2024-12-27 EAVES

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back to E Sports Radio. Yes, it is December
twenty seventh, twenty twenty four. I hope you all had
a fantastic Christmas. I did, and a great Christmas break
I had that. Also, it's a surprise to some people
that I'm on today. I told a few people that
I was not going to come on today, but I
couldn't help myself. And I've got two young ones, you know,

(00:23):
two pups that we've been raising. They're doing a pretty
good job, they really are. I got my younger son,
of course, who's been with me now almost eight or
nine months, Anthony Eves. Anthony, welcome back to the show.
How are you.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh, I'm doing fantastic. You know, you say young pup.
I like to say young veterans in the game, But
you know, young, we didn't except pup today just because
I know.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
What you got to say, young.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I know what you got for Christmas, so I know
what's coming for you in the springtime. So I'm alone
fly for now, I'm Alari Fly for now.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Welcome back, young pup, A young veteran. That's new. Let's
let's bring on the other true assistant coaching North Carolina
and t where Chris Paul's work with everybody being in
the basketball business almost his entire life. Scott bol Wage
to the Scope show. Scott, how are you.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm doing great? So this is a surprise because as
I thought you were like Joell and Bee. You know,
you get hurt before the game and you're rex fectionable
and don't think you're gonna play, and then you show
up for game time. So happy to have you on
this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Joel Ell Embiid, He's just he's garbage, all right, hate
to taste cause that's god, that's hot garbage. You just
compared me to hot garbage. Joel Embiid. Oh my goodness.
Well I'll take that, Scott. I'll take that from you today.
But guys, welcome back to the show. Our phone number
is five zero two five seven one seventy nine hundred.

(01:46):
Been a quiet week, Scott. Everyone's taken off. Anthony enjoyed
the Christmas holidays, the festivities, all the great food. Anthony.
We did have great food this weekend. You have to admit, well,
this week, you know, it seems like weekend, but it's not.
It's been Tuesday, win Thursday. But this week we've had
great foods gott just a great fellowship. We really did
have a great time. But guys, there's so much to

(02:08):
talk about in sports. I couldn't stand it, Scott and Anthony.
I was going to sleep in today, I really was,
but I just couldn't stand it. Guys, I just there's
so many things.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
We knew you'll be awake. We knew you would be
awake with them, even though you want on.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
I wasn't gonna be away.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Listen, I'll tell you were going to sleep.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, Scott, I would have gonna try to sleep in. Golly,
those six o'clock practices are just in me now. I
didn't start that, Scot Coach Beard started that. That was
nineteen ninety. So I've been stuck since then. That was
nineteen ninety and I've been stuck at that five o'clock time.
It is what it is. My eyes start opening up.
It's like, golly. But guys, really got a lot to

(02:50):
get to. We do. We've got a lot of University
of Louisville's got a bowl game coming up tomorrow, congratulations
to them. University levels got a basketball game I'm going
to tomorrow at noon in z Eku. We'll talk about
that Kentucky's got to bounce back, guys. They got to
bounce back against Brown. I think they played the thirty. First,
we'll mention that, you know, Kentucky's ranked tenth in the

(03:11):
country at ten and two. A great job, coach Pope,
I mean great job, and Louisville seven and five. And
I told people I would give Kentucky a A plus
being ranked ten tenth in the country in ten and two,
And I'd give coach Kelsey an a for being seven
and five and being very, very competitive, competitive in the
Kentucky game and played well in the Bahamas and has

(03:33):
done a great job when it's first ACC game. So
Louisville fans, we have to be happy with what we see.
But there's still just a lot to get to, Anthony.
So first and foremost, Anthony, We're going to start, guys
with this ACC. And Jim laiir neate personal friend of mine.
I've known jere Jim Lairnega probably let me get this right, Scott.

(03:56):
That's with the Charlotte Hornets in nineteen nineteen. I met
Larrnego probably nineteen eighty six, so I've known him that long.
He worked at Virginia of course, Lee Raker and Jeff
Lamp went to Virginia. I didn't meet him at Virginia.
I didn't meet him in the seventies, but I knew

(04:17):
of him. But I met him probably mid eighties Anthony
and Scott, So that's how long I've known Jim Laernega Scott.
I told you about the funny story about when he
called me on one of his players from James Madison
and said it was my job to teach him how
to play in the NBA. And I told him, no, Jim,
I think you get that wrong. That was your job,
and we cut him. He was a point guard from
James Madison. I said, na, Jim, that was your job,

(04:39):
not my job. But he was at least buying for
his players, so I give him credit for that. But
we know he stepped down from the ACC. And that's
where I'm starting today Scott and Anthony, because that's kind
of where Anthony and I had finished the last Monday
when we were on just talking about the ACC only
having one ranked team and the top twenty five that's

(05:01):
all they have is when ring team guys, and how
unbelievable that was from where the ACC used to be
and how much flak. I have caught Scott and Anthony
in this community because I've been telling them because this
is my business, is what I do. This was coming
now it's here. It used to be. Jerry's didn't like Louisville,

(05:22):
so he talked about bad about the A SEC got me. Scott.
That was just the narrative. He's mad at coach Fatino
and he's mad at Louisville about something, and that was
the narrative. And that's what all the propaganda said. And
don't listen to him, and he just likes the SEC.
She's a Kentucky fan. Well, Scott and Anthony, it's here now.

(05:44):
The propaganda was wrong one that no idea what they
were talking about. Scott. I started this honestly when May
was the preseason Player of the Year. In acc I
started that far back. I said, uh, oh, it's over.
There's something going but drastically wrong. So guys are here now,

(06:05):
so I'm gonna throw it to you first, Anthony, then Scott.
What is your opinion of Jim Laernega stepping down? He's
been at Miami since two and eleven, Anthony, he's now
stepping down. What is your opinion of him stepping down
mid season.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Mid season. I don't think that was the right move,
even for the players and all the guys that are
there committed to play for you want to play for
you at the University of Miami. Quitting on a mid
season is that that's tough for any player, it's tough
for coaching staffing, even tougher program. I think if you
wanted to make that decision, I think he should have
waited till the end of the season. But maybe he
just said there's just no more time to waste and

(06:47):
how to go. But I get I understand the pros
and cons of why he did it. Basketball, it's a
lot more level playing field because nils, because you can
get those big level players too smaller schools. If you
just have some money, money, the right coach, and a
couple of facilities, you can compete with the dukes in
the Kentucky's and the UNC's. We've seen that now. Even Yukon,

(07:08):
a two time back to back national championship, came out
and lost almost three of their first five games. So
it's not the same as it used to be. More
even out basketball, but it makes it harder for coaches
because now it turns it into a professional aspect, and
a lot of these college coaches are realizing that they
can't handle that professional type of style in college because
kids have too much power and they have too much

(07:29):
control over things. They've kind of taken the control out
of coaches hands, which I don't like necessarily for college athletes.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Okay, great, great, great answer, Anthony Scott. Your opinion on
Jim Lerne because stepping down mid season, he's taking Miami
to final fours guys grade eight to about four, sixteen,
sweet sixteens. He did a great job in Miami. Scott,
your opinion on leading mid season.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well, he's another one that you followed plenty Bennett. You know,
Tony Bennett has been coaching a long time. And Tony
Bennett sat down, you know, few days before they started
playing you know, their games. So it's just another another
coach that's been in it. There's an old school guys

(08:19):
like you know, I mean, you know, you know me
for a long time and the landscape has changed so much.
And the one thing he mentioned was, you know, after
the UH one, then they weather went to the final four.
He said eight of his players went into the portal
and he sat down and talked to him and he said, well,
you know what's wrong with the University of the Throng

(08:41):
with the city of Miami and the kids. Oh, nothing
like we love it here, but we're getting offered so
much more money at other schools that we have to go.
And that's the that's the problem that we're facing that
you know, all these schools that make these good runs
that don't have the money, don't have the resources or

(09:02):
at the time putting the resources in to their program.
You know, you're having to fight that battle every year.
So it's just a it's a tough thing for the
old school coaches to have to deal with this nil
part of the game and just having to deal with it.

(09:23):
And I mean, he's seventy five, and I just think,
you know, it's tough for him to step down now.
But that just shows you the level of frustration. That's
the act if you decide to call it equipped right now.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
During the SERIEOD okay, gotcha, great opinions both ways, and
both of them are true. I'm going to just give
you all some facts. I like to stay with the facts, guys,
And that's why I get in trouble quite often, but
I'm going to give you some facts. But first, at
seven sixteen, I want you to let you all listen

(09:56):
to a portion of the press conference from Jim laer
and Aga stepping down from Miami University two days ago,
and I want you all to listen to it. Then Rick.
After that, Rick, good morning, that's my producer. We'll go
to break, and when we come back, guys, I'm going
to because Rick, I want to cut this show for
a best of I'm going to come back and give
you all facts so that everyone can just understand. I

(10:19):
want my listeners to understand the facts about the business
of college athletics and how interesting it is when you're
not always the dog chasing the cat. Sometimes you turn
into the cat. So let's listen to Jim Larnege's one
minute a portion of his press conference, one minute of

(10:39):
why he is stepping down, and we will go to break,
and when we come back, I'll give you all some
facts about what's truly transpiring in college athletics at this time.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
At this point after fifty three years, I just didn't
feel like that I could successfully navigate this whole new
world that I was dealing with because my conversations were ridiculous,
with an agent saying to me, well, you can get

(11:11):
involved if you're willing to go to a million one.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
I'm like, what a million dollars?

Speaker 5 (11:19):
And that be the norm?

Speaker 1 (11:21):
That was the norm.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
Like, you're talking to people that expected a million dollars
for playing college basketball. So for those guys, and God
bless them, they can handle that, they can work through it.
That the schools that can figure out a way to
either put so much money to it or figure out
a way that you can can live with less. But

(11:43):
I talked to a lot of my friends and they're
having all the same problems I'm having.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
How long they will last? It's anybody's kiss.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Welcome back to EVE Sports Radio seven to twenty one.
Yes it is December twenty seventh. I mean I've got
three hundred plus days to wait for the next Christmas.
Can't wait either. I can't wait. Got some funny stories
I'm going to tell you all, but I've got Anthony
Eve's on the line. I've got these got bullege on
the line, and of course the brand. I really enjoyed

(12:14):
both of you all as commentary guys, because you all
spoke about name, image and likeness and how people are
having a hard time with it. A lot of the
older coaches, I said, Okay, I hear them. I hear
Jim Laernega's speech about don't know how long we're going
to be able to handle this. If you go back
and just look at the ACC since twenty twenty one,

(12:37):
coach Shazshowski has stepped down. And let's just be honest.
I know, Coach K, you better not say anything about
coach K. If you say anything about coach Sashesski, you
may get put in the doghouse. Well, just don't forget
Zion Williamson had a house and too foreign cars worth
over seventy thousand dollars at Duke. Just the facts, North Carolina.

(12:58):
Roy Williams steps down. That is my guy. Okay, that's
my guy. They had the great scandal. I mean they
had a grade scandal. And Roy Williams is a really
good friend of mine, really good friend of my wife's.
They're gambling buddies. I'm just being honest with you, Vegas.
Every year they damned their side by side Notre Dame.
Mike Bray's twenty three year run at Notre Dame steps

(13:19):
down Tony Bennett steps down. Of course, this fall, everybody
was stunned. Syracuse lost to Jim Behim. We all know
the great Jim. We're talking about national championship coaches in
the ACC. Now Miami lost Jim Larnaka and Jim did
a great job at Miami coaching. Final four runs, Final

(13:42):
eight runs, Sweet sixteen runs, did a great job. But guys,
here's the deal. This is the comical piece. You all
still just the littlest God. You're not too young. You're
gonna have to get there. Antony will get there soon. Here,
I want to give you all facts. I'm tired of
the bus. That's why I came on. Today September twenty seven,

(14:03):
twenty seventeen, the Federal Bureau of Investigation the FBI, and
the Office of the United States Attorneys in Southern District
of New York announced the arrest of ten individuals, including
assistant coaches Andy Blanchuck, persons of Anna Richards and Blase
Blase got me all my friends, James Gatto exactly with Adidas,
Christian Dawkins, who was supposed to come on my show

(14:25):
a thousand times and backed out. I wanted him so
bad I could tastey because he always said that the
coaches were good guys and only be people that took
the fall. Where the African American assistant coaches, period, point blank.
He's an idiot. But that's okay. They took care to
head coaches. So you start to read the schools. I
just want you all to listen to this University of

(14:47):
Louisville fans. This is not about you, so don't take
it wrong. But I'm still reading from what is in
the investigation being Schools implied in the initial announcements were Arizona, Auburn,
my Man, Bruce Pearl, Louisville, Miami, Interesting, Miami, Oklahoma State,

(15:10):
South Carolina USC interesting, guys, Miami. If you go read
all the documentation, which I read so much of it,
I was sick of it back in seventeen, eighteen, nineteen
and twel almost knew it by heart. Player four listed
was implied one hundred and fifty thousand dollars payment played

(15:33):
at Miami. Now, guys, because the NCAA left all these
schools off and they did it, doesn't mean they didn't
do it. Doesn't mean they don't have it on tape
that they paid players. You got me. Maybe they didn't
get all of the money, but they got a portion
of the money before the sting happened. That's all I'm
telling you is I'm tired of coaches telling me that

(15:57):
they can't navigate this when it's legal. It's a beaten
Scott Anthony. We just heard coach ler nigga. I just
don't know how long was fine? You survived just fine
when everybody was cheating, paying it under the table and
you had control to You survived seventy How long did

(16:18):
he say, he's seventy five years old, been in the
business fifty plus years. I've been in it thirty seven
plus years, no high school, all college and pro. It's
just interesting to me now, guys, all of a sudden, Guys, boy,
we still how long we're going to be in this business?
Oh you're not in control, that's all. So the statement is,

(16:42):
I don't know how long we're going to stay in
it because you have no control. It's legal. So I
want everybody that's always everybody's tired of n image and likeness.
The players are making a million dollars. Guys in NCAA
has made a billion. Guys. You have coaches that have
buyouts of we say five million. Oh that's a lot
of money. Million guys. You got people with buy out
some forty million. Coaches. You've got people coaches that were

(17:05):
bought out of Texas A and M Jimbo Fisher seventy million.
Get out of here. When they talked to me about money, guys,
it's so funny. When you have to share the wealth
in America, everything switches to where boy, this is not
going to survive. That's a beaten There are billions of
dollars being made. The football games are competitive, is crazy.

(17:26):
Other until the last tournament, we told you they selected
the wrong teams. But anyway, but we've got great to
thank you. We have a caller, but we have great people,
great players, great games this season in football, great games
college football, exciting you never knew was going to win.
Competitive Vanderbilt beats Alabama. I mean competitive. Things have changed

(17:49):
a little bit. It's legal and all of a sudden,
we can't handle it. I'm telling you all, I'm tired
of it. It's just, without a doubt, a joke. Now,
the payment of players, the negotiation with players is league.
So if you go back to that twenty seventeen Anthony
In's gun and you read it, and you hear Bill

(18:13):
South on Tate. He got me the wrong, dudes, got
me on Tate, Arizona's coach talking about payment to the
Gibson guy, the Big Center. What was his name, Alton.
He's with Phoenix now they've traded him the Center at Arizona.
Come on, guys, down exactly, guys. So all of a sudden, now,

(18:34):
all of a sudden, I have all my counterparts, my friends.
Sometimes we're adversarial, sometimes we're not. But the fact of
the matter is, all of a sudden, when it's legal, now,
no one can handle it. I just don't get it.
I didn't make this up. I didn't go and write
this on You can google it on your phone. You're

(18:56):
gonna see Jim Learnega's name all throughout the document. You
got me, oh, because the NCAA let them all off.
And we know they let them all off. Guys, that's
just a fact. Now, all of a sudden, the money's
too great, and I had to talk to somebody about
the money, and I just can't believe it. So, guys,
all I'm telling you is that hypocritical is comical. The

(19:21):
NCAA and its coaches are starting they show its true colors.
As long as they were in control, as long as
they could boot you when they wanted to, as long
as they could take jobs anytime they wanted to at
another university and negotiate crazy salaries and crazy buyouts, it
was fine. But now the shoes on the other foot.
I just want everyone to know before we go to break,

(19:43):
because we're using this segment. It's gott and Anthony. You
may have two or three players on your team that
you're negotiating with. The rest are just lucky if they
get a dime. They'll be happy with whatever they get.
You're hearing the players that they think are the difference makers,
the same guys that build self called dudes are the
same guys we're talking about. You got me so I

(20:07):
hated for the coaches now that they legally can talk
to guys about money and representation. But don't forget the
reason the NCAA has lost every lawsuit, every lawsuit starting
with the Supreme Court, is that those sounder bucks said
college players have never had legal representation. Let me say
this to you again. College players never got to have

(20:29):
a lawyer go to the table and negotiate anything for them.
You got me. Ever, we were lucky to get what
we got. I'm one of those players, guys. I hate
to tell you. I'm just not the one. I'm not
the frightened one. Nineteen eighty two, there were seventy two
thousand people in the super Dome. Michael Jordan hit the
shot the greatest final forever. I mean that is not

(20:50):
because I played in it. Because I was a scrub
out of the twenty starters. I was twentieth. No, not true.
I was better than James Black and a few other guys.
But I was probably the sixteenth best star out of twenty.
You got me. But the bottom line is the cheapest
ticket was fifty three dollars nineteen eighty two. Seventy two
thousand people. So when you hear guys, and I'm looking

(21:14):
at him right now, and Jim learning the steps down,
and you hear all the things, and you heard, of
course we heard, we got to hear, Oh, Tony Bennett,
I just can't handle it. Really. I'm like, you know what, man,
I guess we've got the sympathy cows out right now.

(21:35):
And you know, since they can't milk everyone else, they
feel that they're being milk. So you see the sympathy
just rolling over for these day and coaches not here, guys,
the players have to share in the wealth. Get used
to it before then was unfair and not right and
illegal period. I don't care what you're used to. That's America.

(21:57):
We're used to a lot of things that we want
to keep the same that just can't stay that way,
just can't. So for all my coaches, and there'll be
another one steps down, woe is me? Get a grip, Please,
get a grip, because I just don't want to pick
it up and see if I check your record, Oh
we got issues in paying players just someone else gave

(22:20):
them one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. But I'm gonna
ask one of you, all one at a time, Anthony,
does it as a person ever walked up to you
and said, I'm gonna just do something for you. I'm
gonna give you one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
help your organization and you don't have to do anything.
Do you think that will ever happen, Antony, that somebody's
gonna walk up and say, hey, I just like you.
Jim Learn Naga I'm gonna give one of your players

(22:41):
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to come to Miami.
Don't worry about it. You don't have to do anything.
You think that happens. Does anybody think that happens? Annie, No,
not no.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Not In American when people invest in something, they want
return out of it. So when they invest in you,
for players or coaches, people want to see wins, they
want to see success, they want to see a return,
and then they just going to just throw money away
unless you just have a crazy absurd money to blow.
People want to see something in return. It just doesn't
work like.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
That anymore, without a doubt. Addy greated Scott Bowah, he's
just just such a nice guy. The Christian dalk Is
in Adida said, we just want to do Miami a favor.
Not Kansas, not Louisville, not Auburn, Miami one of the
lower hanging fruits. As they would say, Scott, what do
you think? They just oh, he's just such a great guy.

(23:31):
Just give him one fifty you believe that?

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, that that takes me back to coaching college of
arg that it needs to be at caw who got
caught with the bag, and you know they stopped. The
payment's coming and the DAGs. I grow, well, the payment's
not coming because your thumb's not playing well, and it

(23:56):
just goes back to you. Definitely have to pay, you know,
pay those guys that are performing. But if you're not performing,
you know, you're just not gonna get free money.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
So control, it's called control, Scott, without a doubt, I
can pull your scholarship. It's renewable every year. Guys. Coaches
had contracts. Listeners, Listen to me now, and we're gonna
get to break rick in thirty seconds. And ac just
hold on. I'll come to you as soon as the
breaks over. If you can, I know you're working, man now.

(24:28):
But coaches have contracts. Assistant coaches have contracts. You've got
assistant coaches making over a million dollars in football and basketball,
assistant coaches, and we're paying to see an assistant coach.
They're paying to see the assistant coach makes that money
because he wouldn't got that player if they don't stop
lying to everyone. It's not assistant coach in the business
work a million dollars. And heck that's every day, that's everywhere,

(24:51):
at every University.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
So guys million dollars, Scott.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Heck, I only made hundred and thirty five hours. I
wanna pay you a million. I just want people to know.
And Scott at the one hundred and thirty five and
you probably at forty five. We beat SMU, Middle Tennessee
State Unbuilt, Champs de Paul. Come on, Scott, come on, Yes,
it didn't take a lot of money to beat those schools.
We beat them with a recruiting budget of twelve thousand dollars.

(25:19):
It's a sports radio, AC. I'll be back with you
after the break. Welcome back to the sports radio got
Anthony Eves, got bol Wage. It's seven thirty eight pH
number five zero two five seven hundred sports Talk seven
ninety KRD. Let's bring on my man, AC. Let's get
our first caller AC after cruise. How are you AC?

(25:42):
Where are you going to take?

Speaker 6 (25:43):
How you guys doing? I'm sorry? Can we beeat that?
I apologize?

Speaker 1 (25:46):
I said, where are you gonna take me today? See?

Speaker 6 (25:48):
Because you know you like to You're not gonna take
you anywhere. Well, mister Scott, how you guys going? Mister Scott,
thank you so much for being on the show. How
are you calling, mister Scott.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
I'm doing great, man, How are you great?

Speaker 6 (25:59):
To hear your voice? Fantastic, blessed to be alive.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Man.

Speaker 6 (26:03):
I hope brother Anthony and brother Rick are doing well.
Mister Eves, you know what I get for the past
five years calling the show. You don't let your car
hosts do the talking. You do ninety nine percent of
the talking. They're calling to.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Miss Sports Radio called Eve Sports Radio.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
I understand. Then why would you have your host when
you're gonna do all the talking. I'm gonna quote Miss
Kathlyn Smith from two and a half years ago, maybe three, Jerry,
you talk way too much and you do the streams show.
Let them talk, man, it should be seventy fifty. But
what's the point I'm having caught?

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Are you crazy? That makes ac Let me tell you.
Let me tell you some most singly on radio shows
are only one host. They don't even have a second.
Hey hate the EDUKJZ. I'm just being factual with you,
so no I do a.

Speaker 6 (26:53):
Lot of giving up one your mouth. It's just that
nobody calls you out. I call you out.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
I what you calling me out? On? What you call?

Speaker 6 (27:02):
And I just called you out because you talk way
too much baby by mister, as you know, forget your
propaganda and all that we I think everybody understands at
this point, well at least I understand what you're talking about.
That's what you're preaching.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
You know.

Speaker 6 (27:17):
I'm ready for the contest. I'm starving win, AC.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
You ain't want to contest. You always are ready for
something that you don't ever win a one time in
five years, in five years, Acos.

Speaker 6 (27:34):
I want to stress the content. I want to get
my pick things right here, right now.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
There are none for this week, A c. The following
week they'll be. There's not enough time on Friday and
Monday to be fair to get in eighteen nineteen callers
and again AC last week you lost again. So I'm
just letting you know. You like the kind of you
don't win.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
You lost, You're you're absolutely right, But.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
You were close, noisy that time.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
You were close, and A doesn't care who's closed. I don't.
It's about winning, loft. Nobody gives you a presentation trophy
or participation trophy because you can close. I understand I
did not win the contest, I get it, but did
you even beat me in a high school football game.
I mean, for two years, will you.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Opening pick your high school team? You say you don't
live here, so you don't pick the high school team?
So azy? What come on man?

Speaker 6 (28:30):
You? I will never ever thinking about residing in Leveling, Kentucky.
I got no time for you people. I mean big cities.
I want the market. You know what I'm saying. It's
all about business. I don't want to be in a
small city. Let me tell you something. Sure, I don't

(28:53):
know nothing about your high school football game. By I
beat you twice? How is that possible? And matter of fact,
I'm gonna say the true only because people in lovel
of Kentucky are so famous. It's because of Muhammad Ali.
It's not because of mister Jerry Eves. It's not because
I'm mister coach. It's not because of Coach Beard. I'm
telling you the truth. I did not know who mister

(29:14):
Eves was until I started calling the show. I mean,
I love you, and.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
I told you. I knew you were going to take
me somewhere. I just didn't know you were going to
take me too. Today. I knew you were gonna take
me somewhere.

Speaker 6 (29:28):
I wouldn't I wouldn't take you anywhere if you gave
me the contest, if I entered and I just left
it at that. But you told I gave.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
You, and I get to go.

Speaker 6 (29:41):
Well, you know, I want to wish you happy New Year,
and honestly, you know what, you know, what's my goal
for twenty twenty five? Mister?

Speaker 1 (29:48):
What's that?

Speaker 6 (29:50):
My goal is? This is gonna surprise you. I'm gonna
stay clean. You know, I never curse. I never seen
anything go my goal and I love you to my
goal and my dream for twenty twenty five. I want
more and more haters, the all the ones that are
loving me, and I just don't like them at all.
I'm sure I.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Love you, but you try to build them.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
See your brother, I hate them too. Love you hall Fame.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Well, Scott Anthony. That is your boy, AC. He is
the best in the world. So just know and when
you get your own shows, got you get your own show,
there will be an AC. So I want y'all to
know a lot of people don't take AC's calls. I
don't do that. I take everybody's calls. They should have.
They got an opinion, you got to hear it. But
a lot of stations do not Shannon the dude Matt Jones,

(30:41):
and they don't take his calls, but I do. He's entertaining.
But so, guys, let's get back to it. Anthony. ACC
has one team in the top twenty five. That's Duke.
That's your team. Everyone knows now you love Duke. What
happened to the ACC? I've heard all the wining and crying.
What happened to the a CEC one team in the
top twenty five. It's never ever happened. Guess the first

(31:03):
time ever? What happened?

Speaker 2 (31:06):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Know.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
That's something that even I'm trying to figure out what
the ACC. The ACC had such a big drop off
so quickly, and like I scroll through my phone all
the time. I see highlights. You got the old teams,
you know, the Nolan's, the John Shires, cow Singlers, been
ty Lost and Tyler Hansburrows, even you.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Know Smith, I mean Louisville, great teams in Carolina.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
From the Carmel l Anthondaines and Micael Carter Williams. I
can go on for days for old ACC teams. I
don't I don't want to say it might be on
coaching because I know a lot of the coaches started
to retiring. The ACC has always been kind of that,
that brick and mortar type of conference. The coaches are
usually older and established. There's not a lot of young
coaches in the AEC. Most of them are like fifty

(31:53):
and up, maybe even pushing sixties and some of them
and people knew what they were getting out of their coaches.
All the programs are super established, maybe not so even
just full of the championships left and right. But the
ACC was a competitive conference even when I came out
of high school. When they had the tournament out of
the Greensboro Sport at the Greensboro Costume, those are some

(32:13):
of the best times of the year getting see all
these teams play in one venue.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
It was.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
It was iconic as a kid washing it up like
you used to love when the ACC tournament came to
North Carolina because we just getting we didn't get to
see him all the time, even though we lived in
the Tri state area, which is probably an hour and
fifteen minutes from Duke and un C. NC State, Wake Forest,
Virginia and Virginia Tech are all within three hours four
hour drive, which is crazy to say for ACC teams.

(32:39):
But I don't know. I think it will bounce back
in time. But with Nil's it's just going to be
so hard. The process is going to be so much
longer than without Innis Nil's. I think it's expedited a
lot because you can get back a lot easier because
of those teams. But nil Is just it's real a
bit a little bit.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, the nameation like this is leveled out the playing
field and made it fair if people were to compete. Scott,
what do you think one team top twenty?

Speaker 7 (33:08):
That's that's exactly it. It's you know, the you go
back to all those years where it was illegal to
do certain things and you look at the bigger schools
that were investing in basketball. That's been the acc was
always at the top there. Now, like you just said that,

(33:30):
the playing fielders level and you have all these schools that.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Can now pay the players legally. You look at and
we're all the money. You look at the top twenty five,
Tennessee put money in all the.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
All there.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
You got Alabama who's putting all kinds of phrasing money
in Florida. Standas like all these schools that now can
put money into their programs. Legally and get the best
player there and just the result of that. Oregons, like
the organ has always been good but not a top
ten team, yes, but now they've got a lot of

(34:09):
money up there with that Nike money and just being
a result of that. So it's just, you know, it's
all basically level now. And now what you're thing is
that these agency schools have to open up their pocketbook
even more and there while it's and start putting in
more money. If you want to remain reletive.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
True, Well, guys, the bottom line is the fact of
the matter. It's here the a CC. There will be
a lot of coaches losing their job this spring. They
have to one team is unacceptable. You cannot lie anymore.
You cannot try to put a fairy tale spin on it.
It is what it is. H The a CEC at
this time is awful. Five teams in the top fifty,

(34:53):
one team in the top twenty five coaches, poet ap pole, guys,
It's now time for the athletic directors presidents to get
serious about the a SEC and it's sports again. It's
them forty eight. We're gonna go to break when we
come back. Oh, we've got to talk about my greatest
I mean the goat, Lebron James. I didn't say the goat.
You gotta be kidne meed. But some people try to

(35:15):
say the goat talking about Christmas is an NBA day.
I just hate to tell him, have to tell him
the truth. After the break, Welcome back to Eve Sports Radio.
Got Anthony, the East, got Bold Wage. We're starting with
you got about thirty seconds, forty five seconds Lebron James's statement,

(35:38):
love the NFL, but Christmas Day's the NBA's Well, just
so you'll know, Netflix had sixty five million viewers. I
watched Anthony and I we watched football nearly five times
more than an NBA. So who's gonna tell Lebron James
the truth? Ory they're gonna let him lie himself for
the rest of his career. What goes on, Scott, I

(36:00):
don't know.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
We're watching the end of the Lakers Golden State game.
And it was a great ending, I mean, great basketball,
great everything. And then you've got to go to the
beginning of it was Denver and I forget who Denver was,
but it was a phoenix. Oh it was so bad.
I we couldn't watch it. It was there's gotta be

(36:24):
a where we can fast forward to the last nine
minutes of an NBA game where it actually matters, because
it was. It was worse of watching tape, guys, I
got you.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
But yeah, so football is definitely more excited.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
I think it's taken over yep. But they got to
do something with those NBA games.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Anthony, what about yourself now, Scott? Anthony and I told
him about the first half of the San Antonio game, Scott,
san Antonio Spurs their young athletic They were running for
layups and it was fun to watch. They were dunking
all over the Knicks. They lost to the Knicks because
they're one veteran a way, but Anthony, it was entertaining. Scott.
That's the only half we watched, though, And new your opinion,

(37:04):
what's the NBA to do?

Speaker 3 (37:05):
No, it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
It was. I don't know. NBA basketball is a whole,
even regardless of Christmas Day games. It's just it's not
fun to watch anymore. Like I will whole hardly say this,
I hate watching NBA games like I'd rather not. I'd
rather watch like a mid major like college football bowl game.
To watch the NBA games just I'm a Pimatar guy.

(37:26):
I love shooting threes. That was my forte but there's
so much of it at this point, Like when your
best player is seven to four and he shoots fifteen
threes of games, it's just kind of like, I don't
know what's going on. Like I get that you can shoot,
but if you literally just stick your arm up, you
don'tk it every time. So I don't know why you're
shooting threes unless you just really have to. But I
understand you're showing your full reperence wid your game. You

(37:47):
like to expand the flour because it's the new modern
age basketball. But nine times out of ten, I'm gonna
watch football on Christmas days an NBA now the old days,
and they used to have the Christmas jersey, like the
Broaden stuff when they're going to tell you in the
Cavs or the Miami Heat or even colbe On like
on Christmas game day. Oh yeah, But the players now

(38:09):
they're not even entertaining to watch. I'd rather do Jayden
to toe like in the second round of the playoffs.
I don't need to see you forty fifth game in
half the team's hurt you don't play defense. You shoot
seventy five threes a game, you shoot twenty percent. Like
I can watch myself do that for free. I don't
need to watch you and waste my time.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Here's the deal, guys, when the NBA has to put
in if you miss too many games, you cannot make
the first team or second team. That just lets you
know that that's all they do is miss games. That's
why they play so long. They break a fingernail, they're
gonna sit three weeks period. Guy's point blank. It is crazy.
That's the owner's fault. Just that's all there is to it.
That's the owner's fault. Guys. The NBA viewership is half

(38:50):
of twenty eleven twenty twelve. I want to pill people again.
It is half of the year's twenty eleven and twenty twelve.
And I have no idea how they negotiated that contract
with these TV stations for all the money, so that
the players think because they're being paid more money, they're
doing a great job. I called Jerald Brown, I'll be

(39:13):
on this weekend bottom Line Sports, I said, Gerald. I
watched one segment talking to coach Beard, and I watched
Anthony Edwards, who I think has a chance to be
a really good player. Everyone has to understand they have
a twenty four second shot clock. Twenty four second shot clock.
Anthony Edwards dribbled the ball thirty one times. Nobody else

(39:34):
touched it and shot a fall away eight foot and
missed it. I said, I can't end it anymore. You
understand me. Nobody else touched the ball. Guys, it's awful now.
At least Adam Silva and lebron Jen said maybe we're
shooting to me three, No, maybe you're dribbling too much.
It is a and one summer league game that nobody's
going to pay for. And I can't wait for them

(39:56):
to get rid of all audiol guys. Retire, go to
Mount rush More, get the young guys in, get new
coaches in to teach them how to play correctly. Because
the NBA is awful. Is the sports radio. It is
December twenty seventh. You all have a fantastic weekend. Watch
all the football well University of Louisville football, Sorry cat fan,
watch Louisville basketball on Saturday in Kentucky's got a game

(40:19):
on the thirty first against Brown before they played Florida, Guys,
at SEC Kentucky. Better buckle up, but a cup because
they've got a tough season in front of them. Is
the Sports Radio. We'll talk to you all later. Have
a great day. Bye bye