July 28, 2025 • 35 mins
Doug talks about Deion Sanders as he announced to the world that he is a cancer survivor and will continue to coach at Colorado this season. Doug gives his take on the Cowboys and how they are handling the Micah Parsons negotiations. Doug welcomes lead host for the Big 10 Network Dave Revsine onto the show to preview the best conference in college football. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through a game of "Big Deal, Little Deal or No Deal?".
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Show broadcast live and direct every day at this time.
Matter of fact, quick self promotion. Tomorrow we'll be broadcasting
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then we'll have some some fellow media members and hopefully
some packers and some packer coaches. Stap bye. We'll talk
about the Packers tomorrow. My man Dan Byer is in
the house some golf to talk about. He had a
great weekend show yesterday around listen to us. Well, I
was right around listening to him. I'm sorry, good to
(01:05):
catch up. We got Dan here back. This is going
to be super super fun. Let's get after it with
the show. There is big news of the day and
it revolves around Dion Sanders. You may have heard if
you're listening to the Update, the update on Dion Sanders' career,
on his his health, which is he is currently fighting cancer.
(01:28):
I guess he's a cancer survivor because he had bladder cancer,
had it removed. But it's not like, oh, you had removed,
Oh it's done, We're good like That's not how cancer
actually works. Here's Coach Prime and his doctor. They announced
that the press conference earlier today.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
We performed a full roboticist at laparoscopic bladder removal and
creation of a new bladder, and I am pleased to
report that the results from the surgery are that he
is cured from the cancer.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Greg was aware of what was transparring and he's been
a one and down there just just a blessing. Came
to Texas to see me as well.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Here's Coach Prime addressing his coaching future.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I always knew I was going to coach again. I
never didn't realize I was going to coach again. I
was always going to coach. It was never in my spirit,
in my heart that God wouldn't allow me to coach again.
That's never thought like that, So.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Let's discuss it. Okay. I totally understand the cynicism that
so many of you have, which is, oh, he didn't
have his son, he doesn't have a Travis Hunter. He's
gonna bail today because he doesn't want to coach without
those two and this would have been a perfect opportunity
to do. So let's just be honest. If you have
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bladder cancer, you have your bladder removed, and you go like, hey,
this is I had the scare and had toes removed
when I first got here. I've had some other health issues.
Now I have cancer. Like God, this is probably not
what I want to be doing while I'm trying to
figure out my health issues and try and get healthy.
(03:05):
I don't think anyone who's just a real human being,
not idiots on social media. I don't think anybody would
have gone like, oh, to Yon, that's wrong. But there
was because we didn't know it hadn't been disclosed, because
he hasn't coached before without coaching his son. I think
there was a lot of interest in the all right,
does he really want to do this? Really want to
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do it.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I really want to do it because I'm sure if
thirteen and twelve over the past two years was not fun.
Can you mention thirteen and twelve without your son?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Really not fun. But I also, if we're if we're
gonna be fair to a guy, go like, hey, you're
still gonna keep coaching despite the fact you just have
bladder cancel. I guess this is something you really want
to do, really want to do. And people do act
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differently when they get a cancer diagnosis. My dad, my
late father, passed away from cancer. Now when it came back,
he kept coaching au basketball. We're like, why do you
want to coach in some auxiliary gym in Las Vegas?
When turned out he had like a couple months to live,
And for him, I think it was he he wanted
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to feel alive while he was alive. He didn't want
people to treat him like he was dying when he
was dying. Much better off people mourning your death than
mourning you while you're still alive. So he didn't want
anybody to know, and he just want to keep doing
his thing like it was every day. For Dion, I
think he had to tell people because otherwise, like, wait,
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you've been away from the team for how long? What's
going on here now? Maybe the question is I don't know,
Like what's he make? Like ten million dollars? All right,
that's a lot to walk away from, a lot to
walk away from. But if I ask you you have
bladder cancer, would you you don't? Like, we think they
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got rid of all of it, But when you get cancer,
you're still you're in remission for like a year, still
trying to figure out if it comes back. They think
they got all of it, they don't know, and what
caused the cancer again, we don't know if it's spread,
if it's in a lymph node, whatever, Like there's a
lot of other things, or just the idea of yeah,
I've been doing stuff my whole life. Maybe it's cool
if I take it back. It does depend on your
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genetic wiring. Would you continue coaching? It's a great it's
a great question byer. What would you do? You're Deon Sanders,
your kids are grown. Uh, you have an opportunity to
create your own college football legacy. Although if he left,
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let's be honest, the seasons at Jackson State create a
legacy there. He did turn around the Colorado program, even
if they're not a top the big twelve. It was
a turnaround from where it has been. What would you.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Well, not to avoid your question, Doug, but I think
a little bit of what you said is something that
I find interesting because I really I don't know. I
hope that I never have to face something as scary
as that. I don't know how I would react. However,
I do feel that we don't give Dion enough credit
for doing what he has set out to do. Like
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we thought, maybe the Jackson State thing was just kind
of a phony sort of deal. Well, it didn't seem
to be put in his work. There, had Shador there,
had Travis Hunter there, and then they have success there,
and then he goes to Colorado and sure the hype
machine was really out of control, and maybe we over
hyped the first couple of days of Dion's tenure. I
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feel that we maybe put the cart, you know, ahead
of the horse on that one. However, he stuck around.
He's still there. Travis Hunters won a Heisman Trophy, and
when the Dallas Cowboys have an opening, we're like his
Deon Sanders going to go to the pros. He's gonna jump?
Is he gonna jump to another job in college football?
And he hasn't, and he's gone through this and I
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think he has every excuse in the world to not
coach this season, and he is still going through with
it and back with the team. And I feel like
every time that we feel that we quote unquote know
Dion or think what Dion's gonna do, he doesn't do it.
He hasn't taken the I feel easy way out in
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any of this, and I'm pretty impressed by it. And
now to do this and to see how he looks different.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
He does.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
He doesn't look like the stronger Dion that we're accustomed to.
I think he deserves an enormous amount of.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Credit for that.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Jay Stu, I know what you would do. You would
shut it down. Like if somebody says, hey, he just
had he just had bladder cancer, you would shut shut
it down. Obviously we're not in his tax bracket either,
But if somebody, if even if you were cleared of
cancer and you got a chance to coach the Chargers,
would you keep.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Doing If if my doctor said it with authority and
with conviction like his doctor just did. I've never heard
a doctor like after a procedure say he's cured of cancer. Yeah,
that was strange to me. But if if I was
receiving that conviction from my doctor, I would just keep
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doing it. Sure this whole.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Time they made they constructed a new bladder like that one.
That was the line that was like, really they can
do that, Because when I heard he had a bladder removed,
I was like, ooh, Like what does he do to
go to the bathroom? Like how does that work? And
he talked about having a porta potty there, like there
may be a porta potty on the sideline for him.
But then when the doctor said that they made a
new bladder, I was like, Wow, that's they can I
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guess they can do that. I guess they can do that.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
But I don't know if I said it to you
guys on the air, or maybe Doug and I talked
about it off there at some point I remember when, uh,
when kind of the rumors of Dion's health had surfaced
this offseason, and I remember having a conversation like this
would be a real convenient way to say I'm done
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coaching at Colorado. He got his son drafted. Now, he
probably got his son undrafted in the first round, but
he got a sun drafted. He got his son's name
up in the Colorado Stadium, which the great Shane Gillis
pointed out on the SP's for thirteen and twelve record
career record at Colorado. His number is retired. It's like this,
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and we all know the AAU coach, we all know
the little league coach. As soon as the sun goes away,
the son's injured for the season, you lose the coach.
There's no more invested interest. So this seemed to make sense.
So today, I fully, fully I thought it was going
to be I'm gonna step down, regardless of what his
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health situation was. I had no idea it was cancer,
but that was kind of what was going through.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
My mind, Sam, What would you do?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
So my grandma actually had the same situation. It was
the late nineties.
Speaker 9 (10:09):
We were on a fishing trip in Ontario, Canada, and
she had She went to the bathroom and she saw
blood come out. So when we got back to the
United States, she had the cancer removed from her bladder.
She got an I believe it's called a eurostomy bag
and she lived another like twenty seven twenty eight years.
So this is something that can be completely cured. I'm
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not sure hers my grandmother and his and dion situation
are exactly the same. But I can just tell you
from what I experienced, this is something that's very treatable
and curable. And if I was him, yeah, I'd keep working.
I think that you know a lot of people, they
they're driven by their ambition and their jobs. They're you know,
what they do for a living. And if they stopped
doing that and then they dwell on their their their
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you know, medical situation.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah, no, that's and and he's not old, right, So
when you're really old, then people worry about like after birthdays,
after a holiday, after that's when people passed. Now for him,
it's just more like this is the second major medical
issue where he almost had his foot amputated like a
year and a half ago. Now he has his bladder removed.
Like what's next, and you know, will you go back
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wondering they should I have done that? But I'm with you,
Jay stew like, I get that. I get that they
may feel like they got it all and it may
be a different type of cancer than we're used to.
But I'm not sure I've ever heard a doctor just
a couple months remove for a go EP that's it
done finished. He's great.
Speaker 10 (11:32):
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Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. My good friend
Dave Revson's going to join us up coming in about
five minutes. River is the face of the Big Ten Network.
They're getting ready for their bus and plane tour starting
Nebraska this week, and they go to Minnesota, then they
go they go West Coast. Anyways, the lead host for
the Big Ten Network. He also is the author of
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a New York Times in Boston Globe best seller, The
Opening Kickoff, The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation. It's
really really good. I remember when he wrote it. I
read some of the early transcripts of it. It was
really a manuscript of it. It's it's very good. Dan
Byer with an update in a moment. I want to
get to this. This is Jerry Jones and Steven Jones.
Excuse me, sorry about that. There were chants of pay
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Micah from the fans as the Cowboys are going through
training camp. Jerry Jones responds to pay Micah. He said
that the chants were a faint little sound compared to
pay Lamb, and Stephen Jones said, we want to pay
Micah too. Well, he's got to want to get paid.
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So Jerry's saying, hey, I hear you, but it's a
faint sound, and Steven's saying he wants to get paid.
That acts that that's treating it like Micah Parsons doesn't
practice for playhard That's the translation there. And I think
if it was any other organization'd be like, oh, guys
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are playing hardball, right. They want to see Mike. They
want to get Micah Parsons. A hungry tiger is a
dangerous tiger. They want him to be hungry and go
out and hurt people and show he wants the money.
But the cowboys always do this, right, They always stick
out their chest. They always say, oh, well, I don't
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know what I can it might not be his time
to get paid, and then they pay him anyway. They
just do. They wait till last possible second, like ah, fine,
that's what they do. It's almost which Austin Powers was.
It was it Austin Powers three, where after the third
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time they were you got worn down and he finally
told the truth, where are you keeping the lamp? You
cannot know these things? Where are you kidding them? By
the time? All right? Three times? Fine, I'll tell you
exactly where it is. That's what it feels like. It
feels like Jerry Jones saying, hey, not that many loud
chants like there was for Pey Lamb. Stephen Jones like
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he's gotta want to get paid. It's like they're gonna
have one more insult, and then finally they're like, okay, fine,
now we'll give you the money. Does anyone think Michael
Parsons is not gonna get paid? Anybody? Ja Stu's shaking
his head, Sam shaking his head. By the way, check
out the YouTube channel clips like this. We'll make it
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to the YouTube channel. Just type in Fox Sports Radio
whatever you want and on YouTube you can see this. Buyer,
I see you shaking your head. We've all been here before.
We've seen this movie. It's like my son was like, hey,
I saw the New Jurassic World. Let me guess I
don't know how all these dinosaurs, sir, Holy crap. This
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is amazing nature finding away and then something goes wrong.
People get eaten, especially the most annoying character. He's always eaten.
The kids somehow survive and there's that faint chance maybe
there's another sequel. How did I do? I have not
seen the movie. How'd I do?
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Spot on?
Speaker 11 (15:24):
Doug?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, right, it's the same thing with the Cowboys. I
don't know. And I'm sure Michah Parsons is asking for
the moon, the sun, the stars, everything in between. He's
probably asking way over value, want to completely reset the market,
and like, yeah, we're not gonna do that. But instead
of saying, hey, he wants to completely reset the market,
we want to pay him, but we gotta pay him
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a smart feet because we got to have a better
overall defense. Instead they hurl out these sort of quasi
insults things they can say, Hey, we're just motivating him,
and ultimately they'll acquiesce he'll be the highest paid guy
at his position in the league, and we'll act like
it's all kumbaya. It's the Doug Gottlieb Show here on
Fox Sports Radio. And I believe the network is turning
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twenty five, And I know that because or is it
twenty or twenty five? Hold on, rev howl? Is the network?
Speaker 11 (16:16):
Well? Time does fly Doug, but not that fast. This
will be our nineteenth year on the air and will
be our eighteenth anniversary of our Lunch coming out right
right the end of August.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Fair enough, that's the voice of Dave Revson. Okay, he's
been the face of the Big ten network since It's
Lunch nineteen years ago. Nineteen years ago. And of course
he's beginning the bus tour, although because the Big ten
is so big now, can't do the bus tour anymore
because you got to get out to Oregon in la
and then of course got to get back to Maryland,
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which is next week. But you start with Nebraska. Let's
go back to media day. You know, college coaches have
this unique ability. They have it. They're kind of like
wives right where they can find that thing to complain
about when there's a lot of other things that you're like,
is that what really we're really complain about? James Franklin
brought up like, hey, we're in Vegas. We're just kind
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of doing it because we're doing it. Whereas when we're
in Indy or in Chicago, it feels bigger. It feels,
especially in Indy, more like the Big Ten. I know
you worked technically for the league, but you've been around
it since it's infancy. What was the dynamic like in
Vegas in terms of its effect on the buzz around
the Big ten.
Speaker 11 (17:33):
Me to day, Well, I just want to go on
record as saying I don't necessarily agree with that characterization
of wives, but uh, yeah, it was you know, it
was fine. I mean, I don't know, like I to me,
I think it was great. There was a little bit
closer to the West Coast schools. Tony TD mentioned at
the outset of his remarks that this wasn't necessarily something
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the conference set out to do. There was a conflict
with the schedule in Indie. They weren't able to use
Lucas oil for all the days that they were anticipating
having media days, and so then they said, okay, well
where else can we go? In Vegas kind of made
sense for a variety of reasons. So I don't think
this is something that's going to be an annual thing.
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But you know, it was fun. I mean, you know, I,
as you know, I'm not a huge gambler and I
like to go to bed early, So I mean that
combination of things doesn't necessarily make me the optimal attendee
in Vegas. But everyone is a good time when they
go out there, and so I you know, we're ultimately
when we're there, we're spending a lot of time wherever
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the broadcast is, in this case was in the ballroom
of Mandalay Bay and just doing interviews and that type
of thing. So to a certain extent, it doesn't matter
where we are. But I think most of the players
enjoy being out there.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Okay, James Franklin is a guy who they've done a
lot of good stuff, including getting to the College Fall
Playoff last year. Now there are huge expectations on his team,
and then knock against James Franklin is yeah, but what
do you actually do against the good teams?
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
What do you do against the best teams? And look,
some of it's unfair when you're at Vanderbilt, like come on,
what are we really talking about? But you're at Penn
State and people believe that you're at the level of
the Ohio States and the Michigans of this world. How
important is this year to James Franklin And if you
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want to say legacy or just Penn State.
Speaker 11 (19:31):
Football, it's hugely important. And I think the numbers are
the numbers like you can just kind of you can say, oh, well,
you know, it's just that and the other thing, and
here's why, and the circumstances of this game were. But
he's four and twenty against top ten teams, while at
Penn State they are one and twenty five. Penn State
is against top five teams this century. The only win
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was the win against Ohio State. I think almost a
decade ago, twenty sixteen was that game. So they haven't
won these kinds of games. And what I really respect
about James and the way that he's approached this is
he has said the expectation is that we win national
championships at Penn State. So we're not ducking away from it.
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We're not making excuses. Now. They did win two really
nice games in the playoffs last year. Granted they weren't
top five teams, but they were good teams. SMU and
Boise State were good teams. So that's the start they
made the playoff. I think there was a lot of
pressure to make it last year. They were the team
that would have made it the most times in the
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four team playoff era if we had twelve teams. So
the expectation was that now that we were expanding to twelve,
that they would make it, But he did not duck
away from it. I mean he said, if we're considered
the favorite, that's great. The reason you go to Penn
State is to win national championships. They were voted the
Big ten favorite in the unofficial preseason media poll. It's
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the first time in the history of that poll, which
has been going for I believe sixteen years, that I
either Michigan or Ohio State wasn't the favorite. The first
time it's been someone other than them, and it was
Penn State. So yes, the expectation is that they're the
team that carries the mantle this year. They feel a
lot like Michigan from two years ago in Ohio State
from last year in that they had a lot of
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guys who could have gone to the NFL opt to
come back. And I think they're poised for a really
big year. But there's no doubt there's pressure on them,
and they welcome it.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Close to home where I live, people are fickle on
Luke right.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Yeah, And and they.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Had this unbelievable identity for such a long time as
a great run to a team that could run the
football and then stop you and just mash you up front.
They go through a couple of coaching changes, and they
go through a bunch of different quarterbacks and can't figure
figure it out. Last year they had Alabama at home.
This year they have to go to Tuscaloosa. But outside
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of that, what's the preseason thoughts on Wisconsin football?
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Well, there's schedules, really, I mean you mentioned a road
game at Alabama. They go to Michigan and they play Iowa,
Ohio State, Oregon, Indiana, Illinois. Who I think is you
have a really good year. I mean, it is a brutal,
brutal schedule, so they could be a better team than
they were a year ago and you know, win five games,
I mean, which is what they did last season. But
I think, kind of to your point, the feeling is
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that maybe they got away from their identity a little bit,
and I think Luke Fickle is now trying to circle
back more to that notion of Wisconsin football being strong upfront,
really good on the offensive line, run the ball. He
hired Jeff Grimes, who did a nice job at Kansas,
been a Broyals Award finalist a couple times at Baylor
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and BYU. He's not necessarily a run first coordinator, but
he's a guy who when he's had really good run games,
has leaned on. At Kansas last year would be a
prime example. He certainly is not of the air raid system,
which is kind of what they were trying to do
the previous two years. They defensively took a pretty significant
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step back as well last year, and I think one
of the other identities of this program through the years
has been extremely strong defense. They weren't bad defensively, but
they weren't at the level they've been and they really
had to overhaul, particularly that front seven, in the offseason.
So I think it's a big year for Luke. I
think it is fair to point out they've had injuries
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to the quarterback each of the last two years, which
has derailed them on offense. I know their hope is
that Billy Edwards stays healthy, but if he doesn't, they
also brought in Danny O'Neill, who was a starter at
San Diego State, So I think the notion was you
bring in two started quarterbacks out of the portal and
if you have the injury issues again, then it doesn't
derail your system and your season in quite the same way.
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But no doubt it's a big year for Luke and
the schedule isn't all that favorable.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
All right, last team, want to check in on his
Nebraska your head there first, Matt rul did a great
job at Temple, he got things going at Baylor. Then
he goes to the NFL and he's talking about being transformed.
How many things they fixed in Nebraska, got Dilan Riola
back as your quarterback. What does this year look like
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for the Huskers.
Speaker 11 (24:18):
There's a lot of optimism. I mean it's crazy to
think that going into last year, the team that had
the longest bowl drought of any Power five team in
America was Nebraska. I mean, that would have just seemed
so crazy, you know, when I was growing up and
following college football, when you were following them and they
were such a powerhouse, and to think they went seven
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years without making a bowl game boggles the mind. So
I think it was really important that they had that
breakthrough last year and got to a bowl. Now, as
you mentioned, Dylan Ryola comes back. He was good last year,
but he kind of faded down the stretch. He threw
it to the wrong team, a fair number of times
at virtually one to one touchdown to interception ratio just
a hair above it. But he got Dana Holgerson at
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the offensive coordinator, and it did feel like they had
a little bit more of an identity towards the end
of the year when Holgerson came in initially as kind
of a consultant. Defensively, there's they were really good. I
mean they were elite last year. Tony White, though left
for Florida State, he was the defensive coordinator. So I
do think there's kind of this notion of how well
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does the internal promotion of John Butler work as well?
A big year for Nebraska. I think last year was
a bigger year. I think they needed to break through
and just end that bull drout. But Matt Rule's got
a good track record, as we know of rebuilding programs,
and you know that. I think their schedule is certainly
far more favorable than Wisconsin's is they don't have a
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true road game, I think until they're sixth game. They
only have one of the College Football playoff teams from
the Big Ten from last year. So schedule wise, Nebraska's
in good shape and I do feel like they're starting
to figure it out on offense.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Well, I said, as I'm lying, because I do want
to talk just for a second about about Northwestern, your
alma mater. Of course, your dad was, your late father
was a professor there as well, right, super ties, And
they're doing this kind of really unique temporary stadium before
the new place, New Riinfield is open next year, which
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looks small but spectacular. It looks like an incredible place
to watch a college football game. Did you get to
go to Northwestern's place on campus last year?
Speaker 11 (26:27):
I did that Friday night game against Duke, and so
I was able to go. Obviously I have studio responsibilities
on Saturday, so I went over there. It was September.
It was freezing cold. It was so cold the second
week of stem round the lake, so that detracted from
it a little bit. But the setting is unbelievable, and
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they really, I mean, I have just given them a
ton of credit because the other options in the Chicago
area were just flat out not good. I mean, there's
a soccer stadium in the Southwest suburbs, which is, like,
in the best circumstances, an hour from campus. It just
none of that made sense. And I think they really
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this was far and away the best option for them.
It's a really fun place to watch a game. They
got Oregon coming in for big news.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yes, they got they got they got Oregon, they got
Ucla coming in, they got Michigan is going to play it.
I mean, can you imagine the ticket.
Speaker 11 (27:24):
The field that's Wrigley Field, as is Minnesota. Yeah. Uh
but but yes, they have a Oregon and Ucla playing
on the lake front, and each one of those will
be unique settings, no doubt. It's it's pretty cool. And
the new one's is going to be amazing. I mean
it's it's perfect for them, and it is going to
be the most expensive college football stadium ever built, which
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is again things you didn't necessarily think you'd hear growing
up Nebraska. I'm making bowl games in Northwestern with the
most expensive stadium in the country.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Up is down, black is white, and day is night. Right,
that's the college that's college football today, rev enjoy the
road trip. We'll check in with you as you go
and see these teams in person. Thanks for our guest
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 11 (28:08):
All right, thanks my friend, Talking to you later, Doug.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
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Speaker 10 (28:47):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
Danie, what do you got Bud Doug? On this Monday,
We've got a game called.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Five scenarios at hand for Doug to tell us that
they are big deals, little deals, or no deals at all.
We start off in Major League Baseball Big Deal, little
Deal or no Deal that Bryce Harper swore in the
face of Commissioner Rob Manfred, according to a report from ESPN.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Seems like a really really big deal.
Speaker 11 (29:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
So the story that I read and you would know
better than I would, dan is Rob Manford was talking
about a salary cap, apparently with an earshot of Bryce Harper,
and Bryce Harper wanted him out of the locker room
talking about a salary cap. Is that accurate?
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Yeah, it's kind of like a team meeting, and I
think that Manfred was alluding to that a salary cap.
And that's when Harper, yeah, spoke up and said, you
can get the bleep body here if you think we're
gonna have a say, guy making.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Three hundred million dollars over thirteen years.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
Yes, right.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
Don't you love it in work situations when the person
in the meeting that has the most gravitas speaks up.
Bryce Harper can do that to the commissioner. He's had
his career, basically, he's made his money. I love when
that stuff happened because the first and second year guy
can't get in Manfred's face and it won't mean as much.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I agree, only there is the ultimate like hypocrisy of it, right,
Whereas the salary cap, in it's truest form is really
helped the rank and file, you know, that's always the
sale of it. Hey to push things up so that
the bottom guy makes more. And there's a lot more
of those in Major League Baseball. But yeah, he does
have the gravitas to be able to stand in the
face of the commissioner and say whatever he wants to say.
You bring up a great point.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
All right, Doug.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Topic number two, big deal, little deal or no deal.
That Luka Doncic is on the cover of Men's Health. Uh,
how ripped Luca looks like?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
You know, he looks ripped. He looks.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
I just didn't want to use svelt because everybody is
using smelts.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
I think he looks hot pause.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Physically hot.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
You I it's maybe the exact situation, but it's not.
And I know exactly what Jason is doing. I know it.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
I know what he's doing. But the skinny on the
Lakers Stars summer shred.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah, uh, slender and elegant that's spelt.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
Also helps. And he have a bit of a tan summertime.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Tan does make it look thinner.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Yeah, haircut, he does this.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
He does the Luca off season diet every year though
now this does look different, but he does the off
season diet a lot kind of his thing. Well like
the Oprah w the ore of It's like the Oprah
Win Free of the NBA, Like he's like you get
a car, and you get a car and you get
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a car, but Oprah like depending on the season, like
WHOA what happened Oprah? Then sometimes he's trying to be like, damn, Oprah,
have your stomach table?
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Are we? Is this no credit Monday? Where Doug just isn't.
He's not giving credit to Bryce Harper, Luka, Doncic is
getting in shape credit and you get no hold on
you get credit.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Big big deal. If he maintains this physique into the
NBA and throughout the NBA season, little deal. If it's
just like previous.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Years, it sounds like it's been a little meal for
Luca dot.
Speaker 9 (32:40):
So he's good, his diet is good in the off season,
but when he's in season, he's fattens up.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Is that how it works?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (32:46):
I thought it was the other way always the other
way around.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
It's no for him, it's weird, like go back and look,
be like, do a little timeline cleanse on Luca.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Sure, at least it's not the James Harden off season,
which we've seen before. Why he and Kevin Durant James
Shapes spend quite the off season for Luca's current teammate
Lebron James. Big deal, little deal or no deal. Doug
that Lebron James was meeting with Nicola Jokic's agent this
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weekend in Europe.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
That feels like a really big deal, doesn't It just
feels like a really really big deal, especially when you
signed your extension, proceeded to complain about the surrounding supporting talent.
Let it leak out that, hey, you know, the Mavericks
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were an option there and then you just happen to
pop up on a yacht with Luca's agent.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, that feels like a big deal.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
I think the phrase was like big things coming in
twenty twenty six. Could we have Lebron James in Denver
as part of the Nuggets? No chance, I agree.
Speaker 8 (33:57):
I heard what you told Harmon yesterday. Last consideration in
this whole story are Laker fans and the Lakers as usual?
Thanks Lebron.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
Yes, there's also a new league that could be popping
up at some point, and there was some talk that
that could be part of the conversations because Maverick Carter
is expected to be involved in the Worldwide League.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
Yeah, just it could have some teams.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
What's that where you have like FIVA teams and NBA teams.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
It's it was It was brought up in January that
there's this thought of having like six men and six
women's teams and they kind of travel the world, travel
a globe where you maybe have the backing of of
of a of a foreign entity. That's what I was thinking,
kind of like the Live Golf and christ General Live golfing.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Let's completely ruin our reputation and even though we're making
fifty plus million dollars a year, let's go make more
money and take it from the crown prince.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Well, I will say that. I will say this. So
some of the guys that left four Live Golf were
past their prime. So if Lebron wanted to make you know,
a few more millions, yeah, like that could be an
option after his playing days were over. I don't know
if any stars would actually want to do that, and it.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Would it would track because Lebron clearly doesn't care about
the Calves, doesn't care about the heat, doesn't care about
the Lakers or any of their fans. So why would
he care about the NBA even though you know, in
playing in the NBA, it's grown his brand into being,
you know, potentially a billionaire that that tracks for who
he is.
Speaker 7 (35:32):
And that's game time.
Speaker 10 (35:37):
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Speaker 2 (35:41):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
I hope you're having a great day. The Doug Gottlieb
Show broadcast live and direct every day at this time.
Matter of fact, quick self promotion. Tomorrow we'll be broadcasting
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(00:43):
then we'll have some some fellow media members and hopefully
some packers and some packer coaches. Stap bye. We'll talk
about the Packers tomorrow. My man Dan Byer is in
the house some golf to talk about. He had a
great weekend show yesterday around listen to us. Well, I
was right around listening to him. I'm sorry, good to
(01:05):
catch up. We got Dan here back. This is going
to be super super fun. Let's get after it with
the show. There is big news of the day and
it revolves around Dion Sanders. You may have heard if
you're listening to the Update, the update on Dion Sanders' career,
on his his health, which is he is currently fighting cancer.
(01:28):
I guess he's a cancer survivor because he had bladder cancer,
had it removed. But it's not like, oh, you had removed,
Oh it's done, We're good like That's not how cancer
actually works. Here's Coach Prime and his doctor. They announced
that the press conference earlier today.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
We performed a full roboticist at laparoscopic bladder removal and
creation of a new bladder, and I am pleased to
report that the results from the surgery are that he
is cured from the cancer.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Greg was aware of what was transparring and he's been
a one and down there just just a blessing. Came
to Texas to see me as well.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Here's Coach Prime addressing his coaching future.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I always knew I was going to coach again. I
never didn't realize I was going to coach again. I
was always going to coach. It was never in my spirit,
in my heart that God wouldn't allow me to coach again.
That's never thought like that, So.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Let's discuss it. Okay. I totally understand the cynicism that
so many of you have, which is, oh, he didn't
have his son, he doesn't have a Travis Hunter. He's
gonna bail today because he doesn't want to coach without
those two and this would have been a perfect opportunity
to do. So let's just be honest. If you have
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bladder cancer, you have your bladder removed, and you go like, hey,
this is I had the scare and had toes removed
when I first got here. I've had some other health issues.
Now I have cancer. Like God, this is probably not
what I want to be doing while I'm trying to
figure out my health issues and try and get healthy.
(03:05):
I don't think anyone who's just a real human being,
not idiots on social media. I don't think anybody would
have gone like, oh, to Yon, that's wrong. But there
was because we didn't know it hadn't been disclosed, because
he hasn't coached before without coaching his son. I think
there was a lot of interest in the all right,
does he really want to do this? Really want to
(03:27):
do it.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I really want to do it because I'm sure if
thirteen and twelve over the past two years was not fun.
Can you mention thirteen and twelve without your son?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Really not fun. But I also, if we're if we're
gonna be fair to a guy, go like, hey, you're
still gonna keep coaching despite the fact you just have
bladder cancel. I guess this is something you really want
to do, really want to do. And people do act
(04:02):
differently when they get a cancer diagnosis. My dad, my
late father, passed away from cancer. Now when it came back,
he kept coaching au basketball. We're like, why do you
want to coach in some auxiliary gym in Las Vegas?
When turned out he had like a couple months to live,
And for him, I think it was he he wanted
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to feel alive while he was alive. He didn't want
people to treat him like he was dying when he
was dying. Much better off people mourning your death than
mourning you while you're still alive. So he didn't want
anybody to know, and he just want to keep doing
his thing like it was every day. For Dion, I
think he had to tell people because otherwise, like, wait,
(04:45):
you've been away from the team for how long? What's
going on here now? Maybe the question is I don't know,
Like what's he make? Like ten million dollars? All right,
that's a lot to walk away from, a lot to
walk away from. But if I ask you you have
bladder cancer, would you you don't? Like, we think they
(05:07):
got rid of all of it, But when you get cancer,
you're still you're in remission for like a year, still
trying to figure out if it comes back. They think
they got all of it, they don't know, and what
caused the cancer again, we don't know if it's spread,
if it's in a lymph node, whatever, Like there's a
lot of other things, or just the idea of yeah,
I've been doing stuff my whole life. Maybe it's cool
if I take it back. It does depend on your
(05:27):
genetic wiring. Would you continue coaching? It's a great it's
a great question byer. What would you do? You're Deon Sanders,
your kids are grown. Uh, you have an opportunity to
create your own college football legacy. Although if he left,
(05:49):
let's be honest, the seasons at Jackson State create a
legacy there. He did turn around the Colorado program, even
if they're not a top the big twelve. It was
a turnaround from where it has been. What would you.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Well, not to avoid your question, Doug, but I think
a little bit of what you said is something that
I find interesting because I really I don't know. I
hope that I never have to face something as scary
as that. I don't know how I would react. However,
I do feel that we don't give Dion enough credit
for doing what he has set out to do. Like
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we thought, maybe the Jackson State thing was just kind
of a phony sort of deal. Well, it didn't seem
to be put in his work. There, had Shador there,
had Travis Hunter there, and then they have success there,
and then he goes to Colorado and sure the hype
machine was really out of control, and maybe we over
hyped the first couple of days of Dion's tenure. I
(06:45):
feel that we maybe put the cart, you know, ahead
of the horse on that one. However, he stuck around.
He's still there. Travis Hunters won a Heisman Trophy, and
when the Dallas Cowboys have an opening, we're like his
Deon Sanders going to go to the pros. He's gonna jump?
Is he gonna jump to another job in college football?
And he hasn't, and he's gone through this and I
(07:06):
think he has every excuse in the world to not
coach this season, and he is still going through with
it and back with the team. And I feel like
every time that we feel that we quote unquote know
Dion or think what Dion's gonna do, he doesn't do it.
He hasn't taken the I feel easy way out in
(07:26):
any of this, and I'm pretty impressed by it. And
now to do this and to see how he looks different.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
He does.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
He doesn't look like the stronger Dion that we're accustomed to.
I think he deserves an enormous amount of.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Credit for that.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Jay Stu, I know what you would do. You would
shut it down. Like if somebody says, hey, he just
had he just had bladder cancer, you would shut shut
it down. Obviously we're not in his tax bracket either,
But if somebody, if even if you were cleared of
cancer and you got a chance to coach the Chargers,
would you keep.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Doing If if my doctor said it with authority and
with conviction like his doctor just did. I've never heard
a doctor like after a procedure say he's cured of cancer. Yeah,
that was strange to me. But if if I was
receiving that conviction from my doctor, I would just keep
(08:23):
doing it. Sure this whole.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Time they made they constructed a new bladder like that one.
That was the line that was like, really they can
do that, Because when I heard he had a bladder removed,
I was like, ooh, Like what does he do to
go to the bathroom? Like how does that work? And
he talked about having a porta potty there, like there
may be a porta potty on the sideline for him.
But then when the doctor said that they made a
new bladder, I was like, Wow, that's they can I
(08:47):
guess they can do that. I guess they can do that.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
But I don't know if I said it to you
guys on the air, or maybe Doug and I talked
about it off there at some point I remember when, uh,
when kind of the rumors of Dion's health had surfaced
this offseason, and I remember having a conversation like this
would be a real convenient way to say I'm done
(09:10):
coaching at Colorado. He got his son drafted. Now, he
probably got his son undrafted in the first round, but
he got a sun drafted. He got his son's name
up in the Colorado Stadium, which the great Shane Gillis
pointed out on the SP's for thirteen and twelve record
career record at Colorado. His number is retired. It's like this,
(09:35):
and we all know the AAU coach, we all know
the little league coach. As soon as the sun goes away,
the son's injured for the season, you lose the coach.
There's no more invested interest. So this seemed to make sense.
So today, I fully, fully I thought it was going
to be I'm gonna step down, regardless of what his
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health situation was. I had no idea it was cancer,
but that was kind of what was going through.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
My mind, Sam, What would you do?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
So my grandma actually had the same situation. It was
the late nineties.
Speaker 9 (10:09):
We were on a fishing trip in Ontario, Canada, and
she had She went to the bathroom and she saw
blood come out. So when we got back to the
United States, she had the cancer removed from her bladder.
She got an I believe it's called a eurostomy bag
and she lived another like twenty seven twenty eight years.
So this is something that can be completely cured. I'm
(10:29):
not sure hers my grandmother and his and dion situation
are exactly the same. But I can just tell you
from what I experienced, this is something that's very treatable
and curable. And if I was him, yeah, I'd keep working.
I think that you know a lot of people, they
they're driven by their ambition and their jobs. They're you know,
what they do for a living. And if they stopped
doing that and then they dwell on their their their
(10:51):
you know, medical situation.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah, no, that's and and he's not old, right, So
when you're really old, then people worry about like after birthdays,
after a holiday, after that's when people passed. Now for him,
it's just more like this is the second major medical
issue where he almost had his foot amputated like a
year and a half ago. Now he has his bladder removed.
Like what's next, and you know, will you go back
(11:14):
wondering they should I have done that? But I'm with you,
Jay stew like, I get that. I get that they
may feel like they got it all and it may
be a different type of cancer than we're used to.
But I'm not sure I've ever heard a doctor just
a couple months remove for a go EP that's it
done finished. He's great.
Speaker 10 (11:32):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
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Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. My good friend
Dave Revson's going to join us up coming in about
five minutes. River is the face of the Big Ten Network.
They're getting ready for their bus and plane tour starting
Nebraska this week, and they go to Minnesota, then they
go they go West Coast. Anyways, the lead host for
the Big Ten Network. He also is the author of
(12:06):
a New York Times in Boston Globe best seller, The
Opening Kickoff, The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation. It's
really really good. I remember when he wrote it. I
read some of the early transcripts of it. It was
really a manuscript of it. It's it's very good. Dan
Byer with an update in a moment. I want to
get to this. This is Jerry Jones and Steven Jones.
Excuse me, sorry about that. There were chants of pay
(12:31):
Micah from the fans as the Cowboys are going through
training camp. Jerry Jones responds to pay Micah. He said
that the chants were a faint little sound compared to
pay Lamb, and Stephen Jones said, we want to pay
Micah too. Well, he's got to want to get paid.
(12:54):
So Jerry's saying, hey, I hear you, but it's a
faint sound, and Steven's saying he wants to get paid.
That acts that that's treating it like Micah Parsons doesn't
practice for playhard That's the translation there. And I think
if it was any other organization'd be like, oh, guys
(13:15):
are playing hardball, right. They want to see Mike. They
want to get Micah Parsons. A hungry tiger is a
dangerous tiger. They want him to be hungry and go
out and hurt people and show he wants the money.
But the cowboys always do this, right, They always stick
out their chest. They always say, oh, well, I don't
(13:37):
know what I can it might not be his time
to get paid, and then they pay him anyway. They
just do. They wait till last possible second, like ah, fine,
that's what they do. It's almost which Austin Powers was.
It was it Austin Powers three, where after the third
(13:57):
time they were you got worn down and he finally
told the truth, where are you keeping the lamp? You
cannot know these things? Where are you kidding them? By
the time? All right? Three times? Fine, I'll tell you
exactly where it is. That's what it feels like. It
feels like Jerry Jones saying, hey, not that many loud
chants like there was for Pey Lamb. Stephen Jones like
(14:21):
he's gotta want to get paid. It's like they're gonna
have one more insult, and then finally they're like, okay, fine,
now we'll give you the money. Does anyone think Michael
Parsons is not gonna get paid? Anybody? Ja Stu's shaking
his head, Sam shaking his head. By the way, check
out the YouTube channel clips like this. We'll make it
(14:41):
to the YouTube channel. Just type in Fox Sports Radio
whatever you want and on YouTube you can see this. Buyer,
I see you shaking your head. We've all been here before.
We've seen this movie. It's like my son was like, hey,
I saw the New Jurassic World. Let me guess I
don't know how all these dinosaurs, sir, Holy crap. This
(15:02):
is amazing nature finding away and then something goes wrong.
People get eaten, especially the most annoying character. He's always eaten.
The kids somehow survive and there's that faint chance maybe
there's another sequel. How did I do? I have not
seen the movie. How'd I do?
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Spot on?
Speaker 11 (15:24):
Doug?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, right, it's the same thing with the Cowboys. I
don't know. And I'm sure Michah Parsons is asking for
the moon, the sun, the stars, everything in between. He's
probably asking way over value, want to completely reset the market,
and like, yeah, we're not gonna do that. But instead
of saying, hey, he wants to completely reset the market,
we want to pay him, but we gotta pay him
(15:46):
a smart feet because we got to have a better
overall defense. Instead they hurl out these sort of quasi
insults things they can say, Hey, we're just motivating him,
and ultimately they'll acquiesce he'll be the highest paid guy
at his position in the league, and we'll act like
it's all kumbaya. It's the Doug Gottlieb Show here on
Fox Sports Radio. And I believe the network is turning
(16:09):
twenty five, And I know that because or is it
twenty or twenty five? Hold on, rev howl? Is the network?
Speaker 11 (16:16):
Well? Time does fly Doug, but not that fast. This
will be our nineteenth year on the air and will
be our eighteenth anniversary of our Lunch coming out right
right the end of August.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Fair enough, that's the voice of Dave Revson. Okay, he's
been the face of the Big ten network since It's
Lunch nineteen years ago. Nineteen years ago. And of course
he's beginning the bus tour, although because the Big ten
is so big now, can't do the bus tour anymore
because you got to get out to Oregon in la
and then of course got to get back to Maryland,
(16:49):
which is next week. But you start with Nebraska. Let's
go back to media day. You know, college coaches have
this unique ability. They have it. They're kind of like
wives right where they can find that thing to complain
about when there's a lot of other things that you're like,
is that what really we're really complain about? James Franklin
brought up like, hey, we're in Vegas. We're just kind
(17:13):
of doing it because we're doing it. Whereas when we're
in Indy or in Chicago, it feels bigger. It feels,
especially in Indy, more like the Big Ten. I know
you worked technically for the league, but you've been around
it since it's infancy. What was the dynamic like in
Vegas in terms of its effect on the buzz around
the Big ten.
Speaker 11 (17:33):
Me to day, Well, I just want to go on
record as saying I don't necessarily agree with that characterization
of wives, but uh, yeah, it was you know, it
was fine. I mean, I don't know, like I to me,
I think it was great. There was a little bit
closer to the West Coast schools. Tony TD mentioned at
the outset of his remarks that this wasn't necessarily something
(17:56):
the conference set out to do. There was a conflict
with the schedule in Indie. They weren't able to use
Lucas oil for all the days that they were anticipating
having media days, and so then they said, okay, well
where else can we go? In Vegas kind of made
sense for a variety of reasons. So I don't think
this is something that's going to be an annual thing.
(18:17):
But you know, it was fun. I mean, you know, I,
as you know, I'm not a huge gambler and I
like to go to bed early, So I mean that
combination of things doesn't necessarily make me the optimal attendee
in Vegas. But everyone is a good time when they
go out there, and so I you know, we're ultimately
when we're there, we're spending a lot of time wherever
(18:39):
the broadcast is, in this case was in the ballroom
of Mandalay Bay and just doing interviews and that type
of thing. So to a certain extent, it doesn't matter
where we are. But I think most of the players
enjoy being out there.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Okay, James Franklin is a guy who they've done a
lot of good stuff, including getting to the College Fall
Playoff last year. Now there are huge expectations on his team,
and then knock against James Franklin is yeah, but what
do you actually do against the good teams?
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
What do you do against the best teams? And look,
some of it's unfair when you're at Vanderbilt, like come on,
what are we really talking about? But you're at Penn
State and people believe that you're at the level of
the Ohio States and the Michigans of this world. How
important is this year to James Franklin And if you
(19:29):
want to say legacy or just Penn State.
Speaker 11 (19:31):
Football, it's hugely important. And I think the numbers are
the numbers like you can just kind of you can say, oh, well,
you know, it's just that and the other thing, and
here's why, and the circumstances of this game were. But
he's four and twenty against top ten teams, while at
Penn State they are one and twenty five. Penn State
is against top five teams this century. The only win
(19:53):
was the win against Ohio State. I think almost a
decade ago, twenty sixteen was that game. So they haven't
won these kinds of games. And what I really respect
about James and the way that he's approached this is
he has said the expectation is that we win national
championships at Penn State. So we're not ducking away from it.
(20:14):
We're not making excuses. Now. They did win two really
nice games in the playoffs last year. Granted they weren't
top five teams, but they were good teams. SMU and
Boise State were good teams. So that's the start they
made the playoff. I think there was a lot of
pressure to make it last year. They were the team
that would have made it the most times in the
(20:35):
four team playoff era if we had twelve teams. So
the expectation was that now that we were expanding to twelve,
that they would make it, But he did not duck
away from it. I mean he said, if we're considered
the favorite, that's great. The reason you go to Penn
State is to win national championships. They were voted the
Big ten favorite in the unofficial preseason media poll. It's
(20:55):
the first time in the history of that poll, which
has been going for I believe sixteen years, that I
either Michigan or Ohio State wasn't the favorite. The first
time it's been someone other than them, and it was
Penn State. So yes, the expectation is that they're the
team that carries the mantle this year. They feel a
lot like Michigan from two years ago in Ohio State
from last year in that they had a lot of
(21:16):
guys who could have gone to the NFL opt to
come back. And I think they're poised for a really
big year. But there's no doubt there's pressure on them,
and they welcome it.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Close to home where I live, people are fickle on
Luke right.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Yeah, And and they.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Had this unbelievable identity for such a long time as
a great run to a team that could run the
football and then stop you and just mash you up front.
They go through a couple of coaching changes, and they
go through a bunch of different quarterbacks and can't figure
figure it out. Last year they had Alabama at home.
This year they have to go to Tuscaloosa. But outside
(21:54):
of that, what's the preseason thoughts on Wisconsin football?
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Well, there's schedules, really, I mean you mentioned a road
game at Alabama. They go to Michigan and they play Iowa,
Ohio State, Oregon, Indiana, Illinois. Who I think is you
have a really good year. I mean, it is a brutal,
brutal schedule, so they could be a better team than
they were a year ago and you know, win five games,
I mean, which is what they did last season. But
I think, kind of to your point, the feeling is
(22:21):
that maybe they got away from their identity a little bit,
and I think Luke Fickle is now trying to circle
back more to that notion of Wisconsin football being strong upfront,
really good on the offensive line, run the ball. He
hired Jeff Grimes, who did a nice job at Kansas,
been a Broyals Award finalist a couple times at Baylor
(22:42):
and BYU. He's not necessarily a run first coordinator, but
he's a guy who when he's had really good run games,
has leaned on. At Kansas last year would be a
prime example. He certainly is not of the air raid system,
which is kind of what they were trying to do
the previous two years. They defensively took a pretty significant
(23:06):
step back as well last year, and I think one
of the other identities of this program through the years
has been extremely strong defense. They weren't bad defensively, but
they weren't at the level they've been and they really
had to overhaul, particularly that front seven, in the offseason.
So I think it's a big year for Luke. I
think it is fair to point out they've had injuries
(23:28):
to the quarterback each of the last two years, which
has derailed them on offense. I know their hope is
that Billy Edwards stays healthy, but if he doesn't, they
also brought in Danny O'Neill, who was a starter at
San Diego State, So I think the notion was you
bring in two started quarterbacks out of the portal and
if you have the injury issues again, then it doesn't
derail your system and your season in quite the same way.
(23:50):
But no doubt it's a big year for Luke and
the schedule isn't all that favorable.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
All right, last team, want to check in on his
Nebraska your head there first, Matt rul did a great
job at Temple, he got things going at Baylor. Then
he goes to the NFL and he's talking about being transformed.
How many things they fixed in Nebraska, got Dilan Riola
back as your quarterback. What does this year look like
(24:16):
for the Huskers.
Speaker 11 (24:18):
There's a lot of optimism. I mean it's crazy to
think that going into last year, the team that had
the longest bowl drought of any Power five team in
America was Nebraska. I mean, that would have just seemed
so crazy, you know, when I was growing up and
following college football, when you were following them and they
were such a powerhouse, and to think they went seven
(24:38):
years without making a bowl game boggles the mind. So
I think it was really important that they had that
breakthrough last year and got to a bowl. Now, as
you mentioned, Dylan Ryola comes back. He was good last year,
but he kind of faded down the stretch. He threw
it to the wrong team, a fair number of times
at virtually one to one touchdown to interception ratio just
a hair above it. But he got Dana Holgerson at
(24:59):
the offensive coordinator, and it did feel like they had
a little bit more of an identity towards the end
of the year when Holgerson came in initially as kind
of a consultant. Defensively, there's they were really good. I
mean they were elite last year. Tony White, though left
for Florida State, he was the defensive coordinator. So I
do think there's kind of this notion of how well
(25:22):
does the internal promotion of John Butler work as well?
A big year for Nebraska. I think last year was
a bigger year. I think they needed to break through
and just end that bull drout. But Matt Rule's got
a good track record, as we know of rebuilding programs,
and you know that. I think their schedule is certainly
far more favorable than Wisconsin's is they don't have a
(25:45):
true road game, I think until they're sixth game. They
only have one of the College Football playoff teams from
the Big Ten from last year. So schedule wise, Nebraska's
in good shape and I do feel like they're starting
to figure it out on offense.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Well, I said, as I'm lying, because I do want
to talk just for a second about about Northwestern, your
alma mater. Of course, your dad was, your late father
was a professor there as well, right, super ties, And
they're doing this kind of really unique temporary stadium before
the new place, New Riinfield is open next year, which
(26:19):
looks small but spectacular. It looks like an incredible place
to watch a college football game. Did you get to
go to Northwestern's place on campus last year?
Speaker 11 (26:27):
I did that Friday night game against Duke, and so
I was able to go. Obviously I have studio responsibilities
on Saturday, so I went over there. It was September.
It was freezing cold. It was so cold the second
week of stem round the lake, so that detracted from
it a little bit. But the setting is unbelievable, and
(26:49):
they really, I mean, I have just given them a
ton of credit because the other options in the Chicago
area were just flat out not good. I mean, there's
a soccer stadium in the Southwest suburbs, which is, like,
in the best circumstances, an hour from campus. It just
none of that made sense. And I think they really
(27:10):
this was far and away the best option for them.
It's a really fun place to watch a game. They
got Oregon coming in for big news.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yes, they got they got they got Oregon, they got
Ucla coming in, they got Michigan is going to play it.
I mean, can you imagine the ticket.
Speaker 11 (27:24):
The field that's Wrigley Field, as is Minnesota. Yeah. Uh
but but yes, they have a Oregon and Ucla playing
on the lake front, and each one of those will
be unique settings, no doubt. It's it's pretty cool. And
the new one's is going to be amazing. I mean
it's it's perfect for them, and it is going to
be the most expensive college football stadium ever built, which
(27:46):
is again things you didn't necessarily think you'd hear growing
up Nebraska. I'm making bowl games in Northwestern with the
most expensive stadium in the country.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Up is down, black is white, and day is night. Right,
that's the college that's college football today, rev enjoy the
road trip. We'll check in with you as you go
and see these teams in person. Thanks for our guest
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 11 (28:08):
All right, thanks my friend, Talking to you later, Doug.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
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Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
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presets in the iHeart app so you can always pop
up on top of your screen. Let's get to a
game with Dan Buyer.
Speaker 10 (28:47):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
Danie, what do you got Bud Doug? On this Monday,
We've got a game called.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Five scenarios at hand for Doug to tell us that
they are big deals, little deals, or no deals at all.
We start off in Major League Baseball Big Deal, little
Deal or no Deal that Bryce Harper swore in the
face of Commissioner Rob Manfred, according to a report from ESPN.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Seems like a really really big deal.
Speaker 11 (29:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
So the story that I read and you would know
better than I would, dan is Rob Manford was talking
about a salary cap, apparently with an earshot of Bryce Harper,
and Bryce Harper wanted him out of the locker room
talking about a salary cap. Is that accurate?
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Yeah, it's kind of like a team meeting, and I
think that Manfred was alluding to that a salary cap.
And that's when Harper, yeah, spoke up and said, you
can get the bleep body here if you think we're
gonna have a say, guy making.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Three hundred million dollars over thirteen years.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
Yes, right.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
Don't you love it in work situations when the person
in the meeting that has the most gravitas speaks up.
Bryce Harper can do that to the commissioner. He's had
his career, basically, he's made his money. I love when
that stuff happened because the first and second year guy
can't get in Manfred's face and it won't mean as much.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I agree, only there is the ultimate like hypocrisy of it, right,
Whereas the salary cap, in it's truest form is really
helped the rank and file, you know, that's always the
sale of it. Hey to push things up so that
the bottom guy makes more. And there's a lot more
of those in Major League Baseball. But yeah, he does
have the gravitas to be able to stand in the
face of the commissioner and say whatever he wants to say.
You bring up a great point.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
All right, Doug.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Topic number two, big deal, little deal or no deal.
That Luka Doncic is on the cover of Men's Health. Uh,
how ripped Luca looks like?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
You know, he looks ripped. He looks.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
I just didn't want to use svelt because everybody is
using smelts.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
I think he looks hot pause.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Physically hot.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
You I it's maybe the exact situation, but it's not.
And I know exactly what Jason is doing. I know it.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
I know what he's doing. But the skinny on the
Lakers Stars summer shred.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah, uh, slender and elegant that's spelt.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
Also helps. And he have a bit of a tan summertime.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Tan does make it look thinner.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Yeah, haircut, he does this.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
He does the Luca off season diet every year though
now this does look different, but he does the off
season diet a lot kind of his thing. Well like
the Oprah w the ore of It's like the Oprah
Win Free of the NBA, Like he's like you get
a car, and you get a car and you get
(32:04):
a car, but Oprah like depending on the season, like
WHOA what happened Oprah? Then sometimes he's trying to be like, damn, Oprah,
have your stomach table?
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Are we? Is this no credit Monday? Where Doug just isn't.
He's not giving credit to Bryce Harper, Luka, Doncic is
getting in shape credit and you get no hold on
you get credit.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Big big deal. If he maintains this physique into the
NBA and throughout the NBA season, little deal. If it's
just like previous.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Years, it sounds like it's been a little meal for
Luca dot.
Speaker 9 (32:40):
So he's good, his diet is good in the off season,
but when he's in season, he's fattens up.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Is that how it works?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (32:46):
I thought it was the other way always the other
way around.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
It's no for him, it's weird, like go back and look,
be like, do a little timeline cleanse on Luca.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Sure, at least it's not the James Harden off season,
which we've seen before. Why he and Kevin Durant James
Shapes spend quite the off season for Luca's current teammate
Lebron James. Big deal, little deal or no deal. Doug
that Lebron James was meeting with Nicola Jokic's agent this
(33:14):
weekend in Europe.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
That feels like a really big deal, doesn't It just
feels like a really really big deal, especially when you
signed your extension, proceeded to complain about the surrounding supporting talent.
Let it leak out that, hey, you know, the Mavericks
(33:38):
were an option there and then you just happen to
pop up on a yacht with Luca's agent.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, that feels like a big deal.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
I think the phrase was like big things coming in
twenty twenty six. Could we have Lebron James in Denver
as part of the Nuggets? No chance, I agree.
Speaker 8 (33:57):
I heard what you told Harmon yesterday. Last consideration in
this whole story are Laker fans and the Lakers as usual?
Thanks Lebron.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
Yes, there's also a new league that could be popping
up at some point, and there was some talk that
that could be part of the conversations because Maverick Carter
is expected to be involved in the Worldwide League.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
Yeah, just it could have some teams.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
What's that where you have like FIVA teams and NBA teams.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
It's it was It was brought up in January that
there's this thought of having like six men and six
women's teams and they kind of travel the world, travel
a globe where you maybe have the backing of of
of a of a foreign entity. That's what I was thinking,
kind of like the Live Golf and christ General Live golfing.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Let's completely ruin our reputation and even though we're making
fifty plus million dollars a year, let's go make more
money and take it from the crown prince.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Well, I will say that. I will say this. So
some of the guys that left four Live Golf were
past their prime. So if Lebron wanted to make you know,
a few more millions, yeah, like that could be an
option after his playing days were over. I don't know
if any stars would actually want to do that, and it.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Would it would track because Lebron clearly doesn't care about
the Calves, doesn't care about the heat, doesn't care about
the Lakers or any of their fans. So why would
he care about the NBA even though you know, in
playing in the NBA, it's grown his brand into being,
you know, potentially a billionaire that that tracks for who
he is.
Speaker 7 (35:32):
And that's game time.
Speaker 10 (35:37):
This is game time on The Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It's a Doug Gotlib show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
cob it up. Next, finally got the boys back, which
means it's time for love and hate. What'd you love
from the weekend? What'd you hate from the weekend? Well,
Sherry the our thoughts? Next The Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox
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