Speaker 1: I'll start to you want to present some off the
Bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob aber
the bech. Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: What's happening to y'all? Hour joke out to bear. It
is a Wednesday, and no Matt Flynn today. The My
high Man is out. Uh you know, got got actual
life going on. Oh poor Matt, imagine that. I know
he's gonna miss seeing Taylor Teal this morning.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, we do have the results to the poll that
we well, I say we.
Speaker 3: I put it out there yesterday.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, because we were all made aware that there's
two classic boxing movies that you have not yet seen.
And I asked which one is more concerning, Raging Bull
or Cinderella Man. And with two hundred and thirty votes,
fifty two percent. Oh wow, said Cinderella Man. Uh, actually
that is the right answer. Raging Bull is a great movie.
Jakelmatta met him one time in person. One of the
highlights of my life.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: But with you and I know you and I know
what pulls are your heartstrings? Cinderella Man is a movie
that you need to see within the next thirty days.
Speaker 3: I I'm never doing this with you again because I
did this for you in the past and you did
not reciprocate. So No, it's over. Uh, maybe I'll watch it,
maybe I want Can you ask him?
Speaker 5: No, t Bob, No, that is my favorite sports movie
ever made.
Speaker 3: I'm doing it now.
Speaker 5: Okay, deter you from watching it.
Speaker 3: But top five boxing movies that I've never seen, Raging Bull,
Cinderella Man, any of the Creeds.
Speaker 6: South Paul's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Have you seen South Fall?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: What is?
Speaker 6: Within like five minutes had me about to cry.
Speaker 7: So chill and when it came out, like what and Rachel, Yeah,
that's what he That's what he got Jack.
Speaker 3: That's what he got Jack. That's what he got jacked for,
right Yeah. Yeah, he's in all the Rockies right Uh
kind of more like seeing like Rocky one and four,
Like if you being completely honest, I don't think and
three I have not seen passed when passed? Like, there
how many interim Rocky movies are they before Creed started?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: What? Five?
Speaker 4: Had the one two with Tommy Gunn and then you
had Rocky Balboa.
Speaker 5: Okay, so six. Yeah, because Balbo.
Speaker 4: You know, Matt loved that speech that he gave his
son and Rocky you can get it keep going.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Also the that's one of your better impressions.
Speaker 3: The uh the actor, his son. I will always think
of as the guy from Heroes. You all remember Heroes?
Did anybody watch Heroes? They didn't watch yours y'all probably
too young for Heroes. The Heroes. Yeah, he wasn't at
on this is us. He was he that Heroes had
the potential. I mean it really kicked off a lot
of the superhero stuff kind of even did it proceed
a lot of the movies. I mean maybe it was
around like Spider Man, the Sam Rainy's Fighter Mans are
coming out, but like Man, Heroes had such an incredible setup.
It just saved the cheerleader, saved the world. They just
never paid it off, just never paid it off. Unfortunate.
Speaker 4: What about the Fighter about I love the Floors great?
Uh not a boxing movie, mm a movie, but Warriors great.
I was at the premiere of Warrior at Camp at
Camp Pendleton, you know, because it had military ties to
it and I was still playing and my agent called
me is like, hey, there's this movie coming out, it's
called The Warrior. Would you want to go to the
premiere up the coast Camp Pendleton, were like, yeah, absolutely,
Katie's sisters were in town, so we all went and
it was great. I mean Tom Hardy and the whole
like all the cast was great. Like they sat there,
they talked with every single member of the military. Uh,
sat in the crowd with the members of the military
during the movie. It was cool, very cool experience there
and we watching it at Camp Pendleton.
Speaker 3: Tom Hardy certified, Man, what your king?
Speaker 4: Yeah, competes in I was like I was looking down
on Tom competes and wins, Hey I need that dang there.
Speaker 3: Then in Yeah, but Tom Hardy competes at wins in
jiu jitsu competitions just in his free time. Also a
firm prover of the Kinsey scale, as he's talked in
the past about kind of hooking up boys a little bit.
You know, you just do it, I believe, was like,
I'm British, Yeah, yeah, just sometimes you just want to
take Kenjy scales, the idea that sexuality is a scale,
not a binary definition. And Tom, you would, I mean
absolute you know, beautiful Lady Killer Man's man whatever, you
know him and him and the fellas you semester around
a little bit too, and then he's like, yeah, not
for me, you know, I mean, shout out Tom Hardy,
Man's man.
Speaker 6: I was making Peaky Blinders of killing and Murphy.
Speaker 3: I would hell, yeah, yeah, five question yext question.
Speaker 4: Well, no, that's what maybe maybe five to nine with
the heels on, but probably so during that time, Uh,
the Batman movie had not come out yet, because that
was like twenty eleven, so it was about so he
was like in Bain shape but it hadn't come out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so thick, oh dude a meatball.
Speaker 9: So it's funny.
Speaker 4: I think he had a shaved head too because of
Bain and so it's like looked completely different than he
did in the actual Warrior God.
Speaker 3: Tom Hardy's got beautiful lips. He does. That would be
my number one Tom Hardy feature more than abs, more
than anything else.
Speaker 7: On the list of guys you want to kiss.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I forgot what my list was. But if he
wasn't on there, there was a big oversight, big part
because those are some of the most kissable lips I've
ever seen in my entire life. That's her.
Speaker 9: Damn sure Kurt Angle was also at the events.
Speaker 3: He was in the movie.
Speaker 4: He was fantastic. He sat there and just he wanted
to know all about football. I mean, you gotta give
love to Kurt Angle. An actual olympian, like an actual
gold medal olympian that is also such a premier entertainer
to become a a a show wrestler and be so
charismatic and good acting and whatnot to to take over
that sport as well, and a meme king, certified meme king.
Speaker 3: Kurt Angle. Shout out to Kurt Angle. Love Kurt Angle. Like,
I feel like, normally, if you're a gold medal Olympian,
you're so good that one thing that you should struggle
at everything else in life. But that's not the case
with kurd Angle. Shutout. Kurd Angle agreed.
Speaker 5: Senderella Man a great movie, though, watch.
Speaker 6: It t I'm just like a little more shocked, Like
I'm a little more shocked that you haven't seen Raging
Bull just because it's a classic. Yeah, Like it's like
a one of those classic I can.
Speaker 7: I agree with you, Like I think Cinderellaman's the better movie. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: I was gonna say that they're a little too pretty pretty.
Speaker 7: Yeah so, Zach Effron, if lips are your thing, he's
kind of.
Speaker 3: I kind of like though, post accident, zac Efron with
his new weird, meaty, chunky look like that new fake
Chinny's got, which again.
Speaker 5: Is squared off.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, it looks kind of crazy, but I
kind of I'm not I'm not not into it. But no, yeah, wait,
summer Older way too pretty? Uh, Rob Low, way too
pretty though. Rob Low wearing the generic NFL hat is
one of the all time great sports moments of our time,
showing no support for any team, just supporting the shield
in general. Hell yeah, Rob Loow.
Speaker 7: I've always been convinced that Rob Low and Robed Polinka
are the same person.
Speaker 3: Because they are.
Speaker 5: They look really funny.
Speaker 3: Palinka or Low Low.
Speaker 6: I don't think Paulinka's done a rose on that level.
Speaker 3: I think I mean, in La Rob Polinka could get
roasted for sure. Look at that. Look at Rob Loow.
What game was this at the Super Bowl, maybe like
it was.
Speaker 9: When the Rams moved from Saint Louis to LA They.
Speaker 4: Were playing in the Colosseum or Rose Ball, I don't
remember where they played. The guy next was a random
regular season game and he was promoting his.
Speaker 9: Nine show I believe or something.
Speaker 5: He was he was in one of the nine on ones.
Speaker 3: This is how I feel every day walking into the office.
I'm Rob Low Taylor, and Taylor's the guy in the
in the brown code.
Speaker 7: Yeah, minding my own business.
Speaker 5: T Bob is yelling my name from this Sometimes sometimes.
Speaker 3: That is true. Sometimes you do do that, uh calling
it out my robot son, t Bob t Bot will
have a Rob Low h Taylor Teal photoshop ready to go.
By the end of today's show, Taylor why Taylor said,
why is Taylor bothering Rob Low before he even talked
about that? Excellent? All right, guys, So yeah, look there's
Plink come favorite Hollywood look alikes. That's not my my favorite.
It's good.
Speaker 5: But they have the same name too, Like that even
adds to it.
Speaker 3: It will always be Will Ferrell and the drummer from
Red Hot Chilli. Yes, it's the best look alike on
planet Earth, and quite simply, there's nothing better.
Speaker 6: What makes that so good, too, is that the drummer's
name is Chad Smith. So it sounds like Will Ferrell
just made up Chad Smith.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, his name is Chad Smith. I've never known
his name. God, what a fake name, r NPCs name.
Look at I mean, look at that, dude, Look at that.
That's actually crazy. Look at Will Ferrell too. How do
you get to the point we're just as still image
of you. It brings a smile to my face. It's
it's it's crazy how some of these great comedians carry
themselves with so much charisma or such an aura that
the second they walk on screen, you're immediately having a
good time. Great job, love you will all right. Uh,
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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
Off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 3: What's happening y'all? Welcome back, Go tb I want to
get into the MLB's questionable marketing here in a minute.
But first, Tayte, I'm gonna hit you the little switch here.
Go to eight fifteen and you gotta see a link
there to a Twitter video. This is a Twitter video
of my guy SEC Mike from that SEC podcast. If
you've never listened to it, they do an awesome it's him,
it's this guy cousin Shane. They just I mean, these
dudes are just nerdy about SC football. They love it.
They're very entertaining. Their show continues to just do better
and better and better. But he had on Bobby Burton.
Maybe some of you have heard of Bobby Burton. Landra.
You might have heard of Bobby Burton because he has
the number one Texas Longhorn YouTube channel on the planet.
It's got more than seventy k subscribers. He knows Texas
Football's inner workings about as well as anybody on the outside.
Right that it isn't actually employed in the organization. Here
is Mike pressing Bobby on how much Texas spent actually
on building its roster last season. And in a world
where I thought I was known to being shocked by numbers,
it even is still rings a bit shocking here.
Speaker 10: It is, right, ask you all these questions bout just
to soften you up, how much Texas pay for their roster.
Speaker 8: A lot a lot ballpark? You know, oh, definitely north
of twenty five. Beyond that, I think there's some nuance
to that. Uh, you know, Texas isn't paying a dime
for Arch Manning dis sponsored by red Bull or Uber,
so you know his nil value maybe six to ten
million dollars a year. Well, Texas one Fund or the
University of Texas paying.
Speaker 3: Right, because.
Speaker 8: But I think Ohio State last year, based on my sources,
I had the most ex I think Texas top five.
Speaker 3: So Texas all in now, I think we had kind
of accepted that it was about twenty million. Yeah, right,
Texas last season spending north of twenty five. And then
Bobby alleging, no, he's not his siding with Ohio State.
But this is a man with college football sources Bobby
alleging that Ohio State was even north of that. So
both of them basically turning out thirty million dollar rosters.
And you know what's so funny, who do we say
objectively had the most raw talent on both teams last
you know, in the country last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas and Ohio State. You know, you gotta spend
big to win big.
Speaker 3: That's alarming, however, because I don't think there's any way
that you can compete with that consistently if you're ninety
nine percent of other schools.
Speaker 9: No, I mean those those schools are different.
Speaker 4: We know Texas is different, and Ohio State's gonna do
whatever they possibly have to do. I think the question is, like,
how many can even get close to that number? You
know is their school I mean we think there is.
You know, if if like Stanford wanted to, right, if
Stanford wanted to drop some other sports, like their endowment,
like yeah, sure, but they're not going to. Yeah, I mean,
they've got a conversation just alumni in the world that
they wanted to Sure they could, they could, they could.
Like now, maybe Andrew Luck does create some investment there.
I'll be interested to see some more but I'm saying, like,
but no, there's other schools that happened, but they just
what's their desire to actually put that number up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's insane. It's insane, and it
does make you feel some type of way, uh, for
all of the coaches who careers rely on beating those teams.
Brian Kelly has to make a twelve team playoff this year.
If he doesn't, there will be no belief left in
him that he can't. And that's not to say that
he won't, but nobody's going to give them the benefit
out or believe that he can't, right, but he does.
He's not playing the same deck cards and and Elsho's
still on the you know, they they're they're they're closer
to the haves, are one of the haves as opposed
to the have nots, So it's way worse for other places.
Just wild, that's a number like I had accepted last
year that the most expensive teams were floating around twenty million,
and yet he says north of twenty five, and that
he has Texas top five, meaning I'm guessing Organ maybe
might have been north of twenty five as well. And again, yeah,
what are the lessons here. You spend to win unless
you're texting it, then you just sucking no matter what.
So sorry, they spend, they spind. They just can't get
the the the ladder part going the former great at
the ladder, not so much. You know, I would be
less they're playing Alice here.
Speaker 4: I would be curious to kind of match up the
conferences as far as you know, who's spinning the top
three in the SEC, top three in the Big Ten,
top three in the Big twelve, top three in the ACC,
just to see how different that number looked, you know
what I mean, Like, who's who's spinding the top three
in the ACC? Like we think it's Miami Clemson in
Florida State. Uh, Clemson's just now accepting transfers.
Speaker 3: I mean, I would think Clemson's up there because the
roster they put together and it's as compared to just
the SCAC, I mean, does it Louisville haven't they been
having great transfer portal classes like three years and annot
they're probably up there spinning wise. Came over from Purdue. Yeah,
Louisville's probably up there spinning wise, But can you imagine
it could be like you imagine how different that number
would look if we put you know, the top three
in every power conference. Oh, it'd be crazy. Well. And also,
I mean it's like we talked about recently as well,
where even though the new fourteen team playoff, whatever they
end up doing with the autobich for everybody, like, even
though that will keep the sport together for a bit,
that whole ordeal has a poison pill written into it,
with the Big two conferences getting a significantly larger chunk
of the playoff revenue on top of already having way
more money from their TV revenue from from their regular
season television deals, uh, and then having more invested fan
bases that just give more money as well, like the gap,
And it's the playoff one that's most damning to me
as well, because it is really them saying, look, we're
just gonna pull away from you. We are going to
make it fiscally impossible for you to keep up if
you are in the ACC or the Big twelve, and
over time that will erode the competition and it will
eventually break the sport apart. And that ms me out.
I I I because in many ways I was hoping
that this fourteen team playoff and the Autobii and everything
would be the thing that held the sport, holds the
sport together. And it will be in the short term,
but eventually that split in playoff money will be, in
my opinion, the straw that breaks the camel's back in
terms of just making that. I mean, you're gonna be
talking about big ten at SEC schools making forty million
more a year. How are you as an adult? I mean,
we can all appreciate that. How do you compete with
your direct competitor when they're just gonna have forty mil
off off the jump, not from fundraising, just from contracts
that are already signed. It's it's it's tough. It's tough
kind of So if.
Speaker 4: We get to a point where you have a maximum
amount that you can spend, that's the only way that
you're going to even get close to what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: Wait wait wait wait sorry repeat that.
Speaker 4: If we get to a point where it's like, hey,
this is this is the maximum amount that you can spend.
Speaker 3: Like if you had a salary cap, that would be
the only way to hold things together.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like a salary cap for your roster, but also
like hey.
Speaker 4: This this is this is it like, this is as
much as you can put into the program, which I
will never get there, but I'm saying that's the only
way that you could ever even get to a point
where the money's the same.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it would have like, hey, you can spend this
much in resources per year, per team, per conference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd have to be collectively bargained right to agree.
Speaker 4: With and then they're thank you said, hey, you know
what you can only you know on your staff or
you know, on your facilities. You can only spend that,
And that would be the only way that because the
teams with the money are going to spend it in
the SEC and the big ten. Now in the ACC,
I don't know. We talked about Stanford, like SMU could
probably dig deep. They could probably call a couple of people. Yeah,
I mean they ain't know.
Speaker 3: Probably SMU is the only school. But even then, it
feels uh unfathomable to me that you could keep it
up year over year for talking about forty million dollars disparity,
but SMU would be the only scar. I mean, they
have multiple billionaires on the board. How much did they
pay to get out of their TV deal? It was
like one hundred mil or fifty mil. And it was
like nothing. It was basically like chump change. Yeah, they
just found in.
Speaker 4: Back pocket, basically paying their way into the ACC for
a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah to the tune of like a couple hundred million
dollars and it doesn't matter as well. That's my my
deep state conspiracy theory is that that was one of
the reasons why although you could see all the other
football reasons, but that was one of the reasons why
why the playoff committee was all too happy to put
SMU in there. Billionaires run everything. They got a couple
of billionaires on the board. You make those guys happy
with college football. I think it kind of benefits everyone.
But yeah, SMU was definitely one of the ACC or
Big twelve teams that potentially could keep pace with the
big boys because they're just richer than everybody else.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we'll see what teams like a North Carolina
can get to now that they've got Bill Belichick and
they've got a former NFL GM kind of running things.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll see.
Speaker 4: We'll see what level they can get to, how much
money they can get into the program.
Speaker 9: But it's just it's if it's not there, it's not there.
Speaker 4: And you can call and knock on doors and go
to different dinners and lunches all you want, and have
gridiron clubs.
Speaker 3: If it ain't there, it ain't there. Yeah, exactly. And
mitche napsay, is that's sustainable in terms of like the
thirty million dollars universe? I don't know. But what is
sustainable again, is just the raw revenue advantage that the
big ten in the SEC will have over the other
two conferences because of the combination of TV deals and
the new college fotball playoff deal in which they get
disproportionately large payouts or you could say proportionately larger, but
still they get larger payouts than do the smaller conferences.
So whatever in Mitche map's Sadiq Charles is unretired. Okay,
I ain't no, he retired. Did he play last year?
Speaker 5: Uh no, No, he retired before the season.
Speaker 3: Oh damn, And then he unretired. Now he's back.
Speaker 4: Well, he's gonna be on the Saint starting offensive line
next year.
Speaker 3: Uh sure. You know. I keep laughing about what we
landed on yesterday. The Saints really are and and if
they had it's on justice Justin Reid. This would bring
even more true. But the Saints mantra of the offseason
really is just like coach better, which is funny considering
that they Mickey sat there and told us about how
good the coaches were. Remember just because we went uh
you know, just because we went five and twelve doesn't
mean we're doing anything wrong. The greatest quote of all
time from a general mass.
Speaker 6: Say, it's just kind of like, uh re, I don't
know what the word I'm looking for is, but like it's.
Speaker 3: Just run it back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's what they're signing the exact same.
Speaker 3: I know, that's what I'm saying. Just coach better. It's funny.
Speaker 6: Reinforces, it reinforces the lack of accountability in the front office.
Speaker 5: That's the word I was looking for. Like, it's just
they are looking beyond the results. Guys were not.
Speaker 3: You know what's funny, then if the Saints do end
up having a successful season, the amount of I tootiso
energy coming out of Mickey and the sacking and I
told you as the injuries.
Speaker 6: Oh, that's like pre pissing me.
Speaker 3: Gonna be is Alan's here with no injuries.
Speaker 5: The guy's Tom Landry.
Speaker 3: I will I will take it. It is pre pissing
me off as well. But I will take being wrong
if it means that the Saints are good and competitive
and putting a good product on them.
Speaker 7: That might be the worst part about the Juwan Johnson
signing t BAM, because like we talked about, Oh, they're
gonna get better at this position, this position, You're like, oh,
you had Juwan Johnson, you had Foster Mora, you had
Taysom Hill.
Speaker 5: Like that's their tight end room. Next year, it's the
exact same.
Speaker 3: Group of guy, the exact same group of ving on
from Foster or taste them and they just resigned you on.
Remember it's the same team. It's the same team. Now
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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports This show around
off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 3: What's happening in y'all? Welcome back, Go tb I want
to get into the MLB's questionable marketing here in a minute.
But first Tate, I'm gonna hit you a little switch here.
Go to eight fifteen and you gotta see a link
there to a Twitter video. This is a Twitter video
of my guy SEC Mike from that SEC podcast. If
you've never listened to it, they do an awesome job.
It's him, It's this guy cousin Shane. They just I mean,
these dudes are just already about SC football. They love it.
They're very entertaining. Their show continues to just do better
and better and better. But he had on Bobby Burton.
Maybe some of you have heard of Bobby Burtonlandra. You
might have heard of Bobby Burton because he has the
number one Texas Longhorn YouTube channel on the planet. It's
got more than seventy k subscribers. He knows Texas Football's
inner workings about as well as anybody on the outside
right that it isn't actually employed in the organization. Here
is Mike pressing Bobby on how much Texas spent actually
on building its roster last season. And in a world
where I thought I was known to being shocked by numbers,
it even still rings a bit shocking here there is
all right.
Speaker 10: I've asked you all these questions, Bobby, just to soften
you up. How much Texas pay for their roster?
Speaker 3: A lot a lot ballpark.
Speaker 8: You know, oh, definitely north of twenty five. Beyond that,
I think there's some nuance to that. Uh. You know,
Texas isn't paying a dime for Arch meaning dis sponsored
by Red Bull or Uber. No, you know, his nil
value maybe six to ten million dollars a year.
Speaker 3: Well, Texas one funder, the University of Texas paying very.
Speaker 8: Right because he's But I think Ohio State last year,
based on my sources, had the most expence. I think
Texas top five.
Speaker 3: So Texas all in all, now, I think we had
kind of accepted that it was about twenty million. Yeah, right,
Texas last season spending north of twenty five. And then
Bobby alleging, no, he's not a siding with Ohio State,
but this is a man with college football sources, Bobby
alleging that Ohio State was even north of that. So
both of them basically turning out thirty million dollars rosters.
And you know what's so funny, who do we say
objectively had the most raw talent on both teams.
Speaker 2: Last you know, in the country last year. Yeah, Texas
and Ohio State. You know, you gotta spin big to
win big.
Speaker 3: That's alarming however, because I don't think there's any way
that you can compete with that consistently if you're ninety
nine percent of other schools.
Speaker 9: No, I mean those those schools are different.
Speaker 4: We know Texas is different, and Ohio State's gonna do
whatever they possibly have to do. I think the question is, like,
how many can even get close to that number?
Speaker 3: You know, is their school I mean we think there is.
Speaker 4: You know, if if like Stanford wanted to, right, if
Stanford wanted to drop some other sports, like their endowment,
like yeah, sure, but they're not going to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they've got riches alumni in the world
that they wanted to. Sure they could, they could, they could.
Like now, maybe Andrew Luck does create some investment there.
I'll be interested to see more.
Speaker 4: But I'm saying like, but no, there's other schools that happened,
but they just what's their desire to actually put that
number up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I know, it's it's insane. It's insane,
and it does make you feel some type of way. Uh,
for all of the coaches who careers rely on beating
those teams. Brian Kelly has to make a twelve team
playoff this year. If he doesn't, there will be no
belief left in him that he can't. And that's not
to say that he won't, but nobody's going to give
him the bit of it out or believe that he can't. Right,
but he's not playing with the same deck cards and
and Lsho's still on the you know, they they're they're
they're closer to the haves, are one of the haves
as opposed to the have nots, So it's way worse
for other places. Just wild. That's a number like I
had accepted last year that the most expensive teams were
floating around twenty million, and yet he says north of
twenty five. And then he has Texas top five, meaning
I'm guessing Organ maybe might have been north of twenty
five as well. And again, yeah, what are the lessons here?
You spend to win unless you're texting it, then you
just suck no matter what. So sorry, they spin, they spind.
They just can't get the the the ladder part going
the former great at the ladder, not so much. You know,
I would be less playing al ye here.
Speaker 4: I would be curious to kind of match up the
conferences as far as you know, who's spinning the top
three in the SEC, top three in the Big Ten,
top three in the Big twelve, top three in the ACC.
Just to see how different that number looked, you know
what I mean, Like, who's who's spending the top three
in the ACC? Like we think it's Miami, Clemson in
Florida State. Uh, Clemson's just now accepting transfers.
Speaker 3: I mean, I would think Clemson's up there because the
roster they put together and it's as compared to just
the RESTCAC. I mean, does it Louisville haven't they been
having great transfer portal classes for like three years and runnot?
They're probably up there spinning wise, came over from Purdue. Yeah,
Louisville's probably up there spending wise. But can you imagine
it could be?
Speaker 4: Like you imagine how different that number would look if
we put you know, the top three in every power conference?
Speaker 3: Oh, it'd be crazy. Well And also, I mean it's
like we talked about recently as well, where even though
the new fourteen team playoff, whatever they end up doing
with the autobich for everybody, like, even though that will
keep the sport together for a bit, that whole ordeal
has a poison pill written into it with the big
two conferences getting a significantly larger chunk of the playoff
revenue on top of already having way more money from
their TV revenue from their regular season television deals, and
then having more invested fan bases that just give more
money as well, like the gap, and it's the playoff
one that's most damning to me as well, because it
is really them saying, look, we're just gonna pull away
from you. We are going to make it fiscally impossible
for you to keep up if you are in the
ACC or the Big twelve, and over time that will
erode the competition and it will eventually break the sport apart.
And that bumps me out I because in many ways
I was hoping that this fourteen team playoff and the
autobi and everything would be the thing that held the
sport holds together. And it will be in the short term,
but eventually that split in playoff money will be, in
my opinion, the straw that breaks the camel's back in
terms of just making that. I mean, you're gonna be
talking about a big ten at SEC schools making forty
million more here. How are you as an adult? I mean,
we can all appreciate that. How do you compete with
your direct competitor when they're just gonna have forty mil
off off the jump, not from fundraising, just from contracts
that are already signed. It's it's it's tough. It's tough
kind of So if.
Speaker 4: We get to a point where you have a maximum
amount that you can spend, that's the only way that
you're going to even.
Speaker 3: Get close to what we're talking about. Wait wait, wait wait,
sorry to repeat that.
Speaker 4: If we get to a point where it's like, hey,
this is this is the maximum amount that you can spend.
Speaker 3: Oh, like if you had a salary cap, that would
be the only way to hold things together. Yeah, like
a salary cap for your roster.
Speaker 4: But also like hey this this is this is it, Like,
this is as much as you can put into the program,
which I will never get there, but I'm saying that's
the only way that you could ever even get to
a point where the money is the same.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it would have like, hey, you and you can
spend this much in resources per year, per team, per conference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd have to be collectively bargained, right, hard to
agree with.
Speaker 4: And then they're thank you said, hey, you know what
you can only you know on your staff or you know,
on your facilities. You can only spend that, and that
would be the only way that because the teams with
the money are going to spend it in the SEC
and the big ten. Now in the ACC, I don't know.
We talked about Stanford, like, SMU could probably dig deep.
They could probably call a couple of people. Yeah, I
mean they ain't. No, probably SMU is the only school.
But even then, it feels unfathomable to me that you
could keep it up year over year. We're talking about
forty million dollars disparity, but SMU would be the only one.
They have multiple billionaires on the board. How much did
they pay to get out of their TV deal?
Speaker 3: It was like one hundred mil or fifty mil, and
it was like nothing. It was basically like chump change. Yeah,
they just found their.
Speaker 4: Back pocket, basically paying their way into the ACC for
a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to the tune of like a couple hundred million
dollars and it doesn't matters all. That's my my deep
state conspiracy theory is that that was one of the
reasons why, although you could see all the other football reasons,
but That was one of the reasons why why the
playoff committee was all too happy to put SMU in there.
Billionaires run everything. They got a couple of billionaires on
the board. You make those guys happy with college football.
I think it kind of benefits everyone. But yeah, SMU
was definitely one of the ACC or Big twelve teams
that potentially could keep pace for the big boys because
they're just richer than everybody else.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we'll see what teams like a North Carolina
can get to now that they've got Bill Belichick and
they've got a former NFL GM kind of running things.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll see.
Speaker 4: We'll see what level they can get to, how much
money they can get into the program. But it's just
it's if it's not there, it's not there. And you
can call and knock on doors and go to different
dinners and lunches all you want and have gridiron clubs.
Speaker 3: If it ain't there, it ain't there. Yeah, exactly. And
Mitchell Nap says that's sustainable in terms of like the
thirty million dollars year in ross. I don't know. But
what is sustainable again, is just the raw revenue advantage
that the Big ten in the SEC will have over
the other two conferences because of the combination of TV
deals and the new College Ball playoff deal in which
they get disproportionately large payoffs or you could say proportionately larger,
but still they get larger payouts than do the smaller conferences.
So what have in mitche Map's Sadiq Charles is undertired? Okay,
I ain't no, he retired. Did you play last year?
Speaker 5: Uhuh no, No, he retired with the season.
Speaker 3: Oh damn, and then he unretired. Now he's back.
Speaker 4: Well he's gonna be on the Saint starting offensive line
next year.
Speaker 3: Uh sure. You know. I keep laughing about what we
landed on yesterday. The Saints really are and and if
they hadn't sign Justice Justin Reid, this would bring even
more true. But the Saints mantra of the offseason really
is just like coach better, which is funny considering that
they mickey sat there and told us about how good
the coaches were. Remember just because we went uh you know,
just because we we went five and twelve doesn't mean
we're doing anything wrong. The greatest quote of all time
from a general Mass.
Speaker 6: Say, it's just kind of like, uh re I don't
know what the word I'm looking for is, but like
it's just run back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's what they're doing.
Speaker 3: I know that's what I'm saying. Just coach better. It's funny.
Speaker 6: Reinforces it reinforces the lack of accountability in the front office.
Speaker 5: That's the word I was looking for.
Speaker 6: Like, it's just.
Speaker 5: They are beyond the results, guys were not.
Speaker 3: You know what's funny, then if the Saints do end
up having a successful season, the amount of I tootiso
energy coming out of Mickey and thema and yeah, I
told you as the injuries, Oh, that's like pre pissings
gonna be hit.
Speaker 5: Is Al's here with no injuries. The guy's Tom Landry.
Speaker 3: I will I will take it. It is pre pissing
me off as well, but I will take being wrong
if it means that the Saints are good and competitive
and putting a good product on them.
Speaker 7: That might be the worst part about the Juwan Johnson
signing t BAM because like we talked about, oh, they're
gonna get better at this position. This position, You're like, oh,
you had Juwan Johnson, you had Foster Mora, you had
Taysom Hill.
Speaker 5: Like that's their tight end room next year. It's the
exact same group.
Speaker 3: Of guys, the exact same group of moving.
Speaker 5: On from Foster or Tastelam and they just resigned Juan.
Speaker 3: Remember it's the same team. It's the same team. Now
the draft could be exciting and that's something I want
to get into next. Keep it locked here on OTV.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Pelicans, welcome in to the best morning sports this
show around off the bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 3: What ahead and y'all welcome back, Go TB. So the
MLB recently made these new hats where you know most
teams have like a singular letter logo and then the
full script logo. Some graphic designer said, hey, let's just
throw the letter logo over the script logo and we
don't have to think about it anymore. Like, we'll just
do that, and whatever pops out pops out, and there's
been quite a few funny results. So he wait, don't
start with this. Those are pop uh no, no wait
what because pop out? Okay, no, no, no, no, that was
not a pun. God love it when when a tetos
pops out there, I mean, what a good feeling this man,
I mean, I mean in the moment he just got caught.
Give me chills. The most made the horse noys. I'm
ready to run. I'm scratching at the ground, you know,
crazy fire off the starting I know, but I'm just
thinking about it because okay, anyway, it's very interesting ones
that have created. Do you have the Angels one? Okay, okay,
but don't I'm saying, but I want to end with
with the Rangers. Yeah, so, uh, the Angels? Of course,
you put an a where the G is and all
of a sudden you're the anals. The astros put a
uh a a an h where the tea is it?
So they become the hose. Is that is that a
fire alarm?
Speaker 8: Alarm?
Speaker 3: Computer?
Speaker 5: It's the fire alarm. They were testing it last week.
Speaker 3: Okay, why I told you think you're getting hot in here? Tody? Hey,
now you know I mean.
Speaker 7: That there's a small fire and only beat like twice.
Speaker 4: I screw the Morning Show. Let's run the fire alarm
and fifty three? Hey, can you give me a freaking
picture of the hats? Thank god?
Speaker 5: You said one at a time.
Speaker 3: What I can't do? Okay, here we go, so, uh,
you have the anals the ass. I don't think that
this this A's hat isn't actually the bad one. There's
an a's hat out there where they like stab to
a's logos on top of each other, and it unfortunately
just ended up saying ass, which when you're the a's
is pretty pretty represent what you are. But look at
that Texas Rangers hat. The X is firmly, absolutely eradicated
and replaced with a massive T and it becomes the
word tetas. And I'll go with our bilingual member of
the show, Aldra, what aretas? Can I say the word
on bobs?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's Spanish for boobs. Basically it's a vulgar way
of saying it.
Speaker 3: Yes, like the word that you didn't want to say
is actually what tennis is more representative of exactly.
Speaker 6: I love this because it is so Texican and I
just love like it's so Texican. Love it so much,
like it's so representative of who we are.
Speaker 3: It really is perfect. Uh, it's it's the perfect market.
It's a perfect hat for the perfect market. Yeah, it is.
The Mexican people are fun loving people love to take
the piss out of on everything.
Speaker 6: Can't take anything serious.
Speaker 3: And now they have a hat from a team that
UH many support that just says, boos.
Speaker 6: I really want to buy that hat.
Speaker 3: Well, it's sold out and now they've pulled it.
Speaker 4: So if somebody has their hand out, like somebody has one,
it's gonna it's gonna be very like Internet market place.
Speaker 3: Because people will make uh knockoffs. But it's not going
to be as cool as the original. To the original
is a really dumb accident.
Speaker 4: So it's going to be like the fully new era,
like you know, yeah, intricate stitching. It's not going to
be the you know, the diamond shamrock gas station version
that you're gonna be able to get.
Speaker 3: So shout out to all the Tetas out there. I
meant Texas fans, y'all got a pretty cool hat. Uh
Hour three of OTB next off the Bench.