July 25, 2025 • 39 mins
In the show's final hour, Kyle talks to Nate Wimberly about the ramping up of sports across Charlotte, including High School Football, which leads to some texters noting how the band doesn't get enough credit for the heat they practice in as the guys weigh in on if the band deserves more credit.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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to Victory Chevrolet dot Com. Nate Wemberley WBTV feels like
I haven't seen this man in ages, and so we
just had a good laugh at Dave Randa from Baylor
and his Wolf of Wall Street midget tossing analogy from
(00:43):
the coaching conference a couple of days ago. If you
missed that, I don't know if we maybe we'll play
it again, I don't know, but I don't think Nate
can handle another playing of that.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Don't do it till you again.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Don't do it for every SID that would happen to
listen to that and Crane, Oh my gosh, he did
not say that.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Can you imagine to look on the sid S face,
because you know he's just off to the right, just
off screen, like oh dear.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, he's preparing his I'm quitting speech or his.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Adready texting and what the hell is he talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm not gonna handle this, dude. I ain't ain't got
no fue in my two week notice. Y'all go find
somebody else to handle this.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Oh man.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Can you imagine also going from Matt Rule to Dave
Randa at Baylor, Like what that must be like for
the people inside the building over there. They're like their
experience in the last eight years out in Waco, Texas,
from Matt Rule to Dave Randa has to have been
absolutely insane. Anyhow, It's good to see you. You and
I haven't caught up in a couple of weeks. We've
been trading vacations and things like that. I want to
go actually back about a week first, like not quite
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a week. Hornets won the Summer League. Have you have
you bought your T shirt yet?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
No?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Why?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And I'm not well, they ought to give you one free.
It's the Summer League.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Now, we ought to get one for free, all of us.
But this is the thing. I love the fact that
they did this. It's a franchise that's never won a
division title, never won a conference championship. Before we can
even start talking about winning an NBA championship, win the division,
and this kind of sets the standard of winning. You know,
don't put up no banner, don't do all that, take
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that but dazzled basketball and put it in the locker
room and serve as a reminder like this is the standard. Guys,
if you put your mind to it and you put
the work in the proper things.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Man, we can get that. Dude.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's not too far away. So you know, just use
this as a reminder. The culture is starting to take shape.
It's it's working, at least for the young guys. It's working,
and I do believe that this team is eventually gonna
get there. It's gonna take a while. But for me,
start with winning the division title. That's not out that.
It won't get you that that home playoff round matchup
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in the first round anymore. But win a division title.
Just axcept But to me, that's where it starts. You
got to start winning something. Win something. Please, Now they've
won something, so.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I don't know, because you're the whole we should have
fun with it. I've had the people on the text
line and I'm sure they were there before I got
back on Monday.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
They're like, I can't believe that guys thinks it's a
big deal. It's a summer league.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
When you've won nothing, it's okay to be excited about,
just like a glimmer of hope that you're finally doing
things the right way. And let's be honest. You know,
it was pointed out, Hey, Sacramento has won this four times. Okay,
got it. But you know part of it too, is
the summer league is about seeing the guys that you
just drafted and they feel like and this was written
about I think by Brett Stiegel or somebody else a
(03:25):
couple of days ago, but I've had these conversations. They
think they had the best draft in the NBA. Time
will tell if that's true or not. But the dudes
that they drafted, they put on the floor just went
out there and won a summer league title. So there
is something to Okay, we think we just took some
dudes that can really play ball and are about the
right stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Absolutely, they're winning. They're proving that they're winners right now.
And I mean for them to put this together in
a week and go down there and go six and
oh and win the thing, like, dude, this is a
good sign.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's a positive sign.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
At least you've got some guys in there that are
taking the coaching and the teaching and everything that they're
trying to establish. They're applying it and look it's working.
So it's a positive sign. You know, it's it is
summer League, but it's a sign that's your young guys
that you just brought in not too long ago. You know,
it ain't been a month. It's been a month now,
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I think, and they're coming in and already affecting some
things around the building. Like, come on, man, you got
to be excited about that. So I'm excited. I'm stoked
and be like, but I'm not gonna buy a T shirt.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, I'll buy the damn T shirt all right now.
I do feel that as the Hornet's pregame host who
did do eighty two of those things last year, I
should be given a free T shirt.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I'm gonna throw that out there right now.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I feel like I should get a free T shirt
Excel Police for the folks over there listening. That said,
I also want to shout out the guys at the
Crown Club because did you see today I love this
shout out to the guys at the Crown Club. Scotty
and Evan. I know those guys since day one. They
embraced me when I got on the air, so I
appreciate them a lot. They are throwing a party tonight
at the Local, the Local, to celebrate the Hornet Summer
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League title. They've bought a keg for everybody, and they're
doing a replay of the Summer League championship game from
Sunday night, and I'm here for it. So if you
want to go party with Hornets fans at the Local
and celebrate the Summer League title, I think you can
do that tonight.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I think they said that Hugo's going to be there
this once. The Quad's going to be there to Hornets
are actually giving them stuff, are sending people over there
to help them celebrate that. So yes, look, just like
you said, to your point, you hadn't won anything. You
finally want something. Be happy, folks, because the alternative. We've
seen the alternative, we're living the alternative. It's time to
get on the other side of that and start winning.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
What's also become a thing online now, I'm not an
online as much as I used to be. I'm certainly
not one of these terminally online guys who fights with
strangers all day long. But I have found out that
Hornets fans and Wizards fans have been beefing heavy since
the draft and summer league about who had the better draft,
who's got the better young core moving forward? Like Hornets
fans and Wizards fans battling it out online about this.
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It's like two broke dudes fighting over who's got the
better couch to sleep on like that. You know, it's
like two drunk uncles trying to fix a flat tire
with a fork. I mean it's not you know, it's
most of the country doesn't care about this, But the
fact that Hornets and Wizards fans are beefing heavy online,
I kind of do love it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, the rest of the league is looking over there
and then they just gonna walk right by like they're
gonna keep moving on with their days.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
And That's what I'm doing with that too.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I'm gonna look at it like, oh, look at them
two foods and just gonna keep walking all right.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Nate Wemberley w BCV in studio with us here. Panthers
training camp opening this week.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
You know, what is it? What season is this for? You.
This is my ninth.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
This will be twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
That's what I nailed it, twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
All right, so your twenty eighth consecutive season. We were
just talking let me start here. We were just talking
about the biggest teases and what I what we're talking
about in context, Terrace Marshall Junior is apparently really impressing
people at Philadelphia Eagles training camp this week. AJ Brown
is vouching for him TMJ firing up Eagles fans up there,
defending world champs. Boy, do they not know what they're
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about to find out in terms of the biggest teases
in like draft picks, free agents, guys who had the talent,
came in with a big rep, big expectations and turned
out to flop. Who stands out in twenty eight twenty
seven seasons?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Who stands out high?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That who?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I think? My top point is Vernon Butler for.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Me, It's why you caught me on card with That's yeah,
Vernon Butler is definitely one.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
But there there, he said.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Biyakabatuca smoked it, he said, Biyakabatuca, it was injuries.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Though he had a lot of good moments. Though I mean,
I don't think he was well, yeah, you're right, because
those moments were teases and then yeah, yeah, all came
off to that.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I think that's what it is. You get to fight.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
It's not like a guy like Jimmy Clauston who just
showed up and flopped right. The guys just showed it
but never followed through.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I'll tell you what, between the two of these right here,
I will go beauca real because the moments were great moments,
and then it's just like man, but to make up
for it, I mean, they've had some great running backs.
I mean like it just hadn't stopped because of that.
But you know, Steven Davis after that, and Sean Foster.
You know, the list goes on and under the Angelo
whims shout the store so it. But yeah, Biyaka Patuca
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was a big disappointment because the injuries just derailed his
career year and took him off the field.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
A lot of Kelvin Benjamin on the text line there
you go, Yeah, a lot of Jeff Otah on the
text line. Let's see what else do we have here?
A lot of Vernon Butler coming in and oh, Keishawn
made his way on several times, Greg Hardy, Jeremy Chin,
that's not I think that's a I don't know. I
know that there are a lot of people who blame
that more on the respective coaching staffs, especially given what
he just did in Washington this past year.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So I guess that's where the blame goes.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That there is no teas in that.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I mean, like his rookie year, he played and he
played with he finished that in defensive Rookie of the
Year of voting behind Sweat. So no, that was that
the coaching staff blunder. They fumbled that ball. It wasn't him.
The coaching staff fumbled that ball.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, smoke, what you.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Got to actually did have a really good one that
would classify as the tease. Ricky Manning junior.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
M I wasn't here for him.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I know context his highs were high, but his lows
are pretty low too.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Remember he had the three in the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah, key interception the week prior to that in the
divisional round, but he had a lot of blown coverages,
all right.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
So so we're through the first week of practice.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Nobody's put pads on yet, we haven't seen anything consequential yet.
But they did lose Josie Jewel back on Tuesday, And
I talked to Joe person a little while ago, and
he seems to think that, you know, zero Evro's gonna
give a real earnest chance to Christian rose Boom to
step in and take that job.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
And they ain't got a.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Choice, and they can sign somebody. It's not a lot
out there on the streets right now, No, there's not.
There's not a lot on the street. Get cut over
the next couple of weeks exactly, that's what they're gonna
make it. But then again, you know you want that
guy in here at the starter training camp, and you know,
if you're getting them late and right before the season,
it's gonna take him a few weeks to even get
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going with this defense.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And uh, that's a that's a.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It just makes the fact that you didn't like a
you know, Peyton Willis, you didn't draft him a few
years ago. Now this is starting to come back to bite.
You let Shack Thompson go. You know, he was having
problems just staying on the field and not being hurt.
But that's that's a damp position and the one thing
that they have problems with stopping to run, and how
is this gonna affect them being able to stop the run.
(10:11):
I mean, they signed some great guys and I'm really
excited about the freeging class that they sign to be
able to help them stop the run. But the inside
linebacker that is a weak spot on this team, and
teams are going to try and get to that spot
of the field and take advantage of the fact that
they don't have a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Of depth there.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
They are really one injury away at that position and
really being in trouble.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It sounds and I think the flip side of that
is and Dan Morgan kind of alluded to that earlier
this week that sometimes the ANSWER's got to be on
the roster, and maybe that's Rose Boom. I know, Joe
pointed out Jacobe Winman started, you know, handful of games
last year. I'm actually claudon Cheryls fan. When he was
out there and healthy, I mean, he was flying around.
That's how I make some plays. So they may have enough,
But I you said, Shaq Thompson real quick, the rumors
(10:57):
are there's a good chance he's cutting buffalo. He also
just put his South Charlotte mansion on the market for
sale within the last what twelve hours or so?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Ten million dollars? I got it.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
I'm about it, you got it. I'm about ten point seven. Yeah,
I'm about just inside the back.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Man, I missed it. I don't have the point seven.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Oh no, it's ten or under.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, that's uh, that's John Carter purchase that. That's a
John cart that's a news anchor purchased it. But I
mean smart Their folks say, well, why not bring Shack
back if Buffalo lets him go? Men, I guess you could,
could you know? I didn't think that would be on
the table.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Look, this position is then, I'm telling you that they
need some help. They're gonna need some help, now, you know.
To their point the whole time is that we're gonna
we're gonna play a bunch of young guys and we're
gonna let it.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
See.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Your brain wants to say, this team needs to compete
for Super Bowl, we need to win the super Bowl,
we need to win Super Bowl daring they put process
of building this thing the right way and building a
sustainable winner. The only way you're gonna do that is
find out that these young guys can play. Maybe this
is the chance where you just put these guys out
there and see if they can do the job. And
that's just a part of the building process, is that
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you know, we've signed enough to be able to handle
this problem, and these young guys can come out there
and help us, you know, solve this problem and we're
gonna be We're just gonna keep going on with this.
Maybe that is the plan, but it's a samplesit and
right now it doesn't look good on paper. Maybe when
you get out there in Jacksonville and you see these
young guys playing, you'll be like, well, this might not
be so bad. So you got to give them a chance.
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So I do believe they're gonna get their chance. I
don't think they're gonna sign anybody now because there's nobody
really out there.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So they're gonna get a chance to show what.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
They can do in this preseason with these you know, practices,
joint practices in this game. Are these games, and let's
see what they got. So, I mean, that's what training
caps all about. You got to find out whether these
young guys can do it or not, and then you
make your adjustment.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So right now it is what it is. We'll just
see what they can do.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Nate Wimberley WBTV in studio with us. I was the
last three days. That was an acc kickoff. I saw
your crew up there a lot. I didn't run into you.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I was not going to be there.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yesterday with with Bill Chapel Bill in House, that was
a madhouse.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Oh, I was in it. I was right in the
middle of the room. Yesterday, I was at the panthers.
I said this yesterday, but it was. I've been to
a lot of press conferences, so of you, you've probably
been more than I have. But I've been to a
lot of those things. That one, they all pretty much
are a lot of like that one. I'll always remember.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That was different.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
That one was different than it was different.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
There were hundreds of people in the room and and
like like a court room, like a big court case.
As soon as Bill and the players start walking in,
just deathly silent, like the whole place goes. Anybody's watching
Bill and his and his Chapel Hill blue tie, Tar
Hill blue tie walking up on the stage. And it
was funny too because he was jovial. He also didn't
really want to talk about anything, which is not shocking.
So as soon as somebody asked him a question about
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a full back. I mean, the dude just held court
on the full back position for as long as he
could to waste time. But yeah, it was unlike much
I've ever seen. And once again college football media days,
there's the backdrop of another realignment report with Carolina.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
And the SEC and things like that.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
But to me, the most most important or rather interesting
thing this week is just trying to figure out who
behind Clemson is really good.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
We think Clemson is going to be really good, and
I think there's about five teams behind them that could
be the second best team of this conference. I just
don't know who it's gonna be. Yeah, it's it's it's.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Whoever is going to be here.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And Charlotte is wide openings about as wide open as
has ever been. Uh is it Miami with Carson back
at quarterback?
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
You know there's a handful of teams that to your point, Yeah,
why not do.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Nine to four? Last year they got a lot of.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Talent back, they you know, upgraded at the quarterback position.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You know, there's a lot of talk about State and
their offense should be dynamic with c. J. Bailey back
and all of the the weapons they got, including Hollywood Smothers,
who's from Chambers here and Charlotte, So, uh, there is
a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I mean Georgia Tech. I would not sleep on Georgia Tech.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I think they very well are the second best team.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Absolutely, they're gonna be. They're gonna have a very good season.
They just kind of take kind of chokes it, you know,
and when it gets and they get those tight games
and they kind of find a way to just bumble
it away.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I mean it might be smu. Kevin Jennings is back, right.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I mean, they got their quarterback back, they got a
dynamic offense, they got athletes.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And why not North Carolina? Why not?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
You know, your boy Wes Bryant had them going eleven
in one earlier today. Oh my god, I know.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
He been in a heat too long. That's okay, So
I just.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I walked in here.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's like eleven and one, big guy, eleven and one.
That's a lot of confidence in a roster that has
seventy new players from last year to this year. I mean,
West knows is college football. So that's our guy. Me
and you both love West. But I heard I was
driving in and hurt him predict eleven in one and
nearly swerved off.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
About you, almost right ran off the road.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Now, yeah, but no, I mean, seriously, I think SMU
and Kevin Jennings have to be in the conversation. That
kid's got to be motivated. And I'm not picking on him,
but like he lost them that playoff game, but he
have three turnovers in the first ten minutes of the
game that two of them led to touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I mean, he's got to be motivated.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
He's going to be motivated. But but this is the thing.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It's like Bill Belichick stuck all the air out of
the room and nobody really was over there by Clemson.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You don't think this is gonna motivate them, Like, come on, now.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It's so funny to watch. And I told Dabo this
yesterday when I talked to him. It's just so funny
to like, he is one of the faces two or
three faces of college football, iconic Hall of Fame coach,
and he's just what I'm not trying to be weird,
but like we're at the like we're in the bathroom
at the stall together. I just look over and Dabbo's
right next to me, and I'm just like he's just
he's a man of people. He's just out mingling and
talking to everybody, and I'm like, he doesn't have to
do this stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
He loves it though, he's just he eats it up.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
But this is the thing is like, I know he's
probably enjoyed. It's like, dude, y'all don't have to be
about it. Go go go be about Bill.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I can just just chill and enjoy.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The ambiance of the ACC kickoffs and you know, we're
gonna go ahead. We're gonna have a lot of business.
And I'm you know, I think LSU's the first game
right at the home. Yeah, at the real death fact,
they can make a statement. Just just go ahead and
molly wop on l s U and get this thing rolling.
So you know, I'm Clemson's gonna have a great year
that they're a playoff to him. In my opinion, it's
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gonna win ACC and they're gonna get They're gonna be
a good team this year. The ACYC is gonna be
very interested this year because of the fact that the
number two spot a berth in the championship game is
gonna be so much on the line this year.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Yeah, last thing. How close are we to high school
footlll like real high school football talk.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
The high school football.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
The first day of practice is next Tuesday right in
North Carolina, next Wednesdays for South Carolina, first games of
August twenty second, so we're right upon it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I mean, like it's here. You know, I'm starting to
get ready.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
We're gonna have a special edition of The Point After
on August thirteenth, the Preview High School Football because in
North Carolina, it's the first time that there's eight classifications.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
This thing is gonna be wide open.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Talking about WATO, there's gonna be a lot of wide
open classifications now because it's so spread out. A lot
of teams are gonna have a bite at the apple
to win a state championship. And it's an exciting time.
You know, I was I wasn't too sure about the
whole eight a thing. If you look at the conferences
and you look at how everything is kind of spread out,
now you can get excited about some teams that who
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might not have had, you know, any chances at winning
state championships or you know, they got a shot now
because they're in leagues and classifications that they can actually
win some stuff, and that's got to be excited.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Is anybody in America still doing to a days at
the high school level. I don't anybody doing two days anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
We were talking about that yesterday when I was playing college.
I met high school football.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
You just get up in the morning in that heat,
and you know, you go through that first practice, and
then you take that break and then at three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
In the dead heat of day.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yes when they really didn't care about the heat back then,
you went back out there and you strapped on all those.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Past no damn water till you got it right exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
There was no water that people will be you doing
uptowns until you pupe. They didn't care back then, and
uh we did two a days. I don't think they
do to it.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
They don't do them now because anybody in America do
it to it, so I don't think.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
So somebody's got to know of one.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
There's gotta be some Roague coach out there still running
two to Day's probably the dude Hoover Alabama that was
on MTV.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It's they won't be coaching loan because somebody found out
in that state will get to them.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
So now I'm crazy how much that changed. I'm not
going to be doing to it.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
You were like waking up as a kid, high school kid.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Nobody.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
We didn't want to be awake at six thirty anyway.
But then like you're putting the pads on at seven thirty,
you get that practice over.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
With, you eat lunch.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
All you want to do is go to the pool,
and you gotta go right back in it. Nope, wake up, gentlemen.
They don't have any idea.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
What that's no clue, no clue, Wake up, gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
And then the first thing we're gonna do is it
to make sure you awake and aware and ready to
go practice, because we're not gonna be out here wasting
that time. So let me wake you up by doing
some hitting drills right off the gate.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Anybody's good to see again. Absolutely, And we got practice
starting Tuesday. Then it's Jamborees and Jubilee and the next
thing they know, it's going to be the start of
the regular season. So we'll do it again next Friday. Absolutely, absolutely,
all right, we'll take a break. Sports Radio ninety two
seven wf and Z. Sports Radio ninety two seven wfn
(19:59):
Z and Smoke Big thanks to Nate Wemberley for hanging
out with us here on a very very hot Friday.
Be safe out there. I'm gonna read this even though
Smoke doesn't want me to. I was lamenting the Uh,
that's not true. I wasn't lamenting anything. I just you know,
we all grew up in the era of two days
in high school football. We were talking to Nate about
the return of high school football. There's new there's eight
(20:20):
classific pardon me, eight classifications now in North Carolina. Practice
on Tuesday, first games on August twenty second. We'll have
a bunch of those more on that, you know, in
just a little bit, not today but.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
In the future.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
But talking about two days, like I, like everybody else,
I got to experience to days, everybody else in my generation,
I should say, none of these kids are doing it.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yeah, I'm trying to think when it stopped, because it
was I think when my dad started coaching back in
two thousand and five, they were still doing it, but
it was right at the end of two days at
that point, Like by the time I was in high
school in twenty eleven, it was gone. Because I would
actually go to most practices because for those who don't
know was.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
The water Boy.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Mm yeah, so of course one of my favorite movies
growing up, speaking of Adam Sandler was The water Boy.
And I got to hang out a lot, and I
got to see a lot of how two days went.
And one of the worst decisions ever made was the
trainer giving me the lightning.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Detector because I was just stuff. I was annoying to coaches.
I believe it. I found a date.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Apparently in Iowa they banned two a days in twenty thirteen.
Georgia also that same year banned three a day practices.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
All of these things are not like the other.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Georgia banned three a day practices in twenty thirteen and
restricted consecutive two A days in twenty thirteen. So it
sounds to me like there's still a chance that there
are some places in Georgia that are doing occasional to
A day practices.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Look, I hate the phrase that it just means more
from the SEC. But I think the fact that Georgia
had three days as soon early as like as basically
as twelve years ago, I think, yeah, it's proof.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, there you go. So we were talking about that anyway.
Josh from Fort Mill says high school marching bands practice
harder than football teams during the summer time. These days,
my daughter had band camp for two weeks straight. First
week was nine to five Monday through Friday. This week
was Monday through Friday, nine am to nine pm. They've
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won state titles ten out of seventeen years nine am
to nine pm for band practice.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Oh, they must be one of those pretentious schools that
really loves their band and think that they're the best
thing ever.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Six point five heel just said the same thing marching
band is doing two a days.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
See.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I don't not that anybody cares, but when I was
in high school, there was a girl in math class.
She was in the marching band, and they had T
shirts that was like blood Sweat and Tears CHS Marching Band,
And we weren't mean to her, but we really, like
we were obnoxious teenage boys. We mocked that like you know,
as you would expect. Oh, we did the same too,
my hed. We mocked the hell out like the t
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shirts were just too much like blood sweat and Tears
March CHS Marching Band two thousand three, and it's like, hey,
we're doing actual two and as now I get it.
They apparently work long and hard marching vand's not easy.
Like I'm not here to crap on it at all,
but I was the annoying teenage boy doing that back
in high school and then you know she hated us.
But again, if you're doing nine am to nine pm
(23:16):
from marching band practice, he might be changing my mind
a little bit. All right, let's go to the phone lines.
Panther Bow was up first in this segment. Panther Bow,
what's going on?
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Hey KD, Thanks taking my call. Great to have you
back in the saddle of this week. Really enjoy all
your interviews on Radio Row.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Thanks by Yeah, I like I liked what.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
The coach probably had to say. I'm rooting for that guy.
Kind of reminded me of And I think I told
you about this. How you know, my wife's side of
the family is from just outside of Blacksburg, and so,
you know, kind of spending time with her family, you know,
you hear more about the Hokeys and everything. And so
I found myself watching a lot of Virginia Tech games
last year and you know, kind of getting into it
(23:57):
and everything. And I think it might have been during
the Miami game. I was getting kind of animated, like,
you know, kind of like coach Yosts like daughter on
the sideline and remember the Titans. Like she comes into
the room and she's like, since when do you care
about Virginia Tech? And I'm like, oh, this is you
know what it is like once I got a boodline,
I think it's his family, Like it's really, dude not
(24:18):
telling me. It's just because of Kyle Bailey. I was like, oh,
here we go. Gave me credit, even gave me credit.
So I just say that. But yeah, man, I just
want to give you a shout. Great stuff all week.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Man, I appreciate you, buddy. Tell the family we said
hello here from the radio show Panther Boat checking in.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I should have asked him. He lives in Texas. You
should ask him if they're doing two a days down there.
He'll textas I do you have to mention the Miami
game from last year?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
How's a catch? Damn it?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
It was?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It was a catch, all right. I just I don't
care that was a catch? Seven O four five seven
ninety six ten. Why be normal?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Said?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Hey, not everyone was able to be an athlete. We
all contribute the way we can. I played trumpet and
was a proud member of the Marching Band for five years.
Yeah again, like I told, for sure, obviously I'm not
the same annoying sixteen year old I was back then,
laughing at the T shirt. By perspective is different. Marching
Band sounds hard. It's just not for me.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
It's also that the band directors, I think, make themselves
it to be way more important than they actually are. Sometimes,
Like the problem is feel like a lot of these
band directors think that you're actually going to the football
games for a halftime show to the last fifteen minutes,
and some of them are because their kids are in
the band. It's only fifteen to twenty minutes out of
(25:29):
forty plus minutes of football.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I'm also of the generation, and I doubt you have
the same impulse. Anytime I hear any mention of band camp,
the first thing that comes to my mind is this
one time at band camp.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
You got to do this when I would this one
time at band camp.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Sorry, but you've seen American poss you get the right,
I've seen all of them. Yeah, anytime anybody mentions band camp,
anybody from roughly my generation, all we hear is this
one time at band camp? Alison Hannigan, she was Michelle
in the movie.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Yeah, I remember her more for how I met remember
because that's where I saw Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
So it's just I think sometimes it sucks, especially what
it sucks when you went to school where the football
wasn't good, so the band people really felt like they
were high and mighty. I'm telling you what, what type
of school went to at the time. It really gets
annoying after a while. It's like, Okay, you're not that good.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Do you really hate band camp guys or you really
hate marching band people, don't you? All right?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Dennis from Waxaw is up next, Dennis? How you been?
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Yo?
Speaker 8 (26:28):
KB?
Speaker 7 (26:29):
What's it up? Brother? How are you?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I'm good? What's on your mind?
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (26:33):
Flounder Union Academy. My kid is in band camp there,
and yeah, dude, it's no joke. It's eight to eight
last week, and then summer eight to eight this week,
and then the rest are like three to eight. We're
lucky though. Our band directors are really cool. They're not
up at the Never thought i'd be a band dad
(26:55):
because I grew up the job.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
So yeah, how seriously, they take give me a glimpse here,
because I wasn't in marching band any of that, so
I don't know anything about it. Like, how seriously do
your kids you have multiple kids doing this?
Speaker 7 (27:09):
I do.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
My daughter just graduated from Union Academy and she's going
up to Western Carolina University and she made the marching
band up there. Now that's a band, brother.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Let's go, let's go.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Yeah, Western Carolina University. Yeah, they had to move the
halftime show to the end of the game because people
would leave at halftime at the college game and they
were there for the band. But yeah, yeah, now they're
really serious about it. I'm so lucky, and I.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Have to ask my kids to practice.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
My son was fourth chair off state trumpet last.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Year, and so he's a rising junior.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
And it's a cool little family.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
That's cool, man.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
I appreciate the phone calling the oh go ahead, go.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
Ahead, yeah, dude, real quick, real quick. Last year they
wanted to pull the band off the field. God said,
you know, we got two degrees left until of the
regular So they called up the athletic trainer, and the
athletic trainers said, those marching band kids are in better shape.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
Than football kids or anybody else.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Wow, they're out there grinding.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah, well you no to that point, Hey Dennis, great
phone call, Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Good to hear from you. To that point.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Loaded land Shark on the text line just said, I
played football at an HBCU and the band definitely practiced
just as hard as we did.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
They were like an army.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
He listen a lot of HBCUs like FAU comes to
mind for me, Like there's some famous bands among the
A and T.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Oh yeah, I mean yes State.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Y'ah dude, I mean the Yeah, the halftime performances are
as anticipated, if not more so. Definitely more so a
certain place where you actually go to the football game
for the band. Oh yeah, like they've got their whole
They've got their own unique fingle, Like that is a show.
Those HBCU bands are incredible. It's not that way everywhere. Okay,
Little Janey, you know, is not playing Beyonce at halftime,
(28:52):
you know, and putting on a show at rdriye Kel
the same way that you're watching the marching band at
NC ANDT.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
I will say he is right about Western Carolina though
they purposely, like fifteen years ago, moved the halftime show
to the end of the game, because like half the
stands would be empty by the time halftime would end. Huh,
because people are not wanting to watch the Catamounts get
their butts with right, and Western's band has actually gone
to a lot of places. They were on the Macy's
(29:17):
Thanksgiving Day parade. My grandma went within to Ireland a
couple of years ago on Saint Patti's Day, So they've
they've been in the I believe to a Rose Bull
parade a time or two. So the Catamouts band is
a world renowned How about.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
That seven four five, seven ninety six ten we had Okay,
we got some people disputing that the band is in
as good as shape as the football players. I'm not
I'm not having that debate. I'm just reading text and
taking phone calls. We'll do more of that in just
a second. Firefighter drew long hours, hot days, but it
was worth it. I played trombone and Union Academy mentioned
go cars. Firefighter Drew was a marching band guy. How
(29:53):
about I didn't realize so many of you had marching
band roots. Look at the text line. This is interesting
stuff here. Marching bands are in I mean, they're a
huge part of the tradition and pageantry of Friday nights
of Saturdays. I mean, I think that gets forgotten sometimes,
but the text line is revealed that we have a
whole lot of former Trump trombonuss Trump trumpeters.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
And to be farnsts. I don't want to sound like
a full jock.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
I actually interacted a lot with banded people, band kids
and throughout school because I was in course in throughout
middle school and two years of high school. I did
win Most Improved Course Singer of my sophomore year.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I love you, man, but no one asks you that.
Six one.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Six one five heels up next on the phone lines,
what's up, buddy?
Speaker 9 (30:38):
How are you hey man?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
How you guys doing good?
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Good?
Speaker 9 (30:42):
So I'm calling it depends of the band kids. Also,
my kid as a senior at East Lincoln, and they're like,
the football game is a small part of it. These
guys are going like all across the state throughout the
week and months of football season. They're competing. I mean
that bandroom is still with fifty trophies that kids do
not dang.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
It's a culture. I don't understand anything about I know
nothing about it.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Sounds cool though all day.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
Yeah, yeah, appreciate it, Thank.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
You, buddy, appreciate that. I'll never have the one time
at band camp experience. All right, seven o four number
saying coming out of the fieldhouse to those Friday night
drums was different.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
All that part's true, Oh absolutely.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I mean because even after I graduated high school, my
entry point into this business was high school football.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I called it. I've called so many high school football games.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And those drums, and you know that those bands that
set the tempo, that were the backdrop, the soundtrack to
those Friday nights. It was muggy early September Friday nights. Yeah,
it doesn't get any better.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
And that's what makes college football still great to this
day is because you know, you we don't know about
it right now, but once we watched the first college
football game of the year, we hear the drums in
the background, the trumpet's like, oh yeah, here we go.
Didn't go to the NFL game, you hear none of
that's like, doesn't hit the same, doesn't hit the same
at all.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Now, let's go to smoke on the headlines.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Said they're gonna hang smokes course Jersey in the rafters.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Listen, I'm with you. I've talked about this.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I've been open about this, like I was the only
guy you know in the chorus room on Friday's wearing
my football jersey and anticipation of that night's game. So
I'm not crapping on you for being in course.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Got it.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
My mom made me join course when I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
I got to show up to a course performance in
middle school. I was the only guy that had all
the guide parts. So yeah, all the guy parts, all right? Anyway,
Tommy be says, Yep, it's summer band talk. Tom Tommy,
you got to understand though, it's because it took off
on the tap.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Do you many calls we just got?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
You should see my text line right now, we go
with what y'all want to talk about sometimes and clearly
y'all want to talk about marching band because it's connected
the high school in college football anyway.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Which guy? All right?
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Anyway, big weekend for baseball as we got a new
class going into the Baseball Hall of Fame and a
loaded class at DATS.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Each yearro Suzuki, C C.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Sabathia, and Billy Wagner are all going to be in
ducted Sunday, July twenty seventh, at one point thirty pm.
You can catch the coverage on that day on MLB network.
Kle I believe you'll be watching this one.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Oh yeah, Now I'm big Billy Wagner go. Can't wait
to see him go in. All right, So we'll come
back and wrap up the show. Sports Radio ninety two
seven wfn Z. What we're listening to him?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
NFL films?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Oh yeah, you Like, did you look on your face?
The fact that I don't immediately recognize it, Like I'm
the world's largest idiot.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
I mean, you've watched NFL your whole life? How many
NFL films? Bit have you heard?
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Especially from the days of John for sund Okay, when
you say it, it clicks. But like the fact that
I didn't immediately recognize you, Like, look, the look of
disgust on your face was just a little bit much of.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
It or disappointment. I was just like, I mean, NFL films.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Music is something that you can listen to while you're
doing anything, and it just puts you in a better mood,
especially if you're a guy.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, I'm not gonna argue with that, so.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I thought, you know, I was thinking about playing a
fight song since we're talking all about band, But then again,
I want to be neutral, so I figured, no one
hates NFL films music, so let's go if that is
a rejoint, Okay, all right, I like it?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
All right, quick end, quick out.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
In this segment, wrapping up the week back on Monday,
I've got no vacation playing the rest of the year
because football is essentially back. This is the last Friday
without football. This is the last one. Hall of Fame
game is next week. This is the final week with
no live football games. Now again we're counting preseason in
the conversation, but yeah, this is the final Friday.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Like we actually we could.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Do a football Friday seven days from now, and it's legit.
If we do it, we'll probably do it. So yeah,
I mean, I'm excited. Back on Monday, pads go on
for the Panthers. Looking forward to that. But right now,
we have to catch you up on what you've missed.
It's time for the Oh we don't have it yet,
we're scrapping it. When did you make that executive decision?
You asked me, and I said no.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
I thought you said yes. You said you said yes,
Oh I didn't you sure? Yeah, because remember what I
told you, I'm not a good liar. Does it look
like I don't think you lied? I thought, maybe you misspoke. No,
but do I look like a liar again? I just said,
I'm not calling you a liar?
Speaker 4 (35:30):
I thought.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I said, it's possible you misspoke, but you know you
ain't calling me a trutherer. That's not a thing. It's
not a real thing. A truther.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Oh, I was just reminded of something real quick. It's
totally random, since we're not doing the rewind get us
wherever you get your podcast, Apple, Spotify, Google just searched
the Kyle Bailey Show, download and subscribe. We had that
brief conversation yesterday about I guess Fitty referenced Bill Belichick
is the greatest coach of all time, might have been
two days ago, whenever it was, And I said, you know,
(36:00):
somebody said greatest greatest football coach of all time? Are
you kidding me? And he's at the first one who's
ever said that. And I said, okay, if you don't
think Bill Belichick is the greatest football coach of all time,
and you're certainly entitled to that opinion, who do you
think it would be? And so, as you and I
were talking about Christian Wilkins earlier, someone texted the show
yesterday and said, if Pete Carroll were to turn around
(36:20):
the Raiders at his advanced age, shouldn't he be in
the conversation Now? I'm gonna say no, because if he
won a title in Las Vegas, like maybe you could
force the conversation, but just turn things around?
Speaker 4 (36:35):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (36:36):
But I do like if he does turn things around
in the in like, say, let's say they make the
playoffs this year, Okay, like Pete Carroll's writing a new chapter,
is there time for him to ascend the list of
the greatest?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
I don't know. I mean, reminder, he's older than Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
He's seventy three. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's seventy three. He's
a young seventy three, but he's seventy three years old.
What if he goes out there and wins.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
I think if he does win, it would solidify his
career being a Hall of Fame career as an NFL
head coach, because it's pretty hard to get over to
top of it to be a Hall of Fame coach
in the NFL, considering how long guys like Jimmy Johnson
and Dick Vermill had to wait. So I get that,
but I don't think he's ever going to be into
goat conversation. But the back end of his career has
(37:22):
done a lot to rework his image pr image based
on how his first couple of stints went from the
New York Jets to the New England Patriots. Between his
time at USC and with the Seattle Seahawks, I think
people look at him much differently than they did twenty
twenty five, thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yeah, he's not only behind Belichick, he's but he's well
behind Andy Reid too.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Let's be real about this, right.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
But it would it would make for a you know,
more interesting conversation about Pete. I don't think anybody includes
Pete in their top five coaches of all time when
you talk about Pete Carroll. But if he did that, sure,
I guess we can have a conversation. Big Wide also
says cheaters should be disqualified. Else sent a different text
thing yesterday and said, you know, why do we not act?
Why do we act as if Spygate never happened? You know,
he shouldn't even be ever in the conversation Belichick, that is,
(38:08):
you know, because of Spygate. I'm like, yeah, that happened,
But he also continued to win titles thereafter.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
And before you say to flate Gate, that was not him.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
No, that was Tom and they demolished the team that
they demolished Indy in the second half, and then carved
up one of the greatest secondaries in modern history in
the Super Bowl two weeks later.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
So no, he's not disqualified because of those things. Plus,
if he ain't cheating, he ain't winning.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Yeah, all right, we go tipping our caps courtesy of
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Speaker 4 (38:41):
Go to neogenicstem sales dot com. Smoke what you got.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
Well, I'm gonna tip my cap to all the band
geeks out there. You're working your butt off out there,
stay stay hydrated, especially all you band geeks and football
players over the next week.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Yeah, yeah, I like it. I'm gonna tip my cap
to all the guests and all the listeners this week.
It's I know it's kind of easy, but like this
week was fun.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
I flew in.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
I hit the ground, running off vacation, playing catch up,
drinking from a fire hose. Y'all made it a great
week and I really appreciate you. We're back on Monday.
Pad's going on for the Panthers college practices beginning. It's
gonna be a lot of fun. Can't wait for it
until then. For Smoke Ludwig, I'm Kyle Bailey, Sports Radio
ninety two to seven wfn Z.
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I haven't seen this man in ages, and so we
just had a good laugh at Dave Randa from Baylor
and his Wolf of Wall Street midget tossing analogy from
(00:43):
the coaching conference a couple of days ago. If you
missed that, I don't know if we maybe we'll play
it again, I don't know, but I don't think Nate
can handle another playing of that.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Don't do it till you again.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Don't do it for every SID that would happen to
listen to that and Crane, Oh my gosh, he did
not say that.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Can you imagine to look on the sid S face,
because you know he's just off to the right, just
off screen, like oh dear.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, he's preparing his I'm quitting speech or his.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Adready texting and what the hell is he talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm not gonna handle this, dude. I ain't ain't got
no fue in my two week notice. Y'all go find
somebody else to handle this.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Oh man.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Can you imagine also going from Matt Rule to Dave
Randa at Baylor, Like what that must be like for
the people inside the building over there. They're like their
experience in the last eight years out in Waco, Texas,
from Matt Rule to Dave Randa has to have been
absolutely insane. Anyhow, It's good to see you. You and
I haven't caught up in a couple of weeks. We've
been trading vacations and things like that. I want to
go actually back about a week first, like not quite
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a week. Hornets won the Summer League. Have you have
you bought your T shirt yet?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
No?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Why?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And I'm not well, they ought to give you one free.
It's the Summer League.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Now, we ought to get one for free, all of us.
But this is the thing. I love the fact that
they did this. It's a franchise that's never won a
division title, never won a conference championship. Before we can
even start talking about winning an NBA championship, win the division,
and this kind of sets the standard of winning. You know,
don't put up no banner, don't do all that, take
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that but dazzled basketball and put it in the locker
room and serve as a reminder like this is the standard. Guys,
if you put your mind to it and you put
the work in the proper things.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Man, we can get that. Dude.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's not too far away. So you know, just use
this as a reminder. The culture is starting to take shape.
It's it's working, at least for the young guys. It's working,
and I do believe that this team is eventually gonna
get there. It's gonna take a while. But for me,
start with winning the division title. That's not out that.
It won't get you that that home playoff round matchup
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in the first round anymore. But win a division title.
Just axcept But to me, that's where it starts. You
got to start winning something. Win something. Please, Now they've
won something, so.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I don't know, because you're the whole we should have
fun with it. I've had the people on the text
line and I'm sure they were there before I got
back on Monday.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
They're like, I can't believe that guys thinks it's a
big deal. It's a summer league.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
When you've won nothing, it's okay to be excited about,
just like a glimmer of hope that you're finally doing
things the right way. And let's be honest. You know,
it was pointed out, Hey, Sacramento has won this four times. Okay,
got it. But you know part of it too, is
the summer league is about seeing the guys that you
just drafted and they feel like and this was written
about I think by Brett Stiegel or somebody else a
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couple of days ago, but I've had these conversations. They
think they had the best draft in the NBA. Time
will tell if that's true or not. But the dudes
that they drafted, they put on the floor just went
out there and won a summer league title. So there
is something to Okay, we think we just took some
dudes that can really play ball and are about the
right stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Absolutely, they're winning. They're proving that they're winners right now.
And I mean for them to put this together in
a week and go down there and go six and
oh and win the thing, like, dude, this is a
good sign.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's a positive sign.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
At least you've got some guys in there that are
taking the coaching and the teaching and everything that they're
trying to establish. They're applying it and look it's working.
So it's a positive sign. You know, it's it is
summer League, but it's a sign that's your young guys
that you just brought in not too long ago. You know,
it ain't been a month. It's been a month now,
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I think, and they're coming in and already affecting some
things around the building. Like, come on, man, you got
to be excited about that. So I'm excited. I'm stoked
and be like, but I'm not gonna buy a T shirt.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, I'll buy the damn T shirt all right now.
I do feel that as the Hornet's pregame host who
did do eighty two of those things last year, I
should be given a free T shirt.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I'm gonna throw that out there right now.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I feel like I should get a free T shirt
Excel Police for the folks over there listening. That said,
I also want to shout out the guys at the
Crown Club because did you see today I love this
shout out to the guys at the Crown Club. Scotty
and Evan. I know those guys since day one. They
embraced me when I got on the air, so I
appreciate them a lot. They are throwing a party tonight
at the Local, the Local, to celebrate the Hornet Summer
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League title. They've bought a keg for everybody, and they're
doing a replay of the Summer League championship game from
Sunday night, and I'm here for it. So if you
want to go party with Hornets fans at the Local
and celebrate the Summer League title, I think you can
do that tonight.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I think they said that Hugo's going to be there
this once. The Quad's going to be there to Hornets
are actually giving them stuff, are sending people over there
to help them celebrate that. So yes, look, just like
you said, to your point, you hadn't won anything. You
finally want something. Be happy, folks, because the alternative. We've
seen the alternative, we're living the alternative. It's time to
get on the other side of that and start winning.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
What's also become a thing online now, I'm not an
online as much as I used to be. I'm certainly
not one of these terminally online guys who fights with
strangers all day long. But I have found out that
Hornets fans and Wizards fans have been beefing heavy since
the draft and summer league about who had the better draft,
who's got the better young core moving forward? Like Hornets
fans and Wizards fans battling it out online about this.
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It's like two broke dudes fighting over who's got the
better couch to sleep on like that. You know, it's
like two drunk uncles trying to fix a flat tire
with a fork. I mean it's not you know, it's
most of the country doesn't care about this, But the
fact that Hornets and Wizards fans are beefing heavy online,
I kind of do love it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, the rest of the league is looking over there
and then they just gonna walk right by like they're
gonna keep moving on with their days.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
And That's what I'm doing with that too.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I'm gonna look at it like, oh, look at them
two foods and just gonna keep walking all right.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Nate Wemberley w BCV in studio with us here. Panthers
training camp opening this week.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
You know, what is it? What season is this for? You.
This is my ninth.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
This will be twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
That's what I nailed it, twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
All right, so your twenty eighth consecutive season. We were
just talking let me start here. We were just talking
about the biggest teases and what I what we're talking
about in context, Terrace Marshall Junior is apparently really impressing
people at Philadelphia Eagles training camp this week. AJ Brown
is vouching for him TMJ firing up Eagles fans up there,
defending world champs. Boy, do they not know what they're
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about to find out in terms of the biggest teases
in like draft picks, free agents, guys who had the talent,
came in with a big rep, big expectations and turned
out to flop. Who stands out in twenty eight twenty
seven seasons?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Who stands out high?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That who?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I think? My top point is Vernon Butler for.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Me, It's why you caught me on card with That's yeah,
Vernon Butler is definitely one.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
But there there, he said.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Biyakabatuca smoked it, he said, Biyakabatuca, it was injuries.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Though he had a lot of good moments. Though I mean,
I don't think he was well, yeah, you're right, because
those moments were teases and then yeah, yeah, all came
off to that.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I think that's what it is. You get to fight.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
It's not like a guy like Jimmy Clauston who just
showed up and flopped right. The guys just showed it
but never followed through.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I'll tell you what, between the two of these right here,
I will go beauca real because the moments were great moments,
and then it's just like man, but to make up
for it, I mean, they've had some great running backs.
I mean like it just hadn't stopped because of that.
But you know, Steven Davis after that, and Sean Foster.
You know, the list goes on and under the Angelo
whims shout the store so it. But yeah, Biyaka Patuca
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was a big disappointment because the injuries just derailed his
career year and took him off the field.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
A lot of Kelvin Benjamin on the text line there
you go, Yeah, a lot of Jeff Otah on the
text line. Let's see what else do we have here?
A lot of Vernon Butler coming in and oh, Keishawn
made his way on several times, Greg Hardy, Jeremy Chin,
that's not I think that's a I don't know. I
know that there are a lot of people who blame
that more on the respective coaching staffs, especially given what
he just did in Washington this past year.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So I guess that's where the blame goes.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That there is no teas in that.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I mean, like his rookie year, he played and he
played with he finished that in defensive Rookie of the
Year of voting behind Sweat. So no, that was that
the coaching staff blunder. They fumbled that ball. It wasn't him.
The coaching staff fumbled that ball.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, smoke, what you.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Got to actually did have a really good one that
would classify as the tease. Ricky Manning junior.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
M I wasn't here for him.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I know context his highs were high, but his lows
are pretty low too.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Remember he had the three in the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah, key interception the week prior to that in the
divisional round, but he had a lot of blown coverages,
all right.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
So so we're through the first week of practice.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Nobody's put pads on yet, we haven't seen anything consequential yet.
But they did lose Josie Jewel back on Tuesday, And
I talked to Joe person a little while ago, and
he seems to think that, you know, zero Evro's gonna
give a real earnest chance to Christian rose Boom to
step in and take that job.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
And they ain't got a.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Choice, and they can sign somebody. It's not a lot
out there on the streets right now, No, there's not.
There's not a lot on the street. Get cut over
the next couple of weeks exactly, that's what they're gonna
make it. But then again, you know you want that
guy in here at the starter training camp, and you know,
if you're getting them late and right before the season,
it's gonna take him a few weeks to even get
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going with this defense.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And uh, that's a that's a.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It just makes the fact that you didn't like a
you know, Peyton Willis, you didn't draft him a few
years ago. Now this is starting to come back to bite.
You let Shack Thompson go. You know, he was having
problems just staying on the field and not being hurt.
But that's that's a damp position and the one thing
that they have problems with stopping to run, and how
is this gonna affect them being able to stop the run.
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I mean, they signed some great guys and I'm really
excited about the freeging class that they sign to be
able to help them stop the run. But the inside
linebacker that is a weak spot on this team, and
teams are going to try and get to that spot
of the field and take advantage of the fact that
they don't have a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Of depth there.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
They are really one injury away at that position and
really being in trouble.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It sounds and I think the flip side of that
is and Dan Morgan kind of alluded to that earlier
this week that sometimes the ANSWER's got to be on
the roster, and maybe that's Rose Boom. I know, Joe
pointed out Jacobe Winman started, you know, handful of games
last year. I'm actually claudon Cheryls fan. When he was
out there and healthy, I mean, he was flying around.
That's how I make some plays. So they may have enough,
But I you said, Shaq Thompson real quick, the rumors
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are there's a good chance he's cutting buffalo. He also
just put his South Charlotte mansion on the market for
sale within the last what twelve hours or so?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Ten million dollars? I got it.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
I'm about it, you got it. I'm about ten point seven. Yeah,
I'm about just inside the back.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Man, I missed it. I don't have the point seven.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Oh no, it's ten or under.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, that's uh, that's John Carter purchase that. That's a
John cart that's a news anchor purchased it. But I
mean smart Their folks say, well, why not bring Shack
back if Buffalo lets him go? Men, I guess you could,
could you know? I didn't think that would be on
the table.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Look, this position is then, I'm telling you that they
need some help. They're gonna need some help, now, you know.
To their point the whole time is that we're gonna
we're gonna play a bunch of young guys and we're
gonna let it.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
See.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Your brain wants to say, this team needs to compete
for Super Bowl, we need to win the super Bowl,
we need to win Super Bowl daring they put process
of building this thing the right way and building a
sustainable winner. The only way you're gonna do that is
find out that these young guys can play. Maybe this
is the chance where you just put these guys out
there and see if they can do the job. And
that's just a part of the building process, is that
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you know, we've signed enough to be able to handle
this problem, and these young guys can come out there
and help us, you know, solve this problem and we're
gonna be We're just gonna keep going on with this.
Maybe that is the plan, but it's a samplesit and
right now it doesn't look good on paper. Maybe when
you get out there in Jacksonville and you see these
young guys playing, you'll be like, well, this might not
be so bad. So you got to give them a chance.
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So I do believe they're gonna get their chance. I
don't think they're gonna sign anybody now because there's nobody
really out there.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So they're gonna get a chance to show what.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
They can do in this preseason with these you know, practices,
joint practices in this game. Are these games, and let's
see what they got. So, I mean, that's what training
caps all about. You got to find out whether these
young guys can do it or not, and then you
make your adjustment.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So right now it is what it is. We'll just
see what they can do.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Nate Wimberley WBTV in studio with us. I was the
last three days. That was an acc kickoff. I saw
your crew up there a lot. I didn't run into you.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I was not going to be there.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yesterday with with Bill Chapel Bill in House, that was
a madhouse.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Oh, I was in it. I was right in the
middle of the room. Yesterday, I was at the panthers.
I said this yesterday, but it was. I've been to
a lot of press conferences, so of you, you've probably
been more than I have. But I've been to a
lot of those things. That one, they all pretty much
are a lot of like that one. I'll always remember.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That was different.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
That one was different than it was different.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
There were hundreds of people in the room and and
like like a court room, like a big court case.
As soon as Bill and the players start walking in,
just deathly silent, like the whole place goes. Anybody's watching
Bill and his and his Chapel Hill blue tie, Tar
Hill blue tie walking up on the stage. And it
was funny too because he was jovial. He also didn't
really want to talk about anything, which is not shocking.
So as soon as somebody asked him a question about
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a full back. I mean, the dude just held court
on the full back position for as long as he
could to waste time. But yeah, it was unlike much
I've ever seen. And once again college football media days,
there's the backdrop of another realignment report with Carolina.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
And the SEC and things like that.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
But to me, the most most important or rather interesting
thing this week is just trying to figure out who
behind Clemson is really good.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
We think Clemson is going to be really good, and
I think there's about five teams behind them that could
be the second best team of this conference. I just
don't know who it's gonna be. Yeah, it's it's it's.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Whoever is going to be here.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And Charlotte is wide openings about as wide open as
has ever been. Uh is it Miami with Carson back
at quarterback?
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
You know there's a handful of teams that to your point, Yeah,
why not do.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Nine to four? Last year they got a lot of.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Talent back, they you know, upgraded at the quarterback position.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You know, there's a lot of talk about State and
their offense should be dynamic with c. J. Bailey back
and all of the the weapons they got, including Hollywood Smothers,
who's from Chambers here and Charlotte, So, uh, there is
a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I mean Georgia Tech. I would not sleep on Georgia Tech.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I think they very well are the second best team.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Absolutely, they're gonna be. They're gonna have a very good season.
They just kind of take kind of chokes it, you know,
and when it gets and they get those tight games
and they kind of find a way to just bumble
it away.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I mean it might be smu. Kevin Jennings is back, right.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I mean, they got their quarterback back, they got a
dynamic offense, they got athletes.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And why not North Carolina? Why not?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
You know, your boy Wes Bryant had them going eleven
in one earlier today. Oh my god, I know.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
He been in a heat too long. That's okay, So
I just.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I walked in here.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's like eleven and one, big guy, eleven and one.
That's a lot of confidence in a roster that has
seventy new players from last year to this year. I mean,
West knows is college football. So that's our guy. Me
and you both love West. But I heard I was
driving in and hurt him predict eleven in one and
nearly swerved off.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
About you, almost right ran off the road.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Now, yeah, but no, I mean, seriously, I think SMU
and Kevin Jennings have to be in the conversation. That
kid's got to be motivated. And I'm not picking on him,
but like he lost them that playoff game, but he
have three turnovers in the first ten minutes of the
game that two of them led to touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I mean, he's got to be motivated.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
He's going to be motivated. But but this is the thing.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It's like Bill Belichick stuck all the air out of
the room and nobody really was over there by Clemson.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You don't think this is gonna motivate them, Like, come on, now.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It's so funny to watch. And I told Dabo this
yesterday when I talked to him. It's just so funny
to like, he is one of the faces two or
three faces of college football, iconic Hall of Fame coach,
and he's just what I'm not trying to be weird,
but like we're at the like we're in the bathroom
at the stall together. I just look over and Dabbo's
right next to me, and I'm just like he's just
he's a man of people. He's just out mingling and
talking to everybody, and I'm like, he doesn't have to
do this stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
He loves it though, he's just he eats it up.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
But this is the thing is like, I know he's
probably enjoyed. It's like, dude, y'all don't have to be
about it. Go go go be about Bill.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I can just just chill and enjoy.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The ambiance of the ACC kickoffs and you know, we're
gonna go ahead. We're gonna have a lot of business.
And I'm you know, I think LSU's the first game
right at the home. Yeah, at the real death fact,
they can make a statement. Just just go ahead and
molly wop on l s U and get this thing rolling.
So you know, I'm Clemson's gonna have a great year
that they're a playoff to him. In my opinion, it's
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gonna win ACC and they're gonna get They're gonna be
a good team this year. The ACYC is gonna be
very interested this year because of the fact that the
number two spot a berth in the championship game is
gonna be so much on the line this year.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Yeah, last thing. How close are we to high school
footlll like real high school football talk.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
The high school football.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
The first day of practice is next Tuesday right in
North Carolina, next Wednesdays for South Carolina, first games of
August twenty second, so we're right upon it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I mean, like it's here. You know, I'm starting to
get ready.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
We're gonna have a special edition of The Point After
on August thirteenth, the Preview High School Football because in
North Carolina, it's the first time that there's eight classifications.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
This thing is gonna be wide open.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Talking about WATO, there's gonna be a lot of wide
open classifications now because it's so spread out. A lot
of teams are gonna have a bite at the apple
to win a state championship. And it's an exciting time.
You know, I was I wasn't too sure about the
whole eight a thing. If you look at the conferences
and you look at how everything is kind of spread out,
now you can get excited about some teams that who
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might not have had, you know, any chances at winning
state championships or you know, they got a shot now
because they're in leagues and classifications that they can actually
win some stuff, and that's got to be excited.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Is anybody in America still doing to a days at
the high school level. I don't anybody doing two days anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
We were talking about that yesterday when I was playing college.
I met high school football.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
You just get up in the morning in that heat,
and you know, you go through that first practice, and
then you take that break and then at three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
In the dead heat of day.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yes when they really didn't care about the heat back then,
you went back out there and you strapped on all those.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Past no damn water till you got it right exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
There was no water that people will be you doing
uptowns until you pupe. They didn't care back then, and
uh we did two a days. I don't think they
do to it.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
They don't do them now because anybody in America do
it to it, so I don't think.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
So somebody's got to know of one.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
There's gotta be some Roague coach out there still running
two to Day's probably the dude Hoover Alabama that was
on MTV.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It's they won't be coaching loan because somebody found out
in that state will get to them.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
So now I'm crazy how much that changed. I'm not
going to be doing to it.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
You were like waking up as a kid, high school kid.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Nobody.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
We didn't want to be awake at six thirty anyway.
But then like you're putting the pads on at seven thirty,
you get that practice over.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
With, you eat lunch.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
All you want to do is go to the pool,
and you gotta go right back in it. Nope, wake up, gentlemen.
They don't have any idea.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
What that's no clue, no clue, Wake up, gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
And then the first thing we're gonna do is it
to make sure you awake and aware and ready to
go practice, because we're not gonna be out here wasting
that time. So let me wake you up by doing
some hitting drills right off the gate.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Anybody's good to see again. Absolutely, And we got practice
starting Tuesday. Then it's Jamborees and Jubilee and the next
thing they know, it's going to be the start of
the regular season. So we'll do it again next Friday. Absolutely, absolutely,
all right, we'll take a break. Sports Radio ninety two
seven wf and Z. Sports Radio ninety two seven wfn
(19:59):
Z and Smoke Big thanks to Nate Wemberley for hanging
out with us here on a very very hot Friday.
Be safe out there. I'm gonna read this even though
Smoke doesn't want me to. I was lamenting the Uh,
that's not true. I wasn't lamenting anything. I just you know,
we all grew up in the era of two days
in high school football. We were talking to Nate about
the return of high school football. There's new there's eight
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classific pardon me, eight classifications now in North Carolina. Practice
on Tuesday, first games on August twenty second. We'll have
a bunch of those more on that, you know, in
just a little bit, not today but.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
In the future.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
But talking about two days, like I, like everybody else,
I got to experience to days, everybody else in my generation,
I should say, none of these kids are doing it.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yeah, I'm trying to think when it stopped, because it
was I think when my dad started coaching back in
two thousand and five, they were still doing it, but
it was right at the end of two days at
that point, Like by the time I was in high
school in twenty eleven, it was gone. Because I would
actually go to most practices because for those who don't
know was.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
The water Boy.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Mm yeah, so of course one of my favorite movies
growing up, speaking of Adam Sandler was The water Boy.
And I got to hang out a lot, and I
got to see a lot of how two days went.
And one of the worst decisions ever made was the
trainer giving me the lightning.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Detector because I was just stuff. I was annoying to coaches.
I believe it. I found a date.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Apparently in Iowa they banned two a days in twenty thirteen.
Georgia also that same year banned three a day practices.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
All of these things are not like the other.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Georgia banned three a day practices in twenty thirteen and
restricted consecutive two A days in twenty thirteen. So it
sounds to me like there's still a chance that there
are some places in Georgia that are doing occasional to
A day practices.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Look, I hate the phrase that it just means more
from the SEC. But I think the fact that Georgia
had three days as soon early as like as basically
as twelve years ago, I think, yeah, it's proof.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, there you go. So we were talking about that anyway.
Josh from Fort Mill says high school marching bands practice
harder than football teams during the summer time. These days,
my daughter had band camp for two weeks straight. First
week was nine to five Monday through Friday. This week
was Monday through Friday, nine am to nine pm. They've
(22:18):
won state titles ten out of seventeen years nine am
to nine pm for band practice.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Oh, they must be one of those pretentious schools that
really loves their band and think that they're the best
thing ever.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Six point five heel just said the same thing marching
band is doing two a days.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
See.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I don't not that anybody cares, but when I was
in high school, there was a girl in math class.
She was in the marching band, and they had T
shirts that was like blood Sweat and Tears CHS Marching Band,
And we weren't mean to her, but we really, like
we were obnoxious teenage boys. We mocked that like you know,
as you would expect. Oh, we did the same too,
my hed. We mocked the hell out like the t
(22:55):
shirts were just too much like blood sweat and Tears
March CHS Marching Band two thousand three, and it's like, hey,
we're doing actual two and as now I get it.
They apparently work long and hard marching vand's not easy.
Like I'm not here to crap on it at all,
but I was the annoying teenage boy doing that back
in high school and then you know she hated us.
But again, if you're doing nine am to nine pm
(23:16):
from marching band practice, he might be changing my mind
a little bit. All right, let's go to the phone lines.
Panther Bow was up first in this segment. Panther Bow,
what's going on?
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Hey KD, Thanks taking my call. Great to have you
back in the saddle of this week. Really enjoy all
your interviews on Radio Row.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Thanks by Yeah, I like I liked what.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
The coach probably had to say. I'm rooting for that guy.
Kind of reminded me of And I think I told
you about this. How you know, my wife's side of
the family is from just outside of Blacksburg, and so,
you know, kind of spending time with her family, you know,
you hear more about the Hokeys and everything. And so
I found myself watching a lot of Virginia Tech games
last year and you know, kind of getting into it
(23:57):
and everything. And I think it might have been during
the Miami game. I was getting kind of animated, like,
you know, kind of like coach Yosts like daughter on
the sideline and remember the Titans. Like she comes into
the room and she's like, since when do you care
about Virginia Tech? And I'm like, oh, this is you
know what it is like once I got a boodline,
I think it's his family, Like it's really, dude not
(24:18):
telling me. It's just because of Kyle Bailey. I was like, oh,
here we go. Gave me credit, even gave me credit.
So I just say that. But yeah, man, I just
want to give you a shout. Great stuff all week.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Man, I appreciate you, buddy. Tell the family we said
hello here from the radio show Panther Boat checking in.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I should have asked him. He lives in Texas. You
should ask him if they're doing two a days down there.
He'll textas I do you have to mention the Miami
game from last year?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
How's a catch? Damn it?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
It was?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It was a catch, all right. I just I don't
care that was a catch? Seven O four five seven
ninety six ten. Why be normal?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Said?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Hey, not everyone was able to be an athlete. We
all contribute the way we can. I played trumpet and
was a proud member of the Marching Band for five years.
Yeah again, like I told, for sure, obviously I'm not
the same annoying sixteen year old I was back then,
laughing at the T shirt. By perspective is different. Marching
Band sounds hard. It's just not for me.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
It's also that the band directors, I think, make themselves
it to be way more important than they actually are. Sometimes,
Like the problem is feel like a lot of these
band directors think that you're actually going to the football
games for a halftime show to the last fifteen minutes,
and some of them are because their kids are in
the band. It's only fifteen to twenty minutes out of
(25:29):
forty plus minutes of football.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I'm also of the generation, and I doubt you have
the same impulse. Anytime I hear any mention of band camp,
the first thing that comes to my mind is this
one time at band camp.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
You got to do this when I would this one
time at band camp.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Sorry, but you've seen American poss you get the right,
I've seen all of them. Yeah, anytime anybody mentions band camp,
anybody from roughly my generation, all we hear is this
one time at band camp? Alison Hannigan, she was Michelle
in the movie.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Yeah, I remember her more for how I met remember
because that's where I saw Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
So it's just I think sometimes it sucks, especially what
it sucks when you went to school where the football
wasn't good, so the band people really felt like they
were high and mighty. I'm telling you what, what type
of school went to at the time. It really gets
annoying after a while. It's like, Okay, you're not that good.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Do you really hate band camp guys or you really
hate marching band people, don't you? All right?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Dennis from Waxaw is up next, Dennis? How you been?
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Yo?
Speaker 8 (26:28):
KB?
Speaker 7 (26:29):
What's it up? Brother? How are you?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I'm good? What's on your mind?
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (26:33):
Flounder Union Academy. My kid is in band camp there,
and yeah, dude, it's no joke. It's eight to eight
last week, and then summer eight to eight this week,
and then the rest are like three to eight. We're
lucky though. Our band directors are really cool. They're not
up at the Never thought i'd be a band dad
(26:55):
because I grew up the job.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
So yeah, how seriously, they take give me a glimpse here,
because I wasn't in marching band any of that, so
I don't know anything about it. Like, how seriously do
your kids you have multiple kids doing this?
Speaker 7 (27:09):
I do.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
My daughter just graduated from Union Academy and she's going
up to Western Carolina University and she made the marching
band up there. Now that's a band, brother.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Let's go, let's go.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Yeah, Western Carolina University. Yeah, they had to move the
halftime show to the end of the game because people
would leave at halftime at the college game and they
were there for the band. But yeah, yeah, now they're
really serious about it. I'm so lucky, and I.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Have to ask my kids to practice.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
My son was fourth chair off state trumpet last.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Year, and so he's a rising junior.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
And it's a cool little family.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
That's cool, man.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
I appreciate the phone calling the oh go ahead, go.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
Ahead, yeah, dude, real quick, real quick. Last year they
wanted to pull the band off the field. God said,
you know, we got two degrees left until of the
regular So they called up the athletic trainer, and the
athletic trainers said, those marching band kids are in better shape.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
Than football kids or anybody else.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Wow, they're out there grinding.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah, well you no to that point, Hey Dennis, great
phone call, Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Good to hear from you. To that point.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Loaded land Shark on the text line just said, I
played football at an HBCU and the band definitely practiced
just as hard as we did.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
They were like an army.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
He listen a lot of HBCUs like FAU comes to
mind for me, Like there's some famous bands among the
A and T.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Oh yeah, I mean yes State.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Y'ah dude, I mean the Yeah, the halftime performances are
as anticipated, if not more so. Definitely more so a
certain place where you actually go to the football game
for the band. Oh yeah, like they've got their whole
They've got their own unique fingle, Like that is a show.
Those HBCU bands are incredible. It's not that way everywhere. Okay,
Little Janey, you know, is not playing Beyonce at halftime,
(28:52):
you know, and putting on a show at rdriye Kel
the same way that you're watching the marching band at
NC ANDT.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
I will say he is right about Western Carolina though
they purposely, like fifteen years ago, moved the halftime show
to the end of the game, because like half the
stands would be empty by the time halftime would end. Huh,
because people are not wanting to watch the Catamounts get
their butts with right, and Western's band has actually gone
to a lot of places. They were on the Macy's
(29:17):
Thanksgiving Day parade. My grandma went within to Ireland a
couple of years ago on Saint Patti's Day, So they've
they've been in the I believe to a Rose Bull
parade a time or two. So the Catamouts band is
a world renowned How about.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
That seven four five, seven ninety six ten we had Okay,
we got some people disputing that the band is in
as good as shape as the football players. I'm not
I'm not having that debate. I'm just reading text and
taking phone calls. We'll do more of that in just
a second. Firefighter drew long hours, hot days, but it
was worth it. I played trombone and Union Academy mentioned
go cars. Firefighter Drew was a marching band guy. How
(29:53):
about I didn't realize so many of you had marching
band roots. Look at the text line. This is interesting
stuff here. Marching bands are in I mean, they're a
huge part of the tradition and pageantry of Friday nights
of Saturdays. I mean, I think that gets forgotten sometimes,
but the text line is revealed that we have a
whole lot of former Trump trombonuss Trump trumpeters.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
And to be farnsts. I don't want to sound like
a full jock.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
I actually interacted a lot with banded people, band kids
and throughout school because I was in course in throughout
middle school and two years of high school. I did
win Most Improved Course Singer of my sophomore year.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I love you, man, but no one asks you that.
Six one.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Six one five heels up next on the phone lines,
what's up, buddy?
Speaker 9 (30:38):
How are you hey man?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
How you guys doing good?
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Good?
Speaker 9 (30:42):
So I'm calling it depends of the band kids. Also,
my kid as a senior at East Lincoln, and they're like,
the football game is a small part of it. These
guys are going like all across the state throughout the
week and months of football season. They're competing. I mean
that bandroom is still with fifty trophies that kids do
not dang.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
It's a culture. I don't understand anything about I know
nothing about it.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Sounds cool though all day.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
Yeah, yeah, appreciate it, Thank.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
You, buddy, appreciate that. I'll never have the one time
at band camp experience. All right, seven o four number
saying coming out of the fieldhouse to those Friday night
drums was different.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
All that part's true, Oh absolutely.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I mean because even after I graduated high school, my
entry point into this business was high school football.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I called it. I've called so many high school football games.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And those drums, and you know that those bands that
set the tempo, that were the backdrop, the soundtrack to
those Friday nights. It was muggy early September Friday nights. Yeah,
it doesn't get any better.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
And that's what makes college football still great to this
day is because you know, you we don't know about
it right now, but once we watched the first college
football game of the year, we hear the drums in
the background, the trumpet's like, oh yeah, here we go.
Didn't go to the NFL game, you hear none of
that's like, doesn't hit the same, doesn't hit the same
at all.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Now, let's go to smoke on the headlines.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Said they're gonna hang smokes course Jersey in the rafters.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Listen, I'm with you. I've talked about this.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I've been open about this, like I was the only
guy you know in the chorus room on Friday's wearing
my football jersey and anticipation of that night's game. So
I'm not crapping on you for being in course.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Got it.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
My mom made me join course when I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
I got to show up to a course performance in
middle school. I was the only guy that had all
the guide parts. So yeah, all the guy parts, all right? Anyway,
Tommy be says, Yep, it's summer band talk. Tom Tommy,
you got to understand though, it's because it took off
on the tap.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Do you many calls we just got?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
You should see my text line right now, we go
with what y'all want to talk about sometimes and clearly
y'all want to talk about marching band because it's connected
the high school in college football anyway.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Which guy? All right?
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Anyway, big weekend for baseball as we got a new
class going into the Baseball Hall of Fame and a
loaded class at DATS.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Each yearro Suzuki, C C.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Sabathia, and Billy Wagner are all going to be in
ducted Sunday, July twenty seventh, at one point thirty pm.
You can catch the coverage on that day on MLB network.
Kle I believe you'll be watching this one.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Oh yeah, Now I'm big Billy Wagner go. Can't wait
to see him go in. All right, So we'll come
back and wrap up the show. Sports Radio ninety two
seven wfn Z. What we're listening to him?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
NFL films?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Oh yeah, you Like, did you look on your face?
The fact that I don't immediately recognize it, Like I'm
the world's largest idiot.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
I mean, you've watched NFL your whole life? How many
NFL films? Bit have you heard?
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Especially from the days of John for sund Okay, when
you say it, it clicks. But like the fact that
I didn't immediately recognize you, Like, look, the look of
disgust on your face was just a little bit much of.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
It or disappointment. I was just like, I mean, NFL films.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Music is something that you can listen to while you're
doing anything, and it just puts you in a better mood,
especially if you're a guy.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, I'm not gonna argue with that, so.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I thought, you know, I was thinking about playing a
fight song since we're talking all about band, But then again,
I want to be neutral, so I figured, no one
hates NFL films music, so let's go if that is
a rejoint, Okay, all right, I like it?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
All right, quick end, quick out.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
In this segment, wrapping up the week back on Monday,
I've got no vacation playing the rest of the year
because football is essentially back. This is the last Friday
without football. This is the last one. Hall of Fame
game is next week. This is the final week with
no live football games. Now again we're counting preseason in
the conversation, but yeah, this is the final Friday.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Like we actually we could.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Do a football Friday seven days from now, and it's legit.
If we do it, we'll probably do it. So yeah,
I mean, I'm excited. Back on Monday, pads go on
for the Panthers. Looking forward to that. But right now,
we have to catch you up on what you've missed.
It's time for the Oh we don't have it yet,
we're scrapping it. When did you make that executive decision?
You asked me, and I said no.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
I thought you said yes. You said you said yes,
Oh I didn't you sure? Yeah, because remember what I
told you, I'm not a good liar. Does it look
like I don't think you lied? I thought, maybe you misspoke. No,
but do I look like a liar again? I just said,
I'm not calling you a liar?
Speaker 4 (35:30):
I thought.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I said, it's possible you misspoke, but you know you
ain't calling me a trutherer. That's not a thing. It's
not a real thing. A truther.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Oh, I was just reminded of something real quick. It's
totally random, since we're not doing the rewind get us
wherever you get your podcast, Apple, Spotify, Google just searched
the Kyle Bailey Show, download and subscribe. We had that
brief conversation yesterday about I guess Fitty referenced Bill Belichick
is the greatest coach of all time, might have been
two days ago, whenever it was, And I said, you know,
(36:00):
somebody said greatest greatest football coach of all time? Are
you kidding me? And he's at the first one who's
ever said that. And I said, okay, if you don't
think Bill Belichick is the greatest football coach of all time,
and you're certainly entitled to that opinion, who do you
think it would be? And so, as you and I
were talking about Christian Wilkins earlier, someone texted the show
yesterday and said, if Pete Carroll were to turn around
(36:20):
the Raiders at his advanced age, shouldn't he be in
the conversation Now? I'm gonna say no, because if he
won a title in Las Vegas, like maybe you could
force the conversation, but just turn things around?
Speaker 4 (36:35):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (36:36):
But I do like if he does turn things around
in the in like, say, let's say they make the
playoffs this year, Okay, like Pete Carroll's writing a new chapter,
is there time for him to ascend the list of
the greatest?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
I don't know. I mean, reminder, he's older than Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
He's seventy three. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's seventy three. He's
a young seventy three, but he's seventy three years old.
What if he goes out there and wins.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
I think if he does win, it would solidify his
career being a Hall of Fame career as an NFL
head coach, because it's pretty hard to get over to
top of it to be a Hall of Fame coach
in the NFL, considering how long guys like Jimmy Johnson
and Dick Vermill had to wait. So I get that,
but I don't think he's ever going to be into
goat conversation. But the back end of his career has
(37:22):
done a lot to rework his image pr image based
on how his first couple of stints went from the
New York Jets to the New England Patriots. Between his
time at USC and with the Seattle Seahawks, I think
people look at him much differently than they did twenty
twenty five, thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yeah, he's not only behind Belichick, he's but he's well
behind Andy Reid too.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Let's be real about this, right.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
But it would it would make for a you know,
more interesting conversation about Pete. I don't think anybody includes
Pete in their top five coaches of all time when
you talk about Pete Carroll. But if he did that, sure,
I guess we can have a conversation. Big Wide also
says cheaters should be disqualified. Else sent a different text
thing yesterday and said, you know, why do we not act?
Why do we act as if Spygate never happened? You know,
he shouldn't even be ever in the conversation Belichick, that is,
(38:08):
you know, because of Spygate. I'm like, yeah, that happened,
But he also continued to win titles thereafter.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
And before you say to flate Gate, that was not him.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
No, that was Tom and they demolished the team that
they demolished Indy in the second half, and then carved
up one of the greatest secondaries in modern history in
the Super Bowl two weeks later.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
So no, he's not disqualified because of those things. Plus,
if he ain't cheating, he ain't winning.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Yeah, all right, we go tipping our caps courtesy of
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Speaker 4 (38:41):
Go to neogenicstem sales dot com. Smoke what you got.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
Well, I'm gonna tip my cap to all the band
geeks out there. You're working your butt off out there,
stay stay hydrated, especially all you band geeks and football
players over the next week.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Yeah, yeah, I like it. I'm gonna tip my cap
to all the guests and all the listeners this week.
It's I know it's kind of easy, but like this
week was fun.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
I flew in.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
I hit the ground, running off vacation, playing catch up,
drinking from a fire hose. Y'all made it a great
week and I really appreciate you. We're back on Monday.
Pad's going on for the Panthers college practices beginning. It's
gonna be a lot of fun. Can't wait for it
until then. For Smoke Ludwig, I'm Kyle Bailey, Sports Radio
ninety two to seven wfn Z.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
You're gonna be dead in a one hundred years anyway,
live dangerously
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