December 12, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon welcome Bill Belichick to Chapel Hill. Trae Young rolled the dice on the Knicks logo. Plus a shout out to Al Michael’s for coming back to TNF next season!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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Speaker 2 (00:54):
He is back in coaching.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Excuse to be the head coach at the University of
North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I'm checked up about it? Is that really coaching? Though? Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well, the aid room, the table, the ACC is the
third best conference of the of the top three number
in college football. So yeah, you know what's going to
be epic? Mike, what's that buddy? When he runs up
the score on Serrea.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Though, all of a sudden, he's got some special wrinkles, special.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
His dice on your logo. Seven eleven, seven eleven, seven eleven.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
There you go. He's doing the whole thing right.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Eleven seven he brings out cube to do that live
in the post game.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh it's a good day. But look, there's so many questions.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
We talked about the Belichick thing for a lot of
different angles to sight, and here's a different one because.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's throws Fran Brown out of my recruits.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
House. Friend, you got to leave now. I I'm here,
I'm here, I'm here. No, friend, I outrank you.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Get out.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Meanwhile, kids are gonna be going Bill Belichick. Dude, coach
friend is my guy? Man you getting coach? Fran is
my guy?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't know. Manny Diaz is my guy.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Many guys been animated on the Simpsons.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No, they have not got to relate to the kids.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean, I just I can't get out. Manny Diaz
and I were a pas together at ESPN. I went
the broadcast route. He went the coaching route. He's gonna
be coaching against Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It's kind of cool. Oh and oh, by the way,
shout out Manny Diaz.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We're bringing the number one quarterback in the transfer portal,
Malik Murphy says, hey, I'm heading out. Okay, great, next
day you replaced You replaced, well, he was already replaced him.
Here's the thing for Belichick right in North Carolina. Duke,
I'm just saying, seems to have figured out the NIL
situation pretty good. You got Malik Murphy coming from Texas
(02:46):
last year. Now you replace him already. H After one
day when he says I'm hitting the transfer portal to
go bigger, I think Duke has figured out the NIL situation.
Duke and Syracuse both right to figured out the NIL
situation getting these big recruits to come play for them.
Watch out, Will Belichick, watch out.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
If nothing else. One of the reports out of here
is that the NIL collective immediately multiplied by five. They're
going from four million to twenty plus right off the jump.
In other words, if we're gonna do this, we're not
half assed in this. And look, he's got obvious experience
and we've talked about it. But between free agency and
(03:24):
convincing guys to stay recognizing when it's time to get
rid of guys. How often did we have during the
Patriot run? It's like, yep, that guy's gonna be gone.
Why because Belichick has seen him go over the top
of his mountain. He's on the way down. He'll do
the same thing with college guys. That guy's only a sophomore,
hes peaked.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
How soon before Brady leaves Fox and joins him there
as quarterback? Oh way back to school? Yeah, I think
as soon as week eighteen ends. As soon as week
eighteen ends, we're done. Are you moving on?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Those guys are really yucking it up this week on
the Fox NFL Sunday. Can't wait to see what the
demeanor is this Sunday. Oh yeah, North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, See, those guys are happy out. I'm
so excited to see on a college campus on a Friday.
I've been to North Carolina. It's really not.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Well.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Once grondkitts there, oh yeah, he'll take good point. They'll
take things to another level.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You say this, but this is the biggest question surrounding Belichick,
and we can answer it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It's okay, what kind of head coach is he?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Gonna be. And again, I'm bummed that all the good
jokes are gone, all the Belichick jokes and what you
think you can't recruit younger players, that you guys can't
communicate with younger people. And here's a picture of him
and his twenty four year old girlfriend everywhere. Here's a
picture of him the ring doorbell when he goes out
early in the morning. All those jokes are gone. Shirtless Belichick,
but all the jokes. What's he gonna be? What's it
(04:47):
gonna be like when someone calls him for more NIL
money and all of these things. And I understand that,
I do, however, understand what kind of head coach Belichick
is gonna be. They have given him heart and blanche.
They've given him everything he wants. He wants a big staff,
he wants to be able to have more money for NIL.
They've given him everything because he's Bill bleeping Belichick, right,
(05:10):
They've given him that. He's not going to get involved
with a with a kid in NIL until he has to.
Is he gonna spend an extra couple minutes on the phone. Yeah,
He's not gonna be the guy doing Steve Belichick is
gonna be doing all of that. Michael Lombardi is gonna
be doing.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
He's bringing in guys to do whatever it needs to
be done so he can coach exactly the way he
wants to. He's gonna go in and he's as he said,
I'm gonna run it like an NFL program, just not
in the NFL. When it comes to practice and nutrition.
We're gonna make it a big stepping stone for kids
to go to the NFL. He's gonna run it like
it's a big operation. Right now, we've seen it work
(05:48):
because we've seen Deon Sanders, who is the CEO of
the Colorado football program. Right year one started out great,
ended terribly. Year two was much better, and we've seen that. Okay,
Dion Sandra's style right now in Colorado works. You can
be that big CEO. He's gonna be. Belichick's gonna be
even bigger. He's gonna do the exact whatever he wants
(06:09):
to do coaching wise, he's gonna do. If that means, hey,
you guys all handle the nil stuff and then I'll
give you a half hour on Tuesday where you tell
me the five phone calls I have to make. And
now I'm gonna and I'll call and of course, how
happy is the recruits? Uncle gonna be that Bill Belichick
called me said they had the fifty grand for you,
the extra hundred grand for you. He's gonna say he's
(06:30):
gonna have meetings with Steve Belichick and everybody else. They're
gonna say, Okay, does this kid need this money? Yes, okay,
get it, find it somewhere here. Let me know the
phone calls I need to make for a half hour.
Because as you get older, you want to, you want,
you still have the desire to do something like this.
You just don't want to do everything right. So Belichick's
gonna leave everything out to his coaches. And when it
comes to nil, it's not gonna be suddenly where you
(06:52):
can text coach at any hour of the night. He
walks in with that kind of gravitas where this is
Bill Bleeb and Belichick, and if you need to talk
to him, you talk to me and I go talk.
It's like going to see the wizard, right, So you
you tell me Alphaba and then I'll get you in
to see the wizard. You can still be with it.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It gets floated by on a little balloon and have
a little drink and.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
My green eyed beauty have a little sip.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Uh. So that's how it's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
He's gonna do dance like the spoiler.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Nobody knows that yet, no sales because everybody's waiting till
Christmas Day for the singalong.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I have a little sip of the green.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And nobody saw the Broadway musical in the last twenty
five years either.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So that's how he's going to do it. And he's
going to do it where he is at the very
top of a huge pyramid that has a lot of
not not to have it a pyramid scheme. Suddenly, Hey, hey, recruit,
if you give me one hundred dollars, you can have
a chance to make five hundred dollars. Just let you.
Then you got to bring someone in there, buy the
water filter and bring someone in.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Below you, and they give you five hundred dollars, and
then money's at the filters.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Mate you the money. Then they bring two people in
and you get the money, and you're at that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's so long.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
He's gonna be at the top of a big pyramid
of coaches and he will do a little bit of
of of that kind of stuff that guys like fran
brown Man, he did. All these guys new coaches coming in,
all the stuff that they do that they tirelessly do.
Bell It's just gonna kind of farm it out to
guys he trusts, so right, that's I mean, he's gonna
be the supervisor CEO of this and he's gonna spend
(08:26):
his time coaching exactly how he wants to coach, and
it's gonna be a lot like he did with the Patriots.
He's gonna find the players that he likes, the players
coming in, who hey.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You buy in. You're buying in here, you're doing this,
And that's how it's gonna go.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And as far as the division of labor with everything going,
he's gonna be fine with it. Like I said, he'll
probably do less coaching than he did with the New
England Patriots. He's not so beholden to winning or nothing
like that that that would drove him in the NFL,
because it got to a point where Super Bowl or
was a failure. It's like, hey, if North Carolina wins
nine games, great, he can enjoy the process a little
(08:59):
bit more. He can coach exactly how he wants to
And that's how this is gonna work. And as long
as you can continue to run the NIL and transfer portal, right,
and you have the people write people in place to
do that for you. Okay, it's gonna work. Look was
Dean Sanders big big quota this year. When he got
into it with a reporter, he says, Oh, no, let's
talk about this. I got time for this today. I
(09:20):
got time. Dion's got time during the day. You have
time during the day. I got time. I got time.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
When you're a CEO, you got time.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You can build in what you want, You can coach
how you want, as long as the people you have
under you you can trust. And Belichick is gonna bring
all of those guys in.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I did enjoy a couple of weeks ago when Dion
tried to let the guy that was so critical ask
a question and dude had nothing to say.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Really, here's your chance, here's an opportunity. Fly ball caught
so all of that to.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Say, delegation right, opportunity to build a structure to zag
when everybody's zigger right, older guys are all running away
from NIL. And here's Bill Belichick going, we can build
a structure. Yeah, we can figure this out. We've got
a bunch of smart people that I know around me,
so position coaches. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if
it didn't end up looking something like Dan Campbell's staff
(10:11):
with the Lions.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Here's a bunch of ex players who are brilliant at
getting the.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Most out of their respective positions.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
He's just gonna run Steve Belichick into the ground.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, he's gonna want his son to do everything. He's
gonna have to do a bunch of everything.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But I mean the layers of administration handling the nf NIL,
handling those base calls, right, because Ran Brown and those
guys are still trying to prove themselves right. They're still
trying to climb that ladder. They're trying to be that
yodler on that prices right game, don't go over the cliff.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Belichick's on the downside, and he's like, I've seen it.
It's pretty cool up there.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
And you know what, I learned some things along the way,
and now I can delegate and to your point, you
can call for thirty thirty minutes to an hour a day.
Who do we need to call again? It's like, on
a very limited scale. My introduction to that world when
they wanted you to come take an entrance exam for
high school. Every night between six and six fifteen, same
(11:09):
four coaches calling me every night, got any questions, Here's
what we did today. Boy, in the chemistry labs, they
were like they were reading off or whatever teachers, whatever
the cell job was going to be that day.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Do you have any questions for us?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
But like the same kind of thing. It's like, all right,
who we need to follow up with? Who's mom, grandma, dad, uncle, whatever?
And then once a week or whatever, you get on
a plane, you go see the top two or three
guys and you try to close. Otherwise it's all administrative
behind the scenes of people dealing with those brand relationships, agents,
(11:43):
all of that stuff. And you bring him in as
the closer when you need to seal the deal again.
All the other guys still need to do a bunch
of the running around. Advantage Belichick, he could just sit
in his little lab doing the Machiavelian breakdown of what
fran Brown's got for his special teams, what Dabo's got
for his special teams, or whatever he's throwing out offensively
(12:07):
that you might be able to exploit as the defensive
wizard that he is. He's also printed out the NCAA
rulebook on everything, every bit of it. But they tell it, hey,
listen nowhere, because a chance is going to change. In
a week, we'll get you the new version, and then
there's a new version a week after that, and then
the PDF.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Just keeps getting updated.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Just in it. Listen, We'll put all the changes in
a different color, so each time, so you know, like, Okay,
this week is gonna be blue, next week will be orange,
the week.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
After we'll be next week blinking at you. You know,
just you know, it's all changing.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
But like, I'm intrigued by it again with so many
of the veteran coaches that have bailed and complained about
this ad nauseum to the rules that they don't like
how he navigates it. And if I could get five
minutes of whatever he said in those interviews, be like,
all right, here's how we're gonna deal with I don't
care what it is. Pick a random topic. Look, that's
(13:00):
sales job. It's he will fail or.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Succeed, and it's not going to be because of I
couldn't navigate nil, I couldn't navigate the transfer portal. He
knows how important that is, and people are going to
be doing that. He may not win, right Bill Bill
waltsh went from coaching the Niners to coaching Stanford. He
went seventeen and seventeen. Belichick may not win, But if
he doesn't, it's not gonna because, oh, look, everybody's getting screwed.
(13:25):
They're not getting paid, they're not getting their money, they're
not getting the trend that they could should have got
this transfer quarterback, but they didn't wind up getting him.
It's not gonna be because of that. He knows what
he's getting into. He's a smart guy. He's just gonna
have people doing that for What I can't wait for
is the first zoom call with a recruit and it's
the dog sitting there. That's all the draft, that's all, Hey,
(13:45):
how much do we want this guy? He's a three
star kid? All right, My dog's gonna do it. When
when's the five star? That's at four o'clock? All right,
I'll be there for that one. I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
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Speaker 1 (14:18):
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Speaker 1 (14:41):
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Speaker 2 (14:42):
Jason?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
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Mike disturbed?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
What if I said, you're both not far off?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
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Speaker 1 (14:54):
Jason?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Is it is it? Nickelback? No?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
No, come on, He's not gonna do that to us.
Come on, Jason, Last time I said.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
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Speaker 5 (15:04):
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Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yes, really.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
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Speaker 3 (15:20):
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Speaker 2 (15:34):
Time mark for whom the Bell doles. Oh this is great. Yes,
this is now my new.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Favorite Christmas song. All I want for Christmas is the belt.
Why the gun goes thelf on the shelf.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
He had a good run.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I dig that, man, I dig that. I want to
hear Mariah Carey and uh yeah. And that's like if
I had more thumbs, I would put him up. Really yeah, dude,
the last couple of Infanta, you gave me dirty deeds,
dirt cheap, and now you give me metallic.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
For whom the belt tells, this is fantastic. I got more.
Do you have Christopher Lee doing one?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Maybe I played that for Madeline, she's in I need
more of that.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
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for Christmas, for whom the bell doll.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Now we're gonna listen to ride the Lightning on the
way home, turn turn turn.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Uh so not that, and you know.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Me riding the lightning, That's what I do every.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Single day, every damn night.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Bolt up yo, the Hawks beat the next tonight and
we just watched the Rockets win a thriller over the
Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
So I get you. The final four of the e
Cup is set. The Cup. That is time check your
he cut brackets. The final four. It said, if you
had the Hawks, if you had the Rockets, if.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
You got a perfect bracket, do you get a million
dollars for the Hell's Warren Buffett?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh my cut bracket? Look at this isn't perfectly leaves.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And you know I picked him based on the color
of the courts. You know what, I guarantee you there's
people that did they do that.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I like this. Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It was another big night for Trey Young, who loves
playing against the Knicks, loves playing in Madison Square Garden. Uh.
I just watched ESPN put a whole big video compilation
together of all his big games against the Knicks over
the years.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Now that that court they played on tonight that might
be the most defensive of them all.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, I think that's why that's range.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
It was a bad court.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
But it photographs terribly.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Uh yes, but not that not that any of them
are esthetically pleano like that would just looks awfu.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's just it's just a shock factor for the courts.
That look burning my eyes. You thought Oregon's court when
it looked like you got to turn the chroma key
a little bit more, that's that's working right.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Uh. So you know they showed it back. You got
the chroma chrom They.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Had a big montage of all his big games in
the Knicks over the years, and there's so many of them.
And tonight after they win again in Madison Square Garden,
the Knicks were winning and then uh there was what
was the statue gave me that after the crowd started
chanting blank Trey Young. Uh, they were up twelve, they
were up twelve, and then the rot the uh rocke. Yeah.
(18:31):
I think Trey Young had nine assists and no turnovers
in the second half, and he played terrific and the
Hawks win. And then at the end of the game,
he's dribbling the ball the Knicks logo. He's rolling dice
on the Knicks logo. I think the next time they
play that that's gonna be an interesting first drive to
the basket for Trey Young. But uh, never wanted to
miss an opportunity. He loves throwing the Knicks and the
Knicks fans here. He was right after the game, after
(18:53):
another big Tray Young performance over the Knicks. I rubbed
my eggs in Knicks fans face.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
My eggs. I rubbed my eggs.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I was gonna go with Santa Sack. You d you
kind of sounded like Laton when you said that I'd
rubbed my eggs in Knicks fans faces about ten o'clock,
yead and we gotta go with the web bust, right,
you mean Galaxy won championship. Laton was not there for this.
Is that Galaxy wins? They did not win. No, only
Laton wins. Uh. So here's here's Trey Young. No, not
(19:30):
gonna go get eggs after the show's over. Here's Trey
Young following the game. Uh, taking every chance to troll
the Knicks when he can.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Is Laton rules dice on your logo.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
But remember when he got that that jersey from Lebron,
James signed it and sent it back one of the
greatest moments.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
What do you want me to do with this? Or
didn't send it?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
When he came to La, he says, now that now
La has a god and a king, like you know,
he has got Lebron Laton saying Lagin galaxy is not good. Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Now you get when he left retired and went back.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
To playing Italy and he said, now you can all
go back to watching baseball. Tell you man, there was
not that many guys more fun than he was so
much fun.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And now we have Zava.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
If you if they're rebooting, uh, and want to bring
you back Ted last time, you got to bring back Zava.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Of course you do. He left to go be one
of the hell pack of farmer. Right, he quit to
gotta go get him out of retirement. Uh. So here's
Trey Young following the game about the Knicks. Oh did
New York fans find their way to the exit? Real
real quick? Take out asshole? Yeah, I think the Knicks.
(20:45):
You're gonna have a little something something for him the
next time.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, that's what you've said, something something, No, this is
this is just because it's the Cup that well, yeah,
you can't this one. He was so much more personal
that he's chumped on the logo and rolled then on
everything else.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
You can do that in a regular game, you do
that in the Cup that something has to happen.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You know what's funny though, is I went through the
stats right because obviously big moments, big games. His stats
against the Knicks run straight in line.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
With his career averages. They just seemed bigger. Well that's
the he has, big game, And that's my point.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Is that, Okay, because I'm telling you, first time through,
first time to the hole with the ball. Next game,
you see what happens to him. Wow, But who's doing
it on that squad? Oh, big Modega's gonna do it
fast enough. You just have to rotate once. Just do
it once. If you do it the first time he
comes into the lane, I won't ask you to do
it the rest of the game.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Okay, all right, hang it out at the three point.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Line, but just just one time, one time, right, I
will not look no rotation. He has great. Look you
see the montage. You just see the highlights of what
it does and how big games he has against the Knicks,
thirty five point games, sending him home in the playoffs
three years ago, and the Knicks thought, hey, we're here.
Now they're really here. And still the Hawks are a
bad matchup for the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
It's not just Trey Young, but the Hawks have been
a bad matchup for New York for three years now
and that hasn't changed. But for Trey Young not to
take this in a Trey Young direction, here is that boy,
if I'm if I'm Atlanta, I have some kind of
way to say to him. You know, if you were
as motivated for the other games like you're motivated for
(22:21):
the Knicks, maybe we win something. And this is not
to say he lies down, that's not to say that,
but when you clearly have something extra in games and
I get that when you have something extra once in
a while, but when you always have something extra for
this team no matter when you play them, it tells
me you got a little something more. And so if
if you were up for this, and if if you
were as motivated for these for every game like you
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are against the Knicks, maybe we would win more.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Right, maybe maybe we would.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And that's a challenge to get Trey Young to take
a step up, because honestly, how are the Hawks going
to improve?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Right? You see the team they have.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
He's always been a guy who's been a great scorer,
but now leading the league and assists you having a
great year with But this is this is where sometimes
you're only going to improve if your best player takes
a big step up. Right, when did the Rockets improve?
You know, years ago when they were at conference title
in NBA title threats, when James Harden took it upon
himself to say, I want to be more than a
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score and now I'm gonna be a great point guard. Right,
And and that's the that's the thing for Trey Young, dude.
If you were as motivated every night as you are
against the Knicks, we would win stuff. We wouldn't be
a team that maybe makes the playoffs. And and and
if we make the playoffs, we're going out in the
first round. But I can see the way he moves
up and down the court, and you look at the
games like his biggest games in the last two months
two games against the Knicks and one game against the Lakers,
(23:37):
Like what does that tell you? Okay, you have a
little bit more you can give, and let's see more
of that on a nightly basis. We know you're jacked
up to play in the garden. We know that, we
know that the team is jacked up to play, and
that's going to get everybody playing well because when they
see you at a different level, I think I don't
think that's out of the realm of possibility to say, hey, Trey,
how about we do this more often and then maybe
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we're a better team. They were in the top half
of the Eastern Commoner because you're that kind of player.
He is that talented a player right.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Now, sitting there at seventh in the conference, fourteen and twelve,
winners of seven of their last ten games, coming up
big in big spots, but overall not so much as
we watch them kind of meander through through the season.
I mean, DeAndre Hunter has been great off the bench
for them with some regularity, But overall, you are the
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third worst scoring defense, because that's really all that matters, right,
give me all the other metrics, kind of like the NFL.
They give up more yards here that I don't care.
How many points do you give up? Third most points
behind the Wizards? Shocker and the Bolls.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Oh not a shock, no, not a shock, no no, no,
I mean that's I mean, both are captain obvious kind
of situations.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
But the Hawks give it up nearly one hundred and
twenty points per game.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, I mean the Trey Young is a modern day
superstar where at some point in the in the in
some of the greats who aren't as self motivated as
they should have been. Right, Shaquille O'Neil was never as
self motivated as he should have been. Kobe Bryant incredibly
self motivated, right, Steph Curry incredibly self motivated.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But not every star is like that. Not every star
is like.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That, and they get and they all get to a
point mid to late twenties where they sit back and go, Okay,
there's got to be more than this. Like, I've had
a great time in the last few years, scoring a
lot of points and and being this guy, but I
haven't won a title, and there's got to be more
to it for me than this. And for Shaquill O'Neil was,
I have to leave Orlando, I have to go to
the Lakers. I have to do this. And for Trey Young,
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it's gonna be dude and pick it up. For James Harden,
it was I need to change who I am as
a player. I need to be able to make sure
I can distribute the ball more. Lebron James even had
as motivated as he is, He's like, no, I need
to be a better point guard now, Okay, I need
to be learned how to be a good five so
I can play that because he was great there a
couple of years ago and they played him for that stretch.
So there are players that get to that point, but
usually it's in your mid to late twenties where you say,
(25:55):
is this what it is?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Am? I just gonna be this.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Guy playing every year scoring a bunch of points and
my team doesn't go anywhere. There's got to be more
to it than that. And this is for Trey Young
where I would say, dude, see how motivated you are.
You're a different player when you play the Knicks. The
team plays differently when you're this motivated. And there's nights
he has bad nights where he looks like he's someone
that can, that is running through sand, and and there's
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nights where it's like tonight. Why can't every night be
like that? The Knicks are a good team. It's not
like he's doing this against the Pistons all the time,
or you know, or in the bottom of the barrel
team is the way. No, he's doing this against a
pretty good team.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I mean, look, you're channeling one of the great Christmas
songs of all time in the Elvis. Why can't every
day be like Christmas? What a wonderful world.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
This would be.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
It takes a lot of energy, takes a lot of
effort to your point that you've made all these years
with Rex Ryan and other coaches in terms of how
they went through life, Robert Salah even recently for your Jets.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
See it's a lot of Jets talk, but just.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
The idea of every week can't be the biggest game
in the world because your team can't do that. And
certainly in the NBA, with the number of games you play, yeah,
you've got to meter some of that out. But in
the final moments of games, like you're gonna be close
ninety percent of your games, right, you're not getting blown out,
and they're sure as hell not blowing anybody out giving
up one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
But I think you can see if you're not playing
the back to backs, you still see Yannis plays his
best every night, Lebron gives his best every night. All
these guys still find a way to do it. I said,
when it's not back to backs, I said, it's not bad. Ah,
I said that. He said, it's not back to backs. No,
it finds a way to where the other.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Caavat with Lebron and and playing defense. Listen, notice how
I didn't say embiid.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Look, these guys find the way by Lebron's got the
giant asterisk, and now he may or may not show up.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
He's also his game.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
He's also forty away and finds a way again. Fine,
but it's still not on the point.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Back to backs, but all the all the point, you know,
because you no conversation like this would be complete without
going back to Jordan right, couldn't fly above the rim
forever like Ja Morant's learning. Now I going to get
broken in half. This is not good for business.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
So what did he do?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Became a better post player and jump shooter, and you
watch guys go through that for Tray Young, Yeah, you'd
like to see more. You make a lot of money,
You get a lot of adulation, certainly on nights like tonight,
other than Bill Belichick. You're the number one story in sports,
I mean, beyond the grave dos of the E Cup itself.
(28:25):
But all of that to say, yeah, he's got to
be something more. You got a lot of basketball left
to play. He just went sugar Land. There's gotta be
something beat a little less heartache, beat a little more.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Bliss, bliss, but you know what else is bliss?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
A boiler alert showed up as a as a street drug?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
What?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, why you got some? You got to get some?
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Take it down there? Why you can take it down
to the penguin. Oh I thought it was real life.
Oh okay, there you're telling me about here's what I
heard about the drug trade on the streets. Well, pay
attention to the streets, Okay, you need to know correct.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
A lot of the streets.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Every day I'm walking my dog at the mean streets
of my block and I find stuff out.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
That police scanner on and man, things you hear.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Let's find out what's trending right now the wide world
of sports from Moncey Milanios.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Monceie, what you got for us.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
The NBA Cup semi finals fellas you guys were just
talking about it. The four teams it is set in
your bracket. If you did have the Hawks and the Rockets,
you should get some brownie points because I did not
have either of those teams in my BEINGO card for
the NBA Cup. We'll start with the Hawks, who came
back to beat the Knicks one on way to one hundred.
(29:41):
Trey Young, couple of threes, couple of long threes into
twenty two points and eleven rebounds. So Atlanta will now
face the Milwaukee Bucks in the semi finals of the
NBA Cup.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That's gonna be on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
And then it was the Rockets and the Warriors went
down to the wire.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
A wild end there.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
I don't know if you guys saw it. With about
minute ago. Curry takes the three little bit of chaos
and sue and sues. As everybody is trying to get
the rebound. Jalen Green gets the rebound. They call a
fel on the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
He shoots two free throws.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
They go up by one, Houston goes up by one,
and then with three and a half seconds left, it's
not enough time for Golden State to make another shot.
So the Warriors are eliminated. Rockets headed to the semi finals.
They're gonna face Okay c on Saturday. Alprin she goon
Did I say that right? I think so right?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
He had twenty six points and eleven rebounds.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Did you.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Graf sh goon sho you got it?
Speaker 6 (30:38):
Yeah, it's that right to any six points and eleven
rebounds for the Rockets, we'll go to college hoops.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
We had two games today.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Number twenty three San Diego State held on They beat
California Baptists eighty one to seventy five. Number five Kentucky
outscored Colgates seventy eight to sixty seven. Other college hoops
news is that NCAA President Charlie Baker says they're having
productive talks on expanding the NCAA basketball tournament from sixty
eight schools to seventy two or even seventy six teams.
These changes could be made in time for the twenty
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twenty six and C Double A Tournament. In soccer, IFIFA
announced that the twenty thirty World Cup will be played
across Spain, Portugal, Morocco, with three one off matches taking
place in South America in Uruguay, Paraguay and up Inthena.
To honor the one hundredth anniversary of the event, The
twenty thirty four World Cup will be held in Saudi Arabia.
And baseball, the Red Sox acquired picture Garrett Crochet from
(31:30):
the White Sox, and lastly, here yes, Bill Belichick on
the move. Looks like he will be the new head
football coach at the University of North Carolina reportedly a
five year deal, but it needs to be approved by
the UNC Board of Trustees on Thursday morning, so it'll
be official on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yes, not yet, not yet, Okay, all.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Right, time for it to fall apart. Still time, I mean, yes, exactly.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Maybe Bill Belichick says I want ten years, and they're like, no, No.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I don't think he wants that. You know, his.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Girlfriend might want him to work for the next ten years.
Keep up with her lavish lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
No, I'm saying, you're right, you're right. Yeah, showing her
at all the games? Hey, there it is? Where is she?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
How does she's in the sea of all these co eds?
I don't know where she is, can't find her? Thank you, guys.
Thanks MONSI The Jason Smith Show with Mike Cartman Live
from the Tireck dot Com Studios. Well, you just heard
Monci say we could be looking at a seventy two
or seventy six team NCAA tournament in basketball within the
next year. How about a big piece of advice I
(32:35):
have for college basketball because of what we just saw
this past season in college That's next right here, Jason.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
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Speaker 2 (32:52):
Does this count if I'm in the Last Christmas Game?
Do I lose? If I can hear this.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
The melodious sounds of Kerry King on guitar and Tom Area,
lead singer of Slayer, South of Heaven and Last Christmas, I.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Rolled my dice in your face?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Eh, Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Carmon.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I'm dancing on your logo right now. We're the only
ones to do the holidays like this.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Nobody else does that twisted Christmas Here. Trey Jung actually
explained the rolling dice thing. We'll get to that coming
up in a few minutes. But he's singing a rolling
Stone song. Only you you got to roll? He would say,
who is his rolling stones you speak of? I don't understand.
I'm a millennial. I don't know what it means. Yeah,
you've heard the story. Montsi brought it to us earlier.
(33:50):
We talked about it last hour. The NCAA could be
looking at is looking at right now in the next year,
expanding the men's basketball tournament to seventy two or seventy sixty. Yes,
The president of the NCAA says very bullish on the
idea things it's gonna happen. Of course, it's going to happen.
We told you in March, because we're ahead of the
curve that this is going to happen. They're going to
improve to seventy two because the television rights are there,
(34:12):
they can own the whole week. Tuesday and Wednesday would
be four games each day. It's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
The interesting thing was they talked about would you have
some sort of you know, seeing how the NCAA football
expanded to twelve, would there be any other changes, And
the conversation kind of made its way around to we
don't know about putting out a play an NCAA tournament
(34:41):
weekly rankings like because potentially if they do this, they
would use the model of college football, which would be weekly.
We'd have the AP rankings, the coaches rankings, and then
how the rankings would be if the tournament was today,
here's who's in, here's who are the top seeds, here's
who's out. And the talk was President said, I don't
know if that would just be an incredible waste of time.
(35:01):
It would be so difficult for us to do because
you're talking about, you know, three hundred schools.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
You have to put in that in there. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
The sid's got nothing to do. Yeah, and and and
I want to say this. I said, this is where
you should learn from college football because the one miss
the biggest mistake college football has had with the twelve
team playoff is not about having a twelve team that's great.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
It's not about all the stubs team.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
If teams are going to get left out when you
lose three games, sorry Alabama, you potentially are going to
get left out. It's not about oh, who's playing who?
And look at the path that's such and such a
team as maybe the path isn't gonna wind up being
that easy. The only thing that they did wrong was
that they had the worst people and the worst responses
to why they had the team's ranked the way they
(35:42):
did it. No, they couldn't. They could not control the message.
And that's what gets everybody in trouble saying things like, well, Alabama,
these teams are not going to lose their ranking for
next week because they don't have a game. Well wait
a minute, of course, teams can win and move up
pass and what do you mean they're not gonna lose
their round? Of course that can happen. They just didn't they
they sent they felt like they were being reactionary, and
everything that was said from the Playoff Committee seemed to be, well,
(36:05):
we're defending why we have the teams here. You don't
need to do that. You do not need to do that.
In fact, I don't know that you need the playoff
poll because you can't. You don't know how to how
to manipulate it and how to push the narrative the
way you want it to be. Everything that goes out
there seems to be defensive, and there seems to be
votes that happen in the middle of the season that
at the end of the season don't make sense. Why
(36:26):
is SMU here ahead of Clemson? That doesn't make sense.
There's too many things that they can't defend because the
process is bad. So if I'm the NCAA tournament for
college basketball, I go, we don't want to look like clowns,
because that's what the nca Football Committee did.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
In the end, Did they get the did they get
the top twelve? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:46):
You know, I feel good with what they at right.
I think we could argue about but whatever.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
But every week it felt like we're changing things to
serve a certain narrative. And what's the win in that,
Because the only thing that happens is that confidence in
the playoff committee is low. And that's what you want
to The worst thing you wanna to have people say
is that, boy, my confidence in this process. I don't
trust the process because even though we get we get
(37:10):
the results we want to. At the end, Boy, the
way you are just moving things around it and moving
the arguments and moving the goalposts every week in how
you rank teams, that's not good man. So I don't
know that the NCAA for college Football shouldn't just get
rid of the College Football Playoff poland just say at
the end, here are the rankings and congratulate. Here's how
we had everybody, and here's the over the whole course
(37:32):
of the entire season. This is why Alabama is not in,
over the course of the whole season. This is why
SMU is in. So I don't know if we're better
off not having it. And if I'm the basketball I
certainly don't put that out every week.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Yeah, the hard part to it is you want to
generate the interest, the buzz, the arguments and everything else.
But the problem is a lot of the times the
argument was, well, I it clearly didn't prep for that question. Right,
It's like building out either your Star Wars universe. That's
not you know, that's that's incongruent to these events over here.
(38:07):
It just like this doesn't make sense, like just just
go with it.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
It's a work of fiction. Or the MCU, Well, why
does that get them?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Shut up? Just watch the movie and enjoy it. Same
thing here. They didn't have the giant whiteboard with all right,
here was our initial rationale.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
From here, we've got to stay consistent with the whys
what we answer, and they didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Never felt like they did that right.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
It felt the whoever the spokesman was for a given
week went in front of him. It's like, are you prepped? No,
It's like we talk about with coaches all the time.
You've got the fifteen minute last week. Who looked last week? Okay,
that we're gonna move them up this way. You're gonna
have the like you have a two minute meltdown of
an NFL game. Guess what all your postgame questions are
gonna be about player health and those two minutes, so
(38:53):
you better damn well have it buttoned down as to
how you were going to explain away a mental or
physical gaff a decision you made about a timeout or
a fourth down call, because that's what you're gonna be asked.
So if you're not ready, you look like an idiot.
And that's what the committee kept to I was like, Oh,
they're not gonna move like well, these three teams could
win their conference titles and jump them all, and that's
(39:15):
exactly where we ended up. So yeah, just uh hey,
that could be another one of those jobs that you do.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Oh sure I can. Yeah, Okay, I like that. I
got to write that down.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Cotton New I like that.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
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Speaker 1 (39:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:54):
He is back in coaching.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Excuse to be the head coach at the University of
North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I'm checked up about it? Is that really coaching? Though? Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well, the aid room, the table, the ACC is the
third best conference of the of the top three number
in college football. So yeah, you know what's going to
be epic? Mike, what's that buddy? When he runs up
the score on Serrea.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Though, all of a sudden, he's got some special wrinkles, special.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
His dice on your logo. Seven eleven, seven eleven, seven eleven.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
There you go. He's doing the whole thing right.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Eleven seven he brings out cube to do that live
in the post game.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh it's a good day. But look, there's so many questions.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
We talked about the Belichick thing for a lot of
different angles to sight, and here's a different one because.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's throws Fran Brown out of my recruits.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
House. Friend, you got to leave now. I I'm here,
I'm here, I'm here. No, friend, I outrank you.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Get out.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Meanwhile, kids are gonna be going Bill Belichick. Dude, coach
friend is my guy? Man you getting coach? Fran is
my guy?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't know. Manny Diaz is my guy.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Many guys been animated on the Simpsons.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No, they have not got to relate to the kids.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean, I just I can't get out. Manny Diaz
and I were a pas together at ESPN. I went
the broadcast route. He went the coaching route. He's gonna
be coaching against Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It's kind of cool. Oh and oh, by the way,
shout out Manny Diaz.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We're bringing the number one quarterback in the transfer portal,
Malik Murphy says, hey, I'm heading out. Okay, great, next
day you replaced You replaced, well, he was already replaced him.
Here's the thing for Belichick right in North Carolina. Duke,
I'm just saying, seems to have figured out the NIL
situation pretty good. You got Malik Murphy coming from Texas
(02:46):
last year. Now you replace him already. H After one
day when he says I'm hitting the transfer portal to
go bigger, I think Duke has figured out the NIL situation.
Duke and Syracuse both right to figured out the NIL
situation getting these big recruits to come play for them.
Watch out, Will Belichick, watch out.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
If nothing else. One of the reports out of here
is that the NIL collective immediately multiplied by five. They're
going from four million to twenty plus right off the jump.
In other words, if we're gonna do this, we're not
half assed in this. And look, he's got obvious experience
and we've talked about it. But between free agency and
(03:24):
convincing guys to stay recognizing when it's time to get
rid of guys. How often did we have during the
Patriot run? It's like, yep, that guy's gonna be gone.
Why because Belichick has seen him go over the top
of his mountain. He's on the way down. He'll do
the same thing with college guys. That guy's only a sophomore,
hes peaked.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
How soon before Brady leaves Fox and joins him there
as quarterback? Oh way back to school? Yeah, I think
as soon as week eighteen ends. As soon as week
eighteen ends, we're done. Are you moving on?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Those guys are really yucking it up this week on
the Fox NFL Sunday. Can't wait to see what the
demeanor is this Sunday. Oh yeah, North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, See, those guys are happy out. I'm
so excited to see on a college campus on a Friday.
I've been to North Carolina. It's really not.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Well.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Once grondkitts there, oh yeah, he'll take good point. They'll
take things to another level.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You say this, but this is the biggest question surrounding Belichick,
and we can answer it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It's okay, what kind of head coach is he?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Gonna be. And again, I'm bummed that all the good
jokes are gone, all the Belichick jokes and what you
think you can't recruit younger players, that you guys can't
communicate with younger people. And here's a picture of him
and his twenty four year old girlfriend everywhere. Here's a
picture of him the ring doorbell when he goes out
early in the morning. All those jokes are gone. Shirtless Belichick,
but all the jokes. What's he gonna be? What's it
(04:47):
gonna be like when someone calls him for more NIL
money and all of these things. And I understand that,
I do, however, understand what kind of head coach Belichick
is gonna be. They have given him heart and blanche.
They've given him everything he wants. He wants a big staff,
he wants to be able to have more money for NIL.
They've given him everything because he's Bill bleeping Belichick, right,
(05:10):
They've given him that. He's not going to get involved
with a with a kid in NIL until he has to.
Is he gonna spend an extra couple minutes on the phone. Yeah,
He's not gonna be the guy doing Steve Belichick is
gonna be doing all of that. Michael Lombardi is gonna
be doing.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
He's bringing in guys to do whatever it needs to
be done so he can coach exactly the way he
wants to. He's gonna go in and he's as he said,
I'm gonna run it like an NFL program, just not
in the NFL. When it comes to practice and nutrition.
We're gonna make it a big stepping stone for kids
to go to the NFL. He's gonna run it like
it's a big operation. Right now, we've seen it work
(05:48):
because we've seen Deon Sanders, who is the CEO of
the Colorado football program. Right year one started out great,
ended terribly. Year two was much better, and we've seen that. Okay,
Dion Sandra's style right now in Colorado works. You can
be that big CEO. He's gonna be. Belichick's gonna be
even bigger. He's gonna do the exact whatever he wants
(06:09):
to do coaching wise, he's gonna do. If that means, hey,
you guys all handle the nil stuff and then I'll
give you a half hour on Tuesday where you tell
me the five phone calls I have to make. And
now I'm gonna and I'll call and of course, how
happy is the recruits? Uncle gonna be that Bill Belichick
called me said they had the fifty grand for you,
the extra hundred grand for you. He's gonna say he's
(06:30):
gonna have meetings with Steve Belichick and everybody else. They're
gonna say, Okay, does this kid need this money? Yes, okay,
get it, find it somewhere here. Let me know the
phone calls I need to make for a half hour.
Because as you get older, you want to, you want,
you still have the desire to do something like this.
You just don't want to do everything right. So Belichick's
gonna leave everything out to his coaches. And when it
comes to nil, it's not gonna be suddenly where you
(06:52):
can text coach at any hour of the night. He
walks in with that kind of gravitas where this is
Bill Bleeb and Belichick, and if you need to talk
to him, you talk to me and I go talk.
It's like going to see the wizard, right, So you
you tell me Alphaba and then I'll get you in
to see the wizard. You can still be with it.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It gets floated by on a little balloon and have
a little drink and.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
My green eyed beauty have a little sip.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Uh. So that's how it's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
He's gonna do dance like the spoiler.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Nobody knows that yet, no sales because everybody's waiting till
Christmas Day for the singalong.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I have a little sip of the green.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And nobody saw the Broadway musical in the last twenty
five years either.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So that's how he's going to do it. And he's
going to do it where he is at the very
top of a huge pyramid that has a lot of
not not to have it a pyramid scheme. Suddenly, Hey, hey, recruit,
if you give me one hundred dollars, you can have
a chance to make five hundred dollars. Just let you.
Then you got to bring someone in there, buy the
water filter and bring someone in.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Below you, and they give you five hundred dollars, and
then money's at the filters.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Mate you the money. Then they bring two people in
and you get the money, and you're at that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's so long.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
He's gonna be at the top of a big pyramid
of coaches and he will do a little bit of
of of that kind of stuff that guys like fran
brown Man, he did. All these guys new coaches coming in,
all the stuff that they do that they tirelessly do.
Bell It's just gonna kind of farm it out to
guys he trusts, so right, that's I mean, he's gonna
be the supervisor CEO of this and he's gonna spend
(08:26):
his time coaching exactly how he wants to coach, and
it's gonna be a lot like he did with the Patriots.
He's gonna find the players that he likes, the players
coming in, who hey.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You buy in. You're buying in here, you're doing this,
And that's how it's gonna go.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And as far as the division of labor with everything going,
he's gonna be fine with it. Like I said, he'll
probably do less coaching than he did with the New
England Patriots. He's not so beholden to winning or nothing
like that that that would drove him in the NFL,
because it got to a point where Super Bowl or
was a failure. It's like, hey, if North Carolina wins
nine games, great, he can enjoy the process a little
(08:59):
bit more. He can coach exactly how he wants to
And that's how this is gonna work. And as long
as you can continue to run the NIL and transfer portal, right,
and you have the people write people in place to
do that for you. Okay, it's gonna work. Look was
Dean Sanders big big quota this year. When he got
into it with a reporter, he says, Oh, no, let's
talk about this. I got time for this today. I
(09:20):
got time. Dion's got time during the day. You have
time during the day. I got time. I got time.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
When you're a CEO, you got time.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You can build in what you want, You can coach
how you want, as long as the people you have
under you you can trust. And Belichick is gonna bring
all of those guys in.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I did enjoy a couple of weeks ago when Dion
tried to let the guy that was so critical ask
a question and dude had nothing to say.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Really, here's your chance, here's an opportunity. Fly ball caught
so all of that to.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Say, delegation right, opportunity to build a structure to zag
when everybody's zigger right, older guys are all running away
from NIL. And here's Bill Belichick going, we can build
a structure. Yeah, we can figure this out. We've got
a bunch of smart people that I know around me,
so position coaches. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if
it didn't end up looking something like Dan Campbell's staff
(10:11):
with the Lions.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Here's a bunch of ex players who are brilliant at
getting the.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Most out of their respective positions.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
He's just gonna run Steve Belichick into the ground.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, he's gonna want his son to do everything. He's
gonna have to do a bunch of everything.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But I mean the layers of administration handling the nf NIL,
handling those base calls, right, because Ran Brown and those
guys are still trying to prove themselves right. They're still
trying to climb that ladder. They're trying to be that
yodler on that prices right game, don't go over the cliff.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Belichick's on the downside, and he's like, I've seen it.
It's pretty cool up there.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
And you know what, I learned some things along the way,
and now I can delegate and to your point, you
can call for thirty thirty minutes to an hour a day.
Who do we need to call again? It's like, on
a very limited scale. My introduction to that world when
they wanted you to come take an entrance exam for
high school. Every night between six and six fifteen, same
(11:09):
four coaches calling me every night, got any questions, Here's
what we did today. Boy, in the chemistry labs, they
were like they were reading off or whatever teachers, whatever
the cell job was going to be that day.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Do you have any questions for us?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
But like the same kind of thing. It's like, all right,
who we need to follow up with? Who's mom, grandma, dad, uncle, whatever?
And then once a week or whatever, you get on
a plane, you go see the top two or three
guys and you try to close. Otherwise it's all administrative
behind the scenes of people dealing with those brand relationships, agents,
(11:43):
all of that stuff. And you bring him in as
the closer when you need to seal the deal again.
All the other guys still need to do a bunch
of the running around. Advantage Belichick, he could just sit
in his little lab doing the Machiavelian breakdown of what
fran Brown's got for his special teams, what Dabo's got
for his special teams, or whatever he's throwing out offensively
(12:07):
that you might be able to exploit as the defensive
wizard that he is. He's also printed out the NCAA
rulebook on everything, every bit of it. But they tell it, hey,
listen nowhere, because a chance is going to change. In
a week, we'll get you the new version, and then
there's a new version a week after that, and then
the PDF.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Just keeps getting updated.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Just in it. Listen, We'll put all the changes in
a different color, so each time, so you know, like, Okay,
this week is gonna be blue, next week will be orange,
the week.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
After we'll be next week blinking at you. You know,
just you know, it's all changing.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
But like, I'm intrigued by it again with so many
of the veteran coaches that have bailed and complained about
this ad nauseum to the rules that they don't like
how he navigates it. And if I could get five
minutes of whatever he said in those interviews, be like,
all right, here's how we're gonna deal with I don't
care what it is. Pick a random topic. Look, that's
(13:00):
sales job. It's he will fail or.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Succeed, and it's not going to be because of I
couldn't navigate nil, I couldn't navigate the transfer portal. He
knows how important that is, and people are going to
be doing that. He may not win, right Bill Bill
waltsh went from coaching the Niners to coaching Stanford. He
went seventeen and seventeen. Belichick may not win, But if
he doesn't, it's not gonna because, oh, look, everybody's getting screwed.
(13:25):
They're not getting paid, they're not getting their money, they're
not getting the trend that they could should have got
this transfer quarterback, but they didn't wind up getting him.
It's not gonna be because of that. He knows what
he's getting into. He's a smart guy. He's just gonna
have people doing that for What I can't wait for
is the first zoom call with a recruit and it's
the dog sitting there. That's all the draft, that's all, Hey,
(13:45):
how much do we want this guy? He's a three
star kid? All right, My dog's gonna do it. When
when's the five star? That's at four o'clock? All right,
I'll be there for that one. I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
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What do you think this is?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Jason?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
This is gonna be Motley Crue. Okay, doctor feel good?
Mike disturbed?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
What if I said, you're both not far off?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Let it breathe?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Jason?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Is it is it? Nickelback? No?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
No, come on, He's not gonna do that to us.
Come on, Jason, Last time I said.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I guess I'm Molly Crue, not Lolly Crue.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
No bon Jovi, no Kiss Metallica.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yes, really.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
See now this can get me in the mood for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I'll make glud this weekend, every clear version mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Time mark for whom the Bell doles. Oh this is great. Yes,
this is now my new.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Favorite Christmas song. All I want for Christmas is the belt.
Why the gun goes thelf on the shelf.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
He had a good run.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I dig that, man, I dig that. I want to
hear Mariah Carey and uh yeah. And that's like if
I had more thumbs, I would put him up. Really yeah, dude,
the last couple of Infanta, you gave me dirty deeds,
dirt cheap, and now you give me metallic.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
For whom the belt tells, this is fantastic. I got more.
Do you have Christopher Lee doing one?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Maybe I played that for Madeline, she's in I need
more of that.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
And then she goes count doo coupe. Oh a lot
for Christmas, for whom the bell doll.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Now we're gonna listen to ride the Lightning on the
way home, turn turn turn.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Uh so not that, and you know.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Me riding the lightning, That's what I do every.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Single day, every damn night.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Bolt up yo, the Hawks beat the next tonight and
we just watched the Rockets win a thriller over the
Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
So I get you. The final four of the e
Cup is set. The Cup. That is time check your
he cut brackets. The final four. It said, if you
had the Hawks, if you had the Rockets, if.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
You got a perfect bracket, do you get a million
dollars for the Hell's Warren Buffett?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh my cut bracket? Look at this isn't perfectly leaves.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And you know I picked him based on the color
of the courts. You know what, I guarantee you there's
people that did they do that.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I like this. Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It was another big night for Trey Young, who loves
playing against the Knicks, loves playing in Madison Square Garden. Uh.
I just watched ESPN put a whole big video compilation
together of all his big games against the Knicks over
the years.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Now that that court they played on tonight that might
be the most defensive of them all.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, I think that's why that's range.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
It was a bad court.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
But it photographs terribly.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Uh yes, but not that not that any of them
are esthetically pleano like that would just looks awfu.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's just it's just a shock factor for the courts.
That look burning my eyes. You thought Oregon's court when
it looked like you got to turn the chroma key
a little bit more, that's that's working right.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Uh. So you know they showed it back. You got
the chroma chrom They.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Had a big montage of all his big games in
the Knicks over the years, and there's so many of them.
And tonight after they win again in Madison Square Garden,
the Knicks were winning and then uh there was what
was the statue gave me that after the crowd started
chanting blank Trey Young. Uh, they were up twelve, they
were up twelve, and then the rot the uh rocke. Yeah.
(18:31):
I think Trey Young had nine assists and no turnovers
in the second half, and he played terrific and the
Hawks win. And then at the end of the game,
he's dribbling the ball the Knicks logo. He's rolling dice
on the Knicks logo. I think the next time they
play that that's gonna be an interesting first drive to
the basket for Trey Young. But uh, never wanted to
miss an opportunity. He loves throwing the Knicks and the
Knicks fans here. He was right after the game, after
(18:53):
another big Tray Young performance over the Knicks. I rubbed
my eggs in Knicks fans face.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
My eggs. I rubbed my eggs.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I was gonna go with Santa Sack. You d you
kind of sounded like Laton when you said that I'd
rubbed my eggs in Knicks fans faces about ten o'clock,
yead and we gotta go with the web bust, right,
you mean Galaxy won championship. Laton was not there for this.
Is that Galaxy wins? They did not win. No, only
Laton wins. Uh. So here's here's Trey Young. No, not
(19:30):
gonna go get eggs after the show's over. Here's Trey
Young following the game. Uh, taking every chance to troll
the Knicks when he can.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Is Laton rules dice on your logo.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
But remember when he got that that jersey from Lebron,
James signed it and sent it back one of the
greatest moments.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
What do you want me to do with this? Or
didn't send it?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
When he came to La, he says, now that now
La has a god and a king, like you know,
he has got Lebron Laton saying Lagin galaxy is not good. Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Now you get when he left retired and went back.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
To playing Italy and he said, now you can all
go back to watching baseball. Tell you man, there was
not that many guys more fun than he was so
much fun.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And now we have Zava.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
If you if they're rebooting, uh, and want to bring
you back Ted last time, you got to bring back Zava.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Of course you do. He left to go be one
of the hell pack of farmer. Right, he quit to
gotta go get him out of retirement. Uh. So here's
Trey Young following the game about the Knicks. Oh did
New York fans find their way to the exit? Real
real quick? Take out asshole? Yeah, I think the Knicks.
(20:45):
You're gonna have a little something something for him the
next time.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, that's what you've said, something something, No, this is
this is just because it's the Cup that well, yeah,
you can't this one. He was so much more personal
that he's chumped on the logo and rolled then on
everything else.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
You can do that in a regular game, you do
that in the Cup that something has to happen.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You know what's funny though, is I went through the
stats right because obviously big moments, big games. His stats
against the Knicks run straight in line.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
With his career averages. They just seemed bigger. Well that's
the he has, big game, And that's my point.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Is that, Okay, because I'm telling you, first time through,
first time to the hole with the ball. Next game,
you see what happens to him. Wow, But who's doing
it on that squad? Oh, big Modega's gonna do it
fast enough. You just have to rotate once. Just do
it once. If you do it the first time he
comes into the lane, I won't ask you to do
it the rest of the game.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Okay, all right, hang it out at the three point.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Line, but just just one time, one time, right, I
will not look no rotation. He has great. Look you
see the montage. You just see the highlights of what
it does and how big games he has against the Knicks,
thirty five point games, sending him home in the playoffs
three years ago, and the Knicks thought, hey, we're here.
Now they're really here. And still the Hawks are a
bad matchup for the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
It's not just Trey Young, but the Hawks have been
a bad matchup for New York for three years now
and that hasn't changed. But for Trey Young not to
take this in a Trey Young direction, here is that boy,
if I'm if I'm Atlanta, I have some kind of
way to say to him. You know, if you were
as motivated for the other games like you're motivated for
(22:21):
the Knicks, maybe we win something. And this is not
to say he lies down, that's not to say that,
but when you clearly have something extra in games and
I get that when you have something extra once in
a while, but when you always have something extra for
this team no matter when you play them, it tells
me you got a little something more. And so if
if you were up for this, and if if you
were as motivated for these for every game like you
(22:44):
are against the Knicks, maybe we would win more.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Right, maybe maybe we would.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And that's a challenge to get Trey Young to take
a step up, because honestly, how are the Hawks going
to improve?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Right? You see the team they have.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
He's always been a guy who's been a great scorer,
but now leading the league and assists you having a
great year with But this is this is where sometimes
you're only going to improve if your best player takes
a big step up. Right, when did the Rockets improve?
You know, years ago when they were at conference title
in NBA title threats, when James Harden took it upon
himself to say, I want to be more than a
(23:15):
score and now I'm gonna be a great point guard. Right,
And and that's the that's the thing for Trey Young, dude.
If you were as motivated every night as you are
against the Knicks, we would win stuff. We wouldn't be
a team that maybe makes the playoffs. And and and
if we make the playoffs, we're going out in the
first round. But I can see the way he moves
up and down the court, and you look at the
games like his biggest games in the last two months
two games against the Knicks and one game against the Lakers,
(23:37):
Like what does that tell you? Okay, you have a
little bit more you can give, and let's see more
of that on a nightly basis. We know you're jacked
up to play in the garden. We know that, we
know that the team is jacked up to play, and
that's going to get everybody playing well because when they
see you at a different level, I think I don't
think that's out of the realm of possibility to say, hey, Trey,
how about we do this more often and then maybe
(23:57):
we're a better team. They were in the top half
of the Eastern Commoner because you're that kind of player.
He is that talented a player right.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Now, sitting there at seventh in the conference, fourteen and twelve,
winners of seven of their last ten games, coming up
big in big spots, but overall not so much as
we watch them kind of meander through through the season.
I mean, DeAndre Hunter has been great off the bench
for them with some regularity, But overall, you are the
(24:24):
third worst scoring defense, because that's really all that matters, right,
give me all the other metrics, kind of like the NFL.
They give up more yards here that I don't care.
How many points do you give up? Third most points
behind the Wizards? Shocker and the Bolls.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Oh not a shock, no, not a shock, no no, no,
I mean that's I mean, both are captain obvious kind
of situations.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
But the Hawks give it up nearly one hundred and
twenty points per game.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, I mean the Trey Young is a modern day
superstar where at some point in the in the in
some of the greats who aren't as self motivated as
they should have been. Right, Shaquille O'Neil was never as
self motivated as he should have been. Kobe Bryant incredibly
self motivated, right, Steph Curry incredibly self motivated.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But not every star is like that. Not every star
is like.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That, and they get and they all get to a
point mid to late twenties where they sit back and go, Okay,
there's got to be more than this. Like, I've had
a great time in the last few years, scoring a
lot of points and and being this guy, but I
haven't won a title, and there's got to be more
to it for me than this. And for Shaquill O'Neil was,
I have to leave Orlando, I have to go to
the Lakers. I have to do this. And for Trey Young,
(25:34):
it's gonna be dude and pick it up. For James Harden,
it was I need to change who I am as
a player. I need to be able to make sure
I can distribute the ball more. Lebron James even had
as motivated as he is, He's like, no, I need
to be a better point guard now, Okay, I need
to be learned how to be a good five so
I can play that because he was great there a
couple of years ago and they played him for that stretch.
So there are players that get to that point, but
usually it's in your mid to late twenties where you say,
(25:55):
is this what it is?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Am? I just gonna be this.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Guy playing every year scoring a bunch of points and
my team doesn't go anywhere. There's got to be more
to it than that. And this is for Trey Young
where I would say, dude, see how motivated you are.
You're a different player when you play the Knicks. The
team plays differently when you're this motivated. And there's nights
he has bad nights where he looks like he's someone
that can, that is running through sand, and and there's
(26:18):
nights where it's like tonight. Why can't every night be
like that? The Knicks are a good team. It's not
like he's doing this against the Pistons all the time,
or you know, or in the bottom of the barrel
team is the way. No, he's doing this against a
pretty good team.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I mean, look, you're channeling one of the great Christmas
songs of all time in the Elvis. Why can't every
day be like Christmas? What a wonderful world.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
This would be.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
It takes a lot of energy, takes a lot of
effort to your point that you've made all these years
with Rex Ryan and other coaches in terms of how
they went through life, Robert Salah even recently for your Jets.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
See it's a lot of Jets talk, but just.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
The idea of every week can't be the biggest game
in the world because your team can't do that. And
certainly in the NBA, with the number of games you play, yeah,
you've got to meter some of that out. But in
the final moments of games, like you're gonna be close
ninety percent of your games, right, you're not getting blown out,
and they're sure as hell not blowing anybody out giving
up one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
But I think you can see if you're not playing
the back to backs, you still see Yannis plays his
best every night, Lebron gives his best every night. All
these guys still find a way to do it. I said,
when it's not back to backs, I said, it's not bad. Ah,
I said that. He said, it's not back to backs. No,
it finds a way to where the other.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Caavat with Lebron and and playing defense. Listen, notice how
I didn't say embiid.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Look, these guys find the way by Lebron's got the
giant asterisk, and now he may or may not show up.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
He's also his game.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
He's also forty away and finds a way again. Fine,
but it's still not on the point.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Back to backs, but all the all the point, you know,
because you no conversation like this would be complete without
going back to Jordan right, couldn't fly above the rim
forever like Ja Morant's learning. Now I going to get
broken in half. This is not good for business.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
So what did he do?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Became a better post player and jump shooter, and you
watch guys go through that for Tray Young, Yeah, you'd
like to see more. You make a lot of money,
You get a lot of adulation, certainly on nights like tonight,
other than Bill Belichick. You're the number one story in sports,
I mean, beyond the grave dos of the E Cup itself.
(28:25):
But all of that to say, yeah, he's got to
be something more. You got a lot of basketball left
to play. He just went sugar Land. There's gotta be
something beat a little less heartache, beat a little more.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Bliss, bliss, but you know what else is bliss?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
A boiler alert showed up as a as a street drug?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
What?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, why you got some? You got to get some?
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Take it down there? Why you can take it down
to the penguin. Oh I thought it was real life.
Oh okay, there you're telling me about here's what I
heard about the drug trade on the streets. Well, pay
attention to the streets, Okay, you need to know correct.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
A lot of the streets.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Every day I'm walking my dog at the mean streets
of my block and I find stuff out.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
That police scanner on and man, things you hear.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Let's find out what's trending right now the wide world
of sports from Moncey Milanios.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Monceie, what you got for us.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
The NBA Cup semi finals fellas you guys were just
talking about it. The four teams it is set in
your bracket. If you did have the Hawks and the Rockets,
you should get some brownie points because I did not
have either of those teams in my BEINGO card for
the NBA Cup. We'll start with the Hawks, who came
back to beat the Knicks one on way to one hundred.
(29:41):
Trey Young, couple of threes, couple of long threes into
twenty two points and eleven rebounds. So Atlanta will now
face the Milwaukee Bucks in the semi finals of the
NBA Cup.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That's gonna be on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
And then it was the Rockets and the Warriors went
down to the wire.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
A wild end there.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
I don't know if you guys saw it. With about
minute ago. Curry takes the three little bit of chaos
and sue and sues. As everybody is trying to get
the rebound. Jalen Green gets the rebound. They call a
fel on the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
He shoots two free throws.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
They go up by one, Houston goes up by one,
and then with three and a half seconds left, it's
not enough time for Golden State to make another shot.
So the Warriors are eliminated. Rockets headed to the semi finals.
They're gonna face Okay c on Saturday. Alprin she goon
Did I say that right? I think so right?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
He had twenty six points and eleven rebounds.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Did you.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Graf sh goon sho you got it?
Speaker 6 (30:38):
Yeah, it's that right to any six points and eleven
rebounds for the Rockets, we'll go to college hoops.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
We had two games today.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Number twenty three San Diego State held on They beat
California Baptists eighty one to seventy five. Number five Kentucky
outscored Colgates seventy eight to sixty seven. Other college hoops
news is that NCAA President Charlie Baker says they're having
productive talks on expanding the NCAA basketball tournament from sixty
eight schools to seventy two or even seventy six teams.
These changes could be made in time for the twenty
(31:08):
twenty six and C Double A Tournament. In soccer, IFIFA
announced that the twenty thirty World Cup will be played
across Spain, Portugal, Morocco, with three one off matches taking
place in South America in Uruguay, Paraguay and up Inthena.
To honor the one hundredth anniversary of the event, The
twenty thirty four World Cup will be held in Saudi Arabia.
And baseball, the Red Sox acquired picture Garrett Crochet from
(31:30):
the White Sox, and lastly, here yes, Bill Belichick on
the move. Looks like he will be the new head
football coach at the University of North Carolina reportedly a
five year deal, but it needs to be approved by
the UNC Board of Trustees on Thursday morning, so it'll
be official on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yes, not yet, not yet, Okay, all.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Right, time for it to fall apart. Still time, I mean, yes, exactly.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Maybe Bill Belichick says I want ten years, and they're like, no, No.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I don't think he wants that. You know, his.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Girlfriend might want him to work for the next ten years.
Keep up with her lavish lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
No, I'm saying, you're right, you're right. Yeah, showing her
at all the games? Hey, there it is? Where is she?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
How does she's in the sea of all these co eds?
I don't know where she is, can't find her? Thank you, guys.
Thanks MONSI The Jason Smith Show with Mike Cartman Live
from the Tireck dot Com Studios. Well, you just heard
Monci say we could be looking at a seventy two
or seventy six team NCAA tournament in basketball within the
next year. How about a big piece of advice I
(32:35):
have for college basketball because of what we just saw
this past season in college That's next right here, Jason.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Does this count if I'm in the Last Christmas Game?
Do I lose? If I can hear this.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
The melodious sounds of Kerry King on guitar and Tom Area,
lead singer of Slayer, South of Heaven and Last Christmas, I.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Rolled my dice in your face?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Eh, Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Carmon.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I'm dancing on your logo right now. We're the only
ones to do the holidays like this.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Nobody else does that twisted Christmas Here. Trey Jung actually
explained the rolling dice thing. We'll get to that coming
up in a few minutes. But he's singing a rolling
Stone song. Only you you got to roll? He would say,
who is his rolling stones you speak of? I don't understand.
I'm a millennial. I don't know what it means. Yeah,
you've heard the story. Montsi brought it to us earlier.
(33:50):
We talked about it last hour. The NCAA could be
looking at is looking at right now in the next year,
expanding the men's basketball tournament to seventy two or seventy sixty. Yes,
The president of the NCAA says very bullish on the
idea things it's gonna happen. Of course, it's going to happen.
We told you in March, because we're ahead of the
curve that this is going to happen. They're going to
improve to seventy two because the television rights are there,
(34:12):
they can own the whole week. Tuesday and Wednesday would
be four games each day. It's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
The interesting thing was they talked about would you have
some sort of you know, seeing how the NCAA football
expanded to twelve, would there be any other changes, And
the conversation kind of made its way around to we
don't know about putting out a play an NCAA tournament
(34:41):
weekly rankings like because potentially if they do this, they
would use the model of college football, which would be weekly.
We'd have the AP rankings, the coaches rankings, and then
how the rankings would be if the tournament was today,
here's who's in, here's who are the top seeds, here's
who's out. And the talk was President said, I don't
know if that would just be an incredible waste of time.
(35:01):
It would be so difficult for us to do because
you're talking about, you know, three hundred schools.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
You have to put in that in there. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
The sid's got nothing to do. Yeah, and and and
I want to say this. I said, this is where
you should learn from college football because the one miss
the biggest mistake college football has had with the twelve
team playoff is not about having a twelve team that's great.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
It's not about all the stubs team.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
If teams are going to get left out when you
lose three games, sorry Alabama, you potentially are going to
get left out. It's not about oh, who's playing who?
And look at the path that's such and such a
team as maybe the path isn't gonna wind up being
that easy. The only thing that they did wrong was
that they had the worst people and the worst responses
to why they had the team's ranked the way they
(35:42):
did it. No, they couldn't. They could not control the message.
And that's what gets everybody in trouble saying things like, well, Alabama,
these teams are not going to lose their ranking for
next week because they don't have a game. Well wait
a minute, of course, teams can win and move up
pass and what do you mean they're not gonna lose
their round? Of course that can happen. They just didn't they
they sent they felt like they were being reactionary, and
everything that was said from the Playoff Committee seemed to be, well,
(36:05):
we're defending why we have the teams here. You don't
need to do that. You do not need to do that.
In fact, I don't know that you need the playoff
poll because you can't. You don't know how to how
to manipulate it and how to push the narrative the
way you want it to be. Everything that goes out
there seems to be defensive, and there seems to be
votes that happen in the middle of the season that
at the end of the season don't make sense. Why
(36:26):
is SMU here ahead of Clemson? That doesn't make sense.
There's too many things that they can't defend because the
process is bad. So if I'm the NCAA tournament for
college basketball, I go, we don't want to look like clowns,
because that's what the nca Football Committee did.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
In the end, Did they get the did they get
the top twelve? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:46):
You know, I feel good with what they at right.
I think we could argue about but whatever.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
But every week it felt like we're changing things to
serve a certain narrative. And what's the win in that,
Because the only thing that happens is that confidence in
the playoff committee is low. And that's what you want
to The worst thing you wanna to have people say
is that, boy, my confidence in this process. I don't
trust the process because even though we get we get
(37:10):
the results we want to. At the end, Boy, the
way you are just moving things around it and moving
the arguments and moving the goalposts every week in how
you rank teams, that's not good man. So I don't
know that the NCAA for college Football shouldn't just get
rid of the College Football Playoff poland just say at
the end, here are the rankings and congratulate. Here's how
we had everybody, and here's the over the whole course
(37:32):
of the entire season. This is why Alabama is not in,
over the course of the whole season. This is why
SMU is in. So I don't know if we're better
off not having it. And if I'm the basketball I
certainly don't put that out every week.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Yeah, the hard part to it is you want to
generate the interest, the buzz, the arguments and everything else.
But the problem is a lot of the times the
argument was, well, I it clearly didn't prep for that question. Right,
It's like building out either your Star Wars universe. That's
not you know, that's that's incongruent to these events over here.
(38:07):
It just like this doesn't make sense, like just just
go with it.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
It's a work of fiction. Or the MCU, Well, why
does that get them?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Shut up? Just watch the movie and enjoy it. Same
thing here. They didn't have the giant whiteboard with all right,
here was our initial rationale.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
From here, we've got to stay consistent with the whys
what we answer, and they didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Never felt like they did that right.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
It felt the whoever the spokesman was for a given
week went in front of him. It's like, are you prepped? No,
It's like we talk about with coaches all the time.
You've got the fifteen minute last week. Who looked last week? Okay,
that we're gonna move them up this way. You're gonna
have the like you have a two minute meltdown of
an NFL game. Guess what all your postgame questions are
gonna be about player health and those two minutes, so
(38:53):
you better damn well have it buttoned down as to
how you were going to explain away a mental or
physical gaff a decision you made about a timeout or
a fourth down call, because that's what you're gonna be asked.
So if you're not ready, you look like an idiot.
And that's what the committee kept to I was like, Oh,
they're not gonna move like well, these three teams could
win their conference titles and jump them all, and that's
(39:15):
exactly where we ended up. So yeah, just uh hey,
that could be another one of those jobs that you do.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Oh sure I can. Yeah, Okay, I like that. I
got to write that down.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Cotton New I like that.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Playoff Continuity Expert.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Exit up about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon Live from the tirec dot Com studios. Coming
up next, maybe the most shocking football story we've had
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