WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.319 The news radio eight forty w h S. 2 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:07.280 Had a boys, John Shannon, it takes a team for 3 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:10.560 it to become what sticks. Coffee and Company Kentucky and 4 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:12.960 his morning news really, but it is Coffee and Company. 5 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:14.800 I'm Nick Coffee, and I've got the company with me, 6 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:17.760 the company men. Shall I say? John Olden's not with 7 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:20.079 us today. He'll be producing a little bit later on. 8 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:23.079 But Scott Fitzgerald alongside. You just heard John Shannon, and 9 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:24.879 we've got one hour in the books and three more 10 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:26.920 and then the weekend starts for us. 11 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:29.800 A right on time, dude, absolutely all right on time. 12 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:31.519 Looking forward to the weekend. You have big plans. 13 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:34.240 I don't have any big plans, which is kind of exciting. 14 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:38.079 My son's got a basketball game tomorrow morning, and I 15 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:40.679 believe we may end up trying to get to that 16 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:43.880 beer fest, which I may need to rely on Scott Fitzgerald, 17 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:46.479 because if anybody can help me at a beer. 18 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:48.240 Fests, it's you. 19 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:51.280 Because I'm somebody that I'm like, you know, usually I'm 20 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:52.799 a bushlight, bud light kind of guy. 21 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:53.280 I've had. 22 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:55.799 I'm not anti crap here by any means, but I've 23 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:58.560 certainly not been educated on what I would eat like 24 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:02.320 I would go to certain breweries that are there and 25 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:04.760 they would describe sort of the type of beers that 26 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:06.120 they have and some of the like I know what 27 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.719 an ipa is, but there's other beers that I would 28 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:10.079 be It would be foreign language to me. 29 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:12.560 I have a fluffer nutter stout vag. 30 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:14.719 Pardon if you called your physician. 31 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:18.560 Ah, No, I gotta in fact well, And I've been 32 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:20.799 staring at it every time I opened the fridge this week. 33 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:22.359 I've been staring at it because I don't I don't 34 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:24.319 drink any beer during a week just because the schedule 35 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:26.640 goes too strong. But when I get home from the 36 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:29.439 City game tomorrow night, I'm looking forward to tapping into 37 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:30.920 that one. I got a couple of different ones that 38 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:33.879 I'm gonna try as well. And that's the beauty of it. Man. 39 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.719 And you know, back in the day, and you know 40 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:38.439 you know this, I think you and I are like 41 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.439 in that respect to when I was in the military 42 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:42.599 living in what was a quase dorm, I was a 43 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:44.319 bud light because you don't have craft beer back to the. 44 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:45.560 Yeah, I was a bud light guy. 45 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:47.000 That world didn't even exist yet. 46 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:48.959 No, And I mean every night I come home and 47 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:49.799 you crush a few. 48 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:51.560 And then when the weekend got here, there were some 49 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:53.400 weekends where I was like, I'm just kind of burnout 50 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:55.599 on beer. And now the nice thing is with the 51 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:58.640 different craft beers and not dialing it up during the 52 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:00.480 week it's a real treatounce Saturdays. 53 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:03.719 I'm telling you this is now the weekends. I mean, 54 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:06.560 weekends are always great, but whenever I now have to 55 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:09.680 be much more mindful about my you know, my day 56 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:13.439 after after five pm, Like you you know, it's just 57 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:15.840 it's not it's not not a good idea to to 58 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:18.879 partake in the craft beers or really any beer just 59 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:20.520 because I got to get up at three o'clock in 60 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.120 the morning. But that has led to there being more 61 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:26.039 joy Like now the weekends mean a little bit more 62 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:28.719 because you know, I'm a little more mindful, a little 63 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:30.439 bit more in routine, which is good for me anyway. 64 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:33.199 But once we get to the weekend, it's, you know, 65 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:37.240 and more than anything, it's not about just the time off. 66 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:40.280 It's it's that today once we wrap up the show 67 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:43.400 and I wrap up my day, and then on on Saturday, 68 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:47.800 I will I will go throughout today and tomorrow knowing 69 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:49.680 that I don't have to get up at three o'clock 70 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:51.719 in the morning the next day, and that's become the 71 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:52.800 payoff of the weekend, right. 72 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:54.479 Yes, yes, I remember. 73 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:56.000 We've been doing this for a long time, but it's. 74 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:56.159 New to me. 75 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:56.960 No, no, no, no. 76 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:00.159 And I'm glad that someone else recognizes it because I 77 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:01.520 never really I thought I was just kind of the 78 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:03.879 only one that felt that. To your point, I mean, 79 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.759 there's a little admittedly there's a little extra pep in 80 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:09.159 your step on Friday, there is typically with all of us. 81 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:10.879 But when you work this kind of shift and you 82 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:13.520 take the grind as hard as you do because you're 83 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:16.240 doing a ton of social media stuff, you're fully invested 84 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:18.599 in this. I mean, and you're not just posting on 85 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:21.199 x or anything like that. I mean, you're you're producing 86 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:24.960 videos on TikTok anywhere else. Plus you're digging deep into stories. 87 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:26.560 Dude. When you can just. 88 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:29.560 Leave your brain at the door and just sit down 89 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:31.280 and relax for three days, it's it's. 90 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:32.039 Cold, no doubt. 91 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:35.639 And I've always felt like saying that Friday's the best 92 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:38.280 day of the week because it's a workday for most people. 93 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:40.479 If you work a normal Monday through Friday. 94 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:40.840 Job. 95 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:44.520 Friday is a workday, and really a lot of things 96 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:48.360 are just about state of mind. But Friday, if you 97 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:51.680 are Monday through Friday nine to five, or just anything 98 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:55.400 Monday through Friday, the reason Friday feels so great is, yes, 99 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:58.159 you did probably spend many of those hours working a job, 100 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:00.680 maybe even a job that you don't like, but you 101 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:03.400 know that the next day and even the next day, 102 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:06.840 you don't have to worry about, you know, being prepared 103 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:08.879 to start you start your work day or start your 104 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:11.680 school day, whatever it may be. So I finally realize that. 105 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:13.400 Then again, maybe I'm not making sense, not to sound 106 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:15.560 like a philosopher here, but the state of mind of 107 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:17.959 a Friday is why it feels like the best day, 108 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.240 because you know the next two days you're free. You 109 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:22.920 can kind of, you know, maybe not do whatever you want, 110 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:24.240 but you know, you just don't have to go to work. 111 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:26.600 And that's why Sundays are good. I don't do much 112 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:28.439 of anything on Sundays anymore, just to get ready for 113 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:30.560 the week, but there's the feeling of Sunday. Well, yeah, 114 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:32.319 I know I know that three o'clock, that three am 115 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:34.319 alarm clock is going to be a real pain in 116 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:35.399 my ass the next day. 117 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:37.879 Well, and I know that you appreciate. 118 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:40.000 And there's some people, in fact, I just posted this 119 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:42.560 up by the next you know, some people live their 120 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:45.360 lives to you know, basically I need to get to 121 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:47.399 Friday to escape the life they live during the week. 122 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:49.480 That should never be the case. Now, I don't think 123 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:52.000 that's what you're talking about here. It's just a chance 124 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:53.879 for you to kind of put things down for a bit. 125 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:57.000 And we all need that, dude, we all need to recharge, 126 00:04:57.399 --> 00:04:59.839 and especially when the weather starts getting nice in the fall. 127 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:02.480 And to your point, you've got football. Now you'll be 128 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:04.319 able to sit back and watch some college football all 129 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:05.600 day Saturday. 130 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:07.920 And for those that love the NFL on Sunday. So yep. 131 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:09.959 And I tell you what, it's not just something that 132 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:12.319 is nice to have, it is needed. 133 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:13.600 You will you will. 134 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:16.399 Suffer if you don't do some self care and just 135 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.759 unwind and disconnect. So just keep that in mind. Not 136 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:21.279 that I'm a therapist by any means, but I can 137 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:23.639 tell you from experience, even if it feels like you 138 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:26.639 shouldn't be doing it, don't don't over don't overdo it. 139 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:27.000 Yep. 140 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.480 It never works out well for anybody. So all right, 141 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:31.639 let's let's get an update on trafficking weather. Bobby Ellis 142 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:33.600 will tell us how the roadways are looking here so far. 143 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:35.560 On a Friday morning, we'll get the latest forecast from 144 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:38.199 Matt Melosovich a WLK. Why and what I want to 145 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:40.160 get to next is the latest on what's going on 146 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:43.959 with Kroger. I feel for him because this may not 147 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:46.519 be as as rare as I think it is, and 148 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:48.680 I'm sure it's actually not, but this has been a 149 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:51.439 storyline in the news in regards to rodent droppings at 150 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:55.240 multiple locations, and even if they're working hard and they've 151 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:58.079 made improvements, it's still been a story for about a 152 00:05:58.079 --> 00:05:59.680 month now, which is not idea when it comes to 153 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:01.360 a popective. So we'll get to that in a lot more. 154 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:05.879 It's Knsuctuta's Morning News. Here's Radio eight forty whas. Terry 155 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:08.480 Miners here for Bowling roofing. We've all seen those recent 156 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:18.360 storms causing extensive damage to roofs. It is six seventeen 157 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:20.560 here at Kentucky and it's Morning News Coffee and Company 158 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:24.959 News Radio eight forty whas. So we'll give you the 159 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:28.480 latest on the situation at Kroger because it is exactly 160 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:33.839 that it's a situation. They have probably more inspections going 161 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:37.240 on than they ever have maybe internally, and of course 162 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:40.279 the those that work for the Louisville Metro Public Health 163 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:44.839 Department that are keep keeping these businesses following certain guidelines 164 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:48.439 and whatnot. So it started last month at some point, 165 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:50.040 I feel like it's been longer than a month, but 166 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:51.600 I don't know the exact date where it became a 167 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:54.600 news story, but it was the Goss Avenue Kroger that 168 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:57.199 was the first that had certain aisles shut down and 169 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:01.000 then the store shut down completely for a very brief 170 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:04.639 amount of time. But right now they did confirm this 171 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:07.120 says of yesterday, the Louisll Metro Public Health Department did 172 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:11.800 confirm that they'll be inspecting the Kroger on Westport Road 173 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.120 following a new complaint that came in yesterday. So this 174 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:18.800 comes after inspections that the Brownsboro Road Kroger revealed live 175 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:23.240 mouse droppings and damaged products due to rodents. Follow up 176 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:26.480 inspections at that location showed some progress, according to the 177 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:29.439 health officials that were there on site, and other locations 178 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:32.800 Guss Avenue, Holiday Manor Lagrange Road. They've all had complaints 179 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.040 in some form or fashion, and it looks as if 180 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:37.720 Gusts Avenue and Holiday Manor have shown real improvement since 181 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:41.120 that happened. That's good for you, Scott Fitzgerald. That's your Kroger, right, Yes, 182 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:45.000 so they're making progress. But Lagrange Road location has shown 183 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:48.720 an increase in mouse droppings results resulting in them still 184 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:52.199 being open, but more aisles are closed. So stores where 185 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:54.879 the droppings were found have been ordered to close those 186 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:59.279 affected aisles for cleaning and sanitation, which is or sanitization, 187 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:03.319 I should say, and that's what's needed. But I just 188 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:08.319 maybe I'm overreacting, and maybe I'm not realizing that I'm 189 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:11.519 in the minority here. But when I hear rodent droppings, 190 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:14.199 I just I'm going to avoid that place. And now 191 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.480 that it's been in multiple locations and you're not seeing 192 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:20.600 this happen at competing stores, it's just a bad look 193 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:22.759 from a PR perspective. Now I have gone to Kroger 194 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:25.680 since then, not those locations actually have gone to pick up. 195 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.399 There's a certain seltzer. My wife likes that that is 196 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:30.279 there and not at the liquor store we typically go to. 197 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:31.959 So That's why I've been there, and I haven't once 198 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:35.080 thought about it. But if it was the Kroger that 199 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:37.279 I go to that that was in the news for this, 200 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:39.279 I mean, I'd probably still go, but it would be 201 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:39.879 on my mind. 202 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:43.879 And what I don't know is a was this just 203 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:45.360 the expectation. 204 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:48.639 Once you hit the radar of being a store or 205 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:50.399 I guess a company that had at least one of 206 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:54.360 their locations with this issue, or are you now being 207 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:56.840 monitored more than you ever have in more than others? 208 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:01.440 Meaning I guess how different is Kroger than other competitors 209 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.320 that when it comes to groceries, because in their defense, 210 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:08.320 maybe maybe this isn't that uncommon and this is just 211 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:10.240 sort of I guess the process of what happens when 212 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:13.080 you do end up needing to be monitored a little 213 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:17.960 bit more closely. But again, there's not competitors that are 214 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:20.720 in the news for this amount of time where this 215 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:24.519 has continued to be a story. Also, I don't I'm 216 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:26.440 not here to evaluate who's doing a good job or 217 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:28.159 not when it comes to pr because I don't really know. 218 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:29.600 I can't tell you what you can do. They just 219 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:31.720 snap your fingers and this is no longer an issue 220 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:34.600 for your brand and whatnot. But I'm thinking maybe because 221 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:36.639 they have had a bunch of closures across the country, 222 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:38.720 some locations I know at least one in Louisville was 223 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:41.120 closed down, maybe that's been the priority for them as 224 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:44.039 far as just navigating that. But if we get to 225 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:46.639 another couple of weeks and this is still something that 226 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:50.360 is in the news regarding a location that is newly 227 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:53.080 having these issues or one that still can't get it corrected, 228 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:56.320 I mean, I don't think they're gonna Kroger's gonna fall 229 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:59.240 apart overall. But again, if anything, it's just a bad look. 230 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:02.480 Yeah, and you know, it's like, well and we'll talk. 231 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:04.120 We can talk more about it as the morning goes on. 232 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:05.559 To Nick, I was gonna ask you, do you pay 233 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:08.440 attention when the uh CJ comes out with their list 234 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:10.279 of restaurants who have been dinged. 235 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:12.720 I should, but I don't because I don't want to know. 236 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:14.759 Or you just said something was very interesting, because once 237 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:16.840 I see there's one place that I frequent that got 238 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:20.159 danged pretty hard for something significant, and even I first 239 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.960 split second thing, maybe I'm not going to go in there. 240 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:25.240 But then again, I think if the city just checked 241 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:27.799 them out. They've probably got their you know, Tea's cross. 242 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:28.879 I've got to go. 243 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:31.279 The best time to go was after they were shut 244 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:33.159 down and then got to reopen because they probably would 245 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.159 have never been cleaner. But then when you hear locations 246 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:37.000 that had to do that and now now are again 247 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:38.720 having issues, that's that's that's the problem. 248 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:40.519 That's the worst look of the whole situation. 249 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:41.279 I think that's right. 250 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:43.600 Anyway, we'll talk about it more moving forward. This morning, 251 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:45.360 We've got an update of trapping on weather coming your way. 252 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:47.279 Also another update on sports from Scott right here on 253 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:48.960 news Radio eight forty whas. 254 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:53.919 Yes, thank you very. 255 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.600 Much, John Shannon, it is Kentucky and his morning news 256 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:00.960 with Coffee and Company on news Radio eight forty whas. So, 257 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:06.360 yesterday was the Big twelve their media days that got started, which, 258 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:08.279 by the way, I kind of like the fact that 259 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:12.639 they decided to not have a preseason conference rank, Like 260 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:15.600 there's no preseason poll from those that are either the 261 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:17.639 coaches that vote or the media poll that they do, 262 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.799 and I think those are pretty silly. It does give 263 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:22.480 you a reference point, I suppose, as far as what 264 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:24.279 those that coach in the league actually think, but we 265 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:26.159 all know that none of that actually matters, and you 266 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:30.600 rarely think about it once the season starts. However, the 267 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:32.519 team that was picked to finish I believe dead last, 268 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:34.720 was the team who ended up making it to the 269 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:37.000 College Football Playoff and winning that league in Arizona State. 270 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:40.240 A really good story, but it also when you create 271 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:44.759 a perception from your own leagues voting, that could hurt. 272 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:46.960 Like Arizona State, they ended up getting in because they 273 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:51.480 won the conference, but they also had a tougher climb 274 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:54.320 to get towards the top of the rankings because they 275 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:57.080 didn't get the preseason benefit of the doubt, which in 276 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.960 college football that's just that's a story for another day. 277 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:02.600 But because you only play twelve games and not everybody 278 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:05.000 has even close to the same level of schedule, when 279 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:08.080 it comes to difficulty where you like the perception of 280 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:10.720 you early on, even before you play a game, it matters. 281 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:14.480 It shouldn't, but it does anywo. Anyway, the reason I 282 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:18.360 wanted to get to the Big twelve is because Mike Gundy. 283 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:23.159 He's been very very much I think blunt probably the 284 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:23.519 best word. 285 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:24.080 I wouldn't say. 286 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:27.440 He's been against the movement here as players seemingly went 287 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:30.120 from having no power in college sports to having all 288 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:33.200 the power. But you know, he's pretty direct, and I 289 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:35.360 think at times he's just brash and it rubs people 290 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:38.159 the wrong way. He's also said some things that if anything, 291 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:40.320 you know, I mean, most coaches wouldn't say it, but 292 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:43.000 maybe he's just being real with you. But he talked 293 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:46.080 about needing to make the players employees of the university, 294 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:49.320 and there's been so much resistance to that for a 295 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:52.759 long time, and I actually think that there will be 296 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:56.240 resistance moving forward. But what this would do is if 297 00:12:56.279 --> 00:13:00.320 there's a because the reason coaches want their to be 298 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:04.960 a the status to change that these are actually employees 299 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:08.519 is because that would get that would give you collective bargaining, 300 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:10.480 and then you could set a salary cap. If there 301 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:13.200 was a salary cap, that would make life a lot 302 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:16.519 easier when it comes to one not only building your roster, 303 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:19.440 but managing it. And I don't I wouldn't be against 304 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:21.840 that in any way. But here's the issue. If you 305 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:27.200 make the student athletes employees, there's a cost associated with 306 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:31.039 that that is substantial, and that's added on that's adding 307 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:34.320 on top of the now revenue sharing that they have 308 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:37.840 to do where roughly twenty million is going to have 309 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:40.799 to be distributed among student athletes moving forward every year, 310 00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:43.519 that's a twenty million dollar bill that did not use 311 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:45.240 to exist that's now going to be there every year 312 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:48.200 and it's only going to grow. So if you let's 313 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:51.159 just use this, let's use this example. Football is the 314 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:53.799 biggest cost of any of any school, and certainly it's 315 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:58.600 the biggest revenue generator for most. So a football program 316 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:04.200 like Ohio State, let's say eighty five scholarships, they're receiving 317 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:06.679 probably fifty to sixty grand intuition, room and board and 318 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:10.240 all that. Well, if pre classified as taxable income because 319 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:14.799 they're employees, I mean, schools could owe seven to twelve 320 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:18.240 grand in payroll taxes per athlete. That adds up we're 321 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:21.360 talking about six hundred thousand to one million dollars. Then 322 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:24.879 you have wage to work, right, you can't. Your scholarship's 323 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:26.919 not payment, and you're going to have to not only 324 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:29.360 have revenue sharing, but you're going to mean a minimum wage. 325 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:31.080 You mean, you have to do something like that because 326 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:33.399 they're employees. You can't just say, well, their payment is 327 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:37.840 a scholarship. And then you talk about health workers, comp 328 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:41.279 that kind of stuff per athlete, that's a big expense. 329 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:44.639 There's eighty five scholarship athletes. And then you throw in 330 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:50.519 just payroll HR, legal support. That could be another couple 331 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:53.639 hundred thousand or more annually. And that's just to manage 332 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:58.200 the new systems. So you're talking about an added expense 333 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:01.759 of maybe I'm using football as an example, which would 334 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:04.440 be most expensive, but keep in mind there are many 335 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:07.759 other sports that have big rosters, nowhere near the size 336 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:11.759 of a football roster, but maybe four million dollars and 337 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:13.039 just a whole lot more work. 338 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:15.919 Well, that's the story I posted yesterday that the University 339 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:18.879 of Minnesota A. D. Mark Coyle said he presented his 340 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:22.759 budget to the school's board of regents. Heberjacks an eight 341 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:27.559 point seven million dollar devastate Yeah, and to run his department. 342 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:31.519 And that's before any type of they have an actual again, 343 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:33.720 like so this would be an added an added expense 344 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:35.919 to that. And again it's just you're talking about not 345 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:37.960 only what it would cost for the student athletes. You'd 346 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:40.039 have to hire a lot of resources and pay those 347 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:43.320 salaries and cover insurance for those people. And it's just 348 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:46.279 I think that I don't know if it ever gets there. 349 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.360 I just I assume it won't just because of what 350 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:51.240 I mentioned, But if it does, I really don't mean 351 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:55.519 I think at that point the benefit of even offering 352 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:59.039 an athletics department for a lot of schools wouldn't be 353 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:02.919 worth it. Now I'm talking about the non power programs, 354 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:06.120 right like, but that that generally that overall, and if 355 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:07.759 the NCAA did this, they couldn't just do it for 356 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:09.519 Division one, they'd have to do it for the entire 357 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:13.320 entire crop of student athletes at the Division one, two, 358 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:16.799 and three level, and that that would eliminate I mean, 359 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:20.039 they would eliminate sports even being a thing at smaller schools. 360 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:23.320 So and that's sad. Yeah, absolutely, that's sad. No doubt 361 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:24.639 that you would start to get rid of it. 362 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:26.759 I think you bring up a great point, Nick, and 363 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:28.679 I'm glad you're you're kind of lifting the lid on 364 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:30.720 this and really taking a hard look, because when I 365 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:33.879 saw that article yesterday that came out of the Minnesota 366 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:37.159 Star Tribune, I was kind of like, and now it's 367 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:39.480 starting to become crystal clear where we're headed with this thing, 368 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:43.039 which's encapsulating everything you're talking about and that is just 369 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:45.159 so sad that when did we get to this point 370 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:48.879 in our world where we went talking about college athletics 371 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:53.360 one making athletes employees at the university, and two now 372 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:55.000 you've got an ad saying I'm going to start with 373 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:58.039 the deficit of eight million dollars yep, And that's ridiculous. 374 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:02.200 I think the root of this is the NCAA not 375 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:06.039 having any awareness and not just assuming that they didn't 376 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:09.079 have to make any adjustments along the way for generations 377 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:11.640 to where it led to a lawsuit, and that lawsuit 378 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:14.359 ended up getting in front of a judge that decided, yeah, 379 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:16.680 what you're doing here, it's not legal, So there's going 380 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:18.920 to be a settlement where you you owe billions of 381 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:23.160 dollars to former athletes, and moving forward you have to 382 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:27.160 at least share revenue. So it became an issue because 383 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:29.200 they let it get to this point. If they would 384 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:31.960 have made some modifications along the way to maybe let 385 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:37.039 athletes just profit from from certain things or maybe at 386 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:39.720 as there's something that could have been done that would 387 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:41.319 have let that would have kept you from having the 388 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:43.599 lawsuit by Ed O'Bannon that really put this thing in 389 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:46.279 motion to where they just held off too long, and 390 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:48.160 now it's it's seemingly and I hate to say this 391 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:50.680 not to sound like such a pessimist, it is seemingly 392 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:54.640 impossible to envision a scenario in the future where this 393 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:57.799 isn't messy. And again, I don't know the perfect plan, 394 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:00.240 but I'd say the blame falls on just then them 395 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.319 thinking that the amateurism model that was arka at thirty 396 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:07.039 years ago would be sustainable in modern times. And it, 397 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:09.480 let you know, they they played chicken if you will, 398 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:11.839 and a judge told them, yeah, what you've been doing 399 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:14.279 for a long time not legal. And the days of 400 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:17.359 players ever just not getting paid, that's never gonna happen again. 401 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:19.640