WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.839 --> 00:00:07.320 You have to love the laugh, you really do. Welcome 2 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:11.160 back to EVE Sports Radio. It is June the twenty fifth, 3 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:15.359 twenty twenty five. Of course we all know we have 4 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:19.280 Shannon the dude behind the glass. This is Sports Talk 5 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:23.960 seven ninety KRD. I am the brand Jerry Eves. I 6 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:28.120 am by myself. I'm a so pilot of this plane. 7 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:31.719 Other than Shannon, my younger Saint Anthony, is flying back 8 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:34.560 to Louisville as I speak. The flight I believe leaves 9 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:38.840 at seven, Panama City time, eight o'clock. You also, he's 10 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:41.399 working his way through customers trying to get out of here, 11 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:43.799 and I'm getting ready to get out of here. My 12 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:47.479 flight's not till two thirty. I do believe this afternoon, 13 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:50.719 beautiful day, this morning. It's rained the last three days. 14 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:53.920 But other than that, we had a fantastic trip. I'm 15 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:56.799 gonna tell you a little bit about it. I'm gonna 16 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.079 talk to you a lot about sports, what's going on. 17 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:02.280 I do have a close friend of mine calling in 18 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:05.840 today at about seven twenty five, seven point thirty, coach 19 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:09.920 Alfred Butch Beard, mister intellectual it's Kyby Harrison named him 20 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:13.719 my man Kyby Kyby Hope you're doing well. Everybody that 21 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:17.120 knows Kyby telling we're speaking about him. He's doing well. Guys. 22 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:20.799 Kyby is a tank, tank and a fighter. Kyby Harrison's 23 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:23.879 unbelievable father of Lisa Harrison, a great women's basketball player 24 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:29.040 and a great softball player, baseball player himself. Just thinking 25 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:33.439 about you, Kaby. So start with today, and I'm kind 26 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:36.799 of glad every now and then I get these shows 27 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:41.760 where I'm by myself and we get to talk real life. 28 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:43.519 We have a lot of fun all the other time. 29 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:47.159 But you know, we're going to keep this show truly real. 30 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:49.879 I'm going to make it one of my best stuff shows. 31 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:54.640 And I think people should listen to the entirety. Most 32 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:57.319 people listen to five ten minute segments in their cars 33 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:59.680 going to work, and I appreciate everyone who listens to 34 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:03.120 these radio I do, but this is one time you 35 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:04.599 need to tape and stay in your car. You need 36 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.439 to listen to it all because I want to explain 37 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:12.479 to some people in my opinion, but I stay away 38 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:15.879 from opinions. I try to form my opinion based on fact. 39 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:20.960 I tried to and I think the city of Louisville 40 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:25.240 and his great wisdom has been lacking a lot of 41 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:29.000 leadership my opinion, and I'm going to get into that 42 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:32.919 today along with we all understand. It's the NBA Draft. 43 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:35.639 A lot of dreams are going to come true. We 44 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.520 speak about that a little bit today. A lot of 45 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:40.319 dreams are going to come true for young people. And 46 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:44.520 I was one of those young people. Guys waiting I 47 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:48.400 don't remember the date of my draft, but it still 48 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:51.240 was the NBA Draft and you're waiting to hear your 49 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:54.960 name called and what you had achieved over the last 50 00:02:56.520 --> 00:03:01.000 six or seven years of high school, six and four 51 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:06.599 years of college. But you had achieved, Where are people 52 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.680 going to look at your value in this game called basketball? 53 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:12.319 And it's an exciting time for young kids. A lot 54 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:14.840 of work was put into it, a lot of dreams. 55 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:20.840 I just wish that myself, an African American, get more 56 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:27.479 African American parents to get their kids' dreams to be lawyers, doctors, engineers, 57 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:38.120 construction workers, brick layers, all the trades, plumbers. I just 58 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:42.240 wish we would diversify a little bit our dreams. But 59 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:46.439 not here nor there. That's a different story. I did 60 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:49.879 live and go through that got my name called third 61 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:52.400 round draft pick, Judy call Gill came out as I 62 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:55.360 was working Coach Crumbs basketball camp and say, hey, you 63 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:59.759 were just drafted by the Utah Jazz in the third round. Honestly, 64 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:03.120 I've forgotten the pick. I think I was fifty fifth, 65 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:08.719 same pick as Lebron James's son. So anyway, you know, 66 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:10.520 great things are going to happen for people to know 67 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:15.319 Cooper Flag is really, really, really good and I think 68 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:19.079 that he's going to turn into a magnificent Crow and 69 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:23.879 have a fantastic career. So that's one thing that's going 70 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:28.480 to transpire tonight. Can't wait to watch the highlights of 71 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:30.399 the draft because I'll be flying. But they do have 72 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:34.920 live television on the airplanes now, so I may be 73 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:36.399 able to see some of the draft. I want to 74 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:39.199 try too, but there's a lot going on with that. Also. 75 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:44.920 Mckael Brown, junior, University of Louisville's freshman basketball player, made 76 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.879 the nineteen and undernational team, which will be playing in Switzerland. 77 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:53.360 He was competing in Colorado Springs, and that's another good thing, guys, 78 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:58.199 when you're reminiscing about this, guys, I was in the 79 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:03.040 first National Sports Festival ever in Colorado Springs. The summer 80 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:10.399 of nineteen seventy eight, seventy seven, the very first one. 81 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.000 My roommate was James Worthy, the former great Laker in 82 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:16.519 North Carolina player. A lot of great players were there 83 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:18.920 and we had a fantastic time. There are a lot 84 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:22.240 of Scooter McCrae was there, and a lot of other players, 85 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:26.639 Vince Taylor, Derek Hord, names from Kentucky that you all remember, 86 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:29.079 were there the very first one and just lets you 87 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:31.639 know that how time has evolved. I went to the 88 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.800 very first Chicago pre draft camp, the very first one, 89 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:36.800 and Dereck Smith and I were in Chicago pre draft 90 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:41.600 camp nineteen eighty two. So, guys, things are just as 91 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:43.399 an old person, you look back and you see them 92 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:45.439 and you see how they've evolved, and how they're on 93 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:49.000 television now and the NBA Summer league's on television, which 94 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:50.600 I'm going to. You just get to look at it 95 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:54.040 and say you've been part of something great. That's why 96 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:56.800 sometimes when I'm critical of the players, I want them 97 00:05:56.839 --> 00:05:59.600 to understand that it's bigger than that. One day they'll 98 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.800 look back at this forty years later and forty five 99 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.079 years later and know that they were just a piece 100 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:09.360 of this. Not all of it, So that's all, but 101 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:12.000 I want to get into I'm going to try to 102 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:17.879 stay on task. It's six twelve and my youngest son 103 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:19.279 just walked in. I thought you'd be on your way 104 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:22.360 to the airport, big fellow, you better get out. You 105 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:25.279 have a safe trip. Came into tesse his mom, telling 106 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:27.120 her goodbye before he left to go to the airport. 107 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.079 But you know, we're going to be honoring Tom Jurdge 108 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:35.680 and right now, we have no problem with the accolades. 109 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:39.079 We just don't like to tell the other side of 110 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:43.399 the story. And I have been one of those people 111 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:45.519 that in the media that just told the other side 112 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:48.480 of the story, and people have been highly critical of 113 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:51.680 me in the University of Louisville. But that's just my nature. 114 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:54.360 When it's good, it's good, I speak about it. And 115 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:57.759 when it's bad, it's bad, I speak about it. And 116 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:00.399 since I had this opportunity to have a radio show, 117 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:04.480 it's kind of what I've been doing. So at seven 118 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:07.560 point fifteen, I'm gonna go to break and when I 119 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:11.399 come back, I'm going to get into. University of louis 120 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:16.040 was naming a portion of Floyd Street after Tom Jorge, 121 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:19.839 which is fine, and we're going to hear all the accolades, 122 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:22.399 but I just want to make sure again that people 123 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:26.279 here understand the turmoil that the university went through and 124 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:29.160 the city and the lack of leadership. It has to 125 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:31.639 be told, and for some reason, I'm being honest with 126 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:36.480 you and a person that I really respect Louisville government, 127 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:40.000 I mean really respect, and he says, sometimes you have 128 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:41.920 to get over it, and I said, I'm with that, 129 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:44.240 but you still have to know the truth. I don't 130 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:47.319 mind getting over it. I wouldn't be speaking about it 131 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:50.560 if the City of Louisville and University of Louisville was 132 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:53.319 not naming the street after Tom, I wouldn't be talking 133 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:56.399 about it at all. I haven't talked about it. I 134 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.480 don't know. Shannon's probably been a producer year and a 135 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:02.319 half two years now, but I don't recollect ever. Just 136 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:07.439 bringing this up when we talk about NBA expansion, which 137 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:10.480 has been spoke about. I bring it up because it's pertinent, 138 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:15.199 and it's pertinent today because we're naming the street. So 139 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:17.399 I just want to make sure again that people get 140 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:21.600 the full story, so that when we're hearing all the accolades, 141 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:25.680 that we can understand what the university did go through. Also, 142 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:30.959 So Shennon, it's six fourteen, let's go to break. We're 143 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:32.720 gonna stay on task. We can cut this one up 144 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:36.200 as a best of Shennon when we come back for 145 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:39.240 that fifteen minute period before Coach of Beerd comes on, 146 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:42.240 because when Coachberd does come on, we're going to cover 147 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:45.240 a lot of things. We're going to cover the lack 148 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:47.960 of leadership in the city in white cities like Nashville 149 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:51.840 or Columbus and Indianapolis have just run away from us. 150 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:55.320 Memphis run away from us. It's just a fact. That's 151 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.840 all we're going to talk about. Of course, the lack 152 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:03.519 of honoring west Unsel and why interesting, and then we're 153 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:05.919 going to talk a lot NBA. Of course New York 154 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:08.600 Yets still don't have a coach. Coach Beard was one 155 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:11.240 of the first announcers there. They still do not have 156 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:15.080 a coach like of leadership there. Also, Dolan has absolutely 157 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:17.519 James Dolan the owner, he's got a lot of money. People, 158 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:19.840 he's got a lot of money. His dad had a 159 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:22.639 lot of money, but he has no idea what he's 160 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:25.120 doing now. They had a very good team and have 161 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:27.840 a very good team this year and had an excellent coach, 162 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:32.279 but again they made a decision that was detrimental to 163 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:35.200 the NeXT's future. So after the break we'll talk about it. 164 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:37.879 So Shannon, take us away. This is the Sports Radio. 165 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:40.559 When we come back, keep your radios on. That's all 166 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:43.080 I can tell you. This is paid per view. We'll 167 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:47.000 talk to you in a minute. Welcome back to the 168 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:51.320 Sports Radio. June the twenty fifth, twenty twenty five. Yes, 169 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:55.519 it is Draft day, NBA Draft Day. Cooper Flag, without 170 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:58.480 a doubt, is the best player in the country. And 171 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:01.200 if I was a Maverick fan, I would be very 172 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:04.000 excited because I think that they've got a huge future. 173 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:08.120 Anthony Davis stays healthy, Kyrie comes back and they will 174 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:10.879 not rush him back. I think they're gonna be very 175 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:15.159 very good. Little PJ. Washington know his father really well. 176 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:17.080 I think they got a chance to be really good. 177 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:19.279 So we have to wait and see. OK. So he's 178 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:21.840 gonna have some competition, trust me, next year in that 179 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:29.960 Western Conference, They're gonna have some competition. Now, the thought 180 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:32.519 of reason is what I want to consider this show, 181 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:35.440 and I want you all just to think about some 182 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:38.080 of the things I'm gonna tell you all these are factual, 183 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:43.159 per date what transpired. And I've been around so long 184 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:48.399 that in nineteen ninety seven coach Olsen will never say 185 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:53.000 it because he is a Louisville man, but he was 186 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:55.840 forced out. He wasn't ready to leave, he didn't want 187 00:10:55.879 --> 00:11:00.440 to retire. He was forced out. And part of the 188 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:02.879 reasons for him wanting for the school to want to 189 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:05.519 force him out, and the community, the business leaders, not 190 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:09.279 the fans, the business leaders that they didn't think the 191 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:12.320 basketball program was going in the direction that they wanted 192 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:13.799 it to go, and they thought it was time to 193 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:17.320 make a change from Denny Crumb got me. I don't 194 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:20.679 care what anybody tells you, just the facts. I was 195 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:24.519 on the committee that hired Tom Dridge. I was at 196 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:29.519 every meeting other than when they took four of the 197 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:32.679 members of our committee, and there was a committee of 198 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:36.480 about sixteen people. They took four and they went to 199 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:39.279 a city. At first, we were all going to go, 200 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:43.240 and then at the end of the night, twelve o'clock, 201 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:46.120 you get the little message, Hey, only four of you 202 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:49.200 are going to go, and the other rest of the 203 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:51.759 group wasn't even going to hear the interviewing process of 204 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:55.360 the top three. So I was the one who said, 205 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:57.799 uh no, we can conference this thing in and we 206 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:00.399 should be able to hear it because you had already 207 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:02.480 used our names on this committee, but you weren't going 208 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:04.320 to let us be a part of it. And it 209 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.679 was a change in the middle of the night. Facts. 210 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.120 I'm just talking on facts. Rayn Neistromo used to run 211 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.600 the university. Was didn't know he was not the president, 212 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:17.200 but he was associated president. He did most of the work. 213 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:21.200 He is the one who put me on the committee. 214 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:25.440 Coach Crumb was upset with me, only time he's ever 215 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:27.240 been upset with me. And then I mean Coach Crumb 216 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:30.440 hugged be apologized. He says, Jerry, why did they put 217 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:32.919 you on that not me? I said, Coach, I have 218 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:35.000 no idea. I'm new here. I've only been on the 219 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.600 job six months. I'm just telling you. I just got 220 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:42.039 this letter. And that's because they were wanting to replace 221 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:47.120 Coach Crumb. Okay, things weren't going right. I just had 222 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:50.000 accepted the job. Larry Gay had done some things again. 223 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:55.799 Kids were listening to one eight hundred takee sex lines 224 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.879 something back in the day, and Larry Gay had something 225 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:00.679 to do with it, and they let Larry go and 226 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:05.679 I was hired. You all remember forty great friend of 227 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:08.120 mine was really have to coach Crumb saying he should go, 228 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:10.120 he should go, he should go. So I'm on the 229 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:16.759 committee that hired Tom George, no problem with that, and 230 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:21.960 really good, nice guy, personable came in, hard worker. I've 231 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:25.879 got no problems with those things. But the bottom line 232 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:28.480 fact of the matter is that we're going to hear 233 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:33.679 all the development. I am telling you all for a fact, 234 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:37.639 and Coach Osin's office, the diagram of all that you 235 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:42.200 all see, a soccer stadium, the baseball, all of that 236 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:47.679 from the track past McDonald's was already laid out. In fact. 237 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:51.440 I'm sure anybody says, just fact, it was in Coach 238 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:55.120 Osin's office when he was forced out. He's not gonna 239 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:57.399 say that. He's not going to tell you all the truth. 240 00:13:57.559 --> 00:13:59.159 They'll come on and tell you all. I'm not telling 241 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:01.399 the truth. But he knows it and I know it. 242 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:06.879 So here comes Tom does a great job of continuing 243 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:10.000 with coachosen had planned and the school. If you remember, 244 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:14.039 when coach Osin had left, every scholarship was endowed for 245 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:17.440 almost forever. Guys, they raised so much money. Coach Osin 246 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:22.600 didn't spend a dime. You talk about frugal, that's not 247 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:25.879 even the word for coach Osen. I'm telling you, frugal 248 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:31.200 is not even the word. So Tom comes in. I 249 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:35.440 end up leaving, going professional playing coaching in professional ranks. 250 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:38.080 University of Louisville starts growing. Of course, the hiring of 251 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:41.960 Rick Patino. Mashburn told me they were hiring Rick Patino 252 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:44.879 before it came out. Drawn Mashburn, who played for coach 253 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:51.519 Mattina at Kentucky. Great guy, told you, great businessman, sons playing. 254 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:57.240 But mash is great people. Good deal comes University of Louisville. 255 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:59.639 Coach p team does a great job turning the program 256 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:06.279 around again, competing for championships. I mean, everything that the 257 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:10.960 city needed, no problem. But there were some aspects of 258 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:14.519 problem that a good leader would have taken care of. 259 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:18.200 And the leader of the program was Tom Jurch. So 260 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:22.399 you know, you can't have the confetti, guys, the confetti's last. 261 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:25.679 If you remember, there's usually a war fault before that. 262 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:31.159 Then the confetti falls. Got me, So it happens here 263 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:35.960 that you know, the confetti it's falling, But the war 264 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:38.360 has not ever spoke about. I'm talking about the war 265 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:43.440 the University of Little On what the program went through. 266 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:48.639 First and foremost, we had to care in cipher Tom 267 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:51.519 jurch As they ath led director of the program. Rig 268 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:56.840 Bettina was the coach. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone, but mistakes 269 00:15:56.919 --> 00:16:01.440 must be dealt with, must be dealt with. I am 270 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:04.559 coaching now at North Carolina and t I'm a former cardinal. 271 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:07.440 I spoke to Rick Bolstitch, which he will tell you. 272 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:10.519 The final four was in Indianapolis. I was upset then. 273 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:13.039 So everyone would have told you that, oh, you just 274 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:15.639 want to be the coach, Jerry, you always want something. No, 275 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:21.279 it was just a true cardinal. It was embarrassing, period, 276 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:25.399 and it seemed to be pushed under the rug because 277 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:28.440 Tom had so much control and Rick had so much 278 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:32.279 influence that negative things to the program didn't affect them, 279 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:39.279 just the program, which is a numeral uno wrong. We 280 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:43.039 get through that August four of twenty ten and all 281 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:47.960 the notoriety that came with that. Guys, I'm not saying 282 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:49.919 coach Patino shouldn't have another job. He's doing a great 283 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:52.679 job at Saint John's, but he's supposed to lose his 284 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:55.399 job over that. You have to do what's right for 285 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:58.720 the program. We wouldn't be here today, and Tom George 286 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:01.679 may still be that letter to Rector if the right 287 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:08.519 decisions were made. Okay, they were made. Next thing we know, Okay, 288 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:11.440 trying to get this ship right. We win the twenty 289 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:17.119 thirteen National Championship. Confetti falls. With confetti falls. We find 290 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:20.960 out after that that we've got twenty two proven prostitute 291 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:24.519 parties in our dorm. The dorm that coach Patino said 292 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:26.759 he knew wh the light bulb was out and furniture 293 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:33.960 was broken. Got me. What happens? Embarrassment to the program. 294 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:37.519 Jerry's is vilified because I am part of that program. 295 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:40.519 I'm sixty six. Now. That program is bigger than myself. 296 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:43.680 But I stand up for the program. Not individuals. Just 297 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:50.000 don't not going to what happens. Nothing, We eat it, 298 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:54.279 that's all. And what happens Patino and Tom George keep 299 00:17:54.319 --> 00:18:00.079 all rolling. Okay, that's not enough. Twenty two proven party 300 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:05.559 underage kids, got me, that's not enough. Nobody loses their job. 301 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:09.279 We just keep all rolling. Win, baby win, That's all 302 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:11.759 that mattered. That's why people in Louisville don't like me. 303 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:14.759 I don't care. They know that now though they really do. 304 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:19.599 Doesn't bother me. What's rights right always? Okay, we're don't 305 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:23.599 right the ship now, Okay, well we better. Here comes 306 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:28.880 the Adidas college basketball scandal in twenty seventeen, a rest 307 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:31.400 of ten coaches. I told you I got a problem 308 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:35.079 with it because nine of the ten coaches were African Americans. 309 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:38.279 I told you all the NCAA, there's a guy named 310 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:42.480 Andre McGee. Are we naming any streets after Andre McGee? 311 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:46.160 The assistant coach that paid for all the parties for 312 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:49.400 no reason at all? Got me, Just no reason at all. 313 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:52.079 The assistant coach who paid for parties when he was 314 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:55.640 the assistant coach at you and KC for the University 315 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:59.000 of Louisville for no reason at all. Guys, it is 316 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:02.720 just the facts. People. People lie these. What I'm telling 317 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:06.599 you are the facts. Andre McGee was coach at you 318 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:09.720 and Casey, assistant coach paying for parties at Louisville. That's 319 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:13.759 how much he loved Louisville. Get out of here or 320 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:16.720 lie to yourself. But I just can't have it. I 321 00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:25.799 just can't. Finally, after the Adidas twenty seventeen university has 322 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:28.160 to make a move has to guess what Tom Dridge 323 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:32.079 told him. He wasn't gonna let coach Matimo go again, 324 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:38.279 just a fact. It wasn't enough when baby when because 325 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:40.640 he had bullied the city. You don't know that he 326 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:42.960 had put out there like other people. We know I'll 327 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:45.440 hit people in the face and hear bones cracked, and 328 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:47.720 that's factual. They know that. The person said to publicly 329 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:54.079 Tony Benetti. But that's where we were, guys, just giving 330 00:19:54.119 --> 00:19:58.960 you the facts. Now I got to hit you with 331 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:04.519 the money aspect, which is boy, why really lie? But 332 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:09.839 before I move on to the money aspect, the NCAA 333 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:14.559 Andre m McGee was guilty of major violations for twenty 334 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:18.799 two parties. The NCAA also said, because it was written 335 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:20.880 in the bylaws that they were tired of the head 336 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:26.400 coaches saying they didn't know that Rick Matino was held accountable. 337 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:29.359 Of course, you know, coach, we get lawyers in America 338 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:32.359 and the truth can be changed, not just the fact, 339 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.400 but the bottom line of the NCAA wrote in and all 340 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:39.480 the coaches accepted it. The athletic directors accepted it. The 341 00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:43.039 presidents accepted it because they are who runs the NCUAA 342 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:45.640 saying that we're going to hold coaches accountable for their 343 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:49.039 assistant coaches guys, because they were tired of head coaches saying, 344 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:51.960 you know, from the smartest person in the room to 345 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:56.559 the dumbest in the room. That's all. So that's when 346 00:20:57.720 --> 00:20:59.799 the Board of Trustee says, Tom, then you gotta go, 347 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:04.559 because Tom was going to stay the course and a 348 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:07.279 lot of people live just say yes when baby win. 349 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:12.160 Wasn't their kids going through this? That's all. That's all 350 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:15.400 we understand. Wasn't their kids just win? Make me happy? 351 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:21.039 So those are the things that they're not gonna talk about. 352 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:25.480 Everyone is a fireable offense and everybody should have been fired, period. 353 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:32.559 It took three of them. Just the facts. Now, coming 354 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:35.119 to the money aspect and I'm gonna get the break 355 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:37.839 at six thirty one. Yeah, thirty two, Shannon, let me 356 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:40.160 go to break because I'm gonna stay on task. This 357 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:42.480 is the sports radio. Coach Beard should be calling in 358 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:45.079 real soon. He's right on the line. I know Coach Beard, 359 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:48.119 he's slicky, but he'll be calling in really soon. And 360 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:50.720 I'm gonna finish with the money aspect. Then I'm gonna 361 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:53.920 throw it to Coach Beard for his perspective. But all 362 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:57.400 I'm telling you all are facts, proven facts, and I'm 363 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:00.680 gonna tell you the money aspect, which is fact. Then 364 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:03.960 you make your own determination. It's the sports Radio for numbers. 365 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:06.599 Five year, ood two, five seven, one, seventy nine hundred. 366 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:12.160 Welcome back to EA Sports Radio six thirty five. Let 367 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:15.279 me tell you all about coach Beer. There's something wrong 368 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:17.839 with my service. That's what he gets from moving back 369 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:20.480 to New Jersey. It just all there is to it. 370 00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:25.680 He's less equipped to handle technology that I am. I'm 371 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:28.279 telling you Coach Beard is awful. I send him the number, 372 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:32.519 so hopefully Shannon, maybe Shannon, can you call Coach Beard? 373 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:36.200 Can you do that? I'm going to send it to you, Shannon, 374 00:22:36.279 --> 00:22:38.720 and you try to give him a call. Let me 375 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:41.400 find out. But and you'll just bear with me. I can. 376 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:43.799 I'm not good like this. I can't do a lot 377 00:22:43.880 --> 00:22:45.359 of things at once. So I've got to just give 378 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:47.680 Shannon the number. You'll just have to bear with me. 379 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:51.000 I'm old. Then we'll get back to the facts of 380 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:55.480 the matter. Oh no, that's Shannon. That's so funny. I'm 381 00:22:55.480 --> 00:23:00.519 sending you our number. That wouldn't do you any good. 382 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:06.440 I just sent it to you, Shan and see if 383 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:11.079 you can call that bumb Thank you so, guys, the 384 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:14.680 financial aspect of this, it just happens to be that. 385 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:17.000 I don't know how. Jerry Eves just seemed to be 386 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:19.480 in the wrong place at the right time or in 387 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:21.200 the right place at the wrong time. It just depends 388 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:23.039 on you don't want to look at it. But when 389 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:27.359 the Charlotte Hornets we're going to leave Charlotte, George Sheenn 390 00:23:27.400 --> 00:23:30.240 was the owner. I knew him well. We had just 391 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:33.640 had the best season in Charlotte Hornet history and still 392 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:36.799 is and they were going to move to the city 393 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:42.160 of Louisville. A good team. Mashburn was our superstar. Baron Davis, 394 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:44.759 I mean, guys, you're talking about a really formidable team. 395 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:47.960 We lost in the Eastern College semi finals in Game seven. 396 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:52.400 Really good team that Louisville was going to get. Well, 397 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:54.640 all you have to do is go to the Bloomberg Report, guys. 398 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:59.839 David Stern my opinion, the greatest commissioner ever. My opinion, 399 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:03.960 that could be questionable. NFL had a lot of great wins. 400 00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:07.480 So it's baseball, but basketball watch, no question David Stern, 401 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:11.000