July 26, 2023 • 34 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon explain why Saquon Barkley agreeing to a new 1-year deal worth up to $11M with the Giants was a smart move. College Football Insider Pete Fiutak enlightens the guys on Jim Harbaugh facing a four-game suspension over recruiting violations. And Bronny James is thankfully out of ICU following cardiac arrest.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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(00:50):
now a series of friendlies that we were looking forward to.
One of them is here, and boy, we already have drama.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Maybe you're familiar with Wrexham from Welcome to rexam show
that's helped push popularity in soccer to immense levels here
in the country. With the show owned by Ryan Reynolds
and Rob mclaney. They're playing in the snap Dragon Cup
right now against Manchester United. Now this is a friendly
and already you've seen some chippiness go on because Paul Mullen,
(01:21):
Super Paul Mullen, I just don't think you'd understand had
to be helped off the field after a collision with
man You use goalkeeper and a play like that and
a friendly. Wow, man, I mean the keeper got a
yellow and hopefully Paul Mullen is okay. It's been see
you can see it on social media. Now it's insane.
I'm like, wow, that's up for a friendly, come on.
(01:42):
But you can tell that's how people potentially feel about Wrexham. No,
you do superstar rowners winning. Yeah, we'll show you we're
all about soccer. But Wrexham does have a one nothing.
Yeah they knew, they just they just a great clearing
pass and Lee puts it in and they cut to
Rob mcallaney and Dennis is in there too.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Nice but it's always Sonny.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Dennis is celebrating more than Rob mcallaney is.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
What's the snap Dragon one nothing?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Wrexham leads Manchester United right now? Insane, absolutely insane. The
popularity of Wrexham going forward, everything happening here and and
and you know, watch hopefully Paul Mullen is okay, because
it was it was it was kind of a weak
play by the keeper. But you know, just seeing the pot,
just seeing them go crazy. I mean, and watching Glenn
Howard and who plays Dennis and it's always Sonny watching
(02:33):
him celebrate, I just can't help but feel like this
is in the next season if it's always Sonny, like
this is gonna be some kind of thing, and Dennis
has a scheme going on, and and Rob mcallaney is
gonna be I mean, I really, I mean it took
me right out of it for a second watching Dennis celebrate.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Well, I mean, look, look for the camera there. I mean,
it's it's very possible. It just gets written in if
nothing else, it'll show up in season two of Wrexham.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh sure, I mean it's shown.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Up on your TV. It's just a man aware it's content.
It's content.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
And yeah, I mean we got Arsenal and Barcelona, Barcelona
on Thursday here in Los Angeles, so I mean you've
you've got these friendlies that are that are taken over.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
It's good, it's good.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
For business, buddy, and it'll make your prediction of soccer
and it's imminent growth and displacement and dominance over other sports.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
It'll make it come true that much faster.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Outside is it tomorrow?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Tomorrow, Thursday. I'm trying, buddy, I'm trying to get my
day tried. Today is still the twenty fifth, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Buddy? That buddy? The days have melted together from me
since college. Man, it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I'm usually pretty good at separating them. Yeah, but there's
just so much going on.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I mean, seriously, ever since college. I'm like, yeah, Mondayday, Tuesday, Monday, Wednesday. Yeah,
that's how it is. But uh, I mean just watching right,
I mean, I can't wait for the season two of Wrexham,
even though I know everything hands ends for them and
how it goes. And here they're on this big tour
and Dennis is celebrating goals and probably you know, Danny
DeVito's doing another Subway commercial.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
No no, no, no, no, he's Jersey Mike's Jersey Mike's Sorry.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Jeff Curry has now been brought in to counter Danny
DeVito because they they bought eighty million dollars worth of
slicers because they realized that was a problem.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We always slice this stuff and it's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
It's on billboards everywhere. I want to see.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Commercial him pull out his gun like he pulls it
out and always Sonny all the time, he always like,
has it out. I'll tell you, I'm all I'm gonna
remember from this game. Boy, if Wrexham wins went unbelieve,
playing way up in level obviously you're talking about a
level five team playing up against Manchester United. I don't remember.
Is Dennis celebrating, Danny yelling at crazy?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Where's Coach Beard? I'm watching the game. I don't see him.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's the that's the other show, Coach Beard. Coach Beard
is actually out on his own adventure in Amsterdam. That's
what's going on with coach.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I could use a whole season and that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, so that's where we're at right now.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Oh, Wrexham scores again. Oh they had a big throw
in the box and Wrexham scores. It's too nothing. You
can't stop Wrexham. You can only hope to contain them. Yes,
look at this. How embarrassed are you right now?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
If you're one of those soccer soccer peerists going, I
can't believe this team is beating us. This is a
low levels of was a sixth level team last year
and now they're beating us to nothing here in the thirty.
How many people right now are tweeting at Jay Glazer
to sell Man, you's right. This is where Jay should say,
You're right. This is despicable, this is awful. I'm going
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to I'm gonna sell this.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yeah, this'll do it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I'm gonna sell the team. Look at this all the
header from Aaron Hayden. Oh my god, what are these guys?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
The best is how angry Jay gets. Now, yeah, I'll
start starting to beat people up. He's like, I don't
know if that's good business. We'll have to talk to
him about that as it hits the for his training
camp tour.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But yeah, did you did you see Dennis celebrating again?
Did you show hit the owner's bottom?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I mean, look sitting next to Rob.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
You're gonna get a lot of screen time.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh my goodness. I realize the soccer purists must just
be in hell right now with this. How is this?
How is this Hollywood down on its luck? Bad news
Bears team beating us.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Due only friendly It's only friendly and they.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Don't even have their best player. Paul Mullen's not even playing.
I mean, but watching some of these guys is like
seeing the Avengers, like, oh my goodness, there's Ollie Palmer
and oh my god, it's it's Paul Mullen, and it's
Phil Parkinson and all the I mean really, it's like
seeing the Avengers actually live doing things, not just in
a movie. This is out.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah. Your ability to retain all the details and fall
in love with these guys much deeper than me.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I watched it.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I moved on super Paul Mulley.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I mean, look, you don't forget him because of any chance.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, yeah, we have a good again, there's a good
chant for you. Sure they have a good champ So
again Wrexham Leeds Manchester United to.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I love it. Thirty seven minute. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Shut up. So we have Pete Futech coming up in
a few minutes for all the latest on the Jim
Harbaugh situation. But the biggest NFL story of the day today,
Saquon Barkley is now in playing this season. He is
going to play for the Giants after reaching terms on
a deal with the Giants. It's gonna pay Hi about
eleven million dollars. Now, it's not technically the franchise tag.
(07:32):
It's sort of the franchise tag. He's getting a tiny
bit more money. Basically, what happened is he agreed to
this deal and the Giants are still able to franchise
him again next year. If we're there, and there's been
a lot of talk everywhere, I've seen all the Giants
worked Barkley and all Barkley's threats, and the Giants did
what they wanted to do. And look at this and
(07:53):
Barkley's got his tail between his legs. You are missing.
Everybody who says that is missing the entire point of
what's going on. Saquon Barkley is smart. It shows like
he listens to our show, because what if we said
the last couple of nights, Hey, nothing's gonna change. It
was great to have the running back zoom call and
catch up with everybody else, but nothing's gonna change. You
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can't make teams pay you. You're not all gonna hold out.
What you need to do is ball out every year,
get paid year to year, and stay healthy, and that's
how you're gonna make your money because no one's gonna
stop you from making money. You gotta stay healthy. I
know you're worried about being injured, so is everybody else
who plays in the NFL. That's your way forward. Is
it the best way forward? No, it's not, but it's
the way forward. If you are a running back, you
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need to play every year. You need to play great,
and you'll will get a big contract for the next year.
You stay healthy. That's how it goes. And that's what
Saquon Barkley realized. I am putting myself a position to succeed,
not to fail, because if he holds out, he's in
a position to fail because he's coming in where maybe
the team adjusts around him. They brought in a lot
(08:57):
of wide receivers this year. Other guys are gonna throw
the ball to they brought and Darren Waller. Maybe Saquon
Barkley if he sits out, gets phased out of the
offense a little bit and he doesn't have the numbers
that he should have this year, Or he comes back,
tries to rush himself back, is not in football shape
and winds up getting injured. These are all things that
happen when you hold out what he has done now
(09:17):
by coming in is says, I've put myself in a
position for another payday next year. I have a full
training camp. I'm gonna get my body ready to go.
My teammates are not gonna have anything bad to say
about me because I've sucked it up for them. I'm
coming into play. You know. I maybe when I said, oh,
I could say f the Giants, that wasn't the smartest
thing to say. So I got to kind of make
up for that a little bit. I've come in. No
(09:38):
one can talk about my leadership. I'm here to play.
I'm gonna be a big part of this team, and
I'm gonna have a lot of put numbers, and I'm
gonna get another bite at the Apple next year. And
the very worst thing, I'm gonna make thirteen million dollars
next year. So he made the only choice he actually
had to say, because anything else he tried to do
puts the rest of his future in jeopardy, and that
is not getting paid at all again. Because if you're
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trying to if you're trying to come off this year,
and it's a bad year for you, if you're not
getting paid coming off of last year. How are you
gonna get paid when you're coming off a year that
you're either ineffective or injured. He had no choice. It
was the only play for him, and he made the
smart play. Sakuon bark Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Think the biggest thing going back to the Barkley comments
last week, you know when you said you know blank
this blank that he never sounded like he was a
guy resolved to do this right. It was well, here's
where I'm at, and like he was just having is
I'm gonna think this out loud with a microphone in
front of me. Never never the best way to go
about your decision process, because you know, the assumptions get made.
(10:37):
But the way this breaks out right, thirteen hundred and
fifty rushing yards and a playoff berth sixty five receptions,
eleven touchdowns that will earn him up to another nine
hundred and nine thousand dollars. They gave him two million
dollars right now. Doesn't have to wait till till the
season starts. Here, here's two million bucks up front. Now
(10:57):
you get to go pay whatever bills, go buy yourself nice,
to make good, and and a feel good process to it.
Right here is a good faith system. But yeah, listening
to the show and really just pragmatism, and I get it.
Every running back is gonna have their different line in
the sand, and we talk about do you need to
(11:18):
be in solidarity and everybody walks, well.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
You're never gonna get that. You're just not right there.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
With a lot a lot of scaring over the last
couple of weeks that UPS was suddenly gonna strike. There's
no chance in hell that was ever gonna happen because
fed X would eat their lunch. You're not getting those
customers back if you go out on a long protracted strike.
Only the biggest loyalists. Otherwise it's you're gonna move down
(11:45):
down the street to the person that's gonna keep moving along.
Just like we talked about with running backs. We love you,
say Quon, and yes there's this decided drop off to
the next guy. But if that's what we have to do,
that's what we have to do. You're not gonna cave
in Kaotao. And in this case, you know, calmer heads prevailed.
We'll see how that happens with the other positions and
(12:07):
players affected and hold out situations for Saquon Barkley. Did
I expect it to resolve quite so quickly. No, because
I mean we left yesterday at about ten hours later.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Hey, what do you know?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Inside?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Good for him? I'm glad. No, but I'm glad at.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Least he feels whole ish right.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I'm sure there's still some reservations and a little angst
because they weren't able to get a second year or
a third year on the deal at the money per
year they wanted. But now that money's in the bank
and a check or wire, it's like, hey, let me
know when that gets into my account. We wired you
the two million dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
It's a good.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Faith effort and I think a good step towards bridging things.
And people just need to leave Daniel Jones alone. It's
got nothing to do with Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
But you paid Daniel. What's he gonna do? Say? No, no, no, no,
I don't want that money. I know I really don't
deserve it, but I'm not gonna take it.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Well, no, everybody else was.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I saw it in my timeline of bunch, Like, don't
forget Daniel Jones is still going to make twenty nine
million dollars more this year when Saquon is the heart
and soul of this team. You can feel how you're
gonna feel. I can't tell you how to feel, but
I can tell you what logic is and.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Where you're failing.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Not a quarterback, Not a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
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Speaker 1 (13:28):
Well maybe Manchester United was being threatened with everybody getting
fired at halftime. They have scored a goal right before
the break. Wrexham now leads Manchester United two to one
at halftime. I mean it, Jay Glazer. They're telling Jay Lazer,
sell the team, sell the team.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
We'll have to look at it. Look that up here
in a minute. See what kind of correspondence he's getting
into Twitter verse or.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I'm sorry on x X.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I don't think it's officially transitioned to xx just yet,
but yeah, you get the point.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
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(14:22):
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Happy summer so far?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Oh dear lord, and apparently not a moment too soon.
You guys talking like friendly soccer or American soccer. I
mean that's the real stuff and start for a couple
of weeks here right, So I'm here to help. I
let me help you. Let me carry some of the
load to her for you guys for a little while.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well, look, it's Wrexham. It's a lot of a lot
of a lot of we had a lot of things
going on, Pete. It's not every dingy sit here and
say hey, because of four hamburgers, Jim Harbaugh is looking
at a four game suspension.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Oh dear god, it's so like seriously, like I they
I can't I just get like I have seriously blown
a gasket when it comes to the NCAA and trying
to figure out what's like, Oh, like Tennessee, they did
all these things. We're gonna take away some of your
wins from eighteen to fourteen. Like it's okay, you know,
(15:31):
super you know, and Okay, so maybe Jim Harbaugh was
in one thousand percent truthful when he talked to a
couple of NCAA people. Okay, so we're gonna suspend you
for what when you play cream Puff text to start
to see things they play nobody for the first four
games whatever. And then the dumbest of all is that
somehow they're gonna screw up the greatest business model possibly
(15:55):
in American maybe world entertainment history, where they they're trying
to keep going to Congress and saying, help us, help us,
and eventually they're gonna it's gonna go to the courts,
and the courts are gonna stay wait a minute here,
So you guys have free labor and you want us
to help you how and they're gonna mess it all up?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, Pete, let me tell you first thing. I mean,
you mentioned a big deal here because the nineteen fourteen
Tennessee Volunteers football team went nine to zero and won
the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association and retroactively, we're given the
national championship, so they could be giving back a national championship.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
From exactly, and Stumpy Woods now it deserves the MVP
for that game. So yeah, so absolutely, I'm with you.
It couldn't happen to him worth a nicer team, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
The captain of the team's name was Farmer Kelly.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I mean that was his course, Farmer Court what it
had to have been.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
And the head coach was Zora Clevenger, who was in
his fourth season at that point.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
That fantastic stuff that Tennessee fans are still get to
be mad about that, because Tennessee fans are mad about everything,
so they're gonna find way to be grouchy about this.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Well, but you gotta get to look at all the
negotiating and we'll get to my alma mater down the
road from you there in Evanston in a minute, Pete.
But you know, you got the Conference of Scandals, but
in college football overall, it is well that's it. It's
not Conference of champions and scandals. At this point, pick
a team, any team. But we look at the negotiating
(17:28):
of four game suspension, the negotiation of hey, they were
forthcoming in Tennessee. So it's eight million wins loss and
a time served for all those scholarship losses. We're in
just a really strange place, like we don't actually rule things.
Let's just try to figure out what's going to be
the most press friendly and show that we still have
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some power here.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, and they miss out on what they should be doing,
which is the basics. They now that I joked before
about the Congress side, they should actually do something about
that when it comes to healthcare, when it comes to
other aspects of the student and I'm one hundred percent
for student rights and uh and player rights and all that.
The problem with all this is that keeps going back
(18:13):
to every time everyone wants to get into any and
trust me, there are a lot of people out there
who don't think that these students should get a thing
that they should just be happy to put on the
sweater for old what's them out of you? And you know,
have you know, be able to go out there and
play for us? And oh, they get a scholarship too
and all that. Meanwhile, the coaches are getting paid hundreds
(18:36):
of millions of dollars quit yet exactly so like you,
it's kind of hard for for to be like, well,
the coach and the coaches aren't professors. I mean, this
is this is college, and it keeps getting lost in
all this that the entire point of this whole little
exercise is their universities of higher learning. Like you could
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take away actually the Alabama foot team and there would
still be a University of Alabama. If you took away
the Chicago Bears football team, there would be no Chicago
Bears football team. So it's it's so twisted how this
is all turned out, not like back in the nineteen
hundreds when everything was all, you know, on the up
and up with out sports. But yeah, no it's not.
(19:20):
It's gone. It's gone completely completely. But I digress. But
Dant could do very easy stuff like just fix the
transfer portal. That's all you have to do. The nil
thing is fine, it's not going to be that big
a deal. It's actually gonna it's actually gonna start to
kind of, you know, dissipate a little bit because there's
just no return on investment when it comes to this.
So it's just going to handle itself. So just make
(19:43):
sure that you can't have unstuttered free agency and all
the other problems. They're going to magically go away.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Beach Tech Collegeable Insider. Our guest here on Fox Sports Radio,
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Lifrom thetirec dot Com Studios. All right,
let's just button this with horrible here for a second,
because you know, Harmon's got some Western questions for you. Look,
when it comes to this, we know that he's negotiating
this four game suspension. It's going to happen. We know
not to lie to the NCAA. It's one of those things.
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Do you see this to be any effect on Michigan
at all? I mean, look, they don't play a strong
schedule out of the gate, so likely they can do it.
He can coach the team during the week he just
can't be there for the weekends for the games. Do
you see there being any effect on Michigan long term
this season with this?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I now and no, because, like you said, if they
were to play, if they had a real nasty game
early on, then maybe that would mean something. But really,
at this point, it's the preseason. I mean, it really is.
I mean, I know Rutgers is the opening that it's
going to be part of this four game excuse me
suspension if it actually happens, But really you're talking about
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the preseason before Michigan really has to start kicking it
all in with the tough games ahead. So as long
as he's a round for the practices and during the
week and isn't suspended completely from the program, then it's
all fine. But I mean, again, like you said, it's
not like it's that big a violation if it's all
if it's all true, he wasn't a thousand percent truthful
(21:08):
when it came to his interview with the NCAA, and
that's yeah, you know, cover up words in the crime.
But it's just we're really talking about silly season here, well.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Not so silly, and Evanston, we we've talked about it
a bunch, Pete. For me, every detail that comes out,
I've got a vote of no confidence of anybody that
has a quote leadership position there, and I think they
should all be cleaned out by the by the board,
including the a D and the president. At this point,
for some of the dopiness that they keep putting out.
(21:39):
The admission that they'd only read a quick summary and
not the actual contents of the report that they commissioned
is to me unconscionable. But McPherson and the assistant coaches,
how does anybody stay around? Is really what it comes
down to, Pete, And how do they feel the team
given all the problems that are going because eventually you
(22:01):
got to get after the.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Players to that perpetrated this stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Well, I mean, on the field, what are you gonna
do go from one to eight to oho to nine?
I mean, like I'm just a all of course, I mean,
but then you know, and that's that's the crazy part
about you know, all the years I've been doing this,
the one thing that's been a truth among us. You
show me whatever scandal, what however horrific it might be,
and there will be fan bases that are just going
(22:26):
to stand by their team and stand by their head coach,
no matter what or the star player, it doesn't matter
what the alleged crime or a legend thing is. They're
going to be like, why you And now you have Northwestern,
which again going back to the Northwestern would be just
fine as the university without a football team, and now
you've got this situation where Fitzgerald gets you know, gets
(22:49):
like go and all of a sudden you had this backlash.
But well, he represented the best of us, and all
these fans are like, I stand with this stuff, like
it's crazy, the hero worship of college coaches that happened,
and even at place north like Northwestern, which you would
think would be above it all, and obviously it's not
in its own certain ways. So you're right, it's just
(23:10):
an ugly situation. It's one of those things where the
faster it can go away, the better. I'm not a
fan of them not bringing the players and people to
the the big ten media days, you know, because look
I was there the Penn State kids that showed up
after what was a twenty eleven so it has been
(23:30):
twenty twelve, I think it was media days. They caught hell.
I mean they just they they had to set there
and just kind of just over and over again, and
they they got the breastdayeh on your show, Who's like
the super Genius or and some of these other guys
there they dealt with it. And Northwestern guys, you know what,
you get them show up, they can answer questions, they
(23:51):
can talk about it, and yet they can't. So it
is just a really ugly situation for a school where
you know better anybody else where, there are a whole
lot of people. And this goes forever university, including the Alabama's,
the Ohio States two, where there are a whole lot of
people on that campus that on a Saturday are gonna
be sitting in a library or a lab or somewhere else,
(24:11):
and not even any have anything to do with a
football program. That Look, at the end of the day,
college football programs are pr That's what they are. They
represent the student body, they represent the university, and you
can't have any sort of a scandal, especially at one
of the world's greatest academic institutions.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
All right, Pete, let's end with this because this is
gonna be a big top one. End with something kind
of fun. Here. What week do you think the Caleb
Williams should sit out the rest of the season. He's
not gonna do anything but get hurt. Conversation starts week three. No,
do you fit it out? Now?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Look I'm not joking, Like, Look, if you're gonna have
these silly NCA rules where It's not like the NBA
where you have options to go, you know, in Europe
or other places. And if you're gonna have these still
the NCAA rules that are going to prohibit players from
making money or being a part of any why should
(25:07):
Caleb Williams risk? I mean Justin Herbert, the Pac twelve.
Every Pac twelve team is going to go to bed
at night dreaming of getting the Justin Herbert contract extension.
It's crazy. We're talking about here is you can't get
a good starting NFL quarterback for what the Big twelve
(25:27):
and Pac twelve and a SEC are paying their schools.
So if you're Caleb Williams, what you're the number one pick,
there's not gonna be okay. Find so great break may
might be the number one pick and you might be
the number two picks. Justin Herbert decigned a two hundred
and sixty two million dollar extension. Why are you playing
one more down of college football at USC than you
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have to. I've never understood this. We're starting to get
away from it, start become the norm that you don't
play in a bowl game now. But I've always been
on this. It's a business. This is fun for everyone else.
But if you're if you've got the winning lottery ticket,
you don't put it in your jeans pocket and throwing
the washer. So if I'm Caleb Williams, I'm out. I'm thanks, guys,
(26:09):
appreciate it. See you next year.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You can follow on Twitter at Pete Feutech. That is,
at Petefeutech college Footballnews dot com. You're one stop shopping
for everything college football. Pete looking forward to another great season,
my friend. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Absolutely, guys, let's go.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Welcome back buddy. Go watch the end of Cubbs White Sox.
Just kidding, Caleb Williams. Yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna play anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I just he's gotta do. He's gotta do the uh
the Peter Gibbons. Yeah, I'm just not gonna come any more.
So you're quitting football. No, I'm just not gonna come
any more. Right, But but you're quitting No, No, not really.
I'm just I'm just just not gonna play this year.
Oh okay, I get ready. That's what he's gonna do.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Just every Saturday it's him and Drake May playing video games.
You guys want to comment, what's going on in college football. Yeah, now,
Amazon Sunday mornings, we'll talk about our future employers.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Would more people watch USC without Caleb Williams or Caleb
Williams doing a twitch stream twitch oldmore twitch to Caleb
Williams of twitch, right, sure of course it would be yeah,
not playing, not playing, No, no, no, no no. I'm
going to be the number one pick. And hopefully it's
not the Lions.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Why Williams playing pick nineteen ninety four NHL, It's gonna
make Gretzky's head bleak.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh dude, NHL ninety four are the greatest video games
of all time? Oh my goodness, that was such a
good game. Twitter at How about a Fresco Mike gets
swollen Dome? The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. Oh, the Red Wings and the Blackhawks or something. Yeah,
And I gotta say, Buddy, I'm sorry the passing of
your owner earlier today, a big shot today, seventy years old.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Yeah, took over the team and transformed it. Obviously some
scandal in the last couple of years and how things
were handled internally to smear a bit of that. But
number one draft pick and maybe on the come back
trail in terms of excitement, but certainly can't take away
those Stanley Cup runs and those great battles with the
La Kings and Rocky Worts. After taking over for dollar
(28:11):
Bill Wertz, his old man really reformed that squad into
something that was more a force than it also ran.
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(28:48):
In the fifty third minute, player on MANU is just
sent off with a red card. They are really pissed
and it's one of those things where it's like a
movie where I'm expecting to find out after the game.
At halftime, ownership group came in and said everybody was
fired if they lost this game to Wrexham, and they're
all out there playing dirty, they're tripping. It is really physical.
This is insane right now.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
I thought that red card was trash though. That's not all.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
No, no, you know you could have hurt the guy.
He's just he stuck his foot out, didn't make a
play on the ball. He stuck his foot out to tripping.
You already had Paul Mullen getting hurt. I think you
need to get control of the game if you're the ref,
because outside of that then it gets away from you
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah, I mean it, look you're gonna get chippy. I
mean it's that it's a friendly. I think there's probably
the red.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Game out this is there's no friendly here, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
No, that it's it's a you know, this is lee.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
If it's a league game, smoky, then I you know,
I don't think that red card shows up. But you know,
here we are man down. Let's see what they got.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
So we'll have more on this game coming up in
a few minutes, but obviously all our best thoughts to
Brownie James, lebron James and his family after the stunning
report earlier today that while it practiced a day ago
for USC, Bronnie James suffered cardiac arrest. It was a
shocking story, and he was taken to the hospital. He
(30:07):
is now stable and out of intensive care following this instance,
and you know, we're hoping that everything goes well and
he gets healthy soon get back to basketball. This is
a really, really difficult scare. And if you were anywhere
trying to find out information about this this morning, you know,
I said to myself after I look this up, this
(30:28):
is what's going to cause me to leave social media forever.
I'm just gonna eventually get to have enough and say,
you know what, I just I just can't deal with
this because all we saw at all that was was
trending at the top and whatever social media was milecarditis
and all the reckless speculation that oh, Bronnie James is
(30:48):
had a heart attack because he got the COVID JAB
and that's going to this is what's causing him to
have a heart attack, and all these unfounded studies that
people are posting up and it's the kid had a
hard attake, you had cardiac arrest. It unfortunately happens to
a handful of athletes every year. And you know, I'm
(31:10):
hoping that just people just instead of trying to weaponize
and politicize Oh yeah, yeah, I'm anti vaxed or uproa.
Just understand that, Okay, he had a cardiac arrest. We
don't know what happened, and you can't sit here and say, oh,
it must have happened that. No, the same thing happened
with Jamie Fox when it was let's just hope the
guy is okay and we'll find out at some point, right,
we'll find out because look, to tell the truth, is
(31:31):
there a low risk of mile carditis? Sure? Is there
a bigger risk of it if you don't get the
COVID vaccine? Yeah, So let's understand that there's a lot
to go with this. But I feel like it's impossible
to just say I hope the kid gets better. I
hope he's okay. You know, there's with no evidence or
knowledge of anything. It's yep, this is what it is.
(31:51):
Let's make this all a big forum for for vaccinations
and anti vaccinations. I'm like, we can't just say this.
We can't come together and say hope the kid is
okay and and and not knowing anything about it. These
are not all doctors coming up. There's people that want
to have opinions on things, and I'm like, this is
this is what, this is what social media. This is
the worst part of social media when stuff like this
comes out and it's you know, we can't wait for
(32:12):
an answer. We have a situation that's continuing to develop,
and instead of of dealing with it the right way, it's, oh,
let's get angry and let's make it us against you.
And that is just that is just absolutely awful. And
you want to know why where it's such a division
in the United States, It's because of things like Twitter
and social media because you can't get on it and
be on the same page with things. You know, it's okay,
(32:32):
this is good, this is bad, this is it. I mean,
it's something like this that makes me want to just
close up Twitter and go, you know what, I don't
want to do it anymore.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Well, I mean, look, we try to use it for
the value that it has to disseminate opinions about our
sports world and movies and whatever other nonsense.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
What we cooked today.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
And there's the innocuous hey, let's all come together, but
certainly weaponized and folks are going to have their opinions, right,
whether it's the movies this weekend, whether you saw Oppenheimer
and and had to have a take on it, or
we saw what happened with Barbie. You and I talking
about the Saquon Barkley in the running back situation and
how angry people were getting Just take your money and
(33:12):
shut up, you know, all of the or with the
sag Afra after I hear in the protests and strikes.
When it comes to entertainment, it's like, oh, you all
make a lot of money. It's like, well, actually no,
a very small percentage. But you know, don't let facts
get in the way of it. That's just where we're
at right it. It becomes the the loud, reverberating echo
(33:34):
chamber along the way for the James family. You know,
this is just a horrific thing. It's one of the
the circumstances that we all fear. You know, if your parents,
and certainly you worry about other people, your friend's kids
and all, but certainly as a parent, you know, when
you're you're helpless in a situation and you're watching this unfold,
(33:54):
you're asking all sorts of questions to your point. Between
two thousand and four two thousand and eight, this was
out of a CNN report, they found forty five cases
about nine per year that had the cardiovascular related sudden death.
So there's history to it, so hopefully we get good
news and there's a recovery. Tomorrow Hamlin sent out his
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love and we all know what unfolded with him on
a football field last year. So you know, we take
it and try to move forward and just try to
bring out the best of people about raising people up, man, Yeah,
I know.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I mean, let's just say we hope he's okay. Best
thoughts out to his family because it is I mean,
it's a scary situation. Man. It goes back to all
the different things we saw with Tomorrow Hamlin everything else.
We can't just say I hope he's okay. Because we
hope he's okay, send that karma out and to any athlete,
you know, suffering from something like this, we send that
love out there. Coming up next, we get back into
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now a series of friendlies that we were looking forward to.
One of them is here, and boy, we already have drama.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Maybe you're familiar with Wrexham from Welcome to rexam show
that's helped push popularity in soccer to immense levels here
in the country. With the show owned by Ryan Reynolds
and Rob mclaney. They're playing in the snap Dragon Cup
right now against Manchester United. Now this is a friendly
and already you've seen some chippiness go on because Paul Mullen,
(01:21):
Super Paul Mullen, I just don't think you'd understand had
to be helped off the field after a collision with
man You use goalkeeper and a play like that and
a friendly. Wow, man, I mean the keeper got a
yellow and hopefully Paul Mullen is okay. It's been see
you can see it on social media. Now it's insane.
I'm like, wow, that's up for a friendly, come on.
(01:42):
But you can tell that's how people potentially feel about Wrexham. No,
you do superstar rowners winning. Yeah, we'll show you we're
all about soccer. But Wrexham does have a one nothing.
Yeah they knew, they just they just a great clearing
pass and Lee puts it in and they cut to
Rob mcallaney and Dennis is in there too.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Nice but it's always Sonny.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Dennis is celebrating more than Rob mcallaney is.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
What's the snap Dragon one nothing?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Wrexham leads Manchester United right now? Insane, absolutely insane. The
popularity of Wrexham going forward, everything happening here and and
and you know, watch hopefully Paul Mullen is okay, because
it was it was it was kind of a weak
play by the keeper. But you know, just seeing the pot,
just seeing them go crazy. I mean, and watching Glenn
Howard and who plays Dennis and it's always Sonny watching
(02:33):
him celebrate, I just can't help but feel like this
is in the next season if it's always Sonny, like
this is gonna be some kind of thing, and Dennis
has a scheme going on, and and Rob mcallaney is
gonna be I mean, I really, I mean it took
me right out of it for a second watching Dennis celebrate.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Well, I mean, look, look for the camera there. I mean,
it's it's very possible. It just gets written in if
nothing else, it'll show up in season two of Wrexham.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh sure, I mean it's shown.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Up on your TV. It's just a man aware it's content.
It's content.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
And yeah, I mean we got Arsenal and Barcelona, Barcelona
on Thursday here in Los Angeles, so I mean you've
you've got these friendlies that are that are taken over.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
It's good, it's good.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
For business, buddy, and it'll make your prediction of soccer
and it's imminent growth and displacement and dominance over other sports.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
It'll make it come true that much faster.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Outside is it tomorrow?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Tomorrow, Thursday. I'm trying, buddy, I'm trying to get my
day tried. Today is still the twenty fifth, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Buddy? That buddy? The days have melted together from me
since college. Man, it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I'm usually pretty good at separating them. Yeah, but there's
just so much going on.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I mean, seriously, ever since college. I'm like, yeah, Mondayday, Tuesday, Monday, Wednesday. Yeah,
that's how it is. But uh, I mean just watching right,
I mean, I can't wait for the season two of Wrexham,
even though I know everything hands ends for them and
how it goes. And here they're on this big tour
and Dennis is celebrating goals and probably you know, Danny
DeVito's doing another Subway commercial.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
No no, no, no, no, he's Jersey Mike's Jersey Mike's Sorry.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Jeff Curry has now been brought in to counter Danny
DeVito because they they bought eighty million dollars worth of
slicers because they realized that was a problem.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We always slice this stuff and it's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
It's on billboards everywhere. I want to see.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Commercial him pull out his gun like he pulls it
out and always Sonny all the time, he always like,
has it out. I'll tell you, I'm all I'm gonna
remember from this game. Boy, if Wrexham wins went unbelieve,
playing way up in level obviously you're talking about a
level five team playing up against Manchester United. I don't remember.
Is Dennis celebrating, Danny yelling at crazy?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Where's Coach Beard? I'm watching the game. I don't see him.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's the that's the other show, Coach Beard. Coach Beard
is actually out on his own adventure in Amsterdam. That's
what's going on with coach.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I could use a whole season and that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, so that's where we're at right now.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Oh, Wrexham scores again. Oh they had a big throw
in the box and Wrexham scores. It's too nothing. You
can't stop Wrexham. You can only hope to contain them. Yes,
look at this. How embarrassed are you right now?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
If you're one of those soccer soccer peerists going, I
can't believe this team is beating us. This is a
low levels of was a sixth level team last year
and now they're beating us to nothing here in the thirty.
How many people right now are tweeting at Jay Glazer
to sell Man, you's right. This is where Jay should say,
You're right. This is despicable, this is awful. I'm going
(05:42):
to I'm gonna sell this.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yeah, this'll do it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I'm gonna sell the team. Look at this all the
header from Aaron Hayden. Oh my god, what are these guys?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
The best is how angry Jay gets. Now, yeah, I'll
start starting to beat people up. He's like, I don't
know if that's good business. We'll have to talk to
him about that as it hits the for his training
camp tour.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But yeah, did you did you see Dennis celebrating again?
Did you show hit the owner's bottom?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I mean, look sitting next to Rob.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
You're gonna get a lot of screen time.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh my goodness. I realize the soccer purists must just
be in hell right now with this. How is this?
How is this Hollywood down on its luck? Bad news
Bears team beating us.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Due only friendly It's only friendly and they.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Don't even have their best player. Paul Mullen's not even playing.
I mean, but watching some of these guys is like
seeing the Avengers, like, oh my goodness, there's Ollie Palmer
and oh my god, it's it's Paul Mullen, and it's
Phil Parkinson and all the I mean really, it's like
seeing the Avengers actually live doing things, not just in
a movie. This is out.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah. Your ability to retain all the details and fall
in love with these guys much deeper than me.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I watched it.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I moved on super Paul Mulley.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I mean, look, you don't forget him because of any chance.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, yeah, we have a good again, there's a good
chant for you. Sure they have a good champ So
again Wrexham Leeds Manchester United to.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I love it. Thirty seven minute. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Shut up. So we have Pete Futech coming up in
a few minutes for all the latest on the Jim
Harbaugh situation. But the biggest NFL story of the day today,
Saquon Barkley is now in playing this season. He is
going to play for the Giants after reaching terms on
a deal with the Giants. It's gonna pay Hi about
eleven million dollars. Now, it's not technically the franchise tag.
(07:32):
It's sort of the franchise tag. He's getting a tiny
bit more money. Basically, what happened is he agreed to
this deal and the Giants are still able to franchise
him again next year. If we're there, and there's been
a lot of talk everywhere, I've seen all the Giants
worked Barkley and all Barkley's threats, and the Giants did
what they wanted to do. And look at this and
(07:53):
Barkley's got his tail between his legs. You are missing.
Everybody who says that is missing the entire point of
what's going on. Saquon Barkley is smart. It shows like
he listens to our show, because what if we said
the last couple of nights, Hey, nothing's gonna change. It
was great to have the running back zoom call and
catch up with everybody else, but nothing's gonna change. You
(08:14):
can't make teams pay you. You're not all gonna hold out.
What you need to do is ball out every year,
get paid year to year, and stay healthy, and that's
how you're gonna make your money because no one's gonna
stop you from making money. You gotta stay healthy. I
know you're worried about being injured, so is everybody else
who plays in the NFL. That's your way forward. Is
it the best way forward? No, it's not, but it's
the way forward. If you are a running back, you
(08:36):
need to play every year. You need to play great,
and you'll will get a big contract for the next year.
You stay healthy. That's how it goes. And that's what
Saquon Barkley realized. I am putting myself a position to succeed,
not to fail, because if he holds out, he's in
a position to fail because he's coming in where maybe
the team adjusts around him. They brought in a lot
(08:57):
of wide receivers this year. Other guys are gonna throw
the ball to they brought and Darren Waller. Maybe Saquon
Barkley if he sits out, gets phased out of the
offense a little bit and he doesn't have the numbers
that he should have this year, Or he comes back,
tries to rush himself back, is not in football shape
and winds up getting injured. These are all things that
happen when you hold out what he has done now
(09:17):
by coming in is says, I've put myself in a
position for another payday next year. I have a full
training camp. I'm gonna get my body ready to go.
My teammates are not gonna have anything bad to say
about me because I've sucked it up for them. I'm
coming into play. You know. I maybe when I said, oh,
I could say f the Giants, that wasn't the smartest
thing to say. So I got to kind of make
up for that a little bit. I've come in. No
(09:38):
one can talk about my leadership. I'm here to play.
I'm gonna be a big part of this team, and
I'm gonna have a lot of put numbers, and I'm
gonna get another bite at the Apple next year. And
the very worst thing, I'm gonna make thirteen million dollars
next year. So he made the only choice he actually
had to say, because anything else he tried to do
puts the rest of his future in jeopardy, and that
is not getting paid at all again. Because if you're
(09:59):
trying to if you're trying to come off this year,
and it's a bad year for you, if you're not
getting paid coming off of last year. How are you
gonna get paid when you're coming off a year that
you're either ineffective or injured. He had no choice. It
was the only play for him, and he made the
smart play. Sakuon bark Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Think the biggest thing going back to the Barkley comments
last week, you know when you said you know blank
this blank that he never sounded like he was a
guy resolved to do this right. It was well, here's
where I'm at, and like he was just having is
I'm gonna think this out loud with a microphone in
front of me. Never never the best way to go
about your decision process, because you know, the assumptions get made.
(10:37):
But the way this breaks out right, thirteen hundred and
fifty rushing yards and a playoff berth sixty five receptions,
eleven touchdowns that will earn him up to another nine
hundred and nine thousand dollars. They gave him two million
dollars right now. Doesn't have to wait till till the
season starts. Here, here's two million bucks up front. Now
(10:57):
you get to go pay whatever bills, go buy yourself nice,
to make good, and and a feel good process to it.
Right here is a good faith system. But yeah, listening
to the show and really just pragmatism, and I get it.
Every running back is gonna have their different line in
the sand, and we talk about do you need to
(11:18):
be in solidarity and everybody walks, well.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
You're never gonna get that. You're just not right there.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
With a lot a lot of scaring over the last
couple of weeks that UPS was suddenly gonna strike. There's
no chance in hell that was ever gonna happen because
fed X would eat their lunch. You're not getting those
customers back if you go out on a long protracted strike.
Only the biggest loyalists. Otherwise it's you're gonna move down
(11:45):
down the street to the person that's gonna keep moving along.
Just like we talked about with running backs. We love you,
say Quon, and yes there's this decided drop off to
the next guy. But if that's what we have to do,
that's what we have to do. You're not gonna cave
in Kaotao. And in this case, you know, calmer heads prevailed.
We'll see how that happens with the other positions and
(12:07):
players affected and hold out situations for Saquon Barkley. Did
I expect it to resolve quite so quickly. No, because
I mean we left yesterday at about ten hours later.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Hey, what do you know?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Inside?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Good for him? I'm glad. No, but I'm glad at.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Least he feels whole ish right.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I'm sure there's still some reservations and a little angst
because they weren't able to get a second year or
a third year on the deal at the money per
year they wanted. But now that money's in the bank
and a check or wire, it's like, hey, let me
know when that gets into my account. We wired you
the two million dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
It's a good.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Faith effort and I think a good step towards bridging things.
And people just need to leave Daniel Jones alone. It's
got nothing to do with Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
But you paid Daniel. What's he gonna do? Say? No, no, no, no,
I don't want that money. I know I really don't
deserve it, but I'm not gonna take it.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Well, no, everybody else was.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I saw it in my timeline of bunch, Like, don't
forget Daniel Jones is still going to make twenty nine
million dollars more this year when Saquon is the heart
and soul of this team. You can feel how you're
gonna feel. I can't tell you how to feel, but
I can tell you what logic is and.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Where you're failing.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Not a quarterback, Not a quarterback.
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Speaker 1 (13:28):
Well maybe Manchester United was being threatened with everybody getting
fired at halftime. They have scored a goal right before
the break. Wrexham now leads Manchester United two to one
at halftime. I mean it, Jay Glazer. They're telling Jay Lazer,
sell the team, sell the team.
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We'll have to look at it. Look that up here
in a minute. See what kind of correspondence he's getting
into Twitter verse or.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I'm sorry on x X.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I don't think it's officially transitioned to xx just yet,
but yeah, you get the point.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
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Feutech That is at Pete fu Tech the editor publisher
Grand Pooba of College Footballnews dot com, your one stop
shopping for college football news. Pete, how's it going man?
Happy summer so far?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Oh dear lord, and apparently not a moment too soon.
You guys talking like friendly soccer or American soccer. I
mean that's the real stuff and start for a couple
of weeks here right, So I'm here to help. I
let me help you. Let me carry some of the
load to her for you guys for a little while.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well, look, it's Wrexham. It's a lot of a lot
of a lot of we had a lot of things
going on, Pete. It's not every dingy sit here and
say hey, because of four hamburgers, Jim Harbaugh is looking
at a four game suspension.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Oh dear god, it's so like seriously, like I they
I can't I just get like I have seriously blown
a gasket when it comes to the NCAA and trying
to figure out what's like, Oh, like Tennessee, they did
all these things. We're gonna take away some of your
wins from eighteen to fourteen. Like it's okay, you know,
(15:31):
super you know, and Okay, so maybe Jim Harbaugh was
in one thousand percent truthful when he talked to a
couple of NCAA people. Okay, so we're gonna suspend you
for what when you play cream Puff text to start
to see things they play nobody for the first four
games whatever. And then the dumbest of all is that
somehow they're gonna screw up the greatest business model possibly
(15:55):
in American maybe world entertainment history, where they they're trying
to keep going to Congress and saying, help us, help us,
and eventually they're gonna it's gonna go to the courts,
and the courts are gonna stay wait a minute here,
So you guys have free labor and you want us
to help you how and they're gonna mess it all up?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, Pete, let me tell you first thing. I mean,
you mentioned a big deal here because the nineteen fourteen
Tennessee Volunteers football team went nine to zero and won
the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association and retroactively, we're given the
national championship, so they could be giving back a national championship.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
From exactly, and Stumpy Woods now it deserves the MVP
for that game. So yeah, so absolutely, I'm with you.
It couldn't happen to him worth a nicer team, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
The captain of the team's name was Farmer Kelly.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I mean that was his course, Farmer Court what it
had to have been.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
And the head coach was Zora Clevenger, who was in
his fourth season at that point.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
That fantastic stuff that Tennessee fans are still get to
be mad about that, because Tennessee fans are mad about everything,
so they're gonna find way to be grouchy about this.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Well, but you gotta get to look at all the
negotiating and we'll get to my alma mater down the
road from you there in Evanston in a minute, Pete.
But you know, you got the Conference of Scandals, but
in college football overall, it is well that's it. It's
not Conference of champions and scandals. At this point, pick
a team, any team. But we look at the negotiating
(17:28):
of four game suspension, the negotiation of hey, they were
forthcoming in Tennessee. So it's eight million wins loss and
a time served for all those scholarship losses. We're in
just a really strange place, like we don't actually rule things.
Let's just try to figure out what's going to be
the most press friendly and show that we still have
(17:49):
some power here.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, and they miss out on what they should be doing,
which is the basics. They now that I joked before
about the Congress side, they should actually do something about
that when it comes to healthcare, when it comes to
other aspects of the student and I'm one hundred percent
for student rights and uh and player rights and all that.
The problem with all this is that keeps going back
(18:13):
to every time everyone wants to get into any and
trust me, there are a lot of people out there
who don't think that these students should get a thing
that they should just be happy to put on the
sweater for old what's them out of you? And you know,
have you know, be able to go out there and
play for us? And oh, they get a scholarship too
and all that. Meanwhile, the coaches are getting paid hundreds
(18:36):
of millions of dollars quit yet exactly so like you,
it's kind of hard for for to be like, well,
the coach and the coaches aren't professors. I mean, this
is this is college, and it keeps getting lost in
all this that the entire point of this whole little
exercise is their universities of higher learning. Like you could
(18:57):
take away actually the Alabama foot team and there would
still be a University of Alabama. If you took away
the Chicago Bears football team, there would be no Chicago
Bears football team. So it's it's so twisted how this
is all turned out, not like back in the nineteen
hundreds when everything was all, you know, on the up
and up with out sports. But yeah, no it's not.
(19:20):
It's gone. It's gone completely completely. But I digress. But
Dant could do very easy stuff like just fix the
transfer portal. That's all you have to do. The nil
thing is fine, it's not going to be that big
a deal. It's actually gonna it's actually gonna start to
kind of, you know, dissipate a little bit because there's
just no return on investment when it comes to this.
So it's just going to handle itself. So just make
(19:43):
sure that you can't have unstuttered free agency and all
the other problems. They're going to magically go away.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Beach Tech Collegeable Insider. Our guest here on Fox Sports Radio,
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Lifrom thetirec dot Com Studios. All right,
let's just button this with horrible here for a second,
because you know, Harmon's got some Western questions for you. Look,
when it comes to this, we know that he's negotiating
this four game suspension. It's going to happen. We know
not to lie to the NCAA. It's one of those things.
(20:10):
Do you see this to be any effect on Michigan
at all? I mean, look, they don't play a strong
schedule out of the gate, so likely they can do it.
He can coach the team during the week he just
can't be there for the weekends for the games. Do
you see there being any effect on Michigan long term
this season with this?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I now and no, because, like you said, if they
were to play, if they had a real nasty game
early on, then maybe that would mean something. But really,
at this point, it's the preseason. I mean, it really is.
I mean, I know Rutgers is the opening that it's
going to be part of this four game excuse me
suspension if it actually happens, But really you're talking about
(20:46):
the preseason before Michigan really has to start kicking it
all in with the tough games ahead. So as long
as he's a round for the practices and during the
week and isn't suspended completely from the program, then it's
all fine. But I mean, again, like you said, it's
not like it's that big a violation if it's all
if it's all true, he wasn't a thousand percent truthful
(21:08):
when it came to his interview with the NCAA, and
that's yeah, you know, cover up words in the crime.
But it's just we're really talking about silly season here, well.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Not so silly, and Evanston, we we've talked about it
a bunch, Pete. For me, every detail that comes out,
I've got a vote of no confidence of anybody that
has a quote leadership position there, and I think they
should all be cleaned out by the by the board,
including the a D and the president. At this point,
for some of the dopiness that they keep putting out.
(21:39):
The admission that they'd only read a quick summary and
not the actual contents of the report that they commissioned
is to me unconscionable. But McPherson and the assistant coaches,
how does anybody stay around? Is really what it comes
down to, Pete, And how do they feel the team
given all the problems that are going because eventually you
(22:01):
got to get after the.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Players to that perpetrated this stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Well, I mean, on the field, what are you gonna
do go from one to eight to oho to nine?
I mean, like I'm just a all of course, I mean,
but then you know, and that's that's the crazy part
about you know, all the years I've been doing this,
the one thing that's been a truth among us. You
show me whatever scandal, what however horrific it might be,
and there will be fan bases that are just going
(22:26):
to stand by their team and stand by their head coach,
no matter what or the star player, it doesn't matter
what the alleged crime or a legend thing is. They're
going to be like, why you And now you have Northwestern,
which again going back to the Northwestern would be just
fine as the university without a football team, and now
you've got this situation where Fitzgerald gets you know, gets
(22:49):
like go and all of a sudden you had this backlash.
But well, he represented the best of us, and all
these fans are like, I stand with this stuff, like
it's crazy, the hero worship of college coaches that happened,
and even at place north like Northwestern, which you would
think would be above it all, and obviously it's not
in its own certain ways. So you're right, it's just
(23:10):
an ugly situation. It's one of those things where the
faster it can go away, the better. I'm not a
fan of them not bringing the players and people to
the the big ten media days, you know, because look
I was there the Penn State kids that showed up
after what was a twenty eleven so it has been
(23:30):
twenty twelve, I think it was media days. They caught hell.
I mean they just they they had to set there
and just kind of just over and over again, and
they they got the breastdayeh on your show, Who's like
the super Genius or and some of these other guys
there they dealt with it. And Northwestern guys, you know what,
you get them show up, they can answer questions, they
(23:51):
can talk about it, and yet they can't. So it
is just a really ugly situation for a school where
you know better anybody else where, there are a whole
lot of people. And this goes forever university, including the Alabama's,
the Ohio States two, where there are a whole lot of
people on that campus that on a Saturday are gonna
be sitting in a library or a lab or somewhere else,
(24:11):
and not even any have anything to do with a
football program. That Look, at the end of the day,
college football programs are pr That's what they are. They
represent the student body, they represent the university, and you
can't have any sort of a scandal, especially at one
of the world's greatest academic institutions.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
All right, Pete, let's end with this because this is
gonna be a big top one. End with something kind
of fun. Here. What week do you think the Caleb
Williams should sit out the rest of the season. He's
not gonna do anything but get hurt. Conversation starts week three. No,
do you fit it out? Now?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Look I'm not joking, Like, Look, if you're gonna have
these silly NCA rules where It's not like the NBA
where you have options to go, you know, in Europe
or other places. And if you're gonna have these still
the NCAA rules that are going to prohibit players from
making money or being a part of any why should
(25:07):
Caleb Williams risk? I mean Justin Herbert, the Pac twelve.
Every Pac twelve team is going to go to bed
at night dreaming of getting the Justin Herbert contract extension.
It's crazy. We're talking about here is you can't get
a good starting NFL quarterback for what the Big twelve
(25:27):
and Pac twelve and a SEC are paying their schools.
So if you're Caleb Williams, what you're the number one pick,
there's not gonna be okay. Find so great break may
might be the number one pick and you might be
the number two picks. Justin Herbert decigned a two hundred
and sixty two million dollar extension. Why are you playing
one more down of college football at USC than you
(25:47):
have to. I've never understood this. We're starting to get
away from it, start become the norm that you don't
play in a bowl game now. But I've always been
on this. It's a business. This is fun for everyone else.
But if you're if you've got the winning lottery ticket,
you don't put it in your jeans pocket and throwing
the washer. So if I'm Caleb Williams, I'm out. I'm thanks, guys,
(26:09):
appreciate it. See you next year.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You can follow on Twitter at Pete Feutech. That is,
at Petefeutech college Footballnews dot com. You're one stop shopping
for everything college football. Pete looking forward to another great season,
my friend. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Absolutely, guys, let's go.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Welcome back buddy. Go watch the end of Cubbs White Sox.
Just kidding, Caleb Williams. Yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna play anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I just he's gotta do. He's gotta do the uh
the Peter Gibbons. Yeah, I'm just not gonna come any more.
So you're quitting football. No, I'm just not gonna come
any more. Right, But but you're quitting No, No, not really.
I'm just I'm just just not gonna play this year.
Oh okay, I get ready. That's what he's gonna do.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Just every Saturday it's him and Drake May playing video games.
You guys want to comment, what's going on in college football. Yeah, now,
Amazon Sunday mornings, we'll talk about our future employers.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Would more people watch USC without Caleb Williams or Caleb
Williams doing a twitch stream twitch oldmore twitch to Caleb
Williams of twitch, right, sure of course it would be yeah,
not playing, not playing, No, no, no, no no. I'm
going to be the number one pick. And hopefully it's
not the Lions.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Why Williams playing pick nineteen ninety four NHL, It's gonna
make Gretzky's head bleak.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh dude, NHL ninety four are the greatest video games
of all time? Oh my goodness, that was such a
good game. Twitter at How about a Fresco Mike gets
swollen Dome? The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. Oh, the Red Wings and the Blackhawks or something. Yeah,
And I gotta say, Buddy, I'm sorry the passing of
your owner earlier today, a big shot today, seventy years old.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Yeah, took over the team and transformed it. Obviously some
scandal in the last couple of years and how things
were handled internally to smear a bit of that. But
number one draft pick and maybe on the come back
trail in terms of excitement, but certainly can't take away
those Stanley Cup runs and those great battles with the
La Kings and Rocky Worts. After taking over for dollar
(28:11):
Bill Wertz, his old man really reformed that squad into
something that was more a force than it also ran.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
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Speaker 1 (28:28):
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(28:48):
In the fifty third minute, player on MANU is just
sent off with a red card. They are really pissed
and it's one of those things where it's like a
movie where I'm expecting to find out after the game.
At halftime, ownership group came in and said everybody was
fired if they lost this game to Wrexham, and they're
all out there playing dirty, they're tripping. It is really physical.
This is insane right now.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
I thought that red card was trash though. That's not all.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
No, no, you know you could have hurt the guy.
He's just he stuck his foot out, didn't make a
play on the ball. He stuck his foot out to tripping.
You already had Paul Mullen getting hurt. I think you
need to get control of the game if you're the ref,
because outside of that then it gets away from you
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah, I mean it, look you're gonna get chippy. I
mean it's that it's a friendly. I think there's probably
the red.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Game out this is there's no friendly here, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
No, that it's it's a you know, this is lee.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
If it's a league game, smoky, then I you know,
I don't think that red card shows up. But you know,
here we are man down. Let's see what they got.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
So we'll have more on this game coming up in
a few minutes, but obviously all our best thoughts to
Brownie James, lebron James and his family after the stunning
report earlier today that while it practiced a day ago
for USC, Bronnie James suffered cardiac arrest. It was a
shocking story, and he was taken to the hospital. He
(30:07):
is now stable and out of intensive care following this instance,
and you know, we're hoping that everything goes well and
he gets healthy soon get back to basketball. This is
a really, really difficult scare. And if you were anywhere
trying to find out information about this this morning, you know,
I said to myself after I look this up, this
(30:28):
is what's going to cause me to leave social media forever.
I'm just gonna eventually get to have enough and say,
you know what, I just I just can't deal with
this because all we saw at all that was was
trending at the top and whatever social media was milecarditis
and all the reckless speculation that oh, Bronnie James is
(30:48):
had a heart attack because he got the COVID JAB
and that's going to this is what's causing him to
have a heart attack, and all these unfounded studies that
people are posting up and it's the kid had a
hard attake, you had cardiac arrest. It unfortunately happens to
a handful of athletes every year. And you know, I'm
(31:10):
hoping that just people just instead of trying to weaponize
and politicize Oh yeah, yeah, I'm anti vaxed or uproa.
Just understand that, Okay, he had a cardiac arrest. We
don't know what happened, and you can't sit here and say, oh,
it must have happened that. No, the same thing happened
with Jamie Fox when it was let's just hope the
guy is okay and we'll find out at some point, right,
we'll find out because look, to tell the truth, is
(31:31):
there a low risk of mile carditis? Sure? Is there
a bigger risk of it if you don't get the
COVID vaccine? Yeah, So let's understand that there's a lot
to go with this. But I feel like it's impossible
to just say I hope the kid gets better. I
hope he's okay. You know, there's with no evidence or
knowledge of anything. It's yep, this is what it is.
(31:51):
Let's make this all a big forum for for vaccinations
and anti vaccinations. I'm like, we can't just say this.
We can't come together and say hope the kid is
okay and and and not knowing anything about it. These
are not all doctors coming up. There's people that want
to have opinions on things, and I'm like, this is
this is what, this is what social media. This is
the worst part of social media when stuff like this
comes out and it's you know, we can't wait for
(32:12):
an answer. We have a situation that's continuing to develop,
and instead of of dealing with it the right way, it's, oh,
let's get angry and let's make it us against you.
And that is just that is just absolutely awful. And
you want to know why where it's such a division
in the United States, It's because of things like Twitter
and social media because you can't get on it and
be on the same page with things. You know, it's okay,
(32:32):
this is good, this is bad, this is it. I mean,
it's something like this that makes me want to just
close up Twitter and go, you know what, I don't
want to do it anymore.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Well, I mean, look, we try to use it for
the value that it has to disseminate opinions about our
sports world and movies and whatever other nonsense.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
What we cooked today.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
And there's the innocuous hey, let's all come together, but
certainly weaponized and folks are going to have their opinions, right,
whether it's the movies this weekend, whether you saw Oppenheimer
and and had to have a take on it, or
we saw what happened with Barbie. You and I talking
about the Saquon Barkley in the running back situation and
how angry people were getting Just take your money and
(33:12):
shut up, you know, all of the or with the
sag Afra after I hear in the protests and strikes.
When it comes to entertainment, it's like, oh, you all
make a lot of money. It's like, well, actually no,
a very small percentage. But you know, don't let facts
get in the way of it. That's just where we're
at right it. It becomes the the loud, reverberating echo
(33:34):
chamber along the way for the James family. You know,
this is just a horrific thing. It's one of the
the circumstances that we all fear. You know, if your parents,
and certainly you worry about other people, your friend's kids
and all, but certainly as a parent, you know, when
you're you're helpless in a situation and you're watching this unfold,
(33:54):
you're asking all sorts of questions to your point. Between
two thousand and four two thousand and eight, this was
out of a CNN report, they found forty five cases
about nine per year that had the cardiovascular related sudden death.
So there's history to it, so hopefully we get good
news and there's a recovery. Tomorrow Hamlin sent out his
(34:18):
love and we all know what unfolded with him on
a football field last year. So you know, we take
it and try to move forward and just try to
bring out the best of people about raising people up, man, Yeah,
I know.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I mean, let's just say we hope he's okay. Best
thoughts out to his family because it is I mean,
it's a scary situation. Man. It goes back to all
the different things we saw with Tomorrow Hamlin everything else.
We can't just say I hope he's okay. Because we
hope he's okay, send that karma out and to any athlete,
you know, suffering from something like this, we send that
love out there. Coming up next, we get back into
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