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Lane Kiffin’s Eligibility Fight, Joe Burrow Predicts Super Bowl Win, and LA Rams Owner Stan Kroenke Buying the Angels · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 2: Blaine Kiffin, the bad boy of college football.
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  Speaker 1: He is at it again. So he is no longer
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  Speaker 1: at Ole Miss. played Ole Miss. Now he is at LSU.
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  Speaker 1: And we talked about this, I believe, last week.
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  Speaker 2: Or maybe two weeks ago about the players who had
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  Speaker 2: left the NFL and decided to go back for their
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  Speaker 2: fifth year of eligibility in college football. Now, I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: sure how crazy that story was going to get if
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  Speaker 2: it was just some technical stuff that wasn't going to
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  Speaker 2: really cause a big uproar.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it has. And now college football.
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  Speaker 2: And the SEC and the Big Ten and everyone is
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  Speaker 2: arguing with Lane Kiffin about his right to use these players.
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  Speaker 2: And he is not giving it up without a fight.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to roster and play these guys that were
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  Speaker 2: cut from NFL teams this offseason. But on Thursday, a
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  Speaker 2: Baton Rouge judge can either uphold the temporary restraining order,
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  Speaker 2: which prohibits the SEC and Commissioner Greg Sankey from punishing
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  Speaker 2: schools if they play a football player who is added
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  Speaker 2: to the roster after signing with an NFL team, or
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  Speaker 2: the judge can reverse the decision. So we talked about
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  Speaker 2: it before, but basically, It's legal.
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  Speaker 1: They have a fifth year of eligibility.
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  Speaker 2: And the SEC, Big Ten has also agreed to this,
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  Speaker 2: but obviously LSU plays in the SEC, so that's why
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  Speaker 2: it's pertinent to this, has said that they will sanction
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  Speaker 2: and punish teams that add players that have been rostered
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  Speaker 2: with an NFL team, a WNBA team, or an NBA team. So,
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  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin is at the center of the story. He
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  Speaker 2: continues to pursue these rookies and to get them back
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  Speaker 2: on the roster with a fifth year of eligibility, and
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  Speaker 2: the SEC is fighting to stop him. Kiffin said that
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  Speaker 2: tight end Daquan Wright has been practicing with the team,
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  Speaker 2: and he talked about how support from his players and
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  Speaker 2: his effort has kept the wind in his sails. He said, quote,
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  Speaker 2: every one of them was emphatic about it. If they
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  Speaker 2: can help us win, bring them. That's what he told
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  Speaker 2: reporters at the press conference on Monday. He said, we
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  Speaker 2: understand we have a team that's practiced together and worked
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  Speaker 2: together all season, but one of them said, hey, if
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  Speaker 2: this is how it works at the next level, and
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  Speaker 2: this is how the real world works, So that made
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  Speaker 2: me feel a little better in.
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  Speaker 1: The struggle and being torn back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: Now, listen, we know the power that a man like
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  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin has over an organization. So I have a
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  Speaker 2: very hard time believing that any of his players, even
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  Speaker 2: if they do feel strongly that Daquan Wright shouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: back or the other players, that they were going to
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  Speaker 2: stand up to him and tell him no. It would
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  Speaker 2: have to be probably a unanimous voice from the players
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  Speaker 2: that they didn't want this On the flip side, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: Kiffin's former co-worker at USC, Steve Sarkeesian, the Texas head coach,
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  Speaker 2: has weighed in, obviously strongly against Kiffin's mission, saying, I
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  Speaker 2: just can't spend all day looking at Twitter or X
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  Speaker 2: to see what the next court ruling is.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody out there is going to take a player off
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  Speaker 2: an NFL roster and tell somebody who's been doing it
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  Speaker 2: for nine months to go kick rocks, this doesn't sit
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  Speaker 2: well for me. I think that is wrong. That morally
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  Speaker 2: is wrong. And that is the other point of this
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  Speaker 2: as well. Obviously, there are student athletes who have been
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  Speaker 2: in the building who are fighting for those positions. and
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  Speaker 2: have not, obviously, gone up to try and play in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL, who are likely going to lose their position. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot going on here. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different ways to look at it. I mean, when you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the pressure that's on somebody like A. Lane Kiffin,
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  Speaker 2: knowing the way that he left LSU, knowing the pressure
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  Speaker 2: that coaching at LSU, leaving Ole Miss, and knowing the
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  Speaker 2: pressure that being a coach at LSU brings, yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: might start doing... some things that people do not appreciate.
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  Speaker 2: And as far as the players go, yeah, that's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty crappy thing to hear that your coach isn't valuing
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  Speaker 2: the work that you put in and is bringing in
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  Speaker 2: somebody who has gone to the NFL. Now, on the
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  Speaker 2: other hand, I do think if you go If this
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  Speaker 2: is legal and you declare for the NFL and you
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  Speaker 2: do not make the NFL roster and you have a
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  Speaker 2: fifth year of eligibility, you should be able to go
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  Speaker 2: back and play. So there are a lot of different
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  Speaker 2: ways to look at this. And the judge is going
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  Speaker 2: to decide what is legal. And if it is legal,
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  Speaker 2: then I don't know what kind of recourse the SEC
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  Speaker 2: or any of these conferences has if they legally can
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  Speaker 2: be allowed to play.
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  Speaker 1: So this is getting really sticky.
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  Speaker 2: And depending on how this ruling goes, I think it
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  Speaker 2: will really change how people are looking at the amateurism
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  Speaker 2: of college sports in general, not just college football on
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  Speaker 2: a real level past NIL. And again, I think that
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  Speaker 2: all of this NIL confusion and all of these rulings
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  Speaker 2: and rules and eligibility and It's all been very murky
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  Speaker 2: since 2020. It's all been very murky since NIL became
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  Speaker 2: a thing and the NCAA did a horrible job of
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  Speaker 2: setting college sports up for this change. So it's not
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  Speaker 2: surprising to me that they're in this situation. Kiffin also
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have to make cuts to add the new players
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  Speaker 2: under the 105-man roster because his Tigers were already under
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  Speaker 2: that cap. And he did say that if the ruling
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  Speaker 2: is reversed, that of course LSU will follow the SEC
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  Speaker 2: rules and there's never been any intent nor there will
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  Speaker 2: be to play and an eligible athlete. So we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: He said he talked to the players committee, presented the situation.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that that's really the most transparent or
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  Speaker 2: honest conversation that you can expect to have to go
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  Speaker 2: up there and tell Lane Kiffin you don't like what
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  Speaker 2: he's doing. We'll see how it all plays out for
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  Speaker 2: him and what it means for college football moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: But it's turned into a really big situation. So let's
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  Speaker 1: move from college to the pros.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's really for a very long time been
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a frowned upon thing to talk too
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  Speaker 2: much about the Super Bowl and what your expectations are
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  Speaker 2: before the season. But he is one of those guys
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  Speaker 2: that has bucked the system for a while.
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  Speaker 1: And that's Joe Burrow.
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  Speaker 2: He is not just talking about having a good season
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  Speaker 2: in year seven. He is talking about going to the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl and winning the Super Bowl. He said, I've
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  Speaker 2: never understood why people are scared to say it. I
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  Speaker 2: guess people get scared of how the media will portray
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  Speaker 2: them or their team in.
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  Speaker 1: A certain way. But you have to set expectations with yourself,
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  Speaker 1: your teammates, your organization.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody says they want to win the Super Bowl. You
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  Speaker 2: talk about it every day. You set that expectation every day.
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  Speaker 2: You go and work for it every single day.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: The answer to that for everybody, but that's what I
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  Speaker 2: want to do. That's what I'm trying to do. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what I do this for. I won the championship
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  Speaker 2: in college and there's no freaking better feeling in that.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't talk about it, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how you can do it. I do understand what he's saying.
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  Speaker 2: The apprehension that people have for talking about the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: They're sort of like this, like, you know, don't mention
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  Speaker 2: it publicly. Don't say it to the media. Then they're
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  Speaker 2: going to put these expectations on you. But there's been
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  Speaker 2: those expectations on Joe Burrow and the Bengals since they
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  Speaker 2: went to the Super Bowl. They set the standard for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: So we've been talking about them getting back to and
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  Speaker 2: winning a.
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl regardless. And I actually agree with him. I
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  Speaker 1: do think that you should say your goals out loud.
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  Speaker 1: I think you should be talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: I think you should be saying that, hey, this is
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  Speaker 2: our goal and anything less than that is unacceptable. Like,
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  Speaker 2: put that out into the ether. Make sure that you're
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  Speaker 2: enforcing that every day within the building. And I'm okay
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  Speaker 2: with him saying this. And they are in a year
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  Speaker 2: where the expectations should be high. No star wide receiver
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  Speaker 2: holdouts or hold-ins, no lingering injuries, a defense that should
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  Speaker 2: be on the rise. offensive line that has a chance
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  Speaker 2: to protect him this year. And being a player that
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  Speaker 2: was a part of one of the most epic college
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  Speaker 2: championship runs, as he mentioned at LSU, someone that came
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  Speaker 2: in and turned a losing organization around and took them
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  Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl in really spectacular fashion with the Bengals.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to see them back at the top.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to see him have a healthy season. I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to see them have a complete team. and be
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  Speaker 2: back in the conversation. For me, the best players should
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  Speaker 2: be in the Super Bowl conversation. And even if the
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  Speaker 2: Bengals are a team that has struggled as of late
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  Speaker 2: and has struggled to get back to the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: this is a year that those expectations should be high.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to seeing what.
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  Speaker 1: They do this year.
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  Speaker 2: And if they can remain healthy, I think they should
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  Speaker 2: be absolutely in the mix to get to a Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl and win it. And they should be talking about it. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: some more LA sports news. Stan Kroenke has agreed to
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  Speaker 2: purchase controlling interest of the Los Angeles Angels at a
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  Speaker 2: valuation of $ 4 billion. Now you might be like, well,
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  Speaker 2: I really don't care about a billionaire buying another team.
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  Speaker 1: But Stan Kroenke is not your average owner. He already owns.
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  Speaker 2: the NFL favorites to win the Super Bowl this year
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  Speaker 2: in the LA Rams, as well as the Denver Nuggets,
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  Speaker 2: as well as the Colorado Avalanche, as well as the
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  Speaker 2: Colorado Rapids of the MLS, and Arsenal of the Premier League.
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  Speaker 2: Kroenke Sports and Entertainment has delivered championships to all of
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  Speaker 2: those franchises, including most recently Arsenal, who are the reigning
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  Speaker 2: Premier League champions. He said, the Angels are a storied
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  Speaker 2: franchise anchored in a great market. We look forward to
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  Speaker 2: an exciting future with the Angels organization. Now, the Angels,
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  Speaker 2: as of recent, have been known for failing to capitalize
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  Speaker 2: on the incredible career of Mike Trout and tricking off
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  Speaker 2: Shohei Otani. So I find this to be very interesting
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  Speaker 2: as a purchase for Kroenke and Kroenke Sports and Entertainment
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  Speaker 2: because they are the ownership group. Like, they produce championships.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, all those organizations have won championships recently.
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  Speaker 2: They are all in the conversation for championships. They are
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  Speaker 2: extremely well run. He is not a cheap owner.
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  Speaker 1: He is, not.
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  Speaker 2: Really known for meddling, but is involved just enough to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that the coaches and the organization knows what
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  Speaker 2: the standards are and that if they're going to take risks,
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  Speaker 2: they need to be educated. He hires very well. So
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  Speaker 2: I think this is a really interesting move. for Cronky
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  Speaker 2: and for the Angels.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I wouldn't be.
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  Speaker 2: Surprised if there's sleeping changes to the organization and that
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  Speaker 2: they have some success in not that far off in
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  Speaker 2: the future because Cronky has proven to be one of
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  Speaker 2: the greatest owners in sports and he really, really produces results.
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  Speaker 2: So congrats to Angels fans. You've got a great owner
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  Speaker 2: and a winning owner at that. So We will see
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  Speaker 2: what he ends up doing with the Angels, but the
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  Speaker 2: proof is in the pudding when it comes to that
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  Speaker 2: ownership group.
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