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Speaker 1 (00:03):
We got a lot to talk about today because there
is going to be a new commissioner in college football
and potentially in the world of sports in general.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Who that may be, and also all of the things
that go along with that, and the House versus the NCAA,
that settlement and how the twenty and a half million dollars,
how that's gonna work, and then Trump's new NIL guidance,
how that factors into the whole thing, Because this is
a disaster waiting to happen. And Patrick Mahomes speaking of disasters,
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not the Junior, the senior versus John Rocker. A fight
is happening, and this is also a disaster that we
have to talk about. And Cam Newton doty, this might
just be the disaster episode because Cam Newton is flirting
with disaster with the way he's talking about his former teammates,
about his career, everything else, and needs to be a.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Little more careful.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And also speaking of a disaster, the Dallas Mavericks and
their fans versus the front office disaster all over the place.
That and so much more here on The Unafraid Show.
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Speaker 3 (01:21):
Let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So you always gott to follow the money, and we
are going to start with the money because Yahoo Sports
reported last week that the creation of an LLC amongst
the four Power five, four Power conferences, so the acc SEC,
Big twelve, and Big ten, that is going to oversee
the implementation of the House Settlement that you know, that
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multi billion dollar deal that's going to go backwards and
pay players back to twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen and
then have a revenue sharing model with the players that
creates essentially creates a twenty and a half million dollar
salary cap to pay athletes over the whole school. Now,
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there's a few portions of this that are you know,
good and bad. So, first thing, a commissioner of college
football one hundred needed, but this appears to be that
there's going to be a commissioner over all of college sports,
which is a terrible idea. And this House Settlement has
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been a disaster to begin with, so there's so many objections.
That is not going to stop the lawsuits now, and
that's where President Trump factors into this, because he may
be able to get this pushed through and give them
some sort of anti trust exemption. If the NCAA or
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the new whatever the new model is gets an anti
trust exemption, that is a disaster, an ultimate disaster for
the agency of the players and for their rights, benefits
and everything else, because that essentially puts a pin in
a lot of the lawsuits. But before we get to
the trump angle of it, let's talk about this new
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model to begin with. Now that twenty and a half
million dollars, I do not believe, and I've said it
from the beginning, that this is an absolute joke. That
if people believe that schools are going to stick to
the twenty and a half million dollars, you have lost
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your mind. You are living in fantasyland, fairytale land, and
you need to wake up.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Peter Pan.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Let me tell you exactly how they are going to
get around this. So let's say I George Reister owned
the unaffray shoe. Let's say that I want a school
to be successful, or a particular athlete in particular, I
want them to do some sort of marketing for me
or not.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I can sign them to a deal.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Let's say I signed the quarterback at U see Davis
Damon Reister to a nil deal. I want to pay
Damon Reister a million dollars a year, Well, that doesn't
fall within that twenty and a half million dollars. And
yes they do have they're supposed to report every nil
deal over six hundred dollars. But let's say I have
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Damon Reister on here on the unaffrayd Show. There's no
determining factor how much I should pay him for that.
Let's say I want to pay him a million dollars
for one appearance, a quarter million dollars for four appearances
that make up a million dollars. So that's where schools
are going to get around it. Because those same people
that donate millions of dollars right to their collective right now,
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these people own businesses. They can open up businesses anything
and say all right and circumvent that twenty and a
half million dollars. It is never, under any circumstances, going
to be a level playing field, because trying to limit
how much somebody can make in a free market is
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the most Unamerican thing that I've heard.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
America.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
First, America, bring back to freedom, make America great. Well,
that ain't making America great, I'll tell you that right now.
It is a It is a flawed system like it
is the exact same reason that Lebron James, in marketing
dollars outside of the NBA makes more money.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Than you know.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Than the fifth man, eighth man on the Lakers bench.
He may more than Anthony Davis, who made more than
Austin Reeves, who made more than you know Whoever, this
is a This is the way it works in sports.
So this Pollyanna idea that all of a sudden that
you're gonna have some magic fair play, that this is
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gonna be balanced, it's not. And yes, a commissioner will help.
But this is putting lipstick on a pig. This is
not a new model. This is just throwing a band
aid on the problems, all the lawsuits that keep coming
up and trying to say, okay, cool, let's find out
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that let's repackage this.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
No, the NC DOUBLEA needs to be blown up.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
In particular football, who their championships aren't even governed by
the NC double A. They need to be a separate entity.
And we're actually in this predicament at having to completely
remodel college sports because the NC double A wasn't proactive
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in getting things done. Let's let's take a look at this,
because it whether it comes from rulemaking, whether it comes
to punishment, enforcement, any of those things. Because you actually
had the forty member n c double A Council, which
is primarily their legislative authority. Now part of the authority
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means that they that the faculty athletics representative at Northern
Arizona is going to shape policy and help the same
people that are over at Oregon, that are over at Texas,
that are over at at Memphis, that are at Florida,
that the same people that are represented, because the problems
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that are at Miami of Ohio or Lehigh are not
the same problems that are at Oklahoma or USC.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
And now you already have a train transition team of
athletic directors, compliance officers, and general counselors that are already
in the process of finalizing that. Now, Judge Claudia Wilkin
is expected to approve the House settlement on April seven,
and if she does, there's gonna be a litany of
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significant other lawsuits. And this goes back to how the
NCAA has operated because it has not been a fair system.
Because think about what happened when you had former Infraction
Committee chair, the late Miami Athletic director Paul d He
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actually judged USC under Pete Carroll when they got all
those when they got put on probation and given harsh
penalties when he had massive wrongdoing going on in his
own program. Look at Michigan, they're about to skate. They're
about to literally skate on two major infractions cases. The
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first one where Jim Harball was handed a show cause
after going to the NFL. Now he probably won't coach
in college again. And then the second one was the
Connor Stallion scammer, and Michigan is fighting back on that one.
They're using the listen listen like when guys get caught cheating.
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Look I did this, but I ain't do all of that.
You got North Carolina that got away with their academic
fraud for years. This is what exactly has been going on,
and there has not been a balance system because you
have one school.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
And this is a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It's from the CBS article, really great article and talked
about how you taught that they gave every player a
truck through a local dealership. Is that part of the
twenty and a half million dollars. No Ohio State's spent
at least twenty million dollars on their national championship roster.
Texas given fifty thousand dollars to just for being an
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offensive lineman.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Where's the fair market in any of that?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So that twenty and a half million dollars that everybody
is talking about, this is Pollyanna Land. This ain't real life.
That's that it's not going to matter. And when July
first comes and the implementation of this house settlement and
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the revenue sharing and all of that stuff is supposed
to be in place, how is that supposed to work?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And why would players See.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Here's the other part that people are not thinking about
the adults, the people whose money is going to be solidified,
is they are the ones that are negotiating this.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
They're not negotiating this on behalf of the players.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
No, they are trying to keep costs down. That's what
they're going to do. And you know what's gonna happen.
Players are going to sue because they're gonna be like,
hold on, hold on, why would this stay at twenty
and a half million dollars for ten years when the
revenues are going up every single year.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Why this gonna make no sense.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Then you're going to have the nia up, sorry, the
title nine part of it, which we're gonna get to
in just a second. That's going to play into it
as well, because how does the twenty and a half
million dollars get split up? I think any common sense
people will tell you, yes, football should get the vast
majority of it because football generates by far the most money.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
But then if you're at Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Or how do you split that with men's basketball versus
women's basketball?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Both of them make money.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
How about that South Carolina where the women's basketball team,
I guarantee you makes more money, brings in more revenue
every year than the men's basketball team does. How does
that work? See, we're getting some problems around here. And
how does baseball versus softball? Because from my understanding, softball
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does better numbers on television when the tournament comes around
than the men do in baseball.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
So how you gonna work that out? You're getting my drift. Now.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Now the question is who is going to oversee this
estimated fourteen billion dollars that's going to be distributed in.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
College sports over the next ten years.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So The short list that CBS came up with was
Oliver Luck, which is he's been involved with the Pac twelve,
he's been involved the Olympic Committee, all sorts of things
for a very long time. And we know who his
son is, Andrew Luck. Then you got Nick Saban, people
have floated that around. Not a bad option. And David Shaw.
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He's with the d Troit Lions now, but he was
longtime coach at Stanford. Father was a coach administrator in
the family. Stanford guy. Smart guy. Then you got condolliez
A Rice. She's been involved in the world of college
sports for a very long time, sat on the College
Football Playoff committee. Is a bureaucrat, understands business, all sorts
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of stuff. She might be the answer. And then you
got Rick Neuheisel, which they threw out. Listen, I'm a
Rick new Heiseel fan, like him. He actually was the
first Power five school to offer me a scholarship, like him,
and that was when he was at Colorado. But I
don't know about him as the commissioner. I'm just saying,
So that's the nuts and vaults of this thing at first.
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in the comments. We will you know, address your things
as they come up.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
All right, So.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Now the question is how does Donald Trump's how does
his NIL guidance well him resending Joe Biden's NIL guidance?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
How does that matter?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Because the US Department of Education has rescinded Biden Administrative's
Biden Administrative Administrations Title nine NIL guidance. First of all,
I thought they were shutting down a Department of Education,
which I don't think is a good idea. But that's
a whole nother thing. So how do you go do
that with that? But you shutting them down anyways? So
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with that recession, right, So the way that President Biden's
when they gave the guidance on the Title nine with
the settlement, it would have essentially said that the that
the NIL money needed to be distributed to athletes proportionally
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when it came to men women athletes now and if
the revenue sharing payments did not get distributed equally between
men's and women's sports schools would have been in violation
of Title nine. And when I tweeted this on Twitter X,
people didn't like it because I said, all right, President
Trump rescinding the Biden guidance does nothing more than what
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the Biden guidance did, which is a bunch of nothing.
Their guidance on it does not mean how the courts
are going to decide it, because these things are going
to court. If you think that the women are going
to sit idly by while the university say.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
We can distribute this however you want. We're gonna give
ninety percent to the men's sports. We're gonna give you
women's sports ten percent. Now, what I believe should probably
happen is because that the schools should probably pay money
to retain their most valuable athletes. Duh, whether it's basketball, football, baseball,
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whatever it is. But this idea of twenty and a
half million dollars, this is a laughable joke. There are
going to be more lawsuits, there are going to be
more problems, and this is ultimately going to blow up
in their faces, just like everything with the NC double
A already has.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
There needs to be a total reshaping.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
This is not something a band aid, some stitches reset
in a fracture.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
It ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
This is something that is a total restart, a blow up.
This is when you a building. So let's look at
the building. The NC DOUBLEA like a building. This building
needs to be condemned. This building needs to be condemned.
It needs to be leveled to the ground and rebuilt,
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rebuilt on solid ground, solid foundation, because what they're trying
to do now is not going to work at all.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
You need a.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Football has to be separate. It operates under a totally
different guideline and lens. And the same things that Northern
Illinois needs are not the same thing that Notre Dame needs.
Are not the same thing that the University of Illinois needs.
They're not I mean, hell, Notre Dame in Indiana, which
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are in the same state, barely have the same needs.
So how do you think that you know, I U
p U I in Indiana still like that they should
have a say so and what happens to Notre Dame
and Notre Dame should have a say so, and what
happens to them they shouldn't, And common sense people will
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tell you that, but people don't like common common sense.
And you guys, we're gonna talk more about this throughout
the rest of the week, so make sure that you
guys like subscribe, get notifications, Tell a friend and share
this video with somebody who doesn't fully understand what's going
on with this, because this is a terrible idea. It's
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good in premise, but if y'all don't think that the
lawsuits are going to stop there, they are not, because
more problems are going to arise, and they're just stomping
and pressing this forward. And that's where Donald Trump. But
he may be able to get this thing pushed through
and make sure that it happens, but pushing it through
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and making.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It happen are not the same thing.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
And then there's one other part of the House Settlement
is that schools have to opt in. Right, schools have
to opt in, So if you opt out, you still
operate under the same old rules of the eighty five scholarships.
In football, you operate under obviously no salary cap. You
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operate under the rules as they currently are. If you
opt in, you can go up to one hundred and
five scholarships, which I don't think in football makes really
that big of a difference, because those other twenty kids
are gonna hop into portal anyway because they're sitting on
the bench. You already have kids hopping into portal at
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eighty five, So what are you gonna have at one
hundred and five? And so that's one element of it.
And if I'm Ohio State, why would I opt in?
If Michigan is considering opting out, so Michigan can operate
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under the current rules, which is the wild wild West,
and be just fine. Or and now if I'm Ohio State,
I'm at a massive disadvantage. This don't make no sense
because I would not be opting in because it's bogus,
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all right. The next thing up, Cameron Newton, Come on, Cam.
This dude continues to put his foot in his mouth
and I do not understand why. And the latest was
about his former teammates. He threw his former teammates under
the bus. I had to find this clip because I
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was honestly, I was shocked.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
And here it is.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
When I was the first pick, I went into a
locker room of When I was the first pick, I
went into a locker room of losers.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
How did you have the pressure of being the top pick.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Let's put it in perspective. You're the top pick because
what no, no, no, no, you're looking at it from a
personal situation. I'm talking about from the professional situation. You're
the top pick because that was the worst team in
the NFL the year before. For me, I wanted to
be the number one pick.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
You can potentially be.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
The first pick, but bro, you have no way of
impacting the game like a quarter You can lock down
the number one receiver. You can make impact players on
offense all you want, but it's still not like a quarterback.
My issue is when I was the first pick, I
went into a locker room of losers. Guys didn't know
how to win, Guys didn't know how to prepare. It
was a culture shock for me. The games don't mean
a lot to a lot of people in the league
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like you would expect. It's just money. Not everybody has
capabilities to be impact players.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
They're just players.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Because when you first come to the NFL, you have
no idea how to win. Tom Brady didn't know how
to win in the NFL. Neither did you Cam. Neither
did Patrick Mahomes. Neither did Jayden Daniels, neither did none,
no quarterback, no player Jalen Hurts, who just won the
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Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
You do not come.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
In the NFL knowing how to win. You knew how
to win in college. You learned how to win in college,
but you didn't know how to win. And he is
and yes, he's right. You go to the probably the
worst team or the team that had the worst record,
unless trades were involved or whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
But this is bad. This is bad.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
And I don't understand why Cam Newton. I hope there's
somebody around Cam saying yo, Cam, because Steve Smith responded.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
And was like, hold on, bro.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
He was like, I don't think that's a word that
he's ever been called with any level of seriousness.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Because it was bad.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
It's like Cam Newton is salty about the organization not.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Acknowledging him as much as he desired.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And on some level he is right because he said,
you know, his son pointed out that there's nothing on
Bank of America Stadium where the Panthers play that points
out that they once had an MVP quarterback and took
him to a Super Bowl. He's right, you should acknowledge
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your only MVP around that joint. On some level, however,
Cam has to take a little bit of responsibility there
because this is a relationship business, just like everything else,
how you treat people. Because his teammates have really good
things to say about it, but I can't say the
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same for the ownership. And remember, the ownership is different
now with David Tepper than it was when Cam got drafted. Now, granted,
Cam did go play for the new ownership, but he
didn't have the same impact when he went back to Carolina.
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It just didn't work like that because the harsh truth
is that Cam's personality hasn't made it easy for the
City Charlotte to fully embrace the man. And now when
you come out there saying stuff like like that, oh oh,
it don't sit right with their former teammates, like Captain
Munterlin who was on his team for five years and
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was like, yo, was a slap, slap in the face.
Cam still just wants to be relevant.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
He don't. He don't have to do all that to
be relevant. You're Cam Newton.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It just looks bad amongst people that you went and
did so much too. I mean, and then you got
Jordan Gross talking about him. So now Charles Johnson, So
now you are pitting yourself against the very people that
you're supposed to be celebrated with. You got Jonathan Stewart,
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Thomas Davis, the other guys. I named Greg Olsen. Come on, man,
like the city is Charlotte probably wants nothing more than
to love Cam Newton the way he wants to. But
they also love a lot of them do so that
he called losers too. Come on, man, you gotta tighten up. Cam,
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you gotta tighten up because this was an epic fail
on your part. Speaking of epic fails, though, Patrick Mahomes
is daddy, Patrick Mahomes is daddy. This dude is a liability.
And I you know, as a father, this is the
thing that I fear right and so it implores me
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to make good decisions on a day in and day
out basis. And Patrick Mahomes's dad may not be wrong
in this situation in terms of the exchange that he
had with John Rocker. He may not be wrong. However,
though him not being wrong is totally different than him
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being right, if you understand, if you get my drift,
So I'm gonna play the video for you guys, and
it is it is wild to me that we end
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up in a situation where Patrick Mahomes's dad, his dad
is in a situation where he is getting in a
fight in public.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
And if you don't know who John.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Rocker is I'll use two words to describe him national
disgrace because when you go back right John Rocker, so
obviously him and his dad exchanged words. Apparently they didn't
like each other when they were playing in the end
of Sorry in MLB.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
They didn't like each other.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
John Rocker is a guy who is was Kanye West
before Kanye West with you know when he was talking
about the citizens of New York in a Sports Illustrated
interview with John Pearlman. Hates gay people, hates to lives,
hates poor people, you know, pretty much all foreigners. And
but he's a guy that people would call today he's
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a free speech advocate. Yeah, okay, yeah, you can say
what you want to say, but you're not immune the consequences.
But how this has played out is these two dudes
are going to fight. They are going to fight on
a barstool, on a barstool fighting event. This is the
thing that I hate about it And why I said
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that Patrick Mahomes's dad is a liability right now because
last year when it came to the Super Bowl, what
happened he got a DUI not too long but before that,
weren't you sure if he was going to even be
able to go to the.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Game anything like that.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
And now this time he is going to end up
on a fight card, a Barstool fight card. And now
there's another part of this, because Patrick Mahomes has been
on the record saying he don't really fool with Barstool,
and now his dad has agreed to make money from
Barstool and have the name Patrick Mahomes then associated with Barstool,
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even though there's the senior in it. And these dudes
are supposed to fight. What's that like April seventeenth or
something like that. Man, I would be so upset if
I were Patrick Mahomes. He got his wife making way
too many noise and all of.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
That stuff for not bringing in no damn income.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You got his brother getting in trouble and you know,
causing chaos, his dad causing chaos. This is a ridiculous situation.
And I actually feel bad for Patrick Mahomes right here.
And this is something that I as a father, I
try my best to not embarrass my kids, and I
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can't even imagine that one of them ended up being
a very famous person. Man, parents, tighten up, man, tighten up.
I know it's your life too. But listen, don't embarrass
the kiddos, all right, lasting up.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
The MAVs man.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I actually feel bad for MAVs fans in their organization
right now because there are two people that have been booed.
They have been criticized, They have been lamented by the fans,
and rightfully so, because fans have the right to be upset.
And their governor, slash owner Patrick Dumont, he's been booed
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and frustrated by, you know, by the fans and their pushback,
their general manager Nico Harrison, that traded Luco away. He's
been the subject of their displeasure. He's even had to
get security around his home, around his kids, around his family,
everything else.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
So here is the thing. MAVs fans have a right
to be upset.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
And the more pushback that the that the governor and
the general manager do, the more pushback of removing people
from kicking people out of the stadium that have signs
or mouthed on the on the jumbo trun fire Nico Harrison,
are we in North Korea? No, this is free speech.
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It's different if you're threatening somebody, Yes.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
You should. You should.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
There should be some consequences for you should you be
allowed as a fan to protest outside one hundred percent?
Does it make it worse that Anthony Davis got immediately
hurt one hundred percent because it could have been the
right trade. But if you are in ownership and you
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push back on your fans like that, they will push back.
And the idea that you can silence them, that you
can force them into UH into into silence, that ain't
never gonna happen. All you're gonna do is make your
own self more frustrated and more upset.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Now Here. Is the thing though, is that.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Like, let's let's look at this situation. Is it's a
similar situation when it was revealed that John Fisher the a'
zoner said that they were gonna leave Oakland. As a fan,
there's nothing you can do, you know, showing up to
UH to boo that still puts money in the owner's pocket.
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Not showing up means that your apathy gets used as
their permission for the next thing for UH for you
to hate, and it punishes the other players that you
root it for. So here's my advice to MAVs fans.
My advice to MAVs fans, put on your big boy pants,
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suck it up. Pray for Anthony Davis. Pray for that
the rest of your roster, that it gets healthy and
that you win a championship. Pray that this was the
right move because sitting there with your bitter beer face,
sitting there trying to boo the owner, sitting there trying
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to booth the general manager, that is not going to work.
The trade is done. Luca is not coming home. He's
not going back to that fifteen million dollar house he
just built in Dallas. It ain't happening. So you have
two choices. You gotta either get over it and move
on and recognize what you have, which is a damn
good roster, especially after Anthony Davis gets back. Or what
(32:58):
you can do is keep peeking through the Lakers window
and we.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Miss you, Luca, We miss you Luca. Luca ain't coming back.
Luca happy out here in La La Land. Man.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
It's time. It's time to get over turn the page.
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