2025-08-21 EAVES

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back to Eve's Sports Radio. August twenty first, twenty
twenty five. Yes, it is Thursday, one day away from Friday.
My phone number is five zero two, five seventy nine hundred.
Of course it's this Sports Talk seven ninety KRD. We've
got Shannon the dude behind the glass. Of course, we've

(00:21):
got the one and only the greatest assistant coach ever
in the NCAA history, Scott Bulage on the other line,
how'd you like that, Scott? I started the shot.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I loved it one. I knew it was a lot
because my salary did not reflect that.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
I started the show the livest This guy just suppants
to say, excuse me. He's supposed to stand up for yourself, Scott,
don't say that anyway, Scott, welcome back. Thanks for sitting
in with me again today and.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
At the Pleasures.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Always got a lot of things going on. Hey, guys,
Lee Sterling will be back today. Is this first episode?
It's forty, so he'll be we'll be calling him. We'll
get our breaks in so that we do not have
to have a break when he comes on with us.
He's going to explain to us about Kentucky and Louisville's schedule.
I think I sent it to you, Scott, a few
of the college games that are going to be played

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this weekend and what he thinks is going to happen
and this college football season, which I think maybe just
the opening games have made it so exciting because we
have such huge games, which we'll talk about later in
the show, Scott. So I'm ready for a Lee to
come back on and get that started. And the last
time I spoke with him on the phone, Scott, was

(01:37):
when I was sitting in front of you in Hollywood, Florida,
when we were eating breakfast right there on the water.
It was beautiful, Yep, it was yourself, Shit and my
wife and I. We had a great time and I
was starting to lead on the phone. So that was
the last time I spoke with Lee. So I'm really
looking forward to catching up. So that's what we've got
going on, Scott. Now, we ended the show a little

(01:59):
bit University of Louisville and told everybody to pump the
brakes a little bit just to give coach Kelsey his chance.
And then you started to do some interesting research. But Scott,
before we get into that, everyone knows this is just
I'm telling you this is I told you all the

(02:20):
dark Side. I was telling you all about Carney's galleries.
They do a fantastic job. The workers. I don't know
how John never got them to work for him. But
we're speaking about their coming out to my house, which
they did just like they said eleven thirty prompt eleven thirty.
They hit in the door right and John is sending
me telling me because I was talking about his high

(02:41):
school sant behavior and his university Kentucky and then the
dark Side, Scotty sends me a little text message. He says,
all I want you to know is I haven't calculated
your bill just yet. You need to slow your role
on the dark Side. I got threatened. I got threatenedat
old show. Truthfully, Scott, I'm not kidding. I said he

(03:04):
has threatening me. I didn't see it, Scott during the
show because I'm doing my show from my phone, so
I could not see it. But I got off the
one I said I got threatened. I told him I
was gonna call him out. John, I'm not scared, and
my bruins are coming from Saint Xavier football and basketball.
High school football is Scott high school football is here, brother,

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So before we even get started, let me just throw
out some of the big games. Tonight, LEXI didn't Catholic
at Ballard seven thirty pm. Let me give you another
big game. Lexington Catholics at Ballard seven Let me give
you another big game. LEXI didn't Catholic at Back Bruin

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Nation at seven thirty. Today, We've got the little Male
Bulldogs at Butler at seven pm. I expect them to
bounce back. We've got Central one of the greatest, Muhammad
Ali versus Manual. Very good game seven thirty at Moore.
The stadium is not ready at Moore at Manual, so
that's at More High School. Big game. We've got w

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D to Boys at holy Cross seven pm. Valley at
Eastern seven thirty pm. We've got fern Creek the Creekers
against Seneca at seven pm. I got personal friends with
fern Creek. I got truly an All American from fern Creek.
That's an All Star from fern Creek. Her husband not

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so much. But anyway, I'm gonna move on him. I'm
gonna call him out. I'm gonna leave him alone today.
But Patty, job well done at Fern Creek. We've got
Shelby Bilt at Nelson County, Fairdale at Woodford County, the
Sales at Odham County. These are Saturday games, Bulleties versus Boyle.
That's Saturday five pm at Bowling Green Owensboro against Sat.

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Xavier seven thirty. It should be a Route Kentucky Country
Day Sars. And that's really it for high school football.
But it all begins this weekend in Scottie. Today Shawnee
is at Iroquois at seven pm. So we do have
a game tonight. So I'm excited for that support. Your

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high school sports really the best time of your life.
And I mean that's just something special about where you
go to high school with the camaraderie, the people and
the friendships that you make for life. They say college.
Mine were high school Scottie. The high school friends I
have are the friends I have today, being honest with you,
Martin Dunbar, James Hanley, Chubby Howard Young, I shouldn't call

(05:44):
him Chubby Howard Young, Chip Taylor. I mean the guys
I went to high school with we still have parties today.
I mean, it is what it is. So anyway, Scott.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Coach real quick so you were the who is it
male that's going to have their football stadium done yet?

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yes? Well no not male, that's that mail. Excuse me,
their central manual, central manual.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Man.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yes, they're working on man.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
You see did you see the uh you for Georgia
they're high school their their new stadium.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
No.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, it can take a wild guess as to how
much this new stadium cost.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh my gosh, gosh, gouty gosh, Gotti. Forty million, twenty million. No,
no more than twenty million. Football stadium, but the thirty million, thirty.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Million putting rolling together, and you're and you're still sure.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
One hundred million, sixty two.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Million, God, beautiful stadium. I mean, you just see things.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Scott here, I want people to understand Texas has large stadiums,
but the stadiums are truly used by multiple high schools.
Is this the same? Okay? I want people to understand
that Texas has got some huge stadiums, but what happens
is four schools will use that state. So tell me
is this a singular or is this going to be

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used as a quadrant of schools?

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Tell me there's only one mascot in the in the
end zone here, Oh.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well, that just that Scott. That kind of just rolls
us into where we're going to go. I want people
to listen to this first segment, maybe the first segment
I have where did seven thirteen? Scott? So we're going
to kind of prelude how this came about. Yesterday we're

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talking about, believe, comparing teams nineteen eighty to this year's team.
I have people that have said this year's team is
better than any Louisville team ever. And I think one
of the better teams was which Beard west Unsel. I
think the Junior Bridgeman, Alan Murphy, Bill Buddenfield Bond team
with Terry Howard was pretty good. I'm just gonna be

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honest with you. I thought that they were a little
better than my eighty team. They did not have a
talent like Daryl Griffith, but I thought that they were
more skilled. Junior Bridgeman was a really good player, guys,
and Alan Murphys was also. So I was telling people
to slow their role and we were just talking about
that there was a new general manager in Louisville was

(08:36):
bumping up one of their coaches to the general manager role.
And we know now that congratulations to Peyton Seeve a
great young man, I mean, super young man, is now
a full time on the court coach, and that's kind
of what got Scottie to looking so Scotty. We're gonna
leave it right there, but you all when we come
back from break, please because we've got to stay on task,

(08:59):
because I want all the break before we call Easterly,
I want you all to listen to this next segment
and then you all understand where I stand. And we've
got Kentucky, Louisville, and Arkansas, so everyone understands. This isn't
Louisville problem, this isn't a Kentucky problem. This is what's
going on in college athletics as of today. And we're

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going to make some jokes. You all are gonna laugh. Also,
Eves Sports Radio, it's already seven to fifteen. We'll be
back after the break. Welcome back to Eves Sports Radio.
August twenty first, twenty twenty five. I'm in my office
at Simmons College of Kentucky. Thank you, Reverend Cosby. Greatest
job I've ever had. I dropped my wife off at
the airport. She's going to Niagara Falls with some of

(09:44):
her girlfriends. It's a girl's trip. So anyway, I was
not invited, Scottie. So I'm downtown. I'm not in the basement,
and I'm roaring to go. So Scotty, we spoke about staffs,
and I said, you're the world's greatest assistant coach. What
was your starting pay at North Carolina A and T?

(10:04):
And what year did you start with me? You didn't
come my first year. You came my thirde correct.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
My third year was two thousand and five, that's correct.
And you I definitely wasn't the highest paved. I was
close at twenty five thousand dollars, which included I had
to teach racquetball.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
You had to teach a class. I want to teach
a class. So you all understand. Just let me give
you a pre lead. I took the job at North
Carolina A and T. The salary was ninety thousand dollars
head Division one men's basketball coach, ninety thousand. I told
the president can't do it. He said, how much do
you need? I said, no, I don't need anymore. I'm

(10:50):
going to give you fifteen thousand. You're going to give
me fifteen thousand. We're going to create another assistant coaches
position for thirty thousand so that he can teach that
class because they wanted me to teach and I told
him that would just have been nightmare because there was
no way I could teach anyone anything other than basketball
or basket weaving. So he agreed. So I did have
a thirty thousand dollars position, and then your big paid

(11:13):
twenty five thousand, Scott. So I had a part time
Brian Taylor at twelve thousand and five hundred that was
the staff and two thousand and five for a division
low level Division one. Okay, low level. I'm just staying
low level Division one. So Scott, Peyton and Steed has

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been bumped up. We were speaking about the general manager position,
saying that universities, all universities are creating more positions. I
want you to take it from there, Scott and tell
people the positions that big time programs have today.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah. So we were talking before the show and I
just got the going down the rabbit hole of all
these different positions. And at the University of Louisville, we've
got you have the head coach, but then we've got
the executive director of Player Personnel, strategic initiatives, have a
couple of assistant coaches, Director of Player of Personnel, head

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of strength and conditioning, and chief of staff. Got the operations.
You have a creative director. You have a special assistant
to the head coach, which pretty much every school has.
Then you have the associate athletic trainer. You have an
executive assistant director of video analytics. Then you have five

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graduate managers, so they have fourteen and this is from
their staff directory. Fourteen on I guess I would say
above level graduate and then five graduate assistants, which I'm
nineteen total.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
They need a bus with the staff. This is all schools.
Got it? Ye go to university in Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Oh, I don't know. I don't even want to run down.
I'm just going to give you a few. You have
all your assistant coaches. Then you have director of Basketball administration. UH.
You have equip associate Director of Equipment administrative support. You
do have one. You have a couple that share. You

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have Director of Academic Services, Senior associate Director of Athletics,
Communications and public Relations. Then you have one that's split
between men's basketball and men's golf. UH, Senior associate a
d brand.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Are you only talking about basketball. Now, you're not talking.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
About these are these are? Yes, these are on the
under the men's basketball staff.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
On the director Okay, you wanted to make sure you
created keep creative services director, director of creative video, creative
content director.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
I mean it's pretty much all the same thing. Director
of photography.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Then you have a physicians and they're different and there
are different individuals in these slots. Is that what you're
telling me, Scott.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yes, they all have their own pictures up there. Most
of them have their own emails. They have the UK
Healthcare Team physician so on Kentucky's in their staff directory.
They have a grand total of twenty seven people under
the men's basketball staff.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
That. I can't believe that again, Scott, this just lets
you know what I tell everyone. Arkansas you looked is
the same, guys, Duke is the same. I don't want
you try to think we're picking all the states. We're not.
They're all the same. These are the positions now in

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today's paper, Scott, I didn't do this. I had no
idea you were going to say this. But in today's
paper it's got a breakdown of University Louisville's staff and
the payment starts from four hundred thousand cars at three
hundred thousand cassidy to twenty five Hamilton four hundred thousand.
The gentleman, they got bumped up little more. I'm not

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sure how he pronounces that. Koma n clupman four hundred thousand.
Now Peyton will fall somewhere in there. Guys. This is
why I tell you all schoos. I want you trying
to think this isn't we're putting on Louis or Kentucky.
Don't take it that way. Indiana's the same, Arkansas is
the same, Duke is the same. North Carolina is the same.

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Don't ever tell me players shouldn't get paid. That's all
that one, Scott. Don't ever do not let your lips
come together and tell you that players should not be paid.
Twenty five twenty excusan. Twenty years ago a Division one
program and there were a lot of us, when I'm

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saying us, low level Division one that had two full
time assistants that one was teaching, maybe both a part
time graduate assistant that was going to school, going to
graduate school, trying to get out. And that's the way
it used to be. Twenty years look at the difference
twenty so when everybody jumps up in the uproar Scott players,

(16:28):
oh boy, it's going to break the business. We're going
to run us out of business. Look at every staff.
This is not about or Kentucky. It's all of them.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Coaches. Think about this. We're only talking men's basketball. We
haven't even gone down the football rabbit hole.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
We don't want to do that exactly, we really want
to do that.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
I guess a lot more, yeah, a lot more about
football than basketball.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yes, good gosh. And you don't know that, Scott. You
rush through the assistant coaches today they have three assistant
coaches full time. I mean, guys, there's a lot of
money in this business. That's all I want people to understand.
I've got no problem with it, Scott. It's easier to
get a job today than when we were coming through

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this business. I guarantee. It's easier to be a player.
More teams, more people on a roster, more players carried
on the roster, more coaches. I mean, there are a
lot of jobs, which is a great deal. I'm happy.
I just want people to know. Do not say players
shouldn't be paid, Absolutely not. There's just no way there's

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just no way. So we just wanted people to understand
if you want to get into sports business, this is
the time to get in, because gosh, there's a lot
of opportunities, a lot, and they're great paying jobs. Scott,
it's in today's paper. I didn't do it. And of
course football is paying coaches. You know that college football

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has ten assistant coaches make it over two million dollars
a year. Let me say that again, over two million
dollars a year assistant coaches, Scott, not the hiccoch exactly.
That's why when the gentleman at Northern Iowa was speaking
about he would do it for free, he's lying. I'm

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sorry you all guys. I love when they're always throwing
that rhetoric at the players. Yes, some of the things
that the gentleman said had some validity about learning lessons
and all those things. Yes, I'm with that, but for
free you can get away from me again, why we
won't just be truthful with It's the second largest sports

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business in the country, the NFL top dog No one close,
college football and basketball second, major League Baseball third. The
NBA is fourth and also ran after that. So anyway,
Scott great segment, just though people should know what has

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been transpiring and if you really wanted Scott to look
into maybe, Scott, here's what I want you to do
during break. We're gonna go to break again. Stay on
task if you can. Let's go to North Carolina's football staff.
You know we've got Bill Belichick. You'll be making your
debut check there. Yeah, so let's go to North Carolina's
during the break and we'll talk about that when we

(19:34):
come out. Is it the sports radio. We'll talk to
you in a minute. Welcome back to the sports radio.
Seven thirty two. Scott Bolwage sitting in and with me. Scott,
have had a chance to find North Carolina's football staff,
coach Bill Belichick.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
We're gonna have to go back to commercial because I'm
still counting.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
How many Where are you? Scott? We passed your fingers
and toes. We're past twenty, we're past thirty. How many
keep going at North Killers You're going forty going, keep
going fifty, keep going sixty.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Sixty two.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Just under.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
On their football staff, and Scott, these are all singular.
Each one has individual positions. There is a person for
these sixty two. There's not one person that does three.
There's one person for each shop. Well, guys, again, just
to let you all know that this college business is

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a huge moneymaker for these universities. Huge and it's exciting.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
At least Sterling, we'll be on with us after our
last break. We'll talk about some of these big games
which I want to watch. But yes, it's time for
the players to be paid. There's just no question about it.
So I hate that sometimes we have to break it
down to you so that you all can understand what
we're saying when we say big business. Sixty two people
on North Carolina's football staff paid positions. Now, Scott, you

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did not throw in the graduate positions that aren't paid, Scott.
They just got to hang around, pull them out, pull
them out.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
That was everyone on their their football staff directory. So
the last person was I didn't even read. I didn't
even read. The last person on their staff was the
head chef.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
I'm Scott, even though that's an important job. Well, I'd
like to eat too, ahead chef.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
That was the last That was the last guy on
the list. Mm hmmm, I mean so one one of
the intern directory of video services equipment managers. I'm trying
to find that the orthopedic position director, director of stadium

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is on the payroll, that business operations, high school relations,
director of high school relations okay, uh, director of football
student athlete Development. Uh, director of the Coleman game Plan
for Success. Okay, I don't know what that is.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
I mean, don't forget his girlfriend. Don't forget his girlfriend.
She's on payroll too.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Hey, there's a couple of mils on this staff.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yes, publicist's girlfriend. So anyway, guys, so we all understand,
let's leave the athletes alone with their pay and the
gambling issue always calling the players and when they don't play, well,
let's make sure that we tone that down. But he, Scott,
your Yankees are still hot. Hit five more home runs,
swept the Rays, fourteen home runs in two games. I

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mean I had to talk about that. Fourteen home runs
in two games, Scott. They still have no pitching. They're
not going anywhere. Well, they did get to the World
Series last year, Let's be honest, because they have so
much offensive talent, but the discipline will catch them again.
So hey, gets I mean, so he gives up five
earned runs, nine hits and gets hitting the leg. Scott,

(23:23):
They just had it on ESPN. What do you think,
So is he phenomenal or not? Though Scottie playing both
ways in Major League Baseball one of the home run
leaders and pitcher.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, to be a pitcher and the bat the way
you do, you know what, And there are a lot
of kids growing up that do that, that are just
the best player on the team. And they can go
out and they can pitch and they can hit as well.
And then thankfully that you know, major League Baseball kind

(23:57):
of got rid of the DH rule and well out
you know, show Hay to hit and actually now they
used to do that to where the pitcher had to hit.
Now they put in the permanent DH. I said that backwards,
but you know, they're they're guys coming up. They used
to be able to do both. You know, I played
baseball in college, and you know, we had some some

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guys that just were so good that you know, if
they weren't pitching, they were in the field, but they
always could hit the ball. But then when you get
to the majors, you just become a specific pitcher and
that's it. You don't hit anymore. So I'm glad they're
allowing show Hey and that just tells you how good
he is to actually step up to the play and

(24:38):
you know, hit and be productive when he's not pitching right,
because man, you can't you can't keep him off and
out of that line up some way, somehow.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Well we've got it's thirty seven, thirty seven. We're going
to stay the task. We've got the one and only
Least Sterling coming on with us. We're going to go
to break. I'll have Shannon, you will call leave for
us when we come back with we're going to talk
about some of these big college football games and how
important for the ACC to bounce back to be relevant.

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They've got some major matchups that they're going to have
to win, and we're going to ask them about it
after the break. This is the sports radio I got
Scott both wage with the Shannon. We get ready to
go to break. We're gonna call Lee Sterling. We'll be
back in a minute. Welcome back to these sports radio.
It's seven on the dot. I've been waiting for this
all summer. Havn't smoke to my man in a long time.

(25:31):
The one and only Lee Sterlingly, how are you doing,
Paramount Sports? What's going?

Speaker 4 (25:36):
Only a lot going on after thirty one years, I
moved offices, so that was a huge undertaking. Thought I
could get it done in two weeks, and even though
it was only in about seven hundred square feet my office,
my staff, it took us two months. So we got
it done. Dealing with the phone companies porting numbers to

(25:59):
another their location was not a seamless operation. And then
old my oldest daughter got engaged and married and that
wedding was over July, yeah, July fourth weekend, so that
that it was. It was a busy, busy summer, but happy.
And actually their wedding made the news because my now

(26:25):
son in law, I'll send you, I might even put
out on social media. What happened was when they were
standing at the altar, he read off what he calls
the notes, and he has over four hundred things that
my daughter has said since they met eight years ago
that were funny and kind of didn't make sense, like,

(26:46):
for instance, if he was at a toothpick that he
had in his mouth, she would say, oh, I love
that pitchfork. So he's been keeping track. It's their way
of laughing and having a good time. And so he
read off about five or six of them, and someone
videoed it and he put it out on TikTok after

(27:09):
the wedding the week after, and then what happened. It
went viral, I mean over fourteen million views, and then
ABC it was on Good Morning America, was on their
morning news at like six thirty in the morning. Last Tuesday,
Good Morning America at eight thirty, and then the afternoon
almost made World News Tonight with David Mehr. It was

(27:32):
bumped by another wedding story where someone I think he
was in Italy had set up a tripod where he
was going to propose to his wife. He gets down
on one knee and an older couple walked by and
got in front of the tripod where he's videoing, and
you see them eating, both of them eating a candy bar.

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So but a lot, a lot of fun, and you know,
it just joy to be able to give my daughter
the wedding, she said, the wedding of her dreams. We
had a great time, right welcome grays. I saw that video, Okay,
I did see that video. That was a very good video. Yes, yes,

(28:16):
so it was. It was something you just you can't
expect sometimes, but you know, when your kids are happy
that makes you feel good and I'm reinvigorator. I'm in
a news I just sent you a picture of the
new studio built out in a whole brand new studio
and also something new back on Locked on Bets. We

(28:36):
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Speaker 1 (29:33):
Well, it sounds like you're a busy man, I mean
without it, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
It has been busy. It has been busy.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, we've got great games.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
We have got great yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
My question before we jump into a few of the
games next week we know, is that it's imperative that
the ACC gets off to a good start. And you've
got the University of Louisville that coach Rom's done a
fantastic job, looking to make a push toward the college
football playoffs. Tell me, in your opinion, what does the
ACC the league have to do to rectify itself to

(30:09):
move back closer to the SEC and Big Ten. Big
ten has won in the last two years. Yeah, while
Stton Michigan SEC is always the SEC is the minor
league NFL. What does the ACC have to do to
propel itself back? You know, you've got SMU Baylor big game.
You've got Miami Notre Dame and Miami Florida both are

(30:29):
big games for the ACC. And you've got Clemson LSU
and Clemson South Carolina. So I mean there's a huge
games for the ACC.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
What do they have to do they I think they've
got to get two teams in the playoffs and at
least one of them go to the semifinals. They've got
to come relevant in if not what we could see, Jerry,
we could see you know, the ACC disolved. They could happen.
Don't never say never. We could see you know, teams

(30:58):
like Florida State, Clemson, maybe even Miami and Louisville, those
four in North Carolina, those five could make a push
to go in the SEC or the Big Ten. And
I wouldn't be shocked if we eventually see we might
see the SEC and the Big Ten with twenty teams each,

(31:21):
it could happen, and then two other smaller conferences with
let's say ten to twelve teams.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
I agree. I mean the Big Ten commissioner Benetti, he's
pushing for it. That's what he wants. I mean, he
is legitimately saying it outright that he wants truly an
SEC Big Ten to dominate college football playoffs. I mean,
that's exactly where he is. So I just wondered, because
you're going to talk about Louisvillane and Kentucky in some

(31:48):
of the games. So I'll let you do that in
your order. But we're sitting here with this Louisville thing.
Do they have a chance of making college football playoffs?

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Your opinion, it's going to be tough. You know, you
look at their schedule and starts off easy, should be
three breen o at at least and at Pitt you know,
minor a minor speed bump, and then they got to

(32:16):
buy before Miami. You know, they could be catching Miami
at the right time, and then the only other game.
I don't think SMU is gonna be much this year.
I really don't. So some people are talking about them
being as good again. They lost their entire defensive line,
lost seven of the top eight guys on the defensive line,
and that's what I think was the difference for them

(32:38):
last year getting to the a SEC title game. So
after that, the only tough game could be Virginia Tech.
They're one of my sleepers. But I think Miller Boss
actually was at the ACC media days, met him, talked
to him for a few minutes. Very very h well
put together kid. Mentally, it looks like he has the

(32:59):
right mindset to take over. And I mean, look at
look at their their talent on offense. I mean they scored,
you know, thirty six and a half points per game.
I think they're gonna be right there again. I think
they're gonna be in the thirty four to thirty seven
points per game. With Isaac Brown coming back, who somehow
slipped through the cracks here at Miami and they weren't
on him until late Colin Lacy's coming back, Chris Bell,

(33:23):
better defensive line. You know, they got two real nice
transfers and the kid from Rutgers, Wesley Bailey, and also
clev Lubin defensive end they got from Coastal Carolina, who
I think that they're gonna be right there. You know,
they have thirty four sacks. Usually they have thirty four
to forty sacks. You're gonna win ten or more games.

(33:46):
And I think they're gonna be right there, So it's
gonna be it's gonna be a fun year. I think
Clempton is the best team in the ACC and in Louisville, Miami,
uh and my other sleepers, Georgia Tech, I think they're
right there knocking on the Yeah, Georgia Tech is really
good and they returned fourteen fourteen starters and were just

(34:10):
like Louisville, strong quarterback guys starting for the third year,
Haines Kinge, Jamaal Haynes, and I mean they've got a
refortified defensive line. They gave up four point one yards
per Kerry last year. They should be in the mid threes.
With three transfers they had come in. So those guys
were coming in from Utsa Ole miss and and kid

(34:33):
from Mercer Brave and Manly. So keep keep an eye
on those guys. Should be it should be a fun season.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah. I like Georgia Tech. They played Georgia Will last year.
Do you remember the last game of the season season?
It was a well ofvant game. It really surprised me.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
How Will They was involved in a ton of great
games all season long?

Speaker 1 (34:52):
They were. Now here's my question. We got Miller Moss
lost his Yeah, where he was. Tyler Shuck is fighting
for a starting position with the Saints. He and Spencer
Randler went in two. Got me. I think Spencer wins
that job because he's more mobile. That's my opinion.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
We'll have to wait.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
But Tyler Shuck is a really good quarterback. Do you
think Miller Malls can step into his shoes and continue
with that kind of success? Tyler Shuck was good last year.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Really good, very good, very good. It's going to be tough,
you know. I mean to replicate twenty three touchdowns to
just six interceptions. You know, he really didn't turn the
ball over. But I think Miller Moss with maybe even
a little bit more talent around him, I think he's
going to have even more success if the offensive line

(35:40):
can hold their own. The added six guys the offseason
who were full time starters, so they really have a
total two hundred and three career starts back, which is
one of the ACC's best. So I think it's gonna
be fun. I think he's going to be very good.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Kentucky, very tough situation coach. Some people stay on the
hot seat your opinion.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
I think. I think he's got to do something big,
but he's got to make some noise and upset at
least one or two teams if he wants to have
a chance to keep his job. Four and eight and
he'll be gone. I even think five and seven. I
think he's got to go six and six. I like
Zach Calzada a lot. I think he's going to be

(36:27):
an upgrade over what they had the last couple of years.
Uh Dante Dowdele The transfer from from Nebraska should be
pretty good. It's the problem is the receiving corps just
isn't good in a brutal schedule. I mean after playing
Toledo and Eastern Michigan in the first three games. Sandwiched
in that is Ole Miss at South Carolina, at Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Auburn, Florida,

(36:56):
and then finish up at Bandy and at Louisville. Can
you say murderers were? I think it's been a great
run for Mark Stoops. This will be his thirteenth year,
but thirteen is usually an unlucky number, and I think
they're going to make a change and wouldn't be shocked
to see them, you know, go go for a big
name because they've got to become relevant like they just

(37:17):
like they were in basketball.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
I mean, their schedules just unheard of this. I mean
it's Toledo. They're seven point favorites, correct, and Toledo beats
Mississippi State last year. I know Toledo lost a lot,
but still Toledo is the formidable program. Eastern Michigan talk
about that. I don't know much about Eastern Michigan. Are
they pretty good?

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Yeah? Well, the thing is that they can throw the football,
and when you can throw the football at that level,
you're going to stay in a lot of games, So
I think they're going to be competitive. The problem is
almost every single kid from the MAC that's real good,
they're transferring out. So they were five and seven last year.

(37:59):
They bring in a kid, Noah Kim, who was at
started five games for Coastal Carolina. But you know they'll
be competitive, but they're not going to be Kentucky on the.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Road, gotcha? Yeah? I mean, but you're so right Ole
miss South Carolina, Georgia, Texas and Tennessee. You tell me
another school in the country. My son Anthony's usually on
with this, Scott Bulwage, my friend that lives in Miami,
in Hollywood. When I called you last we're all at breakfast.
This was on the other line. You tell me another
team that has a schedule, Like, does anyone have a schedule?

(38:32):
I know they don't have to be in the SEC.
Does anyone have a tougher schedule in Kentucky your opinion?

Speaker 4 (38:38):
I think that's it. I mean there's some there's some
teams that have I mean, Florida's got a tough schedule. Again, Florida,
you're going to get in a cycle where you're playing
some really tough teams, you know, just the way the
schedule is set with so many teams in the conference.
But you know, maybe Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt got to play a

(39:00):
tough schedule. They got to play in the middle of
the season Alabama, LSU, Missouri at Texas and then Auburn.
So that's tough. But you know, when you're when you're
a bottom feeder in the SEC, almost every game is
going to be tough.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
That's you, that's a fact. Some of these ranked opponents
are amazing. Solan. Yeah, the new rule changes. We've got
some new rule changes going on, which I'm glad. These
fake injuries, let's talk about those players just falling down.
We've seen it as it's a joke, it's comedy show.
I'm glad that they're getting getting rid of that. What
else is going on and some of the rule changes

(39:35):
in college football.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
Well, what's what's happening? Also, it's not a rule change,
but the AC the only team, the only conference that
was divulging any type of injury situation was the Big Ten.
On Saturday morning, they were listing who is available to play.
But the ACC is going to make it like the
NFL on starting on Thursdays, each and every day, they're

(39:57):
going to list injury reports. So that's going to help
the game, and I'll probably give out a few more
ACC games. I liked it. They're, you know, trying to
set a good example. If you want people to bet
on games, you got to give people, you know, a
fair shake. Here. You can't. You don't want to turn
on the TV set and say, oh, these these five
guys were were suspended, or these five guys, these starters

(40:19):
are not going to play today. You know that that
turns the public off. They just want a fair shake.
If you're going to take ten percent of the bet
if you lose, which is the big at least give
people a fair shite shake. So I think that's the
start of something there. So there's a game going off
with it women an ACC team. The first week, we've

(40:39):
got Hawaii at home taking on Stanford. I don't know
if you know this. So Hawaii's trying to build a
new stadium. They're playing on campus at their athletic complex.
They list it as like sixteen nine hundred as the
attendance is if it's a sellout, it looks like it's
about seven eight thousand tops. But I guess you know,

(41:01):
two years ago Stanford went there and won easy. Okay,
I'm not saying they're real good or anything, but a
Stanford kid that's that's usually recruited better a different level
than these Hawaii kids. And what they did was I
like that. The fact that they're going to bring in
Frank Wright for one year. He said he's going to

(41:22):
be there for one year to turn the programmer around,
and he named Ben Gilbert Gilverrinson, the former starter at
Oregon State, is a starter here. So the line is
low here, a two point line here, So, uh I,
I expect them to win this game by a touchdown
or more.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
You do, so you're expecting Hawaii? Are Stanford? Stanford?

Speaker 4 (41:47):
Stanford? I think they have to say, yeah, I think
they beat Hawaii. So I'm going to take the two
and a half points in that game, Okay.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
I just because a lot of people are out here
think that Hawaii has a chance to beat and that
has to be I.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Mean, they have a chance. They're gonna they're gonna need
a little bit of of of of you know, help
maybe from the rest. I don't know, if you used
to watch the games late night, they used to stay
up and watch the games. Uh. Ten fifteen years ago,
and you would literally see some of the strangest stuff Hawaii.
A bunch of times they would gain like eight nine
yards on first down and you'd see the official point

(42:19):
in first down. I mean, they just kept the change
going if a team and the crazy and then that
was part of it. The other thing you would see
over and over again, if a visiting team took the lead,
you would all of a sudden see two or three
straight drives, a couple holding penalties on them. And they
wanted to keep that game close. You know, I think

(42:39):
it was partially they want to keep the viewers there
because it's the only late night game that used to
start at midnight Eastern time, and you know, on their
coach it actually starts at seven o'clock and on the
West coast nine o'clock. They were trying to keep those viewers,
but they did. They didn't want the fans to revolve,
so they got to They got some rowdy fans. They
have some of the best tailed gating, believe it or not.

(43:01):
Oh yes, you don't want to you don't want to
get those fans upset, throwing, you know, pelting the field
and throwing stuff at the officials, uh, during or after
the game.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Late, we appreciate you like always, everyone knows to fight
your paramount sports. He'll be on every Thursday with me Late,
Love you, and I'll talk about when I sent you youtwoe
buddy later today.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Okay, okay, so good literature.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Thank you, Lee Scott, great job, Shannon, great job. Love
you all. Put a spell on your face. I'll speak
with you all tomorrow, God willing, Bye bye