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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, four seventeen, it's the Andy Everage Show on
the ticket. We'll talk about the Spurs, Roster Hill a
little while, Joel Embiid and the seventy six ers, and
something that he made a comment about today. There was
a story that I read over the weekend, maybe earlier
this week about Teddy Bridgewater, the former NFL player who
has been coaching the last couple of years, except when
(00:24):
he's been called on to pinch hit for somebody in
the league, but he has been the head coach of
Miami Northwestern, his alma mater. Now, I have no idea
how affluent or unaffluent Miami Northwestern is, but apparently some
of the players on this football team needed to eat,
and Teddy Bridgewater made sure they got fed. And they
(00:45):
needed uber rides to get back and forth from point
to point B for practice, and Teddy Bridgewater made sure
that they got those. And they are looking into seeing
what he paid and how much he paid, and if
this is going to be considered an unadmissible benefit that
he's been providing the players. So I'm going to look
at this from a couple of different angles. They're one
(01:08):
of the hardest things for a lot of underdeveloped or
I would say poor neighborhoods around the country. School is
going to start here in what four weeks for most
people give or take so around August twenty eeth or so.
It's when school gets back in session, well to today.
Practice starts probably the first Monday, or maybe even Saturday
(01:32):
or Sunday in August. So there's about twenty days where
there's no buses, there's no transportation to the game. Mom
and dad work, Mom and dad can't can't get off
work to take you to an early practice, can't get
you can't get off or can't get you to an
early practice, or can't get off to get you to
an afternoon practice. And for those schools that still do
(01:53):
to todays, it is a challenge for those players to
get from point A to point B. And I'm not
saying this is exactly what Teddy brig Water did or
did not do. The story doesn't go into depth what
time of year he did all this. That was just
that he provided uber rides and food and things like that.
So you are a student that wants to go to
practice in on August fifth, but there's no school bus
(02:15):
to take you to school. There's no way. And I
would assume they practice in the afternoon, or at least
that's the primary practice. And if they're doing two a days,
maybe they have something around nine o'clock. And you know,
you can't walk very far to be able and then
have enough energy left to go through the practice. So, hey, coach,
can't I can't be here for practice. My mom and
(02:35):
dad work, They can't take me. There's no bus. All right, Well,
we'll just get an uber and it's going to get
me the receipt and I'll reimburse you for it. Okay,
And then you get to school and it's nine thirty,
and you practice till eleven thirty, and you got to
be back at three thirty for the afternoon session. Coach,
I'm hungry, Well don't. Why don't you go home? And well,
I got to get another uber to go back home,
(02:56):
and then another uber to get here, and then another
uber to go back home. You're going to reimburse me that, sure,
I'm Teddy Bridgewater. I got plenty of money. I'll do that.
What about food? There's no food at home? Usually there's food.
There's food at the cafeteria after practice during the school year,
I get lunch. No, you don't get lunch if the
school is not open. And so I would think that
(03:17):
this is a good thing that Teddy Bridgewater did to
make sure that his athletes are nourished and fed properly
and that they have access to be able to get
to and front practice. And while many of it may
may look at it from the other angle that I'm
going to share with you in a minute, I think
(03:38):
a lot of people should look at this as look
at what this former NFL player is doing giving back.
He's not working for the same salary he plays. In fact,
when he moonlighted the last couple of years in the
NFL on short term contracts, he was probably getting paid
more Burcamee than his entire salary is at wherever he's
coaching at Miami Northwestern. So he has the money, he
(04:01):
has it saved. He wants to invest in kids, he
wants to take care of them, and I think that's
a very noble cause. Now Michael and I were talking
about this earlier today. What if there is a rival
district though, you know, twenty miles down the road, and
they have the same problems, but it's not Teddy Bridgewater
that's coaching their team. It's somebody that nobody's ever heard of.
And he doesn't have a million dollar bank account with
(04:22):
all the money he made in the NFL, and there's
no way he can't afford to get uber rides and
food for his team. Now, we're going to play each
other in week three or four. Who's better prepared for
Week three or four player, you know, Teddy Bridgewater or
the other guy. So I can see that. And then
here's the other part of that. And while we know
(04:43):
that you're not quote unquote supposed to play in a
in a district that you don't live, we know from
time to time in every state in the Union that
if a player wants to play for a better team
with a better coach, they can usually find a quote
unquote relative to live with to give them an address
to be able to get into the better program. So
(05:06):
what is to prevent Teddy Bridgewater from recruiting somebody at
a rival school? Hey, I know you have trouble getting
to practice. Will take care of that. And we're going
to set you up with some family so that you
have a physical address in our district. And by the way,
I'm going to give you some money for food and
transportation to get to practice. Now you're poaching players potentially,
(05:27):
and I think that's what the whatever the UIL version
in Florida is, that's one of the things that they
can potentially be thinking as to why this should not
be allowed. I would doubt very seriously if that's something
Teddy Bridgewater is doing now. I would never say never,
because you give somebody an idea, they may run with it.
(05:47):
But to me, what it looks like is this is
something that he genuinely cares about. He probably remembers the
time in his life when he was in the same
boat not being able to go somewhere because of lack
of transportation and not being able to eat what he
wants because of lack of food and lack of resources
for said food. And once you have made it, a
lot of people feel an obligation to give back. And
(06:09):
while others have an homorage that they constantly have on
their payroll and allow them to freeload, others choose to
give back to their schools, their communities or whatever, or
certain individuals that made sure that they were taken care
of in order to get to class, in order to
get to the practice. In order to get to games.
So I don't think what Teddy Bridgewater did was done
(06:32):
out of spite for breaking the law. I don't think
he needs to be fired and show caused for ten
years before he ever comes near a college campus. I
think what he did was noble, but I certainly understand
the cynicism that comes with everybody else that has to
play him as to what advantage that gives his team
whenever of those games that he's got to play against
(06:54):
his rivals are scheduled.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Ladies and gentlemen, I've just been handed an urgent news story.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
What you're doing?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I listen?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
What now?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, well, well, Andy, we have a little bit of
a story book reunion one and this is from SHAMS one.
Damian Lillard is finalizing a contract to return to the
Portland jail Blazers, I mean Trailblazers three years, forty two
(07:26):
million dollars with an expected player option in twenty seven
to twenty eight and in no trade clause as well.
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Okay, I got some thoughts on that, but I need
to formulate them, so we'll do that in the next
break in the next segment there, because I need more
than two minutes to break that down, which we we have. Uh.
It makes the Trailblazers go from a twenty win team
to a twenty five win team. Yeah, that's about all
they're gonna do. I'll get into that more in a second. Yeah.
So good for Dame. He gets to go back home
(07:58):
where his kid's probably been in school and he's Yeah,
I had to do the commute thing back and forth
between Milwaukee and and Bortan.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I mean it could potentially mean that. I don't know
if it was ever finalized, but I know that him
and his wife for ex wife or potential ex wife,
you know, she had filed because he was moving she
didn't want to move, So maybe that also helps that part.
But to comment on yours, I don't see as Teddy
(08:25):
Bridgewater as being a guy that, like you mentioned, is
doing this to benefit himself, like like how Dion does.
He's a good mentor of young men, and realistically, as
hard as I am on Dion, at times, Dion does
look out for his players and the young men that
(08:46):
he tries to mentor and help better their lives.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I get the.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Same thing with Teddy Bridgewater.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But like how I said at the start, of the show.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Unfortunately, there are going to be people that try to
use that as not just benefiting and helping the potential
young men or young women whoever they're coaching, They're going
to use it as a as a loure to better
their program or benefit themselves.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Unfortunately. Yeah, I have had conversations with coaches over the
years and to basically they'll basically tell me that the
reason that their teams aren't very good in September is
because they have limited practice with their entire team. And
the schools that have parents or transportation for kids, or
(09:39):
kids have their own transportation or teammates can pick up
other teammates and get them to practice on time. Those
schools have a better advantage. There's a lot of schools
in San Antonio that never play a week zero game,
and I'm sure that's the case in all the other
schools in Houston and Dallas and wherever else. There's an
opportunity to play a week zero game because they only
(09:59):
have a few days of practice before that week zero game.
Where some of the more affluent schools, they will play
a week zero game simply because it gives them their
buy a little bit earlier. But they also have the
ability to get everybody on campus on time, and that's
one of the things that's a challenge I think around
the around San Antonio, probably around the country, is if
(10:22):
the school buses aren't running and it's not mandated that
you'd be a class, more likely than not, then you're
not going because you can't get there, and by the
time you get there and come back, you got to
go back again. And trying to get those actually physically
get from point A to point B if you live
more than a mile or two from the campus, that's
a big challenge. And listen, I don't care how in
(10:44):
what kind of shape you're in. A mile a mile
or two walk is going to take you fifteen to
thirty minutes to get to where you're going, and if
it's more than that, it's going to take you even longer.
So they're not going to have these kids get to
walk to school to go to practice. And if Teddy
Bridgewater was helping them out with that, I give him
kudos for doing it, and I hope he gets back
(11:07):
to coaching if that's what he wants to do. All right,
let's talk about the Dame News. Also, we got Rashie
Rice in the news, and we'll talk about what Mike
Elko had to say when he was introduced today. That's
all coming up. It's the Andy Everage Show. On the
ticket
All right, four seventeen, it's the Andy Everage Show on
the ticket. We'll talk about the Spurs, Roster Hill a
little while, Joel Embiid and the seventy six ers, and
something that he made a comment about today. There was
a story that I read over the weekend, maybe earlier
this week about Teddy Bridgewater, the former NFL player who
has been coaching the last couple of years, except when
(00:24):
he's been called on to pinch hit for somebody in
the league, but he has been the head coach of
Miami Northwestern, his alma mater. Now, I have no idea
how affluent or unaffluent Miami Northwestern is, but apparently some
of the players on this football team needed to eat,
and Teddy Bridgewater made sure they got fed. And they
(00:45):
needed uber rides to get back and forth from point
to point B for practice, and Teddy Bridgewater made sure
that they got those. And they are looking into seeing
what he paid and how much he paid, and if
this is going to be considered an unadmissible benefit that
he's been providing the players. So I'm going to look
at this from a couple of different angles. They're one
(01:08):
of the hardest things for a lot of underdeveloped or
I would say poor neighborhoods around the country. School is
going to start here in what four weeks for most
people give or take so around August twenty eeth or so.
It's when school gets back in session, well to today.
Practice starts probably the first Monday, or maybe even Saturday
(01:32):
or Sunday in August. So there's about twenty days where
there's no buses, there's no transportation to the game. Mom
and dad work, Mom and dad can't can't get off
work to take you to an early practice, can't get
you can't get off or can't get you to an
early practice, or can't get off to get you to
an afternoon practice. And for those schools that still do
(01:53):
to todays, it is a challenge for those players to
get from point A to point B. And I'm not
saying this is exactly what Teddy brig Water did or
did not do. The story doesn't go into depth what
time of year he did all this. That was just
that he provided uber rides and food and things like that.
So you are a student that wants to go to
practice in on August fifth, but there's no school bus
(02:15):
to take you to school. There's no way. And I
would assume they practice in the afternoon, or at least
that's the primary practice. And if they're doing two a days,
maybe they have something around nine o'clock. And you know,
you can't walk very far to be able and then
have enough energy left to go through the practice. So, hey, coach,
can't I can't be here for practice. My mom and
(02:35):
dad work, They can't take me. There's no bus. All right, Well,
we'll just get an uber and it's going to get
me the receipt and I'll reimburse you for it. Okay,
And then you get to school and it's nine thirty,
and you practice till eleven thirty, and you got to
be back at three thirty for the afternoon session. Coach,
I'm hungry, Well don't. Why don't you go home? And well,
I got to get another uber to go back home,
(02:56):
and then another uber to get here, and then another
uber to go back home. You're going to reimburse me that, sure,
I'm Teddy Bridgewater. I got plenty of money. I'll do that.
What about food? There's no food at home? Usually there's food.
There's food at the cafeteria after practice during the school year,
I get lunch. No, you don't get lunch if the
school is not open. And so I would think that
(03:17):
this is a good thing that Teddy Bridgewater did to
make sure that his athletes are nourished and fed properly
and that they have access to be able to get
to and front practice. And while many of it may
may look at it from the other angle that I'm
going to share with you in a minute, I think
(03:38):
a lot of people should look at this as look
at what this former NFL player is doing giving back.
He's not working for the same salary he plays. In fact,
when he moonlighted the last couple of years in the
NFL on short term contracts, he was probably getting paid
more Burcamee than his entire salary is at wherever he's
coaching at Miami Northwestern. So he has the money, he
(04:01):
has it saved. He wants to invest in kids, he
wants to take care of them, and I think that's
a very noble cause. Now Michael and I were talking
about this earlier today. What if there is a rival
district though, you know, twenty miles down the road, and
they have the same problems, but it's not Teddy Bridgewater
that's coaching their team. It's somebody that nobody's ever heard of.
And he doesn't have a million dollar bank account with
(04:22):
all the money he made in the NFL, and there's
no way he can't afford to get uber rides and
food for his team. Now, we're going to play each
other in week three or four. Who's better prepared for
Week three or four player, you know, Teddy Bridgewater or
the other guy. So I can see that. And then
here's the other part of that. And while we know
(04:43):
that you're not quote unquote supposed to play in a
in a district that you don't live, we know from
time to time in every state in the Union that
if a player wants to play for a better team
with a better coach, they can usually find a quote
unquote relative to live with to give them an address
to be able to get into the better program. So
(05:06):
what is to prevent Teddy Bridgewater from recruiting somebody at
a rival school? Hey, I know you have trouble getting
to practice. Will take care of that. And we're going
to set you up with some family so that you
have a physical address in our district. And by the way,
I'm going to give you some money for food and
transportation to get to practice. Now you're poaching players potentially,
(05:27):
and I think that's what the whatever the UIL version
in Florida is, that's one of the things that they
can potentially be thinking as to why this should not
be allowed. I would doubt very seriously if that's something
Teddy Bridgewater is doing now. I would never say never,
because you give somebody an idea, they may run with it.
(05:47):
But to me, what it looks like is this is
something that he genuinely cares about. He probably remembers the
time in his life when he was in the same
boat not being able to go somewhere because of lack
of transportation and not being able to eat what he
wants because of lack of food and lack of resources
for said food. And once you have made it, a
lot of people feel an obligation to give back. And
(06:09):
while others have an homorage that they constantly have on
their payroll and allow them to freeload, others choose to
give back to their schools, their communities or whatever, or
certain individuals that made sure that they were taken care
of in order to get to class, in order to
get to the practice. In order to get to games.
So I don't think what Teddy Bridgewater did was done
(06:32):
out of spite for breaking the law. I don't think
he needs to be fired and show caused for ten
years before he ever comes near a college campus. I
think what he did was noble, but I certainly understand
the cynicism that comes with everybody else that has to
play him as to what advantage that gives his team
whenever of those games that he's got to play against
(06:54):
his rivals are scheduled.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Ladies and gentlemen, I've just been handed an urgent news story.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
What you're doing?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I listen?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
What now?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, well, well, Andy, we have a little bit of
a story book reunion one and this is from SHAMS one.
Damian Lillard is finalizing a contract to return to the
Portland jail Blazers, I mean Trailblazers three years, forty two
(07:26):
million dollars with an expected player option in twenty seven
to twenty eight and in no trade clause as well.
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Okay, I got some thoughts on that, but I need
to formulate them, so we'll do that in the next
break in the next segment there, because I need more
than two minutes to break that down, which we we have. Uh.
It makes the Trailblazers go from a twenty win team
to a twenty five win team. Yeah, that's about all
they're gonna do. I'll get into that more in a second. Yeah.
So good for Dame. He gets to go back home
(07:58):
where his kid's probably been in school and he's Yeah,
I had to do the commute thing back and forth
between Milwaukee and and Bortan.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I mean it could potentially mean that. I don't know
if it was ever finalized, but I know that him
and his wife for ex wife or potential ex wife,
you know, she had filed because he was moving she
didn't want to move, So maybe that also helps that part.
But to comment on yours, I don't see as Teddy
(08:25):
Bridgewater as being a guy that, like you mentioned, is
doing this to benefit himself, like like how Dion does.
He's a good mentor of young men, and realistically, as
hard as I am on Dion, at times, Dion does
look out for his players and the young men that
(08:46):
he tries to mentor and help better their lives.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I get the.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Same thing with Teddy Bridgewater.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But like how I said at the start, of the show.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Unfortunately, there are going to be people that try to
use that as not just benefiting and helping the potential
young men or young women whoever they're coaching, They're going
to use it as a as a loure to better
their program or benefit themselves.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Unfortunately. Yeah, I have had conversations with coaches over the
years and to basically they'll basically tell me that the
reason that their teams aren't very good in September is
because they have limited practice with their entire team. And
the schools that have parents or transportation for kids, or
(09:39):
kids have their own transportation or teammates can pick up
other teammates and get them to practice on time. Those
schools have a better advantage. There's a lot of schools
in San Antonio that never play a week zero game,
and I'm sure that's the case in all the other
schools in Houston and Dallas and wherever else. There's an
opportunity to play a week zero game because they only
(09:59):
have a few days of practice before that week zero game.
Where some of the more affluent schools, they will play
a week zero game simply because it gives them their
buy a little bit earlier. But they also have the
ability to get everybody on campus on time, and that's
one of the things that's a challenge I think around
the around San Antonio, probably around the country, is if
(10:22):
the school buses aren't running and it's not mandated that
you'd be a class, more likely than not, then you're
not going because you can't get there, and by the
time you get there and come back, you got to
go back again. And trying to get those actually physically
get from point A to point B if you live
more than a mile or two from the campus, that's
a big challenge. And listen, I don't care how in
(10:44):
what kind of shape you're in. A mile a mile
or two walk is going to take you fifteen to
thirty minutes to get to where you're going, and if
it's more than that, it's going to take you even longer.
So they're not going to have these kids get to
walk to school to go to practice. And if Teddy
Bridgewater was helping them out with that, I give him
kudos for doing it, and I hope he gets back
(11:07):
to coaching if that's what he wants to do. All right,
let's talk about the Dame News. Also, we got Rashie
Rice in the news, and we'll talk about what Mike
Elko had to say when he was introduced today. That's
all coming up. It's the Andy Everage Show. On the
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