2025-07-10 EAVES

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to Eves Sports Radio phone numbers five oh two,
five seven one, seventy nine hundred. Yes, it is myself
actually the real superstar of this show. You know, I
don't like to brag about it too much, but well
I like to toot my own hoom from time to time.
We'll be Anthony Eves and mister Ring You himself hosting
today this morning, mister Eves himself. My father will be

(00:21):
traveling out to Las Vegas for the NBA Summer League.
So you know he's using his PTO per usual every
other week now. He went to Panama two weeks ago,
He's going to Vegas now. He's doing everything but stay
home at this point. But I'm glad he's enjoying uh
pre retirement. For those who know him, please call him
and tell him at some point he needs to retire,
because I don't think he'll ever quit. Williams, I think

(00:45):
you know better than all of us that he's never
gonna stop working.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, that's still they's still paying money at me. It's
not only just cash slowing. He's gonna work. He likes
the color green for some reason. He played fourteen was
red and black, but he showed love the color greed.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I don't even know why they're paying him anymore for
him at the point, he is the ultimate supervisor I've
ever seen it. He's the only person I know at
home has no idea what's going on, but still has
to supervise it somewhere for him.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's you've got to understand. Butcher Bard had hide him
and he made butch st work. So you know he's
been He's been manipulating this game for a long time. Brother,
This is not something new that he's doing. Okay, so
he's been. He's been thinking he's been the boss when
he wasn't a boss. The only place that he's not
the boss is at your house and Miss Sheila Russey show.

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And I don't know how he takes it.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh my god, he's a definition of the most interesting
man in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yes hemercials. Oh yeah, he definitely is. I'll tell that
to everybody. You know me. We don't meet many Jerry's.
You never know where he's coming from. But he's gonna
be too to it.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
But I'm glad to have you all this morning. You know,
we get to host our own show today, so we
get to spice it up and mix it up.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
A little bit.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
We do want to get into obviously a couple of
big tidbits. Obviously, college football is around the corner. I
know everyone is super excited for that. Tvt is coming
up towards the middle and end of the month of July,
so I'm not people are excited to go in that
getting their tickets. Obviously, everyone wants to see the vill
be successful. But you know, we fell short the last
couple of years. But I think I think we're making

(02:34):
progress to be getting new players on the roster. The
only thing I wanted to talk about is how the
chemistry is gonna work with this roster because Louisville recruits
a lot of players former NBA players, overseas players. The
hardest thing, I think is having that chemistry at level
because if if you watched it over the last couple
of years, it's not necessarily the team that has the
most field players that wins every time. It's the team

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that have been playing together the longest. And that's kind
of how TV works. It's like playing on It's like
playing on a pickup basketball team with all your buddies,
you got a better chance of beating a team full
of good players. Then you play with the friends because
you know all your tendency is how you play. When
they like to backdoor cut, it simplifies the game to
where your mind is just racing a mile a minute

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in a high intense game. And so I hope they'll
can get together because you know, obviously we still have
our big rivalry Kentucky down the street, which I know
we don't care about around here. We're not worry about
the Kentucky teams. But they do got some good players
on there. And it's funny that I even talked about
the Kentucky players. I was looking at a post I

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saw and it was talking about the two thousand and
nine two Kentucky team had five first round NBA picks.
But the thing is, none of these players won a
college championship. I don't think any of these players have
won an NBA championship either. They had, they had John
Wall who's the number one overall pick, the Markan's cousins

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at number five, Patrick Peterson at the number fourteen pick,
Eric Bloodsoe at eighteen, and then Daniel Orton at the
number twenty nine picks. If you all can't if Kentucky fans.
You can't say you don't like coach cal regardless if
you want or not. You can't sit there and tell
the guy didn't have good entertainment and good players on
Matt roster and on previous teams to still put buds

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in the seas in Kentucky. It's just hard to disagree with.
But I'm still sometimes astonished that, you know, he doesn't
have as many championships as he does, But that always
comes behind the chemistry aspect.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
But I know we get you know, and now one
thing I like to classify about that. You got to
understand that all of the good chemistry you got to
play together most of the games you name, the players
your name were only there for one year to play
with each other. You know, thirty five games most of
the time does not put together you a championship like that.
But he brought the best challenge that you would have
the number one dat shows because that's what people were

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riding out there in the number one. Who's gonna be
how you gonna be one? And done one and done
well one and done place to catch up with you
because you don't get to build the chemistry all the
things you just said with one and down players, you're
not able to do those kinds of things. You need
to be played multiple years to build your chemistry up
and then win championships. That's what I think anyway, No.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
I definitely agree to and that's and that's what I
don't not. You know, everybody hates me because I'm a
Duke fan, but Duke is They've been one of the
meccas outside of Kentucky for one.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
And dones over the last no doubt, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Into fifteen years, and it's hard to win with all freshmen,
especially in time now between Nil's, the COVID years whe
they're giving extended years red shirts. You're playing in seventh
and six years seniors, and just makes it difficult to
overcome certain humps and challenges when someoney has that experience
over you. But I'm glad I say I'm glad. I
hate to say it, But at the same time, I

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am glad that the older guys are kind of kind
of washing their way out of college basketball because you're
kind of messing it up for a lot of young guys.
And I hate to say it, like if I was
coming out of high school now, the same body side
that I had at Ballard High School and skill set
what I think I'd still be a Division one player, yes,
but it'd be a lot harder than what it was
when I went, because is when I went, it was
still eighteen nineteen year olds. I came in with three

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or four other freshmen that we were true freshmen straight
out of high school. We didn't have developed bodies and
skills like that. Now, it almost makes it if you
want to play at that higher level or even go
on to the professional level, you have to be developed
so early. And that's something that we talked about even
a few shows go that NBA scouts are looking at
peak development in players senior year in high school rather

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than in college, and it's taken away draft stock from
a lot of players. I think they have potential to
be great, And I hate to say it, because you
can't judge somebody's potential and upside of what they're going
to be in a high school you know, I understand
a lot of these guys go to prep schools and
go to private schools, and they travel all across the country.

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But at the same time, high school competition isn't the
same as when you get to college. Past most it's
not even course, you know.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
And I think one of the things with one in
the and I really think it really hurt the NBA
more than it did the college game. You know what
I mean. I think that a lot of eighteen and
nineteen years old are not mature enough for the game.
They're not ready to make the road trips. They're not
really mature enough to take all the criticisms they get.
You know, my nephew, Derek Asis, he works for the NBA. Now,

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they got a special program where they have people that
go talk to these young men to get their mental
and emotional states right because a lot of young players
in the league they get all out of whack because
of what they read on social media. There's a lot
of variables that people don't understand when you draft eighteen
years old and try to make them grown men, that
there's some veriables that they're not mature enough and ready
to accept. And so the NBA has had to go

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to the route where you know, they have mental health
people to be around these young men to prepare for
this situation. And another thing you talked about the COVID this,
Now think about this and you a senior getting ready
to be a senior. You don't had an outstanding junior
year now covid here, so you can't play your senior year.
Do you want that year back or do you have
to say, well, my career is over and I'm going

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to leave college.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
No, I would year back. That's why I'm not blaming
the players at all for the situation.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Well I'm not blaming either, but I'm saying I understand
why we have the older players. Now. You know, we've
been on fair for us, and I gave those kids
that extra year for them to be prepared to play
out their senior year because that that gives them that opportunity,
and a lot of them don't like a good example
Rayne Smith and them if they've been seenor they wouldn't
have got a chance to play their senior year and
we wouldn't have got to see how good a game

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that they had, and they wouldn't be in the camp
right today. So I think that giving them a back
back is good. But you know, they only did for
one year, and it was only going to be a
two year cycle, so it weren't gonna be like a
twenty year cycle or a ten year cycle. It's only
been about two or three year cycle for these players
to do that, in which they deserve to have that
to happen to them.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
I sighted anyway they do, and I definitely don't disagree.
It's just some of those players I'm seeing on them
that's seventy year in college basketball. I understand that COVID
year does extend a year where you get that season back,
and I agree on that, but after seven years in
college basketball, there has to be a coup for you
can't be playing college basketball at twenty seven years old.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
But if you were real shared your sophomore year and
you still got do you want your year back? And
you got to go? You know, you got to understand
now if you got injured, and mostly players were injured,
the reason that they got that extra year they got
they got the seven years, you know, And again the
people who put the product on the floor, that's the product,
because that's what the NCAA voted for us. So they

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should have made that product even more tighter if it
was that bigger thing. I think.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
I mean so, I think more so even just I'm
looking at a personal aspect, like it's one of those
things as a player liked do what I want my
college basketball career, of course, But at the same time,
even looking at it now I'm twenty eight, what I
want to be playing college basketball twenty seven, I'm not
one hundred percent sure. Like I hate to say, if
my body hurts from now at twenty eight, I I
can go through a thirty five to forty game season

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of high intensity basketball right now.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
At twenty seven years old, yessue could if they to
put you in that league, that says n b A,
you wouldn't have thought about being twenty eight years old.
You know, when that's your dream and you know we
had that passion, and when that's your dream, it's a
different story. Then you know you're just doing it for
the fun of it. But when that's your passion, you
lived all your life to be able to hear your
name called or get a chance to get your name called.

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I mean, I've been in the green room and watch
what it does to players and players families and lives.
That is a heck of an honor and that's a
heck of a change in your life. So I take
every player wants that chance so one time, just to
get because we all dream of it all the way
up until we don't play no more, and then that's
we don't play no more. It's a different world, but
we play. We want every chance to put that NBA

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behind our name.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
They would have got me without the NBA, they could.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Have got me. We never even heard about the NIL
and we never heard about it all over what I
think I would stay for something with it? Some of
the money. These boys games. You have to throw me out.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
One hundred percent, but I'm gonna go ahead and get
to our first break. The time is seven sixteenth. Phone
numbers five oh two, five seventy nine hundred. You will
be right back after the break. You know. The time
is seven twenty this number this morning, apologize, phone numbers
five oh two, five seven one seventy nine hundred. I'm
glad we're getting the topics of Nils and everything. But

(11:24):
somebody do want to get into that's super important this
weekend that I didn't get to touch on yesterday, which
it almost sipped over my nine is the It's th
Championship that's going on this weekend, formerly known as the
Barbersol Championship, but it is a PG Tour alternative alternate
event taking place at Louisville Kentucky at the Hirstborn Country
Club's gonna be from this Thursday, July tenth to Sunday
just til at thirteenth. This is a great event we're having.

(11:48):
It's a smaller tournament. It's not as big as a
PGA championship we had at val Holla last year, But
you know what, having a golf tournament Louisville alone is
still exciting and it's still nice to have because I
feel like it's so rare here and I see that
the event that did happen with Scotti Scheffler, I don't
know if we're ever gonna have a PGA event here again,
So you gotta taking consideration the small ones. It's nothing.
I like watching smaller guys plays, not the big names

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more so. They're better than the average golfer by far,
but they still have their faults like an average golfer,
and so the professionals. But I feel like it's just
a little bit more normal on the lower tours. It
makes me not feel as bad, but I play terrible.
I'm like everybody does. They slices went into the trees too,
you know, because that's where we watch professionals play. Still
hit it into the trees. They got the professional finders

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out there find their balls and they punch out from
on the trees, they chip on, they still get a
par That would never happen to me. I promise you
my ball would behind a tree and I'd hit the
one branch out of a gap window the size of
their playing and it somehow happens every time. And you know,
golf is so frustrating. I talked about yesterday, golf is
the only spour mentally that'll make you want to sell

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your clubs and also buy a new five dollars driver
within the same like eight hours span. Like that has
went through my mind before as a golf player. I
don't know if that's a good thing or bad. And
I was like, I was like, I was like, I
need to quit playing golf. Two hours later, I'm on YouTube,
I'm my home. I knew that new Paradigm driver doesn't
look too bad. You know, maybe that can help slice

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in some case. It is the clubs that at this point,
I think it's just me. At this point, they can
just a slight average. I live with that.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
And I tried to tell you and your dad all
the time, join me go out to putt putt. I
got a little plastic head on my bald head. I
knock it through the line's mouths to hit my problem's
mouth man forty five minutes. I'm out of there. Most
of the time, I'm pretty successful. I don't think I've
ever been too frustrated. I never lose the balls, and

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if I do any it's their balls, and I don't
worry about it. I understand what I'm saying. If the
arm breaks. If the arm breaks, I just take a
little plastic head and still ride back up to him
and say, you'll need another golf club and I leave.
I've never looked at Amazon for new clubs. And you
got to come and join me with the peaceful game.
I mean it's a lot better, Marcarine. Okay, the grass

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is not real.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
I don't know if I can do it. I got
I got too much competitive fire.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
I played basketball from time to time, but it's not
the tenth level now, it's more casual. I don't in
men's leagues, and.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Right right, I'm gonna tell you the truth though, and
the reason I don't play golf is because I watched
all you guys and how crazy you go and I
know how comparedive I am. I'll be out there overnight
trying to get good. So I said, man, once I
quit playing basketball, I said, I got to quit because
you compared to the natures. Any boy, that fire just burned.

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So I ride my basketble and get all my frustrations out.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
That's fair, and I ride golf. Is I feel like
when everyone quits, usually playing basketball, usually get into something else, right, right,
a great altern but it's nice because everyone kind of
starts off at the same point, so it's like restarting
your career. Who can better at golf now? Which I
love it. So I'm like, you know what, this gives
everyone a fair chance and it can be like you're

(15:12):
so much better than me even playing golf. I've been
getting lessons when I was younger, but I never played
like full time like me my lessons as a kid,
I played like two three times a year. I'm like,
it helps a little bit, but it's not like the
biggest head start in the world when it comes to golf,
and it's still pretty pretty pretty minimal.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
But well, my joy is my joy is looking at
going in. My joy is going to the golf course
and listening to you guys do all that talking about
how great you are. That's my thrill about golf now,
listening to the golfers talk about their game and how
they're going to improve. And uh, but y'all got I'll
say one thing. You are totally dedicated to what you're doing.

(15:48):
You know what I mean. You would thank y'all on
the PGA circuit. You know, you got the pretty outfits,
you got the shoes. Y'all. Guys come prepared and talk
about your strokes and stuff, and I'm like, but they're
not good. But y'all, I'll give it a good hand on. Man,
I'll give you credit. Y'all do y'all best. But you're
pretty good, bro, I'm gonna give you credit though. I mean,
you're Frankie really good. But that's a yeah. But there's

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another age that I won't give no credit. But the
two brothers y'all. Yeah, yeah, I don't know how good
you are, but you look good when you're hitting the ball.
I'll say that for you. I mean, your style looks good.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
I'll take that. I'll take that. Okay, okay, But getting
into some of these course details like Hurstport Country Club,
I know it's a lot of people have played it,
some people haven't played it. So this is a parse seventy.
It plays about seven thousand and fifty six yards. It's
got small greens, numerous bunkers, and water haveage as a
favoring precise play, so it's for more doubt in plays,

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not for the long balls. He just necessarily. But the
purse for this one, the person points power is played
out for this is to do it. It's a four million
dollars total purse, which is still big for an event
like this, and the winner earned three hundred FedEx Cup points.
You don't know how FedEx Cup points. It's pretty much
almost your overall score of how you kind of get
paid out at the end of the year, more so
like a bonus. Obviously, they had the FedEx Cup Championship

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on the PGA Tour event, which is your highest paid
event that they have at the end of the year.
It's almost like pretty much their championship after the end
of the playoffs run. It is a pre so they
did have two pre qualifiers that they played in for
those that were trying to get in this. The qualifier
past they played Thursday, July third at Never Meet, which
is out in Prospect, not far from me. It was
the low it was a low forty score or plus

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ties and moves on. And then they had a Monday
qualifier July seventh at the University of Louisville Golf Club
out in Simpsonville by the Outlet Mall. That was the
low four advance to the main field. So those are
the two qualifying events that they had before this to
get on and play at Hurstboro Country Club in the
ISCO Championship. So I know my brother and my brother
and Will and the and their two wives are going

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out there watching the day, so they're all excited. I
told him, you gotta grab me a hat or something
because I'll be at work, so you better grabbed me
a hat. I'm gonna benna be upset because you're. No.
He's the best. But the craziest weather alone, it won't
from when I look at the weather on Sunday's supposed
to be raining every day toward it has It's barely

(18:05):
rain to drop in four days. It's that alone threw
me off because I swear I was like, I was like,
I'm not gonna be able to go outside. This week
is going to be raining. The weather is completely pushed
all the way back. It's not supposed to rain until
I think Sunday maybe, or maybe a tiny bit on Saturday.
But you know, I'm not hating the sunshine. I'm loving it.

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I know it's hot outside. It's ninety five one hundred
degrees every day, and I sit there and sometimes I
can plane. I'm like, I'm sweating at work and getting drenched.
But I say this now until February comes around and
it's negative five degrees and I'm like, where's the sun at?
So I'm taking this while I don't care. I like you.
I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
I'm with you, brother. I got a question for you, though,
And if we haven't touched this, I just want to
hit you just real quick. Did your dad's airplane make
it out the way? Actually still at the airport?

Speaker 1 (18:57):
You know what. I actually try to call him this morning,
about about an hour ago, and it wouldn't break the voicemail.
So that's either it's either a good sign or a
bad sign.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
He's broken, star.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Broke, or he's in the air right now.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
He did have any so he told me that flight.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Gets in the flight went well. If it didn't go
well with me, I would I would have been getting
a phone called him and my mom, one of us
would be taking him up from SDR.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
And his linguists would have been bad, wouldn't it. I
mean we would not know what word he was saying
that what we could use on the radio show if
he didn't make the flight.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
But no, you know he has bad trouble experience. If
his flight were got delayed, he probably would have called
in by now. That's just how he worked. That's too
he had to jump in and throw his two cents
in here, and that's perfectly fine.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
And talking about the airlines.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
We're gonna go ahead and get to our next break
in just a second. But when we come back, I
do want to get more into these NBA contracts. These
max deals are being signed by a lot of teams,
good teams and bad and kind of how it's gonna
play for to the future of the NBA and the
market of the NBA in the US not overseas. So
time is seven twenty nine phone numbers five oh two, five, seven, one,
seventy nine hundred. Will be right back after the break.

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Welcome back to EU Sports Radhill. Time is seven thirty
three phone numbers five oh two five seven one seventy
nine hundred. I'm glad I got you back because you
know it's something I got to get into and my dad.
We've discussed it before, even with you, mister Williams, talking
about these contracts started being paid out from some of
these teams, these Supermax deals, and pretty much we almost

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feel like in a sense players are getting money that
I'm glad they're getting paid, but that's like some players
are just getting paid for no reason. Obviously, some of
the big contract signings that we've had over the last
week SGA's five year two hundred and eighty five million,
and also shed home Grins four year two hundred and
fifty million, like his his five year twohundred fifty eight million,
SGA's four year two hundred and eighty five million. I

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apologize on that huge contracts. And obviously in another Kentucky
great sign of fat contract last night to Devin Booker
signed a two year, one hundred and forty five million
dollars deal with the Feeding Suns, putting him at seventy
two point five million dollars per year. What would you
even do with that type of money, Miss Williams. That's
what I want to know, what would you do with

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seventy two million dollars?

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Oh, I make a lot. I make a lot of
people's lives a lot happier. I'd be a difference maker,
you know what I mean? Yeah, Like I said, I
just you know, but I always talk about it, and
I know Jerry talks about this. But you know, the
product is so they making that much money because the NBA,
you must make what fourteen percent more than the NBA's

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profit is to be able to give these young men
this kind of money. You know, you're looking at ten
You're looking at owners who are telling teams for billings
like ten to twelve billion dollars per teen. Think about
if you probably could play almost all these guys you
talking about with one b. If these owners are making
this kind aunt of money, why don't people think that

(22:02):
the players should reciprocate Because no owner players. We wouldn't
recognize our owner on the basketball court. I buy a
ticket to go see him play. The product should get
the rewards for making the product go. You know, now,
the game, I know you said we're talking about the
United States, but this has become an international game. The
world is binding. It is the owners are doubling up
that money. Why if you're making that kind of money

(22:24):
and I'm the one that's making that kind of money,
why should I be warwarded for what I do for you.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
It's very true, and I don't denied that claim at all,
but yeah, it's it's it's crazy, and you know, we're
finally seeing it more in college sports, for your athletes
are kind of getting paid that what they deserve because
college coaches have been making millions off the backs of players.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Isn't that true right in the NBA?

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah, for sure, in the big debate obviously in college
with players are getting paid by education, housing, school and board,
footspees taken care of, which I understood in a sense, yes,
but people still have to understand the sacrifice, the time invested,
things that you give up to earn that right.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
To like, oh, well you got the free school.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
We still did school and student work like normal students
on top of what we were trying to accomplish on
the court too. And it's and it's a difficult thing.
It's not easy. I thought there'd be a little bit
more compensation because you'd be surprised how much athletics supports
other things and other organizations at school, between activities, money
for traveling for different schools and organizations, even smaller organizations

(23:31):
in sports that don't even bring in money. It's more
outside than just yourself alone. Between football and basketball, the
two big money makers, even though necessarily given a lot
of schools sec it is it's football and a lot
of conferences is football. But at the same time, if
your school isn't successful, it does burn a lot of money.
And we've seen that before and money being given.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Out right, But you got, you got, Like you say,
if your school wins a national championship, how much that
generates the student body to come into the school and
how much that generates the money to come back to
the school. And you know, certain players like Zion Williams
going to Duke. You know you're Duke fan. When Duke
does well, the population goes on the campus, you know
what I mean. Every time you win the championship, the

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coach gets a new raise, you know what I mean,
So they have the money somewhat, you know what I mean.
So you know I'm with you. It was a fair
level playing field. But like I say, when owners at
teams that cost ten billion dollars and not talking about
that networks by theirself and their money is so asteromical.
Think about that, how much they'll make it and all
they do is tell other people what to do, and

(24:36):
they earned the money for them. So, you know, I
think you should be compensated for what you do for
your product or your business.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
No, I totally agree with that. It's it's a circle
that you know, it's been difficult for a lot of
people now understanding figure out where this money come from,
generated and how it should be even distributed. And at
the same point, obviously you go from an owner's owner's
base point to what the players are play. Is it
still gonna be ever even fifty to fifty? No, No,

(25:05):
it doesn't want that. Businesses don't work like that. NBA organizations,
even college even though NA it's tankically a nonprofit organization,
and I say that in quotation marks it is making
business in the world today, it's a billion dollar business,
if not bigger than.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
That, bigger than that, Yeah, you're way bigger than that.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
You know, it's not it's not a nonprofit. I hate
when the NCAA try to try to push that for
so long, even I was playing, They're a nonprofit trilogiztic organization. No,
it's not. It's not nonprofit.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Everything we don't want to pay taxes, doesn't nessa. It's
about let's don't pay taxes. Deal here here. That's that's why,
you know what I mean? But hey, that's what they do.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Say it's nonprofit. I need to get free tickets these
sports events because I'm paying out nonprofit. You go to
the NCAA Football Championship, is ten grand for a ticket?

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Hey? Oh yes, yes, you know that is true? You know,
and just think about what they make on the NCAA alone,
what they have about six games, seven games in seven
different places. Think about them and all of them, all
the championships in the big domes. And you know, like
you say, probably with five hundred dollars, the cheapest tickets

(26:21):
you can get there, Oh.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Five hundred dollars, your miles of wash from your car
on your phone. Yeah, but the way you can't even
see in those superdomes.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
And people want to be there. You can be up closer,
and it's so far away in the superdome. You know
what I mean? You know, I mean, you got it. Yeah,
but that's yes, it is. That's what people. I don't
like that experience and there I'll stay home, like you said,
and watch it on my TV for my five hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
You've been hanging out with my dad too much. Sometimes
you just got it. You gotta go one time to
see it for yourself. TV doesn't do it just this
all the time. In some cases it does. Some cases,
I'm like, I'm like, I wish I could be there
because I know how insane it is between the atmosphere.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, you know what I mean. I've been pretty blessed,
you know what I mean, between playing and what my
career is. It's taken to me a lot of those places.
So you know, it is true. It is a great
experience to be there, you know, I mean, especially the
closer you get. And I've been very blessed to be
real close up and personal. So it is an experience, man,
especially if your team is that you have a family

(27:31):
member that it's even more. Oh man, the thrill is unbelievable,
you know what I mean. So everybody, like I said,
I won't knock it. Everybody, at least get that experience
one time. If nothing, never to go to a regional
where you can probably be up closer and the tickets
are probably love bit cheap, but you will love it.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
And there's something Even yesterday when this was just when
Big twelve had this media day, coach Prime actually talking
about something ever in a similar boat and talking talking
about now, he said, all you got to do is
look at the college football playoffs and see what those
you spend. You understand, darnwill while they're in the playoffs, you.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Know about that.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
If he's not wrong, you know, and it's gonna you're
gonna see that trend going on for the next Honestly,
I don't know how long. It could be years, it
could be decades. The teams that you're gonna see in
the college football play at Georgia, Alabama, Texas or Ohio State.
All these teams are the highest spenders when it comes
to NIL and their value projected of the teams.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Well, you know, it's funny though, And what's really funny
is what NIL has really done. It has really exposed
college for how much money that was. You know, when
when they was calling the uh the money that you
get illegally back then, you know what I mean, how
much money had been spent with those big colleges and
they wasn't giving young people any money because they were

(28:45):
spending a lot of money when they called it cheating,
new cars, new houses, new rich watching. Now now you
think about those days, they're not even in comparison to
what these young men get with nil. And so it
lets us know how much money is really behind basketball.
And we're talking about maybe five or six years on
the show about paying the I mean, but see, they

(29:05):
wanted to be so greedy. They said, well, we're gonna
message up, we're not gonna set a regulation, cause they
could have set this up. And you know, being a
form of our player, if you got two thousand dollars
a month, you'd have been a static. Oh you know
what I mean, you would have been a steady. And
here the NCAA just let it go run wild, just
because they thought their feelings got hurt because people were

(29:26):
gonna tell them to give the ball players money. Now
that they have almost killed their own game by by
the way that money is being spent and thrown around,
and nobody knows what's going on and who's paying what,
and how you can even get a scholarship this thing.
Now you don't even have walk offs no more. And
because they can't afford to pay them.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
You're not wrong about that.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
And think how many great walk offs they have been
out there with me as walk you know what I mean. Yeah,
so you know they've taken away opportunity as well as
a lot of people are making mon but they're taking
away a lot of attorneys and a lot of joy
for other game, you know what I mean, Because now
people realize how much money is really out there and
how much ball players I make it. And you know,

(30:09):
look and gambling. Look what it's doing to the ball players.
Like I would tell you about the mental health of
Duck working in the NBA, working with through young ball
players and how much it effects it. How do you
think it affects these eighteen year olds and seventeen year
olds sometimes coming into college and they people bet they
life savings though you win the game. I've scored so
many points tonight and you don't do it, and they
come and just start harassing you. You know what I mean?

(30:32):
Here you are, young man, just have a love for
the game.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
That's a that's a boat. It puts in, It puts
in a lot of factors. It's it's like I understand
that the same side of it is just kind of
that you're kind of your own vendetta. You know, obviously, yes,
you're in you're in a you're in an area. Now
you're in the circle where you're getting paid the one
money you want to get paid, and you feel like
you were deserved. You know, you got college basketball players
making two three million dollar deals, same as in the

(30:57):
same as college football to where you feel like, now
you're getting paid. They treat you like a professional athlete,
even though you're not in a professional with them. You're
getting paid, you know, NFL balaries, minimums, NBA minimums, to
where they want you to go out there and perform
and be successful every night because they're dumping money into
you and the money under the investment. Ever, no matter

(31:18):
if it's a sock, if you're buying, if you're buying
a house and it was to buy a house and
it loses half its value in five you know.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
The only thing I say about that, And though, but
when you're coming out of high school at seventeen eighteen
years old, you were just having fun. You were the
kid that was the big big fish in the pine.
And now you walk onto this scene where you're not
prepared for that. You have to have some experience to
get you prepared to be able to accept the things
that you just said. You're sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old.

(31:47):
You're not really prepared to take on all the nabligation,
your gambling debts, how you losing money on me? And
I'm a professional. You got to learn how to be
a professional. There's no player that walks into the NBA
is prepared to be a professional. When they walker, they
have a the older player that rest his arms around him,
he pays attention to whatevery bad doing, and it takes
them a season or two to get prepared for that.
You know, walking on the scene and here's the mother

(32:08):
calling you up talking about you lost my house money
and you just turned seven. You're just gonna turn eighteen
in another three months. You don't understand what he's talking about.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Don't. But you can't let stuff like that affect.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
You because it come out now admits Come on, man,
it doesn't. It has thousands of people calling with it's not.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
It's not direct at you. You know, if you lose
a game or if you have a bad shooting, you
know that as a player, it happens. You can be
the best shoot in the world. You can go out
there and shoot over ten.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
I understand what you're saying. I'm talking about the best
that people make against you. They're even doing commercials about
that nam but that they're talking about. Don't don't blame
the college file player for your faults. And that's how
much is happening.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
You know, it's the sane. You know, if people are
mad at you and hate all, that means you're doing
something right sometimes and even if you have a bad
night in basketball, that means you're still doing something right
where somebody feels like they have enough money to invest in.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
I agree. I agree with all what you're saying. But
my fault I may be saying incorrectly, But when I'm saying,
it's the mental aspects that puts on a young man
that's only that young, so I have to live up
to those expectations. When last year he was just hanging
out with his boys, going to the mall, going to
the movies and stuff. And now you come on the scene,
what people blaming you for losing their house love Sometimes
that's why I say, that's why they have that in

(33:16):
place in the NBA to proparties, young boy that social
media can kill some people, and you know they call
it brilliant. You know what I mean? That some people've
had committed suicide by being bullied on the phone. So
it's more devastating that people really think it is. When
you're getting called every day and getting called out every
day and people are threatening you on your phone and stuff,
it's more devastating than a lot of people really believe.

(33:36):
It is mentally challenging. Let me say that it is.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
It is a mental challenge, and only go ahead and
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(34:03):
five seven, one seventy nine hundreds in here in the show. Yeah, yes, sir,
yes sir, I'm listening all right.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
What I wanted to say. I agree with what you
said about the you know, the older players being prepared
do you think that the NCAA college is should set
some up prepare these young boys when they come in
too for this new you know, people gambling and being
harassed and stuff like that. Do you think that they
should maybe set up a program to to prepare them
to what's going to happen and for doing their career
here at the school, especially as a young player.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
One hundred percent, though, I think that's something that needs
to be set up in high school, even though just college.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
That's what I was thinking, right, That's what I would think, Okay, cool.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
And there's a lot of things, and there's certain states
that do implement that, and they do put in certain
classes that can help you with psychological things, and they
do for spot right matter. Even on the financial side
handling their money when they do get larger on sums
and nil deals. There are states that go through financial classes.
Kentucky is not one of those states, which is I'm
kind of slacking Kentucky on the wrist a little bit
because you know, I was in high scho I would

(35:00):
have been loved to be offered financial classes learning how
to even just do taxes. Looking at four to one
k's retirement, there's a little small things that don't seem
important when you're fifteen, sixteen years old, but play a
huge factor not even five ten years down the road
that is obviously three years. Yeah, how your future is
gonna look out, and how you're gonna handle your money

(35:21):
and manessings and touching for these these you know, these
college athletes, even on the women's side now because they're
starting to get paid a little bit too, that are
coming out of high school that are eighteen nineteen years old,
and they're like, hey, here's a two point two million
dollar check because you're a top five recruit in the world.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
So where you're not.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
I went from I went from driving my little, my
little beat up twenty three hundred for and now you're
driving a Rolls Royce. Drive better your parents money.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Can I say this? I know last weekend, you know
the legendary one of the oldest outdoor time that's going
out in the UH in the nation. The little deut
boat Man had an incident the other day where some
young man who we don't know it's a young man,
I female, but they stole a car, came down to
the belt bowt they did the Cornell basketball court. It

(36:08):
was beautifully decorated, and it just totally destroyed the court.
And I hate that to happen to the Dirt Boat
because it's a great program and they've taken it a
long way. Mister Ray Vaughn Churchill, mister Cornell Bradley, they've
taken it a long way, and other so let me
leave anyone else out and others. They've done a great
job and fantastic joye. But I hate that one individual
has come down and kind of marred the court. But

(36:29):
he's not gonna mar the Dirt Boat. The Dirt Boat
will continue. It's gonna be stronger and they're gonna work
harder to make it even better. And for the individual
who tore up the court, all you did was just
have fun for a moment because they have cameras and
you will be going to jail pretty soon. And I
wanted to get that out.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
And I throw that well, so I told people posted
about it on social media. It's just one of those
things that I don't know your motive behind that, and
I don't know why you do it.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Well, you show the car and the.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Dirt Bowl is not just an outdoor event, It's it's
more of a social organization type of thing. Now, it's
a deal that will go on regardless if it's held outside.
They hosted inside of different gyms and facilities, just to
have the people in the community come together watching basketball,
local players that used to love washing high school and
even on the college level. So you ruining a court
isn't gonna ruin behind it. So that's just, you know,

(37:22):
certain things is just I wish people stop things through
a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
And what people don't understand only Rutgers has been going
on longer than the Louisville the boat. We're the second
biggest stud boat uh in the country. So it's a
legendary thing. And you know, one little Sepper act will
not stop us. And we're gonna grow and be strong.
And guys, y'all keep doing what you're doing down there,
and you're doing a great job one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Mister Wims, Are you going? Are you going to the
TVT games?

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir. I go every here. I tried
to whe the last two years it went you going.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
I've always had to work when the game is going on.
Are the games held this week? Are they hold on
a weekend or they during the weekday because I.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Know, well, they're gonna have a weekend and they're gonna
go through the week two, you know what I mean,
So you might get to come.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Oh so I get my head in there because I
haven't been doing I haven't been to a TV.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Man. That Kentucky Louisville game last year, you would have
thought it was a Kentucky Louisville college game right there.
You're talking about an atmosphere. It was Rockers. The players
were playing, they got ugly out. It was everything you
could want. It was everything you could want.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
I washed it on TV.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
I was hype.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
I was. I was more hype Washington TVT game than
I was Washington College basketball game. I was like, I
don't know, God, they were bad.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
But oh man, but they bought it. You had a
little little little bumping and shoving and name calling, and
the crowd was I mean, but the crowd was what
made it. I mean the crowd. They were cheering, I mean,
and they got there early. The players got the early,
you know, like you're talking about your bones or so.
Some of them old catch got to forgot about the
adding and did some dust to I know, they shouldn't

(39:00):
look to you and they probably felt to that to
the game, but and both teams wanted to win. Nobody
laid down. You know what I'm saying, You got your
money's worth. And I think if it comes back up
again this year, it's gonna be the same thing. And
the other teams wanted to come in here and beat
the Lois teams because I heard the players say, let's
break this up. Man, you know we're gonna let them play.
So you know, the opponents didn't just want to come

(39:21):
here and let it beat a Lois Kentucky game. They
wanted to be step in and knock some teams out.
So you know, the players are the guys are giving
their best. Let's say that. You know, everyone who's participated,
they are giving their best at this stage of the game.
And so it should be great. And I look forward
to it again, and I think us for what he's
doing for the city, and you know it should be exciting.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
A chance I was about to make full the TV
the tvt is do it up like how they do
the high school state championship. They putting the Louisville Aken
team against each other in the second round. Oh yeah,
you need for the other side brackets.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Okay, I know that's ship, but.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
I want to Steel playing the championship. I don't want
to see and play in the first or second round.
It's exciting as.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
That would be, but the key to it is, and
you are so right, but if they would put that,
like I'm telling you the game that I saw when
you play them in the championship game, the buildings almost
sold out. I mean, I know they wouldn't sell feed
them all out, but I know you get about good
ten thousand. I mean, but the crowd is unbelievable. You
got the old fans, you got the fans of the

(40:23):
former players come, you got the fans of the current
players playing. And it is a I mean, it's just
a great environment. I mean, you know, you can't say
enough about it. But like you say, but that game
should be the championship game. If they ever meet, they
should only meet a championship time. And I can't even
imagine what it would be like.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
No. I remember because even in the meeting when they
did meet up and play, it was like one of
the highest attended tvts.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yes sir, ever, yes sir, it was full. I mean
it was it was a night. It was crowd out
on both sides, and everybody came in their color too.
It was blue and red. You can believe that, you
know what I mean. And they started chanting early, and
they chanting to the ended, you know what I mean.
And uh, it was really a lot of fun. I
really did enjoy a couch, you know.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Yeah, I know. I'm pretty sure I saw you one
like a U of L bomber jacket courts I taking pictures,
but I could have been wrong.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Well, you know, you know, being alumni, I can't do that. Man. Man,
I'm not like your dad. I don't jump both fences,
you know what I mean. I got paperwork that allows
me to do that, but you didn't see me that
like that. Okay, don't get me confused.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
The documentation. I gotta see the paperwork. I gotta verify it,
make sure it's not forced.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Okay, Hey, I would have did that if I could,
but you know now, they gave it to me, you
know what I mean. That's why I can talk about
them like I do. I invested money, fair enough, fair enough.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
But we're going go ahead and wrap this show up today.
I appreciate everyone that listen in, he said, getting the
work I have my dad back on with mister Williams,
probably in all of us tomorrow for our normal Friday shenanigans.
Is the sports radio Talk to you tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Bye bye,