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s R. You're listening to the Best of the Odd
Couple with Chris Brush and Rob Harker. We had another
big game yesterday with the Milwaukee Bucks and the Miami
Heat and Rob. I was on with Skip and Shannon
this morning and on Undisputed, and all three of us
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picked the Bucks. I picked them in seven. Skip picked
them in seven. I don't know if Shannon's was six
or seven, but I said that I was very tempted,
very close to pick in Miami. I guess maybe kind
of like last year when I picked the Dodgers to
beat the Nationals, and UH felt like I should pick
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the Nationals. You hesitated about it. I was I hesitated.
I didn't go with it. Skip and Skip said the
same thing, like he wanted to pick Miami, but at
the last minute he stuck with Milwaukee. You're a guy
that's been confident in the BUD. I don't have them
reaching the finals. I got Toronto reaching the finals. Now,
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obviously Toronto's got his hands full with Bos. They lose tonight,
they're gonna be in trumble. Yeah, they ain't. They're in
deep trouble. If they lose tonight, it'd be hard hard
for him to come back down. Oh two against Boston,
How are you thinking about? Yeah, what are you thinking
about Milwaukee after last night's game? No, you know what.
I saw them after they lost Game one to Orlando,
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and people just panicked. I got all kinds of Texas
from friends. I told you they're not that good. Blah blah.
You know, like it's just when they don't win, Chris,
and you look at the team and you look at
what Yannis and doing what he can't do, and then
the supporting cast when they when they don't win, it's
easy to pick apart and look at them and say
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they can't do it, they can't get there. But then
when they when they're playing right and they're doing what
they can do, as we saw in the last four
games against Orlando, right, then all of a sudden, you go,
this team is good. So I get it. It's a
weird It's a weird picture because when they don't win,
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there's all kinds of question marks and you question whether
or not they are as good as they as advertised.
But if you look at what they've been able to
do the last two years, Giannis is going to be
the MVP two years in a row, rightly so and
Chris before the pandemic hit. Think about where they were
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statistic why they were putting together one of the greatest
seasons ever put together by an NBA team, Right, I mean,
they they were, but but I understand why people have reservations.
I'm just going to say that, yes, they still have
what they have, It still fits together when it works.
I still believe in Janice to get them there. I'm
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picking the Clippers to win the championship. So I don't
think that they're gonna win the championship. But unlike last
year when they were up to old against Toronto and
then lost four in a row, I believe that they
can get out of the East and get to the finals. Well,
anybody that thought that they were gonna lose to the
Magic or even people you know that, I'm just saying
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people went crazy after they lost game war right, which
is ridiculous. I mean, I knew they'd come right back
and win the next four games. I'm sure we said
that on the air. But I do think the Bucks
have some problems. Now again, I'll stick with my pick
that they'll get past Miami. But there they remind me
Rob of those last two teams in Cleveland with Lebron
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but before he went to Miami. Remember they won sixty
six games in oh nine, sixty one in twenty ten
and never reached the finals because they were built. It
was all Lebron and you looked at his support and
Moe Williams, the second guys, the Junus Hill goalscas Anton Jamison,
like it reminds me of what I see in Milwaukee.
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Eric Bletso, who I know didn't play last night with injury,
but he should be back. Chris Middleton, Kyle Korver. That's
a challenge, especially when your main guy does not have
a go to move like They didn't play many close games.
They played five games within three or fewer points, which
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was less than any other team in the playoffs, because
as you said, they were blowing everybody out. But when
you watch him in close games, most teams. I'm giving
it to Kauai. I'm giving it to k D. I'm
giving it to that if I'm giving it to Damian Lillard, Lebron,
who you know, like you got that guy, Kyrie, I'm
giving it to. And they don't do that with Yannis.
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They go to bald movement. And if you didn't sometimes,
if you didn't know, if you just turned on their
game late in the game, fourth quarter, close game, and
you didn't know Yannis was this superstar, you wouldn't you.
He wouldn't stand out because they go to bald movement
and just whoever's open takes the open shot because Yannis
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can't create like his own shot other than that straight
line drive. And what teams are doing, what Miami's doing,
is they're stopping him from getting in transition for the
most part, and then they wall off the paint. He
doesn't have that straight line drive, so he's not gonna
hit the jumper consistently, you know who. It's kind of
like remember Lebron in two thousand and seven against the
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Spurs in the finals. It's kind of like that. Now
Yannis will keep work, work, and his jay has gotten
much better, but at this point that's a major problem.
You know, he shoot him from three, because three two
something like that, I mean thirty four, you know, and
he can hit it here and there. Because but if
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you're didn't look at that confident, I'll give you. I'll
give you that shot almost every time. Oh yeah, that's
what you want to take, if you want to take that.
So watching last shot this year from three, which is
a huge improvement because last year it was even worse.
It was twenty five percent last year. Yeah, but yeah,
if I mean, I would even live with him taking
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sixteen seventeen footers. So I think what Milwaukee's gonna have
to do rob is get him like they're gonna have
to come up with some creative stuff. I wouldn't have
him bringing the ball up late. I would have him
off the ball and run some screens from him, flash
across the paint to one side of the post or
to the elbow to get the ball moving and then
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he's still in the paint and he can put up
a shot in there. But this you know, they're gonna
have him just dribble and try to go one of
those drives to the basket against three defenders. It's I
don't think it's gonna work even if they get past
this round. I think, you know, they're facing some good coaches,
either Nick Nurse or Brad Stevens, so they're gonna have
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their hands for Yeah, they will. And I think it's
always the case. Again, I think there's always an overreaction.
And when you look at him and all your points
are all valid, they just are. But it hasn't stopped
him from being able to dominate. And when knock on wood,
you know it's not official back to back MVPs and
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being able to do what you've been able to do.
If it's so easy like you talk about, then he
should be stopped during the regular year. And I know
playoffs are a little different, Chris, I know that. And
you don't play the same defense. You know. The playoffs
are about more half cores, right and getting stops. You
know that, and you got more time to prepare. You know,
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it's totally different. I do get that. I'm not saying
he's not great. I mean and here's the thing, right
because when they won the first two games last year
against Toronto, go back and read all the stuff about
about them before they lost, you know what I mean,
Like like it was like some they were crowning him,
do you remember. I mean it was like, oh, this
guy can't be stopped. Like young years, They're gonna have
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a dynasty going on in middle I was like, well,
can they win the series for us? Right right? And
I got a lot of texts and I'm sure you
did that, Old This has proven he shouldn't have been
the MVP. If they live this series, he's not the MVP.
Stop it all right. I'm a voter. I voted for
him the last two years. Let me say this loud
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and yes, it is a regular season award. If we
want to include the playoffs, we don't need an MV
just give it. It's the finals MVP, right right. You
wouldn't need a regular season MVP. And that's why the
vote is before the season. Yes, and it doesn't count
in the playoffs. And you can't poo poo a guy
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for what he did during the regular season. That's what
it is. If you want to say he got shown
up in the playoffs, that's fine. Elijah Wan outplayed David
Robinson when Robinson was MVP. Yeah, that's fine, But that
doesn't nullify that a guy deserved MVP in the regular season.
Steve Nash never even got to a finals and he
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won two back to back to back. Ye, um, you
know it happened. So Dirk navisk you remember the year
he won MVP and they got beat in the first round,
and so it happens it. Remember it's a regular season award.
This has nothing to do with who who wins MVP,
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because nobody's saying the MVP is the best player in
the world. Steve Nash was never the best player in
the world. I don't think he was ever even in
the conversation for best. Chaunce should have won one of
those MVPs. I think it was the second one. Well
so a lot of people thought Shock should have won
that second one. Um, but yeah, I wonder where Chauncey
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was the voting. But Chauncey had a great year. That
that was or something I thought it was a year
after they won. No, it might have been on fire.
It might have been that. I think so, because I
remember him playing up against Nash and going off. Be
sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple with
Chris Brussar then Rob Parker weekdays at seven pm Eastern
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four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart
Radio app. We have got, as I said, one of
my favorite guys in all of the NBA family, Hall
of Famer, two time NBA Champion, NBA TV analysts, now
much more than that. Two our man, Isaiah Thomas Zeke,
what's up? Man? I am good. How you brothers doing?
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We're doing good. We didn't have an up, Chris, what happened?
We'll get to that later. Oh, ain't think it's nothing.
I don't want you are, but they changing the show
on me. I'm like, what is going on? Okay, I'm
quarterback in this thing. Quarterback. I just want to know.
I just want to know we're good. That is great, y'all? Yeah, definitely,
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y'all definitely should take that and rewind it and Classic
Radio there for real? Are you know us both? You know?
Couple for real? But we were talking about Milwaukee, Isaiah
and I look at Yanness. I voted for him MVP
twice at all. Yeah, I think he deserved it as
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a regular season award, but I think at this point
in his career he doesn't have a go to move
and once you cut off that lane, shoot, you'll give
him the jumper all day. And I think that's a
big problem for Milwaukee. Talk about it from their team standpoint,
and just are we correcting that assessment of his game.
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I think you know you Uh, I would say that
their offensive style uh is conducive to the way he
wants to play UM and what makes him effective. So
when you when you say he doesn't have a go
to move, UM, I do believe he has a plethora
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of moves, but not necessarily. I guess his go to
move would be the dunk, like like shacks go to
move was the dunk. UM. And now I think offensively, Um,
the way all teams are playing right now, everyone is
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really playing from the three point line, so there there
isn't much creativity that that really goes into the offensive
schemes of teams. So when you talk about you know, passing, moving, cutting,
you know, basically everybody's standing in five spots. You always
be able to find your man there. You're gonna have
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two men in the corner. You're gonna have two on
the wings and one up tops. So even if you
get lost defensively, just one running those five spots and
and you're in perfect defensive position because there's not a
lot of movement there's this dribble drive and then there's
there's driving kick, and that is the offense nowadays. So
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we can't blame a lot of that on Yannis because
when Miami cuts down those driving lanes, then he has
to kick. And when he kicks, you know, Miami is
quick enough to recover to those three point shots, which
makes it difficult, Isaiah. The Raptors are leading the Celtics today,
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still in the third quarter, so it's still a long
way to go, but up if they Some people are
picking the Raptors to come out of the easy, including
Chris Bussard. Are you surprised that that you know, no
Kauai and what happened last year in the championship, that
they have the potentially get back to the finals this
time without Kauai. I'm also picking the Raptors to come out.
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Look at you see he take a job at me.
I know you earned, I know you were the first
GM up there and you're still close to your heart,
but come on really well. So so Rob, let me
tell you why I'm picking them to come out. I'm
picking them because they they have what we call know how,
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They know how to win, They play well together, they
have great chemistry. And although they don't have a superstar
that you would say, you know, is a one eight
or one be right, but they but they have they
have ten one bees and and they don't have a
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one A, but they got ten one bs and so
when you look at them from a team standpoint, they're
solid in every area. And then they've gone through the war,
so they've they've lost the heartbreakers, you know, you know,
to coming up to the playoffs. So they're old school
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Eastern Conference team that had to wait. They turn lose
to Cleveland, get knocked out, Kyl Lowry, having you know,
bad series in the playoffs, coming back, you know, all
these question marks that have been around them for years,
and then they rose to the top and won the championship.
And I think even though without Kauai, I still think
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that they're the best team in the East. Now. They
may not have the best player, but in terms of
a team, I don't think there's a better team right
now than the Raptors. Hall of Famer. Isaiah Thomas joined
in the eye couple. Isaiah, we were talking yesterday. Obviously
we're all watching Jamal Murray and Donovan Mitchell, and we
saw Damian Lillard. You know, all these point guards putting
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up these huge numbers, and we're not taking anything away
from I think the handles that they have nowadays are crazy,
and they let them carry, so that's a big part
of it. But handles are crazy. The range they shoot
with is unprecedented. But I wanted to just ask you this.
If you were playing in the NBA and there was
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no hand checking and the entire floor was spread in space,
and you know, there's really no bigs in the lane
when you we always talk about this, you Jordans, just
anybody playing in that era. When you went into the paint,
there's like six or seven dudes in there, you know,
And now people like like, if one or two guys
is in the paint, you can't drive. So talk about
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the difference in you playing in your era and today's
point because we're saying, look, they're great players, don't We're
not taking out away from them, but so much the
game is so different. They dominate the ball that that's
a big reason these numbers are where they're at with
these guys. So I would go back to the coaching
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and also the schemes of the teams in terms of
their rules, right, so the rule playing the rute definitely
favors the guards. If you are six to five and under,
all the ruts favor you now, whereas when I played,
all the rutes were really against you and they favored
the six seven and above player. So now when you
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when you look at the offensive systems that teams run,
they're they're they're not trying to get closer to the
basket askally, Actually, the further away from the basket you are,
the more rewarded you are and the more your your
team talks about spacing and everything else. Now, so offensively,
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there's not a lot of you know, down screens, cross screens,
flare screens, back screens. There's absolutely none of that which
allowed you to get closer to the basket. Right now,
it's just like again, you stand in those five spots
and you have to be skilled enough to shoot from
those five spots or triple between your legs and get
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to the basket. So you really only need to master
three skills now. Offensively to be great as a basketball player,
you have to have the three point shot, you have
to have the layout and be a good file shooter.
Where when I was playing, you had to have maybe
ten things that you knew how to do to be
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a good offensive player. Last night, some people were saying
that it didn't look like James Harden was interested in
closing the game, didn't have the ball enough at the end.
What did you make of that ending for Houston against
Okase night? To me, James Harden is a person as
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as a player that you know at the end of
the game, Um, I think he wants to be needed.
And what I mean by that is he wants the
coach to say give it to James, right. And I
don't think James has the personality and to say, Okay,
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give me the ball. I think he's I think he's ah,
what would you call it? You know, he's a nice guy.
And then I think he's a respectful I think he's
a respectful talent out on the floor, even though he's
a dominant talent. I think he's respectful to his teammates.
So at the end of the game, that coach has
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got to put that ball in his hands and then
he'll go do his thing. And I think Kawhi Leonard
is the same way to be. To be honest with you,
I don't think Kawhi is one of them guys who
are saying, hey, give me the ball at the end
of the game, and everybody moved out of the way. Now,
if the coach designs the plan, say Kauhi, it's your show,
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he'll he'll go with it. And I think James Harden
is the same way. Yeah, especially with Westbrook being such
a strong personality too. I think Durant had a similar problem.
You know, I'm telling Westbrook give me the rock. He
wanted the coach to do it, and they never did. Yeah,
and and and and so we are criticizing like the
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guys like Durant, hardened U, Kauai, even sometimes Lebron, we
we criticize them for being coachable, whereas we we applaud like, Okay,
I watched the Last Dance with Jordan right, and it's like,
give me the ball, everybody else out the way. We
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applaud that attitude, and sometimes that's not coachable. But the
guys who are coachable, and you know, those are the
guys that sometimes get criticized because they're not old let
me take over, you know. And and and I think
I was the same way with Dumars and Vinny and
and Lamb beers like we get. We would come down
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to the end and we would be in a huddle,
and if somebody had it going, it was like, okay, Chuck,
Chuck felt free enough to design a play for anybody
to come off and score. But if I was so
demanding in my personality, I wouldn't have Chuck wouldn't have
had the freedom to think clearly enough to to diagram
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or play for anybody but me, you know, And you
don't want your coach feeling that way, right right? Well, Isaiah, you,
I mean, you do a lot of things people don't
know about. You got your doctorate um and you also
own a champagne company, Shirland Champagne. Can you tell us
about that? How you got involved in that? As I
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love champagne, old man, I noticed that. Good. I'm the
largest owner importer. I'm the largest owner African American importer
of champagne in the world right now. Wow, And that
is Sherlin Champagne. We've got two hundred acres over in
the Old Region of Champagne, which is the oldest region
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of Champagne with a Phisher Champagne. Of the NBA players,
so you all the NBA players are our partners with us,
so you see us sending out them the birthday wishes
and the champagne is down in the bubble were the
Phisher Champagne of the Phoenix Suns who are in the bubble,
in the champagne when they celebrate after they win it
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Champagne Champagne when they're you know, that's what we're working
on now, hoping that we can uh, you know, that
could be the champagne of choice. It is the champagne
of choice for the players. They definitely will be celebrating
with it. Um the now when we when we look
at where we've been sold. You can go to our
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website shairline dot com and you can order directly from
from our website shairline dot com and we can deliver
it to you. Or you can go into your supermarkets
and when the mayors, when the Krogers ween plumb markets
and different stories like that, so um when all the
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fries out in Phoenix. So you can go to your
local supermarket ask for it, or you can go right
to the website. Yes, Sirlin Champagne c H E U
R L I N S W. Hey. Whenever I covered
sports and I was there some team was winning the
championship and I was in the locker room. I always
kept my mouth open during that celebrate, trying to get
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as much free chef. There's a great shot if you
guys ever get it. There's a great shot of me.
They when they pour in the champagne on the trophy, right,
and I'm literally licking the champagne. Don't waste that. Yeah,
everybody was like, Oh, he's so happy, He's so happy.
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He's so happy. One I was like, Na, this champagne.
I'm a champagne drink. I could drink champagne all night.
Love it. I can't wait to taste of Isaiah. Great luck, Isaiah.
Time is Hall of Famer man. Thanks a lot, brother,
We appreciate it. Hey, you welcome and good luck to
you guys. Probably all right, all right, brother peace, all
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right more. I couple coming up way. We got our man,
Ralph Irvin with the update Ralph ain't fifty to go
in the Be sure to catch live editions of The
Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker weekdays at
seven pm Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
and the iHeart Radio app. Now we know that the
Big Ten has canceled its fall sports seasons. Mainly our
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most significant lead to UH as far as fans are concerned,
the football season. But now President Trump is getting involved
and he sent out a tweet this morning that said
had a very productive conversation with Kevin Warren, commissioner of
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the Big Ten conference, about immediately starting up Big Ten
football would be good, great in parentheses for everyone, players, fans,
country on the one yard line. So he's implying that
is close. The Big Ten put out a statement following
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just saying that they spoke with the White House and
they're not at Yeah, yeah, they It didn't sound like
they're at the one yard at best. Its out like
they're back on the field, but not near the one
yard line. So they said they're exhausted every resource to
help get the athletes playing UH as soon as it's
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safe and healthy. So, um, go ahead, Rob, I'll let
you tackle this first. This is you know, I don't
want to get into political talk, but it just it's
politics and and the campaign and you know, and and
the elections coming Chris sooner than later. That's all this is.
And and I feel bad that with all the stuff
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going on that. That's that's what the president is involved.
And seriously, do you see what's happening in this country? Seriously?
Is that? Is that what we're doing? Really grandstanding to
try to get people who are college football fan to
be like, oh, the president is trying to get that
that their phone call to Kevin Warren and the Big ten.
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I just it's definitely wrong. Yeah, I agree that. I
think it's a political move on his part. Political um,
like you said, there's so many things that should be
placed above this. I mean, the nation is just that,
it's it's shooting fires straits, not to mention COVID. Let
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the let the experts handle this. Look again, I get
it politically because this is playing not only to his base,
but this is playing the people probably outside of his
base as well. And I think here's where I stand
on this robe and I said it when they canceled
the season, because again, the sad thing is that everything
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has been so politicized nowadays that the information you're getting
is largely being doled out based on, you know, the politics,
and so it's it is hard to know exactly what
is going on. I'm trying to believe the medical experts
and what they were saying when the Big Ten season
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was canceled was that this could be tied to myo
card diitus. Did I say that, right, Robie, myocarditis myocard
die which is a heart issue, And long term they
were finding that, you know, people that didn't show any symptoms,
people that were young athletic that had COVID and didn't
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think anything of it. Later on it could lead to milecarditis,
a heart inflammation of the heart. And so that was
the thing that made me say, okay, with all these
question marks, you know, what are you doing playing? But
what makes it confusing is that, first of all, half
of the nation is playing football, and then even in
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some of the Big ten states they're playing high school football. Now,
you and I we said, we get it. With the pros,
they're paid if they want to play money, right, that
they're adults. It's like totally different. But in Ohio the
high school kids are playing. In Iowa they're playing, and
in the end of they're playing Nebraska. So it is
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just confusing because you say, if what heck, if Saint
John's Episcopal hot prep school and play, why can't the
University of Nebraska or whatever? So well, it's just it's
just it's unfortunate that we don't have uniformity on this,
at least on the facts. But but that's that's what
this country's made up of, despite it being a union
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of fifty states or so, Chris, each states, each state
has different right rules. How old you can to have
a drink? Right? How old if you if you're in Kentucky,
you can drive when you're fourteen. In New York you
gotta be eighteen. Do you know what I'm saying. So
there are always have been differences in states and the
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way people do things. So you can't use that as
because they're playing that makes it right or state though, no,
I get it. But but but the difference is in
this case, and is that the talk is the universities
won't be able to get these kids to sign where
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avers and used right. And I think Chris, that's where
that comes in. When you're a university president and and
you're the one watching over those endowments and all that
money and those right, all that money's interesting that I
hear you and I and we've talked about it, Rob,
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We've said it comes down to money. It's all about money.
Let's just be honest, and it's money. It's money on
both sides, Chris, money, the TV money that's sitting there
right that they want, these schools want, that's why they
want to play. And then the school holding onto it's
money because they don't want to be sued down the
road and have a class action suit, right, and then
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they got to dull out a ton of money. Don't
look at Penn State with Joe Paternal. You know which
money they gave out over the Joe Paternal scandal with
the kids. Oh yeah, tons a ton. I'm surprised that
the the schools and the conferences that are playing are
willing to go ahead and take that chance, because you're right,
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it could be an astronomical amount of money could be
and they're willing, you know, the SEC and and some
of these other conferences are willing to take that risk.
And what we said, was it Clemson who was it
to have sixteen players? Clemson? Was it Clemson? Auburn? Yeah,
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Auburn has sixteen players that that didn't practice it, but
they were supposed to resume practicing today, Chris, but uh,
over the weekend there was sixteen players who who who
either had it or were at high risk or showing
great symptoms, you know, and hadn't just hadn't got the
official test back. Yeah, I mean I think the thing right,
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and you're obviously right. I mean we've had you know,
different states have different rules. I think part of it
is that rarely do those different laws impact health and safety.
Rarely sometimes, but rarely, you know, health and safety. And
this is such a national pandemic, and he's a global pandemic,
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and you just wish that you had a common trust,
you know what I mean. Yeah, but in the world
is going on. I agree with you, but but people
don't want it as always Chris, conspiracies. How many times
I gotta hear Bill Gates's name, and they just want
to vaccinate everybody and make money off of them. And
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that's why they're doing it. Chris. There were there were diseases,
and I'm just I'm not I'm not gonna get on
my soapbox. But when I was growing up and you
were growing up, we got vaccinated, right because kids used
to get smallpox, polio, Uh, the moms, do you remembers, right,
all of these things. Those things almost went away, Chris,
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and now they're back. You know why, people don't want
their kids to get vaccinated. So I'm just and I'm
not sitting here. I'm not trying to have a debate
about vaccination. And you do what you want to do
with your kids. I'm just telling you that there's all
these conspiracies and that's why people can't believe medicine and science, Chris,
because they think there's an agenda behind it, right, and
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and and also the there is an agenda behind a
lot of the cable news shows. Let's just keep it real, No,
do you know exactly whatever network to Yeah, come, you
know exactly to spend you're gonna get, you know what
news they're gonna sh and Rob, I know this interest
you you've seen you know, you're with your masters in
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journalism for Colombia and all that. You've seen journalists leave,
like somebody left the New York Times. Somebody left was
the MSNBC because they said Shepherd Smith was the main
anchor at which he left. Yeah, so you've seen people
and all from every you know, wing of politics say
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I'm out of here because it's it's just not the
real news. We're just promoting an agenda. And um, so
you gotta be careful with what you're taking in. I've
been watching more of the network news during this pandemic,
right because they're they're they're kind of more straight down
the line, you know what I mean, and you you
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can just kind of get the facts from them. But
you know, we'll see man the big ten. Like you said,
they certainly aren't on the one yard line, at least
according to their their statement they put out. But do
you sense that they're starting to They seem like they're
at least waffling or softening a bit. If they're not,
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why even you just like, look, we're not playing. Because
they did put out on the medical experts, they did
put out a statement that long ago, Chris, a couple
of days ago whatever, basically saying that they were they weren't,
that nothing was reopened, uh to to it, even though
people would try to come up with plans and ideas,
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you know what I mean, right, But but but they
didn't say, like you know, people are pitching it, and
then it's like every day it's like, oh, yeah, well
they could start in October. Then somebody reports, oh they
could start in November. Oh they could start in December.
Do I think that that it's next year, Chris, I
believe it's next year. You wouldn't have gone through all that,
And if you do it, you come off looking really bad,
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do you know what I mean? So, I just I
don't believe that they're going to change their mind. Not
not this year.