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The NCAA penalizes Michigan: Was it enough? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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I know Giant fans are interested to hear what I have to say
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Who? And obviously the kids got a
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So I, I enjoyed watching Jackson Dart.
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I'm actually becoming a Jackson Dart fan.
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I am not a Giant fan, but I like the kid.
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I like his personality. I like what he has to say and
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he's going to be an intriguing guy to watch for the next couple
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of years. If you're a Giant fan, you
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should be very, very excited. But just say Michigan football
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gets a heavy financial sanction from the NCAA.
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The University of Michigan football program was punished by
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the NCAA on Friday for their now infamous sign stealing scandal
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dating back to before their 2023 national championship.
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Michigan was hit with fines that could exceed to $35 million and
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are prohibited from communicating with recruits for
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14 weeks at the start of the recruiting process window.
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Former head coach Jim Harbaugh was given a 10 year show cause
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penalty while Connor Stallions, the assistant coach behind the
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sign stealing scheme, received an 8 year ban.
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Former assistant coach and Michigan quarterback Denard
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Robinson received a three-year ban.
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The NCAA added one game onto the current head coach.
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Sharon Moore's self-imposed 2 game suspension that will be
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served in the 2026 season. The NCAA stop short of giving
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Michigan any post season penalties as they didn't want to
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penalize players, saying financial penalties were more
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appropriate. Jim Harbaugh, now entering his
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second season with the LA Chargers as their head coach,
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refused to comment on the issue, simply simply saying not
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engaging when asked by reporters.
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You know, it's such an interesting story.
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I know a lot of people had an opportunity over the last couple
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of months and last year to talk about this scandal.
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And if you didn't check out the 3030 thirty for 30 on Netflix,
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, go check it out.
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It's, it's fantastic and, and very interesting documentary.
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I, I look at the thought of sign stealing over the last couple
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leave decades. It's been going on forever.
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And I know a lot of people sitting back and wondering, hey,
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you know what? Why were why was Michigan, one
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of very few teams that have been caught over the last couple of
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years, being punished the way they have been with their
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sanction? The fact is the NCAA wants to
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crop down and right now the fact that the Michigan Wolverines are
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one of the more popular college teams when it comes to college
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football. That is why the NCAA wanted to
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drop the hammer on them. Now, the sanctions are very,
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very interesting. It doesn't really hurt Jim
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Harbaugh just as much as it didn't hurt Pete Carroll when he
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decided to step away from you USC when winning back-to-back
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national championships and having Matt Leinart and and
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Reggie Bush who lost his Heisman Trophy.
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The fact here is that the NCAA obviously are trying to drop
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bones on the fact that all these coaches were involved with it.
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And obviously Connor Stallions was behind the whole thought of
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the process of hand signs and figuring out over hundreds of
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signs that were coming from the Michigan Wolverine side.
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And figuring out how teams were calling plays at certain aspects
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of the game where they can obviously be on top of a
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defensive player or be on top of an offensive play, which
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obviously gave them an advantage.
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But teams for years have been trying to find ways for
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advantages. I know everybody's going to sit
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here and say the Wolverines were wrong and they should have been
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penalized for every single thing they've done.
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And they're going to be, and they have been.
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The fact is it's, it's not fair to these other youngsters that
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are going to the school decide to go and play for Michigan,
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Michigan and be penalized for the situation in hand.
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Now, I, I look at obviously Jim Harbaugh.
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Guy's a very smart man. He comes from a very smart
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family. His father's very, very smart.
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His brother's very, very smart. His brother, obviously we all
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know who John Harbaugh is for the Baltimore Ravens.
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He's won obviously championships.
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And then you look at his father, Jim, Jim, who has been a part of
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The Wolverine organization and and program for a very, very,
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very long time. These are guys that are very
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well respected and professional football and college football.
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Denard Robertson is a guy that obviously is going to be looked
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at moving forward as a guy that you might not want to hire in in
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the future as a as a head coach or maybe as an offensive
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coordinator because of all the the different thoughts and
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scandals that they were behind with these hand signs.
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Connor Stallions is another guy who I feel bad for Connor
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because Connor really took the brunt of this whole story.
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He really did. Now he was asked to do this.
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This guy became a pro at figuring out and reading signs
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and, and, and a lot of people believe that Ohio State's
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coaching staff, and I'm not going to mention any names was
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behind it there. They were the team and that was
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the the program that was really trying to figure out who, how
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they were getting these signs and how they were stealing signs
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the way they were. But the fact is that the
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Michigan Wolverines are going to get the hammer and they're going
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to be taken very, very seriously when it comes to these
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allegations. Now I, I go back to these, all
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these punishments and, and looking at the fine, 35 million
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dollars, it's $35 million, a lot of money for this program.
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Not really this program when they go to ball games, they're
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making 10s of millions of dollars.
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If they go to 1 ball game in the next two or three years, that
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money is washed away. I also believe that this scandal
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is going to obviously open up options and thoughts that this
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is going to be taken away and this is this is obviously going
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to be look, people going to look past this because this has been
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going on forever and teams are doing this every single year.
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Michigan was the only team that was really caught by it.
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Now, I I don't think they're the only school and I I don't think
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this will be the last school in the next 20 years that are going
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to be caught with sign stealing. This has been again going on.
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This goes on in the NFL. We've seen this.
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We all know about the sign stealing the Spygate with the
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New England Patriots that was going on with the cameras and
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and again, going back to Bill Belichick, always everybody's
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trying to find one up on another coach, another program.
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So I, I understand why everybody is looking at this story and
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they're, they want to drop hammers on all these different
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coaches and, and programs on that, that they're getting
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caught and they're getting slammed and beaten up for over
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the last couple of months. I also think that Jim Harbaugh
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is one of the smartest coaches we've seen over the last 20
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years in college football. This guy is an aggressive coach,
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very, very old school. We see how he likes to run his
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offenses, run the ball first, build through the offensive line
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in the trench, which is that's what a lot of these older
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veteran coaches like to do. You ask Bill Belichick, you ask
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Bill Parcells, you ask any of the Gibbs, you ask any of these
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top coaches in in the NFL and even in college football, the
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old school football is always worked.
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Now you go back to obviously Jim Harbaugh and what Jim Harbaugh
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is as a head coach. We see he's very successful in
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the NFL and we've seen that his he's built his success in
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college football by building his program the exact way he built
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it when and he built it with San Francisco.
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I, I look at college football with the money, the NIL deals
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and the opportunity that these players have now in hand for
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themselves that these kids, these youngsters are going to
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have an opportunity to stay in college football a little bit
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longer. We talk about Arch Manning,
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we'll get into that a little bit later.
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A guy that thinks and, and believes that he is going to
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play another three years of college eligibility eligibility.
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So this is the thing now. There's so much money now being
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made through endorsements and sponsorships and NIL deals.
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There's an opportunity now that these kids have an opportunity
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to stay in their schools or respectable schools or go into
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the portal. And if they want to play for
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Georgia or they want to play for UCLA or USC, they're going to
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have the chance to do that. Now, I the problem here is, and
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you go back to the thought of all these different coaches that
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are being sanctioned from the list of coaches that were
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involved with it. What about the coaches and, and
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the names that have been brought up over the years?
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And the sanctions were that were dropped over the years with guys
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and, and programs like USCUSC and I, I, I can't come off the
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head on some of the other sanctions that we've seen over
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the years. There are other schools that
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were sanctioned very, very hard by the NCAAII don't really think
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that the NCAA, besides the money aspect, they're the IT really
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was sanction for the money. It wasn't sanction for this.
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The schools in the program going back, I don't believe that the
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penalty should be dropped on the youngsters that are going to
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play for Michigan. Nevertheless, we've seen this.
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How about the kids that went to USC after all the stuff that
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happened over there with Pete Carroll and, and that program, I
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mean, they lost their, their championships that they don't
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even exist still to the NCAA and their beliefs on what they
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obviously are pushing for. If you're, if you're going to
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cross the line and you're, you're going to do the things
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that are not written in the book, well, we're going to
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sanction you and we're going to obviously take away a lot of
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different things that you're going to offer to these students
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if they come to your schools. So that to me is the problem
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here, that to me, you have to look at the big picture and,
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and, and support what the NCAA is trying to do.
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But are you supporting what they're trying to drive out of
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the Michigan program as far as money is concerned?
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Because money is not an object. If you go to Texas, Texas A&M,
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some of the richest schools in the country, $35 million is
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drips and drafts to the program. Now Michigan, they're a very
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well known program, a program that's very well respected.
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They're practically in a ball game every single year they're
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going to be in that. That's twelve team tournament as
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soon as they get this this team to start moving in the proper
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direction now that Jim Harbaugh is gone, they're going to have
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opportunities to play in those ball games to play in those
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tournaments to get a chance to win a national championship.
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So I I don't know how $35 million is really a big cost to
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the program when you look at some of the schools that have
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been sanctioned over the years. And that's what bothers me about
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the NCAA. They decide to spin the wheel
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and make the deal with one team and one program and spin the
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wheel to make it with the the other.
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That to me is the problem right now with how they're sanctioning
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the Wolverines to all the other schools that have been caught
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with something. Remember the coaching scandal
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with the NCAA in basketball. Remember that scandal?
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What what happened to Arizona? Well, the coach lost his job and
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they were sanctioned. There was money being, you know,
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dropped under the table to players, hundreds of thousands
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of dollars, millions of dollars and and coaches have been
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getting away with it. I, I now Coach K never got
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caught, but you're going to tell me right now, Coach K was one of
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very few coaches that didn't really pay players under the
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table when the program wasn't as big as it is now.
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Come on, guys. The honest truth is when Coach K
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came in, he was trying to drive players to come and play for
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Duke, not because it's one of the best schools to go to when
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it comes to being a doctor or a lawyer.
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Nobody cares about this. These players aren't going to
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play four years of college basketball.
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They're most of these players are going to those schools and
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wanting to be coached by these coaches because they're the high
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prestige coaches that are going to get you to the next level.
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If they're going to get you to the NFL, the NBA, the NHL.
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That's why you're going to these schools.
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If you look at Dabo Sweeney right now and you go to Georgia
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or you go to USC, these are Lincoln Raleigh's one of the
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best known quarterback gurus in college football.
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So if you're a top end quarterback, where you going to
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go? You're going to go to USC and
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play for Lincoln Riley because he's going to give you the best
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chance to get to the NFL and be at the high levels.
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You talk about Georgia. What is the defense?
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What what is Georgia known for? They're known for their defense.
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Look at all the defensive players that have come out.
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You can ask the Philadelphia, yeah, the Eagles, as we call
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them, we call them that. What do we call them?
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Bulldogs? The Eagle Dogs as we call them
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they're they're built around the defensive side of the ball from
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the Georgia Bulldogs. So each school has their
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strengths and each school has their weaknesses.
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But again, when you're at a top program in SCC or an ACC, when
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it comes to college basketball, you have a best, you have the
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best chance to go to professional team or get into
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the draft in the first rounds or the second rounds where you're
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going to have a chance to make the most money.
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Yeah, it's interesting because this is one of the scandals.
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I think that you look at it more being performance enhancing than
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it is being a money thing or in the case of something like Penn
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State or Baylor, something that was a sexual thing that behind
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the scenes protecting the coaches.
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This is the first one that involved direct performance
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enhancing, their stealing signs in order to cheat type thing.
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And that's why I think Cherone Moore is going to probably still
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take a lot of this Braun. He's getting the two games and
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the one game next season so far. But that's as much as we know of
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for the time being. And who knows, because he was
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the one sending the text. What more they're going to
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uncover. I think what's going to hurt
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them more, even more than the money, I think is the program
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recruiting scheduling process. They're getting 14 weeks where
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they can't talk to recruits the same way these other Power Five
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teams can't. That kind of scheduling for a
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team that has to rely on like big name recruits, especially
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when Harbaugh was there, is going to hurt them a lot more.
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Especially in the Big 10 E, which you have Ohio State, you
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have Penn State in the mid Thai W.
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Now you have Oregon that was undefeated last year up until
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they played Ohio State. You have USC, like you were
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saying, that's going to get a lot of recruiting power.
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UCLA, that's going to get a lot of recruiting power.
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So they're going to be behind the curve in that region a lot
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more. And I think obviously the money
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will hurt, but I think that's the biggest thing that's going
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to hurt the most of all. That being said, I still think.
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I think Connor Stallions is getting the brunt of this.
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Connor Stallions is never going to be a coach again.
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He's never going to get an opportunity again after what
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Michigan did to them, and Michigan pushed him under the
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rug. They pretty much threw him to
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the dog, threw him to the wolves and said, you know what?
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We we washed our hands with Connor Stallions.
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Stallions is the one that took the brunt of this.
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Sharon, Sharon Moore is going to get another job.
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He's going to get another opportunity because he's a good
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coach. It it to me, the hammer was
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dropped on a guy that was asked to do what he is good at and
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that's reading signs and and watching other sidelines and.
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Using military technology and. Using military technology to get
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those signs in and figure out what those signs mean.
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I think that to me and I, I feel bad for Connor because Connor is
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the one that took the brunt of this, nobody else.
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You keep saying more, but it's not Sharon Moore that took the
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brunt of. It No, he's not he didn't take
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of it you. Just said that no, no, he.
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Didn't take it yet. He's going to later down the
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road, you would think. You don't think he's going to
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get another job? He can't under that rule.
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Yeah, for three years. But he's going to get another
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job because he's a good coach and he's he's quite capable of
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being a good coach in college football and maybe even the NFL.
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He can leave college football right now and Jim Harbaugh can
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give him a job. You think Jim Harbaugh is going
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to give Connor another job? Yeah.
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That's that's where I think. He's not.
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He's not going to do it. He he wants to forget that
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Connor Stallions even exists. You don't even want to mention
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Stallions name. I mean Sharon Moore actually
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talks. He he's been down over there
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with the Chargers organization during the preseason.
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I've heard that he's been down there at practices and stuff
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like that. So he's still connected to Jim
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Harbaugh. So you're going to tell me Jim
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Harbaugh is not going to take care of him?
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He's not going to look out for one of his coaches that he
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respects. No, Connor's the one that's
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taken the brunt of this. It's sad, but he's the one
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that's going to be S communicated or whatever that
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community, Connor, whatever the hell they call it, where he's
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never going to get another opportunity again to coach or
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even have an opportunity. And remember, he grew up a
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Michigan Wolverines fan. This is a kid that grew up, you
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know, repping the colors, repping the school, the program.
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And now all of a sudden this kid was thrown to the wolves because
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Jim Harbaugh said, you know what?
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I don't know this guy. I, I didn't tell him to do that.
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He did it himself. That's pretty much what he's
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saying. I had nothing to do with it.
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I knew something about it. You're the head coach.
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You're going to tell me you knew nothing about what Connor was
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doing. It said that they're trying to
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press on somebody and the first thing they're going to do is
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press on the one guy that can't protect himself, that can't go
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out there and speak to the public or the media.
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There are stories being written about him and obviously the ESPN
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are 30. Was it 30 for 30?
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Was the documentary that they did for him where they were
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trying? I think they were trying to to
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uncover what Jim Harbaugh and the program was doing and trying
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to protect Connor in some kind of way.
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And Connor just goes out there and he's protecting Jim Harbaugh
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because he he respects the coaching staff and he respects
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what The Wolverine program was giving him and the opportunities
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they were giving him. But now all of a sudden they're
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they're they're dropping the hammer on somebody.
22:28
They're not dropping on the big coaches.
22:30
They're dropping on the one guy that was asked to do something
22:33
that he is obviously strong and understands a little bit more
22:37
than those coaches do about it. And that's why I think this
22:39
penalty is still kind of twofold too.
22:41
Yeah, he's getting the he's getting the games.
22:43
And I we talked about this last year, I think when it came to
22:45
the the basketball with Dan Hurley, I think when they
22:48
suspended him a little bit, but they didn't suspend him for the
22:50
games that mattered. And they're getting they're
22:53
suspending him three games that don't matter, like an early
22:55
season game next year will probably be a non conference
22:57
schedule. And the two games this year, I
22:58
think are Central Michigan and sorry, Java in Nebraska, which
23:02
hasn't been great with football in recent, obviously.
23:05
So you're not really hurting them in a big way.
23:07
I you still probably should have gotten him suspended later in
23:09
the season for these bigger name conference teams.
23:11
And maybe that would be the test for Michigan.
23:13
Now, Michigan had overcome it the year they got suspended.
23:15
They beat Penn State down the stretch, they beat Ohio State
23:17
down the stretch. And obviously they won the
23:18
national championship even with Harbaugh suspended at that time.
23:21
But still, that type of punishment still makes it look
23:24
light in a sense. It's called untold sign steal.
23:26
And that's why. And that's why, as Fish was
23:28
saying before, they still kept the postseason ban, post season
23:32
ban lifted where they can still make the college football.
23:34
I don't think they will, but. Not right now because you have a
23:37
new coach, you have a new coaching staff and you got to
23:39
recruit. And now they can't even recruit.
23:41
They have a, they have to wait a certain amount of time before
23:44
they can start recruiting top end, you know, prospects and,
23:47
and top end for their program. So I, I think sitting here today
23:51
and, and reading the story on you, everybody's trying to find
23:53
stories because football is right around the corner.
23:56
You have college football that starts in about a week and 1/2.
23:59
So we'll get into that as we always do.
24:01
And, and then basketball and and, and hockey are starting
24:05
soon as well. There's a lot more to get into.
24:07
But these stories are you're nitpicking.
24:09
You're trying to find something to talk about because there's
24:12
nothing leading into sports that really draws people.
24:16
And this is a story that's been around for over the last past
24:19
year. And everybody's trying to figure
24:21
out the way the NCAA is going to drop the hammer on Michigan and
24:25
what the Wolverines were doing. But it all stands behind what
24:29
the success of the Wolverines and what Jim Harbaugh was doing
24:33
for the program over the last couple years.
24:34
He finally brings a championship home to a program that he just
24:38
grew to love because he was a part of the program since he was
24:41
a little kid, because of his father, his brother.
24:43
And now you look at him going over there, he nothing happened
24:47
to him. He got a lot of money.
24:48
He he went to the LA Chargers making a ton of money.
24:51
He's building the team that he wants.
24:53
He's building the program that he wants over there with the
24:55
Chargers. And he's got, yeah, he's got
24:57
Justin Herbert as his head, his starting quarterback.
25:00
And now you, you're looking at all these other guys that are
25:02
taking the brunt of it because Jim Harbaugh saying, well, you
25:05
know, I was at the coach, man, I don't know nothing about this.
25:07
I don't know anything about this.
25:09
What are you talking about? I'm Jim Harbaugh.
25:11
I'm the greatest of all time. I'm I'm, I stand for what
25:14
Wolverine football is all about. And that's cheating and winning.
25:17
I mean, I, I mean, seriously, you sit here and and it bothers
25:21
me. It bothers me because these
25:23
coaches are taking the brunt out out of Jim Harbaugh's back end
25:28
of his his situation and and the speculations are is that Jim
25:33
Harbaugh was behind everything. He was the one that hired Connor
25:36
Stallions. He was the one Connor Stallions
25:38
was hanging out with him and his family at, at his house and,
25:42
and, and, and speaking him about the program and, and what he
25:46
sees the program in the future and, and promising Connor a
25:49
coaching job in the future on the staff when he was sitting
25:53
there being the, the GOAT of everything.
25:55
And I'm, I'm not talking about the greatest of all time, the
25:57
goat of the, the sheep of, of the program because yeah, he is
26:02
falling on the sword. Yes, he's drowning right now.
26:04
And he's wondering if he's going to ever get another job or if
26:07
anybody's going to look at him as, as As for real as a as a guy
26:11
that you could bring to your program and expect that he is
26:14
going to do a good job besides stealing signs or doing
26:17
something illegal for that program.
26:21
No, I, I think it's when you look at there's going to be a
26:24
fall guy. We talked about the fall guy of,
26:26
of all there's, there's got to be somebody and it's, you know,
26:29
they, it's interesting to me when you know, you read what
26:32
Urban Meyer said and you read about NCAA dropping the hammer,
26:35
it it's interesting if the hammers only dropped on the
26:38
successful team. So you're telling me some of the
26:40
teams that aren't as successful aren't doing the same thing And
26:43
it just, it comes to the forefront because they are
26:46
actually winning and, and, you know, trying to find every
26:50
advantage you can, legal or not legal, right.
26:54
And, you know, I could, I could point to every school, and I
26:57
know this for a fact because I have friends that, that coach
27:01
that there's some schools that they're at that they're not
27:04
winning and doing the same thing.
27:06
So it's, it's how do you handle it?
27:10
How are you going to be able to? Because if you really look into
27:14
it, you don't have enough time to go through all of these
27:18
programs. Let's just, you don't like,
27:21
there's no way to be able to try to judicate all of these teams
27:27
and programs because it's just fiscally not apprehensive to be
27:33
able to do anything, right? Like can can you send this group
27:36
of four or five guys like say, send us like our group of eight
27:40
people, OK, we have to go here. There's not enough time.
27:43
There's not enough days. There's not enough hours like
27:46
and so it's it's do you attack the big fish to catch?
27:50
Are are you, are you fishing with minnows to try to catch the
27:53
shark? Are you trying to play with the
27:56
shark so the minnows don't become the shark?
27:58
I'm not playing with any shark, I'm staying a hell.
28:00
Away from the water, I'm not either.
28:01
Yeah. I'm not getting in the water
28:03
with the shark. I would I would like to do like
28:06
when they're you're. In I'm a Guppy to a Shark.
28:09
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't want to be
28:11
bleeding. I know.
28:12
That well, if you're in the water with those things.
28:14
Interesting when these things, when these things come out, when
28:17
it's a successful program, right And they they find a way to, you
28:23
know, figure out what legally they're doing and to just I
28:30
guess corner one school and make an example of it like I said,
28:35
and not get the other one to do the same thing.
28:38
I guess when in all reality, they're all doing the same thing
28:41
in some way, shape or form. And there's going to have to be
28:44
a fall guy. And it's usually not a guy this
28:48
militating old thing. It's, it's somebody that's, you
28:50
know, you're going to, you're going to step on the grenade.
28:52
It's like you're going out with your boys and they got one ugly
28:55
friend. Somebody's got to step on it,
28:56
right? Oh God, there's a are you going
28:59
to get into this Jersey Shore crap?
29:00
Please. No, he's not Sean Smith.
29:02
Please. Oh, I didn't even.
29:04
I didn't even think. About it, you just brought up
29:06
grenades and garbage. I mean dropping bows I.
29:10
Just wouldn't go to the. Sun Literally, that's what we
29:13
did in Lincoln, NE I. Didn't.
29:14
Oh please, I didn't even think. About.
29:16
That please Java you are doing that.
29:17
There's a group of ugly friends that are Grenade, obviously.
29:20
There's no doubt there's grenades out there, I just want
29:22
to stay the hell away from them. But that's the honest God truth.
29:26
Hey, but you, you always have that buddy that's like, you know
29:28
what? I'm a ride or die with you.
29:30
Boy, oh, there are guys out there.
29:32
That James Jensen shout out James Jensen.
29:35
He's married with kids now, but they like.
29:36
Big chicks, big chicks. My friends always say big chicks
29:40
need loving too baby, but Ryan Day was the one I think Bully I
29:44
believe started this whole story.
29:45
I think Ryan Day was the one behind this.
29:48
He was the one that was upset about the the years and years of
29:52
just absolute dominance of the Wolverines and them demolishing
29:56
Ohio State until the last year. And then you can see the
30:00
difference right now of Ryan Day, right where where is Ohio
30:03
State right now when it comes to the rankings?
30:06
They're right on top going into the season in the top five right
30:10
now. And and you look at Michigan,
30:11
they're not even anywhere close to the top 20.
30:14
So that to me tells me about who Ryan Day is.
30:18
He was was trying to press he found a a scapegoat.
30:21
He knew that and it wasn't somebody ratted to Ryan Day.
30:25
Somebody told Ryan day. Now somebody a part of the
30:29
Wolverines sidelines went to Ryan Day, has a connection with
30:32
Ryan Day and went to him and told told him that this was
30:36
going on and he knew about Connor Stallions because why was
30:40
it? After they played Ohio State,
30:42
this story started to grow even more legs because Ryan Day was
30:46
behind it and everybody knows it.
30:48
So it to me the the thought of Ryan Day and Ohio State Buckeyes
30:53
trying to find a way to get the Wolverines or push the
30:56
Wolverines out of sanctions where they don't have a chance
31:00
to beat them again or recruit the right players to beat them
31:03
tells me one thing about Ryan Day.
31:05
Do I trust Ryan day now Jim Harbaugh was wrong, OK, he's
31:09
wrong for cheating, but he's not the only guy that cheats and
31:12
college football, he's not the only one that cheats in every
31:16
single sport. Everybody's trying to find an
31:19
advantage that they can jump over the other team or the other
31:22
program or the other school. That's the way it works.
31:25
That's professional sports, that's college sports.
31:28
That's one person thinking that they can beat somebody in
31:32
another way or another optional way where they can dominate.
31:35
That's just the facts. And unfortunately, that's where
31:39
the hammer was dropped on the Wolverines.
31:41
And that again goes back to the program.
31:44
Is the program doing the right thing when it comes to charging
31:49
just the school and not charging certain players for what they
31:54
were part of? Now with this, why aren't some
31:57
of these players that came from the school being charged for
31:59
anything that they knew of? They're not.
32:02
Now that's the whole. That's what I'm saying.
32:03
Weird. Urban Meyer came out and Java,
32:06
you mentioned it. Urban Meyer said when I was
32:09
coaching, they suspended my players for doing nothing wrong
32:12
and just because they knew we were up this stuff, which of
32:15
course Urban Meyer was, but at the same time they used to drop,
32:18
they dropped a hammer on him every time They got this next to
32:21
nothing in Michigan. Look, they're not going to be a
32:23
national championship team, but let me ask you a question if you
32:28
with whatever your favorite team is in whatever.
32:30
State the Seminoles. So for Florida State, if you
32:34
were told, if I tell you you can get the Florida State Seminoles
32:38
a national championship, all you have to do is cheat for them,
32:42
would you do it? No, because that's that's what
32:44
Connor Stallions did. He just it's his favorite team
32:48
obsessed. If you watch the documentary
32:50
like we both he. Was asked to do it.
32:51
He was. Just an obsessive Michigan fan
32:54
and they painted him in a more positive light than this.
32:56
Then this NCAA report is facing him.
32:59
He's got an 8 year show cause ban.
33:01
He don't care. He won his team a national
33:03
championship and they're not going to take it away.
33:06
It's official. They're not going to take it
33:07
away. They're not going back.
33:09
They're just charging them. Need a fine equal to what they
33:12
would have made on that championship.
33:14
Run fish. Here's the problem.
33:15
Here's the problem. That kid is never going to get
33:18
another job again. It wasn't worth it.
33:21
I I know he doesn't. Carry a coach.
33:22
He's trying to win. He wanted to be a part of that
33:25
coaching staff. As a matter of fact, Jim
33:27
Harbaugh told him that. Keep doing what you're doing.
33:30
You're going to get an opportunity in the future to
33:32
come and work for me and be a part of that coaching staff.
33:34
And that's why he was doing, yes, he was helping his alma
33:37
mater and, and, and, and a program that he just grew up
33:40
loving more than any, any sport, any college professional team.
33:45
He followed the Wolverines, but again, going back to Connor
33:49
Stallions, he was the one that everything was dropped on.
33:52
It was in nobody else. Jim Harbaugh is making, what, 10
33:55
million a year right now with the Chargers, might win a Super
33:58
Bowl in the future or just won a national championship.
34:01
He's gonna get a ring. I mean, you see here today and
34:04
you're wondering who's right and who's wrong on this.
34:06
Here's who's wrong. It's the coaching staff behind
34:09
it. And we talk about more.
34:11
More was I heard, now this is what I heard.
34:14
More was over there at the Chargers camp with Jim Harbaugh
34:18
so it obviously it's being brushed on the rug by Harbaugh
34:22
and and when he everybody brings up counter stallions to Jim
34:25
Harbaugh. I knew nothing about it, I.
34:27
I barely know the chord. For him.
34:29
But if if Harbaugh's doing it and you're under him, like, do
34:33
they really have a leg to stand? Are you going to stand up to him
34:35
and be like no? Well, it's Jim Harbaugh.
34:37
I mean, I'm not. No, I you're absolutely right.
34:40
Jabba, go. You can look at the Yankees
34:42
right now. Who's going to be the bottom
34:44
feeder of that team right now? Aaron Boone's going to be the
34:47
hammer dropper. Somebody needs to drop on a
34:49
sword. They're going to drop Aaron
34:50
Boone on the sword. Why?
34:52
Because he's like, he's the coach, he's the manager.
34:54
It's not going to be Brian Cashman.
34:56
Oh, no, no, no. It can't be little old Brian
34:59
Cashman in Oh no, after 30 some odd years of winning seasons for
35:04
the New York Yankees and being a part of George Steinbrenner
35:07
score of, you know, management and executives, No, it's not his
35:11
fault. It's not Levine's fault.
35:12
No, it can't be him. It can't be house fault.
35:15
They're going to blame it on one Uno, the Mr. Uno himself, Mr.
35:20
Numero Uno. And that is the one and only
35:23
Aaron Boone. And it's a shame that's what
35:25
happens. But in college football, it
35:27
never. Nobody drops the hammer on the
35:29
coach unless the coach gets caught, like, seriously gets
35:32
coached like the Arizona coach did when it came to college
35:35
basketball. Yeah, he was the only one.
35:37
How many people you're going to tell me what Roy Williams was
35:40
never paying people under, under the, you know, under the table.
35:44
Now they were just giving him a. Modify North Carolina.
35:46
When he went to North Carolina to win a national championship,
35:49
you don't think he was paying guys under the table?
35:50
Come on, Coach K Love you, man. Love the Duke Blue Devils.
35:54
You're telling me that Coach K never did that to recruit the
35:57
right players? I know there's no proof to it
35:59
and I can't point fingers to it, but let's be honest, guys, we
36:02
all know it to be true. All these coaches are behind all
36:06
these scandals. Everybody talks to everybody.
36:08
You don't think these coaches are going to these these
36:10
meetings they're going to like who are you recruiting?
36:15
Good point. Though Errol, you brought up a
36:17
good point and I think this goes hand in hand with it when you
36:20
were talking about blue chips. Yeah.
36:21
What did he not want to do at first?
36:23
No, he didn't want to pay these. He wanted nothing to do with it.
36:28
That's why I think this is a very it's it's a great segue
36:31
into what you're saying. And you brought it up and and
36:33
now that this happened, I think was awesome where it's then he
36:36
realized that it was literally like one of those things where
36:41
he had to he had to do it at that point.
36:44
And it's like do it like he wanted no part, didn't want to
36:46
know whatever. Then all of a sudden now it's
36:49
like, well, shit, now we got to do it because now we got to keep
36:53
up with the Joneses and he's like, just don't tell me.
36:55
And then all of a sudden, so I, I think it's, it's a great
36:57
point. I think they go hand in hand
36:59
because it's like you see what they're doing it And yes, can
37:01
you do some, get caught, Yes. But really, is it going on?
37:06
He wouldn't and choppy, choppy you, even in blue chips.
37:10
He would have never been caught if he didn't open his mouth at
37:13
the press conference. And he felt sorry because his
37:16
wife, his ex-wife came up to him and she knew that he cheated.
37:19
And that's what made him feel even worse, that everybody knew
37:23
he was a straight shooter. And then he went under the table
37:26
to pay these guys for cars. He gave Shaquille O'Neal a car.
37:31
He didn't even ask for it. And then this other guy, a
37:34
tractor and this other guy, his mother, a house that
37:37
unfortunately, that's the way it's played.
37:40
It's been built, played like that forever.
37:42
And now you're looking at it. And now NIL deals are out and
37:45
they're and they're trying to figure out ways to sanction
37:48
these teams in these these programs.
37:50
It's a joke. The person that should have been
37:52
sanctioned is the same person that was behind the scammer from
37:55
the beginning. And that's Jim horrible.
37:58
You wanted to drop the hammer on somebody, drop the drop the
38:01
hammer on the guy behind the whole scandal, the guy.
38:04
But Bill Belichick, you're going to tell me right now Bill
38:06
Belichick knew nothing about, you know, Spy, Spygate and all
38:10
that other stuff. Of course he knew about it.
38:13
He was behind. It Deflategate.
38:15
No, no, it was by no, I'm talking about Spygate.
38:16
That was the that was the one that really shot him in the ass.
38:20
Because why? The tapes were never seen by the
38:22
public. Nobody saw those tapes because
38:25
they got rid of it and the NFL helped them get rid of it.
38:28
And then Goodell came out and said, well, it wasn't important.
38:30
There was nothing on it really to be seen.
38:32
We we saw for what it was. They cheated.
38:34
They're going to lose a draft pick and they're going to have
38:36
to give us 250K or whatever the hell they gave them not a lot of
38:39
money and they really lose much of anything.
38:42
They won two Super Bowls because of it and one against the Rams.
38:45
They had no business being in so with a rookie quarterback.
38:49
So I'm just, I, I sit here today and I wonder, is the NCAA doing
38:54
the right thing? Are they looking past what has
38:57
been going on forever and trying to say, well, you know what?
39:01
It's not really that bad anymore.
39:03
Everybody's doing it. So what we'll do is we'll,
39:06
we'll, we'll, we'll get $35 million from them.
39:09
We can put it in our own pockets.
39:11
We have a table of guys that could use $1,000,000, two,
39:14
$3,000,000 each. Really, Are you kidding me?
39:18
And you know what we'll do? We'll let them get away with it.
39:20
The kids don't get away. The kids are going to get a
39:22
ring. The school's still going to get
39:24
their trophy and everybody is going to be looked at.
39:26
Oh, who won the championship in 2023?
39:29
Oh, that's right. The Wolverines.
39:31
Oh, they cheated Hex on it. Hey, if that's to happen, if
39:34
that's to happen, the MLB should allow Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens
39:39
and all the guys that did steroids into the Hall of Fame.
39:43
Because to me, without those team, those those players and
39:47
what they did for baseball in the late 90s and early 2000s,
39:51
baseball would have been garbage.
39:53
It would have been gone. That's the way baseball was
39:55
moving thing after that strike and guys like Mark McGuire,
39:59
Sammy soccer, that was Sammy soccer is good without steroids.
40:02
No, Mark McGuire was Barry Bonds was, Rodger Clemens was Andy
40:07
Pettit was I mean, come on guys, Cam Kenny Caminiti wasn't.
40:12
But I mean, that's all that's a whole nother story.
40:14
I mean seriously. But I what I'm saying is,
40:17
everybody finds an edge. In every program, every sport,
40:23
college to professional, everybody's trying to find
40:26
something to give themselves an advantage.
40:29
Is it wrong? No.
40:30
If it's not in the book or it's in the book, if you find a way
40:33
to get away with it, who cares? That to me, ladies and
40:36
gentlemen, is the problem, not only with college sports, but
40:39
professional sports and the people behind it, the coaches,
40:43
the leaders of men are the ones that should be dropped, and the
40:48
hammer should be dropped on them.
40:49
They should be riding the sword up their rear ends.
40:52
That's what I think. The sword should be shoved up
40:54
their asses and twisted six or seven times.
40:57
And you know, maybe they'll regret it after that.
40:59
Maybe I'll lose their a hole. I don't know.
41:01
Something's going to have more blood, a lot more blood.
41:04
Then we'll feed them to the sharks because then they'll be
41:07
juicy enough for the sharks to eat.
41:09
That's all I'm saying. That's the way I go.
41:11
I'm not going after. That's against, like the 8th
41:14
Amendment, cruel and unusual. Well, I guess I won't be a
41:17
leader or I won't be the president of United States,
41:18
because I'll find every way to drop the hammer on somebody.
41:23
Well, look, Stallion, Delicious going to find work.
41:25
It's not going to be in coaching.
41:27
I'm going to move for some state.
41:28
He was. The logistics officer for the in
41:30
the Marines before this. So what thing about like the
41:34
types of jobs and logistics, He's going to go to an
41:37
interview. He's like, yeah, I can't coach
41:39
anymore, but I was so good at logistics that I won my favorite
41:43
team a national championship. You ever want to do something
41:46
like that? Well, whatever we're playing, I
41:48
can do that for you. Hire me, give me a 7 figure
41:51
contract and that dude's just going to be fine.
41:53
I know he's going to be fine. He's brilliant.
41:55
It's unbelievable he got caught Errol because they found him on
41:58
film on the opposite sideline during a game and or just for
42:04
scouting. Like I think it was either
42:05
Michigan State or of Speedy, I don't remember.
42:07
Exactly. I think it was Michigan State.
42:09
Michigan State was Green Jersey was, yeah, Michigan State was
42:11
one of those scout schools that was that was caught later.
42:14
I think the other one. I think the other one was.
42:16
Like the Bobby Valentine, those glasses in those costume on
42:21
basically on the opponent's sidelines.
42:23
It's a little too brazen if he stopped.
42:25
I liked that one of that crazy. It wouldn't be good.
42:27
Brazen would brazen. He probably would have been fine
42:29
if he stopped a little short of what he was doing.
42:31
But look, that guys a legend forever and all it is is, oh, I
42:36
can't, I can't coach anymore for Michigan for eight years, I bet,
42:39
Harbaugh says. Hey, you want to come?
42:41
He's not to the Chargers. He doesn't even want to speak to
42:43
the kid. He doesn't even want to have a
42:44
conversation. He reached right now.
42:46
Dude, no. What does he need stallions for?
42:50
He doesn't need a dude. Won him a national champion.
42:53
Yeah. College.
42:54
College football. Not in the NFL.
42:56
The NFL. You could steal signs.
42:58
Now, coaches already know that they're stealing signs.
43:00
What are they doing? They're calling audibles at the
43:02
line of scrimmage because these players are a lot.
43:03
Smarter, he was able to figure out the audibles.
43:06
He was able. To yes, but it's a little bit
43:08
plays, it's little, it's a little bit harder in
43:11
professional football than it is in college football.
43:13
There's different terminology and and and different.
43:16
Ways of corner Stallion's ability.
43:18
Yes, I do doubt him. I think the guy's an idiot,
43:21
honestly. Oh, this guy's a genius.
43:23
Oh yeah, he's a genius. Viable Genius.
43:24
Let me tell you something. Hey, I can if I'm watching
43:27
videos on the sidelines and watching what coaches are
43:29
calling and and what kind of hand sickles are calling and I'm
43:32
watching the games, I'm going to be able to call the play too.
43:35
All I got to see is watch it. Zoom right in, baby, zoom, bite
43:39
in. Not zoom, not zoom, zoom.
43:41
Zoom right in. More sophistic.
43:42
It's my word. That's my word, Speedy.
43:44
You like that word? Zoom, zoom, zoom right in.
43:46
Not in. Zoom, zoom right in.
43:48
You got a zoom. You got a zoom in instead of
43:50
zoom right in. Zoom right in, as we all know
43:53
sounds. Like an analytical.
43:54
Well, Speaking of analytics, UFC 319 recap guys yes, we're going
44:00
to get into it as I enjoyed the UFC.
44:03
Finally, the UFC is putting a nice piece of fights together in
44:08
the main event of the UFC 319 on Saturday.
44:10
Yes, come out, come I off. Defeated DDP by unanimous
44:15
decision 50 to 4450 to 44 and 50 to 44.
44:18
Kamayoff had a 95.6% accuracy on his strikes and was in control
44:25
for the entire fight, taking DDP to the mat unbelievably and
44:30
using his advantage on the ground over the South African
44:34
former champion. Kamayoff is expected to take on
44:37
either Nasserdim Amavov and Ko Berlio next after improving to a
44:44
15 and O record in his career, now with the middle weight title
44:50
around his waist. Lerone Murphy stunned Aaron Pico
44:54
in his UFC debut with a first round knockout via spinning
44:59
elbow and Carlos Pretus had a spinning elbow of his own for
45:05
Jeff Neil in a viral clip that turned the lights out of Neil
45:11
and dropped him in the center of of the ring as the last seconds
45:15
of round one was expired. I first of all that pratis, you
45:19
know, knockout spin. That's the first time in UFC
45:22
history that back-to-back fights ended in a spinning elbow.
45:27
OK, I've never seen anything like that before watching UFC or
45:32
mixed martial arts in my life. I've watched Bellator, I've
45:35
watched Pride, I've watched it, you know, every single time.
45:39
And I've never seen back-to-back fights where there's a spinning
45:42
elbow that exile guys back-to-back fights.
45:45
But I will say this, the both guys, Pratis and Murphy earn
45:50
themselves $50,000 as we all heard Joe Rogan going out there
45:55
and saying that it was told by him that they're both going to
45:58
get fights of the night and Kami off the unbelievable domination.
46:02
I'll get into that DDP fight. I it was sensational and Kami
46:06
off deserves a lot of a lot of credit for what he does best.
46:08
And that's taking guys down and dominating on the ground because
46:11
he's a great wrestler and unbelievable against Brazilian
46:14
jiu jitsu artists. But I will go with Pratis.
46:17
I I thought Pratis's fight was really just completely dominated
46:21
a guy like Neil who a lot of people thought was favorite
46:24
coming. Going into the fight.
46:26
Pratis was ranked if I'm not mistaken 11th and Neil was
46:29
ranked 10th in in their weight class.
46:32
I, I look at Pratis and what he has done for his weight class
46:36
and the opportunity for him to jump from 10 to fight possibly
46:40
the champion or maybe the contender for that belt in the
46:45
very near future puts him in a position where I, I think the
46:48
UFC is looking for that next dominant young fighter in some
46:51
of these young and a lower weight classes where you can
46:54
really bet on to see these unbelievable knockouts.
46:57
So I was impressed with Carlos Pratis and what he did in that
47:01
fight. Also the Pico fight.
47:04
Aaron Pico, I've been following for a very, very long time.
47:06
Great wrestler, world renowned wrestler, one of the best
47:09
wrestlers in the world. OK and he was speaking about
47:13
this fight and going out against Larona Murphy, a guy Auk
47:17
fighter, an English fighter that is a knockout specialist, a guy
47:20
that can fight on the ground fight standing up.
47:23
He is an unbelievable fighter and going into that fight, I
47:25
thought it was very, very close. It really before that spinning
47:29
that spinning elbow and and Aaron Pico he was and I what I I
47:34
really enjoy watching was Murphy timing him.
47:37
He was putting himself in a position where he was timing
47:40
Aaron Pico the way he was throwing punches, the way he was
47:42
throwing kicks, where he clocked him at the perfect time when he
47:46
was going to step into a punch. And that to me is what I what
47:50
stands for a great UFC fighter, what a great fighter is all
47:53
about when we talk about Anderson Silver.
47:55
What was Anderson Silver so great counter punching?
47:58
What is when we talk about Purnell Whitaker and Floyd
48:01
Mayweather, All these great fighters over the years, these
48:04
guys that are counter punchers, top end fighters at their at
48:07
their weight classes and at their combat sports, because
48:10
counting punching is really the edge of today's star style of
48:14
fighting. When you have guys like Canelo
48:16
Alvarez or even guys like Manny Pacquiao, these guys are
48:20
offensive fighters. They're going to go at you,
48:22
they're going to throw hard punches.
48:23
They get they know they can hurt you.
48:25
And you talk about the Rone Murphy, a guy that he was doing
48:29
everything right in that fight. He was defending the takedowns
48:32
with Aaron Pico, who's a very, very good ground fighter, a guy
48:36
that can take you down, understands the the style of
48:39
fighting of Larome Murphy and what Murphy likes to do.
48:42
And Murphy, he was not hesitant or what he was doing.
48:45
He was very calm and collective the way he was fighting Aaron
48:48
Pico. And that was the fight that I
48:50
out of all the proudest in and the P at the Pico fight.
48:53
That was the the fight that really stood out to me before
48:55
the Kamayo fight is is what Aaron Pico really stood for.
48:59
You listen to all the different wrestlers that I've heard before
49:03
this fight and what Aaron Pico was talking about like he's the
49:05
next big thing. This was his first UFC fight and
49:08
he was on he was on one of the biggest one one of those big
49:11
cards. He wasn't on and undercard, he
49:13
wasn't on one of the first fight, you know, the beginning
49:17
of the the main event fight card.
49:18
He was a 2nd to laugh last fight and Aaron Peaker was the guy
49:23
that the UFC was eventually going to build around.
49:27
He was the guy that everybody thought, hey, this is the guy
49:29
that we're going to build around in the future in that weight
49:31
class. But what Larone Murphy is he's
49:33
undefeated. The guy has a tremendous ability
49:36
of throwing heavy kicks to the legs and and and you saw what he
49:40
did with that devastating elbow, spinning elbow.
49:43
This guy is to me when when it comes to full end type type of
49:48
combat fighting that you want to see the bet one of the best
49:51
fighters the UFC is providing on all around fighting fighting
49:54
styles of taking down and dominating on the top, you know,
49:57
and standing up with you against amongst the best fighters in his
50:00
weight class. The Kamayo fight, it was boring.
50:04
It was a very boring fight and I expected it.
50:08
Come I off is a is a great wrestler and we are come I off
50:11
before the fight. He says I'm going to dominate
50:13
this guy on a guy he was telling he was telling drink yes what he
50:17
was doing. DDP we wrote he was going to do
50:19
I'm going to take it down. I'm a pound you and that's what
50:22
he did 20 seconds of every single round.
50:25
Within 20 seconds he was taking him down.
50:28
He was double double hand, a double arm taking down
50:31
everything. DDP knew what was going know
50:34
what was coming. He knew that he was going to
50:35
take him down. He just couldn't stop him.
50:37
There was nothing he could do. You saw DDP, you saw what he was
50:40
doing when he was on the ground and even after the rounds he was
50:44
talking to his coaches. He says the guy strong.
50:46
I I'm doing I'm strong. I'm feeling good, but there was
50:49
nothing he can do against him. Come I off just absolutely
50:53
dominated the fight and could anybody become I off in that
50:56
weight class right now? I don't know if they can 15 and
50:59
oh, I the guy S going to play. He's going to find another 15
51:02
fights as fights. He might be the next undefeated
51:05
top champion the UFC has to provide.
51:07
Because to me, those wrestlers, I've said this over and over and
51:11
over again, when it comes to mixed martial arts, wrestlers
51:13
are the hardest fighters to beat.
51:15
And why? Because the first thing they're
51:17
thinking about is taking it down.
51:19
The next thing is dominating you on the ground with your own body
51:22
weight. And that's what Kamiyov did.
51:24
GDP is a big strong guy and Kamiyov, if you look at the size
51:28
of both of these guys, DDP is a lot bigger than Kamiyov.
51:32
And that's what Kamiyov did. He used DDPS body weight, his
51:37
strength of his stand up fighting and his understanding
51:40
how to use his body strength against him and kept him on the
51:43
ground every single round. That's why Kamayov is going to
51:47
be hard to beat. That's why Jon Jones for years
51:50
in the top of his game, it's top of his style of fighting.
51:53
The hardest thing to beating Jon Jones was taking him down and
51:56
dominating him on the ground. That's why Jon Jones is one of
51:59
the greatest fighters of all time.
52:00
And I can I'm going to tell you this right now, Kamayov is on
52:03
his way. I don't know if anybody in that
52:05
weight class, he might have to move right on up in the in the
52:09
in the higher weight classes, because I don't think there's
52:11
anybody in that class that could beat him right now.
52:14
He, he's a superb and, and what he does best, like I said, is
52:18
take you down ### until you submit.
52:21
And by the way, DDP after the fight and you saw what he said,
52:25
he wanted to apologize to the South African fans that were out
52:27
there and, and, and paying for the pay per views.
52:30
And then he says I'm going to come back bigger and stronger
52:32
and come on off after the fight was very respectable to DDP.
52:35
He said, listen, I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you
52:37
the opportunity to come back for the belt and, and fight me for
52:40
the belt. Is he really going to beat?
52:42
I just styles make matches and I just don't think DDB style can
52:47
beat Kami Off. Even if he stood, if Kami off
52:50
wanted to stand with him, maybe it's a lot closer, but I don't
52:53
think there's anybody that can compete with this guy on the
52:56
ground. It's crazy too and like going
52:58
into like these fights, you knew kind of what to expect and what
53:01
it was going to be. Pico cool story.
53:03
Obviously, you know, just coming from his background and
53:06
obviously you know, he, his family is, is basically royalty
53:10
in California. His dad was, you know, in
53:12
California. Wrestling and the last.
53:14
Mexican governor and you know, just the, the one thing about
53:19
those fights, it was it was very tactical.
53:21
It's very like they knew exactly what and it was it was fun to
53:25
watch. And you know, the one thing that
53:27
I do respect about, I mean, the, the sport of mixed martial arts
53:31
in in general is just the camaraderie.
53:33
And the crazy thing is when both of those guys won and
53:36
back-to-back spinning elbows, they didn't care about
53:39
themselves. They talked about getting their
53:41
buddies into UFC and literally like we just went to Dana and
53:47
was like give them a chance. Like they were very humble job.
53:49
You're right. Yeah, it was.
53:51
It was unbelievable to hear those guys.
53:52
That was like, yeah, give me a chance.
53:54
But you know, these guys got me to where I'm at.
53:56
They need a chance to do it here too.
53:58
And it's just, it's because you don't get to where they're at
54:01
without basically beating each other's ass up and down the mat
54:05
and the Octagon and and pushing each other.
54:07
So it was really like, it's, I love that part of it.
54:11
It's like, hey, I'm coming in to knock your head off.
54:13
But at the same time, the respect Pico didn't know where
54:15
he was at for a good 10 minutes. I mean, no, that was, that was a
54:18
big flat line KO that's been like.
54:21
They couldn't even give us a mouthpiece.
54:22
Just. Perfectly.
54:24
Pico was pressuring Larome Murphy that entire fight, and it
54:27
almost. Because he had to.
54:29
I'm saying he was getting tagged a lot, but it seemed like he was
54:31
studying him that whole first round.
54:33
He's like he's going to pressure me at one point, he's going to
54:35
get me cuts the cage and I'm going to time it up perfectly
54:38
and he hit it right on the chin. He flatlined and done walk out.
54:42
When Larome started talking, that's not the accident I fully
54:44
like because you hear it like in the embedded and it's like, Oh
54:47
no, that's strong. The guy is a dominant fighter.
54:50
He dominated on the ground and that's why he won the fight.
54:53
And I don't, I don't think the fight was even close and wasn't
54:56
going to be close. DDB had no to me, he had no
54:59
answer. And, and to me, if you knew that
55:03
a guy like Chamaya was going to do what he was going to do, then
55:07
you should have, you should have made sure that you got some of
55:09
the best wrestlers in the world to come and, and, and grapple
55:12
with you. Because you look at DDB, he's a
55:16
great ground fighter. He, I think if I'm not mistaken,
55:18
he's a black belt in South Africa.
55:21
This guy is a South African Brazilian jiu jitsu artist.
55:23
He's a good ground fighter, but he's never afford a guy like
55:27
Shamaya, a guy that likes to go and take you down, dominate you,
55:30
double leg, take you down, take you down and use your body
55:33
weight. He was doing it the whole time
55:35
and it made it look so easy against a stronger man.
55:38
That's the thing about wrestling that is so unique.
55:41
You can go against some of the strongest wrestlers in the world
55:45
and if you're a better wrestler than he is at a lower weight,
55:47
you're faster than he is, you can take him down.
55:49
It doesn't matter how bigger and how stronger he is than you are,
55:53
if you know connecting and and and really grabbing and pulling
55:57
and using your body weight against them, you're going to be
56:00
able to dominate them as what you saw Chimayaf doing against a
56:04
guy that was much bigger than he was.
56:06
You saw it. Chimayaf is he's not a small
56:10
man. Obviously fights in the same,
56:12
but if you look at what DDB has to drop to get into that weight
56:15
class, you're talking about 30 pounds, 35 lbs.
56:20
He's huge. For 185, yeah, he probably, he
56:23
walks. Around, he already said it.
56:25
He walks around. He walks around at 2:40.
56:28
That's really massive. He walks around at 2:40.
56:30
Big point for this fight I wanted to talk about.
56:33
So obviously the you talk about, you know, Hamza Shamaya pretty
56:36
much just dominated DDP the entire fight.
56:38
The big two questions coming into this fight were is
56:41
Shamaya's gas tank going to last if DDP was able to drag him in
56:44
the deep waters and was DDP able going to be able to survive the
56:47
first round? While he did survive the first
56:49
round in the takedowns, he didn't let him.
56:51
This is one thing I think DDP did well and again, we'll get
56:54
into his fight camp in a second, but not really knowing, you
56:56
know, he worked on his wrist control.
56:58
He didn't allow Hamza to attempt any submission or he did a
57:01
fantastic job defending submissions.
57:03
It seemed like he didn't want to get finished.
57:05
But part of the thing that I was confused about was I don't know
57:08
who was in his fight camp or how he he worked on takedown defense
57:11
because and he said in the pre fight press conference, he's I
57:15
am expecting to get taken down by Hamsat Tamaya.
57:17
But it kind of seemed like he was just hoping that Tamaya
57:20
would, you know, burn himself out like he did in those first
57:23
couple. Obviously, you look back at the
57:24
Kamara Ustman fighting Gilbert Burns where you know, they got
57:27
him into those next couple rounds and and Gilbert Burns and
57:29
Kamara Ustman were able to piece him up here and there.
57:31
Obviously Tamaya have got the win, but you know, DDP, he
57:34
never, it never really got a chance because put him in
57:37
crucifixes, he put him in, you know, he wrote him down on all
57:40
four. He never let him get into a
57:42
face. And one thing for Jamaya that
57:44
I'll give him a lot of credit for.
57:45
I got a shout out, my brother Ryan for this told me he went
57:47
and trained with Coach Sam Calviti for this fight who was a
57:51
legendary cardio coach for many mixed martial artists and he
57:56
worked on his cardio. He helped him get in proper
57:58
conditioning. You saw Arminster Ruki was with
58:00
him, they're walking out. They trained together for this
58:02
fight on purpose. And it seemed like Shamaya
58:05
obviously never really was challenged by DDP, but he was
58:08
never guessed. He was smart.
58:09
He is cardio was fantastic throughout the entire fight and
58:12
he never had to worry. And it seems like that's what
58:14
DDP was going to rely on and it never worked out.
58:16
Jake, have you ever seen a fighter in out of three out of
58:20
the five rounds put another champion in a crucifix as as as
58:24
quick as he did, As quick as he did?
58:27
Yeah, as quick as he. Did say DDP he did try to buck
58:31
in and and posture up out of it, but Shamayev just he his grip
58:34
was so strong and like there's nothing he could do to get out
58:37
of that hole. And then he kind of just refined
58:39
himself that like he was put tucking his head into his his
58:42
shoulder line. This is the thing I will say I,
58:44
I, I agree with you, Errol. The fact that you could see that
58:46
the fight, look, it was disappointing.
58:48
It wasn't. Exciting.
58:50
But you got, of course, you respect Hamza Shamayev and his
58:53
dominant performance. He was of.
58:55
A challenger ever putting on a champion.
58:57
I think there were 310, eight rounds in Jamaya's favor, which
59:00
is unbelievable. And with no knockdowns.
59:03
No, right, exactly. And the DDP's point, it's like,
59:07
yeah. And it was almost like he was
59:10
like, all right, I'll wait till the next round.
59:11
In the next round. Then that was like, by then it's
59:13
like, dude, it's round four, you're down 3 O and it's not
59:17
even contestable. You're losing the pipe.
59:19
You've got to. Finish it.
59:20
I'm going to pretend that I'm DDP, OK.
59:22
And when you're you're sitting down there and the fans are
59:25
coming to see you, you're the you're the fan favorite and and
59:28
that's the first time in a very, very long.
59:30
I don't remember a champion being the underdog in a fight.
59:34
I mean, think about it. When was the last time you I've
59:36
seen a champion, an underdog of a fight you usually don't see?
59:40
That it was a big underdog. It wasn't just like, it wasn't
59:43
like -110. He was like +200.
59:46
It was, it was significant. It was significant.
59:50
It was, I'm pretty sure it was the biggest underdog champion
59:53
that's ever been in a fight in the history.
59:54
So of which was insane. I mean, clearly the the the
59:59
bookies knew something and. I mean, I get bookies.
1:00:01
Didn't know anything everybody that scene understands MMA and
1:00:05
mixed martial arts understands that wrestling is probably the
1:00:08
most dominant style of fighting in professional UFC combat
1:00:12
sports. So all right, I.
1:00:14
Understand but I but a lot of people were saying this made it.
1:00:17
So it was going. I wasn't I?
1:00:19
I knew it was going to be this boy.
1:00:21
A lot, a lot of people like, you know, MMA, you know,
1:00:24
professionals, fighters. Although wrestling, although.
1:00:27
Thinking this is a coin flip and this was a really going to be a
1:00:30
I thought myself, I thought if DDP was able to drag hams out
1:00:33
into those deeper championship rounds, I didn't really know
1:00:37
what was going to. Have you ever seen anybody,
1:00:40
anybody actually take this guy down to the ground the way I've
1:00:44
seen him in 15 fights, Nobody has even come close to take this
1:00:47
guy to my off on on the floor. And when they do, he gets right
1:00:51
back up. He is so strong in his upper
1:00:54
body. And, and anybody that knows
1:00:55
understands the crucifix and I, I know I have a purple belt in
1:00:59
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, a little bit about a crucifix and how
1:01:02
hard it is to put on somebody. You got to sink the arm.
1:01:05
You got to get the body and your and your, your neck over the one
1:01:09
arm and then pull your body over the other arm and wrap your legs
1:01:14
around it. It's not easy to do.
1:01:16
And that was. Effortless error too.
1:01:18
It was almost like 3 or 4 times he had him in a crucifix in the
1:01:21
entire. DDP was what he was doing and
1:01:24
and what I thought he did wrong was putting his arm out there to
1:01:27
give him an opportunity to grab it.
1:01:29
What I would have done is I would have pulled his body
1:01:31
closer, closer to me, especially if I'm if I'm side mounting or
1:01:35
even trying to get into guard or half a guard.
1:01:37
At one point he was a half a guard and he was pulling his leg
1:01:40
outside of half a guard to get him get him on the side to side
1:01:44
mount him. Shamaya was trying to side mount
1:01:47
him. Once he side mounted him, I
1:01:49
would have I would have put my arm under his waist and pulled
1:01:52
my body under his waist. He wasn't dropping any strikes
1:01:56
with an elbow until really later of the rounds.
1:01:58
These these soft punches that he was laying on top of him.
1:02:02
He. Kept peppering him with his
1:02:03
tiny. Little It was the.
1:02:05
Like. Like the rabbit punches?
1:02:06
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, he had he.
1:02:08
Had he had glove burns that was about it.
1:02:10
But then too it was like it was. It was weird too when Driscus
1:02:13
kept like trying to go for a guillotine and then would leave
1:02:16
himself open for him to go into. The he only did it.
1:02:18
Twice and and he just kept holding on to it.
1:02:21
I'm like not going to be able to to get it anyways from yeah, he.
1:02:24
Kept trying to posture up, but I think by round gas and there
1:02:27
wasn't really much he could do so he kind of just refined
1:02:30
himself to well, I'm not going to let but that's the thing I
1:02:31
was confused with Jumaya. It's like he talks about his
1:02:34
mentalities. I I'm coming for everybody, kill
1:02:36
everybody. It's like, and I can't blame him
1:02:38
for taking a smart strategic approach.
1:02:40
But like, that was, that was not the Hamza.
1:02:42
Like I was thinking, I thought he was going to come out here
1:02:43
and try to kill DDP. It's like by round four, it's
1:02:46
like you're up 3 rounds. Why not just try to open
1:02:48
yourself up, make it a little bit of a risk, try to knock him
1:02:50
out and. Like.
1:02:52
And like I just, I just don't understand like it was.
1:02:54
There was no way, Jake, it was no way he was going to stand up
1:02:58
with DDP and. Expect I'm not saying he stands
1:03:01
up, I'm saying why didn't he like unleash violent Grant like
1:03:04
he didn't throw any. Well, because, because he knew
1:03:07
what for? Because here's the thing, DDP is
1:03:10
a good ground fighter. This guy's a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
1:03:12
artist. Now he's not the ground fighter
1:03:14
the. Job, but it doesn't again, he's
1:03:16
a wrestler and he used his weight against himself.
1:03:19
He used DDPS weight against him. And that's that's what wrestlers
1:03:23
do, especially Greco Roman wrestlers.
1:03:25
And remember Chimayoff is is a Russian type of style of
1:03:30
wrestler. Those Russian wrestlers are so
1:03:33
hard to beat because what they do is they they strengthen their
1:03:37
upper body. The first thing as as a
1:03:39
youngster what they do, and I don't know if anybody checked
1:03:42
out some of the training of some of these Russian wrestlers.
1:03:45
What they do is they, they make you hang on a pull up bars and
1:03:49
they make you hang for hours, hours to build your grip and
1:03:54
your strength. So when they close grip you,
1:03:56
when they get you and they wrap their arms around you and
1:03:59
they're used and they, they pull you down and, and use your body
1:04:02
weight against you. There is no way of once they
1:04:05
lock their hands, there's no way of getting through.
1:04:07
You're getting those arms unlocked.
1:04:10
And that's what obviously that we were saying.
1:04:11
You got to unlock the arms. You got to, you got to pull the
1:04:14
arms and use his hands and move his.
1:04:16
There was no way DDP was going to be able to do that because as
1:04:19
strong as DDP is when you're on the bottom of this just absolute
1:04:24
dominant, dominant wrestler there.
1:04:27
It's very, very hard to pull this guy's hands loose to try to
1:04:32
you to try to get under him or try to get over him to, to, to
1:04:35
double, double arm lock him or double, double, double leg kick
1:04:40
him out of on top of you. So I'm trying to remember, you
1:04:42
know, certain things. That's why I'm, I'm kind of like
1:04:44
trying to figure out ways of if, if he's on top of me and he's
1:04:48
locking his hands and he's on top and he's trying to put
1:04:50
something, you know, trying to grab my waist and use my body
1:04:53
against me, what I'm trying to do.
1:04:55
And the first thing you do as what you learn as wrestling is
1:04:59
you got to unloose, unloosen the lock.
1:05:01
You got to grab the wrist, you got to control the wrist, which
1:05:04
that's the first thing in wrestling.
1:05:05
You can't control the wrists. Well, you can't control the
1:05:08
fighter. Well, there was no way DDP was
1:05:11
going to do that against just a superior wrestler, a guy that
1:05:14
understands the, the dominance of who he is as a ground
1:05:19
fighter. And that's it.
1:05:20
That's all you. That's really all you can sell
1:05:22
about that fight is he's just a much more.
1:05:25
If they ever fight again, which they will, a DB wants to prove
1:05:29
himself and he's going to train very, very hard.
1:05:31
You think that even if he trains and he wrestles and he gets all
1:05:35
these top wrestlers into his camp, do you really think he has
1:05:38
any chance against Chamanov? It's just the style, the way he
1:05:42
fights, there's not a chance in hell he's going to be able.
1:05:46
To like to seen him defend more takedowns and try to sprawl as
1:05:49
well. Like he didn't really.
1:05:50
It almost seemed like he just kind of refined himself though,
1:05:52
allowing to get taken down. And then he just like you said,
1:05:54
he fought the wrists, he avoided submissions.
1:05:56
And but like again, the game plan, it just, it wasn't the
1:05:59
right, it wasn't the right game plan because Jeremiah completely
1:06:02
exposed it. He never, he never sprawled.
1:06:04
He never, he never got positioned to put a wizard in
1:06:08
like he never. Right, he tried.
1:06:09
He tried to posture up and he did.
1:06:10
Towards late actually he did he he stopped.
1:06:14
He stopped to take. I think he only stopped 2 total
1:06:16
the entire. Yeah, I don't, I think.
1:06:17
Yeah, I think Shamaya have completely 70% of his takedowns
1:06:20
anyway. So I could it just he couldn't
1:06:22
do anything. I don't.
1:06:23
I don't think he thought Shamaya was as strong as he thought he
1:06:26
was going to be OK. I don't think, I don't think it
1:06:29
was the strength. I think it was he thought his
1:06:31
cardio wasn't going to be there and then he overestimated his
1:06:34
chances that. He oh, I dude, he's much
1:06:37
stronger. Drisk is too was exerting more
1:06:39
any like he was kind of just laying on him at times too.
1:06:43
I there was a couple times where they didn't like Rogan and those
1:06:46
guys didn't agree when he stood him up.
1:06:47
I think it was in the third. Yeah, Mark Goddard, even he
1:06:50
threw him a bone, but it's like Shamaya had 23 minutes of ground
1:06:53
control. And he was still like, he was
1:06:55
doing something. Obviously they they weren't
1:06:57
doing damage, right? Like he was still being active,
1:07:01
and he was. Working and he should have let
1:07:04
it. But like, I get it.
1:07:06
You heard the Boo birds from Chicago.
1:07:07
I got shot in Chicago. They were a great crowd, but
1:07:09
like, obviously they were annoyed.
1:07:10
They kept seeing the same thing every single round and got her.
1:07:13
He's probably like, all right, Like, yeah, but not work.
1:07:16
Shamayoff is Shamayoff is a bad guy.
1:07:19
He's a bad guy Nobody want, Nobody wanted Shamayoff to win
1:07:22
the fight. None of those got none of the
1:07:23
Chicago fans. Yeah, you fight.
1:07:26
Press trust. Trust me, Trust me.
1:07:29
DDP was absolutely the favorite by all the fans over there.
1:07:33
DDP was getting booed out the building at the press.
1:07:36
That that's a press conference and during the fight.
1:07:38
I'm not booing any his conglomer or whatever because you might
1:07:42
walk out of the arena and get shot because you know them dudes
1:07:45
is doing some. Extra the Russians, they're
1:07:47
they're the Dagestays and the Chechnya, they're they're a
1:07:49
different breed job. They're good with me, fellas.
1:07:53
Got you. I think obviously the, the fight
1:07:57
with Shamayoff and DDP was a fight that nobody expected.
1:08:01
I did, I, I knew that it was going to be a boring fight.
1:08:03
I knew what Shamayoff was going to do before, even before that,
1:08:07
that press conference, the, the pre, the pre press conference
1:08:11
when he went out there and said that I know what he's going to
1:08:13
do. I know he's going to take me
1:08:14
down. I'll, I'll have an answer for
1:08:16
him. He didn't have an answer for him
1:08:18
because he's just he's not capable of fighting this guy on
1:08:22
the ground again. If they fight again at the end
1:08:25
of this year or maybe in the beginning of next year, is the
1:08:28
fight going to be any different? The answer would be no.
1:08:30
And then they're just it's a mismatch for DDP.
1:08:33
If I was DDP right now, I'm moving up and way to two O 5.
1:08:36
The two O 5 division to me is not a very good division right
1:08:39
now. And and he would be a pretty big
1:08:42
two O 5. So I I think he'd be even more
1:08:45
impressive the way he he he throws his kicks and he throws
1:08:48
his punches. He'd be a knockout specialist in
1:08:50
a two O 5 division. That is kind of open down.
1:08:53
I that that's in my opinion the the light heavyweight division
1:08:57
is still it was at 1.1 of the better division.
1:09:00
It's not really that anymore. So I think DDP would be sincere
1:09:04
unless DDP wants to go down to 170 and that I think that is
1:09:08
just absolutely kill him to go down at 170.
1:09:11
I just. I was talking about he wants to
1:09:13
go up. He can, He can.
1:09:15
I think, I think he should wait for Nasadir, Amava or Kabrahala
1:09:19
or maybe even Reiner de Ritter. I mean, that's the one thing
1:09:21
I'll just say like really quick. Obviously we have in two weeks
1:09:23
to Fight Night Nasadir, I'm up against Kabrahala and that will
1:09:26
definitely be the number one contender fight.
1:09:28
But Jemaya, again, he didn't take much damage and he was
1:09:30
talking about he wants to fight on the Abu Dhabi card.
1:09:32
And then having him and Tom Aspinall and Cyril gone against
1:09:35
Ryder de Ritter, that would be amazing.
1:09:37
That'd be so much fun to watch. I want to shout out Anthony
1:09:39
Hernandez too, who fought with. Fluffy.
1:09:41
Yeah, that was a fantastic. Afterward, the contenders and
1:09:45
then they're like, hey, he was in.
1:09:46
Four days later, he goes on like.
1:09:48
Oh yeah, that was that was. Let me get his day at Bassagar,
1:09:52
Susukayev. Yeah, Susukayev, where do?
1:09:54
These guys, where do these guys get their names, man?
1:09:56
Susukayev. Four days wins and there's turns
1:10:00
around, goes and fights. Eric Nolan, former military man
1:10:04
on four days, makes his UFC debut and he did get cracked
1:10:07
with a couple shots there, but he did get a good win, so we.
1:10:09
Got four days, but yeah, the Anthony Henderson Hernandez won
1:10:13
yeah, too. That's it.
1:10:14
For not a huge name card, it was rather enjoyable.
1:10:18
I honestly I think if the main event was like it was more
1:10:21
entertaining, it probably would have been the card of the year.
1:10:23
I still think 314 with Vulcan and Diego Lopez was the best
1:10:27
card of the year so far, but to me this was definitely the
1:10:29
second best. Card but also also as a fan
1:10:31
though too, like like I said, when listen to shop, it's like
1:10:34
for people that don't understand for what he did is like it's so
1:10:37
hard to do and it's literally like, yeah, it's boring, but
1:10:41
like to do it the way he did it with such ease is like it's like
1:10:46
when you go, you throw a perfect game.
1:10:47
It looks easy, but it's incredibly hard that you made
1:10:50
like it. It's boring to watch because you
1:10:53
want to see a knockout and Carter and I were going back and
1:10:55
forth. They're like, can we see
1:10:56
something? Let me see two in a row and then
1:10:57
it's like we can do kind. Of without if you like
1:10:59
wrestling. It was.
1:11:00
Good if you like wrestling, it wasn't boring, but if you're
1:11:02
you're not a big fan of, you know, obviously real Greco Roman
1:11:06
wrestling, you're not going to want to watch that.
1:11:08
It's just absolute dominance by Chamaya off and Kamaya off,
1:11:12
whatever you want to call them, Cheech and Chong, whatever you
1:11:15
you want to call him. I I just think obviously the
1:11:18
fight was the fight car was OK. I thought the spinning elbows
1:11:22
were sensational. Watching back-to-back spinning
1:11:24
elbows, which just shocked me. The way Aaron Pico got knocked
1:11:28
out, I was shocked. But Murphy is a great fighter
1:11:30
and should get a title shot, should get a title shot.
1:11:33
After this, being undefeated and doing what he did against a guy
1:11:37
that everybody thought is the next big thing in the UFC tells
1:11:39
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1:11:43
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1:12:46
22 fantasy football, Ray Cotto. Possibly his partner Chris
1:12:49
Lombardi, too. I haven't heard from him yet,
1:12:51
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1:12:53
guys. They're they do a great job when
1:12:55
it comes to fantasy and and making and and making gestures
1:12:59
on who you should pick when it comes to fantasy sports.
1:13:03
Those guys need to be knocked around a little bit tomorrow and
1:13:05
I'm going to give it to him. I'm I'm but I'm going to give it
1:13:07
to him. Fair, not in a sexual way job.
1:13:10
I know you look. Until they hack their like I'm
1:13:11
doing. Until they find a way to hack
1:13:13
their system and force Travis Hunter on that 22 team.
1:13:16
Well, that's never going to happen.
1:13:17
I I will, I will tell you this on any of my fantasy teams, I
1:13:21
will not draft Travis the Gremlin Hunter.
1:13:24
I will never do that. And but by the way.
1:13:27
You have to, you have to tell us like we really thought you would
1:13:30
draft that. Guy I would never, I'm never
1:13:33
driving. I would never draft him.
1:13:35
He will be and, and people will be stupid enough to draft him in
1:13:38
the first 3 rounds. I guarantee you some stupid
1:13:41
idiot is going to draft him in the top three in the top three
1:13:44
rounds. Brian Thomas is the guy to draft
1:13:47
on that Jacksonville team. Expect this guy to be the one of
1:13:50
the top three wide receivers in the league this year.
1:13:53
You can book it, I guarantee it. You can put it on a plate, eat
1:13:57
it with some spaghetti and meatballs.
1:13:59
I'm telling you right now, Brian Thomas is the guy to go after.
1:14:03
I'm going after him in the third or if he's there in the third
1:14:05
round, he. Won't be there in the third.
1:14:06
He's going like late 1st. Early.
1:14:08
I know, I know. That's the sad point.
1:14:09
He's a top 50. Yeah, I know.
1:14:11
He's special, man, That kid is special.
1:14:13
He's better than DID. You say top 15.
1:14:15
Yeah, yeah, people are saying that.
1:14:17
Yeah, he's. Going late 1st, early second
1:14:19
round, everything. Else dude, that guy is going to
1:14:21
that kid, Mark my words, he's the best.
1:14:23
He's going to be the best wide receiver in the league in the
1:14:25
next two years. Mark it, book it, whatever you
1:14:28
want to do it, whatever however way you want to slice it in your
1:14:31
dice it, that guy is special. I'm telling you, I'm not lying
1:14:35
to you and I I'm going to book it.
1:14:37
I'll book it anyway. Is Trevor Lawrence special?
1:14:40
Is the bigger. I don't think you care.
1:14:41
I don't think it matters. I think he's proven that if
1:14:44
Trevor Lawrence is good or not, he's going to put up the
1:14:46
numbers. He did it without Trevor
1:14:48
Lawrence. He had Matt.
1:14:49
What was it, Matt Jones? I'm just saying to be the top
1:14:53
guy, you need a more competent quarterback.
1:14:56
I think, I think if Lawrence stays healthy, Travis Santo will
1:15:01
be OK. I think they're going to figure
1:15:03
out that he's more of a corner than he is a wide receiver.
1:15:06
He'll play both. But that's what he is.
1:15:09
And I, I don't even know if he's a good corner in this league
1:15:12
with all the Starfire power that they have over there.
1:15:16
I, I'll see. I, I don't know.
1:15:17
I don't know. He's gonna have to be like a
1:15:19
really good receiver for and they justify his fantasy value
1:15:21
'cause he's going like fourth, fifth round.
1:15:23
I don't want. For all 22 it might be different
1:15:25
'cause he could play both. Positions I don't like him.
1:15:27
I think he smells like horse Doo Doo.
1:15:29
That's what I think he. Smells gremlin Doo Doo.
1:15:31
Gremlin Doo, he smells like gremlin.
1:15:33
What does gremlin doodo smell like?
1:15:34
Doo I don't know what does he smell?
1:15:36
They they can't eat after midnight, so whatever crap comes
1:15:38
out of them. If you wet them, they they, they
1:15:41
triple, they triple. So I you gotta stay away from
1:15:44
Gizmo, right? It was.
1:15:46
There's no. It's a good one there.
1:15:47
It's all the duplicates that cause the problems.
1:15:49
Yeah, they shoot out like, you know everything else, if you
1:15:52
know what I mean. Jabba.
1:15:53
It comes out with, you know, a little spice to it, a lot of
1:15:57
spice to it. Anyways, that's it.
1:15:58
For got dude wipes. Yeah, that's right.
1:16:01
That Speaking of dude wipes. I mean, somebody's got to wipe
1:16:03
them. As long as she's using dude
1:16:05
wipes and taking care of my 2 hole I'm good.
1:16:07
Pulled it out of my ass. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
1:16:09
I hope you pulled it out of your ass.
1:16:10
I hope you enjoyed everything. And make sure you don't throw
1:16:13
bats at anybody. If you want, ask Robles or ask
1:16:16
Roger Clemens. You can do a Clemens at Clemens
1:16:18
anytime you want. Anyways, that's it.
1:16:20
We'll be back. But tomorrow, actually, yeah,
1:16:22
we'll be back tomorrow. Enjoy your night.
1:16:24
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1:16:27
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