May 2, 2026 • 41 mins
LaVar, TJ, and Plax talk about Brendan Sorsby’s gambling scandal and how it might blow up his entire future in football, a rundown of a few team’s nightmare scenarios in the 2026 NFL season, the Big 12 strikes a private equity deal, and how Muggsy Bogues helps people find their lane!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:46):
All right, all right, welcome into hour two of Up
On Game Everybody. Big story in college football Brendon sowersby
Texas Tech quarterback twenty two years old, top transfer portal
quarterback in the country, rated the number two overall player
in the portal five million dollar nil deal reported one
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of the biggest contracts ever for college player.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well, he just took.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
An indefinite leave from the Texas Tech team to enter
an inpatient treatment for a gambling addiction. The Indiana team
that well, he's The NCAAA is investigating it, and reports
are that he plays thousands of bets, including bets on
his own team. When he was playing for Indiana as
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a freshman in twenty twenty two, Hunter Deckers at Iowa State,
we remember that name. He was permanently banned in twenty
twenty three for betting on his own team. Coaches are
speaking out. Kirby Smart says you can't watch a TV
station without a gambling at Nick Saban called gambling his
number one concern as a coach and the disgrace. CBS
(02:02):
Sports actually ran odds in the original article about Sowresby's
gambling addiction. They had an issue a public correction. The
whole industry is part of this problem. Fellas my take,
Sowersby's a kid, He's getting help good, but the system
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that surrounded him with sportsbooks ads, the leagues that took
the money, the schools that look the other way because
they didn't look the other way. I mean, he's been
betting for a while now, well they own this too,
so I get it. He should be punished. He probably
won't play another down in football in college. But let's
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discuss top transfer portal quarterback Nil Deal allegedly betting on
his own Indiana team. Whose fault is it really the
player or every league that put a sportsbook ad in
every commercial breakfellas well.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It's definitely the players fault, There's no nothing about it.
Sowresby will not play another game in college football. If
the ncuble A is investigating this young man knowingly that
he placed bets on his own team while he was
currently on a roster, he won't play another down in
n c double A. So can you say supplemental draft
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because I believe that's what's going to happen. Five million
dollars in the transfer a portal, he can't give the
money back. So but with the ncub A, it's n
CUBA investigating this. If this young man plays bets, he
will permanently be terminated in definitely from playing quarterback at
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Texas Tech in this in this fifth year in college,
because it's clearly against the rules. He's been caught and busted.
We talk about these stories year in the year out
professional and college, and the fact that he did get
caught is the main reason why I believe that he
based self put himself in for rehab just to show yeah,
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to show them that I know I was wrong. I'm
getting help, but you know what, I believe that it's
already too late.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
My thing is is I don't know what goes on
in college football as far as the presentations that are
given to players. I know in the National Football League
because I just happened to be a part of it. Oh,
it's presentations. Everybody knows you cannot bet on the NFL.
You do not do it. If you're dumb enough to
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do it, your ass going to be out the league.
And you're like that the clearest day in the National
Football League. I don't know what's going on in college
I know these players know not to bet, but are
they having these presentations Because this young man was set
to make supposedly five million dollars from Texas Tech. Boy,
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you're talking about hustling backwards. You about to make five
million dollars from Texas Tech. You about to leave all
that money on the table because you betting a few
thousand on the game here.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
And they said he made.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Like thousands of bet TJ thousands of bets, but.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
They were like one dollar bets.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
One no, no, no, it does it doesn't. But matter
think about this.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Even if you bet each bet is five hundred to
one thousand dollars and you made thousands of bets, it's
still don't compare to the five million that you're about
to blow down.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And so he, yeah, he right there with DK just
burning money. You burning money.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
So for me, I really hope that they can figure
out a way to let this young man play. He
probably never thought he would be in this position when
he was making those bets.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
And if you're not, that doesn't matter. Listen, No, that's
their problem. Listen.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
If you're not fixing games, legal is illegal, Tjer, But right,
I agree with you. But if you're not point shaving,
you're not part but throwing interceptions, you not fixing games.
I don't see there's a problem with it. But I
don't see the problem with it. Meaning he's not out
here point shaving trying to fix games.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
The problem is that he has inside information on his
team or whether a player is healthy or not. If
he's questioning or he's doping, is he going to catch five?
He know that man ain't gonna catch seven eight balls
because we got a hamstring.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
So you say he doing proper, he doing prop bets absolutely.
Why wouldn't know. So what I'm saying if he's doing,
if he's doing prop bets, that's different. I'm just thinking
he's betting on the team to win or lose.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I don't even if he does.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
But even if he does that, it say specifically you
are not supposed to bet on certain sports.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I think it's basketball, baseball.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
And can battle.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I believe for sure.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
But see, I guess I'm sympathetic because I am too.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I'm okay with being sympathetic.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
No, no, nothing, I'm okay with that. He about to
lose five million dollars in I l that's a lot
of money.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
And his and his ability to play at the college level.
You gotta believe what he's doing right now, he's positioning
himself to be playing the pros because this can follow him.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
To the league.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Play playing the pros like this might cost him that
because next year's quarterback class, at least on paper, is
one of the best quarterback class we've ever seen.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
On paper.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
You got arch Man in, Dante Moore, CJ. Carr and
possibly Soresby, all them dudes going in the top ten.
Jack may be thrown out the window, but hey, he's
old enough. Choices, decisions and consequences. You got to understand
that what comes to you.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I'm thinking about this young man right now. Say the
NC double A and definitely suspend him and he does
not play another down to college football. What do you
think the next move for him should be? Do you
enter the NFL supplemental Draft or do you sit out
a season and tried to get try to recoup some
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of that money back. Because the supplemental draft is not
going to pay him if he's going to be a
top five pick in the NFL. So what do you
think this young man should do? If he does get
to play college, he has to go.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
He's got to try to go.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Because I don't know where we're at with the whole
five million dollars in the nil deal. I don't know
what his contract states and what it reads. I'm sure
we're going to find out what that is. You're not
going to get and I'm sure he doesn't. I don't
think he got the money all up front, so it's
not like you can't give the money back in terms.
I think they paused or suspended the payments that he
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was receiving monthly. But he has already received monthly payments
of that five million guaranteed to him in that deal.
I think they're going to come after him for that.
You can't just sit out. You can't just sit out
because they are coming for your money.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
That I mean he didn't. He didn't. He didn't receive
the five million. He didn't receive it.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Yeah, but he I think he was getting payments though,
he was getting payments. And keep in mind, depending on
the language of that contract, he could potentially be liable
for that entire five million dollars even if he didn't
receive it, depending on the language that's in that contract.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
So he's going to have to He's gonna have to
level up.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
And I think him self self admitting himself to to
get help is is to me to clean up maybe
his image a bit, to say I understood what I did.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I made a terrible mistake.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
It's costing me my NCAA career this last season. But
I want to get healthy. I want to be ready
to try to move on with my life. And just
maybe he he's good enough, because we've seen it in
the past. If you're talented enough, the league will make exceptions.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
For the rule in terms of how they're going to
treat a player. So, hey, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Don't believe he gets out of this. I really don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
It's almost not even for the league.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I think he'll be fine. He's done at the n
c a A level, all right, Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
He's done at the league. I mean at that at
the college level.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
But the question becomes, does he does does this set
him up to transition? Like you said, the supplemental draft,
that sounds like the most logical of things to do
in this in this scenario, But it's an ugly scenario
because we can sit here and debate what's to happen
to Sworsby.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
But he's not the only one.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
There are other guys out here that are out here
doing the same exact things that this young man is doing.
The bigger question here, and the bigger concern and conversation
is is that these sports books are part of sports,
They're part of the college landscape. There the money is
going into the college landscape as as revenue.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
So to me, how do you address this? Are you
just is it just.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Going to come down to singularly, every single person that
decides to take the physical challenge of betting and gambling
are going to get what's coming to them. At the
most singular form of it, the basic form of it,
that's really what it comes down to. If you get caught,
you're in trouble. You get caught, you're in trouble, then
you got to pay the consequences. But how do you
how do you manage this? If you're the n c
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A A, how do you manage that? If you're the college,
if you're if you're if you're the university, how you
do it?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I mean you can't having a having a phone and
the access to being able to gamble is is so easy.
And now this is something I believe that this is
going to stick with him. People are not going to
forget this. And even at the next level, teams are
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going up in the back of their mind, we are
draft of the player the league. We are taking a
player that we know coming into this situation, which is
multi million dollar contracts that that these guys have access to.
You know that you're bringing in a player off off
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the bat that you know that has a gambling addiction.
This is something that that's not just going to be
swept under the rug. When you going to interview for
these thirty two teams. When it's time and when it's
time for him to go to the next level, they're
not just going to forget about.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Another point to take into consideration. We cannot lose the
sight of the fact that these are still young people
who are trying to figure life out.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Like I get it.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
People are going, oh, five million dollars, he's an adult,
like you could be a child actor that makes five
million dollars. Look at Michael Jackson, right, I heard that
it's a good show. Hey, listen, you could be somebody young.
That money does not make you old. Money does not
make you an adult. And the kids twenty one twenty two.
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People say that's more than old enough.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
He's eighteen.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
He's old enough to die for our country, and all
those things are true. I'm not taking away from that.
But if you're telling me you're not at the highest
point of development and of being influenced and those different
things at the college level at twenty nineteen, twenty one,
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twenty two, you're kidding yourself. These are still people that
are in mental emotional development, and.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That should be stated.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
You can't get too far away from the person because
we're talking about and looking at the business of all
of this and the mess up of it all. Young
people mess up all the time. Hell, adults mess up
all the time. People should have an opportunity for grace
in these situations.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And in these moments.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
But with that being said, there does have to be
a penalty that's connected to it. If there is no
discipline and there is no repercussions, then people.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Will use that as an excuse.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
There will always be a reason to be able to
mess up and it be void of any type of
you know, consequences. There are consequences to every decision. I
think that that's what the tail of this tape is.
Understand the consequences of what you're doing before you do it,
and if you do it, then know that if you
get caught, the consequences are the consequences. And there shouldn't
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really be too much of a debate that's connected to it.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Anybody got a last word on.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
It, Hey, you gotta do better. You know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Man.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
This is all over where. Man, this is everywhere about
gambling and not betting. Like there's just no excuse for it.
I feel bad for him, but there's no excuse for this.
The rules, all the rules exactly.
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And speaking of lights out or power out, going into
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nightmare scenarios for every NFL team's twenty twenty six season
plex and I thought it was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I thought it was worth a.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Conversation because this is a kind of content that I
love to have conversation about because it makes you think
about what could actually go wrong. We always look at
what could go right a lot of times, and obviously
we know what goes right. You make it to the playoffs,
make it to the super Bowl, you have a good year.
Things you know, things are good, But the obvious things
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that you may not see could be there in plain sight,
and it could be right there in rooms and well.
Bleacher Report did a contenders for nightmares actually coming to pass.
I'm gonna give you a couple that I saw that
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really jumped out the Bills. Is Josh Allen has he
run himself into the ground? Is the body starting to
wear down? Is that window closing? The Eagles? Jalen hurts.
You know, it wasn't the type of season that you
would have wanted to see from them. Sa Quon did
not have the type of season you wanted to see
from them. Aj Brown is continuing to be a major conversation.
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They brought in a gazillion receivers, but do any of
them fit the bill in terms of moving on from him?
The Bengals they still look to have defensive holes even
though they've tried to make some moves. Burrow has been
under siege. Can they stop that? And then for my
wild card, you gotta go with the Lions? Right golf
is cooled off? Dan Campbell has cooled off, and maybe
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it's because he lost his coordinators more specifically probably Ben Johnson.
These are some interesting conversations, but the one thing that
you would have to throw out there that would be
scary and even just highlighting you know what the Eagles
have going on, plex is what's scarier a contender that
has a franchise quarterback get injured, or if you have
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like a meltdown in the locker room, a locker room split,
whether it's like because of the coach, whether it's because
of a player. I immediately think about the Philadelphia Eagles
in this scenario. But you were on a team where
there was kind of, you know, the veterans had some
beef with the head coach. The head coach was trying
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to address it the way that he was addressing You
got Conflin on this side. You got Tiki Barber and
Mike Strahan on this side. Things were kind of looking
kind of interesting for a time, and then all of
a sudden, you guys were able to pull it together
and kumba y'all, And next thing you know, y'all are winning.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
A Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Just from your experiences, which one is scarier in looking
at a team that could be a contender that goes
from contender to collapse.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You know what, I really believe that, you know, the
quarterback position in the NFL is the biggest position in
all of professional sports because you have to have a
franchise quarterback if you want to be able to compete
and win games on a week to week basis. And
I think that's the biggest thing for every team. I mean,
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look at all the teams that have been not good
over the past you know, decade or two Cleveland Browns,
You look at them. They they've been struggling with trying
to find a franchise quarterback for the last three decades,
it seems like. And you know, I haven't been a
part of a team where I lost a franchise quarterback
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during the season, luckily for me. But I have been
in fractured locker rooms amongst players and you know, not
agreeing with the coaches and making some of the making
decisions that would best benefit the team because of their
own personal reason. I've been on that side of it.
And and that's not good for a locker room either,
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for you know, for for a player to walk into
a locker room and you know, go to work, every
go to work every day, you bust your tail, you
you you know, you you work hard at your craft
every day to help a team win. And you and
you feel that the coach or the staff are not
making the best decisions uh, you know, to help the
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team or to help them you get to where you
want to as a player. But from a quarterback standpoint,
you just, you know, mission the whole thing of Josh Allen,
Uh you know, is that window closing for him? You know,
you don't know, obviously, Mike Rayboard they are doing He's
doing a good job up there in New England. There,
They're going to be, you know, very good in the
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AFC East. For a long time, it seemed like because.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
But you still got to throw them on the list, right,
just based off of what the recent stuff that happened
with him, you got to throw them on the Is
it a scary deal?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
No? No, no, I believe he'll be okay. You know,
here's a young quarterback that is a lot better than
everybody thought he was going to be. But is a
coach and what took place versus the players on the team,
I don't really I don't believe it's really going to
be a distraction. I believe that they're going to move
on from that and they're going to try to basically
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reciprocate what they how what the regular season was last year,
going fourteen and three, and try to get to the
next level. And obviously and that's what the championship. But uh,
I just believe, not having a quarterback, uh, you know,
in this league that is elite, you can't win games.
But I will say that there's one team on my
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radar who that they are sending every year as they go.
That wasn't as good as I thought it was last year,
But I just believe, you know, the Washington Commanders are
on a trajectory to be one of the top teams, uh,
you know in the NFC. In the NFC, I'm picking
them to win the NFC East this year. I believe
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they're going to really be that good. You take Sunny
styles Man and you pair him with Bobby Wagner, who
was one of my favorite players. You're talking about mentorship
from the position. You can't get any better mentorship at
playing the linebacker position from a Bobby Wagner, who I
believe was going to be a first ballot Hall of Famer.
They take your guy for Penn State k Tron Allen
at running.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
That's a pick of the draft right there.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah, you steal him and you get your You get
a Tony Williams Junior, a good, great young wires here
from Clemson. So you patch up, you patch with all
these weapons offensively, you get better defensively. And I believe
that Jaydon Williams he's just going to continue. Jaydon Dames
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is just going to continue to get better and better.
So that's my team from going well they y'all to
being one of the top teams in the NFC.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It's interesting because I gave you the Bills, the Eagles,
the Niners.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I didn't say the Niners, but I think the Niners
are one of those teams that could be a bus
team too. I said that last year they did way
better than what I anticipated.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But and I also named the Lines.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
But here are three other teams that I'll throw at
you plex before we take a break and get get
an update from Ilow. The Ravens, the Packers, and the Vikings.
I think that we look at the Vikings and it's
like overstated.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
You get to this.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
The quarterback is going to be okay, because look at
what happened with Sam Darnold, Like, look at what happened
with Kirk Cousins. Like you go there and it's a
place where you can revive your career. But JJ McCarthy
wasn't that guy. You bring in Kyler Murray. I don't
know what Kyler Murray can be that guy. So now
you got a situation where a team that has Justin
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Jefferson of prolific offense potentially.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And that could go bad.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
You got the Packers, they look like they had a regression,
a lot of injuries obviously, and then they lose Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
But that's a team that I look at.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
And I'm like, I don't know what direction the Packers
are going to go in this year. And then the Ravens,
they they went backwards so much so where they got
a coaching replacement for a long tenured successful coach in
their aging right. I just think that if you were
to look at any one of those teams, who do
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you think is most likely to have a collapse this year?
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
You know what? Uh? I believe in Jordan Love. I
believe that he's an elite war the back. You're not
just in the NFC, but the whole entire league. He
has the weapons, Christian Watson. They did get ready for
the Romeo Dobbs, but I really believe that they are still,
you know, one of the top teams in that division
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in the NFC North. And looking at Baltimore, I mean,
what's been Baltimore's you know, Achilles Hill, you know, from
getting to the Super Bowl. It's been Lamar Jackson. I mean,
let's just be honest about it. Yeah, he's been able to,
you know, make those runs to the playoffs, get deep
into the playoffs and then you lose your first home
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AFC Championship game to the Kansas City Chiefs and you
have a chance to go to the super Bowl. And
I think that was one of those moments that they
really needed to capitalize on that opportunity and they let
that slip through their hands. So Baltimore, I don't believe
that's going to be as good as they were last
year defensively, especially with John Harball departing and now being
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the coach for the New York Giants. But I just
think Baltimore and Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, we threw the Detroit Lions in't there.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, I believe that the windows closed, really closed. I
believe that the windows closed with the absence of Aaron
Glenn Ben Johnson, you know, especially the job that he's
doing in Chicago. I just believe that the Detroit Lions, uh,
you know, they missed a golden opportunity a couple of
years ago to be able to get to the super Bowl.
(27:30):
And the same thing for the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Had you had an opportunity to be a one seed
the San Francisco forty nine ers last year and you
let this, You let the Seattle Seahawks come into your
building and beat you to win the division and have
the easiest route to get to the super Bowl. You
don't even have to leave the state of California for
(27:52):
the next month because you're playing at home for the
divisional round. You get a first round by you get
the division a round, and you get an NFC championship
game at home, in the Super bowls at home. And
I think that that was one of those you know
sequences where uh Shanahan and that team, that was their
opportunity to solidify themselves as you know, being or getting
(28:17):
to the Super Bowl, and they let that opportunity fall
through their hands.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Also, I felt like they were still in this season,
but they got through it and they did really well,
but they did come up short. Like you said, speaking
of coming up short, they ain't trying to come up short.
The Big twelve. They just signed to deal that could
change college football forever. Redberg Capital. Yeah, twelve and a
half million dollars will explain that what it means. But
(28:42):
first let's get an update from our guy, mister i
eusic glowing crawl.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Well, Don LeVar, look at you.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Thank you. I tried.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
I tried.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Sensational larynx strength, by the.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Way, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
Polls two best words in games show, two best words
in sports, of course, not that way. You're full of
sound effects. I love it.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
Tonight at seven thirty Eastern Game seven for Boston Celtics
and the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. It's the NBA record
ninth time that the Sixers and Celtics have met in
a Game seven, with Boston winning six of the first eight.
On Friday night, Lakers won at Houston ninety eight seventy
eight to win the series four games to two. They'll
face Ooklahoma City in the West Summis. Earlier Friday night,
(29:31):
R J. Barrett dramatic three pointer one point two left
in overtime, giving Toronto a one to twelve, one to
ten win over Cleveland, forcing a Game seven at Cleveland
on Sunday. Pistons rallied from a twenty four point third
quarter deficit to winded Orlando ninety three seventy nine, forcing
a game seven on Sunday at Detroit. Up first though
this evening at six fifty seven Eastern the one hundred
(29:53):
and fifty second running of the Kentucky Derby. So guys,
it's time for a pop quiz. I'm going to give
you four horse and you're gonna tell me if it's
an actual horse running in the Derby this evening or
whether it's made up. So both of you are gonna
get again. So first here we go. Horse up true
or false? Is gonna run in the Derby? Right to Party?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
No, No, that is not a horse's name, and this
is just Derby.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
No, okay, Right to Party is running fifth at twenty
six to one odds.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
He is can't be in there with that name.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
That's next horse yes or no? True or false running
in the Derby hoof hearted who no hearted, no way, No,
that is correct. I completely made it up and if
you read that fast you'll know why. Next horse further
Ado true or false.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Like Freddy ad further We're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I'm gonna go with further Ado. I can see that
being a horse's name.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
LeVar okay, sure, why not? Correct?
Speaker 8 (31:00):
That is a horse's name. And finally, ghost Buster ghost
Buster running true.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Or I'm gonna I'm gonna go with false Laura.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
No false, you are correct. Great job to both of you.
Here's to enjoying the Derby tonight. A mint Julip for
both of you. On me back to you pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Thanks Ilo, you don't don't Julip. I'll tell you.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
I'm three or four in trust me?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
How about it? Enjoy all right?
Speaker 4 (31:29):
And speaking of enjoying news from college sports, as I
mentioned the Big Twelve, they just struck the first league
wide private equity deal and major college sports five year
agreement with Ridberg Capital Partners and Weatherford Capital twelve and
a half million dollar capital infusion to the league office.
(31:50):
Plus everyone of the sixteen Big Twelve schools has access
to a line of credit up to.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Drum roll please use uh thirty.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Mellion dollars each paid back with double digit interests. All right,
Redbird's portfolio includes Paramount you know that is, which is
owned by CBS and is acquiring TNT. So you're seeing
the future of college football media rights start to take shape.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
The big twelves.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Current ESPN and Fox media deal is worth another drum.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Roll, two point two eight billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Yeah, and it expires in twenty thirty one. So this
Redbird deal positions them for the next negotiation.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
My take plex this is the moment.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
College football officially stops pretending its amateur.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
It's gone.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Private equity does not invest in amateur. It invests in
revenue period case close, long term. My guy, So, first
league wide private equity deal, when do we start saying
that the players are employees. You have a son that
(33:21):
is playing at the college level. Should he be viewed
as an employee? And I kind of asked myself the question,
what does that mean once you're considered an employee?
Speaker 1 (33:32):
How does that work for academics? Right?
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Like, if I'm a professional and my job is to
work on and get paid to play on this team,
then can you still hold the cards against the player,
for them to go to classes, for them to get
good grades, and different things like that. How will all
of those things unfold?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Goh, you got it.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I mean you still have to be able to go
to go to class and maintain a certain GPA and
to be eligible. I don't think that's never going to leave,
no matter how much money you know, these athletes are making.
I mean, if that's the case, then you might as
well just, you know, have have these athletes just attend
(34:17):
the college just to play sports. I mean if if, if,
if that's the case, I'm sure they will love it.
But everybody at a plan college football, basketball, softball, or
whatever the case may be, are going to be professionals.
I mean, they still have to go to college and
obtain a degree and then get out, you know, uh,
(34:39):
you know, in the in the in the in the
in the workforce when they graduate college. So even though
they are paid athletes, they're still going to have to
be able to to maintain a certain kind of you know,
requirements or curriculum, you know, for these young young athletes
to stay eligible. I don't think that's ever gonna go out.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Here's what I'll say. I think the NCAA should be disbanded.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I think they've presided over NIL chaos.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
It should have been handled so much differently. What's the
right way.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
I don't know because I don't get paid to do it,
but it should have been handled differently.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You got gambling scandals popping up.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Everywhere, and now you have private equity buying conferences, not
just buying a school. We're not talking about just a
school plexico burst. We're talking about an entire conference. They
had one job, protect the athletes, and they and my
estimation have failed miserably. Hey, have y'all missed any of
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Speaker 1 (36:14):
We're gonna come back.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
We're gonna wrap it up on a much higher note,
even though it's a shorter person, the NBA's shortest player.
Every you remember the name, Maybe you don't, Maybe you do.
We're gonna remind you Muggsy Bogues. Yes what Muggsy Boats
taught the world about heart? Yeah, grit and finding your lane.
(36:36):
Stay with us. We're gonna close up next segment on
up on Game Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
All right, welcome back into the show.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Yes, it's our last segment, and you know what, we're
closing out with one of my favorite stories of all time.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
I know this man personally, one of.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
The coolest dudes you'll meet, super competitive guy. The Detroit
News ran a feature this week plex on using Muggsy
Bogues as an example. Muggsy Bogues was five foot three,
one hundred and thirty six pounds, played fourteen years in
the NBA from eighty seven to two thousand and one.
Drafted twelfth overall in nineteen eighty seven by the Washington Bullets.
(37:20):
You know DC baby, and you know what his draft
class included guys by the name of David Robinson, Great
Reggie Miller, Scottie Pippen, Kevin Johnson. Is an interesting draft.
He played for the Bullets, the Hornets, the Warriors, the Raptors,
Top seven and assists for six straight seasons, top ten
(37:42):
and stills three times blocked thirty nine shots. Imagine that
he blocked thirty nine shots in his career. That means
he was sneaking up on catch with them hops right,
including one of interest he got Pat Ewing one time.
How does someone decide they're built for something when everything
tells them that they're not. The Peace argues self efficiency, belief,
(38:05):
your ability to succeed specific task. Muggsy had a coach
named Leon Howard who saw him as a young kid
and believed in him, and it changed everything. My take
on this plex as we close out this this show,
every kid being told they're too small, or they're too
slow or too whatever needs to know about Muggsy bogues
(38:26):
I was reminded of and thought that it would be
a cool way of ending out the show. Let's close
on it five three, one hundred and thirty six pounds
and had not only did he make it to the league.
He had a successful career in the league. Do you
think a guy like that could make it in this
in NBA now at five three?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I mean, it's kind of tough to say. I believe so.
But just imagine, you know, Muggsy Bulls growing up. I
believe he's from Baltimore, went to Dumblos Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland,
and everybody in his whole entire life being at five
to three, he hadn't grown since high school. He still
hasn't grown. And everybody's telling you that you will never
(39:10):
be an NBA player. Uh, you know, it's it's a
it's a it's a story of will and belief in
yourself and your talent and just to find the odds
of basically what everybody is telling you that you are
not as a player. And I've had the opportunity to,
you know, play golf with Muggsy and just you know,
(39:31):
you walk up on him and it just blows your
mind at his stature and you look at his NBA
and his NBA career, and the first thing that comes
to your mind you say, honn hell, did he play
in the NBA at this size amongst the amongst those trees.
(39:51):
It just it just made me have a more of
an appreciation, you know, for him and the way that
he played the game. And he was fir. This was
on the basketball court. He was acting like he was
six nine, six ten, getting up and down on the court.
And you say, thirty nine blocks at five to three.
I mean, how do you even explain that to somebody
if your patching got.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Shot?
Speaker 3 (40:13):
I mean today, But man, great great human being. And
I've had the opportunity to spend a lot of time
with spug Web also just two men, you know, spug
Web five to seven with a forty six inch vertical.
He's just like wow. But the whole you know, Muggsy man,
I had. I had more of an appreciation for him
(40:34):
his career and the things that he was able to
do at his height for so long. Man, you just
got to say, just the testament and the will of him,
you know, willing himself to do something that not a
lot of people thought that he could.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
I totally agree. Fourteen year career, his vision was amazing.
Seven and assists for six consecutive years. Defensive instincts are speed, agility.
That is Muggy Boges and this is up on Game.
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Speaker 4 (00:46):
All right, all right, welcome into hour two of Up
On Game Everybody. Big story in college football Brendon sowersby
Texas Tech quarterback twenty two years old, top transfer portal
quarterback in the country, rated the number two overall player
in the portal five million dollar nil deal reported one
(01:09):
of the biggest contracts ever for college player.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well, he just took.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
An indefinite leave from the Texas Tech team to enter
an inpatient treatment for a gambling addiction. The Indiana team
that well, he's The NCAAA is investigating it, and reports
are that he plays thousands of bets, including bets on
his own team. When he was playing for Indiana as
(01:38):
a freshman in twenty twenty two, Hunter Deckers at Iowa State,
we remember that name. He was permanently banned in twenty
twenty three for betting on his own team. Coaches are
speaking out. Kirby Smart says you can't watch a TV
station without a gambling at Nick Saban called gambling his
number one concern as a coach and the disgrace. CBS
(02:02):
Sports actually ran odds in the original article about Sowresby's
gambling addiction. They had an issue a public correction. The
whole industry is part of this problem. Fellas my take,
Sowersby's a kid, He's getting help good, but the system
(02:23):
that surrounded him with sportsbooks ads, the leagues that took
the money, the schools that look the other way because
they didn't look the other way. I mean, he's been
betting for a while now, well they own this too,
so I get it. He should be punished. He probably
won't play another down in football in college. But let's
(02:43):
discuss top transfer portal quarterback Nil Deal allegedly betting on
his own Indiana team. Whose fault is it really the
player or every league that put a sportsbook ad in
every commercial breakfellas well.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It's definitely the players fault, There's no nothing about it.
Sowresby will not play another game in college football. If
the ncuble A is investigating this young man knowingly that
he placed bets on his own team while he was
currently on a roster, he won't play another down in
n c double A. So can you say supplemental draft
(03:20):
because I believe that's what's going to happen. Five million
dollars in the transfer a portal, he can't give the
money back. So but with the ncub A, it's n
CUBA investigating this. If this young man plays bets, he
will permanently be terminated in definitely from playing quarterback at
(03:42):
Texas Tech in this in this fifth year in college,
because it's clearly against the rules. He's been caught and busted.
We talk about these stories year in the year out
professional and college, and the fact that he did get
caught is the main reason why I believe that he
based self put himself in for rehab just to show yeah,
(04:07):
to show them that I know I was wrong. I'm
getting help, but you know what, I believe that it's
already too late.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
My thing is is I don't know what goes on
in college football as far as the presentations that are
given to players. I know in the National Football League
because I just happened to be a part of it. Oh,
it's presentations. Everybody knows you cannot bet on the NFL.
You do not do it. If you're dumb enough to
(04:37):
do it, your ass going to be out the league.
And you're like that the clearest day in the National
Football League. I don't know what's going on in college
I know these players know not to bet, but are
they having these presentations Because this young man was set
to make supposedly five million dollars from Texas Tech. Boy,
(04:58):
you're talking about hustling backwards. You about to make five
million dollars from Texas Tech. You about to leave all
that money on the table because you betting a few
thousand on the game here.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
And they said he made.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Like thousands of bet TJ thousands of bets, but.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
They were like one dollar bets.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
One no, no, no, it does it doesn't. But matter
think about this.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Even if you bet each bet is five hundred to
one thousand dollars and you made thousands of bets, it's
still don't compare to the five million that you're about
to blow down.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And so he, yeah, he right there with DK just
burning money. You burning money.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
So for me, I really hope that they can figure
out a way to let this young man play. He
probably never thought he would be in this position when
he was making those bets.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
And if you're not, that doesn't matter. Listen, No, that's
their problem. Listen.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
If you're not fixing games, legal is illegal, Tjer, But right,
I agree with you. But if you're not point shaving,
you're not part but throwing interceptions, you not fixing games.
I don't see there's a problem with it. But I
don't see the problem with it. Meaning he's not out
here point shaving trying to fix games.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
The problem is that he has inside information on his
team or whether a player is healthy or not. If
he's questioning or he's doping, is he going to catch five?
He know that man ain't gonna catch seven eight balls
because we got a hamstring.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
So you say he doing proper, he doing prop bets absolutely.
Why wouldn't know. So what I'm saying if he's doing,
if he's doing prop bets, that's different. I'm just thinking
he's betting on the team to win or lose.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I don't even if he does.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
But even if he does that, it say specifically you
are not supposed to bet on certain sports.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I think it's basketball, baseball.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
And can battle.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I believe for sure.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
But see, I guess I'm sympathetic because I am too.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I'm okay with being sympathetic.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
No, no, nothing, I'm okay with that. He about to
lose five million dollars in I l that's a lot
of money.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
And his and his ability to play at the college level.
You gotta believe what he's doing right now, he's positioning
himself to be playing the pros because this can follow him.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
To the league.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Play playing the pros like this might cost him that
because next year's quarterback class, at least on paper, is
one of the best quarterback class we've ever seen.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
On paper.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
You got arch Man in, Dante Moore, CJ. Carr and
possibly Soresby, all them dudes going in the top ten.
Jack may be thrown out the window, but hey, he's
old enough. Choices, decisions and consequences. You got to understand
that what comes to you.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I'm thinking about this young man right now. Say the
NC double A and definitely suspend him and he does
not play another down to college football. What do you
think the next move for him should be? Do you
enter the NFL supplemental Draft or do you sit out
a season and tried to get try to recoup some
(08:14):
of that money back. Because the supplemental draft is not
going to pay him if he's going to be a
top five pick in the NFL. So what do you
think this young man should do? If he does get
to play college, he has to go.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
He's got to try to go.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Because I don't know where we're at with the whole
five million dollars in the nil deal. I don't know
what his contract states and what it reads. I'm sure
we're going to find out what that is. You're not
going to get and I'm sure he doesn't. I don't
think he got the money all up front, so it's
not like you can't give the money back in terms.
I think they paused or suspended the payments that he
(08:52):
was receiving monthly. But he has already received monthly payments
of that five million guaranteed to him in that deal.
I think they're going to come after him for that.
You can't just sit out. You can't just sit out
because they are coming for your money.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
That I mean he didn't. He didn't. He didn't receive
the five million. He didn't receive it.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Yeah, but he I think he was getting payments though,
he was getting payments. And keep in mind, depending on
the language of that contract, he could potentially be liable
for that entire five million dollars even if he didn't
receive it, depending on the language that's in that contract.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
So he's going to have to He's gonna have to
level up.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
And I think him self self admitting himself to to
get help is is to me to clean up maybe
his image a bit, to say I understood what I did.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I made a terrible mistake.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
It's costing me my NCAA career this last season. But
I want to get healthy. I want to be ready
to try to move on with my life. And just
maybe he he's good enough, because we've seen it in
the past. If you're talented enough, the league will make exceptions.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
For the rule in terms of how they're going to
treat a player. So, hey, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Don't believe he gets out of this. I really don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
It's almost not even for the league.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I think he'll be fine. He's done at the n
c a A level, all right, Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
He's done at the league. I mean at that at
the college level.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
But the question becomes, does he does does this set
him up to transition? Like you said, the supplemental draft,
that sounds like the most logical of things to do
in this in this scenario, But it's an ugly scenario
because we can sit here and debate what's to happen
to Sworsby.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
But he's not the only one.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
There are other guys out here that are out here
doing the same exact things that this young man is doing.
The bigger question here, and the bigger concern and conversation
is is that these sports books are part of sports,
They're part of the college landscape. There the money is
going into the college landscape as as revenue.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
So to me, how do you address this? Are you
just is it just.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Going to come down to singularly, every single person that
decides to take the physical challenge of betting and gambling
are going to get what's coming to them. At the
most singular form of it, the basic form of it,
that's really what it comes down to. If you get caught,
you're in trouble. You get caught, you're in trouble, then
you got to pay the consequences. But how do you
how do you manage this? If you're the n c
(11:41):
A A, how do you manage that? If you're the college,
if you're if you're if you're the university, how you
do it?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I mean you can't having a having a phone and
the access to being able to gamble is is so easy.
And now this is something I believe that this is
going to stick with him. People are not going to
forget this. And even at the next level, teams are
(12:11):
going up in the back of their mind, we are
draft of the player the league. We are taking a
player that we know coming into this situation, which is
multi million dollar contracts that that these guys have access to.
You know that you're bringing in a player off off
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the bat that you know that has a gambling addiction.
This is something that that's not just going to be
swept under the rug. When you going to interview for
these thirty two teams. When it's time and when it's
time for him to go to the next level, they're
not just going to forget about.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Another point to take into consideration. We cannot lose the
sight of the fact that these are still young people
who are trying to figure life out.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Like I get it.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
People are going, oh, five million dollars, he's an adult,
like you could be a child actor that makes five
million dollars. Look at Michael Jackson, right, I heard that
it's a good show. Hey, listen, you could be somebody young.
That money does not make you old. Money does not
make you an adult. And the kids twenty one twenty two.
(13:21):
People say that's more than old enough.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
He's eighteen.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
He's old enough to die for our country, and all
those things are true. I'm not taking away from that.
But if you're telling me you're not at the highest
point of development and of being influenced and those different
things at the college level at twenty nineteen, twenty one,
(13:47):
twenty two, you're kidding yourself. These are still people that
are in mental emotional development, and.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That should be stated.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
You can't get too far away from the person because
we're talking about and looking at the business of all
of this and the mess up of it all. Young
people mess up all the time. Hell, adults mess up
all the time. People should have an opportunity for grace
in these situations.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And in these moments.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
But with that being said, there does have to be
a penalty that's connected to it. If there is no
discipline and there is no repercussions, then people.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Will use that as an excuse.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
There will always be a reason to be able to
mess up and it be void of any type of
you know, consequences. There are consequences to every decision. I
think that that's what the tail of this tape is.
Understand the consequences of what you're doing before you do it,
and if you do it, then know that if you
get caught, the consequences are the consequences. And there shouldn't
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really be too much of a debate that's connected to it.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Anybody got a last word on.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
It, Hey, you gotta do better. You know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Man.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
This is all over where. Man, this is everywhere about
gambling and not betting. Like there's just no excuse for it.
I feel bad for him, but there's no excuse for this.
The rules, all the rules exactly.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
M M.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Coming up.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Bleacher Report just published a night Yeah, Bleacher Report, a
nightmare scenarios for every NFL team we're going.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
To argue about we'll talk.
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About it, which ones we actually believe. Then the Big
Twelve just signed the first ever league wide private equity
deal in college sports. Interesting money, money, money money, and
we close out the NBA's shortest player ever. Up on game.
It's on Fox Sports Radio. We're gonna take a quick break.
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Speaker 1 (16:57):
All right, welcome back in to the show.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
This is up on Game and you're listening to myself
and mister Plexico Burst TJ just had a well, they're
working on power lines out here. My power is out
for eight hours yesterday and his just went down for
repairs just now.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
So we're gonna work through it. Don't worry about it.
We got it. We got it covered.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
And speaking of lights out or power out, going into
the break, I teased about Bleacher Report and them dropping
nightmare scenarios for every NFL team's twenty twenty six season
plex and I thought it was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I thought it was worth a.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Conversation because this is a kind of content that I
love to have conversation about because it makes you think
about what could actually go wrong. We always look at
what could go right a lot of times, and obviously
we know what goes right. You make it to the playoffs,
make it to the super Bowl, you have a good year.
Things you know, things are good, But the obvious things
(18:07):
that you may not see could be there in plain sight,
and it could be right there in rooms and well.
Bleacher Report did a contenders for nightmares actually coming to pass.
I'm gonna give you a couple that I saw that
(18:28):
really jumped out the Bills. Is Josh Allen has he
run himself into the ground? Is the body starting to
wear down? Is that window closing? The Eagles? Jalen hurts.
You know, it wasn't the type of season that you
would have wanted to see from them. Sa Quon did
not have the type of season you wanted to see
from them. Aj Brown is continuing to be a major conversation.
(18:50):
They brought in a gazillion receivers, but do any of
them fit the bill in terms of moving on from him?
The Bengals they still look to have defensive holes even
though they've tried to make some moves. Burrow has been
under siege. Can they stop that? And then for my
wild card, you gotta go with the Lions? Right golf
is cooled off? Dan Campbell has cooled off, and maybe
(19:13):
it's because he lost his coordinators more specifically probably Ben Johnson.
These are some interesting conversations, but the one thing that
you would have to throw out there that would be
scary and even just highlighting you know what the Eagles
have going on, plex is what's scarier a contender that
has a franchise quarterback get injured, or if you have
(19:37):
like a meltdown in the locker room, a locker room split,
whether it's like because of the coach, whether it's because
of a player. I immediately think about the Philadelphia Eagles
in this scenario. But you were on a team where
there was kind of, you know, the veterans had some
beef with the head coach. The head coach was trying
(19:58):
to address it the way that he was addressing You
got Conflin on this side. You got Tiki Barber and
Mike Strahan on this side. Things were kind of looking
kind of interesting for a time, and then all of
a sudden, you guys were able to pull it together
and kumba y'all, And next thing you know, y'all are winning.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
A Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Just from your experiences, which one is scarier in looking
at a team that could be a contender that goes
from contender to collapse.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You know what, I really believe that, you know, the
quarterback position in the NFL is the biggest position in
all of professional sports because you have to have a
franchise quarterback if you want to be able to compete
and win games on a week to week basis. And
I think that's the biggest thing for every team. I mean,
(20:50):
look at all the teams that have been not good
over the past you know, decade or two Cleveland Browns,
You look at them. They they've been struggling with trying
to find a franchise quarterback for the last three decades,
it seems like. And you know, I haven't been a
part of a team where I lost a franchise quarterback
(21:14):
during the season, luckily for me. But I have been
in fractured locker rooms amongst players and you know, not
agreeing with the coaches and making some of the making
decisions that would best benefit the team because of their
own personal reason. I've been on that side of it.
And and that's not good for a locker room either,
(21:36):
for you know, for for a player to walk into
a locker room and you know, go to work, every
go to work every day, you bust your tail, you
you you know, you you work hard at your craft
every day to help a team win. And you and
you feel that the coach or the staff are not
making the best decisions uh, you know, to help the
(21:58):
team or to help them you get to where you
want to as a player. But from a quarterback standpoint,
you just, you know, mission the whole thing of Josh Allen,
Uh you know, is that window closing for him? You know,
you don't know, obviously, Mike Rayboard they are doing He's
doing a good job up there in New England. There,
They're going to be, you know, very good in the
(22:19):
AFC East. For a long time, it seemed like because.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
But you still got to throw them on the list, right,
just based off of what the recent stuff that happened
with him, you got to throw them on the Is
it a scary deal?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
No? No, no, I believe he'll be okay. You know,
here's a young quarterback that is a lot better than
everybody thought he was going to be. But is a
coach and what took place versus the players on the team,
I don't really I don't believe it's really going to
be a distraction. I believe that they're going to move
on from that and they're going to try to basically
(22:52):
reciprocate what they how what the regular season was last year,
going fourteen and three, and try to get to the
next level. And obviously and that's what the championship. But uh,
I just believe, not having a quarterback, uh, you know,
in this league that is elite, you can't win games.
But I will say that there's one team on my
(23:13):
radar who that they are sending every year as they go.
That wasn't as good as I thought it was last year,
But I just believe, you know, the Washington Commanders are
on a trajectory to be one of the top teams, uh,
you know in the NFC. In the NFC, I'm picking
them to win the NFC East this year. I believe
(23:34):
they're going to really be that good. You take Sunny
styles Man and you pair him with Bobby Wagner, who
was one of my favorite players. You're talking about mentorship
from the position. You can't get any better mentorship at
playing the linebacker position from a Bobby Wagner, who I
believe was going to be a first ballot Hall of Famer.
They take your guy for Penn State k Tron Allen
at running.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
That's a pick of the draft right there.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah, you steal him and you get your You get
a Tony Williams Junior, a good, great young wires here
from Clemson. So you patch up, you patch with all
these weapons offensively, you get better defensively. And I believe
that Jaydon Williams he's just going to continue. Jaydon Dames
(24:17):
is just going to continue to get better and better.
So that's my team from going well they y'all to
being one of the top teams in the NFC.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It's interesting because I gave you the Bills, the Eagles,
the Niners.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I didn't say the Niners, but I think the Niners
are one of those teams that could be a bus
team too. I said that last year they did way
better than what I anticipated.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But and I also named the Lines.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
But here are three other teams that I'll throw at
you plex before we take a break and get get
an update from Ilow. The Ravens, the Packers, and the Vikings.
I think that we look at the Vikings and it's
like overstated.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
You get to this.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
The quarterback is going to be okay, because look at
what happened with Sam Darnold, Like, look at what happened
with Kirk Cousins. Like you go there and it's a
place where you can revive your career. But JJ McCarthy
wasn't that guy. You bring in Kyler Murray. I don't
know what Kyler Murray can be that guy. So now
you got a situation where a team that has Justin
(25:13):
Jefferson of prolific offense potentially.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And that could go bad.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
You got the Packers, they look like they had a regression,
a lot of injuries obviously, and then they lose Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
But that's a team that I look at.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
And I'm like, I don't know what direction the Packers
are going to go in this year. And then the Ravens,
they they went backwards so much so where they got
a coaching replacement for a long tenured successful coach in
their aging right. I just think that if you were
to look at any one of those teams, who do
(25:49):
you think is most likely to have a collapse this year?
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
You know what? Uh? I believe in Jordan Love. I
believe that he's an elite war the back. You're not
just in the NFC, but the whole entire league. He
has the weapons, Christian Watson. They did get ready for
the Romeo Dobbs, but I really believe that they are still,
you know, one of the top teams in that division
(26:16):
in the NFC North. And looking at Baltimore, I mean,
what's been Baltimore's you know, Achilles Hill, you know, from
getting to the Super Bowl. It's been Lamar Jackson. I mean,
let's just be honest about it. Yeah, he's been able to,
you know, make those runs to the playoffs, get deep
into the playoffs and then you lose your first home
(26:36):
AFC Championship game to the Kansas City Chiefs and you
have a chance to go to the super Bowl. And
I think that was one of those moments that they
really needed to capitalize on that opportunity and they let
that slip through their hands. So Baltimore, I don't believe
that's going to be as good as they were last
year defensively, especially with John Harball departing and now being
(26:58):
the coach for the New York Giants. But I just
think Baltimore and Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, we threw the Detroit Lions in't there.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, I believe that the windows closed, really closed. I
believe that the windows closed with the absence of Aaron
Glenn Ben Johnson, you know, especially the job that he's
doing in Chicago. I just believe that the Detroit Lions, uh,
you know, they missed a golden opportunity a couple of
years ago to be able to get to the super Bowl.
(27:30):
And the same thing for the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Had you had an opportunity to be a one seed
the San Francisco forty nine ers last year and you
let this, You let the Seattle Seahawks come into your
building and beat you to win the division and have
the easiest route to get to the super Bowl. You
don't even have to leave the state of California for
(27:52):
the next month because you're playing at home for the
divisional round. You get a first round by you get
the division a round, and you get an NFC championship
game at home, in the Super bowls at home. And
I think that that was one of those you know
sequences where uh Shanahan and that team, that was their
opportunity to solidify themselves as you know, being or getting
(28:17):
to the Super Bowl, and they let that opportunity fall
through their hands.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Also, I felt like they were still in this season,
but they got through it and they did really well,
but they did come up short. Like you said, speaking
of coming up short, they ain't trying to come up short.
The Big twelve. They just signed to deal that could
change college football forever. Redberg Capital. Yeah, twelve and a
half million dollars will explain that what it means. But
(28:42):
first let's get an update from our guy, mister i
eusic glowing crawl.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Well, Don LeVar, look at you.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Thank you. I tried.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
I tried.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Sensational larynx strength, by the.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Way, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
Polls two best words in games show, two best words
in sports, of course, not that way. You're full of
sound effects. I love it.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
Tonight at seven thirty Eastern Game seven for Boston Celtics
and the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. It's the NBA record
ninth time that the Sixers and Celtics have met in
a Game seven, with Boston winning six of the first eight.
On Friday night, Lakers won at Houston ninety eight seventy
eight to win the series four games to two. They'll
face Ooklahoma City in the West Summis. Earlier Friday night,
(29:31):
R J. Barrett dramatic three pointer one point two left
in overtime, giving Toronto a one to twelve, one to
ten win over Cleveland, forcing a Game seven at Cleveland
on Sunday. Pistons rallied from a twenty four point third
quarter deficit to winded Orlando ninety three seventy nine, forcing
a game seven on Sunday at Detroit. Up first though
this evening at six fifty seven Eastern the one hundred
(29:53):
and fifty second running of the Kentucky Derby. So guys,
it's time for a pop quiz. I'm going to give
you four horse and you're gonna tell me if it's
an actual horse running in the Derby this evening or
whether it's made up. So both of you are gonna
get again. So first here we go. Horse up true
or false? Is gonna run in the Derby? Right to Party?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
No, No, that is not a horse's name, and this
is just Derby.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
No, okay, Right to Party is running fifth at twenty
six to one odds.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
He is can't be in there with that name.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
That's next horse yes or no? True or false running
in the Derby hoof hearted who no hearted, no way, No,
that is correct. I completely made it up and if
you read that fast you'll know why. Next horse further
Ado true or false.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Like Freddy ad further We're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I'm gonna go with further Ado. I can see that
being a horse's name.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
LeVar okay, sure, why not? Correct?
Speaker 8 (31:00):
That is a horse's name. And finally, ghost Buster ghost
Buster running true.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Or I'm gonna I'm gonna go with false Laura.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
No false, you are correct. Great job to both of you.
Here's to enjoying the Derby tonight. A mint Julip for
both of you. On me back to you pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Thanks Ilo, you don't don't Julip. I'll tell you.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
I'm three or four in trust me?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
How about it? Enjoy all right?
Speaker 4 (31:29):
And speaking of enjoying news from college sports, as I
mentioned the Big Twelve, they just struck the first league
wide private equity deal and major college sports five year
agreement with Ridberg Capital Partners and Weatherford Capital twelve and
a half million dollar capital infusion to the league office.
(31:50):
Plus everyone of the sixteen Big Twelve schools has access
to a line of credit up to.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Drum roll please use uh thirty.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Mellion dollars each paid back with double digit interests. All right,
Redbird's portfolio includes Paramount you know that is, which is
owned by CBS and is acquiring TNT. So you're seeing
the future of college football media rights start to take shape.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
The big twelves.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Current ESPN and Fox media deal is worth another drum.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Roll, two point two eight billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Yeah, and it expires in twenty thirty one. So this
Redbird deal positions them for the next negotiation.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
My take plex this is the moment.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
College football officially stops pretending its amateur.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
It's gone.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Private equity does not invest in amateur. It invests in
revenue period case close, long term. My guy, So, first
league wide private equity deal, when do we start saying
that the players are employees. You have a son that
(33:21):
is playing at the college level. Should he be viewed
as an employee? And I kind of asked myself the question,
what does that mean once you're considered an employee?
Speaker 1 (33:32):
How does that work for academics? Right?
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Like, if I'm a professional and my job is to
work on and get paid to play on this team,
then can you still hold the cards against the player,
for them to go to classes, for them to get
good grades, and different things like that. How will all
of those things unfold?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Goh, you got it.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I mean you still have to be able to go
to go to class and maintain a certain GPA and
to be eligible. I don't think that's never going to leave,
no matter how much money you know, these athletes are making.
I mean, if that's the case, then you might as
well just, you know, have have these athletes just attend
(34:17):
the college just to play sports. I mean if if, if,
if that's the case, I'm sure they will love it.
But everybody at a plan college football, basketball, softball, or
whatever the case may be, are going to be professionals.
I mean, they still have to go to college and
obtain a degree and then get out, you know, uh,
(34:39):
you know, in the in the in the in the
in the workforce when they graduate college. So even though
they are paid athletes, they're still going to have to
be able to to maintain a certain kind of you know,
requirements or curriculum, you know, for these young young athletes
to stay eligible. I don't think that's ever gonna go out.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Here's what I'll say. I think the NCAA should be disbanded.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I think they've presided over NIL chaos.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
It should have been handled so much differently. What's the
right way.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
I don't know because I don't get paid to do it,
but it should have been handled differently.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You got gambling scandals popping up.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Everywhere, and now you have private equity buying conferences, not
just buying a school. We're not talking about just a
school plexico burst. We're talking about an entire conference. They
had one job, protect the athletes, and they and my
estimation have failed miserably. Hey, have y'all missed any of
(35:42):
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Speaker 1 (36:14):
We're gonna come back.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
We're gonna wrap it up on a much higher note,
even though it's a shorter person, the NBA's shortest player.
Every you remember the name, Maybe you don't, Maybe you do.
We're gonna remind you Muggsy Bogues. Yes what Muggsy Boats
taught the world about heart? Yeah, grit and finding your lane.
(36:36):
Stay with us. We're gonna close up next segment on
up on Game Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
All right, welcome back into the show.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Yes, it's our last segment, and you know what, we're
closing out with one of my favorite stories of all time.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
I know this man personally, one of.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
The coolest dudes you'll meet, super competitive guy. The Detroit
News ran a feature this week plex on using Muggsy
Bogues as an example. Muggsy Bogues was five foot three,
one hundred and thirty six pounds, played fourteen years in
the NBA from eighty seven to two thousand and one.
Drafted twelfth overall in nineteen eighty seven by the Washington Bullets.
(37:20):
You know DC baby, and you know what his draft
class included guys by the name of David Robinson, Great
Reggie Miller, Scottie Pippen, Kevin Johnson. Is an interesting draft.
He played for the Bullets, the Hornets, the Warriors, the Raptors,
Top seven and assists for six straight seasons, top ten
(37:42):
and stills three times blocked thirty nine shots. Imagine that
he blocked thirty nine shots in his career. That means
he was sneaking up on catch with them hops right,
including one of interest he got Pat Ewing one time.
How does someone decide they're built for something when everything
tells them that they're not. The Peace argues self efficiency, belief,
(38:05):
your ability to succeed specific task. Muggsy had a coach
named Leon Howard who saw him as a young kid
and believed in him, and it changed everything. My take
on this plex as we close out this this show,
every kid being told they're too small, or they're too
slow or too whatever needs to know about Muggsy bogues
(38:26):
I was reminded of and thought that it would be
a cool way of ending out the show. Let's close
on it five three, one hundred and thirty six pounds
and had not only did he make it to the league.
He had a successful career in the league. Do you
think a guy like that could make it in this
in NBA now at five three?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I mean, it's kind of tough to say. I believe so.
But just imagine, you know, Muggsy Bulls growing up. I
believe he's from Baltimore, went to Dumblos Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland,
and everybody in his whole entire life being at five
to three, he hadn't grown since high school. He still
hasn't grown. And everybody's telling you that you will never
(39:10):
be an NBA player. Uh, you know, it's it's a
it's a it's a story of will and belief in
yourself and your talent and just to find the odds
of basically what everybody is telling you that you are
not as a player. And I've had the opportunity to,
you know, play golf with Muggsy and just you know,
(39:31):
you walk up on him and it just blows your
mind at his stature and you look at his NBA
and his NBA career, and the first thing that comes
to your mind you say, honn hell, did he play
in the NBA at this size amongst the amongst those trees.
(39:51):
It just it just made me have a more of
an appreciation, you know, for him and the way that
he played the game. And he was fir. This was
on the basketball court. He was acting like he was
six nine, six ten, getting up and down on the court.
And you say, thirty nine blocks at five to three.
I mean, how do you even explain that to somebody
if your patching got.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Shot?
Speaker 3 (40:13):
I mean today, But man, great great human being. And
I've had the opportunity to spend a lot of time
with spug Web also just two men, you know, spug
Web five to seven with a forty six inch vertical.
He's just like wow. But the whole you know, Muggsy man,
I had. I had more of an appreciation for him
(40:34):
his career and the things that he was able to
do at his height for so long. Man, you just
got to say, just the testament and the will of him,
you know, willing himself to do something that not a
lot of people thought that he could.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
I totally agree. Fourteen year career, his vision was amazing.
Seven and assists for six consecutive years. Defensive instincts are speed, agility.
That is Muggy Boges and this is up on Game.
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