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Will The Real UT Stand UP? · Sports Exchange

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Happy Wednesday, everybody. My name is Scott Morgan off MotorCity, mad Mouth.
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This is a US Sports Exchange and we have a brand new person on
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tonight. New guest. His name is Robert Butler from the Real Sports Scope.
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Welcome to the broadcast. Appreciate it, Thanks for having me. I
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met Robert through a mutual friend, Ralph Williams, and now Roberts do it
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return into favor of coming on our show, and of course to my right,
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to his right, George Khorn. Hi, good to be back on
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the show. Scott, looking forward to it tonight and laughing not least Candy.
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Welcome back, Candy, Thank you. Great to be here. Great
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to talk some sports with you. All right, Well, you know what,
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we're gonna get through it here and we're going to talk about the SEC
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tonight. We're going to talk about the ACC, and we're going to talk
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about the n Season Tournament Championship and revisiting Monty Williams. But that's that harding
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shots, time permitting, all right. So starting off with with Texas moving
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to the SEC, which school would you consider as a real ut Texas or
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Tennessee. Robert, You know, if I didn't do any research on this,
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I would assume it would have been Texas. You know, uh,
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bigger state. Everything's bigger in Texas. But after just doing a few Google
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searches and reading about this prior to you even asking that question, because it's
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been the talk, you know, since they had the SEC media days and
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whatnot, that the University of Tennessee was established fifty one years before Texas even
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became a state. Eight, So technically that this color orange, not burn
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orange, the light orange is the real UT now now call balls and strikes
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nonpartisan. I still think they're probably a better program right now. You know,
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they were in the playoffs last year. They've won a national championships sooner
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than Tennessee football wise, was an five or six with Vince Young. Tennessee.
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The University of Tennessee went back in ninety eight. So, uh,
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Texas better program. But Tennessee is the real UT. I'm telling just the
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real UT should stand up the way the NMM song said. Okay, George,
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what are your thoughts? Uh, Texas is one of the schools that
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I've always admired. I mean, you know, back in the day when
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we had Texas against Oklahoma and we had uh, you know, Chris Schenko,
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and then we had Keith Jackson calling at and that was always one of
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the top top matchups on ABC. I'm telling you every year that Texas Oklahoma
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game Tennessee great tradition too, though, I mean, I agree that they
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are. They're steeped in tradition, and Tennessee's a good team. They've been
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a good team off and on, maybe not as frequently as Texas has,
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but I still would put Texas number one in my mind because all the interest
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and all of the fandom and all of the excitement that you see college football.
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Obviously, everybody's got their own level of color and drama and all that
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on campuses and that. But Texas has always been in one of the top
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teams for me, like I said, even going back to my childhood when
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I was real young and just a teenager watching it. And back on the
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day of course, as you know Scott, and this was when ABC just
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did like one or two games on Saturday and that was about all you're able
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to see of college football now every but he can see every game now.
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No, I tell you what, Texas is going to be my choice on
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this one. What about you, Katy? I think I think it really
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comes down to the sport because I think we think of Texas and we think
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of football and the big guys, and I think when we think of Tennessee,
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we think of more basketball and being more of a powerhouse. So I
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think it's really interesting that Tennessee was so far founded way earlier that you brought
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to life, Robert. But everything is bigger in Texas, let's just face
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it. So, like, is the tea bigger in Texas? Because I
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mean when they join the as far as their big move, like it was
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so big that on campus they celebrated with carnivals, live music and fireworks,
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like this is a big thing for them. They do everything bigger. So
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is it a bigger tea and Tennessee's a smaller tea? Yeah, I'll tell
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you it's they got a lot more money. I would say that Texas is
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just I'm surprised that Texas hasn't won more. And maybe that's why an M
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and Texas, with with the old money and whatnot, we did downment money
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that you know, they've went through coach after coach. By the way,
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the last coach that won a national championship with them was a Tennessee native,
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and his name slips my nine right now, but uh, he's the current
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coach of Carolina Brown. Uh Mat who Matt mc brown mac brown wondering what
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Matt mac brown from Cookville, Tennessee did win a national championship with Texas.
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But you know, the program got got a little stale post Vince Young and
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uh, but they're bouncing back. If I had to pick a one of
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they're one of the powers to win a national champion this year, I got
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three right now, guys, folks, Texas, Ohio, State, Georgia.
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Now that may change. I've got my Phiel Steel magazine, the Football
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Bible, I haven't went through. I haven't went through the Football Bible yet,
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but coming in as of July the twenty four, I wouldn't put Tennessee.
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I'm in Tennessee, folks. I wouldn't put Tennessee in that hunt.
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But I would put Texas led by Quinn yours And of course you got arch
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Manning on the sitting back there pushing him with that that really good talented corps
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of players there that I'm sure they're gonna be a top five in the AP
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pole when it comes out here in the next month or so. Well,
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the reality of the situation is this. I do believe that Texas should be
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the real UT, but the SEC has a different opinion than they're the ones
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that are gonna address that. So according to the SEC, they're gonna call
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Tennessee UT and they're gonna call Texas tex As a tax. Wow. Yeah,
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that's what they're gonna do. I'm a Longhorns guy too, I am,
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and I've visited that campus, never been to a game of love to
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go, And of course we all know Tennessee has been in the SEC longer.
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So yeah, they're going to give their old SEC the old UT and
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the new kid on the block text. Now here's an interesting thing to note
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though. When Texas takes on Michigan this year, can you believe that it
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will be an SEC versus Big Ten matchup? Yeah? Yeah, right,
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exactly? Who would have thought Texas against Michigan the SEC and the Big Ten?
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The SEC has final say we don't they say UT is Tennessee and texts
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a new kid on the blocks the ex All right, let's continue on with
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the college football theme. Cal Stanford and SMU in the AEC. This should
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be quite interesting in football and other sports geographically and financially though, SMU will
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not get conference revenue for nine years, so I guess we'll lead off with
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you again, Robert. Okay, youre talks about cal Stanford and SMU and
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the ACC. Yeah, that is wild, isn't it. I mean you
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got a West Coast team playing in the East Coast conference. That being said,
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the PAC twelve, if they had more interest, if they had more
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eyeballs, I understand, or I would love to go to Beaver Style,
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love to see the Ducks play. They looked on TV it looks like a
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tough place to play, you know. But the PAC twelve traditionally, and
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you hear Colin Caroll, West Coast people say this is not my opinion there,
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it wasn't that much interest. It would have never broken up. It
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would have never broken up if the eyeballs were there, if the revenue that
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you're in the East Coast. I hate watching games at ten o'clock at night,
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but you have to appease the West Coast and my air quotes there.
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So hey, money drives this. This is a TV product. They fly
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Charter. I think everything's gonna be okay now as far as I'm getting paid.
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I think that's ludicrous. I don't know what that's all about, not
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getting paid. About the SMU. What's that all about there, Scott,
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Well, what's really all about is, you know, SMU wanted to build
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their brand in a Power five conference. They were rejected by the Big twelve
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on a few occasions. And since everybody knows SMU has big money in Texas
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or boosters or whatever, and we all know Dallas is filled with oil money.
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Oh you know what, all those boosters there said, don't worry,
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we'll finance the program for nine years, but you get to play in a
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Power for conference now. And that's exactly Robert. The mindset behind by SMU
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is in this coin. What's right? They got the death penalty in the
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eighties, right exactly? Yeah, I mean that was I enjoy watching the
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documentary. They didn't like them, Yeah, but yeah, well that's true.
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But the bottom line is is they wouldn't have been nailed with the death
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penalty with the way the current college things are going. But we won't get
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into that tonight. They had their own money and they was doing all that,
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so they got Dallas oil boost their money. Don't worry. They could
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write it out nine years, play all the big boys and we don't care.
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And they're gonna find a way to pack those stadiums when they go down
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to Dallas. Anyways, it won't matter. All the money will wash.
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At least SMU is then a power for conference and nobody could sit there and
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say they won't qualify for if they become as good as they can. Bear
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in mind that Andy Anfield was hired by you from USC to go ahead and
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coach their basketball program. I don't know if you knew this or not,
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but he did. Was lured from USC over to SMU coming back to life.
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Well, they're showing that ye walks and money talked and they're doing both
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all right. George Iiicorn, Well, I don't know you guys have talked
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a lot about this already, but uh, I'm looking at Stanford schedule.
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Stanford gets two home games to start to season TCU and cal Poly, and
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then they make their first trip across the country to Syracuse, New York in
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game three. That's the Stanford cardinal. They got SMU at home. So
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the SMU has got to go to Stanford. Uh this this year, and
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uh it's gonna be a tough schedule, I think for both Stanford and SMU.
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You know, all these teams changing these conferences, We're going to see
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a feeling out process. We're gonna see an adjustment process going on here.
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Uh in all these conferences where we've had a lot of topsy turvy turnovers uh
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and and new teams uh you know coming in line. So it's gonna be
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interesting and your your your spot on Scott. Of course they got that Dallas
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money at SMU and at death Penalty still from way way way back, I
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remember, Yeah, but it'll be very interesting because you know, these teams
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are not used to this kind of travel. You mentioned California too, I
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didn't mean I'll at California. Cal right, they're part of it as well.
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So it's gonna be all heck. Is gonna be fun, fun,
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fun to watch all this stuff play out. And again, like I said,
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it's gonna be it's gonna be over a couple couple two, three years
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at least, or maybe even longer. But yeah, these conferences are so
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big right now. Uh, you know, in the power conferences have got
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so many changes. It's gonna be fun to watch it, really is.
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I'm looking forward to it. We have a This actually is a fun chat
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from Josh o'door, one of our regulars. Did Robert come back from a
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funeral? Sorry for your loss? You know I think has ever worn a
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tie on here? Now that I think about it, Well, I just
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got done doing my show and not just jump right on and do your show.
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You know, there you go man with the tie right, Well,
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we'll put they put a bow on this with Candy Emloy go ahead. Cal
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call and Stanford each end up with three trips to the Eastern time zone in
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their first league slate. The visit Florida State, Pittsburgh, and Wake Forest,
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while the Cardinals will face Syracuse Clemson in North Carolina State, and that
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means changing their normal routines because they would normally arrive for a game the day
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before kickoff. Instead, both Taylor Taylor and Cal coach Justin Wilcox both said
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they'd travel on Thursdays to give extra acclamation time. They also added that the
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Bears would get the biggest plane that Delta makes with lie down seating. We
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have our strength and conditioning staff. They'll be doing little exercises. They'll get
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them up during the trip. They'll also be utilizing the time for film study
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or school work. It's gonna be that kind of a thing. So they've
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already started planning their own Are you trying to figure out how they're going to
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make all these extra trips? The length of time it's going to take them,
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you know, is it? And then they also said this kind of
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gears them up for the NFL because the NFL they travel cross country, so
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it starts to get them into that acclimated to that kind of experience, so
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where it might be very expensive, it might not be ideal, but it
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does give them a little bit of an idea of like what it is to
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play in the NFL and how they have to you know, acclimate and change
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up their schedule and be able to do that and still play. You know,
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like you said, if I mean, if you're sitting on the plane
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and you're watching game film, that's perfect time. Like they can really make
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use of their time depending on what time they're flight and everything else. Yeah,
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the reality is, well here, Joshua doors Scott, change the dress
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code Sanders Matt Roberts standards. Yeah, sure, Okay, we'll get no
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guests at that point because he's the only one that ever wants to learn a
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tie. I don't get me wrong. You look great, Rockford I Acid
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remember the last time the war tie. I'll close this topic this way,
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covering the Miami Hurricanes or at least three more schools I can see, and
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you know they all have pretty good traditions. Stamford, cal and SMU is
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always a wild card there because you're all with money that fault around in Dallas.
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Back to you, Scott, well done, Candy, All right, well
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you know you won't. We'll talk about it NBA. But I'm looking for
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a laughable topic and I found the right one. The in season tournament champions
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belong to the Los Angeles Lakers today lead the Lady Lakers lead to Celtics one
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to nothing in the end season tournament championship. And I can't believe they actually
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put a banner as I heard so I mean that to me as it blows
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me away. All right, Robert, what do you think about this in
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season tournament? The Lakers one and nothing. Jenny Buss, she she's got
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a you know, she wants to kind of get everybody's mind off of Lebron,
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kind of calling the shots there, bringing his son in, bringing his
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coach in. He's got a couch move. He's moved into the arena.
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It's got Lebron. No I made that last part up. I can't as
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well, though, right, But I tell you what I I like the
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nd season tournament. It's it's done early in the season. It does get
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your attention. And I thought the older teams, I thought, you know,
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Lebron and Anthony Davis could probably win this thing. And sure enough,
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they end up winning the thing. But as you know, a regular seven
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game series, these older teams, particularly your Lakers of the world, they
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kind of wear down, you know, reality starts to set in. I'm
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okay with it. I'm not sure about putting up banners for something like that,
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but go figure. I guess if you want to celebrate some that's news
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to me that they've been a bannering for that. I'm actually a bigger fan
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of the play in tournament where you've got seven through ten deciding who's gonna make
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the playoffs for those final seven and eight seeds. I love the drama you've
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had Golden State lately, the Laker, that same Laker team was in it.
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Who was it? The Pelicans, So you've got a lot of star
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power there leading up. It really sets up the April playoff and gets you
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gassed up for the playoffs in my opinions, so bigger fan of the playing
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game rather than the nd season tournament. But I thought both of them will
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be a disaster, and they're both actually watchable my opinion. That's okay,
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that's fine. George Glenn, Yeah, that's laughable to me about the Lakers.
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I mean, come on, I wasn't in for that tournament at all,
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and I'll tell you I'm not going to be in this year either.
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I just don't see it, and especially when you got teams that are not
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in the fray, so to speak. But the Pistons of course, being
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in Detroit at a terrible season as we know. But the Lakers, you
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know, come on, you know they that's going That's that's a huge stretch
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to say I'm going to put a banner up for that. The banner that
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matters is this one. Boston one oh six, Dallas eighty eight, Boston
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four wins, Mavericks won game set match over NBA Championship. Banner returns to
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Boston, and that's the one that really matters. Okay, but uh,
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you know, the Lakers are typical a big money team like that. They
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want to try to salvage something out of what turned out to be a disaster
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of year for them. But Robert, I'll give you that one on the
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play at the end of the season. Yeah, because what it does,
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it's like the wild card and Baseball. It's keeping more interest in that sport,
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in the excitement going down the stretch, putting more fannies in the seats.
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Yes, but it also has as a as an enduring factor for us
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watching on television because yeah, two teams, three teams, four teams are
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buying for this last one or two positions. No, I'm in for that.
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I do like that. I think the NBA was smart on that move.
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I'm just not a buyer of the n season tournament at all. Okay,
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I'll make it very simple. Number One, Darvin Hand didn't keep his
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job because of it. Okay, but Darvin Ham ended up in a good
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place back with Milwaukee, so he can help Doc Rivers save his job.
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Okay. Number two, I think that the NBA N Season Tournament is a
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gaff. Okay, it is a gaff, A gimmick if I ever saw
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one. Playing is a different story because, like George alluded to, you
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know, like the wildcard, there's some urgency on both ends. So I
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mean, if they want to put a banner like that, it's like the
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bull system. Let's give everybody a participation trophy for showing up. I mean,
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give me a break nearly but all right, But then again, they
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drafted Bonnie James, so the Lakers feel that they have a one another advantage
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over the Celtics. Trust me, dandy agent Red wawer Back would say,
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no problem, we can handle that one, all right, Ken, you
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got the last word on this. The tournament will be divided into six pools
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with five teams apiece, and pools will consist of teams within the same conference,
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but not necessarily the same division. Teams will play four group games,
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matching up with each team in their pool once, with winners advancing to a
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single elimination stage. Anytime you do some single elimination, I mean, that's
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the same thing. I guess that's the same thing the NFL does. They
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have single elimination, but they tech for it to be an in season tournament
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and you define who is going to be the pool that you're going to be
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in. We'll make up. We'll have a significant impact on I think who
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wins and who doesn't, because it's not the same as just your division they're
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talking about in your conference. So depending on which teams you originally start with,
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and you only remember you only get one game, you lose that game,
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boom, you're done, you know, And yeah, I don't.
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I think that banner doesn't mean much. Just like we've we've said on this
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show, the hardest, one of the hardest trophies to win is the Stanley
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Cup. And you you know, it's a grueling season. I think anytime
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you go through a longer season and not this quick short this one means nothing.
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The actual finals mean more. Okay, all right, final regular time.
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I think we'll go to party shots. Has anyone been paid more to
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do less? Minnie Williams will earn seventy eight million dollars for US one season
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coaching the Detroit Pistons to do a league worth fourteen and sixty eight and their
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new coach, AB's bigger staff has only one way to go, and that's
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up once again, Robert will leave it off with you. Yeah, Monie
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Williams, you wonder why guys like that keep getting job at their job like
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stan Van Gundy and that the truth of the matter is is that it's such
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a player driven league now going all the way back. Now, I know
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it goes way back forty fifty years, going back to Magic and that era.
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But if you think about, say about fifteen years ago, with the
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guy like a Kobe Bryant telling telling his coaches that he's going to check in
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when he wants to check in. You know you're Mike, then Tony's of
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the world, I'll check in the game. And Lebron James publicly saying that
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David Blatt drew up a play, well, I better pass the ball to
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myself because I'm not gonna shoot that shot. Embarrassing these coaches. You gotta
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you see teams going out and hiring these more passive Manny Williams type of coaches
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here and look at the last few champions. Teams that are uh, you're
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Boston's of the of the of the world. Your your Golden States of the
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World. Teams that are team oriented, accept some type of coaching there instead
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of super teams guys trying to tell the coaches what to do. You're Lebron's
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of the world. Going back to the Kobe Bryant. That's why you got
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it. And maybe just maybe with uh the USA basketball team who they lose
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almost lose to the other day. Was it Sudan or somebody? Yeah,
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yeah, the world is catching up. The world is catching up. U.
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Maybe we'll reverse that at some point where you can bring some type of
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coaching back to the league where nothing against money Williams, but he's probably not
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head coaching material, you know, probably not uh, head coaching material.
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But that's why you've got that, because they're afraid to go out and hire
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a guy from college. We saw what Dan Hurley did. He took less
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money and stayed in Connecticut. So, uh, the player thing, maybe
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it'll get corrected in my opinion, but I'm an optimist. We'll see.
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Well, Jamie Bickerstaff looks like a good hire anyways, he led the Cavaliers
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for a couple of chances, non, Mitchell, Yeah, he actually got
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into the playoffs the last two years. Yeah, let's go to chatterman real
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quickly, out Walter Mitchell. Can we eliminate those awful court for that tom
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tournament? Cheers there. I don't drink, but I would stay cheers of
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that all day long. I read Cade letting money gone get you careful what
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you ad for? He just did magic coach with Paul West said, that's
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why pat Riley got to Yeah, you're so right over that. Yeah.
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No, In fact, there are times when a toaching change is necessary,
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and apparently this was the case. All right, George, go ahead,
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Yeah, I mean, MANI Williams. You know, here's the deal.
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You know, you look back on the when the Suns, the Phoenix Suns,
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of course, is where he really made the made his headway as a
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coach. And you know in July of twenty twenty two, now that's not
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that long ago, folks. July of twenty twenty two, the Suns signed
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Williams to a multi year contract extension. Guess how long that lasted. He
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got a big extension from the Suns July of twenty two. By May of
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twenty three, they fired his bot because he lost to Denver in the Western
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Conference semi finals. So that multi year extension, you guys, he's on
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his dollars. So who comes along but the detried Pistons and the Pistons after
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only one month on it, less than a month out of a job,
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the Pistons on June second of twenty three, of course, gave him a
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very lengthy contract and wealthy contract as we know, and as Scott has told
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you, you know, five years, sixty five million dollars remaining, got
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fired after one year in Detroit. It's a real unusual situation. This doesn't
27:30
happen all the time with head coaches. But what I do notice is,
27:34
especially in the NBA, these coaches recycle rather quickly. But Mani's going to
27:41
have a tough time recycling after this one, because not only was he let
27:45
go by a good team, the Suns, but then he was let go
27:48
by a team that had put their trust in him to get him out of
27:52
the gol drums. And what happened. They had their worst year in history
27:56
of the Pistons. Yeah, good money to do it. So all I
28:00
could say, George is give me his agent. That's all I can take
28:03
you. I know, I know you're right, Scott, and I do
28:07
agree with I do yeah, And I think Grecas staff will do well.
28:11
I you know, I admired his dad as a coach, and I admire
28:15
him as a coach. So that's what I got to say. Let's go
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to Walter Mitchell. He's got a good one at Robert Butler. It's not
28:22
the NBA coaches. It starts with the lack of accountability and AAU circuit.
28:26
Boy, I'll say he's really on target with that one. Walter could stuff
28:30
Okay, Mark Katy, go ahead. You know I wish I could get
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paid how many million dollars a year to sit at home? Like, as
28:48
we think about things, we look at scouts and we say, did the
28:52
scout draft well? Did this GM draft well? Well? Did the owner
28:56
pick the right coaching staff to or the right head coach to coach his team
29:03
that for the staff that he has. Let's face it, you, as
29:07
an as any coach, you go into a situation and you have so many
29:11
players on your team already, you're not gonna like you don't get to start
29:15
your own team or anything like that and get the players that you want.
29:19
So as a GM, you have to think about the players that you have
29:23
on your team and who's going to be the best person to coach them and
29:27
when I and you need to like know that team. So as a young
29:34
team like the Pistons a lot of young players, you need to have somebody
29:40
that's tough, that can, you know, go in there and say this
29:42
is what we need to do, this is work before and put your foot
29:48
down. And obviously Monty wasn't that kind of guy. And like Robert you
29:52
alluded to that, we don't have some of those tough coaches in the league
29:56
anymore. And I I think that's because in today's society, nobody wants to
30:03
be told what to do. They want to you know, oh just help
30:07
me, don't coach me, don't discipline me. There shouldn't be consequences for
30:15
my actions, like, let me do what I want to do. And
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and I I think it's not just NBA, it's everybody. And that's where
30:26
we're starting to fall and see a decline because as a coach, you're supposed
30:33
to respect your coach. You're supposed to respect them, and granted they're supposed
30:38
to earn your respect. But you know, I, hey, Monty's gonna
30:48
sit at home now and make how many millions of dollars? He's gonna be
30:52
like the body beneath. Yeah, he's not gonna have any problems to his
30:57
family. I want to have someone want to Will Walter's coming, Remember mine?
31:00
He turned out the job at first scores came back, Kim Catala,
31:03
Yeah he did. That's why he's a lot smarter than most getting that money.
31:07
The last significant higher that the Pistons made from Cleveland and the coaching and
31:14
was when they brought in Chuck Daily from Cleveland, and we all know how
31:17
that worked out. Yes, I'm not going to compare JB. Bickerstaff to
31:21
that, but I will say this about JB. Though, is has a
31:25
brand new coaching staff, a brand new front office, so they clean house
31:29
all the way, got more experts in there to try to get him better
31:32
players. And you know, Tom Gores is probably tired of losing, getting
31:36
criticized, so I have a feeling he's going to make out all right there.
31:40
So Chuck Daily was a last significant higher that the Pistons made from Cleveland.
31:45
You know, for a lot of millennials, that don't remember. That's
31:48
why you have Google. All right, So what we do here is we
31:52
do a segment called Partying Shots, and since we have time to get Roberts
31:56
in, go ahead and lead off. It's an opportunity to get something off
32:00
your chest that you want to go out there and talk about. Let's see,
32:08
I'll tell you what the NFL. NFL running backs are turning into a
32:17
bargain folks. I've been watching this Hard Knox on HBO with the Giants and
32:24
the back and forth with the sa Quon Barkley, and I thought to myself,
32:30
well, he was overdrafted at number two. They should have probably moved
32:34
off of last year. And then I got to looking at look at guys
32:38
like Justin Jefferson of the Minnesota Vikings. Salary thirty four million dollars a year
32:46
for Jefferson, thirty milligan for a Tyreek Hill CD Lamb's currently holding out for
32:52
Dallas. By the way, he's wanting thirty thirty two million. He's wanting
32:57
right up there with Jefferson. And you now you've gotten guys like Christian McCaffrey
33:01
at nineteen Sakwon Barkley, a dual threat guy, a runner and a catcher
33:07
for twelve and a half are running backs. They've become devalued so much that
33:15
they're bargains now, and especially the guys. I'm talking second contract. I'm
33:21
not talking post thirty guys. Second contract. I thought when the forty nine
33:25
ers took on Christian Mcca, I thought, Wow, Carolina's really coming out.
33:30
But with the right system, these dual threat guys, they're really a
33:35
bargain. I think that they should be looked at now a little bit different
33:39
than say, just a few years ago. Quite frankly, a few months
33:43
ago. When you start to really look these are inflated wide receiver salaries,
33:47
folks. You just wonder when that's ever gonna stop with these receivers. I
33:52
guess when somebody pays two of them, like Miami your dolphins there, they
33:54
got Wattle dispreed up too, didn't he down there? So Tybreek Kill,
34:00
Well, it's another contract. By the way, he's had another kid,
34:02
so we'll see how that plays out. So uh, show the running backs
34:07
that you think deserve the love. There's still a good deal at twelve to
34:12
fifteen million if they can pass and run the ball. I think, in
34:15
my opinion, all right, you know, Robert, when we have a
34:19
chance. As we continue to wrap up the show, we got about eight
34:21
nine minutes to go. Anyways, let till everybody know how they get a
34:23
hold of you in the type of shows that you have as well. Yeah,
34:25
Monday through Friday, eight pm Eastern, seven pm Central, The Real
34:30
Sports Scope, I talk about national sports trending topics where they'd be the NFL,
34:38
college football, the NBA. Don't get as much in the hockey and
34:42
baseball, but if there's a big story, particularly in baseball, like the
34:49
show held tiny story with the gambling scandal, I'll dabble into Dad and I'll
34:53
dabble into some of the sports media news as well. It's called the Real
34:58
Sportscope. You can find it on the x app anywhere you get your podcast,
35:04
and of course the YouTube channel. Well done, Okay, well glad,
35:07
thank you appreciate it. Well, I'm glad to have you. All
35:09
right, George, what's your party shot? By the way, Before you
35:12
do that, let's go to Walter Mitchell's latest comments. It's more of a
35:15
passing league and you can find a running back for pennies on the dollar boy.
35:17
Sure words could be said that summarized what Robert said, all right,
35:21
George, what's your party shot? And it also echoes what Mel Farr Junior
35:24
said, Scott on many of your inside the Piskins pigskin shows. Uh yeah,
35:30
previous to this, Mel's harped about it. Listen, it's a good
35:35
day. It's a good day in football. The camps are open. The
35:37
Lions, of course, had great success last year here in Detroit, so
35:43
now they're not going to live off the reputation though. Dan Campbell talked to
35:46
the media today is his first media gathering and he says, don't look at
35:51
last year. That was what's got us there. But now he said,
35:54
we've got to live off work. We don't live off of reputation here.
35:59
And that's the thing I like about Campbell. You know, he's got that
36:01
edge about him where he keeps these guys on their toes. They want to
36:05
play for him, they want to play for the coaching staff. He's got
36:09
guys that have come back and want to be part of this team. It's
36:15
a good atmosphere to have. I think they're rated, like what did I
36:20
see one seventeen or eighteen percent chance of reaching the Super Bowl? Of course,
36:24
he throw the so called analytics that ESPN runs through the computer. But
36:30
that being said, it's going to be a tough grind. Every season is
36:34
tough, no question about it. There's no guarantees in the National Football League.
36:37
We all know that from year to year you could go from being a
36:42
Cinderella team to missing the playoffs the next year. So but this is a
36:46
team that obviously has the respect around the league. Now five prime time national
36:51
television appearances coming up. But all that being said, you know they've signed
36:55
the big guys to contracts, Saint Brown and Off and Sewell and so now
37:01
they've got a good team, a good veteran team, plus young players as
37:06
well. So it's fun to be a detroiter. It's fun to be a
37:08
Lions fan. And yes that the excitement is starting all over again in all
37:13
the camps, not just in Detroit, across the entire National Football League.
37:17
All Right, I got a party shot. I usually don't talk about tennis,
37:22
but I will this time. Okay. Cocoo Golf became the first tennis
37:27
player to serve as US flag bearer. Golf is the youngest Olympic Opening Ceremony
37:35
flag bearer in US history and She is the current reigning US Open champion and
37:39
is set to make her Olympic debut. That's off to Coco. This young
37:45
lady has done a lot for the game of tennis, and to see that
37:49
the Olympic platform is going to finally pay respect to a young lady like her
37:53
to carry the flag, more power to you. I mean, I know
37:57
the Olympics are a few days away, but when I saw this one,
38:00
and there was another one we talked about yesterday about Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens.
38:06
We saw that story where he's gonna be able to leave the Bears camp
38:08
to see Simone Bio. These are two great stories that I want to bring
38:13
to light as we get set for the Olympics. The Cocoa gob once again,
38:15
I want to repeat this to become the first tennis player to serve as
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US flag bearer. Golf is the youngest Olympic Opening ceremony flag bear in US
38:25
history. That's unbelievable. She is the current reigning US Open champion and is
38:30
set to make her Olympic debut. Katie. I think she's from Delray Beach,
38:31
Florida, too, isn't she She is? So she's a local kid.
38:36
All right, Kendy, you have the last word on the party shots.
38:37
Welcome Ralph Williams. So my parting shot has to do with, of
38:45
course, none other. We're talking football, my Green Bay Packers. The
38:50
Green Bay Packers have a sixty six year tradition that happens at training camp.
38:57
It's where the the if you know anything about Lambeau, their locker room is
39:02
in Lambeau, but their practice field is across the parking lot and across the
39:07
street. Okay, so they trap, they walk, They go from Lambeau
39:12
over to their training facility. When they do that, it involves the tradition
39:16
of riding bikes to training camp, which involves players riding kids bikes to and
39:22
from practice on American Family Insurance Dream Drive is what they call it. The
39:29
tradition is said to have started during the Vince Lombardi era and dates back to
39:34
at least nineteen fifty eight. Some say it's a great way for the team
39:38
to bond and practice together. The tradition has become a celebration, with bikes
39:44
decorated in green and gold and young fans holding helmets while offering players a ride.
39:52
Some players ride the same bike each day, which can create special bonds
39:55
between the players and fans. Fans can also try to get the player's attentions
40:00
by decorating signs. They can bring balls to there and sometimes with practice.
40:07
But I think it's a good way, and it's just a cute way for
40:10
the packers to interact with young fans, and not old fans, but young
40:15
fans that you know, really idolize and they are at a stage in their
40:19
life where they like to so they get up there, they go, They
40:22
get their bike up there, they decorate it. Then they a lot of
40:27
them have the little spooks in the back so they can sit stand on the
40:30
wheels behind while the player pedals to the actual practice field. And I think
40:35
it's just a cute tradition that Green Bay has had and to do it for
40:38
sixty six years. Kudos to them for keeping that tradition alive. There you
40:45
go, all right, Well, Robert was able to give us his contact
40:47
information. George, go ahead and do it. Candy will wrap it up
40:51
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41:31
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