Speaker 1: I'm trying to think when you would really want to
Speaker 1: listen to music like this, like a road trip driving
Speaker 1: long distances. Dave Fox is live in studio. All right,
Speaker 1: which hipster ed M band did you bring us today?
Speaker 1: First of all, there is a connection here. This is
Speaker 1: this is Cascade. Have you ever heard that name? I
Speaker 1: have heard of Cascade. I actually have a Cascade song
Speaker 1: on a playlist to mind.
Speaker 2: What do you know about Cascade?
Speaker 1: The only that the song I have is called Fine
Speaker 1: Love and it's actually quite good.
Speaker 3: Okay, that one? That was Fine Love. But he's a
Speaker 3: universe of Utah graduate. And in honor of the ute
Speaker 3: schedule and BAU schedules coming out today, I thought I.
Speaker 2: Would play you of you grad Cascade. What's his real name? Honestly,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Okay, it's definitely not cast. I would
Speaker 2: be his last name? I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know him as Cascade as you do. Do you
Speaker 1: have any insight info on the Cascade?
Speaker 2: Is he like a DJ? Is that what it is?
Speaker 3: And it's it's k Cascade, kas kad. I did that,
Speaker 3: so it's called on your mind, by the way, Okay, sweet, Well,
Speaker 3: so there you go, because I was on your mind today,
Speaker 3: You were not, but you're.
Speaker 2: Live and student. Yeah, thank you for having me last night.
Speaker 1: On You're Always. It's a lot of funat Yeah, you
Speaker 1: ripped through that nicely. Shout out to Timmy our guy.
Speaker 1: He wrote four of the five questions yesterday. Dave, he
Speaker 1: writes all the questions every time.
Speaker 2: That's not true, but he did.
Speaker 3: He's been doing it a lot lately because he's he's
Speaker 3: just creative. And I like to expand because if you
Speaker 3: if the same guy does it every week, it might
Speaker 3: get stale or every other week, and so I'll bring
Speaker 3: him in for a month or two and then I'll.
Speaker 1: Then you'll let Lenard do it and then kiuse, why
Speaker 1: don't you try doing it one time?
Speaker 3: Well, I've done it a lot, David. David, you are
Speaker 3: a hero, Okay. In our business you have people, no kids.
Speaker 2: Listen up.
Speaker 1: Okay, If if if you want to look up to
Speaker 1: somebody in this market that is in sports media, you
Speaker 1: should look up to Dave Fox. He somehow has found
Speaker 1: a way to create like a forty year career while
Speaker 1: never putting it in one ounce of work at all.
Speaker 1: And I'm not bringing that up to knock on you
Speaker 1: are bringing that up to say, you, sir, are a hero. Well,
Speaker 1: thanks for that. So that's amazing. That's gone that long.
Speaker 1: You got your guys writing questions. You just show up
Speaker 1: and you're the face and you let Mikolicic do all
Speaker 1: the hard work.
Speaker 3: You never leave the studio. You have dinner delivered to
Speaker 3: the studio. Dave, you are a pioneer, my friend. You know,
Speaker 3: I haven't gotten into that part yet, now that you
Speaker 3: mention it, what's up the whole door Dash thing. I
Speaker 3: don't doorda never. I've never done that well because it's
Speaker 3: like thirty seven dollars for a brew. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: I go get I drive down the street. But there's
Speaker 3: some people that live with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, leave your house because hey, the restaurants don't like it.
Speaker 1: And be true, I'm dead serious. Restaurants don't like DoorDash.
Speaker 1: I no, no, they don't like DoorDash at all because
Speaker 1: DoorDash charges them fees and then customers complain that the
Speaker 1: food is so expensive. Dave, order a burrito from door
Speaker 1: Dash tonight. It will be twenty seven dollars.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna kid it. I don't even not account.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: All right, you reference the Big twelve College football schedule release.
Speaker 1: Let me just ask you right off the top, October eighteenth, Utah, Dave.
Speaker 1: The last time BYU and Utah played football in October
Speaker 1: it was nineteen sixty seven. You were forty one years old.
Speaker 1: It is are why are we doing it?
Speaker 3: I thought last year, after them not putting them at
Speaker 3: the end of the season, there was some talk of all,
Speaker 3: we should have done that, we'll get it right. And
Speaker 3: then what do they do the next year? They move
Speaker 3: it up even further. Remember last year, I believe it
Speaker 3: wasn't the first Saturday in November November ninth. Yeah maybe so, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're right, it was so second Saturday November.
Speaker 2: But and then now they've made it even worse.
Speaker 3: I don't understand how, in this day and age of
Speaker 3: college rivalries and how great rivalries are, they think that
Speaker 3: Utah playing Kansas and BHYU playing Central Florida, which by
Speaker 3: the way, is how Utah ended last season. Although at
Speaker 3: least be why you gets to be home is makes sense,
Speaker 3: at the end of the season, it makes no sense
Speaker 3: at all. I don't understand why. Maybe even I don't
Speaker 3: know if the athletic directors have some input. Maybe they
Speaker 3: don't want to play it at the end of the year.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but it's it's sad and none of
Speaker 3: us can be that thrilled about October eighteenth.
Speaker 2: It's really while.
Speaker 1: It's the one thing because look, trying to analyze what
Speaker 1: the Big twelve will look like this year in football
Speaker 1: on February fourth is an exercise in futility. Tell me
Speaker 1: who you pick sixteenth so I can pick them to win.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if it's a hard schedule. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's an easy schedule. Comparing Utah to BYU.
Speaker 1: I'm not really even sure exactly how to do that
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, there's some metrics well that you
Speaker 1: can utilize, like the S and P plus. But we'll
Speaker 1: have spring football, then we'll have another transfer window, and
Speaker 1: come fall the team could look completely different. It's impossible
Speaker 1: to know whether or not this is an easier hard schedule.
Speaker 1: But the one thing that jumped out at me, Dave
Speaker 1: was BYU Utah.
Speaker 3: And it doesn't matter if it's an easier or hard schedule,
Speaker 3: doesn't matter who how good or bad these teams are
Speaker 3: going to be. We know what that game is. No
Speaker 3: matter what, no matter if they're over or undefeated. We
Speaker 3: know what that game is. We saw this year. It
Speaker 3: was a great game, and BYU was had a better
Speaker 3: team on paper coming into it. So I don't know
Speaker 3: why they don't just do that now. If you use
Speaker 3: this year's schedule or teams as any sort of a barometer,
Speaker 3: Utah has a really tough finishing schedule with both Kansas
Speaker 3: school But other than that, you're right, there's no way
Speaker 3: to tell other than you know. Kansas should be playing
Speaker 3: Kansas State at the end of the season. Utah should
Speaker 3: be playing BYU at the end of the season. That's
Speaker 3: just the way those things should be. And I don't
Speaker 3: know how long it's going to take the Big Twelve
Speaker 3: to figure that out, but I hope sooner than later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they have Arizona Arizona State Final game
Speaker 1: of the year. And your point about last season is
Speaker 1: a good one because I can remember we even had
Speaker 1: some Big Twelve guests on the show and some college
Speaker 1: football like Josh Pate who now has a really massive
Speaker 1: college football podcast. He was in town prior to the
Speaker 1: Florida game, and I asked him, have you ever been
Speaker 1: to a Utah BYU game, and he said, no, you know,
Speaker 1: but I know, you know obviously if you know college football,
Speaker 1: you know it's a big time rival. Then first year
Speaker 1: in the Big Twelve, a lot of Big Twelve people
Speaker 1: were kind of like, all right, let's see what this
Speaker 1: is about. And they could not have had a better
Speaker 1: introductions what this thing is. And by the way, what
Speaker 1: it is nine times out of ten the only time
Speaker 1: it's not like it was last year. If there's a
Speaker 1: massive talent gap like Utah in two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: more of the not this is down to the wire,
Speaker 1: last possession thing.
Speaker 2: It's always sold out.
Speaker 1: It was highly watched, highly viewed because it was a
Speaker 1: good television window. It checked every single box. And not
Speaker 1: to be not to make a hyperbolic statement or be
Speaker 1: a sensationalist, but my concern about the future of college football,
Speaker 1: and I'm not a you know, sound the alarm. This
Speaker 1: sport is in trouble guy. I think Saturday's in the
Speaker 1: fall are always going to feel like Saturdays in the fall.
Speaker 1: But my concern things like this indicate the people that
Speaker 1: are making decisions are losing track of what makes college
Speaker 1: football special. And at the top of the list are
Speaker 1: rivalries because they are different than your pro football rivalries.
Speaker 1: And this one's so unique because by us forty miles
Speaker 1: that way, you have to take care of the things
Speaker 1: that make your sports special, and rivalries to me, are at
Speaker 1: the top of the list.
Speaker 3: Well, and what's even more frustrating about it, and your
Speaker 3: point is well taken. They witnessed it, they saw it.
Speaker 3: You referenced night two thousand and four. Yes, that was
Speaker 3: the Urban Meyer blowout year when they ran the table,
Speaker 3: but twelve months prior to that, it was a three
Speaker 3: to nothing.
Speaker 2: Game, right, I mean, and you know the same coaches.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, you could hit these guys over the head
Speaker 3: with a two by four, and it seems like they're
Speaker 3: not paying attention. If I'm not mistaken, I think there
Speaker 3: were a number of people on the national level that's
Speaker 3: after this year's Utah BYU game came out and said, wow,
Speaker 3: that should have been the end of the season, because
Speaker 3: it frankly should have, and they've just brushed it aside
Speaker 3: and here we go again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, And so you know, obviously, that to me
Speaker 1: is the main takeaway.
Speaker 2: Awful.
Speaker 3: Well, the other the other thing, I'm sorry to interrupt,
Speaker 3: you the Utah's awful pre season schedule or non league schedule,
Speaker 3: I should say, I shouldn't say awful. But okay, they
Speaker 3: go to UCLA Fine cal Poly here, and then how in.
Speaker 2: The world are they going to Laramie.
Speaker 1: So Bill joined us earlier, and he provided some clarity
Speaker 1: because Porter is very excited to spend a number of
Speaker 1: days and hours in laram Me.
Speaker 2: Yes, we're gonna.
Speaker 3: Send him, not just for the game, but I'm gonna
Speaker 3: give him the week off and he's just gonna.
Speaker 1: Go live there because that's the kind of guy.
Speaker 4: Our guy is.
Speaker 3: He kind of looks like a Laramie guy though. That's
Speaker 3: I mean, what is the beard, you know, the mountain man.
Speaker 2: Thanks the hair. I'm gonna take it as compliment, just
Speaker 2: so that say.
Speaker 3: Switch that R on your hat to an L and
Speaker 3: you'll be right at home. Okay, So we're gonna send Porter.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be a man on the ground. But Bill said,
Speaker 3: this game has been scheduled for nearly a decade.
Speaker 2: So this is long. So it's like so so Tom
Speaker 2: Holmi talked about this earlier. Tom.
Speaker 1: You know, so BYU is out East Carolina this year,
Speaker 1: and at first glance, It's like, why are we doing this?
Speaker 1: And Tom said, no, it's we're We're making good our
Speaker 1: agreement with East Carolina. And my understanding is Utah is
Speaker 1: doing the same thing with Wyoming. Have you covered a
Speaker 1: game in Laramie?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, several times.
Speaker 3: I was at the game in Laramie urban Meyer, I
Speaker 3: believe it was his first year when the power went out,
Speaker 3: you were at that stadium. I was actually at that
Speaker 3: game and it was irritating because we were driving and
Speaker 3: we were gonna drive home that night after the game,
Speaker 3: and as you know, the game got delayed wuite a while.
Speaker 3: Wyoming wanted to little side story on this and I
Speaker 3: was down there on the field while they were talking.
Speaker 3: They wanted to reap or finish game the next day,
Speaker 3: and urban Meyer was having none of that. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: was like, no, we're finishing this game to night. Figure
Speaker 3: it out, and they did and then they got out
Speaker 3: of town. How would that have even worked?
Speaker 1: Fans for the next fine like a motel and especially
Speaker 1: in Laramie.
Speaker 3: How long is that drive? Oh gosh, Porter, is it
Speaker 3: four and a half hours? Like it's longer than maybe five.
Speaker 3: It's not as far as Denver, It's not as far
Speaker 3: as Denver.
Speaker 2: Oh, you know, you're right, it is more than that.
Speaker 3: I think it's like five or six and it's and
Speaker 3: it's lovely scenery.
Speaker 2: Like eighteen hours.
Speaker 1: An eighteen hours drive porter, I need you to look
Speaker 1: up how far away Denver is and how far Laramie is.
Speaker 2: Laramie's like five and a half six hours. That's what
Speaker 2: I thought, okay, but but Denver's not eighteen hours. How
Speaker 2: far away is Denver? It's only five more hours from Laramie.
Speaker 3: It's way to look it up our ESPN and you
Speaker 3: also you can also drive through the mountains if it's summertime.
Speaker 1: Yes, you can, and it's very pretty our ESPN stats
Speaker 1: and info apart closer to eight on Denver. I used
Speaker 1: to live in Aspen. I know know where, I know
Speaker 1: where it is.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's a new thing. When did you live
Speaker 2: in Aspen?
Speaker 3: When I first started, I lived in Glenwood Springs, which
Speaker 3: is about twenty miles from But that's not Aspen. You
Speaker 3: want to sound cool, I said spring. Aspen is a
Speaker 3: point of reference. You wanted to sound cool that you
Speaker 3: lived in.
Speaker 2: I was very close to Aspen. It's like there, there's
Speaker 2: only eight hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh interesting, not that far anyway. All right, so
Speaker 1: that's terrible, will you? Oh wait, so of course you're
Speaker 1: you're gonna send michel Itch to laram but.
Speaker 2: You're not going. Oh, I don't think we're e send anybody.
Speaker 2: You don't send anything. You won't send anybody.
Speaker 3: What we'll cover it off TV. We're not your cover
Speaker 3: that game. What's the point of covering that game?
Speaker 1: Because it's you tough football, Dave, and people care about
Speaker 1: We don't travel that much until postseason. Yeah, but Mikolitch,
Speaker 1: you would want to go to Laramie. I don't think so,
Speaker 1: you little fly fish. We may want to do the
Speaker 1: opener at u c l A well. And you know what,
Speaker 1: you're not wrong about the non con And I am
Speaker 1: one this is an unpopular opinion. When these games go away,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be fine with it now that it's
Speaker 1: it's not awesome for a program like cal Poly. He's
Speaker 1: gonna come up here and collect a five hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars check or whatever it is go fund their ad,
Speaker 1: you know, athletic department. And I feel bad for the
Speaker 1: schools that actually need these games to fund their athletic department.
Speaker 1: But they just don't do anything for me, and I
Speaker 1: don't think it's good for the bigger programs to potentially
Speaker 1: lose players to injury and.
Speaker 2: All that stuff.
Speaker 1: But the UCLA opener, it's not bad, no, because at
Speaker 1: least it's a Big ten team. They were down last year.
Speaker 1: They lose their quarterback, it was a first year coach,
Speaker 1: and look, UCLA should be good every year. I say
Speaker 1: the same thing about Cal football. You should be good
Speaker 1: every year you're in that recruiting footprint. I don't know
Speaker 1: what they're going to be, but you could do worse
Speaker 1: as an opener than the Rose Bowl against UCRE.
Speaker 3: Anytime you're a power four versus power four, that's a
Speaker 3: good thing. I have absolutely no problem with that. By
Speaker 3: the way, it'll be toasty down there in August for sure,
Speaker 3: especially up there in that air. The neighborhood by U's
Speaker 3: kind of got the same situation, although they open with
Speaker 3: Portland State, as you know, but then I believe it's
Speaker 3: Stanford right after that, so that's not quite so bad.
Speaker 2: They mean, it's the same kind of thing. That's just
Speaker 2: the opposite of Utah.
Speaker 3: Utah goes, you know, power four versus Power four, and
Speaker 3: then a you know, less than mid major, and B
Speaker 3: what he does just the opposite. So but B, why
Speaker 3: you had Stanford at home too, So that's a little
Speaker 3: bit better. They can soften the blow of their fans
Speaker 3: sitting through Portland State knowing that the next week they
Speaker 3: get the Stanford at their place, and then.
Speaker 1: After Stanford they have a buy b yu as an
Speaker 1: early early by then at East Carolina and then at Colorado.
Speaker 1: You know what, Porter, I'm a team player. Since you're
Speaker 1: going to Laramie, I agree that I will go to Pasadena.
Speaker 1: Okay you may not, But because you're going to laram Me,
Speaker 1: I'll go to Pasadena, I'll golf for a week.
Speaker 2: We'll hang out. Come on down, let's play golf. Let's
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: I like it, so Utah and BYU schedule release, let
Speaker 1: me kick the tires with you on a couple of
Speaker 1: other things.
Speaker 2: A few minutes left.
Speaker 1: From the perspective of interest in pro basketball, because the
Speaker 1: data is in and it doesn't matter that you could
Speaker 1: work for the NBA and spin it all you want.
Speaker 1: Numbers are down, ratings are down. Do you think this
Speaker 1: historic week changes that at all? Do you think people
Speaker 1: will be more tuned in too pro basketball as a
Speaker 1: result of what we've seen over the past seventy two hours.
Speaker 3: I don't know if the move itself does, but I
Speaker 3: think the byproduct of that. As soon as Lucas suits
Speaker 3: up for the Lakers, and by the way, against the Jazz.
Speaker 1: Is a rumor that Lucas first came against the Lakers
Speaker 1: before the Lakers will be against the Jazz.
Speaker 3: It's right, So I can't even mat Well, now, if
Speaker 3: you're the network, you're probably thinking, oh, great, why does
Speaker 3: this have to be Why couldn't it have been okay
Speaker 3: see or even better Dallas?
Speaker 2: But because the Jazz have already had.
Speaker 3: A game taken off national TV because of the situation
Speaker 3: they're in second worst team in the league.
Speaker 2: So I can I will.
Speaker 3: I would definitely see a little bit of a boost
Speaker 3: once Luca gets in that Laker uniform.
Speaker 2: And yes, that's a byproduct of the trade.
Speaker 3: I don't know if the trade itself means, oh, everybody's
Speaker 3: gonna start watching the NBA, but I think it might
Speaker 3: give the Lakers a little bit of a kick. But
Speaker 3: aren't the Lakers one of those teams, like you know,
Speaker 3: the Dallas Cowboys. No matter how good or bad they are,
Speaker 3: they still have massive viewership.
Speaker 2: So but I agree, I think there'll be a kick.
Speaker 3: And I'm guessing that the network executives guys at TNT
Speaker 3: and ESPN are look at the schedule right now and
Speaker 3: trying to figure out, Okay, when can we get Luca
Speaker 3: and Lebron together on TV? Can you imagine though, if
Speaker 3: it is the first game against the Lakers is down there,
Speaker 3: so and then they play them again up here right
Speaker 3: the very next game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: So I don't know what the network thinking would be
Speaker 3: when that's your opponent.
Speaker 2: They're probably not thrilled. It's the Jazz. I'm sure they're not.
Speaker 3: And we flex this game, please, and who knows what's
Speaker 3: gonna happen. Think about the last Kobe game. Who was
Speaker 3: it against? It was against the Jazz, and he's destroyed them.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know what if everyone watched it, but it's
Speaker 3: revisionist history. He didn't really destroy them.
Speaker 1: They just decide like and Heyward has talked about this
Speaker 1: because I was probably just should light him have his Yes,
Speaker 1: I was covering the game. In fact, well, we'll ask
Speaker 1: our ESPN Stats and Info department to look up one
Speaker 1: more thing.
Speaker 2: Look up Kobe's last game against the Jazz and he
Speaker 2: have like seventy something or some absurd but I think
Speaker 2: he took sixty one shots.
Speaker 1: And I was watching it that I was watching it
Speaker 1: with Britton Johnson because for people to remember, the Jazz
Speaker 1: actually that year had a chance to make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and then I think they needed Houston to lose. Houston won,
Speaker 1: then the Jazz were out of it. So then it
Speaker 1: became it was not germane to anything exciting for the Jazz.
Speaker 1: They did not need to win, and it just became
Speaker 1: this thing. And early on Britain actually pointed this out.
Speaker 1: He's like, it looks like they're just feeding Kobe and
Speaker 1: letting him shoot every time to see what they can do,
Speaker 1: because this is his final game. And so the narrative
Speaker 1: became Kobe had this miraculous last game against the Jazz,
Speaker 1: and it was like, no, it was a glorified it
Speaker 1: was a glorified twenty four hour fitness scrimmage where they
Speaker 1: let him shoot every time. I want to say he
Speaker 1: took sixty shots to score like sixty two points.
Speaker 4: He took fifty shots, but twenty one of them or
Speaker 4: from downtown now he shot twenty two total. He was
Speaker 4: twenty two to fifty. He almost shot forty fifty per cent.
Speaker 4: He scored sixty Yeah, sixty points, Okay, sixty points on
Speaker 4: fifty shots.
Speaker 3: Okay, I understand what you're saying, but I mean history
Speaker 3: won't always look at it that way. Well, all I'm
Speaker 3: telling you is you're going to take two of the
Speaker 3: iconic acre games of the last decade and their bol.
Speaker 2: Against the jazz. Yeah, I'm sure the NBA is yeah,
Speaker 2: they can't be. But tell me what everyone's going to.
Speaker 1: Watch because you're always asking me this on five questions
Speaker 1: or talking jazz?
Speaker 2: What do you cause? You're Dave fox Man of the people.
Speaker 1: You're out and about in the community, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: when people see you at the ward or just around
Speaker 1: they want to ask you about the jazz. What do
Speaker 1: they what do they say about this current?
Speaker 3: Well, the first the first thing you tend to get
Speaker 3: a lot of is you'd be surprised how people don't
Speaker 3: completely understand it, I mean to a degree, you know,
Speaker 3: why are they so bad? And then your first answer,
Speaker 3: your answer has to me, well, it's kind of by design,
Speaker 3: it's part of the plan. This is, you know, and
Speaker 3: like last night I'm watching this game with Timmy and
Speaker 3: you know Timmy is he is hardcore Jazz as they come.
Speaker 3: And I keep saying Timmy in the grand scheme of
Speaker 3: this is not a game you want to win.
Speaker 2: This goes again.
Speaker 3: If you're playing Washington and you're playing New Orleans although
Speaker 3: they got swept by them, or Charlotte, you can go
Speaker 3: ahead and win one of those if you have to,
Speaker 3: because that's more acceptable. You can't win a game against
Speaker 3: a team that is much better than you are if
Speaker 3: you're fighting to get at the top of that lottery mix,
Speaker 3: you just can't do it. And I've had this theory
Speaker 3: for a long time that the Jazz tend to play
Speaker 3: everyone when they play good teams because there's a chance
Speaker 3: they're not going to win anyone. And then when they
Speaker 3: play crappy teams, they start to wrest a lot of
Speaker 3: people or they're injured.
Speaker 2: Have you noticed that's that's happened a lot.
Speaker 1: Just please don't say crappy on the air. This is
Speaker 1: a family friendly showy poopye teams. That's even worse. I
Speaker 1: will tell you, what did you watch the end of
Speaker 1: the game last night? I watched every second. It was
Speaker 1: so comical with the way they closed. I'm not a
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory guy, but with the way they closed, I
Speaker 1: was like, huh, the Clarkson turnover might have been so
Speaker 1: Clarkson turnover and go watch the replay. He let Tyrese
Speaker 1: Halliburton walk into a three. He just kind of went
Speaker 1: like this. Haliburn had ten ten feet. Kiant Ta gets
Speaker 1: the ball, puts it through his legs three times, take
Speaker 1: takes a step back three with like sixteen seconds left
Speaker 1: on the shock clock, and Lowry Market in a ninety
Speaker 1: percent free throw shooter, misses two free throws.
Speaker 2: Unbelieve, like my intent, Lesta is like, huh, maybe they
Speaker 2: are on board.
Speaker 3: Luca has been traded to the Lakers. The Jazz clearly
Speaker 3: are trying to lose back. Maybe this whole thing is
Speaker 3: maybe there's a whip.
Speaker 1: Maybe Adam Silver is the Wizard of Oz and we
Speaker 1: just were not aware of it.
Speaker 3: Whether or not, Okay, I think in that notwithstanding, it
Speaker 3: was the perfect formula last night. We all agree with
Speaker 3: this play great, keep the fans in their seats, you know,
Speaker 3: stay motivated to the last second, and then lose. I
Speaker 3: cannot tell people enough, and I've got some coworkers that
Speaker 3: don't get this. This is an important year for that draft.
Speaker 3: It could change the shape of this franchise, sort of
Speaker 3: like Luca's going to change the shape of the Lakers franchise.
Speaker 3: Not maybe not so much this year, but for the
Speaker 3: next ten years. That's the situation that Jazz are in.
Speaker 3: That's the difference between getting the first pick and anything else.
Speaker 3: So they've got to be all in on this. And
Speaker 3: by the way, you only really have to finish in
Speaker 3: the bottom three. They're all the same odds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean the tough part about these conversations
Speaker 1: is we're not used to this, yeah in saut Lake.
Speaker 1: And so when you because I really believe and there's
Speaker 1: always this debate when you're doing a sportstock radio show,
Speaker 1: like the listeners who are all about the jazz and
Speaker 1: love the data and are just dialed in and it's
Speaker 1: like a big hobby of theirs.
Speaker 2: They know the deal and you're not really.
Speaker 1: Doing the show for them anyway, because they're probably locked
Speaker 1: in on doing their own thing. But the majority of
Speaker 1: people who listen to sportstock radio don't know about flattened
Speaker 1: lottery odds. They don't know about the landscape of the
Speaker 1: NBA as far as what you have to do to
Speaker 1: build a team in a place like this, And so
Speaker 1: I think a lot of just average sports fans they
Speaker 1: really have always loved the Jazz, are genuinely confused.
Speaker 3: It's like, wait a second, we're usually at least good.
Speaker 3: We're not even close to that right now. Circling back
Speaker 3: to what you had just asked me about, what do
Speaker 3: people say? That's what you get a lot of and
Speaker 3: you try to educate them on it, and a lot
Speaker 3: of them just they either don't get it or they
Speaker 3: don't want to get it. But this is what they
Speaker 3: have to go through and we'll see where it all goes. Now,
Speaker 3: if they go through all this and n up with
Speaker 3: a third or fourth pick, we'll be a little frustrating,
Speaker 3: but we'll see.
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Week brings in a lot of very exciting
Speaker 1: media opportunities. Andy Reid was asked for his favorite trilogy
Speaker 1: today as far as books go, and he said, the Bible,
Speaker 1: the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price.
Speaker 2: So me and Andy, your.
Speaker 1: Buds and we have the same previous are on park. Yeah, indeed,
Speaker 1: so some fun stuff there. But before I set you loose,
Speaker 1: yp do you think the Eagles can actually do this?
Speaker 1: Or are we going to be sitting there in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter watching the Chiefs figure it out again winning
Speaker 1: their third string.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm an NFC East guy because of the
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys, so that I can't even think about the
Speaker 3: Eagles winning that game. Sorry, but let me take that
Speaker 3: my heart out of it and think logically.
Speaker 2: I think we.
Speaker 3: Posed this question yesterday in five Questions of Spence, and
Speaker 3: the way I posed it to you was, can you
Speaker 3: really in good conscience pick against the Chiefs? And I
Speaker 3: don't think there's any way They've First of all, they
Speaker 3: so many weird things always happen in their favor, and
Speaker 3: I don't think that's going away anytime soon. And they're
Speaker 3: just a really good team.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: And they've got fifteen under center, which probably is the
Speaker 1: bottom line.
Speaker 2: No question. Oh and Taylor Swift's a fan? Are you swifty? No,
Speaker 2: not at all. Are you anti? I'm not anti? I'm
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: I bet there's a prop bet Taylor Swift or say
Speaker 3: Kwon Barkley total carries?
Speaker 2: What do we see more of her on camera? Or
Speaker 2: his total carry?
Speaker 1: You can bet on anything these days, But as I say,
Speaker 1: just don't do it. But David It's great to see
Speaker 1: it there last night. We'll chat soon. Thanks Porter Dave,
Speaker 1: fox Ku TV five Questions of Spence last night.
Speaker 2: Be on there again. Taka Jazz coming up in a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks