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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I feel like this is a headline that has been
put out there every so often for the last i
don't know, maybe a year and some change, and that
Andy Basheer is leaving the door open for a twenty
twenty eight presidential run. If you showed me a news article,
(00:20):
a headline on the Internet, I could believe you that
that was from today, that was from a year ago,
because that's just sort of been the noise surrounding his future.
But I think some of the things, and maybe I'm
putting a little more into it than others, but like
I get the sense now that I'd be not stunned
or shocked, but I get the sense that he is
(00:41):
going to attempt to run for president. But again I
say that just trying to put pieces to a puzzle together,
and maybe these pieces don't fit. But certain things have
made it clear that he's at least continuing to test
the waters as if maybe he's looking for more confirmation
on his end that it would be a wise decision
for him to do that. And I'm not saying it
would or wouldn't. But yesterday he talked at an event
(01:04):
in Cincinnati with the Ohio governor, and he told reporters
that he's not ruling it out. Quote, he and his
family will consider a presidential run in twenty twenty eight
if they believe he's the right person to help heal
the country. So at forty nine years old, he's of
course continuing to maintain that his focus is bringing people
together and looking out for the state of Kentucky as
(01:26):
you would expect as the governor. But we'll see. I mean,
next year's going to be the chair of the Democratic
Governor's Association, of position that could boost his profile certainly.
You know, to me, I think he I don't have
any I don't even want to get into what like
scenario where he would end up being president. We're far
far away from that. But to me, he is someone
(01:48):
that you could easily find. In fact, it won't take
you long to fund some people who maybe you're anti Bashir,
that don't like him, don't like his politics, but you know,
he's he's pretty related. Like to me, he's a tolerable
Democrat for those on the other side that loathe everything
about the other side. If that makes sense. That has
(02:10):
nothing to do if he'd actually have a realistic chance
of having success, but not a surprise to see that
he's continuing to at least leave that door open and
not and not close it. I asked you a few
months ago, John, if you thought he would run, and
you seem to be not confident, because really none of
us know, we're all guessing, but you seem at that point,
if I remember correctly, to think it'd be you thought,
(02:32):
if you had to guess that, you'd say he would.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, and any anytime you make national headlines and you're
a blue Democrat in a traditionally red state. And not
only that, I mean you've you've won the governorship twice
in a row, and that's not super uncommon around here,
of course, But I think I agree with you. The relatability,
or I should say the tolerability from the other side,
I think that's something that will make him an attractive
(02:55):
candidate early on, whenever he's making that decision on whether
or not he'll run.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, I mean, I just have a hard time imagining him,
you know, running and actually winning. But what do I know? Again,
that's that's a ways away. In fact, it's a long
time away, but a lot can change in that amount
of time. But for me, it's just I don't know.
I am not to say that I'm doubting him that
(03:20):
he would you know, he wouldn't get support. I just
seeing a shift to where we have a Democrat as
president right now, it just doesn't feel like that that
that that's a trending thing. But again, as mentioned, and
it can't be overstated, anything can change in a huge
window of time that we have here leading up to
(03:41):
when this whole thing gets started again. I mean we
haven't even been a full year into the most recent election.
So yeah, I think the podcast was a sign for me.
And again I'm just trying to connect dots that maybe
they don't connect, and I'm forcing it. But to me,
that that was him saying, okay, yes, give me that
platform to continue to build my profile in a way
(04:05):
that is not your typical in front of a microphone
at a presser political stuff. Right again, I don't think
you're gonna see him really let his hair down, if
you know what I mean. As far as just you know,
becoming this super energetic podcaster that's sharing strong opinions and
talking pop culture, I don't think that's what it's gonna be.
(04:25):
But it does give him a little bit of arrange
to maybe be more personal relatable to those that you
know don't know a lot about him. All right, let's
get to a quick time out trapping weather updates on
the way, and we'll keep this thing rolling along. We've
got Rody o'nil set to join us from NBC at
around eight thirty five. We'll talk about the government shut
(04:46):
down and the impact it's had with the airport travel,
because that could be the ultimate issue if it becomes
a bigger issue where there's really pressure ramping up to
get this thing ended, meaning the shutdown. So stick with
us right here, and here's RADI to wait forty whas.
There's no better gig than being a high level college
(05:07):
football coach. You have to do enough to get yourself
in a position to get one of these jobs. But
once you get one of these jobs, you can be awful,
you can be terrible, and you're still going to have
in most cases, generational wealth. What's better than being one
of these coaches that can get fired and get paid
millions not to work. I mean, what a gig. But
(05:29):
you know who actually has it better than those guys?
The agents, And Jimmy Sexton is the powerful agent in
college football that is. I mean, he may be the
I don't want to say lucky because again he's doing
his job well, he's working hard to retain really important clients.
But I mean he's got his hand in with a
(05:52):
bunch of coaches who have big buyouts, right, I mean
Jimmy Sexton. And by the way, his background is interesting.
I did not realize this, but Jimmy Sexton he became
an agent the when he roommate. He was roommate with
Reggie White at Tennessee many many years ago and ended
up establishing a relationship and represented Reggie White and then
(06:13):
the rest is history. He became a very successful agent
for players, coaches and whatnot. But really college football is
where he's He's become a legend. But he represents coaches
at Florida, Penn State, Arkansas, UCLA, Auburn, South Carolina, Florida State,
Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Michigan State, and many more. So
each time one of those coaches gets fired or hired,
(06:35):
you know the Domino's fault. And he's right in the
middle of the money trail, right. Buyouts that are that
are going out right now. Penn State forty nine million
for James Franklin twenty million for billion Apier. Sexton gets
a cut of both. He represents both. Both guys both
will find new jobs, especially Franklin, who may get a
(06:55):
good job that pays him a lot of money. Jimmy
Sexton gets a cut of that as well. I mean,
he's got James Franklin, Billy Naper, Mike Norvell, Lane Kiffin,
Kirby Smart, Kalin, a Borr, Dan Lanning, Steve, Steve Sarkisian,
and Nick Saban who doesn't coach anymore. But you know what,
Nick Saban's sitting on a four hundred and thirty eight
million dollar ESPN contract. Jimmy Sexton gets the cut of that, right.
(07:17):
He also gets a cut of saving every wants to
get back into the game and coach, which I don't
know if that's gonna happen or not, but look these guys,
these coaches do really well. But like this guy didn't
have to coach. He just he negotiates. And not to
say that's easy, but he just like the coaches, he
has no he's gonna make money regardless if those coaches
get fired, they win, lose, whatever. So yeah, if you
(07:40):
can build a base with clients like that, and just
the way the market is for coaches where they get
all these big time they get these big time contracts
and it does not matter if they win or lose.
And you know, I thought that we really hit the
end of this being a thing because it's just financially
wreckles for universities to put a scenario out there where
(08:03):
your football coach can be lousy cater your program by
not winning at all, and then you still have to
pay him every dime on the contract. And then you know,
you got to go pay a new coach to come
in and fix it up or clean things up. Like
how how do we ever get here? I mean, it's amazing,
But again it's clearly a job well done by the
agents who again this is there, this is what they're
(08:25):
supposed to do, but you would expect them to not
have such a dominant control over everything. And uh, as mentioned,
I thought maybe we would, we would see the end
of these ridiculous contracts just because of things changing with
with revshare and all that. But what is it if
if Indiana for some reason fires Signetty? What is he
owed ninety something three and a half? Yeah, I mean
(08:45):
that's that's just insane. So yeah, great to be a coach,
win or lose, because if you get the job doesn't matter,
you're going to be wealthy. In these agents, they got
their hands in everything and they're they're constantly making money.
So pays more than this, I'm sure, maybe just a
little bit more. All right, let's get to a quick
dit of trafficking. Whether we've also got another sports update
(09:07):
coming your way. Rory O'Neil said to join us at
eight thirty five right here on News Radio eight forty,
whas not a whole lot of time left here on
a Wednesday morning before we hand it off to the
fellas Tony and Dwight. But I have Tony with me
here now, and I know you are not not I
was gonna say plugged in, but that's not even really
the right way to describe it. But you now are
(09:29):
not distracted by what you have to be consuming when
you're a sports talk radio host. You've been away from
that for a long time. I'm recently away from it.
It's very freeing. But it's hard not to see at
least a little bit of noise about Jeff Brown being
an attractive candidate for some of these jobs. That are
already open and some of these jobs that may open,
and I just have a hard time envisioning a scenario
(09:51):
where he leaves Louisville to go take another college job.
I also, though, understand if you are a program like
a Penn State or a Florida or an Auburn if
they opened, they're the kind of programs that that wouldn't
get it. And look, they may be able to pull
something off, but like they would say, Okay, yeah he
went there, that's cute, but we're we're in the sec
we're in the big ten. We're gonna go take your coach.
(10:11):
I mean, he wouldn't leave Wood.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
He No.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Look, I've always you know me, I've always said, don't
count on any coach. They're gonna go quit on you
the second that. What have you heard? My family loves
it here, We've made this a home. My wife, that's
our home. My wife it was a home. This is
our home, my wife loves my wife loves this town.
This is our home. My kids are in school. And
then two days later, gone, yep, job, it's yes, yes,
(10:36):
But in this case, it's just to Jeff brom because
you got to look at the person of whether it's
a better job or not. Everyone in the world would
say Penn State is a better job than Louisville football,
anybody in college football. But is it for Jeff Brom.
Jeff Brom can win eight games a year and still
get paid five million dollars a year, and he's in
his hometown at Louisville where he's always wanted to be.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Look the like Louisville football, there's Brom DNA in it
for generations that it matters if you If you ask
Jeff would he would he like to win a national championship.
He'd like to win one anywhere, but winning one at
Louisville would be different for him than anywhere else. I'm
not saying it will ever happen here. I'm just saying
this is the ultimate, the ultimate rare exception to where
(11:21):
he'll he'll never not care about Louisville. When he wasn't
coaching here because he was a head coach elsewhere, or
whenever he was an assistant, or whenever he had some
time off and he wasn't actively coaching in Louisville was
not succeeding, he was probably just as mad as fans
because it's part of who he is. It's a rare situation.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Out I I think it's kind of an insult to
brom and a Louisville football himself that he's been here
two years now and they're already three and they're talking
about him wanting to leave already. Well, I mean, well, no,
I'm not him personally, but they start throwing him into
the mix for these other jobs.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I've not seen anyone even those, because yesterday it's a
little bit of a turn to where you see folks
like David Pollock, Mike de Courci for the Sporting News
penning articles that claim if I.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Was this schools if I was, I would do but.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
They even won't go as far as saying they would.
They expect him to realistically consider doing it.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Because look, Franklin, Penn State did not do themselves any favors.
They fired a guy that was one play away from
the National Championship Game last year. I mean seriously, he
he brought them back from the brink of what all
that crazy stuff with Paterno and Selinski, not Selensky, Sandusky.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Sandusky, Jerry Sandusky and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
So the break from that and made them a part
of a football conversation again, I mean crazy. So they
didn't do themselves any favor. These these schools like penn State,
they think they're sexier than they are.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Right, you're in Happy Valley, Pennsylvania. I've been there. Yeah,
not that sexy football team.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
But so I think James Franklin's air there is an
example of two things. One, you could be really great,
but if you're not winning, you know, if you're not
right there for a title, then they don't see a
lot of value in it. But also it was proof
that that's a job right now where he had everything needed.
He nobody would say he's a bad coach. He just
couldn't get over to me. He couldn't be able the
(13:17):
hump to get to being one of the elite of
the elites, like the Bama's, the Georgia's, the Ohio States.
And that's because that's not easy to do, not because
he's a flawed coach.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Now, if you're if you're Brahm out of courtesy, do
you take those calls and listen and say thanks, thanks
but no, or do you just say then then come out,
come out with a statement and say I'm not gonna
I'm not even interested.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
No, it's not necessary at this point. Maybe no. I mean, look,
I remember when he turned Louisville down the first time.
I mean you could see visibly he's very much what
you see is what you get, and it was uncomfortable
for him that Louisville's job had already opened while he
was still coaching that Purdue team. And I you know,
I think there was a lot that went into that
decision for him, but I think the long lead up
(13:59):
of just everybody asking about it made him more so,
like I can do but real quick.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
The Miami guy, the broadcaster that was saying Brom doesn't
dress up, he doesn't make himself, you know, he's not
the guy always looking for the next job or whatever.
And I look, I can confirm that I was in
San Francisco when he was the backup quarterback for the
forty nine ers. He showed up in tennis shoes, jeans,
and a flannel shirt in a rented car. Okay, this
(14:25):
guy is not flashy. He wants to be a football coach,
bike shorts, whistle, smelly socks to.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Somebody said this over the weekend. I thought it was
perfect for Jeff. He's every football guy's favorite football guy.
You go right, I mean that's just who he is.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Perfect description.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Tony and Dwight are coming your way next right here
on news Radio eight forty whas
I feel like this is a headline that has been
put out there every so often for the last i
don't know, maybe a year and some change, and that
Andy Basheer is leaving the door open for a twenty
twenty eight presidential run. If you showed me a news article,
(00:20):
a headline on the Internet, I could believe you that
that was from today, that was from a year ago,
because that's just sort of been the noise surrounding his future.
But I think some of the things, and maybe I'm
putting a little more into it than others, but like
I get the sense now that I'd be not stunned
or shocked, but I get the sense that he is
(00:41):
going to attempt to run for president. But again I
say that just trying to put pieces to a puzzle together,
and maybe these pieces don't fit. But certain things have
made it clear that he's at least continuing to test
the waters as if maybe he's looking for more confirmation
on his end that it would be a wise decision
for him to do that. And I'm not saying it
would or wouldn't. But yesterday he talked at an event
(01:04):
in Cincinnati with the Ohio governor, and he told reporters
that he's not ruling it out. Quote, he and his
family will consider a presidential run in twenty twenty eight
if they believe he's the right person to help heal
the country. So at forty nine years old, he's of
course continuing to maintain that his focus is bringing people
together and looking out for the state of Kentucky as
(01:26):
you would expect as the governor. But we'll see. I mean,
next year's going to be the chair of the Democratic
Governor's Association, of position that could boost his profile certainly.
You know, to me, I think he I don't have
any I don't even want to get into what like
scenario where he would end up being president. We're far
far away from that. But to me, he is someone
(01:48):
that you could easily find. In fact, it won't take
you long to fund some people who maybe you're anti Bashir,
that don't like him, don't like his politics, but you know,
he's he's pretty related. Like to me, he's a tolerable
Democrat for those on the other side that loathe everything
about the other side. If that makes sense. That has
(02:10):
nothing to do if he'd actually have a realistic chance
of having success, but not a surprise to see that
he's continuing to at least leave that door open and
not and not close it. I asked you a few
months ago, John, if you thought he would run, and
you seem to be not confident, because really none of
us know, we're all guessing, but you seem at that point,
if I remember correctly, to think it'd be you thought,
(02:32):
if you had to guess that, you'd say he would.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, and any anytime you make national headlines and you're
a blue Democrat in a traditionally red state. And not
only that, I mean you've you've won the governorship twice
in a row, and that's not super uncommon around here,
of course, But I think I agree with you. The relatability,
or I should say the tolerability from the other side,
I think that's something that will make him an attractive
(02:55):
candidate early on, whenever he's making that decision on whether
or not he'll run.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, I mean, I just have a hard time imagining him,
you know, running and actually winning. But what do I know? Again,
that's that's a ways away. In fact, it's a long
time away, but a lot can change in that amount
of time. But for me, it's just I don't know.
I am not to say that I'm doubting him that
(03:20):
he would you know, he wouldn't get support. I just
seeing a shift to where we have a Democrat as
president right now, it just doesn't feel like that that
that that's a trending thing. But again, as mentioned, and
it can't be overstated, anything can change in a huge
window of time that we have here leading up to
(03:41):
when this whole thing gets started again. I mean we
haven't even been a full year into the most recent election.
So yeah, I think the podcast was a sign for me.
And again I'm just trying to connect dots that maybe
they don't connect, and I'm forcing it. But to me,
that that was him saying, okay, yes, give me that
platform to continue to build my profile in a way
(04:05):
that is not your typical in front of a microphone
at a presser political stuff. Right again, I don't think
you're gonna see him really let his hair down, if
you know what I mean. As far as just you know,
becoming this super energetic podcaster that's sharing strong opinions and
talking pop culture, I don't think that's what it's gonna be.
(04:25):
But it does give him a little bit of arrange
to maybe be more personal relatable to those that you
know don't know a lot about him. All right, let's
get to a quick time out trapping weather updates on
the way, and we'll keep this thing rolling along. We've
got Rody o'nil set to join us from NBC at
around eight thirty five. We'll talk about the government shut
(04:46):
down and the impact it's had with the airport travel,
because that could be the ultimate issue if it becomes
a bigger issue where there's really pressure ramping up to
get this thing ended, meaning the shutdown. So stick with
us right here, and here's RADI to wait forty whas.
There's no better gig than being a high level college
(05:07):
football coach. You have to do enough to get yourself
in a position to get one of these jobs. But
once you get one of these jobs, you can be awful,
you can be terrible, and you're still going to have
in most cases, generational wealth. What's better than being one
of these coaches that can get fired and get paid
millions not to work. I mean, what a gig. But
(05:29):
you know who actually has it better than those guys?
The agents, And Jimmy Sexton is the powerful agent in
college football that is. I mean, he may be the
I don't want to say lucky because again he's doing
his job well, he's working hard to retain really important clients.
But I mean he's got his hand in with a
(05:52):
bunch of coaches who have big buyouts, right, I mean
Jimmy Sexton. And by the way, his background is interesting.
I did not realize this, but Jimmy Sexton he became
an agent the when he roommate. He was roommate with
Reggie White at Tennessee many many years ago and ended
up establishing a relationship and represented Reggie White and then
(06:13):
the rest is history. He became a very successful agent
for players, coaches and whatnot. But really college football is
where he's He's become a legend. But he represents coaches
at Florida, Penn State, Arkansas, UCLA, Auburn, South Carolina, Florida State,
Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Michigan State, and many more. So
each time one of those coaches gets fired or hired,
(06:35):
you know the Domino's fault. And he's right in the
middle of the money trail, right. Buyouts that are that
are going out right now. Penn State forty nine million
for James Franklin twenty million for billion Apier. Sexton gets
a cut of both. He represents both. Both guys both
will find new jobs, especially Franklin, who may get a
(06:55):
good job that pays him a lot of money. Jimmy
Sexton gets a cut of that as well. I mean,
he's got James Franklin, Billy Naper, Mike Norvell, Lane Kiffin,
Kirby Smart, Kalin, a Borr, Dan Lanning, Steve, Steve Sarkisian,
and Nick Saban who doesn't coach anymore. But you know what,
Nick Saban's sitting on a four hundred and thirty eight
million dollar ESPN contract. Jimmy Sexton gets the cut of that, right.
(07:17):
He also gets a cut of saving every wants to
get back into the game and coach, which I don't
know if that's gonna happen or not, but look these guys,
these coaches do really well. But like this guy didn't
have to coach. He just he negotiates. And not to
say that's easy, but he just like the coaches, he
has no he's gonna make money regardless if those coaches
get fired, they win, lose, whatever. So yeah, if you
(07:40):
can build a base with clients like that, and just
the way the market is for coaches where they get
all these big time they get these big time contracts
and it does not matter if they win or lose.
And you know, I thought that we really hit the
end of this being a thing because it's just financially
wreckles for universities to put a scenario out there where
(08:03):
your football coach can be lousy cater your program by
not winning at all, and then you still have to
pay him every dime on the contract. And then you know,
you got to go pay a new coach to come
in and fix it up or clean things up. Like
how how do we ever get here? I mean, it's amazing,
But again it's clearly a job well done by the
agents who again this is there, this is what they're
(08:25):
supposed to do, but you would expect them to not
have such a dominant control over everything. And uh, as mentioned,
I thought maybe we would, we would see the end
of these ridiculous contracts just because of things changing with
with revshare and all that. But what is it if
if Indiana for some reason fires Signetty? What is he
owed ninety something three and a half? Yeah, I mean
(08:45):
that's that's just insane. So yeah, great to be a coach,
win or lose, because if you get the job doesn't matter,
you're going to be wealthy. In these agents, they got
their hands in everything and they're they're constantly making money.
So pays more than this, I'm sure, maybe just a
little bit more. All right, let's get to a quick
dit of trafficking. Whether we've also got another sports update
(09:07):
coming your way. Rory O'Neil said to join us at
eight thirty five right here on News Radio eight forty,
whas not a whole lot of time left here on
a Wednesday morning before we hand it off to the
fellas Tony and Dwight. But I have Tony with me
here now, and I know you are not not I
was gonna say plugged in, but that's not even really
the right way to describe it. But you now are
(09:29):
not distracted by what you have to be consuming when
you're a sports talk radio host. You've been away from
that for a long time. I'm recently away from it.
It's very freeing. But it's hard not to see at
least a little bit of noise about Jeff Brown being
an attractive candidate for some of these jobs. That are
already open and some of these jobs that may open,
and I just have a hard time envisioning a scenario
(09:51):
where he leaves Louisville to go take another college job.
I also, though, understand if you are a program like
a Penn State or a Florida or an Auburn if
they opened, they're the kind of programs that that wouldn't
get it. And look, they may be able to pull
something off, but like they would say, Okay, yeah he
went there, that's cute, but we're we're in the sec
we're in the big ten. We're gonna go take your coach.
(10:11):
I mean, he wouldn't leave Wood.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
He No.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Look, I've always you know me, I've always said, don't
count on any coach. They're gonna go quit on you
the second that. What have you heard? My family loves
it here, We've made this a home. My wife, that's
our home. My wife it was a home. This is
our home, my wife loves my wife loves this town.
This is our home. My kids are in school. And
then two days later, gone, yep, job, it's yes, yes,
(10:36):
But in this case, it's just to Jeff brom because
you got to look at the person of whether it's
a better job or not. Everyone in the world would
say Penn State is a better job than Louisville football,
anybody in college football. But is it for Jeff Brom.
Jeff Brom can win eight games a year and still
get paid five million dollars a year, and he's in
his hometown at Louisville where he's always wanted to be.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Look the like Louisville football, there's Brom DNA in it
for generations that it matters if you If you ask
Jeff would he would he like to win a national championship.
He'd like to win one anywhere, but winning one at
Louisville would be different for him than anywhere else. I'm
not saying it will ever happen here. I'm just saying
this is the ultimate, the ultimate rare exception to where
(11:21):
he'll he'll never not care about Louisville. When he wasn't
coaching here because he was a head coach elsewhere, or
whenever he was an assistant, or whenever he had some
time off and he wasn't actively coaching in Louisville was
not succeeding, he was probably just as mad as fans
because it's part of who he is. It's a rare situation.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Out I I think it's kind of an insult to
brom and a Louisville football himself that he's been here
two years now and they're already three and they're talking
about him wanting to leave already. Well, I mean, well, no,
I'm not him personally, but they start throwing him into
the mix for these other jobs.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I've not seen anyone even those, because yesterday it's a
little bit of a turn to where you see folks
like David Pollock, Mike de Courci for the Sporting News
penning articles that claim if I.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Was this schools if I was, I would do but.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
They even won't go as far as saying they would.
They expect him to realistically consider doing it.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Because look, Franklin, Penn State did not do themselves any favors.
They fired a guy that was one play away from
the National Championship Game last year. I mean seriously, he
he brought them back from the brink of what all
that crazy stuff with Paterno and Selinski, not Selensky, Sandusky.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Sandusky, Jerry Sandusky and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
So the break from that and made them a part
of a football conversation again, I mean crazy. So they
didn't do themselves any favor. These these schools like penn State,
they think they're sexier than they are.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Right, you're in Happy Valley, Pennsylvania. I've been there. Yeah,
not that sexy football team.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
But so I think James Franklin's air there is an
example of two things. One, you could be really great,
but if you're not winning, you know, if you're not
right there for a title, then they don't see a
lot of value in it. But also it was proof
that that's a job right now where he had everything needed.
He nobody would say he's a bad coach. He just
couldn't get over to me. He couldn't be able the
(13:17):
hump to get to being one of the elite of
the elites, like the Bama's, the Georgia's, the Ohio States.
And that's because that's not easy to do, not because
he's a flawed coach.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Now, if you're if you're Brahm out of courtesy, do
you take those calls and listen and say thanks, thanks
but no, or do you just say then then come out,
come out with a statement and say I'm not gonna
I'm not even interested.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
No, it's not necessary at this point. Maybe no. I mean, look,
I remember when he turned Louisville down the first time.
I mean you could see visibly he's very much what
you see is what you get, and it was uncomfortable
for him that Louisville's job had already opened while he
was still coaching that Purdue team. And I you know,
I think there was a lot that went into that
decision for him, but I think the long lead up
(13:59):
of just everybody asking about it made him more so,
like I can do but real quick.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
The Miami guy, the broadcaster that was saying Brom doesn't
dress up, he doesn't make himself, you know, he's not
the guy always looking for the next job or whatever.
And I look, I can confirm that I was in
San Francisco when he was the backup quarterback for the
forty nine ers. He showed up in tennis shoes, jeans,
and a flannel shirt in a rented car. Okay, this
(14:25):
guy is not flashy. He wants to be a football coach,
bike shorts, whistle, smelly socks to.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Somebody said this over the weekend. I thought it was
perfect for Jeff. He's every football guy's favorite football guy.
You go right, I mean that's just who he is.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Perfect description.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Tony and Dwight are coming your way next right here
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