Tuesday: It’s a Full House!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Andie Evert Show, just two.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Days before Christmas.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Merry Christmas to all of you that are out and
about today, many of you with the day of the
week off, and we'll try to entertain you with some
sports stuff here for the next three hours. I'm Andy Everett.
We've got a cast a day more than one, more
than two. We actually have three people in the building
if you include me, audio disseminator and producer Shane Carter.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Also Sam Freeze is here.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
They both thought they were working today and guess what
we're going to put them both to work.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
I'm telling you, if there's one thing this stay can
work on in twenty twenty six, communication.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, we didn't. We're a communication company right.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, and it's literally it's us three that we should
This could have been solved in a group text. And also,
I think we're the only three people in the building.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
There's nobody else that I think that the security guards
up front, but that's four. Other than that, it's just
us that we're holding down the four.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Both sound like you're almost like it's a bad thing
that we're all in studio together.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh no, we're a bad thing.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
We get we get more to talk about it and
more opinions and more arguments going here and there.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, Puma, how was I'm sure I'm sure your boy
Cap was happy about last night?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, that was a It was an unfortunate week for
me and Cap.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
With Picks, I thought I was an unfortunate year for
me with Pick.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah. I was about saying Andy, I'm I'm sliding back
into the the Andy range, the Andy zone.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
You see, I've dominated the contest the last couple of years,
but man, my first year doing it though. Yeah, your
first year you coming here and taking care of business.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
That's the spread right now between us seventeen. Sorry, I'm
not trying to laugh.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's just over well, There's sixteen games in a week, so.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
I could pick the opposite of everything and hit all
of them and still be down one.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
You're not mathematically eliminated, though. Yeah, still got a chance
at the Cowboys before Saturday. I'm pretty much I'm pretty
much eliminated there. We'll get to all the picks tomorrow
on the show. The Spurs play a pretty good basketball
team tonight at Oklahoma City. They themselves are a pretty
good basketball team, and I think a lot of people

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are expecting another game smilar what we saw in the
Emirates Cup. But they're not playing for five hundred thousand
dollars extra night, so I'm guessing both teams are gonna
mail it in, right. No, I think tonight you're going
to get another perfect example of why the NBA Cup
is awesome, because the game tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Will not be what it was the life The last one.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Was probably not even close.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, yeah, I hope it's I hope it's in the
same vicinity. But I am starting to see the need
and the desire for the players to have the Emirates Cup.
I guess even if you make fifty million year, another
five hundred thousand is worth playing harder than you normally
would in December.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
I mean, I bet these Toledo and Louisville kids would
be playing a little harder if there was money on
the line.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, the opt outs would not be opting out either, exactly.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Maybe there's something to be learned from the NBA Cup.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Well, see, I think with college football the lesson is
is And I don't know if this is even legal
or not. Of course, somebody would probably sue and it
would probably be struck down by the NCAA immediately.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Legality has never stopped the NCUBA before.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Well, but here's what happens. Somebody does something, somebody decides
it's illegal. In the NCAA caves, that's basically their their
mo because everything they do they don't have any They
don't have any recourse to set rules because they don't
have collective bargaining and they don't have any trust exemption.
But to me, you don't get your if you're going
to get in il you get it monthly. You should

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know some people are probably getting in a lump sum. But
the problem with the lump sum is I can take
your money like the guy from Georgia and go to
Missouri and spend your money in Columbia while they pay
me on top of what.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
You paid me.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
As far as I'm concerned, if I'm gonna pay you,
I'm gonna pay you incrementally over the period of time
that you're playing. Oh, you do want to play in
the ball game, We'll just doctit. We'll just stalk thirty
grand from your check.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, you mean you want you want to pay them
on maybe I don't know the first and fifteenth like
an actual employee.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well, but you can't if you start taking out taxes
and insurance and all that.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Now all of a sudden, they're employees.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
And I don't know that schools going to afford that,
especially the smaller.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
Ones as well.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Just designate college athletics is like paid internships at this point,
just because like it's it's essentially.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Worth going at this it's pay for play. We're going
to get into that a lot.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's going to become employees at some point. I don't
think it's ever going to become employees. They're all contracted,
contracted labors, and they all have to worry about their
own taxes and Social Security deductions and all that kind
of stuff. And you know, you can form an LLC
if you're a player, or incorporate yourself and and expense
everything if you think that there's a reason to do so,

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and find this right CBA that can show you how
to do all that. But it's you know, it's kind
of interesting that we're talking about this with college football players.
But I would I would not pay them all at once,
because you can't enforce the contract if I can't think
of the guy's name that's at Missouri now, but he
was at Georgia last year, and Georgie is suing him
because they want their money back and are the collective

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is And he got three hundred grand or five hundred
grand whatever it was to play at Georgia and then decided,
you know what I'm gonna go to. I'm gonna go
to Missouri now. Oh Damon Wilson, Yeah, that's him, a
defensive guy. And so now he's got Georgie's money. It's
got like Eric Dickerson taking a car from Texas and yeah,
em and driving in around the sume SMU campus for
four year.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yah, what are you gonna do? Make me give it back?
What are you gonna do?

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Tell on me exactly? I kind of have all the
leverage here. I know there's one guy that would agree
with you. Troy Aikman a couple of weeks ago had
some NIL comment where it was clear he was a
little burned, a little upset that Deontay Moore left u
c l A to go to Oregon after Troy.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Ye.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
Yeah, they confirmed that was him or that one kind
of speculate.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Troy's one that paid him.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Right, Well, there's there's if you check the timelines, there's
really no other player it could be.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, it's like the Troy Aikman a Dowmon Fund basically right, basically. Yeah,
it's interesting that Troy does not really claim anything about
his Oklahoma days, but half of his degree is from
OU because it had to transfer to UCLA for him to.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
To finish when he finished.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
But it's kind of interesting that he considers himself a
us U c LA alum and he just you know,
had to stop on the way at Oklahoma.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
I think if Troy hadn't been if Barry hadn't become
the Cowboys coach, I think Troy would probably claim O
you a little more A little bit.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
It feels like, well, I think Troy was okay with
Barry the college coach at OU, Yes, not so much
the hands off guy that Barry was in the NFL.
You know, Troy's a guy that will show up on time,
be on time, do all the on time things. But
there's a lot of players on your team, a lot
of Cowboys players on those those nineties teams that if

(07:10):
there were no roles, they just made them up as
they went along, and Jimmy had had roles. Did you
happen to hear the conversation last night about I think
it was the Colts coach has something very similar to
what Jeff Traylor has, the leadership committee. So apparently I
think Shane Steichen has a leadership committee meeting with one

(07:35):
player from each of the position groups and they discuss
things about the team, on how they can coach better
and do better. And Joe and Droy are laughing and
it's like, did you have a committee that met with
Jimmy goes?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
No, it was committee of one. Jimmy de that what
we're doing, and we all did it.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
That doesn't surprise me, whats and it really was a
committee of one because Jimmy told the family, I'm not
gota have enough time for you. Yes, the top linebacker
from my from my linebacker's room. I don't have time
for any of y'all.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Well, he wastely walked into his wife and said, I'm
going to Dallas to coach Cowboys and it's going to
be a twenty three hour a day job.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
So just go want to live your life.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
It's kind of the other day when Poom was talking
to me, We're talking about committees, and he brought up
Mike Leech and his famous quote about how everyone needs committees.
I looked it up, by the way, so you know
who the main reps for this quote unquote player committee are.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
I don't so.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Kenny Moore, who's a really good, long tenured cornerback for
the Colts. And the other one a familiar name to you,
Andy They or Franklin.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Okay, really yeah, it's it's well, I don't think it's the.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Car I don't think.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
I'm sorry, Cary Franklins somewhere else.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
My bad.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Okay, that that was a miss zaire.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
But here's the thing is, uh, we live in a
different world now because the kids that were growing up
that became cowboys in the early nineties, they they grew
up in a generation where you didn't get water if
you were thirsty during practice, and we realize how dangerous
and ridiculous that was aftertime. But the one year that
I lamented myself through uh little league football and hated

(09:09):
pretty much every minute of it. Although I did get
m VP that year for the team. They called it
m O P or m I P Most Improved Player
from day one to the end of the year, but
the trophy said MVP, So I'm going with that.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, I'd say stick with the V there over the E.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
But I don't know how I won it. But because
I don't didn't do.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Much MP sounds like it's a little pat in the head,
like you did much better this time.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, you did well, my son, I was well.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
I was I was throwing up in August and I
wasn't in November, so I guess that was probably the problem. Yeah,
there's progress, but but you know, I played played one
year of football and hated it.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
But uh, I remember the coach specifically saying, do not
drink water until practice is over.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
And now we know that that's kind of stupid.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
But everybody was used to two A days and hardcore
practicing and all that, and we're now in a generation
where players don't work out in pass as much, players
don't hit as much. There's an emphasis on preserving the
body for game day, not wearing it out in practice,
which Jimmy never did, and so now you and whether
you want to call it softer or smarter or both,

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that's the world that we live in. And I think
players want to hear that their coaches are listening to them.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Jeff has done that in UTSA.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
He has all those players wearing single digits are part
of the leadership council and they all have about a
fifteen or twenty minute meeting on Sunday or Monday firm
game week and hey, am I coaching you guys the
right way? Is there something you want done differently? Not
that they're necessarily going to automatically do it, but it
suggestions that the coaches can do to keep the camaraderie

(10:43):
of a team together, and especially in this era where
if somebody gets pissed off of the coach, see a coach,
I'm transferent, I'm out. And they all know that they
have the leverage and can go in two minutes.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
So I don't think it's a bad thing that they're
doing that.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Now, we've come quite a long ways from Jimmy sending
players to the asthma fields when they couldn't make it
through a practice.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Or was it Kerwin Richards? Is that the guy cut
after he fumbled twice? That's right, thirty point lead.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
I'm still I still can't get over the fact that
your coach thought was a good idea to drink water
after practice.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
As opposed to dur it.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
It was well, but I actually has a different time,
But I don't know what the thought process water.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
The idea was is if you drink water. This is
how it was explained to me in nineteen seventy two.
If you drink water when you are in the midst
of any kind of strenuous activity, you'll get cramps.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
And we know it's just the opposite.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
I don't think that's correct that that is exactly what
they were telling.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Go back and watch the Junction Boys.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
They were not allowed to have water, and one of
their guys almost died out in Midland out there when
they were practicing.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
They didn't have water. They didn't have water.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
When I was in high school, water was used as
a reward. It was if you practice hard and practice well.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Water.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
It's like I remember the Titans, water is for cowards.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Water makes you weak, but it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Now we had to stand now that that you actually
every practice has.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Built in water breaks.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
But hey, if you need something before then the water
jugs over there, have the trainers scored in your mouth?

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Let's go now.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
All that being said, I definitely grew up with a
few friends that they took advantage of the water. They
were a little soft, yeah, a little soft there.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, But it's like if you watch golfers when they're playing,
not only are they drinking about it, probably a bottle
of water every other hole, they're eating a lot too.
They're eating during the competition. And I've even seen this
in football games. You'll see players on the sideline with
a banana or an apple or some kind of fruit
when when they're not when they're not on the field.
So the world has come a lot differently. So the

(12:44):
Jimmy way probably wouldn't work in twenty twenty five, and
the Shane stike In the way would have probably had
people been take advantage of, you know, twenty five thirty
years ago. All right, let's get to some a bunch
of stuff Dot. Garrett's going to join us a day
earlier so he can have his Christmas Eve. We'll get
to Dan Lanning's got some thoughts on the college football playoff.
We'll talk Spurs and Thunder coming up, and a whole

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bunch more Mark Vandermire in about an hour as well.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
It's the Andy Everage Show. On the ticket