Latest / The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast / Bonus: Athletics LLC S3 E8 'Just keep swimming' May 27, 2022
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- 0:00It's bonus time, we're honored Athletics, LLC would allow us to
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- 0:08crew has in store this week. Hello, hello, hello, we're back
- 0:42at it coming at you, you'll get this on normal day, but we're
- 0:47recording a little bit earlier because mass chaos is about to
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- 0:55Here we are while we're all still cool, calm and collected
- 0:59gentlemen, welcome welcome, welcome back for another fun.
- 1:01Episode Athletics. LLC back in effect, Clyde with
- 1:06guest appearance by Kai What's going on beings of the evening
- 1:13are coming from the bank. So what is?
- 1:17Yes. Yes, hello.
- 1:19He'll tell us with his eyes that he got that best.
- 1:23I love it, Governor. I love your background.
- 1:27That's that's that's just making us feel better about where we're
- 1:30about to land for the next five days.
- 1:31Right about that, you know, with the summer summer coming, you
- 1:38know, I invite you all to join me virtually or in person at
- 1:46this particular spot. This is came in Chi in Grand
- 1:51Cayman. It's on the Northern tip of the
- 1:54island so behind. So behind me that the water is
- 1:58like to your waist and you can walk out to like quarter mile.
- 2:04It is unreal and then it drops off.
- 2:07You can you can sit down in the water.
- 2:09It's just, it doesn't cover your head.
- 2:12So you know, I thought about it today, you know, not to say that
- 2:17I'm already there. Yes, yes you are.
- 2:21Yes, you are looking forward to. I'm going to keep my good spirit
- 2:30like you. I'll remind you when we're
- 2:32standing at the meat, I'll just remind you Lamar.
- 2:36I don't even know what your those letters say mean.
- 2:39So you can go ahead and say that out loud.
- 2:41It's Lamar ehe. I am at at my core.
- 2:59I'm a hood. I'm a hood gentlemen.
- 3:02So we spell it the way we sound it mission accomplished.
- 3:13Oh my gosh. The Italian CC.
- 3:17I do that was wrong. I absolutely knew that was
- 3:22wrong. Oh my gosh.
- 3:25So lucious, help your friends help your friend, please
- 3:28prayers. I've sent been sent already at
- 3:30me. That's all I got for that, dude.
- 3:32Hey, where's I appreciate it? Yeah.
- 3:37Oh my goodness, I am. Well, I'm well good good, good,
- 3:42good, good, good. Well, as always this part of the
- 3:45sea, Season is always fun to get into the track of back a little
- 3:48bit tougher this week because there's such a quick turnaround
- 3:52and not that nothing happened because obviously stuff happens
- 3:56and did it happen. We had Diamond League.
- 3:58We had a lot of international smaller, quote unquote smaller
- 4:02competitions, going around around the world but track is
- 4:05back. I remember the big obvious.
- 4:11We'll just address the elephant in the room and we had a
- 4:14sighting in an actual execution. From a one, young lady scary
- 4:18Richardson, look at guy's face. He said, so right, he literally
- 4:26said and nicked, you know, where he actually did a middle of to
- 4:31making that announcement is he blew out his life, only proves
- 4:37he is Absolutely my son. Oh I love it it's garbage huh.
- 4:44Yep guy we know it's garbage. So thoughts on the executions of
- 4:51Miss Richardson. Well I mean it's clear that she
- 4:58is not where she was a year ago. She did look better in the
- 5:04constellation final that was run that she did any of them. first
- 5:07one, the first round, look, scarily a lot, like what we saw
- 5:12from her and Eugene at Prefontaine last year, that was
- 5:15not now, that was scary, the next round, she looked a lot
- 5:20better and I think it's I think the one thing I take away from
- 5:24it is that she did BTT And TTS run fast this year.
- 5:29So I think the jury's still out or people out there that are you
- 5:33know, absolutely crushing or she might maybe wait about five
- 5:36weeks and see where she is, but she might be better in five
- 5:40weeks. We'll see.
- 5:41Well and correct me if I'm wrong because I was out recruiting so
- 5:44I didn't get to see it like end time and even look at it now
- 5:48wasn't there? Inclement weather, and a
- 5:50stoppage and a start agenda, stoppage and stuff like that, I
- 5:53don't know, I'm not sure whatever.
- 5:55Once it started, I think I just kept rolling but Supposed to
- 5:58started six and then we came seven and it became eight, men
- 6:02became 835 or something like that.
- 6:05So it did get pushed back a lot, but it was never a stoppage once
- 6:10a start and I'm sure affected her and everybody else was warm
- 6:13up the the track at UNF. I can't imagine how Well that
- 6:19thing retains water back there, you know.
- 6:22So it was Florida in May is what it was.
- 6:33My honest opinion of that race and because she has a because
- 6:39she has not stepped out there and ran all this year.
- 6:42Of course, that's going to be the headline.
- 6:45I honestly felt like they were a lot more interesting things
- 6:48going on in that. Competition.
- 6:50But it's an opener. It look like everybody else is
- 6:54open. I mean you know last year t on
- 6:58open their season running 11:7. Hmm he ended up running ten nine
- 7:03right so it's an opener and it it's because of the way, Miss
- 7:10Richardson plays the media and her social media presence.
- 7:17And the way she conducts herself that has everybody, you know,
- 7:21wondering what's going on. I'm glad she stepped out there
- 7:24and raced fantastic, there was literally nothing worth
- 7:28discussing from that competition, it looked Extremely
- 7:33average prefer a pro, women's 100 meter race and she was just
- 7:38one of the many average races that were run that night.
- 7:42Nothing to write home about. I'm certain the next one, will
- 7:45be better and it needs to be. The difference is her.
- 7:49Clock is now extremely short to get ready to make this team and
- 7:55it's just I find it interesting that everybody is just Assuming
- 8:01she's made the team, she hasn't made the team, and she wanted to
- 8:05go out there and make this team, because they're going to be a
- 8:08whole lot of people, ready to run in June.
- 8:11And I think that's the elephant in the room is like, who, who is
- 8:16the 100-meter team for the USA, right?
- 8:19Whoo-hoo, you ride with. It's a total crapshoot.
- 8:24Yeah, I mean there's nobody out. There you go.
- 8:26She's definitely making tea, right?
- 8:28Right out of not a soul. And let's be clear.
- 8:31I'm not suggesting that it's going to be slow it's just an
- 8:34wide open as oh yeah yeah been watching some of these slow it
- 8:37up. Yeah you know to sound like the
- 8:43governor there's a plethora of people out there.
- 8:44They can do it. In terms of psychological aspect
- 9:14of it with the way that the track meet didn't start and the
- 9:20delay and the delay, and the delay, one of the things and as
- 9:25coaches and former athletes, we've all been through it.
- 9:29You know, when you take a step down in terms of quality, in
- 9:34terms of, you know, the overall atmosphere of what a
- 9:40professional meat should be, and you go through something like
- 9:43this, no one got paid. This was nothing.
- 9:46You know. So what I'm trying to say is the
- 9:50motivation had to come from inside to run fast last night,
- 9:55right? And, you know, I mean, we all
- 9:58know how light Mornings all that stuff works.
- 10:01You know you get that. Yeah.
- 10:03Hey I got to shut it down 30 minutes so on and so forth.
- 10:07Keeping yourself up, keeping yourself up keeping yourself up
- 10:12over you know, 30 minutes, 60 Minutes, 90 minutes like I can I
- 10:17can understand why the results were so subpar because that you
- 10:23know, it's the motivation in itself.
- 10:26It's like hey let's get our me or are Our season started,
- 10:31right? It's not.
- 10:33Hey, you gotta go run 10-6 today.
- 10:36No, yeah. Let's get off the schneid.
- 10:38Let's get our season started. So I feel like it mattered more
- 10:44to her to win. Then it did the time.
- 10:48I think the, the folks out there that have got sucked up into
- 10:53this tidal, wave, the shikari tidal wave are going to are
- 10:56going to criticize her. Every step this is this is the
- 11:02bed she made in my opinion. So you know I feel like hey you
- 11:07got out of the meat injury-free you gotta win however smaller
- 11:13one in might be move on to the next.
- 11:16It's the way I look at it. Yeah, can't forget the
- 11:20confidence that comes out of wedding, too.
- 11:23Well, some people will think the losses were being petty when he
- 11:30called it a consolation final. Let's be clear.
- 11:34If you go look at the meet results, which we have right
- 11:37here, right? She finished fit because she did
- 11:43the fact that they added another race later on that she won.
- 11:48In the competition. She finished for the record,
- 11:50they called it. The constellation file, right?
- 11:52Wasn't me. I'd like to add this to the
- 12:09whole thing as well. Like, like, there was nobody
- 12:12fast in the week, right? Like people that have run very
- 12:16fast all year long. All didn't run fast State and
- 12:20see if you've never been in Florida in May or any other
- 12:23month when you when it rains for three hours but it's hot, it's
- 12:27muggy, it's sticky. The air is thick Fasano so
- 12:31exactly, right? So nobody was going to run fast,
- 12:34you know? And so I'm not so sure that her
- 12:38that performance especially the second race.
- 12:41What was the lot better? People are giving her credit for
- 12:44a lot better. Yeah, I'm gonna be briefed on
- 12:52this one. Look, welcome to the party.
- 12:55She carry Richardson. I mean, that's it, right?
- 12:59Like your 2022? Season has started you're
- 13:02healthy. Now, let's see how we do.
- 13:05I don't know if she's going to do.
- 13:07Is there even a diamond League race between now and the trials?
- 13:11New York Prefontaine ammo and Prefontaine for free, right?
- 13:16She she in Pre that well Contractually.
- 13:19She supposed to be. Mmm.
- 13:21All right, well, all I'm saying is look, right.
- 13:25Maybe it's because I'm a better at heart, right?
- 13:30But in championship years, all that matters of the championship
- 13:34trials, championships themselves.
- 13:36The other things are wonderful, appetizers and accoutrement, all
- 13:41kinds of other wonderful things, but their stake in this potatoes
- 13:45in championship years, right? Like, You got what you got to do
- 13:50to make the team and then what you got to do to get a medal and
- 13:53like like I'm not over simplifying our sport but
- 13:56honestly that's it. So you know, I'm happy, she's
- 14:01back running, I'm happy that she's healthy because I don't
- 14:04wish anything negative on anybody next.
- 14:10WoW, open tonight. Can I ask a didn't think I was
- 14:14going to see that from from the the track League?
- 14:19Kyra Jefferson. Ran the 400.
- 14:22She can run the 400 all year long, I've just been missing
- 14:25that then because 51:55 about two weeks ago.
- 14:33Yeah, that that's, that's her, that's her race of choice right
- 14:36now. So, yeah, well, I found that
- 14:40very much but but, but again, like, I think the big thing for
- 14:43me is like, there's not one thing that I miss.
- 14:47I miss something. I did turn it off after a while.
- 14:50There was nothing. You know, I probably the best
- 14:52performance was Devon's 13:1, right?
- 14:56But other than that, like there was nothing in the meat like
- 14:58nobody run anywhere near what they've done about it.
- 15:02So that tells you like, so again, I think again like you
- 15:05said, welcome to the party, she carry anybody that's writing her
- 15:08off and thinks that she's not going to be a factor in five
- 15:12weeks. That's not very smart.
- 15:14Because here's the thing about her.
- 15:15Like and I think the governor alluded to this, this is
- 15:18well-liked. It was a confidence Builder, she
- 15:21won here, she walked away healthy.
- 15:24And that's the one thing we know about her.
- 15:26She doesn't fear any of any of them, right?
- 15:30And so based on the, the second race, where you saw that mid to
- 15:33late race acceleration that she's famous for, Yeah, that
- 15:38girl she's gonna be she's gonna be dealt with but again I'm not
- 15:41picking the team. That's that's that's that's
- 15:57better. This coming this coming
- 16:01Saturday. Here you go.
- 16:04Yeah. This coming Saturday. what else
- 16:12for track is back, we had Had you at you had Birmingham where
- 16:20parchment the last two Olympic Champions hooked up the two
- 16:24Jamaicans. Hmm.
- 16:26And parchment looked like parchment McLeod.
- 16:28Look like McLeod, you know, and parchment running down late but,
- 16:35you know, I'm sure that will shape up because their trouser
- 16:37and five weeks. So I'm sure they'll be another
- 16:39Showdown with those two guys in five weeks, Dean Ashley Smith
- 16:44ran 11, Which is something to the win that race.
- 16:49I think I'm not sure did what would happen in a 200?
- 16:53There was a false start by K. Remember.
- 16:55Well, that was greatly overshadowed.
- 16:58The result of them is hundreds of years.
- 17:00Yeah, that was and then and then zonal Hughes all started right
- 17:04after him. Yeah, exactly.
- 17:05Okay. We talked about that before.
- 17:17Starting to be like, Tony Romo. Said before, the first start,
- 17:24what he was talking about, is our Nell Hughes, he's had
- 17:26problems with fall starting So then after Trayvon false starts,
- 17:34I do basically says there are no huge would not be the
- 17:37prohibitive favorite in this race and then he full starch.
- 17:41Wow. Yeah.
- 17:43I was like, I feel like I do with scripting this, the
- 17:47Birmingham means hundred. If anything was a waste of time,
- 17:52a waste of a lot of time there was like 15 minutes of air time.
- 17:58Yeah, looks like it was long. I mean I mean yes in in that
- 18:03reality but Trayvon that's a long trip to fall.
- 18:07Start the endless, he did, he did, he did apologize on
- 18:12Twitter, he asked for forgiveness, for making a rookie
- 18:15mistake. He said he did Apologize.
- 18:17He didn't say that. He did, he did, and I guess I'll
- 18:24call Don Clyde him. I want to make up stuff.
- 18:29Like, I don't know. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna I'm
- 18:32not gonna Flame the young man praying.
- 18:34Just not. But you know what?
- 18:36Like you mean, you know me. You don't want to be a me next
- 18:38week. Okay.
- 18:40What's that mean? Does that mean this week?
- 18:42No, let me check. But like look, man.
- 18:50If you run, 970 something last year and this, right?
- 18:56You always over to Birmingham to take on a field that let's be
- 19:00frank nobody in that field really thought they could beat
- 19:05him. Right?
- 19:08What what, what could cause you to fall start?
- 19:12Not by a little bit like we're not talking about you know bang
- 19:17bang like this was a false start.
- 19:19He was sober. Fargo, nobody moved.
- 19:23You know I mean like this is one of them like this is if this is
- 19:26a conference meet y'all, if this is a convert me, what we we we
- 19:30would all been like you did it on purpose.
- 19:31It was an honest about that about false starts.
- 19:37I mean listen to a wise wise man.
- 19:40Once told me that if you only fall start for one of two
- 19:42reasons you are either scared or ill-prepared.
- 19:47I don't know which one he was and I don't want to speculate
- 19:50but I know this, that's it. Exactly what you saw.
- 19:54Like that was not a that like like look Clyde said it said it
- 20:00properly, that looked like an honest effort questionable false
- 20:03start like it was so egregious. Okay, solely.
- 20:09I didn't know. I didn't know that there was a
- 20:10tweet apology. So now I'm more focused on the
- 20:13Tweet apology because of course, we are also surprised by this,
- 20:18no, because it was a couple months ago Got himself into an
- 20:27IG live war with an idiot that he shouldn't have been given the
- 20:31time of day 2 and the idiot destroyed him and right, it
- 20:35wasn't a good look. And now like first of all you
- 20:38don't owe anybody an apology for the false start in the first
- 20:42place, but they so don't apologize.
- 20:45But then secondly, why are you calling it a rookie mistake?
- 20:48Like you're not a rookie like like, oh man, Oh man.
- 20:55Stop stop with this. Like I had the pleasure of had a
- 21:03pretty in-depth conversation with Mike Marsh this week and we
- 21:07got into some of the inner workings of, you know, how close
- 21:10to last taught them and you know, him and Carl and Leroy.
- 21:14No thing. And the thing he talked about
- 21:16was the lack of Patience by today's printers know.
- 21:20The fact that they put so much pressure on the start and the
- 21:24Way, you're getting away but there's that there's that
- 21:27they're just giving away the mechanics of the race and he
- 21:30said the one thing Coastal. As always said to them while I
- 21:32was just remember, they don't give medals away at 30 readings.
- 21:36Yeah, so I think that's why we see so many wild uncontrolled
- 21:40race models because nobody's actually running a race quality.
- 21:43They're just putting the blocks down and trying to run as fast
- 21:45as they can. And, you know, those lethal
- 21:48Force starts, you know? I'm not saying that's why Trump,
- 21:50you know. So I'm going to be the mean next
- 21:52week I guess. You know, I'm not bashing.
- 21:56Crepe travel honors codes from this saying that.
- 21:58You know, a lot of mistakes were singing 100 is because I don't
- 22:01think anybody's teaching patients anymore we've gotten
- 22:04totally away from the great race model, you know, the drive and
- 22:09all that stuff. And the one thing that's missing
- 22:13and my opinion is patience because nobody's very patiently.
- 22:16Well, so do we credit Christian Coleman with creating that fear?
- 22:21No, I mean, I think that's just, that's just true Christian is
- 22:24that, that's his strong suit. But I mean, again, and I'll be
- 22:28the meme again next week. I mean, is there anybody that
- 22:30studying Christians last 30? And I'm trying to make that?
- 22:35No, because that's, I mean, you know, Lamar and I have had this
- 22:40discussion on more than one occasion when Christian Coleman
- 22:43Masters the maintenance, phase the world records in trouble.
- 22:47Hmm. Some big trouble.
- 22:50No. So I look at it like this. so, I
- 22:57don't think it's a question about him being scared.
- 22:59I don't think it's a question about him being flustered,
- 23:03whatever. I think, I think the young man
- 23:07wanted to put on a show and I think he got a bit ahead of
- 23:10himself and sometimes, you know, that's just my opinion, you
- 23:18know? When You can't put the cart
- 23:22before the horse is still out to run the race, right?
- 23:25And it just seemed to me like he was extremely like okay let you
- 23:34know and what's also so let me interrupt you one second what
- 23:38causes that? Well this that's just the thing.
- 23:42I mean I would think of this point That there would be some
- 23:51level of control knowing that I am the one that's going to put
- 23:57on this show. They're all here to see me,
- 24:01right? So here's here's the issue.
- 24:03This is why I think you're missing.
- 24:06The show was not to win the race.
- 24:08They'll show. He's trying to run a fast time
- 24:12and that's what that's what Mike was alluding to.
- 24:14Yes. Like, where?
- 24:15Everybody's trying to run fast because if Trayvon puts the
- 24:18blocks down, the execute, the race model, nobody had ever
- 24:21handsy change because it's not because he's running on seven
- 24:26and six now. Yeah, the valley or things Ideo
- 24:30false starts and then you should understand.
- 24:31So that matter. So that's what I was trying to
- 24:35leave that bad though. Problem is they're trying to
- 24:38write your children chasing times, a chasing her chasing
- 24:42perfecting, the race model and waste mechanics as well trying
- 24:45to get at, okay? Hence, the show.
- 24:51So a couple of things that happen at this meat that I think
- 24:56there are noteworthy, I'm sure alomari Archie is aware, there
- 25:04was an incredible discus at this meet 71 27, which is now
- 25:13interested top 10 list all time. I mean, we haven't seen throws
- 25:21like this in years, it has been a long, long time, you know.
- 25:28So we have we have to give a shout out to mr.
- 25:32Christian Che I'm sure. Is that how you pronounce his
- 25:35last name? I think it's pronounced j.j.
- 25:38Yeah, from Slovenia, I've seen the video, I've only seen the
- 25:42slow-mo. I want to see the thing in real
- 25:45time to really understand, you know.
- 25:48The amount of effort this man put into the throw but man, I
- 25:53mean well yeah I think the last person is over 70 meters.
- 25:58Might be elected as Dad. Yeah.
- 26:01Like real talk now the tide and what was interesting?
- 26:06Yes, with this with the Latvian, right?
- 26:10Yeah, I mean I loved wait little Lithuania, Lithuania.
- 26:13Yeah, because because I think Jerry Garcia is And I think
- 26:18that's where the whole tide. I think came from but at some
- 26:24point, something there's some connection there.
- 26:25I just, I don't know. I'm I might be butchering it,
- 26:29but I'm pretty sure that's what it was but what was, what I
- 26:34thought was was really interesting about it, right?
- 26:36It's like he threw so far. He was confused, right?
- 26:41The lot, like the last time I saw a look like that over
- 26:44somebody else's purple like over somebody, somebody doing that
- 26:47over their own Formance with Bob Beamon, right?
- 26:49Like Bob Beamon comes, Bob comes bouncing out of the thing and
- 26:52like then they tell him how far it isn't because he doesn't know
- 26:55that works at all and then he's like on his knees like what in
- 26:57God's name has happened, do was basically the same way, like I
- 27:00think he thought it was a bomb but I think in his head a bomb
- 27:04was like 68 meters you know I mean and it lands and skids and
- 27:10whatever and like when it when he throws at us like think it
- 27:13looks pretty good and it lands. I was like, oh my God.
- 27:16Yeah. just to look 72 M and I know with 71 low whatever but
- 27:23But but you know, I'm glad you brought up the discus because
- 27:26what we need to talk about our two things from that meat from
- 27:30the field events one. Okay, I always mess her name up
- 27:33and I don't want she's too awesome for me to mess it up.
- 27:36The German long jumper. My humble me.
- 27:38Humble Mohammed, Mohammed. Yeah, she's a monster and
- 27:42everybody's got a giant problem with her.
- 27:43Yes, if she can jump, seven meters anywhere, she wants 709.
- 27:47First jump, thanks for coming. Have a nice way, but let me say
- 27:52this, Let me say this, I need y'all to lock in the world.
- 27:56Athletics crew has managed to f up the field events again.
- 28:03Now, y'all know how crazy I went about last year's debacle,
- 28:07right? This is worse.
- 28:11Because what they have now done is try to create drama, and
- 28:17they've stolen victories, more than likely from deserving
- 28:22competitors, that a new. So, listen to this, right?
- 28:28You go, this scenario is new. You go through five rounds,
- 28:32three people, get a latch on poor last row, that is similar
- 28:35to last year. Here's the all marks count which
- 28:40was which was the big debauch. From last year, but here's where
- 28:43they messed it up most egregiously this time if you are
- 28:47leading you go first in the last, in the race round why,
- 28:53right? This is to give the opportunity
- 28:57for that last round heroics, but I keep saying, but you've given
- 29:02it to third place. Now, let's just think about the
- 29:05event. I know other one of you hopped
- 29:06in your heads immediately, right?
- 29:09What is the last thing you want to give?
- 29:12Krauser Kovacs. Any one of them is an
- 29:15opportunity to go last? Yes, right?
- 29:20Like, that's what Ryan krauser has worked.
- 29:22His butt off to do is to make sure he always throws last.
- 29:25So now you tell me, I got to figure this out, so I'm third
- 29:29going into the final group so I can throw last, like, what are
- 29:34we doing? I mean, nothing's come up with
- 29:40this one because, you know, they created the other much.
- 29:42Yeah. We look at it from this, this
- 29:46standpoint, and this is wrong before I say it.
- 29:49So don't jump through the screen at me, please.
- 29:53But maybe they're thinking that this will now put the pressure
- 29:56on the leader to try to throw further to make sure he can't he
- 30:00or she can't recall. Oh you are 100% correct.
- 30:04That what they are trying to do, right?
- 30:07We've all watched movies like this, they are trying to create
- 30:12drama as opposed to accepting the innate.
- 30:17Natural drama that comes in the field of it.
- 30:21Right look. Is it typically doesn't throw or
- 30:29jump if they want a competition. So now they have to throw Joe.
- 30:33Now, they have to throw a job and this is exactly what they've
- 30:36tried to create. But like, why do we think Carl
- 30:38Lewis is so great? What was my Conley's reputation
- 30:41on what are, you know, like every great field of enter has
- 30:44been like they have the ability to come through in their last
- 30:48attempt. Now, let me tell you this right
- 30:50now. If I was in this competition,
- 30:53right? 8:35 in the long jump was
- 30:56winning. I'm leading I take my last job
- 31:01which is the first jump in the final I jump 840, right?
- 31:05And then the guy who had only jumped 8:15 in the first five
- 31:09rounds gets the jump after me gets the adrenaline Spike gets
- 31:12all the way up on the edge of the board and lands at 8:42.
- 31:15Let me tell you something look. They better they better stop me
- 31:20from getting to Seb coast box because that's Ridiculous, I'll
- 31:25take it a step further. Now, last year under the
- 31:29ridiculous rules, you know, I think all of us, definitely,
- 31:34most of us said, you know what, protest it don't even jump.
- 31:37And ever, though, you knew they need their money, they're either
- 31:39anger or okay. Cool.
- 31:41Now, that all my earlier attempts count, I'm not jumping
- 31:45in the last jump. You going to be my final three.
- 31:49I'm supposed to jump first. I'm gonna sit my butt down and
- 31:51be like, no, you're not getting it from me.
- 31:54You better work it out. That's what I'm gonna do.
- 31:57It's, it's just so bad that they keep.
- 32:00Like, look, what would you guys? All agree.
- 32:02There are a lot of things that we can do to make our sport more
- 32:07viewer, friendly and more exciting, so to speak, to the
- 32:10jet, to the Casual fan, absolute.
- 32:13You also all agree that most of those things don't involve the
- 32:16field events. At all.
- 32:17Yeah, like, the field events they already come as their own
- 32:21mini movies, right? The thing is, is like the field
- 32:27events. They are what they are, they
- 32:29have their own drama, they have their own suspense.
- 32:32I mean, I tell right now, as I want nothing to do with Coach,
- 32:35the field of is said look like who wants to do that.
- 32:47You're not under 44 seconds, I go solo.
- 32:52I don't think we all remember where we were
- 33:08when saladino pulled out that last jump at the world Champs.
- 33:11We all remember Pedrosa. So in Sydney, we all remember
- 33:16Christian Taylor. Taylor pulling it out, multiple
- 33:18times. We all remember, Walder in the
- 33:21in NCAA, remember Powell remember Louis, you know, I
- 33:27don't understand what this narrative is trying to do
- 33:31because Why are you waiting so who is it that says in those
- 33:38last three jumps that someone is going to pull out magic, what
- 33:43happened? Why do we have the other five?
- 33:46Right? Why do we have the other five
- 33:48attempts right? I don't get it.
- 33:51It makes I've had this discussion so many times.
- 33:54It's like there's certain things about track and field.
- 33:57It just need to be left alone. Yes yes.
- 34:00Did the sleeping bag? Check this is pure.
- 34:02One man against man and woman against women.
- 34:05Yes. Fastest the strongest whatever
- 34:08let us be because every time you try to change it your muck it
- 34:11up. This is not one of the most
- 34:16lasting images from this year's indoor world's was that the meat
- 34:21was over in there was one pole, vault attempt at a world record
- 34:26left. That was it the whole stadium
- 34:28was there. Nobody had moved.
- 34:30Everything else was done. The world was in Mando's hands
- 34:34and you know what he did? He delivered.
- 34:37Yes, he did because that's what field of enters know.
- 34:39They are taught to have to be able to do control your emotions
- 34:43as part of being an elite level combined of enter a field of
- 34:47enter like, you have to learn to do that.
- 34:50And and use all that testosterone and use all of that
- 34:53adrenaline to create greatness. Now we're met now, we're
- 34:58manipulating it and you're only going to get, you're only going
- 35:00to get those things in major championships.
- 35:02So when we're showing the showing as you know, like the
- 35:05Casual fan is how it, that's what these Diamond League things
- 35:08are supposed to get us, right? Casual fans because everybody
- 35:11who watches the Olympics and watch a World Championships, it
- 35:13doesn't matter they're going to watch.
- 35:15Yeah, I have a question. We're worried about the crowds
- 35:19in the diamond League. Meets the standard packed.
- 35:22Yes, always. Always have been ND, capping the
- 35:33hundred. All right, so trayvon's peepees
- 35:36975 yunos arnelle's PB. Is this, right?
- 35:39And then basically, using a formula figuring out exactly how
- 35:42many feet are inches, that is right, and then everybody starts
- 35:45on, want you to stop right now, customize going to get it and
- 35:48try to do it. So I'm gonna tell you like this,
- 36:32Oh my God, that sounds very different from or whatever it
- 36:35is. You're given the the very
- 36:39poignant rant that you just delivered on the field of
- 36:42incense. And this particular conversation
- 36:45started about Miss Muhammad, oh I'd like to throw a question to
- 36:49you and the rest of everybody else.
- 36:52Muhammad O is clearly like the the top talent in the event
- 36:58right now but she's been good for a really long time and she's
- 37:04never beat any of the recent Legends.
- 37:07So now it's almost like the path has been cleared and she's kind
- 37:12of just out there by herself you, right?
- 37:14Like she you know, like we had a little golden age in the women's
- 37:18long, jump with t and reefs and and and the Come on.
- 37:25Well I don't I don't want to crush your here your bubble
- 37:27because I actually liked where you were going but Muhammad did
- 37:30beat be reached to win the gold medal last year sir.
- 37:33But that but not at her best though you know what I mean?
- 37:36Like you said she's never beaten the fine.
- 37:38Be yes she won the gold medal in the in the one time where?
- 37:41No one even jump. Seven me awesome.
- 37:44Except correct you know I mean you see what I'm saying.
- 37:46I mean like I mean, I get it but I'm just saying like, yeah like
- 37:51it look Time's it sometimes it happens that way, right?
- 37:55Like look, Ashton Eaton was unbelievably the best dude out
- 38:00there for like 11 years, right? He retires and now there's two
- 38:04active. 9000 Point guys. Yeah, you know, I mean what will
- 38:10we have? What wouldn't we have loved to
- 38:11have seen them and him? Yes I guess, yeah.
- 38:17I guess I'm, but he beat both of them just like, that's what I'm
- 38:21saying is like, part of what happens is, they both have
- 38:25scored over 9,000 points because of taking ales from Ashton.
- 38:29Well, I guess that's how this, that's how it happens.
- 38:32Yeah, I guess that's kind of where I was.
- 38:33My brain is trying to go with this because she never stepped
- 38:36up when Everybody was ready and challenge that Core group.
- 38:41And now the core group is retired, having babies and
- 38:45whoever else, right? So it's like, is she just gonna
- 38:48dominate now? And or is or some or somebody
- 38:52going to step up because, no, no Roman subunit.
- 38:54Jump with her Lorraine can't jump with her just hours can't
- 38:57jump with her. See now, now you're delving into
- 39:02the and I mean, I could go on for hours on this, but now
- 39:06you're delving into what I think is wrong with the horizontal
- 39:12events right now, you know, and I've said this to the Mariachi
- 39:16several times when we were jumping, the greatest jumpers in
- 39:23the history of the event, we could reach out and touch them.
- 39:27They were there. Standard was there if you
- 39:30weren't jumping eight forty, plus don't even bother, right?
- 39:36Yeah. So, so mentally you went into a
- 39:39competition knowing that you had to go above and beyond just to
- 39:45be able to say, hey man, at least I was in the mix today,
- 39:48you know? And that is no longer there.
- 39:53There are no 727 3740 jumpers on the woman's side, there are no
- 40:008. 88 90 jumpers on the men's side, right?
- 40:04So from this, from the standpoint of starting off in
- 40:07the fall. Okay, what is my goal, right?
- 40:11The average male jumper is thinking if I go eight, thirty
- 40:15eight forty. I'm gonna win a gold medal.
- 40:19That is huge everything. 25. Eagle.
- 40:24You going to make the US team, right?
- 40:26Jump eight. Thirty eight forty.
- 40:28You're in it for the medals on the woman's side 680.
- 40:31Plus we'll see. Yeah, I think the I think it's
- 40:34worse for the one because this is an absolute need to talk
- 40:36about 7:40. But when Britt is Britt and T is
- 40:41T, you're talking seventeen's? Yes.
- 40:44Evan old yes. You know 720 off, you know every
- 40:48now and then. Whoo.
- 40:50I mean where's Tara, where's whoever?
- 40:52I can't. Step 7.
- 40:54Again if the standard and this is the this is something that we
- 41:00you know that we tend to forget about we're talking about 20
- 41:05years ago, when woman. Yeah we're going seven thirty
- 41:09plus on a weekly basis right? That that is so far in our in
- 41:15our subconsciousness that the athletes nowadays, they're
- 41:20looking at 7:09 and going, oh my goodness.
- 41:23Wow, this this is what I have to deal with.
- 41:25Now I got to go back to the drawing board and that is it is
- 41:30I think it's specific to the horizontal cells where
- 41:35imagination a little bit of Madness, you know that that that
- 41:40is not there. You can jump a 20 in control you
- 41:45can, but you cannot jump 880 in control.
- 41:49You have to be on the verge on the brink of Destruction.
- 41:53Auction, right? That is not there right now.
- 41:56We're not when I see that imagination.
- 41:59And, you know, last time we started for to be young man,
- 42:02young man in Sweden, right? And the pit might have saved 890
- 42:09because he didn't have any room, right?
- 42:12And he's been unhealthy ever since.
- 42:15And you know, I don't know if we'll ever see that again but
- 42:19again, it there has to be that standard Bearer and that's Bear
- 42:23has to be very consistent, right?
- 42:26And show up every single week for those folks underneath to
- 42:30go, man, okay this this wasn't good enough.
- 42:33I got to get better, you know. Yeah.
- 42:36I think an event that's going to have had that same kind of
- 42:39effect on the right now, is the men's 100.
- 42:41Oh yeah. I mean you got you the two
- 42:43issues you have is you got this plethora of young men here in
- 42:46the states that 198 and then all of a sudden you got the Italian,
- 42:49you know, how we in the US are no like we stepped up our game,
- 42:53but Bolt would have it it matter what how far you step to the
- 42:55right? But both made us better, right?
- 42:58Yeah. So now the problem you have is
- 42:59that you got Jacobs over in Italy, so he's, you know, he's a
- 43:02threat to the throne. So now the u.s. athletes and
- 43:05coaches are chasing what he is. Yeah, so that's over, 100 will
- 43:09get better and I think that, you know, in the long jump, you
- 43:14don't have Carl, you don't have money, you don't have those guys
- 43:16jumping far. And when I got back, I says, I
- 43:19can train hard enough to jump. 8:30, the goal that's good.
- 43:23And it pretty much. Oh man, what do we do in the
- 43:33first five rounds? Go ahead said, you better do it
- 43:38the first five rounds. So what do we think of Great,
- 43:42Britain running? 4229, did we see that is
- 43:47intense? Passionate this intent?
- 43:48That's the tenth faster than Kentucky and LSU and also
- 43:55Kentucky Oh no, wait a minute. Yo, yo, get to do that
- 44:12with the time. I appreciate the fact that I
- 44:18know, they are out there working towards.
- 44:22Yes, inning the world championship.
- 44:24You know, we are out here working towards Whatever the
- 44:28hell happened, whatever happened, whatever stones at all
- 44:40I'm saying, is this, is that? Okay so hey get over here on a
- 44:45platter. It's you flat sir the that
- 44:59doesn't matter oh yes it always bad that doesn't matter.
- 45:07Okay. Okay so the what are you
- 45:09impressed by? If I didn't say I was impressed.
- 45:11I said I appreciate. We she ate that, I know.
- 45:18Hey look. When the world championship
- 45:29comes, there are certain countries that, you know, are
- 45:31going to pass stick with the Brits are in that category.
- 45:35Yes. Because they, they do.
- 45:37So the question was where you were really impressed with the
- 45:444229, so Draw a style that you shi movie
- 46:00will stop it. I'm not.
- 46:02You are the prettiest, you leave those people alone, okay?
- 46:13I want everybody to take a deep breath and we have, like, I
- 46:18think what? Nine weeks until worlds, right.
- 46:22Some crazy like that, it's a single digit, right?
- 46:27So, So, so whatever it is, let's see what happens in nine weeks,
- 46:31right? So if then if it gets messed up,
- 46:36I will sit here and let you go. I'm just asking you to give the
- 46:52Who's the Woman's real a coordinator or call it coach?
- 46:56Okay, so Louis freeh. He shell, you got Freeman,
- 47:01that's right. Okay, I forgot.
- 47:04I know we said it and I was like we talked a lot about the men's.
- 47:08Concoction is The Men We Shall. Do us tremendous the women.
- 47:13So here's my question and maybe it's a stupid question, are we
- 47:17as concerned about the women's relay, as the other women?
- 47:19So men's really The women seem to find a way to get it, done.
- 47:24Hey, that's your fellow game called, behave yourself.
- 47:26Hence, why? You know, I'm rooting for 16.
- 47:29Exactly. So behave yourself.
- 47:31So the women, the women seem to find a way to get it done.
- 47:36They do. We've had a lot.
- 47:38I mean, I can go all the way back to 96, and I remember
- 47:41Christie gainsaying at. That's the men's problem.
- 47:43We don't have a problem. We're going to get State ground
- 47:45win the gold medal in they did. Right?
- 47:47So I it's not as big a deal. It's not, it's not as many egos
- 47:55like any problem, that's an accurate, portrayal of history,
- 47:58but my, we've had this conversation for weeks going,
- 48:03my, my stance is I come to this conversation from we're not just
- 48:09supposed to win it. We're supposed to set the bar
- 48:12like that's that's what was so special about London.
- 48:16They could have won the race but JD and those women went out to
- 48:20set the bar and look what we got, right?
- 48:23So last year, the Jamaicans had the best team on paper and they
- 48:30screwed it up. We should have and could have
- 48:34won that race if we execute, which we did not do.
- 48:39But everybody buying large gave the women a pass because they
- 48:41came back with a metal. And I'm like, yeah, I watched a
- 48:45unprofessional passing of the stick for the most part and it
- 48:48cost us a gold medal. So I'm like, you know, I'm just
- 48:52I want us to reach Excellence every time because we have some
- 48:57too much talent not to. Okay.
- 48:59So we've been running the women's football one long time,
- 49:03right? And so the one time when it was
- 49:06probably that it's been in has been several times when it's
- 49:08gone, pretty good, right? So we have this one instance
- 49:12where it didn't, but I mean I get I think the women should not
- 49:15be lumped into this conversation because they're Duo much better
- 49:17job than 0. That know, that's gonna get
- 49:20here, much better. And so, like I would agree with
- 49:23you that the Jamaicans didn't, you know, they were not as
- 49:26efficient. I think they were because they
- 49:28were thinking world record. So, I think that they, you know,
- 49:31over competed and I think the USA Women could have passed the
- 49:35stick better. But I'm gonna tell you again,
- 49:37USA Track. Feels happy with, they got him
- 49:39out. That's the charge.
- 49:42You can't like, so you can't put your opinion into their minds,
- 49:47not happen. So you could be mad at them
- 49:49forever on that one. As long as long as our standard
- 49:53is as minimal as possible. Yes.
- 49:58Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater get it.
- 50:00Right? Exactly.
- 50:02Yeah. Got it.
- 50:04We have not mentioned. 9 was it 987 by Seville.
- 50:14Without the time. I didn't see that race.
- 50:18That's I don't know. I think it was 87 but I didn't
- 50:23see it. So I can't comment on that.
- 50:24Yeah. I mean, like, member get the,
- 50:27the Africans are one of their own on the Rampage, you know,
- 50:33they want to be counted for they want.
- 50:34They want to be a part of the party and they're going to show
- 50:37and again I think okay, history shows that when this happens,
- 50:42right? So Marshall, Jacob steps out of
- 50:45the shadows and does what he does.
- 50:46Now, I As I could, he can do that.
- 50:49Why can't I do it? We just talked about that with
- 50:51the long jump, right? You know, does it, does anybody
- 50:53remember that when Daphne shippers all of a sudden came
- 50:56out of the woodwork as a multi-sided, one of the world
- 50:58100-200, all these no-name people showed up as well.
- 51:02No. So, you know, it's the same kind
- 51:04of effect, I think that, you know, him Sabina and the rest of
- 51:09the crew were like, hey, we want, we want a piece of the
- 51:10pie, so I it's Eugene, it's the cathedral as my man.
- 51:17Clyde likes to call it and we've seen a plethora of Love fast
- 51:22100's and that building, right? And I can't imagine that this
- 51:26year's gonna be different Yeah, you got, you got the, you got
- 51:31the NCAA, meet the world champion of Trials and then the
- 51:34worlds in that building all in a Non-Stop, much time.
- 51:37It's going to be hot. Absolutely.
- 51:42Yeah, there might get some new chip, some new track records.
- 51:47He's it's you. They might definitely going to
- 51:50get some new. It was being facetious.
- 51:53I know you were merace my bad. Listen here.
- 51:59It's Mariachi Mario. No.
- 52:07Lamar. All right.
- 52:08I get it. Now.
- 52:10I get it. Now, an old to the 49ers,
- 52:14perhaps. I mean, little bit of you
- 52:17minute, mr. See you minute Mary?
- 52:21Okay. All right, he would he was
- 52:25Marucci, but I love them all. Okay.
- 52:29Okay. Thank you.
- 52:30I'm shaking my head with. Yeah, I'm so confused right now.
- 52:34So, so, so, so speaking of football, what that?
- 52:38We have a Hot Topic in football. Boy, we have an epic Eddie
- 52:46moaning. Oh yeah, I think I think they
- 52:50should. They should literally headline
- 52:53the next UFC. Oh my gosh to 27 year old white
- 52:58dudes going at it. We perfect, my gosh. so if you
- 53:05haven't heard, I'll go say, set the stage for him to set the
- 53:09stage for no, so we have a Head football coach by the name of
- 53:18Nick Saban who lost it up? I there is a student athlete
- 53:22who, of course committed to said school because they were given a
- 53:26million dollars and this, that and the third and gave a couple
- 53:29of examples. Immediately following the
- 53:32student athlete said, then, why is my mom still living a three
- 53:35bedroom house with five kids? You know?
- 53:37And then you got a response from Primetime saying white, you
- 53:42know, so there's a lot to be said, and of course steps were
- 53:45retracted. Weren't you are attracted
- 53:47thereafter by Saban. There are other head coaches who
- 53:51chimed in and and said some words, but basically, you know,
- 53:56addressing the wild wild west of n IL and the manipulation of,
- 54:01and, and using You know, Reggie, Bush era, words.
- 54:07Well, I think the big, the big comment for me was Texas.
- 54:11A&M bought every one of them. Every one of them, he didn't say
- 54:16something. Say, a couple everyone.
- 54:20Yes. And folks, if you have not seen
- 54:24or listen to Jimbo's retort to all this, I would not try to.
- 54:30I will not disrespect that man by trying to tell you what he
- 54:32said, but Tell you that he paints a very ugly picture of
- 54:37who he really believes the excitement is meaning, very and
- 54:41paints it a lot. He paints it.
- 54:43Well and long. Yes, yes.
- 54:48Wait, let me let me break down the Pacific.
- 54:57Petit. And why I love this story from
- 55:01all sides. First of all, it needs to be
- 55:06said, Nick Saban way out of pocket.
- 55:09I mean wait. Light.
- 55:14Almost. That's like, that's the level of
- 55:17out-of-pocket, that on the street, where I grew up with,
- 55:20get your ass whooped on site, on sake.
- 55:25Don't say. So here's for him to step out
- 55:30there. And, and, and let's be clear.
- 55:33He tried to retract it and say I didn't accuse anybody of
- 55:36cheating. Well, yes, you did.
- 55:38Yes, you did. I mean, didn't even send you
- 55:40ate, you accused, right? Like the Hulk.
- 55:43General comment from saving is like, They're doing things that
- 55:48we're not doing, they may or may not, you know, they may be legal
- 55:52now technically, but you accuse that man of cheating.
- 55:55Hmm. Which I found hilariously ironic
- 55:59because it's college football. Yeah, everybody's cheating.
- 56:06Yeah. And for saving to be sitting
- 56:09around for all this time that he has an act as if he's the one
- 56:13guy that so squeaky clean, he would never was just, it was
- 56:20just it was an arrogance level that that you don't really see
- 56:23in this world. My thing is this, I think it, I
- 56:26think it came from a sense of fear.
- 56:28Because here's here's the reality.
- 56:30Nate, Nick Saban's. The go.
- 56:32Okay. Go to college football, coach
- 56:34undeniable. Mmm. but in il, Balances the
- 56:41table and there is no world that exists where Crimson Tide
- 56:47football is going to win the purse string battle with any of
- 56:52these people. You not going, you ain't got
- 56:54deeper Pockets than Texas, the Texas A&M and USC, hell, they
- 57:00got Deep Pockets at Stanford or anybody else, right?
- 57:03So to me, he sees the train coming and he's no longer going
- 57:09to be able. To sustain his dominance.
- 57:11So in a moment of heady fear, he throws out that accusation and I
- 57:19am so happy. That Jimbo Fisher came back, rip
- 57:24the mask off and basically said, I dare you to keep talking
- 57:28because that's what he did. Yeah, exactly what, it's what he
- 57:31did. He's like, oh, if you, if you
- 57:33want to go here, we can go. I got the receipts, you know,
- 57:37here's the thing. It if anybody ever dumps the
- 57:41receipts or unburied, the bodies, everybody's going down
- 57:45in flames but Nick's on the Mountaintop, so he got the most
- 57:49to lose. And that's why perfectly Petty.
- 57:53And that's why we will never see the receipts.
- 57:56And, and all of these coaches know this, all of these
- 57:59administration's know this what what is interesting.
- 58:04Is that Nick Saban is now going on a national apology tour.
- 58:11He has flipped his everything like full-on, I should never
- 58:18have. Singled anyone out.
- 58:19That was a mistake, I apologize for that.
- 58:24Wow. Okay.
- 58:27So Greg Sankey or the SEC commissioner is now he's insert
- 58:32issued a public room and reprimand of Saban and Jimbo,
- 58:38and he stated it both coaches of violated SEC bylaws.
- 58:41And for ethical conduct for derogatory comments and public
- 58:46criticism of another institutions Athletics program.
- 58:50This is the part that You know, I don't care how competitive
- 58:56these two coaches are. And I don't, I mean, obviously,
- 58:59you know, Nick is very upset that he got beat last year, but
- 59:05dude, you're both in the SEC, right?
- 59:10Do not mess with SEC. Don't do it.
- 59:15Right. I mean I think what we're seeing
- 59:17now is like hey man I know you want to, you want to go put
- 59:21people on blast and all but mmm. Not not in this world.
- 59:27We're going to keep things, you can be competitive, but you're
- 59:30going to keep the comments to yourself.
- 59:34So you know what, I want to dive into is what I thought was the
- 59:39best part of this, right? Like we've all been around,
- 59:44we've all been around people of multiple cultures, but I think
- 59:50we all know that sometimes the black response is very different
- 59:55Two things then other ethnicities and between thing
- 1:00:00for a reason and let me tell you something, Deion Sanders.
- 1:00:05Oh boy, Deion Sanders said to two things, two things that we
- 1:00:12all know in the black community, they were not threats.
- 1:00:16They were promises one. He said they all know, I know
- 1:00:24who's bringing. The bags.
- 1:00:25Mmm. He didn't get the nickname Prime
- 1:00:29Time by accident, he wasn't wearing all that gold jewelry in
- 1:00:32college by accident. Okay, so this man literally has
- 1:00:36receipts both as player and Coach.
- 1:00:40We know this but the second one was my favorite he said that
- 1:00:45somebody asked him about whether saving a call to respond to
- 1:00:48apologize, he said, oh I'm sure he's called I haven't checked
- 1:00:54But if you come after me in public, you going to apologize
- 1:00:59in public where everybody can see and hear the conversation
- 1:01:03and I was like, see Let the church say, Amen, because, you
- 1:01:06know, was never going to happen. Nick Saban is never.
- 1:01:12He is never been put on blast like that.
- 1:01:15Where you want to talk to me? You want to apologize?
- 1:01:18You want to bury these bodies. Let's have a town hall Forum.
- 1:01:22That's what he said. Let's have a sit down.
- 1:01:25I'm going to pound it. You're not going to disrespect
- 1:01:27me publicly and apologize. To me private.
- 1:01:30Yep, that's out less. Let's meet, let's meet in the
- 1:01:32town hall. And we all know that Leon is
- 1:01:38Dion is dead serious. Yeah.
- 1:01:40Will not let that go nor somebody was joking.
- 1:01:43Somebody was joking about like does that mean they going to
- 1:01:46pull the Aflac commercials now with them too?
- 1:01:56You can have a lot of opinions about Dion, on either side of
- 1:02:01his experience, his delving into the coaching realm in the whole
- 1:02:06Jackson State thing and what he's trying to do HBCU like, a
- 1:02:08lot of people have a lot of opinions about that on this, his
- 1:02:12response is perfect. Yes, it's the only way to do it
- 1:02:17and he's right. It's, he know, like, you're
- 1:02:21absolutely right Dion was the dude at Florida State hell.
- 1:02:26He might have a few saving stories to tell from them tape.
- 1:02:29You probably noticed you know like Dion is the perfect partner
- 1:02:33and again just I love the pettiness of all of it.
- 1:02:36I love it from Jimbo and I loved him from Dion like nah bro you
- 1:02:40go get all this stage you know like It's, it's so good.
- 1:02:46It's so good. I'm here for all of it.
- 1:02:50Popcorn worthy. I'm here for all.
- 1:02:53Yeah, yeah, this is how, you know, Nick?
- 1:02:57Saban messed up Paul. Finebaum yes, my mom.
- 1:03:02Yes, I'm bomb actually towards saving.
- 1:03:06Yes, he did. And I'm pretty sure.
- 1:03:07Paul Finebaum wouldn't would have Nick Saban's baby if he
- 1:03:10could like his whole career, his whole career has been enhanced
- 1:03:16by his absolute Catalyst over love for Alabama football and
- 1:03:22all things, Nick Saban. So for Finebaum the jump off the
- 1:03:27bandwagon and be like, ah, this is very uh, Nick.
- 1:03:30Like, this isn't what this is absolutely surprising and
- 1:03:34appalling. And I can't believe that he
- 1:03:35stepped out and said something of this nature publicly.
- 1:03:38First of all, was tells you that he's probably been saying things
- 1:03:40like this privately for a while, but but, but but I mean, look,
- 1:03:45let's be honest. We're all always amazed when
- 1:03:48somebody famous makes that kind of public gas.
- 1:03:53Yeah. Like he was, he was in the
- 1:03:56building, he's feeling himself that he'd lost his mind but he
- 1:04:01told the truth. He forgot to my cloud but that's
- 1:04:06what makes it so perfect to me, right?
- 1:04:08Because he ain't wrong. He just shouldn't be talking.
- 1:04:12He's like the last person that should be talking.
- 1:04:17Yeah. Daddy careful.
- 1:04:20Now he's opened the door who comes through.
- 1:04:22What happens after wide open. Doors wide open wide open for
- 1:04:30the record. They should have sanction.
- 1:04:33It's a sec shit in the sanction. Jimbo Jimbo Jimbo degree.
- 1:04:37I agree about was counterpunching what you
- 1:04:39supposed to do. Just stand there and take it.
- 1:04:43No. You definitely should have the
- 1:04:48right to if somebody comes after your name and your program like
- 1:04:51that. You definitely have.
- 1:04:54You should have the right to respond.
- 1:04:57Well, that's the Jimbo and Jimbo made it very clear that his
- 1:05:01issue was that the code save him was attacking his kids.
- 1:05:07His new recruits and their parents.
- 1:05:08That was his issue and he made that very cool.
- 1:05:12So out of all of this, I mean, this, this is, this is for you,
- 1:05:16Clyde guess who? The ultimate troll in all of
- 1:05:20this was, Wasn't me at all Miss? Oh, sure.
- 1:05:30Oh, of course, Lane can see the Mastery when this man put this
- 1:05:36tweet together. I mean, I mean, cly desk.
- 1:05:40Okay. He says, 2018 05 Stars 2019 to
- 1:05:50five stars 2022, 5 stars, 1021 15 star and I ll introduce
- 1:06:00Asterix extra asterisks. 2022 7 5 stars, and the highest-rated
- 1:06:07class of all time makes perfect logic after losing to Ole Miss
- 1:06:12Mississippi State, Arkansas and LSU, and finishing foreign
- 1:06:16foreign a sec. It was clear to the nation's
- 1:06:20Elite recruits that this was the program on the rise.
- 1:06:25Oh, wow. Yep.
- 1:06:39Unions lt- standing it. Yeah.
- 1:06:43That sounds like a tweet. Oh my goodness.
- 1:06:48That's literally the best thing. That's the best thing that man
- 1:06:52is done in his career. Oh man, I'm telling you, I mean
- 1:06:55you want? Yeah he's like you want
- 1:06:57receipts. Okay, here we go.
- 1:07:03Oh man, tough crowd, tough crowd.
- 1:07:07Man, all right, well, we're going to turn the corner and put
- 1:07:13the governor in the seat of. Would you rather this week?
- 1:07:17So I may have set myself a failure because would you rather
- 1:07:22is were much easier when they're what's the word inappropriate
- 1:07:28the page that level of G that I have to keep these at make it
- 1:07:31hard but funny nonetheless. Yes.
- 1:07:35So Governor you ready, sir? I'm ready.
- 1:07:38Okay. Would you rather?
- 1:07:40I'm going to start off easy and and build up a little bit.
- 1:07:42Hopefully, would you rather cut the grass or shovel snow?
- 1:07:47Got the grass. There's some people who hate if
- 1:07:51you have allergies is not fun, but having sat in very cold
- 1:07:55weather this week. That was the first one that came
- 1:07:56to mind. Would you rather long jump in
- 1:07:59the rain? Or in the Wind?
- 1:08:03So into a headwind or in the rain, sure, let's call it that
- 1:08:07because that's more effective into the wind into the wind.
- 1:08:11Yes, got it, I love it. I jumper understands someone who
- 1:08:16doesn't jump, doesn't necessarily understand why I've
- 1:08:20seen many fields and the jump into the rain.
- 1:08:22I've seen what exactly would you rather forget your toothbrush or
- 1:08:28your razor on a trip? I would rather forget my Razor.
- 1:08:35I got to keep the pearly whites. Got to keep them clean.
- 1:08:38Then I don't play with my teeth. No.
- 1:08:44Would you rather get salt in a cut or bite your tongue?
- 1:08:57I'd rather put salt in the cut either both rather like this is
- 1:09:01pretty and those are both the scruciating your tongue man.
- 1:09:05Yeah, I'd rather put salt in the cut.
- 1:09:10Would you rather wear flip-flops in the sand or have soggy boots
- 1:09:13in the mud? And I'd look at my house behind
- 1:09:18me. Literally like yeah, give me to
- 1:09:25send any day. Uh-huh, I'm bringing back
- 1:09:29another question because I thought of this is great for you
- 1:09:32because you're your facial response.
- 1:09:34When I first asked was a good one, would you rather spend
- 1:09:36three million dollars in one day or triple your salary forever?
- 1:09:44Triple my salary forever right there with you.
- 1:09:49Okay, fun. One.
- 1:09:51Would you rather be a long trip official at a diamond League
- 1:09:53meet or a starter at a high school meet Or a, what press
- 1:09:59starter, pistol, die, or girl, you wanna call those balls.
- 1:10:10I'm thinking about the amount of false starts that have amount of
- 1:10:14Flyers, the amount of all men, oh, man.
- 1:10:19Okay. Would you rather write an email
- 1:10:20on your phone or on a computer compose, an email?
- 1:10:25My computer. Would you rather eat a stale
- 1:10:28cookie or an undercooked cookie? I will speak to you right now.
- 1:10:37I believing mango. I got mango on the mine
- 1:10:40undercooked TV too. Yeah, cookie dough like it's
- 1:10:46nothing. I mean yeah.
- 1:10:48Like the stomachache you'll be. All right.
- 1:10:50What is that? Last one and only because it's
- 1:10:53you and your background stimulated.
- 1:10:55This thought would you rather eat fruit from the states or
- 1:10:58fruits from the island? There's no comparison.
- 1:11:02I know the answer. Don't even bother.
- 1:11:04There's no could know what? No comparison.
- 1:11:08Right, exactly. I know all of our Bob wins, I
- 1:11:12was saying for them to eat, go get some fruits and easy, a
- 1:11:15hydrated and like variant. Like yeah, of course, coach,
- 1:11:17because the fruit here is just water.
- 1:11:19Anyways. I was like, oh, it's like, it's
- 1:11:21like eating pasta in Italy, compared to the u.s. and trying
- 1:11:27to figure out how it tastes. So good with literally just made
- 1:11:32up Bit of seasoning. Like, how do you do this, how do
- 1:11:36you lightly coat the pasta like, why is it not drowning in it?
- 1:11:40How do you how was it so good, you know, all right, gentlemen,
- 1:11:45your turn for questions. I don't know if I have a
- 1:11:48question, but I do have one point of contention on his
- 1:11:50answers. I agree with.
- 1:11:53You got to maintain the teeth, but if you leave the razor, you
- 1:11:59can't get a good one from the hotel front desk, even get to
- 1:12:02gross. So so okay, looking at what you
- 1:12:08have to do easily just cut this all off.
- 1:12:13That's not a problem. I'd rather just you know you
- 1:12:18have to shape and mold and yeah. I'm it's not it's not even that
- 1:12:22serious. And for me just making sure that
- 1:12:25the smile is somewhat. Great Hotel.
- 1:12:27Raises a dangerous. This is true.
- 1:12:33Oh alright last question I have a question for you.
- 1:12:36I would like to know I have been impressed with what I've watched
- 1:12:42you do in your time, as a head coach.
- 1:12:45What are you most excited about for the future of your program?
- 1:12:53the moving from, The focus on conference.
- 1:13:02It's it's I think it's pervasive at this level when you have a
- 1:13:08program or there's a mindset that you know well will never
- 1:13:13compete with those guys. So let's just fit into our
- 1:13:17little box and it has been unbelievable to see the
- 1:13:23transformation from when I first got here to where Right now,
- 1:13:28we're athletes. They are thinking past
- 1:13:31conference. They want to go to the first
- 1:13:34round. They want to go to Eugene.
- 1:13:37I don't have to like, I mean, trust me.
- 1:13:40It was, we had, we had situations where athletes were
- 1:13:44making plans right after conference, like they were
- 1:13:49leaving because they didn't think that there was anything
- 1:13:53more. And when we introduced this, oh
- 1:13:56my gosh. I mean, we have had a situation
- 1:13:59where an athlete was upset. That the athlete was going on
- 1:14:05that. There was more there.
- 1:14:07Like how dare you you know, find my potential.
- 1:14:11It was like what? So to get to this point.
- 1:14:15Now we have 15 athletes heading to to Fayetteville and not only
- 1:14:22that athletes being upset that they're not going.
- 1:14:25I mean, it's been a lot of fun and I look forward to building
- 1:14:29on that. What is the thing that you are?
- 1:14:36Looking least forward to about our trip to Arkansas?
- 1:14:44Well, the petty guy has arrived. Well, just just like, what's
- 1:14:49your lucious is about to deal with?
- 1:14:52I mean, the we don't know what what the weather is going to be
- 1:14:57like. We can easily sit here and look
- 1:14:59at the projections and all of that.
- 1:15:01But, you know, right now it's saying rain on Tuesday and
- 1:15:07Wednesday and then supposedly clears up after that.
- 1:15:11There's no telling. Okay, now, getting your athletes
- 1:15:15ready and being prepared for whatever, you know, that's
- 1:15:19something that comes with experience.
- 1:15:20I mean, we can talk to what blue in the face.
- 1:15:23It's another thing when we get to the meat and it's, you know,
- 1:15:2560° raining sideways. And hey, I need you to go
- 1:15:30perform what you know. So those are those, that's what
- 1:15:35I'm probably not looking forward to the most because, you know,
- 1:15:39you, you sitting there Telling your athletes, a everybody has
- 1:15:42to deal with it, right? But there's still the issue of
- 1:15:46the athlete going out there and executing would you rather
- 1:15:59coach? Gold medalists world record
- 1:16:03holder. so, I know the answer would be if you were to ask me
- 1:16:15what I prefer, that's what I'm asking you but from a coaching
- 1:16:22standpoint, I would much rather close to gold medalist.
- 1:16:26Amen. Period Point Blank.
- 1:16:30There there is a definite difference when that's on your
- 1:16:36resume like to coach someone to the Mountaintop.
- 1:16:42There's no there's no question in my mind.
- 1:16:47I can I can tell you that I've had almost say it now.
- 1:16:52First world problems look like that than to say it.
- 1:16:56I've had the blessing and pleasure of doing them both,
- 1:17:00mmm. The only time I have teared up
- 1:17:03or had any tears at all at a type of track and field
- 1:17:05competition over performers when Chrome won the gold medal.
- 1:17:08You didn't buy the clothes nautical.
- 1:17:11Yeah, man! I see the record.
- 1:17:15I record it. Sometimes can be broken.
- 1:17:17Yes, the metal is the metals of forever.
- 1:17:20Forever. Metals are forever.
- 1:17:23Absolutely. Good answer, good answer.
- 1:17:30Yes, sir basket. The line for heartbeat props.
- 1:17:33I got somewhere. I gotta be yes to the front of
- 1:17:36the line drug. This guy?
- 1:17:39No. But you're gonna like, but you
- 1:17:40won't like this one though. And then I get to drop the mic
- 1:17:42and leave and I get to watch the show and find out what ya'll
- 1:17:45said after my heartbeat props are split over the same point of
- 1:17:52contention. It it goes out to my assistant
- 1:17:54Ernie Clark. And the state of California
- 1:17:58because we put on the best version of a state championship
- 1:18:05in the nation because there's only one champion and throughout
- 1:18:09the gauntlet of a process that these kids have to do to get
- 1:18:13there. This past weekend was sectional
- 1:18:17championships, also known as Masters for a lot of the areas.
- 1:18:23Me and my assistant Ernie. Clark, went on an epic road
- 1:18:28trip, and for The Californians. And I know the Mariachi will
- 1:18:33fully love this Friday night. We started at the sac Joaquin
- 1:18:39section. The meat went from roughly 5 to
- 1:18:4310 p.m. at night. We left and headed to Los
- 1:18:47Angeles arrived. At 5 a.m. awoke at 11 a.m. to
- 1:18:54watch the southern section Master's Championship.
- 1:18:58Which ended around five but we left right after the 200 to
- 1:19:02drive to Clovis to watch the central section.
- 1:19:06Master's Championship, that started around 6:00 p.m., we
- 1:19:11made it about halfway through. Alden me, the Clark Tesla all
- 1:19:19around the state just to pay homage to the two young men and
- 1:19:23young women that we have signed and make our presence seen
- 1:19:27throughout the state. If people are wondering why
- 1:19:31we're having the success that we have, is because we grind, like
- 1:19:33other people are unwilling to do.
- 1:19:35So Props to Ernie Clark and props to the state of
- 1:19:38California. And yes, the NCAA championships
- 1:19:42Get Poppin Off this. And with East and West prelims,
- 1:19:45but find your way to the internet and the meet results or
- 1:19:50the live video coverage of the California state finals, which
- 1:19:54are this weekend in Clovis. One champion, I don't care if
- 1:19:58it's 200 kids in school or 30,000 one chance.
- 1:20:04Yep. It's going to be a show.
- 1:20:06It means more anymore. It just means more.
- 1:20:08Hmm. Oh geez.
- 1:20:11Love y'all. And I'm out.
- 1:20:13I have fun. See.
- 1:20:20I'll go next, my heart. You're breaking up.
- 1:20:26So I'm still cutting. Coach low.
- 1:20:35In l.a. Kankakee, he just won the
- 1:20:38Illinois, State title on the girls side first ever for the
- 1:20:41school. Had the pleasure of meeting this
- 1:20:44gentleman. I think I was almost two years
- 1:20:47ago now and I usatf class that I was teaching, and it's been fun
- 1:20:52to see him kind of grow a culture that he wanted to make
- 1:20:55sure that he was instilling. That was going to be for the
- 1:20:58long ride and not just a short ride.
- 1:21:00And so, the fruits of his labor came to this year and I I'm a
- 1:21:05about that a conversation after. After to see if it came faster
- 1:21:11than you thought. So, just Jacobs Harpy props to
- 1:21:15you to that team and that Championship.
- 1:21:20It's fun. It's always fun when you win.
- 1:21:22So good stuff. So I'll go next, okay, I'm gonna
- 1:21:32give you props to assistant coaches everywhere and because
- 1:21:40the head coach is obviously get the headlines because we are the
- 1:21:43face of the program, but there's no head coach out there that
- 1:21:49he's going to he or she's going to be honest with you.
- 1:21:52They can just get that will deny that we cannot do this without
- 1:21:56the tireless you know, gut-wrenching back Breaking work
- 1:22:00that our assistance do. So my heart be promises to all
- 1:22:03the assistance out there who take our marching orders and
- 1:22:08move forward with them and carry them out graciously and so
- 1:22:15sitting coaches stand up. That's right.
- 1:22:21I am going to give props to the American track league, and, you
- 1:22:28know, What started as an experiment by Paul Doyle just to
- 1:22:35give athletes an opportunity to compete.
- 1:22:39If you know athletes that don't have options overseas, that sort
- 1:22:43of thing, you know to be able to get the slot the time slots on
- 1:22:51ESPN. You know there's still I mean
- 1:22:54obviously there's still tons of Kinks to be worked out The
- 1:22:59things to be dealt with in terms of locations and weather and all
- 1:23:03that stuff. But at the same time, the one
- 1:23:08thing that we have complained about over the years has been
- 1:23:12opportunities opportunities for athletes to go out and show and
- 1:23:18prepare and you know I mean not everybody wants to get on a
- 1:23:23plane and fly over, you know, 8 hours, 10 hours, you know, you
- 1:23:28know, and compete the Next Day, stuff like that.
- 1:23:31So, you know, I give props to the idea.
- 1:23:35I mean, obviously, there's still more to be done to get this
- 1:23:40thing to where it is watchable and it is presentable and
- 1:23:46professional. You know, those things will come
- 1:23:48in time but hardly props to Paul Doyle for forgetting this thing
- 1:23:53off the ground and giving me the u.s. athletes opportunities to
- 1:23:57compete. My my heartbeat props.
- 1:24:05Go out to junior college and four-year college baseball
- 1:24:12players, whose careers are Either ending or taking massive
- 1:24:23changes this week conference championships have started.
- 1:24:29And for those of you who don't know the field of 64 and
- 1:24:33baseball is incredibly hard to make because it's RPI based and
- 1:24:43therefore A little more than 25% of the field is going to come
- 1:24:48from the SEC in the ACC, and more than 45% of the field will
- 1:24:55come from Power five conferences.
- 1:24:58So, if you're not in a power five conference, it's not enough
- 1:25:02to win your conference Championship for the year, you
- 1:25:05then have to turn around and win the conference tournament
- 1:25:08because that's where the bid comes from.
- 1:25:10And, you know, look as a fan, you love it as a person and
- 1:25:14directly. Moved in it.
- 1:25:15You're like, this is just too much.
- 1:25:18But, you know, the finality of it is brutal and I've my phone
- 1:25:23has rung several times in the last few days of kids, who, you
- 1:25:28know, not are done. But they're done, where they
- 1:25:30are. And now they're on to the next
- 1:25:32thing, and it's not an easy thing for them.
- 1:25:35So my harpie props, go out to these young people who are, you
- 1:25:38know, endeavouring to play a sport that they love that they
- 1:25:41started when they were four years old, and the goal is
- 1:25:45really Just to keep playing. This again.
- 1:25:53Well, another fun show. We will all find our sanity and
- 1:26:01good health and probably Be singing a different tone, come
- 1:26:07Sunday, but that'll be okay. 200 week from this recording.
- 1:26:12So safe travels health and the best weather that we can get in
- 1:26:18our respective regions. Sorry, sir.
- 1:26:21Lucius, I don't know, man, I don't know how you guys are into
- 1:26:25it, knowing what they, what they've gotten this weekend, we
- 1:26:29get it done somehow, we always always So everyone will see you
- 1:26:38again soon. Thanks for tuning in.
- 1:26:40Have a good week. Week with the lights.
- 1:26:45Come on the road with the bikes. Come on.
- 1:27:14Wouldn't be here, but we have to start learning.
- 1:27:17You gotta understand. Rapes, gotta catch Stars.
- 1:27:20Show you how to fight for? Sure.
- 1:27:21So you are you lack experience, but still, you want a job and
- 1:27:25who was that you talk to yourself.
- 1:27:27You got a small heads prevail when the backbone strong.
- 1:27:30Gotta keep it coming up. Won't last long faster felt
- 1:27:34instead of the session and if you don't check yourself then
- 1:27:38that's wrong just trying to give you the real bitch ass for so
- 1:27:41why you keep cutting us off to a small?
- 1:27:44We put It in slow-mo, what you fast for it.