2025-08-28 EAVES

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to eve Sports Radio. August twenty eighth, twenty
twenty five. It is Thursday, one day away. I will
be saying, thank god it's Friday tomorrow, but not today.
Welcome back to Eves Sports Radio. Phone numbers five zero
two five seven one seventy nine hundred. That's five zero
two five seven one seventy nine hundred. Yes, a lot

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of you all are using my email to get your
contest scores in. You can do it once twice a month,
twice every other week. You have to call in. That
is j L e a v E S five five
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My middle name Eves E A V E S five

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five five at yahoo dot com. So, yes, and telephone
numbers five zero two five seven one seventy nine hundred
to get your scores in. This is the first week
of the college football contest. Now let's get to it.
Let's bring on a co Ho Ho the one and
only Anthony's to the show. Andy, Welcome to the show.
How are you.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm doing great this morn How about yourself?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
I'm up being ready to go. Honestly, I was up
at five o'clock. I didn't have to fight with the
pillow at all. Got up early. I'm old, I had
to pee. I'm sorry, and I've been up ever since.
So ready to go. Got a big day in store,
and we've got Lee Starly at seven point forty. We've
got to get people, get their calls in, get their
scores in today and tomorrow. We've got a special gentleman

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calling in today around seventen that's gonna talk about Lee Corso.
He was one of the three recruits from the city
of Louisville that went with Lee Corso to Indiana University
in nineteen seventy three. So I'll talk to you all
about that gentleman I've known almost my entire life. So anyway,
we've got a lot going on. So I'm gonna throw
it first and foremost Anthony to you. I'm gonna throw

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it to you with our current events, our national news,
our high school sports, and all the other above.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
It to you.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
What do you have for me today?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
We got a lot going on.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Obviously for our high school games. Everybody knows we kick
off those Friday high school games in style, and we
always know. Baaloid came out one oh last week, starting
off the season hot. So for all those haters out there,
you got nothing to say.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Okay, Valid Nation.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Ballad mail Friday at the pig Farm at Ballot and
I can't wait. We're gonna just cook us some bulldog
and send them home. Reminds me of the good Daryl
group of the Bobby Turner days, Bye bye Bulldogs. What
can't wait till tomorrow. I will be honestly on the
field at the coin flip. I'm telling you all, I'll
be on the sideline for all the pick sixes. When

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Ballad's taking it to the house on the bulldogs. You
all will see me on the sideline. Coach King and
I will both be on the sideline cheer them on. Anthony, Honestly,
I was standing right behind. Wasn't in his way. Of course,
he's the head coach, and that was in three feet
from me. I was getting ready to put on hitsts.

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That's off. I was getting ready to put on some handsets.
I need to be I've been depent coordinator. I need
to be a coordinator, Anthony, until it gets cold. Then
to see the news, until.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
You'll be out there.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Looking like Jerry Jones making decisions. We're gonna leave you
on the hardwood, not on the field.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Saw you wrote, Anthony, I know football. I don't even
know what you're talking about. That's an insult, I'm telling you.
So anyway, continue Anthony, with the high school games, and
so to me that.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Early I'm just stay.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
I'm going off with just faccin. You know statistics, you
know a great college coach. We all know that football.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
We have no idea.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Okay, we're not. We're not doing a coin and flip
on your on your on your high school coaching career.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
For football, it's always a starting point, Anthony.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
It's too late.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
It's too late for you.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
To the Tuty school system when they're saying applying for
head coaching football jobs. Anthony, I'm going to be first
in line this spring.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Around the program reading up your application. I'll stay a
line to an application. I'd like whatever you do with
all you, with all due respect, do not hire him, exactly.
I gave yourself some time.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
You're right, Anthony, because the minute it got cold outside, Anthony,
I'd be trying to cancel the games. So you're right,
I'm an indoor sport guy. So who else do we
have playing, Anthony? What other big games do we have
going on.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Of course, obviously we have same exavier at Bowling Green
play at six point thirty this Friday as well.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Another big one.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
We got South Warren coming into DuPont manual. But South
Warren does have one of the top high school quarterbacks
in the class I think.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
In the sophomore or junior class if I'm not wrong.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
So it's to be really good for South Worn, so
we'll come down there hopefully be a test of manuals
see what they got going on. South Old will be
going out to Eastern School seven thirty as well for
another matchup out there. Male High School is obviously coming
out the ballad. I don't know why they call it
the big Phone. I'm not taking that level of disrespect,
but we play at seven o'clock.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
If you want to see a real.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Flat game, you know exactly where to come. And we
got a lot of a couple of the games going on.
There's a lot of good games.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
What about Trinity and Frederick Douglass. What do you think
about Trinity and Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglas will be talking
about their physical.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Man they recruit.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
That's not fair.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
A lot of actually Treny actually does recruit.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
We all know that. I hate to say it.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
If Trinian scene x are like not number one and
number two in the state, then I don't know what
you're doing because you obviously have an advantage over everybody else.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
We all know that's true. Just the facts. That's just
the facts. Great, thank you, That's just the facts they do.
That's why I call them the dark side. That's why. Honestly,
Carney's gaalleries John dark side, and I agree with you,
but I still I appreciate what the schools do. The
academic education that they give the kids, the structure, I

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appreciate all those things. But they recruit Anthony, no question
about it. Now they have said that Ballot's recruited before
in basketball, Anthony, And honestly, my memory is slipping me,
so I'm not going to say anything about it. You
like that, Do you like that answer? But I agree
with you totally so, But Anthony, I don't care. MAO

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always competes with Saint Xavier and Trinity. Ballad is starting
to compete with Sant Xavier and Trinity. Teams are starting
Manual is competing, So teams are starting to slip. Anthony.
We thought that Sant Xavier's basketball team was gonna roll
last year. I picked them to win the state championship
in basketball, got upset early early in the state tournament.
So Anthony still not a ruin nation is alive and

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well in football. So now, and here's what we've got.
We've got seven to twelve, Anthony, And I know you've
got a lot of other things, but we've got the
wine only out there to bring this gentleman on. Everyone
knows that be Courso. This will be his last game Saturday,
Ohio State and Texas. And he was part of the

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inception when this started for college football game Day, Anthony
in nineteen eighty seven. You weren't born, Anthony, think of this.
You were not born when Lee Corso was part of
the first game Day in nineteen eighty seven. Well, everyone
knows all the funny stories about Lee Corso.

Speaker 6 (07:35):
We've seen it on television, We've watched it. It's just
unbelievable to watch both of them. He and Dick by
Tile have been doing this. They're just pillars in the
college realm. I wanted to go back and get someone
that actually played for him, And I'm going to tell
you all the funny story. His name is Walter Booth

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was the first African American black quarterback at Ballid High School,
ballat Nation. I was going to bother games watching him
play as a little kid. I hate to tell people
that he was practiced behind my mother's our your grandmother's house.
Now there's a big, huge field that just was sold
between the fire department and my mom's home, right off

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US forty two. And he used to try to throw
pass this to one of his better receivers. And Anthony
is the seventh grade. I was intercepting his balls.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
But I'm not going to tell people that he's gonna
tell you, Oh, that wasn't true. It wasn't. I was
trying to any but fantastic guy went to IU, played
football for league course, so got his NBA at Losile.
He's been my broker. We used to have a running
joke guys between Walter and I who would be the

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first one to a million? And that awful Walter. We
just if you only got a million dollars a day
and they're broke today in that bad but that was
our running who was going to be the first. He
grew up in my subdivision in Ken Carla. He was
like my big brother. Even though I had to block
his shot. Anthony a few times he thought he was
Walt Frasier. I want to bring on Walter, move to
the show. Walter. How are you?

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh fine, Jerry, Yeah, thanks for the call. How you
doing this morning? Good?

Speaker 1 (09:11):
How's your son doing? His son played for me. I
got to call your son all kind of names.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, matter of fact, they just started school here this week.
He coaches at Friendly High School over here in Fort Washington, Maryland.
So yeah, this is this fourth year at Friendly High School,
teaching and coaching basketball. So he's excited about it.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
He is excited. Walcher is a great kid, walk on
starter for me, walk on starter, and was probably my
best team his senior year. Walter was probably our best
team and we beat everywhere to Paul smu all the
teams when we started to beat the high major programs.
Walter was a starter and played great for me. What
a fantastic kid. Got his degree from North Carolina A

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and T and is doing fantastic things. Married, he's got
a son now, correct.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
No, he has a and she'll be three October. Yeah, exactly.
So it's amazing how fast that time goes.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Oh, it does we get old quickly.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
So yeah, I tell you, Jerry, okay good. I'm just
gonna say, yeah, he really appreciated you. You were the
one that gave him the opportunity when you got the
job down at North Carolina, North Carolina A and T
to give him an opportunity to go up down and
play Division one college basketball. So he appreciates that, man.
And so that's always been our favorite.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
No, without a doubt. I mean he started. I mean
he was a walk gun that helped us beat SMU
to Paul, I mean all the schools that we beat, everybody, Walter,
I mean he was really good. Little walk got to
be where he was a really good player, heady about
six five. Really proud of him. He's a really good kid.
Easy to coach. I mean that's that was the key.

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Well you played. You were in Leeds his recruiting class,
so started from Ballid High School when Lee came into
recruit Cheat and the two other gentlemen that worked with you.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
To Ayu exactly. Yeah. So this was back in nineteen
seventy three and coach Corso was finishing up at University
Louisville and then he got the Indiana job, and he
had been recruiting me to come to University of Louisville,
and in that January he got the job at Indiana
and he said, come on, what we're going to go
to the Big Ten and we're going to Indiana. So

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was me. Another guy named Robert Roberts, he played linebacker Maryland.
Excuse me at Manuel, I'm sorry. And then another guy
named David Knowles. He was alignman from Elizabethtown, Kentucky. And
there was three of us from Kentucky. We went up
there in his first recruiting class to get started up
in the Big Ten. And so, you know, I will

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always be grateful for coach Corso to give us an
opportunity to go and play in the Big Ten and
we loved it.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
What kind of person was he Walter to play for?

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, beig good, Hey, hey, Jerry, I tell you, I
couldn't think of a finer coach in that. You know,
he knew how to fire us up and things like that,
and he believed in hard work, but he also believed
in having fun. So we really worked hard and things
like that, but he made the game fun. So we
had a good time playing and it was just a
good experience, and I think the other thing I remember

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about him, he's always cared about how we did as
far as not only just playing football, but you know
how we were doing academically and you know, socially and
things like that. He cared about the total person, and
I always appreciated that.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Tell them all, I want you to talk about your injuries,
and some of your teammates saying you better look out
because when players get injured, they get their scholarships taken away.
And this is guys, I want you to understand. This
is the middle seventy three, seventy four to seventy five,
when college football and basketball was brutal. You would get
your scholarship taking it in a heartbeat. Tell him about
that exactly.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Position So when it was so when I first went
up to the Indiana I started playing wide receiver and
my freshman year I oparated my right shoulder. And then
my sophomore year playing we were playing like a JV
game at Miami Ohio UH and I separated my left
shoulder and one of the guys came up to me

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afterwards said walk. He said, well, you know, this is
two years you've been hurt and a lot of times
they don't. They don't let you retain your scholarship if
they look like you're not gonna be able to play.
And so I had a chance to go over and
meet with coach Corso, and Coach Corso said no. He said, well,
I made a commitment to you that you're gonna be
here for four years. I'm gonna give you four years

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to play, So I'm right with you. I'm in your corner,
you know. And that meant the world to me, Jerry.
So I went back and so I left in and
you know, this is Big ten football, so you really
had to get strong. And the next two years I
started at defensive act my junior and senior years and
we had good years. Especially my senior year we finished
third in the Big tie for third in the Big Ten.

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So we came, like the song said, we started at
the bottom and then we went to the top. You know,
so good exactly.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
No, No, Lee was a fantastic coach. Now, Walter, yes
you did start. I came to a game. I have
to tell people, I don't know why you invited me
to the Nebraska game, but I came to Nebraska game, Walter,
and it was the first time I've ever seen that's
when they were passing cheerleaders up the stadium all the
way from the bottom to the top. I was like,
what is going on? Place was packed, Walter Booth. I

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went to your apartment after the game. Your wife, sean
of probably forty years forty five years now, was icing
you down. Well, Nebraska beat the dogs, not out of you.
I felt bad for you. Oh you were so beat up.
That's the truth now, Walter. You know you were sitting
in that chair, ice bags everywhere.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
I just, like I said, Jared, that was back when
Nebraska was really like one of the top teams in
the country and things like that. And all they did was,
you know, run the sweeps that run straight at you,
so you had to take on those pulling guards all
day and things like that. So You're absolutely right, it

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will wear you out, brother.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
It was a physical sport. And that was the first
time I'd ever gone Big ten football game, was to
watch you. And of course got a chance to meet
all the coaches and some of the players. And I
was still wet behind the ears. But you told him
I was coming. You told him, he said he's coming.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
I was coming.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Well, but anyway, Walter, tell him the one story that
you told me. People must know about the story when
you all played Purdue, your art rivals, exactly.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
So, so that was our senior year, My senior year,
in the last game of the year. So we were
playing this I think like mid November, and we went
up to West Lafayette to play Purdue. And you know
that Indiana Purdue ribbery is similar to like uk U
of l robbery. You know, you just go at it.
And I had a good friend Mike Norther that played

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at Thomas Jefson. He played at Purdue, but we worked
out together in the summertimes in Louisville. So anyway, this
is like mid know them, and it was cold, and
we're walking into the dressing room and we get to
the dressing room and it's all trashed and trashed all
over the place and things like that, and Coach Corso said, hey, look,
we're not gonna take this. We're not gonna dress in there.

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We'll just dress outside to go and get them. And
we were so fired up, we were made and things
like that, and we went out there and beat per
dude that day, and a lot of people didn't think
you know, we were underdogs, big underdogs, but we went
out there and beat them. And after the game I
saw Mike Northerton and I said, hey, Mike, that was
kind of messed up what y'all did to us with

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He said, well, what are you talking about? I said, man,
y'all trash our locker room, you know. And then it
was later one of the student managers said, no, Wal's
he said they this too. He said Coach Corso wanted
to fire.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Us up and he had us to mess it up.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
And that's so I felt so bad because we were
so mad and Mike and everybody. But and then later
I see Coach Corso and I said, Coach, did you
have that? And he said, will it worked? Didn't? I said, well, okay,
I'll let it go. Yeah, But he was amazing.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
We know that is Lee Corso. That's the person is
on TV that we watched. That is a funny story. Squattern,
your manager storeped the locker room. Lee Corso's son, that
Purdue did it, and you all dressed outside and beat
Purdue and then you put it on board. Mike Northington,
I mean, what a class act from Thomas Jefferson. That
man can.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Oh, God, exactly. So, yeah, we used to work out
together in the summers and Mike was faster than me,
and so uh he have to make me faster. But
I was stronger than Mike. So when we went to
left weights, I would, you know, help Mike on the
weightlift side. So by us working together, you know, it

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worked out for both of us.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yes, no great athlete Thomas Jefferson Seneca That Thomas Jefferson
Sendeca Quadron had some of the greatest athletes ever in
the state of Kentucky. I'm telling you, Mike, what a
class act. So well, we appreciate you coming on. You know,
we we've always said it would be the first one
to a million Walter, so we both reached our goals.
So thank you for helping me. Been a broker, How

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you been a broker down Walter, wal.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, about forty years now, Jersey. As a matter of fact,
you will you were one of my first clients. So
I started in eighty four, so it's been about forty years.
And like I said, well really big West West Unsell
was my very first client, but you weren't long rate
after him, and so we've been together for forty years.
So it's been nothing but a blessings.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Been nothing but a blessed Walter. Great job, great family.
Till Shane I said, hello your lovely wife. And we'll
have to move on from there. And now, well you
got a chance to get some of my money.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
You think you're ready, Well there you go. I'm ready, brother, Okay.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
You're ready. Okay, Well let's go there. First game is
Texas Ohio State. That is the key game, Walter.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Now, if you.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Want to wager against me, you don't have to wager
against me, Walter. You can win fifty dollars. But if
you win and your scores are the closest to the
actual score, and you beat all my other callers and
email people, then you'll get fifty bucks. But if you
wager against me, I'm gonna go the over under on
your score, you can win seventy five. But you don't
have to. I just want people to know.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Not have to.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
So first game, Texas Ohio State. Who are you taking?

Speaker 2 (19:19):
I'm going with Ohio State. What's the score And I'm
looking at the score thirty one to twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Okay, are you gonna wager against me?

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Or yeah, I'll wager against against is that I'm gonna take.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
I'm taking I'm taking the under. I'm taking them thirty
twenty eight Ohio State. So well, okay, we don't have
to wait and see. Louisville Eastern Kentucky. It's attracted meet.
They don't even have lying on it. I'm reading on
these Sterling one of my gambling and he's not even
picking the game. He says, there's no reason to pick

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the game. So I've got it. Louver Eastern Kentucky. Who
you going with both?

Speaker 2 (20:04):
I'm going with U of L. Give me the score, okay, gotcha.
I'm looking at the score there. I think U of
L will probably beat them about forty to twenty.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Okay, it won't be that close. Well, anyway, you're being
optimistic Kentucky, Taledo.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
I'm going with Kentucky, and I'll like Kentucky. They should
beat them. I would say forty five to ten.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Dang, what this only a seven point game? Toledo. I
told you Toledo beat Mississippi State last year. So boy,
you're saying Kentucky comes up, We'll wait and see exactly that.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Kentucky's playing at home, right.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
At home.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Kentucky's at home. Yeah, exactly, Gross Stadium exactly, LSU Clemson LU.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
I'm going with Clemson. Yeah, one with pumpson, okay, and
I'll I'll take the score there it should be. I'm
staying with the thirties. I'm looking for Thompson to have
about thirty and I'm looking for LSU to have about
twenty four.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
I got you, Walter. I got to get your break.
Appreciate you walk Thanks.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Hey, Jerry, Hey, thanks, tell everybody it in Louisville. I
say alone, I.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Would definitely do it, Walter who lives in Washington, d C.
It's the sports radio. We're getting to our first break.
We'll talk to you in a minute, Sports Radio. We
got our first caller of the day. We've got to
get it in. Steve, welcome back to the sports radio.

Speaker 7 (21:36):
How are you, hey, Garry?

Speaker 3 (21:38):
How you doing, Steve?

Speaker 1 (21:41):
How are you Stevey?

Speaker 5 (21:43):
Garry?

Speaker 1 (21:44):
How you Everything going well with you?

Speaker 7 (21:47):
Everything's going great, man our Age.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
It's a good thing.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
I just see, I shall never see you at any
of the high school.

Speaker 7 (21:56):
Pardon I can bury here, Jarrett.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
See you know, I don't see you at the games
anywhere like I used to.

Speaker 7 (22:05):
I don't go as much I used to gosh, I
call it.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Okay, I'm gonna try to get the scores in, Steve.

Speaker 7 (22:14):
Oh yeah, I'm gonna scores in.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
I got you, well, Steve, I'm breaking up not you,
So I want to get your scores in. Yes, let's go.
The game that counts is Texas.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Ohiose State.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
That's the game. Andrew got to kid, he was the
first caller. I need your score.

Speaker 7 (22:30):
Okay, like a while State to win twenty four to
twenty three.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Okay, you can have that. Are you wagering against me, Steve? No, sir, okay, great,
Let's go Louisville.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
E Ku.

Speaker 7 (22:49):
I like lois will win sixty two to thirteen. No,
that wasn't thirty eight points right on that game, Jared?

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Is it thirty eight? I know it's a track meet.
So I'm glad you told me it wasn't in the
paper on Monday, Seed, and that's you know, I was
just grabbing Curia Journal. You know, I don't know, but
I appreciate you. Let me know. Thirty eight point spreads?
You will it is Kentucky Toledo. That's that's a pickle.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah, seven twenty spread, Yeah, I know it.

Speaker 7 (23:22):
I like Aentucky win. Twenty seven nineteen.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Okay, okay, lsu Clemson.

Speaker 7 (23:33):
Like Clemson to win thirty one to twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Gotcha, gotcha, Steve. Now you do know Seed, the person
that calls in every week. If I have ten people
that do call in every week or email me every week,
then at the end, the person that has won the
most games five hundred exactly. I just want to make
sure you see appreciate.

Speaker 7 (23:57):
Your brother, all right, have Billy Jerry, thank you.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
I'll get you you too. Now, Shannon, let's go to break,
because I know I'm breaking up. Shannon, I'm gonna try
to call back in. We've got to call Lee Sterling.
Lee will be on with us at seven forty guys tomorrow,
gets your scores it Yes, a lot of people have
emailed me their scores. That's fine for this week. Next
week you have to call. You have to call. So

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let's get to break. When we come back, we have
Lee Sterling. He'll give us all the scores and what
he thinks is gonna happen, and E Sports Radio will
be back after the break.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Welcome back to the Sports Radio seven thirty nine. Of course,
we will have the lead Sterling, the Great Lea sterling
fitting in with us, but I just wanted to brought
one catchphrase, not so fast, my friends. Guys, make sure
you listen Saturday College game Day, Lee Corso's final game.

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What a remarkable career, the things he's done for college football,
the opportunity I got to meet him after them. The
brand game was Walter Booth, his starting quarterback from Baalor
High School. Walter did not tell you that Lee has
invested with Walter for over thirty five years himself. He's
just a fantastic gentleman. And he was as funny as

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he could be, asking if I was coming to play
for Indiana and Bobby Knight and I said I wasn't sure,
and he said, well, this is in't the place for
you because you're not sure. Bobby Knight's not the guy
for you. That's exactly what he told me. And I
was like, he's not. He definitely is not. Coach Trump
was the guy for me. But Lee has had a
fantastic career. And I want to make sure that everyone

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watched the Ohio State Texas game, the last edgear selection
for Lee Corso. I'll be watching. Let's bring with my man, Lee,
Welcome to the show level's got all the leads going
on today. But Lee, how are you?

Speaker 5 (25:53):
I'm good. I'm good. How about yourself?

Speaker 3 (25:55):
I'm good. I had a team. I had a player
of Lee Corso's on his first recruiting class to Indiana
in nineteen seventy three. Walter Booth, my broker, and I
had him on and he prote a funny Lee lem
me ted his quick story. He says, they go to play.
They go to play Purdue the last game his senior year.
They were third in the Big Ten his senior year,
so they went from the bottom with Lee to the top,

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third in the Big Ten. Per Due is supposed to
beat them. They get to the locker room. The locker
room is trashed, I mean just trashed. The league goes
in and says, I can't believe for Due did that.
We're not gonna dress in this nasty locker room. We'll
just dress outside and show that. So they legitimately dress outside. Wow,
they dressed outside. They'd beat Purdue. Walter Booth knew a

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player on produced team named Northington who played right here
from Louisville. Great running back Purdue from Thomas jars And
High School. They trained together walk. You said that was
dirty what you all did. Mike said, what are you
talking about? Walter? You're gonna trash our locker room. He says,
we never trash the locker rooms. Our coach room makes
us clean up the locker room. Walterer said ours was trashed.
He goes to the manager and says, what happened. The

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manager at Indiana said, the course made us do it.
So he goes here, did you make us do that?
We looked at him and said, we won, didn't we?

Speaker 5 (27:14):
That's a great story. And I've heard a lot of
good ones.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yes, I mean, what a great story. He said, we won,
didn't we?

Speaker 5 (27:24):
That's incredible? Incredible? And you know what they should game.
They should never do the helmets. They should have no
one putting on mask on helmets. That should be over.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
So I agree. I agree with you one, I really do.
He started it back in the mid nineties, and what
a great deal and what a great person. So we'll
be watching and Lee, you've got a lot on your plate.
Now you're busy.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
Now are we doing? We do?

Speaker 3 (27:49):
And it is well? Lee, I told you last Yeah.
So Danford, Hawaii, let's just start there. What did you
think happened. Both teams are not that good.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
I mean, Stanford had a chance to get a late
hit and that probably cost them the game. So you
would think that Stanford would have been the discipline team
back in the day nineties, early two thousands. Hawaii late
hits galore. I mean they tried, or at least try
tried to get away with you know, Shenanigans like that.

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But Stanford's really bad. I mean that's I think Hawaii
might be okay, they might win five games, six is
a ceiling, but Stanford's gonna be lucky to win more
than two games. They're that bad.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
I agree.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
I mean that's not good for the ACC. And of course,
since i'm seeing here in Louisville, this is ACC territory.
We know the SEC's everywhere, but big weekend for the ACC.
Before we get into your games, ACC has the farewells
Florida State, Bama, YEP, of course, Clemson, LSU, and Syracuse, Ami,

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Notre Dame.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
And here I'm gonna make I'm gonna make a prediction.
I'm gonna make a prediction here, Jerry, if the ACC
doesn't farewell and probably put at least two teams and
the ACC uh, well on the college football playoffs from
the ACC and also maybe probably get a team to

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the semifinals. I would not be shocked if the Big
Ten raids the ACC and takes four teams and the
SEC takes four teams and we're sitting with two two
conferences with twenty teams. Not what I want at all.
It would be It would be horrible for college football.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah, it's what happened. It's that Lee, It's going to happen.
People are just novel. I've been saying it for Yearsly
we see it. It's staring us in the face. Gonna happen.
Pandy at the Big Ten he's greedy, he wants it all,
and you know, the commissioner of the Big Ten. So
I'm just hoping it's imperative that the ACC performs well.

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People don't get it. They get mad. Oh, Jerry E's
you're down on football. You don't think Louisville's good. I'm like,
that's just not true. They're going to see what I've
been seeing for seven years. They're going to see it
come and they'll eventually I have to say, dang, he
might have been telling them. It's the truth. It's imperative
if they want. So let's get going. You've got a
lot of good games this weekend, and I've had people

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hitting me. I can't take scores today, but you can
email me this week and you can call me next
week if you cannot call in tomorrow. I just want
people to know because they're sending me things on my
phone and I can't answer them back. So let's get started.
We've got TCU and North Carolina. That's a good game.

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I like that game. Bill Belichick TCU TCUs three and
a half point favorites. Is that correct?

Speaker 5 (30:53):
Yeah? It is, and people are gonna be glued to
TV sets and who knows what exactly Bill Belichix motives
are here. I think personally he's trying to get back
in the NFL, so he needs to get off to
a fast start. TCU won and covered the last four
games last year. That's why they're the favorite. That's why
they're minus three and a half. But look at their schedule.

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They did not beat one good teams. What do you
think of when you think of TCU. I think of
head coach Sandy Dykes, and he had probably day in
the sun with Max Dugan carrying the offense to the
College Football Playoffs in the championship game. So now they've
got Josh Hoover. Some people say he's a dark horse

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Heisman candidate, but I don't think so. He's got some
great stats for twenty twenty four. So what I think
that you're going to see happen here is Jeff Collins,
who is really good. Come up with some schemes here
and TCU know what they're up against. That's the problem.
Home game sold out here and they were the TCU

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Frogs were unprepared for Colorado's ambush two years ago and
didn't even cover at eventual three and nine Stanford and
last year's opener. So, like I said, no game, no
game tape here exists on the latest version of Bill Belichick.
With the extra time to prepare, you take. You take
Bill Belichick plus the points at home North Carolina outright

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twenty eight, twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Seven.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
So tell me just Belichick experiment. It is an experiment.
How does he go in college footbook? Will he be successful?

Speaker 5 (32:35):
He'll go seven and five if everything goes right, eight
and four. Got a decent quarterback you know from South Alabama,
but probably needs eight and four for for it to
be considered a success seven to five and going to
I'm gonna I'm gonna date myself here, make up a
bowl game. The Tangerine Bowl isn't gonna be good enough.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
I got you. I'm just Auburn Baylor. Auburn's been down
for a while. It's just as riz y.

Speaker 5 (33:03):
Jeff. Baylor returns eighteen. They return eighteen starters, but another
team that didn't beat anyone here. And usually when you
get eight nine wins, yeah, you got thirty thirty five
forty sacks. They only had twenty three sacks last year.
Their defense gave up plus thirty five points five times
last year. Auburn bringing a transfer quarterback Jackson Arnold from Oklahoma.

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Auburn does have the number six transfer portal class. They
are loaded up with guys there and Baylor their past
defense number sixty, number sixty in the country. I think
Alburn's going to be able to pass on them. I
just think they get better athletes. And I know it's
on the road, but I think Auburn is able to

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hold off Baylor thirty one to twenty three.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Okay, I like Auburn. It's time for them to bounce back.
It's just too important for that school. I mean, football
is important, just like Alabama, and I expect them to
bounce back. I mean they could.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
They could go to the college they go to the
College World Series in baseball and the Final Four and basketball,
and still it would be considered a disappointment for the
year in athletics if the team doesn't football team doesn't
have a winning record and doesn't make some noise.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
I agree, No, I mean it's Bruce Pro's done a
great job. Not a Bruce Pro fan, but he's done
a great job at Alburn turning the program around, charismatic,
does a good job with those things. But if football
is not good, you just don't feel the same about Oliver.
Let's go to second best game of the week Clemson LSU.
I mean second best game of the week. Most of

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the time, this would be the key game of the week.
But what do you think. Can Kelly win his first
game first tea? They've lost every game since twenty nineteen?
Can that happened for LSU? And it comes in truly back,
which one.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
So I was shocked at. This is the first regular
season meeting between these teams. LSU did win that twenty
nineteen title game forty two to twenty five. Like I said,
LSU lost five straight opening games. Here's the problem for LSU.
I think it's up front. They have not been the same.
Everyone talks to you about Jamar Chase, Joe Burrow, Justin Jefferson.

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But you win games up front. I mean the guys
in the skill positions. They can be the difference taking
from good to great. But LSU lost four of the
starting five offensive linemens to the draft and four starting
defensive linemen departed, so they're gonna have trouble matching up.
You're gonna see three guys from Clemson on the defensive

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line go high in the draft. We're talking about first
or at the latest second round. How's you just seven
and five straight up in four and eight against the
spread on the road under Brian Kelly, while Clemson only
sixty three and five straight up home? So they're only
laying four points. It's not like they're laying two touchdowns here.
I like Clemson here thirty six, twenty eight.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Ken Clemson, now that you're talking about how good their
defensive line is, I had no idea. Can they compete
for a national championship? Do that, I mean they have
I think is a great coach.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
He really is.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Do they compete for a national championship?

Speaker 5 (36:23):
I think so? They're right there. They're not as good
as they were like three four years ago, but they're
close there. They're defensive line. Is that good? Three most
important players college football? Quarterback, two defensive tackles wide defensive
tackles more important than any other position on offense except
for quarterback and defense because they stopped the run. If

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you can't run up the middle, then you got to
throw the ball. And if they can, they don't have
need sacks. Just collapse the pocket and and just tie
up enough blockers. Those defensive ends, I mean, they're gonna
they're gonna create havoc all night long and all day long.
So just remember that's where they're strong. They got kay
Klubnick is is going to go first quite five picks

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of the draft, and like say, a lot of defensive
linemen are going to go early for Clemson also, so
they're gonna be right there.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Okay, now you said club Nick Anthony my son loves him.
He spoke highly of him, and I think that he's
pretty good. I didn't know he'd be talking to. But okay,
now you've got Haines King at Georgia Tech. So this
year the a SEC does have two quality quarterbacks. Is
that what you're telling me? I mean quality quarterback.

Speaker 5 (37:32):
Carson beck was projected the year before people forget thank you,
I'm to go forget to go first, might go first? Yes, yeah,
So yeah the a SEC this this, this, this better
be their year with all these quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Okay, you're right. I mean Carson Beks has had the
off season last year, but you're right.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
He is.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
He is a very good quarterback. He's got great size,
I mean he is, he's one one got to do it.

Speaker 5 (37:59):
He's got he's got a up with it, you know.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
And yep, I forgot about that, I really did. So
they've got three quality quarterbacks in the ACC this year.
I'll be watching them. Alabama in Florida State. Mike Norville's
on the hot seats, no question about it. Played sports
you he's got to do something this year. What happens

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and transpires in Tallahassee this.

Speaker 5 (38:24):
Year, well, Bama head coach Kaitlyn Deaver has done a
great job, landing a top five class in recruiting and
a transfer portal. People thought they wouldn't go there that much,
but they are. They're picking and choosing those spots and
getting some really good players, and public's little down on them.
You know, they after you lose four games and you

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end the season losing the Michigan and a Bowl. Who
was not very good last year.

Speaker 7 (38:49):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
He made a really good acquisition bringing back Ryan Grubb,
who was his offensive coordinator of Washington. He was a
Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator last year. Really good.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (39:00):
Addition, craziest to think about it. Two years ago, Florida
State had an undefeated regular season. Their quarterback doesn't get injured,
they're playing the national title game, and then they go
to two and ten. That's all people are remembering. Here's
the problem for them if they fall behind in this
game by double digits. Thomas Castianos, who is the BC transfer,

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is not a passing quarterback.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
He makes things happen with his feet and.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
Buying time, but he's not a true dropback quarterback. Last
year against the Division one teams, the only time the
offense for Boston College when he was there scored more
than twenty three points against Florida State. So Florida State
saw him as best are like, oh, we'll take this kid.
But other than that, he doesn't that good trash all

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summer Obama. I like Bama here. I think they're the
right side. Thirty eight twenty thirty eight to twenty I'm waiting.
I'm really interested in watching Florida's Everyone is upsetly we
get the games. I can't editorialized. But with his name,
members and likeness, this is the second year in a row.
College football is exciting.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
This can be. I mean it's exciting. There's so many changes.
It's just exciting this can be. But a lot of
people don't see it that way. Kentucky Toledo, big game
for the Cats.

Speaker 5 (40:18):
Oh it is, and Toledo is good. There's a reason
why this line is under a touchdown. So Toledo's won
four straight years winning records. They destroyed Mississippi State early
last year and then you know they kept off the season.
They beat Pitting the Bowl here, So I think the
Wildcats offense just lacks weapons here. They didn't even have

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bull practices here, which Toledo had. So you know, Calsada
is gonna be the quarterback. I think he'll be fine here,
but I wouldn't be shocked if there's a short leash.
If he doesn't do well here. You look at last
year and unless it's really improved, Kentucky can't run, can't
protect the quarterback, doesn't have a pass rush, and I

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mean just I think they have too many weaknesses here.
Long team favored here. I hate to say, Toledo outright,
twenty three to twenty.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Got you game of the week.

Speaker 5 (41:16):
You've got that happens, oh, I just it's gonna be
a long, long week to the next game.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Yeah, and it's old miss, I mean, can duck you
doesn't get a break the long long week is ole
missed the following week. Ye what a schedule Ohio State
Texas best game over the game. I think in years
arch manning this.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Schedule, this schedule is incredible.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
This week, Jerry incredible. I mean we didn't even go
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Speaker 3 (42:09):
Lee love you like always, brother. I'll see you the
in Louisville. Place to Miami. I'm coming into town. Tunk
you later.

Speaker 5 (42:15):
Sounds good sports See.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Then E Sports Radio. Talk to you tomorrow. Love you,
bye bye