.
Speaker 1: Door panel off. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I'm sitting there like by myself, just try and
figure this out. I take the panel off, I connect
the motor, and I did everything right.
Speaker 1: I put the door.
Speaker 4: Panel back on.
Speaker 1: I was so I have the exact same experience with
a headlight where I had to take off way more
stuff than I ever would have thought just to replace
this little bulb. Ye, but I felt like a NASA engineer. Yes,
by the time it was done. This person ever, can
I work on a spaceship? Yes, I could be on
Apollo thirteen. Just figure business.
Speaker 5: You had to change the light on your sienna.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, this was years ago. But that's
the other part of this was this is pre kids,
so I can have time maybe to be like, Okay,
I can mess around it for two hours watching YouTube,
trying to figure this thing out. What am I gonna
do now? When the kids are a sleeping night, somebody's
balls tired, and all I want to do is enjoy
the one hour in which nobody's yelling at me for
something I just But I still have like a mountain
of clothes to fold, just sitting at the edge of
my vision. If you do it now is to get
done before bed. You just get a two hour podcasts
about Star Wars. I know, I felt. I felt bad.
That's how my wife passive aggressively shut down the pod
last night. Was cranking up the vacuum and I was like, oh, guys,
writings on the wall, your boys gotta go. I was.
Speaker 5: I was for a different answer, like he'd be like,
hang on, guys, one second, and they think you're leaving.
You just turn the volume up with the headphones drowned
off the vacuum.
Speaker 3: So when you said you did a two hour podcast,
I was like, man, Kaylen just gonna do a two
hour five. I'd like the kind of prime time for
the kids to kind of get relaxing and go to bed.
Speaker 1: No, no, I made sure to have them asleep by eight o'clock.
Speaker 3: You know, you remember that story you tell about you
talking with a former LSU coach and Caitlyn's letting you
know that it's time to go.
Speaker 1: I had that kind of Caitlyn energy. Yeah, what I
was thinking, I will say this to her credit, you know,
maybe two hours is the limit. Uh, because she did
a great job of grinding getting the house better last night.
But the she could tell that I was so genuinely happy.
I was having so much fun that yeah, she she,
I mean, show me run wild for for a for
until the vacuum, until the vacuum. You but you know
it was it was ten o'clock, So I I understand,
I understand. I'm not I'm not arguing against it. Uh,
somebody you should never argue against or billionaires because you'll lose.
You know that they're they're going to kill you. They
run the world. Well. Sportico has a really good article
breaking down who are the biggest billionaire boosters in college
football and what school do they pledge their allegiance to
it starts with SMU. You got Gerald J. Ford, two
point seven billion dollar net worth, financial services magnet, just
a finance guy whatever, but remember he leads a board
at SMU that is, without a doubt, the richest board
in the in the power for I think they have
multiple billionaires on there was it? I mean what did
they pay then? Did they pay like fifty or seventy
five million, Jake just to get out of their TV
rights contract? Think it was nothing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're paying their way into the ACC right now,
they're not getting a conference check. Yeah, they raised over
one hundred million dollars to be able to do so.
Speaker 1: It was like it was just easyps. So that's that's
the name Gerald four I mean right, I mean it's
gerald Ford Stadium. Yes, yes, it's named after But is
this THEO I would assume yes, But it's named after
this Gerald Ford the stadium is it's named after this guy,
not the president, but it's this guy related to the president.
Reminds you of that old SNL skit where the anchor
is trying to record a bunch of headlines before he
wants to leave for vacation. So they have to prepare
for all presidential potential incidents that could happen. He was
like jerld Ford on whatever, uh for Ohio State University,
it's less Wexner. I don't think so we'll get to
less Wexner in a little bit. Just know this is
a a guy, the richest man in Ohio where anywhere
from six to eight billion dollars Victorious Secret Bath and
body Works. That's Lex, but Lex has a bit more
de U. Did y'all know this? You know who? Mark
Cuban pledges allegiance to Dallas Mavericks shut up to college football?
Who does Mark Cuban pledge allegiance to?
Speaker 2: I felt like I knew this.
Speaker 1: Mark Cuban, Yeah, Miami, the Hoosiers, Indiana.
Speaker 2: I knew that.
Speaker 1: I did not. He has. He's given millions of dollars
to the school. He's spent millions to make a student
run broadcast facility. Back in twenty fifteen. He created this company,
Campus Inc. Which is an apparel company that is a
ton of nil deals with And you gotta believe he's
a believer in Signetti. So Cuban one of the reasons
why Indiana may stay relevant going forward. Shut out to
cubes over there at Texas Elandra. You got Robert Rallying.
He's worth eleven billion dollars slight work. He made his
fortune him and his father did as an oil wildcatter.
And I don't watch land Man, but I did look
up what a wildcatter is because I didn't know. Do
you all know what it is?
Speaker 4: Wait?
Speaker 1: What did you ask a wildcatter? If you're an oil wildcatter?
Wild catter? Can I take a guess?
Speaker 5: Yeah, somebody who just like buys them up sells them
kind of news, up the ranks, through the through the
oil business.
Speaker 1: Uh. The AI search on Google, Like when I just
google it, you know, call it to AI results out
it says an old wildcatters a person who drills wells
in areas that are not known to contain oil. Wildcatters
are independent, self reliant, and risk taking explorers who search
oil gas deposits. So basically, you know, it's like that
classic It's like out of a movie.
Speaker 5: You find the oil in your backyard, you sell it,
all that type of thing.
Speaker 1: Well, no, I think it's more like, you know, he's
like there's oil up in them hills and nobody else
believes him He's like, I'm gonna prove it to you,
and well, rally done, gone and did it because now
he found some of it. Yeah, I was gonna say,
now he's worth eleven billion dollars. His law degree is
from SMU though, so again he kind of can do.
Speaker 3: Uh the President of Texas just leave to take the
job at SMU.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't know that. Pretty sure he did. Yeah, yeah.
Jimmy Haslam is University of Tennessee owner of the NFL's
Cleveland Browns. Of course, eight point five billion dollars. He's
given over one hundred and twenty million dollars to the
University of Tennessee. The music school and the business school
both bear bear bear his name. Well, now, yeah, there's
somebody Jay Jordan for University of not Dame, no no
net worth. He's a part of Bill Gates Billionaires that
the Giving Pledge who pledged to give away half their
wealth before they die or whatnot. He runs a private
deck reading firm with thirty billion dollars in assets, brewing capital.
He too. Jake has given more than one hundred and
fifty million dollars to the Irish over over the years
and then at Pennon State. You got Terry Pagoula excuse me.
Of course, his daughter's also what like number two or
three in the world and tennis owner of the Buffalo Bills.
But yeah, he's he's behind in state. He's worth nearly
eight billion dollars. And then you got Phil Knight at
Oregon thirty five billion dollars. Again, we all know that
Phil Knight has basically just pledged unlimited money. And then Jake,
you'll be pleased to know Arizona State has one in
their pocket. Ira Fulton. Again, this is a billionaire that
is given away more than one hundred and sixty million
dollars to Arizona State already and the disclosed support has
been to academics. But again uh, with Dillingham creating belief, yeah,
you best believe Ira Fulton's going to be getting hit up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kenny just got a new contract, I believe, a
five year contract. Third highest paid now in the Big twelve.
So things going well there in Timpe. I didn't know
that they had a big backer like this. It's interesting,
a huge it's a huge student body, so it makes sense.
You know, somebody would you know, be successful and want
to give back.
Speaker 1: I think Clemson's is pretty interesting. Anybody want a hazard
to guess? What if I told you it was my
pleasure Dan Cathy, that would make a lot of sense. Dan,
of course, Truett s Kathy the o G Chick fil
A godfather, Dan, a scion of the Cather family. I
think he. I think he's the is he the head
Kathy child. I believe he's a chairman whatever, he's a
chairman at Chick fil A. He didn't even go to Clemson.
He went to Georgia Southern.
Speaker 5: The original Chick fil A is in like Atlanta area,
are Yeah, the Dwarf House.
Speaker 1: No, he didn't even go to Clemson. Clemson's right by that.
But still no, he didn't go there. But he's but
he's already given millions to Clemson's athletics. So yeah, you know,
we just Clemson. And it's true. I mean, I would
imagine that they're there. They are morals. Well, how do
you want to how do I want to say their
values a lie? Sure? For sure? Like as soon as
you said, I'm like, yeah, it makes sense. Uh. Georgia
has Don Leeburn Junior, who has long This article says
long inside as one of the nations most powerful college
athletics boosters. He actually passed away in this spring. He
was a liquor, wine and beer distributor. He was a
starter in the nineteen fifty nine Georgia squad that won
the sec UH and the Orange BOWLT and he has
given millions of dollars to Georgia athletics through the years
and continues in his will to have it written out.
So does Boise State, Allen and Billie D. Noble does,
the Broncos' biggest boosters do so from beyond the grave.
The estate of Allen Ability Noble gifted the school twenty
five million dollars in October, which will support the athletics building.
Speaker 3: All knew everything in their athletic department at Boise right now.
It's because the Nobles stadium track, all the things are
getting upgraded.
Speaker 1: How about this? And by the way, Noble himself went
to the school back in the fifties and sixties, and boys,
he kind of got established as a badass football program.
How do you think Noble made his money? No, it's
actually not a bad guess, not a bag. But if
he's from Potato, the Potato Empire, a literal potato billionaires.
But yeah, the literal potato billionaire is funding Boise State. Now, unfortunately,
I don't know what no Tod Graves in this list.
Maybe he doesn't match the the the donations that the
others have given thus far. But that wraps it up
for the billionaires in college football which schools they support though.
The one that we have to dive a bit deeper
on next segment is less Wexner because Ohio State's money
may be a bit dirty. Come up next year on
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When somebody says your name in my stomach does a
pain you walk in my direction. Welcome back to more
sports talk. What's some other stuff mixed in off the
bench with Hester and Ti bomb handing. Yeah, welcome back,
go TB. So we're just bringing down the billionaires in
college football. And there was one that we mentioned and
that is Less Wexner. And look, guys, I've got all
the documents. Okay, I've got them all. You might as
well call me t Alex Jones because I've been in
the lab. I've been researching. I've been googling articles and
reading them like a detective, and there has to be
asked questions of is Ohio State's money tainted in all honesty?
I saw a clip on Twitter of Shane Gillis kind
of making jokes about this on The Rogan Show talk
about like have you heard about host good Solder? My mind, like,
what is this about? Right? Oh, that's interesting one to
look it up. So Les Wesner is Ohio's richest person,
worth anywhere from sixty eight billion dollars. Pretty cool story.
You started the Limited a store back in nineteen that
back in nineteen sixty not the Limited started it with
a five thousand dollars loan from his auntie, and that
began what would become a retail empire. Victoria's Secret Bath
and Body Works, Abercrombie and Fitch. Yeah, now remember about
Abercrombie and Fits your remember do you even remember the
scandal they had where they were releasing though they would
do their like I can't remember the call. It gets
like a look book of sorts, but it was like
hyper sexualized, hyper sexualized with very young people. Okay, interesting,
I mean this is.
Speaker 4: The same brand that had like shirtless high school models
outside there.
Speaker 1: Isn't that, yes, but but I'm saying they even yeah,
but no, but I mean whatever, the imagery is still
the same. I mean it was. I was shocked when
I got here in two thousand and seven. I went
to Aricame and fishing the mall, and there one of
my high school best friend's abs were staring back at me,
blown up like twenty feet large but interesting, but beyond
what they had in store launder which you could argue
if you really wanted to is quoa, like could you
do that now? Uh? They had these like look books
that they would do where it got very sexual, to
the point of being very controversial, even at a time
when that wasn't as controversial. Interesting just make a note.
Uh So, back in twenty ten, Les Wexer gave one
hundred and ten million dollars to Ohio State. He's given
one hundred and sixty three million dollars to Columbus Foundation
give its tens of millions of dollars in nonprofit and
charities throughout the city. That's that's all very admirable. You know,
I feel bad that I'm kind of painting this all
a bit conspiratorial, because that's that's all well and good.
Does this end with him on the Buckeye Cruise?
Speaker 5: It could, although that would be better.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They want him on the buck Eye
cruise now, So you say, okay, Tim, but what's this
all about? What this is about is Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey
Epstein was a New York City financial manager. When him
and Wexner met, they became so close. In fact, at
one point we Wexner was Epstein's only known client. Wexner
granted Epstein power of attorney. Think about that? Mean that
literally Epstein can make all of these decisions to Webstern.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: They have been co presidents of companies together, they have
owned homes together. Epstein's been a long time trustee on
the Wexner Foundation. Now, Londra, you know much more about
Epstein than I I do. And to be fair that
everybody has looked deeply into this, obviously, and wex has
not been found of any wrongdoing or anything like that.
But my god, this is a truly awful association to
be had. When your retail empire was built on Victoria's
secret and Abercrombie and Fitch, there's a lot of young
people being hyper sexualized synergy there. That is not the
best look.
Speaker 4: It's definitely a little sinister when you think about everything
that Jeffrey Epstein's accused of. And if your friends, what
do they say, birds of a feather flock together.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I know.
Speaker 4: You're putting out these catalogs with teenagers on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's it's not a great look, not a great And
then you like Jake brought up the cruise, like if
if this man has something to do with the cruise.
Speaker 1: Though buck Eye Cruise.
Speaker 5: Oh, he he funds it.
Speaker 1: Wexner funds broadly his ship. Ye, So to be fair
to Wexer.
Speaker 2: They sell it to Epstein's island Or was he ended.
Speaker 1: Up firing Epstein in oh seven? Of course it was right.
When Epstein had to pay millions of dollars in a
settlement to women that he had sex trafficked, and he
claimed that Epstein stole millions of dollars from him, Wexner did,
and we fare in twenty seven after he fired him. Actually,
forty seven million dollars was given back to a Wexner foundation. Uh.
But here's what I'll let I'll let Wester say, because
here's what he said about it. I think it's fair
to give him his his day in court here, since
you know, intimate a lot of things. Yes, okay, so
his quote. I would have never guessed that a person
I employed more than a decade ago could have caused
such pain to so many people. My heart goes out
to each and every person who has been hurt. I
severed all ties with mister Epstein nearly twelve years ago.
This was rien in nineteen. I would not have continued
to work with any individual capable of grecious, sickening behavior
as has been reported about him. As you can imagine
this past week, I've searched my soul, reflected and regretted
that my path ever crossed his. So you know, look,
you know he's given a lot to charity. He says
he knew nothing, but it is still factual that Ohio
State's biggest donor, Les Wexner, and Jeffrey Epstein were incredibly
tight but attained money up there. And look as.
Speaker 5: If they should disband the football program.
Speaker 1: If they weren't already kind of unlikable enough going into
this game. So that's one thing about the Rule the
Galaxy Potos on last night. They're all from the Midwest,
and they basically described a House state as like the
Alabama of the Midwest. Like nobody's cheering them except for
ale Jose. Joe's dad is. They're all kind of more
NFL fans, but they're from Indiana. Yeah, I mean they're
all kind of like they're all I think, like a
lot of people. They're like it. The craziest thing Ohio
State did was make Notre Dame the likable underdog because
they don't even really like Notre Dame like that, right,
but even they're getting on board. Has a bit of
that out of Alabama with us growing up, Notre Dame's
never been that. Yeah, no matter who they were playing, yeah, exactly,
be playing anybody, and nobody was cheering for Notre Dame.
Uh So just interesting to interesting to think about. I
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Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sort of.
Speaker 1: It's off the bench with Hester and t Bobs. Why
was Alex Jones calling Taylor or Froud? I don't get it.
Welcome back to OTB. Jake, you've been doing some research
on another portal player, as we talked about Braylan Moore earlier.
You go check that out, would be in the OTBLSU channel.
But Josh Thompson from Northwestern my son it looks like
my son is what I'm saying, only with blue eyes,
which my actual son does have blue eyes. So maybe
he's my son but in the future. But then he
came back in the past somehow, and if he ever
sees my actual son, then all of reality will collapse
because the space time continuum would have been broken. But
either way, you have some good numbers on Josh Thompson.
Speaker 3: So we were talking, you know, additions through the portal
obviously offensive line for LSU, and you were kind of
give him some PFF grades. How about this for Josh
Thompson past blocking grade eighty two point six, damn Son
run blocking grade seventy four point.
Speaker 1: Two, TUO. And that's in the Big ten, guys, in
the Big ten. That's in the Big ten, guys, Like
I get it. I'm Braidley more maybe like it's acc
and I understand that AC down bad after bullseason, Big
ten up big after ballseason. Put that picture back up, Tate.
I want people to bask in the glory that is
this beautiful blue eyed, red haired manchild whose mustache and
beer does not connect, just like mine.
Speaker 3: Pass protection grades against Indiana seventy eight point three, against
the Buckeyes seventy six point seven, against the Wolverines eighty seven.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. I'll take that.
Speaker 3: Buckey's in Wolverine e'ven Illinois seventy seven point three. Illinois
is a good football team up front.
Speaker 1: And you gotta love a sicco who's willing to leave
Chicago and come all the way down to South Louisiana,
just really going balls deep on the culture shock change
of like just just everything.
Speaker 3: One penalty on the year, damn, and that was against Perdue.
He probably didn't even have to have that penalty that game.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it was like a statement penalty. You know,
somebody who's messing around. He just kicked him in the
nuts or gave him a good forearm shiver. Yeah, I
played six and forty six Naps.
Speaker 3: Did miss two games last year a Week eight and
Week nine, but came back and probably played his best
football when he came back from injury.
Speaker 1: Shout out Josh Thompson. I'm excited. Big kid too. Hunts
six to four. Well.
Speaker 3: Pro Football Focus has him six' five three oh, one
But i've Seen i've seen six four two ninety in other,
places So i'm not you, know even if it's somewhere in.
Speaker 1: Between, Still i'm pump, Man i'm. Pump it's got icel
and fired up by this, kid, now hell, yes, YEAH i.
Agree looks like a Young. Streef. Yeah streef always had
manchild babyface syndrome for. Sure for. Sure Another northwestern. Great
no a Tackle. Thomson you figure we'll play on the
interior or where he played In northwestern.
Speaker 3: Interior but he's kind of the one that we talked.
About maybe could kick. Out, okay.
Speaker 1: Be interested to trying to see if two point. Out
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they were doing college.
Speaker 3: YET i was trying to see IF i could find
Out Tom glitz as far as guard.
Speaker 1: Tackle let's see IF i can get. That for the
end of the, show CAN i do a little? Confession
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