May 13, 2026 • 28 mins
Spurs Superstar Victor Wembanyama may not have won the season MVP but it’s tough to argue that he’s not the best player in the NBA right now. And Lane Kiffin apologizes for saying 'diversity' gives him recruiting edge at LSU vs. Ole Miss!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome in side final hour tonight the Jason Smith
Show with my bes friend Mike Harmon. I'm an ass man,
sure so, uh. Big night for Wemby. Huge the San
Antonio Spurs one game away from the Western Conference Finals.
They thump the Tea Wolves tonight in a game that
(00:52):
was never very close. Wemby started out house of fire.
I think you scored what twenty four of his twenty
seven points in the first four minutes, and they cruise
by Minnesota one. Twenty six ninety seven For Wemby, It's
a big night overall. His numbers twenty seven, seventeen rebounds,
five assists, a couple of blocks. This was a quintessential
(01:13):
Spurs victory where he got what he needed from his
supporting cast. It was a big night from Fox and
Castle off the bench, Johnson goes for twenty one. I
mean that's not gonna happen all the time, but huge
night for him. But the most interesting part of the night.
Just listen to this play by play of a big
Wemby jam because this is the big topic of conversation. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The tomahawk is good.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It's pretty good. Cat Sol waist Ie dribble between his legs.
Shot clock now down to nine, still out on the perimeter.
Hens to when Minyama Victor de layne Clar's lookout.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Victor went Minyama wit Bill right hand jam and that's
nine already in the first quarters for Big Victor. So
there it is on Spurs Radio Network on the call.
You know, I've always not been a fan. Wenby is
really difficult, you Like, like when Yannis came in, people
had trouble pronouncing his last name out of the Kunpo
(02:09):
and it was tough and it was awkward. Everybody called
him Greek freak, right, Greek freak, Greek freak, Greek freak rider.
But now he's become Yannis, which is good because it's
a one name star. You're a one name star, man.
You've made it right. You're Madonna. You are you know
uh Onson, you are? You know you make it one
name star. You are a one name star prince. So
(02:31):
it's okay.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, so you're but Wemby, you know, Wemby sounds too
much like Gumby and you but and you think he's
got he's you know, he's big, stretchy. You all was
once a little green slab of clay. Wenby's a bad nickname.
It's always been a bad nickname. And I was hoping
(02:53):
for something else. Well you gonta something else. And now
like the like the last few months, like they're trying
to make big Vic happen, and and I I kind
of was the alien for a minute. Yeah the alien
was okay, Yes, inscribing it on training guards and autograph
is fine. Alien's fine. But it's weird to say, well,
I mean, look, it's it's it's I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's gonna roll off the tongue for people.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh, the alien with a big shot like that's that's
a that I don't know that that rolls off that
has the the impact that you would think it would, so,
especially since you saw what it done. It was when
they tried to tell us that you have oosed and everything.
We're yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We talked about
that last week. You gosten to the whole show and
go back and listen to the bod.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Casel would be more excited that potentially aliens are living
among us.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, it didn't resonate as you thought it would. But
it's not. No, it's not. But so alien's not there.
But now Big Vic and I'm like, okay, Big Vic
has its has its own connotation to it that people
who get it understand and go, Okay, I get Big Vic,
Big Vic. What I think Big Vic? I think Vic
(03:58):
tay Back, Sure, running around and running a bock out
of Alice definite victay Back? Is that not not a
lot of famous v for a Mets reliever, Vic Black,
There is uh Dan, there's Vic Fangio. Oh yeah yeah,
time out, Vic, keep those time outs, vig Vangio. But
it's you know, but Big Vic, I'm like, nah, Okay,
it's a little too cliche. I mean, at some point
(04:21):
we're gonna find out they're gonna get a big and
it's just gonna stick. It's gonna be yes, But like
you know, keep saying Wemby Wemby, Wemby Wemby. It's difficult
Big Vic having Big Vic Energy all that. Like I like,
I said, I get it, but it's just a little
too sophomoric. Big Vic Energy is already there. For Victor E.
Viking from nineteen sixty eight is Northern Kentucky State College. Yeah,
(04:43):
nobody's thinking of that now, even I found the T shirt.
Not even his family there. Not even his family is
thinking of that. You mean his norseman Big Vic Energy.
Oh you mean Wemby. Huh, Coach, you know that was
my nickname back in the sixties. Nah, I didn't know
that man, Sorry about that. Sorry Grandpa, Sorry Grandpa, I
forgot uh. But I mean, like I hear Big Vic
and I go, yeah, I just feel like we're trying
(05:05):
to make something happen now. But I would think by
now we would have gotten something better from than oh
Victor Wick Victor v wem Yeah, No, I like that.
I like that because Big Vic Energy is wish so
seemingly as I do my deep dive in the innerwebs,
crown Victoria v Wick v Wick is pretty good. Like, yeah,
(05:28):
he's a killer, doesn't doesn't doesn't need anything, just kill
you with his bare hands, because every once in a
while he would lean into the alien thing and the
men in black with the suits that he would wear
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah yeah, well well yeah, but you know the most
ingenious thing, like whoever had the idea for the John
Wick movies to say, yeah, we gotta give him a
bulletproof suit because other than that, he's gonna get killed
pretty easy. What do we do, well, we can, I
got mock ups, I got ways to go. No, no, no,
We're just gonna say it's bulletproof. People will care, they'll
they'll buy it. It's just a bulletproof suit. Of course,
we have something that's the highest uh tensile and it's
(06:00):
all bullet It looks like a regular suit, but it's bulletproof.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
How much mony have to spend it? Now, I'm just
get a regular suit. We get one from wardrobe. You're
a genius, you're getting promoted. But you have to write
one scene and to show the fabrication or at least
a mock up on the computer. That's a great idea,
you know, like about movie. We needs at least need
that to kind of tease us as to the science
behind it all, but yeah, big Vic. So while Wemby
(06:25):
is waiting for a new nickname and waiting to move
on in the playoffs, the topic today of Lebron James
and his error with the Lakers was just stupid. Sorry,
but it was the topic that made it all the
way through out of the TV shows and social media.
How would you rate the Lebron era in Los Angeles?
(06:45):
Was it a success or was it a failure? Right?
And I see that and I go ninety oh, does
everybody know something that none of us know? That Lebron's gone?
Do we know that Lebron has gone? No? In fact,
I'm pretty sure he's going to be back with the Lakers.
That's why I didn't even even think about doing the
Lebron era topic, because he's Where else is he gonna go?
(07:05):
I mean, let's be honest where Lebron is right now,
Let's be really honest about Lebron James. He doesn't have
a lot of places he can go. No one's gonna
give him fifty million dollars a year at least, no
place that Lebron's gonna want to go, So he's gonna
have to take less money. It's either stay in La
or go to Cleveland. I don't know the Cleveland's gonna
upset the Apple card for him now because here they
are dogfight with the Pistons, two games away from the
(07:27):
Eastern Conference Finals. Maybe if they had flamed out in
the first round, Hey, we need a guy like Lebron
to take the pressure off of Mitchell and some of
our younger players. But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
The Cleveland's arewhere to go. And that's the only place
he could go where he can play out his last
couple of years and not have any embarrassment if his
team doesn't win the Tither because he can just can
push it as I'm going home to finish micro. I
started there, I left, I went back. I left, I
went back, just like people do in life.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
That's where he's saying, to die, finished micreercause people leave
home and move back, and I leave up in New York.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
But I left, and I moved back, and left, I
moved back. So that's the only place you can go.
So it's Los Angeles or Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
And if Cleveland was like, yeah, I don't know, No,
the Knicks are even out on Giannis after this running
you're kidding they're good.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
We're golden, man, the Knicks are golden. But Lebron has
shown that he's okay being the number three guy, being
the number three guy behind Luca and Reeves, maybe potentially
being the two some nights and depending on on Reeves.
But they're clearly these guys are the future. They're the
youngest ones.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Lebron is still playing an incredibly high level that we've
never seen anybody play with at the age of forty one.
He could play like this till he's forty five. Maybe
he can stay at this level until he's forty five
if he is the number three guy. Now, I didn't
know how he.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Was gonna like it, because Lebron's now when's the last
time Lebron's ever been okay with being the number two
guy on a team?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Never?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
But now he's the three. And what did we see
the last twenty five games of the year for the
Lakers when Lebron embraced that role, when they all got healthy,
finally they were beating everybody. Luca Reeves, Lebron, Lebron a
little bit of point guard, a little bit of small forward,
a little bit of power forward filling in. He doing
exactly the job the Lakers needed him to do, but
(09:11):
didn't know if he was gonna be up for doing
it because hey, I'm Lebron James. The fact that he's
okay with that, that's why the Lakers said to hey,
we want you to come back.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That was Polinka today said we want him back, We
want him back now. The key is, hey, you can't
ask for fifty million dollars because we need to make
the roster better.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
The big unnamed quote from the Laker locker room today
that I loved was one of the players. We just
don't have the talent that other big teams do. We're
not as talented. We need more players. And the only
way you get more players, well, guess what Reeves is
gonna want more money. Lebron's got to take less, so
you can go get a three and D guy, You
get another athletic big to run the floor. You need
(09:47):
to get deeper, right, that's one hundred percent. You need
to get deeper because they're not deep at all.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Right. The Lakers are really a starting five kind of team,
and really they're a starting three kind of team. Sometimes
hatchim more a play really well, like he did last night,
we'll have more on him in a few minutes. But
you need to go out and get more players. The
only way you're doing that is if Lebron as a hero,
takes less. And really, the Lakers have a lot of
leverage because there's no place else for Lebron to go.
(10:13):
If I'm Lebron, I come out and say veterans minimum,
wherever you want to give me five million dollars for
next year, go out and spend this money. Everybody else.
He wins, everybody over to him. Los Angeles loves him.
Lebron taking less money for the first time in his career.
The Lakers are smart. They go out and buy a
couple of players, and now suddenly they're an NBA Finals,
big time favorite for next year. Lebron is coming back
(10:35):
to the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
If there's another scenario out there that you want to
give me, great but nobody else. Oh, let's talk about
the first of all, the era is not over. It's
gonna continue to go. He's gonna be a Laker for
at least one more year. That's why this topic was
just stupid today. It was stupid.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah, but it goes back to the same thing we
talked about a little bit last night with JJ Reddick
and how nobody really addressed the end of game scenario.
We'll get into it a little more you and I
here in a minute, but it was the all right,
this was inevitable. They were losing this series, So forget it.
Let's talk about the year that was. Let's talk about
what the future looks like, and let's just go past
(11:13):
the pesky end of game, bad shots, bad scenarios, substitutions,
et cetera. As you go through. Now there are some
in the marketplace. Do you talk about the Cavaliers potentially
the Warrior Steve Kurrz coming back. What's that next iteration
of the Warriors look like? Is that a place where
he does the team up that has been teased for
(11:35):
years with Steph Curry as he's winding things up, he's
got one more year on his deal, curse on that
two year deal, as we know, Jimmy Butler coming back,
et cetera. All sorts of cap things that have to happen.
When we're talking about the different aprons for the Lakers,
they have those big decisions. Austin Reeves final year of
his contract player option at about fourteen and a half
(11:57):
million dollars eligible for up to two Hachimura and Knard,
both free agents, go on down the line. Marcus Smart
another year older, a guy who was pivotal for them
at parts of this season to keep the line moving.
Obviously DeAndre eight and in his eight point one million
to move on. Jackson Hayes played well yesterday, but as
he a guy you trust to continue to grow, et cetera.
(12:21):
Lots of questions, but for Lebron, the question of you
know what's the era like, well, it was a nice
way to push away from the end of the season
right as to how it ends in a sweep in
this situation where Luca Dontris is still in street clothes.
You had seventeen games that those three guys played together
this year, eleven and six record with a negative net
(12:44):
rating to it all. And Lebron, at least from my thinking,
as much as he tried to prop himself up and
JJ Redick and everybody in the post game, hey, for
the first time in my life, I'm the third option.
No no, no, you weren't the third option very often for
the most part. You were still but the point time
to time, he can do that. But but he had
(13:04):
to do it for a long stretch, which meant he
was okay because he didn't have to every other game,
every third game, be the third option. These guys were
gone for a long time. So it's hey, you're counting
on me, right, last playoff series against the Rockets, you're
counting on me. So all of a sudden he gets
to be big bad Lebron James again. It's all about
(13:26):
the Rockets, Rockets, Betty Rockets. That and Kevin Durant didn't play,
but that's a whole other thing. He was. You know,
everybody applauded him. Look, he can be that guy. He
still wants to be that guy. I don't buy this
third third man act for anything over a long period.
But he has no choice because no one's gonna make
(13:46):
him a one anymore. No one's gonna do that. He
if he goes to Cleveland, he's gonna be the third
option or the fourth option there. So it's like, okay,
I'm staying here. We have a chance to win. The
team has built really well, and if we don't win
with Luca's backing healthy all year, that's gonna be on Luca.
He ain't gonna be back and healthy all on. Luca
Lebron's gonna be standing there with his cape and crown
(14:07):
ready one the guy. Still, there's no barbarians sitting there
on that throne. There's no place for the credits fade
to black, no place for I thought there was, but
there's no place to go at this point. Stop with that.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And you said that same time, Jinks, Jinks, No, no,
no that go walk out, turn around, spit three times.
You get get that out. That's not happening the Knicks.
The Knicks don't need a science.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
They don't need anything man anything. Exit out about a
fresca exit swalling down.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
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(16:44):
even faster if you didn't have the neepads on up
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That's it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Mets just had to bring him up, had to wait
for the Knicks to get hot. Bring up a guy
named Ewing. It's working now they're gott to bring up
a guy named Starks, bring up a guy named Oakley.
I mean, you got lots of guys, Jackson, You'll bring
up a lot of guys. Let's see, let's go through
the Mets top prospects off.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Please don't, please, don't just.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Look see do any of them have the same If
they have the same last names as former Nick stars,
they need to come up.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
There are no stars. Stop Anthony, look for that, Lynn,
look for that. No Novak, I got nothing, Look for that.
I got a girten Atilly Hall, a Loman Banister, King,
Cuso Pinaro, Williams, Richardson, Gordon Smoer. Hey, hey, too soon,
(17:42):
too soon for Seymourer. No, I mean, look, we already
had the knee pad joke.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Me.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Come on, it says still too so the guy just
just passed away not too long ago. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
All right, just that's the key out. The Mets bring
up guys with the same last name as Nick Stars.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You're good. They got a guy named Antuonobi in the
in the mining, I can't find one, said next, Yeah,
guy named Brunson. Look a look at Bronson. See if
that's there. Charles, Yeah, Charles, Charles Bronson and TJ.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Clearly the Pistons would have a death wish if they
want the Knicks in the next round of the playoffs. J.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
How about some more Charles Smith? Uh no, not so much. No,
you sure, Yeah, I'm good. Got any highlights, No, I
am good with that. On the defensive end, I'm good
with no. Charles Smith, I'm good with that. Rivers, I'm
i am more than good with No. I do not
(18:40):
want duc riffers. No, no, no, no no. Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Now there's a football story that broke yesterday got bigger
as the day went on. We told you watch what
it's like today. Today it got huge, and then it
got to the next level, of course, talking about the
Lane kiff and con comments that he made an a
Vanity Fair article that was published yesterday. The coach of LSU,
(19:06):
who left Ole Miss during the season last year, very
highly publicized. Loved Ole Miss, loved it, loved it, loved
it until he left for LSU.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And the big quote that has.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Caused a lot of controversy in the beginning was him saying, hey,
Ole miss is a place where recruits would tell me, coach,
my grandparents aren't gonna let me.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Come play here.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Uh you know, you know, but but in Oxford, Mississippi,
not let me complain. In Oxford, Mississippi. That's why I
love Baton Rouge so much. No one says anything like that.
There's no segregation and life at LSU is great. So
all of a sudden, here's Lane Kiffin deciding to drop
a big racial bomb that always and he say, brings
up segregation, like dude, oh my god. Man, So now
(19:52):
this has become a thing as part of a recruiting war.
He wants to bring up. Oh, let's throw race in.
He that there's problems in Oxford and there's not here
in Baton Rouge, which, okay, if there are, what are they?
Because you were coached there for a long time, you
got a lot more money, you got the bag to
go to LSU. What were the problems you said, La,
(20:13):
you said Ole Miss was great. You said it was awesome.
There things are great. If there are problems, what are they?
But this was all about recruiting. This is all a
recruiting troll between Ole Miss and LSU. And we told
you was gonna get big today. And then it got
even bigger because Steve Sarkesian ways In, head coach of Texas,
(20:34):
who wanted to throw this out there about Ole Miss,
that at Ole Miss quote, all you have to do
is take basket weaving and you can get an Ole
Miss degree. Whoa, whoa wha why is Ole Miss all
of a sudden gay? You can get an old mister
basket weaving and get a degree from Ole Miss. Wait,
hang on a second, I got a second. Uh, And
that's not enough because then John Sumrall, Florida head coach,
(20:56):
who spent time at as an assistant Ole Miss Jack
it's Sarkesian by saying, hey, grateful to coach at a
top ten public university that also offers advanced basket weaving.
So now you've taken Lane Kiffin, who was embarrassed college
football by throwing out something really racial. And now it's
expanded to not just LSU and Ole Miss, but now
(21:19):
here's Texas is involved. Now Florida is involved. I mean,
I don't know, is to get to the west coast tomorrow?
Is it go all way up the east coast?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I mean where? How far does this thing get? Now?
This thing has become out of control, all because Lane
Kiffin wanted to throw some recruiting shade at Ole miss
whatever he wanted to say, and he chose a really
bad way to go about it. Man.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I mean, and this is what I mean when I
say college football, if they just had a commissioner, they
could find their way out of so many problems. Because
what would happen is whoever the commissioner was would get
all these guys in a conference call and would say, hey, idiots,
shut the blank up. You are ruining college football. None
of what you're doing makes us look good, all right.
(21:59):
When you want to go after racial components of towns
and say that that it's bad, that's a bad thing, man,
you have without saying evidence, and I know it's a
recruiting thing. And now when you want to go in
about the academic requirements of the other colleges, like that
stuff for fans, the same man that stuff for fans
to go back and forth on schools when you're sitting
here talking about, hey, here's ole missus academic qualifications and
(22:21):
you're citing Texas's qualifications as a result, like, none of
this looks good. You think this is fun. This is
all stuff you want to do behind closed doors and
with each other. I get it, But nothing you're doing
now makes college football look good when you're talking about
race and academics and schools and what they do, like
there are no winners here. There is no one who
comes out of this looking good, and college football looks
(22:43):
like a sport where fans look at it sideways and
go wow, is that that?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Now?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
We're really looking at some things college football wise that
I don't know how great a sport it is.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Is this stuff that goes on? Is this?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Is this really that bad? Is this repealing layers off
an onion here? Why is this? I don't understand college football.
This has been a really bad last twenty four hours.
And if you had somebody that was in charge BYSPA,
say hey, you know what, guess what not doing this,
like like David Stern if this came up in the NBA,
or Roger Goodell if this came up in the NFL,
or in baseball. You know, Rob Manford hates the players.
(23:16):
If this came up in baseball, they would all say, hey, hey,
all of you shut up.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
This is bad.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
None nobody looks good when you're throwing stuff out here
like this. But college football doesn't have it. So this
is what we get.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Yeah, I mean when you get to the academic stuff,
we've kind of thrown that away anyway, right, the think
of the children, part of actually going to class and
everything in this new age transferred, portal, nil, everything else
that's become an also ran subject. When we once upon
a time it was about graduation rates and continuity and
all of that stuff. The think of the children and
(23:49):
what you're actually there to accomplish with your scholarship and
the opportunities given therein Now you're looking at at it
as just an absolute punchline with the oldest open the book.
I mean, at least get creative, make fun of USC
cinematic arts, make fun of George Lucas. I don't know
whatever you need to do. If you want to do
the the the academic thing, that can be fun. But
(24:12):
you want to do this on top of the races,
that's just a separate like in this fight, you actually
still have to go to class here. Whatever. Yeah, they
obviously Sarkesian and and Kiffin if they wanted to, they can.
They could double up back on USC. It was the joke,
but the the original Kiffin point about what he had
to do, Like when you're the coach there, part of it,
(24:33):
if this is truly happening, and look, school to school,
state to state, city to city. Everybody's got things in
their local news that you're following and watching, and certainly
we all know h history of this nation. But as
as the coach there, you've got a lot of a
lot of say and if that was an issue during recruiting,
(24:54):
why why didn't we have that raised as an issue
while you're the coach right to your point of now
it's just a record don't go there because it's a
bad place, yeah versus no, no, No, there's bad things, and
I have the ability as the head coach and a
leader on this campus and in this state to help
facilitate some level of change here. It's just it's just
(25:14):
bad recruiting tactics almost, you know, like talking about whatever
their facilities or whatever, just on an amped up and
really charged scale, and for Kiffen, who's got his history
that he had just kind of won people back over
before leaving. Obviously a whole miss because that got people
upset as the playoffs were looming it all. But he'd
(25:36):
rebuilt his career right, he'd rebuilt to being a guy
that was all right back on the come as this big,
big coach and going to the next level. And now
he's going to LSU and you've got the facilities, you've
got the opportunity and everything else, and this is what
you throw out in the dead season. I mean, first
of all, two things Lane Kiffin. First of all, Number one,
(25:58):
I don't think recruiting was really harmed him because they
went thirteen and two last year, they finished third overall,
made the playoffs, win a game, So I think you're
getting the players. I don't think you're low how we
could if he was seven and six, or you know,
my average record there over a few years was five
and seven.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
It was like, hey, I can't get the guys. Well, okay,
let's up. But I mean clearly you did get the guys,
so you're okay.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, either he would still been there again to an
act change, or he would have been fired, and we'd
be hearing that because sour grapes. And again now it
becomes the well, this is what they couldn't do because
of it, instead of you know, while he's there and
has some power, you know. And the thing is, there's
a large part of me that just thinks that Lane Kiffin, Okay,
(26:40):
how do I cut through? I'm gonna be the absolute
villain of college football because he can't more than anybody up.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Brian Kelly's gone, right, I can be the absolute villain,
right he he he in the way he's acted his
entire career has always been IDGAF and now here he
is leaving all.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Miss, everybody hates him. Hey, everybody anyway, So I'm gonna
lean into it. Right, I'm gonna troll Ole Miss.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I'm gonna be this guy because there's gonna be players
that say, hey, I like coach. He doesn't care, he
says what he thinks. I'm gonna go play for him.
So if you are trying to be hey, I'm a good.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Guy, I'll take care of your kid, Well, there's a
thousand coaches that are gonna come out there and say, hey,
I'm a really good guy.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
He can trust me, Kiffen's the only one that's gonna say, Hey,
I'm a pirate. Come on, let's go, let's storm, let
let's let let's let's go take whatever we want.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Let's go do it. Like he's leaned into being the
villain so much that's something like this. I bet you
he just said, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I can say this because this is my way to
troll Ole Miss or whatever other schools not realize that. Wow, dude,
you just made college football look terrible. You made Ole Miss,
who rescued you from a career as a head coach
where eh, you were kind of up and down, and
now you're saying all this stuff about about the town.
Like wow, man, Like what kind of what kind of
villain are you? Like there's a villain and there's whoa,
(27:54):
there's a villain.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah no, this totally minimizes if there's truth to this situation.
I hope that people in the Greater Mississippi area and
college football pundits really start to dive deep and try
to figure out the veracity of this and maybe expose
what he's alluding to. But in the interim, yeah, he's
(28:16):
a wwa villain who wants the top spot on the
merch stand. That's amazing that I am going to so
sell out to be the villain, that this is stuff
that I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome in side final hour tonight the Jason Smith
Show with my bes friend Mike Harmon. I'm an ass man,
sure so, uh. Big night for Wemby. Huge the San
Antonio Spurs one game away from the Western Conference Finals.
They thump the Tea Wolves tonight in a game that
(00:52):
was never very close. Wemby started out house of fire.
I think you scored what twenty four of his twenty
seven points in the first four minutes, and they cruise
by Minnesota one. Twenty six ninety seven For Wemby, It's
a big night overall. His numbers twenty seven, seventeen rebounds,
five assists, a couple of blocks. This was a quintessential
(01:13):
Spurs victory where he got what he needed from his
supporting cast. It was a big night from Fox and
Castle off the bench, Johnson goes for twenty one. I
mean that's not gonna happen all the time, but huge
night for him. But the most interesting part of the night.
Just listen to this play by play of a big
Wemby jam because this is the big topic of conversation. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The tomahawk is good.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It's pretty good. Cat Sol waist Ie dribble between his legs.
Shot clock now down to nine, still out on the perimeter.
Hens to when Minyama Victor de layne Clar's lookout.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Victor went Minyama wit Bill right hand jam and that's
nine already in the first quarters for Big Victor. So
there it is on Spurs Radio Network on the call.
You know, I've always not been a fan. Wenby is
really difficult, you Like, like when Yannis came in, people
had trouble pronouncing his last name out of the Kunpo
(02:09):
and it was tough and it was awkward. Everybody called
him Greek freak, right, Greek freak, Greek freak, Greek freak rider.
But now he's become Yannis, which is good because it's
a one name star. You're a one name star, man.
You've made it right. You're Madonna. You are you know
uh Onson, you are? You know you make it one
name star. You are a one name star prince. So
(02:31):
it's okay.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, so you're but Wemby, you know, Wemby sounds too
much like Gumby and you but and you think he's
got he's you know, he's big, stretchy. You all was
once a little green slab of clay. Wenby's a bad nickname.
It's always been a bad nickname. And I was hoping
(02:53):
for something else. Well you gonta something else. And now
like the like the last few months, like they're trying
to make big Vic happen, and and I I kind
of was the alien for a minute. Yeah the alien
was okay, Yes, inscribing it on training guards and autograph
is fine. Alien's fine. But it's weird to say, well,
I mean, look, it's it's it's I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's gonna roll off the tongue for people.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh, the alien with a big shot like that's that's
a that I don't know that that rolls off that
has the the impact that you would think it would, so,
especially since you saw what it done. It was when
they tried to tell us that you have oosed and everything.
We're yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We talked about
that last week. You gosten to the whole show and
go back and listen to the bod.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Casel would be more excited that potentially aliens are living
among us.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, it didn't resonate as you thought it would. But
it's not. No, it's not. But so alien's not there.
But now Big Vic and I'm like, okay, Big Vic
has its has its own connotation to it that people
who get it understand and go, Okay, I get Big Vic,
Big Vic. What I think Big Vic? I think Vic
(03:58):
tay Back, Sure, running around and running a bock out
of Alice definite victay Back? Is that not not a
lot of famous v for a Mets reliever, Vic Black,
There is uh Dan, there's Vic Fangio. Oh yeah yeah,
time out, Vic, keep those time outs, vig Vangio. But
it's you know, but Big Vic, I'm like, nah, Okay,
it's a little too cliche. I mean, at some point
(04:21):
we're gonna find out they're gonna get a big and
it's just gonna stick. It's gonna be yes, But like
you know, keep saying Wemby Wemby, Wemby Wemby. It's difficult
Big Vic having Big Vic Energy all that. Like I like,
I said, I get it, but it's just a little
too sophomoric. Big Vic Energy is already there. For Victor E.
Viking from nineteen sixty eight is Northern Kentucky State College. Yeah,
(04:43):
nobody's thinking of that now, even I found the T shirt.
Not even his family there. Not even his family is
thinking of that. You mean his norseman Big Vic Energy.
Oh you mean Wemby. Huh, Coach, you know that was
my nickname back in the sixties. Nah, I didn't know
that man, Sorry about that. Sorry Grandpa, Sorry Grandpa, I
forgot uh. But I mean, like I hear Big Vic
and I go, yeah, I just feel like we're trying
(05:05):
to make something happen now. But I would think by
now we would have gotten something better from than oh
Victor Wick Victor v wem Yeah, No, I like that.
I like that because Big Vic Energy is wish so
seemingly as I do my deep dive in the innerwebs,
crown Victoria v Wick v Wick is pretty good. Like, yeah,
(05:28):
he's a killer, doesn't doesn't doesn't need anything, just kill
you with his bare hands, because every once in a
while he would lean into the alien thing and the
men in black with the suits that he would wear
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah yeah, well well yeah, but you know the most
ingenious thing, like whoever had the idea for the John
Wick movies to say, yeah, we gotta give him a
bulletproof suit because other than that, he's gonna get killed
pretty easy. What do we do, well, we can, I
got mock ups, I got ways to go. No, no, no,
We're just gonna say it's bulletproof. People will care, they'll
they'll buy it. It's just a bulletproof suit. Of course,
we have something that's the highest uh tensile and it's
(06:00):
all bullet It looks like a regular suit, but it's bulletproof.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
How much mony have to spend it? Now, I'm just
get a regular suit. We get one from wardrobe. You're
a genius, you're getting promoted. But you have to write
one scene and to show the fabrication or at least
a mock up on the computer. That's a great idea,
you know, like about movie. We needs at least need
that to kind of tease us as to the science
behind it all, but yeah, big Vic. So while Wemby
(06:25):
is waiting for a new nickname and waiting to move
on in the playoffs, the topic today of Lebron James
and his error with the Lakers was just stupid. Sorry,
but it was the topic that made it all the
way through out of the TV shows and social media.
How would you rate the Lebron era in Los Angeles?
(06:45):
Was it a success or was it a failure? Right?
And I see that and I go ninety oh, does
everybody know something that none of us know? That Lebron's gone?
Do we know that Lebron has gone? No? In fact,
I'm pretty sure he's going to be back with the Lakers.
That's why I didn't even even think about doing the
Lebron era topic, because he's Where else is he gonna go?
(07:05):
I mean, let's be honest where Lebron is right now,
Let's be really honest about Lebron James. He doesn't have
a lot of places he can go. No one's gonna
give him fifty million dollars a year at least, no
place that Lebron's gonna want to go, So he's gonna
have to take less money. It's either stay in La
or go to Cleveland. I don't know the Cleveland's gonna
upset the Apple card for him now because here they
are dogfight with the Pistons, two games away from the
(07:27):
Eastern Conference Finals. Maybe if they had flamed out in
the first round, Hey, we need a guy like Lebron
to take the pressure off of Mitchell and some of
our younger players. But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
The Cleveland's arewhere to go. And that's the only place
he could go where he can play out his last
couple of years and not have any embarrassment if his
team doesn't win the Tither because he can just can
push it as I'm going home to finish micro. I
started there, I left, I went back. I left, I
went back, just like people do in life.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
That's where he's saying, to die, finished micreercause people leave
home and move back, and I leave up in New York.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
But I left, and I moved back, and left, I
moved back. So that's the only place you can go.
So it's Los Angeles or Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
And if Cleveland was like, yeah, I don't know, No,
the Knicks are even out on Giannis after this running
you're kidding they're good.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
We're golden, man, the Knicks are golden. But Lebron has
shown that he's okay being the number three guy, being
the number three guy behind Luca and Reeves, maybe potentially
being the two some nights and depending on on Reeves.
But they're clearly these guys are the future. They're the
youngest ones.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Lebron is still playing an incredibly high level that we've
never seen anybody play with at the age of forty one.
He could play like this till he's forty five. Maybe
he can stay at this level until he's forty five
if he is the number three guy. Now, I didn't
know how he.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Was gonna like it, because Lebron's now when's the last
time Lebron's ever been okay with being the number two
guy on a team?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Never?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
But now he's the three. And what did we see
the last twenty five games of the year for the
Lakers when Lebron embraced that role, when they all got healthy,
finally they were beating everybody. Luca Reeves, Lebron, Lebron a
little bit of point guard, a little bit of small forward,
a little bit of power forward filling in. He doing
exactly the job the Lakers needed him to do, but
(09:11):
didn't know if he was gonna be up for doing
it because hey, I'm Lebron James. The fact that he's
okay with that, that's why the Lakers said to hey,
we want you to come back.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That was Polinka today said we want him back, We
want him back now. The key is, hey, you can't
ask for fifty million dollars because we need to make
the roster better.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
The big unnamed quote from the Laker locker room today
that I loved was one of the players. We just
don't have the talent that other big teams do. We're
not as talented. We need more players. And the only
way you get more players, well, guess what Reeves is
gonna want more money. Lebron's got to take less, so
you can go get a three and D guy, You
get another athletic big to run the floor. You need
(09:47):
to get deeper, right, that's one hundred percent. You need
to get deeper because they're not deep at all.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Right. The Lakers are really a starting five kind of team,
and really they're a starting three kind of team. Sometimes
hatchim more a play really well, like he did last night,
we'll have more on him in a few minutes. But
you need to go out and get more players. The
only way you're doing that is if Lebron as a hero,
takes less. And really, the Lakers have a lot of
leverage because there's no place else for Lebron to go.
(10:13):
If I'm Lebron, I come out and say veterans minimum,
wherever you want to give me five million dollars for
next year, go out and spend this money. Everybody else.
He wins, everybody over to him. Los Angeles loves him.
Lebron taking less money for the first time in his career.
The Lakers are smart. They go out and buy a
couple of players, and now suddenly they're an NBA Finals,
big time favorite for next year. Lebron is coming back
(10:35):
to the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
If there's another scenario out there that you want to
give me, great but nobody else. Oh, let's talk about
the first of all, the era is not over. It's
gonna continue to go. He's gonna be a Laker for
at least one more year. That's why this topic was
just stupid today. It was stupid.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah, but it goes back to the same thing we
talked about a little bit last night with JJ Reddick
and how nobody really addressed the end of game scenario.
We'll get into it a little more you and I
here in a minute, but it was the all right,
this was inevitable. They were losing this series, So forget it.
Let's talk about the year that was. Let's talk about
what the future looks like, and let's just go past
(11:13):
the pesky end of game, bad shots, bad scenarios, substitutions,
et cetera. As you go through. Now there are some
in the marketplace. Do you talk about the Cavaliers potentially
the Warrior Steve Kurrz coming back. What's that next iteration
of the Warriors look like? Is that a place where
he does the team up that has been teased for
(11:35):
years with Steph Curry as he's winding things up, he's
got one more year on his deal, curse on that
two year deal, as we know, Jimmy Butler coming back,
et cetera. All sorts of cap things that have to happen.
When we're talking about the different aprons for the Lakers,
they have those big decisions. Austin Reeves final year of
his contract player option at about fourteen and a half
(11:57):
million dollars eligible for up to two Hachimura and Knard,
both free agents, go on down the line. Marcus Smart
another year older, a guy who was pivotal for them
at parts of this season to keep the line moving.
Obviously DeAndre eight and in his eight point one million
to move on. Jackson Hayes played well yesterday, but as
he a guy you trust to continue to grow, et cetera.
(12:21):
Lots of questions, but for Lebron, the question of you
know what's the era like, well, it was a nice
way to push away from the end of the season
right as to how it ends in a sweep in
this situation where Luca Dontris is still in street clothes.
You had seventeen games that those three guys played together
this year, eleven and six record with a negative net
(12:44):
rating to it all. And Lebron, at least from my thinking,
as much as he tried to prop himself up and
JJ Redick and everybody in the post game, hey, for
the first time in my life, I'm the third option.
No no, no, you weren't the third option very often for
the most part. You were still but the point time
to time, he can do that. But but he had
(13:04):
to do it for a long stretch, which meant he
was okay because he didn't have to every other game,
every third game, be the third option. These guys were
gone for a long time. So it's hey, you're counting
on me, right, last playoff series against the Rockets, you're
counting on me. So all of a sudden he gets
to be big bad Lebron James again. It's all about
(13:26):
the Rockets, Rockets, Betty Rockets. That and Kevin Durant didn't play,
but that's a whole other thing. He was. You know,
everybody applauded him. Look, he can be that guy. He
still wants to be that guy. I don't buy this
third third man act for anything over a long period.
But he has no choice because no one's gonna make
(13:46):
him a one anymore. No one's gonna do that. He
if he goes to Cleveland, he's gonna be the third
option or the fourth option there. So it's like, okay,
I'm staying here. We have a chance to win. The
team has built really well, and if we don't win
with Luca's backing healthy all year, that's gonna be on Luca.
He ain't gonna be back and healthy all on. Luca
Lebron's gonna be standing there with his cape and crown
(14:07):
ready one the guy. Still, there's no barbarians sitting there
on that throne. There's no place for the credits fade
to black, no place for I thought there was, but
there's no place to go at this point. Stop with that.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And you said that same time, Jinks, Jinks, No, no,
no that go walk out, turn around, spit three times.
You get get that out. That's not happening the Knicks.
The Knicks don't need a science.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
They don't need anything man anything. Exit out about a
fresca exit swalling down.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
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(16:44):
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That's it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Mets just had to bring him up, had to wait
for the Knicks to get hot. Bring up a guy
named Ewing. It's working now they're gott to bring up
a guy named Starks, bring up a guy named Oakley.
I mean, you got lots of guys, Jackson, You'll bring
up a lot of guys. Let's see, let's go through
the Mets top prospects off.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Please don't, please, don't just.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Look see do any of them have the same If
they have the same last names as former Nick stars,
they need to come up.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
There are no stars. Stop Anthony, look for that, Lynn,
look for that. No Novak, I got nothing, Look for that.
I got a girten Atilly Hall, a Loman Banister, King,
Cuso Pinaro, Williams, Richardson, Gordon Smoer. Hey, hey, too soon,
(17:42):
too soon for Seymourer. No, I mean, look, we already
had the knee pad joke.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Me.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Come on, it says still too so the guy just
just passed away not too long ago. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
All right, just that's the key out. The Mets bring
up guys with the same last name as Nick Stars.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You're good. They got a guy named Antuonobi in the
in the mining, I can't find one, said next, Yeah,
guy named Brunson. Look a look at Bronson. See if
that's there. Charles, Yeah, Charles, Charles Bronson and TJ.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Clearly the Pistons would have a death wish if they
want the Knicks in the next round of the playoffs. J.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
How about some more Charles Smith? Uh no, not so much. No,
you sure, Yeah, I'm good. Got any highlights, No, I
am good with that. On the defensive end, I'm good
with no. Charles Smith, I'm good with that. Rivers, I'm
i am more than good with No. I do not
(18:40):
want duc riffers. No, no, no, no no. Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Now there's a football story that broke yesterday got bigger
as the day went on. We told you watch what
it's like today. Today it got huge, and then it
got to the next level, of course, talking about the
Lane kiff and con comments that he made an a
Vanity Fair article that was published yesterday. The coach of LSU,
(19:06):
who left Ole Miss during the season last year, very
highly publicized. Loved Ole Miss, loved it, loved it, loved
it until he left for LSU.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And the big quote that has.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Caused a lot of controversy in the beginning was him saying, hey,
Ole miss is a place where recruits would tell me, coach,
my grandparents aren't gonna let me.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Come play here.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Uh you know, you know, but but in Oxford, Mississippi,
not let me complain. In Oxford, Mississippi. That's why I
love Baton Rouge so much. No one says anything like that.
There's no segregation and life at LSU is great. So
all of a sudden, here's Lane Kiffin deciding to drop
a big racial bomb that always and he say, brings
up segregation, like dude, oh my god. Man, So now
(19:52):
this has become a thing as part of a recruiting war.
He wants to bring up. Oh, let's throw race in.
He that there's problems in Oxford and there's not here
in Baton Rouge, which, okay, if there are, what are they?
Because you were coached there for a long time, you
got a lot more money, you got the bag to
go to LSU. What were the problems you said, La,
(20:13):
you said Ole Miss was great. You said it was awesome.
There things are great. If there are problems, what are they?
But this was all about recruiting. This is all a
recruiting troll between Ole Miss and LSU. And we told
you was gonna get big today. And then it got
even bigger because Steve Sarkesian ways In, head coach of Texas,
(20:34):
who wanted to throw this out there about Ole Miss,
that at Ole Miss quote, all you have to do
is take basket weaving and you can get an Ole
Miss degree. Whoa, whoa wha why is Ole Miss all
of a sudden gay? You can get an old mister
basket weaving and get a degree from Ole Miss. Wait,
hang on a second, I got a second. Uh, And
that's not enough because then John Sumrall, Florida head coach,
(20:56):
who spent time at as an assistant Ole Miss Jack
it's Sarkesian by saying, hey, grateful to coach at a
top ten public university that also offers advanced basket weaving.
So now you've taken Lane Kiffin, who was embarrassed college
football by throwing out something really racial. And now it's
expanded to not just LSU and Ole Miss, but now
(21:19):
here's Texas is involved. Now Florida is involved. I mean,
I don't know, is to get to the west coast tomorrow?
Is it go all way up the east coast?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I mean where? How far does this thing get? Now?
This thing has become out of control, all because Lane
Kiffin wanted to throw some recruiting shade at Ole miss
whatever he wanted to say, and he chose a really
bad way to go about it. Man.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I mean, and this is what I mean when I
say college football, if they just had a commissioner, they
could find their way out of so many problems. Because
what would happen is whoever the commissioner was would get
all these guys in a conference call and would say, hey, idiots,
shut the blank up. You are ruining college football. None
of what you're doing makes us look good, all right.
(21:59):
When you want to go after racial components of towns
and say that that it's bad, that's a bad thing, man,
you have without saying evidence, and I know it's a
recruiting thing. And now when you want to go in
about the academic requirements of the other colleges, like that
stuff for fans, the same man that stuff for fans
to go back and forth on schools when you're sitting
here talking about, hey, here's ole missus academic qualifications and
(22:21):
you're citing Texas's qualifications as a result, like, none of
this looks good. You think this is fun. This is
all stuff you want to do behind closed doors and
with each other. I get it, But nothing you're doing
now makes college football look good when you're talking about
race and academics and schools and what they do, like
there are no winners here. There is no one who
comes out of this looking good, and college football looks
(22:43):
like a sport where fans look at it sideways and
go wow, is that that?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Now?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
We're really looking at some things college football wise that
I don't know how great a sport it is.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Is this stuff that goes on? Is this?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Is this really that bad? Is this repealing layers off
an onion here? Why is this? I don't understand college football.
This has been a really bad last twenty four hours.
And if you had somebody that was in charge BYSPA,
say hey, you know what, guess what not doing this,
like like David Stern if this came up in the NBA,
or Roger Goodell if this came up in the NFL,
or in baseball. You know, Rob Manford hates the players.
(23:16):
If this came up in baseball, they would all say, hey, hey,
all of you shut up.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
This is bad.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
None nobody looks good when you're throwing stuff out here
like this. But college football doesn't have it. So this
is what we get.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Yeah, I mean when you get to the academic stuff,
we've kind of thrown that away anyway, right, the think
of the children, part of actually going to class and
everything in this new age transferred, portal, nil, everything else
that's become an also ran subject. When we once upon
a time it was about graduation rates and continuity and
all of that stuff. The think of the children and
(23:49):
what you're actually there to accomplish with your scholarship and
the opportunities given therein Now you're looking at at it
as just an absolute punchline with the oldest open the book.
I mean, at least get creative, make fun of USC
cinematic arts, make fun of George Lucas. I don't know
whatever you need to do. If you want to do
the the the academic thing, that can be fun. But
(24:12):
you want to do this on top of the races,
that's just a separate like in this fight, you actually
still have to go to class here. Whatever. Yeah, they
obviously Sarkesian and and Kiffin if they wanted to, they can.
They could double up back on USC. It was the joke,
but the the original Kiffin point about what he had
to do, Like when you're the coach there, part of it,
(24:33):
if this is truly happening, and look, school to school,
state to state, city to city. Everybody's got things in
their local news that you're following and watching, and certainly
we all know h history of this nation. But as
as the coach there, you've got a lot of a
lot of say and if that was an issue during recruiting,
(24:54):
why why didn't we have that raised as an issue
while you're the coach right to your point of now
it's just a record don't go there because it's a
bad place, yeah versus no, no, No, there's bad things, and
I have the ability as the head coach and a
leader on this campus and in this state to help
facilitate some level of change here. It's just it's just
(25:14):
bad recruiting tactics almost, you know, like talking about whatever
their facilities or whatever, just on an amped up and
really charged scale, and for Kiffen, who's got his history
that he had just kind of won people back over
before leaving. Obviously a whole miss because that got people
upset as the playoffs were looming it all. But he'd
(25:36):
rebuilt his career right, he'd rebuilt to being a guy
that was all right back on the come as this big,
big coach and going to the next level. And now
he's going to LSU and you've got the facilities, you've
got the opportunity and everything else, and this is what
you throw out in the dead season. I mean, first
of all, two things Lane Kiffin. First of all, Number one,
(25:58):
I don't think recruiting was really harmed him because they
went thirteen and two last year, they finished third overall,
made the playoffs, win a game, So I think you're
getting the players. I don't think you're low how we
could if he was seven and six, or you know,
my average record there over a few years was five
and seven.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
It was like, hey, I can't get the guys. Well, okay,
let's up. But I mean clearly you did get the guys,
so you're okay.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, either he would still been there again to an
act change, or he would have been fired, and we'd
be hearing that because sour grapes. And again now it
becomes the well, this is what they couldn't do because
of it, instead of you know, while he's there and
has some power, you know. And the thing is, there's
a large part of me that just thinks that Lane Kiffin, Okay,
(26:40):
how do I cut through? I'm gonna be the absolute
villain of college football because he can't more than anybody up.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Brian Kelly's gone, right, I can be the absolute villain,
right he he he in the way he's acted his
entire career has always been IDGAF and now here he
is leaving all.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Miss, everybody hates him. Hey, everybody anyway, So I'm gonna
lean into it. Right, I'm gonna troll Ole Miss.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I'm gonna be this guy because there's gonna be players
that say, hey, I like coach. He doesn't care, he
says what he thinks. I'm gonna go play for him.
So if you are trying to be hey, I'm a good.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Guy, I'll take care of your kid, Well, there's a
thousand coaches that are gonna come out there and say, hey,
I'm a really good guy.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
He can trust me, Kiffen's the only one that's gonna say, Hey,
I'm a pirate. Come on, let's go, let's storm, let
let's let let's let's go take whatever we want.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Let's go do it. Like he's leaned into being the
villain so much that's something like this. I bet you
he just said, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I can say this because this is my way to
troll Ole Miss or whatever other schools not realize that. Wow, dude,
you just made college football look terrible. You made Ole Miss,
who rescued you from a career as a head coach
where eh, you were kind of up and down, and
now you're saying all this stuff about about the town.
Like wow, man, Like what kind of what kind of
villain are you? Like there's a villain and there's whoa,
(27:54):
there's a villain.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah no, this totally minimizes if there's truth to this situation.
I hope that people in the Greater Mississippi area and
college football pundits really start to dive deep and try
to figure out the veracity of this and maybe expose
what he's alluding to. But in the interim, yeah, he's
(28:16):
a wwa villain who wants the top spot on the
merch stand. That's amazing that I am going to so
sell out to be the villain, that this is stuff
that I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
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