WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:07.080 It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:28.239 Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick coffee. 3 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:31.719 All right, let's do it, ladies and gents. It is 4 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:35.679 hour number two here on a Wednesday afternoon coffee and 5 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:39.240 company fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety. Take 6 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:41.200 us with you wherever you go, listen live on the 7 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:44.320 hour or radio app Listen live at seven ninety Louisville 8 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:47.679 dot com for those just now joining us. I think 9 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:49.880 we had a fun first hour, and I'm sorry you 10 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:52.759 missed out on it, but we'll tray in here in 11 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:55.159 the second hour. We'll try to recreate the magic, if 12 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:56.600 we can call it that. But I do want to 13 00:00:57.240 --> 00:00:59.200 hit on I think the biggest story right now when 14 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.159 it comes to college foototball, but it kind of doesn't 15 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:04.640 seem like a huge story. And that is the decision 16 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:08.239 that the NCAA Committee on Infractions made earlier today when 17 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:11.959 they handed down a heavy suspension or a heavy penalty, 18 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:15.200 I should say, including a suspension for someone who no 19 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:19.480 longer coaches college football and will never coach college football again. 20 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:23.400 So Jim Harball received a four year show cause, including 21 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.879 a one season suspension from the instabla's Committee on Infractions 22 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:30.920 in connection with violations of the COVID nineteen dead period 23 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:33.680 in twenty twenty one. I got to be honest with you, 24 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:35.560 I wasn't even sure this. I didn't even know this 25 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:37.359 was something they were still I didn't even know this 26 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.120 was going on, meaning they were in the midst of 27 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:44.159 a Committee on Infractions case. So a lot of people 28 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:46.640 probably hear that, and you know, you're just driving around. 29 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.280 You hear a national update and you're not really paying 30 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:51.599 close attention, but you hear somebody getting a four year 31 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:55.680 show cause and a one year suspension, and you hear Michigan. 32 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:58.599 You just think, wow, man, that's what they get for 33 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:02.760 sign stealing. I guess in this Netflix documentary that's about 34 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:06.159 to come out, I guess Connor Stallions was singing he 35 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.000 was telling on everybody. But no, this is actually for 36 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:11.719 something not in not even close to I mean, it's 37 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:16.120 something from many years ago that doesn't meet that. I mean, 38 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:20.840 there's no even if like in a perfect world, I'm sorry, 39 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:22.680 I'm distracted. There's a lot of noise going on out side. 40 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:23.280 Was that coming through? 41 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:25.000 I hear it too, and it wasn't coming through, but 42 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:26.479 i's outside my hallway. 43 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:30.120 To you rarely hear people being that loud right outside 44 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.719 the door. Somebody must have made a really funny joke. 45 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:36.000 I've completely lost my train of thought. But anyways, if 46 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:41.199 that's if this was any other coach, any other program, 47 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:48.039 and there was in fractions from recruiting violations during the 48 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:51.439 dead period in twenty twenty one from COVID, I feel 49 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.800 like it would have been a much lighter penalty, And 50 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:57.680 you know, it probably would have happened long ago. Now, 51 00:02:57.680 --> 00:02:59.280 what I don't know is that did they do this 52 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:01.680 because he's just stop cooperating with him because he doesn't 53 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:06.919 owe them anything right, Like it's it's similar to whenever 54 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:12.400 the guys who left Louisville were wanting were being hit 55 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:16.599 up by the nc double A to talk about the 56 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:21.560 Louisville instead A violations, they didn't have to. Mean, the 57 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:25.039 NTABA doesn't have subpoena power. They can't make you talk. Now, 58 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:27.879 I mean, the school probably will beg you to talk 59 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:32.080 and cooperate because your decision not to cooperate hurts them. 60 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:34.719 Even if even if it is something that you're gonna 61 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:36.479 be honest about, that's a bad thing that is going 62 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:40.280 to potentially be, you know, confirming the allegations they're they're 63 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:45.080 you know, they're alleging you still need to cooperate or 64 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:48.159 they're gonna look at that as you know, you're hiding 65 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:50.800 something and they're gonna holp a school accountable. But like 66 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.439 with Jim Harball, like he doesn't he doesn't care at 67 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:56.240 all about the NC double A because he's never gonna 68 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:58.000 coach in college football again. Even if they didn't give 69 00:03:58.080 --> 00:03:59.400 him this punishment. I don't think he was ever gonna 70 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:01.520 coach in college foot again. He came to Michigan to 71 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:03.599 do what he wanted to do, and that was bring 72 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:05.919 them a national championship. He had to cheat to do it, 73 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:10.759 but he did it, and he'll never admit it. But clearly, 74 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.919 I mean, I'm sure he didn't get any fingerprints on it, 75 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.319 like a lot of coaches in that position would do, 76 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.000 right if they know there's some things going on that 77 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:22.199 are giving them an advantage over others. They got others 78 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:23.800 doing the dirty work, and they're not going to be 79 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:25.959 involved in any communication about it. They're not going to 80 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:27.920 have any fingerprints on it, as I said, because that's 81 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:29.800 just what you would do if you're going to go 82 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:33.879 about it, you know, the smartest way possible. So again, 83 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.839 it feels like a big story. But to me, it 84 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:39.160 also kind of feels like nonsense because inn s douaa. 85 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:42.439 I mean, I feel like, and I laid this out earlier, 86 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:44.519 I really feel like they thought they did something big 87 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:48.160 here that they put out a put everybody on notice. Hey, 88 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:52.839 despite the perception of our organization right now, we're still 89 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.839 out here and we will punish those who do not 90 00:04:55.959 --> 00:05:00.319 follow our rules. But you didn't. You punished somebody who 91 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:05.160 like it. I can't even call it a punishment, Like 92 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:09.519 that's like me getting suspended from the NBA. Oh bummer, 93 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:13.120 because without that suspension, man, I'd be starting for the 94 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:17.079 Denver Nuggets, Like what are you doing here? I also, 95 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:19.519 to be fair, know that they've got to they you know, 96 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:25.399 they've many times given out show cause and punishments that 97 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:28.920 include suspensions for guys that aren't coaching because they got 98 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.639 in trouble. But he's not coaching because he left, So 99 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:34.600 I don't know. I just to me, I think this 100 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:38.279 actually turns into another day where people find themselves pondering 101 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:40.199 what are we doing here? Like we need the NABAA 102 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:44.800 to do anything we need. We need the instuablea tournament, 103 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.439 but we could probably do something without them. It would 104 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.920 be the same. And life without the inc DOUBLEA tournament, 105 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.480 the best sporting event in the world is a world 106 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:57.680 I don't want to live in, but I'm sure we'd 107 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:00.079 get by. I used to fear change a lot more 108 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.480 than I do now, but with football, we don't need 109 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:06.480 them at all. I mean, like the nstaas could exist 110 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:12.759 if they only were governing the non revenue sports and 111 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:16.160 the Division two, Division three level or the lower level 112 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:18.199 of Division one. But right now, man, it is so 113 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:23.399 clear this is a billion dollar business. Players are going 114 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:25.839 to get paid a lot of money. There's going to 115 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:30.720 be so much money coming into these universities from sponsorships 116 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:34.800 they didn't previously have on the field, on their stadium, 117 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:37.839 on their uniforms. Heck, the Big twelve is going to 118 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:42.240 have a big sponsor on their referees during games, so 119 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:45.839 everybody's going to be getting paid. There still is going 120 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:47.519 to be rules in place, but we don't need the 121 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:52.600 instead a A to do it. Have the power for and 122 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:55.439 I guess we'll throw Notre Dame in there too, have 123 00:06:55.519 --> 00:07:00.639 the power forward. Notre Dame vote on somebody to be 124 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:06.600 the commissioner of the college football. You know, we don't 125 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:08.040 have to call it college football because it's really not 126 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:10.920 college football anymore. This is this is very much pro sports. 127 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:13.319 So there'd still be rules in play, should still have 128 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:15.480 to abide by. You still have to do things on 129 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:18.000 the up and up. But like inst double A's just 130 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.000 not then they're irrelevant anymore, and they have been for 131 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:22.759 a while, to be honest with you, and their decision 132 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:25.839 today just proves what we've already known, and that is 133 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:27.720 that they're out of touch and they're delusional if they 134 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:29.560 think that that, if they think what they did today 135 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:34.279 really did anything, they're delusional. All right, again, it's Coffee 136 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:36.000 and Company. We are feel about Thornton's here on Sports 137 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:38.800 Talk seven ninety. Appreciate you guys hanging out with us 138 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:41.199 here on a Wednesday fall. Lines are open if you 139 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:43.079 guys want to jump in. We did take some calls earlier, 140 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:45.279 so faboh two five seven seventy nine hundred is the 141 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:47.199 number if you want to call in text line faboh 142 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:49.680 two six five three zero seven ninety It's the L 143 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:52.199 and N Federal Credit Union TEXTLM. Before we get to 144 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:54.879 the text line this this is this is good news 145 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.199 for women's college basketball. Speaking of the East of LA, 146 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:01.079 the Division one Board of Directors propos a new revenue 147 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:05.000 distribution model for women's hoops. So this is similar to 148 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:10.199 what currently exists with the men's basketball tournament. So this proposal, 149 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:14.600 if approved, would allocate a pool of money that starts 150 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:19.560 at fifteen million for the upcoming INSUAA Tournament next season, 151 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:22.199 and then it's going to increase to twenty five million 152 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:24.519 by the twenty twenty seven to twenty eight tournament. So 153 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:28.959 the distribution formula, it's the same thing as the men's tournament. 154 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:32.679 And what this does it aims to reward teams based 155 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:36.639 on how they perform in the Big Dance, which obviously 156 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:39.120 there's been a long standing disparity in how the NAA 157 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:44.600 distributes revenue between men's and women's sports. So women's basketball, 158 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:49.879 and I hope it's sustainable because I do think clearly 159 00:08:49.919 --> 00:08:53.840 you had a real explosion of just elite talent that 160 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:58.279 became famous in a way I've never seen a women's 161 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:01.000 college basketball player become famous. And I'm not just talking 162 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:05.039 about Caitlyn Clark. I mean Angel Rees also became like 163 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:08.240 a very I mean, she's a celebrity, and it's you know, 164 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:10.480 because she's a basketball player, but you know, she's known 165 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:15.240 by people and is in circles with people of celebrity 166 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:17.720 status that probably never watch women's basketball, and if they 167 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:20.720 do now, it's probably because of the attention that you know, 168 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:23.639 the stars of college basketball the last couple of years 169 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:26.559 have brought to the game. I mean, you still have 170 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:29.120 some really good players out there. The young lady at USC, 171 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:31.480 I forget her name, but she's I mean, she's got 172 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:33.399 a chance to be one of the all time greats. Obviously, 173 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:35.759 is it Paige Buker's Is that her name? She's back 174 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:39.080 at Yukon's. She's been at star for quite some time. 175 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:43.240 So the women's tournament man women's college basketball. I mean 176 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:47.480 I went from somebody who really only watched when Jeff 177 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:50.120 Wallas's team was playing and really only kept up with 178 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:53.480 it when it comes to how what's going on impacts 179 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:56.559 Louisville women's basketball, and that will still I'm not gonna 180 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:58.039 lie to you and act like I'm all in watching 181 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:01.320 a ton of women's hoops just year round, because I'm not. 182 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:07.399 But the entertainment value has gotten has gotten better. And 183 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:10.200 it's not to say that you know, you won't find 184 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.799 some poor play here and there, but I mean, the 185 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:15.440 highest level of women's college basketball in recent years I 186 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.559 think has been a pretty damn good product, and the 187 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:20.159 viewership has shown that. And if you want to give 188 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.480 all that credit to Kaitlin Clark and some of it 189 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:30.320 to Angel, that's fine. But like maybe if you don't 190 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:32.919 ever see a player like Kaitlyn Clark again, which maybe 191 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:37.159 you won't, maybe the attention that she and the other 192 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:39.480 stars in the last few years brought to the game 193 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:44.600 created fans that would not have existed without them, if 194 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:49.679 that makes sense. Or speaking of watching games, this is 195 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:51.960 one of those studies that I'm interested in, but I 196 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:56.200 question how accurate it really is as far as how 197 00:10:56.200 --> 00:11:00.480 they went about it. But this study was put together 198 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:05.039 by Talker Research on behalf of squad Locker, and it's 199 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:10.480 to determine how many games a year die hard sports 200 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:14.799 fans watch. They call them raging sports fans, which I mean, 201 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:17.240 I'm a big sports fan. I don't know where the 202 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:18.720 rage comes in. I mean, I have a rage if 203 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:20.519 my team loses. In fact, I have more rage now 204 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:22.200 if like I lose a bet that was a bad 205 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.360 beat or something like that. But they say that sports 206 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:29.080 fans watch one hundred and twenty games per year. So 207 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:33.799 they pulled two thousand American sports fanatics to uncover just 208 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:37.320 how emotionally invested fans are, how much they pay to 209 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:40.000 follow along and represent their teams, and how sports have 210 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:43.200 given fans have returned on their emotional and financial investments. 211 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:49.080 So the survey split sports fans into different categories depending 212 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:51.799 on their level of commitment to their team or player. 213 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:54.159 So it says here a third of the respondents thirty 214 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:57.039 two percent said they're moderate fans who watch a few 215 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:01.799 sports games here and there. Half forty eight percent labeled 216 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:07.600 themselves as big fans who watch most games, and a fifth, 217 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:12.039 which is twenty percent, are all in and self identified 218 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:15.440 as raging fans who watch every single game they can. 219 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:20.000 So it says here, being a raging fan comes with 220 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:22.240 a price tag. Raging fans, again, these are the most 221 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:27.000 die hard or they report they spend on average eight 222 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:30.080 hundred and seventy nine dollars and forty cents on tickets 223 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:34.360 to live sporting events, concessions, apparel, collectibles, memorabilia, and streaming 224 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:39.919 services per year. I mean, I per year. I mean, 225 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:42.559 I've spent more than that, but I don't, I mean 226 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:44.240 don't even I don't even pay for tickets to like 227 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:46.240 Louisville games, Like I don't feel like that, Like I 228 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:49.320 don't think that's a lot. And again that's not because 229 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:52.480 I'm like, you know, eight hundred and seventy nine bucks. 230 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:55.039 You know, I spent that on lunch today. That's that's 231 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:57.679 not the way I'm trying to come off. But like, 232 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:01.080 think about it per year, Like if you go to 233 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:04.000 a game, you go to one game, and you go 234 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:07.519 and you get concessions, what are you spending one hundred 235 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:12.200 and fifty bucks? I mean, maybe I'm out of touch 236 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:14.159 with the cost of things, but last I check, things 237 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:17.440 are pretty expensive. So per year, I mean again, streaming services, 238 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:19.480 it's tough to know, right because right now there's not 239 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:22.080 a standalone sports streaming service, right, So if you pay 240 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:24.960 for YouTube TV, I mean I only watch it for sports. 241 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.600 So therefore I guess I would say annually, and gosh, 242 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:30.559 what I'm paying for YouTube TV now, I think it's 243 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:33.639 like sixty bucks a month, so times that by twelve. Yeah, 244 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:35.559 I mean I just feel like that that number is off. 245 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:42.159 If you go to games like even somewhat like even 246 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:45.480 if you go to like three games a year, I 247 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:47.279 feel like you're spending more than that on just being 248 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:49.840 there at the game and concessions, parking and all that stuff. 249 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:55.879 So U And look, I don't watch really any game 250 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.559 from start to finish unless it's a game that features 251 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:05.240 a team that I really really care about, or it's 252 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:08.399 a big game like a national championship game, a playoff game, 253 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:11.879 something like that. And if it's a game, I bet 254 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:14.840 on I'm not watching the whole thing unless again, we're 255 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:18.840 talking about a standalone prime time you know, Super Bowl 256 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:21.279 matchup kind of thing where this you know, the conference 257 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:25.639 championships that kind of thing, and with our phones, Like, 258 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.519 are we really watching that closely? The only again maybe 259 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:31.200 this is just me, but the only game I'm I'm 260 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:33.960 literally dialed in from start to finish if I can, 261 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:35.919 you know, maybe maybe something happens where I got to 262 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:38.639 you know, I gotta go help my kid with something 263 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:40.279 like you know, like life can get in the way 264 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:42.159 a little bit. But the only games that I would 265 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:45.440 really care to make it an appointment to view and 266 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.039 make sure I have, you know, my all of my 267 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:51.480 attention focused on the game is is like a Louisville game, 268 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:53.200 and that would have to honestly be like a big game. 269 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:55.080 I mean, I'm gonna watch every game they play, but 270 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:58.799 when they're playing Popcorn State the but Hoole Tech in 271 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:01.360 a non conference matchup and they're up fifty, I mean, 272 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:04.200 I might, you know, pop open my phone and miss 273 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:06.759 a few plays here and there because you know it's 274 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:10.679 that kind of game. I mean, are you with me? John? Absolutely? 275 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:13.960 What was the number that you said of the amount 276 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:15.840 of games watched per year per fan? 277 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:17.840 Was that on? Was that one of your stance? Yeah? 278 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:22.120 So one hundred and twenty games per year. Let's see, 279 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:27.879 let me double check the numbers here. So the one 280 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:30.559 third of the respondents said that they they watch a 281 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:33.000 few sports games here and there, which I don't know 282 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:36.360 what the hell that means. The diehards labeled themselves as 283 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:38.639 big fans and they watch almost every game they can, 284 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:43.120 whereas twenty percent are they all in and say they 285 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:45.639 watch every actual I'm sorry. The twenty percent is the 286 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:47.480 ones who say they watch every single game they can. 287 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:50.600 So when they say one hundred and twenty games per year, 288 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:53.559 they don't really say, like. 289 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:54.279 Like what sport or anything else. 290 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:56.879 They don't say what sport. They don't say, uh, they 291 00:15:56.919 --> 00:15:59.200 don't say you know how that's divided, right, meaning like 292 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:01.279 do the diehards watch one hundred and twenty? Do the 293 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:02.919 raging fans watch one hundred and twenty? Orre they just 294 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:05.320 saying that collectively, you know, because. 295 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:07.039 When I think about what I'm dialed into, if I 296 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:10.399 if I'm just putting Indiana basketball and football the two 297 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:14.480 biggest things same here too, that probably what's that maybe 298 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:17.120 fifty games something like that. Yeah, if that may maybe 299 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:17.960 not even that much. 300 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:20.159 So like put it this way, if Kentucky is on, 301 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:25.399 I'm gonna watch, but not watch the way I watched Louisville. 302 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:26.919 So did I still watch? You know what I mean? 303 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:29.320 Like just to say you watched the game? There's a 304 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.600 lot of ways that could be interpreted, right, Like did 305 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:34.240 you check it out and keep up with what was 306 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:36.240 going on but not watch every play? Did you sit 307 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:39.600 there the entire time? Like, for example, if Kentucky's playing 308 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:42.639 somebody at noon and you know, Louisville's not on until 309 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:44.840 the night, and I have Kentucky's game on at noon 310 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:47.600 and you know, at the end of the first quarter, 311 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:50.320 they're up three touchdowns, and I feel like they're going 312 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:52.519 to cruise and it won't be like a potential upset 313 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:54.519 that I you know, that I'll get to enjoy. I'm 314 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:56.960 probably not going to watch another second of it. Technically, 315 00:16:57.360 --> 00:16:58.960 did I still watch it? You know what I mean? 316 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:01.240 Like this is and here and the other thing too. 317 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:04.759 If you include like NBA or MLB, those those seasons 318 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:08.000 have eighty plus games, one hundred and something plus games, 319 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:10.519 So I mean, if you're dialed into one of those teams, 320 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:12.279 I mean, maybe that number does check out. 321 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:14.839 I'm sure there are some people out there that do this, 322 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:19.279 but I have a hard time believing people who claim 323 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:21.960 that they watch every game of a baseball season or 324 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:24.839 an NBA season, Like I just I mean, I don't 325 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:26.279 know how you would be able to do that unless 326 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:28.519 you genuinely have no life. 327 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:30.359 Maybe one of those things where they maybe they treat 328 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:32.400 it kind of like a podcast, like they're on so 329 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:35.319 often that maybe while you're driving just just off on 330 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:37.559 the phone. Is just there's background noise and you're trying 331 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:39.839 to take it in while you're driving from point A 332 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:40.559 to point B. 333 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:42.799 Right, So this is a little bit of more of 334 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:45.359 a this is just some more context to the to 335 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:48.599 the study here, it says, looking at how playing a 336 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.000 sport growing up influences sports fandom, seventy one percent of 337 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:55.400 sports fans reported they played sports as a youth, and 338 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:58.839 twenty eight percent played at the college level, and those 339 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:02.039 who played sports growing up, almost half said that they 340 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.319 dreamed of playing sports as a professional. Of course, that's 341 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:09.160 a no brainer, It says that, and it turns out 342 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:12.519 that turning on the TV or attending a match has 343 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:15.160 a real life impact on fans. Thirty percent of responding 344 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:17.400 supported they like to pick a sport they used to 345 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:22.119 play after watching the pros, and a fifth even want 346 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:25.599 to try a new sports see. Like, I mean, when 347 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:30.920 I think of people watching sports like NFL, college football, 348 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:37.160 college basketball, NBA women's college basketball, I mean, MLB whatever, 349 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:41.039 maybe I don't ever think of the behavior to be, Oh, 350 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:43.559 this will get more people interested in playing. Well, I 351 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:45.920 mean you can go play. I mean, if you watch 352 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:47.960 the NFL every Sunday, are you inclined to like go 353 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.279 buy yourself a helmet and go find a field with 354 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:53.079 people and like, what do we like? I've never once 355 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:57.440 had any interest in determining that type of behavior. From 356 00:18:57.480 --> 00:18:59.960 a fan, meaning when they watch, oh, I need to go. 357 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:01.480 I need to go get in shape because I'm going 358 00:19:01.559 --> 00:19:03.079 to go out there and try to make it in 359 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:05.079 the league. Like, this is a stupid study. I'm sorry 360 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:09.160 I brought it up. It's stupid. What a wasted time. 361 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:10.359 I apologize. 362 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:13.279 It wasn't a waste of time. Why is everything going 363 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:14.039 to be a wasted time? 364 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:14.519 Sometimes? 365 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.160 I mean it just I just feel like it's stupid. 366 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:19.640 It is the way they went about it, because again, 367 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:22.400 watching something is so loosely defined. 368 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.079 So I thought whatever you said initially before you explain it, 369 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:27.640 that it meant that the impact of watching a team 370 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:30.119 for the first time like influences your fandom. 371 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:32.400 I think there's truth to that for sure, Oh of course. 372 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:34.079 But like if you're polling, like if you're but if 373 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:37.640 you're asking people now, if you're watching the NFL now 374 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:39.240 as a grown man, how is that going to make 375 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:39.640 you want. 376 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:41.319 To go play football? In terms of playing it? That's 377 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:42.160 that's ridiculous. 378 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:46.559 Oh, I mean, look, I actually find it fascinating. Maybe 379 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:49.599 that's not the right word, but like, I think it's 380 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:53.839 quite clear when you're a kid, when when the emotional 381 00:19:54.759 --> 00:19:57.440 attachment to a team hits you right, because it's just 382 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:00.720 like my son, he's four, and it's I mean, I 383 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:02.640 kind of had to tell them that, you know, the 384 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:05.559 lot familiar in the Ville game, they tied and they 385 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:07.039 all hugged it out at the end. I didn't know. 386 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:09.079 I didn't, I didn't. I didn't tell them about the 387 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:12.599 Hawk tour from Nanu in the in the blowout, that was. 388 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:16.359 That was you know, deer first like rage moment as 389 00:20:16.359 --> 00:20:17.319 a U of lhow. 390 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:22.720 Absolutely absolutely yeah, whenever Louisville lost. Uh in when Louisville 391 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:25.720 lost in the n c DOUAA tournament. But I was 392 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:28.680 so young, it wasn't rage, It was sad tears. Uh 393 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:30.480 it was. It was when Louisvill lost in the NCAA 394 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:36.200 Tournament in nineteen ninety seven to to North Carolina and 395 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:39.799 Duan Whet got hurt. I made all the way to 396 00:20:39.799 --> 00:20:42.000 the Elite eight. The team had Anton Jamison, Vince Carter, 397 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:45.799 and I was really sad because at that point I 398 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:48.440 was just at the age to where like I'd watched 399 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:51.039 Louisvill basketball before then, and I was very much a fan, 400 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:53.880 and you know, all I talked about was Louisville basketball. 401 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:57.240 I remember learning as a young kid at like six 402 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:00.279 and seven about players that played in the eighties before 403 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:03.359 I was around, just because I was obsessed. I mean, 404 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:05.119 I have a pretty I have a pretty obsessive and 405 00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:07.359 addictive personality to where even as a kid, like I 406 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:09.839 was all in on whatever, I was all in on. 407 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:12.960 I was all in on it. But it was more 408 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:15.960 of just like like at the young age, it wasn't 409 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:17.720 really about the competitive side of it. It was just 410 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:19.799 about like, man, this is awesome, Like I love this team, 411 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:22.160 and you know, I e whn they would lose, like 412 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:24.359 I'd be bummed, but like they could have lost at 413 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:26.319 a certain age, they could go over thirty two and 414 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:27.880 I would be like, I don't care. I love them. 415 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:29.799 These are my favorite players. Like I would just I 416 00:21:29.799 --> 00:21:32.799 would be a young kid. But once I saw them 417 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:35.960 go deep in the tournament at the age of eight 418 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:38.680 seven eight, that was when it was like, Okay, this 419 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:40.839 is pretty special, Like they're doing something really cool here. 420 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:43.160 I saw the bracket. I'm like, oh wow, like, man, 421 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:45.359 they were only a few winns away from cutting down 422 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:46.759 some nets or something. I'm not even sure if I 423 00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:48.519 knew that was the thing at the time, but that 424 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:50.480 was when that was the first emotional thing for me 425 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:53.000 to where I was like, all right, this is sad, 426 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:54.519 this is I don't know if I want to do 427 00:21:54.519 --> 00:21:56.119 this anymore. I don't want to feel this pain again 428 00:21:57.279 --> 00:21:59.279 for you. Go ahead and tell me yours, cause it's 429 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:01.519 going to make me feel But I'm prepared. I'm prepared. 430 00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:03.200 And I don't know that this is the first one, 431 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:05.440 but this is the earliest one that I remember. But 432 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:09.200 when when Indiana this was the twenty I guess twelve 433 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:11.119 or thirteen team, the team that won the Big Ten 434 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:14.000 but cut down the nets after they lost to Ohio 435 00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:16.119 State when they lost that game. 436 00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:17.759 I don't know what it was. 437 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:20.839 I think I was just so just into it. 438 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:22.279 Yeah, for whatever reason. 439 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:24.680 And that's the first time I ever cried watching an 440 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:27.240 Indiana team lose. And to top it all off, that's 441 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:29.160 when they cut down the nets after a loss and 442 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:29.960 got made fun of. 443 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:32.400 Well, that was that was a special team for you, 444 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:34.559 because that was honestly the first team they had that 445 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:36.559 you were old enough to know what was going. 446 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:38.839 On, and they were really good well, and you saw 447 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:41.519 a lot of those players go through the really hard times, 448 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:44.079 the six win season, ten win season, that type of stuff. 449 00:22:44.119 --> 00:22:47.559 It was the breakthrough for Cream. Yes, you know, they 450 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:49.119 still had a good run. They just came up a 451 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:50.839 little short in the tournament, and they still won the 452 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:53.519 Big Ten regular season, didn't they. Yes, Yeah, I quick break. 453 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:55.920 We'll keep it rolling along here. It's coffee and company, 454 00:22:55.920 --> 00:23:00.119 feel both. Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. 455 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:02.279 You've got a soft spot for Keith Urban. I like it. 456 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:04.839 I've seen Keith Urban at the Young Center before. 457 00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:08.119 He's talented. Man, I don't consider him to be like country, 458 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:10.079 but I don't really know if that matters or. 459 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:13.680 He's one of those who veered over from the traditional 460 00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:16.039 country and like, you know, the early two thousand since 461 00:23:16.119 --> 00:23:21.960 to the pop style bro country into the twenty tens. See, 462 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:25.279 I don't maybe calling him bro country, bro country, but 463 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:27.640 it's still more pop country nowadays. 464 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:29.759 Yeah. I kind of find name as one of those 465 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:32.599 guys that I don't know, I don't know where to 466 00:23:32.599 --> 00:23:33.319 put him, you know what I mean. 467 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:36.799 So him and Brad Paisley two of the best country guitarists. 468 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:37.480 I feel like. 469 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:41.759 Brad Paisley, I just feel like he's always been really 470 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:43.079 really corny and lame. 471 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:45.200 And they're both very corny, but Here's the thing though, 472 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:47.160 what they get. They can both play guitar very. 473 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:50.519 Well well like and I would totally trust your judgment 474 00:23:50.519 --> 00:23:51.839 on that. I would have no clue although I have 475 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:55.640 heard both are great guitar players before. But like some 476 00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:58.599 of Brad Paisley's songs were just like, look you there, 477 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:03.640 I gotta buy. Yeah, it's just it's like, honestly, it's 478 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:06.119 kind of cringe for me. With Keith Urban. I don't 479 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:08.160 feel like there's really been ever any like, not to 480 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:09.599 say I've liked every one of his songs. 481 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:12.240 Yeah, fell in Love in the Back of a cop Car. 482 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:13.720 That's a little corny and cringey. 483 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:15.160 Is that is that Urban? 484 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:16.000 Yeah? Is it? 485 00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:17.720 I didn't think I knew that. If I heard it, 486 00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:20.680 I probably would be that. Ye, clearly that's Keith Urban. 487 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:23.920 Yeah I didn't. Are you sure that's him? I'll take 488 00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:26.599 your word for it. Serious, Yeah, I mean I'm looking 489 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:27.720 up his discography. 490 00:24:28.400 --> 00:24:28.519 Uh. 491 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:31.519 Here, Also Blue Ain't Your Color? I think that's one 492 00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:32.039 of his two. 493 00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:34.559 Yeah, that's more like a love song. 494 00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:34.880 Yeah. 495 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:37.799 Yeah, But I feel like he's one of those guys that, 496 00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:41.079 although country has clearly been the you know, if you 497 00:24:41.079 --> 00:24:43.680 look at all of his like all of his hits 498 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:47.359 and you go to like which ones got it charted? 499 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:50.119 It's mostly country, So I mean that's that's what it's mostly. 500 00:24:50.200 --> 00:24:50.240 Know. 501 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:56.920 Gosh, he's got Where the Black Top Ends? That song 502 00:24:57.039 --> 00:24:59.000 is twenty three years old. That makes me feel sold. 503 00:24:59.000 --> 00:24:59.599 Do you know that song? 504 00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:01.640 That's from what his debut album? 505 00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:04.160 But for the grace of God, God, he's good man. 506 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:06.799 He has some really good songs. And now these songs 507 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:10.119 are old. We're talking twenty plus years old raining on Sunday. 508 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:13.039 Like I don't maybe it's just a different time in country, but. 509 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:15.359 Like crazy, so he started off like in the nineties 510 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:17.480 era that you love, and he's kind of just always 511 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:18.319 been around. 512 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:21.480 Days go by, you'll think of me, who wouldn't want 513 00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:25.279 to be me? Making memories of us? Like he's really good. 514 00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:27.319 I would. I've never seen him live and I've never 515 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:30.960 really had any interest, but he's He's got a lot 516 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:32.640 of hits, man. And that is one of the things 517 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:35.240 now that I'm adding to the list John of things 518 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:38.000 that make me feel old is to see when a 519 00:25:38.079 --> 00:25:39.960 song came out. I'm like, yeah, that's four or five 520 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:44.880 years old. No, it's plus years old. Crazy to me? 521 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:48.599 All right, it's coffee and Company Field by Thornton's here. 522 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:51.079 You're crazy if you're not fueled by Thornton's like we are, 523 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:53.160 so sign up to become a member. You still get 524 00:25:53.160 --> 00:25:54.480 that free red bull. 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They've got three for 536 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:27.599 seven with the Monster Energy drinks, which is a pretty 537 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:31.440 good deal compared to what the prices are elsewhere. That's 538 00:26:31.480 --> 00:26:34.240 my go to. They've got some new items and they're 539 00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:36.000 new to me. I just haven't seen them yet because 540 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:38.079 usually when I go there in the mornings, they've got 541 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:41.359 all their delicious breakfast food. But yesterday, I'm sorry, earlier 542 00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:43.119 today I was there and I saw they've got some 543 00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:46.519 new mini tacos available. They look delicious. They also have 544 00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:49.960 some pretzel bites, so check them out Thornton's. You know, 545 00:26:50.519 --> 00:26:54.000 I believe that they have changed the stigma out there 546 00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:56.599 when it comes to gas station and convenience store food 547 00:26:57.279 --> 00:27:01.240 because nowadays, I feel like people don't have the same 548 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:03.319 mindset of like, oh man, I'm only going to eat 549 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:06.559 at a gas station slash convenience store if I have to, 550 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:09.240 and those no other options. Now people are be lining 551 00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:12.200 over there for lunch during their lunch break at work 552 00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:14.839 to go get some of those delicious food items they have, 553 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:17.799 So again, shout out to our friends over there Thorntons. 554 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:21.240 All right, we were talking earlier about the you know, 555 00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:24.839 the raging sports fan and how much money you spend 556 00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:30.680 per year on tickets and subscriptions to watch games, merchandise, concessions, 557 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:35.880 all that stuff. And appreciate the effort on that study, 558 00:27:35.880 --> 00:27:39.839 but I didn't find it to be super accurate or 559 00:27:39.880 --> 00:27:45.319 you know, useful. But somebody did send this in which 560 00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:49.519 doesn't fully give any update to the survey we referenced 561 00:27:49.559 --> 00:27:52.000 but I was talking about tickets, like if if you 562 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:53.839 go to a few games a year, I mean, you're 563 00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:56.640 going to be spending a lot of money on tickets 564 00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:59.400 because they're not cheap. But this is a list of 565 00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:03.359 the most defensive tickets for games this year for the 566 00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:07.240 upcoming twenty twenty four college football season, and right now, 567 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:11.440 the most expensive ticket by ninety eight bucks is Texas 568 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:16.559 and Texas a and m first game as a conference foes. 569 00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:18.559 In fact, when the last time they played each other? 570 00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:22.880 I guess, gosh, I bet it's been been well over 571 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:26.279 ten years then so the age. So the average price 572 00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:28.480 for that ticket to get into that game is six 573 00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:32.720 hundred and twenty five dollars. Army Navies coming in at 574 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:35.559 number two. Kind of a surprise there at five hundred 575 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:38.839 and twenty seven dollars. Then you have Texas and Michigan. 576 00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:41.920 When do they play? That's early, it's an early game. 577 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:43.279 It's like is that week one? Maybe week two? 578 00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:44.240 I think it's week two. 579 00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:47.240 And then Texas and Oklahoma that's just you know, an 580 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:49.920 annual rivalry game that is going to be big time. 581 00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:53.880 I'm sure that's an expensive ticket every single year. And 582 00:28:54.359 --> 00:28:58.200 now this is a conference matchup, and man, seeing these 583 00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:04.640 two schools next to each other, knowing that it's it's 584 00:29:04.759 --> 00:29:08.079 not a non conference game, is weird to me. Ohio 585 00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:11.119 State and Oregon two teams that I'm pretty sure everybody 586 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:14.759 has in the top five, certainly top ten, and it's 587 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:16.400 gonna be a big ten matchup, and the cost for 588 00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:20.000 that is three hundred and sixty five dollars. So the 589 00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:21.960 rest of this list features, you know, the big brands, 590 00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:25.079 Notre Dame and A and M. That's three fifty nine, 591 00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:29.839 Georgia and Texas three to fifty five, Tennessee and Georgia 592 00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:34.599 three forty eight. Alabama and Tennessee is three thirty nine. 593 00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:38.279 And then this is random as hell Colorado and Cincinnati 594 00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:39.880 three hundred and three dollars. 595 00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:41.160 Where's it held at? 596 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:45.359 I would assume it's going to be held at at 597 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:47.759 it in Boulder, But I don't know the Colorado connection, 598 00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:52.160 Like does Colorado not have any other games against good teams? 599 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:54.319 I mean, Scott's head have won three games last year? 600 00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:56.920 Didn't he four games? Maybe? Like why would that be 601 00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:01.640 the game the Colorado fans have, you know, have. 602 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:04.640 Maybe there's a special promotion We're I'm aware, Ever, like 603 00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:06.440 a weird halftime show or something. 604 00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:09.039 I'm secured, maak get a weird Uh. This is the 605 00:30:09.079 --> 00:30:11.720 list of the top twenty five. And what if I 606 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:16.279 told you that the Indiana Hoosiers have a game in 607 00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:20.759 the top in the top fifteen for non conference? No, 608 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:22.559 just any game. I mean these these are these are 609 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:24.279 not this is this is conference or not. This is 610 00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:26.839 just the most expensive ticket prices for any game. Man, 611 00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:31.400 So I guess that's probably. Is it really just Ohio 612 00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:33.359 State or Michigan? It's Northwestern? 613 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:34.839 Really? 614 00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:37.880 Now? Is this the year where Northwestern is playing in 615 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:39.519 their new arena or the new stadium. 616 00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:42.480 It's a temporary stadium and it's right next to the 617 00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:45.599 whatever body of water that is that they're up against 618 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:46.559 in Chicago. 619 00:30:46.759 --> 00:30:47.519 Have you seen the. 620 00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:52.000 It looks really cool, but they're playing in something that 621 00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:54.799 looks like a high school, you know, stadium that was 622 00:30:54.839 --> 00:30:56.519 just put together type of thing for this year. 623 00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:02.000 I'm googling Northwestern football Indiana to it's Indiana Hoosiers at Northwestern. 624 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:06.000 This is on October the fifth, and it is in Chicago, 625 00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:10.400 And yeah, you can get in for one hundred and 626 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:12.119 ninety five dollars right now. 627 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:14.480 It's because they know that hoo's your nation is going 628 00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:15.319 to be sicked up by this. 629 00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:18.200 That is so weird for them to be included in there, 630 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.240 because every other game is like, you know, Colorado and 631 00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:24.599 Sinccenati's kind of weird too. But you got Georgia Bama, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, 632 00:31:24.680 --> 00:31:28.759 Florida State, Michigan with Washington, which of course will be 633 00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:31.319 a conference game and it'll be a rematch at the 634 00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:32.440 national championship. 635 00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:36.400 One thing that could explain the high ticket price for 636 00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:39.480 Indian Northwestern is that there is a large alumni base 637 00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:42.599 of Indiana in Chicago, and maybe there's expecting because of 638 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:45.599 the unique stadium that there will be a lot of Indiana. 639 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:48.799 A multiple capacity. The temporary stadium is ye very small, 640 00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:50.200 and that's what it is. Then that's got to be 641 00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:54.279 why that would be like that. But anyways, just referencing 642 00:31:54.319 --> 00:31:59.000 this graphic that is from this CFB report account, which 643 00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:02.680 is one of those face accounts that gets a ton 644 00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:06.880 of traction with just different graphics they put together, like 645 00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:09.079 this one here that has the number of wins against 646 00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:13.359 top ten teams since twenty fourteen, so of course that's 647 00:32:13.400 --> 00:32:16.640 the era that is the College Football Playoff era. So 648 00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:20.799 the three teams that have the most top ten wins 649 00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:26.640 in the last ten seasons. Alabama has twenty three, Ohio 650 00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:29.519 State is twenty two, and Georgia has twenty. I don't 651 00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:34.920 really think there's any big surprises here, although let me 652 00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:38.279 give you the list here just in order. I mentioned 653 00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:42.759 those three BAM, Ohio State, Georgia, LSU has seventeen, Clemson fourteen, 654 00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:50.000 Oregon ten, Michigan nine. Michigan State has nine top ten wins. 655 00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:53.960 That just seems weird to me, doesn't it? Like that 656 00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:54.680 just seems off. 657 00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:57.119 I mean, they did have a big year when they 658 00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:58.880 got to the College Football Playoff. 659 00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:01.079 Yeah, but they must have also had some upsets along 660 00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:03.599 the way that really were outliers, right, Yeah. 661 00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:06.119 Mark Dantonio, when he was the head coach in Michigan State, 662 00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:09.440 they were normally so whenever it was the Big Ten East, 663 00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:13.039 it was normally Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, and Michigan State. 664 00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:15.039 Those were like the really good year in and year 665 00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:17.880 out opponents. But when Mark D'Antonio was no longer the 666 00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:19.319 head coach, they kind of took a step back. 667 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:23.480 Did they go straight from him to Tucker? 668 00:33:23.720 --> 00:33:24.319 I believe so. 669 00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:29.200 Yeah, that makes sense. So anyways, Louisville came in with 670 00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:36.440 three top ten wins, which Florida State that was certainly one, 671 00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:39.480 and outside of that, I mean, I don't really remember 672 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:45.799 where the other other two would have come from. I mean, 673 00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:49.759 you'd beat Notre Dame last year, but they didn't finish 674 00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:54.000 top ten. Who am I forgetting? I feel like a 675 00:33:54.039 --> 00:33:56.039 real idiot now because I'm sure people are screaming, don't 676 00:33:56.039 --> 00:33:57.599 you remember that huge win when we knocked off a 677 00:33:57.640 --> 00:34:00.400 top ten team, because I don't really remember the last 678 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:03.079 ten seasons, you know, fourteen that was gosh, that was 679 00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:05.160 Bobby's first year here and they didn't have any I 680 00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:07.240 mean that that was the knock on Bobby when Bobby 681 00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:12.480 was here until twenty sixteen when Lamar won the Heisman. 682 00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:15.800 I mean, they did beat a really good Florida State 683 00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:17.920 team that ended up actually being a top ten team 684 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:20.800 when it was all said and done that year, But 685 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:23.320 I don't remember the other big ones unless they're counting 686 00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:25.679 it to when you played and not really where they 687 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:27.440 were at the end of the season, which I guess 688 00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:29.559 that's probably what they're doing anyway, because you can't I mean, 689 00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:31.760 if their top ten when you play them. That's all 690 00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:33.760 you can control, right If they aren't when you don't 691 00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:36.840 play them, it's you know, so Kentucky had won, which 692 00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:41.519 that has to be the when that they had, it's 693 00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:44.280 one of these two wins. When they beat Florida in 694 00:34:44.360 --> 00:34:46.320 twenty eighteen, I think it was. That Florida team was 695 00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:48.440 pretty good. I think they might have been top ten 696 00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:51.039 at the time. And then when they beat Penn State 697 00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:55.440 in that bowl game they were They were also, I 698 00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:57.760 think a top ten team at that time. So one 699 00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:00.360 of those two would be their one. Here are the 700 00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:09.960 schools that have zero. Let's see Rutgers, Texas Tech, Colorado, SMU, 701 00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:14.039 Wake Forest, Ucla, Maryland, and Vandy Indiana has won and 702 00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:16.159 that would have to be one of their COVID wins, right. 703 00:35:16.199 --> 00:35:18.360 Yeah, probably what it was Penn State, they were number 704 00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:20.039 eight to start the season. 705 00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:21.960 That's a big win. 706 00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:22.760 It was a big win. 707 00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:25.079 All right, quick break, we'll come back and wrap up 708 00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:28.840 the four o'clock hour. Keep this thing going along. Something 709 00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:31.280 else I wanted to get to at some point that 710 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:32.719 I mentioned earlier in the show that I kind of 711 00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:36.320 forgot about is a list of jobs in the Olympics 712 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:38.559 that you would have never guessed existed that are kind 713 00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:40.920 of wild and kind of cool, to be honest with you. 714 00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:42.599 So we'll get to that, and we'll also get back 715 00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:44.599 to the text line some good stuff coming in Bobbo 716 00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:46.559 two six five three zero seven ninety the L and 717 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:49.920 N Federal Credit Union text line don't go anywhere, hang 718 00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:53.960 out right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. I kind 719 00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:56.920 of felt like it was disrespectful to put those two 720 00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:59.440 in the same conversation, and you only did it because 721 00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:01.719 you're speaking of their ability to play guitar, not hits. 722 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:07.719 But Keith Urban is, I mean, Keith Urban is so 723 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:10.800 much better than Brad Paisley in my in my opinion 724 00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:12.559 that I'm sure nobody cares, but when it comes to music. 725 00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:17.440 But John asked me for a corny Brad Paisley's song, 726 00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:18.719 and I said, yeah, I have to. I mean, I 727 00:36:18.719 --> 00:36:20.039 had a couple. I'm like, I got to look them 728 00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:22.519 up to see and yeah, this one, this one. 729 00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:24.320 I like to check you for tics. That's another one. 730 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:29.039 I mean, when you're late, every sound just like him, 731 00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:30.599 don't know, I mean, did you. 732 00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:33.239 Ever have a MySpace by the way he references MySpace. 733 00:36:33.039 --> 00:36:35.800 Oh, sure, of course, back in high school. Absolutely because that. 734 00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:37.239 Was back when I was too young to have that 735 00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:38.199 kind of thing. I'm curious. 736 00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:40.159 I'm sure that was what did you did you know 737 00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:41.920 like what it was at the time. You were probably 738 00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:42.719 too young then, weren't you. 739 00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:45.639 I had older like I guess cousins, family members who 740 00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:46.519 used MySpace. 741 00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:49.039 You were probably a really little kid, weren't you. What 742 00:36:49.079 --> 00:36:49.519 was like the. 743 00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:51.559 Prime year two thousand and four, it sort of been 744 00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:52.599 around seven years old. 745 00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:56.199 Yeah, pretty young. He also had a song called Accidental Racist. 746 00:36:56.239 --> 00:36:58.039 I don't remember that one man. Yeah, I haven't heard 747 00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:01.840 the pants and it's about like who wears the pants 748 00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:05.440 and the relationship famous people. I don't know if I 749 00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:07.400 remember that one. The check you for ticks is certainly 750 00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:11.880 up there. I'm still like guys. 751 00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:12.880 Oh yeah, I think I think that. What I like 752 00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:14.920 about Brad Paisley is that I don't think he takes 753 00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:17.519 himself too seriously. I think that kind of that's the 754 00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:18.400 clearly to it. 755 00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:22.320 But like it, there's a fun line in being funny 756 00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:23.880 and corny, you know what I mean? Like there's a 757 00:37:23.960 --> 00:37:27.960 huge out there. Is he still around? I mean he's 758 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:29.679 not dead, but like I haven't heard anything new from him. 759 00:37:29.719 --> 00:37:31.639 He hasn't had Let's see, he hasn't had a charting 760 00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:36.199 hit since two thousand. Let's see Tire twenty twenty, he 761 00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:39.119 had a sing a song called No I and Beer. 762 00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:42.760 He He's had songs come out since then. That's the 763 00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:43.199 only one that. 764 00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:46.960 Yeah, maybe that maybe that shtick has faded a little bit. 765 00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:49.920 Uh So, real quick before we get to the top 766 00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:53.079 of the hour, here the latest on the T and 767 00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:56.719 T crew right the inside, the NBA group, Chuck Shaq, 768 00:37:57.039 --> 00:38:01.199 Ernie Kenny, those guys big new yesterday as Charles Barkley 769 00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:03.559 announced he's not retiring and he's going to stick with TNT. 770 00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:05.440 So the question I asked is, like, what are they 771 00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:08.079 gonna do? And now the Wall Street Journal has reported 772 00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:11.880 that they could turn that studio show into sort of 773 00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:18.039 a all sports like a you know, or they do 774 00:38:18.119 --> 00:38:19.840 what they do, but not just about the NBA, but 775 00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:23.880 about all sports. And I'm not saying that would be 776 00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:28.400 terrible and it might be good. I just I don't know. 777 00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:31.039 I feel like that will be a forced thing like that. 778 00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:33.119 I don't think you can do that naturally and it 779 00:38:33.199 --> 00:38:36.840 not seem uncomfortable. I mean, let's be honest, there's a 780 00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:38.880 lot of people who don't really think that those guys 781 00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:44.039 are that in tune with actual NBA basketball. I mean, 782 00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:49.119 I respect their opinions on basketball, but the only one 783 00:38:49.239 --> 00:38:51.079 up there that's really talking a lot of x's and 784 00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:56.960 o's even really at all, is Kenny, and he's kind 785 00:38:56.960 --> 00:38:59.400 of the character that I think people don't value that much, 786 00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:01.360 but he does bring that aspect to it. He talks 787 00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:03.559 way more ex's and o's than Chuck and Shack, and 788 00:39:03.639 --> 00:39:07.119 Chuck and Shack are legendary players and they share opinions, 789 00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:09.840 and I actually think, you know, nerding out too much 790 00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:11.800 on x's and o's is not a good way to 791 00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:15.960 develop a humongous base that they have for that show, 792 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:18.079 because that can really just that'll just turn people off 793 00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:19.920 that don't really want to get into the into the 794 00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:23.159 weeds on basketball, and they don't do that. They're entertainers 795 00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:25.920 their personalities. So with that said, it could work, but 796 00:39:26.719 --> 00:39:30.039 I don't know. I've here's what I don't know the 797 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:34.000 answer to. I love those guys. When I see them 798 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:37.519 on the NCAA tournament coverage, I get upset because they 799 00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:40.639 don't know anything about college basketball and they don't care, 800 00:39:41.119 --> 00:39:43.159 and they don't hide the fact that they know nothing. 801 00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:45.920 It's almost like they don't take it serious or something. 802 00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:48.239 And again when I say what, I don't know the 803 00:39:48.280 --> 00:39:52.519 answer to is, am I bothered by that because I'm 804 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:55.480 sensitive to the sport I love? Or am I bothered 805 00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:58.079 by that because you know, I think they should be 806 00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:00.519 more professional and do more prep Like I don't. I 807 00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:04.079 think it's probably more me just being sensitive to college 808 00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:09.840 basketball because we hear the people on ESPN, even the 809 00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:11.840 crew on Fox. I think Fox is a great crew 810 00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:15.199 of guys that cover college basketball. I mean they really do. 811 00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:16.719 I don't know. I know a lot of people don't go. 812 00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:19.800 I mean even CBS Sports, meaning like the guys like 813 00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:22.800 Gary Parrish and and Rothstein. Yeah, I mean those are 814 00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:25.639 guys who like that. That's their life. I mean, they 815 00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:27.320 have other things going on, I'm sure, but like that's 816 00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:29.719 when it comes to their career. They're known for basketball 817 00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:34.079 college hoops. So whenever we get to the most important 818 00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:36.880 part of the year, the one that the only part 819 00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:38.639 that really matters in the grand scheme of things, for 820 00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:40.800 better or worse, that's just how it is in college basketball, 821 00:40:41.320 --> 00:40:43.920 where there's more eyeballs on the sport than ever. We 822 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:46.760 have people talking about it that don't care to even 823 00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:50.159 educate themselves a little bit about the teams and whatnot, 824 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:52.320 and they get a lot of things wrong and then 825 00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:54.639 just laugh about it, and like that just bothers me. 826 00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:55.840 I don't know, I mean, I'm just being honest with you. 827 00:40:55.880 --> 00:40:57.760 Maybe maybe I need to, you know, chill out and 828 00:40:57.800 --> 00:41:01.079 not care, but it always has bothered me. So I 829 00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:02.760 think if they did it about other sports, I probably 830 00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:05.280 wouldn't even notice, you know what I mean. And let's 831 00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:07.239 be real, Like Steven A. Smith, he was an NBA 832 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:10.000 guy like that is that that was his laying NBA 833 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:12.960 beat writer. That was how he became a journalist and 834 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:14.880 now he's now he just you know, makes fun of 835 00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:18.199 the Cowboys every day along with NBA coverage boxing. I mean, 836 00:41:18.239 --> 00:41:21.119 like he's there to get to be in an opinion 837 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:24.079 entertainer and that's really you know, that's what Chuck Shack 838 00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:26.599 and those guys are. Ernie and Kenny. I mean, Ernie's 839 00:41:26.599 --> 00:41:28.320 more of the of the quarterback of the crew, if 840 00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:30.000 that makes sense, kind of setting it up. He's really 841 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:33.880 the host. But if they did that and they just 842 00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:35.760 had it to where it's the same show, but they're 843 00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:37.599 not just talking NBA. They're talking all kinds of other 844 00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:39.880 sports too. I'd watch now. I don't know if I 845 00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:42.239 would end up, you know, being a regular viewer, but 846 00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:45.159 as good as they were all together for the last 847 00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:47.719 hover many years, i'd certainly give it a shot. All right. 848 00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:49.440 Our number three is on the way. I always want 849 00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:51.320 to say our number five. That'd be a lot of me. 850 00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:53.840 Would we have done it before. Would be a little 851 00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:56.679 too much of me. But where I get mixed up 852 00:41:56.719 --> 00:41:58.719 is that it's actually the third hour, but it's the 853 00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:00.920 five o'clock hour. So stive with us right here on 854 00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:08.360 Sports Talk seven ninety mm hmm.