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Speaker 2: As we get the five o'clock hours started here on
Speaker 2: a Thursday afternoon, first day of the NFL season. It
Speaker 2: sounds like we've got some technical difficulties on our hands here.
Speaker 2: There were a few people in the text on that
Speaker 2: had mentioned this, and I never know what to take
Speaker 2: from that, but one of my buddies sent in a
Speaker 2: video of what it sounded like when he was listening
Speaker 2: to us in his vehicle, and it doesn't didn't sound good,
Speaker 2: and it's not my fault. I mean, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: I sounded good with or without technical difficulties. But yeah,
Speaker 2: so they're working on it. I've let the higher ups
Speaker 2: know and hopefully we're we're good to go asap. And
Speaker 2: maybe you're not even noticing these issues, but I know
Speaker 2: some are, and again they're working on it, so I
Speaker 2: don't I would imagine John, we work in radio. But
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask a really dumb question. Okay, what's a transmitter?
Speaker 3: The transmitter is the big thing that you know. It's
Speaker 3: kind of like the the gear shift. I guess it
Speaker 3: kind of keeps us on course.
Speaker 2: You could be making that up. They could be making
Speaker 2: you could be making that up. Are you being like that.
Speaker 3: Might have been a horrible analogy?
Speaker 2: Is that like on the Is it on a tower?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, so like if they're streaming the show, they probably
Speaker 2: wouldn't be impacted by the transmitter.
Speaker 3: I assuming people listening via stream don't notice the problem.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, if you're trying to listen to us and
Speaker 2: it doesn't sound good and it's this transmitter issue, then
Speaker 2: I assume the stream will work fine. And you know,
Speaker 2: I when I listen to the radio, like the actual
Speaker 2: radio and not a stream, like I'm usually doing that
Speaker 2: in my vehicle, but it's very easy to do it
Speaker 2: when you're like when I've traveled and wanted to listen
Speaker 2: to Tony and Dwight or something like that, Like if
Speaker 2: I've got my phone plugged into my car, like all
Speaker 2: i gotta do is pop open the app and there
Speaker 2: it is. So you know, feel free to stream if
Speaker 2: you are having issues with the old school radio dial
Speaker 2: I say that mocking it, and I shouldn't do that
Speaker 2: because you know, it is my profession, it's what I do.
Speaker 2: But you know, when you say radio. I think people
Speaker 2: just like the younger generation John like they did a
Speaker 2: little radio like. Well, technically, if you're listening, even if
Speaker 2: you listen to this podcast every day, you listen to
Speaker 2: the KSR podcast every day, you're still listening to a
Speaker 2: radio product. It's just you're listening to it on podcast
Speaker 2: or you're listening to it on stream. And anybody out
Speaker 2: there trying to tell you that like radio's not a
Speaker 2: thing anymore, they're liars because there are numbers, there's data
Speaker 2: that can confirm that that's not the case. And yes,
Speaker 2: am I biased, of course radio is my livelihood, but
Speaker 2: I can't. I mean, I've been doing this for with
Speaker 2: this company going on nine years, it'd be nine years
Speaker 2: in March. I've worked for iHeartMedia. But I've been in
Speaker 2: this world of at least having a radio platform in
Speaker 2: some former fashion for over ten years now, in fact,
Speaker 2: about twelve thirteen years. And the technological evolution is not
Speaker 2: really surprising because a lot of things have changed. And again,
Speaker 2: most people now when they watch TV, when they get
Speaker 2: out there remote and they power something up, they're not
Speaker 2: doing it via television. They're doing it via the Internet.
Speaker 2: So it's really not all that surprising. But just in
Speaker 2: my time in like in radio at this company, like
Speaker 2: things have changed substantially. Let me give you an example.
Speaker 2: When we used to be partners with lear Field. The
Speaker 2: first time that they signed on that I worked here.
Speaker 2: As far as our arrangement to where we were carrying
Speaker 2: their games, they didn't want to include it streaming. They
Speaker 2: just they you know, they didn't think, you know that
Speaker 2: they didn't believe that that property. I guess the stream
Speaker 2: was and I shouldn't get into the specifics with you know,
Speaker 2: believe or not. I was not involve those conversations about
Speaker 2: that that deal, but like they didn't realize. I think
Speaker 2: that if you don't include that, then like you're gonna
Speaker 2: like miss out a lot a lot of people. If
Speaker 2: they're gonna listen, they're gonna have to stream it because
Speaker 2: they are not within signal to actually pick it up.
Speaker 2: If you're on HAS, it's a different world because HAS
Speaker 2: is one of the strongest signals you'll see in radio anywhere,
Speaker 2: and I mean anywhere in the planet. And seven ninety
Speaker 2: I mean, let's not sell this station short. This is
Speaker 2: the strongest signal you will find in this state for
Speaker 2: a sports only station, and it's really not even close.
Speaker 2: Our only competition I think in that regard sports or
Speaker 2: not would be ten eighty, which is no longer a
Speaker 2: sports So you know, when I listen when I'm in
Speaker 2: my car, I'm listening on the old school radio. Like
Speaker 2: you know, I call it old school. Doesn't seem old school,
Speaker 2: but I know to some it is. But regardless of
Speaker 2: how you're listening, we appreciate it. Live podcast, whatever it
Speaker 2: may be. You know, the drill three to six every weekday,
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Speaker 2: we are fueled by Thornton's I'm also fueled by a
Speaker 2: fresh cup of coffee. I may be a coffee guy now, John,
Speaker 2: because that gave me the perfect boost.
Speaker 3: You should be a coffee guy. I mean, it would
Speaker 3: fit very well with the brand. What's your last name?
Speaker 3: I should say?
Speaker 2: You know, my dad used to own a coffee shop.
Speaker 2: Did you know that.
Speaker 3: I think you've mentioned that once or twice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And I'm not sure if he decided to
Speaker 2: leave that industry for this reason alone, but if he did,
Speaker 2: I would get it, but the amount of people who
Speaker 2: would be like, wait a second, your last name's coffee
Speaker 2: and you own a coffee shop. Yeah, so you know,
Speaker 2: but somebody this is I'm going to nerd out really
Speaker 2: quickly here because I'm trying to find a piece of
Speaker 2: sound that I would be willing to bet the vast
Speaker 2: majority of people listening or would not be familiar with it.
Speaker 2: But there was somebody at one point who called in
Speaker 2: the text line years ago and just left a really
Speaker 2: creepy message. Because you used to be able to call
Speaker 2: the text line. I disabled that long ago because people
Speaker 2: would just call the number, and if people are calling,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be able to read it because it would
Speaker 2: just show on the screen that a call's coming through.
Speaker 2: So I disabled calling. You could call and leave a
Speaker 2: voicemail and text line. And somebody at one point called
Speaker 2: in and left a really really creepy message that just
Speaker 2: said my name and it you know, let me play
Speaker 2: it for you really quick. This is the voice of
Speaker 2: somebody that I think, like, if I ever end up
Speaker 2: dead or I go missing track, whose voice this is?
Speaker 2: Because it might be the person who took me out coffee.
Speaker 4: Coffee? Where are you coffe.
Speaker 2: I mean, does that sound like a serial killer?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I mean.
Speaker 2: So because I started talking about John preparing me a
Speaker 2: nice cup of coffee today, somebody reminded me, hey, play
Speaker 2: that creepy coffee guy who called in.
Speaker 3: I think we need it on the soundboard.
Speaker 4: Cof coffee, where are you cough off me?
Speaker 2: I think that came in whenever we were trying to
Speaker 2: get on the air one time at a remote we
Speaker 2: were having technical difficulties, which you know, in all honesty,
Speaker 2: we rarely have on the I mean like we rarely
Speaker 2: have issues as far as connectivity. It happens, It happens
Speaker 2: to anybody. But like we've had a good run here.
Speaker 2: Now we're having some transmitter issues, which really is totally
Speaker 2: out of our I mean totally out of our control.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's out of the people's control who work here.
Speaker 2: It's a tower thing. So anyways, we were having trouble
Speaker 2: getting on the air. I think it might have been
Speaker 2: in a golf course one time, and I ended up
Speaker 2: having to like call in and do the show via phone.
Speaker 2: And while while this psychopath was impatiently waiting for the
Speaker 2: show to start.
Speaker 4: This coffee coffee where are you cough off me?
Speaker 2: It's pretty creepy, is it not?
Speaker 3: It's very creepy.
Speaker 2: I hope that person still listening. Actually, maybe I shouldn't
Speaker 2: hope that. Maybe hopefully they've found somebody else to potentially,
Speaker 2: you know, chop up into little.
Speaker 3: Pieces of not far from Halloween and there's people putting
Speaker 3: up Halloween decorations like out the ass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you seen like something this made the news?
Speaker 2: And the last time I questioned, something that made local
Speaker 2: news ended up becoming a national story. You see, the
Speaker 2: porch pooper made TMZ. No, yeah, mat porch poopers made TMZ.
Speaker 2: But that came up last week and I'm like, why
Speaker 2: is that on the news, Like, yeah, it's not normal
Speaker 2: that somebody went and took a dump on somebody's porch,
Speaker 2: but like that's local news. Sure enough, whoever was the
Speaker 2: reporter that that found the story worthy, they knew something,
Speaker 2: because again it's now on tmz. Is this porch pooper
Speaker 2: just he's he's got it out for this one house.
Speaker 2: You know, you can set traps, you can have your
Speaker 2: your you put your kiddy litter out, like the guy
Speaker 2: who lives there said he did. That guy's gonna find
Speaker 2: a way to come and take a dump on your
Speaker 2: porch and not be caught. He's done it. He's done
Speaker 2: a pretty good job at it. Well, well, now I
Speaker 2: see that there's a story in the local news. It
Speaker 2: might have been on WDRB about somebody put up all
Speaker 2: their Halloween decorations and like the neighborhood's mad at them,
Speaker 2: Like come on, I mean, Halloween's still a ways away.
Speaker 2: We got two months roughly, but like, I mean, what's
Speaker 2: wrong with that.
Speaker 3: There's a street in Mount Washington. I don't know that
Speaker 3: it's part of any specific neighborhood, but their front yard
Speaker 3: they have like a big black gate and they have
Speaker 3: like humanoid looking pumpkin figures that tower over the entire yard,
Speaker 3: and it is one of the most I guess to
Speaker 3: be I guess it's a pun haunting things you can
Speaker 3: ever see. But if you're ever out in Mount Washington,
Speaker 3: or if you live out there, you probably know what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: I'm getting bombarded by texts about is the transmitter going
Speaker 2: on about our sound problem, which if people could hear
Speaker 2: the station, they could hear me saying that I'm aware,
Speaker 2: But again, like it's I don't know, it's been a
Speaker 2: long time since I've been in this position. It has
Speaker 2: been a while, meaning where we're aware. The people who
Speaker 2: listen don't know that we're aware, and they're just trying
Speaker 2: to help because they just want us to know. But
Speaker 2: like we know, it's just you know, it's out of
Speaker 2: our control right now.
Speaker 3: I think the last time it happened really bad, you
Speaker 3: told me to say a bad word on the radio,
Speaker 3: You're like, say a cuss word.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we weren't even on the air where we
Speaker 2: might have been. We were only on street. No, that's
Speaker 2: what it was we were. I forgot about that. We
Speaker 2: were only on stream, which on stream you could say
Speaker 2: whatever you want. Yes, because they don't have any control
Speaker 2: us exactly, which I'm not, like I'm not really sure that,
Speaker 2: Like I'm not sure the FCC you don't want to
Speaker 2: risk it, but like I know a lot of people
Speaker 2: who don't really follow that. In fact, there's like if
Speaker 2: you ever really when we do those trainings that take place,
Speaker 2: the FCC training that we have to do like every
Speaker 2: six months or whatnot. Yeah, I have no problem admitting it,
Speaker 2: Like I just roll through it, like I don't you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm yeah, I know what I can and
Speaker 2: can't do. And if I have a question, if if
Speaker 2: I'm on the fan, I tend to just not do
Speaker 2: it because I don't want to. I'm not somebody that
Speaker 2: has the leverage of others, right, Like I can't just
Speaker 2: you know, commit a big FCC violation and just assume
Speaker 2: that they're gonna not cut bait with me. There's a
Speaker 2: couple of others around here that could probably get away
Speaker 2: with that, not me, And if so, I wouldn't ever
Speaker 2: want to risk it anyway. But there's certain things you
Speaker 2: can't do when it comes to like like helping your
Speaker 2: friends out, if that makes sense, Like it's not it's
Speaker 2: not like I shouldn't say legal because I'm not sure
Speaker 2: you're not gonna go to jail. You're not breaking a law.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to like FCC like things you
Speaker 2: have to do, Like there's a lot of people who
Speaker 2: who use the platform to get free stuff, if that
Speaker 2: makes sense, and like technically you're not supposed to do that,
Speaker 2: Like but this thing called pola, I'm telling you, man,
Speaker 2: the FCC is like the NCAA. I think with with
Speaker 2: like like with streaming becomes becoming such a thing, like
Speaker 2: people just are like not really worried about because they've
Speaker 2: never truly been able to monitor it, monitor it the
Speaker 2: way that like they probably want you to think that
Speaker 2: they do. And it's always been like a good faith thing,
Speaker 2: like you better make sure you don't do this. But
Speaker 2: like before then there was somebody was recording it on
Speaker 2: a tape. There was no stream, so like people could
Speaker 2: claim you said this or that, but if there's no
Speaker 2: proof of it, there's no proof of it, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. So it was probably just a honor
Speaker 2: system kind of thing. And now like people are probably
Speaker 2: getting away with things they probably we would never because
Speaker 2: we wouldn't. We're not We're a company that would never
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: If you pull, if you ever, if anyone ever pulls
Speaker 3: like the Bob Huggins interview, like that's the kind of
Speaker 3: stuff that will get you in trouble. Nowadays, it's because
Speaker 3: people will people will record that or find it on podcasts.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing that got dumped on the radio
Speaker 2: did not get dumped on a stream, and somebody, you know,
Speaker 2: And that's that's another thing that this is. And I'm
Speaker 2: nerding out too much on radio stuff right now, as
Speaker 2: I don't even know who can actually hear us because
Speaker 2: of our transmitter issue. But they're like, you don't want
Speaker 2: to have an at like right now. iHeart does not
Speaker 2: give the ability to pause live radio, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, yeah and go back. Other apps do that,
Speaker 2: like give you like there's a there's a company that
Speaker 2: will let you create your own like we have. I
Speaker 2: mean iHeart as a company created streaming radio, Like that's
Speaker 2: why iHeart used to be the company used to be
Speaker 2: called Clear Channel Communications. When iHeart became the app to
Speaker 2: where we streamed our radio, it just we could clearly
Speaker 2: tell that that's where things were headed. So we rebranded
Speaker 2: as a company to become iHeartMedia. So there's other companies
Speaker 2: out there that have I guess, a similar app, and
Speaker 2: there's other companies that will let you use their service
Speaker 2: and you can create your own app for your own station.
Speaker 2: We don't need that here because we're iHeart. We're under
Speaker 2: the humongous app that is iHeart Radio. And there are
Speaker 2: stations that are not iHeart, stations that pay iHeart a
Speaker 2: lot of money actually for their station to be on iHeart.
Speaker 2: But having the ability to back it up can only
Speaker 2: hurt you, Like people can pause it or just rewind it.
Speaker 2: And I know listeners are like, wait a second, I
Speaker 2: wanted to get out of my car and go in
Speaker 2: and hit pause. Well I get it, but like from
Speaker 2: a cover your own ass standpoint, you should not do that,
Speaker 2: because you could. You could cover your ass a little
Speaker 2: bit better if people don't have the ability to back
Speaker 2: it up and put it out there. But anyways, it's
Speaker 2: five point fifteen and I don't know who can hear
Speaker 2: us because of our transmitter issue, But if you're with us,
Speaker 2: that means you wanted to be with us. You either
Speaker 2: are listening on stream or you left the traditional radio
Speaker 2: dial on seven ninety am to find us on streams.
Speaker 2: So I feel like we are with an exclusive group
Speaker 2: right now, a special group of listeners that are all in.
Speaker 2: They're company men like us, John, they are.
Speaker 3: And the podcast listeners who listen, you know, whenever, whatever
Speaker 3: time of day it may be, they're in their own
Speaker 3: little world just watching or listening to us react to
Speaker 3: all this in real time.
Speaker 2: I love the podcast listeners in a major way, and
Speaker 2: I haven't done a deep dive on it in a while,
Speaker 2: but I love If I'm ever feeling really insecure as
Speaker 2: in my career. I'll go pull podcast numbers and be like,
Speaker 2: can you believe there's thirteen hundred people last week in
Speaker 2: the state of Georgia that down loaded this show And
Speaker 2: I'm making up a number, making up a place. But like,
Speaker 2: you know, that makes me feel good because you never know,
Speaker 2: you know, in radio, you really don't know how many
Speaker 2: are listening in real time because you can gauge live
Speaker 2: listenership be extreme. You can't gauge live listenership be the
Speaker 2: you know, radio dial. But podcast listeners always kind of
Speaker 2: feel like they don't get the fair you know, like
Speaker 2: they don't get the music. You know, they don't get
Speaker 2: it live, but they choose to be podcast listeners. Some
Speaker 2: of them you know, wouldn't have the ability to listen live.
Speaker 2: But just know, like you didn't get interrupted, like the
Speaker 2: live listeners. Podcast guys like and girls like you weren't interrupted.
Speaker 2: You got you got the whole thing here Johnson recording
Speaker 2: this thing from the beginning, never never need, never needing
Speaker 2: a transmitter right.
Speaker 3: Fun fact, today is the first time in a long time.
Speaker 2: Don't you tell me you're not recording.
Speaker 3: I'm recording. I'm recording the show. But you're gonna say No,
Speaker 3: that would have been terrible. That would have been very
Speaker 3: terrible timing. Yes, but I forgot to record at the beginning,
Speaker 3: so the first maybe ninety seconds are not on the recording.
Speaker 2: But it'll be there eventually, right, Like, we can pull
Speaker 2: it as long.
Speaker 3: As I mean, unless the transmitter was not working.
Speaker 2: But you can pick streaming though when you go to
Speaker 2: the actually you probably they're probably what's what's the last
Speaker 2: time you pulled the podcast from the way that laylight
Speaker 2: teach you because you've mastered a way to do it
Speaker 2: without right very long time, so you can you can
Speaker 2: pick streaming, yes, as the pool so if you know,
Speaker 2: and I don't think we had that issue earlier, we
Speaker 2: would have known, but you know, anyways, hopefully, hopefully they
Speaker 2: get it fixed. I've been sent a text from our
Speaker 2: boss that says they're working on it, So you know
Speaker 2: what that means. They're working on it.
Speaker 3: That means somebody's up there. They climb the tower, they've
Speaker 3: got their hammer, they've got their tool box, whatever it
Speaker 3: may be, and they're going to try to knock that
Speaker 3: thing back into place. Whatever the heck. That looks like.
Speaker 2: I'm already having like scary thoughts about like I'm not
Speaker 2: going to say it on the air.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you during the break, and then you, because
Speaker 2: you are the more mature, responsible person who is ten
Speaker 2: years younger than me, you'll decide if it's something I
Speaker 2: should say on the air.
Speaker 3: It's up to me.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, well, no, I won't. I won't put
Speaker 2: it in your hands because that was all my thoughts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it'll make the final decision because like, well, it'll just
Speaker 2: be a conversation Breas, because it's something you and I
Speaker 2: both would probably get a laugh out of, but it
Speaker 2: wouldn't benefit a single person if we said it on the.
Speaker 3: Show, So I think earlier wanting to go down, we'll
Speaker 3: save that.
Speaker 2: But anyways, tonight is the debut of the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four NFL season, and that has me excited the Ravens
Speaker 2: and the Chiefs some I'm obviously all in on the Ravens,
Speaker 2: but just for Lamar Jackson, I started the show kind
Speaker 2: of letting you guys know that I've had to I've
Speaker 2: had to just accept the fact that, like I'm sensitive
Speaker 2: not to Lamar criticism because that's never going to change.
Speaker 2: And I've known that, and I think Louisville fans at
Speaker 2: times when it comes to Lamar criticism have been overly sensitive.
Speaker 2: I understand why, but it's okay to say Lamar had
Speaker 2: a bad game or Lamar made a bad decision, Like
Speaker 2: I have no problem It's worked out for him. I
Speaker 2: still think that, no doubt about it. He did not
Speaker 2: help himself by never having an agent again, That's just
Speaker 2: my honest opinion. Clearly, he's got a great contract now
Speaker 2: and he's doing well. But like Lamar, criticism's fine. But
Speaker 2: what I think as a Lamar fanatic, a guy who
Speaker 2: I remember interviewing Lamar when he got to Louisville, I
Speaker 2: remember interviewing Lamar Jackson right after he played against Auburn
Speaker 2: in his first game, and to see what he's done
Speaker 2: now in his career, like I mean, it's something special,
Speaker 2: like to be able to say that I was able to,
Speaker 2: you know, and I'm one of many, but like to
Speaker 2: see his career at Louisville play out the way that
Speaker 2: he did and him have this. I've not obviously covered
Speaker 2: his NFL career up close and personal in Baltimore, although
Speaker 2: if you remember, they brought Rick coffee on the aras
Speaker 2: in Baltimore one time, talk about Lamar, remember that John Yeah,
Speaker 2: Rick Coffee was brought into to be the guy to
Speaker 2: give you some analysis on Lamar's college career. But nonetheless,
Speaker 2: like the desperation that I feel like that I have
Speaker 2: at times for people giving Lamar his proper due, Like
Speaker 2: that's just foolish of me to think that's ever gonna happen,
Speaker 2: because Lamar as a as a as an athlete has
Speaker 2: accomplished so much that he's in the tier that no
Speaker 2: matter what, he's gonna be criticized. He's going to be
Speaker 2: even if he played perfect tonight and they lost, there'll
Speaker 2: be somebody with a platform much bigger than the one
Speaker 2: I have that is going to be yappin' about Lamar
Speaker 2: not being able to win the big one, Lamar not
Speaker 2: being able to get past Patrick Mahomes and it be
Speaker 2: because of his leadership or something like that, and I
Speaker 2: just you know, I just got I just got to
Speaker 2: accept that. I mean, but I've never been a fan
Speaker 2: in this way because with Lamar it's different. Like I'm
Speaker 2: not a Ravens fan.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, in fact, I used to hate the Ravens
Speaker 2: and now I just root for them because I know
Speaker 2: that if they want it looks good on Lamar, especially
Speaker 2: if he had a big role in it. So you know,
Speaker 2: it's just this is the first time for me as
Speaker 2: far as just being all in for the success of
Speaker 2: a team. But it's only due to one guy. But
Speaker 2: yet he's got two MVP trophies. He lost last year
Speaker 2: in the playoffs to Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, who,
Speaker 2: by the way, I think everybody's going to lose two
Speaker 2: in the playoffs the next I mean, like, clearly the
Speaker 2: Bengals got past them and made to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: And it's not to say they're invincible and they can't
Speaker 2: be beaten, but it's not easy to do. And you
Speaker 2: I mean, I just would hate for Lamar to continue
Speaker 2: to play elite football, have really good regular seasons, put
Speaker 2: the Ravens in a great position to have, you know,
Speaker 2: even home field advantage in the playoffs like they had
Speaker 2: last year, only for their window to win big clothes
Speaker 2: and there not be that monumental moment of even making
Speaker 2: a super Bowl because Mahomes and the Chiefs were in
Speaker 2: the way. I can totally see that happening, and I
Speaker 2: hate that. But there's nothing you can do about it, and
Speaker 2: it won't change how great Lamar is. It won't change
Speaker 2: how people should view him as a player. But when
Speaker 2: it comes to down the line, how you're viewed your legacy,
Speaker 2: especially at this level, Like there's a lot of really
Speaker 2: good players that have never won a Super Bowl that
Speaker 2: people would reflect on their NFL career and say, man,
Speaker 2: that guy was good, he was special. Love that guy
Speaker 2: was he was elite. But with Lamar, you've got the
Speaker 2: individual accomplishments, you've generated buzz, You've been voted by your
Speaker 2: peers at one point as the best player in the league.
Speaker 2: So with all that said, the only thing for people
Speaker 2: to add to that is a super Bowl and it
Speaker 2: may not come. And if it doesn't, when people and
Speaker 2: I fear that when people do bring him up, there'll
Speaker 2: be many that still just cling to the fact that
Speaker 2: he didn't win a super Bowl. And again, he's young,
Speaker 2: He's not I mean, he's not young young, but he's
Speaker 2: I mean, I think the window for Lamar is still
Speaker 2: still there's a long time. In fact, who knows, maybe
Speaker 2: if the Ravens their window closes because of other areas
Speaker 2: when it comes to personnel, maybe you know he ends
Speaker 2: up elsewhere and has success, who knows, but I want
Speaker 2: it so bad for him tonight. But again, like I
Speaker 2: have to just accept the fact that even if he
Speaker 2: does win big tonight, there'll be people, because of just
Speaker 2: how this works, that will claim, yeat, this doesn't matter
Speaker 2: this first game of the season. Just wait until they
Speaker 2: see the Chiefs in the playoffs, and that won't even
Speaker 2: be That's not even a crazy take. It's just like,
Speaker 2: it's how this is. But I'm you know, I used
Speaker 2: to tell people all the time, don't be so defensive
Speaker 2: of Lamar. He's always going to have people that want
Speaker 2: to say they were right about him not being able
Speaker 2: to be a quarterback in the NFL. But it's not
Speaker 2: that anymore. That's what I really tried to expand on
Speaker 2: in the first segment today. Anybody claiming that they were
Speaker 2: right about Lamar not being able to be a quarterback
Speaker 2: in the NFL, if they're still claiming that, they're a
Speaker 2: certified dumbass. But they'll probably they're probably the same people
Speaker 2: that want to discredit the accomplishments that he's had. And
Speaker 2: I just, you know, I would hate for him to
Speaker 2: never get that. I would hate for him to never
Speaker 2: be able to silence them and put them in their place.
Speaker 2: But again, what I've got to accept is that he's
Speaker 2: reached a level to where there's always going to be critics.
Speaker 2: There's always going to be people that want to downplay
Speaker 2: what he did, not because they're just out to get lamar,
Speaker 2: but because that's how this works at the highest level
Speaker 2: of professional sports. No matter if if you're claimed the goat,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be somebody positioned on a roundtable show on
Speaker 2: the Four Letter Network that their job is to downplay
Speaker 2: the person who's claiming that that that that is the goati.
Speaker 2: Quick break, we'll come back on the other side. It's
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Speaker 2: left here, real quick. Some news that I think is
Speaker 2: worth sharing with you guys, especially if you're interested in
Speaker 2: conference realignment. The Big Twelve has decided to hit pause
Speaker 2: when it comes to discussions of adding Yukon, which, if
Speaker 2: you're a Yukon fan, this has to make you feel good,
Speaker 2: but you're also in a tough spot because Yukon being
Speaker 2: added to the Big Twelve but in every sport outside
Speaker 2: of foot football made no sense. But here's the actual
Speaker 2: reason as to why they would do that, and it
Speaker 2: makes total sense. Yukon, just like every other school, is
Speaker 2: about to start having to pay up to twenty three
Speaker 2: million dollars annually for student athletes. The Big East deal
Speaker 2: does not give them as much money to do that,
Speaker 2: so it would clearly be a money move. But then
Speaker 2: if you're the Big Twelve, why are you gonna add
Speaker 2: him and everything? So it just doesn't make sense. It
Speaker 2: sounds like there were some TV partners that told Brett
Speaker 2: Yormack that they don't see Yukon is a fit that
Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense right now, and it sounds
Speaker 2: like a lot of Big Twelve members didn't want to
Speaker 2: see that move made either. So selfishly as a Yukon fan,
Speaker 2: like you want to be in the Big East. And
Speaker 2: I give Yukon a lot of credit. I've always said this.
Speaker 2: They knew who they were. They understand that their fan base,
Speaker 2: their constituents, the people who matter, right, customers, basketball matters
Speaker 2: more than anything. Geno Arima has built a dynasty. I
Speaker 2: mean I know that that now they're kind of second
Speaker 2: tier compared to what's been going on with the likes
Speaker 2: of South Carolina and Don Staley. But make no mistake
Speaker 2: about it, Gino Arima in the run that Yukon women's
Speaker 2: basketball has had and still currently has, they played in
Speaker 2: the Final four this year once again, you'll never see
Speaker 2: it again. It doesn't. It's not first, second, third, probably
Speaker 2: fourth or maybe even fifth. That comes to mind for
Speaker 2: folks when you talk about the all time unbelievable dynasties,
Speaker 2: make no mistake about it. With Geno, Rim has done
Speaker 2: a Yukon's women's basketball is unbelievable, and you won't find
Speaker 2: a program in the last what twenty five years. It
Speaker 2: has more championships now than Yukon and men's basketball, and
Speaker 2: they've won back to back, so you know, and they
Speaker 2: didn't know that at this time. But when they decided
Speaker 2: to say no, this isn't us. We know football matters,
Speaker 2: we know football is the potential money maker, but we
Speaker 2: know who we are. We're looking in the mirror and
Speaker 2: we realize we are really damaging the brand of our
Speaker 2: university and our athletic department by catering specifically to football.
Speaker 2: We're gonna leave the American and let football be independent
Speaker 2: and we're going to go to the Big East because
Speaker 2: that's where we belong. That is who we are now.
Speaker 2: They didn't scrap their football program, they just now have
Speaker 2: them as an independent school and that cannot be sustainable
Speaker 2: from a financial standpoint now, I mean, I mean, it
Speaker 2: just can't be. So I give them a lot of
Speaker 2: credit when they did that because they understood, like, hey,
Speaker 2: we're not We understand football matters, but we're not a
Speaker 2: football school. We never will be, and we have the
Speaker 2: best chance of succeeding in all these other sports if
Speaker 2: we get back to our roots and we become a
Speaker 2: Big East program once again, which is what they've done
Speaker 2: and it has worked sore now. But now money is
Speaker 2: is you know, before this new settlement with the with
Speaker 2: the you know, the lawsuit essentially where the n DOUAA
Speaker 2: is going to have to pay back a bunch of
Speaker 2: money and these universities are now going to have to
Speaker 2: pay you are going to be allowed to pay up
Speaker 2: the twenty three million annually for student athletes. Like you
Speaker 2: got to do everything you can to make sure you
Speaker 2: got as much money coming in as possible, and if
Speaker 2: a potential move to another conference is what gives you
Speaker 2: more money, that's what you're gonna do. Now, it doesn't
Speaker 2: sound like it was Yukon's called Yukon realized. I mean Yukon, well,
Speaker 2: I think wanted to go to the Big twelve. However,
Speaker 2: they told them you are not even close to being
Speaker 2: able to get join this conference with football when it
Speaker 2: comes to your infrastructure, But in basketball, I'm sure they
Speaker 2: would have loved to have had them. So there was
Speaker 2: some talk about Yukon bailing on the Big East to
Speaker 2: go to the Big Twelve. It sounds like that's been
Speaker 2: shot down, which again I think is you know, it's
Speaker 2: probably got to make Yukon fans happy for the time being.
Speaker 2: But don't be shocked if you see your league try
Speaker 2: to if you see your school try to get to
Speaker 2: one of the other leagues at some point, because again,
Speaker 2: you're gonna need a bigger revenue share from your annual
Speaker 2: media rights than what the Big East gives you just
Speaker 2: for basketball. Speaking of all that, when it comes to
Speaker 2: the money that schools are gonna be and I got
Speaker 2: to figure out the best way to describe this, because
Speaker 2: schools are not going to be required to pay a dime,
Speaker 2: but if you want to compete at the highest level
Speaker 2: of college athletics, you're going to have to be pro
Speaker 2: paying players, meaning you're going to pay up to the
Speaker 2: twenty three million that you're allowed to pay, because that's
Speaker 2: the way it's going to be set up is that
Speaker 2: you're not required to, but you can pay up to
Speaker 2: twenty three million per year for ten years, meaning you know,
Speaker 2: twenty three million annually for a total of ten years.
Speaker 2: And the reality is this, there's a lot of schools
Speaker 2: that simply cannot do that right Like, they don't have
Speaker 2: It's not realistic, it's not possible. So this actually could
Speaker 2: be where you see the highest level of college athletics
Speaker 2: distance itself officially and become professional sports, just in a
Speaker 2: different way, and then the lower level just becomes I
Speaker 2: guess what you call. I mean, it's not really going
Speaker 2: to be amateurism because you're still gonna be able to
Speaker 2: make money. But I'm reading here from a great write
Speaker 2: up by Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports, who joins us
Speaker 2: on the show from time to time. The headline here
Speaker 2: says is college athletics pairs for revenue sharing fallout leaders
Speaker 2: wonder is a breakaway from the NCAA next, And I
Speaker 2: mean I think it is. Again reading here directly from
Speaker 2: cbssports dot com, it says the big breakaway now seems
Speaker 2: to be right around the corner. It's been hinted at,
Speaker 2: speculated and discussed for years. A growing possibility of some
Speaker 2: combination of the power conferences detaching themselves from the current
Speaker 2: INSTAA structure. The concept has never been more likely. On
Speaker 2: Thursday ninth, District Judge Claudia Wilkin is expected to give
Speaker 2: preliminary approval to the House be NCAA settlement. Among the
Speaker 2: conditions is a trench of revenue sharing money that will
Speaker 2: change college athletics significantly in this already dizzying age. So
Speaker 2: it says here schools will be given the option of
Speaker 2: funding up to twenty two percent of their annual revenue,
Speaker 2: an average of about twenty three million dollars per school
Speaker 2: that's going to be set aside annually for athletes for
Speaker 2: the next ten years, beginning next year. So you know
Speaker 2: technically what this says. It's true pay for play with conditions.
Speaker 2: So if the separate again reading directly from Dennis Dodd's
Speaker 2: piece at CBS Sports, if the separation of FBS is eminent,
Speaker 2: the mechanisms are definitely in place. The power for are
Speaker 2: already likely to form their own governance structure within the
Speaker 2: nc DOUBLEA. How far that authority goes is up for debates.
Speaker 2: So again, there are now people behind the scenes within
Speaker 2: these universities that are not power for, or maybe they
Speaker 2: are power for, but not the power to that are
Speaker 2: just kind of you know, making it. They're saying it,
Speaker 2: they're saying it out loud. We can't do this. We
Speaker 2: do not have financial means to compete, Like we can
Speaker 2: maybe do ten million. But if we're doing ten million
Speaker 2: in the highest of our of our league is doing
Speaker 2: you know, more than double that, what are we even
Speaker 2: doing trying to compete? Because again, money is gonna matter
Speaker 2: more than it's ever mattered. I mean, clearly there's gonna
Speaker 2: be enough money that is sh between SEC and Big twelve.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, in Big ten schools to where they'll be
Speaker 2: able to make this work. But the others, you know,
Speaker 2: I think the successful schools in the Big twelve and
Speaker 2: the ACC that do just generate a lot of revenue
Speaker 2: because they have a big fan base that is, you know,
Speaker 2: that'll pay big donations for season tickets. Companies will will
Speaker 2: will donate money to their athletic fund like the Cardinal
Speaker 2: Fund or the k Fund, you know, And to be
Speaker 2: fair around here, we're in that boat. I mean, I
Speaker 2: think Josh Hurd was being very honest whenever he said
Speaker 2: they don't just have twenty millions sitting around for you know,
Speaker 2: when this starts, but they'll you know, and I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to paraphrase here for him, but like he was
Speaker 2: pretty clear whenever this news broke and it looked as
Speaker 2: if this was the way things were going to go,
Speaker 2: that like, yeah, that's twenty million. They're gonna have to
Speaker 2: figure out where it's going to come from. But you know,
Speaker 2: they have the ability to do that more so than
Speaker 2: a lot of other schools will have the ability to
Speaker 2: do so. And you're just gonna have to make that
Speaker 2: decision like do you want to live in delusional fairy
Speaker 2: tale land where you think you are going to be
Speaker 2: able to compete at the high level, or do you
Speaker 2: want to just acknowledge out we're not one of the
Speaker 2: big boys. What makes it unfortunate is that football clearly
Speaker 2: matters more than anything. We've all known that. But this
Speaker 2: is another thing that could really damage something we love
Speaker 2: around here, and that's college basketball, because what happens with
Speaker 2: your football, I mean, your football program's got to drive
Speaker 2: the ship.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: If football is not there to bring in money, you
Speaker 2: don't have a big bank role. I mean, you just don't.
Speaker 2: Now you'd also don't have the expenses of what it
Speaker 2: costs to run a football program, but I just I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've been saying this for a long long time.
Speaker 2: There's going to be a breakoff. There's going to be
Speaker 2: a separation between the highest level of college sports to
Speaker 2: where it's basically going to be the NFL the NBA
Speaker 2: minor league essentially. And now I mean it's here, and
Speaker 2: I mean, again not technically, but you've got guys that
Speaker 2: are clearly getting paid to play. Guys can go wherever
Speaker 2: they want. Free agency is clearly a thing with the portal.
Speaker 2: And then once the schools are gonna be you know,
Speaker 2: once it's out there that they're allowed to pay that
Speaker 2: much money. If you're in the business of wanting to
Speaker 2: compete at the high level and you're branding your athletic
Speaker 2: department as one that wants to compete with the highest
Speaker 2: in your in your industry, you're gonna have to have
Speaker 2: that money available to pay student athletes. And I don't
Speaker 2: care what you're doing, Having twenty plus million just around
Speaker 2: every year is not easy to do. For some, it
Speaker 2: will be easy, right like Ohio State, they're the first
Speaker 2: school that I've seen that's come out from the athletic
Speaker 2: director and made it quite clear. They're they're gonna they're
Speaker 2: gonna max out right, They're gonna do They're gonna pay
Speaker 2: the maximum amount that they're allowed to. So I don't
Speaker 2: think we have as much to worry about around here,
Speaker 2: because I think schools like Louisville, Kentucky, they'll be able
Speaker 2: to make it work. They'll be able to figure it out.
Speaker 2: But the you know a lot of other schools won't.
Speaker 2: And what that makes college athletics look like in a
Speaker 2: few years is a big question mark. All right, what
Speaker 2: I want to do coming up here as we wrap
Speaker 2: up the show. On the other side, I've got some
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Speaker 2: I'm going with the ladder. I think that I'm with
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Speaker 2: able to prove that this point which he has that
Speaker 2: he's a good quarterback in the pocket, can make the throws.
Speaker 2: He's got a weapon with his legs. And I think
Speaker 2: him losing some weight this year. He talked about it once.
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