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Speaker 2: lot of things I want to make sure we get
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Speaker 2: time on each of them. I can get a little
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Speaker 2: they cut into the time, and I wouldn't have it
Speaker 2: any other way. But today's a busy day here for
Speaker 2: the show, so I guess we'll just dive right in
Speaker 2: here when it comes to the biggest story in college
Speaker 2: football right now, and it's continuing to get worse for UNLV.
Speaker 2: You know, perception is reality, and maybe there's some fibbing
Speaker 2: going on, maybe there's some half truth to the situation
Speaker 2: with the nil not being what these players were told,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure the public opinion is going to be
Speaker 2: UNLV recruited players talk big money and they don't have
Speaker 2: it now and they've got guys leaving their team because
Speaker 2: they now can not have wasted a year of eligibility
Speaker 2: if they just stop after playing three games. UNLV, by
Speaker 2: the way, is a top thirty team if you go
Speaker 2: off of the eight people in the receiving votes. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're not ranked, but they are in the top thirty,
Speaker 2: and they are one of the handful of teams that
Speaker 2: probably look at the G five spot that's going to
Speaker 2: get in the playoff and think that they could get it.
Speaker 2: So it started earlier when their quarterback, who is having
Speaker 2: a good year, he transferred from Holy Cross. His name
Speaker 2: is Matthew Sluka. It's Sluka, John, you think that Sluka
Speaker 2: or Sluka.
Speaker 3: I've been saying Sluca.
Speaker 2: So I think, okay, So he has decided to transfer
Speaker 2: and red shirt. He's going to get a chance to
Speaker 2: then go through springball at a new school and play
Speaker 2: next year because he's only played in three games, and
Speaker 2: you can red shred after three games. So here's what
Speaker 2: we know this is. And I trust the reporting of
Speaker 2: of of let me see, yeah, I trust the reporting
Speaker 2: of Sure, I got it right, Pete the Thamil. I
Speaker 2: thought it was McMurphy. But no, it's it's uh, it's
Speaker 2: Famil And you know, he lays out exactly what was
Speaker 2: what was expressed to uh, to the player when he
Speaker 2: decided to transfer to NLV. Money was clearly a factor here.
Speaker 2: So here's the thread. Let's see. Well, I want to
Speaker 2: make sure I get it right here. Yeah, it says
Speaker 2: here that uh, he's an ile representation and this is
Speaker 2: this is where it's gonna get a little bit, a
Speaker 2: little bit confusing. But Marcus Cromarty is an agent for
Speaker 2: Equity Sports and he represents SLUCA in an IL. He's
Speaker 2: told ESPN and Pete Damil that he was verbally promised
Speaker 2: a minimum of one hundred thousand dollars from a UNLV
Speaker 2: assistant coach to transfer there, and none of that money
Speaker 2: was paid once he enrolled in school. There was no
Speaker 2: effort made by UNLV's collective to formalize a contract at
Speaker 2: that amount. Months after he enrolled, Chromarty made multiple efforts
Speaker 2: with the staff and school to address the issue. He said,
Speaker 2: the school and collective came back with a contract of
Speaker 2: three thousand dollars per month for the next four months,
Speaker 2: which of course is eighty eight thousand dollars less than
Speaker 2: what Krimarti said UNLV verbally promised him upfront. The only
Speaker 2: money he's received from UNLV per his agent, is a
Speaker 2: three thousand dollars relocation stipend because of his move. He
Speaker 2: says that there was never an ask for more money
Speaker 2: after UNLV's hot start, only the initial amount he was
Speaker 2: promised to transfer. When that didn't come, he evaluated his options,
Speaker 2: decided to play elsewhere next year. And again, the Red
Speaker 2: Shirt's going to give him a chance to enroll in
Speaker 2: spring elsewhere and play at a different school twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five and probably make some real nil money. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's not elite, but look, this is a guy who
Speaker 2: verbally and again, even if you think, well it's on
Speaker 2: the kid, he didn't get it in writing. Maybe I
Speaker 2: mean yeah, I mean he trusted his agent. His agent,
Speaker 2: by the way, is not licensed in Nevada. But it
Speaker 2: sounds like that's not really what any of this is about.
Speaker 2: It's him taking a coach at his word and the
Speaker 2: coach not being able to pull off what he was
Speaker 2: throwing out there when trying to recruit this player. So again,
Speaker 2: I'm sure this agent and the kid will say they
Speaker 2: learned from this experience and they'll they'll always try to
Speaker 2: get it in writing ahead of time. But I also
Speaker 2: would be willing to bet there's a lot of guys
Speaker 2: out there on nil deals and they don't have it
Speaker 2: in writing, Like not every one of these guys has
Speaker 2: an agent. And what's sad is that some of these guys,
Speaker 2: this guy, you know, this player included, are trusting agents
Speaker 2: that don't don't do it the right way. So even
Speaker 2: if he knows he's at fault, he's still, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: is entitled to look out for his best interest. And
Speaker 2: he's this. Look, these these are employees. Now that's what
Speaker 2: this is. This is this is a job for this guy.
Speaker 2: He knows he's not going to the NFL. He's got
Speaker 2: a chance to make six figures, a damn good entry
Speaker 2: level salary for somebody fresh out of college, and who
Speaker 2: wouldn't take advantage of that. So now he's not getting
Speaker 2: that money. And even if it's not in writing, I mean,
Speaker 2: I do work in a in a field where contracts
Speaker 2: are very much a part of it, and I actually
Speaker 2: hate that, to be honest with you, but you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's how the game works. You have jobs where
Speaker 2: you don't have a contract, right, and if you stop
Speaker 2: getting paid what your boss who interviewed you told you
Speaker 2: you'd be paid, you know what you do, you stop
Speaker 2: going to work, right, we all would, So, like, I
Speaker 2: don't want to hear any criticism of this kid. In fact,
Speaker 2: he's not a kid. He's a grown man. He's twenty two,
Speaker 2: probably twenty three actually, and he has a chance because
Speaker 2: of nil to do a year of college football where
Speaker 2: it is a job and he will make money. And
Speaker 2: he was promised and assured he'd make this by a coach,
Speaker 2: and now it's not happening. So you know what, he's
Speaker 2: gonna stop going to work. We're not used to viewing
Speaker 2: it this way, but that's what this is, guys. This
Speaker 2: is a job now, this is professional sports. So I
Speaker 2: have no issue with what he's doing, even if you
Speaker 2: want to claim what an idiot he just trusted this coach.
Speaker 2: Well fun he got burned, But he's also gonna do
Speaker 2: what he needs to do now to correct the situation
Speaker 2: and not waste a year of eligibility where he was
Speaker 2: short at eighty eight thousand dollars for what he was
Speaker 2: told the job would pay him. So there's an update
Speaker 2: to the story. He's now the second player from UNLV
Speaker 2: who transferred in who is doing the exact same thing
Speaker 2: for allegedly the exact same reasons, and that is their
Speaker 2: running back who just transferred in from North Carolina State.
Speaker 2: And again, these are guys that clearly have been a
Speaker 2: factor in the success that this team has had thus far.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure this team can still win games.
Speaker 2: In fact, it sounds like there's another FCS quarterback they
Speaker 2: took in the portal that there's some confidence in that
Speaker 2: maybe they'll be able to kind of pick over they
Speaker 2: left off. But when it comes to the running game,
Speaker 2: let's see here the yeah, the running back, Michael Allen,
Speaker 2: I remember that name. He transferred in to UNLV from
Speaker 2: NC State and he's decided to again do the same thing.
Speaker 2: He says that. Let me read specifically his tweet here.
Speaker 2: It says, expectations for opportunities unfortunately were not met, and
Speaker 2: I'm excited to continue my football career. And of course
Speaker 2: he means elsewhere. So if I had to say there's
Speaker 2: one person who probably screwed up here, it was the coach,
Speaker 2: because he was probably just trying to say whatever you
Speaker 2: got to say to get a kid to commit, right,
Speaker 2: And that's that's very common. And let me give you
Speaker 2: an example. Like you know, many coaches sell these plays,
Speaker 2: used to sell these players like role opportunity, and yet
Speaker 2: when they get there, it's not that because coaches used
Speaker 2: to be able to do that, and who was gonna
Speaker 2: hold them accountable? Well, now, if you're talking in I
Speaker 2: own money, according to the n DOUAA, you're breaking the rules.
Speaker 2: But then again, nobody seems to follow those. And I
Speaker 2: don't blame him because nobody seems to be in charge,
Speaker 2: and you know you're gonna do whatever, and just dare
Speaker 2: somebody to try to punish you, because if the n
Speaker 2: SAA does, they'll probably get sued and lose. So I'm
Speaker 2: not even really saying the coach is just a slee's
Speaker 2: ball because these coaches, especially assistants that are recruiters, they
Speaker 2: come from a world that is not a lot different.
Speaker 2: It used to be a lot different than it is now.
Speaker 2: Meaning you say whatever you've got to say to get
Speaker 2: this kid to come here. You know, many kids came
Speaker 2: here for Charlie Strong and even John L. Smith. I
Speaker 2: canna think of at least four or five that we're told,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, you're the best athlete on your high school team,
Speaker 2: and damn you're putting a big numbers at quarterback, so
Speaker 2: we're gonna let you play quarterback. No, they're gonna put
Speaker 2: you carry. Rhodes had all had a hell of a
Speaker 2: career in the NFL as a defensive back. Carry Rhodes
Speaker 2: was told by John L. Smith, he's gonna play quarterback
Speaker 2: at Louisville. Not a chance. Marcus Smith was a first
Speaker 2: round draft pick for Charlie Strong for the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 2: hell of a defensive end. He was sold, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll put you a quarterback. So it's shady, but I
Speaker 2: can just tell you that's how it's always been. But
Speaker 2: now you enter money, it's a different thing, and these
Speaker 2: guys have players have the power now where they didn't
Speaker 2: used to have. Players can absolutely look out for their
Speaker 2: best interest in a way they didn't used to be
Speaker 2: able to coach. Is a jerk, all right, portal, have
Speaker 2: a nice life. My money's funny. Nope, yep, three games
Speaker 2: in Now you got to start all over because you
Speaker 2: didn't take care of me, and I have the ability
Speaker 2: to go somewhere else to get taken care of. So
Speaker 2: you know, I just I'm a little triggered about people
Speaker 2: calling this guy quitter. I think what people still have
Speaker 2: yet to do is realize this is a different world,
Speaker 2: and you would do the I mean, you'd be it.
Speaker 2: You'd be a fool to stick around knowing you're not
Speaker 2: gonna make the money that you that you were told
Speaker 2: you were going to make, which is why you went there.
Speaker 2: And I know, will come on, what about his teammates?
Speaker 2: What about what about all the work they put and
Speaker 2: he's abandoning his guys. It's a job. Now. You ever
Speaker 2: quit a job thinking, oh man, I'm leaving my coworkers
Speaker 2: out to dry. I mean maybe, but it wouldn't It
Speaker 2: wouldn't prevent you from looking out for your best interest
Speaker 2: in making sure you're taken care of. It's just a
Speaker 2: different world now, all right, let's see here. We did
Speaker 2: talk a little bit earlier about the little basketball schedule.
Speaker 2: For those of you that missed that, I mean, my
Speaker 2: takeaways are not much different after seeing the full schedule
Speaker 2: in its entirety, game by game, other than you throw
Speaker 2: Duke in there, like we talked about yesterday. I didn't
Speaker 2: even mention earlier. I assuming all of you have seen
Speaker 2: the schedule, but to see that Carolina is one of
Speaker 2: your first ACC games, I think you might play them.
Speaker 2: Let me see when when is that game? Is that
Speaker 2: at the beginning of January? First? Yeah, I mean like
Speaker 2: you will get to mid January, and who knows, maybe
Speaker 2: teams that we don't expect to be good will end
Speaker 2: up being good. Like maybe that happens, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: you're gonna lose games in the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Like I don't want to act like once you get
Speaker 2: past Carolina on the first it's it's smooth sailing. But
Speaker 2: I mean, look at it. Just look at the schedule.
Speaker 2: I mean a front loaded schedule to say the least.
Speaker 2: And I really the Bahamas trip is going to be
Speaker 2: so important for them because I think like Ole Miss Duke,
Speaker 2: those that's two top twenty teams you play, and you
Speaker 2: play them back to back, and then you got UTEP
Speaker 2: and then Kentucky all that from December third to December fourteenth,
Speaker 2: you play Ole Miss Duke in Kentucky. So going two
Speaker 2: and one there would be I mean, not a miracle,
Speaker 2: but like I don't know, there's somebody pointed this out
Speaker 2: earlier and I'm glad you did because it's so true.
Speaker 2: And I tried to, you know, go off what I
Speaker 2: saw in the Bahamas and go off what we know
Speaker 2: about these players that transferred in. But somebody pointed out
Speaker 2: that when they look at the schedule, it's just another
Speaker 2: reminder that this is the ultimate This is the ultimate unknown,
Speaker 2: and it really is. You really never know what you're
Speaker 2: gonna get. Even when teams like Miami brought back a
Speaker 2: Final four team in Stunk last year minus one player,
Speaker 2: no joke, one like one piece was gone from their
Speaker 2: team that went to the Final four and they fell apart.
Speaker 2: So you really never know. But man, this is a
Speaker 2: brand new coaching staff with all new players that they've
Speaker 2: never coached before. I shouldn't say that. Rain Smith he
Speaker 2: played a lot of minutes for for Pat Kelsey for
Speaker 2: many years, so you know, and there's other guys from Charleston,
Speaker 2: so it's not brand new. But still overall, like I think,
Speaker 2: the majority of the guys, I mean, nearly everyone on
Speaker 2: the team that's gonna play minutes this year, this is
Speaker 2: all new to them. Doesn't mean it's not gonna work out.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not bringing that up to say we
Speaker 2: should not have high expectations, but it's just you just
Speaker 2: don't know what you're gonna get. But that's also you know,
Speaker 2: the intrigue of the unknown is a real thing in
Speaker 2: my opinion, and I cannot wait for basketball season to
Speaker 2: get here, all right, So when it comes to this
Speaker 2: Notre Dame matchup, you know, I think our conversation with
Speaker 2: Alex Kupper earlier was great. If you guys missed it,
Speaker 2: make sure you check out the podcast. We'll also have
Speaker 2: it featured in our pregame show on Saturday afternoon. But
Speaker 2: you know, I think Cub said it best. If you
Speaker 2: look at what Notre Dame has done up to this point,
Speaker 2: I think you make Riley Leonard beat you, and you
Speaker 2: feel pretty good about your ability improving to everyone that
Speaker 2: he can't do that. I don't want to act like
Speaker 2: the guy's will bomb and he thinks and you know,
Speaker 2: set up the karma to have him roll into uh
Speaker 2: to South Bend on Saturday and light us up. But
Speaker 2: I mean, he's not. I mean, to me, I've never
Speaker 2: under like I think Duke being good is just weird.
Speaker 2: For Duke. That's gonna bring a lot of attention. And
Speaker 2: Elko did a good job there, and he was his quarterback.
Speaker 2: But like I think Duke being good, a lot of
Speaker 2: people chalk it up, well, hey, they must have a
Speaker 2: once in a lifetime quarterback for Duke. And look, I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to say he's a bad quarterback, but like
Speaker 2: he's never really impressed me, and again, impressing me is
Speaker 2: probably not what he's set out to do. But his
Speaker 2: numbers right now are eh did that? Did that sound
Speaker 2: that just came from my body that I'd indicate that
Speaker 2: I'm unimpressed because that's what I was going for John
Speaker 2: It did, okay? Just making sure. I mean, he only
Speaker 2: has one touchdown pass on the year. Now, I'm looking
Speaker 2: at his numbers here as far as game by game,
Speaker 2: and you know, he's thrown for one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: three yards. That's the most he's thrown in a game.
Speaker 2: And that actually came and they're lost in Northern Illinois.
Speaker 2: He threw a touchdown against Miami Ohio last Saturday. That
Speaker 2: was his first touchdown of the season. So I mean,
Speaker 2: he's not statistically doing a whole lot. Now. To be fair,
Speaker 2: I don't know if they're really asking him to go
Speaker 2: out there and use his arm and beat teams just
Speaker 2: with his ability to make plays as a quarterback. But
Speaker 2: it may be because they feel like their strength is
Speaker 2: going to be in the running game, and they're a
Speaker 2: top twenty team right now when it comes to rushing
Speaker 2: yards per game. Clearly they're going to try to slow
Speaker 2: this game down run the ball effectively. But I think
Speaker 2: if you can stop their run, easier said than done.
Speaker 2: But if this defense really steps up and shows they
Speaker 2: are in elite defense like we believe they can be
Speaker 2: from a personnel standpoint, then it's going to be right
Speaker 2: of Leonard's job to have to make plays for him,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if he's gonna be able to
Speaker 2: do that. I mean, Texas A and HM they've got
Speaker 2: a great defensive coach in Mike Elko, and they always
Speaker 2: have talent because they can go buy players just as
Speaker 2: good as almost anybody. But you know, I feel pretty
Speaker 2: good that Louisville from a defensive standpoint, IWF Quincy Riley
Speaker 2: can't go. That changes things. But I think Louisville will
Speaker 2: be able to stuff the run and keep Notre Dame
Speaker 2: well below. They're two hundred and thirty eight yards per
Speaker 2: game on the ground, so I mean Notre Dame's offense.
Speaker 2: It's been it's been. I mean they've only scored more
Speaker 2: than twenty eight points once in their four games, and
Speaker 2: that came against Perdue, which should remind I mean that
Speaker 2: Purdue must really suck ass. I mean, how bad can
Speaker 2: Perdue be?
Speaker 3: They do suck ass? I mean, I think they're only
Speaker 3: dogs by like ten points to fast.
Speaker 2: I'm fading Purdue, and I had to do it over
Speaker 2: the weekend and just remind people, like because I still
Speaker 2: remember like when Jeff, when Jeff turned us down the
Speaker 2: first time, I genuinely believe it was exactly for the
Speaker 2: reasons that he said it was. It wasn't money, It
Speaker 2: wasn't because he thought Purdue was a better opportunity and
Speaker 2: a better place for him. He literally just didn't want
Speaker 2: to leave those players behind that he brought there. It's
Speaker 2: a different world now. Those guys could fin follow him,
Speaker 2: you know, they could. They could. They could ride down
Speaker 2: to Louisville from South bed Within. I mean, like you could,
Speaker 2: you can do that? Like it's a new world. But
Speaker 2: I was so bothered by Purdue because I don't understand
Speaker 2: there's football teams in the Big Ten that have a
Speaker 2: lot of tradition that you know, may may not have
Speaker 2: a lot of big time wins and Big Bowl wins
Speaker 2: or playoff appearances, and they can claim, well, you know
Speaker 2: it's because it's because we playing, you know, we play
Speaker 2: in the Big Ten. Are you going to do produce?
Speaker 2: Not one of those teams Purdue has stunk And the
Speaker 2: only factor in them not stinking for a brief time
Speaker 2: was Jeff Brown. Because I don't know if you guys
Speaker 2: have seen like they're they're terrible this year, and I just,
Speaker 2: I just I was just reminded by that. But looking
Speaker 2: at what Notre Dame did to them, and they did
Speaker 2: that at Purdue, didn't they?
Speaker 1: I think that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: That So Danny Hope was there from twenty nine or
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine to twenty twelve, four seasons. He
Speaker 2: was twenty two and twenty seven overall, thirteen to nine
Speaker 2: in the Big Ten. Darryl Hazel took over for him
Speaker 2: and he was there for four years, twenty thirteen to sixteen.
Speaker 2: He was nine and thirty three overall, five and twenty
Speaker 2: five in the Big Ten. Jeff Brohm comes in record again.
Speaker 2: I used to get so triggered when people would say, well,
Speaker 2: I mean, whoa you heavy he got just hating record,
Speaker 2: Shatterfield has it whole whoa oh we really going and
Speaker 2: getting a better coach. We should be banned from Cardinal
Speaker 2: Stadium for five years minimum for acting as if we
Speaker 2: were bringing in the same caliber coach whenever we got
Speaker 2: Brahm and got rid of Sadderfield's bow ass. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: just disgraceful that people would say that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: So Jeff not great, but thirty six and thirty four
Speaker 2: overall at Purdue, winning record in the Big Ten twenty
Speaker 2: six and twenty five took him to the Big Ten
Speaker 2: Championship game, beat three top three teams at Purdue since
Speaker 2: he left Ryan Walters five and ten overall, three and
Speaker 2: six in the Big Ten. So that was a long
Speaker 2: winded way of me letting you know that that win
Speaker 2: that Notre Dame has where they beat the Brakes off Purdue,
Speaker 2: it's more likely because Purdue sucks. That's not me telling
Speaker 2: you Notre Dame stinks. But like, I just don't get
Speaker 2: why there's not more people willing to say, yeah, I
Speaker 2: think louisll wins this one, and maybe they are. I
Speaker 2: know Louisville fans are saying that. But I was happy
Speaker 2: to play this sound for you early, and I'll play
Speaker 2: really quickly here before we get to a break and
Speaker 2: come back on the other side and keep the thing
Speaker 2: rolling along again. I do want to try to get
Speaker 2: as much as we can before we get out of here.
Speaker 2: But this is Rick Neuheisel, who works for CBS covering
Speaker 2: college football. This was I guess they're studio set earlier
Speaker 2: this week looking at this weekend's games on the college
Speaker 2: football slate, and he thinks the wrong team's favored, the.
Speaker 4: Wrong team's favor here, This should be Louisville favored. Jeff
Speaker 4: Brahm said it exactly right. If you couldn't get Notre
Speaker 4: Dame behind and forced Riley Leonard into having the throw.
Speaker 4: And I was strong just a little bit of goh
Speaker 4: saying that he can't throw. He certainly can, but he
Speaker 4: is inconsistent missing a.
Speaker 2: Lot of weeks.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a boom, a matter of
Speaker 4: still injured, or what have you. But if they're going
Speaker 4: to be that inconsistent with the forward pass, it's incumbent
Speaker 4: upon Louisville to get a lead. And I think defensively
Speaker 4: they're good enough and Shuck's good enough for that to happen.
Speaker 2: I'm taking the.
Speaker 4: Cardinals tan to be is going to be very important,
Speaker 4: especially from the Louisville.
Speaker 3: Side, because they've got it.
Speaker 2: I don't know who this guy is talking.
Speaker 3: Receivers, it's the number three offense in the ACC.
Speaker 5: I think they take down Notre Dame and we don't
Speaker 5: have to hear a whole lot of weed.
Speaker 2: Wow, So two of the I don't know who that
Speaker 2: guy is.
Speaker 1: They don't.
Speaker 2: He's got beautiful hair and he's got he's a silver fox.
Speaker 2: But I mean, you know that doesn't mean Louisville is
Speaker 2: gonna win. It'll have no impact at all. But these
Speaker 2: are the CBS guys that are picking the game, not
Speaker 2: the spread. This is nothing to do with wagering. So
Speaker 2: if that if you needed some more confidence before you
Speaker 2: make the trip trip up to South Bend, Hopefully that helped.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, we'll come back on the other side.
Speaker 2: It is Coffee and Company and we are fuel about
Speaker 2: Thorntons right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. I can't
Speaker 2: get a read as far as the confidence level for
Speaker 2: UK fans in this matchup against ole Miss. I mean,
Speaker 2: ole Miss is a really good team. You got to
Speaker 2: go play them at their place. But I mean you
Speaker 2: did just play Georgia really close, but you were able to,
Speaker 2: you know, have that game played at the pace and
Speaker 2: style that gave you your best chance to win. I
Speaker 2: think trying to ugly it up and slow down Lane
Speaker 2: Kiffen and his offense is you know, much easier said
Speaker 2: than done. But uh, Lane Kiffin. You know, I remember
Speaker 2: when Louisville played Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss in the
Speaker 2: opener a couple of years ago, and I remember thinking, Wow,
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this, you know, as a talk
Speaker 2: radio host, Like, we're playing a guy who's a character
Speaker 2: within college football. There's a lot of stories about him
Speaker 2: over the years, and some of them are funny, but like,
Speaker 2: he really isn't. He's not somebody that's just got this
Speaker 2: big personality. That's just he's not Mike Leech as far
Speaker 2: as in front of a microphone. But I think what
Speaker 2: makes him different is one, he was just so young
Speaker 2: when he got his start, and you know, it's intriguing
Speaker 2: to see a guy at this point kind of back
Speaker 2: on top. After two failed stints at big schools. He
Speaker 2: was unsuccessful at Tennessee and left after a year and
Speaker 2: left him in trouble, and then he went to USC
Speaker 2: and that was a little premature in my opinion, but
Speaker 2: he wasn't great. I don't know if he should have
Speaker 2: been fired, but then he had to rehab his career
Speaker 2: right at Alabama. And you know, I can't tell if
Speaker 2: they're if they're feud is in fun or they really
Speaker 2: hate each other, meaning Saban and Kiffin. But I think
Speaker 2: kiffn you know, he's a guy that just he's going
Speaker 2: to be direct. He's going to probably say things to
Speaker 2: Saban that most wouldn't challenge Saban in a way when
Speaker 2: most wouldn't because one, he's who he is, and also
Speaker 2: you know he's especially on offense, like he's the OC
Speaker 2: for Saban. But Saban's got to say so. And if
Speaker 2: Saban disagrees, I'm sure Kiffin feels comfortable in saying you're wrong,
Speaker 2: and that can create a rift. I mean, it is
Speaker 2: wild that Saban basically sent his ass on after he
Speaker 2: already had taken a job. It was it was, you know,
Speaker 2: the belief that he would still be coaching Alabama in
Speaker 2: the playoff whenever he went to FAU and Saban said no,
Speaker 2: So I think that actually speaks to the fact that
Speaker 2: they didn't get along and didn't work well. But either way,
Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin's just really direct. He's really honest, and that's rare.
Speaker 2: I mean, he calls out other coaches, but he's not
Speaker 2: doing it in like a petty way. He's just direct.
Speaker 2: His press conferences are actually, you know, there's not a
Speaker 2: lot of energy there because I remember being underwhelmed, like
Speaker 2: We've got the presser before the Louisville match up with
Speaker 2: Old Miss and like, Lane Kiffin's kind of boring. But
Speaker 2: he did something ahead of this matchup that I still
Speaker 2: it's not like, you know, this isn't something I don't
Speaker 2: want to sensationalize it as if like it's it should
Speaker 2: be leading the current, you know, newswire in college football,
Speaker 2: but he called it like it was. They played nobody
Speaker 2: yet meeting Ole Miss, and they're going to play Kentucky,
Speaker 2: who nobody really knows if they're any good at all
Speaker 2: or if they're I mean, Tucky's got to be one
Speaker 2: of the tougher teams to figure out what their results
Speaker 2: at this point. But I think he knows he can
Speaker 2: look at what they did against Georgia and they have
Speaker 2: played South Carolina, who isn't very good but still an
Speaker 2: SEC team and probably better than anybody that Old Missus played.
Speaker 2: So I just think it's it's nice to hear coaches
Speaker 2: just say what we all know is the truth, and
Speaker 2: that's that who they've played at this point has not
Speaker 2: challenged them in a way that he'd like his team
Speaker 2: to be challenged as of September twenty fifth.
Speaker 5: No, I'm realist. I don't think our opponents have really
Speaker 5: prepared us for the SEC play. What dom I hope
Speaker 5: is our practice in our fall camp has prepared us
Speaker 5: because we play against really good players on both sides
Speaker 5: of the ball, so defensively we play against really big
Speaker 5: linemen and seeing the other way around. So schedule not
Speaker 5: it is what it is, and so I hope that
Speaker 5: our practice has because our practices are similar to what
Speaker 5: we faced.
Speaker 2: That's just a real coach, like, that's not disrespect, that's
Speaker 2: not trying to show up Wake Forest or Middle Tennessee
Speaker 2: State and Furman. That's just in Georgia Southern. That's just
Speaker 2: the coach being honest and saying that their practices have
Speaker 2: been a bigger test for them than who they've played.
Speaker 2: Because Old mis went out and bought a hell of
Speaker 2: a team and they're in the top ten. Their second
Speaker 2: string unit would probably beat everybody they played for both
Speaker 2: those reasons. They ain't played nobody it's any good, and
Speaker 2: they got reserves in depth they could compete. So I
Speaker 2: don't know, I just found that to be refreshing. And
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this. He went on to talk about it,
Speaker 2: and I don't have this clip in front of it,
Speaker 2: but he went on to really kind of gass up
Speaker 2: Kentucky's personnel and talked about how they've got a lot
Speaker 2: of guys on their team that are going to play
Speaker 2: in the NFL, especially on defense. And I'm thinking, all right,
Speaker 2: come on, now, you're just now you're just trying to
Speaker 2: build this Kentucky team up to be something they're not.
Speaker 2: And then I thought to myself, he's right. Like if
Speaker 2: I thought Kentucky had a bunch of bums and they
Speaker 2: were gonna beat anybody this year, I would tell you
Speaker 2: that because it would make me happy to say that.
Speaker 2: But I also can't lie to myself, and I don't
Speaker 2: want to lie to you. Kentucky has good players, now
Speaker 2: I don't know how good. VANDW. Griff is, but you
Speaker 2: know he's tough. You know, he's good enough I think
Speaker 2: for you to have some success against you know, half
Speaker 2: your schedule, maybe, But they've got really good guys on defense,
Speaker 2: I mean, on the line, at linebacker, in the secondary.
Speaker 2: Barrian Brown, I mean, he's he's really good.
Speaker 4: Dame Key.
Speaker 2: It was against a nobody, but he just had a
Speaker 2: really impressive day, one of the best receiving performances last week.
Speaker 2: So you know, I don't know if Kentucky fans think
Speaker 2: about that very much. And I'm not telling you that
Speaker 2: you showed you guys can do whatever you want, and
Speaker 2: you know I wouldn't. I mean, I can't speak for you.
Speaker 2: I'm not a Kentucky fan, but I would at this
Speaker 2: point in the season if I was you, if I
Speaker 2: could put myself in your shoes, I would feel all right.
Speaker 2: Tough loss just to Georgia game we could have won.
Speaker 2: No excuse to lose to South Carolina and certainly an
Speaker 2: excuse to lose to them the way you did, because
Speaker 2: we know they're not great and we were at home
Speaker 2: and we have better players in them. So you know,
Speaker 2: I would be thinking to myself, not only does Stoops
Speaker 2: need to finish strong here the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: But like it's not just about because we want to
Speaker 2: go to a bowl game. It's because, no, you should
Speaker 2: you have players that are capable of winning a game
Speaker 2: you've already lost. And I don't know about beating Ole Miss,
Speaker 2: but like they've got two games that like if they lose,
Speaker 2: there's a problem, Like Florida sucks, and Florida's of course
Speaker 2: at home when they play them in Gainesville, which makes
Speaker 2: it a little more difficult. But you've got Auburn at
Speaker 2: home and like they suck. Auburn lost to cal Auburn
Speaker 2: lost to Arkansas, who nobody thinks is good. So not
Speaker 2: to say there's a ton of pressure on stoops, but
Speaker 2: like there's gonna be some swing games that like, now
Speaker 2: you got to go win one because you already lost
Speaker 2: to South Carolina. You know you've got losses coming the
Speaker 2: likes of Ole Miss and who else do they have
Speaker 2: that's that's really really highly ranked? Do they have Alabama? No, Texas? Yeah, Texas,
Speaker 2: who's number one in the country. So I mean those
Speaker 2: with with that already in place, Like, no longer are
Speaker 2: these swing games. These are games you better go win
Speaker 2: because now we'd have there's definitive proof. And it's not
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Speaker 2: I think this person on the text line is I
Speaker 2: think they are. I think they're mentioning this because they're
Speaker 2: going back in time when we learned really what's standing
Speaker 2: on business meant? When Penny Boone decided to transfer from
Speaker 2: Louisville but yes, I think you're right this texter says
Speaker 2: that Nick is it's safe to say that the two
Speaker 2: UNLV players are standing on business. I think that's actually
Speaker 2: what's happening here, although the running back has since come
Speaker 2: out and said this is not about nil, it's about
Speaker 2: being misled about opportunities on the field. I didn't get
Speaker 2: it down from UNLV. They don't have any money. I
Speaker 2: mean I added that last part, but like that's really
Speaker 2: what it's come down to, because they don't and you know,
Speaker 2: you need money.
Speaker 3: In fact, kind of ironic in the land of you know,
Speaker 3: gambling and you know, having money in that type of
Speaker 3: stuff in Las Vegas. They don't have anything for UNL.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that for tomorrow because two people have
Speaker 2: said the same thing, and I have a theory as
Speaker 2: to why they're they're struggling here when it seems as
Speaker 2: if they'd be as they'd be an area, they'd be
Speaker 2: a market really that would be able to have no
Speaker 2: problem get money to go get some players. Now, not
Speaker 2: to say they should be competing with the likes of
Speaker 2: BAM or anything like that, but yeah, this won't be
Speaker 2: the last time this happens. I'm sure and I would
Speaker 2: assume that after we get further into this new world
Speaker 2: that there will be this won't be like shocking news
Speaker 2: to you anymore. Speaking of money in nil, which was
Speaker 2: not a thing forever until what twenty twenty one or
Speaker 2: whatnot twenty two maybe Reggie Bush has filed a lawsuit
Speaker 2: against USC, the NCAA, and the PAC twelve seeking compensation
Speaker 2: for the use of his name, image, and likeness during
Speaker 2: his college football career, claiming they profited from his fame
Speaker 2: without compensating him. And you know, if you remember, I
Speaker 2: kept asking, hey, why is it? What was the date?
Speaker 2: Like if you played from twenty sixteen on, you'll get
Speaker 2: I think you're right about this yet I don't remember
Speaker 2: the exact timeline, but I kept asking, why would you
Speaker 2: be able to why would the settlement include players that
Speaker 2: didn't get paid in a certain timeline. But then like,
Speaker 2: because that's why you've had lawsuits. I mean, if you remember,
Speaker 2: you've now got guys who won, who won a championship
Speaker 2: at Kansas. You got a team that made the championship
Speaker 2: game with cal and I'm sorry, Kansas title team, North
Speaker 2: Carolina State title team from back in the eighties, and
Speaker 2: a Memphis team that made it all the way to
Speaker 2: the championship game under Caliperry. They've all collectively filed lawsuits
Speaker 2: because they want money that the school kept from them
Speaker 2: that you know, they feel like they should be entitled
Speaker 2: to since now it's been proven with the with with
Speaker 2: I mean, Congress has said what they did is not allowed.
Speaker 2: They can they cannot prevent you from making money. And oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, now you've got a revenue share, you know,
Speaker 2: you know, so that's never ending. But with Reggie Bush,
Speaker 2: I mean, I think this kind of to me, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I can't relate because I've never had
Speaker 2: any money that he's had, like the amount and never
Speaker 2: been in that world. But it kind of feels like
Speaker 2: he's broke. I don't know, Like if you feel like
Speaker 2: you were wronged and people made money off you and
Speaker 2: you want to go get it that, you could be
Speaker 2: a billionaire and still want to be standing on business Sean.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to like, I don't know, like
Speaker 2: he won a huge law Here's here's my theory about
Speaker 2: Reggie Bush. He won a big lawsuit against the Niners
Speaker 2: when he played for I think either the Lions of
Speaker 2: the Dolphins because when his career was sort of winding down,
Speaker 2: he ended up getting tackled at the Niner Stadium and went,
Speaker 2: you know, the play went out of bounds and he
Speaker 2: fell on concrete and hurt himself and it was an
Speaker 2: injury that was that was actually caused by the poor
Speaker 2: field conditions at that stadium. He won millions of dollars,
Speaker 2: so maybe he realized, hey, lawsuits are fun. I can
Speaker 2: make a lot of money. Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 2: So maybe that I, you know, I don't want to
Speaker 2: say he's doing this it means he's poor, because again,
Speaker 2: if you're you feel like you're entitled to money and
Speaker 2: then you know there's wrong with going and getting it.
Speaker 2: But you know, some people get so happy, and maybe
Speaker 2: Reggie Bush is that guy. All right, let's talk about
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