Very Interesting CFB Weekend, Mariners Win Game 1, Cowboys Lose To The Panthers!?

Very Interesting CFB Weekend, Mariners Win Game 1, Cowboys Lose To The Panthers!?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
One an h Town. Good morning, and welcome to a
Monday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross here
on Sports Talk seven ninety our man, Rossville, Riale. It
is in a phenomenal mood today. I'm not in a
bad move myself. My beloved Houston Cougar's got to a
five to one record.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
After beating up Oklahoma State.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
It was the game of the week between the State
of Texas and the State of Oklahoma, for sure. I mean, no,
it wasn't.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
No, Okay, I was maybe embellishing a little bit, but
I can do these things.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
And then got on the plane, didn't get to watch
a massive chunk of the game, got to see the
first half before we left Stillwater. Well, that was a
field goal affair with a lot of frustrations on both sides,
watching John Mattier play just, frankly, a very poorous game.
I blamed frankly Brent Venables for trying to play the kid.

(01:01):
I mean, obviously wasn't one hundred percent. And look your
your defensive line stepped up. And then I got in
the car, landed a hobby, got in the car, listened
to Craig Way, big kick, big kickoff return. The postgame
show was on for a while too. The postgame show
just ended twenty minutes ago. Yes, uh, there was a
legal illegal block in the back on the kickoff return.
But now it looked good to me. I'm sure it

(01:23):
looked great to you. Look clean to me, baby. Okay,
take the seven off the board, go ahead? Then what
that's right?

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Then?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
What sucker? You weren't gonna score?

Speaker 5 (01:31):
You know you?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, So if you're an Ou fan, you want to
come in and get your ass kick, Let's go seven
one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Gordy asked you, how surprised were you? You said one
to ten, You said five. I've put it about five two.
First of all, Texas is not void of talent Corrember one,
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Number two. It's the rivalry game.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
And I think you have to throw records out because
look it's it's oh you Texas, it's fifty to fifty
and three. There was an active desperation that Texas team
had underperformed at Florida. It was time to bounce back,
and you were going against a quarterback who was fresh
off of injury. Who did look good. Well, if you
had looked at the spread, Matt, you would have had
a good handle on how close the game was supposed
to be. And it opened up as the Long Runs

(02:14):
two and a half point favorites, which shocked me. But
then it let my expectations know that the Long Words
had a shot in the game, and well they clearly
had a shot on Saturday as they won the game. Well,
it's funny because the spread did not have Northwestern competing
with Penn State on Saturday, and yet Northwestern one. Yes,
So the spread doesn't always tell us seven. It doesn't
always tell but you can tell your expectations. My expectations

(02:36):
were that Northwestern was gonna get sas cakes.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh and it didn't.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Anything can happen, and it wo costed a coach's job.
So what a strange weekend. We got lots of coaching vacancies.
Not they're not great ones. I mean, Penn State's the
most attractive, but UAB is looking for work, Oregon State
is looking for work. We've already know that Arkansas has
made a change. M h Ucla. Ucla made a change.
I mean there's some inch jobs out there. M hmm.

(03:02):
I just would say, as advice from UH and from
many good sources. If you're a college football coach, the
first thing is gonna make sure you got a good
general manager to handle your salary cap, because that's what
it's gonna take. You want to you want to turn
things around pretty quick. Spend spend, spend, and spend it
the right way. Doesn't hurt Texas Tech doing okay, speaking
of against the spread six and oh against the spread,

(03:23):
the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Yeah, I thought they were
gonna play Arizona State for the Big Twelve championship. That
may be in doubt because Arizona State got its ass
kicked at Utah over the weekend. So that's the next
opponent for the Cougars. That's a shame. No, No, we
got Arizona first, then Arizona State. We're gonna We're gonna confusing.
What's this? What's Arizona the what state? The cactus son?

(03:46):
I don't know it's accurate, Coyote State?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
I should know?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Should I know this?

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Do we do?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
We know?

Speaker 4 (03:54):
What?

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Like we're the lone star state? Like I can name
maybe ten of them. Show me state service for tomorrow,
believe it or not.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Maybe not. It's the Apache State, like Utah. I would
have I got to Utah right away, and I think
I had a state, right, a beehive state, the bee
Hive state. Excuse me? Yeah, okay, I wouldn't have been
thought that Florida is the of course, the meth state.
Uh huh, California is the smug state. I mean, is

(04:23):
the arrogance or is it?

Speaker 6 (04:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
The smugness. Okay, there's a smug state and then there's
a small small states. But I got you, I got
you all right. On the radio program today we are
mostly open line.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
By the way.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Wait, no, it's the Grand Canyon State. We hold on,
Wait a minute, which one is it? It's the Grand
Canyon State. I guess that's the official one. It also
says Copper State, Valentine State, Apache State, as tech state,
the baby state because they're the newest. Is that true?
That's not true. I thought Alaska Hawaii is the latest

(04:55):
Hawaii Alaska Hawaii the latest. When was this Wikipedia updated? Oh,
it's the newest contiguous state. Duh, everybody knew that. The
Italy of America Arizona. No way, you're just making things up. Okay,
we're gonna do we can do this. Look, I'm telling

(05:15):
you right here the Italy of America.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
That's crazy. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
All right, So today is a happy Columbus day, everybody? Yes,
and uh so we I would assume there are many
more indigenous people's day. I did not know that. Okay, yeah,
you wouldn't. What do you mean I wouldn't. Just kidding,
kept all guns of blazing here. You insulted me that
I've been up for two hours. I gotta actually have
some energy in the first hour. That's funny, all right.

(05:41):
So we've got open line most of the way today
at seven one three, two, one two five seven, and
we have to tell the truth coming up at eleven thirty.
I've already written them, so I'm kind of proud of myself.
I got knocked out. Yeah, you know, you can't sleep
at night. You just start looking through stuff. I thought, well,
you know, I'm gonna put together to tell the truth.
That's awesome. So I got that eleven thirty today. How
many do you believe? I believe three of them. One

(06:04):
I do not believe. Okay, all right, is it harder
for you to figure out which of the four I
believe or which one I don't. I would say it's
harder when when you make up three. Usually it's easy
to suss out one or two. Sorry, madam, you asked
me a question, I ask you. No, I should just

(06:24):
lie every time I'm asked a question if the cheese
sticks had great flavor or whatever. I should just lie
when I'm asked a question. You're really gonna die in
that hill? Still, No, I should just lie. Sorry, Sorry
for being truthful. The truth sometimes did not set you free. Well,
you asked me a question, I'd answered, yeah, But that's okay.
In this particular case, I can live with O. I

(06:46):
think it's more difficult when you're only making up one.
So I'm only I have only making up one here.
That'll be eleven thirty at ten fifty today. There is
a new Twitter account. It's not a new count, but
I just happen to find it because it was on
the for you tab. I'm obsessed with, okay, and I'm
not going to tell you what it is. What's her name?

Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's not a girl? Thank you for.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
I mean that feels somewhat fair, you know, I can
understand that, But generally speaking, it is a I will
only tell you this. It involves a college. That's all
I'm going to say. A college. Oh, I already know
talking about this the last couple of weeks, I thought
maybe I had you mentioned it.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Okay, I might have.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Now you gave it away to me. I think most
people are confused. Okay, we'll good ten to fifty today
we're just doing fifty. And so when we play the
music that's associated with this account, okay, it'll be very
easy to recognize what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Now.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
My computer is completely frozen.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Right now. Something is going to do in a bio
set up, download those viruses matter whatever they do. Have
to click on those links. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, we got to tell the truth. You're gonna
away for a few minutes at eleven o'clock.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yes, I am.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
You have a great sponsor of ours, doctor witness Winn said,
who thinks that he needs you to help him with commercials. Yeah.
I gotta take care of some business. Yeah, and then
I got to take care of some business about one
fifteen because I'm going to the airport. Does up else? Well,
I mean I may have him before one. I did
have a wapp R junior away coming in, and so
that may be an issue too. You got a whopper Junior. Okay,

(08:22):
how did you get that? Cheese?

Speaker 3 (08:24):
No cheese, no lettuce, no lettuce.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I love lettuce on a hamburger, but if I'm eating
it the car, I don't want lettus fall to dribble
it on yourself right now.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Mayonnaise are mustard mayonnaise? Okay, but I like both.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
I prefer mustard, but I'll eat either.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
There's something good about the ketchup mayonnaise combination on the
wopper Junior. You put mustard in there, and then you
got yourself some fry sauce that is actually accurate. Yeah, well,
actually no ketchup and mustard. People make fries sauce with
that too.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah. I'm not a big fry sauce guy, but that's
und of here. Now that's okay. Yeah, he's the only Utah.
Did you get in the onion ring sauce?

Speaker 7 (08:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (09:00):
I just got to All all I got was we're
gonna be eating on the plane, so I didn't want
to eat too much. Okay. Yeah, we've been everywhere this segment.
It's a holiday. I mean, Texans haven't played. How about this?
We do stuff to get one week from today, the
Texans will still have done to play the game. That's correct,
They're playing at nine o'clock a week ag from tonight. Now,

(09:21):
those of you that are worried about well, it's on
the ESPN Plus need not worry to be on channel thirteen. No,
I'm not worried. ESPN Plus, huge platform, Monday night football game,
standalone game for your Houston Texans.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
I haven't looked at the spread?

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Have you.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Three points? I was thinking the exact same thing. I
was thinking three I think it's I mean, I'm as
a matter of fact, I might have actually accidentally seen it.
So it's okay. I'll still give you full credit.

Speaker 8 (09:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Was a lot of the folks, Matt. I wouldn't do
that to y'all. Three and a half? Oh really, okay
it started three and a half or started three has
been playing good ball. Jackson Smith and Jig Buzzy they
went to Jacksonville yesterday and and Jacksonville is good. And
I'll tell you what I know that. Look, we're all
big Red Zone fans, those of us that have it
love it. I went to my office, ROSSI I watched

(10:07):
Red Zone for seven hours. I actually stepped away for
a few minutes towards the very end, just because the games,
because I only watched it for about four and a
half hours. The NFL, to me, needs to put at
least four games on on the three o'clock hour for
your red zone viewing pleasure. I mean, it's purely selfish.
But here's here's the thing you have. If you have three,

(10:30):
you've just got a greater shot of them all sucking
out Tennessee. Las Vegas was atrocious. Couldn't watch that. Your
boy wasn't doing much on the ground action genty Yeah, uh,
you got a touchdown at least. Yeah, seventy five in
a touch. It's not bad. It's twenty three carries. Their
offensive line is horrible. Yeah, he's fine. Seventy five in touch,

(10:51):
he's pacing. Yeah, yeah, I should have said twelve hundred
yards as a loss on my part. Well, he messed
up since Anty Green Bay. The Bengals just can't move
the ball. I mean, that's just the reality of it.
Six games in, he's got four hundred and twenty four yards.
Ashton gent six games in four to twelve, so he's
going to be close if he plays the full six
seventeen games. If he plays the full seventeen he is

(11:12):
pacing four twelve hundred yards.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, so I what I should have done?

Speaker 2 (11:18):
You know what I was thinking, in frankly, I would
like a little bit of a technicality. Well you need
a little No, you're not getting anything you need. You
need a high ankle sprain is what you need, because
thousand yards now for a running back. Even when it
was sixteen games, nobody made you say that. We were
talking about Boise State and how good they are and
you're trying to diminish them and their accomplishments. And you said,
Ashton Genty's no good, he's not even gonna said he's

(11:41):
just said he sucks. And you said that's not true.
You said he runs like he's got two fake legs.
Here's the thing that hurts your credibility is you embellish
on things. I wouldn't do that.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Well, yea, that's why you don't need credibility.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
See you got no, you start with no credibility. Yeah,
you just say things half cocky'll be fine. Yeah, what's
the issue that's true? Uh, let's get to the college,
like because a very interesting weekend. Oh my first trip
ever to Oklahoma State. Gotta tell you about that. Okay,
you didn't run into the wall, did you?

Speaker 8 (12:09):
You are right?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Did you see my Instagram video?

Speaker 1 (12:11):
No, I ran in the wall.

Speaker 8 (12:12):
Oh for real?

Speaker 2 (12:14):
You're actually seriously you're putting content on your Instagram. I'm shot, folks.
I put content on there, okay, and it wasn't like
a volleyball pit. Well that's gonna be on there too, Okay.
Thank you. Shout out to Channel two and Channel eleven
for doing stories of my daughter as you guys, you
guys are the first family of Houston sports. Houston sports

(12:34):
first family. I mean we're not Mannings. Yeah, you're the
Mannings of Houston, the Thomas E's, the Thomases. So yeah,
if you want to see me running into the wall
at Oklahoma State. And by the way, we'll talk more
about this coming back. We get that. Uh if you
went to U Texas and see it's close and Rassie,
I gotta I gotta ask what your life was like
not being at the game. And okay, and you you've

(12:55):
told me all fair, and I'll let you sit on there.
You frankly regret not going, So I mean, yeah, I
should have gone, but it was too pricey. Man, it
was pricey seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
Our time is ten fourteen. You see you running out
of the wall in this video?

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Is it the end?

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yes, you have to watch the I'm sorry, it's twenty
twenty five. You can't have an attention span over eight seconds.
My my video is like a minute three. Oh that's
too long. What do you mean, midday? You gotta get
that down to thirty three. Now, you gotta get that
down like fifteen. Tension spans are getting worse and worse.
My last Instagram video was nine minutes.

Speaker 9 (13:31):
Yeah, and you.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Always have pictures of your face you with with the
stats behind it. It's yeah, it looks like it's like
a nineteen eighty nine uh college, community college, Uh closed circuit,
huh channel in a like a local caring screen. Matt,
Chroma key baby, that's twenty twenty five. What are you
talking about? Chroma created down like nobody's business. Yeah, well

(13:54):
people seem to like it. I don't know why, but
teach yourself me. That's sports RV. If you had to
follow me, it's works. MPT you to send me running
into the wall. Let me drop a lot. I didn't.
You didn't run into the wall. I'm all the way up.
All right, it's Matt Ross and this Columbus day I had.
I did an AI update. Who's off today and who's not?

(14:16):
Banks are closed? What do you mean AI update? I
just want to see what I had to say?

Speaker 3 (14:20):
But who works?

Speaker 2 (14:21):
You're talking to AI now? Sadly? Probably too much? Okay,
I mean federal? Well, is is the government still shut down?
I think it is still shut down? Okay, so federal
or like, I don't know, I'm just asking, Yeah, don't ask, uh,
but uh yeah, some schools are closed. My daughter is
on a fall break, so yeah, what's what the kids
getting fall breaks? Now, let's just start school earlier. And

(14:45):
we started school earlier, and you get a week into
you don't need it. Hey, back in my day, we
didn't get no dang fall break, and who was just fine.
Of course, grammar was an issue during your time as well.
Apparently that's how they tell us how to say it.
All right, I got you. Yeah, it's a ball break.
You started the second week. They just start it's like October.
You've been in there for two months, and then they

(15:06):
get a bunch of wine, Thanksgiving week, Christmas, Oh my god,
and you're off for a week and a month. They
get off a week in February spring break, and then
they graduate. Kids are soft soft I'll let you tell them.
I'll tell them it's seriously. And so I'm so far
removed from it, but I'm like, I had a much
harder run towards. Like they have block schooling one day

(15:28):
a week. We had to go in the snow and
they have shut up barefoot. Okay, you weren't. You weren't
growing up in North Dakota.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Ross.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
And then they have a late start on most Thursdays.
They start late on they get to sleep on on Thursdays. Yeah,
not every one of them, but a lot of them. Wow, Okay,
that's not bad. I don't think it is. I should
go back to school, certainly, it wouldn't be the worst
thing for you education. Yeah, all right, Okay, So I'm surprised. Well, yeah,

(16:01):
it's been at one spot. Although the resume you can
add to it. You've done a lot of things here,
thank you, Matt. And you're just trying out, uh you have.
I was surprised you Yeah, like a like a nine
to thirty, said decided not to go. When was the
When was you had to have made the decision before that?
H oh, in the morning. No, we were looking at tickets.
My brother was looking at tickets in the morning. It
just never went down. Get in midweek was two sixty.

(16:24):
It actually went down like two thirty. And this is
literally for the nosebleeds and the nose bleeds of the
cotton bowl, which isn't really bad, but you want to
spend two hundred and thirty dollars to be in the
ninety degree heat it got I think it got up
to like feels like ninety five or something like that,
blasting in the sun. And it's just been it feels

(16:45):
like the kickoff time has been over ninety degrees like
three of the last four years. Yeah, you can find
the temperature kickoff temperature over the years, it's getting worse
and worse, unfortunately. Yeah. Well, if you play it, you
play the game Layer in the year you played it
two thirty, Well, yeah, I mean, but second week of
October it shouldn't be ninety four degrees.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
That's true, that is true.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
But anyways, Okay, so you made the decision out to go,
You went to our buddies a big City Wings for eight. Well, yes,
it's good, it's good. I had the cilantro lime chicken salad.
Who you went with a salad? Nicely done, my friend?
Well yeah, just as a base layer. I mean there
are some other fridays. Yes, and dessert, no dessert, okay, yeah.

(17:31):
I I didn't want you to go because I just
thought it would be I was. I was prepared for
you to be really aggravated, and I can't have you
aggravated this early in the week. It was a fifty
to fifty game. You can't. You can't go in your
favorites every time, all right, I've been twice in their favorites.
I'm sorry underdogs, and I think the other for the
other three times their favorite. Yeah, but it was a

(17:52):
good game. Again, I missed about thirty percent of it.
We were in flight, and unfortunately the Charter we fly
design of internet, so we were unable to get even
updates on the on the game cast or whatever. But
I landed. You guys were up and I heard that
arch was would be a game manager, would be a
fair to success was not play interesting. There were a
lot of his completions. If you look at the completion percentage,

(18:14):
people are like, yeah, that's great. Well, yeah, a lot
of that was screen passes and twenty nine yard run light.
He did make some big throws, especially there was a
third down when they're on their own end and he
was under pressure and there was somebody wrapped around his
waist and he made a great throw to the right boundary.
So he made some good throws, but a lot of them,
quite frankly, were off schedule where he's he's keeping his eye.

(18:38):
There was a little bit of pressure and then he's
keeping his eyes downfield and basically it's a scramble drill
and then he finds somebody in a pocket of the zone.
That's good and all. I would like him to make
some more throws within the rhythm of the offense, some
easy one, two, three, within the rhythm of the offense
type of throws. But overall, it was I mean his
best game, of course, relative to the competition, all see

(19:00):
long and yeah, I mean, look, it was pretty you
wouldn't put on a Heisman reel, but they got the
job done. I think a big part of it was
controvan Weiser was back and he looked good, and I
think him as a running back for me, at least
to the level of Texas, where you've had some great
running backs of course, Bejon Robinson, Roshawn Johnson, some others
who are Jaden Blues in the NFL right now. You've

(19:20):
had a lot of NFL running backs there lately, and
and Wiser's not of that level to me. But he
had probably his best game all year. And he's also
been hurt as well, and he had a bunch of
big runs, including a thirty seven yarder. So getting the
run game, hey crazy. You get the run game going,
you get some some clean pockets held up for the

(19:43):
most part, and then you can have arch Manning looking
a little bit better. So it was ever was everything,
Everything was better. Special team has been a difference as well.
Obviously it's been kickoff return towards. And look, again, I'm
not going to say I watch every bit of the game,
but John Mattier looked like he needed to be off.
I mean, no, you don't have hand surgery and come
back two weeks later. I just it just seems to
be that was a way too Again. I know, the

(20:04):
moment is big. If the kid says he wants to go,
I understand that being you know, the tough soldier, but
he looked out of sorts. Yeah, only they can answer
how close to one hundred percent he was. He just
he didn't look good. I mean, especially started the game though.
He was throwing some darts, some tight spirals, and he
was also under duress for a lot of the game
and made some bedthrows. Well yeah, I mean, if he's

(20:26):
playing UT San Antonio, he's probably having a great first
game and excited about it. But to come back against
that Texas team again, I do believe talented teams that
are desperate are dangerous to play. And I felt like
the Longhorns were sick and tired of hearing about how
everything sucks when they shouldn't suck. Yeah, he threw the
ball away three times. Texas won the turnover battle three nothing,
but they didn't get any point. They had two missed

(20:47):
field goals and then one of them was the end
of the half, So two of those field goals were
long ones. Right, Yeah, that's exactly that's what I'm saying.
They didn't capitalize off the turnovers. Yeah, all right, we're
gonna get to the phone calls. Our buddy Ray in
Miami wants to talk about the MLB playoffs and some
college football. Go Blue Jays.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
I felt good after that very first swing and.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
That was it for Toronto. Then a bunch of nothing. Seriously, folks,
if we think Seattle fan is tough to deal with.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Now, you know what, can we talk about them too
at some point?

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Please? We can't all in my mentions this weekend loser
loser fan base. Yeah, I want to talk about my
quick trip to Oklahoma State and the improv attempt at
sending a Guinness Book of World record for you, not
for me. It was for the few fans that were
in still Water. That place was empty at the start
of the game. At the start of the game, and

(21:37):
people have said they haven't never seen Stillwater at Boone Pickenstadium.
So is their head coach now, well, it said Gundy
family member. It's Doug Meacham, who was a former TCU
offensive coordinator. You of h was there for a while.
He's gonna just finish this out and they're going to
clean house, I'll tell you, and I don't have a
dog in the fight. Oklahoma State fan was very nice

(21:57):
for us. By the way, that's a program that should
not have dropped to the level that it is. I
don't know what they're gonna do because they got money,
I would assume I don't know what's the hound's a
t boom. I mean, I don't have the Pickings fields.
But Pickings fan, think about you built them a stadium.
I mean you should, Yeah, you should have some money
in the back. But also there to the heights that

(22:17):
they were because of Mike Gundy, right, I mean they
reached their biggest heights with him, right. So yeah, if
I'm an OSU fan, I'm I'm very much concerned about
a where the money is and be who we're gonna
replace him. Seven one three two one two five seven
nineties six Matt and Ross with you on this some

(22:38):
Monday edition of the radio program seven one three two
one two five seven And I hope you guys had
a really good weekend. So I did go to Okahoma
State for the first time. I did run into the wall.
You can find me running into the wall on my
Instagram at sports MT I'm only fifty away from three thousand,
so come and join the celebration. We'll have a major,
major party at three thousand. I don't know what we're
gonna do because we've got no budget, but we're gonna

(22:59):
have some sort of party in three thousand you could afford,
let's go. I really can't turn to hold on for
adell here, my friend. Thank you very much for asking.
Thank you for pocket watching a little bit at sports MT.
If you want to follow me on Instagram, I do
follow you at on Instagram. Thank you very much, Thank
you and again, uh okay, so I told you that
the building was basically I would say forty percent full,

(23:24):
which is hard to believe because what does it hold
sixty sixty Friday, fifty or fifty.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
By the way, there are some big time P four
schools that are struggling with attendants. Bion Oklamba State SMU
is a top twenty program. Do you see their stadium
all the weekend? I did not. They played Stanford, which
they were in kick Stanford's ass. The building was empty.
M what happened? They got a well, no, they have money,
they don't have fans. Yeah, it's a private school. They
have more money than god Southern millionaires. Ye, Southern millionaires.

(23:54):
Beautiful school that once around. It's impressive. I mean, being
brutally honest. What do you mean when you get in
the car and you do once around campus, it's Gerald
Did Gerald Ford go there?

Speaker 9 (24:04):
No?

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Just Gerald J.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Ford? Oh something different, Gerald J. Ford, jerl Gerald the
Gerald Ford a our former president went to Michigan cousin. Yeah,
that's what I thought. Yeah, that's why they played football there.
I think it's Gerald J. He's like thought, maybe you
know he got his NBA from SEU or something like exactly, See,
I got you, all right. So I went to Oklahoma
State and uh so they were getting there asking if
they jumped onto a seven to nothing lead, by the way,

(24:27):
and then we put it on him for the about
three hours, two or three guys went to an empty
section and started taking their shirts off. Yes, and then
that section kept growing and growing and growing.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Can I just tell you how comfortable it is to
see I don't know five six hundred now, were they
just you tell me? Were they doing their shirts the
whole time or was it like during I gotta be honest,
every time I check with them, they were doing it.
They were frankly bored. So yeah, it grew from like
two guys like a whole section, whole section. Yeah, of

(24:59):
I would say generally speaking, very out of shape coat
young men. Really, a lot of Oklahoma State game, no tone,
no six pack, and you so you wanted to see
six packs?

Speaker 3 (25:11):
No, I just wanted to see decent.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
If you're gonna take your shirt off, there's a rule
you have to be able to not be embarrassed by.
But apparently we're not anymore. Clearly they were having suffering
zero embarrassed Jonathan. A lot of faby flyby man breasts
were out there. I don't see how you feel about that.
They were all pasty white as hell too, mm hmm.
Which again, if you're working on a suntan, it was
a hot day in still Water, so at least you
got a tan out of it. But to see several

(25:36):
hundred out of shape Oklahoma State young men waving their
towels while their teams are getting their ass kicked, this
is incredible. Actually have eights. First of all, we don't
get our ass if you were twenty years old and drunk,
I knew what my body looked like at twenty. I
like how the ushers just don't care. Tell you the
reason why they didn't care. There were no ushers. They're

(25:57):
like that, that section's empty let them be, dude. It
ends up being like over like like a thousand people.
It kept growing, so Oklahoma State was having a They
were their Twitter accounts for various We're like, we're about
to set the record for most men not wearing their shirt.
There's no record such as this. It's his most record
record most probably. Yeah, they weren't keeping track. Again, I

(26:18):
give them credit for at least figuring out what to.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
Do to kill some time.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
This is hilarious, but rossy was it was like just
twirl their shirts the whole time. It's got to be
taxing on the on the arms.

Speaker 6 (26:28):
It was.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
It was like uh, ants finding some candy or something.
And yeah, they showed us, showed up. But that it
kept growing and we were the score was going higher,
the deficit growing larger, Their section was growing larger. That
is hilarious. But I'll say this and again, I'm not
an endorser of Oklahoma State the first time I've been there.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
But great little college town.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
It's not frank, It's not far from Tulsa or Oklahoma
City if you were up in the area. Beautiful campus, nice,
very very nice people. Just a very bad undis planned
talent was football program right now. And I don't know
at the Pickens family even cares at this point, but
they need they needed cash infusion. That was remember where

(27:11):
isn't it where Mike Gundy said He's gonna put the
tags their m their code tracks their codes in the
back of their helmets. They can you can zappo Not well,
oh yeah, kind of it? Do you think it's kind
of a sunk cost? I mean, Cody Campbell's making the
not I mean, it's going pretty well in Lubbock. Yeah,

(27:34):
I mean you could pick if you have rich people
associated with your school. It doesn't matter what school, what
school it is, or where it is. Yeah, I guess
basketball is really good. And Lawrence, Kansas, but that's that's
just outside of Kansas City. That's not very far.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Okay, it's not what it sounds like.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Lawrence, Kansas to downtown Kansas is like forty minutes, okay,
but Kansas City, it's not like it's some kind of
basketball hot bed. I don't know. The Midwest seems to
do okay, all right, I mean Iowa is all right,
Iowa State's fine. I can't say not really, but you know,
I you, by the way, speaking about you, Kirk Signetty.
He's a jerk. Yes, I hope he takes another job.

(28:13):
You're telling me a high level a college coach is
a jerk.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Remember we were talking about how awesome Willy is. Kurse
Sinnetti is the opposite. He's now he's winning an epic
proportions in Indiana. I mean, I give him credit for that.
They have two top ten wins this year in program history.
Before this year they had four. They went to Eugene
two weeks ago on Saturday and won that game. Yeah,
I mean that's very impressive. They're number three in the country,

(28:39):
the Indiana Hoosiers. That mean he's on an a hole.
He reminds me went you know, he reminds me of
Frankly Urban Meyer. Well, really, that's that stuff eventually fizzles out. Well,
you win championships first, Well, I don't think Indiana cares
at this point. No, did Irwin Meyer win a championship
at ohiose date? He did, right? He definitely want to Florida.

(29:00):
Two at Florida one two, I think two at Florida,
and I think maybe one at Ohio State.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, I'll be better again.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
He his path. He was an assistant under uh Saban
in Alabama and they got and got this job. And
I mean I think he's had somebody in between. But yeah, yeah,
two at Florida for for Urban Meyer and then one
at Ohio State. Mm hmm. I mean, look, Signety can coach.
He was obviously he was a Bear Bryant coach, A

(29:27):
year finalist last year. It's I wouldn't say impossible to
win in Bloomington, but that's not the neck of the Woods.
You'd have to recruit literally outside of the state for
every one of your individual players have done a good job.
Credit to him, but he still he comes across as
a guy I would not want to He's not a
good guy. Okay, but you know who cares? Do you
think you think I fans care. I don't think they care.

(29:49):
They don't care at all. And you know the funny
thing is Signety said last year he says, look, we
maybe in Indiana School, but guess who funds a program us?
What does that mean?

Speaker 9 (29:57):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Big ten TV money forty five thousand that are a
stadium is compared to you know whatever Assembly Hall seats
and they are number three in the country. Ray in
Miami on seven ninety at ten forty two.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Rey, Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
I just want to say I'm rooting for King Tuck.
I hope you get a big contract. But you know
this guy, you know, he couldn't even back two hundred
in the playoffs. It was embarrassing. And you know the
two guys over the weekend, and I'm really impressed with Riley,
you know, they eliminated us and everything, but that guy
is a clutch flare and Drake May and I wish

(30:33):
you guy would speak on that.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Uh, Kyle hit two fifty nine in the playoffs, one
home run. Yeah, he said he couldn't hit two hundred.
Oh well, so yeah, right, yeah, you gotta be careful
on that. Don't just assume numbers because we'll always usually
bad for you. Two fifty nine on base of three
seventy five. I'm sorry, three seven, yeah, three seventy five.

(30:57):
And I feel like we have to repeat this every
single day just for new people to listen to the show.
You and I have a bet that the Kyle Tucker contract,
I have it under eight years. You've got it over
eight years, seven and a half oh seven, excuse me,
seven and a half years.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
So an eight year means you win seven or less.

Speaker 9 (31:13):
I win.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Ross is so confident he has a forking knife in
his in his shirt pocket, a bib on right now,
I'm ready he hit. He's got a shirt that says
I Saki for Sak. It's funny you're the one that
gets it scored in your mouth. I don't know why
you're trying to bring this up, but it was a
one off. It's the one off your sure. Yes, you

(31:36):
tried it once and you won't do it again. No,
I've only had Saki scored it in me once. Seven
on three two one two five seven seven. What I'll
see you on Friday? Oh?

Speaker 9 (31:50):
What?

Speaker 5 (31:51):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Writing it down? Turnaround? Stop writing seven that journal years
five walks for Kyle Tucker twenty seven eight B sevens
two fifty nine with a seven to forty five ops.
Terrible but not great. It's not like he's a Laddy junior.
But it's true, not like he's George Springer. George Springer.

(32:11):
All right, up next, my new favorite Twitter account. Oh, okay,
do you know what it is? You pretty I'm pretty
sure once you said it was a school or associated
with a school. All right, my new favorite Twitter account
will read some tweets off of that note, Okay, all right,

(32:41):
I have found not a new Twitter account, but a
new Twitter account that I'm obsessed with. Okay. It is
TAMU Police Texas and M Police. Yeah. This has been
a great follow during college Saturdays. Now does Texas have
something like this? I have no idea, so I'm light

(33:04):
of the game on this, but apparently they're very active
at giving us updates on what happens on game day
at Kyle Field one hundred and four thousand people. They
want to make sure all y'all know what's going down
at Texas A and M on game days. Okay, this
first one I'm going to read to you is at
four point fifty three. The game didn't kick off till
six o'clock, so they they they wanted to give him

(33:25):
a chance to get all warmed up, right. Ip PA
one O two. I don't know if it's section one
oh two or something around there. Subject holding twisted tea
saw officer and ran into tent, stated she was quote
holding it for a friend. Citation issued hashtag BTHO Florida
beat the hell out of Florida.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Okay, so b THHO is after every one.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Of these things. Let us continue m IAPA one hundred g.
Subject saw officer and put drink on table and walked off.
Citation issued. Okay, m I P kimber BOULEVARDI utility plant.
Subject saw officer and dropped his two red solo cups.
Citation issued. Hmm, like a minor in possession. Okay, public intaxication.

(34:13):
Subjects stumbling away from group. Released a sober friend who
called a ride. That's nice. Yeah, I think normally they
try to release the sober friend. Hashtag BTHL Florida. Next
MIP natural light bearing pockets. Citation issue. Now they're dropping
references of the type of alcohol they're drinking that would
be ejected from the stadium. I guess they're talking about ejected. Yeah,

(34:36):
you know what, you should be ejected if you're drinking
natural life beginning. Oh come on, no, you're in college. Nice,
shut up my ass up. You're in college. You can
drink natty like all right. I might have had a
few bought ices back to theello latte. Next MIP bush
light in back pocket. Citation issued and ejected. You got
some bush lattes on campus? I haten? Next? Uh oh?

(35:02):
Three natural light beers and one twisted tea in the pocket.
The citation issued ejected MIP. People like this twisted tea.
It's not for me, it's good. I don't like continue
respond to Report of and tax get is subjects Section
three thirty three.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Release to EMS. So that's get can bring the ambulance.
Involve on that.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Next, they're okay, fail to ID Section two thirty five.
Contacted subject who was stumbling, provided wrong data birth The
officer three different times arrested. Come on, what do you
if you're gonna go drink and not provide the idea?
At least have some consistency about what your you were
allegedly piece just a ticket, right, Just give your date

(35:42):
of birth, Take your ticket to move on. Public intoxication
Aggie Park contacted subject eating a sandwich with a water
jug of whiskey. This is the best one. Blood alcohol
was point three to three seven for those of you
playing at home. Oh my, is it point eight the
legal limits?

Speaker 4 (36:01):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Therefore point it used to be point one. So this
is over triple How is this person alive? Release the EMS?
Clearly not a I don't know. Next. Public intoxication Legacy lounge.
Subject kept trying to enter the lounge without credentials. Release
A sober friend ejected, all right, next, Public Intoxication Section

(36:22):
two thirty four Release A sober friend ejected. Next Public
intoxication subject had blood on shirt and nose. Decline medical treatment, arrested,
hashtag meat the hell out of Florida. All right, I
just pulled up this. Uh blood alcohol content chart. Point
three point oh eight to point one is legally impaired,

(36:43):
drunk is point one point one point one six is
very drunk, point two five is stupor it says point
three to one and up is coma like how are
you alive? Level of surgical amnesia on set coma possibility
of acute alcohol poisoning or death due to respiratory arrest
likely in fifty percent of drinkers. Just show them with

(37:07):
the sandwich at ap point three to three seven.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
God, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
All right, here we go. UH. Public intoxication Level seven
concessions subject to asking people to buy him alcohol. Arrested
this one, This next one hurts. Public Intoxication Section one
point twenty nine. Released to sober father ejected out wait

(37:31):
all right son. Public Intoxication Section three point thirty two
Release A sober friend ejected Texan and police says vaping
in the seat ejected. Next public intoxication Kyle Field Plaza.
Subject stumbling through plaza when asked for idg aded officer
or credit card release a sober mother. Oh no, mother

(38:01):
got involved now. Next respond to fighting progress, Doctor uh on,
Tom Chandler drive citations issued for assault, and that, my friends,
is this week's edition of the TAMU police at Kyle
Field or in an existing area. I'm I feel terrible

(38:22):
that I did not follow this or find this account
a lot sooner than I did. We got have fun
with us every Monday after a game. Yeah, yeah, this
is This has been a pretty entertaining every week. I'm
glad you found it back.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Ap point three three seven. He was chilling too. That's well.
He said the jug and whiskey jug a whiskey? Is
that like I mean Mexican? I said water jug of whiskey.
I don't know what that means, like a jug. Will
they say jug instead of water bottle? That's a lot
I don't think of. I think there's a difference between
bottle and the gas. I'm saying zero point three three eight.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
And he's allowed to talk about it or we don't know.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
I mean I'm assuming that probably they said, well released
to the to the ambulance, right, MS. Okay, So I'm
gonna if any of you are Texas fans, let us
know what you'all got, because there's got to be I mean,
I don't know if you've h has this. I frankly
I hope we don't because it could be a little
more SHAVERI over there saying, yeah, that's true. You know what,

(39:23):
don't robbery, I said, not you cla clack stop both
of you.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Let me.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Let me let the A and M have its own
shine you brought. Yeah, they call him the clack and cougars. Well,
you know what, in fairness to the show. Next Monday,
when we play a game. Now we're playing at eleven
o'clock in the morning. I can't imagine it'd be much trouble.
You can get going at eleven am. You can tailgame
for an eleven am game, as long as you're dedicated,

(39:54):
as long as you're married to the game. Y'all better
be there, full crowd expecting Arizona Houston. Let's go full crowd.
You think seven one three, two one two five seven
ninety to tell the truth is coming up in one
half hour here on Sports Talk seveninety right now a
word for Berkeley Ey Center is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. It is eleven oh two. It is our

(40:20):
number two, the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. We'd love
you to have a part of this program by dialing
up the radio station at seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Making sure all of your verbs
are conjugated, your thoughts are complex, You don't make an
ass of yourself, and you're welcome to call the show.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
Now.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
You can also make an ass your own the show,
but well, you know, yeah, probably throw it right back
at you. Actually, I encourage you to make an ass
to yourself at seven one three two one two five
seven if you don't mind making an ass to yourself
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero. Now,
you mentioned briefly, uh that you are getting some Seattle
Mariner slander. Oh, I had one person, that's all. Person,

(40:59):
that's it. You took it easy. So, I mean I
was watching the game, and first of all, I didn't
watch the entire game. I tuned in maybe like the
eighth ninth inning on that game on Friday fifteen, ins,
and so I was. I think I tweeted something like,
oh my Mariners hate watch his advanced to the Alcs,
and then all of a sudden, these marriat and this

(41:21):
is why I root against the Mariners. And on its face,
it makes sense, like, Okay, yes, they're this franchise in
the Northwest who's never won anything, never been to a
World Series. Root for the underdog rather than the evil
empires of the Dodgers and Yankees or whatever. But it's
it's their smug, ridiculous fans who were all with They
like five or six of them came into my mentions

(41:42):
like calling me soft, softer than baby bleep and calling
me bitch maid and all this other stuff. And I'm like,
can I get their accounts? Yeah, go ahead, if you
like follow, I may follow them. I don't know, that's okay.
And it's like, dude, you went out of your way
to find my account. You either a searched Mariners and
one guy was like, well it showed up in my algorithm,

(42:04):
Like okay, then you didn't have to show up and
start calling people names just because I made a joke
about hate watching the Mariners, and like they get and
it's not even that big of a deal. It's like,
all right, I'm gonna mute you and move on. But
they're their fans are so like, they're so mean, and
they're so the arrogance as well. It's like, dude, you
root for the Mariners?

Speaker 1 (42:24):
What are you doing?

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Let me ask you this question, because I do believe
Seattle's in this rarefied air just like Ranger fan is.
Have we run into a group of fans, whether it
be our against our favorite NBA team, our favorite football team,
or favorite baseball team that we went you know what?

Speaker 7 (42:40):
Yah?

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Some pretty good? Pretty good dude? Do we suoner fans by?
Do we default call I respectim? The other team's douchebags?
Let's see, uh, Cougar fans losers. So let's go to
Maggie fans horrible. Let's run through the ten teams in
the last the ten I'm gonna give you ten random teams. Three.
How do we feel about Golden State Arrior fan? I

(43:03):
don't like them, but they're not the worst. Okay. How
do we feel about Adam Clinton? Would this is actually
more of a question for Adam Clinton because he interacts
with all these I hate him? Okay? Uh, San Antonio
spur fan. I don't really have a huge problem with
spur fan. I'm going by support by sports. Okay, Laker fan,

(43:25):
there really isn't a Laker fan because there are a
lot of Brown fans. Yeah, there's Lakers fans too though,
that's true. Okay, So let me go anybody else. On
the NBA side, I can't really think of anybody. I mean,
I don't think Wolves fan is obnoxious. I'm I'm thinking
Portland trouble aser guys. Really a bad dude, all right.
NFL side, we don't How do we feel about Titans fans?

(43:47):
I mean we hate the ones in Houston? Yeah, because
it's like, dude, they're in Tennessee. They're not the Oilers anymore.
Being a yeah, I mean, look, if you should have
known what I should have done, Titan fan that lives
in Houston, just disassociate yourself, find a different.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
Team, or go teamless.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
I'm telling you, Franks, since the Orders have left and
I'm still hurt they are, it's a it's a terrific
Like I watched seven hours of Red Zone and I
didn't have a dog in the fight except for my
fantasy players.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Yes, it's terrific.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
And when the Texans win or when they lose, I
give a couple of nice, polite claps. It's like going
on opera. You know, you clap when things are going well,
but they don't do well, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
You're fine. It's not like what.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
When do they lose the opera? There could be something
if that, if the if the woman has an if
the metso Piazzo has a laryn jidis is a loss.
If he misses a note, forgets the words is a loss.
I guess a wonderful comparison. Thank you for having Monday.
We'll give you a pass on that analogy.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
No, it's a great analogy, but I have not.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
But I have no emotions towards the Texans at all,
so it kind of makes me feel good about the
So we're talking about fans, Jasuars fans, non existent Colts fans,
we don't hate. Cowboy fan is the worst? Is delusional?

Speaker 6 (45:03):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (45:04):
By the way, poor guys, how do you lose to Carolina?
How young and Carol? Carolina's won a couple in a row?
There're three and three. By the way, I mentioned this
on Twitter, and I shouldn't be this person because I
told you I was gonna swear off fantasy. God bless
you Rodo. See doctor Roto is saving my bacon. You're

(45:25):
such a fraud. Yeah, I'm one in five. Should I
quit the league where my players are hurt? I don't
like Dannecky football. I'm gonna quit the league.

Speaker 9 (45:35):
That was me.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
I'm gonna hit the waiver wire. I'm gonna try to
improve and sneak into the playoffs. You're done, Yeah, just
just just write.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
That check for you.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Tossitate that can't write a check to myself. I'm the
commission right to check the sports mt. Let's fine. I've
been catching baby, so, uh all right. Any other Jet fan,
it's just a Knoxes New Yorker Patriot fan a little bit.
Uh well, they got kind of saucy when the Texans
and Patriots were playing every year. Patriot fan obnoxious for sure,

(46:06):
But I don't think Buccaneers loves Bill's fan. Bill String
guys Bill's fan. You want to yeah, I mean anybody
wants to throw themselves on a table made of fire, exactly.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
Yeah, I respect that.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
I eat a trash plate, throw yourself on a table
that's been set of blaze, and then watch your team
disappoint you in the playoffs. If you do all the
above things, you hook up with somebody twice your weight,
all right. On the baseball side, Seattle fan douche. Ranger

(46:38):
fan douche, Yeah, but more concerned about the Cowboys. Yankee
fan douche, horrible, Red Sox fan terrible. I feel bad
for A's fan. Are there are many A's fans? There
were like four thou remember they did the reverse boycotting,
Like twenty seven thousand showed up. Yeah, but we didn't
get mad at Rays fan or in the playoffs, Phillies

(46:58):
fan we got along with pretty well. And National fan
was there. Nationals fan. Tiger fans seemed pretty nice. Yeah,
it's just a select few in Mariners fans, you suck.
They cheer when jose Al Twovey nearly gets decapitated by
a pitch YEP and they act like they've won a
bunch and they get in everybody's mentions. They're the worst

(47:19):
fan based on Twitter. Did you hear, by the way
the Tiger's announcer in the fifteenth inning a couple of
nights back?

Speaker 3 (47:24):
No, I did not.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Oh the recap thing, Yeah, somebody sent that to me. Yes,
he's what did he basically say this is horse bleap
or something that I don't want to do a fing recap. Yeah,
let me tell you, Dan, we've been there. Trust, we've
been there. Look that happened to me, which it could
have ultimately happened in my career. I wouldn't want to
do a recap either. Fifteen innings. It's so great though

(47:48):
he apologized like he's supposed to do. You're not supposed
to swear. Everyone's like, man, we felt the exact same way.
It was almost like he gained it a new following
because of that.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
Now.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
I wouldn't suggest doing that. No, he can't get tune
in trouble, even though it's ridiculous. Do you think we
should lighten up the FCC? I mean, because we as
regular human beings talk way differently. We've talked about this before.
Why is there curse words and not curse words? Well,
you probably can say buck, truck and luck, but if
I put a F in front of it, it's a

(48:17):
bad word.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
Why.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yeah, And I guess the question would be this, I
wouldn't do it a lot, but I wouldn't I'm not
trying and I wouldn't try to do it to. It's
basically every culture too. It's very interesting. We need to
get a linguist on figure this out. An entomologist. Hmmm,

(48:39):
very impressive. Uh, I don't know if I want to
hear it a lot. I guess the questions if you
let if you let it go free, rein that you
would you would have every station just using swear words
left and right. And look, I don't like my kids swaring.
I know they do. It doesn't make me a big
fan of it, but I guess there's a certain level
to say, all right, at sixteen, s eighteen.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Years old, you do what you want to do.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
But at nine and ten do you want a nine
and ten year old to be listening to people on
the radio commanding such language.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
I guess we're trying to protect the children. As what
I'm trying to say for.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
The children, and as someone you've said children, I can
somewhat respect that. Yeah, Curson, anyways, Yeah, gotta learn sometime.
I was watching R rated movies when I was six.
I turned out just fine. Why you look at me
like that? Oh, I mean, I'm just trying to put
to connect the dots, and they're connected quite well. Brian

(49:35):
on seven ninety at eleven eleven Brian, good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 9 (49:40):
Guys, Matt.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
The fact that you have just now discovered the A M.
Police blodder, especially having a son who went there, not
saying he would have gotten in trouble, but that he
wouldn't have brought it to your attention sooner. Absolute, It's
absolute incredible. It's one of my get Like I've been
following it for years, obviously as an alum, but it's
just great Saturday game. They follow along with, you know,

(50:02):
anything else related to the game. It's go back and
look at the last.

Speaker 8 (50:05):
Three or four games.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
There are some great ones with Keystone on all the
good beers in that. But yeah, the point three three seven,
that's that's impressive. I mean, I I partied my back
in when I was there.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
That is impressive.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
I don't think I ever got to that to that level,
but yeah, it's it's a solid follow You just laugh,
especially now because you're just like, what a bunch of idiots.
You're like, yep, did that did that while I was there?
But no, Mariners fans by far the worst, simply because
they started it back in twenty twenty two when they

(50:40):
finally made the Playoffs for the first time in two decades,
and you're not ended them, and with one swing in
Game one, and I think they kind of realized we're
not there yet. This year, obviously they take into account
the fact that you know, they're a lot better and
I will get them there, do it. I was so

(51:02):
disheartened that at that fifteen inning game, you know, I
was up tweeting with you at one thirty in the
morning because I'm going up for the Texans Seahawks game
with a couple of buddies on and that the last
thing I wanted is to hear Mariner fan while we're
up there watching a Texans game, just chirping in my ear.
But you know, probably wear my World Series hat, just

(51:24):
be like, all right, hey, we got two of these,
you'll have none. You've never even been there, so.

Speaker 9 (51:30):
Kong, you're judged, But no, by far.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
I think they are.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
They have been the worst and most insufferable, especially last
year when cal Rawly was like always nice when the
Astros lose, right, and then they blew it in game lead.
So yeah, I think it just it permeates throughout the
fan base because they they haven't been there in almost
you know, two twenty five years, so they're by far
the worst. Yankee fans aren't bad. I don't feel like

(51:54):
Red Sox are near at bad, but yeah, by far,
Mariners fans are the are the worst. And Ross, I
will give you credit. I Arch looked a lot better
this weekend, especially in the second half that fall.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Thank you credit, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
Well. I did pick against him in my gut feeling.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
I didn't say that.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
I thought Arts is still transferred by the end of
the year. So I'm oh, I am big enough man
to say, hey, they they they proved me wrong, but
we're I thought the best throw Arch had all the
day when it was like a third down something, he
was back towards his own goal line and was rolling
out of the pocket and hit the receiver yeah, on
the sideline for like a twenty five yard Yeah, that

(52:35):
was that's me. It was his best throw. And that's
where I was like, Okay, this is what I expect
out of him, and you know it was it was
one game. You know, you want to see what he does.
But I give him credit. They came to play and
they beat the snot out ou But uh yeah, good show. Guys,
have a good week. Tuckail later.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
Thank you Brian for the phone call.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Uh yeah, it was an improved game. It was still
only iRED sixty six yards one touchdown and they scored
sixteen offensive points.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
So it's step in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
But it's not like he's light in the world on
fire and where we're getting the uh getting the Feisman
campaign rolled back up. But at least he didn't cost
them the game, which I don't. I wouldn't say that
he cost them any other game necessarily, but hey, the
running game was going well and he played well within

(53:30):
the offense. I need my big I don't worry about
individual awards. I need my quarterback to step up in
big moments in big games. And that's as big as
it answer me did. That's the rivalry game, that's the
that's the one you needed to get your mojo back.
Should have gone. No, it's too much, too much money,
too much. Go to Kentucky this week and you get
some good seats there. I bet you. I cost you

(53:50):
get a good section.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
Lesson's nice.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Yeah, nice people very certainly see with the get in
prices for that, plenty of cigarettes available for you. Eleven fifteen,
the maxub Bourbon. Yeah, I mean you're gonna do fine
there you know people seven one three, two, one two five,
seven ninety seven.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
You can run with Gordy.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Is he going?

Speaker 8 (54:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (54:08):
He's going?

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Is he yeah? Now his wife's going too, I'm assuming,
so get in. There is seventy bucks. Oh see, it
was two fifty at Dallas. Fly to Louisville.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
Drive the rest of the way.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
How close is it? Uh hour? Okay?

Speaker 7 (54:22):
You can fly a next to as far as a
drive much more expensive driving Kentucky. Take a road trip
fourteen hours and the hours to Lexington. Yeah, okay, sixteen
that's that's too far. I don't want you drive to
take a week off. You've already got plenty of time
coming up. Lemon sixteen on sports.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
You know how you do? Seven? I'm taking getting I
keep on seven one three two one two five seven
ninety time Now full of Houston Cougar update. It is
presented to you by our friends the Joint Chiropractor, the
official Chiropractor of the Houston Cougar's. Guess who's the number
two team in the land is according to the Associated Press.
Now granted, this poll means absolutely nothing, but it's just

(54:59):
a game. It's a metric, as Rossie would say, Yes,
one data point among many. Ken Pom says the Cougar
is number one. Associated Press says the Cougars are number two.
Do you know Ken Palm has number two?

Speaker 1 (55:13):
I do not know.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
The reigning national champions Florida Gators. They got Purdue number three.
I think produced number one in the today. Is the
coaches poll out or is it the a people? This
is the eight peo pole. Okay, By the way, do
never ever value the coaches poll in football or basketball?
They don't have time. Yeah, some assistants doing it. Yeah,

(55:35):
So there you have it. So the Cougars are gonna
be number one, number two in the pole, Kansas number
on a Kansas Perdue number one. Okay, that's fine. Although
there is a strong correlation actually between there's a apparently
now I don't know if it's still true. This is
a few years ago I heard this. There there's a
stronger correlation between national championship success and tournament's success. The
first poll stronger than the last poll, because a lot

(55:58):
of times the first pole goes on and talent proves
through in the tournament. What do you think about that?
I think you should write down on a T shirt.
It's a little wordy for a T shirt. Number one
perdue to Houston Cougar's number two. Florida mentioned three. Let's
go down the list. Little bit duke at six if
you care, b yu Oh yeah, the number one NIL

(56:19):
player in the country goes to b Yu. Yes, I forgot.
I forgot that young man's name.

Speaker 9 (56:24):
A J. D.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Bots d Banson de botsa whatever d y b A
N t s A number one in the ESPN one
hundred Okay, okay, Kentucky number nine. By the way, Texas
Tech number ten were the long words Texas Tech. How
about this just shows you how crazy nil can do
in transfer portal Texas Tech number ten the country coming in.

(56:47):
They have three players and are projected to starting five,
starting five that played somewhere else last year. That's normal. Honestly,
didn't Kentucky get rid of all five of their starters
last year?

Speaker 7 (56:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (56:56):
Crazy, Yes, this is that's how go Arkansas fourteen, Iowa
State Big twelve, sixteen, Tennessee ninth eighteen, Kansas nineteen, Auburn
with a new coach at twenty, North Kelnina at number

(57:16):
twenty five. Others receiving votes I don't have on my list.
I'm just asking. They're thirty ninth in Kimpalm. That's okay, baby,
I like it. Laying in the weeds Ray pounds, Can
I tell you laying the weeds is okay? Yeah, being
okay with it being a star costume money, there's beending money.
I'm talking about costing somebody in money. Okay, me, Okay, Matt,

(57:42):
It's always about me at the end of the day.
I know I've been knowing this for many years. That's
why I'm I'm noxious.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
What they call him?

Speaker 4 (57:49):
What?

Speaker 1 (57:50):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (57:50):
What was arrogant?

Speaker 3 (57:51):
Mister arrogant from last week?

Speaker 5 (57:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (57:54):
First game is this true? First game of the season
for the Longhorns is against Duke. Come on, come on, man,
you'all going to Hawaii too, right? Yeah? Now, Craig, why
doesn't give me his travel schedule in Charlotte? Oh oh,
that's a loss. You can't win in Charlotte and I
have to Dick fight Tel Invitational. So I think I

(58:16):
think Craig White is going to do a Thursday game
in Hawaii, a Friday women's game in Minnesota, then fly
back to Hawaii for a Saturday and then do a
Sunday badminton match somewhere. Yeah, they do the Maui Invitational.
They'll play Arizona State, and I can't remember who else
is in there, you know, Shamanad and the boys. I
don't you could play Mississippi Valley for like Washington State

(58:38):
or Shamanad. It's not a great list, is it. I
think it's not the best. You know why it's so
not so hotly this year? Why because that Player's Era
tournament in Las Vegas at sixteen teams now guarantee nil money.
Longhorns were good enough, you know. I'll say this, and
I'm surprised that it's worked out as well as it
has not. It's only been around one year. But why

(58:59):
don't don't you play and everybody play? I would extend
the college basketball season, and I would extend the college
football season one week in play an IL game. What
do you mean meaning that the proceeds of that game
go to the nil I'd put I'd put logos on
these kids, I let them do their sponsors. I mean, look,
we gotta we got to reinvent the wheel on this

(59:21):
because you're gonna you're gonna bleed out these schools or
these schools boosters, you might as well think of you
might as well go outside the box. And I would say,
one basketball game of the year. If you are Jonathan
Allen and you are this outstanding point guard and you've
got a motor oil company that wants to put you
attached to them, put your logo on your shirt for

(59:42):
that one game. Now I'll be good for recruiting things
recruiting wise as well. Well.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
The only the only issue you're gonna be run into.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
Let's say that Thomas motor Oil wants to be your guy, Jonathan,
but you have Johnson motor Oil is the official motor
oil of sen University's athletic department. Then you're gonna run
in a little bit of a of an issue because
you don't want to counter. You don't want you don't
want two companies fighting after the same person.

Speaker 7 (01:00:07):
Well, if it's on the jersey and then like say
the if they sponsored an event, that logo would be
on like the court or you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Know, yeah, but I mean, but but I think if
you create an NIL game, you let the kids do
what they want. Now, I wouldn't make I wouldn't make
the jerseys NASCAR related, you know, they have stuff all
over their stuff, but maybe one on the left sleeve
and one on the right sleeve. I think it's a
good Actually, I really think that's a good idea. I'm
not I again. I think you're gonna ultimately have to
be able to start figuring out ways to re invigorate

(01:00:38):
the financial nil model and not involve the alums who
have to pay for everything all the time. Let me
go to uh, Mike and Richmond at eleven twenty six
on seven. I mean, Mike, good after, good morning, thanks
for holding what's going on?

Speaker 6 (01:00:54):
Uh? Yeah, my emails have been vindicated. They got rid
of all those people I said they should have except
for the manager, astro manager, but they got the hitting coaches,
the medical general, ma half.

Speaker 9 (01:01:09):
I just think it's a great thing.

Speaker 6 (01:01:14):
I thought I was crazy when I would send those
But Mike, you wanted.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Them fired in April. I mean, come on, you you
are not of sane mind when you write those emails.

Speaker 9 (01:01:24):
You kind of defend them so much and defend.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
The do you listen to show what have I said
the multiple times about the hitting coach? I said there
was going to be changes. Why I didn't defend the
trainers that's ridiculous. You're you're painting my friend with a
broad stroke, and I will not allow this.

Speaker 9 (01:01:41):
Okay, fair enough?

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
And then uh, my Ford guys, and I just it's
about the only thing I have to look forward to.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
You boiler Maker's guys. We're gonna let you run because
you've got a bad phone connection there. But thank you
for the phone call. Yeah, Purdue, what's their football I
don't even know what they're football team? Are there any good?
I can't imagine that. I never seen my national TV
saying most suck? Yeah right there are they are? They are?
They hot dog waters people. They're like at the low.

Speaker 7 (01:02:12):
I wouldn't say a WKU now because they're pretty good
this season, but like, oh, look at.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
You dropping a w KU reference in the middle of
the show.

Speaker 7 (01:02:17):
I'm just saying, but that, you know, they're they're around
that type of you know, let's take a look at old.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Nobody else in the marketplace is going to give you
standings for the wiscon for the Purdue Watermakers. Uh they
are this year Purdue football is Oh, they're two and
four and they're oher and three in the Big Ten. See,
you know they're Yeah, they're WKU. That's fine. WK You,

(01:02:42):
by the way, is five and one and three and
oh one conference USA Man, Poor Sam Houston State. They
want to go to FBS. Well, they want to go
to the FBS. And you know what they're doing this
year too. They're playing their home games at Belle Benergy Stadium.
Wait why because they're refurbishing their stadium in Huntsville. Still.

(01:03:03):
I don't know if it's still so. What I would
have done, and I know that we've got some bear
Cat listeners to us right now. I'd have gone and
played in Tomball at the high school stadium. I know
you're like, well, we got to play at a real stadium.
They ain't drawn flies at bell Beenergy Stadium. I saw
a photo like the middle of the second quarter, Jonathan,
there may have been two hundred people there. Yeah, because

(01:03:24):
driving to that, That's my point. If you're going to
try to stay do this on the cheap while your
stadium is being refurbished. Tomball Stadium off of the Grand
Parkway is a double decker stadium. It's gotten nice turf,
good enough facilities. You're not gonna you're there five or
six times tops. You're embarrassing yourself putting these put in

(01:03:46):
your stadium, playing these home games in Houston. No, first
of all, you're one hundred times drawing people at Sam Houston,
much less coming to Houston and playing at the big
soccer stadium. I mean, damn, Sam Houston. You gotta be
better spend than in your money. All right now, look,
Ross had to step away for a few minutes. We
normally would play to tell that. You know, what should

(01:04:08):
we do to tell the truth with the listeners this week?
M We mean, like how you do insile and like
you just no, no, no, we should we should have
a little contest. Here's what Okay, here's what we can do.
What do we got going for tickets this week? We
got you of age, right, yeah, we got you of
ages for sure? We got what else we got? I

(01:04:28):
know we got something besides that. I'm looking at my
prize voltage. We got Monster Jam this week as well.
Four pack okay, so.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
Let's do this.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Let's do the monster Let's do the Monster Jam four
packs okay, and we have we can take what five
listeners at once? Is that how the most we can
get down there? Pretty much?

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
Well, as long as the lines are decent. Yeah, we
can get six, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
So if you guys want to play to Tell the Truth, uh,
everybody that gets it right gets Montra Jam tickets. And
if we were on a Monster Jam tickets, we'll give
you the Cougars Versus Arizona tickets. That seems fair. We'll
knock this out today as a matter of fact. So
anybody that wants to play to Tell the Truth, and
for those of you that aren't familiar with the game,
I will give you a bunch of sports takes. I

(01:05:06):
will believe three of them. One I do not believe.
Which one of the four do I not believe? If
you want to play for Monster Jam tickets or Cougar
tickets seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven ninety, we'll
play to Tell the Truth next at eleven thirty one
here on seven ninety Tell me I never know why,

(01:05:46):
but I do. Jonathan Allen and all the great listeners
on the line your chance to win either Jam tickets
or Cougars Versus Arizona. But first you must be able
to tell the truth. All right, to all the folks
that are on the line, I'm about to give you
four Sports takes three of them, I believe which one

(01:06:12):
of the four am I lying? So, Jonathan, how many
lies am I telling? One? There you go. I was
a little nervous for a second. Which one of these
four am I lying? Take number one, Jonathan? Did you

(01:06:32):
see the drama between Detroit and Seattle in that fifteen
inning game to decide the American League Division Series winner
in the baseball with a week? Actually, you know what
the best part of it was, even though I am
team I thought I was team Manford Manrual, the added

(01:06:54):
layer of not having to worry about a guy scoring
so quickly and adding drama to it. Yeah, I got
news for you. I think I'm gonna change my mind.
I think I want to get rid of the Manford
Man rule as a whole. As a whole. Okay, that's
take number one. Number two. Do you know that Penn
State was playing the semi finals of the National Championship

(01:07:17):
Football Series last year the College Football Playoff?

Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
And I know this season sucks. They've lost the Oregon game,
they lost the Northwestern They've lost three straight in a row.
But Penn State is going to have to cut a
check to James Franklin or for about fifty million dollars.
You're not supposed to I know, you're supposed to win
ten games, eleven games every year, but sometimes it just

(01:07:42):
doesn't happen. I think Penn State made a mistake by
firing James Franklin. Am I a James Franklin fan, not especially?
Do I think he's overpaid? Yeah, but you guys went
to the CFP last year. You're in a tough stretch,
You've lost some game, and you owe the dude fifty

(01:08:02):
million dollars. I mean how much. And I know that
Adidas is going to pick up a tab on this,
but you are still gonna have to suffer through that.
And even if you wanted to get rid of James Franklin,
why are you doing in the middle of the season.
What productivity do you get out of that? So I
would say right now as it is not saying that
James Franklin was on solid ice ground over there, but

(01:08:25):
I think him firing him at the in the middle
of the season was a terrible, terrible mistake. Number three, Jonathan,
do you see Kirby Smart with all day time out
Thursday for this? I mean, oh no, no, I was
clapping my hands and then I replayed it and they
replut it. I think it is such a BS move.

(01:08:50):
If I was the SEC and I made my officials
look like ass like they did. This may be a
crazy take, but it's one I believe or do I
I would suspend Kirby Smart for the first half of
their next game for that ridiculous situation. That was a highly,
highly embarrassing situation to try to dek out the officials

(01:09:11):
or not or whatever the case may be. The officials
are going to face their own criticism. I know that
for a fact. But unbelievable how smug this guy is
had tried to circumvent so not only does he get
his keep his time out, but he had a chance
to regroup the guys because they were sitting there arguing
whether or that was a timeout or not. Shame on you, Georgia.
Shame on you, Georgia, Shame on you. Kirby Smart SEC.

(01:09:33):
I would suspend Kirby Smart for the first half of
it for that act. All right, Okay, this are some
good ones.

Speaker 7 (01:09:40):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
And number four the names being talked about about replacements
at Penn State, one of them happens to be your
fighting Texas Aggie coach Mike Elko. If Mike Elko wants
to go to Penn State, ain't m fan, I'd let
him go. I like Mike galco He's winning some games.

(01:10:03):
You guys are undefeated, You're a top ten team. But
you can find replacements for Mike Elko. He is not
this amazing generational coach. You've got enough money in that program,
your facilities are good, the money is coming in.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
You could find somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
I don't think Mike Elgo should leave because I don't
know if Penn State's even a better job, honestly, But
if Mike Elgo wants to go, if I'm an A
and M fan, I'd say, all right, go on, do
your thing. So life would go on for me if
I was an Aggie fan if Mike Elko was not
the head coach. And those are my four takes, which

(01:10:43):
one of the four do I not believe, and I'll
recap them again. Number one, get rid of the Manford
manrul because the playoff game was awesome the other night.
Number two, Penn State should not have fired James Franklin.
Number three, I would suspend Kirby Smart for one half
for that ridiculous fake timeout call and number four Micah

(01:11:03):
go wants Penn state I'd let him go. I like him,
but he is certainly replaceable. Which one of the four?
Am I not telling the truth? Johnathan, you can go first?
All right, y'all, don't hell it on people. Y'all don't
tell me.

Speaker 7 (01:11:15):
But how.

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
The Manford rule? I I you have a good point.
I mean, it was really nice.

Speaker 7 (01:11:22):
It was just thrilling to watch playoff baseball like that,
and I wish I probably was the same. But and then, honestly,
if my gut feeling right now, is that your fourth pick,
letting Mike ok go right now? A and them hasn't
been this this good since I don't I don't know
since I've been growing up, all right, Johnny Man said,
So I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
Gonna go with four. So you think I'm saying that
Mike Oko goes, It's okay? In my mind that's a lie.
You think it's a lot, That's okay, that's my line.

Speaker 7 (01:11:50):
I don't think you. I do think you believe. Uh
so you think of that you fired? So you think
I'm lying on that one?

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
Okay? I got you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
One second? All right, let's take our sixth lists is
really quick in no particular order. Scott, which one of
those four takes am I lying about?

Speaker 4 (01:12:06):
Not to be boring, but I also believe the same
thing because I know you'd like a speedy game for
the baseball regular see it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
So I'm going with number.

Speaker 5 (01:12:12):
Four is a lie.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
Number four is a lie? All right, let's go Shay,
which one am I not telling the truth? I'm not
trying to follow suit with everybody else, but I'm gonna
go with number four as well, same as Jonathan and
the previous caller. You think that I think that Mike
Elcho needs to stay under all circumstances. Okay, very good.
Number three, Jill, which one of those four takes am

(01:12:36):
I lying about?

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
Right about number one?

Speaker 9 (01:12:39):
Man, you like speedy games?

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Okay, thank you very much. Let's go to Moses. Moses,
which one of those four takes am I lying about?

Speaker 9 (01:12:48):
I am also going with number one?

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
Number one? All right? I do or do I not?
I did like it before, but man, that game that
was so so much drama. To that Pedro, which one
of those four takes am I lying about number one?

Speaker 3 (01:13:03):
Number one?

Speaker 5 (01:13:04):
Wrong?

Speaker 8 (01:13:04):
Game?

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
Number one? I said number one, alright, and and Travis.
Which one of those four am.

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
I lying about?

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
I'm going with number four? Number four? All right, let
me quickily get because Ross, are you back with us
for good?

Speaker 1 (01:13:16):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:13:16):
Okay, really fast, really fast? Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Number one, I want to get rid of the man
for Manruel because the drama in that game the night
was awesome. Well, I love the drama like that in baseball.
All right. Number two, Penn State should not have fired
James Franklin. Okay. Number three, I would suspend Kirby Smart
for one half of that ridiculous fake timeout call. Okay.
And number four I Mike Elko wants to go to
Penn State. I let him go. I'd like nobody's replaceable.

(01:13:41):
Which one of the four am I lying about? Okay,
you're only lying about one, only lying about one?

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
Number one?

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
Number one? All right, here we are you all ready.
I'm not the biggest James Franklin fan, but you owe
him fifty million dollars. And remember again, you were playing
for the national chair for this national semifinals, for the championship.

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
Firing him yesterday was a ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
I don't think you've made it be there four or
five years from now, but the money that you owe
him forty nine million dollars for apparently apparently Adidas said
they'll pony up a lot of that. We'll cut that.
But still I think there's there's serious damage with that. Yeah,
all right, so I didn't believe. I do believe that
he not have fired him. Okay, so that's an accurate one.
I would absolutely suspend Kirby Smart for that for a

(01:14:27):
first half, for that ridiculous non fake call he was.
He embarrassed the officials, he embarrassed everybody, embarrassed his team,
and he embarrassed the the ability for a coach to
call a timeout on the sideline. That was atrocious what
he did. So I absolutely believe he should be suspended. Now,
I like Mike Elko. I think it's really good for Texas,
A and M. But if he wants to go, let

(01:14:50):
him go. You're you're freaking taxt A and M. So
the one I was not telling the truth about and
all of you. That's number one. You are correct. I
love the man for man rule. I'm sorry, folks, I'm
sorry that Game five on Friday night was Game five.

Speaker 3 (01:15:07):
That's why there was drama.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
Yes, I don't need a game in May and June
and July. Yeah, come that was that was no the
man for man and I'm still a fan of I
sniffed that. I was like, is he doing free? He
doesn't believe he said that one first, So all of
you the shows ever won and Jonathan and you lost.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
Sorry, but.

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
All of our winners get him on the line there,
so we'll take do that come back eleven forty five
here on Sports Talk seven ninety sports However, there are
three guarantees in life. There are death, there are taxes,
and anytime I bring up the SEC it's Gordy's coming
in here. What did you just say? Again? You have
to stop what just happened? You suspend that coach? Absolutely,

(01:15:52):
I had a pud move.

Speaker 10 (01:15:53):
I would talk with my refs and go it's either
a delay a game or you're charging him a time out.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
You don't let him go. But you know what, he
has too responsibility. He should be better than that. Try
He flat out lied. Everybody saw what he did. That's
a tird move. Suspend him first. Well, he's a small
a hole to begin with. Great and he wins, but
you know that's what, as you see, football is all about.
Do you remember the old John Lovett's SNL character, the liar.

Speaker 10 (01:16:17):
That's the ticket, that's the ticket, pathological liars, just clapping.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
You know, he was running up the sideline clapping. What
do you think of the whole I think when he
went when it went down. I actually didn't know about
it until you were actually talking about it. But I'm
seeing the video. Yeah, this is bad. He's not clapping
at all. He's calling a time out. And so he
lied to the officials. They explained this to me, like
I'm five. They stopped play. The clock was ticking down. Florida,

(01:16:41):
Georgia had one second on the clock. They were not
going to get the ball off. They they stopped the
talk and they go, oh wait, I thought he was
calling a timeout. Turns out he wasn't. So nothing happened.
They just resume play as if the clock did stop.
By the way, don't forget that. Okay, well, this is cheating.
He gave them a cheating Yes, yeah, the refs. But

(01:17:02):
it's on the refs. The ref should have occurred. It's
either a five yard they should amit. A scumbag and
lied to them. That's not on the rest that you
got lied to by coach, Well, how about you, Like,
what does this say about Kirby's reputation? That he said
he needs to be suspended is a reputation.

Speaker 10 (01:17:18):
But like in other words, that this were Clarklely at
Vanderbilt they got nah, coach, you word it was a timeout.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
I'm saying anybody that did it, but especially Kirby smart.

Speaker 10 (01:17:26):
He was trying to circument the systems getting a benefit
of doubt because he's this great coach that's won multiple
national champions I.

Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
Get, Oh, he's getting the benefit of doubt because he
went and lied really hard. I mean, this would be
like your fans throwing a bunch of stuff on the
field and the rest. It's so weird. The idea is
the sec res is. The idea is that he should
not be a scumbag and lie to the referees like this.
But the referee shouldn't even then to go back and

(01:17:54):
review it. John, Hey, Gordy, you stop all this by
suspending somebody. And I'm not saying a full game, but
make enough anybody that I suspend the refs. Well, of
course they're gonna they're gonna ultimately have to pay a
price as well. But for Kirby smart to be Are
you I told you guy, you guy, You're lucky he
did it. Then he lies about it, and then he

(01:18:14):
talks about lying about that one.

Speaker 10 (01:18:16):
He got up on the trainer's table and like riled
up his fans that made the trip to to to
Old and was like, yeah, let's go. But this is
on the heels of them missing the call when Jackson
Arnold broke the plane. It should have been seventeen to
nothing in Auburn. Instead they rule no, he was short
and the ball was fumbled, and it's Georgia football.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
Yeah, it's I don't know, man, conspiracy theorists. You want
to go down that road. I want to go to
the road of saying I never want to put my
officials in this position again. And I'm not screwing you
know what, you can do a better job. No, it's
on him, it's on it. Those guys have to worry
about one hundred different things for them to be doing
deciphering hand signals. Give me a break. Suspend his say
he was so adamant, I understand why the referee is like,

(01:18:59):
I don't know, I guess we missed its the time.

Speaker 10 (01:19:01):
Out regardless of the game. You were charged the time out.
I'm sorry, come on, regardless of what you.

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
Were yelling, Cordy, I didn't expect defense. I love you
for so many things, but this is not one of them.

Speaker 10 (01:19:13):
I'm saying, like Kirby, yes, he deserves some blame, but
it's the refs who ultimately.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
If he wouldn't. I don't remember a coach in the
history of college football going to a referee and saying, no,
I was not calling a timeout. I was clapping. But
if how is this not on Curby? You go, I
don't give you. They don't do anything that looks like
you out. Yeah, the referees have never seen this before,
so they're going to take him out his word. This
has never happened. I don't recall this ever happened.

Speaker 1 (01:19:42):
Again.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
You know what, you know what you want to do.
Why don't we just give the not allow the coaches
to have the ability to call time out so there'll
be no confusion. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:19:52):
Coaches yell like they tried to call time out and
the ref didn't see it in time.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
They're like, sorry, we didn't say. There's a difference in that.
That happens all the time. What he is doing. Is
this flat out line? He's making a tea. I'm looking
at the video. Yeah, he's time out suspended.

Speaker 10 (01:20:09):
I agree that he is equal to blame. The call
shouldn't be which is not. There should be repercussions penalty.
There should be repercussions for this. This is ridiculous.

Speaker 7 (01:20:23):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
Locked on Gordy, locked on sec Hey. Shout out to
Texas for showing up.

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
This could win.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
The season. Isn't good?

Speaker 7 (01:20:35):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
I don't run your show, but that's what you need
to talk. You do a whole show on this. I
guarantee you. I mean, you don't think fine bombs talking
about this for They are.

Speaker 2 (01:20:42):
More pissed about the alber Fans are pissed about the
Jackson utal touchdown that should have been that all replay,
even Greg McElroy, they replay him and Sean McDonough they
go back and they go that it breaks the plan.
And by the way, Sean McDonough and Greg McElroy never
get it wrong. If those guys were pissed about it,
then they should be.

Speaker 10 (01:21:00):
If they score that touchdown like they should have and
it's seventeen to nothing, Georgia doesn't come back in that game,
Auburn was so flustered that they called it a non touchdown.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
They didn't recover the rest of the game. I understand that,
but you mean George is a better football team. There's
no I mean, Auburn's good, but George is better. Auburn's
probably have to look for new coach at the end
of the year. He'll be, He'll be with everybody else.

Speaker 10 (01:21:20):
Here's a prediction. Texas is gonna win their next couple
of games. They're gonna go into Auburn, all right, I'm sorry,
into Georgia mid November with a chance to If Texas
can win that game, they will be playoff now.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
And you know what I'm doing. I am rooting hard
they win that game and lose A and M. That'd
be They're not going to lose to the Aggies in Austin.
I'm telling you, I'm rooting for tex You're right, but
you're so adamant it makes me feel like, can I
wear Texas gear for a week? I would? You would?
I got a picture of you in Texas, I'll do it.
I am Anti on my phone, Anti Kirby Smart in

(01:21:54):
that fake attempt to call it time out, what about
especially what's that?

Speaker 3 (01:21:58):
What about against the Baggies? You can wear Texas gear?

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
Know? Why not?

Speaker 10 (01:22:00):
Is Arch the first quarterback to throw for one hundred
and sixty yards and wave to the crowd.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
That was That was a twenty nine run, folks in
a rivalry game. Absolutely, he's allowed to played. Well, I
just put up Ryan Malletts. You just hater Gordy. I
like arts list preseason, that's fine. Oh hey, you have
a highsman. I didn't have a Heisman list. I should
have got one. Oh well, you should take him off

(01:22:28):
as of this was a bad list. As of this weekend,
I'm officially a Bulletanakough Award. Oh wow, So which LSU
receiver you voted for? You know, look, I can't believe
that gain a guy was such bias. I thought Ryan
uh Wingo would be up there. He's not. Parker Livingstone.
Parker living Stone is ready. I see they they pronounced
it living stunt. The e is silent. Okay, whatever, good talk, everybody,

(01:22:55):
Good talk out of here. Arch. But I brought you in,
and now I'm just more mad at Kirby Smart and
I got to fenders fel like from him, from you
He's the first person that I've seen defending curves fin.
But also I just heard about this. Oh let me
tell you, Atlanta Radio is defending him. My guess right,
defending him. It's just saying the refs need to do
a better job. No they don't. They've got forty thousand
things to worry about. Sorry, maybe get things right. Oh,

(01:23:16):
I don't know. Maybe have a universal sign for time out,
like I saw the tea that meant time out.

Speaker 10 (01:23:20):
We don't hire sixty year olds to run around on
the field and like zebras, how about we get some young,
youthful people.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
Average partix years old, gods strong.

Speaker 10 (01:23:31):
Here in one of the games, they had a ten
minute pause and play because the old man moving the
chains got knocked down and they were like, had to
get a stretcher for him.

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
I'm sorry, job, you've been calling those chains before it.

Speaker 10 (01:23:43):
Yeah, it's some twenty year olds in shape, with good
eyesight and get everything wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
All right, now, this is getting ridiculous. This is getting upset.
Done for you. Goodbye, Cordy, look forward to the tomorrow
you listen to you and babble this on and I'm
going to lockdown sec to hear that dribble. I swear
I am dribble. There's no chance. All right, eleven fifty eight,
Let's get to the news at noon next to here
on Sports Talk seven, How's the Matt Thomas Show with

(01:24:12):
Ross twelvel four in each town. This is our number
three of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross and its
Columbus day no believe or not. Today, I'm gonna bug
out a little early to heead do Birmingham out of Bama.
Get Jackson rot about a coat against Damon. People know
who Keith Jackson is. What a good thinks. So I

(01:24:33):
think you do a great key. This is one of
your great impressions. You gotta keep it around.

Speaker 3 (01:24:36):
I do too, Keith Jackson. See I you're gonna do it.
Go ahead. I won't do Bill, No do it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
I want Jonathan to Joanthan knows who Bill Cosby is, right,
I gotta hear this. I know who Bill Cobby is. Well,
I don't know you're like you're like seventeen man, I'm
miling here. Hold on, he's been bling, he's been bunning. Sorry,
go ahead, go ahead, Bill Cosmo, Gibbs, some of them
tible pudding bobs. What do you say the hell one

(01:25:03):
to ten rate the impression? Oh my god, zero job
the Temple Owls football game. All right, it's not a zero,
it's like a one. It's at least a seven of
the ass. Oh my god, let's no, no, no, no,

(01:25:27):
we already know. It's Bill Cosmis defense. Okay, Jonathan liked it,
and he's that makes me have That's what's important. Dived
out for the news that dude at twelve o five
on the Kurby Smart Apologies Network. Goodness, course, come on,
it's the first coach in the history of time who
tries to griff the referees and so, yeah, they weren't

(01:25:51):
prepared for it and they fell for it. Like well,
he's so adamant. I guess we're gonna give him the
benefit of the doubt. Terrible he lied. Alright, any well,
let's start with the big news from the weekend. Matt,
your Texas long Horns defeing Sooners twenty three to six.

(01:26:13):
They're back in the playoff hunt. Well, actually, they basically
don't have much margin for error. I think they can
afford no more losses as they go along. But you know,
early season losses can often be forgiven. In the polls.
We'll see what happens from there. Twenty three to six,
the long Horns were able to get the victory. They
only gained a three hundred and two yards on the field,

(01:26:34):
but that wasn't enough. They also had, of course, the
big punt return for a touchdown by Ryan Nibbett. Sad
three times fast. We talked after the game. He wanted
to transfer out and hit the portal multiple times, but
coach Sark wanted him to stay. Believed them in believed
in him, and he had the big touchdown against the
Oklahoma Sooners this weekend, Matt, I have a college sports

(01:26:56):
portal slash money take. I want to get to you
right after you with a news, so let me make
sure I'm ready to do that. Elsewhere in college football,
Ohio State with a big win over Illinois on the road.
How about those Indiana Hoosiers. They defeat the Oregon Ducks
on the road as well to top ten wins this season.
They had only had four in their entire program's history

(01:27:19):
before this week. You also have Georgia defeating Auburn on
the road and the fight in Texas and m Aggie's
thirty four to seventeen over those pesky Florida Gators. SEC
is looking pretty stout. Yeah, as per usual. By the way,
people on Twitter today, just people. There are a few

(01:27:39):
people on Twitter that are bemoaning that College Game Day
has either been in an SEC or a Big ten
venue every week all season long.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
Yeah, well, maybe they'll get to it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
And the reason why take a big game coming up, Well,
the reason why to bring that up is because they're
gonna big noon Saturday, which is like the competition uh huh.
They're gonna be a utah eyu. And they're like, well,
thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
Fox.

Speaker 2 (01:28:07):
Well, Fox also is carrying that game too. I mean,
it all depends on what you're carrying. And by the way,
the best matchups pound for pound have been the SCC
in the Big ten.

Speaker 3 (01:28:16):
I mean someone who loves a big trouble like I do.
I even get that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
I mean, I get it. I know, Matt, I'm sorry.
The Cougars in the top twenty five. Pole got some
boats in football, yeah, in which I don't know. They
got four. I mean it wasn't very many. They got somebody,
okays in the coaches poll. Must have been Willie Fritz.
I think we're number seventeen. All right, coach, appreciate you.

(01:28:40):
Why are you making that face? Don't impersonate my favorite
man on the earth right now? I thought Kevin Sampson
was your favorite man on Earth? Okay, one a all right.
Else Where I'm at, we heard the reports of Bill
Belichick possibly wanting to leave you inc of course he
has denied them. He said reports about my looking for
a buyout or trying to leave here is cat gorically false.

(01:29:01):
There's zero truth to any of that. I'm glad I'm here.
We're working toward our goals. We'll believe very much in
the process. We just need to keep working and grinding away,
and that's exactly what we're doing. Believe him, We're not now.
The report was some guy with the Guardian, which is
a British paper, but the US Bureau of the Guardian.
I'm not even worried about who wrote the story. The

(01:29:23):
question is going to be if they finished the year
four n eight, do you say run it back or
do you go you know what? Just like when Steve
Springer tried to go coach the Redskins, or like Nick
Saban tried to go coach the Dolphins, the eject policy
is pretty quick. I've Yourtrino left for the Falcons very quickly.

(01:29:45):
I'm going to say this, this is well say you
know what. I'll say it for tomorrow. But I don't
think Belichick leaves at the end of this season unless
the university is like this guy is getting too causing
us too much trouble. The girlfriend's a hot man. By
the way, the eighties name at North Carolina is Bubba Cunningham.
I mean Bubba Cunningham. Bubb's gonna anything get rid of

(01:30:07):
anybody after one year. I guess not.

Speaker 3 (01:30:11):
So No, I think he stays.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
Hey also were in college football News, Matt, what do
you know about Mike Astey reporter?

Speaker 3 (01:30:20):
I've never heard of him?

Speaker 2 (01:30:21):
Managing editor at West Virginia Sports Now and Pittsburgh Sports Now.
He is reporting that the Penn State firing of James
Franklin was helped along by Adidas. The apparel juggernaut recently
signed a ten year, three hundred million dollar deal with
Penn State that begins next year. Adidas reportedly committed to

(01:30:44):
paying the majority of the nearly fifty million dollar buyout
that James Franklin has. Now, let me ask you this now,
I don't know the inner workings of this. They were
on Nike School for the longest time, moved over to
Adidas ten year, three hundred million dollars deal. Could that
deal have turned into a ten year, three hundred and
forty nine million dollars deal. Did Adida say go ahead

(01:31:06):
and getting rid of this guy and will help you out.
You'll make us it legal NCAA wise, I guess it is.
Why wouldn't they guess you go to boosters to get
contracts paid out. That's true, so certainly giving you a
boost That's what it sounds like to me without me
knowing many of the details. That's what losing to Northwestern
at home will do for you. Apparently Adidas behind the

(01:31:26):
firing of one James Franklin. Of course, there was a
big NFL weekend, even though your Houston Texans were not involved.
They will not be playing until next Monday night against
the Seattle Seahawks. But you had a number of big games,
including how about them Cowboys losing it to the Panthers
thirty to twenty seven. You also have the Ravens scoring

(01:31:49):
three points. Matt they're one in five. Are they going
to be on the outside looking in and hos with
two fumbles in one game. For me, oh my gosh,
I was wondering how you'd make it about you. I
know by the way. Rico'donnell, who's on my fans team
as well, said I want to get back of the
l teammates and was like, yeah, whatever, good. You got
over two hundred yards again last yesterday between receiving and Russia.

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
Yeah, that's your guy. Rico Dowdell love me some. I'm
team Rico.

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
Speaking of one in five, the Miami Dolphins are one
in five and well to a tongue of a Lowa,
did you hear his postgame press conference, Matt did not
necessarily sell the culture particularly well, said basically that it
starts with the leadership. It's like, you're the quarterback on
the team, shouldn't aren't you part of that leadership. Apparently
there were some meetings that where people were skipping or
getting too well then also a report the athlete has

(01:32:36):
waged in said said, hey, don't be telling everybody I'm
late to these meetings about team meetings. But also people
were thinking it was like team only, players only meetings.
But a b reporter is clarified and said no, they
were talking about like positional team meetings. Like that's even worse. Yeah,
I think that is worse. Yeah, the players only meeting.

(01:32:57):
Players are are typically late to things anyway, but if
a coach tells you to be somewhere and you will
relate to that. And by the way, lastly, Seattle three
Toronto won American League Championship.

Speaker 9 (01:33:10):
Up.

Speaker 2 (01:33:10):
By the way, how good were you feeling when George
Bringer hits the very first pitch of the game. Great
Toronto was up, won nothing, feeling good, big crowd going crazy.
They're showing hotel rooms at the at Rogers Center. People
were having relations there after every hit and there's not
much up of that. Yeah, Logan Gilbert back on the

(01:33:32):
hill for Seattle. You pitched in a relief on Friday.
Toronto had a minus one thirty five Seattle plus one fifteen.
Is it a must win game for the Toronto Blue
Jays and is not? Okay? Thank you, Matt. I appreciate that.
By the way, as much as I did enjoy the
drama of the game five between the Troity and Seattle,
I fell asleep. I mean I I don't want to

(01:33:53):
fall asleep in my sporting events. But I it was
eleven o'clock and I'm like, I got my eyes are heavy. Yeah,
the night coup an hour and they're still playing. I mean,
I don't I don't know if I want my games
like that. The manford Man has ruined me. I was
kind of like, they should just put somebody on second
after like the thirteenth, let me take save. I was
in Oklahoma going fourteenth thing, can we do a home
run derby here? And that's how That's how. I still

(01:34:15):
don't want the manford Man rule in the playoffs, I agree,
but I remember I kept looking like, where's still where's
the automatic runner? Like different, like two different times. I
was like, why is there a guy on second?

Speaker 1 (01:34:24):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
Yeah, it's the playoffs?

Speaker 3 (01:34:25):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
I got confused. Uh more on college football coming back,
things I hear from college athletes that I do not believe.
I'll explain mere moments seven from college podcasters. I think
Gordy believes his own take.

Speaker 9 (01:34:40):
I know he does.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
That may be the worst part of it. He believes it.
Seven one three two one two five Cividaudi seven one
three two one two five seven ninth year old. All right,
So I interviewed college kids occasionally, but mainly I watch
him on the sports centers and that kind of thing,
like you know, the game college game days.

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
And maybe it's just a cynic in me sports Harvey.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
But when I hear about why a particular kid goes
to a particular school fifteen twenty years ago, when things
you presume to be above board, like you know, education facilities,
the coaches of dad figure, like.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
That was it.

Speaker 3 (01:35:21):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
I love.

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
Bobby Bowden because he treated me like one of his sons.

Speaker 3 (01:35:28):
Or I loved.

Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
Let me who I was a Knicks table because he
was all about family. He's all about he's tough love.
But he made me a better man. That's why people
said mac Brown, he's all about family. Mac Brown. Great example.
In twenty twenty five, they're saying kind of the same thing.
But you know what I'm thinking about in the back
of my mind, what they offered me twohundred and seventy

(01:35:51):
five thousand dollars straight cash home and the other school's
only offered me one twenty five. That's hey, it's working
in Lubbock. It's working well, of course, Texas, in Ohio
state and everywhere else. Right, somebody got mad at me
if a Red Raider fan got mad at me for
a single and out Texa tech. No, no, no, And again,
if if you've got ten schools that are offering the same,
then you can separate it. Yeah, but you got to
offer a premium independing we have a neighbor of ours.

(01:36:13):
I don't know the kid Kim Carly does that she
goes high school. If he's a junior. Okay, he's the
number one offensive lineman in the country. Okay, sorry, came
in on the helicopter. Yeah, yeah, that's how big this
I thought that was to see Carly. I mean, I
would be all for that, but they don't know that
for volleyball kids. But thank you for asking. Uh, I'm

(01:36:36):
guessing this kid's gonna you know again, you can be
you can. You've got a pie that the schools can
split up to give you as much as you want
for a certain player, and then and they can say, well,
then we're also gonna give you some nil too. I mean,
so there's two different ways to defeat the boy, you know,
any boy for that matter. That's good. But I'm just
thinking his kid's gonna have twenty five thirty places to go,

(01:36:57):
and he's probably gonna get simple. I mean, I'm going
to assume that Alabama's gonna offer him the same Notre
Dame would offer him, the Texts would offer them, that
A and M would offer him. And right, don't you
at that point if you are a highly recruited aren't
you saying aren't you exchanging figures? I imagine bidding worst breakout?
For sure? Yeah, and I don't think everybody's offering the
exact same.

Speaker 3 (01:37:19):
You know, that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
I want we'll have to find out. I mean, I
don't know if if you'd be privy to those things.
But I'm curious if if the average student that gets
money to go to a school or gets side nil deals,
if the money is comparable, are the Texas tech kids
getting so much more money in lubby than they would
somewhere else. Now, we had somebody had running joke on
social media saying, yeah, tex text gotta pay double because

(01:37:43):
it's Lubbock. I thought there was little like there was
a credible source. Somebody said they got to pay like
thirty percent more. Yeah, that's why I saw. I saw
the same thing you did. But to going back to
my grandiose point, it makes me think, man, it isn't
about well, that coach is a father figure.

Speaker 1 (01:37:58):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
That coaches gave me a bigger allowance is what gave
you what? He was one of the on three sports
recruiting guys that does nil stuff saying that they have
to do they have to pay thirty percent more. Yeah,
So it's not about being the father figure. It's not
about how good the cafeteria food is. It's the Lubbock
tex the Lubbock Yeah, the surch charge, if you will.
I mean it's I think it's all those things. Yeah,

(01:38:20):
it's maybe more, it's part of it, not that as much. Yeah,
but it's to me.

Speaker 6 (01:38:26):
I was I was this.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
I was the warm and fuzzy sports reporter going man,
what separated Because I'll be honest with you. I did
the coach Willie Fritz show a couple weeks ago, filling
in and I and I asked the two student athletes,
what what made you choose Houston? And they had the
same comp answers, you know, great atmosphere, close to home,
love Willie. And I told you how much I respect

(01:38:48):
Willy and how he's just the atypical coach. But I
would think finances probably had to do something with it doesn't. Yeah,
it's interesting. I actually wanted to talk about it because
you you'd kind of brought it up with your or
to tell the truth topics, one of yours, which was
Mike Elko is replaceable? Yes, because in theory, I mean,
if it feels like everybody's replaceable. Now, I'll say this

(01:39:11):
because here's the reason why I would say that Mike
Elko is replaceable. First of all, Mike people love Mike Eelko.
They've turned that program around a very short period of time.
But however, however, if you start lumping five and six
year extensions in for crazy money and Mike Elko goes
seven and five one year, are you gonna love Mike
Gocko as much? This is what This is the interesting

(01:39:32):
thing that I kind of wanted to delve into because
I'm saying you're right and that maybe to an extent,
everybody's replaceable. Steve Sarkisian is this genius coach last year
and then for the five offensive linemen recruit as far
as their top offensive lineman leave arch Manny doesn't look
that great and all of a sudden he's not necessarily
on the hot seat or anything like that, but he's

(01:39:53):
not much that much of a genius once the players
aren't that great. Mario Christobal, remember he lost his first
year at Miami. All of a sudden, they start pooning
up a bunch of nil money in Miami's undefeated in
the top five. All of a sudden, Mario christ Ball
is a genius. Joey mcgwat remember when he was hired
at Texas Tech Rey, who's Joey McGuire And this guy's
gonna be around for two years too. Yeah, we're like

(01:40:14):
Joey McGwire, Joey mcguid or he's a fine last from Limerick,
Like we didn't know who he was.

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
He opens up at Irish body.

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
You start cutting, you start cutting some nil checks. All
of a sudden he's six and oh and number seven
in the country. So what you have to do is
you have to have a qualified coach, right, But that's
what a lass I coach doesn't have to be Nick Saban.
Qualified coach has to be a very good college coordinator
or or a head coach at a smaller school that
gets a few new toys to play with. I get

(01:40:44):
a piggy bank and do what you did at the
University of Akron and win some games on a bigger stage.
I don't know if I'm going to outpro if I'm
going to outspend other schools with my coaches, knowing that
it's probably about the money that you spend or to
the athletes that make the difference, not necessarily your your
charming charisma. How much of an outlier is Indiana and

(01:41:06):
Kurt Signetti? Are they getting players and we just don't
know about it? Or is he just winning with guile
and gumption? Well, as I said, his pedigree is excellent.
His pedigree is excellent. He is a Saban disciple. Yeah,
I clearly the guys love him. Clearly, he doesn't take

(01:41:26):
any bull. He was attacking the officials at halftime or lord.
So yeah, it's just interesting. It's is like a whole
different ball game. So let me let's use Kurt Signeta
SIGNETI the head coach Indiana. If you don't want Kirk
to go anywhere, He's going to be up for Penn State.
He's gonna be uh yeah, he'll be up for the

(01:41:46):
Auburn job. He'll be especially with the sec ties Arkansas, Arkansas,
I don't know, you take Kansas I would say, yes,
historically okay, but yeah, where has the art and saw
money been?

Speaker 3 (01:42:00):
But historically they're a powerhouse.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
So is Indiana going to say we want you to
play signetic, We're going to add four million dollars to
your contract and add seven years to it. That feels
that feels rather pricey. I think you strike while the
iron is hot and leave Indiana quite frankly.

Speaker 3 (01:42:17):
But I'm saying, what about the other side of it?

Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
What if Indiana says, look, Kurt, you may be a jerk,
but you're our jerk, and we love you, and we've
been more relevant in football the last two years, we've
been relevant the last forty. I think you can be
the hot name and then you can fall off rather quickly.
That's why if I'm a university coach, I would I mean,
if I was at a university president, I would have

(01:42:39):
a threshold. I'd kind of Jim crane it. I said,
I love you, I value I want you to stay,
but I can't go past a certain dollar amount or
a length because here's what you're doing. I don't care
if Adida just pick the check, picked up the check
or not. There's gonna be some ripples because of Penn State.
By way, when did Penn State think they were anything
more than what they are? They're really good. James Franklin

(01:43:02):
got them top five every year. That's the counter, right, Like, hey,
they winning like that. They went to the National Semis
last year, right, Yeah? Yeah, I mean they won two
playoff games. I'm saying, you went from National Semis to
a three game losing streak, and you're fired. Now they're
two playoff wins though we're against Boise and some other
bad teams. No Boise and some other It was oh SMU,

(01:43:23):
wasn't it. Yeah? I think so. But you can't ross.
You can't fire a coach for a three game losing streak.
They did, and by the way, his record against top
ten teams was sucky last year. You just added one
more sucking to the one this year. I mean, add
them to the list, is what I told you. It's
it's hard. You have all these teams who say we
need to be winning the championship and and it's just

(01:43:43):
not that easy. Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Penn State, Michigan. I
mean you add up the list and it's like fifteen
teams for me and my fan base and their boosters
and their sponsors think they need to be winning the
national championship every year. Honestly, when I think of Big
ten out that we're in either part of the country
at all, I think of Missionchigan, I think of Ohio State,
I think of Oregon, and then number four was used

(01:44:07):
to be used to be I don't think. I don't
in Penn State was like that fourth team, but never
thought about it. In the top three and they disagree
whether USC ever gets back in the mix, who knows
they'd be Michigan off the weekend. So something else there,
all right. I just want to throw that out there
that today's kids they can say, Man, I love that
coach and father figure. Father figure also gave me more
money in a better rolls Royce seven one three two

(01:44:28):
one two five seven NINTI seven one three two one
two five SEVENI this is amount Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 3 (01:44:35):
We have a serious conundrum in Major.

Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
League Baseball we may be facing in a week or so,
and I'll discuss it next here on seven NINTI, Matt
and Ross, what are you want? Sports Talk? Seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven Ninetie So
I was back and forth between Detroit and Kansas City
and the baseball game between Seattle and Toronto. I wonder

(01:45:01):
it's not a question of how bad it's gonna be,
how how bad? How bad the Detroit Kansas City NFL
kick the ratings ass of the America League Championship Series
probably know till tomorrow a couple of days. Yeah, but
is there trouble to you on that or do you
go that's just the byproduct of how powerful football it is.

Speaker 3 (01:45:22):
I think they look at.

Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
Your own ratings, if your ratings are up and down
from year before, stuff like that, and then there are
other factors like you said, what night a day was it?
How much were your audience is taken away because the
NFL is king and everybody knows it, and they've been scheduling.
We were like, why are they doing five and eight o'clock? Well,
because because there's a football's at seven, because baseball knows
their role. And by the way I have there's a
new piagraph that comes out once a year about how

(01:45:43):
sports teams make their money. And I'll explain to you
why NFL television remains the king. I'm very entry point
and I will have it for you the next segment. So, Houston,
we love the Astros, we rarely tolerate on the teams, right,
I think we are rooting for Toronto, not that we

(01:46:04):
have a large Canadians fan base. Say eighty five percent
of the Astros fans I know and talk to it
rooting for the Blue Jays. Well, I think it'd be
even higher than that.

Speaker 1 (01:46:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:46:12):
So, and then we've got the Brewers. We have no
ties to the Brewers whatsoever. Milwaukee's a lovely city. It
serves great beer, great brats. People are nice, but there's
no tie. What what do you know? I was gonna
say something so proud of you. You didn't say it.
You know, I might have been thinking it, but I'm
not going to say it. But the reality is, I

(01:46:35):
know you too well. We might be facing a don't
say it. There's a possibility of.

Speaker 1 (01:46:47):
Dodgers Mariners.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
I put this out on Twitter. I don't hate the
Dodgers like I used to. I just don't. Twenty twenty
was a Mickey Mouse ring, so you kind of kind
of make fun of that, like, ah, you guys haven't
won one since the eighties, but they won last year
and they're they're playing a different ballgame. They just are
financially in payroll wise, it's and with deferred money and

(01:47:10):
by the way, by Major League Baseball allowed by Major
League Baseball, they have that big TV deal. They spend
billions and billions of dollars. It feels like they make
billions and billions of dollars. So it's like it's almost
like if you are Texas State and it's like rooting
against Texas like they're playing a different sport. Almost it's
the same sport, but financially it's just in a completely

(01:47:33):
different league, is what it feels like. But the difference
between that is that Texas State is going to play
Texas fifty times and be lucky to win five. Astros
can pull the Dodgers and win a five or seven
game series as much as anybody, but year over year
after year, they're just they're in a different league. It's
basically them and you could toss the Yankees in there

(01:47:54):
as well, maybe the Mets and whoever. But as far
as the resources that they have and their development, the
player development has been great. Their pitching development has been great.
That's also allowed them to make trades for the players
that they have now. Mookie Bets among others and stuff
like that. But it's just it feels like to me,
I can and maybe this is just me coping with
how good they are, but to me, it's like they're

(01:48:15):
just playing a different sport. They won last year. I'm
not gonna root it. I'm rooting for sho Heo Tani act.
I mean, because he is just the greatest show on
Earth in terms of athletes today. If there's one guy
I want to pay a ticket to, especially you know
when he's pitching the two way athlete excellence, that is
sho Hal Tani is, to me, the greatest show on Earth.

(01:48:36):
I just don't hate the Dodgers anymore. I don't, not
to the level that I did. Certainly, I'll root for
the Brewers, but I'm not gonna be going crazy over
it if they win. It's like, you know what, Hey,
it's the Dodgers. They got Shoeo Tani in this ridiculous lineup,
and these ridiculous they get. They have a leg up
signing every pitcher from Japan wants to play on the
West Coast and wants to go to the highest bidder.

(01:48:57):
Guess who that is. It's the Dodgers, never the Giants. Yeah,
it's it's the Dodgers. So they basically get their pick
of the litter from the the the the best pictures
in Japan is basically their farm system. They get to
sign everybody from there. They have show Atani, they can
go over the luxury tax. They deferred like a billion
dollars worth of contracts. It's it's insinsane. They have all

(01:49:21):
these inherent built in advantages to where to me, I
I mentally separate them from basically everyone else.

Speaker 3 (01:49:29):
You are stronger than I am.

Speaker 2 (01:49:32):
You still got hate, you still got to hate for him.
I can't do it for a variety of reasons. So
what I say makes sense. So it's like, you know what, no, whatever,
you that's a logical, thoughtful conversation, and at least have
one Brewer.

Speaker 4 (01:49:43):
Don't.

Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
Don't get me wrong, go Brewers. But I don't want
to build plashki to write nice articles. Oh yeah, that's true,
that's a good one. I don't want to have to
hear about every time the astros for the Dodgers, every
time that game is on national television. It feels like
at least one, if not two, of them are on
national television. The cheating Scandle gets brought up. I don't

(01:50:05):
think a Dodger. I think the Dodger fan base, generally speaking,
has more criminal activity than any of the twenty nine teams.
Their fans are the worst. So I appreciate what happens
on the Diamond. The off the diamond stuff still irritates
me to no end. So if it's the Dodgers and
the Mariners, I'm not saying I would not boycott the

(01:50:26):
world series, but it would be I think I would
catch up on my old episodes of Young and the
rest Is before I start watching that series. Let's keep
it on. It's it's got big TV two energy. Oh yeah,
but in the background. Yeah, it's like I we have
a TV in our in our bathroom. Turn the ship.
What you're watching two TV in a bathroom? You can?

(01:50:48):
I mean, I don't sit there and sit there and
watch an episode of something. Well along, you in there
have a bathtub, Your leg's falling asleep, the Kendles, What
were you doing in there on your own business?

Speaker 7 (01:50:59):
On this one? Come?

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
You brought it up. I'm just saying you brought TV
is on. But if the shower is going, you don't
see very much because you got the steam that's knocktting
it out in you didn't get the anti steam screen. Well,
I mean, but if you're taking a bath, you get
a full opportunity to watch everything. But it's fairly good size.
I don't take very many baths. I like to take baths. Okay,
I don't care. What's up. No, I'm not anti battle bath.

Speaker 3 (01:51:22):
Have some salt.

Speaker 2 (01:51:23):
I'll let you, boy, I got one for you to
take baths and hotels absolutely okay. Well, if it's like
a bat, like a nice one. But when west Age
that the greasy Motel six studio with the blood stains, No, no, Matt,
that was rust.

Speaker 3 (01:51:40):
I have a great friend of mine.

Speaker 2 (01:51:41):
This is blood. I have a great Why is this
rust splattered? I have a great friend of mine who
will not I will not name him out loud or rhyme.
His name. Only takes baths, only takes bass. Now that's
in like eighteen seventy six stuff right there? Now, Yeah,
come on, man, you gotta no, that's no. You're you're
telling me you're getting ready for work, you're brushing your teeth,

(01:52:01):
and you're drawing a bath. I'm not doing it my front. Hey,
nobody got time for that. Apparently he's got time for that.
What back to my central have Rubbert Duckies. I don't
know what's in his bathtub. I'm not trying to shame
him man for bad. Like like I said, I think
about the occasional bath. It's not occasional. It's very it's
very soothing. It's everywhere, hotels, home, everywhere, full bath. To

(01:52:27):
my point, I can't separate the on field success with
the off the field. Now, what LA's got going for
him is their stadium, despite the fact it's sixty years old,
is still majestic. Their uniforms of pristine. I appreciate the history. Yes,
the greatest baseball announcer, maybe the greatest announcer of all time,
broadcaster game for fifty years. Some of my favorite players,
frankly that are non Astros are Dodgers. I love Ernando

(01:52:49):
Vansoila growing up as a kid, love Steve Garvey. I'm
gonna get you on my side, I think no, because no,
here we go. Bill Plaski is a dirt back Well
here we go though, please, Dodgers Mariners World Series. Who
you got I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you
five seconds, and I'm gonna count hold on, hold on,
I giving you five second. Dodgers Mariners, World Series one two, three, Dodgers, Dodgers. See,

(01:53:21):
I got you to my side, but you you actually
use your full voice. Fine, Dodgers Dodgers. I'll say it
that way. I will say seven rain Outs season two
late earthquake, earthquake. No, no, we do on earthquake. Last
time we had earthquakeer in the World Series. It costs
a lot of people. No, nobody did die. Oh they

(01:53:44):
di not. Not at the stage I'm saying you don't
want people. No, I don't wan people don't know. I'm
not saying they didn't say I don't want to. But
you want you want a month long rain the Pacific
Northwest and down in the South. I'm okay with that.
All right? How do the leagues make their money? We'll
tell you about that coming up in a minute. Twelve
forty four on What's Talk seven nine today on the
radio program, we were doing tam U police tweets and

(01:54:05):
a couple old ones got sent to me. This is
from nine twenty seven. ROSSI public intoxication, unable to walk,
give an opportunity to call a sober friend, but he
locked himself out of his phone arrested. How do you
not remember your code even when you're really that blanked?

(01:54:28):
I've locked myself out of my phone even though I've
known my code. I just keep hitting it over and over, like, oh, wait,
one more time, I'm probably out, and then yeah, you
gotta wait for a minute.

Speaker 3 (01:54:37):
This one on the fourth of October.

Speaker 2 (01:54:39):
I can't even lie public intoxication times two times two, okay.
Same person responded to report of intoxicated subject in men's
restroom near section three point thirty four slash three thirty five.
He called a sober friend. Sober friend arrived intoxicated, Yeah, arrested.
Happens the good old days, Good old days. This one,

(01:55:04):
by the way, sheacked up at the stadium. This one
from A and M Police about the contracted subject eating
a sandwich with a water jug of whiskey B A C.
Was point three to three seven. Released to ems. Yes,
thirty eight thousand likes, three thousand retweets, seven hundred and
eighty comments, seven point five million impressions. He's gonna be

(01:55:25):
a legend on campus. Well, I hope he's alive. And
the Google said that was coma dude. Google said it
was coma toast. I hope he's alive. If he wasn't,
you know right, hopefully they they did? Then't isn't the
blower inaccurate? That's what my DWI lawyer told me. What
they know what? I was gonna ask for advice, But

(01:55:45):
I'm not gonna ask for advice. It's just a bad,
bad situation. Okay, So, uh I I'm always in Look,
we don't have a lot of piping hot sports takes
from the world a weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:55:56):
We can.

Speaker 2 (01:55:56):
We talked about A and M when let's bed. It
was good, but I want to just we got a
whole hour left to go on that. Okay, But I
just always sports business always intrigues me. Every year they
come out with a pig graph of pie chart of
how leagues make their money. I don't think we really
care about Didn't you see this?

Speaker 4 (01:56:14):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:56:14):
Was tweeted out Yeah by who football greatest Moments. It's
got two in three thousand followers, So it is what
it is, Football's greatest moments. I mean they're on the revenue.
What I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:56:28):
I can watching somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:56:30):
I thought it'd be you know, Dan Marino's No Sports
Business Daily is what you're looking for exactly. So this
I'm sure he cheated from. Uh oh, it's is from
Sportico sport Co all right. It was about how each
sports league makes its money. NBA and Major League Baseball
in twenty twenty three, that's the latest let us latest

(01:56:50):
revenue they have. They both made ten point nine million
dollars now billion billion. The NBA is going to have
a higher deal because their television deal is going to
be higher than what Major League Baseball is about the
sum ten point nine billion. Forty one percent of that
comes from TV deals of national TV deals wow, twenty
six percent ticket sales, thirteen percent, local TV and media

(01:57:13):
twelve percent, team sponsors, eight percent concessions in parking okay,
eight eight percent. That's actually pretty pretty heavy there, parking seens. Yeah,
that feels really heavy. Twenty six percent ticket sales. I
don't have thought they've been a lot lower. Baseball ten
point nine billion dollars thirty one percent ticket sales twenty

(01:57:37):
six percent, national TV and media, twenty three percent local
TV media, which that's going to start going down because
these local TV networks are going away. Ten percent team sponsorships,
ten percent, concessions and parking. That's Major League Baseball and
the NBA are ten point nine billion. To hold on
to your MF and hats on this one. The NFL

(01:57:59):
in two thousand twenty three in revenue eighteen point seven
billion dollars. Where are they getting it from? Sixty six
percent from national TV media deals? How much was it
for for NBA the percent FREBA percentage forty one baseball
twenty six. There will be even greater discrepancy between the

(01:58:22):
NBA and baseball with this when this new TV deal
comes comes into play for the NBA. Two thirds of
the money the NFL makes is from their television deals.
And they don't have local TV network revenues, No they have. Yeah,
it's one percent. That's the that's basically Channel thirteen being

(01:58:42):
the official television home of the Texans, you know, all
their little shows and stuff from preseason games. But you're right,
it's very small amount. Seventeen percent from ticket sales, they
don't care if the buildings fall or not, ten percent
from team sponsorships, six percent from concessions and parking. Part
of that reason is because people are tailgating and getting
in and getting out. But see what if you want

(01:59:05):
to know how a sport is run, go look at
how the television deals are put together. Two thirds. That's
why you've got NFL Network putting games on. That's why
you've got Peacock. You're gonna have an exclusive game. That's
why you got Netflix doing games. That's why you've got
extra packages. That's why I think the NFL will ultimately

(01:59:26):
go to an eighteen game schedule because they can create
another package of games. Every time there's a package of
games available, there is a TV partner ready to step in.
The NFL is supposed to end their current TV deals.
I think in the next handful of years, including twenty thirty.
If I think for NBC, they're going to reopen the
deals for the Sunday night games. This is how the

(01:59:46):
NFL rolls. We can sell tickets, that'd be great. We
can ask you to buy our gear, we can ask
you to drink our beer. But at the end of
the day, what are most football fans doing. They're not
going to games, They're not buying a lot of year,
they're just simply watching the product on television. Sixty six
percent of the money in the NFL makes is on

(02:00:07):
television deals alone, that's crazy. That's why it's so powerful,
because every time you put an NFL game on, even
like tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:00:17):
Now, you and I may be different, but.

Speaker 2 (02:00:20):
Is the average Houston ain't gonna jump in on Buffalo
versus Atlanta if you've got fantasy implications or bet maybe
I think it will still be probably the highest rated
program on television tonight. Well or will it be the
Bears of the Commanders what starts an hour later on ABC?
Why are they still doing these staggered doubleheaders? Week seven?

Speaker 3 (02:00:41):
Six?

Speaker 2 (02:00:42):
Have you not listened to me last?

Speaker 7 (02:00:43):
I got I kind of guests, some like mini breaking
news right here? Oh NFL? Just it's like really really small.

Speaker 2 (02:00:49):
One sounder, no wrong button, wrong button, wrong button? What
do you got? If you're gonna do it, you're gonna
do it? Come on? Are lest part ways with heads? Coach?
Head coach Brian Cohen? Who the one on that one?
It just happened like like forty like I've got to
post for five minutes ago. It didn't even survive a season. Okay,

(02:01:11):
didn't I tell you how he sounded? He'd been sounding
like an idiot. Don't you feel like when the guy's
in the postgame press conference, adamantly arguing that an elbow
down is not a catch for a wide receiver, and
you're like, dude, have you watched one NFL broadcast in
the last thirty years? Hey, an elbow down is a catch.
He's like, no, it's not like that kind of gives

(02:01:32):
you this moment where you're like, this guy's not very smart.
Can I could be fired? Can I add two more
names of the list? Go ahead, Mike McDaniel, Well, honestly,
he was the odds on favorite. I can't believe he's
not gone. And I hate to do this to you
because it's your high school. Hey, how long is Aaron
go in New York?

Speaker 1 (02:01:50):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (02:01:50):
Dude, they gave him Justin Fields as their number QB one.
Was that Aaron Glenn's call? This is not right Justin Fields? Taylor? Whoahoa?
Whoa Aaron Glenn could have kept Aaron Rodgers? Aaron Rodgers,
he could he have? I think he did? Okay, Well
that's fine. Aaron Rodgers not very good. I'm just saying

(02:02:12):
you can't the forty year old who barely played and
wasn't very good just throwing you threw away a Hall
of famer. Wait a minute in his prime and his
team is four five and one, just saying the Steelers,
Yeah they're four in one, right, Okay, maybe they're they
have they have an off week. Okay, yeah, they beat
the Browns. But I'm just saying they beat the Browns

(02:02:37):
and the Vikings without their quarterback. Patriots is a good win. Actually,
Patriots are looking kind of good. Yeah, they are the
Jets my final with my fantasy quarterback.

Speaker 6 (02:02:46):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (02:02:47):
Oh my gosh. I mean we're keeping a book right now,
we ask.

Speaker 3 (02:02:53):
Thank you Brian Callahan.

Speaker 2 (02:02:54):
Seriously, why is Mike McDaniels to the coach there? I
mean they keep losing a lot of close games, Matt
They're close?

Speaker 5 (02:03:00):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 2 (02:03:01):
Yes, Okay, that seems fair enough. This is Brian Callahan. Okay,
and this is his second year there. That's right, he done.
Oh he was there live. I thought it was the
first year coach. Fourteen last year. Lord Amy Kronkstrunk doing
her thing, suckers. I love rooting against the Titans as
their former oiler fan. I hope they lose every game
for the rest of their lives. Good. Yeah, that's right.

(02:03:25):
They fired their GM in the off season. Ain't got
rid of their media relations person too? Oh really? Mm
hmm okay, yes, abdotal All right, Final Hour with the
Matt Thomas Show. You can't spin us into looking like
a good team. No pr yeah, no more pr uh
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

(02:03:46):
one three two one two five seven ninety We want.
We've not heard from some folks in a little while.
So if you want to chime on anything, whether it
be is archback? But was that being a d one?
I said, is Texas blank blank blank dot dot dot
on my Twitter? I'm worried about you. You are you sure?
I told you I will not say Texas is back
until they win a literal national championship.

Speaker 3 (02:04:05):
Oh so they'll never be back until that happens. Is
that what you're saying?

Speaker 2 (02:04:08):
Okay, you will not hear me say it. I'll put
it that way, really, okay, Okay, Hey, yeah, you're not
back till you win it all baby, let's go. Expectation
levels are high, So going to the Alimible for the
seventh time in the last eight years, will not be
going back. That's not that's not true, Matt. They were
in the they were in the semifinal two back to
back years. Okay, hey, let your bump ass up.

Speaker 3 (02:04:29):
My bad.

Speaker 2 (02:04:31):
Here we go it one five on Sports Talk seven
ninety Now. Look, I'm gonna be jetting a couple of
times over the next few months. A little early in
one of those days is today?

Speaker 6 (02:04:48):
You all?

Speaker 2 (02:04:48):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (02:04:48):
Was my mic on thoughts in person to me or
not you?

Speaker 2 (02:04:51):
Yeah? Okay to everyone. Look, when I leave at Jettison
at one or one today, I'm saying an extra segment
because I'm gonna be able to get to the airport
in relatively decent times. Oh really, man, I could have
left now, but I want to hang with you one more.
Appreciate you, Maddie. I want you to call Ross. Yes,
take shots at me. I have necessarily do that. That's
off with a bit of the show. I will be
liberally plugging my Instagram at sports RV every time you're gone.

(02:05:13):
I just want to let you know. Well, okay, so
can I get my last plug out the way for this?
Are you serious? Let me see. I told you I
started the day at twenty nine to fifty. I am
right now at twenty nine fifty nine. I got nine
new ones today. You did? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:05:28):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:05:28):
This is pissing me off.

Speaker 3 (02:05:29):
Why you mad?

Speaker 2 (02:05:30):
Why are you mad? Bro? Because you know why? Because
I started promoting my Instagram. You didn't say a word
about having an account for years and years and years.
Then I start bringing up mine, and then you have
to start pimping years. It's ridiculous. Yeah, oh it's you know,
you're shameless. Quite frankly, these are all accurate terms. So

(02:05:55):
follow at sports empty all right, headlines in some of
the night games, your your Texas long more headline. Can
I sup?

Speaker 3 (02:06:05):
I'm gonna listen to you going to the airport? Okay?

Speaker 2 (02:06:07):
Can I look? Aggie fans call? It's really Aggie Doug.
But there have been Aggie fans that have called over
the years, bitching and moaning.

Speaker 3 (02:06:14):
Are happy?

Speaker 2 (02:06:15):
Okay? I got a Red Raider fan that will come
after me, which for norrais because my oldest went there.
By the way, he's got a big job interview today.
Good look to him. Oh wow, look watch and the
best you put in a good word for him. I
don't know that anybody with this group. Oh wow, it's
even better. It's probably for the best. It's probably for
the best. Yeah, what's that going with?

Speaker 5 (02:06:35):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:06:36):
I don't know. I fight with L s U fans.
Gordy Texas fans just don't ever come on on the
on the on the audio radio stream, Scott called to
bitch at me last week. I don't remember what I
did wrong. You were criticizing arts Manning too bad. I think, oh,
that's right, you were too tough on Arch Hey arts
was Oh he had been so fantastic all season long.

(02:06:58):
My point is this the best game of the season.
I want to hear in the next couple of segments
of My Wake, make my Way of the Airport. I
want to hear some Texas fans come in and love
y'all can do legal love fest, Okay, Longhorned love Fest,
Longhorn love Fest. That would be good for our listenership. Well,
I mean we are at the home of the Longhorns.
That's true. Actually, well, I mean, look trag way on.

(02:07:19):
The Texans don't play until next Monday, which is weird.
The Astros haven't done anything except motigators are pesky. That's
a pask me. So we're gonna do the six degree
of separation. That means, you know, that is what means.
That means an A and M is going to beat
that Texas ass Well, the game is in Austin, though,

(02:07:40):
mm it will be a raucous loud, drunk guy screaming
at least one. Then I go, if we're gonna start
time for that yet? Oh? They think it's six thirty? Yeah,
I think it's a night darryl Okay, late November, six
thirty at night, maybe sixty degrees Friday night.

Speaker 3 (02:07:55):
Oh it's a Friday night. Oh it's a Friday Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (02:07:57):
Right, we don't we don't have If we don't have
a game that day, we need to book those hotels.
Let me text them. I will be there. There's no doubt.
There was doubt about the OU game I didn't go.
There is no doubt I will be at that game. Okay,
you enjoying? Got your tickets or no?

Speaker 5 (02:08:12):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:08:12):
Who'd you get from? That's none of your business. Why
are you asking? Well? Are you always asking personal questions?
You're the prior. I think somebody's trying to cover it up.
Johnathan gonna call you crow bar Thomas. We're trying to
you know what. I'm an investigative reporter. Yeah, sorry, you're
an insider. You're the crow bar. I'm an insider and
an investigative reporter. There you go, oh real quick, you're

(02:08:33):
an habitual line stepper.

Speaker 7 (02:08:35):
I want to tell you Matt for your daughter because
you know you say n I L doesn't give for
like nonprofit athletes. I just got fifty dollars for being
uh an I athlete back in track.

Speaker 2 (02:08:45):
From That's what I'm talking about. But you used to
tell your doctor that you can still definitely like get like, yeah,
I want to. I was gonna donate for her to
promote sports r VS Instagram. You know what we could
have done is we could have I could have sold
sponsorships in the Channel two and Channel eleven stories to
Patch thinking about me, that's my fault about you. She's

(02:09:05):
still in high school. I guess they have high school.
And yeah, absolutely missed opportunity.

Speaker 6 (02:09:10):
Dang it.

Speaker 2 (02:09:10):
By the way, I was at a football game and
they all the they were running commercials with the athletes
speaking for Rudder Rigger. What yeah, exactly, you're learning Rigger.
By the way, did you see there's a Texans player
that was getting slammed for his intern out love over
Rutter Rigger.

Speaker 3 (02:09:28):
Oh my god, well people give it over. It's better.

Speaker 2 (02:09:30):
Sorry, it's better. I'm Sorry, we're not gonna schoo We're
not gonna call in. This is a we're doing Longhorn
love called.

Speaker 3 (02:09:43):
What do they call it?

Speaker 2 (02:09:45):
Sample? Some kind of bias, not recency. No, has always
been better than in and out? Sorry, wrong, you lose goodbye.
Selection bias.

Speaker 3 (02:09:55):
That's what it is.

Speaker 2 (02:09:56):
That's when you go when you say something from Texas
and say I ask a bunch of people in Texas
whether or not it's the best or not. You're gonna
have everyone in Texas of courses. They're gonna be homers.

Speaker 8 (02:10:05):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (02:10:06):
But I'm called objective. That's why you know you could
come to me for objectivity when it comes to sports, movies, food,
I am mister objective. As the Longhorns march towards the
national championship this year with Arch Manning winning the Heisman. Wait, Matt,
you agree with him everything except the last thing he said.
Of course, I was kidding about that last part in better,

(02:10:28):
I'm mister objective. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:10:29):
I like.

Speaker 1 (02:10:33):
Burger I got.

Speaker 3 (02:10:35):
I do like you water burgers.

Speaker 2 (02:10:37):
You drive through lines way too long, you know what
day That's another thing I can. I can say one
thing's better than the other and like both It's okay.
I like chocolate. I like vanilla. Hey, go ahead, get it.
I like coke and PEPSI Tom, but you hate doctor Pepper,

(02:10:58):
which is what I don't resegment. You're gone. I'm gonna
be talking about how you're not mister Texas and plugging
my Instagram. Mister Texas, get this out of here. You're
not going to the Texas ready to go to fly
You're going to like Birmingham or something. All right, anyways,
I am mister unbiased. Oh here you coming back again? Okay,

(02:11:20):
I thought he's coming back to the microphone. Matt keeps
packing up. Matt is gone. All right, Oh here we
see here he comes sports MPT and Instagram followly, don't
do that. Follow sports RV on Instagram if you want
actual content. Oh, Matt actually is putting up content. So
I'm actually happy for him.

Speaker 1 (02:11:36):
I know.

Speaker 3 (02:11:36):
I'm proud of you.

Speaker 2 (02:11:37):
I'm proudy.

Speaker 6 (02:11:37):
I gave it a like.

Speaker 2 (02:11:38):
I gave it a like.

Speaker 3 (02:11:40):
Anyways, what are we talking about? All right?

Speaker 2 (02:11:42):
Matt Thomas is gone? You want to talk about anything?
We got the big college football weekend. Nice win by
the Aggies. They are in the top five in the country.
You have the Longhorns bouncing back, arch Manning, how we
feeling about him as a quarterback? Big NFL Weekend, as
well a lot of storylines, I mean, James Franklin was fired.
You have NFL's storylines to get to as well. Anything

(02:12:02):
you guys want to get to. You can a couple
of segments without Matt Thomas. It is the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross, but without Matt Thomas. As I said,
y'all can get in seven one three two one two
five seven ninety the phone number seven one three two
one two five seven ninety. You can also send tweets
to at sports RV. You can also follow my Instagram
at sports RV as well. With you into a two

(02:12:23):
o'clock until two o'clock here on Sports Talk seven eighty.
Matt Thomas Show with Ross without Matt Thomas continue until
two o'clock here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Phone lines
open at seven one three two one two five seven

(02:12:44):
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
Recent news Brian Callahan, Tech Tennessee Titans coach fired after
a one in five start, and also somebody pointing this out.
I think it was awful announcing literally about an hour
ago on the Pat McAfee show on ESPN, you had
Adam Schefter saying he doesn't think that Brian Callahan is

(02:13:06):
going to be fired. Well an hour later, something changed.
Don't know what happened. And also it kind of doesn't
make sense to me that if you're going to pay
the guy to coach, why you would toss him out
this early in the season. It's not like the Titans
think that they're going to be able to rally around
this and make the playoffs or anything like that. But
Brian Callahan out somewhat unexpected, but not that unexpected. Like

(02:13:30):
I said, just a couple of things that he said
just didn't seem like he was the smartest guy ever
to me. But he is out anything you guys want
to get to. Of course, mentioned the college football weekend,
the NFL weekend as well. Texan's not playing the Seahawks
until Monday night seven one three two one two five,
seven ninety And somehow, some way we got on burger
talk as that happens on this show. Uh, Bonnie Joe

(02:13:53):
was saying to me she is from Texas and a
native Texan, but still going with what a burger over
at in and out and that's okay. So you're you're
a Californian, Jonathan. Now, how how long did you live
in California? So my mother breaking down for me because
there's not that many years, because you're very young. You
got to get older and wiser in a little bit
of seasoning. So I told you I have very a

(02:14:14):
lot of experience with this. Michael was a U c.
L A bruin football, but you were I'm talking about
where you lived, and I'm talking about your whole family
family England till five, okay. And then I moved to Texas. Okay,
so you're really a Texas.

Speaker 7 (02:14:26):
Yes that I'm saying, I'm really in texted, but my
family is really you know, from California. You get okay,
all right, I know either war you feel me? Yes, okay.
And then you went to what you were in Kentucky
for a while. I don't know kind of burger what
kind of burger joints? I got over there in Kentucky.
Got chick in shack.

Speaker 2 (02:14:41):
That's oh, shake shack, check's good. It's okay, It's all right.
People people from New York and the Northeast will say
shake shack, oh white castles horrible. Oh it's so bad,
so bad, all right. Somehow we got on burger Talk
and Steve wanted to get on that. What's up, Steve, Hey, Now, compare.

Speaker 9 (02:15:00):
Contrasts Champburger that you and Johnathan went to, I think
the other day, and.

Speaker 3 (02:15:05):
As delicious in it out.

Speaker 2 (02:15:07):
Now, see, that's these kind of different categories because one
is kind of like a like a to me, it's
a drive through fast food joint. Is different than like
a burger stand, certainly like a home style. Uh, I'll
probably go champ Burger in that instance, but also costs more.
And then the place that we went to, Yes, Burger
costs more.

Speaker 9 (02:15:26):
Oh really I think, No, really, I was surprised.

Speaker 2 (02:15:31):
Actually, yeah, you're right. A double double down. This is
also you get the off the off menu. I get
the double double mustard fried with the onions, and then
I get the fries. Actually, somebody gave me this tip.
This this uh a friend of mine that lives in California.
You can get the fries well done, but you can
also get them light well done, which is pretty good

(02:15:52):
as well, because the fry. If you want to argue fries,
I'm with you, guys, in and out fries are terrible.
But if you're going by the burger for burger, I'm
talking about oliburg. Don't don't shake your head. All right,
we're not talking about chicken fingers. No, it's called what
a burger. It's not called what a fries? Okay, it's
called in and out burger, not in and out fries.
So when we're arguing burgers, I go in and out.

(02:16:13):
You want to go for the whole restaurant, then it's waterburger.
That's a different conversation. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (02:16:19):
Okay, well, now I've never been to and I've yet
to go to an in and out, but I just
think water.

Speaker 2 (02:16:27):
Burger is just wait a minute, you think it's black
about burger.

Speaker 9 (02:16:32):
Yeah, I've never thought what burger is any good?

Speaker 2 (02:16:39):
Uh? Jonathan wants to throw hands right now, Steve, how
do you feel about that? He's dissing me. I can't
believe this.

Speaker 9 (02:16:47):
It's just well, the thing, okay, the problem with the
water Burger, in my opinion, is it's a horrible road
burger because they diced up the onions.

Speaker 8 (02:16:58):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:16:59):
Oh, so you can't eat it on the road exactly right, Right,
this is he's making a valid point. Don't they dice
up the onions? Basically? Where where? I guess maybe Wendy's doesn't. No,
you got rings that? Uh it's the rings.

Speaker 9 (02:17:13):
Yeah, maybe if they would. But the other thing about
the waburger man, when you eat that water burger in
your car, that waterburger set, it's there.

Speaker 2 (02:17:22):
Oh yeah, so what Yeah? You should pay for another
spray can Steve? You should be thinking them? No, look,
you should be.

Speaker 9 (02:17:32):
I do not want my car smelling like a water burger.
I don't help, but I just don't get all this
water burger love that. And I don't get the.

Speaker 2 (02:17:41):
Where are you from? Steve?

Speaker 9 (02:17:42):
The Rukies love all right?

Speaker 2 (02:17:44):
Where where are you? Steve? We're gonna kick you out
of the state. Where are you from? You should you
should run for I'm a man. You should run for
mister Texas with Matt What takes like that? You don't
like you don't like Rookies and you don't like Rutderburger.

Speaker 9 (02:17:57):
Well, I don't get the tell me I went to
I went to the Rookies and I've been and I like,
I walk around.

Speaker 10 (02:18:05):
It's like, what is the deal?

Speaker 2 (02:18:07):
What is okay? First? And foremost, we'll start, did you
go back in the day, would you went recently or
did you go back in the day before they got
super commercial and huge?

Speaker 9 (02:18:16):
Oh no, I went within the last year.

Speaker 2 (02:18:19):
How about Okay, it's I will say to me it
was it's certainly more commercialized. First, but now, but the
first and first and foremost, it's a clean bathroom on
a road trip. And if you've been on Texas road trip, Steve,
you know, it's not always easy to find a clean bathroom.
You get some guy who's giving you some key and
it's on a hub cap and you go to this
place and there's like crack pipes and mets stuff and

(02:18:42):
it's like, you know, stuff you don't even want to
know what's splattered all over the walls in there, and
you're like, this is not great. So, first and foremost,
the Rookies is a great place for a for a
pit stop, if you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (02:18:54):
Yeah, no, I understand, yeah, yeah, But other than but
the pet's not what what is it? But it's almost
what I don't get the draw of other than the bathroom,
which I get. Yes, it's just like a huge convenience.

Speaker 2 (02:19:10):
Now, yeah, exactly, Okay, well you're saying that it's a
bad thing you Okay, where else are you gonna stop
for the cleanest bathrooms in the state. You're gonna get
a barbecue sandwich, You're gonna get a slice of peanut
butter fudge, a couple of Klatchis, and a breakfast taco
and some BUCkies nuggets and send it go on your way. Now,
of course that's gonna cost you about eighty five dollars.

Speaker 9 (02:19:29):
Right, exactly right.

Speaker 2 (02:19:30):
See, now it's pretty commercial I thank you, Steve, appreciate
you making the call, Thank you for getting it. Now
it's much more commercialized than it was, and much more expensive.
It used to be like you get in there, you
get a chopped beef sandwich and some Roki's nuggets, and
then you get some and you get a very clean
bathroom and you're out of there for like fifteen bucks.

Speaker 3 (02:19:48):
Now it's much more expensive.

Speaker 2 (02:19:50):
They have all the knick knacks and stuff like that,
like they're trying to sell you, like like a three
thousand dollars drum, meat, smokers and stuff like that. Little
out of control from now, for sure, but certainly the
appeal to me starts with the bathrooms. And then they
have a bunch of really good stuff for you to eat.
But now it's really expensive, and quite frankly, it's a

(02:20:11):
little bit too much. And they make them they're they're
they're giant. Now it's it's kind of absurd. Just saying
kind of I'm not saying they jumped the shark, just
saying it's not what it once was. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety is the phone number
if you want to get in seven one three two
one two five seven ninety Steven in the heights. Next
up on the phone lines, what's up, Steven? Hold on,

(02:20:34):
I'm having Hey Ross, Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (02:20:37):
I gotta say, Matt Thomas is not mister Texas.

Speaker 2 (02:20:42):
Well to day already he.

Speaker 1 (02:20:44):
He doesn't understand barbecue well enough number one. Yes, uh,
that that's you know, and if you go to Texas
or you come here, you've got to try Texas barbecue.

Speaker 2 (02:20:54):
Absolutely. He doesn't like briskey. We went to We go
to barbecue places and he doesn't order brisket. I mean,
come on, man, so what's you know?

Speaker 1 (02:21:01):
He's not? You can't that disqualifies you automatically agree, you know.
So next I wanted to say You're right, in and
out is better than what Burger. I agree on the friese.
My only thing is the only thing I would take
better than in and out at what Burger is like
the patty melt. But otherwise right in and out every
day of the week. But but if one, if one

(02:21:27):
Burger is quantifying your whole menu, then your menu is terrible.

Speaker 2 (02:21:32):
Yes, uh is available, so it's a limited time offer.

Speaker 1 (02:21:37):
Right, Okay. And then the next thing I was going
to say is you have ah football may not win
another conference game this season.

Speaker 2 (02:21:43):
Okay, well I can't speak to that.

Speaker 1 (02:21:47):
But and you've got to tell Chris Gordy to put
Jordan Tyson on his blent to watch list.

Speaker 2 (02:21:54):
Okay, I will tell him. Okay, Jordan Tice.

Speaker 1 (02:22:00):
From Tyson from Arizona State.

Speaker 2 (02:22:02):
Okay, thank you? Oh this is is this that's Arizona State. Stephen?
Did you hang up on him?

Speaker 4 (02:22:08):
Was that you?

Speaker 2 (02:22:08):
Jonathan?

Speaker 3 (02:22:12):
I thought he was all right.

Speaker 2 (02:22:14):
There was a there was a vote for in and
out over what you got. Two callers came in and
went against you. Jonathan. You know to to ignore my pain.
Right now?

Speaker 7 (02:22:23):
Do you know the barbecue spot in Madisfield called Roodi's Rudies, Woodies, Woodies.

Speaker 2 (02:22:29):
No, I'm not familiar with them. Why I've been there.

Speaker 7 (02:22:30):
Because Fred was talking about good barbee spots and you
go to and I used to go there all the time, Dallas.
You haven't done that, been there before? Y'all should Okay, Wow,
there you go. Jonathan will whole segment with text food
Texas food. All right, We're gonna take a break here
on The Mat Thomas Show with Ross. You know what,
if you want to just go ahead and call in

(02:22:51):
and say that man Thomas had not mister Texas. I'll
take those calls if you like anything you guys want
to get to. Somehow we ended up talking Burgers, We're
talking some college football. We've got NFL stuff to get
to as well.

Speaker 2 (02:23:00):
All seven one three two one two five seven ninety
is the phone number seven one three two one two
five seven ninety The Matt Thomas Show with Ross without
Matt Thomas with you until two o'clock. Matt Thomas Show

(02:23:21):
with Ross continuing here on Sports Talk seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. The phone
number if you'd like to get in seven one three
two one two five seven and nine zero somehow ended
up on some Burger talk in the last couple.

Speaker 7 (02:23:36):
Of to make a two segments. I how did that
even come up? Initially, Jonathan, I want to blame Matt.
I think one of you guys brought up in and
out being better than Waterburger, and I was like, no,
And that's when you got very upset. And then everyone
called in and they told you you were wrong. I
feel about that.

Speaker 2 (02:23:53):
That's okay. They just hate Okay, No, nobody hates you, Johnathan.
Everybody loves you. Everybody thinks you're great. Whatever, whatever I got,
you get, I'm telling you. We go out in the road.
We get a lot of compliments for Jonathan injecting a
little youth into this and into this show much.

Speaker 7 (02:24:05):
Needed to said Waterburger if they wanted, you know what,
I'm not gonna scree. I'm at those callers too, No,
you're not well. Both of them were named Steven. I think, yeah, yeah,
all right.

Speaker 2 (02:24:13):
Seven one three two one two five seven II the
phone number if you want to get in seven one
three two one two five seven. I. We had the
Arizona State fan because stumping for his guy. We had
Chris Gordy on earlier. We were talking about the whole
Kirby Smart situation if you missed that with him trying
to call for a time out. A lot of college
football stuff going on, and thankfully my Texas Longhorns getting

(02:24:35):
the victory over the Oklahoma Sooners really for my own
mental health and just for for my confidence in being
able to walk the planet. Okay, maybe that's a little
bit of an oversall, but twenty three to six the
win for the long Horns, and you know, there's and
you look at the final stats, and I think Gordy
was kind of hinting that as well, like, oh, arch

(02:24:56):
Manning is over there waving bye bye to the crowd
after Yeah, he did run for it was a twenty
nine yard run that was basically ice in the game,
and he waved by to the crowd and he only
got one hundred and sixty six yards, but arch Manning did. Basically,
he didn't have to will the Longhorns to a win,
and right now where he is in his career, that's
basically what he needs to be asked to do. If

(02:25:19):
he has to put the team on his shoulders and
he has to go out there and win a game,
he doesn't have that capability and really didn't see that
routinely from Quinn Ewers in the last couple of years,
who unfortunately was like this five star, all world, no
doubt about it quarterback, and that's what arch Manning was
supposed to be. So it's funny when people are like,
what happened? What is going on with the recruiting services?

(02:25:41):
What happened? What I thought there was a can't missprogra
a can't miss quarterback. Yeah, Quinn Youers was supposed to
be a can't miss quarterback. Dude was a seventh rounder.
Seventh rounder before that. I mean we can go back
to the Garrett Gilbert of the world, five star can't
miss quarterback, and well he didn't end up being much
of anything either. I think he knocked around briefly in
the NFL as a backup. But yeah, there are five star,

(02:26:05):
can't miss, no doubt about it quarterbacks who don't work
out and right now, maybe Archs can improve and everything
around him was better in that Oklahoma game. That's why
he was able to thrive to the level that he did. Again,
not that he put the team on his back. They
scored seven from the punt return sixteen on the offense.

(02:26:25):
A lot of drives stalling out, missed a couple of
field goals as well, but there were really long ones, which,
by the way, I am encouraged by the by the
Texas cook kicker Mason Shipley, the dog. He was short
on the fifty five yarder, which I think they should
have gone for. Was it like fourth and three there? Yeah,
fourth and fourth. Yeah, I like Mason Shipley. He joinked

(02:26:47):
the fifty two yarder, but that was like at the
top of the upright, that bad boy could have gone
for six.

Speaker 7 (02:26:51):
Almost almost banked in. Honestly, it almost banked in. I
think the thing ut is just missing is the offense,
like three phase of the game. Their their offense is
just like Lester, their special teams in their defense is
just upset.

Speaker 2 (02:27:02):
I have to give him respect. I've watching that game
and I was genuinely surprised. And yeah, on the road
in Florida there were breakdowns and protection, they couldn't get
anything going on the running game. And then yeah, Arch
Manning is not a quarterback who is just going to
win the game for you.

Speaker 7 (02:27:15):
I know.

Speaker 2 (02:27:16):
Is all the Heisman hype and all that type of stuff,
which again I'll go back to arch Manning wasn't going
in front of microphones and saying, guys, make me number
one for the heisman. I'm ready to take over the reins.
He was like, I got to go out there and
prove it. That's what he was saying. But what happened
that that weekend and that game in Dallas is basically
the formula great defense, maybe some special team plays for

(02:27:38):
some turnovers. Run game with Contravian Weisner was actually working.
He had the long thirty seven yarder, but he was
getting some chunk play five six, seven eight yard runs
where a lot of times was he was down the
field two yards before getting contact and before In the
Florida game and especially in the Ohio State game, it
was just the run game had nothing going.

Speaker 7 (02:27:57):
And what happened to Wingo. I thought last year he
was this dog that was bit well because arch isn't
you know, give him the ball or that's part of it.
He loves Parker Livingstone. They also get some some run
with the tight ends as well. Ryan Windows good, but
it's not like he's incredible. And also arch Manning had
been running for his life a lot of the game.

(02:28:17):
And I will also say this, most of the plays
that arch Manning was able to make. We talked about
the third down was third and seven. They're basically at
their own end zone. That was a big one to
get a big chunk play. I think was that play
to Ryan Wingo I.

Speaker 2 (02:28:30):
Can't remember on the right side, or maybe was living Stone,
but either way, the big play that he made. A
couple of big plays, I would say, I would like
to see him make more plays within the rhythm of
the offense, where it's you know, a three step drop,
five step drop, boom, first second read, find the guys
and not necessarily scramble. That's good that he has that mobility,

(02:28:50):
that he can show the legs a little bit, get
that twenty nine yard run, make some plays off schedule,
find guys and scramble drills and stuff like that. I
would like to see a little bit more within the
rhythm of the offense because that has been one of
the knocks on him is that he's kind of a
first read guy. First read isn't there, start scrambling around
and you can make plays like that, and that's great,

(02:29:11):
but what NFL scouts want to see and that's not
necessarily relevant to the college game and what they want
to see there. There are college quarterbacks who can make
plays off schedule and that's great, so he can at
least show that ability. I would like to see a
little bit more. And I think that's one of the
reasons that quinn Ewers was starting over arch Manning last year.
And one of the things that I talked about a lot.

(02:29:32):
It's like, yeah, if he's so good, why couldn't he
pass up quin yours? Because quinn Ewers was playing a
little bit better within the rhythm of the offense, he
just would miss some throws.

Speaker 3 (02:29:41):
The accuracy issues there.

Speaker 2 (02:29:42):
And you saw did you see I don't know how
much of the game you're watching out of it, did
you see him kind of like wrenching his arm almost
like yeah, like he almost like he was pump almost
like he was pumping it up with like a like
a what do you call it air pump? I told
you in the Florida game when I saw a rap,
I was like, okay, and I came, you know, okay,
his shoulder has been around. There's the video of him
win saying I'm wondering if because he had a little

(02:30:04):
extra zip on the ball. Yeah. I would like to
talk to like people who break down college football film
because I'm just more of a casual watcher of the
college football game. It seemed like there was some t
like he'd been throwing a lot of dead ducks, especially
in Florida, a lot of wobblers, a lot of dead ducks,
a lot of like a lot of Colt McCoy specials
out there. Hell show a little zip a couple of

(02:30:26):
times in that game with some tight spirals. So I
wonder if maybe there was some sort of injury at
the start of the season and maybe he's getting a
little healthier, or is that something you say, he has
a bad game, he's heard he has a good game,
he's healthy. So well, I don't know. It's our next
game coming up, that'll be at Kentucky this weekend. There
are a ten and a half point favorite against Kentucky.

(02:30:47):
Winnable games coming up. You have at Kentucky, at Mississippi State,
then you're a home for Vanderbilt, then at Georgia, home
for Arkansas, home for Texas and m That's the rest
of the schedule right now. H winnable games, baby winnable
games at Georgia and then home for am. Obviously, the

(02:31:09):
two biggest tests home for Vanderbilt isn't gonna be any
you know, nothing to sneeze at either. We know the
quarterback over there, Diego Pavia, has been very good the
last couple of years for the Vanderbilt Commodore. So we'll
see what happens in those games. All right, We're gonna
take another break here on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
You guys want to get in? You cant seven one
three two one two five seven nineties. Oh Man, Trevor

(02:31:31):
mock even talking about his brother, Chance mock Woodlands five
star quarterback, can't miss Yeah, and then Vy showed up.
Sorry Trevor, but we always remember fondly that comeback against
Texas Tech. We shall not forget. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety is the phone number if
you want to get in. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Final segment the Matt Timas Show

(02:31:51):
with Ross coming up next year on Sports Talk seven
ninety one forty seven pm. Here on Sports Talk seven ninety,
Ross with You. Final segment of the show without Man Thomas.
It is the Man Thomas Show with Ross, but without
that guy. He had to duck out early. He is
getting on the Rockets plane. They are gonna be in
some preseason action. I think did he say I'm gonna

(02:32:15):
be honest, I kind of zoned out. They're gonna be
in Birmingham, right, Yeah, Birmingham and then Atlanta. I think
for the Rockets preseason. I don't know how much everybody's
gonna play, but in a general sense, the Rockets under
coach Udoka have taken the preseason pretty seriously. Like I
was at that game on Wednesday, it's the Utah Jazz.

(02:32:36):
It's the preseason. There's like two minutes left before half,
and you don't like no time out. We gotta start
chewing everybody out because Utah Jazz scored a couple of
a couple of buckets. They take it very seriously, or
at least under coach Udoka, they take it very seriously.
It's listed as a Rockets home game, but it's versus
the Pelicans in Birmingham, Alabama. I guess we'll call that

(02:32:58):
a neutral site game. And then they have a game
against Atlanta Hawks, and then real games begin. October twenty first,
Rockets involved in the ring night for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
They're hoping to spoil ring night. That game will be
on NBC and Peacock A six thirty start here on
a sports talk Seven ninety seven one three two one

(02:33:19):
two five seven ninety is the phone number if you
want to get in. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Larry in New Orleans has gotten in.
What's going on in Nola?

Speaker 8 (02:33:28):
Larry, Hey Ross, thanks for having me on second time.
A couple of things for real quick. The Hamburger, I
think a lot of it is what you grow up with.
I know, like water burger. I lived in Houston a

(02:33:50):
long time, lived all over, lived in California. The water
burger to me, the onions, I didn't like that at all.
I never tried it again. But any list it doesn't
have in and out either at the top or two
or maybe at the lowest three. I heard the list
last week that had five guys but didn't have in

(02:34:11):
and out on and so I don't you know, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:34:14):
To me, five guys is a different category as well.
It's not a drive through joint. It's a fast casual
and then you walk out, you get fries and a
burger there and you drop about twenty three bucks.

Speaker 9 (02:34:23):
Yeah, yeah, I think and I think it was.

Speaker 8 (02:34:27):
You know, it's kind of like maybe it's an upscale
of in and out fast casual.

Speaker 2 (02:34:32):
I would call it fast casual.

Speaker 1 (02:34:34):
Yeah, that's yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:34:36):
So the the art thing, uh, I've been living in
over here in New Orans for often twenty years. The
one the one thing in the back of my mind
when when when the whole art thing started, was there,
must you almost have had somebody over here that raised

(02:34:57):
the flag of him playing not at the top flight
competition level, and uh, you know it was it just
was it just an overreaction to to the Manning name,
which we we all love and respect over here. It's
just just just such a great family. But there must

(02:35:18):
have been somebody over here that said, you know, you
need to wait and see, you know, he hasn't really
played that that high level five A competition over here.
Was there somebody that raised the flag over there that Yeah, A.

Speaker 2 (02:35:33):
Number of people have said that talking about the level
of competition that he faced, even though of course it
was the same school and same competition that Eli and
Peyton went. It went up against.

Speaker 8 (02:35:44):
A lot of guys that come out of there.

Speaker 2 (02:35:46):
But yeah, Odell Beckham Junior and then the Manning brothers,
and then I guess anybody with the last name Manning
at this.

Speaker 8 (02:35:54):
Point, Yeah, it's it's you know, it's yeah, I would
just one of those overreactions. But anyway, thanks for taking
the call.

Speaker 2 (02:36:06):
Thank you, Larry, appreciate it. Yeah, I don't think. I
think if you've got the talent, you've got the talent,
and then you'll figure it out. And but maybe there
is an adjustment period. Maybe there is.

Speaker 9 (02:36:16):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:36:16):
I mean, Arch Manning this past weekend looked about as
good as he had and but he wasn't looking good
against San Jose, didn't look super great against UTAP and
then Sam Houston I mean, my goodness. I although I
do say Sam Houston State the best OH to six
team in football. Okay, I'm just making that out. They're

(02:36:39):
getting their asks kicked by everybody. Just lost a Jacksonville State,
oh Man Bearcats. What happened?

Speaker 7 (02:36:44):
Man?

Speaker 2 (02:36:46):
They wanted to FBS beautiful oh and six? All right? Anyways,
so yeah, look to me, first, the first and foremost
five star quarterbacks spent no doubt about it. Can't five
star quarterbacks are not no doubt about it. Can't miss quarterbacks.
Was there extra hype because of his last name. In

(02:37:07):
all likelihood social media as well. That social media hyped
him up. Yeah, it's not his social media. I think
he's tweeted a couple of times it's like yeah, yeah.
His first tweet was like I'm committing to Texas and
then he had a couple more with with like some
sponsors that he's had talking about Arch Manning. But yes,
this social media age you had. Paul Finbaum in the

(02:37:27):
offseason was calling him like the most talented quarterback that
we've ever seen in college football since ten Tebow. Like,
what are you talking about? It's ridiculous. Go through any
any number of great quarterbacks. I don't know. Baker Mayfield,
who's been the best college football quarterbacks in the last
of Jade Daniels was great, Caleb Williams, Oh, Cam Newton,

(02:37:48):
what a beast he was. Yeah, we can go on
and on and on the list. And for a guy
who had only made a couple of starts, and again,
I will keep coming back to could not pass Quinn
Ewers on the depth chart despite Quinn yours getting benched.
What was in that first Georgia game. I think he
got bench at the end of the second half or
the first half, and then second half he didn't really

(02:38:10):
show much and they went back to quin yours. They
were looking for a little spark, a little life, a
little show me something, and he didn't seize the opportunity. Now,
of course it was a small sample size and all
that type of stuff. But he can continue to build
and get better. He's gonna need the team around him
to be as be great as well. Defense was incredible,
pass rush was very good. Secondary got Malik Muhammad back,

(02:38:31):
and he got a couple of picks as well. So
I mean you add it all up. Longhorns, which unfortunately
has been the mo the last couple of years, get
enough from your defense, or sorry, excuse me, get enough
from your offense while the defense holds everything down and
don't make mistakes and don't turn the ball over. Long
Horns didn't turn the ball over. They got three of them.

(02:38:53):
They won the game twenty three to six. Very simple.
That's kind of funny when you think of Sarka's supposed
to be this h you know, tempo and offense and
great play caller, inventive football. Mine in the last couple
of years been like, oh my god, I hope our
defense can hold this because we are not doing anything
offensively well.

Speaker 7 (02:39:12):
Last year, you even saw the Texas offense have that
tempo even like lay into the playoffs and stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:39:17):
Even with you know, like he was going boom boom
boom in the big games, especially like Ohio State and
then the Georgia games. It felt to me like Sark
played more not to lose. But also, I mean even
though you had both of your tackles were draft Kelvin
Banks was in the first round and then his name
is escaping me was a second rounder as well, Like you,

(02:39:37):
both of your tackles got drafted in the top and
they were still playing scared and they still didn't get
much from the run game. They they Hopefully CJ. Baxer
can get back. I think he's he's can be an.

Speaker 3 (02:39:46):
X factor running back.

Speaker 2 (02:39:47):
And I saw a lot a lot from Quntravian Wiser
in this last game as well, where he was sometimes
he was getting not getting hit until he was a
couple of yards down the field and he was making
six seven eight yard runs, but a lot of times
he was making his own yards. So me personally, color
me encouraged by the nice win over the Oklahoma sooners.
All right, that's gonna do it for the Matt Thomas

(02:40:08):
Show with Ross here on Sports Talk seven ninety. My
name is Ross Virial. Thanks to all of you for listening.
I really do appreciate it. Thanks for those you called, tweeted,
got involved in the show directly and followed me at
Sports RV on Instagram. Thanks to Jonathan Allen produced to
do it. A great job as always, Matt Thomas. We'll
be back from Birmingham tomorrow. Right now, you get not
only one, Adam, it's two atoms. They call themselves the eighteen.

(02:40:29):
They're coming up next here on Sports Talk seven ninety