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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air. Well, we
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better to know about the tech Dot Bridge than Tom Bazon,
who happens to have called in. Tom Bazon is a
local appraiser and citizen activist who used to come down
to City Hall when I was on City Council, and
Tom would be the only guy in the public half
the city council didn't read the budget truth be told,
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and he would point out, hey, y'all have this. You know,
eighty million dollar appropriation for this. Are you're aware that
that's been appropriated five times before nothing was ever done
with it. Where's the money going? And nobody wanted to
hear a good government activist, and so they wouldn't move
him to the front. So I would have to get
him moved up earlier, otherwise he'd be stuck till the
very end. And sometimes they would fight me on that,
and the reason because nobody wanted to hear what Tom
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was on said. Because what Tom was on wanted was
the efficient operation of city government and the county and
tex Dot and all of these other things. But I
grew to respect him a great deal because Tom didn't
have anything to gain. In fact, it hurt his business
that he was calling out the fraud and corruption. He
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didn't have an outlet. He didn't have a radio show.
He'd have some big, powerful blog. The Chronicle didn't give
him space, and yet he just toiled along, toiled along.
And I always admired that, like as a very Don
Quixote in his keyhotic quest jousting at Windmills. But I
liked to think in some small way it made a difference.
So when it came time to find space for the RCC,
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I knew he also did some brokerage, and I said, Tom,
I owe it to you. Find me a space. And
we looked at a bunch of different spaces, and then
we drove up on the RCC and he said this
place is a dump. You're not gonna want it. I said,
it's perfect, We'll take it. And that was that, and
he and Paula were regular members. Tom was on Welcome
to the program Sir, What say you?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
After all that, I missed his intro up, Tom, hold on, Tom,
I hanging right there. I did something wrong, Tom. That's
the weirdest thing. See what see it has that number
one beside it Ramon. I figured out what the one,
the two, and the three. I think that's the order
they came in. Let me see, I'm gonna put him
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on hold and I'm gonna go to it. Tom. Maybe
you got his volume down. Tell him to call back.
That's right, Tell them to call back. Now what do
we do? What? Oh, he might've had his mute and
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I might have fat fingered it. He might have fat
fingers it. Well, we'll sit here and wait on Tom.
You know, in the meantime, I've been wanting to tell
this story, but I know it's going to be lost
on ninety nine percent of the audience, and that's going
to irritate me.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Is that you Yeah, it is me just making sure
the phones work.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah that sounds good. Okay, Yeah, good to hear from you, though, body, Yeah,
you took all right? So follow me on this one moment,
everybody says. I keep hearing people parrot this line. We
got to do away with it, nil, Why players getting
paid too much money? Too much money? Yep, all that
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money's ruining the game? How's it ruining the game? Too
much money? What do you mean ruining the game? How's
it running the game? Too much money? What are you saying?
Why do you you don't even know what you're saying.
I've got women who don't know what a first down is,
but they wear their their their gear since they were
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at a sorority. At the sorority to college, they go
to all the games. They get all gussied up. Alabama, Mississippi,
Mississippi State, L s U, U, T A, and M.
You know, we go to every game. We've been going
to every game, you know, every year. You know, we
know Arch Manning. We've had him to our house for dinner. Okay,
all right, let me ask you just a quick question.
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What's a flea flicker?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, we but we know Arch, we know the whole family.
We've known the whole family. And we don't miss a game. Okay,
all right, Uh, what's a fair catch? Well, you know,
we just you know, we go to every game. We
don't miss it. We love, we get there, we tailgate. Okay,
so big fan, big fan, and that person will tell
you in il bad deal. Money, money's ruined the game.
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Money's terrible. Okay, all right, you keep saving that. So
let me ask you this, how has it ruined the game?
Too much money? The kids don't care. It's just too
much money. Whose money is it? Is a taxpayer dollars?
Because it's not. It's go ahead and make it easy on.
It's not. It's car dealers and enrich donors. They choose
to give that money to the players because they want
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their team to win. Yeah, how about that. That's how
that works. Yeah, that's free market. Is there too much
money in automobiles or too much money in houses, or
too much money in country clubs? Or how about too
much money in handbags? Damn it, we can't have good
handbags anymore because Louis Vuitton and Kate Spade and Prada
and all these people. They've made the bags too expensive
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and bags aren't fun anymore. Let's do away with bags
and we'll go back to very basic handbags. What do
you think about that?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Normal, We still got to have money in bags. Money
and bags is good, all right? So money is bad.
Take the money out. The kids don't have any heart
for it anymore the way they used to. Oh, so
the kids should play for free. No, they get education.
We pay for their education. They don't want the education.
See that's what you don't get. They don't want the education.
If they wanted the education, you wouldn't have to have
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minimum standards. They don't show up to get an education.
I don't want to shock this for anybody. I don't
know if it's going to ruin this for anybody. They
don't want to go to school. The university does everything
they can to get them to go to enough classes.
They always have some woman forty years old who's like
the den mom, and she makes sure they go to
classes and they pass, and they just enough to stay
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on the field till they go to the pros or
get out and go do whatever they're going to do
from there. But they don't get their degree. They love
to tell you they do because they're student athletes. All
we're in love with his idea. They're student athletes. Okay,
money's bad, get the money out. Too much money? All right?
Then Brian Kelly is they negotiate an exit for him.
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He still owed fifty four million dollars on his contract,
so there's some debate as to how much he's gonna get.
He's going to get at least thirty men. He may
get fifty two million to walk away. What coach O
get twenty million to walk away? Jimbo got seventy seven million.
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That's crazy. You know what, I've not heard one person
say too much money and coaches payoffs? Wait, what, where's
I'm not hurt a single person. These people are getting
paid obscene amounts of money for failing to get out
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of the way so we don't fail anymore. But nobody
seems to care. So the old guy that coaches, he
can make he can make absurd amounts of money. That's
perfectly fine. Just don't don't dare let the kid on
the field make a penny because that ruins the game. Well,
when they get paid, they're not passionate about it. Oh,
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you don't think Brian Kelly woke up in South Bend,
Indiana and said where I most want to live as
Baton Rouge. You don't think Jimbo was sitting in Florida
and said where I most want to live as college station.
You think money might have affected that book?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Dean Joel has been race driver, Michael Barry funny hacker.
That's Ramond du King of Dan suggested for general audiences.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So the woman who does all my title work is
that Alamo title. Her name is Dana Pendleton. She's known
as Dana Duncan Pendleton DDP and her husband, Clinton, is
a real estate developer in the area. A lot of
stuff out northeast fifty nine around the Cleveland area. I
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don't think he has that much. He's just like six
thousand acres or something. And they came on the Palm
Beach trip and she stopped me in the hallway at
the hotel and she said, hey, I've been meaning to
ask you. Do you know anything about the DGS, because
I know you love the Beg's And I said, no,
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who are the DGS? She said, well, the Food Fighters
wanted to do a tribute band to the Beg's. They
didn't want to do it as the Food Fighters because
you'd still think of the Food Fighters. So they just
created their own Beg's tribute band and they're called the DGS.
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And you got to check it out. I didn't think
anything of it, and then yesterday she sent me an
email with a link to them, and then I had
to send it to Ramon and neither one of us
knew anything about it, and we couldn't believe, why have
we never heard of this before? Anyway, that was them,
and it's a pretty cool little project. If you find
yourself in the mood to learn more about them. It
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also makes you appreciate the vocals of the begs because
I've never heard anybody cover them and do them justice.
And even the food fighters. Can't you just you just
you can't. Now, there's no way around it, John, You're
only Michael Barry show.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Go ahead, Yes, sir four. As this money in collegiate athletics,
you know, most of the guys are not getting paid,
but of course there are a few that are really
making large sums of money. You know, last year the
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number one guy was eighteen year old Cooper Flagg, who
played one year at Duke and now he's in the NBA.
The guy behind him was essentially inexperienced, a second stringer,
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Arch Manning. And now I've noticed after the University of
Texas football games on the field, on the postgame activities,
whether it be uh post gang interview with Many or
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Many celebrating with one of his teammates, Many is always
escorted by one, if not to uniformed DPS officers. I
have yet to see the quarterback of Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
The quarterback you.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Pardon me?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Is there a point to any of this?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Well, yes, because I think yes, because yes, because I
think and this has kind of been being shown now
with this uh gambling issue with the NBA, that there's
a lot of uh you know, opportunity, shall we say,
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when that money is that high, that the game is
going to be tarnished by these guys.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You think that there are DPS troopers beside arch Manning
because they don't want to let anyone get to him
to gamble.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Well, well, arch Benning is getting paid six million dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
What does that matter for?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
And uh so, you know there he has to protect,
you know, their investment.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Oh dear God. And there are players who are paid
more than that in the NFL who don't get security.
You know, people get retarded, literally retarded over money. It's
amazing to me. The concern is the fan base freak
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out over arch Manning puts him in a bad situation,
not of his choosing. Whatever one may think of arch Manning,
love him, hate him, can't decide yet, waiting to see
he didn't choose to be overhyped, which is what they
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did to him. They set him up for failure with
an overhype and not even ut as much as the
media everybody wants a hero. Everybody wants a superstar. That's
why every Sunday they don't say the Bills and the Texans.
They say Will Anderson against Josh Allen anybody else playing?
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Just curious? And by the way, I'm told, oh, the portal,
the portal, Michael, not in ll okay, you got me
on nil. The portals what ruined it? Because then they
can just move from team to team. Oh you mean
the way Saban? Did you mean the way? Lane Kiffin's
gonna do it at the end of this year. But
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nobody has a problem with that. They don't want these
kids to make any money. It's creepy, it's weird. Money
has ruined everything okaoc has it ruined you? Do you
stay at your job because you love it or because
they pay you more than the next guy. The other
day I made the point that people would be jumping
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up and down. They come up with these dumb ideas
like we ought to put we ought to put shoe
polish on our on our windows and drive around in
the parade. I was making a joke. Trump and Tom
thought I was serious.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Hey Michael, was Tom again? Hey listen? I took it
in the middle of a sentence but you're just talking
about this great idea. Holy crap, man, we should do
that shoebowish idea. You have the best freaking ideas of
anybody in the whole wild world. Man, Imagine how easy
it is. Everybody's got shoebash you need. Don't you go Walmart,
you go dar General, you go Kruger, you go to ATB.
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There's lots of places that shall shoe polish rever and
even real shoebolash. But listen that idea that has a
million dollar idea. Because there's so many people that love Trump,
so many people love Trump, but we think that we're
all alone inside of some type of fantasy island where
we're just all alone on this island surrounded by a
midget and hot women from the seventies. But I mean
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that's all what I mean. I mean that we're like
all alone. But if everybody got shoe polash, you get brown,
white or black shoe polish paint on your car.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Trump whatever rules twenty twenty eight is awesome town, then
everybody drive around, every single body would know.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh my god, I'm not alone.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
I'm not alone in this crazy town. Okay, that's all
I got please, please can Once you get this going,
I will be at the.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Front of that parade.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
We'll call it shoe policies period. Oh hey, I gotta go,
somebody's call me about a tax.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
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Speaker 1 (16:13):
The Michael Berry show, Everything you need and most everything
you want.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
All right, let's go over this again because I think
it's a fun little exercise. So when you talk about politics,
policy and you wonder, how can people vote for the
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Democrats when they do the things they do, How can
they do that? How do they still do it? Because
they suspend reality. They've come to their conclusion. I like
the LSU Tigers, I like the text Sernam Maggie, whatever
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that is, and so nothing makes sense after that. They
process everything through the conclusion, so that whatever premises you
have can't change the conclusion. That's that's their conclusion. That's
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where they are. Well, when you understand that, that's why
Democrats are going to vote for Mamdani no matter what
you say about him. You realize you can't reason with
these people. This is why people get so frustrated. Yeah,
so I came to work and I said, oh yeah,
oh yeah, you said Mumdonni wasn't a communist. Watch this.
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This is Mumdani saying I am a communist. Say and
you know what she said. She was like, I don't care.
I'm so vote for him because he's better than the
other guy and Trump is bad. I'm like, oh my god,
I got okay. Well, at that point you realize that
person is not being reasonable. They can't be reasonable. Well,
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at least we're not unreasonable, right. I pick at the
scab of Nil and Portal, not because I care, but
because it's a fascinating way to have a conversation with
people who are doing exactly the same thing, who are
otherwise very reasonable. Take the money out of college football.
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Take the money out of is exactly what the Democrats
are saying in New York, and we call them socialists. Wait,
don't let the players get paid. Everything will be equal.
Isn't that what the Democrats say? Isn't that what the
Democrats say? You love college football because you love the
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competition of these kids. Why shouldn't they enjoy that? By
the way, don't worry because I think some people think
some nineteen year olds getting.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Over on them.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Most people can't confess to this but I think there's
a degree of resentment that I'm over here busting my
ass for twenty five years and I've never made three
million dollars a year. That kid's running up down to
football and he's making three million dollars a year, and
I don't like it. Let's be honest, Let's call that
what it is. Some people may not realize it, but
that is what's happening. Rest assured. If that's causing you grief,
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rest assured, for ninety nine point nine percent of those kids,
that money will be squandered by the end of the
calendar year in which they were paid and they'll never
make any money again for the rest of their lives.
Rest assured that is the case. There will be a
handful that will go to the NFL, but it is
so much, it is so it is so much fewer
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than you can imagine because every year that you can
only absorb a few because you have players that are
playing multiple years. And then you think of guys making
it on a team, most don't make the final team.
If they do make the final team, they're not a
multi year They never get on the field, so they're
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playing for league minimums. They're not getting ahead of you.
You'll own the house, they won't. You'll own cars they want.
You'll have a retirement, they won't. So don't worry. They're
not getting overr on you. All right, let's take that
out of the picks. Well, okay, Michael, it's not the money. Okay,
it's not the man. I want to make sure it's
not the money, because let me just ask this. Can
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we also cap the coaches? Let me ask you this.
If your argument is they're already getting room and board, Michael,
why we got to pay a more? You don't the
donors do well? I gotta pay for the tickets. Don't
don't buy tickets. I gotta go. I got my shirt,
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my colors, and my cat, my car. Now my yours
is But why do you keep doing that? Because the
sport is so damn good and so damned compelling, you
can't help yourself. It's that good, right. But if they're
already getting room and board, why does the coach need
to make more than a professor. Why does the coach
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need to make more than the president of university? Why
is the coach in every single state in the Union
the highest paid public employee in the state That doesn't
make any sense. How are we going to pay our
coaches more than any other public official in the state.
That's dumb. Let's take the money out of it, all right,
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But nobody complains about the money in the coaching because
everybody wants the best coach. Oh okay, all right, okay,
So then they go, then they pivot. Okay, okay. Money's fine.
Money's fine, Money's fine. It's just the portal. What's wrong
with the portal? You get these players? They move from
team to team? Mm hmm. Like you mean like you
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do it your job. You mean like everybody does at
their job. You mean like that? Well, I just want
them to get there and stay there. Why why do
you need them to get there and stay there? When
you go to a game, you're telling me that you
need to know that that red shirt freshman is going
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to be there for four years. I can't enjoy this game.
I can't enjoy trying to beat old miss if I
don't know if this guy's going to be here three
years from now, I just can't. I can't live with it.
Why do you hear yourself? I need to know this
is the only place he's ever going to play because
my heart will be broke. I just I just pretend
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to Keeam didn't go to Canada and wear another jersey.
I can't have it. Wait, is say we allow it
in professional sports? Oh, and we allow it in college
ruins the game? The game's not the way it used
to be. Okay, Well, they're also not wearing knee pads
any longer. They don't wear big bulky Earl Campbell thigh pads.
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I mean, how far back do we go? Has the
forward pass ruined the sport? What exactly is the problem?
There are so many advancements to the sport that make
it better than it ever was. But why on earth
would you want to take money out of these kids'
pockets You're not paying for it. If I'm a rich
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donor and I want to pay a kid to come
to my school that I went to, and now he's
got life changing money, even if he is going to
squander it, why would anybody else begrudge that? If you're real, honest,
real honest about your opposition to that, and you're capable
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of introspection on a deep level, you will admit it's unhealthy.
It comes from a place that is in AOC mamdani
ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders. It does say what you want,
but it does. And if you tell me the portal
is so bad because you don't want them moving, then
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you shouldn't let the coaches move either. So y'all can
be stuck with Brian Kelly at LSU for the link
of his term, because we can't just have people keep moving.
And don't you dare try to get Lane Kiffin over
because we don't want people just moving every time, do we? Oh,
coaches can do it, but not the kids. Okay, now
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you start to understand the Democrat mindset better. Huh. Charlie
Daniels would have been eighty nine today. He did live
to be eighty four. Not a bad run, not a
bad well, technically eighty three. He was just short of
his eighty fourth birthday. Charles Edward Daniels left us July
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six to twenty twenty, but born on this day, October
twenty eighth, nineteen and thirty six. Freddy, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. What say you, hey, Michael?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I got the perfect solution. I coached pee wee football
fifth and sixth grade when I was a younger man.
Coached my two sons, and my two sons and I
have decided we were going to call LSU and say
we'll coach for one year a million dollars apiece. I'll
be the head coach, he'll be the coordinators. And if
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we can't, if we match the eight and four record
that he amassed there for the four years he was
there three and a half years he was there, then
they just passed a million dollars. We beat it. They
got to pass more. This goof comes from Notre Dame
down here, thinks you're going to coach in the SEC
and now they got to buy him out for fifty
four men. But there's not a bigger goof than our
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buddy at A and M. That got somehow another cond
him into extending his contract for twelve million dollars a year.
And he was the offensive coordinator at LSU. When we
went to play Florida and he ran it off tackle
three times. All we had to do was get two yards.
He ran off three tackles three times, and we didn't
beat Florida, but we had them beat right there. So yeah,
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these guys are going nuts. I mean, send me down
there with that talent at LSU have you seen those
people play. They're fantastic. Could you mess that up so bad?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Well, let me ask you this. So, Brian Kelly's record
is first four years thirty four and fourteen. Orgeron forty
and nine. Orgeron inherited an amazing team, Less Miles forty
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two and eleven, eight more wins and three fewer losses.
Nick Saban thirty nine and thirteen, five more wins, one
fewer loss the difference being each of those three won
national titles, SEC titles and national titles. I don't like
Brian Kelly. I've never liked Brian Kelly. I don't think
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he motivates players. I don't think they connect with him.
I don't think they play for him. However, you're referring
to him as the goof. He's getting somewhere between thirty
and fifty four million dollars to sit on a beach somewhere.
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I'm coming in here and I'm gonna coach this team. No, please,
We'll give you a million dollars not to No, No,
I insist. I'm gonna stay up all night reviewing film
and get in early. I'm gonna bust my vocal cords
and stand out in the heat, blowing my whistle. I'm
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going to track down where my boys are on life
three sixty all hours of the day, three hundred and
sixty five. No, please, Here's ten million, No, no, I'm
doing it. Twenty million, uh uh, thirty million, no, forty million,
not even a chance. I must do this. You cannot
stop me. Here's fifty four million dollars. Okay, all right,
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but I want to do all those things. But I'll
take my fifty four million. I will accept your offer.
Who's the goof here? People tell me how goofy Jimbo is?
How's jimbo goofy? He got seventy seven million dollars. Here's
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what nobody talks about. And I can't figure out why.
Imagine you're sitting on a border regions, a steward of
the people's money. Most university revenues or tax dollars. It's
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not tuition people think it is. Tuition makes up a
small percentage of a university's revenues. It's tax dollars. The
irony being that the people paying for school in many
cases are people who didn't go to school. You know
who gets shafted in this country? The guy who leaves
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high school may or may not have gotten a degree
a diploma, and becomes a plumber, electrician, or carpenter and
gets to work. That guy is being harassed with new
regulations all day every day. Ask an ac man today, Hey,
those new regulations on free on how do those affect
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your ability to do your job? How's that going to
affect the consumer? Because he's one going to take the
hit on it. That guy's out in the heat, busting
ass all day every day. No bailouts for him. He
ain't GM or FORD, no subsidies for him, he ain't TESLA.
He just pays his taxes, grinding away and it goes
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to the university. Because let's be honest, let's if we're
completely honest, university football teams have nothing to do with
the university. People that graduate from a school or go
there and didn't graduate want their team to beat somebody
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else's team because they went somewhere there. It's the sport.
It's the spirit of competition. It's the same reason when
you're at the hunting least to night before you go out,
you play poker, little competition. It's the same reason you
played acts when you were a kid or kickball or
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hopscotch or anything else. We love the competition. I'll take
mine against yours. It's pick up football on a bigger level,
and I get to be with this team. But I
want my team to win because it feels good when
my team wins. Nobody wants to dress all up and
paint their face for a school that keeps losing. You
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want to be the one that's associated with the team
that keeps winning because in some small way you feel
like maybe that makes you better. Right, and all of
this is fine, it's all in good fun. My problem
is this high minded, dumb assory of people who keep saying, oh,
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stop that in al it's gonna ruin it. And here's
the new one. The new one is you got to
stop that because you know, only ones that's getting paid
is football and some basketball. Oh you mean women's swimming
is not getting funded? No, why you think that is?
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How about this? Go to the donors and ask for
money for women swimming. Now, the people who get mad
are girl dad's can I get it? Your daughter's in
this or that. That's great, Go support her, go watch
the games, but don't be bad. Other people aren't because
if you didn't have a daughter, you wouldn't go watch that.
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And so the universities just want to have a football
and in some cases of basketball program, and in a
few cases a baseball program, although the baseball program is
buying large lose money too. Certainly there's no ticket sales
not to speak of, and there's only a handful of programs,
maybe ten, And now you'd have just this little, be
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tiny league. But does every school in the country need
all these sports? Well, they're student athletes. On what basis
should you get a free education because you have a
sport that the university they're doing you a favor, not
anybody else. The one thing they won't cut is the
football program because that drives attendance and interest and donor dollars.
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That's the marketplace, right
It's that time time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air. Well, we
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better to know about the tech Dot Bridge than Tom Bazon,
who happens to have called in. Tom Bazon is a
local appraiser and citizen activist who used to come down
to City Hall when I was on City Council, and
Tom would be the only guy in the public half
the city council didn't read the budget truth be told,
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and he would point out, hey, y'all have this. You know,
eighty million dollar appropriation for this. Are you're aware that
that's been appropriated five times before nothing was ever done
with it. Where's the money going? And nobody wanted to
hear a good government activist, and so they wouldn't move
him to the front. So I would have to get
him moved up earlier, otherwise he'd be stuck till the
very end. And sometimes they would fight me on that,
and the reason because nobody wanted to hear what Tom
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was on said. Because what Tom was on wanted was
the efficient operation of city government and the county and
tex Dot and all of these other things. But I
grew to respect him a great deal because Tom didn't
have anything to gain. In fact, it hurt his business
that he was calling out the fraud and corruption. He
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didn't have an outlet. He didn't have a radio show.
He'd have some big, powerful blog. The Chronicle didn't give
him space, and yet he just toiled along, toiled along.
And I always admired that, like as a very Don
Quixote in his keyhotic quest jousting at Windmills. But I
liked to think in some small way it made a difference.
So when it came time to find space for the RCC,
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I knew he also did some brokerage, and I said, Tom,
I owe it to you. Find me a space. And
we looked at a bunch of different spaces, and then
we drove up on the RCC and he said this
place is a dump. You're not gonna want it. I said,
it's perfect, We'll take it. And that was that, and
he and Paula were regular members. Tom was on Welcome
to the program Sir, What say you?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
After all that, I missed his intro up, Tom, hold on, Tom,
I hanging right there. I did something wrong, Tom. That's
the weirdest thing. See what see it has that number
one beside it Ramon. I figured out what the one,
the two, and the three. I think that's the order
they came in. Let me see, I'm gonna put him
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on hold and I'm gonna go to it. Tom. Maybe
you got his volume down. Tell him to call back.
That's right, Tell them to call back. Now what do
we do? What? Oh, he might've had his mute and
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I might have fat fingered it. He might have fat
fingers it. Well, we'll sit here and wait on Tom.
You know, in the meantime, I've been wanting to tell
this story, but I know it's going to be lost
on ninety nine percent of the audience, and that's going
to irritate me.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Is that you Yeah, it is me just making sure
the phones work.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah that sounds good. Okay, Yeah, good to hear from you, though, body, Yeah,
you took all right? So follow me on this one moment,
everybody says. I keep hearing people parrot this line. We
got to do away with it, nil, Why players getting
paid too much money? Too much money? Yep, all that
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money's ruining the game? How's it ruining the game? Too
much money? What do you mean ruining the game? How's
it running the game? Too much money? What are you saying?
Why do you you don't even know what you're saying.
I've got women who don't know what a first down is,
but they wear their their their gear since they were
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at a sorority. At the sorority to college, they go
to all the games. They get all gussied up. Alabama, Mississippi,
Mississippi State, L s U, U, T A, and M.
You know, we go to every game. We've been going
to every game, you know, every year. You know, we
know Arch Manning. We've had him to our house for dinner. Okay,
all right, let me ask you just a quick question.
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What's a flea flicker?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, we but we know Arch, we know the whole family.
We've known the whole family. And we don't miss a game. Okay,
all right, Uh, what's a fair catch? Well, you know,
we just you know, we go to every game. We
don't miss it. We love, we get there, we tailgate. Okay,
so big fan, big fan, and that person will tell
you in il bad deal. Money, money's ruined the game.
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Money's terrible. Okay, all right, you keep saving that. So
let me ask you this, how has it ruined the game?
Too much money? The kids don't care. It's just too
much money. Whose money is it? Is a taxpayer dollars?
Because it's not. It's go ahead and make it easy on.
It's not. It's car dealers and enrich donors. They choose
to give that money to the players because they want
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their team to win. Yeah, how about that. That's how
that works. Yeah, that's free market. Is there too much
money in automobiles or too much money in houses, or
too much money in country clubs? Or how about too
much money in handbags? Damn it, we can't have good
handbags anymore because Louis Vuitton and Kate Spade and Prada
and all these people. They've made the bags too expensive
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and bags aren't fun anymore. Let's do away with bags
and we'll go back to very basic handbags. What do
you think about that?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Normal, We still got to have money in bags. Money
and bags is good, all right? So money is bad.
Take the money out. The kids don't have any heart
for it anymore the way they used to. Oh, so
the kids should play for free. No, they get education.
We pay for their education. They don't want the education.
See that's what you don't get. They don't want the education.
If they wanted the education, you wouldn't have to have
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minimum standards. They don't show up to get an education.
I don't want to shock this for anybody. I don't
know if it's going to ruin this for anybody. They
don't want to go to school. The university does everything
they can to get them to go to enough classes.
They always have some woman forty years old who's like
the den mom, and she makes sure they go to
classes and they pass, and they just enough to stay
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on the field till they go to the pros or
get out and go do whatever they're going to do
from there. But they don't get their degree. They love
to tell you they do because they're student athletes. All
we're in love with his idea. They're student athletes. Okay,
money's bad, get the money out. Too much money? All right?
Then Brian Kelly is they negotiate an exit for him.
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He still owed fifty four million dollars on his contract,
so there's some debate as to how much he's gonna get.
He's going to get at least thirty men. He may
get fifty two million to walk away. What coach O
get twenty million to walk away? Jimbo got seventy seven million.
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That's crazy. You know what, I've not heard one person
say too much money and coaches payoffs? Wait, what, where's
I'm not hurt a single person. These people are getting
paid obscene amounts of money for failing to get out
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of the way so we don't fail anymore. But nobody
seems to care. So the old guy that coaches, he
can make he can make absurd amounts of money. That's
perfectly fine. Just don't don't dare let the kid on
the field make a penny because that ruins the game. Well,
when they get paid, they're not passionate about it. Oh,
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you don't think Brian Kelly woke up in South Bend,
Indiana and said where I most want to live as
Baton Rouge. You don't think Jimbo was sitting in Florida
and said where I most want to live as college station.
You think money might have affected that book?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Dean Joel has been race driver, Michael Barry funny hacker.
That's Ramond du King of Dan suggested for general audiences.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So the woman who does all my title work is
that Alamo title. Her name is Dana Pendleton. She's known
as Dana Duncan Pendleton DDP and her husband, Clinton, is
a real estate developer in the area. A lot of
stuff out northeast fifty nine around the Cleveland area. I
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don't think he has that much. He's just like six
thousand acres or something. And they came on the Palm
Beach trip and she stopped me in the hallway at
the hotel and she said, hey, I've been meaning to
ask you. Do you know anything about the DGS, because
I know you love the Beg's And I said, no,
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who are the DGS? She said, well, the Food Fighters
wanted to do a tribute band to the Beg's. They
didn't want to do it as the Food Fighters because
you'd still think of the Food Fighters. So they just
created their own Beg's tribute band and they're called the DGS.
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And you got to check it out. I didn't think
anything of it, and then yesterday she sent me an
email with a link to them, and then I had
to send it to Ramon and neither one of us
knew anything about it, and we couldn't believe, why have
we never heard of this before? Anyway, that was them,
and it's a pretty cool little project. If you find
yourself in the mood to learn more about them. It
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also makes you appreciate the vocals of the begs because
I've never heard anybody cover them and do them justice.
And even the food fighters. Can't you just you just
you can't. Now, there's no way around it, John, You're
only Michael Barry show.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Go ahead, Yes, sir four. As this money in collegiate athletics,
you know, most of the guys are not getting paid,
but of course there are a few that are really
making large sums of money. You know, last year the
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number one guy was eighteen year old Cooper Flagg, who
played one year at Duke and now he's in the NBA.
The guy behind him was essentially inexperienced, a second stringer,
(10:55):
Arch Manning. And now I've noticed after the University of
Texas football games on the field, on the postgame activities,
whether it be uh post gang interview with Many or
(11:16):
Many celebrating with one of his teammates, Many is always
escorted by one, if not to uniformed DPS officers. I
have yet to see the quarterback of Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
The quarterback you.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Pardon me?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Is there a point to any of this?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Well, yes, because I think yes, because yes, because I
think and this has kind of been being shown now
with this uh gambling issue with the NBA, that there's
a lot of uh you know, opportunity, shall we say,
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when that money is that high, that the game is
going to be tarnished by these guys.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You think that there are DPS troopers beside arch Manning
because they don't want to let anyone get to him
to gamble.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Well, well, arch Benning is getting paid six million dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
What does that matter for?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
And uh so, you know there he has to protect,
you know, their investment.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Oh dear God. And there are players who are paid
more than that in the NFL who don't get security.
You know, people get retarded, literally retarded over money. It's
amazing to me. The concern is the fan base freak
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out over arch Manning puts him in a bad situation,
not of his choosing. Whatever one may think of arch Manning,
love him, hate him, can't decide yet, waiting to see
he didn't choose to be overhyped, which is what they
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did to him. They set him up for failure with
an overhype and not even ut as much as the
media everybody wants a hero. Everybody wants a superstar. That's
why every Sunday they don't say the Bills and the Texans.
They say Will Anderson against Josh Allen anybody else playing?
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Just curious? And by the way, I'm told, oh, the portal,
the portal, Michael, not in ll okay, you got me
on nil. The portals what ruined it? Because then they
can just move from team to team. Oh you mean
the way Saban? Did you mean the way? Lane Kiffin's
gonna do it at the end of this year. But
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nobody has a problem with that. They don't want these
kids to make any money. It's creepy, it's weird. Money
has ruined everything okaoc has it ruined you? Do you
stay at your job because you love it or because
they pay you more than the next guy. The other
day I made the point that people would be jumping
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up and down. They come up with these dumb ideas
like we ought to put we ought to put shoe
polish on our on our windows and drive around in
the parade. I was making a joke. Trump and Tom
thought I was serious.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Hey Michael, was Tom again? Hey listen? I took it
in the middle of a sentence but you're just talking
about this great idea. Holy crap, man, we should do
that shoebowish idea. You have the best freaking ideas of
anybody in the whole wild world. Man, Imagine how easy
it is. Everybody's got shoebash you need. Don't you go Walmart,
you go dar General, you go Kruger, you go to ATB.
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There's lots of places that shall shoe polish rever and
even real shoebolash. But listen that idea that has a
million dollar idea. Because there's so many people that love Trump,
so many people love Trump, but we think that we're
all alone inside of some type of fantasy island where
we're just all alone on this island surrounded by a
midget and hot women from the seventies. But I mean
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that's all what I mean. I mean that we're like
all alone. But if everybody got shoe polash, you get brown,
white or black shoe polish paint on your car.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Trump whatever rules twenty twenty eight is awesome town, then
everybody drive around, every single body would know.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh my god, I'm not alone.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
I'm not alone in this crazy town. Okay, that's all
I got please, please can Once you get this going,
I will be at the.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Front of that parade.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
We'll call it shoe policies period. Oh hey, I gotta go,
somebody's call me about a tax.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, experience the excitement of Oshan.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
The Michael Berry show, Everything you need and most everything
you want.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
All right, let's go over this again because I think
it's a fun little exercise. So when you talk about politics,
policy and you wonder, how can people vote for the
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Democrats when they do the things they do, How can
they do that? How do they still do it? Because
they suspend reality. They've come to their conclusion. I like
the LSU Tigers, I like the text Sernam Maggie, whatever
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that is, and so nothing makes sense after that. They
process everything through the conclusion, so that whatever premises you
have can't change the conclusion. That's that's their conclusion. That's
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where they are. Well, when you understand that, that's why
Democrats are going to vote for Mamdani no matter what
you say about him. You realize you can't reason with
these people. This is why people get so frustrated. Yeah,
so I came to work and I said, oh yeah,
oh yeah, you said Mumdonni wasn't a communist. Watch this.
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This is Mumdani saying I am a communist. Say and
you know what she said. She was like, I don't care.
I'm so vote for him because he's better than the
other guy and Trump is bad. I'm like, oh my god,
I got okay. Well, at that point you realize that
person is not being reasonable. They can't be reasonable. Well,
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at least we're not unreasonable, right. I pick at the
scab of Nil and Portal, not because I care, but
because it's a fascinating way to have a conversation with
people who are doing exactly the same thing, who are
otherwise very reasonable. Take the money out of college football.
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Take the money out of is exactly what the Democrats
are saying in New York, and we call them socialists. Wait,
don't let the players get paid. Everything will be equal.
Isn't that what the Democrats say? Isn't that what the
Democrats say? You love college football because you love the
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competition of these kids. Why shouldn't they enjoy that? By
the way, don't worry because I think some people think
some nineteen year olds getting.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Over on them.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Most people can't confess to this but I think there's
a degree of resentment that I'm over here busting my
ass for twenty five years and I've never made three
million dollars a year. That kid's running up down to
football and he's making three million dollars a year, and
I don't like it. Let's be honest, Let's call that
what it is. Some people may not realize it, but
that is what's happening. Rest assured. If that's causing you grief,
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rest assured, for ninety nine point nine percent of those kids,
that money will be squandered by the end of the
calendar year in which they were paid and they'll never
make any money again for the rest of their lives.
Rest assured that is the case. There will be a
handful that will go to the NFL, but it is
so much, it is so it is so much fewer
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than you can imagine because every year that you can
only absorb a few because you have players that are
playing multiple years. And then you think of guys making
it on a team, most don't make the final team.
If they do make the final team, they're not a
multi year They never get on the field, so they're
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playing for league minimums. They're not getting ahead of you.
You'll own the house, they won't. You'll own cars they want.
You'll have a retirement, they won't. So don't worry. They're
not getting overr on you. All right, let's take that
out of the picks. Well, okay, Michael, it's not the money. Okay,
it's not the man. I want to make sure it's
not the money, because let me just ask this. Can
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we also cap the coaches? Let me ask you this.
If your argument is they're already getting room and board, Michael,
why we got to pay a more? You don't the
donors do well? I gotta pay for the tickets. Don't
don't buy tickets. I gotta go. I got my shirt,
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my colors, and my cat, my car. Now my yours
is But why do you keep doing that? Because the
sport is so damn good and so damned compelling, you
can't help yourself. It's that good, right. But if they're
already getting room and board, why does the coach need
to make more than a professor. Why does the coach
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need to make more than the president of university? Why
is the coach in every single state in the Union
the highest paid public employee in the state That doesn't
make any sense. How are we going to pay our
coaches more than any other public official in the state.
That's dumb. Let's take the money out of it, all right,
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But nobody complains about the money in the coaching because
everybody wants the best coach. Oh okay, all right, okay,
So then they go, then they pivot. Okay, okay. Money's fine.
Money's fine, Money's fine. It's just the portal. What's wrong
with the portal? You get these players? They move from
team to team? Mm hmm. Like you mean like you
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do it your job. You mean like everybody does at
their job. You mean like that? Well, I just want
them to get there and stay there. Why why do
you need them to get there and stay there? When
you go to a game, you're telling me that you
need to know that that red shirt freshman is going
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to be there for four years. I can't enjoy this game.
I can't enjoy trying to beat old miss if I
don't know if this guy's going to be here three
years from now, I just can't. I can't live with it.
Why do you hear yourself? I need to know this
is the only place he's ever going to play because
my heart will be broke. I just I just pretend
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to Keeam didn't go to Canada and wear another jersey.
I can't have it. Wait, is say we allow it
in professional sports? Oh, and we allow it in college
ruins the game? The game's not the way it used
to be. Okay, Well, they're also not wearing knee pads
any longer. They don't wear big bulky Earl Campbell thigh pads.
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I mean, how far back do we go? Has the
forward pass ruined the sport? What exactly is the problem?
There are so many advancements to the sport that make
it better than it ever was. But why on earth
would you want to take money out of these kids'
pockets You're not paying for it. If I'm a rich
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donor and I want to pay a kid to come
to my school that I went to, and now he's
got life changing money, even if he is going to
squander it, why would anybody else begrudge that? If you're real, honest,
real honest about your opposition to that, and you're capable
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of introspection on a deep level, you will admit it's unhealthy.
It comes from a place that is in AOC mamdani
ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders. It does say what you want,
but it does. And if you tell me the portal
is so bad because you don't want them moving, then
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you shouldn't let the coaches move either. So y'all can
be stuck with Brian Kelly at LSU for the link
of his term, because we can't just have people keep moving.
And don't you dare try to get Lane Kiffin over
because we don't want people just moving every time, do we? Oh,
coaches can do it, but not the kids. Okay, now
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you start to understand the Democrat mindset better. Huh. Charlie
Daniels would have been eighty nine today. He did live
to be eighty four. Not a bad run, not a
bad well, technically eighty three. He was just short of
his eighty fourth birthday. Charles Edward Daniels left us July
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six to twenty twenty, but born on this day, October
twenty eighth, nineteen and thirty six. Freddy, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. What say you, hey, Michael?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I got the perfect solution. I coached pee wee football
fifth and sixth grade when I was a younger man.
Coached my two sons, and my two sons and I
have decided we were going to call LSU and say
we'll coach for one year a million dollars apiece. I'll
be the head coach, he'll be the coordinators. And if
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we can't, if we match the eight and four record
that he amassed there for the four years he was
there three and a half years he was there, then
they just passed a million dollars. We beat it. They
got to pass more. This goof comes from Notre Dame
down here, thinks you're going to coach in the SEC
and now they got to buy him out for fifty
four men. But there's not a bigger goof than our
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buddy at A and M. That got somehow another cond
him into extending his contract for twelve million dollars a year.
And he was the offensive coordinator at LSU. When we
went to play Florida and he ran it off tackle
three times. All we had to do was get two yards.
He ran off three tackles three times, and we didn't
beat Florida, but we had them beat right there. So yeah,
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these guys are going nuts. I mean, send me down
there with that talent at LSU have you seen those
people play. They're fantastic. Could you mess that up so bad?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Well, let me ask you this. So, Brian Kelly's record
is first four years thirty four and fourteen. Orgeron forty
and nine. Orgeron inherited an amazing team, Less Miles forty
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two and eleven, eight more wins and three fewer losses.
Nick Saban thirty nine and thirteen, five more wins, one
fewer loss the difference being each of those three won
national titles, SEC titles and national titles. I don't like
Brian Kelly. I've never liked Brian Kelly. I don't think
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he motivates players. I don't think they connect with him.
I don't think they play for him. However, you're referring
to him as the goof. He's getting somewhere between thirty
and fifty four million dollars to sit on a beach somewhere.
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I'm coming in here and I'm gonna coach this team. No, please,
We'll give you a million dollars not to No, No,
I insist. I'm gonna stay up all night reviewing film
and get in early. I'm gonna bust my vocal cords
and stand out in the heat, blowing my whistle. I'm
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going to track down where my boys are on life
three sixty all hours of the day, three hundred and
sixty five. No, please, Here's ten million, No, no, I'm
doing it. Twenty million, uh uh, thirty million, no, forty million,
not even a chance. I must do this. You cannot
stop me. Here's fifty four million dollars. Okay, all right,
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but I want to do all those things. But I'll
take my fifty four million. I will accept your offer.
Who's the goof here? People tell me how goofy Jimbo is?
How's jimbo goofy? He got seventy seven million dollars. Here's
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what nobody talks about. And I can't figure out why.
Imagine you're sitting on a border regions, a steward of
the people's money. Most university revenues or tax dollars. It's
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not tuition people think it is. Tuition makes up a
small percentage of a university's revenues. It's tax dollars. The
irony being that the people paying for school in many
cases are people who didn't go to school. You know
who gets shafted in this country? The guy who leaves
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high school may or may not have gotten a degree
a diploma, and becomes a plumber, electrician, or carpenter and
gets to work. That guy is being harassed with new
regulations all day every day. Ask an ac man today, Hey,
those new regulations on free on how do those affect
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your ability to do your job? How's that going to
affect the consumer? Because he's one going to take the
hit on it. That guy's out in the heat, busting
ass all day every day. No bailouts for him. He
ain't GM or FORD, no subsidies for him, he ain't TESLA.
He just pays his taxes, grinding away and it goes
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to the university. Because let's be honest, let's if we're
completely honest, university football teams have nothing to do with
the university. People that graduate from a school or go
there and didn't graduate want their team to beat somebody
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else's team because they went somewhere there. It's the sport.
It's the spirit of competition. It's the same reason when
you're at the hunting least to night before you go out,
you play poker, little competition. It's the same reason you
played acts when you were a kid or kickball or
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hopscotch or anything else. We love the competition. I'll take
mine against yours. It's pick up football on a bigger level,
and I get to be with this team. But I
want my team to win because it feels good when
my team wins. Nobody wants to dress all up and
paint their face for a school that keeps losing. You
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want to be the one that's associated with the team
that keeps winning because in some small way you feel
like maybe that makes you better. Right, and all of
this is fine, it's all in good fun. My problem
is this high minded, dumb assory of people who keep saying, oh,
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stop that in al it's gonna ruin it. And here's
the new one. The new one is you got to
stop that because you know, only ones that's getting paid
is football and some basketball. Oh you mean women's swimming
is not getting funded? No, why you think that is?
(32:09):
How about this? Go to the donors and ask for
money for women swimming. Now, the people who get mad
are girl dad's can I get it? Your daughter's in
this or that. That's great, Go support her, go watch
the games, but don't be bad. Other people aren't because
if you didn't have a daughter, you wouldn't go watch that.
(32:33):
And so the universities just want to have a football
and in some cases of basketball program, and in a
few cases a baseball program, although the baseball program is
buying large lose money too. Certainly there's no ticket sales
not to speak of, and there's only a handful of programs,
maybe ten, And now you'd have just this little, be
(32:55):
tiny league. But does every school in the country need
all these sports? Well, they're student athletes. On what basis
should you get a free education because you have a
sport that the university they're doing you a favor, not
anybody else. The one thing they won't cut is the
football program because that drives attendance and interest and donor dollars.
(33:19):
That's the marketplace, right
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