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The Drive with Jake Wimberly - Bill Bender, Raphael Esparza, and Brian Chrichton 4-11-24 · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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up at three thirty. We'll talk several things from college basketball, little football.
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OJ Simpson also Rod fieldspars are coming up at four thirty and Brian Crinchton,
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next Wednesday, Thursday somewhere. There's that way you can get ready to go
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coming at five thirty. All right, a lot to get into. What
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do you what do you make The jokes are going to run and they're not
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jokes, But then everything else O J. Simpson passing away to make of?
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I mean, everybody's going to go right to the court case. Everybody's
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going to go right to was he in a sin or not? And blah
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blah blah blah blah. But what do you make of? O? J.
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Simpson? A life where Heisman candidate played in the NFL Stars. As
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far as media is concerned, disaster struck that whole family in jail forever,
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in and out. Then ends the back end of his life On Twitter,
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doing some very weird things there, So any thoughts on OJ Simpson. My
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reaction was Jerry Seinfeld used to mockingly say, well, that's a shame.
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Don't care. Yeah, don't care one bit. And I think if you
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read most around the country on X and you know, again, that's a
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small sample size because not everybody's on Twitter or X, not everybody's there,
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but looking at some of the sports figures and you look at some of the
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athletes, and that's kind of where everybody's at. Sadly, it's just don't
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care. Sorry, So I mean, it is what it was. It
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is what it is. That we use that phrase too much. So we
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need to put that on the list. We'll do that right quick. But
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so yeah, OJ Simpson passes away at age of seventy six. Did you
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see the weird press conference for John Calipari last night at Arkansas? You didn't
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see this? The calling of the Hogs that looked like some weird just cult
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calling. It was very weird. John Calipari, though, says he met
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with the team and there is no team. Very very funny line. We'll
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see if we can pull that up in play, say hey, I met
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with the team. There's no team, there's no players, like he has
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nothing. But tell you where you are in the nil world is. Last
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night they gave a standing ovation and I can't remember the guy's name, massive
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donor for the University of Arkansas. He's I guess the guy, the front
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guy for the money for their collective. They put him on camera, standing
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ovation for that guy. That's where we're at. Standing ovations for multi million
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or billion dollar donors, that's where we're at. So but John Caliperry is
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now the head basketball coach officially at Arkansas. Chris Vannani reports yesterday, I
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don't know if you saw this. Northwestern football will play the majority of its
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home games at its practice facility. Did you see this at its practice facility
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on the lake for the next two years, similar to Hawaii, that will
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be temporary structures built around the field. Capacity and final configuration still to be
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determined. New stadiums expected to be up in to twenty twenty six. So
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they're going to have a condensed size on their practice field playing their home games.
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But is anybody going to show up for that either? It is Northwestern
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football, So yeah, you got this weird calling of the Hogs I got
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this video right here Barstool had posted. I think Brandon Marcelo originally took it
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as Arkansas celebrating their new basketball coach and then big time donors. Speaking of
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donors, we'll get into the story. Kansas top NIL payroll numbers in men's
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basketball for the twenty twenty three to twenty four cycle, spending more than four
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million dollars in NIL money per John Talty two four to seven sports inside the
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nil approaches of the basketball teams that fared the best and the worst. Kansas
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topped the niopel Roy payroll numbers this season, spent more than four million in
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men's basketball, got to the NCAA tournament, but didn't go too far.
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Also, you know Jackson Dart got a nil deal with a jet company.
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You remember that. Now we have another quarterback that has done that. Texas
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quarterback Quinn Ewers has signed a deal with I think it's the same one.
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Is it Nicholas Air? And that what so quinn Ewers is on the Nicholas
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Air bandwagon for his quote private aviation needs? What do you think is private
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aviation needs? What are your private aviation needs? I need to know your
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private aviation needs out there six on one, eight eight, five, three,
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seven, seven six, what would be your private aviation needs? You
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know, it's weird how this all you can tie this all together? Because
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I remember the day that Dart signed that deal and it sounded odd just because
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we'd never seen it before. And someone texted in and said, Nicholas Air
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has a headquarters or whatever in Oxford. So you draw some sort of line
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between Oxford. Now it's over in Texas and there's a Manning there, but
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it's viewers. But you see where I'm going with this. Yeah, Eli
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Manning or the Manning family. All right, Eli's not in Texas, Jay,
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he's way too old. No, But you're talking about the man Oxford.
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I'm sure he has a home in Oxford. I guess he does.
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Surely he does, Archie, Texas. Mannings, you know, Mannings in
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Oxford, Mannings in Texas. That's where I was going. You can draw
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a straight line right between the two. Yeah. Northwestern will play the majority
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of his home games next two seasons at a temporary structure again twenty twenty six
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opening and again O. J. Simpson has passed away seventy six. As
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Adam Schefter says, the former football great and of course the nineteen ninety four
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slags of his ex wife and friend. A lot on the table there for
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Simpson or April tenth, late yesterday, Simpson passed away. New era in
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Alabama. We know that, but you know what they have coined this quote,
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the old man is gone. The old man is gone in Tuscaloosa.
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Who Dick saban No, I mean, who says that this is Ross Jellinger
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quote, the old man is gone. Somebody over there said that we're going
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to get into this. A mostly empty head football coaches office or relaxed atmosphere,
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music at practice, fewer staff meetings, assistance speaking regularly to the media
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on the new Alabama head coach, replacing a legend and a whole different vibe
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in Tuscaloosa. Quote the old man is gone, telling you this is not
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going to end well eight and four. Oh yeah, the staff's talking to
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the media now. It's fantastic. Players, they can talk, we can
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watch practice. They got music at the at practice. This is awesome.
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Come on in, sit down, take your feet off, put your feet
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on the table, get you some coffee. You can sit in here with
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us. Is old Man's gone. This is a new day in Alabama football?
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Was Alabama football broken because they're making it now sound like it was broken?
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Is that where Debor is going with this? We're going to fix Alabama
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football. That's why I asked you you had said the old Man, because
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if it was someone in some Bama fan. Oh okay, So now just
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because your legend is gone, now he's just the old man. He's still
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in the building, though he's odd. I and I don't know that it's
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really effect I don't know how much it will affect on field. I don't
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know. But just at first, at first mentioned everything you're telling me.
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All it really sounds like is everything is way less buttoned up, and having
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everything buttoned up is not a bad thing. It's not a bad thing at
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all. We'll get into this and some more. I heard Kelen Debora with
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some comments on Nick Saban a week or so ago. I do want address
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Next segment from the Sporting News. All Right, former Bengals Jets tight end
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cj Uzoma signs a one year deal with the Eagles. For what that's worth,
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So he's going to play one year or at least have one year shot
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at Eagles. The Browns and star running back Nick Chubb have agreed on a
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reworked contract for twenty twenty four to lower his base of eleven point seven to
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seventy five million sources tell Ian Rappaport and Tom pelaserro which with a chance to
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earn it back is incentives. So Chubb is working his way back from a
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pretty bad knee injury but didn't go anywhere. Does that help Cleveland? Is
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that? Does it matter? Yeah? They definitely didn't need to lose him.
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I remember hearing that there were rumors that they were going to let him
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go months back. I thought that was terrible. So, yeah, they
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don't need to lose him so good. During an NFL Combine medical evaluation,
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doctors found that Alabama All American corner kool Aid McKinstry has a Jones fracture in
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his right foot. Sources say McKinstry won't work out, or assume he didn't.
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This is back in March. He didn't work out any in March at
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the Combine. But when you look forward past that, he had his Combine
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rechecks yesterday and sources say the doctors deemed his recovery from surgery to be on
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track and as expected, some good news heading into the draft for McKinstry,
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who was down or not at the combine. There is quote zero percent chance
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Dan Hurley leaves Yukon for the Kentucky job. Matt Norlander reports this as an
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hour ago quote. They could offer twenty million a year and he wouldn't go.
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So it looks like he is going to stay at Kentucky. We'll see
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which direction. Can I assume he's gonna stay and you can two Itstoration Kentucky
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goes Baylor head coach Scott Drew will remain at Waco at Baylor, So he's
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not going to Kentucky either. Is Kentucky? Are we figuring out maybe he
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is not so good a place? Maybe John Caller Perry not all the blame
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goes there. We'll see. Yesterday told you about Damian Martinez, running back
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Oregon State. Martinez rushed for two thousand, one hundred and sixty seven yards
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and sixteen touchdowns in his first two seasons of college football. He's in the
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transfer portal well. He has listed quickly his top five the U Miami Tennessee,
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Michigan State, Oklahoma, and Ole Miss. I would not be shocked
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if he ends up at Ole Miss, just because of the need to replace
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Quinn Shine Judkins. He is not Quinn Shine Judkins, but he is a
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guy that scored sixteen touchdowns and rushed for over one thousand yards in each of
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his first two seasons in college football. Again, John Calipari, do you
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think he'll find success in Arkansas? Nolan Richardson, former Arkansas coach, says
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I would bet on Cali Perry eventually winning a national championship and it won't take
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a long time. Nolan Richardson, what do you think? Why would we
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say that at this point in Calipari's career and all these first round diggsit exits,
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we've seen. That's a bold statement. Oh, it's extremely bold.
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A national championship and it won't take a long time. I didn't know.
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This is just Arkansas guy be an Arkansas guy. I think Arkansas feels that
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they can throw endless money at this and buy a championship. He's good enough
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to coach him. We're gonna give him what he needs and we'll go get
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it. And we know that doesn't always work. That does not always work.
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Ten programs sun potentially open the wallet as the spring transfer portal window opens
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on Monday and goes to the end of the month. These are teams that
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are expected to be the most active. Alabama's one the Miami Hurricanes, who
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have already been extremely active in the portal to continue to be active Arizona Duke,
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Michigan State, Indiana, the Washington Huskies, Texas A and m USC
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and Michigan. So that's teams that two four seven Sports expects to be active.
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I wonder how active Alabama will get they need players. Do you think
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they'll get really active? Yeah? To borrow good he'll he'll go get what
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he feels like. He needs Gator Matt and you can Texas six or one
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eight eight, five three, seven, seven six, Jake. I would
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call him today, but I'm in the middle of interviewing. Oh, I
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would call in today, but I'm in the he is interviewing for the Kentucky
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job. Do you think Gator Matt has a shot to get the Kentucky job.
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It sounds like nobody else wants it, So Matt's probably got a good
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choice or got a good chance. Sorry, yeah, got our got a
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Kaylen de Boor is bringing his own style to Alabama. Courtesy of Rosstealinger to
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Skimi Yahoo sports to boor taps on the glass coffee table before him. Quote,
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this used to have rings on it, didn't it? He asked.
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A Few items in Nick Saban's former office in Alabama a more memorable than the
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coffee table. The centerpiece of a sitting area adjacent to his expansive wooden desk,
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The resting place for dozens of bowl and championship rings. The gilding keepsakes
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stacked on top of one another in velvet jewelry boxes to form the ingredients for
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the sport's best recruiting pitch. Nestled between a pair of cushioned armchairs and a
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brown leather couch, the varnished wooden coffee table displayed nearly two decades of history,
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artifacts from perhaps the greatest dynasty that college football has ever seen, a
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dominant stretch of time that featured two hundred and one victories, nine SEC titles,
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and six national championships. I'm starting to question this to bore higher,
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though, that's me speaking. Do you know what he said a week or
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two ago, and I'm paraphrasing, He said, Nick Saban laid a good
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foundation. Is that what you call that? A good foundation? Two hundred
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one victories, nine SEC titles, six national championships. He's loosening up practice.
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The contact is not as much. People can be at the practices,
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the media can be there. This feels like a loose Alabama. Alabama run
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team. For the most part of the office is the head for the head
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coach at Alabama is now as mostly barren. It was left that way by
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its former coach, who kept this way, kept it this way by its
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current coach in preparation for renovation of the spring of space that is clearly dated
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and wooden walls and flooring in the products yesteryear. So he is renovating Nick
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Saban's office too. By the way, in Tuscaloosa, change is indeed here.
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Saban, Fury, severe and ruthless demanding, is no longer in charge
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of Alabama football. A few days before the team spring game, a very
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different leader walks the halls deboor, general, friendly, apologetically welcoming. The
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two are perhaps polar opposites. A hard and seventy two year old with a
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defensive background who is regimented and abrasive, versus a forty nine year old South
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Dakotian, an offensive guru who is talkative and approachable. Things are more relaxed
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here, one may say, calmer folks seem less on edge. There's music
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at practice, fewer staff meetings, and assistant coaches are even regularly speaking to
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the media. The Board describes it as a vibe. This man, this
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man is going to fall flat on his face at Alabama. All right,
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I change everything I said. I don't. He's not gonna make it.
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He's not gonna make it. The more I see this guy's not gonna make
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it. This was the wrong hire for Alabama. He's changing the coach's office,
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he's opening practices, He's throwing around words like vibe. Do we use
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vibe too much? Oh gosh. The Boar describes it as a vibe originating
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from himself. Laiden back, comfortable, easygoing, doesn't mean he's not intense
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at times. He can be all of these things, feary and demanding,
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but that's not who he is all the time. And that's okay. Quote
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your experiences shape who you are. I've had multiple people say they don't know
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what way is better divorce, says peering over the coffee table. In the
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end, the foundation of what it takes to win football games is more similar
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than it is different. You got to be physical discipline, you got to
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have an attitude and create a swagger and cav confidence. He continues on and
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said that comes through a lot of hard work and building a team mindset.
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I think a lot of those things. Coach Saban would say, you've got
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to have a vibe. Who is this man? What have they done?
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I know his record in the NAI, I know what he did last year.
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Did they mess this up? Does Tuscaloosa, Alabama look like it needs
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a vibe? Does waffle house have a vibe? You're getting too worked up
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over this article. It's it's an it's an article. I think you're reading
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too much into this. You can't argue what de Boer has done. I
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don't think anything there is wrong, except for the dude saying it's a vibe.
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That's that's pretty terrible, though, So I don't know. That might
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cancel out a lot of the the goodwill already. I don't know. We'll
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get back more in to this. I gotta take a time out. Bill
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as well, Bill Bender ninety two. Bill, Welcome in, sir,
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how are you? I must mister call I was watching Tiger Woods and so
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like I'm sure forty something men like me, they just get lost when we
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start watching him. And all these years later, I still enjoyed the first
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round of the Masters No there's no doubt. We were talking about it yesterday,
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you know, just kind of the betting lines for the Masters, and
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of course Tiger wailed down the line. I said, I wonder how many
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people will take a flyer on Tiger just to hope that, you know,
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hey, maybe he's got it one more time. You know what, I
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put a I I think I can say this on there. I put two
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dollars down on it, just for fun. And you know, if he
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wins it all, we'll have a couple bucks to take the wife out for
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dinner and go from there. But uh yeah, it does give me incentive
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to watch. And he's just it's still all these years, he's the most
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captivating show in golf, which is very interesting. Oh, there's no doubt
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about it, no doubt, Bill. You know. O. J.
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Simpson obviously passes yesterday and you kind of look across the sports world and mixed
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messages. Obviously we know everything about his life, but it seems like a
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lot of people are trying to it's hard to kind of find what to say.
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But when you look at OJ Simpson, I mean, you know,
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there's the football side and the sports side, there's the personal side that was
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obviously a disaster and everything that went on off the field. What what do
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you actually when you hear O. J. Simpson and do you hear that
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name, is it forever going to be everything with what happened off the field?
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Or will people remember on the field. Well, it depends on the
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generation. You know, if you're a like I said, you're forty four
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like me, it's less you really didn't get to see him play where you
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don't really remember him playing for the forty nine ers. It's more actor and
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Bronco Chase and the trial, and you know, for guys that were my
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dad's age, it was I remember my dad telling me that, hey man,
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OJ was one of the best college football players I've ever seen, you
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know, and then you take that to Buffalo and then his later life obviously
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became a little bit of a circus. But I don't think OJ, we
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were talking about this in our office to day, I don't think OJ hits
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that youngest younger generation quite like he hits ours, because I just think,
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you know, you had It's almost like you had to be there to experience
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the Bronco Chase and the trial and the mass media that surrounded his life.
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Very complicated thing, but I'll probably watch OJ Made in America again as a
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result. Yeah. Look, when I was in college, I was a
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freshman, or maybe I was right, I can't remember. We had a
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COMP one or COMP two class. It was a summer class. The entire
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class was writing assignments on that whole trial, like I remember, like it
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was yesterday. It's crazy. Oh yeah, and I remember the Bronco chase
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from the standpoint of I mean, could you imagine I can't imagine in the
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social media agent today if they broke in on an NBA Finals game to follow
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somebody like that. That's how big of a story it was. It really
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transcended sports culture, entertainment and had all of it. And you know it
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was my wife liked to point out. I mean, the the ripple effects
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went down all the way to the Kardashians to the present day. It's really
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a wild story. Bill Bender on your radio Thursday edition of the program.
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Make sure to find him on X at Bill Bender ninety two. Check him
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out at the Sporting News dot com and also want X as well. All
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right, John Caliperry with one of the funnier I thought, I don't know
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if you meant it to be. Press press conference lines last night said,
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hey, I met with the team, there is no team. How quickly
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can he get Arkansas turned around? And do you expect him to make a
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massive impact in Fanville? I think a fresh started makes it really interesting.
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I mean, I got back from the women's final fours and then I told
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the story that he went Darkansas. I had to rub my eyes make sure
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I wasn't like hallucinating from the long drive. But it was very wild story.
27:22
I think it's great for college basketball in terms of gives us a really
27:23
good storyline to fall ups. It's going to be really interesting to see who
27:26
Kentucky hires back. But I got to think I can't lie. Like when
27:30
I saw him in that red quarters up, I didn't know what to think.
27:34
But it still looks weird. It does. It does look weird,
27:37
all right. So it looks like Hurley is not gonna entertain Kentucky others or
27:44
not. As what which direction do they eventually go? You think, Yeah,
27:48
I thought Scott Drew would have been the right fit. It's not too
27:52
much, not too little, So I don't really have a feel for where
27:55
they go from here. I mean, I suppose they go down the Alma
27:56
Mater list and you go after somebody like a Mark Pope or you know,
28:02
somebody in that vein. But yeah, I thought Nat Oates would have been
28:03
an interesting candidate. He for all the ups and downs of the last two
28:11
years at Alabama, from the mess with Brandon Miller to the or the final
28:15
four run this year. I mean he he's kind of been able to weather
28:19
that right. So I don't know if he could handle coaching at a place
28:22
like Kentucky. That's just it. You got to find the right guy that
28:23
can handle Kentucky, the players and Kentucky everything else. What do you make
28:32
of Dan Hurley back to back championships now at Yukon. The guy's got swagger,
28:37
he's got the look, he's very animated. He looks like he knows
28:41
how to navigate in this name, image and likeness are in basketball, which
28:45
you can make a you know, an argument. I think that it's even
28:47
more more difficult than football. And in the fact that you know they'll be
28:52
maybe one of the favorites next year. Yeah, I mean East Coast guy
28:56
and doing the things that he's doing that they just so impressive, the way
29:00
that they their game play against Purdue was smart. Led Zachi Edi do what
29:06
he did, and you know Purdue only made one three pointer. I thought
29:08
Purdue had to make at least ten three pointers to win that game. Uh.
29:12
East Coast guys who like a Midwestern are like me. Obviously, he
29:17
grubbed some of my friends the wrong way, but I don't think he cares
29:19
to go for the game. There's no debate right now that he's the best
29:23
coach active coach in the game when you consider that the only other coach with
29:27
multiple natties at his school is Bill self and the other only coach with multiple
29:33
natties in the sport right now is Patino, which, by the way,
29:37
what are the chances he would go to Kentucky. It would be amazing if
29:40
he did. I don't think it's going to happen, but that's the class
29:41
that Hurley's in right now. Let me ask you this. The second transfer
29:47
portal window opens Monday, go for fifteen days and it will be a very
29:52
very hot time. You know, you look at some teams like Alabama possibly
29:56
need to make in some moves, you know, maybe Miami, You look
30:00
at Washington, USC, Michigan. You know, would you expect. We
30:03
saw Colorado last year. Deon Sanders really flipped that roster in the second portal
30:07
window. Do you expect to see a team or two with not Colorado movement,
30:11
but with some big movement. Well, I mean, Michigan will be
30:15
interesting to see if these are the quarterbacks they're going to ride with into the
30:18
regular season. Of State, it's going to have some changes on their roster,
30:22
as they have already. I mean, I think quarterbacks are so interesting
30:26
which ones go in the second lay because I'm put together a big ten quarterback
30:30
previous the next year, and before this second window opened, they have nine
30:37
of their twenty eighteen are transfers. So, I mean, you and I
30:41
both know this is the way the game has gone. It's not going that
30:44
way. It has gone that way. Scienticipate there'll be some more changes along
30:48
the way. Let's finish it up with the National Football League. I'll try
30:51
to grab you before the draft as well or right after the draft. Obviously,
30:55
every year is a new crop of quarterbacks. We you know, always
30:57
talk about the crops and you know, can this be that special group?
31:00
You look at Caleb Williams looks like he's slided for one maybe a Drake may
31:04
or Jaylen Daniels at two and or three. JJ McCarthy's moved up. You
31:08
know, bow Knicks. Do you think the draft, at least at face
31:12
value at quarterback is as deep as as it looks like potentially or you know,
31:18
are we Is this just again another instance of you got to have a
31:21
quarterback in the NFL and there's some guys that people are just going to reach
31:25
for. Yeah, I think it's more of the latter. I mean,
31:26
I'm not talking down about any of these guys. I just think that Caleb,
31:32
Drake, Jaden jj A will be first round pick, Michael Pennox would
31:36
probably get drafted in the first round, and maybe Bonex and some of it
31:41
is need, some of it is you know, just what they're worth,
31:45
you know, quarterbacks. That's that's the how the draft works. JJ McCarthy
31:48
is going to be very interesting. I don't think there's any doubt in my
31:52
mind Caleb Williams will go first. But if somehow JJ McCarthy is drafted ahead
31:57
of Jadon and Drake, I mean that will be the first kind of wow
32:02
moment of the draft. And like you said, any of those guys go
32:06
in in the order. I don't know how many or are going to be
32:08
long term franchise quarterbacks, and that includes Calla William, but I know they're
32:13
going to get drafted in the top ten. Make sure to find them at
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let me check you in here. Let's go to the master's leader board.
33:59
We got let's see where is here? We go leaderboard. Let's just see
34:07
what's going on. Day one. You got Bryson de Chambo at the top
34:15
minus seven. He is in the clubhouse. He has a three stroke lead
34:19
over Danny Willett and Ryan Fox at minus three, tied with Matt Fitzpatrick.
34:25
Just looking down through here to see some names. You still got some guys
34:29
on the course, A lot of guys on the course because they didn't start
34:30
TI later today. Michael Roy minus one. He's twelve holes in Tiger Woods
34:37
minus one, he's two holes in. How about that Tiger's gonna make a
34:40
run. You don't think he's gonna make a run. Hey, you got
34:45
him at it like one hundred and one. Bill said he put two bucks
34:49
on him. Jam you can tax a six or one eighty five three seven
34:52
seven six. Jake, I'm willing to give to bor a fair shot.
34:55
I'm not enamored with the loosening of everything in the program. Think what we
35:00
will see as a very undisciplined team, though, which gets you killed in
35:05
the SEC. It appears the that KD is trying to be his players pile
35:12
instead of their leader. That doesn't work with parenting either. Look, the
35:15
guy wins, there's no doubt, Kaylendi Boor wins. Everywhere he's been,
35:20
he's won. It's just a and it may work, it may work.
35:25
It's just a drastic way of doing things. And it doesn't mean looking two
35:32
plus two? Was that? What's two plus two? What's three plus one?
35:40
What's one plus three? What's zero plus four? Four? There's many
35:47
ways to get to four. My point is this, you can get to
35:52
the end a lot of different ways, which is winning. Right. You
35:57
can run the wishbone, you can run power spread, you can throw it
36:01
around. You can be buttoned up, you can be not so buttoned up.
36:05
As long as you get to the end, for then you've won,
36:10
but trick question five plus minus one four. So I don't appreciate one bit
36:22
this impromptu math quiz. You never know what you're gonna get here, right,
36:28
you see what I'm saying, though you can get to the end result
36:31
several ways. So I'm not here just to really just rail onto board.
36:36
But I don't like I feel like it's a very drastic change. Do you
36:40
think it works? Oh? Well, it works? What is works?
36:47
Though? That's why we always have to quantify these things. Does it is
36:52
it gonna work to the level of who you just lost? That's the that's
36:58
a huge shadow over this. I don't know that it's necessarily fair. Saban
37:01
is he's he's gonna cast a huge shadow over this. So works as in
37:08
a winning team. Yeah, but I can see what Jam is saying.
37:15
But one thing Jam says, what is the word he used? Undisciplined?
37:22
You know, even in the last two seasons, in Saban's last two seasons,
37:30
a lot of times that looked like an undisciplined team already. Well,
37:37
so it could get even worse. It could, I don't think, And
37:39
I don't care who you run in there, if it's de boor if you
37:43
bring back, Joe Perterno, Bob Stoops. I mean, just pick a
37:46
coach. Nobody's gonna win at the level Nick Saban won. It's not gonna
37:50
do it. I don't know that Kirby Smart will continue to win like he's
37:54
winning. And what I mean by that is, I don't know that he's
37:57
gonna win two out of every three, two out of every three. The
38:00
discipline factor, well, let me back up and say like this, prior
38:07
to opening the floodgates with nil, coaches still had a semblance of total control
38:14
of a team. Now they don't. And I think what you're seeing with
38:17
Alabama, and you mentioned it the last few years with Nick Saban, they
38:20
didn't seem as disciplined. I don't know that you can throw all that on
38:22
him either, because a lot of these guys are just doing what They're looking
38:27
at the money. They're looking at the money, and that's going to have
38:31
to be rained in a little bit because what you're going to see is we're
38:37
already seeing some of this. Nick Saban has spoke of this. It isn't
38:40
that the athletes themselves have changed. Their mindsets have changed. Greatest athletes ever.
38:47
Right now, you talk about athletes, greatest athletes ever, unless you
38:52
believe in a you know, generation that was lost that people talk about that
38:57
maybe they were even better than we are. But gret generation ever as far
39:00
as athletes, but their minds are changing, so their focus is changing.
39:05
Does that trickle into the National Football League? Do the NFL team start getting
39:09
players that aren't mentally as dialed in as what they were five years ago?
39:14
Ten years ago? And Nick Saban back at Alabama just even a short time,
39:19
he had total control on college football. They could run the money under
39:22
the table. They had as much money as anybody that were buttoned up.
39:25
Saban was sending players to the NFL. You couldn't transfer out. Everybody wanted
39:30
to go there because like the coffee table and the story with all the rings,
39:35
Hey, I can go there and eventually I can get money. I
39:37
can get paid a little bit here and I can go get money now.
39:38
You can get money anywhere. You could get paid big at SMU, you
39:42
can get paid big at Nebraska. That's what you're worried about. Jason and
39:46
Flagstaff. I remember Roddy Piper chasing gold dust in a white bronco. Do
39:50
you remember this? Because I do not I've seen clips Saint Louis Vic,
39:54
So which team will slash excuse me, will stash one? Thomas the Ring
40:02
King Brady as an emergency quarterback. Apparently he's willing to suit up again in
40:07
the capacity. OJ is a lightning rod, topic of which I'll stay away
40:15
from. I did have that teed up? Have you heard this of Thomas
40:17
Brady? No, it is out there, Tom Brady since VIC brought it
40:22
up. Thank you. Vic admits he's open to an NFL comeback, but
40:29
could face a major hurdle this point. It's very hard to imagine we'll ever
40:34
see Tom Brady play another snap in the NFL. However, it does sound
40:37
like the man who will celebrate his forty seventh birthday later this year has ruled
40:44
out THEOS hasn't ruled out the possibility entirely. It's been more than a year
40:47
since Tom Brady announced his decision to retire after twenty three legendary seasons where he
40:53
cemented himself as the greatest quarterback in NFL history while winning seven Super Bowls in
41:00
earning Most Valuable Player honors three times. I think he is. Do you
41:04
think he's the greatest ever? Still having that debate, and I still can't
41:13
say one. Yes, he's the most accomplished ever. We'll give him that,
41:19
and we'll get off into this story about Tom Brady. We come back?
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at five thirty. So Tom Brady is open to an NFL comeback. TV
43:14
twelve has absolutely nothing left to prove on the grid iron at this point.
43:17
But during your recent appearance on the Deep Cut podcast with celebrity barber Vic Blend's,
43:24
he acknowledges he could probably be persuaded to mount a comeback if the right
43:30
situation presented itself. He did acknowledge his pending deal with the Raiders could complicate
43:37
things, saying, quote, Patriots could be Raiders, you never know.
43:42
I'm not opposed to it. I don't know if they're going to let me,
43:45
because let me, if I'm become an owner of an NFL team,
43:50
I'm always going to be in good shape. I'll always be able to throw
43:53
the ball to come in for a little bit like MJ coming back. I
44:00
don't know if they're going to let me, but I wouldn't be opposed to
44:02
it. Brady wants to come back. That's him throwing it out there.
44:07
Hey, I'm ready. Yeah, you know. My thinking is he shouldn't
44:14
have had to retire the first time. I blamed Giselle for that one.
44:19
She forced him into it. Yeah, and then that well, I mean
44:22
there are kids involved. Can't blame the kids, but I think she was
44:25
a huge driving factor and that ended up all or not, she ended up
44:32
being loose. So he shouldn't have had to You know, I have no
44:37
doubt he could still throw the ball. But I don't know what's his What
44:44
is he now? Forty six? He'll be forty seven this year. I
44:51
don't I can't see it. I can't see it. I think he could
44:55
still throw it, but there's a big difference between still throwing the ball,
45:00
but well, but you can't get touched. He was the one that created
45:06
that, so that would help him all these years later. I don't think
45:10
so, though. I think it's still too it's too late. It's too
45:13
late. He should have stuck around and then he wouldn't have to come back.
45:17
If we're going to go that route. I agree on Jason and flagstaff
45:22
man. I wish I could get the city to advertise on y'all station.
45:28
Sports clips is killing me? Are you on the stream? I've been balld
45:30
for like twenty years, so four straight haircut commercials is exceptionally a cool kick
45:35
in the pecans. I finally heard what these people are talking about with this
45:42
sport clip commercial. I was listening to Colin Coward the other day, coming
45:47
in in one break, one stop set. I literally heard the sport clip
45:54
commercial four times, so dynamite job on that Alpham Media. I get what
46:00
Jason is talking about. The sports Cup is coming in buying it sounds like
46:05
inventory all over the country though wherever it's available, it's buying it up,
46:09
lapping it up, lapping it up. He him ask you this, do
46:15
you like Russell Wilson? You know, I never I don't dislike him.
46:22
I never had any sort of issue with him until you know, a couple
46:28
of years ago when that cringe worthy subway stuff started happening in the Broncos country
46:35
Let's Ride and he was trying to be a star, and then the whole
46:37
story about him having an office and personal coaches in the Broncos facility. I
46:45
don't dislike the man, but that kind of rubbed me the wrong way.
46:49
So Russell Wilson, I think it's a very arrogant guy. I think sometimes
46:55
he you know, we had we saw the problems he had in Denver with
47:00
Sean Payton, and we know about all. You know, the subway commercial
47:02
was really stupid and his gimmicky phrases, which is fine, players do this,
47:07
They've done it forever. But Russell Wilson, I think is trying to
47:10
take credit for something that he shouldn't take credit for. Now we know that
47:15
over the last twenty years, the emergence of the black quarterback has really taken
47:21
off in the NFL, really really good quarterbacks. And you look at the
47:24
league today and the way it's set up. I mean, from Jalen Hurts
47:28
to Patrick mahomes, Lamar Jackson, C J. Stroud, a lot of
47:30
really good African American quarterbacks and the best in the league are African American.
47:36
But Russell Wilson is taking credit for all of this. Now did you see
47:38
this? He did? He was on a podcast. He said, for
47:43
me to be able to go back to back Super Bowls and win one of
47:46
them, I think I opened doors for people, especially Patrick Mahomes. So
47:52
he is taking credit for Patrick Mahomes. East Bay Chris on Twitter It was
48:00
on this podcast facts. Patrick Mahomes would be working graveyard shifts at the local
48:05
Amazon delivery center if it weren't for Russell Wilson and the sacrifices in Trailblazing he
48:12
made. He's a martyr. Call him Russell Jesus Wilson. Can you believe
48:17
this? We forgot about Donovan McNabb, Warren Moon, Doug Williams, Dante
48:25
Culpepper, Michael Vick, Randall Cunningham, all before Russell Wilson. But he
48:31
is taking credit for Patrick Mahomes. What's wrong with this guy? If I
48:37
remember right, he was drafted in twenty eleven, A lot of history happened
48:45
before then, a lot of quarterbacks before you. How dare you he's a
48:51
good quarterback, He's won a Super Bowl He's done a lot of good things.
48:54
Is he a Hall of Famer second ballot? Third ballot? Second?
49:01
I can't let him take credit for Patrick Mahomes though, of course not.
49:07
I mean, I don't know that anybody can take credit for Patrick Mahomes,
49:13
can they? I don't know the Russell Wilson should be taking credit for anybody.
49:17
Yeah, I just thought that was a very very weird uh weird flax
49:22
six hor one eight eight five three seven seven six Ko says, shut up
49:25
Brady. So yeah, are people tired of Tom Brady? Like? Are
49:30
they exhausted with Tom Brady? I would think so. All right, let
49:36
me move forward here. Transfer portal window we told you opens next week Monday.
49:43
It'll go for fifteen days, fifteenth through the thirtieth before I get into
49:45
college football. Transfer Portal seven schools with work to do, unnamed Texter.
49:50
Only Patrick mahomes mama can take credit for Patrick Mahomes, Right, I give
49:54
it to Patrick Mahomes' mom, not giving it to Russell Wilson. Do you
50:00
think Patrick Mahomes can become the greatest quarterback in the NFL? Ever? I
50:04
do it too. I think you can stays healthy now obviously got to have
50:08
some good things happen, like need to keep your coaching staff intact at least
50:13
they had because give him credit or not. I think you have to give
50:15
Belichick credit to go in line with Brady, don't you. I mean,
50:21
there were moments in time where Belichick made really good moves in the draft.
50:27
He let players go when a lot of people questioned it, cut salary cap,
50:30
brought new players in. I just think the game is passing by same
50:35
way with Patrick Mahomes. I think the tie with Andy Reid as long as
50:38
he can play for Andy Reid. Not that Andy Reid's making Patrick Mahomes,
50:42
but they kind of make each other. That's where I'm going with that,
50:45
all right, Teams with work to do with a transfer portal one Michigan,
50:51
Michigan needs a quarterback. Michigan, of course, with a new head football
50:54
coach, a lot of guys off to the NFL Blake Corum, JJ McCarthy
50:58
and Moore. Michigan's right from two and four and twenty twenty to three straight
51:04
Big Ten titles in its first National championship since nineteen ninety seven could be pinned
51:07
on one reason. But transfers or can't be penned on one reason, but
51:12
transfer has certainly factored into the incredible turnaround. Michigan isn't a volume transfer team,
51:16
but has targeted key editions such as offensive lineman like center Oluwatami from Virginia,
51:24
offensive tackle Ladarius Henderson from Arizona State, and several others. The big
51:29
question this spring is what Michigan will do at quarterback after losing McCarthy to the
51:32
National Football League. Offensive coordinator Kurt Campbell, who worked with McCarthy and other
51:37
quarterbacks last fall, went through spring practice with a group that lacks field time
51:43
outside of seventh seventh year senior Jack Tuttle. He's from Indiana. No less,
51:50
Michigan would move forward with Tuttle or could move forward Tuttle. There's also
51:54
guys by the name of Alex Orgy, Jaden Denegall, and a few more
52:00
players on that roster, but they're going to be looking for a quarterback.
52:02
Although the Werverens have been a run centric, ball control offense, they are
52:07
the defending national champions and have a dynamic running back Donovan Edwards, an elite
52:13
tight end Colston Loveland, and we'll be looking for a quarterback. Washington Huskies
52:22
totally rebuilt Will Rogers' final season. They've got a fine offensive lineman. All
52:28
the programs affected by sabans retirement and the coaching dominoes that followed, Washington absorbed
52:32
the most immediate damage. The Huskies lost key players at several positions, but
52:37
especially along the offensive line that won the twenty twenty three Joe Moore Award as
52:42
the nation's best group. After coach Kellen of Bore's departure Alabama to Alabama,
52:45
Washington lost Julius Blow to Ole Miss, also Nate Kelpo to Ole Miss,
52:52
Gury and Hatchett to Oklahoma, Patrick Bresford to Alabama, and Jalen Kellum to
52:59
Arizona State. Washington dead at San Diego State, transferred Drew as a party
53:04
in December, and Michael Watkins following Jetfish as he headed to Washington from Arizona.
53:09
But overall depth is a major issue for Fish as they prepare for the
53:14
season. Offensive linemen are always a premium pickups in the portal, especially in
53:17
the spring, so Washington will have to be aggressive to find that. So
53:22
we'll see what they do there. We'll get into some other teams like Auburn
53:24
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gig at MH All right, other teams that are gonna need work in the
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transfer portal, you know Auburn be going after a quarterback. They finished one
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hundred and twenty first nationally in passing last season. Auburn made an offensive coordinator
55:07
change Philip Montgomery to Derek Nixon, promoted a new quarterback coach Ken Austen.
55:12
Despite some initial attempts to add a quarterback in the winter transfer portal or period,
55:16
the room stayed the same, and backup Robby Ashford transferred to South Carolina
55:21
underscored the need for another established quarterback. Auburn went through spring with Peyton Thorn,
55:25
who has three years of FBS starting experience and could recapture what he did
55:30
in twenty twenty one at Michigan State, which was thirty two hundred and forty
55:32
yards twenty seven touchdowns. Thorn worked with the first team offense and practiced the
55:37
spring and certainly could keep the job, but Auburn also saw middling performances from
55:45
him last season, so they could look into the transfer portal. The Tigers
55:50
added some help with the Georgia State white out Robert Lewis, Maryland tight end
55:54
Riko Walker, He's a very nice tight end, and Cal's Sam Jackson fourth.
56:00
The Miami Hurricanes will be looking for a running back in a defensive back
56:04
or two. Alabama's defensive backs are crazy. Alabama is a lot you realize
56:08
Alabama does not have a starting defensive back back, not one secondary is can
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we totally knew the best wide receiver gone. Telling you an eight and four
56:20
football team, how many games do you think Alabama's gonna win nine? I'm
56:28
still at nine and three, but I did not know that that every starting
56:37
defensive back was gone. And earlier, you know, when JM had texted
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in, we were talking about the quote undisciplined, and we were talking about
56:50
how the last two seasons a lot of times they sent they seemed undisciplined.
56:55
That was the defensive backs most of the time. So that doesn't sound good.
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They do return Malachi Moore, who had some time in the secondary.
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He'll be a possible captain this year. They do have two transfers right now,
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Domni Jackson from USSE and Keon sab from Michigan. So two guys that
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have some experience there. Kansas State will be looking for an offensive lineman,
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LSU be looking for defensive linemen. Just some needs there as you kind of
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chalk through the transfer portal needs six R one eight five, three seven seven
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six. That is a couple of milnes text one. When I get back
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into this. D'ber article on Yahoo sports dot com talking about the massive changes
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says Dubor's access and honesty is something a bit peculiar for someone in this role
57:45
because he is still somewhat unfamiliar with this role. The head coach of a
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blue blood at SEC powerhouse, earning ten million a year. Just six years
57:54
ago, he was an offensive coordinator at Fresno State. He spent just one
57:59
year of his career as a Power five coordinator Indiana twenty nineteen, and a
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decade ago, he was struggling to a three to twenty one record in his
58:07
first two seasons as a coordinator at Eastern Michigan. Quote, there are some
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moments where you said, this is hard to boord acknowledge. My first fifteen
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years of coaching, I averaged making around fifty thousand dollars a year, but
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a humbling upbringing at the group of five and NAIA levels has morphed into one
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of the most staggering starts as a head coaching career in recent college football history.
58:32
He's lost twelve games and nine seasons as a head coach so Falls,
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Fresno and Washington. He's won three championships, all in AIA and so Falls,
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three bowl games, five conference titles in a playoff berth. He's toot
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at some of the game's most recently brilliant quarterbacks and manned the sport's most electric
58:51
offenses. Now he's here at a place where the passion for college football is
58:54
unmatched. Where he arrived in January, two thousands of fans at the Tuscaloosave
59:00
Airport, where hundreds of donors showed up for the spring practice. For spring
59:04
practice, and they want to hear him speak. Quote. Everyone hangs onto
59:08
every word you say all the time, he said. The Boor is a
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father of two daughters, one high school senior and who will remain in Seattle
59:15
to play softball for Washington, and another sixth grader who's passion is horses.
59:21
The family will soon close on a home in Tuscaloosa, and next week will
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sell their home in Seattle. He's not ventured out much since arriving here.
59:29
I wonder if he's been to Dreamland. Do you think he has been to
59:30
Dreamland? If he's not ventured out much, if he likes good barbecue.
59:37
I don't know that they eat barbecue in Seattle. No, but they do
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in Tuscaloosa. But he's not from there, but he's there now. Therefore
59:52
he's been to Dreamland because it is an institution. All right, I'm trying
1:00:00
to poke fun at your constant. How you shattered my dreams years ago about
1:00:05
Dreamland. Well, you just got to go make the decision yourself. What
1:00:13
you're done with that. Let me tell you the top foods to eat in
1:00:15
Seattle, and you tell me if you think this man has ventured into Dreamland.
1:00:19
Oysters, duging his crab, lobster rolls, chowder, sushi, poke,
1:00:30
I don't even know what that is. The Seattle dog and tie.
1:00:34
Oh I love du genous crab. Did I say that right? I'm also
1:00:39
a fan of dungeness crab. Well emphasis emphasist. Do you think with this
1:00:45
diet this man is going to go to Dreamland? Well? Yeah, he's
1:00:51
got to assimilate himself to the locals. So you think he's just going to
1:00:55
morph himself into a barbecue nut. Yeah, because he ate that stuff because
1:01:05
it was there. But it's not. I wouldn't imagine that there's a ton
1:01:08
of that going on in Tuscalosa. I don't know. Maybe tuscal Loose is
1:01:13
upgraded, though I've never spent time there. Pt for Mshu dream lamp ain't
1:01:19
what it used to be. You need to just go find it for yourself.
1:01:25
Let's see, you've ruined it for me. I will never try it.
1:01:29
Oh, it says right here. I didn't even see this. I
1:01:30
hadn't got this far, says. He's not ventured out much since arriving here.
1:01:34
His sole focus is preparing the team for the from the facility to his
1:01:37
temporary on campus housing. Yes, he's gotten lost a couple of times,
1:01:43
and no, he hasn't yet tasted Alabama's famous barbecued ribs. There's the answer.
1:01:51
See, I just I don't know that this man, who is a
1:01:55
kale and tie eater from Seattle, who uses words like vibe, is gonna
1:02:04
fit. He feels more like he should have took the USC job if it
1:02:07
would have been open. Okay, all right, so far then, just
1:02:13
based on this while we've been talking about which sounds like a worse fit?
1:02:20
Is that this or when Brian Kelly pulled his stupid nonsense at LSU that time
1:02:27
or those couple times. Well, at least the boar hasn't come out with
1:02:30
a country accent yet. Could that be coming the rubber chicken circuit, the
1:02:35
speaking circuits here, it's fixed to be here, Supreme practice. Canna be
1:02:37
over? Did it's meet you know, boosters and go to all these functions
1:02:40
in the summer. Could we see Kaitlin de Bore bust out on the scene
1:02:45
in a with a country accent noe holding a spare rib in his left hand.
1:02:53
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Were you surprised Yukon walked off and lift Perdue the other night? The
1:04:59
way they did not? Really? I mean, they blew out everyone.
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It was one of the world's worst national championship games I've seen in a very
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very long time. I mean I felt bad for Edie. I mean,
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he just had no one around him could hit a shots. They looked at
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the guards, the tentative didn't want to shoot any threes. It was just
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a bad basketball. But I'm kind of glad because I stopped watching in the
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second half. I got to clean up some of my stuff on a DVR
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that's been on there since the DVR was invented. So I was kind of
1:05:30
glad at that, but very disappointed. I thought the women's National Championship game
1:05:32
was like ten times better than that one. Do you foresee what the numbers
1:05:38
in women's basketball? Is it, you know, exceeded and dwarf the men's
1:05:42
game. Is this just a bliph on the radar? Or can women's basketball
1:05:45
maintain this? I mean you've got to have players, You got to have
1:05:48
superstars. They had them this year. They can I mean South Carolina was
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still dominate, and if women's NCA was smart, they need to put all
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their eggs in page buckets over in Yukon. She's going to be back there,
1:06:02
so I'm hoping they're listening to the show because I know they're big fans
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of your show. Then, so they need to do tomorrow, next to
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next year. Just put all your money on page buckets. U Kon's going
1:06:13
to be good. They're going to be healthier. They got some college transfers
1:06:16
coming into that program as well, so they got two good storylines. They'll
1:06:20
have South Carolina. Can they go perfect again? They'll have u Kon and
1:06:26
you figure LSU will retool up and some really really good players in the transfer
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All right, John Cali Perry to Arkansas. Is that going to be more
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in line with Patino making a switch one team to the other one as the
1:06:47
championship? Or is he gonna Jimbo Fisher this thing like he did at Texas
1:06:50
Stadium. This all depends on the first year. I mean, if he
1:06:55
can get some players on it. But I think his style of basketball is
1:06:59
no longer no one had done. Are rare than they were when he first
1:07:03
started doing it. I know he's got Walmart money in Arkansas, so he's
1:07:08
going to be able to do a lot of stuff. But it's gonna be
1:07:12
very interesting to see what he does in Arkansas. I'm still blowing away that
1:07:15
Kentucky has not focused on one person and all that. I still think it's
1:07:19
Billy Donovan. I think once the Bulls season is over, I think a
1:07:24
longer Kentucky waits on announcing something long, the more it's going to be a
1:07:29
big name. It's not going to be anyone else. I think it's gonna
1:07:32
be a big name that they that they choose Partlet's shift gears Master's week off
1:07:38
to a start today a little late starts over there in Augusta. Everybody wants
1:07:41
to see Tiger Magic. He's at least want to check it in Earlier he
1:07:45
was playing, you know, under the number right now, But who do
1:07:46
you like this week? Can't he make a run? Does he have one
1:07:49
more? Anyway? Everybody's wanting one run. I did bet that he would
1:07:54
make the cuts. It was plus money, but now that he's probably not
1:07:57
going to finish the round, so we have to go early tomorrow and dango
1:08:00
again. Can that body do that? Disgusting wins right now? There's gonna
1:08:04
be even midger wins tomorrow on there, so that's probably gonna in there.
1:08:09
I'm hoping Scottie Scheffler wins, not because I'm a fan of him, because
1:08:14
we should be talking more about him. He was plus two fifty three to
1:08:17
one around that area to win it all. That's Tiger Woods price when he
1:08:23
was at his prime. So I'm hoping he wins it because we need to
1:08:27
talk about Scotty Scheffler more than we are talking about Tiger wos. Not no
1:08:30
disrespect to Tiger Woods, but hey, the trope the media needs to hand
1:08:35
it off to somebody. That's just because Tiger's granted. Every sportsbook I talked
1:08:40
to you today says that day Tiger Woods wins, they get crushed. I
1:08:43
mean, he's got I think four times the money before Brooks Koepka on there,
1:08:46
So the books get crushed. If Tiger wins, I don't think he's
1:08:49
gonna win. So I played he's gonna make the cut at plus I think
1:08:53
I got plus one of five. But I also backed it up that he
1:08:55
will withdraw at plus five fifty. So I backed up on that just because
1:09:00
if there's any weather and if I mean, I've had many surgeries him,
1:09:03
So I'm not saying that I don't like him, but I've had many surgeries
1:09:08
like he has. The body's going to ache if he has to go twice
1:09:11
tomorrow. All right, is talking season? The NFL drafts come up here
1:09:15
and just still be here before you know it. Tom Brady on a podcast
1:09:18
since he'd be open to a comeback, Is this real or not? No,
1:09:23
it's not real. I mean this is I can guarantee you. The
1:09:26
NFL sends emails out to active media members and active players to say something,
1:09:31
to steal the public, to steal the spotlights from other sports. He said
1:09:35
this because of this Master's Week. Last week we had to hear that NC
1:09:39
steak I can play offensive lineman. That's just the NFL stealing the line lights
1:09:43
from the Final four and all that. I don't believe any of this.
1:09:45
I believe that the NFL sends secret emails out today, want to be three
1:09:49
hundred and sixty five a day, talk of all the media. So no,
1:09:54
I don't believe there. You know, they have done a wonderful job
1:09:58
keeping the NFL relevant year round. I mean you look at the NFL season.
1:10:00
Oh yeah, they are brilliant. But I'm just I'm tired of it.
1:10:04
No, Tom Brady is not going to come back. I do like
1:10:08
this this theory that you have though, So you you think that purposefully the
1:10:12
NFL could be Wink Wink said, hey, look we've got to jump out
1:10:15
in front of this one. We got to jump out in front of this
1:10:16
Oh yeah, bar none. I would not It would not shock me at
1:10:20
all, because you have to think about the NFL has a lot of negative
1:10:25
in it. So we had we had to spit it around. No one's
1:10:27
talking about what the Kansas City Chiefs guy that could be going to jail for
1:10:30
a long time speeding in his Lamborghini. But no, Tom Brady's going to
1:10:33
come back. Hey, let's talk about that. This offensive lineman from NC
1:10:36
State playing basketball, let's talk about that. Is I can get it.
1:10:41
It wouldn't not shock me. I think there's probably more of that than everyone
1:10:44
thinking, oh, this game is fixed, this game is fixed. No.
1:10:46
I believe the NFL has secret feelers out there to steal the spotlight from
1:10:50
other sports. I like it. I do all right. If you're drafting,
1:10:55
and we'll get more of this as we get closer. One of these
1:10:57
top quarterbacks, who are you taking? If you had the Bears pick,
1:11:00
I had the Bears pick, I probably wouldn't take the one to me if
1:11:03
they're gonna take. I'm not sold on the LSU guy because he only had
1:11:08
one good year and he reminds me of Richardson last year. A bunch of
1:11:13
legs, and I might get hurt some. I mean, granted, I
1:11:15
hope he doesn't. Don't get me wrong on that. Man, I'm just
1:11:19
not one hundred percent sold on everyone thinks about these quarterbacks. I mean,
1:11:23
Drake may I thought he looks like an NFL quarterback with his big arm,
1:11:29
I would probably take I would take Caleb because if he is the next Patrick
1:11:34
Mahomes like what people say it is, and you miss out on him,
1:11:38
you lose careers and jobs if you don't. But I'm hoping for Michael Pennick
1:11:44
Junior to have a good say. I know he would be the number one
1:11:46
pick if his knees were, if he didn't get hurt all those years in
1:11:49
Indiana. I'd like the kid. He's left handed. I'm left handed.
1:11:53
I always cheer for sell balls. I would take Michael Pennick Junior just because
1:11:57
of that, and he went to Indiana like my sister did. All Right,
1:11:59
what else you go on this weekend? It's the Masters. I can't
1:12:02
believe we talked more football, but UFC three hundred is this weekend as well.
1:12:06
A NBA playoffs start next week. NHL as that, but it's just
1:12:11
a crazy week. I mean, the Masters will probably overshadow everything, unless
1:12:14
the NFL wants to steal that limelights. But I'll be watching the Masters in
1:12:18
UFC three hundred as I celebrate my mom's eightieth birthday. Likely of Bill Belichick
1:12:23
come back this weekend, right, oh, something like that Bill Belichick will
1:12:28
come back this weekend, or yeah, something will happen that the NFL will
1:12:31
steal the spotlights from the NFL Draft Bybocky dot ag finding there all the social
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channels as well as far as I appreciate it, we'll do it again next
1:12:40
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1:12:43
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let me get caught up over here on the Cowbo Meloornies text line. We're
1:13:48
talking about Kaylyn de Boor, and I've been going through this Yahoo Sports piece
1:13:54
on o Kaylan, Scottie Jake. Tuscaloosa in Alabama, which is a coastal
1:14:01
state. That is true. I'm not sure how far Tuscaloosa is from Gulf
1:14:06
Shores area, but we have those seafoods as well. No one wants to
1:14:11
go to cities like Seattle just to have seafood. That's silly. I understand
1:14:15
that. That's not my point. My point is, let me ask you
1:14:16
this, do you think let me get a couple more of these in here,
1:14:19
real quick, Jason and Flagstaff, good lord, Jake. Top five
1:14:25
does not equal all plenty of barbecue in Seattle. Let me ask you this.
1:14:29
My point is this Kelln has not had Kalyn de Boor has not had
1:14:32
barbecue yet. While there is great seafood in this region, that's not my
1:14:39
point. My point is that do you think that there are gravy down fries,
1:14:44
fried chicken, catfish, all that stuff in Seattle. I'm sure it
1:14:49
exists somewhere out there, but as prevalent as it is not to the not
1:14:56
the quality that it is here, I wouldn't guess. No, Well,
1:15:00
I'm sure there's some good stuff out there. It's Seattle, man, It's
1:15:05
not like it's a small place. It's a big place, but it's not.
1:15:10
It's not in the South, and they're famous for their fish markets and
1:15:14
seafood, so I'm sure that a lot of people would like to go out
1:15:17
there. Squad her so a lot of people would enjoy it. Looks like
1:15:24
a neat place. You gotta go out there. I don't want to go
1:15:27
to Seattle now because he does. He tried to type something, or I
1:15:32
think he said something that came out as a different word, But I think
1:15:36
I know what he's going for, and I'm with him on that. I
1:15:42
wouldn't want to go to Seattle. Okay, Bill or Billy Billy Morgan.
1:15:46
I feel a coaches tournament coming on based on food where they're from or something.
1:15:53
Maybe dog tired and Florence. I just laughed out loud. You just
1:15:58
listed position players that are neat did at different universities. Sounds like a Craigslist
1:16:02
post you post or some mean, let's let's you and I start weem's list
1:16:09
filling position players for all sports. Just imagine our first want ad wanted female
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springboard freestyle diver, like that, we got anything on the phones. Let's
1:16:18
see here, Miko, they do not have any of that type of food
1:16:26
out there at all. See I didn't think so. I mean, I'll
1:16:30
tell you this. I mean, you go into the Northeast and they don't
1:16:31
have it there. I've been there. You go out California, I don't
1:16:34
have it there. So I would figure Seattle, I don't know that you're
1:16:38
walking into like you know how North Brandon over in Flowood has like seven chicken
1:16:45
establishments within like a mile and a half. I don't know that you're getting
1:16:48
that in Seattle. Well you're not getting that. First off, there's so
1:16:57
much happening right now. Where did what did you say? They don't have
1:16:59
him Northeast. Oh, they don't have the kind of food we have done
1:17:02
here, not at like this. You're going to Rhode Island, Boston places,
1:17:09
I mean you're gonna have different STUFFA you have stuff that kind of They're
1:17:12
not going to be eating gravy fries, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, sweet
1:17:16
tea. Like, if you really want some bad sweet tea, order sweet
1:17:19
tea out in California. It's not sweet tea. Mo, you don't go
1:17:26
to a steak restaurant for seafood or vice versa. I want my oysters straight
1:17:30
out of the water. I agree with you, Mo, and I love
1:17:34
oysters. Nick. The only thing Seattle ever produced worth a flip was Lane
1:17:40
Staley and Chris Cornell roll tied Blair. I missed some of this conversation,
1:17:46
but Chuck's Fish and Tuscaloosa has some of the best seafood in the world.
1:17:49
It's FedEx weekly from Harbor Harbor Docks and Destin. Let's go to Winslow,
1:17:56
Winslow, Welcome in, Jake. How you doing, Buddy good? And
1:18:00
how about you, sir? Pretty good. Listen, my daughter lives in
1:18:03
Seattle. She's a graphic designer, went to an arts college, so she
1:18:09
fits right in out there. But we've been several times and it is a
1:18:15
beautiful city to visit. I can't tell you what it's like to live there,
1:18:18
but beautiful city to visit. The space needle and different things. They've
1:18:25
got a really nice waterfront. There's no beaches or anything, but you know,
1:18:30
it's it's a really neat place to go. But I'm what I'm calling
1:18:32
to tell you is that there's a Mississippi family up there who runs a southern
1:18:38
food, soul food restaurant that I have been to. So it's it's not
1:18:44
a whole lot of them, but there is a place that you can get
1:18:46
fried catfish and butter beans and black eyed peas and corn bread. How about
1:18:50
that. I mean, I'm sure it has its patrons that go there.
1:18:56
Yeah. Yeah, And ironically I discovered it own a group on or one
1:19:00
of those places, you know, and I called them to make sure they
1:19:04
were going to be open and everything, and of course the lady talked just
1:19:09
like I do, so you know, I felt like I was home already.
1:19:13
Very good. Thank you for that insight, all right, see you.
1:19:16
Thanks. I don't think if you, let's just say you were doing
1:19:19
this job in Seattle. Let's say you moved to Portland to our home base,
1:19:26
home base for Alphamedia Ground zero, and you were doing this, I
1:19:30
don't know that you would be able to venture to the local Cotsco or Kruger
1:19:33
to get the beef burgers that you like. It's probably going to be a
1:19:39
different type of burger that you would have to learn to like. No one
1:19:45
needs to go to Portland different type of beef burgers, a different type of
1:19:51
would they be burger all around? It may not even be beef, maybe
1:19:57
like a soy burger. I'm sure they have beef in Seattle. You have
1:20:00
eliminated food groups. Even though Jason and flag Staff and Winslow just told you
1:20:06
that it's out there. That's just not to the quantity of those restaurants we
1:20:14
have here because we're fat sacks who love our fried mayonnaise balls around here.
1:20:19
That's not what they do out there. You eat fried mini's balls. I
1:20:24
don't Is that a thing. I'm sure it is. And a lot of
1:20:28
places, Miko says Boston has nothing but clam chowder. That is. That
1:20:33
is a fact. You know. I told you I got snowed in up
1:20:35
there years and years ago on a work trip. It was one of the
1:20:41
at that time, one of the worst blizzards that came through. It was
1:20:43
in Rhode Island, and I got snowed into this hotel and it felt like
1:20:46
cheers. Every day. It was like four days and all they had to
1:20:50
eat, it felt like was clam chowder, clam chowder, water, and
1:20:56
weird beer. That was it. And every day in the afternoon for four
1:21:00
straight days, you'd go down to the little restaurant in the hotel and it
1:21:04
was nothing but people watching hockey, talking about hockey, and eating clam chowder.
1:21:12
Lot lying quite in existence. It's different, I'm telling you it's different.
1:21:18
Jason and Flagstaff. I hated Seattle. Downtown. Everywhere else, especially
1:21:24
just outside of town, is fine. The further you get away from downtown
1:21:28
Seattle and Tacoma, the more redneck it gets. Three Home Camel. They
1:21:34
only have beyond beef in Seattle. What do you think about? That sounds
1:21:43
about right? And Nick, as we get ready to go to break,
1:21:47
I'd rather have a dozen fried mayonnaise balls. They clab chowder man these fried
1:21:53
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five thirty all right, several topics today. Tom Brady toy with the world
1:23:47
saying he wants to possibly come back to the NFL. Obviously, Ojos Simpson
1:23:51
passed away late last night. Basketball, a lot of basketball talking, Calipari
1:23:59
to Arkansas, some NFL football, college football, more ed talking Kaylen de
1:24:02
Bor. This big piece on Yahoo about the differences between Kaylen de Boor and
1:24:08
Nick Saban six one eighty five three seven seven six as how you can Texas
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Well, that's not why we were talking about that. The reason we were
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talking about that was Kaylen de Boor and the difference and the culture shock from
1:24:32
Seattle and the north or Northwest versus Tuscaloosa. The fact that he hasn't even
1:24:38
tried barbecue yet, his approach, which is extremely different from Nick Saban,
1:24:44
down to the point of he's remodeling his office. The media can talk to
1:24:48
coaches. He has music on the field, it's just loose, and he
1:24:54
says words like vibe. He wants a great vibe in Tuscaloosa. So we'll
1:25:00
see, do you think Kirby Smart cares about his vibe? Okay, Now
1:25:08
there's a difference in the way you use it. So like when you meet
1:25:13
someone and you say, like, I don't get good vibes from this guy,
1:25:18
but then you say something to say something is a vibe. Now that's
1:25:25
where it sounds dumb. Do you think when Kirby Smart in Georgia go over
1:25:32
to tuscaloose Alabama and they will play Alabama, that is Kaitlin de Bor's first
1:25:40
SEC football game. It's not against Vanderbilt, it's not against South Carolina.
1:25:45
It's not against Florida or Missippi State or Ole miss It's Georgia that is going
1:25:53
to happen on September twenty eighth. Alabama should be three and oh unless they
1:25:57
trip up and lose again. Now, if they trip up and lose it
1:25:59
with consent, all of a sudden, thing's gonna get interesting. I don't
1:26:01
think that will. George is gonna come over there. They're gonna be a
1:26:04
favorite there already, like a I think it's a three and a half or
1:26:06
four point favorite. Georgia will beat them by two touchdowns. Do you think
1:26:13
Kirby Smart, when he walks off the field in his interview, will say,
1:26:17
I think we have left them with a negative vibe here. It feels
1:26:23
like Kirby Smart would latch onto this. Do you think he will say that?
1:26:30
Do you anticipate Kirby Smart going over there and wearing the boar out?
1:26:34
Because I do. You have to get baptized into the Southeastern Conference. Everybody
1:26:45
has Saban did back at LSU. Urban Meyer did it Florida. They went
1:26:50
down to LSU and got war out. There's articles about it, and when
1:26:55
they flew back, him and Dan Mullen and their staff were on the plane.
1:26:57
And I'm paraphrasing, but there was a we're out there, big article
1:27:00
ESPN did on it years ago. Tell me, hey, we gotta do
1:27:02
this different. This conference is different. I fully expect Kirby Smart to baptize
1:27:09
Kalyn to Borreld in September twenty eighth and beat the hell out Alabama. You
1:27:15
don't expect that. No, No, I expect them to win the game.
1:27:21
But I'm not going to go so far as on April eleventh to say
1:27:27
I think they're gonna beat the hell out of them. And I really don't
1:27:30
feel good about this. You sound like that what is that loose show?
1:27:35
True South with that real just super country sound, and yeah, it sounds
1:27:42
like something he would say. You've got to be baptized in the Southeastern Conference.
1:27:48
You are really okay, you know what, You're joining Sankie and making
1:27:54
me hate my own favorite conference. What do you mean because I told you
1:28:00
how, they're basically becoming the villains ever since, this whole SEC and Big
1:28:03
Ten. We deserve everything, we deserve it all. Give us unearned bids.
1:28:12
Give us the bids right now, guarantee us we are the SEC and
1:28:16
Big ten. And now you're using phrases like they gotta get baptized in the
1:28:23
Southeastern Conference. You gotta get baptized. Hey, get out of that club.
1:28:28
Don't go into that club. I mean I was in the Big ten
1:28:31
club last year. Believe it or not, I'm still kind of there.
1:28:34
I mean I picked Oregon win the whole thing. I'd rather you be,
1:28:36
like, go to the Big twelve club or something. They're just over there,
1:28:42
just doing what they can, trying to play games in Mexico. Yeah,
1:28:46
let's see here, Jason and flagstaff Alki beach West Seattle, mentally feeble,
1:28:55
blue haired. Let's see what did you send us here? What is
1:29:00
this? Jason? It's some weird building in the background with some weird miniature
1:29:06
version of the Statue of Liberty. I don't know what. I don't know
1:29:10
what this is. Let's see here, Nick, Nick, I can't say
1:29:19
that, Nick, can we? Yeah? You can can't put judgment on
1:29:26
somebody like that, can we? It was in reference O. J.
1:29:31
Simpson Bamma Bama fan. Jake's on that Georgia bandwagon. Not at all,
1:29:38
not at all unnamed texture. You guys sound as backwoods and as ignorant as
1:29:45
people in Seattle say you are. You got just you guys just proved me
1:29:48
wrong. Now what the hell does that mean? What did we say to
1:29:53
say we're backwoods? Look to say that Kaylin de Boor has a learning curve
1:29:58
in the SEC is not backwoods. There is a absolute learning curve in the
1:30:01
conference. Every coach that's come in the conference has had to have it.
1:30:05
Every coach Nick Saban had it, Unless Miles had it, Urban Meyer had
1:30:11
it, Dan Mullen had it. Even Steve Spurrier, which he's obviously from
1:30:14
the conference, spent some time at Duke. But I don't know that that
1:30:17
would mean that people. And here's the deal. Let me give you a
1:30:20
little secret I don't really care what anybody in Seattle thinks about us down here?
1:30:25
Do you do you care what people in Seattle think about the South?
1:30:30
Now? I've never really thought about it either, all right. Twenty twenty
1:30:32
four NFL Mock Draft two point zero four quarterbacks picked in the top five,
1:30:36
plus a lot of offensive lineman wide receiver in round one Pete Prisco cbssports dot
1:30:44
com. So when you look at as we head towards the draft, I
1:30:48
don't think we're gonna move off. Kayleb Williams to the Bears. That looks
1:30:50
like a done deal. There were some articles out today about a leaked jersey
1:30:57
already a jersey number. He's going to the Bears unless something just weird happens.
1:31:00
Jayden Daniels, it's back and forth. Jaden Daniels and Drake May to
1:31:04
Washington. They're gonna take one of those guys. But Jaden Daniels some field
1:31:10
would be the right fit in their system under Cliff Kingsbury. He can move
1:31:15
and also got pretty good pocket presence. JJ McCarthy third to the Patriots.
1:31:21
The Patriots feel like a place where he would probably land. Marvin Harrison Junior
1:31:28
to the Cardinals, that has been a projection for several months that the Cardinals
1:31:33
are going to try to get Kyler Murray a weapon, a big play weapon,
1:31:38
and Marvin Harrison Junior would come off the board at four. Number five,
1:31:41
Drake May to the Vikings, Now, did Hardball trade his pick?
1:31:45
Or is he told my trading his pick? He's trying to He's trying to
1:31:49
get people to move up now. It hasn't happened yet, seems like it
1:31:54
will before Draft Day and Malik Neighbors number six to the New York Football Giants.
1:32:00
Number seven, Joe Alt offensive tackle. That's been a pretty surefire pick
1:32:04
that the Titans are gonna go after an offensive lineman. H Dallas Turner,
1:32:09
edge rusher Alabama. A lot of people feel like the Falcons are gonna look
1:32:12
defense with their first pick, and with the Bears also at number nine,
1:32:15
O Donza Roma Dunza from Washington, that would make sense and either a dunsay,
1:32:21
it depends on if the Cardinals do take Harrison. They're gonna take Harrison
1:32:26
or a Donza looks like the other one fall to the Bears, which would
1:32:29
give the Bears a quarterback in a wide receiver. And then the Jets.
1:32:33
They have been pretty solid on projections for an offensive tackle throughout the spring.
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1:33:41
needs to let Joey Chestnut pitch this weekend. Maybe he can eat up some
1:33:45
innings. It's pretty good joke like that. You don't like that? It's
1:33:50
okay, JC those Jinks. Yeah, it was Jinks. Gator Matt with
1:33:56
an image. It's an OJ Simpson Hurts the Superstar in rental car. That's
1:34:03
a long time ago. That's probably like what nineteen eighty two, eighty three.
1:34:09
What do you think it's still better than the current Tom Brady Hurts commercial.
1:34:16
Oh? Is it bad thing? I haven't seen it. Oh,
1:34:18
I don't understand that. So they're spoofing on the Tom Cruise interview from like
1:34:25
two thousand and six when he was talking about Katie Holmes and when Katie Holmes
1:34:29
when he jumps on the couch, I love her, and he really went,
1:34:31
you don't remember this weirdo interview that he had? Seems like I do
1:34:35
remember vaguely that and he was it was real weird. And fast forward eighteen
1:34:42
years, seventeen years. I don't understand why it's the Why were they went
1:34:46
back to that very interesting hey with a second transfer portal window open when you
1:34:53
kind of look through some of these teams if you stay in the acc For
1:34:58
instance, do you realize Florida State had as about nineteen players. What you
1:35:02
got out there? Were you smoking at? Oh? You just just trucked
1:35:05
on past Seattle Man. Oh, Seattle Man's back. This is another instance,
1:35:12
by the way, I'm getting lumped with you. What do you mean?
1:35:15
I'm so see this is why I don't like talking. I get lumped
1:35:19
on here. You've been a part of the show, umped into this back.
1:35:24
Yeah. I try not to be as much, and you force it.
1:35:28
I mean you've been a part of the show almost eight years. You
1:35:30
believe that, right, eight or nine whatever it is? So now you
1:35:33
can't back out? Now, why do you want to back out of the
1:35:35
show? Them trying to back out. You won't let me back out.
1:35:39
You're not backing out. You're in. It's like once you're in your end,
1:35:43
once you're in the Hunger Games, you've got to play play to the
1:35:45
end. See eight years I've been hearing about the Hunger Games. Unnamed texture.
1:35:50
That was about what you were saying about Seattle. It was not accurate,
1:35:54
but still like the show. So what do you want to do?
1:35:58
You want to build a thing, and just over there I try to.
1:36:03
I mean, people want to hear you talk. They don't want to hear
1:36:05
me talk. Well, I don't know why you continue to say this.
1:36:08
They do everywhere I go. They want to know about Beaver. They don't
1:36:11
ask about me. They ask her I like ketchup on something. They ask
1:36:15
how you're doing Jason and Flagstaff. It's crazy how different regions of the country
1:36:18
hate each other. Other than a handful of huge cities with morons in charge,
1:36:25
it's generally the same everywhere. And that is true. That is absolutely
1:36:28
true. R et cetera. OJ and Naked Gun was one of the best
1:36:31
elite athlete movie roles of all time. Killer performance, Well done, rehet,
1:36:40
well done. That could be the text of the day that in Gator
1:36:44
Mats hurts supercar, Superstar and rent a car. All right, I'm not
1:36:49
going to make you talk right now. Florida State obviously with a big haul
1:36:53
in the transfer what Nope? What all right? Florida State with a big
1:37:00
hall in the transfer portal. Louisville with a massive hall in the transfer portal.
1:37:05
They've got upwards of a class twenty five to thirty and you know,
1:37:10
Louisvill' is a team to keep an eye on. I mean, they've got
1:37:12
some really good players in I mean they picked up two running backs, Done
1:37:15
Cheney from Miami, Penny Boon from Toledo, Jacorey Brooks wide receiver Alabama,
1:37:19
Tyler Show quarterback from Texas Tech. They're gonna make some noise. I still
1:37:24
don't know they're any better than eight and four to nine and three in that
1:37:26
conference. Of course, Miami is gonna continue to look for some guys.
1:37:29
They've picked up about ten North Carolina Manny Diaz. We're gonna see what he
1:37:36
can do at North Caro. Not North That's I'm sorry, Duke. North
1:37:39
Carolina. That picks up Max Johnson from Texas A and M. Darwin Barlow
1:37:44
running back USC, Max Johnson the tight end from Texas A and M,
1:37:48
and they picked up several offensive linemen n C State with a pretty good haull.
1:37:54
I'm just kind of looking through some of these SMU with a big haul.
1:37:59
Two pretty good ride receivers to go with their quarterback, Brashard Smith from
1:38:02
Miami and then Ashton Cozart from Oregon. Stanford only has two players from the
1:38:06
portal Clemson has none. Are we sleeping on Syracuse? Colm Accord over from
1:38:15
Ohio State, Jackson Meeks and Yazid Haynes wide receivers from Georgia going over to
1:38:23
Syracuse. Also an offensive lineman Joshua Miller from Georgia. I got a defensive
1:38:29
lineman from Alabama and from Texas A and m DB's from Wake Forest, LSU
1:38:33
and Buffalo. Virginia they've got I mean, look, Virginia's I saw something
1:38:41
that it was a couple of days ago. It was a special on the
1:38:45
ESPN Network of Families that was on the AEC network about Virginia. You know,
1:38:47
Virginia hasn't had a whole lot of success, but if you go back
1:38:50
into the seventies or eighties, they had a couple years where they were pretty
1:38:54
darn good number one of the country at one point. But that's just a
1:38:58
wastelam for football. They pick up avin freaks from New Mexico State to quarterback
1:39:03
Virginia Tech with just a handful of players. Same for Wake. When you
1:39:06
get into the Big twelve, of course you're going to go to Colorado.
1:39:12
Cincinnati made a big hall. Colorado's obviously got a massive hall and Central Florida
1:39:19
with a big hall very quietly. kJ Jefferson from Arkansas, Miles Montgomery running
1:39:25
back from Cincinnati, Goldie Lawrence, wide receiver from Florida State. A lot
1:39:30
of linebackers they picked up one, two, three, four linebackers, four
1:39:32
defensive backs. A lot of guys here. A lot of guys from Cincinnati
1:39:38
too, which is kind of weird. Indiana has picked up a lot.
1:39:43
Let's see Michigan only two. They expect to have a bigger haul here in
1:39:45
this abbreviated portal. Ohio state not as big, but they've just got bulk
1:39:53
quarterback from Kansas State, quarterback from Alabama, running back from Ole, Miss,
1:39:57
tight end from Ohio, offensive lineman from Alabama, and a defensive back
1:40:00
from Alabama. The semi rated Oregon with a really good haul. We know
1:40:05
about Dylan Gabriel and Dante Moore, the quarterbacks from Oklahoma and UCLA. Watch
1:40:13
and remember the name Jay Harris, a running back from north West Missouri State.
1:40:18
He tore it up in Northwest Missouri State and now he's playing in that
1:40:24
Oregon offense. With everything else. They got also Evan Stewart from Texas A
1:40:28
and m something that he's the best wide receiver in the portal. And let's
1:40:32
see, Penn State picked up a few, not many Rutgers, a few
1:40:35
ucla USC. You know what he marks. Mississippi State is out at USC.
1:40:42
He'll be playing with Lincoln Riley. Washington with a big Hall. Obviously
1:40:48
they needed it. Desmond Williams and from Arizona and Will Rogers quarterbacks. Also
1:40:56
Jonah Coleman running back from Arizona and Adam Mohans met from Arizona. Wide receiver
1:41:01
from California, Jeremiah Hunter, he was the best one on that roster.
1:41:04
Also wide receiver Audrey Harris from Arizona. A lot of Arizona guys transferred into
1:41:11
to Washington. And when you get into the sec of course, Alabama one,
1:41:15
two, three, four, five, six, seven, ten guys.
1:41:19
I don't know that they'll double that, but they're gonna take a lot.
1:41:23
Arkansas with an Ie Hall, Auburn with a decent Hall. Florida.
1:41:28
You know, Florida picked up a quarterback in the transfer portal, Clay Millan
1:41:30
from Colorado State got her matter. I wonder if he's gonna be your guy.
1:41:34
Georgia with the only ten guys Missisippi state, of course. We know
1:41:42
they've got a nice, nice haul old mess. We know about them Missouri
1:41:47
and Oklahoma. Oklahoma's picked up a lot of guys, a lot of guys
1:41:50
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sir. How you doing, Jacob doing great? Thank you so much
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for having me on tonight. Hey, I appreciate you as always. All
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Right, So it's springtime. It's race season, which means Talladega Superspeedway,
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the Guyico five hundred, A lot of people excited about it. We've been
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running promos, gonna be doing giveaways here, getting people ready to go.
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Big, big weekend coming up with you guys. It is Yeah, it's
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right around the corner. Next weekend, the April nineteenth, twentieth and twenty
1:43:21
first, NASCAR invades Talladega super Speedway again and the fans are already lining up
1:43:27
here. We've got our outside campgrounds open up on Monday, and we actually
1:43:30
have RVs that are already staged on Speedway Boulevard looking to get into our campgrounds.
1:43:35
Talk a little bit, and we've talked about this with you before,
1:43:38
as you got about nine days if you go to the website Taladego Superspeedway dot
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com the countdown clock there. But how I mean, this has always been
1:43:44
a big event, but I mean you talk about people coming in on Monday,
1:43:46
I mean it is a week long, I mean event, fun event,
1:43:51
not just for adults, for kids and only so much to do and
1:43:55
talk to us a little bit about what people can do when they come over
1:43:57
there. Yeah, you're exactly right. We actually welcome the world to Talladega,
1:44:01
Alabama next weekend. So we'll have all fifty states will be represented here
1:44:06
and twenty five to twenty different countries will purchase tickets and come out here to
1:44:10
Talladega super Speedway. So it's a massive event. It's twice a year.
1:44:15
We've become the fifth largest city inside the state of Alabama, and our little
1:44:17
Talladega Municipal Airport begin ends up being the busiest airport in the state of Alabama
1:44:25
as well. We got activities that are going all weekend long. Of course,
1:44:29
the track activity starts on Friday. We've got a doubleheader race on Saturday.
1:44:32
Cup cars also qualify on Saturday, and then the Big Geico five hundred
1:44:36
on Sunday. We also have a Saturday night inside infield concert featuring Walker Hayes.
1:44:44
It's going to be a great performance from Walker and then after that you
1:44:47
walk up and down the boulevard. It's a cool place to be we got
1:44:50
a big concert also on Saturday or Friday night, excuse me as well.
1:44:55
Lots of drivers will be out there and participating with some question answers too.
1:45:00
And then we've got Talidega Garage Experience, which is a fifty million dollar renovation.
1:45:04
We basically built this amusement park around the garages, so fans walk in
1:45:10
one side of the garage building, cars coming the other side of the garage
1:45:14
building, all open air. The only thing that separates you from the nose
1:45:16
of that race car is about five feet in a four foot high fence.
1:45:19
It's it's the best way to get as close as possible to the sport.
1:45:24
You're basically in the locker room having a conversation with pet Track President Brian Christian
1:45:29
of Talladega super Speedway. Of course, you got the guy go five hundred
1:45:30
next weekend. Got a Taladega Superspeedway dot com to learn more. Brian,
1:45:35
talk a little bit about you know, hospitality. I know you guys as
1:45:40
you should and do a great job with it. Pridens yourself on the hospitality
1:45:44
aspect. Obviously, the racist center front and center, that's why everybody's there.
1:45:46
But the hospitality aspect of it now. You've alady talked a little bit
1:45:48
about the garage experience and other stuff, but so much more stuff to do
1:45:53
for the kids aspect to you know, bringing the children up through teaching them
1:45:56
about what's going on with racing, hospitality and more. Donet get any better
1:46:00
in the South, and it doesn't getting better than Talladego exactly right. And
1:46:03
that's you know, one of our you know, our main focus is the
1:46:06
guest experience here at Talladega Super Speedway. We want to make sure everybody that
1:46:10
comes out just has an amazing time and they leave happy. We've got a
1:46:15
great display area that also opens up on Friday, Lots of different activities,
1:46:19
lots of swag that's given away there. NASCAR's got a kid zone in there
1:46:24
where they can drive little go karts. Also a stage there for question answer
1:46:30
sessions, lots of information about NASCAR for the novice all the way up to
1:46:33
the you know, the experienced NASCAR fan. We'll have our Chevy display will
1:46:38
be out there for display, will be out there, Toyota display. Just
1:46:42
lots of fun activity is going there and it's all free. That's all free.
1:46:45
You don't even have to have to have a ticket. To go into
1:46:47
our display area on Saturday. Kids twelve and under are free and tickets start
1:46:53
at just forty five dollars. One of the other things we do for fans
1:46:56
for this guest experience is we allow every single person the ability to bring in
1:47:00
a fourteen by fourteen by fourteen inch soft sided cooler. You can have any
1:47:05
food, any drink you want in that cooler. No glass please, but
1:47:10
any food, any drink in that cooler and come in. Is just just
1:47:13
another way we make it affordable for the fan to come out and enjoy NASCAR
1:47:16
racing. Don You kind of went exactly where I wanted to go next this
1:47:19
Masters week. So a lot of people talk about, you know, hey,
1:47:23
if you can get into the Masters, the food and everything is pretty
1:47:26
pretty affordable. We know if you go to college football games, it's getting
1:47:29
out priced. NFL, it's extremely expensive. You go down the line here,
1:47:32
Major League Baseball, NBA. But when you talk about what you guys
1:47:35
do with a cooler experience, you can bring that in. It is a
1:47:39
very affordable ticket, one of the more affordable tickets in sports. Yeah,
1:47:44
it is. And as I mentioned earlier, you know, tickets are free
1:47:46
for kids twelve and under on Saturday, and they started just fifteen dollars on
1:47:50
Sunday inside a Talladay Garage experience. We actually have value price concessions, so
1:47:57
two dollars bottles of water, two dollars coke product, two dollars hot dogs,
1:48:00
four dollars chicken finger and fry platters. I don't even think you can
1:48:03
get that at you know, a local fast food restaurant around here. And
1:48:08
then one of my favorites and don't tell too many people this, but four
1:48:11
dollars sixteen ounce beers, so you know, again, just making it affordable
1:48:16
for the family to come out and enjoy a day at the racetrack from you
1:48:20
know, from start to finish. Check them out Talladega Superspeedway dot com.
1:48:25
We'll be sending people over there next week. Brian. We appreciate you guys
1:48:28
is always look forward to a fun weekend next weekend with the Geico five hundred.
1:48:30
We'll visit again soon. Great. Thank you so much for having me
1:48:33
on. Appreciate your support of Talladega Super Speedway in NASCAR. Thanks so much,
1:48:38
Brian Christian, Track President, Talladega super Speedway. I still want to
1:48:42
see you put the FISTA on the Talladega track. Why just to run it
1:48:49
wide open? Like, what's the I think we've talked about this, but
1:48:53
I can't remember. What's the highest rate of speed you ever had that thing
1:48:56
up? Too? Highest I've done on there? Maybe ninety? Does that
1:49:05
thing rattle at ninety? Probably? I'm sure it did. I can't remember
1:49:11
because I probably blocked it out and just didn't want to hear it as it
1:49:15
was happening. I would love to see you just put that thing to the
1:49:18
limit. Seriously, I think it'd be fun like to really see that thing
1:49:25
around a racetrack. You and a helmet, maybe put a dog in the
1:49:29
seat, in the seat belt, and just get it going around the track.
1:49:31
Whoa, why are we bringing a dog into this? I just I
1:49:34
mean that's they're putting the dog in danger because the fist is gonna it's not
1:49:41
gonna end well if it gets on a racetrack. Let's see ugly mustard fried
1:49:48
Manna's balls. Pretty sure that's backwoods. Also, don't give one blank what
1:49:55
Seattle thinks of us. One crap, one bleep. Jason Jacob Beeve,
1:50:00
do you ever feel like everyone around you and society as a whole, is
1:50:05
getting progressively dumber. Yes, what do you think be pockets? For sure?
1:50:13
Yeah, not everyone, but not everyone. It it feels like it's
1:50:17
everyone just because we see it so often. Do we have a above average
1:50:21
intelligence level on this show? I feel like we do on this show.
1:50:26
Yeah, with people like j. C. Possum, Nick Joe. I
1:50:30
feel like Seattle just told you. Nah, I said above average. So
1:50:35
when you average, you know, you get to bottoms in the tops and
1:50:40
you bring it to whatever that average is. Let's see here unnamed texture sixty
1:50:45
three downhill, So maybe that is true, right, Yeah, maybe you
1:50:51
get on some of those downhill you know turns at Talladego you can put sixty
1:50:57
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today. All right, let's see here. Jason Flagstaff says I'm definitely average
1:53:02
intelligence, averager, carpentry skills, etc. There you go. All right,
1:53:09
let's see here, got a few minutes left. Let's see what else
1:53:12
we can find that's out there. Dion Sanders claims to know players draft slots
1:53:17
are manipulated by NFL teams. What do you think about this one thing we
1:53:24
know about Colorado? Buffalo's head coach Dion Sanders is that he isn't afraid to
1:53:28
express his opinion on something. Coach Prime is especially outspoken these days when it
1:53:31
comes to recruiting education in the National Football League Draft. It was the latter
1:53:39
that the Pro Football Hall of Famer addressed this week on the front off of
1:53:42
Sports Today podcast. During the conversation, Deon Sanders expressed how he believes that
1:53:48
the NFL draft is manipulated. Quote, you have guys that are slated to
1:53:54
go and slot slotted to go at this number pick. He says, ramdoly,
1:54:00
something comes out that they flaunked their drug test, or that this type
1:54:04
of injury, or that they're seen with this and this and that wildly this
1:54:10
wildly that their draft grade drops later in the round and the next round.
1:54:15
How does this happen? How does this mysteriously come out right at the draft?
1:54:20
I think he's referring to, like the Lermie Tuzzle thing. How did
1:54:27
that happen? Like how did that drop? Which means we know that his
1:54:30
accounts were hacked and that kind of stuff. He goes on to say,
1:54:33
that's even more harsh than players refusing to sign with teams because now you're affecting
1:54:40
somebody's livelihood and you're putting a tremendous rumor on somebody that may not even be
1:54:44
true. So that's that's done every year. The reason I know is that
1:54:49
I worked the draft for about ten to twelve years straight. I know that
1:54:53
to be true. So let me stop. There is Dion Sanders saying that
1:54:57
he manipulated the draft himself. How he you think he did it? Well?
1:55:05
Says he says, he worked it for ten to twelve years. Well,
1:55:11
these story is stories leaked. I don't I wouldn't put that on him.
1:55:16
I don't think he would. I don't think he would be leaking these
1:55:20
stories. During last month's appearance on the Million Dollars Worth of Game podcast,
1:55:28
Sanders said that one, if not all, of the teams that he does
1:55:30
not want to draft them UH is picking in the top four spots. He
1:55:35
plans to eli the pick with Travis Hunter and shador. I feel like Dion
1:55:42
is just working the draft right now himself, is what he's doing. What
1:55:45
do you think? Yeah, Okay, yeah, you want to Okay,
1:55:46
I get it. You talk about, oh, they're manipulated, You're that
1:55:50
is you're trying to manipulate. Is that? Is that what he's doing right
1:55:56
now? Yes, I didn't even think about it until you just put that
1:56:00
out there, because that's what you're doing. You're talking about Oh man,
1:56:04
these it's manipulated. It gets manipulated. You're trying to manipulate who does or
1:56:10
doesn't pick your son or sons because do you think everyone in your family is
1:56:15
just an NFL star? Apparently, Aaron Rodgers reveals just how dark it got
1:56:20
for him pun intended after tearing his achilles. Of course, Aaron Rodgers has
1:56:27
revealed that he thought his NFL days were over, which they still might be,
1:56:31
as he's yet to return to professional football after tearing an achilles in the
1:56:35
Week one game of twenty twenty three. During a recent appearance of the Can
1:56:40
I Can Fly podcast, It's some of these podcast names, speaking over two
1:56:45
and a half hours, revealed that tearing his achilles just after four snaps with
1:56:48
the New York Jets was one of the most heartbreaking moments of his life and
1:56:53
he thought his career was over. Quote. I had this incredible offseason experience
1:56:57
in a new city, a new town, with the new teammates, a
1:57:00
new organization, an owner for the first time and really falling back in love
1:57:06
with the game. And he continues on toes said, and first I tell
1:57:10
you I fell in love when I was when I was five years old.
1:57:14
It was absolutely beautiful, special, deep and rich, yummy. It's weird
1:57:19
and just incredible. And then one of the most heartbreaking nights of my life
1:57:24
when I played four plays talk about an ego death. I was really thinking,
1:57:30
this is it. He don't come back from this injury. Despite teasing
1:57:33
the NFL world that he was attempting to come back before the end of the
1:57:38
campaign, The four time NFL MVP ultimately stayed sideline for the rest of the
1:57:43
season. But he goes on to talk about how dark of a time.
1:57:46
Why is Aaron Rodgers was talking about darkness? It's very weird. I would
1:57:53
be honest, I kind of tuned out after you drop the word yummy.
1:57:57
That's Aaron's word, not mine. What is he talking about? What is
1:58:00
he describing as yummy? His love for football? It started at five and
1:58:05
it was beautiful and wild and yummy. You're a grown ass man and you're
1:58:13
describing something that's not food as yummy. That's pretty weird. Miko, Is
1:58:21
this why Aaron went into that darkness retreat that he did. See You're in
1:58:27
my head, Miko, I was one of the same thing. Let's go
1:58:30
full circle here. When Kaylin de Boor finally tastes ribs, will he refer
1:58:34
to them as yummy? No, this guy says vibe. I don't think
1:58:40
he's gonna drop a I don't want to say that word so stupid. J
1:58:47
C was Rogers high on mushrooms when he said this. He could have been
1:58:51
right. He could have been coming out of a Will he do another darkness
1:58:55
retreat this summer? Oh he had already talked about Well no, maybe it
1:59:00
wasn't a darkness to retreat. He was talking about going on another another trip
1:59:05
to take Ashawa Gandha or wait is that what it was? I can't remember,
1:59:12
but you know, you know what I speak of Hogjile. Aaron is
1:59:16
a very dark person, very weird. Would you can classify him as weird?
1:59:23
Some stuff, little little odd? Yeah, yeah, everyone's got their
1:59:29
thing. Everyone's a little odd in some areas. Yeah, now they are.
1:59:31
Let's see if we missed anything before we get out of here today.
1:59:38
Yeah, it's crazy to look at the mixed reactions on OJ Simpson, and
1:59:42
I think Bill Bender nailed that. I said, he said, you know,
1:59:45
the young generation, I don't think they really even care because they didn't
1:59:47
really know who he was. If you get back to people like mid forties,
1:59:51
they remember not so much the playing career. They remember everything that happened
1:59:56
in the ninety four deal with his wife and the murder and all that kind
1:59:59
of stuff. If you go back to even older generation, they remember it
2:00:01
was a football player, and like literally what I remember everything in ninety four
2:00:05
and then he was in Naked Gun and Airplane and all that stuff as an
2:00:11
actor. All right, let's see here. I think. I think that
2:00:16
is all I have. You're gonna watch the Masters, go back, go
2:00:19
home and watch the highlights tonight. Now, what's on your watching schedule tonight?
2:00:27
It's Thursday, So I don't I don't row. I don't really have
2:00:30
anything that comes on Thursdays. Office re runs, No, I can't take
2:00:36
those. What I can only I can only sit through about maybe maybe ten
2:00:43
minutes of an episode these days. Klay Travis says, this is we get
2:00:48
ready to get out of here. He says, he you don't understand why
2:00:50
Kentucky wouldn't go after Bruce Pearl, what do you think about that? It's
2:00:56
not a bad idea at all. I'm a little shocked Kentucky is having this
2:00:59
hard time to find out a basketball coach again. That makes me wonder what's
2:01:02
really going on there. And of course he says, either that or bring
2:01:06
back Rick Patino. I mean, you could always go that route, all
2:01:11
right. We appreciate Bill Bender, Ryphila Sparza and Brian Crichton jumping in.
2:01:15
Remember catch up as King Bacon the Delicacy and Aloha means goodbye, be a
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2:01:23
Have some other stuff going on as we look towards the weekend. Have a
2:01:27
great Thursday night. Good night,