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Foster and Friends Vol 138 Newsome and Stewart · Foster and Friends

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SPEAKER_10: Here's Bud and Mac.
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SPEAKER_07: It is Foster and Friends on a birthday weekend, and I'm not going to tell you who.
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SPEAKER_07: But anyway, it's uh a pretty exciting couple days, and we've had uh a great couple weeks.
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SPEAKER_07: So, with all that being said, Bud Foster's here.
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SPEAKER_07: He's been on the road and been a little, you know, everywhere.
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SPEAKER_07: Good show today.
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SPEAKER_07: We're gonna talk about one of Bud's friends who passed away.
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SPEAKER_07: Also, uh for Bud who didn't hear the interview, Tony Stewart opened up about NASCAR and Bill France Jr.
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SPEAKER_07: It's an amazing interview, two hours on a podcast called Oil and Whiskey.
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SPEAKER_07: And it's gonna, bud, it's gonna, it's gonna drop you when you when you hear it.
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SPEAKER_07: And also, we'll pay tribute to a 50th anniversary of a movie franchise.
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SPEAKER_07: So that's what we're doing today.
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SPEAKER_07: There it is.
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SPEAKER_07: I've laid out the menu.
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SPEAKER_07: How you doing, big guy?
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SPEAKER_02: I I'm doing great, but I'm gonna mention, I'm gonna mention the birthday.
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SPEAKER_07: No, don't mention it.
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SPEAKER_07: It's no big deal.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it is.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it is.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's it's we're we're celebrating Mac's birthday on uh this Friday.
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SPEAKER_02: So uh yeah, man, this past Friday.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's uh yeah, hey, happy, happy birthday, my friend.
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SPEAKER_07: Thanks.
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SPEAKER_07: Big seven three.
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SPEAKER_02: So yeah, you look, you know, you don't look at day over.
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SPEAKER_07: I don't look at day over 71, do I?
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SPEAKER_02: No, no, not at all.
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SPEAKER_02: Not at all.
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SPEAKER_02: No, hey, you're you're it's it that goes to show you like wine, I mean, preserves you from the inside out, you know.
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SPEAKER_02: That or Tito's or you know, Wynn vodka, whatever.
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SPEAKER_02: It just goes to show that quality of life and you laugh and you smile, you you uh you're you're out doing stuff.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, I hope I look like you when I'm uh when I grow up.
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah, when you grow up, yeah.
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SPEAKER_07: I'm a Pinot Noir that's gone spoiled in the in the cellar, uh, I can tell you.
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SPEAKER_07: So, but when you marry a nurse, you have no choice.
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SPEAKER_07: Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands.
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SPEAKER_07: Uh, my wife last week got her five-year pin um from Advent.
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SPEAKER_07: And actually, she's been a nurse for over 25 years, but uh she's been with Advent for uh like five or six, and so anyway, she got a pin.
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SPEAKER_07: But there were there were some nurses uh and ladies and administrators who had been with Advent for 45 years.
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SPEAKER_07: Oh my gosh, same company.
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SPEAKER_07: So anyway, it was uh yeah, and the Adventists don't like cocktail hours, so they were serving a strawberry something and a lemonade something.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, what the hell was that?
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SPEAKER_02: What's that all about?
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SPEAKER_07: How can you go come on?
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SPEAKER_07: All right, how can you go to a banquet with 400 people and not have a you know a cocktail reception?
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SPEAKER_07: Not that I was so anyway, we were dying, but uh it was a lot of fun and and she had a good time too.
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SPEAKER_07: So I'm just gonna go.
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SPEAKER_07: And anyway, you've been on the road.
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SPEAKER_07: You took you took you had a pretty good event with uh James Franklin, right?
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we were we were in uh we're doing this Hokie Tailgate tour.
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SPEAKER_02: We were in Richmond this last week.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh we had probably 600 people at this event.
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SPEAKER_02: That's that's amazing.
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SPEAKER_07: That's great.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and and we we meet with James meets and we introduce him to some high-end donors early, kind of a private setting beforehand, some of our team first people, and uh which are uh donors that are closest to our football program, and some potential team first folks.
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SPEAKER_02: But uh that's a little bit more intimate setting.
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SPEAKER_02: And then we went on to this other, which like I said, it was about 600 people, and that was at the um at the um uh Richmond Motor Speedway.
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SPEAKER_02: So it was at the event center they have there, and which is a cool venue.
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SPEAKER_02: You they got cool pictures, you're talking about Tony Stewart, you got cool pictures all around, you know, when that track first started, and just um just seeing the history, but uh and me being a NASCAR buff, it was it was pretty cool.
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SPEAKER_02: But no, we had a had a great event.
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SPEAKER_02: There's a lot of enthusiasm, um, you know, and uh, but I just wanted to say as our listeners don't get a chance to see you.
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SPEAKER_02: We do this via Zoom, so I get the chance to see you face to face.
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SPEAKER_02: And I just want our people, I mean, V, if she's not doing anything to other than like that, like I mean, I know what's going on, you know, you're living life, but I just want our if people can see Mac, it looks like you've like you have no wrinkles on your face.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_07: Please that's what Zoom does.
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SPEAKER_07: You can touch it.
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SPEAKER_02: But I just know this.
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SPEAKER_02: If you were doing Botox, I've seen folks that look like their face is plastic and stuff.
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SPEAKER_02: You don't have that look, man.
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SPEAKER_02: So you are just aging like a fine one.
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SPEAKER_02: I just want everybody to under this to know that.
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SPEAKER_02: But uh yeah, so it's um, I just like I said, I just I'm I just uh every time I see you, I'm just uh maybe like a man crush.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know what yeah.
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SPEAKER_07: If I had if I had your brains and hair, uh I'd own my own island uh for sure.
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SPEAKER_07: Anyway, all right, we'll uh we'll go to break.
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SPEAKER_07: That's a great place to transition.
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SPEAKER_07: We'll go to break, we'll come back.
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SPEAKER_07: Ted Cruz, Project College Sports.
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SPEAKER_07: Uh, just a little update on what's happening.
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SPEAKER_07: Boy, they they are really trying to take care of the student athlete, and we'll explain why when we come back.
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SPEAKER_07: Also, Tony Stewart and a tribute to Kurt Newsom, former Virginia Tech and Emery and Henry Coach.
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SPEAKER_07: So, all of that is on the uh on the show today.
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SPEAKER_07: We'll go to break, we'll be right back.
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SPEAKER_08: Uh many of them are not remaining with their schools.
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SPEAKER_08: They're not necessarily loyal to their schools.
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SPEAKER_08: They switch school through the transfer portal year after year after year.
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SPEAKER_07: That's the voice of Ted Cruz and the Project College Sports, and uh they're getting ready to uh run it through the Senate and the bill.
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SPEAKER_07: Uh Bud, with everything you have read uh about it or heard about it so far, this sounds like an awfully good deal.
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SPEAKER_07: I mean, it I I really went into detail with it, and it sounds like they're really trying to help student athletes and the management of all that we are going through as college fans.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I agree.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, it it looks like they've taken the time to really analyze this and and look in the at the big pictures, just not about the the SEC and the Big Ten.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's they're looking at he talks a lot about you know TCU and SMU and some of those schools, what what um what big time athletics is doing to you know some of these programs, you know, and and um and so and we gotta and we've got a it's it's such a um you know it's an institution that I'm talking about the college sports, you know, that is just such a special special entity, you know, and uh um we we can't I guess you know, working hard uh the way it's going, it's the wild, wild west, but now really getting Congress and the government into getting it under control because the NCAA hasn't been able to do it.
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SPEAKER_02: That's like a part of the whole thing.
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SPEAKER_02: It's not the current system.
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SPEAKER_02: That's it's kind of we just never had a vision, or maybe the past system failed, you know.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_02: We've got a we've gotta get a governing body to get this thing going in the right direction to to allow I mean institutions to thrive because if not, I mean you each each place is losing millions and millions of dollars, you know, outside of football, you know, basically, and men's basketball.
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SPEAKER_02: Everybody, every other sport as we know, we did a whole segment on that.
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Just the cost of college athletics, but to what expense then, too?
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, for I mean, it is a critical, I think, to uh and important for uh, you know, the fan base, for the alumni base, for just the development of young people, too, all the way around, you know.
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SPEAKER_07: Well, yeah, a couple of things I like, just uh uh a couple of um uh bullet points.
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SPEAKER_07: Agent fees are gonna be at 5%, and they've got to register with the state and certify that they're registered, and it prohibits them from making fraudulent statements.
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SPEAKER_07: I think that's great.
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SPEAKER_07: The five-year eligibility thing, I think, is good, but they're creating a$60 million a year trust fund to help schools with a demonstrated financial need, that's a quote, to provide post-eligibility medical coverage if schools get behind there.
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SPEAKER_07: Now, as I said, the the five years of eligibility at age 19, I think, is great.
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SPEAKER_07: And also, it guarantees student athletes one transfer without losing eligibility.
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SPEAKER_07: So, okay, that's fair.
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SPEAKER_07: And that way you get you can't move.
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SPEAKER_07: I, you know, I just think all of that's good.
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SPEAKER_07: Here's Ted Cruz and why the project was so important.
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SPEAKER_08: Of seeing a handful of giant superschools with all the money recruiting all the top talent and and the rest of the schools being left in the dust.
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SPEAKER_08: And and that's not good for the fans.
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SPEAKER_08: That's not good good for the sport.
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SPEAKER_08: And I think there's a real need for for Congress to act and and and set some uniform rules.
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah, so I think uh in that instance it's good.
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SPEAKER_07: And then, of course, they're diving into name, image, and likeness, and they're and they're gonna make sure with this bill that's that there is the college sports commission has a little more power and you know to do that.
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SPEAKER_07: So, all in all, as you just pointed out, I think it's a very positive step, not only for fans, but for the student athletes and the schools.
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SPEAKER_07: I mean, it's a lot of people.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, they're looking up, I mean, you still it's it's it's about creating a college experience still.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, these are 18 to 22-year-old student athletes, young people, and uh they're still in a critical phase of their development, you know, you know, mentally.
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SPEAKER_07: Great point.
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SPEAKER_07: Great point.
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SPEAKER_02: And um, and I just uh and we've we we've got to create a a situation for them where we can they can continue to grow and develop and create a foundation for them to be successful life after college.
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SPEAKER_02: Because still, I don't care what they what how the system is, this is still there's only gonna be, as we know, like about two percent of guys are gonna get a chance to go play in the NFL.
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SPEAKER_02: Right.
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SPEAKER_02: It's gonna be about you know less chance to go play in the NBA.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, to be a professional athlete is um you know is is extremely maybe one of the hardest uh job opportunities in the world, you know, and and I'm for these guys, you know, student athletes getting compensated if they're what through their name, image, and likeness, because they do bring a bunch of money, but we also need to look at the bigger picture, making sure that they're gonna get their degree.
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SPEAKER_02: But I I do like the fact from a health standpoint, moving forward with that to ensure that as we all have seen between CTE and it's there's so much talk about football in CTE because that's just a in the public eye, but you know, hockey, I mean, uh gymnastics, um cheerleading.
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SPEAKER_02: There, you know, people don't talk about the head injuries that come across in those sports because they're not a revenue share sport and and they just they're not in the public eye like you know, football is and and and you're starting to see more and more just with the Lemieux case in in hockey this last week of uh you know CTE and hockey.
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SPEAKER_02: I I'm surprised that hasn't come out more, you know, with hockey players.
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SPEAKER_02: But anyway, it's just in the big picture, it still goes back to a good college experience for these young people to create a foundation for them to be successful the rest of their lives.
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SPEAKER_02: Outside of the game.
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SPEAKER_02: You know, the game's great.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean it teaches so many things for you, but and and and and create so much uh fan support and excitement, enthusiasm, and and that type of thing, but still in the end of the day, we got to create a situation that is I think is is competitive throughout the country and just not with uh with like what Ted's saying, a few select programs because that doesn't make it fun.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, you know, it's it's fun when you can get you know the Cinderella story got person, like Indiana.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, the Indiana to come through.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, you're talking about the losing as program and the history of college football, and all of a sudden they're a national champ.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: But uh, you know, but there's other opportunities for other folks too.
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SPEAKER_07: Well, they're gonna take a long look at like Will Wade at LSU now is recruiting uh G Leaguers and guys from Europe, and I think his roster is gonna be an average age of 24 years old.
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SPEAKER_07: Uh, I read that, and and he's just gone off the charts, and I think a lot of that is gonna stop too.
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SPEAKER_07: And the one other thing, this guarantees scholarships for 10 years after eligibility, so athletes can go back if they you know, three or four years in whatever league.
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SPEAKER_07: No, uh, but you know, they can come back now and complete their degrees.
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SPEAKER_07: So I think that's a a pretty good thing, too.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, no, I think from to complete their degrees, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh but to for you know, for a certain age, uh, you know, I you know, it's it's crazy what they're doing now with uh, you know, allowing people who have signed professional contracts an opportunity to come back and you know participate.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you're taking away from the college experience, you know, taking away from young people.
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SPEAKER_07: So anyway, it's got to get to the Senate, and then we'll uh they'll be able to uh move on from there.
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SPEAKER_07: So, all right, now we're gonna break here.
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SPEAKER_07: Good a good time to transition.
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SPEAKER_07: I want to play this for Bud in the next segment because a week over a week or so ago, Tony Stewart opened up about NASCAR and Bill France Jr.
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SPEAKER_07: and he dropped a bombshell.
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SPEAKER_07: Welcome back.
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SPEAKER_07: Coming up, uh a tribute to a good friend of Bud's, Kurt Newsom, who uh coached football in Virginia and the state of Virginia for a long time, Emory and Henry.
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SPEAKER_07: He was a big part of the Virginia Tech staff in those uh all those 10-win seasons.
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SPEAKER_07: So we will uh get into that with uh Kurt Newsome in just a little bit too.
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SPEAKER_07: I I brought this to the I wanted uh uh Bud to hear this.
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SPEAKER_07: So it's actually uh my little presentation for uh for Bud.
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SPEAKER_07: It was over uh I don't know, a couple of weeks ago, and Tony Stewart appeared on a podcast.
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SPEAKER_07: They interviewed him for two hours.
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SPEAKER_07: Uh the podcast is called Oil and Whiskey, which now will catch my attention.
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SPEAKER_07: I'm gonna, you know, try to follow them a little more often.
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SPEAKER_07: But I was going through something, Bud, and I saw this headline.
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SPEAKER_07: The headline said, Tony Stewart drops bombshell about NASCAR and Bill France Jr.
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SPEAKER_07: And I went, okay, what what can this mean?
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SPEAKER_07: Well, he tells a couple, he tells a couple amazing stories that you just gotta hear.
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SPEAKER_07: And so I think our listeners will enjoy this too if they haven't heard.
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SPEAKER_07: We love Tony Stewart.
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SPEAKER_07: He appeared on the show over a year ago.
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SPEAKER_07: You spoke, right?
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SPEAKER_07: Didn't you speak in the Tony Stewart garage and help?
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SPEAKER_07: I did at Stewart House crazy.
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SPEAKER_02: I did.
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_07: So anyway, I I just I love Tony.
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SPEAKER_07: I love what he stands for.
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SPEAKER_07: One of the opening statements he said, he says, I'm done with NASCAR.
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SPEAKER_07: He says they've dropped the horsepower.
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SPEAKER_07: They're trying to make, you know, they he, in other words, he doesn't like all the meddling that the NASCAR brass is doing with drivers and so on and so forth.
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SPEAKER_07: Okay, so these are 45, 40 second sound bites or whatever.
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SPEAKER_07: So Tony tells a story about his interaction with Bill France Jr., who took over well in the early 70s after his dad died, you know, when NASCAR launched or whatever.
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SPEAKER_07: And so Tony said there was a lot going on.
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SPEAKER_07: So he's a rookie in 1999, and he was he admits he was reckless, okay?
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SPEAKER_07: Tony, uh, I mean, Bill France Jr.
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SPEAKER_07: was gonna have none of it, and this young rookie, Tony Stewart, listen, he's like, do not stink up my show.
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SPEAKER_01: So you think back in the day, we we didn't have uh transponders and everything else.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, you had people that were sitting in a boot in a tower that every time you went by there was a counter on the on the wall.
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SPEAKER_01: And when your driver went by the start-finish line, you wrote the number down on that lap.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's how they scored the races.
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SPEAKER_01: There wasn't transponders.
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SPEAKER_01: When you came down Pit Road, there were literally two guys in the scoring tower that had a stopwatch in each hand.
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SPEAKER_01: You had four stopwatches total for 43 cars going down Pit Road and all these segments of Pit Road.
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SPEAKER_01: They didn't know who was running what.
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SPEAKER_01: But if you ruffled their feathers the week before, and guess what?
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SPEAKER_01: You got a speeding penalty, whether you were speeding or not.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's how they kept the balance.
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SPEAKER_07: All right.
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SPEAKER_07: So Tony said that they were just trying to keep this balance of NASCAR, and he, you know, was getting penalized, and then he was getting to the front and then getting penalized, and of course, there were a lot of accidents along the way.
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SPEAKER_07: So Tony said, and he told his team, we're gonna manage the rookie process and the penalties.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh, and after you figured out that's what's going on, then you go, you know what?
20:00
SPEAKER_01: I don't think I want that penalty next week.
20:02
SPEAKER_01: And so my crew chief got really good.
20:03
SPEAKER_01: I mean, we get out and get a lead, he'd give me intervals.
20:06
SPEAKER_01: And there wasn't a, you know, the three-second deal wasn't a hard line or anything, but it was like you start getting over two seconds, you're sitting there looking in the mirror, going, Man, I got more in the tank here, but I'll be damned if I'm going out away from that guy any further.
20:20
SPEAKER_07: So, anyway, now here's the bombshell.
20:23
SPEAKER_07: Um Tony had it from good authority, and I don't think Tony would lie, I don't think Tony Stewart would lie.
20:30
SPEAKER_07: And as I said, we'll get Bill's uh uh Bud's reaction after all this Bill France Jr.
20:35
SPEAKER_07: stuff, okay?
20:36
SPEAKER_07: So there was a relationship with Bill France Jr.
20:41
SPEAKER_07: and Dale Earnhardt Sr.
20:43
SPEAKER_07: So Tony said this is not a fairy tale.
20:47
SPEAKER_01: The reality of this, when Bill France Jr.
20:50
SPEAKER_01: was still alive, Bill would have two radios.
20:53
SPEAKER_01: One was the NASCAR radio and one was a radio that went to the three-car.
20:58
SPEAKER_01: He could talk to Dale during the race.
21:00
SPEAKER_01: This isn't a fairy tale or anything like that.
21:03
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was real.
21:04
SPEAKER_01: I remember somebody telling me a story the other day about him that he'd won the championship, I think, two years in a row.
21:11
SPEAKER_01: Dale got invited to go down with Bill Jr.
21:14
SPEAKER_01: down fishing on the on the yacht out in the ocean.
21:17
SPEAKER_01: And he goes, You're not winning the championship next year.
21:20
SPEAKER_01: What do you mean I'm not winning?
21:21
SPEAKER_01: He goes, No, you're not gonna win three in a row any minute.
21:25
SPEAKER_01: And that's the way it was.
21:26
SPEAKER_01: That that was the end of conversation, and he didn't win the third year in a row.
21:30
SPEAKER_07: And that's why there was a headline, Tony Stewart drops bomb on Bill France Jr.
21:37
SPEAKER_07: Bud, your reaction.
21:39
SPEAKER_02: Well, you know what?
21:40
SPEAKER_02: Number one, how this whole I mean, I'm a NASCAR fan and I don't know the ends, the inner workings of it all and whatnot, but there is some conspiracy theories without a doubt.
21:52
SPEAKER_02: You know, there really is.
21:54
SPEAKER_02: And you even in today's world, I mean, you see, hey, you know it's inevitable.
22:00
SPEAKER_02: There's gonna be a caution's gonna come out with three laps to go in a race.
22:04
SPEAKER_02: I don't care who you want the shootout?
22:08
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it you just think about it.
22:09
SPEAKER_02: I I I'm trying to think the last race that I've seen where there has not been a caution.
22:14
SPEAKER_07: That's a good point.
22:14
SPEAKER_02: You know, at the in in the last within the last, I don't know, ten, three, five laps, whatever.
22:20
SPEAKER_07: And I've seen the caution with a car way behind the pack and it just has engine trouble.
22:24
SPEAKER_07: It's not like three cars in a bunch.
22:26
SPEAKER_02: Somehow he ends up on a wall against the wall.
22:29
SPEAKER_02: You know, I I don't, but I, you know, I just you know, they they were such a power broker, the France family in this industry.
22:38
SPEAKER_02: Great point.
22:39
SPEAKER_02: I could see where you know they were they were extremely controlling.
22:44
SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's the bottom line.
22:45
SPEAKER_02: They were extremely controlling in all aspects.
22:48
SPEAKER_02: I mean, the teams had to pay them to be involved, you know, the racetracks.
22:53
SPEAKER_02: They didn't own all the racetracks, but the racetracks had to pay, you know, those guys instead of NASCAR paying the racetracks, the racetracks, you know, you know, Humpy Wheeler and these folks, they had to, you know, they uh Bruton Smith, they had to pay NASCAR, you know.
23:07
SPEAKER_02: It's just um, but it's just I could see where, you know, this the the France family and particularly Bill France Sr.
23:16
SPEAKER_02: Jr., he he was just a power broker and he wanted what was best probably those with NASCAR.
23:22
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
23:23
SPEAKER_02: When it was all said and done, he you know, they were at at that stretch at the height of the sport with uh attendance and enthusiasm and and uh that type of thing, and maybe that's what they're trying to create now with all the the different rules.
23:39
SPEAKER_02: I know what Tony's saying, it's they're making it hard.
23:42
SPEAKER_02: It used to be you could just outwork the people and and be smarter than others and and yeah, and potentially more resources, but that's what it's all about.
23:49
SPEAKER_07: Right.
23:50
SPEAKER_02: Now they're making it competitive, but it just seems to me that um you get some teams that they have um on that particular day, they've got their machine dialed in, but they're just not gonna let it happen that way, that they can just run away from the field.
24:05
SPEAKER_02: You know, they're gonna make it, they're gonna have a crash.
24:08
SPEAKER_02: And I I always I just always thought in the back of my mind, is that coming from you know, up in one of those suites up there on top of the uh the racetrack, you know, when it's all said and done.
24:18
SPEAKER_07: I can I I I laughed at this and said was and was excited about playing it for you because could you uh consider an ACC commissioner who calls who calls Frank Beamer and goes, okay, you guys gotta back it off a little bit.
24:36
SPEAKER_07: You got Wake Force, we want to make that a game.
24:38
SPEAKER_07: You got Virginia, you gotta back off a little bit.
24:40
SPEAKER_07: We gotta make that a game and make the division chase clock.
24:44
SPEAKER_15: Oh my god.
24:45
SPEAKER_15: I mean, could you imagine that?
24:47
SPEAKER_15: You gotta be you gotta be kidding me, man.
24:51
SPEAKER_07: I know it's very fictional, but you know, uh, for Bill France to and to have connection with with Dale Earnhardt and his car, like telling Dale wherever he is, is Dale, don't win this race.
25:00
SPEAKER_07: Whatever you do, don't win this race because uh you don't need to lead the points here.
25:04
SPEAKER_07: We gotta give somebody else a chance.
25:05
SPEAKER_02: You know, I just you know, and it's a shame Dale Earnhardt uh Sr.
25:10
SPEAKER_02: is no longer with us.
25:12
SPEAKER_07: That's for sure.
25:12
SPEAKER_02: I would love to hear the stories because you know, I mean, he was after Richard Petty, and then the era of just uh it became more modernized and just more public, I guess.
25:26
SPEAKER_02: It became more public, but uh just to hear the stories of their communications, particularly since this comes out.
25:34
SPEAKER_02: It would be because you know, Dale would, you know, he would have some stories because he would came through it in the old time to the the modern modernization part of it.
25:42
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, anyway, only if that only yeah, I'd love to hear some of those stories.
25:46
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, absolutely.
25:47
SPEAKER_07: All right, we're we'll uh we'll break here and we'll be uh come back with the uh story of Kurt Newsom.
25:52
SPEAKER_07: Uh his history with Virginia Tech, but wanted to make sure we had time to pay tribute to a really, really good guy.
25:59
SPEAKER_07: Uh was associated with JMU and Emory and Henry, and uh really a solid guy, and he passed away.
26:04
SPEAKER_07: So we were uh making sure we left enough room, and that's what we're doing.
26:07
SPEAKER_07: We'll go to break.
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28:04
SPEAKER_07: All right.
28:04
SPEAKER_07: Um Kurt Newsome was very inspirational.
28:07
SPEAKER_07: Budd had uh touched a base with me a couple of days ago and he said, you know, he do we have time for you know Kurt Newsom when we uh plan in the show?
28:14
SPEAKER_07: I said, absolutely.
28:15
SPEAKER_07: I mean, we you know um that we definitely wanted you just heard his uh voice talking about history and Virginia Tech as we bumped into the segment.
28:25
SPEAKER_07: Uh Bud, how close were you with Kurt and uh and what did he what did he mean to you?
28:31
SPEAKER_02: Well, you know, number one, it just my heart goes out to uh Melinda, his wife of 43 years, uh their son Kurt and their daughter Liz, just and the rest of the Newsom family.
28:43
SPEAKER_02: And uh yeah, but Kurt was I met Kurt when I came here in 1987.
28:49
SPEAKER_02: He was the head football coach at Kikatan High School, uh down there in the 757 area.
28:55
SPEAKER_02: And uh he would bring his kids to camp.
28:58
SPEAKER_02: And then we also then obviously recruited several of his kids.
29:01
SPEAKER_02: He was at Kikatan, I think, from 87 to 97 in that stretch.
29:06
SPEAKER_02: And um, and you know, then he was a year at Heritage High School, and then he got an opportunity to get into college football, which I I thought he was just a great football coach.
29:16
SPEAKER_02: As I got to know him, you know, he was a uh a great football coach.
29:23
SPEAKER_02: I don't care at what level, you know, there's there's great high school coaches that would be great NFL coaches.
29:28
SPEAKER_02: I mean, they're just they're just how great great great X and O's, but more importantly, just great development, um great with people, uh personnel, that type of thing.
29:39
SPEAKER_02: But uh, but I will say this is I you know he came to our staff and and we got to know him so well and and believed and trusted him.
29:47
SPEAKER_02: You know, Coach Beamer brought him in on our staff, and he coached with us for seven years from 2006 to 2012.
29:55
SPEAKER_02: And as I got to know him, uh that even closer because you're you know, on a day-to-day basis, I mean, one of the fiercest competitors I've ever been around.
30:09
SPEAKER_02: And uh but he coached our offensive line.
30:13
SPEAKER_02: That was in an era and a stretch that we we we won 71 football games.
30:18
SPEAKER_02: He was here for seven years and we won 71 football games.
30:21
SPEAKER_07: Wow.
30:21
SPEAKER_02: And we went to here you go.
30:24
SPEAKER_02: I mean, this listen to this.
30:25
SPEAKER_02: We went we went to three orange bowls, a sugar bowl, two Chick-fil-A bowls, and then we ended up in a Russell Athletic Bowl, you know.
30:34
SPEAKER_02: But you talk about a stretch right there, which those, you know, six of those seven games would be today are considered, you know, the playoff uh you know football games.
30:45
SPEAKER_02: And that's what they were at that time.
30:46
SPEAKER_02: Those were obviously the BDCS games, but the Chick-fil-A bowl was like our number two team, you know, that uh, and we ended up playing uh somebody in the SEC.
30:56
SPEAKER_02: You know, we played Georgia one year and we played Tennessee one year.
31:00
SPEAKER_02: Um but uh but he had a great run.
31:03
SPEAKER_02: He was an outstanding recruiter.
31:05
SPEAKER_02: Uh he was involved in in getting uh Tyrod Taylor here.
31:10
SPEAKER_02: Um just, I mean, had a uh just knew every high school coach in the state of Virginia, uh, was respected by every high school coach in the state of Virginia.
31:21
SPEAKER_02: Him walking in back into the 757 area and recruiting was instant credibility, you know, not just with the the coaches, but then with the players because of his background at at Kikatan and you know what what he did there and the success he had and the and then the players that uh um um in fact uh you probably saw Morocco Brown played for him at Kikatan, was been in the NFL, and he was just been hired uh in like a GM kind of uh role at the University of Wisconsin.
31:54
SPEAKER_02: So uh but anyway, just he's he made such an impact on so many people.
31:59
SPEAKER_02: Now obviously he had guys that go on to the next you know to college from high school and from to the NFL from from college, but the impact that he's made on so many people in his lifetime is incredible.
32:13
SPEAKER_02: And uh, I mean, uh, but like I said, my heart just goes out to Melinda, Kurt, and Liz, and and um you know, he's 67 years old.
32:22
SPEAKER_02: He's but he battled pancreatic cancer, he battled it for a couple years.
32:26
SPEAKER_02: Um you know, he recently ended up, he was the head coach at Emory and Henry.
32:31
SPEAKER_02: Uh that's where his alma matered, but he went there and became the head coach and uh for a 10-year run and took them, he won an ODAC championship there initially, and then elevated that program from Division III, non-scholarship, to division two and have become competitive, you know.
32:49
SPEAKER_02: And I had an opportunity to go down there and speak at his clinic a couple times.
32:52
SPEAKER_02: I went down and consulted with his staff a couple times.
32:55
SPEAKER_02: We just most recently here before his illness, and I saw him here about a year ago, but um uh before that had an opportunity with a good friend Rick Hughes, who's a good friend of his and and mine.
33:07
SPEAKER_02: Uh, we went to the Carolina Panthers game together and just uh, you know, we were able to spend some quality time together.
33:13
SPEAKER_02: But uh, you know, as as good a football coach as he was, it was even a better person.
33:19
SPEAKER_02: You know, you hear people say that, but Kurt was.
33:21
SPEAKER_02: He was a fierce competitor, but he loved life too, and he loved to have a good time and he loved his family.
33:26
SPEAKER_02: And so this is a tough, this is a tough one, you know, when it's it's like a brother, you're losing a brother, you know.
33:32
SPEAKER_02: And uh, and so um yeah, I just wanted to make sure we recognize the impact that Kurt's made um, you know, across this state, you know, and as a as a football coach.
33:43
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I I I hope we have listeners that they'll have memories of Kurt and you know, just the impact that maybe they had on on the him or them or whatever that experience may be.
33:54
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, good stuff, but um a couple of sound bites with him.
33:57
SPEAKER_07: Um he always felt fortunate to be a part of the hokey staff and to coach with uh coach in Blacksburg with Frank Beamer and Bud Foster.
34:06
SPEAKER_14: Well, I was very fortunate.
34:07
SPEAKER_14: We went to three Orange Bowls, a sugar bowl, two Chick-fil-A bowls, and a Russell Athletic Bowl.
34:12
SPEAKER_14: So it was a good run.
34:14
SPEAKER_14: When you go out on that field on Saturday, whether you're at Emory and Henry or Blacksburg, it's it's a great experience.
34:20
SPEAKER_14: It's about winning and losing and competing and uh and learning lessons, and uh that's how we approach it.
34:26
SPEAKER_07: During an interview, uh Kurt was at, you know, they always asked, like, you know, what was your key to recruiting?
34:32
SPEAKER_07: And Kurt didn't try to sugarcoat anything.
34:35
SPEAKER_07: He just said that he felt tech was about the people, and that's what he would tell all the, you know, all the people that all the high school kids that he came in contact with.
34:44
SPEAKER_14: Well, first of all, it's it's a people place.
34:46
SPEAKER_14: Wherever you go, there's gonna be great buildings, great stadiums, great locker rooms, and we have that, and so does everybody else.
34:52
SPEAKER_14: But I think when you're deciding on where you want to go to school, it's about the people and the people that you have to be with every day.
34:58
SPEAKER_14: Winning's important.
34:59
SPEAKER_14: If you're gonna put that much time and effort in it, it's hard to it's hard not to win and and be happy.
35:07
SPEAKER_14: History is a great predictor of the future.
35:09
SPEAKER_14: We've been able to win football games.
35:11
SPEAKER_14: I think we'll continue.
35:12
SPEAKER_14: We've uh we're actually right now, we're uh the only team in the country the last seven years of that has won ten games.
35:20
SPEAKER_14: And uh I think it's a uh a place where you get along with people, win a lot of football games, and I think uh I think you have a great college career if if you have those things.
35:30
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, pretty good formula.
35:31
SPEAKER_07: If you love where you work and you're winning games, I mean that's true.
35:34
SPEAKER_07: But he also he embraced his tenure at Emory Henry.
35:37
SPEAKER_14: This is Emory and Henry.
35:39
SPEAKER_14: Uh, you know, as far as I'm concerned, there's no division at the end of it.
35:42
SPEAKER_14: It is it is a special place.
35:45
SPEAKER_14: It's uh I don't think there's any place like it in the state of Virginia.
35:49
SPEAKER_14: And I've been fortunate enough that I haven't had to leave the state, but it it's a place where uh I think you can accomplish all your life's goals and a place where great people are.
36:00
SPEAKER_07: So basically, if he is your bridge partner, he's gonna support you.
36:05
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, he's a team guy, right?
36:07
SPEAKER_02: All the way around.
36:08
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna say, you know, Kurt and I, I mean, like I said, he was one of the fiercest competitors that I've been around.
36:15
SPEAKER_02: And and I tell you what, we had some of, you know, you talk about some battles, and you know, he mentioned and I mentioned, you know, though, that that stretch run that we were in.
36:24
SPEAKER_02: I mean, we were so good up front on both sides of the ball.
36:28
SPEAKER_02: And we were in, you know, doing middle drills together uh in the spring.
36:32
SPEAKER_02: Obviously, you're scrimmaging against each other, and you talk about I think Kurt, he was such a competitive, I think he had a hatred towards me.
36:40
SPEAKER_02: I really do.
36:41
SPEAKER_02: I think he had a hatred towards me and our deeds and staff on on Saturdays when we would scrimmage, you know.
36:48
SPEAKER_02: It was just an and he was that competitive, but then at the end of the day, let's go have a beer.
36:53
SPEAKER_07: Okay, let's you know, we'll we'll maybe he was just jealous of the lunch pail.
36:58
SPEAKER_07: You had a you had a uh a foundation and a gimmick, and he did not.
37:03
SPEAKER_02: No, we but Kurt was that's just that he was that competitive, and you know, he and then in turn that just fueled the fire for for me because I you know it's just uh but that's all it made each other better, you know, and there was no rivalry inside the building.
37:20
SPEAKER_02: There was no, you know, we wanted to make each other better.
37:23
SPEAKER_02: He would say, What'd you see today that made you do that?
37:26
SPEAKER_02: Or, you know, I would do this ass the same, you know, and just to help each other out.
37:31
SPEAKER_02: And and because in the end of the day, it's it was a it was about us, not about the end of the buttons.
37:36
SPEAKER_02: I'm just telling you on screwing today, that guy wanted to kick our butt so bad, and uh, you know, and there's days that he did.
37:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and uh, but uh we had some great battles, but like I said, it's just uh a great football coach that uh uh is and a dear friend that I'm gonna dearly miss.
37:56
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, for sure.
37:57
SPEAKER_07: And he followed, you know, you guys, because you followed up the Michael Vick recruitment with Tyrod Taylor and Newsom was you pointed out it Newsom was pretty important, uh uh pretty vital in the Tyrod Taylor recruitment, right?
38:09
SPEAKER_02: Oh, with without a doubt.
38:11
SPEAKER_02: You know, he was great friends with uh with Mike Smith.
38:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah really was.
38:16
SPEAKER_02: And that was that's that's who you need uh that's who you need to be in good with was Mike Smith.
38:21
SPEAKER_02: Sure.
38:22
SPEAKER_02: Uh because as you know, in your time at UVA, there was a time Mike Smith didn't really like Virginia Tech.
38:29
SPEAKER_02: And a lot there's a lot of Hampton guys kind of went to that school up the road, you know, guys um and then when Kurt came on board with us, then that that changed because Mike and him had such a great relationship.
38:43
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah.
38:44
SPEAKER_07: All right, good stuff.
38:45
SPEAKER_07: All right, we'll go to break, we'll come back.
38:47
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38:55
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38:58
SPEAKER_07: We'll come back and talk about it.
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SPEAKER_07: The other night, my wife and I decided kicking back and she's scrolling through trying to find a you know a movie, and I'm so sick of chick-flicks and love love films and all that stuff, and so she she stumbled, she stumbled across Rocky.
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SPEAKER_07: Oh my god.
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SPEAKER_07: 1976, it took three days for Rocky to write it, but 90% of the movie changed.
41:43
SPEAKER_07: All right, just a little history.
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SPEAKER_07: But there was nobody that, you know, Stallone, you know, made all kinds of money.
41:52
SPEAKER_07: The the movie made 220 million, but it was this guy because he just happened to be a raider who I loved.
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SPEAKER_12: Look, it's the name, man.
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SPEAKER_12: The Italian Stallion.
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SPEAKER_12: The media will eat it up.
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SPEAKER_12: Now, who discovered America?
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SPEAKER_12: An Italian, right?
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SPEAKER_12: What would be better than to get it on with one of his descendants?
42:11
SPEAKER_12: He's a South Paul.
42:12
SPEAKER_12: I don't want you to mess with South Paul.
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SPEAKER_12: South Paul, nothing.
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SPEAKER_12: Drop him in three.
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SPEAKER_12: Apollo Creed meets the Italian stallion.
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SPEAKER_12: Sounded like a damn monster movie.
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SPEAKER_07: So, bud, were you a were you a Rocky?
42:29
SPEAKER_07: Like you had to see the second one, you had to see the third one, you know, the fourth one, Adrian dies.
42:37
SPEAKER_07: I mean, tell you sharing.
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SPEAKER_07: Were you a Rocky?
42:39
SPEAKER_07: Were you a Rocky fan?
42:40
SPEAKER_02: I was a Rocky, I was a Rocky fan, without a doubt.
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SPEAKER_02: Now, I'm not, I'm a movie buff, but I'm not one of those that can remember every line and all those things, you know.
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SPEAKER_02: But uh uh, you know, I the that era, Rocky, to me, Rocky, that Rocky series, yeah, and then Raiders of the Lost Ark series for sure when that when their anniversary comes up.
43:05
SPEAKER_02: But to me, those those two um um entities of uh you know that those that series, so to speak, because they they had several movies with each one, those to me were the most entertaining.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, obviously, being a sports guy, the um Rocky was you you could you could understand that, you know, the eye of the tiger.
43:25
SPEAKER_02: I mean, that song came out.
43:27
SPEAKER_02: I mean, that just became a guys on the street corner, everybody.
43:31
SPEAKER_02: You know, for everybody, you had to have the eye of the tiger.
43:34
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I don't care if you're going on the football field, you're going in a boxing ring, you're playing a basketball game.
43:39
SPEAKER_02: I don't care what it what it was, you know.
43:42
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, I was a big fan of of just and what a great story.
43:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
43:46
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you talk about you know, that's the that's it, that's the American dream, so to speak.
43:51
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you you know, and um and that's what it's all about.
43:54
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
43:55
SPEAKER_02: The guy from nowhere kind of was able, was given an opportunity, and he took advantage.
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SPEAKER_02: Now he had good people along the way, right?
44:04
SPEAKER_02: That's the way when you you you have success, you're surrounded by people that care about you.
44:09
SPEAKER_02: And that's what this whole movie was about, you know, just the the cast of characters were in the world.
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SPEAKER_07: Oh, Mr.
44:16
SPEAKER_07: T.
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SPEAKER_07: He launched a lot of careers.
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SPEAKER_07: So no doubt.
44:19
SPEAKER_07: Okay, all right.
44:20
SPEAKER_07: Quick quick trivia then.
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SPEAKER_07: Rocky, Rocky won, Rocky, before it got to six, which was Rocky Balboa, but Rocky, can you name the turtles?
44:31
SPEAKER_02: Like I said, I can't.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
44:35
SPEAKER_02: But I'm not one of those guys.
44:37
SPEAKER_07: Take this home to Justin.
44:38
SPEAKER_07: It's Cuff and Link.
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SPEAKER_07: Oh.
44:42
SPEAKER_07: Alright, part two.
44:44
SPEAKER_07: Rocky gets a dog from Talushire, from Adrian, from the pet shop, the Bulldog.
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SPEAKER_07: Do you remember the name of the dog?
44:53
SPEAKER_07: And I'll give you a hint.
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SPEAKER_07: It has an NFL name from the Chicago Bears.
44:58
SPEAKER_02: Oh, oh.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
45:02
SPEAKER_02: It has to be uh Buddhist.
45:05
SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah, there you go.
45:06
unknown: There you go.
45:07
SPEAKER_07: So, anyway, as you said, a lot of good stuff.
45:10
SPEAKER_07: All right.
45:10
SPEAKER_07: Well, look, have a uh what's on tap this weekend?
45:13
SPEAKER_07: What are you doing?
45:14
SPEAKER_02: Well, we have alumni weekend at Virginia Tech.
45:17
SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's a this is part of my responsibility.
45:20
SPEAKER_02: Uh on Friday, there's a taste of Virginia, which basically means I get to go drink like Virginia wines.
45:27
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I'm scared of the thing.
45:29
SPEAKER_02: And you know, breweries and things, and I get to walk around, walk around and shake hands and kiss babies.
45:34
SPEAKER_02: And then um Saturday, they have uh an event on the drill field.
45:40
SPEAKER_02: So they'll have uh a meal and they'll be hundreds of folks there.
45:46
SPEAKER_02: But also, this is part of they used to call it the old guard.
45:49
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
45:50
SPEAKER_02: Right off the top of my name, off the top of my head, what they call it now.
45:52
SPEAKER_02: They changed that because they want to get the old guard out of there, and and because there's so many women now involved, too.
45:58
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, it's usually the 50th anniversary or 50th reunion, you know, kind of that's what they celebrate a lot of that, besides others coming back.
46:07
SPEAKER_02: Sure.
46:08
SPEAKER_02: So Jesse and I will we'll walk around, we'll have dinner and then walk around from tent to tent and meet and greet.
46:14
SPEAKER_02: And uh so yeah, uh it'll be it'll be fun.
46:18
SPEAKER_02: It's you know, that's a it's a stress-free situation, man.
46:21
SPEAKER_02: So uh, but it's it's it's fun to celebrate, you know, a lot of uh great memories with some, you know, some great hokies.
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SPEAKER_07: All right, good job.
46:30
SPEAKER_07: Well, I think I get a steak dinner and Rocky III.
46:32
SPEAKER_07: So anyway, have a good it should be a good one.
46:35
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