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Speaker 1: Who's the kid here? Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 3: All right, let's get it started here on another beautiful afternoon,
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Speaker 3: seven ninety Louisville dot com. Obviously Thursdays are are thirsty
Speaker 3: thursdays for me. I mean, this weather be a bad
Speaker 3: day to be a cold beer. I tell you that
Speaker 3: right now. Might as well say your prayer, say your
Speaker 3: goodbyes to everybody you love, because it's beer drinking weather
Speaker 3: out there, really has been the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: It was gloomy earlier, and I think it was. I
Speaker 3: think that's what it's supposed to be. But in downtown Louisville,
Speaker 3: as I speak right now again, it could change, and
Speaker 3: it may have already changed since I walked in about
Speaker 3: twenty minutes ago. But it is nice, nice outside. So
Speaker 3: this is your Friday right for the show, Austin, You're
Speaker 3: out tomorrow?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, sure I am.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you. Are you being taken away from me?
Speaker 4: Or are you off?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, I'm being taken away. Okay, I'm going to uh
Speaker 2: so a Tony D. White happy hour, but just no Tony.
Speaker 5: Tony and DW.
Speaker 3: White happy hour where there's no live broadcast. Yes, oh man,
Speaker 3: I mean things could get crazy. Yeah, I mean, but.
Speaker 4: Dare I ask what you're needed for there? Dare I?
Speaker 4: Dare I ask?
Speaker 3: And I don't mean, I mean any situation where you're
Speaker 3: a part of it, that situation becomes better. So like
Speaker 3: I know that that that goes without saying, but I'm
Speaker 3: just asking, like that's what you get taken away from
Speaker 3: just because you know, I mean, I'm putting.
Speaker 4: M in a bad spot.
Speaker 5: It's not his call, No, it's trust me.
Speaker 4: Look, look, I put you in a bad spot. I
Speaker 4: didn't mean.
Speaker 2: I didn't mean to put it out there like that. No,
Speaker 2: we had a we actually have a getting some help. Actually,
Speaker 2: I'm finally they hired a a part timer to come
Speaker 2: help out. Yes, round of look at a scale, Yeah,
Speaker 2: shout outs to the team. So as we grow basically
Speaker 2: like a shadowing thing and we're just kind of treating
Speaker 2: it as like okay, like a like an actual remote type.
Speaker 3: Of well that actually makes a lot of sense then,
Speaker 3: because you're going to basically be showing somebody the ropes
Speaker 3: of how it's done. And they've got big shoes to fill,
Speaker 3: but they'll they'll try their best at.
Speaker 4: Least I hope so.
Speaker 3: But like, here's here's something that I just thought of that.
Speaker 3: I mean, it doesn't really take a lot to like
Speaker 3: think of this, But how about like realizing and utilizing
Speaker 3: I should say that, you know, Dwight is having a
Speaker 3: meet and greet. Don't know the timing of it, but
Speaker 3: it's not a lot broadcast. It's just to hang out.
Speaker 3: Why not bring coffee and company there and have a
Speaker 3: big pow wow with you know.
Speaker 5: To where it's actually a great idea?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't have many of them, but sometimes they just
Speaker 3: appear in my brain to be Do you think there's
Speaker 3: people who know this show is here?
Speaker 5: Oh surely, I hope.
Speaker 3: So surely what can we do to tell them, like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're here, we we'd like to have fun.
Speaker 2: Too, And they.
Speaker 3: Just take you away from me as if like I
Speaker 3: don't want to go have fun. And I know there's
Speaker 3: a lot that goes into it as far as the
Speaker 3: client selling and all that, but I mean I'm just
Speaker 3: an added bonus. I mean, you already you've got Dwight,
Speaker 3: that's all you need, and then you throw me in there.
Speaker 3: I'm just a complimentary peace you know.
Speaker 2: Rick at that point, possibly, are you kidding me? Let's
Speaker 2: make that happen.
Speaker 3: I will, you know, out of my control, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: But we'll miss you tomorrow. You'll be having fun, yeah,
Speaker 3: and I'll be you know, I'll be here a good time.
Speaker 5: And next Friday I'm out too.
Speaker 2: The sisters graduating high school.
Speaker 4: Oh, shout out to the sisters.
Speaker 5: Shout out Emily, Emily, shout out Emily.
Speaker 4: You have a sister, Emily?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Did you know that I have a sister Emily? Well,
Speaker 3: now that I think of it, yes, yeah, we both
Speaker 3: have Emily's sister.
Speaker 5: Yes, look at that.
Speaker 3: So so graduating high school that has got to be
Speaker 3: this is this is, I guess more so. I could
Speaker 3: be wrong, but I think tomorrow was supposed to be
Speaker 3: the last day of school in Bullet County. But obviously
Speaker 3: they had a lot of snow days that kind of stuff,
Speaker 3: so I think they're they're extended out a little bit.
Speaker 3: But graduation season is upon us. And did you, like,
Speaker 3: was graduation like a big deal when?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 3: Not to you individually, I just mean, like, you know,
Speaker 3: we had we had graduation parties after we graduated high school,
Speaker 3: like my friends did.
Speaker 4: But like after Like when I graduated, I.
Speaker 3: Mean I wore like what I would wear to school
Speaker 3: on the day of like a basketball game, like a
Speaker 3: khakis and a shirt and tie kind of thing. But like,
Speaker 3: I feel like graduation each year has become a bigger
Speaker 3: celebration for folks, which I think is justified.
Speaker 2: They're going in like arenas now or like like freedom Hall.
Speaker 2: Mine was just done on the football field.
Speaker 4: Well see that, Like I would prefer it that way.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that was a great time.
Speaker 3: So I believe my class, Yeah, because I graduated high
Speaker 3: school class of two thousand and six at North Bullet
Speaker 3: High School, and we graduated in our we graduate waiting
Speaker 3: in our gym and walked across the stage, and that's
Speaker 3: just all that that they That's the way it had
Speaker 3: always been to my knowledge, ever since the school opened
Speaker 3: many many years ago, when my parents started going there.
Speaker 3: And then the next year my wife, she's a graduate
Speaker 3: of two thousand and seven class, and they had their graduation.
Speaker 3: I believe it broad been arena, so they you know,
Speaker 3: clearly you need more space that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 3: I kind of, you know, if given the choice, maybe
Speaker 3: this is just me thinking about the way it was
Speaker 3: done back in my day, but like I would rather
Speaker 3: graduate at my high school and not at you know.
Speaker 3: I mean again, maybe there's a cool element to you know,
Speaker 3: walking across the stage. But when I went to her graduation,
Speaker 3: I mean, there were a lot of people there, but
Speaker 3: like nowhere, I mean, it was really I can't say
Speaker 3: it was an empty arena because it wasn't empty, but
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like it would if there
Speaker 3: was an event there that took place in the area
Speaker 3: where in fact the students are seated and they've got
Speaker 3: this little stage set up in front with the podium,
Speaker 3: I mean, it would be viewed as like a any
Speaker 3: turnout for that.
Speaker 4: So I don't know, I feel like a.
Speaker 5: Graduation was a big for me.
Speaker 4: It's got to be a cost, right, Like if.
Speaker 3: You're using the fairgrounds of facilities to have a graduation,
Speaker 3: like you got to pay them, and I feel like
Speaker 3: you should just do it at your school. But I
Speaker 3: guess maybe they can't accommodate given the fact that you
Speaker 3: know a lot of people show up to graduation. They
Speaker 3: didn't did did did you have any family members bring
Speaker 3: out like the airhorn or yell when you graduated when
Speaker 3: you walk?
Speaker 2: They totally yelled. I had uh that few people that
Speaker 2: that flew in from out of town. My grandma, my
Speaker 2: grandpa came in from out of town. So yeah, they
Speaker 2: did the uh. They did the yell and also hit
Speaker 2: I had. I felt like I had to do something funny,
Speaker 2: silly on storage, so I did the I hit the Bernie.
Speaker 4: Dance did you hit the Bernie?
Speaker 2: I hit the Bernie. We can hit Bernie on stage?
Speaker 2: Nice hit the Bernie like that.
Speaker 3: I have no I have no memorable like moment within
Speaker 3: my graduation other than just you know the fact that
Speaker 3: I that I graduated.
Speaker 2: I was always like the goofy kid. I always liked
Speaker 2: to be like the class clown. So I knew I
Speaker 2: had to to go out doing something silly.
Speaker 4: Aren't they powerless?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 3: When they tell you, like, please hold your applause until
Speaker 3: after everyone, please do not sneak in you know an
Speaker 3: air is that what it's called an airhorn?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but like what you like?
Speaker 3: What are what are you gonna do if somebody does
Speaker 3: in fact defy you and start screaming and hollering And
Speaker 3: trust me, I graduated school in Bullet County, so there
Speaker 3: were a lot of cow bells being wrong a lot
Speaker 3: of a lot of rooms, a lot of redneck energy,
Speaker 3: a lot of hillbilly energy, uh you know, here and
Speaker 3: there throughout the entire the entire thing. Not to say that,
Speaker 3: like you know, that was everyone who graduated, and not
Speaker 3: to say that there's anything wrong with that if you
Speaker 3: do identify as a redneck or hillbilly, but uh yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I just remember going to my sister's graduation,
Speaker 3: she graduated the year prior, and I remember thinking like yeah,
Speaker 3: as a sixteen year old. Then at that time, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you think these people are gonna listen to you, Principal
Speaker 3: or counselor whoever it is like saying, could you please,
Speaker 3: we do ask that you hold all of your reaction
Speaker 3: and applause until we do a final send off for
Speaker 3: the class of you know. And I guess the reason
Speaker 3: they would do that is because if people get to
Speaker 3: carry it on a little bit, you know, really, I
Speaker 3: wouldn't say for a long amount of time, but they
Speaker 3: go pretty quick like you're you're announcing Austin Montgomery and
Speaker 3: then we're going to Nick Coffee, and there's not a
Speaker 3: whole lot of time in between to where you could
Speaker 3: get to hooton and holler and could really interrupt the
Speaker 3: the you know, the the people be able to hear
Speaker 3: the next name that's up on the list. So I
Speaker 3: guess there's a reason for it. But I mean, let
Speaker 3: let I mean it's.
Speaker 4: A big deal. I mean graduate high school. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a big deal and and you know, a huge
Speaker 4: day for me.
Speaker 3: I don't think I had the maturity and life experience, certainly,
Speaker 3: I didn't have that at the time to realize, like
Speaker 3: how proud my parents probably were not that, like, you know,
Speaker 3: that was the that's the end goal. He got out
Speaker 3: of high school. Now God bless him. Let's send him
Speaker 3: on his way, and he's responsible for himself. But you like,
Speaker 3: thinking about my my kids or really you know, my
Speaker 3: nephews when they graduate, like that'll be a big day.
Speaker 4: So let people get rowdy if they want.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying exactly, dude.
Speaker 2: I hated hated school, just like every like I wanted
Speaker 2: to be completely done with it.
Speaker 5: I had no desire to go to college immediately.
Speaker 2: I was just ready to be done, waking up early
Speaker 2: and just going your free spirit.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you wanted to do your own thing. You wanted
Speaker 4: to fly I want the Japs got to let you fly.
Speaker 2: I went the JCTC when I got here, and then
Speaker 2: like it really had no business doing downtown or southwest
Speaker 2: downtown and parking under parking right next to that taco
Speaker 2: bell under the interstate was pretty sketchy. I've seen, oh,
Speaker 2: I know exactly where you're talking about, seeing people freak
Speaker 2: out and pass out on salts over there in the morning.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of saults on salts. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: So it was probably not the best decision. UPS was
Speaker 2: paying for it, so I'm like, might as well just
Speaker 2: give it a shot. But I really had no clue
Speaker 2: what I wanted to do. And then at one point
Speaker 2: they told me like I had to pay one hundred
Speaker 2: dollars for like a homework password or something like that.
Speaker 2: And then as part of this art class I went
Speaker 2: to after a couple of semesters said I had to
Speaker 2: go to a different museum and take a picture of
Speaker 2: a painting and like write an essay of it every month.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, you know what, I'm just really only
Speaker 2: here to tell chicks that I'm going to college. Yeah,
Speaker 2: at least you're honest with yourself, you know. And I'm
Speaker 2: like this probably is the best for.
Speaker 3: Me, and I'll tell you what the And I know
Speaker 3: I've talked about this before, but in two thousand, really
Speaker 3: just my high school years. So I got into high
Speaker 3: school around two, I guess two thousand and two thousand
Speaker 3: and three, four, five, six, Yeah, those were the years
Speaker 3: I was in high school. And maybe it's just the
Speaker 3: way I remember it, but I kind of don't think
Speaker 3: it is. I think it's there's clearly been a big shift,
Speaker 3: and it's it's and it's for good. But whenever, And
Speaker 3: I'm sure it was different for you because quite literally
Speaker 3: where you went to school in Arizona, it's the other
Speaker 3: side of the country. I'm sure cultural, it's just a
Speaker 3: different world. But you're and you're also so significantly younger
Speaker 3: than me, especially you know, well as we get older,
Speaker 3: it won't seem that way. But like when I graduate
Speaker 3: high school in two thousand and six, held were you, uh?
Speaker 2: I think I was just maybe turning like fifteen, No,
Speaker 2: I in sixth grade. I was enter in sixth grade.
Speaker 2: I'm about to be thirty two years old.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm about to be thirty seven.
Speaker 3: So you were you were probably going to the sixth
Speaker 3: or seventh grade when I graduated.
Speaker 4: So you know, when you.
Speaker 3: Think about that era of your life, like that is
Speaker 3: a big difference. Right when you were that age and
Speaker 3: I was seventeen eighteen, visually it would have looked like
Speaker 3: you were a young child and I was, you know,
Speaker 3: I guess team about to be, you know, legally an adult.
Speaker 3: So anyways, when I was in school, it wasn't ever
Speaker 3: like we weren't tortured by it, but there was just
Speaker 3: this this energy constant throughout that if you did not
Speaker 3: have a full plan to go to college, then like
Speaker 3: life was gonna like you're you were like not to
Speaker 3: say they would claim that you're a loser, but like
Speaker 3: it was just in your brain that the only way
Speaker 3: and the only scenario you could have any success in
Speaker 3: life is if in fact you go to college, and
Speaker 3: if not, it's going to be really tough for you.
Speaker 3: And you know, I believe that a lot of people did,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, there's nothing wrong with encouraging folks
Speaker 3: to to to seek higher education and and and you know,
Speaker 3: I think a lot of times when it comes to college,
Speaker 3: especially now that I'm older, college the experience is huge,
Speaker 3: but not necessarily all because of what you learn as
Speaker 3: far as the textbooks and the classes, it's just life experience,
Speaker 3: and you know, there's a lot that comes with it.
Speaker 3: So now it doesn't it doesn't appear at all to
Speaker 3: be that way. Like obviously they're going to encourage and
Speaker 3: help kids get to a college they want to go
Speaker 3: to that makes the most sense for them. But like
Speaker 3: now there are kids who have really good grades that
Speaker 3: have made you know, have said for And the reason
Speaker 3: I say this because I have a lot of friends
Speaker 3: that still work in education, and some of them started
Speaker 3: being teachers and they're still doing that, and then a
Speaker 3: lot of them have have moved to the administration side
Speaker 3: of things. I mean, I have a close friend of
Speaker 3: mine who's a principal, and my one of my closest
Speaker 3: friends is the athletic director. And I've had other friends
Speaker 3: that were in the education and then understandably so they
Speaker 3: decided to do something different, which I get it. Teachers
Speaker 3: are not taking care of the way they should be
Speaker 3: and it's a thankless job. And I'm worried that in
Speaker 3: ten years, like it's gonna be really really hard to
Speaker 3: find teachers, to be honest with you, But anyway, is
Speaker 3: what I'm getting at is nowadays, there are kids who
Speaker 3: have really good grades that would be fully able to
Speaker 3: go to college and probably do well, but they don't
Speaker 3: want to do that.
Speaker 4: They want to get into a trade.
Speaker 3: They want to you know, take a you know, take
Speaker 3: an entry Yeah, take an entry level job. And probably
Speaker 3: a bigger factor than I even think about until right now.
Speaker 3: Is it just popped up in my brain. They probably
Speaker 3: even at that age. No, I don't want to go
Speaker 3: and do an insane amount of debt just to go
Speaker 3: to school not knowing what I want to do, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. So I'm glad that that's the
Speaker 3: case now because you know, I know many of friends peers,
Speaker 3: mostly people that are a little bit younger than me,
Speaker 3: that they didn't go to college right out of high school.
Speaker 3: They got into a trade as like an apprentice, and
Speaker 3: you know, they're doing really well for themselves. They actually
Speaker 3: do end up getting schooling through their union and all that.
Speaker 3: And I'm just, I mean it just I was never
Speaker 3: a good student at all ever, and it was in
Speaker 3: school in any way as far as like there's one
Speaker 3: I was. I was decent when it comes to like
Speaker 3: English and and writing and things like that, and I
Speaker 3: was actually kind of decent in like art, which you know,
Speaker 3: that wasn't ever something I knew was I thought was
Speaker 3: going to be exact same, but like that was sort
Speaker 3: of something that didn't didn't really become really overwhelmingly difficult.
Speaker 3: But a lot of things when it comes to school,
Speaker 3: like I was very insecure and overwhelming because school was
Speaker 3: not easy to me really in any way, and it
Speaker 3: was a lot it was to a lot of my friends.
Speaker 3: So you know, I just remember always thinking, like, you know,
Speaker 3: you got to go to college. You gotta go to college,
Speaker 3: gotta go to college. And I mean I always felt
Speaker 3: less than because like I knew that if I did
Speaker 3: go to college, it's gonna be a lot harder for
Speaker 3: me than it was most and you know it was
Speaker 3: at times, But I don't know, I'm happy that now
Speaker 3: we look, you can graduate high school and then in
Speaker 3: five years already have your you know, you've already kind
Speaker 3: of maybe broken into whatever career you're going to get into.
Speaker 3: And the just used to be this this stigma that
Speaker 3: if you weren't pursuing college right after high school, well your.
Speaker 4: Life is doomed.
Speaker 3: And that's clearly not the case, and really it never was,
Speaker 3: but now, I mean, look the people out out that
Speaker 3: are out there right now. I'm sure their degree has
Speaker 3: helped them in certain ways. Like both my wife and
Speaker 3: my sister, they both they both graduated, but don't use
Speaker 3: their degree for any for what they do, and they're
Speaker 3: very successful in what they do and have great careers.
Speaker 3: And I don't think they would maybe have the position
Speaker 3: they have if they didn't obtain a degree. But it
Speaker 3: wasn't like they went to school to learn how to
Speaker 3: do what they're doing now, So there's value in it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I give anybody credit who graduated.
Speaker 4: With a four year degree. I did not.
Speaker 3: And even if you don't use it at all, even
Speaker 3: if you did it just to say that you did
Speaker 3: it and you wanted to challenge yourself, good for you,
Speaker 3: because you know, I know that would be really hard
Speaker 3: for me and it was. So Again, the reason I'm
Speaker 3: bringing this up is because you mentioned your sister graduate
Speaker 3: in high school, and it kind of just used to
Speaker 3: be well, okay, you know, that's the bare minimum, but no,
Speaker 3: like it should be something that is celebrated and it's
Speaker 3: really a big step in your life because when you
Speaker 3: are no longer in high school, in the public school system,
Speaker 3: Catholic school system, private school system, whatever it may be.
Speaker 3: I mean, like you're out there. You may still live
Speaker 3: with mom, you may still have you know, them paying
Speaker 3: for certain stuff. But like clock's ticking on that, did
Speaker 3: you have.
Speaker 2: Any friends that you were like maybe surrounded by or
Speaker 2: close by that like dropped out of high school?
Speaker 3: So I had a close friend who our senior year,
Speaker 3: he ended up kind of just kind of dipping out
Speaker 3: a little bit, kind of stopped coming.
Speaker 4: To school a lot.
Speaker 3: And he was older, so he'd been held back when
Speaker 3: he was younger, so he was a little bit older
Speaker 3: and he was somebody like me. To be honest, where
Speaker 3: school I don't think was ever necessarily easy for But
Speaker 3: he ended up having to go to summer school that year,
Speaker 3: and that's how he ended up obtaining his degree. It
Speaker 3: was just in summer school. Sweeen't get to graduate with us.
Speaker 3: But but there's an example, and that's not you know,
Speaker 3: that's not I'm sure that was difficult and it would
Speaker 3: be this day and age if that happened to somebody
Speaker 3: to where they just fell short and couldn't walk the line,
Speaker 3: that kind of thing. But at the time, like it
Speaker 3: was like, oh my God, their life's over and that's
Speaker 3: not That's so not the case, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And I just I don't know, a lot of things
Speaker 4: have changed.
Speaker 3: I graduated high school nineteen years ago, and certainly a
Speaker 3: lot in life has changed in a big way. So
Speaker 3: shout out to all the graduates out there, because I
Speaker 3: know the high school graduations will be starting here soon
Speaker 3: if they haven't already. And uh, you know, that's a
Speaker 3: big accomplishment.
Speaker 5: I didn't go to any parties after I graduated.
Speaker 3: What do you mean, like graduation parties are just parties,
Speaker 3: graduation parties at all.
Speaker 5: I don't think I du that was a week.
Speaker 3: That was my whole summer because we all had graduation parties,
Speaker 3: And like that's one I mean, I think I think
Speaker 3: I got more money from my graduation party than I
Speaker 3: got for like any birth there. And you think it
Speaker 3: wasn't like, you know, a crazy substantial amount of money.
Speaker 3: But and that's why, like it's funny. We open up
Speaker 3: the mailbox every day. At least three times. In the
Speaker 3: last two weeks, I've received cards from my cousin's children,
Speaker 3: people that I know in love, but I you know,
Speaker 3: they live across the country.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't really see them often at all. They certainly
Speaker 3: wouldn't expect me to drive across the country to come
Speaker 3: to the graduation party. But they know, Hey, we're sending
Speaker 3: out envelopes and invitations to everybody acknowledging, so maybe you
Speaker 3: put a little check in the mail.
Speaker 4: And look, I get it. I hear you, man.
Speaker 3: I remember starting off, I had had graduation money. And
Speaker 3: then I'm going to sound like a real dummy here,
Speaker 3: not that I already haven't, probably in the first twenty
Speaker 3: minutes or so, but what is it a some kind
Speaker 3: of bond like the savings bonds? Is that still a thing?
Speaker 3: I had savings bonds that were given to me when
Speaker 3: I was young by my mama. Okay, and you know
Speaker 3: over time they I think they become more valuable. But
Speaker 3: I cash those suckers out because I had my own
Speaker 3: bank account. I had graduation money, you know, I had
Speaker 3: a little bit of money from my job at Finish Line.
Speaker 3: And I was like, you know, I remember the top
Speaker 3: of the warld Oh dude, I was like, I might
Speaker 3: as well just buy a house now, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like just this, I mean, I got money now,
Speaker 3: which you know clearly that was the summer. Yea, that
Speaker 3: runs out pretty quickly. And then I never got my
Speaker 3: check from Hollister. What if I showed up to Hollister
Speaker 3: and was like, hey, you know, back in the summer
Speaker 3: of two thousand and.
Speaker 4: Five I worked. I worked a two and a half
Speaker 4: hour shift and then quit. Do you have my check?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Your I mean your employee number.
Speaker 3: Which is funny because there's like ways you can have
Speaker 3: a buddy who I don't know if it's because of
Speaker 3: his job or what it is, but he has the
Speaker 3: ability to like there's funds out there available for people
Speaker 3: that they didn't know that they were that were there.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's from previous jobs or you know,
Speaker 3: like a partial tax return. It wasn't about that, yeah,
Speaker 3: for and it's it's rarely ever like something substantial, but
Speaker 3: there's like a database where you can look at it.
Speaker 3: And my buddy sent me what was I believe, like
Speaker 3: seventy two dollars that apparently like is owed to me
Speaker 3: and it's and it's either my Hollister check that like
Speaker 3: they they put it off the books but nobody's claimed.
Speaker 4: It, or it's it's whatever.
Speaker 3: I got my wallet stolen and they arrested the guy
Speaker 3: and he owed restitution, which would.
Speaker 4: Be more than that. Do you know that story? No,
Speaker 4: it's it's a wild story for a different day. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I've told this story to you, haven't I not about
Speaker 4: your walley getting Like.
Speaker 3: My wallet got stole stolen right after I graduated high school,
Speaker 3: probably a year after, and I left it on the
Speaker 3: counter at a subway. But the subway was in a
Speaker 3: gas station, so I just thought I lost it or whatnot.
Speaker 3: Next day, I remember, you know, like, yeah, I lost
Speaker 3: my wallet, and somebody's like, well, you realize that subway
Speaker 3: is in a gas station. They have cameras, so they
Speaker 3: could probably check and see if you left your wallet there.
Speaker 5: Ok.
Speaker 4: And I was like, all right, I'll give that a shot.
Speaker 4: I guess I have.
Speaker 3: This is not ringing any bells at all to you, Okay.
Speaker 3: So anyways, I end up calling and the manager of
Speaker 3: the the gas station, not the subway, was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll check our cameras for you.
Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, cool.
Speaker 5: Nice.
Speaker 3: So they checked the cameras. I hear nothing for like
Speaker 3: a month. Well then then I get a phone call
Speaker 3: from this detective who's like, yeah, we made an arrest.
Speaker 3: The employee at subway, took your wallet, went outside, through
Speaker 3: everything in the dumpster other than the cash and your wallet.
Speaker 3: It's like sixty bucks, and we you know, we filed
Speaker 3: charges and somebody will be in contact with you about
Speaker 3: restitution because not only are you going to get you
Speaker 3: sixty dollars back, but I had to get a new
Speaker 3: Social Security card.
Speaker 4: I had to get a new ID made.
Speaker 3: Wow, And I'm thinking, okay, well, I'm glad that they
Speaker 3: got it worked out.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: Then like I forgot about that. Years go by, not
Speaker 3: kidding you, at least at least eleven twelve years go by,
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, I get a phone
Speaker 3: call from my stepdad.
Speaker 4: Who this is like one of the rare.
Speaker 3: This is one of those moments to where like I
Speaker 3: knew at this moment, not that I didn't already know.
Speaker 4: But like he's got my back.
Speaker 3: He calls me and I'm at work and he's like, hey,
Speaker 3: a detective just came here.
Speaker 4: Looking for you.
Speaker 3: And I'm like what he was like, Yeah, HELLENPD detective
Speaker 3: just came here asking if this is still your address.
Speaker 3: I told him you haven't lived here in a long
Speaker 3: long time, and asked what it was about, and he
Speaker 3: didn't really tell me. But I didn't tell him anything
Speaker 3: about you what I just told because he basically he
Speaker 3: was calling me like, hey, what happened. I'm I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna snitch on you. Let me know if I could. Like, basically,
Speaker 3: he didn't tell my mom, but he was like, hey, man,
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on. Cobs came looking for you.
Speaker 4: Talk to me.
Speaker 3: Let's figure this out. And I'm like, I have no clue.
Speaker 3: And it's like, well, I got his car and I
Speaker 3: got his number. Do you want to call him? I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: of course, I have no clue what it's about. I
Speaker 3: call him. And the person who stole my wallet, hitting
Speaker 3: it up, racking up all kinds of different charges was
Speaker 3: in prison at the time I got this phone call,
Speaker 3: and he had finally worked enough in prison to pay
Speaker 3: off different restitution that he owed, and part of it
Speaker 3: was me, And it wasn't the same person that you
Speaker 3: know years ago had called me. But like, here we
Speaker 3: are eleven twelve years later, and I forgot all about
Speaker 3: that whole thing even happening. And yet I guess this
Speaker 3: guy's trying to make right and get out of prison
Speaker 3: and one of the things. And here's what's crazy, I
Speaker 3: never got anything. Even after that, I never got They
Speaker 3: were like, yeah, we just wanted to let you know
Speaker 3: that your your restitution check will be on the way.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: The address we had on file, which is great at
Speaker 3: the time that they my legal address at the time
Speaker 3: was my my stepfather and mother's house at the time,
Speaker 3: so that's the only thing they had on file, and uh, you.
Speaker 4: Know, I gave him my new address. I never never
Speaker 4: got anything. So wow.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like now that I'm older, even more so
Speaker 3: than like whenever that phone call happened.
Speaker 4: I mean I was an adult.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, I didn't have kids at the time,
Speaker 3: but like I was married, and uh, I just remember
Speaker 3: thinking at the time like wow, like I would have
Speaker 3: I would have expected and not been bothered at all
Speaker 3: if the first call he made was to my mother
Speaker 3: like hey, somebody came here looking for your son.
Speaker 4: He didn't do that.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, that's a real one right there, Like
Speaker 3: that's my heart. Oh, I mean my it did, but
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, like you didn't. I'm already, as it is,
Speaker 3: scared to death of getting in trouble with the law
Speaker 3: to where like there's no senning, Like I'm the person
Speaker 3: who knows I've never done a drug in my life
Speaker 3: other than you know, a gummy that you can buy legally.
Speaker 4: But I'll go through.
Speaker 3: Security at the airport like, well, I'm sure somebody probably
Speaker 3: planned cocaine on me, and I'm gonna go to jail,
Speaker 3: like I just I'm a weirdo when it comes to
Speaker 3: that kind of paranoia. So anyways, let's get the table
Speaker 3: set for the rest of the show today because we
Speaker 3: got something we got to get to here on the
Speaker 3: other side that I'm gonna just believe that it's gonna
Speaker 3: get worked out, but I really, you know, I'm just
Speaker 3: I guess it's wishful thinking. But to find out that
Speaker 3: Ali Khalifa is ineligible and has been ineligible and filed
Speaker 3: to be eligible and was told that that was denied,
Speaker 3: I mean, again, it doesn't make any sense for him
Speaker 3: to not be given a year of eligibility given his situation,
Speaker 3: which we'll talk about on either side. But the people
Speaker 3: that would have to do that are the ns DOABLEA
Speaker 3: and like they're never reliable, never consistent, and you just
Speaker 3: have no clue what you're gonna get. So we shall see,
Speaker 3: but there's that in a lot more as we take
Speaker 3: you up till six o'clock. So hang out right here
Speaker 3: on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 3: I probably should have done this a little bit earlier
Speaker 3: in the show, even though we are still relatively early
Speaker 3: in our three hour program. But happy birthday to Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 3: He was born fifty years ago today, And I said
Speaker 3: this to Austin, and since saying it maybe four or
Speaker 3: five minutes ago, I've had some real reflection on my
Speaker 3: end because I can't believe Pat Kelsey's fifty years old,
Speaker 3: because like, if you would have told me that he
Speaker 3: turned forties five or forty six today, I totally would
Speaker 3: have believed you.
Speaker 4: It didn't look fifties believable. It's really his birthday.
Speaker 3: But I'm not that far from fifty. I mean I am,
Speaker 3: but I'm not and fifty. I mean nobody out there
Speaker 3: is saying fifties young, right, Like you can be as
Speaker 3: young as you want internally and live your life the
Speaker 3: way you want to, where you often don't think about
Speaker 3: your age, whether it be young or old, because you're
Speaker 3: just you know, in the moment. But happy fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 3: I mean, I got some time. But for reference, yesterday
Speaker 3: was my fourteen year anniversary with my wife, and in
Speaker 3: fourteen years from today, I'll be fifty years old, so
Speaker 3: I guess that's kind of like the time reference there.
Speaker 3: But yeah, happy birthday to Pat Kelsey. He's in Cincinnati
Speaker 3: and he got to throw out a first pitch for
Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Reads today, So pretty good birthday for him
Speaker 3: back in his hometown at Cincinnati. I know, last night
Speaker 3: was a big special night as they were finally given
Speaker 3: the green light to I guess, honor and do what
Speaker 3: they have wanted to do for a long time for
Speaker 3: Pete Rose. And overall that's a good like I'm glad
Speaker 3: that they're able to do that. But I mean the
Speaker 3: obvious thing is like, why couldn't that have been done,
Speaker 3: you know, right before he died.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know, just is.
Speaker 3: It really honoring somebody when they're when you do it,
Speaker 3: when you let it be done when they're when they're
Speaker 3: not alive to experience it, Like, I don't know, just
Speaker 3: in a way, it's almost like cruel. I mean again,
Speaker 3: part of me is like, well, at least it's something
Speaker 3: and like his family and Reds fans, can you know now,
Speaker 3: I guess have something from that. But there's also the
Speaker 3: other side that's like doing it after he died is crazy.
Speaker 3: So anyways, Happy birthday to to Pat Kelsey fifty years old.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure this has probably been an ongoing thing
Speaker 3: that they were aware of, but I really don't know.
Speaker 3: I did talk to somebody earlier today that gave me
Speaker 3: some good info on the Ali Khalifa situation, and I
Speaker 3: guess I'll just start there as far as what's going on.
Speaker 3: He has he's not eligible right now. That's the best
Speaker 3: way to describe it, because it could change. It's not
Speaker 3: as if you know, we now know for sure he'll
Speaker 3: never play for Louisville, but as of right now, he
Speaker 3: is not eligible. And UFL put out a statement earlier today.
Speaker 3: There have been some rumblings of this. In fact, sometimes
Speaker 3: you get some things on the text line that.
Speaker 4: You don't really like.
Speaker 3: They come out of nowhere, and I don't really entertain
Speaker 3: it because one would be foolish, irresponsible for me to
Speaker 3: just read anything that comes in as if like any
Speaker 3: rumor has any validity. To it, But there was somebody
Speaker 3: right after. I remember at Derby. I talked about seeing
Speaker 3: Ali Khalif at Derby and how much he'd lost weight,
Speaker 3: how Grady looked, and somebody had sent in a text
Speaker 3: first time text on the text line that said that
Speaker 3: they're hearing he's not eligible. And I'm thinking that makes
Speaker 3: no sense at all because he's I mean, how could
Speaker 3: he not be eligible. He hasn't even played four years
Speaker 3: of college basketball. What would make him not eligible? So
Speaker 3: I just thought there was nothing to it. But turns
Speaker 3: out they were right. So the statement that came from
Speaker 3: u of L says this University of louisvillmen's basketball student
Speaker 3: athlete Ali Khalifa, his request for an extension of his
Speaker 3: five year clock that would allow him to utilize his
Speaker 3: fourth and final season of eligibility was denied by the NCAA.
Speaker 3: The University of Louisville is appealing that decision and believes
Speaker 3: that Ali has a strong case that warrants an additional year.
Speaker 3: After earning his bachelor's degree, Ali continues. Ali continues to
Speaker 3: work towards a master's degree at the university while preparing
Speaker 3: for the twenty twenty five to twenty six basketball season.
Speaker 3: So they are appealing this. This is the standard appeals process.
Speaker 3: He has hired an attorney to fight this, but I
Speaker 3: mean I was almost in disbelief whenever this became news
Speaker 3: today because the NCAA has seemingly had no control over
Speaker 3: anybody's eligibility for well over a year now, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: it's been pretty routine.
Speaker 4: Hire a lawyer, fight the NCUAA.
Speaker 3: They're likely going to cave because they have no real
Speaker 3: legal ability to do a lot of the things they've
Speaker 3: done since their existence. I mean, that's why college athletics
Speaker 3: is in the current state that it's in. They operated
Speaker 3: with no adjustment to society or any you know, realization
Speaker 3: that over time. Yeah, we probably probably probably not a
Speaker 3: good look for us to be a billion dollar business
Speaker 3: from one tournament, the NSTAA tournament. One event, and yet
Speaker 3: like nobody who actually performs in said event gets any
Speaker 3: of the revenue from that. Like that's I mean, that's
Speaker 3: why they that's why in court they were told, yeah,
Speaker 3: what you're doing is illegal, so you can't do that anymore.
Speaker 3: And oh, by the way, there's a billion dollar settlement,
Speaker 3: multiple billions of dollars actually that are going to previous
Speaker 3: student athletes who are now going to be paid because
Speaker 3: there was revenue generated from their work and they got nothing.
Speaker 3: And I don't mean they didn't get an education. But
Speaker 3: like again, the Optics, even if you wanted college athletics
Speaker 3: to stay wholesome and pure with nobody making any money,
Speaker 3: the Optics.
Speaker 4: Would continue to grow.
Speaker 3: Just insane about it being a billion dollar event, and
Speaker 3: yet all the money goes to the inns, Double A
Speaker 3: and the people who you know perform because that's what
Speaker 3: they're doing, right. They don't get any of that revenue.
Speaker 3: So it's still not pay for play, but it's called revshare,
Speaker 3: that's what That's how they're wording it now. So anyways,
Speaker 3: thinks Double A. They have denied his request for an
Speaker 3: extension of his five year clock. And I've known what
Speaker 3: the five year clock was for a long time. You
Speaker 3: get four years to play five, but there are countless
Speaker 3: examples of players that have played more than four and
Speaker 3: they're in their seventh year as a college athlete. I mean,
Speaker 3: this has not been something that has been like this
Speaker 3: four year to play five the clock, as they say,
Speaker 3: the five year clock, This has in no way been
Speaker 3: consistently enforced for a long long time. I mean, there
Speaker 3: are guys, you know, ten fifteen years ago, maybe not
Speaker 3: even that long, that they had a five year clock
Speaker 3: and they had four years of injuries, and you know
Speaker 3: they finally got healthy.
Speaker 4: But what are you gonna do. It's life.
Speaker 3: They're out of el ability that now they got to
Speaker 3: start the new chapter of their life. So I guess
Speaker 3: just the recent situation with the NCAA not really seemingly
Speaker 3: being able to enforce anything, that's what really kind of
Speaker 3: had me in disbelief that like, they're going to claim
Speaker 3: this guy's not eligible because here's what's here's his situation,
Speaker 3: and a lot of people may not know because we've
Speaker 3: never seen him play for Louisie.
Speaker 4: He said up last year.
Speaker 3: But Ali Khalifa enrolled at Charlotte in two thousand and
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. That season, that was the first season
Speaker 3: post well, I say post COVID. That was the year
Speaker 3: we tried to have a we tried to have live
Speaker 3: sports during the pandemic with all the testing and all that.
Speaker 4: It was a mess.
Speaker 3: But that was his first year in college. He red
Speaker 3: shirted that year. It was not a medical red shirt.
Speaker 3: That's what I now have been told us that that
Speaker 3: red shirt reason was not due to an injury. So
Speaker 3: the next year twenty twenty one twenty two, he was
Speaker 3: a freshman. He won Conference USA Freshman of the Year
Speaker 3: when he played at Charlotte. He was at Charlotte for
Speaker 3: two years, so then he Treedransford in the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: three to twenty four season to play at BYU for
Speaker 3: Mark Pope. That was three years of playing basketball to it.
Speaker 3: Charlotte won at BYU. Last year enrolled at Louisville, had
Speaker 3: to have surgery, did not play a single second because
Speaker 3: of the injury. So he's five years and he's played three,
Speaker 3: but he clearly has I mean like it's I guess
Speaker 3: technically the four to play five that is the rule,
Speaker 3: and he's five years in. But there are countless examples
Speaker 3: of players that did not get held to this. Therefore,
Speaker 3: why would he That's the argument, that's the appeal I
Speaker 3: would assume, And it would be really shameful of the
Speaker 3: NCAA to view his entire situation from top to bottom
Speaker 3: and say this guy's not worthy of a fourth year
Speaker 3: to play. He has not played four years. He's not
Speaker 3: hanging out in college as long as he can just
Speaker 3: to you know, avoid starting the next chapter of his life.
Speaker 3: And I'm I'm not knocking anybody who does that.
Speaker 4: It makes sense.
Speaker 3: You're foolish not to stay in college as long as
Speaker 3: you can and make in IL money, because that's I mean,
Speaker 3: it's worth.
Speaker 4: Your while, certainly.
Speaker 3: But he's probably on a student visa, right he's originally
Speaker 3: from is it Egypt, so like he might even be
Speaker 3: able to get an IL like he just this is
Speaker 3: somebody who has not played four years of college athletics
Speaker 3: because of an injury here, so they're going to appeal it,
Speaker 3: and I would assume a quick view of his situation
Speaker 3: will make them realize of all people that we want
Speaker 3: to really stick it to, he's the last one. I mean,
Speaker 3: let me give you an example. And I'm not trying
Speaker 3: in no way am I picking on this guy at all,
Speaker 3: because I love this guy. But this is a former
Speaker 3: Louisville player who is still playing college basketball, and Ali
Speaker 3: Khalifa is told as of right now that he's not
Speaker 3: eligible to play. And I thought about this when I
Speaker 3: was talking to somebody from UFL earlier today and I
Speaker 3: just was thinking about out when he's when he because
Speaker 3: that's a free year, So he did not play in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, but that year didn't count for anybody's
Speaker 3: eligibility or remember, that was a free year. So that
Speaker 3: year that he didn't play, like with with every other
Speaker 3: college athlete, that year didn't matter. It didn't count. So
Speaker 3: why is that being counted against him? On his on
Speaker 3: his clock. That's a free year for everybody.
Speaker 4: Why is that.
Speaker 3: Being Why is that being used against him? So Jj
Speaker 3: Trainor entered college the same year that Ali Khalifa did
Speaker 3: twenty twenty twenty twenty one. JJ Traynor played at Louisville
Speaker 3: that season, it's a freebie. Well, then he has one
Speaker 3: year of Kenny Payne where he's a red shirt. Well
Speaker 3: he's technically a sophomore, but he gets a free year.
Speaker 3: Then his junior season, the second year of KP, he
Speaker 3: played in less than eleven games, so he got a
Speaker 3: medical red shirt because of his injury. So JJ, he
Speaker 3: transfers to DePaul played last year there five points three
Speaker 3: boards a game. Well, JJ's still eligible. He transferred to
Speaker 3: play for Murray State. So JJ actually played the freebie year.
Speaker 3: Ali Khalifa did not, And yet he's ineligible and I'm
Speaker 3: not saying that JJ shouldn't be eligible. I'm just stating that, like,
Speaker 3: make that make sense. JJ's played four years of college
Speaker 3: basketball already, and that's not including the year that he
Speaker 3: played ten games that qualified him for a medical red shirt.
Speaker 4: So I just don't understand.
Speaker 3: Let I don't give you the full rundown here, So
Speaker 3: JJ trainor he played in twenty games, eleven games, thirty
Speaker 3: two games, eight games, thirty two games. He's played in
Speaker 3: one hundred and three games in his college career, and
Speaker 3: he's played legitimately ever, He's played in all five seasons
Speaker 3: he's been in college. One of them, though, he didn't
Speaker 3: play enough games to where he qualified for for a
Speaker 3: medical red shirt. So you know, I mean, that's something
Speaker 3: I just don't quite quite understand, and I don't. And
Speaker 3: the only reason I'm using him as an example because
Speaker 3: he's he was just a random player that I knew,
Speaker 3: like I remembered that year, and it's because I follow
Speaker 3: Louisville and that's the team I, you know, care about
Speaker 3: and could. But I'm sure there's I mean, there are
Speaker 3: countless examples of dudes who have been in college for
Speaker 3: seven eight years. Even I mean, that's an extreme example,
Speaker 3: But like guys can go juco and not get any
Speaker 3: and that doesn't count at all now, But yet he
Speaker 3: gets hurt and it's being so he got hurt one
Speaker 3: year and did not play a single second. That was
Speaker 3: last year, his first year when his clock started is
Speaker 3: a free year that didn't count for an anybody. So
Speaker 3: how like it just it makes no sense at all,
Speaker 3: And I'm hopeful that again a quick look at his
Speaker 3: situation will end up getting him cleared because the installly
Speaker 3: will realize, Yeah, of all people for us to stick
Speaker 3: it to and not give a year, this guy's not
Speaker 3: at all somebody we should do that to. I mean,
Speaker 3: JJ played five seasons to an extent, I mean played
Speaker 3: a bunch of games in three of those five seasons.
Speaker 3: I mean, but again I'm holding I hope that it
Speaker 3: works out. But if he's not healthy, I mean that
Speaker 3: changes a lot for Louisville. I mean, he's a rare
Speaker 3: player as it is, just with his skill set and
Speaker 3: what he does. But this would be a big blow
Speaker 3: if this doesn't get situated. And from what I was
Speaker 3: told earlier today, they have no expectation at all when
Speaker 3: it comes to a timeline, like they may find out
Speaker 3: next week, they may find out next year. Stick around
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Speaker 3: We don't have a whole lot of time to get
Speaker 3: into much here in our last segment of the three
Speaker 3: o'clock hours, so I guess I'll use this time to
Speaker 3: kind of set the table. There's an updated look at
Speaker 3: the estimated money in il wise that college basketball programs
Speaker 3: have spent this offseason. I think there's some numbers that
Speaker 3: will surprise you. But then again, reminder, it's just an estimate.
Speaker 3: There's no real way to know, and there probably never
Speaker 3: will be a way to know for sure. Also, I
Speaker 3: want to talk about the Caleb Williams book that is
Speaker 3: coming out that has to make things awkward for him
Speaker 3: in Chicago. I mean, it was pretty clear that he
Speaker 3: was going to try to use leverage. He didn't have to,
Speaker 3: you know, not go where he was drafted in the NFL.
Speaker 3: But you know, I guess it's understandable he didn't want
Speaker 3: to go to Chicago and the links in which they
Speaker 3: were planning to go as far as doing everything they
Speaker 3: could and not to not have him end up being
Speaker 3: a Chicago Bear is wild. And then also last night
Speaker 3: we got the full and final update of the NFL schedule,
Speaker 3: and I mean, this is a whole new thing that
Speaker 3: I'm actually really you know, I don't want to oversell it,
Speaker 3: like I'm so entertained by it. It's the best thing ever.
Speaker 3: But in the last few years, it's become a real
Speaker 3: thing to where content teams, videographers, graphic designers, just you know,
Speaker 3: folks in the creative space. You know, every NFL, every
Speaker 3: pro franchise has a staff a team of people who
Speaker 3: do that. Very gifted, very talented people, but like they're big.
Speaker 3: One of their biggest days in the NFL is having
Speaker 3: your creative video put together do unvailure schedule. And you know,
Speaker 3: the Colts, they were bullied into, you know, taking theirs down,
Speaker 3: and it was just another example of why the Colts
Speaker 3: are just I mean, it's tough being a Colts fan
Speaker 3: because I'm not offended.
Speaker 4: By what they did.
Speaker 3: The person and that they took a shot at and
Speaker 3: made a joke about isn't offended and it wasn't really.
Speaker 4: Offensive, So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just.
Speaker 3: Of all the schedule releases from each NFL team, it
Speaker 3: had to be my team that, you know, somehow messed
Speaker 3: up that day, a day where it's supposed to be.
Speaker 5: You know, I didn't see what happened. What was it?
Speaker 3: They had like a Minecraft video that showed the release,
Speaker 3: and they unveiled it with each game, each opponent, there
Speaker 3: being some kind of you know, story, and they they did.
Speaker 3: They had some kind of a reference of Tyreek Hill
Speaker 3: being arrested before showing up to the game last year.
Speaker 3: Oh and you know, he's come out and said that
Speaker 3: he thought it was funny. I don't know the exact quote,
Speaker 3: but I mean he's come out and said he didn't
Speaker 3: he wasn't bothered by that because they took it down
Speaker 3: and had an issue official apology. And I don't know
Speaker 3: who was pushing them to do that, but like it
Speaker 3: didn't seem necessary, and you know, you just look foolish,
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 3: Anyways, one thing though, I do want to mention before
Speaker 3: we before we take our break here, when it comes
Speaker 3: to the the current college football scheduling format, not the
Speaker 3: playoff but the conference schedules. The ACC has said that
Speaker 3: they are not. I mean, they're adamant right now it's
Speaker 3: staying at eight games, which I think they need to
Speaker 3: follow suit with what the basketball side did. If you're
Speaker 3: not going to go to nine, require a single non
Speaker 3: conference opponent from a certain league. But with every other
Speaker 3: league going to nine, the SEC sounds like they're getting
Speaker 3: there's more and more push for them to do that.
Speaker 3: I mean, if the SEC goes to nine, even though
Speaker 3: they probably wouldn't be scared, you know, they're not going
Speaker 3: to be signing up to play non conference games against
Speaker 3: power for programs they're going to I mean, if they
Speaker 3: go to nine games in the SEC, a guarantee you
Speaker 3: saink he tells everybody just schedule nothing but the FCS teams.
Speaker 3: I mean, he probably wouldn't do that directly, but like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, I just if you can't find some
Speaker 3: kind of a scheduling requirement within your life league to
Speaker 3: give you a chance to get better value from non
Speaker 3: conference games on your schedule, then go to nine. I mean,
Speaker 3: because let's be real, playing one of your ACC teams
Speaker 3: is at least going to give you a better chance
Speaker 3: to get some value than playing you know, a random
Speaker 3: G five or an FCS. So we got a lot
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