July 1, 2022 • 34 mins
Mike Harmon and Rich Ohrnberger talk about USC and UCLA’s move to the Big Ten, CollegeFootballNews.com’s Pete Fiutak joins the show, Dodgers vs. Padres, and more!
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Now. They always stuff
better than that introduction. I feel like I should be
in a glittery robe walking down the aisle ready to
get into the squared circle and kick some ass. Is
the news dump time and again that we got earlier today?
I thought, all right, we're gonna have to talk a
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little Deshaun Watson. We're gonna have some grab ass of
those weeks ahead of training camp. And we can still
do that tomorrow, but no one news heavyweight blow after
the next. And I'm grateful, honored to welcome a man
Jason Smith off to night off tomorrow. So we get
a double take of our guy, rich Or Burger. Yes, Yeah,
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how's it going, Mikey live down there in San Diego,
where I'm sure a lot of tongues are wagon. But
we got plenty of time to get into all the
ramifications of today's news. But what's going on, buddy, Well,
i'll tell you what. Um. We are headlong into preparations
for a busy Fourth of July weekend. Happy fourth to everybody.
We're gonna be doing this tonight tomorrow, like you mentioned.
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But along the way, while we're passing along and walking
through some of the breaking news of the day, the hour,
the moment, the minute, we're also gonna be talking about
I don't know how to how to make the perfect burger, right, Uh,
maybe maybe the perfect execution of a smoked rack of ribs,
who knows. Maybe I did a nice pork shoulder today.
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It was my daughter's birthday, a nice eleven hours and
and both I don't love and he was fed, uh
and gut it up. And the guys enjoyed a little
bit of the bunt cakes because instead of the traditional
I just want a large cake with all sorts of decorations,
she goes, just get something small. And so you know,
here we are. And if you had come in, well
you could have had some instead. Uh well, somebody else
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catches all right, not just kidding, we we we had
plenty for it to go around. But uh, good to
have you with because obviously some seismic moves in our
sporting universe today. Uh, get in on the program as
you will. At Swollen Dome is where you find me.
You can find Rich when he's not yelling about whatever
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Steve Hartman is up to next. And I gotta imagine
you had nine thousand texts from him today. Uh you
find him on Twitter at orn Burger. That's o h
r N Burger b e R G e R. Welcome in.
We appreciate you making us part of your holiday travels.
Be safe, we make you laugh, we make your outrage. Still,
keep hands attending to keep your eyes on the road,
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hand upon the wheel, all that stuff like you learned
so long ago. Today, Rich, we we have two glorious
stories that are the uh I guess the heavyweight battles. Right.
If we were building a pay per view card like
money in the Bank for the w w E later
on this weekend, these would be the two stories that
would be at the top. And then we've got a
lot of other things that are interesting, kind of funny,
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kind of entertaining, and that will get to But usc
U C l a getting ready to join our conference,
the Big Ten Conference, starting in four uh. A piece
of news. Wilner had it this morning. I saw our
our colleague, Colin Coward, had done a tweet that just
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had the zipped lips emoji, and at that point you
weren't connecting the dots because all the mentions were wondering
which of the Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports one colleagues
he was upset with. Yeah, so I mean that that
was kind of fun, you know, at that volleyball, right,
I need to say something incendiary, so my name at
least gets in those mentions, because that's a lot of them.
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But then we'll came back over the top. Right. The
first tweet was, Hey, the world's about to change, and
then later on's like, oh, by the way, here you
go the to California. Southern California squads are looking to exit,
and as we find out later on tonight, Big Tent says, hey,
welcome in, Come on in if you will, uh and
Mike Bone. Ultimately, the Big Tent is the best home
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for USC and Trojan athletics as we move into the
new world of collegiate sports. We're excited that our values
aligned with the league's member institutions will benefit from the
stability and strength of the conference. Um, Larry Scott, that
was two big middle fingers, maybe middle foam fingers to
make sure you don't miss the point. The athletic caliber
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of Big ten institutions that's waving at everybody at the
bottom of the conference. The increased visibility, exposure, and resources
the conference will bring. In other words, they got the
media package right, they got ahead of it early, and
now they're over a billion dollars U in terms of
their rights each year. So yeah, it's it's time for
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usc U c l A. We've already seen it with
Oklahoma and in Texas rich So it's just a matter
of time before the next shift, you know, in the
quest for global domination of college football. Yeah, well, and
you know what, here's the deal. First of all, all
parties satisfied here, right. This is one of those negotiations
where everybody walks away from the table, you know, smiling
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after handshakes are made, right or zoom calls are are wrapped.
This is uh, this is good for everybody who's who's
on the inside of this show. Those on the outside though, like,
for example, if you're the rest of the Pack twelve,
who has now been reduced back down to the Pac ten.
Come you're thinking to yourself, Okay, where do we turn next?
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What schools are available for us to poach and bring
it to our league, to you know, re establish some
sort of foothold in southern California. You know, San Diego
State comes to mind. And where do you go from there?
You know, are you gonna go back up to twelve teams?
Is Oregon looking to leave? Is is Washington looking to leave?
You know? Could you have a situation like the Big
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Twelve where there's a month or two where you're not
sure if you're even gonna have enough teams to field
the conference in a couple of years based on what
shaky ground you're on, And then you look at these
other conferences, like, you know, if I'm the A C
C right now, I'm shaking in my boots because the
Big twelve has been picked over by the SEC, the
Pack twelve has been picked over by the Big Ten.
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If I'm the A C C, I'm like, we're next,
you know. So I don't know what the next move
will be, but here's what I can guarantee you Mikey
just based on the recent trends, it's coming soon. We're
not done yet, We're nowhere near done yet. And the
Big Ten had to answer the Big Ten. Obviously huge
Fox product here. Uh, we we have a lot of
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those games, and and we're proud of it, right that
the Big Ten, the Big Ten had to return fire
on the sec you're gonna get oh you in Texas.
We'll check this out. Now we have the biggest schools
out of southern California in terms of enrollment. Yeah, consolidation.
We've been talking about it for years, rich you me.
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I know Hartman has been standing on a street corner
with a megaphone. Okay, that's him just yelling, but talking
about super conferences and and such forever. And now you
wait for the next dominoes to fall. Right, Oregon is
the obvious elephant in the room, as is the always
independent except for every other sport notre dame, right, because
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that that's the team that always made sense for the
Big Ten. Maintain independence for the revenue sports everything else
like okay, cool whatever. Uh and and there they have
their feet in multiple conferences as you go. So it's
it's now a do are they forced to make a
decision and aligne here. Uh and look the luster and
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the the shine of the those helmets and those ends
all those years ago. I mean, that's a lot of
years ago. And that's one thing, you know. And when
they had the first mover advantage and made that big
deal with NBC, it's like, okay, that's all fine, good. However,
you still have to read the room of where you
are and where you're trying to go and where the
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landscape of of college football is headed. So you have
that You mentioned San Diego State first thing I thought of, right,
new stadium, all of those things. Try to keep it
in Southern California. Obviously on the radar these last couple
of years, probably because you're broadcasting for the team, you know,
bringing that expertise going down in the trenches. Maybe played
a couple of reps, I don't know. Uh, you know,
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you got quiet a couple of times in the booth
this last year. But it's it's that kind of thing
where you know, we're we're all just trying to you
follow the money. Is the old rule of thumb in everything,
go back to you know, all all the uh, what
is it? All the President's Men and and go on
down the line and all mob movies. You've watched everything else.
Uh and certainly right now in our global economic state,
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it's you know, trying to figure out, you know, what's
leading you to the next and etiquette has been thrown
out the window. Like you know, there there's for years
and years and years on the sports scene. I think
you you would have had a lot of sports fans
balk at the level of greed. You know, you you
would expect more contrition from the parties involved in these
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sort of you know, massive moves, right, but sports fans
have gotten used to this. You know, you look at
the NBA. The players basically run that league. I mean,
there is no loyalty to a city or a name
on the front of a jersey. It's who's got the
most money or who's got the best chance to win
a championship, depending on what stage of career the player
we're talking about in you know, you look at Major
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League Baseball contracts, fully guaranteed money flying around in free agency.
Even though you have owners who are crying like their poppers,
they're not poor people. They have more money than anybody
in this country. And they spend it. They spend it
in free agency. And then you look at the NFL
this recent contract to Deshaun Watson, who I mean may
not even play a full season this upcoming season. We'll
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see what happens after arbitration. He's getting chunked off with
a huge contract in the amid controversy. And then you
look at head coaching in college football for years now,
these guys will you know, jump ship on a team
that has an opportunity to play in an important bowl game,
you know, in order to chase the money for a
new for a new job. Now it's just happening at
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the actual conference level. And because of all of the
preludes to that I was just discussing, nobody really nobody
really has a problem with it. I mean, look at
the PGA, the PGA Tour. You have a big name
after big name hitting the ejector button and going to
Live golf, and controversy be damn. These guys are chasing,
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you know, hundred million and two hundred million dollars signing
bonuses to go play uh or the Lived Golf Tours.
So to me, I think the gloves are off. I
think as a society, we reached a point where it's
decadence and we're all okay with it, like we we
don't care. You know, So if if there's money to
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be offered, if there's greener pastures to be offered, whether
that means having the majority of the conference's teams in
the northeast and midwest of this country and just having
two randos but are big brands in the other opposite
corner of the country, by all means, let's play ball
because the gloves are off. Mikey. Yeah, it's and it's
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been as you said, it's been a gradual change. I
mean I always go back to your Penn State Niitney
Lyons coming into the Big Ten. At the time, I
didn't know. I feel bad. I was in the middle
of school. It's like, you know, they were always this
mythical and you guys were a mythical program out there.
Joe Pon everything going on, and all of a sudden,
like well, they're coming to the conference. There was excitement.
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There was also a all right, what are we doing now?
Now we're leving now, now this shuffles up and where
does it go from there? And obviously here we are
some thirty what two years later and you're seeing these
dramatic realignment, but a lot of it becomes the pageantry
and tradition got scrapped a lot right, adding the playoff
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teams for for college football, which meant the bowl games
didn't have the same heavyweight status they did, like even
the lesser ones had meaning once upon a time. And
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day Mike Harmon alongside Richard Berger Jason Smith off tonight
here Fox Sports Radio. Lots to talk about rich in
terms of this seismic college football move. Nobody better than
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to bring in our guy coming from the Midwest. Well,
so it's only appropriate because he's getting ready to welcome
those Southern California teams to town, and he and I
will be ships passing in the night. As I go
to Chicago next week and he comes out here, it's
Pete fu Tech College Football News dot Com at Pete
few Tech on Twitter. What's gonna beat? Yeah? I want
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the other deal. I like going out there. I'm ready.
I am. I'm ready to be on the big tank,
going to the l A side of things as as
opposed to the flip side of this. And every medium
member who's ever covered the Big ten right now is like, yeah,
I'll take that, you know, troope to l A for
USC versus you know, Rutgers or whatever it's gonna be.
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They're gonna love this, every one of them. Trying to
write the column to say, because if the scheduling ends
up working like these other conferences are doing, can I
be one of their three rivals, meaning Ohio State, Michigan?
Can I be one of those? I? First of all,
I do think that they're not done. I mean everything,
every point, everything points to Okay, USC and U C.
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L A were the big guys, and I would kind
of think that Oregon, and you don't do that without
also thinking Oregon and Washington are there to expand the
footprint even more and get those two markets and expand
the up to the Pacific Northwest, and they get to
eighteen and have two divisions of nine and make it
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so traveled a little easier for the Olympic sports, uh
for you know, at least you're going up the coast
as opposed to across the other part of the country.
But I would think there's gonna be a way to
do this where you're not going to see USC and
u c l A play a whole lot of teams
from the eastern part of the country would be more
of like the Iowa's in Nebraska said, it's a little
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bit more manageable of a plane trip. Hey, Pete, you
know we're just this s seeing what this means for
the very near future and say the next decade. Okay,
if we're gonna say near future, the next twelve to
twenty four months, and then expand the aperture to the
next ten years, what do you think college football looks
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like in that near term and that long term? Well,
the thing about this question is what does it look
like now as we talk? As we as we're talking
at the moment, I can pretty much guarantee I won't
see if you give me. Let's say, oh, I don't
know Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, and I'll give you the field.
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What are you taking? You know what, who's the who's
who had taken for the you know, there's there's three
your college football playoff teams and the other one the
lamb for the slaughter. So like as as we as
it speaks, now we already kind of have a two
conference system. Oh yeah, basically a one conference system with
a couple of good teams. So these just kind of
expand things a little more to make it we're interesting
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for the Pac twelve former Pac twelve types for getting
l A involved. But I do think where this goes
is expand you've got to expand the college football playoffs.
You don't do moves like this and keep things dad is,
it's just unsustainable. So I think you you do these moves,
you have these big power conferences to get all the money,
and then you throw everyone a cookie and say, all right,
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all the power five conference champions get into a playoff,
will give you something to whatever these group of five
programs are now, and then everything else goes to the
big boys. So you have a twelve team playoff with
you know, maybe three teams from the Big Ten, three
teams from the SEC, and everyone else gets something and
chrome in there. And I think that's how you you
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expand this going forward. And once the ball gets kicked off,
everyone's gonna still watch the games that they watched before.
I do enjoy the tweet you put out about a
half hour ago, retweeting that now. It was the statement
from Ohio State, I'll spare everybody. The text the video
is just a Christmas story and to beat down. Yeah,
if you're if you're a state right now, basically you're
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just kind of saying, all right, you can welcome in.
You know, you come and get your beating, you know,
come get your take your beating. And and here here's
an extra fifty to seventy million dollars a year in
media rights money. Then you'll like it. Well, the thing
that gets lost here. And first of all, the Spanton
talks all business. It's all that matters. It's all about market,
it's all about the Big ten network now being able
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to claim it as New York, Chicago and l A.
It's just about the business side of sports. But the
sports side you're only talking about between these two programs.
One of the last thirteen actual championships, you know, between them.
I mean, it's not like to lose an organ in
Utah at the moment when it comes to who's the
real power in those conferences, obviously it's about the change.
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Obviously us she's about to become a super power. And
you know, you say that he's big on basketball, and
it's u c l A. And the other part of
this thing too, that we that nobody gets really talks
about but it matters, is the academics. Automatically, U c
l A is the number too, the second best academic
institution in the Big ten bhind Northwestern. I mean you're yeah,
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you're talking about you know, and USC is obviously amazing
right there with Michigan. So you're talking about two superpower
world class you know, academic institutions which bitch which it's
just all of a sudden you up the profile of
the Big ten that much more for all your member
institutions for the high states of the world, you know,
who kind of were just you know, cleaning onto the
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Northwestern and everyone else decademic bigger landscape shifting story, the
conference realignments. Who are seeing recently with Texas and O
you jumping to the SEC and now U, se U,
s LA go on the big ten or name, image
and likeness. What do you think has the biggest effect
on how college football looks as we carry on here
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into you know, the future of of what is amateur
athletics or what used to be amateur fundings. Well again,
you're you're assuming that all of a sudden, oh wow,
college players are getting paid, like that's like that's not
happened before, Like that has been you know, Derrick Dickerson
didn't get a trans am from Texas A and M,
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which he stilled in eyes and you know it's basically
it's the Y N I L. Stuff is gonna just
work itself out. It's splashy and we're gonna see tweets
with you know, Bijan Robert Robinson representing the local Austin
Lamborghini dealership and things like that. But really that just
doesn't change anything. I mean, really, what's happening is all
that happened with Reggie Bush and the two thousand five
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is USC teams now is kosher and it's just business
as usual. The Conference of Realignment is really everything, because
that speaks to how the media deals are gonna happen
where we're gonna be watching these games. I mean, now
that you have an NFL that you're gonna watch a
couple of these games on streaming services and Amazon Prime
and things like that. Well, going forward, the big ten network,
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you know, you're always gonna have you know, USC verse
of the Ohio State's gonna be on the biggest of
the big network. But U C L a versus p DO, Yeah,
that'll be a you know, it's you know three thirty
start on the big on BTN. You know. So this
really helps out the in house conference network for the
SEC two and I think the ECC and instants to
figure out what it's doing. It's funny when I read
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aloud as we started the show, Pete the statement from
Mike Bone, it was almost like he was standing there
with two giant middle middle finger you know, the foam
fingers really extended back to Larry Sky, that royal Larry
Scott today, you know, man. But it's not bad because
it's like saying, Okay, well, if we had better business
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the open place, I don't know what media or business
deals with text, well could have had that's better than this,
you know, because you're you're again figure out what USC USC.
Obviously it's mass so obviously you U c l A.
You know you're talking about I get two of the
hottest schools that can deem with me. Glet means insane.
If you look at the academics of this Frank USC
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had something like a hundred and fifty applicants this year.
I mean, places are crazy. And now they've just up
their profile even more nationally where you know USC, you
know when U c l A get into you know, Chicago,
in Indianapolis and Minneapolis. Not like everybody from the Midwest
doesn't want to go to those schools anyway, but it
just ups their profile that much more. And to combine
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with your other thought about name image to enlightness, Well,
if you are a you know, a jordanaim Addison or
Caleb Williams, or you're someone who has got some marketing
dealing in l A, well now your l A ads
are gonna play nationally a whole lot better. So it
makes those schools even better and stronger when it comes
to the new world was college athletics, Pete, What happens
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to the group of five Because we're hearing most of
the news about the Power five. I mean, could you
see more of these group of five teams get absorbed
by a PAC ten or a PAC twelve whatever they're
going to call themselves into the future. What's next for
the group of five? Yeah, it's hard because they're just
a lot of good ones left. I mean, you know
what you got. I mean the one whale out there,
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I think at the moment. And it's the problem is
it's not a Tier one research university, but the Big
ten was able to get past that with Nebraska San
Diego State. Now, if you're the PAC twelve, how you
don't grabbed that school now? Because San Diego obviously doesn't
have an NFL team, and now you don't have PAC twelve,
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doesn't have a presence in southern California. You know, what's
your southernmost you know, California team is it's technically cal
I mean they go Stanford. I mean, I guess it
would be geographically mean like where's your you know, where's
your California presence? At this point, I would think that
a no brainer. I would think the other one to
watch out for, which doesn't seem like it makes any sense,
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but it does. Un l V they're awful with football.
But you know, Big Ten cook Rutgers. Not because Rutgers
is winning national championships, but George Biego has wanted to
make lots of a get sort of the you know
what Atlanta is the SEC in Indianapolis to the Big ten.
They want to take Vegas that for the PAC twelve.
So getting UNLV in that market would be something. Getting
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San Diego State helps and you have some money ball
is that's your way up on this. I mean, you
just lost Jobby and Damon. You can't replace them, but
you can get a bunch of smaller programs like that.
I would think, you know, not a group of five.
I would think Kansas is a great fit for market
basketball and things like that. So there are things that
Pack swelves to do. But it's better act quick because
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if we're got in Washington are up next here for
the big things, then all of a sudden, the big
swell is going to be like, hey, Arizona, Arizona State,
Utah in Colorado, you know, come joining, come join the
fun over here now, alright, last one from me, pete uh.
The other obvious giant school is is Notre Dame. Right,
You've got your a CEC except independence for football and
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ice hockey. They're already members of the Big ten, so
you know, already have their feet in there a little bit.
Does this move the needle or do they continue to
just say, all right, you love our reputation from fifty
years ago, keep paying us. Yeah, you know that the
problem is now. If you're the Big Ted, you just
got ucn usc in U c l A, you're you're
not giving the Notre Dame anything. You know, Notre Dame,
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You're not get any special deal. If you know how
State would come in screaming saying you know, why why
are you giving Notre Dame anything? We want the better cut,
We want some better deal with anybody here. So if
you're the Big Ken, you're not really looking at Notre
Dame and for anything more than just saying hey, come
join the fun. And if you're Notre Dame, you you're
gonna you don't want to be left without a chair
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when the music stops here, because there's so much money
about to be happening here. If you're the Path twelve,
you do throw a Hail Mary out there to Notre
Dame and just be like, hey, look you want you
want to do this. You want to be you want
to be the big star of our conference and see
if that works. But still Notre Dame still national, you know,
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internat an old powerhouse is still know everything about that.
I just don't think that's going to be next up
for the Big Ten without something really crazy happening, because
if they do, if they were to happen to get
Notre Dame, or the big dream is North Carolina, but
that's not happening because they're granted right fields, but they
weren't get Notre Dame. And let's say Oregon. Wow, that
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would that changes you know everything when it comes to
who the real powerhouse in college football is. Chaos has
found us today in college football. College Football News dot
Com is where you find in Pete Futech. He'll be
up all night drinking lots of coffee while thinking that
he's gonna come see the Cubs out here in Los
Angeles when he visits. I probably will. Yeah, I'm ready
(25:43):
to come out and you're gonna come out here and
see what white Sox, White White Sox Tigers. And then
the Orients visit the Cubs after that series against the Dodgers. Geez,
why don't you like yourself, Like I'm gonna see my
brothers and get drunk in Chicago. I think I'll be okay.
You don't. You actually have to do what we do.
We don't actually go to club games. We go around.
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Just go to the neighborhood. It is a beautiful neighborhood.
Go get grab something to eat, and sit on that
nice lawn out there. It's pretty good. Exactly. That's what
you do. You actually go see the game, all right.
I may still go watch it just to see the
Orioles for a couple of minutes because they're actually my
kind of entertaining. But it's baseball, it's not. It's Pete.
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Steve for for the first two hours, and we comes
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I'm trying to do with Bucky Brooks. I'm like, look,
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It's whatever whatever or Harmon has. Yeah, there's background. It's
you guys, don't know. You know. So every Sunday morning
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so rich the Freddie Freeman situation that kind of went
all over the emotions of playing against the Braves, getting
his World Series ring, Clayton Kershaw having to come out
and say, hey, you know you're over here now, which
I think was the biggest deal of all of it,
(29:02):
because Clayton usually doesn't say a whole lot. You kind
of surmise and and there's a lot of speculation about
how he feels about different things in terms of team management,
roster management, and in game things and how guys conduct themselves.
But really you've never had him go to a newspaper
and kind of drop that, because he could have done
the one liner. Yeah, it was great to see him
(29:23):
get that kind of love, really a special kind of thing,
and then just started nodding, waiting for the next question,
but instead he gave a lot about hey, he's a
Dodger now, which also is kind of the hey Braves
fans um you had him, he's done. Uh so, good
luck with the trying to take us down this year.
But you know, the challenge issued I'm sure accepted as well.
(29:44):
But a big weekend series, and now you can into
the beginning of this week we're now it became a
much bigger question about contract negotiations, some speculation about what
was conferred from the agency to Freeman and his family,
I know, a bit of a bruhaha. And and legally's
(30:06):
got threatened in terms of some comments Doug gott leeber
colleague here made on air. So we get to that,
and then earlier today another statement that had to be
issued related to it, just you know, talking about how
all offers had been conveyed uh and pushed and that
(30:27):
you know, the Braves are perpetuating a false narrative on
the negotiations. That's what the agent uh and his agency
are saying. So I pushed that all aside. Just to
ask you down in San Diego, what was the reaction
to people, because I know you guys would have taken
calls and as guys that are watching a Padre's team,
they're getting ready, they're battling the Dodgers as we speak.
(30:48):
You know what, what was the consensus coming out of
all of the weekend. A lot of a lot of
laughing and pointing saying this will cause disarray, UH, some
empathy for him? What did you get? No? You know what.
Here here's the way I think in general, my view
on the whole situation is, but you're a com rational man,
so we might as well just skip this. Yeah, that's
a good point. That is a good point, honestly from
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the from the fan standpoint, anything that hurts the Dodgers
and helps the Padres in this NL West race, which
let's face it, if they take three or four from
the Dodgers here, number one and number two flip, and
all of a sudden, it's the Padres looking down at
the Dodgers as the n L West number one team.
So everything's on the line for the fans. I mean,
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this is the the mid season super Bowl. Every time
these two teams face each other, and you live and
die on every pitch, and it's becoming one of the
best rivalries in Major League Baseball. Let's be honest with
each other. There are very few that incur the luster
and the allure of national publication the way the Dodgers
and the Padres do these days. But um here, here's
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the thing about Freddie Freeman and sort of talking about
the boyfriend or THATX girlfriend, you know, vas lover of Atlanta.
It's I just wanted to get the word lover in. Yeah.
I saw the way you did that. Yeah yeah, I
could let it go, but I wanted to get the word.
You want Alex to play some songs from Taylor Swift's
Lover Throughout the Night for you? It is, uh yeah,
(32:18):
did I go where you go? It's just swifty. It's
uh this, this, this, this whole situation is is being
being I think overly dramatized. I think, uh, I think
that most players who have had great success, either individually
or team wide success with a former franchise is always
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gonna have good feelings leaving, especially when they happen is
in such quick succession as it did with Freddie Freeman.
But there comes a point where you kind of do
have to I don't know, you just have to sort
of turn the page in the photo album and start
making some some new memories with the new boo you know. Oh,
and that that I think I agree with you is
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the story of all this is Clayton Kershaw kind of
put an end to all this. He was just like, hey, buddy,
like we we here in l A. Like we were
on this crazy long drought of World Series championships and
we finally got one a couple of years back, and
our sole focus, at least for me, is to get
another one of those before I call it a Hall
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of Fame career, could you could you just go ahead
and start hitting home runs again? And Freddie Freeman in
pretty quick order got back to business of hammering the baseball.
So um yeah, that was the biggest story coming out
of this in terms of all the what Doug gott
Leap said, and Casey closes, you know, defending. I mean, look,
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if if this thing gets silly, if it goes that far,
we'll see what the ramifications are. But I don't think
it will, you know. I think this story goes away
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(01:08):
how's it going, Mikey live down there in San Diego,
where I'm sure a lot of tongues are wagon. But
we got plenty of time to get into all the
ramifications of today's news. But what's going on, buddy, Well,
i'll tell you what. Um. We are headlong into preparations
for a busy Fourth of July weekend. Happy fourth to everybody.
We're gonna be doing this tonight tomorrow, like you mentioned.
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But along the way, while we're passing along and walking
through some of the breaking news of the day, the hour,
the moment, the minute, we're also gonna be talking about
I don't know how to how to make the perfect burger, right, Uh,
maybe maybe the perfect execution of a smoked rack of ribs,
who knows. Maybe I did a nice pork shoulder today.
(01:53):
It was my daughter's birthday, a nice eleven hours and
and both I don't love and he was fed, uh
and gut it up. And the guys enjoyed a little
bit of the bunt cakes because instead of the traditional
I just want a large cake with all sorts of decorations,
she goes, just get something small. And so you know,
here we are. And if you had come in, well
you could have had some instead. Uh well, somebody else
(02:14):
catches all right, not just kidding, we we we had
plenty for it to go around. But uh, good to
have you with because obviously some seismic moves in our
sporting universe today. Uh, get in on the program as
you will. At Swollen Dome is where you find me.
You can find Rich when he's not yelling about whatever
(02:34):
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you had nine thousand texts from him today. Uh you
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We appreciate you making us part of your holiday travels.
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hand upon the wheel, all that stuff like you learned
so long ago. Today, Rich, we we have two glorious
stories that are the uh I guess the heavyweight battles. Right.
If we were building a pay per view card like
money in the Bank for the w w E later
on this weekend, these would be the two stories that
would be at the top. And then we've got a
lot of other things that are interesting, kind of funny,
(03:17):
kind of entertaining, and that will get to But usc
U C l a getting ready to join our conference,
the Big Ten Conference, starting in four uh. A piece
of news. Wilner had it this morning. I saw our
our colleague, Colin Coward, had done a tweet that just
(03:38):
had the zipped lips emoji, and at that point you
weren't connecting the dots because all the mentions were wondering
which of the Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports one colleagues
he was upset with. Yeah, so I mean that that
was kind of fun, you know, at that volleyball, right,
I need to say something incendiary, so my name at
least gets in those mentions, because that's a lot of them.
(03:59):
But then we'll came back over the top. Right. The
first tweet was, Hey, the world's about to change, and
then later on's like, oh, by the way, here you
go the to California. Southern California squads are looking to exit,
and as we find out later on tonight, Big Tent says, hey,
welcome in, Come on in if you will, uh and
Mike Bone. Ultimately, the Big Tent is the best home
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for USC and Trojan athletics as we move into the
new world of collegiate sports. We're excited that our values
aligned with the league's member institutions will benefit from the
stability and strength of the conference. Um, Larry Scott, that
was two big middle fingers, maybe middle foam fingers to
make sure you don't miss the point. The athletic caliber
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of Big ten institutions that's waving at everybody at the
bottom of the conference. The increased visibility, exposure, and resources
the conference will bring. In other words, they got the
media package right, they got ahead of it early, and
now they're over a billion dollars U in terms of
their rights each year. So yeah, it's it's time for
(05:04):
usc U c l A. We've already seen it with
Oklahoma and in Texas rich So it's just a matter
of time before the next shift, you know, in the
quest for global domination of college football. Yeah, well, and
you know what, here's the deal. First of all, all
parties satisfied here, right. This is one of those negotiations
where everybody walks away from the table, you know, smiling
(05:27):
after handshakes are made, right or zoom calls are are wrapped.
This is uh, this is good for everybody who's who's
on the inside of this show. Those on the outside though, like,
for example, if you're the rest of the Pack twelve,
who has now been reduced back down to the Pac ten.
Come you're thinking to yourself, Okay, where do we turn next?
(05:48):
What schools are available for us to poach and bring
it to our league, to you know, re establish some
sort of foothold in southern California. You know, San Diego
State comes to mind. And where do you go from there?
You know, are you gonna go back up to twelve teams?
Is Oregon looking to leave? Is is Washington looking to leave?
You know? Could you have a situation like the Big
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Twelve where there's a month or two where you're not
sure if you're even gonna have enough teams to field
the conference in a couple of years based on what
shaky ground you're on, And then you look at these
other conferences, like, you know, if I'm the A C
C right now, I'm shaking in my boots because the
Big twelve has been picked over by the SEC, the
Pack twelve has been picked over by the Big Ten.
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If I'm the A C C, I'm like, we're next,
you know. So I don't know what the next move
will be, but here's what I can guarantee you Mikey
just based on the recent trends, it's coming soon. We're
not done yet, We're nowhere near done yet. And the
Big Ten had to answer the Big Ten. Obviously huge
Fox product here. Uh, we we have a lot of
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those games, and and we're proud of it, right that
the Big Ten, the Big Ten had to return fire
on the sec you're gonna get oh you in Texas.
We'll check this out. Now we have the biggest schools
out of southern California in terms of enrollment. Yeah, consolidation.
We've been talking about it for years, rich you me.
(07:13):
I know Hartman has been standing on a street corner
with a megaphone. Okay, that's him just yelling, but talking
about super conferences and and such forever. And now you
wait for the next dominoes to fall. Right, Oregon is
the obvious elephant in the room, as is the always
independent except for every other sport notre dame, right, because
(07:33):
that that's the team that always made sense for the
Big Ten. Maintain independence for the revenue sports everything else
like okay, cool whatever. Uh and and there they have
their feet in multiple conferences as you go. So it's
it's now a do are they forced to make a
decision and aligne here. Uh and look the luster and
(07:56):
the the shine of the those helmets and those ends
all those years ago. I mean, that's a lot of
years ago. And that's one thing, you know. And when
they had the first mover advantage and made that big
deal with NBC, it's like, okay, that's all fine, good. However,
you still have to read the room of where you
are and where you're trying to go and where the
(08:17):
landscape of of college football is headed. So you have
that You mentioned San Diego State first thing I thought of, right,
new stadium, all of those things. Try to keep it
in Southern California. Obviously on the radar these last couple
of years, probably because you're broadcasting for the team, you know,
bringing that expertise going down in the trenches. Maybe played
a couple of reps, I don't know. Uh, you know,
(08:39):
you got quiet a couple of times in the booth
this last year. But it's it's that kind of thing
where you know, we're we're all just trying to you
follow the money. Is the old rule of thumb in everything,
go back to you know, all all the uh, what
is it? All the President's Men and and go on
down the line and all mob movies. You've watched everything else.
Uh and certainly right now in our global economic state,
(09:02):
it's you know, trying to figure out, you know, what's
leading you to the next and etiquette has been thrown
out the window. Like you know, there there's for years
and years and years on the sports scene. I think
you you would have had a lot of sports fans
balk at the level of greed. You know, you you
would expect more contrition from the parties involved in these
(09:25):
sort of you know, massive moves, right, but sports fans
have gotten used to this. You know, you look at
the NBA. The players basically run that league. I mean,
there is no loyalty to a city or a name
on the front of a jersey. It's who's got the
most money or who's got the best chance to win
a championship, depending on what stage of career the player
we're talking about in you know, you look at Major
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League Baseball contracts, fully guaranteed money flying around in free agency.
Even though you have owners who are crying like their poppers,
they're not poor people. They have more money than anybody
in this country. And they spend it. They spend it
in free agency. And then you look at the NFL
this recent contract to Deshaun Watson, who I mean may
not even play a full season this upcoming season. We'll
(10:09):
see what happens after arbitration. He's getting chunked off with
a huge contract in the amid controversy. And then you
look at head coaching in college football for years now,
these guys will you know, jump ship on a team
that has an opportunity to play in an important bowl game,
you know, in order to chase the money for a
new for a new job. Now it's just happening at
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the actual conference level. And because of all of the
preludes to that I was just discussing, nobody really nobody
really has a problem with it. I mean, look at
the PGA, the PGA Tour. You have a big name
after big name hitting the ejector button and going to
Live golf, and controversy be damn. These guys are chasing,
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you know, hundred million and two hundred million dollars signing
bonuses to go play uh or the Lived Golf Tours.
So to me, I think the gloves are off. I
think as a society, we reached a point where it's
decadence and we're all okay with it, like we we
don't care. You know, So if if there's money to
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be offered, if there's greener pastures to be offered, whether
that means having the majority of the conference's teams in
the northeast and midwest of this country and just having
two randos but are big brands in the other opposite
corner of the country, by all means, let's play ball
because the gloves are off. Mikey. Yeah, it's and it's
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been as you said, it's been a gradual change. I
mean I always go back to your Penn State Niitney
Lyons coming into the Big Ten. At the time, I
didn't know. I feel bad. I was in the middle
of school. It's like, you know, they were always this
mythical and you guys were a mythical program out there.
Joe Pon everything going on, and all of a sudden,
like well, they're coming to the conference. There was excitement.
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There was also a all right, what are we doing now?
Now we're leving now, now this shuffles up and where
does it go from there? And obviously here we are
some thirty what two years later and you're seeing these
dramatic realignment, but a lot of it becomes the pageantry
and tradition got scrapped a lot right, adding the playoff
(12:19):
teams for for college football, which meant the bowl games
didn't have the same heavyweight status they did, like even
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day Mike Harmon alongside Richard Berger Jason Smith off tonight
here Fox Sports Radio. Lots to talk about rich in
terms of this seismic college football move. Nobody better than
(13:08):
to bring in our guy coming from the Midwest. Well,
so it's only appropriate because he's getting ready to welcome
those Southern California teams to town, and he and I
will be ships passing in the night. As I go
to Chicago next week and he comes out here, it's
Pete fu Tech College Football News dot Com at Pete
few Tech on Twitter. What's gonna beat? Yeah? I want
(13:28):
the other deal. I like going out there. I'm ready.
I am. I'm ready to be on the big tank,
going to the l A side of things as as
opposed to the flip side of this. And every medium
member who's ever covered the Big ten right now is like, yeah,
I'll take that, you know, troope to l A for
USC versus you know, Rutgers or whatever it's gonna be.
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They're gonna love this, every one of them. Trying to
write the column to say, because if the scheduling ends
up working like these other conferences are doing, can I
be one of their three rivals, meaning Ohio State, Michigan?
Can I be one of those? I? First of all,
I do think that they're not done. I mean everything,
every point, everything points to Okay, USC and U C.
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L A were the big guys, and I would kind
of think that Oregon, and you don't do that without
also thinking Oregon and Washington are there to expand the
footprint even more and get those two markets and expand
the up to the Pacific Northwest, and they get to
eighteen and have two divisions of nine and make it
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so traveled a little easier for the Olympic sports, uh
for you know, at least you're going up the coast
as opposed to across the other part of the country.
But I would think there's gonna be a way to
do this where you're not going to see USC and
u c l A play a whole lot of teams
from the eastern part of the country would be more
of like the Iowa's in Nebraska said, it's a little
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bit more manageable of a plane trip. Hey, Pete, you
know we're just this s seeing what this means for
the very near future and say the next decade. Okay,
if we're gonna say near future, the next twelve to
twenty four months, and then expand the aperture to the
next ten years, what do you think college football looks
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like in that near term and that long term? Well,
the thing about this question is what does it look
like now as we talk? As we as we're talking
at the moment, I can pretty much guarantee I won't
see if you give me. Let's say, oh, I don't
know Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, and I'll give you the field.
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What are you taking? You know what, who's the who's
who had taken for the you know, there's there's three
your college football playoff teams and the other one the
lamb for the slaughter. So like as as we as
it speaks, now we already kind of have a two
conference system. Oh yeah, basically a one conference system with
a couple of good teams. So these just kind of
expand things a little more to make it we're interesting
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for the Pac twelve former Pac twelve types for getting
l A involved. But I do think where this goes
is expand you've got to expand the college football playoffs.
You don't do moves like this and keep things dad is,
it's just unsustainable. So I think you you do these moves,
you have these big power conferences to get all the money,
and then you throw everyone a cookie and say, all right,
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all the power five conference champions get into a playoff,
will give you something to whatever these group of five
programs are now, and then everything else goes to the
big boys. So you have a twelve team playoff with
you know, maybe three teams from the Big Ten, three
teams from the SEC, and everyone else gets something and
chrome in there. And I think that's how you you
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expand this going forward. And once the ball gets kicked off,
everyone's gonna still watch the games that they watched before.
I do enjoy the tweet you put out about a
half hour ago, retweeting that now. It was the statement
from Ohio State, I'll spare everybody. The text the video
is just a Christmas story and to beat down. Yeah,
if you're if you're a state right now, basically you're
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just kind of saying, all right, you can welcome in.
You know, you come and get your beating, you know,
come get your take your beating. And and here here's
an extra fifty to seventy million dollars a year in
media rights money. Then you'll like it. Well, the thing
that gets lost here. And first of all, the Spanton
talks all business. It's all that matters. It's all about market,
it's all about the Big ten network now being able
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to claim it as New York, Chicago and l A.
It's just about the business side of sports. But the
sports side you're only talking about between these two programs.
One of the last thirteen actual championships, you know, between them.
I mean, it's not like to lose an organ in
Utah at the moment when it comes to who's the
real power in those conferences, obviously it's about the change.
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Obviously us she's about to become a super power. And
you know, you say that he's big on basketball, and
it's u c l A. And the other part of
this thing too, that we that nobody gets really talks
about but it matters, is the academics. Automatically, U c
l A is the number too, the second best academic
institution in the Big ten bhind Northwestern. I mean you're yeah,
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you're talking about you know, and USC is obviously amazing
right there with Michigan. So you're talking about two superpower
world class you know, academic institutions which bitch which it's
just all of a sudden you up the profile of
the Big ten that much more for all your member
institutions for the high states of the world, you know,
who kind of were just you know, cleaning onto the
(18:30):
Northwestern and everyone else decademic bigger landscape shifting story, the
conference realignments. Who are seeing recently with Texas and O
you jumping to the SEC and now U, se U,
s LA go on the big ten or name, image
and likeness. What do you think has the biggest effect
on how college football looks as we carry on here
(18:53):
into you know, the future of of what is amateur
athletics or what used to be amateur fundings. Well again,
you're you're assuming that all of a sudden, oh wow,
college players are getting paid, like that's like that's not
happened before, Like that has been you know, Derrick Dickerson
didn't get a trans am from Texas A and M,
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which he stilled in eyes and you know it's basically
it's the Y N I L. Stuff is gonna just
work itself out. It's splashy and we're gonna see tweets
with you know, Bijan Robert Robinson representing the local Austin
Lamborghini dealership and things like that. But really that just
doesn't change anything. I mean, really, what's happening is all
that happened with Reggie Bush and the two thousand five
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is USC teams now is kosher and it's just business
as usual. The Conference of Realignment is really everything, because
that speaks to how the media deals are gonna happen
where we're gonna be watching these games. I mean, now
that you have an NFL that you're gonna watch a
couple of these games on streaming services and Amazon Prime
and things like that. Well, going forward, the big ten network,
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you know, you're always gonna have you know, USC verse
of the Ohio State's gonna be on the biggest of
the big network. But U C L a versus p DO, Yeah,
that'll be a you know, it's you know three thirty
start on the big on BTN. You know. So this
really helps out the in house conference network for the
SEC two and I think the ECC and instants to
figure out what it's doing. It's funny when I read
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aloud as we started the show, Pete the statement from
Mike Bone, it was almost like he was standing there
with two giant middle middle finger you know, the foam
fingers really extended back to Larry Sky, that royal Larry
Scott today, you know, man. But it's not bad because
it's like saying, Okay, well, if we had better business
(20:40):
the open place, I don't know what media or business
deals with text, well could have had that's better than this,
you know, because you're you're again figure out what USC USC.
Obviously it's mass so obviously you U c l A.
You know you're talking about I get two of the
hottest schools that can deem with me. Glet means insane.
If you look at the academics of this Frank USC
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had something like a hundred and fifty applicants this year.
I mean, places are crazy. And now they've just up
their profile even more nationally where you know USC, you
know when U c l A get into you know, Chicago,
in Indianapolis and Minneapolis. Not like everybody from the Midwest
doesn't want to go to those schools anyway, but it
just ups their profile that much more. And to combine
(21:22):
with your other thought about name image to enlightness, Well,
if you are a you know, a jordanaim Addison or
Caleb Williams, or you're someone who has got some marketing
dealing in l A, well now your l A ads
are gonna play nationally a whole lot better. So it
makes those schools even better and stronger when it comes
to the new world was college athletics, Pete, What happens
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to the group of five Because we're hearing most of
the news about the Power five. I mean, could you
see more of these group of five teams get absorbed
by a PAC ten or a PAC twelve whatever they're
going to call themselves into the future. What's next for
the group of five? Yeah, it's hard because they're just
a lot of good ones left. I mean, you know
what you got. I mean the one whale out there,
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I think at the moment. And it's the problem is
it's not a Tier one research university, but the Big
ten was able to get past that with Nebraska San
Diego State. Now, if you're the PAC twelve, how you
don't grabbed that school now? Because San Diego obviously doesn't
have an NFL team, and now you don't have PAC twelve,
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doesn't have a presence in southern California. You know, what's
your southernmost you know, California team is it's technically cal
I mean they go Stanford. I mean, I guess it
would be geographically mean like where's your you know, where's
your California presence? At this point, I would think that
a no brainer. I would think the other one to
watch out for, which doesn't seem like it makes any sense,
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but it does. Un l V they're awful with football.
But you know, Big Ten cook Rutgers. Not because Rutgers
is winning national championships, but George Biego has wanted to
make lots of a get sort of the you know
what Atlanta is the SEC in Indianapolis to the Big ten.
They want to take Vegas that for the PAC twelve.
So getting UNLV in that market would be something. Getting
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San Diego State helps and you have some money ball
is that's your way up on this. I mean, you
just lost Jobby and Damon. You can't replace them, but
you can get a bunch of smaller programs like that.
I would think, you know, not a group of five.
I would think Kansas is a great fit for market
basketball and things like that. So there are things that
Pack swelves to do. But it's better act quick because
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if we're got in Washington are up next here for
the big things, then all of a sudden, the big
swell is going to be like, hey, Arizona, Arizona State,
Utah in Colorado, you know, come joining, come join the
fun over here now, alright, last one from me, pete uh.
The other obvious giant school is is Notre Dame. Right,
You've got your a CEC except independence for football and
(23:56):
ice hockey. They're already members of the Big ten, so
you know, already have their feet in there a little bit.
Does this move the needle or do they continue to
just say, all right, you love our reputation from fifty
years ago, keep paying us. Yeah, you know that the
problem is now. If you're the Big Ted, you just
got ucn usc in U c l A, you're you're
not giving the Notre Dame anything. You know, Notre Dame,
(24:17):
You're not get any special deal. If you know how
State would come in screaming saying you know, why why
are you giving Notre Dame anything? We want the better cut,
We want some better deal with anybody here. So if
you're the Big Ken, you're not really looking at Notre
Dame and for anything more than just saying hey, come
join the fun. And if you're Notre Dame, you you're
gonna you don't want to be left without a chair
(24:39):
when the music stops here, because there's so much money
about to be happening here. If you're the Path twelve,
you do throw a Hail Mary out there to Notre
Dame and just be like, hey, look you want you
want to do this. You want to be you want
to be the big star of our conference and see
if that works. But still Notre Dame still national, you know,
(24:59):
internat an old powerhouse is still know everything about that.
I just don't think that's going to be next up
for the Big Ten without something really crazy happening, because
if they do, if they were to happen to get
Notre Dame, or the big dream is North Carolina, but
that's not happening because they're granted right fields, but they
weren't get Notre Dame. And let's say Oregon. Wow, that
(25:20):
would that changes you know everything when it comes to
who the real powerhouse in college football is. Chaos has
found us today in college football. College Football News dot
Com is where you find in Pete Futech. He'll be
up all night drinking lots of coffee while thinking that
he's gonna come see the Cubs out here in Los
Angeles when he visits. I probably will. Yeah, I'm ready
(25:43):
to come out and you're gonna come out here and
see what white Sox, White White Sox Tigers. And then
the Orients visit the Cubs after that series against the Dodgers. Geez,
why don't you like yourself, Like I'm gonna see my
brothers and get drunk in Chicago. I think I'll be okay.
You don't. You actually have to do what we do.
We don't actually go to club games. We go around.
(26:04):
Just go to the neighborhood. It is a beautiful neighborhood.
Go get grab something to eat, and sit on that
nice lawn out there. It's pretty good. Exactly. That's what
you do. You actually go see the game, all right.
I may still go watch it just to see the
Orioles for a couple of minutes because they're actually my
kind of entertaining. But it's baseball, it's not. It's Pete.
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Steve for for the first two hours, and we comes
in with so much energy that he interrupts the show
I'm trying to do with Bucky Brooks. I'm like, look,
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leave leave us to what we're doing, and then intergrab
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It's whatever whatever or Harmon has. Yeah, there's background. It's
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so rich the Freddie Freeman situation that kind of went
all over the emotions of playing against the Braves, getting
his World Series ring, Clayton Kershaw having to come out
and say, hey, you know you're over here now, which
I think was the biggest deal of all of it,
(29:02):
because Clayton usually doesn't say a whole lot. You kind
of surmise and and there's a lot of speculation about
how he feels about different things in terms of team management,
roster management, and in game things and how guys conduct themselves.
But really you've never had him go to a newspaper
and kind of drop that, because he could have done
the one liner. Yeah, it was great to see him
(29:23):
get that kind of love, really a special kind of thing,
and then just started nodding, waiting for the next question,
but instead he gave a lot about hey, he's a
Dodger now, which also is kind of the hey Braves
fans um you had him, he's done. Uh so, good
luck with the trying to take us down this year.
But you know, the challenge issued I'm sure accepted as well.
(29:44):
But a big weekend series, and now you can into
the beginning of this week we're now it became a
much bigger question about contract negotiations, some speculation about what
was conferred from the agency to Freeman and his family,
I know, a bit of a bruhaha. And and legally's
(30:06):
got threatened in terms of some comments Doug gott leeber
colleague here made on air. So we get to that,
and then earlier today another statement that had to be
issued related to it, just you know, talking about how
all offers had been conveyed uh and pushed and that
(30:27):
you know, the Braves are perpetuating a false narrative on
the negotiations. That's what the agent uh and his agency
are saying. So I pushed that all aside. Just to
ask you down in San Diego, what was the reaction
to people, because I know you guys would have taken
calls and as guys that are watching a Padre's team,
they're getting ready, they're battling the Dodgers as we speak.
(30:48):
You know what, what was the consensus coming out of
all of the weekend. A lot of a lot of
laughing and pointing saying this will cause disarray, UH, some
empathy for him? What did you get? No? You know what.
Here here's the way I think in general, my view
on the whole situation is, but you're a com rational man,
so we might as well just skip this. Yeah, that's
a good point. That is a good point, honestly from
(31:11):
the from the fan standpoint, anything that hurts the Dodgers
and helps the Padres in this NL West race, which
let's face it, if they take three or four from
the Dodgers here, number one and number two flip, and
all of a sudden, it's the Padres looking down at
the Dodgers as the n L West number one team.
So everything's on the line for the fans. I mean,
(31:32):
this is the the mid season super Bowl. Every time
these two teams face each other, and you live and
die on every pitch, and it's becoming one of the
best rivalries in Major League Baseball. Let's be honest with
each other. There are very few that incur the luster
and the allure of national publication the way the Dodgers
and the Padres do these days. But um here, here's
(31:55):
the thing about Freddie Freeman and sort of talking about
the boyfriend or THATX girlfriend, you know, vas lover of Atlanta.
It's I just wanted to get the word lover in. Yeah.
I saw the way you did that. Yeah yeah, I
could let it go, but I wanted to get the word.
You want Alex to play some songs from Taylor Swift's
Lover Throughout the Night for you? It is, uh yeah,
(32:18):
did I go where you go? It's just swifty. It's
uh this, this, this, this whole situation is is being
being I think overly dramatized. I think, uh, I think
that most players who have had great success, either individually
or team wide success with a former franchise is always
(32:41):
gonna have good feelings leaving, especially when they happen is
in such quick succession as it did with Freddie Freeman.
But there comes a point where you kind of do
have to I don't know, you just have to sort
of turn the page in the photo album and start
making some some new memories with the new boo you know. Oh,
and that that I think I agree with you is
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the story of all this is Clayton Kershaw kind of
put an end to all this. He was just like, hey, buddy,
like we we here in l A. Like we were
on this crazy long drought of World Series championships and
we finally got one a couple of years back, and
our sole focus, at least for me, is to get
another one of those before I call it a Hall
(33:24):
of Fame career, could you could you just go ahead
and start hitting home runs again? And Freddie Freeman in
pretty quick order got back to business of hammering the baseball.
So um yeah, that was the biggest story coming out
of this in terms of all the what Doug gott
Leap said, and Casey closes, you know, defending. I mean, look,
(33:46):
if if this thing gets silly, if it goes that far,
we'll see what the ramifications are. But I don't think
it will, you know. I think this story goes away
like most of them. He's rich win Berger and for
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