Speaker 1: Good morning. It's eight am here on Monday, February twenty fourth.
Today in bad Ridge, you can expect rainy skies with
a high of sixty three and hour two of today's show,
we'll talk about the latest with Nil and we'll discuss
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
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Speaker 4: I gotta come off the pitch now.
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Speaker 3: What y'all Welcome back to O tbur numbernumber two here
on Monday feb twenty four, twenty twenty five. It's still
a bit rainy and chilly and whatnot. Still stay safe
out there if you're on the roads. To have ourselves
a great week, a great Monday. Yeah, just you know,
have a good Monday. Guess we'll maybe make your old
Monday a little bit better. Here on off the bench,
as we're target sports, having some fun and well, let's
trying to solve crimes. The website doesn't seem to be
working at least I can't get.
Speaker 4: Working for me far.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, wait, so you're just not sharing that after
with the group, after we said there was enough evidence,
what happened? Next?
Speaker 4: Okay, so you have to go.
Speaker 5: So it'd ask you to figure out what, try to
decide what what do you think happened? You say too
early determination and you go. The next minute, it says
the blood splatter is there's bloodstains on the subject shirt
and there's also someone with him, which is interesting. So
then it's a suspicions death and they ask you what
kind of gun it is to revolver. I don't know
why they ask you that. But then this was weird.
It talks about the blood splatter, and I thought that
it would have been from somebody, like from underneath him,
because it.
Speaker 4: Was like it went.
Speaker 3: I was like, it's like above him, behind his head.
Speaker 5: But but it says the answer was that the gun
was far directly at the victim. So I don't know
if that if they think that if to go straight
through and then there.
Speaker 3: Was well, maybe he was standing up and then fell
into a.
Speaker 4: Seated pace, yeah, and sat down and they put the
gun in his hand.
Speaker 3: Maybe. Yeah, It's like maybe he was standing up when
he got shot O Ridge and then he falls down
behind him.
Speaker 1: Keeping all this info from us was like, Oh, mine's
not working. Beck's like, I'm already been promoted to lead
the guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying to solve this case
to advance my career.
Speaker 3: Uh So, speaking of trying to solve the case, one
case that we will watch with great interest, what does
Palpatine say, we'll watch your career with great ditch or
something like that. One case that we'll watch over the
next couple of years is going to be that of
Elijah Haven, Dunham's quarterback, the number one rising junior in
the entire country, who's actually named the Max Preps National
Sophomore Player of the Year after accounting for over four
thousand I mean, these stats are crazy, guys. He threw
for thirty one hundred yards. He rushed for excuse me,
he threw for thirty one hundred. He also threw for
thirty seven touchdowns only seven picks. He rushed for an
additional nine to thirty seven and twenty one more touchdowns,
So you're talking ab unumber four thousand yards to total offense,
fifty eight touchdowns done him goes fourteen and one. They
played for a state title. That's all as a sophomore.
And he's right here and now he's a number one
player in the nation for his class, which what is
that twenty seven?
Speaker 6: Yeah, on on three, he's the number three player in
the nation, number one quarterback, number one in the States.
So like regardless of where you looked, he's gonna be
a top five overall player. Yeah, they and we've talked
about this over the last couple of weeks, and look,
this is a long time away.
Speaker 4: It's a long time away.
Speaker 6: Certainly in recruiting, you might as well just add ten
times to it because of how many things can change.
And we all know you got to get to the
finish line. But LSU in twenty twenty seven has a
fantastic opportunity to get a top tier quarterback because of
the ties that they have to some of the quarterbacks.
So Elijah Haven, you know, again, this is on three,
like ti said, there's some services that have him number one,
but number three nationally, number one, quarterback, number one in
the state Okay, Colton Usmeyer number seventeen overall, number three,
quarterback number three in the state of Texas. Malachi Ziegler
number thirty one overall, number five, quarterback number three in
the state of Louisiana.
Speaker 4: All right, and then you go to Gunner Rivers.
Speaker 6: Remember his uncle Stephen Rivers played at LSUE, number thirty three, overall,
number six, quarterback, number one in the state of Alabama.
Speaker 4: Like, that's that's guys that you had.
Speaker 6: And there's another one in Shreveport, Peyton Houston believes his
name and evangel he's a top tier corey.
Speaker 4: I think he's number ten in this class.
Speaker 6: So you have ties to four guys right now are
actually one, two, three, four, five, five guys right now
you have ties too that are in the top ten
in twenty twenty seven. Now, things can change, but you're
set up right now to get a top tier quarterback
in that class.
Speaker 3: Well, and again you mentioned things changing. I mean one
of the things that's gonna matter a ton over the
next couple of years if you're actually going and I
guess look real quick, the whole point of this bringing
up Elijah Haven is that it is said that LSU
is firmly in the lead for him at this point. Okay,
that's all. Also, the same article on the LSU Tigers
SI subsite has they talk about Peyton Houston here Jake
as well and else you's starting to make a push
on Houston. But whatever, they're sitting there in the lead
for Elijah Haven. One of the ways, though, like the
things that can change are not just other people coming
in off whatever, but like, what does LSU look like
over the next couple of seasons? Can they continue to
show quarterbacks that this is a place you want to
be And in that regard, I think they're set up
quite nicely. I mean, of course you had Burrow and
the Daniels was awesome, but then now with Nussmeyer doing
as well as he did last year, and now you
add guys like Nick Anderson, Barry and Brown, an older
trade has green everything we talk about. Aaron andersback like
nuss Meyer, should put up crazy numbers next year, would
be a legitimate Heisman candidate. So that's going to be
three damn near three in a row. So if you're
talking about establishing that pipeline that belief in in the players,
be it Haven, Houston, Rivers, any Beziegeler, Nuss, Little Nuts,
anybody that you named. The bottom line is that they
have a LSU does a very good opportunity continue to
try to prove the exact opposite of what was true
for about fifteen years there where this is a place
where quarterbacks don't come to die. This is a place
where quarter come to thrive. And so if you're looking
for something on the field that will translate to to
off the field recruiting success with all that talent coming up,
like that's what you need to make sure that you
hold down that whose ever under center continues to put
up great numbers, continue to play really well, and continues
to show these young players that, yeah, man, you want
to go get set up for the NFL. You want
to be great. LSU at the most important position. That
LSU's one of the premier era places in which you
can do that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you're right about this year probably raising that
profile yet again because of everything that you have in
front of you and all the tight end and going
to getting two guys out of the portal to add
with a trade as Green, who I think is going
to go up and improve himself from his freshman year
to a sophomore year, maybe more than anybody. And you
get Nick Anderson, you get Brown from Kentucky, and like
Xavion Thomas and Chris Hilton what they did in the
bowl game. Yeah, Like Chris Hilton, like he unlocked something
within the offense and you've been waiting for it because
we all saw it in training camp and then he
got hurt and then the timing wasn't there a little
bit rusty? And he can give you something like you
have truly five receivers that can change a lot of
different things where he solve a lot of problems.
Speaker 4: And so you add that with a.
Speaker 6: Second year quarterback in Garrett Schmeier, a year older for
Caden Durham, who is really good, a freshman All American. Yeah, that,
like the offense and the numbers, they're not going away,
probably going to go up from what it was a
year ago.
Speaker 4: And so every quarterback that we just mentioned is going
to make note of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So again, I know the recruiting can feel a bit,
you know, like intangible at times, and it is, but
the bottom line is you're doing well with Haven here
at the early onset, and more importantly is to recognize
what Jake said, there's a lot of great options coming
on the pipeline. You just have to continue to prove
and not only do you have to prove quarterback statistically, Jake,
but you got to keep the LSU brand cool, right, Yeah,
Like you gotta compete for a championship this year. They
need to see you in the mix right alongside Texas, Oregon, Georgia,
all these other teams that you're going to be competing
with directly for their services. So something to watch for
the next couple of years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And LSU fans, y'all have done a fantastic job.
Speaker 6: When you got challenged to raise some funds, you did
incredible and you know your coach matched it and things
are going well.
Speaker 4: Do you want to make them go great? Go win
some ball games?
Speaker 6: See, Bob, There's there's not many places across the country
that the city changes more than what LSU football is
like championship level. Yeah, this entire city and all of
us here, all of us listening, we have been through it,
b It three seven, eleven nineteen.
Speaker 4: This place changes. You want to hate.
Speaker 6: You want to go put some money in the bank
and go get some of those players that we're talking about.
Speaker 4: Go make that run.
Speaker 6: Because the LSUE brand on the field for quarterback receivers,
how could it not be at an all time high.
You have Joe Burrow and Jane Daniels doing what they're
doing in the NFL. You've got four of the top
seven receivers in the NFL scooting the top two. Like,
you've got what it takes as far as Hey, this
is who you can be down the road. If you
pair that with playing for championships, then I think you
are not only a player for any of these players
we're talking about. You're in the like you get to
choose maybe who you select out of this group.
Speaker 3: Scott Dice is nuslinging with over over five thousand yards.
It's been interesting, right, I think he's actually capable of
something like that. I think that probably means that LSU
isn't quite as good as they should be though. I
think you want more balance, and you should be able
to achieve more balance out of this year's team, and defensively,
hopefully things are better to where you're not reliant upon
a five thousand yard passer to try to win your games.
But we'll see, man, if that's what you need again,
you're probably a pepable with the quarterback and these receivers.
Speaker 6: There's if we're sitting here, we're having this conversation now,
there's going to be a real need for a running
back to step up besides Kayden Durham.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Caden's going to be great.
Speaker 6: He was injured basically the entire year and still averaged
well over five yards of carry again freshman All American
type season. But your safety blanket and Josh Williams is
no longer going to be there. So that was somebody
that you could always count on when he came into
the game, very reliable, really good on third downs, would
always come up with a big play. He's gone, and
so Caleb Jackson somebody we thought was going to be
just very impactful this year and just wasn't. He's going
to have to step up, you Juwan Johnson. We don't
know where he's at right now, like quarterback running back,
like we don't We don't really know what the plan is.
You've got some young players, some really good ones, including
the number one back in the country, and I've said
it a thousand times. If you can make an impact
position in college football immediately running backs probably it.
Speaker 4: You can run the ball or you can't. But still you're.
Speaker 6: Gonna need somebody that's reliable behind Caden Durham because last
year that was an issue and you don't really know
what you have right now past Caden Durham. We think
you've got really good players. We think that they can
project as players that can help you right now. Again,
you don't have your safety blanket of you know what
was Josh Williams a six year senior night He was
on the nineteen team, right so you knew what you
had in there. So the ceiling might not have been
as high as others, but you.
Speaker 3: Knew what you had he And also, i mean look
between and a new field between Harlem and then you
mention kl Jackson as well. But I'm just one of
the newcomers between Harlem Bear and j T. Lindsay, like
one of those guys, you should be able to contribute
and play right away.
Speaker 4: But we'll see again like Cayden Durham did last year.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, agreed, So again overall point is doing really
well with the guy in your hometown that is going
to be the next big thing. Already is here, already
taking home a National Player of the Year award as
a sophomore. Now you have to continue to proving on
the field. You have to give the brand great and
then maybe let behaving and some of the purple golds eventually.
All right, when we get back here on OTV, let's
finally get to this nil thing that I keep teasing.
I know, I know, I know, I'm getting distracted. You know,
crime scenes, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: We're going to get to the opening day of Lshue Baseball.
Speaker 3: But the bottom line is revenue sharing about to kick in, right,
which means the end of collectives or does it? More
of the bench coming up.
Speaker 2: Next, Off the Bench, Welcome in to the best morning
sports this show around Off the Bench with Hester and
t Bob.
Speaker 7: All right, guys, welcome back, oh TP, Real quick, before
we talk about this collective stuff, we got a little update.
Speaker 3: Figured out the victim's name. He's a Canadian man named
Van Coover. I was from Toronto, named Vancouver.
Speaker 4: Can I be a named Memphis from Shreveport?
Speaker 8: True?
Speaker 4: Actually hilly yeah, uh Savan was shot.
Speaker 3: By a gun that was not the one in his hand,
and he was supposed to be out of town to
visit his daughter, who had just won a lottery out
of Connecticut. His daughter and her boyfriend. I can't quite
put my finger on it, but I don't know that
I trust the daughter's boyfriend name Ivan Cruk. Something about
Ivan rubb's me the wrong way. The firearm was linked
to a burglary in which I've been Fingerprints are found.
It's guys, And now we've got another body, female stabbed
at the back. If it's Van's daughter, Vanessa Hoover.
Speaker 4: The victim was identified as Vanessa Coop.
Speaker 3: We weren't fast enough.
Speaker 5: Wait, DNA evidence recovered the scene was linked to al Krook,
who was subscincutly subsequently arrested at a Chinese restaurant that
he frequent in the neighborhood where both homicides occurred.
Speaker 4: The boyfriend's brother we got. We're working on that.
Speaker 7: I don't trust diving, you know what. I don't trust
the entire Crook family. Something suspicious here. I can't believe
you killed both Van.
Speaker 4: And Vanessa Cooper.
Speaker 5: Wait, there's no answer, It just says restart. I got
to the in to come up with your You have
to come up with your own theory pro Hopefully this
brief exercise familiar familiarized you with some of the intricacies
involved in crime scene investigations.
Speaker 8: Restart sometimes goes on this beat, rookie, I've been walking free.
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Speaker 4: Does anything look better than a pot of coffee late
at night when the two detectives are on the job. No,
I mean the only thing I don't even drink coffee,
and allegory.
Speaker 3: The only thing is eating low maine out of a
little Chinese box with some chops. That's got it in
the court, maybe even in the car. Yeah, jacket, back
it off. I've got my suspended, my sleeves rolled up.
I'm looking at the board just and then I'm gonna
notice some connection. I'm gonna drop the Chinese. Oh my god,
it was Ivan Crook the entire time.
Speaker 4: No way, Daniel said.
Speaker 6: The sig does fair point, But I think like the
cigarette and the coffee are one and the same. Yeah,
you gotta have both nicotine and the caffeine are such
a good pairing when you're trying to.
Speaker 4: Solve a case.
Speaker 3: All right, So, uh, to get to what I was
constantly teasing but probably won't interest you as that much.
Speaker 4: I like not like Vancouver.
Speaker 3: You know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4: I figure out what's going on here.
Speaker 3: So coming up June second, whatever revenue sharing is going
to take place, right, l s U going to be
able to give around twenty and a half million dollars
for their athletes. As we said, Uh, the federal government
just ruled that this has not fall under the purview
of Title nine. So each school will be free to
allocate the funds as they see fit. A majority will
go to football, the highest revenue generating sport, and we'll
see what plays out from there. Now, the other part
of this is collectives are going away, but the money,
as we're going to find out and we've been talking about,
will not. Because if there's one thing I've learned covering
this business, doing this business, maybe just in life in general.
You know, you talk to somebody when you have like
water damage, got a leak or something, what do they
always say? Water finds a way? You know, the path
of lease resistance when that's same way money finds a way.
And LSU has already now entered a deal with a
company called playfly which will allow players Jake or what
they're going to do for players is after revenue shary
kicks in whatever collective goes way. Well, now is this
a new company, Playfly through l s U is going
to be cutting in IL deals for the players now,
the players can still cut the deals on their own.
What do you think? What are you guys know about?
Speaker 4: No playflies? Who does l s U sports properties?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like their broadcast, Like when Jake does color I'm
producing or whatever, like we get through play fly confirm through.
Speaker 3: Not saying a word, yeah, but so so they So
they are apparently also who they are paying LSU for
the license to represent their players and get them an
IL deals. Okay, now players can still cut their own
in IL deals on the side. But the point of
this is simply that, well two points. I guess one
of the differences with maybe the collective would be that
this is now kind of officially going through l s U.
But I think the greater point here is exactly we've
been talking about that it's not going away that money still,
that money is still going to be there now for
whatever it's worth. The NCAA is going to try to
ramp up enforcement after after revenue sharing is met. It
says nil deals more than six hundred dollars, you'll have
to be disclosed to a clearing house. And the NBA
says that agreements with boosters and collectors must have fair
market value and provide quote a valid business purpose to
be approved. Again, how are they going to argue those
things in a court of law or try to judge him?
I do not know, but I think maybe the point
that is biggest to me here is you want to
talk about this sign because what do we keep hearing? Oh,
the money can't keep up. The money can't keep up.
People are not going to keep paying these players this money? Right?
Playfi play Fly excuse me? Pays Lsu to do this?
They pay Lsu. Oh man, I thought I had it
written down here, I accidentally did not. I want to say,
it's like almost a million dollars a year, maybe even more.
And so you're saying, well, what does that matter? Well,
what that matters is even though playflies on creating the deals,
getting the war, doing the work right, they're paying LSU
just to the opportunity because they're gonna make money off
the deals because that's how big the deals are. So
what it shows you is that there is a very
healthy market for wanting to pay players and that teams
desperately do and that instead of like LSU paying playfighters,
say hey, create these deals with the age again is
paying the school for the right to market them, knowing
that they'll still make whatever, you know, even more money
back than the hefty licensing fee that they're paying. So no,
the the nil college athlete market is robust and very
healthy in my opinion.
Speaker 4: Oh, I think it's incredibly healthy, and it is about
to change.
Speaker 6: And it does feel like some of these places are
going to actually spend less money than what they're currently
doing because right now, I mean it's it's a little
bit all over the place. But once you talk about
revenue sharing, like that's going to be a different scenario
than we have right now. Yeah, And I don't know
what it's going to do or the middle tier and
the bottom tier. I have no idea because there's some
places to that don't spend twenty million, Like it's just
they don't even they don't get to that number, like oh, you're.
Speaker 3: Saying, ah, I think it's gonna be oof. It's gonna
be if you're a power for school, you're gonna really
struggle if you can't come up with a twenty and
a half million. And I know, I know it's been
very tough for a lot of schools, you know, West Virginia,
other schools like that. Like I guess I just there's
some of my Westernian from pay PNITENTIONI but I know.
Speaker 6: A lot of schools are having to scramble like it's
Oregon State or not, or maybe they got some some
pretty good Oregon State.
Speaker 3: I would say it's just tough because they're not maybe.
Speaker 6: Not in the power for the geta like twelve kind
of okay. There's gonna be schools that are going to
wake Forest's wake Forest is gonna be able to come
out on twenty plus million. They feel rich, But I
don't know, all right, right, and there's some places that
do have money. Are they gonna want to spend twenty
something million?
Speaker 3: I mean, but then if again, if you do not, oh,
I know you are going to be at are gonna
be relevant significant recruiting as advantage. And here's the other thing.
The gap between the haves and the have nots is
only going to get larger in college football, and unfortunately
it's by design. When we talked about the Big Ten
and the SEC continuing to assert their control over the
sport and push for the expansion of the playoff in
twenty twenty six, until I get four auto bitch for SC,
four for the Big Ten, two for AC two Big twelve. Again,
that's a system that I really like because it takes
subjectivity out of it. Look I like it from the
competitive on the field standpoint. What I did not realize Jake, though,
is in these last round negotiations, the Big ten in
the SEC already gave themselves a massive advantage over the
other two. The playoff revenue is not evenly split. Big
ten in the SEC under the new deal will be
taking home nearly triple the amount of revenue from the
playoff than that of the other two conferences. So there
only getting triple the revenue on that, but then their
TV contracts are significantly larger. I mean, you're going to
be talking about if you're a Big twelve or ACC school,
you can be talking about having to make up a
gap of like thirty forty million a year or what
are we talking about. That's that's untenable. It's unfair, and unfortunately,
that's why long term you probably do move into the
two team super league model is because as much as
I want to keep college football together, that's that's a
gap that they created by design to again increase the
feeling of the haves and the have not.
Speaker 6: Look, we have this scenario playout in Major League Baseball.
We have this scenario play out in the EPL. The
teams with the most money are going to be better.
The teams that spend are going to be better. We
don't see it in the NFL because everybody uses the
tower cat for the most socialists. When you look at
the NBA, the teams that spend the most typically. But
it is a luxury tax, and so it's a little
bit of a different situation. But I mean, the Dodgers
will spend over a billion dollars a billion. You know
how much the Miami Marlins have spent free agency?
Speaker 3: Okay, so I just I mean, how much is a
luxury tax on Dodgers alone? Isn't like four billion or something? Yeah,
the Marlins spent uh.
Speaker 4: No, I mean, like how much they've spent free agency
this year.
Speaker 6: Oh uh, I've just spent like a billion thirty million, okay,
Jacob Any guests Marlins twenty five.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm I'm gonna go twenty they're pretty cheap.
Speaker 6: Five five billion, and you got one team sent in
a billion five So, like that's the disparity in Major
League Baseball. We see it in EPL as well, Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool.
These teams, I mean, hotspurs spending, but they ain't winning.
They're spending this money. Well, I mean, you got teams
towards the bottom and that are just trying to ip,
which is trying to just scratching claw to stay up right.
You know, Everton, the club that I follow, they spend,
but they don't spend spend smartly. So like they're you know,
they struggle because they don't spend their money the way
they should. Like it's it's a scenario where teams spend
different teams make different amounts, and there's no situation where
a team's gonna be told they can't spend that amount
of money. And there's not gonna be a situation where
team's told they have to spend this amount of money,
and so you had the same teams towards the top,
you have the same teams fighting like hell for relegation
every year.
Speaker 4: And that's what's gonna be like in college football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that that, at least in college football,
I feel like at the top you'll still have a
more spread of teams spending relatively even that gap in baseball,
that's hard to wrap your head around. Also, that's the
Marlins telling you we don't really care about winning. We
know that it's a sports franchise, and so the value
is just going up. So why are we even incentivized
to win. It's kind of like the New Orleans Pelicans
have been god awful their leads, valuable franchise in the NBA,
and yet at that three hundred and fifty million dollar
purchase from the benches has turned into a three billion
dollar value. I mean, it's unbelievable, a ten x off
of a franchise that has done nothing except for ruined
two first overall picks. You know, we did beat the
Blazers that series.
Speaker 1: I was about to say, since they since they bought
that franchise, what two playoff series wins?
Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, yeah, you know, and you watch your investment
go from three to fifty to three billion. So yeah,
it's that's I would I would be upset if I
was if I was a baseball fan, for sure. Yeah,
it's I mean that Marlin and I would just stop, Mark,
why would you? Clearly royals?
Speaker 6: I mean, I think the total payroll this year is
like eighty something million, where you've got players making that
much on some teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, what's what's show hape per year?
Speaker 4: I mean close to that ten dollars.
Speaker 5: The creative count here is actually yeah, they're they're they're
all these teams are starting to backload the contracts.
Speaker 3: They're deferred. But it's even different than like a backloaded contract.
It's some sort of deferred payment plan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's deferred paying. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It feels a little Bonia esque a little bit. Never
forget Bobby Vaniana. I wanted to give him the lump
sum up front. They agreed to give him way more
money to spread out, far, far, far over time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The the Marlins payroll is forty seven million, and the
Dodgers is three hundred and twenty one.
Speaker 3: The entire payroll is forty seven million.
Speaker 4: Yep. For twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: Yez, their highest paid player is Sandy Alkintara, who's actually
making seventeen million, So he's making like what, that's a
very high percentage of the total payroll.
Speaker 6: Gosh, they only had nobody goes to games, te They
only have three players making over a million.
Speaker 4: Are you seeing that too?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: Well, I'll say I got Sandy Alkintar at seventeen Heysu
Sanchez for a couple other.
Speaker 6: Guy Anthony Bender one point four to two. Yeah, and
then everybody else is they're a million.
Speaker 1: So how about how about this the lowest paid player
on the LA Dodgers. You got a handful of guys
making eight hundred thousand. Everybody else's two million and above.
So there there's your there's your paid discrepancy right there.
Speaker 4: But I true, tea, but I think it's going to
be like that for.
Speaker 6: I mean your purdues, and I mean some of these
schools that are just at the bottom of their conference
that are going to have to scratch and claw and
fight to get to that twenty million dollar revenue share
that we're talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, now you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't I don't know who that and
maybe there's donors that every school has donors and maybe
those donors step up. But like when I mentioned in
schools like Awake for us, like that feels like it's
going to be kind of real a Cincinnati, right, are
they going to have what it takes a Purdue A.
Speaker 4: See?
Speaker 3: Now, the thing about due though you think about Purdue, Jake,
I think where they'll be fine is at least they
still got the TV deals, you know, Yeah, they still
get that big ten TV deal. They'll stoll get that
playoff split, like they should be able to get the
revenue out of there. It's the ACC and the big
twelve schools that are really going to have the squeeze
put on a mirecause even if you're the worst SEC
or big ten deal, you're still getting a massive chunk Yeah,
thanks to thanks to the deals.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so your duke's your cols, I mean cal Perkley
or you know again, like they probably could pass the
hat and get it, but are they going to Yeah,
I don't know. Stanford, same situation. Stanford's got great alumni.
How much of Stanford care about football? How much is yeah,
certainly now that they're in the ACC.
Speaker 3: I mean it's crazy, say Stanford, because again, yeah, that's
care because yes see, Stanford endowment is like at the
biggest credit You're right there along with Princeton exactly. But
I'm pretty sure Stanford almost funds. They're operating budgets solely
out of interest.
Speaker 6: Off the endowment is somebody from Stanford gonna want to
give you know, a check. When he looks up and
they're playing Virginia Tech on a Thursday night.
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I guess my phone picked us up talking about Major
League Baseball. One of the things that popped up on
my phone was major League Baseball teams if they had
color rush uniforms and oh my god, these are horrendous.
Baseball is a sport not to be like to hunt
Palmer e here and talk about uniforms and anything that's
a little bit different.
Speaker 4: Lose my day over it. If baseball pants aren't white
or gray, I'm out. I'm out.
Speaker 6: Teams with all black baseball uniforms saw a lot this weekend.
I am out, Like the Pirates. Any team that does
Vanderbilt does it, A and m my thing does it.
I'm just I can't do it, and I hate it.
I hate that about myself because I trying. Like football uniforms,
I try to be open minded baseball. I need white
pants and any gray pants. J k's the black pants.
I mean, Vanderbilt looks like al Capone out there. I
like them because the pin stripes.
Speaker 4: No, it's like they're no man, looks like they're trying
to their you know, talking about.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. No, I don't mind.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I granted, I'm I'm you know, I'm pretty
I'm pretty uniform in bill you know, or apathetic, I guess.
I guess. So it's a damn Is that the is
that the Savannah Brews?
Speaker 4: So you saw it too? Yeah, Oh that's so bad.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Just color rush for baseball, the Mets, the Rockies, one
looks tight, awkward, stance.
Speaker 6: That's the Tiger wood stands come on with a reverse
lunch dude.
Speaker 4: Oh that's terrible.
Speaker 6: Okay, no way, the Red Ranger, like Hunt's eyes watching.
If Hunt's not listening right now, send that to him, like, hey,
have you seen the Cubs new jerseys? Oh yeah, speaking
of jerseys.
Speaker 3: Something we didn't mention in that last story is, uh,
jersey patches are coming for your favorite college football team.
I don't know when because it has not been officially approved, Jake,
but it is such a foregone conclusion at this point
that apparently, you know, the conversations have already taken place.
I would say deals are essentially already lined up. Who
do you all think ends up on the on the
LSU football jerseys?
Speaker 6: I am going gotta be king, Yeah, that's the obvious,
Like I want to go canes or walk on. But
it could be our old friends mmr, somebody like that.
Speaker 3: Maybe could be.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think, like who would actually, you know,
had the uh.
Speaker 3: Are you excited to do the the European song and
dance of complaining about the new sponsor because you don't
like how it looks? Obviously doesn't define the jersey as
much as the European Soccer kit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and if you don't like the company, it's like
I'm not buying that. I mean to be fair, like
I don't know what man you has now, but do
the glazier still on him?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Do they still have Chevy on there? No, So I
was gonna say Chevy. Those jerseys were god awful. They
look like in huge letters in that symbol like I
don't I don't want. I don't want the Chevy truck
symbol on my European Premier League. Yeah, it never felt
good to me. Votaphone sure, I don't know what votaphone is.
I don't know, but it was it looked good on Yeah,
Semens good perfect. I love Semens.
Speaker 4: I think I think man you has cell phone has
a snap Dragon?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What is snap Dragon? It doesn't matter. I'm still more
into that than chef. Well did a website company.
Speaker 6: It's uh like Qualcom used to have our stadium in
San Diego. It's now snap Dragon Stadium. So I think
it's like a branch off of Qualcom.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know what Qualcom is.
Speaker 5: That's what used to make a sponsor the Charter stadium yeah,
I know, but what are the communications communications?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, but that looks good. Snap Dragon looks good
in the Manu kid, Sure, what's ever? What are the
blue sponsored by right now A.
Speaker 4: Steak dot com? Yeah, rec yeah, they look they need
they gotta get as much like.
Speaker 3: One of the worst companies on the entire planet that
is just helping millions of views across the world become
radicalized and get into underage gambling.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And every time you see an uncomfortable or crappy viral
video you look in the lower corner and you see
Steak dot Com, You're like, oh wait, this is just
a hit and advertisement.
Speaker 5: I don't know if that's worse or the fact that
Arsenal has a sure patch that says for visit Rwanda.
I don't understand that.
Speaker 3: But okay, you know what those shout out Rwanda. Okay, Like,
let's get out there. Oh god, Steak dot com.
Speaker 5: That's tough here, Let's get Neil off the screen by
Oh no, let's get a change to s T e
a K dot com.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah dot com Stak dot com. And it's where
you just go to talk about meats, grilling meats, you know,
beat meats, curing meats.
Speaker 5: Surprise. I mean I just typed in state dot com
palies and there isn't one we need. We need to
buy that domain like.
Speaker 3: The meat named steak dot Yeah. That tells me somebody
is sitting on that and trying to make pay them
like a million dollars and everybody's like, and.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Steak dot conject damn. Multiple Premier League teams.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there there's there's multiple Premier Leage teams that have
just there's a lot of teams that have different other
betting sites like in that are in mostly in Europe.
Speaker 4: That's okay.
Speaker 5: So so it's not just America the ted gambling, uh
for everything, especially the Premier the Premier Leagus have had
a lot of betting stuff that's been sponsorships for a
long time.
Speaker 6: Okay, great, great, Yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't hate a
new sponsor though.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, for sure, dude, you want to be sponsored
by steak dot com. It's greasy as hell, like a
bad company. They had Kazoo for a while, which is
like you buy a car online. That's fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like it looked good on the jersey too. The
Chang of Chang, the beer Chinese, some kind of beer.
It was a great logo. Got one of those jerseys.
They'll worry tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Did y'a watch that video on Ching Chung, China that
I sent you the city? No, that's the name Ching
Chong Qing. Excuse me, yes, ch he said Ching, I
mean to be fairy. Yes, Chung Ching. What a weird city.
Maybe we'll play that coming up. Uh kind of blew
my mind. I know everything in the video wasn't like
whatever whatever I'm I'm just being all over the place
right now. All right, So coming up here on O TV,
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We got weekend winners coming up next shoulder Sanders not
going to work out for teams of the combine.
Speaker 4: How do we feel about it? Every top quarterbacks doing
and now I hate it.
Speaker 6: I love that he competed in the bowl game, didn't
go their way by you put it on them, but
I love the fact that they played, yeah in the
bowl game.
Speaker 4: But this is something that now is a trend.
Speaker 6: If you think you're going to be a top five
pick and you play the quarterback positions like you don't
work out at the combine.
Speaker 4: I wish they did.
Speaker 6: I think Shadar Sanders and somebody still trying to compete
to be the number one overall pick, and I think
he's got a skill set that would play well in
a combine situation, so uh disappointed that he's not. But
unfortunately it's a trend, and not just with Shudar Sanders,
with all the top quarterbacks of the last i'd say
five years now.
Speaker 3: Cam Ward was already out last week, you know, having
some of those quotes that you see every year out
of quarterbacks where it's like, hey, if y'all don't take me,
you're gonna have to play against me, and I'm gonna
remember then you're gonna remember that, blah blah blah. Uh
do you think cam Ward takes this opportunity to come
out and say I will be at the comment, I
would because again, like he throws the ball with more
zip than Shaudar does. Like I do feel like in
a combine setting, cam Ward would probably fare better than
Shadur would.
Speaker 1: They They said Shador wanted to do this to show
off like some of the Colorado receivers which are draft eligible.
I'm all here, yeah, pro, that's great, But the people
that aren't high on the quarterbacks already in this draft
are going to poke holes in a decision like that.
Like it was a good decision, I don't know if
it was the correct one for Shoudur because for that reason, I.
Speaker 3: Guess at a certain point and maybe it doesn't matter,
you know, Like I mean, he's going to be a
first round you know what I'm saying. They're both getting
taken in top two. Anyways, if you want to fight
one number one pick, yeah, yeah, maybe if you're min
Max and Joel, he might want to go to the
Giants anyway, though, so Shoulder Sanders, do not expect some
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