May 8, 2026 • 40 mins
Brian Noe is in for Ben as he talks about the new expansion for the NCAA Tourney going forward starting next year. Plus, Brian chats it up with some callers, gets a reading on Aaron Rodgers from a psychic, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports. Oh what's going on? Hope
all is well. Mallard, Militia as we've got Coop, Loraina,
Big Ben. They're all in Boston, Little Mallard meet and
greet over there. Hope all is well with everybody safe travels,
having a great weekend, meeting the people. It's all great,
(00:24):
fantastic love that Ben does that. And hey, I get
some extra cash. I can bet first half overs like
I did with the Thunder and the Lakers on Thursday night.
That was a good one. It's a good one. Now
I'll search some the betting lines. You know, maybe I'll
get you a little forecasted potential win on Friday. We'll see.
(00:45):
We'll see as we go into the wee hours. But
what I want to focus in on now is the
NCAA Tournament. So it's official. It's finally happened. Just as
everybody was clamoring like more more, we need more teams,
need more teams for my bracket to fill. I need
more more, please more. I mean I'd go out in
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the streets and I was just bombarded with people like
mar Brian, can you do it more? We need more teams.
No one was doing that. Absolutely no one was doing that.
And yet we've got more teams that are gonna be
in the NC Double A Tournament. It is growing to
seventy six teams. It starts this upcoming season, twenty six
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twenty seven season. We're gonna have a lot more teams.
We're gonna have twelve first round games, and we're gonna
have eight sixteen seeds and we're all gonna play each other.
What are we doing. We're gonna have eight sixteen seeds
play each other and like the NC double as saying, well,
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you know you can. You can say you won an
NC double A Tournament game if you win that. What
are we doing?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Man?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
What? I'm just not a fan. I'm not gonna be
I don't know, kicking and screaming like this is the
dumbest thing in the history of sports. I just don't
know why we're messing with something that's so great. The
NCAA Tournament is fantastic, and all you're doing with this expansion,
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you're giving us more reason to not pay attention to
the regular season. Why would you do that? I just
don't understand. The only reason you do it is for money.
It's a straight money grab, and I would have more
respect for the powers that be that are forcing this
to happen if they just came out and came out
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and said it. Instead of like, well you can say
you want a tournament game, it's like, oh yeah, we're
gonna put up banners for one sixteen beating another sixteen.
Like that's no, that's not a great sales pitch or
you know whatever. There, Oh this is. This is great
for the student athletes. It's a great experience, and more
get to experience it. It's like, bro, we know you're
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just trying to make money. You're making more money. That's
what it's about. So if you just said that, I'd
at least respect it more than Oh no, it's it's
about the kids. It's about the student athletes and their
experience here. No, it's not stop it, man, it's just
ridiculous what we're doing here. But that's where it is.
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And you are you're watering down the regular season even more.
You're giving me less incentive to pay attention when football
is going on. Right, like, I'll be watching ball left
and right. I got enough ball to watch. And now
that more teams are getting into the NCAA tournament. Why
exactly am I tuning in in November December? Why why
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am I watching? What's the point, right if they went
the other way and they kept it at sixty eight
or you know, I know they're not going to go backwards.
But let's say they're like, we're trimming it back to
sixty four. We really don't need this excess fat over here.
It's like okay, and they're like, another thing that we're
gonna do. We are going to have home games for
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the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament. It's like,
if they were to do that, it's like, okay, Well,
the regular season means a little bit more. There's incentive
to watch. If you're able to get one of the
higher seeds and potentially have two home games, that's a
big deal. But they're going the exact opposite way. They're like, no, actually,
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more teams are gonna get into the field of seventy
six right now. And you're looking at some of these
bum teams that are they would have been tournament teams
this last season. If expansion happened one year prior, these
teams would be in We're looking at some of these records,
man it's like Auburn was seventeen and sixteen. I got
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to see him actually in the NIT. It was kind
of cool. I went there because I went to the
final four and I got to see the final four games,
got to see the championship game, and then sandwiched in between,
they had the NIT Championship in Indianapolis also, so I
went to that. It was actually really cool. But Auburn
didn't belong in the NC DOUBLEA tournament. They belonged in
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the NIT. Same with IU. Indiana didn't belong in the
NC DOUBLEA tournament. They belonged in the NIT, and they said,
actually no, we're gonna not accept a bid and stay
at home, thank you very much. But those teams didn't
belong in the tournament. Now those teams will be in
the tournament. It's just wild, man. I don't understand it.
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I don't like that. It's I really do wonder the
bracket is such a draw for March madness? How are
you gonna fill out your bracket? Are we gonna still
treat this like Tuesday and Wednesday don't really count and
we just fill it out from Thursday on as Are
we still doing that or do we have to fill
out the Tuesday one Wednesday portion, and you got all
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these sixteen versus sixteen games, and well, maybe there's an
eleven that makes a run, and you know, maybe you
do have to fill it out on Tuesday. I don't know,
at least for the first year, if you have to
fill it out by Tuesday, I'm not participating. I'm out.
I'm out as I'm taking a stand. I will only
fill it out from Thursday on. That's that's the real tournament.
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All this like excess a pay us a little bit
more cash. No, I don't have time for that. It's ridiculous.
And there were a lot of head coaches in college
basketball that were like, yeah, I don't really get it.
I don't know what we're doing. I don't know who
was calling for this. Mark few was against it. John Caliperi,
he was like, if we're gonna expand it, you gotta
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keep the little guys in there. You know, this shouldn't
just be all about power for schools and getting the
big boys. We got to get some of the little
guys in there. That's what makes the tournament so special.
So he was going from that perspective, but you know,
Underwood at Illinois's like, this is dumb. I'm paraphrasing, but
he's like, what are we doing? Why we don't need this?
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So like the coaches aren't even happy with it. It's
just it's not good. I don't know why you're messing
with something that doesn't need to be messed with at all.
And speaking of that too, there's even more momentum for
a twenty four team college football field. Now this, I
will go kicking and screaming into the night if it
comes to this. We don't need twenty four teams in
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the college football playoff. The college football regular season is
the most meaningful regular season in all of sports in
this country. I don't know about soccer and this, and
I don't know, maybe the premier league it's more important.
I don't know. I'm talking about sports in this country. Okay,
college football is the premium regular season. It's still even
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though it's been watered down a little bit because we've
got more teams in the playoff. We went from two
to four to now twelve. It hasn't been watered down
by leaps and bounds where you can just check out
for most of the regular season once your team has
won you know, seven eight games is like, okay, I
see where it's going. Just wake me up. When when
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we know their playoff seating, you know, like that's not
where we're at. It hasn't been watered down to that degree.
The regular season still is meaningful. And think about last
season where my Notre Dame fighting Irish were left out
in the cold. You know, if you don't lose to Miami,
if you don't lose to Texas A and m they're
certainly in the field. So the regular season was really meaningful.
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The first game of the year between Notre Dame and
Miami turned out to be completely meaningful. So I don't
want to get to a point where a twenty four
team field it's just Mulligan City. You know, you lose
the game, it's a Mulligan. You lose another game, Yeah,
you probably find you probably lose three or four depending
on your brand name. Oh gosh, I hate that idea
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and coming up with specifics now with this potential twenty
four team field. Thank goodness for the SEC by the way,
pushing back on this, the Big ten is the one
leading the charge, like we need twenty four teams and
the SEC is like, do we do, we really Greg's
thinking it. The SEC is just like, yeah, not really
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feeling that. If the SEC was on board, we would
already have twenty four teams. But we're just speculating and
kicking around the ideas and this and that. But I've
seen some of the specifics that they're talking about and
how the format would work if we do go to
twenty four teams, and I hope we never get there. Sadly,
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I think it's just a matter of time. Most likely
it will go to sixteen teams first, and then you know,
by the following Tuesday afterward, they'll already push it to
twenty four. That's sort of you know how it's gonna go.
We're eventually going to get there. There's way too much
smoke for there to be no fire. But the way
this could potentially work, if you have twenty four teams
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in the playoff field, the top eight ranked teams would
get a first round by and how stupid did this sound?
While Seeds nine through twenty four play in the first
round on campus's oh my lord, what are we doing? Man? Like,
I'm sorry, you don't belong. There's nothing wrong with saying
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you don't belong. I don't know why so many sports
are getting into like the orange slices business, where it's
like everybody deserves orange slices. Though it's like, no, they
don't win more games and you earn your way in.
You don't win enough games. Hit the freaking road. You
don't belong. Get out right, Like, what do we doing?
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Like we're talking about doubling the college football playoff field.
We already tripled it. Think about it. We went from
four to twelve. Now we're talking about doubling twelve. It's
it's too much. It's absolutely too much. Now. I'm not
great at typing while talking. That's one of the things
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I'm just I'm not I'm not great at. But I
would like to see the standings, the final rankings from
last season, just to give you an idea. Oh, here
we go. That's not too bad. And I'm making strides
over here, so this is probably the Okay, the final rankings.
Let's go to like week sixteen. All right, let's go
to week sixteen, the college football playoff rankings. Week sixteen.
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All right, let's let's scroll down, down, down, down, down
a little bit more. Okay, we've got It's ridiculous. James
Madison got in there, but you know whatever, they got
a group of six, group of five, whatever the hell
they are right now. James Madison got in number twenty three.
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That would be your Iowa Hawkeys. They were eight and
four on the season. We would have a four lost
team in the college football playoff. No, no, no, we
don't need that. I'm sorry, I'm not a fan. We
would have let me count. Georgia Tech had three losses.
Houston had three losses, Virginia had three losses, Michigan had
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three losses, Arizona had three losses. Usc had three losses,
Texas had three losses. Alabama, who got into the playoff,
had three losses. So we've got seven three loss teams.
If you add Iowa to the mix, you'd have eight
teams from last season that at least had three losses
that would all be in the playoff. No, no, no,
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I'm not for that at all. It would greatly water
down the regular season. I hate all things about this
potential twenty four team college football playoff. I'm not on
board whatsoever. And as much as I love college football,
it would turn off to the point in the regular season.
I wouldn't be watching games like I do. I really wouldn't.
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I just wouldn't be as drawn to it. I'd be like,
you know what, Saturday, I can I can go grocery shopping,
you know, I can do some other things. I can
do this, do that, And Sunday is ball. Sunday is
all day ball, baby, But Saturday, if they stretch it
to twenty four teams, I'm telling you what, man, I
would not be watching as many games as I do.
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I watch college football games from sun up to sundown
and then some you know, like I'm doing it. I'm
watching it until games aren't on anymore, and I work
in the morning. I don't even care. I'm a ball
a holic over here. But you stretch it to twenty four,
I would be greatly turned off to the point where
I'm not watching your product as much as I do
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right now. Why would you want to do that? I
think this too. Last thing I'll say is this, I
wish that the powers that be, whether it's the NC
double A or any of these committees that are suggesting
this or that college commissioners, you know, all this type
of stuff, I wish that they would stop thinking only
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about the bottom line. The dollars and cents of everything,
and what's good for the sport? Okay, I get why
the powers that be would want to stretch the NC
DOUBLEA tournament on the men's and the lady side by
the way to seventy six games. They're gonna get some
more cash. Is that what's best for either tournament? Especially
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on the ladies' side. You talk about talent disparity, it's
night and day between the haves and the have nots.
It's like who wants to get kicked in the teeth
by U kon? Oh? How about the seventy sixth team
in the nation? Like, what are we doing? Man? Like,
that's not what's good for the game. That's not what's
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good for the sport. So what's good for the bottom line?
And I hate that the bottom line keeps winning and
winning and winning and winning, and it's staring you in
the face. This is not what's good for the game.
Oh well, the bottom line, though, will make more cash,
so NA, screw it, let's just do it. I wish
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that wasn't the thinking at all, and unfortunately it's the
thinking far too often these days. It's just the way
it is now. One thing that I really wouldn't mind
seeing changed. They're talking about getting rid of the conference
championship games in college football. I really wouldn't care about that.
I think they're useless at this point, even with a
twelve team college football playoff, if they did away with
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those things and sort of, you know, shorten the length
of the season they're talking about, Hey, when the regular
seasons over, boom, we're playing playoff games. Some of the layoffs. Indiana,
they had twenty seven days off. It is a twenty
seven day gap between the Big Ten championship game when
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Indiana beat Ohio State, remember that low scoring game thirteen ten.
It was twenty seven days between the Big Ten championship
game and the Rose Bowl when they smacked around Alabama.
Twenty seven days in between those, and then when they
smacked around Bama there were ten more days before they
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smacked around Oregon in the semi finals. There's way too
much time off, man, I don't get that. So you know,
if you went straight from the regular season, got rid
of the conference championship games, go right into the playoffs.
If you expand it to sixteen, Okay, I get it.
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I won't go kicking and screaming into the night, but
no hard pass on twenty four. But I'd be fine
with that. You know, I think it's so stupid where
college football is right now, as much as I love
it to have, basically what it's free agency, that's what
the transfer portal is. You've got free agency going on
during the college football playoff. That shouldn't be a thing.
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Imagine the NFL having free agency during the NFL playoffs.
That's the dumbest thing ever. The NFL would be like,
that's we wouldn't do that, though. That's really stupid. It's like, yeah,
exactly why is college football doing that? So if you
shorten the length of the regular season, or at least
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start your playoffs right after the regular season ends and
don't have these huge gaps in between when you're playing
and all of that, just get right to it, bro
and you finish the second week in January. That's way
better than the way it is right now. And they're scheduled,
you know, the next couple of seasons they're playing, it's
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like January twenty fifth, January twenty fourth, those are the
next two years when they're scheduled to have the championship games.
That's too late in the calendar man. So they got
a lot to work on in college football, and I
hope one of the things is not a twenty four
game playoff or twenty fourteen playoff. It's just we gotta
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maintain the integrity of the regular season at some point.
And some of these bum teams don't belong. There's nothing
wrong with saying that, man, you don't belong. Better luck
next year at winning games. Okay, until then, hit it,
get out, exit stage right, go away, all right? Eight seven,
(18:37):
seven ninety nine on Fox is your phone number? Oh man,
I see one of my buddies is on deck and
he's already hit me up on X. I know exactly
what he's gonna say, and I loathe anybody who has
this to say.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
You gotta say.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
He's gonna do it. I can see it. I can
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Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube. I love this tweet
from Late Night Drug Tester. He wrote in and says, nice,
you got the producers breakdown of the vikings wide receivers.
(20:22):
Now let's hear his take on Vergara or Hathaway. So, Patty,
I'm sure you you didn't hear this, But man, I
was filling in for Big Ben last night and I
was with Coop and Lorena. Yeah, and so justin Cooper
he told me, he was like, hey, by the way,
you see People magazine they named Anne Hathaway the most
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beautiful woman in twenty twenty six. Okay, And for the
people who listened to, you know, the show last night,
don't worry, don't worry. We're not gonna do like nine
hours of this tonight is We're not gonna run it back.
But because Late Night drug tester tweeted this, I gotta
break it down for my guy, Patti Sweekaser, you know.
So basically I was like, this is ridiculous. What are
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we doing here? Right? Like, Anne Hathaway is a beautiful woman.
She's a beautiful girl, and she's very talented and all that,
but dude, the most beautiful woman of twenty twenty six,
We're going a little bit too far over here, you
kidding me? And so my example was, if Sophia Virgara
is walking on the beach and Anne Hathaway is walking
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on the beach, are you looking at Anne more than Sophia?
You're out of your freaking mind. If you are so yeah,
that's my take on it, Patty. But if you would
like to weigh in, where are you on the Sofia
versus Anne debate? Right there?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I mean again, this all comes down to personal preferences
everybody and like you know, types and styles. But again,
I this is neither here and there. I do have
a take, okay, And if you're having to pick between
those two, I think they're both gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I like them.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
They're both awesome. That said, I'm not gonna be on
the fence here, I will. I'm strictly hard on the
Sophia For gar Alane, let's go. I have a thing
for Latina's come on, Oh she's she's dynamic, she is,
she's amazing. So that's you know, listen, and she's funny.
She's really funny, right family.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
For anyone who's like, well, Anne Hathaway, she's she's great actors,
she's really talented. It's like, well, so Sophia, Sophia's got talent.
It's not just looks, but man, that looks a man
looks man man alive the long what freaking do you do?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Did you see where Tom Brady was linked to Vergara. Yeah,
they were like they were doing the love boat type thing.
I don't think it was the the Verabel Russini love boat, right,
they were. They were doing some sort of boating or whatever.
It's like, yeah, Tom Brady was you know, in for
the night or I'm like freaking Brady Man. He's living
(23:02):
the playboy life right now. It's like, yeah, you know,
I'm free. Oh, Vergara's on the text. Yeah, I'll swing through,
don't worry. Yeah as well. Yeah, he's like freaking Brady Man,
freaking Brady Man. He's living his best life. There's no doubt.
All right. So my guy Gunner is in Minnesota. He
already tweeted me in the wee hours here tonight, and
(23:26):
I'm sure he's about to tell me I told you, Brian,
Well you right, what do you have to say, Gunner?
What's going on? Buddy?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Oh Brian just sitting back to your relax on my
lunch break. And I'm thinking, oh, well, and Brian's I'll
give him a call.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I appreciate that, man. It's always good to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah. Okay, Well, Denver to that one game more than
I thought. Got a few more. Dancer and Jaspers at
home they might take one and one more Inania. We'll
pay and shop in Minnesota and then we'll give see
it rupp the mien give we pull that off. I
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think it's gonna be a finot us in the next.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Now, No, Gunner, I feel like Game two shook you
up a little bit because you went from I'm you
went from your Timberwolves beating Okase too. If we could
give them a run for their money. That's what Game
two did to you, Gunner. It shook you up. That's
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the truth of this matter right now.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah, it's a little bit just we weren't shorting a
bad but we take up when we take you up here,
gun to Spurs. We'll get back into our groove and
taking on Okahma City and see the next to the finals.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That's akay, the Knicks coming out of the East though,
huh okay.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, that's what I got come out of you.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yes, yeah, I don't have I don't hate that prediction. Yeah,
little og Yoby a little hamstring string that's not good though,
not good with og being a little bit nicked up
right there. Not good, Gunner.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
They got a good they'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
One more thing though, I go football here. Yeah, Panthers
had one of the best off seasons. I gotta say
it right now.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
By the way, Gunner, how are you? How are you
a Panthers fan and not a Vikings fan? How did
that happen?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Vikings was terrible when I was younger. It was it
was brutal. That was that was bad to watch. I
cannot watch it.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
The only reason why I watched him I was a
Darren Sharper fanya.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And it looks like he goes and does when he's
out of football, he goes and does that thing. So yeah, correct,
one of the best off seasons to get two of
the best defensive players in the league and offensive line.
During the draft, we picked up one of the best
offensive linemen often tackled in the college for above and Georgia.
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That's gonna be great for us. I think we'll have
a great season.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Goal thirteen wins thirteen wins for the Carolina Panthers. Like,
I hate to do this, Gunner, but I gotta keep
track of your bad predictions, you know what I mean,
Like you get some of them right, but man, you
get something wrong. Like they're not gonna sniff thirteen wins.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Oh, yes, it will. We're a two of everyone wrong.
We're we have We had the best rookie receiver last year.
He's gonna be upgrading this year and getting almost two
thousand yards. I'm gonna say it right now. And we
have a great running back. No one's really seen much
of Jonathan Brooks. He's a show everyone who he is.
He hasn't got play much. He'sn't injured, he's healed now,
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he had a whole season. Heel. He's gonna show his speed.
We'll have another dynamic doing running back with True Behobbard
and him. It was like Diato Williams and Jonas Stewart
running back to you.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Again, it's it's almost too much to keep up with here, gunner.
You just snuck in that Ted McMillan is gonna get
to two thousand receiving yards when Bryce Young is his quarterback.
You just snuck that in, and then you started talking
about Jonathan Brooks and all kinds of other stuff. I
gotta go. There's no chance. I would love to know.
(27:23):
I don't know. If I could pull it up right here,
I would let what would you guess? And I don't
know this, what would you guess Ted Rowan McMillan, who's
a great wide receiver, what would you guess his receiving
yards is set at for the season like the betting
line where you could take over on what do you
think it's realistically said at for Ted McMillan. Yeah, I
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don't know. I'll have to check it out. That's not
a bad guess. So you're gonna you're on your lunch
break right now, Gunner. You're gonna put all the money tonight,
all the money from a you know, the next handful
of months here on the over for Teed McMillan. You
got to hammer that thing.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I would yeah, yeah, thing I would do. But it's
like right now, I have a couple of other apps
on going on right now. There's no football on it yet.
I have two other apps that go on for on predictions.
I'm doing pretty well on lately.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Okay, that's good, that's good. I'm trying to thumb through.
Oh I found it. Oh, Gunner, Gunner, you your guy
who you're you're seeing?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You got hoop dreams of two thousand receiving yards in
the twenty sixth season, Tedoro and McMillan is at least
on DraftKings and I can look at other sports books,
he is at nine hundred and forty nine and a
half yards. That's his line. He's not even at a
thousand yards. God, what is happening over here?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
What a joke that is? They'll they're not they don't know.
This offensive line will be mail the block bridge down
and long enough, he'll be able to get out there
fasts and get that receive right now?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Man, all right, are they What are the t Wolves
doing on Friday night? Game three? Huh? They they responding
after a thirty eight point drubbing.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Oh oh yeah, they're responding. So Jamie so Rudy Gobert's
a play lockdown deep, can stay against Joker, no problems.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
So they're they're gonna win outright. We're going money line
on this.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, they're winning out They're winning out right.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yes, okay, all right, if I lose, I'm blaming you.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Oh, don't worry about Louising.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I love you, I love the comience.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Seventeen point win.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
At the least seventeen point win in Game three, okay, Yes,
I'm gonna hold you to them, right, I'm writing all
these predictions down, Gunner, I gotta keep track and stuff.
All right, man, you have a good evening at work, buddy.
Thanks for calling us on your lunch and I appreciate that. Man. Yep,
there he is.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
There.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
He is Gunner in Minnesota. Roots for the Carolina Panthers,
not the Minnesota Vikings. I don't see TETAROA. McMillan listed
on draft on bet MGM. I don't see that listed.
But you could get him at nine to forty nine
and a half at draft Kings. Wow. Yeah, that's that's lower.
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Two thousand would be soaring over that total right there.
So I don't know. Maybe you parlay the McMillan over
with the Detroit Lions over ten and a half season wins. Yeah,
maybe you do that. All right, let's go back out
to the phones.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Here.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
We've got Andrea. She's on deck. She's over in Berkeley.
What's going on, Andrea, you're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Yeah, enjoying your show. And it was interesting. Aaron Rodgers
mentioned today that he's thinking of continuing playing, and I
heard Benvoyce going Aaron Rogers. He always says that thing
about Rogers, And curiously enough, Brian, I don't know if
you knew this, but Aaron's really into astrology.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Oh yeah, he's way into it.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Yeah yeah, Like if you google Aaron Rodgers astrology, they'll
talk about how he's into it. He's actually a client
of a colleague of mine, and I have his actual
birth time because he's into astrology.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Can I guess? Can I guess what time?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Yeah? Go right ahead, I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Say Aaron Rodgers was born at twelve eleven PM in
the afternoon.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Close. He was actually born December two, nineteen eighty three.
So he's a free spirited Aquarius two fifty PM in Chico, California.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Okay, by the way, is there anything whether you're an
AM or a PM baby, is there anything associated with
that Andrew at all?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Changes your rising sign, Brian. So if you're born, you know,
in the morning, say you're born around dawn, you might
have the same rising sign as your son's sign. And
if you're born in the evening, it might be the opposite.
So the more exact birthtime the better. And since Aaron's
are into astrology, he's happy to give it out and
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share it. So he's got five planets and free spirited
Sagittarius and Scorpio moon. I know you can relate to that.
So he's got that intensity there, trus rising. And what's curious,
he's forty two. He's having his midlife crisis. So when
that's thirty nine to forty two, So when we have
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that rite of passage, we make you know, career changes,
some people, you know, change career paths. But he's saying
he wants to return. And a couple of years back,
I wrote his sports astrology for the Athletic and talking
about his Ayahuasca journeys and his travels, and you know
how he's really very free spirited person, but he's still
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very ambitious. So there he is wanting to return to
the Pittsburgh Steelers. So you know, again, forty two is
not old, but I guess in the sports world it's
somewhat old. So it'll be interesting to see, yeah, the next.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So this is what I'm curious about. What gets you
out of your midlife crisis? You know what I mean? Yeah,
did you just reach forty three and you're like, ask,
screw it, I don't even care anymore about what is it?
What is it that typically happens for people? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:33):
No, that's an excellent question. That's the time of ending,
the new beginning. So people leave careers that are unfulfilling,
they leave relationships that are unfulfilling. You know, there was
that joke about, oh, he's having his midlife crisis. He
you know, buys a new convertible, takes off with you know,
his secretary. That was like old timey and you know
(33:57):
it's basically no, not to what you're talkiring, but what's
the next step? What else do you want to do
besides what you're currently doing. So if you retire from
one job, what do you want to do next? Because
forty two is still young. So the midlife crisis, it's
a rite of passage. Regardless of your birth date, Brian,
it happens to everyone chronologically between thirty nine and forty two.
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So it's a time of great change. Basically whatever out lived,
it's creative usefulness. It's a good time to make positive
changes in that direction.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
You ever have like a post midlife crisis.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Yeah, depending on your individual chart. That's an excellent question.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
So what age range are we looking at here?
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Well, the midlife crisis is thirty nine to forty two. Yeah,
the SATA return is twenty eight to thirty and that's
a very maturing transit. And then you can have your
own personal transits, like what's happening currently that affects your
natal chart, compare and contrast it to the forecast, which
is what's happening currently. So beyond your you know, write
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a passage chronological transit, you can have a personal transit
as well. That's very transformational.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
So we've got a lot going on over here.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's basically a map of optimum timing
and we all have free will. But it's nice to know,
you know, certain things happen twenty eight to thirty, thirty
nine to forty two. The second satur return is fifty
eight full astrological lifetime eighty eight. So it's always interesting
to see these major write a passage transits and then
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to layer on your own personal transits as well. So
you know, never a dull.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Movement, no, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Well, Andrew, we got to run. But it's always great
to hear from you. Appreciate your time, man, yeah, and
hope you have a great evening in the wee hours here.
I always appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Oh yes, I enjoy your scorpio energy.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Well, thank you. Yes, absolutely appreciate that. Yes, yeah, it's
it's anger masked as scorpio energy. You know what I mean.
It's uh, it's like how you put that, Yeah, very well.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Yeah, it's passion, it's intensity. There you go, determination, you
use it uses.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
You, yeah, no doubt. Well, thank you, Andrew. I appreciate you.
All right. So eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
That is the phone number. By the way, I'm sorry,
I just wrote something down going back to Gunner where
you mentioned Darren Sharper A brief, brief, brief story. But
I went to a Saints game. It was actually in
two thousand and nine, that was their Super Bowl winning season,
(36:36):
and there was a guy outside the stadium and he
was like, these ain't Joe Daddy Saints. These shop a Saints.
I never forgot that. It was one of my favorite
moments of any football game. You just had to be
there for that. But they ended up winning a Super
Bowl that season, and then you know, sadly, Darren Sharper
(36:57):
turned out to be a serial rapist.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Horrible.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But man, I'll tell you what, going to that Saints
game that year. I've been to every NFL stadium, but
Jacksonville Stadium. I haven't been to a Jacksonville Jaguars game.
I do have to go to Levi's. I've been to
a Niners game, but I haven't been to the new stadium,
so I guess I have to check that off. But
I've been almost everywhere, and man, that Saints when you
(37:23):
got in town, literally the whole town. I got into
the city and I took the bus. I took the
bus to meet my friends and everybody was just talking Saints.
It was like it was like sports radio, but people
are like, Hey, what do you think about this? Running
back here? What do you think about this matchup this week?
It was amazing. I loved it. It was awesome, awesome, awesome stuff.
(37:45):
One of my favorite experiences going to a Saints game
when they were really, really good. It's just a party
in the stands. Man, it was really fun. All right,
We'll get back to the calls momentarily. Also, I was
looking up some NBA players doing some research. I stumbled
the pawn, a nickname I did not know anything about,
and it's so ridiculous. I just have to share it
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I'm a little low on time right here, a little low.
So I'll tell you what if the militia who's on hold?
If you can hold on for a little bit longer,
I don't want to, you know, to have a thirty
second phone call and it's like, all right, well we
got to run and you don't even really get to
your point or whatever. So we'll do it in the
next hour if you're cool with hanging on for a
little bit. But I just don't want it to be
(39:08):
a short, little tiny phone call. That's not cool. So
we'll do it on the other side for sure. In
the meantime, I did see something. I was looking up
these random basketball players NBA playoffs, just doing a little
bit of I put together these depth charts and I
always update them, and I'd like to glance at it
(39:30):
during games and stuff like that. I'm a nerd. But
I ran across something I knew nothing about. Every now
and then something on Basketball Reference where they'll have the
nicknames of the players. Every now and then, it'll just
catch my attention. And I saw Luke Cornet's nicknames on
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Basketball Reference. So he plays for the San Antonio Spurs, right,
Luke Cornett. And the last one is the best one.
So they had the green Cornet, which is lame, right
because you don't even pronounce it like that, it's cornet.
So I don't like that one Unicornet, which hm, it's okay.
(40:12):
This one is the most outrageous, the most ridiculous, and
the most memorable. Corn on the lob? Are we serious
as one of his nicknames? Right? I was a corn
on the cop corn on the lob like lob, Doug say,
all you, I can't believe that someone came up with that.
(40:35):
I'm calling him that from now on, Like that's this
what he is. It's not Luke Cornet, It's corn on
the Lob's. That's what I'm gonna call him from this
day forward because it's so ridiculous. That's all I will
know him as. All right, coming up next. It's bad,
it's really bad, but it's not bad enough.
You're listening to Fox Sports. Oh what's going on? Hope
all is well. Mallard, Militia as we've got Coop, Loraina,
Big Ben. They're all in Boston, Little Mallard meet and
greet over there. Hope all is well with everybody safe travels,
having a great weekend, meeting the people. It's all great,
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fantastic love that Ben does that. And hey, I get
some extra cash. I can bet first half overs like
I did with the Thunder and the Lakers on Thursday night.
That was a good one. It's a good one. Now
I'll search some the betting lines. You know, maybe I'll
get you a little forecasted potential win on Friday. We'll see.
(00:45):
We'll see as we go into the wee hours. But
what I want to focus in on now is the
NCAA Tournament. So it's official. It's finally happened. Just as
everybody was clamoring like more more, we need more teams,
need more teams for my bracket to fill. I need
more more, please more. I mean I'd go out in
(01:06):
the streets and I was just bombarded with people like
mar Brian, can you do it more? We need more teams.
No one was doing that. Absolutely no one was doing that.
And yet we've got more teams that are gonna be
in the NC Double A Tournament. It is growing to
seventy six teams. It starts this upcoming season, twenty six
(01:28):
twenty seven season. We're gonna have a lot more teams.
We're gonna have twelve first round games, and we're gonna
have eight sixteen seeds and we're all gonna play each other.
What are we doing. We're gonna have eight sixteen seeds
play each other and like the NC double as saying, well,
(01:50):
you know you can. You can say you won an
NC double A Tournament game if you win that. What
are we doing?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Man?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
What? I'm just not a fan. I'm not gonna be
I don't know, kicking and screaming like this is the
dumbest thing in the history of sports. I just don't
know why we're messing with something that's so great. The
NCAA Tournament is fantastic, and all you're doing with this expansion,
(02:18):
you're giving us more reason to not pay attention to
the regular season. Why would you do that? I just
don't understand. The only reason you do it is for money.
It's a straight money grab, and I would have more
respect for the powers that be that are forcing this
to happen if they just came out and came out
(02:39):
and said it. Instead of like, well you can say
you want a tournament game, it's like, oh yeah, we're
gonna put up banners for one sixteen beating another sixteen.
Like that's no, that's not a great sales pitch or
you know whatever. There, Oh this is. This is great
for the student athletes. It's a great experience, and more
get to experience it. It's like, bro, we know you're
(03:02):
just trying to make money. You're making more money. That's
what it's about. So if you just said that, I'd
at least respect it more than Oh no, it's it's
about the kids. It's about the student athletes and their
experience here. No, it's not stop it, man, it's just
ridiculous what we're doing here. But that's where it is.
(03:24):
And you are you're watering down the regular season even more.
You're giving me less incentive to pay attention when football
is going on. Right, like, I'll be watching ball left
and right. I got enough ball to watch. And now
that more teams are getting into the NCAA tournament. Why
exactly am I tuning in in November December? Why why
(03:45):
am I watching? What's the point, right if they went
the other way and they kept it at sixty eight
or you know, I know they're not going to go backwards.
But let's say they're like, we're trimming it back to
sixty four. We really don't need this excess fat over here.
It's like okay, and they're like, another thing that we're
gonna do. We are going to have home games for
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the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament. It's like,
if they were to do that, it's like, okay, Well,
the regular season means a little bit more. There's incentive
to watch. If you're able to get one of the
higher seeds and potentially have two home games, that's a
big deal. But they're going the exact opposite way. They're like, no, actually,
(04:30):
more teams are gonna get into the field of seventy
six right now. And you're looking at some of these
bum teams that are they would have been tournament teams
this last season. If expansion happened one year prior, these
teams would be in We're looking at some of these records,
man it's like Auburn was seventeen and sixteen. I got
(04:53):
to see him actually in the NIT. It was kind
of cool. I went there because I went to the
final four and I got to see the final four games,
got to see the championship game, and then sandwiched in between,
they had the NIT Championship in Indianapolis also, so I
went to that. It was actually really cool. But Auburn
didn't belong in the NC DOUBLEA tournament. They belonged in
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the NIT. Same with IU. Indiana didn't belong in the
NC DOUBLEA tournament. They belonged in the NIT, and they said,
actually no, we're gonna not accept a bid and stay
at home, thank you very much. But those teams didn't
belong in the tournament. Now those teams will be in
the tournament. It's just wild, man. I don't understand it.
(05:39):
I don't like that. It's I really do wonder the
bracket is such a draw for March madness? How are
you gonna fill out your bracket? Are we gonna still
treat this like Tuesday and Wednesday don't really count and
we just fill it out from Thursday on as Are
we still doing that or do we have to fill
out the Tuesday one Wednesday portion, and you got all
(06:02):
these sixteen versus sixteen games, and well, maybe there's an
eleven that makes a run, and you know, maybe you
do have to fill it out on Tuesday. I don't know,
at least for the first year, if you have to
fill it out by Tuesday, I'm not participating. I'm out.
I'm out as I'm taking a stand. I will only
fill it out from Thursday on. That's that's the real tournament.
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All this like excess a pay us a little bit
more cash. No, I don't have time for that. It's ridiculous.
And there were a lot of head coaches in college
basketball that were like, yeah, I don't really get it.
I don't know what we're doing. I don't know who
was calling for this. Mark few was against it. John Caliperi,
he was like, if we're gonna expand it, you gotta
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keep the little guys in there. You know, this shouldn't
just be all about power for schools and getting the
big boys. We got to get some of the little
guys in there. That's what makes the tournament so special.
So he was going from that perspective, but you know,
Underwood at Illinois's like, this is dumb. I'm paraphrasing, but
he's like, what are we doing? Why we don't need this?
(07:07):
So like the coaches aren't even happy with it. It's
just it's not good. I don't know why you're messing
with something that doesn't need to be messed with at all.
And speaking of that too, there's even more momentum for
a twenty four team college football field. Now this, I
will go kicking and screaming into the night if it
comes to this. We don't need twenty four teams in
(07:30):
the college football playoff. The college football regular season is
the most meaningful regular season in all of sports in
this country. I don't know about soccer and this, and
I don't know, maybe the premier league it's more important.
I don't know. I'm talking about sports in this country. Okay,
college football is the premium regular season. It's still even
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though it's been watered down a little bit because we've
got more teams in the playoff. We went from two
to four to now twelve. It hasn't been watered down
by leaps and bounds where you can just check out
for most of the regular season once your team has
won you know, seven eight games is like, okay, I
see where it's going. Just wake me up. When when
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we know their playoff seating, you know, like that's not
where we're at. It hasn't been watered down to that degree.
The regular season still is meaningful. And think about last
season where my Notre Dame fighting Irish were left out
in the cold. You know, if you don't lose to Miami,
if you don't lose to Texas A and m they're
certainly in the field. So the regular season was really meaningful.
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The first game of the year between Notre Dame and
Miami turned out to be completely meaningful. So I don't
want to get to a point where a twenty four
team field it's just Mulligan City. You know, you lose
the game, it's a Mulligan. You lose another game, Yeah,
you probably find you probably lose three or four depending
on your brand name. Oh gosh, I hate that idea
(08:59):
and coming up with specifics now with this potential twenty
four team field. Thank goodness for the SEC by the way,
pushing back on this, the Big ten is the one
leading the charge, like we need twenty four teams and
the SEC is like, do we do, we really Greg's
thinking it. The SEC is just like, yeah, not really
(09:21):
feeling that. If the SEC was on board, we would
already have twenty four teams. But we're just speculating and
kicking around the ideas and this and that. But I've
seen some of the specifics that they're talking about and
how the format would work if we do go to
twenty four teams, and I hope we never get there. Sadly,
(09:42):
I think it's just a matter of time. Most likely
it will go to sixteen teams first, and then you know,
by the following Tuesday afterward, they'll already push it to
twenty four. That's sort of you know how it's gonna go.
We're eventually going to get there. There's way too much
smoke for there to be no fire. But the way
this could potentially work, if you have twenty four teams
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in the playoff field, the top eight ranked teams would
get a first round by and how stupid did this sound?
While Seeds nine through twenty four play in the first
round on campus's oh my lord, what are we doing? Man? Like,
I'm sorry, you don't belong. There's nothing wrong with saying
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you don't belong. I don't know why so many sports
are getting into like the orange slices business, where it's
like everybody deserves orange slices. Though it's like, no, they
don't win more games and you earn your way in.
You don't win enough games. Hit the freaking road. You
don't belong. Get out right, Like, what do we doing?
(10:48):
Like we're talking about doubling the college football playoff field.
We already tripled it. Think about it. We went from
four to twelve. Now we're talking about doubling twelve. It's
it's too much. It's absolutely too much. Now. I'm not
great at typing while talking. That's one of the things
(11:08):
I'm just I'm not I'm not great at. But I
would like to see the standings, the final rankings from
last season, just to give you an idea. Oh, here
we go. That's not too bad. And I'm making strides
over here, so this is probably the Okay, the final rankings.
Let's go to like week sixteen. All right, let's go
to week sixteen, the college football playoff rankings. Week sixteen.
(11:32):
All right, let's let's scroll down, down, down, down, down
a little bit more. Okay, we've got It's ridiculous. James
Madison got in there, but you know whatever, they got
a group of six, group of five, whatever the hell
they are right now. James Madison got in number twenty three.
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That would be your Iowa Hawkeys. They were eight and
four on the season. We would have a four lost
team in the college football playoff. No, no, no, we
don't need that. I'm sorry, I'm not a fan. We
would have let me count. Georgia Tech had three losses.
Houston had three losses, Virginia had three losses, Michigan had
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three losses, Arizona had three losses. Usc had three losses,
Texas had three losses. Alabama, who got into the playoff,
had three losses. So we've got seven three loss teams.
If you add Iowa to the mix, you'd have eight
teams from last season that at least had three losses
that would all be in the playoff. No, no, no,
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I'm not for that at all. It would greatly water
down the regular season. I hate all things about this
potential twenty four team college football playoff. I'm not on
board whatsoever. And as much as I love college football,
it would turn off to the point in the regular season.
I wouldn't be watching games like I do. I really wouldn't.
(13:05):
I just wouldn't be as drawn to it. I'd be like,
you know what, Saturday, I can I can go grocery shopping,
you know, I can do some other things. I can
do this, do that, And Sunday is ball. Sunday is
all day ball, baby, But Saturday, if they stretch it
to twenty four teams, I'm telling you what, man, I
would not be watching as many games as I do.
(13:28):
I watch college football games from sun up to sundown
and then some you know, like I'm doing it. I'm
watching it until games aren't on anymore, and I work
in the morning. I don't even care. I'm a ball
a holic over here. But you stretch it to twenty four,
I would be greatly turned off to the point where
I'm not watching your product as much as I do
(13:49):
right now. Why would you want to do that? I
think this too. Last thing I'll say is this, I
wish that the powers that be, whether it's the NC
double A or any of these committees that are suggesting
this or that college commissioners, you know, all this type
of stuff, I wish that they would stop thinking only
(14:14):
about the bottom line. The dollars and cents of everything,
and what's good for the sport? Okay, I get why
the powers that be would want to stretch the NC
DOUBLEA tournament on the men's and the lady side by
the way to seventy six games. They're gonna get some
more cash. Is that what's best for either tournament? Especially
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on the ladies' side. You talk about talent disparity, it's
night and day between the haves and the have nots.
It's like who wants to get kicked in the teeth
by U kon? Oh? How about the seventy sixth team
in the nation? Like, what are we doing? Man? Like,
that's not what's good for the game. That's not what's
(14:59):
good for the sport. So what's good for the bottom line?
And I hate that the bottom line keeps winning and
winning and winning and winning, and it's staring you in
the face. This is not what's good for the game.
Oh well, the bottom line, though, will make more cash,
so NA, screw it, let's just do it. I wish
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that wasn't the thinking at all, and unfortunately it's the
thinking far too often these days. It's just the way
it is now. One thing that I really wouldn't mind
seeing changed. They're talking about getting rid of the conference
championship games in college football. I really wouldn't care about that.
I think they're useless at this point, even with a
twelve team college football playoff, if they did away with
(15:44):
those things and sort of, you know, shorten the length
of the season they're talking about, Hey, when the regular
seasons over, boom, we're playing playoff games. Some of the layoffs. Indiana,
they had twenty seven days off. It is a twenty
seven day gap between the Big Ten championship game when
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Indiana beat Ohio State, remember that low scoring game thirteen ten.
It was twenty seven days between the Big Ten championship
game and the Rose Bowl when they smacked around Alabama.
Twenty seven days in between those, and then when they
smacked around Bama there were ten more days before they
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smacked around Oregon in the semi finals. There's way too
much time off, man, I don't get that. So you know,
if you went straight from the regular season, got rid
of the conference championship games, go right into the playoffs.
If you expand it to sixteen, Okay, I get it.
(16:46):
I won't go kicking and screaming into the night, but
no hard pass on twenty four. But I'd be fine
with that. You know, I think it's so stupid where
college football is right now, as much as I love
it to have, basically what it's free agency, that's what
the transfer portal is. You've got free agency going on
during the college football playoff. That shouldn't be a thing.
(17:10):
Imagine the NFL having free agency during the NFL playoffs.
That's the dumbest thing ever. The NFL would be like,
that's we wouldn't do that, though. That's really stupid. It's like, yeah,
exactly why is college football doing that? So if you
shorten the length of the regular season, or at least
(17:31):
start your playoffs right after the regular season ends and
don't have these huge gaps in between when you're playing
and all of that, just get right to it, bro
and you finish the second week in January. That's way
better than the way it is right now. And they're scheduled,
you know, the next couple of seasons they're playing, it's
(17:53):
like January twenty fifth, January twenty fourth, those are the
next two years when they're scheduled to have the championship games.
That's too late in the calendar man. So they got
a lot to work on in college football, and I
hope one of the things is not a twenty four
game playoff or twenty fourteen playoff. It's just we gotta
(18:17):
maintain the integrity of the regular season at some point.
And some of these bum teams don't belong. There's nothing
wrong with saying that, man, you don't belong. Better luck
next year at winning games. Okay, until then, hit it,
get out, exit stage right, go away, all right? Eight seven,
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from Late Night Drug Tester. He wrote in and says, nice,
you got the producers breakdown of the vikings wide receivers.
(20:22):
Now let's hear his take on Vergara or Hathaway. So, Patty,
I'm sure you you didn't hear this, But man, I
was filling in for Big Ben last night and I
was with Coop and Lorena. Yeah, and so justin Cooper
he told me, he was like, hey, by the way,
you see People magazine they named Anne Hathaway the most
(20:45):
beautiful woman in twenty twenty six. Okay, And for the
people who listened to, you know, the show last night,
don't worry, don't worry. We're not gonna do like nine
hours of this tonight is We're not gonna run it back.
But because Late Night drug tester tweeted this, I gotta
break it down for my guy, Patti Sweekaser, you know.
So basically I was like, this is ridiculous. What are
(21:09):
we doing here? Right? Like, Anne Hathaway is a beautiful woman.
She's a beautiful girl, and she's very talented and all that,
but dude, the most beautiful woman of twenty twenty six,
We're going a little bit too far over here, you
kidding me? And so my example was, if Sophia Virgara
is walking on the beach and Anne Hathaway is walking
(21:32):
on the beach, are you looking at Anne more than Sophia?
You're out of your freaking mind. If you are so yeah,
that's my take on it, Patty. But if you would
like to weigh in, where are you on the Sofia
versus Anne debate? Right there?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I mean again, this all comes down to personal preferences
everybody and like you know, types and styles. But again,
I this is neither here and there. I do have
a take, okay, And if you're having to pick between
those two, I think they're both gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I like them.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
They're both awesome. That said, I'm not gonna be on
the fence here, I will. I'm strictly hard on the
Sophia For gar Alane, let's go. I have a thing
for Latina's come on, Oh she's she's dynamic, she is,
she's amazing. So that's you know, listen, and she's funny.
She's really funny, right family.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
For anyone who's like, well, Anne Hathaway, she's she's great actors,
she's really talented. It's like, well, so Sophia, Sophia's got talent.
It's not just looks, but man, that looks a man
looks man man alive the long what freaking do you do?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Did you see where Tom Brady was linked to Vergara. Yeah,
they were like they were doing the love boat type thing.
I don't think it was the the Verabel Russini love boat, right,
they were. They were doing some sort of boating or whatever.
It's like, yeah, Tom Brady was you know, in for
the night or I'm like freaking Brady Man. He's living
(23:02):
the playboy life right now. It's like, yeah, you know,
I'm free. Oh, Vergara's on the text. Yeah, I'll swing through,
don't worry. Yeah as well. Yeah, he's like freaking Brady Man,
freaking Brady Man. He's living his best life. There's no doubt.
All right. So my guy Gunner is in Minnesota. He
already tweeted me in the wee hours here tonight, and
(23:26):
I'm sure he's about to tell me I told you, Brian,
Well you right, what do you have to say, Gunner?
What's going on? Buddy?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Oh Brian just sitting back to your relax on my
lunch break. And I'm thinking, oh, well, and Brian's I'll
give him a call.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I appreciate that, man. It's always good to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah. Okay, Well, Denver to that one game more than
I thought. Got a few more. Dancer and Jaspers at
home they might take one and one more Inania. We'll
pay and shop in Minnesota and then we'll give see
it rupp the mien give we pull that off. I
(24:09):
think it's gonna be a finot us in the next.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Now, No, Gunner, I feel like Game two shook you
up a little bit because you went from I'm you
went from your Timberwolves beating Okase too. If we could
give them a run for their money. That's what Game
two did to you, Gunner. It shook you up. That's
(24:33):
the truth of this matter right now.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah, it's a little bit just we weren't shorting a
bad but we take up when we take you up here,
gun to Spurs. We'll get back into our groove and
taking on Okahma City and see the next to the finals.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That's akay, the Knicks coming out of the East though,
huh okay.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, that's what I got come out of you.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yes, yeah, I don't have I don't hate that prediction. Yeah,
little og Yoby a little hamstring string that's not good though,
not good with og being a little bit nicked up
right there. Not good, Gunner.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
They got a good they'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
One more thing though, I go football here. Yeah, Panthers
had one of the best off seasons. I gotta say
it right now.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
By the way, Gunner, how are you? How are you
a Panthers fan and not a Vikings fan? How did
that happen?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Vikings was terrible when I was younger. It was it
was brutal. That was that was bad to watch. I
cannot watch it.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
The only reason why I watched him I was a
Darren Sharper fanya.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And it looks like he goes and does when he's
out of football, he goes and does that thing. So yeah, correct,
one of the best off seasons to get two of
the best defensive players in the league and offensive line.
During the draft, we picked up one of the best
offensive linemen often tackled in the college for above and Georgia.
(26:07):
That's gonna be great for us. I think we'll have
a great season.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Goal thirteen wins thirteen wins for the Carolina Panthers. Like,
I hate to do this, Gunner, but I gotta keep
track of your bad predictions, you know what I mean,
Like you get some of them right, but man, you
get something wrong. Like they're not gonna sniff thirteen wins.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Oh, yes, it will. We're a two of everyone wrong.
We're we have We had the best rookie receiver last year.
He's gonna be upgrading this year and getting almost two
thousand yards. I'm gonna say it right now. And we
have a great running back. No one's really seen much
of Jonathan Brooks. He's a show everyone who he is.
He hasn't got play much. He'sn't injured, he's healed now,
(26:51):
he had a whole season. Heel. He's gonna show his speed.
We'll have another dynamic doing running back with True Behobbard
and him. It was like Diato Williams and Jonas Stewart
running back to you.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Again, it's it's almost too much to keep up with here, gunner.
You just snuck in that Ted McMillan is gonna get
to two thousand receiving yards when Bryce Young is his quarterback.
You just snuck that in, and then you started talking
about Jonathan Brooks and all kinds of other stuff. I
gotta go. There's no chance. I would love to know.
(27:23):
I don't know. If I could pull it up right here,
I would let what would you guess? And I don't
know this, what would you guess Ted Rowan McMillan, who's
a great wide receiver, what would you guess his receiving
yards is set at for the season like the betting
line where you could take over on what do you
think it's realistically said at for Ted McMillan. Yeah, I
(27:46):
don't know. I'll have to check it out. That's not
a bad guess. So you're gonna you're on your lunch
break right now, Gunner. You're gonna put all the money tonight,
all the money from a you know, the next handful
of months here on the over for Teed McMillan. You
got to hammer that thing.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I would yeah, yeah, thing I would do. But it's
like right now, I have a couple of other apps
on going on right now. There's no football on it yet.
I have two other apps that go on for on predictions.
I'm doing pretty well on lately.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Okay, that's good, that's good. I'm trying to thumb through.
Oh I found it. Oh, Gunner, Gunner, you your guy
who you're you're seeing?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You got hoop dreams of two thousand receiving yards in
the twenty sixth season, Tedoro and McMillan is at least
on DraftKings and I can look at other sports books,
he is at nine hundred and forty nine and a
half yards. That's his line. He's not even at a
thousand yards. God, what is happening over here?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
What a joke that is? They'll they're not they don't know.
This offensive line will be mail the block bridge down
and long enough, he'll be able to get out there
fasts and get that receive right now?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Man, all right, are they What are the t Wolves
doing on Friday night? Game three? Huh? They they responding
after a thirty eight point drubbing.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Oh oh yeah, they're responding. So Jamie so Rudy Gobert's
a play lockdown deep, can stay against Joker, no problems.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
So they're they're gonna win outright. We're going money line
on this.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, they're winning out They're winning out right.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yes, okay, all right, if I lose, I'm blaming you.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Oh, don't worry about Louising.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I love you, I love the comience.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Seventeen point win.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
At the least seventeen point win in Game three, okay, Yes,
I'm gonna hold you to them, right, I'm writing all
these predictions down, Gunner, I gotta keep track and stuff.
All right, man, you have a good evening at work, buddy.
Thanks for calling us on your lunch and I appreciate that. Man. Yep,
there he is.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
There.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
He is Gunner in Minnesota. Roots for the Carolina Panthers,
not the Minnesota Vikings. I don't see TETAROA. McMillan listed
on draft on bet MGM. I don't see that listed.
But you could get him at nine to forty nine
and a half at draft Kings. Wow. Yeah, that's that's lower.
(30:21):
Two thousand would be soaring over that total right there.
So I don't know. Maybe you parlay the McMillan over
with the Detroit Lions over ten and a half season wins. Yeah,
maybe you do that. All right, let's go back out
to the phones.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Here.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
We've got Andrea. She's on deck. She's over in Berkeley.
What's going on, Andrea, you're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Yeah, enjoying your show. And it was interesting. Aaron Rodgers
mentioned today that he's thinking of continuing playing, and I
heard Benvoyce going Aaron Rogers. He always says that thing
about Rogers, And curiously enough, Brian, I don't know if
you knew this, but Aaron's really into astrology.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Oh yeah, he's way into it.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Yeah yeah, Like if you google Aaron Rodgers astrology, they'll
talk about how he's into it. He's actually a client
of a colleague of mine, and I have his actual
birth time because he's into astrology.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Can I guess? Can I guess what time?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Yeah? Go right ahead, I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Say Aaron Rodgers was born at twelve eleven PM in
the afternoon.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Close. He was actually born December two, nineteen eighty three.
So he's a free spirited Aquarius two fifty PM in Chico, California.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Okay, by the way, is there anything whether you're an
AM or a PM baby, is there anything associated with
that Andrew at all?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Changes your rising sign, Brian. So if you're born, you know,
in the morning, say you're born around dawn, you might
have the same rising sign as your son's sign. And
if you're born in the evening, it might be the opposite.
So the more exact birthtime the better. And since Aaron's
are into astrology, he's happy to give it out and
(32:17):
share it. So he's got five planets and free spirited
Sagittarius and Scorpio moon. I know you can relate to that.
So he's got that intensity there, trus rising. And what's curious,
he's forty two. He's having his midlife crisis. So when
that's thirty nine to forty two, So when we have
(32:39):
that rite of passage, we make you know, career changes,
some people, you know, change career paths. But he's saying
he wants to return. And a couple of years back,
I wrote his sports astrology for the Athletic and talking
about his Ayahuasca journeys and his travels, and you know
how he's really very free spirited person, but he's still
(33:03):
very ambitious. So there he is wanting to return to
the Pittsburgh Steelers. So you know, again, forty two is
not old, but I guess in the sports world it's
somewhat old. So it'll be interesting to see, yeah, the next.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So this is what I'm curious about. What gets you
out of your midlife crisis? You know what I mean? Yeah,
did you just reach forty three and you're like, ask,
screw it, I don't even care anymore about what is it?
What is it that typically happens for people? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:33):
No, that's an excellent question. That's the time of ending,
the new beginning. So people leave careers that are unfulfilling,
they leave relationships that are unfulfilling. You know, there was
that joke about, oh, he's having his midlife crisis. He
you know, buys a new convertible, takes off with you know,
his secretary. That was like old timey and you know
(33:57):
it's basically no, not to what you're talkiring, but what's
the next step? What else do you want to do
besides what you're currently doing. So if you retire from
one job, what do you want to do next? Because
forty two is still young. So the midlife crisis, it's
a rite of passage. Regardless of your birth date, Brian,
it happens to everyone chronologically between thirty nine and forty two.
(34:20):
So it's a time of great change. Basically whatever out lived,
it's creative usefulness. It's a good time to make positive
changes in that direction.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
You ever have like a post midlife crisis.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Yeah, depending on your individual chart. That's an excellent question.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
So what age range are we looking at here?
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Well, the midlife crisis is thirty nine to forty two. Yeah,
the SATA return is twenty eight to thirty and that's
a very maturing transit. And then you can have your
own personal transits, like what's happening currently that affects your
natal chart, compare and contrast it to the forecast, which
is what's happening currently. So beyond your you know, write
(35:01):
a passage chronological transit, you can have a personal transit
as well. That's very transformational.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
So we've got a lot going on over here.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's basically a map of optimum timing
and we all have free will. But it's nice to know,
you know, certain things happen twenty eight to thirty, thirty
nine to forty two. The second satur return is fifty
eight full astrological lifetime eighty eight. So it's always interesting
to see these major write a passage transits and then
(35:33):
to layer on your own personal transits as well. So
you know, never a dull.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Movement, no, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Well, Andrew, we got to run. But it's always great
to hear from you. Appreciate your time, man, yeah, and
hope you have a great evening in the wee hours here.
I always appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Oh yes, I enjoy your scorpio energy.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Well, thank you. Yes, absolutely appreciate that. Yes, yeah, it's
it's anger masked as scorpio energy. You know what I mean.
It's uh, it's like how you put that, Yeah, very well.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Yeah, it's passion, it's intensity. There you go, determination, you
use it uses.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
You, yeah, no doubt. Well, thank you, Andrew. I appreciate you.
All right. So eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
That is the phone number. By the way, I'm sorry,
I just wrote something down going back to Gunner where
you mentioned Darren Sharper A brief, brief, brief story. But
I went to a Saints game. It was actually in
two thousand and nine, that was their Super Bowl winning season,
(36:36):
and there was a guy outside the stadium and he
was like, these ain't Joe Daddy Saints. These shop a Saints.
I never forgot that. It was one of my favorite
moments of any football game. You just had to be
there for that. But they ended up winning a Super
Bowl that season, and then you know, sadly, Darren Sharper
(36:57):
turned out to be a serial rapist.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Horrible.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But man, I'll tell you what, going to that Saints
game that year. I've been to every NFL stadium, but
Jacksonville Stadium. I haven't been to a Jacksonville Jaguars game.
I do have to go to Levi's. I've been to
a Niners game, but I haven't been to the new stadium,
so I guess I have to check that off. But
I've been almost everywhere, and man, that Saints when you
(37:23):
got in town, literally the whole town. I got into
the city and I took the bus. I took the
bus to meet my friends and everybody was just talking Saints.
It was like it was like sports radio, but people
are like, Hey, what do you think about this? Running
back here? What do you think about this matchup this week?
It was amazing. I loved it. It was awesome, awesome, awesome stuff.
(37:45):
One of my favorite experiences going to a Saints game
when they were really, really good. It's just a party
in the stands. Man, it was really fun. All right,
We'll get back to the calls momentarily. Also, I was
looking up some NBA players doing some research. I stumbled
the pawn, a nickname I did not know anything about,
and it's so ridiculous. I just have to share it
(38:06):
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I'm a little low on time right here, a little low.
So I'll tell you what if the militia who's on hold?
If you can hold on for a little bit longer,
I don't want to, you know, to have a thirty
second phone call and it's like, all right, well we
got to run and you don't even really get to
your point or whatever. So we'll do it in the
next hour if you're cool with hanging on for a
little bit. But I just don't want it to be
(39:08):
a short, little tiny phone call. That's not cool. So
we'll do it on the other side for sure. In
the meantime, I did see something. I was looking up
these random basketball players NBA playoffs, just doing a little
bit of I put together these depth charts and I
always update them, and I'd like to glance at it
(39:30):
during games and stuff like that. I'm a nerd. But
I ran across something I knew nothing about. Every now
and then something on Basketball Reference where they'll have the
nicknames of the players. Every now and then, it'll just
catch my attention. And I saw Luke Cornet's nicknames on
(39:51):
Basketball Reference. So he plays for the San Antonio Spurs, right,
Luke Cornett. And the last one is the best one.
So they had the green Cornet, which is lame, right
because you don't even pronounce it like that, it's cornet.
So I don't like that one Unicornet, which hm, it's okay.
(40:12):
This one is the most outrageous, the most ridiculous, and
the most memorable. Corn on the lob? Are we serious
as one of his nicknames? Right? I was a corn
on the cop corn on the lob like lob, Doug say,
all you, I can't believe that someone came up with that.
(40:35):
I'm calling him that from now on, Like that's this
what he is. It's not Luke Cornet, It's corn on
the Lob's. That's what I'm gonna call him from this
day forward because it's so ridiculous. That's all I will
know him as. All right, coming up next. It's bad,
it's really bad, but it's not bad enough.
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