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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Luck and load. So Michael Verie Show is on the air.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
We have specific officers and agents that have bounties that
have been put out on their heads. It's been two
thousand dollars to kidnap them, ten thousand dollars to kill them.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Christy Nome saying she's going to deploy more special operations
to Chicago. Here's what this says. Today in Chicago, members
of our brave law enforcement were attacked, rammed, and boxed
in by ten vehicles, including an attack or with a
semi automatic weapon. I'm deploying more special operations to control
the scene. Reinforcements are on their way.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
DHS says that CBP officers shot and wounded a woman
in Chicago yesterday after they say she allegedly rammed a
law enforcement vehicle and agents were boxed in by multiple cars.
The spokesperson for DHS, Tricia McLaughlin, accused Chicago police of

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leaving the scene and refusing to assist agents in securing
the area.

Speaker 6 (01:34):
Well, we don't have a lot of facts what happens
in these sorts of incidences. Typically ICE puts out a
press release before anybody else can speak with the press,
and then it gets reported on social media and elsewhere.
They are just putting out their propaganda, and then we've

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got to later determine what actually happened.

Speaker 7 (02:02):
All right, And nine ninety nine just took him from a.

Speaker 8 (02:22):
Thirty nice place and Kezzie. They were saying that they
were being surrounded by that large crowd and they were
requesting the police. We're not sending I'm calling waving off
all the cars heading the thirty nine slaves.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
And CATSI again go over being given.

Speaker 8 (02:37):
Okay, some more and again for ally it is that
we called to go over that way, thirty nice places
and Kezzy, if you could just hold off, just disregard
that thirty nice places and Cazzi.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Game time.

Speaker 9 (03:06):
There are a number of people, including the President of
the United States of America, that have decided to declare
war on poor people and on working people across the country.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
And this raid that you are describing was.

Speaker 9 (03:20):
On the South side of Chicago, where black folks live.
This is not about safety, it's not about deportation.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Amac This is about the President.

Speaker 9 (03:46):
Of the United States of America and his kind that
are looking to stoke and foment chaos and fear within
our streets of cities across America.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm so exhausted. The term is black fatigue, as most
Americans are by people who continue to talk about blackness.
It's not that interesting, it's not that important. If the
most important interesting thing about you is your skin color,

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then you don't have a lot to offer the world.
I am so tired of hearing as an excuse that
someone is black. A murder is a murder, a beating,
a rape, a carjacking. The act in and of itself

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is an awful thing. In race doesn't make you do it.
I am so tired of this idea that somehow black
people are under at white people. It is so ridiculous
as to be laughable. It really is a joke. Everyone

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in this country knows that almost every crime that occurs
across the races is a black person attacking a white
person in almost every circumstance. This idea of roving mobs
of white people beating up black people, there was a

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time of that, but not in my lifetime, and in fact,
not in the lifetime of very many people alive today.
But there is today, in reality, in almost every major city,
an epidemic of black on white violence. Being said, it

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is not the largest category of violence. It is not
the group that blacks attack the most. Blacks attack blacks
the most, a subject that most people don't want to
talk about. Leave whitey out of this for a moment.
Black people attack black people in record numbers. There is

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no other group that conducts as many attacks as blacks
do in our country. It's not even close.

Speaker 10 (06:33):
It's a staggering number of attacks, in fact, so much
so that you start looking at root causes.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
You've got to really.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Be busy.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
To have as much violence coming from a community that
only comprises thirteen percent of your population. And the people
most at risk of black violence to be the victim
of it are blacks, a subject that gets almost no
attention because it's inconvenient. It's inconvenient to say black people

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stop attacking other black people, and you'd think there'd be
more black people that would step forward and say, stop
acting like whites are attacking blacks. Our neighborhoods are terrorized
Black neighborhoods by blacks, including the blacks who live in them.

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There aren't white gangs. There are black gangs. Every major
city has them. There aren't white drive by shootings. There
are black drive by shootings. There aren't white carjackings. There
are black carjackings, and a number of white violent criminals

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are people who fell in with blacks in their neighborhood
because they grew up in that neighborhood and they so
desperately want to be approved of by them. Chris Rock
has a great comedy bit on that. You see four
black dudes and a white dude with him, get away
from that white guy because whatever he had to do
to fit in with that group, he's the scariest one

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of them.

Speaker 8 (08:22):
All you are listening to the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
I want to be clear and how I characterize this.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
This is a mostly approaches.

Speaker 11 (08:39):
Ayhood. There was a secret ark who's violence saying to
please do look, but that's not what.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
You hear from the media.

Speaker 11 (08:52):
The Democrats just be the fifth and all along governments
abandon asked you were look on Antifa, it's anti takeover.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
It's as you should know.

Speaker 11 (09:10):
Maybe it's anti it's anti.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Let's be spread quickly and questions.

Speaker 11 (09:22):
Yes, their name seemed good, but I needed proofs, so
I looked up videos on YouTube. It turned out that
their name was meant to fool up the lattic so
they could scare you interthinking that it's fair to appunt

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anyone who.

Speaker 7 (09:44):
They cans Andifa.

Speaker 11 (09:48):
It's anti fa, it's anti, it's antifa. It's anti.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Is an idea, not an organization occupation.

Speaker 11 (10:07):
They claim that we have been here before in Germany
nineteen thirty for when people claim that one race was superior.
But they're the ones that sark and say the communists is.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
The way our comes are bad?

Speaker 11 (10:28):
Why the racestil It's anti, it's anti, it's anti, it's anti.

(10:52):
They do not blow through speech above religious dogma that
they love. They'll cancel anybody sees through them. It's not
a fight for civil rights. It isn't those who are
seeing the light. Ironically, it's fascism one day. It's santifa,

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it's anti, it's sanci fa, it's anti.

Speaker 8 (11:30):
Fat.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
There was a segment on CNN over the weekend where
they were basically stomping their feet like Lena had all
go late for a concert in the middle of a
commissioner's court meeting and pouting, and one of their panelists said,
I just hate for Trump to get credit for this.

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It was the ceasefire deal, in Gaza and a war
that has been ravaging the area going back to the
October seventh attack, the hostages, both sides taking some pretty
heavy losses and damage, and I think it's fair to

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say that most of the world would like to see
him knock it off. Nobody's been able to reason between
the two of them, with each side and get this
to stop. But Trump was able to do it. And
the CNN guests were lamenting the fact that a thing
which most people would argue is good for the world,

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certainly for the people there, that bullets stop flying and
people stop dying, that they were disappointed, even angry at
that because Trump would get the credit. And that is
as perfect an allegory of anything I can give you,

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an example of anything I can give you of everything
that is wrong with the Democrats in America today, That
is it in perfection. They don't care what's good or
bad for people. They care about winning elections. They care

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about getting credit for things that are positive and preventing
the other side from getting credit, even if they're getting
credit for something they accomplished. There is not a person
alive who believes that a ceasefire would have occurred. But
Donald Trump's involvement. It didn't naturally organically occur. And everybody

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knows that there's no doubting that he's not beating his
chest and taking credit for something that happened to happen.
He made it happen, He willed it to happen. He
invested a great deal of capital and time, energy and patience.
He called in every favor he possibly could. He did deals.

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You could argue that you don't like the deal. You
could argue that you don't like the ceasefire or the
terms of the seasefire. You could argue they don't like
one or the other side. You could argue that you
don't like either side. All of those are fine, But
it cannot be argued that this is anything other than
Donald Trump's deal. Neither side had expressed publicly any interest

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in ending this thing anytime soon, but Trump made it happen.
The fact that the panelists who every night talked to
Americans MA but talk to Americans, said that they're bummed
out that this happened. Because Trump's going to get credit.

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That means there is zero concern for how many people
die in that conflict. It's all about who will get
the credit. And keeping Trump from getting the credit is
worth people continuing.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
To die by that.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Anybody, your naive neighbor, needs to see that, because there
it is. Nobody wants to believe the evil that people
can do and how petty they can be until that
moment occurs, and that tells you everything you need to know.
Right there, That tells you everything.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
You need to know.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
In the last two weeks, we've come to learn that
the superintendent of the largest school district in the state
of Iowa is in this country illegally. We've come to
learn that he doesn't have a PhD, but insisted on
being called doctor and claimed he did, in fact claim
to have a PhD from a program that doesn't even
exist at that particular university. That's not very smart. We

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also learn that he has no work permit that I mentioned.
He's in the country illegally. We came to learn there
are a number of things he's run a follow of
the legal system in a number of different ways, and
he's had a deportation order for well over a year.
So the Iowa school district that hired him, the chairman

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of which is the former chiefest staff fro Michelle Obama,
either didn't check his record when they should have or
checked it and decided to hire him in defiance of
the law when college football started this year just a

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few weeks ago. But now we're getting a better sense
of the quality of the teams as opposed to the
hype ahead of time. Three of the top four teams
in that poll are not only not in the top
ten in the country in the rankings this week, they're

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not in the top twenty five. The number four Clempson
Tigers are awful to start the season. Number two Penn
State Nittany Lyons terrible. Although I gotta tell you it
was kind of fun to watch new Heeiseel's Sun win
that game and the thrill he had. Sort of sad

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the state of UCLA football because they get this big
win over Penn State and there's nobody there to see it.
The stadium looks like a COVID era event. And the
number one team to start the season, the University of
Texas Longhorns, not in the top twenty five. Three of

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the top four teams that were projected at the beginning
of the season are no longer are not even in
the top twenty five. Texas A and m Aggie's have
made it all the way up to number five at
five and oh their highest ranking since I think twenty
twenty one four years ago, Ole miss at number four,

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Oregon at number three, Miami at number two, and Ohio
state holding firm at number one, number six, Oklahoma number seven,
Indiana number eight, Alabama scratching their way up number nine,
Texas Tech, the Red Raiders guns up, number ten, Georgia eleven,

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LSU then Tennessee, Georgia Tech, Missouri, Michigan, Notre Dame, Illinois BYU, Virginia,
Vanderbilt with a loss, Arizona State, Iowa State, Memphis, South Florida,
and Florida State. Some names you would expect to see

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in that list not in that list, and some names
you don't expect to see in a top twenty five,
like Virginia, Georgia Tech, and Indiana in the top twenty five.
Interesting times in college football. I keep having this discussion

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with people who will say to me, we got to
fix nil. And it's interesting how many people repeat things
because they've heard them, but that don't even know what
it means. They don't know why they feel this way.
And I say, well, what needs to be fixed INIL.

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That's not an answer. What needs to be fixed? What
is wrong with the NIL? Well, you're paying players. We've
been paying players a long time. We just ran it
through the school and called it books and tuition for
a very long time. Yeah, but I mean, if they're

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getting books intuition, why should we pay them. Okay, let's
step back and stop repeating what you've heard everybody else
say and think for yourself for just a moment and
then come to your own conclusion. But don't start with
a conclusion you don't like INIO because Nick Saban told
you you didn't like INIO. That's not a good reason.

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Let's go back to the beginning. College sports is entertainment.
We can agree with that. Nobody's living or dying, and
it's not necessary. We would survive without it. It's not
food or shelter or transport to it's not critical. It
is fun. Okay, so we agree it's fun. It's entertainment.

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It's some of the best entertainment out there. It's the
most entertaining form of football.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
We know that.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Most of watching the NFL now is so you can
see where the guys you followed in college ended up.
It's not. I think most people would argue that college
football is a more entertaining product than NFL, not that
the NFL is not, but that college football is more entertaining.
So let's chat back and think about this for a moment,
and let's use a better thought process. We have paid

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young men for many years to run up down the
field and entertain us. And that's what they're doing. It
is all that they're doing. Anyone that wants to tell
you no, no, they're being there being role models.

Speaker 11 (21:59):
For the key.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
That's not why we show up on Saturday. Yep, we're
all here because we're going to cure cancer and cerebral
palsy and MS. These kids, right, these guys right here
are going to inspire people to do that. That's not
why we're here. Why shouldn't they get paid. We pay
other people to perform tasks while they're students. We pay

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people to perform tasks while they are students, to who
are also on scholarship. Well, it just seems to me,
if we're already giving them food and board and tuition,
that we shouldn't also be paying them. Are you sure
are working hard to make sure that somebody else doesn't
get paid. You do understand this is a consensual relationship.

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This isn't tax dollars. This is rich car dealers who
write checks to players because they want their team to win,
because they enjoy the entertainment and the feeling they get
when they win. But he's making you participate in that.
It's not costing you a penny, it's not coming out
of your tickets. And you don't even go to games anyway.
What are you bitching about because you heard somebody else

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bitch and you want to have something to bitch about
because you think it makes you sound smart. But he
doesn't to people who think for a living. But let's
go back to that. Well, already paying for their room
and board, and well, you know, alright, got tuition. I'll
tell you what. Give the player the option. He'll say,
don't pay for my tuition. I don't want to go
to class anyway. Let's stop with the student athlete. Do

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you know why they keep telling you these are student athletes.
Hey's our student athletes. Look at Bob over here, Hey
went on to be a doctor. He's the exception to
the rule. You know this number of people go to college.
They go to college and they don't want to go
to college. Ask them if they wanted to go to college,
you wouldn't have to hire all these tutors to be

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there for them, to follow up on them and make
sure they go to class. If they wanted to be there,
you wouldn't have the coach wouldn't have to tell them, hey, guys,
you can't fall out of your class. We make them
pretend to be scholars by keeping their grades at a
minimal level so that we can continue with this ruse

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that we're supporting kids going to college. We're not. We're not,
and that's okay. We don't go to midget wrastling and
say we're all doing good here these little fellas. It's
keeping them off the streets and giving them opportunity to
be somebody. No, they're entertaining us, and we pay for

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them to entertain us. And that's perfectly natural. It's the
same reason we go to a movie, or to a concert,
or to any number of other things. But some people
need to keep up this ruse. It makes them feel good. No, no, no,
they're going and getting their college degree. Okay, they don't
want their college degree. They want to make money and

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they want to play pro FOOTB and guess what, that's
a career choice too. Well, if they don't play pro football,
they should have a degree. Why how did you decide
that these young men it's so important that they get
a degree. What about all the other people that don't
get a degree. You don't worry whether they're getting a degree.
I think the game is better. I think college football

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is better. I think you've got more parody. I think
you've got programs that could never be in the top
twenty five that are now. The point is, the entertainment
value is better than it's ever been.

Speaker 11 (25:31):
You are listening to Michael Barry's Shaw.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
As always, phone lines are open seven months, three nine
to one thousand. Let me continue on this point for
a moment. There has always been the influence of money
in college sports. Wink wink, nod nod. Eric Dickerson's gold
trans Am. I've had people tell me stories who played

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college ball about touring SMU back in the day. The
private jet arrived, he hopped on the plane, they flew
up to Dallas, they toured the place, and some money
may or may not have changed hands. Because he was

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an All state superstar football player in the era of
Eric Dickerson. The question is, how do people argue that
young people shouldn't get paid for delivering services in a
consensual relationship, who themselves five minutes earlier say yeah, I

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ain't getting paid enough? Well, why should you be paid?
You're already being paid something. Why are you complaining? How
you get more money? I'm worth more? No, I think
it's better you not make any money. I think it's
do it for the purity of the work, the dignity
of it all. You don't need to get paid. You're

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already getting paid something. You don't need more. You haven't
historically made more. Why do you need more now? I
think it would, It would ruin it. Then you're not
doing the work for the sake of the work and
the passion of the work. You're just doing it for
the money. I'd rather you not get paid. But that's
the argument we use with college athletes. Isn't it silly?

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Why are Republicans worried about somebody else getting paid? Since
when did we become Democrats? Since when did control some
silly sense of community that they claim collegiality jealousy? Where
does this come from? If an alumnus has made a

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lot of money and been blessed with it, and they
choose to share it with a player to get them
to come to their school and wear their jersey to
run up down the field. Why is that so bad
for everybody else? Because other alumni are not willing to
put up as much money and that player is going
to go to this school instead of that one. How

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did the player make the decision where he went before
the money? He made the decision based on where he
was most likely to get playing time. First, you got
to get out on the field to ever play pro
in hopes of going pro, and in a program that
would most likely launch him to the pros. The reason

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Nick Saban left, and I'm as big a Nick Saban
fan as there is, the reason Nick Saban left the
game is he couldn't dominate the game anymore. And he
couldn't dominate the game anymore because now you had other
elements who were affecting where the kids went to school.
Nick Saban was lining up eleven professional players on both
sides of the ball to knock the snot out of
your kid kids because you couldn't recruit as well as

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he could. When you hear that he's a great recruiter.
He's a great recruiter. There is something to be said
for going and sitting in these young men's grandmother's house
on her couch and eating her food and telling her
it sure is nice. And her grandson's going to have
meals with you and your wife in Tuscaloosa. And there's

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a skill to that. But that's not where he's why
he's choosing where he's going. His kids all want to
play pro football, period, end of story. And they're going
to go where they feel like they have the best
chance of playing pro football. No, Michael, used to be
players who played for the school, and I'm an Aggian,
and they were proud Aggies or they were proud Longhorns,

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and they would put their horns up and they loved it. Michael.
They loved my school and I loved my school, and
we loved my school together. Really, what did they get
their degree in? Oh they didn't. What was their major?
Pe they go to school. You tax them with going
to school, that's what that is. You force them to

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do some charitable work to pretend to be students, because
that's part of the whole game. Otherwise, what is this,
it's semi pro football? And that's what it is. It's
semi pro football. But we like to weave our whole
college experience into the entertainment. It's a game we play
with ourselves. You know, like the preacher who preaches on

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Sunday and then it goes out on Monday with you know,
a bottle of whiskey to prostitutes and cocaine, and back
by next Sunday is preaching the word again. He doesn't
mean a word he's saying. It's all performative. So I
don't mind the game. In fact, I quite enjoy it.

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I look forward to college football. I just don't like
when people aren't honest with themselves or other people, or worse.
Worse than being dishonest is not being aware of what's
going on, being so naive that you believe that a
kid who grows up in Calcashue Parish his whole life

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has wanted to end up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to play
college football because he had such respect for where bar
Bryant coached. They teach those kids that that's in media
training one oh one, because they used to not go there.
They used to go to LSU or the University of
Texas and many of them still do. But maybe the

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worst of it all is to hear UT fans talking
about we got to fix Nil, you dumb ass, you're
King of the Hill. It may not be this year
because I don't think Arch. I'm sure Arch Manning's not
there yet. He may never get there. I don't know.
But that team is a quarterback short of a national
championship team, and I do believe that. But if they're

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not this year, they will be within five because they
got more money than everybody else. And you know who's
the other big winner out of this, Texas Tech, Because
you got Cody Campbell and Gary Peterson and a handful
of guys willing to spend whatever it takes, and they
have it to put a winner on the field. And
why shouldn't they Why shouldn't they be able to spend? See,

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for years, we've let them pay the coach every college,
every college wants to every group of umni, alumni want
their team to win. And the alumni have been for
decades doing everything they can to help their team win.
So that's how you got into a bidding war for coaches.

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Did you pay the coach more and more and more
money to get the best coach, because best coach meant
most likely you were going to win, and when you're winning,
kids want to come to your program. So it's not
like money just entered the fray. It's that the money
conversation and exchange was going on outside the presence of
the kids, because by god, we're not going to let

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those kids make a penny. Those kids need that money
more than anybody else. Why shouldn't that kid get to
take his skill and get paid for it for delivering
it to the university. The only program at the top
fifty schools that makes money and doesn't drain money is football.

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Football's paying for all the stuff that nobody goes to.
Did you really need a women's swimming team, Michael, Why
daughter's on the swim team? Great? The swim team costs money.
It's the only program that makes money. It's the only
reason most alumni ever go to a college is to
the college football game. You don't go for the graduation,

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the lecture series, or to tour the opening of a
new building. You don't give a damn about any of that.
It's the college football team, and maybe the basketball team,
and occasionally the college baseball team, but only a few
programs college football is recruiting. Georgia gets more applications ten
times what they did twenty years ago because they've had
a winning football team. The school didn't change. People care

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about football, and there's nothing wrong with that. Let it
be a business. That's what it is.