25W: Bobby Says He Would Cut His Finger Off For This One Thing + UConn Football Coach Jim Mora Jr Interviews Bobby + Is Eddie Getting Fired From Coaching His Kids Basketball Team?

The Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team lost a tough game during the college world series earlier this week and Bobby has reached a new low as a fan. He says he would cut his finger off for a championship, but Eddie doesn't think it's that big of a deal. Plus, UConn head football coach, Jim Mora Jr. joins Bobby to talk about turning the program around, what it was like to coach Mike Vick, and even interviews Bobby! And Eddie thinks the other parents from his son's youth team are trying to fire him as head coach. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is a podcast called twenty five Walking Sports and
they go a whizz. So, yeah, it's too bad, But
what did you expect. It's a podcast called twenty five Whistles.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Wine, Welcome and blow it. We'll start with a Thunder
losing big time. I didn't even stay to watch the
end of the game.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
It didn't need to.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
It was so out of control. But I did that
on purpose because most time it's goen, I fall asleep.
It's the alternate outcome happens.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
But no, dude, they were down by so much. They've
been down with all their starters.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, by twenty five, and I'm like, I'm gonna go
to sleep, Please God let them win. And I opened
it up this morning and they kept blowing out.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah it was over. So yeah, that sucked. Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Game seven, I mean Thunder needs to step it up.
That'll be a fun game. It's gonna be in Oklahoma City.
Halliburton was hurt. Yeah, so I think you only like
fourteen points. I have a seat in front of me.
But he was like plus twenty five. He played well.
That crowd was going crazy. I watched crazy mid first
quarter through almost through halftime. I didn't come back after halftime.

(01:07):
I just watched the score and it went to bed
before the fourth quarter started, hopefully thinking that me going
to bed would changed the outcome. It didn't. But if
Oklahomas City wins, Eddie, you're safe and your we're safe.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
No thong on me.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
If if they lose, tho. If they lose, and if
they win, I get a very expensive dinner from doctor
Josie and her husband.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
But if they lose, then I gotta pay for one.
Oh man, did do you expect a seven game series?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Nope? I, based on the odds, expected a four game series,
right right? What are the odds now for?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
See, I can look it up, but I can imagine.
If I were guessing, I would say it's Oklahoma City
minus live oh five?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Do you think still I'm just guessing, man, I would
think it's pretty I'd go down to maybe minus one
fifty in Oklahoma City though I know I get it,
But dude, Pacers are playing hard.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, they've great defense.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Did you see? I mean you're talking about defense? Right?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I watched a half of ball, so they played great.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
This might have been this might have been early, and
you might have seen this, but uh, McConnell on Hartenstein.
I mean, dude, you're talking a giant man with a
little point guard, and the point guard like blocks him,
gets a steal even from him.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
NBA Finals, Here we go seven and a half? Who
Thunder minus seven and a half.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh, then Eddie two nineties the money line, Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I wouldn't. I was just gonna stay away from it.
I'm not betting it, but I do hope thunderwin.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
At this point, you know, it's like who knows what's
gonna happen. So yeah, the bets are tough.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
You know who else choked you?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
That's not That was not a choke.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
So we're going into the last hole. Well, we played
golf yesterday, me, Eddie and my manager Tom, and we go.
We're playing and Eddie is up on me by two
strokes going into whole seventeen. Has a really bad hole seventeen.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
I doubled.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
I parted whole seventeen. So we're tied going into eighteen,
which is a par five, and I make a par
put from about leven I know, a birdie putt from
about eleven feet out. Kevinan pulled a JJ spawn. Well,
Eddie had to make up the birdie putt. From even
closer six.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Feet Kevin, my my third my yeah, for my shot
to get on the green for my birdie putt was
probably five feet away. Bobby's was probably twelve feet away.
He drills his birdie putt and I miss mine.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Dang with the pressure on, you couldn't handle it or yeah,
I couldn't crumble.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
No, dude, it's not. It wouldn't choke or anything. It's
just you know what, though, I was thinking into this game, like,
I hope it's close. I hope somebody doesn't hit in
the woods, because that's the worst when you're going tired
and then somebody's hits it in the woods and that's
not the worst one.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's not you.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, No, I don't like that though.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I just want to win because even if you would
have hit it in the woods, I would have been like, yes,
I win, But I mean it's not I didn't feel
like a win because he went ob in this dude,
we were both level even. But what about seventeen though,
were you really I wouldn't do Honestly, I didn't even
look at the score, so I thought I was way up.
And not only that, I didn't take the right clubs
out because his car path only. I took a hybrid out,

(04:05):
which three hybrid for me is probably like two ten.
Like if I hit it right and.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
I was I get out, I don't have one sixty shot.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, He's like, you're only won sixty and I'm like,
you know what, I'm not walking back to the car.
So I take a hybrid. H had like three fourths,
put it on the green. It was about a sixty
foot putt, but it was on the back of the green. Yeah,
and yeah, I felt pretty good about that car.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
There's a guy that we play with that when it's
car path only, he'll take his whole bag and the
balls on the this side of the fairway, he'll take
his whole bag. You know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Just you gotta strap it back every time.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
The answers never take your whole bag. But that's what
this guy does.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
It Just what's the max clubs that you would take? Oh,
I take four or five, or I really need to
if it's a long track, I'll take four or five.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
You have an idea, right like wherever you park on
the car path, you know, if you're one hundred and
fifty ish, so you got like three or four clubs
to choose from.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, Drake revealed he's lost eight million dollars gambling this month.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
This month, it does okay, you always talk about what's
the word you use where like my one dollar is
your one hundred like ratio? Yeah, so is that his ratio?

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Unit?

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh? No, unit? Unit? Got it?

Speaker 4 (05:17):
So?

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Is that his unit to where he's doing what I'm
doing and you're doing.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
I don't know what his unit is. I'll read you
the story because it doesn't talk about how much he's
betting on each bet. Because my unit is one hundred
dollars for a bet, Yeah, my unit is that would
be equal to my five dollars. Is that where your unit?

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Normal unit?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
On like one bet that you just feel pretty good about?

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Us just five bucks? Five bucks, So mine's one hundred.
And like I bet Arkansas, I'll bet a thousand bucks
and the win the national championship. I talked about that later.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
It sucks.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
So that was a ten unit bet and yours would
have been like a fifty dollars big bet.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
It doesn't say what Drake bets in each bet, but
it says he lost eight million dollars just this month.
He placed close to one hundred and twenty five million
dollars in bets over the last month. He also wagered
significant money on Fortnite. He's down on that too, to
the two individually six million dollars quote got to share
the other side of gambling, Drake wrote in a caption
on Instagram, losses are so fried right now. I hope

(06:10):
I can post a big win for you soon because
I'm the only one that has never seen a max.
These guys once a week I know that means. So, yeah,
that's what's up.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
So he's been bet on Fortnite? Like, do you play somebody?

Speaker 1 (06:22):
I think himself? Right, he's probably been on himself.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
No idea, Mike. Do you know how people bet on Fortnite?

Speaker 4 (06:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
I don't know if you can. I wouldn't trust that
because I wouldn't trust the players that I were playing
against didn't have some of the you know, aiming technology
that they say is unfair.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well maybe it's his buddies or something.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, how do you bet on Fortnite? Can you just
bet on two sports? Betting site? Though? Oh? Esports? Oh,
I've watched esports on television before. That makes sense.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh, so he's been on other people playing Fortnite. Yeah,
that's that's next level dude. That's Drake. Hey, Drake, we
have a friend named Reid.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah. But I would say that Drake has so much money,
he's just bored more than he has a problem. This
feels like boredom betting more than just chasing, like something
to bet.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Well, then he needs to not get bored.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
I don't know. It just depends like how much money
you have, Like we don't understand because we don't have
that kind of money. But I don't want to pocket watch,
that's right, pocket Watch. He also bets on cricket. He
bet seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars under cricket.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Man, does he even know how that works?

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Drake reportedly has an endorsement deal with the gambling platform
Steak that pays him one hundred million annually, theoretically enough
to cover his bets. He still he appears to be
wagering more than he's making in this month, he's deep
in the red. But just because you bet it doesn't
mean you lost it. So if he bet one hundred
and twenty five and he's down eight, there was a
time we were keeping up with my bets correct, and
I bet like eighty thousand dollars through a season, but

(07:47):
that's in wins and losses, and I was down like
eighteen hundred bucks or something. Yeah, yeah, but it's still
a crazy number, which is why I brought the story up.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
And you don't think though, the fact that he's betting
cricket and fortnite, there's not a lit a little issue,
not that he's in danger of losing money anything, but
there's an addiction issue.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I don't know that it's addiction. It could be that.
I don't know because I I'm addicted. I hate to
say the word addiction if I really don't mean it.
I don't throw that word around lightly. So I don't know.
But I would think he has so much money that
if it is an obsession, there's a difference in obsession
and addiction. If it is an obsession or an addiction,

(08:25):
it is not affecting him in a way that is
hurting him because he makes so much money. It would
be like if I were addicted or obsessed with doing.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Squats, well, that'd be good, you'd have great legs.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Unless it was unless all the time, that's all I
could think about it was running my marriage unless it
was running my Yes, I can't really. I just want
to talk about how much money that he was in
the middle of the plane squats that he was gambling
on the aisle. Mike, do we want to go to
Jamora now or do you want to come back now?

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Okay, So here's my chat with Yukon head football coach
Jim Mora junior. Coach Moore led the program of their
first winning season since twenty ten last year. That's crazy,
they haven't won since twenty ten.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's a long time.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
That is a long time. They went nine to four
last year, got the first Bowl victory. Coach Moore was
also the head coach of the Falcons when Mike Vick
was on the team, so we talked about that. Big
thanks to coach for coming on here. He is coach
Jim Mora junior. Hey, coach, thanks for your time. I
have a lot of questions because Yukon to me football wise.
When I used to play with Yukon back in Ncuba football,

(09:31):
the first time, they were terrible. I never wanted to
play with them because they were terrible. They're starting to
get pretty good. Like NCAA twenty five pretty good. I
credit you with Yukon being a little better on the
video game, coach.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
We're getting better. Yeah, I actually walked in. One of
our guys was playing it the other day. They call
it the game. Now, you know. I got to stay
up with these young guys. But we were actually I
think we were beating Duke or something. I was fired up.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, Yukon. Honestly, before you and even when you first
started at Yukon, obviously you've had a big hill to climb,
but yukon't and no offense to anybody there, but u
Kon was like known as the worst like before you
got there, like the worst football school. So my question
to you, as somebody who has been in the pros
and at UCLA and have had all these jobs, why

(10:16):
would you say yes to that?

Speaker 4 (10:19):
I get that question a lot, Bobby. I've been out
of football for four years. I was working at ESPN
doing those types of things. But I just had the
itch to coach, and I love you know, I've spent
thirty years in the NFL, obviously, but I love college football.
And this was the first job to come open. As
they said, I'd been working at ESPN, so i'd spent
a lot of time in Connecticut. I liked it here

(10:40):
and I love the challenge. You know, I love to
go uphill. I mean, I love hard things, and so
I figured this would be a great challenge to take on.
And knew if I had the support of the administration,
surrounded myself with good play, good people, you know, was
able to recruit some good players, that we'd have a
chance to be successful. I mean, you know, we got
a long ways to go, but I feel like we're
on the right track and it's been it's been a blast.

(11:02):
Like I said, I love hard things. I love challenges.
You know, I live in the mountains when I'm not
here in Connecticut, and going uphill, mountain biking, hike and
mountain climbing, skinning, those types of things would turn me on.
So this was just another challenge.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
I'm curious and we can get as granular as you'd like,
but I'm curious about turning a program around because year one,
when you're hired, that means someone had to leave, so
you didn't have the same advantage of having all that
time to recruit. And this is before an il, before
you could just run, and so you're already coming in
year one at a disadvantage with a program that is disadvantaged.

(11:41):
So what what's the goal? And not a wins and
losses goal, but what's the goal in year one? In
order to create that pivot point?

Speaker 4 (11:48):
The goals create the right mindset, you know, develop the
culture that you think is conducive to winning. Convinced people
that you're trustworthy and you know, worthy of being followed,
Be ultra demanding, consistent as can be, and really try
to pull as much out of your staff and players
as you can. And I walked in with at least

(12:10):
a little bit of credibility, having been in the NFL
and having some success there, having success at UCLA. And
then we got off to a pretty rough start and
we kind of regrouped and the players just kept believing.
I kept stressing the same things, you know, discipline, toughness, accountability, work, ethic,

(12:30):
stand focused out, preparing our opponents, you know, all those
things you know together it's all a bunch of coaches speak,
but it's all true stuff. And when your players embrace that,
you have a chance. And then we had a couple
of wins that were, I guess at that time, kind
of breakthrough wins. And so players in they believe a
little bit more and what you're talking about, and you've
got to capitalize on it. You know, in our second

(12:52):
year we struggled. We went back to three and nine
and there were some things that happened, and in this
past year we kind of got it going in the
right direction again. I think that second year, not having
a lot of nil money hurt us. As the portal
was starting to open, we weren't able to really replenish
our team with guys that we needed. But this year,
you know, our administration has always been behind us one

(13:13):
hundred percent. Our president's been behind us hundred percent. But
we've got some we've got some resources now that are
allowing us to make some real progress.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, you won nine games last year. I was kind
of looking through some of the historical stuff at Yukon Football.
I think it's the third time that's ever happened where
the team has won nine games. How many of those games?

Speaker 4 (13:32):
It's kind of sad, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Well, except for it was last year, right, you're right? Yeah,
Like I said, the program was just known. I won't
even say bad. I would say they it seemed to
me as they just invested in other places, and that
would be basketball and some of the other sports they've
been really good at. And so but it's and you
can tell me if I'm wrong here, it seems to
me now you have brought in a culture where now
they kind of have to invest to prove that they're

(13:58):
invested in football in general, because you've shown you can win.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, so, Bobby, So, our goal is to get into
a Power four conference. And you know, as good as
our basketball has been, you know, which is I mean,
it's unprecedent of success they've had in men's and women's
basketball here, but in order to get into a power
four conference where we can compete, you know, with the
big boys and especially the money that comes from television revenues,
we need to not be an anchor as a football team.

(14:22):
And we were a little bit of an anchor. We
were holding things back. So you know, it's our job
to become relevant where conferences find us appealing, you know,
and they want us to join because we add value.
And I think there was a time here where you know,
the football was dragging the other programs down a little
bit in terms of trying to ascend to a Power

(14:43):
five or a Power four conference now, so you know
that's on the horizon for us. We hope, I know
we're working diligently, diligently to it. But football has to
be relevant in order for that to happen, and our
our people understand that. Our administration understands that, and they've
been really, really supportive.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
It's interesting what power for conference Yukon would fit? Is
it the ACC? Is that where you think the most
natural fit would be? I mean, step I would say, well,
it's definitely not It could be the Big Ten, it
could be I mean, it could be anywhere, because Stanford
plays all the way across the country. But where where
do you think the most natural fit geographically? Let's say
you have a couple seasons of winning eight, nine ten games.

(15:25):
Where do you think geographically makes sense?

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Well, geographically, the ACC makes sense. But I don't think
we're going to be picky. I think it's going to
depend on, you know, what basketball, what the basketball situation
is in the conference. And you know, we had some
discussions with the Big twelve, Peter Yormax trying to do
a really good job there building that into a successful

(15:49):
basketball conference. We know the ACC has a great basketball history.
I think, you know, that'll probably be the driving force
just because Yukon is such a great basketball school. For me,
I don't really care. I just want to compete for
a chance to be the best. I want to compete
against the best to be the best. And you know,
we're not going to be satisfied until you know, we're

(16:11):
in a position where we at least know we have
a chance to go win championships, whether it be conference
championships or maybe eventually down the road, national championships. And
we're long ways from that. But that's if that's not
the goal, Bobby, to be the best, then why you're
doing something. And that's our goal is to be the best.
We understand, you know the road is long and hard,

(16:32):
but shoot, man, that's what we're after.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Are you finding it harder to have teams schedule your
years out now that you guys are building.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
Not really. You know, we've done a good job of scheduling.
You know, I think we have a good schedule for us.
We're always going to play four or five Power Conference teams,
which is important. Typically they're ACC teams, which maybe he
lends itself more to the discussion about the ACC being
a future. But I don't worry about that. Our athletic director,
Dave with Benedict does a great job with all that.

(17:01):
I just worry about the football team being as good
as we can be, as competitive as we can be,
so that if that opportunity to exists, then we're ready
to go. You know, we don't ever want to think
about going into a conference and being the doormat. So
our recruiting, our process, the way we coach, the way
we teach, you know, it's very NFL level if we

(17:22):
go into a conference. We want to go into a
conference and be ready to compete immediately at the highest level,
not be a doormat.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
I convinced me, coach, because I hate the cold, and
I'm like, you know, you CON's really been trending up.
I can't. I can't take that. I hate the cold.
What do you say to somebody who's.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Like that, Well, it's the spring, the summer, the fall
are absolutely gorgeous. I mean, you know you hear about
fall in New England. I'm a West Coast guy. I
think you're a West Coast guy, aren't you.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
I'm an everywhere guy, coach, I'm all, I'm everywhere, but
a cold guy, I don't want any cold.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yeah, well we have a we have a beautiful indoor
facility so we can stay out of the cold. And
we give our warm weather guys from Georgia and Florida
and Texas. We give them big old warm jackets and
they don't complain. And uh, you know, hey, that's listen.
When I'm not here, I live in the mountains of Idaho,
so I like the cold. So uh it's hard for
me to, you know, understand people that don't want diverse environments.

(18:17):
So now we have this beautiful indoor so we're not
out in the cold a lot.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
And Idaho's awesome. I went up. I had a show
on that GEO for a while, and I went up
and we went into we were staying in Boise, but
then we traveled out a bit. And I've said to
my show many times that I like Idaho and what
it provides more than I do Hawaii, and it contracts
everything I just said to you about being warm and cold.
But I don't like the beach. But I think Idaho

(18:42):
is like one of the greatest hidden treasures in America.
Your thoughts, coach, Let's keep it hidden. Idaho sucks.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
In the sun Valley, Idaho, which you know, I'm a
mountain guy. I like to I like to fly fish,
I like to hike. I like the mountain and climb.
I love to ski. I can go out my back
door and go, uh put my skins on, which allows
you to ski up his skin uphill, walk up hill
and ski back country right back into my yard. And

(19:13):
that's what I love to do in the summers, which
I'll be going out there here in a few days.
Mountain bike and like I said, fly fish. My buddy
just sent me some pictures of some twenty seven inch
browns he caught yesterday. So I'm excited to get back
on the river a little bit. Uh, but I want
to try to keep it a hidden gym, which will
be hard to do. Now that I'm talking to Bobby Bones.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
On the I've run it. I hate Idaho. Yeah yeah, So, uh,
do you have a favorite fishing picture because I got
a few of myself, but mine mine using our trout.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Are you so crowd? I'm a I'm a fly fisherman.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, so your's a trout for the most part, right, yeah,
first always Yeah, Okay, so you have a favorite uh
picture of you? In a trout. Someone in your house,
I do on my phone.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah, tell me about it?

Speaker 2 (19:54):
How big is it? What's the deal? How'd you catch it?

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Well? This was actually an Alaska probably seven years ago,
fishing with a buddy of mine who's a guy I
played college ball with him at University of Washington. His
name is Kenny Baldwin. And we were in Alaska on
a fishing trip and it's probably it's probably twenty eight
to twenty nine inch rainbow. Caught it on a fly

(20:17):
and it was just amazing. You're out there, there's grizzly
bears all around. He's strapped with a gun, you know,
to protect us. And he took me to some pretty
interesting spots on these little river boats and we just
found amazing fish and it was it was awesome.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Have you had any of those days fly fishing where
you're just catching them like crazy.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
I've had a few of those. But I also so
there's a there's a place in Sun Valley called Silver
Creek and it's a world renowned at least nationally renowned
placed to fish, and it's a it's a spring creek
and I go down there every year several times and
then like let's say eight years, Bobby, I have yet
to land a fish. And you know this sounds really silly,

(20:56):
but those fish are smart down there. Man. I've caught,
I've hooked several, but I've not got one to the
net yet. So the goal this summer is to get
one in the net and then you know, we do
catch and release, so that let it go gently. But
I need a picture of a fish from Silver Creek.
Like I said, my buddy sent me to yesterday twenty
seven inch browns out of Silver Creek, So I'm jealous.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, that's the new picture on the phone. That's the
goal for the new picture on the phone. What's the
goal this season?

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Coach?

Speaker 2 (21:24):
You won nine games last year, so you know you
don't want to go back or but I don't know
what you're dealing with. Personnel wise.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
We did a good job. I think upgrade our team
and the portal. Portal's a big deal right now. As
you know, you know you can kind of fill some spots,
some voids in your team really quickly with experienced players.
So I think you know it's to be better every
week we play. I hate to put I never actually
ever put a record goal on paper I mean, I

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might have something in my mind, but I don't announce it.
When I was with the Falcons, out Arthur Blank at
the start of the year, we have board meetings and
he'd always put tell people, fill out what you think
our record is going to be, and I'd always put
one to oh, and he'd get, you know, he get
upset with me. No, I want to know what you
think the record's going to be. And I said, okay,
this one we played sixteen games. I'm like, Arthur, if

(22:14):
I say twelve and four, will you be happy? He goes, YEA,
I'd be happy with twelve and four. I said, well,
then tell me what four games you'll be happy losing,
you know so? And he couldn't figure that. He's like,
I don't have four I want to lose. Because Arthur's
also competitive, amazing person, but so we're one of those
teams it's always just want to know, just win this game,
focus on this game, don't think about the next game

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until it's time to prepare for the next game. I
think that's you know, especially with young people this this
day and age, with the social media and this instant
access to information and everybody looking at everyone's highlights. It's
important to try to keep the focus and narrow, and
that's what we do.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
I have three final questions, and I want to ask
about Arthur Blank. How did you feel about Arthur Blank
putting himself in the Hall of Honor?

Speaker 4 (22:54):
He's the owner, you know, and I think amazing is
the owner. I mean, Arthur is a great guy. I
know people gave him trouble about it, but who else
is going to put you in the ring on honor
if you don't do it yourself as the owner? A man,
you know, And he deserved it. He's earned it. I
don't say he deserved it, he's earned it. I mean
he the things he's done for that city, for that program,
building that stadium. Uh, he's just a great guy. He's

(23:18):
a great guy. And I was really happy that it happened.
However it happened.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
I agree. Everybody I know that knows him loves him.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
And it's a weird thing.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
It's a weird thing because you probably don't get put
in there unless you put yourself in there. But yeah,
you're gonna get some pushback. But it's like if I
did the Bobby Bones Hall of Honor, and I'm the
first member. You know, do I deserve to be? Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (23:38):
But you're young? Yeah, I mean, you know Arthur's up there.
I mean the only way he'd get in it if
he didn't put himself in it is after he died,
the next owner put him in it.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, and you know what that what you says?

Speaker 1 (23:49):
That?

Speaker 2 (23:49):
What use says that? If you're dead, I don't want
to be in the Bobby Bones.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, So I'm I'm happy for him.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
All right, two questions left, Mike Vick.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Jack, I got one for you at the end, So
save me a minute.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Okay, you got it. So that's okay. Now I'm scared.
We got Mike Vick As an athlete. What's it like
to see a guy that just pulls away from other
other I mean other athletes? Like what was he like?

Speaker 4 (24:12):
He was unbelievable. Number one is he was a really
good person. He is a really good person. We stay
in touch. I'm happy he's coaching. He's going to have
a great impact on Norfolk State and all those student athletes.
But every single day, every single day on practice, on
the practice field, he would do something that you would
just let go. Did he just do that? I mean
the most unbelievable athlete I've ever been around. We're playing

(24:35):
the Carolina Panthers. Uh, we win the game. I think
we win the division or I don't know something. And
it's a fourth down and goal, and you know, if
we don't score touchdown, the game's over. Our coordinator we
call time out. Coordinator comes over and gives him, you know,
all these instructions, like you know, you gotta look here,
you gotta look at this guy. You gotta look at
that guy this year number one read. Mike starts to

(24:56):
run on the field. I bring him back and I go, hey, Mike,
I go listen, and man, if you don't like it,
just frigging run, just take off and go. And that's
that that. You can find it on YouTube a picture
of him diving into the end zone against Carolina, his
knees about an inch off the ground. And that was
the kind of guy he was, like you just like
I tell him every every week, just go be you.
You know, like we've worked hard all week. Your skill

(25:19):
set's improving, your understanding of the concepts are improving. But
at the end of the day, don't be paralyzed by
trying to do things that you're not comfortable doing just
go be you, and he was man. He was fun
to be around.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
He is something just to watch, like his old YouTube
because obviously I watched it as a kid, but to
watch it now and to just see the separation at
almost at will, it's crazy to watch now that far
remove from it. Just how athletically superior he was.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
His burst. Yeah, you know you remember that that that
game against the Vikings where he split the two defenders
and you'd see that every day. But his arm is
like a whip. I mean, there was that commercial who
was throwing it out of the stadium and I know
that that was you know, it wasn't real, but I
think he could probably do that.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
It was.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
I mean, he was a cultural icon and he made
a huge impact on this league. I think he changed
the direction of how people look at quarterbacks. And yeah,
he was really fun and just funded to know as
a person.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
My final question for you, and then I'll take whatever
shots you want to take him here, But my final
so I and I'm curious about the new payout language
and IL language. I've read through it myself. I'd spend
a I would say a semi substantial amount of money
in anil with my team, and I know, like I
can pay five hundred and ninety nine dollars exactly in

(26:39):
ninety nine cents before it has to get reported through
the clearinghouse, and then the clearinghouse. They've been very good
at clearing some of the deals. Like I feel like
it's been anything I've submitted has come back within two
days max to go. We're all clear. You can do
social media with athletes. How has that been for you?
Did you read all the way through it or did
someone just kind of brief you because it is so new?
And then what does the school commit it to you

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to pay out from their money?

Speaker 4 (27:02):
No, I'm pretty educated on it. I think it's important
that I understand it.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
You know, I'm not sure exactly where we're going to
be going into the twenty sixth season, but I can
tell you going into this season, we've done a really
nice job, especially where we were coming from. Our athletic
director has found ways to say yes to me rather
than say no. We've got a you know a great
group of donors in this program, leby guy named Mike

(27:29):
Burton who used to play here, who just you know,
they're committed to seeing the growth. And when you can
put improvement, you know, on they see improvement on the field,
and you go out and you play in the Finway
Bowl and you beat a team like North Carolina. Uh,
people get excited and they want to they want to invest,
and it's important that they do. But we'll be you know,
I saw what We're going to be close to fully

(27:49):
funded in twenty twenty six. Like I said, our athletic
director is amazing having a great basketball program and that
brand helps us as a football team. But I'm confident
that we'll have the resources we need to go compete
at the highest level.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Okay, coach, I'm ready for your question.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
Let me get to number one. I was going to
ask you who your team is, but I see the
razorback there, so I'm assuming it's Arkansas. Yes, sir, that's
not my question.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Okay, that's your question. That's the coach. All right, that's it.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
We got to wrap this up.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
I'm kidding, coach, I'm kidding.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
I'm kidding.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
Okay, it's really This is really more of a story
that leads into a question. So when I was at UCLA,
I had this kid on my team named Barradell. He
was a walk on linebacker, a little kind of undersized
guy tougher in Hell. We're down at the Alamobile and
we have a talent show and he jumps up on
stage with his guitar and starts playing, and he was unbelievable.

(28:45):
So I had a couple of people in the music industry.
I'm a huge music fan. That's why I'm a big
fan of yours. I know who you are. I listen
to your stuff. I love your everything you're doing. So
I called a couple of people and was able to
make some connections. And now he is down in Nashville.
His name is Barred L. He's singing, he's trying to
make it in that business. So I just wanted to
get his name out there.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Spell for hold on, spell for I know, Yeah, I
know MARYUCIK. I know him through Rich Eisen, who I'm
friends with. But spell Bear Riddell real quick so I
can at least put up e E A R R
E E D E L got him. I'm making a note.
Now I'm gonna check him out. Now here's the thing.
Sorry had to me to interrupt her the question, But
I'm going to listen to this. But coach, you know

(29:26):
how people will be like And this is what I
am lucky enough to get to do a lot is
to find artists who are great and either go, hey,
I want to feature you, or hey, you can do
this to get better. But a lot of times and
not saying this is the case, you know, someone to
say coaches got a great football player, and you're like, yeah,
in his hometown, he's a great ball player. But once
he gets to the big leagues, you know he's got
some learning to do. That happens a lot, and so

(29:47):
I'm really curious to see how good old Bear Ridell
is because he was a ballplayer, and a lot of
these artists now, like Sam Hunt, they were all former
ballplayers and they use that work ethic to actually get
good at music, which has been a really interesting thing
to watch over the past. So I'm gonna check him out.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Steve mary So the guy that used to manage Dave
Matthews as a friend of mine, and so I sent
him stuff to who huh who's your who? Uh? Well,
now see now you put me on the spot. I'm
trying to remember his name.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Well, listen, my manager is named Corn Capshaw, who put
Dave Matthews together and it still like owns the company
they're managed under. So whoever they're like green Light, Yeah,
I'm a red Light. That's my management company, no kidding.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
So then you know this guy, I'll send you his name.
I can't remember it right off the hook. And if
he sees this, he's gonna be pissed at me.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Or not.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
I'm on the spot though. But uh and then, so
I was gonna tell you about Mooch's son, So Steve
mary Ucha's son Stevie Ray Stephen Ray is in Nashville
trying to make it as well. So Mooch has a
son in Nashville on the country scene. I'm a huge
music fan, huge, huge, huge music fan. And uh so

(30:52):
I know, I mean listen, I'm listening to everybody and anybody.
I actually went out and bought myself so I wanted
to look.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Like you hold on, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy,
this is good.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
No, you're gonna like this.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
I like this.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
I went and bought the Rayon Ray band metas I. Yes,
look that's it right there. People can walk into my
office so they don't know that I'm listening to music.
That's you. You got the music coming through here and
I looked like Bobby Bones.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
That's all right, Well that part not cool. I'm gonna
check out your guys. I'm gonna check out Bear, I'm
gonna check out Stephen ray Uh, and I'm gonna listen.
I'm invested in Yukon. I really I hope you guys
have another I'll say a substantial season, because I think
you guys deserve to be in a Power four. And
if the PAC twelve are happens again, a Power five again,
we'll see, Hey, would you go to the PAC twelve
If they're like, hey, come to the PAC twelve?

Speaker 4 (31:41):
Yeah, contractors enough, Yeah, I means travel across the country,
but they'd have to travel here some too, so yeah.
And I spent my you know, I played at Washington,
was at U c l A. My dad coached at Colorado,
U c l A, Stanford, So I'm kind of been
a PAC twelve guy most for my life.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Coach, Thank you so much for the time. It's been
awesome talking with you and we're in on Yukon. Hope
you have a great season. Hope you have a great
time in Idaho. Idaho sucks. Everybody, do not go to Idaho.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
It is the worst.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
No, don't go to Idaho and coach hopefully, well, we'll see.
We may come to a game up there. We may
just hitch you up and be like, hey, we want
to come watch. Yeah, that would be awesome. All right, coach,
talk to you soon. Thanks Coach.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
All right, thanks Bobby.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
I'm recording this on Thursday afternoon, and Arkansas baseball loss
last night. It was one of the really, one of
the worst losses I've ever experienced, except for it's one
of the worst losses I've ever experienced this month. I
legit feel bad for you. No, it's everything I know.
I just looked at this year even and I don't
want to make this all woe as me, but I
do have a question for you guys when I'm done.
I looked at just this year. We had the worst

(32:48):
come from behind loss in the NCAA Tournament in Sweet
sixteen history. To texta tech like, the worst loss ever
in history. We forget about that because it's been a
while now. Secondly, I can go to softball. We had
our first and second pitcher get food poisoning during the
Super Regional. Number one and number two get food poisoning

(33:08):
during the super Regional before you go into the College
World Series. I can go to football and I can
talk about a game. I mean, I can do Oklahoma
State where we lost that game in terrible fashion, but
then we just sucked too and it we won just
enough to like, keep the coaches around is the worst.
I'd rather just lose and switch out. But like that
Tennessee game, which we won, like that was fun for

(33:29):
a second, but we sucked all the rest of the time.
So it's like, well they wont Tennessee, keep the coaches,
and you're like, oh, this is not gonna be good.
And that's just this year, basketball, baseball, football, softball. The
baseball game I thought we won and I never think
we win, and I thought we won twice. Soud you
had the game even at the very very end, I thought.

(33:52):
So I just wanted to know to you guys, is
it just me or does everything I root for suck?

Speaker 3 (33:59):
No, that's really bad. The first thing I thought of
was basketball. I was like, oh my gosh, basketball just
happened like two months ago, and then now there's this
there's no way, there's like a curse on Arkansas. And
I truly, like, I don't really feel bad for fan
bases a lot, But I truly feel bad for you.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
We're not annoying because we don't win. Like if we
won a lot and then had some bad stuff happen,
you're like, oh haha, there's no reason to not feel
bad for us. We don't have any over the top,
really arrogant fans because we have nothing to be arrogant about.
But we have money like every other school does. Yep,
it's not like we're a poverty program for real. We're

(34:36):
in the SEC. We have plenty of money. We have
the great we have the best baseball facilities, we have
B level football facilities, we have a minus basketball facilities,
maybe the best arena in the SEC. And all the
money coming in though nil, Like, it just sucks because
we lose everything. Even we're really good at something, we
find a way to be terrible. But does it make
you feel a little better that you're so you're good

(34:58):
enough to be that close? No, because even when we
get that close, we lose it in dramatic fashion. If
we were just good and we lost that game five
to two and they pitched a great game, it's like
that sucks. Expectations were high, but we didn't get there.
But no, we three times blew that baseball game in
the NCAA tournament. It was the biggest come from behind

(35:20):
in the history of the Sweet sixteen. That's how we lost.
Let me ask you, this, is there something that we
don't know as far as I sell my soul in
ninety four win a championship three to.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Like Arkansas president and like, I don't know, Babe Ruth
for something.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Something, something's up. And I got more texts last night,
like condolence is texts and do you like those?

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Do you want it?

Speaker 2 (35:43):
It depends on who it's from. So no, I don't
want it. I don't want anybody texting me, but I
got a couple of softball Ricky texted me and said
at nine thirty two pm, all I said was dude,
dot dot I'm sorry. I mean that's nice, And I said,
we're just terrible to everything. Even when we're good, we
end up being terrible at it.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
The way you say it too, like you're so defeated and.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
I shouldn't be. I keep walking back to the stove,
burning my hand and going, oh, what what just happened?

Speaker 1 (36:13):
But that's sports man, it's not Yes, we all.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Do that if it was just football. It's just baseball,
just basketball, it's not just sports.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Are you going to bail on your team, the team
that you've loved here.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
And I never have, right, I never would. But the stove, No,
it's not. The stove is me being so disappointed over
and over again when it keeps happening, like you would
think a normal person at some point would go, I'm
still going to root and love. But we've been defeated
so many times, not beat, but defeated so many times.
I'm not gonna let it affect me as much because
you don't stove the Cowboys. You give up on them

(36:44):
halfway to the year.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, but then I stove again, not really somewhere in
the middle. It's our year. Like right now, I'm stoven.
It's our years.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
What the season starts to start whining like we suck
before it's even over.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
After we lose two gears, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
I get like five and two.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Oh no, dude.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
The baseball team like they had it, like they so
did the basketball team.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
I think your baseball team had was better than your
basketball team.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
It was the largest come from behind Sweet sixteen game
ever in the NCAA tournament, I know, and.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
The game before though, they almost blew that one too
in the ninth inning. Like it's just this ninth inning
problem that you guys had.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
No, it's not. It's the Arkansas problem because it's every
my whole life. This has been what it was. We
were one game, if we were to beat Tennessee when
Starter fumbled the ball, we're going to the national championship.
He fumbles the ball, they drive down, score touchdown, they
go and win the national championship. We were both undefeated.
This has happened my whole life. Hey, there's a stove,
let me touch it again. It's so stupid. Now, how
long does it take you to get over something like this.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Day?

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Because right now is a tough time because there's no
other sports.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
What sucks. Football's coming up. It's gonna get worse. Yeah,
I know.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
But yeah, just Monday, that's it, just a little little weekend.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
I've got away many times. I don't even need to
get away. What am I gonna do? Matt Stell texts me,
why the F do I still care about this?

Speaker 1 (37:56):
S That was his one text Arkansas.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
Yeah, he said he sent a text on his wife
because they got married in the last six months. He goes, hey,
this has heard him. Why does this always happen to
you guys in every sport? Mm hmm guesse.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
She already knows, not even here in she already understands
how it works.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Matt Castle, send me a text. W TF. Sorry brother,
See I don't even text you anymore. Nah my father
in law. That's tough. Yeah, Adam Hambrick, Why does every
Arkansas athletic event of any consequence have to have the
announcer saying something to this effect at the end of

(38:41):
every game? This is the craziest game I've ever seen.
It sucks, man.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
I'm sorry, dude.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
It's my fault though, because I continue to put mm emotional, physical,
monetary and so everything.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Everything.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
It's so stupid.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
What do you what are you gonna do different? Nothing?

Speaker 2 (39:09):
That's the thing. I'm stupid. No nothing. I've learned nothing
from it. I have my expectations stuff for football. We're
gonna be terrible, Okay. Our best case scenario is being
five hundred what I'm doing trying to talk talk it
into nothing.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Yeah, and then the stove happens at some point.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
The stove happened last year at Tennessee when we won
because they kept our coaches another year. Although I do
like Bobby Petrino as i'd take Patrino back as head
coach anyway. There's that I could win a pick a
ball tournament. I'm playing one this weekend.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Oh oh, there we go, now what we're talking about,
and you control that that's true.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
I didn't know I was playing to pick a ball
tournament this weekend.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
He didn't sign up for it.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
It is so that we're putting this down on Friday.
I signed up for like four months ago, thinking I
was signed up for the last one that I did
actually signed up for two. And so they said, your
game is at six pm on Friday, and I was like,
my game and then I'm gonna pick a ball, a
single pickaball tournament of a higher level at six pm
on Friday night.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
And you have not been training for that raining every day?

Speaker 4 (40:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
So I mean that could lift my spirits a little bit.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
I could, but not much.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
I think I would if someone gave me a butcher
knife and said, okay, here's your hand. If you take
this butcher knife and you smack and you cut off,
it's very very sharp so it's not blunt Forest, but
it's blade the top party the half of your pinky
for national championship football.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Would do it. I mean it's a pinky. You don't
really use that one that much. I guess it would hurt.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Yeah, Eddie, that's not a big deal. Well yeah, man,
what do you think?

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah? No, I'm trying to justify, like I guess I
would have won championships. Yeah, a long time ago, man,
we're still living off those dreams. You guys did too,
a long time.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Ago before your cowboys wines. It's been a bit and
we have one, but they're hard to come by. You
gotta remember that are not easy. Our merch is embarrassing
because we go into a store and it's all like
four everything, no, not even it's even new stuff, and
it's it's terrible. It sucks. Yeah, we can talk about

(41:11):
golf for a second. So how do you feel about
them putting governors on golf balls for the pros?

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Oh? I like that? I like that, yeah, because sometimes
I mean they dude, sometimes they if it's the winds
right and everything, that ball will go forever and ever,
and then they're like chipping eighty yard chip to get
on the green sometimes.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
It's ridiculous, so they would only do it with professional
golf balls. I saw Tiger talking about this. What struck
me though, was I saw a guy that runs a
golf course talking about it on TikTok and he his
answer was, yeah, please, because we have to keep building
courses bigger. And not only that, if we build them bigger,
that's more land for us to have to take care of,

(41:51):
more to mow. It costs more because we're having to
make golf courses longer for the players that are hitting
it longer.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
I didn't think about that. I didn't either, because at
first I'm like, why they're pros, Like let them freaking
swing it.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Yeah, like make the holes longer. But those courses, this
is these hundred courses that have PGA events, Like they
have to keep making them longer. But it's costing more
money to even keep the courses running because it's more
land they have to take care of. I don't have
a problem with them putting governors on pros. I don't
think they should put the governors on like normal people.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Walls. No, No, I don't need one. We get the
opposite of governors.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
You should be able to buy the pro balls that
have the governors on them. That's fine, yeah, if you
want to see. But the pro should play with some
sort of regulated ball, and we should still get the
balls that go as far as we hit them. We
should get the pro balls, the regular balls, that's what
we have.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yeah, yeah, we get the ones they hit now they
get the governor one.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Yeah, we can get the one. We get the hand
me downs.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
And stuff.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
It's expensive and them, and it's like we hit them
far far in the But I think I'm okay with that.
I was just thinking of that because they wouldn't do
that in football, like they wouldn't slow anybody down. They
wouldn't be funny if they made the ball a lot bigger.
It's like a giant football or a nerf ball. You

(43:13):
can't whistle at all basketball like they've talked about lifting
from ten to ten and a half and they won't
because but moving the three point line back is almost
that too. That's a governor. I think that could possibly happen,

(43:33):
or they could like take three point line and cut
it off, like have it go into the benches where
you don't really have that corner.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Like into the out of bounds. Yeah, at an angle like.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
You don't have the corner anymore, and that extends the
three point line a little bit.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Huh what about a four pointer?

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Well, now we're doing MTV Rock and Jock, why not
have a spot for a trampoline in the ground.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
It's a bonus out of the ground and you get
a dunk.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Off of it for all the guys that don't get
to dunk.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
What I did think, like watching the US Open, was
you know some of these golfers are sponsored by like
top Flight, right, we all know Flight.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
That's the one you go to all of them.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Top Lights are the ball that you find, and you're like,
I don't even want that one. So I'm wondering, like
if that's your sponsorship and top Flight's like you need
to use our ball, are You're like, oh no, Like
I can't hit.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
A top light, you don't take the deal. But secondly,
Tiger had Nike golf clubs, and you forget that yellow
driver that Nike had was terrible and it made a
pung kind of sound. I remember that, and even like
two years ago, Reid had this driver and he still
played with it. And he's left handed. So I gave
him one of my nice drivers. And I saw a
meme that popped up yesterday about Tiger and that driver,

(44:47):
and I sent it to him and it said the
picture of Tiger swinging that old yellow Nike driver. It
says winning a major with his driver is more impressive
than doing it on a broken leg. But it reminds
me of that because those clubs were thought to be
not as good as other clubs, and Tiger's still one
with them because Nike paid them all that money. Now,
ball wise, I don't know what's the ball you find

(45:08):
though that you do not want?

Speaker 1 (45:10):
So top flight okay, top Flight's definitely the main one.
And then there's the Kirkland noodle noodle throw it back.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
Noodles like the worst, right, You don't keep a noodle,
do you?

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Noodles are so bad that one time I kept finding
noodles like so the same person that bought the box
of noodles would lose it and leave it. Just don't
even bother look looking for that.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
For me, it's the the range balls.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Well, yeah, that's about the only ones where I'm like, okay,
I'm too good for this.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
But I start thinking too, like what's the difference between
the practice ball and a regular.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Ball, so probably they've been used before. And I think
they're just a cheaper version of that ball because they
do use those governor practice balls on our At our club,
you can only hit your driver with yellow practice balls,
which means they kind of have that they take off
some of the distance on them.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Oh, that's why I don't hit it as far. I
got it. That makes perfect sense.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
I don't think that's really it. So okay, Kirkling, Kirkling
not taking a Kurkling. I'm probably not keeping a top
flight na. I'm definitely not keeping a noodle.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
And then let's see Max fly throwing that one back? Yeah,
throwing a Max fly back?

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Then Max flies tough.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Actually, I won't throw them back. I'll just keep them
in a separate little bucket to give my kids.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Any other balls. I'm trying to look at lists of
like because you.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Know, what's becoming a good one to find where I
kind of get excited other than prov ones. Man, you
find provy ones that you want, lottery that's.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Great, Pinnacles, pinnacles good and fine, I throw those back, really,
I said, fine, But I think I can. I think
if it's a good Pinnacle, I keep it.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
What uh the vice? I like Vice?

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Oh no, I don't take no, No, that's a ketchen
release money.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
There's something about the vice that I like that to
catch and.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
Release Strix and Strix and I like, I like. I
don't have enough data. I saw that one. I just
googled worst golf ball brand, and Shrickxen popped up, and
I was like, I don't.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Know, but see that's what I'm saying, Like Matsuyama hits stricken,
but I.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Would take the I don't know how much a golf
ball actually affects. I don't have the answer. But if
top Flight wants to offer me ten percent more money
than Trixon, I'm probably gonna pay top flights, but you'll
never win ever. Wilson, Wilson, Pro Staff Wilson, Okay, that's fine.
I like that. Wilson Chaos golf balls. Ever heard of those?

(47:39):
I've not seen that.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
I didn't know Wilson made those better noodles.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Terrible is our worst noodle? Is the worst noodle?

Speaker 3 (47:47):
I would say, Yeah, I think the name alone is
the worst.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
If we're doing a backward top five bottom five, yeah,
bottom five golf balls and we'll clip this for the internet.
Here we go bottom five golf balls and if you
find out in the wild of a golf course you
are throwing back so dead. Last, we're gonna put noodle.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Noodle is the worst.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
There is no need to keep a noodle. No, you
wi't play worse. If you use that noodle then whatever
else you got in your back. So noodle is coming
in in the last place.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Noodle. Okay? What's that is?

Speaker 2 (48:21):
Wilson?

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Next? Top Flight?

Speaker 3 (48:23):
Wilson process, Kirkland's Kirkland's pretty bad?

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Isn't Kirkland though? Like a brand that's supposed to be
just like one of the nicer brands.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
That's what they say about Kirkland everything. It's like Kirkland
vodka is like grey Goose is vodka?

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Isn't Kirkland costco?

Speaker 2 (48:38):
Yes, so you can go like Nickel. That can't be good.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Yeah, okay, I think we should put top Flight needs
to be on there.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Top Flight or Wilson. What's what's the next to worst?

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Wilson?

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Wilson next up?

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Have you ever bounced to Wilson next to like a
prov one?

Speaker 2 (49:01):
I never bound ball?

Speaker 1 (49:02):
Try it? Really that Wilson barely comes off the ground,
while the probably one jumps high.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Noodle's the worst. Wilson's second worst at number eight. Are
we doing top flight top flight or number eight? Number four?

Speaker 1 (49:13):
Yeah? Well wait, my.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
List is all messed up. I'm going backward. So number
three worst ball like this, the number three worst ball.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Is top fight, Okay, And don't let the numbers fool you.
Sometimes they give you tour one thousand, I mean.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
One thousand tour players said no, thank you, okay.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
And then Wilson to don't even bring up strick.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
But is a Kirkland? Is that next.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Mojo?

Speaker 2 (49:44):
What's is that a real brand? It's a Nike Mojo,
so that would be a nikeka.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
But anymore one time, no, they don't. And one time
I had a great round with a mojo. Great round.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
It's gotta be advice. It's got to be.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
You can't have advice on there.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
I got a no vices. I like vice too. You
can get a full box of Vice for nineteen ninety nine.
What's a box of Kirklands cost?

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Take a good question. Do what I like about those vices?

Speaker 2 (50:11):
How much?

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Thirty?

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Oh, that's pretty solid.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Those vices though they come in fluorescent colors. I saw
one where it looked like.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
One that looks like Iron Man too, if you want
that's true. It's the Precept.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Oh, I don't mind Precepts. Okay, don't mind precepts.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Is that a ball?

Speaker 4 (50:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Or is it a sub off another brand? No, it's
just Precept recept Ladie. Vice has got to be on
the Vice's garbage.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
I love Vice.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
I love Vice, Okay, I'll negotiate and not put Vice next,
but I think Vice has got to be a number
five of worst. Okay, so we gotta find four. So
at number four, do.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
We have we done? Pinnacle?

Speaker 2 (50:53):
I don't mind. I don't mind Pinnacle either.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
You guys are crazy. That's got to go back in
the water. The way you have to look at this
is would.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
You Max Fly?

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Oh yeah, Max Fi is terrible sus Max Fi is terrible? Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
I think the name just really gets you.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
And then you're like and then you realize like, no,
actually no, what number.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Do you get?

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Max Flies? You see it, You're like, oh, this will
go further. Okay, So Max Fly put it on there
and then Vice. No, we cannot put on fighting Vice
versus Pinnacle.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Yes, I guarantee you pull anyone outside this room.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
I would never play with a Vice unless it's the
only ball, one ball I had.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Left, like a hot pink one. Dude, you wouldn't play
with a hot pink Vice.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Well you're talking about language, now what Kevin? You can
be the decider here which one is worse? Vice or Pinnacle?

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Kevin, you know what's up.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
It's I think Pinnacles worse. I'll take my loss. Okay,
So here we go. Here's the list of worst golf
ball brands that if we find we ain't playing with them,
because most of time we find them, we're gonna play
with them if they're good. Noodle, Worst, Wilson second worst,
top Flight, Max Fly, and Pinnacle.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Who knew were such golf ball snobs?

Speaker 2 (52:12):
So Kirkland didn't even make the final cut.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
No, the Advice is solid. Vice is a solid golf ball.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Okay, what about the best?

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Oh prob one?

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Tyler's Proby one is the best just titleist in general,
So that's a version Soler Tyler's at one.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
I'm gonna go with Callaway No bridgestone two over Callaway solid.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
Now I like bridge Stones, actually I like Bridge down
stupid over cal Taylor made it too.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
I didn't think about Taylor made those are great.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Taylor made it too. I didn't force Vice upon you. So,
so what are you gone yet? I think Calloway is
better than Bridgestone, Kevin, Yeah, we're going Callaway.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
Yeah, okay, and the bridge Stone two or three sixties, dude,
it's a solid.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
I mean, neither are bad, obviously the Bridgestone. Okay, what's
the fifth best one?

Speaker 4 (53:13):
More?

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Uh, let's say it, noodle, we.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Bring it back for the dead number five on each one.
Let's see. Let me think, oh, Vice, because weis did
not make the I can't put advice.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
I can't and all I don't put stricks on what.
I'm not even sure about over vice Okay, because I
think Pinnacle we've already p XG golf balls like those
kind of suck.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
Huh. Yeah, I don't use those.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Kirkland.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
We can't put Kirklin on there.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Why not? I didn't make the bottom.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
List, man. I can't believe you're not gonna put Vice
on there. But I can settle for a stricken Okay,
if I were putting tricks in, yeah, I can settle
for that.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
There's our top five good golf balls that if we
find in the woods, idoleist Taylor made Callaway Bridge Down
and Strickson. Those are keepers.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
I think we're forgetting anyone. No, I think that's it.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
I do have a Captain America blue ball that are
keep my bag that I always wait for the right
time to hit. Yeah, I have one of those two,
but I always feel like it's a cheap ball.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
It's like weight. The brain is like weight or something.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
It's bridge vice. It's like a bridge down advice collab. Okay,
that's it. Thank you guys for listening. We'll see you
guys early next week. Thanks to coach Jim Moore Junior
for coming on with us. Big u content. By the way,
I went and went to the opry with I'd say

(54:41):
with coach Odo't Coach buried up from Due last night?
How was that? It was great? So he hit me
up and it was like, Hey, we're coming to town.
You're gonna be around. He's now the head football coach
at Perdue. And I was like kind of and he
said it was his daughter's birthday and they were coming
because Laney Wilson was playing the opera and they've tried
to see her live and they've missed it a couple
of times, and I said, well, Laney's a friend of mine.
If you guys come in, I'll just take you to

(55:03):
meet Laney. And he's like really, I was like, yeah,
he goes that a big ask. I was like no,
I can literally like go backstage with the Opery whenever
I want. And I know Lanny really well. So they
were like cool. So they came into the show. Didn't
tell his daughter what they were doing this. They were
going to watch the Opry and Lanny was gonna play.
So I go and get them and walk them back,
and his daughter kind of thinks it's cool that I'm

(55:24):
walking them around because she knows me from like the
radio show and stuff, and she's young, she's like ten
or others, and we're walking around. I'm showing her all
this stuff, and I Laney, it's in a record up here.
Our promotions team did that vinyl?

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Oh you guys give all.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
I had him office still, so I just took it
with me and I said, hey, I got you his
birthday gift. It's a Landy Vinyl. She's like, oh, that's
super cool, and so we walked in. I knw where
Lanny's room was, and so I had a sharpie. I
was like, here, you may need this, and she was
like okay. And then I said hey Landy and Lanny
comes out. She starts crying. Not Landy, I figured yeah,
And so they hung out and Lanny was super cool

(55:59):
and signed a record pictures and so cool. Coach od
I'm like, loved it. And I didn't realize that Purdue
was only like an hour north of Indianapolis.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Oh really, so that's not far from me.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
He was like, you guys got to come up. And
I'm like, I don't like cold, and he's like, well
it gets cold. I was like, yeah, so we can
always go up.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
That's cool.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
But yeah, I was with him last He's awesome. He
was so cool when we went for un LV. I mean,
super nice to all of us. I got to know
him when he was defensive coordinator at Arkansas, so that's
where our relationship started. He was the defensive coordinator. He
was the defensive corner of Missouri, got the head coach
job at Missouri, fired at Missouri, came and was DC
at Arkansas, and kind of got a raw deal at

(56:39):
Missouri's head coach and then obviously quickly got the head
coach job at UNLV and then turn that program around
is now Purdue. So root and for um since the
time of them last night, it was super cool.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Got se him.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
That's awesome. Yeah. How long are they here for the weekend? Oh?

Speaker 4 (56:51):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Yeah they show Yeah, because they've been trying to see
Laney and it was the only time they could see her.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
Oh that's awesome. Did you sing a song while you
were there?

Speaker 2 (56:57):
I did not, I got I was trying to watch
the baseball game.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
Yes, and.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
His phone precisely what I was doing.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
You're like, you guys talk, I'm watching this and you
know what.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
That's a family to understood. Yeah. Yeah, it's good to
see coach them, but that's it. We will see you
guys next week.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
Anything Kevin, No, still haven't watched the Red Sox.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
Just up there.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Thanks for wondering.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
Eddie Man same, Oh well, I mean I can just
tell you about my our games this week. We didn't.
We didn't. We didn't win games anymore.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
I thought you guys were stacked. We were, and we're
just and then you figured out the cheat. You're done, dude.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
I think I think the parents want me out.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
Honestly, you're getting fired.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
I'm getting what's the coach of the Knicks? Uh, I'm
getting tivid, dude, are.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
You playing the same five players the whole game? Not
putting any It's.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Not that it's we lost one game by one point,
and I can see the disappointment of the parents, and
it's just like and then the other one we got squashed. Dude,
just murdered by twenty.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
So you were wrong about being stacked.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
Uh yeah, yeah, I guess. I guess. I doubted. I
thought the passion for the game would be a little
more from the kids.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Oh so you're blaming it on the kids. The coach
is blaming it on the kids.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
The double headers, Man, they don't like this. Once the
second game comes around, they're not into it.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Every team has double headers. Yeah, but these other teams
they got kids that care and they want to win.
That's probably because they're motivated by their coach.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
Do you want to know what my halftime speech was
in the second game?

Speaker 2 (58:21):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
Do you guys want me to go over there and
tell the other coach we quit? And they're like no, okay,
because I'm getting the vibe that you guys just want
to quit this game, dude, And they were like, no, no, no, coach,
don't tell them that we won't quit. And then we lost.

Speaker 3 (58:35):
I mean we still did they come out better in
the second not really really didn't.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
But they did play harder, which I appreciate. That sound
like it, but I do feel like the parents want
me out. Man.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
You hear them like whispering, No, has your agent given
you the idea? There's some they aren't talking to a
new coach or anything.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
Nah, I just get the vibe. I get the vibe
I was. We had like an hour break between games,
so I took the boys, my boys go get dinner.
And when it got back, I was a little late
and some of the dads had taken over the warm up,
you know, and I was like, I was like, oh,
coaches here, guys, and they're like, yeh, yeah, we we
got it. We already started here. Part of me wanted

(59:16):
to be like, all right, take the bench then, dude,
give them, give them the clipboard.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
Eddie's kids, give a pep talk. Do you want to
quit right now? You see that out there? Do you
want to quit? Or do you want to go out
there and show those other dads you're the coach? How
many more games. Do you have just one more week
and then you're done? Will you coach again next year?

Speaker 1 (59:32):
I'm done? I am a fish.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
Did you say this last time?

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Yes? Well, my wife's the one that signs me up
for these things, and I'm like, I told her I
don't want to coach anymore. Puts me in a bad mood.
And then after the games, I'm like, just I pick
up six packs of beer, like this is a problem.
I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
It's driving you a drinking. Yes, all right, we'll see
you guys next next week. All right, blow it Eddie.
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