July 28, 2025 • 48 mins
On a Monday edition of The Best Of The Doug Gottlieb Show: 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.
In this installment of "Love and Hate", Doug and the crew share what they loved most and hated most from the weekend.
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.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Tomorrow we'll be broadcasting from the sixth floor of the
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morning ten thirty and then we'll have some some fellow
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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. I was driving
around listened to us. Well, I was driving around listening
to him. I'm sorry, good to catch up. We got
Dan here back. This is going to be super super fun.
(01:10):
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. I guess he's
(01:30):
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 the announced at the press
conference earlier today.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
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 3 (01:53):
Rick was aware of what was transparring and he's been
a one and down there just it's just a blessing.
Came to Texas to see me as well.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Here's Coach Prime addressing his coaching future.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
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.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So let's discuss it. Okay, I totally understand the cynicism
that so many of you have, which is, oh, we
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
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have 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. I 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. I don't think anyone who's just
(03:09):
a real human being, not idiots on social media. I
don't thin anybody would have gone like, oh, to y'all,
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 do it? Now? I really want to
(03:32):
do it because I'm sure if thirteen and twelve over
the past two years was not fun, can you mentione
thirteen and twelve without your son? Yeah? 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
(03:53):
guess this is something you really want to do, really
want to do. And people do act 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
(04:15):
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 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
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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, 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?
(04:56):
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 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
(05:16):
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 genetic wiring. Would you continue coaching?
It's a great it's a great question byer. What would
(05:38):
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, 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 to
Big twelve. It was a turnaround from where been? What
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would you do?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
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 we thought,
(06:24):
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 feel that
(06:47):
we maybe put the cart, you know, ahead of the
horse on that one. However, he's stuck around. He's still there.
Travis Hunters won a Heisman Trophy. And when the Dallas
Cowboys have an opening where like his Deon Sanders is
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 think
(07:08):
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
(07:28):
any of this, and I'm pretty impressed by it. And
now to do this and to see how he looks different.
He does. He doesn't look like the stronger Dion that
we're accustomed to. I think he deserves an enormous amount
of credit for that.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Jay Stu, I know it 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 coach the Chargers,
would you keep doing.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
If 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.
That was strange to me. But if if I was
receiving that conviction from my doctor, I would just keep
doing it.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Sure. This whole 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, it 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
(08:45):
that they made a new bladder, I was like, Wow,
that's they can I guess they can do that. I
guess they can do that.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
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 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 coaching at Colorado.
(09:14):
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 name, his number is retired. It's like this, and
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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
(09:57):
health situation was. I had no idea it was cancer,
but that that was kind of what was going through
my mind.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Sam, What would you do?
Speaker 7 (10:06):
So my grandma actually had the same situation. It was
the late nineties. 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
(10:28):
so this is something that can be completely cured. I'm
not sure HER's my grandmother and his and dion situation
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, their jobs. They're you know, what
(10:48):
they do for a living. And if they stopped doing
that and then they dwell on their their their you know,
medical situation.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
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 holidays, after that's when people passed. Oh 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 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 of doctor just
a couple months remove from a go that that's it
done finished. He's great.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
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(12:26):
We got the press. We got a bunch of things
coming up. Yeah, I definitely want to talk some some
Aaron Rodgers coming up before we get to that. Though
we do this every Monday. It's a great way of
catching up on things we may have missed, things that
affected us personally that we wanted to share with you.
We call it love and hate.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
What did you love?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
God?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I love you?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
And what did you hate?
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Meet these player haters.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Love love, love, love, love, hate, hate, hate hated? What'd
you love from the weekend? What'd you hate from the weekend?
We share with you our four thoughts of love, our
fourth lots of hate, and you get to share your
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knock yourself out, Do Do Do, Bump bump boom, boom boom.
(13:16):
Let's start with Dan Byer. He's a resident love a boy,
Oh Danny, what'd you left from the weekend? Well, Doug.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I thought that a lot of this would come up
in maybe the hate portion of the program, But I'm
gonna say something that I loved because it's gotten a
lot of hate on social media over the weekend. I
loved Vern Ludenquist in Happy Gilmore two. I thought that
Vern Lungquist stole the show. For those that haven't seen it,
(13:43):
I'm not going to ruin anything, but despite all of
the negative reviews, I feel that the takeaway is Vern
Lungquist and how Vern Lungquist I felt stole the show.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
In the movie can.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I piggyback on that. I need to piggyback on this
because I chose. I chose this topic as my.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Love hold on, hold On, hold On, hold On, hold on,
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I'm sorry, uh never gets old.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Hold on hold on. So Christina, my superhow girlfriend. Christina's
son wanted to watch Happy Good More too. I probably
would not have been inclined to watch it, and man
if I didn't watch it, I wouldn't have caught this.
So I'm so glad I watched it. I am not
the audience for Adam Sandler movies. I never have. And
you could say you're just a movie snob who really
(14:35):
cares about sophisticated art, and I'll say yes. You could say,
who are you to judge what's funny? And I'll say
I'm gonna judge you a lot because I think dumb
people find Adam Sandler movie is funny. But I will
say this, I watched the entire thing and I I
came across a gym. So he's got all these amazing cameos,
and a lot of the cameos are sports talk personalities.
(14:59):
Steven A. Smith, isn't it? Dan Patrick has a role
in it? There's a bunch of podcasters that I'm not
even familiar with, So he got a bunch of his
friends podcasting broadcasters, and I'm guessing he asked Doug to
be in the movie, and Doug, you may have had
a schedule conflict. But what I loved about this is
they had a subtle nod to you and the show
(15:20):
within the script, and it's really smart and I'm really
glad I came across this. So at some point, Shooter
McGavin has been released from the insane asylum and he
is supposed to lead a group of current golfers against
this other group that is like the live golf of fiction.
(15:41):
And he's brought in to give an inspirational speech and
there's a hidden gem in here.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (15:48):
You are the five golfers who would represent our tour
in the grudge match against the Maxi League. I don't
have to tell you how important it is that we
beat them, and here to talk about how we're going
to accomplished that. It's Shooter McGavin a Doug.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
So, so an amazing subtle nod to our show and
the listeners. Obviously, you may have been booked that day.
You couldn't be in the movie, but I think they
did it in a smarter way. This appeals to me.
This is actually something sophisticated within an Adam Sandler movie.
It's this right here, take a Doug.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Awesome, that's for you guys, right. I'll take the fact
that Adam Sandler listens to the show. Sam, What do
you got? What? What would you like from the weekend?
What'd you love for the weekend?
Speaker 7 (16:44):
I guess I'll be plugging one of our rivals, one
of our competitors here. But ESPN has been doing a
fifty states in fifty days to.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Our Oh, they haven't gone to anywhere.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Well, they stopped in Iowa over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Stop anywhere. They're just in a studio going like, hey,
shout out now.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Kevin de Gandhi, Kevin de Gandhi was at the Field
of Dreams movie site, so he was there and the
weather was poor. It's been a very rainy summer in
the Midwest and I think all over the country, so
it was pouring kind of throughout his time there. But
he stopped and he brought his sons with him and
they had At the end of this segment, nice fifteen
minute segment, they played catch in the pouring rain. I
love that. I've always liked Kevin de Gandhi. I thought
(17:23):
he was He's one of the better talents there at ESPN.
And they also sort of laid the roadmap for what
the Field of Dreams movie site has planned for the future.
They're going to keep the movie site obviously in the house. Intact,
they want to expand it so they can have high
school tournaments, college and professional games all at this site.
They want to make it a destination for like Midwest
(17:45):
summer baseball. I thought it was really neat. I don't
want them to lose the charm of sort of the
corn everywhere. When I was lucky enough to go there
in twenty twenty one for that first Field of Dreams game,
and they had like rows of corn everywhere and a
beautiful you know, lights and cutouts and everything. It looked
very nostalgic, very old timing. And they don't they shouldn't
(18:06):
lose that. I think that they will keep a hold
of that around the movie site. But there's gonna be
like a sprawling complex of different diamonds, and they probably
need to build more hotels in an area.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
O gosh, what I know, like the commercialization of it.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Every suburb of every moderately sized city in the United
States is building like an eight diamond complex for and
it just never stops. It's it's I I say, Sam
loving the field of Dream site. I've only been there once,
but I absolutely loved it. And what was great about
(18:42):
it was how it was away from everything, how you
kind of had to drive through town at least the
way that I got there to get there. Now, if
you're there on there's sixteen other diamonds, you're not in
the country anymore. Like it's that.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
I mean, you're still very clearly in the country like
you're it is. It's it's definitely they're not just keeping
like the one MLB diamond And then the movie site.
They're gonna expand it. They wanted to.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Then they got a park somewhere.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Yes, they trust me. I lost my car in a
cloverfield with other cars and it was they got plenty
of space out there. But yeah, exactly like I said,
you don't want to lose the charm. You want to
keep the rows of corn. You want it to be
like the backdrop is a corn outfield. But yeah, some
of these places where youth baseball will be played, it's
gonna look more commercial, like Dan said, And I just
(19:28):
hope that they handle it in a way where it's
still charming and nostalgic, but also attracts. They're trying to
grow business there that you know, they wanted to make it,
make it into a business venture. So I hope they
handle it accordingly.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Uh. I think what I love. I love what Dion
Sanders did today. College football needs Deon Sanders. They just do.
College football needs a reason for you to watch. Think
about it. Now, how many you guys are not Southerners? Right?
So I guess, Jayson, how many SEC coaches can you name?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Give me seven, I'll start, give me seven. Seven, I'll
start the bid in at seven.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I'm gonna go under. I'm gonna go under. I your
camera's not up on the YouTube channel, by the way,
chick out the Fox Sports for the YouTube channel. I
I know there's three of them. I know you'll know.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Give me the seven, Dennis FRANCIONI.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh, seriously, give me the seven.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Let's see. I kind of need the schools. Let's see,
so we told you Texas definitely know Sarkisian Sarcissian, U.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
C L A U S C H. Guy. Oh sorry,
I'm sorry, USC, I'm sorry. Uh, Alabama, Alabama?
Speaker 6 (20:54):
What is his name?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Exactly? Georgia Klinor.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
We already went past it.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
You're not yeah, you're not.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You're not helping.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
But he didn't know.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
We know, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
My point is, okay, seventy five of the players change
places in their career. Again, I don't know the number.
I'm just guessing that scene is about right, seventy Okay.
So the constant has always been the coaches. It is,
but I'm guessing most people don't know the coach at
(21:28):
Michigan anymore. All right, Sam, do you know the coach
at Michigan's name? Yes? What is it?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
There?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You go?
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Took over four Harbaugh.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
He took over for Harball in that last season as well, when.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
There were some uh some suspensions for sessionable things.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
So Dion Sanders makes people turn on college football and like,
look for better or for worse if you like or
don't like. I just didn't like some of the antics.
But they made Colorado probably the team that everybody watched
over the past two years. Cheering fo some cheering against
it doesn't matter. So the fact that he beats cancer,
(22:10):
we think, right, this is doctor's like, hey, completely cured
and with money in the bank. And I'm sure had
he said, hey, I'm done here, Colorado would have compensated.
Maybe not to the full extent of his contract, but
he's doing to have made some money. Deon Sanders can do, television,
can do, podcast, can not work. And I'm sure he's
okay coming back to college football despite the fact that
(22:32):
he had his second health scare in just two years
of being at CU. When he doesn't have to coach
his son, doesn't get to coach his son, doesn't have
to get to coach the best player in the country.
That's a win for college football, to win for all
of us. That's a really good thing. I love it.
Let's get to what we hated for the weekend. Okay, there,
(22:58):
Dan Buyer, what you hate for the weekend.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
This is gonna sound crazy because it's gonna start to
heat up. I'm surprised we didn't go to our resident hater. Yeah,
you normally, but I just that's okay, I know this
is this is I'm just gonna say it. It hasn't
been as hot this summer as I wish it has
been in southern California. I know the rest of the
country is like, please, we are sweltering here, but it
(23:23):
has not been as warm as it normally would and
yesterday was a bit windy. I'll tell you what, if
you're able to go outside and able to enjoy a
nice dip in the water, I don't like it when
the wind blows and it's it's cool, Like I wanted
to be sweltering hot at least for just two weeks
(23:43):
in the summertime, so then you're automatically refreshed by cool water.
You're not chilled by a breeze. We're supposed to get
warmer weather this week again. I know, like the heat
index by you Doug was like one hundred and seven
because it was just humidity in the whole. But that's
what I didn't like about the weekend. Another nice weekend,
(24:04):
but didn't necessarily get that hot. And when I swam,
I got chilled by the wind.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
It has been in under the average summer temperatures here
in southern California.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And yes, below average.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Below Yeah, you get what you go. What I'm saying,
below average temperatures. The rest of the country has been hot, hot, hot,
But Dan just been.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's been it's been below average in a lot of
the Midwest. Now it's hot this week.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
That's not what I saw, Coach.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
It's been above average.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And I say, friends of the my friends here in
Green Bay, it's been cooler and rainier, especially early summer.
You just said in Iowa it's been cooler and rainier.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Well, there's been some Yeah, there's been some hot heat.
There's been some heat waves going through.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Same thing in Oklahoma. So it has been cooler than usual,
and now it's supposed to be hotter than usual here
last month of summer.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Dan, just you wait though, you know that by Labor
Day there's gonna be like one hundred and fifteen D day,
I know, and.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
It's gonna be like the opening of college football season,
and it's gonna be like, man, why is it this hot?
My sister sent me just a graphic, uh douga. She
probably lives about maybe about hour and a half, like
just southwest of Green Bay. Heat index was one oh
seven at her place on Saturday. The ninety two degrees
humanity was high. Yeah, it was crazy. It was hot.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
That's that's absolutely crazy. Okay, what about you are a
resident hater, Jase.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
To Okay, Doug, thank you. I'll take it from here,
you dog, I'll take it from here. Thank you, Doug.
I'll take it from here. Thank you, Doug. I'll take
it from here, Doug.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Did you guys watch the A's highlights from this weekend.
I didn't know this, but fourth generation broadcaster Chris Carey
has a major league job. He's the A's broadcaster. A
no doubt her home run was hit in the game,
but if you listen to the call, you got a
different version.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
One two pitch, high in the air, deep to right.
That ball is foul or gone.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
That ball was absolutely launched, law dog posing him up
at the dish.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
He knew it off the bat.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
It was just a.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Matter of how far foul or gone by the way
the ball landed in right center, Ye, not even close
to the pole if it was Lawrence Butler who hit it.
And I'm gonna I'll give Chris Carrie an excuse here.
He actually went on social media and he had a
very accountable apology. But he lost the ball in the
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lights and the right fielder didn't move. The right fielder
showed up the pitcher, he didn't even move. Lawrence Butler
did what all hitters do now, and he just pimped
his home run. So the broadcaster had no indication of
where the ball was based on the fielders or the hitter.
But this is kind of a proxy hate. I don't
hate this as much as John Ramos hates it, Cuz
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the one thing that John Ramos are our old tech
producer that we love dearly. He's a friend of ours.
He hated nepotism. He doesn't think Chris Carey should have
that job. And Chris Carey proved to John Ramos this
weekend that he shouldn't have that job. Chris Carey, the
great grandson of Harry Carey. Holy cow, John Ramos hates you.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Wow, Sammon, what do you hate from the weekend? All right?
Speaker 7 (27:35):
So Friday night, like many people, I sat down to
watch Happy Gilmore two. And I've only walked out of
one movie in the movie theater before in my life.
That was American Hustle. I don't know why it rankled
me so much, but with like ten minutes left in
that film, I just got got up and walked out.
Maybe I'd have to revisit the film, maybe it's not
as bad as I thought. But I turned off Happy
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Gilmore too with thirty five minutes.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
Ah.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
I did end up finishing at Sunday night, and my
opinion didn't change. The movie didn't just somehow get better.
This was a labor to get through. This was a chore.
This was not a good movie. It didn't need to
be made. It was too long, it was just there.
It was bloated. This film was bloated, and it would
have been better off. It had been better served if
it wasn't made. In the original, Happy Gilmore could just
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stand alone because this movie was honestly, it was boring.
When a comedy is boring, you've lost me, you've lost
the audience. I didn't really laugh at the movie. I
didn't think it was very funny. I wanted to like it.
I like Adam Sandler. I loved Happy Gilmore the original.
So I went in in with low expectations, which was
just what I was told to have, and my expectations
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were not even met. I thought this film was just
like first half of it was two passes through the
buffet line, and the second half of the film just
got so ridiculous. It was like you're going back to
the pasta in breadsticks. Portion of the buffet, it was
nothing but filler. I was really disappointed this. I feel
like Netflix just cuts checks and they put out a
lot of slop and this was a slop. This was
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a slop fest. So I hated that movie. I really,
I really hated it because I don't turn like what.
I felt like it was a waste of my time
to finish it. I did eventually finish it, but I
think if it's something you don't have to finish a
movie just because it's there. You can turn it off
and watch something else. You can read a book. So
I turned it off.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
I had enough.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I'll say something I hated, but it again, this is
more of a personal hatred, it's not universal. So I
spent the last four days in New England. My son's
gone to a camp in Friburg, Maine. It's called forest
It's called Indian Acres. Sorry, forest Acres is the girls camp.
Indian Acres. He loves it and he had a great,
great weekends like parents weekend, right, So you go up
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there and visit, well.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
I think I think it's called Guardian Acres now, Doug.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, I think when yeah, when I when I have
something to make it change it. When I, uh will
go for lunch, like you know, New England lots of
pubs and tap, lots of them, and so I do
a little research on which pup and tavern different kinds
of food, you know, like there's one that's got great
lobster lobster roles, it's one that's got good barbecue whatever.
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I had forgotten that the Midwest and especially Northeastern bar
at lunch is very different than the West Coast bar
at lunch. The West Coast bar at lunch is for
I want to watch some sports, I want to get
some food. I may want to make a little eye
contact quick conversation with the bartender, but outside of that,
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it's a way to kind of eat quickly and get
stuff done and get out. It's restaurant liked the New
England bar is. You sit down and those people apparently
have nothing going on, nothing to do, and they simply
want to hear your life story and share with you yours,
which is very endearing. It's just I'm not Cliff Cleveland.
(30:55):
This is not cheers. I don't I like being where
no one knows mine. I want to be where somebody
no one knows my name, not where everybody knows my name.
It's like I'm sitting down there and I'm getting interviewed
before I go on a first date with a girl
or before I get a job. Like literally every day
you sit down anywhere you from, what do you think
of the sucks? What are you thinking of uniforms? Oh,
(31:17):
what do you think of the patriots? I like to hire?
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Like?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Just pepper, pepper, pepper, Like, hey, dude, I just I
really wanted a smash burger and a and Arnold Palmer,
and I want to eat it as fast as I
can and give the waiter a little or bartender or bar, yeah,
bartender a little tip, and I want to get out.
So I just hate that I can't just be isolated
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at the bar the way I am on the West coast.
When you get to the Midwest and especially Northeast, where
the Northeast is not friendly people unless you sit down
to bar at lunch time on a Thursday of Friday,
especially at a Friday, when lunch becomes happy hout, which
becomes dinner, which becomes go home and talk about the socks.
(32:04):
Some do name Doug, some do name Doug, and that
is love.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug Gottlieb
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Speaker 1 (32:19):
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 East coast and they go West coast. Anyways, the
lead host for the Big Ten Network. He also is
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the author of a New York Times in Boston Globe bestseller,
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 very good. Dan
Byer with an update in a moment. I want to
get to this. This is Jerry Jones and Stephen 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.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
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 gotta want to get paid. So Jerry's saying, hey,
I hear you, but it's a faint sound, and Steven's
(33:36):
saying he wants to get paid. That acts that that's
treating it like Michah Parsons doesn't practice for play hard
That's the translation there. And I think if it was
any other organization'd be like, oh, guys 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
(33:59):
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,
I don't know what, it might not be his time
to get paid, and then they pay him anyway. They
(34:20):
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
time they were you got worn down and he finally
told the truth. Where are you keeping the lamp? You
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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
he's gotta want to get paid. It's like they're gonna
have one more insult and then finally they okay, fine,
now we'll give you the money. Does anyone think Mike
(35:05):
Michaeh 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 to the YouTube channel. Just type in Fox Sports
Radio whatever you want and on YouTube you can see this.
Buy er, I see you shaking your head. We've all
been here before. We've seen this movie. It's like my
(35:28):
son was like, hey, I saw the new Jurassic World.
Let me guess I don't know how all these dinosaurs
survived Holy crap. This is amazing nature fighting away and
then something goes wrong. People get eaten, especially the most
annoying character. He's always eaten. The kids somehow survive, and
(35:50):
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 8 (35:59):
Spot?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
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 got to pay
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him a smart fee 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 will 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 8 (36:52):
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 launch coming out right
right end of August.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Fair enough, that's the voice of Dave Revson. Okay, he's
been the face of the Big ten network since it's
launch 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 work technically for the 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 8 (38:09):
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 CA. Tit mentioned
at the outset of his remarks that this wasn't necessarily
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something the conference sent 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 about it, 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 the broadcast is,
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in this case was in the ballroom of Mandalay Bay
and just doing interviews and that type of thing. So
to a certain extent, doesn't matter where we are. But
I think most of the players enjoy being out there.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Okay, James Franklin is a guy who they've done a
lot of good stuff, including getting to the college fball
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? Right?
What do you do against the best teams? And look,
some of it's unfair when you're at Vanderbilt, like come on,
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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
want to say legacy or just Penn State football.
Speaker 8 (40:07):
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, if this 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.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Now.
Speaker 8 (40:51):
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 fourteen playoff era if we had
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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 the first time in the history of
that poll, which has been going for I believe sixteen years,
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that 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 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 guys who could have gone to the NFL
opt to come back. And I think they're pollys for
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a really big year. But there's no doubt there's pressure
on them, and they welcome it.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Close to home where I live, people are fickle on
Luke right, Yeah, And and they had this unbelievable identity
for such a long time as a great run, 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
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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 of that, what's the
preseason thoughts on Wisconsin football?
Speaker 8 (42:34):
Well, their schedules really hard. 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
she 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,
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the feeling is 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
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couple times at Baylor 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.
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They defensively took a pretty significant 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
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big year for Luke. I think it is fair to
point out they've had injuries 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 it 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
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issues again, then it doesn't derail your system and your
season in quite the same way. But no doubt it's
a big year for Luke and the schedule isn't all
that favorable.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
All right, last team, I want to check in on
his Nebraska. You're 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
Delan rei La back as your quarterback. What does this
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year look like for the Huskers.
Speaker 8 (44:53):
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 dra 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, 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 does
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the internal promotion of John their work as well. It's
a big year for Nebraska. I think last year was
a bigger year. I think 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
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have a true road game, I think until their 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 1 (46:34):
Well, I said as the last I'm lying because I
do want to talk just for a second about Nebra.
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 Ryinfield is open
next year, which looks small but spectacular. It looks like
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an incredible place to watch a college football game. Did
you get to go to New a Western's place on
campus last year?
Speaker 8 (47:03):
I did that Friday night game against Duke, and so
I was able to go. Obviously, you know, 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 they really I mean, I have just given
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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 this was far and away the best option for them.
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It's a really fun place to watch a game. They
got Oregon coming in for big news.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
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 tickets.
Speaker 8 (47:59):
That's all Wrigley Field, as is Minnesota. Yeah, 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 pretty cool. And the new one is going to
be amazing. I mean, it's perfect for them, and it
is going to be the most expensive college football stadium
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ever built, which 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 1 (48:30):
Up is down, black is white, and day is night. Right'
that's 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 five
Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (48:44):
All right, thanks my friend, Talk you later.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
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Stap bye. We'll talk about the Packers tomorrow. My man
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He had a great weekend show yesterday. I was driving
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(01:10):
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. I guess he's
(01:30):
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 the announced at the press
conference earlier today.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
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 3 (01:53):
Rick was aware of what was transparring and he's been
a one and down there just it's just a blessing.
Came to Texas to see me as well.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Here's Coach Prime addressing his coaching future.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
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.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So let's discuss it. Okay, I totally understand the cynicism
that so many of you have, which is, oh, we
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
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have 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. I 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. I don't think anyone who's just
(03:09):
a real human being, not idiots on social media. I
don't thin anybody would have gone like, oh, to y'all,
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 do it? Now? I really want to
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do it because I'm sure if thirteen and twelve over
the past two years was not fun, can you mentione
thirteen and twelve without your son? Yeah? 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
(03:53):
guess this is something you really want to do, really
want to do. And people do act 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
(04:15):
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 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
(04:36):
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, 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?
(04:56):
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 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
(05:16):
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 genetic wiring. Would you continue coaching?
It's a great it's a great question byer. What would
(05:38):
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, 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 to
Big twelve. It was a turnaround from where been? What
(06:01):
would you do?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
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 we thought,
(06:24):
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 feel that
(06:47):
we maybe put the cart, you know, ahead of the
horse on that one. However, he's stuck around. He's still there.
Travis Hunters won a Heisman Trophy. And when the Dallas
Cowboys have an opening where like his Deon Sanders is
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 think
(07:08):
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
(07:28):
any of this, and I'm pretty impressed by it. And
now to do this and to see how he looks different.
He does. He doesn't look like the stronger Dion that
we're accustomed to. I think he deserves an enormous amount
of credit for that.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Jay Stu, I know it 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 coach the Chargers,
would you keep doing.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
If 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.
That was strange to me. But if if I was
receiving that conviction from my doctor, I would just keep
doing it.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Sure. This whole 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, it 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
(08:45):
that they made a new bladder, I was like, Wow,
that's they can I guess they can do that. I
guess they can do that.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
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 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 coaching at Colorado.
(09:14):
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 name, his number is retired. It's like this, and
(09:36):
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
(09:57):
health situation was. I had no idea it was cancer,
but that that was kind of what was going through
my mind.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Sam, What would you do?
Speaker 7 (10:06):
So my grandma actually had the same situation. It was
the late nineties. 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
(10:28):
so this is something that can be completely cured. I'm
not sure HER's my grandmother and his and dion situation
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, their jobs. They're you know, what
(10:48):
they do for a living. And if they stopped doing
that and then they dwell on their their their you know,
medical situation.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
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 holidays, after that's when people passed. Oh 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
(11:16):
wondering 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 of doctor just
a couple months remove from a go that that's it
done finished. He's great.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
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(12:26):
We got the press. We got a bunch of things
coming up. Yeah, I definitely want to talk some some
Aaron Rodgers coming up before we get to that. Though
we do this every Monday. It's a great way of
catching up on things we may have missed, things that
affected us personally that we wanted to share with you.
We call it love and hate.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
What did you love?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
God?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I love you?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
And what did you hate?
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Meet these player haters.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Love love, love, love, love, hate, hate, hate hated? What'd
you love from the weekend? What'd you hate from the weekend?
We share with you our four thoughts of love, our
fourth lots of hate, and you get to share your
social media at Gottlieb Show, Twitter, at Goatlieb Show, Instagram,
knock yourself out, Do Do Do, Bump bump boom, boom boom.
(13:16):
Let's start with Dan Byer. He's a resident love a boy,
Oh Danny, what'd you left from the weekend? Well, Doug.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I thought that a lot of this would come up
in maybe the hate portion of the program, But I'm
gonna say something that I loved because it's gotten a
lot of hate on social media over the weekend. I
loved Vern Ludenquist in Happy Gilmore two. I thought that
Vern Lungquist stole the show. For those that haven't seen it,
(13:43):
I'm not going to ruin anything, but despite all of
the negative reviews, I feel that the takeaway is Vern
Lungquist and how Vern Lungquist I felt stole the show.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
In the movie can.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I piggyback on that. I need to piggyback on this
because I chose. I chose this topic as my.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Love hold on, hold On, hold On, hold On, hold on,
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I'm sorry, uh never gets old.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Hold on hold on. So Christina, my superhow girlfriend. Christina's
son wanted to watch Happy Good More too. I probably
would not have been inclined to watch it, and man
if I didn't watch it, I wouldn't have caught this.
So I'm so glad I watched it. I am not
the audience for Adam Sandler movies. I never have. And
you could say you're just a movie snob who really
(14:35):
cares about sophisticated art, and I'll say yes. You could say,
who are you to judge what's funny? And I'll say
I'm gonna judge you a lot because I think dumb
people find Adam Sandler movie is funny. But I will
say this, I watched the entire thing and I I
came across a gym. So he's got all these amazing cameos,
and a lot of the cameos are sports talk personalities.
(14:59):
Steven A. Smith, isn't it? Dan Patrick has a role
in it? There's a bunch of podcasters that I'm not
even familiar with, So he got a bunch of his
friends podcasting broadcasters, and I'm guessing he asked Doug to
be in the movie, and Doug, you may have had
a schedule conflict. But what I loved about this is
they had a subtle nod to you and the show
(15:20):
within the script, and it's really smart and I'm really
glad I came across this. So at some point, Shooter
McGavin has been released from the insane asylum and he
is supposed to lead a group of current golfers against
this other group that is like the live golf of fiction.
(15:41):
And he's brought in to give an inspirational speech and
there's a hidden gem in here.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (15:48):
You are the five golfers who would represent our tour
in the grudge match against the Maxi League. I don't
have to tell you how important it is that we
beat them, and here to talk about how we're going
to accomplished that. It's Shooter McGavin a Doug.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
So, so an amazing subtle nod to our show and
the listeners. Obviously, you may have been booked that day.
You couldn't be in the movie, but I think they
did it in a smarter way. This appeals to me.
This is actually something sophisticated within an Adam Sandler movie.
It's this right here, take a Doug.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Awesome, that's for you guys, right. I'll take the fact
that Adam Sandler listens to the show. Sam, What do
you got? What? What would you like from the weekend?
What'd you love for the weekend?
Speaker 7 (16:44):
I guess I'll be plugging one of our rivals, one
of our competitors here. But ESPN has been doing a
fifty states in fifty days to.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Our Oh, they haven't gone to anywhere.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Well, they stopped in Iowa over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Stop anywhere. They're just in a studio going like, hey,
shout out now.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Kevin de Gandhi, Kevin de Gandhi was at the Field
of Dreams movie site, so he was there and the
weather was poor. It's been a very rainy summer in
the Midwest and I think all over the country, so
it was pouring kind of throughout his time there. But
he stopped and he brought his sons with him and
they had At the end of this segment, nice fifteen
minute segment, they played catch in the pouring rain. I
love that. I've always liked Kevin de Gandhi. I thought
(17:23):
he was He's one of the better talents there at ESPN.
And they also sort of laid the roadmap for what
the Field of Dreams movie site has planned for the future.
They're going to keep the movie site obviously in the house. Intact,
they want to expand it so they can have high
school tournaments, college and professional games all at this site.
They want to make it a destination for like Midwest
(17:45):
summer baseball. I thought it was really neat. I don't
want them to lose the charm of sort of the
corn everywhere. When I was lucky enough to go there
in twenty twenty one for that first Field of Dreams game,
and they had like rows of corn everywhere and a
beautiful you know, lights and cutouts and everything. It looked
very nostalgic, very old timing. And they don't they shouldn't
(18:06):
lose that. I think that they will keep a hold
of that around the movie site. But there's gonna be
like a sprawling complex of different diamonds, and they probably
need to build more hotels in an area.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
O gosh, what I know, like the commercialization of it.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Every suburb of every moderately sized city in the United
States is building like an eight diamond complex for and
it just never stops. It's it's I I say, Sam
loving the field of Dream site. I've only been there once,
but I absolutely loved it. And what was great about
(18:42):
it was how it was away from everything, how you
kind of had to drive through town at least the
way that I got there to get there. Now, if
you're there on there's sixteen other diamonds, you're not in
the country anymore. Like it's that.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
I mean, you're still very clearly in the country like
you're it is. It's it's definitely they're not just keeping
like the one MLB diamond And then the movie site.
They're gonna expand it. They wanted to.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Then they got a park somewhere.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Yes, they trust me. I lost my car in a
cloverfield with other cars and it was they got plenty
of space out there. But yeah, exactly like I said,
you don't want to lose the charm. You want to
keep the rows of corn. You want it to be
like the backdrop is a corn outfield. But yeah, some
of these places where youth baseball will be played, it's
gonna look more commercial, like Dan said, And I just
(19:28):
hope that they handle it in a way where it's
still charming and nostalgic, but also attracts. They're trying to
grow business there that you know, they wanted to make it,
make it into a business venture. So I hope they
handle it accordingly.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Uh. I think what I love. I love what Dion
Sanders did today. College football needs Deon Sanders. They just do.
College football needs a reason for you to watch. Think
about it. Now, how many you guys are not Southerners? Right?
So I guess, Jayson, how many SEC coaches can you name?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Give me seven, I'll start, give me seven. Seven, I'll
start the bid in at seven.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I'm gonna go under. I'm gonna go under. I your
camera's not up on the YouTube channel, by the way,
chick out the Fox Sports for the YouTube channel. I
I know there's three of them. I know you'll know.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Give me the seven, Dennis FRANCIONI.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh, seriously, give me the seven.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Let's see. I kind of need the schools. Let's see,
so we told you Texas definitely know Sarkisian Sarcissian, U.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
C L A U S C H. Guy. Oh sorry,
I'm sorry, USC, I'm sorry. Uh, Alabama, Alabama?
Speaker 6 (20:54):
What is his name?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Exactly? Georgia Klinor.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
We already went past it.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
You're not yeah, you're not.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You're not helping.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
But he didn't know.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
We know, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
My point is, okay, seventy five of the players change
places in their career. Again, I don't know the number.
I'm just guessing that scene is about right, seventy Okay.
So the constant has always been the coaches. It is,
but I'm guessing most people don't know the coach at
(21:28):
Michigan anymore. All right, Sam, do you know the coach
at Michigan's name? Yes? What is it?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
There?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You go?
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Took over four Harbaugh.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
He took over for Harball in that last season as well, when.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
There were some uh some suspensions for sessionable things.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
So Dion Sanders makes people turn on college football and like,
look for better or for worse if you like or
don't like. I just didn't like some of the antics.
But they made Colorado probably the team that everybody watched
over the past two years. Cheering fo some cheering against
it doesn't matter. So the fact that he beats cancer,
(22:10):
we think, right, this is doctor's like, hey, completely cured
and with money in the bank. And I'm sure had
he said, hey, I'm done here, Colorado would have compensated.
Maybe not to the full extent of his contract, but
he's doing to have made some money. Deon Sanders can do, television,
can do, podcast, can not work. And I'm sure he's
okay coming back to college football despite the fact that
(22:32):
he had his second health scare in just two years
of being at CU. When he doesn't have to coach
his son, doesn't get to coach his son, doesn't have
to get to coach the best player in the country.
That's a win for college football, to win for all
of us. That's a really good thing. I love it.
Let's get to what we hated for the weekend. Okay, there,
(22:58):
Dan Buyer, what you hate for the weekend.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
This is gonna sound crazy because it's gonna start to
heat up. I'm surprised we didn't go to our resident hater. Yeah,
you normally, but I just that's okay, I know this
is this is I'm just gonna say it. It hasn't
been as hot this summer as I wish it has
been in southern California. I know the rest of the
country is like, please, we are sweltering here, but it
(23:23):
has not been as warm as it normally would and
yesterday was a bit windy. I'll tell you what, if
you're able to go outside and able to enjoy a
nice dip in the water, I don't like it when
the wind blows and it's it's cool, Like I wanted
to be sweltering hot at least for just two weeks
(23:43):
in the summertime, so then you're automatically refreshed by cool water.
You're not chilled by a breeze. We're supposed to get
warmer weather this week again. I know, like the heat
index by you Doug was like one hundred and seven
because it was just humidity in the whole. But that's
what I didn't like about the weekend. Another nice weekend,
(24:04):
but didn't necessarily get that hot. And when I swam,
I got chilled by the wind.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
It has been in under the average summer temperatures here
in southern California.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And yes, below average.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Below Yeah, you get what you go. What I'm saying,
below average temperatures. The rest of the country has been hot, hot, hot,
But Dan just been.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's been it's been below average in a lot of
the Midwest. Now it's hot this week.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
That's not what I saw, Coach.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
It's been above average.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And I say, friends of the my friends here in
Green Bay, it's been cooler and rainier, especially early summer.
You just said in Iowa it's been cooler and rainier.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Well, there's been some Yeah, there's been some hot heat.
There's been some heat waves going through.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Same thing in Oklahoma. So it has been cooler than usual,
and now it's supposed to be hotter than usual here
last month of summer.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Dan, just you wait though, you know that by Labor
Day there's gonna be like one hundred and fifteen D day,
I know, and.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
It's gonna be like the opening of college football season,
and it's gonna be like, man, why is it this hot?
My sister sent me just a graphic, uh douga. She
probably lives about maybe about hour and a half, like
just southwest of Green Bay. Heat index was one oh
seven at her place on Saturday. The ninety two degrees
humanity was high. Yeah, it was crazy. It was hot.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
That's that's absolutely crazy. Okay, what about you are a
resident hater, Jase.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
To Okay, Doug, thank you. I'll take it from here,
you dog, I'll take it from here. Thank you, Doug.
I'll take it from here. Thank you, Doug. I'll take
it from here, Doug.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Did you guys watch the A's highlights from this weekend.
I didn't know this, but fourth generation broadcaster Chris Carey
has a major league job. He's the A's broadcaster. A
no doubt her home run was hit in the game,
but if you listen to the call, you got a
different version.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
One two pitch, high in the air, deep to right.
That ball is foul or gone.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
That ball was absolutely launched, law dog posing him up
at the dish.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
He knew it off the bat.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
It was just a.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Matter of how far foul or gone by the way
the ball landed in right center, Ye, not even close
to the pole if it was Lawrence Butler who hit it.
And I'm gonna I'll give Chris Carrie an excuse here.
He actually went on social media and he had a
very accountable apology. But he lost the ball in the
(26:43):
lights and the right fielder didn't move. The right fielder
showed up the pitcher, he didn't even move. Lawrence Butler
did what all hitters do now, and he just pimped
his home run. So the broadcaster had no indication of
where the ball was based on the fielders or the hitter.
But this is kind of a proxy hate. I don't
hate this as much as John Ramos hates it, Cuz
(27:06):
the one thing that John Ramos are our old tech
producer that we love dearly. He's a friend of ours.
He hated nepotism. He doesn't think Chris Carey should have
that job. And Chris Carey proved to John Ramos this
weekend that he shouldn't have that job. Chris Carey, the
great grandson of Harry Carey. Holy cow, John Ramos hates you.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Wow, Sammon, what do you hate from the weekend? All right?
Speaker 7 (27:35):
So Friday night, like many people, I sat down to
watch Happy Gilmore two. And I've only walked out of
one movie in the movie theater before in my life.
That was American Hustle. I don't know why it rankled
me so much, but with like ten minutes left in
that film, I just got got up and walked out.
Maybe I'd have to revisit the film, maybe it's not
as bad as I thought. But I turned off Happy
(27:57):
Gilmore too with thirty five minutes.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
Ah.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
I did end up finishing at Sunday night, and my
opinion didn't change. The movie didn't just somehow get better.
This was a labor to get through. This was a chore.
This was not a good movie. It didn't need to
be made. It was too long, it was just there.
It was bloated. This film was bloated, and it would
have been better off. It had been better served if
it wasn't made. In the original, Happy Gilmore could just
(28:21):
stand alone because this movie was honestly, it was boring.
When a comedy is boring, you've lost me, you've lost
the audience. I didn't really laugh at the movie. I
didn't think it was very funny. I wanted to like it.
I like Adam Sandler. I loved Happy Gilmore the original.
So I went in in with low expectations, which was
just what I was told to have, and my expectations
(28:42):
were not even met. I thought this film was just
like first half of it was two passes through the
buffet line, and the second half of the film just
got so ridiculous. It was like you're going back to
the pasta in breadsticks. Portion of the buffet, it was
nothing but filler. I was really disappointed this. I feel
like Netflix just cuts checks and they put out a
lot of slop and this was a slop. This was
(29:03):
a slop fest. So I hated that movie. I really,
I really hated it because I don't turn like what.
I felt like it was a waste of my time
to finish it. I did eventually finish it, but I
think if it's something you don't have to finish a
movie just because it's there. You can turn it off
and watch something else. You can read a book. So
I turned it off.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
I had enough.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I'll say something I hated, but it again, this is
more of a personal hatred, it's not universal. So I
spent the last four days in New England. My son's
gone to a camp in Friburg, Maine. It's called forest
It's called Indian Acres. Sorry, forest Acres is the girls camp.
Indian Acres. He loves it and he had a great,
great weekends like parents weekend, right, So you go up
(29:45):
there and visit, well.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
I think I think it's called Guardian Acres now, Doug.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, I think when yeah, when I when I have
something to make it change it. When I, uh will
go for lunch, like you know, New England lots of
pubs and tap, lots of them, and so I do
a little research on which pup and tavern different kinds
of food, you know, like there's one that's got great
lobster lobster roles, it's one that's got good barbecue whatever.
(30:12):
I had forgotten that the Midwest and especially Northeastern bar
at lunch is very different than the West Coast bar
at lunch. The West Coast bar at lunch is for
I want to watch some sports, I want to get
some food. I may want to make a little eye
contact quick conversation with the bartender, but outside of that,
(30:32):
it's a way to kind of eat quickly and get
stuff done and get out. It's restaurant liked the New
England bar is. You sit down and those people apparently
have nothing going on, nothing to do, and they simply
want to hear your life story and share with you yours,
which is very endearing. It's just I'm not Cliff Cleveland.
(30:55):
This is not cheers. I don't I like being where
no one knows mine. I want to be where somebody
no one knows my name, not where everybody knows my name.
It's like I'm sitting down there and I'm getting interviewed
before I go on a first date with a girl
or before I get a job. Like literally every day
you sit down anywhere you from, what do you think
of the sucks? What are you thinking of uniforms? Oh,
(31:17):
what do you think of the patriots? I like to hire?
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Like?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Just pepper, pepper, pepper, Like, hey, dude, I just I
really wanted a smash burger and a and Arnold Palmer,
and I want to eat it as fast as I
can and give the waiter a little or bartender or bar, yeah,
bartender a little tip, and I want to get out.
So I just hate that I can't just be isolated
(31:42):
at the bar the way I am on the West coast.
When you get to the Midwest and especially Northeast, where
the Northeast is not friendly people unless you sit down
to bar at lunch time on a Thursday of Friday,
especially at a Friday, when lunch becomes happy hout, which
becomes dinner, which becomes go home and talk about the socks.
(32:04):
Some do name Doug, some do name Doug, and that
is love.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug Gottlieb
Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on Fox
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Speaker 1 (32:19):
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 East coast and they go West coast. Anyways, the
lead host for the Big Ten Network. He also is
(32:40):
the author of a New York Times in Boston Globe bestseller,
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 very good. Dan
Byer with an update in a moment. I want to
get to this. This is Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones.
Excuse me, sorry about that. There were chants of pay
(33:06):
micah from the fans as the Cowboys are going through
training camp.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
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 gotta want to get paid. So Jerry's saying, hey,
I hear you, but it's a faint sound, and Steven's
(33:36):
saying he wants to get paid. That acts that that's
treating it like Michah Parsons doesn't practice for play hard
That's the translation there. And I think if it was
any other organization'd be like, oh, guys 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
(33:59):
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,
I don't know what, it might not be his time
to get paid, and then they pay him anyway. They
(34:20):
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
time they were you got worn down and he finally
told the truth. Where are you keeping the lamp? You
(34:41):
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
he's gotta want to get paid. It's like they're gonna
have one more insult and then finally they okay, fine,
now we'll give you the money. Does anyone think Mike
(35:05):
Michaeh 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 to the YouTube channel. Just type in Fox Sports
Radio whatever you want and on YouTube you can see this.
Buy er, I see you shaking your head. We've all
been here before. We've seen this movie. It's like my
(35:28):
son was like, hey, I saw the new Jurassic World.
Let me guess I don't know how all these dinosaurs
survived Holy crap. This is amazing nature fighting away and
then something goes wrong. People get eaten, especially the most
annoying character. He's always eaten. The kids somehow survive, and
(35:50):
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 8 (35:59):
Spot?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
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 got to pay
(36:21):
him a smart fee 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 will act like
it's all kumbaya. It's the Doug Gottlieb Show here on
Fox Sports Radio, and I believe the network is turning
(36:44):
twenty five And I know that because or is it
twenty or twenty five. Hold on, rev howl is the network.
Speaker 8 (36:52):
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 launch coming out right
right end of August.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Fair enough, that's the voice of Dave Revson. Okay, he's
been the face of the Big ten network since it's
launch 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,
(37:25):
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
(37:48):
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 work technically for the 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 8 (38:09):
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 CA. Tit mentioned
at the outset of his remarks that this wasn't necessarily
(38:31):
something the conference sent 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.
(38:53):
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 about it, 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 the broadcast is,
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in this case was in the ballroom of Mandalay Bay
and just doing interviews and that type of thing. So
to a certain extent, doesn't matter where we are. But
I think most of the players enjoy being out there.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Okay, James Franklin is a guy who they've done a
lot of good stuff, including getting to the college fball
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? Right?
What do you do against the best teams? And look,
some of it's unfair when you're at Vanderbilt, like come on,
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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
want to say legacy or just Penn State football.
Speaker 8 (40:07):
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, if this 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
(40:28):
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.
(40:49):
We're not making excuses.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Now.
Speaker 8 (40:51):
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 fourteen playoff era if we had
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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 the first time in the history of
that poll, which has been going for I believe sixteen years,
(41:35):
that 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 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 guys who could have gone to the NFL
opt to come back. And I think they're pollys for
(41:55):
a really big year. But there's no doubt there's pressure
on them, and they welcome it.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Close to home where I live, people are fickle on
Luke right, Yeah, And and they had this unbelievable identity
for such a long time as a great run, 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
(42:22):
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 of that, what's the
preseason thoughts on Wisconsin football?
Speaker 8 (42:34):
Well, their schedules really hard. 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
she 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,
(42:55):
the feeling is 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
(43:16):
couple times at Baylor 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.
(43:38):
They defensively took a pretty significant 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
(44:00):
big year for Luke. I think it is fair to
point out they've had injuries 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 it 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
(44:21):
issues again, then it doesn't derail your system and your
season in quite the same way. But no doubt it's
a big year for Luke and the schedule isn't all
that favorable.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
All right, last team, I want to check in on
his Nebraska. You're 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
Delan rei La back as your quarterback. What does this
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year look like for the Huskers.
Speaker 8 (44:53):
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 dra 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
(45:14):
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
(45:35):
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, 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 does
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the internal promotion of John their work as well. It's
a big year for Nebraska. I think last year was
a bigger year. I think 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
(46:20):
have a true road game, I think until their 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 1 (46:34):
Well, I said as the last I'm lying because I
do want to talk just for a second about Nebra.
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 Ryinfield is open
next year, which looks small but spectacular. It looks like
(46:56):
an incredible place to watch a college football game. Did
you get to go to New a Western's place on
campus last year?
Speaker 8 (47:03):
I did that Friday night game against Duke, and so
I was able to go. Obviously, you know, 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 they really I mean, I have just given
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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 this was far and away the best option for them.
(47:48):
It's a really fun place to watch a game. They
got Oregon coming in for big news.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
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 tickets.
Speaker 8 (47:59):
That's all Wrigley Field, as is Minnesota. Yeah, 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 pretty cool. And the new one is going to
be amazing. I mean, it's perfect for them, and it
is going to be the most expensive college football stadium
(48:21):
ever built, which 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 1 (48:30):
Up is down, black is white, and day is night. Right'
that's 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 five
Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (48:44):
All right, thanks my friend, Talk you later.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
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