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Speaker 3: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 2: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 1: Who's the kid here? Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 2: am feeling good. You had a good afternoon thus far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I woke up with a sore throat and
Speaker 1: I was it was going to take me into the
Speaker 1: rest of the day. But you know, I'm a big
Speaker 1: coffee drinker and so a couple of cups of coffee
Speaker 1: I've actually had three today already really soothes the throat
Speaker 1: feeling a lot better.
Speaker 2: So do you feel like it's allergy related?
Speaker 1: Because yeah, my wife has really bad allergies too, and
Speaker 1: they usually affect her sooner than they affect me. And
Speaker 1: you know, just listening to myself talk right now, it
Speaker 1: definitely sounds like things are at least working.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for the time being. E kid me. You sound
Speaker 2: phenomenal as always. Yeah, I mean, allergies aren't fun for anybody,
Speaker 2: and allergies can cause like things that really kind of
Speaker 2: can just derail your day or really just cause you
Speaker 2: you know, it could be a real pain in the ass.
Speaker 2: So although you know, I don't know if there's any
Speaker 2: allergies that would be related to your actual ass, but
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, And I sometimes feel myself
Speaker 2: feeling a little itch, you know, and I just hope
Speaker 2: it's allergies because that you know that at least it
Speaker 2: makes it make sense. It usually isn't something that's going
Speaker 2: to completely, you know, put you down and out for
Speaker 2: a couple of days. But yeah, this when when the
Speaker 2: seasons are changing, which what I mean, that's what we're
Speaker 2: at right now. That you know, I'm hoping it's allergies
Speaker 2: for you because I don't want you getting sick. You
Speaker 2: don't get you never get sick.
Speaker 1: Sort of taking one sick day in the history of
Speaker 1: me being here for nearly five years.
Speaker 2: I'd like to I hope we're still working together in
Speaker 2: the year twenty forty seven. I just picked a random
Speaker 2: year many many years from now, and and you're still
Speaker 2: sitting here saying one sick day in the history of
Speaker 2: because like some people can claim, like, oh, I've never
Speaker 2: took it, never took a sick day. Of those kids
Speaker 2: you went to school with it, like bragged about never
Speaker 2: missing a day of school. I bet that was worth it.
Speaker 1: I was one of those, at least, at least for
Speaker 1: all you know, I didn't even know this for a while,
Speaker 1: you never missed a day of school, not that I
Speaker 1: remember ever, No, not ever.
Speaker 2: That's a really hard thing to do, especially when you're people.
Speaker 2: But people have done it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I thought you were literally about to say you were
Speaker 2: one of those guys that graduated high school and could
Speaker 2: claim you never missed a day of school for being sick.
Speaker 2: That might be true, but I've missed days for other reasons. Yeah,
Speaker 2: same thing, like perfect attendance. She ever heard of that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard of perfect attempt Okay, So like that's
Speaker 1: like the lame thing to brag about though, right, absolutely.
Speaker 2: That was my point.
Speaker 3: But then you made me kind of feel like you
Speaker 3: were one of those guys might be who he's talking about,
Speaker 3: but you would know, Like again, if you were somebody
Speaker 3: like that went through public school, I guess it could
Speaker 3: be private too, but you and I are both some
Speaker 3: public school OG's here, and you never missed a day
Speaker 3: of school for any reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I'm not in that category, okay, cause some
Speaker 2: people are. It's super rare, but like the people who
Speaker 2: do it, you know. In fact, I remember there were
Speaker 2: two kids that I was in school with one. I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean it was a known thing, like we got
Speaker 2: to like seventh eighth grade kid never missed the day,
Speaker 2: sure enough, we graduate never missed today. And I kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, I kind of felt bad for him because,
Speaker 2: like I think he didn't want it to be brought
Speaker 2: up all the time, but it was a rare thing,
Speaker 2: and you know, they wanted to brag on him. But
Speaker 2: like I think after a while he was like, all right, enough,
Speaker 2: like this doesn't make me look cool. I'm a puberty's hit.
Speaker 2: I'm a teenager now, Like this is not gonna help
Speaker 2: me with the ladies. They're not gonna, you know, move
Speaker 2: me up the power rankings of guys they're interested in
Speaker 2: because I never missed school. So I kind of felt
Speaker 2: bad for him. I mean, he doesn't wrong with what
Speaker 2: he did, but like it was always kind of thrown
Speaker 2: in our face, like if you could only be like
Speaker 2: this kid because he's never missed school. And then there
Speaker 2: was another kid who it was a she moved to
Speaker 2: our district, our area, not from around here. We're supposed
Speaker 2: to just believe that she never missed school the first
Speaker 2: nine years she was in publics. Come on, I mean, sure,
Speaker 2: all right, I don't believe her, still don't to this day.
Speaker 2: So you're telling me you have missed school for like
Speaker 2: a funeral or or something fun I want to do. Yeah, like, okay,
Speaker 2: well you got to miss school just because you want
Speaker 2: to go do something fun. Yeah, Usually it was.
Speaker 1: So there was a time back whenever I was probably
Speaker 1: middle school early high school, where my grandpa and I
Speaker 1: we would go up annually to either an IU baseball
Speaker 1: game and I you foot.
Speaker 2: I mean football games.
Speaker 1: Are on Saturdays, but basketball that's all the times that
Speaker 1: I get checked out early to travel up to Bloomington
Speaker 1: for the afternoon in the evening.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. That is awesome. Here you had me thinking,
Speaker 2: I am I insulted you because you were like one
Speaker 2: of those kids I was just talking about that literally
Speaker 2: never met like lived at the school.
Speaker 1: If they were they thinking about just in reference to
Speaker 1: being sick. So I had sick days as a kid,
Speaker 1: and it pains me to admit this. I can say
Speaker 1: this now because you know, I'm a grown adult and
Speaker 1: I think it's time to come clean mom.
Speaker 2: And she's not listening. My mom's in Florida, she's on
Speaker 2: she's on vacation. But I'm sure we'll get back to
Speaker 2: her because I know a lot of her, her her coworkers. Listen.
Speaker 2: I can tell you this, mom, and it's gonna feel
Speaker 2: good to get it off my chest. Seventy five percent
Speaker 2: at minimum of the time I stayed home from school sick,
Speaker 2: I wasn't really sick. Now, it wasn't that often because
Speaker 2: she was pretty like you know, oh you don't feel good,
Speaker 2: get up like you know she was she she was
Speaker 2: you know, she was a good she's a great mother.
Speaker 2: But you know she would if I was really sick,
Speaker 2: she'd know, she'd help me. But she had a good
Speaker 2: she had a good detector. You know what I'm saying, like, Oh, no,
Speaker 2: you're just tired. You were up last night, you know
Speaker 2: playing NBA Live that you're not sick. You're tired because
Speaker 2: you didn't go to bed when I told you to son,
Speaker 2: like see you know she could, so I oftentimes didn't try,
Speaker 2: but there were some times where I was able to,
Speaker 2: like here's what I would do, Like, wait a second,
Speaker 2: I don't feel sick, but man, I am losing my
Speaker 2: voice a little bit. I don't feel like I'm sick,
Speaker 2: but man, in the nose is a faucet, and I
Speaker 2: would just kind of, you know, I would kind of
Speaker 2: overdo it as far as all symptoms to where she
Speaker 2: would you know, I don't know if she ever really
Speaker 2: believed me, but there were times where she was like,
Speaker 2: all right, well he doesn't sound good, didn't look good
Speaker 2: by send him to school, and then I'm gonna look
Speaker 2: like a bad mom. So I'm just gonna keep him home.
Speaker 2: Did you ever hear of any tricks to like make
Speaker 2: you to make you be able to uh, to make
Speaker 2: you be able to like have a fever? Didn't have
Speaker 2: something to do with like putting ice or penny. So
Speaker 2: I never had you know what to try it because
Speaker 2: like if, I like if, mom, because nowadays it's all digital.
Speaker 2: Whenever I was in school and I was growing up
Speaker 2: and like your parents were checking your temperature, like you know,
Speaker 2: it was an older thermometer. I don't know if there
Speaker 2: was any digital capabilities to it, but like, you know,
Speaker 2: for some reason, I feel like it was red like
Speaker 2: with the you could read it with like that red line,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, where you know, something like that.
Speaker 2: So I remember kids at school saying like if you
Speaker 2: put a penny under your tongue. It was a kid
Speaker 2: on the bus he would say that if you put
Speaker 2: a penny under your tongue and the thermometer, like the
Speaker 2: silver tip of it hits you know, it's underneath your
Speaker 2: tongue and it's on the penny, it'll it'll register every
Speaker 2: time at like one hundred points something like, nothing crazy high,
Speaker 2: but still you had a temperature. Yeah, And like I
Speaker 2: just believed him. Kid was kind of a bully, so
Speaker 2: he's probably you know, he's probably lying, just messing with
Speaker 2: us because we were he was two years older than us.
Speaker 2: But I always wondered did that work? And I thought
Speaker 2: about it a couple of times. I had a penny
Speaker 2: next to my nightstand when I was going to try
Speaker 2: to you know, fake sick, and I never had the
Speaker 2: stones to do it, because like if Mom saw I
Speaker 2: had some kind of you know device, some kind of
Speaker 2: a way to kind of, you know, manipulate the thermometer.
Speaker 2: One she'd be disappointed in me, and also you know,
Speaker 2: she might knock me upside the head. I mean, not really,
Speaker 2: but you know, it was different times back in the
Speaker 2: in the nineties, folks, I got spanked. It wasn't fun.
Speaker 2: I got spanked in the two thousands.
Speaker 3: Did you.
Speaker 2: I'm actually this not to take the conversation in a
Speaker 2: weird direction as we get the show started in a
Speaker 2: very unexpected, unusual way, or still getting like spanked.
Speaker 1: I think I think it's a lot more accepted than
Speaker 1: maybe people would make it out to be, because I
Speaker 1: do know there is a larger contingent of people who
Speaker 1: are against it, and.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm good. A lot of people are against
Speaker 2: things when it comes to parenting, that don't have kids,
Speaker 2: that aren't parents, that are never gonna be parents, don't
Speaker 2: want to be parents, and they're the most opinionated people
Speaker 2: on how how kids should be raised. Again, I feel
Speaker 2: strongly about this. I don't you know not to say
Speaker 2: you can't have an opinion, and you are beneath people
Speaker 2: who don't have me. Trust me, if you don't want
Speaker 2: to have kids, that's your choice, and I'm sure you've
Speaker 2: made that choice and feel great about it. It is not
Speaker 2: about like, hey, you don't have a kid, You're not
Speaker 2: really you never really had to go. But I don't
Speaker 2: think you can actually, Like here's what I'll say. You
Speaker 2: can't relate unless you have a kid. Doesn't mean you
Speaker 2: can't have an opinion, doesn't mean you can't you know,
Speaker 2: express your thoughts. Like I know people all the time
Speaker 2: who don't have kids that I talk to about my
Speaker 2: life as a parent and as a dad, and like
Speaker 2: I appreciate they're not insight, but like you know, I
Speaker 2: appreciate hearing what they have to say about things because
Speaker 2: I value them as as a human. But like that,
Speaker 2: nothing nothing irks me more. This is like one of
Speaker 2: the one of the things I got to add to
Speaker 2: the list of things that like I realize I'm getting
Speaker 2: worked up about and I'm like, okay, I'm getting old,
Speaker 2: Like this is it. I'm now becoming Like now, okay,
Speaker 2: I guess I'm conservative. Now I got you know, like
Speaker 2: you know, it's happening. So one of those things is
Speaker 2: people who are the most like the example, remember in
Speaker 2: the JCPS bus thing was a complete disaster, yeah, last year,
Speaker 2: comple I mean it was and it was absolutely a
Speaker 2: train wreck. It made national news, and you know, it
Speaker 2: was a scary, scary thought for somebody to not know
Speaker 2: where their kid was because they got on the wrong
Speaker 2: bus or the bus is still out and you know,
Speaker 2: their kids in fourth grade so they don't have a
Speaker 2: cell phone, that kind of stuff. But what really stood
Speaker 2: out to me is that some of the most nasty
Speaker 2: people towards JCPS, some of the most you know, loud
Speaker 2: mouthed idiots on Facebook, did not have kids, did not
Speaker 2: work in the school system, none of their it doesn't
Speaker 2: relate to them in any way. And yet they're the
Speaker 2: ones who were just the most opinionated on and about
Speaker 2: what needs to be done and about the kids and
Speaker 2: all that, and it just you know, those are things
Speaker 2: that you know, the irritate me. But when it comes
Speaker 2: to like disciplining kids, I mean, I'll I'll tell you
Speaker 2: straight up, like I'm gonna hold my kids accountable. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna make sure they know right from wrong as best
Speaker 2: I can. I don't want to be that soft dad,
Speaker 2: but like I don't think I would have the ability
Speaker 2: to actually, you know, spank a kid, spank my kid.
Speaker 2: I'm just taking any kids. I'm just saying, you know,
Speaker 2: cry around you cry with them. Oh yeah, yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: And I once and now that I know like that,
Speaker 2: that's what I would do, I'm like, let's just avoid
Speaker 2: that experience. All right, Let's get the show started. What
Speaker 2: a weird eleven and a half minutes to uh, you know,
Speaker 2: to lean in here, but here we are here, we
Speaker 2: are all right. We are gonna have one guest joining
Speaker 2: us today, coming up at four thirty. We'll talk. Actually,
Speaker 2: let me double check here. I believe it may not
Speaker 2: be four thirty. I may have just told you a lie.
Speaker 2: Kendrick Haskins. That's who's gonna be with us. You know him,
Speaker 2: you love him, You see him on Wave three. He's
Speaker 2: gonna be with us at four or five today. We'll
Speaker 2: talk with Kendrick. We do it each week, get his
Speaker 2: thoughts on the local teams. And I don't know I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to. I mean, with Cowboys being you know,
Speaker 2: allegedly America's team, Kendrick's one of my biggest cowboy fan friends,
Speaker 2: and like I mean, they give Dak all the money
Speaker 2: and then of course they come out and get completely
Speaker 2: curb stomped at home and their home opener to Dallas.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to New Orleans, so I may rip him
Speaker 2: a little bit on that, but also I just want
Speaker 2: to get his thoughts as far as what he expects
Speaker 2: to see in this first real test for louisvill against
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech coming up on Saturday. Kentucky, I mean, what's
Speaker 2: more likely none of us will know until we actually
Speaker 2: see results that have yet to come. But for those
Speaker 2: that just think this means Kentucky is you know, because
Speaker 2: the reality is this Kentucky football is probably a mixture
Speaker 2: between what you saw against Georgia and what you saw
Speaker 2: against South Carolina. And to be fair to them, just
Speaker 2: because I know they've got some pretty good personnel, I
Speaker 2: actually would say they're a closer team to what you
Speaker 2: saw against Georgia than to what you saw against South Carolina.
Speaker 2: But more than anything, it's because they were just so
Speaker 2: bad against South Carolina, probably the worst performance of Stoops's
Speaker 2: time there. And you know they're not They're not gonna
Speaker 2: be terrible. But for those that just think because they
Speaker 2: played Georgia really really close and probably you know, I
Speaker 2: mean head Stoops not punted it away on fourth down there.
Speaker 2: Who knows what would have happened. But let me remind
Speaker 2: you there are two teams that did exactly what you
Speaker 2: did to Georgia, exactly outplayed them, meaning Georgia in Georgia's
Speaker 2: first road SEC game of the season. All while Georgia
Speaker 2: is in the midst of this current dynasty that they're on,
Speaker 2: they are, I mean, I don't know if we can
Speaker 2: call it a dynasty. I mean, they've won two out
Speaker 2: of three and I mean again, had they been the
Speaker 2: team that got in the playoff, wouldn't have been a
Speaker 2: big head scratcher, although they did lose to Tobama in
Speaker 2: the in the SEC championship game. But like if Georgia
Speaker 2: would have made it all the way to the championship,
Speaker 2: if Georgia would have made the fourteen playoff last year,
Speaker 2: nobody would be surprised if they won it, and they'd
Speaker 2: be looking at potentially going to a four peat. So again,
Speaker 2: two teams have done exactly what Kentucky did on Saturday,
Speaker 2: out play Georgia while they're this great and then not
Speaker 2: be able to hold on and win. And I don't
Speaker 2: even know if it's fair or accurate to say that
Speaker 2: Georgia couldn't hold on or Kentucky couldn't hold on because
Speaker 2: they never really had control of the game. But it
Speaker 2: was neck and neck really from start definish. It was
Speaker 2: a very competitive game. And as I said yesterday, you
Speaker 2: take away everything you know about those teams prior to
Speaker 2: kickoff and you just watch which you just watch the
Speaker 2: game itself, you would say those are very comparable teams,
Speaker 2: even though we know they're not. But anyways, Auburn last
Speaker 2: year ended up doing the same thing they play they
Speaker 2: they I think, and I remember watching that game because
Speaker 2: I bet on it and I watched a good chunk
Speaker 2: of it. And when you got a team on the
Speaker 2: ropes like that, there's gonna be people tuning in because wow,
Speaker 2: is Number one about to go down? And by the way,
Speaker 2: that was the was that the most watched game of
Speaker 2: college football this past weekend? It was one of them.
Speaker 2: But anyways, last year Auburn played Georgia super competitive and
Speaker 2: ended up not being able to hold on, and it
Speaker 2: didn't mean that their season was then you know, turned around,
Speaker 2: because they realized, hey, if we bring it every night,
Speaker 2: we can play with anybody. They ended up having a
Speaker 2: losing record and again lost to New Mexico State a
Speaker 2: year before that. Missouri it was Auburn's. I'm sorry, not Auburn's.
Speaker 2: It was George's first road game in SEC action outplayed them,
Speaker 2: another game that I remember tuning in, not even because
Speaker 2: I wagered, because I'm like, wow, was this about to happen?
Speaker 2: That when a big upset's bruin, you know, maybe people
Speaker 2: are not watching a game and they're just on their phone,
Speaker 2: or maybe they're watching a different game. When you get
Speaker 2: to halftime, you come back from a commercial break, if
Speaker 2: there's a potential goliath about to go down, they're gonna
Speaker 2: let everybody know and people are going to tune in
Speaker 2: and watch. So that's why I remember both these games
Speaker 2: pretty vividly. But Missouri, they were at home and they
Speaker 2: outplayed them, only Tod not be able to hold on
Speaker 2: and win, and then they ended up having a losing
Speaker 2: season the rest of the way, ended up I think,
Speaker 2: finishing the season five and seven. So I don't know
Speaker 2: if Kentucky's gonna do that, But it is weird how
Speaker 2: George has been in been in that situation twice and
Speaker 2: again it's not just the fact that you almost beat
Speaker 2: Georgia and then didn't. It's early in the season, right.
Speaker 2: This has happened in each of each of the last
Speaker 2: three seasons. George's first road game in SEC play has
Speaker 2: been the exact same thing, and yet George just went
Speaker 2: on to be really really good. The teams that have
Speaker 2: done it up to this point, meaning challenge them, did
Speaker 2: not really carry that over to the rest of the season. Well,
Speaker 2: Kentucky do it. Who knows, maybe they will, because again,
Speaker 2: I actually think Kentucky has good players. I don't know
Speaker 2: how good their quarterback is, but if they can line
Speaker 2: up and run the ball against Georgia like they did
Speaker 2: the other night, I mean they should be able to
Speaker 2: have They should be able to do that against a
Speaker 2: lot of teams. So again, we'll talk to Kendrick coming
Speaker 2: up here at about four h five. I watched last
Speaker 2: night's Monday Night Football, and I mean it wasn't fun
Speaker 2: for me because you know, my my picks I put
Speaker 2: together with the underdog fantasy did not come through. But
Speaker 2: that's okay. Well, I mean I get right back at
Speaker 2: it come Thursday, and I'm gonna believe in the power
Speaker 2: of positivity and hope that I put something together that
Speaker 2: can they can cash because that's you know, that's what
Speaker 2: you want to do. But I didn't know if anybody
Speaker 2: else was observing the broadcast booth the way that I was.
Speaker 2: So Travis Kelcey, not Travis Kelsey, his brother Jason Kelsey.
Speaker 2: I oftentimes just like have to like, wait a second,
Speaker 2: I know there's two Kelsey's. Obviously I know who I
Speaker 2: know who Travis is, and like Jason Kelsey's a legendary player,
Speaker 2: is going to be in the Hall of Fame, has
Speaker 2: won Super Bowls like or a Super Bowl Like he's great,
Speaker 2: but like I only really know of him because of
Speaker 2: his brother, to be honest with you, but he was
Speaker 2: in the Monday Night football booth last night with Aikman
Speaker 2: and Buck, and like I was hoping they wouldn't I mean,
Speaker 2: I was really hoping that it wouldn't be awkward for
Speaker 2: those guys if they accidentally put that, like instead of
Speaker 2: showing the the action on the field, maybe maybe they
Speaker 2: go to a live shot of those guys in the booth,
Speaker 2: because I'm pretty sure Buck even eight minute times would
Speaker 2: have been caught on their knees in front of Kelsey,
Speaker 2: who they were just I mean, he's to me, he
Speaker 2: seems like a likable guy. He's the fat, funny guy
Speaker 2: that can take his shirt off in chug Beers and
Speaker 2: everybody says it's great and like he's just an offensive
Speaker 2: lineman being and all, like you know, he's really likable.
Speaker 2: But I'm seeing this. I'm like, dude, like there's a
Speaker 2: game going on. Like it's cool that he's now no
Speaker 2: longer a player and he's got this popular podcast, but
Speaker 2: like this isn't He's not doing a stand up routine.
Speaker 2: He's really not adding that much to the broadcast. Like
Speaker 2: can we just like, because again I thought about going
Speaker 2: to the Manning cast, didn't do that. I stuck with
Speaker 2: the original broadcast and watched it that way. But like
Speaker 2: it was just like they were just it reminds me
Speaker 2: of the Seinfeld episode for those who know Seinfeld, where
Speaker 2: George is just like enamored with Tony the mal bimbo
Speaker 2: and just thinks he's the coolest guy in the world
Speaker 2: and just got those big big eyes just staring at him,
Speaker 2: like you know, he's got a male crush, and I
Speaker 2: just that's that's the way Buckman or not Buckman, but
Speaker 2: uh but Aikman and Buck were we're treating Kelsey and
Speaker 2: he's looked. I think he's a little more likable than
Speaker 2: his brother. But either way, I mean, it just was annoying.
Speaker 2: And also the game sucked. It was not an entertaining
Speaker 2: game by any means. And if you're an Eagles fan,
Speaker 2: like I mean, that was terrible. I mean, you throw
Speaker 2: it on third down when Barkley has not been stopped
Speaker 2: at any point, He's had a really good day on
Speaker 2: the ground, and you just want to run clock and
Speaker 2: all you you throw it past to him on third down,
Speaker 2: He doesn't catch it, stops the clock, no timeouts left
Speaker 2: for Atlanta, and then they just had about as easy
Speaker 2: of a drive to put themselves in field goal range
Speaker 2: that I can remember in a situation like that. I
Speaker 2: mean they had. It was almost like they had time
Speaker 2: to spare. Kirk Cousins had not done much of anything
Speaker 2: that whole game, and then sure enough he steps up
Speaker 2: and gets him in field goal range, and they hold on,
Speaker 2: or that they find a way to I was gonna
Speaker 2: say hold on. They didn't hold on. They found a
Speaker 2: way to win, and you give them credit, but like
Speaker 2: everything that the Eagles needed to do to give that
Speaker 2: game away, they did exactly that. So that sucked, but hey,
Speaker 2: now we just have two days we got to get
Speaker 2: through and then we got football once again, and I
Speaker 2: am I'm looking forward to that. All right, some things
Speaker 2: we'll get into today. There's some anil stuff I want
Speaker 2: to discuss, and I don't want to, you know, nerd
Speaker 2: out on numbers too much. But Tennessee appears to be
Speaker 2: the first university that is letting their fans know, Hey,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to start paying these players ourselves now,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna need you to pay ten percent. Talent
Speaker 2: fee is going to be added to ticket prices moving
Speaker 2: forward for Tennessee football. And there's a lot of reaction
Speaker 2: to this. Most of the reaction I've seen is, wow,
Speaker 2: they're so greedy. They have a billion dollar television deal
Speaker 2: in the SEC and you need me to help pay
Speaker 2: these players. And like, I get all that. I think
Speaker 2: that's a legitimate it's a legitimate point. However, college sports
Speaker 2: fans are suckers, and I'm one of them. Like, I
Speaker 2: love college sports. If you told me I had to
Speaker 2: pay five hundred dollars a year just to be able
Speaker 2: to watch my team play on TV, you know, I
Speaker 2: find a way to make it work. Financially, because like
Speaker 2: I it's something college is different than this is essentially
Speaker 2: pro sports. But again, like there's something about college sports
Speaker 2: and I guess the fans of college sports to where
Speaker 2: you'll pay whatever, like you'll do whatever. It's like it's
Speaker 2: part of you. And I guess you could say the
Speaker 2: same thing about certain fans of pro teams, because obviously
Speaker 2: pro teams have diehard fans as well. But like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, I just I get the reaction of these
Speaker 2: guys have some real nerve expecting us to already pay
Speaker 2: more money when they want us to also continue to
Speaker 2: donate to the NIL, but like they know, you'll do it,
Speaker 2: and if you want, somebody else will. So college sports
Speaker 2: around here, I mean we are a college market. Obviously
Speaker 2: we love the NFL, and I know there's plenty of
Speaker 2: pro sports fans around here too, But like when it
Speaker 2: comes to most fans of sports that have a team
Speaker 2: that they really have an emotional connection to, like in
Speaker 2: our market here, especially Louisville, I'd say ninety five percent
Speaker 2: of them, it's either Louisville or Kentucky, UFL, or UK,
Speaker 2: and it's you know, you're sad as hell when they lose,
Speaker 2: you're happy as hell when they win. And if you
Speaker 2: know they need support to pay players like you'll probably
Speaker 2: try to find it made a way to make it
Speaker 2: work as best you can, because because it's something that
Speaker 2: you care a lot about, that's very special to you.
Speaker 2: So I don't knock anybody who finds ways to donate
Speaker 2: that whatever money they can. And I don't really you know,
Speaker 2: like I don't. I don't really have a hard time
Speaker 2: dealing with universities who ask them to pay whenever like
Speaker 2: they know they will. So we can certainly get into that,
Speaker 2: and I've got a lot of things I want to
Speaker 2: get into today still, some recap from the overall weekend
Speaker 2: of college football, a look at some of the big
Speaker 2: games we've got coming up this weekend, and you know,
Speaker 2: some other nonsense. That's what we like to do every
Speaker 2: now and then on this show. Nonsense. It's not probably
Speaker 2: not a great way to describe a show that you
Speaker 2: want people to really enjoy and like get them to
Speaker 2: tune in. But you know, I'm just gonna be honest
Speaker 2: with you. There's a lot of nonsense that takes place
Speaker 2: here on this show, and to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have it an either way, all right, stick
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Speaker 2: to it. I uh gonna be a busy day for
Speaker 2: me Saturday. I've got my son's football game in the morning,
Speaker 2: and then I'm gonna take the whole family to LNN
Speaker 2: Cardinals Stadium for some tailgating and uh, you know, enjoy
Speaker 2: hopefully what is a victory for Louisville. I won't be
Speaker 2: able to stay the entire time because you know, I've
Speaker 2: got postgame show, but uh, looking forward to it looks
Speaker 2: like the weather is going to cooperate, so that's good stuff.
Speaker 2: It also looks as if there's a lot of emphasis
Speaker 2: on this game for Georgia Tech. Brent Key had his
Speaker 2: press conference earlier today, and this is one of the
Speaker 2: quotes from that press conference, courtesy of Chad Bishop, who
Speaker 2: covers Georgia Tech for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, says, this
Speaker 2: is a champ This is a championship week. Every game
Speaker 2: moving forward, we talk about having goals in front of
Speaker 2: you and not being and not behind, and that's where
Speaker 2: we are. We're not leaving anything at home, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you that. So obviously they're already zero to one in
Speaker 2: conference play. I'm sorry, excuse me, one in one in
Speaker 2: conference play. They did have because they played them in Ireland.
Speaker 2: It felt weird. But they do have the win against
Speaker 2: Florida State, which, fortunately for Georgia Tech, doesn't really look
Speaker 2: like it has any value. Now. It's a conference win,
Speaker 2: so there's value in that. But beating Florida State is
Speaker 2: probably what many teams are gonna are gonna do this year.
Speaker 2: It seems so look, this this is a and there's
Speaker 2: no way for me to really if I just you know,
Speaker 2: unload and express why I'm so excited about this game.
Speaker 2: I know it sounds like I'm really overdoing it, and
Speaker 2: it might even sound like I'm forcing it, and I
Speaker 2: don't really want that to be the case. It's just
Speaker 2: this is a first test for Louisville and that that,
Speaker 2: to me is exciting because that's what I want, right.
Speaker 2: I don't want to I mean, I don't want to
Speaker 2: play games against Austin p and Jacksonville State. I don't
Speaker 2: want I don't want to buy week in September. But hey,
Speaker 2: that's what the scheduling folks gave us, and that's what
Speaker 2: we got to deal with. Also, some of it's Indiana's fault.
Speaker 2: I'm being honest with you. It's just the truth. Hey,
Speaker 2: we cashed in. How you screwed us?
Speaker 1: We're three and oh I'm saying Indiana cashed in. Well,
Speaker 1: we should have played you, That's true. That's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like you all screwed us. We had There's not a
Speaker 1: scenario where I can I can see Louisville football on
Speaker 1: September twenty first, if any year that late into the
Speaker 1: year not having any remote test you know what I mean. Now, again,
Speaker 1: buy has nothing to do with Indiana because they don't
Speaker 1: have any control over that. But knowing that Indiana looks
Speaker 1: like a pretty good team, I would have loved to
Speaker 1: have had that game. But it's a shame because it
Speaker 1: would have been a way different type of not necessarily environment,
Speaker 1: but game that we would have seen it.
Speaker 2: And you guys have some momentum right now for sure,
Speaker 2: but if you had a knocked off louisll it would
Speaker 2: have given even more momentum. Yeah, that's true. And you know,
Speaker 2: we'll never know what would happen if these two people
Speaker 2: made into a college football playoff. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: get ahead of myself, but what if that? I like it. Hey,
Speaker 2: I didn't even tell John that's that's actually where I
Speaker 2: was about to go. Have you seen that the ESPN? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I know Bill Connelly, we mentioned him yesterday.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit of a it's a little bit
Speaker 2: of a a little bit of a stretch here with
Speaker 2: the headline from of course, Barstool Sports, it says ESPN
Speaker 2: is giving Indiana a twenty three point four percent chance
Speaker 2: to make the college football playoff higher than LSU, Clemson
Speaker 2: and Michigan. It's pretty nuts. So, I mean, twenty three
Speaker 2: percent is the FPI percentage. So and this is where
Speaker 2: ESPN needs to take the FPI out back and just
Speaker 2: put it down like old Yeller, because you have Bill Conley,
Speaker 2: who is a respected and like he's got his name
Speaker 2: on it. Like he he actually started working in from
Speaker 2: I understand, working in sports reporting at SB Nation and
Speaker 2: then ended up becoming like this analytical guru that like
Speaker 2: everybody wanted, I mean five thirty eight. Was that a
Speaker 2: site that ESPN used to have under their umbrella as
Speaker 2: far as like analytics. Either way, he ended up getting
Speaker 2: snatched up by ESPN and now like to get the
Speaker 2: full acts, to get full access of all of his data.
Speaker 2: His formula, the SP plus, is that what it's called.
Speaker 2: I believe John, Yes, yeah, you have to be an
Speaker 2: ESPN Plus subscriber, and I'm a subscriber for a variety
Speaker 2: of reasons. But you know, he's he's somebody that they
Speaker 2: should be propping up instead of that FPI. Like you
Speaker 2: can use his formula to determine the percentage chance of
Speaker 2: winning games, So it should be the SP plus percentage
Speaker 2: that they show on that graphic, because that's what they do.
Speaker 2: Anytime you have a game on ESPN and they're gonna
Speaker 2: do a look ahead to your remaining schedule, you're gonna
Speaker 2: see that percentage that's next to each game. What that
Speaker 2: is is the ESPN FPI formula. They'll give you the
Speaker 2: percentage chance you have of winning. And again it's been
Speaker 2: I mean, it's shoved in our face. It's ESPN, They're everywhere,
Speaker 2: but it's there's many examples that show that this thing
Speaker 2: is trash, and I actually think Bill Conley's is not. So.
Speaker 2: In fact, if you even, you know, let's say you
Speaker 2: wanted to, as an Indiana fan, say the hell with
Speaker 2: the FPI, you know you can still go with Bill
Speaker 2: Conley because he's got him what, winning nine games this
Speaker 2: year something along those lines. Yeah. All right, So this
Speaker 2: is not the exact stat that I was asking for yesterday,
Speaker 2: but thank you to the person who sent this son.
Speaker 2: On the text line, I asked what Jeff Brohms record was,
Speaker 2: what Jeff broms you know, history is coming off of
Speaker 2: bye weeks. I don't have any numbers as far as like,
Speaker 2: has he covered the spread each time he's put his
Speaker 2: team on the field coming off of a bye week.
Speaker 2: But by all accounts, again just looking at games that
Speaker 2: he's play or coached in after a bye week at
Speaker 2: Western and at Purdue and a Louisville last year in
Speaker 2: the one season, he's typically pretty damn good coming off
Speaker 2: of bye week. But this is courtesy of the best
Speaker 2: Wager Twitter account. Somebody sent this in on the text line,
Speaker 2: Brom is four and oh outright and two and two
Speaker 2: against the spread as a double digit favorite at Louisville.
Speaker 2: They are double digit favorites against against Georgia Tech on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Brom as a double edgit favorite at Purdue twelve and
Speaker 2: two outright, nine and five against the spread. So you know,
Speaker 2: Bram's statistic at statistics at Purdue are always going to
Speaker 2: be wild because again his overall record and great, but
Speaker 2: we know that didn't mean anything. The fact that he
Speaker 2: wanted any level at Purdue consistently is really is a
Speaker 2: sign as to how good of a coach he is.
Speaker 2: But him being three against top three opponents when unranked
Speaker 2: is a wild Like seems like you really had to
Speaker 2: like do a lot of like, you know, it seems
Speaker 2: like a cherry pick stat to just make somebody look
Speaker 2: good because it's not random, like, hey, what's your record
Speaker 2: as a head coach when you were unranked and you
Speaker 2: played top three teams, Like it just seems a little much,
Speaker 2: But then again, it doesn't make it any less impressive.
Speaker 2: You were unranked and you played three top three teams
Speaker 2: in that time and you beat all of them. Like
Speaker 2: that's insane, that's what he did. So yeah, I'm confident,
Speaker 2: you know I I knew this. I knew this would happen. John.
Speaker 2: The conversation yesterday really just my opening statement essentially about
Speaker 2: this game this week was Hey, this is a real test.
Speaker 2: I'm excited for it. I can't wait. I even had
Speaker 2: John play music all throughout the show that had some
Speaker 2: connection in the title of the chorus to a test,
Speaker 2: because it's the first test Loivels had, and I tried
Speaker 2: his best to not, you know, be too repetitive, but
Speaker 2: I didn't wanted to make it seem as if like
Speaker 2: they've got to pass the test to prove to me
Speaker 2: that they're any good. And sure enough, you know, people
Speaker 2: hear what they want to hear, and maybe I didn't
Speaker 2: do a good job of articulating the way I wanted
Speaker 2: to but like little bit, I think Lolve was a
Speaker 2: good team. Like, if they end up losing, it's not
Speaker 2: going to be a loss to where I sit back
Speaker 2: and say, wow, I guess they're not as good as
Speaker 2: we thought. Now again, you're only as good as your record.
Speaker 2: You're only as good as how well you perform on
Speaker 2: the field and how many wins you have in that
Speaker 2: column and how many losses you have in that column.
Speaker 2: But like, I think they're you know, I think they're
Speaker 2: better than Florida's like I or Georgia Tech. I think
Speaker 2: they they should, they should go in and win. I
Speaker 2: think it's I think it makes sense to see them
Speaker 2: favor the where they are, So my confidence level is high.
Speaker 2: Like I think we'll be doing a post game show
Speaker 2: on Saturday talking about a win for Jeff Brown and
Speaker 2: this team starting one to zero in league play and
Speaker 2: if they cover, who knows, maybe it maybe it's a
Speaker 2: good look and win to where people think, Wow, this
Speaker 2: Louisville team, they could be the real challenger to Miami,
Speaker 2: which everybody seems to think is going to be the
Speaker 2: ACC winner. And I think that's a fair thing to
Speaker 2: say because they look really good. So I'm confident but
Speaker 2: I'm also someone and that it's willing to tell you, like,
Speaker 2: we don't have a clue. They have not been tested
Speaker 2: in any way, and that's not their fault. That doesn't
Speaker 2: mean they're not good. It's just that's the way it is.
Speaker 2: So don't think I'm not confident because I am. Damn it,
Speaker 2: now you're getting me fired up. Sorry, I'll calm down.
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Speaker 2: like we do each and every week, get his thoughts
Speaker 2: on the local teams, among among other things. But the
Speaker 2: nil conversation that uh, you know has been has been
Speaker 2: out there for I mean I say nil conversation. I mean,
Speaker 2: we know it's here, we know it matters, but I
Speaker 2: guess the confirmation or the conversation more so, is like
Speaker 2: should we be having to pay this as fans? Like,
Speaker 2: Am I a bad fan for thinking they're ridiculous for
Speaker 2: asking us for more money? And I mean it really
Speaker 2: is just your preference. And I see a lot of
Speaker 2: national capital j's out there, Dennis Dodd being one of them,
Speaker 2: Stuart Mandel that are sharing the salaries of these athletic directors,
Speaker 2: that are asking fans to, you know, to to pony
Speaker 2: up like Mark Stoops did last year. And you know,
Speaker 2: again it's I'm not trying to I don't have a
Speaker 2: strong opinion on it. But you know, if if you
Speaker 2: work for an entity that is, you know, the University
Speaker 2: of Whatever's athletic department, and that athletic department generates a
Speaker 2: lot of revenue and you are the one leading it,
Speaker 2: I mean you're gonna have a big old fat salary, Like,
Speaker 2: that's just that'st business, that's life. So it doesn't make
Speaker 2: me angry when I see these universities who are charging
Speaker 2: you an oremnalleg for season tickets that doesn't even include
Speaker 2: the donation you have to make, and then now they're
Speaker 2: asking you to pay the players. Like it doesn't do
Speaker 2: anything for me. Is I don't get worked up and
Speaker 2: think to myself, all who the hell they think they are?
Speaker 2: But anybody who does kind of have that mindset, like,
Speaker 2: I mean, I get it. I understand. So it was
Speaker 2: reported earlier today that Tennessee their athletic director has informed
Speaker 2: football season ticket holders that prices moving forward will include
Speaker 2: a minimum ten percent talent fee in twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: to help pay the players. Quote from the actual and
Speaker 2: for the release that was sent to student to season
Speaker 2: ticket holder says, we want to be the leader in
Speaker 2: revenue sharing, and you know, Tennessee seems to be in
Speaker 2: a really good place with nil and I think, look,
Speaker 2: Tennessee has been such a miserable fan base for so long,
Speaker 2: especially in football, that like, they'll pay, they'll they'll they'll
Speaker 2: find a way to make it work because they care
Speaker 2: about ut so much and they now know, and this
Speaker 2: is the truth. By the way, Tennessee is the perfect
Speaker 2: example of a program that if NIL didn't exist, they'd
Speaker 2: have to cheat to win, and they were doing it
Speaker 2: with the McDonald's bags of money with Jeremy Prue right,
Speaker 2: because they don't. You know, they don't. They have a
Speaker 2: big fan base, but you you couldn't monitor. Like monetizing
Speaker 2: your fan base didn't help you get players before NIL existed,
Speaker 2: Now it does. You got a ton of fans and
Speaker 2: a lot of money, like Louisville basketball. I think we'll
Speaker 2: be you and they already are. By the way, Pat
Speaker 2: Kelsey had a nice had a nice briefcase of money
Speaker 2: to use when he was building this roster because of NIL.
Speaker 2: Because we care, right, So I'm fat. I wish I
Speaker 2: had a stronger opinion on it, but I you know,
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you, I really don't what.
Speaker 1: Would be the difference between them just not saying that
Speaker 1: this is going to be a ticket or a talent
Speaker 1: fee and then just increasing prices and not saying anything.
Speaker 1: I know it's not transparent, but without that, but that's
Speaker 1: saying that, then you don't have the fan.
Speaker 2: That's a really good question with it. It's a really
Speaker 2: good question because I think the image, the perception you're
Speaker 2: trying to create here is you want everybody to know
Speaker 2: we care about paying our players, and we're we're going
Speaker 2: to actually make our season ticket holders put up some
Speaker 2: money too, because you want you want the perception to
Speaker 2: be that you got bags of money to throw around
Speaker 2: right now. If this is really just a cause, again,
Speaker 2: the talent fee ten percent, I mean that probably wouldn't
Speaker 2: be there if, in fact, they weren't going to have
Speaker 2: to start paying twenty two million a year to athletes,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So yeah, you can say
Speaker 2: it's because you want to get your payers, play players paid,
Speaker 2: and a lot of people probably believe you, but really
Speaker 2: it's because you're now going to have to fill a
Speaker 2: bill you didn't have to you didn't have to pay.
Speaker 2: So I do think it's Tom Jorge was a great example.
Speaker 2: Tom Jurdge. It wasn't he wasn't using his own money
Speaker 2: when he was out here paying coaches insane salaries that
Speaker 2: other schools wouldn't. But Tom Jurdche one of the many
Speaker 2: things he did that was really impressive is that he
Speaker 2: established the reputation within his space of being an athletic
Speaker 2: director at a university that he will pay whatever. He's
Speaker 2: not going to lose a coach because of money. And
Speaker 2: even if you know it means the account runs low
Speaker 2: and you really got to scramble. That's a good that's
Speaker 2: a good part of your brand to be very out
Speaker 2: there that you will pay. You will find a way
Speaker 2: to make money. You're not going to go cheap. You'll pay.
Speaker 2: It matters when you want to go get coaches, and
Speaker 2: it certainly matters now whenever you got players that know, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be I'm you know, I'm going to
Speaker 2: factor in a lot of things when I make this decision,
Speaker 2: and money's going to be one of them. So I
Speaker 2: once this settlement is approved, which it's likely going to
Speaker 2: be approved, schools would and then this is what I
Speaker 2: this is what I hate about how it's worded. Schools
Speaker 2: would be allowed to pay about twenty two million a
Speaker 2: year dad athletes beginning in the twenty twenty five to
Speaker 2: twenty six school year. Can we just get rid of
Speaker 2: the word alit? Like I guess legally they're not forced
Speaker 2: to do it, but you're either in or you're out,
Speaker 2: And I think you have to have your brand as
Speaker 2: an athletic department. If you want to compete at a
Speaker 2: high level and you want to win high you want
Speaker 2: to I mean, I don't know. I just I think
Speaker 2: right now it's it's it's a wait and see thing
Speaker 2: for a lot of these athletic departments as far as
Speaker 2: how they make it all work. But your itering out
Speaker 2: if you are not out there publicly letting it be
Speaker 2: known that you're gonna go to twenty two million a
Speaker 2: year because you care about paying players. I just think
Speaker 2: it's gonna be hard time for you to go get players,
Speaker 2: not to say you can't pay them anything at all.
Speaker 2: So I think the real divide where it's going to
Speaker 2: turn into one aspect of college sports is essentially absolutely
Speaker 2: pro sports, and the rest of it is kind of
Speaker 2: pro sports, but not to that level. Like I think,
Speaker 2: this settlement, when it's in place, is going to really
Speaker 2: create the divide more than any thing that's happened up
Speaker 2: to this point. All right, quick break, we'll come back
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