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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to Eve's Sports Radio. It is April third,
twenty twenty five. It's the first warning in a long
time that I'm not completely prepared. I think I was
like everyone else last night, either sleeping in the bedroom
with my mom or just watching the weather outside, trying
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to make decisions about what was the right thing to do.
Taking everything off of my deck, putting it in the garage,
trying to put the garbage cans against the home so
they wouldn't blow around, all the things that everyone has
to do, trying to prepare for last night's storm. I
hope people have come through it safely. I've seen some
of the devastation on the news, so I know a
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lot of people. There's a lot of property damage, there's
a lot of flooding. They'll be more flooding, So let's
make sure that we're cognizant about what we're doing. Slow down,
the roads are wet, make sure again, have patience. They're
probably trees down in multiple areas, so let's just make
sure that we work through these next forty eight hours,
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which we're supposed to receive somewhere between six to ten
inches of rain over the next two days. So again,
I want people to be careful. Do not think you
can drive through the stream. Please do not. You just
there's no reason for it. Turn around and go.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
The other way. Turn around and go home. That's all.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
If you have to be at work, make sure you
leave forty five minutes early. Make sure you give yourself time.
So welcome back to the show. This is EVE Sports Radio.
I'm not a meteorologist, but it was dangerous last night,
so I didn't get much sleep like everyone else in
this community.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I got Shannon behind the glass. Welcome back, Shannon. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We've got two people which i'll introduce in a second.
My phone number is five zero two five seventy nine hundred.
This is EVE Sports Radio, Sports Talk seven ninety KRD,
and that numbers five zero two five seven one seventy
nine hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
If there's any trees down, any damages that.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You think people need to know, please call in and
let people know what they.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Need to do to stay safe today. Please.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So I've got two people on because of course everyone
knows that I'm leaving going to San Antonio for the
Final four, and I was looking at my phone and
Anthony and Scott welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
How are you.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I'm doing great, coach. How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Scott? Didn't get much sleep last night, that's all.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I think. I went to bed around two o'clock to thirty.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Yes, I was knocked out.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, Andy was in the basement gone. But yep, it
was a rough night last night. But everything we came
out unscathed. Everything's good, Anthony.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I'm doing good this morning. Honestly, I didn't hear a
loud of the storms last night. Honestly, I slipped right
through him. I don't know if that's a good thing
or a bad thing, but hey, I'll take the sleep.
I woke up and I'm still alive, so that's all
it matters.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yes, exactly. Yeah, that's a blessing. We really, that's a
true blessing. Well, guys, this is what I do know.
I didn't think i'd be getting out of here today.
I really did not, But I just got Everyone knows,
when you buy an airplane ticket, give them your telephone number.
They'll send you all your notifications reminder of your trip.
C S j U at American three thirty one from
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standards Field to Dallas Fort Worth. We a part at
eleven oh two, which is on time. Now everyone knows. Guys,
when I get to that airport at eleven eleven thirty,
we all know that they're gonna be delayed all over
that screen. It better pop up on my phone, Scout.
That's all I'm gonna say. It better pop up on
my phone. That's where I'll get there. Next thing, you know,
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you look up there, it'll be delays top to bottom
and it'll be like, make me come in here and wait.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
That's all so, but right now there's everything's on time here.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, I'll I'll send you a website where you can
track all that stuff to you know how much I travel,
my girlfriend travel. We've become professional late attendants the way
the way we travel, so we know how to track flight.
So I'll show you how to do all that stuff.
Make it easy for you.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well, you know you better send that to Sheila Scott
because you know good and well. Yeah, you know, Anthony,
you all both know good and well. You say anything
else on my computer. I've got too much on this
phone in computer right now, Scott. I had one more thing,
I shoot myself, tell it I don't need one more.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Exactly, you know, to send it to the boss. So guys,
we've got a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Of course, we've got the Final four where both men
and women, we had McDonald's All American Games got we
were talking about that yesterday. We've got all the movement.
We've got NFL rules, which we're going to touch a
little bit. And I'm going to say with you all
probably half the show. But I just wanted to start
it off. And we've heard so much scuttle but and
we and Anthy and I really have not touched it.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But we see the name mentioned likeness and Scott.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Everybody knows every penny a player gets, it's for the
players that did not get paid.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I just want everybody to know that I don't care.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I did a show yesterday when I've got nine revenue
sports coaches make it almost two million dollars a year.
I don't want to hear about athletes getting paid. I
just don't so that produce revenue.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The people that allow them to pay nine revenue coaches
two million dollars shouldn't get paid. That's craziness. So I've
got no problem with that. I do think there need
to be guardrails. I've argued with all my friends. I've
got people that tell me, Jerry, the toothpastes out of
the tube, you can't put it back. All I can
say to everyone is this, this isn't a multi million
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dollar business. This is a multi billion dollar business, and
it's not going to go under. They're not going to
allow it. They just let things go as long as
they can reap as much money as they can. I
do think allegedly, because I still myself have not seen
a cons track to a player to where I can
report on my show the truth about how much someone
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is making. So, Scott, I'm gona thought to you than Anthony,
You're next. You hear all these astronomical two million dollars
for the young man from Xavier, right, Anthony, everybody is
saying that Louisville paid the guard transferring from Xavier two
million dollars. Okay, Ryan Kong, is it Conwell? Then you
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hear that Otaga old Way had ten million dollar offers.
You got me, guys, and we've heard all these numbers.
What do you think, Scott? Do you believe that there's
any validity that that kind of money being passed around?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
You know it? It's really tough to say, because you
don't hear the big names saying they're not getting that money.
You know, you'll you'll definitely hear some of the smaller,
smaller but you know, like the quarterback that was at un.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
L Vegas, Yes, right, And then there.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Was another player I forget where he was at just
recently said, you know, I guess he was offered like
one hundred and twenty five thousand, but then never got
a dime of it.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
So you know, you don't hear the big, big name.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Players saying they're not getting paid, so it's really hard
to say. And like you said, there's no contract out there.
You know, this is all just speculation on Soon and
Hall getting this money, so on and soone getting that money.
So it's really tough to say how much of it
is actually legitimate money. And then where where is all
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this money coming from? That's the other part.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You know, I'll be able to explain that for starting
this year, I know where the money's coming from. I
didn't with these collectives, guys, I had no idea. I've
heard about all the collectives, but I'm not sure where
that money came from. But I know where it is
supposed to be coming from once the legislation passes.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
But that's right, it's those collectives that you know, these
big schools have you know, thirty five million dollar nil budget,
but like where is all that money coming from? M
and now, yeah, there's no contract out there. So yes,
it's a big problem.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
It's a big problem. Can it be fixed. Can we
put the two back in the tube?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Everything can be fixed, but it's fixing it the right
way to where it's I would say equal. But you know,
you want to make sure the players are taken care
of properly and making sure that everything is done legitimately.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
But it can be fixed.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Okay, Anthony, we were watching a little bit of McDonald's
game and de Banza aj Debonza and we know that
by supposedly was in the five million dollar realm for
the number one player in the country.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So, Anthony, my question.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
To you as this, I got two three people I
talked to quite a bit about all the issues, and
they think that the same team teams, the same ten teams,
the Kentucky's, the Dukes got me. I would say North Carolina,
but they've dropped off so far as comical.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
The Louisville's right we'll be able to push their.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Way back the Auburns now they've been their Alabama almost
was here twice in two years. A lot of the
SEC teams we'll get the same ten teams. Do you
think the bonds with his statement of going to BYU,
which is not one of those ten teams.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We'll be able to attract enough attention to where.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Players will go to some of that next group of
the Power five, that group from twenty to forty, And
can they make a large enough impression like Dukes Young
Kids Anthony have this year to get enough of them
to get to a Final four like Duke Young Kids.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Your team, I mean, I definitely gonna make a push forward.
BYU has other recruits that are smooth sniffing around that
top one hundred. I think they do have another top
one hundred going to BYU as well. And I think
a lot of it just has to do off of
money preferences. It really does. It's not there are very
few schools outside of the Power fives or even in
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the Power five the players are going there for money
and they're going for coaching, trying to go to the
next level. A lot of kids now are just going
for money purposes. And I was talking about it yesterday
that a lot of these kids aren't going to go
to the professional level, and we know that the percentage
is just so low. There's just not enough spots, and
it's competitive. It's hard to get to that next level.
Good college players doesn't mean they're always going to be
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good basketball players in the pro levels. We've seen that
over and over again from numerous players. Even in college basketball.
I can do off of just off of just you know,
ACC players. As long as you can go back to
Tyler Hansborough, Tyle Lawson, I can go on and on
with that list. There's guys that were phenomenal in college.
Almando Bacon had a great college career, it just didn't
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pan out work too well in the NBA. And it
happens a lot of these kids are now just chasing
the money to where they have some money in their
pocket before they try to go on to the next
levels it's the euro League or China, Lithuania, wherever the
case may be, or if they just say this is
the end of their college career, they have some money
in their pockets. So a lot of them are just
chasing the dollar amount now. So if you have schools
out there in the Western Conference like BYU and Gonzaga,
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schools that are throwing money out there, come out there
and get one opportunity to show your talent, which is
the biggest thing now because kids are going to these
schools on these guaranteed nils. Some of them aren't even playing.
They're coming off with the bench. So they want to
go out there to be paid and play. You know,
the money's good. But if you go there for a season,
you get offered one mill at BYU and you go
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out there and you don't play, and you have six
minutes a game when you hit that transfer portal. Because
ninety percent of them are gonna do it. They're gona
hit the transfer port if they're not satisfied, if they're
not playing, or they want to go somewhere to win
the championship. You'd lose your draft stock a little bit.
And I say your draft stock in the transfer portal
they have. There's almost a draft stock in a transfer
portal where you know there's a number one draft one
more guy in the portal, there's the top ten guys,
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there's the top fifty in the portal that school is
trying to go out for that offer large amounts of
money to get them, So you lose your draft stock
when you go out there and you average six points
a game, even though you went to Bama, and you're
trying to transfer somewhere else, to another Power five school,
rather than if you went to a mid major average
twenty points a game. Like the kid that we got
to come to the u of L from Kennesaw State,
he was probably making little to nothing at Kinnesas State.
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Their budget isn't that power five right, He's probably looking
a couple thousand where he could come to Louisville. We
don't know the dollar mouth, but they could be, hey,
you know five hundred thousand dollars and you know exactly, yeah,
come over here, first play twenty five to thirty minutes
a game. Any kid in the world is gonna say
yes to that. I'm sorry, especially coming from mid major
or schoo law school. They're not saying no.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
So, guys, I brought this to people because I want
people to understand Kevin Young has been able to attract
the best college basketball player in the country. I don't
think that would have happened. Everyone says that it's gonna
always be the power. The big boys got me. The
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big boys, Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, the big boys would always
be there. Okay, I'm not saying they're not wrong, that
that they're not right, But all I'm saying is that
without this situation, there's no way de Bonza signs would
be YU four years ago. Do you all both agree
with Scott? Do you agree with that? No way, I'm
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a number one player in the country. Without name, image
and likeness, money, there's no way that young man goes
to BUYU.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
So it is working both ways.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I just wanted to let people see I'm not saying
that by you will get in the final four. I
don't think they will. I watched AJ de Bonza yesterday
last night. Good player. I mean, he's a good player,
but he didn't drive me crazy. Gonna be honest with you,
you know, he was't Michael Jordan or Darryl Griffith, Manual
Forest from this area that we're really really good high
school players are Wesley Cox. He was in that level
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for my opinion, but he was a good player. But
I still say three years ago, there's no way that
he goes AJ Debonza goes to BYU, there's no way.
So the system is working both ways because BYU has
someone that has some money.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Every university does.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
You're right, Anthony, not Kennisaul, They're not North Carolina and
T No, they're gonna get their players stolen. Absolutely. Thomas
Coleman would have never played for US Scott for.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Four years, No way he would have gone and made
real money.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
But at the same time, those mid Power five conferences
do have money. Teams do have money, and they can
make runs of players that they wouldn't be able to
make runs at. So guys, I just think first we're
gonna have to get contracts. Sooner or later, the legislation
will pass. If you were going to put in a
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lawsuit that was a former player, you had to do
it about two months ago. Now the judge's going to rule,
they'll start to put some guidelines on there. The money's
got now supposed to come from the university's twenty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Each university can break it up how they want.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
They could give football eighteen million, basketball two million, and
nothing else.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
They could break it up six million.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Which I've heard a lot of schools say for basketball
ten to eleven twelve million for football, that's where the
money is, and then still have three or four million
for the Olympic sports because those kids do work hard also,
they do so they do deserve something.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
They do.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
We've got great Olympic sports from Kentucky and Louisville, great Olympians.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That deserve something. That's what I've heard.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
So I do know where the money is supposed to
be coming from going forth, but knows God Anthony and
all our friends, these collectives and who was getting paid
and how much they were getting paid. I'm just telling people,
don't believe it. Don't believe these crazy numbers. I just
don't believe that Alabama offered or take away five or
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ten million dollars. I just don't believe that. Could it happen, yes,
but I just don't believe it. It's why there has
to be transparency, which NCAA, after the federal courts rule,
will have to put some guidelines on so that at
least I'm not saying cap the pay.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
We'll just have to know what the payment is. That's all.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Just like we know what the pros polite make, we'll
have to know what the college players make. They're no different.
If you're going to be paid, you should have to know. Now,
we've got private schools. Just like Duke doesn't have to
disclose what they play, pay Shire or where they paid
coach k.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Shozshewsky. They didn't have to disclose. You all got me.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Simmons College at Kentucky doesn't have to disclose what they
pay Jerry Eves or Reverend Cosby. So all schools do
not have to close. I'm still saying with the players,
I think they should have to. There has to be
transparency across the board. So the private schools cannot play games,
they must show what they pay the players. I think
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so we'll just have to wait and see, guys. Seven
to twenty three, But these crazy numbers. I had a
gentleman stop me leaving the Cardinal Club.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Missus Sullivan. We spoke forever.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I just don't believe in the amount of money that's
being thrown out there. That's all I'm telling you, mister Sullivan.
I don't believe those totals. Yes, players are getting paid,
I just don't think it's that kind of money anyway.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Seven to twenty three is the Eve Sports Radio. We're
gonna get to our first break.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I got Scott bol Wage, he's a rookie, and Anthony Eves,
he's a punker.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Sitting in with me. We'll talk to you all after
the break. Welcome back to Eves Sports Radio seven twenty
seven on Thursday. Uh, it is the third of April.
I'm leaving to go to the Final.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Four in San Antonio, Texas. Seems like I'm going to
be able to get out on time, so.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That is a blessing. Welcome back Scott, Welcome back Anthony. Guys.
I got a question.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
We've got us a new producer that we just would
have him introduce himself real quickly. He's training with Shannon.
I met him at the Kentucky game. Lim, introduce yourself
to everybody.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Howdy. I'm Liam Tomlinson producing the show today.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It was some more information than that. Lim, you're holding
back Man, your social media guru.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
So only all social media gurus in the year twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I'm not Lim. I need help. I need help.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
I'm more of a Twitter guy. But and I run
the board up in Cincinnati. I play basketball. I'm a
pretty simple guy. I worked at the Little Girls Club.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I got a little game.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
I play old man basketball. I'm like a six to
two center, so I got all the up and under
his little Kareem hook shot.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I got you nothing wrong with old school basketball. Well, Liam,
welcome to the sports radio. Thanks for sitting in working
with Shannon and I. And it was nice meeting you
and Inanneapolis. So anyway, guys, let's get back to it.
Anthony's got I turned on the television this morning. I
was cleaning up, doing a little swiftly, and I see
at a youth hockey match, parents are acting just straight foods.
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They're out on the ice wrestling and fighting. And guys, parents,
will this ever stop? Will this ever stop? With the
behavior of with our kids and what and how we
want them to behave.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Anthony, I'm coming to you.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
First, they were there's a squam going on. I guess
two of the young kids must have gotten into it.
Which happens, which happens, which I've told you with your
teammates when they were trying to Hey tell you, guys,
you play your game. I play mine. Athletics is a
competitive game. I have told everyone. I fought into fair
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Grounds in front of sixteen thousand people. West Matthews and
I the Old West Matthews. You all know the son
who's played pro great. We're good friends now. He was
the first round draft pick to the Warston Wizards. We
fought in Louisville when he was with the Clippers and
Derek Smith was on the team. We fought in Idaho.
I wish Derek was a love. He'd tell you all,
it's just a guy that we're great friends now. But
we just didn't get along on the court, period, point blank.
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We didn't. But my dad was running out of the
stands to help me. So, Anthony, you've seen crazy behavior.
What do you think about these parents coming out of
the stands onto the court with these players.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
What do you think.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
He answer? Taking This is where I say I took
sports seriously. I think we all did at one point.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
But there's a limitation when you're taking it serious and
you're just taking it too far. You can be serious
and you want to be in tune with your kids career.
You want to be successful, and you just want to
see him.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Be able to live out dreams that they've been thinking
about since they were a young kids, since they first
started falling in love with sports. You always want that form.
But when you start going on you're fighting over you know,
twelve and under hockey leagues or basketball leagues. Like that's
a little too far. Like none of them professional basketball players,
none of them. You don't know what their potential may be.
You don't know what's gonna happen in life. There's there's
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life changing events that can happen before that that you
don't know, that could hit you at any moment in time.
And you're over here worried about fighting in a twelve
and under game that they're gonna get a little participation trophy,
the'll forget about in like two weeks. I just don't.
It's just it's unnecessary, it's it's it's childish, even at
the professional level. I don't say professional sports have a
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little bit more leeway with it. And I'm not being biased.
It's just, you know, it's a little bit more, a
little bit more maturity. Obviously, it's a big humong as
skill gap between little kids and professional players. Hotly, I
think professional players need to fight, fight more often, so
maybe it'll stop flopping all the time. It's not bacchollect.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I had no problem to Detroit skirmish.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
They didn't throw any punches, but at least they're trying
to show that they have a little gumption. But no,
I agree with the Anthony. It just parents need to
stay in the stands. I've seen it happening at basketball games.
It's going crazy, Scott. I don't know if you remember,
but I thought you're wrong with quite a while ago.
Anthony was not when to beat the football pro football
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players brother shot the coach got thirty seven years in
prison for shooting the youth football coach on the other
team got me in Lancaster, Texas. So, guys, we have
seen that this is escalating. They're showing it right now
on ABC. I'm looking at it and again that you
see the parents on them, and.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
This does it. Guys.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
If the parents can't show better behavior, period point blame,
then there's absolutely no way that anyone else can also.
And you got parents browing it. It wasn't on an
ice rink, guys. Parents brought a youth hockey event, but
it was more on a simulated ice. It was not
an ice but still you see everyone. I'm just watching
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it now.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Everyone.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Parents are fighting parents, kids are fighting kids. Scott, what
do we have to do to correct this.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And clear the gyms?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Probably the problem is that the parents take this more
serious than the kids that you have so many parents
who are trying to live through their kids who didn't
have maybe the career in athletics that they wanted, and
now they see an opportunity for their kids to be
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something that they couldn't be on whatever athletic field they're on.
So now they're putting all this emphasis on their kids,
doing all kinds of training, you know, all this stuff,
and then the kid goes out there and you know
he's not playing up the far. Now the parents are
mad at the kid. And you have a referee that's
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getting paid eight dollars a game to rep all day
and now, coach, I'll I'll give you the craziest thing.
When I was working with CP three, these referees were
in Las Vegas and the two referees one gym from
eight am to eight pm, same two reps all day
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m and we have the last game of the day
gets pushed back an hour because of overtime, so now
we're starting at nine instead of eight. One of the
referees leaves.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
So now we're.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I would have also, so so now we're obviously the
better team.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
The other team.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Their coach starts cursing at one of our kids in
a layup line. So one of our assistant coaches like, hey, like,
don't talk to our guys that. Now we have two
coaches going at it. The referee, one of the referees said,
the only referee there, says, coach, you go over there,
you go over there, right, and nobody's listening. So then
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the referee says, well, forget it. Then if you guys
want to fight, go ahead and fight. And he goes,
and he goes and sits down.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
That's just crazy. Put the world is going crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
That's the problem. Like you you have all these events
where the coordinators of the events don't do a good job.
They don't pay the referees, but they're supposed to be paid.
You have too many things going on, the parents, there's
so many factors that go into this, and now you
you have fights with parents. You have you I'm sure
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you've seen the videos of the parents fighting the referees, yes,
no question, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Like there there's so.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Many different things that take place in all these and
then you don't have security. Like there's so much going on.
I think you need to limit the events, which is
not going to happen. But then you know, if the
parents act up, kick them out and you know, have
the police ready and take them away. They're the only
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way you can do it. But there's so many parents
out there that don't know how to act, and it's
because they think their kid is the next.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Big thing out there, right, And yeah, that's not the factor.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
The key is this, guys.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
With athletics, it is to train your center daughter to
be able to handle and fight through adversity. Okay, And
I'm telling people that are listening facts. Anthony's on the phone.
He'll tell you. Anthony was playing on a very good
high school team in Greensboro, North Carolina. Page really good.
I had a chance to win a state championship, just
like Ballad. Both of them went to the final four,
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final eight. No, you went to the final game, didn't you, Anthony,
or semifinal in Greensboro.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
It was the final four to go.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Okay, here you go.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
So anyway, there was an issue during the season to
where one of the players and Anthony threw the ball
to another player who scored. One of the players thought
he should have thrown it to him. There was a
little altercation with Anthony and the player. So his teammate
guys teammate now, So that night Anthony came home. I
(27:27):
told Anthony, homeboy, I don't care. You make sure kids
know you're not gonna bother them, but they're not going
to influence you. So I want to say the next
game or game after that, transparred again, and Anthony told
a kid, and the coach kind of got upset about it.
And then when he asked Anthony and he said, my
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dad told me to tell the kid. So then the
coach calls me that morning. You remember, Anthony, it was
probably five forty five six.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
In the morning.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I said, coach, without a doubt, do what you have
to do if you've got to suspend.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Anthony suspending. But I did tell my son to.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Tell that kid, No, you're not going to affect how
I play. You're gonna affect how you play. And that's fact.
Remember Anthey, remember that I said, So you can suspend,
you can suspend that you're the coach. I got no
problem with it. But my kid is going to learn
to stand up for himself. That's what this is about.
I didn't come out of stands. I didn't say anything
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to the coach. I didn't say anything to an official,
but I did. I applied pressure on my son to
know athletics is a competition. It's not your friend is
not the best guy.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
People to tell you.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Landon Corley calls in all the time playing, but he'll
tell you at Ballard, in practice, at games, I was
a butthole. I wasn't a nice guy. I don't know
where everybody got that. At Louisville, I didn't have any friends. Honestly,
I gotta get Lancaster, Gordon back On. I gotta get because,
oh guys, there was competition going on in the airports.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Who shoots too much?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Who missed too I used to tell them, guys, y'all
don't look like Denny Crumb. To me, it scud crazy,
but you crazy, I said, you just don't. Denny Crumb
will tell me if I'm not passing the ball to
the proper people. Guys, it's competition all this. Everybody's loving
each other. I hear it, and I'm being honest with you.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I hear that statement. I hear these coaches well.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Coach Is at Michigan State talked about this is the
most connected team I've ever had, or we're a family.
The very next day after they lost, guys, two people
hit the transfer portal. I'm like, oh, you were really connected?
Were your coaches?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
The guys?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
That fallacy that everybody loves everybody, I love to hear it,
but it's just not true. I've lived at my entire life,
coach is aligned to you. It's just not true. There's
competition at every level. Especially. I want to tell people this,
when you have kids that are just too lovey dovey,
too happy, too happy, go lucky when they lose. I'm
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not saying having bad behavior, not at all. You have
to know how to handle yourself, not at all. But guys,
when I lost in nineteen eighty two in the final four,
the press conference which they had, I was there with
coach Crumb, I wasn't happy in laughing when I lost
to a last second buzzer beater in Texas my junior
year and us Reid hits the sixty foot or truly
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I think the first real buzzer beater. There was a
press conference that after that game, and of course yes
it was myself, Ridey mccran and Derek. I wasn't happy
then either. I didn't say anything inappropriate. But I wasn't
a smile and happy camper. I just wasn't. So maybe
times have changed. But the bottom line is the parents
need to let their kids know, yes, be competitive, but
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the parents are not supposed to be competitive.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
The parents are supposed to.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Teach their sons and daughters that in a game of
sports is competition, and in the game of life, there's
competition and you have to sometimes you have to have
enough intests in the fortitude to look people in the
face and tell them no, or people will run over you.
So it's seven forty we're gonna get to Our second
break is Esports Radio. Scott and Anthony. Y'all got it. Shannon,
(31:16):
you have a great vacation and you'll be gone next week.
I will be on tomorrow, Shannon from San Antonio. So Anthony,
I will be on, you'll be on, and Scott you'll
be somewhere.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Up to the beach.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I mean, y'all living a life. So this is Eve
Sports Radio seven forty one. It is April the third,
four numbers, five zero two, five seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I'll talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Welcome back to the sports radio. Anthony over here taking
over the hostome position. My dad's headed off to the
airport to San Antonio. But we can get through this
weather and have a smooth flight out there to the
Final four this weekend. I still got coach Scott with
me out here. But the big thing we got to
get into. We gotta talk about these final four matchups.
I know this is something that's on everybody's mind. I
know it's on Sports Better's mind like no other out
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there are playing these props. It's going to be a
close weekend men's and women's. But Coach bas want to
get your opinion of these matchups. The first one floor
in Auburn, who do you think you have winning this matchup?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Here?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Man, that's a that is a very tough, tough game
right there. I mean, you're you're going back to now
conference opponents who you know, you play each other during
the regular season, and it's gonna be a big time matchup.
And you know what, both teams have had some adversity
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throughout the NCAA tournament where they've had to you know,
fight their way through to get that win. But honestly,
like I like Auburn just because you know, you got
Bruce Perl who's been around for you know, a little
bit longer, and it just gives that coaching matchup I
think can really play the big part down the stretch
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of a game. And you know, yesterday when we were
talking with your dad, I said, you know, of all
these teams, like somebody has always stepped up and typically
you know, throughout the Cono four or the championship, you know,
one of these teams like somebody will go dead where
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all four teams at every stuff. And now it's gonna
be a big time matchup. And you know, I think
the big thing is, you know with Auburn is with Rooms,
how healthy he is, there'll be a big factor. If
he's back to gooes to one hundred percent, that could
be the determining factor in this game. Who do you
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like in that matchup?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
I still my intuition still wants to say Florida. I
just think there's size and versatility. I still think you
Di Room is a good player. Obviously, I think we'll
give Florida's big men a lot of problems. Something I
even talked about with my dad. I said, Florida does
have size and limble, but the only thing that worries
me about Florida is that they're big men, aren't very skilled.
And when I say very skilled on the defensive side,
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I think they're okay. You know, they protect the rim.
They're not exceptional shot blockers, but they're good. They're above average.
They're just not a presence offensively. Their offense is very
guard oriented. Most of the runs through Walter Clayton, a
lot of the runs through. Also see the two guard
and the three as well. And I don't know why
I'm going blank on their names, like I don't know
who they are, but I do. But that's what most
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of their offense runs through. And we seem a lot
of suple of games. Will Richard is obviously the second one.
I don't know why what's going blank on his name.
But as you've seen in the last game, even when
they were playing the other posts matchup that they had
going down to Maryland, I mean not to Maryland Texas Tech,
you can kind of see that when they weren't hitting shots,
the deficits started to grow drastically, obviously, anywhere from a
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ten to fourteen point lead that Texas Tech had at
one point, and you know, they kind of gave it
away to them. They got hot. They hit four out
of four threes in the last two and a half
minutes a gameplay. Walter Clayton did pull up threes. He's
going driven from the paint all the way, have some
three line hidden shots. So those are the type of
plays that most players don't make, even at that high
of a level, because the shooters aren't as good. You've
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got Conak Nipple, who's that dude who's a phenomenal shooter,
but he's a different kind of shooter. He's a spot
up shooter. Walter Clayton's a little bit off the driven.
I think that they can contain Jennie broom Arter can
outcome that game just because their guards are a little
bit better in my opinion, bigger size, more physicality. I
do like the Hoigh Pettiford. I like the freshmen from Auburn.
I think he gives them a lot of skill and
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a lot of versatility off the bench. Just the Auburn guards,
I'm not too fond on the size. I think the
size is playing a factor for a lot of small
guards going deeper in the tournament. We saw it with
the Kyle Ziggler obviously from Tennessee played that he struggled
a lot even against Houston's guard, and Houston's one of
the smaller teams in the Final four, if not the
smallest team outside of the center at six to ten.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
L J.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Pryor and the rest of them, the Manuel Sharp are
all about six four and under. So if you say,
even if one of these teams wins this game between
Florida and Auburn and they have to go on to
play Houston, who's probably one of the best defensive teams
in the country, or you go to Duke, who is
i'd say just about equal with a lot more size versatility,
it makes it difficult for a lot of these teams.
But I'm still gonna stick with Florida in this one.
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The Duke in Houston game is another big one we're
going into. But I know we're at seven forty nine
and we got to get one more break in. My
producer told me, so he doesn't yell at me and
get mad, we're gonna take our last break when we
come back. We're to get into the Duke and Houston
matchup before we end off this show. The sports radio
phone numbers five oh two, five seven, seventy nine hundred.
(36:36):
Welcome back to EVE Sports Radio. This is Anthony here,
hosted with coach Scott Bowways Phone numbers five oh two,
five seven one, seventy nine hundred. Getting back into these
final four matchups that we got to talk about on
the men's side, Duke in Houston, which I think is
one of the one of the biggest talks. Obviously Florida
and Auburn is a huge one. Another SEC matchup could
have been probably one of the best set matchups that
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we've had all year. It's one of the two teams
that haven't seen each other all year. Very good on
the defensive end, but very different play styles. Houston's a
little bit a little bit slower paces, more of a
half court offense. Duke is much go up tempo, get
up and down the floor type of style. How do
you think Coach Sampson and the Houston Cougars will be
able to keep up against the Duke Blue Doubles. I
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want to know this because I'm a huge Duke fan,
and I think j already know that Duke's my squad.
But you know, Houston does post a lot of concerns
with their defensive versatility, being able to switch on a lot,
their philosophy and how they play hard. It it's something
that it does make me nervous as a Duke fan,
and I just want to get your opinion on it
as a coach who coached at the college level. How
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do you think this matchup goes down? Coach B might
be having some technical problems with that. That's all right,
happens to us sometimes. Anyways, you can get my opinion
on it, because my opinion for all those guys out
there that hate because I'm yep, I can hear you
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now you there, you might just cut out on a
four second, so.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Uh, yep. It's a tough It's gonna be a tough
defensive matchup for both teams because Duke is one of
the top defensive teams in the country as well as
offensively because you know their lengths and they can switch everything.
So it's going to be a great matchup defensively. But
I think it just like you, I think Duke's gonna
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pull it out. They just have so much talent offensively
and they can also play in the half court set
and they've got you know, I don't think they're scared
of being physical you know, with Flag and Canipple and
all their players, they're not afraid of that physicality. So
I think down the stretch, you know, and they've got
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some big, big time playmakers outside of their big gu
their big name players from from Flag and Canipple and Proctor,
you know, all their guys can make plays and knocked
out the open shot when they need it. So I'm
gonna give the edge to Duke on this one.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Yeah, I might have to agree with you on there.
And just even if I'm not even being biased towards
my team, I'd still pick Duke in this matchup. I
just think the size and versatility is gonna play a
lot of problems. Duke has a lot of X factors
that can either stretch his game out a ton or
it could still be a close game in a W
I think if Proctor goes out there and hit shots
and plays like how he's played over the last span,
if I say thirty to thirty five days, Duke could
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go out there and win by double digits easily in
my opinion. But I will say one thing. If Duke
does come out there and gets first in the mouth
and starts playing soft, which they haven't done all year,
and I hope they don't do it now and change
up on me. Houston can cause problems, and Houston does
hit tough shots at crucial moments. Even their last game
when they played, when those Michigan State was closing the
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gap on him, they did hit a lot of shots
to keep that gap far enough spread to where they
couldn't get that momentum to make a run back. They
cut it down to ten with about four and a
half minutes ago. Emanuel Sard comes down transition, hits the three,
spreads it out the thirteen under the four minute timeout.
That is a huge difference. Shots like that can change
a game more than you realize. If everyone thinks always
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throughout the entire game, if we were to go down
there to miss that shot in the Michigan State, to
go down there to score cut it to seven under
the media timeout, there's a lot more pression and a
lot more attension going into those last shots, and as
a player, you feel a different level on top of
your shoulders when it's a thirteen point lead rather than
a seven point lead. You come down here and missed
again and they close that gap to five or four points,
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but this is Sports Radio. We'll be checking in with
you tomorrow. Coach. We appreciate you stepping in helping us
today while my dad's out here traveling as always, we'll
be back tomorrow morning. My dad should be back with us.
We'll have mister Williams, mister Ring you on with us
as well. This is E Sports Raiders. We want to
call in tomorrow talk more about the predictions in the
ESPN bracket phone numbers five oh two, five seventy nine hundred,
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and everyone'll be safe and have a great thing.
Welcome back to Eve's Sports Radio. It is April third,
twenty twenty five. It's the first warning in a long
time that I'm not completely prepared. I think I was
like everyone else last night, either sleeping in the bedroom
with my mom or just watching the weather outside, trying
(00:21):
to make decisions about what was the right thing to do.
Taking everything off of my deck, putting it in the garage,
trying to put the garbage cans against the home so
they wouldn't blow around, all the things that everyone has
to do, trying to prepare for last night's storm. I
hope people have come through it safely. I've seen some
of the devastation on the news, so I know a
(00:41):
lot of people. There's a lot of property damage, there's
a lot of flooding. They'll be more flooding, So let's
make sure that we're cognizant about what we're doing. Slow down,
the roads are wet, make sure again, have patience. They're
probably trees down in multiple areas, so let's just make
sure that we work through these next forty eight hours,
(01:01):
which we're supposed to receive somewhere between six to ten
inches of rain over the next two days. So again,
I want people to be careful. Do not think you
can drive through the stream. Please do not. You just
there's no reason for it. Turn around and go.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
The other way. Turn around and go home. That's all.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
If you have to be at work, make sure you
leave forty five minutes early. Make sure you give yourself time.
So welcome back to the show. This is EVE Sports Radio.
I'm not a meteorologist, but it was dangerous last night,
so I didn't get much sleep like everyone else in
this community.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I got Shannon behind the glass. Welcome back, Shannon. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We've got two people which i'll introduce in a second.
My phone number is five zero two five seventy nine hundred.
This is EVE Sports Radio, Sports Talk seven ninety KRD,
and that numbers five zero two five seven one seventy
nine hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
If there's any trees down, any damages that.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You think people need to know, please call in and
let people know what they.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Need to do to stay safe today. Please.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So I've got two people on because of course everyone
knows that I'm leaving going to San Antonio for the
Final four, and I was looking at my phone and
Anthony and Scott welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
How are you.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I'm doing great, coach. How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Scott? Didn't get much sleep last night, that's all.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I think. I went to bed around two o'clock to thirty.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Yes, I was knocked out.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, Andy was in the basement gone. But yep, it
was a rough night last night. But everything we came
out unscathed. Everything's good, Anthony.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I'm doing good this morning. Honestly, I didn't hear a
loud of the storms last night. Honestly, I slipped right
through him. I don't know if that's a good thing
or a bad thing, but hey, I'll take the sleep.
I woke up and I'm still alive, so that's all
it matters.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yes, exactly. Yeah, that's a blessing. We really, that's a
true blessing. Well, guys, this is what I do know.
I didn't think i'd be getting out of here today.
I really did not, But I just got Everyone knows,
when you buy an airplane ticket, give them your telephone number.
They'll send you all your notifications reminder of your trip.
C S j U at American three thirty one from
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standards Field to Dallas Fort Worth. We a part at
eleven oh two, which is on time. Now everyone knows. Guys,
when I get to that airport at eleven eleven thirty,
we all know that they're gonna be delayed all over
that screen. It better pop up on my phone, Scout.
That's all I'm gonna say. It better pop up on
my phone. That's where I'll get there. Next thing, you know,
(03:42):
you look up there, it'll be delays top to bottom
and it'll be like, make me come in here and wait.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
That's all so, but right now there's everything's on time here.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, I'll I'll send you a website where you can
track all that stuff to you know how much I travel,
my girlfriend travel. We've become professional late attendants the way
the way we travel, so we know how to track flight.
So I'll show you how to do all that stuff.
Make it easy for you.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well, you know you better send that to Sheila Scott
because you know good and well. Yeah, you know, Anthony,
you all both know good and well. You say anything
else on my computer. I've got too much on this
phone in computer right now, Scott. I had one more thing,
I shoot myself, tell it I don't need one more.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Exactly, you know, to send it to the boss. So guys,
we've got a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Of course, we've got the Final four where both men
and women, we had McDonald's All American Games got we
were talking about that yesterday. We've got all the movement.
We've got NFL rules, which we're going to touch a
little bit. And I'm going to say with you all
probably half the show. But I just wanted to start
it off. And we've heard so much scuttle but and
we and Anthy and I really have not touched it.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But we see the name mentioned likeness and Scott.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Everybody knows every penny a player gets, it's for the
players that did not get paid.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I just want everybody to know that I don't care.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I did a show yesterday when I've got nine revenue
sports coaches make it almost two million dollars a year.
I don't want to hear about athletes getting paid. I
just don't so that produce revenue.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The people that allow them to pay nine revenue coaches
two million dollars shouldn't get paid. That's craziness. So I've
got no problem with that. I do think there need
to be guardrails. I've argued with all my friends. I've
got people that tell me, Jerry, the toothpastes out of
the tube, you can't put it back. All I can
say to everyone is this, this isn't a multi million
(05:43):
dollar business. This is a multi billion dollar business, and
it's not going to go under. They're not going to
allow it. They just let things go as long as
they can reap as much money as they can. I
do think allegedly, because I still myself have not seen
a cons track to a player to where I can
report on my show the truth about how much someone
(06:06):
is making. So, Scott, I'm gona thought to you than Anthony,
You're next. You hear all these astronomical two million dollars
for the young man from Xavier, right, Anthony, everybody is
saying that Louisville paid the guard transferring from Xavier two
million dollars. Okay, Ryan Kong, is it Conwell? Then you
(06:27):
hear that Otaga old Way had ten million dollar offers.
You got me, guys, and we've heard all these numbers.
What do you think, Scott? Do you believe that there's
any validity that that kind of money being passed around?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
You know it? It's really tough to say, because you
don't hear the big names saying they're not getting that money.
You know, you'll you'll definitely hear some of the smaller,
smaller but you know, like the quarterback that was at un.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
L Vegas, Yes, right, And then there.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Was another player I forget where he was at just
recently said, you know, I guess he was offered like
one hundred and twenty five thousand, but then never got
a dime of it.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
So you know, you don't hear the big, big name.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Players saying they're not getting paid, so it's really hard
to say. And like you said, there's no contract out there.
You know, this is all just speculation on Soon and
Hall getting this money, so on and soone getting that money.
So it's really tough to say how much of it
is actually legitimate money. And then where where is all
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this money coming from? That's the other part.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You know, I'll be able to explain that for starting
this year, I know where the money's coming from. I
didn't with these collectives, guys, I had no idea. I've
heard about all the collectives, but I'm not sure where
that money came from. But I know where it is
supposed to be coming from once the legislation passes.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
But that's right, it's those collectives that you know, these
big schools have you know, thirty five million dollar nil budget,
but like where is all that money coming from? M
and now, yeah, there's no contract out there. So yes,
it's a big problem.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
It's a big problem. Can it be fixed. Can we
put the two back in the tube?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Everything can be fixed, but it's fixing it the right
way to where it's I would say equal. But you know,
you want to make sure the players are taken care
of properly and making sure that everything is done legitimately.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
But it can be fixed.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Okay, Anthony, we were watching a little bit of McDonald's
game and de Banza aj Debonza and we know that
by supposedly was in the five million dollar realm for
the number one player in the country.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So, Anthony, my question.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
To you as this, I got two three people I
talked to quite a bit about all the issues, and
they think that the same team teams, the same ten teams,
the Kentucky's, the Dukes got me. I would say North Carolina,
but they've dropped off so far as comical.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
The Louisville's right we'll be able to push their.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Way back the Auburns now they've been their Alabama almost
was here twice in two years. A lot of the
SEC teams we'll get the same ten teams. Do you
think the bonds with his statement of going to BYU,
which is not one of those ten teams.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We'll be able to attract enough attention to where.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Players will go to some of that next group of
the Power five, that group from twenty to forty, And
can they make a large enough impression like Dukes Young
Kids Anthony have this year to get enough of them
to get to a Final four like Duke Young Kids.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Your team, I mean, I definitely gonna make a push forward.
BYU has other recruits that are smooth sniffing around that
top one hundred. I think they do have another top
one hundred going to BYU as well. And I think
a lot of it just has to do off of
money preferences. It really does. It's not there are very
few schools outside of the Power fives or even in
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the Power five the players are going there for money
and they're going for coaching, trying to go to the
next level. A lot of kids now are just going
for money purposes. And I was talking about it yesterday
that a lot of these kids aren't going to go
to the professional level, and we know that the percentage
is just so low. There's just not enough spots, and
it's competitive. It's hard to get to that next level.
Good college players doesn't mean they're always going to be
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good basketball players in the pro levels. We've seen that
over and over again from numerous players. Even in college basketball.
I can do off of just off of just you know,
ACC players. As long as you can go back to
Tyler Hansborough, Tyle Lawson, I can go on and on
with that list. There's guys that were phenomenal in college.
Almando Bacon had a great college career, it just didn't
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pan out work too well in the NBA. And it
happens a lot of these kids are now just chasing
the money to where they have some money in their
pocket before they try to go on to the next
levels it's the euro League or China, Lithuania, wherever the
case may be, or if they just say this is
the end of their college career, they have some money
in their pockets. So a lot of them are just
chasing the dollar amount now. So if you have schools
out there in the Western Conference like BYU and Gonzaga,
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schools that are throwing money out there, come out there
and get one opportunity to show your talent, which is
the biggest thing now because kids are going to these
schools on these guaranteed nils. Some of them aren't even playing.
They're coming off with the bench. So they want to
go out there to be paid and play. You know,
the money's good. But if you go there for a season,
you get offered one mill at BYU and you go
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out there and you don't play, and you have six
minutes a game when you hit that transfer portal. Because
ninety percent of them are gonna do it. They're gona
hit the transfer port if they're not satisfied, if they're
not playing, or they want to go somewhere to win
the championship. You'd lose your draft stock a little bit.
And I say your draft stock in the transfer portal
they have. There's almost a draft stock in a transfer
portal where you know there's a number one draft one
more guy in the portal, there's the top ten guys,
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there's the top fifty in the portal that school is
trying to go out for that offer large amounts of
money to get them, So you lose your draft stock
when you go out there and you average six points
a game, even though you went to Bama, and you're
trying to transfer somewhere else, to another Power five school,
rather than if you went to a mid major average
twenty points a game. Like the kid that we got
to come to the u of L from Kennesaw State,
he was probably making little to nothing at Kinnesas State.
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Their budget isn't that power five right, He's probably looking
a couple thousand where he could come to Louisville. We
don't know the dollar mouth, but they could be, hey,
you know five hundred thousand dollars and you know exactly, yeah,
come over here, first play twenty five to thirty minutes
a game. Any kid in the world is gonna say
yes to that. I'm sorry, especially coming from mid major
or schoo law school. They're not saying no.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
So, guys, I brought this to people because I want
people to understand Kevin Young has been able to attract
the best college basketball player in the country. I don't
think that would have happened. Everyone says that it's gonna
always be the power. The big boys got me. The
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big boys, Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, the big boys would always
be there. Okay, I'm not saying they're not wrong, that
that they're not right, But all I'm saying is that
without this situation, there's no way de Bonza signs would
be YU four years ago. Do you all both agree
with Scott? Do you agree with that? No way, I'm
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a number one player in the country. Without name, image
and likeness, money, there's no way that young man goes
to BUYU.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
So it is working both ways.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I just wanted to let people see I'm not saying
that by you will get in the final four. I
don't think they will. I watched AJ de Bonza yesterday
last night. Good player. I mean, he's a good player,
but he didn't drive me crazy. Gonna be honest with you,
you know, he was't Michael Jordan or Darryl Griffith, Manual
Forest from this area that we're really really good high
school players are Wesley Cox. He was in that level
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for my opinion, but he was a good player. But
I still say three years ago, there's no way that
he goes AJ Debonza goes to BYU, there's no way.
So the system is working both ways because BYU has
someone that has some money.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Every university does.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
You're right, Anthony, not Kennisaul, They're not North Carolina and
T No, they're gonna get their players stolen. Absolutely. Thomas
Coleman would have never played for US Scott for.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Four years, No way he would have gone and made
real money.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
But at the same time, those mid Power five conferences
do have money. Teams do have money, and they can
make runs of players that they wouldn't be able to
make runs at. So guys, I just think first we're
gonna have to get contracts. Sooner or later, the legislation
will pass. If you were going to put in a
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lawsuit that was a former player, you had to do
it about two months ago. Now the judge's going to rule,
they'll start to put some guidelines on there. The money's
got now supposed to come from the university's twenty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Each university can break it up how they want.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
They could give football eighteen million, basketball two million, and
nothing else.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
They could break it up six million.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Which I've heard a lot of schools say for basketball
ten to eleven twelve million for football, that's where the
money is, and then still have three or four million
for the Olympic sports because those kids do work hard also,
they do so they do deserve something.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
They do.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
We've got great Olympic sports from Kentucky and Louisville, great Olympians.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That deserve something. That's what I've heard.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
So I do know where the money is supposed to
be coming from going forth, but knows God Anthony and
all our friends, these collectives and who was getting paid
and how much they were getting paid. I'm just telling people,
don't believe it. Don't believe these crazy numbers. I just
don't believe that Alabama offered or take away five or
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ten million dollars. I just don't believe that. Could it happen, yes,
but I just don't believe it. It's why there has
to be transparency, which NCAA, after the federal courts rule,
will have to put some guidelines on so that at
least I'm not saying cap the pay.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
We'll just have to know what the payment is. That's all.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Just like we know what the pros polite make, we'll
have to know what the college players make. They're no different.
If you're going to be paid, you should have to know. Now,
we've got private schools. Just like Duke doesn't have to
disclose what they play, pay Shire or where they paid
coach k.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Shozshewsky. They didn't have to disclose. You all got me.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Simmons College at Kentucky doesn't have to disclose what they
pay Jerry Eves or Reverend Cosby. So all schools do
not have to close. I'm still saying with the players,
I think they should have to. There has to be
transparency across the board. So the private schools cannot play games,
they must show what they pay the players. I think
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so we'll just have to wait and see, guys. Seven
to twenty three, But these crazy numbers. I had a
gentleman stop me leaving the Cardinal Club.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Missus Sullivan. We spoke forever.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I just don't believe in the amount of money that's
being thrown out there. That's all I'm telling you, mister Sullivan.
I don't believe those totals. Yes, players are getting paid,
I just don't think it's that kind of money anyway.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Seven to twenty three is the Eve Sports Radio. We're
gonna get to our first break.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I got Scott bol Wage, he's a rookie, and Anthony Eves,
he's a punker.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Sitting in with me. We'll talk to you all after
the break. Welcome back to Eves Sports Radio seven twenty
seven on Thursday. Uh, it is the third of April.
I'm leaving to go to the Final.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Four in San Antonio, Texas. Seems like I'm going to
be able to get out on time, so.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That is a blessing. Welcome back Scott, Welcome back Anthony. Guys.
I got a question.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
We've got us a new producer that we just would
have him introduce himself real quickly. He's training with Shannon.
I met him at the Kentucky game. Lim, introduce yourself
to everybody.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Howdy. I'm Liam Tomlinson producing the show today.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It was some more information than that. Lim, you're holding
back Man, your social media guru.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
So only all social media gurus in the year twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I'm not Lim. I need help. I need help.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
I'm more of a Twitter guy. But and I run
the board up in Cincinnati. I play basketball. I'm a
pretty simple guy. I worked at the Little Girls Club.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I got a little game.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
I play old man basketball. I'm like a six to
two center, so I got all the up and under
his little Kareem hook shot.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I got you nothing wrong with old school basketball. Well, Liam,
welcome to the sports radio. Thanks for sitting in working
with Shannon and I. And it was nice meeting you
and Inanneapolis. So anyway, guys, let's get back to it.
Anthony's got I turned on the television this morning. I
was cleaning up, doing a little swiftly, and I see
at a youth hockey match, parents are acting just straight foods.
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They're out on the ice wrestling and fighting. And guys, parents,
will this ever stop? Will this ever stop? With the
behavior of with our kids and what and how we
want them to behave.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Anthony, I'm coming to you.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
First, they were there's a squam going on. I guess
two of the young kids must have gotten into it.
Which happens, which happens, which I've told you with your
teammates when they were trying to Hey tell you, guys,
you play your game. I play mine. Athletics is a
competitive game. I have told everyone. I fought into fair
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Grounds in front of sixteen thousand people. West Matthews and
I the Old West Matthews. You all know the son
who's played pro great. We're good friends now. He was
the first round draft pick to the Warston Wizards. We
fought in Louisville when he was with the Clippers and
Derek Smith was on the team. We fought in Idaho.
I wish Derek was a love. He'd tell you all,
it's just a guy that we're great friends now. But
we just didn't get along on the court, period, point blank.
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We didn't. But my dad was running out of the
stands to help me. So, Anthony, you've seen crazy behavior.
What do you think about these parents coming out of
the stands onto the court with these players.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
What do you think.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
He answer? Taking This is where I say I took
sports seriously. I think we all did at one point.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
But there's a limitation when you're taking it serious and
you're just taking it too far. You can be serious
and you want to be in tune with your kids career.
You want to be successful, and you just want to
see him.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Be able to live out dreams that they've been thinking
about since they were a young kids, since they first
started falling in love with sports. You always want that form.
But when you start going on you're fighting over you know,
twelve and under hockey leagues or basketball leagues. Like that's
a little too far. Like none of them professional basketball players,
none of them. You don't know what their potential may be.
You don't know what's gonna happen in life. There's there's
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life changing events that can happen before that that you
don't know, that could hit you at any moment in time.
And you're over here worried about fighting in a twelve
and under game that they're gonna get a little participation trophy,
the'll forget about in like two weeks. I just don't.
It's just it's unnecessary, it's it's it's childish, even at
the professional level. I don't say professional sports have a
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little bit more leeway with it. And I'm not being biased.
It's just, you know, it's a little bit more, a
little bit more maturity. Obviously, it's a big humong as
skill gap between little kids and professional players. Hotly, I
think professional players need to fight, fight more often, so
maybe it'll stop flopping all the time. It's not bacchollect.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I had no problem to Detroit skirmish.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
They didn't throw any punches, but at least they're trying
to show that they have a little gumption. But no,
I agree with the Anthony. It just parents need to
stay in the stands. I've seen it happening at basketball games.
It's going crazy, Scott. I don't know if you remember,
but I thought you're wrong with quite a while ago.
Anthony was not when to beat the football pro football
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players brother shot the coach got thirty seven years in
prison for shooting the youth football coach on the other
team got me in Lancaster, Texas. So, guys, we have
seen that this is escalating. They're showing it right now
on ABC. I'm looking at it and again that you
see the parents on them, and.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
This does it. Guys.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
If the parents can't show better behavior, period point blame,
then there's absolutely no way that anyone else can also.
And you got parents browing it. It wasn't on an
ice rink, guys. Parents brought a youth hockey event, but
it was more on a simulated ice. It was not
an ice but still you see everyone. I'm just watching
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it now.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Everyone.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Parents are fighting parents, kids are fighting kids. Scott, what
do we have to do to correct this.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And clear the gyms?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Probably the problem is that the parents take this more
serious than the kids that you have so many parents
who are trying to live through their kids who didn't
have maybe the career in athletics that they wanted, and
now they see an opportunity for their kids to be
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something that they couldn't be on whatever athletic field they're on.
So now they're putting all this emphasis on their kids,
doing all kinds of training, you know, all this stuff,
and then the kid goes out there and you know
he's not playing up the far. Now the parents are
mad at the kid. And you have a referee that's
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getting paid eight dollars a game to rep all day
and now, coach, I'll I'll give you the craziest thing.
When I was working with CP three, these referees were
in Las Vegas and the two referees one gym from
eight am to eight pm, same two reps all day
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m and we have the last game of the day
gets pushed back an hour because of overtime, so now
we're starting at nine instead of eight. One of the
referees leaves.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
So now we're.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I would have also, so so now we're obviously the
better team.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
The other team.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Their coach starts cursing at one of our kids in
a layup line. So one of our assistant coaches like, hey, like,
don't talk to our guys that. Now we have two
coaches going at it. The referee, one of the referees said,
the only referee there, says, coach, you go over there,
you go over there, right, and nobody's listening. So then
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the referee says, well, forget it. Then if you guys
want to fight, go ahead and fight. And he goes,
and he goes and sits down.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
That's just crazy. Put the world is going crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
That's the problem. Like you you have all these events
where the coordinators of the events don't do a good job.
They don't pay the referees, but they're supposed to be paid.
You have too many things going on, the parents, there's
so many factors that go into this, and now you
you have fights with parents. You have you I'm sure
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you've seen the videos of the parents fighting the referees, yes,
no question, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Like there there's so.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Many different things that take place in all these and
then you don't have security. Like there's so much going on.
I think you need to limit the events, which is
not going to happen. But then you know, if the
parents act up, kick them out and you know, have
the police ready and take them away. They're the only
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way you can do it. But there's so many parents
out there that don't know how to act, and it's
because they think their kid is the next.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Big thing out there, right, And yeah, that's not the factor.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
The key is this, guys.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
With athletics, it is to train your center daughter to
be able to handle and fight through adversity. Okay, And
I'm telling people that are listening facts. Anthony's on the phone.
He'll tell you. Anthony was playing on a very good
high school team in Greensboro, North Carolina. Page really good.
I had a chance to win a state championship, just
like Ballad. Both of them went to the final four,
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final eight. No, you went to the final game, didn't you, Anthony,
or semifinal in Greensboro.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
It was the final four to go.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Okay, here you go.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
So anyway, there was an issue during the season to
where one of the players and Anthony threw the ball
to another player who scored. One of the players thought
he should have thrown it to him. There was a
little altercation with Anthony and the player. So his teammate
guys teammate now, So that night Anthony came home. I
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told Anthony, homeboy, I don't care. You make sure kids
know you're not gonna bother them, but they're not going
to influence you. So I want to say the next
game or game after that, transparred again, and Anthony told
a kid, and the coach kind of got upset about it.
And then when he asked Anthony and he said, my
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dad told me to tell the kid. So then the
coach calls me that morning. You remember, Anthony, it was
probably five forty five six.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
In the morning.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I said, coach, without a doubt, do what you have
to do if you've got to suspend.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Anthony suspending. But I did tell my son to.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Tell that kid, No, you're not going to affect how
I play. You're gonna affect how you play. And that's fact.
Remember Anthey, remember that I said, So you can suspend,
you can suspend that you're the coach. I got no
problem with it. But my kid is going to learn
to stand up for himself. That's what this is about.
I didn't come out of stands. I didn't say anything
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to the coach. I didn't say anything to an official,
but I did. I applied pressure on my son to
know athletics is a competition. It's not your friend is
not the best guy.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
People to tell you.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Landon Corley calls in all the time playing, but he'll
tell you at Ballard, in practice, at games, I was
a butthole. I wasn't a nice guy. I don't know
where everybody got that. At Louisville, I didn't have any friends. Honestly,
I gotta get Lancaster, Gordon back On. I gotta get because,
oh guys, there was competition going on in the airports.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Who shoots too much?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Who missed too I used to tell them, guys, y'all
don't look like Denny Crumb. To me, it scud crazy,
but you crazy, I said, you just don't. Denny Crumb
will tell me if I'm not passing the ball to
the proper people. Guys, it's competition all this. Everybody's loving
each other. I hear it, and I'm being honest with you.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I hear that statement. I hear these coaches well.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Coach Is at Michigan State talked about this is the
most connected team I've ever had, or we're a family.
The very next day after they lost, guys, two people
hit the transfer portal. I'm like, oh, you were really connected?
Were your coaches?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
The guys?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
That fallacy that everybody loves everybody, I love to hear it,
but it's just not true. I've lived at my entire life,
coach is aligned to you. It's just not true. There's
competition at every level. Especially. I want to tell people this,
when you have kids that are just too lovey dovey,
too happy, too happy, go lucky when they lose. I'm
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not saying having bad behavior, not at all. You have
to know how to handle yourself, not at all. But guys,
when I lost in nineteen eighty two in the final four,
the press conference which they had, I was there with
coach Crumb, I wasn't happy in laughing when I lost
to a last second buzzer beater in Texas my junior
year and us Reid hits the sixty foot or truly
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I think the first real buzzer beater. There was a
press conference that after that game, and of course yes
it was myself, Ridey mccran and Derek. I wasn't happy
then either. I didn't say anything inappropriate. But I wasn't
a smile and happy camper. I just wasn't. So maybe
times have changed. But the bottom line is the parents
need to let their kids know, yes, be competitive, but
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the parents are not supposed to be competitive.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
The parents are supposed to.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Teach their sons and daughters that in a game of
sports is competition, and in the game of life, there's
competition and you have to sometimes you have to have
enough intests in the fortitude to look people in the
face and tell them no, or people will run over you.
So it's seven forty we're gonna get to Our second
break is Esports Radio. Scott and Anthony. Y'all got it. Shannon,
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you have a great vacation and you'll be gone next week.
I will be on tomorrow, Shannon from San Antonio. So Anthony,
I will be on, you'll be on, and Scott you'll
be somewhere.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Up to the beach.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I mean, y'all living a life. So this is Eve
Sports Radio seven forty one. It is April the third,
four numbers, five zero two, five seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I'll talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Welcome back to the sports radio. Anthony over here taking
over the hostome position. My dad's headed off to the
airport to San Antonio. But we can get through this
weather and have a smooth flight out there to the
Final four this weekend. I still got coach Scott with
me out here. But the big thing we got to
get into. We gotta talk about these final four matchups.
I know this is something that's on everybody's mind. I
know it's on Sports Better's mind like no other out
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there are playing these props. It's going to be a
close weekend men's and women's. But Coach bas want to
get your opinion of these matchups. The first one floor
in Auburn, who do you think you have winning this matchup?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Here?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Man, that's a that is a very tough, tough game
right there. I mean, you're you're going back to now
conference opponents who you know, you play each other during
the regular season, and it's gonna be a big time matchup.
And you know what, both teams have had some adversity
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throughout the NCAA tournament where they've had to you know,
fight their way through to get that win. But honestly,
like I like Auburn just because you know, you got
Bruce Perl who's been around for you know, a little
bit longer, and it just gives that coaching matchup I
think can really play the big part down the stretch
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of a game. And you know, yesterday when we were
talking with your dad, I said, you know, of all
these teams, like somebody has always stepped up and typically
you know, throughout the Cono four or the championship, you know,
one of these teams like somebody will go dead where
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all four teams at every stuff. And now it's gonna
be a big time matchup. And you know, I think
the big thing is, you know with Auburn is with Rooms,
how healthy he is, there'll be a big factor. If
he's back to gooes to one hundred percent, that could
be the determining factor in this game. Who do you
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like in that matchup?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
I still my intuition still wants to say Florida. I
just think there's size and versatility. I still think you
Di Room is a good player. Obviously, I think we'll
give Florida's big men a lot of problems. Something I
even talked about with my dad. I said, Florida does
have size and limble, but the only thing that worries
me about Florida is that they're big men, aren't very skilled.
And when I say very skilled on the defensive side,
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I think they're okay. You know, they protect the rim.
They're not exceptional shot blockers, but they're good. They're above average.
They're just not a presence offensively. Their offense is very
guard oriented. Most of the runs through Walter Clayton, a
lot of the runs through. Also see the two guard
and the three as well. And I don't know why
I'm going blank on their names, like I don't know
who they are, but I do. But that's what most
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of their offense runs through. And we seem a lot
of suple of games. Will Richard is obviously the second one.
I don't know why what's going blank on his name.
But as you've seen in the last game, even when
they were playing the other posts matchup that they had
going down to Maryland, I mean not to Maryland Texas Tech,
you can kind of see that when they weren't hitting shots,
the deficits started to grow drastically, obviously, anywhere from a
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ten to fourteen point lead that Texas Tech had at
one point, and you know, they kind of gave it
away to them. They got hot. They hit four out
of four threes in the last two and a half
minutes a gameplay. Walter Clayton did pull up threes. He's
going driven from the paint all the way, have some
three line hidden shots. So those are the type of
plays that most players don't make, even at that high
of a level, because the shooters aren't as good. You've
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got Conak Nipple, who's that dude who's a phenomenal shooter,
but he's a different kind of shooter. He's a spot
up shooter. Walter Clayton's a little bit off the driven.
I think that they can contain Jennie broom Arter can
outcome that game just because their guards are a little
bit better in my opinion, bigger size, more physicality. I
do like the Hoigh Pettiford. I like the freshmen from Auburn.
I think he gives them a lot of skill and
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a lot of versatility off the bench. Just the Auburn guards,
I'm not too fond on the size. I think the
size is playing a factor for a lot of small
guards going deeper in the tournament. We saw it with
the Kyle Ziggler obviously from Tennessee played that he struggled
a lot even against Houston's guard, and Houston's one of
the smaller teams in the Final four, if not the
smallest team outside of the center at six to ten.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
L J.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Pryor and the rest of them, the Manuel Sharp are
all about six four and under. So if you say,
even if one of these teams wins this game between
Florida and Auburn and they have to go on to
play Houston, who's probably one of the best defensive teams
in the country, or you go to Duke, who is
i'd say just about equal with a lot more size versatility,
it makes it difficult for a lot of these teams.
But I'm still gonna stick with Florida in this one.
(36:15):
The Duke in Houston game is another big one we're
going into. But I know we're at seven forty nine
and we got to get one more break in. My
producer told me, so he doesn't yell at me and
get mad, we're gonna take our last break when we
come back. We're to get into the Duke and Houston
matchup before we end off this show. The sports radio
phone numbers five oh two, five seven, seventy nine hundred.
(36:36):
Welcome back to EVE Sports Radio. This is Anthony here,
hosted with coach Scott Bowways Phone numbers five oh two,
five seven one, seventy nine hundred. Getting back into these
final four matchups that we got to talk about on
the men's side, Duke in Houston, which I think is
one of the one of the biggest talks. Obviously Florida
and Auburn is a huge one. Another SEC matchup could
have been probably one of the best set matchups that
(36:58):
we've had all year. It's one of the two teams
that haven't seen each other all year. Very good on
the defensive end, but very different play styles. Houston's a
little bit a little bit slower paces, more of a
half court offense. Duke is much go up tempo, get
up and down the floor type of style. How do
you think Coach Sampson and the Houston Cougars will be
able to keep up against the Duke Blue Doubles. I
(37:18):
want to know this because I'm a huge Duke fan,
and I think j already know that Duke's my squad.
But you know, Houston does post a lot of concerns
with their defensive versatility, being able to switch on a lot,
their philosophy and how they play hard. It it's something
that it does make me nervous as a Duke fan,
and I just want to get your opinion on it
as a coach who coached at the college level. How
(37:39):
do you think this matchup goes down? Coach B might
be having some technical problems with that. That's all right,
happens to us sometimes. Anyways, you can get my opinion
on it, because my opinion for all those guys out
there that hate because I'm yep, I can hear you
(38:00):
now you there, you might just cut out on a
four second, so.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Uh, yep. It's a tough It's gonna be a tough
defensive matchup for both teams because Duke is one of
the top defensive teams in the country as well as
offensively because you know their lengths and they can switch everything.
So it's going to be a great matchup defensively. But
I think it just like you, I think Duke's gonna
(38:27):
pull it out. They just have so much talent offensively
and they can also play in the half court set
and they've got you know, I don't think they're scared
of being physical you know, with Flag and Canipple and
all their players, they're not afraid of that physicality. So
I think down the stretch, you know, and they've got
(38:47):
some big, big time playmakers outside of their big gu
their big name players from from Flag and Canipple and Proctor,
you know, all their guys can make plays and knocked
out the open shot when they need it. So I'm
gonna give the edge to Duke on this one.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Yeah, I might have to agree with you on there.
And just even if I'm not even being biased towards
my team, I'd still pick Duke in this matchup. I
just think the size and versatility is gonna play a
lot of problems. Duke has a lot of X factors
that can either stretch his game out a ton or
it could still be a close game in a W
I think if Proctor goes out there and hit shots
and plays like how he's played over the last span,
if I say thirty to thirty five days, Duke could
(39:28):
go out there and win by double digits easily in
my opinion. But I will say one thing. If Duke
does come out there and gets first in the mouth
and starts playing soft, which they haven't done all year,
and I hope they don't do it now and change
up on me. Houston can cause problems, and Houston does
hit tough shots at crucial moments. Even their last game
when they played, when those Michigan State was closing the
(39:49):
gap on him, they did hit a lot of shots
to keep that gap far enough spread to where they
couldn't get that momentum to make a run back. They
cut it down to ten with about four and a
half minutes ago. Emanuel Sard comes down transition, hits the three,
spreads it out the thirteen under the four minute timeout.
That is a huge difference. Shots like that can change
a game more than you realize. If everyone thinks always
(40:10):
throughout the entire game, if we were to go down
there to miss that shot in the Michigan State, to
go down there to score cut it to seven under
the media timeout, there's a lot more pression and a
lot more attension going into those last shots, and as
a player, you feel a different level on top of
your shoulders when it's a thirteen point lead rather than
a seven point lead. You come down here and missed
again and they close that gap to five or four points,
(40:33):
but this is Sports Radio. We'll be checking in with
you tomorrow. Coach. We appreciate you stepping in helping us
today while my dad's out here traveling as always, we'll
be back tomorrow morning. My dad should be back with us.
We'll have mister Williams, mister Ring you on with us
as well. This is E Sports Raiders. We want to
call in tomorrow talk more about the predictions in the
ESPN bracket phone numbers five oh two, five seventy nine hundred,
(40:53):
and everyone'll be safe and have a great thing.
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