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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good money.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Jac.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Yes, how you guys going. I just want to touch
back on but you're talking about earlier with the appliances.
So I have the Samsung washing and dryer who had
it for years and the war right now, But the
newer model still use the same water pumping it. So
I went but a new one and swapped it out
and put the others back in and gave it back
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to a local box store. Nothing to do that, man,
Not right, but it happens.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Damn all right? Is this confession week?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Seven seven zero three one?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Welcome back on, Jim Devin Jack are here as well.
Every Monday, well almost every Monday when there's no Magic game,
this gentleman drops body talk a little sports with us, you guys,
give it up. Good line for us, the Brandon Gravitzah, yeah,
ninety six to nine in the game. You can have
every single day.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
What's going on there? You missed one week, you get dragged.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's just how we do it here.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You gotta thanks the magic. I appreciate it. Guys. You
know we've been doing this together long enough and say
whatever you want. You've earned that right. We can be honest.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, man. He's a very busy guy,
and that's great. I'm glad that things are cracking for
you like that. I know the Magic is a big
deal for you. I mean, matter of fact, let's just
kick it off right now. You know, we had a
little scare. Franz Wagner went down grabbing his knee, and
you never want to see your you know, one two
three player out there grabbing their knee in the in
a season where you know, it looks like maybe we
have some momentum to do something in the East. I mean,
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do you have an update?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, we got an update a couple of hours ago.
Franz Wagner is going to miss two to four weeks
with a high ankle sprain. Very rarely do you run
around the studio and celebration because of an injury that
could have a player out for a month. But I thought,
from from what I saw yesterday as we're doing the broadcast,
the reaction from Franz in the moment he laid there
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on the ground for a while. His teammates Jalen Suggs
had what seemed to be fighting back tears talking about
his teammate. I think there was a real genuine fear
that this was something more serious, and that's what it felt.
It felt like there was some gravity to the news
that we were about to get today and to get
he's out for two to four weeks. Yea, Yeah, it's
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awesome because the title chances making it to the finals.
This is not me being a homer. The Magic are
really good this year. If they continue to improve, I
think they're as good as anybody else in the East.
They could make it to the NBA Finals. They have
a hard time winning it, but they can make it
to the NBA Finals this year, and they would not
have made it without Fronts No.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And it's interesting, you know, and it's actually kind of
cool because we see this in the NFL occasionally. Matter
of fact, yesterday twice one guy took a whack of
a hit from Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Oh for she Rice.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, that was that was gnarly. And how that dude
just got back up and walked away and how they
let him you stay on the field, I'll never know whatever,
But it's cool to see the other athletes want them
and they understand the impact because they also are professionals
trying to avoid a you know, a career ending injury,
and so many people have and it's kind of cool
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to see that. It really I think, you know, when
you see athletes consoling, it has nothing to do with
what it's gonna affect the team. It's like they understand
as a person to another person who worked their asses
off from a you know, Aba bar our junior ball
all the way up to the NBA. They realize the
dedication it takes and to have it go all away
in just one wrong turn where your acl goes popping,
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you're never the same person after that. I think that's
what you're seeing more than Man, I hope this. You
know we're gonna lose now, you know, I don't think
that really comes into play.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Absolutely. That was We actually had this conversation last week
on our show talking about we were talking about a
Bucks player because Bucky Irving, the running back, had just
made his way back and we were having he looks
awesome by the way, but yeah, yeah, the Tampa Bay Bucks,
top notch best team. Oh yeah, well they lost to
the Saints. But the point is we're having the conversation
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about players that miss lengthy amounts of time because of injury,
and when you see a player who is crying on
the field because they just got hurt. It's not because
of the pain. It's because they know in that moment
that they're about to be taken away from the game
that they love. That's the reason why they're upset. And
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so to your point, that's why teammates get upset too.
They know how much it means to those guys, how
hard you work to get yourself into that shape, to
be that good at that job, and then to have
that taken away, because then your life becomes rehab And
who the hell wants to do that.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Nobody wants to do that. I mean, you want to
be out there making money. You want to be out
there at competing. That's what you put all the time
and dedication into. So very interesting. It's good to hear
that Frands is okay. That we'll seem probably back in
a couple of weeks as the magic continue forward. Let's
move into college football. We probably won't even talk about
the NFL this week because this thing with Notre Dame
is such a I mean, I've i gotta tell you, man,
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you know, I've seen some pretty visceral reactions to stuff
in sports media because that's what it's really good at
Nobody does hot takes better than sports media. But man,
this Notre Dame thing instantly when I go up to
sort this thing was on fire when I got up
at five o'clock this morning. What is the view from
most people who are in the game, who are like
really understand behind the thing on sports? Is this Notre
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Dame just being a I'm gonna baby and take my
ball and go home. Or is there a legit argument
between what Notre Dame is doing for what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I think most people view it as a baby taking
their ball and going home. So to give the context
for those that are unaware of what happened, Notre Dame
was ranked inside of the top twelve. There's twelve teams
that make it into the college football Playoff. That final
ranking came out. They do this made for TV show
every week for the last month where they show you
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the updated rankings. None of them actually matter until you
get to the one that was done on Sunday where
it's finalized. Those are the teams they get to play
for a championship. There are automatic bids for the top
five conference winners. Notre Dame is not in a conference
an independent, they don't get to play for a championship
because who would they play themselves?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, So they were sitting back and hoping and thinking that, hey,
they're sitting at I think it was tenth, that they
wouldn't drop out of the top twelve having not played
a game. And what happened is BYU is sitting right
behind them. BYU lost to Texas Tech in the Big
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twelve championship game. They got blasted, and so the committee said,
all right, you're done. They took them out of the
top twelve. Miami was the twelfth team. Miami also did
not play in a conference championship. They didn't make it
to the ACC championship game. As good as they were
this year, that's just the way that it worked out
in the conference. Miami first week of the season beat
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Notre Dame straight up. The committee has had Notre Dame
ranked ahead of Miami all season long, and now that
they sit side by side in their ranking, the committee goes, well,
Miami beat them head to head flop and they take
Notre Dame out of the top twelve. There goes Notre Dame.
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Because there's automatic qualifiers, there are teams like James Madison
and Tulane that are nowhere near the top twelve that
end up in the College Football Playoff. So those teams,
everybody else has to slide down. Miami BYU, Notre Dame, Alabama,
all teams that did not win their conference that were
ranked somewhere in that nine to twelve range. A couple
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of those teams weren't gonna make it, and Notre Dame
was one that got the acts even though they didn't
do anything wrong. This past weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
How many losses they have this year?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
They had two?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
How many losses Alabama have?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Alabama had three and a blow one of them was
in a conference championship, and the committee was saying, we
don't want to penalize. This is why if your Notre Dame,
you have a case, but it's still sour grapes. You
don't play in a conference, so you are relying on
the subjectivity of a committee. If you put yourself in
that position, this is what you get. Join a conference,
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play for championship. Because teams like Tulane, Georgia, Indiana, there
was no vote, they just won their conference right right
right therein right well, Notre Dame has to rely on opinion.
When you rely on opinion, sometimes it doesn't go your way.
So that was the problem, you know, But this is
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the there are two very good sides to this story.
So I'm just kind of telling you the whole thing here.
I think that Notre Dame is being a baby about it,
but they have a case to be made. Why is
it that Alabama got blasted by Georgia and the SEC championship?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I mean blasted. I mean it wasn't even it was
what they beat him by, fifteen to twenty something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
It was I think it was twenty eight to seven.
Was the final score? Ridiculous, But I mean it was
just Alabama did nothing in that game. Their ranking didn't move.
They didn't move. They were ninth before they lost. They
were ninth after BYU got blasted by Texas Tech. BYUS
too lost this year. Both of them are to Texas Tech.
Texas Tech is the top four team in the country.
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So b Yu is like, wait, why did we drop out?
Alabama lost too? Yeahh So none of it makes sense.
And then for the and then for the College Football
Playoff Committee to not recognize the fact that Miami beat
Notre Dame head to head until they're next to each other.
Are you five years old? They were two spots away
from each other a week ago. You couldn't have said, hey,
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you know what, Hey, you see this team that's two
spots ahead of Miami. Miami beat them. Maybe we should
have Miami ahead and avoid the controversy. There's just it's
like they ask for it in college football.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, yeah, it gets them a lot of publicity. I
don't know if it's good or bad. I mean, what
team would be out to more Dame in. Do you
think Notre Dame should be in the top twelve?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I do. I think Notre Dame should be in. I
think Alabama should be out. I think, in my opinion,
you should not be in the If we're going based
off of the at large bids, which are basically the
opinion bids, you didn't earn your way in. The committee
is saying you deserve to play for a championship. It
should be a team that is showing right now they
can compete for a championship. If you just got blown
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out by a fellow team inside of the college football
playoff and haven't been in your best form for the
last couple of weeks, see you later. Yeah, man, I
want to put teams in that I think can win
this because what else, why else are we doing this?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, because obviously you know why. I mean, they want
Alabama in there, because it's Alabama. You know, you know
it's back in the day, it'd be like if Dallas
wasn't in the playoffs, well to it now, Back in
the seventies and eighties, you could budget that. I mean,
Dallas was automatic. But it's like the Chiefs were ten
years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I agree, But it's not like Notre Dame is bad
for TV ratings. I understand. I mean they're yes, I understand.
Alabama still Alabama. I mean no, No, there's there's definitely
a hangover that they're not They're not They're not nearly
as dominant as they were, but Nick Saban built a
very recognizable brand. So there is something to what Jim
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is saying. It's just there's something to what you're saying
if you're talking about Alabama versus byub Bamma versus Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
So here's the next layer of the tinfoil hat that'll
spit out real quick is that Miami got in, Alabama
got in. So we're talking about the four teams where
there was some debate to be had. Acc The ACC
is an ESPN partner, the SEC is an ESPN partner.
The College Football Playoff is played on ESPN byu is
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in the Big Twelve. The Big Twelve is a partner
with Fox. Notre Dame is exclusive to NBC. So if
you want a tinfoil hat, this that thing's buzzing right
now because the two teams that are affiliated with ESPN.
This made for TV ESPN bracket that they put out.
The two ESPN teams got in. What the hell is
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not a very far leap here. I try not to
be conspiracy theory guy, but sometimes it's just so obvious. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
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Speaker 2 (12:15):
Good seeing you buddy, Yes you two, that's all right.
Rachron Lee up next,