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Speaker 3: I want to talk to you about some college football
right now.
Speaker 2: Tampering.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you know there's but Dabo Swinny
nuked Oh Miss after they blatantly tampered with their linebacker
Luke Farelli. UH, Pete Golding and his staff kept on
coming back to Luke and offering him more money upwards
a million dollars. The Clemson coaching staff was well aware
of it, UH and Swinney says in a press conference
they have text messages of Old Miss head coach Pete
Golden text and clem in linebacker Luke Farrelli while he
was in class.
Speaker 2: I know your sign? What's the buyout?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: Golding proceeded to send FORRELLI a picture of a one
million dollar contract that for Farelli declined. Golding had Trinidad
Chambliss and Jackson Dart reach out to Forrelli to push
him to enter the portal. Farelli allegedly declined again. Golding
and old Miss then up their offer to Frelli to
two million dollars and stole him away from Clemson class list. Right,
some people will say tampering, will say Dabba went off
on it. This is technically legal. It's improper under NCAA
bylaws and the things that have been set up here.
Speaker 2: And I don't know.
Speaker 3: How the schools are going to hold the young men
accountable for this, Forarelli for leaving. But give me your
reaction to this crazy college football tampering college football transfer
portal news.
Speaker 4: I mean it's absolutely wild, right, I mean this kind
of thing. You hear about some level of tampering with
him professional sports, but not to this degree. You know,
Like it's at this point, like these contracts that are
being signed are absolutely meaningless, and these these college athletes
have a lot more, a lot more under side. It's
almost like the pendulum has swung far, far too much
towards the athlete. And I and I'm the first one
to say it, but like we need to take care
of the college athletes, but there's something that has to
be done here, Like it is the absolute wild West.
And it shows like how how much or how little
control the NCUBA has right now and has had for
at least the past few seasons.
Speaker 3: Yet the NC Double A doesn't have much power over football,
not as much as they do basketball. Mark Pope actually
brought up an interesting commentary. I said it to you yesterday, Ronnie.
Let's play this for Kugarnation if we can. It's in
the DMS. Mark Pope said this on the current NC
DOUBLEA eligibility situation. The NC Double A might be losing
in court, He's said, and for these uh uh these uh,
these these n I L issues, Like did you like
the other issue that's coming into play right now is
like G League players NBA players coming back and playing
at their university. Uh, Betty Ico is coming back and
he's eligible to play. He's been in the G League
and and now he's coming back to play for Alabama
and their run, their quest to make it in the
n C Double A tournament and and to uh to
win an n C Double tournament, but the n C
Double A could lose in court, but they still get
to decide who makes the n C Double A tournament.
At some point we have to take a stand and
regain some tiny ounce of sanity. This game matters too much.
Do you think the NC Double A will disqualify teams
that play uneligible you know, ineligible players.
Speaker 4: If they do, there's gonna be lawsuits against them for
that as well. I mean, right now, it's just absolutely
an insane time to be eric for college athletics. And
you know as soon as they start making those teams
ineligible that teams are gonna sue the n C Double
A for this as well.
Speaker 3: There's, uh, there's always a legal battle raging.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this.
Speaker 3: I know you're a big b YU football and basketball fan.
Speaker 2: Uh we were.
Speaker 3: We got into a little off the cuff debate yesterday
about the most talented player ever to play at b
YU on the on the hardwood.
Speaker 2: See what's your definition of talent?
Speaker 3: So when I say most talented player basketball wise, what
what's your If you were to look up your own terminology,
you're Merriam Webster, You're Layne Allo. Uh terminology, what is talent.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm operating with the advantage of like the players
that I know from my lifetime. Like I know that
there's like, uh, you know, the Danny Aingels out there
and and and guys to store my time, But I
really didn't start watching the basketball until like the early
two thousands, and so for me, it's still Jimmer. And
I think I think AJ's feeling is obviously higher than Jimmer's.
I mean, I think he's going to go to the
NBA and have an excellent career there. But in terms
of college basketball players, you can't argue how much of
an impact Jimmer had not only at the YU, but
for all of college basketball the year that he was
for the years that he was playing at Day, specifically
his junior and senior year.
Speaker 3: So okay, so how would you then? So I'm trying
to like set some foundational things. His talent is a
subjective term to many, even though there's a definition for it.
Some people interpret talent differently than others. Some people, for instance,
say that Jimmer Fredad is not the most talented player
to come through BYU because he doesn't have you know,
the the the physical tangibles, the ceiling right the athleticism
of certain layers. Right from a talent standpoint, he's productive,
he's efficient, he's uh, he's sneaky athletic, right, but he's
not the most talented.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense? What's your definition of talent?
Speaker 3: Is it like more based off of production and like
skill set or is it more so based off of
like your physical tangibles, athleticism and upside potential?
Speaker 4: No, it has to be what you're producing, kat like
if that if that were not the case, I mean
there are I guarantee there have been more athletic athletes
on both the basketball side and football side than some
of the guys that we know and talk about. But
if they don't produce, it doesn't matter. Right, And so
for for jim Or when when I say talented, he
was by far the most talented score that I've seen
play at b y U. And so we're strictly talking
like for for aj Dbansa, I assume that's that's where
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and unrealized talent right now, Like I have no doubt
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Speaker 3: Love that final thing for me, aj De Bonsa, currently
staying at number two in ESPN's men's College Basketball Freshmen
of the Year contenders. This is from Jeff Borsello and
myor Medcrafts. They said, this is what they had to
say about de Bonsa had he had perhaps his worst
game of the season and you was lost to Texas
Tech over the weekend, finishing with thirteen point six for
seventeen shooting. That performance came after a ten game streak
of twenty point performances and a Division one freshman record
nine traight games with at least twenty points on fifty
percent field goal shooting. To Debanza continues to show flashes
of absurd dominance with the inability to take over a
game like few of his peers. He entered the week
fifth in the country and scoring at twenty two point
five points per game to go with six point eight
rebounds in three points six assists. Do you think he
becomes the Freshman of the Year this season.
Speaker 4: I personally think he will. His body of work right
now is pretty incredible. I know, I know that there's
this is a very talented freshman class with Cam Busier
at Duke and kill Williams at Carolina and then obviously
Darren Peterson at Kansas, Like there's a lot. I think
there's probably more competition than share than there has been
in the past fifteen or twenty years. But I think
aj is putting together a body of work that is
really impressive. And obviously I have my day biases stuff
like that, but I think he can. I think that
he has played exceptionally well up to this point. And
he man, he is still young. We're only halfway through
the season. Like he's only getting better. Like, I think
that the sky's the limit for this kid.
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into a little cougar Bye. Aj de bonza always a
topic of conversation here on the show. Uh and Uh
We're gonna, you know, kind of dissect a little bit
of what he what he addressed with the Coaches Show yesterday.
I believe it was or earlier this week with Kevin Young.
He hopped on with Kevin Young in front of the
the sold out crowd there at I don't know if
it's at Studio B or studio and they're in the
by TV uh uh communications building and uh I love
talking a. J. D.
Speaker 2: Bonsa.
Speaker 3: We chatted with him yesterday and currently everybody's talking about AJ.
He did have his worst performance of the season versus
Texas Tech on the road.
Speaker 2: We want to see a bounce back.
Speaker 3: I'm sure we'll see a bounce back versus Utah here
coming up here shortly Manyana at the marriage Center.
Speaker 2: But Ronald the three man Weaver.
Speaker 3: What do we got here with AJ to Bonsa and
k Y talking some BYU basketball.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so Kevin Young and agent de Bonds.
Speaker 7: So yes, it was sold I've been These are free
tickets that they give to the studio over there, your
studio seed down there at BAU TV. Anyone can come.
You sign up for it, you get your free tickets.
Normally it's Gregor Belt, but Spencer Linton did it yesterday?
Aj debonsa. This is him talking about now they played
this bell. I don't know if you had a chance
to go to the game, but every home game they're
playing that Aj debonce and Shaq Neutra cost commercial and
that you get to see and you've seen it at the
Delta Center there. I don't know if they're shown it
on ESPN, Ben, I don't know how it works with
the television rights, but they've shown it a bunch and
kind of like that funny moment at the end, and
this is a moment just between Aj and Shaq and
he comments on the script and just what was going
on during that commercial.
Speaker 6: Let's tune in.
Speaker 5: Well number one.
Speaker 8: You may have seen this guy before, Shaquille O'Neill, and
it looked like that shoot was a riot.
Speaker 6: What was it like working with Shaq?
Speaker 9: Yeah, so obviously my advisor used to advise Shaq when
he was in the league. So actually, so they gave
me a script. When I got there, he's late, he
was like hours late. So I'm over here on I'm
always on time, so I'm over here studying the script
and then by the time we get on like the
platform to go shoot like he like tossed my script out.
It was like, just follow my lead, like he told
me in like my ear just followed my lead, and.
Speaker 2: I'm like all right.
Speaker 9: So like everything you've seen on there was just not
on the script at all.
Speaker 1: Swinging it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, the best work he's done when it's freelanced
in front of the camera. So Shaq is the ultimate performer,
the ultimate entertainer, one of the most talented basketball players
I think that have ever come through the NBA.
Speaker 2: Did he have the best work ethic.
Speaker 3: No, but that man could perform with the brightest lights
in front of him and it was definitely a baller.
Speaker 2: Four time super or a four time NBA champion, I believe.
Speaker 3: But what it had probably ten rings if he worked
his artist MJ or Kobe. But uh uh love that
Aj went with it, went with the flow, and it's
been it's been really cool to see like we're in
a different era, a different era of college basketball, a
different era of BYU basketball, different era of BYU athletics.
Speaker 2: The fact that.
Speaker 3: Shaquille O'Neill and AJ Dubatsa ended up doing a commercial
with one of the corporate sponsors of Brigham Young University
athletics recently is just insane to me, right, Like one
of the greatest all time basketball players and maybe a
future all time basketball player in the National Basketball Association,
AJ debots and currently a BYU Cougar. Uh, They're they're
hanging out there. You know, AJ is getting hugs from
Lebron obviously, but these are the greatest, right, greatest UH
players in NBA history.
Speaker 2: Dabbing up AJ and interacting with them. I love it.
I need more of his.
Speaker 3: It's truly a great day to be a Cougar, a
great error to be a part of BYU Athletics.
Speaker 2: Ronald your thoughts all this?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Look, I mean you want to talk about offscript, Ben,
and that's why Shock probably didn't win more rings because
he doesn't follow a script. Maybe if you followed the
script of nutrition and dieting and doing things the right way.
I mean, you heard it from Kobe's mouth man. That
guy would have given me this if you just would
have done this, that's who Shock is. Anyway, No, I
think that's great, Ben. You don't see, like you said,
a Hall of famer, one who considers people top ten
of all time, not the gold Unfortunately, that's Jordan's considered
Shack to like do a commercial.
Speaker 6: When I saw that first, I was like Shack and AJ.
Speaker 7: But then I guess I shouldn't be surprised, right, because
it's a future top three pick in the NBA draft.
It's Shaquille O'Neal, but to be able to do that,
But I was always curious of how that happened been.
And we got a little bit of the insight right
there of what it would cost, but we're.
Speaker 6: Also getting insights to other things.
Speaker 7: You know, Ben, I'm a shoe guy, and that's why
I wanted to play this in this segment. So they
played a game yesterday how the price is right? Tell
me if it's higher or if it's lower. So Kevin
Young and AJ were doing it, and you know, Kevin
Young is strictly professional and how he does it.
Speaker 6: He likes a routine. He doesn't like to change.
Speaker 7: So they are doing this Jordan for Undefeated, trying to
guess how much it is. By the way, Benne's four
thousand dollars. I don't think any you or myself would
ever spend money on that shoe, but it's four thousand
dollars and byu TV Sports Nations says, if they can
get one million likes, Kevin Young will wear this shoe
on the court. Now we know he likes to wear Dzanowski's.
He did not agree to this. Let's just listen into
this clip. But this is crazy. I want to know
if there's anybody rich enough, Ben that listens to your show,
if they're going to pay four thousand dollars for a shoe.
I don't think anybody would do that, but I'm curious
to know because they are sneaker heads out there.
Speaker 6: Let's tune into what they have to say.
Speaker 8: Coach, I know you're really gonna like these specifically, let's
go this is the Nike sp dunk Low Ruby slippers.
Alternate addition, if Melissa is looking for a presence, they
want to go there.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Valentine Day written all over.
Speaker 8: Them, all right without going over That's tough.
Speaker 6: You're not going to believe this.
Speaker 8: Okay, your retail price right now twelve thousand, three hundred.
Speaker 11: I was under sixty dollars, coach.
Speaker 2: A J four eight.
Speaker 11: Coach said one seventy nine.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 6: Clearly in the same territory.
Speaker 2: I was definitely under.
Speaker 7: So Ben, I need to send this picture to you.
You actually can look it up, So Ben, look up
Nike SB dunk Low Ruby slippers. The one before that
was the Jordan four Undefeated Dunks. But twelve thousand dollars
three hundred sixty eight is what a pair of dunk
ones are. Ben, I only make so much amount of money.
If I were to purchase this shoe, Ben, that would
be more than two thirds of my salary.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, bro, like how much these sneakers are going
for right now? It's you know, I like shoes, you
know me, but like the sneaker heads, that's like next level.
Speaker 6: That is next I mean, look, you have to look Ben,
I don't know about you. You have a nice business.
Don't tell me if you have this card.
Speaker 7: But those that have a good earnings have that Black
American Express card. Hopefully one day, if I do it right,
I can have one of those. I don't know if
there's a limit on that. I've only seen it once.
I've seen it when Jabari Park was with the Milwaukee Bucks.
So I have to assume Been, if you have that card,
you must have a good line of credit because it
costs a lot to purchase those shoes. The last one
we're gonna hear from Sean Farnham raids Bach raids baits
you guys. So this is what he said earlier today
on Boe Sports Nation about bou basketball and the upcoming
match up with Arizona.
Speaker 1: How you feeling its head into the weekend?
Speaker 11: Feeling better than you in the announcement of a twelve
team football playoff, But outside of that, I'm doing great.
Speaker 6: Thanks well. Listen, in sixty eight team tournament, that's nice.
Speaker 2: You get in.
Speaker 11: You don't even have to be that good to get in.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest.
Speaker 6: You just have to be decent. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Three hundred and sixty four teams?
Speaker 6: No, I know, but like if you don't make the
attorney you weren't that good.
Speaker 2: You know who cares?
Speaker 6: In football, it's hard to make the tourney. It's hard.
We need a sixteen team tournament.
Speaker 11: It is I'd like to go to eight. Actually I
prefer eight.
Speaker 6: What what this is?
Speaker 4: More?
Speaker 11: This is more s I'm just saying that to get
under your skin. I'll just be honest with you. I'm
just saying the skin it's working.
Speaker 6: It's always great to talk.
Speaker 2: To you, man. They're always having a good time.
Speaker 3: There on the coaches shown is crazy?
Speaker 6: Is eight eight been? Eighteen? Playoff? Eighteen? Playoff? Why?
Speaker 7: Why are you even I don't even know if you
play at that point? Well, actually, I take it back.
That's you're gonna call me out because there were four
teams that got in, so I guess if they dropped
it to eight, I guess they still is better than four.
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is major priority for the two in state schools right now.
Speaker 2: B YU in Utah.
Speaker 3: He's an offensive lineman at TIMTHEU Provo Utah baby Mac
Aloise Show is a former commit, former b y You
Cougar Fooball player. I don't think he's playing ball for
BA You anymore, but Mac was playing at Byu his
older brother. Now BYU's taking the gander taking a long
hard look at at his younger brother Ian and had
a solid week in Hawaii at the Polynesian Ball Okay,
earning a starting nod on the offensive line for Team Mauka,
and recruiting hasn't really slowed down for him. Arizona State
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two in state Big twelve schools continue to prioritize him
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Kilani's staying, said al Luisio, is not surprising.
Speaker 2: He's a really good guy. Aluisa said.
Speaker 3: He is a really strung connection with offensive line coach TJ.
Speaker 2: Woods.
Speaker 3: I love he states the way the coaches coach and
how TJ coaches. He's a very good coach. While new
offensive line coach Jordan Gross is finding his footing at Utah,
the Youthes will also still be a factor with him,
and so will Nebraska Tennessee per reports per two four
seven coach Donovan Raiola Gon from Nebraska. I like them
a lots at Aloisia, so other schools getting in the mix.
Michigan has contacted him. Wolfing the Wolverine could be another one,
given that Jim Harding has already been in contact since
arriving from Salt Lake City to ann Arbor. I thought
it was pretty cool that coach Whittingham got the job there.
Still there's a strong pool to stay close to home.
He intends to serve a two year mission for the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints after high school.
Speaker 2: The six and eighty five.
Speaker 3: Pounder is planning to have a decision during the summer
So mac Alouisio really good football play. You look at
his offer sheet, Sorry, Ian Aluisio, really good offer sheet
and someone you got to keep an eye on. If
you want to win in the Big Twelve, you want
to make it to a Big twelve championship game and
win and survive in advance of the college football playoff,
these are the guys you got to acquire. These are
the guys you gotta keep in state. He's a four
star talent ladies and gentlemen, and he's right down the
street from Brigham Young University. As I mentioned, a lot
of offers BYU Utah, Arizona, Arizona State, Auburn col Nebraska,
Oklahoma State, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas Tech, Oregon State, Washington State,
New Mexico State, San Diego State, amongst many others. So,
ronald four star offensive lineman that lives right next to
Brigham Young University, how imperative do you think it is
to retain the talents of the local products.
Speaker 7: I'll say, my sam Ben, I haven't said in a while.
I've been saving this one for this moment. I hope
you know that does a bear poop in the woods?
I slap you with a book with my left hand
doesn't mean I'm right handed. Some people might know what
the heck I'm talking about. I just created that on
the mission to try to be funny. No, Ben, it's this,
This is this is life changing for a b AU program.
Speaker 6: You can't lose the guy that you can. He can sniff,
you know, he can walk.
Speaker 7: He grew up probably going to these by You gotta
I always say what I say about basketball, you gotta
get in your backyard. And you've seen if Kevin young
Been who's bringing all this high level talent in for basketball,
was able to get Will Openshaw, Dean Ruker. If he's
getting guys like that, you know, for the program, then
football definitely could do what they have been doing.
Speaker 11: It.
Speaker 6: Don't act like they haven't, but I think it's big time.
Speaker 7: Being a four star offensive lineman, man, I mean, how
many offensive lineen have they put in the league. You
gotta go back, you gotta look. There's a multi multitude
of offensive lineman.
Speaker 2: T J.
Speaker 7: Wood is the offensive line coach. I like By's chances
in a good spot bend. But if he if he
came to pro, that'd be great. And I think they
got a good shot, because what you're gonna do next
your being with the three guys that you're bringing in,
with Zakiyamauchi, with Pake finw like, I really like the
additions that they have. Bruce Mitchell's the NFL Draft pic.
Brady Papinka said that Multipple times Whalen I think will
play at the next Love Isaiah Jada Kayle Btn So
I mean byu is Man, I gotta stop saying linebacker,
you've been tight in you, but I mean it might
be offensive line you because they put a lot of
offensive line in the league.
Speaker 2: Ben look TJ.
Speaker 3: Woods doing fantastic work. Excited to see what he can do.
Let's bring up another subject here that I think is interesting.
Mark Pope, former BYU head coach Okay now currently at Kentucky.
He brought up an interesting way that the NCAA could
navigate some of the issues that they're seeing with G
League eligible former NBA players, you know, wanting to play
college basketball again.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: I also sent it to you via DM Ronnie on
ESPN of the Fan. So this is Mark Pope's theory
on how you can maybe hold these teams accountable for
playing NBA players that are playing in the G League.
Speaker 12: The one stop gap that is kind of spreading right
now that maybe has some legs. It's kind of a
last stand is the NCAA does get to decide who
gets to go to the NCLA tournament, like, they get
to decide that they have that power, and so at
some point, when they've been very very clear about what
the rules that they're going to try and force, they
might lose in court, but they still get to decide
what games count towards the NCELA tournament. And I'm not
saying that to penalize any team. I'm just saying that
because at some point it is important that we take
a stand and regain some tiny ounce of sanity. And
until someone tells me different, I still believe the NCAA
has full power over who gets in the NLAA tournament
and what games they count towards your NCAA tournament bid,
and at the end of the day, that is what
drives all of us. So I hopefully will take a
stand in there and clean this up for everybody, for everybody,
because right now everybody is chasing their tails, and I
think it's a place where could take a stand.
Speaker 5: I hope we will.
Speaker 12: This game matters too much. The NCAA tournament is too extraordinary.
Speaker 2: Deal.
Speaker 12: These high school players and these young players and all
these players matter too much. College basketball matters too much.
It's just time to bring just take a stand, bring
a little bit of sand in this deal, say it publicly,
and let's move forward.
Speaker 3: He's saying, nc DOUBLEA draw line. Do not let these
players that should be ineligible allow these teams who are allowing.
Speaker 2: Them to be eligible play in the nc DOUBLEA tournament.
Speaker 3: And that would be a very aggressive strategic stand from
the nc DOUBLEA. Now they may get sou they may
lose in court here, but they do decide who's in
the NCUAA tournament. Do you think the NCUBA draws that
line or do they just let everyone play their game
in a legal way even though it encroaches possibly on
certain bylaws that they have in place.
Speaker 7: I don't know, that's a good question. I mean, Mark
Pope really sparked my brain right here, because I hadn't
heard this.
Speaker 6: Ben team sent it.
Speaker 7: I know you sent it last, but I can get
a chance to look at it and listening to it,
I'm like, that's a good point that they do determine
what teams go to the NCAA tournament. They do determined wins.
Do I think they would hold an entire team back. No,
because I feel like that's other lawsuits. I don't think
one game or a few games would do that. But
I definitely do believe that they could void.
Speaker 6: And not validate.
Speaker 7: I mean, they remember BYU's fair share, the Holy Child's
had to sit out what it was, eight or nine
games been for, you know, taking things, going to draft,
all the other stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, got out of that.
Speaker 7: It's not the case now, but I think the same
thing could happen. I could see them taking away you know,
five to ten games from a team, and that drops you, man,
like that takes away your win Like honestly, maybe it
is keep you out of NCAA terment, not that I
think about it. If you had five if you played
ten games in five of them aquad one and you
want all five of those and avoid those, that drops you,
That drops your net ranking. Man, that drops you from
a three seed to potentially a seven seats. So yeah,
it could be catastrophic. So Mark Pope brings up a
very valid point with this. I think everyone is in
a cord something has to be done. But the thing
one at the end, and it's not the Pokemark Pope.
This is just in general general question, do they really
care about the young players? Because outside Ben, of the
aj De Bonsas, outside of the Darren Peterson's, the cam
Boozers and maybe the nativements a few other players, you know,
the co opetes, who do they really care about the
young players? Because what I'm seeing now is if you're
not an impact player right away, and you're a young
player that has a good game, you're not a bad
basketball player, You're.
Speaker 6: Gonna have to go elsewhere to do it.
Speaker 7: Like look at the kjpair out Like, I mean, this
is no shot, but I want your perspective, Ben, did
people really care about kJ until he went better on himself?
Speaker 6: When Juko and.
Speaker 7: Now was a four star transroportal guy. So that's why
I don't know necessarily if they do. Unless you add value.
It's transactional and now that's what the athletic game is.
But that's where I get pushed back on that, like,
I don't know if you really care about these young players.
I think teams just care about their opportunity and what
they build. Because if we did I think you would
see less players not getting scholarships. Now, Remember, we've talked
to the will Stones, we talked to I Forgot the
guy the runs of Polynesian Camp in the summer. We've
talked to a bunch of guys. You don't see that
many players. Players are going into the portal and coaches
are going after portal guys because they don't want to develop.
They don't want young guys. Unless you're an impact guy
like AJ. It just is not going to get done.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: One of the reasons why he went on record and
discuss this little ideation was because Charles Mediaco was granted
two days ago a restraining order and he's immediately eligible
to participate for the Alabama basketball team. Bediako is a
professional player for the MotorCity Cruise of the NBA G League.
So that's what happened two days ago. And then today,
about four hours ago, Alabama head coach Nate Oates says,
Charles Bediako will play tomorrow versus Tennessee.
Speaker 2: We're planning to play him. He's eligible to play.
Speaker 3: We're going to follow the court order since the NCAA
has already allowed professionals to play. You tell me, how
I'm supposed to not support Charles and the team when
he's been told he's able to play. So this is happening, guys,
a strategic move by natoates in order to win.
Speaker 2: He's doing everything he can to win.
Speaker 3: Natos questions critics as well that are openly and ardently
fighting against him for this. Remember Byu went up, went
out and picked up Abdullah Akmit b doo, and we're like, oh, wow, okay,
this is happening.
Speaker 2: This is really happening.
Speaker 3: If your league players are eligible to play college basketball,
then why not G league players? If you're not in
the NBA, I guess you're eligible play. But there's even
some legality here that would maybe even open up door,
open up the door to have guys that are retiring
from the NBA say, you know what, I really didn't
maximize my eligibility in college.
Speaker 2: I may have a few years left. Let's go play ball.
Speaker 3: Lebron never took his talents to the NBA. I pick
up Carmelo Anthony right now, Carmelo is probably still a
bucket and he went straight to the league for high school.
But Alabama head coach Natos digging his heels in right now. Okay,
since the NCBLEA has already allowed professionals will play, you
tell me how I'm supposed to not support Charles and
the team when he's been told he's able to play. Later,
Oates confirmed Alabama's intention moving forward to Bettiaca will be
on the floor.
Speaker 2: We are planning on playing him.
Speaker 3: The comments come amid maybe some growing scrutiny surrounding a
ruling by the Tuscaloosa County Circuit Judge Jim Roberts, who,
by the way, is an Alabama donor I've been called
who earlier this week issued a ten day temporary restraining
order against the nc DOUBLEA, granting Bettiaco immediate eligibility. The
ruling allows the former NBA G League player suite to
suit up for the Crimson Tide as soon as Saturday's
matchup against the Ennessee Volunteers. Betiaco, who went undrafted in
the twenty twenty three NBA draftsman, part parts of three
seasons in the G League and most recently appeared for
the MotorCity Crew. On January seventeenth, after enrolling at Alabama
for the spring semester to complete his degree, he filed
suit against the NCAA challenging its eligibility rules for former
professional players. Remember I mean he was playing at Alabama
prior to going to a good prior to going to
the professional route. The cases draw national attention. Obviously, Front
Office Sports has been talking about it. Mary Turner Roberts
are Judge Roberts and his wife, Mary Turner Roberts are
active donors to the Crimson Tide Foundation, with lifetime contributions
between one hundred thousand and two hundred and forty nine
thousand dollars Alabama. The NCUBLEA did not immediately respond to
requests for comments. In addition, layers of complexity are are
are surrounding this. Mary Turner Robins is also part of
the defense team representing Darius Miles, Betioco's former teammate, who
was awaiting trial on capital murder charges related to the
twenty twenty three shooting. That case is currently delayed after
Myles defense Steve Ecques Judge Roberts of bias and sought
his recruisal refusal. So, anyway, lots of things to take
in here, all name of winning.
Speaker 2: On the heart of what Ronnie your thoughts You're comment
to your follow up?
Speaker 7: Look, I mean, all I got to say is this
being I'm not gonna agree or disagree with natoaks or
they don't have any skin in the game, and I
really don't have comments about it. He's got to do
what's best for his team. Just don't want to see
by you playing again.
Speaker 6: That's it. I'll just leave it at that. Don't be
what he.
Speaker 7: Doesn't want to see Alabama, So I'll leave it at that.
But speaking of your point of euro League players, we
played this soundclip. I did some capitol j producing because
we've had some technical difficulties, but this will get you
back into it.
Speaker 6: This was Kevin young Ben.
Speaker 7: Remember at Big Toel Basketball media days last year, We're
gonna play the sound clip about the year League and
the G League players to tune in.
Speaker 10: That makes tons of sense to me because it's the
exact same thing as the European players. I don't think that, like,
it's literally the exact same thing.
Speaker 4: YEA.
Speaker 10: Like, Now, look, if you're an NBA guy that's on
an NBA contract, I mean, the G League is no
different than the EuroLeague. It's not the NBA. It's right,
it's just not. Now if you're on a two way contract,
and you're an NBA contract, you're an NBA player. If
you're not, what's the difference of a guy coming from
all these European clubs.
Speaker 6: So it's the same thing.
Speaker 11: So I'm I'm a.
Speaker 10: Lot of things that make sense don't actually happen for me.
Speaker 6: This actually does make sense.
Speaker 10: Now if you want to strip away both sets of it, okay, great,
but that's kind of.
Speaker 2: How I see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how I see it. Like the comment, so well, uh,
you know, take it for what it's worth.
Speaker 2: That's what kate.
Speaker 3: Why should he's gonna go out and get a G
League player? How long is that du Lachman being in
the G League?
Speaker 6: It's a good question. Let me look, I thought it
was only a two or three seasons. I could be
wrong about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, because he got I think he got three
years of eligsbild be back. So anyways, up for debate, Guys,
I don't think I don't think we want Bama or
do we want Bama?
Speaker 2: Ronnie, you say we don't want Bama.
Speaker 3: I want to rematch rematch Obama.
Speaker 2: I want that rematch.
Speaker 6: You want you want to smoke again, Let's go.
Speaker 7: I'll do the play two years been yet twenty twenty three,
twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Ye, I thought it was two Yeah, there you go,
all right, guys, But he had never got to college.
Speaker 6: You didn't go to college, never went to college.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was. He was overseas and then went to
the G League? Right, isn't that what he did?
Speaker 6: Yeah? And I and again I think it's that.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't think he signed the NBA two way contract either.
That's my big thing, Ben, I'm in agreeens with this.
If you don't sign a two way contract, and I
don't think I do. LA did, if you just signed
with the G league, because there are plenty of players
that would go to the G league, you know, and
try to work it out. I think that is okay.
But not going to college, but the two ways where
the problem comes in. But if not, I know people
don't like it. But until the NCAA force is the rules,
you're not breaking really any rules.
Speaker 2: It is what it is.
Speaker 3: Maybe they'll go the route of, uh, you know Mark
Pope's recommendation. Uh, possibly they're disqualifying teams that are playing
players that they deem as ineligible. Let's go to break
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