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NCAA finally says they want to pay players
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Four. I might, I might. All right, it is time for
the Top four and four or fourbiggest stories, and the world of Swarts
is brought to you by Mohawk Honda, where they always go out of their
way to please you. Oh gods, what is the fourth biggest story?
How are you feeling about no musictoday? I kind of like it a

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little bit on this Friday. It'skind of going in cold opens, like
we're a real talk show on TVLand. You don't hear music. I
don't hear music. You hear music? Do Last time we played a top
four four of music, we thoughtour system was gonna explode. Anyways,
fair the fourth biggest story? Let'stalk baseball for this when it's a weekend
series of games coming up with theNew York teams. Let's start with the
New York Yankees. The Yankees andWest Coast road trip against the San Diego

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Padres. Fathers. Yes, that'sright. Every time you do that,
it gets me a nine first pitchtonight out on the West Coast. What
They're the only Major League Baseball teamwhose nickname isn't in English. I'm just
saying, what is it? Youknow? What are you trying to what
are you trying to prove? Now? I'm wondering if that's every major professional
sports even, how many other teamshave a nickname that's not in English.

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I think New Mexico would be theonly other one. The Lobos, the
Lobos, right, gosh, that'sa great question. Tweet into the show
at wlf X nine eighty at theJeff Levak at Tom Gouns, TMGs easy.
Are there any other names in sportsthat are not English names? We've
got the Padres, We've got theLobos. Someone's gonna have one quick off
the top of our head. Ifeel like there's a French name, the

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Saints, New Orleans. I don'tknow if that really counts anyways. Oh,
the Mets in the Giants seven toten, first pitch in that game,
both teams sitting below five hundred rightnow, lovec Let's focus it on
the Yankees though. Let's look atthat Yankee squad right now. Padres is
a team that's super aggressively used tocall the Padres the National League new version
of the Yankees. You still feelthat same way about the Padres, the

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wanna be Yankees of the West Coast. It is there. They're an interesting
squad. Like, if you're thatfront office, you've got to be asked,
you what do we do? LikeHistorically, any one who spent as
much money as us, they've wonsomething. The Dodgers win the COVID year,
The Yankees win a lot. Youknow, the Dodgers are in it
all the time. Red Sox spentthat one year they won the World Series

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a ton. They were astros cheated. You know, maybe that's it.
Maybe they just need to cheat more. I don't know, but you gotta
gotta be like, how are wenot? How are we not a power?
Like I know, you're never gonnahave the fan turnout of a lot
of the other organizations, simply becauseSan Diego is the most beautiful weather in

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the universe. So it's seventy fiveand sunny every single day. There's no
reason to go inside and sit downfor any anything. So you're always gonna
have that battle. But that's thatdoesn't mean you shouldn't have won a bunch
of games with or without your fans. It's on how we view that Pentre
franchise. Because if San Diego getsover Philadelphia in the NLCS a few seasons

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ago and they get to that WorldSeries. Maybe we view the Pondres as
a potential dynasty in the making anda team that's got a great future,
but they didn't. They didn't didn'tdo it. Then if you thought if
Arizona didn't get to a World Series, then if San Francisco hadn't won three
in the past fifteen years, andthere if you move them to a different
ration ranger, right like if youmove the Padres to the Central or both

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both centrals. Actually the American Leagueof the National League, we probably view
this franchise completely different. That's nothow this works though, So yes,
I'm with you on the point of, like, you're being aggressive, what
do we have to do to takethe next step? The Dodgers probably think
that same thing. Should be aninteresting series, a lot of star power,
could be a lot of balls,slide out of the ballpark, should
be a lot of fun involving thepod Rays and the Yankees. And also,

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to flip it over, Giants Mets. Mets are more disappointed the Giants.
I feel like everything we just saidabout the competitive NL West could be
said in comparison of the Giants.The Mets. Gosh, I'm not over
that. Diz earlier this month,blown save scenario, and it feels as
if the minor league system still doinggreat, but that's not enough for the
veterans on this squad and a competitiveand l East Mets are going. And

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that's a crashing sounding the optics ifyou could see it, his hand is
falling downward as it makes the sound. Here's the I feel partially responsible for
the Mets feeling like failures this yearbecause everyone knew it was gonna be a
backwards year, right you you're stillpaying for Sureser and and everyone else who's

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not on your roster, Verlander,you're you. You you cut people,
You didn't make big moves. Youknow. Cohen basically said that we're gonna
we're gonna hit the restar button here. It's gonna take a little while,
and instead fools like me are like, yeah, but they still have a
lot of talent, and they do, but they don't. You know,
when someone tells you who you whothey are, you should listen. And

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the Mets like looked up and went, hey this, uh, we're gonna
reset and it's gonna take a year. It's actually gonna take two years.
Because if you would have kept Verlanderif it was gonna take one year,
So we're gonna take a while andmaybe next year bring some real talent in.
We'll go after Wan Soda or whateverelse is out there. But like
I think, if you're a Metsfan, you just look at this year
and you take whatever good things happening. You enjoy it, and you don't

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worry about the record. That's beenone of starting with three involves the NBA
playoff picture. We saw Game twoof the Western excuse me, Game two
of the Eastern Conference Finals, WesternConference Finals, Game two tonight, one
on series lead for the Dallas MavericksMinnesota at home, eight to thirty tip
off in that matchup. Coming upthroughout the weekend, you'll see matchups,
including a Saturday Game three in Indiana. It's an eight o'clock tip for the

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Celtics and Pacers. Celtics and Pacersback in it again Wednesday. That's gonna
be Game four back if they've neverleft. Back and forth, back and
forth action throughout coming up here forthe Eastern and Western Conference Finals. Alevek
now with the Celtics up two gamesto none and potentially the Mavericks that go
up two to zero on Minnesota onthe road. Does this game Game two

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almost need a split series to makethe conference finals more exciting? We don't
want to see double two oh finishesgoing to Game three? Is it?
Uh? I don't want to saynecessity, but for the sake of NBA
fans, don't you want the Timberwolvesto win tonight and make this thing a
little bit more exciting? I meanyou want them to win tonight? Yes?

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I did? You know? You'redefinitely again, You're You're finally out
of the closet as a Timberwolf fan. We appreciate you. It's like high
my name is Cause and I lovethe Timberwolves. This is not much this
much influenced by the Timberwolves over thelast few weeks here. So I was
having breakfast this morning and one ofmy sons, Rex, was coloring this
morning and he had a wolf andhe goes, Dad, I want to
color this wolf blue. I said, that's right, just like a timberwolf.

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And he's like, what's a timberwolf? And I'm like, oh man,
maybe it's going too far. MaybeI got oh gosh, Now my
kids are ref five and a halfpoint favorites. By the way, today
yeah, and the answer is yes. The Timberwolves need to win. I
want them to win this series.I went too long yesterday giving Kyrie Irving
credit. Let's get Minnesota straight tonight. Where's our guy. We'll bringing back
a lot of old school throwbacks.Where's our guy? Andrew Williams, who's

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the only timber Wolf fan I knowon Planet Earth besides yourself? Well,
and also like like let's be let'sbe honest. We started by talking earlier.
We talked about the Celtics Spacers.It's just the Pacers are toast Like
if if they win a game,Okay, that's cute. You prolonged it.
Good for you. Boston's winning thatseries. That's happening. Like if

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I don't know what the number is, I'm sure it's like, you know,
minus five thousand or something to onehundred bucks on that series right now.
If you're bored, do it,I don't care. This series feels
like it's going to be a series. You know, obviously it'll feel more
like that Minnesota wins tonight. Ithink they win tonight, But even if
they lose, I still believe thatthey're gonna some They're gonna they're gonna put

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their backup at some point. They'renot gonna get swept. They're gonna win
a couple of games. I stillfeel like they probably win this series.
I think. I think when youwhen you hear Anthony Edwards say like,
oh, we were tired, andhe laughs and he said like we were,
I think he's even though he's young. I think he goes into that
locker room and the guys hear himwhen he says, get off your ass,
get to work, like the Jordanthing. Can't make the club from

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the top, but Jordan pippin,you should chase people out of the treatment
room. Yes, that's true.I love in that because a lot of
those storylines you just laid out,I don't think they are far different than
story number two here, and that'sPanthers Rangers inside Madison Square Garden puck drop
at eight o'clock, Florida of onenothing in this series. It feels like
very similar to Minnesota versus Dallas inthis except the intensity for the Rangers feels

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far more need this victory than evenMinnesota. New York was the hottest seven
in the NHL playoffs, ripping offseven straight. They got their butts kicked
against Florida. This feels more desperationand potentially no comeback in store for New
York going two to ozho on theroad to Florida, the defending conference champions,
well back. You kind of seethe parallel here between Minnesota and New
York of need this one ad hometo tie up the series, to get

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some momentum. New York needs itmore than Minnesota. I agree with that.
I do, I think because Ido fear the way Florida one in
Game one. Like you, youcan look at Minnesota in Game one and
say you didn't bring your best Youdid not bring you didn't play your best
defense. You didn't you didn't,you didn't. No One took off and

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scored a bunch of points. Whatever. The Rangers went out there and just
looked flat. Egor's giving up goals. He doesn't usually give up. You
got your scoring on your own net. All these things like you just that
can snowball on you, like youcan start to not believe in yourself.
Minnesota still believes in themselves. Idon't know if the Rangers do. If

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I'm the Rangers, and I knowI said this before, NASA Square Garden
doesn't sound as loud on TV.Right now. I put Rempy out there
right away. I put Rempy outthere right away. Drop the punch a
rep. I don't care punch somebody, because, like right now, you
just you've got to prove that youthat you you've got it? Do you

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even punch the ref? I justagain, crosspark comparison for New York.
How much funnier it would be ifRempy played for the Knicks and just went
over and punched Spike Lee. It'sour time, It's why are you punching
Spike Lee? You should fear everythingI do. But I'm on the Knicks.
It doesn't matter. Full wrestling heelby Rempy. This is a massive
game for the Rangers. We kindof sniffed something out when we were looking

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at the lines and the numbers ofwhy are the Rangers the longest shot on
the board. Something doesn't feel right. Our instincts should have been a little
bit better when it was sitting atplus three seventy five or plus four hundred.
Again, we'll find out if that'squickly answered. If Florida comes out
and dominates early in this game andkicks the Rangers butts again, let's hope
not The Rangers have been so goodthis season. We want them to continue

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to play well. They've been soentertaining, so many third period goals have
felt like the difference in these seriesRangers Panthers. Tonight, you would think
that would be story number one onour Friday headed Memorial Date weekend, a
New York team playing for a chanceto get to the championship round. But
no, we are broadcasting live fromMVP Arena inside President Jeffrey Allen Levac's office.

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Right now. We've had many We'vehad many people stop by. By
the way, we've entered the fouro'clock hours, So in about I would
say about thirty minutes to an hour, I'll be heading to the atrium.
Doors open at six. I willdo my best to hang out with Noddy
and everybody. We will remember thatgoing forward. There's the he's the owner

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of the Firebirds. I don't evethink Guy's owns a duck. I don't
even know six o'clock. Doors openat seven o'clock kickoff. We will be
live on the Albany Firebird YouTube page, but we want you to be inside
envy p re in it, whichis what we believe to be the game
of the Year Team one versus Teamtwo Firebirds, West Texas West Texas Desert

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Hawks coming to action seventeen kickof Absolutelythis is a good team, man.
I look forward to beating them.This is a rivalry that was born in
the Naal when we were both differentteams. Oh usally born in blood,
born in blood. It was bornin feathers like a pillow, no like
if you think about it. Sowhen we were we were the Empire in

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the Naal, and in twenty onewe welcomed them into the league for the
next year. They were an undefeatedteam in their other league. And when
we had so, Commissioner Sigfrey,who was now the head coach of that
team. It's a different name nowwe're both different teams. Were the Firebirds,

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they're the Desert Hawks. Commissioner Sigfreecame out welcomed them in the league
in front of our fans. Ourfans kind of like booed to, which
made me grab the microphone and go, hey, welcome to you, guys.
We look forward to giving your firstloss because they had never lost his
organization. And at that point oneof the owners, Zach Bug and I
put a bottle beck together for thefollowing season, and we spent the entire

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offseason fighting to play each other first. Like they wanted us, we wanted
them. Uh, it didn't workout that way. But you know,
now here we are in the AFL. They're three and one. They dropped
the ball. They should have beenfour and oh, just like us,
so we could give them their firstloss here. But it's like Zach bug
and I. We got the Weput the betback on like this. These

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this rivalry was born from the secondwe found out we were all gonna play
together, and it never came togetherthe way we wanted it to because we
ended up. You know, thingsthings changed, both teams changed. Now
Here we are again, the AlbanyFirebirds, the West Texas Desert Hawks.
They're from Odessa. We're gonna kicktheir ass underneath the Friday night lights.
It is. I can't wait.Like this is a heavyweight fight if you

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have ever been like you know,I'll wait until it's a really good game
to go the weight. It's over. Get over to the MVP Arena box
office because this game is gonna bea finn You're gonna have a blast tonight.
Call this game. I'm very excitedabout it. Cannot wait to be
a part of the broad cast.Come up and say hello section two oh
five. Some reason I want tosay section two ten. You want people
to come up while you're there.I think it's fun. We've had that

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happen every single game. People havestopped over and said hell loo, just
the quick fist pump, say hello. Don't yell and scream in the back
way up there, though I've thoughtabout coming and saying Hi, do you
do Last week? Tom Gross comesup all the time. Yeah, Tom's
a great guy. What's up withmy guy cam? And I don't see
my guy cam coming up anymore?Man cam and I got the same taste
and sneakers man shout out to him. He's we're rocking the same gear.
I am wow. I thought CoachPelletier came up Sewn Martin took a picture

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and said we looked like telling itlike it is Stadler and Waldorf. I
thought it was more like the photohe sent. I should be a great
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com and find your new career opportunity. Today we continued live from the inner
sanctum of the Firebirds offices at mvperIna. Next here on Fox Sports Radio
ninety five, nine nine eighty.Well, that guy's live from the MVP
Rover. I want to move backon. Who do I gotta talk to?

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I love Friday shows. Here Idid it last week The fire Wolves
are a playing. This is great. I love the back and forth respect
that my team has for me.Yes, I saw that that was Nick
and Kyle correct. So Kyle's uhrunning to get stuff for us, good
dude, game day ops. Hadto give him my credit card to go
pick some stuff up, and heanswered, I'm going to spending spree and

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like, historically you couldn't go faron my credit cards. But that one
in particular that I just gave him, that's got meat because I just paid
that one off. That's like theDisney card. That's the one that okay,
that's the one that pays for theDisney trips and stuff. So I'm
a little nervous about Kyle and thenNick and we just we realized Nick kind
of looks like a young Jonah Hill. Yes, he does, a young

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Jonah Hill for sure. So Iasked him if he did like some of
the same things that Jonah Hill didn'tsuper bad, to which he said,
Levak, you're a clown and heleft. Can you actually tell him like
who's like a famous like like likeMark Cuban, Can you actually like walking
out of Mark like the whoever runsgame days for the Mavericks. But your
clown mark and just walking away.Don't you know who the hell he is?

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Also, we said as a joketo him when he walked down,
he goes, enjoy your remaining years, which is one of my favorite lines.
I sold that from you from superBad. You and I have been
saying that. I say that's everybodyI walk out conversations with enjoy your remaining
years, and they're scene super astun gun. It's great. People are
like, what how did you dothat? When Jonah Hill is helping the
elder statesman older woman by alcohol andhe says that to her. That movie

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came out when I was a seniorin high school, which is two thousand
and eight. There is a verygood Nick claims he saw in the movie.
There's no way he knows that moviereference because he's younger than me.
And these are the moments I feelhe's like, he's twenty three, twenty
four or something like that. Gosh, that doesn't make me feel any better.
He's he was seven years old whenthat movie came out. I don't

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want everybody to ever repeat this toNick, one of the best, the
best people we've ever had this team. Who oh man, he kicks ass.
He's good. He does a greatjob. Before the clown comment,
of course, yeah, even evenso, listen when you say the things
I say out loud that no oneshould, and we already have established that
today, I'm my filter has beendrowned in McCallen scotch. The for your

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guys to just reply like that insteadof coming here and cry and have a
moment, it's it's that's what Ineed. I need that in my life.
The cloud and clown was nice.He didn't know I am a clown.
I'm sure. I'm sorry to fightas a clown. I actually happened
right here in this buildings raising juniorachievements from I should have framed that and
put it on the wall. Soevery time so I called me a clown

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and his point to it. Youknow, yesterday was an historic dayvac in
the history of modern American sports.A lot of people are flashing the headline
amateurism dead, the NC double adead. I feel like Dave Portnoy doing
pizza reviews when they came in whenthey're dead. Well, if you missed

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it, the settlements come down fromthe US government. We'll say in the
NC doua a multiple lawsuits facing thenbecause of back pay involving name amag in
likeness of athletes from especially more sothan mid two thousands and said hey,
uh we should have got paid forthis, this and this. They're like,
oh man, they're probably right.Yeah, how much do we owe
three billion? I don't know ifwe can afford that. Let's figure out

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some other ideas. Long story short, schools starting soon. I don't know
when. Months from now is whatthe ultimate reports are saying. Not tomorrow,
more likely twenty twenty five. Okay, schools can now pay athletes.
Schools can Schools can pay athletes.That's weird. They can offer up money

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to come to Clemson, Texas Aand m Ohio State schools have the opportunity
to pay for athletes. Now,what does that mean? How much can
they pay them? How much isit involving scholarships? How much wood would
a woodchuck chuck? If a woodchuckcould chuck? Would guys also a very
good question? And how will iteffect We'll call it the Olympic sports,
the sports that are in a respectiveschool but may not generate as much money.

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Will those type of athletes that's right, who aren't on scholarship may be
affected by it. Let's just takeit a wide shot of this. What
do you make of the ruling thatthe NCAA is now I'm allowing schools to
pay student athletes. It's it's abit of a head scratcher to me,
like because now we're taking it tothat next level. And and I mean,

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you're crazy if you thought they weren'tright, Like there there's always been
Duffel bags of money, hiring aparent or a relative. There's always been
some way, shape or form forschools to, uh, we'll say,
incentify young athletes to join their ranks. But once they did the name,
image and likeness, I was like, this is a really good compromise,

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Like this is a really cool wayto do it. Like like hey,
I know, I'm gonna sell abunch of what were you fifty at Hobart.
Yes, I'm gonna sell a bunchof hip hip fifty jerseys. So
I'm gonna I'm gonna we're gonna getour group together and will put a nice
number together. For for Thomas Goslawskithe third, So when he comes here
and he's he's he's chewing her,She's gonna sponsor him and and purple Gatorade

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because that's what he does on gameand makes sense to me because again,
there's a value. I know I'mgonna sell. I know it's gonna work.
There's a value. I'm gonna payyou for your actual, legitimate,
right there value. And now likewith the schools doing it, okay,
so I'm gonna I'm gonna like,is there any guideline on how much they
can pay what they can pay?Like, and put this one out there

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too. If you're maybe these maybeyou should have maybe scholarship should go away,
then maybe you just maybe you stillmaybe you pay to go to school
because we're paying you already. Ithink that's a really good suggestion of what
potentially could happen if we're gonna giveyou double pay now, so we're gonna
give you scholarship paying and something else. How do we do this through the
university? Do we eliminate like yousaid, eliminate scholarships. You can move
that scholarship to other people within yourschool, or the scholarship goes to those

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Olympic athletes exactly right, and ortitle nine or whatever, but exactly Title
nine help women's sports. There's abunch of moving parts. Unfortunately, we
don't have the answer to this.Uh ifson Bucker will not vote for that
part, No, probably won't.I love the Jason Kelsey Coco. Go
listen to New Heights, give thema download. They got some funny stuff
going on. I love that.So there's two ways that keep jumping out

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to me about this story about what'shappening. One, I'll just do the
easy one, the lowest hanging fruittopic of this. It's about time you
got away with this for one hundredyears. Yeah, literally one hundred plus
years. The NCAA. When it'slooked back in history by future sports fans,
they're gonna say, wait, wait, wait, wait wait. So
you're telling me one hundred million dollarswere made by colleges and universities through college

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football, billion dollar television deals,through March Madness, and there was a
point where the athletes only got ascholarship and they got none of the cut.
And we'll have to say, yeah, they're like, how how did
no one step in in the hypocrisyof networks like this one? Fox Sports,
ESPN, CBS and everybody else hasbeen a part of it, to

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be like the fellow will talk saytalking heads like you and I have.
We can't pay college athletes. Areyou kidding me to use their name image
and like this promote that, butdon't forget to tune into USC and Rutgers
then big Like it's so ridiculous.You know that eleven o'clock in October.
Hopefully the baby's not here by that, but that's it. Like the hypocrisy

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of people going on here. Myfavorite one, I'll bring this back in
the best one that's gonna age sopoorly is the college game day from the
empty stadium at Pasadena, the RoseBowl, when all the college game day
guys are complaining about players not goingto bowl games. I can't believe these
athletes want to get paid as we'reon our three of our six hour pregame
show sponsored by Nokia in an emptystadium where we get paid as analysts to

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talking about it like the irony.Now, one hundred plus years, the
NCAA has finally had to step andsay, yeah, you know what,
probably should have done this before,but now and I made this both good
for us in now bad. Here'sthe second part though, that bothers me
the most. On a Friday nighta question. I don't want to be
cynical about this. I don't wantto be negative and cynical, but help

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me through this. This could bethe best take I ever have in the
history of guys. Why now,Like, what is the NC double A
up to? I get there ina lawsuit, I get three billion dollars.
That should be it. But I'msupposed to believe today on the final
Friday, I believe in May oftwenty twenty four that after one hundred years

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of not paying athletes, that overnightthey're like, you know what, We're
gonna pay him now. We're good. Hang on, something fishy is going
on. Are they gonna say whatyou said, Lavack? Are they gonna
make sure they get it cut tothe pie from TV right? Are they
gonna make sure the athletes don't getpaid that much? Are they gonna make
sure they say? This doesn't seemas simple as now, the NC double

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A is the good guy. They'regonna do the right thing and pay the
athlete. They're up to something.Pat mcafew, there's another reference for me
to guys up to something seasons goingon. There's no way the NC double
A has just thrown their hands upand said, enough's enough. We're not
gonna do this thing we've done forone hundred years. There's something behind the
scenes that we as the public don'tknow about that's gonna make this real dirty

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real soon. Is the NC doublea dirty enough on their handed enough that
they're willing to sacrifice the non moneymaking sports to prove their point because there
is like not not obviously not allof the money goes to that, but

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that hundreds of millions of dollars thatyou make on football or whatever, some
of it goes to paying for polevaulting and disc is travel for those teams
and everybody. You get competitive,Yeah, you know whatever. So like,
okay, so we're paying you now, we're doing this. We're doing
Yeah, that money's gone. Ican't do it, can't pay for it,
can't do it. You guys wantto? You want to? You

(26:42):
want to do that? Here,You gotta pay for your own pulse,
You gotta pay for your own stuff. You do all those things. Hey,
go guys, and just make sureit's locked and get back there that
if you hit that one twice alittle up in my test, that's your
car. They're taking your car.They're getting no I've got so it's a
whiteout tonight for the game. Soin the back of my truck I called

(27:02):
the Elevation ten thousand. Back ofmy truck, I got a couple of
hundred white T shirts. I neverthey never do well here. People love
the black, the gray, thisidea. But it's a white out.
So I was like, you knowwhat, if you didn't happen to have
a white Firebirds T shirt, we'llhave them for you in the concourse,
you know, and uh, youknow, for a reasonable fee. You
know, I gotta I gotta putmyself through college, you know. But

(27:22):
no, So then the guys you'regrabbing that out of my truck right now.
This is how the sausage is made. Yeah, I got an army
of orange shirted kids. We shouldhave got a white shirts made for today,
but whatever, I like when theyI need my guys to stand out,
so they That's why. If youever noticed all the all the all
the minions, they have orange staffT shirts with a Firebirds logo on them.
Smart and it was funny. Thatwas one of my favorite things,

(27:45):
is all the people from the alstarted doing it. After the commissioner came
here and saw it. He's like, that's a really good idea. I'm
like, that's all I have.It's all I have now, coach of
the West Texas Desert Hunt. Yeah, let's go stick free you and me,
kid. So you've got a lotof questions. I think a lot
of people do too. Of allright, the NCA is gonna pay athletes,
how we get in there, what'sit gonna do, how's gonna affect

(28:07):
revenue, how's gonna affect those nonrevenue sports, what's it gonna look like?
And that's also I think we weregetting to the same place from different
directions. Of So now we haveto rely on the NC double A for
a framework of paid athletes post anI yel in a new world which the
NC double A over the course ofover the course of the last what five
to six years? We can addCOVID to the mix too. Of they

(28:29):
did basically nothing during COVID except letthe conferences figure it out. I don't
know whatever, and I l showedup. I don't know you guys figured
out all right, we're gonna payplayers now. I don't know you.
It feels like another I don't knowyou figure it out? Could be on
the way for the nc double A, which don't think you can do it
three times in a row. Well, it's it's such a it's such a

(28:49):
dirty organization though, Like that's wheremy fear is. Like your point,
I wasn't even thinking about it.Why now, what have they figured out?
Because they haven't given an inch onthis, even with an IL,
even whether even with the super Conferenceis starting to come together where they don't
even like, like does the bigten need anyone else right now? With
everything they've added? Does does theSEC really need anybody the ACC that they

(29:14):
need, Like the only the onlyteam right now that like really needs the
NCAA is Notre Dame because they're anindependent like they you know what I mean,
Like all the big teams are justflocking together firebirdfluck and and that.
Like I'm wondering if there's some ifthey figured out some angle that we haven't
seen yet. And we're also theregoing great job, guys, you're finally

(29:36):
getting the picture, and they're they'regoing, yeah, we are too bad.
You're not well. A lot ofpeople have screamed about they need a
basically a police department of people justcan't transfer when they want people can't offer
money to whatever athlete they want.They can't just ask people to leave where
they are to go to this place. And I'm maybe I'm in the minority.
Maybe I'm the only one who thinksit's I don't the game, but

(29:56):
like now, they can't. It'sAmerica. Capitalism wins every single time.
If you want to go to ajob, if you want to go to
a job that pays me moore,you can leave. Non competes are about
to be gone at some point herebasically going in New York. If you
want to offer an eighteen year oldathlete two million dollars for nothing he's ever
done, that's your money. Godbless you give him as much money as

(30:18):
you want. I can't tell youif you're gonna see return of investment.
If you want to beat Oklahoma Statethat bad, you can do whatever you
want. Rich people with your money, those are their decisions. So that
wild West field of the transfer portaland bags of money flying around. I
don't think it's gonna slow down untilI see who the police department is.
I don't think it's gonna happen.I don't know how they regulate it.

(30:38):
I don't think it ever will beregulated. They'll say it will be m
I'm a little doubtful of that.I'm just wondering, at what point because
I think an organ right, Oregon'sgonna become just an overall powered everything right
because think it's it's infused with Nikemoney. Oregon, could I mean Oklahoma,
State, Texas, A and M. The reason I'm thinking about Oregon

(31:00):
in particular. Okay, So nowI go. Now I get to spend
money like I'm allowed to do itnow, like I don't. There's no
I don't have to go get boosterguys to throw a duffel bag of one
hundred grand together and go drop itoff at the back's house or leave back
to go like, hey, you'rethree kids, they're all chartered to be
twelve feet tall. Here, I'llbe paid for you. Now I don't
have to do anymore. I canjust call you and like, hey,

(31:21):
well you would you like would youlike this much money to work here?
If I'm any college, I'm nowtaking sponsorships to a whole other level.
Thank you, So I appreciate you. The two the two big boxes.
In the case of water perfect theboxes is gonna actually come in here,
thank you. The athlete sponsored mywater company, potentially saying how why wouldn't

(31:45):
you do Why wouldn't you sponsor thewhole organ the whole school? Like why
when does Oregon turn into Nike University? Thank you? Everybody? Right,
everybody's rocket Nike gear. You gottasupport Nike. If you signed with the
organ Ducks, you're now a Nikeathlete. There's an out of the Nike
Ducks. The Nike Ducks the Universityof Nike, just as sports teams are

(32:06):
called that. Right, you can'tbuy the university? Why not? Because
there is still an education department andthey got to teach, they get paid.
Welcome to Nike University. You knowwhat I'm saying? Like, I
guess you could. I mean prepschools do that, right, I amg
academies basically like that. These schoolsdo work like that. I've never seen
at the college level. I meansome colleges are probably thinking about that right
now. Really, hang on asecond, how do I get more money?

(32:28):
How do I get more You know, the D two's and D three's.
I know they're a whole different world, but you'd be more likely to
pull that off. I feel likea D two at the three. But
Nike is a billion dollar company.Why not when they're already integrated into Oregon
on so many levels. It's justjust something that's out. Yeah, why
can't we have the ultimate sponsorship package? We own this school? All right,
listen, I'm almost done, man, what do you got? I've

(32:51):
got ten more minus. Let's dothis. Let's talk about how you got
here. I'll get you play theday and then I'll get you out of
here. When you say how Igot here? Are you talking about the
lovely Scar Joe? I sure amlove my truck so much. Mohawks Chevrolet
is absolutely amazing. Not to mentionCar Bravo. Like had dinner with Andy
Gelcher. You know, the manwho is part owner of this team.
He's he's the dealer at Mohawks Chevrolet, and he never knew that. I'm

(33:15):
absolutely like, I'm gog Go fordriving standard manual transmission. I love it.
I've always loved it. You canit's very hard to find now.
So he's like, well, whydon't you just look at car Bravo,
and so you can find because atcar Bravo you can find every little detail
you're looking for without leaving your homewithout leaving your office, and then it's
back to buy Mohawks Chevrolet. Soyou get everything you're looking for and you

(33:37):
leave me alone. And I waslike, you know what, Andy,
you're a smart man. I appreciateyou and that you're honesty that you want
me to leave me alone in allSeriously, now he's keep sending me pictures
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(35:51):
Well, Mac, I'm conflicted here. That's the word I use a lot
in the play of the day.I think I want this weekend to be
because my wonderful wife is gonna ona bachelorette party down to Charleston, South
Carolina. So it's gonna be feellike a very family boy weekend. This
could be a late night baseball gamewith Grandpa. This could be the two

(36:13):
boys Grandpa watching a baseball game onSaturday night after a visit to the zoo.
So I'm trying to find a goodSaturday baseball game to watch with the
boys. I got nothing. Iwas hoping for a Yankee Padre game.
It's not gonna work out. SoI'm like, Okay, that's not gonna
work that I thought Sunday. I'mtrying to like make the play of the
day with the boys not gonna happen. So passing all the baseball games,

(36:37):
I wanted to take the Wolves tonightminus five and a half. I think
I'm gonna sit with it. Ithink I'm gonna go with it. It
was not my first choice. Iwanted to go baseball for the Memorial Day
weekend. It felt like an Americanthing to do. Let's go nice and
simple here. By the way,that oiler bet did hit, so I
learned a good lesson yesterday. Plusmoney hit minus money minus one twenty didn't

(36:59):
give me the Wolves tonight minus fiveand a half. I dragged that out
as long as I could, butthat's what I'm taking. I'm also on
the Wolves tonight, woo minus fiveand a half. It's a minus one
fourteen when I made it, sothat means that money is coming in on
the Wolves. That number is gonnachange. It's gonna go up to six
at some point. Get it atfive and a half. Live your dream.
Everything's good, But I'm also gonnapepper in. See this is what

(37:21):
this is what this is why Idon't appreciate when Ryan calls me screws mc
duck when I don't make a play, Because sometimes I don't make a play,
but then I'll know that I'll maketwo. Oh take that, Ryan,
So you got your timber Wolves,I'm on that minus five and a
half. And then I got mypins Stripe parlay tonight against the Fathers,
I need over seven and a halfruns, Carlos rode On plus five plus

(37:43):
strikeouts, want Soto Judge both gethits. Yankees win money line. Yankees
win over seven and a half.Rode On five plus strikeouts, Soto Judge
both get hits. And then that, well, I have a little booster.
Its supposed to be plus five eightythree. It's plus seven fifty seven.
Plane that we're gonna need to carryall my cash when I win this
one plus seven fifty seven. Yeah, cause I got a little booster on

(38:06):
its profit boost. That raised meout of this chair and the eyebrows went
up a little bit. Seven tofifty seven. We're playing with huh yeah,
buddy, you know me. Idon't play around. Why man,
you play around, but I don't. Can you imagine I fired off during
the broadcast tonight. I don't knowif we'll go into nine thirty with the
broadcast tonight, but I am drivingback to Syracuse after the game. Everybody's
sleeping in the car. I'm screamingplus seven fifty seven? What are you

(38:29):
driving after the Birds tonight? Herflight leaves at five am from Syracuse,
so she saved a bunch one hundredbucks. I tried getting you to do
that back in February. Those flightsin Syracuse a little cheaper than all of
me. So two hours west becauseI was gonna bring the boys anyway,
So we'll jet after the game,drive two hours west. I'll get back
up, drive her to the airport, go back to where my parents are.

(38:52):
So yeah, it's give me awhile to here, twenty four hours,
put some miles on that. Yeah, see that's right, that's gonna
be fun. Hopefully tonight's game willbe that exciting where you you have just
pure adrenaline all the way there,Like I fully envision myself tonight Yankees are
what like a first pitch, that'sright, probably by like the second or
third inning, I'll be in thebackyard with the victory stogy and something cold

(39:15):
to drink, you know, becauseagain, I just I'm so excited about
tonight's game. If you if you'reon your way here, hurry get here
to the MVP arena. You letme hang on a second. You are
a precedent of a professional football team. You've got a seven o'clock kickoff tonight.
Yeah I will, Ryan, I'mchanging my bet. Mark this before

(39:35):
you send out that tweet. Backspaceit deleted if you need to. I
want another wager on mine over under. I'm taking the over one am arrival
at Lavac's house by Lavac tonight.You will not step foot in your house
before one o'clock tonight because you've gotto do the autograph session. Yeah.
If and I believe when all benhe defeats West Texas, I have a
feeling there might be a second partyfor the players and coaches on a Friday

(39:59):
night, Orial Day, you mightbe setting. I don't believe you're making
it back to your house at oneam. I I historically don't go out
with the guys after the game.I go out with them during the week.
Could be different tonight. No,No, that's my wager. Not
after last night, one am.Levac. If I don't get to my
house before one am. Something wenthorribly wrong here, something went horribly wrong.
I'm wagering on that, all right. You see you're rooting against me.

(40:22):
No, I'm not rooting. Ithink you're gonna have a great night.
No Friday night. Let's say okay, nine to thirty, let's say
the game ends. You've got autographsafter that day and saying ten, let's
say ten. Then I got thirtyminutes because you got ten minute, Brofferre,
you got twenty minutes autographs, sothirty. So I'm out here by
ten thirty. I make sure allmy guys have everything they need where it's
supposed to be. I could beout here by eleven eleven fifteen. But

(40:44):
then someone says, let's party wenta great victory, game winning field goal.
Let's keep the party going. Playersare into it, the owners want
to party. Yeah, it's aFriday. I don't have anything to do
tomorrow on a Saturday. Off laston Sunday, Darius Prince came up here
afterwards said we're going to line hardon the green. We're gonna have some
beers come on to the back.Let's go. Well, he drinks tequila,
does drink beer. And I gonow and he smiled at me.

(41:07):
He's like, and he looked there. But everybody else to give it a
hard time. Everyone goes, whydon't you give it the back hard time?
He goes because he told me thetruth this time. He's like in
the past, Levac would say,yeah, I'll see over there, and
he would just go home. Hegoes. So the fact that he's trying
to telling me the truth, I'mnot gonna get my heart time. I
just I don't know what I like. I like that I get I'm exhausted
after a game. I'm exhausted afterI don't play that, but I'm so

(41:30):
emotionally gonna do it. There's somany other weird little things going on.
I'm exhausted after a game, Soyou and I are so different on that.
I usually I would be gassed,like if we were playing. I
remember eating a bunch of food andjust like not wanting to move after game.
I don't know if it's the excitementof the firebirds or the energy or
being in the broadcast booth. WhenI leave that broadcast booth, I'm so

(41:52):
fired up. The adrenaline is stillgoing. Usually that's probably because of how
good the product's been an MVP arena. I'm so fired up. I probably
won't sleep tonight. Hopefully if it'sa good game, which I know,
you have to drive Syracuse. Itaught myself this it all comes together.
There seem almost positive your wife willdrive. She's the better driver. Let's
be honest. Now it's gonna bea good game. Get over here for

(42:12):
this one, I do. Ionly say this now for everybody who ordered
fan jerseys. I tried so hardto get them here today. They got
flagged by customs. So basically thismeans that somebody went, hey, those
are big boxes and they open themup, so we're not They're not gonna
get held next week. I'm sorryI tried. I was actually told I
could expediate the process with a witha huge check, which I thought was

(42:34):
it's not a lot like bribery,So I just got off the phone.
But they will be here next week, and we are. I'm processing the
next order by Monday, so withthe holiday, hopefully Tuesday, we'll get
the next order in and they'd behere two to three weeks from there,
providing that Customs doesn't decide that youknow, oh, this is the guy
who didn't pay last time. Let'ssee if we get him this time.

(42:55):
Not them in particular, but whoever'stips And I guess so that's that.
I dude, new mouthpiece, brandnew mouthpiece. Tried it last night,
so different. I think I gotto use this one a little bit.
And it's because this is a newtechnology come out, so we're trying it.
I have three mouthpieces now, soI've gone from the number one client

(43:15):
of doctor Fred Dreer, the Diplomatof Dental sleep Medicine and the Integrated Sleep
Center, to half guinea pig.I think so, but it's but it's
also because I had the one foreverand it was great, it worked perfect,
but all of a sudden, thestress level I started grinds on which
I was breaking them. So theseones are unbreakable, like they're like you
can drive a car over the andbut it works. It's such a different

(43:37):
work though, so we're like we'redoing the adjusting and it's really cool.
It's just it's one of those thingslike I've gone to doctors and I've gone
through processes like this in the pastwhere I'm like, I feel weird calling
I don't want to ask questions Idon't want to where these guys, I'd
be like, hey, I noticedthis, I know, like great,
bring it back in boom. We'regood. And it's just it's made all
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(43:58):
snoring, out of control, gettingin control, no more sleep Avenue five
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sleep better too. This is somethingwe've never tried before on the show.
Because the game is tonight, weare making this based on an extended pregame
show Flock University, aired earlier thisweek. It usually airs on Saturday mornings

(44:22):
here on Fox Sports twenty five nineto nine eighty. We're not gonna air
it Saturday after the game already happens. That's weird. So we're gonna give
you Flock University, Levac. Youare sort of taking the reins here with
Coach Way and others a part ofthe Firebird franchise, so a lot more
local sports covers to preview the gametonight, A Flock University five o'clock takeover

(44:43):
on a Friday, and that's alot of apps that we're gonna give it
a shot. We're gonna do itnext. To close out this Friday edition,
Lavac and guys. Flock you comingup next, Lavac, guys,
Fox Sports Radio ninety five, ninenine eighty, wash your airs, I'll
touch your face. No, I'lldo that later, all right,