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December 11, 2024 • 13 mins
Wednesday's show begins with the latest news surrounding Bill Belichick and his potential move to college football.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it's Wednesday, Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the program
here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone. My
name is Craig Way. Glad to have you with us,
and we're with you up until five o'clock this afternoon.
And us, of course includes the producer of this program,
Cameron D.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Parker. The D on the birth certificate stands for Dallas.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yes, as in the name of his favorite pro football
It's not just it wasn't just by coincidence. Your dad
and mom negotiated this, right. Your dad wanted Dallas to
be your first name, and your mom kind of stood
firm on it not being your first name.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
God, I'm glad someone had sense between those two. So
it became your middle name.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
But it was because of your dad's loyalty, least at
the time to the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Right.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, they were just going off of their what fifth
Super Bowl championship, right, yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Five?

Speaker 1 (00:57):
They were just like two years removed from it is
all right, ninety five season. You were born in November
of ninety seven, yeah, so it was just a couple
of years after that, so the Cowboys were still a
viable team. They made the playoffs that year, a friend,
Dave Garrett was doing their play by play at the time,
while Brad Sham had taken a break from them, was
doing the Rangers, and then Brad eventually came back to
the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
But you so.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
You were named in honor of the Dallas Cowboys, correct?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
I think so?

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I mean the middle Land At this point, we just
gotta get my dad on the show and you didn't.
You can pester him about that.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
You know what I'm gonna do. That's in Portugal right now.
Is he really was in the single Bachelor life?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Is that out there hanging out and in Lisbon or
Porto or any of those other plays something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Okay, well, good on him.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Okay, So all right, when when when the time comes,
we'll we'll get him in the studio and we'll we'll.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
We'll talk about the stump button ready just in case.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, all right, So there are a lot of things
to discuss on the program, but I'm gonna lead off
with the thing speakin of the Dallas Cowboys, something that's
going to disappoint you as the long suffering Cowboys fan
that you are, and you are ready to reclaim your

(02:15):
fandom as soon as Jerry Jones parts company with Mike McCarthy.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Correct depending on who he hires.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Okay, and this is where I'm going with this, because
you were hoping, thinking, projecting, predicting that it might be
Bill Belichick. Now it looks like it's getting pretty close
to Bill Belichick returning to coaching, but at the collegiate level,
to be the head coach of the North Carolina tar Heels.
I thought about putting this in inconceivable because you know,

(02:45):
it almost seemed like it was.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Now it's really weird about this because.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
There's one report that's coming down I think from on three.
I guess it is where they flat out called it.
It's like calling the election early. Their headline was North
Carolina names Bill Belichick next head coach.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Really that's their headline, Okay, because the ESPN right now
is reporting that the ball is in his court.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
On three is saying North Carolina names Bill Belichick next
head coach, So they must be that confident that it's
going to happen. But to Cameron's point, the headline on
ESPN dot Com says sources Belichick and UNC work on
issues before potential higher and their lead in the story

(03:35):
is North Carolina is working to try to close the
deal with Bill Belichick to make the six time Super
Bowl champion the Tari Hills coach, but sources told ESPN
there are still issues that both sides need to work through.
Sources added that the ball is in Belichick's court and
that North Carolina officials are on board with him becoming

(03:57):
the coach. A resolution expected in the near few And
so you're going, so what are the issues? If there
are issues, what might those issues? Well, according to this report,
among the looming issues are the potential role for his
son and current Washington defensive coordinator Stephen Belichick.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Also North Carolina's.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Name, image and likeness resources and they're nil things. Also
Belichick's salary and the resources for the staff and the
reporting structure. Talks between the two have been going on
at least since last week. You know, Belichick, you know,
said he was pretty coy about it when he was
on pack McAfee the other day. And we'll see how

(04:42):
that goes. Here's my question, if he gets the job,
is he going to be exactly the same Bill Belichick,
they're curmudgeonly Bill Belichick down the stretch, or really be
the more affable, fun loving one that shows up on
the Manning cast on Monday Night. I'm betting it's the

(05:02):
former when he's coaching again. I mean, how long will
it be before he here to say we're on the
wake Forest, you know, or something like that. You know,
and like Belichick that were on the was on the Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Wasn't it? Yep, on the Cincinnati. We're on the Cincinnati
and he I'm saying, we're on the Clemson, We're on
the Virginia, you.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Know, something like that. I don't know, but looks close
that he could be. He's seventy two. Back Brown is
what seventy four?

Speaker 2 (05:35):
I think? Do they just let go? I think he's
seventy seventy three. Seventy seventy four in August of next year?

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Okay, all right, yeah, so so he's seventy three.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Here's Belichick seventy two.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
You know, he's worked in the NFL in some capacity
from nineteen seventy five until he parted company with the
Patriots following last season.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
So it's going to be interesting.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
I do think that, by the way, and I'm not
saying this is not going to happen because it looks
like I said, threes calling it. They're saying it has happened,
and I'm not saying it's not going to happen. But
some of these issues I think could be problematic. The

(06:22):
salary is something I think they would work through. I
don't think that's that big an issue. The resources for
the staff and the reporting structure, that's a little more work.
The deal with getting his son in as a defensive coordinator.
And then most importantly, I think is the NIL thing.

(06:42):
Because they in North Carolina is not ranking near the
top in terms of NFL NIL expenditures. What was the
deal that we saw. I think you probably saw it.
I saw it as well. It was on social media
about n C estimated NIL expenditures and Texas was like

(07:04):
number one at twenty two million dollars something like that.
That's that's yeah, I didn't see them on the list.
And that's for the entirety of the athletic program. Now,
you and I know that the vast majority of it
would probably be football related, and that there is also
basketball related and some of the other things as well,

(07:24):
But that's that's a lot of coin's a lot of money,
so and and I understand the other side of it,
and folks say, yeah, but when you bring in two
hundred million a year, is that you know, there's capital
projects and things like that, and ongoing there's there's there's
a payroll to meet. There are bills to be paid,
no doubt about it. But I don't know what North

(07:49):
Carolina's NIL commitment would be to football. It obviously has
to be big for basketball, one would imagine, but of
course basketball you don't have as many male's defeat, so
to speak. So it's gonna be interesting to follow this
probably over the next twenty four to forty eight hours,
maybe sooner. Maybe we have an answer by late this

(08:09):
afternoon or tonight or tomorrow morning.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Haven't got the breaking news notification yet from the athletic
or ESPN.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
I'll wait on that. Yeah, I mean I trust on three.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
But until one of those, you know, you would think
that maybe like Pete Thammeil or yeah, something like that
would break there. Felman Feldman, Yeah, exactly. But also I
mean with Belichick's NFL size, that could be a you know,
a chefty type of break.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
And he's been working it too, and and uh, and
there's been a lot of speculation about you know, what
could this guy do?

Speaker 2 (08:41):
I mean, how how good might he be on this?

Speaker 1 (08:46):
You know, it's a seventy two year old man who's
been in the NFL for the last fifty years, and
I's gonna try to do a college nobody.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
They haven't tried this before.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
A Bill Wash remember after he retire from the forty
arms king back and coach Stanford. Really I didn't know that, actually, yeah,
and I think he went seventeen seventeen and one. An
even bigger reach was the Saint Louis Football Cardinals. This
is in the late seventies. I believe brought back the

(09:15):
old immortal Bud Wilkinson, the former OU coach from the
forties and fifties and early sixties, who then I guess
became a congressman or something, and then it was a
television commentator. In fact, he was working the shootout game
Texas Arkansas with Chris Shankel there on December sixth, nineteen
sixty nine.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
The Cardinals hired him. That did not know, well, I mean,
the most the most likely scenario here, Craig is that
he has one good year, he has one OK year,
he has one bad year, and then that's that. Maybe
his son takes over or you and c support directors
are so tired of him they push him out, you know.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
And that might be maybe onto something there that might
be part of the negotiating thing is that Belichick comes
in as the head coach. Coach Steven Belichick is the
coaching waiting They don't Yeah, I would understand, you know,
as a program not wanting to agree to that.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Commit to that, right, yeah, yeah, exactly, all right.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Also, coming up on the program in the three o'clock hour,
in the four o'clock hour, both hours, the three o'clock hour,
in the four o'clock hour, we'll hear from Vick Schaeffer,
Texas women's basketball coach. Like we said, Longhorn's played tonight, Vic,
as you know from the times that he's been on
my programs in the past, and when I was doing

(10:32):
the morning show, it was a lot easier, dude, because
this show falls smack dab in the middle of the
regular practice routine and also shoot around on game day,
all of those things. And that's why our opportunities with
him have been diminished in terms of live conversations. However,

(10:53):
he does those media zooms and we've availed ourselves to
that and it's it's got some to it, both in
its content and in its length. So what we're gonna
do is gonna bring you the first part of it
in the three o'clock hour and the second part of
it in the four o'clock hour. Because there's good stuff
both on the front end and the back ends, really

(11:14):
good stuff in there. We didn't want to just you know,
try to, you know, blow up the format by running
running all you know, the entire length of the deal.
So anyway they'll be, there'll be parts of it in
each So that's where we are with it, and we'll
do that. We got some pro football notes to get
to some NBA. Yes, the quarterfinals underway in the Emirates

(11:40):
NBA Cup, or as Kevin Harlan called it at one
point last night, and the NBA Emirates Cup. No steal
a way around. Emirates is the sponsor?

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Are they going to change the name every season because
last year it was the nd season tournament it was
now it was the NBA Cup. I don't think I
like either one really really well, you got Emirates as
your sponsor. I do like when the thunderbat the Mavericks, though,
yeah you have and they looked good last night. Boy,
they did look impressive. We'll talk about that some other
topics as well.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
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Speaker 2 (12:17):
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Speaker 2 (12:29):
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