December 3, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to the latest College Football Playoff poll. Jason explains that after big, heritage teams get left out of the college football playoff next week, magically they'll all agree to go to 16 teams for next year. And JAYLEN BROWN drops 42 points on Jason’s Knicks!
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is the way tire buying should be. Well, here we
are on a Tuesday night in December, and we're already
at the next to last college football playoff poll that
came out tonight. And and look, there's a lot to say,
Well there is miss is better with Wayne Kiffing gone.
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There is a lot to say and that for some reason,
Alabama is now better than Notre Dame. I don't know.
I guess Alabama's better. We'll put them ahead the wind blow.
This is a precursor, I will give you. This is
a holiday precursor to what is going to be an
absolute fire sale tire fire when the final poll comes
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out and you see teams that wind up getting left out. Okay, Now,
obviously the top of the pole unchanged. Ohio State, Indiana
one two, Georgia number three, Texas Tech, Oregon is up
a bit in Texas A and M drops a couple spots,
but still safely in the in the playoff poll. But
the big things we see out here, and this is
where everything is coming into play. Now, why I say
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get get ready. Even though there's it's not going to
be a lot of movement in the top ten. The
movement's gonna be ten, eleven, twelve, and who gets left out?
But understand that you've seen some movement. You have seen conferences.
Politic great. Apparently the committee loves the politicking of the
SEC because now they're going to have five teams in.
Apparently because for some reason Alabama beats an okay, Auburn team.
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Now let's put them head of Notre Dame. Not that
Notre Dame is great, but did Alabama really deserve to
get up there? This tells you Alabama is getting in
to the college with all play, barring barring unexpected craziness.
And it's college football, so there is craziness. But barring
that you have seen it is working for us. The
SEC they have politic great, The ACC is not politicking
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well at all, and you can wind up getting left out.
This is the craziness we are getting to with the
college football. We talked about it a couple of weeks
ago that we started to see a lot of the
comments coming out of the committee that leant towards style points.
And certainly it does not hurt that you're mouthpieces are
on all the place that hosts it, right, and all
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the shouting and yelling nets going on of hey, you
shouldn't penalize because of this. Everybody now doing the stumpy thing. Well,
if Texas hadn't played that game, it's like they did,
Yeah they did that. Like that doesn't magically proof go away.
You want to re simulate it in your damn video games?
Had at it? Well, that's but that's become a popular
thing now because when when Manny Diaz, head coach, a
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Duke former sports enter Pa well Many Diaz talked about
how does his team deserve to be in the AC
title game. Obviously, even if they win, they're not going
to the playoff, but you know they deserve to be
in the a SEC title game. He goes, well, yeah,
look at our losses. I'll be with us to a
top ten, two top ten teams, a top eight team,
a top I'm oh, so what you're saying is, hey,
we shouldn't be penalized because we lost a good team. No,
that's them. You're a good team if you beat good teams,
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saying what you're telling me is that, hey, we're okay
beating the teams at SNAK, but you know we play good.
Hey what do you expect you to do against good teams?
But the Texas argument, you really just more laughable because
you lost to Florida. Didn't they just fire their coach
because they didn't like him. Well, you know when you
hear lost to Florida, Oh you lost to Florida, Florida, No,
Florida's state. The old ball coach and Tim Timo or
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not walking to Terry Dan and Danny whirfol and this
is not Percy Harvin and this is this is not
Chris Leak and oh this is different. But no, but
you get it's an absolute blank show and it's and
it's coming at you at all sides because you look
at the teams are gonna wind up getting left out
and there's gonna be big teams getting left out. And
the ACC is at the cusp of this because they're
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not smart enough to understand that, oh, we're fighting for
our lives as a conference. The SEC gets it, the
Big Ten gets it. You may not like how the
Big Ten and the SEC go about their business, but
I know one thing. They are not going to rest
unless they get all twelve teams into the playoff from
their conference the strongest. Damn right, we want Maryland in
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at twelve, right, we want to get that. But here's
the ACC and it's, oh, yeah, yeah, Well, maybe the
tie breakers should be different. You think You didn't think
that maybe the tie breakers should be highest ranked team.
You didn't think that would be a big thing to
get you thought about all the other conferences, think about
everything else. You didn't think that, oh, maybe highest ranked
team should be in because that's our best chance of
getting a team in the playoffs. You don't see how
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crowded out you're getting. You think you're gonna wind up
getting teams in all the time when it's big ten
sec Like, I can't look, I can't blame those two
conferences for doing a better job at politicking and the
AEC for going well, you know, I guess we should
maybe have said something, yeah, no, you know what, you're stupid.
You're stupid, and there's no no wonder your conference is
getting run into obscurity by these other comments. You could
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totally see it on a whiteboard. Though. He gets put
up there in a corner and it's like, ah, but
what are the we don't need to worry about that.
What are the odds that's actually gonna happen? Right? I
love the commentary today though this is good from uh
you're Achech, the athletic director at Arkansas. I can tell
you the debate between Alabama and Notre Dame in the
past three weeks, strongest debates we've had the room for
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the past year. Wait wait for it, Notre Dame went
on the road, had a strong win at Stanford. But
but I mean, come on, man, this is not. This
is not the NFL where all the teams stink. I mean,
come on, this is called you have good teams at
college foot But Alabama went on the road in a
rivalry game and looked really, really good, especially in the
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first half. Yeah, Auburn stinks too, right there. But like
to give you something little bit different because we told
you what a blank show what's going to be. And
when you see teams like Notre Dame Texas who could
wind up getting left out and boy leaving out Texas,
well they lost three top ten teams, well they be
three top ten teams. Okay, you're gonna get to sixteen teams, right,
We've talked with this for a long time. This is
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gonna be the last year with twelve. They will find
a way to get all on the same pages. Say, okay,
let's let sixteen teams in next year because they're all stupid.
This year. They couldn't figure it out. We couldn't figure
out a way to get to make the money work
and get to sixteen teams, which is stupid. And now
you're going, oh, maybe we need to do that now
because and the main reason is that your pool of
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contenders in the nil era has gotten bigger because you
are now talking about teams like Indiana and Texas Tech
that suddenly aren't it. Well they have to get in,
Texas A and M has to get in. These are
not your normal power teams that you would say, well, yeah,
they're gonna get in the playoff. No, you're thinking it's
gonna be all the heritage teams are all gonna get in.
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But because of the NIL era and schools that have
figured out how to make it happen more than other
schools have, you have these new and it's not gonna
be every year. It's not gonna be. These teams aren't
gonna suddenly become powers every year. But hey, when the
purse strings open up, you're gonna get that quarterback that's
gonna get you to an eleven and one record because
you avoid the three best teams in your conference. Now,
so that's going to happen. Your contender's pool is getting bigger.
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So what are you gonna do as a result, Well,
we got to make the playoff bigger because the SEC,
the Big tench we want more schools in the AC
wants to make sure we get at least one or
two schools in so magically in the offseason, watch magically,
they're gonna find a way to get to sixteen teams.
They're just say, oh, yeah, we find a way to
make it all work out. We're gonna get that up
because this next week, that final pool is gonna be
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a blank show, and there's gonna be teams that want blood.
Steve Sarkisian might have blood dripping from his mouth if
Texas gets left. Yeah, but this becomes part of the
Machiavellian plan of it's been to sixteen or bigger all along.
It's just well, how do we get there? We need
to have a common villain, and the villain is that
damn ten through twelve man. Somebody has to be left out. Meanwhile,
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they're sitting there going how big is that pot of money?
How big is that pot of money? For adding those
extra games over there? We can make it bigger? Right,
we can get bigger? Is it bigger? Do we really
we really can push this if we leave Notre Dame
out right? We can really push this if we look,
I love Notre Dame, you love Notre Dame, we all
love Notre Dame. But do we want Notre Dame to
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get it over one of our teams. No, I think
we need to band together and make sure Notre Dame does.
I mean I love Notre Dame. I know you don't,
but this is this is survival of the fittest. Or wait, wait,
even a more radical suggestion. We still expand the playoffs
like you had, but we go back to a non
human element. You put in your algorithm, you put in
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your data. Yeah, it keeps people from getting that extra
trip and run through the trough and the lazy river
at the hotels and and all that they get with
their their perks of being on the committee, the frequent
flyer miles and and extra cell phones and all of
those things. But maybe maybe the computer was the right
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way to handle this, because now now it's lobbying like
you're on Capitol Hill, dude, not on steroids, Like doesn't
even work like it's always been there. No one trust
computers anymore. No one trust computers anymore. Now we can't
trust there's AI. AI is gonna wind up doing something
crazy and picking teams that are four and eight from
the playoff. No, we can't have that. We've named Max
Headroom or.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Max.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Now you gotta explained to millennials who Max Headroom. No,
you did the impression. Give me little bit of a
mad Brewer right there. Yeah, there you got. I got
to come back in and black years ago. But yeah,
all of this is it's been a made for TV show,
just like the playoffs themselves. And that's like when we
talk about it for the NCAA tournament, that's always been
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the case. So the fact that that's suddenly thrust into
people's faces and the the faux outrage over Lane Kiffin,
like this was new by the way, Charlie Charlie Weiss
junior junior, like Barti Crouch junior coming back that got
them boosted a spot. How do you think Lane Kiffin
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felt about, Hey, hey he's going back. It went up
after you left. He worry was that it was a
free fall because you were gone. He doesn't care unless
you was gonna pay him the more successful. He said, Hey,
that's great. I'm glad they moved us up. I feel
I don't have to do any prep work and I'm
gonna wind up getting some spoils from this. Do I
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get a bonus if they get to the top five?
Based on some other chaos over Championship weekend. But but
all of it, as we've watched it through the first
go round, all the way through, we've had these fun
narratives about style points. Right. I read the little blip
about Notre Dame in Alabama right to show you, uh,
because Notre Dame kick the crap out of Stanford, which
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they were supposed to.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
They did their job just like we were talking about,
for a tough road win against Well, you know, I mean,
Andrew luck might have tripped down the sideline, or he
might have come back to throw a couple passes. It
just gets really close to the side he does. He
hasn't yet stepped over the line out of the field
of play. He's not Mike Tomlin tripped anybody. No, No,
Bill Cower, which when he tried to almost through the
punch the guy in the Jaguars when he blocked that kick.
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It was a Chris Hudson right there running for a touchdown.
Badly wanted to punch the guy. If those things never
come up on those guys, it's very interesting. But I
remember he went to apologize to him after He did
apologize to him afterwards. But all of this is, I mean,
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it's amazing. The replay on the side. Hudson's like dancing
down the field and a coward just wrecks backets and
he takes a step forward. Those are the two photos
that need autograph pictures copies of on my wall. Did
get when he was flipping off the fans, right, that's
a famous one, and then the Bill Kawer So if
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I can get those, that would be great on the
wall of mean, But it's a TV show, So now
it's politicking and stumping as best you can with your
loudest voices, because even going to A and M, they're
not like getting left out. They only have one loss, right,
But you we watched coach get a little weepy, uh,
you know because there were some noise and he and
he heard people celebrating what a you know, what non
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unprofessional environment we have here. But like their schedule sucked, yea,
and nothing was made of that, but everybody went. But
but I'm just saying because because the other side was
all the sec honks were going after Ohio State for
their schedule, like tex A and M had a walk
in the park relatively speaking, Yeah, but because you got
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louder voices and maybe they've more numerous big voices to
stump for the SEC. Here's the thing. I don't mind
the politicking. I don't mind the stumping. I don't mind, Hey,
here's our schedule is better than your schedule, because I
like that. I think that's healthy, and I think that's
good debate. I think it's I think it's really good.
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Now when your thumb is on the scale and all
of a sudden, for no reason, Alabama is vaulted ahead
of Notre Dame to make sure that they get in, Okay,
that's where that's where you got to throw a challenge flag. No, okay,
what what's really going on here with this? So I
kind of I don't mind that part, because you got
a debate about something right to be able to do that.
But the whole thing is that when you have a
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sport that has no rules, how do you think this
is going to be done cleanly? I mean, that's they
you thought this college football has zero It is the
wild West of of sport. They have no When you
have no rules, this is just gonna be done with, Okay,
and let's see how it turns out. And there's gonna
be people who are hopping mad next week and people
who are gonna be happy without it. But it's gonna
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be an absolute mess because good teams are gonna get
left out. Heritage teams are gonna get left out. And
it's not gonna be like last year where you got lucky,
where oh Miami should have gotten in. Well, Miami, you
lost Syracuse Laskin. You lost your third game of the year.
You had to win to get it that. I have
no sympathy for you there. I have no sympathy think
about that losing to Syracuse being a big no. It's true. So,
but that was one game. That was one game. This
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is gonna be way more than that. You know what,
the old adages, you should have won more games. Exit.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon another Peacock doubleheader night, which means we're
gonna get Oklahoma City and Golden State in about an hour.
Awesome start, about an hour. Yeah, but it'll go all
the way through the show. It will, that is true.
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It will be for folks that can't sleep. They now
have a companion. And uh, you know, early game here
on the Coast to Coast Nick Celtics, which was a
blowout in the third quarter, Jalen Brunston having his worst
game as a Nick and I'm I don't think I'm
under selling that, but it's become an eight point game
now midway through the fourth quarter. But you know, you
don't get these games unless ye. The whole point of
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the NBA on NBC was a double header, right, But
the whole point of when they had it years ago
was and today's double header the men of Teal and
Charlotte visit Michael Jordan and the Bulls, and then later
on the West Coast, the Lakers host the Blazers in
a big, big matchup. Clyde Drexler, we'll return and this
one for Portland, right, Like that was the whole thing was, No,
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you gotta get it. Nah, you don't. You don't get
them now. Well, but here's the thing. You know, life
kind of changes as you go on. It's it's like
the complaint that everybody has, like, look, look at all
it would cost you to watch every game in the end.
In NFL, it's like, you know, once upon a time,
you got one or two games and you liked it,
you loved it. You had Monday night football, and then
you had what three games on Sunday. Maybe no, you're
(17:11):
really well no, no, no, I'm talking back. I'm talking like
when we were kids. Yeah, no, you had you had
your local game and then you had the and then
you had a late game, the national game or whatever
national game you had, whatever your team was playing. But
that's what I made. Like so, so that's what you got,
and you liked it, and you dealt with it, and
you got your highlights. They fired up the sports machine
(17:32):
on Sunday night, and you know it was so special.
Was when like if like I remember, and I was
lucky because obviously in New York we get Jets and Giants, right,
so we get so I got more teams. But like
when that four o'clock game would end, and and and
and Don Crikiy whoever it was, would say and not
hearing it, you know, the final from the Meadowlands, the
Jets beat you know, Jets beat the Broncos thirty four
to twenty seven. Now let's take you for bonus coonus coverage.
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San Diego Chargers and the and the and the Oakland
Raiders are tied at forty five in the fourth quarter,
and you're like, oh, we're getting the end of this game. Oh,
I can't have dinner yet, Graham, I can't have dinner yet.
There's six minutes to go, and it's forty five forty five,
and Fouts has the football I can't come to dinner yet.
Well I was always so special, and then it would
get to the bottom of the hour and they'd go
to the regular schedule program because of network agreements. But
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all of that to say, like, it's like the Internet,
right when everything was free and then people realize, you know,
we're not making any money, like this click click click
click ad thing is like, eh, let's put it behind paywalls. O.
Folks didn't like that, like, you know, the the Tom
Petty line that I run from the last DJ, Like
all the boys upstairs want to see how much you'll
pay for what you used to get for free. Oh yeah, yeah,
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And that's where we're at for the NFL. If you're
cool with a couple of games a week, you're good. Yeah,
you want more, you pay for it like anything else
in this world. You want extra seat room on your airplane,
you go, you want to bring an extra bag, you pay. Hey,
your local game's free as long as you have some
kind of you know, any kind of came but but
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the rest of it. Yeah, I'm gonna put my hand
in your pocket and I'm gonna pull out a water catch.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Look, it's the old drug dealer model. Yeah, that first
taste free, you want more? But the whole thing is like,
it's so ironic that the whole thing was the NBN, NBC,
the double head. I know that was the whole But
here's the thing. A lot of folks don't remember that.
They remember the flashy graphics, the open Marv Alvert and
Steve Snapper, Jones, Bill Walton and Michael Jordan. That's what
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you remember. And then later Tim Duncan and the Spurs
against the Mavericks and a Western Conference showdown. What if
the money was movie set cash? What if the if
the movie was what money was movie set cash? Oh? Okay,
yeah that would okay, all right, I'm with a thing
right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm with you on that.
Okay yeah movie set cash? Yeah yeh yeah, okay, so
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you can lay down like you yeah, and bring you back.
You shoot too much, Marty, you shoot too much. I mean,
it's just it's just this, it's just such a bad idea.
I mean it's I really, it's just such a bad idea.
I mean, I want to see what the numbers are
for Peacock. I mean, have they gotten any kind of
juice oide of this?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
In terms of subscriptions. The thing is, I get the
long haul part. I get that. Okay, people are gonna
need some time to come to It's like the opening
of a club. Hey, how come no one's here? Open up? Well,
people just got to find out about it. We got
a few people the first night, more people the second
night than the third night. Concept, but you gotta get
some more to moue. What's not gonna change is not
getting one of the games and and the late game,
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which is a big matchup starting at eleven o'clock on
the East Coat. You're saying, we're gonna start like we
don't care. This is the Thunder and the Warriors. Man,
this is a team that could of challenge the Warriors
record for wins in a season. Right, they're already on
pace to go, you know, seventy eight and four, right,
and here's the Warriors. And what's gonna happen? And you
know we're starting this. We're starting it at eleven o'clock,
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starting it here, you get more people. We're gonna start it. Well,
but if you care, you're gonna watch. No, not really care,
you're gonna pay it.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I think people, and I think you overestimate people's desire
to watch live sports when it's not their team. Hey,
I'm about convenience. We are about convenience in this country. Now,
that's why all this different stuff with I have to
get this and this, but in this streaming situation and
this and this and this, No, you gotta make it
easier for me. So hey, starting at ten o'clock, yeah,
watch a while, but you know what, I still have
(21:26):
to get up at seven thirty. Old Man Peterson's on
my aff for those reports Ven Kramer was doing. He's
on me saying, what what are those reports? Jerry? He
won't lay off me, Jerry. People makes it so difficult.
They have to get People have to get up and
go to the airport in the morning, they have to
get up and go to work. They gotta get their
kids to school. I understand that not everybody's gonna stay
(21:47):
it for loving the game. You want it. Got to
make it easier for people. Gotta make it easy, Okay.
And if it's a failed experiment after a year, one,
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of yesteryear Exit Out Out of Fresca, Exit, Swollen Dome,
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio
studios and guys, yeah, what do you got, Frostburg. We're
(22:08):
only nine weeks away from the Winter Olympics. Yeah, getting there, man,
I can't wait. I cat really, I am so looking
forward to the Winter Olympics. I can't. I mean, I
love the Olympics. I love the Summer Olympics, but the
Winter Olympics are so there's nothing better than just sitting
around watching these these events that you have no idea
what they were about. But once every four years you're like, yeah,
(22:28):
come on, man, I want to see that curling play again.
I want to see it. I want to see that
curly playing. They made a T shirt about I want
to see that. But we're gonna break that all down.
I want to. Man, there's no question about all these
curlers run liquor stores, and they get together once every
four years, and they got to I'll tell you what.
Living in upstate New York, I was about a mile
and a half away from a curling club. We went
every couple of weeks. It was a lot of fun. Eh.
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A lot of beer consumed on those curls. A lot
of beer, A lot of curls and a lot of cursing.
Definitely a lot of that. You know, my bleed've been
stone out ahead and jerk. Meanwhile, in college football, the
biggest coaching fail has gotten even bigger because today Kalani
(23:11):
Sataki and TJ in a story that mushroomed out of
control for Penn State, Sataki deciding to stay at BYU.
You know, Ke won't see I'm trying to get all
the mushroom lines in here, but Sataki staying at BYU.
We thought a day ago he was going to be
going to Penn State. Instead he is staying there, And
(23:33):
now Penn State is back to square one, right like,
and nothing's better than what was it? The the ad,
the fake post on social media on Sunday that's I
have no blank at idea who to hire? Right thought
that was a real thing. Now maybe not so much.
Maybe to be fair in this day and age, do
you really doubt any of it? You're doing more research
(23:54):
than that's clearly fake? No, I don't know. So Penn
State still has no head coaching plan, nobody in place,
and you know, ahead of ahead of the big signing rankings,
their recruiting class is now like one thirtieth yea in
the country. It's like, all of a sudden, Penn State
football has been like whoa, what the hell happened? Man?
(24:17):
This is a this is an epic fail of biblical proportions.
You fire James Franklin, and now you still don't have
a new guy, and now everybody's decommitted, and your recruiting
class next year. Good luck to the next guy coming in,
good luck whoever that's gonna be good good good luck
to good luck to Urban Meyer coming into pennstatee whoever's
gonna be next year at Penn State. So you look
(24:39):
back and you go, man, firing James Franklin, And now
you're hearing the big push of all The best guy
for the job was James Franklin. The best James Franklin
should have kept the job. You want to know why
James Franklin was fired, and I'll tell you this, And
this is a this is a blanket statement that I
think fans have to understand who the real power brokers
are now in college football. Franklin gets fired. Was this
(25:02):
was this something that was, oh, hey, we got to
have somebody come in and make a change right away.
We're gonna start winning. Once the door was opened in
the NIL era where you were able to allow rich
alumni businesses who wanted to spend money to bring in
these coaches. Once you allowed them in, they have become
(25:26):
the people who make the decisions for all these college
football teams. Right, this is the ady doesn't make these decisions.
The general manager doesn't make these decisions. The governor gets
involved in things get messy. But this is when NIL
powerful NIL backers call and say, hey, man, we just
lost to UCLA. I just had to watch Rick new
(25:49):
Heizel's kid get carried off the field. Come on, man,
not even new I mean he's got great hair at
Jerry new Heidel, My goodness, But I do what you
get a new head coach or guess what, my money
ain't coming in. And that is something that happens all
the time. So what do you do If you're in college,
you're stuck because if you don't have the money in,
then al or you're not getting you're not getting the
(26:09):
kids to come in. So now suddenly it's we don't
have the coaches and we don't have the kids because
they're gonna go or they're gonna get the most money.
You could say, oh my my heart bleeds burnt orange
with Texas. But if Texas an't giving you money, man,
hey my my heart bleeds Ucla powder blue. Hey I
want to go there? Uh so you're gonna go wherever.
These are the guys that make those decisions, So I
(26:30):
guarantee you this was Hey, guess what we paid and
spend a lot of money to bring Drew Aller back.
We spend a lot of money to bring these guys
back for a big run here, and now we can't
even beat Ucla. They fired their head coach a week ago,
and and and we go out and we have this
kind of effort. Guess what, You're not getting any more
of my money unless we got a new head coach.
What are you gonna do. You gotta get rid of
(26:51):
the coach. You gotta be able to make sure that deal. Okay,
I'm good with money. These are the real and and
again in a sport without rules, these are the guys
out of the new power brokers. It is. It is
the rich nil backers that are running all these college
football prot Just wait till they get unionized, Wait till
they get into it together. Wait till they have these
meetings with each other, like like in the in The Godfather,
(27:12):
are all these mofa movies where all the family men,
the heads of the family, and and and the sopranos,
they all get together for meetings. Hey, someone's coming in
from Team Neck. We're gonna sit out of here. Wait
till all the big team power brokers get together. Who
do we want as the coach? Oh, we want this
guy as the coach. Okay, we'll pay because that's how
it's working at LSU LU. We want Brian Kelly fired, Great,
we're fired. We want Lane Giffen Okay, great, we got
you got money? Yes, you got our money. Okay, these
(27:34):
are how the decisions are being well, but that's how
it's always been done. Right now it's just more open,
open book, right, and we get to watch this playoff.
You've kind of powered them to make these are the work,
but they were always the folks behind you. Why do
you guys get fired? Well, we know what the approximate
buy on is. Now you've got more perfect information. Right,
It's like the any of these secondary markets and collectibles
(27:58):
or whatever else, like you know what it's worth. Almost
immediately thereafter likewise these biots like, well, here's all the caveats,
here's all the extra bonuses, Lane Kiffin got. So I
mean that that theory is certainly there, right. Why coaches
get to hang around, Well, they're liked by the moneyed people,
or they fall out of favor, or the money's already
(28:18):
been secured for whatever the project is, a stadium refurbishment,
new weight training facilities, a new trap. Whatever the carrot is, Well,
once they're actually consuming said carrots, like the coach doesn't
matter as much anymore. So you also have a couple
other things at work. James Franklin just had a hell
(28:39):
of a run. Didn't win against top teams. A lot
of guys don't. But if you're a coach, are you
looking at that going I want in? It's kind of
like the LSU job, like we're talking about Yesterday's Like
there's a lot of other stuff that's swirling. Oh, you
don't have the governor necessarily chiming in like you do
in Louisiana. But you also have and we've seen a
lot of this swirling up about Jimmy Sexty, who's the
(29:00):
agent for all the power coaches. So you have the
ability to go in and make ridiculous demands on everybody
and your clients. Right, so you power broker this thing
and then what happens, Well, we don't have a guy,
but you got to get rid of them, Okay, and
now you look at the absolute mess that Penn State
football is. Yeah, the betting Hodgs. Right, this was as
(29:21):
of yesterday. So you had Sataki and Bob Jesney. Well,
they're they're they're kind of off the board. Brian Table
is mixed, good luck. He was next at seven to two,
followed by Hypel Brahm, Terry Smith, and Brian Hartline. Yeah,
get right, Hey, that wide receiver room, Brian Hartline, get ready,
keep going down the line, Manny Daz, Ryan Day coaching tree.
Watch out. Well, you had the rumor that if they'd
(29:43):
lost the Iron Bowl, then Debor was suddenly going to
be available, right, sat swirling there. Lincoln Riley's on this list.
Everybody's on the list. How about that also on the list,
as Steve to say, is yeah, because he's he's got
the most open schedule to be able to take the job.
And also tell us what's trending.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
No, I don't have an open schedule. We have our
opponents for eight to ten years. Hence everything is already
signed home and home. But we've got Texas State coming up,
we got Colorado State, all.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
The big PAC twelve schools.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Everybody is signed. Okay, he negotiated that with Robert losing.
But you also know when the updates are so you
can balance that.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Well. Actually, on some shows I don't know where.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Well.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Ol Miss offensive coordinator Charlie Wins Junior will stay with
the team for the playoffs then leave for LSU. Five
other assistants already left. We mentioned last night. In Lane
Kiffin's new contract with LSU, he'll get bonus money for
his old team ole Miss advancing to this season's playoffs
and for winning. BYU. Head coach Kalanie Sataki says he
will stay despite interest from Penn State about their coach opening.
(30:48):
He gets a long term extension from BYU. Texas Tech
gave coach Joey McGuire a new seven year contract. Texas
Tech number four in the new playoff Committee rankings. The
top four will get first round Byeston College. Coach Bill
O'Brien will return to BC after a two to ten season,
and they'll devote more money to the football program. Col's
new head coach will be Tosh Loupoi. He's Oregon's defensive coordinator.
(31:12):
Offensive coordinator Will Stein will leave Oregon for Kentucky after
the season. Auburn is retaining defensive coordinator DJ Diurkin. The
new head coach is Alex Golish from South Florida, and
he'll bring some assistance from South Florida. The new coach
at North Texas is due to be Neil brown X
of West Virginia. After the season. Eric Morris is leaving
North Texas for the Oklahoma State job. This Saturday night
(31:34):
on Fox TV, number one Ohio State against number two
ranked Indiana for the Big Ten title in Indianapolis. Both
teams are twelve and oh By the way, Georgia number
three in the new Committee rankings, Oregon number five will
miss up to number six, then number seven Texas.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
A and M. By the way.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
An announcement from the NFL today, this month's Packers at
Bear's game will be on a Saturday night, December twentieth,
opposite a co college playoff game also on that Saturday,
opposite college playoffs, Philadelphia at Washington. Lions wide receiver Aman
Ross Saint Brown did not practice again sprang to ankle.
Detroit plays this Thursday, hosting Dallas Cowboys. Wide receiver George
(32:15):
Pickens return to full practice after a knee injury. The
Steelers claimed wide receiver Adam Thielen off waivers from Minnesota
and Pittsburgh Wave defensive back Darius Slay NBA wins for
Philadelphia and Toronto two minutes left in overtime. Minnesota now
leads at New Orleans one thirty seven, one thirty two,
Anthony Edwards forty two points. The Celtics have beaten the
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Knicks one twenty three, one seventeen, Jalen Brown forty two points,
and they've just gone final at San Antonio. Spurs edge
Memphis one twenty six to one nineteen. The late game
is still a half hour away. Golden State will be
tipping off at home against Oklahoma City, which is one
twelve in a row twenty and one. You'd think some
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people would like to see that game.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Ninety nine go.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Maybe college basketball, Syracuse defeated Number thirteen Tennessee sixty two
to sixty fourth ranked Duke edge Number fifteen Florida sixty
seven sixty six and also in men's college hoops halftime,
North Carolina tied at Kentucky thirty one all well. Fifth
ranked Yukon has taken the lead at Kansas forty eight
to forty six, about nine minutes to play back to you.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Thank you, Steve. Oh yeah. Tennessee nearly pulled off the
seventy two Olympics Russia United States play. On the final
play to send the game to overtime. I was like,
oh my god, how do you just single guard it big?
He catches a path all the way down court. Luckily
he missed and Syracuse save there.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
What Tennessee needed to do was have the athletic director
literally walk onto the court and say three seconds redo
the pass, three seconds still left on the clock.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
We're gonna do it until they score, just so you know,
we're gonna do it till they score.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
And then thrown to Alexander bell Off and the game.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Is over coming. Up next, we got to play the
day coming your way, and are two of the greatest
athletes in the history of their sports about to come
out of retirement. That's next. Jason to Mike Fox.
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Com is the way tire buying should be. This brings us,
of course, to the tirect Play of the Day, and well,
when you score forty two points, I'm okay with giving
you the play the day because if no one saw
the game, I know that really counts.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Heavy cat it to Simmons throws it a head. Jalen
Brown's fourteenth career forty he has.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Forty two for something twenty six there it is on
Peacock one twenty three, one seventeen. Hey, but that's okay
because no one really saw this game, so I can
tell you it doesn't matter if they get out of
the bubble of the garden. It really suck. Uh yeah,
I mean, well, really hey, I mean they battled back,
unbe able to battled back, and it was Brunson's worst
(35:25):
game as a nick right, just when I go, hey,
they really figured that Nne No. No. Six to twenty one.
He did have eleven assists on the night. They're older
and they're slow and there's trouble coming. But speaking hey,
say you got trouble speaking of being old and slow,
we might have the comeback of the two greatest athletes
in their respective sports. And I say maybe Serena Williams.
(35:50):
Is she about to come back at the age of
forty five years old. According to reports from earlier today, uh,
her name was on the list to be reinstated to
the active roster for the WT Yeah. Now, Serena Williams
put out a message saying, you guys, stop tripping. I
Am not coming back. This is crazy, but this Her
(36:11):
agent was reached for some sort of comment on this,
and there's been no response back yet. But this I
believe this has to be something money or Olympics wise,
where Serena being on the active list is going to
be able to benefit somehow from this. And always everybody,
everybody wins. If you've got the name attached, right, That
(36:34):
surname carries a lot of weight. Yeah. So is this
something where she's gonna come back and play and play
doubles with Venus? Yeah? I adly the door up of
that like a half of one percent, But mainly it's
money or Olympics coming to to to La oriented for
her to come back. This is some sort of thing
we'll find out. Oh, this is why she's on this.
(36:55):
I think it's a lot, a lot Like we've talked,
and I've talked more in your ear off off air
and you probably wanted to punch me repeatedly. For the
John Cena farewell tour. He's going to finish as an
in ring performer next month. Doesn't mean he's not showing up. Yeah,
doesn't mean he's not gonna come and give a speech,
do some photo ops and all that other stuff. But
(37:18):
his time as an active participant in WWE live events
as a wrestler is supposedly well for now. We'll see.
It's like retirement tours and rock music. Hey, this is
our last concert you got that's why the tickets are
so shinyze. Oh, hey, we're gonna do what we Hey,
we had such a good time We're gonna go back
(37:38):
and do some more dates next year, but that's our
last concert. We're not coming back next year. Well that's
a big fear here in the WWE side of things,
is that they keep having to lean at the guys
that are mid forties and beyond to keep carrying the show.
But for Venus, yeah, I mean with the Olympics and
just evens in general. If you get the name attached
to appearances, meet and greets, you know, just being a spokesperson,
(38:01):
it's a win for everybody. I don't know how that
has to work in the legal ease to be on
the active because you get into all the doping rules
and whatever else that you have to submit forms and
samples and everything else. But that's where we're at. But
that was fun for her to come out and say, no,
leave me alone. See that's why I like guns and Roses.
Are you No, we're not retal. We're just gonna keep
touring for another day again, George, there's supposed to be
(38:23):
two songs that I didn't see him. They've been touring
for ten years. They're gonna keep going. Man, we're like
the Dead. Well, they take a month off every once
in a while, and what happens both Duff and Slash
show up everywhere. Now we could also and maybe this
has a better chance of happening, seeing Ronda Rousey come
back in MMA, as there are reports that she is
(38:44):
negotiating with a megabout with Katie Taylor for next year
in Vegas. Let me say this, don't do it. I understand,
I understand the fact that MMA launched my career. I
was the biggest star in MMA history. I was a
super nova. Was I really that good? Not? Really?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
No, No, she was a huge deal, prosper and I
was talking to her. No, she was a big deal.
But was she that great?
Speaker 3 (39:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
She kind of got exposed at the end. She couldn't
beat anybody. She went to wrestling. It was okay for
a while. Now that hasn't worked out. What am I
gonna do? Now? What am I gonna do? I gotta
go back to what made me famous? Wow, don't do it.
I get it, but it's it sounds and and and
smacks of such desperation. You got pounded pillar to post
at the end of your career. You couldn't get it done.
(39:32):
Now you're gonna You're gonna go fight you're gonna get
back into the ring again after not being there. Don't
do it. Don't do it. It's just gonna go badly.
And and I'm I'm gonna cringe and watch with with
with my hands over my eyes, but just maybe one
eye creaked open a little bit, just to can I see, Oh,
she just got hit really hard. Don't do it. Don't
do it, Ronda. But I think it just plays to
(39:55):
where we're at in combat sports in general. You want
to see someone one more time, still clamoring for Connor McGregor.
How many times in the boxing game have we waited
fifteen years for something to come together. It's like, hey,
they might do that again. It's like, what wasn't good
the last time? But you know what, in the absence
of other spectacle, bring me in, which is why the
(40:15):
Paul Brothers win big. For Ronda Rousey. It'll draw a
big number because there'll be people that will hate watch yeah,
and it will end badly. Just and wrestling was not good.
Those final MMA bouts were disastrous. Oh, don't do it, Ronda,
don't do it. Coming up next, we got a big
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is the way tire buying should be. Well, here we
are on a Tuesday night in December, and we're already
at the next to last college football playoff poll that
came out tonight. And and look, there's a lot to say,
Well there is miss is better with Wayne Kiffing gone.
(01:12):
There is a lot to say and that for some reason,
Alabama is now better than Notre Dame. I don't know.
I guess Alabama's better. We'll put them ahead the wind blow.
This is a precursor, I will give you. This is
a holiday precursor to what is going to be an
absolute fire sale tire fire when the final poll comes
(01:38):
out and you see teams that wind up getting left out. Okay, Now,
obviously the top of the pole unchanged. Ohio State, Indiana
one two, Georgia number three, Texas Tech, Oregon is up
a bit in Texas A and M drops a couple spots,
but still safely in the in the playoff poll. But
the big things we see out here, and this is
where everything is coming into play. Now, why I say
(01:58):
get get ready. Even though there's it's not going to
be a lot of movement in the top ten. The
movement's gonna be ten, eleven, twelve, and who gets left out?
But understand that you've seen some movement. You have seen conferences.
Politic great. Apparently the committee loves the politicking of the
SEC because now they're going to have five teams in.
Apparently because for some reason Alabama beats an okay, Auburn team.
(02:20):
Now let's put them head of Notre Dame. Not that
Notre Dame is great, but did Alabama really deserve to
get up there? This tells you Alabama is getting in
to the college with all play, barring barring unexpected craziness.
And it's college football, so there is craziness. But barring
that you have seen it is working for us. The
SEC they have politic great, The ACC is not politicking
(02:42):
well at all, and you can wind up getting left out.
This is the craziness we are getting to with the
college football. We talked about it a couple of weeks
ago that we started to see a lot of the
comments coming out of the committee that leant towards style points.
And certainly it does not hurt that you're mouthpieces are
on all the place that hosts it, right, and all
(03:06):
the shouting and yelling nets going on of hey, you
shouldn't penalize because of this. Everybody now doing the stumpy thing. Well,
if Texas hadn't played that game, it's like they did,
Yeah they did that. Like that doesn't magically proof go away.
You want to re simulate it in your damn video games?
Had at it? Well, that's but that's become a popular
thing now because when when Manny Diaz, head coach, a
(03:28):
Duke former sports enter Pa well Many Diaz talked about
how does his team deserve to be in the AC
title game. Obviously, even if they win, they're not going
to the playoff, but you know they deserve to be
in the a SEC title game. He goes, well, yeah,
look at our losses. I'll be with us to a
top ten, two top ten teams, a top eight team,
a top I'm oh, so what you're saying is, hey,
we shouldn't be penalized because we lost a good team. No,
that's them. You're a good team if you beat good teams,
(03:51):
saying what you're telling me is that, hey, we're okay
beating the teams at SNAK, but you know we play good.
Hey what do you expect you to do against good teams?
But the Texas argument, you really just more laughable because
you lost to Florida. Didn't they just fire their coach
because they didn't like him. Well, you know when you
hear lost to Florida, Oh you lost to Florida, Florida, No,
Florida's state. The old ball coach and Tim Timo or
(04:13):
not walking to Terry Dan and Danny whirfol and this
is not Percy Harvin and this is this is not
Chris Leak and oh this is different. But no, but
you get it's an absolute blank show and it's and
it's coming at you at all sides because you look
at the teams are gonna wind up getting left out
and there's gonna be big teams getting left out. And
the ACC is at the cusp of this because they're
(04:34):
not smart enough to understand that, oh, we're fighting for
our lives as a conference. The SEC gets it, the
Big Ten gets it. You may not like how the
Big Ten and the SEC go about their business, but
I know one thing. They are not going to rest
unless they get all twelve teams into the playoff from
their conference the strongest. Damn right, we want Maryland in
(04:56):
at twelve, right, we want to get that. But here's
the ACC and it's, oh, yeah, yeah, Well, maybe the
tie breakers should be different. You think You didn't think
that maybe the tie breakers should be highest ranked team.
You didn't think that would be a big thing to
get you thought about all the other conferences, think about
everything else. You didn't think that, oh, maybe highest ranked
team should be in because that's our best chance of
getting a team in the playoffs. You don't see how
(05:17):
crowded out you're getting. You think you're gonna wind up
getting teams in all the time when it's big ten
sec Like, I can't look, I can't blame those two
conferences for doing a better job at politicking and the
AEC for going well, you know, I guess we should
maybe have said something, yeah, no, you know what, you're stupid.
You're stupid, and there's no no wonder your conference is
getting run into obscurity by these other comments. You could
(05:39):
totally see it on a whiteboard. Though. He gets put
up there in a corner and it's like, ah, but
what are the we don't need to worry about that.
What are the odds that's actually gonna happen? Right? I
love the commentary today though this is good from uh
you're Achech, the athletic director at Arkansas. I can tell
you the debate between Alabama and Notre Dame in the
past three weeks, strongest debates we've had the room for
(06:00):
the past year. Wait wait for it, Notre Dame went
on the road, had a strong win at Stanford. But
but I mean, come on, man, this is not. This
is not the NFL where all the teams stink. I mean,
come on, this is called you have good teams at
college foot But Alabama went on the road in a
rivalry game and looked really, really good, especially in the
(06:22):
first half. Yeah, Auburn stinks too, right there. But like
to give you something little bit different because we told
you what a blank show what's going to be. And
when you see teams like Notre Dame Texas who could
wind up getting left out and boy leaving out Texas,
well they lost three top ten teams, well they be
three top ten teams. Okay, you're gonna get to sixteen teams, right,
We've talked with this for a long time. This is
(06:43):
gonna be the last year with twelve. They will find
a way to get all on the same pages. Say, okay,
let's let sixteen teams in next year because they're all stupid.
This year. They couldn't figure it out. We couldn't figure
out a way to get to make the money work
and get to sixteen teams, which is stupid. And now
you're going, oh, maybe we need to do that now
because and the main reason is that your pool of
(07:05):
contenders in the nil era has gotten bigger because you
are now talking about teams like Indiana and Texas Tech
that suddenly aren't it. Well they have to get in,
Texas A and M has to get in. These are
not your normal power teams that you would say, well, yeah,
they're gonna get in the playoff. No, you're thinking it's
gonna be all the heritage teams are all gonna get in.
(07:27):
But because of the NIL era and schools that have
figured out how to make it happen more than other
schools have, you have these new and it's not gonna
be every year. It's not gonna be. These teams aren't
gonna suddenly become powers every year. But hey, when the
purse strings open up, you're gonna get that quarterback that's
gonna get you to an eleven and one record because
you avoid the three best teams in your conference. Now,
so that's going to happen. Your contender's pool is getting bigger.
(07:50):
So what are you gonna do as a result, Well,
we got to make the playoff bigger because the SEC,
the Big tench we want more schools in the AC
wants to make sure we get at least one or
two schools in so magically in the offseason, watch magically,
they're gonna find a way to get to sixteen teams.
They're just say, oh, yeah, we find a way to
make it all work out. We're gonna get that up
because this next week, that final pool is gonna be
(08:10):
a blank show, and there's gonna be teams that want blood.
Steve Sarkisian might have blood dripping from his mouth if
Texas gets left. Yeah, but this becomes part of the
Machiavellian plan of it's been to sixteen or bigger all along.
It's just well, how do we get there? We need
to have a common villain, and the villain is that
damn ten through twelve man. Somebody has to be left out. Meanwhile,
(08:33):
they're sitting there going how big is that pot of money?
How big is that pot of money? For adding those
extra games over there? We can make it bigger? Right,
we can get bigger? Is it bigger? Do we really
we really can push this if we leave Notre Dame
out right? We can really push this if we look,
I love Notre Dame, you love Notre Dame, we all
love Notre Dame. But do we want Notre Dame to
(08:53):
get it over one of our teams. No, I think
we need to band together and make sure Notre Dame does.
I mean I love Notre Dame. I know you don't,
but this is this is survival of the fittest. Or wait, wait,
even a more radical suggestion. We still expand the playoffs
like you had, but we go back to a non
human element. You put in your algorithm, you put in
(09:15):
your data. Yeah, it keeps people from getting that extra
trip and run through the trough and the lazy river
at the hotels and and all that they get with
their their perks of being on the committee, the frequent
flyer miles and and extra cell phones and all of
those things. But maybe maybe the computer was the right
(09:35):
way to handle this, because now now it's lobbying like
you're on Capitol Hill, dude, not on steroids, Like doesn't
even work like it's always been there. No one trust
computers anymore. No one trust computers anymore. Now we can't
trust there's AI. AI is gonna wind up doing something
crazy and picking teams that are four and eight from
the playoff. No, we can't have that. We've named Max
Headroom or.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Max.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Now you gotta explained to millennials who Max Headroom. No,
you did the impression. Give me little bit of a
mad Brewer right there. Yeah, there you got. I got
to come back in and black years ago. But yeah,
all of this is it's been a made for TV show,
just like the playoffs themselves. And that's like when we
talk about it for the NCAA tournament, that's always been
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the case. So the fact that that's suddenly thrust into
people's faces and the the faux outrage over Lane Kiffin,
like this was new by the way, Charlie Charlie Weiss
junior junior, like Barti Crouch junior coming back that got
them boosted a spot. How do you think Lane Kiffin
(10:39):
felt about, Hey, hey he's going back. It went up
after you left. He worry was that it was a
free fall because you were gone. He doesn't care unless
you was gonna pay him the more successful. He said, Hey,
that's great. I'm glad they moved us up. I feel
I don't have to do any prep work and I'm
gonna wind up getting some spoils from this. Do I
(11:00):
get a bonus if they get to the top five?
Based on some other chaos over Championship weekend. But but
all of it, as we've watched it through the first
go round, all the way through, we've had these fun
narratives about style points. Right. I read the little blip
about Notre Dame in Alabama right to show you, uh,
because Notre Dame kick the crap out of Stanford, which
(11:21):
they were supposed to.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
They did their job just like we were talking about,
for a tough road win against Well, you know, I mean,
Andrew luck might have tripped down the sideline, or he
might have come back to throw a couple passes. It
just gets really close to the side he does. He
hasn't yet stepped over the line out of the field
of play. He's not Mike Tomlin tripped anybody. No, No,
Bill Cower, which when he tried to almost through the
punch the guy in the Jaguars when he blocked that kick.
(11:43):
It was a Chris Hudson right there running for a touchdown.
Badly wanted to punch the guy. If those things never
come up on those guys, it's very interesting. But I
remember he went to apologize to him after He did
apologize to him afterwards. But all of this is, I mean,
(12:04):
it's amazing. The replay on the side. Hudson's like dancing
down the field and a coward just wrecks backets and
he takes a step forward. Those are the two photos
that need autograph pictures copies of on my wall. Did
get when he was flipping off the fans, right, that's
a famous one, and then the Bill Kawer So if
(12:24):
I can get those, that would be great on the
wall of mean, But it's a TV show, So now
it's politicking and stumping as best you can with your
loudest voices, because even going to A and M, they're
not like getting left out. They only have one loss, right,
But you we watched coach get a little weepy, uh,
you know because there were some noise and he and
he heard people celebrating what a you know, what non
(12:47):
unprofessional environment we have here. But like their schedule sucked, yea,
and nothing was made of that, but everybody went. But
but I'm just saying because because the other side was
all the sec honks were going after Ohio State for
their schedule, like tex A and M had a walk
in the park relatively speaking, Yeah, but because you got
(13:10):
louder voices and maybe they've more numerous big voices to
stump for the SEC. Here's the thing. I don't mind
the politicking. I don't mind the stumping. I don't mind, Hey,
here's our schedule is better than your schedule, because I
like that. I think that's healthy, and I think that's
good debate. I think it's I think it's really good.
(13:30):
Now when your thumb is on the scale and all
of a sudden, for no reason, Alabama is vaulted ahead
of Notre Dame to make sure that they get in, Okay,
that's where that's where you got to throw a challenge flag. No, okay,
what what's really going on here with this? So I
kind of I don't mind that part, because you got
a debate about something right to be able to do that.
But the whole thing is that when you have a
(13:50):
sport that has no rules, how do you think this
is going to be done cleanly? I mean, that's they
you thought this college football has zero It is the
wild West of of sport. They have no When you
have no rules, this is just gonna be done with, Okay,
and let's see how it turns out. And there's gonna
be people who are hopping mad next week and people
who are gonna be happy without it. But it's gonna
(14:11):
be an absolute mess because good teams are gonna get
left out. Heritage teams are gonna get left out. And
it's not gonna be like last year where you got lucky,
where oh Miami should have gotten in. Well, Miami, you
lost Syracuse Laskin. You lost your third game of the year.
You had to win to get it that. I have
no sympathy for you there. I have no sympathy think
about that losing to Syracuse being a big no. It's true. So,
but that was one game. That was one game. This
(14:33):
is gonna be way more than that. You know what,
the old adages, you should have won more games. Exit.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon another Peacock doubleheader night, which means we're
gonna get Oklahoma City and Golden State in about an hour.
Awesome start, about an hour. Yeah, but it'll go all
the way through the show. It will, that is true.
(16:03):
It will be for folks that can't sleep. They now
have a companion. And uh, you know, early game here
on the Coast to Coast Nick Celtics, which was a
blowout in the third quarter, Jalen Brunston having his worst
game as a Nick and I'm I don't think I'm
under selling that, but it's become an eight point game
now midway through the fourth quarter. But you know, you
don't get these games unless ye. The whole point of
(16:24):
the NBA on NBC was a double header, right, But
the whole point of when they had it years ago
was and today's double header the men of Teal and
Charlotte visit Michael Jordan and the Bulls, and then later
on the West Coast, the Lakers host the Blazers in
a big, big matchup. Clyde Drexler, we'll return and this
one for Portland, right, Like that was the whole thing was, No,
(16:47):
you gotta get it. Nah, you don't. You don't get
them now. Well, but here's the thing. You know, life
kind of changes as you go on. It's it's like
the complaint that everybody has, like, look, look at all
it would cost you to watch every game in the end.
In NFL, it's like, you know, once upon a time,
you got one or two games and you liked it,
you loved it. You had Monday night football, and then
you had what three games on Sunday. Maybe no, you're
(17:11):
really well no, no, no, I'm talking back. I'm talking like
when we were kids. Yeah, no, you had you had
your local game and then you had the and then
you had a late game, the national game or whatever
national game you had, whatever your team was playing. But
that's what I made. Like so, so that's what you got,
and you liked it, and you dealt with it, and
you got your highlights. They fired up the sports machine
(17:32):
on Sunday night, and you know it was so special.
Was when like if like I remember, and I was
lucky because obviously in New York we get Jets and Giants, right,
so we get so I got more teams. But like
when that four o'clock game would end, and and and
and Don Crikiy whoever it was, would say and not
hearing it, you know, the final from the Meadowlands, the
Jets beat you know, Jets beat the Broncos thirty four
to twenty seven. Now let's take you for bonus coonus coverage.
(17:54):
San Diego Chargers and the and the and the Oakland
Raiders are tied at forty five in the fourth quarter,
and you're like, oh, we're getting the end of this game. Oh,
I can't have dinner yet, Graham, I can't have dinner yet.
There's six minutes to go, and it's forty five forty five,
and Fouts has the football I can't come to dinner yet.
Well I was always so special, and then it would
get to the bottom of the hour and they'd go
to the regular schedule program because of network agreements. But
(18:19):
all of that to say, like, it's like the Internet,
right when everything was free and then people realize, you know,
we're not making any money, like this click click click
click ad thing is like, eh, let's put it behind paywalls. O.
Folks didn't like that, like, you know, the the Tom
Petty line that I run from the last DJ, Like
all the boys upstairs want to see how much you'll
pay for what you used to get for free. Oh yeah, yeah,
(18:41):
And that's where we're at for the NFL. If you're
cool with a couple of games a week, you're good. Yeah,
you want more, you pay for it like anything else
in this world. You want extra seat room on your airplane,
you go, you want to bring an extra bag, you pay. Hey,
your local game's free as long as you have some
kind of you know, any kind of came but but
(19:03):
the rest of it. Yeah, I'm gonna put my hand
in your pocket and I'm gonna pull out a water catch.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Look, it's the old drug dealer model. Yeah, that first
taste free, you want more? But the whole thing is like,
it's so ironic that the whole thing was the NBN, NBC,
the double head. I know that was the whole But
here's the thing. A lot of folks don't remember that.
They remember the flashy graphics, the open Marv Alvert and
Steve Snapper, Jones, Bill Walton and Michael Jordan. That's what
(19:34):
you remember. And then later Tim Duncan and the Spurs
against the Mavericks and a Western Conference showdown. What if
the money was movie set cash? What if the if
the movie was what money was movie set cash? Oh? Okay,
yeah that would okay, all right, I'm with a thing
right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm with you on that.
Okay yeah movie set cash? Yeah yeh yeah, okay, so
(19:55):
you can lay down like you yeah, and bring you back.
You shoot too much, Marty, you shoot too much. I mean,
it's just it's just this, it's just such a bad idea.
I mean it's I really, it's just such a bad idea.
I mean, I want to see what the numbers are
for Peacock. I mean, have they gotten any kind of
juice oide of this?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
In terms of subscriptions. The thing is, I get the
long haul part. I get that. Okay, people are gonna
need some time to come to It's like the opening
of a club. Hey, how come no one's here? Open up? Well,
people just got to find out about it. We got
a few people the first night, more people the second
night than the third night. Concept, but you gotta get
some more to moue. What's not gonna change is not
getting one of the games and and the late game,
(20:38):
which is a big matchup starting at eleven o'clock on
the East Coat. You're saying, we're gonna start like we
don't care. This is the Thunder and the Warriors. Man,
this is a team that could of challenge the Warriors
record for wins in a season. Right, they're already on
pace to go, you know, seventy eight and four, right,
and here's the Warriors. And what's gonna happen? And you
know we're starting this. We're starting it at eleven o'clock,
(21:00):
starting it here, you get more people. We're gonna start it. Well,
but if you care, you're gonna watch. No, not really care,
you're gonna pay it.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I think people, and I think you overestimate people's desire
to watch live sports when it's not their team. Hey,
I'm about convenience. We are about convenience in this country. Now,
that's why all this different stuff with I have to
get this and this, but in this streaming situation and
this and this and this, No, you gotta make it
easier for me. So hey, starting at ten o'clock, yeah,
watch a while, but you know what, I still have
(21:26):
to get up at seven thirty. Old Man Peterson's on
my aff for those reports Ven Kramer was doing. He's
on me saying, what what are those reports? Jerry? He
won't lay off me, Jerry. People makes it so difficult.
They have to get People have to get up and
go to the airport in the morning, they have to
get up and go to work. They gotta get their
kids to school. I understand that not everybody's gonna stay
(21:47):
it for loving the game. You want it. Got to
make it easier for people. Gotta make it easy, Okay.
And if it's a failed experiment after a year, one,
guess what pivot? Pivot We'll go to another NBC comedy
of yesteryear Exit Out Out of Fresca, Exit, Swollen Dome,
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio
studios and guys, yeah, what do you got, Frostburg. We're
(22:08):
only nine weeks away from the Winter Olympics. Yeah, getting there, man,
I can't wait. I cat really, I am so looking
forward to the Winter Olympics. I can't. I mean, I
love the Olympics. I love the Summer Olympics, but the
Winter Olympics are so there's nothing better than just sitting
around watching these these events that you have no idea
what they were about. But once every four years you're like, yeah,
(22:28):
come on, man, I want to see that curling play again.
I want to see it. I want to see that
curly playing. They made a T shirt about I want
to see that. But we're gonna break that all down.
I want to. Man, there's no question about all these
curlers run liquor stores, and they get together once every
four years, and they got to I'll tell you what.
Living in upstate New York, I was about a mile
and a half away from a curling club. We went
every couple of weeks. It was a lot of fun. Eh.
(22:51):
A lot of beer consumed on those curls. A lot
of beer, A lot of curls and a lot of cursing.
Definitely a lot of that. You know, my bleed've been
stone out ahead and jerk. Meanwhile, in college football, the
biggest coaching fail has gotten even bigger because today Kalani
(23:11):
Sataki and TJ in a story that mushroomed out of
control for Penn State, Sataki deciding to stay at BYU.
You know, Ke won't see I'm trying to get all
the mushroom lines in here, but Sataki staying at BYU.
We thought a day ago he was going to be
going to Penn State. Instead he is staying there, And
(23:33):
now Penn State is back to square one, right like,
and nothing's better than what was it? The the ad,
the fake post on social media on Sunday that's I
have no blank at idea who to hire? Right thought
that was a real thing. Now maybe not so much.
Maybe to be fair in this day and age, do
you really doubt any of it? You're doing more research
(23:54):
than that's clearly fake? No, I don't know. So Penn
State still has no head coaching plan, nobody in place,
and you know, ahead of ahead of the big signing rankings,
their recruiting class is now like one thirtieth yea in
the country. It's like, all of a sudden, Penn State
football has been like whoa, what the hell happened? Man?
(24:17):
This is a this is an epic fail of biblical proportions.
You fire James Franklin, and now you still don't have
a new guy, and now everybody's decommitted, and your recruiting
class next year. Good luck to the next guy coming in,
good luck whoever that's gonna be good good good luck
to good luck to Urban Meyer coming into pennstatee whoever's
gonna be next year at Penn State. So you look
(24:39):
back and you go, man, firing James Franklin, And now
you're hearing the big push of all The best guy
for the job was James Franklin. The best James Franklin
should have kept the job. You want to know why
James Franklin was fired, and I'll tell you this, And
this is a this is a blanket statement that I
think fans have to understand who the real power brokers
are now in college football. Franklin gets fired. Was this
(25:02):
was this something that was, oh, hey, we got to
have somebody come in and make a change right away.
We're gonna start winning. Once the door was opened in
the NIL era where you were able to allow rich
alumni businesses who wanted to spend money to bring in
these coaches. Once you allowed them in, they have become
(25:26):
the people who make the decisions for all these college
football teams. Right, this is the ady doesn't make these decisions.
The general manager doesn't make these decisions. The governor gets
involved in things get messy. But this is when NIL
powerful NIL backers call and say, hey, man, we just
lost to UCLA. I just had to watch Rick new
(25:49):
Heizel's kid get carried off the field. Come on, man,
not even new I mean he's got great hair at
Jerry new Heidel, My goodness, But I do what you
get a new head coach or guess what, my money
ain't coming in. And that is something that happens all
the time. So what do you do If you're in college,
you're stuck because if you don't have the money in,
then al or you're not getting you're not getting the
(26:09):
kids to come in. So now suddenly it's we don't
have the coaches and we don't have the kids because
they're gonna go or they're gonna get the most money.
You could say, oh my my heart bleeds burnt orange
with Texas. But if Texas an't giving you money, man,
hey my my heart bleeds Ucla powder blue. Hey I
want to go there? Uh so you're gonna go wherever.
These are the guys that make those decisions, So I
(26:30):
guarantee you this was Hey, guess what we paid and
spend a lot of money to bring Drew Aller back.
We spend a lot of money to bring these guys
back for a big run here, and now we can't
even beat Ucla. They fired their head coach a week ago,
and and and we go out and we have this
kind of effort. Guess what, You're not getting any more
of my money unless we got a new head coach.
What are you gonna do. You gotta get rid of
(26:51):
the coach. You gotta be able to make sure that deal. Okay,
I'm good with money. These are the real and and
again in a sport without rules, these are the guys
out of the new power brokers. It is. It is
the rich nil backers that are running all these college
football prot Just wait till they get unionized, Wait till
they get into it together. Wait till they have these
meetings with each other, like like in the in The Godfather,
(27:12):
are all these mofa movies where all the family men,
the heads of the family, and and and the sopranos,
they all get together for meetings. Hey, someone's coming in
from Team Neck. We're gonna sit out of here. Wait
till all the big team power brokers get together. Who
do we want as the coach? Oh, we want this
guy as the coach. Okay, we'll pay because that's how
it's working at LSU LU. We want Brian Kelly fired, Great,
we're fired. We want Lane Giffen Okay, great, we got
you got money? Yes, you got our money. Okay, these
(27:34):
are how the decisions are being well, but that's how
it's always been done. Right now it's just more open,
open book, right, and we get to watch this playoff.
You've kind of powered them to make these are the work,
but they were always the folks behind you. Why do
you guys get fired? Well, we know what the approximate
buy on is. Now you've got more perfect information. Right,
It's like the any of these secondary markets and collectibles
(27:58):
or whatever else, like you know what it's worth. Almost
immediately thereafter likewise these biots like, well, here's all the caveats,
here's all the extra bonuses, Lane Kiffin got. So I
mean that that theory is certainly there, right. Why coaches
get to hang around, Well, they're liked by the moneyed people,
or they fall out of favor, or the money's already
(28:18):
been secured for whatever the project is, a stadium refurbishment,
new weight training facilities, a new trap. Whatever the carrot is, Well,
once they're actually consuming said carrots, like the coach doesn't
matter as much anymore. So you also have a couple
other things at work. James Franklin just had a hell
(28:39):
of a run. Didn't win against top teams. A lot
of guys don't. But if you're a coach, are you
looking at that going I want in? It's kind of
like the LSU job, like we're talking about Yesterday's Like
there's a lot of other stuff that's swirling. Oh, you
don't have the governor necessarily chiming in like you do
in Louisiana. But you also have and we've seen a
lot of this swirling up about Jimmy Sexty, who's the
(29:00):
agent for all the power coaches. So you have the
ability to go in and make ridiculous demands on everybody
and your clients. Right, so you power broker this thing
and then what happens, Well, we don't have a guy,
but you got to get rid of them, Okay, and
now you look at the absolute mess that Penn State
football is. Yeah, the betting Hodgs. Right, this was as
(29:21):
of yesterday. So you had Sataki and Bob Jesney. Well,
they're they're they're kind of off the board. Brian Table
is mixed, good luck. He was next at seven to two,
followed by Hypel Brahm, Terry Smith, and Brian Hartline. Yeah,
get right, Hey, that wide receiver room, Brian Hartline, get ready,
keep going down the line, Manny Daz, Ryan Day coaching tree.
Watch out. Well, you had the rumor that if they'd
(29:43):
lost the Iron Bowl, then Debor was suddenly going to
be available, right, sat swirling there. Lincoln Riley's on this list.
Everybody's on the list. How about that also on the list,
as Steve to say, is yeah, because he's he's got
the most open schedule to be able to take the job.
And also tell us what's trending.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
No, I don't have an open schedule. We have our
opponents for eight to ten years. Hence everything is already
signed home and home. But we've got Texas State coming up,
we got Colorado State, all.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
The big PAC twelve schools.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Everybody is signed. Okay, he negotiated that with Robert losing.
But you also know when the updates are so you
can balance that.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Well. Actually, on some shows I don't know where.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Well.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Ol Miss offensive coordinator Charlie Wins Junior will stay with
the team for the playoffs then leave for LSU. Five
other assistants already left. We mentioned last night. In Lane
Kiffin's new contract with LSU, he'll get bonus money for
his old team ole Miss advancing to this season's playoffs
and for winning. BYU. Head coach Kalanie Sataki says he
will stay despite interest from Penn State about their coach opening.
(30:48):
He gets a long term extension from BYU. Texas Tech
gave coach Joey McGuire a new seven year contract. Texas
Tech number four in the new playoff Committee rankings. The
top four will get first round Byeston College. Coach Bill
O'Brien will return to BC after a two to ten season,
and they'll devote more money to the football program. Col's
new head coach will be Tosh Loupoi. He's Oregon's defensive coordinator.
(31:12):
Offensive coordinator Will Stein will leave Oregon for Kentucky after
the season. Auburn is retaining defensive coordinator DJ Diurkin. The
new head coach is Alex Golish from South Florida, and
he'll bring some assistance from South Florida. The new coach
at North Texas is due to be Neil brown X
of West Virginia. After the season. Eric Morris is leaving
North Texas for the Oklahoma State job. This Saturday night
(31:34):
on Fox TV, number one Ohio State against number two
ranked Indiana for the Big Ten title in Indianapolis. Both
teams are twelve and oh By the way, Georgia number
three in the new Committee rankings, Oregon number five will
miss up to number six, then number seven Texas.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
A and M. By the way.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
An announcement from the NFL today, this month's Packers at
Bear's game will be on a Saturday night, December twentieth,
opposite a co college playoff game also on that Saturday,
opposite college playoffs, Philadelphia at Washington. Lions wide receiver Aman
Ross Saint Brown did not practice again sprang to ankle.
Detroit plays this Thursday, hosting Dallas Cowboys. Wide receiver George
(32:15):
Pickens return to full practice after a knee injury. The
Steelers claimed wide receiver Adam Thielen off waivers from Minnesota
and Pittsburgh Wave defensive back Darius Slay NBA wins for
Philadelphia and Toronto two minutes left in overtime. Minnesota now
leads at New Orleans one thirty seven, one thirty two,
Anthony Edwards forty two points. The Celtics have beaten the
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Knicks one twenty three, one seventeen, Jalen Brown forty two points,
and they've just gone final at San Antonio. Spurs edge
Memphis one twenty six to one nineteen. The late game
is still a half hour away. Golden State will be
tipping off at home against Oklahoma City, which is one
twelve in a row twenty and one. You'd think some
(32:57):
people would like to see that game.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Ninety nine go.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Maybe college basketball, Syracuse defeated Number thirteen Tennessee sixty two
to sixty fourth ranked Duke edge Number fifteen Florida sixty
seven sixty six and also in men's college hoops halftime,
North Carolina tied at Kentucky thirty one all well. Fifth
ranked Yukon has taken the lead at Kansas forty eight
to forty six, about nine minutes to play back to you.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Thank you, Steve. Oh yeah. Tennessee nearly pulled off the
seventy two Olympics Russia United States play. On the final
play to send the game to overtime. I was like,
oh my god, how do you just single guard it big?
He catches a path all the way down court. Luckily
he missed and Syracuse save there.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
What Tennessee needed to do was have the athletic director
literally walk onto the court and say three seconds redo
the pass, three seconds still left on the clock.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
We're gonna do it until they score, just so you know,
we're gonna do it till they score.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
And then thrown to Alexander bell Off and the game.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Is over coming. Up next, we got to play the
day coming your way, and are two of the greatest
athletes in the history of their sports about to come
out of retirement. That's next. Jason to Mike Fox.
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of course, to the tirect Play of the Day, and well,
when you score forty two points, I'm okay with giving
you the play the day because if no one saw
the game, I know that really counts.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Heavy cat it to Simmons throws it a head. Jalen
Brown's fourteenth career forty he has.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Forty two for something twenty six there it is on
Peacock one twenty three, one seventeen. Hey, but that's okay
because no one really saw this game, so I can
tell you it doesn't matter if they get out of
the bubble of the garden. It really suck. Uh yeah,
I mean, well, really hey, I mean they battled back,
unbe able to battled back, and it was Brunson's worst
(35:25):
game as a nick right, just when I go, hey,
they really figured that Nne No. No. Six to twenty one.
He did have eleven assists on the night. They're older
and they're slow and there's trouble coming. But speaking hey,
say you got trouble speaking of being old and slow,
we might have the comeback of the two greatest athletes
in their respective sports. And I say maybe Serena Williams.
(35:50):
Is she about to come back at the age of
forty five years old. According to reports from earlier today, uh,
her name was on the list to be reinstated to
the active roster for the WT Yeah. Now, Serena Williams
put out a message saying, you guys, stop tripping. I
Am not coming back. This is crazy, but this Her
(36:11):
agent was reached for some sort of comment on this,
and there's been no response back yet. But this I
believe this has to be something money or Olympics wise,
where Serena being on the active list is going to
be able to benefit somehow from this. And always everybody,
everybody wins. If you've got the name attached, right, That
(36:34):
surname carries a lot of weight. Yeah. So is this
something where she's gonna come back and play and play
doubles with Venus? Yeah? I adly the door up of
that like a half of one percent, But mainly it's
money or Olympics coming to to to La oriented for
her to come back. This is some sort of thing
we'll find out. Oh, this is why she's on this.
(36:55):
I think it's a lot, a lot Like we've talked,
and I've talked more in your ear off off air
and you probably wanted to punch me repeatedly. For the
John Cena farewell tour. He's going to finish as an
in ring performer next month. Doesn't mean he's not showing up. Yeah,
doesn't mean he's not gonna come and give a speech,
do some photo ops and all that other stuff. But
(37:18):
his time as an active participant in WWE live events
as a wrestler is supposedly well for now. We'll see.
It's like retirement tours and rock music. Hey, this is
our last concert you got that's why the tickets are
so shinyze. Oh, hey, we're gonna do what we Hey,
we had such a good time We're gonna go back
(37:38):
and do some more dates next year, but that's our
last concert. We're not coming back next year. Well that's
a big fear here in the WWE side of things,
is that they keep having to lean at the guys
that are mid forties and beyond to keep carrying the show.
But for Venus, yeah, I mean with the Olympics and
just evens in general. If you get the name attached
to appearances, meet and greets, you know, just being a spokesperson,
(38:01):
it's a win for everybody. I don't know how that
has to work in the legal ease to be on
the active because you get into all the doping rules
and whatever else that you have to submit forms and
samples and everything else. But that's where we're at. But
that was fun for her to come out and say, no,
leave me alone. See that's why I like guns and Roses.
Are you No, we're not retal. We're just gonna keep
touring for another day again, George, there's supposed to be
(38:23):
two songs that I didn't see him. They've been touring
for ten years. They're gonna keep going. Man, we're like
the Dead. Well, they take a month off every once
in a while, and what happens both Duff and Slash
show up everywhere. Now we could also and maybe this
has a better chance of happening, seeing Ronda Rousey come
back in MMA, as there are reports that she is
(38:44):
negotiating with a megabout with Katie Taylor for next year
in Vegas. Let me say this, don't do it. I understand,
I understand the fact that MMA launched my career. I
was the biggest star in MMA history. I was a
super nova. Was I really that good? Not? Really?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
No, No, she was a huge deal, prosper and I
was talking to her. No, she was a big deal.
But was she that great?
Speaker 3 (39:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
She kind of got exposed at the end. She couldn't
beat anybody. She went to wrestling. It was okay for
a while. Now that hasn't worked out. What am I
gonna do? Now? What am I gonna do? I gotta
go back to what made me famous? Wow, don't do it.
I get it, but it's it sounds and and and
smacks of such desperation. You got pounded pillar to post
at the end of your career. You couldn't get it done.
(39:32):
Now you're gonna You're gonna go fight you're gonna get
back into the ring again after not being there. Don't
do it. Don't do it. It's just gonna go badly.
And and I'm I'm gonna cringe and watch with with
with my hands over my eyes, but just maybe one
eye creaked open a little bit, just to can I see, Oh,
she just got hit really hard. Don't do it. Don't
do it, Ronda. But I think it just plays to
(39:55):
where we're at in combat sports in general. You want
to see someone one more time, still clamoring for Connor McGregor.
How many times in the boxing game have we waited
fifteen years for something to come together. It's like, hey,
they might do that again. It's like, what wasn't good
the last time? But you know what, in the absence
of other spectacle, bring me in, which is why the
(40:15):
Paul Brothers win big. For Ronda Rousey. It'll draw a
big number because there'll be people that will hate watch yeah,
and it will end badly. Just and wrestling was not good.
Those final MMA bouts were disastrous. Oh, don't do it, Ronda,
don't do it. Coming up next, we got a big
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