September 3, 2026 • 41 mins
Dan weighs in as kicker Justin Tucker gets another tryout and controversy follows him; but does his performance outweigh all of that for his legacy? Big Ten commissioner Tony Petetti joins Dan and talks about the growth of the conference and how they navigate the contemporary age of college football, and the possibility of a big SEC-Big Ten challenge as the two conferences continue to stand above everyone else.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Hour two on this Thursday. Dan and the Danettes,
Dan Patrick Show. Glad to have you on board. We'll
check in with the commissioner of the Big Ten, Tony Battini.
He'll stop by in about 20 minutes from now. College
football coming up tonight, or at least a reasonable facsimile.
(00:21):
Colorado against Georgia Tech. Colorado is getting six and a
half against Georgia Tech. Where's game day and all of
the former players and celebrities?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Everybody wanted to go out there and get a piece
of Dion and the Colorado Buffaloes. Well, Dion doesn't have
any more kids and there's no more Heisman trophy winners.
And all of a sudden, nobody's showing up there for
Dion anymore. Man, that was quick. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
That was a phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
My goodness.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I remember vividly. I'll always remember this. just staying up
until 2 o'clock in the morning, watching Colorado, Colorado State,
and my wife at the top of the stairs, Marvin, Marvin,
what are you doing? I'm watching Colorado. She goes, you
say Colorado?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Your wife doesn't sound like that.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
In my story, she sounds just like that.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Sounds like a truck driver. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yeah, historically, if you're up at 2 watching a Colorado game,
you're a degenerate gambler.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Smoking like one. Yes, Paulie.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
That was a wild fall, though. I think big noon
kickoff went to Colorado two weeks in a row in September.
All hands on deck.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Just saw where the Jets are working out Justin Tucker.
There was a time between 2010 and 2020 that he
was first or second team all pro every single year
from 2016 to 2022. He made 89% of his field goals.
That's third all time, but you go back to 2024
(01:57):
when he started to struggle, the Ravens released him. And
of course there was more baggage to go along with
that because at the time there were allegations that Tucker
and a massage therapist that he apparently was nude brushing
up against two therapists. And, um, There were a few
(02:21):
more of these massage therapists who came forward. The Ravens
released him in May of 2025. NFL suspended him for
the first 10 games of 2025. Saints and Colts gave
him a tryout. I think that was last year or
the last two years. But Tucker's one of three kickers
the Jets hosted. And they're going to have to make
(02:43):
a decision here pretty soon, I would imagine. I thought
cut-down day was this past Sunday. I don't know how
you have guys coming in to work out. Maybe because
you haven't signed anybody. You still have 53, and maybe
(03:03):
he can win that job, and then you drop somebody
from the roster. I guess. I don't know. I just
saw the story, so I don't have many details on it.
But Justin Tucker, is he a Hall of Famer? Just football-wise,
Hall of Famer, you're not supposed to include or factor in,
(03:24):
at least what the voters tell me, of what happens
to you off the field. Yes, Todd?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I think he is.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Without having the numbers in front of me, when I
hear that name, again, we do that a lot. Like,
does that name resonate or make you think, yes, Hall
of Famer, what is your initial reaction? And I think yes.
Speaker 8 (03:39):
Paul?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
He may be the best kicker of all time. He
was a weapon for that team. He wasn't just a kicker.
And I think he would cruise into the Hall of
Fame just as is. I think he's going to get the,
you're going to wait a year or two because of
the off field.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
But you're not supposed to. Supposed to.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
And then the room is a bunch of older guys.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America,
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Peacock and NBC Sports Now. We'll recap our poll question
(04:21):
for the first hour, and we'll have a new one
for the second hour of the program. He's probably a
Hall of Famer. And I don't know, like, kickers are
now viewed as weapons. It was like, you know, Brandon
Aubrey is a weapon. You get, you know, somewhere between
55 and 60 yards, I wouldn't even think twice. Be like,
(04:45):
come on in. Go give me three points here. And
I think we've looked at, they were kind of a
necessary evil. We looked at kickers and we're like, oh, God.
It's still amazing that Mark Mosley, a kicker for Washington Redskins,
was the MVP. Now it was a strike season, but still.
(05:06):
That offense was going to score. It didn't matter who
was kicking. How does a kicker win the MVP? That'll
never happen again. Can't imagine that. Unless somebody wins three
or four games at the Horn and kicks a 73-yard
field goal with one of them. That maybe you would
(05:28):
get MVP consideration. Maybe. But kickers are a weapon, certainly
now because they've made it look easy. But I mean,
you're trying to replicate. Vinatieri, what he did, I never
knew how many field goals he made. I don't even
know what his longest field goal was. I just know
(05:49):
Super Bowl's on the line, a chance to go to
the Super Bowl. Vinatieri made those field goals and then
went from there to the Colts. I had no problem
with that. Morton Anderson, Jan Stennerud. I mean, there were
so many kickers that I remember growing up But I
didn't view them like Ray Guy as a punter. I
(06:11):
thought that guy could probably play a couple of positions,
and he was a great punter. But punters are weapons, too.
Does that make sense? That feels like something that Rich
Eisen would wear. I think like he'd have a t-shirt.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
I think he had punters are people too.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So I'm saying punters are weapons too. Yes, Todd.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
There used to be a kid's show called Wonderama with
Bob McAllister. If any of you guys remember that and
kids are people too, was the big song from that.
I know it's dated reference in like the seventies, but
that was kind of a big deal back.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
In the day.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Thank you, Todd.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Alrighty.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Your phone calls always welcome. How about the poll question
or questions from our one? Dylan.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
How will we remember Kawhi Leonard, Dan? Load management, Clippers, debacle,
two-time finals, MVP, or other, just for a control variable.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
53% say load management.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Kind of the face of load management. All right.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
For this hour, well, we can ask the question, is
Justin Tucker a Hall of Famer? I mean, he was
making like $ 6 million a year, which in kicker money
is insane, but it felt worth... every single penny for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I mean, you're first or second team All-Pro for, what,
seven years?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
But it's hard not to factor in what got him
released from the Ravens.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
They'll make him wait.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
A couple years ago, I just looked this up.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
2024.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
We did a poll question. When Derrick Henry, the running back,
joined the Ravens, who's more important to the Ravens this
upcoming season? Derrick Henry or Justin Tucker?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And it was 50-50.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
And Derrick Henry, by the way, ran for 1,900 yards
that year.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Just a caveat. But games come down to field goals. Like,
the number of games that are six points or less.
And it feels like you need two first downs after
the kickoff to be in field goal range. I mean,
Brandon Aubrey is awesome. But how many years do you
(08:31):
have to have sustainable greatness? And what is considered sustainable
greatness for a place kicker? Like if you make 92%
of your field goals, 90% of your field goals, you
make all your extra points. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Hey, you also have to do something big in the
postseason or the Super Bowl. Almost like a, oh my goodness,
Devin Hester.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
If you're a special teams guy, you got to do
something big that people remember in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Brandon Aubrey, he joined the Cowboys. He was 28 years old,
but he's three-time All-Pro in his first three years. He's
well on his way to one of those careers.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, he'd need to have a long way. Seven more years.
Seven more years. Um, Vanity Fair magazine, they still have
a few of those, published an excerpt in a new
book about Lane Kiffin. And the excerpt covered his time
as Alabama's offensive coordinator, in which the then head coach,
(09:36):
Nick Saban, told the staff members regarding Lane Kiffin, quote,
keep him away from the sorority girls, end quote. Make
sure they've graduated college early. An associate of Kiffin's also
said a local bar owner called him and said, quote,
your boy lanes back in here asking where the hotties are.
(10:09):
I don't know what else is in the book. I
don't know if Kiffin was asked about this. I'm sure
somebody is going to bring it up to him. I
don't know if he talks to the media today. Or
does he talk to the media every day? This is
not a surprise to people in Alabama at the university.
(10:30):
This is not a surprise. Just letting you know. Now,
what else happened after that? I'm not sure. But this
is not a surprise.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
What happens at the Elephant Club?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah. Where are all the hotties? Who says that?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
It was hottie-tottie. It was when he was at Ole Miss,
and people are confusing the two.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
There might have been a misunderstanding there. Where are all
the hotties? Coach, I know you're prepared for Clemson, but
are you curious where the hotties are here in Baton Rouge?
Thoughts on the hotties, Coach. Could you compare the hotties
at LSU to Alabama, please? Coach, I'll hang up and listen. Oh, boy.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Hotties is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Now if i'm a sorority oh no no i i
get i get t-shirts that say hotties on it in
your in your colors your sorority colors you just have
hotties on there lanes hotties well i don't know if
i'd do that i don't know if i'd do that
okay Do we have a poll question for hour two?
(11:43):
Who has better hotties? That would be a tough question. Oh,
hotties of the SEC? Yes. I'm going to go Ole Miss.
I might go Ole Miss to start. It might be
a draw. Yeah, you know what? There's beautiful people.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
In the SEC.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
We're going to need another hour. Yeah. My daughter-in-law, sorority,
I guess hottie at Alabama. I'm going to have to
ask her about this.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
She wasn't there when Lane was there, I don't think.
But I have to ask her about Lane's hotties. How
about them Clippers? Yeah, how about that? Pablo Torre will
join us next hour. He's the one who had all
the stories, all the information, all the drama, and it
finally came to a head. The NBA dropped the hammer
(12:30):
on the Clippers. We'll have more on that. Kawhi Leonard.
That's not a bad trade-off. You know, you got to
pay 700 grand for probably $ 50 million with side deals.
And he's not worried about his legacy. He couldn't care less.
That kind of money, you can save whatever you want. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Yeah, I actually crunched the numbers on both of those fines. Just,
you know, me being a mathematician. So Kawhi on the
court has made about $ 375 million in his career. And
then I added on the alleged $ 28 million from aspirations.
So I got fined $ 700K. That is 0.16 of a
percent of that total earnings. And then Ballmer, who's worth
(13:11):
about $ 152. 7 billion per Forbes, got fined $ 30 million. That
is 0.019 of a percent.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And we invited everybody, just so you know. We invited
the commissioner. We invited Steve Ballmer, Kawhi. Todd will invite anybody, everybody.
And we didn't hear back from anybody, not surprisingly. No way. Yeah,
go figure.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Uh-oh.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Did we invite Lane Kiffin just to talk about hotties?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
We have not just yet.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I'm strongly considering it. Pro Football Hall of Fame, basic
eligibility requirements. There is no statistical minimum like the certain
number of Pro Bowls or yards. You must be out
for at least five seasons, at least five years of service.
(13:57):
After that, the big question, was he one of the
greatest players in the history of professional football? Let's see.
They say they don't have a formula. There's nothing in
here about off the field. At least I don't see
that with Hall of Fame eligibility.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
To be fair, this is from ChatGPT, which I know
we rely on for a lot of our information. I
have sent a note to the NFL as well in
case anything's more updated on specific behavior that would keep
someone from being eligible or to be voted on as
a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Okay. Oh, I see this. NBC Peacock bus outside the
Big Ten headquarters. That's gorgeous looking. Got all the school
logos there. Todd just sent this to me. They got
the they got the Big Ten bus, the Peacock NBC
bus right out front there. We'll talk to the commissioner
(14:48):
and the Big Ten. You'll join us coming up. We'll
get to more phone calls here as well. Hour two
of the program. We'll take a break. We're back after this.
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Speaker 2 (15:37):
College football for the next five days. It's like the
NFL is giving college football a gift here this weekend
because after that, then it becomes the NFL. The only
marquee game tonight, Colorado against Georgia Tech, but a full slate.
over the next five days. He is the Big Ten Commissioner,
Tony Petitti, joining us on the program. What kind of
(16:01):
year do you think you had, if you were going
to sum it up, Tony?
Speaker 11 (16:05):
The year ahead, I would say we feel, well, if
you're asking me what the year was this past year,
that's an interesting question. I mean, on the field, Dan,
it couldn't have been any better. You know, winning the
football championship and both basketballs and a total of 13
national championships across everything we play. I think it was
probably the most successful year in the history of the
Big Ten on the field.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
I think for our student-athletes, there was nothing better.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
Obviously, college athletics deals with all kinds of challenges every
day around legal cases. There seems to be a new idea,
a new challenge coming every time you come to the office.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
That part has been difficult.
Speaker 11 (16:43):
I would say the main thing is And we're really
fortunate in terms of attendance and viewership.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Those things are still just.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
Remarkably good for us. And so that's the core of
what we do. So thank God that's still going as
good as you could possibly hope.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Why do you feel so strongly about the rostered NFL
players not being able to return to college football?
Speaker 8 (17:04):
There's a bunch of reasons.
Speaker 11 (17:05):
I think, look, this is supposed to be the system
was always about you come, you play your time here,
and then you kind of give way to the next
group coming up. You know, I think people sort of
forget that when kids come back, there are kids that
have been practicing since the spring. They're trying to win jobs,
trying to be starters, trying to be the first backup.
And then that goes on all summer.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
They're working really hard.
Speaker 11 (17:24):
I think, no, we sort of forget about that piece
of this when we talk about kids coming back. So
the system is built on that kind of movement. It
was meant to be a place where you have your time,
you compete. If you can go on and play professionally
in any of the sports we play, that's great. That's
part of the journey. But you go on to do
other amazing things in your life with all the benefits
you've had of being in the Big Ten. So I
think that's the core of what this is supposed to be.
(17:46):
And I think we shouldn't be disrupting that.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
But Tony, I've been saying for a while now, a
couple of years, that you have professional players playing in Europe, basketball,
and then able to come to the United States. Why
do we allow professionals in basketball to be able to
come and take roster spots in the United States?
Speaker 11 (18:05):
I mean, you're raising a really good question about what
happens pre-enrollment, right?
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Football is unique. It doesn't have that pre-enrollment problem, Dan, right?
Speaker 11 (18:11):
You're not coming out of high school playing professional football,
so there's no pre-enrollment issue. But in college basketball, there is.
And I think you get a lot of coaches who
agree 100% with what you're talking about. I think we
have to get into a sense of we've been in
this kind of waiver environment where some kids get to
have that exception based on what you actually did when
in Europe. And as you know, like not every kid
(18:31):
is exactly the same when they play over there and
then when they come here. So I think what you're
pointing to is something that's just an absolute necessity.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
We just have to get clarity.
Speaker 11 (18:39):
We have to get into having rules and not having
exceptions and waivers everywhere. that make it really hard because
then kids are going to think, well, I look like
that student athlete who got that. Why don't I get
the same waiver this kid got? And that's when you
end up in court every other day. So I totally
agree with you. We've got to have more bright lines,
more simple rules, and make a decision about what we
want post-enrollment and what we are willing to allow pre-enrollment
(19:01):
and be consistent.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Why can't we have a commissioner for college, let's say
college football, a commissioner for college basketball?
Speaker 8 (19:08):
I mean, look, there's been a lot of talk about that.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
And I think when you see some of the things
about that happen to happen, look, the tradition has always
been this way. The conference system is the way this
has been built. You know, as you know, uh, you know,
for many years, the NCAA really controlled the way football
was operated in this country back into the eighties.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
And then it became a conference system, you know, in
the nineties. And that's, what's really survived.
Speaker 11 (19:28):
And over the last 30 years, when I was at
ABC sports, you know, we, we, we sort of went
from having like the CFA college football association that broke apart.
And that gave way, gave rise to this whole structure of,
you know, conference media deals. Um, Look, I think the
CFP is a good place for us to start to
do more of what you're suggesting, which is to come
together and use the structure of the college football playoff
(19:48):
to come together to use that to make rules how
we manage the game competition committees at least start with
empowering that organization because all the you know we all
compete for the championship in that organization to use that
to do more i think would be a great start.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
He's the big 10 commissioner tony patiti how is big
10 football different from sec football.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
I don't really usually try to compare what we're doing,
Big Ten, SEC. I think what we've got is great programs.
We have really good coaching across everything. We're attracting great
student-athletes to play. I'm really excited about the returning quarterback
play we have this year. I think 10 of our
18 are returning their starting quarterback this season. So we
have great depth. I think the way I look at
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it is that we're blessed to have this rivalry. I
think anything you want in sports is you want competition.
You want your fans to deeply care about something. So
not only do we have rivalries inside the league, but
this sort of competition with the SEC, I think is
a great thing for college football and all the other
sports we play. So we kind of lean into that.
But at the same time, like every season is different.
Every week tends to be a little bit different. But
(20:51):
I would just say we have great depth and strength.
You know, we've been super successful the last three years.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
We know that.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
We've played in 14 of the 22 CFP games the
last two seasons.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
The 2014 playoff feels like the SEC might be warming
to this. You would know better than me. I'm only
going by a source saying that, you know, the SEC is,
you got to convince them. So what role can you
play in convincing Greg Sankey and the SEC to warm
up to 24 teams?
Speaker 11 (21:23):
Yeah, when we work together on this, you know, not
an everyday basis, but very frequently about the future of
the playoff and what the format should be, the way
it's structured is the two leagues have control of any
of the changes to the format. So we've got to
come together. I think there's been an evolution across these ideas.
I think there's a lot more momentum for 24. It's definitely,
there's definitely, you know, people warming up. I think a
lot of coaches and ADs across all conferences really support
(21:45):
the idea of 24. I think, look, we got more
than a hundred teams playing, trying to compete. It's not
a high percentage of, You know, I typically go to
practices and camps in the summer. I'll go see five
or six schools every summer. And, you know, you want
all those teams to be playing for something meaningful. And
once you once you went to a 12 team playoff,
you basically said this is it.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Right. This is where you need to be to be
to be successful.
Speaker 11 (22:08):
And we just got to increase the opportunities for student athletes,
for our programs. And the other piece of it at
the investments that are being made, you know, that justifies
having more access. Access is really key. I don't think
Greg disputes any of that. I think his league feels
the same way. We just got to work through the
details of how we actually would do it. But I
feel good about the evolution over the last six months
about how people are sort of directionally realizing the benefits.
(22:30):
I actually think it would drastically change regular season scheduling.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
How close do you think we're to a model like
the Premier League or maybe the NFL where, you know,
you have divisions, conferences, the same thing. And maybe you've
got fans. 35, 40 teams, maybe less than that. How
far off is that model in your opinion?
Speaker 11 (22:52):
I mean, we don't talk about that. We're happy with
the 18 members that we have. We feel the structure
that we have to compete and schedule works well. I
think what we're focused on is I think there's a
lot on the table that we can still do inside
college football. I think in the Big Ten, we can
really improve our schedule. I think fans want us to.
We can play more of these games. I think we've
got to solve the postseason access issue. Once we do that,
(23:15):
We can sort of solve the other issue, which is
to have more impactful matchups in the beginning of the season.
I think everybody's pointing to that. There's a lot being
written about this year and what's scheduled next year. We
can make that better. It's right in front of us,
and we don't need to change our structure to do that.
We've got to solve the access to the postseason, get
coaches comfortable that an early season loss isn't going to
wreck your season.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I love the rivalry, though, with the SEC. I like
when you jab a little bit. Greg Sankey's got a
sense of humor, too. Will you have a sense of
humor if he's jabbing you back if the SEC wins
the national title?
Speaker 8 (23:48):
I mean, look, that's part of it. We have some fun.
Speaker 11 (23:51):
Our social media teams like to lean into it and
pick some fights and have our fans pick up on it.
There's lots of memes that get sent to me every day.
I'm sure he gets them as well. That's the beauty
of it. You couldn't write a better storyline. If you're
trying to script this, you would want this, right? You'd
want this rivalry between the leagues about who's better and
when and who's deeper and who's.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Better at the top.
Speaker 11 (24:10):
Like, yeah, go have at it. Let's go play on
the field. And I think that's why we should play
more in the regular season. Like if we did that,
it would just inspire more of it. It's just like
I said, it's an easy thing to accomplish. We know
it works. You know, look, Texas and Ohio State in
just a couple of weeks, like we know the impact
that game.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
Is going to have. We saw it last year.
Speaker 11 (24:27):
You know, that'll just be a great event for college football.
We just need to do more of that. We got
Oklahoma going to Michigan. So there's some there's some opportunities there.
And we know when we play those games, we get
tremendous audiences, lots of buzz. And it makes the whole
game and the sport better.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Could you do a week where it's the SEC Big
Ten like we have in basketball? I know there's more games,
but could you do that based off last year's record or,
you know, this team is going to play this team and,
you know, all the way down to, you know, I
don't want Rutgers, you know, playing LSU. I want somebody
who maybe is kind of commensurate to their talent level.
(25:04):
But can we do that for a week?
Speaker 11 (25:06):
You're raising a really interesting scheduling thing, not only for
the way you schedule like non-conference, but actually schedule.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
The NFL does a really good job.
Speaker 11 (25:13):
The reason why, you know, you saw the Brady Patriots
and the Manning Colts play so often is because they
were playing because of where they finished in their division standings.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Right.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
And there's something to learn from that.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
You know, I think it would take time to get there,
but you could do what you're talking about is exactly
the conversations we have here. We model all those things out.
We have to have you know, we have to come
together to do that. But I think all of those
things are in play. Like you don't necessarily have to
schedule home and homes. Like you can say one year
you're playing this SEC team and the next year you're
on the road, but you're going someplace different. Those are
all great ideas that I think fans will lead into.
(25:43):
You know, and there's also something like we have some
really historic stadiums in both of our conferences, especially on
the Big Ten stadiums. And having fans have an opportunity
to travel and see those, you know, see those stadiums
go play at some of these places would be great.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
I think it would inspire a lot of road trips
in both directions.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
No matter how many teams, if you add new schools
to the Big Ten, it's always going to be the
Big Ten. We're not going to actually have the exact number.
That'll never happen. Not the Big 18.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
I don't think so.
Speaker 11 (26:10):
I think everybody sort of likes the Big Ten, and
we've got a logo that sort of allows us to
sort of not highlight the one that's right behind my
head here with the B1G.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
I give Jim Delaney credit for that.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Thanks for joining us, Tony. Have fun this season.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Thanks so much, Dan.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
That's Tony Petitti, Big Ten Commissioner. Yeah, it is weird
to explain. There's certain things that if your wife asks
you or your daughter asks you, your son, you know,
when you go– How many teams are in the Big Ten?
And you go, I don't know, 18? Why is it
called the Big Ten?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I remember the Pac-8, and then they were the Pac-10,
and then the Pac-12. So it's like, hey, we got
a great logo here. Okay, but you're the Big Eight team. Yes, Paulie?
Speaker 6 (26:59):
The Pac-12 has eight football teams, and somehow Pacific, Texas
State is in the Pac-12, which I don't think is
near the Pacific. Checking.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Well, I remember the National League West, the Braves, and
the Reds were in the National League West with the Dodgers.
Go figure that one out when I was growing up. Yes, Mark?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I mean, to this day, the Dallas Cowboys are in
the NFC East. It's awesome. It makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah. Okay. Speaking of making perfect sense, the gambling podcast,
available at danpatrick.com. Shea and Irving, Dylan, of course, Big
Day Ray. We taped a new episode for this week.
And here's just a portion of Shea and Irving being
(27:44):
asked by Dylan a question about his daughter is in
sixth grade, and he thought all sixth graders, they have
their own bus. He didn't realize junior high bus, you know, six, seven,
and eight. And then it got into Shea in kindergarten.
What are you in eighth grade, 12th? 14.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Maybe you were.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Most are. I was 12. No, no, no. She's 11.
She's in sixth grade. Was she held back?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I was 14.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
That's normal. That's normal. 11 in sixth grade? Yeah, that's normal.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
I'm seeing right here, if you're in eighth grade, you're
typically between 13 and 14.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, thank you. I was 14 in eighth grade. They
held me back in kindergarten, yes. I did kindergarten twice.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Why?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I couldn't hold a pencil. Wait, here.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
What about.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Can you do it now? I can do it now.
I can do it now. What did it look like
back then?
Speaker 8 (28:38):
It was like.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
No, but I can hold it now. Like... Get this mouth... Okay,
but how often... How often are you using your pencil
or pen... I guess enough to hold you back. They
probably saw it once. Why didn't they give you crayons?
I think because you've got to hold a pencil.
Speaker 12 (28:58):
He ate them all.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
They were edible, Graham.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
That was the paint. That was a lead paint. Yeah,
that's Dan Patrick takes a gamble. Shea and Irving getting
held back in kindergarten because he couldn't hold a pencil.
I think there's more to that story. Maybe get the
I-team on that.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, run it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
But we did find out, though, Shea and Irving went
from bipolar 2 to bipolar 1, and they changed his meds.
And there were a lot of people who thought that
maybe Shea was on something else when he was doing
the latest episode. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
It is funny just to imagine Shea lives in a
small town. There's a different school bus for each grade.
There would be school buses everywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
You wouldn't be able to drive anywhere. He lives in
a nice area, but I said, no, you have a
bus for junior high. He goes, I thought they'd have
one for sixth graders.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
No. And then seventh graders and eighth graders.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Yeah, freshmen get their own bus. Sophomores get their own bus.
Speaker 11 (29:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
So that's the gambling podcast available at danpatrick.com. Zach in Knoxville.
Good morning, Zach. What do you have for me today?
Speaker 13 (30:05):
ADP, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Someone questioned Ryan Leach yesterday.
Speaker 13 (30:12):
I thought he looked great and sounded great, other than
saying that there are 30 teams that could win the
national championship.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
And that J.J.
Speaker 13 (30:20):
McCarthy was a really not playing that bad. That made
me question whether he's off the wagon. But I wanted
to ask you, do you think.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I do think, Zach. You ever think?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Thank you, Zach. What the hell happened? Yes, Paul.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Just to be fair to J.J. McCarthy, and I know
stats don't tell the whole story, His first 10 games
are almost equal stat-wise to Josh Allen's first 10 games.
11 touchdowns, 12 picks, 57% passer. Josh Allen, in the
next two years, became galactic, but we never saw it
with J.J.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, and you saw glimpses, but when he was, Josh
Allen's at Wyoming, he was a superman. You got to
see him try to do everything. Now, the competition was
nowhere near what Michigan faced, but J.J. was never featured
that way at Michigan. I at least understood Josh Allen's athleticism.
I understood the it factor that he possessed, but I
(31:26):
was critical of him his first year. I didn't think
he knew how to play the position, and he would
probably agree to that. Now, he's morphed into the best
quarterback in the NFL, but J.J. McCarthy will get a chance.
This is the spin cycle. Two years, nah, kick to
the curb, find another team. Maybe you find another team
(31:47):
after that. Maybe you get a chance when you're 26
years of age. Let's see. Brian in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Hi, Brian.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
What do you have for me?
Speaker 9 (31:58):
How are you, Mr. Patrick?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Good.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Just wanted to thank you, Ryan Leaf, the community, whatever,
just for bringing levity and bringing some insight and sharing
your perspective on mental health.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I know I have experienced it. and it's just great
to hear people in high standing and high regard, such
as yourselves, who deal with it every day, and it's
a daily struggle, and it's something that we should really recognize,
and you have, and just thank you, and thank Mr.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
Leaf for that.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Thank you, Brian. It took a while before I wanted
to share, and when you reveal yourself, sometimes... You know,
you're like, how far do I go with this? What
do I want to share? How much do I want
to share? And I always go back to my wife
because she's always the smartest person in the room and
(32:57):
she'll give me clarity and she'll say, it might be
uncomfortable for you, but you're helping other people. If you
have a chance to help people, why wouldn't you do that?
I said, I know, but I feel like I'm exposing myself.
And she said, you're okay. Your ego's okay. You're fine.
Share with people. And maybe one person, even if it's
(33:18):
one person, maybe you help change their life or give
them hope, or maybe they understand they're not alone. And
I think that resonated with me. And that's, you know,
I've been accused of oversharing. It's okay. And so I'm
fine with, if that's the criticism, you're oversharing, then guilty
(33:39):
as charged. But I have three hours. We talk about
a lot of different things. I mean, I can break
down the Seattle Seahawks secondary. It's just maybe another day.
But if we can say something, you know, when people
were critical and saying, all right, enough with the wedding.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
If you don't want to listen, you don't have to listen.
But this is who I am. And this is what
I'm sharing. And the number of people, men who will
go through this moment, or maybe they already have. Like
the goal is to connect every single day. Somewhere, somehow,
through someone or something, a topic, a person, an interview,
(34:24):
that's the goal every day. And if I can connect
with you on taking your daughter to school and saying goodbye,
Paulie's going to have that coming up. Todd went through that.
I went through that three times with daughters. Or maybe
you're giving a speech at their wedding, and I got
(34:44):
to do it two more times. And you know what?
If they're getting married before I leave, I'll be talking
about it on the show. But we all talk about it.
And you get to listen. And you can comment. You
can call in. That's the fun part of this, the reciprocation.
You let me into your car, your home, your life.
(35:08):
It's personal. And that's how I view it. Every single day.
How do you connect with people? That's what this is
all about. We'll take a break. Phone calls coming up.
We'll dive into the Clippers situation. Pablo Torre, he gets
to take a victory lap. Mr. Pulitzer Prize winner. He
(35:29):
doesn't have to give it back now, apparently. So he'll
join us top of the hour back after this.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
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Speaker 2 (35:46):
Update the poll results there, Dylan. It would be an honor, Dan.
It's an honor.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Is Justin Tucker a Hall of Famer?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
57% say yeah, he is.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
He is getting a tryout with the Jets. That's why
we brought it up. The bylaws stipulate that Hall of
Fame selectors are to consider only on-the-field performance. It's been
argued that the locker room is an extension of on
the field as it can affect the individuals or the
team's performance. But at present, there is no, quote, morality
(36:25):
clause in the halls bylaws for off the field matters,
positive or negative. Being a Boy Scout does not improve
a candidate's resume any more than being a problem child
hurts it. So thank you to the Hall of Fame
for giving me that information. uh let's see lucas in
texas i hi luke what's on your mind.
Speaker 12 (36:49):
Hey dan good morning good morning two quick things for
you uh and let me please let me get to
the second one but first i want to talk about
uh the clippers punishment coming down from the nba yesterday
i think that so many fans resonate with this because
you know i don't want to get too meta on
society and politics and whatnot but if you It feels
like people worth a lot of money get a whole
(37:09):
lot more leeway than everyone else. And it feels like
for the first time in a long time, someone who's
worth a ton of money was hit in a way
that actually impacted them. And it wasn't monetarily. It was
fame and influence. You guys have done a great job
talking about how. Uh, sports owners are really trying to
buy fame and he was kind of put into that
time out really for about a year. So that was,
(37:30):
it really felt like an actual bit of meaningful accountability.
And with your permission, Dan, uh, I would actually like
to apply for a change of name or a change
of moniker request, uh, Last year or last semester, I
got accepted into a new university. I'm going to be
moving with my family next Monday over to St. Andrews,
(37:52):
Scotland to get my Ph.D. So I'd like to be
now formally known as Lucas in Scotland with your permission.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Absolutely, Luke. Good luck.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
All right.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
That's a great university. Wow. Friend of mine daughter went there,
did come back with an accent, though, which was kind
of cool. But, yeah, St. Andrews, that town is awesome.
It's great. College town, great. Good luck with that, Luke.
Tripp in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Hi, Tripp.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
What do you have for me today? Hey, good morning, DP.
Always good to speak with you all.
Speaker 8 (38:25):
Two things.
Speaker 12 (38:26):
I got a preview because I got Marvin in my
sights for tomorrow, so that's Friday. But today I got
a play on words for Fritzie because he appreciates this.
Speaker 9 (38:34):
Now that he.
Speaker 12 (38:35):
Has had stitches, will he learn to actually put us
in stitches?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
The quest to make people laugh.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
It's difficult. David in Phoenix. Hi, David.
Speaker 14 (38:45):
Hi, Dan. I enjoyed the Coach Tomlin interview, and it
seems like he is very happy. And it reminded me
of Coach Power.
Speaker 9 (39:00):
Who seems extremely happy, except when you.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Kicked him off every once in a while.
Speaker 14 (39:06):
Do you think it's the weight of a fan base
off of him, the daily grind off of these coaches?
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Oh, yeah. I mean, he's been doing this for over
30 years. And these guys don't realize how much pressure
they carry. He can actually hit the snooze button. I mean,
how about that? He's at home for dinner.
Speaker 8 (39:32):
Crazy.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
He can go on a vacation if he wants to. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Yeah, during the interview when Coach Tomlin was saying, I'm
trying to get myself in better shape. Because the hours
and probably just eating whatever at all times of night
is probably really unhealthy.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yes, Dillon.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Yeah, he seemed like he snapped out of a football coma.
He was smiling and, like, giggling the entire time. I
was like, who is this Mike Tomlin? But he seems,
I mean, that's exactly how I'd be. I'm like, I
don't have to do anything all summer, and I get
to just hang out.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 6 (40:05):
Also, he could talk to you without coach speak, without
worrying about repercussions, about saying one thing wrong about some linebacker.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Yeah, because, you know, when I talked about Roethlisberger, you know,
Coward can tell me stories about Ben. and have fun.
Mike is, you know, not even a year removed here. And,
you know, even the question about if Aaron Rodgers would
have come back, if, you know, Mike was coming back
or if Mike, who's the coach? McCarthy. Mike McCarthy wasn't
(40:39):
coming in. You know, he answered it, entertained it. If
that was a press conference, who knows what I would
have gotten. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yeah, just his tone was more jovial.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Well, it's a breath of fresh air. And I would
see that with coaches who came into ESPN. If they
took a year off, had a gap year, just the
sense of relief. Pablo Torre coming up in 10 minutes
from now, Dylan will be in the confessional.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Hour two on this Thursday. Dan and the Danettes,
Dan Patrick Show. Glad to have you on board. We'll
check in with the commissioner of the Big Ten, Tony Battini.
He'll stop by in about 20 minutes from now. College
football coming up tonight, or at least a reasonable facsimile.
(00:21):
Colorado against Georgia Tech. Colorado is getting six and a
half against Georgia Tech. Where's game day and all of
the former players and celebrities?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Everybody wanted to go out there and get a piece
of Dion and the Colorado Buffaloes. Well, Dion doesn't have
any more kids and there's no more Heisman trophy winners.
And all of a sudden, nobody's showing up there for
Dion anymore. Man, that was quick. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
That was a phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
My goodness.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I remember vividly. I'll always remember this. just staying up
until 2 o'clock in the morning, watching Colorado, Colorado State,
and my wife at the top of the stairs, Marvin, Marvin,
what are you doing? I'm watching Colorado. She goes, you
say Colorado?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Your wife doesn't sound like that.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
In my story, she sounds just like that.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Sounds like a truck driver. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yeah, historically, if you're up at 2 watching a Colorado game,
you're a degenerate gambler.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Smoking like one. Yes, Paulie.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
That was a wild fall, though. I think big noon
kickoff went to Colorado two weeks in a row in September.
All hands on deck.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Just saw where the Jets are working out Justin Tucker.
There was a time between 2010 and 2020 that he
was first or second team all pro every single year
from 2016 to 2022. He made 89% of his field goals.
That's third all time, but you go back to 2024
(01:57):
when he started to struggle, the Ravens released him. And
of course there was more baggage to go along with
that because at the time there were allegations that Tucker
and a massage therapist that he apparently was nude brushing
up against two therapists. And, um, There were a few
(02:21):
more of these massage therapists who came forward. The Ravens
released him in May of 2025. NFL suspended him for
the first 10 games of 2025. Saints and Colts gave
him a tryout. I think that was last year or
the last two years. But Tucker's one of three kickers
the Jets hosted. And they're going to have to make
(02:43):
a decision here pretty soon, I would imagine. I thought
cut-down day was this past Sunday. I don't know how
you have guys coming in to work out. Maybe because
you haven't signed anybody. You still have 53, and maybe
(03:03):
he can win that job, and then you drop somebody
from the roster. I guess. I don't know. I just
saw the story, so I don't have many details on it.
But Justin Tucker, is he a Hall of Famer? Just football-wise,
Hall of Famer, you're not supposed to include or factor in,
(03:24):
at least what the voters tell me, of what happens
to you off the field. Yes, Todd?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I think he is.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Without having the numbers in front of me, when I
hear that name, again, we do that a lot. Like,
does that name resonate or make you think, yes, Hall
of Famer, what is your initial reaction? And I think yes.
Speaker 8 (03:39):
Paul?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
He may be the best kicker of all time. He
was a weapon for that team. He wasn't just a kicker.
And I think he would cruise into the Hall of
Fame just as is. I think he's going to get the,
you're going to wait a year or two because of
the off field.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
But you're not supposed to. Supposed to.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
And then the room is a bunch of older guys.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America,
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(04:21):
for the first hour, and we'll have a new one
for the second hour of the program. He's probably a
Hall of Famer. And I don't know, like, kickers are
now viewed as weapons. It was like, you know, Brandon
Aubrey is a weapon. You get, you know, somewhere between
55 and 60 yards, I wouldn't even think twice. Be like,
(04:45):
come on in. Go give me three points here. And
I think we've looked at, they were kind of a
necessary evil. We looked at kickers and we're like, oh, God.
It's still amazing that Mark Mosley, a kicker for Washington Redskins,
was the MVP. Now it was a strike season, but still.
(05:06):
That offense was going to score. It didn't matter who
was kicking. How does a kicker win the MVP? That'll
never happen again. Can't imagine that. Unless somebody wins three
or four games at the Horn and kicks a 73-yard
field goal with one of them. That maybe you would
(05:28):
get MVP consideration. Maybe. But kickers are a weapon, certainly
now because they've made it look easy. But I mean,
you're trying to replicate. Vinatieri, what he did, I never
knew how many field goals he made. I don't even
know what his longest field goal was. I just know
(05:49):
Super Bowl's on the line, a chance to go to
the Super Bowl. Vinatieri made those field goals and then
went from there to the Colts. I had no problem
with that. Morton Anderson, Jan Stennerud. I mean, there were
so many kickers that I remember growing up But I
didn't view them like Ray Guy as a punter. I
(06:11):
thought that guy could probably play a couple of positions,
and he was a great punter. But punters are weapons, too.
Does that make sense? That feels like something that Rich
Eisen would wear. I think like he'd have a t-shirt.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
I think he had punters are people too.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So I'm saying punters are weapons too. Yes, Todd.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
There used to be a kid's show called Wonderama with
Bob McAllister. If any of you guys remember that and
kids are people too, was the big song from that.
I know it's dated reference in like the seventies, but
that was kind of a big deal back.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
In the day.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Thank you, Todd.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Alrighty.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Your phone calls always welcome. How about the poll question
or questions from our one? Dylan.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
How will we remember Kawhi Leonard, Dan? Load management, Clippers, debacle,
two-time finals, MVP, or other, just for a control variable.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
53% say load management.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Kind of the face of load management. All right.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
For this hour, well, we can ask the question, is
Justin Tucker a Hall of Famer? I mean, he was
making like $ 6 million a year, which in kicker money
is insane, but it felt worth... every single penny for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I mean, you're first or second team All-Pro for, what,
seven years?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
But it's hard not to factor in what got him
released from the Ravens.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
They'll make him wait.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
A couple years ago, I just looked this up.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
2024.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
We did a poll question. When Derrick Henry, the running back,
joined the Ravens, who's more important to the Ravens this
upcoming season? Derrick Henry or Justin Tucker?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And it was 50-50.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
And Derrick Henry, by the way, ran for 1,900 yards
that year.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Just a caveat. But games come down to field goals. Like,
the number of games that are six points or less.
And it feels like you need two first downs after
the kickoff to be in field goal range. I mean,
Brandon Aubrey is awesome. But how many years do you
(08:31):
have to have sustainable greatness? And what is considered sustainable
greatness for a place kicker? Like if you make 92%
of your field goals, 90% of your field goals, you
make all your extra points. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Hey, you also have to do something big in the
postseason or the Super Bowl. Almost like a, oh my goodness,
Devin Hester.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
If you're a special teams guy, you got to do
something big that people remember in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Brandon Aubrey, he joined the Cowboys. He was 28 years old,
but he's three-time All-Pro in his first three years. He's
well on his way to one of those careers.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, he'd need to have a long way. Seven more years.
Seven more years. Um, Vanity Fair magazine, they still have
a few of those, published an excerpt in a new
book about Lane Kiffin. And the excerpt covered his time
as Alabama's offensive coordinator, in which the then head coach,
(09:36):
Nick Saban, told the staff members regarding Lane Kiffin, quote,
keep him away from the sorority girls, end quote. Make
sure they've graduated college early. An associate of Kiffin's also
said a local bar owner called him and said, quote,
your boy lanes back in here asking where the hotties are.
(10:09):
I don't know what else is in the book. I
don't know if Kiffin was asked about this. I'm sure
somebody is going to bring it up to him. I
don't know if he talks to the media today. Or
does he talk to the media every day? This is
not a surprise to people in Alabama at the university.
(10:30):
This is not a surprise. Just letting you know. Now,
what else happened after that? I'm not sure. But this
is not a surprise.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
What happens at the Elephant Club?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah. Where are all the hotties? Who says that?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
It was hottie-tottie. It was when he was at Ole Miss,
and people are confusing the two.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
There might have been a misunderstanding there. Where are all
the hotties? Coach, I know you're prepared for Clemson, but
are you curious where the hotties are here in Baton Rouge?
Thoughts on the hotties, Coach. Could you compare the hotties
at LSU to Alabama, please? Coach, I'll hang up and listen. Oh, boy.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Hotties is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Now if i'm a sorority oh no no i i
get i get t-shirts that say hotties on it in
your in your colors your sorority colors you just have
hotties on there lanes hotties well i don't know if
i'd do that i don't know if i'd do that
okay Do we have a poll question for hour two?
(11:43):
Who has better hotties? That would be a tough question. Oh,
hotties of the SEC? Yes. I'm going to go Ole Miss.
I might go Ole Miss to start. It might be
a draw. Yeah, you know what? There's beautiful people.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
In the SEC.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
We're going to need another hour. Yeah. My daughter-in-law, sorority,
I guess hottie at Alabama. I'm going to have to
ask her about this.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
She wasn't there when Lane was there, I don't think.
But I have to ask her about Lane's hotties. How
about them Clippers? Yeah, how about that? Pablo Torre will
join us next hour. He's the one who had all
the stories, all the information, all the drama, and it
finally came to a head. The NBA dropped the hammer
(12:30):
on the Clippers. We'll have more on that. Kawhi Leonard.
That's not a bad trade-off. You know, you got to
pay 700 grand for probably $ 50 million with side deals.
And he's not worried about his legacy. He couldn't care less.
That kind of money, you can save whatever you want. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Yeah, I actually crunched the numbers on both of those fines. Just,
you know, me being a mathematician. So Kawhi on the
court has made about $ 375 million in his career. And
then I added on the alleged $ 28 million from aspirations.
So I got fined $ 700K. That is 0.16 of a
percent of that total earnings. And then Ballmer, who's worth
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about $ 152. 7 billion per Forbes, got fined $ 30 million. That
is 0.019 of a percent.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And we invited everybody, just so you know. We invited
the commissioner. We invited Steve Ballmer, Kawhi. Todd will invite anybody, everybody.
And we didn't hear back from anybody, not surprisingly. No way. Yeah,
go figure.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Uh-oh.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Did we invite Lane Kiffin just to talk about hotties?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
We have not just yet.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I'm strongly considering it. Pro Football Hall of Fame, basic
eligibility requirements. There is no statistical minimum like the certain
number of Pro Bowls or yards. You must be out
for at least five seasons, at least five years of service.
(13:57):
After that, the big question, was he one of the
greatest players in the history of professional football? Let's see.
They say they don't have a formula. There's nothing in
here about off the field. At least I don't see
that with Hall of Fame eligibility.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
To be fair, this is from ChatGPT, which I know
we rely on for a lot of our information. I
have sent a note to the NFL as well in
case anything's more updated on specific behavior that would keep
someone from being eligible or to be voted on as
a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Okay. Oh, I see this. NBC Peacock bus outside the
Big Ten headquarters. That's gorgeous looking. Got all the school
logos there. Todd just sent this to me. They got
the they got the Big Ten bus, the Peacock NBC
bus right out front there. We'll talk to the commissioner
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and the Big Ten. You'll join us coming up. We'll
get to more phone calls here as well. Hour two
of the program. We'll take a break. We're back after this.
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Speaker 2 (15:37):
College football for the next five days. It's like the
NFL is giving college football a gift here this weekend
because after that, then it becomes the NFL. The only
marquee game tonight, Colorado against Georgia Tech, but a full slate.
over the next five days. He is the Big Ten Commissioner,
Tony Petitti, joining us on the program. What kind of
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year do you think you had, if you were going
to sum it up, Tony?
Speaker 11 (16:05):
The year ahead, I would say we feel, well, if
you're asking me what the year was this past year,
that's an interesting question. I mean, on the field, Dan,
it couldn't have been any better. You know, winning the
football championship and both basketballs and a total of 13
national championships across everything we play. I think it was
probably the most successful year in the history of the
Big Ten on the field.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
I think for our student-athletes, there was nothing better.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
Obviously, college athletics deals with all kinds of challenges every
day around legal cases. There seems to be a new idea,
a new challenge coming every time you come to the office.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
That part has been difficult.
Speaker 11 (16:43):
I would say the main thing is And we're really
fortunate in terms of attendance and viewership.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Those things are still just.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
Remarkably good for us. And so that's the core of
what we do. So thank God that's still going as
good as you could possibly hope.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Why do you feel so strongly about the rostered NFL
players not being able to return to college football?
Speaker 8 (17:04):
There's a bunch of reasons.
Speaker 11 (17:05):
I think, look, this is supposed to be the system
was always about you come, you play your time here,
and then you kind of give way to the next
group coming up. You know, I think people sort of
forget that when kids come back, there are kids that
have been practicing since the spring. They're trying to win jobs,
trying to be starters, trying to be the first backup.
And then that goes on all summer.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
They're working really hard.
Speaker 11 (17:24):
I think, no, we sort of forget about that piece
of this when we talk about kids coming back. So
the system is built on that kind of movement. It
was meant to be a place where you have your time,
you compete. If you can go on and play professionally
in any of the sports we play, that's great. That's
part of the journey. But you go on to do
other amazing things in your life with all the benefits
you've had of being in the Big Ten. So I
think that's the core of what this is supposed to be.
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And I think we shouldn't be disrupting that.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
But Tony, I've been saying for a while now, a
couple of years, that you have professional players playing in Europe, basketball,
and then able to come to the United States. Why
do we allow professionals in basketball to be able to
come and take roster spots in the United States?
Speaker 11 (18:05):
I mean, you're raising a really good question about what
happens pre-enrollment, right?
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Football is unique. It doesn't have that pre-enrollment problem, Dan, right?
Speaker 11 (18:11):
You're not coming out of high school playing professional football,
so there's no pre-enrollment issue. But in college basketball, there is.
And I think you get a lot of coaches who
agree 100% with what you're talking about. I think we
have to get into a sense of we've been in
this kind of waiver environment where some kids get to
have that exception based on what you actually did when
in Europe. And as you know, like not every kid
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is exactly the same when they play over there and
then when they come here. So I think what you're
pointing to is something that's just an absolute necessity.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
We just have to get clarity.
Speaker 11 (18:39):
We have to get into having rules and not having
exceptions and waivers everywhere. that make it really hard because
then kids are going to think, well, I look like
that student athlete who got that. Why don't I get
the same waiver this kid got? And that's when you
end up in court every other day. So I totally
agree with you. We've got to have more bright lines,
more simple rules, and make a decision about what we
want post-enrollment and what we are willing to allow pre-enrollment
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and be consistent.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Why can't we have a commissioner for college, let's say
college football, a commissioner for college basketball?
Speaker 8 (19:08):
I mean, look, there's been a lot of talk about that.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
And I think when you see some of the things
about that happen to happen, look, the tradition has always
been this way. The conference system is the way this
has been built. You know, as you know, uh, you know,
for many years, the NCAA really controlled the way football
was operated in this country back into the eighties.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
And then it became a conference system, you know, in
the nineties. And that's, what's really survived.
Speaker 11 (19:28):
And over the last 30 years, when I was at
ABC sports, you know, we, we, we sort of went
from having like the CFA college football association that broke apart.
And that gave way, gave rise to this whole structure of,
you know, conference media deals. Um, Look, I think the
CFP is a good place for us to start to
do more of what you're suggesting, which is to come
together and use the structure of the college football playoff
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to come together to use that to make rules how
we manage the game competition committees at least start with
empowering that organization because all the you know we all
compete for the championship in that organization to use that
to do more i think would be a great start.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
He's the big 10 commissioner tony patiti how is big
10 football different from sec football.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
I don't really usually try to compare what we're doing,
Big Ten, SEC. I think what we've got is great programs.
We have really good coaching across everything. We're attracting great
student-athletes to play. I'm really excited about the returning quarterback
play we have this year. I think 10 of our
18 are returning their starting quarterback this season. So we
have great depth. I think the way I look at
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it is that we're blessed to have this rivalry. I
think anything you want in sports is you want competition.
You want your fans to deeply care about something. So
not only do we have rivalries inside the league, but
this sort of competition with the SEC, I think is
a great thing for college football and all the other
sports we play. So we kind of lean into that.
But at the same time, like every season is different.
Every week tends to be a little bit different. But
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I would just say we have great depth and strength.
You know, we've been super successful the last three years.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
We know that.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
We've played in 14 of the 22 CFP games the
last two seasons.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
The 2014 playoff feels like the SEC might be warming
to this. You would know better than me. I'm only
going by a source saying that, you know, the SEC is,
you got to convince them. So what role can you
play in convincing Greg Sankey and the SEC to warm
up to 24 teams?
Speaker 11 (21:23):
Yeah, when we work together on this, you know, not
an everyday basis, but very frequently about the future of
the playoff and what the format should be, the way
it's structured is the two leagues have control of any
of the changes to the format. So we've got to
come together. I think there's been an evolution across these ideas.
I think there's a lot more momentum for 24. It's definitely,
there's definitely, you know, people warming up. I think a
lot of coaches and ADs across all conferences really support
(21:45):
the idea of 24. I think, look, we got more
than a hundred teams playing, trying to compete. It's not
a high percentage of, You know, I typically go to
practices and camps in the summer. I'll go see five
or six schools every summer. And, you know, you want
all those teams to be playing for something meaningful. And
once you once you went to a 12 team playoff,
you basically said this is it.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Right. This is where you need to be to be
to be successful.
Speaker 11 (22:08):
And we just got to increase the opportunities for student athletes,
for our programs. And the other piece of it at
the investments that are being made, you know, that justifies
having more access. Access is really key. I don't think
Greg disputes any of that. I think his league feels
the same way. We just got to work through the
details of how we actually would do it. But I
feel good about the evolution over the last six months
about how people are sort of directionally realizing the benefits.
(22:30):
I actually think it would drastically change regular season scheduling.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
How close do you think we're to a model like
the Premier League or maybe the NFL where, you know,
you have divisions, conferences, the same thing. And maybe you've
got fans. 35, 40 teams, maybe less than that. How
far off is that model in your opinion?
Speaker 11 (22:52):
I mean, we don't talk about that. We're happy with
the 18 members that we have. We feel the structure
that we have to compete and schedule works well. I
think what we're focused on is I think there's a
lot on the table that we can still do inside
college football. I think in the Big Ten, we can
really improve our schedule. I think fans want us to.
We can play more of these games. I think we've
got to solve the postseason access issue. Once we do that,
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We can sort of solve the other issue, which is
to have more impactful matchups in the beginning of the season.
I think everybody's pointing to that. There's a lot being
written about this year and what's scheduled next year. We
can make that better. It's right in front of us,
and we don't need to change our structure to do that.
We've got to solve the access to the postseason, get
coaches comfortable that an early season loss isn't going to
wreck your season.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I love the rivalry, though, with the SEC. I like
when you jab a little bit. Greg Sankey's got a
sense of humor, too. Will you have a sense of
humor if he's jabbing you back if the SEC wins
the national title?
Speaker 8 (23:48):
I mean, look, that's part of it. We have some fun.
Speaker 11 (23:51):
Our social media teams like to lean into it and
pick some fights and have our fans pick up on it.
There's lots of memes that get sent to me every day.
I'm sure he gets them as well. That's the beauty
of it. You couldn't write a better storyline. If you're
trying to script this, you would want this, right? You'd
want this rivalry between the leagues about who's better and
when and who's deeper and who's.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Better at the top.
Speaker 11 (24:10):
Like, yeah, go have at it. Let's go play on
the field. And I think that's why we should play
more in the regular season. Like if we did that,
it would just inspire more of it. It's just like
I said, it's an easy thing to accomplish. We know
it works. You know, look, Texas and Ohio State in
just a couple of weeks, like we know the impact
that game.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
Is going to have. We saw it last year.
Speaker 11 (24:27):
You know, that'll just be a great event for college football.
We just need to do more of that. We got
Oklahoma going to Michigan. So there's some there's some opportunities there.
And we know when we play those games, we get
tremendous audiences, lots of buzz. And it makes the whole
game and the sport better.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Could you do a week where it's the SEC Big
Ten like we have in basketball? I know there's more games,
but could you do that based off last year's record or,
you know, this team is going to play this team and,
you know, all the way down to, you know, I
don't want Rutgers, you know, playing LSU. I want somebody
who maybe is kind of commensurate to their talent level.
(25:04):
But can we do that for a week?
Speaker 11 (25:06):
You're raising a really interesting scheduling thing, not only for
the way you schedule like non-conference, but actually schedule.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
The NFL does a really good job.
Speaker 11 (25:13):
The reason why, you know, you saw the Brady Patriots
and the Manning Colts play so often is because they
were playing because of where they finished in their division standings.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Right.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
And there's something to learn from that.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
You know, I think it would take time to get there,
but you could do what you're talking about is exactly
the conversations we have here. We model all those things out.
We have to have you know, we have to come
together to do that. But I think all of those
things are in play. Like you don't necessarily have to
schedule home and homes. Like you can say one year
you're playing this SEC team and the next year you're
on the road, but you're going someplace different. Those are
all great ideas that I think fans will lead into.
(25:43):
You know, and there's also something like we have some
really historic stadiums in both of our conferences, especially on
the Big Ten stadiums. And having fans have an opportunity
to travel and see those, you know, see those stadiums
go play at some of these places would be great.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
I think it would inspire a lot of road trips
in both directions.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
No matter how many teams, if you add new schools
to the Big Ten, it's always going to be the
Big Ten. We're not going to actually have the exact number.
That'll never happen. Not the Big 18.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
I don't think so.
Speaker 11 (26:10):
I think everybody sort of likes the Big Ten, and
we've got a logo that sort of allows us to
sort of not highlight the one that's right behind my
head here with the B1G.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
I give Jim Delaney credit for that.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Thanks for joining us, Tony. Have fun this season.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Thanks so much, Dan.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
That's Tony Petitti, Big Ten Commissioner. Yeah, it is weird
to explain. There's certain things that if your wife asks
you or your daughter asks you, your son, you know,
when you go– How many teams are in the Big Ten?
And you go, I don't know, 18? Why is it
called the Big Ten?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I remember the Pac-8, and then they were the Pac-10,
and then the Pac-12. So it's like, hey, we got
a great logo here. Okay, but you're the Big Eight team. Yes, Paulie?
Speaker 6 (26:59):
The Pac-12 has eight football teams, and somehow Pacific, Texas
State is in the Pac-12, which I don't think is
near the Pacific. Checking.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Well, I remember the National League West, the Braves, and
the Reds were in the National League West with the Dodgers.
Go figure that one out when I was growing up. Yes, Mark?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I mean, to this day, the Dallas Cowboys are in
the NFC East. It's awesome. It makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah. Okay. Speaking of making perfect sense, the gambling podcast,
available at danpatrick.com. Shea and Irving, Dylan, of course, Big
Day Ray. We taped a new episode for this week.
And here's just a portion of Shea and Irving being
(27:44):
asked by Dylan a question about his daughter is in
sixth grade, and he thought all sixth graders, they have
their own bus. He didn't realize junior high bus, you know, six, seven,
and eight. And then it got into Shea in kindergarten.
What are you in eighth grade, 12th? 14.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Maybe you were.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Most are. I was 12. No, no, no. She's 11.
She's in sixth grade. Was she held back?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I was 14.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
That's normal. That's normal. 11 in sixth grade? Yeah, that's normal.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
I'm seeing right here, if you're in eighth grade, you're
typically between 13 and 14.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, thank you. I was 14 in eighth grade. They
held me back in kindergarten, yes. I did kindergarten twice.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Why?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I couldn't hold a pencil. Wait, here.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
What about.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Can you do it now? I can do it now.
I can do it now. What did it look like
back then?
Speaker 8 (28:38):
It was like.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
No, but I can hold it now. Like... Get this mouth... Okay,
but how often... How often are you using your pencil
or pen... I guess enough to hold you back. They
probably saw it once. Why didn't they give you crayons?
I think because you've got to hold a pencil.
Speaker 12 (28:58):
He ate them all.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
They were edible, Graham.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
That was the paint. That was a lead paint. Yeah,
that's Dan Patrick takes a gamble. Shea and Irving getting
held back in kindergarten because he couldn't hold a pencil.
I think there's more to that story. Maybe get the
I-team on that.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, run it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
But we did find out, though, Shea and Irving went
from bipolar 2 to bipolar 1, and they changed his meds.
And there were a lot of people who thought that
maybe Shea was on something else when he was doing
the latest episode. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
It is funny just to imagine Shea lives in a
small town. There's a different school bus for each grade.
There would be school buses everywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
You wouldn't be able to drive anywhere. He lives in
a nice area, but I said, no, you have a
bus for junior high. He goes, I thought they'd have
one for sixth graders.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
No. And then seventh graders and eighth graders.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Yeah, freshmen get their own bus. Sophomores get their own bus.
Speaker 11 (29:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
So that's the gambling podcast available at danpatrick.com. Zach in Knoxville.
Good morning, Zach. What do you have for me today?
Speaker 13 (30:05):
ADP, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Someone questioned Ryan Leach yesterday.
Speaker 13 (30:12):
I thought he looked great and sounded great, other than
saying that there are 30 teams that could win the
national championship.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
And that J.J.
Speaker 13 (30:20):
McCarthy was a really not playing that bad. That made
me question whether he's off the wagon. But I wanted
to ask you, do you think.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I do think, Zach. You ever think?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Thank you, Zach. What the hell happened? Yes, Paul.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Just to be fair to J.J. McCarthy, and I know
stats don't tell the whole story, His first 10 games
are almost equal stat-wise to Josh Allen's first 10 games.
11 touchdowns, 12 picks, 57% passer. Josh Allen, in the
next two years, became galactic, but we never saw it
with J.J.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, and you saw glimpses, but when he was, Josh
Allen's at Wyoming, he was a superman. You got to
see him try to do everything. Now, the competition was
nowhere near what Michigan faced, but J.J. was never featured
that way at Michigan. I at least understood Josh Allen's athleticism.
I understood the it factor that he possessed, but I
(31:26):
was critical of him his first year. I didn't think
he knew how to play the position, and he would
probably agree to that. Now, he's morphed into the best
quarterback in the NFL, but J.J. McCarthy will get a chance.
This is the spin cycle. Two years, nah, kick to
the curb, find another team. Maybe you find another team
(31:47):
after that. Maybe you get a chance when you're 26
years of age. Let's see. Brian in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Hi, Brian.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
What do you have for me?
Speaker 9 (31:58):
How are you, Mr. Patrick?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Good.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Just wanted to thank you, Ryan Leaf, the community, whatever,
just for bringing levity and bringing some insight and sharing
your perspective on mental health.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I know I have experienced it. and it's just great
to hear people in high standing and high regard, such
as yourselves, who deal with it every day, and it's
a daily struggle, and it's something that we should really recognize,
and you have, and just thank you, and thank Mr.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
Leaf for that.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Thank you, Brian. It took a while before I wanted
to share, and when you reveal yourself, sometimes... You know,
you're like, how far do I go with this? What
do I want to share? How much do I want
to share? And I always go back to my wife
because she's always the smartest person in the room and
(32:57):
she'll give me clarity and she'll say, it might be
uncomfortable for you, but you're helping other people. If you
have a chance to help people, why wouldn't you do that?
I said, I know, but I feel like I'm exposing myself.
And she said, you're okay. Your ego's okay. You're fine.
Share with people. And maybe one person, even if it's
(33:18):
one person, maybe you help change their life or give
them hope, or maybe they understand they're not alone. And
I think that resonated with me. And that's, you know,
I've been accused of oversharing. It's okay. And so I'm
fine with, if that's the criticism, you're oversharing, then guilty
(33:39):
as charged. But I have three hours. We talk about
a lot of different things. I mean, I can break
down the Seattle Seahawks secondary. It's just maybe another day.
But if we can say something, you know, when people
were critical and saying, all right, enough with the wedding.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
If you don't want to listen, you don't have to listen.
But this is who I am. And this is what
I'm sharing. And the number of people, men who will
go through this moment, or maybe they already have. Like
the goal is to connect every single day. Somewhere, somehow,
through someone or something, a topic, a person, an interview,
(34:24):
that's the goal every day. And if I can connect
with you on taking your daughter to school and saying goodbye,
Paulie's going to have that coming up. Todd went through that.
I went through that three times with daughters. Or maybe
you're giving a speech at their wedding, and I got
(34:44):
to do it two more times. And you know what?
If they're getting married before I leave, I'll be talking
about it on the show. But we all talk about it.
And you get to listen. And you can comment. You
can call in. That's the fun part of this, the reciprocation.
You let me into your car, your home, your life.
(35:08):
It's personal. And that's how I view it. Every single day.
How do you connect with people? That's what this is
all about. We'll take a break. Phone calls coming up.
We'll dive into the Clippers situation. Pablo Torre, he gets
to take a victory lap. Mr. Pulitzer Prize winner. He
(35:29):
doesn't have to give it back now, apparently. So he'll
join us top of the hour back after this.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
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Speaker 2 (35:46):
Update the poll results there, Dylan. It would be an honor, Dan.
It's an honor.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Is Justin Tucker a Hall of Famer?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
57% say yeah, he is.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
He is getting a tryout with the Jets. That's why
we brought it up. The bylaws stipulate that Hall of
Fame selectors are to consider only on-the-field performance. It's been
argued that the locker room is an extension of on
the field as it can affect the individuals or the
team's performance. But at present, there is no, quote, morality
(36:25):
clause in the halls bylaws for off the field matters,
positive or negative. Being a Boy Scout does not improve
a candidate's resume any more than being a problem child
hurts it. So thank you to the Hall of Fame
for giving me that information. uh let's see lucas in
texas i hi luke what's on your mind.
Speaker 12 (36:49):
Hey dan good morning good morning two quick things for
you uh and let me please let me get to
the second one but first i want to talk about
uh the clippers punishment coming down from the nba yesterday
i think that so many fans resonate with this because
you know i don't want to get too meta on
society and politics and whatnot but if you It feels
like people worth a lot of money get a whole
(37:09):
lot more leeway than everyone else. And it feels like
for the first time in a long time, someone who's
worth a ton of money was hit in a way
that actually impacted them. And it wasn't monetarily. It was
fame and influence. You guys have done a great job
talking about how. Uh, sports owners are really trying to
buy fame and he was kind of put into that
time out really for about a year. So that was,
(37:30):
it really felt like an actual bit of meaningful accountability.
And with your permission, Dan, uh, I would actually like
to apply for a change of name or a change
of moniker request, uh, Last year or last semester, I
got accepted into a new university. I'm going to be
moving with my family next Monday over to St. Andrews,
(37:52):
Scotland to get my Ph.D. So I'd like to be
now formally known as Lucas in Scotland with your permission.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Absolutely, Luke. Good luck.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
All right.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
That's a great university. Wow. Friend of mine daughter went there,
did come back with an accent, though, which was kind
of cool. But, yeah, St. Andrews, that town is awesome.
It's great. College town, great. Good luck with that, Luke.
Tripp in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Hi, Tripp.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
What do you have for me today? Hey, good morning, DP.
Always good to speak with you all.
Speaker 8 (38:25):
Two things.
Speaker 12 (38:26):
I got a preview because I got Marvin in my
sights for tomorrow, so that's Friday. But today I got
a play on words for Fritzie because he appreciates this.
Speaker 9 (38:34):
Now that he.
Speaker 12 (38:35):
Has had stitches, will he learn to actually put us
in stitches?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
The quest to make people laugh.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
It's difficult. David in Phoenix. Hi, David.
Speaker 14 (38:45):
Hi, Dan. I enjoyed the Coach Tomlin interview, and it
seems like he is very happy. And it reminded me
of Coach Power.
Speaker 9 (39:00):
Who seems extremely happy, except when you.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Kicked him off every once in a while.
Speaker 14 (39:06):
Do you think it's the weight of a fan base
off of him, the daily grind off of these coaches?
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Oh, yeah. I mean, he's been doing this for over
30 years. And these guys don't realize how much pressure
they carry. He can actually hit the snooze button. I mean,
how about that? He's at home for dinner.
Speaker 8 (39:32):
Crazy.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
He can go on a vacation if he wants to. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Yeah, during the interview when Coach Tomlin was saying, I'm
trying to get myself in better shape. Because the hours
and probably just eating whatever at all times of night
is probably really unhealthy.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yes, Dillon.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Yeah, he seemed like he snapped out of a football coma.
He was smiling and, like, giggling the entire time. I
was like, who is this Mike Tomlin? But he seems,
I mean, that's exactly how I'd be. I'm like, I
don't have to do anything all summer, and I get
to just hang out.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 6 (40:05):
Also, he could talk to you without coach speak, without
worrying about repercussions, about saying one thing wrong about some linebacker.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Yeah, because, you know, when I talked about Roethlisberger, you know,
Coward can tell me stories about Ben. and have fun.
Mike is, you know, not even a year removed here. And,
you know, even the question about if Aaron Rodgers would
have come back, if, you know, Mike was coming back
or if Mike, who's the coach? McCarthy. Mike McCarthy wasn't
(40:39):
coming in. You know, he answered it, entertained it. If
that was a press conference, who knows what I would
have gotten. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yeah, just his tone was more jovial.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Well, it's a breath of fresh air. And I would
see that with coaches who came into ESPN. If they
took a year off, had a gap year, just the
sense of relief. Pablo Torre coming up in 10 minutes
from now, Dylan will be in the confessional.
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