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Speaker 2: show so far. Today we did talk a little bit
Speaker 2: about the rivalry with Pope and Kelsey now in place
Speaker 2: at Louisville and Kentucky. How you can just tell that
Speaker 2: there's a legitimate, very legitimate amount of respect for both sides.
Speaker 2: And I don't think anybody's truly like bothered that. But
Speaker 2: Pope made a comment today at his press conference about
Speaker 2: the about the game being played this year way earlier
Speaker 2: than we're used to. November eleventh is the is the date,
Speaker 2: which again it's just you know, it sounds weird and
Speaker 2: it'll be weird, but we'll get used to it, I
Speaker 2: would imagine, or maybe this is a one off and
Speaker 2: we never played this early again. But regardless, Pope was
Speaker 2: asked about it, and you know, he didn't have much
Speaker 2: to say, and and I guess playfully, uh you know,
Speaker 2: said blame Louisville. But even couldn't leave it at that,
Speaker 2: had to mention, you know that he has respect for
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey because again they just they do, in fact
Speaker 2: respect one another. And I just I brought it up
Speaker 2: because there's really not a whole lot to take from it.
Speaker 2: But what I what I wanted to to make a
Speaker 2: talking point is that I think if you just are
Speaker 2: hoping that eventually, because it is a rivalry, you know,
Speaker 2: they played nice thus far, but man, just give it time.
Speaker 2: It's gonna get real nasty. Maybe it will. I just,
Speaker 2: knowing what we know about both sides, I don't see
Speaker 2: that happening. And and you know, and I'm I'm okay
Speaker 2: with it, I really am. But here's what Pope had
Speaker 2: to say when asked earlier.
Speaker 3: Today, increasingly complicated and and so I think it was
Speaker 3: I think it was, Uh, I think it was what
Speaker 3: what worked out best? Is there? I heard there might
Speaker 3: be a push people wanted that in December? Is that true?
Speaker 3: So blame Louisville for that? Okay, I actually I actually
Speaker 3: don't know how we got to the date. You know,
Speaker 3: there's more important people are dealing with those those issues
Speaker 3: than me. But but I'm sure it's Louisville's fault. I
Speaker 3: said incredible.
Speaker 1: Ming season.
Speaker 2: So first of all, I do think it was Louisville
Speaker 2: that wonted the game earlier. But I also think that
Speaker 2: Pope is being sincere when he says that as far
Speaker 2: as like when it's played like he has, he's got
Speaker 2: other people kind of really handling the logistics of getting
Speaker 2: that all worked out. Not that he wouldn't have any
Speaker 2: say so, but you know, I just I think these
Speaker 2: guys really do like each other, and I would be
Speaker 2: shocked if something happens to where that's not the case.
Speaker 2: Now they're all they're clearly competitors, so they want to
Speaker 2: they want to beat each other bad. But that won't
Speaker 2: mean that we're going to have anything close to what
Speaker 2: we used to have with previous coaching matchups within this rivalry,
Speaker 2: especially the one that we'll never see again. Uh as
Speaker 2: far as just the hatred between the two Patino and
Speaker 2: cal but after playing that in the four o'clock hour,
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Speaker 2: seventy three is the number. But two different people, seemingly
Speaker 2: from both sides, one from a Louisville side, one from
Speaker 2: a Kentucky side. They mentioned kind of in a different way,
Speaker 2: but I think their point is similar. That they don't
Speaker 2: like that they like Kelsey and they don't like that
Speaker 2: they like Pope, And I get it, like I don't.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not bothered that I that I find
Speaker 2: Mark Pope to be kind of likable. Maybe that's growth
Speaker 2: in me, maybe it's maturity. Maybe I'm not just gonna
Speaker 2: you know, like I can want Kentucky to lose every game,
Speaker 2: and I could want Mark Pope to be a really
Speaker 2: really bad coach, but like, I don't believe he's a
Speaker 2: bad coach, and if I did, I would tell you.
Speaker 2: And you know, I can enjoy him losing if in
Speaker 2: fact they lose a bunch of games, but it won't
Speaker 2: be because man, yeah, I like to see that guy
Speaker 2: lose because I don't like him. I like to see
Speaker 2: him lose because he coaches Kentucky. So I think we'll
Speaker 2: we'll adjust. But it does seem a little bit different
Speaker 2: than anything I've experienced. You know, I wasn't around whenever
Speaker 2: Joe B and Denny we were leading these two programs.
Speaker 2: I mean, we know a lot of history that, of course,
Speaker 2: you know, led to it all working out to where
Speaker 2: they did meet in the dream Game. And then of
Speaker 2: course it became a regular thing on the schedule, and
Speaker 2: that's all she wrote. And then I mean to see
Speaker 2: those two, you know, those two guys doing a legendary
Speaker 2: radio show on this station right here for as many
Speaker 2: years as they did. I mean, again, I'm not somebody
Speaker 2: that can go back in time. Whenever it was really
Speaker 2: getting going, when Joe B didn't want to talk about it,
Speaker 2: right he he you know, he asked him to cut
Speaker 2: off the camera, and Denny's on camera saying, you know,
Speaker 2: well that's typical. Like I wasn't around when that happened,
Speaker 2: but I do remember whenever it became a story here
Speaker 2: locally that those two guys were gonna be doing a
Speaker 2: radio show together, and I just remember, you know, like
Speaker 2: my family and whatnot, people that were a big part
Speaker 2: of me being a Louisville fan, Like they were kind
Speaker 2: of you know, it's one of the things you remember
Speaker 2: as a kid, Like, wait a second, what Like these
Speaker 2: two guys are going to not only are they are
Speaker 2: they friendly now and they enjoy talking, you know, fishing
Speaker 2: and hunting, but they're going to actually work together. And
Speaker 2: they did and that that was one of the more
Speaker 2: special radio programs we've ever had in this market. And
Speaker 2: you know, shout out to both those guys. So, you know,
Speaker 2: I just think he can be a rivalry and we
Speaker 2: can want to dislike the other, but let's not force it,
Speaker 2: you know, like, let's not force it, all right. Something
Speaker 2: else that we discussed earlier today has been the big
Speaker 2: news regarding the NBA Draft lottery last night, where the Mavericks,
Speaker 2: who have been the punching bag of the NBA is
Speaker 2: as just everybody making fun of them for the Luka
Speaker 2: Doncic trade. I mean, nobody has had a worse two
Speaker 2: and a half three month stretch other than Nico Harrison,
Speaker 2: the GM of the Mavericks who traded Luca and really
Speaker 2: didn't get any draft didn't get any draft picks for it,
Speaker 2: got a good player, but a player that objectively, as
Speaker 2: it stands right now, is not as good and as
Speaker 2: impactful as Luca and is older and is also very
Speaker 2: injury prone. Like it was, you know, on paper, looking
Speaker 2: like the worst trade of all time, and we got
Speaker 2: a long way to go when it comes to determining
Speaker 2: if it was the worst trade ever. As far as
Speaker 2: can you believe they gave up this and got that
Speaker 2: in return, right like Luca going to La and winning
Speaker 2: a bunch of rings after Lebron retires and the Mavericks
Speaker 2: fading into irrelevancy and never being good for a long time,
Speaker 2: Like that's the scenario that would lead to it being,
Speaker 2: you know, not only in real time viewed as the
Speaker 2: worst trade ever, but down the line you'd say, wow,
Speaker 2: that still seems crazy that they did that. But I
Speaker 2: think with the Mavericks getting the first pick with just
Speaker 2: one point six percent or whatever it was chances of
Speaker 2: winning the lottery and then actually winning, I mean, that
Speaker 2: could make it to where maybe in three four years,
Speaker 2: maybe even less than that, the Mavericks don't even think
Speaker 2: about the trade. They don't even think about Luca, because
Speaker 2: they've got Cooper Flag, a guy that, as I've said
Speaker 2: throughout the show today, if he's anywhere close to as
Speaker 2: good as people claim he can be based off his potential,
Speaker 2: the phenomenal skill set that he has, he doesn't really
Speaker 2: seem to have much of a weakness. There's certain things
Speaker 2: he's clearly better at than he you know, than others,
Speaker 2: but I don't really know where the weakness is for
Speaker 2: him now. Doesn't mean he's gonna automatically walk into the
Speaker 2: NBA and be one of the best that's ever played,
Speaker 2: but he seems to have a lot going for him
Speaker 2: right now as a very young young individual eighteen years old,
Speaker 2: and where he is at twenty three, who knows. And
Speaker 2: if you're Dallas, I mean you've got older players currently
Speaker 2: that can't have a whole lot left, especially guys like
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson and I mean Kyrie still plays at a
Speaker 2: high level. But you know, Kyrie and Ad both missed
Speaker 2: a lot of games this year because of injury, and
Speaker 2: AD's had that issue his whole career. Klay Thompson kind
Speaker 2: of have it, kind of has as well. Kyrie, I
Speaker 2: don't really know a whole lot about like a history
Speaker 2: with injuries. But my point is this, like, you know,
Speaker 2: if those guys can, easier said than done, stay healthy
Speaker 2: at an older age, If Cooper Flagg is the guy
Speaker 2: that people claim he's going to be, it could be
Speaker 2: a very successful ending for those guys' career in Dallas
Speaker 2: because he could you know, he's gonna be He's going
Speaker 2: to be the franchise. And yeah, they're older and again
Speaker 2: somewhat injury prone, but clearly we're talking about guys that
Speaker 2: you know, you never know what father times when it's
Speaker 2: going to hit you in how bad it's going to
Speaker 2: hit you. But Klay Thompson, Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving,
Speaker 2: those were three of the bigger names that have played
Speaker 2: in the NBA in the last fifteen years. So they
Speaker 2: don't have to be the guys they were in their
Speaker 2: prime for it to work out. If Cooper flag is
Speaker 2: as good as advertised, you can still have a lot
Speaker 2: of success to where like maybe like maybe Nico Harrison
Speaker 2: ends up actually being the luckiest guy in the world
Speaker 2: because he did the unthinkable and somehow kept his job.
Speaker 2: And yet now here they are with a chance to
Speaker 2: get the I mean not a chance they have the
Speaker 2: number one pick, they're not trading it. They're taking Cooper
Speaker 2: for lag, which, by the way, it was a one
Speaker 2: point eight percent chance that the Mavericks had, which is
Speaker 2: the fourth lowest odds for a winner of the draft
Speaker 2: lottery since nineteen eighty five. And if your teams like
Speaker 2: the Utah Jazz or the Toronto Raptors, even Charlotte Hornets,
Speaker 2: like you tanked and you may get a really good
Speaker 2: player that in seven eight years you'll look back and
Speaker 2: say we did the right we drafted the right guy
Speaker 2: at this spot. But hard for me to think that
Speaker 2: that player will be anything close to what Cooper Fly
Speaker 2: can be. And by the way, that's not that player's fault.
Speaker 2: Whoever it is you draft there that might end up
Speaker 2: being good. But you were, you know you were. You
Speaker 2: were there with a better chance, in fact, a much
Speaker 2: better chance at getting that number one pick, but it
Speaker 2: just didn't bounce your way. It went to Dallas. And
Speaker 2: I'm not one for conspiracy theories really at all, especially
Speaker 2: in sports. There aren't many that I really find to
Speaker 2: be believable that a lot of folks are convinced is
Speaker 2: is true and not just a conspiracy it's just a fact.
Speaker 2: But you know, Dallas, given what happened with them, the
Speaker 2: way things played out, the market size they were, I mean,
Speaker 2: they'd become one of, maybe not one of the bigger
Speaker 2: brands in the NBA, but obviously you know, with Luca there,
Speaker 2: they they were relevant in a big way. And I'm
Speaker 2: sure the NBA could see benefit from that because again
Speaker 2: market size, Dallas is a huge market and they clearly
Speaker 2: have a huge fan base, and it looked as if
Speaker 2: they were going to be fading away into irrelevancy just
Speaker 2: because of the Luca trade, and now here they are
Speaker 2: with a chance to quickly bounce back. And I just
Speaker 2: have a hard time envisioning the NBA doing something to
Speaker 2: set it up like this, But I at times can
Speaker 2: be naive. Maybe I'm really naive when it comes to this,
Speaker 2: And you guys are right in claiming that it was
Speaker 2: all a setup and they were never gonna let Cooper
Speaker 2: Flag end up in Utah. They were gonna never let
Speaker 2: Cooper Flag end up in Charlotte or Toronto or even
Speaker 2: San Antonio for that matter, And if so, I guess
Speaker 2: that's not right. But I'm not mad about it. I mean,
Speaker 2: sucks to be a fan of one of those teams
Speaker 2: and know that it's really set up for you to be,
Speaker 2: you know, up against it, right. I mean, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be tough to ever be successful at the top of
Speaker 2: the NBA where you can sustain that success just because
Speaker 2: the way the NBA is set up now, I mean
Speaker 2: it just is players have way too much control and
Speaker 2: where the best players in the league want to play
Speaker 2: in places like that long term, it's just not realistic
Speaker 2: and it's not necessarily just because of like where you live, right,
Speaker 2: Like Utah is a beautiful place, but like the culture
Speaker 2: maybe something different than what they want. And you know,
Speaker 2: when you're in LA or New York or even like
Speaker 2: Miami for that matter, or one of the big you know,
Speaker 2: Houston or Dallas, like you are a bigger celebrity because
Speaker 2: you know you're in a bigger market. Like that stuff matters,
Speaker 2: not because these guys are just seeking fame. But with fame,
Speaker 2: you know what comes, dollar signs, endorsements, movie deals. It's
Speaker 2: not a coincidence that Lebron James wanted to go play
Speaker 2: for the Lakers. He wanted to be in LA. He's
Speaker 2: Lebron James. He's one of the most famous individuals on
Speaker 2: the planet. And as a Pacers fan, I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't really know what our market is compared to others
Speaker 2: as far as size. It's certainly not a big market.
Speaker 2: And you know, somebody shared something the other day that
Speaker 2: I really you know, and I mean I've talked about
Speaker 2: this before with the Celtics or now with Celtics. With
Speaker 2: the Pacers, they do really, really, really well for who
Speaker 2: they are. And what I mean by that is, you know,
Speaker 2: like they seem to operate with the with the understanding
Speaker 2: that they've got to do things that they probably don't
Speaker 2: want to do. But look, they they understand. Like Paul
Speaker 2: George was never going to sign long term there at
Speaker 2: the end, trading him for Victor Oladipo and Devantas Sabonis
Speaker 2: seemed like a stupid trade at the time for a
Speaker 2: lot of people. Or they could have you know, waited,
Speaker 2: waited it out, only for Paul George to walk away
Speaker 2: and you get nothing for it. So Oladipo became a bomb.
Speaker 2: Sabonis she got as much as you got out of him,
Speaker 2: as much as you could get out of him. He
Speaker 2: was an all star. So you know what you did,
Speaker 2: You traded him for Halliburton, who's been your franchise player,
Speaker 2: and it's working out well. You gave a guy like
Speaker 2: Miles Turner more money than others would because you knew
Speaker 2: he was good for you, and that money made it
Speaker 2: to where he stayed in Indian didn't go for a
Speaker 2: bigger market. So like, you got to make decisions with
Speaker 2: the understanding of your identity. And I think the Pacers
Speaker 2: do a great job, but again it's still to me
Speaker 2: sets up to where where the Pacers realistically winning a title,
Speaker 2: to me just doesn't seem realistic because they just you know,
Speaker 2: they're not gonna Although it did open up a little bit,
Speaker 2: let's be real it opened up a little bit with
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum getting hurt. But again, like when you look
Speaker 2: at the Pacers in the last fifteen years, the Paul
Speaker 2: George era from twenty ten to twenty seventeen, six playoff
Speaker 2: appearances to Eastern Conference Finals appearances. They traded Paul George
Speaker 2: for Oladipo and simonas as I mentioned in that era,
Speaker 2: but with those two guys three playoff appearances. Again, you
Speaker 2: got the best year Ladipo ever had before he got
Speaker 2: injured and bounced out of the league. Simonis was an
Speaker 2: All star for you. You traded Sibonis for Halliburton, and
Speaker 2: since he got there two playoff appearances to Eastern Conference
Speaker 2: Finals appearances. I mean, they're being able to consistently make
Speaker 2: the playoffs and pivot from start a star and still
Speaker 2: find success is impressive. It's not winning titles, which of
Speaker 2: course is the ultimate goal. But like I think they
Speaker 2: realistically know that, hey, they could, you know, they could
Speaker 2: keep doing what Utah is trying to do right now,
Speaker 2: or do what Charlotte's done. And you never really know
Speaker 2: just how you know how much intent you have to tank,
Speaker 2: do you end up being bad because you tried to
Speaker 2: be good and wanted to succeed but you couldn't. And
Speaker 2: then you just say, Okay, the damage is done. We're
Speaker 2: not going to salvage this season. Let's tank and let's
Speaker 2: get the best draft pick. Like the Pacers have never
Speaker 2: done that, and I oftentimes have criticized them for that,
Speaker 2: but like, you know, like Danny Grainger was their franchise
Speaker 2: player for a while and they didn't win a lot,
Speaker 2: but like they got the most out of him any
Speaker 2: that they possibly could. When they drafted Paul George, nobody
Speaker 2: knew who he was, and they they and they locked
Speaker 2: him in. So I think the Pacers, and maybe this
Speaker 2: is me being a Pacers fan saying this, I think
Speaker 2: they're a good example of operating for years now with
Speaker 2: the understanding that, like they just they're gonna probably do
Speaker 2: some things that others wouldn't do because they don't want
Speaker 2: to ever be in the dumps of getting a top
Speaker 2: five pick because they're one of the worst teams in
Speaker 2: the league, and clearly they're more they're things, even though
Speaker 2: they're not. They haven't won a title yet. Life's better
Speaker 2: for everybody. Things are much more healthy when you are
Speaker 2: winning and you're competing and you're one of the top
Speaker 2: teams in your in your conference. And that's certainly where
Speaker 2: they are right now. This Knicks team looks pretty scary,
Speaker 2: and the Knicks are good. The Pacers got them last year,
Speaker 2: but the Knicks we're dealing with some injuries. But if
Speaker 2: we get Knicks Pacers, I mean again, I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: all in because I love that that's a rivalry, believe
Speaker 2: it or not. And I think the Knicks are a
Speaker 2: fun team to watch this year. I kind of find
Speaker 2: them to be a likable team at times, but you
Speaker 2: know they're also front runners and the rivalry for me
Speaker 2: will be there. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: you got to you know, getting past the Knicks is
Speaker 2: gonna be tough. Who I mean on the West, like
Speaker 2: Who's I mean? Obviously the thunder is still scary with
Speaker 2: just what they can do. But again, I think the
Speaker 2: Thunderer built like a team that is good with a
Speaker 2: lot of young talent. But I don't know, I think
Speaker 2: I would honestly, let me ask you this, Austin. You
Speaker 2: don't follow NBA probably like you know a lot of people,
Speaker 2: but you know enough to be dangerous if you are
Speaker 2: my Pacers and you somehow get out of the East
Speaker 2: now because you can get past New York and you
Speaker 2: know Boston's you know, Boston's done. Who would you least
Speaker 2: want to see in the West? You've got probably the
Speaker 2: Timberwolves same like yeah, so I would actually say, despite
Speaker 2: okayc being the one seed, I would least like to
Speaker 2: see the Timberwolves or maybe even Golden State because they
Speaker 2: still have that championship pedigree and you know they're not
Speaker 2: what they once were, but still I mean, at any moment,
Speaker 2: if they you know. I mean like they're a team
Speaker 2: that in the postseason, you've been able to see that
Speaker 2: despite them not winning as much games as they typically
Speaker 2: do in getting like a one or two seed, they're
Speaker 2: still a tough out. You know, there's still a chance.
Speaker 4: I'd also be scared of Denver too, because yeah, as
Speaker 4: long as you got Jokich. I know they are teams
Speaker 4: kind of aging, and Jamal Murray's kind of aside from
Speaker 4: a game where he completely goes off every once in
Speaker 4: a while. But I think Aaron Gordon's playing well. I
Speaker 4: think Michael Porter can go off, Michael Porter Junior can
Speaker 4: go off at any time, and of course you got
Speaker 4: the joke kitch factors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think I think the of the of
Speaker 2: the teams in the West. I swear this sounds crazy,
Speaker 2: and I know how good they are, trust me. Like
Speaker 2: I know the thunder were phenomenal this year and really
Speaker 2: ran away with the West, but I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like I would rather play them than certainly the the
Speaker 2: Tea Wolves just because they scare me, and the Warriors,
Speaker 2: I mean, and then the Nuggets. I kind of thought,
Speaker 2: I'm here, I am thinking to myself, you know what,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe the Nuggets would be the team that you'd
Speaker 2: want to play, but we're talking about Jokic. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: whenever your third and fourth best player is Porter and
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon. Like that team's loaded. Like they fired Michael
Speaker 2: Malone because they knew they should have been better than
Speaker 2: the four seed, you know what I mean. So yeah,
Speaker 2: just looking at the bracket now, I mean, before too long,
Speaker 2: we're going to be there with the Eastern Conference in
Speaker 2: Western Conference finals and that should you know, should whoever
Speaker 2: it is. I think we'll get some good matchups for sure.
Speaker 2: I mean, I talked a lot of crap about the
Speaker 2: NBA playoffs before it started, and there have been some
Speaker 2: blowouts and some results that you know aren't aren't probably
Speaker 2: good for the league. But I kind of feel like
Speaker 2: it's been one of the best playoffs thus far in
Speaker 2: a while. And trust me, I'm not just saying that
Speaker 2: because of my pacers. It's just I mean, I think
Speaker 2: we've actually had some Like right now, you've got the
Speaker 2: Thunder and the Nuggets. It's tied it to a piece.
Speaker 2: You've got the Tea Wolves and the Warriors. The Minnesota
Speaker 2: is currently leading three to one, which does make it
Speaker 2: tough for the go for Golden State, but I'm not
Speaker 2: count Golden State out. And then you have some not
Speaker 2: so competitive series on the other end. But it's been
Speaker 2: interesting and entertaining because it's been an upset, like the
Speaker 2: Knicks and the Celtics, that's the three in the two seed,
Speaker 2: but it looked as if the Celtics were gonna be
Speaker 2: the team to roll through the East, and you know,
Speaker 2: even before Tatum got hurt, the Knicks got the best
Speaker 2: of them. And then now you've got the Cavs, who
Speaker 2: you know, are up against it down three to one,
Speaker 2: and you know, with their injuries, it looks like the
Speaker 2: Pacers are going to roll. So yeah, the playoffs. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna act like it's been appointment viewing for me
Speaker 2: every night, but I've been entertained by more so than
Speaker 2: I was expecting. A right quick break will come back
Speaker 2: on the other side and keep this thing rolling along.
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Speaker 2: All right, so the ACC spring meetings are are going on,
Speaker 2: and I'm not really sure what is happening at these
Speaker 2: ACC spring meetings. But Bill Bellich was. He was there
Speaker 2: and did a live hit on the ACC network. Although
Speaker 2: I didn't I didn't, I didn't hear any of it,
Speaker 2: but I do. See quote here courtesy of Bret McMurphy
Speaker 2: who says UNC head coach Bill Belichick from the ACEC
Speaker 2: spring meetings on his girlfriend Jordan Hudson. Quote, it's off
Speaker 2: to the side, a personal relationship. She doesn't have anything
Speaker 2: to do with North Carolina football. I'm excited to be
Speaker 2: back in coaches meetings. End quote That that to me
Speaker 2: is is Belichick doing this hit at the ACC spring meetings.
Speaker 2: He's going to be on Friday morning on Good Morning
Speaker 2: America with straight hand. And I think Carolina had last
Speaker 2: week when they had to put out the statement in
Speaker 2: regards to Pablo Torre, who nobody's really disputing much of
Speaker 2: anything other than that she's not welcome there. But the
Speaker 2: statement they said is that she's she's welcome, but she
Speaker 2: doesn't have anything to do with Carolina football yet. Prior
Speaker 2: to this thing really creating a live of its own,
Speaker 2: I mean, it sounded if she was running the show,
Speaker 2: running his life. So I think that's Belichick saying what
Speaker 2: he needs to say to now let his bosses know, Hey,
Speaker 2: this you know I'll do because he now has to
Speaker 2: do some damage control on their behalf because there's really
Speaker 2: nothing they can do now. I guess the question is
Speaker 2: how how long does he do this without her getting
Speaker 2: in the way again, because she very much clearly can't
Speaker 2: stay out of the way, at least she hasn't been
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Speaker 2: So we've got something that is a bigger deal, at
Speaker 2: least in my opinion than it's being made out to be.
Speaker 2: And that is that the NFL, they are tiptoeing towards
Speaker 2: basically taken over football on television in America. And what
Speaker 2: I mean by that is it is not a random
Speaker 2: miscommunication or a random oh whoop, sorry, we didn't know
Speaker 2: you already had a date set to play college football
Speaker 2: playoff games on this date. Because the NFL, we now
Speaker 2: know what the schedule release unveiling throughout the week, it'll
Speaker 2: be totally out there tomorrow. But the NFL, they're gonna
Speaker 2: have two games that's going to go up against the
Speaker 2: college football playoff first round on Saturday. Is some of
Speaker 2: the twentieth the Eagles and the Commanders and the Packers
Speaker 2: and the Bears, which, by the way, two big games,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. So for those who don't know,
Speaker 2: and this is something I learned about some years back,
Speaker 2: but I wasn't aware of it when I was younger,
Speaker 2: that the NFL there is an anti trust exemption that
Speaker 2: was granted in nineteen sixty one by the Sports Broadcasting Act.
Speaker 2: And what this does is it prohibits games on Fridays
Speaker 2: and Saturdays from mid September to mid December to protect
Speaker 2: college and high school football. Obviously, the December twentieth games
Speaker 2: fault just outside that window. So I mean the NFL,
Speaker 2: if they, you know, if they wanted to make a
Speaker 2: change to this, I don't know how they would do
Speaker 2: it as far as this anti trust exemption, But I
Speaker 2: mean they've kind of played nice for a while understanding that,
Speaker 2: you know, they have a really a free minor league,
Speaker 2: don't they. I mean, like, the NFL benefits from college
Speaker 2: football because they pick all their players from that route, right,
Speaker 2: and they need those Like there's no scenario where the
Speaker 2: NFL is ever gonna be like, yeah, you know, what
Speaker 2: the hell with you college football. I'm gonna make an
Speaker 2: enemy out of you, and I'm gonna have all these
Speaker 2: high school players bypass college and then go play in
Speaker 2: the NFL. That's not real it's not realistic. So I
Speaker 2: think it's always made sense for them to want college
Speaker 2: football to be healthy enough to where they can still
Speaker 2: utilize it as their unofficial minor league. And and as
Speaker 2: far as I mean, I can't think of any any
Speaker 2: time where they've there's ever been any like conflict between scheduling,
Speaker 2: and again it's because of this this this anti trust
Speaker 2: act that's been in place since uh this is anti
Speaker 2: trust exemption that has been put in place since nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty one. So moving forward, I mean, I don't really
Speaker 2: know exactly what it is they can and can't do
Speaker 2: as it stands right now, but if it was there
Speaker 2: was ever a situation where the NFL didn't have to
Speaker 2: give a damn when anybody plays anything, I mean, they
Speaker 2: would like, like, what if the NFL just had what
Speaker 2: if it was a free for all, which it's not,
Speaker 2: and the NFL just decided we're going to stretch our
Speaker 2: season a lot longer than than how it currently sets up.
Speaker 2: And because here's the NFL is such a monster and
Speaker 2: it dominates so much that nobody would be able to
Speaker 2: compete with it. And thankfully you rarely have situations where
Speaker 2: you have to worry about competing with it, right, Like
Speaker 2: the NBA they have games on NFL Sundays, but you
Speaker 2: know it's not when the NBA is believed to be in,
Speaker 2: you know, big time watching. Like actually, the NBA on Christmas,
Speaker 2: I mean, and that's still hyped is a big day,
Speaker 2: and I guess it still is for the NBA. But
Speaker 2: now that the NFL is having games on Christmas, like,
Speaker 2: everybody's competing for second. And there'sn't wrong with that because again,
Speaker 2: comparing yourself to the NFL, you're setting yourself up for
Speaker 2: failure just because the NFL is just different. But I
Speaker 2: kind of feel like that didn't because again, if Louisville
Speaker 2: somehow was in the College Football Playoff this year, which
Speaker 2: you know it could happen, I'm not predicting it, and
Speaker 2: they played in one of those first round games on
Speaker 2: December twentieth, Let's say they get to host a game
Speaker 2: something like that, it would feel like the biggest deal
Speaker 2: in the world because it's the College Football Playoff and
Speaker 2: clearly we'd be all into it because our team would
Speaker 2: hypothetically of course be a part of it. But like
Speaker 2: it would be pretty jarring to look back and realize
Speaker 2: that as much as you know, it felt so special
Speaker 2: to us, but man like, it didn't come close to
Speaker 2: the viewership that you saw in the Eagles at Commanders
Speaker 2: and the Packers at Bears, because again, the NFL is
Speaker 2: just king in a while, you know, in a big way.
Speaker 2: I guess that's the best way to uh, best way
Speaker 2: to put it right real quick before we take a
Speaker 2: time out. I want to get our last break out
Speaker 2: of the way, so we have a little bit of
Speaker 2: time before we close out the show. But when it
Speaker 2: comes to the new ESPN app that they're uh, they're there,
Speaker 2: I guess it's not just an app, but I mean
Speaker 2: the new ESPN service, it's not really a new play.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to call it. ESPN is now
Speaker 2: trying is now going to offer the ESPN experience without
Speaker 2: you having to have a cable subscription or a streaming
Speaker 2: a separate streaming provider in order to utilize what they
Speaker 2: offer on ESPN. But one of the new features here
Speaker 2: and their new streaming app is going to be an
Speaker 2: AI powered sports center for you feature or they're going
Speaker 2: to use AI to tailor coverage to your preferences and
Speaker 2: also track teams you root for and root against, so
Speaker 2: like you can guess, go to sports Center within the app,
Speaker 2: and it'll show you a version of sports Center that
Speaker 2: I guess is custom for you. I have a hard
Speaker 2: time seeing that working quite like the regular Sports Center experience.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. AI is a powerful, powerful thing,
Speaker 2: so maybe maybe I'm wrong when it comes to that.
Speaker 2: All right, real quick, let's take a time out. We'll
Speaker 2: come back again one more segment. I want to give
Speaker 2: us a little more time than we typically have, just
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Speaker 2: Talk seven ninety. You hear myself and Austin talk a
Speaker 2: lot about gambling. We love doing that when it comes to,
Speaker 2: you know, betting on sports and donating money to sports
Speaker 2: books more often than not, at least on my favorite
Speaker 2: hobby but do you play the lottery at all? Do I?
Speaker 2: I guess that means you do. Okay, so scratch off.
Speaker 2: Have you heard this this crazy story about a Texas
Speaker 2: lottery winner in twenty twenty three that is getting now
Speaker 2: some some some coverage that's like controversial, you know at
Speaker 2: all what I'm talking about because.
Speaker 4: Now the last one we talked about was a Kentucky
Speaker 4: one where the guy the police officer, yeah face.
Speaker 2: Violated his parole right after you know, roughly right after
Speaker 2: he ends up you know, winning a lot of money
Speaker 2: to change his life. But anyways, check this out. This guy,
Speaker 2: this this to me, you know, I'm mean truy my
Speaker 2: bestic took to condense this story. But this has got
Speaker 2: to have to be a documentary at some point. But
Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen, there's a guy by the name of
Speaker 2: Zelko Raganajovic probably not saying that right, but he's Australian
Speaker 2: and he's known as the Joker. He is a big
Speaker 2: sports better gambler, poker player, and he put together a
Speaker 2: scheme to where he ended up winning a fifty seven
Speaker 2: point eight million dollar jackpot in Texas. And it's it's
Speaker 2: very controversial as far as the strategy to win the
Speaker 2: Texas lottery that they went through. But it's legal. So
Speaker 2: what he did is he purchased nearly all of the
Speaker 2: possible number combinations and it ended up giving him, you know,
Speaker 2: for example, he purchased twenty five point eight million dollars
Speaker 2: in one dollar tickets, covering ninety nine point three percent
Speaker 2: percent of all possible six number combinations. And he did
Speaker 2: this very publicly. He wasn't doing it. I mean, he
Speaker 2: wasn't like out promoting it, but like he knew that
Speaker 2: what he was doing was in fact not something that
Speaker 2: would be viewed as you know, illegal. So he ended
Speaker 2: up purchasing a bunch of I guess the machines that
Speaker 2: like print these like. So for him to be able
Speaker 2: to purchase twenty five point eight million dollars worth of
Speaker 2: one dollar tickets, like, they had machines running like NonStop, like,
Speaker 2: he was a very very extensive, you know plan and
Speaker 2: in it in it's legal. So he ended up collaborating
Speaker 2: with a big businessman in London and his company. He
Speaker 2: partnered with lottery dot Com to facilitate the mass ticket purchases.
Speaker 2: He set up operations in four different locations within Texas
Speaker 2: using over one hundred ticket printing terminals to produce tickets
Speaker 2: around the clock. He had QR codes and smartphones to
Speaker 2: streamline the ticket printing process. I mean, he found a
Speaker 2: way to get enough money together to you know, think
Speaker 2: about it again, he had to purchase twenty five point
Speaker 2: eight million dollars worth of lottery tickets in order to win.
Speaker 2: But in the end he ended up winning the jackpot, yeah, doubled. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you know, it was a good investment. And again
Speaker 2: it's it's it's been very controversial because it, I mean,
Speaker 2: the both purchasing of lottery tickets is not illegal in Texas,
Speaker 2: and the Texas Line Commission has had to confirm that
Speaker 2: a bunch of times because everybody's claiming, how can this
Speaker 2: be legal? How could he do this? Well, because it's
Speaker 2: not illegal, therefore it is legal to do it. But
Speaker 2: the Texas Lieutenant Governor labeled the operation quote the biggest
Speaker 2: theft from the people of Texas in the history of Texas.
Speaker 2: The governor Greg Abbott, he ordered an investigation by the
Speaker 2: Texas Rangers into it. There was story, I mean, the
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal did a story that really kind of
Speaker 2: made it more of a nationally known thing. But I
Speaker 2: still feel like, I mean, this is this is going
Speaker 2: to be a I mean, again, he didn't do anything illegal,
Speaker 2: but I would imagine they'll probably make some changes to
Speaker 2: where this can't happen again, because this is somebody just
Speaker 2: rounding up enough funding and getting the resources logistically needed
Speaker 2: to buy as many tickets as possible, produce as many
Speaker 2: tickets as possible. So again, he had the machines to
Speaker 2: produce it, he had the money to fund the amount
Speaker 2: of tickets, and they worked around the clock doing this
Speaker 2: in order to wear Again, what was the number ninety
Speaker 2: nine point Marie, Yeah, nine yeah, ninety yeah, twenty chance
Speaker 2: for I mean twenty five point eight million dollars in
Speaker 2: one dollar tickets was spent, covering ninety nine point three
Speaker 2: percent of all possible six number combinations. So when you're
Speaker 2: going to your partners to hit them up for money
Speaker 2: about why they should invest, I mean, you're basically able
Speaker 2: to tell them here's what we're going to do, here's
Speaker 2: how we're going to do it. It's one thousand percent legal,
Speaker 2: and at the end of the day, we've got a
Speaker 2: ninety nine point three percent chance of winning fifty seven
Speaker 2: point eight million dollars I mean it's it's a brilliant idea, right,
Speaker 2: it's not illegal. I mean it's not like they were
Speaker 2: at that point. Dude, you kind of kind of earned it.
Speaker 2: Oh exactly, No, like it's money. And to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, he absolutely did. Like not only is it
Speaker 2: was it hard to pull it off everything that's needed,
Speaker 2: but to just have the you know, have the the
Speaker 2: idea to do it, you know, to look into kind
Speaker 2: of like what you could potentially do. And apparently the
Speaker 2: real kicker that got him to where he was able
Speaker 2: to do this was that there was a failing lottery
Speaker 2: system like lottery dot com is now a failed entity
Speaker 2: that apparently, you know, he was able to purchase all
Speaker 2: these machines from because they were going out of business
Speaker 2: and without that, he wouldn't have been able to print it.
Speaker 2: So it was the perfect storm for him. So anyways,
Speaker 2: just thought that was interesting and it'll probably be a
Speaker 2: Netflix documentary at some point or it should be all right,
Speaker 2: that'll do it for us. We're out of time. We'll
Speaker 2: be back tomorrow right here on Sports Talk seven ninety