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3 Guys Before The Game - Dan Wetzel Was Right (Episode 478) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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And away we go. Welcome in everybody, It's time again, Episode four
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dot com. All right, let's just jump right in. Our guest.
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Our guest coming up here. Dan Wetzel of Yahoo has unintentionally he has made
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people for the last several years think that I might be a little bit off.
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You might be I might be a little off because I listened to his
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podcast College Football Inquire while I walk my dog in the morning. And what
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happens is I'll be walking so it's kind of like the rail oftentimes on the
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rail trail, and I'll laugh out loud and people like I'm walking my dog
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and I'll just say ha ha ha. Like like multiple times people have kind
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of looked at me to give you that eye. What the hell is matter
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that? Do you acknowledge? I point your headphones. I just kind of
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I just kind of keep on going, sad, nutty guy, I already
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think you're off anyway. It's you. It's your fault, Wetzel. I
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just told you. I mean, you're the only the only transgression in the
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neighborhood. I apologize. Otherwise you are a picture of normalcy and behavior.
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Yeah, sure, absolutely so. Dan. I think the last time we
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had you on was when Death to the BCS came out, and it was
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fantastic. Peace. Looking into the bowl industry, which is obviously changed in
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large part, at least the format of it, I think there's probably still
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obviously a lot of side deals and links and things like that. And I
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mean I was looking at your bio here just to kind of put a little
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perspective. Man, man, young man, you've done well, young man,
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You've you've done pretty well for yourself there glory. Well, you're not
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that old, so like I was also doing that. So you're a U
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mass grad, so like when you John Caliperry was into the midst of getting
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the thing going right when you were an undergrad. Fair. Yeah, I
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was a cover of the team. Yeah, I'm in the video where Cheney
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tries to kill him. Oh you were there that day? Oh yeah,
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classic. I think that's why I became a sports writer. I'm like,
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this is fantastic. After these good games, the coaches try to strangle each
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other. I gotta do this. They see like, yeah, I'm there,
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I stand up, I stand up and getting the way i'm and I'm
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like, I make no effort to like break up the fight for let's let's
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go. I didn't know what an octagon was at the time or you know,
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but I would have helped construct one if we could have had it.
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Did it did it change the lead? Did it change the lead for your
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story? I'm pretty sure? Yeah, yeah, I think the game didn't
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really matter too much after that. Yeah, it was. It was funny
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because that was before Twitter. There was no like live internet broadcasts of press
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conferences like it's ninety like four maybe something like that, and so it was
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just sort of this, uh, this thing happened, and like nobody knew
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what happened except everyone was there. I mean there was video obviously, but
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that wasn't gonna get played until like the six o'clock news now like instantaneously it'd
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be everywhere it ended, And I remember everyone staring there and looking at each
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other like did that just happen? Did like did John Cheney just come in
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and say I'm gonna kill you? You know? And we're all we're like,
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we rewatched, what do you got? Like? Local there was like
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a couple of local news stations there like it wasn't and we're like, I
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cannot believe what I just saw. So it was Yeah, So I was
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there. Yeah, John calf he's a lot of WVU teams playoff in great
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games, great teams, Yeah, Stale catlet every Yeah. So he,
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I mean, he turned the entire thing because you know Curry Hicks Cage at
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that. I mean, it was the track, there were cinders, it
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was dusty, it was dirty, and he just like he revolutionized everything in
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that league. And as a result of that, everyone hated him as far
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as the coaches go, because he just came in and did everything different and
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all of a sudden, the team they thought they were going to get two
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wins against every year turned that whole thing around. And he could also probably
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make the point that you know, John was a futurist in the NIL business
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and and that that that's what it was, that's what it took. So
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anyway, let's jump in alleged with all due respect, allegedly. So,
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man, I was thinking to you on this a week ago Friday, and
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everything imploded, and you guys have followed this so closely through the years.
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But despite the fact of all the hey, this might happen, and this
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might happen, and this might happen, it actually did happen. We saw
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the absolute implosion of the PAC twelve When it actually happened. Did you have
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any surprise at all? Did you have that moment where you said, my
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goodness, this is actually happening, or had you come to terms with it?
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No? I mean, I think even though you know it could happen,
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when you watch one hundred and eight year old conference, basically you know,
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and I don't know if anyone seen the movie Oppenheimer, but I think
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it's sort of like they built the atomic bomb, and then they sort of
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like, wait, we built this thing, Wait you're gonna use it,
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and it's like, you know, there was still like that stunningness. So
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it's just like, what are we doing and why are we doing it?
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And like the PAC twelve is really going to go away? And it's been
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like this. It's been the slow steps where all of a sudden you sit
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there and go right Oregon and the big ten kind of makes sense and it's
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like, no, it doesn't, but it does, and that's where we're
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at. It was somewhat surprising. I think I broke the original story.
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The Big Ten was looking at these said Oregon and Washington and maybe even Callen
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Stanford, and it was like wow, I like what are we doing?
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And you really think about a lot of a Big Ten schools, like why
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do you even want these schools? You already are the richest conference, you
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know, why what do these schools really add? And at this point,
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it's almost like a land grab and like fear has overtaken everything where everyone's just
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grabbing stuff, whether it has a good consequence or not. You understand why
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the SEC says, hey, we want Oklahoma and Texas. They fit in
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our grouping. They're huge schools and huge programs. When the Big Ten now
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has four West Coast teams, you just go, Man, TV is running
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everything, and why is the conference? Why are these presidents going along with
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it? Well, you just hit it right there, TV running everything.
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You guys had a great quote from Scott Barnes, the Oregon State Athletic director
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and one of your recent articles, and I'll read that real quick. It
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says he has quoted Scott Barnes is saying he's furious said conference realignment just doesn't
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make sense anymore. What this enterprise was built on was regionality and rivalries.
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That's gone, that's leaving the PAC twelve. Some of the most special pieces
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about our model is the regionality of competition and rivalries. Those things are forgotten
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and we've certainly seen that here with Pitt going off the schedule, the hundred
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years of a tradition against Sarahcuse, all those have gone away. We've seen
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that. Dan. What's amazing to me, though, is we do all
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these shows. You talked all these people around the sport, and they echo
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what Barnes said, even admitted current administrators echo what Barnes said, but they
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can't help themselves from chasing those extra millions. Do we ever get back to
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the regionality part of this? Funlikely? This is TV so Fox in particular
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about Fox, ESPN, CBS, they're sitting there saying, Okay, how
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do we get as many games to have the highest ratings as possible? And
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this isn't different than even five and ten years ago. Everything is about getting
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big numbered games. There was like eight hundred FBF football games last year,
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only five through an audience of over ten million, and only twenty two telling
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those five and at seventeen others didn't did a an audience of over five And
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that's when TV is making money. They're really making money five you know,
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Bio State, Michigan, seventeen million people watch. That's that's that's what's driving
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this. All they care about is how many games can we get that are
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over five million, over ten million, or whatever number they want to come
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up with. But it's a very small amount. Right now, these networks
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are increasingly under huge pressure for sports to deliver. It's not just the status
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quo is good. Hey, we make a good money on sports. We
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need to make more because no one's watching Foxes prime time shows, right,
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Foxes cable, you know Fox News, all those qua cutting the cord.
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The profits there are dwindling. Everything's dwindling. So this is huge pressure on
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sports. Get bigger and bigger and bigger. If you're Fox, your ESPN,
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whatever, you're sitting there saying, I need as many huge matchups as
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I can get. I need Texas. I can't have Texas play in Iowa
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State because Texas Texas Iowa State or Texas West Virginia is going to get me
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one point eight millions. If I got Texas play at LSU, I'm gonna
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get six millions, and that's where I make my money. So everything is
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about getting as many brands in as possible. So what happened with the Pack
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twelve. Nobody wanted the PAC twelve. They wanted four schools in the PAC
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twelve. They really wanted three. But USC, Oregon, and Washington are
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a TV rot nobody else out there is. UCLA had to come along with
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the Big Ten. And what Fox, which runs the Big Ten, did
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was they went instead of having to pay for all twelve schools in the past
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twelve, they basically by destabilizing and having this all go down, they pluck
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the four they want and then they're putting them up against the Big ten things.
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So they don't care that there's an eighteen team league. They don't care
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that Iowa and Illinois might play, you know less often. They don't care
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if the softball team has to fly all over the country. They care about
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when we get USC and Ohio State, we're gonna get eleven million viewers,
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we get Oregon, even Oregon playing Penn State, we're gonna get five point
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five Like that's all they care about. How many brands can we get in
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and that's it. So when that's the driver, nothing else matters, and
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so they sit there and go ask sorry, Washington State Starry softball team,
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Sorry if you know. One of the things you have is like, let's
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say you're in you live in you know, suburbs of Chicago, and you're
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an Illinois alum and your neighbors an Indiana alament. Every year the two teams
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plays kind of fun. Well, you might play every three four years.
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Now, tough break. We don't care. So the people running the sport
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and it's TV don't care about the things that you I most I would imagine
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most of the listeners here care about. And I don't know how in the
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world you get in the end. In the end, money always wins out,
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and the money is on their side, not on our side. All
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right, fair, I mean I'm not one hundred percent against it, but
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you know what I'm saying. Okay, fair enough. So then that begs
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the very next question. Then, at what point do we move along with?
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All right, consolidation already happened in Washington State and Oregon State are left
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out. When do we get to further consolidation where you're looking across the table
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at Vanderbilt and saying, why are you getting eighty five million if it's all
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about big matchups? When does someone get booted from an existing league? I
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don't know, but it would be extremely naive to think it doesn't happen.
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And I've been saying this for a long time. Consider the Big Ten.
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They added New Rutgers and Maryland because why not? Because they had great athletics
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departments. So the Maryland was pretty good in basketball and some stuff. But
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they did it because they would back whatever many years ago was ten years ago.
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They could jam the Big ten network onto basic cable subscriptions and get a
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dollar twenty five from every house or whatever the number is from every house in
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New Jersey and Maryland. And that was going to make so much money that
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it was worth adding these two programs. Well. As basic cable becomes less
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and less of a thing, and you know, the people get rid of
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it every year, and we all know chord cutting and all that stuff.
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You wonder when they're sitting around, going what do you do here? Like,
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what's your job? We had? Your job was to get us money.
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Now you're getting us less money. People aren't buying they tend network anymore.
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What do you do you're we can beat you. That's like one thing.
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But nobody really wants to watch Marilander Rutgers and the numbers that we need.
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And so you wonder at what point do they say, look, we're
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throwing you out. We brought you in your useful for a while, we're
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throwing you out now. There is enormous number of contracts and research, especially
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in the Big Ten, like you know, research projects that you know,
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inter connect all the schools and and and different things. And they may still
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sit there and say, it's worth it for Michigan and Ohio State to be
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involved in New Jersey because we get X number of students from there. So
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there's there's more to it than that. But it's certainly be completely naive for
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any team in any conference to sit around and go, oh, we're good.
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Yeah, Ohio State's good. Ohio State and Michigan aren't going to break
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up, right, but everybody else, you know, Alabama is pretty good
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shape. Everybody else I don't know, And that's that will be the true
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armageddon if they ever get to that point. But man, we're it's stages
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of armageddon, and it's your Oregon State or Washington State right now, you
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know it hit or callen Stanford it hits totally agree? Did I say,
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with all due respect before I said Vanderbilt Vanderbilt? There you go ahead,
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go ahead? So you know, Dan, I wonder though, if there's
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not gonna be an inflection point, because as you say, all television cares
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about is the attractions and the eyeballs. Okay, but that also has some
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limitations because you're ruling out a great number of schools, a great number of
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colleges universities. How long before members of Congress say, you know what,
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hang on a second, we're gonna call these executives before and we're gonna have
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a hearing and say, what's going on here? Because the school in my
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state or the school I went to now is getting shut out? Do you
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ever see that happening? Well, you know, this would be something that
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you would think could happen, certainly in Congress, loves, but would they
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ask? I don't know. It's anytime you're counting on Congress to do anything,
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you know, good luck, We like even you take Oregon, Oregan
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is making a move to the Big ten. They're literally leaving behind organ State
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and Oregon State, just like they just redid their stadium for a couple hundred
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million. They're going to have their television revenue go from like thirty million to
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four million. Like they're in enormous debt problems. They're going to have to
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have the Oregon State University is going to have to bail out their athletic department.
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Presumably, however this plays out, so that's real money. You might
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have to hit students up hard, or you may have to you're taking money
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from something else. And yet the politicians in Oregon are not saying, you,
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wait, hold on, Oregon, You've got to help out organ State.
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But that isn't sustainable. I don't see how that's sustainable. That all
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these schools get left behind and have these financial problems. And I don't see
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how that just goes like, well, okay, well it's TV said.
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So I don't know, but if a if a private business wants to make
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make a move, that Congress really stop it. Now. I know that
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public schools a lot of them, I don't know. I think I think
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you're right, but I just I just don't know. You have a very
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good point, and I'm not one hundred percent sure that you're not correct.
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I just I just I just wonder if it would get to that point.
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Here is one thing I would say about conference play or this this idea that
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one day we'd only have forty teams playing college football and they'd all play each
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other, right, because that is TV ideal. It's the NFL Mahomes versus
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Burrow this week and it's next week. Josh Allen, could you know every
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team? You know, everybody, everybody watches all the games, but college
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football needs week or two teams for the power conferences, the power teams to
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beat up on. Nobody wants to play a neat grinder like the NFL because
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it's not set up that way. And part of the appeal is why,
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you know, why does why can the Ohio State distill their stadium every single
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week? Because every year, four hundred years, basically the one ten ten
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games, like it's a tradition of winning. We need to win. That's
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what builds us up. And eventually, if you're only playing each other like
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the NFL, someone's going, you know, two and two and fourteen,
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two and fifteen, and you go, gosh, we're a disaster. We
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fall apart and go okay, but here's what we do. We make sure
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we build you back up because you get the number one pick. Here's Jacksonville.
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You stink for two years. Well you've got Trevor Lawrence. Now you're
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in a playoff game in college football unless you're going to do a draft,
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which seems impossible, and I mean that'd just be horrific. Recruiting is part
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of the fun. The best players. The Trevor Lawrence just lines up to
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go to the eleven win team, right, he doesn't ever want to go
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to the one they don't sign with. Nobody signs with Banderfield. Trevor Lawrence
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doesn't sit there at a high school acrew and go I go to Clemson,
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or I'd go to Georgia Tech. Right, I'm gonna be e think I'll
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pick the last place team. Nobody does that, so you would end up
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stacking up in the wrong way where it's like you'd have you'd have schools they
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are winning two games forever and then they have no fans and it'd just be
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a bead. So there's more to it at play that can counteract just TV
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money. But I don't know. TV money is a powerful thing. The
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Big ten didn't need any more money. I don't even know they're making any
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more money off of Oregon in Washington. You're just grabbing them because maybe they'll
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make more money later. That's what's really a little terrifying. I'm not even
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show this works on the bottom line. And I have no idea why the
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middle of the big ten, see your Michigan State or Perdue, why do
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you grab two schools? You're adding four schools right from the past twelve At
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least three of them are better programs than you. That's three more teams,
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like you have to climb over just to get to the point where you then
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have to try to climb over Penn State or hif State Michigan, Like,
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why do you want these teams? I wouldn't want three new top teams.
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I'd want some teams that, hey, give me some hope. No,
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it's absolutely well said. So along that line, it always is the money.
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We've seen that. Now the next question the next generation of this,
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as we move toward the maturity, so to speak, or the continued evolution
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of nil, how far away do you think or do you think we ever
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get to some form of student athletes quotation marks being employees of the universities.
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Is that a decade decades or is that shorter than that away? In some
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form, I would think it's a ways because they're that's like a third rail
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they don't want to deal with. But the way things move so quickly,
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I'm not sure it's certainly possible. One thing they really need to do,
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and again I don't think it's probably likely, but we need to have a
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situation in college athletics who we're talking about football and then we're talking about everyone
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else, maybe men's and women's basketball, but football. You can make the
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case they should be employees. I may not agree with it, but you
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can make that case. But when you sit there and say, okay,
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Pittsburgh Steelers have a football team, but they don't also have twenty three other
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teams with a bunchique people who are an employee, right, it just doesn't
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make any sense. Just be like, well, we now have to make
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sure that our rifle team are employees, and you know, well that's not
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really the point of this, right or our crew team or our softball or
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whatever it is. So you wish you could do that. My guess is
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yeah, the push for employees will be will be a thing. I will
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say that in some ways I prefer they don't become employees. I prefer that
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they just we just let the open market with nil go, and you know,
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the market will hash itself out. I'm more of a free market person.
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I understand that not that many people are that anymore, but that's just
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my opinion. But I will say if they if I'm if I'm a an
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ad, it might be easier to have them be employees and part of a
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union. And I say that, and I know when you say the players
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will be in a union, people just like it's a visceral reaction, like
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oh, now, a union is only as powerful as its ability to strike
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cause a work stoppage. And without the ability to cause a work stoppage,
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it has almost no leverage at all in anything it does. And so a
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union can work when it's you know one, you know, a Chevy plant
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in Ohio in one town, and you get all the people to say,
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look, we want five bucks more an hour, we're gonna strike. And
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those people have a lot of commonality. They live with each other, they
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go to church each other, kids play baseball together, everyone's making the same
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amount. They're very similar. And then it's still hard to get somebody to
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strike. A college football union would never be able to pull off a strike.
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You're talking twelve thousand people all over the country, all sorts of different
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things, all sorts of different interests. Some kids will be like, good
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you guys, go on strike, I'll get to play now. I'm not
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following my teammates like you would never be able to get any solidarity. It
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would be the weakest union. How are you getting? How are you getting?
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You know, I don't know any how you getting. J. J.
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McCarthy at Michigan get going a strike right now? Because kids lived his
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whole life to be I'm gonna be the starting quarterback we go in the National.
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They didn't strike it, so I think that you the end would be
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extremely weak and it would actually make it very easy sort of schools to get
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this under control and be like this is what I'm dealing with. But the
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schools are one hundred percent hesitant on any of that. I just I don't
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think if they do go that route it'll be that bad. But I would,
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but I understand why school don't want to do it. Let's talk ACC
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for a minute, Dan, there's chaos in that league as well. Florida
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State making some extreme noise inside the house that they need more money, they
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need on equal revenue share, they're going to leave. What ultimately happens here
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short term and in long term within the ACC. You know, it seems
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like this grant of rights that runs through twenty thirty six is airtight because if
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Florida State could get out of the grant of rights, it would get out
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of the grant of rates, and we have not seen it get out of
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the grant rates. So it's sort of like, hey, we want to
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leave, We're gonna get out. They would just do it. So I
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think there is stability for the near term, and there really aren't any other
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television properties out there that are going to cause either the Big ten or the
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SEC to try to expand. The SEC is quite happy where they are.
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They just added Texas and Oklahoma. Their leaves makes sense geographically culturally, they
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win all the titles, They've got plenty of money. They're not really scared.
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Now if they could get a shot at North Carolina, Clemson or Florida
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State or Notre Dame, that might be different. North Carolina was all sudden
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free because the a SEC blew up and to get Notre Dame in North Carolina,
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the SEC probably go to eighteen, but until some of those schools are
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available or interested in. Notre Dame isn't until it absolutely has to. I
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don't see anything going on there, So I think the ACEC is pretty solid.
25:47
But at some point Florida State and something has to happen the ACEC to
25:52
make Florida State or Clemson or whatever, any of these schools say this is
25:56
where I want to be. This makes sense, and I don't know how
26:00
you get there, especially as year after year the money differential stacks up,
26:07
and obviously the ads are very concerned about the money. I'm less concerned.
26:12
I think you can win with less money. We've seen it over and over
26:18
certain cultures of a team and where your geography and like, you know,
26:23
Cincinnati has had a great run the last ten years, Indiana has not.
26:26
Indiana's got way more money than Cincinnati. But Cincinnati want while they had a
26:30
great coach and they you know, one year, Cincinnati had eight NFL draft
26:36
picks in one year. Right, How they do that wasn't because they had
26:40
a ton of money. It's because they identified you know, soft gardener for
26:44
Detroit to begin the best cornerback and in football, you know, so there's
26:47
other ways to win than just money. But the ads are are obsessed with
26:51
it, so they're they're I don't think there's a long answer that I don't
26:55
know if I answered it, but I think there's stability for now, but
26:57
long term, I gotta figure some way to make Florida state cons in North
27:02
Carolina most places want to stay. Great insight, man, We really appreciate
27:07
your time. I'm gonna let you let your slide. We want you to
27:10
know that you're in our triumvirate of those to follow. As you know,
27:15
Dan, conference affiliation stories are trying to like follow a snake, right.
27:21
You just can't get your hands on it. But you are one of the
27:23
three that we recommend we go. We go Wetzel family forty. If you
27:32
want to believe it, well, Ross Della Ross, Yeah, I guess
27:36
Ross would be Ross would be a player to be named later? Is that
27:37
what you would go with? He's writing, he's writing, Yeah, he's
27:41
right. Hold on, Can I can I get some clarification from Wetzel because
27:42
you make me nuts with this? Yeah? You you have ceased calling a
27:47
conference realignment and I don't know why you call it conference affiliation, I've started
27:51
calling a conference consolidation. Dan, what do you refer to this whole thing
27:53
as a disaster? Conference disaster? That's more to the power. No,
28:03
it's definitely not realignment. Yeah, I think it's heading towards consolidations question because
28:07
we keep losing. I mean, we had six let me give you one
28:11
hopeful thing. Okay, let me give you one hopeful thing. But obviously
28:14
had me off for death and the BCS whenever. That was a while ago.
28:17
But I've always thought, once they get this playoff going and people see
28:19
the value of that automatic bid and the money that can be generated by getting
28:26
in the playoff, competing every year for a playoff, having an exciting team,
28:30
late November games that have playoff implications, that some of that can counteract
28:37
the television money Clemson or take Florida State. Florida State has a chance this
28:44
year to win the ACC and in a year from now they'll be in the
28:47
playoffs. Every year. They could line up and say, you know what,
28:48
we've got a pretty good chance of winning winning this league, and we
28:52
can get to the playoffs, and we're playing late November games that matter.
28:56
We're gonna sell out and we might get a home game on our campus in
28:59
Tallahapi. This is fantastic. We can make a lot of money through boosters
29:03
and T shirts and parking and all this stuff. And he said, well,
29:07
you should go to the SEC and go Gosh, if I know the
29:10
SEC, we're never winning it. Maybe maybe Oregon is a better example or
29:15
Washington, Like, are you really gonna get in the top four the Big
29:18
ten because Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, and USC are kind of
29:23
you know, three out of three out of four of them are gonna be
29:26
good every year. So what are your if you had stayed in the Pac
29:30
twelve, especially at how with USC gone, you're gonna make the playoffs like
29:34
two out every four years, three out, you know, and you're always
29:37
going to be in it. So I do hope this playoff provides some stability,
29:41
like I would I would think for a West Virginia you can win the
29:45
Big twelve, or you can come in second and make a playoff if you
29:48
get all your ducks in the line. If somehow West Virginia got in the
29:52
SEC or the Big ten, it's a steep client totally, totally is really
30:00
happy where they're at like Gonzaga, they played basketball in the West Coast Conference,
30:04
and they're quite content because they can recruit lottery picks and they can make
30:08
the Final Four and they're a big deal. Had they ever jumped to the
30:12
Pack twelve, I don't know if it would work that well. Totally agree
30:15
with you. But here's the concern, and you're already starting to see it.
30:18
Greg Sanky wants fourteen to the twelve spots to go to. They're already
30:22
wanted to change the Formula Dame. We haven't even got to the playoffs yet
30:26
and there's already talking about changing the damn thing. Absolutely, but let's Greg
30:30
sank You came up with this plan with with Notre Dame and the Big twelve
30:34
in the Mountain West, and he put out they were willing to agree to
30:38
like a ten or twelve year deal, twelve teams, six automatic bids,
30:44
six conference champions. And everyone was mad at Greg sank you in the SEC
30:48
for taking Texas and Oklahoma, which every league would have done. And if
30:53
you didn't take Texas and Oklahoma, and you would literally should be fired as
30:56
a commissioner. And the AC see the Big Ten and the PAC twelve decide
31:02
to form the alliance and got all mad and they all rejected the playoff plan.
31:07
Now, obviously, so West Virginia loses out on that, but like
31:11
there would have been six six spots right now if they had just agreed to
31:17
that plan. The acc PAC twelve have ways to shoot themselves on the foot
31:19
that are just mine. I was screaming, take the deal. This is
31:23
the this is the stabilizer. And I already were down to five. But
31:27
I will say, if you're the big you're in the big twelve, like
31:30
West Virginia. Okay, there's five you to win the league. But if
31:34
you make coming second, you know, maybe you can. You can get
31:37
in there. You've got to have those five automated pins. You cannot let
31:42
If it's just twelve at large, then there's problem. This has to be
31:48
the deathline. If you don't have access to the championship, you're you're cooked.
31:55
You're cooked, and so as and as a sport. So if I'm
31:59
the Big twel the a sec anybody left? I am? That is the
32:01
number one priority right now. Who's is getting the big ten and the sect
32:07
to long term agree to five automatic bids outstanding? Hey man, really appreciate
32:13
it. Dan Wetzel College football in quir follow him on Yahoo Sports, as
32:17
he said he was, He's at front and center of breaking these stories.
32:21
We didn't even I mean I mentioned it a little bit earlier when you when
32:23
we first chatted that Kerchival over here in Thamil have been in an absolute death
32:30
blow struggle as to who's going to beat who on these certain stories that unfortunately
32:34
developed in West Virginia this offseason, and Hoppies held his own. Hoppy,
32:38
are you scoring a two two? Hoppy two two? At this point it's
32:42
two two right now, but yes, Dan, two two two, but
32:47
number one in our hearts. Appreciate it, Thank you very much. Take
32:52
take Peete down, Take Peete down. No, i'p you had some huge
32:57
stories you cann't leave Hoppy stories were like You're like, wait, this can't
33:01
be true him. I'd be like, there's no way there's the true story.
33:08
And then I'm like, wow is recording Like go look at his letter?
33:12
Oh my god, I don't I would hope. I don't want to.
33:15
I really don't want to put it out on True's my career. It's
33:22
not like it's not like okay, I don't know so and so is going
33:25
to be the next coach at the school, Like okay, it makes that
33:29
probably happen. Like I mean, some of the stories were like, oh
33:31
my goodness, I wasn't expecting that today that yeah, yeah, thanks Dan,
33:38
all right, my man, be good. Thank you so much again,
33:42
Dan Less appreciate it. You know what I tell you, He really
33:47
and bred you guys, you talk about this a lot. I mean,
33:50
he really just nailed it unequivocally. Like television is making these calls. Television
33:55
wants attractions, Television wants eyeballs. I mean that that's what this is all
34:00
about. Nobody cares. You know, do you think anybody with ESPN,
34:05
like you said, or Fox says, you know, the old oak and
34:08
bucket they're going to battle for that said. It's just I mean, the
34:10
people at Indiana and Purdue care that they care. That's where it's gotten out
34:15
of That's where it's gotten out of whack. Those few TV executives in the
34:19
room setting up the games that he talked about have overwhelmed the vast majority of
34:24
everybody else around it that says, no, we like the Floyd of Rosedale
34:29
with Iowa, Minnesota You may not be watching that in New York, but
34:31
they're watching that. That matters that Oregon State, that one hundred and fifty
34:36
three million dollars stadium renovation. Now, what are they doing. They're sitting
34:38
there holding those here's those pains. They don't care. They don't care.
34:43
And at some point, because they're under pressure too, at some point though,
34:46
the schools are going to have to take that back. Now, what
34:50
allows that to happen? What ad has the juice? What president has the
34:53
juice to take less money? You can't in this environment. That's what's so,
34:59
that's why they're obsessed with the dollars, and they have to chase the
35:00
dollars, and they have to take the dollars. But it really is hurting
35:05
the football side of it in particular from rivalries and the rest of the sports
35:08
in total. That's why I said, And I know that when you talk
35:13
about a government involvement, people start to start to get freaked out. But
35:16
I think, seriously, if you're Oregon State and and there was testimony before
35:22
a you know, a panel of Congress, a committee, and you have
35:28
television executives under oath, and you're asking a television executive do you realize the
35:30
decision you made is leaving Oregon State one hundred fifty million dollars in dead Are
35:35
you aware of that? Are you aware that that action, what that has
35:37
done to them? I mean, I think there's god, I don't see
35:40
how this is sustainable. Well, ill, due respect, I mean,
35:43
you live in that world every day. How's that world going? Is there
35:45
a lot of consensus building in that world? There are all the hearings that
35:49
are going on those those accomplishing a lot. Federal government got involved in the
35:52
pain for basketball recruits. How that work out that they got involved that do
35:59
anything. I'm just saying that I don't see how this continues this way.
36:02
I don't either. I don't know that you have the I don't know that
36:05
the Congress is the answer They've got to I'm kind of with Dan on that
36:07
they've got to show me they're the answer to something before I think they're the
36:08
answer at anything. I'll due respect to that. Dan said you made a
36:12
good point. I mean, he said you made a good point. And
36:15
but to his point as well, could you see Congress slapping ESPN or Fox
36:22
for doing or being involved? Like he said, they're private court they're private
36:25
companies. Well they but Congress can do anything at once. If you call
36:29
I mean they call up that auto executives they call up all the time and
36:34
get into test fire. I'm saying it gets their attention, would get their
36:36
attention. Why aren't the Oregon politicians standing on their head until Oregon doesn't Leaven
36:42
followed that. Everybody there just says, okay, okay, okay, okay,
36:46
we're good. I mean, remember when I mean, shouldn't it start
36:50
there? If politics was going to be the answer, shouldn't have started in
36:53
Oregon or Washington politics, or in California politics. To let usc in UCLA,
37:00
nobody's done anything there. It used to be a threat. You know
37:01
when Virginia Tech got into the ACC it was because politicians in Virginia said,
37:07
Hey, Virginia, UVA, you're taking tech that's gone away. Look at
37:12
Oklahoma and Oklahoma state like Oklahoma said see yeah, we're going to the SEC.
37:16
Nothing that was it. Well remember Mitch McConnell Joe mansion. But it
37:20
hits on the whole big twelveth thing. Absolutely. So Look, I don't
37:24
know, I was just speculating. It's just it's just I don't see how
37:28
this keeps going this way, leaving so many schools. As I've said,
37:31
the powerful, the less powerful, and the powerless, because the number of
37:36
the number of powerless schools is growing. Okay, this is easy for me
37:38
to say because it's not West Virginia related, And I would have a totally
37:42
different slant if this West Virginia was on the burner here front burner. But
37:45
if you're Washington State and Oregon State and you end up let's say you end
37:50
up in a Mountain West, a configuration of the Mountain lesson it combines,
37:53
which becomes an easier league to win for them. Correct, if you get
37:57
that college football playoff, those automatic birth coming through Oregon State could survive this
38:02
because they go into a league that they can now win and compete it more
38:07
evenly, get to a couple of playoffs out of that league, and now
38:10
they're right in the hunt. I think that's the way to survive. That
38:14
was his point at the end there, like, Hey, Clemson and Florida
38:16
or Florida State, like, just shush, when your league, you'll make
38:21
your money, You'll be totally fine, Okay, but you're not of the
38:23
access in And I'm with him, there. You've heard me say this before
38:27
the twelve team came about. I kept saying that from a West Virginia perspective,
38:30
is that's what you need. West Virginia is going to have trouble getting
38:34
to a four team playoff, But twelve and an automatic birth out of the
38:37
league, Okay, Now you've got a real chance or at least deeper into
38:40
the season being around it. Washington State and Oregon State. Theoretically, if
38:45
that happens and that league keeps an automatic berth, they might still be in
38:47
the mix. There. The word is access. All we want as fans
38:52
is access. If we have no access, if there's a dead end that
38:54
we're driving down, we're out. We don't want it. If there's a
38:58
glimmer of hope that I have that opportunity, that's what I want to be
39:04
in. And so if the if the TV networks want to take those top
39:07
matchups and put them together, fine, But the sport on a regional basis
39:12
can exist with some of those smaller conferences that are getting left out. If
39:15
they have access. For their winner, they get a ticket to the postseason
39:20
part they're in. Yes, and then it becomes NCAA tournament ESK and I
39:22
know everybody's screaming saying, well, what goes that? Do organ State's not
39:24
gonna win the national title? Okay, it happens every March every mon Diego
39:29
State. Were they in the final four this year? Yeah? Florida Atlantic,
39:32
were they in the final four this year? Yeah? Because every year
39:35
they start the season and they know they've got an opportunity. To me,
39:38
that to me, is the way out of this mess for the school that
39:43
still has to take the big money from the TV networks and has no choice.
39:45
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39:51
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and school starts on the sixteenth, that's Wednesday. They're gonna keep going
41:22
with their ten am practices as we said last week, so camp kind of
41:25
still keeps going. They scrimmaged under the lights Saturday night, how to move
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it. We're gonna go seven thirty. They're gonna go seven thirty weather probably
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right. They were were concerned and bad. It was a bad It was
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a bad store. Yeah it was. It was water coming in my house.
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Excuse me, Yeah it did, Yeah, through the retaining wall.
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It's just I don't know. You're sitting there and it's storming like crazy.
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All of a sudden, you woke up in waters coming through the window.
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You go, oh my gosh, well did you have the window shut?
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Oh? Sopt something. It's always the details. It's always the details in
42:02
life. Yeah. So now they're pretty much they got the tape from Saturday
42:08
night. Now we're gonna get it too. Okay, here's the here's the
42:13
two guys. Here, here's the two guys. Here. We're working with
42:15
you, guys. Let's at some point you gotta make a call. Had
42:17
a shocking, shocking, I tell you always shocking thing happened Friday. I
42:25
was here in town, standing in the parking lot. Vehicle goes by me.
42:31
The vehicle comes zipping by me. Pretty nice. Was a suburban expedition,
42:36
whatever it was. Guy looks through the window at me in the passengers
42:39
side, and I recognize him. He recognizes me anyways, Jowan Cider currently
42:46
current assistant coach at Penn State up there up there in state college. And
42:52
I thought, wait a minute, I thought, wait, na, no,
42:54
there's no no way, wouldn't there's now you got kerchiv Alls invest the
43:00
gative jeans all up. Now he's investigative reporter here from the day after day
43:05
Yeah, state assistant coaching town. Yeah, what's he doing? I saw
43:07
later in the day moving day daughter enrolling as a freshman here at the University
43:15
state Land Grant Institution. Oh right, she grew up a good chunk here,
43:19
so she's coming to school here. But it did blow me out.
43:22
It went like wait a second, heading towards a state, what are you
43:27
going? Do you want? What's going on here? So ran into a
43:35
former mountain near tim Age over the weekend as well. He's he was a
43:39
dude. He was a dude, and the over under on games he would
43:44
play in the course of a season. With the new targeting rule two here
43:50
to play two games in the year, because there'd be a there'd be a
43:52
game, then there'd be a six game suspection. He'd played games seven then
43:57
they just call it. The rest of the season, he did the so
43:59
called launch that has now outlawed hit your right and affect. I mean he
44:07
he administered Paine. You know how I knew and still to this day he
44:13
just like that's just the way he is. So I was sitting there with
44:15
Jed Drenning was there with me, and Jed said, uh, we said,
44:20
you know, the targeting rule really went into effect because of a West
44:23
Virginia player, Carl Joseph, when he absolutely detonated on D. D.
44:29
Westbrook of Oklahoma on that sideline and you know, Jed, So Jedy takes
44:32
out, Yeah, it's right here. You ever seen it? You ever
44:35
seen it? Tim? So like age's watching this and he's looking at it.
44:39
He's watching. He goes like someone who just found like a really super
44:45
nice bottle of wine. He goes like, Oh, that's nice. That's
44:50
that's when you know, like that's when you know, you go like and
44:52
like he just kept watching, Oh that's really really nice. He really liked
44:58
it. And he was he was a guy. I know, Tony,
45:00
he was a walk on he I think he played quarterback maybe and Marrow walk
45:05
hunter to this program and came in they needed a d back. Here's a
45:08
guy who goes into the NFL. He he had a big You know,
45:13
I have these fragments of memories brand they're not at all real linked together real
45:16
well. I think West Virginia might have been trailing Maryland fourteen nothing and he
45:22
had a big interception. Tony. He said he was just he just predated
45:27
me. He just predated me. But he knocked a guy out from knocked
45:30
her tight down at two hundred and sixty pound tight end. They happened.
45:34
He happened to have that on his camera too. On his phone. He
45:37
was like, yeah, did you see this one? And was like number
45:39
forty four, number forty four. Maybe see Brad. They're just a little
45:45
bits and pieces, bits and pieces. I gotta check that that could be.
45:47
Chris Pekan was also there, and it takes Chris about four minutes into
45:52
any conversation for him to let you know that he scored three touchdowns in one
45:57
game against Louisville. Did he really? Yeah? He did, and he'll
46:00
in the case. It just you just need to stay around, just need
46:02
to stay around. Andra was over there too. Oh my god. Andre
46:07
says he can run a four seven forty today today, I might take today.
46:13
He said. Four said are you still are you still running track?
46:15
He said yeah, he said, I ran six one fifties this morning.
46:19
So he still still actively. He still thinks in his head that he's one
46:22
day like someone's gonna call him. Dolphins are gonna call hey, let's hey
46:25
Andre, either that or like us the US Olympic track team. Hey,
46:29
look, we're looking for a guy. Yeah, you're looking for that somebody
46:31
that third leg. I wonder why he isn't buy him for seven. I'll
46:36
tell for seven, I'll take it. You take four to seven, I'll
46:37
take him a Tony always doubts Undrew. Andrew comes from more than Tony gives
46:42
him credit for. There may have been some fumbled conversations as well during the
46:45
course and just saying just saying, you guys, ready to do a little
46:52
something, Ready to do a little something stuff because we're tracking towards another four
46:57
hour podcast here. I thought Wetzel was great. I don't know, I
47:00
got to attack what's it was great? But we said we said we weren't
47:04
gonna go as long. No, you said we shouldn't go as long,
47:07
and I said, yeah, you're probably right. Now we're going as long.
47:12
Yeah, and as soon as I can find Tony he's over here,
47:15
taking four hours to find the music I know I had for the show and
47:19
everything do it. I don't think I don't keep turning the wrong pot down.
47:50
I don't think Dan Wetzels. I don't think Dan Wetzel's podcast has a
47:52
song. And they don't have a beer either. No, I'm selling him
47:57
a four coffee. I'm selling No, I don't do coffee. I'm sending
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him a four pack of Kircheville. I'm glad that would be good. I'm
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gonna send it to him. Can you send that across state lines? Yeah?
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I don't know. They a lot of other stuff, like you're playing
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went across. Yeah, sometimes when they get older, like you kind of
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go down. Two hours and twenty minutes before the Mountaineers start their football games,
50:15
they come to the stadium. It's called the Mountaineer Man Trip. It's
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a nod to the state's proud coal industry and it's heritage. It starts off
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with the team drop off. You can walk into the stadium with the Mountaineers.
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As part of the Man Trip. You'll also win tickets to the game
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and opportunity to be on the field when the team comes out of the tunnel.
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All you have to do to sign up to become a contestant is go
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to gomart gomart dot com. That's gomart dot com. Sign up right there
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and make sure you get a rewards card so you can save money and things
50:43
like that. There was a while a bit ago Hoppy thought he was confused,
50:50
which isn't anything new about this program, whether or not the program aired
50:54
live or not. And we we delicately and suddenly told him to know,
51:00
Actually, this is a show that goes to tape and then immediately it has
51:02
put out his podcast. The point of being live is we do have two
51:07
live studio guests with us here during our taping today. It's Matthew Jones and
51:15
Savannah Jones, father daughter. She's a sophomore journalism student here at the college
51:21
uptown. And it works just like you did, right, Yeah, it
51:25
just writes for the DA Investigative Reporter, kind of like not doing a piece
51:30
today, like three guys before the game. It's a it's a scam.
51:36
You should see what happens behind the scenes before they start recording. So her
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dad, Matthew, made a donation to a local charity. That's why they're
51:47
here. But he's a p one listener, Oh, what do we got?
51:52
So his wife Matthew. What's your wife's first name? Kathy? We
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love Kathy, I mean Matthew. And Savannah came and so did this little
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item. By the way, marker says, three guys, Oh lord,
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if so, these are rice Crispi's treats, peanut butter, chocolate, some
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form of nut as well. What else is in there? Butter Scotts,
52:19
that's what the that's what gives me twist. It's a good twist. Yeah,
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well, my gracious so, thank you so much. Yes, these
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are These are just absolutely terrific, Senator, you can imbibe. I'm going
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in shortly left, so to hurry up, start the text text Jackie,
52:35
our producer, jumping Jack Carlson. Now he's got to go back to school
52:37
soon. That'll be a sad day. This. I'm wearing a black arm
52:40
band when Jack goes back to school. We have tried, you folks.
52:45
You have no idea how much we've tried to talk him to go into the
52:46
transfer port. Will just come to school here, but he won't. Won't
52:50
do it. Won't do it. Facty, he gets a little bit weird
52:52
when you bring it up, gets really uncomfortable. I like it. It's
52:54
uncomfortable. Gets uncomfortable rarely, but I love making him uncomfortable, and he
53:00
gets uncomfortable when I say, why don't you come to school here? He
53:04
did not even entertain him that he wants to stay here. It just looks
53:07
he just wants to get away. It's probably it's fine, that's fine.
53:12
The other kid we had here, we worked like heck to chase him out
53:15
and took us. Took us five years to get rid of Taylor. Jack.
53:17
We want him to stay anyway, Hey, Jack, Fire up the
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graphic of fan following. So that's social media interactions on football social media accounts
53:30
of the new schools in the Big eighteen sixteen. And look at that as
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far as following goes by U number one eighteen point two if I'm reading that
53:43
correctly, and then West Virginia second most social media fin amazing seventeen point two
53:46
million. But I think it's that that speaks to the to the passion that
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folks have Arizona, no one cares, Houston, no one cares. You're
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down to the bottom. You're four million people. Pretty amazing when you think
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Abart, Thank you, Jack. Meanwhile, Texter Hey, gentlemen, you
54:05
can't outrun the flying WV. Recently, on a trip of a lifetime to
54:08
Wyoming, Montana, Utah, my wife and I sported off get We were
54:14
at Old Faithful in Yellowstone when a man from across the geyser sees us and
54:19
begins to sing take me home to the place where I belong. Of course
54:22
I was happy to finish the lyric for him. He was actually from Idaho,
54:25
obviously knows the brand, which I'd bet a pontoon boat. That doesn't
54:29
happen if I'm wearing a Rutger or a Vanderbilt shirt. All due respect,
54:31
he's right on that. Also. A while back, we're car shopping here
54:36
in town. We're in my blue and Gold. I hear a voice yell,
54:40
let's go. I finished with my best mountaineers. We began to talk.
54:44
He tells me he sold pop at the stadium. I quickly assessed the
54:49
size of his neck, being as big as my thighs, and I said,
54:51
you know, I don't think you did. He smiled and said he
54:53
played. I asked his name, and all he gave me was Harris.
55:00
Well, there were a couple of options to go, but as I stood
55:01
trying to figure it out. He smile again and I said, it's okay,
55:05
say it. Say the name. I said, kJ. Thank god,
55:08
I was right. We talked more. Great guy, I've got more,
55:12
but I'll spare the time. Thanks for the great kJ, Harris,
55:15
Thanks for the great shows. Look forward to seeing you guys at the UCF
55:17
game here in South Florida apparently the capital to pop selling mountaineers everywhere, Philip
55:23
and Tampa. He's still kJ, still running at East Carolina. Crushed him
55:29
three hundred and sixty plus. That was three thirty seven. They shut him
55:35
down. He was all mad. I remember Rich took him out. He's
55:37
on the side like, come on, he wanted four bills. Rich wouldn't
55:40
do it. Texter Charlie from mid Lothian. Since all we talk about his
55:45
conference realignment, here's breaking news. There you go, Dallas Cowboys into the
55:51
big twelve comfis. Thank you very much. Well, girl had some nice
55:53
throws on Saturday. Did he's like sixteen of twenty two a little bit better
55:58
than that? Was it? Yeah? He was? Yeah? Yeah?
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Is he number two? Then? You know who played well for the Cowboys?
56:04
Deuced Vaughan's won played really well Texter. Hey, three guys, Paul
56:09
from Tampa. When you had Wren Baker on, he made a very insightful
56:13
comment about evaluating Neil Brown at year's end, did we play disciplined football?
56:17
I hear you three guys discussing how we were so close to winning two more
56:22
football games, but then you went on to reveal the undisciplined football that caused
56:25
us to lose. I think Ren gets it. Will continue to waller in
56:30
mediocrity until our team plays sixty minutes of discipline football every week. That has
56:36
been Brown's achilles heels since he's been in Morgantown. No matter what he has
56:39
tried, his teams cannot put together sixty minutes, even in the most even
56:44
in most victories. I hope he's figured it out because he seems like a
56:46
great fit. Otherwise, I mean, he does not like Neil Brown.
56:50
Speaking of weird things sticking in her head? Was at kJ Harris, I
56:52
was right, three thirty seven. Well, now, why is that taking
56:54
up space in my brain? It is, and it's there forever forever you'll
57:00
be on your deathbed, would you kJ Harris said, three thirty seven?
57:02
Would you have for dinner? Saturday? Night Quick doesn't know seven with j
57:08
Harris at three thirty seven. By the way, it's you know that's that's
57:12
often said. I think of what coaches say, gotta play sixty minutes of
57:14
football, got to play every play. Brad, you don't, I mean,
57:15
realistically, you don't. Okay, that doesn't happen. You're gonna make
57:20
mistakes. You just want to make fewer mistakes than the other team, right,
57:23
and you want to just have just a couple less mistakes. That's all.
57:28
You don't have to be mistake free, just make a few less mistakes.
57:30
Fair, fair? What did you? Tony just killed? We need
57:35
to you did? You did not think that out? Kathy? You couldn't
57:37
stand yourself. I couldn't stand it, but I got it done. You
57:39
guys were talking. I shoot Kathy Jones, first Team All Conference official rights
57:45
Christian. We treated three guys before the game. I'm going in shortly,
57:47
Alredy, go hit it text or Tony the better passer will eventually emerge as
57:52
a starter. Tony, where does this leave all the other sports at these
57:58
schools? Tony? There is a gallon limit on the gas. So this
58:02
person just had three random thoughts they'd tried to put together. Charlie from Midlothlean's
58:07
out there filling tanker trucks full of gas with his Kroger points card. As
58:12
Dan Wetzl just said, where does this leave all the other sports at these
58:15
schools? Scrambling scrambling and not in a good position. The better passer will
58:22
eventually emerge as the starter. I disagree. The quarterback who makes the fewest
58:27
mistakes and can make the biggest plays will be to come the starter. Yeah,
58:30
it helps if you throw it. Text her Garrett and Alaska haven't checked
58:38
in with you guys for a bit. Snapped my humorists had surgery a few
58:43
Did you hear what I said? I'm sorry he snapped his humorists and had
58:45
surgery a few weeks ago. Someone, you could understand what you had to
58:49
have major orthopedic surgery this summer. How good are those? Awesome? Yeah?
58:54
Keep talking? Just wondering who I should talk to about getting the University
58:58
of Alaska Anchorage, Sea Wall and the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Nooks
59:01
into the big twelve. Figure. If four time zones is good, whatever
59:07
nonsense they do out in Arizona, why not go five with Alaska Standard time.
59:10
Thanks as always for the show. Glad we're back to two a week.
59:14
PS. Sunset is still after ten pm here, which means it's still
59:17
summer. TC. Wow, it is getting darker quicker. You ever been
59:22
to Alaska, Tony? Never have? I'd love to text or Hey,
59:25
three guys, this is the basketball Nana. I just have a question.
59:30
Why was Omar Silverio's request for a waiver denied? I think the shortest answer
59:36
would be because academically he had not graduated, and uh, the NCAA decided
59:44
to enforce a rule. Yeah, the big ones can't take a stand on
59:49
this the third time. But the rech gets next some receiver down at Carolina
59:53
and now Silverio. I'm telling you this, I got the big ones coming
59:59
the rate. The akwon battle one that's going to be the one that's going
1:00:02
to be a real under the belt shot. If that does not get approved,
1:00:07
they need him. Yeah, Texter, I want to start off by
1:00:10
saying I love Neil Brown as a person. I'll add in here now here
1:00:15
comes a heater, and I'm wishing him well this season. Just wondering if
1:00:17
the season does unfortunately start out Rocky, is he gone mid season? For
1:00:22
contract reasons or would he stay all year long? Also, if he does
1:00:25
go, who is a candidate? Would West Virginia welcome Jimbo Fisher if he
1:00:30
gets let go at A and M. It's I think Rin Baker what we've
1:00:37
come to know about him. I think he's a very very deliberate guy.
1:00:38
I think he's playing chess. I don't think he's playing checkers. I think
1:00:42
he's thought about various scenarios brand throughout the season. But I'll tell you this,
1:00:47
if you start one and two and then that Texas Tech game looms large
1:00:52
and you go one and three, it's gonna get really, really hot Texter.
1:00:58
I need you guys to let me know if I'm being a Karen or
1:01:00
not. So I ordered season tickets for football this year, and it's the
1:01:05
first year we were able to do this, which is pretty exciting for us.
1:01:08
So we ordered them over the phone at the ticket office and they asked
1:01:12
if we wanted them by mail with the graphics on the tickets, and we
1:01:15
said yes because we would like to keep them since it's our first time being
1:01:17
season ticket holders. So as we're waiting to get our tickets delivered, we
1:01:22
call the ticket office just to see if they've been sent. Come to find
1:01:27
out, they said that we have our tickets by mobile delivery. I told
1:01:30
them we ordered the card stock tickets with the graphics. They said, sorry,
1:01:36
must have been misunderstood you. There's nothing we can do now. Am
1:01:39
I being a Karen? Or Am I rightfully super pissed about this? Thanks?
1:01:44
I love the show, folks. This question right here is exactly why
1:01:50
Brad Howe is no longer in college athletics. I was just gonna say,
1:01:53
you better not ask me my opinion on what's your opinion? I don't have
1:01:57
one. Excuse me. Sorry, I'm sorry they didn't get their tickets like
1:02:00
that you're doing. But you did what I mean, I would value your
1:02:07
expertise in such matters. Thank you. Happy. I think that was a
1:02:09
well phrased way to get him. Don't have any expertise in that anymore.
1:02:13
That's why I got out. So basically, what you're saying is you had
1:02:15
a lot of these to deal with. Is that a correct statement? I
1:02:20
know other things? Why did you? Why did you tighten up all he's
1:02:24
got he's got? Here's the thing, you know, if if when you
1:02:30
have trauma, he's got he's got a whole different kind of PTSD, whole
1:02:34
PTSD ticket post post ticket syndrome disorder. And it's not easy for people who've
1:02:42
been through that to go back and talk about these things public Now, maybe
1:02:45
privately he would talk with somebody about it professionally, get some get some help
1:02:49
with that. But I'm sorry that happened to them. The ticket office may
1:02:52
not be able to go back and do it, as they stated. I'm
1:02:55
sorry that's the case. I spent a lot of time solving issues that were
1:03:00
unsolvable. I'm not I got out so I don't have to try and solve
1:03:02
the unsolvable. I'm sorry for all involved. Thoughts and prayers headed out to
1:03:07
both parties. It's a very very careful, thoughtful You ever have any Brad
1:03:16
in your business dealings at the department, any situations involving cheerleaders like Pom poms,
1:03:23
mountaineer rifle, transportation, anything like that, that's still kind of maybe
1:03:28
haunched a little bit. Hope it was wonderful, all easy, no issues,
1:03:32
proma ties. Yeah, here to see. I didn't know that,
1:03:35
Brad. He's blinked it out. He hasn't gotta go deep into the recess,
1:03:39
but you can remember how many yards at kJ Harris had text Bobby from
1:03:46
Myrtle Beach. Imagine that I'm a Mountaineer fan living here, they say,
1:03:52
Ask copy. He said he was not going to count Penn State. Ask
1:03:55
him if he's going to count the Alabama game in a couple of years.
1:03:58
Great show, y'all have. When is the BAM again? I don't know?
1:04:00
Probably is? I think it's two two? Is there another big twelve?
1:04:06
I mean another Power five game? And by then it's only Alabama?
1:04:13
I think is the one Power five that's on that I'll count. Sean from
1:04:17
Raleigh, North Carolina writes, Greetings, gentlemen, It's been a while since
1:04:21
I've texted. Only one thing to do is weigh in on no Hoppy.
1:04:26
I don't think it's necessary to say that Neil Brown's job is on the line
1:04:29
and your promo. Everyone knows it. No, it's not your job to
1:04:31
be the cheerleader. But let's support the players. It's all up to them
1:04:34
anyway. Will you re record if they start seven and zero? I personally
1:04:39
am hoping for some positivity surrounding WV after a rough spring an early summer.
1:04:43
Sean from Raleigh. Get a lot of blowback on this promo, Texter,
1:04:48
Why everybody knows that everybody knows you're playing Penn State too, but you you
1:04:51
promote that everybody knows the game time, But you're promoting that they really don't
1:04:56
know the game time. A lot of people, a lot of those they
1:04:59
don't follow us closely. We do text her. While that's some way to
1:05:01
promote the opening game against Penn State, Neil Brown's job is on the line.
1:05:04
That's pretty low even for lib Central Metro News. Way to sell positivity,
1:05:10
Let's go not selling Sam's as you've opened up a candle worms. I'm
1:05:17
not selling positivity, I'm not selling negativity. I'm selling a storyline which I
1:05:24
think is real and it exists. Texter just finished the latest episode. I
1:05:31
have to take spreads his side on the always under promise and over deliver issue.
1:05:36
I'm sure you all can pull off the food court. Looking forward to
1:05:41
the episode after the scrimmage of static over the two episodes a week, returning
1:05:45
Michael and Kelodin. What's the latest on that effort? Food Court? Yeah,
1:05:49
going, great effort. It's only been to a meeting bread He may
1:05:57
have had a sidebar. I did things going swimming made I then had a
1:06:02
sidebar after his sidebar to go through the real things. Okay, Tony's comes
1:06:05
in and go. It's gonna be great, guys, fantastic brand. Take
1:06:12
the details. You got it? There we go. Did you do it?
1:06:15
Tony On? You? Would you? Guys, I'm not gonna say
1:06:18
that now what No, say it. I'll do it afterwards say it.
1:06:24
No, don't because usually when he says that, then it's over promising something
1:06:27
that we got to fix on the back end. So would you make a
1:06:29
public appearance there? Hell on the onlim on the spot? When you would?
1:06:34
Well, we normally do it Saturdays of the day of the game.
1:06:38
That's why I would. Yeah, Okay, he would, he would awesome.
1:06:43
Text her. Check with my spokesman. I gotta text her. It
1:06:47
happened. Taking any questions, we already addressed that in the meeting. Is
1:06:53
this your last show for this week? When you leave, I'll be here
1:06:55
Thursday. Okay, text her. It happened. Back in Morgantown after two
1:06:59
years, and finally got my hands on some kerchiveil at the wonderful Varsity Club
1:07:03
Worth the Way, great beer. One question, have you seen or heard
1:07:09
anything that shows any chance of a second year jump, such as Mario Alford's
1:07:13
from Cortez Braham or Jeremiah Aaron. What was he drinking? Jack? Oh
1:07:18
oh, that looks icy cold. Yeah, good pictures. Remember when we
1:07:23
had Bill ker lavitchan and he said, like a head on that beer.
1:07:28
It's about right, that's about right. Yeah, it's perfect. That's been
1:07:30
very popular at the Varsity Club. They do. They have a nice glass.
1:07:34
Every time I've been in there, there's been multiple people drinking that.
1:07:38
Yeah, I'll answer that. Braham and Aaron. That the small super small
1:07:42
sample size here, But the last practice I was at would have been what
1:07:46
Friday, Braham had an unbelievable one handed catch in the back of the end
1:07:50
zone. Beautiful catch, looks great. And Aaron the other day Hunter and
1:07:55
I were standing there watching and you couldn't tell much because they weren't going against
1:07:58
anybody. Just one of those swing passes and get up field and turned out
1:08:02
to be Aaron took off in the speed like I was like moving Hunter,
1:08:06
who's that? What dude? What numbers here? Jeremiharon? Okay, get
1:08:11
him the ball in space. Small sample size are but understood text. Good
1:08:15
things from both of them. Good afternoon, three guys, brad here on
1:08:18
Interstate sixty four. Did Charles Wesley God wouldn't have you guys fired up to
1:08:24
run into Happy Valley like you were in the movie Brave Heart? Or was
1:08:27
it just me so show? Charles spoke to the team last week and then
1:08:31
they put a portion of his speech to the to the team on social media
1:08:38
to get people fired up. He did a nice job. That was a
1:08:41
good speech. It was actually the unedited version was even more get your get
1:08:45
your blood boiling, and he did a nice job. Yes he did.
1:08:49
I already corrected. He's not, I said, Luke. It's Zach zach
1:08:54
r texter, longtime fan, ear alum, but I'm a newish three Guys
1:09:01
listener. What is the background on efforty? Is it a verb sarcasm or
1:09:08
is there more to the story? Right means you're trying working on it,
1:09:14
working on it, that's all we stole it did steal it? Stole it
1:09:16
from Dan Patrick show shorthand for working on it? How are we doing on
1:09:23
blank? And if you're actively working on it but don't have the final langy
1:09:27
to say efforting, how are we doing on the outside food court next to
1:09:30
Daniel's Men's store for the football games. Efforty text or three guys, just
1:09:38
a comment on the PAC twelve and arrogance. I read today the presidents of
1:09:42
the PAC twelve were offered thirty million dollars per school by ESPN after losing USC
1:09:46
and UCLA. The PAC twelve is no more attractive and likely less attractive than
1:09:50
the Big twelve that received a market value of thirty one point seven million per
1:09:55
teen. Presidents turned this down, countered with fifty million again without USC and
1:10:00
UCLA. That is arrogance and that likely got what they deserved when ESPN said
1:10:05
no thanks to the fifty mill. Stuart Mandel did a really good job in
1:10:10
The Athletic yesterday on the ten year demise of the PAC twelve. Made a
1:10:15
great story. Starts it with they were at the pinnacle and then how did
1:10:19
it happen? And basically it's, you know, arrogance sleeping at the wheel
1:10:24
and not taking a deal, and then Big twelve jumping in front of them,
1:10:27
and you know that's it. Chris from Marietta Rights looking at the depth
1:10:32
of the running backs and a somewhat unproven receiving corps. It seems that defenses
1:10:38
are going to load the box and cover zero and use a lot of man
1:10:41
press. Getting a guy that can take the top off the defense is absolutely
1:10:45
necessary, as well as a quarterback that can make the throw fifty percent of
1:10:49
the time. Also, Shelton Gibson was probably the last guy that we had
1:10:54
to could do that. Well. Chris, tell you what, buddy,
1:10:59
you gave us the You gave us the football soap dictionary. There, let's
1:11:03
see we got load the box, cover zero, take the top off the
1:11:08
defense, bing bing big. That's a winner. And he's right, and
1:11:13
he's right. We've talked about it many times. EJ. Horton is a
1:11:15
guy that's you know, I'm pulling you know, some of those bracketologists when
1:11:19
they've gone TV when the field of sixty four is getting ready to be announced
1:11:23
and they have like eighty three teams in. Everybody should get in. That's
1:11:25
how I am with my top five most important players this year. I've got
1:11:29
like ten jammed in the top five. EJ. Horton's way up there.
1:11:30
Guys, he's got to be the speed guy. Are you eating another one?
1:11:33
No, it's same one. I'm finishing it. He's got to be
1:11:36
able to get deep. They've got to get him the ball and loosen that
1:11:39
defense up. Absolutely agree with Chris, Sir, get deep win one on
1:11:42
one battles he makes Chris makes mention from him, Shelton Gibson the great thing.
1:11:46
Shelton Gibson was the best over the shoulder receiver I've ever seen. Really,
1:11:54
I think when you say Brett, yeah, I mean that was his
1:11:56
absolute elite skill set of the ball coming in into But in order to do
1:12:00
that, it has to come in as Bobby Bowden would say, Now,
1:12:03
in order to catch it that way, Brad, it has to come in
1:12:06
that way, you have got to be able to throw it. Yeah.
1:12:10
So that's now you can throw it and you can catch it. Hop I
1:12:13
do think Garrett has an opportunity to put that ball along and deep and you
1:12:16
gotta you know, I do, text her, I love your show.
1:12:23
Question. Comment from diehard Navy and Mountaineer fan from Beckley, I'm a Naval
1:12:27
Academy grad, I mean a person smart. We hear about our big line
1:12:33
being a strength and our depth into the backfield, right, we need a
1:12:36
pass threat in the quarterback position. I believe if Neil is going to make
1:12:41
Green the man, everyone is going to put everything and the sink in the
1:12:45
box. We may as well line up in triple action option, just like
1:12:49
my alma mater start signed by a frustrated West Virginia Naval aviator. A little
1:12:59
bit late for that. Uh, that's not something you can just kind of
1:13:01
put in. They I mean they know that though that Garrett sat right in
1:13:05
this exact chair and when we said what do you what do you work?
1:13:08
Only need to work? He said, I need to be able to throw
1:13:10
the ball if I have to throw the ball to win. They know that
1:13:13
that's coming. Hey, Hoppy read I can't read that. Read the beginning
1:13:15
there you're following? Uh? Is that is that Spanish? Yeah, it's
1:13:21
Spanish. I thought you. I mean you've traveled all over the world.
1:13:26
Hey trade Chico's and taes tuegoo. Hey trade chicos antos diluegos. That like,
1:13:31
Hey, three guys before the game is hey trade chicost dil guejo guego
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with Hopper's Donner Party analogy for conference realignment. Let's not forget that those ill
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fated pioneers endeavored to make the same trip that future Big Ten members will be
1:13:49
undertaking on a regular basis midwest to west coast. Perhaps that's a good perspective
1:13:55
to take when we complain about increased travel from these realignment moves. We've gone
1:13:59
from the journey maybe ending with drawing straws and eating Grandpa, to not good
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enough peanut butter to chocolate ratio in ours in flight snacks. In fact,
1:14:09
in honor of the conferences new geography, I propose that the Big Ten sponsor
1:14:13
and new sport donner ball student athletes start in the spring at Rutgers campus with
1:14:17
a covered wagon and some basic hand tools and race to arrive at UCLA's campus
1:14:23
without using any highways or modern amenities. Points are deducted for every member of
1:14:28
the party that gets eaten along the way. Since TV viewership is driving this
1:14:31
whole thing, I'm sure the live stream of Maryland's team debating which teammate is
1:14:35
next will get killer ratings. Thanks again for all you fellas Dude, Derek
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and Oregon. So he took your and built on it in a different way.
1:14:44
Yeah, Texter Logan from Greenboro County. The state fair is in for
1:14:49
the week and I went a few days this past week and I definitely saw
1:14:54
and felt not only a West Virginia connection, but a three guys connection.
1:14:57
On Friday, I went and saw Grammy win Nelly. During the concert,
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he performed a cover of Sexual Healing, but the whole time I'm singing Textual
1:15:06
Healing. On Saturday, went with my dad. We walked around a few
1:15:11
hours and we got to talk to the Mountaineer mascot and even try out the
1:15:14
new hit coffee that was even served a few weeks back. So the Mountain
1:15:17
Table people are serving coffee at State What we made it to the State Fair
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dog excellent, well done. On our way home, none other than Sweet
1:15:26
Caroline played on the radio. We sang the clean version. But just a
1:15:29
good day for both of us. Thanks for all you guys do Texter,
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Hello three guys. Since my last text about choosing loss combinations was a bit
1:15:39
convoluted, I decided to take a similar approach simpler friends. Which game is
1:15:45
more important for the Mountaineers to win this season? Texas Tech or Cincinnata.
1:15:48
Texas Tech has owned Neil Brown for four years and a couple of times they've
1:15:53
embarrassed the years on the field. Losing to them once again would be unbearable.
1:15:58
I know Tech supposed to be good this year. I wouldn't say they're
1:16:00
going to be elite. On the other hand, Cincinnata as an old rival,
1:16:04
we need to start off on the right foot in this renewed rivalry with
1:16:08
a win. The Mountaineers are going to be seeing the Bearcats a lot going
1:16:11
forward, so it would hurt to start off the news series with Laws at
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Home signed by Delbert in the ad A ndex that's a that's a good one.
1:16:19
Both both you beat them, both need them both due to beat Texas
1:16:24
Tech. At Texas Tech could be a massive win considering where it falls.
1:16:28
Potentially puts you at three in one. Right, if you can get pitt
1:16:30
or or get you too, I think you're gonna better than that. That
1:16:38
would that that one's massive. You're due, You're due to his point.
1:16:41
But Cincinnati's also one of those teams. You've got to beat them, You've
1:16:45
got to make them take a couple of years to get used to this.
1:16:47
Yes, both agreed. Texter. Hey, three guys, I'm in Morgantown
1:16:53
for the week visiting family. Took my girls to the rail trail for some
1:16:57
exercise. We saw none other than Boston Celtics had coach Joe Missoula. I
1:17:01
couldn't help but say hello and let him know we are rooting for him.
1:17:04
Incredibly nice of him to take time and talk to me for a few minutes.
1:17:09
Maybe you can get him on three guys. Hell, if he's down
1:17:12
here at the rail trail, we probably just go down the steps and yell.
1:17:16
Also pass this on my way to West Virginia. There it is.
1:17:20
That's Penn State Stadium. On his way up here. Let's go love the
1:17:25
show. Grant and Danville pass that stadium's change a little bit through the years.
1:17:30
Now, that's a tough place to be. That's a tough place to
1:17:32
play. That place is going to be. Let's do it, Texter Yogi
1:17:39
Chris Salt Lake City. Now that b YU and Utah are in the Big
1:17:43
Twelve, wearing the fly in West Virginia in the state of Utah takes on
1:17:45
a whole new meeting. Feedback from speaking to our new member fans. B
1:17:50
YU fans are extremely grateful to be in the Big twelve. Utah fans are
1:17:57
bitter and upset. Even referring to the Big twelve is a truck stop conference.
1:18:01
Really, I think they should be grateful to be in a conference.
1:18:05
You three make me laugh. I love the show. Until next time.
1:18:09
Yogi Chris in Salt Lake City? What's Utah? What bird are they having
1:18:13
under their settle? Well? I wrote back to him, and I said,
1:18:15
you should tell the b YU fans to tell the Utah fans how that
1:18:19
independent status works, how that feels, and leave it at that. And
1:18:25
if they want to go in. If Utah wants to be independent since they
1:18:27
don't want to be in the Big twelve perhaps or they don't want to be
1:18:30
obviously, and what was the PAC twelve, go that independent route, see
1:18:33
how that works. I'll tell you what I know what I told him,
1:18:36
I said, it won't be long before they'll be running to try to get
1:18:40
into a Philip sixty six. You know what's gonna be weird is on game
1:18:45
day seasons rolling along and you're talking about not only obviously you're a game,
1:18:50
but also conference games. You go, oh, b y U and Utah
1:18:53
are playing today in them an important conference matchup. That's going to be weird.
1:19:00
Doing some business right now? What are you doing? Well? What
1:19:03
are you doing? This guy just texted me wants he wants fine looking Phil's
1:19:08
number. We're still on the air. But he's a prominent he's a prominent.
1:19:15
No, he we know who this guy is. The guy needs a
1:19:17
suit, So I'm just gonna just send him fills stuff right now. Why
1:19:20
wouldn't you do that. We're just guy's going in for a suit. He
1:19:23
needs a suit. Phil takes care of those things. He does, I
1:19:27
mean one hour on the outs obviously because of this promo thing. No,
1:19:30
Phil's very No, No, he likes you. He listen you're He's a
1:19:34
P one listener. Your show is on his on his store every single day.
1:19:39
He listens to you religiously. I mean he gets an opinion just like
1:19:44
you can use yours. I mean he just had his. He doesn't hate
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you. He just made him raise an eyebrow. As all it was.
1:19:51
I should rethink. Then take your time and do what you want to do.
1:19:55
So you're here Thursday, Yeah, and then see you like after the
1:20:00
leaves come off the trees. Well, I'll be uh, I'm taking a
1:20:05
sabbatical. Sabbatical. Sabbatical. Sabbaticals are pretty good, aren't they. I'm
1:20:13
just gonna just caught just a sabbatical, that's all you guys, it'll be
1:20:15
fine. But I mean we're gonna be fine. We're gonna miss Uncle Hoppy.
1:20:19
I mean, you know how we kind of become attached to you by
1:20:23
the way I saw Nathan more of an acquired taste. But yeah, we
1:20:26
saw Nathan Adrian this morning. Where his way out? You see him at
1:20:29
the airport. No, I was leaving it. I was over there having
1:20:30
coffee, having coffee this morning and good because and here he comes walking in.
1:20:38
I said, dude, when you leave in Fridley, he said,
1:20:40
eleven am today? Yeah, he's out. What team did he get with?
1:20:44
So I don't know the name, but it's an hour east of Milan.
1:20:47
Did you get up in the next Syria? Syria? Yeah? Cool?
1:20:50
Made a big boy? Isn't a big boy? So he's he's in
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an hour east of Milan and his first game is September one, only cal
1:21:00
It's just like you had no office, just like came here, worked out,
1:21:04
did now he's got to play. Hey, yeah, well we all
1:21:11
go to work every day, right, he's a professional basketball player, Like
1:21:13
he goes to work. Yeah, good point. He goes to work.
1:21:15
That's what they do. So yeah, hopefully he has another great great season.
1:21:21
That'd be good. So thanks to our studio audience. What yeah,
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I was gonna say that, I'm sorry, go ahead, I mean Savannah,
1:21:29
Savannah and Matthew Jones, thank you guys very much for being here.
1:21:31
I hope it's as stupid as you thought it was before you got here,
1:21:34
but really probably we like you. We love your wife. I mean that's
1:21:41
Kathy came in. Kathy kind of came into Savannah and matter are Matthew all
1:21:45
right, But I'll tell you what. I'll see them and I'll give you
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those treats. Well done. Food court's going well that the three guys.
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Food court continues continues to develop, and it's going extremely well. And it's
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gonna be quite a time people over there looking for a food court. Second
1:22:04
game, there won't be one. Yeah, and Tony won't be there.
1:22:05
He'll be in the stadium, just like. I don't know what happened some
1:22:10
hey, I thought there was gonna be a food court. I don't know
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how the hell those guys screw dead up. I had it all set up,
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some Brad did, Brad didn't sign some papers or something like that,
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and so the whole thing didn't happen sixteen permits, slenders, diagrams, diagrams,
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power water, potable potable water, three three months, sin Sinc.
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With three things and sanitizer. There's a lot of things that do go into
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it, lawyers, but we'll have it ready. We'll have a ready.
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I get in trouble for one line. And you say anything, you
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say anything all the time and get away with it. Why is that?
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That's so true too? That's what my wife says. But I said,
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you could say anything to everybody who's go ahead and all the time and you
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get away with it. It's incredible. Well, maybe it's the tone that
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you say you're sin. Maybe the tone I'm sorry, I'm not happy,
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like giddy all the time about stuff. Unhappy hoppy the Senator special thank you
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to Dan Wetsel. He was fantastic for the Jones crew that's in. We're
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out three guys before the game. We'll chat Thursday. See you. I
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am no where,