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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Are CrossFit Events at a CrossRoads · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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Comments have been coming in since last
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night saying,
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I may have been a bit harsh saying
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that MFC is at risk of becoming
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irrelevant.
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I don't think they're the only ones at
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risk.
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Let's talk about it next.
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I love the chase and the hunt and
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I set the pace when I'm running.
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I always take what I want and I
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always give it one hundred.
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Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
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Play the game like it's nothing.
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I'm always thankful for something.
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Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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Now wake up!
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It's time to look at the enemy.
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Look in the mirror if he is no
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friend to me.
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Could you guys hear the music on the
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theme song?
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Because I don't think I could.
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So anyway, what's going on?
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You guys having a good day?
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It is.
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Everything looks good on your end.
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Okay.
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So sorry, I just had to block Frank.
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I'm just tired of the comments.
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He's been coming at me for a week
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nonstop.
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We're just going to put an end to
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that.
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This theme song is banging.
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I'm glad I found it.
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It is so good.
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All right,
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so before we get into too much stuff,
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I'm still lamenting over the Penn State
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stuff and still shocked that they paid
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fifty million dollars to tell a guy,
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see ya.
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And then I'm watching some other stuff and
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They're going to have to pay more to
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probably buy the coach they want out of
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their current contract just to get him to
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come and not even start paying him the
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salary they want him to pay.
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They want to pay him.
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So,
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fifty million to tell Franklin to go away.
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If you're going to go after like Kurt
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Cignetti or Matt Rule,
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they're in a current contract.
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You're going to have to buy that one
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out.
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And that's probably, I don't know, twenty,
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thirty more million.
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So now eighty million and you don't you
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haven't even started paying.
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You haven't even started paying the coach
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again.
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It's just crazy.
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It's just crazy.
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See him at Texas A&M knows this all
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too well.
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Still paying Jimbo.
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Yeah,
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I think Jimbo was eighty million like
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eight.
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And I was looking at the buyouts of
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big-time college coaches.
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James Franklin was ninth on the list on
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the buyout.
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There are eight coaches ahead of him that
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would cost more to buy them out.
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It is literally insane.
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Leave Matt Rule alone.
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That's the name I'm hearing, Travis.
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I'm sorry.
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He was a Penn State grad.
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He is tight with the AD at Penn
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State.
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That's what they're saying.
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I don't know.
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Really,
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the coach at Texas A&M I'm hearing on
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the list, too.
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But who knows?
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It's early.
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We don't know what the season's going to
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entail.
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LSU has entered the chat.
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We are still paying Les Miles,
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and he was three coaches ago.
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That's insane.
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Insane.
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Can you imagine, though,
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getting paid fifty million dollars to do
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nothing?
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Like we want you to go away.
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You don't have to do anything.
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That's crazy.
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Rules record against ranked teams ain't
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great.
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He hasn't really had a great team to
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do that with.
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he kind of went to the NFL for
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a brief time before he could even show
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what he could do.
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You're not going to win against ranked
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teams with Temple.
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So with the direction Nebraska is going,
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I wouldn't be surprised if they gave him
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a new contract to keep him.
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Probably not.
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I was listening to an IU grad this
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morning talking about Cignetti at Indiana.
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Is that already making more than Franklin
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was at Penn state at Indiana because
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they've been trying to keep him.
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And now if Penn state comes after him,
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they're probably going to give him another
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raise just to keep him.
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It is the amount of money that is
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floating around college sports right now
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is insane.
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insane it is getting crazier than the nfl
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at least there they are pro athletes it
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is a these are billionaires playing
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against billionaires now you're talking
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about the educational system throwing away
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tens of millions of dollars every year it
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is it is pure insanity pure insanity
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Coach O gets O-drawn.
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Had the best response to a seventeen
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million dollar buyout.
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When do you want me to leave and
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which door do you want me to use?
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There you go.
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All the candidates are going to use Penn
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State to get a raise where they are.
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You are correct.
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I know that's happening.
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And I was watching Get Up this morning.
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Heather Dinich,
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their college football expert,
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was saying that Penn State has basically
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said money is no object when it comes
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to getting a coach.
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They are willing to spend.
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They have so much coming in from donors
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that they don't even care.
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And that just boggles my mind.
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It's actually making me not enjoy college
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football as much.
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I feel like it's losing...
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Losing some of the beauty of like kids
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just going out there for the love of
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the game.
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I know there was a lot of backdoor
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stuff, but man, it just,
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and the kids are getting paid.
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The coaches are getting wealthy.
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Man, I don't know.
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It has my head spinning.
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But the fall from grace that Penn State
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has had less than a year ago,
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in January of this year,
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they were playing in the Final Four for
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a chance at the national title.
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They lost in a close game to Notre
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Dame,
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or they would have been in the national
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championship game.
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Now we haven't even made it six games
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into the season and they fired their coach
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who's been there for twelve seasons.
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That's how much pressure is on all this.
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Like literally this year they were in
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contention for the national championship
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and six games into the next season gone
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and pay him fifty million to go.
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A&M has one Chevron oil exec that
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basically donates to dictate our football.
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Yeah, that oil money down there is nasty.
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It is totally,
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what have you done for me lately,
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Aaron Frazier?
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Totally.
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NIL is destroying college ball.
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I agree.
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I do believe the players,
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like what was infuriating for years is...
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You would take a popular player,
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you would put his number on a jersey,
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and you would sell them like crazy in
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the gift shop,
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and that player got zero dollars for that.
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And they are using what he is doing
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on the field to make a profit.
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I believe the player should have received
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something for that,
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but we have opened up the floodgates into
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an area that is way beyond what I
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think is reasonable at this point.
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And if they don't get a handle on
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this...
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there's going to be so much, I mean,
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there's already the transfer portal is
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almost becoming more important than
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recruiting.
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If you can get people in the transfer
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portal,
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you can build your team quickly and you
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don't even need to recruit that well
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anymore.
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And if you have the money to do
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that, it's,
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that's the way it's going to go.
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That is so much pro sports with unlimited
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free agency, right?
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Because you can't sign these kids to
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long-term deals.
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You only can give them something for a
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year.
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So next year,
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we move to another place to get more
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money.
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When the coach gets fired,
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the players all enter the portal.
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So the school has to get started on
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rebuilding the roster immediately.
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Yeah.
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Every, like, I would say, I would say,
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I would say, I would say,
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Nothing to stop a twenty one year old
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from declaring for the NFL draft.
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If anything, lower the age to declare it.
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Eighteen.
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I know what this was actually proposed for
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you,
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and they actually showed research that the
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body of an eighteen year old.
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Couldn't handle.
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The collisions and the impact of the NFL,
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and they were actually just protecting the
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kids from that.
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That was their that was their story then.
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I don't know if it was a story
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or just trying to have more control over
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the wild,
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wild west that is college football and the
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NFL.
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But crazy.
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Travis, I don't mind NIL,
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but a large percentage of should be
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withheld until after they leave school.
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That's an idea.
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I think there should be a cap.
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I mean, there's a cap in the NFL.
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Why do we have no cap in college
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football?
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Most college players are going to make
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more money in college than as pros.
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You are correct.
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I mean, and you look in women's sports,
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like Caitlin Clark was making like eight
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million dollars her senior year,
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and she actually took a major pay cut
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to go pro.
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Fergie,
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but eighteen year old bodies can handle
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combat and war.
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I,
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I see what I see the point you're
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making.
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I see the point you're making,
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but there's not a lot of hand to
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hand combat in war.
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uh, Megan, I'm so behind.
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When did they start playing,
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paying college players?
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Uh,
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they've probably been paying them for
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decades,
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but legally it happened a few years ago.
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There was a lawsuit that players filed
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that they should be compensated.
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If the college or university uses their
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name,
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their image or their likeness to make a
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profit.
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And, um,
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And so they won that lawsuit.
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And because of that,
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it has opened up the wild, wild west.
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Train olives.
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Caitlin Clark took a pay cut in salary,
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not endorsements.
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Correct.
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Correct.
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The LSU gymnast that was the highest paid
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athlete at one time.
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And that was Livvy Dunn.
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And she's still modeling for the same
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companies she was getting paid for in
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college.
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And she was never like an Olympic gymnast.
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She was never going to go to the
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Olympics or take gymnastics to a pro
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level.
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And she was making, I think, ten million.
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Ten million in college.
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Ten million.
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That's...
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Gosh,
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I was digging through couch cushions to
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buy pizza.
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These people were getting millions of
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dollars,
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but I couldn't do a back triple with
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a twist.
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A University of Miami alumni have been
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paying athletes since nineteen eighty
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three.
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That is very accurate for you.
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I mean,
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Brian Bosworth was driving a brand new
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Corvette and had all the fancy stuff when
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he was in college at Oklahoma.
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Yeah.
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Corey Leonard,
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Livvy Dunn is married to Paul Skeens,
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who is the Pirates ace and maybe Cy
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Young award winner this year.
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They're probably not clipping coupons out
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of the Sunday paper.
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That is an accurate description for sure.
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So, enough about college sports.
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Last night,
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I made the comment as I was kind
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of researching the Masters Fitness
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Championships that happened this weekend,
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and I said that they are on the
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verge of becoming irrelevant.
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And I actually got comments saying that
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that might have been a little bit too
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harsh.
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And here's what I'll say.
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I think that there's an economic
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realization that events are going to face
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soon if they don't figure out how to
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streamline what they are and get more
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people to attend or more people to watch
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and get viewership up in some sort of
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way.
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The reason it came to light with the
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Masters Fitness Championship
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is they have so many different categories.
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They have individual elite.
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They have individual RX.
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They have teams.
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And with all of that going on in
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one space,
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the Masters community already has a
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problem where you have so many divisions.
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And at MFC,
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you have thirty to thirty four all the
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way to sixty five plus.
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And every five years,
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there's another division.
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So what's that?
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Ballpark seven or eight divisions on each
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side, men and women.
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Now you have sixteen divisions.
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Now you add an RX.
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For all of those as well,
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now you're up to thirty two divisions and
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now you add a team in and I
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don't think they did as many for the
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team.
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So maybe four more divisions each side.
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That's eight more.
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So you're talking forty divisions of
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things to watch in an event.
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And what happens is then the break between
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events gets to be so long.
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So family members have to sit around for
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eight hours waiting for their next event
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to watch a family member.
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Who wants to do that?
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You have long days for volunteers.
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You have long days for athletes.
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You have long days for spectators.
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Who wants to sit around all day like
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that?
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And it's all over the map.
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So what do you watch?
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What are you highlighting?
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And what happened at MFC is more of
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the bigger named athletes or noteworthy
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athletes did the team division this year.
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But they spotlighted the individuals on
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the stream.
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So when you're doing that,
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you're watching people that you probably
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don't know the names of.
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And I think that's where they're losing
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relevance.
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However,
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it is a good competition to go to
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if you want experience,
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if you want to get some confidence,
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if you want to go with all of
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those things.
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But I do think that events are going
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to have to start streamlining and knowing
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who they are.
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We've been saying this about CrossFit,
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the greater CrossFit for a while.
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You need a mission.
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You need to know what you're fighting for.
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You need to have everybody aligned and
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fighting in the same direction.
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I think events are going to have to
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do the same thing.
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Who are you as an event?
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And with that,
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how are you going to spotlight what you
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are?
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Let's take an example of a positive event
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and that is, um,
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Crash.
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Crash is happening this week.
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Crash knows who they are.
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Crash knows that they are an elite just
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under the cusp of like a semifinal.
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They have games athletes,
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they have semifinal athletes,
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and it's great competition experience to
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get you ready to fight for a games
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position.
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That is who they are.
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They program to that.
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They bring in the athletes for that.
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It's streamlined.
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You know who's going to be there.
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They whittle down the heat to just enough
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that make it watchable on a weekend.
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I think that is where they're going to
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have to go.
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Crash does it well.
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Crash gets people to come and stream
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because it's such a big event.
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It does well for those streaming,
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and it does well for Crash to have
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it streamed.
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You can partner with people that way.
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MFC is all over the map.
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It's a lot different than that.
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Sorry,
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but it's no different than if there's an
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old person football league.
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No one is going to watch.
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But if they come up with a good
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idea and a good concept,
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there are people that would watch.
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Is it going to be at the level
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of the CrossFit elites?
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Probably not.
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But it could be at a level that
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is sustainable.
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there is no master masters groups
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inherently have a problem of too many
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heats doing the same at workout too many
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times a day.
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Trying to figure that out puts these
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masters events in between a rock and a
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hard place.
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So why would you then add more and
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more and more divisions to make that
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inherent problem even worse?
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I know I'm a CrossFit geek.
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I really enjoy the CrossFit Games age
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group divisions.
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I think that it is fun to watch.
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I think the competitions are tight.
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I think they are competitive.
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It's a different vibe than the elite
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divisions, and I really enjoy it for one.
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But it's never been highlighted in a way
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for people to understand that.
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This year,
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the three-day pass was only thirty bucks.
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Wow.
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Last year,
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I went and had to pay one day
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alone was eighty bucks.
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So at least they've reduced that down to
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where it's affordable.
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So I wasn't trying to pick on MFC
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per se.
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They just were an example for what is
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going wrong with events, period.
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another example in a bad way is,
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and I love these guys.
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They've been on the show a couple of
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times, fight for the fittest.
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It's up in long Island.
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Um, they've been a very,
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very successful team competition for many
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years.
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Now they're going to add individuals to
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that.
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And so the question is,
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are you spreading yourself too thin in a
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direction that is not, um,
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is not in line with what you have
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been for years?
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Um,
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Can you sustain the additional heats and
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the additional length to your day when you
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have been dominating this team event for
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years locally?
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Just questions.
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Questions I think about.
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One other piece of news I wanted to
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talk about,
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and that is the Barbell Spin reported that
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the WFP in their trials, um,
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that they have no leaderboards.
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There's no report of how many people can
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qualify for their, um,
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their competition in Copenhagen.
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And my question to them is this every
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time things don't go the way you would
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plan them to go, you go dark, right?
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you hide it all like let's hide it
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under the carpet and hope nobody lifts it
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up.
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And here we are again with the world
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fitness project,
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having an event that they had planned
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these trials where people could qualify
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for a community event in Copenhagen and
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then go do that at the championships.
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I think it's become abundantly clear after
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the first two tours stops that at least
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in the U S the community event was
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dying, if not dead.
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Now you have these trials to go to
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Copenhagen for a community event where now
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the leaderboard has gone dark.
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You don't know how many people get a
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spot there.
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And everybody is questioning what's going
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on.
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I think that that is a terrible way
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to deal with the PR of that.
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If you are making the decision or it's
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become abundantly clear it can't be
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supported,
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then just cancel it and become an
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elite-only competition.
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Don't just hide it under the rug and
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hope nobody looks.
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Back to the Masters a little bit here,
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Shanna.
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Someone said once that MFC was becoming a
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team competition exclusively.
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I thought it weird, but if they did,
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it would have fewer teams per division,
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but lots of athletes.
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I did hear that as well, Shanna,
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and apparently they got endorsement from
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CrossFit to be able to call these teams
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CrossFit Games champions, right?
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it would be a brand new category for
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that.
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It all kind of seemed weird anyway.
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But I think you made a good point
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on the show last week that the older
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athletes are actually,
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they enjoy the team concept more because
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it's less beating on their bodies.
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And I really liked what you had said
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there.
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And I think that maybe if they decided
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to just do Masters teams,
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like two-person women, two-person men,
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and move forward with that,
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I think they could make that successful.
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That way you reduce the number of heats,
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but keep the same number of athletes,
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and you can kind of get through everything
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faster.
24:19
um and i think it makes sense from
24:21
a viewing standpoint as well as um just
24:25
a logistics and helping the athletes out a
24:30
little bit uh fergie i would enjoy
24:38
watching masters athletes demo events
24:40
between heats kevin coaster rope climbs
24:42
hip and steel ring muscle ups jason grubb
24:44
on a chipper would all be entertaining
24:48
It truly is entertaining if you go live.
24:50
And I don't know if you've ever been
24:52
to an event live like this.
24:55
I don't think people have given it the
24:56
fair shake because they assume that it's
24:59
going to be less fun to watch.
25:04
But let me put it to you this
25:06
way.
25:07
Major League Baseball are the best
25:08
baseball players in the world.
25:10
But I still enjoy watching college
25:12
baseball.
25:13
I still enjoy watching Little League
25:15
Baseball when ESPN airs that to see these
25:18
kids fight for a championship.
25:22
We do that with college sports and pro
25:24
sports all the time.
25:28
I think it can be successful if you
25:30
give it a chance.
25:32
But they do have an inherent problem with
25:35
too many heats of the same thing all
25:38
day long.
25:43
And I don't know how you fix that.
25:51
because it is not fun watching the same
25:55
workout for forty heats during the day
25:59
forty divisions and and in some cases
26:02
they're they're more than one heat for
26:04
that division i loved watching the live
26:17
stream in indiana it was covering
26:19
to see some of the competition that I
26:21
could relate to, not crazy fire breathers.
26:25
Exactly.
26:26
I'm fifty five years old.
26:27
I can't I can't do any of the
26:29
things that the elite athletes do,
26:32
but I can look out on the on
26:33
the floor and see inspiration in those
26:36
people in the age group games.
26:46
Their attempt to fix that seems to be
26:47
less than the number of athletes.
26:49
At least that's what the games is doing.
26:53
It's still in all fairness, Corey,
26:57
when CrossFit was running the age groups,
27:00
only ten athletes got in in all divisions.
27:04
When legends took it over,
27:06
at least you're getting thirty or twenty.
27:08
That's way more than used to be there.
27:10
Yeah.
27:17
Freda,
27:17
what if they did a longer qualifier and
27:19
take less heats in finals?
27:29
I am not a fan of online competition.
27:31
I don't think it fairly assesses the true
27:34
capacity because there aren't enough
27:38
checks and balances with it in the Masters
27:41
division.
27:42
And I would contend...
27:44
that you see big swings of even more
27:49
in the masters division than the elite
27:51
division of people who appeared on the
27:54
online leaderboard to have the capacity
27:57
and when they got there in person did
27:59
not have it so that's that's the biggest
28:02
problem with the smallest number of like
28:04
ten
28:06
A lot of times you are missing out
28:08
on actually having the true athletes.
28:10
They have the capacity at the games
28:14
themselves or at the event itself.
28:19
I'll use Jamie as an example.
28:22
When she was thirty-nine,
28:24
every event she went to in person,
28:26
she podiumed and won a couple of them.
28:32
Online, she finished twenty-seventh.
28:36
and didn't even get to go to the
28:37
games to compete live against anybody.
28:41
So it's really, really hard.
28:46
It's really hard to expand the online and
28:49
think you're going to get the right
28:50
people.
28:57
Fergie, it's called pencil whipping.
28:58
Guys do it in golf all the time.
29:01
I do not disagree with you.
29:03
I think that there's probably more
29:04
corruption in online leaderboards in the
29:07
Masters division than any other division
29:10
in CrossFit.
29:14
And that is another inherent problem.
29:16
Now you're not even getting the best of
29:18
the best to the games to see what
29:21
people can truly do.
29:23
Now you have people that are just so
29:25
good they're going to make it regardless,
29:27
just like in the elite division.
29:28
Jason Grubb's going to get through the
29:30
online qualifier.
29:32
Rudy Berger's going to get through the
29:33
online qualifier.
29:34
They just are.
29:35
But it's such a risk for those people
29:38
that
29:41
that have the skills that don't always get
29:43
tested online.
29:50
Corey,
29:51
online qualifiers are not the best way to
29:52
get people to comps.
29:54
I realize they're necessary right now as
29:57
we don't have enough in-person
29:58
Masters-only comps,
30:00
but you end up with not the actual
30:02
top people.
30:04
Amen.
30:06
That is a problem.
30:06
Then you get all these heaps of people
30:09
that aren't even the right people to get
30:11
there, and then...
30:13
And then you get a mess.
30:16
You get people standing around looking at
30:18
apparatus that cannot even do them because
30:21
they pencil whip their way into the games.
30:31
It's fun that we started focus on online
30:34
aspect you can use in person.
30:39
Uh, I don't understand Frida.
30:41
I know this year they're going to try
30:42
to do some in-person stuff for semifinals
30:46
with the age groups.
30:46
Uh,
30:47
but I don't think it's going to be
30:49
a universal way to get in.
30:51
Um,
30:52
the only way to the CrossFit games is
30:54
pretty much online semifinals and it's
30:57
going to be a handful of people who
30:59
can get in otherwise.
31:12
That's harsh pencil whipped.
31:14
Maybe Jay Birch,
31:14
but I do think it's true.
31:16
And not necessarily that they get one
31:19
score and write down another like a true
31:22
pencil whip.
31:23
But I do think that there's some
31:25
manipulation to the workouts and the true
31:30
capacity of the athletes.
31:42
Plus I would argue there's more PED usage
31:45
in the masters divisions in the,
31:47
in any other division as well.
31:53
But that's just speculation.
31:56
Cause I'm by no means an expert.
32:04
So there's that.
32:09
Um,
32:12
I had a question last night that I
32:13
said I would answer today.
32:20
Uh, yeah, go for in-person qualifier,
32:22
switch it up.
32:23
Even if it might be more expensive to
32:25
compete.
32:28
Yeah.
32:28
I think they're trying that out this year.
32:30
We'll see.
32:39
Um,
32:41
How my training is going.
32:43
I was asked about how my training was
32:44
going.
32:46
Right now,
32:46
my training is a lot of yard work.
32:50
It's just practical.
32:51
It's what I need to get done right
32:53
now.
32:54
I'm trying to fix up my backyard.
32:57
So I'm doing a ton of landscaping and
33:00
digging and moving dirt.
33:03
That has been my training for the last
33:05
week.
33:08
Training for me has been frustrating.
33:12
I feel like I'm heading in a right
33:15
direction health-wise and medical-wise.
33:19
I just have to get through the process.
33:24
I'm going through steps of figuring out my
33:27
sinuses and my throat issues and lung
33:30
issues.
33:31
So I've taken pulmonary tests.
33:34
I see a pulmonologist at the end of
33:36
the month.
33:38
I have
33:40
been to an ear, nose, and throat doctor.
33:43
I've discovered that I have an infection
33:45
in one sinus.
33:46
I have polyps in the other sinus.
33:49
And I also have acid reflux.
33:51
And together,
33:52
those are creating a phlegm issue in my
33:54
throat that I have to get corrected.
33:57
But they need to know more,
33:58
so I have to get a CT scan
34:01
so they can see into what is going
34:04
on in there.
34:05
The CT scan is the twentieth...
34:10
twenty first of this month.
34:15
So I go to that on the twenty
34:16
first to get the CT scan.
34:18
Once I get the CT scan,
34:20
then they'll be able to see how serious
34:22
it is.
34:26
And then I can start moving in a
34:30
direction of getting healthier.
34:34
This has been going on for me for
34:35
four years.
34:36
It is a growing frustration.
34:39
And when I'm not doing yard work,
34:41
I am doing sentinel training in my garage.
34:43
And I do it in my garage because
34:45
when I work out,
34:46
a lot of phlegm builds up.
34:48
It creates mucus and stuff,
34:50
makes it hard to breathe.
34:52
And I have to run outside frequently
34:54
during my workouts.
34:55
So it gets interrupted more than I would
34:58
like.
34:59
That's just where I am.
35:01
I just have to fight through it right
35:02
now.
35:03
And I'm trying to get through all of
35:06
this to get healthier on the other side.
35:09
But it is very demoralizing at times.
35:14
But that's what I'm working through.
35:19
And I know I've been invited to the
35:21
five AM squat club.
35:24
It's,
35:26
It's just not feasible for me at five
35:28
a.m.
35:29
at this point.
35:32
My mornings are the worst part of the
35:34
day for me with everything going on in
35:36
my sinuses.
35:41
That's just where I am.
35:42
And I may join you guys once I
35:43
get this remedied.
35:45
But right now, I just can't.
35:48
It just would not work for me.
35:58
So my goal every day is to move.
36:02
If that means out in the yard for
36:04
ninety minutes doing yard work,
36:06
then I'm good with that.
36:11
And then if I don't do yard work
36:13
or something like that,
36:14
I go out to the garage.
36:16
I get on the bike.
36:17
I have sandbags.
36:19
I do little workouts.
36:20
I do sentinel if it fits what I'm
36:23
doing.
36:24
And...
36:26
And I just,
36:27
my goal right now is to move every
36:29
single day.
36:30
And that's what I'm doing.
36:36
So, um, it's not glamorous.
36:39
It's not something that like is games
36:43
worthy or whatever.
36:46
I just move every single day.
36:50
Um,
36:54
I take walks, Seema.
36:55
I take my dog for walks every day.
37:00
I do at least two dog walks a
37:01
day.
37:04
Probably a little over a mile each day.
37:15
Jay Birch says,
37:16
I'm not getting up at five a.m.
37:20
And then Fergie says, wait a few years,
37:21
Papa Birch.
37:22
You won't have a choice.
37:26
I don't have the choice now.
37:30
I never understood why people got up to
37:32
pee in the middle of the night forever.
37:34
And then I turned fifty and that's just
37:37
the way it is now.
37:41
Hell getting old.
37:44
Hell getting old.
37:54
And I'm really with Megan on this.
37:56
That's what I love about CrossFit.
37:58
I can do it anywhere and adapt the
38:00
workouts as needed.
38:01
Just keep moving forward however I can.
38:04
Yeah.
38:05
When I put too much pressure on myself
38:07
is when I get into trouble.
38:09
And so my goal right now until all
38:11
of this health stuff is fixed is keep
38:14
moving every single day.
38:16
Keep moving.
38:21
Train all of I get up to work
38:23
at three forty five.
38:26
Wow.
38:33
I wish I could sleep past six a.m.,
38:35
but it doesn't happen.
38:37
Yeah.
38:41
And you're not even fifty yet, Corey.
38:49
nine days out of ten it's five a.m
38:52
yeah i used to coach i used to
38:53
coach the five a.m so that was like
38:56
a four a.m wake-up call um i used
39:01
to do that a couple times a week
39:04
i love those guys man i that's one
39:06
thing i do miss about coaching is just
39:08
those guys man it was so much fun
39:23
Vicki says, what's this sleep thing?
39:25
People are always talking about days.
39:35
I coach here to classes.
39:36
It's three fifty five.
39:39
Yeah, I when I did five a.m.,
39:41
it was it was a four a.m.
39:42
wake up call.
39:44
Oh.
39:56
i love the five a.m class but i
39:58
keep swearing throughout the day by nine
40:10
a.m i have done a million things uh
40:14
same jody
40:21
Yeah, I'm into bed at ten p.m.
40:24
That's where I'm comfortable.
40:25
That's where I feel the best is when
40:27
I go to bed at ten.
40:41
Jay Birch does not like the morning,
40:43
apparently.
40:48
Jay Birch,
40:49
has your schedule changed since you
40:50
retired?
40:54
And by how much, so
41:08
I got the Bears game tonight.
41:09
I'm getting pumped for since all my other
41:12
teams suck.
41:13
I'm hoping we're two and two heading into
41:16
tonight.
41:17
I'm hoping that this year does not end
41:19
up like last year where we went into
41:21
Washington, lost on a Hail Mary,
41:24
and then all hell broke loose going back
41:27
to the site of the crime.
41:29
And hopefully pulling out a win tonight on
41:31
Monday Night Football.
41:33
That's what I'll be doing tonight.
41:35
Tomorrow's show,
41:37
I'm doing another Friends episode where I
41:41
have someone on and we just chat and
41:42
we let you all in the chat join
41:44
us in our conversation.
41:46
But I'll have Tristan Patrick on.
41:49
We're going to talk whatever is on your
41:52
mind, whatever is on our mind.
41:54
But we've got to talk about...
41:57
Hattie Cano and her trying a new coach.
42:01
We'll talk about that tomorrow.
42:03
I'm sure.
42:05
Plus a million other things with Tristan
42:07
as he keeps his ear to the trends
42:12
that are going on in the CrossFit space.
42:15
I'm sure we'll talk about a lot of
42:16
things going on, but yeah,
42:21
And then I believe next week I'll have
42:23
Caroline Klutz on.
42:26
She is competing at Crash this weekend in
42:28
the Masters division.
42:29
She won the thirty five to thirty nine
42:31
year old Masters CrossFit Games.
42:34
So we're going to talk to her.
42:35
But she is a registered dietitian.
42:38
So we're going to talk about diet and
42:39
nutrition with her next week on that
42:41
friends type episode.
42:43
If you weren't with me last week with
42:45
Josh Hicks,
42:46
that's kind of the format we're going
42:48
with.
42:49
just kind of hanging out as friends,
42:50
having conversations,
42:51
and letting you guys join in and ask
42:53
questions as well.
42:55
So tomorrow, Tristan Patrick,
42:59
and next week, Caroline Klutz,
43:02
and I can't wait to see you all
43:05
then.
43:08
It's been great.
43:09
Love you all.
43:10
Get back to work, and we'll talk soon.
43:12
Bye, guys.