Latest / The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast / Bonus: Athletics LLC S3 E38 'FWP' December 30, 2022
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- 1:45I'm still a little mad about that right now.
- 1:47How are you today sir? Yeah.
- 1:51The west coast is the best coast.
- 1:53We're good out here. Happy New Year in advance to
- 1:57all. Yeah, how was Christmas
- 2:01Christmas was to I sat around and watched Chi be a terrorist
- 2:06around the house and I'm definitely definitely tanked.
- 2:13The white elephant, which is exactly what you are meant to
- 2:15do. In case, y'all didn't know the
- 2:18gold. White elephant is to provide the
- 2:19worst gift possible. Humble and see who gets stuck
- 2:22with it. Some people don't play the game
- 2:24that way, but I most definitely so, somebody had to walk away
- 2:29with a stack of picky bars. That's hilarious.
- 2:32I was waiting to hear that. You get did somebody Kai's
- 2:36diaper used any better? Hmm.
- 2:40Well, I don't think anybody would let me get away with that.
- 2:43But we had a white elephant with, with my group one time
- 2:48when I was at Purdue, and one of the kids who's kind of country
- 2:52bought some, some deer feed, and like a 20-pound bag.
- 2:59So it was like, in this big box in there.
- 3:01If I kept was super kind of coveting and it ended up being
- 3:05some deer. Feed horrible.
- 3:08Yep. Well played.
- 3:12Yeah. How are you tonight?
- 3:15As you can tell. I've I've chosen violence for
- 3:18tonight's show and I'm pleased about it.
- 3:22I feel very good today is going to be has been a very good day
- 3:27and I'm going to end it very well.
- 3:29I'm also going to let the entire world know now that the slogan
- 3:32for myself and my group this year coming up is own 23.
- 3:39Got it. Governor.
- 3:44I almost can't see you with your camo sweatshirt on ahead.
- 3:50I'm just kidding. Oh, camel.
- 3:58So I'm Halfway through. The Gauntlet of death. the
- 4:18so, His birthday was yesterday and
- 4:41she gave it a 9 out of 10. Good job.
- 4:45Good job. 12 or 13 of her friends went to watch Avatar and
- 4:57you know I played I played the the Gopher going back and forth
- 5:02getting popcorn and and wings and all Stuff.
- 5:06And then, you know it was good. We did lazer tag and all of
- 5:09that. So it was a good.
- 5:11It was a good day. She was very happy and yeah.
- 5:16And all of that Goodwill lasted one day.
- 5:18So now we're back. Teenagers are back.
- 5:23No, I'm just, I'm just dead. You know?
- 5:28Oh good. How are you going to top this
- 5:32off? I'm not going to try.
- 5:36Christmas was phenomenal. Always the best part two
- 5:39grandkids right? But I'm actually acting like
- 5:45it's Florida again. It was 67 today is going to be
- 5:4876 tomorrow. So yeah, that 21 at night wasn't
- 5:52when sitting too well with us we had seen a gator in transit and
- 5:59I giggled because they said to yeah like this isn't Florida
- 6:03weather. Yeah exactly.
- 6:05So They were definitely ready to go back.
- 6:10I'm out anyhow. Well, welcome back to the tiles.
- 6:16Thanks for joining us. Let's jump in the deep end.
- 6:20So these, there's these things they were put out on the
- 6:23internet, they're called the Olympic standards.
- 6:27And with them is coupling some qualified procedures to get into
- 6:31those games coming up. You know, 2024 is going to be
- 6:34here before we know it. It, there's some theories as to
- 6:39why they were set or we're going to call them fixed.
- 6:42No, I don't want to competitions some theories of why they are
- 6:45being sent away. They are both on the pro level
- 6:49and then coaching and then just the novice people have opinions
- 6:53this time around too. So what are your all's opinions
- 6:56about the standards in the procedures that have been set
- 6:58forth the 24? Can I just say there for me this
- 7:05is a two completely separate piece of conversation, the
- 7:10standards are the standards. And the only thing I have to say
- 7:14about the standards is stop whining.
- 7:17No one who is trying to get a medal, looks at those standards
- 7:21and has anything to say, okay? The Olympic standards were
- 7:26supposed to be high, they are high, stop whining.
- 7:31Over it. It's not a tourist visa.
- 7:35You're not there to kick it, figure it out.
- 7:39Now, the world now, the world rankings procedure.
- 7:43We've cut that to Pieces many, many, many times.
- 7:45And I do, I do not enjoy the way that that hole.
- 7:51Smorgasbord of shenanigans operates, but there's nothing
- 7:55wrong with standards. I just I just don't get what
- 7:58everybody's wanting about. Yeah, I'm kind of the same
- 8:02thing. Like I'm not sure what the
- 8:03complaint is. We know, we, if we want people
- 8:06to take our sport more seriously than we have to elevate our
- 8:09game. And if elevator, I gave means
- 8:12elevating the standard. That's what we have to do.
- 8:16I'm not sure what people are all up in arms.
- 8:17Wasn't this qualifying system in place for the last Olympics in
- 8:20the last World Championships and the people are supposed to get
- 8:23there. Get there right?
- 8:24Like nothing's changed out of the standards got tougher but
- 8:26like the people that are close to get, there will be there and
- 8:31I'm not sure what the upper is because I think I'm gonna play
- 8:37EP here for a second but it isn't this an attempt to make
- 8:40people do more Diamond League stuff or qualifying meet stuff
- 8:44during the Olympic. And what time should be yours.
- 8:46Yes that what this out? This is about Rebecca.
- 8:48I thought that's what you said to me before.
- 8:50I wasn't sure how the Southwest where you can delve into that
- 8:53but like an end of the day, the standards are what they are.
- 8:56And you know I know I am old enough being the oldest person
- 9:01on the tiles. I'll say that's the u.s. don't
- 9:02have to do that every time that standards gets changes.
- 9:07Like I remember when the stand it was 1024 oh my God, that's so
- 9:09fast. You know, and he was 10 10 my
- 9:12God that's so fast. No.
- 9:14Like aren't you? Like eight guys in United States
- 9:17in 1790 Yeah, we'll be okay Coco and it's interesting.
- 9:23There's one woman of some place right now.
- 9:25He's coming so what this all boils down to and what what I
- 9:36think people need to understand is that 23, olympiads ago.
- 9:44They started to realize that there were too many people at
- 9:50six. Okay.
- 9:53And they thought of ways, and this is not just track, but all
- 9:57federation's, all governing bodies had to figure out how
- 10:02we're going to cut down on the cost of Hosting these games.
- 10:06We're now in a point in our in or lives.
- 10:12We're hosting an Olympic Games can literally cripple a country
- 10:17like we, you know, people don't want to discuss, you know, what
- 10:21happened in Athens and all of that.
- 10:22But believe me, it was Ill. It is an incredible feat to host
- 10:30an Olympic Games. So what have they done for
- 10:34track? Well, track has now been given
- 10:37905 slots for men. And 905 slots for woman.
- 10:45Okay? That is for all sports.
- 10:49That is the sport of track and field, 1810 athletes will be
- 10:54there for track and field, okay? So in order to do this you have
- 11:00to raise the standards, right? And you have to figure out okay?
- 11:06Where's where's the ceiling who they athletes and then you have
- 11:10to figure out the amount. Of people per event.
- 11:15Right? And this is what's already being
- 11:16done in the NCAA, right. That's exactly what it is.
- 11:20Well, go from the West while go from the East, you line up, we
- 11:23get after it. Peels are 24.
- 11:26It's a beautiful thing. The meats over in four days and
- 11:31you get three to four hours of non-stop action.
- 11:34Well, this is the bigger version.
- 11:39The, you know, and as far as the quality of the field, one thing
- 11:43that will be guaranteed is that we are going to see the very
- 11:46best of the best, which is what the Olympics are all about.
- 11:51This comes around every four years and it's not something
- 11:56that's a free-for-all. We've gotten to a point now
- 11:58where careers are built on the Olympics, right?
- 12:05And people's careers flourish, you know, because of the
- 12:09Olympics. So, you know, you can you can
- 12:14get past the initial shock. Get over it, get over the
- 12:19initial shock of the the qualifying standards.
- 12:23The bottom line is this. If you are in that 34,
- 12:28congratulations, you 32 sorry. You feel the 32 based on what
- 12:34events you're in, then, congratulations, you are an
- 12:36Olympian, but the whole idea of just going just to go I mean, I
- 12:43think we're well past that now. That was perfect.
- 12:51I'll say this. Listen, I only have three
- 12:54questions. Whatever about the standards.
- 13:00How in a world of human advancement can the standard be
- 13:05slower in 2024 for the 400 than it was in 2021?
- 13:12It's the only standard that slower.
- 13:14So that's just weird as some sort of statistical anomaly.
- 13:18Like literally, it's like one of those ask the Dalai Lama
- 13:20questions. Like I don't really care but
- 13:22it's interesting to why are there only For decathletes in 32
- 13:28of everybody else. And and I know why the answer is
- 13:32because it's one less Heat and the hundred the hurdles and the
- 13:36400 and that's the worst possible reason.
- 13:38But I know that that's the reason I might have a better
- 13:41reason for you, but go ahead. There's not a better reason but
- 13:44anyway I've definitely want to hear this but but three I find
- 13:51it interesting that People are concerned with the standards.
- 14:00When literally no medalist has ever been concerned with the
- 14:02standard in their lives, right? But but, but nobody is
- 14:08concerned. Nobody is talking about I think
- 14:15the governor said this like three weeks ago.
- 14:17How do you get there? Yeah, right.
- 14:20The standards are now made public but how can you get?
- 14:24There is not, we all know the five of us know exactly.
- 14:28Like, you know, we all coach. Someone, some ones that are
- 14:32we're planning on having be part of the Olympic movement and we
- 14:36all understand our plights to get them there.
- 14:38I coach several people coach choose, so we coach several
- 14:41people that are probably going To have to get their differently
- 14:45and we got those plans set out but at the end of the day, like
- 14:51it's always funny to me when people get all rabble-rousing
- 14:54upset. About the jingling Keys portion,
- 14:57it's like a magic trick. Everybody's looking over here,
- 14:59man. The tricks over here, right,
- 15:03like the standards, the fact that there are only nine
- 15:05decathletes in the entire world that have the standard.
- 15:08Like yeah, that's cute. It's not even news.
- 15:11You know, you know the best example of that is Lamar when
- 15:15you look at the field at the Grand Prix final every year.
- 15:19Yeah and you're looking at this and you're going, wait a minute.
- 15:24That's right. Yeah.
- 15:25Because they're all because this how did there's those who get
- 15:31it, the nine decathletes that have the standard, right?
- 15:40They're not concerned, they have a single peak season, it is what
- 15:44it is. The real question should be how
- 15:47are the other 15 slots going to get filled and and if I'm an
- 15:51athlete, how am I going to get one of those?
- 15:54Yes. What are the other automatic
- 15:56ways to get there? How can I qualify for those,
- 15:59right? Like, but nobody's talking about
- 16:01that, and that's why I always I always laugh about this stuff is
- 16:03just because it's like we have we have million dollar questions
- 16:07and million dollar conversations about, you know, six.
- 16:10Thousand dollar problems, right? Well, we never have real
- 16:13conversations about the real things like Who created the
- 16:19ranking system? Why is it your best to Marks and
- 16:23not your best five? Right?
- 16:26Like why are some area championships automatic
- 16:29qualifiers to World Championships and some are not
- 16:32like those are real questions. But nobody ever asks those
- 16:36questions except us like, we have these conversations amongst
- 16:38ourselves, we occasionally have these conversations, you know,
- 16:41from time to time kind of offhandedly on the show, but
- 16:44it's wild to me that real people who are whose lives are really
- 16:49being affected by. This are not asking those
- 16:51questions. Well, that that's the point,
- 16:54right? It's not even about.
- 16:56Out, you know the fans whoever they don't ask those questions.
- 16:59The freaking athletes. Don't ask those questions math.
- 17:02He's don't ask us questions. And and and what's worse is
- 17:04they're agents. May not explain it to him.
- 17:08Mmm. It's absolutely.
- 17:15Yes. Like that's that's the problem.
- 17:20You know, like I think the fact that I just said, very glibly,
- 17:23your world ranking is based on your best to Mark to your best
- 17:26to performances, like your greatest too valuable.
- 17:29I think that's shocking news to a lot of people.
- 17:31Yeah. And for the record he's talking
- 17:33about the multis because in the individual Vince that's not the
- 17:36case. But no, it's not too but it's
- 17:39fine. Still number is 5.
- 17:40Yeah. But it's but the point is the
- 17:43fact that there is a number, I think, is a, is unknown to a
- 17:47great number of athletes and Unfortunately not explained by a
- 17:51great number of Agents. They all know the agents, all
- 17:54know. But I don't think that they
- 17:57explain that to a great number of their people of their people,
- 17:59either. I mean you're absolutely right.
- 18:01I'll just put it like this. We were all at World
- 18:03Championships this past year and Eugene I had I had two separate
- 18:08conversations with a one person who was in NCAA athlete turning
- 18:16pro and another what I would call a rookie who's already Pro
- 18:23and both of them thought that their world Honking were
- 18:27descending order list based on best performance.
- 18:30Hmm. And I'm like, you they couldn't
- 18:33be further from the truth. Like you cannot afford to be
- 18:37that level of ignorant. Moving forward.
- 18:40How do you not know this? Why do you not know this?
- 18:43Why is no one explained this to you?
- 18:45I'm just here. Like why are you?
- 18:47And I having this conversation, I shouldn't be the one
- 18:49delivering this to you. You know what I mean?
- 18:52And it's it's crazy. Look, what percentage of What
- 18:56percentage of athletes in the United States, do you think know
- 18:59that 99% of the Collegiate meets that will occur?
- 19:03This year are not meets that they can qualify for World
- 19:05Championships. 100% now hopefully no because it's not
- 19:14100% because the SEC Championship like that.
- 19:18Yeah. Well no they don't.
- 19:37My the only one that says to themselves, it's about to be
- 19:41January, like, not trying to be funny.
- 19:43What can you do about it now? Yeah, if you haven't, if like if
- 19:47you have not planned for this, what can you do about it now?
- 19:53Ray, you know, all these people who were like, well I'm not
- 19:56going to do an indoor season because, you know, blasi buzzes.
- 19:59Well, I like okay that's fine. Just understand that there are
- 20:02indoor meet stick actually would count on your outdoor world
- 20:05ranking as crazy as that is. Even at distances that don't
- 20:09exist out, right? Even in distance is the don't
- 20:11exist Outdoors, right? And again, I'm not saying you
- 20:15need to do indoors. I'm just saying you need to know
- 20:20all of the parameters as to how you're going to get.
- 20:22Two Worlds, if them standards are something you're concerned
- 20:26with, hmm? Rock isn't because the top 10 in
- 20:31the world. I mean, the decks only 9, but
- 20:35the top 10 in the world and every other event are currently
- 20:38qualify for World changes. Yeah, they don't care what the
- 20:43standard is. The movers will be here.
- 20:47Yeah. And so this is where you know,
- 20:50I've listened to the words that have been said online, I've read
- 20:53them. What have you?
- 20:54And for who all these people who are having commentary about it.
- 21:00There are days that people are screaming at the top of her
- 21:02lungs, like football basketball, baseball takes the top, one
- 21:07percent or whatever decimal you want to give it to be a
- 21:10professional and make it to that level, right?
- 21:13And then track and field is just as the league as football
- 21:16basketball baseball, whatever sport you want to put it into
- 21:19that underscored line and then you do something like this,
- 21:23having the qualifying standards or the procedures, or having the
- 21:26Olympic standards. I'm sorry.
- 21:29And now how are we supposed to qualify?
- 21:32You can't have both sides. You have to if we want to be
- 21:35professional we want to be elite that's what it is.
- 21:38I think some of this stems from us being a quote unquote, no-cut
- 21:42sport, early on and so then when you start to have these Cuts
- 21:49people are, like, what I was supposed to be able to play at
- 21:52this whole entire time regardless.
- 21:55Yeah, no it doesn't. It doesn't so I mean I think for
- 22:01those of you who are not in agreeance or feel some type of
- 22:04way, you got to find a way in there, literally is no one to
- 22:10call. There's no hot line.
- 22:11There's no help line. There's no NADA not sort of
- 22:14Lucius not no one can go to whoever and say, well we've got
- 22:20can we get this one entry in? It doesn't work that way,
- 22:24speaking of that to like, so I just happened upon this.
- 22:29This website I don't even know what it is but it has every
- 22:33single date that applies to said track and field athlete in terms
- 22:42of when the qualification period begins all of that stuff, right?
- 22:47So they've got 30th of June 2024 and the qualification 2nd of
- 22:54July, they confirmed the list. Okay.
- 22:58It confirmed the list of approved unqualified athletes
- 23:01and they confirmed the list of athletes qualified by entry
- 23:04standard, right? And then they publish publish
- 23:08the world Athletics world rankings and qualified athletes
- 23:12but here's where it's quite his cute.
- 23:13It's interesting. So July 4th, is a deadline to
- 23:17decline a quota place for all events.
- 23:22Okay, July 5th and 6th World Athletics to reallocate unused,
- 23:28quota spaces in all events except the marathon.
- 23:33That's right, so understand what that means.
- 23:37That's the Deep. That's the D2 trick.
- 23:55These things beforehand. It's no longer just well, you
- 24:00know. I'm just going to go run a
- 24:01couple. No, no this is.
- 24:07This is actually going to be part of your repertoire how to
- 24:11qualify for the Olympics, right? It's not Checkers.
- 24:15Exactly. And so, and lastly, before we
- 24:20move on, just to drive this point home, the governor said
- 24:23this three weeks ago, who you choose as your agent is now
- 24:30going to be one of the most important decisions in your
- 24:36entire career. Yep.
- 24:38Just the way they wanted it set up.
- 24:41Listen, hey, they're unionized they give Exactly.
- 24:50He hit athletes. Wow.
- 24:55Hopefully, somebody heard that. Moving on, all I'm are the all
- 25:04pro players for being hired at the HBCU level in football,
- 25:08jumping, the lion. I know you don't think I'm gonna
- 25:15I was gonna say now, I don't think there's any such
- 25:32thing as jumping, the line, I believe.
- 25:40That the goalposts and the requirements are never the same.
- 25:49For every applicant by any means for any job, especially any job
- 25:55in athletics. We've discussed the fact that
- 25:58from time to time, the goalposts are different based on your skin
- 26:01color in your ethnicity from time to time.
- 26:03The goalposts are different based on your, on your
- 26:07professional impact. Sometimes that like, the
- 26:10requirements are different based on.
- 26:18Your stature in the sport, so to speak or your perceived stature
- 26:23in the sport, because it could actually just be that.
- 26:27But I'll say this, I think to, to say that, Like, and Ed Reed,
- 26:37or Deion Sanders, who have had short resumes prior to their
- 26:45head coaching appointments. To refer to those hires as
- 26:51jumping the line I think just me world.
- 26:55According to me I think is erroneous and egregious and I
- 27:02say that because that completely D values.
- 27:08Their experience in the industry.
- 27:11That is incalculable. The lessons that can be learned
- 27:16from someone like Deion Sanders or someone like Ed Reed, may not
- 27:21actually be quantifiable. The impact of an HBCU hiring
- 27:28someone that famous is incalculable you know, we talked
- 27:36about one time on the show, like, Basically of Dion's hire
- 27:41and that and then departure was going to change things in the
- 27:44HBCU World. Well, here's the answer.
- 27:48Right, because prior to Dionne, I don't think Ed Reed would have
- 27:51considered taking this job. But someone took the job and
- 27:56show that it has a success. It also has a shelf life, let's
- 28:00be clear. It also has a shelf life, right?
- 28:04If anybody thinks head reads going to be coaching the HBCU
- 28:06for the next decade. They've lost their minds because
- 28:09that's not going to happen. But what I just I don't think
- 28:14that it's jumping the line, you know, like look.
- 28:20Some people's path is to grind it out and be a 12-year 14-year
- 28:25assistant. Before they get their shot.
- 28:27Some people's path is that they get a shot, really early in
- 28:31their careers. Each one of those candidates can
- 28:35be right. And each one of those candidates
- 28:37can be woefully wrong and I think we've seen examples on
- 28:40both sides of that coin. So I'll just say this, I don't
- 28:45think it's a matter of right or wrong.
- 28:47I think it's a matter of preference basic based on who is
- 28:49doing the hiring. The fact that Ed Reed was hired
- 28:53by an All-Pro NBA star, who is the athletic director of that
- 28:58institution? I think is not lost on me.
- 29:02I I think that's to some degree a model that that school is
- 29:05trying to use, but I don't believe, I personally don't
- 29:09believe that there is a line jumping situation here.
- 29:20Next. Oh, I took my notes.
- 29:24I'm just I'm waiting for others. so, In researching this, you
- 29:36know, trying to find an app to response to this.
- 29:43I have found. that there are c 3 5 7 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
- 29:58seconds so there are 18 Currently, there are currently
- 30:0418, former professional football and basketball.
- 30:12Hall of Famers all crows. You name it that are hired that
- 30:19are currently hired men and women by hbcus.
- 30:25Okay. And What?
- 30:31Geordie of those hired after Deion Sanders.
- 30:37No. No, they were not, they weren't
- 30:43There are three, four, four, four women on this list that I
- 30:50had that are head basketball coaches.
- 30:54And what it's done for me, is that I mean, I'm getting an
- 30:58education as we go as to, how these hbcus are approaching, you
- 31:07know what, whatever they determine his success, right?
- 31:11What is success. Do you have winning basketball
- 31:16games, winning championships, that sort of thing?
- 31:19And then in this day and age, there's also the notoriety the
- 31:25ability to raise funds, the ability to excite donors to
- 31:32bring people that otherwise probably wouldn't pay attention
- 31:36to what's going on at hbcus. Using these athletes.
- 31:41These former These former athletes, former athletes to
- 31:46bring more attention to it. And as far as jumping the gun, I
- 31:52don't believe that this is, I mean, let's not even get started
- 31:58on what's currently happening in the NFL.
- 32:01Okay, let's not even start with the coaches that are currently
- 32:07in head coach positions in the NFL that have never Have no clue
- 32:15what it means to be a head coach, okay?
- 32:19But they're being given these opportunities, right?
- 32:22And the for me, There is clearly an attempt by HBCU to to bring
- 32:31these athletes, some of them are alums, you know, and but the
- 32:37whole point is this, can you lead men and women into the
- 32:42field of battle? Right.
- 32:45Can you can you get people to do things?
- 32:48They probably don't even think they could do.
- 32:52And I feel like when you talk about former professional
- 32:57basketball football players, they most definitely know what
- 33:02that means. Okay?
- 33:04They most definitely know what leadership is.
- 33:07All right, and as far as Talent, you know, the talent acquisition
- 33:14side of it, the bigger the name, the more athletes that are going
- 33:19to come to you, okay? The more athletes that are going
- 33:22to gravitate to you. I believe that this is a good
- 33:26thing. You need in HBC world and I
- 33:30encouraged it. I want to see where this goes.
- 33:35Because many others prior to these folks have tried and I
- 33:42think it's time, you know I welcome it, I want to see where
- 33:45this goes. Hi.
- 33:50I will let you run a because I know you're going to be
- 33:52absolutely fabulous what you have to say.
- 33:54So I really believe that I do. I'm not trying to be funny here
- 33:59but let me just say this, okay? But the whole question of
- 34:03jumping to place in line like how do you jump a place in line?
- 34:09When it's not your lung like you have to have the ability to be
- 34:13in the line, right. So if I'm the athletic director
- 34:16at but don't cook In college, I decide who's in the lung.
- 34:21And so, if Ed Reed was the person I wanted on my line, the
- 34:26first person that got them that that's that's my choice.
- 34:30It's an absolutely brilliant. Higher Ed Reed has very strong
- 34:35ties to the Miami area. Charged with having a good
- 34:49football, coach. We all know that's where the
- 34:52money again, bring it higher because the alumni going to get
- 34:58behind it with the alumni are going to get behind.
- 35:01The fact that Bethune-Cookman College got a chance to be
- 35:04relevant in football again. So if you look at what Reggie
- 35:08Theus did here, so now Not Reggie Theus, an NBA star, walks
- 35:14into the room with and read the NFL star in there.
- 35:18Talking to boosters and donors about what they need to be
- 35:21successful football, right? They we saw what just happened
- 35:24to Jackson State and Clive. You know?
- 35:27Because you worked in the HPC world, that's very proud, very
- 35:31proud crowd, right? So they're like, well if they
- 35:35can do it, why can't we? So this is clearly an attempt
- 35:38for them to recreate or out. Ooh, what happened to Jackson
- 35:41State? And I just don't understand the
- 35:45whole thing of jumping somebody in line because I've said this
- 35:50to many of people, what makes you think you belong in a line?
- 35:54Is not you if you was to determine that, okay, that line
- 35:57is determined by the person who's doing the hiring and if
- 36:00those people that man said, these are my four people in.
- 36:03This is my number one guy that's as Lon.
- 36:06So I don't get the whole skipping over people.
- 36:10It's not not anybody's place to judge that but Ricky please,
- 36:15Okay. You guys you guys know that I
- 36:18love you all and and I actually respect the things that you
- 36:23think and say and that's why I show up and do this.
- 36:25So it's alright. Like y'all know that I hate this
- 36:30entire conversation. I really really do it.
- 36:34Annoys me to no end. And like y'all got me literally
- 36:40sitting here taking notes on the things.
- 36:41Y'all just said because I never do that.
- 36:44Like I never do that. I'm so bothered by this entire
- 36:48conversation, not just from y'all just in The Ether.
- 36:53Okay. Um, first of all I love Ed Reed.
- 36:58I think he's the greatest safety.
- 37:00They were play in the NFL. I love him.
- 37:02Lifelong fan, love him. This isn't about it read.
- 37:08It's about what the higher of Ed Reed and Deion Sanders and Eddie
- 37:13George. It's about what these hires
- 37:16represent. And it's from where I sit, it's
- 37:21just an academically dishonest conversation.
- 37:26You talked about moving the goalposts, Lamar did the
- 37:31goalposts get moved in, professional coaching world, all
- 37:35the time, all the time, all the time and people move their said,
- 37:40go post as an excuse to do whatever the hell they want to
- 37:43do. So, to lucious is point, of
- 37:45course, Reggie Theus is in a position to hire who the hell he
- 37:49wants. He can hire to for the job if he
- 37:51wanted to and he could stand up and be like hey my school, my
- 37:54job. That's what I Don't care that
- 37:57she's not a football coach. Don't care that she's never
- 38:00worked in the industry. Don't care that, I didn't know
- 38:02her name yesterday. That's who I want.
- 38:04Of course, he has that power. But what does that do to the
- 38:10industry of professional coaches?
- 38:14That's my, that's my problem. The people who are out there,
- 38:20Rob Ryan, these type of hires I've asked almost all of them,
- 38:27the same question, I'll ask it to y'all in a different way.
- 38:30We all know as a fundamental fact that just because you were
- 38:33great at playing a sport, does not mean that you can coach it.
- 38:38We know, some former athletes that are excellent coaches.
- 38:41We know some former athletes that are Abominations is
- 38:44coaches. Why does your Hall of Fame
- 38:48status, your goat status out of position, your knowledge, as a
- 38:53player. Make you fit to sit in the head
- 38:58coach chair. I think Ed.
- 39:01Reed is brilliant. Bill.
- 39:02Belichick is on camera saying he's the smartest defensive
- 39:06player. He's ever coached against,
- 39:08thanks. So I know.
- 39:10Ed Reed knows football. What I also know is the Ed Reed
- 39:14has done nothing in his professional career to earn
- 39:19sitting in that chair. I wanted reading coaching I love
- 39:25the fact that Ed Reed and others like him want to give back to
- 39:29the sport and pass their knowledge on to Future
- 39:32Generations. But why does that mean they get
- 39:36to to borrow the term of the question, jump the line and take
- 39:41opportunities away from well-qualified.
- 39:45And in this case, black coaches, who have been dying and clawing
- 39:50scratching to be sitting in one of these seats.
- 39:53These seats are rare. They are hard to come by.
- 39:56And every time one of these NFL Hall of Famers, take a spot just
- 40:02to hold on, to get to the next spot as Prime has done.
- 40:06And they all will do your, they are setting the careers of
- 40:10others back years by doing this. Now to to flip it to track by
- 40:17this run by this rationale. This this May and June when the
- 40:21coaching Carousel in track and field comes zup.
- 40:25Hypothetically Brianna Rollins should be the next director of
- 40:28track and field or head coach at at a job somewhere.
- 40:32She's got an Olympic gold medal. She got World Championship gold
- 40:35medal. She was NCAA champion and record
- 40:37holder. She's Fit to be a head coach, I
- 40:40guess. Or are he's married, who just
- 40:43got hired into the NCAA. He shouldn't be a lower tier
- 40:48assistant in him, him in the ivy league.
- 40:51No, he should be, he should be in the chair.
- 40:55Why I liked it when we ask the question.
- 40:58Yeah, absolutely. So let me, please let me talk
- 41:10about setting people's careers back.
- 41:12It's one job. So who are all these people is
- 41:16maybe one person, right? Maybe one person will start
- 41:20there. And the other thing is this is
- 41:22like We talked about it reads, Brilliance Andre has been with
- 41:26the Miami Hurricanes for two years learning his craft as a
- 41:30consultant, exactly. But that's what that's why
- 41:33people go be Consultants, so they can learn what they need to
- 41:37do, right? So like it's not like Andre was
- 41:40someplace playing golf, you know.
- 41:43It Reed has been around a division 1, power 5 Institution
- 41:48for two years learning, what he's doing.
- 41:52Yes. And then the other thing is,
- 41:53this, you ask why? It's simple, why?
- 41:57It's strictly Financial? That's the biggest thing you
- 42:00want. Thank you.
- 42:01The biggest reason, why? But see, but my thing is this,
- 42:03okay? So, you asking Reggie fears to
- 42:08go pluck, somebody who's an assistant coach at Alabama,
- 42:12state, or Alcorn State, who doesn't have a big name, and
- 42:16they come in there and they can't raise the funds and they
- 42:18can't get people in this state when that person gets fired.
- 42:21Now, they're going I want register as a fable.
- 42:24So it's also a cya move. Yeah so maybe this guy's EAD
- 42:30your number one job is to raise money.
- 42:33Raise money and keep the fan base.
- 42:36Happy the fan base of BCC is statically.
- 42:39I'm I appreciate you said that I really do go ahead huh?
- 42:44That's why I said it right to really short things.
- 42:53One of one of all of our dearest of friends fits in this
- 42:56category, David Oliver hadn't coached anybody to do anything.
- 43:02He got it, he got a head coaching job at HBCU that he
- 43:05went to and he's dominating lives.
- 43:08It was his alma mater. I I don't care where it is, but
- 43:12yes, it is. It was his alma mater.
- 43:14The point is that doesn't mean that's the rule either, right?
- 43:19We all would agree with that. That doesn't mean if you take
- 43:21somebody who was world class in the whatever event and and then
- 43:26make them the head coach at their alma mater that they're
- 43:28going to be as successful as to you, right?
- 43:31It doesn't mean that. but it was a brilliant hire on their part,
- 43:35because it Raises money. Raises awareness keeps a fanbase
- 43:40happy. Right.
- 43:41But, but my second part is see, imma get trumped by the child.
- 43:46Now, my second part is, is something that's funny.
- 43:51This sometimes, you know, God puts things in your lap that you
- 43:54don't know you're supposed to pick up, but you're paying
- 43:56attention enough to like, hey, that might be important later.
- 43:59So, I picked this up earlier today and it's definitely
- 44:01important now Who's the highest paid actor in Hollywood?
- 44:10and by no, Wayne The Rock Johnson.
- 44:15That makes sense. He's never taken an acting class
- 44:18in his life. yep, you know, the second highest paid actor is
- 44:25Some Kevin Hart also has it taken an acting class, right?
- 44:36So by the purest of definitions right, like all those thespians
- 44:41who've gone to school who've grinded it out who have personal
- 44:45coaches, right? And are trying to do acting by
- 44:49the numbers, right? They've been passed over by two
- 44:52dudes with money and opportunity.
- 44:55And now what that hasn't hurt the industry, it hasn't even
- 44:59affected the industry at the end of the day, it's a one-off,
- 45:03right? Because that's not the answer,
- 45:04either. The point I think that's that's
- 45:06being made here. Is that there is an aligned,
- 45:10right? There's no, I'm happy to accept
- 45:13that. There isn't a line.
- 45:14It's just an easy way to describe the situation.
- 45:17And I actually love the movie example, because yeah, The
- 45:20Rock's movies. Make money.
- 45:22Kevin Hart's. Movies might make money.
- 45:25A lot of money, I guess they do but you're but you're not.
- 45:29You don't go to see a quality product.
- 45:32When you go to watch their movies, you might go to be
- 45:35entertained. Here's here's where I'll, you
- 45:38might go to be at that, that's where I will
- 45:53truly appreciate it. Okay.
- 45:57As a head coach of a football program.
- 46:00You are as good as what you would as it is yours.
- 46:07Yes? Okay, yeah.
- 46:10So Let's just call it what it is.
- 46:15You having head? You have a figurehead that's
- 46:20going to go out, shake hands, kiss babies, meet with the
- 46:23alumni. Do all the Dirty Work in terms
- 46:27of the political stuff. but for a winning program, you have to
- 46:34have the best assistant coaches, you can possibly have Right.
- 46:39We can we can I pause you right there, please.
- 46:42I love it. I love it so much.
- 46:45I hate this but I love y'all. I love you more.
- 46:49Listen to you. See you see you see what the
- 46:51governor just did there in his soul perfectly eloquent way.
- 46:56He just in that speech right there.
- 46:58Just change the standards for these guys because Nick Saban
- 47:02has to be an excellent coach. Tom Izzo has to be an excellent
- 47:06coach. Lincoln Riley has to be an
- 47:07explanation. The coast but not these guys.
- 47:09No, no, no. Nick skate.
- 47:11Good has the great. Yes.
- 47:31But sir. You understand what I'm saying?
- 47:34But you anything He's not saying that these guys no different
- 47:42than anybody else. He's just saying, I think where
- 47:44we might have been going is a fact that if he hires good
- 47:48assistant to be successful, you've been successful.
- 47:51That's what he was going. And I will say this at somebody
- 47:53that's been fairly successful at what I do.
- 47:56The better my assistants are the better wheel.
- 47:59We all agree with that there's not, there's no downside of that
- 48:03for the record. So if Goes out and gets quote
- 48:08unquote, says homies to come work for him, he be alright.
- 48:15In Daytona every year, I mean, let's be clear.
- 48:19Look, he could very easily have Trent Dilfer.
- 48:24No, no, no. Trent Dilfer is running the UAB
- 48:29program. Now, which I also hate, I don't
- 48:32like that one, either. I don't like that one either.
- 48:36I don't want this to be, I don't, I don't want this to be
- 48:38about HBCU. I don't want this to be about
- 48:41hbcus. Just count the football field
- 49:07and went to the broadcast. Tony Romo is a much better
- 49:10announcement. He was quarterback just so
- 49:12painful unit per year to, this is just what this is what has
- 49:19happened to that. It happens all the time Lucius
- 49:22that the announcement. Like, that's an entertainment
- 49:25business and listen, I'm cool with I literally said, so is the
- 49:28head. So is college football.
- 49:31Wait a minute. Thank you.
- 49:32Thank you. So that's what I said by.
- 49:34It's the new. It's the new thing.
- 49:36If we are, if we have now in my opinion devolved into this
- 49:40Cesspool of entertainment culture, only where the, where
- 49:45the bottom, where the bottom line, where the Cesspool of
- 49:53entertainment, absolutely, where the bottom line, in the dollars
- 49:56made are all that matters anymore.
- 49:59Then, hey, I'm here for I'm here for it.
- 50:07I'm here for it. That's been going on since
- 50:09before you were born sir. Okay.
- 50:11But athletic came back to will go back to the pendant when we
- 50:18had this discussion about, whether they're going to play
- 50:20football and basketball, America, cannot survive without
- 50:25Athletics. Absolutely, the American
- 50:27society, just be out of control. If you took that legs away, I
- 50:32don't think we did any of us disagree with that all I'm
- 50:35saying is like, so what? I'm saying is when you when you
- 50:37when you get into these things and I just said, look, we know,
- 50:40you're the champion of the little guy.
- 50:41You always have. We appreciate that.
- 50:43We love that about you. But there's just some things are
- 50:46just they're inevitable that you know, this is going to happen.
- 50:49I mean like it happens in our sport all the time.
- 50:53Shouldn't. And that's the point but what is
- 50:56going to happen as long as it's based on success as long as it's
- 51:01based on money, the number of track and field athletes every
- 51:05year. You decide I'm done being a
- 51:08track and field athlete. I'm going to be a coach.
- 51:11Now happens every year and there's a plethora of them.
- 51:14I don't see anybody line about the convincing what?
- 51:16Hey, you can't come in here, right?
- 51:19But the difference Lamar throughout some salts.
- 51:23Are you telling me Aries, Aries shouldn't have been hired and
- 51:25rounded, right? No, no, that's exactly the
- 51:28opposite of what I'm going to tell you Lamar throughout the
- 51:30very, very, very specific and great example of our friend
- 51:34David Oliver, who's doing a phenomenal.
- 51:36Well, job at Howard. Howard would have never hired
- 51:39David Oliver if he wasn't an alumni and David Oliver wouldn't
- 51:43have taken that job. If it wasn't it Howard?
- 51:45So David is the one David is the one.
- 51:47He said it to us. David is the one that doesn't
- 51:50matter. They hired him in it's working.
- 51:52Yes, that and that's great and Bravo tune.
- 51:54We all love that. I love the Alan Johnson Model
- 51:58The Goat in hurdles. A man who could have snapped his
- 52:01fingers and probably got any job he wanted to but no, he said he
- 52:04wanted to coach and he Came in at low level and grind it his
- 52:09way up, and now he's in a chair that he is earned and probably
- 52:13going to crush it. I love that model.
- 52:16I love that. Or he's telling job at Brown
- 52:19could have snapped his finger to got a job.
- 52:20He wanted. No, no.
- 52:23But, but okay. But every can't Yes, that's not
- 52:28okay, that's my point. Sir.
- 52:36So if I'm listen, I am defining. I look at my eye.
- 52:40Look at my professional coaching colleagues in the football world
- 52:44because I know these guys I talked to these guys like I look
- 52:48at them the same way. I look at.
- 52:50Thank you baby. I look at them the same way.
- 52:52I look at my colleagues in the track and field world.
- 52:56I respect the work. I respect the grind.
- 52:58I respect the hustle. It to, we are living in a
- 53:04society right now, where everything is height, based
- 53:07social media-driven when the press conference.
- 53:10It's not about, did you earn your plate?
- 53:13Which I find hilarious. Because football culture, the
- 53:16plane of the game is all about you.
- 53:19Get what you earn. It's all about.
- 53:21You have to earn our respect. You can't just walk in the door
- 53:23and be the guy. No, we don't respect that in
- 53:26this Locker, so you actually do that.
- 53:28So, do you think you would they don't have to build up your
- 53:30jobs? Ed Reed got the job strictly
- 53:33because he was a tree you don't really believe Ed.
- 53:36Reed is a celebrity higher just like Deion Sanders was just like
- 53:41Eddie George. What exactly does it do for you?
- 53:44Eddie? Eddie George has been pretty
- 53:45successful, right? You don't okay.
- 53:48Dion was Ultra successful, right?
- 53:51And my thing is, this is that Dion had to sit down with the
- 53:54JSU people and showing that he had a plan.
- 53:58If you just look at the details of this contract, he had a plan.
- 54:01It and I promise you Ed Reed went in there and show them that
- 54:05he could do this. I don't think that Reggie is
- 54:08reached out to him and said, hey, come here and be my
- 54:10football coach, you know? I'm pretty sure Ed.
- 54:13We stop him. Okay, I can do this, and this is
- 54:15how we're going to get it done. Now to be a plan in place.
- 54:18Well, whoever recites a who it is, is largely irrelevant to me.
- 54:20I mean, it doesn't, doesn't matter.
- 54:22Okay, was it, this is not a relevant because it was just a
- 54:25strictly about his Celebrity Status.
- 54:27Reggie Theus would have not even talked to talk to anybody else.
- 54:31Hey like I said at the end of the day, these chairs in our
- 54:34Sport and in their sport are rare and hard to come by.
- 54:38And the fact of the matter is, when these hires get done, there
- 54:42are career people who are then not getting those jobs.
- 54:47And the crazy thing about the HBCU piece specifically is
- 54:51forever, the HBCU schools where the one place where black men
- 54:57could grind get a job and maybe catapult themselves up and out.
- 55:03Now, those things are being taken over by.
- 55:05Excellent. Eh b-cu's.
- 55:07Are there in this country? Not many.
- 55:10That's the point. I don't know.
- 55:12Not many 50 each ACU snow. It's like 130 something that
- 55:17have football. So okay, so regardless, okay, so
- 55:20but there's three three of these guys were celebrity status, that
- 55:23you complained about, but like you said it according according
- 55:26to some of y'all and the narrative that that that's out
- 55:28there hundred and yes, Is this game and it's just going to see
- 55:32more and more. And I said it in our group chat,
- 55:36isn't that a pen? This is not a pandemic.
- 55:38Not an epidemic. It's not right.
- 55:40There's three people if there's little.
- 55:43So let's just pretend that there's 60, hbcus a play
- 55:46football. Three coaches is a very like you
- 55:48like you act as if this is like going to stagnate the growth of
- 55:52hbu's football in the people of really people to get better
- 55:55jobs. It's one job not just got their
- 55:58higher self, raise the Salaries of the average age of yourself
- 56:03out there that can be obtained. There's other jobs out there.
- 56:07They can go do a good job because this here's my thing,
- 56:09right? Like as if when okay, so I get
- 56:12it open and somebody calls me. The first thing I want to know
- 56:16is like, what are you doing, where you are, what have you
- 56:19done? That makes you want to jump up
- 56:20on my radar and say I got to have this guy, right?
- 56:24So when you talk about being a football coach, you have to know
- 56:27the rules. You not have to understand how
- 56:29the game. Play.
- 56:31And if you don't have star power of some kind, you're not getting
- 56:35the job, whether whether your celebrity NFL player or you have
- 56:40to have something that makes the people go.
- 56:42Yes, this is, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm and I don't mean to
- 56:47pick on you but you are considered and I think
- 56:50rightfully. So a quote unquote kingmaker in
- 56:54our sport of coaching professionalism, oh, don't act
- 56:57like you haven't heard that before.
- 56:59So Okay? So I've heard it but I've had
- 57:01that heard from people, that think it's true, but go ahead.
- 57:04So I'm not necessarily the status more than anything, but
- 57:17I'll throw two names at you. You spent a really long time
- 57:21coaching? Eddie, love it.
- 57:23He spent absolutely no time coaching Brianna rounds If
- 57:28either one of those two people spent the next two seasons with
- 57:33you as a quote consultant, when the Keratin Carousel comes
- 57:38around, are you going to read? Would you recommend those people
- 57:41above all the rest of that, you know, to be head coaches if they
- 57:47stuck to my hip and learned everything they needed to learn?
- 57:51Yeah. All right.
- 57:54Listen and let's be clear and eight.
- 57:57See, you football coaching job is very different than a power
- 58:00five football job. Yes, it is right.
- 58:04So what so the question you asked, I'm going to say this, if
- 58:07you asked him, would they be? Would they be candidates?
- 58:11He would suggest to an HBCU as a head track coach, I bet the
- 58:14answer is a much. Isn't much stronger.
- 58:16Yes, then the next head coach at A&M and and Sir would would you
- 58:23would you say candidly that? That's because Considered to be
- 58:27a lower standard. It's not even a lower Centre,
- 58:30it's a different standard. You are created in there.
- 58:33This is a on a regular basis.
- 58:48It's HBCU world. Yes.
- 58:51Because it ain't the same place as the rest of these places.
- 58:56So Create listen. If you see if you had an issue
- 58:59with every jump in the line because he became the head coach
- 59:03at Miami, right? I might not have the same issue,
- 59:09regardless you would have that issue but the thing is, I might
- 59:12actually be willing to listen a bit more to some of your
- 59:16statements, right? But I'm just telling you for
- 59:21somebody of somebody who was the power 5 athlete, who was an who
- 59:25was an NFL All-Pro? Row and who doesn't need to work
- 59:28another day in his life? Exactly.
- 59:30Decide to take a job at the HBCU sir.
- 59:34Five years ago. That's not even a thought.
- 59:37Yeah. Five Years on the moon.
- 59:41Bethune cookman is now on the tips of tongues of thousands of
- 59:48kids, now their kids Miami. Is it now would be an opportune
- 59:52cooking that would never never heard it.
- 59:55Consider it 100% true. Like I said, hype sales, you
- 59:59know, so that we need to move on because this this this this tale
- 1:00:03is dragging this dog. This dog is chasing its tail and
- 1:00:07all I want to say one. I don't think but hype cells and
- 1:00:10all levels and all levels and and hype is what leads to
- 1:00:16success, no winning. The press conference is a big
- 1:00:21deal to athletes are not absolutely that.
- 1:00:24I agree with 100% winning the press conferences of big deal.
- 1:00:28TC will see what I say? Hi to do that, you have to have
- 1:00:30something to hide, right? You have to have a product to
- 1:00:34sell, there's a product to sell it, but don't cook me right now.
- 1:00:38There was a private Priscilla, Jackson State, there's a product
- 1:00:40to sell where every Eddie is, right?
- 1:00:43So like you have to have something to Hype up if you
- 1:00:46don't have something to hide, But when you like, the landscape
- 1:00:50has changed tremendously, right? Like mean, coach.
- 1:00:52K's the best college basketball coach but statistically anyway,
- 1:00:55to ever even think about Manning.
- 1:00:58The sidelines in today's world, he would never have gotten the
- 1:01:01Duke job hit. Can I end this on a positive
- 1:01:04note? Please give you can I give shout
- 1:01:08outs to every, I have not, I have not seen and I hope this
- 1:01:14continue to be the case. I respect the fact that I have
- 1:01:17not seen one quote or statement or tweet or whatever from Ed
- 1:01:21Reed. Claiming the BS that Dion was
- 1:01:25claiming reason to be. No no I'm being serious, I
- 1:01:29really mean that but that's not a really mean that but you can't
- 1:01:32you can't you can't. all right, so I like this.
- 1:02:13That was fun. That was entertaining of the 83
- 1:02:19that I could actually get through before.
- 1:02:20You guys want me back in 29 schools of 83 that I got to did
- 1:02:28not have football for the hp's. You HBCU system I didn't get
- 1:02:31through all 107 so there's over 50 over 50 that have it like
- 1:02:35yeah so I'll probably end up being around 75.
- 1:02:40So, statistically state in moving on, to those who are
- 1:02:47going to be playing under these said football coaches, which do
- 1:02:52you think our and will affect the student athlete experience,
- 1:02:55the most, the portal, or the ni L details?
- 1:03:05II think it's the portal and I don't really think it's closed.
- 1:03:09The port only so many people have and IL situations on the ni
- 1:03:14L situation is a first world. Which folk problem right now and
- 1:03:18it's probably going to stay that way at with the series with
- 1:03:21whoever's playing that game. Seriously the the the portal
- 1:03:25affects every level. At everything and it bleeds all
- 1:03:31the way down to a significant new reality of the high school
- 1:03:37existence. So when you ask the question,
- 1:03:40which of the two is going to affect the student athlete
- 1:03:42experience in more profoundly, it's obviously the portal it's
- 1:03:46been doing it since its arrival and it's only going to get I
- 1:03:51don't like the term worse because personally, I don't have
- 1:03:53a problem with the portal, but it's only going to get more
- 1:03:56impactful and bigger. And like I said, high school
- 1:04:01student athlete is being under recruited because of the portal
- 1:04:07and just like our last topic, the microwave popcorn hype
- 1:04:12culture of building a team has been exacerbated by the portal.
- 1:04:18There are certain schools, That have great legacies and a
- 1:04:21history of success, like University of Florida, track and
- 1:04:24field. Who were good before the portal.
- 1:04:28Have leaned into the portal and will be continue to be good long
- 1:04:31after the portal, right? But there's others that have
- 1:04:35found a way to make instant impact and prop themselves up on
- 1:04:40what seems to be a house of cards and ultimately will flow
- 1:04:43under. Its the portal is everything.
- 1:04:47It affects all things, its tentacles are everywhere.
- 1:04:54Very well said. I I also feel that for the
- 1:05:01top-tier programs they are now entering the What basketball
- 1:05:11was? Well, what basketball is?
- 1:05:13What basketball has been doing for the last 20 years?
- 1:05:17The whole one and done, you know, mentality will you go
- 1:05:22after the top prospects in the country and you pretty much have
- 1:05:27them for one year, right? And those, you know, in you're
- 1:05:32trying to figure out how to get those complete strangers to gel
- 1:05:37and put together a run at the final form.
- 1:05:40And then the next year, rinse and repeat next year, rinse and
- 1:05:43repeat you add the portal into this now.
- 1:05:48And now, you know, that kid, that was supposed to be going to
- 1:05:53the league. And had a horrible first season
- 1:05:56and decides, you know what? This isn't working for me.
- 1:05:59That kid. Now gets a second chance to go,
- 1:06:01somewhere else and is added to another program with a bunch of
- 1:06:06other kids, right? And now again, you're trying to
- 1:06:10do the same thing over and over and over again.
- 1:06:14Now, in track, of course, it's a bit more difficult because
- 1:06:17you're dealing with years, where you have X amount of
- 1:06:21scholarships that are opening up.
- 1:06:23And then Then how many you're going to bring in?
- 1:06:26How you going to do that? I mean it is it is much more
- 1:06:29complicated in my opinion from a trap perspective because you
- 1:06:36know I mean you're talking about really the top five, maybe six
- 1:06:42schools that are able to bring in kids, that are that impactful
- 1:06:47that it can be the difference between winning a championship
- 1:06:49or not. Right.
- 1:06:52So definitely the portal for me and I L is is something that I
- 1:07:00think it's on a more personal basis.
- 1:07:03I think it depends on how enterprising that young man or
- 1:07:06young woman is and, you know, from what from my understanding.
- 1:07:12And again, I don't have first world problems but I feel like
- 1:07:20that should be On the show, actually, actually, that, that
- 1:07:25is brilliant from mice. In the New Year, sir, Lucius in
- 1:07:35the new year. you might have one or two or
- 1:07:56three kids that see an opportunity to come from a small
- 1:08:00town, there's a lot of support that sort of thing and I see pop
- 1:08:05up here and there, but On the level that you know that can
- 1:08:10that can completely change a program know.
- 1:08:13It's it's it's not happening at my level.
- 1:08:16It's again, it's happening at the Florida level, at the Texas
- 1:08:19level at Oregon level and you know but I don't see that the
- 1:08:24railing the progress of a program.
- 1:08:27I think it only accentuates because now you're using that to
- 1:08:31build on what you already have. Yeah, I think also, it's the
- 1:08:38portal. I think the problem with it in
- 1:08:40il, it's like this, like, because of the great inequities
- 1:08:43of money that across the board. That's the governor just
- 1:08:46alcohol. We stab me in the back with, but
- 1:08:49so I think that the big thing for me is I just put a put a
- 1:08:53poster on your back with it with a piece of tape on it.
- 1:08:56That's all. I need to change my name.
- 1:08:58I didn't hurt you or anything. I just kind of came up behind
- 1:09:02you and put it right. That to be true.
- 1:09:35But they and IL I don't think it just can't have a widespread
- 1:09:39thing because it's just everybody's clock as well as
- 1:09:41deep as some others. Let's leave it.
- 1:09:42Well first world problems are sir.
- 1:09:45Yes sir. Why do you think, why do you
- 1:09:55think it's going to slow down? Is that because of the new rule
- 1:09:57where you have to own the, the mess you made it may get or
- 1:10:03what? Well I mean why would it slow II
- 1:10:06just think that. Okay.
- 1:10:08I think one the coaches and programs are going to start
- 1:10:13doing a try to do a better job of keeping their better
- 1:10:15athletes. Right.
- 1:10:16I think I think. Okay let's go like this in the
- 1:10:19first world issue. The first world people will be
- 1:10:22fine like those people. The problem you have is the
- 1:10:25UTSA. So you know and the others you
- 1:10:29know a even you right? I'm here Quite so.
- 1:10:34But I must say about like the problem is that you guys have is
- 1:10:37is as soon as there's somebody that runs fast.
- 1:10:40There's somebody from the first world going.
- 1:10:42Hey this is true. Well I think it won't have as
- 1:10:49big an effect on the upper level like the rich will get richer.
- 1:10:53That's what I'm trying to say. Well that is very first worldly
- 1:10:58stated and also 100% true. I'm going to say this.
- 1:11:03This. I do believe the answer is a
- 1:11:07portal, but I think that I think there's a different side to the
- 1:11:14ni L that maybe because of what I do, I see that you guys don't
- 1:11:18see as often. The student-athlete experience
- 1:11:23is being vastly affected by ni else and the pursuit therein.
- 1:11:31Right? We understand how the money is
- 1:11:33this easily allocated at the at the football and basketball and
- 1:11:38even baseball level 4 ni L deals, right?
- 1:11:41But there are a great number of student athletes.
- 1:11:45All college campuses trying to build their brand so they can
- 1:11:51get their followers up so they can get and IL deals independent
- 1:11:57of their sport status. And I think that is negatively
- 1:12:02affecting their thought process about their athletic careers.
- 1:12:11I don't know that it's going to ever have as vast and effect as
- 1:12:16the portal because portals literally changing the like what
- 1:12:22I would not want to be right now.
- 1:12:23Is a really good high school track and field or baseball or
- 1:12:26football athlete, the elite one step, it doesn't matter, right?
- 1:12:31But I wouldn't want to be a really good one because if
- 1:12:33you're a really good one, you're not going where you used to be
- 1:12:37able to go because that place is going to take a portal transfer.
- 1:12:41A bounce, back from a level that's there that they're level
- 1:12:44or above. Because they'll take a kid,
- 1:12:46that's a bounce-back UTSA, will take a bounce back from Michigan
- 1:12:49before them take a high level high school.
- 1:12:52Kept kid that they can get. That's just the facts.
- 1:12:54But what I'm saying is this there, I see this student
- 1:13:01athletes are they have their eyes off of their athletic prize
- 1:13:06because they have their eyes on building their brand to get
- 1:13:11their ni L game up so to speak. And when it's relatively
- 1:13:20fruitless, or far more difficult than they thought, it was their
- 1:13:24becomes an even greater inferiority complex.
- 1:13:29Right, I mean they already exists.
- 1:13:30Like if you're not a football player, not a basketball player.
- 1:13:32If you allow that to creep into your mind set, you can feel like
- 1:13:36lesser than like, oh, the school don't really care about us and
- 1:13:39just care about football and basketball.
- 1:13:41But what I'm telling you is and I deal with a lot of these kids
- 1:13:46and that and IL gets brought up in almost every conversation.
- 1:13:51I have with young kids and their parents is, there is a belief
- 1:13:57that There's an ni L deal out there available for every
- 1:14:00student athlete and it's just not true, right?
- 1:14:04Like, they believe that. Yeah, the football and
- 1:14:07basketball kids get given ones by the school.
- 1:14:10Right? So they don't have to go pursue,
- 1:14:12there's but because they see all of these other people who are
- 1:14:16Tick-Tock and Instagram famous. They do believe that if they
- 1:14:21build their followers and become Instagram, famous, that the nid
- 1:14:26ni L deals, Is, will come rolling.
- 1:14:29You have no idea how many like bargain-basement executive
- 1:14:35producers that, I know, like of their own videos, who spend
- 1:14:40copious amounts of time, editing their own clips and videos,
- 1:14:46because they got to get there. They got to, they got to get it
- 1:14:48out there because that's what the people want.
- 1:14:50And that's what their followers want to see.
- 1:14:52And I chuckle, I'm like, ain't nobody following you.
- 1:14:56The entertainment that they are entertained by you, for one
- 1:14:59thumb, swipe to the next, right? And, and at the end of the day,
- 1:15:05I will say this. I definitely believe that.
- 1:15:07Both of those things are reshaping the entire landscape
- 1:15:12of Recruitment, and of the student athlete experience.
- 1:15:16And I, unfortunately think that it is Shrinking, the number of
- 1:15:22student-athletes. That are really there to pursue
- 1:15:26at their highest level, their sport.
- 1:15:33I like it. Yeah and there wasn't a wrong
- 1:15:36answer and I think it depends on where we sit as to How much each
- 1:15:41plays into that ultimate ending? Answer so hard left on this one,
- 1:15:48would you rather Clyde really your turn?
- 1:15:52So what do I pay no attention to it?
- 1:15:59You couldn't pay me to tell you the order or nothing.
- 1:16:02Not at all. All right I'm ready because I'm
- 1:16:06always ready. I Stay Ready.
- 1:16:08Stay ready to get ready sugar free.
- 1:16:12Would you rather be that's right.
- 1:16:16That was a very West Coast. Joe.
- 1:16:18Oh my God that was so I was so I love it.
- 1:16:21Would you rather be Kevin from Home Alone or Buddy Bell?
- 1:16:26Oh man that is tremendous question.
- 1:16:29Is it may be? It may be a tremendous question
- 1:16:32but here's the thing I have no idea who buddy the elevator.
- 1:16:35Come on, come on Clyde. And and from the back rooms I
- 1:16:39hear oh my God. God.
- 1:16:41Oh my God, Tiana. So I clearly have said something
- 1:16:44wrong with Kevin from Home Alone.
- 1:16:47Since I don't know who buddy. Oh my God, you've never seen
- 1:16:52elf. You've never seen Elf?
- 1:16:54Oh, is that? Is that his name and believe me?
- 1:16:59Okay. Well, I yes, who's this didn't
- 1:17:05know I'm in the first world. WP.
- 1:17:12Yes, to watch. You have to watch Elf.
- 1:17:16Okay. Tiana?
- 1:17:18Says the elf is in her top five Christmas, movies of all time.
- 1:17:21Oh, it definitely is. I'm sure it's funny.
- 1:17:23I Love Will Ferrell never really been into it by still choosing
- 1:17:29Kevin. Okay.
- 1:17:34Would you rather have sparkling apple cider?
- 1:17:38As a toast at home or out on the town out on the town.
- 1:17:42Because I love pissing people off with the fact that I don't
- 1:17:44drink. That's why it was sparkling.
- 1:17:47It looks like my non-alcoholic. Yeah, poor me.
- 1:17:51That love the faces I get on that in 23.
- 1:17:56Can we change when we change his name?
- 1:17:58To pop a petty? Yeah, you sir, you have
- 1:18:03experienced this. I absolutely have listened and I
- 1:18:06didn't say anything. You said wasn't true.
- 1:18:10All right. Would you rather have in public
- 1:18:14have Kai screaming, profanity or running around naked fuel?
- 1:18:18Most absolutely end up doing both.
- 1:18:21We're should at least neither one would bother me at all.
- 1:18:28I feel like him, screaming profanity will happen more often
- 1:18:33since he is being raised in this house so I'm gonna go with that.
- 1:18:39Would you? Other in the game of Jeopardy.
- 1:18:42Would you rather play Tom Brady for 1,000 or politics for 2,000?
- 1:18:49Oh, I guarantee I'll get the Brady answer, right?
- 1:18:53But I'm, you know, I in the spirit of Jeopardy, you got to
- 1:18:56go for the big dollars to win the game.
- 1:18:58So 2000. Love it.
- 1:19:01Would you rather eat a blueberry muffin or a poppyseed muffin?
- 1:19:06Oh, I don't really like either one.
- 1:19:11You know, if you're just as front of you eat enough, poppy
- 1:19:13seed muffins, you will test positive just right to say so.
- 1:19:16So to that point, I'll take the blueberries.
- 1:19:19Want, no, no PD bus on my name, none.
- 1:19:23Wait. Okay, pain, thought after last
- 1:19:26one, ending it on KY coz you had them in your lap.
- 1:19:30Would you rather take Qaeda see, Elmo or cocoa melon?
- 1:19:35Mom says Elmo. This
- 1:20:03is for you. Mmm.
- 1:20:11For a first world question. Hey he I'm sure he could come up
- 1:20:16with some good, alright? And in the spirit of Christmas,
- 1:20:22Okay. Yeah.
- 1:20:27What would be the ultimate Christmas Day for Clyde?
- 1:20:35I just want to be in a position to take tea and Chi 2, very warm
- 1:20:41weather. Next Christmas, okay?
- 1:20:46No offense to, I mean, Callie's great, but, you know, 50s, yeah,
- 1:20:54and no offense to the family, love them, appreciate them.
- 1:20:57But nods want to be elsewhere. Next.
- 1:21:01Next. Next, next Christmas with
- 1:21:04people's Cayman Islands would suffice or we could definitely
- 1:21:07do the kingdom. I don't think I'm pretty sure
- 1:21:09that's on an accepted travel. As we do a live show during the
- 1:21:12Christmas holiday from the Caymans.
- 1:21:16I'm on it, you're talking to the wrong people, sir, Lucius their
- 1:21:21people. If you look good, you make the
- 1:21:23trip. Absolutely.
- 1:21:27It sounds the sound like a plan to me, but wouldn't let you take
- 1:21:37my new slogan is came in 23. We can make it.
- 1:21:48This is not really a, would you rather?
- 1:21:50That's what I'm more of a you're okay.
- 1:21:59Would you rather be like a conflict can like a conference
- 1:22:05power, right for extended period of time or become a Nationals
- 1:22:11middle of the pack team right away Nationals?
- 1:22:15No, doubt not even a question. If if I am became a road, you
- 1:22:22better. If I am a, if I am relevant
- 1:22:26nationally as a team, I anticipate that we will Able to
- 1:22:29handle our conference. That's true.
- 1:22:35I'm going to ask a petty. Ask question, surprise,
- 1:22:39surprise. I mean it's because of who I'm
- 1:22:41asking, right? If you could have one of these
- 1:22:46two superpowers, which would you choose?
- 1:22:48Would you like to? Would you rather be the pettiest
- 1:22:51human in? Any scenario that you are placed
- 1:22:55in or the most intelligent human in any scenario that you're
- 1:23:01placed in? So any room you walk into,
- 1:23:03you're either the smartest guy in the room.
- 1:23:04Umm, literally or the perfectly pettiest guy in the room sir in
- 1:23:10order for those to be real, they have to exist together.
- 1:23:13Do they not? Nope, not at all.
- 1:23:15She tell me. You can fix off a lot of you can
- 1:23:19be Betty and not brilliant person in the room.
- 1:23:22Yes, absolutely. So I would, I would take so it's
- 1:23:26a stay within the bounds of your question.
- 1:23:28I would definitely take being the most telogen person in room
- 1:23:30because if you are, you would can accomplish all things.
- 1:23:37Absolutely, there's no limit to the petty ceiling.
- 1:23:42If you are the smartest person in the room, Just maybe not
- 1:23:46everybody would pick up on it. That's and you know what?
- 1:23:50And you know what to those moments are sometimes the
- 1:23:54greatest. Hmm.
- 1:23:55Can your the room with 10 people and you say something
- 1:23:58unbelievably Petty and only one or two other people get it.
- 1:24:01There's nothing funnier than that.
- 1:24:03That is the comedian. Dennis Miller?
- 1:24:05Yes, yes. You have to be incredibly
- 1:24:09intelligent to get him. All right, well, rounding out
- 1:24:14the evening with some heartbeat props.
- 1:24:18I'm jumping in first, I'm cutting.
- 1:24:21I just found out this evening that gave former.
- 1:24:26I just found out this evening that a former athlete is
- 1:24:29pregnant with number two, and having a little girl.
- 1:24:31So I'm super excited for her. I won't spoil any the beans with
- 1:24:35the name yet, just in case. But I'm super excited and I'm
- 1:24:38excited for you and I can't wait to spoil another.
- 1:24:41Baby. Next.
- 1:24:54I'm going to give my heart be props to my grandchildren who
- 1:24:59this was a difficult Christmas for me.
- 1:25:02My first one, without my mom, but my grandkids came by and I'm
- 1:25:07along with Angela and my two children ate, they made my day a
- 1:25:11lot, better that easy to handle, so thank them for spreading joy
- 1:25:15to me on Christmas day. So those are my boys Pops to my
- 1:25:18family. I'll jump in because I'm sure
- 1:25:24there are better ones coming at this time of year, with all
- 1:25:28these other things going on, you know, some some things, some
- 1:25:32things get lost in the sauce and whatnot.
- 1:25:36My very odd heartbeat props tonight.
- 1:25:38Go out to the January, 6 committee who is released the
- 1:25:43full transcript of their investigation, every detail,
- 1:25:47highly suggest you read it. It is riveting.
- 1:25:50And if you choose not Not to read it, that's okay.
- 1:25:53But then don't talk like, you know what happened?
- 1:25:56It's their facts matter. Read it, it's awesome.
- 1:26:02Part B props to my family you know, as I said this this time
- 1:26:11of year can be particularly stressful the girls look
- 1:26:16beautiful. That's all that matters.
- 1:26:18Absolutely. And you know every every single
- 1:26:23year around this time, you know you can you can get caught up in
- 1:26:28all the hoopla and everything but at the end of the day, you
- 1:26:31know, we're a unit. It and we move together and we
- 1:26:35do things together and we enjoy each other's company.
- 1:26:39Thankfully, they're back in school next week but yeah,
- 1:26:45heartbeat props to Janae Kai and Jackie.
- 1:26:49Love you guys. I hope you props go out to
- 1:26:57somebody that I'm not actually 100% surely watches the show,
- 1:27:00I'm sure if I tell him then he will.
- 1:27:03If he hasn't already been told but my heart be props actually
- 1:27:06go out to Brian Willis. Brian Willis is the strength and
- 1:27:10conditioning gentleman who works with all of the decathletes that
- 1:27:16we work with. And now all of my baseball
- 1:27:19players who come here to train in the offseason and to a
- 1:27:23person, they all sing his praises and He doesn't just get
- 1:27:32it, he gets them. And when, when somebody says to
- 1:27:38you coach, I'm sorry. We can't lift the day before
- 1:27:43Christmas because I'm going out of town, but I'll be back for
- 1:27:46Monday's lift. You just have to love him and,
- 1:27:52you know, on his own dime he and his wife drove across the
- 1:27:56country and went to World Championships just to seal
- 1:28:00Linden compete because he felt like, seeing him compete on that
- 1:28:03stage would better help him put together programming, they could
- 1:28:08help enhance his abilities. He's that kind of person and he
- 1:28:13does it thanklessly and seamlessly and very much behind
- 1:28:19the scenes on purpose. Like, I'd love to publicize of
- 1:28:23but half the time he's like, no I'm good coach.
- 1:28:25So my heartbeat props, go out to Brian Willis from the The lab
- 1:28:31Fort Worth. Look it up.
- 1:28:35Holler. Well.
- 1:28:39Like we have done a number of episodes.
- 1:28:41Before we have wrapped up another great one I wasn't that
- 1:28:45was a fun one and we haven't had that fun of one in a while.
- 1:28:49Lots of laughter lots of good stuff brought up.
- 1:28:51So last show to I know Happy New Year to everyone.
- 1:28:56I keep they kind of being happy New Year.
- 1:29:02Psalm 23 folks. Holy crap, huh?
- 1:29:06Amen. 23 oh wait, I forgot because I'm a trademark this
- 1:29:11happy 20 Jordan. Wow.
- 1:29:15Wow. Thank you.
- 1:29:17Thank you clay. Well, with that said, well let
- 1:29:22him ride this little episode out and say peace out Girl.
- 1:29:25Scouts have a good one. Be safe.
- 1:29:29See you next week. Bye everyone.
- 1:29:31See you next year. Try to wait till you puddle
- 1:29:45self-love punch when arms low Brothers Athletics trouble.
- 1:29:49I'll see if there's no others check refills place.
- 1:29:51You were appearing to go. Father hey Wiley Coyote is
- 1:29:55roadrunners. Feels like you know what you've
- 1:29:57been with us the whole summer if not for this quarantine these
- 1:30:00floor liners wouldn't be here but we're here to start mining.
- 1:30:04You gotta earn traps gotta catch Stars.
- 1:30:07Show you how to fight for show us who you are, you lack
- 1:30:10experience. But still you want to talk and
- 1:30:12who was that jumped? Who usurps got a small heads
- 1:30:15prevail when the backbone strong.
- 1:30:17Gotta keep it coming up won't last long faster fell this cell
- 1:30:22the session and if you don't check yourself and that's wrong
- 1:30:26just trying to give you the real that you asked for.
- 1:30:28So why do you keep cutting us off to a small?
- 1:30:31We put it in slow-mo what you fast forward.