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Bill Bender joins the show 4-11-24 · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Bill bendersportingnews dot Com also on x as well, Bill Bender ninety two,
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  Bill, welcome in, sir. How are you must almost mister Cale?
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  I was watching Tiger Woods and so, like I'm sure forty something men like
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  me, they just get lost when we start watching him. And all these
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  years later, I still enjoy the first round of the Masters. Now,
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  there's no doubt. We were talking about it yesterday, you know, just
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  kind of the betting lines for the Masters, and of course Tiger wailed down
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  the line. I said, I wonder how many people will take a flyer
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  on Tiger just to hope that, you know, hey, maybe he's got
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  it one more time. You know what I put I can I think I
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  can say this on there. I put two dollars down on it, just
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  for fun. And you know, if he wins it all, we'll have
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  a couple bucks to take the life out for dinner and go from there.
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  But uh, yeah, it does give me incentive to watch. And he's
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  just it's still all these years, he's the most captivating show in golf,
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  which is very interesting. Oh, there's no doubt about it, no doubt,
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  Bill, you know. O. J. Simpson obviously passed yesterday and
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  you kind of look across the sports world and mixed messages. Obviously we know
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  everything about his life, but it seems like a lot of people are trying
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  to it's hard to kind of find what to say. But when you look
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  at OJ Simpson, I mean, you know, there's the football side and
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  the sports side, there's the personal side that was obviously a disaster and everything
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  that went on off the field. What do you actually when you hear O.
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  J. Simpson and do you hear that name, is it forever going
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  to be everything with what happened off the field? Or will people remember on
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  the field. Well, it depends on the generation. If you're a like
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  I said, you're forty four like me, it's less you really didn't get
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  to see him play where you don't really remember him playing for the forty nine
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  ers. It's more actor and Bronco Chase and the trial, and you know,
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  for guys that were in my dad's age, it was I remember my
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  dad telling me that, hey, man, Oj was one of the best
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  college football players I've ever seen you now, and then you take that to
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  Buffalo and then his later life obviously became a little bit of a circus.
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  But I don't think OJ. We were talking about this in our office to
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  day. I don't think OJ hits that youngest younger generation quite like he hits
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  ours, because I just think, you know, you had It's almost like
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  you had to be there to experience the Bronco Chase and the trial and the
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  mass media that surrounded his life. Very complicated thing. But I'll probably watch
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  OJ Made in America again as a result. Yeah. Look, when I
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  was in college, I was a freshman, or maybe maybe I was right,
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  I can't remember. We had a COMP one or COMP two class.
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  It was a summer class. The entire class was writing assignments on that whole
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  trial, like I remember, like it was yesterday. It's crazy. Oh
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  yeah, And I remember the Bronco Chase from the standpoint of I mean,
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  could you imagine. I can't imagine in the social media agent today if they
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  broke in on an NBA Finals game to follow somebody like that. That's how
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  big of a story it was. It really transcended sports culture, entertainment and
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  had all of it. And it was my wife liked to point out,
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  I mean, the ripple effects went down all the way to the Kardashians,
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  to the present day. It's really a wild story. Bill Bender on your
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  radio Thursday edition of the program. Make sure to find him on X at
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  Bill Bender ninety two. Check him out at the Sporting News dot com and
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  also want X as well. All right, John Caliperry, with one of
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  the funnier I thought, I don't know if you meant it to be press
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  conference lines last night, said hey, I met with the team, there
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  is no team. How quickly can he get Arkansas turned around? And do
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  you expect him to make a massive impact in Fanville? I think a fresh
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  started makes it really interesting. I mean, I got back from the women's
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  final fourths and then I told the story that he went to Arkansas. I
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  had to rub my eyes make sure I wasn't hallucinating from the long drive.
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  But it was very wild story. I think it's great for college basketball in
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  terms of gives us a really good storyline to fall ups. Going to be
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  really interesting to see who Kentucky hires back. But I got to jink I
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  can't lie. Like when I saw him in that red quarters up, I
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  didn't know what to think that it still looks weird. It does it does
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  look weird, all right, So it looks like Hurley is not gonna entertain
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  Kentucky others or not as what which direction do they eventually go? You think,
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  Yeah, I thought Scott Drew would have been the right fit. No,
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  it's not too much, not too little. So I don't really have
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  a feel for where they go from here. I mean, I suppose they
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  go down the Alma Mater list and you know, go after somebody like a
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  Mark Pope or you know, somebody in that vein. But yeah, I
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  thought Nat Oates would have been an interesting candidate. He for all, he's
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  the ups and downs of the last two years at Alabama, from the mess
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  with Brandon Miller to the or the final four run this year. I mean,
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  he he's kind of been able to weather that right, So I don't
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  know if he could handle coaching at a place like Kentucky. That's just it.
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  You got to find the right guy that's to handle Kentucky, the players
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  and Kentucky everything else. What do you make of Dan Hurley back to back
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  championships now at Yukon. The guy's got swagger, he's got the look,
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  he's very animated. He looks like he knows how to navigate in this name
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  image and likeness are in basketball, which you can make a you know,
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  an argument. I think that it's even more more difficult than football. And
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  in the fact that you know they'll be maybe one of the favorites next year.
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  Yeah, I mean East Coast guy and doing the things that he's doing
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  that they just so impressive. The way that they their game play against Purdue
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  was smart. They led Zach Eaty do what he did. And you know,
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  Purdue, he made one three pointer. I thought Perdue had to make
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  at least ten three pointers to win that game. Uh. East Coast guys
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  who like a Midwesterner like me. Obviously he grubbed some of my friends the
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  wrong way, but I don't think he cares to go for the game.
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  There's no debate right now that he's the best coach active coach in the game
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  when you consider that the only other coach with multiple natties at his school was
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  Bill South and the other only coach with multiple natties in the sport right now
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  is Patino, which, by the way, what are the chances he would
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  go to Kentucky. It would be amazing if he did. I don't think
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  it's going to happen, but that's the class that Hurley's in right now.
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  Let me ask you this. The second transfer portal window opens Monday, go
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  for fifteen days, and it will be a very very hot time, you
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  know. So you look at some teams like Alabama possibly need to make in
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  some moves, you know, maybe Miami. You look at Washington, USC,
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  Michigan. You know, would you expect we saw Colorado last year Deon
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  Sanders really flipped that roster in the second portal window. Do you expect to
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  see a team or two with not Colorado movement, but with some big movement.
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  Well, I mean, Michigan will be interesting to see if these are
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  the quarterbacks they're going to ride with into the regular season. High State's going
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  to have some changes on their roster, as they have already. I mean,
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  I think quarterbacks are so interesting. Which ones go in the second way
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  because I'm put together a big ten quarterback previous for next year, and before
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  this second window opened, they have nine of their twenty eighteen are transfers.
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  So, I mean, you and I both know this is the way the
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  game has gone, but it's not going that way. It has gone that
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  way, scientist face. There'll be some more changes along the way. Let's
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  finish it up with the National Football League. I'll try to grab you before
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  the draft as well or right after the draft. You know, obviously every
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  year is a new crop of quarterbacks. We you know, always talk about
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  the crops, and you know, can this be that special group? You
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  look at Caleb Williams, looks like he slided for one, maybe a Drake
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  may or Jaylen Daniels at two and or three. JJ McCarthy's moved up.
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  You know, bo Nix. Do you think the draft, at least at
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  face value at quarterback is as deep as as it looks like potentially or you
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  know, are we Is this just again another instance of you got to have
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  a quarterback in the NFL, and there's some guys that people are just going
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  to reach for. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's more of the latter.
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  I mean, I'm not talking down about any of these guys. I
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  just think that Caleb, Drake, J and JJ they'll be first round picks.
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  Michael Pennox would probably get drafted in the first round, and maybe Bonex
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  and some of it is need, some of it is you know, just
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  what they're worth, you know, quarterbacks. That's how the draft works.
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  JJ McCarthy is going to be very interesting. I don't think there's any doubt
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  in my mind Caleb Williams will go first. But if somehow JJ McCarthy is
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  drafted ahead of Jadon and Drake, I mean that would be the first kind
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  of wow moment of the draft. And like you said, any of those
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  guys go in any order. I don't know how many are are going to
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  be long term franchise quarterbacks, and that includes Caleb Williams, but I know
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  they're going to get drafted in the top ten. Make sure to find them
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  at the Sporting News and of course check them out on X at Bill Bender
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  ninety two also Sporting News as well. Bill, thank you so much.
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  Look enjoy the Masters. Maybe Talker can make that run this weekend, I
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  hope so. Thanks so much for having me, and I'll talk to you
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  before the draft.