Latest / The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast / Bonus: Athletics LLC S2 E34 'Make it make Sense' December 3, 2021
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- 0:00It's bonus time, we're honored Athletics, LLC would allow us to
- 0:03present to you the audio version of their weekly Friday Night,
- 0:06YouTube series. Let's get to and see what the
- 0:08crew has in store this week. It's me.
- 1:14I'm not going to divulge anything but we were going to go
- 1:17to Texas A&M and then now we've been rerouted to Arkansas.
- 1:21So that's an you just evolved everything.
- 1:24No, I didn't say everything but we changed our schedule.
- 1:29So but very interesting. Welcome to the power 5.
- 1:33True, Welcome to the power 5 because I can happen.
- 1:38But anyhow, welcome to Athletics LLC.
- 1:42It's going to be a fun night. It's in the air.
- 1:44I feel it, I feel it. So let's start off by saying
- 1:49hello to these lovely tiles. That have joined me tonight.
- 1:53I'm going to need explanation on this one.
- 1:55Lamar free-writing krauser huffin.
- 1:57How are you tonight, sir? Oh, we got to let it be broke
- 2:00later, trust me. Okay.
- 2:02My neck. My name will make a ton of
- 2:03sense. Okay?
- 2:05If I could have got a shirt made soon enough,
- 2:24how are you this evening, sir? I'm here for the shenanigans.
- 2:27Let's go. What are those just getting
- 2:31Governor. How are you today?
- 2:34Sir tonight, sir. Oh man, today is Wednesday, but
- 2:38it feels like Friday just under water.
- 2:44I'm feeling what these kids are feeling right now.
- 2:46I'm trying to. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
- 2:49Doggy paddling the waiting room, ready for some some educated and
- 2:54on the uneducated, banter ready for a fight last, but not
- 2:59Definitely, never Leaf. So lucious, how are you this
- 3:01evening, sir. I am rolling.
- 3:05I am rolling. Love it.
- 3:07Well, welcome all again to a feather, another fun night of,
- 3:13as a governor, put it, fun banter.
- 3:15So let's just kick the show off as we always do as the Facebook
- 3:21fam. Knows it's chaos time.
- 3:25Ever. So I was right, eloquent Lee
- 3:29coined by Clyde there. I'm just going to leave that
- 3:32wide open for you. To step through Clyde.
- 3:34Go for it. Well, you know, I think we might
- 3:38need to defer. To, I can't take full credit for
- 3:43here to mr. Lamar chaos.
- 3:46Their dominance as we will call him right now, you know.
- 3:51Wow. Things are things are lining up
- 3:54exactly how me and him perceived it if you have not seen it.
- 4:02UGA sitting at number one, I do have a question for later.
- 4:07Who is UGA beat this year? I'm everybody everybody on
- 4:12schedule. If you guys love to say, are by
- 4:15on a schedule for so Michigan. As predicted, jumped in all the
- 4:21way. Up to number two, Alabama
- 4:24sitting at number 3, Cincinnati in the death chair waiting
- 4:30execution at number for Oklahoma State sitting at five and a
- 4:36pretty and a coach list Notre Dame Cicely.
- 4:40Number six and just for the record in case you missed it
- 4:44there was a report out today from somebody on the committee
- 4:48that said coaching and player availability is a partner, their
- 4:54consideration. So just understand folks, Notre
- 4:57Dame is DOA and this is all about Oklahoma State.
- 5:01And so, you know, as we go into Championship weekend, somebody
- 5:08on this panel is Going to have a pie in the face moment next
- 5:11week. It may be two of us.
- 5:14It may not be, we'll find out, but it looks pretty good.
- 5:18From what we all. Not all said was going to
- 5:22happen. All I've ever said, it's just
- 5:27that he's going to be in the top four.
- 5:29This is not a still the top four, so until since they come
- 5:32to our top four, I don't know what the heck you're talking
- 5:33about young fella, but this is it.
- 5:50I've said this all along, it's just that he's going to be in
- 5:52top for you're still on top for, so I'm not.
- 5:54Wrong yet, you're not wrong yet. But I do have a genuine question
- 5:59to ask you sir. Yeah.
- 6:06I believe you see it. I believe you'll see the
- 6:09shenanigans on the rise. So, whatever happens this
- 6:14weekend. There's a lot of things that
- 6:16could happen if Cincinnati wins their game and ends up out of
- 6:21the top for you, say what? I will be extremely disappointed
- 6:27and but I will take my L like a man because that's what I do.
- 6:30But Here's my thing, right? I have especially with the last
- 6:36five weeks or so tried to delve into this as much as I can.
- 6:40And the more I delve into it, he's got a bunch of people
- 6:42sitting in a room spouting their opinions and that's all it is to
- 6:46it. So in their minds, they're
- 6:48trying to get what they perceive to be the best four teams in the
- 6:52country, right? The problem I have with that is
- 6:55like who made these 12 people judge jury and executioner like
- 7:00who decided to do These 12 people and maybe I'm mistaking.
- 7:04The number of people in the room who made these people, like the,
- 7:10the authorities to decide who the best four teams are.
- 7:12So the process is extremely flawed and I hate to say this
- 7:16because I know clients come to jump all over this.
- 7:18We need more teams. We need more teeth like next
- 7:23week, we need more time and so as I get the more I look into
- 7:29this, it is very okay. I'm just going to paint a
- 7:34scenario for you, right? So the only way Alabama gets in
- 7:41the playoff is if they beat Georgia or ripping out the old
- 7:47guy told you this you shake it all you want since they're still
- 7:50on top or if they beat Georgia or if they tied you oranje,
- 7:55they'll get it. If they lose to Georgia, they
- 7:58got no shot but in a crazy chaotic world.
- 8:03These 12 people could sit in there and go is a one is a no
- 8:07losses. Natty team really better than a
- 8:11to loss. Alabama.
- 8:12Take me now, there's where lies the problem so I don't bind to
- 8:17the consumers conspiracy theories that you guys do but I
- 8:21have turned the corner and I'm running rapidly across that
- 8:25street that the process is greatly flawed.
- 8:30Because this is totally human-based and it's just not,
- 8:34it's not good. I would like to on behalf of all
- 8:39chaos lovers and conspiracy theorist on the planet.
- 8:43Welcome you to our street, you're not quite on the
- 8:46bandwagon yet never going on that bandwagon, but when
- 8:49Cincinnati wins and Oklahoma State wins and Oklahoma State
- 8:53past the Cincinnati, and Cincinnati's undefeated, and
- 8:55outside top four, first of all, I'm going to say for the record
- 9:00I have been saying since the beginning, I am rooting to be
- 9:04wrong. Cincinnati deserves.
- 9:07And you're going to hand or your.
- 9:09I hope I am. I missing Cincinnati deserves
- 9:12the right to go play. Whoever number one is they're
- 9:16probably going to get molly-whopped but they deserve
- 9:19that, right? Because if you look at what
- 9:24look, I told you about three weeks ago, there was five teams
- 9:27lined up the past them. Here's the great thing that's
- 9:30happened for Cincinnati, Michigan State lost Wake Forest
- 9:33lost, Oklahoma lost, right? So three of the five suitors
- 9:37have gone bye-bye Notre, Dame's coach left like the Mayflower in
- 9:42the middle of the night and so four of the five are gone.
- 9:48I mean, that's just what it is. Like, there's no way they're
- 9:50going to put. A Notre Dame team that lost to
- 9:52Cincinnati without their head. Coach ahead of Cincinnati that's
- 9:56not going to happen so Clyde is correct Notre, Dame is DOA
- 10:01Oklahoma State. However, Oklahoma state is
- 10:07literally A pit bull trying to get out of a cage into a yard,
- 10:13full of female dogs, that are in heat, like all they have to do
- 10:16is winning. Look, no sure that you are.
- 10:21That is the dumbest thing you ever come out of that mouth to
- 10:23you. You're a cow guy, you gotta do
- 10:25better, you know, better than that.
- 10:27The dumbest thing I've ever said.
- 11:00This is why this is what let me tell you something.
- 11:07This is what needs to happen in Cincinnati's world, for sure.
- 11:14They need to all go get Alabama, jerseys and pray to God.
- 11:21Pray to God. That they're on the losing team.
- 11:26They cannot have Alabama, beat Georgia, because then there, for
- 11:30sure, to include. Wow, that why were they go by
- 11:32Jersey? Were losing team.
- 11:33See. There you go.
- 11:34That's two. That's why
- 11:51they need Cincinnati. First of all, is the governor of
- 11:56Georgia to win. Please, get off the floor.
- 12:03Thanks for having me on the floor.
- 12:05That would be the Mars. Thank you for having me.
- 12:17I am just I'm I am just so happy.
- 12:25I am happy that we are where we are.
- 12:27Because yeah, because you have conversations with in
- 12:33conversations. It is.
- 12:36I mean we can sit here and bloviate all night about what's
- 12:40about to happen in the next couple of days.
- 12:43But how many of us really know? I mean, How long will it take in
- 12:50that Georgia, Alabama game. Alright for Kirby Smart.
- 12:57To figure out. Okay, this is Nick Saban.
- 13:01This is my, this is my guy, right?
- 13:05I'm just the amount of chaos That Couldn't could ensue on
- 13:12Saturday. I mean, I'm at a loss, I mean,
- 13:18let's not, let's not, let's not, I mean and I'm going to say the
- 13:21sir Lucius beating Houston is not a gimme.
- 13:26All right, I totally agree with that.
- 13:28That is not a gimme that. Because the, I'm with you, for
- 13:34the chaos ran, see that this is the bit.
- 13:37I am on the chaos. Street I am holding the other
- 13:41side of the chaos flag with Clyde on this one there.
- 13:43Okay, yeah. For the dadgum chaos.
- 13:45This weekend. Well, my have is the chaos by
- 13:48happened to my boys. I mean II.
- 14:01Finds itself in everybody that's not Cincinnati.
- 14:06Okay? Or unless you're from the state
- 14:09of Ohio is rooting for a big Power, 5 school to get in.
- 14:17There's still that stigma that's out there and I mean for me
- 14:22personally, I want to see this happen.
- 14:25I want to see Cincinnati spoiler party.
- 14:28I just feel like Oklahoma state. If they can pull that off, I am
- 14:33also on the on that bandwagon that they're going to jump over
- 14:38Cincinnati. And and that is, it is horrible.
- 14:41And it's a travesty. It should never happen.
- 14:44I totally agree with you. On all of that, is the
- 14:47difference. This is where, and maybe my
- 14:49heartstrings are a little bit involved.
- 14:50Here, I'll deal. But I really believe in my heart
- 14:55that if they thought that. They were going to pull the
- 14:59shenanigan a deported already. Yeah.
- 15:01Because my thoughts, Is Cincinnati.
- 15:31Like Bees Houston by a point. I don't call mistake curb Stomps
- 15:36Baylor, Baylor and I got it. I got it.
- 15:41I'm gonna I'm gonna be honest with you.
- 15:42I want to jump in there really quick I just because I just want
- 15:45to say this. This isn't even my idea, like,
- 15:50this is literally me just paying attention to the way the
- 15:53narrative gets built every year, they started.
- 15:57That's why I said it four weeks ago.
- 15:58They had looked, they had all the planes lined up on the
- 16:01runway. If this one fails we got Plan B.
- 16:05It's so look. Oklahoma State wasn't a promise.
- 16:08You can't promise you that because it's okay.
- 16:56So what's your point? My student is that the runway
- 17:00was lined up for who was going to go past, you know, and look
- 17:04that is the really cute and dropped all of two spots,
- 17:23right? Because we had to make make sure
- 17:25they were still viable for exactly what I'm talking about.
- 17:30Okay, it's if this, this is a nuanced conversation, but it's
- 17:39all there in print for you to see.
- 17:41You just have to look at the more.
- 17:44I look at it. I just don't, I just don't, I
- 17:45just don't see the craziness that you guys do.
- 17:49I don't even I'm a I don't even think for some of these people.
- 17:57It's a predetermined conspiracy. It's almost subconscious.
- 18:04Mmm. The whole if that's okay.
- 18:07Write the whole thing about what this whole thing is.
- 18:11Yeah. Is a problem money.
- 18:13Yeah. And they want the most lucrative
- 18:17situation possible. Yep.
- 18:19That's what they want. Now, all I'm telling you, is
- 18:24this We've seen it before the fake playoffs is goes all the
- 18:30way back to the creation of the original bcx mmkay every year.
- 18:36Somehow some way the narrative starts in one place and it ends
- 18:43in the exact same place, it always ends with the word best
- 18:48being thrown around because the word best is undefinable.
- 18:53Deserving is clear. You can get a play off of
- 18:58deservings. You could do that.
- 18:59A million different ways and you can identify like the beauty of
- 19:03our sport. Everybody complains about track
- 19:04and field, but you know who's going to Nationals number 16?
- 19:09Number 48? Yeah, that's who's going.
- 19:12You ain't no ambiguity ambiguity about it.
- 19:14That's, that's the standard. This is all subconscious.
- 19:19It's all subjective. It's all fugazi tomorrow.
- 19:24You know, Lamar is word. So all I'm saying to you, sir,
- 19:28lucious is this When I say every year that I root for chaos, what
- 19:33that actually means for those, for the fans of mine that I've
- 19:36been rocking with Team Kaos forever, I root for the most
- 19:40ridiculous outcome possible. Yes, spin you to expose.
- 19:46How Daisy, this whole thing is. So, what I'm rooting for right
- 19:52now is utter chicanery. I want see, Alabama doesn't
- 20:00really. Matter because I'm telling you,
- 20:02if they win the game there in there, in there in there.
- 20:35I root for little guy, I want to see Cincinnati land where they
- 20:40should be and for isn't where they should be, they're better
- 20:43than four. Yes.
- 20:45Okay, it's okay. It's okay based on what?
- 20:49Oh, cause you keep sucking. You keep saying, who has
- 20:52so-and-so beat? Who was Cincinnati Beat besides
- 20:54Notre Dame. I'm glad you asked that question
- 20:59because the, the LI the annual life Why of how we land here all
- 21:05the time. And remember, let's forget the
- 21:10how we land here all the time. What's always, the narrative is
- 21:14the SEC, going to get one team in or two every single year but
- 21:18that's your narrative. No, no, sir.
- 21:23The question is and remains yet who has Cincinnati Beat besides
- 21:30know, your name. Hey, hey, just of good of a
- 21:32schedule as Georgia has And I'll run you through it.
- 21:35George one Clemson. I got place.
- 21:37I wanted to go to those things. Please.
- 21:38Just talk to you that way me UAB, South Carolina,
- 21:44Vanderbilt's Arkansas. They beat Auburn.
- 21:49I consider arming to be a decent team cool that we could win
- 21:52Tucky. Yeah Florida.
- 21:55Missouri and Tennessee, Charleston Southern and Georgia
- 22:01Tech. Okay now my question to you Who
- 22:04is this? Okay, well okay, I heard you.
- 22:07Now if you do the same thing with Cincinnati, it's worse.
- 22:10But is it was about who in your opinion is the best team in the
- 22:17country. Because always question, I'm
- 22:23excited about. But now all of a sudden it's
- 22:26going to be different. This would become a narrative.
- 22:28No no I do not believe.
- 22:51Steam the country and between this weekend and the playoffs.
- 22:55I think that will be exposed. I don't believe they're the best
- 22:58team in the country. I think the best team in the
- 23:00country is either is either Alabama or Michigan.
- 23:09That's what I'm interesting. Hmm, that's very interesting
- 23:15now. Yeah, they're the best team in
- 23:16there if if not any the same Michigan team.
- 23:21They got curb stomp, a few weeks go by Michigan State.
- 23:25That's a machine Michigan. State's a hell of a lot better
- 23:28team than anyone. George has beaten.
- 23:31Can't even enough. Okay, well, you know what, I
- 23:35tell you like this, I'm going to say this is what's going to
- 23:38happen this weekend and then I'll come back on here and
- 23:41rewind the tape and tell you I was wrong.
- 24:07It's a Georgia on My Mind. I got George.
- 24:11I got Georgia. I got my God, Kirby slaying the
- 24:15dragon, it's time. It's time.
- 24:18It's all there on. The y'all are on the, if not.
- 24:20Now when trained with George? No, that's what Michigan said
- 24:23last week, right? That's what I, that's what he
- 24:25said about. Michigan Big Ten Championship,
- 24:33Michigan, or Iowa, or Iowa, Michigan.
- 24:37Going away, Iowa. But Iowa, Iowa can beat them and
- 25:13it would be, it would be very Michigan of them.
- 25:17Yes, to have a letdown after Ohio State.
- 25:20So the unfortunate part about that part is that you are, you
- 25:23are 100% correct. It would be very Michigan.
- 25:25Like to lose the Iowa. The Big Ten would cry because
- 25:28then they would be for sure, not to get a team in.
- 25:30But let me just say this for the record, I can undercut we pick,
- 25:34I can't pick. I would have been anything.
- 25:36If y'all remember correctly, I said and was right, they were
- 25:40the most overrated, number three, team in the history of
- 25:44rankings. I depend not vote for them to
- 25:46beat anybody in themselves. They got sent to sell Big 12,
- 25:51Baylor vs. Oklahoma State, I got my vote on
- 25:57no defense whatsoever. Bet the over at a time going I'm
- 26:02going just total, Bedlam total chaos.
- 26:04I'm going to bed. I'm on a roll.
- 26:06I'm miles. Just keep Rollin.
- 26:08Well, I can tell you this. That's right now.
- 26:13That's what it is right now. We've been waiting for this game
- 26:28for 365 days. Yes.
- 26:30Folks, you still have more games to play?
- 26:33Yeah. But they're not talking about
- 26:35moving forward. Yeah, so I'm going with total
- 26:38and utter chaos. Michigan takes to L and so does
- 26:42Oklahoma State. Wow, which will allow Cincinnati
- 26:46in baby. Wait, wait, do you have some
- 26:58things happen? And then Cincinnati loses the
- 27:01Houston and Notre Dame is in the for without Governor of Oklahoma
- 27:12State beating Baylor. But it's going to come down to
- 27:15the last play. I'm saying, it's Whoever has the
- 27:19ball last. That's what I'm.
- 27:20That's what I'm thinking. I'm all I want to make myself.
- 27:23I have Oklahoma if not now, not. Now, when for Mike.
- 27:28Gundy and Oklahoma State Cowboys like Frank, but they've been
- 27:32they've had much better than this one.
- 27:34Yes. Can you listen?
- 27:36Be in the playoff. I'm just thankful my gosh.
- 27:40Okay, so I want to go on the record is set if Cincinnati and
- 27:45Oklahoma State both win, and if you know conversate in, I'm not
- 27:49watching another game of football this year.
- 27:52Okay, that's fair. Not if we talk about it.
- 28:06Listen, I'm picking Cincinnati, I'm going for Cincinnati to.
- 28:14I'm just hoping like just uses dangerous, man.
- 28:17Yes it is. Houston is underrated.
- 28:21Yes, they are. They're much better than their
- 28:23ranking, much better. Underrated.
- 28:26And I don't think since see if, if I believe the Cincinnati
- 28:32believe that they were actually safe.
- 28:35I Picked him lose. Hmm.
- 28:37They can't believe that they're safe so I believe they're going
- 28:40to handle their business and Luke sticker won't let them.
- 28:43Don't let them believe that they're saying, right.
- 28:47I'm just afraid that Cincinnati and Oklahoma State are both
- 28:50going to lose. And we're going to end up with a
- 28:51for of Georgia, Michigan, Alabama and Notre Dame without a
- 28:55coach. It's very possible because it's
- 29:00very possible because it because it could look, here's the deal.
- 29:03If Oklahoma state is Cincinnati lose, Alabama, doesn't have to
- 29:07win? No, no.
- 29:10Because there for sure, better than everybody below him.
- 29:12Yes, even with two losses, they're better because nobody's
- 29:15going to pick Ohio State over them.
- 29:16Mmm. It's how about, how about, how
- 29:19about dropping the seven? That was.
- 29:24You have to be punished for lucious.
- 29:26Tell me about that. Why was he see?
- 29:29I can't tell you about it. We need to talk to your guys
- 29:31because when everybody else gets dropped by get they got it
- 29:33probably. Well, I wanted to Ohio state is
- 29:35so They should give no, I could drop that for.
- 30:06Five matchup with Ohio State Michigan.
- 30:07This, I have a huge problem with Ohio State dropping as far as
- 30:11they did. But you have to understand why I
- 30:14understand why the dry looks like they drag it up far.
- 30:18Because at that point, they are out of the championship game for
- 30:23the Big Ten and can no longer no one that got them to influence,
- 30:29the shenanigans that need to happen.
- 30:31Immediately understand why they drop that far, I have no issue
- 30:34with that. So I I know why we haven't
- 30:36blamed because we all know that Ohio State's have better
- 30:40football team than Notre Dame. Yes.
- 30:45Oh my God. I know that so you should have a
- 30:52problem with wearing them Then for Georgia to win at Michigan,
- 31:08the win in Cincinnati, will then move the three in Cincinnati
- 31:12will play Michigan and beat them and beat them all for that
- 31:19chaos. Baby or someone and gets beat by
- 31:2840 Cincinnati which I like for them.
- 31:50In the national championship game.
- 31:52We have Cincinnati like like b-roll to put to fill in for the
- 31:56commercials. Oh, don't trip.
- 31:59The mullet from Stillwater is going to get in there, don't you
- 32:03worry. All right.
- 32:05What's next to what we gotta wait?
- 32:07I'm sorry. There's a basketball game.
- 32:10There's a basketball game. The ACC Championship it's pit
- 32:14versus Wake Forest. Or is that not bad?
- 32:22I mean, listen Not only was that that was actually high-quality
- 32:27Petty. That was, I was also incredibly
- 32:30funny because let me tell you something, the ACC is now in
- 32:34witness protection. Oh my gosh, literally, nobody
- 32:38cares. Nobody cares.
- 32:40Let like they, they have told the ACC just tell us who won.
- 32:44We'll stick that winter in the come on in bowl and we'll be
- 32:47done because they don't care. So this, this is where this is
- 32:50where I gotta. I mean, someone someone actually
- 32:52posted this about the incoming members of Of the Big 12 that's
- 33:00been what. Now, you have five schools.
- 33:04Five teams that have been to the Mountaintop in the Big 12, right
- 33:12group of five schools, nonetheless, but UCF has done
- 33:16it. Cincinnati is doing it right
- 33:21now. Houston are you kidding me?
- 33:24So what what is coming TCU, right?
- 33:29TCU has been there. So, let's not, let's not
- 33:33discount this big 12, the new Big 12, the ACC little 12,
- 33:40Clemson, Clemson and Florida State have some work.
- 33:44When I tell you, they've got some work to do.
- 33:47Because there there's a much better place right now.
- 33:57Can I just say before we exit the college football topic?
- 34:01Whoever wins the ACC game. Hmm is tied to I believe the
- 34:07Orange Bowl. Yes, I definition so get ready,
- 34:11folks. It's the ACC champ versus
- 34:15Cincinnati in the Orange Bowl. Mostly I didn't tell you.
- 34:19That's how disrespectful they're going to be to Cincinnati.
- 34:23They're going to lock them out, and send them to the orange ones
- 34:25bull bang. Oh, Can you tell me who your pic
- 34:32was for the Big Ten? I missed it.
- 34:36I have. I definitely have chemistry of
- 34:39Michigan, for sure. Yes, I missed it.
- 34:41Sorry, I've got this down. This will be tweetable.
- 34:45You have all of our paper money. Nobody will watch The Shadow.
- 35:05The shadow of Clemson is those days, they default ACC winner.
- 35:11What if next to what we got going on?
- 35:13Oh, well, as if that wasn't turmoil enough with, let's throw
- 35:17some more gas in this fire. The world Athletics has decided
- 35:22on who they're athlete in the years are for the males and the
- 35:25females, if you haven't seen this posted, if you hasn't seen
- 35:29it. Denounced.
- 35:30The awards have been given to a lame Thompson her off as well as
- 35:34Carson Carson will home. Wow, we're home now, I
- 35:41understand the name. So my apologies, mr.
- 35:44Lamar, I'd now I it was a Norton context for me.
- 35:47So I find it interesting entertaining enough that as I
- 35:54was reading that topic all of your facial expressions
- 35:58Expressions changed. So let's let's let's give light
- 36:04to those reactions. And I'll go first because I'm
- 36:08because I'm going to be very brief, I just want to say first
- 36:13of all. Congratulations to Ariana night.
- 36:15And thing, though, you're being the rising star.
- 36:19It's the future of the sport. So rightfully sports team.
- 36:23Yeah, so they got that right. That's all they got.
- 36:26Right? But like, so, like with me is
- 36:29clearly, this is there's opinions.
- 36:32There's bias. Not sure how you ever discount,
- 36:37what Ryan krauser did totally disrespectful to that man, in my
- 36:40opinion, we know there's an argument for you laying here.
- 36:44I'm not sure that I would have rocked with that argument but
- 36:47the end of the day, same thing we just talked about what The
- 36:49college football playoff, you get a group of people in the
- 36:51room are considered the exports, they make the decision.
- 36:54It's about as laughable as what the Bowerman is in my opinion.
- 36:58So, and I'm done. That's it.
- 37:00The alphabet crew, I like, I like it.
- 37:04Look, I've fired those shots directly.
- 37:06Trust me. I am Hey, do you want me to go
- 37:15next please? I might feel like that was a,
- 37:19that was a nap jumping to the screen.
- 37:20So please? Yeah, turn around and get.
- 37:27Okay. So as long as you keep it,
- 37:34Elaine winning is wrong, but defensible?
- 37:42Wrong in my opinion. But it's just that an opinion,
- 37:47but the, but the argument is defensible, no question about
- 37:52it, right? If we asked 100 people, We're
- 37:57probably 60/40 you know like okay so I'm not going to delve
- 38:02anytime into that, congratulations to Elaine, hmm I
- 38:07wasn't widget I missed that episode.
- 38:10So if not Elaine, who should have won Well, we had some
- 38:17debate. Yes, I think Hassan was the will
- 38:23say panel favorite as a group? I actually I actually think that
- 38:30sir Lucius pick a lane, but didn't think she was gonna win,
- 38:34like, meaning he wanted her to win.
- 38:35Would think she was gonna win ya.
- 38:38And I think I was kind of in a similar boat, I wanted Sid to
- 38:44win. Right.
- 38:46But I figured his arm was going to win.
- 38:50That kind of a deal. That's where we're at with that,
- 38:53right? Those arguments are defensible.
- 38:58What is indefensible now look, we'll start with this.
- 39:01There are people out, people are going to watch this episode say.
- 39:03Well muffins is the field of that guy and, you know, he's
- 39:07biased and yet. Okay, let's say that, that's
- 39:11true. Let's take all the Penguins out
- 39:13of it. And let's just look at facts.
- 39:16The very, very best season. You can possibly have in.
- 39:21Any discipline is one win every competition.
- 39:25You're in. Check.
- 39:28Two. Do something unprecedented.
- 39:33Check three if your event is contested indoors and out, break
- 39:40the indoor world record. And the Outdoor World Record.
- 39:44Check. Check.
- 39:47There's nothing else on the list.
- 39:50So by not awarding. The award for this season as the
- 39:59athlete of the year, to Ryan krauser, what you are simply
- 40:04saying is he love enters. Need not apply because you
- 40:09cannot win the award. Because the man literally had a
- 40:17perfect season, he did not lose, he won the diamond League.
- 40:21He won every Diamond League competition.
- 40:23He was in he wrote were murdered in doors for the world record
- 40:28and the Olympic record Outdoors. And when the Olympic gold medal,
- 40:34did he not sell enough popcorn? Like it's indefensible.
- 40:44Carson War, home had the performance of the Year, decade.
- 40:49Maybe of the sport. Sure.
- 40:52Maybe maybe, if you're in that group that cars or homes, 45:9
- 40:57is the greatest things ever happened in track awesome.
- 41:01The reward is for the athlete of the year for the season.
- 41:09And if you win every competition, you're in and
- 41:11you're the best at the discipline ever indoors and out.
- 41:16If you don't win they're telling you you can't win.
- 41:20The award is unwinnable. At this point, if you're a field
- 41:23of enter and I just think that's ridiculous.
- 41:27I just think like it's indefensible and if I was Ryan
- 41:30krauser, I know he's not, I will be inconsolable because at the
- 41:34end of the day how can you win everything and yet still loose?
- 41:42Governor. If you, if you don't mind, I'd
- 41:45like you to be the ending voice of reason.
- 41:48For whichever side you fall on because Lamar gave such a
- 41:54beautiful argument there, I actually have to rebut him on
- 41:59principle. He said the war home over
- 42:04krauser is indefensible. Well, allow me to defend it.
- 42:11All of your finger checks that you threw out. 100% are true.
- 42:18And 100% apply to Karsten War home as well.
- 42:23Note with one exception, The indoor issue because his event
- 42:30doesn't exist, indoors all the rest of the checks. or home and
- 42:37krauser are identical, so maybe the decision-makers looked at
- 42:44that and said, well, You can't punish War home for something.
- 42:51He doesn't have an opportunity to accomplish.
- 42:54So how do we split this hair? We can split this hair by peak
- 42:59of performance and let me be clear if not for Karsten were
- 43:05home. I might argue that Ryan
- 43:07Krauser's top performances are the best we've ever seen in the
- 43:11sport, but Carson more home exists.
- 43:16And that performance was the greatest spectacle we have ever
- 43:20seen. And as I said earlier, when we
- 43:25were discussing the possibilities of who could win
- 43:27this award for me, the separator between the two is very simple.
- 43:33Who did you beat? Carsten War home had a higher
- 43:38degree of difficulty because his competition was also unlike
- 43:44anything we've ever seen in the sport.
- 43:47An apology right there. Yeah.
- 43:50You asked, who did you beat? Ryan krauser be to drug, busted
- 43:56shot Putters, one indoors and one Outdoors.
- 43:59Cool. That's who he mean?
- 44:01I get it. I'm not here to take anything
- 44:03away from Ryan cross, right? Krauser is phenomenal.
- 44:07Ryan, you are a QR right to say and feel.
- 44:12This is a shot at field event athletes.
- 44:15You may not even apply. I feel that I'm not even mad at
- 44:19that. It's a great arguing.
- 44:22It's to me. It almost feels like one of
- 44:27these Oscar years, where your favorite actor puts on a
- 44:32beautiful performance may be an all-time performance.
- 44:35But damn you ran up against somebody else that was just as
- 44:39good and had just the same moment.
- 44:43Ryan krauser did everything, perfect.
- 44:46And so did Karsten War home or home, did it against better
- 44:49competition? And I think that's why he won on
- 44:54the women. I agree with child.
- 44:56I personally thought for the same principles that her son
- 45:00should have been it. Yeah.
- 45:01Because What she did, has never been seen before those three
- 45:07events. Specifically at the Olympics.
- 45:10I mean, you know, props to Elaine, you know, you look at
- 45:14the paper, you look at the career, Elaine's the boat, like
- 45:16can't even deny it at this point, but with a sign did was
- 45:20more impressive and harder for me.
- 45:23So I would have rolled with sign.
- 45:25They got the newcomers of the year, right?
- 45:27I don't even see how that was a debate if it ever was for
- 45:30anybody. So I turn it over to the
- 45:32governor. I'm not mad at the war home
- 45:34issue. I, I can defend it.
- 45:37So I went through a couple of emotions.
- 45:44Once I saw the result and what is obvious, okay?
- 45:50In the thing, that has to be considered, in all of this, is
- 45:54that the fans had to say, the fans had a vote.
- 46:00Okay. What war home did is akin to
- 46:06what bolt did in Berlin, okay? And it will never be forgotten.
- 46:12I don't know if it will ever be recreated.
- 46:17I'm sure mr. Benjamin has something up his
- 46:20sleeve. I cannot wait to see what
- 46:23happens. Injuries.
- 46:24Notwithstanding, So, I came to an understanding that, okay?
- 46:34for the moment, for the event, for the magnitude of everything
- 46:39that we witnessed in, in Tokyo, I mean, we will remember where
- 46:47we were, but, For me and I'm sure for Lamar.
- 46:54Okay, we both even even you Clyde we come from a situation a
- 47:01period of time where We're used to people being rewarded for the
- 47:07entirety of your season. When you think about when, when
- 47:14when mr. Krauser started in Arkansas, and
- 47:19unleash that bomb in Arkansas and what he has done throughout
- 47:23the entire year, there is no, I mean you we're going to be
- 47:29sitting back and trying to figure out how this man stayed
- 47:34there over and over and over this this you know, this reminds
- 47:39me of this reminds me of my Powell.
- 47:42How mad my power would be when Carl would run like for time
- 47:47Jump, like four times. And then the year number one,
- 47:50ranked in the world and he'd be like I'm jumping 30 times, I'm
- 47:56out there killing myself. And here comes Carl.
- 48:01I'll just jump when I'm ready but every time I jump I'm on the
- 48:05jumping 60-plus. Right?
- 48:08What war home did? It will never be forgotten and
- 48:13the fans I think rewarded him for that but you cannot
- 48:16discount. What mr.
- 48:18Krause did, I mean kudos to that man for excellence for the
- 48:23entire year, not just part of the year, not just you know let
- 48:28me get Get a warm-up meat. Let me go to the Olympics.
- 48:31Drop a bomb, let me call it a day.
- 48:34No, I'm talking from indoors. All the way out.
- 48:38I mean, insane. Insane.
- 48:41And and see my only question would be about the world deal
- 48:46is, you know, we talked about his great competition.
- 48:49That was a great competition on that day because he didn't like
- 48:52run those guys all year long. He didn't know that he had a lot
- 48:56of setup races where he was set up in a lane and you're set up
- 49:00and do things. Okay?
- 49:01So from that vein, he had that one race which goes back to
- 49:07free, Ryan krauser. Go back to This point of right
- 49:13was performance. So what that performance was
- 49:18phenomenal? Hmm.
- 49:20And nobody can ever take that away like you but you're right
- 49:24Governor. We will always remember where we
- 49:25were when that happened. I don't know how we discount,
- 49:28what Ryan krauser started doing in this February only January,
- 49:32whenever it was and continued throughout the year, against all
- 49:35comers, and some so, so let me let me Add a cherry to Ryan
- 49:42Krauser's, the difficulty of Ryan krauser season, we've beat
- 49:46to death the diamond League format, right?
- 49:50So, Ryan krauser was winning through five rounds in every
- 49:54single one of those meats, Still had to win the last round and
- 49:58not foul in every single one of those to win all of those
- 50:02competitions, right? You don't do that racist.
- 50:07That's true. Just go just go in, but very
- 50:09good to win twice. It's basically right across the
- 50:11head to win, twice on every one of those.
- 50:14And I just think there's some validity to the fact that Ryan's
- 50:18stuck over in the corner someplace.
- 50:21Sure, doing these things and the crowd doesn't seem to that, goes
- 50:23back to the governor's point about the the fan, you know,
- 50:26they don't see, you know, and how many, how many fans are
- 50:30really looking at it. Understanding the shoplet.
- 50:34Yeah. And now let me, let me say to
- 50:36that point and this is a direct shot at the alphabet crew.
- 50:41I don't know how much influence the fan vote has.
- 50:45But I don't care if we're talking about world Athletics,
- 50:48athlete of the Year, alphabet Cruz Bowerman award, NBA
- 50:54All-Star games, whatever the fans should have no power in any
- 51:00of this. If you want to do a Twitter
- 51:02poll, hey kit, that's cute. Give him a Twitter award but I'm
- 51:08sorry. We all know that.
- 51:10There's an amazing job with the alphabet.
- 51:18Yes. Speed of the year.
- 51:47If a guy turns pro at the end to a season, why is he still on the
- 51:49list? We had a young man that was top
- 51:5410 all-time top, no top three all time indoors in an event and
- 51:59top for outdoors on the event and he was never in the top 10.
- 52:03But there was a guy in the top 10 that didn't even compete
- 52:06Outdoors. We've had people win this award
- 52:10and it's again it's the same thing.
- 52:11They sit in this room and they decide who they think are the
- 52:15best. Right.
- 52:18It's got really with a ticket into all in all these rooms is
- 52:23that listen as I owe you should give for the fan vote right
- 52:26there. Well, you should get deference.
- 52:30If I could sit down in a, you know, and have and have a beer
- 52:34with Seb Coe, man. Man, it'd be one of the more
- 52:39memorable conversations he ever listen to because he wouldn't
- 52:41get a word in edgewise. Does he see it?
- 52:45Is it. My thing is, this is like,
- 52:47there's just got to be a better process and if you're going to
- 52:51Put people in these positions, at least, you know, I'm gonna go
- 52:54back on the alphabet group like they got to do better.
- 52:59They got to do better just at the process is just one thing.
- 53:03Both of the real sweet, have 14 minutes and a performer of the
- 53:06year. I think both levels should have
- 53:08a performance and a performer of the year.
- 53:11Yeah, I want to ask you not to drag this out because we're
- 53:17home. We'll when all his Diamond
- 53:18League races as well. All the 400 hurdlers - ride
- 53:22Benjamin were in all those races.
- 53:23So it's not like he wasn't, but here's the thing, do we?
- 53:27We would we have preferred to see them.
- 53:32Beep. You know be soft about it and do
- 53:36a split a split winner. We are North African medically.
- 53:40Normally I would say absolutely not but in this particular case
- 53:44this is like one of the few times we're at.
- 53:47I actually made some sense. I'm with that.
- 53:51I wouldn't have been. I think I think I'm usually I
- 53:54hate that. I consider it a chickenshit
- 53:56thing to do most times but in this in this one I think that
- 54:00would have been the right thing to do.
- 54:02Yeah. And if we're going to look if
- 54:07we're if we're any money, this says, if they caught it at, I
- 54:11free. Ryan krauser would still be free
- 54:13writing project. Like I got money that says that,
- 54:17I mean you're probably right, really?
- 54:20alone that I'll just say this like look if if we're really
- 54:23going to fix it, if we're really going to fix it, You can't
- 54:28compare apples to kumquats in the first place and there needs
- 54:32to be a field event athlete of the year and, and attract of
- 54:37antacid of the year ago. Like, you know what I'm saying?
- 54:42Because because then, you don't end up with this impossible
- 54:44nonsense, right? Like, I can't even empirically,
- 54:47say that Ryan krauser season was better than, than War homes.
- 54:54Other than, for the reasons. I just said it, right?
- 54:57But at the end of the day, like if neither one of them lost,
- 55:02Right. and you're comparing a 402, a shot putter, like But it
- 55:09ain't that ain't that way? And you know, I said this
- 55:14several weeks ago, right? There's always going to be a
- 55:17European bias is always going to be a track bias and we're home
- 55:21was going to win and I was gonna be mad.
- 55:22I said that I said that this is the thing.
- 55:26I just know what that Randy Barnes record means.
- 55:30Yeah, that that's that's like I know that means I grew up in
- 55:36that era so I know You break Randy Barnes wreck these the the
- 55:43Young Generation has no idea like what that means.
- 55:49Like, I don't know, I've been into sports, I see, because what
- 55:54Randy did is akin to what warm yesterday, right?
- 56:00Good that we never see anybody break it.
- 56:03Yeah. Crazy, crazy, crazy crazy.
- 56:12Let's get even crazier because if you thought we were done, but
- 56:15wait there's more. So we got a lot of letters to
- 56:19spew out on this one. Usatf is now under investigation
- 56:23from the FBI in regards to the relationship of their finances
- 56:29and Nike. I'm going to leave that.
- 56:32Lost it in the air for one of you to take a swing at Yeah, I'm
- 56:37going to be short and sweet. If if I could give a sound
- 56:42effect to reading. Today's article, it will be
- 56:46Desi, Arnaz, yelling at Lucille Ball.
- 56:48Lucy, you have some splaining to do because I read that article
- 56:55and I was like, listen, I've met Max seigle once.
- 56:59He didn't seem like a shady cat. It's usatf.
- 57:03I think they're in depth about a lot of things but I wouldn't
- 57:05necessarily say that I thought they were like crazy underhanded
- 57:09and then I read the article and I was like listen, you ain't
- 57:13ever gonna piss on my head and tell me it's raining.
- 57:16There's too many facts laid out. For you to ignore.
- 57:25This ain't a conspiracy theory and I'm going to say this one
- 57:28more caveat and pass it on the all every one of y'all know, if
- 57:32the FBA does, an FBI doesn't investigation.
- 57:34They already have the answer. They're just trying to collect
- 57:36the proof. FBI doesn't they don't do
- 57:41fishing explicit Expeditions. They know the answer.
- 57:45They're just trying to unearth all the proof so that y'all
- 57:48know. Yeah.
- 57:56I read the article, you know, I I like to read things.
- 58:03And I honestly when I opened it because of the publication that
- 58:08put it out, I didn't expect too much in it.
- 58:13Always a lot in there, it's a lot in there and so I when I
- 58:20started to read it I was like okay you know whatever by the
- 58:23end of it, and I'm like well shit that's not good. and you
- 58:30know, because, you know, the current FBI and the current
- 58:35justice department are Currently being run by professionals.
- 58:40Again, I imagine that uh this angle into well for some folks
- 58:47and I'm just going to sit back and You know enjoy reading the
- 58:53facts because man that it done it don't look good.
- 58:58It doesn't sound good. It definitely doesn't really
- 59:00good for the for the pillars. Did you learn something today?
- 59:04I learned a few things. Yeah, I learned.
- 59:07I learned those things today. It, hey, and it's weird at least
- 59:13for me it's weird when you read things in this kind of context
- 59:18about people that you clearly, you're not friends with but
- 59:22that, you know, in real life. Yeah.
- 59:24That, you know, until you've had legitimate conversations with,
- 59:28you know what I mean? I'm like, man, that's, that's
- 59:33not good. So, you know, if you haven't
- 59:36read it, it's definitely worth the time to read most definitely
- 59:40is worth the time to read. I just want to throw this in
- 59:43there, right? Like whether y'all what
- 59:46everybody will go read it or not like some of its going to be
- 59:49just highlights, just just know this part.
- 59:55There was a deal done between a Offutt and a company and the two
- 1:00:03people that proctored the deal used to work for the for the
- 1:00:09company. Now, not knowing anybody's name
- 1:00:14the anybody company or anything, doesn't that sound wrong?
- 1:00:18Or at least, or at least questionable essentially, it
- 1:00:22just makes sure that the deal gets done.
- 1:00:26No, that's that's nice. You walking up, you know,
- 1:00:30sitting at the bargaining table across from two former
- 1:00:34employees. I mean, I'm just saying.
- 1:00:41So guys, are we going to get this deal done?
- 1:00:43Yeah, yes, yes. I mean look real quick, baseball
- 1:00:48analogy, Jacob, the groms agent was Brody bandwagon in Brody
- 1:00:54bandwagon and got hired as the Mets general manager.
- 1:00:58And then a month later they did Jacob to G extension.
- 1:01:05Okay. Got it.
- 1:01:06That was tough. So birdie we think you should
- 1:01:09hit well, I don't know. Brody what?
- 1:01:14Yeah. What you got?
- 1:01:16What you got sir. Lucius that.
- 1:01:18Nothing. He's like, my name is Paul.
- 1:01:27Yeah. All I'm saying is this is that
- 1:01:30the truth will come to light and when it does we'll let it shine
- 1:01:33brightly. That's all I gotta say, I'll add
- 1:01:36this because I because I failed to get something in on the last
- 1:01:40one that I wanted to add it, and I'll say this.
- 1:01:44I'm always. I'm always a little just like,
- 1:01:50come on man, really win. People in these type of crimes
- 1:01:58because it's not official yet. It's there's a crime, right?
- 1:02:00There's an investigation of what could be a crime, like the
- 1:02:04arrogance of these type of issues.
- 1:02:08Always, just astounds me. Like, if you weren't that
- 1:02:12arrogant, about the way you move, you probably wouldn't land
- 1:02:16in the situations that you land yourself scene.
- 1:02:19And it always blows my mind how people in these positions just
- 1:02:23obliviously just do whatever it is, they think they can do like
- 1:02:28it, it's wild to me it really is.
- 1:02:33You know what I thought was most damning the direct numerical
- 1:02:38comparison between track and field and swimming.
- 1:02:44Yes, the compensation packages, the compensation packages for
- 1:02:48the CEOs of the to for all intents and purposes, identical,
- 1:02:55and GBS. And that's that's what I mean.
- 1:02:59Like you got, if you're going to do some Kickbacks, you got to be
- 1:03:01smarter than that. Like, I mean, right?
- 1:03:06Like you need some Lincoln Riley, got to have, you got to
- 1:03:09hide some money. Look, we're gonna, we're gonna
- 1:03:12buy y'all. Had a million .5 / asking.
- 1:03:17Nobody will see that you'll be good.
- 1:03:19No, so so, so I don't think we have much more to add to.
- 1:03:25This is that fair? Yes.
- 1:03:29Yeah, I want, I want, I'm sorry for the revert, but I was trying
- 1:03:33to look. I was trying to pull this up
- 1:03:34because I instinctively felt like that might be a part of the
- 1:03:37ultimate decision-making on the athlete of the year.
- 1:03:41We all know that world Athletics likes to create things and then
- 1:03:47find interesting ways to justify what they created, right?
- 1:03:51So just understand this, the current world ranking structure
- 1:03:59that we are all operating on. Ryan Krauser's, world ranking,
- 1:04:05score is 1553 and carsten War homes is 1559.
- 1:04:14So by definition of their world ranking system, the right man,
- 1:04:19won the award. We all know I don't like the
- 1:04:23world, ranked who made it, the sis place, you know, I don't
- 1:04:29like the system, but yeah, based on their system, they gave you a
- 1:04:35long time. I am not sure why you chose to
- 1:04:38go back down that road because, because L, didn't notice is
- 1:04:41like, I didn't know, here's the thing, y'all didn't care, that's
- 1:04:48we didn't care. No, we did.
- 1:04:51Because that's based on that, they can say what they want is
- 1:04:54not change. Anybody's mind these screens,
- 1:04:56Ryan's better, better guy. Well, this you might care about
- 1:05:01Sir on that point. The ranking thing.
- 1:05:07Grant Highway should have been in the rent.
- 1:05:09Well, we knew that, yeah, but I'm just saying when you want to
- 1:05:13expose some but but why you are, that's what you are.
- 1:05:38Not even once upon a time, we wrote a whole level about the
- 1:05:41coaching Carousel with in track and field, well guess what?
- 1:05:45Now, another sport has to turn on the wheel and it's not a
- 1:05:49long-term. It's about kabillion turns,
- 1:05:52right? So if you haven't been privy to
- 1:05:56ESPN or any type of media Outlet, NCAA football has now
- 1:06:02joined the carousel. And their Carousel is moving,
- 1:06:07very fast. And I see it like this.
- 1:06:11And you can get just flung off at any moment.
- 1:06:14So let's try them in generated by money.
- 1:06:17I mean exactly the quarter. Asking for this, asking, for
- 1:06:51there to be a moratorium on, on coaching changes when your team
- 1:06:57still has a conference Championship or a national
- 1:07:01championship, still in, still in the mix is like, asking for
- 1:07:05common sense in a room full of crazy people.
- 1:07:08Hmm. It would make too much sense to
- 1:07:11do that. Hmm, which is one of the reasons
- 1:07:13is never going to happen. Like it would make too much
- 1:07:17sense because all these people can wait.
- 1:07:23Two weeks, three weeks. They could all.
- 1:07:25Wait that long. but, I digress. Let's get it.
- 1:07:30Let's get into this. So, I mean, I honestly don't
- 1:07:37have that much to say about this other than we all chose the
- 1:07:41wrong profession because let's be clear about this.
- 1:07:46And I do my line removing never lies and I mean this There is
- 1:07:53nothing from strength and conditioning to X's and O's that
- 1:08:00these people do that we couldn't do we just had a different
- 1:08:04passion and damn it. We have the cheap passion
- 1:08:07clearly cuz my goodness as far as the movement look.
- 1:08:15I have a big problem with anybody.
- 1:08:20Lincoln Riley is catching a lot of heat for his exit, right?
- 1:08:25My added. But he shouldn't let my and
- 1:08:27Brian Kelly is super. Here's my thing.
- 1:08:28My attitude is that he should if you have not ever been offered
- 1:08:3390 million dollars to do a thing, 110 million dollars to do
- 1:08:37a thing. Then your opinion don't really
- 1:08:39mean nothing to me because I'm going to tell you what, there's
- 1:08:42not a lot on this Earth. I wouldn't do for 90 to 110
- 1:08:45million dollars. So you know, We're I the part of
- 1:08:51it that I don't like is when it. I just wish the coaches with
- 1:08:57just step to the mic and be like, kiss my ass.
- 1:09:00I took the money because that's all it was.
- 1:09:03Let's be real about it. All the rest, all the rest of
- 1:09:06that is just PR like I'm mad at it, man.
- 1:09:11Do what you got to do? I assure you.
- 1:09:14Somebody calls me today and offers me 90 million dollars.
- 1:09:18I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go. It is what it is.
- 1:09:23So you know, I don't begrudge the coaches moving and this is
- 1:09:27why for all the pitfalls of it, I will never be upset at the
- 1:09:32transfer portal because this thing happens with coaches and
- 1:09:37if the coaches can snap their fingers and dip, then damn it.
- 1:09:41That players should be able to snap their fingers and dip tube.
- 1:09:43That's the only fair way to do it.
- 1:09:46I'm good with it. I'll have a problem hundred.
- 1:09:50No, I'm just going to say this that I do.
- 1:09:54There's always a back story at all this stuff and everybody
- 1:09:58wants to know why but Lincoln Riley want to leave.
- 1:10:00Why would, you know, Kelly want to leave while I was sewing.
- 1:10:03So want to leave know, who knows what was going on behind this
- 1:10:07things? But clearly obviously money is a
- 1:10:10big part of it, but I also got to believe they because people
- 1:10:14want to win, right? So Lincoln Riley, clearly thinks
- 1:10:17he's got a better chance of window cloth at USC does.
- 1:10:20No, chroma, and he might be right.
- 1:10:22Okay, sorry. Brian.
- 1:10:24Brian Kelly has a better chance of winning LL.
- 1:10:26Shoot me doesn't know her day, right?
- 1:10:28So at the end of the day, you know.
- 1:10:31Yeah LSU's. I'm gonna do that.
- 1:10:49And if someone called me and offered me a hundred, ten
- 1:10:52million dollars to go someplace where I thought I could do
- 1:10:55better, where I was, I'm out. Okay, so it's just that simple,
- 1:11:01so I don't get this old, they shouldn't do this.
- 1:11:04Okay. So then they'll do you say,
- 1:11:06folks are upset with these coaches when these players start
- 1:11:09jumping in the portal, as you know, next month or next week,
- 1:11:13in some cases, then be mad at them as well.
- 1:11:16It's a free country, free, do it.
- 1:11:19You want and I don't ever know how you get upset with somebody
- 1:11:22for creating generation or wealth for their family.
- 1:11:25So yeah. Is it my turn?
- 1:11:35Yes, absolutely, your turn. so, so like here's here's my take on
- 1:11:43this fan is short for fnatic part of being fanatic made.
- 1:11:48You don't think clearly, I get it.
- 1:11:50I get why the fans are mad, they're stupid.
- 1:11:53They're blinded about, they're blinded about their own personal
- 1:11:58wins on Saturday. Like my team needs to be good
- 1:12:02and I need to feel the victory of OU Notre Dame whatever
- 1:12:08because the reality is really simple, let's take the names and
- 1:12:12the money out of it. You make X.
- 1:12:18Someone comes to you and says, would you like to make 10 times
- 1:12:23x? And we will more than, but we'll
- 1:12:27call it 10 times x and we will buy your car for twice, what
- 1:12:32it's worth and will give you money to send your kids to
- 1:12:36college. Whatever your job was you're
- 1:12:40going to say yes. So at the end of the day like
- 1:12:44the OU fans are delusional. Because this isn't even about
- 1:12:48loyalty, first of all, like, nobody should have to be loyal
- 1:12:53to a system, that's not loyal to them college coaches.
- 1:12:56Get fired with winning records. In every sport certainly in
- 1:13:01football. Ask my man in Nebraska, that had
- 1:13:04a 10-year winning record, got fired.
- 1:13:07And they've watched the hot dumpster fire.
- 1:13:09Follow behind him. But Lincoln Riley.
- 1:13:15Listen, do you all the all remember when they offer Jon
- 1:13:18Gruden, 10 years, 100 million. And we were all like, oh my God.
- 1:13:23they offered him more, they offered him, 10 years, hundred
- 1:13:28million dollars, Plus some things that are listen. 24/7
- 1:13:35access to a private jet is unset incalculable.
- 1:13:38I don't know what that's worth. Six million dollar home, right,
- 1:13:44right. No no no, no bought you are home
- 1:13:46in Los Angeles. Mmm.
- 1:13:49Let alone the six million dollar home, you know, the Bel-Air spot
- 1:13:52but they bought you a home in Los Angeles where it's almost
- 1:13:54impossible to buy a home, right? The fact that they also bought
- 1:13:58your other two homes for a million dollars over asking,
- 1:14:01like this. What are we talking about
- 1:14:03nothing. The only guy in this mix who's
- 1:14:07changed jobs and look, when the Cincinnati guy gets offered a
- 1:14:10job that he probably deserves, right?
- 1:14:14When, if he gets offered, you know, one of the job, the big
- 1:14:16job that's open if he does good for him.
- 1:14:20That's the whole reason you go to Cincinnati, go win.
- 1:14:22That's what Brian Kelly. Did go win.
- 1:14:24At Cincinnati and somebody bigger will pay you.
- 1:14:26Like I get It Brian Kelly Brian Kelly exit is understandable but
- 1:14:33deplorable in the timing of it. Him leaving Notre Dame to go to
- 1:14:39LSU makes sense everywhere. I don't know where anybody on
- 1:14:44this planet things. Today LSU football brand is not
- 1:14:48a better current football brand, then Notre Dame and and most
- 1:14:52most importantly, it's to the constituency if you ask the kids
- 1:14:55who were being recruited. Sight.
- 1:14:58Unseen doesn't matter who the coaches.
- 1:15:00Would you rather go play at LSU or rather?
- 1:15:01Go play at Notre Dame? They're almost all going to say
- 1:15:03LSU. So I get why he left.
- 1:15:06But the system is broken to, where at least the NFL gets
- 1:15:11this, right? If your team still playing for
- 1:15:13something meaningful meaningful, you can't interview for jobs.
- 1:15:18Brian Kelly is going to be LSU's guy no matter what they
- 1:15:22obviously love him. But it's wrong for Brian Kelly.
- 1:15:28Be put in the position where he has to choose between the
- 1:15:31general or generational wealth of the LSU job or finishing the
- 1:15:35mission. He started with his hundred and
- 1:15:37ten football kids this year because let's be clear.
- 1:15:43All of us would have probably taken the bag at LSU.
- 1:15:47But he's put in a horrible situation because the system
- 1:15:51allows for this to happen in this time progression.
- 1:15:57See, I would I would argue that the system causes the problem
- 1:16:01because what, what, what's about to start recruiting?
- 1:16:05Yes. And you can't recruit if you
- 1:16:06don't have a head, coach told the system is the problem.
- 1:16:10And that's the reason that's the reason it happened right now.
- 1:16:14Yeah, exactly. That's the reason I think.
- 1:16:15Riley think, Riley was in LA on Fox are and shooting promo
- 1:16:22videos, fight on within 24, hours of the announcement
- 1:16:25because he got to go. The football games in SoCal.
- 1:16:28Now that's, that's exactly why what?
- 1:16:32I thought was awesome was, which was Clyde level Petty was
- 1:16:35winking. Riley got on the plane wearing
- 1:16:37OU gear and got SC gear and I thought that was hilarious.
- 1:16:43And they probably had the fact that he still had on OU J's on
- 1:16:47his feet was even funnier. Hmm.
- 1:16:50And we all know, they probably had given the, the tenants of
- 1:16:53deal. They probably had to come into
- 1:16:55America flower girls on the A plane waiting on him to change
- 1:16:58it, you know, know this this the profession of
- 1:17:17head coach in the NCAA is the most sweetheart deal.
- 1:17:25I don't think, I mean, we is there anything like this?
- 1:17:29Because, let's let's, let's call it.
- 1:17:32What it is, our okay? So let's so our head.
- 1:17:34Coaches allowed to have agents. Absolutely yes.
- 1:17:41So if you have an agent working for you and your agent calls you
- 1:17:46up after you just lost the Big 12 championship game and says,
- 1:17:50hey I need to talk to you like right now And proceeds to tell
- 1:17:56you this deal that's on the table.
- 1:17:59But you have to take this deal. Now, where do I sign?
- 1:18:07I mean, phone call goes like this.
- 1:18:09Governor. Are you good?
- 1:18:12Yes. Yes.
- 1:18:13I'm good. We we are going to Los Angeles
- 1:18:16for so to sign this deal. So that's how the cabooses she
- 1:18:21goes. I remember where this all
- 1:18:23started. Started this started right after
- 1:18:27UTSA was 8, or 9 and 0, and Texas Tech fires their head
- 1:18:34coach. And for a week.
- 1:18:38We are going through moving to the American being nationally
- 1:18:44ranked for the first time in our history.
- 1:18:47And oh, by the way, Texas Tech is calling.
- 1:18:51And it was like, it was like all at the same time like yes.
- 1:18:57All at the same time. Like everybody.
- 1:19:00Like you walked in the building and everyone was on pins and
- 1:19:04needles because it was this like how long is this going to last,
- 1:19:09right? And this is what it is, this is
- 1:19:12what it is. Money Talks period, right?
- 1:19:18But To get to this point and what?
- 1:19:22We've just experienced in the last 72 hours.
- 1:19:26I mean, you can't even enjoy or wallow in your self-pity, you
- 1:19:32just lost the champion, you just lost the game to go to the
- 1:19:36championship game, but hey, we need you to make a decision like
- 1:19:40right now, Like right now and we need you to get as much rest as
- 1:19:46you can take some some naps in between interviews but hey we
- 1:19:51gotta move and we're moving now so I just don't want people to
- 1:19:57forget. Brian Kelly gave Notre Dame 12
- 1:19:59years. Yeah.
- 1:20:01And they were against the winningest coach in history.
- 1:20:06Yes. Right.
- 1:20:07So like he don't really owe y'all nothing.
- 1:20:12So and back to the Allure of the LSU job, the Mad Hatter and
- 1:20:19Coach. Oh mmm.
- 1:20:21Both won national titles. That.
- 1:20:22Right? So here's the other side.
- 1:20:25Here's the other side because The question that we have with
- 1:20:31the, we can probably answer quite quickly.
- 1:20:35We'll both of those coaches. Make it to the end of that. 10
- 1:20:38year contract. I'm Kelly.
- 1:20:41Will you think I really will? Okay.
- 1:20:44Well, I mean, what, like, you just said he was at the question
- 1:20:49for you, right? Nobody's gonna come in and pay
- 1:20:51me a hundred and twenty million. Okay, so so what, if he doesn't
- 1:20:58meet the standards that they want?
- 1:21:00And that's, that's what I'm getting at.
- 1:21:02Yeah, I think Kelly. Yeah, the look at the look at
- 1:21:05the parameters of his deal. That's yeah.
- 1:21:08So so all I think, I think I think the the T towards crew
- 1:21:14will come for Brian Kelly way before they come from Nick
- 1:21:16O'Brien, grow so much wine. That's funny that you say that I
- 1:21:21completely disagree. Whether it happens or not, okay,
- 1:21:48and it's funny because it's we just popped up.
- 1:21:52Tom Herman can return to the stress of being a college
- 1:21:55football coach or have UT play. Pay him 6.5 million in 2022 and
- 1:22:02six point seven. Five million in 2023 to hang out
- 1:22:06in Chicago work as an analyst with the Bears.
- 1:22:10Spend weekends with his family. Yeah, Herman's going on.
- 1:22:15Direct deposit. The best.
- 1:22:18Lick the best. Lick in America.
- 1:22:22And if you don't understand that terminology go to Urban
- 1:22:25Dictionary, the best. Lick in America is get the
- 1:22:31college football, head coaching job, and the screw it up and
- 1:22:35screw it up. You can go kick it.
- 1:22:37Yeah. Oh, please Charlie Charlie.
- 1:22:41Charlie Weis was getting paid. Yep by Notre Dame and Kansas.
- 1:22:48That's right for, like, for like seven years.
- 1:22:51Yep, Phil Fulmer. I mean, Phil, Phil Fulmer is
- 1:22:57still at Tennessee. Okay?
- 1:23:02I mean, it's, I don't know. It's just Insanity, man, it's
- 1:23:07Insanity. I'd and The question that we
- 1:23:10have to wonder is where's the ceiling?
- 1:23:13Where we going with this. So, we've now cracked 10 million
- 1:23:17a year. Right, we're there to this.
- 1:23:22The NCAA convention is coming up in January.
- 1:23:25Ain't No Ceilings, brother, Ain't No Ceilings.
- 1:23:31So yeah. That's so crazy.
- 1:23:38So crazy. Well, we successfully made it
- 1:23:43through all of our topics without a completely
- 1:23:47dismantling, or screens or throwing something.
- 1:23:52So, with that said, I am going to invite sir Lucius into the
- 1:23:56line of fire for rapid fire. This evening, in my holiday
- 1:24:02spirit, I feel like this is a lighter subject for our last
- 1:24:06July, may, I ask you a question please.
- 1:24:09Oh yes. You behave yourself, please?
- 1:24:12Yes. This actually is a good one.
- 1:24:14Actually. A good one.
- 1:24:15So, well, it's safe. It's a rated G because because
- 1:24:20Clyde knows you like to come from my neck doesn't speak to
- 1:24:26the governor. You don't know this but like she
- 1:24:28gets very suspect some of her questions.
- 1:24:30Okay, look this is a good one. I think make it Rapids to make
- 1:24:35it real. There we go.
- 1:24:37What is the most old man is first thing that you do, Fall
- 1:24:42asleep when I stood on that year.
- 1:24:47I like it but in the 200-meter who's going to win granter?
- 1:24:53I really. Okay.
- 1:25:00Assuming that you were going to say that I'm going to make you
- 1:25:02pick Dennis Rodman or Chris Anderson AKA bird bin Rodman.
- 1:25:09Got it. Do you know what your
- 1:25:11astrological sign is? Scorpio.
- 1:25:15Okay. Got it.
- 1:25:18What? Which seat on the bus is yours?
- 1:25:22The second one on the right when we get 0.
- 1:25:27So I'm walking down on the bus driver side.
- 1:25:31Secondly, right off limits and I don't share No matter who's on
- 1:25:38the bus with, I feel like that was a job at wifey.
- 1:25:45Not at all. She has her own seat.
- 1:25:47Like I love it. What is your Favorite
- 1:25:53Thanksgiving food, remix. Oh wow.
- 1:25:56So yeah. I mean CI this year, it was the
- 1:26:03yams and the mac and cheese. Oh my God.
- 1:26:08Oh my God. Like I literally went back for
- 1:26:11seconds. There was no meat on my plate.
- 1:26:13Yeah, it was it was definitely going to leave it to the
- 1:26:25gentleman to muck it up. Who's the best team?
- 1:26:31Who's the best team in the country University of Georgia?
- 1:26:35All right. See that's so funny.
- 1:26:38I thought he was going to be super Petty and say Florida
- 1:26:40track and field for whatever reason.
- 1:26:43That's what I thought was coming, see I would help, I
- 1:26:46wasn't even mad at that. So you understand I don't have
- 1:26:50to be Petty because I have very Petty friends.
- 1:26:53I'm kidnapped be Petty because he's got those Rings it says it
- 1:26:57for itself, Focus. So guys go over there and ask
- 1:27:03questions. Boom, you go for a governor?
- 1:27:08Yes, sir. Okay.
- 1:27:13This this is more. This is more based on University
- 1:27:16of Florida. Your favorite color uniform that
- 1:27:23your team wears. You would do that with actually.
- 1:27:29It's the white one that this the one piece where it's the white
- 1:27:34up top of the bun, the bottom is got the big Gator here.
- 1:27:36Oh yes, that's my favorite whore.
- 1:27:38Either some moments in Florida history.
- 1:27:42We're in that in those white uniforms.
- 1:27:43I mean, it's exactly. Yeah, you know as as my man
- 1:27:47Curtis likes to say was Florida shows up white and then shortly,
- 1:27:53why? You know there, right?
- 1:27:54Yes, indeed. It's a, you were here for some
- 1:27:56of that weren't you? Oh yeah, absolutely.
- 1:27:59Yep. Break Free.
- 1:28:04Ryan krauser was a hoof. I'm trying to be kind and stay
- 1:28:14in the same realm as everybody else.
- 1:28:16Cuz you know the problem is I know too much about you.
- 1:28:22Let's let's do a a simple one. You can only coach one event for
- 1:28:30the remainder of your coaching career.
- 1:28:34Just one. I won't say which gender you can
- 1:28:37do both genders, and only coach one event.
- 1:28:42What is it? I don't like you.
- 1:28:49I know, I know. It's a toss-up between the
- 1:28:54hurdles and the 400. Here you go?
- 1:29:04Sure because why I don't have to be Petty because I have Petty
- 1:29:21friends, Harvey. Harvey props on.
- 1:29:26Yes. All right, I'm gonna go because
- 1:29:31with my first power 5 meet week happening bless our equipment,
- 1:29:37people. And every equipment person out
- 1:29:39there because we send you email after email after email and
- 1:29:43every email is different and sometimes you get the same email
- 1:29:46from five different people and I know you want to throw things at
- 1:29:48us. So all of the equipment people
- 1:29:51out there are guy Victor. Love you.
- 1:29:53All you all rock for dealing with all Twenty-something teams
- 1:29:59or whoever you have to manage. I was thinking about this one
- 1:30:09all day and I have decided on this one, my heartbeat props go
- 1:30:16to someone. I have no idea if you're
- 1:30:17watching the show but my heart be props.
- 1:30:19Go to the gentleman who is single-handedly responsible for
- 1:30:26bringing me out of retirement. And more importantly, Rekindling
- 1:30:32my love, my everyday, love for coaching and for the sport of
- 1:30:36track and field and that that that is one, mr.
- 1:30:40Linden Victor. Watch what soon.
- 1:30:45Come folks. Watch.
- 1:30:46What soon come. Nice nice.
- 1:30:51I'll go. Mine is a more General this week
- 1:30:55as we all know, I'm a political junkie.
- 1:30:59And if you haven't been paying attention after 50 years of
- 1:31:06struggle, the Supreme Court is now debating or listening to
- 1:31:13arguments debating the validity of ultimately what boils down to
- 1:31:18the Roe v-- Wade challenge that the Servitor of right?
- 1:31:21Has found a way to finagling it before this very specific
- 1:31:27version of the Supreme Court. It doesn't look good for how
- 1:31:33this thing will end for women in this country not because the
- 1:31:38people arguing Mississippi side of the case have the better
- 1:31:40argument. They absolutely don't.
- 1:31:42Their arguments are actually ridiculous, but a lot of people
- 1:31:46feel that this this Ruling is ultimately stacked in the favor
- 1:31:55and done on purpose. I'm really hoping that that's
- 1:31:57not the case. I'm really hoping that these
- 1:31:59people who spent a lifetime trying to, you know, in their
- 1:32:04careers, trying to become judges, find a moment to
- 1:32:07actually listen to the arguments and choose not to set us back 50
- 1:32:13years, not to set women's reproductive health and all the
- 1:32:19progress that women Have made in this country in every space
- 1:32:23because they have the right to choose and self determining
- 1:32:27their own bodies. I hope that they find some
- 1:32:31wisdom and do the right thing here.
- 1:32:34I don't actually think that's going to happen, but just
- 1:32:37because in this moment, I have to root for the better side of
- 1:32:40humanity. I'm hoping that these people
- 1:32:42find some integrity and do what's right here, but we'll
- 1:32:46see. Hey governor.
- 1:32:52Oh, so much to think about May my heart be props, go out to my
- 1:33:04kids and every now and then I have to stop and think about
- 1:33:11what my ten-year-old and eight-year-old have to navigate
- 1:33:15through. and it's not something that's necessarily like in your
- 1:33:23face, but I mean, it's it's it's real like I and it's not
- 1:33:35something that I can even sit down and explain to them.
- 1:33:37I'm just kind of watching how they're dealing with with this
- 1:33:44life that we live and thinking about how naive and how, you
- 1:33:52know, just when you talk about, just just waking up everyday
- 1:33:58with, you know, no particular plan and purpose or anything
- 1:34:03like that and going through your day as a kid that we
- 1:34:07experienced. and that is no longer the case, that's no
- 1:34:12longer the case and especially having to beautiful black girls,
- 1:34:20I have to really, you know, give them props because they are
- 1:34:26thriving and it's fun to watch. It's fun to see them, take on
- 1:34:32the challenges, in a classroom in sports, you know.
- 1:34:39And that's, you know, that's, that's heartwarming to me
- 1:34:43because it makes me feel like, whatever it is.
- 1:34:45It my parents passed on to me. I am now pass.
- 1:34:48Icing onto them and they're, they're taking that, that
- 1:34:53knowledge and they're, they're doing something with it.
- 1:34:59That's it, that's all I have to say, saying that's why you're
- 1:35:02the governor, you know, this whole thing with the carousel
- 1:35:11with college football, just got me a little pensive this
- 1:35:15weekend, and I started thinking about the the effect that has on
- 1:35:19these coaches families. And I don't think, you know, it
- 1:35:24was a bad situation and people get fired, it's always bad.
- 1:35:27And even when it's a good situation, Get babes of dollars,
- 1:35:30you know, wives are forced to leave behind friends the
- 1:35:34children unfortunately behind thin friends, and their allies
- 1:35:37are uprooted. So, my heart be props goes to
- 1:35:39those people but the wise who now have to piece things
- 1:35:43together and get the house packed up and move forward, the
- 1:35:46children who have had their lives uprooted and now they have
- 1:35:49to go someplace new and start new friends.
- 1:35:51So kudos to them all the best as you move on to your new lives.
- 1:35:55And Hope it goes well. Great words by everyone this
- 1:36:02week. So definitely for all of you
- 1:36:05traveling, listening on the bus - listening in the hotel.
- 1:36:09Best wishes safe travel run far or run fast.
- 1:36:13Throw far johar, jump high. I know that was a little off so
- 1:36:17have a great weekend will see you all soon.
- 1:36:20Good night, Evan thanking Riley. Let me hold Somethin Birds up.
- 1:36:29Would you like to come on?