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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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welcome into the radio program. It is Chuck Them Back
in the Morning. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.
Great to have you with us here on this Thursday.
We've got four hours of sports talk radio and other
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So welcome aboard. You are most welcome into our show
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and into our hearts and into our minds. Stay out
of there, by.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
The way, you don't want to be there.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, get out of there.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You're really messing with my stuff. Chuck Powell, Bucky Jacobson,
Ashley Ryan with you here on this Thursday morning. Great
to have you with us. It is Halloween eve, so
all Hallow's Eve eve. Yeah, and let me just on
behalf of decent human beings everywhere. I hope that you
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were chill, and you as well, since you're going to
be in charge of your children. I would assume the
next couple of days here as they put on costumes
and try to steal candy from people with a smile
on their face, they we hope that you get the
weather that we got yesterday and today, because I hear
there's an atmospheric river coming again on Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Another one. Yeah, that's when I heard a sad one.
I'm done. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I mean, it's one thing for sprinkle on Halloween. It's
another thing to get an atmospheric river dumped on you
while you put thought and time into a costume idea.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I mean, come on, now, I don't mind an atmospheric
river in general, but like two weekends in a row
one when I've got to be outside all weekend for
softball and now Halloween.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I have long had a problem with atmospheric rivers at
all times, and look this hurts personally. An atmospheric river
stole my mom from oh make sense? Yeah, they ran
off together during some really impressionable years for me, like
eleven twelve years old. I just didn't see my mom
for a couple of years because, I mean we kept
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getting pictures of her and atmospheric river like celebrating all
the Disney World, you know. So I guess I gets
kept in contact with them, but I've just always had an.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Extra grind, makes sense, Yeah, I get it. Yeah, Yeah,
I mean I think you maybe should talk to the
folks at you know, the news stations, and you have
to bring it up. I mean, can you not just
call it heavy rain because your mom didn't cheat with
heavy rain? Right? We did just.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Invent weather terms, didn't we when we had to come
up with something scarier like rainstorms just not effective anymore.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
But that's what everybody thinks. But they've all actually been
around since like the seventies.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I've never heard of an atmosphere.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
They used to call them pineapple express like that's basically
what they call them here.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh really, because it's.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Usually something that he that because usually yeah, like it
comes from Hawaii and then it travels across the Pacific
Ocean and you get all this, yeah, and it's usually
like but I guess that might make it a little
bit warmer.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
It's been around for a long time because the cyclone
is the other one that everybody freaks out and it's like,
you just made it up.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think they did. They didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's actually been around since like the seventies.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well maybe they didn't used to use it because it
was too scary, and now television crews are.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Like, no, we've got to scare people.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's what gets them to watch us. Haboobs. I lived
in Arizona.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That's not a thing. Haboobs. Yeah, they just made up
a word. It's a storm.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But it is scary, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It can be.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I mean, I mean I wouldn't go try to play
you know, volleyball in it, but yeah, but you know,
I mean I as far as like storms go, I
think it's the least scary one of the hurricane cyclone
you know, bomb cyclones. Family, I'd probably take a hoboob
over anything else. Just get some goggles and don't drive.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I'm just pretty much hair my face in a haboob.
But I think it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
The point is I want your kids to have a
good Halloween tomorrow, and it doesn't look like mother Nature
is going to cooperate. Mother Nature is gonna basically turn
out the lights on her porch so that nobody bothers her,
which is like, come on, yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Think mother Nature gives a rip about Halloween. But then again,
if you live in Seattle, I mean, if you really
don't go trick or treating because it's dump and you
just don't do it as long, I think that most
people in there in there, uh, that they're sitting there
giving out candy. If I'm giving out candy, nobody comes
to our neighborhood. It's not a road you walk up
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and down at night, and so I but I would
just be given like handfuls, like, hey, kids, you're not
gonna be out here as long as normal, Okay, you're
not gonna hit So here's handfuls of stuff. We're still
going ripping down their face.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah exactly. I mean, here's Kate, like I work so
hard on that wrestling costume, you know, and now all
of a sudden she's got to watch it, like melt
off of her pride and joy, Yeah, right off his shoulders.
So I'm thinking about everybody.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I'm trying to think about everybody right.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Now, considerate, I think.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
So.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, last year, I remember it poured too.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I remember we went after we'd done all the most
of the trigger treating, we went to another neighborhood where
a bunch of our friends were all gathered around by
the fire pit, and the kids were all in the neighborhood. Oh,
the parents were having a blast. They're all dry under tents,
sitting by a fire pit. The kids all come back
just drenched from trick or treat them.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Well, I was just sitting there thinking last night as
I was walking around and I did a little trick
or treating last night. I went to Target to get
some socks, and apparently I had to pay for it.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Oh you know, I said, a trick or treat it
seems weird in the spirit Barnes.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And Noble and got a book and apparently I had
to pay for that too.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
They're not in the spirit of.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Things treating wrong.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
But anyway, I was walking around like, man, this is
the night to go trigger treat. It's a perfect fall evening.
Uh And I guess we're gonna get another one of
those today. So but Friday atmospheric river time.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah. Ready, Yeah, I've done a rain on us. Put
on your rain jacket. Yeah. Luck. That's the part that
it's kind of one of those like my kids are
still going to put their costumes on, We're still going
to go out in it. But you can't just let
them just get soaked. Yeah, I mean, so you're gonna
have over the top of it. So what are you
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dressed as? I'm dressed as a wrestler in an atmospheric river.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's a good way to do it.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, they can't hold umbrellas, candy bags.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
You still get to dress up. You just have to
in an atmospheric river. On the end of it. That's
on the back of everything. And what are you?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I'm a I'm a witch. I'm a zombie tennis player
in a.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
An atmospheric I'm gonna tell my kids to.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Say, I guess that's true. It's just layered. It's just
a layered costume.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I once went as Hannibal Lecter in a Snuggie.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
That was the outfit.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
See that was a costume. Yeah, I went as animal,
but I wore a Snuggie because they were really popular
at the time, which just dated myself. All right, Well,
we've got some sports to talk about today as well,
and man, it is crazy, Like I was just thinking
about this last night as we keep getting updates on
different injuries with the Seahawks Commanders game on Sunday. Looks
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like Julian Love might not be playing this week against
the Commanders. Looks like Terry mclaarin won't be playing. Not
just looks like he's out for the game on Sunday night.
He just got back for them. Jaden Daniels was full
go at practice yesterday, so that's as strong an indication
that he's going to play Sunday as you can get
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if he's full go at practice on a Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
But man, it just how.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Much this sport, this league, I mean it, You know,
Greg Bell talks about just all the seventeen car crashes
a year, but just the injuries, Like how much a
football player just lives with pain just all the time
and trying to figure out you know, is this something
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I can play through or not? And so that crossed
my mind yesterday. But injury is gonna play a really
big part in Sunday's game. It looks like there's some
on both sides. But certainly the Seahawks coming off a
bye week with a health one hundred percent healthy quarterback
certainly are gonna have the advantage heading into Sunday night.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
From that standpoint, well, yeah, I mean, I think the
razor's edge of what it takes to win and then
win over the course of a full season, there's so
many little things. Now, obviously, you lose your quarterback and
you don't have a decent backup quarterback, you're going to
go backwards. Whether it's one step or two steps or
ten steps, who knows. But I mean, just still, you're
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gonna lose guys. It's not a matter of if. There's
never been a time that an entire team has everyone
stay healthy for the entire season. Yeah, and even the
guys that go out there and play, I mean there's
tons of guys that have something that they're dealing with
in the training room that you don't even hear about
or see on the injury report. What I'm going to
tell them that, you know, really we don't need to.
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You haven't missed any practice time. Go ahead and go
and yet it it can be the ebb and flow
between your season, you make in the playoffs and not.
I mean there's been quite a few times the Seahawks,
it seems in the last few years that they played
against a team when their quarterback was out, you know,
And so it's just you kind of have to that's
the I guess the that's the vision of you get
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to see how good is your fifty three? Right, you
don't want to have to use all fifty three, but
how good are you is how big of a fall
off when you lose somebody that's important, like this defense,
for example, without a couple of their their big studs
in the backside have still performed very well against the pass,
They performed very well against the run. Even so, I mean,
I think that you got it kind of shows you
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how good your team is when you can go without
a couple guys. But it's unfortunate because.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, you better have depth in the national football Yeah,
that's for sure. I Mean, a general manager's job is
not just to put a starting lineup out there on
the field.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
That's that's very clear.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I mean, that's an obvious thing to say, but yeah,
we were just I was just yesterday just so excited
about seeing the secondary together really for the first time.
We got to see it for four plays before Nick
emn Wari got hurt in the opener, and now he's
been back, but we haven't seen love in Witherspoon for weeks,
and so the thought that all three of them were
going to be back, and now it doesn't look like
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Julian Love at least it's not a sure thing. I
don't know if it's fifty to fifty. I don't know
where I would put it. He might not be returning
on Sunday, but you do look just you don't have
to go far as you're sitting here feeling sorry for yourself.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Because the Commanders in.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
The offseason had a holdout from Terry McLaurin, their top receiver.
Obviously there was some hesitance. Are you really a thirty
million dollars year receiver?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
For you are?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
But you are our best guy, and we are coming
off a good year, and we do have a young
quarterback that really clicked.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
With you a year ago.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Okay, we'll give you thirty two million dollars will.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You play for that?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And then he shows up and disrupts training, has disrupted
training camp with his holdout and hasn't been healthy since,
comes back for two quarters, makes two spectacular plays that
wets the Commander's whistle and find out, oh, he reaggravated
his quad injury and who knows how long he's going
to be out going forward. So the Commander is certainly
a lot more beat up than us and coming off
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not coming off of a bye week, and Jade Daniels,
I don't think it's going to be one hundred percent,
but it looks like he's going to be good enough
to go.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah. I think if you were to ask Commander fans
if you can only have one of them back, which
one would you say, They're gonna all say Jamie Daniels.
But that said, still Jadan Daniels would like to have
Terry McLaurin out there. I mean, he hasn't done a
whole heck of a lot, but you still have to
give him the attention that he deserves. So yeah, next
man up type of thing. I can't imagine what it
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would be like, the wear and tear on your body
being an NFL guy, because it just seems like it's
inevitable that you're going to get dinged up.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I mean, I watch a dominant piece of a football season.
I mean, there's a reason why you sit there on Thursdays.
You know, Greg doesn't get the injury report until Thursday,
and so sometimes we jump the gun and ask questions
because it's so important. There's the reason why we close
every Greg Bell Monday conversation with what's going on with injuries.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I mean, it's just such a dominant piece of an
I mean, think about.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
How much time we dedicate to football, and then how
much time within our dedication to talking about football that
we have to spend on injuries.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I mean it is as.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Big a I mean, I would say getting a quarterback
and getting a coach, Yeah, those are the two most
important things. Getting the right quarterback, getting the right head coach.
Third thing might be staying healthy.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah. You know the conversation we have with Hugh about
how he's like, I don't think that special teams is
in a third of the game, right offense, defense, special teams.
I think that there's you know, six different kinds offense,
and you know how he breaks it down. Yeah, it's
like it's it's like in baseball the five. I think
that an injury where you at you know, the beginning
of the season, you can just say, okay, what's our
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offensive like, what's our defense look like? How's our special teams?
How do we feel about it? But after one week
it should be how we feel about the offense, how
we feel about the defense? Maybe next how are we
feeling about our injuries? And then how are we feeling
about our special teams. It might be in that orga right,
you know, with one and two being the same offense
and defense. So because you're right, it is. It's a
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game changing, possibly season changing thing. And it could be
if you just miss a guy for a couple of weeks,
it could be the difference between at the end of
the season you make in the playoffs and not making
the playoffs. You could be one of the best teams
come week seventeen, but if you dropped four games in
a row because you didn't have any of your secondary healthy,
now all of a sudden you're on the outside looking in.
Even though it's like you're sitting at home going, man,
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we could have compete it against these guys if we
were healthy.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
And that's why it's such a bummer too, is because
that part is so based on luck, like just being
lucky enough to stay healthy to not get injured. I mean,
you look at how many injuries are just little fluke
things that happen of stepping the wrong way or you know,
being just in that wrong fraction of a second, and
that injury is a big damn deal. So the teams
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that are able to actually stay healthy and be healthy
at the right times, that is an incredible amount of luck.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well there's even even beyond that though, Like, yes, most
injuries are sort of timing, but then you also have
guys maybe prone to injury and they have a resume.
I mean, I think about Frank Gore. Frank Gore was
injured all the way through college. It's the reason why
he wasn't drafted higher. And then in the NFL he
plays twenty years at running back and shows up every
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Sunday and plays. I mean, it's just crazy how that works.
And then Jane Daniels is a great example. Why why
were people what were if anything you were to worry
about in his game? What was it coming off of
a Heisman final season at LSU. Well he's so skinny,
but he didn't really have an injury history. Yeah, but
he's going to right, I mean, Lamar Jackson Baltimore was
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confident mostly. I mean they kind of dragged that whole
contract extension thing out, trying to figure out like can
he really still you don't thy being that thin and
playing running the football that much, And they decided to
give him the money. And then what happened He started
having a few injuries. Is that injury this year? So,
I mean it's just such a huge part. I mean,
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you are strategizing constantly for it against it, knowing that
it's just going to be such a dominant part of
the sport. You wonder like, why do we love it
so much? Why do we love it so much that
we are watching all of these car recks take place?
And then on top of it, man, with so much
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of our happiness is based on whether or not these
guys can avoid getting hurt in the car res Yeah,
but then it's the game, man, And I think Bucky
put it the right way. Maybe it's not a third offense,
a third defense, and a third special teams. Maybe it's
a third offense, a third defense, and a third injuries
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and special teams. Really doesn't matter. For special teams, I
don't even care if our kicker and punter get hurt.
I'm kidding, well, what's on tap? Here we go?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
What's on tip? What's on tap?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
If you do sit there though, and you're like, I
can't get our quarterback hurt, I don't mind.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
If we're gonna kicker hurt, probably means it's not a
third of the game.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Yeah, if one's if one's a lot more important.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
All right, So Seattle at Washington Sunday Night Football twelfth
Man Roundtable coming your way today with Greg Bell and
Hugh Millin from eight to nine on the show. Thursday
Night Football Tonight, Baltimore will be at Miami and Lamar
Jackson will be making his return to the Ravens lineup.
And of course everybody's jumping back on the Ravens bandwagon
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after they won last week and have Lamar coming back
this week, and I kind of am as well. I
certainly would not count them out going forward. A matter
of fact, if you held a gun to my head
right now, I'd pick the Ravens to win their division.
So we'll talk to Mike Sando about that coming up
at nine thirty today. A plus NFL trade deadline is
now just five days away, another topic we can bring
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up with our NFL insider Mike Sando. Huskies are on
by this week. We were all ready to week number
ten of the college football season. My how time flies.
Softie will join us today. I'm not sure how much
he's going to talk baseball today, but I would imagine
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Maybe not as.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Much, yeah, probably still some though.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well we'll see, I mean, so we'll see seven oh
five today Softy joins us. It's a bye week for
the Huskies, but we'll still have our Thursdays with Softy.
College basketball season starts in four days. If you didn't
have enough on your plate as a sports fan, well
we're getting ready to add college basketball to it as well.
And here in you Dub there's pretty much a quiet
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confidence in town that Danny Sprinkle, who killed it in
the transfer portal, might have pieced together a pretty good
team for this upcoming year. We'll ask to coach ourselves.
He's going to join us at nine o'clock this morning
to usher in the brand new college basketball season that
starts on Monday. Speaking of Monday, Sounders and Minnesota United
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will play game number two of their three game series
to start the MLS Playoffs. Sounders have to win the
next two in order to advance, but the Mad Scientists
to usually Concox something pretty special this time of the year,
so I'm not going to doubt him. World Series. The
Blue Jays are up three games to two, so they
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head back to Toronto, having to only win one of
two against the Los Angeles Dodgers to pull off the
World Series upset. Last night, behind Trey you Savage, they
dominate the Dodgers. Six to one is the final score.
We'll certainly find some time to talk about World Series
Game number five a little.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Bit later on in the program.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And yes, it is the eve of Halloween, so get
your costumes together. Don't just wear a football jersey to
work tomorrow and say you're in costume.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, that's not a costume.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's not you're not paidon Manning. You're not dressed as
Peyton Manning.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
If you want to dress a paid many wear the
jersey and then get like an extended forehead.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You got to practice all his commercials and.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Say nothing but omaha, yeah, yeah, do some makeup like
give yourself like a higher forehead and sing nationwide is
on your side.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, you just got to do more than just put
on a number eighteen. Yea, you know jersey? Yeah, you
got a baggy football pants, like where your butt looks
saggy in them too. Maybe that's a maybe that's a
good idea.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And we wear a three quarter zip sweater underneath the jersey.
I mean you got, I mean, be creative. Gosh, I'm
tired of helping you all right. Coming up next, One
of the big topics that we've had this week is
the college football coaching firings. We dabbled into this topic
again yesterday with Rick Neuheisel, but there's more to discuss.
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Something that Cam Cleveland told us yesterday really stuck with
me overnight. So we'll talk about the biggest story happening
in college football right now next. Sports Radio ninety three
point three KJRFM. It's been such a big topic this week,
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but I think it's worthy of kicking around a little
bit more here today and probably tomorrow as well. The
college football world is enjoying another robust, successful season. You
can't watch game day without seeing, you know, trillions of
people descend on campus and look like they're having the
time of their lives. Ratings are great, the product looks great,
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looks like we're having another terrific season. But man, we're
dealing with another wave, rogue wave that is causing some
damage to the sport, and one that we didn't see
developing when all of this new world of college football
sort of began, you know, reluctantly for a lot of
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people a few years ago. And that is the impatience
that programs are now showing for coaches who are locked
up to long term deals, and an entity that is
long cried that we don't have any money, there's not
enough money to go around. Somehow has found a way
to eat a sixty million dollar contract at Penn State
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and a fifty four million dollar contract remaining in Louisiana.
And so everybody's had a really impassioned response to it
this week. All of our college football experts Cam Cleveland
had one. Yesterday, certainly Rick new Eisel did. We spent
half of our conversation with coach new Isil this week
on this topic about how damaging or just exactly how
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Rick new Isil felt about this, and he's certainly he's
not worried about the sport of college football because of
it bucky in its longevity. But he made it very
clear whatever's happening right now with college football coach firings
cannot continue.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, well, it doesn't seem like it's it's sustainable. I
mean you just it seems like it's too it's not strong.
It feels like it's a very wishy washy where I
don't feel like that's part of what would make any
good situation, any good organization, or you know whatever you
want to call the entirety of college football, just to
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have something that's just on shaky foundation where you're like,
how can how can you try to go get a
new coach when you just basically got rid of the
one before him simply because he just didn't live up
to the you need to be one of the best
teams in college football period. Yes, I mean LSU for example.
I mean News was like, he's his numbers, there are
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Hall of fame worthy as far as the wins and
losses go over his tenure, and yet you're willing to
pay him tens of millions of dollars to just to
just leave, just go sit somewhere else, and we're going
to bring somebody else in that to me, is that
the reasoning behind it where somebody with a bunch of
money is just like I don't like him. I don't
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like the way that when we first met, I didn't
like him and I still don't like him. And he
we baide him a bunch of money and then he's
got We gave him a bunch of money to give
those players, and now they're not playing very good. It's
his fault. Get him out of here. I like it.
Rich guy Southerner showed up.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Give me crawfish, Yeah, I like the character.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yeah, I take some crayfish and hand me some suns.
Ye sweet tape here well.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
And I think it's interesting because the donors have been
a concern in kind of this whole new world of
college football, right, because first it was how often can
you keep going to donors to ask them to pay
college kids who are going to stay for a year
and then a new kid's you know, then they're leaving,
And for me, that's an old problem.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah, that's an old problem, right.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
But it was like these donors are going to get
sick of being asked for money all the time, and
now the donors are like, wait a minute, look at
all the power our money gives us.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Well, but does it?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I mean, it gives you a lot of power until
the other guy that's giving just as much doesn't agree
with that guy. I mean, it's going to have to
turn into a corporate structure on which guy that which
rich Cytherner, guy who drinks the most son tea and
denote and donates the most money, he gets to make
the number one decision and his last name probably.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Has spelled eaux at the end.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yes. And so I mean, if you're willing to give
somebody fifty four million dollars because you don't like them,
how much are you willing to give somebody that you
do like? How much money is the next LSU had
football coach going to make because he's not going to
show up at your doorstep and say, hey, we're already
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paying a guy fifty four million dollars and boy, we
really don't like those long term contracts because it makes
us pay fifty four million dollars on buyouts. So what
I need you to do is be a buddy and
take less on a lesser term deal and not have
a buyout. No, it's not gonna work that way if
you want Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffn's already said it. I
don't care about money. I don't care about I don't
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do this for the money. But I have to. Jimmy
Sexton tells me. If I don't, then I'm screwing all
my other fellow coaches who do care about money. And
so he's gonna demand the highest rate possible if he's
the number one candidate out there. Yesterday, man, this process
took another turn. Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry and politicians talk
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out of their ass for a living.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
So who knows.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Who knows just how powerful or insightful he is into
this problem. But the governor of Louisiana says, point blank,
the AD at LSU is not selecting our next coach.
Don't have to worry about that. He's already screwed it
up once. We're not gonna let We're not going to
let him do it. He says, I'm not going to
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do it, but I can make I can promise you
that whoever we get, they're going to be a winner.
We're gonna make sure that they're compensated.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Properly.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
We're gonna put metrics on it because I'm tired of
rewarding failure in this country and then leaving the taxpayers
to flip the bill. That was his statement yesterday. So
he declared for all of Louisiana, all of college football
to hear that guys, the guy that normally is entrusted
with this, we don't trust. So who does get to
make the decision on who the next LSU head coach
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is and how much money he is going to make
and over how long of a term are you going
to give him? And then the moment he's eight and four,
what you're gonna buy him out to.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
That's the unsustainable part of it. I well, there's part
of me that when it's when we start talking about, well,
how can they do this? Is it sustainable? Because of
how much money you're thrown out the window while you
still have to pay gigantic chunk of money to the
new guy that comes in. I mean, this is an
organization as far as college football goes, that was basically
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making money hand over fist and just putting it all
on their coffers. Just they didn't have to pay the players.
Now they paid for you know, upgrades to their facilities
and all kinds of stuff. But you would have to
think that it's not one of us. If we fire
him and we pay him sixty million dollars to go away, Oh,
bills are going to be tight. I don't think so.
I think they have tons of money.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
It's I don't think the money that they're paying is
being generated by the product. The era that we're in
are people with silly money being silly who now think
they can affect how their favorite college football team can
operate just by throwing money at the problem. Now, I
suppose as long as silly people with silly amounts of
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money want to spend their money in a silly fashion,
then I think this problem could get completely out of
control and yet not affect the product.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I mean, think about it. If people don't.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Care whether or not the business that they're contributing to
is actually making any money, They're just worried about whether
or not they're gonna win, then I suppose it can
go on and we can continue to have successful, entertaining
college football seasons and the only people that are gonna
be footing the bills are just outsiders who want LSU
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to win and have way too much money and way
too much time on their hands. I suppose that doesn't
affect the product if that's where we're going, but it
does sound like we're going that way now. The only
problem is the product does get affected if sillier people
with sillier amounts of money decide no, that looks fun.
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Like Jeff Bezo says, you know, Lauren, she's always liked USC.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I'm gonna have a billion dollar payroll and.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Now all of a sudden, nineteen year olds who've proven
nothing have more money than NFL guys.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, that would be bad.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
We already have every SEC quarterback in the country right now,
Every SEC quarterback makes more money than brock Perty. So
I mean, how much crazier lunier is this going to get?
I mean, if it gets to the point where, you know,
Elon Musk says, boy, really, you know what I'm gonna
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do for Charlie Kirk, I'm just gonna give Oregon all
my money so that they can have a good college
football program.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
That'd be cool.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
No, I mean, then how badly does it get out
of what? So as long as you can, as I mean,
the hope is that the silly people with the silly
money that are spending their money sillily. Yes, learn their lesson,
and we're just experiencing a rogue wave, and that the
wave and the shoreline will eventually die down. Fine, we
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can either that storm. But if it inspires others from
a competitive basis who have even more money and just
decide I'll do whatever it takes, we're going to ruin
the product. Well, we're just going to absolutely ruin.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
The product and depending and hopefully you're not giving these
people with all their silly money any power to actually
make the decision. That's the part where it's like, if
we've talked about it all the time on the pro level,
a kid who inherits a team from their dad and
or you know, their parents, and they're.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Like, oh, yeah, I can run this thing.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
This is easy.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
And now you would be giving these people who have
not ever put in any time in actually trying to
run a college football program making decisions because they made
they gave the most money.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
That's not good.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Well, yeah, we.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Can't get to the point where it's just a bunch
of billionaires who don't know anything about college football just
competing with one another. Because if if their program that
they're promoting and backing is better than Jeff Bezos's program,
then it then they relight a victory cigar at the
end of the year, like the movie Trading Places. I
had a one dollar bet with Jeff Bezos that I
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could create a bigger power of college football than he could. Yeah,
I mean it can't go there. How you keep that
from happening, I don't know, but it absolutely can't go
to that extreme. All right, coming up next, Yes, we
are on the eve of one of the greatest eves
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Same last year l SEC quarterbacks made more money than
Brock perty did, And the point is the same. We
should not be living in a world where a starting
quarterback in the National Football League is making less money
than a college football quarterback anywhere.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
And that doesn't mean we should start paying the NFL quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Even more, right Right, So, I think the point is
still the same, even though, yes, history has kind of
at least corrected it for Brock Perdy's sake. All Right,
we are on the eve of all hallows eve tomorrow
will be Halloween. Yesterday we spent some time talking about
Halloween candy one of our favorite things. By the way,
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I guess Washington it might be like just a geographical thing.
Twix is the candy bar of choice. I just saw
it on the old local news.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
There. You're in the state of Washington.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
We're very smart here.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Well maybe it's just maybe it is a geographical thing.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I mean in Washington, very delicious, very smart apparently.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
I mean, I still Resi's Peanut butter Cups is still
my number one, but Twis is my number two.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
It's the national favorite according to this poll, but like
regionally Twis.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
All right, it's not just you.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I feel validated, But I did want to ask today,
horror movie, slasher movie, suspense thriller movie, what are you
looking for on over the Halloween weekend?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Mine would be suspense thriller. You go suspense thriller and
then maybe horror and then slasher. I'm not a giant
fan of this slasher movie.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yes, slasher movies are stupid.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
They are they usually are.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Yeah, they're never like if I want to if I
watch a movie, if I want to sit down for
two hours, I want a good story to go along.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Think's right?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Or I mean even in a comedy, it saw us
to have a good story. It can't just be absurd.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah, a good Halloween comedy like Ghostbusters, Beetle Juice. Uh,
that's all right, Yeah, those are fun. Those are fun too,
even like The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Just never feel
it never feels to a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
But suspense and thriller that's the way to go.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Uh you think, I don't know. I don't know if
it feels halloweenish enough.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
When I think of suspense thriller, I think Silence of
the Lambs is the goat.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Oh yeah, no, I wouldn't. I'm not Halloween.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
And that's the scariest because that, to me, puts you
on the edge of your seat. You're not sure what's
going to happen around the corner. To me, those are
the scariest, truly, the scariest movies. Even slasher movies. Those
aren't scary. Yeah, you're just they're just there to gross
you out, right, So those are the ones that I
think puts you on the edge of your seat. But
I'm not sure if that's halloweeny enough to me. It's
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horror to me, it's uh, you know, psycho. I watched
The Shining last weekend. Okay, so that yeah, yeah, Exorcist,
I mean, a good horror movie versus just an excuse
to cut people up into ribbons.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, that's that's lame. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Did you ever see the movie The Changeling? I have
like a nineteen eighties Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Is that good?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah? Okay, it's spooky.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
I mean it's also again cheesy, because every kind of
eighties horror movie is gonna have a little cheese to it.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
But they did a new one. I haven't seen that one,
but this old one.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
I think the new one was Angelina Jolie, And I
don't know if that's the same movie or just the
same name, but that one I always think of as like, oh,
it was good and creepy and also has to have
some because the special effects make things cheesy sometimes.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Mm yeah, back then.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
It's very interesting. I tried to writ Nosferatu, the new
version of it like the original one, which is pretty
much a silent movie, and it's really scary. Even to
this day, it holds up, but the quality of it
is so outdated that I could get why somebody wouldn't
enjoy that. But I'm telling you right now, even with
all their CGI and AI and everything else that they
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have at their fingertips, they couldn't make a scarier Nosferatu
than the original one that was made one hundred years.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Ago, which is what they were doing.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Which is a credit to the original Nosferatu and also a.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Shame to the new Nosferatu. It's not worth watching
Speaker 2 (36:32):
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