June 10, 2026 • 35 mins
What I wish Texas Tech's AD would say. The Bengals keep doing something that's very, very important. And the most unique Cincinnati sports figure of my lifetime gets his moment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For details ESPN since that is US six after four
minute wait. Sorry, sorry, We'll give you some of your
money back. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. My name is Maeger.
Thank you for listening today. Can I just pull back
the curtains and let you in on what I'm dealing
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with right now? And maybe this will help if you
over the last like five days, have expected some form
of email correspondence from me and you haven't gotten it,
I believe, and I'm I'm I'm on this back.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And forth right now.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I did not mean for this to be the case
while I'm on the air, but I'm on a back
and forth right now with our company's help desk because
I guess every email I send, including some to people
that I work with, end up in either a spam
or junk fold, and so like this occurred to me
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early this week on Friday, I sent emails to people
for a variety of different reasons. And the weekend came
and went and I never heard back from anybody. And
then so Monday morning, I'm working and I'm you know,
doing some show stuff, I'm doing some other stuff, and
I'm sending emails and like, by Monday night, I'm like,
does everybody hate me?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
What does is everybody, like, you know, conspiring against me?
Do they know something I don't? Is there?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And then I sent my wife an.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Email yesterday I forwarded her something and I got home
and I go, do you get that email I sentied?
She's like no, she goes on her spam and there
it is. And then I have a personal email address
that I never use, but I have access to it.
I sent myself an email and ended up in spam,
and so I even like this, this gentleman asked me
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to be on his Bengals podcast. He send me an
Instagram message, which, by the way, I also didn't know
until this weekend that you can send people messages on
Instagram if they don't follow you, and I had no idea, Like,
I look at this, I'm screwing around on Instagram and
I get I'm like flooded with these messages from people
that I don't follow. And now it's like, well, here's
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even more folks that I've ignored because I'm just awful
of correspondence. But this guy asked me, will you go
on my podcast? And I said, yeah, great, no problem,
here's my email address. Shoot, me an email and we'll
get it done. And he shot me an email like instantly,
and I wrote him back. And then today he writes
me it's like, hey, man, you know I wroach and
I'm like, so then I had to go back to
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Instagram send this guy a message and I said, hey,
check your spam folder. I wrote you right back, happy
to go on your podcast. I don't know why he
or anybody else would want me on their podcast, but
happy to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Check your spam.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And so in the middle of all this, late last night,
I go to the iHeartMedia help desk because I don't
know how to fix this. I've looked on the online.
I've asked people that I know who know a lot
about computers. It's a company email address, and you know,
it's MO at ESPN fifteen thirty dot com or mo
it's seven hundred wlw dot. It's like five different email
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addresses all go to the same place. And I've even
had some emails that I've sent to coworkers that have
ended up in their junk, so like I've done something
wrong apparently, And so like last night, at ten o'clock,
I go to the help desk just hoping that somebody
could help me this morning, and they're very busy lot,
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we have lots of employees. I didn't hear back from
anybody until right before three o'clock, and I said, like,
I'm a little bit busy for the next three hours.
And the person wrote me back and said, well, I'll
well do a remote session before six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I've got to do this radio show.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Danner's going to be here in studio of Brad Johansen
Wise Money Sports, and all the while I get somebody
who's got to tap into my computer to figure out
what's wrong so I can send emails and so like
twice this week, I've gotten emails from folks and I,
you know, some of these I give to Taran. Some
I just right back. Two people who pitched pretty good
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guests this week. I wrote them both back, haven't heard back.
Went to spam. We did the contest, and this is
who I need to appeal to. We did the contest
for those three organizations that help people who have als,
and the five winners get to go on a bourbon
tasting tour. And it's up to me to like organize
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a time and date for these folks and I've emailed them,
and I've heard back from one of them. Apparently the
one guy that I heard back from like checked his spam.
So these folks probably think like I'm ignoring them. So,
if there's anybody out there beyond the person who's going
to tap into my computer to maybe fix my email issue,
who can give me some advice on how to ensure
that my work emails for my work address don't end
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up in junk or spam, I'm all ears because this
is deeply, deeply frustrating. This is what I'm dealing with
while trying to conduct a radio program. Reds and Padres
are about to get underway in San Diego. We will
keep you up to date on that. I am looking
at a one two, three, four, five, six, seven seven
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paragraph statement from Kirby Hocut, who is the director of
Athletics at Texas Tech. I don't know that I have
to read this, but the crux of it is, you know, hey,
we didn't fund Brendan Soresby's lawsuits. We you know, we're
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we're working with Brendan here on his therapy, on his
addiction issues, We're working on device monitoring. We care greatly
about him. As a young man, and we want to
make sure he conquers his demons, and that matters more
than x's and o's or any football stuff right now.
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And you know he understands the frustration of his Big
twelve colleagues. The situation's really hard. There's no perfect answer.
The system we're operating in his binary, but the situation
is not. We're open to ongoing conversations. I believe integrity
essential to our industry's success. The integrity of how we
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treat a twenty two year old who saw it help
entered residential treatment and is working every day toward recovery.
Those things don't have to be in confidence. You can
go if you want and read the whole thing to yourself.
Kirby Hocut, I just wish this was I just wish
this is what a statement would be. Brendan Soursby can
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help us win football games, and that's the business we're in.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Simple we believe, and we are helping to pay.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Brendan Soresby to win football games because we think he
can do that for us, and that is the business
we are in. I roll my eyes and I love
college sports and I think some of the coolest people
that I've ever met are college coaches. Most of them
do things for quote the right reasons, but at the
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end of the day, their most important function, really their
only function, is to try to win. The job of
a football coach is not to mold men. If they
can do some molding of men, terrific, But if they
mold men and go to and ten, no one's gonna care.
Their job is to win football games. The job of
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a director of athletics is to oversee winning sports programs.
All you gotta say, all you gotta say, Look, dude,
this guy's eligible. He can play for us, He's under
contract to play for us. We think he can help
us win. If we win, we do our jobs. We
make our alumni happy, we make our boosters happy, we
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make people with the program money. We're playing Brendan Soresby.
If you don't like it, tough, I am probably the
minority here. I would have zero problem with that when
you start, you know, telling me about the integrity and
the integrity of overseeing the care for this kid. If
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Brendan Soorsby was the backup kicker and did the exact
same thing that Brendan admits to have done, do we
really believe that the Texas Tech Athletic director would be
sending out a statement about the integrity involved in the
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caretaking of a twenty two year old college football player.
If he was a gunner on the punt team, not
making five million dollars a more replaceable part, if he
was a red shirt freshman who had yet to play,
was gonna be lucky to even suit up this year.
Do we believe that they would be that concerned with
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his well being? Maybe they would be. There's a very
good chance they're not. All you gonna do is be
honest with you, man, That's it. I do not look
and I think most sports fans are like me. Gone
are the days where I look at college coaches, college
athletic directors for what that's worth. As you know, these
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carriers of integrity, and you know, we get to abide
by sportsmanship rules, and we want to do what's right
by the student athletes, and we're really concerned first and
foremost with how they perform in the classroom, and we
want to make sure that they're upstanding young men who
can contribute to society, and we want to make sure
they're best equipped to enter the workforce. When they're done,
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and we really want to mold them into young men
and women who are ready to contribute to greater American
society when they're done here. I am not a believer
in any of that stuff, because none of that stuff
is under the umbrella of what's most important for a
college coach, an athletic director, a sports program, and an
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athletics department. The job at Texas Tech for the football
coach is to win. The job for the a D
at Texas Tech is to best ensure his coaches can win.
If Brendan Sorosby helps them accomplish those things and they
say so, awesome, great, no issue with it. And I
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cannot be more clear about this. We've talked about it
a ton because it is a fascinating story. Brendan Soresby,
as far as I'm concerned, should not be allowed to
play now. I also believe, and some of you got
mad at me for saying this yesterday, I also believe,
like all right, this is one of college football's biggest storylines.
Sports are about storylines, Sports are about characters. Sports are
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about plot twists. This is a storyline. Brendan Sorosby's a villain.
There could be more plot twists. Brendan Soorsby playing college
football is more interesting for college football than Brendan Soorsby
not playing college football. I think that's almost inarguable. But
I just where you lose me is the seven paragraph
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justification and mental gymnastics you have to put yourself and
your reader through trying to convince them that you're acting
in the best interest of the student athletes well being
and mental health. If Brendan Soorsby was the third string punter,
I'm guessing nobody would be concerned about his mental well
being and mental health. But he's a quarterback and a
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good one, and a highly compensated one, and a guy
who's played in the Big twelve before and a guy
who may play in the NFL, and better than any
alternative on their depth chart.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
He can help them win. Just say, dudes, available, we
can win with them game on, let's go. I am
probably now speaking for the minority. I'd have no issue
with that. College coaches are paid to win games. That's it.
That is it.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
The molding of young men, the ensuring that they get
a degree and get it done in the classroom. Nobody cares, dude,
nobody cares If Scott Saderfield molds a bunch of great
young men and goes four and eight this year, no
one's gonna care.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Dude, just say it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
We got we gotta we got boosters to make happy.
We've got people to make money for. We've got tickets
to sell, We've we've got suites to fill, we've got
donations to get, we've got nil money to raise, we've
got fans to make happy. We can't do that if
we go seven and five. We've got to contend for
Big twelve championships. We've got to play in the College
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Football Playoff. We have a better chance of doing that
with Brendan Soresby, and the rules allow him right now
to play. To the guys playing, don't like it, tough one,
that's the statement. Make that statement. May make you angry,
may not like it, may still believe that Brendan shouldn't play.
But that level of transparency and honesty I think is
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admirable and would be refreshing. That's the statement I want
to read from the Texas Tech Ad. It's the same
when it comes to any proer college team that employs
a player who gets in trouble off the field or
off the court, like a guy can help us win?
Man Like, we think he's better than the alternative. We're
here to win. You can pine for a day where
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maybe our priorities were a little bit different, but those
days are gone. I mean they've been gone for a
very long time. Just say it, this guy can help
us win. If the Texas tech ad would just say that,
I NodD along instead of like reading the and go okay,
did AI write this? Which team of attorneys wrote this?
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Who you trying to win over with this? Like?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Guy can help us win? We can win.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Brendan Sorosby's eligible. We're playing them. Don't like it tough?
Twenty after four Brady Singer on the hill for the
Reds Bottom one. Reds and Padres are scoreless. We will
keep you up to date throughout the course of the afternoon.
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we're talking about the business of the World Cup. By
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In just a few moments. We got to come up
with the pole question as well. On Twitter at Moeggar
Right now, Mike, go ahead. You're on ESPN fifteen thirty. Mike,
I got about four minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Go ahead, you can have them, thanks, Moe.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Let me turn this thing down real quickly, because I
never know when you're.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Gonna hit you know, hit me, Okay, go yes, all right,
I want to congratulate Hugs on his distinguish honor today.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
However, there's a gentleman that never gets any recognition named
Ed Jucker, who had a seventy nine and nine records
at the University of Cincinnati, took him to two NCAA
championships over Ohio State, lost in overtime the way alla
Chicago on a buzzer beater, And I think that guy
deserves a little recognition from time to time.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well, he's in the school's Hall of Fame, he's in
the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame, and everybody knows that
his team's won two national titles. What other recognition would
you like for him to get?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Also the court as I.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Guess, go ahead, no, you know, I guess I just
never hear about it. And that's understandable because it's been
so long. But sometimes when I reflect, see when when
I was a youngster, that was a big deal. So
I have to realize that now it's not a big
deal with people.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
No, I mean, it's it's a it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Those those those teams accomplishments occurred over sixty years ago. So,
I mean the the court is named after Ed Jucker
at U. See, I I don't know what other recognition
you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I guess I just wanted to shed some light on
him as.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Opposed to just no issue with that whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
And uh, it's really ironic because he was a he
was a United States Merchant Marine Academy graduate. Ed Jucker
just like the Lake Gift Prosser. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, and he was also the UC baseball coach. Also coach.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
He also coached the Cincinnati Royals.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, he did for a brief time. He sure did well.
I'm saying right now, I think the White Hawks might
be better than the Reds.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I think he might be right.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I just just look at it. I mean, it's it's
kind of obvious this team though. If this team makes
the playoffs, I'll eat my hat. I just don't see
it happening, though. I just don't see it happening.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Well right now, No, no.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I don't. I loved your the beginning of the show
when you were talking to Tony's Oh yeah, let's wait
till the also break.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It's the same every year, it's it's it's the same
every year, and I don't. I don't know how in
when you look at the composition of their remaining schedule,
the difficulty they've had so far and beating NL Central
teams and that's that's largely concentrated on one opponent. But
still when you look at how bad their bullpen is,
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when you look at who they don't have because of health,
and when you look at the built in deficiencies on
their roster, like, I don't know how you can conclude
that they're likely to be a postseason team.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I don't either. It's sad, but but you know, were
you to it? Now used to it?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
We are, We are used to it.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
But I think, like you know, and I've I've talked
about this a lot this week, I think it was
reasonable three years ago to get excited about the direction
that it felt like the Reds were moving in. And
I think three years ago, when you looked at the
established you know, young guys who had been here for
a year, Hunter Green, Nicolodolo, Graham Ashcraft, and you were
seeing what was being added to that mix, which was
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Andrew Rabbitt and Elie De la Cruz and Matt McClain.
And you know, even later that year, Christian and Carnassi
on Strand and Noel ve Marte. I think then it
felt like, all right, there are gonna be some really
good times coming here pretty soon. And I think based
on how we felt three years ago, the fact that
they still haven't advanced in the postseason, the fact that
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they've barely won more than they've lost during that stretch
and are sitting below five hundred, was some of the
same consistent themes popping up again and again and again
and again, like are they buyers or are they sellers?
I can only speak for myself, Mike, I think that's
profoundly disappointing.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
It is. It's almost to the point where it's lappable.
I mean in a in a in a kind of
a dark way, you know. Yeah, it's sad, but it's
it's anyway, all right, let's get to the meat of
the potatoes here. Game five or Game four. I'm sorry,
and I'm really curious your opinion on this. The Spurs
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had the sixth Man of the Year award on the bench,
Caldon Johnson from the University of Kentucky. I might add
six to five about two hundred and thirty pounds. You
don't push him around two easily. During the season, he
averaged almost fourteen points a game for almost six rebounds
a couple of assists. In the in the finals, he's
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averaging seven points, rebounds and maybe one assist. I just
wonder why Mick Johnson's not using him more.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
But likes the other players more.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Well, I know that, but I just don't understand if
you have the sixth Man of the Year. Because we
keep talking about how great the Knicks bench is, well,
the Spurs bench isn't exactly Chop Liver.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I think the Knicks bench is deeper, but uh no,
it's not Chop Liver. I think Mitch Johnson wants to
roll with his starters more. I think he wants to
roll with quicker players more. I think Kelton Johnson's playoff
production leading up to the Finals head dipped to the
point that he's he's lessened his minutes. I don't know
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if it's the right strategy or not, but yeah, I mean,
his his production from the regular season to the postseas,
he was deserving the six Man a Year award.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You're not going to find any argument for me there.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
But he didn't maintain his level of production to the
postseason relative to what he was doing for them in
the regular season.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yeah, I have to look at the minutes, so I
didn't get to look and see what his minutes or
whether Johnson cuts actually cut his minutes, which would contribute
to the lesser production. But so, how are you going
to beat him tonight?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
So I think I think here's what has to happen.
I think they they got to take Brunton off the
ball a little bit. He has dribbled the ball in
the first three games eleven hundred times. That's four hundred
more times than anybody else in the series. So I
think you got to take them off the ball, which
means you're going to have the ball in Kat's hands
a little bit more. So that's going to do what
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they were able to do in Game one, which is
pull Wemby a little bit away from the basket and
allow Kat to be a facilitator. I think folks are
focusing too much on the point total, which obviously would
be great if he would score, But they're at their
best when he's passing out of the high post, top
of the circle elbow area, top of the three point line,
somewhere in there. That's when their offense went in the hyperdrive.
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I think they've got to get into that. I also
think it's imperative. They haven't gotten off to a fast
start in any of these games, and I think because
of that, Mike Brown is a little bit too afraid
to play Mitchell Robinson when his team is trailing, and
I get it to a degree like they're gonna hack him.
He's gonna go to the free throw line, and he
can't afford empty possessions when you're losing. I think they
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have to get off to a good start so that
Mike Brown is willing to play Mitchell Robinson a little
bit more to give kat a better chance of being
fresh in the fourth quarter. Because he's working really hard
on defense. Now he's playing against Victor Webbin Yamas, so
a lot of those efforts are gonna go for naught.
But the disappearing act in the fourth quarter I think
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can be partially attributed to the fact that he's being
asked to do so much and he's playing too many minutes.
If you're winning early and you're more comfortable spelling him
for Mitchell Robinson, I think you better. You have a
better chance of getting the Cat you need in the
fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Yeah, I think you're right, because Cat's not a kid anymore.
He's almost thirty. I think Bunce is around thirty, so
that that is one advantage I think the Spurs do
have regarding their use because those guys don't seem to
get real tired. Wemby does, but the other guys don't
seem to get that tired. And that's no, I ab
normal if you're twenty one or twenty two years old.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Right, No, Yeah, I mean I think the rest advantage
the Knicks had bore itself out in the first game.
I think it's been negated since I do think this.
I heard this on a podcast this morning, and I
think I have the number correct. I believe in the
three games when Wemby has been off the floor, San
Antonio is only minus eleven, so obviously they're being outscored.
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But I thought on Monday night the Knicks did a
terrible job of taking advantage when he was on the
betch and I thought Mitch Johnson did a really good
job of using timeouts and challenges to never take Wemby
off the floor in the fourth quarter when he's not
in the game. The Knicks must outscore San Antonio by
her relatively decisive margin.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I gotta run man, Thanks so.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Much, Thank you all. Good luck tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
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Top of the third inning, PJ Higgins at the play
Cincinnati trails the Padres one zip Manny Machada driving in
the only run off of Brady Singer. Cincinnati looking for
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a second consecutive victory either home. This weekend take on
the d Backs. Chase Petty has been brought up from Louisville.
Zach mccambley has been sent down Florence. Takes on the
New Jersey Jackals Tonight. Bob Huggins will enter the UC
Athletics Hall of Fame James P. Kelly University of Cincinnati
Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday, October. The twenty third
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schools all time winning US TO men's basketball coach is
also in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame and tonight
in Madison Square Garden an atmosphere that's going to be
a lot more about basketball. I'm guessing Nick's Spurs Game four.
San Antonio won Game three, as you know, cutting New
York's lead to two games to one. Every Wednesday, we
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talk sports and business with one of the experts from
Omegawealth Private Capital. Brad Johansson is with us today. I'm
going to focus on the World Cup, and really the
World Cup from a business perspective. Oh, this is soccer,
this is soccer. World count you and I love this
soccer thing.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yes, I like the World Cup. I like rooting for
the United States.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Okay, so why different for the World Cup?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Easier to follow. It's tight in a very tight window.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Okay, you know, but that's true, right, Like you go
to a place to watch a game, everybody's for the
most part rooting for the United States. There's a patriotism
angle there, like it's it's the best players in.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
The world, but the United States doesn't compete.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But that's the thing. I think that's what we like
about it. We're underdogs, we're not supposed to win. I
love basketball more than anybody, right, but like Olympic basketball,
we're supposed to win.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
When we do, nobody cares. Right.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Hockey, we won, we weresed to, so everybody got excited.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Soccer, we're not going to win the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
But I think we love the fact it's one of
the few sports on a global scale that we play
where we're not supposed to win. I think that sucks
a lot of us. Is this gonna help economically or
is it gonna be I don't know a bust. Is
this overhyped from a business perspective in the United States
and North America.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
I'm not sure I can answer that. The ticket prices
are insane. Ticket prices are insane. So if you love soccer,
this is the If we love shoot, I can go
back to your Nicks on just the price of tickets
or NBA finals on something like this. But we talk
(28:22):
about the global phenomenon of this World Cup and I've
talked to people who are soccer lovers. Internationally, I don't
think you can overhype this because when I watch the
psychotic nature of people who follow their soccer teams, they
will spend anything to do this. So economically, internationally, I
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think it's good. This is probably another one of those
down the road type of things for FC Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
It is.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
Get people in love with the game so that they
will become lifelong fans. I think is probably part of
the money part here. Is it going to be that
big around this country? I don't know economically. I mean,
if you're going to watch a game in a city,
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your hotel prices are going to be ridiculous. Food is
going to be ridiculous. Anything that you have event wise
is going to be ridiculous. I think soccer is building
this around next year, five years, ten years from now.
The hype, though, is going to be directed in the
cities that these games are in. I'm not sure whether
(29:45):
or not there's a financial gain immediately from MLS cities
including Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I've read about like what Kansas City is doing for
the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
They get World Cup matches, soccer crazy city.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I've read about Los Angeles, and I'm sure there's going
to be an impact there. I just I remember the
ninety four World Cup, right, which was in the United States.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
I do not remember the ninety four World Cup.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
And coincidentally, the Knicks were in the NBA finals, So see,
I thinks had come full circle. But what I what
I remember about it was is it felt like it
was accessible to people. Felt like it was you know,
and the economics have changed, right, but still a big
time that. Frankly, the country felt a little bit more
welcoming to people from other parts of the world, amen,
And it felt like that was something that you know,
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a middle class person could access. The FIFA World Cup
this year feels like something for elites well, and so economically,
I'm sure there's going to be an impact, but it
does feel like it's stiff arming a lot of regular
soccer fans as opposed to what we had thirty years ago.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
All right, well, compare it then. How much would you
pay to go see the Knicks in the finals?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Now?
Speaker 7 (30:58):
I mean, you love the new I do, how much
would you pay to go to that game?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
I'd pay a lot of damn money, you would.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
So if somebody said I got two tickets for you,
and it's four thousand dollars a ticket, and you and
your wife can go. It's just one game. Remember in
your lifetime you may never see the Knicks in the final.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Four thousand dollars for one ticket. Yeah, I would spend now,
I could real it, I could stay with my brother.
I'd be okay, and that would be worth.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
It to you. Yes, okay. So you compound that with soccer.
Soccer fans will pay way more than that if your
value is on feeling. This is where we talk about
so financially, we talk about risk tolerance and risk capacity.
What's your tolerance? My tolerance is four thousand dollars for
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a ticket. I could spend that and I'll let that
come out of my account. But can your account handle that?
You may not really care whether your account can handle it,
because you feel good about going to the game.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
But for me, like let's say it's four grand that
would come at the expense of something like that, there
would be something that I then that you can't.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Do because you're spent four thousand.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Just be four thousand dollars and there's no change, Like
there would be things I got a spring training every
year with my buddies, which might not be baseball, so
might not have it anyway, Like I would then say
not going to Arizona or other things that I'm planning
on doing.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
Think you're disciplining your finances. People, People who are crazy
about their teams are not disciplining their finances. They're going
I just feel good about I want to go. I'm
gonna go where you're gonna get the money. I'll take
a loan out, I'll put it on my credit card
at what rate? Eighteen point four percent, and I'll pay
that back later. The idea is, if you hype it enough,
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if you create love enough, people will pay whatever because
it makes them feel good. And that's when we have
problems with finance.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
See, this is how disciplined I am. I saw the
Bengals in the Super Bowl, how much eighteen hundred dollars
and was willing to do it. Oh sure, now I
had a credential, but like I wanted to hug my
buddies when the Bengals won the Super Bowl. Yeah, and
I remember telling my wife, I'm paying for the ticket.
But then later that summer, no golf trip.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
So like it was all right, you're rare that you
discipline on the other end.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
So I learned a lot of lessons in my younger
days financially that I now apply to somebody.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Who's middle aged.
Speaker 7 (33:29):
Yeah, it is. If you are hyping and the marketing
machine is good, and certainly the soccer hype machine is good.
People will pay whatever it takes and they'll figure it
out later, which usually means they won't figure it out.
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Thank you for listening today. Can I just pull back
the curtains and let you in on what I'm dealing
(00:21):
with right now? And maybe this will help if you
over the last like five days, have expected some form
of email correspondence from me and you haven't gotten it,
I believe, and I'm I'm I'm on this back.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And forth right now.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I did not mean for this to be the case
while I'm on the air, but I'm on a back
and forth right now with our company's help desk because
I guess every email I send, including some to people
that I work with, end up in either a spam
or junk fold, and so like this occurred to me
(01:03):
early this week on Friday, I sent emails to people
for a variety of different reasons. And the weekend came
and went and I never heard back from anybody. And
then so Monday morning, I'm working and I'm you know,
doing some show stuff, I'm doing some other stuff, and
I'm sending emails and like, by Monday night, I'm like,
does everybody hate me?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
What does is everybody, like, you know, conspiring against me?
Do they know something I don't? Is there?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And then I sent my wife an.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Email yesterday I forwarded her something and I got home
and I go, do you get that email I sentied?
She's like no, she goes on her spam and there
it is. And then I have a personal email address
that I never use, but I have access to it.
I sent myself an email and ended up in spam,
and so I even like this, this gentleman asked me
(01:56):
to be on his Bengals podcast. He send me an
Instagram message, which, by the way, I also didn't know
until this weekend that you can send people messages on
Instagram if they don't follow you, and I had no idea, Like,
I look at this, I'm screwing around on Instagram and
I get I'm like flooded with these messages from people
that I don't follow. And now it's like, well, here's
(02:16):
even more folks that I've ignored because I'm just awful
of correspondence. But this guy asked me, will you go
on my podcast? And I said, yeah, great, no problem,
here's my email address. Shoot, me an email and we'll
get it done. And he shot me an email like instantly,
and I wrote him back. And then today he writes
me it's like, hey, man, you know I wroach and
I'm like, so then I had to go back to
(02:38):
Instagram send this guy a message and I said, hey,
check your spam folder. I wrote you right back, happy
to go on your podcast. I don't know why he
or anybody else would want me on their podcast, but
happy to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Check your spam.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And so in the middle of all this, late last night,
I go to the iHeartMedia help desk because I don't
know how to fix this. I've looked on the online.
I've asked people that I know who know a lot
about computers. It's a company email address, and you know,
it's MO at ESPN fifteen thirty dot com or mo
it's seven hundred wlw dot. It's like five different email
(03:13):
addresses all go to the same place. And I've even
had some emails that I've sent to coworkers that have
ended up in their junk, so like I've done something
wrong apparently, And so like last night, at ten o'clock,
I go to the help desk just hoping that somebody
could help me this morning, and they're very busy lot,
(03:34):
we have lots of employees. I didn't hear back from
anybody until right before three o'clock, and I said, like,
I'm a little bit busy for the next three hours.
And the person wrote me back and said, well, I'll
well do a remote session before six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I've got to do this radio show.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Danner's going to be here in studio of Brad Johansen
Wise Money Sports, and all the while I get somebody
who's got to tap into my computer to figure out
what's wrong so I can send emails and so like
twice this week, I've gotten emails from folks and I,
you know, some of these I give to Taran. Some
I just right back. Two people who pitched pretty good
(04:13):
guests this week. I wrote them both back, haven't heard back.
Went to spam. We did the contest, and this is
who I need to appeal to. We did the contest
for those three organizations that help people who have als,
and the five winners get to go on a bourbon
tasting tour. And it's up to me to like organize
(04:34):
a time and date for these folks and I've emailed them,
and I've heard back from one of them. Apparently the
one guy that I heard back from like checked his spam.
So these folks probably think like I'm ignoring them. So,
if there's anybody out there beyond the person who's going
to tap into my computer to maybe fix my email issue,
who can give me some advice on how to ensure
that my work emails for my work address don't end
(04:57):
up in junk or spam, I'm all ears because this
is deeply, deeply frustrating. This is what I'm dealing with
while trying to conduct a radio program. Reds and Padres
are about to get underway in San Diego. We will
keep you up to date on that. I am looking
at a one two, three, four, five, six, seven seven
(05:20):
paragraph statement from Kirby Hocut, who is the director of
Athletics at Texas Tech. I don't know that I have
to read this, but the crux of it is, you know, hey,
we didn't fund Brendan Soresby's lawsuits. We you know, we're
(05:42):
we're working with Brendan here on his therapy, on his
addiction issues, We're working on device monitoring. We care greatly
about him. As a young man, and we want to
make sure he conquers his demons, and that matters more
than x's and o's or any football stuff right now.
(06:04):
And you know he understands the frustration of his Big
twelve colleagues. The situation's really hard. There's no perfect answer.
The system we're operating in his binary, but the situation
is not. We're open to ongoing conversations. I believe integrity
essential to our industry's success. The integrity of how we
(06:26):
treat a twenty two year old who saw it help
entered residential treatment and is working every day toward recovery.
Those things don't have to be in confidence. You can
go if you want and read the whole thing to yourself.
Kirby Hocut, I just wish this was I just wish
this is what a statement would be. Brendan Soursby can
(06:48):
help us win football games, and that's the business we're in.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Simple we believe, and we are helping to pay.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Brendan Soresby to win football games because we think he
can do that for us, and that is the business
we are in. I roll my eyes and I love
college sports and I think some of the coolest people
that I've ever met are college coaches. Most of them
do things for quote the right reasons, but at the
(07:19):
end of the day, their most important function, really their
only function, is to try to win. The job of
a football coach is not to mold men. If they
can do some molding of men, terrific, But if they
mold men and go to and ten, no one's gonna care.
Their job is to win football games. The job of
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a director of athletics is to oversee winning sports programs.
All you gotta say, all you gotta say, Look, dude,
this guy's eligible. He can play for us, He's under
contract to play for us. We think he can help
us win. If we win, we do our jobs. We
make our alumni happy, we make our boosters happy, we
(08:06):
make people with the program money. We're playing Brendan Soresby.
If you don't like it, tough, I am probably the
minority here. I would have zero problem with that when
you start, you know, telling me about the integrity and
the integrity of overseeing the care for this kid. If
(08:26):
Brendan Soorsby was the backup kicker and did the exact
same thing that Brendan admits to have done, do we
really believe that the Texas Tech Athletic director would be
sending out a statement about the integrity involved in the
(08:48):
caretaking of a twenty two year old college football player.
If he was a gunner on the punt team, not
making five million dollars a more replaceable part, if he
was a red shirt freshman who had yet to play,
was gonna be lucky to even suit up this year.
Do we believe that they would be that concerned with
(09:09):
his well being? Maybe they would be. There's a very
good chance they're not. All you gonna do is be
honest with you, man, That's it. I do not look
and I think most sports fans are like me. Gone
are the days where I look at college coaches, college
athletic directors for what that's worth. As you know, these
(09:31):
carriers of integrity, and you know, we get to abide
by sportsmanship rules, and we want to do what's right
by the student athletes, and we're really concerned first and
foremost with how they perform in the classroom, and we
want to make sure that they're upstanding young men who
can contribute to society, and we want to make sure
they're best equipped to enter the workforce. When they're done,
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and we really want to mold them into young men
and women who are ready to contribute to greater American
society when they're done here. I am not a believer
in any of that stuff, because none of that stuff
is under the umbrella of what's most important for a
college coach, an athletic director, a sports program, and an
(10:14):
athletics department. The job at Texas Tech for the football
coach is to win. The job for the a D
at Texas Tech is to best ensure his coaches can win.
If Brendan Sorosby helps them accomplish those things and they
say so, awesome, great, no issue with it. And I
(10:36):
cannot be more clear about this. We've talked about it
a ton because it is a fascinating story. Brendan Soresby,
as far as I'm concerned, should not be allowed to
play now. I also believe, and some of you got
mad at me for saying this yesterday, I also believe,
like all right, this is one of college football's biggest storylines.
Sports are about storylines, Sports are about characters. Sports are
(10:59):
about plot twists. This is a storyline. Brendan Sorosby's a villain.
There could be more plot twists. Brendan Soorsby playing college
football is more interesting for college football than Brendan Soorsby
not playing college football. I think that's almost inarguable. But
I just where you lose me is the seven paragraph
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justification and mental gymnastics you have to put yourself and
your reader through trying to convince them that you're acting
in the best interest of the student athletes well being
and mental health. If Brendan Soorsby was the third string punter,
I'm guessing nobody would be concerned about his mental well
being and mental health. But he's a quarterback and a
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good one, and a highly compensated one, and a guy
who's played in the Big twelve before and a guy
who may play in the NFL, and better than any
alternative on their depth chart.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
He can help them win. Just say, dudes, available, we
can win with them game on, let's go. I am
probably now speaking for the minority. I'd have no issue
with that. College coaches are paid to win games. That's it.
That is it.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
The molding of young men, the ensuring that they get
a degree and get it done in the classroom. Nobody cares, dude,
nobody cares If Scott Saderfield molds a bunch of great
young men and goes four and eight this year, no
one's gonna care.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Dude, just say it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
We got we gotta we got boosters to make happy.
We've got people to make money for. We've got tickets
to sell, We've we've got suites to fill, we've got
donations to get, we've got nil money to raise, we've
got fans to make happy. We can't do that if
we go seven and five. We've got to contend for
Big twelve championships. We've got to play in the College
(12:56):
Football Playoff. We have a better chance of doing that
with Brendan Soresby, and the rules allow him right now
to play. To the guys playing, don't like it, tough one,
that's the statement. Make that statement. May make you angry,
may not like it, may still believe that Brendan shouldn't play.
But that level of transparency and honesty I think is
(13:17):
admirable and would be refreshing. That's the statement I want
to read from the Texas Tech Ad. It's the same
when it comes to any proer college team that employs
a player who gets in trouble off the field or
off the court, like a guy can help us win?
Man Like, we think he's better than the alternative. We're
here to win. You can pine for a day where
(13:42):
maybe our priorities were a little bit different, but those
days are gone. I mean they've been gone for a
very long time. Just say it, this guy can help
us win. If the Texas tech ad would just say that,
I NodD along instead of like reading the and go okay,
did AI write this? Which team of attorneys wrote this?
(14:05):
Who you trying to win over with this? Like?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Guy can help us win? We can win.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Brendan Sorosby's eligible. We're playing them. Don't like it tough?
Twenty after four Brady Singer on the hill for the
Reds Bottom one. Reds and Padres are scoreless. We will
keep you up to date throughout the course of the afternoon.
Why is money sports coming up? In just about fifteen minutes,
we're talking about the business of the World Cup. By
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Right now, Mike, go ahead. You're on ESPN fifteen thirty. Mike,
I got about four minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Go ahead, you can have them, thanks, Moe.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Let me turn this thing down real quickly, because I
never know when you're.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Gonna hit you know, hit me, Okay, go yes, all right,
I want to congratulate Hugs on his distinguish honor today.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
However, there's a gentleman that never gets any recognition named
Ed Jucker, who had a seventy nine and nine records
at the University of Cincinnati, took him to two NCAA
championships over Ohio State, lost in overtime the way alla
Chicago on a buzzer beater, And I think that guy
deserves a little recognition from time to time.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well, he's in the school's Hall of Fame, he's in
the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame, and everybody knows that
his team's won two national titles. What other recognition would
you like for him to get?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Also the court as I.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Guess, go ahead, no, you know, I guess I just
never hear about it. And that's understandable because it's been
so long. But sometimes when I reflect, see when when
I was a youngster, that was a big deal. So
I have to realize that now it's not a big
deal with people.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
No, I mean, it's it's a it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Those those those teams accomplishments occurred over sixty years ago. So,
I mean the the court is named after Ed Jucker
at U. See, I I don't know what other recognition
you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I guess I just wanted to shed some light on
him as.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Opposed to just no issue with that whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
And uh, it's really ironic because he was a he
was a United States Merchant Marine Academy graduate. Ed Jucker
just like the Lake Gift Prosser. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, and he was also the UC baseball coach. Also coach.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
He also coached the Cincinnati Royals.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, he did for a brief time. He sure did well.
I'm saying right now, I think the White Hawks might
be better than the Reds.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I think he might be right.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I just just look at it. I mean, it's it's
kind of obvious this team though. If this team makes
the playoffs, I'll eat my hat. I just don't see
it happening, though. I just don't see it happening.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Well right now, No, no.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I don't. I loved your the beginning of the show
when you were talking to Tony's Oh yeah, let's wait
till the also break.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It's the same every year, it's it's it's the same
every year, and I don't. I don't know how in
when you look at the composition of their remaining schedule,
the difficulty they've had so far and beating NL Central
teams and that's that's largely concentrated on one opponent. But
still when you look at how bad their bullpen is,
(18:44):
when you look at who they don't have because of health,
and when you look at the built in deficiencies on
their roster, like, I don't know how you can conclude
that they're likely to be a postseason team.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I don't either. It's sad, but but you know, were
you to it? Now used to it?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
We are, We are used to it.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
But I think, like you know, and I've I've talked
about this a lot this week, I think it was
reasonable three years ago to get excited about the direction
that it felt like the Reds were moving in. And
I think three years ago, when you looked at the
established you know, young guys who had been here for
a year, Hunter Green, Nicolodolo, Graham Ashcraft, and you were
seeing what was being added to that mix, which was
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Andrew Rabbitt and Elie De la Cruz and Matt McClain.
And you know, even later that year, Christian and Carnassi
on Strand and Noel ve Marte. I think then it
felt like, all right, there are gonna be some really
good times coming here pretty soon. And I think based
on how we felt three years ago, the fact that
they still haven't advanced in the postseason, the fact that
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they've barely won more than they've lost during that stretch
and are sitting below five hundred, was some of the
same consistent themes popping up again and again and again
and again, like are they buyers or are they sellers?
I can only speak for myself, Mike, I think that's
profoundly disappointing.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
It is. It's almost to the point where it's lappable.
I mean in a in a in a kind of
a dark way, you know. Yeah, it's sad, but it's
it's anyway, all right, let's get to the meat of
the potatoes here. Game five or Game four. I'm sorry,
and I'm really curious your opinion on this. The Spurs
(20:32):
had the sixth Man of the Year award on the bench,
Caldon Johnson from the University of Kentucky. I might add
six to five about two hundred and thirty pounds. You
don't push him around two easily. During the season, he
averaged almost fourteen points a game for almost six rebounds
a couple of assists. In the in the finals, he's
(20:56):
averaging seven points, rebounds and maybe one assist. I just
wonder why Mick Johnson's not using him more.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
But likes the other players more.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Well, I know that, but I just don't understand if
you have the sixth Man of the Year. Because we
keep talking about how great the Knicks bench is, well,
the Spurs bench isn't exactly Chop Liver.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I think the Knicks bench is deeper, but uh no,
it's not Chop Liver. I think Mitch Johnson wants to
roll with his starters more. I think he wants to
roll with quicker players more. I think Kelton Johnson's playoff
production leading up to the Finals head dipped to the
point that he's he's lessened his minutes. I don't know
(21:46):
if it's the right strategy or not, but yeah, I mean,
his his production from the regular season to the postseas,
he was deserving the six Man a Year award.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You're not going to find any argument for me there.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
But he didn't maintain his level of production to the
postseason relative to what he was doing for them in
the regular season.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yeah, I have to look at the minutes, so I
didn't get to look and see what his minutes or
whether Johnson cuts actually cut his minutes, which would contribute
to the lesser production. But so, how are you going
to beat him tonight?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
So I think I think here's what has to happen.
I think they they got to take Brunton off the
ball a little bit. He has dribbled the ball in
the first three games eleven hundred times. That's four hundred
more times than anybody else in the series. So I
think you got to take them off the ball, which
means you're going to have the ball in Kat's hands
a little bit more. So that's going to do what
(22:41):
they were able to do in Game one, which is
pull Wemby a little bit away from the basket and
allow Kat to be a facilitator. I think folks are
focusing too much on the point total, which obviously would
be great if he would score, But they're at their
best when he's passing out of the high post, top
of the circle elbow area, top of the three point line,
somewhere in there. That's when their offense went in the hyperdrive.
(23:03):
I think they've got to get into that. I also
think it's imperative. They haven't gotten off to a fast
start in any of these games, and I think because
of that, Mike Brown is a little bit too afraid
to play Mitchell Robinson when his team is trailing, and
I get it to a degree like they're gonna hack him.
He's gonna go to the free throw line, and he
can't afford empty possessions when you're losing. I think they
(23:25):
have to get off to a good start so that
Mike Brown is willing to play Mitchell Robinson a little
bit more to give kat a better chance of being
fresh in the fourth quarter. Because he's working really hard
on defense. Now he's playing against Victor Webbin Yamas, so
a lot of those efforts are gonna go for naught.
But the disappearing act in the fourth quarter I think
(23:46):
can be partially attributed to the fact that he's being
asked to do so much and he's playing too many minutes.
If you're winning early and you're more comfortable spelling him
for Mitchell Robinson, I think you better. You have a
better chance of getting the Cat you need in the
fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Yeah, I think you're right, because Cat's not a kid anymore.
He's almost thirty. I think Bunce is around thirty, so
that that is one advantage I think the Spurs do
have regarding their use because those guys don't seem to
get real tired. Wemby does, but the other guys don't
seem to get that tired. And that's no, I ab
normal if you're twenty one or twenty two years old.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Right, No, Yeah, I mean I think the rest advantage
the Knicks had bore itself out in the first game.
I think it's been negated since I do think this.
I heard this on a podcast this morning, and I
think I have the number correct. I believe in the
three games when Wemby has been off the floor, San
Antonio is only minus eleven, so obviously they're being outscored.
(24:48):
But I thought on Monday night the Knicks did a
terrible job of taking advantage when he was on the
betch and I thought Mitch Johnson did a really good
job of using timeouts and challenges to never take Wemby
off the floor in the fourth quarter when he's not
in the game. The Knicks must outscore San Antonio by
her relatively decisive margin.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I gotta run man, Thanks so.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Much, Thank you all. Good luck tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
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schools all time winning US TO men's basketball coach is
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San Antonio won Game three, as you know, cutting New
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talk sports and business with one of the experts from
Omegawealth Private Capital. Brad Johansson is with us today. I'm
going to focus on the World Cup, and really the
World Cup from a business perspective. Oh, this is soccer,
this is soccer. World count you and I love this
soccer thing.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yes, I like the World Cup. I like rooting for
the United States.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Okay, so why different for the World Cup?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Easier to follow. It's tight in a very tight window.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Okay, you know, but that's true, right, Like you go
to a place to watch a game, everybody's for the
most part rooting for the United States. There's a patriotism
angle there, like it's it's the best players in.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
The world, but the United States doesn't compete.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But that's the thing. I think that's what we like
about it. We're underdogs, we're not supposed to win. I
love basketball more than anybody, right, but like Olympic basketball,
we're supposed to win.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
When we do, nobody cares. Right.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Hockey, we won, we weresed to, so everybody got excited.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Soccer, we're not going to win the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
But I think we love the fact it's one of
the few sports on a global scale that we play
where we're not supposed to win. I think that sucks
a lot of us. Is this gonna help economically or
is it gonna be I don't know a bust. Is
this overhyped from a business perspective in the United States
and North America.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
I'm not sure I can answer that. The ticket prices
are insane. Ticket prices are insane. So if you love soccer,
this is the If we love shoot, I can go
back to your Nicks on just the price of tickets
or NBA finals on something like this. But we talk
(28:22):
about the global phenomenon of this World Cup and I've
talked to people who are soccer lovers. Internationally, I don't
think you can overhype this because when I watch the
psychotic nature of people who follow their soccer teams, they
will spend anything to do this. So economically, internationally, I
(28:46):
think it's good. This is probably another one of those
down the road type of things for FC Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
It is.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
Get people in love with the game so that they
will become lifelong fans. I think is probably part of
the money part here. Is it going to be that
big around this country? I don't know economically. I mean,
if you're going to watch a game in a city,
(29:22):
your hotel prices are going to be ridiculous. Food is
going to be ridiculous. Anything that you have event wise
is going to be ridiculous. I think soccer is building
this around next year, five years, ten years from now.
The hype, though, is going to be directed in the
cities that these games are in. I'm not sure whether
(29:45):
or not there's a financial gain immediately from MLS cities
including Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I've read about like what Kansas City is doing for
the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
They get World Cup matches, soccer crazy city.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I've read about Los Angeles, and I'm sure there's going
to be an impact there. I just I remember the
ninety four World Cup, right, which was in the United States.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
I do not remember the ninety four World Cup.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
And coincidentally, the Knicks were in the NBA finals, So see,
I thinks had come full circle. But what I what
I remember about it was is it felt like it
was accessible to people. Felt like it was you know,
and the economics have changed, right, but still a big
time that. Frankly, the country felt a little bit more
welcoming to people from other parts of the world, amen,
And it felt like that was something that you know,
(30:34):
a middle class person could access. The FIFA World Cup
this year feels like something for elites well, and so economically,
I'm sure there's going to be an impact, but it
does feel like it's stiff arming a lot of regular
soccer fans as opposed to what we had thirty years ago.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
All right, well, compare it then. How much would you
pay to go see the Knicks in the finals?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Now?
Speaker 7 (30:58):
I mean, you love the new I do, how much
would you pay to go to that game?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
I'd pay a lot of damn money, you would.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
So if somebody said I got two tickets for you,
and it's four thousand dollars a ticket, and you and
your wife can go. It's just one game. Remember in
your lifetime you may never see the Knicks in the final.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Four thousand dollars for one ticket. Yeah, I would spend now,
I could real it, I could stay with my brother.
I'd be okay, and that would be worth.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
It to you. Yes, okay. So you compound that with soccer.
Soccer fans will pay way more than that if your
value is on feeling. This is where we talk about
so financially, we talk about risk tolerance and risk capacity.
What's your tolerance? My tolerance is four thousand dollars for
(31:48):
a ticket. I could spend that and I'll let that
come out of my account. But can your account handle that?
You may not really care whether your account can handle it,
because you feel good about going to the game.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
But for me, like let's say it's four grand that
would come at the expense of something like that, there
would be something that I then that you can't.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Do because you're spent four thousand.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Just be four thousand dollars and there's no change, Like
there would be things I got a spring training every
year with my buddies, which might not be baseball, so
might not have it anyway, Like I would then say
not going to Arizona or other things that I'm planning
on doing.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
Think you're disciplining your finances. People, People who are crazy
about their teams are not disciplining their finances. They're going
I just feel good about I want to go. I'm
gonna go where you're gonna get the money. I'll take
a loan out, I'll put it on my credit card
at what rate? Eighteen point four percent, and I'll pay
that back later. The idea is, if you hype it enough,
(32:47):
if you create love enough, people will pay whatever because
it makes them feel good. And that's when we have
problems with finance.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
See, this is how disciplined I am. I saw the
Bengals in the Super Bowl, how much eighteen hundred dollars
and was willing to do it. Oh sure, now I
had a credential, but like I wanted to hug my
buddies when the Bengals won the Super Bowl. Yeah, and
I remember telling my wife, I'm paying for the ticket.
But then later that summer, no golf trip.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
So like it was all right, you're rare that you
discipline on the other end.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
So I learned a lot of lessons in my younger
days financially that I now apply to somebody.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Who's middle aged.
Speaker 7 (33:29):
Yeah, it is. If you are hyping and the marketing
machine is good, and certainly the soccer hype machine is good.
People will pay whatever it takes and they'll figure it
out later, which usually means they won't figure it out.
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