Hour 1 - Crossing the Finish Line

Ben Maller talks about the Indiana Hoosiers winning college football's national championship, Indiana having 60% of the fans at the Championship Game despite it being in Miami, if Fernando Mendoza locked himself in as the No.1 pick in the NFL Draft, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are the champions of the world, at least the
college football world. And we welcome in. It's our number
one of the Ben Mathers Show podcast. And here in
our number one. The championship game of college football was
played on Monday night and we reacted to it in
real time. What are you going to remember about the

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Indiana Hoosiers winning college football's biggest prize, the Natty. Also,
Indiana had over sixty percent of the fans at the
National Title Game even though it was played in the
Hurricane Stadium. Does this say more about Indiana's ability to
travel or Miami's indifference to the championship of college football?

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And did Fernando Mendoza lock himself up as the number
one pick? Did he lock himself up as the Raiders
number one pick with his performance in the National Title Game?
We'll talk about that as well. Right now here it is.
It is our number one, crossing the finish line. It's

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play the hit, small Man, play the hits. One of
our old bosses used to say, you gotta play the
hit small Man. All right, we'll play this, so our
lead this hour is from South Florida, and that was
where the Hippodrome was the stage for the final act
of the twenty twenty five season. Here early in twenty
twenty six, the champion was crowned wo a hat and

(03:26):
T shirt game. Oh man, a hat and T shirt game.
How exciting confetti. Every time I see the confetti on
the field, I think of a buddy of mine who
has media friends who sell the confetti on eBay and
make a lot of money. There are people I'm thinking,
this gonna be a big field day here with the
Indiana fans. More than that in a minute. But Fernendo Mendoza,

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the golden boy of college football, there leading the Indiana
Hoosiers into the matchup against Carson Beck, the grizzled six
year veteran. Oh my god. Anyway, then they were the
Miami Hurricanes in their own stadium, although it didn't seem
like their own stadium, taking on the Indiana Hoosiers, the

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team from Indiana a seven and a half point favorite
on the Vegas line, as the wise guys on the
Stardust line like the Hoosiers to win by over a touchdown.
You had Chris Fowler and Herbie on the boob tube.
They had to call there. So I don't if you
watch the game or not, maybe you're like, I don't
like coach for body. Okay, take the stick out of it.

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Took us. Anyway, we watched so you would not have to.
And it came down to the final seconds and it
looked like it would be a backbreaking touchdown drive by
Carson Beck leading the Hurricanes, matriculating the ball down the
field in the final seconds, needing a touchdown and an
extra point to win the game. And then he did

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the thing you can't do at the time. You can
do it. Uh yeah. He threw a pass that was
picked off by Jamari Sharp, defensive back for Indiana. And
he's a Miami guy Sharp and he gets the big play.
They seal it for the Hoosiers, picks off Carson back

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final seconds. That is it one knee? I guess for
two knees and then the game was over. So Indiana
did not cover the spread. But they do squeeze by Miami.
Life's not all about gambling. They squeezed by Miami twenty
seven to twenty one, and they put the finishing touches
on the rags to riches. It'd be like if our

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friend Billy Weed man hippie won the lottery and you
had sixty million dollars or something like that. Indiana, who
was desolate, disheveled, beaten and broken. And now they stand
atop the mountain as they get it done and they
win the National as the kids say the Natty. They

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won the Natty, so they win that. So now they
did it on a night when Fernando Mendoza was not
the Heisman version of Fernando Mendoz. You won't know that
because you don't want to spoil the story. He went
that good. He was not that good Fernando Mendoz. I'll
say it, and no one else will say. I'll say
he sucked for most of that game. In fact, it

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looked like every other bad Indiana quarterback they've had over
the years, but it didn't matter. They won anyway. He
did have a touchdown run in the fourth quarter, although
finished with minus eight yards because of some decision making
issues there and coach Kurt Cignati getting it done. He
writes his name Signati into the record book. There. Indiana

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finishes sixteen and oh sixteen and oh the record and
they had those extra games because of the playoffs. So
the twelve team playoff extends their perfect season. And we
are told now that is a tie. They have matched
the all time record from the eighteen hundreds. Holy crap

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on a cracker Batman Yale in eighteen ninety four, Yale
in eighteen ninety four. They also had a sixteen to
zero season, So good jumping off point. That's the story here,
So let's get into it. The question for the esteem panel,
what are you going to remember about the Indiana Hoosiers

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a basketball school, running the table, running the table, and
winning college football's national championship against Miami. So my thoughts
on this, I got food truck, three bees, and puffy sticker,
and we will combine all all of these things together
and we are going to make some delicious kettle corn

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is what we're gonna make, so a the question is
not that difficult. The answer is even easier. What are
we going to remember? The answer is simple. Here, what
are we going to remember? We're gonna remember the panic,
the sheer, unadulterated panic, unfiltered panic from the establishment of
college football. Okay, they knew that this was likely to happen,

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Indiana's favorite. But now that it's happened, now it's not
It might happen, it could happen. It did happen. Welcome
to the twilight Zone. Do do do Do Do Do
do do do. This is the Boogeyman. This is the
buggy man in college football. It is This is a

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come to Jesus moment for the establishment in college football.
As they look in the mirror when they wake up
later on Tuesday, they'll wake up and they're not going
to recognize their own face, Like, what have we done?
This was not supposed to happen. Why did this happen?
I don't understand. This is bizarro world, is what this is? Right?

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This is cats walking dogs. This is spray cheese on
our charcouterie board. Is what this is here Indiana holding
the National Championship trophy like they stole it from the
gift shop at the stadium. No, it's real, it's not.
I mean, you can test it. It's real. They have
the trophy here. And this is a great example of

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name image likeness, better known by its gangster name Nil
giving birth to Frankenstein. Make no mistake, the Indiana Hoosiers
are Frankenstein. The blue Bloods are furious. Their alumni is furious.
So we're talking about the usual suspects. Alabama, Ohio State, Noted, Dom, SC, Michigan.

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These programs did not lose the title, yse. They lost
exclusive rights. Right is it supposed to be only certain
people are allowed at that event. You are not allowed there.
You cannot go behind the velvet ropes. What are you doing?
And Kirk Signetti did not build the death Star at

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any end. This is not a death Star situation. He
built a food truck. And that's really adding insult to
injury because the formula he laid it all out, the
blueprints laid out. Just have a couple of rich alumni.
Every school has a couple of rich alumni, right every universe,
there's a couple of people that made it big, that
went to that school. So all you have to do
is get them on board. And then you hire a

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coach that is pretty good at shopping, and you give
the grocery list out. You get the right tomatoes. You
got to pick the onions when they're perfect. The garlic,
you don't want the bad garlic. You get all that,
no caviar, and no five star truffles. You don't need
the five star truffles here. You don't. Just ball players

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who know the recipe. And that's the thing that's really
most matter. Said the nil thing and all that. Okay, well,
the nil is one thing. However, if you look at
the Hoosiers, they were not bigger, stronger, and faster than
the teams they were beating in the College Football Playoff.
They weren't. They were sharper. You can say they outworked

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you in some of these games, and they fought every
inch and that was enough to get it done. They're
not gonna win the measurables. They're not gonna win the measurables.
The Indiana Hoosiers they win the championship ere and they
appearly they don't mind. It doesn't seem like they mind. Together.
They got a nice trophy, and they got t shirts
and hats and all that stuff, and the whole grind

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and refusal, the backup. You gotta think, I don't know
how old you are. I'm at the age now. When
I was a kid, I heard stories about Indiana and
I didn't see him on TV much because in football, basketball,
they were on TV all the time. They got him
Bobby Knight with a complete schmuck but a great coach.
And Indiana football you'd see him every once in a while,
and it was like a mistake, like what are they

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Why are they on TV? What are they doing? You know?
It was usually when they played a really good team,
the Big Ten, and then they just get small. How
bad was Indiana football? This sums up Indiana football. They
had this guy named Leek Corso. I don't know whatever
happened to, but Lee Corso was coaching at Indiana in
the nineteen seventies. The program was so horrific. How horrific
was it? Thanks for asking? It was so horrific that

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Lee Corso in the nineteen seventies, once had Indiana had
a seven to six lead over Woody Hayes and Ohio State.
The legendary Ohio State coach Witty Hayes and Lee Corso
stopped the game so the Indiana players could take a
photo of the scoreboard because they had a seven to
six lead. Not so fast, my friends, though, always Lee

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would later say, because Indiana end up losing that game
by forty that day. But they actually stopped the game.
I think it was like the second quarter because they
had a seven to six lead and they ended up
losing the game by forty. How great is that? And
that team now, that team is now the champions. They
are the kings of college football. And the establishment doesn't like,

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which is likely going to lead to Congress getting involved.
I mean, the Congress is already we're going down that road.
There's gonna be government intervention and they're gonna set up
the rules to help out the power schools and to
screw over Indiana and schools like that. So if you're
gonna do something like this, you might as well get it.
Does Rutgers have any big alumni? Can we get Rutgers?

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We need some of these directional schools to win the championship.
That'll really also upset people a right now. Meanwhile, at
hard Rocks stamp you watch the game. Obviously stadium was packed.
Just that's the Miami Hurricanes area. That's their stadium. National
Championship game. However, it was a majority Indiana crowd, the
Hoosier fans hoo's your daddy. The Indiana Hoosiers packed the stadium.

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So the question, Indiana estimates had sixty sixty five percent
of the crowd in support of Indiana's football team at
the National Championship game. Does that say more about Indiana's
fan base or the ability obviously to travel, or the
indifference by the Miami fans. So is this more about

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you know, it's in either war. Is it the Indiana
fans showing great resolve in traveling or is it more
about the indifference by Miami. So the arrow is pointing
directly at the you, at the you flashing meon, flashing neon.
Nobody I've been in Miami, or nobody lives in Miami,

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the three zero five. Nobody lives there to go to
sporting events. You don't. You live there to live is
what you do, right, It's the three Bees. When you
live in Miami, it's beaches, boats and bikinis. That's it.
The three Bee and that that's all you need. Obviously,
it helps. They don't have state income tax. It's reasonable

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compared to like the People's Republic of California or something
like that. But you got sweat drippin' when you live
in Miami in places that you didn't even know sweat
could get into crevice and things like that. But the
Hurricanes football is obviously optional programming the fact that that
many people. I don't think there's that many Indiana people
living in Miami, and I'm sure there's a fair amount.
But to fill the stadium up, there were planes filled

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with Hoosier fans making their way down there. And so
and the other thing is, if you the older you are,
as a Miami fan, like you've already eaten the cake,
depending on how old you are, and you've had it.
The Hurricane football used to be good. They used to
play in big games and win championships and all that stuff.
And so back in the glory days many years ago.

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And so they've been there and done that. And they
got the blank blane from back back in the day,
and it's in the drawer. The replica rings are right
there next to the Sun's cream. So you have that
and it's not it's not like the obviously is no passion.
It's apathy. That's the word. I mean, there's clearly some apathy,
even though Miami had been dormant for a long time
and now they're back to being one of the big

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time players here. But this is a for Indiana, this
is a once in a chi generation. This is a
glitch in the matrix. This is a glitch in the
sports matrix. For the Indiana Hoosiers to win the championship.
You don't miss that. You drop everything if you're living
in Indiana a thousand miles away, right, you cancel whatever
you got in the weddings. I don't care whatever it
might be. And for Indiana, their coach there, Kurt Signetti,

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and the Hoosiers crawling out of the gutter. That's really
what this is, right, Indiana was in the gutter and
Signetti leading them out and like the sewer monster holding
the playbook Becoming of Age movie. They don't make movies
like that anymore because it's not a superhero movie, so
they can't make it. Back in the old days, they
would have made a movie like this. And first time
I always hits harder. You always remember your first, right,

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I heard, so Miami fans any kind of shrug. So, yeah,
that sucks. And then I'm gonna go I'm gonna go
lay on the beach later today. I'll be okay. And
Indiana fans they emptied their wallet, gonna buy all the
merch all that stuff, and you know, put the tractor
on the side there at the farm and go watch
the celebration. Now, last word here. So the other part

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of this is the NFL Draft angle. The Raiders are
on the clock in a very awkward scene. Mark Vic
Mark Davis just seem anywhere. It's just very odd. Seeing
him in a college football game is bizarre. It's like, well,
who let him in? How'd he get it? He was
on the field the whole thing. So Raiders owner Mark Davis,

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John Spytech, that's the sock puppet for Tom Brady, the boss.
By proxy. Brady was also there, and they were they
were all attendants in South Florida to watch Indiana quarterback
and possible number one overall pick, Fernando Mendoza do his thing.

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And there he was out there playing quarterback. Indiana wins
the championship. He had a touchdown run and so the question,
did Fernando Mendoza, did Fernando Mendoza the high That's been
Trophy winner? Did he lock himself in as the top
pick in the twenty twenty six college draft based on

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his performance in the national title game? Did he lock
himself in? So I looked at it, I watched the game,
I was like, no way, Absolutely, Medoza looked like he
was playing in a straight jacket for a good chunk
of this game. Now, Miami did take some liberties. The
officials showing some bias towards Miami allowed them to just

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in modern football that was played like old school football.
It was like, I'll just take some shots at the quarterback.
We'll look the other way. We're gonna look the other way.
That's it. Mendoz of the finished with one hundred and
eighty six yards, zero touchdowns, and a passer rating of
a little bit above eighty. That's it. That's not the
stat line of a number one overall pick. It's not.

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And that's like a guy auditioning for a backup job
for the CFL team in Edmonton is what that is here.
And the other problem is he didn't pass the eyeball test.
Here's all The stats tell one thing, but the eyeball test,
and I'm never wrong with the eyeball test. It just
didn't didn't look. He failed the exam, didn't look, didn't
feel like a big time NFL quarterback prodigy right around

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the mountain here, and he looks in this game, and
really the talent level was a fourth round pick. It's
a developmental quarterback, Fernando Mendoz. You draft him in the
fourth round, give him a couple of years, see if
you can figure some stuff out. And that's it. And
we live in the age now where you overdraft the
quarterback because in this case, Fernando Mendoza is the flavor

(19:41):
of the week. He's got that puffy sticker flavor of
the week on the side of his helmet there, and
so it's okay, we got to draft this guy because
he's popular and flavor of the week and all that stuff.
He looked less like a franchise savior against the you
and more like the col Golden Bear veron and that
was originally headed to a secret society at Yale, and

(20:05):
that's he's playing chess. The NFL is playing with claudiators.
In college, Miami had some big time Fellows up up
front there and tom Brady this the other problem, Like
tom Brady's sitting there in his skinny suit, tom Brady
in the owner's box, drooling over this guy. It's unbelievable.
In fact, tom Brady likely believes, well what Mendoza. Listen,

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he was going to be part of that Skull and
Bones club at Yale if he had not gone to
cal And so he's got all the intangibles and all this.
I mean, come on, everything tom Brady has touched since
he got to the Raiders has turned to dust. Everything
he picked Gino Smith, he picked Pete Carroll. Gino threw
more picks than a bowling alley. Pete got canned faster

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than a bad date and all that. And so tom Brady,
I'm telling you, the way he's run the Raiders, he
could screw up a microwave TV dinner. He's that incompetent
as an NFL executive, tom Brady, it's a wild it's
and Mark Davis, of course, he just wants to eat
the special at PF Changs. He doesn't really care. He's like,
I'll just have tom Brady'll let him do what he

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wants to do. Okay, anyway, there's the Ben Maler Show.
If you want to commement on any of this, you're
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six six three six'. Nine so just how bad in
terms of the talent? Rating Was? Indiana and could we
see A swan? Song? Well was? This was this The swan?

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Song are we going to see one of the key
players in this particular? Game exit stage left some interesting
stories developing After indiana wins the national championship in college.
Football we'll get to all of. That we'll take your
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Wrong later this hour we have the who M I?
Game we have a? Problem look forward to that be
coming up for a little. Bit, also what's on? Deck
could there be a big? Switcheroo as we began the
night talking a little college football the rare and appropriate
college Football mala monologue after the beginning of the end

(23:24):
of the college Football see what was the end of
the college football? Season anyway you want to Be part
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and as always people triggered by the malar monologuet the,
Top colin, Says i'm not a seer into the, future
BUT i know this to be. TRUE i am not a.
FAN i have no skin in the. Game bookmark for.
Posterity fernando will be the number, pick number one by The,
Raiders Tom brady and our boy will change the culture

(24:10):
and win A Super bowl within eight. Years he, says
you're one hundred and eighty degrees wrong About fernando's. Performance
he Says indiana's performance that was a gritty win against
the team that had been on fire for ten. Weeks all, right,
well good fan boying by, You, Colin and of, course
what always happens with these. Things i'm, Right i'm always,

(24:30):
right and you will. DISAPPEAR i will never hear from you.
Again When Fernando mendos is doing a podcast on barstool
because he's not playing in THE nfl a couple of
years after he flops with The, raiders you'll just go
and be there you'll just be, gone because that's what.
Happens you, hide you run and. Hide late night drug
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colombia says THE la AND i drug. Test, WELL i
could have done four. BEES i could have had even more.
Beasts there's many more bees. There what else do we?
Have NOT a burner, Says Is Robert sala really going
from The jets to The. Titans that's the opposite of
The Music city miracle because he is actually going backwards.

(25:17):
Now The titans are like the southern version of The.
Jets they just don't have the publicity The jets get for,
incompetence but they're also. Incompetent Ferg dog, writes and he,
Says indiana's great and all but the hottest team in
all of sports right, now the peoples team The. Clippers
while The lakers are, imploding The clippers are. Rising looking

(25:39):
at the, SCHEDULE i don't see this winning streak ending anytime.
Soon it's hit the clip, Baby, well of course it.
Is FOR i don't know what. Happened they look dead
in the, water The, clippers but they have risen up
here in the last couple of. WEEKS i guess That
Chris paul was the. Problem all those, people, oh the
same Old. Clippers they got rid of Crisp. Paul my,
god no one's gonna want to play for The clippers
BECAUSE i got rid Of Chris. Paul ever Since Chris,

(26:02):
paul they got rid of his whole old, ass The
clippers have taken. Off could it be That Chris paul
was the? Problem could it be that he was the.
Problem i'm just saying Do i'm just, saying there you?
Go what else do we? See Page den's skip over that?
One there people ripping the college? Football why are you

(26:24):
talking college? FOOTBALL i only want to hear about THE. Nfl, please,
anyway if you want to join the conversation on the
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to be. Part there's some rumors here in the overnight

(26:45):
That indiana is going to lose a bunch of people
after they won the. Championship, now some of these guys
are going to go to, college go to THE, nfl
and some will just graduate and that's. It there's also
some check that the vultures are coming. In, SAID i
don't know what kind of blank check we can Give

(27:06):
Kurt signetti the coach to get him to come to our.
School although he's not a young whipper, snapper he's in
his he's in his, sixties so he is, like he's
got another thirty years of coaching in him. Now he
was Asked signetti after the Game indiana wins the championship
about the future and all. That he, said this is

(27:26):
a quote From Kurt. Signetti he, said, quote IF i was,
Smart i'd probably. Retire then that would really be a.
Story he, said we need the, money and what WOULD i?
Do he, said so he needs the, Money there you,
go and he made some money with the. Natty Kurt,

(27:47):
signetti The indiana, coach is going to earn a two
million dollar contract. Incentive so he won two million dollars
and that means he's total now in. Incentives this college
football playoff run point two, million so he made an
extra four point two. Million now in addition to, that
he is garngteed to a top three annual. Salary So

(28:10):
i'm always fascinated by that, guarantee and no one's given
me a straight. Answer i've asked some people that are
pretty smart or claimed to be pretty. Smart so there
are a bunch of coaches that have these top three,
guarantees LIKE i Remember Nick saban had. THAT i Believe
Lane kiffin's got some kind of language like that in his,
contract for example now AT. Lsu and there's some other

(28:31):
coaches that also have. That so let me ask you
if there ARE i don't, Know let's do. Hypothetical we'll workshop.
This let's say there's seven coaches in college football that
all have language in their contract they have to be
able to the top three paid coaches in college. Football
well the math on? That AM i? Right in the?
Math how would that? Work they all have to have

(28:52):
the same exact? Salary is that how that's gonna? Work?
Like what if you have to BE i have to
be in the top. THREE i have to be tied
for number? Three like what's the math on? That, anyway
that's not my, problem that's for other people to figure.
Out we go to the. Phones we go to the,
phones and we'll say hello To jim who's In La La.
Land what's going?

Speaker 2 (29:11):
On?

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Jim you're on The Ben Mallor show On. Fox Hello.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Jim then this is not About. Indiana this is not
about the. Quarterback this is about. Nil how's the nil
going to control the money coming into these these universities
and how are they going to.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Ensure?

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Education?

Speaker 1 (29:34):
No, stop it's not about. Education are you? Stupid it's
not about. Education it's professional. Football, no it is. Not you're.
Old it's not about. Education if you the quarterback From
miami had been to school in two, years he went
To georgia for five or, whatever and then he goes To.
Miami it's about. Education it's not about. Education why were

(29:54):
you thinking of? Education what do You if you want
to watch, education watch the lower level of. Football this
it is not about.

Speaker 5 (30:00):
Education, well from the from the high school, programs the
three the three, stars the four, stars the five, stars
it's about getting into college.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Football but some of them it's, about you, know trying
to get an.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Education not not not the team's not the team's playing
for a. Championship it's. Not it's just.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
Not. No it's not even even Like Kansas state where
they tell a freshman three start recruit to get into
the portal and transfer because they're going to give his
scholarship to somebody.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Else IF I i, WOULD i would go to THE
i would go to the. PORTAL i. WOULD i would
be in the portal every year IF i was IF
i was, Able, jim i would be in the portal every.
Year i'd be in a different college every. Year get more.
Money come, on, now you would you would? Too you know?

Speaker 4 (30:47):
What this is a quagmar that needs to be worked
out by THE. Ncw this is you, Know i'm happy
For indiana the. Boy this opened up A pandora's. Box
there's a lot of.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Regulations, no why do why do we want why do
you want more? Regulations like why do you want red?
Tape who wants? That who wants government red? Tape it is,
though it's a poor man's it's a poor man's version
of THE. Nfl it's it's been that way for twenty
five thirty, years if not longer than. That it has.

(31:21):
Been it's they've got billion DOLLAR tv, deals they have
sell stadiums with one hundred thousand, people some of these
college football. Stadiums it's it's professional. Football they don't just
want to call it, that but it's professional.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
FOOTBALL i agree with, you AND i disagree with. YOU
i don't know how this thing's.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Going to be Me let me let me ask. You
let me ask you this, Though, Jim when has when
Has congress ever solved? Anything when have politicians ever solved? Anything? Seriously,
no they don't want to get. Involved, No, no they
do want to get. Involved there's all the. Involvement well,
NO i mean my from When i've HEARD i don't
know if you've heard. Different gym in The south in,
particular because this is kind of a body blow to

(32:01):
The Southeastern. Conference big ten has now won what three
in a, ROW i think, championships and so this is
the you, KNOW sec dominated college football for years and.
Years so some of Those southern senators and congressmen are,
like let's put some legislation, in but we'll make sure
we put some language in there to help out the
teams in The, south at least the bigger, teams and

(32:23):
and so it's it is going to be. FASCINATING i
hate government intervention because they usually f things up and
make it.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
Worse lead to And i'm really thinking about the. Midterms
the Miskan states of the big ten and but but.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
It's really it's, really it's really ANY i, mean anybody
that has the right, boosters you hire a coach and
knows how to big. Plays this was not a very
Talented indiana team that just won the. Championship it's not
like they had a bunch of five star players and all.
That they.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Didn't so, anyway, yeah they only had three star. Recruits that's.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
It in, FACT i, read here's a fun. Fact we
have the fun fun fact of the hour. Here this
is a fun fact of the hours fun. Fact, so
among all all of the teams in college football this,
year overall, talent if you go by the, rankings five,
star four, star three, star, Whatever indiana was ranked seventy
second in college, football and they won the. Championship seventy,

(33:13):
second crazy crazy. TIME a very impressive to be ranked that. Low,
well of, course, yeah, YEAH i grew up in big trend.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
COUNTRY i can't Believe indiana. One But i'm happy they.
Did All i'm saying is there's gonna be a lot
more controversy that's going to follow this victory in the next.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Year i'll leave it. There, well thank. You Jim spicy
debate With. Jim they go back and forth With jimbo
checking in. Absolute so congratulations To. Indiana also as a
we have a bonus fun. Fact you want a bonus fun,
fact here's a bonus fundun they now have the record

(33:55):
for most losses by a team that won a national
or school that won a national. Championship indiana seven hundred
and nineteen. Losses they win a. Championship, rutgers they won a.
CHAMPIONSHIP i believe in eighteen sixty. Nine does that? COUNT
i guess eighteen sixty nine they have the second most.
LOSSES i didn't know they'd won a. Championship seven hundred and.

(34:16):
Seven kentucky won a championship in? Football Hey, Ben, Yes,
lorena what was it like back in eighteen sixty? Nine
why we back in eighteen sixty nine we Had Mike
north was the morning guy and he covered that that
Whole you don't even know What Mike north. Is that's
over your. Head he was an old morning guy here
back in the. Day, anyway it is The Ben Mahler.

(34:38):
Show if you would like to be part eight seven
seven ninety nine On. Fox is the number eight seven
seven nine nine six six three six nine Time now
for the who AM? I? Game so earlier in his coaching,
Career Indiana's Kurt, signetti who recruited me BEFORE i would

(34:58):
go on to be A Super ball winning. Quarterback, again
early in his coaching, career before he would go on
to Lead indiana to the, Championship Kurt signetti recruited, me
AND i would go on to be A Super bowl winning.
Quarterback Who who AM? I that is the. Question the
answer will get to. It we will do it.

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honor of the college football season ending In South. Florida
Is indiana winning the. Championship indiana getting or done as
they celebrate the championship with THE t shirt and hat

(36:35):
or the hat AND t shirt as they like to
say their game as they win the. Championship and in
honor of that, time now for the Who mi. Game
this is where we pretend to be somebody else. Else
we call it the Who ami. Game so earlier in
his coaching, Career Indiana's Star Kurt, signetti The Overnight star
has been coaching for like thirty. Years Kurt signetti recruited

(36:58):
me before OR i would go on to be A
Super bowl winning. Quarterback who, well that's the. Question who AM?
I is the? Question what is the? Answer and unless,
he as anyone, Know femi is going With Dakota. Prescott
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(37:21):
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Colorado very funny food picks With marcel From malard Prop.

(37:42):
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(38:03):
died and went over To. TikTok he lives in that.
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(38:26):
is the, answer and who? Else page? Down greg the
real estate mogul From baltimore Says Fernando mendoza's aunt is
the Answer Claire Claire bet, Says Drew brees is the
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to say that he's. Here tony The tiger From The Nature. Boy,

(38:51):
Yeah Fat daddy says he recruited his ex. Wife is the?
Answer Jim plunkett From LARRY. D that's his? Answer who
else do we?

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Have?

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Page that's? Enough all? Right Hell, lorena do you have an?
Answer the? Question? Again the who AM? I? Game for
those of you a little, late that job by. You
earlier in his coaching, Career Indiana's Kurt signetti recruited me
BEFORE i would go on to be A Super bowl winning.
Quarterback who AM? I krusty The? Clown krusty The? Clown
is It krusty The clown for the? Win, well you're
actually not far. Off oh it's a different kind of.

(39:24):
Clown it's the mister Unlimited Russell. Wilson Russell, wilson yam
big time. Clowns yes he is. So Kurt signetti started
his coaching career in nineteen eighty. Three in nineteen eighty,
three at a small school In, georgia and then he

(39:45):
bounced all. Over he went To, davidson To rice The.
Temple he was at pitt for a number of, years
went TO Nc state that's where he Recruited Russell. Wilson
then To alabama to work With Nick saban for a
few years as a wide receiver. Coach and then he bounced.
Around went to iup.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
The.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
University It's Indiana university Of, Pennsylvania is? Iup, yeah they're
called The Crimson, hawks The Crimson. Hawks he went. There
he was At Elon, university which is In North. Carolina
then he. Bounced signetti went To James. MADISON i learned
About James madison WHEN i was in. SCHOOL i learned

(40:26):
About James, madison and THEN i just did. Say and
then finally went To indiana with The. Hoosiers he is
sixty four years old and he's gonna be making he,
said and he needed the. Money. Signetti believe his salary's
over ten million. Dollars you must be really bad at
financing if you can't live off ten million. DOLLARS i,
know after, taxes but still come on, now