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Speaker 2: The gang is all back here with you. How we
doing July first?
Speaker 4: Happy July, buddy?
Speaker 5: You know what else?
Speaker 2: Hold on? Hold on, hold on?
Speaker 5: Uh happy Bobby Bonie?
Speaker 4: A Day one.
Speaker 3: Million screenshot at it last night because I know this
is one of your favorite days.
Speaker 5: I love this day one point one nine to three
million dollars.
Speaker 4: We only have ten more of these five but.
Speaker 5: I was shocked that we still have one decade left
Bobby Day.
Speaker 4: I mean, how long ago did he get that contract?
Speaker 5: I know, famously signed his contract deferred payment. Yes, I
know there's a lot of inflation in the air, and
blah blah blah, it's not worth the same amount of money.
He probably should have just taken it all and invested it,
but who cares. It's really cool and little known fact.
I didn't know this. There's actually a second Bobby Day.
Did y'all know this? He signed another deferred contract with
the Orioles that pays him a half a million dollars
once a year from two thousand and four all the
way to twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: I mean, if Bobby that's one.
Speaker 4: Point, he's backing up million nine three every year.
Speaker 2: I mean, if he did it right, he's still living large.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure he did it right, you know. I
mean he's still living large. He's still getting that money.
He guaranteed. He knows every single year it's coming his way,
no matter if he's down and out, no matter what,
he's getting almost two million wonderful from those two teams.
Speaker 5: Wonder if he's living paycheck to paycheck?
Speaker 2: Just true?
Speaker 5: Well, I wonder for like the first twenty years he
was like, look, I'm gonna live it up, live paycheck
to paycheck for you know, the first fifteen to twenty
years of this contract. Then I'll I'll save the last
ten years. I'll save it up, invest in the old retirement.
Do you think he did it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: I think he probably played a little smarter.
Speaker 5: I'm sure he seems like a pretty uh pretty smart
guy to sign that contract when he did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. But I mean I look it
back on hindsight's twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: Always you're like, well, oh, yeah, we'll look at the
economy now, blah blah blah, and yeah, maybe he should
have should have hindsight, But at the time, it's like, yeah,
you give me a million.
Speaker 3: Well, there's been times throughout the hobby Bo contract that
the economy has been good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's you hit every peaking.
Speaker 5: I was looking on Twitter this morning driving in and
like all these nerds were like pumping all these statistical
facts about inflations up, like forty nine point three psu
blah blah blah, and uh They're like, well, yeah, his
contracts only worth six hundred and sixty thousand.
Speaker 4: No, I mean it's still six hundred Yeah, but he
undred sixty thousand on the couch and then.
Speaker 7: Another five's coming over billion.
Speaker 3: Yeah he's gonna be okay, he's gonna do okay, he
gonna be the only money.
Speaker 2: That he made. Yeah, true, Yeah, that's very true.
Speaker 5: But I was just kind of shocked. I was excited
UH to find out that there is a second Bobby
by a Day, which I didn't know about. I'm looking
around nobody else I knew about.
Speaker 2: I didn't know about that. I knew about it.
Speaker 5: A million dollars from the Orioles. He didn't care about
getting money. He's like, no, don't pay me, I'll pay
for free. But from two thousand and four to twenty
twenty eight, you're gonna pay me half a million.
Speaker 3: Now we've seen more phy like showy Toy's actually in
a contract that's not as long, but it's it's like
this like a ton of deferred payment.
Speaker 2: I wonder what made Bobby bo do that?
Speaker 3: Back in the day he's playing chess okay, but still
nobody else is doing that.
Speaker 2: I don't think what made him do it.
Speaker 5: I know it's kind of like who was the first
person that took Uh? I wanted some payment at Crypto?
Was it Russell Okum for Seattle? He wanted some he
wanted crypto?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's well?
Speaker 4: Was it?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: It was like.
Speaker 4: I get it now?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 4: But like when he retired he retired in what twenty sixteen, seventeen,
I guess it was booming at that point. Like he
took that one right now too.
Speaker 3: I still think it's a skin I saw someone had. Well, look,
I'm with you if I can't see it touch it whole.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I don't with you.
Speaker 4: I agree he probably he probably did come out ahead
on nothing.
Speaker 3: I did see somebody went to a game stop and
there was some trading cards, something very tea bobbish.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't remember what it was, some magic.
Speaker 3: Something whatever, And this guy went to a game stop
and he bought one and it was old, had like
dust on or whatever. He wasn't think of anything of it,
and it had like this scratch off card. He's like, oh,
that looks kind of cool, and like put it up
for like six seven months and he's like, I don't
know what's on that, and he goes and he scratches.
Speaker 2: It off and it was one bitcoin.
Speaker 3: Oh I saw that one bitcoin, which is worth six figures.
And so from this like random because.
Speaker 2: I'm sure like at the scratch it yeah, whenever, it
was all the way down. He's like, they do it
in there.
Speaker 3: There's only like six of them in all these boxes
across the world. And he just like, I don't scratch
it off where was that from like what was the
year on it?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 5: I mean it had to have been from like.
Speaker 3: So I just yeah, probably so, but I just saw it.
And so that's that's a pretty good surprise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty pretty big deal.
Speaker 7: So TA sorry I'm reading about this. Bobby Bonia Otani's
will be sixty eight million per year starting in twenty
thirty four. That ain't bad.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit better than the one million a little.
Speaker 6: Mani Ramier is.
Speaker 7: It's still collecting twenty well total, it's gonna end up
being twenty four point two million until twenty twenty six
from the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: Do we think that is smart? I think it rather
all of it up front, I think I think it's
both part.
Speaker 4: I think it's smart for the team and the player
because I mean, think about it, Think about how much
of money these teams make. They don't care that they
have to pay Bobby Mania one point one million a year.
They don't care. That's nothing to them. And then Benia
gets to Chili can sit on the couch if he wants,
say July first, one point one in or something, make account.
I actually think it works for both sides.
Speaker 6: Just in time for Fourth of July, right, vacation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can.
Speaker 3: Getting a grill of every year for Blackstone every year
every year.
Speaker 2: I don't even really need to clean it and get
a new one July first, right.
Speaker 4: He uses it once a year, every Fourth of July,
and then you just continue it.
Speaker 2: What is your rain man brain doing.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to say a lot of numbers, I'm telling you, dude.
So I'm looking at this Russell o' king situation. So
in twenty twenty, Russell o' King, who was offensive lineman
for the seats for Seahawks for a long time.
Speaker 2: I can't remember where he went at he got trying
to remember the team you played for.
Speaker 4: Well, I kind of try to forget it.
Speaker 5: A little bite he took, he had he was on
a thirteen million dollar salary. He took half of it
in bitcoin at the time. Okay, so six and a
half million dollars in bitcoin at the time, and this
was twenty twenty, and at the time it was one
bitcoin was twenty seven thousand dollars. Okay, Okay, current valuation
a bitcoin today one hundred and six thousand, seven hundred
and twenty four.
Speaker 4: So let's see.
Speaker 6: Here quick maths.
Speaker 5: That is almost four times, so that six and a
half million is worth twenty six million.
Speaker 2: All right, so right now, okay, help me out.
Speaker 4: How do you feel about that a laundra?
Speaker 2: Well, help me out.
Speaker 4: I get six million, I don't know, Like, how does
he how does he cash.
Speaker 2: Out of that?
Speaker 5: You sell it? A lot of people will.
Speaker 7: I'm so so like, I just think I just don't
personally understand it. So it's not something I would ever
venture out in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well yeah, most crypto. Yeah, you're absolutely right. You
just don't do it because you see all these like
pump and dumps, you see all these coin the coin now.
Speaker 4: We know we we could have invested into that.
Speaker 5: That one would have worked a lot of listeners out here.
Can I remember about the game coin?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Uh, but bitcoin is an actual money, pretty tangible situation
these days. But like Russell Oaking signed that deal his
six and a half million that he got in bitcoin
in twenty twenty, now we're twenty six million plus the
third the other six and a half million. So he
played for thirty three million as an offensive lineman at
twenty twenty, in the twilight of his career.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty decent.
Speaker 2: It was. That's a great point.
Speaker 3: It was at the end of his career, like he
was signing like one more final deal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I want to say maybe maybe Odell did
a situation like that. There's been other players that have
now since then. I think Russell was the icebreaker that
have negotiated that into their contract and has been a
pretty big benefit.
Speaker 2: Well then, man, I mean I'm with you, but I'm
also with the laundro Like.
Speaker 5: I try to negotiate it here, Guarantee, did.
Speaker 7: You Yeah, no way, no, okay. I feel like it
is something you would do. So it just like I
kind of believed you person.
Speaker 2: Went in there.
Speaker 5: Fourth of a bitcoin?
Speaker 4: Please.
Speaker 2: I like money.
Speaker 3: I have a little I keep it on my jar
on top of my refrigerator.
Speaker 2: I'd like to add more to that jar. And that's
where you come in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was his negotiating deals with Guaranteed Media.
Speaker 5: So how about one sixty fourth a bitcoin?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 2: There's so many things I want to say that on
a big check?
Speaker 5: Please? What are the big ones?
Speaker 2: That guy got one?
Speaker 5: That guy got one? There you go, thank you?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: A lot of sports today, we do have a lot
of guests and including guests that y'all don't even know
about because I booked one on the way into the show.
All right, firm, So we're gonna have Bill Bender other
Sporting News at seven thirty. We're gonna have Connor Garrett
Saturday Down South at eight fifteen, Nick Underhill, New Orleans
Dot Football at nine, and Roddy Jones of.
Speaker 2: ESPN at nine to thirty.
Speaker 3: So great guest today, we'll take our first break of
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not adding once.
Speaker 2: He jumping to his feed, just like somebody.
Speaker 3: Kicked him to shop at jukebox last night.
Speaker 4: You said it plays.
Speaker 2: I don't feel like you're appreciating Mark chest nutt and
love it right now? Got them as much as you should.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's a toe tapper.
Speaker 2: It's way more than toe tapper.
Speaker 5: I mean, did you see me? I was dancing like
full body dancing over here. I do that a lot, though,
especially when I'm coffee. I mean, it's not my favorite
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You didn't have to recite the lyrics of this song.
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had to, like it was a dry county, so like
to go anywhere like that was a bar for adults
I did. I mean I was seventeen, so like you
had to you know, like become an air quote like
member of that restaurant or bar to like get out
all and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: That's crazy.
Speaker 5: Every like county Line was chopped full of like these
big ass liquor stores, so everyone would go to the County
Line and be a.
Speaker 2: Member, and it had a bootleg alcohol.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well I didn't. Oh yeah, they absolutely did. Just
it wasn't bootleg that everybody knew it was up, but
it was dry. I guess not dry anymore, but it
was dry County forever even like I'm probably like to
the twenty tens because you know, in Tyler Smith County,
big liquor was pumping that money into into the county
legislation to keep big liquors in there. And uh yeah,
they kept pumping money to keep it dry. Uh what
are you all laughing at?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: You big liquor, big, like a.
Speaker 5: Big They cornered the market, the market every state highway
leaving Tyler, Texas.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like you had like old policemen
like sitting outside their car with these great mustaches, and
if you tried to bring liquor into Tyler, Texas, you
were getting arrested.
Speaker 5: Like you could have it, Like it wasn't like going
into airport you got to pour your bottles out when
you get into You just couldn't purchase it there. They
couldn't sell it. And they could sell it to you
at a at a restaurant, at a bar, but you
had to become a member so you could you could.
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Speaker 5: Like you could. You could possess it.
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Speaker 5: We can dance.
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Speaker 3: So we are going to head to SEC media days.
In fact, we will be there, credentials and everything in
less than two weeks. Maybe not real ideas, but credentials.
Speaker 2: We'll see. There's no chance we can get that. Shut
your mouth.
Speaker 6: You are going to have to road trip it.
Speaker 2: Shut your mouth.
Speaker 4: Do we have any update?
Speaker 5: I'll go with you.
Speaker 2: We can rent a car if we don't have a
great update. Not yet. Yes, other things I had to do.
Speaker 5: I got home yesterday, lay said. Lacey said, he's got
no shot. Really because she she was listening to the show.
She knows the time window we're dealing with.
Speaker 2: Oh yeh weeks, Oh ye, have little faith.
Speaker 4: I think you're gonna do it. No prole mean T
Bob got it done, got it done in two days.
And it's Bob. He probably forgot the first day.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the window. You got the time window? Yeah,
T Bop was flying to Chicago. It's not about days,
That's what I'm saying though.
Speaker 3: T Bob was flying to Chicago two days from when
he said it and got it done well.
Speaker 5: If they printed out right there. Yeah, I'm like you
could do it. I'm just saying your time window that
you have it, you have like two hours, right, but
good luck, thank you.
Speaker 2: I'll get it done. I'll do that.
Speaker 3: I'll do off campus from the OMB. I'd be sick
just skype in. People still say skype. I still think
you can. Actually it doesn't feel like it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, like when we go to media days that
you have to fill out like predictions and where everyone's
going to finish in the league. Oh yeah, I got
it and Player of the Year, first team offense, second
team offense, Coach.
Speaker 2: Of the year.
Speaker 6: You get it wrong, Paul fine bomb puts you on
blast on TV.
Speaker 4: I'll put on Paul's never got anything wrong. So I'll
put Paul on blast right here.
Speaker 3: And it is like it is something we can go
back and like, let's see what Matt Flinn said in
the preseason who he put on his first team nuts.
Speaker 4: It looked it pissed me off. Yesterday a list came
out and it was like, you're Nose Myers second team
all Lee see and I'm like, okay, no problem. Somebody
went with Lenora Sellers like whatever it was.
Speaker 2: Arch Manning.
Speaker 4: Hadn't played.
Speaker 2: He threw real nice spirals at the Manning Passing Academy.
Speaker 4: He did play two games last year. So there's there's that.
Speaker 5: I'm excited about it, Like I'm looking forward the media day,
chopping it up with some other media folks.
Speaker 2: Uh heard some of the net that's going to be
at the water cooler leaned up.
Speaker 6: Jeff right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jeff Levey. You ever heard of him?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 5: So when it comes to like traditional.
Speaker 4: Hey, what's up of this Jeff Levy go, what's his deal?
Speaker 5: What's his deal? I'm just like reciting Wikipedia facts from them.
Did you know he was born to him? Yeah, that's
kind of what I did for you know, I'm profiling
Kate Clubdick for tomorrow. Oh yeah right, you are started
with Wikipedia. Yeah, you sent us your research and it
was this Wikipedia page. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
sit here like a robot and just read the whole
Wikipedia page.
Speaker 2: Oh, that'd be a great segment. And then football, yep,
I can't wait till that happens. Us being the morning
show at media Days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we only get a certain amount of teams, like
a lot of the afternoon shows will go down there
that will actually record when everybody's down there, and then
they can get it and they can play it back.
So we'll get all of ours like live and they'll
sit down like right then, so and you really won't
know who it is. It gonna be a little bit,
you know, of a of a guessing game.
Speaker 5: So tell me a little bit about like remember what
to expect though, like throughout the day, so we we
do our show, we interview as many coaches as possible,
players as possible. Now do we kind of hang around
the rest of the day and get like recordings you can?
We can, Yes, you for sure can do that. Usually
Rivers is there and you be like, hey, we want
to record with this person.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Moscona likes to come sit down as well, so you'll
have to tell him, hey, guy, we got into at
least like noon, then you can take over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually have to go do another job.
Speaker 3: So my other shows for four hours, I think it's
from noon to four every day, So I'm leaving it
with you, sir, because I only have an hour in
between shows. So you're going to be recording with any
player or coaches down there, totally. Absolutely, it's gonna be electric.
I can't wait for you because it happens so quick
and they're like the handler will come in, they'll be
like it's that's why it sounds like they're like they're talking,
You're like what who And they're just gonna sit them
down by by you.
Speaker 2: And you're gonna have to figure out who it is.
Speaker 5: How many interviews I am?
Speaker 4: So I'm so excited for this, Like you're gonna be
the guy to be Like, so she grew up in Greenville?
Was that Likeville? That was high school? What was your
g p A?
Speaker 7: Because remember, like Bob got somebody's name wrong, it's senior ball.
Speaker 4: One time it was Lots. Thought it was Cameron lot
To the tight end who had graduated the year before.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so make sure that doesn't happen.
Speaker 5: And well he didn't mispronounce it, he just said the wrong,
Like I can understand you.
Speaker 4: Get tight end from Alabama, d N from U c
L A very similar sure, and the poor kid.
Speaker 5: Just went with it. Yeah, that kind of sounds like
a mistake I would make because he was like, what
do you do it?
Speaker 4: Like you were here last year, right, like all this
and like this.
Speaker 3: I just remember the whole time, like trying to get
t Bob's attention, like getting him like the big eyes
and being like what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Like he never and then you know, he like he
feels so bad when you do something like that.
Speaker 4: Even I was like we have and I'm like why,
I'm like, all right, let me put up the lower third.
I'll put up the lower third of Cameron Latu. Then
I hear y'all talk, I'm like that that's a different Yet.
Speaker 5: I do want to when we get a chance to
talk to players at SEC media Day. I told you
this a couple of weeks ago, Like I want to
just like feel out. We know all these kids are young,
and we know they were born like early two thousands.
I want to ask them what high school did Jonathan
Moxham play for, and just see if anybody knows.
Speaker 2: That's going to be question.
Speaker 4: I want to know if anybody has ever heard of
or seen.
Speaker 2: We should we should be getting the list of who's
going here pretty soon. Again, I'm going to be into this.
Speaker 3: We beginning to probably show like it's we're less than
two weeks away.
Speaker 2: I am going to say, of.
Speaker 3: All the people there, the only two people I think
that have a real chance would be two l s
U guys.
Speaker 4: No Smyer from Smyer from.
Speaker 3: Texas and then what weeks because he's country with a K. Yeah,
I feel like he's seen varsity.
Speaker 5: I would think, yes, yeah, bluses, probably it's gotta be
I would. I would hope.
Speaker 4: So we'll see.
Speaker 2: I think he gave miss Davis at tim Nope, there
you go.
Speaker 3: All right, we will step away and when we come back.
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Speaker 2: Hand looking my follow up on social media? Bill, how
you doing this morning?
Speaker 9: I'm doing well. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2: All right, Bill?
Speaker 3: So I want to kind of go around every conference
today and hit the big ten and ACC and SEC
and really do it like a little bit of a
deep dive into all these conferences, and so as we
prepare for the Big Ten football season, I was curious because,
like for SEC media Day, I think one of the
narratives for me is going to be about how the
teams that are typically at the top, they don't have
a returning quarterback. The teams that are trying to punch
up they do have a returning quarterback. But for the
Big Ten, as you get ready for media days, what
would you say, because last year it was Ryan Day,
Ohio State?
Speaker 2: Can they win the Big One?
Speaker 3: What is going to be in your opinion maybe some
of the main storylines heading into Big Ten media Day?
Speaker 9: Well, I mean, obviously Ohio State coming off national title
with Jeremiah Smith and Caleb Downs are going to be
their attendees. Those are arguably the two best players in
college football. I think the lead story though, might be
in State do this now? Is it their turn?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 9: Ohio State one one, Michigan won one. Michigan will probably
get some questions about whatever the NCAA decides about the
Connor Stallions case, but I think it really revolves around
those three and then no Oregon USC year two in
this eighteen team monster of a conference, But I do
think Penn State can they do it. They haven't won
one since eighty six, and they've got everybody back, and
James Franklin I talked, we've talked, We've talked a lot
about him this summer. What is a successful season for them?
Coming off of semi final appearance for them?
Speaker 3: I mean going to the semi finals and having that
run and that game coming down to the very end.
I mean, it was a very successful season, but it
felt like it's still left fans certainly wanting more and
wanting to take that next step because there's been a
lot of good there. I mean, there's been great seasons
in fact, but there hasn't been like that elite championship season.
And they do have a lot returning. But how the
world are they going to replace a unicorn like Tyler Warren?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean that's that's one question. Who's catching the
football from Drew Aller, a three year starter. Who they've
got the running backs? Nick Signalton k Tron Allen, you know,
on the other side of the ball. Who replaces the
other unicorn? And that Bull Carter? You know, I don't
know if he's a unicorn, but you get what I
get at, Like that pass rush for still was the
top five pick, so they did lose their top two players.
And there's two stats that I throw out with Penn State.
Over the last three years now Franklin hasn't lost to
an unranked opponent, takes their business there, five and eight
against ranked opponents. Now, haven't beat Ohio State since twenty sixteen.
And that's the game right there. And they can they
beat Ohio State and Columbus and I think if they can,
then you know, they may have to see him again later.
But I mean, that's the game. They've been close so
many times. Bobby Carpenter and know Jake, we talked to
them all the time. They'll tell you. I mean, over
the last fifteen years, you could make a strong argument
that Penn State, year in and year out, with the
exception of the last four has been the stiffer competition
or for Ohio State and Michigan.
Speaker 5: Bill, what's up man? This is matth Flen. Pleasure to
pleasure to talk to me. It's our first time, so
pleasure to have you on the show. We appreciate the time.
And stick kind of stick with Bobby Carper. We have
Bobby Carper on the show last week. So I want
to ask you about Ohio State. I mean, obviously, coming
off a championship, huge expectations, one of the top programs
each each and every year going into the season outlook
on it. What is if you're an Ohio State fan
and we are a week after the season's over, what
to them? Are they going to sit back and say,
all right, that was a successful season. What does Ohio
State have to do for the fan base to say, yep,
that was a good season.
Speaker 9: Beat Michigan, Bobby, they have to beat Michigan this year.
I mean, they won the national title, but there were
you know, and Bobby will pray tell you the same thing,
you know, discussions. I was coaching my daughter's basketball team
in the Winner last year, and you know, you'd have
the dads and I would pull them and say, hey,
would you rather beat Michigan or win the whole thing?
And this was after they lost, and half of them
will stay beat Michigan first. It's that's why that rivalry
different than everybody else. It's not like that, trust me,
and Bobby will tell you the same thing. It's just
that's the priority. So playing the significance of the national championship.
Though that was huge for Ryan Day. I think it
takes a lot of pressure off him, takes the pressure
of that Michigan lost off. But at the same time,
this year, if they go eleven to zero and then
they go up Dan Arbor and stub their toe, that's
gonna all rush back. And that's what makes college football
so fun is that you have a team trying to
think for you guys sake, Like, you know, you win
a national championship, but you lose to Alabama along the way,
I mean, you're gonna take the national title.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 9: I've watched Alabama win a national title after losing to Auburn,
so it can happen, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Alabama's won a couple of national titles without winning
their division in the SEC. That is something they've gotten
done a couple of different times. Bill, what about because
I agree like Penn State, Ohio State, I think those
teams are certainly going to be in the conversation. The
Oregon Ducks are going to be in the conversation. But
who's the chaos agent in the Big Ten? Who's the
team that maybe they're not going to be good enough
to be top end talented enough to go win the
Big Ten, but they could really mess things up for
a lot of the top teams.
Speaker 9: Well, we've talked a lot about Illinois, but they're ranked
in the top ten in pre season pools. So I
don't think we can call a top ten team a
chaos agent. I just think they're really interesting with what
Brett Bielama has coming back. You know, Indian what does
Indiana do this year? That's kind of my question. They
could be again. I mean, that would probably be my answer,
because Kurt Signetti wins. His record's phenomenal between James Madison
in Indiana if you really think about it, I was like,
he's had James Madison in the playoff hunt and he
got Indiana to the playoff. They bring in Fernando Mendoza,
they have good pieces coming back on defense than the
Angelo Ponds and Kamara who had ten and a half
sacks last season, and their schedules tougher this year, so
you know, maybe they pick off Penn State, maybe they
pick off Oregon. I don't think they're going to go
eleven and one again. They're going to be in the mix,
and it's not just going to go back to three
and nine Indiana.
Speaker 5: All Right, Belle, I want to ask you something about
just kind of a look around the country and and
something specifically that LSU fans definitely are interested in because
we have a horse in this race. But the Heisman
Trophy odds going into the twenty twenty five season, I mean,
we've got a long list. Arch Manning, Garrett, that's my
kid club, Nick, Julian Say and drew out Julia Lar.
I mean, there's a there's a list of great players
that have been great. Arch Manning's up there, the guy
that's you know, played in a couple of games and
he's for whatever. Vegas has him at plus seven hundred
and now the highest odds. But tell me what you
think about the players? What do you think about I
guess the the as good as you can get on
these preseason Heisman rankings.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's wide open this year because there's so many
new quarterbacks, including arch and Julian Saying or whoever starts
at Ohio State and CJ. Parr at Notre Dame. And
then you know, the SEC is the interesting one to
me because which quarterback really takes off? Is it Garrett
not Smeier?
Speaker 4: Is it a couple.
Speaker 9: Popular ones, DJ Lagway, Leonora Sellars. You know, if South
Carolina or Florida makes the PLAYFF run, it'll probably because
those guys had a huge season.
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 9: You know Arch at Texas, does he just take off
right away? It's really gonna be hard to contain the
hype on Arch if he comes up here to Ohio
and has a really good game in Ohio Stadium here
in a couple of months. So I think it's always
still a quarterback award, and I don't have this feel
of like last year we had Travis Hunner, we had
Ashton Gent and they were just freaky. So you know,
if you're asking me who I think the best player
in college football is, I'm going to say Jeremiah Smith.
But can he put up the numbers sharing with Carnell
Tate and sharing with others that allow him to get
the Heisman? Marvin Harrison was close, Jackson Smith and Jigbo
was close. But Ohio State has so many darn good
receivers that you know, you wonder if Jeremiah Smith web
the number is necessary to do it well.
Speaker 3: I do want to ask you an sec question, certainly
since we have you here we're in SEC country as
we get ready to head to Mediated's in less than
two weeks. Kind of what are your preseason thoughts because
I mentioned it like Georgia and we don't know about
them at quarterback Alabama, we don't know about them at
quarterback Tennessee, Ole Miss some of the teams that have
won a lot of games over the last couple of
years in the SEC.
Speaker 2: The teams that we feel like we know at quarterback, LSU,
South Carolina, Florida, even Vanderbilt.
Speaker 3: Right they're trying to punch up. They're trying to get
to a college football playoff situation. But were you when
you look at the SEC? Maybe what are some of
your preseason expectations?
Speaker 9: Well, my question is is parody good for the conference?
You know, and in general and college football, it's not
because you want to have one or two, you know,
I call them hammers or powerhouses whatever that are just
a little bit better than everybody else. Right now, SEC
in our post spring Top twenty five has ten ranked teams,
and I have the same questions about Georgia. They're in Texas.
Texas lost a lot of players to the NFL. We're
focused on Arch. They lost twelve guys the NFL draft,
including both tackles. Georgia Buctin's there, But do they know
it's hard to say. They're coming off a disappointing season.
They won, they won the SEC championship, but you know,
how do they react to maybe a more friendly schedule?
And then three through ten, it's literally killing the borer
in year two, loaded at receiver lsu in the portal
and Garrett Knustmayer's really good all the way down to
Oklahoma with they brought in John Mattier, who I'm a
huge fan of Jade not so everybody in that three
through ten range to me has chances playoffs and everybody
has a reason to be like, I'm not so sure
about them, and you know, including Tennessee with Nico transferring.
So I just think it's that idea of parody. And
we're still in a twelve team format. So if you
go nine and three in this conference, are you going
to be left out of the playoffs? And that makes
it really hard.
Speaker 3: Hey what about one one last one? What about a
team like Missouri? Because Missouri and Eli drinkwoiz. You know,
all they really done is win over the last what
four years, and I realized that they were kind of
in their golden age and they had Luther Burden and
they had Brady Cook and you know, you go back
to Cody Schrader from a couple of years ago, like
they had THEO Wiz. I mean, these guys were there
for a long time, making a lot of plays. Now
that all those players are gone, it feels like literally
nobody is even talking about Missouri. But you look at
their schedule bill and you kind of look at what
they did in the portal. Are we not talking enough
about MISSOO?
Speaker 9: Probably not. I mean, I think they definitely have enough
talent coming back. I think losing the quarterback and you
know they're going to the portal there and you know
they do have defense a lost Burden as well. But
he's done a good job recruiting. He's maximizing what he
has at Missouri. They're another team, though. I think the
problem is their non conference schedules really weak for the
second straight season, so it's easy to dismiss them, which
we did immediately after Texas A and M beat them
last year. Yeah, So I think that's the fight for
respect that Eli continues to fight, and he does get
under some you know, fans and coaches skin sometimes because
you know what he's good for us in the media.
We love quotable coaches. But you know, sometimes he makes
others angry.
Speaker 3: All right, there he is Bill Bender of the Sporting
News at Bill Bender ninety two is the handle give
him and follow there. Check out his work on sportingnews
dot com. Bill, We appreciate the time as always, sir.
We'll catch up again soon and.
Speaker 9: No problem, thanks for having me on. Take care.
Speaker 2: I want to have a little bit of a Big
Ten discussion as we like.
Speaker 3: Look, Bill's Big Ten, We've got Connifer SCC, We've got
Roddy for acc coming up later in the show.
Speaker 2: The Big Ten.
Speaker 3: To me, it does feel like it is top heavy,
but Penn State, you can't go into a semi final
game and not complete a pass to a receiver, not
really add any game changers at receiver and make me
think that it's going to be any different. So we'll
break down some of the Big Ten when we come
back as we head towards college football season.
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