Speaker 1: Welcome back to EVE Sports Radio. Yes it is June
Speaker 1: the thirtieth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: It's Monday.
Speaker 1: If you did not know, it's time to get up
Speaker 1: and get to work.
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, I've got two co hosts, which I
Speaker 1: will get to. Before I do that, you guys need
Speaker 1: to know that we got the balls in studio with us.
Speaker 2: Gus Allen is running the production for us today.
Speaker 1: So Gus, I appreciate you getting up sitting in with us,
Speaker 1: and not very often do we have the bass sitting
Speaker 1: in with us.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, everyone's well like the gracier presence, So
Speaker 3: I like.
Speaker 2: That, Gus.
Speaker 1: But I appreciate you sitt didn't good to be here,
Speaker 1: no question. Gus is the most workman in radio business.
Speaker 4: That's all I can tell people.
Speaker 1: So Gus, let's bring on first my younger son. But
Speaker 1: first let me get the business out of the way.
Speaker 1: My phone number is five zero two five seven one
Speaker 1: seventy nine hundred. This is Sports Talk seven ninety kr D,
Speaker 1: and of course I'm the brand, so I've already introduced
Speaker 1: you out to Gus the boss sitting in for Shannon.
Speaker 1: Shannon's on vacation, which I understand. I took two days
Speaker 1: yesterday traveling last week, and of course we know we've
Speaker 1: got fourth of July this week, so it'll be another
Speaker 1: short week for EVE Sports Radio. Now, let's get to
Speaker 1: my younger son first. Let's bring him. Gus Anthony, how
Speaker 1: are you.
Speaker 5: I'm doing great this morning.
Speaker 3: How about yourself? Hey?
Speaker 1: And all I can tell people is this, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bring that other guy in a second. It is
Speaker 1: June thirtieth, and you know I've been playing around since
Speaker 1: the end of December, end of January.
Speaker 2: Soon we'll be saying it's Christmas time. Well, it's upon us.
Speaker 2: Half the year is gone. It's the seventh month tomorrow.
Speaker 2: It's all I want people to know. If you didn't know,
Speaker 2: there's only twelve months in the year. We're at the
Speaker 2: seventh month. It's gone quickly, that's all.
Speaker 1: So let's bring the other old guy, because he understands
Speaker 1: when I say, when you get old, the end of
Speaker 1: that toilet tissue world goes fast.
Speaker 2: Georgia, we're old.
Speaker 1: Our toilet tissue row is going really fast. Yours faster
Speaker 1: than mine, though, George, yours faster than mine. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show, George, how are you I just started bringing right.
Speaker 4: Uh, why why you not? All you should be always
Speaker 4: thankful you making another day and worried about how old
Speaker 4: you are?
Speaker 2: Making another day of every show, George. I do it
Speaker 2: at the end of every show, George, I tell you.
Speaker 4: But my whole thing, huh.
Speaker 2: I do it at the every end of every show.
Speaker 2: You know that, George, You know I do. I thank
Speaker 2: them for today, thank.
Speaker 4: You for yeah. Yeah, but no, no want back, you know, Jared.
Speaker 1: Just enjoy a get though, okay, follow you you father,
Speaker 1: whoever you want to it, whoever you want.
Speaker 4: You make another day. You don't make another day that
Speaker 4: went fast.
Speaker 2: Don't have to worry about it, George.
Speaker 4: No, that's out buff. But it's good to make another one.
Speaker 4: It's always good to hear you guys back. I hope
Speaker 4: you had a great vacation and great travels. I mean,
Speaker 4: I know they left many.
Speaker 1: On the way over. But why'd you say no, we did, George?
Speaker 1: What'd you say great travels?
Speaker 4: Well, you have such adventure when you come back from traveling.
Speaker 4: I always like to start the show on a new adventure.
Speaker 1: Maybe, George, George, I have witnesses George, Martin Dunbar and
Speaker 1: his wife are traveling with us. Okay, we're leaving Panama City.
Speaker 1: Our flights to thirty leaves on time, arrives in Atlanta
Speaker 1: on time.
Speaker 4: That's wonderful.
Speaker 2: That's for our flight, George. We're one hour behind.
Speaker 1: My daughter, Ashley is on the nine to thirty five flights,
Speaker 1: gets home at ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Martin Numbard, Janice Dunbar, myself and my wife.
Speaker 1: We're on the eleven ten flight. Gets in at twelve ten. Okay, George,
Speaker 1: so no problem. Ashley scouraged to her gate after customs.
Speaker 1: We walked to our gate. We've got plenty of times.
Speaker 1: She calls on the phone and says, there are a
Speaker 1: thousand empty seats on this plane.
Speaker 2: Y'all can make it.
Speaker 1: It's one terminal over. We look at each other, y'all
Speaker 1: want to try this. Everybody's like yes, get us home
Speaker 1: two hours early, George. We scurried to the gate. We
Speaker 1: get on the flight. That is the nine thirty flight, George.
Speaker 1: He taxes out to the pilot. Does we're about the
Speaker 1: tenth plane. No problem, we're moving.
Speaker 2: We're moving.
Speaker 4: We're moving, George.
Speaker 2: About twenty minutes into it, guys, this is not let
Speaker 2: me let me back up. This is God's Let me
Speaker 2: back up, George.
Speaker 1: When I get on the plane, Martin dumbars directly behind me.
Speaker 1: The lady said, the exit windows are open, not the aisles,
Speaker 1: but the exit windows.
Speaker 2: Great, no problem, I got extra leg room.
Speaker 1: I scurry to the window. Martin Dunbar scurries to the middle.
Speaker 1: I truly took Martin's seat, but he took it back
Speaker 1: from me. George, I moved over as soon as we
Speaker 1: the gentleman lets us in first words.
Speaker 2: He says, this, I love your show. I listen every day,
Speaker 2: So gentlemen, I forgot your name. Sorry, but this is fact. George.
Speaker 2: I sit next to him.
Speaker 1: We talk about the show, We talk about sports, all
Speaker 1: kinds of things.
Speaker 2: Martin's in the middle. I'm on the window, he's on
Speaker 2: the aisle.
Speaker 1: As soon as they close the doors, George, I take
Speaker 1: the opposite window.
Speaker 2: I'll seat a window seat.
Speaker 1: Emergency exitile, not out emergency exit window seat. But we're
Speaker 1: still talking. The draft is going on, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw it to Anthony. The draft is going on, George.
Speaker 1: He cuts off the plane because it's a long wait.
Speaker 1: He comes back going and says, I hate to tell
Speaker 1: you all the left engine.
Speaker 2: Won't cut back on. We've got to go back to
Speaker 2: the gate, George.
Speaker 1: The gentleman looked at me and said, he said, any
Speaker 1: time I see you getting on a plane, I'm getting off.
Speaker 2: George. This is the truth.
Speaker 4: We missed the plane adventure here in the city of Louisville.
Speaker 2: George.
Speaker 1: We taxi pack it Atlanta when I die went to Atlanta.
Speaker 2: And it will be delayed. I'm telling you, George, we.
Speaker 4: Gla were you lucky?
Speaker 1: Then they fix it, George, twenty minutes, so we're still
Speaker 1: a little ahead of our original flight, which is at eleven.
Speaker 2: It's about.
Speaker 1: Ten, George. We taxi out where the seventh plane. No problem.
Speaker 1: He comes but comes back on again. I had to
Speaker 1: tell you we've got thunder de lay, there's lightning in
Speaker 1: the area. Gentlman threw his hands up and said, he's
Speaker 1: your jeans. I'm telling George, and I am a Jens
Speaker 1: Martin dumbar. Is there, George, our flight we leave? I
Speaker 1: mean not kidding you. We take off, George. At one one.
Speaker 1: We get into Louisville.
Speaker 4: Other plane, George, is it?
Speaker 2: George?
Speaker 1: Our bags that were on the eleven tenth flight are
Speaker 1: waiting for us in the airport when we got there.
Speaker 4: You can't make this stuff up.
Speaker 2: You can't make it up. People think I'm playing I
Speaker 2: got witnesses.
Speaker 4: You can't. Oh, no, Jae. You do this every year.
Speaker 4: You do this every year. You'll make every flight, Sir George,
Speaker 4: that's every flight.
Speaker 2: I'm going to Vegas.
Speaker 1: I'm going to Vegas July the tenth in the Summer League.
Speaker 1: I'm taking Southwest Direct. All I can say is, please,
Speaker 1: no connections to Atlanta, George, Atlanta and I don't get along.
Speaker 2: That's all there is to it.
Speaker 1: I will go to Atlanta and be waiting, waiting to
Speaker 1: go wherever I gotta go.
Speaker 2: George, I'm hoping.
Speaker 4: No, I don't know, George. No, Jerry what no flight
Speaker 4: you get on that, you get along with it. Don't
Speaker 4: don't blame it on Atlanta. Don't blame it on the
Speaker 4: lane in the country. Don't blame it on Atlanta. Anywhere
Speaker 4: you go, my pa country, you come back in the country. Yes,
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. Your family's affected. You're affected. Your family
Speaker 4: now now they're leaving.
Speaker 1: Any market got marked and it was lucky he was
Speaker 1: on at ten o'clock flight through Newark.
Speaker 2: He did not have our flight George, you can't make
Speaker 2: it up. I'm walking off the flight in Louisville at
Speaker 2: two thirty. People don't understand. I've been doing this all
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 1: I looked at the pilot, who was always greeting as
Speaker 1: you walk off, I said, how close were you to
Speaker 1: tieing out?
Speaker 2: George?
Speaker 1: Timing out is when the pilot has to if he's
Speaker 1: not in the air, he has to take the plane
Speaker 1: back to the gate and go home.
Speaker 2: He has to. He said, sir, you've been flying.
Speaker 4: I see.
Speaker 2: We were one minute from me timing out in it
Speaker 2: left one minute.
Speaker 1: If he did not take off, George, it was not
Speaker 1: in the air within that one minute, if you would
Speaker 1: have had to gone back to the gate, I said, boy.
Speaker 2: But then there was a God, George, I said, thank you.
Speaker 2: Lower that's the truth, George.
Speaker 1: That's a fact, I said, flying and I just I
Speaker 1: get everything. So anyway, George, that's what the.
Speaker 4: Palace said too. While you get on my plane.
Speaker 2: That's a fact, George.
Speaker 4: It's George. It's a fight.
Speaker 2: Now. I get on planes and people start bullying me. George.
Speaker 2: They started boring. God.
Speaker 4: It's one thing we can say, Sureley about you don't
Speaker 4: get on an airplane that you get on and don't
Speaker 4: support a team that you're going to back. Those are
Speaker 4: two things that I know since I've been on this
Speaker 4: shoulders Dude, h it's too and you can be. You
Speaker 4: pick a team, they go down, you get on the plane,
Speaker 4: it stays down.
Speaker 2: I forget you, George William, Anthony heaves to get George.
Speaker 1: Here's what we're gonna do TEPN fourteen. We're gonna use
Speaker 1: this show as the best of Gus.
Speaker 2: Let's go to break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, We're going to throw it to
Speaker 1: Anthony for all the national news, George, and then you
Speaker 1: and I are gonna chop it up after that because
Speaker 1: Anthony's gonna have to run it seven thirty today, So
Speaker 1: they's gonna just be you and I.
Speaker 2: George. Hey, George, all that the team died back, I
Speaker 2: don't believe that. I'm not I didn't say that was correct.
Speaker 2: I just want you to know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we talked about Dallas Cleveland, the match Chicago Cincinnati,
Speaker 4: and the beat goes on.
Speaker 2: Just don't give me, do not give me. Rick Bostich
Speaker 2: is white SOX.
Speaker 1: I was talking to Rick yesterday and everyone knows he's
Speaker 1: retiring tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Is his last day at w DRB. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you know that, George, but it's Ricky fifty years
Speaker 2: fifty years. He was talking about I can go watch
Speaker 2: for a white Sox. I said why yesterday jured I
Speaker 2: said why why? He likes the torture himself. So anyway,
Speaker 2: seven to fifteen, George, we're going to break.
Speaker 1: We will be back. Anthony, you're up. The sports radio
Speaker 1: will talk to you in a minute. Sports Radio seven nineteen,
Speaker 1: phone numbers five zero two, five seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 2: The gentleman that was sitting in the aisle seat, I
Speaker 2: would love for you to call in just to let
Speaker 2: everyone know that what I said is one accurate.
Speaker 1: Anyway, let's throw it back to the young one, the
Speaker 1: young gun, Anthony. Anthony that's with the National News, and
Speaker 1: then we'll let George from there.
Speaker 2: What do you have for is Anthony?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we got tons of stuff coming up, obviously. One
Speaker 6: of the big things we do have obviously we have
Speaker 6: Wimbledon coming up this week, which is huge. A lot
Speaker 6: of a lot of matters are going on this morning
Speaker 6: and later on in the afternoon as well, so I
Speaker 6: know that's what's huge, tender event that we love to
Speaker 6: watch and get a hold of. The biggest thing I
Speaker 6: want to hit on is the teams I think one
Speaker 6: in the NBA drafts and scenes I think made mistakes.
Speaker 5: Obviously, know it's hard to predict what we think of
Speaker 5: these draft picks before they even play, but everybody has
Speaker 5: their opinions and so do I. Obviously, the big thing
Speaker 5: that when we're talking about was about as Bailey, his
Speaker 5: decision to not work out for a lot of teams
Speaker 5: because he didn't want to go to the six Ers
Speaker 5: and end up sliding into that fifth spot to the
Speaker 5: Utah Jazz. And it's funny though he didn't even check
Speaker 5: into the jazz organization until yesterday. He had no communication
Speaker 5: with the Jazz's front office until I think Sunday afternoon
Speaker 5: when they told him or Saturday that they told him
Speaker 5: that he had to report to Utah before Monday or
Speaker 5: there would be contract issues. When he showed up, he
Speaker 5: worked out and he said that he's ready to go
Speaker 5: to be a Utah Jazz. But I think that just
Speaker 5: throws a lot of doubt in people's mind when you
Speaker 5: got a lot of people in the draft that are
Speaker 5: already complaining about where they're going and That's something I've
Speaker 5: seen over social media over the last couple of days.
Speaker 5: A crazy amount is kind of the players are being
Speaker 5: a little bit prima donna than how they used to
Speaker 5: be when they used to get drafted, you know, even
Speaker 5: ten to fifteen years ago, and guys are complaining about
Speaker 5: getting after to certain teams when you know, it was
Speaker 5: funny they said that. You know, for a lot of guys,
Speaker 5: it didn't matter what team they went to, getting drafted
Speaker 5: was life changing. What doesn't necessarily seem that way anymore.
Speaker 5: Most of these guys want money handed to them, or
Speaker 5: a lot of these guys have already been wealthy from
Speaker 5: their NIL deals or even since high school. I think
Speaker 5: it's kind of taken away that it factored from the NBA,
Speaker 5: and another reason why the ratings are so low over
Speaker 5: the last couple of years, because there's not the same
Speaker 5: drive that there used to be in the NBA, where
Speaker 5: guys are going in there to try to really make it,
Speaker 5: support their families and you know, live out a childhood dream.
Speaker 5: Now it is more so what can you do for
Speaker 5: me and what can you give me when I come
Speaker 5: into the NBA, And I think something's got to change
Speaker 5: with that over the next couple of years, because it's
Speaker 5: it's watering down the NBA to where it's very boring
Speaker 5: to watch until the playoffs, and even the playoff ratings
Speaker 5: were still low. So I just it's just it's trending
Speaker 5: in the wrong direction. And I just kind of want
Speaker 5: to get you all's opinion on that and what she
Speaker 5: thought about that, because I thought that was interesting. I
Speaker 5: thought it was a true fact that it's kind of,
Speaker 5: you know, NBA has been kind of been taking a
Speaker 5: little a slippery slope over the last i'd say ten
Speaker 5: to fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Probably, George, what do you think. Let's just clarify the ratings.
Speaker 4: Watch Okay, go ahead, that's right.
Speaker 1: But in the United States the ratings are way down,
Speaker 1: but the ratings you count international.
Speaker 3: Eyes are up.
Speaker 2: But in America, you're right, Anthony, they're seventy percent of
Speaker 2: what they were at their height. Go ahead, George, Well, I.
Speaker 4: Was gonna say that, Jerry, the NBA really plays about
Speaker 4: the international ratings. I think that the world wide, the
Speaker 4: NBA was up all around the world, and I think
Speaker 4: that because the world is getting involved, that we got
Speaker 4: the quick thing that that's just our game now, it's
Speaker 4: not just our game. Now it's the rest of the
Speaker 4: world's game also, and they're picking up on it, and
Speaker 4: they're taking the ratings up, and the ball players are
Speaker 4: going to get played more extravagant because mister Bridgman came
Speaker 4: on and told us about that little before he passed.
Speaker 4: And uh, I think that I love. I don't know
Speaker 4: what people watch for the NBA Finals, Jerry, but I
Speaker 4: thought this is one of the best finals we've had
Speaker 4: in almost five or ten years. I thought the passion
Speaker 4: of all play. I thought the games were so kinderalizing,
Speaker 4: and you had to bring your a game every game, comebacks,
Speaker 4: you know. I thought the game had everything that you
Speaker 4: would wanting the basketball. You had your threes, you had
Speaker 4: your layups, you had your mid range, you had great coaching,
Speaker 4: you had strategy. I don't know what people could be
Speaker 4: looking for. To say it, I think one of the
Speaker 4: problems is that we have in America is if two
Speaker 4: people do it, we judge the rest of the country
Speaker 4: is doing it. I mean, you look at like maybe
Speaker 4: one or two guys act of food, and we judged
Speaker 4: the whole league of one hundred or three hundred some players.
Speaker 4: I think that's something that we've got to get away from.
Speaker 4: I think that if you look at if I say
Speaker 4: this all the time, it's the percentage of society got
Speaker 4: in trouble is like the NBA, we'd have almost a
Speaker 4: per society because you can count the ball players to
Speaker 4: get arrested.
Speaker 1: In much better than our politicians. Hey, George, let me
Speaker 1: stop you, Let me stop you. Okay, we be better
Speaker 1: than our politicians. No, just piggybacking, George. You're right, we'd
Speaker 1: be better than our politicians. I just want people to
Speaker 1: understand that that's a fact. We talked about this and
Speaker 1: then about the ball politicians, no questions. No, it's fact, George,
Speaker 1: it'd be less than our politicians. But don't tell the truth.
Speaker 1: Sometimes people don't like that.
Speaker 2: It's to it.
Speaker 4: I mean, you talking about less than five five percent
Speaker 4: of a whole league that gets in trouble, Jerry most
Speaker 4: of the time, and we talk about like the whole
Speaker 4: league is in trouble when one ball player goes down.
Speaker 2: Ye, No, George, that's a fact less than our politicians.
Speaker 1: For all our listeners, just to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: when they're always talking about the issues NBA, NFL, if
Speaker 1: you rated them against our politicians that we elect. You're
Speaker 1: not very smart, fact of the matter. But we'll leave
Speaker 1: out the lower George of us.
Speaker 2: Sit right, here's the deal, George.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 2: Agree with Anthony. I died to get to the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 2: I thought it was Heavan, George. So did Mark Eaton,
Speaker 2: who was so did Darryl Griffin. I mean all of
Speaker 2: us in career there. Yeah, we did, we did.
Speaker 1: I mean you just I just George. It was only
Speaker 1: twenty three teams. There were eleven on the Jazz, not
Speaker 1: even twelve, and it was hard to make and things
Speaker 1: have changed a little bit to Anthony's statement. But but
Speaker 1: you're one hundred percent correct, And that's that's why it's
Speaker 1: good for this show, because there's always two.
Speaker 4: Sides of this, and it is say one thing though.
Speaker 2: I do, George, Yeah, you can't. I died to be
Speaker 2: a jazz So I was upset because I love you talk.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 4: I died to be a jazz.
Speaker 2: It was they gave me an opportunity. Go ahead, George.
Speaker 4: Yeah. But but what I want to say, Jay, you
Speaker 4: look at like all the players. I figured some players drafted.
Speaker 4: You had one guy that made a scene and we
Speaker 4: talked like the whole league exactly, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: One guy and we we talked about he got more
Speaker 4: news than all the other guys. And like the fathers
Speaker 4: that were so upset with his son and showed such
Speaker 4: great emotion when his son got drafted. I mean, Jered,
Speaker 4: if you watch those scenes when those young men get
Speaker 4: up and their families react to what's happening in their life,
Speaker 4: they know it's life changes. Those young men are acstatic.
Speaker 4: There's nothing to change. Since you've been there, since Derek
Speaker 4: Ben I know. When I was there, Jered, it was
Speaker 4: one of the most life changing moments. And I never
Speaker 4: saw a person in that room that didn't get emotional.
Speaker 4: I was so excited for the young child. But like
Speaker 4: I say, when one apple asks a fool, then we
Speaker 4: judged the whole borrow.
Speaker 2: But we didn't judge Obel George. We called him out
Speaker 2: by name.
Speaker 4: Baby, you know what I'm saying. But he was only
Speaker 4: one person. But he was only one person.
Speaker 2: George, I know.
Speaker 4: But George, now that that's the Now, that's the truth.
Speaker 4: Your news on't fail, and that's a ain't and out society.
Speaker 4: That's one of the reason we have on our problems
Speaker 4: because good don't make make no difference in America. If
Speaker 4: you're doing bad, we love you. Know, here's the deal, Joe.
Speaker 1: We didn't say we loved you. We said we didn't
Speaker 1: like it. So I can roll over on Anthony. But
Speaker 1: here's the deal, George.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm not saying that. I'm not I'm not using
Speaker 4: the whole.
Speaker 2: I know. I want society as a whole in you
Speaker 2: to hear this. Here's Frankie. There's Frankie's Now I did.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to know. I don't know how
Speaker 1: you abbreviate. My dad was a right but he would.
Speaker 2: Look me square in my face and tell me, George.
Speaker 1: Doing the right things expected. I'm not gonna give you
Speaker 1: anything for the emotions you should have. That's expected.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: When a young man won't call a team back that's
Speaker 1: drafted him and it's gonna give him, he's gonna make
Speaker 1: forty million dollars.
Speaker 2: That's his first deal. Forty million. Man, you can't call
Speaker 2: him back. I gotta talk about you.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, and whoever's telling you, I'm George, that's all
Speaker 1: doing the right thing, George.
Speaker 4: But but Jared, Jared, Okay, go ahead. If if I'm
Speaker 4: giving you forty million dollars and you don't call me back.
Speaker 4: I'm not worried about you. I may make a phone
Speaker 4: call to you. You know what I mean. You may
Speaker 4: have blown the opportunity broad, George.
Speaker 1: We went through this with Baron Davis, so I knew
Speaker 1: before we drafted him with Charlotte.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember in college I recruited Baron got me
Speaker 2: great guy. I mean he's any producer now, George.
Speaker 4: Wow, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: He calls me and says, yes, he is all. He's
Speaker 2: producing movies, he says. And he's always on ESPN, his
Speaker 2: own podcast, his own things. George. I mean he's wealthy,
Speaker 2: he's done so well. I'm so happy for him. Good guy.
Speaker 1: He calls me the draft Eve, don't draft me. I'm
Speaker 1: not coming, I said, b we want you to come
Speaker 1: work out. I'm not coming to work out, I said, B.
Speaker 1: There don't make any difference. We're drafting you. Forget it, George.
Speaker 1: We drafted me. Flies in the next day like he's
Speaker 1: supposed to. Walks in my office. George shuts the door.
Speaker 1: His own entourage is outside. The entire entourage is outside
Speaker 1: closed doors. That's Paul Silace, that's Bob bass. Everybody, eve you,
Speaker 1: I can't even tell the choice words. We walked out laughing,
Speaker 1: and he ended up being a great hornet, all star,
Speaker 1: greatest guy represented the team. Oh what of then ambassador?
Speaker 1: But George, you think you and I have choice words?
Speaker 1: I gotta get bad on.
Speaker 2: He'll take you. That's the truth. We came out. We
Speaker 2: were like, what are y'all doing it there? Oh?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: BD was yelling and screaming, and I'm yelling at the scream.
Speaker 2: We walked out laughing. Everybody bust out laughing. Reporters, everybody.
Speaker 1: That's a fact. George so crazy. But I think that
Speaker 1: age will find out. You toss a great place to
Speaker 1: play it. I mean, come on, I love a Bailey,
Speaker 1: but he still ain't Griff.
Speaker 4: I don't love a Bley, but he's not represented well
Speaker 4: and he wasn't prepared for this yet. And I don't
Speaker 4: disagree with that in any way. Man, he did. It
Speaker 4: was a dumb bonehead movie made. I don't disagree with
Speaker 4: that at all. Millions dollars.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, come on, played his whole career there.
Speaker 1: Daryl could have left, guys. I want you to know,
Speaker 1: Daryl could have his four year deal. He could have
Speaker 1: forced a trade. He could have left. He could have
Speaker 1: said I'm not signing Kerrol.
Speaker 2: Didn't do that. Derrold took the Jazz from nothing.
Speaker 1: He Karl alone, John Stockton, that cut me, Mark Eaton
Speaker 1: thorough Bailey from North Carolina State.
Speaker 2: To a great team, a contender.
Speaker 1: But you know, if things have and he's right on
Speaker 1: that with things have changed, guys, we had seven thirty Anthony,
Speaker 1: any other national news you.
Speaker 2: Want to get up or I'll let you go and
Speaker 2: Georgia and I take it over. I might have to
Speaker 2: whip George.
Speaker 1: Anything else you need all y'all.
Speaker 5: We do have more news, obviously, we do talking about
Speaker 5: Obviously Chuckie Hepper and Terrence Edwards will be playing in
Speaker 5: the NBA Summer League. They went undrafted, but they were
Speaker 5: picked up and done by two teams as well, so
Speaker 5: that it's good to hear. And Rayne Smith as well.
Speaker 5: So we actually have three UGO cards playing the NBA
Speaker 5: Summer League. Yes, and also Al Khalifa will have granted
Speaker 5: his fifty year of eligibility, so he will be eligible
Speaker 5: this season to play for the UA Cardinals as just
Speaker 5: got passed over this weekend. So it's great news for
Speaker 5: the U though Cardinals, Ali Khlifa and also Pat Kelsey
Speaker 5: as well.
Speaker 2: There you go. Great job, guys. We're at seven thirty one.
Speaker 2: We're gonna use this. Yeah, we're gonna stay at task.
Speaker 1: Uh. EVE Sports Radio phone numbers five zero two, five
Speaker 1: seven one seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 2: We will be back. And Jorjia wasn't my fault. It
Speaker 2: was Martin's fault. That was martin fault while I play
Speaker 2: was delayed. Martin Dunbar did it.
Speaker 4: We'll talk to you always blaming Martin Man. Man's a
Speaker 4: great guy.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: I don't know how he puts up with you.
Speaker 1: Everybody's a great guy when it comes to you, George,
Speaker 1: other than me, that's frue. Welcome back to E Sports
Speaker 1: Radio phone number is five zero two five seven one
Speaker 1: seventy nine hundred. That's five zero two, five seven one
Speaker 1: seventy nine hundred. Oh gosh, it's sports talk. I got
Speaker 1: Gus behind the glass. I've got George Williams on the
Speaker 1: other line. George, we're gonna get the first of Ali
Speaker 1: Khalif you always are telling people that you know that
Speaker 1: I won't say or when I'm wrong, but I predicted
Speaker 1: this one incorrectly.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I want to explain to people.
Speaker 1: That at least I will tell people when the NCAA
Speaker 1: has changed their mind. If you remember, George, we spoke
Speaker 1: about Khalifa. You may not have been on that actual show,
Speaker 1: but we spoke about Ali Khalifa, and I told people
Speaker 1: that I did not think that they would grant him
Speaker 1: his fifth year because he did not play during the
Speaker 1: COVID season. And that's why I keep all my notes, George.
Speaker 1: I've got all my notes written down for him. Twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, red shirt year, twenty two, twenty one through
Speaker 1: twenty three, played at Charlotte, twenty three, twenty four played
Speaker 1: at BYU, Transferred to Louisville twenty four to twenty five,
Speaker 1: wants to play twenty five, twenty six got me, but
Speaker 1: he did not play or participate during the COVID season.
Speaker 1: In George, that is when the beginning of the match
Speaker 1: that started. They said we'll give you a fifth year
Speaker 1: if you play a shortened seasons.
Speaker 2: For the players that said okay, we'll play, they gave
Speaker 2: them a full year.
Speaker 1: Made sense, George, because they're only like seventeen to eighteen
Speaker 1: games that season, so it made sense, well, George, John Henry,
Speaker 1: who you know well, you remember.
Speaker 2: John Henry who played for me death God exactly individual yesterday, George.
Speaker 1: I shut down his junior season after the third game
Speaker 1: because we could not facilitate the bus that we were
Speaker 1: traveling on. We couldn't stop and get food. You couldn't
Speaker 1: take a bus to drive through. They weren't letting you
Speaker 1: in the restaurant's the fast food restaurant. So I eventually
Speaker 1: had to. We played at Campbellsville and we played our
Speaker 1: first game. Second game was canceled because one of the
Speaker 1: young men on the other team came down with COVID.
Speaker 1: So the school and I make a decision. We shut
Speaker 1: down the season, George, which ended up killing John Henry's
Speaker 1: fifth year because we didn't play. So I said that
Speaker 1: the NCAA, when they denied Khalif for the first time,
Speaker 1: this is the only reason why they denied it, because
Speaker 1: he did not play during the COVID season.
Speaker 2: That they wouldn't allow the man to play.
Speaker 1: Well, they changed their mind, George, and Ali Khalifa is
Speaker 1: able to play. I'm happy for Louisville and the young man.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying for John Henry. I'm mad now.
Speaker 4: Because me too, because I love John Henry's game exactly.
Speaker 2: I wrote the appeal just like Louisville did twice.
Speaker 1: Trying to let they told me no, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, now time has changed. So for John
Speaker 1: Henry's sake, I was upset about it. I'm glad for
Speaker 1: Ali Khalifa, but that's why I said what I said George,
Speaker 1: So I'm throwing it to you now that he is
Speaker 1: eligible to played George big Man in the middle, great
Speaker 1: passer from what coach Polk says at Kentucky?
Speaker 2: What do you think that was his coach at BYU.
Speaker 4: Well, again, Jerry, I wish John had got the play
Speaker 4: because he is a tremendous young man and he did
Speaker 4: a great job for you guys, and I thought he,
Speaker 4: you know, had a great career and I wish he
Speaker 4: could have finished out on top like he should have.
Speaker 4: But Jerry, I'm confused how to NCA makes their rulings.
Speaker 4: Some school some places can get certain things done. You know,
Speaker 4: it's pretty much like anything else, the popularity contest. But
Speaker 4: for the young man, I'm excited because, like I said,
Speaker 4: he did nothing wrong. He just was said early. But
Speaker 4: what about the young man at Tennessee. Jerry, he s
Speaker 4: he's doing the.
Speaker 2: Place they denied. They told Jordan ex Yeah.
Speaker 4: But he's doing in the courtroom. Jery. He took it
Speaker 4: to court.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, judge. The judge said no, George, Yes.
Speaker 4: Did I did not hear that. I'm glad, thank god,
Speaker 4: thank god.
Speaker 2: Judge said no, George.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah. I mean so.
Speaker 2: He thought he was the VAM party. You a k.
Speaker 2: He thought he's blood George.
Speaker 4: When he's such yall's blood clo. I U the young
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 2: You're broken. Excuse me.
Speaker 4: I thought we were talking about second blood. We were
Speaker 4: talking about George. I mean you brought the subject up, Jerry.
Speaker 4: It was Joe Suckey.
Speaker 2: Oh well, you're correct about that, but he was denied
Speaker 2: by the judge. George, So somewhere else.
Speaker 4: Time to start the life sooner than later. Here it's time.
Speaker 1: Now here's the one good thing. You're gonna love this,
Speaker 1: and I want people to hear these numbers. You've talked
Speaker 1: about this for years, and we both talked about letting
Speaker 1: players get paid in college because it would be beneficial
Speaker 1: to the player.
Speaker 2: We didn't say the school, you and I. We said
Speaker 2: the player. The schools have always.
Speaker 1: Taken care of themselves, and they're not going to get
Speaker 1: Jerry's to change.
Speaker 4: My mind on that.
Speaker 1: They've made billions before they paid us now billions, not millions.
Speaker 2: So George, here's the deal.
Speaker 1: And twenty twenty one, three hundred and fifty three players
Speaker 1: entered the NBA Draft. That's when schools could kind of
Speaker 1: start to pay. Twenty twenty two, two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: three players entered their name into the NBA Draft. Twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three George. Two hundred and forty two players ended.
Speaker 1: Twenty four. Two hundred and one players enter George twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five.
Speaker 4: On money figues.
Speaker 2: One hundred and six George entered.
Speaker 1: So they're staying in college, which is a good thing
Speaker 1: for George Williams.
Speaker 2: And I know, yeah, it.
Speaker 1: Does come a time after the fifth year, I want
Speaker 1: them out. I don't want to see any six year
Speaker 1: or seven of your players and then.
Speaker 2: I don't agree. I'm sorry, I agree with the guys.
Speaker 1: I'm pulling for the guys to get paid, but I'll
Speaker 1: tell them to they face five years and move on.
Speaker 2: College is over, get your degree, get your secondary degree,
Speaker 2: and go to work, period point blank, or go be
Speaker 2: a pro player. Either or, but be good enough.
Speaker 1: But I'm so tired of twenty six and twenty seven
Speaker 1: year old college football players holding back on opportunities of
Speaker 1: young people. I don't know what to do, so Georgie anyway,
Speaker 1: So it is a good thing, George, that they're paying,
Speaker 1: don't you agree? Because it's lord the numbers, Oh.
Speaker 4: No doubt. And see you see what it's doing is
Speaker 4: stopping all these players from running out of college yet,
Speaker 4: I mean, fishing up that degree they have the ability
Speaker 4: to now and and the resource. I think it's I
Speaker 4: think it's a wonderful thing. And he shows what you
Speaker 4: were talking about how it pays off more young people.
Speaker 4: But Jared, and that's one of the reasons that I
Speaker 4: hate to say it. You're talking about that young man ace.
Speaker 4: A lot of these young men are getting a lot
Speaker 4: of money and they don't think about leaving no more.
Speaker 3: Jeded.
Speaker 1: Yes, no, And I'm Georgia. I'm glad for him to
Speaker 1: stay in college. The opposite every one else.
Speaker 4: The ball will be a lot better this year, Jerry.
Speaker 4: We will see a lot better brand of Well, you're
Speaker 4: talking about the ACC. I think the ACC will be better.
Speaker 4: I think all conferences will be better but I wasn't
Speaker 4: on the show, Jerry, and I wanted to bring this
Speaker 4: up with you. Uh, what do you think about the
Speaker 4: school like the Big East, who don't have football teams
Speaker 4: and can drop all that money into basketball. They can
Speaker 4: almost give the minor sports for a million dollars just
Speaker 4: to play with. Yes, yes, great question. Question is already recreeting.
Speaker 1: Great question, George. Here's the problem, George. The NCAA is
Speaker 1: now the ruling the House against the nc double a
Speaker 1: rule to miss the Judge Watkins that the schools have
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars to work with.
Speaker 2: That's football, basketball is all the sports. But you just
Speaker 2: said something. Some sports don't have football, and a.
Speaker 4: School don't it all.
Speaker 1: Right that has a little minor league football program, George.
Speaker 1: They can dump all that twenty million if they want
Speaker 1: into basketball.
Speaker 2: Now here's the problem. It doesn't limit.
Speaker 1: Outside You can still have I hate to tell you,
Speaker 1: but my boy Ryan was right. You can still have
Speaker 1: outside incomes. George, play a part, right, So the Alabamas,
Speaker 1: George can have twenty millionaires. They still want to do
Speaker 1: some outside endorsements with the players, they still can't. It
Speaker 1: doesn't limit so George, it's just gonna be the wild
Speaker 1: wild West out of here people getting paid.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't you gonna represent me? I need you to represent
Speaker 2: me because Georgie, I want a couple of dimes.
Speaker 1: I wasn't good, but George's dang and I did help
Speaker 1: win the championship in nineteen eighty period, point blank.
Speaker 2: Second half. I don't care anybody says, can you get something? Well?
Speaker 4: But but but this is the guy that I'm telling you.
Speaker 4: It's gonna eat mugs up with this tricky Ricky Patino.
Speaker 4: You gonna get rick that kind of money to play
Speaker 4: with you. You have a baby New York Knick team.
Speaker 2: I'm player, George will Man.
Speaker 4: I mean there's certain coaches out there there just don't
Speaker 4: and there's gonna be certain coaches to leave conferences too,
Speaker 4: to get up in that big East too, and schools
Speaker 4: where they don't have for about You're gonna watch the
Speaker 4: change the last money.
Speaker 1: Yes, George, you hit it on the head, tricky Rick Well, George,
Speaker 1: seven forty four, We're still because we're gonna use this
Speaker 1: show seven forty four, and I'm happy for Khalifa. Okay,
Speaker 1: We're gonna find you. Louise, Hey, George, Louise Kentucky loaded.
Speaker 1: Both teams are loaded. Indiana not yet. But we got
Speaker 1: to give him time. But boy and Coach Pope, give people,
Speaker 1: don't we do. We'll give the people. The public won't.
Speaker 1: You'll force me to, and I'm with you, but the
Speaker 1: public won't. But we're gonna give him a year.
Speaker 2: But George, Kentucky are loaded. This is gonna be a
Speaker 2: great year to watch. So when we come back, George,
Speaker 2: since you brought up slick Rick, I didn't. And I'm
Speaker 2: looking at the newspaper right here, George.
Speaker 1: And before we go, Anthony was the first thing on
Speaker 1: the list I gave him, but he's left it to
Speaker 1: me and he's correct. I just want people to know
Speaker 1: d Wayne Lucas brought families together.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to break with this jew.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you thirty seconds too, but I need
Speaker 1: thirty seconds on d Wade.
Speaker 2: I don't know anything about the horse business.
Speaker 1: I do now because I know Dale Romans and I
Speaker 1: know men, and I know my friends got me that
Speaker 1: have inherited me and brought me into the horse business.
Speaker 1: But d Wayne Lucas is the name I heard when
Speaker 1: I was four or five years old. My dad used
Speaker 1: to love him when his horse is won and hate
Speaker 1: him when his horses lost. But he brought families together.
Speaker 1: And I'm not a gambler, so it doesn't mean, oh,
Speaker 1: he had yet the track gambling.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows. I've been on the number five, two dollars
Speaker 1: across the board. Okay, d Wayne Lucas brought families together.
Speaker 1: You can't say that about many people, but he did.
Speaker 2: He had parties.
Speaker 1: We had Oh Derby parties and family members came in
Speaker 1: and d Wayne Lucas's name was a center of the conversation.
Speaker 2: I just want people to know.
Speaker 1: Fifteen time triple crown victories for Kentucky, Derby's seven frequencies,
Speaker 1: or Bellmont's twenty breeders' cups. Come on, guys. But he
Speaker 1: was bigger than that. He brought in trainers to the business,
Speaker 1: Todd Pletcher, Dallas Stewart, Mike Maker. But he's bigger than that.
Speaker 2: He brought families together. Life well lived, sir, Life well lived.
Speaker 1: I'm throwing that to you. George will go to break
Speaker 1: on d.
Speaker 4: Wade well Jay. I can't say a lot of them,
Speaker 4: Like I said, me and you both probably got oriented
Speaker 4: into track on a big wave since we've been doing
Speaker 4: this show, and it's just we've been alriented into it.
Speaker 4: You know, we've had we have the Trainer Show every
Speaker 4: year and nobody, but nobody said if there's anybody bigger
Speaker 4: than Dwayne Lucas among his peers. So you know when
Speaker 4: your peers respect you, and being former athletes, we know
Speaker 4: that sometime the public looks at a certain person think
Speaker 4: they're really great. But when you talk to the ball
Speaker 4: players and they'll tell you who they really think that
Speaker 4: they start and the people around the track always told
Speaker 4: us it was Dwayne Lucas. So my hect goes up,
Speaker 4: my adocus goes out to him and the family, and
Speaker 4: he'd be well missed in the tracking, I mean in
Speaker 4: the horse racing industry, no question.
Speaker 2: It's Easworts Radio.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get dal Long to speak about him
Speaker 1: sometime this week. It's Eastworts Radio seven forty seven. I've
Speaker 1: got Gus behind the glass. We will speak to you
Speaker 1: after the break. It's seven fifty. It's Eenves Sports Radio
Speaker 1: for number five zero two five seven nine hundred.
Speaker 2: George.
Speaker 1: We got our first caller. We're gonna go to it, please, guys,
Speaker 1: Spring Scott to the show. Scott, how are you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing it by yourself A long time?
Speaker 2: Long time?
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: If I was uh with that, Hey, I got a
Speaker 3: question for you. Well, I tell you without with all
Speaker 3: the tornadoes we've had, there ain't too many trees left
Speaker 3: to climb. Right, go ahead with this pay to play.
Speaker 3: I agree what I be said that these players should
Speaker 3: be paid. But what about their education, their their their
Speaker 3: scholarships and everything. Shouldn't that be tied into their overall
Speaker 3: you know, if if they're getting paid to play while
Speaker 3: the scholarships.
Speaker 2: Okay, now, George, you want to go first? You want
Speaker 2: me to go first? George?
Speaker 1: I like that question. Okay, here's the deal, Scott. I
Speaker 1: have no problem with that. I have no problem with
Speaker 1: if you pay a player. Now, we can't pay him
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars and say he's got to take it
Speaker 1: from a scholarship that's worth twenty five. But if we
Speaker 1: do pay a percentage over the amount of the scholarship,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to say, oh, I'd like to have
Speaker 1: eight times for twenty if he made two hundred.
Speaker 2: You know, if you made one hundred and sixty thousand
Speaker 2: of the twenty thousand.
Speaker 1: Then I would say a portion of his scholarship should
Speaker 1: come out of that money.
Speaker 2: But it's got to be that percentage.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear schools say, hey, we paid
Speaker 1: him fifty you should pay your twenty thois dollars scholarship. No,
Speaker 1: but if it's enough to where it makes it reasonable,
Speaker 1: I have no problem. Now I'm hearing about in George,
Speaker 1: all these million dollar deals.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see them.
Speaker 1: In fact, I want to see them to where I
Speaker 1: know what people make they're getting paid now, so yes,
Speaker 1: ain't no secret. I want to know. I want to know.
Speaker 1: So people that are making a million dollars, yes, they
Speaker 1: should have to pay their scholarship.
Speaker 2: If I top amount of money, George, George might be
Speaker 2: camplete different. What do you got, George?
Speaker 4: Well, well, both both of you guys got to think
Speaker 4: about this, and this is the reason we started talking
Speaker 4: about this, Jered. What did I generate for the university
Speaker 4: to make off of me coming to your school? What
Speaker 4: was my ability to sign my name on that line?
Speaker 4: What did it do for your school when I signed so?
Speaker 4: In order for your school to say popular current, you're
Speaker 4: gonna have their players to come to your school. Well,
Speaker 4: what's the prone to get me to your school? Because
Speaker 4: if another school, say Georgia, I won't I won't charge
Speaker 4: you for your tuition and I'll give you X number
Speaker 4: of dollars. What school you think is gonna win out?
Speaker 2: That's true. No, that's very true.
Speaker 4: You know so so true. What did the players do
Speaker 4: for your school before they got that?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Okay, but but but but you take the set out
Speaker 3: you take. They set out every game, regardless.
Speaker 1: Of but take what happens they don't go and then
Speaker 1: answering George, finish.
Speaker 3: Reperena the crowds of Reparenda the name of the father shirt,
Speaker 3: not the name.
Speaker 4: Of the back god. You selling Reperena out because the
Speaker 4: players are playing in Reberena, not because the name on
Speaker 4: the front of the jersey. Don't get that confused. You're
Speaker 4: gonna win a championship. You don't go to games. If
Speaker 4: you thought that, you would look at the football team
Speaker 4: and have they tell him at the football team right now?
Speaker 3: Yea, the elite okay teams?
Speaker 2: Okay, both stopped there. I like no, I love this conversation, Scott,
Speaker 2: George is got point.
Speaker 1: Is it an elite school because Adolph brought elite players
Speaker 1: with him and his coaching or or George, is it
Speaker 1: Kentucky makes the players.
Speaker 2: That's where we are. That's the conversation.
Speaker 1: Okay, so George first, go ahead, George, go ahead, George ahead.
Speaker 2: Now you go first.
Speaker 4: We talked about That's what we talked about about. The
Speaker 4: players getting played paid is what they generated for the university,
Speaker 4: and they got none of the reward back for what
Speaker 4: they generated for the university.
Speaker 2: I know, I'm asking for my money, Scott, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm with George, No, I want to I want to
Speaker 1: ask about money as well.
Speaker 4: If you think about what they make in the n
Speaker 4: c A for these different universities, they five pertent of
Speaker 4: it to pay for all of them Schotltship, especially in basketball.
Speaker 2: All right now, Scott, George, Scott, I'm throwing it to you.
Speaker 3: Okay, God, you're talking.
Speaker 2: Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 3: They're talking about the players making money for the team.
Speaker 3: What about Pelfrey Farmer and all them no name players.
Speaker 3: They were still selling out Reperena. They were playing. They
Speaker 3: were playing for the name in front of that jersey,
Speaker 3: at the back of that jersey.
Speaker 4: I love that sold about this. They were only there because.
Speaker 1: Finish, Let him finish. They were they were five hundred.
Speaker 1: There were five hundred, so you all remember Rick came
Speaker 1: That group was five hundred. And don't forget there was
Speaker 1: a guy named mash Burn that was with the group.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, go ahead, Scott.
Speaker 3: Go ahead. But what I'm saying is that, you know,
Speaker 3: you take your walking ons, which is gonna be a
Speaker 3: thing in the past, you know they Yeah, are they
Speaker 3: not just as important that their practices and all that
Speaker 3: to help out of these other players as the toppings
Speaker 3: and should so shouldn't they get a free scholarship as well?
Speaker 1: Well, I got you a lot of well, guys, I
Speaker 1: hate George, I hate we gotta go. I hate it, Scott.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about it this morning tomorrow at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the show. Guys, great show, great call, Scott's
Speaker 1: self and Lim George, great job, great reply. It's the
Speaker 1: sports radio guys. God Willie like Jordan says, I'll be
Speaker 1: back tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Love you, Oh bye bye.