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Foster and Friends Vol 149 "Take the 5th" w/attorney Brad Matthews · Foster and Friends

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SPEAKER_02: You know, to have somebody come back.
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SPEAKER_02: But ultimately, you know, it it used to be once you had an agent or once you went and did the combine or once you went to mini.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, all those things qualify that you are no longer an amateur, you're a professional now once you declare for the draft.
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SPEAKER_01: You may end up having hundreds of athletes in this case that are told they have a fifth year.
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SPEAKER_01: And so this is just a really unique circumstance.
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SPEAKER_01: It isn't a traditional, you know, just pros going back to college, um, you know, just because they win a case.
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SPEAKER_09: Now, from the NSB Radio Network, Foster and Friends.
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SPEAKER_09: Here's Bud and Mac.
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SPEAKER_07: It is Foster and Friends for another week, another day, and uh we're in week zero.
1:14
SPEAKER_07: This is it.
1:15
SPEAKER_07: Week zero, the college football season kicks off today.
1:19
SPEAKER_07: Uh, I can't remember.
1:20
SPEAKER_07: I looked at the schedule or you know, a ton of games, and then of course, next week it really gets rocking.
1:26
SPEAKER_07: And Bud Foster's here, who's had a very hectic schedule.
1:30
SPEAKER_07: I mean, he's been on the lake, he has been to Chris Stableton concerts, he has been asking for money.
1:37
SPEAKER_07: How are you doing?
1:37
SPEAKER_07: You're holding you're holding up fine.
1:39
SPEAKER_07: It just shows how young you really are, you know.
1:43
SPEAKER_04: Oh boy, I wish that's how I felt, you know.
1:46
SPEAKER_04: Um, we had a great week, you know.
1:49
SPEAKER_04: Like you said, uh met was saw some donors, some folks that are really close to our program.
1:55
SPEAKER_04: Um took in Chris Tableton at the same time, which was a phenomenal concert.
2:01
SPEAKER_04: I mean, um, we had great seats.
2:04
SPEAKER_04: Um, but um, if you have not seen him or any of our listeners have not seen him, I recommend you go.
2:11
SPEAKER_04: His voice, the range of his voice is incredible.
2:15
SPEAKER_04: And he's so bluesy and soulful.
2:18
SPEAKER_04: You know, you think of him as a country guy, but right, you know, he's a crossover.
2:22
SPEAKER_04: And but then, you know, he's known for being a great lyricist.
2:26
SPEAKER_04: He he's you know, he made his hay primarily as a writer before he became uh, you know, for other artists before he became his own star.
2:35
SPEAKER_04: And uh, but his lyrics are just phenomenal.
2:39
SPEAKER_04: But uh he put on a show, he doesn't talk much, uh, but it he was you know it was very entertaining and um uh like I said, just highly recommend.
2:47
SPEAKER_04: You know, just uh that's awesome with our outstanding musician.
2:51
SPEAKER_07: With our relationship with Spotify, that will be my weekend listen.
2:54
SPEAKER_07: Um I'll I'll get some Chris Stapleton going this weekend.
2:57
SPEAKER_04: Well, I will say this.
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SPEAKER_04: I pulled up his uh he's got it's called the All-American Tour this year, so you can pull up Chris Stapleton 2026 set list, and it was just exactly what he played it um you know on on his on his show.
3:12
SPEAKER_04: So yeah, pull that up.
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SPEAKER_04: You'd be doing perfect impression.
3:14
SPEAKER_07: I will.
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SPEAKER_07: No, I will.
3:15
SPEAKER_07: And um, and you had it sounded like you had at at uh Clayton Lake, it sounded like you had a pretty good time on the lake in some boat poker tournament.
3:24
SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah, we got back.
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SPEAKER_04: It was the first time I've done this.
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SPEAKER_04: I've you know, the we had a poker run on the lake, and they you know, they do it every year, and it's always done about this time in August.
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SPEAKER_04: I've never had an opportunity to do this before, you know.
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SPEAKER_04: Um just a little tied up usually in in August.
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SPEAKER_04: But uh yeah, we did pretty well.
3:42
SPEAKER_04: We finished second and um and we um uh also won the uh 50-50 lottery, you know, or drawing, which uh I was kind enough to give that back.
3:52
SPEAKER_04: But uh it goes for a great cause.
3:54
SPEAKER_04: We have a group, uh it's called Focal, it's Friends of Clayter Lake that's you know does a lot of cleanup and a lot of different things around the lake.
4:01
SPEAKER_04: So it's a great organization.
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SPEAKER_04: It's great to go out there and support them.
4:04
SPEAKER_04: But yeah, we had a great time, beautiful weather, and uh yeah, it was uh it was uh it was it was a good weekend all the way around.
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SPEAKER_07: You get the pontoon and you go point to point, you're getting you're buying cards or getting cards.
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SPEAKER_04: No, you don't you buy in early and then you just go and you you got five points.
4:21
SPEAKER_04: And obviously, the you know, there's some we're doing some activities in between.
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SPEAKER_04: We actually stopped and swam a little bit, you know, and and uh you know, just had some time.
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SPEAKER_04: We had three hours to get back from these hot spots, you know.
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SPEAKER_04: So it wasn't like it was spread way out, right?
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SPEAKER_04: But um, yeah, like I said, it was my first time doing it.
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SPEAKER_04: It was a lot of fun, you know.
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SPEAKER_04: And we had there was 42 boats, I think, participating.
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SPEAKER_04: So that was a pretty good turnout.
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SPEAKER_07: I guess.
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SPEAKER_07: All right, we have a really good show for you today coming up in a few minutes.
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SPEAKER_07: Uh Brad Matthews is a former Wake Force Demon Deacon, he's an assistant DA down in Wilmington.
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SPEAKER_07: His life, uh his life passion has been sports.
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SPEAKER_07: He grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, uh, became a wake guy, and now he has a website uh covering he's the Phil Steel of Wilmington, North Carolina, but his his reach has been incredible.
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SPEAKER_07: He's got a uh just a high-energy guy, and he's gonna be a lot of fun.
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SPEAKER_07: So we're gonna talk to him today on the show, uh, which should be good.
5:21
SPEAKER_07: Also, coming up, we're gonna, when we come back after break, I gotta get Bud's take on this whole LSU thing, uh, the Daquan right and uh, you know, Lane Kiffen.
5:32
SPEAKER_07: So we're gonna do that when we come back.
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SPEAKER_07: And so that's a good place to stop.
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SPEAKER_07: This is Foster and Friends, NSB Radio Network.
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SPEAKER_07: But now come back and talk.
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SPEAKER_07: Lane Kiffen, LSU, and Daquan right.
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SPEAKER_07: We'll be right back.
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6:49
SPEAKER_01: There's some inaccuracies in that story, but I don't know.
6:52
SPEAKER_01: Maybe someone else called them and it said they were me, you know.
6:55
SPEAKER_01: So, um, I actually don't know, Todd.
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SPEAKER_01: I guess somebody left him a text or called that was me, because I don't know where I have his number.
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7:18
SPEAKER_07: A lot of football coming up.
7:19
SPEAKER_07: Uh, but I'll talk about that a little later on.
7:22
SPEAKER_07: Um, but uh with what happened this week, and I just I followed it very, very, you know, closely with everything going on and uh the whole LSU story in Lane Kiffin and his press conference.
7:33
SPEAKER_07: Um, you know, the it and I know most people are probably sick of the story already.
7:38
SPEAKER_07: It involves a tight end who played who who you said was at Virginia Tech, right?
7:43
SPEAKER_07: Before he went to Old Miss.
7:44
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he was at Daekon was at Tech for a couple years.
7:46
SPEAKER_04: Good player, you know, really.
7:48
SPEAKER_07: He was there more than one year at Tech.
7:50
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he was there for a couple of years and uh was there a freshman year, redshirt freshman year, and then transferred to Ole Miss.
7:56
SPEAKER_04: He was from that Georgia area, and then I, you know, is um it was after the uh our tough year and uh we had the high expectations he left after that season.
8:08
SPEAKER_07: Wow.
8:09
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so but uh yeah, end up at Ole Miss, and you know, now he's uh evidently coming back uh heading back to coming back to college football again after seeing the NFL.
8:19
SPEAKER_07: To bring people up to date, it's the five and five decision.
8:22
SPEAKER_07: The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals granted the NCAA a stay uh last week uh in an order reversing the federal judge's decision that had opened the door for all the athletes.
8:33
SPEAKER_07: Now that somebody had said that there are 33, I've heard all kinds of numbers.
8:37
SPEAKER_07: 16 guys going back somewhere between 16 and 33.
8:41
SPEAKER_07: So everybody's you know predicting numbers.
8:43
SPEAKER_07: But the biggest story was uh Lane Kiffen, who said he did not make the call to the Browns head coach, Todd Montkins, that no, he did not do that.
8:52
SPEAKER_07: But he uh Daquan went into the portal.
8:55
SPEAKER_07: LSU said, fine, they've started class, he's not on campus yet.
9:00
SPEAKER_07: So Lane Kiffen pulls a guy who had signed who was drafted by the Eagles, I think got this right, and then um then he was uh traded to the Browns.
9:11
SPEAKER_07: He dressed for the preseason games, did not play.
9:15
SPEAKER_07: Now he's gonna go be a tight end with LSU and Lane Kiffen.
9:19
SPEAKER_07: So, but my questions are many.
9:23
SPEAKER_07: Should this be going on in college athletic?
9:25
SPEAKER_07: I know the SEC's not happy about this.
9:27
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I I'm not either, you know, when it's all said and done.
9:31
SPEAKER_04: I think it's it's you know, when it came out with the five and five, you know, this this ruling by this judge, um number one, it took me by surprise because they're working through this deal for a five-year, and that's part of the thing.
9:46
SPEAKER_04: They don't want older players taken away from the experience for younger players to get an opportunity to come through.
9:52
SPEAKER_04: And particularly if somebody's already been, you know, however, I think this goes more to undrafted, like free agent kind of guys.
10:00
SPEAKER_04: I I I think is right.
10:02
SPEAKER_04: And uh, but it doesn't matter.
10:04
SPEAKER_04: They still get a signing bonus, they they still, you know, get a little bit of compensation professionally.
10:10
SPEAKER_04: I just don't think whether it's basketball, football, any sport, you know, wrestling.
10:16
SPEAKER_04: I mean, no, no, they don't get to be paid, but if a guy was in you know the UFC, why not do that?
10:21
SPEAKER_04: I mean, bring a guy back, you know, and he'd be a badass in the uh in the uh NCC.
10:25
SPEAKER_07: I heard that women's lacrosse coaches in the ACC and SEC, uh, they are talking to former players in that class of 22 who could come back and play another year in women's lacrosse.
10:38
SPEAKER_07: So it spills across the whole athletic.
10:45
SPEAKER_04: Number one, it's about two, the what do you do with roster roster management?
10:50
SPEAKER_04: Are you keeping a spot open and that type of thing?
10:53
SPEAKER_04: And and uh but I just don't I don't think it's right.
10:56
SPEAKER_04: That's just my opinion.
10:58
SPEAKER_04: I don't think it's right.
10:59
SPEAKER_04: I don't think um when you're you've exhausted your well, I mean they're saying their their time their time frames not exhausted, but if you've made a decision to take that next step, then you should not be allowed to come back, particularly if you've been compensated, in my opinion.
11:16
SPEAKER_04: You know, if you've been compensated.
11:18
SPEAKER_04: If he's just done and sitting in the on the couch and he has a year okay with this new ruling, then yes, but if you've taken another step towards um professionalism, let's say, then I I think I I'm just not in agreement with it.
11:33
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
11:34
SPEAKER_07: Well, Lane Kiffin had his press conference on Monday, and he told the pens and pads that look, this is one of many, he goes, if I if I I I if I was uh not doing my job, and I they the the administration may come to me and go, how come we can't didn't get this kid?
11:52
SPEAKER_07: Because he's gonna be playing somewhere else.
11:53
SPEAKER_07: Well, Kiffin said, Look, this is really me just being head coach at LSU.
11:59
SPEAKER_07: Sound bite, Lane Kiffin.
12:01
SPEAKER_01: They had no eligibility.
12:02
SPEAKER_01: So this is not many other circumstances that have been discussed over the years about professionals coming back.
12:08
SPEAKER_01: They did not know they had a year.
12:10
SPEAKER_01: Since then, a judge has said, You do have a year.
12:13
SPEAKER_01: And so, because of that, this is a different situation in that where they're just going back to play, they're wanting to go back to play the year that they've been granted.
12:22
SPEAKER_01: Not an individual case where one player went somewhere to try to win a case.
12:27
SPEAKER_01: This is a lot of athletes in these, and a lot of these around the country that from my information isn't stopping.
12:35
SPEAKER_07: All right.
12:36
SPEAKER_07: So he said, and then if that's not enough, another star, a basketball player.
12:41
SPEAKER_07: So RJ Lewis Jr., biggest player of the year, second team All-American, he received a temporary injunction to play for LSU from the Louisiana judge, uh, despite signing multiple NBA contracts.
12:54
SPEAKER_07: He was with the Boston Celtics in the G League, uh, you know, so he it's going across all sports, and people have quietly said of all the sports talk shows I've heard this week, bud, uh people forget this has been going on in college basketball, too.
13:09
SPEAKER_07: Now, you know, there are a lot of coaches recruiting G League guys that come back and play.
13:13
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, well, just recently when they say allowed him allowed him to come back.
13:17
SPEAKER_04: Exactly, exactly.
13:18
SPEAKER_04: You know, which again, I'm not in agreement with.
13:21
SPEAKER_04: I mean, you can there's a lot of opinions, um, but to me, once a young man or a young woman has made a decision to go professional in their particular sport, they should not, in my opinion, should not be allowed to come back.
13:37
SPEAKER_04: I mean, that's something you know, now that we're paying, they're just assuming because we're playing college athletes now, you take another step forward in the professional ranks, what's the difference, right?
13:46
SPEAKER_04: So that's where we've got to draw a line somewhere.
13:49
SPEAKER_04: Um, and I'm hoping after this year, when the the the time frame comes out, and you know, we'll see.
13:57
SPEAKER_07: But you bring up a good point.
13:59
SPEAKER_07: You bring up a good point.
14:00
SPEAKER_07: This is a one-time thing because the 2022 class, because we're still playing with the covet thing, and the NCAA said, you know, hey, five and five.
14:08
SPEAKER_07: And if you you didn't get that fifth year of eligibility, you can now you can now have it.
14:13
SPEAKER_07: Correct me if I'm wrong now.
14:14
SPEAKER_07: Let me pose this football guy, uh, you know, maybe get you know, gets drafted, but he and he has the other year, but I mean, does not get drafted.
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SPEAKER_07: He can he can return to school.
14:27
SPEAKER_07: In fact, he hadn't signed a contract, so he's not in a camp, he's not going anywhere to camp.
14:31
SPEAKER_07: Is that does that the way that plays out now?
14:34
SPEAKER_04: That's my understanding, is I think you have to be an undrafted guy.
14:38
SPEAKER_04: Right.
14:38
SPEAKER_04: I don't know, I don't know what the difference is.
14:40
SPEAKER_04: I mean, because you still can sign a signing bonus as a free agent.
14:44
SPEAKER_04: Most of them do now, it's a considerable amount less than what you owe you get when particularly if you're drafting the first or second round.
14:53
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it considerably drops off after that.
14:56
SPEAKER_04: You know, a guy can represent himself because you know what the signing bonus is gonna be if you're the if you're the 150th drafting, you know, and uh you know what that's gonna be.
15:04
SPEAKER_07: Because it's going on for a while in basketball.
15:06
SPEAKER_07: An undrafted kid, you know, he says, I'm gonna leave, I'm gonna, you know, I'll I'll sign with anything.
15:13
SPEAKER_07: And then doesn't get drafted, he has the option to return, he can return and and play another game.
15:18
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and I don't know enough about if that guy, if he didn't get drafted, um you know, did you know what he what he was involved with.
15:28
SPEAKER_04: At least in football, if you go as a free agent, you know, you're and you get invited to camp, you're getting paid at some point.
15:35
SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
15:36
SPEAKER_04: I don't know, you know, in the in in college basketball, I also know they have those kind of workouts after the draft, so to speak, and that's where a lot of free agents can play.
15:47
SPEAKER_04: Now, I don't know if they get paid, that's a different deal.
15:49
SPEAKER_04: It's almost like they're they're going, it's a showcase where then all of a sudden, you know, then the coaches can pick guys who they want as you know, potential roster spots, you know what I mean?
16:01
SPEAKER_04: And um, where I I think once in the NFL it's a little bit different.
16:05
SPEAKER_04: They're gonna pick your, they're gonna pick people, you know, and and pay them.
16:09
SPEAKER_04: Uh but uh I said I'm just uh I I'm not in agreement with it, and um, but that's just my point.
16:16
SPEAKER_07: Well, the SEC, uh, we are recording before the SEC uh meetings were going on in Birmingham, they were all already scheduled, they weren't just for this.
16:26
SPEAKER_07: The SEC did release a statement saying that you know they're not happy with it and that they should not compete professionally uh and then should not then be permitted to return to college competition.
16:36
SPEAKER_07: That was part of the statement from uh the SEC.
16:39
SPEAKER_07: So we'll just see what happens.
16:40
SPEAKER_07: Uh well I'll say this too.
16:41
SPEAKER_04: Now, this guy, you know, he he's gotta come back and be a full-time student, too.
16:45
SPEAKER_04: You know, yeah, and he's not even he's not even enrolled in the school.
16:49
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and what are they gonna create for him?
16:51
SPEAKER_04: That's gonna be the deal.
16:52
SPEAKER_04: They're gonna create a you know, a curriculum or uh uh a class course for him or create an internship for him, yeah, you know, where he's gonna be uh you know credited 12 hours of um you know to be declared a full-time student athlete.
17:09
SPEAKER_04: You know, come on, you know.
17:11
SPEAKER_04: I mean they're just they're they're just circling, you know, they're just working their way around the system, you know.
17:16
SPEAKER_04: And LSU and you know, obviously they're they're obviously good at it because they're working at it on in all sports, so or at least multiple sports.
17:27
SPEAKER_07: All right.
17:28
SPEAKER_07: Well, anyway, we'll go to break coming back.
17:30
SPEAKER_07: Brad Matthews is gonna join us.
17:31
SPEAKER_07: He's got a great website, he's got more, and he makes coffee nervous, and he is an he's an assistant DA in Wilmington.
17:39
SPEAKER_07: Imagine that.
17:40
SPEAKER_07: A legal mind and a sports mind.
17:42
SPEAKER_07: Oh, that could be so dangerous.
17:44
SPEAKER_07: But Brad is one great guy.
17:45
SPEAKER_07: We'll come back and talk to him.
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SPEAKER_08: I don't think that's gonna pass before midterm.
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SPEAKER_07: Welcome back.
19:15
SPEAKER_07: It is Foster and Friends, NSB Radio Network, and uh we're gonna follow the LSU story that we just talked about and uh get into it.
19:22
SPEAKER_07: This this is a great story, bud, and I'll tell you real quick how I found Brad.
19:26
SPEAKER_07: Uh, I was surfing, found his website, which we'll give you the name in just a second.
19:30
SPEAKER_07: He's an assistant district attorney in Wilmington who writes a sports blog.
19:35
SPEAKER_07: Now I'm gonna find out about that connection.
19:38
SPEAKER_07: His life passion has been sports.
19:40
SPEAKER_07: He grew up in Lexington, he's an alum of Wake Forest.
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19:49
SPEAKER_04: Well, yeah, we got to get out of jail free card.
19:51
SPEAKER_04: At least I hope we got to get this relationship a little bit better.
19:54
SPEAKER_04: But what's great, but once you, you know, introduced Brad to me as far as this is who we're gonna have on our show.
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SPEAKER_04: I started doing my research and then my gosh, once figuring out what he does.
20:05
SPEAKER_04: I mean, Brad, where do you figure out all the time to do this?
20:09
SPEAKER_04: I mean, because you're very detailed oriented with your your sports analysis.
20:14
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, but I mean, obviously you're you know, you're a successful attorney.
20:18
SPEAKER_04: How I mean, how can you balance both of these and juggle both of these to be elite at what you do?
20:24
SPEAKER_08: To be honest with you, the main key is I don't sleep much.
20:27
SPEAKER_08: That's uh I'm one of those guys that just only need about three or four hours of sleep a night on average, and that's kind of how I plow through it.
20:32
SPEAKER_08: Kind of do the the 40 hours plus of work sometimes, then also do the sports vlogging and a couple hours on the side and do the family in between and a little tennis, to play a little tennis too.
20:42
SPEAKER_08: So kind of get it all squeezed it all in there.
20:43
SPEAKER_08: But yeah, not sleeping is the key to it.
20:46
SPEAKER_08: But I want to start by a quick anecdote about you I want to share that's kind of funny.
20:50
SPEAKER_08: Um, I live in the coast, North Carolina here.
20:52
SPEAKER_08: My parents had a house in Surf City, which is about an hour north of the Hill, coastal community up there.
20:56
SPEAKER_08: And we kind of had, you know, the vacation area.
20:59
SPEAKER_08: So we'd have occasional sports celebrities come down, the Martin twins, Red C State, the basketball players were there a few years ago.
21:05
SPEAKER_08: And um 1990s, some walk-on from Duke, forgot his name was there.
21:09
SPEAKER_08: But we were playing putt-putt there about 10 years ago, a little chorus up there.
21:13
SPEAKER_08: And there was a guy, two holes in front of me that had a maroon and orange Virginia Tech polo shirt on that looked just like you.
21:20
SPEAKER_08: I'm like, there's Bud Foster playing putt-putt in my surf city.
21:24
SPEAKER_08: And I showed my pic the picture to my wife and a couple that didn't know you as well.
21:29
SPEAKER_08: And they're like, oh, that's that's him.
21:30
SPEAKER_08: That's gotta be him.
21:31
SPEAKER_08: So I go up to this guy and I say, You're Bud Foster, right?
21:35
SPEAKER_08: He's kind of laughs.
21:35
SPEAKER_08: He goes, No, I live in Blacksburg and get the whole time, but I'm not Bud Foster.
21:39
SPEAKER_08: So I thought I met you once, Bud, but I didn't.
21:42
SPEAKER_08: So now I get to meet the real thing here.
21:43
SPEAKER_08: So I'm glad I finally meet about that.
21:47
SPEAKER_04: Was he behaving himself in Buddha?
21:51
SPEAKER_04: He was, yes, he definitely was.
21:52
SPEAKER_07: I don't think you'd ever catch Bud playing putt-putt for sure.
21:56
SPEAKER_07: I didn't think so.
21:57
SPEAKER_08: He thought it weird too, but he looked just like him spitting it.
22:00
SPEAKER_08: The Virginia Tech's polo shirt, too.
22:01
SPEAKER_04: So what's probably missing was uh the a cocktail in his hand.
22:05
SPEAKER_04: You know, I'd have probably had if it was me, I would have had something in my hand besides uh before I'd putt.
22:11
SPEAKER_04: Please hold this babe while I putt here.
22:12
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, bud's Bud's mastered the one hand, the one-hand three-footer with a old fashioned in his hand.
22:18
SPEAKER_07: So this is there you go.
22:20
SPEAKER_07: Pretty good stuff.
22:20
SPEAKER_07: Well, Brad, how did you your website is called Sports Sediment?
22:24
SPEAKER_07: That's how I found you.
22:25
SPEAKER_07: And um, we'll get into some of the legal stuff that you're doing and ended up in Wilmington, but being a wake forest guy.
22:30
SPEAKER_07: And so that's why, you know, growing up in Lexington and just loving, loving sports, when did you when did you launch the the website and why?
22:38
SPEAKER_08: Yes, I launched the website in 2009.
22:41
SPEAKER_08: So I guess I can back up there.
22:42
SPEAKER_08: Having Lexington, Lexington's a huge sports town.
22:44
SPEAKER_08: I got Kentucky Wildcats there, basketball, football.
22:46
SPEAKER_08: And you know, you hear about these child prodigy golfers and child prodigies, child geniuses.
22:51
SPEAKER_08: I was the child prodigy sports guy.
22:53
SPEAKER_08: When I was six years old, my dad gave me a college basketball preview guide when I was just getting to sports in 1991, and I memorized every single team, their conference, their mascot, their colors at age six.
23:05
SPEAKER_08: So I was the kid that just knew everything about sports kind of growing up and just kind of wanted to share that with the world and kind of share my thoughts and opinions as I got older and into college.
23:13
SPEAKER_08: I knew I wasn't going to be a player, wasn't a good enough athlete to be a college athlete or uh to have mentions to be a coach necessarily, but wanted to definitely share my sports knowledge with the world and not really make it a job of mine just because I wanted to do other things as far as professionally, but because of such a hobby of mine, a passion of mine, I wanted to kind of share that with the world.
23:32
SPEAKER_08: So I started um my website, my blog, sportssenment.com.
23:36
SPEAKER_08: It's ramblings, the ultimate sports sentimentalist is the title of it.
23:39
SPEAKER_08: And basically the key to anything in the internet is to be something, you know, something different that people like.
23:45
SPEAKER_08: And so I kind of wanted to be the jack of all trades as far as college sports on my uh website and kind of have it go from there.
23:52
SPEAKER_08: So it's a little part Phil Steele.
23:54
SPEAKER_08: I do a college football preview guide every year.
23:56
SPEAKER_08: Um it's part Joe Lennardi.
23:58
SPEAKER_08: I got very involved in the bracket matrix, bracket project, bracket matrix, NCAA tournament predictions they do every year.
24:04
SPEAKER_08: So I started kind of doing that.
24:06
SPEAKER_08: I do um college uh get some spread picks every week that I throughout the college football season.
24:11
SPEAKER_08: Also, I'm really into rankings and lists and stuff.
24:13
SPEAKER_08: So I got all kinds of rankings of greatest wake sports moments or greatest tennis matches per year, kind of a little bit of everything as far as that goes.
24:20
SPEAKER_08: So just kind of wanted to be a little bit of everything, kind of one-stop shop for everything, mostly college sports, but all sorts of other things as well.
24:27
SPEAKER_08: And it kind of grow from there.
24:28
SPEAKER_08: And so, yeah, I've kind of that's how I've um, you know, had the got the blog going.
24:32
SPEAKER_08: My other big thing in college football I do kind of around this time that got going was the College Football Research Association, uh, CFRA poll.com as the website.
24:41
SPEAKER_08: It's actually a college football poll that began in the 1990s with college football historians that got together and retroactively elected all national champions back from 1867 all the way to 1994.
24:53
SPEAKER_08: And then when I saw that was dormant kind of in their late 2000s, I wanted to get it going again.
24:58
SPEAKER_08: So I actually got some of the original members together.
25:00
SPEAKER_08: We got the organization going again.
25:01
SPEAKER_08: We have a top 25 poll we do four times a year.
25:04
SPEAKER_08: We have a player of the year we award.
25:06
SPEAKER_08: We also post kind of articles about college football history on there.
25:09
SPEAKER_08: Um, one thing we're just starting now is the CFRA honor role, as we're calling it.
25:14
SPEAKER_08: Our sister organization, the professional football research association, has a um hall of very good.
25:19
SPEAKER_08: Basically, all the best players that aren't in the NFL Hall of Fame, they put on a list on their website.
25:24
SPEAKER_08: So we're trying to do the same thing in college football with having the best players and best contributors, coaches that aren't in the College Football Hall of Fame, honor them on the on the website.
25:35
SPEAKER_08: So our first class actually coming this year, but you'd be a great candidate for it.
25:39
SPEAKER_08: I know that you're not in the College Football Hall of Fame, I don't believe.
25:41
SPEAKER_08: So you would be a wonderful candidate to get that going.
25:44
SPEAKER_08: Um Norm Chow was the only coordinator that we nominated this year, potentially for nomination.
25:48
SPEAKER_08: But um, yeah, so that's something we're going doing as well.
25:50
SPEAKER_08: So yeah, a little bit of everything as far as my sports blog and sports interests.
25:54
SPEAKER_08: And again, I kind of wanted to, I had a legal career going parallel to this at the same time.
25:58
SPEAKER_08: So, you know, I went to law school and became a prosecutor, all this stuff, but also sports my passion, so I want to keep that going through my blog, and that's what I've been doing.
26:06
SPEAKER_07: So just a terrific story.
26:08
SPEAKER_04: See, but yeah, I get it.
26:10
SPEAKER_04: There's only 24 hours in a day.
26:12
SPEAKER_04: I know.
26:13
SPEAKER_04: So I don't I'm maximizing the best I can.
26:15
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, well, thank you, number one, for considering me.
26:17
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and there is not, there won't, I don't think there'll ever be an assistant coach that will go into the college football hall of fame.
26:24
SPEAKER_04: There should be, though.
26:24
SPEAKER_04: There should be.
26:25
SPEAKER_04: Wait a minute.
26:25
SPEAKER_04: Why?
26:26
SPEAKER_07: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, why?
26:27
SPEAKER_04: There won't be, but but thank you though for what you're doing to recognize in in this in this research group of of recognizing you know the impact that assistant coaches make on on the game.
26:39
SPEAKER_04: Because I think they get we get lost.
26:41
SPEAKER_04: It's all about the head coach.
26:42
SPEAKER_04: They probably get too much credit and too much when they lose.
26:46
SPEAKER_04: But uh, yeah, kudos to you for doing that.
26:49
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, why will I gotta go back to but wait, I gotta go.
26:51
SPEAKER_07: Why will there never be an assist?
26:53
SPEAKER_07: Why will assistants be overlooked like that?
26:56
SPEAKER_04: Well, they're just it, I don't I don't think it's in the policy.
26:58
SPEAKER_04: It's all about head coaches and players, and I mean they even put writers in there, Mac.
27:03
SPEAKER_04: I mean, my God, I mean you have a chance to be, and so does Brad before I do.
27:08
SPEAKER_07: You know, that's I'm not a writer and just a radio guy.
27:13
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, Brad'll be in before me.
27:15
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, that if I can even afford Bud Foster color football hall of fame, that's a problem.
27:18
SPEAKER_08: That's a problem in the world if that happens.
27:20
SPEAKER_07: So well, Brad, this leads me into uh the transition then with you you and uh uh being in the legal side and with what happened this past week with LSU and Kiffin.
27:32
SPEAKER_07: And do you have a legal side or take on on what's happening with this whole uh 2022 five and five NCAA thing?
27:42
SPEAKER_08: It's it's wild.
27:43
SPEAKER_08: The whole thing is wild.
27:44
SPEAKER_08: Um, I know you asked me about the uh the college football act that's going through Congress right now as well.
27:49
SPEAKER_08: That's an interesting issue I've been following as well.
27:51
SPEAKER_08: I don't think that's gonna pass before midterm.
27:54
SPEAKER_08: Just as midterm elections get closer, it looks like it's gonna be kind of put back on the back burner there.
27:59
SPEAKER_08: You know, what the midterms, how that affects it's gonna be interesting.
28:02
SPEAKER_08: Um, you know, I think the it's got bipartisan support, but it seems like more Republicans have been pushing for it.
28:07
SPEAKER_08: So if it's a Democratic swing, which it looks like we may have in November, that could cause that.
28:12
SPEAKER_08: But yeah, it's definitely interesting times for college football legally because the definitely legal world and the college football world are definitely collating right now with all the different litigation we're seeing uh kind of in this.
28:20
SPEAKER_08: And yeah, the LSU situations is wild.
28:22
SPEAKER_08: So definitely crazy.
28:24
SPEAKER_07: Oh well, that's a that's a great take.
28:25
SPEAKER_07: And now we've got a legal correspondent that we can depend on.
28:28
SPEAKER_07: But we'll go to break here, we'll come back.
28:30
SPEAKER_07: Um, Brad Matthews is our guest, and uh he had he had four wishes as a sports fan.
28:37
SPEAKER_07: Three of them have come true.
28:39
SPEAKER_07: We're gonna talk about that when we come back.
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30:19
SPEAKER_07: Welcome back.
30:19
SPEAKER_07: It's Foster and Friends, NSB Radio Network, uh with a guy that I I think I know he's a prosecutor, but I would love for him to defend me if there I'm ever in Wilmington and uh get pulled over.
30:29
SPEAKER_07: Uh Brad Matthews is our guest.
30:31
SPEAKER_07: His website is sportssenment.com.
30:34
SPEAKER_07: Uh great blogs, picks, all the conferences and and everything.
30:38
SPEAKER_07: And we'll get into that in just a second.
30:40
SPEAKER_07: But great story about what Brad.
30:41
SPEAKER_07: So Brad predicted, I don't know what years you said, look, I want here are my four things I want to see come true.
30:48
SPEAKER_07: And three of them have come true.
30:50
SPEAKER_07: Talk about that because I think that's a that's a great story.
30:53
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, and actually it kind of based around a couple in Lexington, Kentucky that in 1978, when they won their championship, they got married and they kept a piece of their wedding cake frozen until Kentucky won another national championship.
31:06
SPEAKER_08: So it was a funny story in the Lexington paper.
31:08
SPEAKER_08: I remember leaving growing up in 1996, of course, they ate the cake because they beat Syracuse 76, 67, 96 national championship game.
31:16
SPEAKER_08: So I decided to do the same thing with my sports goals that I wanted to see.
31:20
SPEAKER_08: 16 over one in CWA tournament had not happened.
31:23
SPEAKER_08: You know, it's early, it's late 90s when I was coming up with this.
31:26
SPEAKER_08: Um, the uh Wake Forest National Championship became something I was into.
31:30
SPEAKER_08: I was doing Wake Get Wake, and then a triple crown of horse racing, which did not happen at the time, and also a Brit winning Wimbledon, another one of those kind of sports sentimental things I was into.
31:40
SPEAKER_08: I loved Tim Henman growing up and then Andy Murray.
31:43
SPEAKER_08: So um, because of that, I kind of created four little chocolates that I froze into the freezer and ate one every time one of those events happened.
31:51
SPEAKER_08: And so the mid-2010s, we we had a we had a roll there.
31:55
SPEAKER_08: We had the 16 over one with UMBC over Virginia, I believe 2017.
31:58
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
31:59
SPEAKER_08: Uh before that, we had uh Andy Murray won Wimbledon in 20 uh 13, and then 2015 was American Pharaoh's Triple Crown.
32:06
SPEAKER_08: So those happened.
32:07
SPEAKER_08: The Wake thing may not ever happen.
32:09
SPEAKER_08: I've kind of come to realize, especially in the NIL era, that they're probably never gonna win a football or basketball championship.
32:15
SPEAKER_08: Um, the thing now, I may convert the candy into to see if Wake ever wins a beats a top 10 team in football.
32:23
SPEAKER_08: You know, it's been 80 years, longest drought by far in the country.
32:27
SPEAKER_08: Wake has not been an AP top 10 team in football since 1946.
32:32
SPEAKER_08: Every other Power Ford team has done it since 2004.
32:35
SPEAKER_08: So it was that's the kind of the new thing.
32:37
SPEAKER_08: I'm thinking maybe the drought that I won ended.
32:39
SPEAKER_08: But yeah, that was my candy kind of craze, so to speak, with that going on.
32:42
SPEAKER_08: And uh just one of those little random things I got into, and I still have the candy there for the wake championship if it ever happens, but it may become a wake top 10 winstead.
32:50
SPEAKER_08: So that's so good.
32:52
SPEAKER_04: You know, I've really now that uh when when I got into your website and really dove into your analytics uh of your of your picks for the conferences, looking at what you did in the past and uh and your predictions and then how the result very you know, very close.
33:10
SPEAKER_04: I mean, you know, you you get a game or two, that's gonna happen.
33:13
SPEAKER_04: The margin of error is as you know, is slim and and uh but very close.
33:17
SPEAKER_04: So uh my question to you is with your research, your analytics, your matrix, whatever you're following, um what is what would you say your success rate or your accuracy rate is?
33:31
SPEAKER_04: Have you ever I'm sure you probably evaluated that too.
33:35
SPEAKER_04: And I'm saying that is hey, if if Virginia Tech goes nine and three, that'd be a great year.
33:39
SPEAKER_04: You talk about our fundraising snowballing and all that.
33:44
SPEAKER_04: And I do believe this.
33:45
SPEAKER_04: I think James Frank, and I'm cautiously optimistic this year.
33:48
SPEAKER_04: We got a tough schedule, but I do think this, and I think you'd all be in agreement, Virginia Tech's getting ready to be really good in the next couple years.
33:56
SPEAKER_04: Just totally all you can do is you know, look at his past and see what the future's gonna be.
34:00
SPEAKER_04: But what would you say your accuracy rate uh is with your predictions?
34:06
SPEAKER_08: So you know the gold standard for college football preview guides is Phil Steele.
34:09
SPEAKER_08: He's the one that claims to be the most accurate of the last 40 years, compares himself to all the uh um other ones, and he's actually got a scoring system called the Stassin system that he puts himself every year, compares himself to all the other major magazines.
34:24
SPEAKER_08: So I've used that to compare myself to Phil most years.
34:27
SPEAKER_08: Um, Phil has actually beaten me over the last 40 years slightly.
34:30
SPEAKER_08: Some years he beats me by a little bit, other years I've beaten him by a lot, kind of gone back and forth.
34:35
SPEAKER_08: Last year actually beat him in the stats and in most categories.
34:39
SPEAKER_08: So um, overall, let me give you the exact numbers, but overall I've got a stats and score in the last few years of I think a few, maybe a few more than Phil.
34:48
SPEAKER_08: Um can't have the exact number in front of me right now.
34:50
SPEAKER_07: That's all right.
34:51
SPEAKER_07: While you're looking just a little bit, I'm just gonna jump in and say, Now this is this just shows that Brad is not just a fly by night website where he's just you know horsing around and going, I'm gonna do this because I I love to do it.
35:01
SPEAKER_07: So he's actually, you know, when you read and go deep, and he's got every conference, he's done, you know, Big 12, but he's got every conference there, D1, right?
35:10
SPEAKER_07: And so with the ACC, he's got Miami, NC State two, Louisville three, Clemson four, and Virginia Tech at five, as we said, going nine and three.
35:19
SPEAKER_07: Uh he ranked UVA 11th, wake 12th, and he thinks NC State will lose one game and then run the table with 11 wins, losing this weekend, you know, losing today in week zero against uh against Virginia.
35:33
SPEAKER_08: Uh yeah, no, that's yeah, that's put me on the spot there because that doesn't hit that that's gonna be the one everybody talks about.
35:38
SPEAKER_08: But yeah, I thought I got my list of surprise teams every year, disappointment teams.
35:42
SPEAKER_08: State was my number two surprise team of the year.
35:44
SPEAKER_08: TCU is actually number one.
35:45
SPEAKER_08: I think they sneak in and possibly the big 12 this year.
35:48
SPEAKER_08: But I think state their schedule sets up perfectly, got a returning quarterback with CJ Bailey.
35:52
SPEAKER_08: And again, the schedule, you couldn't make a better schedule when it comes down to it with state.
35:56
SPEAKER_08: And there are also those teams that lose a few they shouldn't if they can get the ball to balance right this year, get a couple breaks they normally don't get.
36:03
SPEAKER_08: Um, you know, the typical eight-nine Dave Dordan seasons, they can become 11-1 this year.
36:07
SPEAKER_08: I mean, you've got Virginia, Richmond, Vandy, App State, Louisville, Wake, Stanford, Cal, Duke, Syracuse, and Florida State, and North Carolina.
36:15
SPEAKER_08: And they've owned Florida State over the years.
36:17
SPEAKER_08: That's one of the teams they always played really well, the Knowles.
36:19
SPEAKER_08: So looking at that, you know, you know, historically, there's just no Miami, no Clemson, none of the teams that I mean, they're gonna be the biggest their five five-point dogs against Virginia.
36:28
SPEAKER_08: That's gonna be the biggest underdog they might be all year.
36:30
SPEAKER_08: I mean, they really could win every game.
36:31
SPEAKER_08: You know, at Vandy's a tricky one, but if any got a new quarterback, we'll see how they are looking early in this year, especially.
36:37
SPEAKER_08: So it could be when the years for state.
36:39
SPEAKER_08: Um, I it's one of those games that I think every game could be a toss-up, and I guess they could be eight and four again, but I could see 11-1 or 12-0 as well.
36:48
SPEAKER_08: So you just never know.
36:49
SPEAKER_07: But well, did you find your stats and did you find your rating?
36:52
SPEAKER_07: Oh, give me two seconds here to pull it off.
36:54
SPEAKER_07: I apologize if you'd have a bunch of computer issues here.
36:57
SPEAKER_07: Because with all the with all the stuff that's in there, uh and he's got to go.
37:01
SPEAKER_04: You know, to have a guy on the show that I mean collaborates with, you know, Phil Steele and you know, the folks that really do that who I really, you know, when I was coaching, I had several opportunities to talk with Phil.
37:13
SPEAKER_04: I mean, obviously he he does his homework and really detail-oriented and and puts things in place because he understands he knows he talked depth chart and who your playmakers are and that type of thing.
37:25
SPEAKER_07: Brad might have snubbed me had he not known I worked at Wake for six years.
37:29
SPEAKER_07: He might he might say, I don't have time for the and I, of course, while he's doing this, I can't wait.
37:34
SPEAKER_07: Can you imagine him in court with that energy?
37:37
SPEAKER_07: You know, could you admit the judge you must make judges' heads spin?
37:41
SPEAKER_08: I mean I I do like to throw a lot at him, yeah, exactly right.
37:44
SPEAKER_08: So gotta slow it down for the jury.
37:46
SPEAKER_08: I was gonna throw it down for the jury in closing argument.
37:48
SPEAKER_08: But yeah, yep, like to get it with lots of points, boom, boom, boom, right in the rows.
37:52
SPEAKER_08: That's always the goal.
37:54
SPEAKER_07: Did you find your uh I did, yes.
37:55
SPEAKER_08: So over since 2020 and seven, I started doing this.
38:00
SPEAKER_08: You know, every team you miss by one.
38:02
SPEAKER_08: So how it works is if I predict Florida State to be third, they end up fifth.
38:06
SPEAKER_08: That's two points I'm off.
38:08
SPEAKER_08: Okay, so it's two points.
38:10
SPEAKER_08: So every team over the course of 20 years has been evaluated in that.
38:14
SPEAKER_08: Phil's score over that time is 3,171, and mine's 3,245.
38:21
SPEAKER_08: So he's like golf.
38:22
SPEAKER_08: You want the lower score better because you closer your ranger.
38:24
SPEAKER_08: So I'm about 50 or 60 points behind him overall.
38:28
SPEAKER_08: But you know, I've killed some conferences I do by conference too.
38:31
SPEAKER_08: I'm plus 36 in the ACC over him, plus 10 in the SEC over him, plus 26 in the C USA over him.
38:40
SPEAKER_08: Uh conference USA, I guess is my jam.
38:42
SPEAKER_08: It's one of those conferences I get, but then he killed me in the Mountain West.
38:44
SPEAKER_08: He's plus 52, I mean the Mountain West.
38:46
SPEAKER_08: So some conferences, I guess I've gotten better over the years, some I don't, and you know, it fluctuates year to year, but I keep it all running tally of it all just to see how I do overall.
38:55
SPEAKER_07: Have you ever called me?
38:56
SPEAKER_07: Have you ever called to AC?
38:57
SPEAKER_08: I've actually never talked to Phil.
38:58
SPEAKER_08: It's one of those guys that do those things, but um, you know, he's got he's he's always missing the offseason.
39:02
SPEAKER_08: I like one guys I've always followed, love to talk to on the show sometime or something like that.
39:06
SPEAKER_08: But no, never actually had a uh had a convers combo with Phil.
39:09
SPEAKER_08: But he's he's a good guy, good, good, good, good person.
39:13
SPEAKER_08: I the way he analyzes the sports is good because he's kind of like me in analytics, but then there's also you gotta take into account such as some sentimental factors, but also you know, luck factors.
39:21
SPEAKER_08: He's big on the turnover margin, which is something I think is a huge deal.
39:24
SPEAKER_08: You know, teams plus 12 one year, they're minus four the next year.
39:27
SPEAKER_08: That's the difference of two or three wins, you know.
39:28
SPEAKER_08: You gotta take that into account.
39:30
SPEAKER_08: So um that's always something he looks into.
39:32
SPEAKER_08: But I do like the way he he does it.
39:33
SPEAKER_08: Um couple things I would do differently than him.
39:36
SPEAKER_08: Um, he always still always spins it where it sounds even teams he thinks we're gonna do in bad, it's sounds like he's not really dogging them, but I'm more for the point.
39:44
SPEAKER_08: If this team's gonna have a bad year, I'll I'll call I see it.
39:46
SPEAKER_08: This team's gonna have a bad year.
39:48
SPEAKER_08: So he didn't do a disappointment team list.
39:50
SPEAKER_08: I do a disappointment team list on my blog that I post.
39:52
SPEAKER_07: So that's that's so before I let you go then.
39:55
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, but but I have to ask, so what's your record in court?
39:59
SPEAKER_07: What I know you keep a you got it.
40:01
SPEAKER_08: Oh, yeah, you know it.
40:02
SPEAKER_08: You know it here.
40:03
SPEAKER_08: Yep.
40:03
SPEAKER_08: I got a um, let me get let me get you that stat there.
40:06
SPEAKER_08: Six and oh murder trials, I'll tell you that.
40:08
SPEAKER_08: So I've never never lost.
40:09
SPEAKER_07: Six and oh in murder trials.
40:11
SPEAKER_08: Never lay on that.
40:11
SPEAKER_08: That those are ones that you know, if if I'm going to court on a murder case at the prosecutor, I I've got to have a pretty decent case.
40:17
SPEAKER_08: It's one of those that I feel pretty pretty good about.
40:20
SPEAKER_08: Um, you know, otherwise we're gonna work out some kind of plea deal or something if there's if this is the case.
40:24
SPEAKER_08: But um, overall, yeah, let me give you the exact stats and have that pulled up.
40:28
SPEAKER_08: Sorry, I apologize.
40:29
SPEAKER_07: I'm not I'm not sure an attorney, and maybe they all do.
40:31
SPEAKER_07: I don't know if this is an attorney thing where they keep you keep numbers like this.
40:36
SPEAKER_08: Some people keep a general look at kind of what they've done over the years.
40:39
SPEAKER_08: I'm probably the only one that keeps as detailed analysis as far as their jury performance.
40:44
SPEAKER_08: Well, you certified to practice in Virginia.
40:48
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, we may have to fly them up for yeah, that's that's so good.
40:52
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, so overall though, my all jury record, I am the all jury record, all jury record here is total jury trials, 32, 17 wins, 11 losses, and four uh hung jury mistrials.
41:07
SPEAKER_08: So those some of those are smaller cases though, you're gonna lose.
41:10
SPEAKER_08: I think started acting pretty bad.
41:11
SPEAKER_08: It's a small case I lost over the years, though.
41:14
SPEAKER_08: I've gotten picked my case a little better and gotten a little better.
41:16
SPEAKER_08: So yeah, 17, 11 and 40.
41:18
SPEAKER_07: You gotta you're gonna pick that up just a little bit.
41:21
SPEAKER_04: I've always said this, Brad, the best teacher's experience.
41:24
SPEAKER_04: You know, the more you be at your you're in front of in trying cases and you know, the more you speak, I'm sure you you just you can you know how you how you attack the jury, right?
41:35
SPEAKER_08: Exactly, exactly.
41:35
SPEAKER_08: Yep, it's all uh I mean basically it comes down to what kind of case you have.
41:39
SPEAKER_08: I mean, I always kind of compare it to the facts of the case are the players.
41:42
SPEAKER_08: We're basically the coaches.
41:43
SPEAKER_08: So, you know, if you give me a team of college guys against middle schoolers, you give coach K that middle school team, I'm gonna beat them because I got the college guys.
41:51
SPEAKER_07: All right, to hell with to hell with all this football stuff and your way.
41:54
SPEAKER_07: I want you to come back in a month or so and can we talk legal like your best cases and what happened?
42:00
SPEAKER_07: Yes, absolutely.
42:01
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I'd love to talk about that.
42:03
SPEAKER_08: You know, absolutely would love to talk about that.
42:05
SPEAKER_08: But yeah, just saying that best trial turn in the world, like I could beat if I've got the facts on my side, but if I don't, then it other way could happen, you know, immediately.
42:13
SPEAKER_08: So it all depends on what the facts are.
42:15
SPEAKER_07: His name is Brad Matthews, his website, sportscenema.com.
42:19
SPEAKER_07: You gotta find it, you gotta find him.
42:21
SPEAKER_07: And uh he is, let's see, 11 minutes from his uh uh trial today.
42:26
SPEAKER_07: So we're gonna we're gonna springing loose.
42:28
SPEAKER_08: And jury coming in 11 minutes.
42:29
SPEAKER_08: So I've got to pick a jury here in just a second.
42:31
SPEAKER_07: Okay, we'll uh we'll follow you.
42:33
SPEAKER_07: You gotta come back, will you?
42:34
SPEAKER_07: Will you come back?
42:35
SPEAKER_07: And so we would love to.
42:36
SPEAKER_08: I'd love to come back anytime, actually.
42:38
SPEAKER_08: Let me know.
42:39
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42:41
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44:09
SPEAKER_07: Welcome back, Postwin Friends.
44:10
SPEAKER_07: And uh how'd you like Brad?
44:13
SPEAKER_04: Oh my gosh, man.
44:14
SPEAKER_04: A lot of energy.
44:15
SPEAKER_04: I just love to pick his brain.
44:17
SPEAKER_04: You talk about a guy that's you know involved in research and analytics and the matrix of sketch strength of schedule.
44:25
SPEAKER_04: I mean, how accurate he is.
44:26
SPEAKER_04: I'm I'm banking on him.
44:28
SPEAKER_04: You know, there was there was a time there was I was a big fan of Athlon magazine when and you know we talked about it.
44:35
SPEAKER_04: But uh I I really felt like they did uh their research and they were pretty accurate in their predictions and things in the past.
44:43
SPEAKER_04: So that but listening to Brad, I want to I'm gonna pick his brain as we move forward with uh with you know predictions for you know the for the the the future of the of the games.
44:56
SPEAKER_07: We get tired of talking football in the fall.
44:57
SPEAKER_07: We gotta get him back.
44:58
SPEAKER_07: I I I because I could listen to legal stories forever.
45:01
SPEAKER_07: You know, it's like crime drama apps and stuff.
45:04
SPEAKER_07: I could listen to the court cases and what went on, and you know, it's so real life.
45:08
SPEAKER_07: So he anyway, thanks to Brad.
45:10
SPEAKER_07: Uh sportssen.com is his uh uh website.
45:13
SPEAKER_07: You can have a lot of fun with that.
45:15
SPEAKER_07: Well, here we are in the middle of uh, as I said, we're recording before the weekend.
45:19
SPEAKER_07: It's week zero.
45:20
SPEAKER_07: There are four ACC teams, Virginia, North Carolina, state three at 3:30, but North Carolina TCU, and uh TCU is favored by uh that is the um that that's a college football uh classic game, and it's in uh Dublin, Ireland.
45:38
SPEAKER_07: And they are yeah, they're playing it, uh they're playing at noon, and so anyway, that ought to be uh some fun in Hawaii, Stanford, and then New Mexico State, Florida State.
45:46
SPEAKER_07: Florida State's only a 31-point favorite against New Mexico State.
45:49
SPEAKER_07: So anyway, we get underway.
45:50
SPEAKER_07: It's here, but it's here.
45:53
SPEAKER_04: I'm I'm excited.
45:54
SPEAKER_04: You know, all the hype and all the talk and you know, everything is it's put it put it away, and now it's time to go play.
46:02
SPEAKER_04: You know, now you gotta you gotta strap it up, strap them up tight, tighten up those shoe strings, buckle up the chin straps, and let's go.
46:10
SPEAKER_04: You know, and uh it's it's one game at a time, one week at a time.
46:14
SPEAKER_04: And I know there's projections down the future, that's what we do to do a lot of talk, but you know, football coach, that's my it'd be my focus.
46:22
SPEAKER_04: It's it's what's important now, man.
46:24
SPEAKER_04: And let's it's it's one day at a time, one game at a time, one play at a time, you know, and let's let's get it done though.
46:30
SPEAKER_04: But you can't underestimate anybody in this day and age.
46:34
SPEAKER_04: I think rosters are more balanced than they used to be.
46:37
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
46:38
SPEAKER_04: And um, you know, so you gotta go out and play and you gotta earn your success.
46:41
SPEAKER_04: There's no doubt about that.
46:42
SPEAKER_04: It's not gonna be fire.
46:43
SPEAKER_07: I just see the fire in your eyes.
46:45
SPEAKER_07: I see, it's just like, you know, it's like you're at the practice field today.
46:49
SPEAKER_07: It's like you're at the whiteboard.
46:50
SPEAKER_07: I just the fire is there.
46:52
SPEAKER_04: I'm I'm ready.
46:53
SPEAKER_04: I'm ready.
46:53
SPEAKER_04: In fact, I'm gonna go out to practice this afternoon for a little bit.
46:56
SPEAKER_07: So that does not surprise me.
46:58
SPEAKER_07: So uh that's good.
47:00
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47:02
SPEAKER_07: Anyway, next week, got a special guest.
47:04
SPEAKER_07: We'll tell you more about that later.
47:05
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