Speaker 1: You have to love the laugh, you really do. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to EVE Sports Radio. It is June the twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Of course we all know we have
Speaker 1: Shannon the dude behind the glass. This is Sports Talk
Speaker 1: seven ninety KRD. I am the brand Jerry Eves. I
Speaker 1: am by myself. I'm a so pilot of this plane.
Speaker 1: Other than Shannon, my younger Saint Anthony, is flying back
Speaker 1: to Louisville as I speak. The flight I believe leaves
Speaker 1: at seven, Panama City time, eight o'clock. You also, he's
Speaker 1: working his way through customers trying to get out of here,
Speaker 1: and I'm getting ready to get out of here. My
Speaker 1: flight's not till two thirty. I do believe this afternoon,
Speaker 1: beautiful day, this morning. It's rained the last three days.
Speaker 1: But other than that, we had a fantastic trip. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you a little bit about it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk to you a lot about sports, what's going on.
Speaker 1: I do have a close friend of mine calling in
Speaker 1: today at about seven twenty five, seven point thirty, coach
Speaker 1: Alfred Butch Beard, mister intellectual it's Kyby Harrison named him
Speaker 1: my man Kyby Kyby Hope you're doing well. Everybody that
Speaker 1: knows Kyby telling we're speaking about him. He's doing well. Guys.
Speaker 1: Kyby is a tank, tank and a fighter. Kyby Harrison's
Speaker 1: unbelievable father of Lisa Harrison, a great women's basketball player
Speaker 1: and a great softball player, baseball player himself. Just thinking
Speaker 1: about you, Kaby. So start with today, and I'm kind
Speaker 1: of glad every now and then I get these shows
Speaker 1: where I'm by myself and we get to talk real life.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of fun all the other time.
Speaker 1: But you know, we're going to keep this show truly real.
Speaker 1: I'm going to make it one of my best stuff shows.
Speaker 1: And I think people should listen to the entirety. Most
Speaker 1: people listen to five ten minute segments in their cars
Speaker 1: going to work, and I appreciate everyone who listens to
Speaker 1: these radio I do, but this is one time you
Speaker 1: need to tape and stay in your car. You need
Speaker 1: to listen to it all because I want to explain
Speaker 1: to some people in my opinion, but I stay away
Speaker 1: from opinions. I try to form my opinion based on fact.
Speaker 1: I tried to and I think the city of Louisville
Speaker 1: and his great wisdom has been lacking a lot of
Speaker 1: leadership my opinion, and I'm going to get into that
Speaker 1: today along with we all understand. It's the NBA Draft.
Speaker 1: A lot of dreams are going to come true. We
Speaker 1: speak about that a little bit today. A lot of
Speaker 1: dreams are going to come true for young people. And
Speaker 1: I was one of those young people. Guys waiting I
Speaker 1: don't remember the date of my draft, but it still
Speaker 1: was the NBA Draft and you're waiting to hear your
Speaker 1: name called and what you had achieved over the last
Speaker 1: six or seven years of high school, six and four
Speaker 1: years of college. But you had achieved, Where are people
Speaker 1: going to look at your value in this game called basketball?
Speaker 1: And it's an exciting time for young kids. A lot
Speaker 1: of work was put into it, a lot of dreams.
Speaker 1: I just wish that myself, an African American, get more
Speaker 1: African American parents to get their kids' dreams to be lawyers, doctors, engineers,
Speaker 1: construction workers, brick layers, all the trades, plumbers. I just
Speaker 1: wish we would diversify a little bit our dreams. But
Speaker 1: not here nor there. That's a different story. I did
Speaker 1: live and go through that got my name called third
Speaker 1: round draft pick, Judy call Gill came out as I
Speaker 1: was working Coach Crumbs basketball camp and say, hey, you
Speaker 1: were just drafted by the Utah Jazz in the third round. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I've forgotten the pick. I think I was fifty fifth,
Speaker 1: same pick as Lebron James's son. So anyway, you know,
Speaker 1: great things are going to happen for people to know
Speaker 1: Cooper Flag is really, really, really good and I think
Speaker 1: that he's going to turn into a magnificent Crow and
Speaker 1: have a fantastic career. So that's one thing that's going
Speaker 1: to transpire tonight. Can't wait to watch the highlights of
Speaker 1: the draft because I'll be flying. But they do have
Speaker 1: live television on the airplanes now, so I may be
Speaker 1: able to see some of the draft. I want to
Speaker 1: try too, but there's a lot going on with that. Also.
Speaker 1: Mckael Brown, junior, University of Louisville's freshman basketball player, made
Speaker 1: the nineteen and undernational team, which will be playing in Switzerland.
Speaker 1: He was competing in Colorado Springs, and that's another good thing, guys,
Speaker 1: when you're reminiscing about this, guys, I was in the
Speaker 1: first National Sports Festival ever in Colorado Springs. The summer
Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy eight, seventy seven, the very first one.
Speaker 1: My roommate was James Worthy, the former great Laker in
Speaker 1: North Carolina player. A lot of great players were there
Speaker 1: and we had a fantastic time. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of Scooter McCrae was there, and a lot of other players,
Speaker 1: Vince Taylor, Derek Hord, names from Kentucky that you all remember,
Speaker 1: were there the very first one and just lets you
Speaker 1: know that how time has evolved. I went to the
Speaker 1: very first Chicago pre draft camp, the very first one,
Speaker 1: and Dereck Smith and I were in Chicago pre draft
Speaker 1: camp nineteen eighty two. So, guys, things are just as
Speaker 1: an old person, you look back and you see them
Speaker 1: and you see how they've evolved, and how they're on
Speaker 1: television now and the NBA Summer league's on television, which
Speaker 1: I'm going to. You just get to look at it
Speaker 1: and say you've been part of something great. That's why
Speaker 1: sometimes when I'm critical of the players, I want them
Speaker 1: to understand that it's bigger than that. One day they'll
Speaker 1: look back at this forty years later and forty five
Speaker 1: years later and know that they were just a piece
Speaker 1: of this. Not all of it, So that's all, but
Speaker 1: I want to get into I'm going to try to
Speaker 1: stay on task. It's six twelve and my youngest son
Speaker 1: just walked in. I thought you'd be on your way
Speaker 1: to the airport, big fellow, you better get out. You
Speaker 1: have a safe trip. Came into tesse his mom, telling
Speaker 1: her goodbye before he left to go to the airport.
Speaker 1: But you know, we're going to be honoring Tom Jurdge
Speaker 1: and right now, we have no problem with the accolades.
Speaker 1: We just don't like to tell the other side of
Speaker 1: the story. And I have been one of those people
Speaker 1: that in the media that just told the other side
Speaker 1: of the story, and people have been highly critical of
Speaker 1: me in the University of Louisville. But that's just my nature.
Speaker 1: When it's good, it's good, I speak about it. And
Speaker 1: when it's bad, it's bad, I speak about it. And
Speaker 1: since I had this opportunity to have a radio show,
Speaker 1: it's kind of what I've been doing. So at seven
Speaker 1: point fifteen, I'm gonna go to break and when I
Speaker 1: come back, I'm going to get into. University of louis
Speaker 1: was naming a portion of Floyd Street after Tom Jorge,
Speaker 1: which is fine, and we're going to hear all the accolades,
Speaker 1: but I just want to make sure again that people
Speaker 1: here understand the turmoil that the university went through and
Speaker 1: the city and the lack of leadership. It has to
Speaker 1: be told, and for some reason, I'm being honest with
Speaker 1: you and a person that I really respect Louisville government,
Speaker 1: I mean really respect, and he says, sometimes you have
Speaker 1: to get over it, and I said, I'm with that,
Speaker 1: but you still have to know the truth. I don't
Speaker 1: mind getting over it. I wouldn't be speaking about it
Speaker 1: if the City of Louisville and University of Louisville was
Speaker 1: not naming the street after Tom, I wouldn't be talking
Speaker 1: about it at all. I haven't talked about it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Shannon's probably been a producer year and a
Speaker 1: half two years now, but I don't recollect ever. Just
Speaker 1: bringing this up when we talk about NBA expansion, which
Speaker 1: has been spoke about. I bring it up because it's pertinent,
Speaker 1: and it's pertinent today because we're naming the street. So
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure again that people get
Speaker 1: the full story, so that when we're hearing all the accolades,
Speaker 1: that we can understand what the university did go through. Also,
Speaker 1: So Shennon, it's six fourteen, let's go to break. We're
Speaker 1: gonna stay on task. We can cut this one up
Speaker 1: as a best of Shennon when we come back for
Speaker 1: that fifteen minute period before Coach of Beerd comes on,
Speaker 1: because when Coachberd does come on, we're going to cover
Speaker 1: a lot of things. We're going to cover the lack
Speaker 1: of leadership in the city in white cities like Nashville
Speaker 1: or Columbus and Indianapolis have just run away from us.
Speaker 1: Memphis run away from us. It's just a fact. That's
Speaker 1: all we're going to talk about. Of course, the lack
Speaker 1: of honoring west Unsel and why interesting, and then we're
Speaker 1: going to talk a lot NBA. Of course New York
Speaker 1: Yets still don't have a coach. Coach Beard was one
Speaker 1: of the first announcers there. They still do not have
Speaker 1: a coach like of leadership there. Also, Dolan has absolutely
Speaker 1: James Dolan the owner, he's got a lot of money. People,
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of money. His dad had a
Speaker 1: lot of money, but he has no idea what he's
Speaker 1: doing now. They had a very good team and have
Speaker 1: a very good team this year and had an excellent coach,
Speaker 1: but again they made a decision that was detrimental to
Speaker 1: the NeXT's future. So after the break we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1: So Shannon, take us away. This is the Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: When we come back, keep your radios on. That's all
Speaker 1: I can tell you. This is paid per view. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to you in a minute. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. June the twenty fifth, twenty twenty five. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is Draft day, NBA Draft Day. Cooper Flag, without
Speaker 1: a doubt, is the best player in the country. And
Speaker 1: if I was a Maverick fan, I would be very
Speaker 1: excited because I think that they've got a huge future.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis stays healthy, Kyrie comes back and they will
Speaker 1: not rush him back. I think they're gonna be very
Speaker 1: very good. Little PJ. Washington know his father really well.
Speaker 1: I think they got a chance to be really good.
Speaker 1: So we have to wait and see. OK. So he's
Speaker 1: gonna have some competition, trust me, next year in that
Speaker 1: Western Conference, They're gonna have some competition. Now, the thought
Speaker 1: of reason is what I want to consider this show,
Speaker 1: and I want you all just to think about some
Speaker 1: of the things I'm gonna tell you all these are factual,
Speaker 1: per date what transpired. And I've been around so long
Speaker 1: that in nineteen ninety seven coach Olsen will never say
Speaker 1: it because he is a Louisville man, but he was
Speaker 1: forced out. He wasn't ready to leave, he didn't want
Speaker 1: to retire. He was forced out. And part of the
Speaker 1: reasons for him wanting for the school to want to
Speaker 1: force him out, and the community, the business leaders, not
Speaker 1: the fans, the business leaders that they didn't think the
Speaker 1: basketball program was going in the direction that they wanted
Speaker 1: it to go, and they thought it was time to
Speaker 1: make a change from Denny Crumb got me. I don't
Speaker 1: care what anybody tells you, just the facts. I was
Speaker 1: on the committee that hired Tom Dridge. I was at
Speaker 1: every meeting other than when they took four of the
Speaker 1: members of our committee, and there was a committee of
Speaker 1: about sixteen people. They took four and they went to
Speaker 1: a city. At first, we were all going to go,
Speaker 1: and then at the end of the night, twelve o'clock,
Speaker 1: you get the little message, Hey, only four of you
Speaker 1: are going to go, and the other rest of the
Speaker 1: group wasn't even going to hear the interviewing process of
Speaker 1: the top three. So I was the one who said,
Speaker 1: uh no, we can conference this thing in and we
Speaker 1: should be able to hear it because you had already
Speaker 1: used our names on this committee, but you weren't going
Speaker 1: to let us be a part of it. And it
Speaker 1: was a change in the middle of the night. Facts.
Speaker 1: I'm just talking on facts. Rayn Neistromo used to run
Speaker 1: the university. Was didn't know he was not the president,
Speaker 1: but he was associated president. He did most of the work.
Speaker 1: He is the one who put me on the committee.
Speaker 1: Coach Crumb was upset with me, only time he's ever
Speaker 1: been upset with me. And then I mean Coach Crumb
Speaker 1: hugged be apologized. He says, Jerry, why did they put
Speaker 1: you on that not me? I said, Coach, I have
Speaker 1: no idea. I'm new here. I've only been on the
Speaker 1: job six months. I'm just telling you. I just got
Speaker 1: this letter. And that's because they were wanting to replace
Speaker 1: Coach Crumb. Okay, things weren't going right. I just had
Speaker 1: accepted the job. Larry Gay had done some things again.
Speaker 1: Kids were listening to one eight hundred takee sex lines
Speaker 1: something back in the day, and Larry Gay had something
Speaker 1: to do with it, and they let Larry go and
Speaker 1: I was hired. You all remember forty great friend of
Speaker 1: mine was really have to coach Crumb saying he should go,
Speaker 1: he should go, he should go. So I'm on the
Speaker 1: committee that hired Tom George, no problem with that, and
Speaker 1: really good, nice guy, personable came in, hard worker. I've
Speaker 1: got no problems with those things. But the bottom line
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is that we're going to hear
Speaker 1: all the development. I am telling you all for a fact,
Speaker 1: and Coach Osin's office, the diagram of all that you
Speaker 1: all see, a soccer stadium, the baseball, all of that
Speaker 1: from the track past McDonald's was already laid out. In fact.
Speaker 1: I'm sure anybody says, just fact, it was in Coach
Speaker 1: Osin's office when he was forced out. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: say that. He's not going to tell you all the truth.
Speaker 1: They'll come on and tell you all. I'm not telling
Speaker 1: the truth. But he knows it and I know it.
Speaker 1: So here comes Tom does a great job of continuing
Speaker 1: with coachosen had planned and the school. If you remember,
Speaker 1: when coach Osin had left, every scholarship was endowed for
Speaker 1: almost forever. Guys, they raised so much money. Coach Osin
Speaker 1: didn't spend a dime. You talk about frugal, that's not
Speaker 1: even the word for coach Osen. I'm telling you, frugal
Speaker 1: is not even the word. So Tom comes in. I
Speaker 1: end up leaving, going professional playing coaching in professional ranks.
Speaker 1: University of Louisville starts growing. Of course, the hiring of
Speaker 1: Rick Patino. Mashburn told me they were hiring Rick Patino
Speaker 1: before it came out. Drawn Mashburn, who played for coach
Speaker 1: Mattina at Kentucky. Great guy, told you, great businessman, sons playing.
Speaker 1: But mash is great people. Good deal comes University of Louisville.
Speaker 1: Coach p team does a great job turning the program
Speaker 1: around again, competing for championships. I mean, everything that the
Speaker 1: city needed, no problem. But there were some aspects of
Speaker 1: problem that a good leader would have taken care of.
Speaker 1: And the leader of the program was Tom Jurch. So
Speaker 1: you know, you can't have the confetti, guys, the confetti's last.
Speaker 1: If you remember, there's usually a war fault before that.
Speaker 1: Then the confetti falls. Got me, So it happens here
Speaker 1: that you know, the confetti it's falling, But the war
Speaker 1: has not ever spoke about. I'm talking about the war
Speaker 1: the University of Little On what the program went through.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, we had to care in cipher Tom
Speaker 1: jurch As they ath led director of the program. Rig
Speaker 1: Bettina was the coach. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone, but mistakes
Speaker 1: must be dealt with, must be dealt with. I am
Speaker 1: coaching now at North Carolina and t I'm a former cardinal.
Speaker 1: I spoke to Rick Bolstitch, which he will tell you.
Speaker 1: The final four was in Indianapolis. I was upset then.
Speaker 1: So everyone would have told you that, oh, you just
Speaker 1: want to be the coach, Jerry, you always want something. No,
Speaker 1: it was just a true cardinal. It was embarrassing, period,
Speaker 1: and it seemed to be pushed under the rug because
Speaker 1: Tom had so much control and Rick had so much
Speaker 1: influence that negative things to the program didn't affect them,
Speaker 1: just the program, which is a numeral uno wrong. We
Speaker 1: get through that August four of twenty ten and all
Speaker 1: the notoriety that came with that. Guys, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: coach Patino shouldn't have another job. He's doing a great
Speaker 1: job at Saint John's, but he's supposed to lose his
Speaker 1: job over that. You have to do what's right for
Speaker 1: the program. We wouldn't be here today, and Tom George
Speaker 1: may still be that letter to Rector if the right
Speaker 1: decisions were made. Okay, they were made. Next thing we know, Okay,
Speaker 1: trying to get this ship right. We win the twenty
Speaker 1: thirteen National Championship. Confetti falls. With confetti falls. We find
Speaker 1: out after that that we've got twenty two proven prostitute
Speaker 1: parties in our dorm. The dorm that coach Patino said
Speaker 1: he knew wh the light bulb was out and furniture
Speaker 1: was broken. Got me. What happens? Embarrassment to the program.
Speaker 1: Jerry's is vilified because I am part of that program.
Speaker 1: I'm sixty six. Now. That program is bigger than myself.
Speaker 1: But I stand up for the program. Not individuals. Just
Speaker 1: don't not going to what happens. Nothing, We eat it,
Speaker 1: that's all. And what happens Patino and Tom George keep
Speaker 1: all rolling. Okay, that's not enough. Twenty two proven party
Speaker 1: underage kids, got me, that's not enough. Nobody loses their job.
Speaker 1: We just keep all rolling. Win, baby win, That's all
Speaker 1: that mattered. That's why people in Louisville don't like me.
Speaker 1: I don't care. They know that now though they really do.
Speaker 1: Doesn't bother me. What's rights right always? Okay, we're don't
Speaker 1: right the ship now, Okay, well we better. Here comes
Speaker 1: the Adidas college basketball scandal in twenty seventeen, a rest
Speaker 1: of ten coaches. I told you I got a problem
Speaker 1: with it because nine of the ten coaches were African Americans.
Speaker 1: I told you all the NCAA, there's a guy named
Speaker 1: Andre McGee. Are we naming any streets after Andre McGee?
Speaker 1: The assistant coach that paid for all the parties for
Speaker 1: no reason at all? Got me, Just no reason at all.
Speaker 1: The assistant coach who paid for parties when he was
Speaker 1: the assistant coach at you and KC for the University
Speaker 1: of Louisville for no reason at all. Guys, it is
Speaker 1: just the facts. People. People lie these. What I'm telling
Speaker 1: you are the facts. Andre McGee was coach at you
Speaker 1: and Casey, assistant coach paying for parties at Louisville. That's
Speaker 1: how much he loved Louisville. Get out of here or
Speaker 1: lie to yourself. But I just can't have it. I
Speaker 1: just can't. Finally, after the Adidas twenty seventeen university has
Speaker 1: to make a move has to guess what Tom Dridge
Speaker 1: told him. He wasn't gonna let coach Matimo go again,
Speaker 1: just a fact. It wasn't enough when baby when because
Speaker 1: he had bullied the city. You don't know that he
Speaker 1: had put out there like other people. We know I'll
Speaker 1: hit people in the face and hear bones cracked, and
Speaker 1: that's factual. They know that. The person said to publicly
Speaker 1: Tony Benetti. But that's where we were, guys, just giving
Speaker 1: you the facts. Now I got to hit you with
Speaker 1: the money aspect, which is boy, why really lie? But
Speaker 1: before I move on to the money aspect, the NCAA
Speaker 1: Andre m McGee was guilty of major violations for twenty
Speaker 1: two parties. The NCAA also said, because it was written
Speaker 1: in the bylaws that they were tired of the head
Speaker 1: coaches saying they didn't know that Rick Matino was held accountable.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know, coach, we get lawyers in America
Speaker 1: and the truth can be changed, not just the fact,
Speaker 1: but the bottom line of the NCAA wrote in and all
Speaker 1: the coaches accepted it. The athletic directors accepted it. The
Speaker 1: presidents accepted it because they are who runs the NCUAA
Speaker 1: saying that we're going to hold coaches accountable for their
Speaker 1: assistant coaches guys, because they were tired of head coaches saying,
Speaker 1: you know, from the smartest person in the room to
Speaker 1: the dumbest in the room. That's all. So that's when
Speaker 1: the Board of Trustee says, Tom, then you gotta go,
Speaker 1: because Tom was going to stay the course and a
Speaker 1: lot of people live just say yes when baby win.
Speaker 1: Wasn't their kids going through this? That's all. That's all
Speaker 1: we understand. Wasn't their kids just win? Make me happy?
Speaker 1: So those are the things that they're not gonna talk about.
Speaker 1: Everyone is a fireable offense and everybody should have been fired, period.
Speaker 1: It took three of them. Just the facts. Now, coming
Speaker 1: to the money aspect and I'm gonna get the break
Speaker 1: at six thirty one. Yeah, thirty two, Shannon, let me
Speaker 1: go to break because I'm gonna stay on task. This
Speaker 1: is the sports radio. Coach Beard should be calling in
Speaker 1: real soon. He's right on the line. I know Coach Beard,
Speaker 1: he's slicky, but he'll be calling in really soon. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna finish with the money aspect. Then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw it to Coach Beard for his perspective. But all
Speaker 1: I'm telling you all are facts, proven facts, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you the money aspect, which is fact. Then
Speaker 1: you make your own determination. It's the sports Radio for numbers.
Speaker 1: Five year, ood two, five seven, one, seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to EA Sports Radio six thirty five. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you all about coach Beer. There's something wrong
Speaker 1: with my service. That's what he gets from moving back
Speaker 1: to New Jersey. It just all there is to it.
Speaker 1: He's less equipped to handle technology that I am. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you Coach Beard is awful. I send him the number,
Speaker 1: so hopefully Shannon, maybe Shannon, can you call Coach Beard?
Speaker 1: Can you do that? I'm going to send it to you, Shannon,
Speaker 1: and you try to give him a call. Let me
Speaker 1: find out. But and you'll just bear with me. I can.
Speaker 1: I'm not good like this. I can't do a lot
Speaker 1: of things at once. So I've got to just give
Speaker 1: Shannon the number. You'll just have to bear with me.
Speaker 1: I'm old. Then we'll get back to the facts of
Speaker 1: the matter. Oh no, that's Shannon. That's so funny. I'm
Speaker 1: sending you our number. That wouldn't do you any good.
Speaker 1: I just sent it to you, Shan and see if
Speaker 1: you can call that bumb Thank you so, guys, the
Speaker 1: financial aspect of this, it just happens to be that.
Speaker 1: I don't know how. Jerry Eves just seemed to be
Speaker 1: in the wrong place at the right time or in
Speaker 1: the right place at the wrong time. It just depends
Speaker 1: on you don't want to look at it. But when
Speaker 1: the Charlotte Hornets we're going to leave Charlotte, George Sheenn
Speaker 1: was the owner. I knew him well. We had just
Speaker 1: had the best season in Charlotte Hornet history and still
Speaker 1: is and they were going to move to the city
Speaker 1: of Louisville. A good team. Mashburn was our superstar. Baron Davis,
Speaker 1: I mean, guys, you're talking about a really formidable team.
Speaker 1: We lost in the Eastern College semi finals in Game seven.
Speaker 1: Really good team that Louisville was going to get. Well,
Speaker 1: all you have to do is go to the Bloomberg Report, guys.
Speaker 1: David Stern my opinion, the greatest commissioner ever. My opinion,
Speaker 1: that could be questionable. NFL had a lot of great wins.
Speaker 1: So it's baseball, but basketball watch, no question David Stern,
Speaker 1: no question about it. Okay, So Shannon, you're getting a
Speaker 1: busy signal too. So yeah, Butcher's just guys, Butcher's down
Speaker 1: and out in Beverly Hills, that's all. So I have
Speaker 1: to roll with it if he can get through. Hold
Speaker 1: up you because I want to get Butcher on. Wait
Speaker 1: just one second. Great, welcome back to EAT Sports Radio. Guys.
Speaker 1: Sorry for that. That was completely my fault. I cut
Speaker 1: you all off, and I didn't mean to. I think
Speaker 1: I know where it happened. I was speaking about the
Speaker 1: money aspect. So Shannon, should I just finish the shore
Speaker 1: or should I go to break right now? You tell
Speaker 1: me the best way to down the Shennon? Okay, great, great,
Speaker 1: so let's just continue, guys. We'll get Coach Beard on.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to make sure that you all got
Speaker 1: the piece of the money segment and the Cholotte Hornet's
Speaker 1: moving to Louisville in two thousand and two and Coach
Speaker 1: Mattino and Tom Dridge and the city leaders making the
Speaker 1: decision that it's not something that we needed and for
Speaker 1: the tax revenue dollars. Like I told you all, the
Speaker 1: city a louis does not have a printing press. It
Speaker 1: doesn't work that way, they tax our income. That's where
Speaker 1: they get their money to pay for things, pass budgets,
Speaker 1: do things for the community to help us. But that's
Speaker 1: where they get it. And when you leave out franchises
Speaker 1: like an NBA franchise and the amount of money it
Speaker 1: brings to your city, it's a huge booboo, guys. It's
Speaker 1: billions of dollars of taxable income. That's all. So I
Speaker 1: just wanted to to understand that taxable. They're not printing money.
Speaker 1: Greenberg does not have a printing press. He has your money.
Speaker 1: So when people make decisions that would help increase the
Speaker 1: taxable revenue of the city and say no, that's why
Speaker 1: the city Louvois is where it is. The cities did guys,
Speaker 1: you matters? Go on, come on, guys, Kentucky Fried Chicken
Speaker 1: doesn't even want to be Kentucky anymore. I'm just being
Speaker 1: honest with you. Will come on, now, let's just be
Speaker 1: straight with ourselves. Kentucky Fried Chicken is moving to Plano, Texas.
Speaker 1: If you don't know it, guys, that's Dallas. That's all.
Speaker 1: They're moving to Dallas. I'm just telling you, we in
Speaker 1: the city better start squawking at our leaders to do
Speaker 1: the right thing and start arguing about the things they're
Speaker 1: arguing about, because it is not the well being of
Speaker 1: the community. It's not taxable income that will help our
Speaker 1: community grow with the jobs. We're not even talking about
Speaker 1: the jobs that NBA teams would bring, and I talked
Speaker 1: about that. I'm just talking about the actual tax revenue
Speaker 1: from players' salaries, from general managers, with the people that
Speaker 1: work there. Ticket sales come on guys, the whole nine yards.
Speaker 1: So we have to learn Louisville because I think that
Speaker 1: our leaders understand that we're not the most educated. I
Speaker 1: hate to tell you, and they can tell us anything
Speaker 1: and we'll say, yes, Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. That's
Speaker 1: all bad, bad leadership decisions. Two thousand and two. So
Speaker 1: we've made bad decisions now twice. In seventy five when
Speaker 1: we didn't scrap the money up to be in the NBA,
Speaker 1: scraped the money up. In two thousand and two when
Speaker 1: we wouldn't scrap the money up. And I want to
Speaker 1: I promise you all, if you go google it, it
Speaker 1: was one hundred and something million, maybe two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: Didn't tailor buy the Timberwolves in ninety four for eighty
Speaker 1: eight million. So did for one point five billion. It's
Speaker 1: really worth three point two billion. That was ninety four,
Speaker 1: So guys, I want to say it was in one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty million dollar range in two thousand and
Speaker 1: two for the Hornets, which was a good team. And yes,
Speaker 1: it's in the Bloomberg Report when David Stern said Tom
Speaker 1: Dridge and Pertina don't want it, that the city doesn't
Speaker 1: deserve it, it's just a fact. It's in the Bloomberg
Speaker 1: Business Bloomberg Business News Daily quoted, So I just wanted
Speaker 1: to make sure that you all understood some of the truth.
Speaker 1: I understand the great things, great hires. Coach McDonald's done
Speaker 1: a great job. Tom Dridge has some great hires, without
Speaker 1: a doubt, and facilitated helping making sure that all the
Speaker 1: things that coach Ocean had envisioned came to tuition. He
Speaker 1: did one question. But this aspect I just told you
Speaker 1: all today. You made your decision if we name in streets.
Speaker 1: After all I'm telling you is that yes was until
Speaker 1: it was my hero. He was my super hero, period,
Speaker 1: point blank. He grew up in Newburgh, I grew up
Speaker 1: in his family, moved to Prospect in sixty eight. My
Speaker 1: family moved to Prospect in sixty nine. There was no
Speaker 1: house in between us. Then there was no house in
Speaker 1: between us for probably ten years there was just an
Speaker 1: empty lot. Our first plane flight was on the Western Sills.
Speaker 1: Died thirteen years old. Suit and tie, guys, you would
Speaker 1: have loved to see me suit and tie. That's why
Speaker 1: coach Bert nine made our teams when we traveled there
Speaker 1: wore suits and ties. Commercially, I'm so sick of the
Speaker 1: sweatsuit there and what's going on with that? But you know,
Speaker 1: dressed down day at works turned to every day every day.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted you all true to understand the
Speaker 1: full picture of this and what is transpired at the university.
Speaker 1: Is Josh Hurt doing a great job, superb job? Does
Speaker 1: he have two great hires a football program? Hey guys,
Speaker 1: we got Kentucky at Kentucky last year two times. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be Kentucky twice. Yes we are. But you know what,
Speaker 1: people are gonna say, you're not a cardinal because you
Speaker 1: won't buy into the nope. So I guess I want
Speaker 1: to be a cardinal because I'm not buying into the lies.
Speaker 1: What I've told you, Oh, it's factual, period point blank,
Speaker 1: per date, not gonna buy into the lives. But as
Speaker 1: a school in the right track, now, yes it is.
Speaker 1: But I don't care if PK wins the championship next year.
Speaker 1: If we can get a franchise and pro franchise to
Speaker 1: come here, I don't care if Louiville has to move dates.
Speaker 1: They have to move dates, you understand me. They gotta
Speaker 1: called the a SEC and say these dates are blocked.
Speaker 1: The NBA team has it. We can't get in the
Speaker 1: way anymore, period point blank. We the University of Louisville,
Speaker 1: being selfish, cannot hold that city back ever again. So
Speaker 1: Josh heard. I hope that you're listening. When we get
Speaker 1: that opportunity, Josh, make sure that it comes into tuition.
Speaker 1: Make sure do not play the old school game. We
Speaker 1: can have we can do it ourselves. No, we need
Speaker 1: the forty two pro forty one pro dates, We need
Speaker 1: the exhibition games, we need the tax revenue, and we
Speaker 1: need other things in that arena. How are you anybody
Speaker 1: anybody I know my social media, anybody calling into the show.
Speaker 1: I'll debate anybody about what I've just talked about. Period
Speaker 1: that's all. So I hate that Coach Beard couldn't make it.
Speaker 1: Let me just tell you what we were going to
Speaker 1: speak about, which I will get him back on, trust me,
Speaker 1: either get him on Friday or next week. But I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be on tomorrow. You all get back
Speaker 1: in too late. I'll be running a best of show factual.
Speaker 1: I will not be on tomorrow, not live. But we're
Speaker 1: going to speak about the cities, the growth of Nashville, Columbus,
Speaker 1: and Indie compared to Louisville anomically, what's going on job wise.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Coach Beer wants to speak
Speaker 1: about the lack of Western sell anything and why. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about some of the NBA decisions, and
Speaker 1: we'll note what's happened Draft Day, Wednesday and Thursday, so
Speaker 1: we'll be able to talk about what's transpired to the draft.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the New York Knicks lack
Speaker 1: of coach and I told you all about that. That's
Speaker 1: just amazing. What the Knicks do is what the Knicks do.
Speaker 1: That's the only way you can put it. That's only
Speaker 1: there's no rhyme or reason with the New York Knicks
Speaker 1: at all, so we're going to discuss those things. Also,
Speaker 1: Churchill Downs, Yes, Jerry's bends, the need of church of Downs.
Speaker 1: Tonight five pm. You've got done at the Downs again,
Speaker 1: racing a lot of fun local vendors, local trucks where
Speaker 1: you can support the local businesses. So if you can
Speaker 1: go out support the local businesses to the best of
Speaker 1: your ability. Also, coach, now we're going to speak a
Speaker 1: little bit about I'd put out on the internet who
Speaker 1: were they? Who were your top five NBA players of
Speaker 1: all time by position? And we were going to speak
Speaker 1: about that, but we'll do that also another day. Best
Speaker 1: of luck to ak all the draft participants. It's an
Speaker 1: exciting day. I was nervous. I truly was waiting to
Speaker 1: hear what my name was going to call. I had
Speaker 1: no idea if I'd be a first round our fifth round.
Speaker 1: I had absolutely no idea. And I ended up being
Speaker 1: in the third round, which would be a second round
Speaker 1: pick today. But I was happy with it. I'll never
Speaker 1: forget Frank Ladon telling me if you come here in shape,
Speaker 1: young man, with a good attitude, you'll make my team.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there, yes, sir, no problem, hung up the
Speaker 1: phone and nah, I'll be able to play good too.
Speaker 1: But that's exactly what Frank Toby landed in Salt Lake City.
Speaker 1: You're in shape, I said, without it, you got a
Speaker 1: good attitude, I said, I hope. So I made the team.
Speaker 1: He cut guaranteed players. John duran was a guaranteed, he
Speaker 1: had guaranteed money. Utah was broke guys, so for Frank
Speaker 1: Layton to keep Jerry Eaves, he cut Baba Durham was
Speaker 1: his name played at Georgetown. Old people remember he made
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty thousand dollars guaranteed, and they ate
Speaker 1: it to keep me on the roster. And I felt
Speaker 1: indebted to Frank Layton for that. I really did. Because
Speaker 1: I knew John Durham was only guaranteed contract. I didn't
Speaker 1: think i'd make the team unless they cut John Duram,
Speaker 1: and I didn't think they would eat the money. I
Speaker 1: really didn't, So I just let you know. I was
Speaker 1: sweating bullets every day in training camp and tearing Baby
Speaker 1: Durham up all war. John, I'm gonna be honest with you,
Speaker 1: all war John Durham out every day every day. But
Speaker 1: I still didn't have any idea if I would make
Speaker 1: the team or not, because a lot of teams did
Speaker 1: not like to eat guaranteed money then, especially the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 1: So guess what happens. You'll have no idea about old
Speaker 1: school sports. We cut down to eleven players. We kept eleven.
Speaker 1: I was really sweating when they cut the twelfth person.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, that was twelve. What's going
Speaker 1: on here? Will? They had to cut of player that
Speaker 1: didn't have a guaranteed contract because they paid Babe during
Speaker 1: and that was twelve. So to keep Jerry Eves, Frank
Speaker 1: Laden cut two quality players. That's why I still talk
Speaker 1: to him today. He is the funniest, nicest gentleman you'll
Speaker 1: ever run into. I was fortunate I had Denny Crum
Speaker 1: and Frank Laden, two of the best guys. Is these
Speaker 1: words radios. Hopefully I'll be back Friday, not tomorrow, and
Speaker 1: if not, I'll be back on Monday. God willing, You'll
Speaker 1: have a great day. I love you, Bye bye,