August 23, 2024 • 37 mins
Former NFL offensive lineman and FOX Sports Radio Weekend host Ephraim Salaam is in for Chris, and he and Rob debate whether or not Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes football program were out of bounds for banning a reporter from asking questions. Later, the Odd Couple Crew shares their thoughts on fan interactions in this week’s edition Shop Talk. Plus, FOX College Football analyst RJ Young swings by to discuss the first season of widespread conference expansion and why he’s such a big fan of the College Football Playoff expanding to 12 teams.
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the Fox College Football Analysts. He'll join us as college
football season Ephram gets kicked off. I think is there
a game tonight? And then games are on Saturday? So
college football is here and from Obviously we had some
technical difficulties to start to show. I didn't really get
(01:19):
to say hello to you, and it's always great to
have you join us here on the I Couple.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Absolutely, man, you know. Look, I tried to hold it
down as best I could without you, but you're here
now and I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Happy to be a part of this, So no doubt,
always great and from this is something that's near and
dear to my heart. And this is good for both
of us because you know, you you are a player
at the highest level, professional athlete, and you've also been
in this business for a long time, so you've had
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both sides.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You know. Me, I'm gonna die dieding in the wall.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Reporter, you know, despite the television, despite the radio show,
all that other stuff. You know, I am a sports writer.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
That's what I am. I've never wavered from that. You've
never seen me put.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
On the team uniform or call some team my team
or any of that, because I'm just not That's not
what I do.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But this story, and Rob g can you jump in
with us, This story from Colorado and Dion and the
university and a columnist there, it just bothers the hell
out of me, It really does. And as mad as
I am of Dion and the University, I'm more upset
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from of the reporters who worked there in Colorado, who
covered the Buffalo's But Rob g spell it out first,
and I'll tell you why this story.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Is a doozy.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I said the notes earlier in the afternoon, after you
guys both saw it, and then I saw this after
the fact. I didn't even bother to update the email.
I just take it Rob directly. You're doing this one
because I know exactly what You're gonna come out, guns blazing. Colorado,
the athletic department, specifically their football program, has informed the
Denver Post that Dion Sanders and anyone else within their
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football program will no longer take questions from columnist columnist
Sean Keeler. In a statement sent to the Post, Colorado
said that they have received a quote series of sustained
personal attacks in Keeler's coverage of the program. When asked
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for specific examples on how they personally were attacked by Keeler,
they've referenced a handful of stories which used phrases such
as quote, false, prophet, deposition, Dion Planet Prime, the Bruce
Lee of BS, the Dion Kool Aid, and overall describe
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the program as a quote circus.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Aphraim. Here's here's why I'm mad. Here's why I'm mad.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Forget about Dion and Colorado.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Shame on them.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Okay, big babies, do you remember when Colorado won its
first game last year?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Remember?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And what did Dion do in the very first game?
What do you do? He called out ed Ward? Do
you remember that, right, Rob g Was it ed Ward? Yep?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
He said?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Now what do you think you remember? That called him
out of the first game. Okay, here's my problem. Forget Colorado,
forget the football team. If you're members of the media,
not only from the Denver Post, but from all the newspapers,
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TV and radio stations that covered that football team, they
should refuse to cover Colorado football. If they're going to
exclude a columnist from doing his job, Ephram, they have every.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Right not to answer a question from that guy.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Do you hear me, You're not You're not obligated, Ephraim.
If I'm go up to you and I say, e,
from what happened on that play, whatever you know or
whatever you with, then the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Lost the whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Okay, you could say to me, no comment, and I
have to respect that.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Do you understand there's a difference between.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Letting a guy do his job and you not participating.
But when you tell a guy that he can't do
his job or he can't be around.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
If you're a.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Member of the media not working for the Denver Posts
and you're with another outlet, if you allow Dion and
Colorado to do this to this college, the stuff that
he said he from is nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Those are what that's what columnists do.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
There was once a general manager in Detroit named Jerry Walker.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I think he's passed away now, and he from.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
His big thing was he couldn't get pitching for the Tigers.
You know what nickname I gave he could never make
a trade to get pitching.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I gave him the nickname doctor Doolittle.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Okay, that's not bad, right, doctor, because he couldn't get
any trades done. Randy Smith was another Tiger general manager.
I gave him the nickname rancid Randy. Anything he touched
just turned to Google.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And my point is as a columnist, that's the license
you get right your opinion to be witty whatever. And
people have a right to want to talk to me
or not answer my quest that's fine.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
But the single lot of guy and tell.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Him that he can't participate or ask any questions is
unheard of. And the rest of the media cannot allow
this to happen.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, okay, now it's our job to be objective, right right,
Like you said, the first thing you said on this is,
I don't claim a team. I'm a reporter, Yes, you know,
I'm just my opinion, the facts, the whole nine yards.
But what happens when your objective opinion starts to become subjective?
(07:27):
Right when you start to, you know, really lash out
at somebody? Yeah, personally, but.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That what's personal? Personally? When you start saying person is
your fat or or you're you're no, no, no, I'm just
hear me out, hear me out.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
There's a degree of that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I think there's a poetic license that comes with being
a columnist more so than.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
The beat writer.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
If you're covering the team, you're not really supposed to
put your opinion in it. But opinions from columnists. I
don't believe in this program you have the as a columnist.
That's what people What do you think is Colorado real
or fake? Is Dion a good coach or bad coach?
That that's what a columnist does. So Dion's a bad coach?
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Is that personal?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
But that's not what he was saying, Rob, can you
give us some of those things that he had he
had said again that you listed off.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Sure.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
The phrases were used as follows quote false prophet, deposition,
Dion planet Prime, the Bruce Lee of BS okay, the
Dion kool Aid, and describing the program as quote a circus.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Right now, that's not saying I don't think Deon Sanders
is a good coach. And this is why that's not
saying Colorado is not a good program. They don't have
enough talent. That's you're you're going to step beyond. And
I know, look and I get it. We live in
an age now where we're inundated with podcasts and reporters
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and and and shows, and so in a sense, you
do want to stick out.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
You don't want to be like everybody else.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Right, if everybody's like, well, this is this is this
is happening, and that's not happening, so you you go
a little bit further right, false profit the Bruce Lee
of BS. Like, all of these things are now feeling
like they're personal attacks. They're very subjective instead of objective.
Do you you do see that?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Right? Like it?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
But if they if they consistently come at that type
of clip, then it's like, oh, okay, well, what are
we doing.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
No, he doesn't believe in the program and what Dianna
is selling. And as a columnist that gives his opinion,
he should have that right. And sometimes you know what, Ephraim,
you're right and sometimes you're wrong. Okay, so that does happen.
I've done it. I've done it. I didn't think Matt Millan.
I thought if the Matt Millan hire in Detroit was
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the worst hire in the history of sports, Okay, And.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I said it.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And guess what, I think I was right on that
as far as him being an executive, not that he
couldn't play one four Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
What did you say? Did you say? He like? How
did you did you say?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
He's not a good hire as a GM This is
why I don't believe he's a good hier said.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I said that fans should form the milling Man March
and march his butt out of town.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Okay, good, Okay, that's great. So I wanted his job.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I wanted him to be fired, and I thought that
he should be because he didn't do a good job.
Now everything's attached to you, so I know people say
well that's personal. Well I'm talking about you as a
football coach or GM or whatever, not about Dion Sander's
the father, the husband, whatever in your personal life and
all I'm saying, but when help me with this? Help
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me with Okay? Okay, do you understand what I'm saying.
I do understand about the rest of the media, though, Yes,
what I'm I do understand you saying, hey, we need
to take a stand because this is bull.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You can't pick and.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Choose who you can write, who you want to talk
to and and and who you want you know, what
you want them to write and all that you don't.
I understand that aspect, okay, But I also understand accountability
for the things that you say. I understand that as well.
And when it stops becoming about you know, what you're
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writing or what you're trying the message you're trying to
get across, the things that you're trying to expose or say,
and more about the one line quips that you can
you know, clickbait out there like that when you start
talking doing the whole false prophet thing, the kool aid
and now you're taking it a little bit deeper. And
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these aren't all in one article. This is over a
course of a year. So you would be like, oh, okay, man,
but day okay, well what right? Like that's the part
I'm not understanding, right, Like, look, they started off with
a bang. They didn't end with a bang. So now
I'm going to really attack. I'm going to attack show
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people that Dion is full of it, this and that
all of those things. Like to me, it's like I'm
going to prove to you and show you that Dion
Sanders is a fraud, But is Deon Sanders a fraud
as a coach because of one year in the PAC
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twelve coming from HBCU changing that program.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But that's and that's but that's somebody's opinion.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
The same way that if they signed uh, when they
signed Daniel Jones, I'm sure they would. Colinists in New
York said, what a big what a big man stake?
This guy can't play? Why would you pay him? Or
or players drafted you see it all the time, what
a mistake, Why would you draft this guy? This guy's
going to be a bust? Or or when a player
winds up being a bust? Is that wrong for a columnist?
(13:14):
You know who am I thinking? Of uh the basketball
playoff Kwame Brown, Okay, he doesn't want to be Oh,
I'm not a buzst or whatever. Dude, you were the
first overall pick and you didn't live up to what
people thought would be the expectations. That okay, but that's
what a columnist does. He So that's my opinion that
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I think you're a bust. You don't have to agree
with it, and and and and that's what I'm trying
to say. Dion doesn't have to agree with it. And
if Dion personally says to that columnist when he asked
him a question.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
No comment, I'm cool with that. Do you understand what?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Dion doesn't have to talk to him, but to single
him out and try to intimidate all the other reporters
that if you don't get in line and if you
say anything off.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Center, you'll be next.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I don't know what that message is, yeah, but I'll
think so, because you know, there's been some harsh criticisms
of Dion and the program starting the way they did
and then finishing in the way they did, Like no
one really had glowing things to say in terms of
how the program ended up. So that's not something that's like, oh, okay,
(14:34):
he's doing this. No, we get that. Everybody I had
something to say about it, You had something to say
about We all talked about it was all you know,
we thought the season was gonna go a little bit different.
They came out, they beat a ranked team, and then
they faltered. Right then we started realizing why all right,
offensive line, no offensive line there, defensive line, Like, they
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just didn't have the talent to compete at that level.
With the overhaul of of of UH scholarship players leaving
and the new ones coming in, they just didn't have
the talent. We saw that. Now we weren't saying, oh
Dieon is a false prophet, Oh Dion is all high.
Oh they really drinking the kool aid out there, like
(15:17):
we didn't. We were very critical, hyper critical of what
was happening in Colorado. But did you ever think that
Dion couldn't resonate with young players, He couldn't tap in
to young players.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
But that's it's it's it's that columnist's opinion. You're right,
and he can be wrong, Ephraim, and you could be right,
but that doesn't mean that he doesn't change his opinion
that Dion can dictate.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And that's the.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
First contract he can that's the contract he signed. He
has the right to talk to who they put it.
They let him put it in the contract. It makes
no sense. And that's why I'm talking about the media.
All right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Do
you have a problem with Dion Sanders barring members of
the media from asking questions? And should the other reporters
have boycotted the program in response, That's what I would
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have done. I'm not even kidding you, I'm dead serious.
I would have been in there and I would have said,
if he can't ask questions, then none of us will.
Let's just end this charade as a press conference or
a media session. We'll continue that conversation next with you.
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To be honest, Ephim, Let's let's run through some of these.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
We gotre and Michigan, only our couple with Chris and
with Robin ethrom What you got.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Was Rob Parker and Ephraim should have made better choice
of some how.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
What's up?
Speaker 8 (18:19):
No, man, I live by it bro for real.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
That's it. They give me through my day.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
Something going Bay. You should have made better choices, for real.
But I don't have a problem with that. And the
reason why I don't is because just a couple of
years ago, we had a president that stood in front
of people and said, I'm not talking to this person
because they were mean to me. You know what I'm saying. No,
it's not to that extent, and I know it's not important,
but once you no longer do your job or uh
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hold yourself to the standards that your job requires and
you no longer can hide behind and respect that demands.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
But here here's the issue I have.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Just because everybody's not Rob, Rob and the team, you
just can't pick out people who not on the program.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
And that's the issue that and you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You have a right not to say no comment or
not answer, but you don't have a right to tell
a reporter that they can't do their job.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Do you understand the difference that you know.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
What, we're doing his job.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
No, that's according to Dion. That's according to Dion, that's
not according to journalism.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
But it's it's two sides of the story. And from
the perspective he's saying that you were personal with what
you were saying people.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
But people who don't want to answer to the media,
that's always their response.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I'm just telling you let me ask.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
That's the response. Let's say somebody didn't want to answer
question that Jason would answer. Do you think that Do
you think they don't have a right to say that
about him?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
They have a right to say I'm not answering that
or no comment, but they don't have a right to
say that Jason can't do his job.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
That's the difference. All right, thanks Dre.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I appreciate I do believe in you know, doing your
job by doing your job right and you try to
but anybody.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Who who's to say whether you're doing it or not.
I'm just saying I get it. You know you don't
want to hear you could say, oh, you're not doing
your job. I don't talk to you.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Right, Let's go to Jackson case on our couple of
robine from what you got?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
What's happening?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Hey, man, I appreciate you taking my call, Ethan. What's
up with bel air? Y'all coming back? So we're back?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
We own man, it's six episodes out. What you're talking about?
Season three got six episodes out right now, come on,
you're sleeping and number five is out I wrote up.
You need to get on it right, You need to
get off the phone. You need to get on the
third season right now.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Peacock's that's my case, Guy Morgan right there. So yeah, man, Yeah,
we appreciate him. I didn't see no promos running.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
It's everywhere, man, and what he talks.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I watched there in the Olympics. I didn't see nothing about.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
It's on there. It's on there. Let's not get what
you got, what you got?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
All right, Well, I'll tell you what, man, Dean is
such a dichotomy in my opinion for me personally, Like
there's some parts of what I love, Like it sounded
to me from the store that I heard that he
was sticking up for a young African American reporter.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
That was probably getting you know, shafted on his opportunity. Uh.
But at the same time, if you you can't have
that kind of atmosphere where you're the Scot the Scott
bubb uh, the Scott Bowl, eliminating people from the locker
room and not letting the guy do his job, that's
that's too much. Man. So it's a lot of things
(21:24):
about the way he's running that program out there that
on one hand I love, But on the second hand,
when I see his son and that aggressiveness towards a
coach early in the season last year, and there were
just some signs and things that these young kids just
can't handle that he as an old man, he knows
how to you know, comport himself.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
But it's just it's just a weird thing with Dionna.
I want to see him do well, but I want
to see him continue to set even an even better example.
I guess so, Hey man, I appreciate the time, Bro, thank.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You, appreciate it. I wish I know we ran out
of time. We have some people I want to Rob
g hold on to those calls, Just hold on to them. Okay,
I know we got our guest coming up. Next, we're
gonna switch gear and talk some college football. What I'm
in r J Young of course from Fox Sports, He
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All right, Steve, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
It is the odd couple On a funky flashback Friday.
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Rob Parker E from salam And for Chris Brussa and
now us Welcome in.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
R J.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Young, of course, Fox College Football Analyst, host of the
number one college football show podcast, r J What's Up?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Say hi to eat from my man? Hey, how you
doing all right?
Speaker 9 (22:54):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
I'm getting there.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I'm getting there absolutely, and it's your season college football.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I know you're excited. You know, let's start here.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
What should we expect now that half of the country
is playing in the Midwest and the Big Ten? What
should we expect out of football USC UCLA? Is this?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Is this going to work? Is this going to be
great or disaster?
Speaker 9 (23:21):
I think that commands on your perspective to start. But
I am excited as a guy that has covered the
sport for half my life and getting to do this
on a national scale for Fox for about half a decade.
I can't tell you that I've been more excited about
a national college football slate than I am right now.
With the twelve teen playoffs coming in, we're going to
get home games for the playoffs. We have meaningful games
(23:43):
to start the non conference and then the SEC and
the Big Ten. Those are big boys. They're going absolutely
cannibalize each other. But at the end of this, we're
gonna find out who's good and nothing else.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
Man.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
We're playing seventeen games all the way to that championship
on January twentieth. I'm excited. That's where I think people
should expect, expect to be excited.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
That's a lot of games that's a lot of games
in college and when you look at the twelve team playoffs,
you look, I'm all for more than four.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I thought that was a bit short sighted.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
But all those games are usually blowout we've had We've
had so many lopsided play I get it.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
But twelve.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Twelve teams, so there'll be three loss teams in the playoffs?
Like it to me at the most eight, at the
most six.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
Don't so much football, Like you don't like more football.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I do like more football, But I understand. You got
to remember these are college kids, all right. It's not
we love football. We consume it like we consume air
in this country, and that's what we have the NFL for.
But when you got college kids playing seventeen games to
get to the national championship, that's a bit aggressive to me,
(25:01):
Like everybody, twelve teams. So are there twelve teams every
year not worthy of playing for the national championship? That's
my question to you.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
Yes, because there are sixteen teams that are worthy of
plays for the Super Bowl. And more than that. I'm
from Oklahomas, right, which is to say that I am
playing high school football right now. Play high school football
in Texas. Did you know they played sixteen games to
decide to stay champions. Yeah, tell you, and that they
start that they So we're already playing fifteen in college
(25:31):
to say sixteen in high school. We play eighteen plus
the postseason in the NFL. I really don't think it's
that big a deal, especially going with how far we
have come with health and safety protocols and how we
are looking around going how do we make this game sustainable?
Do we need more than one bye week? I think
we're doing this thing right. I understand that there's a
lot of people that are clutching their pearls, but not
(25:53):
for nothing. Dog Like I would want to play more
football had I been a football players, going, do I
need to play seventeen to win a nationalship because I'm
playing fifteen already. That's fine.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Your enthusiastic, and I get and get I get it
that you love college football. But what you're what you're
not being honest about, and I'm gonna just say it,
is that this is just a money grab. This ain't
about football of the kids. It's a It's an out
and out money grab. How can we make as much
money possible off these kids? Put them in harm's way
(26:28):
even more than they already are. Have them travel, have
USC play Penn State for volleyball in the middle of
the week during college because they're now in the Big Ten,
and disrupt all these kids' lives to play.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Some extra football games.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Can you at least acknowledge that that is the center
of this, not because of the joy of football.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
You want me to acknowledge that college football is the
money making No.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
That they that they've over the know that they've over
the top with this because it is about money. It's
not about the love of football. It's about the love
of money.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
No, Bob, I'll do this right.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
First of all, dishonest, No, you know.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
That's not me.
Speaker 9 (27:11):
I mean, chill out with that, right. Take a part
of that is, Hey, money, you want to talk about
the money that is being spread out, go to the
Big Ten, go to the SEC. Talk about what they're
paying out in those leagues. The college football playoffs itself
is expanding because folks like myself w four teams ain't enough,
because the BCS wasn't enough, because the.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Bowl Allnes wasn't enough.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
And I don't believe that my self bulies for the
national champion decide the damn national champion. I think that
you should be able to go out there and win
it on your own, and we need to build a
playoff system that allows for that. This is one of
the reasons I was so upset about forty State last year.
They did everything that they were asked to do. And
you want to talk about dishonest relies to those kids.
(27:50):
We lied to them when we said, hey, if you
beat everybody in front of you in more Power for Conference,
you win your championship, we will give you a shot
at the bills. And what do we say. We say,
I didn't believe what we saw for the state. Do
you tell the kids that the game is about the team?
You tell the kids that the game is about more.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Than one person.
Speaker 9 (28:08):
They didn't have Jordan Travis and they got left out
of the college football playoffs for an Alabama team that
got deep pot texts earlier in the season, Dan near
Luck Calmer, And we got a Georgia team that was
mad that they got left out, and you put Luck
at toc championship game. I'm passionate about this stuff because
fairness for the kids is what I'm here for the
name of the likeness, Fairness for the kids. Nobody complained
(28:31):
about ten million dollars head coach. Nobody complains about paying
out one billion annually.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
To the Big ten.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
But you're gonna complain to me about a twelve team playoff,
the college football playoffs.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
That is, yeah, but the kids don't cash out. The
kids don't get the money. The kids don't get the
money from that. They're getting paid by sponsors and nil,
they're not getting paid by the universities. The ket still
doesn't get any money from that. What does it What
does that mean?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
They always coming It ain't It is't here.
Speaker 9 (29:02):
Look look, look, look on blops. I just watch the
LA guy just pay out a billion dollars two players.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Nobody's that's the profession.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
There's a huge difference.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
It's not because it is it is.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Guess what r J R J R j r J.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Listen, r J guess what show Hey Matt Suma uh
uh uh Mookie bets oh tany. They don't have history class,
they don't have uh, economics or chemistry lab. They don't
have a g p A that they have to maintain. Right,
(29:44):
they're getting paid, although hold on, Although college kids are
making money now because of their name, image and likeness.
Their main priority is school because if they do not
go to class, they won't play. They're not playing, so
it they are not professionals. Go ahead, you are.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
A professional the moment somebody gets paying you to do
a job. Okay, we call it barner, we call it scholarship,
but to do your GPA.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Point.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
We have this thing called the offered reward by sports.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Maybe you've heard of this.
Speaker 9 (30:15):
It's the one where we pay kids for having good
grades and being good students. And at the University of Nebraska,
the universe get tulsa. All over the countries, we have
seen GPAs at an all time high. The football players
not because they're afraid I'm not being able to play,
because they're getting paid for good grades. And as far
as we're talking about being a professional here, we all
(30:37):
want these kids to act like professionals. Let me tell
you something. You get enlisted in our military at eighteen.
Somebody could put a weapon in your hand and.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Ask you go to defend this country.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
But you won't get mad about the eighteen year old.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Make us a little bit of no.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
I don't said nobody even said that I was a
college athlete. I'm in favor of kids making money on
what they do.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yes, Chris and I I've talked about this. These kids have.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Been robbed, but I'm what I'm saying and taking advantage
of for a long time on their plate.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
When you mentioned the two guys who made a billion
dollars for the Dodgers, all they're doing is playing.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Baseball, nothing else. That's nothing else.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
And there is a difference when you're studying for finals
and you're playing seventeen at college football game.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
There's the difference.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
We see it in the NCAA where they have the
march madness and the kids on the road for all
these games.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
During supposedly school.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
How they're playing games during during these finals and whatnot.
But anyway, r J, we love you, appreciate it. As always.
We just got to run. Thank you, my man. We'll
have you again, okay, buddy.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Thank you, all right.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Appreciate y'all, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Thank you. All right.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
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(32:52):
it is shop talk here on the couchry.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yes. Can I say this real quick? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I don't want to sound like I notice is ridiculous.
But Aaron jud just hit another home run. Oh gosh,
it's this ridiculous. No, is this ridiculous? He needs baby
oil and a cigarette. I'm just saying, candle man.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Okay, So shot talk we talk about something happened outside
of the world of sports. This week's comes to us
from the world of music, where pop Sensation Chappelle. Rowan
has the Internet split right down the middle.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I thought he was a comedian.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
It's a female singer. She went on a TikTok and
said this about dealing with fans and popularity. Quote, it's
weird how people think you know a person just because
you see them online and you listen to the art
that they make. Being a singer doesn't mean that I
want it, doesn't mean that I like it. I don't
care if you think it's selfish of me to say
(33:46):
no for a photo or for your time or for
a hug. That's not normal, that's weird. Ethan will start
with you. You're a long time, big time celebrity.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
It's a he's a big writer on a big peacock
TV show.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Do you you agree with Rowan and do you feel
like part of being famous means dealing with the pandemonium
that is fandom?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Yeah, it's part of being it. But nevertheless, we're human beings,
just like you may deal with something differently than I do.
There is no guidelines on how to be famous. That's
the catch. Some some artists, some entertainers, some athletes are forthcoming.
(34:29):
You have we in a in an age where mental
health and things are are prevalent and prominent like never before.
People have social anxieties, people have all types of things
that they're dealing with. And just because someone makes a
song or is popular an actor or singer or whatever
(34:53):
that is, that doesn't that radio Hold on, wait a minute,
that doesn't excuse the fact that they're human and they're
dealing with their own things. So you have to they
have to abide by whatever you think a celebrity should
acquis to go ahead.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
That's not that's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I just think that's a cop out, and so it
is because it's so you didn't have social anxiety or
social anxiety.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
You don't know that that's a and you put the
tweet out to get people to buy your music or
come to your pizza pallor or to make money for you,
and nobody's saying that you're at a fans becking call anytime,
any situation or any circumstance.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
But it comes with the job from it does, whether
you like it or not.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
If you don't want anybody to bother you, go work
at the post office and nobody will bother you.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
So if you could gift no I'm just telling you
copt with it the job. I'm the best quarterback in
the world.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
I should not be a quarterback because I have social
anxiety and I don't want people that I don't know
coming up trying to hug me or take pictures. Say that,
that's what you're eluding, though, I'm just saying, go do
something else.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
No, it's because what people want is they want to
make money off the public and then shun those same
people who support money. And that's not what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
This whole notion that people don't want to deal with
the fans and they are newsome and they make.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
My life miserable because I'm a millionaire.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Ten times they're hiding in my bushes and going trash.
I didn't say that camping out outside of my kids school, right. Like,
for every fan that's innocent and wants to just take
a picture and say hi, there's also five that wants
to take off a piece of your hair and and
make a So don't give me that.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
How do you know which is which I have? I
have an salamvu. I know you do.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
I'm find every time my money here killing you, I
feel my side started hurting.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Rob g I called below. I'm just gonna say that.
Ephraim's point is while taking However, when I'm out with
Ephrom and people see him on the.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Streets, he can't wait to take pictures. Well, that's not true.
That is true. I see, it's true. I see. I
feel like you also have your days out.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
I have my days like I'm like, yo, bro, I
don't I'm I'm good if I'm eating. When I was
playing and I was with my wife and we were
out celebrating something, brouh, that's.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Not what we're doing.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
I got you.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
People don't care about that though, Mary Matt, if you
saw me on the street, you would come over and say,
Robert listen to the show.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Would No. That's why we're gonna break right now. A
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the Fox College Football Analysts. He'll join us as college
football season Ephram gets kicked off. I think is there
a game tonight? And then games are on Saturday? So
college football is here and from Obviously we had some
technical difficulties to start to show. I didn't really get
(01:19):
to say hello to you, and it's always great to
have you join us here on the I Couple.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Absolutely, man, you know. Look, I tried to hold it
down as best I could without you, but you're here
now and I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Happy to be a part of this, So no doubt,
always great and from this is something that's near and
dear to my heart. And this is good for both
of us because you know, you you are a player
at the highest level, professional athlete, and you've also been
in this business for a long time, so you've had
(01:52):
both sides.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You know. Me, I'm gonna die dieding in the wall.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Reporter, you know, despite the television, despite the radio show,
all that other stuff. You know, I am a sports writer.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
That's what I am. I've never wavered from that. You've
never seen me put.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
On the team uniform or call some team my team
or any of that, because I'm just not That's not
what I do.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But this story, and Rob g can you jump in
with us, This story from Colorado and Dion and the
university and a columnist there, it just bothers the hell
out of me, It really does. And as mad as
I am of Dion and the University, I'm more upset
(02:40):
from of the reporters who worked there in Colorado, who
covered the Buffalo's But Rob g spell it out first,
and I'll tell you why this story.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Is a doozy.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I said the notes earlier in the afternoon, after you
guys both saw it, and then I saw this after
the fact. I didn't even bother to update the email.
I just take it Rob directly. You're doing this one
because I know exactly what You're gonna come out, guns blazing. Colorado,
the athletic department, specifically their football program, has informed the
Denver Post that Dion Sanders and anyone else within their
(03:15):
football program will no longer take questions from columnist columnist
Sean Keeler. In a statement sent to the Post, Colorado
said that they have received a quote series of sustained
personal attacks in Keeler's coverage of the program. When asked
(03:36):
for specific examples on how they personally were attacked by Keeler,
they've referenced a handful of stories which used phrases such
as quote, false, prophet, deposition, Dion Planet Prime, the Bruce
Lee of BS, the Dion Kool Aid, and overall describe
(04:00):
the program as a quote circus.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Aphraim. Here's here's why I'm mad. Here's why I'm mad.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Forget about Dion and Colorado.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Shame on them.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Okay, big babies, do you remember when Colorado won its
first game last year?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Remember?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And what did Dion do in the very first game?
What do you do? He called out ed Ward? Do
you remember that, right, Rob g Was it ed Ward? Yep?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
He said?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Now what do you think you remember? That called him
out of the first game. Okay, here's my problem. Forget Colorado,
forget the football team. If you're members of the media,
not only from the Denver Post, but from all the newspapers,
(04:51):
TV and radio stations that covered that football team, they
should refuse to cover Colorado football. If they're going to
exclude a columnist from doing his job, Ephram, they have every.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Right not to answer a question from that guy.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Do you hear me, You're not You're not obligated, Ephraim.
If I'm go up to you and I say, e,
from what happened on that play, whatever you know or
whatever you with, then the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Lost the whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Okay, you could say to me, no comment, and I
have to respect that.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Do you understand there's a difference between.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Letting a guy do his job and you not participating.
But when you tell a guy that he can't do
his job or he can't be around.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
If you're a.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Member of the media not working for the Denver Posts
and you're with another outlet, if you allow Dion and
Colorado to do this to this college, the stuff that
he said he from is nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Those are what that's what columnists do.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
There was once a general manager in Detroit named Jerry Walker.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I think he's passed away now, and he from.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
His big thing was he couldn't get pitching for the Tigers.
You know what nickname I gave he could never make
a trade to get pitching.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I gave him the nickname doctor Doolittle.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Okay, that's not bad, right, doctor, because he couldn't get
any trades done. Randy Smith was another Tiger general manager.
I gave him the nickname rancid Randy. Anything he touched
just turned to Google.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And my point is as a columnist, that's the license
you get right your opinion to be witty whatever. And
people have a right to want to talk to me
or not answer my quest that's fine.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
But the single lot of guy and tell.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Him that he can't participate or ask any questions is
unheard of. And the rest of the media cannot allow
this to happen.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, okay, now it's our job to be objective, right right,
Like you said, the first thing you said on this is,
I don't claim a team. I'm a reporter, Yes, you know,
I'm just my opinion, the facts, the whole nine yards.
But what happens when your objective opinion starts to become subjective?
(07:27):
Right when you start to, you know, really lash out
at somebody? Yeah, personally, but.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That what's personal? Personally? When you start saying person is
your fat or or you're you're no, no, no, I'm just
hear me out, hear me out.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
There's a degree of that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I think there's a poetic license that comes with being
a columnist more so than.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
The beat writer.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
If you're covering the team, you're not really supposed to
put your opinion in it. But opinions from columnists. I
don't believe in this program you have the as a columnist.
That's what people What do you think is Colorado real
or fake? Is Dion a good coach or bad coach?
That that's what a columnist does. So Dion's a bad coach?
(08:19):
Is that personal?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
But that's not what he was saying, Rob, can you
give us some of those things that he had he
had said again that you listed off.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Sure.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
The phrases were used as follows quote false prophet, deposition,
Dion planet Prime, the Bruce Lee of BS okay, the
Dion kool Aid, and describing the program as quote a circus.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Right now, that's not saying I don't think Deon Sanders
is a good coach. And this is why that's not
saying Colorado is not a good program. They don't have
enough talent. That's you're you're going to step beyond. And
I know, look and I get it. We live in
an age now where we're inundated with podcasts and reporters
(09:07):
and and and shows, and so in a sense, you
do want to stick out.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
You don't want to be like everybody else.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Right, if everybody's like, well, this is this is this
is happening, and that's not happening, so you you go
a little bit further right, false profit the Bruce Lee
of BS. Like, all of these things are now feeling
like they're personal attacks. They're very subjective instead of objective.
Do you you do see that?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Right? Like it?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
But if they if they consistently come at that type
of clip, then it's like, oh, okay, well, what are
we doing.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
No, he doesn't believe in the program and what Dianna
is selling. And as a columnist that gives his opinion,
he should have that right. And sometimes you know what, Ephraim,
you're right and sometimes you're wrong. Okay, so that does happen.
I've done it. I've done it. I didn't think Matt Millan.
I thought if the Matt Millan hire in Detroit was
(10:07):
the worst hire in the history of sports, Okay, And.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I said it.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And guess what, I think I was right on that
as far as him being an executive, not that he
couldn't play one four Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
What did you say? Did you say? He like? How
did you did you say?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
He's not a good hire as a GM This is
why I don't believe he's a good hier said.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I said that fans should form the milling Man March
and march his butt out of town.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Okay, good, Okay, that's great. So I wanted his job.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I wanted him to be fired, and I thought that
he should be because he didn't do a good job.
Now everything's attached to you, so I know people say
well that's personal. Well I'm talking about you as a
football coach or GM or whatever, not about Dion Sander's
the father, the husband, whatever in your personal life and
all I'm saying, but when help me with this? Help
(11:04):
me with Okay? Okay, do you understand what I'm saying.
I do understand about the rest of the media, though, Yes,
what I'm I do understand you saying, hey, we need
to take a stand because this is bull.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You can't pick and.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Choose who you can write, who you want to talk
to and and and who you want you know, what
you want them to write and all that you don't.
I understand that aspect, okay, But I also understand accountability
for the things that you say. I understand that as well.
And when it stops becoming about you know, what you're
(11:38):
writing or what you're trying the message you're trying to
get across, the things that you're trying to expose or say,
and more about the one line quips that you can
you know, clickbait out there like that when you start
talking doing the whole false prophet thing, the kool aid
and now you're taking it a little bit deeper. And
(12:00):
these aren't all in one article. This is over a
course of a year. So you would be like, oh, okay, man,
but day okay, well what right? Like that's the part
I'm not understanding, right, Like, look, they started off with
a bang. They didn't end with a bang. So now
I'm going to really attack. I'm going to attack show
(12:22):
people that Dion is full of it, this and that
all of those things. Like to me, it's like I'm
going to prove to you and show you that Dion
Sanders is a fraud, But is Deon Sanders a fraud
as a coach because of one year in the PAC
(12:43):
twelve coming from HBCU changing that program.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But that's and that's but that's somebody's opinion.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
The same way that if they signed uh, when they
signed Daniel Jones, I'm sure they would. Colinists in New
York said, what a big what a big man stake?
This guy can't play? Why would you pay him? Or
or players drafted you see it all the time, what
a mistake, Why would you draft this guy? This guy's
going to be a bust? Or or when a player
winds up being a bust? Is that wrong for a columnist?
(13:14):
You know who am I thinking? Of uh the basketball
playoff Kwame Brown, Okay, he doesn't want to be Oh,
I'm not a buzst or whatever. Dude, you were the
first overall pick and you didn't live up to what
people thought would be the expectations. That okay, but that's
what a columnist does. He So that's my opinion that
(13:37):
I think you're a bust. You don't have to agree
with it, and and and and that's what I'm trying
to say. Dion doesn't have to agree with it. And
if Dion personally says to that columnist when he asked
him a question.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
No comment, I'm cool with that. Do you understand what?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Dion doesn't have to talk to him, but to single
him out and try to intimidate all the other reporters
that if you don't get in line and if you
say anything off.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Center, you'll be next.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I don't know what that message is, yeah, but I'll
think so, because you know, there's been some harsh criticisms
of Dion and the program starting the way they did
and then finishing in the way they did, Like no
one really had glowing things to say in terms of
how the program ended up. So that's not something that's like, oh, okay,
(14:34):
he's doing this. No, we get that. Everybody I had
something to say about it, You had something to say
about We all talked about it was all you know,
we thought the season was gonna go a little bit different.
They came out, they beat a ranked team, and then
they faltered. Right then we started realizing why all right,
offensive line, no offensive line there, defensive line, Like, they
(14:57):
just didn't have the talent to compete at that level.
With the overhaul of of of UH scholarship players leaving
and the new ones coming in, they just didn't have
the talent. We saw that. Now we weren't saying, oh
Dieon is a false prophet, Oh Dion is all high.
Oh they really drinking the kool aid out there, like
(15:17):
we didn't. We were very critical, hyper critical of what
was happening in Colorado. But did you ever think that
Dion couldn't resonate with young players, He couldn't tap in
to young players.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
But that's it's it's it's that columnist's opinion. You're right,
and he can be wrong, Ephraim, and you could be right,
but that doesn't mean that he doesn't change his opinion
that Dion can dictate.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And that's the.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
First contract he can that's the contract he signed. He
has the right to talk to who they put it.
They let him put it in the contract. It makes
no sense. And that's why I'm talking about the media.
All right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Do
you have a problem with Dion Sanders barring members of
the media from asking questions? And should the other reporters
have boycotted the program in response, That's what I would
(16:09):
have done. I'm not even kidding you, I'm dead serious.
I would have been in there and I would have said,
if he can't ask questions, then none of us will.
Let's just end this charade as a press conference or
a media session. We'll continue that conversation next with you.
It's The Odd Couple Rob Parker e from Salam on
this funky Flashback Friday right here on Fox Sports Radio.
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To be honest, Ephim, Let's let's run through some of these.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
We gotre and Michigan, only our couple with Chris and
with Robin ethrom What you got.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Was Rob Parker and Ephraim should have made better choice
of some how.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
What's up?
Speaker 8 (18:19):
No, man, I live by it bro for real.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
That's it. They give me through my day.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
Something going Bay. You should have made better choices, for real.
But I don't have a problem with that. And the
reason why I don't is because just a couple of
years ago, we had a president that stood in front
of people and said, I'm not talking to this person
because they were mean to me. You know what I'm saying. No,
it's not to that extent, and I know it's not important,
but once you no longer do your job or uh
(18:45):
hold yourself to the standards that your job requires and
you no longer can hide behind and respect that demands.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
But here here's the issue I have.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Just because everybody's not Rob, Rob and the team, you
just can't pick out people who not on the program.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
And that's the issue that and you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You have a right not to say no comment or
not answer, but you don't have a right to tell
a reporter that they can't do their job.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Do you understand the difference that you know.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
What, we're doing his job.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
No, that's according to Dion. That's according to Dion, that's
not according to journalism.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
But it's it's two sides of the story. And from
the perspective he's saying that you were personal with what
you were saying people.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
But people who don't want to answer to the media,
that's always their response.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I'm just telling you let me ask.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
That's the response. Let's say somebody didn't want to answer
question that Jason would answer. Do you think that Do
you think they don't have a right to say that
about him?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
They have a right to say I'm not answering that
or no comment, but they don't have a right to
say that Jason can't do his job.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
That's the difference. All right, thanks Dre.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I appreciate I do believe in you know, doing your
job by doing your job right and you try to
but anybody.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Who who's to say whether you're doing it or not.
I'm just saying I get it. You know you don't
want to hear you could say, oh, you're not doing
your job. I don't talk to you.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Right, Let's go to Jackson case on our couple of
robine from what you got?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
What's happening?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Hey, man, I appreciate you taking my call, Ethan. What's
up with bel air? Y'all coming back? So we're back?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
We own man, it's six episodes out. What you're talking about?
Season three got six episodes out right now, come on,
you're sleeping and number five is out I wrote up.
You need to get on it right, You need to
get off the phone. You need to get on the
third season right now.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Peacock's that's my case, Guy Morgan right there. So yeah, man, Yeah,
we appreciate him. I didn't see no promos running.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
It's everywhere, man, and what he talks.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I watched there in the Olympics. I didn't see nothing about.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
It's on there. It's on there. Let's not get what
you got, what you got?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
All right, Well, I'll tell you what, man, Dean is
such a dichotomy in my opinion for me personally, Like
there's some parts of what I love, Like it sounded
to me from the store that I heard that he
was sticking up for a young African American reporter.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
That was probably getting you know, shafted on his opportunity. Uh.
But at the same time, if you you can't have
that kind of atmosphere where you're the Scot the Scott
bubb uh, the Scott Bowl, eliminating people from the locker
room and not letting the guy do his job, that's
that's too much. Man. So it's a lot of things
(21:24):
about the way he's running that program out there that
on one hand I love, But on the second hand,
when I see his son and that aggressiveness towards a
coach early in the season last year, and there were
just some signs and things that these young kids just
can't handle that he as an old man, he knows
how to you know, comport himself.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
But it's just it's just a weird thing with Dionna.
I want to see him do well, but I want
to see him continue to set even an even better example.
I guess so, Hey man, I appreciate the time, Bro, thank.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You, appreciate it. I wish I know we ran out
of time. We have some people I want to Rob
g hold on to those calls, Just hold on to them. Okay,
I know we got our guest coming up. Next, we're
gonna switch gear and talk some college football. What I'm
in r J Young of course from Fox Sports, He
joins his next First, let's get you caught up.
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All right, Steve, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
It is the odd couple On a funky flashback Friday.
We're coming to you live from the tyrack dot com studios.
Rob Parker E from salam And for Chris Brussa and
now us Welcome in.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
R J.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Young, of course, Fox College Football Analyst, host of the
number one college football show podcast, r J What's Up?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Say hi to eat from my man? Hey, how you
doing all right?
Speaker 9 (22:54):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
I'm getting there.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I'm getting there absolutely, and it's your season college football.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I know you're excited. You know, let's start here.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
What should we expect now that half of the country
is playing in the Midwest and the Big Ten? What
should we expect out of football USC UCLA? Is this?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Is this going to work? Is this going to be
great or disaster?
Speaker 9 (23:21):
I think that commands on your perspective to start. But
I am excited as a guy that has covered the
sport for half my life and getting to do this
on a national scale for Fox for about half a decade.
I can't tell you that I've been more excited about
a national college football slate than I am right now.
With the twelve teen playoffs coming in, we're going to
get home games for the playoffs. We have meaningful games
(23:43):
to start the non conference and then the SEC and
the Big Ten. Those are big boys. They're going absolutely
cannibalize each other. But at the end of this, we're
gonna find out who's good and nothing else.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
Man.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
We're playing seventeen games all the way to that championship
on January twentieth. I'm excited. That's where I think people
should expect, expect to be excited.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
That's a lot of games that's a lot of games
in college and when you look at the twelve team playoffs,
you look, I'm all for more than four.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I thought that was a bit short sighted.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
But all those games are usually blowout we've had We've
had so many lopsided play I get it.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
But twelve.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Twelve teams, so there'll be three loss teams in the playoffs?
Like it to me at the most eight, at the
most six.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
Don't so much football, Like you don't like more football.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I do like more football, But I understand. You got
to remember these are college kids, all right. It's not
we love football. We consume it like we consume air
in this country, and that's what we have the NFL for.
But when you got college kids playing seventeen games to
get to the national championship, that's a bit aggressive to me,
(25:01):
Like everybody, twelve teams. So are there twelve teams every
year not worthy of playing for the national championship? That's
my question to you.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
Yes, because there are sixteen teams that are worthy of
plays for the Super Bowl. And more than that. I'm
from Oklahomas, right, which is to say that I am
playing high school football right now. Play high school football
in Texas. Did you know they played sixteen games to
decide to stay champions. Yeah, tell you, and that they
start that they So we're already playing fifteen in college
(25:31):
to say sixteen in high school. We play eighteen plus
the postseason in the NFL. I really don't think it's
that big a deal, especially going with how far we
have come with health and safety protocols and how we
are looking around going how do we make this game sustainable?
Do we need more than one bye week? I think
we're doing this thing right. I understand that there's a
lot of people that are clutching their pearls, but not
(25:53):
for nothing. Dog Like I would want to play more
football had I been a football players, going, do I
need to play seventeen to win a nationalship because I'm
playing fifteen already. That's fine.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Your enthusiastic, and I get and get I get it
that you love college football. But what you're what you're
not being honest about, and I'm gonna just say it,
is that this is just a money grab. This ain't
about football of the kids. It's a It's an out
and out money grab. How can we make as much
money possible off these kids? Put them in harm's way
(26:28):
even more than they already are. Have them travel, have
USC play Penn State for volleyball in the middle of
the week during college because they're now in the Big Ten,
and disrupt all these kids' lives to play.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Some extra football games.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Can you at least acknowledge that that is the center
of this, not because of the joy of football.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
You want me to acknowledge that college football is the
money making No.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
That they that they've over the know that they've over
the top with this because it is about money. It's
not about the love of football. It's about the love
of money.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
No, Bob, I'll do this right.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
First of all, dishonest, No, you know.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
That's not me.
Speaker 9 (27:11):
I mean, chill out with that, right. Take a part
of that is, Hey, money, you want to talk about
the money that is being spread out, go to the
Big Ten, go to the SEC. Talk about what they're
paying out in those leagues. The college football playoffs itself
is expanding because folks like myself w four teams ain't enough,
because the BCS wasn't enough, because the.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Bowl Allnes wasn't enough.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
And I don't believe that my self bulies for the
national champion decide the damn national champion. I think that
you should be able to go out there and win
it on your own, and we need to build a
playoff system that allows for that. This is one of
the reasons I was so upset about forty State last year.
They did everything that they were asked to do. And
you want to talk about dishonest relies to those kids.
(27:50):
We lied to them when we said, hey, if you
beat everybody in front of you in more Power for Conference,
you win your championship, we will give you a shot
at the bills. And what do we say. We say,
I didn't believe what we saw for the state. Do
you tell the kids that the game is about the team?
You tell the kids that the game is about more.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Than one person.
Speaker 9 (28:08):
They didn't have Jordan Travis and they got left out
of the college football playoffs for an Alabama team that
got deep pot texts earlier in the season, Dan near
Luck Calmer, And we got a Georgia team that was
mad that they got left out, and you put Luck
at toc championship game. I'm passionate about this stuff because
fairness for the kids is what I'm here for the
name of the likeness, Fairness for the kids. Nobody complained
(28:31):
about ten million dollars head coach. Nobody complains about paying
out one billion annually.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
To the Big ten.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
But you're gonna complain to me about a twelve team playoff,
the college football playoffs.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
That is, yeah, but the kids don't cash out. The
kids don't get the money. The kids don't get the
money from that. They're getting paid by sponsors and nil,
they're not getting paid by the universities. The ket still
doesn't get any money from that. What does it What
does that mean?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
They always coming It ain't It is't here.
Speaker 9 (29:02):
Look look, look, look on blops. I just watch the
LA guy just pay out a billion dollars two players.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Nobody's that's the profession.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
There's a huge difference.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
It's not because it is it is.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Guess what r J R J R j r J.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Listen, r J guess what show Hey Matt Suma uh
uh uh Mookie bets oh tany. They don't have history class,
they don't have uh, economics or chemistry lab. They don't
have a g p A that they have to maintain. Right,
(29:44):
they're getting paid, although hold on, Although college kids are
making money now because of their name, image and likeness.
Their main priority is school because if they do not
go to class, they won't play. They're not playing, so
it they are not professionals. Go ahead, you are.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
A professional the moment somebody gets paying you to do
a job. Okay, we call it barner, we call it scholarship,
but to do your GPA.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Point.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
We have this thing called the offered reward by sports.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Maybe you've heard of this.
Speaker 9 (30:15):
It's the one where we pay kids for having good
grades and being good students. And at the University of Nebraska,
the universe get tulsa. All over the countries, we have
seen GPAs at an all time high. The football players
not because they're afraid I'm not being able to play,
because they're getting paid for good grades. And as far
as we're talking about being a professional here, we all
(30:37):
want these kids to act like professionals. Let me tell
you something. You get enlisted in our military at eighteen.
Somebody could put a weapon in your hand and.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Ask you go to defend this country.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
But you won't get mad about the eighteen year old.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Make us a little bit of no.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
I don't said nobody even said that I was a
college athlete. I'm in favor of kids making money on
what they do.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yes, Chris and I I've talked about this. These kids have.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Been robbed, but I'm what I'm saying and taking advantage
of for a long time on their plate.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
When you mentioned the two guys who made a billion
dollars for the Dodgers, all they're doing is playing.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Baseball, nothing else. That's nothing else.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
And there is a difference when you're studying for finals
and you're playing seventeen at college football game.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
There's the difference.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
We see it in the NCAA where they have the
march madness and the kids on the road for all
these games.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
During supposedly school.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
How they're playing games during during these finals and whatnot.
But anyway, r J, we love you, appreciate it. As always.
We just got to run. Thank you, my man. We'll
have you again, okay, buddy.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Thank you, all right.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Appreciate y'all, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Thank you. All right.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
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Now it's time for a little shop talk. That's right,
(32:52):
it is shop talk here on the couchry.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yes. Can I say this real quick? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I don't want to sound like I notice is ridiculous.
But Aaron jud just hit another home run. Oh gosh,
it's this ridiculous. No, is this ridiculous? He needs baby
oil and a cigarette. I'm just saying, candle man.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Okay, So shot talk we talk about something happened outside
of the world of sports. This week's comes to us
from the world of music, where pop Sensation Chappelle. Rowan
has the Internet split right down the middle.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I thought he was a comedian.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
It's a female singer. She went on a TikTok and
said this about dealing with fans and popularity. Quote, it's
weird how people think you know a person just because
you see them online and you listen to the art
that they make. Being a singer doesn't mean that I
want it, doesn't mean that I like it. I don't
care if you think it's selfish of me to say
(33:46):
no for a photo or for your time or for
a hug. That's not normal, that's weird. Ethan will start
with you. You're a long time, big time celebrity.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
It's a he's a big writer on a big peacock
TV show.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Do you you agree with Rowan and do you feel
like part of being famous means dealing with the pandemonium
that is fandom?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Yeah, it's part of being it. But nevertheless, we're human beings,
just like you may deal with something differently than I do.
There is no guidelines on how to be famous. That's
the catch. Some some artists, some entertainers, some athletes are forthcoming.
(34:29):
You have we in a in an age where mental
health and things are are prevalent and prominent like never before.
People have social anxieties, people have all types of things
that they're dealing with. And just because someone makes a
song or is popular an actor or singer or whatever
(34:53):
that is, that doesn't that radio Hold on, wait a minute,
that doesn't excuse the fact that they're human and they're
dealing with their own things. So you have to they
have to abide by whatever you think a celebrity should
acquis to go ahead.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
That's not that's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I just think that's a cop out, and so it
is because it's so you didn't have social anxiety or
social anxiety.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
You don't know that that's a and you put the
tweet out to get people to buy your music or
come to your pizza pallor or to make money for you,
and nobody's saying that you're at a fans becking call anytime,
any situation or any circumstance.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
But it comes with the job from it does, whether
you like it or not.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
If you don't want anybody to bother you, go work
at the post office and nobody will bother you.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
So if you could gift no I'm just telling you
copt with it the job. I'm the best quarterback in
the world.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
I should not be a quarterback because I have social
anxiety and I don't want people that I don't know
coming up trying to hug me or take pictures. Say that,
that's what you're eluding, though, I'm just saying, go do
something else.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
No, it's because what people want is they want to
make money off the public and then shun those same
people who support money. And that's not what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
This whole notion that people don't want to deal with
the fans and they are newsome and they make.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
My life miserable because I'm a millionaire.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Ten times they're hiding in my bushes and going trash.
I didn't say that camping out outside of my kids school, right. Like,
for every fan that's innocent and wants to just take
a picture and say hi, there's also five that wants
to take off a piece of your hair and and
make a So don't give me that.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
How do you know which is which I have? I
have an salamvu. I know you do.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
I'm find every time my money here killing you, I
feel my side started hurting.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Rob g I called below. I'm just gonna say that.
Ephraim's point is while taking However, when I'm out with
Ephrom and people see him on the.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Streets, he can't wait to take pictures. Well, that's not true.
That is true. I see, it's true. I see. I
feel like you also have your days out.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
I have my days like I'm like, yo, bro, I
don't I'm I'm good if I'm eating. When I was
playing and I was with my wife and we were
out celebrating something, brouh, that's.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Not what we're doing.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
I got you.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
People don't care about that though, Mary Matt, if you
saw me on the street, you would come over and say,
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