September 26, 2024 • 41 mins
Former NBA MVP Derrick Rose announced his retirement so Dan and the Danettes examine his career. And college football insider David Ubben joins the show to make some sense of the issues percolating throughout the NCAA, including the contract dispute with UNLV QB Matthew Sluka.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock. Thank you for
downloading the app. We'll check in with the UNLV football program,
of course we will. I don't think I've ever said
that before on this show, but we have a situation
there and pretty much the fallout from NIL and maybe
probably future situations like this. And as I said in
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the first hour, source said, hey, wait till December when
you have a mass exodus with players who are not
going to be playing in games at the end of
the season, certainly in bowl games as well, and they'll
get ready to transfer. We're just kind of I mentioned
that we were kind of teetering here. College football is teetering,
teetering on the verge of something great with the playoffs,
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teetering on the verge of are we going to have
collective a bargaining agreement attached to college football? Which is
where we are headed. Former MVP Derek Rose announced his retirement.
What could have been? He was sort of Jah Moran
before John Morant. He was extremely athletic, came out of Memphis,
and he was an immediate hit there. If you look
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at winning your MVP in the first three years of
your career, he did so. His third year in Chicago,
Bob McAdoo did that, and his third year in Buffalo
Dave Cowens did that as well. I mean, we've had
a lot of players who have ended up winning their
MVP in the first three years or so. Kareem wanted
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his second, Wes Unsealed his first, wiltis first, Bill Russell
was second, Bob Petted his second. But Derrick Rose was
in his third year. Then he got injured and was
really never the same. And it's almost as if he
had played six years instead of twelve years, like he
would have been probably a Hall of Famer because I
(02:26):
think the voters would have given him the benefit of
the doubt of what could have been. But he did
hang on, he did play. Probably didn't matter too much
to many people here watching unless you know you saw
him occasionally on a highlight. But he was a highlight
when he played with the Chicago Bulls. But he was
extremely athletic, explosive, fun and different coming into the league.
(02:51):
But announcing his retirement there, Yes, Marvin, and.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I think Derrick Grosse has a guess unbreakable record. He's
the youngest MVP in NBA history at twenty two years old.
I don't think anybody will win the MVP at twenty two.
Maybe Victor, but he's got to put up unbelievable numbers
and the Spurs have to be much better than what
they are right now.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, I think the voters they like to have you
earn it. We're not going to give you the MVP.
You have to earn it, and we want to see
if you have postseason success. I mean, look at what
they did with the Joker. We're not going to give
him the MVP until he hasn't had any success in
the postseason. Then he wins the title. Now all of
a sudden we look at him differently, Giannis. We want
to see if he's going to win. Okay, he wins.
(03:34):
Now you know he's in that category of you know,
it comes back around. We'll give an MVP. Joe El
Embiid hasn't done anything in the postseason, but he has
won MVP. It takes a lot. If you're coming in,
you better be unique, and wemban Yama has that opportunity
to be unique and maybe win one before he's twenty
one years of age.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Yes, Paul, Hall of Fame voters sometimes give you a
Hall pass if you have a arable injury because you
were on your way to the Hall of Fame. We
mentioned Gail Sayers the other day. I think Grant Hill
goes in for his entire career. Is Derek Rose on
the cuspboar? Is it not that close for the Hall
of Fame?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No, because of the controversy at Memphis. So I'm including
grand Hill at Duke winning titles and you can make
an argument he was the best player on the team,
and that's saying a lot back then. But with what
they vacated those wins, I think at Memphis, didn't they
in the final Four appearance or the Final Game appearance. Yes, Marvin, but.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I think the standards for the Basketball Hall of Fame,
no disrespect, they're a little bit lower than football in baseball.
So every single person that's won the MVP Award in
the NBA, they're in the Hall that's eligible. So I
think the MVP Award gets him in. Like if Penny
Hardaway won the MVP Award, he'd be in.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Okay, So well, I think the Memphis thing hurts him.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Okay, do what Cow's in the Hall?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, I think what he did at Kentucky and what
he did at U Mass. I mean, I'm gonna guess
that he did more things, maybe at more places, than
Derreck Rose did. Are you saying Cal shouldn't be in
the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Oh no, no, No, he's just he got you Mass
to the Final Four.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
You ever been to Amherst, Yes, yes, I went to
I went to Midnight Madness. I was working at the
mother Ship. Went to Midnight Madness there with the with
the coach coach Cal and so yeah, I was there.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I had Amherst rocket for a while.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah he did, Yes, he did. Amherst. B Rocking stat
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Speaker 6 (05:58):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Uh, Caitlin Clark, her season came to an end. Quite
a rookie year, quite an eleven month span for Caitlin Clark.
That's what made it amazing. Is stepped out of the
Final four, and then a week later she's in the WNBA.
And then she has a pretty tough schedule to start out.
I think they started out one in eight. She needed
to rest. The Olympics certainly helped that, and she proved
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that she's not only the Rookie of the Year unanimous pick,
but she finished in the top five MVP and rightfully
so with what she did not only for her team,
but for the league as well. And let's see, let's
see how viewership is moving into the Final four for
the WNBA with no Caitlyn Clark. The White Sox hold
off infamy again as they have a walk off and
(06:44):
still have a chance to be the worst baseball team
in history. A couple of phone calls in here as
we start hour two, it's and in Wisconsin high end.
What's on your mind today?
Speaker 7 (06:58):
IDP, first time launch. I'm five to nine.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
None of your business.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
I am actually Coach Hockett's wife from Stevens Point and
it is his birthday today and he asks for two
things for his birthday. Number one was a birthday shout
out from DP and the boys, and number two was
to get you before retirement, to come down to Stephens
Point and we'll get you in a game.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Will you do I get in a regular season game?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
And well, no, I'm a professor here at Stephen's Point,
so I do have some pull, so you know what,
we can talk off air, and I've been working some
nil deals for you. We have a big golf outing
this weekend, and I'm going around town doing my you know,
head coach wife duties, and no one wants to talk
(07:50):
about the basketball. All they want to talk about is
when is DP coming to Stephens Point.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Okay, I'm thinking about holding a press conference with three
different hats in front of me and then announcing that
I'm going to Wisconsin Stevens Point a shout out a
happy birthday for coach.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Come on, that'll be Wisconsin, Green Bay and Doug Gott
Lady oh oh, just made it personal. Thank you Mann,
thank you for calling there. Let me see Cindy in
North Carolina. Hi, Cindy, what's on your mind today? Hi?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
How are you average?
Speaker 8 (08:35):
But improving the backup quarterback situation? If the Steelers have
the best, and I think they do, then my team,
the Dolphins, we're the worst. We're disaster. And I think
the frustrating thing about it is I have the feeling
that there are coaches who don't take that position as
serious as they should. I wanted us to trade for
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Justin Heal, so we have an injury prone quarterbacks with
the history of concussions. Sure enough, the inevitable happens, and
now we're stuck with Skyler Thompson, who it was terrible
in the preseason. We let Mike White go, We signed
Tim Boyle. We know how that worked out for the
Jets last year, and maybe Tyler Huntley will come through.
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But it's almost coaching malpractice.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Well I said that before, Cindy, and thank you for
the phone call. If you're going to sign Tua to
a long term deal, then you must have a quarterback,
a backup who is capable of running this style of
offense that has to be done, and he has to
know that. I would have said that to him. We're
going to give you a great contract, but we want
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to carve out some money for your backup because we
are going to hold our breaths when you're playing, because
all it takes is one more concussion and here we are.
So I said that. I wouldn't have extended him in
the first place. But if you're going to that's when
you do. Go get somebody like Justin Fields. You get
somebody who is at least capable of, you know, being
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a legitimate starting quarterback. Now Justin can't run that system
the way Tua does, but I would ask about Russell
Wilson once he gets healthy. I'd at least inquire. I
would inquire about Zach Wilson. Adam Schefter brought this up.
I got to find somebody who can get the ball out,
knows how to run this offense with Mike McDaniel, because
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whoever they put in there, Mike will make them a
better quarterback. I just want to start with somebody who's
got more talent than some of these backup here because
you got I mean you're ready to go. You're ready
to go with this team. You made a big commitment
to your wide receivers. You got to be ready to go.
And who knows, you know when we get a further
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diagnosis on Tua, because it's going to be a few
more weeks here before he's eligible to come back. Bradley
and Vermont. Hi Bradley, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (11:00):
Dan, first time caller, longtime listener five nine one fifty.
I was calling about some thoughts for your guys's bowling team. Hmmm,
a team name obviously Dan and the Dan Nets. And
having been a longtime bowler myself, Uh, who do you
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guys think the lineup would be from? Say all of
you one to five? Usually you do it like baseball,
where your heavy hitter would be last or your cleanup man.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Well, I like to think of it differently than you do, Bradley,
because I subscribe to the Kyle Schwarber Show. He tyya,
I'm gonna I'm gonna lead off on the hammer and
I'm going to set the tone and just let people
know there's more where that came from.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
And back up for a few months. Uh, bowling men
only bowl without bumpers.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh yeah, we know that. All I cared is could
I drink beer? And I played with. My teammates were
guys I worked with at CNN, and they were so
disappointed when I cracked a beer. And I'm like, dude,
this is like swing Loube when you're playing golf. I mean,
I am going to tear this up until I'm impaired,
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and then I'm going to be really really bad. So
true to form. First two games? Hey, all right?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Third?
Speaker 10 (12:29):
Not so good?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Not so good?
Speaker 11 (12:31):
You're not going to take this seriously, Dan, you might
not be meant for the Rolling Thunders whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
The team name might have been, the Rolling Thunder review
that was rolling Bob Dylan. Yes, and you know Fritzy says, Oh,
shouldn't you be the anchor of our team? Yeah, I am,
but the anchor is leading off. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
There are sports like bowling, cornhole, sixteen softball that if
you don't have a drink in the opposite end, you
almost look unbalanced. It almost is improper not to have
some time a beverage.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, I mean, I'm open for a bowling team, just
I would like to have outfits. I think that would
be important. I would like to have clear, customized bullet ball. Yeah,
obviously the outfits are important. I'd like to have something
form fitting. We can I can jump suit. I don't know.
I'm just saying I'm open to it. I like kind
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of skin tight overalls, maybe with no shirt on underneath it.
That's just let's just let let's say we're gonna send
out a vibe. We're going to be Bill Murray and kingpen.
Speaker 11 (13:37):
Genevieve Morton at one time when she came in the
La studio, I believe that was the outfit.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
By the way, I think bowling teams only have four people.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
It doesn't matter. We're going to find a league that
has five. But if somebody's going to get left out,
the guy who injured his arm during wiffle ball would
probably have to sit this one out time.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
That could be the spare tire. I could hello anybody
fair bowling tire.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
Fun is watching Todd bowle though?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I know, but but okay, we watched him play wiffle
ball at a pretty high level. Everybody was amazed, and
then Todd goes, I'm going to go see at the doctor.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Resulting in like level two ten tonight some some sort.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
No, right now, there were no levels there. He hurt
himself playing whiffle.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
Ball, swinging a whiffle ball bat.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yes, I can't blame it. I'm pitching because there was
my right arm and I was throwing with my left,
so I had to be the follow through the I can't.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I can't lose you to a bowling injury. I can't
like knowing you. You'd get your hands stuck in that
you know the ball return.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
And no bumpers. I don't like that idea.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, well, let me see what else do we have here?
Robin Orlando, Hi, Rob Boots on your mind?
Speaker 12 (15:02):
Hey, good morning, dping the guys man. Hey, if Fritzy
comes off the bench in that bowling league, man, his
appearance could be sponsored by a tie rack your spare performer.
What I called it about the quick Thank you to
PAULI for the James Madison bet on over the weekend man.
I laid a few dollars on it, and when he
called him Jim Madison, I threw some additional money on it,
(15:24):
which did me. Well. My other question for you, I
got a technicality or eligibility question for admitting to the club.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Huno.
Speaker 12 (15:35):
So I had a testicular cancer back when I was
twenty eight, few years ago and had to sacrifice one
of my plums. But I did, and it was a
weird thing at the time. I didn't know what to do,
but I did get a prosthetic one. So am I
stole out in or not? I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I am going to say, yes, I'm going to let
you in. Technically you have one good plumb, artificial plumb.
I'm gonna I'm gonna go to the judges. Judges say yes,
we're going to let you in. Yes, Paul, Yeah, checking
the bylaws.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Dan, it's og.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Whatever you if you're ever at any point down to one,
you're in the club. Yeah, og original. Wow, that's the bylaws.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I didn't make them original. Gonad. I haven't heard that
expression in a long time a bit. Yeah. I remember
not wearing a cup playing softball and took a bad
hop and it was like, oh, man, got hit in
the gonuts. Might have been the last time I ever
used that expression. Bring it back. It's yeah, heck yeah,
bring back gonuds. All in favor, say I, Hi, okay,
(16:47):
thank you, all right, We'll check in with the UNLV
football program. I found it kind of interesting timing here
about a quarterback who didn't get paid and this story
breaks on the same day, around the same time that
UNLV is getting a bonus check of around twenty seven
million dollars for staying in a I think the Mountain
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West Conference. Here, Does that sound right, todd that they?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
So the fact that this quarterback, Matthew Sluca is on
his way out of UNLV top twenty five team and
over a payment there so the irony of all ironies here.
So yeah, here it is. UNLV agreed last night to
a one time payment of twenty seven million dollars to
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stay in the Mountain West Conference on the same day
that their quarterback decides to exit stage left. More on
this situation coming up right after this.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
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Speaker 2 (17:56):
We mentioned this yesterday it kind of took off nationally.
UNLV quarterback Matthew Sluka left the undefeated UNLV Rebels Tuesday
night overclaims of unfulfilled verbal nil promises from a UNLV
assistant coach and the number that was thrown out he
was promised one hundred thousand dollars as he was leaving
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Holy Cross to go to UNLV. They're undefeated, he's played well,
and he decides that he's going to transfer and he's
going to red shirt leave UNLV, and we just had
Ross Tucker on Ross goes. He might be getting a
half million to a million dollars if he goes someplace
else next season, which he obviously is going to. David,
(18:40):
I've been the national senior college football writer for The
Athletic and a host of until Saturday, The Athletics College
Football Podcast, joining us on the program, David, how did
we get here? How do you summarize exactly what happened?
Speaker 12 (18:56):
Well?
Speaker 13 (18:56):
Do you want to go through thirty years of institable
A officials putting the line in the sand as the
rest of the world and common sense crossed over and
they refuse to adopt common sense rules, and now you
have an an il landscape with not very many rules
and not very many guidelines, and no one protecting players,
no one protecting programs, and situations like these are gonna happen.
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I mean, this is very different from the Jade and
Rashada saga for a number of reasons, but it's in
spirited is similar, and that you have a kid being
promised a lot of money and not being delivered on
that money. And the main reason is because of all
of those factors at play in the landscape that make
this sort of just a lawless place where people are
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trying to figure it out. And it's very hard to
figure out, especially for you know, kids who are dealing
with these situations for the first time ever, and there's
it's only been happening for three years and only been
happening as it is now for a couple of years,
and it's it's hard to figure out.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, but okay, apply logic and I know that's rarely done.
Speaker 10 (20:03):
It's college, it's easy.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
So he's leaving holy Cross, he's going to UNLV and
says that he was promised one hundred thousand dollars by
an assistant coach. It's a verbal promise. Now you have
to go to the collective to get that money. Like
there's a disconnect between the coaching staff and the collective
because the NCAA says, you know, they can't you know
coexist here from the standpoint of having contact, which is silly.
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I don't think there's any way you recruit somebody and
then say I can't promise you anything, go talk to
the collective. What kid is going to transfer under that
false pretense? So how do they prove or disprove the
one hundred thousand dollars offer from an assistant coach? Well
you can.
Speaker 13 (20:46):
I mean, I guess there's not a lot of reason
for a kid, So that's a lie. And if you
looked at all the statements that came out yesterday, nobody
seemed to be disputing this verbal agreement, but they're disputing
that there's a written agreement that they can prove in
court that they're going to owe this kid actually money
he's gonna get paid at all. So it's it's it
goes into this place where there's not a lot of norms,
there's not a lot of rules, and so I think
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that there's It definitely seems to be true that that
the coach promised him money, and he wouldn't be the
first coach to promise the kid money that they didn't
have at the moment. But you get the kid, you think, well,
we can get donors, we can get boosters excited, we
can pay him on the back end. We can make
this happen once we get them. And it seems clear
based on them coming back to the coaching staff, coming
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back to the collective over and over since February when
the steal was ironed out, that they didn't have the
money to pay him. That seems clear at this point.
And so that's a failure on the part of the
entire sort of UNLV landscape. And it's an embarrassing saga.
And this is the kind of stuff that that really
hurts you on the recruiting trail. You know, Florida dealt
with some of this as well. It's thirteen million dollars
versus one hundred thousand dollars. But these are things that
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that are going to be brought up on the recruiting
trail and it's tough to for for for schools to
deal with that. But it's a it's an ugly situation,
and you know, it goes back to if you don't
know that you have the money, maybe don't promise it.
But one hundred thousand dollars is not very much money.
It seems to me that it's it's kind of hard
to believe, even with all of the lack of support
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that has kind of plagued you one of these program
that you can't come up with one hundred thousand dollars
for your starting quarterback in Vegas. I mean you could
probably go walk around the street and count, you know,
ten dollars bills in the cracks of the sidewalk and
probably be able to come up with that. So's it's
it's hard to believe, but that seems to be the
reality for the program right now.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yeah, my college source said to me this morning, you
WENTLV wanted to play the game, they couldn't afford to
pay the game. Therefore, hey, we want to be big time.
And then they do this, you know, but in the
same timeframe of a twenty seven million dollar payout to
stay in the Mountain West, where this kid's trying to
get one hundred thousand dollars that you promised him. So
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what's the fallout? Like, where where is college football going
from here? I said that we're kind of teetering. We're
teetering on the vergess something great with the playoffs, but
we're also teetering on the verge of what direction are
we really headed in with the total landscape of college football.
Speaker 13 (23:09):
Well, it's something that makes a little bit more sense.
This sort of perpetual free agency for everybody on every
team every year is not good for the sport. It's
not good for the kids. You have situations like these.
You know this is a public situation, but you hear
whispers of kids getting shorted and they stick around because
they're like, well, this is the only way I'm gonna
get paid is if I just stick around and maybe
I'm good enough they decide they're eventually gonna pay me.
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You kind of hear stuff like that, but you don't
see guys leaving teams over it very often.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
So ultimately, what I say.
Speaker 13 (23:37):
With this is you can see in the court cases,
you can see in a lot of the legislation that's
kind of moving through, is that we're gonna get towards
something resembling employment, something resembling revenue sharing, where there's twenty
seven million dollar checks that you're getting that's not explicitly
TV revenue, but it's basically TV revenue, and the players
will get some portion of that. What that exactly looks like,
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what those percentages look like I think.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
Is still in flux.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
But when you have no rules and no contracts and
anything like that, you have no control over player movement,
and the courts have proven that over and over again.
But if you get to something resembling employment and something
resembling revenue sharing, and then you can have contracts and
it makes it harder for kids to leave, and it's
not exploitive to limit where guys can go. It's the
same thing we see in pro sports. You know, if
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Patrick Mahomes wants to go join the Patriots tomorrow, he
can't do that because he's under contract, and nobody complains
because he's being paid well and he signed the contract.
But you don't have that in college sports right now.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So something close to.
Speaker 13 (24:34):
That is coming to bring a little bit of common
sense back to the roster management across the sport.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It's going to be a collective bargaining agreement here, David.
That's yes, that's where we're that's where we're heading.
Speaker 13 (24:45):
Yeah, you're right, But the issue is that one you
have eighty five, it's going to be one hundred and
five scholarship guys on one hundred and thirty four FBS
teams and it's a transient workforce. It's only going to
be relevant in the sport usually one to three years.
You're only playing sport for four to five years. So
that presents some challenges. And you talk to people that
are kind of in the mix for trying to become
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the people that kind of help form this union, they
say those challenges can be overcome. But you look at
the NFL where you got you know, thirty two teams
and fifty three man roster. That's a much more manageable workforce,
and they're going to be there for a little bit
longer time. You have leaders, you have guys that are
in the league that become faces and understand how these
things work for ten years.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You don't have that in college.
Speaker 13 (25:27):
So in addition to your students at a university as well,
which complicates all this as well. So I think ultimately
you're right, you'll get to something resembling a collective bard agree,
but you have to have something resembling a players association
that can collectively bargain on behalf of the players and
they're not gonna all agree and getting a consensus or
what players want. When that workforce is that big and
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that transient is a challenge.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Does the NCAA have a role in this? So they
are they playing okay.
Speaker 13 (25:56):
No, this is people in the sport. I think they
figured it out a lot in COVID that you know,
the conferences are meeting every day, They're saying, hey, what's
going on at your campus? What can we do? This
is really what it was laid there. I think everybody
knew it. But during COVID when they're trying to figure
out how do we best serve our athletes? How do
we figure out can we get to a season? Can
we get guys back on campus? The conferences are meeting
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every day, The leadership on the campuses are meeting every day.
They go weeks months without hearing from the INCIDABA, and
I think you talk to people around the sport. Like
I said, everybody kind of knew the NCAA was mia
on dealing with big picture issues and trying to get
to solutions. But when you have this gigantic pandemic that
disrupts everything, the absence there really kind of let schools
(26:38):
and campus figure out like, oh no, we got to
figure this out ourselves.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
David, good to talk to you. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
David Evan, the national senior college football writer for The Athletic,
host of Until Saturday, The Athletics, College Football and podcast.
The NCAA is like a mall cop. They look like
they have authority, but they don't. You're a mall cop.
You don't even have a gun.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
What was that, Seth Rogan movie Deserving report.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Observing report or Paul Blart or Paul Blart mall cop.
That's the NC double A. Hey, it's it's a lion
without any teeth. It's like, oh, okay, I'm gonna I
can oh look at the cute little NC double A
Oh boy, alright. A couple more phone calls in here,
uh Andy in Puerto Rico, Hi, Andy, what's on your
(27:30):
mind today?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Good morning?
Speaker 6 (27:33):
First time love you long time six ' one and
a Bruce Leesque one seventy Dan, Dan, and Dennett. You
like family to me, and Dan, I know you love
love and I had to call you like a proud
son to let you know today in Puerto Rico, I
am going to be getting I am going to be
(27:54):
proposing to my maiden girlfriend and I just had to
let you know and possibly get some advice if I've
already been told it's the engage your ring, the.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Marriage ring, and the struggling.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
So I just you know, wanted to you know, get
some advice to see see how you feel about this.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Then okay, run the run, run through the day. Here,
what are we doing? How's it start?
Speaker 6 (28:15):
You know where where We're gonna be going to, uh,
the lovely rainforest for a guided tour. Then from there
we're gonna be going to a lovely rum factory to
get another tour. You know, we're just staying busy to
kind of keep her off track because I don't want
her to get any whiff that you know, this is coming,
and not to mention she has no idea, So that's
the beauty about it.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Okay, But then when's the proposed, Like, how how are
we proposing?
Speaker 6 (28:40):
I I plan on doing that at the beach close
to sunset around sunset right now. I've been keeping track
of the weather. It's it's looking like it's gonna be
on my side right now, closet and rolling in unfortunately
because it's a little wet season right now. But for
the most part, everything's looking good so far. So you know,
it's just it's it's more or less, you know, air
with the weather, but also making sure that tonight is
(29:03):
Dad popped the question because we will be leaving tomorrow,
and honestly, I've been trying to call you guys since
last Friday and I have not been able to get through.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Okay, Now, are you just going to get down on
one knee on the beach with the sunset?
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Yes, that's that. That would be it. I was, you know,
there was other ideas I did try to you know,
get you know, get together. But for the most part,
I feel like the sunset with it out on the
beach is beautiful as perfect, and you know, I feel
like there is no perfect moment. It's just when, you know,
feel the timing is right, and I feel like tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Will be a great night for that. Okay, And don't
drop any silly hens, uh, you know, when you're taking
your tours. Don't get liquored up at the rum place
and then all of a sudden start you know, talking
loosely about getting engaged or not getting engaged or trying
to throw her off. Don't don't overact here. Okay, Oh definitely, Dan.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
And one more thing, unlike Dylan the graphics guy, I'm
actually one of the youngest thirty seven year olds you've
ever seen in your life.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
All right, well, Andy, I love love, congratulations, good luck,
don't screw it up?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Oh definitely not.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
And hey, I tune into you guys every day and
I can never take a break from you all, even
if I'm back home or if I'm on vacation.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
All right, we'll safe travels there, but good luck tonight.
We're all counting on you. I don't know. It didn't
sound like you had a great game plan for actually
giving her the ring. And then the weather's gonna play
a role. What if it rains? I don't know. You
try to make it perfect. Sometimes you try to make
it too perfect.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yes, Paul, I thought you had a good point of
your drinking rum all day. You got to ring in
your pocket? Is it secure if you have dinner plans
ready for afterwards?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
He seemed loose.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
What could go wrong? He seemed a little too overconfident,
you know he did. He's like, I'm gonna throw her off.
We're gonna take go through the rainforest, going to go
to a rum place factory, and then we're going to
go to the beach and clouds are rolling in and
then all of a sudden, that could be a metaphor
for exactly what's going to happen.
Speaker 10 (31:10):
M don't see fellas all excited. He's he is high
on life right now, he's nothing.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Trying to help. See, I'm trying to help. I don't
know if that does I am. I'm just saying, don't
base it on weather. Like when when kids are in
your wedding party, the little kids, and then you're trying
to go oh yeah, and then the little Skippy is
going to be the ring bear, and then Skippy decides
to sit down in the aisle and not move. Just
(31:39):
you know you're going to rely on an animal or
a little child, or the weather could be nicy there,
just say trying to help Andy, Yes, Paul, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
And the beach is an uncontrolled environment. There could be
people running around and there is there a chance to
take a picture. I don't know if you guys know this,
but the day I was going to ask my girlfriend
to marry me, I had it all set up and
I call an audible and code red code red and
didn't do it, not because I wasn't sure. It was
the day my wife got her master's degree. Special day.
(32:09):
But then like it was raining like crazy. Her brothers
were like maniacs and making a mess at the restaurant,
arguing about what we're going to eat. And she was
in a bad mood because the brothers are kind of jacking.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Up the day being brothers. Yeah, being brothers and bean knucklehead.
I called an audible. I pushed it back a week. Okay,
I felt there was the right call at the time. Well,
you got to read the room, you know, I can't.
You can't force love. It just it just happens. It
just happens, just.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Out of nowhere. Yeah, Oh yeah, absolutely, I didn't mind.
I Rockefeller Center, oh.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
In front of you know, five hundred of your closest friends.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Absolutely not. I didn't get down on one knee or anything.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
What would you do?
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I took the ring out and I asked her to
marry me. Oh but my wife would have a panic
attack if I got on one knee and people saw
that happening.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Okay, but why Rockefeller Center. It's a really busy.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Play because the last time, because the last time we
went to Rockefeller Center, she swore it was gonna happen,
and it did not happen. It was Chris it was
Christmas time.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
We were going. We went there and see the tree. Yeah,
see the tree.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
All that stuff, and I was like, oh, the NBA
store is right here. And she was like what and
she cried on the train ride home.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Well, you can't bring her back. Then she knows you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Get She had no she had no idea. This was December.
I asked her in April. And because we always went
to New York.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
And you're sitting there with her forty five dollars Memphis
Grizzlies hat.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
On the way home, I was like, boy, this new
New Orleans jazz fitted is phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
I was like, whoa, boy, she's done the amount of
money I could have spent on an engagement spent it
on gear. Look at me, honey, look hot. I was like, oh,
look at the Yeah, it's tr right. Let me take
a break. More phone calls coming up, and an interesting
stat on the Chicago White Sox that I think you'll
find well interesting, and that'll be after this.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
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Speaker 2 (34:21):
Looking at some numbers here, the Ravens can tie the
nineteen seventy three through seventy six Buffalo Bills with thirty
seven consecutive games of rushing for at least one hundred yards.
Pretty amazing run. Obviously pun intended, but you start to
look at the Buffalo Bills are on there, the Lions
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back in nineteen thirty five. The Steelers in seventy four
through seventy seven had forty three consecutive games, but that's
when you did run and play great defense because they
had Rocky Blyer and Franco Harris. The Ravens twenty eighteen
through twenty twenty one had forty three consecutive games rushing
for one hundred yards. Also a couple other things. I
(35:04):
don't know why we're kind of numb to passing numbers.
Tom Brady has one hundred and two thousand passing yards.
For some reason, I wasn't aware that he had that many.
I guess that's including postseason as well. Drew Brees has
eighty five thousand, Peyton Manning seventy nine thousand, Brett Farv
(35:24):
seventy seven thousand. Uh, Dan Marino's on here, Philip Rivers,
Aaron Rodgers has sixty five thousand yards, but Brady has
one o two in his career. I'm assuming that his
postseason as well.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yes, Paul, Yeah, I have Tom Brady with eighty nine thousand,
two hundred and fourteen in the regular season, plus six
hundred and forty nine touchdowns. In the postseason, he has
thirteen thousand, four hundred yards, eighty eight touchdowns and forty picks.
His postseason stats are similar to like, you know, like that,
that's a decent career.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah, we're regular. Whoaoow stead of a day, stall of
a day?
Speaker 8 (36:06):
Stead of a day?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Stantata day.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
This is the stat of the day. Stat of the Day,
brought to you by Panini America. Also, TJ. Watt is
closing in on one hundred sacks. He has ninety nine
and a half in one hundred and seven games. He
will be the second fastest to one hundred sacks since
they started keep I still can't believe the NFL only
(36:30):
kept track of stats back in nineteen eighty two. With sacks.
It's Reggie White. It took him ninety six games to
get to one hundred. I still love it. If I
mean NFL films documented a lot of this, I would
think that you would be able to go back and
check the stats on sacks back then, but they only
(36:53):
have it in nineteen eighty two. I mentioned an interesting
stat for you. The Chicago White Sox right now have
thirty eight wins. Thirty eight wins in twenty twenty four.
In twenty twenty, they had thirty six wins in sixty games.
(37:13):
That was during COVID. Go ahead, mark, Yeah, you can.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Start of the day startup the.
Speaker 9 (37:19):
Day statu, the day start of the day statu, the
day startup, day startup to day startup the third.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
There are only fifty three and a half games out
of first place, so there's still time. So they have
thirty eight wins this year. They had thirty six wins
in twenty twenty and that's when they only played sixty games. Wow, okay,
I saw this situation. This was something we brought up
at the time. How do you prove that you were
(37:49):
the first to have the Shoho Tani home run ball?
There was controversy. There was an eighteen year old fan
who had the ball and was taken out of his hands. Well,
the eighteen year old has filed a lawsuit saying he
caught show Hey Otani's fiftieth home run ball first, and
we'll seek an injunction to stop an auction that is
scheduled to start on Friday, opening bid for that baseball
(38:13):
five hundred thousand dollars. And Darren Ravel is providing all
this information, and we wondered about that, how do you
prove that you had the ball? What is the saying
go about possession? What is it nine tenths nine tenths
of the wall or something like that. But did he
(38:35):
have the ball? How long did he have the ball?
And is that enough to file an injunction here and
stop this auction?
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Yes, Pauline, we've been watching the video here and there's
one person right behind the scrum for the baseball, and
these two gentlemen are going at it. One guy's more
of like a middle aged guy, and one of guy's
clearly like a high school kid. And then there's that
guy on top of both of them. You can't see
what's going on the bottom because one guy is huddled
like in a fetal position around the ball. The kid
(39:01):
is standing and has his arm down. You can't see
anything that helps you with like if you went to
the review we were discussing should you to complete the
process of catching the ball, and not to be.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Snarky, complete the process, you.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Kind of have to stand up and say I got it.
Isn't that who has the ball?
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I would think so, like I've I've had balls go
through my hands there and I can't say, hey, I
caught it. Wait a minute, sorry, yeah, thank you. Haven't
we all had balls go through our hands.
Speaker 10 (39:34):
Never made that mistake again, never, one time and one
time only.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yeah, it's tough watching the video.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
There's very little for the uh, the plaintiff to go on.
Speaker 11 (39:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, kind of feels like a loss for everybody,
to be honest with you, the kid kind of seems
like a loser for suing. Uh, it's never gonna happen.
And then you kind of look like a loser even
though you got the ball. When you rip out of
a kid's hands and then you stand up with it
over your head celebrating, you kind of look like a
jerk then too.
Speaker 10 (40:06):
But at least you're gonna get five hundred k at.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Least at least I mean, it's not like he's taking
it out of a nine year old's hands. It's an
eighteen year old.
Speaker 11 (40:15):
Yeah, the kid is eighteen, but it's still when you look,
you're not looking like Yeah, I had to wrestle it
away from a grown man.
Speaker 10 (40:21):
There's no one's confusing that scenario.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, you know what it's. It's a survival there. You're
in a mosh pit, you know, I get it. Yes, ton,
I've looked.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Like a jerk many times for free. So if it's
a half a million dollars on the line, I think
that's a worthwhile deal to make.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yeah, you'd have no problem not gonna you know eight
y oh, I don't forget.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
About it over time.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
You know where I mean, you're pulling up in your
fancy sports card and you got your fur coat or
whatever you like to.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Writ find an hour on the way. We'll talk to
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock. Thank you for
downloading the app. We'll check in with the UNLV football program,
of course we will. I don't think I've ever said
that before on this show, but we have a situation
there and pretty much the fallout from NIL and maybe
probably future situations like this. And as I said in
(00:59):
the first hour, source said, hey, wait till December when
you have a mass exodus with players who are not
going to be playing in games at the end of
the season, certainly in bowl games as well, and they'll
get ready to transfer. We're just kind of I mentioned
that we were kind of teetering here. College football is teetering,
teetering on the verge of something great with the playoffs,
(01:21):
teetering on the verge of are we going to have
collective a bargaining agreement attached to college football? Which is
where we are headed. Former MVP Derek Rose announced his retirement.
What could have been? He was sort of Jah Moran
before John Morant. He was extremely athletic, came out of Memphis,
and he was an immediate hit there. If you look
(01:44):
at winning your MVP in the first three years of
your career, he did so. His third year in Chicago,
Bob McAdoo did that, and his third year in Buffalo
Dave Cowens did that as well. I mean, we've had
a lot of players who have ended up winning their
MVP in the first three years or so. Kareem wanted
(02:06):
his second, Wes Unsealed his first, wiltis first, Bill Russell
was second, Bob Petted his second. But Derrick Rose was
in his third year. Then he got injured and was
really never the same. And it's almost as if he
had played six years instead of twelve years, like he
would have been probably a Hall of Famer because I
(02:26):
think the voters would have given him the benefit of
the doubt of what could have been. But he did
hang on, he did play. Probably didn't matter too much
to many people here watching unless you know you saw
him occasionally on a highlight. But he was a highlight
when he played with the Chicago Bulls. But he was
extremely athletic, explosive, fun and different coming into the league.
(02:51):
But announcing his retirement there, Yes, Marvin, and.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I think Derrick Grosse has a guess unbreakable record. He's
the youngest MVP in NBA history at twenty two years old.
I don't think anybody will win the MVP at twenty two.
Maybe Victor, but he's got to put up unbelievable numbers
and the Spurs have to be much better than what
they are right now.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, I think the voters they like to have you
earn it. We're not going to give you the MVP.
You have to earn it, and we want to see
if you have postseason success. I mean, look at what
they did with the Joker. We're not going to give
him the MVP until he hasn't had any success in
the postseason. Then he wins the title. Now all of
a sudden we look at him differently, Giannis. We want
to see if he's going to win. Okay, he wins.
(03:34):
Now you know he's in that category of you know,
it comes back around. We'll give an MVP. Joe El
Embiid hasn't done anything in the postseason, but he has
won MVP. It takes a lot. If you're coming in,
you better be unique, and wemban Yama has that opportunity
to be unique and maybe win one before he's twenty
one years of age.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Yes, Paul, Hall of Fame voters sometimes give you a
Hall pass if you have a arable injury because you
were on your way to the Hall of Fame. We
mentioned Gail Sayers the other day. I think Grant Hill
goes in for his entire career. Is Derek Rose on
the cuspboar? Is it not that close for the Hall
of Fame?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No, because of the controversy at Memphis. So I'm including
grand Hill at Duke winning titles and you can make
an argument he was the best player on the team,
and that's saying a lot back then. But with what
they vacated those wins, I think at Memphis, didn't they
in the final Four appearance or the Final Game appearance. Yes, Marvin, but.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I think the standards for the Basketball Hall of Fame,
no disrespect, they're a little bit lower than football in baseball.
So every single person that's won the MVP Award in
the NBA, they're in the Hall that's eligible. So I
think the MVP Award gets him in. Like if Penny
Hardaway won the MVP Award, he'd be in.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Okay, So well, I think the Memphis thing hurts him.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Okay, do what Cow's in the Hall?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, I think what he did at Kentucky and what
he did at U Mass. I mean, I'm gonna guess
that he did more things, maybe at more places, than
Derreck Rose did. Are you saying Cal shouldn't be in
the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Oh no, no, No, he's just he got you Mass
to the Final Four.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
You ever been to Amherst, Yes, yes, I went to
I went to Midnight Madness. I was working at the
mother Ship. Went to Midnight Madness there with the with
the coach coach Cal and so yeah, I was there.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I had Amherst rocket for a while.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah he did, Yes, he did. Amherst. B Rocking stat
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Speaker 6 (05:58):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Uh, Caitlin Clark, her season came to an end. Quite
a rookie year, quite an eleven month span for Caitlin Clark.
That's what made it amazing. Is stepped out of the
Final four, and then a week later she's in the WNBA.
And then she has a pretty tough schedule to start out.
I think they started out one in eight. She needed
to rest. The Olympics certainly helped that, and she proved
(06:22):
that she's not only the Rookie of the Year unanimous pick,
but she finished in the top five MVP and rightfully
so with what she did not only for her team,
but for the league as well. And let's see, let's
see how viewership is moving into the Final four for
the WNBA with no Caitlyn Clark. The White Sox hold
off infamy again as they have a walk off and
(06:44):
still have a chance to be the worst baseball team
in history. A couple of phone calls in here as
we start hour two, it's and in Wisconsin high end.
What's on your mind today?
Speaker 7 (06:58):
IDP, first time launch. I'm five to nine.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
None of your business.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
I am actually Coach Hockett's wife from Stevens Point and
it is his birthday today and he asks for two
things for his birthday. Number one was a birthday shout
out from DP and the boys, and number two was
to get you before retirement, to come down to Stephens
Point and we'll get you in a game.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Will you do I get in a regular season game?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
And well, no, I'm a professor here at Stephen's Point,
so I do have some pull, so you know what,
we can talk off air, and I've been working some
nil deals for you. We have a big golf outing
this weekend, and I'm going around town doing my you know,
head coach wife duties, and no one wants to talk
(07:50):
about the basketball. All they want to talk about is
when is DP coming to Stephens Point.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Okay, I'm thinking about holding a press conference with three
different hats in front of me and then announcing that
I'm going to Wisconsin Stevens Point a shout out a
happy birthday for coach.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Come on, that'll be Wisconsin, Green Bay and Doug Gott
Lady oh oh, just made it personal. Thank you Mann,
thank you for calling there. Let me see Cindy in
North Carolina. Hi, Cindy, what's on your mind today? Hi?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
How are you average?
Speaker 8 (08:35):
But improving the backup quarterback situation? If the Steelers have
the best, and I think they do, then my team,
the Dolphins, we're the worst. We're disaster. And I think
the frustrating thing about it is I have the feeling
that there are coaches who don't take that position as
serious as they should. I wanted us to trade for
(08:58):
Justin Heal, so we have an injury prone quarterbacks with
the history of concussions. Sure enough, the inevitable happens, and
now we're stuck with Skyler Thompson, who it was terrible
in the preseason. We let Mike White go, We signed
Tim Boyle. We know how that worked out for the
Jets last year, and maybe Tyler Huntley will come through.
(09:20):
But it's almost coaching malpractice.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Well I said that before, Cindy, and thank you for
the phone call. If you're going to sign Tua to
a long term deal, then you must have a quarterback,
a backup who is capable of running this style of
offense that has to be done, and he has to
know that. I would have said that to him. We're
going to give you a great contract, but we want
(09:45):
to carve out some money for your backup because we
are going to hold our breaths when you're playing, because
all it takes is one more concussion and here we are.
So I said that. I wouldn't have extended him in
the first place. But if you're going to that's when
you do. Go get somebody like Justin Fields. You get
somebody who is at least capable of, you know, being
(10:06):
a legitimate starting quarterback. Now Justin can't run that system
the way Tua does, but I would ask about Russell
Wilson once he gets healthy. I'd at least inquire. I
would inquire about Zach Wilson. Adam Schefter brought this up.
I got to find somebody who can get the ball out,
knows how to run this offense with Mike McDaniel, because
(10:28):
whoever they put in there, Mike will make them a
better quarterback. I just want to start with somebody who's
got more talent than some of these backup here because
you got I mean you're ready to go. You're ready
to go with this team. You made a big commitment
to your wide receivers. You got to be ready to go.
And who knows, you know when we get a further
(10:50):
diagnosis on Tua, because it's going to be a few
more weeks here before he's eligible to come back. Bradley
and Vermont. Hi Bradley, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (11:00):
Dan, first time caller, longtime listener five nine one fifty.
I was calling about some thoughts for your guys's bowling team. Hmmm,
a team name obviously Dan and the Dan Nets. And
having been a longtime bowler myself, Uh, who do you
(11:23):
guys think the lineup would be from? Say all of
you one to five? Usually you do it like baseball,
where your heavy hitter would be last or your cleanup man.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Well, I like to think of it differently than you do, Bradley,
because I subscribe to the Kyle Schwarber Show. He tyya,
I'm gonna I'm gonna lead off on the hammer and
I'm going to set the tone and just let people
know there's more where that came from.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
And back up for a few months. Uh, bowling men
only bowl without bumpers.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh yeah, we know that. All I cared is could
I drink beer? And I played with. My teammates were
guys I worked with at CNN, and they were so
disappointed when I cracked a beer. And I'm like, dude,
this is like swing Loube when you're playing golf. I mean,
I am going to tear this up until I'm impaired,
(12:21):
and then I'm going to be really really bad. So
true to form. First two games? Hey, all right?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Third?
Speaker 10 (12:29):
Not so good?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Not so good?
Speaker 11 (12:31):
You're not going to take this seriously, Dan, you might
not be meant for the Rolling Thunders whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
The team name might have been, the Rolling Thunder review
that was rolling Bob Dylan. Yes, and you know Fritzy says, Oh,
shouldn't you be the anchor of our team? Yeah, I am,
but the anchor is leading off. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
There are sports like bowling, cornhole, sixteen softball that if
you don't have a drink in the opposite end, you
almost look unbalanced. It almost is improper not to have
some time a beverage.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, I mean, I'm open for a bowling team, just
I would like to have outfits. I think that would
be important. I would like to have clear, customized bullet ball. Yeah,
obviously the outfits are important. I'd like to have something
form fitting. We can I can jump suit. I don't know.
I'm just saying I'm open to it. I like kind
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of skin tight overalls, maybe with no shirt on underneath it.
That's just let's just let let's say we're gonna send
out a vibe. We're going to be Bill Murray and kingpen.
Speaker 11 (13:37):
Genevieve Morton at one time when she came in the
La studio, I believe that was the outfit.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
By the way, I think bowling teams only have four people.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
It doesn't matter. We're going to find a league that
has five. But if somebody's going to get left out,
the guy who injured his arm during wiffle ball would
probably have to sit this one out time.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
That could be the spare tire. I could hello anybody
fair bowling tire.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
Fun is watching Todd bowle though?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I know, but but okay, we watched him play wiffle
ball at a pretty high level. Everybody was amazed, and
then Todd goes, I'm going to go see at the doctor.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Resulting in like level two ten tonight some some sort.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
No, right now, there were no levels there. He hurt
himself playing whiffle.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
Ball, swinging a whiffle ball bat.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yes, I can't blame it. I'm pitching because there was
my right arm and I was throwing with my left,
so I had to be the follow through the I can't.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I can't lose you to a bowling injury. I can't
like knowing you. You'd get your hands stuck in that
you know the ball return.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
And no bumpers. I don't like that idea.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, well, let me see what else do we have here?
Robin Orlando, Hi, Rob Boots on your mind?
Speaker 12 (15:02):
Hey, good morning, dping the guys man. Hey, if Fritzy
comes off the bench in that bowling league, man, his
appearance could be sponsored by a tie rack your spare performer.
What I called it about the quick Thank you to
PAULI for the James Madison bet on over the weekend man.
I laid a few dollars on it, and when he
called him Jim Madison, I threw some additional money on it,
(15:24):
which did me. Well. My other question for you, I
got a technicality or eligibility question for admitting to the club.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Huno.
Speaker 12 (15:35):
So I had a testicular cancer back when I was
twenty eight, few years ago and had to sacrifice one
of my plums. But I did, and it was a
weird thing at the time. I didn't know what to do,
but I did get a prosthetic one. So am I
stole out in or not? I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I am going to say, yes, I'm going to let
you in. Technically you have one good plumb, artificial plumb.
I'm gonna I'm gonna go to the judges. Judges say yes,
we're going to let you in. Yes, Paul, Yeah, checking
the bylaws.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Dan, it's og.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Whatever you if you're ever at any point down to one,
you're in the club. Yeah, og original. Wow, that's the bylaws.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I didn't make them original. Gonad. I haven't heard that
expression in a long time a bit. Yeah. I remember
not wearing a cup playing softball and took a bad
hop and it was like, oh, man, got hit in
the gonuts. Might have been the last time I ever
used that expression. Bring it back. It's yeah, heck yeah,
bring back gonuds. All in favor, say I, Hi, okay,
(16:47):
thank you, all right, We'll check in with the UNLV
football program. I found it kind of interesting timing here
about a quarterback who didn't get paid and this story
breaks on the same day, around the same time that
UNLV is getting a bonus check of around twenty seven
million dollars for staying in a I think the Mountain
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West Conference. Here, Does that sound right, todd that they?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
So the fact that this quarterback, Matthew Sluca is on
his way out of UNLV top twenty five team and
over a payment there so the irony of all ironies here.
So yeah, here it is. UNLV agreed last night to
a one time payment of twenty seven million dollars to
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stay in the Mountain West Conference on the same day
that their quarterback decides to exit stage left. More on
this situation coming up right after this.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
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Speaker 2 (17:56):
We mentioned this yesterday it kind of took off nationally.
UNLV quarterback Matthew Sluka left the undefeated UNLV Rebels Tuesday
night overclaims of unfulfilled verbal nil promises from a UNLV
assistant coach and the number that was thrown out he
was promised one hundred thousand dollars as he was leaving
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Holy Cross to go to UNLV. They're undefeated, he's played well,
and he decides that he's going to transfer and he's
going to red shirt leave UNLV, and we just had
Ross Tucker on Ross goes. He might be getting a
half million to a million dollars if he goes someplace
else next season, which he obviously is going to. David,
(18:40):
I've been the national senior college football writer for The
Athletic and a host of until Saturday, The Athletics College
Football Podcast, joining us on the program, David, how did
we get here? How do you summarize exactly what happened?
Speaker 12 (18:56):
Well?
Speaker 13 (18:56):
Do you want to go through thirty years of institable
A officials putting the line in the sand as the
rest of the world and common sense crossed over and
they refuse to adopt common sense rules, and now you
have an an il landscape with not very many rules
and not very many guidelines, and no one protecting players,
no one protecting programs, and situations like these are gonna happen.
(19:19):
I mean, this is very different from the Jade and
Rashada saga for a number of reasons, but it's in
spirited is similar, and that you have a kid being
promised a lot of money and not being delivered on
that money. And the main reason is because of all
of those factors at play in the landscape that make
this sort of just a lawless place where people are
(19:43):
trying to figure it out. And it's very hard to
figure out, especially for you know, kids who are dealing
with these situations for the first time ever, and there's
it's only been happening for three years and only been
happening as it is now for a couple of years,
and it's it's hard to figure out.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, but okay, apply logic and I know that's rarely done.
Speaker 10 (20:03):
It's college, it's easy.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
So he's leaving holy Cross, he's going to UNLV and
says that he was promised one hundred thousand dollars by
an assistant coach. It's a verbal promise. Now you have
to go to the collective to get that money. Like
there's a disconnect between the coaching staff and the collective
because the NCAA says, you know, they can't you know
coexist here from the standpoint of having contact, which is silly.
(20:28):
I don't think there's any way you recruit somebody and
then say I can't promise you anything, go talk to
the collective. What kid is going to transfer under that
false pretense? So how do they prove or disprove the
one hundred thousand dollars offer from an assistant coach? Well
you can.
Speaker 13 (20:46):
I mean, I guess there's not a lot of reason
for a kid, So that's a lie. And if you
looked at all the statements that came out yesterday, nobody
seemed to be disputing this verbal agreement, but they're disputing
that there's a written agreement that they can prove in
court that they're going to owe this kid actually money
he's gonna get paid at all. So it's it's it
goes into this place where there's not a lot of norms,
there's not a lot of rules, and so I think
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that there's It definitely seems to be true that that
the coach promised him money, and he wouldn't be the
first coach to promise the kid money that they didn't
have at the moment. But you get the kid, you think, well,
we can get donors, we can get boosters excited, we
can pay him on the back end. We can make
this happen once we get them. And it seems clear
based on them coming back to the coaching staff, coming
(21:28):
back to the collective over and over since February when
the steal was ironed out, that they didn't have the
money to pay him. That seems clear at this point.
And so that's a failure on the part of the
entire sort of UNLV landscape. And it's an embarrassing saga.
And this is the kind of stuff that that really
hurts you on the recruiting trail. You know, Florida dealt
with some of this as well. It's thirteen million dollars
versus one hundred thousand dollars. But these are things that
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that are going to be brought up on the recruiting
trail and it's tough to for for for schools to
deal with that. But it's a it's an ugly situation,
and you know, it goes back to if you don't
know that you have the money, maybe don't promise it.
But one hundred thousand dollars is not very much money.
It seems to me that it's it's kind of hard
to believe, even with all of the lack of support
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that has kind of plagued you one of these program
that you can't come up with one hundred thousand dollars
for your starting quarterback in Vegas. I mean you could
probably go walk around the street and count, you know,
ten dollars bills in the cracks of the sidewalk and
probably be able to come up with that. So's it's
it's hard to believe, but that seems to be the
reality for the program right now.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yeah, my college source said to me this morning, you
WENTLV wanted to play the game, they couldn't afford to
pay the game. Therefore, hey, we want to be big time.
And then they do this, you know, but in the
same timeframe of a twenty seven million dollar payout to
stay in the Mountain West, where this kid's trying to
get one hundred thousand dollars that you promised him. So
(22:51):
what's the fallout? Like, where where is college football going
from here? I said that we're kind of teetering. We're
teetering on the vergess something great with the playoffs, but
we're also teetering on the verge of what direction are
we really headed in with the total landscape of college football.
Speaker 13 (23:09):
Well, it's something that makes a little bit more sense.
This sort of perpetual free agency for everybody on every
team every year is not good for the sport. It's
not good for the kids. You have situations like these.
You know this is a public situation, but you hear
whispers of kids getting shorted and they stick around because
they're like, well, this is the only way I'm gonna
get paid is if I just stick around and maybe
I'm good enough they decide they're eventually gonna pay me.
(23:30):
You kind of hear stuff like that, but you don't
see guys leaving teams over it very often.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
So ultimately, what I say.
Speaker 13 (23:37):
With this is you can see in the court cases,
you can see in a lot of the legislation that's
kind of moving through, is that we're gonna get towards
something resembling employment, something resembling revenue sharing, where there's twenty
seven million dollar checks that you're getting that's not explicitly
TV revenue, but it's basically TV revenue, and the players
will get some portion of that. What that exactly looks like,
(23:57):
what those percentages look like I think.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
Is still in flux.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
But when you have no rules and no contracts and
anything like that, you have no control over player movement,
and the courts have proven that over and over again.
But if you get to something resembling employment and something
resembling revenue sharing, and then you can have contracts and
it makes it harder for kids to leave, and it's
not exploitive to limit where guys can go. It's the
same thing we see in pro sports. You know, if
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Patrick Mahomes wants to go join the Patriots tomorrow, he
can't do that because he's under contract, and nobody complains
because he's being paid well and he signed the contract.
But you don't have that in college sports right now.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So something close to.
Speaker 13 (24:34):
That is coming to bring a little bit of common
sense back to the roster management across the sport.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It's going to be a collective bargaining agreement here, David.
That's yes, that's where we're that's where we're heading.
Speaker 13 (24:45):
Yeah, you're right, But the issue is that one you
have eighty five, it's going to be one hundred and
five scholarship guys on one hundred and thirty four FBS
teams and it's a transient workforce. It's only going to
be relevant in the sport usually one to three years.
You're only playing sport for four to five years. So
that presents some challenges. And you talk to people that
are kind of in the mix for trying to become
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the people that kind of help form this union, they
say those challenges can be overcome. But you look at
the NFL where you got you know, thirty two teams
and fifty three man roster. That's a much more manageable workforce,
and they're going to be there for a little bit
longer time. You have leaders, you have guys that are
in the league that become faces and understand how these
things work for ten years.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You don't have that in college.
Speaker 13 (25:27):
So in addition to your students at a university as well,
which complicates all this as well. So I think ultimately
you're right, you'll get to something resembling a collective bard agree,
but you have to have something resembling a players association
that can collectively bargain on behalf of the players and
they're not gonna all agree and getting a consensus or
what players want. When that workforce is that big and
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that transient is a challenge.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Does the NCAA have a role in this? So they
are they playing okay.
Speaker 13 (25:56):
No, this is people in the sport. I think they
figured it out a lot in COVID that you know,
the conferences are meeting every day, They're saying, hey, what's
going on at your campus? What can we do? This
is really what it was laid there. I think everybody
knew it. But during COVID when they're trying to figure
out how do we best serve our athletes? How do
we figure out can we get to a season? Can
we get guys back on campus? The conferences are meeting
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every day, The leadership on the campuses are meeting every day.
They go weeks months without hearing from the INCIDABA, and
I think you talk to people around the sport. Like
I said, everybody kind of knew the NCAA was mia
on dealing with big picture issues and trying to get
to solutions. But when you have this gigantic pandemic that
disrupts everything, the absence there really kind of let schools
(26:38):
and campus figure out like, oh no, we got to
figure this out ourselves.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
David, good to talk to you. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
David Evan, the national senior college football writer for The Athletic,
host of Until Saturday, The Athletics, College Football and podcast.
The NCAA is like a mall cop. They look like
they have authority, but they don't. You're a mall cop.
You don't even have a gun.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
What was that, Seth Rogan movie Deserving report.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Observing report or Paul Blart or Paul Blart mall cop.
That's the NC double A. Hey, it's it's a lion
without any teeth. It's like, oh, okay, I'm gonna I
can oh look at the cute little NC double A
Oh boy, alright. A couple more phone calls in here,
uh Andy in Puerto Rico, Hi, Andy, what's on your
(27:30):
mind today?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Good morning?
Speaker 6 (27:33):
First time love you long time six ' one and
a Bruce Leesque one seventy Dan, Dan, and Dennett. You
like family to me, and Dan, I know you love
love and I had to call you like a proud
son to let you know today in Puerto Rico, I
am going to be getting I am going to be
(27:54):
proposing to my maiden girlfriend and I just had to
let you know and possibly get some advice if I've
already been told it's the engage your ring, the.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Marriage ring, and the struggling.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
So I just you know, wanted to you know, get
some advice to see see how you feel about this.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Then okay, run the run, run through the day. Here,
what are we doing? How's it start?
Speaker 6 (28:15):
You know where where We're gonna be going to, uh,
the lovely rainforest for a guided tour. Then from there
we're gonna be going to a lovely rum factory to
get another tour. You know, we're just staying busy to
kind of keep her off track because I don't want
her to get any whiff that you know, this is coming,
and not to mention she has no idea, So that's
the beauty about it.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Okay, But then when's the proposed, Like, how how are
we proposing?
Speaker 6 (28:40):
I I plan on doing that at the beach close
to sunset around sunset right now. I've been keeping track
of the weather. It's it's looking like it's gonna be
on my side right now, closet and rolling in unfortunately
because it's a little wet season right now. But for
the most part, everything's looking good so far. So you know,
it's just it's it's more or less, you know, air
with the weather, but also making sure that tonight is
(29:03):
Dad popped the question because we will be leaving tomorrow,
and honestly, I've been trying to call you guys since
last Friday and I have not been able to get through.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Okay, Now, are you just going to get down on
one knee on the beach with the sunset?
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Yes, that's that. That would be it. I was, you know,
there was other ideas I did try to you know,
get you know, get together. But for the most part,
I feel like the sunset with it out on the
beach is beautiful as perfect, and you know, I feel
like there is no perfect moment. It's just when, you know,
feel the timing is right, and I feel like tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Will be a great night for that. Okay, And don't
drop any silly hens, uh, you know, when you're taking
your tours. Don't get liquored up at the rum place
and then all of a sudden start you know, talking
loosely about getting engaged or not getting engaged or trying
to throw her off. Don't don't overact here. Okay, Oh definitely, Dan.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
And one more thing, unlike Dylan the graphics guy, I'm
actually one of the youngest thirty seven year olds you've
ever seen in your life.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
All right, well, Andy, I love love, congratulations, good luck,
don't screw it up?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Oh definitely not.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
And hey, I tune into you guys every day and
I can never take a break from you all, even
if I'm back home or if I'm on vacation.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
All right, we'll safe travels there, but good luck tonight.
We're all counting on you. I don't know. It didn't
sound like you had a great game plan for actually
giving her the ring. And then the weather's gonna play
a role. What if it rains? I don't know. You
try to make it perfect. Sometimes you try to make
it too perfect.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yes, Paul, I thought you had a good point of
your drinking rum all day. You got to ring in
your pocket? Is it secure if you have dinner plans
ready for afterwards?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
He seemed loose.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
What could go wrong? He seemed a little too overconfident,
you know he did. He's like, I'm gonna throw her off.
We're gonna take go through the rainforest, going to go
to a rum place factory, and then we're going to
go to the beach and clouds are rolling in and
then all of a sudden, that could be a metaphor
for exactly what's going to happen.
Speaker 10 (31:10):
M don't see fellas all excited. He's he is high
on life right now, he's nothing.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Trying to help. See, I'm trying to help. I don't
know if that does I am. I'm just saying, don't
base it on weather. Like when when kids are in
your wedding party, the little kids, and then you're trying
to go oh yeah, and then the little Skippy is
going to be the ring bear, and then Skippy decides
to sit down in the aisle and not move. Just
(31:39):
you know you're going to rely on an animal or
a little child, or the weather could be nicy there,
just say trying to help Andy, Yes, Paul, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
And the beach is an uncontrolled environment. There could be
people running around and there is there a chance to
take a picture. I don't know if you guys know this,
but the day I was going to ask my girlfriend
to marry me, I had it all set up and
I call an audible and code red code red and
didn't do it, not because I wasn't sure. It was
the day my wife got her master's degree. Special day.
(32:09):
But then like it was raining like crazy. Her brothers
were like maniacs and making a mess at the restaurant,
arguing about what we're going to eat. And she was
in a bad mood because the brothers are kind of jacking.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Up the day being brothers. Yeah, being brothers and bean knucklehead.
I called an audible. I pushed it back a week. Okay,
I felt there was the right call at the time. Well,
you got to read the room, you know, I can't.
You can't force love. It just it just happens. It
just happens, just.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Out of nowhere. Yeah, Oh yeah, absolutely, I didn't mind.
I Rockefeller Center, oh.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
In front of you know, five hundred of your closest friends.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Absolutely not. I didn't get down on one knee or anything.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
What would you do?
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I took the ring out and I asked her to
marry me. Oh but my wife would have a panic
attack if I got on one knee and people saw
that happening.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Okay, but why Rockefeller Center. It's a really busy.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Play because the last time, because the last time we
went to Rockefeller Center, she swore it was gonna happen,
and it did not happen. It was Chris it was
Christmas time.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
We were going. We went there and see the tree. Yeah,
see the tree.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
All that stuff, and I was like, oh, the NBA
store is right here. And she was like what and
she cried on the train ride home.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Well, you can't bring her back. Then she knows you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Get She had no she had no idea. This was December.
I asked her in April. And because we always went
to New York.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
And you're sitting there with her forty five dollars Memphis
Grizzlies hat.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
On the way home, I was like, boy, this new
New Orleans jazz fitted is phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
I was like, whoa, boy, she's done the amount of
money I could have spent on an engagement spent it
on gear. Look at me, honey, look hot. I was like, oh,
look at the Yeah, it's tr right. Let me take
a break. More phone calls coming up, and an interesting
stat on the Chicago White Sox that I think you'll
find well interesting, and that'll be after this.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
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Speaker 2 (34:21):
Looking at some numbers here, the Ravens can tie the
nineteen seventy three through seventy six Buffalo Bills with thirty
seven consecutive games of rushing for at least one hundred yards.
Pretty amazing run. Obviously pun intended, but you start to
look at the Buffalo Bills are on there, the Lions
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back in nineteen thirty five. The Steelers in seventy four
through seventy seven had forty three consecutive games, but that's
when you did run and play great defense because they
had Rocky Blyer and Franco Harris. The Ravens twenty eighteen
through twenty twenty one had forty three consecutive games rushing
for one hundred yards. Also a couple other things. I
(35:04):
don't know why we're kind of numb to passing numbers.
Tom Brady has one hundred and two thousand passing yards.
For some reason, I wasn't aware that he had that many.
I guess that's including postseason as well. Drew Brees has
eighty five thousand, Peyton Manning seventy nine thousand, Brett Farv
(35:24):
seventy seven thousand. Uh, Dan Marino's on here, Philip Rivers,
Aaron Rodgers has sixty five thousand yards, but Brady has
one o two in his career. I'm assuming that his
postseason as well.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yes, Paul, Yeah, I have Tom Brady with eighty nine thousand,
two hundred and fourteen in the regular season, plus six
hundred and forty nine touchdowns. In the postseason, he has
thirteen thousand, four hundred yards, eighty eight touchdowns and forty picks.
His postseason stats are similar to like, you know, like that,
that's a decent career.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah, we're regular. Whoaoow stead of a day, stall of
a day?
Speaker 8 (36:06):
Stead of a day?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Stantata day.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
This is the stat of the day. Stat of the Day,
brought to you by Panini America. Also, TJ. Watt is
closing in on one hundred sacks. He has ninety nine
and a half in one hundred and seven games. He
will be the second fastest to one hundred sacks since
they started keep I still can't believe the NFL only
(36:30):
kept track of stats back in nineteen eighty two. With sacks.
It's Reggie White. It took him ninety six games to
get to one hundred. I still love it. If I
mean NFL films documented a lot of this, I would
think that you would be able to go back and
check the stats on sacks back then, but they only
(36:53):
have it in nineteen eighty two. I mentioned an interesting
stat for you. The Chicago White Sox right now have
thirty eight wins. Thirty eight wins in twenty twenty four.
In twenty twenty, they had thirty six wins in sixty games.
(37:13):
That was during COVID. Go ahead, mark, Yeah, you can.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Start of the day startup the.
Speaker 9 (37:19):
Day statu, the day start of the day statu, the
day startup, day startup to day startup the third.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
There are only fifty three and a half games out
of first place, so there's still time. So they have
thirty eight wins this year. They had thirty six wins
in twenty twenty and that's when they only played sixty games. Wow, okay,
I saw this situation. This was something we brought up
at the time. How do you prove that you were
(37:49):
the first to have the Shoho Tani home run ball?
There was controversy. There was an eighteen year old fan
who had the ball and was taken out of his hands. Well,
the eighteen year old has filed a lawsuit saying he
caught show Hey Otani's fiftieth home run ball first, and
we'll seek an injunction to stop an auction that is
scheduled to start on Friday, opening bid for that baseball
(38:13):
five hundred thousand dollars. And Darren Ravel is providing all
this information, and we wondered about that, how do you
prove that you had the ball? What is the saying
go about possession? What is it nine tenths nine tenths
of the wall or something like that. But did he
(38:35):
have the ball? How long did he have the ball?
And is that enough to file an injunction here and
stop this auction?
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Yes, Pauline, we've been watching the video here and there's
one person right behind the scrum for the baseball, and
these two gentlemen are going at it. One guy's more
of like a middle aged guy, and one of guy's
clearly like a high school kid. And then there's that
guy on top of both of them. You can't see
what's going on the bottom because one guy is huddled
like in a fetal position around the ball. The kid
(39:01):
is standing and has his arm down. You can't see
anything that helps you with like if you went to
the review we were discussing should you to complete the
process of catching the ball, and not to be.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Snarky, complete the process, you.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Kind of have to stand up and say I got it.
Isn't that who has the ball?
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I would think so, like I've I've had balls go
through my hands there and I can't say, hey, I
caught it. Wait a minute, sorry, yeah, thank you. Haven't
we all had balls go through our hands.
Speaker 10 (39:34):
Never made that mistake again, never, one time and one
time only.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yeah, it's tough watching the video.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
There's very little for the uh, the plaintiff to go on.
Speaker 11 (39:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, kind of feels like a loss for everybody,
to be honest with you, the kid kind of seems
like a loser for suing. Uh, it's never gonna happen.
And then you kind of look like a loser even
though you got the ball. When you rip out of
a kid's hands and then you stand up with it
over your head celebrating, you kind of look like a
jerk then too.
Speaker 10 (40:06):
But at least you're gonna get five hundred k at.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Least at least I mean, it's not like he's taking
it out of a nine year old's hands. It's an
eighteen year old.
Speaker 11 (40:15):
Yeah, the kid is eighteen, but it's still when you look,
you're not looking like Yeah, I had to wrestle it
away from a grown man.
Speaker 10 (40:21):
There's no one's confusing that scenario.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, you know what it's. It's a survival there. You're
in a mosh pit, you know, I get it. Yes, ton,
I've looked.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Like a jerk many times for free. So if it's
a half a million dollars on the line, I think
that's a worthwhile deal to make.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yeah, you'd have no problem not gonna you know eight
y oh, I don't forget.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
About it over time.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
You know where I mean, you're pulling up in your
fancy sports card and you got your fur coat or
whatever you like to.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Writ find an hour on the way. We'll talk to
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