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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now back in the fall we saw the ESPN's woes,
decided to move on and he's the real general manager.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
He actually has a job.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
They pay him to do this Bonaba, it's all about
Saint Bonavitcher and UTSA has a general manager for football.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
They don't have it for the other sports.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And there's so many things that the head coach just
doesn't have time for. And it's, uh, you know who
are we seeing on recruit setting up recruit visits?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It is organizing all the players and all their maybe
needs and and and not necessarily acting as somebody's boss.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
But because I don't think my Jillio is Jeff Taylor's
boss to say that's Lisa.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
But Mike is the general manager at UTSA and he
handles all of those kind of things. And I would
imagine that whoever the head coach is at Saint Bonaventure
doesn't necessarily have to report to Adriana Wojanowski. He reports
to the athletic director. But there's somebody to balance out
the life. Coaches don't like to spend a lot of
time on things that don't have anything to do with
(01:17):
getting ready to be prepared for the game. They don't
want to book their own appointments. They turn their calendar
over to somebody else and say, here's what I'm available.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You know my schedule. We're going to practice at this time.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
We're going to watch film at this time, and two
or three times a week if we got to do
a speaking engagement or go to a rotary club or
to a quarterback club or you know, talk to the
booster club or something like that, these are the windows
that we can do it around the lunch hour and
then we've got film and meetings.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Coaches lives are incredibly structured, and so that's why those
guys have been hired to structure their life so that
they know where to go and they're on a schedule.
We're going to we've got to be there eleven thirty.
We're leaving eleven ten, and we gotta we got to
be back here at one o'clock. So we're leaving wherever,
well at twelve fifty. Excuse me, I got to go.
(02:07):
We're blocking all that kind of stuff out, and so
I think that's what UTSA has, that's what Saint Bonaventure has.
Andrew Luck is doing that for the Stanford football program,
dealing with things that the coach doesn't have time to
deal with, and just telling the coach, Okay, the cars
out out front, let's go get in it. We got
to go and basically being you know, his valet for
(02:27):
lack of a better word. But you're starting to see
these profile like Mike Bibby or Mike Bibby's the coach
at sax State and Shaquille's son's going to play for
Sacramento State, so Shaq's going to be the assistant general
manager that for it's a non paid position. It's more
of an ambassador role, I think than anything else.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
We sawt We've seen some other athletes do that. I
think Trey Young's doing it. Ou They're not They're not
coming there to uh to tell the coach what to
do or to be the coach's They're just there to
kind of help the coach with recruiting and being an ambassador.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I think for the school. I think Steph Curry is
doing that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Davison.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Davison, I look at it from this from this standpoint
is more along the lines of what you're saying is
they're more of just a it's an ambassador role to
a certain extent, especially now in the in the n
i L world, it's hey, when they're available, it's uh, hey,
come out to you know, Steve's bar and grill and
(03:31):
you'll get to meet Steph Curry and any proceeds to
meeting Steph Curry go towards Davison's n I L.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Exactly. That's exactly what it's for.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, because there's no way Shaq is going to sit
here and try to he.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Doesn't have time for that. Exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
There there's the Andrew Lucks, and there's the Wojahs and
Mike at Utsa and others around the country that are
in charge of helping. But like Andrew Luck otherwise, when
they fired the Stanford football coach, he said Andrew Luck
made the decision. He didn't the athletic director of the
president made the decision. He doesn't have that told Andrew Luck, Okay,
(04:07):
we're gon, we're going to move on. Just make the
announcement for us. And so general manager. You know, in
the NBA that's different because you know, Nico Harrison can
make trades and he has the power to fire Jason
Kidd if he wanted to, although he'd probably have to
have ownership approvement to be able or ownership approval to
be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I mean does he though? Would he? He could probably
just be like, yeah, I fired, and they'd be.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Like, oh, okay whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Maybe they don't care exactly, but I still think they care,
because I still think they okay the Luca deal.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
They may not have they may not have been their idea, and.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
They may have and they may have listened to his
reasoning for wanting to do it, But it didn't happen
at eleven thirty on a Saturday night without them not knowing.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
No, it happened like three months before, when him and
Rob Polinka were sitting there at a at random coffee.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Ship, just at the suggestion of ownership. So she didn't
want to pay him three hundred and forty five million.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, but yet I'm gonna pay a guy that's five
years older two hundred That's fine.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
That million one hundred million more I don't have to
spend until I get my casino and I can gamble
on everything, including which whether the guy at the free
throw line is going to make or miss a.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Free throw, including which uh, which leg Anthony Anthony Davis
is going to blow out first the left one of
the right one.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm sure that's all.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
What's the over under on injuries tonight for Anthony Davis
well eye lash, left eye right off.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Only only in Vegas for now, but soon and maybe
later than sooner in Texas because of course we just
can't have gambling ear it's it's way too complicated, it is.
But anyway, the celebrities that you see that are getting
these opportunities to be uh, they're basically doing things for
a school that they have a tie to in order
(05:49):
to help raise money for n I L and UH
hopefully keep players from transferring.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That's the that. That's where we're out with that.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And Shack will probably go to You'll probably get an
air sha and go to his son's game at Sack State.
But I wonder, I wonder how his son feels about
Most of his travel in his life has been in
luxury because Shaq could afford it, and now he's gonna
be on a bus or on a Southwest Airlines flight
(06:16):
or whatever flights come out of Sacramento or wherever they're going.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You know. The one thing though, is even though I
didn't like Shack the player and a lot of the
things that he says as shack the player, shack the
retired Hall of Fame player that's on TV, is at
times really a I would say misunderstood or even he's
become very humble to where like I see these videos
(06:42):
of Hey, why don't you ever tell a kid no
for a photograph? He's like, Hey, if I'm having a
bad day, I'm not gonna go out in public, I'm
gonna sit in my pj's watch Netflix or whatever. But
if I'm out and about, I'm just a regular joo. Well,
just have professional courtesy and say, hey, Shaq, can I
take a picture? And if it's a kid, who'd be
like yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Especially the kids that looked up to him and all that.
But I think there's I think when you're a celebrity,
there is a certain way you're expected to act or.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Perform in public. You know. I can remember when when
Jim Rome.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Was a part of our broadcast here or part of
our MindUP back in the nineties and early two thousands,
and Jim came into town for a visit, and after
his public appearance was we asked him, what do you
want to do next? He said, I want to go
someplace to eat where I don't have to be Jim Rome.
We're like, okay. So that they took and I didn't
even go. I was going home, not that I wasn't invited.
(07:40):
I just didn't want to go wherever they were going,
and it was late night, had other things to do.
But they went to some place. I don't know where
they went. But he could go back in the back
room and nobody was going to let be allowed back there,
and it could just be a normal person and not
the act that you hear on radio and TV. And
there's a lot of times that those guys do put
on an act when they are on radio and TV,
(08:01):
and so they just want to not be photographed, taped,
looked at, asked for an autograph, look for a picture.
But if you're going to be shack in person at
an NBA game or a college basketball game and somebody
asks you for an autograph or a photo, the courtesy
is to do that because the people are looking up
(08:22):
to you. And if you upset some kid at seven
years old, at thirty seven, that kid's still going to
remember what you were when he was seven. And I
think as long as it's not an overbearing fan that's
looking for a way to profit off of you. But
here's the one thing I like the most about Shack
is he goes into a Walmart and drops eighty thousand
dollars to pay for kids' school stuff or whatever, and
(08:45):
has to call Visa to make sure that the thing
goes through because they're thinking it's a fraud alert. He
I think his philipthropic stuff is way above and beyond
what any athlete should be expected to do, and he
doesn't even bat it on. Of course, he's earned it
and he's in a position to be able to do it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, he's kind of enveloped that certain I guess if
you want to say philosophy of And my grandmother used
to say this all the time, you know, when we
would get on her, Grandma, you know, you don't need
to pay for dinner or lunch for family get togethers,
And she would look at us and say, shut up,
it's my money. I can't take it with me. Yeah,
(09:21):
And that's the same mindset that check kind of he's.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
He's a billionaire.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, he never has to worry about a pity, you know,
if he gives away ten thousand dollars a day. He'll
still have plenty leftover. Yeah yeah, all right, good for him.
One more segment to go, We wrap up the day next.
It's six forty six on the ticket.
Now back in the fall we saw the ESPN's woes,
decided to move on and he's the real general manager.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
He actually has a job.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
They pay him to do this Bonaba, it's all about
Saint Bonavitcher and UTSA has a general manager for football.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
They don't have it for the other sports.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And there's so many things that the head coach just
doesn't have time for. And it's, uh, you know who
are we seeing on recruit setting up recruit visits?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It is organizing all the players and all their maybe
needs and and and not necessarily acting as somebody's boss.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
But because I don't think my Jillio is Jeff Taylor's
boss to say that's Lisa.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
But Mike is the general manager at UTSA and he
handles all of those kind of things. And I would
imagine that whoever the head coach is at Saint Bonaventure
doesn't necessarily have to report to Adriana Wojanowski. He reports
to the athletic director. But there's somebody to balance out
the life. Coaches don't like to spend a lot of
time on things that don't have anything to do with
(01:17):
getting ready to be prepared for the game. They don't
want to book their own appointments. They turn their calendar
over to somebody else and say, here's what I'm available.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You know my schedule. We're going to practice at this time.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
We're going to watch film at this time, and two
or three times a week if we got to do
a speaking engagement or go to a rotary club or
to a quarterback club or you know, talk to the
booster club or something like that, these are the windows
that we can do it around the lunch hour and
then we've got film and meetings.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Coaches lives are incredibly structured, and so that's why those
guys have been hired to structure their life so that
they know where to go and they're on a schedule.
We're going to we've got to be there eleven thirty.
We're leaving eleven ten, and we gotta we got to
be back here at one o'clock. So we're leaving wherever,
well at twelve fifty. Excuse me, I got to go.
(02:07):
We're blocking all that kind of stuff out, and so
I think that's what UTSA has, that's what Saint Bonaventure has.
Andrew Luck is doing that for the Stanford football program,
dealing with things that the coach doesn't have time to
deal with, and just telling the coach, Okay, the cars
out out front, let's go get in it. We got
to go and basically being you know, his valet for
(02:27):
lack of a better word. But you're starting to see
these profile like Mike Bibby or Mike Bibby's the coach
at sax State and Shaquille's son's going to play for
Sacramento State, so Shaq's going to be the assistant general
manager that for it's a non paid position. It's more
of an ambassador role, I think than anything else.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
We sawt We've seen some other athletes do that. I
think Trey Young's doing it. Ou They're not They're not
coming there to uh to tell the coach what to
do or to be the coach's They're just there to
kind of help the coach with recruiting and being an ambassador.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I think for the school. I think Steph Curry is
doing that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Davison.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Davison, I look at it from this from this standpoint
is more along the lines of what you're saying is
they're more of just a it's an ambassador role to
a certain extent, especially now in the in the n
i L world, it's hey, when they're available, it's uh, hey,
come out to you know, Steve's bar and grill and
(03:31):
you'll get to meet Steph Curry and any proceeds to
meeting Steph Curry go towards Davison's n I L.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Exactly. That's exactly what it's for.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, because there's no way Shaq is going to sit
here and try to he.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Doesn't have time for that. Exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
There there's the Andrew Lucks, and there's the Wojahs and
Mike at Utsa and others around the country that are
in charge of helping. But like Andrew Luck otherwise, when
they fired the Stanford football coach, he said Andrew Luck
made the decision. He didn't the athletic director of the
president made the decision. He doesn't have that told Andrew Luck, Okay,
(04:07):
we're gon, we're going to move on. Just make the
announcement for us. And so general manager. You know, in
the NBA that's different because you know, Nico Harrison can
make trades and he has the power to fire Jason
Kidd if he wanted to, although he'd probably have to
have ownership approvement to be able or ownership approval to
be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I mean does he though? Would he? He could probably
just be like, yeah, I fired, and they'd be.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Like, oh, okay whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Maybe they don't care exactly, but I still think they care,
because I still think they okay the Luca deal.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
They may not have they may not have been their idea, and.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
They may have and they may have listened to his
reasoning for wanting to do it, But it didn't happen
at eleven thirty on a Saturday night without them not knowing.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
No, it happened like three months before, when him and
Rob Polinka were sitting there at a at random coffee.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Ship, just at the suggestion of ownership. So she didn't
want to pay him three hundred and forty five million.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, but yet I'm gonna pay a guy that's five
years older two hundred That's fine.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
That million one hundred million more I don't have to
spend until I get my casino and I can gamble
on everything, including which whether the guy at the free
throw line is going to make or miss a.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Free throw, including which uh, which leg Anthony Anthony Davis
is going to blow out first the left one of
the right one.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm sure that's all.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
What's the over under on injuries tonight for Anthony Davis
well eye lash, left eye right off.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Only only in Vegas for now, but soon and maybe
later than sooner in Texas because of course we just
can't have gambling ear it's it's way too complicated, it is.
But anyway, the celebrities that you see that are getting
these opportunities to be uh, they're basically doing things for
a school that they have a tie to in order
(05:49):
to help raise money for n I L and UH
hopefully keep players from transferring.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That's the that. That's where we're out with that.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And Shack will probably go to You'll probably get an
air sha and go to his son's game at Sack State.
But I wonder, I wonder how his son feels about
Most of his travel in his life has been in
luxury because Shaq could afford it, and now he's gonna
be on a bus or on a Southwest Airlines flight
(06:16):
or whatever flights come out of Sacramento or wherever they're going.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You know. The one thing though, is even though I
didn't like Shack the player and a lot of the
things that he says as shack the player, shack the
retired Hall of Fame player that's on TV, is at
times really a I would say misunderstood or even he's
become very humble to where like I see these videos
(06:42):
of Hey, why don't you ever tell a kid no
for a photograph? He's like, Hey, if I'm having a
bad day, I'm not gonna go out in public, I'm
gonna sit in my pj's watch Netflix or whatever. But
if I'm out and about, I'm just a regular joo. Well,
just have professional courtesy and say, hey, Shaq, can I
take a picture? And if it's a kid, who'd be
like yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Especially the kids that looked up to him and all that.
But I think there's I think when you're a celebrity,
there is a certain way you're expected to act or.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Perform in public. You know. I can remember when when
Jim Rome.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Was a part of our broadcast here or part of
our MindUP back in the nineties and early two thousands,
and Jim came into town for a visit, and after
his public appearance was we asked him, what do you
want to do next? He said, I want to go
someplace to eat where I don't have to be Jim Rome.
We're like, okay. So that they took and I didn't
even go. I was going home, not that I wasn't invited.
(07:40):
I just didn't want to go wherever they were going,
and it was late night, had other things to do.
But they went to some place. I don't know where
they went. But he could go back in the back
room and nobody was going to let be allowed back there,
and it could just be a normal person and not
the act that you hear on radio and TV. And
there's a lot of times that those guys do put
on an act when they are on radio and TV,
(08:01):
and so they just want to not be photographed, taped,
looked at, asked for an autograph, look for a picture.
But if you're going to be shack in person at
an NBA game or a college basketball game and somebody
asks you for an autograph or a photo, the courtesy
is to do that because the people are looking up
(08:22):
to you. And if you upset some kid at seven
years old, at thirty seven, that kid's still going to
remember what you were when he was seven. And I
think as long as it's not an overbearing fan that's
looking for a way to profit off of you. But
here's the one thing I like the most about Shack
is he goes into a Walmart and drops eighty thousand
dollars to pay for kids' school stuff or whatever, and
(08:45):
has to call Visa to make sure that the thing
goes through because they're thinking it's a fraud alert. He
I think his philipthropic stuff is way above and beyond
what any athlete should be expected to do, and he
doesn't even bat it on. Of course, he's earned it
and he's in a position to be able to do it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, he's kind of enveloped that certain I guess if
you want to say philosophy of And my grandmother used
to say this all the time, you know, when we
would get on her, Grandma, you know, you don't need
to pay for dinner or lunch for family get togethers,
And she would look at us and say, shut up,
it's my money. I can't take it with me. Yeah,
(09:21):
And that's the same mindset that check kind of he's.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
He's a billionaire.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, he never has to worry about a pity, you know,
if he gives away ten thousand dollars a day. He'll
still have plenty leftover. Yeah yeah, all right, good for him.
One more segment to go, We wrap up the day next.
It's six forty six on the ticket.
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