Kansas State head coach Collin Klein joins the show to talk about quarterback Avery Johnson, taking over the Wildcats and what happened when his phone suddenly got hit with 3,000 text messages. Then Akron athletic director Dr. Andrew Goodrich breaks down the idea behind the school’s “Offensive Coordinator of the Game” giveaway, how the winner will get involved and why Akron created one of the wildest promotions in college football.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is a podcast called twenty five whist talking and
they wear a whist so.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, it's too bad, But what did you expect?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It's a podcast called twenty five Whistles twenty whine win.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I blow it. You join a fantasy league, but people
you don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I haven't joined yet. I got asked too, though. I
got a DM from someone that said I listened to
twenty five Whistles love you guys? Would you like to
play in our fantasy league? Just me and my buddies?
And I'm like, I don't know you. It's kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Is there real money?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I haven't asked. I mean that even gone that far.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Because what will happen is if it's not real money,
you'll go yeah, then you'll forget all the time, and
you won't set your lineups, and you'll be that annoying
person and your players because you're not getting Because the
motivators are in a fantasy league to either win money
or beat your friends.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yes, that's it, I know, but I'm telling you lately,
it's been I mean I'm lately meaning the last four
or five years is like Sunday comes and I've got
a whole checklist of things to do. Check this league,
make sure starters are good on this league.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It feels like it's too much DraftKings.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
And then I'm just like, I'm not even having fun.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And not only that.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Skins Skins, Well, I don't have to do any prep
for skins. That was all done. And then but you're
just watching stress What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
What do we do the most stressful?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
That one's the most stressful.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
What are we doing as I can't do it?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Come on, come on, Kevin, It's not gonna be like
last year.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We're not gonna be You can't promise that.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well what would be?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Yeah, it's gonna be worse than last year.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That was the worst year I've ever had in history
of it. Okay, what year was Year one? Where I
lost like a thousand dollars? But then I figured it out.
At least I understood how to play better. Your two
and your three made money. You're four. We lost a lot,
but everybody got hurt.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That was brutal.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Part of what are those the percentage getting like seventeen?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, he's divided three ways. Half half of it divided
three ways. So really, like it's not okay?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Do we know what I'm draft is yet or no?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
No, okay, you know enough to eat, enough to commit?
We just keep putting. Yeah, so we do have a
couple of cool things coming up. Though. We do have
the new head coach of Kansas State football, call in Clin,
coming up. We'll talk to him. It's like kids do
the darnedest things. Because I thought he was like twelve. Yeah, yeah,
(02:22):
he's like thirty six. Yeah, but he looks very young.
And I remember him playing.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
He was so good.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, he was awesome. So we'll talk to him. He's
a new head coach there. And then also doctor Goodrich,
who is the athletic director for Akron Sports, which is
Acron Football, which is where I'm trying to be the
assistant coach.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
So what would be the first play?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
He's not gonna tell you.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I don't want Robert Morris to be listening.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
That is true.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Dang Robert Morris.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Game of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You know they can't let me win, right, No, there's
no way you're gonna win. No, No, they have to, No,
they can't.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
It'll look great, gotta look bad.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Well probably, but now because it all looks so rigged.
If I do win, I don't think people will think
it's rigged. Opposite, because they'll go they wouldn't rig it.
Everybody would know it's gotta be real, or will they
be it's a rig It's frustrating because I was kind
of hoping it wouldn't go as viral as it did.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Just he could a sneak in there.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well, and now a lot of people are in it now.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
If it was only mildly viral, I felt like maybe
I'd be the only person with some notoriety.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And they go through the bag, there's two names of you.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And now I see a lot of people are jumping in.
So but we'll talk to him. So I think it's
a hilarious idea. Kevin gave me this. He said, a
fan won a contest to call a game.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Yeah, an inning on the radio is like local or
Phillies radio broadcast.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Oh okay, so he's a broadcaster.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, during the third ending of a game against the
Washington Nationals. This Phillies fantastic winner pH a in fan Phil.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah. Lewis Cobb joined Sports Radio ninety four. W I
here he is. This is him thirty five seconds of
his call.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Peter, but the first pitch to our teas that's in
there for strike one, called fills with two in the
bottom of the second to take the lead. As we
start the top of the third. Now Peyter delivers. It's
bounced foul towards the filly's dug out and they count
one and one. Deli's winning the first two games of
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this series, one more to go tomorrow night, and then
the three games set with the Blue Jays over the weekend.
Now Peter delivers. It's a check swing. It's a called
strike three. He got him.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Great job.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Sounds like an old school, traditional good broadcaster.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Real good job. Yeah, I'm surprised by that. I thought
there's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Some uh well, it's hoping to be like a kid.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Here's what he this is his friend on Twitter said
after the game. Because this guy does not have Twitter.
This is friends and he goes. I was his plus
one to this event. He has been an announcer for
Kid Sports for thirty years and used to be a
radio guide. This was his dream. He was happy to
hear all the positive comments. He doesn't have Twitter, but
I showed him the comments. It makes sense he has
a little background then, because he sounded here he really
(05:16):
is doing. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Now, if you're the other guys, the Phillies main guys,
are you like, it's kind of here to take my job?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
No, he's not that good. But I mean, if I
were to stumble across that, it would sound pretty normal
to me, Like I'm listening to a broadcast, I.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Would think that was just a guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
good for him. That's pretty fun. You want to go
to the call and Cline interview, let's do it, Okay.
Here he is from Kansas State calling Klin. All right,
let's bring on coach Colin Klin. One of the greatest
players in Kansas State football history, the guy that's leading
the program into its next chapter. As head coach, he
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helped lead the Wildcast to a Big twelve title. He's
in the Kansas State Ring of Honor, a Heisman finalist
in twenty twelve. Here he is coach Klin. And how's
it go? Get this?
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Good? Good to see you?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Good to see you too, So like, how did this
all happen? I just want to throw that question at you.
How did this all happen?
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Pretty much in a matter of hours.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
I think in this profession things go at warp speed
towards the end of the year, and we had finished
our last game versus Texas the Friday right after Thanksgiving,
and you know, I had a couple of interviews that
weekend with some other schools and Monday got a text
from coach Climbing and something might be happening in a
k state And within a matter of hours it kind
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of progressed from there.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
So you and coach are still good then.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Oh yeah, I mean Coach Climban and I have a
really incredible relationship. And you know, he retained me when
Coach Snyder retired and I was on his staff and
retained me as his quarterbacks. Coach promoted me a couple
of years later when I made a move at offensive coordinator.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
And our relationship.
Speaker 9 (06:59):
Has always been really in very real, always putting the
best interest of the other on, you know, ahead of
our own, which which is rare in the world and
rare in this world for sure. And we've stayed in
good touch even the last couple of years.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
When I was down in the A and M.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Coach climate texted me a couple of weeks ago and
asked me if he was coming to Nashville and his
wife was celebrated a major anniversarry and he was like,
can you tell me everything I need to do in Nashville?
So I wrote him out like this two page, like
very personal, like here's what you need to do. So,
coach client, I will extend that invitation to you. If
you come to town. You can hear me up. I
will lead you through all the Nashville things perfectly, just
like I did.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
Coach, that sounds great, I'll take you up on it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So we were down at TCU with coach Jamie Dixon,
who was massive for that program as a player now
the head basketball coach, and one of his things was, Hey,
you come here and you're the guy, but there's a
risk by the time something happened, you might not be
the guy anymore if you don't come and perform. Like
were you nervous about that? Come into where you are AO,
and now you're going to take over as the head guy.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Not really, you know, I think my my whole journey and.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
Player coach offensive coordinator here, you know, and having watched
coach Snyder.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
For many, many years, you know, if you're.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Thinking about that, your focus is in the wrong place,
and it's about you, you know, And I think I
have had some really really good examples and with the
background of my faith and having my mindset be truly
trying to serve and make an impact with the people
that you're around.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
That's the focus.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
That's been the focus, and trying to be excellent in
everything we do. The results are going to take care
of themselves, and and you know he's got all that cover.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Did you keep any good oil relationships from your time
with Texas A and M for for some funding up there.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
I don't know about that. You know, they're a pretty
loyal crew down there, but no, it was. It was
a great experience for two years for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That fan base at Texas A and M. And I
lived in Austin and I'm a long horned hater like hater,
I hate the Longhorns with the passion, and I'm not
I'm not really a Texas A and M fan, But
if you hate the Longhorns like I kind of like
I ride with you a little bit. But that that
Texas A and M fan base, I can appreciate how
cultish they are because I'm a razorbike fan and we
have to like be in the cult with each other
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like pretty loving wild fan base, right, I.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
Mean, there's no doubt and and you know, when you
look to it the I think what surprised me is
how down to earth they are top to bottom and
you know, grounded in their faith, family values, work ethic,
passion for obviously their school as a whole, not just
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their football program, which is which is incredible, especial group
of people.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We came out with coach Climbing, and we worked out
and got in the football stadium and and you know,
spent a couple of hours out there in Manhattan, and
what we were surprised by is like how like real
like how great the facilities are? Like I don't we
did not expect that, but we got there. We were
blown away. So what is there when you come in?
Do you think this can be improved? And what now
(10:19):
do you see? And go, man, we have it pretty
awesome here.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:23):
I think that reaction, Bobby is pretty uh standard when
when we get people, we get recruits, we get families
to campus here and they feel the family type atmosphere,
but then the pride in excellence and striving to be
the best and and and our uh you know, our
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our donors, support, our fans support is absolutely tremendous.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
Everything we've done has been has been raised with UH
private money and people that that care about our program
and and have been invested for a very very long time.
And I would put it up against anyone in the
country for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I don't even like purple. And I was ready, I
had it on. I felt like, like coach, it looked good.
We were coming out the entrance like all that they
do a great job up there.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Come on out, come on out. We'll get you geared up.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
The only problem is it's cold, Like it's just too
it's too cold for me. At what point do you
guys have to play cold weather football, meaning maybe you
don't throw as much. Is there a part of the
year where you kind of have to shift a bit
in case the weather gets bad?
Speaker 9 (11:28):
Not really believe it or not. Like I've been fortunate.
I've only played in one snow game here in Manhattan.
Had a couple some rain, but you know, and some
colder weather. But really until about mid November is when
it starts. You know, you get a chance to have
just a really really hard cold snap. Funny story on
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that that I think sometimes is a little bit of
a misnomer. I'm the one snow game I did coach here.
I wasn't even a player, I was a coach. In
my last game in twenty twenty three against Iowa State,
we had six inches of snow on the ground and
basically through for three hundred yards.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
And so sometimes bad weather games are actually really good
to throw the football.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Pretty advantageous to know all the traditions though, right you're
coming to a program as the head coach, have buddies
that are head coaches. They have to learn everything like
super quick, but you know them all.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
I think having a lay of the land, you know,
definitely gives you a head start, you know, I think,
and you kind of mentioned it earlier. Being a former
player having history sometimes I think there can be a
kind of a trap to slip into that you take
things for granted and just assume that things that have
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been successful or how you've been successful in the past
is makes it a guarantee for the future, which obviously
is false. That has nothing to do with our success
and where our future is headed. It's going to be
this group, this staff, this group of players, and those
little decisions that we make every day that are going
to lead to success.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
But you definitely have a head start.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Did you buy a house immediately or did you rent
and just wait for a house since you already know
the lay of the land.
Speaker 9 (13:15):
We had actually kept our place up here, so that
made the transition relatively smooth. We lived out in the
country and had some achorage, but ended up picking up
a place kind of close to campus for recruiting and
events and things. So it's but you're right, it's been
a pretty smooth transition.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
What about Avery Johnson?
Speaker 8 (13:34):
What about him?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I don't know. You tell me that's as open then
as I can ask. Well, tell me tell me about
Avery Johnson.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
I think, first of all, it's just an absolute privileged
I mean, I was part of the recruiting process coaching for.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
A year here.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
Being able to be reunited with someone that was very
dear to me and very very close to is special
and doesn't always happened, So extremely grateful for that. I
think Avery does not get enough credit for how competitive
he is, how hard he prepares mentally in the film room,
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and how he is a grinder from a football standpoint.
Everyone sees that he runs twenty three miles an hour.
He has a lead arm talent and has a beautiful
head of hair, right Like, everyone sees those things and
it kind of they get that in their mind, and
he does not get I don't think those are his
best qualities, you know, I really don't. And I knew
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that recruiting him. The perception of a quarterback is tied
directly to the bottom line of wins and losses. And
they have lost a I think it's over five games
by one score and a late score in the game
those last couple of years, and I think if those
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go a little bit differently, you know, I think that
probably changed his perception nationally, which not that that truly
deep down matters, but I think that definitely is a factor.
I'm excited to let him play, free, cut him loose.
He and I've always thought very very similarly and are
on the same page and excited to see what we
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can do this year.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
How involved will you be calling plays?
Speaker 8 (15:23):
We're going to be calling it. Yeah, it's I love
doing it.
Speaker 9 (15:27):
It was really really hard to even kind of get
my arms around kind of letting that go. I think
we've developed a very very elite package and a diverse
package that allows us to be flexible and do a
lot of things that are unique around the country, and
I want to see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
How hard is it to quickly put together a staff,
and what about how many coaches did you retain?
Speaker 9 (15:52):
So we retained one on each side of the ball
that I'd worked with before that I thought we're going
to be a good fit with kind of how that
was going to come to get other It's a lot
harder than people think, just because the time constraints.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
Everybody's in bowl games or.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
A lot of stuff going on in everybody's world that
you're trying to be respectful of but also be aggressive
and get the guys that you want, and then trying
to find the right fits. And it was something that
as a younger coach, you know, whether I had an opportunity,
didn't get an opportunity, you know, you kept hearing the word, well,
it's got to be the right fit. And I don't
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think you really understand how important that is until you
get older and you're on stabs that have those right
fits and the right people in the right place. And
but I've been really proud and excited of how this
has come together with the group.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
That we have as a head coach. Do you have
an acronym or some like through line that the guys
need to memorize.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
No, I mean we you know, our mantra here is family.
It's been that way for a very very long time.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
You know. We talk about how living that out differently.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
Everyone's going to say it, but how we live that
out here, of how we serve one another, how we
take care of one another, how we hold each other accountable,
is very very real. You know, we have our seven
principles and our core values and but really it's family,
is the mantra here.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
How important is it to beat Kansas?
Speaker 9 (17:23):
It's pretty important, you know. But at the same time,
you know, it's every game is hard. Winning is hard,
and I think you have to focus on those little
things and doing the right things the right way in
every game you play. It's it's not how much you
care about beating the other team, it's about what you
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do about it in.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Those little things.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I think I saw and my number it could be
off a little bit. They had fifty three new players,
you know, with your roster there. I mean, is there
like an orientation whenever that everybody day one comes into Absolutely.
Speaker 9 (17:59):
I think the current landscape has required a couple of
things that are different from even five years ago that
we have to do as coaches. And I think creating
culture and developing culture faster is as important as ever.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
I think that part.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
And then developing the football player fundamentally, strategically mentally so
that they understand what the heck it is they're doing
out on the field and not just relying on their
talent faster. Both of those things are at a premium.
I think it's interesting that there was I want to
say it was five times over coach Snyder's tenure here.
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He had over sixty players on the sixty new players
a year on the roster in a turnover cycle, and
I think how he was able to build culture here
faster and integrate players into our family model.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
He definitely didn't get enough credit for that.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
That was in a non portal era where there was
still a lot of juco transfer in that day and age.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
But it can be done.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
It's been done here for a long time, and when
you get the right pieces in place to bring that
culture together, special things happen.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I think there are a few things that come together
for teams who win. I just even look at Indiana
right that they could develop players. They got great players
from the portal. Also, you know, there are so many
teams in a conference now that sometimes you just get
a favorable schedule and sometimes though, you don't know what's
favorable and what's not until the year begins. So I'll
also say that, But I was looking at you guys schedule.
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You don't have TECH or BYU on the schedule this year.
I don't know that seems like it could be favorable.
Am I crazy for thinking that?
Speaker 10 (19:41):
No?
Speaker 8 (19:41):
I mean, I think you're definitely not wrong.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
But I think when you're talking in the numbers of
forty five to sixty five new players on a roster,
nobody really knows who anyone is. And you know, to
your point, we're going to find out, you know. I mean,
I I think there's a couple of teams with Houston
Arizona State, you know, and that can be very very formidable,
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you know, teams and in a really really good place.
So at the end of the day, we got to
worry about our shop and how we're handling our business
and put that ball down.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Whoever's across from us, are you already looking at Nichols
or do you have guys also looking at Washington State? Like,
how does that work with a coupled a few games
to start the season.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Yeah, well, we have a little bit of the summer
schedule that that we kind of worked through and out
of season process of breaking teams down, doing some initial
scout work on them, so we're not just starting straight
from scratch. We've already looked at them. But but again,
most of the teams on our on our schedule, we
have a preliminary overview and scout.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Report for what's been the thing you didn't expect that's
now happening to you about being the head coach, I.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
Think just and I knew it, but until you live
it and feel it, it probably is just different. I
think all the different directions you get pulled in and
having to go answer this question or solve this problem
and then jump right back into an old staff meeting
and get your brain back on track of you know
what we were talking about in third down or protection,
let's pick up stuff, and then just kind of having
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to constantly shift gears mentally in and out of different tasks.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
The first day or two when you get hired, is
your phone just going crazy, and it's hard to keep
up with anything and everything because again you're being dragged everywhere.
There's cameras everywhere, and also people that knew you at
the other place and also people that know you at
this place. I got to imagine that's overwhelming.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Oh, I mean, I think I had over three thousand
text messages on my phone in a matter of forty.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
Eight hours, you know, And it's just like it's again
the you always so many things, You've worked so hard
for an opportunity like that to come to fruition so
many people in your life if Fort Indian helped you
get there, you know, but then the scale and all
the moving pieces when it actually happens.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Honor blessing. But it's hard to get your mind around
for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
All right, two final questions. Is this your dream job?
Speaker 9 (22:06):
Absolutely? I mean, I mean this program is special to me.
I think there was such alignment that was a huge
part of what allowed me to be successful here as
a player from a value system, culture, community people, family
ties with my wife, her dad and going back a
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very very long time. It's definitely a good fit and
the mindset of that we're here to make a difference.
In an impact and the people were around that my
two predecessors have did for a very very long time.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
This place is special.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Final question it may feel kind of dumb, but some
of the other ones have been dumb to is that
you know, schools get paid based on how many people
play with them during NCAA College football the game on PlayStation.
I have a friend that's an athletic director, and he's like, man,
we're trying to get people to play with him because
the more play with our team, the more money the
school makes that we can use. Are you familiar with
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that at all? Or does it not even affect Kansas
State because you guys are so big?
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Uh? You know, I had not I had not heard
that specifically. Break there you go.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
No, I think I did not know that. But let's
we need to get it out there. Everyone needs to
play with Kansas State.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Hey, coach, congratulations, I'm rooting for you guys, maybe all
except for the Kansas game. I'm coaching. I'm coach with
Lance maybe me and you'll get there at some point,
but maybe other than the Kansas game. I hope you
guys have an awesome season. I loved it up there.
Again I could not believe how elite the facilities were
and how kind everyone was. And again we spent the
whole day. Even the sandwiches. Mine didn't even have mayonnaise
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on it. They made sure mine didn't have mayonnaise, and
I hate mayonnaise, and I'll never forget that.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
Coach, come on out and see us, my man.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
We'll get you a good steak, maybe even some barbecue,
and it'll be great.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Thanks coach, I hope you have a great season.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
Good all, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Now let's bring in doctor Andrew Goodrich, the director of
athletics at the University of Akron, my new favorite school,
my new favorite I just said, I'm such a fan. Jo,
Yes he is. Behind. Well, we've been talking about on
this show where if you buy a season tickets you
have a chance basically to be the offensive coordinator. We
clap our hands with doctor Goodrich. Okay, doctor Goodwich. My
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first question is who thought of this idea?
Speaker 11 (24:28):
You know, really it was a combination me and Matt
Potter or who's my deputy director of athletics. We were
in Tampa, Florida. We had just played in the NCAA tournament.
Our men's basketball team had a great showing. Our fans
were down there. We had a great time. It was awesome.
When we got on the plane and we were heading back,
we were thinking about how in the world do we
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create that type of fan experience that we had at
basketball for football, and we batted around a lot of ideas,
and I think at one point, you know, I said
to Matt, I said, you know, you realize coach is
both the head coach and.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
The offensive coordinator. What if we had like an.
Speaker 11 (25:05):
Offensive coordinator of the game, you know, we could we
got to give it to one of our fans, you know,
a season ticket holder, and he's like, are you crazy.
We can't do that, you know, And we were like, hmm,
what if we just did one play? And we thought, okay,
one play, I think we could do that. That would
be fun. But then we felt like, it's just not
the impact that we want that fan to experience. Right,
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it's fun, but we really started thinking, what if we
just had them script the opening drive.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
You get a chance to do what we've all done.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
We've all stood in our living rooms, We've all sat there,
pointed at the TV and said, oh, I would run
this play.
Speaker 12 (25:41):
I would run that play's what we got to do.
Speaker 13 (25:43):
And we thought this might be this might be something
we could do, and we took it to coach and
coach was very reasonably.
Speaker 12 (25:55):
Skeptical about this idea. Is that fair?
Speaker 11 (26:01):
If any of you have spent time with a Division
one head football coach, it was more colorful language than that.
Speaker 12 (26:06):
But you know, we really got talking.
Speaker 11 (26:09):
About it and we said, listen, we've got a great
head coach who's an incredible offensive coordinator. This is his
forty second opening day, He's been there, done that, it's
not his first rodeo. He is really an educator at heart,
and I think there's a little part of him that's
really looking forward to mentoring this person.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
And going, hey, get in here.
Speaker 11 (26:27):
We're gonna we're gonna watch a film, we're gonna look
at the players, we're gonna look at the defense as
we're expecting. Let's get in here, let's think about this.
And you know, and he's really leaned into it. And
I give him so much credit because the truth is this,
if Joe Morehead is.
Speaker 12 (26:41):
Like, we're not doing this, then we're not doing it.
Speaker 11 (26:44):
But Joe Morehead has got an incredible amount of courage
and I think he gets it.
Speaker 12 (26:49):
He just gets it, and you know, here we are.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
You know, it's taking the internet by storm, which I'm
a little bit disappointed in because I saw it pretty
early and thought I'm buying tickets immediately, and then everybody
saw how great of an idea was. And now all
my friends, even in media, are like, I'm in. But
I will say this, Doctor Goodrich, I bought good season tickets.
I didn't buy the seventy five dollars ones. I bought
the ones lower that were definitely about double because also
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I wanted to donate them to the kids they're there,
and I've already been, you know, talking back to make
sure that when I can't get to the games. But look,
if I'm there for Game one, I planned to be
there a lot. I pland to be the biggest supporter.
Have you guys sold a lot of tickets.
Speaker 11 (27:30):
You know, we had our biggest day of sales, one
day of sales since we opened the stadium back in
two thousand and eight. So that's huge for us, right
in terms of scale. Listen, we're not the world's largest
Division one football program.
Speaker 12 (27:43):
That was a really big deal for US.
Speaker 11 (27:45):
I will say that I was a part of a
team that did something similar at the University of Miami
about twelve thirteen years ago, and when that marketing promotion
went viral, what we found was the ticket sales weren't
in day one, two and three.
Speaker 12 (28:00):
It came in weeks two, three.
Speaker 11 (28:02):
And four, And we do anticipate that this is going
to have a significant impact on.
Speaker 12 (28:07):
Our ticket sales.
Speaker 11 (28:08):
What was actually pretty great is we had somebody call
in and say, hey, how many sweets he got left.
We end up selling out our suites, and we've been
contacted by a pretty large company who is.
Speaker 12 (28:18):
Interested in being our Jersey patch sponsor.
Speaker 11 (28:21):
So you know, I think the greatest impact might not
necessarily be tickets sold, but corporate sponsorships and just overall
support for the football program.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
That's so cool. I have family in coaching, in college coaching,
and my brother in law is the head coach at
Tulsa Softball now and his mom is the head coach
at Oklahoma and she's won eight national championships, and softballs
very much in the blood of our family and collegiate
sports very much. And I'm a massive Arkansas guy and
I've donated a ton of money there just through nil
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through foundation because I understand the game of it now.
It's all about money. You got to have money to
come good for you. And so I bought at Tulsa
the left field wall and all the left and it
says the Bobby Bones Boneyard and so awesome. I bought that.
It's there, it's on the wall, and then every home
run that's hit, I donate one hundred bucks to the
hospital there in Tulsa. So it's kind of my way
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of one helping the program and two being able to
give back. But you are right, it is all about
oddly getting finances because you've got so many things to
pay for now just to be competitive. So that's so
exciting that more people are jumping in to help you
be a competitive program.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
Absolutely no, we appreciate the support. Listen, just the brand awareness. Alone,
we are over twenty million views on that post on
X alone. I've never seen anything like it, We've never
done anything like it. It's Taylor Swift esque, you know, like,
and we are getting all sorts of support. I saw
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something from an Irish newspaper, so really it's even gone
beyond our borders. It's kind of become a global phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah, we can't have a soccer player calling plays, doctor,
we don't. We don't need some iris. Sofctric guy out
there calling up calling places for American football.
Speaker 12 (30:05):
Little reversed ted lasto Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. So when do you guys
plan to draw? And is the drawing going to be
truly random?
Speaker 8 (30:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (30:14):
So I think it's really important because as we read
everything on social the biggest thing that people are concerned
about is, hey, now that we have incredible celebrities like
yourself getting involved, you know, the pr thing for us
to do is just get earned media by getting a
famous person. I want you, I appreciate you. I'm really
glad that you bought these tickets. We're grateful to have
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you as a season ticket holder. But we are going
to stick to the intent and this will be a
random selection draw. So one person will have a shot
at doing this, because it is the dream, right, somebody
is going to get this shot to do this. And
now I will say, the more season tickets people buy,
you know, the greater your opportunity to win. But that
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being said, I think it's impt for all our fans
to realize, yes, we will stick to.
Speaker 12 (31:02):
That and it will be random.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I don't like that personally, I'm just saying I don't
like him. I don't like the fairness of it. Are
you going to put in a bucket? How are you
going to do that?
Speaker 11 (31:11):
You know, So, being really candid, we thought this would
have an incredible impact on our community here in Akron,
maybe Northeast Ohio. We never imagine in a million years
that I would be here on your podcast right talking
about this, and so I always say we reserve the
right to become more intelligent over time. We're going to
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reevaluate exactly how we intend to share this with everyone,
because frankly, at this point, we have a responsibility to
America to do this right.
Speaker 12 (31:43):
So everybody's invested in this.
Speaker 11 (31:46):
I want to make sure that you know, people are
looking at the University of Akron and really seeing us
as leaders in the space. And so we're probably candidly,
we're probably going to work with our College of Business.
We've got a great group over there, student sport Analytics group,
and I imagine we're going to partner with the sports
analytics program over in the College of Business so that
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they can help us have a truly random draw.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
You know, there'll be a lot of copycats.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Now, you know that's all right.
Speaker 11 (32:15):
I probably should have trademarked this and got some licensing
revenue out of it. Bobby, if you could help me
with that a little bit, maybe you know, we can
split that rev a little bit.
Speaker 12 (32:24):
You know, that's an uncharted territory for us.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
What's great about the Akron Zips in general? What do
you love about that job?
Speaker 11 (32:32):
I'll tell you I love I love this community, right,
you know, blue collar, hard working, really dedicated, loyal human
beings who just they love being from Ohio.
Speaker 12 (32:46):
They love northeast Ohio.
Speaker 11 (32:47):
You know, listen, we're very very proud, you know Lebron
james hometown, Akron, Ohio. Lebron's been great for us, very
supportive of us. Actually, Lebron James Family Foundation is located
right here year in Infocision Stadium, our football stadium, and
so I love the underdog mentality that we have here.
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One of the things we're really proud of is that
we do have the second smallest budget of all FBS
schools in America. But an economist just did an evaluation
of last year's overall college athletics performance. We were ranked
the number ninth most efficient and effective athletics program in America.
Speaker 12 (33:30):
So we're really proud of that.
Speaker 11 (33:31):
I mean, we have championship level programs that we have
a men's soccer program that's made it to.
Speaker 12 (33:37):
The Elite eight last year.
Speaker 11 (33:38):
We had a men's basketball program that made it to
the NCAA tournament three consecutive years in a row. We're
going for four consecutive MAC championships. And you know, I
just think that this football program.
Speaker 12 (33:50):
Is on the rise.
Speaker 11 (33:51):
We went five and seven last year, and we really
think we have a shot at getting to a bowl
game this year. And just really proud of this university
and the way it's bounced back and fights to continue
to make the climb.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Doctor Goodwich, did you play baseball in college?
Speaker 14 (34:08):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (34:08):
I did.
Speaker 11 (34:09):
I am a very proud graduate of Cumberland University over
there in Lebanon, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
And what position did you play and how many years
did you get in there at Cumberland?
Speaker 11 (34:20):
So I played three seasons at Cumberland. I frankly was
a utility player, sometimes outfield, sometimes infield, and occasionally got
behind the plate.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Hey what do you think about the new you know,
five years you know, they're dealing with it right now,
so I'm sure you're having to think about this as well.
What's happening right now in college sports with that five.
These players want the extra year, but it's going to
come down to the calendar.
Speaker 11 (34:45):
Ultimately, I think that the five for five is going
to be a good thing because it's going to stabilize
what we're doing and try to have standards that are
fair and equal across all sports and all divisions. So
I ultimately think it's a good thing. It is difficult
to make that transition from where we are into this,
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and you know, I just think that the price of
progress is a little bit of pain from time to time,
and we will get through this and we'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
How do you feel like the Action games when they're
on like a random night, because I love those games
because there's no other night like a Tuesday, and I'm
in Maction. It's awesome.
Speaker 12 (35:22):
You know.
Speaker 11 (35:23):
It's it's polarizing a little bit on one hand, because
I agree with you one hundred percent. I love being
the only show in town on a Tuesday night. Everybody
in America is watching our programs. I think it's been
really interesting because what we've learned is that in this
new era of college sports and sports wagering becoming a
big deal in the United States, I mean, the views
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of those Tuesday night games, when we're the only teams
that you know, betters are betting on, is really really
valuable for our programs. On the other hand, I feel
for our fans who love that traditional college football experience
that want to be year for a weekend. They want
a tailgate, they want to do all that, and that's
not afforded to you on Tuesdays and Wednesday nights. And
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so we balance it, you know, and we try to
do our best to give our student athletes the greatest
experience they can have those days. And you know what, frankly,
it's a cumbent upon us to learn how to be
great marketers and figure out a way to get those
buildings filled on Tuesday nights.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
What's up with Zippy the Kangaroo?
Speaker 11 (36:25):
The best mascot in America? Only female mascot in America.
Zippy is female. She's got a pouch, right, and so
it has been named the best mascot in America and
a number of different polls throughout the year, and beloved, beloved,
mascot here.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Well, is that real? You have a real kangaroo, So we.
Speaker 11 (36:43):
Do not have a real kangaroos at least at least
not yet.
Speaker 12 (36:48):
Not yet. We're working on that. That might be the
next one.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
That's the thing, that's a new one that next year
you get to play with the kangaroo if you're sees
a ticket holder when they get a real one. That yeah,
I bother you.
Speaker 11 (36:59):
Get the almost like Ralphie out there at the University
of Colorado. You get to walk with the kangaroo and
just walk him out onto the man.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
That will be fun. Wellk I'm so excited because this
is I love when a new element is brought and
it's fun, and especially for a school like you. Guys,
you're everybody's fight for attention. Like I said, we're always
in an attention economy and you're trying to raise money
and you're trying to fight for attention to raise money.
And I think it's really cool how everyone has kind
of gravitated to this. So congratulations to you and your
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team for having such a great idea. I know it's
going to be completely random, but for some reason, my
name is drawing a planning to be there a couple
days early in the film room breaking it down. Listen,
I've been studying RPOs for on college football, mad I'm
really good running the RPO spread offense. If you can
let them. The rest is shirt. When I show up,
I'll be ready to go. But uh, doctor Goodrich, thank
you so much, and I hope you have a wonderful week.
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And I can't wait for the drawing to happen and
see who gets to do it.
Speaker 12 (37:53):
Thank you very much. We appreciate you, guys.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Go zips goes. I agree, go freaking zips. All right,
thank you, doctor Rich.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
All right, you guys want to play a game? Yeah? Oh,
what do you got? I have who said It? Sports Edition?
I'll play you an iconic sports line. You tell me
who it is.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Write your answer down.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
M sounds tough. Oh, like a few of them come
to mind, you know, like I can think of the
big ones. You what an example? Yeah? Please, here's your example.
That's an example for an example?
Speaker 8 (38:23):
Who is that?
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Jimmy Johnson?
Speaker 9 (38:24):
Here you go?
Speaker 13 (38:24):
Easy?
Speaker 10 (38:25):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (38:26):
I feel like that's gonna be the easiest one.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Then no, then we left that one on the board.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
No movies, right, this is all real it's all real.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Okay, all right, best of seven.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Here's your first clip.
Speaker 12 (38:35):
I'm here so I won't get fine.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Who said it?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Let me know when you're in anyway you got I
have beast mode, Cavin.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
Oh yeah, that's my new airport buddy, beast mode.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
One point for each person there you go. See, good job?
Speaker 8 (38:53):
I like it, all right.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Number two, playoffs.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Don't talk about playoffs.
Speaker 10 (38:58):
You kidding me?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Play off?
Speaker 10 (39:00):
I just hope we can win a game.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
You know who that is? Kevin is locked in playoffs
I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
I have heard that, but yeah you've seen it. Heard it.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
I've seen it, but I don't know that Did's name?
Need it again?
Speaker 12 (39:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Please?
Speaker 14 (39:17):
Playoffs?
Speaker 5 (39:18):
Don't talk about playoffs.
Speaker 10 (39:20):
You kidding me?
Speaker 14 (39:21):
Playoffs?
Speaker 10 (39:22):
I just hope we can win a game.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
All right, I'm in. All right, Anie, what you got
I'm gonna get this wrong, but I'm gonna go with
coach Mora.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
That is correct?
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Yeah that's Jim, is it?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Jim Yea was the Saints Colts? Colts?
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Stop right, all right, here's clipping job.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
The Bears or who.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
We thought they were. That's why we took the damn field. Now,
if you want to crown them, then crown their ass.
But they are who we thought they were, and we
let them out.
Speaker 8 (39:57):
The hook said it.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
That's tough.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
You're in Monday night football.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
The Bears are who we thought they were. Here's that
clip again.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
The Bears or who we thought they were. That's why
we took the damn field. Now, if you want to
crown them, they crown their ass. But they are who
we thought they were, and we let them out.
Speaker 11 (40:19):
The hook.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Kevin is locked in, Eddie, you thinking about it? I'm in,
all right, Eddie's locked in.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
What do you got?
Speaker 7 (40:27):
I have?
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Joe Gibbs, Danny Green, Kevin with the point.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Yeah, Cardinals, Cardinals RP.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Dude, did they kill the Bears?
Speaker 6 (40:36):
No, they were up big and the Bears were good,
and then they came back and the Bears won.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
All right, here's clip numberfore do Ball.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Oh, Duvall is not tailing Ramsey.
Speaker 10 (40:50):
Here it is again, do Ball.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
Oh my gosh, I'm blanking on the name.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
It be.
Speaker 6 (41:01):
Some sort No, I'm just saying the other clip that
was viral of Duvall with Jayalen Ramsey, and that's definitely
not him.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
I'm I'm blanking right. Final time, du ball.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
I know who it is, but I can't think of
the name right now.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
I'm written down. What's he saying? Like, like, what's the context?
Duvall man, I have something?
Speaker 6 (41:26):
Okay, I don't have a name, but I will say
the Jaguars head coach. I need a name, coach, will
Willy Willy Stein.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Willie Stein hell a coach incorrect? Anybody got I have
a Brandon Marshall incorrect?
Speaker 5 (41:42):
It is Liam Cohen, Liam Cohen chance.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
When he first signed on YEP press conference, all all right,
clip number five?
Speaker 8 (41:51):
Stead to be happy about job's not finish, job finished.
Speaker 4 (41:55):
I don't think so, We're good. I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
He played one more time one more time.
Speaker 8 (42:00):
Instead to be happy about job's not finish, job finished.
I don't think so. Mmm.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
I mean I have a guess.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
Go for it.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Kobe, Yep, it is Kobe.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Next up.
Speaker 10 (42:18):
It's my quarterback.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
I'm good.
Speaker 8 (42:25):
I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
If you said no movies, it's not about movies.
Speaker 5 (42:30):
That's not Cuba good and jor it does not like them.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yeah, one more time.
Speaker 10 (42:36):
It's my quarterback.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
It does not like Cuba.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
That's oh my gosh, who is that I think that
deserves an oscar. He's nothing gonna be like, hey with Jerry,
show me the money.
Speaker 5 (42:47):
Jerry, you need this, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (42:50):
I know I do only down one hear one more time,
one more time.
Speaker 10 (42:55):
It's my quarterback.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Okay, you know, okay, I'm gonna guess Ocho Cinco.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
Ah, dude, how do you know t O?
Speaker 3 (43:03):
By the way, who's he talking about? He's not about Romo,
talk about the rest.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
It's a recent quarterback, all right.
Speaker 8 (43:16):
Last one.
Speaker 14 (43:18):
This is what the greatest thing about sports is.
Speaker 10 (43:20):
You play to win the game. Hello, You play to
win the game?
Speaker 3 (43:26):
You are I have no idea what these are?
Speaker 5 (43:30):
Like my childhood, right, that's your childhood?
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Yeah okay, but again.
Speaker 14 (43:34):
Mike, this is what the greatest thing about sports is.
Speaker 10 (43:37):
You play to win the game. Hello, You play to
win the game.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Dude, I have nothing. Have they all been? No, they've
been all sports. Right, so it's like gonna be a
basketball all sports.
Speaker 6 (43:51):
I'm gonna win no matter what. Right, Yeah, okay, So Eddie,
it's can I give you Mike?
Speaker 3 (43:56):
Kevin misses it and then Eddie gets you know it? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (44:02):
Yeah, yeah, well what not that I don't want to
say you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
What's your number? Okay, what do you gotta give me
a hint?
Speaker 5 (44:10):
Okay, it is football, coach, it is football.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
That's a coach. Can't play one more time, fast time.
Speaker 14 (44:16):
This is what the greatest thing about sports is.
Speaker 10 (44:18):
You play to win the game. Hello, you play to
win the game.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Jets, the Jets, I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Herm Edwards.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Oh that's Herm Edwards. Okay, clinched, Dang. Kevin's good at this.
Speaker 5 (44:38):
You want to run the rest of these, Kevin, Yeah,
you got more?
Speaker 3 (44:40):
Yeah, victory, victory, lap, everything is possible.
Speaker 10 (44:44):
Anything.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
That's my boy. Kg you got it.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Here you go and you're telling them one thing.
Speaker 8 (44:54):
Just win.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
Oh good, old r I P L.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Davis.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
It's it, dude, You're so good at this.
Speaker 8 (45:01):
Here you go, hold on the best corner the guy.
Speaker 12 (45:04):
I mean, what a sort that's.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
The result of all kid, Richard Sherman, that was yeah,
I got three more.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Al Michaels got it, young al Michaels. Yeah, dude, listen
to his young voice. That's crazy. You got two more?
Speaker 10 (45:28):
Good boom tough act into the acting.
Speaker 5 (45:32):
Coach Madden got it last one.
Speaker 10 (45:35):
I'm gonna float like a butterfly and sting like a bead.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Yeah, that would be the greatest of all time. Mohammed.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Oh, I think they found Kevinton talent. Good job, dude,
that's awesome. Many and by the way, I want to
tell you congratulations first. But I like your voice.
Speaker 5 (45:53):
Yeah, you like a deeper likeness.
Speaker 6 (45:54):
Well, I hope my sinuses don't stick around for the
entire year. But yeah, it sucks, but it does sound good,
doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
Yes, whenever I wake up with sciences, like obviously, I
stress out, like, oh my gosh, you gotta do the
radio show. I feel, you know, But dude, I start
singing songs, you know, like Barry White, You're good enough
for you, a little baby, a.
Speaker 6 (46:13):
Little Josh Turner baby lucked them in and turned them
lives down loads.
Speaker 4 (46:18):
Good dude, Thanks man.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
All right, are we out of here? Mike here man? Okay,
you got anything good this weekend?
Speaker 5 (46:25):
I had surgery, dude, you have it? Yeah Friday tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Oh dang.
Speaker 8 (46:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (46:30):
So uh, I'll do a whole lot of nothing.
Speaker 6 (46:32):
My Dad's coming in town and help me out because Alex
and the babies are out of town.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
So yeah, you and Pops, me and popsy you know, Dann.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
That's cool. Yeah, good luck man, Thanks, everything goes well,
Mike you good, I'm good, all right, We'll see you
guys next week. Oh I got here, we go all right,
see you guys.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Theme song written by Bobby Bones That's Me and performed
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We'll talk to you next time here on twenty five
whistles
This is a podcast called twenty five whist talking and
they wear a whist so.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, it's too bad, But what did you expect?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It's a podcast called twenty five Whistles twenty whine win.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I blow it. You join a fantasy league, but people
you don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I haven't joined yet. I got asked too, though. I
got a DM from someone that said I listened to
twenty five Whistles love you guys? Would you like to
play in our fantasy league? Just me and my buddies?
And I'm like, I don't know you. It's kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Is there real money?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I haven't asked. I mean that even gone that far.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Because what will happen is if it's not real money,
you'll go yeah, then you'll forget all the time, and
you won't set your lineups, and you'll be that annoying
person and your players because you're not getting Because the
motivators are in a fantasy league to either win money
or beat your friends.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yes, that's it, I know, but I'm telling you lately,
it's been I mean I'm lately meaning the last four
or five years is like Sunday comes and I've got
a whole checklist of things to do. Check this league,
make sure starters are good on this league.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It feels like it's too much DraftKings.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
And then I'm just like, I'm not even having fun.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And not only that.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Skins Skins, Well, I don't have to do any prep
for skins. That was all done. And then but you're
just watching stress What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
What do we do the most stressful?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
That one's the most stressful.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
What are we doing as I can't do it?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Come on, come on, Kevin, It's not gonna be like
last year.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We're not gonna be You can't promise that.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well what would be?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Yeah, it's gonna be worse than last year.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That was the worst year I've ever had in history
of it. Okay, what year was Year one? Where I
lost like a thousand dollars? But then I figured it out.
At least I understood how to play better. Your two
and your three made money. You're four. We lost a lot,
but everybody got hurt.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That was brutal.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Part of what are those the percentage getting like seventeen?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, he's divided three ways. Half half of it divided
three ways. So really, like it's not okay?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Do we know what I'm draft is yet or no?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
No, okay, you know enough to eat, enough to commit?
We just keep putting. Yeah, so we do have a
couple of cool things coming up. Though. We do have
the new head coach of Kansas State football, call in Clin,
coming up. We'll talk to him. It's like kids do
the darnedest things. Because I thought he was like twelve. Yeah, yeah,
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he's like thirty six. Yeah, but he looks very young.
And I remember him playing.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
He was so good.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, he was awesome. So we'll talk to him. He's
a new head coach there. And then also doctor Goodrich,
who is the athletic director for Akron Sports, which is
Acron Football, which is where I'm trying to be the
assistant coach.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
So what would be the first play?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
He's not gonna tell you.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I don't want Robert Morris to be listening.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
That is true.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Dang Robert Morris.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Game of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You know they can't let me win, right, No, there's
no way you're gonna win. No, No, they have to, No,
they can't.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
It'll look great, gotta look bad.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Well probably, but now because it all looks so rigged.
If I do win, I don't think people will think
it's rigged. Opposite, because they'll go they wouldn't rig it.
Everybody would know it's gotta be real, or will they
be it's a rig It's frustrating because I was kind
of hoping it wouldn't go as viral as it did.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Just he could a sneak in there.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well, and now a lot of people are in it now.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
If it was only mildly viral, I felt like maybe
I'd be the only person with some notoriety.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And they go through the bag, there's two names of you.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And now I see a lot of people are jumping in.
So but we'll talk to him. So I think it's
a hilarious idea. Kevin gave me this. He said, a
fan won a contest to call a game.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Yeah, an inning on the radio is like local or
Phillies radio broadcast.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Oh okay, so he's a broadcaster.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, during the third ending of a game against the
Washington Nationals. This Phillies fantastic winner pH a in fan Phil.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah. Lewis Cobb joined Sports Radio ninety four. W I
here he is. This is him thirty five seconds of
his call.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Peter, but the first pitch to our teas that's in
there for strike one, called fills with two in the
bottom of the second to take the lead. As we
start the top of the third. Now Peyter delivers. It's
bounced foul towards the filly's dug out and they count
one and one. Deli's winning the first two games of
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this series, one more to go tomorrow night, and then
the three games set with the Blue Jays over the weekend.
Now Peter delivers. It's a check swing. It's a called
strike three. He got him.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Great job.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Sounds like an old school, traditional good broadcaster.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Real good job. Yeah, I'm surprised by that. I thought
there's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Some uh well, it's hoping to be like a kid.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Here's what he this is his friend on Twitter said
after the game. Because this guy does not have Twitter.
This is friends and he goes. I was his plus
one to this event. He has been an announcer for
Kid Sports for thirty years and used to be a
radio guide. This was his dream. He was happy to
hear all the positive comments. He doesn't have Twitter, but
I showed him the comments. It makes sense he has
a little background then, because he sounded here he really
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is doing. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Now, if you're the other guys, the Phillies main guys,
are you like, it's kind of here to take my job?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
No, he's not that good. But I mean, if I
were to stumble across that, it would sound pretty normal
to me, Like I'm listening to a broadcast, I.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Would think that was just a guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
good for him. That's pretty fun. You want to go
to the call and Cline interview, let's do it, Okay.
Here he is from Kansas State calling Klin. All right,
let's bring on coach Colin Klin. One of the greatest
players in Kansas State football history, the guy that's leading
the program into its next chapter. As head coach, he
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helped lead the Wildcast to a Big twelve title. He's
in the Kansas State Ring of Honor, a Heisman finalist
in twenty twelve. Here he is coach Klin. And how's
it go? Get this?
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Good? Good to see you?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Good to see you too, So like, how did this
all happen? I just want to throw that question at you.
How did this all happen?
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Pretty much in a matter of hours.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
I think in this profession things go at warp speed
towards the end of the year, and we had finished
our last game versus Texas the Friday right after Thanksgiving,
and you know, I had a couple of interviews that
weekend with some other schools and Monday got a text
from coach Climbing and something might be happening in a
k state And within a matter of hours it kind
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of progressed from there.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
So you and coach are still good then.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Oh yeah, I mean Coach Climban and I have a
really incredible relationship. And you know, he retained me when
Coach Snyder retired and I was on his staff and
retained me as his quarterbacks. Coach promoted me a couple
of years later when I made a move at offensive coordinator.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
And our relationship.
Speaker 9 (06:59):
Has always been really in very real, always putting the
best interest of the other on, you know, ahead of
our own, which which is rare in the world and
rare in this world for sure. And we've stayed in
good touch even the last couple of years.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
When I was down in the A and M.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Coach climate texted me a couple of weeks ago and
asked me if he was coming to Nashville and his
wife was celebrated a major anniversarry and he was like,
can you tell me everything I need to do in Nashville?
So I wrote him out like this two page, like
very personal, like here's what you need to do. So,
coach client, I will extend that invitation to you. If
you come to town. You can hear me up. I
will lead you through all the Nashville things perfectly, just
like I did.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
Coach, that sounds great, I'll take you up on it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So we were down at TCU with coach Jamie Dixon,
who was massive for that program as a player now
the head basketball coach, and one of his things was, Hey,
you come here and you're the guy, but there's a
risk by the time something happened, you might not be
the guy anymore if you don't come and perform. Like
were you nervous about that? Come into where you are AO,
and now you're going to take over as the head guy.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Not really, you know, I think my my whole journey and.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
Player coach offensive coordinator here, you know, and having watched
coach Snyder.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
For many, many years, you know, if you're.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Thinking about that, your focus is in the wrong place,
and it's about you, you know, And I think I
have had some really really good examples and with the
background of my faith and having my mindset be truly
trying to serve and make an impact with the people
that you're around.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
That's the focus.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
That's been the focus, and trying to be excellent in
everything we do. The results are going to take care
of themselves, and and you know he's got all that cover.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Did you keep any good oil relationships from your time
with Texas A and M for for some funding up there.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
I don't know about that. You know, they're a pretty
loyal crew down there, but no, it was. It was
a great experience for two years for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That fan base at Texas A and M. And I
lived in Austin and I'm a long horned hater like hater,
I hate the Longhorns with the passion, and I'm not
I'm not really a Texas A and M fan, But
if you hate the Longhorns like I kind of like
I ride with you a little bit. But that that
Texas A and M fan base, I can appreciate how
cultish they are because I'm a razorbike fan and we
have to like be in the cult with each other
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like pretty loving wild fan base, right, I.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
Mean, there's no doubt and and you know, when you
look to it the I think what surprised me is
how down to earth they are top to bottom and
you know, grounded in their faith, family values, work ethic,
passion for obviously their school as a whole, not just
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their football program, which is which is incredible, especial group
of people.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We came out with coach Climbing, and we worked out
and got in the football stadium and and you know,
spent a couple of hours out there in Manhattan, and
what we were surprised by is like how like real
like how great the facilities are? Like I don't we
did not expect that, but we got there. We were
blown away. So what is there when you come in?
Do you think this can be improved? And what now
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do you see? And go, man, we have it pretty
awesome here.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:23):
I think that reaction, Bobby is pretty uh standard when
when we get people, we get recruits, we get families
to campus here and they feel the family type atmosphere,
but then the pride in excellence and striving to be
the best and and and our uh you know, our
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our donors, support, our fans support is absolutely tremendous.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
Everything we've done has been has been raised with UH
private money and people that that care about our program
and and have been invested for a very very long time.
And I would put it up against anyone in the
country for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I don't even like purple. And I was ready, I
had it on. I felt like, like coach, it looked good.
We were coming out the entrance like all that they
do a great job up there.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Come on out, come on out. We'll get you geared up.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
The only problem is it's cold, Like it's just too
it's too cold for me. At what point do you
guys have to play cold weather football, meaning maybe you
don't throw as much. Is there a part of the
year where you kind of have to shift a bit
in case the weather gets bad?
Speaker 9 (11:28):
Not really believe it or not. Like I've been fortunate.
I've only played in one snow game here in Manhattan.
Had a couple some rain, but you know, and some
colder weather. But really until about mid November is when
it starts. You know, you get a chance to have
just a really really hard cold snap. Funny story on
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that that I think sometimes is a little bit of
a misnomer. I'm the one snow game I did coach here.
I wasn't even a player, I was a coach. In
my last game in twenty twenty three against Iowa State,
we had six inches of snow on the ground and
basically through for three hundred yards.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
And so sometimes bad weather games are actually really good
to throw the football.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Pretty advantageous to know all the traditions though, right you're
coming to a program as the head coach, have buddies
that are head coaches. They have to learn everything like
super quick, but you know them all.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
I think having a lay of the land, you know,
definitely gives you a head start, you know, I think,
and you kind of mentioned it earlier. Being a former
player having history sometimes I think there can be a
kind of a trap to slip into that you take
things for granted and just assume that things that have
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been successful or how you've been successful in the past
is makes it a guarantee for the future, which obviously
is false. That has nothing to do with our success
and where our future is headed. It's going to be
this group, this staff, this group of players, and those
little decisions that we make every day that are going
to lead to success.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
But you definitely have a head start.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Did you buy a house immediately or did you rent
and just wait for a house since you already know
the lay of the land.
Speaker 9 (13:15):
We had actually kept our place up here, so that
made the transition relatively smooth. We lived out in the
country and had some achorage, but ended up picking up
a place kind of close to campus for recruiting and
events and things. So it's but you're right, it's been
a pretty smooth transition.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
What about Avery Johnson?
Speaker 8 (13:34):
What about him?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I don't know. You tell me that's as open then
as I can ask. Well, tell me tell me about
Avery Johnson.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
I think, first of all, it's just an absolute privileged
I mean, I was part of the recruiting process coaching for.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
A year here.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
Being able to be reunited with someone that was very
dear to me and very very close to is special
and doesn't always happened, So extremely grateful for that. I
think Avery does not get enough credit for how competitive
he is, how hard he prepares mentally in the film room,
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and how he is a grinder from a football standpoint.
Everyone sees that he runs twenty three miles an hour.
He has a lead arm talent and has a beautiful
head of hair, right Like, everyone sees those things and
it kind of they get that in their mind, and
he does not get I don't think those are his
best qualities, you know, I really don't. And I knew
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that recruiting him. The perception of a quarterback is tied
directly to the bottom line of wins and losses. And
they have lost a I think it's over five games
by one score and a late score in the game
those last couple of years, and I think if those
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go a little bit differently, you know, I think that
probably changed his perception nationally, which not that that truly
deep down matters, but I think that definitely is a factor.
I'm excited to let him play, free, cut him loose.
He and I've always thought very very similarly and are
on the same page and excited to see what we
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can do this year.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
How involved will you be calling plays?
Speaker 8 (15:23):
We're going to be calling it. Yeah, it's I love
doing it.
Speaker 9 (15:27):
It was really really hard to even kind of get
my arms around kind of letting that go. I think
we've developed a very very elite package and a diverse
package that allows us to be flexible and do a
lot of things that are unique around the country, and
I want to see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
How hard is it to quickly put together a staff,
and what about how many coaches did you retain?
Speaker 9 (15:52):
So we retained one on each side of the ball
that I'd worked with before that I thought we're going
to be a good fit with kind of how that
was going to come to get other It's a lot
harder than people think, just because the time constraints.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
Everybody's in bowl games or.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
A lot of stuff going on in everybody's world that
you're trying to be respectful of but also be aggressive
and get the guys that you want, and then trying
to find the right fits. And it was something that
as a younger coach, you know, whether I had an opportunity,
didn't get an opportunity, you know, you kept hearing the word, well,
it's got to be the right fit. And I don't
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think you really understand how important that is until you
get older and you're on stabs that have those right
fits and the right people in the right place. And
but I've been really proud and excited of how this
has come together with the group.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
That we have as a head coach. Do you have
an acronym or some like through line that the guys
need to memorize.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
No, I mean we you know, our mantra here is family.
It's been that way for a very very long time.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
You know. We talk about how living that out differently.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
Everyone's going to say it, but how we live that
out here, of how we serve one another, how we
take care of one another, how we hold each other accountable,
is very very real. You know, we have our seven
principles and our core values and but really it's family,
is the mantra here.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
How important is it to beat Kansas?
Speaker 9 (17:23):
It's pretty important, you know. But at the same time,
you know, it's every game is hard. Winning is hard,
and I think you have to focus on those little
things and doing the right things the right way in
every game you play. It's it's not how much you
care about beating the other team, it's about what you
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do about it in.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Those little things.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I think I saw and my number it could be
off a little bit. They had fifty three new players,
you know, with your roster there. I mean, is there
like an orientation whenever that everybody day one comes into Absolutely.
Speaker 9 (17:59):
I think the current landscape has required a couple of
things that are different from even five years ago that
we have to do as coaches. And I think creating
culture and developing culture faster is as important as ever.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
I think that part.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
And then developing the football player fundamentally, strategically mentally so
that they understand what the heck it is they're doing
out on the field and not just relying on their
talent faster. Both of those things are at a premium.
I think it's interesting that there was I want to
say it was five times over coach Snyder's tenure here.
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He had over sixty players on the sixty new players
a year on the roster in a turnover cycle, and
I think how he was able to build culture here
faster and integrate players into our family model.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
He definitely didn't get enough credit for that.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
That was in a non portal era where there was
still a lot of juco transfer in that day and age.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
But it can be done.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
It's been done here for a long time, and when
you get the right pieces in place to bring that
culture together, special things happen.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I think there are a few things that come together
for teams who win. I just even look at Indiana
right that they could develop players. They got great players
from the portal. Also, you know, there are so many
teams in a conference now that sometimes you just get
a favorable schedule and sometimes though, you don't know what's
favorable and what's not until the year begins. So I'll
also say that, But I was looking at you guys schedule.
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You don't have TECH or BYU on the schedule this year.
I don't know that seems like it could be favorable.
Am I crazy for thinking that?
Speaker 10 (19:41):
No?
Speaker 8 (19:41):
I mean, I think you're definitely not wrong.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
But I think when you're talking in the numbers of
forty five to sixty five new players on a roster,
nobody really knows who anyone is. And you know, to
your point, we're going to find out, you know. I mean,
I I think there's a couple of teams with Houston
Arizona State, you know, and that can be very very formidable,
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you know, teams and in a really really good place.
So at the end of the day, we got to
worry about our shop and how we're handling our business
and put that ball down.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Whoever's across from us, are you already looking at Nichols
or do you have guys also looking at Washington State? Like,
how does that work with a coupled a few games
to start the season.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Yeah, well, we have a little bit of the summer
schedule that that we kind of worked through and out
of season process of breaking teams down, doing some initial
scout work on them, so we're not just starting straight
from scratch. We've already looked at them. But but again,
most of the teams on our on our schedule, we
have a preliminary overview and scout.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Report for what's been the thing you didn't expect that's
now happening to you about being the head coach, I.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
Think just and I knew it, but until you live
it and feel it, it probably is just different. I
think all the different directions you get pulled in and
having to go answer this question or solve this problem
and then jump right back into an old staff meeting
and get your brain back on track of you know
what we were talking about in third down or protection,
let's pick up stuff, and then just kind of having
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to constantly shift gears mentally in and out of different tasks.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
The first day or two when you get hired, is
your phone just going crazy, and it's hard to keep
up with anything and everything because again you're being dragged everywhere.
There's cameras everywhere, and also people that knew you at
the other place and also people that know you at
this place. I got to imagine that's overwhelming.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Oh, I mean, I think I had over three thousand
text messages on my phone in a matter of forty.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
Eight hours, you know, And it's just like it's again
the you always so many things, You've worked so hard
for an opportunity like that to come to fruition so
many people in your life if Fort Indian helped you
get there, you know, but then the scale and all
the moving pieces when it actually happens.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Honor blessing. But it's hard to get your mind around
for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
All right, two final questions. Is this your dream job?
Speaker 9 (22:06):
Absolutely? I mean, I mean this program is special to me.
I think there was such alignment that was a huge
part of what allowed me to be successful here as
a player from a value system, culture, community people, family
ties with my wife, her dad and going back a
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very very long time. It's definitely a good fit and
the mindset of that we're here to make a difference.
In an impact and the people were around that my
two predecessors have did for a very very long time.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
This place is special.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Final question it may feel kind of dumb, but some
of the other ones have been dumb to is that
you know, schools get paid based on how many people
play with them during NCAA College football the game on PlayStation.
I have a friend that's an athletic director, and he's like, man,
we're trying to get people to play with him because
the more play with our team, the more money the
school makes that we can use. Are you familiar with
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that at all? Or does it not even affect Kansas
State because you guys are so big?
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Uh? You know, I had not I had not heard
that specifically. Break there you go.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
No, I think I did not know that. But let's
we need to get it out there. Everyone needs to
play with Kansas State.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Hey, coach, congratulations, I'm rooting for you guys, maybe all
except for the Kansas game. I'm coaching. I'm coach with
Lance maybe me and you'll get there at some point,
but maybe other than the Kansas game. I hope you
guys have an awesome season. I loved it up there.
Again I could not believe how elite the facilities were
and how kind everyone was. And again we spent the
whole day. Even the sandwiches. Mine didn't even have mayonnaise
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on it. They made sure mine didn't have mayonnaise, and
I hate mayonnaise, and I'll never forget that.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
Coach, come on out and see us, my man.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
We'll get you a good steak, maybe even some barbecue,
and it'll be great.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Thanks coach, I hope you have a great season.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
Good all, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Now let's bring in doctor Andrew Goodrich, the director of
athletics at the University of Akron, my new favorite school,
my new favorite I just said, I'm such a fan. Jo,
Yes he is. Behind. Well, we've been talking about on
this show where if you buy a season tickets you
have a chance basically to be the offensive coordinator. We
clap our hands with doctor Goodrich. Okay, doctor Goodwich. My
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first question is who thought of this idea?
Speaker 11 (24:28):
You know, really it was a combination me and Matt
Potter or who's my deputy director of athletics. We were
in Tampa, Florida. We had just played in the NCAA tournament.
Our men's basketball team had a great showing. Our fans
were down there. We had a great time. It was awesome.
When we got on the plane and we were heading back,
we were thinking about how in the world do we
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create that type of fan experience that we had at
basketball for football, and we batted around a lot of ideas,
and I think at one point, you know, I said
to Matt, I said, you know, you realize coach is
both the head coach and.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
The offensive coordinator. What if we had like an.
Speaker 11 (25:05):
Offensive coordinator of the game, you know, we could we
got to give it to one of our fans, you know,
a season ticket holder, and he's like, are you crazy.
We can't do that, you know, And we were like, hmm,
what if we just did one play? And we thought, okay,
one play, I think we could do that. That would
be fun. But then we felt like, it's just not
the impact that we want that fan to experience. Right,
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it's fun, but we really started thinking, what if we
just had them script the opening drive.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
You get a chance to do what we've all done.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
We've all stood in our living rooms, We've all sat there,
pointed at the TV and said, oh, I would run
this play.
Speaker 12 (25:41):
I would run that play's what we got to do.
Speaker 13 (25:43):
And we thought this might be this might be something
we could do, and we took it to coach and
coach was very reasonably.
Speaker 12 (25:55):
Skeptical about this idea. Is that fair?
Speaker 11 (26:01):
If any of you have spent time with a Division
one head football coach, it was more colorful language than that.
Speaker 12 (26:06):
But you know, we really got talking.
Speaker 11 (26:09):
About it and we said, listen, we've got a great
head coach who's an incredible offensive coordinator. This is his
forty second opening day, He's been there, done that, it's
not his first rodeo. He is really an educator at heart,
and I think there's a little part of him that's
really looking forward to mentoring this person.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
And going, hey, get in here.
Speaker 11 (26:27):
We're gonna we're gonna watch a film, we're gonna look
at the players, we're gonna look at the defense as
we're expecting. Let's get in here, let's think about this.
And you know, and he's really leaned into it. And
I give him so much credit because the truth is this,
if Joe Morehead is.
Speaker 12 (26:41):
Like, we're not doing this, then we're not doing it.
Speaker 11 (26:44):
But Joe Morehead has got an incredible amount of courage
and I think he gets it.
Speaker 12 (26:49):
He just gets it, and you know, here we are.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
You know, it's taking the internet by storm, which I'm
a little bit disappointed in because I saw it pretty
early and thought I'm buying tickets immediately, and then everybody
saw how great of an idea was. And now all
my friends, even in media, are like, I'm in. But
I will say this, Doctor Goodrich, I bought good season tickets.
I didn't buy the seventy five dollars ones. I bought
the ones lower that were definitely about double because also
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I wanted to donate them to the kids they're there,
and I've already been, you know, talking back to make
sure that when I can't get to the games. But look,
if I'm there for Game one, I planned to be
there a lot. I pland to be the biggest supporter.
Have you guys sold a lot of tickets.
Speaker 11 (27:30):
You know, we had our biggest day of sales, one
day of sales since we opened the stadium back in
two thousand and eight. So that's huge for us, right
in terms of scale. Listen, we're not the world's largest
Division one football program.
Speaker 12 (27:43):
That was a really big deal for US.
Speaker 11 (27:45):
I will say that I was a part of a
team that did something similar at the University of Miami
about twelve thirteen years ago, and when that marketing promotion
went viral, what we found was the ticket sales weren't
in day one, two and three.
Speaker 12 (28:00):
It came in weeks two, three.
Speaker 11 (28:02):
And four, And we do anticipate that this is going
to have a significant impact on.
Speaker 12 (28:07):
Our ticket sales.
Speaker 11 (28:08):
What was actually pretty great is we had somebody call
in and say, hey, how many sweets he got left.
We end up selling out our suites, and we've been
contacted by a pretty large company who is.
Speaker 12 (28:18):
Interested in being our Jersey patch sponsor.
Speaker 11 (28:21):
So you know, I think the greatest impact might not
necessarily be tickets sold, but corporate sponsorships and just overall
support for the football program.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
That's so cool. I have family in coaching, in college coaching,
and my brother in law is the head coach at
Tulsa Softball now and his mom is the head coach
at Oklahoma and she's won eight national championships, and softballs
very much in the blood of our family and collegiate
sports very much. And I'm a massive Arkansas guy and
I've donated a ton of money there just through nil
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through foundation because I understand the game of it now.
It's all about money. You got to have money to
come good for you. And so I bought at Tulsa
the left field wall and all the left and it
says the Bobby Bones Boneyard and so awesome. I bought that.
It's there, it's on the wall, and then every home
run that's hit, I donate one hundred bucks to the
hospital there in Tulsa. So it's kind of my way
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of one helping the program and two being able to
give back. But you are right, it is all about
oddly getting finances because you've got so many things to
pay for now just to be competitive. So that's so
exciting that more people are jumping in to help you
be a competitive program.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
Absolutely no, we appreciate the support. Listen, just the brand awareness. Alone,
we are over twenty million views on that post on
X alone. I've never seen anything like it, We've never
done anything like it. It's Taylor Swift esque, you know, like,
and we are getting all sorts of support. I saw
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something from an Irish newspaper, so really it's even gone
beyond our borders. It's kind of become a global phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah, we can't have a soccer player calling plays, doctor,
we don't. We don't need some iris. Sofctric guy out
there calling up calling places for American football.
Speaker 12 (30:05):
Little reversed ted lasto Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. So when do you guys
plan to draw? And is the drawing going to be
truly random?
Speaker 8 (30:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (30:14):
So I think it's really important because as we read
everything on social the biggest thing that people are concerned
about is, hey, now that we have incredible celebrities like
yourself getting involved, you know, the pr thing for us
to do is just get earned media by getting a
famous person. I want you, I appreciate you. I'm really
glad that you bought these tickets. We're grateful to have
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you as a season ticket holder. But we are going
to stick to the intent and this will be a
random selection draw. So one person will have a shot
at doing this, because it is the dream, right, somebody
is going to get this shot to do this. And
now I will say, the more season tickets people buy,
you know, the greater your opportunity to win. But that
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being said, I think it's impt for all our fans
to realize, yes, we will stick to.
Speaker 12 (31:02):
That and it will be random.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I don't like that personally, I'm just saying I don't
like him. I don't like the fairness of it. Are
you going to put in a bucket? How are you
going to do that?
Speaker 11 (31:11):
You know, So, being really candid, we thought this would
have an incredible impact on our community here in Akron,
maybe Northeast Ohio. We never imagine in a million years
that I would be here on your podcast right talking
about this, and so I always say we reserve the
right to become more intelligent over time. We're going to
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reevaluate exactly how we intend to share this with everyone,
because frankly, at this point, we have a responsibility to
America to do this right.
Speaker 12 (31:43):
So everybody's invested in this.
Speaker 11 (31:46):
I want to make sure that you know, people are
looking at the University of Akron and really seeing us
as leaders in the space. And so we're probably candidly,
we're probably going to work with our College of Business.
We've got a great group over there, student sport Analytics group,
and I imagine we're going to partner with the sports
analytics program over in the College of Business so that
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they can help us have a truly random draw.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
You know, there'll be a lot of copycats.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Now, you know that's all right.
Speaker 11 (32:15):
I probably should have trademarked this and got some licensing
revenue out of it. Bobby, if you could help me
with that a little bit, maybe you know, we can
split that rev a little bit.
Speaker 12 (32:24):
You know, that's an uncharted territory for us.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
What's great about the Akron Zips in general? What do
you love about that job?
Speaker 11 (32:32):
I'll tell you I love I love this community, right,
you know, blue collar, hard working, really dedicated, loyal human
beings who just they love being from Ohio.
Speaker 12 (32:46):
They love northeast Ohio.
Speaker 11 (32:47):
You know, listen, we're very very proud, you know Lebron
james hometown, Akron, Ohio. Lebron's been great for us, very
supportive of us. Actually, Lebron James Family Foundation is located
right here year in Infocision Stadium, our football stadium, and
so I love the underdog mentality that we have here.
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One of the things we're really proud of is that
we do have the second smallest budget of all FBS
schools in America. But an economist just did an evaluation
of last year's overall college athletics performance. We were ranked
the number ninth most efficient and effective athletics program in America.
Speaker 12 (33:30):
So we're really proud of that.
Speaker 11 (33:31):
I mean, we have championship level programs that we have
a men's soccer program that's made it to.
Speaker 12 (33:37):
The Elite eight last year.
Speaker 11 (33:38):
We had a men's basketball program that made it to
the NCAA tournament three consecutive years in a row. We're
going for four consecutive MAC championships. And you know, I
just think that this football program.
Speaker 12 (33:50):
Is on the rise.
Speaker 11 (33:51):
We went five and seven last year, and we really
think we have a shot at getting to a bowl
game this year. And just really proud of this university
and the way it's bounced back and fights to continue
to make the climb.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Doctor Goodwich, did you play baseball in college?
Speaker 14 (34:08):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (34:08):
I did.
Speaker 11 (34:09):
I am a very proud graduate of Cumberland University over
there in Lebanon, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
And what position did you play and how many years
did you get in there at Cumberland?
Speaker 11 (34:20):
So I played three seasons at Cumberland. I frankly was
a utility player, sometimes outfield, sometimes infield, and occasionally got
behind the plate.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Hey what do you think about the new you know,
five years you know, they're dealing with it right now,
so I'm sure you're having to think about this as well.
What's happening right now in college sports with that five.
These players want the extra year, but it's going to
come down to the calendar.
Speaker 11 (34:45):
Ultimately, I think that the five for five is going
to be a good thing because it's going to stabilize
what we're doing and try to have standards that are
fair and equal across all sports and all divisions. So
I ultimately think it's a good thing. It is difficult
to make that transition from where we are into this,
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and you know, I just think that the price of
progress is a little bit of pain from time to time,
and we will get through this and we'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
How do you feel like the Action games when they're
on like a random night, because I love those games
because there's no other night like a Tuesday, and I'm
in Maction. It's awesome.
Speaker 12 (35:22):
You know.
Speaker 11 (35:23):
It's it's polarizing a little bit on one hand, because
I agree with you one hundred percent. I love being
the only show in town on a Tuesday night. Everybody
in America is watching our programs. I think it's been
really interesting because what we've learned is that in this
new era of college sports and sports wagering becoming a
big deal in the United States, I mean, the views
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of those Tuesday night games, when we're the only teams
that you know, betters are betting on, is really really
valuable for our programs. On the other hand, I feel
for our fans who love that traditional college football experience
that want to be year for a weekend. They want
a tailgate, they want to do all that, and that's
not afforded to you on Tuesdays and Wednesday nights. And
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so we balance it, you know, and we try to
do our best to give our student athletes the greatest
experience they can have those days. And you know what, frankly,
it's a cumbent upon us to learn how to be
great marketers and figure out a way to get those
buildings filled on Tuesday nights.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
What's up with Zippy the Kangaroo?
Speaker 11 (36:25):
The best mascot in America? Only female mascot in America.
Zippy is female. She's got a pouch, right, and so
it has been named the best mascot in America and
a number of different polls throughout the year, and beloved, beloved,
mascot here.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Well, is that real? You have a real kangaroo, So we.
Speaker 11 (36:43):
Do not have a real kangaroos at least at least
not yet.
Speaker 12 (36:48):
Not yet. We're working on that. That might be the
next one.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
That's the thing, that's a new one that next year
you get to play with the kangaroo if you're sees
a ticket holder when they get a real one. That yeah,
I bother you.
Speaker 11 (36:59):
Get the almost like Ralphie out there at the University
of Colorado. You get to walk with the kangaroo and
just walk him out onto the man.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
That will be fun. Wellk I'm so excited because this
is I love when a new element is brought and
it's fun, and especially for a school like you. Guys,
you're everybody's fight for attention. Like I said, we're always
in an attention economy and you're trying to raise money
and you're trying to fight for attention to raise money.
And I think it's really cool how everyone has kind
of gravitated to this. So congratulations to you and your
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team for having such a great idea. I know it's
going to be completely random, but for some reason, my
name is drawing a planning to be there a couple
days early in the film room breaking it down. Listen,
I've been studying RPOs for on college football, mad I'm
really good running the RPO spread offense. If you can
let them. The rest is shirt. When I show up,
I'll be ready to go. But uh, doctor Goodrich, thank
you so much, and I hope you have a wonderful week.
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And I can't wait for the drawing to happen and
see who gets to do it.
Speaker 12 (37:53):
Thank you very much. We appreciate you, guys.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Go zips goes. I agree, go freaking zips. All right,
thank you, doctor Rich.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
All right, you guys want to play a game? Yeah? Oh,
what do you got? I have who said It? Sports Edition?
I'll play you an iconic sports line. You tell me
who it is.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Write your answer down.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
M sounds tough. Oh, like a few of them come
to mind, you know, like I can think of the
big ones. You what an example? Yeah? Please, here's your example.
That's an example for an example?
Speaker 8 (38:23):
Who is that?
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Jimmy Johnson?
Speaker 9 (38:24):
Here you go?
Speaker 13 (38:24):
Easy?
Speaker 10 (38:25):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (38:26):
I feel like that's gonna be the easiest one.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Then no, then we left that one on the board.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
No movies, right, this is all real it's all real.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Okay, all right, best of seven.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Here's your first clip.
Speaker 12 (38:35):
I'm here so I won't get fine.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Who said it?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Let me know when you're in anyway you got I
have beast mode, Cavin.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
Oh yeah, that's my new airport buddy, beast mode.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
One point for each person there you go. See, good job?
Speaker 8 (38:53):
I like it, all right.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Number two, playoffs.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Don't talk about playoffs.
Speaker 10 (38:58):
You kidding me?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Play off?
Speaker 10 (39:00):
I just hope we can win a game.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
You know who that is? Kevin is locked in playoffs
I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
I have heard that, but yeah you've seen it. Heard it.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
I've seen it, but I don't know that Did's name?
Need it again?
Speaker 12 (39:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Please?
Speaker 14 (39:17):
Playoffs?
Speaker 5 (39:18):
Don't talk about playoffs.
Speaker 10 (39:20):
You kidding me?
Speaker 14 (39:21):
Playoffs?
Speaker 10 (39:22):
I just hope we can win a game.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
All right, I'm in. All right, Anie, what you got
I'm gonna get this wrong, but I'm gonna go with
coach Mora.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
That is correct?
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Yeah that's Jim, is it?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Jim Yea was the Saints Colts? Colts?
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Stop right, all right, here's clipping job.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
The Bears or who.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
We thought they were. That's why we took the damn field. Now,
if you want to crown them, then crown their ass.
But they are who we thought they were, and we
let them out.
Speaker 8 (39:57):
The hook said it.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
That's tough.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
You're in Monday night football.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
The Bears are who we thought they were. Here's that
clip again.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
The Bears or who we thought they were. That's why
we took the damn field. Now, if you want to
crown them, they crown their ass. But they are who
we thought they were, and we let them out.
Speaker 11 (40:19):
The hook.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Kevin is locked in, Eddie, you thinking about it? I'm in,
all right, Eddie's locked in.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
What do you got?
Speaker 7 (40:27):
I have?
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Joe Gibbs, Danny Green, Kevin with the point.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Yeah, Cardinals, Cardinals RP.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Dude, did they kill the Bears?
Speaker 6 (40:36):
No, they were up big and the Bears were good,
and then they came back and the Bears won.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
All right, here's clip numberfore do Ball.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Oh, Duvall is not tailing Ramsey.
Speaker 10 (40:50):
Here it is again, do Ball.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
Oh my gosh, I'm blanking on the name.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
It be.
Speaker 6 (41:01):
Some sort No, I'm just saying the other clip that
was viral of Duvall with Jayalen Ramsey, and that's definitely
not him.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
I'm I'm blanking right. Final time, du ball.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
I know who it is, but I can't think of
the name right now.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
I'm written down. What's he saying? Like, like, what's the context?
Duvall man, I have something?
Speaker 6 (41:26):
Okay, I don't have a name, but I will say
the Jaguars head coach. I need a name, coach, will
Willy Willy Stein.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Willie Stein hell a coach incorrect? Anybody got I have
a Brandon Marshall incorrect?
Speaker 5 (41:42):
It is Liam Cohen, Liam Cohen chance.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
When he first signed on YEP press conference, all all right,
clip number five?
Speaker 8 (41:51):
Stead to be happy about job's not finish, job finished.
Speaker 4 (41:55):
I don't think so, We're good. I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
He played one more time one more time.
Speaker 8 (42:00):
Instead to be happy about job's not finish, job finished.
I don't think so. Mmm.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
I mean I have a guess.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
Go for it.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Kobe, Yep, it is Kobe.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Next up.
Speaker 10 (42:18):
It's my quarterback.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
I'm good.
Speaker 8 (42:25):
I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
If you said no movies, it's not about movies.
Speaker 5 (42:30):
That's not Cuba good and jor it does not like them.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yeah, one more time.
Speaker 10 (42:36):
It's my quarterback.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
It does not like Cuba.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
That's oh my gosh, who is that I think that
deserves an oscar. He's nothing gonna be like, hey with Jerry,
show me the money.
Speaker 5 (42:47):
Jerry, you need this, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (42:50):
I know I do only down one hear one more time,
one more time.
Speaker 10 (42:55):
It's my quarterback.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Okay, you know, okay, I'm gonna guess Ocho Cinco.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
Ah, dude, how do you know t O?
Speaker 3 (43:03):
By the way, who's he talking about? He's not about Romo,
talk about the rest.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
It's a recent quarterback, all right.
Speaker 8 (43:16):
Last one.
Speaker 14 (43:18):
This is what the greatest thing about sports is.
Speaker 10 (43:20):
You play to win the game. Hello, You play to
win the game?
Speaker 3 (43:26):
You are I have no idea what these are?
Speaker 5 (43:30):
Like my childhood, right, that's your childhood?
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Yeah okay, but again.
Speaker 14 (43:34):
Mike, this is what the greatest thing about sports is.
Speaker 10 (43:37):
You play to win the game. Hello, You play to
win the game.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Dude, I have nothing. Have they all been? No, they've
been all sports. Right, so it's like gonna be a
basketball all sports.
Speaker 6 (43:51):
I'm gonna win no matter what. Right, Yeah, okay, So Eddie,
it's can I give you Mike?
Speaker 3 (43:56):
Kevin misses it and then Eddie gets you know it? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (44:02):
Yeah, yeah, well what not that I don't want to
say you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
What's your number? Okay, what do you gotta give me
a hint?
Speaker 5 (44:10):
Okay, it is football, coach, it is football.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
That's a coach. Can't play one more time, fast time.
Speaker 14 (44:16):
This is what the greatest thing about sports is.
Speaker 10 (44:18):
You play to win the game. Hello, you play to
win the game.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Jets, the Jets, I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Herm Edwards.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Oh that's Herm Edwards. Okay, clinched, Dang. Kevin's good at this.
Speaker 5 (44:38):
You want to run the rest of these, Kevin, Yeah,
you got more?
Speaker 3 (44:40):
Yeah, victory, victory, lap, everything is possible.
Speaker 10 (44:44):
Anything.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
That's my boy. Kg you got it.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Here you go and you're telling them one thing.
Speaker 8 (44:54):
Just win.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
Oh good, old r I P L.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Davis.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
It's it, dude, You're so good at this.
Speaker 8 (45:01):
Here you go, hold on the best corner the guy.
Speaker 12 (45:04):
I mean, what a sort that's.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
The result of all kid, Richard Sherman, that was yeah,
I got three more.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Al Michaels got it, young al Michaels. Yeah, dude, listen
to his young voice. That's crazy. You got two more?
Speaker 10 (45:28):
Good boom tough act into the acting.
Speaker 5 (45:32):
Coach Madden got it last one.
Speaker 10 (45:35):
I'm gonna float like a butterfly and sting like a bead.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Yeah, that would be the greatest of all time. Mohammed.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Oh, I think they found Kevinton talent. Good job, dude,
that's awesome. Many and by the way, I want to
tell you congratulations first. But I like your voice.
Speaker 5 (45:53):
Yeah, you like a deeper likeness.
Speaker 6 (45:54):
Well, I hope my sinuses don't stick around for the
entire year. But yeah, it sucks, but it does sound good,
doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
Yes, whenever I wake up with sciences, like obviously, I
stress out, like, oh my gosh, you gotta do the
radio show. I feel, you know, But dude, I start
singing songs, you know, like Barry White, You're good enough
for you, a little baby, a.
Speaker 6 (46:13):
Little Josh Turner baby lucked them in and turned them
lives down loads.
Speaker 4 (46:18):
Good dude, Thanks man.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
All right, are we out of here? Mike here man? Okay,
you got anything good this weekend?
Speaker 5 (46:25):
I had surgery, dude, you have it? Yeah Friday tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Oh dang.
Speaker 8 (46:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (46:30):
So uh, I'll do a whole lot of nothing.
Speaker 6 (46:32):
My Dad's coming in town and help me out because Alex
and the babies are out of town.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
So yeah, you and Pops, me and popsy you know, Dann.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
That's cool. Yeah, good luck man, Thanks, everything goes well,
Mike you good, I'm good, all right, We'll see you
guys next week. Oh I got here, we go all right,
see you guys.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Theme song written by Bobby Bones That's Me and performed
by Brandon Ray. Follow Brandon on socials at Brandon Ray Music.
You can follow the show on Instagram at Bobby Bone Sports.
Thanks to our crew co host at Producer Ready, Segment
producer at Kickoff Kevin, and executive producer at Mike Gestro.
But most importantly, thank you for listening to Bobby Bones.
(47:17):
We'll talk to you next time here on twenty five
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