September 8, 2025 • 25 mins
Jon Nelson sits down with South Georgia Tormenta owner Darin Van Tassell to talk about the state of the club, the state of the stadium, and more in this exclusive chat.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
So we're here on your perch. You are top row
right here at midfield.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I sit here so I can see what all how
all the refs are messing up at midfield.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, and those those emails that you send to Tampa
read last seven. When you look at this season, I mean,
we know how competitive USL League one.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Is, and it's been You've had a couple of teams added.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You've got to try and find ways to get to
Techsoma and try not to break the bank west Chester,
who's in? When you look at the new players that
are a part of what's going on here in League one,
what are their additions been?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Like?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I love this league.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I think it's the most important league in professional soccer
in the United States.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
How's that?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I start from there?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I go and we're having seven more teams next year.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And as we look around and play every team, so
many of them are now former Tormented players.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
We've been around a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Take a little pride in that it's a good league.
Everybody beats everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
We haven't been out to av Alta yet, so we're
hitting Los Angeles to High Desert here in two weeks
and then still have a road trip this bookan and
two left at Greatville.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I like the leadership we have in the league. I
like the owners that we have.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
There's some guys smarter than me who are who are
doing a lot of great things, and it's it's a
fun time to be a part of it.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It's an edgy time to be a part of it.
We're trying to both get the business side right. We're
trying to grow the game.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
We're moving into pro promotion, relegation, We've got a Yeager
Cup to deal with, a World Cup.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
On our way. Yeah, so what an amazing once in
a lifetime runway we're on.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Adding seven. Is there a concern that it's too many
in a plump?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I think there's a concern about everything we do at
League One, and yet I still think we're pushing the
right buttons.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
We moved to twenty one things in.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Twenty six as we welcome the World Club, to World
Cup to North America. I think the quality of our
ownership group keeps getting better and better.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I got up my game to keep up with them,
as I'm saying, But you know, we're doing some fun
and exciting things here on the construction side, and that's
really our next step to do much slower than any
of us have wanted.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
The challenges though we're still playing, we're still playing football.
If you had seven times twenty four, whatever that number
is there, sixty eight. Is that many more professional jobs
available just League.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
One next year, that's a lot seven more head coaches,
that's a lot of players.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And the challenge is when you add new teams, is
the pay goes up?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It doesn't wash out right, and so keeping up with
that is part of the business model.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
That's no different than any.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Professional sports league.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You know, we're kind of still going to startup mode
even after all this time. I think those COVID years
puts in a permanent startup mode. But we're coming out
of it and it's just a super.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Exciting time to be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So there's some there's some tremendous league partners that are
moving in.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
How do you and for those that may not know
the nickname that we gave you out of the blocks
the Green Bay at USL League an, how do you
try and keep up with the Joneses as best you can?
Because your market size while it is Statesboros, Savannah, low Country,
drifting south of I sixteen.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
The household numbers may not match at Westchester, they may
not match what you see in a Alto in the
high desert.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
How do you try and how do you try and
be yourself and not keep up with it and not
let the joneses get to you.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, there's that great quote, be yourself because everybody else
is taken. That's an easy one to follow, So I
don't have to worry about that part. But you know,
you and I are sitting here. We have a view
that nobody else can see. Or we have our clubhouse business.
Over to our left, there's about two hundred and thirty
acres straight there on the horizon, and then over here
we already have a massive.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Commercial deck development.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
We can see publics, which, by the way, is the
highest traffic publics in America.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Shops, that's according to Publics.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, you got the campus on the other side of
the parkway.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Campus is right there. There's a Starbucks, so there's a
Chick fil A. So all of this is our stadium development.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You know, I think fans when they see on ESPN,
they see where you and I are sitting. They see
the dirt which has been there longer.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Than any of us want.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
What they can't see is all that construction that's already
in the ground, and for us, that is the stadium.
That's a stadium center, live, working, play district, and that's
big vision. It's a lot, it's a lot of capital.
It's a lot, especially in a market our size. But
what we have that is unique to us is right
(05:16):
there because you and I can see the campus. That's
thirty thousand undergrads and graduate students.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
There's a university bus that stops right there. It's hard
to watch on.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
TV, but that was part of the grand plan though.
You when you want to all of this.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
The planets, the idea of all of this, and having
this adjunct on the other side of the parkway where
Georgia Southern and its audience and its people come this way.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
So you have to have it all, is my point.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You can't just play, you can't just play soccer. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So right there where those boards are, that's four stories
of apartments. Right there in the corner, right above the
flag is four story craft brewery indoor music venue where
the fourth floor stage looks into about us, into the
third floor stage over here. The fourth floor is the
roof and everything that you can see behind us.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Again, fans, you don't get to see it.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Visual is a locker room and all of those things
that go all the way back to those cars that
are coming back here, a permanent stage here and then
it just you can see how it will come to
life housing across the road.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So for us to be successful, back to the original question,
we have to have a center point. We've got to be.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
We've gotten to play in a great league, which the
USL gives us. Adding promotional relegation just adds juice to
as having a place where players want to be and
come because it's a it's a community can thrive in.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
But we've got to get out of the construction site too.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So we can park more people and get more people
in here. And those growing pains are real and legitimate.
And when you listen, the advantage of a university town
is that we have thirty thousand students here. The disadvantages
is starting in spring semester, summer semester and then going
to fall semester and when more students than ever go
to summer school. But they're all online, and so university
(07:07):
towns are changing everywhere on that and that's that's part
of our challenge too.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We'll figure that not out on the field.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
It was kind of a knowing how competitive League one
is perpetually. It was a stunner when Ian Cameron said
I'm pulling away, and it was just one of those
things where Ian is a part of the fabric of
this franchise and to have that loss, it's not just
(07:39):
an on the field loss, it's an off the field loss.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
How did that?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What was the I don't know I can say the rationale,
but what came into the decision from Ian to step away.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It was a personal loss too.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Ian's one of my favorite people in the World's family
and his wife and his daughters their family and they're
going to be family, and so when family.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Wants to move in a different direction, that's hard. Was
not a decision that the club wanted to make.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I think the losses of the season and last season,
and since we win the title right here in twenty
twenty two, we're weighing heavily on in he asked for
a change, and I think sometimes when you have incredible
respect quite frankly love for folks that you respect the
(08:32):
moment and you offer it to them. I and I
had done a lot of interviewing and bringing some folks.
We had brought Mark mckemern as director of our recruiting
and assistant coach just a week or so earlier, although
we've been in that process for quite a long time
and so we were fortunate to have Mark here. That
(08:54):
was not a decision that Mark or I sought. Jordan
Bell's our assistant coach. It's not something that any of
us saw it.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
But Mark's uncanny ability to flip the switch and our
players uncanny ability to absorb the switch. I think says
a lot for how much they believed in the club,
how much they believe in him, and how much they
believe in the club that Mark was now here.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
So I'm internally grateful for that, for that kind of stuff.
We were playing better the last couple of.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Weeks before Ian had resigned, and so I think he
gets credit for that momentum. But Mark has certainly and
Jordan and the staff had certainly surcharged it. And we're
a tough team to play against, and I were playing
one Knox tonight.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
It's gonna be a huge challenge for us, huge challenge.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And you know, I hope it'll go our way, but
they're going to face a really tough team on the bitch.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
That's fun. That's what we're all after.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
You've also got Academy W and all of these different
pieces that are still humming right along. What's the latest
on the A and the W and how they're moving
forward and growing.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, we've still got some Academy games left in the
fall to play, and we might even have some pro
guys that need to get some minutes in there. MLS
next program is going along the way, and our our
girls side is too, and the W League. We pushed
some more players into the pro leagues this summer. I
mean we have we have people in our academy and
(10:34):
Double League playing for Juventus and Celtic in Europe.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I mean, that's wild. We haven't playing here in the
United States. And then you know, really throughout your where
they're where they're playing.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That's exciting.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Some of them going back to their universities are playing well.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
There are several that are flying right now at Memphis,
which is lending to keep up with two.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
So you're thank you for acknowledging. You know, Tormento has
a lot of things going on. We also have a
two to five year old program that is.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Pretty not not a two to five year old program,
but a two to five year old program, like a
young yeah two.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Your two year old children.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, I was gonna say, not like the not the
two or five, not the two to five year old program,
but a two to five year old program.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yes, So tremendous Futures is a is it really once
got a great curriculum. Brad nine, who's our academy director,
does a great job with us for all of those things.
We listen, there is nobody who's in the sports world
who's not trying to just try to get it right
every single day.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Come on, and we're clearly in the same sort of piece.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
But you know, I think as a league we try
to lean into each other as owners, as a staff,
we try to empower folks to do as best as
we can.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
And you know, when you're.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
In a development stage like we are on the construction side,
that also.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Adds some you know, additional pressures and all that. But
tonight we.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Get to play.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
The pro guys are going to be out and I
think that's when it gets as simple.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
As it can be. Well, and when it comes.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
To the the new Magnificent Seven coming.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
In next year.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
It's a good title for them.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I mean, it was an easy one for me to
sit there instantly, Lucky seven, Magnificent seven, however you want
to play it. How much of them add to the
regional rivalries that are already in place?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Are these new frontiers? What's being added that people know?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, so let's just think about where it is. We've
got the the old Cosmos franchise still alive and they're
going to be playing in New Jersey. Right, We've got
a team in Corpus Christy.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
He's been in a.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
League two powerhouse for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Fort Lauderdale moves in, Sarasota moves in. We've got Eugene.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Naples, Naples an run.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
We've got some nice teams in southern Florida showing up. Eugene, Oregon,
Bois of Idaho. You've got Cascadie kind of that's right,
and you know they they've even rebranded the Sporting Cascade.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
And then Boise.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He jumps in, and so many of these ownership groups
in Fort Wade, Indiana. So some of these ownership groups
are while they're brand new teams.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
He's some pretty some pretty smart folks. They're pretty saddy.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Because what dmb's associated with the Fort Winger place, it
sure is.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
And we've had some good chats along the way.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It's going to be fun to have DeMarcus, you know,
in the league and and he's just a savvy operator
and bring some immediate street credit to them.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
But their ownership group is uh is I'm impressed by.
We've had lots of calls. Next week we're in Dallas
for our Board of Governor's meetings.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
All those folks will be there and and so listen
on the business of the league.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
We've got a schedule we've got to put together. There's
a lot of new teams. How do we do it in.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
The best We've got big decisions to make. We've been
trying to figure it out for the last three months.
Had a call just this week about it. We'll make
some decisions out there.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I'm on the Sporting Committee and we're in the middle
of all of our you know, getting promotion relegation lined
up for for twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Okay, I'm gonn I'm gonna use have some fun times governing.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'm gonna use my first time out, so all right,
promotion relegation, So USL Championship, USL League One, do you
know if it's going to be two or three?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Has that number been decided yet.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
We haven't made those decisions yet, but we're in the
middle of we we have probably gone through.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
If there's a scenario to consider, we've considered it.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Ultimately, this is a decision that the owners get to make,
so the Sporting Committee will make some some recommendations to them,
and our Board of Governor's meetings are next week. But
we've also you know, we've got to wait some word.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
From us Soccer on some things.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And we've promised everybody, at least on the Sporting Committee
side that where it's made up of both League One
and USL representatives, and these are top class folks. Trying
to make sure that we've done all our work to
give the best advice and recommendations.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I'm going forward.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
So we've considered all of those things. The league's gonna
have to announce when those things are ready. It's not
going to be next week when we're meeting, but you know,
we still have time because we're trying to get it
to twenty eight. But but we're we're clearly in the
business of having promotion and relegation, and as we've been
very open with, the league is moving forward to a
(15:27):
first division as well, and some of those announcements I'm
sure will come out before the year is over.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
We'll see who some of the initial pieces are.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
It's a fantastic time to be to be in the USL.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
So USL Championship owners, I want to I just there
are two elements to it. So, so this is subset
question eight. USL Championship owners to a majority, super majority,
to a group hundred percent, all of them are cool
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with the notion that no matter how much money they invest,
if the on the field product isn't what they want
it to be. Bob Lilly can yell all he wants
in Pittsburgh, but if it's not on the field, if
it doesn't happen on the field to play, Pittsburgh's cool
with it.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Detroit's cool with it with a new stadium coming in.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
All of these USL Championship owners are cool with the
idea of the possibility of that specter hanging over their
shoulder of possibly dropping to USL League One if they
don't show up on the field.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Well, we've already taken that vote, and that vote was done,
and that was announced when that announcement came back with
it February or margin that we were moving forward, and
that was because the owners.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Made the decision to do so.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So the next stage is as owners and both the
League one and the and the and the Championship, and
ultimately it'll be the first person too is the next
round is we're voting on what the structure of promotion
relegation looks like.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So we've made that decision to move.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Forward on that, and we're trying to take our time
for all the right reasons to make sure we get
it right it as best we can.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Is there a concern from the USL League One owners
and maybe some of the lower end financial USL Championship
owners if they do really well, they're doing football on
a budget and they blow the doors off of whatever
league theary, you know, if it's down here in League one,
if you've got folks that are throwing a lot of
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money into it here and then they get promoted, they
understand the gravity of the promotion and investing and making
sure that the quality product is going to be there
in USL Championship.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
Well, we took a vote, and that vote was a
super majority, okay, And so our task now is to
make sure we get detailed right and then if we
move forward and we need to keep adjusting, we want
to be nimble enough to do just that.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
But no one's going into this thing with, you know,
any sense of anything other than we got some big
challenges for us.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
But quite frankly, part.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Of the decisions we made too that the status quo
might be more threatening than whatever some of the pieces.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Coming forward will be so because it's a real concern,
But that concern is not any different without promotion.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, I mean, our logic here is that we're adding
yet another wrinkle to the mix that allows us to
be you know, quality owners and and and and run
a professional league.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Because there have been franchises and markets in US League
One that have been one and times and you don't
want that.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You don't want somebody to come in and hear at torment.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
I understand those pressures as much as anybody does.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You've got to.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You've got to find a way for stability and stayed powers.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I think I think across both the Championship and League One,
we made a decision as owners that we were more
likely to find that stability and promotion relegation system than
we were.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Because, I mean, what the the last thing a league
that is trying to put together promotion relegation.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You don't want somebody to double plutch.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
You don't want to, you don't want them to do
great and then understand the financial gravity of it and
then go yeah, no, and then you know, Miss Congeniality
comes up from the USL League One to be in
the USL Championship.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Well, owners aren't going to have that choice.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
We've already made that decision.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
We're doing it. The next question is just what's it?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, so so miss USL League One she wins if
she doesn't fulfill the duties of miss USL League One
going to USL Championship, the runner up, Miss Congeniality does
not take that place.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
No one's getting an option whether to getting promoted or relegated. Okay,
that's gonna happen on the field.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, And because I just it's I know that when
you're that part, I can be very open about oh yeah,
and it's just you don't want something that you're investing
all of this time and effort and energy into You
don't want somebody once you've got everything all laid out,
to sit there and go, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I think that's sortant for our fans to know we've
made that decision as as teams, and quite frankly, the
teams that are moving into the first think about this.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Teams that are moving into the First.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Division, that's another financial team.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
The only thing they can do is be relegated. They
can win a title or be relegated. There's no promotion
for them. But they're all making that move, which is
a massive financial commitment, knowing what mistakes in there.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Probably I think that's an important, you know, important piece.
If you're in League One, you're only getting promoted. If
you're in the Championship, you're getting a hit on both
sides of it.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And so.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I think we've got to get the details right for
our Our colleagues at the Championship is as much as
anybody else. Our colleagues that are going to be in
the First Division, we don't know who they are yet,
So we we're working hard to make certain though that
we're putting something together that that would make sense for them,
at least on the boarding committee side. Ultimately, we'll make
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a recommendation and the decision at the owner's let there.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Back here, you've mentioned the growth that.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Is anticipated here at Momenta Stadium. I guess what are
the next markers when it comes to growth and stages
and things like that.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
What are you looking at when it comes to the
next stage.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Sometimes a big month for us, at least in terms
of releasing the hounds.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
On some of these things. Here, you know, the parking
lot will move from gravel to.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Something really really quickly, additional scoreboards, it will get put up,
and then we sort of moved from our left over
here and it'll see the bones and the infrastructure start
going up pretty quickly and pretty rapidly.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Quite frankly, it'll take.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Us about twenty twenty two months, yeah, to finish it up.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
And meanwhile, that's part of the challenge. This is a
great place to hold the interview because you can see
it from here. But you know, the pitch is first class.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
It'll be great, But it's a little bit like building
a home, telling the construction crew, hey, I need a
living room with amazing technology. I want to be able
to watch everything, and by the way, I want to
live upstairs while you finish the house over the next
two years.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well, that's a hard.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Way to build a house.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
That's not the best way to do it, and yet
that's exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
What we're asking.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Well, it sounds kind of like the scene in Sleepless
in Seattle where it's early on in the movie where
you've got Tom Hanks and Rob Reiner and they're renovating
the kitchen and the living room for the woman, and
she's like, and she's.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Looking at all of the stuff going on that looks
like it's carnage.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
All over the place, and so she goes, so, how
much longer is this going to take? And Tom Hanks
goes like six weeks and Rob goes months, six months.
There's a lot of stuff going You know, you don't
want that when it comes to this, and.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
There's some unknowns here, and it's keep saying this, it's
easier for you to see.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
We had to spend a lot of time on.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Getting that part of the retail side, because just on
the business side, that that turns it, that turns fast.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's zoning, it's economics, it's all of the infrastructure, it's
all of those commercial ideas.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
No money doesn't solve everything, but it solves a lot
of issues and challenges. And so moving from that one
to this one, I think there was definitely a time
we all could do that and this simultaneously. But now
that that's I'm getting getting done and move it into
this next direction here, so it'll be a fun, fun
time to see the next time we do our show here, well,
well we'll point out where all the hard act guys
that are hard work.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
My last question for you, have you figured out who
the Tormento FC pest control agent is going to? Because
there's only so much dryer sheets can do in an
environment like this.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You got that we're below than that line and this
is what you get, and.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So well that that's just for reviewers or another and
that's there nothing Today I'm seeing a couple buzzen.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
But this is not even anything we had after we
had a false fall.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
We have all over the place absolutely and today warmed
back up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
It's gonna be cool again.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I think ninety degrees matching humidity, and it's supposed to.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Rain and ride at kicking.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
No, it's not right.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
That's what our it's what our friends are. One of
the apps set that it was going to be.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I think it's more like last time we had one
knocks at home, we had a weather door.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
It's always been friends, always pleasure.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, thank you, and uh so after the USL meetings,
obviously that means that he's going to come back on
the morning show and we'll discuss what happens we discussed
on discussed.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I always want to know what's going on in the meetings.
There's so little I can talk about.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Well, then we just talked about so how was the
buffet at the hotel and now new franchises all this.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
It's my birthday on Wednesday, so some of my whole
birthday at the meeting to the USO.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yeah, so is everybody from Tampa going to bring a
cake to Dallas?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Sit there and go and hey, you know we're close.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I don't think we're birthday close.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
We'll probably sing there you go.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Could you mention just all the owners and all these
franchises and us L singing birthday. Somebody's going to roll
on that. Somebody's got to roll on that. We're gonna
shoot some be roll and do some stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
He's Darren, I'm John. We'll see it.
So we're here on your perch. You are top row
right here at midfield.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I sit here so I can see what all how
all the refs are messing up at midfield.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, and those those emails that you send to Tampa
read last seven. When you look at this season, I mean,
we know how competitive USL League one.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Is, and it's been You've had a couple of teams added.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You've got to try and find ways to get to
Techsoma and try not to break the bank west Chester,
who's in? When you look at the new players that
are a part of what's going on here in League one,
what are their additions been?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Like?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I love this league.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I think it's the most important league in professional soccer
in the United States.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
How's that?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I start from there?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I go and we're having seven more teams next year.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And as we look around and play every team, so
many of them are now former Tormented players.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
We've been around a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Take a little pride in that it's a good league.
Everybody beats everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
We haven't been out to av Alta yet, so we're
hitting Los Angeles to High Desert here in two weeks
and then still have a road trip this bookan and
two left at Greatville.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I like the leadership we have in the league. I
like the owners that we have.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
There's some guys smarter than me who are who are
doing a lot of great things, and it's it's a
fun time to be a part of it.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It's an edgy time to be a part of it.
We're trying to both get the business side right. We're
trying to grow the game.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
We're moving into pro promotion, relegation, We've got a Yeager
Cup to deal with, a World Cup.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
On our way. Yeah, so what an amazing once in
a lifetime runway we're on.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Adding seven. Is there a concern that it's too many
in a plump?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I think there's a concern about everything we do at
League One, and yet I still think we're pushing the
right buttons.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
We moved to twenty one things in.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Twenty six as we welcome the World Club, to World
Cup to North America. I think the quality of our
ownership group keeps getting better and better.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I got up my game to keep up with them,
as I'm saying, But you know, we're doing some fun
and exciting things here on the construction side, and that's
really our next step to do much slower than any
of us have wanted.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
The challenges though we're still playing, we're still playing football.
If you had seven times twenty four, whatever that number
is there, sixty eight. Is that many more professional jobs
available just League.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
One next year, that's a lot seven more head coaches,
that's a lot of players.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And the challenge is when you add new teams, is
the pay goes up?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It doesn't wash out right, and so keeping up with
that is part of the business model.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
That's no different than any.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Professional sports league.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You know, we're kind of still going to startup mode
even after all this time. I think those COVID years
puts in a permanent startup mode. But we're coming out
of it and it's just a super.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Exciting time to be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So there's some there's some tremendous league partners that are
moving in.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
How do you and for those that may not know
the nickname that we gave you out of the blocks
the Green Bay at USL League an, how do you
try and keep up with the Joneses as best you can?
Because your market size while it is Statesboros, Savannah, low Country,
drifting south of I sixteen.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
The household numbers may not match at Westchester, they may
not match what you see in a Alto in the
high desert.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
How do you try and how do you try and
be yourself and not keep up with it and not
let the joneses get to you.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, there's that great quote, be yourself because everybody else
is taken. That's an easy one to follow, So I
don't have to worry about that part. But you know,
you and I are sitting here. We have a view
that nobody else can see. Or we have our clubhouse business.
Over to our left, there's about two hundred and thirty
acres straight there on the horizon, and then over here
we already have a massive.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Commercial deck development.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
We can see publics, which, by the way, is the
highest traffic publics in America.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Shops, that's according to Publics.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, you got the campus on the other side of
the parkway.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Campus is right there. There's a Starbucks, so there's a
Chick fil A. So all of this is our stadium development.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You know, I think fans when they see on ESPN,
they see where you and I are sitting. They see
the dirt which has been there longer.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Than any of us want.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
What they can't see is all that construction that's already
in the ground, and for us, that is the stadium.
That's a stadium center, live, working, play district, and that's
big vision. It's a lot, it's a lot of capital.
It's a lot, especially in a market our size. But
what we have that is unique to us is right
(05:16):
there because you and I can see the campus. That's
thirty thousand undergrads and graduate students.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
There's a university bus that stops right there. It's hard
to watch on.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
TV, but that was part of the grand plan though.
You when you want to all of this.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
The planets, the idea of all of this, and having
this adjunct on the other side of the parkway where
Georgia Southern and its audience and its people come this way.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
So you have to have it all, is my point.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You can't just play, you can't just play soccer. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So right there where those boards are, that's four stories
of apartments. Right there in the corner, right above the
flag is four story craft brewery indoor music venue where
the fourth floor stage looks into about us, into the
third floor stage over here. The fourth floor is the
roof and everything that you can see behind us.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Again, fans, you don't get to see it.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Visual is a locker room and all of those things
that go all the way back to those cars that
are coming back here, a permanent stage here and then
it just you can see how it will come to
life housing across the road.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So for us to be successful, back to the original question,
we have to have a center point. We've got to be.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
We've gotten to play in a great league, which the
USL gives us. Adding promotional relegation just adds juice to
as having a place where players want to be and
come because it's a it's a community can thrive in.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
But we've got to get out of the construction site too.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So we can park more people and get more people
in here. And those growing pains are real and legitimate.
And when you listen, the advantage of a university town
is that we have thirty thousand students here. The disadvantages
is starting in spring semester, summer semester and then going
to fall semester and when more students than ever go
to summer school. But they're all online, and so university
(07:07):
towns are changing everywhere on that and that's that's part
of our challenge too.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We'll figure that not out on the field.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
It was kind of a knowing how competitive League one
is perpetually. It was a stunner when Ian Cameron said
I'm pulling away, and it was just one of those
things where Ian is a part of the fabric of
this franchise and to have that loss, it's not just
(07:39):
an on the field loss, it's an off the field loss.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
How did that?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What was the I don't know I can say the rationale,
but what came into the decision from Ian to step away.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It was a personal loss too.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Ian's one of my favorite people in the World's family
and his wife and his daughters their family and they're
going to be family, and so when family.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Wants to move in a different direction, that's hard. Was
not a decision that the club wanted to make.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I think the losses of the season and last season,
and since we win the title right here in twenty
twenty two, we're weighing heavily on in he asked for
a change, and I think sometimes when you have incredible
respect quite frankly love for folks that you respect the
(08:32):
moment and you offer it to them. I and I
had done a lot of interviewing and bringing some folks.
We had brought Mark mckemern as director of our recruiting
and assistant coach just a week or so earlier, although
we've been in that process for quite a long time
and so we were fortunate to have Mark here. That
(08:54):
was not a decision that Mark or I sought. Jordan
Bell's our assistant coach. It's not something that any of
us saw it.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
But Mark's uncanny ability to flip the switch and our
players uncanny ability to absorb the switch. I think says
a lot for how much they believed in the club,
how much they believe in him, and how much they
believe in the club that Mark was now here.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
So I'm internally grateful for that, for that kind of stuff.
We were playing better the last couple of.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Weeks before Ian had resigned, and so I think he
gets credit for that momentum. But Mark has certainly and
Jordan and the staff had certainly surcharged it. And we're
a tough team to play against, and I were playing
one Knox tonight.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
It's gonna be a huge challenge for us, huge challenge.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And you know, I hope it'll go our way, but
they're going to face a really tough team on the bitch.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
That's fun. That's what we're all after.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
You've also got Academy W and all of these different
pieces that are still humming right along. What's the latest
on the A and the W and how they're moving
forward and growing.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, we've still got some Academy games left in the
fall to play, and we might even have some pro
guys that need to get some minutes in there. MLS
next program is going along the way, and our our
girls side is too, and the W League. We pushed
some more players into the pro leagues this summer. I
mean we have we have people in our academy and
(10:34):
Double League playing for Juventus and Celtic in Europe.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I mean, that's wild. We haven't playing here in the
United States. And then you know, really throughout your where
they're where they're playing.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That's exciting.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Some of them going back to their universities are playing well.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
There are several that are flying right now at Memphis,
which is lending to keep up with two.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
So you're thank you for acknowledging. You know, Tormento has
a lot of things going on. We also have a
two to five year old program that is.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Pretty not not a two to five year old program,
but a two to five year old program, like a
young yeah two.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Your two year old children.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, I was gonna say, not like the not the
two or five, not the two to five year old program,
but a two to five year old program.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yes, So tremendous Futures is a is it really once
got a great curriculum. Brad nine, who's our academy director,
does a great job with us for all of those things.
We listen, there is nobody who's in the sports world
who's not trying to just try to get it right
every single day.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Come on, and we're clearly in the same sort of piece.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
But you know, I think as a league we try
to lean into each other as owners, as a staff,
we try to empower folks to do as best as
we can.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
And you know, when you're.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
In a development stage like we are on the construction side,
that also.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Adds some you know, additional pressures and all that. But
tonight we.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Get to play.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
The pro guys are going to be out and I
think that's when it gets as simple.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
As it can be. Well, and when it comes.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
To the the new Magnificent Seven coming.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
In next year.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
It's a good title for them.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I mean, it was an easy one for me to
sit there instantly, Lucky seven, Magnificent seven, however you want
to play it. How much of them add to the
regional rivalries that are already in place?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Are these new frontiers? What's being added that people know?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, so let's just think about where it is. We've
got the the old Cosmos franchise still alive and they're
going to be playing in New Jersey. Right, We've got
a team in Corpus Christy.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
He's been in a.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
League two powerhouse for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Fort Lauderdale moves in, Sarasota moves in. We've got Eugene.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Naples, Naples an run.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
We've got some nice teams in southern Florida showing up. Eugene, Oregon,
Bois of Idaho. You've got Cascadie kind of that's right,
and you know they they've even rebranded the Sporting Cascade.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
And then Boise.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He jumps in, and so many of these ownership groups
in Fort Wade, Indiana. So some of these ownership groups
are while they're brand new teams.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
He's some pretty some pretty smart folks. They're pretty saddy.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Because what dmb's associated with the Fort Winger place, it
sure is.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
And we've had some good chats along the way.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It's going to be fun to have DeMarcus, you know,
in the league and and he's just a savvy operator
and bring some immediate street credit to them.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
But their ownership group is uh is I'm impressed by.
We've had lots of calls. Next week we're in Dallas
for our Board of Governor's meetings.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
All those folks will be there and and so listen
on the business of the league.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
We've got a schedule we've got to put together. There's
a lot of new teams. How do we do it in.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
The best We've got big decisions to make. We've been
trying to figure it out for the last three months.
Had a call just this week about it. We'll make
some decisions out there.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I'm on the Sporting Committee and we're in the middle
of all of our you know, getting promotion relegation lined
up for for twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Okay, I'm gonn I'm gonna use have some fun times governing.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'm gonna use my first time out, so all right,
promotion relegation, So USL Championship, USL League One, do you
know if it's going to be two or three?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Has that number been decided yet.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
We haven't made those decisions yet, but we're in the
middle of we we have probably gone through.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
If there's a scenario to consider, we've considered it.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Ultimately, this is a decision that the owners get to make,
so the Sporting Committee will make some some recommendations to them,
and our Board of Governor's meetings are next week. But
we've also you know, we've got to wait some word.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
From us Soccer on some things.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And we've promised everybody, at least on the Sporting Committee
side that where it's made up of both League One
and USL representatives, and these are top class folks. Trying
to make sure that we've done all our work to
give the best advice and recommendations.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I'm going forward.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
So we've considered all of those things. The league's gonna
have to announce when those things are ready. It's not
going to be next week when we're meeting, but you know,
we still have time because we're trying to get it
to twenty eight. But but we're we're clearly in the
business of having promotion and relegation, and as we've been
very open with, the league is moving forward to a
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first division as well, and some of those announcements I'm
sure will come out before the year is over.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
We'll see who some of the initial pieces are.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
It's a fantastic time to be to be in the USL.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
So USL Championship owners, I want to I just there
are two elements to it. So, so this is subset
question eight. USL Championship owners to a majority, super majority,
to a group hundred percent, all of them are cool
(16:03):
with the notion that no matter how much money they invest,
if the on the field product isn't what they want
it to be. Bob Lilly can yell all he wants
in Pittsburgh, but if it's not on the field, if
it doesn't happen on the field to play, Pittsburgh's cool
with it.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Detroit's cool with it with a new stadium coming in.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
All of these USL Championship owners are cool with the
idea of the possibility of that specter hanging over their
shoulder of possibly dropping to USL League One if they
don't show up on the field.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Well, we've already taken that vote, and that vote was done,
and that was announced when that announcement came back with
it February or margin that we were moving forward, and
that was because the owners.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Made the decision to do so.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So the next stage is as owners and both the
League one and the and the and the Championship, and
ultimately it'll be the first person too is the next
round is we're voting on what the structure of promotion
relegation looks like.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So we've made that decision to move.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Forward on that, and we're trying to take our time
for all the right reasons to make sure we get
it right it as best we can.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Is there a concern from the USL League One owners
and maybe some of the lower end financial USL Championship
owners if they do really well, they're doing football on
a budget and they blow the doors off of whatever
league theary, you know, if it's down here in League one,
if you've got folks that are throwing a lot of
(17:27):
money into it here and then they get promoted, they
understand the gravity of the promotion and investing and making
sure that the quality product is going to be there
in USL Championship.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
Well, we took a vote, and that vote was a
super majority, okay, And so our task now is to
make sure we get detailed right and then if we
move forward and we need to keep adjusting, we want
to be nimble enough to do just that.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
But no one's going into this thing with, you know,
any sense of anything other than we got some big
challenges for us.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
But quite frankly, part.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Of the decisions we made too that the status quo
might be more threatening than whatever some of the pieces.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Coming forward will be so because it's a real concern,
But that concern is not any different without promotion.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, I mean, our logic here is that we're adding
yet another wrinkle to the mix that allows us to
be you know, quality owners and and and and run
a professional league.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Because there have been franchises and markets in US League
One that have been one and times and you don't
want that.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You don't want somebody to come in and hear at torment.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
I understand those pressures as much as anybody does.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You've got to.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You've got to find a way for stability and stayed powers.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I think I think across both the Championship and League One,
we made a decision as owners that we were more
likely to find that stability and promotion relegation system than
we were.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Because, I mean, what the the last thing a league
that is trying to put together promotion relegation.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You don't want somebody to double plutch.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
You don't want to, you don't want them to do
great and then understand the financial gravity of it and
then go yeah, no, and then you know, Miss Congeniality
comes up from the USL League One to be in
the USL Championship.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Well, owners aren't going to have that choice.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
We've already made that decision.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
We're doing it. The next question is just what's it?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, so so miss USL League One she wins if
she doesn't fulfill the duties of miss USL League One
going to USL Championship, the runner up, Miss Congeniality does
not take that place.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
No one's getting an option whether to getting promoted or relegated. Okay,
that's gonna happen on the field.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, And because I just it's I know that when
you're that part, I can be very open about oh yeah,
and it's just you don't want something that you're investing
all of this time and effort and energy into You
don't want somebody once you've got everything all laid out,
to sit there and go, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I think that's sortant for our fans to know we've
made that decision as as teams, and quite frankly, the
teams that are moving into the first think about this.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Teams that are moving into the First.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Division, that's another financial team.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
The only thing they can do is be relegated. They
can win a title or be relegated. There's no promotion
for them. But they're all making that move, which is
a massive financial commitment, knowing what mistakes in there.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Probably I think that's an important, you know, important piece.
If you're in League One, you're only getting promoted. If
you're in the Championship, you're getting a hit on both
sides of it.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And so.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I think we've got to get the details right for
our Our colleagues at the Championship is as much as
anybody else. Our colleagues that are going to be in
the First Division, we don't know who they are yet,
So we we're working hard to make certain though that
we're putting something together that that would make sense for them,
at least on the boarding committee side. Ultimately, we'll make
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a recommendation and the decision at the owner's let there.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Back here, you've mentioned the growth that.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Is anticipated here at Momenta Stadium. I guess what are
the next markers when it comes to growth and stages
and things like that.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
What are you looking at when it comes to the
next stage.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Sometimes a big month for us, at least in terms
of releasing the hounds.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
On some of these things. Here, you know, the parking
lot will move from gravel to.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Something really really quickly, additional scoreboards, it will get put up,
and then we sort of moved from our left over
here and it'll see the bones and the infrastructure start
going up pretty quickly and pretty rapidly.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Quite frankly, it'll take.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Us about twenty twenty two months, yeah, to finish it up.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
And meanwhile, that's part of the challenge. This is a
great place to hold the interview because you can see
it from here. But you know, the pitch is first class.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
It'll be great, But it's a little bit like building
a home, telling the construction crew, hey, I need a
living room with amazing technology. I want to be able
to watch everything, and by the way, I want to
live upstairs while you finish the house over the next
two years.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well, that's a hard.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Way to build a house.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
That's not the best way to do it, and yet
that's exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
What we're asking.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Well, it sounds kind of like the scene in Sleepless
in Seattle where it's early on in the movie where
you've got Tom Hanks and Rob Reiner and they're renovating
the kitchen and the living room for the woman, and
she's like, and she's.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Looking at all of the stuff going on that looks
like it's carnage.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
All over the place, and so she goes, so, how
much longer is this going to take? And Tom Hanks
goes like six weeks and Rob goes months, six months.
There's a lot of stuff going You know, you don't
want that when it comes to this, and.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
There's some unknowns here, and it's keep saying this, it's
easier for you to see.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
We had to spend a lot of time on.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Getting that part of the retail side, because just on
the business side, that that turns it, that turns fast.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's zoning, it's economics, it's all of the infrastructure, it's
all of those commercial ideas.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
No money doesn't solve everything, but it solves a lot
of issues and challenges. And so moving from that one
to this one, I think there was definitely a time
we all could do that and this simultaneously. But now
that that's I'm getting getting done and move it into
this next direction here, so it'll be a fun, fun
time to see the next time we do our show here, well,
well we'll point out where all the hard act guys
that are hard work.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
My last question for you, have you figured out who
the Tormento FC pest control agent is going to? Because
there's only so much dryer sheets can do in an
environment like this.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You got that we're below than that line and this
is what you get, and.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So well that that's just for reviewers or another and
that's there nothing Today I'm seeing a couple buzzen.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
But this is not even anything we had after we
had a false fall.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
We have all over the place absolutely and today warmed
back up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
It's gonna be cool again.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I think ninety degrees matching humidity, and it's supposed to.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Rain and ride at kicking.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
No, it's not right.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
That's what our it's what our friends are. One of
the apps set that it was going to be.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I think it's more like last time we had one
knocks at home, we had a weather door.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
It's always been friends, always pleasure.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, thank you, and uh so after the USL meetings,
obviously that means that he's going to come back on
the morning show and we'll discuss what happens we discussed
on discussed.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I always want to know what's going on in the meetings.
There's so little I can talk about.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Well, then we just talked about so how was the
buffet at the hotel and now new franchises all this.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
It's my birthday on Wednesday, so some of my whole
birthday at the meeting to the USO.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yeah, so is everybody from Tampa going to bring a
cake to Dallas?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Sit there and go and hey, you know we're close.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I don't think we're birthday close.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
We'll probably sing there you go.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Could you mention just all the owners and all these
franchises and us L singing birthday. Somebody's going to roll
on that. Somebody's got to roll on that. We're gonna
shoot some be roll and do some stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
He's Darren, I'm John. We'll see it.
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