Speaker 1: Good late evening, everybody. Are we all ready for fire up?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? If you stay ready, you ain't got to get ready.
Speaker 1: That's true. Well, I have a great crew tonight, mister
Speaker 1: Taylor Phillips, thank you for being back on the program tonight.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yes.
Speaker 1: And then my co host, mister j D Southern Fride, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: how are you tonight?
Speaker 2: I'm doing well, doing well, excited to have a great show.
Speaker 2: We've got some great content coming.
Speaker 4: Up for you.
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 4: It's a pleasure to have Taylor on with us. Thank
Speaker 4: you for joining us.
Speaker 2: And yeah, man, we got a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about it all throughout the show
Speaker 2: and can't wait.
Speaker 1: There's lots of stuff happening in the sports world, even
Speaker 1: though let's face it, it's what a week or two
Speaker 1: weeks away from Hall of Fame game? Isn't that coming
Speaker 1: up real soon?
Speaker 4: Thirty first of July, I'm pretty sure, yeah, which is like.
Speaker 1: A little over a week away or something. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: week from tonight? Actually yeah, crazy a right speaking of
Speaker 1: that though, right now is like I can tell you
Speaker 1: the ACC kickoff, So college football media days they're all happening.
Speaker 1: ACC was the last couple of days. I know the
Speaker 1: American Conference theirs is the next couple or was today
Speaker 1: and tomorrow, Like a lot of college football is starting
Speaker 1: to heat up. Two. So for those of you that
Speaker 1: love football, which would be me that time of year again, yeah,
Speaker 1: so excited, so excited. And if you're a baseball fan,
Speaker 1: baseball is like in the swing of things, so that's
Speaker 1: always good. Taylor, what's your favorite sport?
Speaker 3: I like all baseball, football, hockey, and basketball.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so this is a good time of year
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 3: Yes, JD.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite sport?
Speaker 2: I would have to go college football. I love college football,
Speaker 2: and then of course I played baseball. They're a very
Speaker 2: close second. I love all sports though, like Taylor said
Speaker 2: to you, I mean college basketball, literally watching Little League
Speaker 2: World Series softball, Women's Little League World Series is literally
Speaker 2: on my TV right now. So give me competition sports,
Speaker 2: give it to me injected into my veins.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Well, let's see the title of the show
Speaker 1: is previewing the NFL's NFC and AFC East, and of
Speaker 1: course there's some more topics, but we're gonna start out
Speaker 1: with the NFL because NFL is like pretty key, pretty
Speaker 1: big stuff. Right now, NFC East. We're gonna start with Eagles, Commanders, Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and Giants.
Speaker 4: JD.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the NFC East this year?
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: I can't say that they're the best football conference. I
Speaker 2: would probably have to give that to them the AFC West.
Speaker 2: But as far as the Eagles, can they repeat as
Speaker 2: division winners? Obviously they're primed to mm hmm Washington. Who
Speaker 2: knows Jaden Daniels might have a sophomore slump. That virtual
Speaker 2: one and a half time speed that he plays might
Speaker 2: not help him out this year. My co host Willow,
Speaker 2: she might chime in a little bit this evening. She
Speaker 2: obviously is disagreeing with something I say. But the NFC
Speaker 2: East in general is very intriguing. Obviously you got the Cowboys,
Speaker 2: the Giants. I still don't understand how Brian day Ball
Speaker 2: has not been fired, but they seem to love the guy.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people vouch for him. I
Speaker 2: don't necessarily think he should be gone, but I think
Speaker 2: his seat should be hot.
Speaker 4: So NFC East, Yep, very good word, very good word, Taylor.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'll end it with that, though, I mean,
Speaker 2: the Giants are loyal to day Ball. You've seen the
Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley clips. I would lose sleep if we lost
Speaker 2: him and then it happened. I mean the Giants, golly,
Speaker 2: I would love them to be good, but as they're
Speaker 2: going to be the bottom dweller in the NFC East
Speaker 2: again this year.
Speaker 1: Taylor, your thoughts about the NFC East.
Speaker 3: The Philadelphia Eagles are the Super Bowl champions. I think
Speaker 3: that I think they'll repeat unless some other team cuts
Speaker 3: back on, you know, turning the ball over for example,
Speaker 3: the Lions. The I can't remember who made the playoffs
Speaker 3: last year. But yeah, also yeah, the Commanders, Yes, they're
Speaker 3: they're a juggernaut too. In second place. Like Jad said,
Speaker 3: Daniels might be in a sophomore slam, but we'll see.
Speaker 3: But the Commanders have loaded weapons. The Lions have loaded weapons.
Speaker 3: The Eagles have loaded weapons. The Giants and Cowboys are
Speaker 3: still at the bottom dwellers seller of the NFL. That's it.
Speaker 1: Mark Livingston says, Brian Dabele deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1: Vincelim Bartie couldn't coach that team. Wow, that's pretty harsh. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: but I agree with you guys. The Eagles Commanders, I
Speaker 1: I can't see the Eagles not taking that. I mean,
Speaker 1: who have they really lost now?
Speaker 2: Well, and to Mark's comment, he was the one I
Speaker 2: was specifically mentioning that has defended Brian day Ball.
Speaker 4: To me, Mark, Mark is the one, and he's an
Speaker 4: Eagles fan.
Speaker 2: I feel like he might be like two sided in this, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: please keep Brian Dayball. We keep beating him, like, don't
Speaker 2: fire him. We like the guy here in Philadelphia. Like,
Speaker 2: that's just really weird to me, Mark, that you're rooting
Speaker 2: for a rival team, do not fire their head coach.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, you got a little shady business going
Speaker 2: on there, Mark, What do you think?
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe he wants to keep the Giants where they're
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the you know, NFC East so
Speaker 1: AFC East Bills, Dolphins, Jets, Patriots. So my question, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a two part question for this one. Is
Speaker 1: there a surprise team this year from them from that division?
Speaker 1: And do you think who is going to take the division?
Speaker 3: Pretty simple, the Bills are gonna are definitely gonna take
Speaker 3: the division. There is no surprise team in the AFC,
Speaker 3: the AFC East. The Dolphins are still struggling even with
Speaker 3: a tackle a poa tagaloa. The Jets are still being
Speaker 3: the butt fumble and then the Patriots, Oh god, just terrible,
Speaker 3: absolutely terrible. No wonder Bill Belichick left them for the
Speaker 3: University of North Carolina Tara Hills as head coach.
Speaker 1: But do you think Rabel will change that team.
Speaker 3: As far as I'm concerned, No, unless he proves me wrong.
Speaker 1: Okay, j D, what do you think?
Speaker 4: I mean?
Speaker 2: That was the only thing I think from what Taylor
Speaker 2: said that I can disagree with honestly, is the Rabel
Speaker 2: turning the Patriots around thing. I think he should have
Speaker 2: been the higher for them last year. Rabel was out
Speaker 2: of coaching for a year. He could have been the
Speaker 2: coach of them last year, but they went with the
Speaker 2: linebacker that now his name escapes me. Forgive me for that.
Speaker 4: I've been Keeman tracked so many names the last few
Speaker 4: days with media days, I don't even know what my
Speaker 4: name is Halftime. But the whole point of this is
Speaker 4: to say, like.
Speaker 2: I just Mike Grabel, he shouldn't have been out of coaching,
Speaker 2: should have been the head coach of the Patriots already,
Speaker 2: so they delayed him for a year. But again, like
Speaker 2: I said, that's the only thing from what Taylor said
Speaker 2: I could disagree with about the AFC East. The Patriots,
Speaker 2: I'll take them. I'll take them second over the Dolphins
Speaker 2: because I think Tua Tounguabayiloa he's going to be injured again,
Speaker 2: probably at some point. Most likely they I just don't
Speaker 2: know what it is. They can have a great offense
Speaker 2: under Mike McDaniel. Love Mike McDaniel, very likable, personable guy,
Speaker 2: hilarious head coach. He I mean the interaction he has
Speaker 2: with media personnel and stuff, or even on the sidelines.
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel is fantastic.
Speaker 4: Love the guy.
Speaker 2: Wish she could win the AFC East, but it ain't happen.
Speaker 2: Then of course you got the Bills Sean McDermott. If
Speaker 2: they don't finally make it to the Super Bowl, how
Speaker 2: many years does.
Speaker 4: Sean McDermott have not you know what I mean? Taylor?
Speaker 4: Is that a terrible question?
Speaker 2: Like if he can't ever make it to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: can you fire a guy who consistently makes the AFC
Speaker 2: Championship game or takes you deep into the playoffs.
Speaker 3: That's a tough is a tough one.
Speaker 4: To the equivalent.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it would be like firing Ryan
Speaker 2: Day like at Ohio State. Literally just last year, people
Speaker 2: were talking about if he doesn't make it to the
Speaker 2: College Playoff football Playoff win the championship, which they're going
Speaker 2: to be fired exactly, which they did. But you're telling
Speaker 2: me they really would have fired him if he didn't
Speaker 2: do that this year.
Speaker 4: Like I man, I don't know, say he made it
Speaker 4: and lost. You you can't fire somebody like that, but.
Speaker 3: You can't the future right At.
Speaker 2: Some point though, Sean McDermott does need to get it done. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Josh Allen needs to get it done. Yes, I can't
Speaker 2: imagine being an MVP voter last year between Lamar Jackson
Speaker 2: and Josh Allen And.
Speaker 4: No, right, he's too busy getting.
Speaker 1: Massages, Madcraft. I'm gonna say that this we're each week
Speaker 1: we're taking a different the East, the West, the North,
Speaker 1: and the South. So we are covering the NFC and
Speaker 1: AFC East. This week, we have not covered all the
Speaker 1: others C divisions, so stay tuned. Next week we'll do
Speaker 1: another one, and the following week we'll do another one,
Speaker 1: so we'll hit all of them. I do agree, though,
Speaker 1: I think the Patriots will be much improved. Now I
Speaker 1: do not want to subscribe to that. Let's look at
Speaker 1: their schedule this year. What is their schedule? Like the
Speaker 1: Patriots start, Uh, if we're taking regular season, they start
Speaker 1: against the They start at home versus the Raiders. Then
Speaker 1: they're at the Dolphins home against the Steelers, home against
Speaker 1: the Panthers, at Buffalo at the same at the Titans
Speaker 1: home against the Browns, the Falcons, at the Buccaneers home
Speaker 1: against the Jets, at the Bengals at home against the Giants.
Speaker 1: They have a week fourteen by then they play at
Speaker 1: home against Buffalo, at the Ravens, at the Jets, and
Speaker 1: home against the Dolphins.
Speaker 4: Hey, Candy, keep that handy.
Speaker 1: I don't think of a schedule.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, keep that handy for just a moment, Okay,
Speaker 2: And I didn't mean to rhyme, but I did, Candy
Speaker 2: keep that handy?
Speaker 4: Uh? Yeah, I like it. So, Taylor, Bro, are you down?
Speaker 2: Let's play You and me will play the win loss
Speaker 2: game with Candy.
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 2: About the New England Patriots, what do you say you
Speaker 2: want to do it? Because the first part of their schedule,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to give away what I'm gonna say,
Speaker 2: but I think what they could start at is just
Speaker 2: absolutely ridiculous if you look at that schedule.
Speaker 4: So, Taylor, are you down for it?
Speaker 2: I guess Okay, all right, So Candy one more time
Speaker 2: the games and when she says, I'm Taylor, you and
Speaker 2: I will both just say win or lost, and I
Speaker 2: will I'll tally them up.
Speaker 1: Okay, regular season, they're home against the Raiders.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say win.
Speaker 3: I'll take win, all right.
Speaker 1: So one and oh a piece at Miami.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say win.
Speaker 3: I'll take a win, all right.
Speaker 4: So we both got them at two and oh.
Speaker 1: Home against the Steelers.
Speaker 4: I'm also probably gonna say win.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna say lost because I I know
Speaker 3: they've got Aaron Rodgers, but I just that they still
Speaker 3: have other weapons like h Naja Harris. They have, they
Speaker 3: have a better offensive. The Steelers have a better offensive line,
Speaker 3: keep in mind, and they're their defense, of course, has
Speaker 3: improved too.
Speaker 1: Okay, So JD's got him at three and oh, and
Speaker 1: you've got him at two and one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair, Taylor, that is absolutely fair that that
Speaker 2: could be.
Speaker 4: But that's and that too. Most of these games are
Speaker 4: fifty to fifty games. Yep.
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily really believe what I'm fixing to tell
Speaker 2: you all, but go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, got them three and oh, Taylor's got them two
Speaker 4: and one.
Speaker 1: Home against the Panthers.
Speaker 3: When Taylor you first, when Panthers are dreadful.
Speaker 4: Okay, I agree, when.
Speaker 3: They're still rebuilding.
Speaker 4: I missed the Panthers talk last week. We'll go. We'll
Speaker 4: circle back to that once we finish up ye later
Speaker 4: another show, Yep, we'll do.
Speaker 1: We'll do a final recap at the end, after we've
Speaker 1: done each of the divisions. So at Buffalo loss.
Speaker 3: Loss bills are too good for the Patriots.
Speaker 4: So four one and three and two yep.
Speaker 1: At the New Orleans Saints, when.
Speaker 3: I'll go win.
Speaker 1: Okay. At Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 4: When Mike Grabel against his former team, when.
Speaker 3: When yep, Tights are still rebuilding.
Speaker 1: As well, Home against the Browns.
Speaker 3: The Factory of Sadness. When when.
Speaker 2: This is getting an insane when I hear myself say
Speaker 2: that the Patriots seven and one, uh huh, and Taylor's
Speaker 2: got them six and two.
Speaker 1: You know, Atlanta Falcons at home.
Speaker 2: I want to say the Falcons win, but just for
Speaker 2: the sake of being crazy, I'll say the Falcons win. Yeah,
Speaker 2: give me the Patriots lost on that one.
Speaker 3: I'll see Falcons win. In other words of Patriots loss.
Speaker 1: Okay at Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: Well, that's a good team, I'd say. I'd say the
Speaker 3: Buccaneers win.
Speaker 4: Okay, jd Buccaneers also.
Speaker 1: Okay at home against the Jets.
Speaker 3: Fuck fumble win.
Speaker 4: When Okay?
Speaker 1: At Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Lass, I'll say loss because the Bengals are good too.
Speaker 1: Home against the Giants.
Speaker 3: When Giants are still a DIRP when?
Speaker 1: Okay, four more games to go because we have the
Speaker 1: bye week then and then we're talking. We're in the
Speaker 1: December Sunday, December fourteen, home against the Buffalo Bills, boss.
Speaker 4: Laws.
Speaker 1: Okay at Baltimore Ravens loss.
Speaker 3: Ravens are still too good?
Speaker 5: Oh, the absolutely lost to the Okay at the Jets
Speaker 5: when and then home against the Dolphins when.
Speaker 4: When?
Speaker 1: Okay, So, how many does that make?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I just put them at at least
Speaker 2: twelve and five, and Taylor had them like eleven and six.
Speaker 1: And what were they to end last year?
Speaker 4: They were number two? Yeah? No, they only won like
Speaker 4: two games last year, didn't they?
Speaker 1: I think they won. I think this is from last year,
Speaker 1: and I think it was four.
Speaker 2: And folks, I think I'm pretty sure did they draft
Speaker 2: who drafted second in the draft this year?
Speaker 4: Was it the Patriots?
Speaker 3: I can't remember.
Speaker 4: Yeah, me either. There's so many sports, it all runs together.
Speaker 1: I know, I know that the standings. Does it tell
Speaker 1: me four?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, yeah, four and thirteen? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so to go from four and thirteen and you're
Speaker 1: projecting them to be eleven, I mean, worst case eleven
Speaker 1: and six, that's quite an improvement. That's a seven game improvement.
Speaker 2: And now, granted, like I said, we did, I did
Speaker 2: at least give them the benefit of the doubt on
Speaker 2: a lot of their fifty to fifty games. They're probably
Speaker 2: still roster pieces away. So realistically, at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, the Patriots maybe best case that you could
Speaker 2: put them at would be ten and seven.
Speaker 4: I think I think that would be fair for everybody
Speaker 4: to settle on. And worst case they could go six
Speaker 4: and eleven, right, I mean.
Speaker 2: Says nine and they still say they still have roster deficiency.
Speaker 2: They'll have to figure it out. But I do think
Speaker 2: Vrabel will account for a lot. I think he's just
Speaker 2: a good football coach.
Speaker 1: Day well, and let's face it, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys have heard or read anything about uh Tua
Speaker 1: coming out and saying that he's still what developing a
Speaker 1: relationship with Tyreek, Like they're still not on the same page.
Speaker 1: Come on, really, well.
Speaker 2: Well, the update I got is because of Tyreek in
Speaker 2: his I'm out post or his comment after the playoff.
Speaker 4: Game last year or whatever it was or final game,
Speaker 4: he's like, I'm out.
Speaker 2: That's the update I got is that they're still working
Speaker 2: through their differences following the Tyreek Hill I'm out comment.
Speaker 1: I hear you, I hear you. It's still a work
Speaker 1: in progress. They're still trying to mend the relationship. Apparently,
Speaker 1: is what admitted that Tyreek Hill is still working to
Speaker 1: mend the relationships with the team after the wide receiver
Speaker 1: suggestion that he wanted to leave the Dolphins. When you
Speaker 1: say something like that, you don't just come back from
Speaker 1: that with hey, my bad. You gotta work that relationship up.
Speaker 1: You've got to build up everything again. It's still a
Speaker 1: work in progress, not just for me but for everybody
Speaker 1: to a set.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they'll work through it. I think they'll be fine.
Speaker 2: I mean, the big issue is going to be to
Speaker 2: a staying on the field, and I mean tyreek. I mean,
Speaker 2: if he has any more children, he might end up
Speaker 2: in jail for child support.
Speaker 4: I don't know. He got a lot of kids. I
Speaker 4: do know that he does and a lot of catches.
Speaker 4: Great football player.
Speaker 1: That's true. Okay, can Madcraft, Can I give you all
Speaker 1: an amazing stat on the Patriots? Of course you can.
Speaker 1: We love it when our listeners come in and talk
Speaker 1: to us, and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't keep me.
Speaker 3: Mac craw The proof is always in the pudding.
Speaker 2: Cream always rises to the top. I like that one Taylor.
Speaker 2: Proof is in the pudding mmm.
Speaker 3: Meaning truth is detected.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 3: As in stats research.
Speaker 2: Analytics, everybody's got sports facts coming up, all right, send them,
Speaker 2: shoot them.
Speaker 1: Don't just say you got them.
Speaker 3: Put them in there, give them time, give them time.
Speaker 3: They need time to type.
Speaker 4: Yeah they Hey, they better be good. I'm just kidding it.
Speaker 1: Have swept the Jets eighteen times all time, out of
Speaker 1: those fifteen done by Tom the tom Brady.
Speaker 2: Literally, I've never heard Tom Brady referred to them as
Speaker 2: Tom the tom Brady. So congratulations Mancraft. But yeah, that
Speaker 2: is a heck of a staff. Eighteen times all time,
Speaker 2: fifteen out of eighteen. So basically, the whole time Tom
Speaker 2: Brady played for New England, he swept the freaking Jets.
Speaker 3: Patriots and Jets has always been a mismatch. The Patriots
Speaker 3: had Tom Brady, the Jets have always been a butt fumble.
Speaker 3: It's been their identity the whole time.
Speaker 4: Mark Sanchez looks like he should have been a firefighter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like fireman, ed right, something close to it.
Speaker 1: So somebody wants to take us to baseball here instead
Speaker 1: of football. If you convert bases to miles, Hank Aaron
Speaker 1: is thirteen miles worth of total bases ahead of Albert Coohols,
Speaker 1: who is in second place.
Speaker 4: That is, hold on, we'll time out. That is a
Speaker 4: wild stat. I will give you.
Speaker 1: That, that is I will I will say that too.
Speaker 2: And so since you you tried to switch it over
Speaker 2: to baseball though on us watch this the Southern Fried
Speaker 2: gentleman will handle those games. So let's find out who
Speaker 2: the NFL rushing leader was.
Speaker 4: All time?
Speaker 2: Who is it? Is it still Emmitt Smith? Did somebody
Speaker 2: pass him yet?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's a good time, I recall you pass He surpassed
Speaker 3: Barry Sanders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see I'm gonna find out and then we're
Speaker 2: gonna convert that to miles, and then we'll be able
Speaker 2: to convert it back in football if the Internet is
Speaker 2: going to cooperate with me though.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Still Emmett Smith, Yeah, eighteen thousand, three hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: five yards, let's convert that into how many?
Speaker 1: Second is Walter Peyton with sixteen thousand, seven and twenty
Speaker 1: six So there's there's a bit of a gap there.
Speaker 1: He is, and Emmett Smith is held the all time
Speaker 1: rushing yards since two thousand and two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't think anybody had broken it yet, probably
Speaker 2: won't ever be broken.
Speaker 1: Frank Gore is third on the list. For you make madcraft,
Speaker 1: it's EMMITTT. Smith, Walter Peyton and then Frank Gore. And
Speaker 1: Frank Gore had sixteen thousand, so he has, so it
Speaker 1: has twenty three hundred and fifty five more yards and Gore.
Speaker 2: Okay, and this is this is why I researched this,
Speaker 2: because it's gonna blow you away. Okay, over enthusiastic. In turn, Caleb,
Speaker 2: if you convert bases to miles, Hank Aaron has thirteen
Speaker 2: miles worth of stolen bases. Emmitt Smith, we said, had
Speaker 2: eighteen thousand, three hundred and fifty five rush yards correct,
Speaker 2: mm hmm. Do you think that would be more or
Speaker 2: less than thirteen miles more?
Speaker 4: What about you tell you think it's more more? Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's not, it's less. There's only ten point four three miles. Wow.
Speaker 4: And so in baseball shorter distances, never being able to
Speaker 4: rush for eighty yards on a stolen base hank, Aaron
Speaker 4: ran more miles in baseball than Emmitt Smith did in football.
Speaker 4: That is wild.
Speaker 2: So there you go, crazy stat back to football, bang bang.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is amazing. Actually, if you think about it,
Speaker 1: I let you play way more games in baseball than
Speaker 1: you do in football though. Hmm. Interesting. So that's why
Speaker 1: it's harder on the knees.
Speaker 4: And almost mm hmm. No, that's playing catcher, just as
Speaker 4: Scott he knows.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, been there, done that. Okay, so are we
Speaker 1: ready to switch it a little bit to some college football?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 4: We got a I react.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to hear what Taylor and Candy have
Speaker 2: to say hearing these comments.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna put this on the stage for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, So first we will start with mister Greg SANKI
Speaker 2: commissioner of the SEC. And I started out my article
Speaker 2: for Greenville Sports Media by saying football is in the air.
Speaker 2: It's so close you can almost smell it. And you
Speaker 2: can also smell the garbage that all the commissioners and
Speaker 2: coaches spew at these media days. So here is mister
Speaker 2: Greg Sankie spewing nonsense about college football.
Speaker 7: Let me be clear from my perspective, college athletics is
Speaker 7: not broken.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've read that. I've actually read it in notifications.
Speaker 7: College athletics is not broken. It is under stress, it
Speaker 7: is strange. The answers we seek are tied into the
Speaker 7: complexities that have been referenced over time. I went back
Speaker 7: and read my remarks from this podium or others over
Speaker 7: the last few years, and pretty consistently have identified the
Speaker 7: challenges ahead with some of the decisions that we may
Speaker 7: have to make. I don't think the answers come from
Speaker 7: courtrooms completely. They don't come from commentators or commentary. They
Speaker 7: don't come from those outside sudden experts with their newest idea.
Speaker 3: Those of us in higher education, embedded.
Speaker 7: And college athletics know the intricacies of what's in front
Speaker 7: of us, and we all have to continue to adapt
Speaker 7: and have adapted as we seek to provide life impacting
Speaker 7: opportunities and lifelong memories for young people across our nation.
Speaker 2: All right, And so that was Greg Sinking and what
Speaker 2: he had to say about college athletics and how they
Speaker 2: are not broken. So, Taylor, the one thing I can
Speaker 2: agree with that he said is it depends on what
Speaker 2: broken is. Clearly they're making money hand over fist, So
Speaker 2: in that regard, no, college football is not broken. But
Speaker 2: we all know about the NIL and transfer portal and
Speaker 2: eligibility right now.
Speaker 3: And getting tailed too for athletes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the NIL, name, image, likeness, right, they all
Speaker 2: of these things. And he said that it's not broken,
Speaker 2: but that part is broken. And he said it's not
Speaker 2: settled in courtrooms. That's literally where everything's getting settled now.
Speaker 2: Regarding player eligibility. Diego Pavia suing for more eligibility, so
Speaker 2: many players. So don't sell me this garbage that college
Speaker 2: football is not broken. And Taylor, take a few minutes
Speaker 2: elaborate what are your thoughts overall about all of that
Speaker 2: or Candy either one.
Speaker 3: Well, what he was trying to say that college athletics
Speaker 3: is trying to develop even further and he's trying to
Speaker 3: tell them, trying to have the media, media everywhere in
Speaker 3: America to understand that the inner workings of how it works,
Speaker 3: and and it just it has some flaws, but it's
Speaker 3: still still alive. It's still out there. It just needs
Speaker 3: to develop even further.
Speaker 4: Did did either of your whole problem? Was they let
Speaker 4: the nil and everything.
Speaker 1: Go ahead?
Speaker 4: Jadi? Oh? Yeah, my bad.
Speaker 2: Well I was just gonna say, sorry, I froze up there.
Speaker 2: Now I don't know what I was about to say,
Speaker 2: go ahead, Candy, my bad.
Speaker 1: So so I was gonna say, did either of you
Speaker 1: see what Donald Trump did inking an executive order to
Speaker 1: clarify college athletes employment status, because I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: he's saying, these these guys are not professional athletes yet,
Speaker 1: so should they be? You know, will this mean that
Speaker 1: they're going to put a cap on some of this
Speaker 1: or that they shouldn't be earning as much which they have,
Speaker 1: because let's face it, they are getting an education, and
Speaker 1: most of them are getting an education for free. Let's
Speaker 1: face it, some of them are taking advantage of that.
Speaker 1: Some of them aren't really like how much are they really?
Speaker 1: Are they graduating or are they not graduating. But I
Speaker 1: think Trump is trying to help that part of it,
Speaker 1: the nil part.
Speaker 2: Right well, and Clemson dablos swinging. He touted that today
Speaker 2: he's graduated a ton like nine of his players, and
Speaker 2: a lot of them have also won championships. Every player
Speaker 2: he's ever recruited won some sort of championship.
Speaker 4: That is ridiculous. Mm hm.
Speaker 1: It's going to get interesting because it's a complicated topic.
Speaker 1: They said universities would become responsible for paying wages, benefits,
Speaker 1: and workers compensation, and schools and conferences have insisted they
Speaker 1: will fight any such move in court. While private institutions
Speaker 1: fall under the National Labor Relations Law, for public universities
Speaker 1: must follow labor laws that vary from state to state.
Speaker 1: And it's worth noting that virtually every state in the
Speaker 1: South has right to work laws that present challenges for unions.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna get I think this is going
Speaker 1: to be a lot get a lot more complicated too.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be as easy and as as
Speaker 1: they've had it so far. But is college sports broken?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's broken. I would say it's evolving
Speaker 1: and it's ever changing. But so is a lot of things.
Speaker 1: So are a lot of different things, right. You know,
Speaker 1: we're seeing a change in the types of jobs people
Speaker 1: are getting, you know, and some of those low I
Speaker 1: hate to say this, but low minimum wage jobs aren't
Speaker 1: aren't out there anymore. Let's let's face it. You walk
Speaker 1: into a fast food restaurant and most of the time
Speaker 1: you're ordering at a kiosk. You're not ordering with a person,
Speaker 1: so you're eliminating some of those jobs. And every industry
Speaker 1: is changing. I mean, how many newspapers do you see
Speaker 1: out there anymore? You know everything? So along with college sports,
Speaker 1: a lot of things are evolving and changing.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely.
Speaker 2: And if I could make adapting into a dirty sea word,
Speaker 2: you just said it, I guess changing.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You got to be able to think on your feet,
Speaker 2: you got to be able to adapt, You got to
Speaker 2: be forward thinking. And the NC double A has tremendously
Speaker 2: failed in that regard. If I've said it once, I've
Speaker 2: said it a thousand times. The NC double A is
Speaker 2: asleep at the will and then they got kidnapped and
Speaker 2: thrown in the trunk because you can't tell me that
Speaker 2: the NC double A is even driving anymore. At this point, Taylor,
Speaker 2: do you have any strong feelings about the NC double A.
Speaker 3: I don't have any emotions at all. It's just, like
Speaker 3: I explain, it's just the inner workings of how it's
Speaker 3: supposed to work, that's all.
Speaker 2: I've got no feelings at all. Make sure to clip that.
Speaker 2: Taylor just said that he's I've got no feelings. I'm
Speaker 2: just kidding, Taylor.
Speaker 1: Yep, you ready for your next clip?
Speaker 4: JD Yes, ma'am, we are ready.
Speaker 1: Let's add it.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, we have Kurt Signetti. He just canceled
Speaker 2: a series against Virginia. Sure it wasn't just him, it
Speaker 2: might have been the administration.
Speaker 6: We picked up an extra home game, and we played
Speaker 6: nine conference games. You know, the two best conferences in
Speaker 6: college football. Any football guy that's objective will tell you
Speaker 6: there's a big ten in the SEC.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 6: Twelve to sixteen SEC teams play three G five or
Speaker 6: an SCS game. Twelve of those teams played thirty six games,
Speaker 6: twenty nine G five games in seven SCS games.
Speaker 3: And one of the least conference games.
Speaker 1: All right, So we figured we.
Speaker 6: Just adopt SEC schedule philosophy. You know, some people don't
Speaker 6: like it. I'm more focused in on those nine conference games.
Speaker 6: You know not only do we want to play nine
Speaker 6: conference games, okay, and have the four to four championship
Speaker 6: the playoff format, okay, we want to have playing games
Speaker 6: to decide who plays in those playoffs. You championship weekend,
Speaker 6: let's play three verse six and four verse five. You
Speaker 6: want to decide that on the field and make sure
Speaker 6: everybody strength the schedules what it needs to be. Let's
Speaker 6: make everybody play nine conference games and on championship weekend
Speaker 6: three or play six to four, play five and there's
Speaker 6: still room for another at large in that format. And
Speaker 6: why shouldn't the Big ten have four eight q's Because
Speaker 6: a highest state actually finished fourth in the conference at
Speaker 6: the end of season Indiana Penn State with tied for second.
Speaker 6: They won the typewreaker one national championship, right, okay, don't
Speaker 6: put the best teams in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Now there you have it.
Speaker 2: A lot of things, he said, I agree with a
Speaker 2: lot of things. I don't because I can debunk his
Speaker 2: whole schedule theory about the SEC in two point five seconds. Alabama,
Speaker 2: they play at least two powerful conference teams every year
Speaker 2: from this year until twenty thirty four. Georgia, same thing
Speaker 2: every year. From twenty twenty six to twenty thirty four.
Speaker 2: The game Cocks this year play Virginia Tech and Clemson,
Speaker 2: two ACC schools. We don't get cupcake wins over here.
Speaker 2: Plus we play in a game conference schedule. Don't miss
Speaker 2: me with the nine game conference schedule.
Speaker 4: I don't want to hear it. It's retarded. It's dumb. Sorry,
Speaker 4: that's a bad R word to say, but dang it,
Speaker 4: the nine game stuff is retarded, like ridiculous. Almost said
Speaker 4: it again, golle my bad. Should not say that word.
Speaker 2: But when you're talking about the SEC and scheduling, we're
Speaker 2: plenty deep enough.
Speaker 4: There's an ACC coach that said the same team as
Speaker 4: one the SEC. Six of the same teams have won
Speaker 4: the SEC since nineteen sixty four. Clemson and Florida State
Speaker 4: are the only two schools to win the ACC in
Speaker 4: the last ten years. What's your point? You know what
Speaker 4: I mean?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: It's dagging good football and you can't argue that the
Speaker 4: SEC top to bottom football roster wise, team wise.
Speaker 2: Is better than the Big Ten. Just ask the NFL.
Speaker 2: That's all I gotta say. Just ask the NFL.
Speaker 1: I hear you, But he does have a point that
Speaker 1: the two I mean, he said the two top conferences
Speaker 1: are Big ten and uh SEC.
Speaker 4: We're so yeah, we're so close to it being like
Speaker 4: broken away, like m hm, all of those conference schedules
Speaker 4: I just mentioned, shure they might not even exist in
Speaker 4: a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, let let's face it. I mean, he's right, Oh,
Speaker 1: Idio State won the national championship, but they weren't even
Speaker 1: in the top three in their conference. That's kind of crazy.
Speaker 3: Anything can happen, right, Yep, still gonna play the game exactly.
Speaker 4: I was about to say that exact same thing.
Speaker 2: Great minds think not alike, just they think, and me
Speaker 2: and Taylor were about to say the same thing.
Speaker 4: Respect Taylor. I was about to say, yeah, that's why
Speaker 4: you play the game.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah that's true.
Speaker 2: But yet, just golly, I'm just so sick of this
Speaker 2: whole conference talk. Everybody tries to lump everybody all in
Speaker 2: together because you're in the same conference. Like it's got
Speaker 2: that old school, like high school posse feel to it,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like we're the cool kids
Speaker 2: and where they're not.
Speaker 4: So cool kids, or we're the rich is and they're
Speaker 4: not so rich kids.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Like the whole SEC Big ten thing is juvenile, just juvenile,
Speaker 4: Just root for your team.
Speaker 1: But the two conference, those two conferences are heads and
Speaker 1: tails above a lot of the other conferences. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's face it, look at what the PAC twelve is.
Speaker 1: What is the PAC twelve anymore?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the PAC twelve has come back to life to
Speaker 2: exactly what you're saying that the Big ten SEC they
Speaker 2: can't agree on how they want the college football playoff
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: They can't decide.
Speaker 2: The SEC wants just the five conference champions guaranteed, and
Speaker 2: then whoever the top eleven is after that gets in,
Speaker 2: whoever may be the Big ten.
Speaker 4: I like the Big Ten's I did better. I will
Speaker 4: say that they want four automatic qualifiers for the Big ten.
Speaker 8: Dc ACC and Big twelve both get two apiece. You
Speaker 8: get the highest ranked group of five or group of six,
Speaker 8: whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 2: Now, you get the one the highest one out of that,
Speaker 2: and three wild cards. So which way do you think
Speaker 2: they should go when they go to a sixteen?
Speaker 1: I guess I'm leaning towards the Big ten way. But
Speaker 1: it's tough.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, Kurt said it there at the end
Speaker 9: of his statement, you want the best teams in the playoffs, right, Aleep.
Speaker 4: I mean, as a game Cock fan, I'm still but hurt.
Speaker 4: We didn't make it in the playoffs last year. We
Speaker 4: were closed and guess what, I don't think we'll be
Speaker 4: that closed again this year. So it just sucks. It's
Speaker 4: part of being a fan. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: A realist. Yeah, wow.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll face it, my Badgers are normally up there.
Speaker 1: Pretty they did they fell They kind of fell flat
Speaker 1: on their face these last couple of years. This was
Speaker 1: the first time and I think it was twenty some
Speaker 1: years that they didn't make a Bowl game even which
Speaker 1: was which was disappointing. But their quarterback, which was the
Speaker 1: transfer Tyler Van Dyke from Miami up to Wisconsin, got
Speaker 1: injured first game, so that makes a big difference. They
Speaker 1: I don't think if you're not top tier elite, you
Speaker 1: don't have the depth and talent unless you're a top tier,
Speaker 1: long historied program. So if you have injuries, it really
Speaker 1: hurts your team.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And speaking of all this conference realignment stuff, Ben Blaylock
Speaker 2: he mentioned something and it made me remember something, but
Speaker 2: he says the PAC twelve is the Whack two point zero.
Speaker 2: Now they basically took all the teams from the Whack
Speaker 2: and are reviving themselves. That's always how the conference realignment
Speaker 2: has went. But what I was gonna say is, did
Speaker 2: y'all see Memphis they offered the Big twelve like a
Speaker 2: bookoup of money. I don't know if y'all know what
Speaker 2: a bookoo is, but that's it's a lot. Yeah, they
Speaker 2: offered him a bookouo.
Speaker 4: Iver heard of it.
Speaker 2: It's a Southern word, Taylor, And honestly, I don't even
Speaker 2: know what it means. I just know sometimes we use
Speaker 2: it to describe something in mass quantity. Yeah, like the
Speaker 2: amount of money that Memphis they offered this conference to.
Speaker 4: Get in the Big twelve. The Big twelve is like nope,
Speaker 4: swipe left, good to go on that, No thank you,
Speaker 4: And everybody's just like, what how could you not add
Speaker 4: meant that?
Speaker 2: But all of the conference realignment stuff, they just they
Speaker 2: gotta be renamed and rebranded.
Speaker 4: Because half of them don't even make sense anymore.
Speaker 1: I think they eventually will. I mean, the Big ten
Speaker 1: is no longer ten teams. You have East Coast and
Speaker 1: West Coast, so travel is just kind of horrendous. I
Speaker 1: think I think eventually it's coming. It's not. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say it's in the next you know, two or three years,
Speaker 1: but I think it's definitely coming.
Speaker 2: Ben Blaylock with the inside information Memphis and Tulane having
Speaker 2: discussions with the ACC and Big Ten. Well, apparently the
Speaker 2: ACC as of today is going to have to replace
Speaker 2: UNC and Clemson because they're looking to join the SEC again.
Speaker 2: Like literally, people posting that like, I'm over the conference
Speaker 2: realignment and speaking of the Atlantic Coast Conference and Candy,
Speaker 2: we can move off of it after this, Okay, speaking
Speaker 2: of the Atlantic Coast Conference and the renaming and the rebranding,
Speaker 2: mm hmm. Their travel is worse East Coast to West
Speaker 2: coast with Stamford and to South Carolina and stuff like
Speaker 2: flying to the Northeast is slightly closer for the Big
Speaker 2: Ten mm hmm.
Speaker 4: But the Atlantic Coast Conference has teams that are on
Speaker 4: the Pacific Coast. So now you've got to you gotta
Speaker 4: name it the All Coast Conference. It can't be the
Speaker 4: Atlantic Conference anymore. ACC.
Speaker 1: Well, I've always said Big Ten couldn't either, the because
Speaker 1: they have Ruckers on the East Coast and they have
Speaker 1: u C l A over on the Pacific coast side,
Speaker 1: so like that's just crazy, But yeah, I agree. I
Speaker 1: think at some point they will they'll sit down and
Speaker 1: they'll they'll change it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, they'll go to that pods that. Yeah, something
Speaker 4: major like groundbreaking will happen with the n C DOUAA
Speaker 4: And to p Digit's hit his point big ten divisions
Speaker 4: are legends and leaders, and I said, I'm good with
Speaker 4: him just being east and West. That's what's gonna happen
Speaker 4: in the new format.
Speaker 2: It will be geographical again and it'll be NFL two
Speaker 2: point h has been used two point oh earlier.
Speaker 4: So Candy, what else we got?
Speaker 1: One of the topics I wanted to quick just spring
Speaker 1: up and it's just a quick but do you have
Speaker 1: a bucket list? And if if something's on the bucket list,
Speaker 1: do you have a stadium that either you wish you
Speaker 1: had already gone to because maybe it's no longer even
Speaker 1: with us anymore, or do you have a stadium that
Speaker 1: you would like to go to that is on your
Speaker 1: bucket list. I can tell you one of them that
Speaker 1: would be on mine, and I know it's on my husband's.
Speaker 1: We would like to go to Fenway Park we've never
Speaker 1: been to Fenway Park. Now, it could be a baseball stadium,
Speaker 1: it could be a football stadium. Obviously, I'd always I'd
Speaker 1: like to get sometime down to Dallas and Cowboy World.
Speaker 1: I mean that stame is supposed to be, you know, phenomenal. JD.
Speaker 1: Is there a stadium that would be on your bucket list?
Speaker 2: I am known to try to live vicariously through my children,
Speaker 2: and Tripp is a huge Renaldo fan.
Speaker 4: M hmm. Packson is a huge Messy fan.
Speaker 2: So they literally disagree just because on the who's the
Speaker 2: goat of soccer? So yeah, give me any of the
Speaker 2: stadiums that y'all saw on your recent vacation.
Speaker 4: Kay, I don't even remember where y'all went.
Speaker 2: But soccer stadiums, and then to be more specific, I
Speaker 2: haven't been the truest park. I would love to see
Speaker 2: the San Francisco Giants Stadium, Dodger Stadium. Give me baseball
Speaker 2: and beer or football and beer, and I'll take any
Speaker 2: stadium any day.
Speaker 4: It could be high school or college mm hmm. Or
Speaker 4: it could be literal league flag football. There you go,
Speaker 4: give me, just give me competition.
Speaker 1: Yep, Taylor, is there any stadium that's on your bucket
Speaker 1: list that you'd like to go go to. You know,
Speaker 1: I can tell you we were just up in Detroit
Speaker 1: and not that we went inside, but we were at
Speaker 1: the Big House. I've been inside the Big House before.
Speaker 1: But like, it could be a college, it could be
Speaker 1: a proof baseball football.
Speaker 3: Stadium, so Fi, because yeah, I want, I do want
Speaker 3: to go outside the box because Sofi Stadium has all
Speaker 3: these incredible screens, incredible ceiling that the roof, everything inside
Speaker 3: the stadium is incredible.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, whether whether it hosts the Rams or the Chargers
Speaker 3: mm hmm. Just everything you see when you walk into
Speaker 3: that stadium is incredible mm hm.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely give me so Fi mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: And it also depends, I guess too.
Speaker 2: I guess could I like remix your question just a
Speaker 2: little bit, not to change shit or anything, really, but
Speaker 2: is there a specific stadium you would like to see
Speaker 2: during a specific event? Like, for example, Sofi Stadium wouldn't
Speaker 2: be that great with a Taylor Swift concert for me,
Speaker 2: but you give me a chance to go to the
Speaker 2: super Bowl in that stadium.
Speaker 4: Oh, like, oh, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna be like a little yappy shahuahwah, like barking out
Speaker 2: the front door, letting me get in, like give me
Speaker 2: all of that. And so yeah, just to remix the question,
Speaker 2: is there another like a stadium that you maybe wouldn't
Speaker 2: consider unless something like serious was going on there and
Speaker 2: then it'd be like, oh, yeah, I can't miss that, Taylor.
Speaker 4: I'm sure.
Speaker 2: You're up the Upper Peninsula, right, you called it the
Speaker 2: up earlier.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Give me give me something around your area, like an
Speaker 2: event place or a minor league team that I mean
Speaker 2: you enjoy to go to or that you've been to.
Speaker 4: Is there anything local that you've been to.
Speaker 3: I used to go to Trevor City Pittsbetter's games until
Speaker 3: I got tired of the music that all the music
Speaker 3: that they play, which is a bunch of sissy crap
Speaker 3: that which leads me to conclusion that I'm done going
Speaker 3: to games now.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, hey, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: If you come down to South Carolina Spartanburg, I personally
Speaker 2: know the DJ for the Hub City Spartanburgers.
Speaker 4: Yes that is a baseball team. Yes, that is their name.
Speaker 4: They're in Spartanburg and they're called this spar And Burgers.
Speaker 4: My goodness.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about the name later, but I personally know
Speaker 2: that DJ so Taylor, if you need some specific music,
Speaker 2: you come down to this stadium.
Speaker 4: Man, I got you.
Speaker 3: How about blaster jacks with Timmy trumpet Narco? Huh.
Speaker 2: I've never heard any of those words, much less any
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 3: Put ed walk walkout theme?
Speaker 2: Really Okay, I'm obviously gonna have to look that up now,
Speaker 2: the Edwin Diaz walkout theme.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Timmy trumpet blastered? Yeah, Timmy. Yeah, you've never heard
Speaker 3: of Timmy Trumpet?
Speaker 4: Come on, no, I really haven't.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Really I lived. I lived a sheltered life.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: I think I think part of my my thought behind
Speaker 1: the question kind of was is some people have bucket lists,
Speaker 1: and some people, like I've heard, some people want to
Speaker 1: go to every MLB stadium, you know, and they want
Speaker 1: to do that. I can say that I have been
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, I went to every spring
Speaker 1: training site in Arizona. So I've been to all those ballparks.
Speaker 1: I've been to a number of them here in Florida,
Speaker 1: but not all of them, you know. And then you
Speaker 1: hear like the iconic venues like I've I've been to
Speaker 1: Wrigley Field. I've been to Lambo Stadium, you know, and
Speaker 1: some of the big iconic ones, but I've never been
Speaker 1: I cep Digit said, Red Sox Field. That's you know.
Speaker 1: I've been to Jet Blue. So I've been to their
Speaker 1: spring training site, which is a smaller replica of Red
Speaker 1: Sox Field. But Candy saves some money and go to
Speaker 1: the Greenville Drive every inchine foot matches the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: They even have a wall. So, like I said, this
Speaker 1: their Jet Blue down here, their spring training stadium. We've
Speaker 1: been to. It is a smaller replica, but I you know,
Speaker 1: it's still not the actual Red Sox Field I've we
Speaker 1: drove to. We were in New York. We were outside
Speaker 1: of Yankees the new Yankee Stadium. The old Yankee Stadium
Speaker 1: is no longer there. It's a soccer field. We were there,
Speaker 1: you know, But so that was kind of my thought
Speaker 1: behind some of these stadiums. And we were up in
Speaker 1: Michigan and we were in Detroit. We were actually in
Speaker 1: ann Arbor this two weekends ago, and so we were
Speaker 1: outside of the Big House and then we're saw how
Speaker 1: close they're basketball stadium is right next door to the
Speaker 1: Big House, and I did not realize that, but I've
Speaker 1: been inside the Big House too. There were at one
Speaker 1: point my dad and I and my brother were gonna
Speaker 1: go to all the big ten stadiums. So we had
Speaker 1: been to Minnesota, we had been to Illinois, we had
Speaker 1: been to Ohio State the Big House. We've been to Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: So I was just curious if there was any thing
Speaker 1: like those that you guys had done or wanted to do.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what sparked that question.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, No, it was a lovely question.
Speaker 2: Like I said, Yes, there's so many stadiums. M Like
Speaker 2: I said, I literally just want to go to all
Speaker 2: of them. But Candy, so, like we mentioned earlier, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do this real quick and we'll move on again.
Speaker 2: But Taylor said, I never heard of timmy trumpets, and
Speaker 2: like I said, asking you if you ever have right, right,
Speaker 2: right right?
Speaker 4: But yeah, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that's what I'm saying. So stream Yard's
Speaker 2: given me this crazy ability, though, Candy, if you could
Speaker 2: show that on stage, And so Taylor, please tell me,
Speaker 2: is this the song?
Speaker 3: Yes? Mm hmm, it is nice.
Speaker 9: Here, let's let it play for a minute. We'll let
Speaker 9: everybody hear it. We'll hear the greatness with you.
Speaker 3: Let it rip because I because I've heard it in
Speaker 3: Uh it's like a high school in Michigan on opening
Speaker 3: kickoffs with the Yellow Jackets when I was commentating them
Speaker 3: right before w MLUM went off the air permanently due
Speaker 3: to revenue shortage.
Speaker 9: Last Yeah, hold on, I'll I'll bring it back. I
Speaker 9: want there's like a little drop right here. Yes, man,
Speaker 9: what a song? What a song?
Speaker 4: What a song?
Speaker 2: I'm so glad, Like I said, stream Yards giving me
Speaker 2: these abilities, and Taylor led me onto something and I
Speaker 2: love trumpets.
Speaker 4: So we went down a rabbit hole. Might meet you, Candy.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's time time for my town. So,
Speaker 1: mister Taylor, what's happening in your town?
Speaker 3: Well, the Tigers have lost ten of eleven. Uh for
Speaker 3: the we they got four bombs in the lamp that
Speaker 3: can't hit Parker Metals, Matt Barling, Jake Rogers, and Tray
Speaker 3: Sweeney and this team cannot play even when sel Peiz
Speaker 3: is struggling. So yeah, the Tigers still have the al
Speaker 3: Central lead, but that may collapse to in the future
Speaker 3: of us. The Tigers actually do a hell of a
Speaker 3: lot at the trade deadline, whether I hope they bring
Speaker 3: in both Alex Bregman and Eugenio e Genio Suarez both
Speaker 3: into the roster and DFA Sweeney feeling Meadows and Rogers.
Speaker 3: They need a catcher, a better catcher to platoon with Dingle,
Speaker 3: catcher that can hit better, way better than Jake Rogers.
Speaker 3: Plus they need they need better starting pitching than Jack Flaherty,
Speaker 3: reees Olsen and Casey Mice because they're not going to
Speaker 3: cut it. Jackson jovis out, so the Tigers need four replacements.
Speaker 3: Errick Scuba cannot do it by himself, and they need
Speaker 3: federal bullpen help. Tommy Canley throws way too many fricking softballs.
Speaker 3: Carlos Hernandez got dfaid thank god, I mean, I mean
Speaker 3: their bullpen. Brandon Brendan Hanafee, he sucks in the area
Speaker 3: of almost four that I can't take it any more
Speaker 3: of this this team. Chris Siliche is still a chief
Speaker 3: skate and and but but he'll have to prove it
Speaker 3: once more unless the Tigers GM and President Scott Harrison
Speaker 3: Jack Greenberg. The GM proved me wrong, but by spending
Speaker 3: a lot. But Chris Silich, he said he can't afford it.
Speaker 3: Because he can't. He keeps spending way too much on
Speaker 3: priority seats, little Caesar's Pizza, other revenue crap, on stadium renovations.
Speaker 3: Nobody cares. Just bring me a championship. And then the Lions, Uh,
Speaker 3: they had a couple of script had a couple of scrums,
Speaker 3: one between Brian Brands and I went around Saint Brown
Speaker 3: during training camp. Uh that that fighting needs to stop.
Speaker 3: The Lions are better than this. They need to start
Speaker 3: getting together. However, Jared Goff says it's been going very
Speaker 3: smoothly with John Morton as their new offensive coordinator. They're
Speaker 3: changing and which leads me to a sense that Morton
Speaker 3: may be a better offensive coordinator mentally than Ben than
Speaker 3: Ben Johnson. I don't care about Ben Johnson's fancy trick
Speaker 3: plays because because some of them have not worked, especially
Speaker 3: when they fell flat to the Commanders at home in
Speaker 3: the divisional playoff, when the Lions finished their last season
Speaker 3: last regular season at fifteen and two, and then then
Speaker 3: for the Red Wings though, Wow, I did watch a
Speaker 3: video from Kyle Busch of the Healthy Scratch Red Wings
Speaker 3: report shout out to him already by the way that
Speaker 3: the red the Red Wings did did not have a
Speaker 3: terrible offs have not had a terrible offseason. They got
Speaker 3: John Gibson, He's a he is a better goaltender. They
Speaker 3: the Red Wings got rid of Alex Lyon. They got
Speaker 3: they got rid of Peter Murrazak. They traded him to
Speaker 3: the Ducks for John Gibson. My goodness. The Pistons had
Speaker 3: a decent summer league.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: But back to the Red Wings. They got Mason Appleton,
Speaker 3: not a goal scorer, but he can defend, especially on
Speaker 3: the penalty kill. And they got James Van Riemstak, who
Speaker 3: can bring more scoring in more veteran presence. It's it's
Speaker 3: just a one year, one million dollar deal. It's very cheap,
Speaker 3: so and Michigan, Michigan Football will have it. We'll still
Speaker 3: have a competition be at quarterback for the number one
Speaker 3: between uh Bryce Underwood and Davis Warren. I think, but
Speaker 3: I think I think Bryan Bryce Underwood will hint win
Speaker 3: that quarterback battle for the number one quartersback spot hands
Speaker 3: down for the Spartans. Who knows Jonathan Smith is still
Speaker 3: in is entering his second years as head coaches of
Speaker 3: the Green and White. I may not know any of
Speaker 3: those new guys anymore. But uh, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: do some research on them, so that that's all I
Speaker 3: have for my town. Hoky smokes baw Winkle m hm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey man, you literally you opened up the curtains,
Speaker 2: the back door, the windows, you let everybody, You let
Speaker 2: everybody all up in your town, right there.
Speaker 4: Man, that was good stuff.
Speaker 3: You let everybody detect. Truth box.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of it, I think.
Speaker 3: As White Kelly or on the verge of filing for
Speaker 3: for divorce by the way, they actually have in the
Speaker 3: past a few months ago.
Speaker 2: Spoiler alert, right, spoiler alert for anybody who didn't know
Speaker 2: about that divorce.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I'll take.
Speaker 2: Over there, Taylor with my town, and I'm also gonna
Speaker 2: combine my parting shot and I'm gonna throw it to
Speaker 2: Candy and Taylor and then I'm gonna be done.
Speaker 4: I think we're gonna be done for the evening, Okay.
Speaker 4: And so for my town.
Speaker 2: We talked about media days and a lot of what
Speaker 2: people said that was crazy and all of this stuff.
Speaker 2: But what happened in my town was the Southern Conference
Speaker 2: Media Days. Just Tuesday of this week. We had my
Speaker 2: guy Mark and Greenville Sports media. There shout out to
Speaker 2: South Florida Tribune because you get all this coverage that
Speaker 2: I do through them as well.
Speaker 4: So thank you to all of you who allow me
Speaker 4: to do this and make sure y'all hit like, follow, share,
Speaker 4: subscribe on Taylor myself Candy, South Florida Tribune, go to
Speaker 4: Greenville Sports Media. Most of what I said tonight you
Speaker 4: can find it in an article on their website regarding.
Speaker 2: The college teams and the media days and the crazy things,
Speaker 2: the hot garbage got spewed from all of these commissioners
Speaker 2: and everything. But in my town, as I said, Southern
Speaker 2: Conference media Days happen, and it's just it's that local,
Speaker 2: small town you get to know these players on a
Speaker 2: different level versus when there's four and five hundred people
Speaker 2: in the building. Players tend to get nervous, especially when
Speaker 2: they're talking to media and things like that, and so
Speaker 2: the larger surrounding you put them in, the more uncomfortable
Speaker 2: they're going to be. And so the beauty of the
Speaker 2: Southern Conference media days is the you get them. There
Speaker 2: might be twenty or thirty people there from a conference
Speaker 2: of twelve teams. Media wise, you're not talking about a
Speaker 2: lot of people that are traveling and have the ability
Speaker 2: to go cover that stuff like we do at Greenville
Speaker 2: Sports Media. And so I am the Southern Fried gentleman
Speaker 2: of Southern Fried sports and in my town.
Speaker 4: I have greatly loved.
Speaker 2: The media days these past few weeks. And so Candy,
Speaker 2: last thing I will say, Taylor, last thing I'll say.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you watch much golf, Taylor. I
Speaker 2: know Candy plays a little bit of attention, but I'll
Speaker 2: say this, imagine a team winning so much or winning
Speaker 2: by so much that they just don't make it fun
Speaker 2: to watch anymore. We see it happen on the football field,
Speaker 2: Scotty Scheffler has made it happen on the golf course.
Speaker 2: If it weren't for him leading by so many strokes
Speaker 2: at the Open this past weekend, there would have been
Speaker 2: a four way playoff.
Speaker 4: Most likely in golf.
Speaker 2: A four way playoff would be incredible for the TV
Speaker 2: ratings and for the sport. They absolutely need fantastic things
Speaker 2: like that to happen because they don't have Tiger Woods anymore.
Speaker 2: And Scotty Scheffler dominating the field is nothing like Tiger Woods.
Speaker 2: In his domination, it was just different. People will get
Speaker 2: sick of Scotti Scheffler because he is ruining golf.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know if I can follow that, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try because it's time for me to talk
Speaker 1: about my town. And what I want to say is
Speaker 1: I think one of the best conditions in football is
Speaker 1: happening right now. And what it is is the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers at training camp. They line up from their
Speaker 1: practice facility to go to the field. They have kids
Speaker 1: come and line up with their bicycles and the kids
Speaker 1: will carry the helmet for the players and the players
Speaker 1: will ride their bicycles or depending on how big the
Speaker 1: bicycle or tricycle is. I saw one of the Packers
Speaker 1: actually carry a tricycle for one of the young girls.
Speaker 1: And it's just a really great tradition because they sign
Speaker 1: autographs for these kids. I even saw for the first
Speaker 1: time met La floor coach rode the bicycle down. Just
Speaker 1: a really cool way for them to interact with young kids.
Speaker 1: And that's happening right now with the Packers training camp.
Speaker 1: The Brewers are doing well. I don't want to say
Speaker 1: anything more because I said more on Tuesday and they
Speaker 1: had eleven game win streak and they lost them Tuesday
Speaker 1: after I said something. So all I'm going to say
Speaker 1: is they're doing very well, especially for a small market team.
Speaker 1: Let's see how far that they can go. And with that,
Speaker 1: the only other thing I'm gonna I want to say
Speaker 1: two more things. I want to say kudos to Venus
Speaker 1: Williams as she is the second oldest female to win
Speaker 1: a tournament on the Art, win a match in the tour.
Speaker 4: Hand clap for that.
Speaker 2: Everybody, Venus Williams, and I think Serena's coming back to
Speaker 2: tennis needs it.
Speaker 4: That's fantastic. Yep, great call, Candy. Hand clap for Venus absolutely.
Speaker 1: Exactly forty five years old. That's awesome to see. But
Speaker 1: I also want to say that we lost some people
Speaker 1: this past week and so our prayers go out to
Speaker 1: all of their families. We lost Ozzy Osbourne. We lost
Speaker 1: theo Huxtable from the from Malcolm Jamal Warner. We lost Cosby, Yes,
Speaker 1: from The Cosby Show. We lost hel Cogan, wh who
Speaker 1: I didn't realize actually lives lived down here in Clearwater, Florida.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately he passed away this week. We also learned I
Speaker 1: don't know if any of you else learned heard this,
Speaker 1: but the chef that had passed. We learned today that
Speaker 1: she actually committed suicide. So what I'm going to say
Speaker 1: is for any of you that need help, please seek help.
Speaker 1: There are people out there that want to help you.
Speaker 1: Please see KILP and H. Prayers go out to all
Speaker 1: the families of all of those people. Candy, one day,
Speaker 1: will e bikes ruin that tradition? I don't think so,
Speaker 1: because then they don't. I have yet to see e
Speaker 1: bikes at all on with them and with kids. But
Speaker 1: you never know, I mean, you know, you can never
Speaker 1: say I would say one of the words I've learned
Speaker 1: you never say never and you never say always, because
Speaker 1: those are two words that at one point will be
Speaker 1: uh found wrong or so so could it happen? It could.
Speaker 1: But this tradition goes back to the fifties. So this
Speaker 1: tradition for the packers riding bikes of kids those back
Speaker 1: seventy years. I want to say, right.
Speaker 2: And Candy, I Will'll second everything you said. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: suicide things no joke. Mental health is no joke, y'all.
Speaker 2: Don't hesitate. I am easily accessible. I think the teenagers
Speaker 2: say my dms are open.
Speaker 4: So feel free.
Speaker 2: I don't care whatever you want to talk about. I
Speaker 2: had somebody just message me about their mom who passed
Speaker 2: away three years ago yesterday. They were like, yeah, my
Speaker 2: mom passed away in twenty twenty one. I mean, it
Speaker 2: was like, I'm here, you can message me for whatever.
Speaker 2: Taylor Candy has been a fantastic show. You can find
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Speaker 1: Taylor, I have a question for you for your podcast.
Speaker 1: How often do you do it? When do you do it? When?
Speaker 1: When should people look for it?
Speaker 3: Well, when when we have topics of regarding new topics
Speaker 3: regarding our teams and they and it's something I'm I
Speaker 3: really have to discuss, then then it's something that must
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Speaker 1: YEP, Southern friede. What when do do you kind of
Speaker 1: go on besides this show? Obviously you both do with me. Well,
Speaker 1: do you have your own YouTube channel, when do you
Speaker 1: go live?
Speaker 2: I have experimented a little bit on different days. I
Speaker 2: did Wednesday last night. My schedule that I like to
Speaker 2: keep and I like to be consistent, which is a
Speaker 2: dirty sea word on Southern brod sports.
Speaker 4: I like to keep.
Speaker 2: Monday, Thursday and Saturday for content. However, college football season
Speaker 2: is coming, I'll have a pregame kickoff show that I'll
Speaker 2: be doing through Greenville Sports Media, So a lot of
Speaker 2: my time is probably gonna have to be rearranged. So
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Speaker 2: you can imagine. You'll never know what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: That's true. Okay, It's time for me to do my
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Speaker 1: a great show. I don't know that we're as fired
Speaker 1: up now as we were when we started, but.
Speaker 2: Aha, bro, I stay fired up. I could sit here
Speaker 2: and talk to y'all about twenty more minutes.
Speaker 4: Y'all. Don't play with me.
Speaker 2: Y'all know how the southern gentleman rolls. Y'all be blessed,
Speaker 2: not stressed, and just be kind to one another.
Speaker 1: Dang, it sounds like a plan, everybody. Everybody, have a
Speaker 1: great week. Tune in next week Thursdays nine to thirty pm.
Speaker 1: And you never know what we're be talking about next week,
Speaker 1: so tune in. Although we will take one more let's
Speaker 1: see AFC NFC did we Let's see what should we
Speaker 1: do next week?
Speaker 4: We got North and West. I thought I thought I
Speaker 4: did South last.
Speaker 1: Week, right, people, south West, Let's do West next week. Well, actually,
Speaker 1: actually we probably should do NFC North, a a f
Speaker 1: C NFC and a FC North next week.
Speaker 4: Plays in the Hall of Fame game.
Speaker 1: That would be the Lions play, right.
Speaker 3: And it's still an exhibition game, but yeah, right.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, I would say, yeah, we do that, yeah
Speaker 2: that we'll tie it in there together.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: North.
Speaker 4: So and there you go.
Speaker 2: You came behind the curtains on Fire Up and Southern
Speaker 2: Fried Sports this evening.
Speaker 4: Y'all heard show planning live on the air.
Speaker 1: Have a great week. Everybody will see you next week.
Speaker 4: Bang bang,