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Speaker 3 (00:39):
It is Two Pros and a Cup of Joe here
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six o'clock Pacific here on this Tuesday morning. There is
something that we need to address though, to start off
(01:01):
this hour. I think it is important for those of
you that were listening. Last week, Lee was telling the
tale about how is Good Buddy Todd, who once sang
karaoke on this show live on the air. Lee's Buddy
Todd had an issue with his might cover. Yeah, that
basically stole his cover.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I got you too might cover.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So Todd Todd basically had a testicle growing out of
his ear, some sort of an infection looked like Syphiliss,
who knows.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
They looked like something.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
That you would get in like the eighteen hundreds that
there's no cure for, and he ends up dying at
like twenty two. But Lee was for some reason the
designated driver to take Todd Todd to urgent care. And
by designated driver, I mean designated driver, because there's no
way Todd was sober for that trip. So Lee sent
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a pick sure over yesterday of the post op.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, in fact, let's go. Yeah, in fact, I just
tweeted it out before and after photos of Todd's ear.
So yeah, last week I looked over at him and
I said, dude, did you get you got cauliflower or
you get a fight? And yeah, he's got a huge growth.
And I've taken him to the urgent care not more
than once, and he keeps walking out because he didn't
want to pay for it because he doesn't having shirts.
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And uh, he went to a tattoo artist friend of
ours to stab it to see if it would leak.
That didn't work. So I finally got to go back
and yeah, they lanced at yesterday morning, first thing yesterday morning,
after the show. I got him over there and uh.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Dude, what is in it? Why does zear look like that?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Basically a ruptured just blood collection in there. I thought
it was gonna be They said that there was no
puss in there, so so.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
It was all blood that was sitting in there.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Yeah, and come to find out, the doctor says, drinking.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Buddy, think about that, Lee story? Lee got that that's
the story.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Then my old.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Spie, No, no, I was just joking. That's not the doctor.
That was just some dude at the bar, but posed
with the photo we were. We went so after after
we got got him leaked out, we went over the bar.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
That's just some of the bet on the ponies, some
of their lush.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So when they when they lanced it, it did leak out.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah. I debated whether or not to stay in the
room with him, but I thought it was gonna smell
like it no, because it was taken forever. So I
went and got a bite or whatever, so and I
thought it was gonna smell. I thought it was gonna stink.
So did he say it hurt. Yeah, it was hurting
more after the fact than during They they numbed it up,
but that went away. So we went to the bar
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to numb up a different way. So did that and
then went to the barbecue.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And so now the Colie flower here is gone because
it's alleviated. Like, how does that work? I've never really
I've seen the air, but I just always thought, once
you have it, it's there forever.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, you got to take care of it right away.
That's why I was trying to tell him. Uh, it's
I think it's called a heemotomo. I think that's what
they said it was when they went there. Yeah, if
you don't take care of it, that'll that'll stay, that'll
stay the same. So hopefully we'll see, we'll see if
it goes goes down and goes away.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I just wonder, like, Lee, if you're not able to
do this for him, what's plan B death?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
What happens after that?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, I've I have taken him near death to the
e R before. But if not you, if not me,
I don't know, he'd probably I don't know what he
would do. He'd probably die.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, just do anything.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
And And by the way, we're talking about Lee here
helping out to.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Which is crazy.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
That's a low book park, right, I mean, I mean,
I'm gonna go out on lim right now. That robot
that Elon Musk has made, it would be better right now.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Than Lee taking care of Todd.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
It's not even close to being human mic, Yet it
can do enough task where I think it would beat
you Lee if Todd was really in a pinch and
needed help with something. I'm betting on Optimists over you
at this current juncture right now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And yet he takes care of us for this show.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
There you go, I'm in a lot of his Scott.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
See if we can buy a robot to take in
take over.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
For me, or at least help him.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Although the robots quickly going to realize, like I could,
I could take this guy's job.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I could take him.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, I could take him.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
More robotsybody, everybuddy, anybody, anybody.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I just that is a wild, wild day in the life.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And the first thing you guys do after you leave
Virgin Care is you go to a bar, a bar
middle of the day, and the picture in the background
is your typical middle of the day dive bar that
for some random reason that nobody can ever make sense of.
They've got like decorations up, they've got TVs. They've got
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a fake backdrop where behind the bottles to make it
seem like that's, you know, a real brick.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
It's probably not. It's wallpaper.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
They've got stale wood, a cash register that looks like
it's from the eighties.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It's a great dive bar champs and uh yeah, then
they had the ponies on, so I was gonna I
was losing big time on the ponies yesterday.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Not surprising either.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
That's the whole other world. That's the whole nother world.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Man.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
He dropped sixty bucks on the hot Spot the other
day won five bucks.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
All right, well that was Memorial Day.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, it'll uh the last Memorial that you guys will
spend together. I'm sure the way that the way he's gone.
So there's your your update on on Lee's buddy Todd,
And you can see the before and after at Lee
to lap on on x is where you can find
that stuff. So it's very disgusting. Don't don't do it
while you're eating breakfast. I'll just say that, so we
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do have a little bit of an update here. Somebody
feels threatened. I don't know if you guys are familiar
with Darryl hush Ducet. He's a quarterback for the US
national flag football team, and he is concerned that maybe
NFL players getting an opportunity to play flag football could
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take away chances for them, because he feels like they've
earned the right. It's a completely different game. If they
want to come in and try out and they make
the team, fine, but he feels like that they don't
need anybody, They don't need the NFL's help. But he
feels like this is going to be something to where
if the NFL gets there, get a hold of it,
or if they start taking players from the NFL, that
all of a sudden, guys who have been growing with
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flag football over the past several years are going to
be iced down a little bit, to which I say, dude,
you need whatever coverage.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
You're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
If it means bringing in a couple of superstars to
grow the sport, why would you turn that down.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
We also just be honest about the fact that yes,
it's I mean, have you seen this guy throw?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I mean it's just what's wrong with it.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Well, he ain't gonna be able to play in the NFL. Well,
let's put it this way. So if the NFL players
could come in and immediately take his job, which they
all could and probably should and will if we want
our best players in there representing our country, but the
other way around would work, Like he can't make it
in the NFL as a quarterback or.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
As anything other than that.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
So it's not like our best guys are playing flag
football in this league competing with them. So it's no
disrespect for the game they've been a part of. But
if these guys were good enough, they wouldn't be playing
flag football. They would be playing in the NFL because
that's where you actually make real money. None of these
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dudes are walking around like being like, man, if I
could just you know, a little bit more of this
flag football keeps growing like we're really gonna get No, Like,
the NFL is where your hopes and dreams are for football,
it's not flag football. And I'm not saying that to
discourage any young people who are playing flag football.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
It's fun.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
It's not an opportunity though, to grow and play into
a real sport like the NFL is, which is the
greatest sport in this country. So I feel bad for
him because he's thinking this way when in reality, like, dude,
the best and brightest aren't playing in your sport right now.
Like the only reason that you're there right now is
because they're not. If Patrick Mahomes wants to walk in,
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Josh s who name your quarterback from the NFL, wants
to walk in and play in flag football, he's going
to be able to take over and be better than
what you've been producing. That's just the reality of people.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, that is the reality. I mean, what else, what
more is there to it? Like, I feel for you, buddy,
But if they allow them to play, and they want
to play, and you obviously the Olympics is the country's best,
best represented you know, representatives of that sport. I mean,
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why would you, you know, if they if they had
the opportunity to do it, why not come in and
compete and listen. I like the fact that he said
come in and win the job, But I mean, be
be clear. I mean, if they come in to compete
with you, they're going to beat you out. Like you said,
probably every single quarterback in the league and the backup,
and the backup would probably beat you out. So it's
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sad for him, you know, and it's probably sad for
the other guys that would have had an opportunity to
go play. But I'm reminded of that. You know, they
had basketball three on three basketball in the in the
last Olympics.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Right, Yeah, didn't Jimmer Ferdett was on that team, wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
We didn't win gold. There were no NBA players on
on the teams, right, there were no NBA players, you
know what I mean? So, and we didn't win. Like,
I don't even think we got silver. I don't know
what metal we got. I stopped watching because I was
tab it embarrassed. Leak.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
You look up? How did we do on three on three?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Uh? So we so?
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You know? Crimea river faster?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Answer?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Which? If you had the guess right now? Which country
do you think won?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
The three on three gold in the Olympics. I'm gonna
go Ireland? Why why not?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
In the twenty twenty four Olympics, the US men's three
by three basketball team finished with a two to five record,
failing to qualify for the knockout stage.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I think about that, damn. And you out here complaining
about but.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Women's got bronze, by the way, okay, and that's not even.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
You know who got not even who got the gold
in each who got the gold?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
My old spice, My Ireland got it. I mean Lee
did Lee fall asleep?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And the Netherlands won the gold by the way, Yeah,
Germany for the women's, for men's. In Germany won for women's.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I always said Germany for one of them because I
was like, I remember a German team winning.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Dude, nether Lens beat up friends. It's interesting, man, But
I think that proves my point. Like, I'm sorry, bro,
but you're a generic football player, Damn you are. And
if you're going to bring in Nike versus Pro Wings,
I'm bringing in the Nike crew, not the Pro Kids crew.
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And that just is what it is like. Tough tough nuts,
tough balls, tough tough way, tough tough luck. I don't
know which one it is, but I don't feel confident
in getting the gold with you. I feel I feel
great if it was Patrick Mahomes, or if it was
you know, Justin Herbert or somebody like that, or you know,
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Joe Burrow Like, come on, man, hey, you know who's
seven on seven on air? You know what I mean?
Like flag football, Like flag football is a little bit
more than seven on seven, you know, because as you're
going to score, like you're working to score in a
different way, like you can run the ball and stuff
like that. And you I do believe you have a
(13:50):
few linemen out there, man, but I just avar.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You know they run it around, but I don't.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I don't think they have linemen the var You know,
we should uh, we should get to be the quarterback
of the US flag football team to go for the
gold Brady Quinn da right.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
And then we can.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Yes, come on, you should do their Come on, I
will be the first person I tell you I'm not
an advocate for flood flag football. Yeah, but if you
could get I don't know, I don't mean to sound
like disrespectful about the game flag football.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
I know a lot of kids play at the funnel.
It it's great, it's in gym class cool. It's not football,
and it bothers me a ton that we sometimes try
to make it seem like, well we'll let him play flag,
then when they get older they can play attackle it's
like no, no, no, they're gonna get older to a
point where it's gonna be harder to teach them good technique.
(14:45):
Like if you have good coaching, you teach them good
technique at a young age that grows with them. And
so I have an issue with it because I feel
like a lot of kids when they get older and
they go to play, they have bad technique. Bad technique
leads injuries, and then tackle football gets a bad rep
because of that because they're like, oh, you know, so
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and so got hurt or so and so on did
this and that. I'm like, well, yeah, because they it
was poor tackling, or they they didn't use the right
fundamentals when trying to tackle. So I just I can't
get on the flag football train. I'm sorry, it's not
for me. It's it's fun to see if other people
enjoy doing it and all that. Not gonna try to
rate on the parade just saying not my thing, not
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my style, medal.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That's exactly how I raised.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
You know, my wife would probably look at me and
she'd be like, yeah, this doesn't count, and I'm like, yeah,
you're probably.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Right, Oh yes, she would medal judge you if you
brought home a gold.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Half the crap that has become Olympic sports now it's like, okay,
well who are we doing this for me?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Think about some of the most obscure sports that are
in the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
There's some of the crap.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Like break dancing is one of like what how was
an Olympic sport? Why is that?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Why is that someone that should even make the light
of TV and be like like what about.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
That makes it a sport?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
And eOne wants to watch anyone's at a stay claimed to,
especially when it was like interpretive. I mean the chick
last year, she thought she was doing a good job.
She thought that was actually a good job, said taking
someone else's spot. Oh ray gun, yeah whatever it was.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You know art is art, and I thought she was
painting a masterclass there in front of everybody, Like I
was thoroughly impressed with what she was doing. I think
she was screwed. And you know, it's unfortunate the backlash
she got. He's an artist is cornhole?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Is cornhole an Olympic sport?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
It should be?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Should be?
Speaker 6 (16:37):
I mean, I mean, you Pa with a beer in
his hand, like, hey, buddy, going for the Olympics, Buddy.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I wish I could compete with those guys. Those guys
guys are good. It's a good watch too, and I
think some of them make some money. It sponsored I
was playing, I was playing yesterday.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Cornhole players make what do you think they make?
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Drinking or playing? What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Free beer? At the cornal competition?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
There you got Lee?
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Lee, what's what's a cornhole player salary?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It's the top ones is around one hundred thousand, ninety
five thousand dollars more per year.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Not bad, all right, it's not bad at all.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah, thing a professional tailgate game, you know, it's not bad.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I do appreciate the fact that we asked Lee like
he had his fingertips. He answered that question without any
research whatsoever. And it's like banking on the fact that
he's right about that.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Well, the low ones make five thousand, but yeah, top
players can at sixty thousand thousand.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
That's a big ran.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
It is a huge range. Yeah, well you gotta be
good at that. Cornal man.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
By the way, I'm fighting out other others, but he's
top earners are from sixty to one hundred hundreds, like
the top end. Yeah, we're not having sure it gets
there so far, so average ars are five to twenty
five per season.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yeah, well sounds like.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Good drinking and free beer. So there you go.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I'm not seeing the free beer anywhere. I think you're
just throwing that in I have just thrown.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I guess.
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Speaker 5 (18:32):
So when you play a little bit too much cornhole
with all.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
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Coming up next though, Yeah, before I tell you about it,
we do have the very latest on a very important
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Speaker 4 (19:15):
Of football, and we'll have that for you here on FSR.
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I felt like somebody got a little bit of karma
over the weekend in the world of sports.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
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minute from now.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
So this College Football.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Playoffs taking more twists and turns here. Greg Sankee, the
Commissioner of the SEC, did have some interesting comments yesterday
when it came to the format and the layout, because
it does feel like there's a divide between what the
Big Ten and the SEC want for a playoff format
(20:25):
and what the Big twelve and the ACC want and
it feels like we're starting to see a little bit
of a splinter and a separation there. So we're gonna
grab some you'll hear from Greg Sanky in some of
the comments he had yesterday, But it does feel like
the battle lines have been drawn, so to speak on
whols what.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Why don't we hear from Greg Sankey and then we
can talk about on the back end we are efforting that.
Oh okay, so that's actually not prepared, gotcha, got it?
Speaker 5 (20:54):
So a couple of things are at play right now.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
One of the things you'll hear is the term automatic qualifier,
where you know, very similar to how we look at
the NFL and winning divisions, and it's why it's been
a hot button topic and our discussions about it, because
if you win your division, it's an automatic qualifier for
the playoffs. Plus you get to host, potentially host a
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home playoff game, or if you're the top overall seed,
right you get to buy So that's part of the
qualification process. But if you win your division, we know
the two qualifiers are you get in the playoffs, you'll
be hosting a home playoff game unless you're the top seed.
So in the college football Playoff last year, the top
four highest ranked conference champions received the buys. Now, one
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of the reasons why I didn't want to make I
didn't think there should be a change after one year
of the expanded twelve team playoff was because the percentage
chances that a group of five team will be one
of those top four conference champions, meaning essentially a conference
outside of the Big ten, SEC, ACC Big twelve, is
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very unlikely. Last year happened to be a unique year,
but it brought to light in some discussions the fact that, well,
the group of five teams don't play as difficult as
a schedule. So if they do happen to run the
table and go undefeated, or if they do happen to
be a one loss conference champ where maybe they beat
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a couple of you know, Power four teams in their
non conference play, that might be looked upon favorably, so
much so where they end up being ranked higher than
a Power four conference champ who might have two or
three losses a lot Clemson from last year winning the ACC.
So there's a lot of thought that's kind of you know,
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been thrown around about how we go about best suiting
the teams that deserve to get the buys but also
deserve to get be a part of the college football playoff.
And so there's a number of things, you know, at
odds in regards to the conversation of it is strength
to schedule. I continually keep saying that, you know, not
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every conference plays the same amount of conference games, and
for a period of time, conferences that play nine conference games,
we're having a hard time winning national championships, even in
the fourteen playoff because that additional conference you know game
happened to be a stick in the road that were
a lot of teams stumbled. So we still have that
(23:29):
disparity between some of the conferences when the Power four,
but yet no one's really trying to get that changed.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Okay, the next thing is the non conference scheduling.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
There's a thought with some that like do you want
to schedule some some tough opponents or do you not?
And if you do, or do you schedule them because
at the beginning of the year, where there's normally some
non conference games that are scheduled, those tend to be
the time where if you're going to schedule one.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Schedule them then, because if you lose, you could still
overcome them.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Now, last year it was a conference game, but o
Hio State lost to Michigan obviously didn't play in the
Big Ten championship game. Their two losses were to Michigan
and Oregon obviously still made it into the College Ball Playoff.
Round the Table won the national championship. So with the
twelve team playoff, I'm not sure when you lose matters
quite as much if you're one of the top teams,
whether it's conference play and non conference. I think I
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think that's been somewhat eliminated as part of that conversation,
but maybe not, because there's some teams who had three
losses in the SEC that felt like they should be
a part of it, right. They felt like they should
have been a part of, you know, the expanded playoff
and they were better than Indiana for example, or even
a you know, one loss Notre Dame team who beat
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the crap out of everyone else. There's a lot of
Alabama or Old miss fans that felt like they should
have been it instead because we played in the SEC,
the SCC who got their ass kicked by Tennessee or
by Ohio State being Tennessee at home. You know, I'll
have State just absolutely might wipe the floor with them. So,
you know, there's a lot of different conversations around how
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we go about figuring out the best twelve teams and
how the best twelve teams should be seated to reward
them for what they did in the regular season. But
not not all regular seasons are created the same. And
I think that's the first issue that needs to be
addressed that no one's talking about enough. And I think
that would alleviate or take care of some of the
other issues that Greg Sanki and some of the other
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conference commissioners I have in trouble with.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I mean, don't we agree that this strength to schedule
is like a sliding scale, like it like could go
up or it could go down during the course of
the season. I just think it's a little difficult.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Can I ask this?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Let's say, yeah, so I would assume you'd think Big
tennesseec are are better by and large than the big
twelve NACC.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Correct, Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean yeah, okay, but
but go, but get to your point. Go, I'll address go.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Well, So the point of that is if you agree
with that, then that's why, for example, the model of
automatic qualify makes sense at least in regards to what
the Big ten and SEC are pushing for and where
they'd say four from the Big ten, four from the SEC,
two from the ACC, two from the Big twelve, all right.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
And you know you kind of look at that model
moving forward.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Now there's there's a push to expand at fourteen to
sixteen where you could get in you know, some other
teams and all that. But that's that's really what they're
they're potentially looking at in regards to expanding to and
that's why there's a push to expand even furthermore to sixteen,
so you get more potential chances of getting more teams
from your conference in which is more money for the conference,
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which is what this is about.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
And this is all about money to.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Say, that's that's what it's about. Is the more you
get in there, the more chances you have to win,
the more more you know, exposure you bring to the conference.
I just for me, there's there's two ways I look
at it. One either expand the playoffs where you can
you can extend the same courtesy to the other conferences
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that you do to the two and the SEC and
the Big Ten. Meaning, if you're going to get a
bye week for winning your division, just make sure that
there's enough teams in there where it doesn't impact the
other the other conference champions. Meaning if you won your
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conference and you're deserving of a bye, then you won
your conference and you're deserving of a bye. I just
don't I feel like the hardest thing to do is
to say we're going to judge strength to schedule, because
they're not all created equal. But that doesn't mean that
you don't go out there. And again, this is where
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it gets weird for me. As you spend an entire
off season recruiting kids, everybody has to do it. You
spend an entire off season training your kids and prepping
your kids. Are you preparing them for to be the
best they can be? Well, if you're preparing them to
be the best that they can be and they go
out there and they beat everybody that's in front of them,
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I just don't feel like there should be a qualifier
for that. If you go out there and you win
your division, or you win your conference, scutit, you win
your conference, you should be rewarded for the type of
season you had, and I don't feel like you should
be like, yeah, kids, you guys were good. You just
weren't good in the Big Ten. Like it's like, to me,
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it defeats the purpose of competition and the reason why
I feel like it's like, Okay, well, we're going to
automatically reward you because you're the bigger conference. You got
the bigger teams. They they they're the highest ranked. Like
I get that, but then it now brings me to
the point of then why do we have other conferences?
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You know, it's like you have so many players out here.
There's so many schools. I think it's like seven hundred,
seven hundred and seven. It's like just north of eight
hundred four year colleges to play football. And listen, there's
a lot of them that you're not going there to
compete to make it into the college football Playoff. But
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if you do go to a conference, if you do
go to a school that has the capabilities of winning
enough to make it into the football playoff, then you
shouldn't be looked at as a qualifier. Like I just don't.
I don't find that to make very to me. Just
it defeats the purpose of saying that a team could
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come out of nowhere be a really, really good team.
But yet it's like, yeah, but you're your SMU or
you're the Cincinnati you know Bearcats, or you know your
bowling Greens make the playoff. Last year they did, they did.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Can I ask you a question, Brady, from people you've
talked to, has anybody tried to make fixing the regular
season a priority?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Or we now to the point.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
To where it's like, yeah, let's just try and get
a bunch of teams in the playoffs. Let's try and
maximize as much as we can on the back.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
End, so we don't have a ton of time here.
The biggest issue, and to.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
The question you're asking, is college football has always been
about the regular season. I mean, we're talking about how
to determine which twelve teams or hypothetically fourteen sixteen in
the future would get into a playoff system. We used
to do this in a national champion without anything like
it was regular season. You played in a bowl game,
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not even matched up against whoever, and oftentimes the media
was picking who the national champ was. So if you
really go through the history of college football, how they
used to determine the national champion was crazy. If you
put it into today's terms, no one would understand how
that process actually worked. And there was times where multiple
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teams who would gone undefeated, or even a team I
think with a one loss or a draw, they would
have claimed a national championship for those years. So it's
a far cry from where college football was, but the
point still stands. It has been and always will be
a regular season sport, and it's one of the reasons
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why there's the pagetry tradition. The history of college football
is because of the regular season and because of how
even some of those classic bowl games were kind of
tied into it. But that's the problem with today's model
is we're transitioning from instead of making it all about
who you play and how the regular season has won,
we're now making about how the regular season can help
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you qualify to go play for a national championship and
making it more about the postseason, which, if that's the
road we want to go, then, to answer your question, no,
no one has been talking about trying to fix or
trying to create more of a level playing field amongst
the power for conferences in regards to their regular season,
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how many conference teams they play, or even their non
conference I mean, it's one of the issues that no
one at Southern Cow wants to address in regards to
the Notre Dame USC robbery is they've joined a conference
now where they feel like, between the travel and the
competitive play that if there's not automatic qualifiers, they would
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potentially put themselves then at risk because they're playing another
tough opponent maybe in the.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Middle of the year or late in the year.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
They'd be hosting at home, which I'm not sure why
that's an issue for them, but I guess the fact
that you're playing a non conference opponent in their mind
late in the year with a lot on the line,
they don't want to have to do that risk not
qualifying for the College Football Playoff. That's what the concern
is in reality, and that's what the concern is for
Lincoln Riley. And the reason why Southern Cow doesn't want
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to sign up for that longer term extension is because
you know, there's a head coach that doesn't want to
have to play that school. That's the truth. It's not
the ad, it's the head coach. He said it a
year ago. He put that out there for a reason
because he understands that's going to impact their ability to
make the College Football Playoff if there's not automatic qualifiers,
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and even if there is, it makes the road that
much more difficult for Southern col So that's the problem
with this, though, is you have a head coach at
a prominent blue blood school who's now looking at their
regular season, one of their historic rivals and saying, we
can't do this anymore because we want to try to
make it to the playoff. We want to try to
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win a national championship. So we're trying to make the
road easier for us moving forward. So case and point,
their focus is primarily on the postseason and not the
regular season anymore. And until they fix the regular season,
the postseason is always still going to be an issue.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Well, buckle up here, we go going to continue on
and continue on.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
It is two Pros and a Cup of Joe here
on Fox Sports Radio, LaVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox
with you coming up next here though, we are going
to find out exactly how things went down over the
weekend because somebody got a little bit of karm on
this show.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
We'll find out who right here.
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So we did a Wheel of Indy five hundred on Friday,
and obviously we were not here yesterday on the show,
but we did the Wheel of Indy five hundred on Friday,
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and we do have the results, and I do feel
like there was a little bit of karma that was
at play here for one competitor in all of this,
So Lee, do you have the results and where we
finished here with all these drivers.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
By the way, some of these are great, in fact
I do.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
But of course we must say that Alex Palou first
Spaniard to win the Indy five hundred. Congrats to Alex Palou.
Good job there, buddy. He was in the mix. He
wasn't the hat, but he was the one name that
wasn't selected. We did have Scott McLachlan, who LeVar picked first,
who had was plus nine hundred, but he actually crashed
pre race. Pick race.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yeah, did I wait? Wait? First off, did I pick
that or was it picked for me?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
You spawned the wheel, You spun the wheel, the wheel,
spaun that wheel, you picked it.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
The wheel.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
But here's but it sticks.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
That does feel like some karma because you were giving
Brady such a hard time about his driver.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Yeah. You had my driver's name in your mouth.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Oh wow, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Yeah, that name being Scott Dixon plus six fifty and
your mouth you finished twenty third, last racer on the
lead lap there, Scott Dixon.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
You mouth? I picked yo mouth?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Loraina had Joseph k Neugarten plus nine to fifty. He
was going for the first ever three peat. Of course,
he had won two in a row last two years,
but he finished twenty fifth. Didn't finish because he had
fuel pressure issues. He was also penalized before the race
and was starting from the back of the pack. And
then I had Kyle Larson, who was plus eighteen hundred.
Of course he was going for the double. After he
rashed out at the Indy five hundred, he made his
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way all the way over to Coca Cola six hundred
for NASCAR, crashed out there too, So bad day for
Kyle Larson.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
Bad weekend.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Really yeah, really, But.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Anyone that used the wheel have any success.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yes, Jonas pat had Award, who's actually the you know,
the Mexican driving. Good job there on the wheel. Plus
five hundred finished fourth. It sounds irish to I know,
it does sound irish, but in fact he knocks Mexican
by the way.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Definitely celebrating a guy who got fourth place.
Speaker 5 (37:35):
We're celebrating right now.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
That's what we do.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
That's the wheel of Indy five hundred.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
Baby, Because Lorrain, why do you pick more favorites next time?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Lee?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Those were all the favorites, Those were all the favorites.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
I don't know those were the top of the board
on DraftKings A little suspectly.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I don't want to be a part of this anymore.
It's doing the picking format. I don't want Lead doing
out my wheel spin anymore. I don't want him doing
my hat picks. I don't. I don't want Lee doing
anything that determines if I beat Jonas Knox Now, Brady,
it's a fear upping up. But you there's there's like
I don't know, No, I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
Why is it me? What's what's well?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Because you know he's your handler. I just don't. I don't.
I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Do these games.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Do not want to do these games anymore.
Speaker 6 (38:24):
Lee could get replaced easily by Grog at this point,
so I.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Think we will get replaced by gro.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
That's not true at all.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
That's not true.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Never specifically, Brock never tackled anybody so clear minded, not wrong.
Jonas can be replaced.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
I'll tell you what, hey, I'll tell you what. That's
some Mother's Day gift.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
The jail cell photo is not as good as the headshot.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
You started this. Don't back away from the fire.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Don't back away from the fire.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
You put the logs on.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
I thought it was Britney Spears at first. That was
the only reason why it had even caught my attention.
I was like, oh she didn't. Finally all the way lost.
It finally happened, and then I started reading up on it,
and it's like, all right, anyway, hey man, people be
having too much time on their hands. Man, especially.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
LeVar Levart started this fire. Okay, you not walk away.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I'm just going wait for us to get to the brick.
That's just going to do it. Listen, man, Joe, you
are a weirdo. I mean, it's true, or a weirdo.
It's true.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
I don't blame him.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Oh no, all right, please, thank you God, thank you