August 13, 2024 • 43 mins
The FnA Podcast with Kevin Figgers and Adam Auslund + Brie Brie as Petros Papadakis joins the show to talk about the faliures of USC and Lincoln Riley, how the PAC-12 teams will fare this season, how Deshaun Foster froze up at media day, what Tom Brady will be as a broadcaster and more + Adam got a private tour at Intuit Dome.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Let's get this. This is ghetto.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Broadcasting live from the studios of AM five to seven day.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
It's on a website.
Speaker 4 (00:08):
This is fn A man, I am a god.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Now what why don't you get out of that jumpsuits?
Let me smack that fat ass.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
That's a scary crew. As far as the product.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
Goes a voice of a new generation. Many of the young.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Guys really at the top of their games.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
The two of them had something in common.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
We bring you radio ecstasy.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Broadcasting live from the studios of AM five to seven day.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Let it happen.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
This is the FNA Podcast.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
Welcome into the FNA Podcast. Here on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Kevin, what do we normally say for.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
We say today today we got Tom cuz.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
We do have.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
We got Tom because you.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Were coming up on my face all in my hood,
disrespected me. All some gangs ship a couple my hose.
Today I don't have time back. Thanks, I go see
my cousin. But today I got Tom cuz.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
That impersonation was so good. You even ate your words
just like he does, like he was so hyped up.
Beautifully done. Frank Cally, I know eats your damn heart out.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Do we ever confirm whether or not that kid died
or is alive. Remember, there was.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
A report was talking reckless like that he's dead.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Those are reput like, oh, he's dead, and then I
was like, no, that was me. I'm not dead. And
then someone was like, no, that ain't him, that's just
some other random white dude. He actually is dead. And
I never really got resolution to that.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
We live in a world where somebody would try to
have a fake identity of a guy who said, and
his claim to fame was I got time today. And
that dude that probably tried to fake the bad actor
picked up one hundred thousand followers on TikTok immediately because
of that.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Hey, that's all you need. That's currency in life these days,
TikTok followers.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
This is the f and A podcast. I'm out of Moslem.
I'm a follow Adam a.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
He he's at kfig one at fna's show on Twitter, Facebook.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And the Gram.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
We do not have a TikTok currently, although I guess
I do now I'm a week.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Yeah, I know Adam's to TikTok.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
He's doing dances and he's doing all sorts of cutups
and montages good stuff.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I like it a fool. I am ashamed, but I'm
playing the game. I have decided, Kevin, I will give
it a year of really making a push on social media.
So at what is it? Clippers Talk is where you
can find me on TikTok. I also have a YouTube
now at follow Adam a that's for Clippers Talk. I'm
(02:37):
trying to just take the show and make it into
a visual a vodcast because I've been doing the show
for so long and I don't know, there seems to.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Be some interest. We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
But I even did a TikTok where I had my
shirt off talking about how I'm trying to get to
ten percent body fat.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Oh I saw it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Hey, I'm sorry, I'll scrolling on Twitter.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
I was like, Adam thirst trapping right now on Twitter,
what the hell's going on?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I thought I could tie it as like a gimmicky.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Thing to be like, follow my journey of trying to
get a ten percent body fat before the Clipper season starts.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
I always thought it was like one of those models
like oh my god, I can't believe can you believe
these shoes that I have on? And I was like
you're wearing shoes. Really, you know what you're doing when
you post that stuff, sistem. You ain't fooling me.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Yeah, it is a sad world that I'm trying to
be a part of at the moment.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Hey man, that's what the world is. That's how you
make it out here.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
So a year from now, when you have over a
million followers or are making ten million dollars a year,
just don't forget about your boy.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
I never would. It will also never happen. I'm just
trying to piggyback off of Carlo Jimenez. I work with
a guy who's got two hundred k followers on TikTok.
I feel like there's some connection there. Maybe I should
try to ride the gravy.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Train or something like that.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
You know, you should, Yeah, and do what I can.
Take advantage of the moment. If you can't beat them,
join them, because that's where it is right now. If
you don't have a social media presence, my guess is
at some point it's just gonna be a job requirement
for everyone to have a social media presence.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Kevin, I'll tell you this. I speaking to someone who
works in our industry. I want to get too granually here.
But there was a job posting for a radio gig
and someone I know who has a lot of radio experience,
and there's many others who applied for this job that
had years of radio experience for an on air job,
and they were passed over for someone who is an influencer.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
They had no experience whatsoever.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
And the companies now are like, we'll teach you radio,
We'll teach you the media stuff, bring us your following.
That's what it is. They want to get the younger audience.
They want to get the people that already have a
high profile. We can teach you all the other stuff.
That's kind of where yes, well, and now TV is
is your phone, you know, YouTube, TikTok, all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So that's where that's where our world is going right
now at TV.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
The Truman Show very prescient, very prophetic. It is the
wild wild West, but it's not going anywhere. There's not
only more radio happening every day, and.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
I'm not hating on it, it's adapter die Like the
companies know what they need to do nor to stay
of float. So that's that's where the world is right now,
So that's what you want to do. That's what you
have to do.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You know, a man evolve or dies what I always said.
Back in Colorado. More on Colorado coming up in a
little bit. We have Petros Papadekas coming on.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
We'll talk about the state of the what was the
PAT twelve that's now defunct and where those teams went
scattering like the Tower of Babbel situation. Right, we'll tell
you about that with Petros. He's the college football expert.
But we could start things off here with a voicemail, Kevin,
if you want.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, let's do it. Let's go back into the archives.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
We've had this voicemail and our apologies for for not
playing this for a while. We've just we've had shows
and we've been kind of up against it the last
few weeks, so we weren't able to get to it.
But we still encourage you to send in your voicemails
at nine four nine four seven eight eleven ninety seven.
So let's get to this voicemail that we've been squatting
on for a while, Adam, and see how relevant it still.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Maybe I have no idea what's going and going on
in my great Lake State.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Is there a.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Scamdal going on with Mommy Williams? Why do you get
fired after one year? Please tell me the story. Somebody
the roundtable help me out. I don't know what is
going on. This is a freaking disaster. The draft is coming.
We got young players drafted high that now has no direction.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Me. Okay, I'm sorry, I got that bit jo next
call now, this is our fault.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
We should have gotten to this earlier.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
But when I hear the draft is coming, I feel
like it's dated enough where we should start to cut
off that call for sure now.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
And if you guys aren't familiar, I'm sure you are.
You were talking a lot of FNNBA fool on this show.
Monny Williams signed a massive contract as the head coach
of the Detroit Pistons got fired after one year, like
Tory mentioned, and I will say, Trey Jon Langdon, their
new general manager from all reports and intends and purposes,
took that job as GM with the assumption that he
was going to be working with Monty Williams as the
(06:59):
head coach. And this came from above him and came
from ownership Tom Gores. So I remember asking myself at
the time, Adam that what exactly happened between Mani and ownership,
because from everything that I was hearing and reading, the
general manager of the basketball people in the front office,
you know, they put all their support behind Minnie Williams
when they took that job.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It was curious.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
It was a head scratcher when somebody gets what almost
eighty million dollars becomes the highest paid coach of all time,
because it seemed like that's what it took to lure
him to a place like Detroit correct and you were
petting was someone you were getting someone who was I
don't know, thought about is maybe a top five coach
in the NBA. He at least had a lot of
(07:41):
recent success with the Phoenix Suns getting to the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Of course they blew a two to zero lead.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Sorry, Breebrie feel better, but he had I guess the pedigree. Yeah,
so something must have gone horribly wrong behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And now they have JB.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Bickerstaff and luck to the Detroit pisted into a.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Full rebuild, a perpetual rebuild.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Yeah, at the moment, it's been a long long time.
They made the playoffs that one year with Blake Griffin.
But outside of that, it has been an absolute dumpster
fire since I don't know.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
They had those back to back runs to the NBA Finals. Yeah,
they went back to back titles.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
If they actually cover Robert Orry or something, you know.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Thank god, turns out covering a guy named big Shot
Bob should be a priority. All right, before you get
to petrospapadakas quickly here more fn n B A.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I went into a dome. Oh, I'll tell you all
about it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Let's do it. This is great it, let's rock.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Because I know they opened up the doors to some
select media members a few weeks ago. I wasn't sure
if you were a part of that media horde or
not very jealous. Well, so do tell.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
I don't want to toot my own horn too much here,
but I may have gotten a private tour.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Oh excuse me.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, just recognize who you're talking to, is all I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
All right, I mean, this is the guy that taught
Noah Eagle everything that he knows. It's a big superstar
for NBC doing the Olympics in college football and such.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Hell of a call the Golden dagger on that shot
from Steph Kurry pretty good over Nico, but toom over
a double team over Wemby. The dramatics were there, but yes,
we look forward to some of those calls coming up
from Carlo Jimenez. Now it into it, Dolmas. It was me,
Chuck Mockler and Will Updyke the CEO, Clips and Dip
(09:34):
Cruise Dips.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
The whole crew made it.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
That's great.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
It was us three getting a private tour. I'm not
gonna lie Kevin. There was a point where we were
passing a group of people, maybe thirty or forty people
season ticket holders that were getting a tour, and we
felt pretty special that it was just us three.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And then when they shattered us out and said.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Yeah, clips and Dip, we were like, all right, all right,
we almost feel like royalty here for a second.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Oh you guys are gonna get so much clips and
Dip podcast, you know, as.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It's un all those groupies.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
I think I think it was also cool that Steve
Bomber gave you guys the tour himself.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I think that was pretty nice of them to do that.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
I can't say who did give us the tour, okay,
but I will say it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Was not Steve Bomber, gotcha.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I'm not gonna play it up that. But however, I
can't say enough about how Steve Bomber delivered. And I
know everybody's gonna say your accompany men. Of course you're
gonna say that you.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Work for the Clippers.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Yes, I do, and I always make sure I say
full disclosure and put that out there so you know
where I'm coming from. Obviously I know where my bread
is butter. But guys, you are going to be blown
away because the first thing we did, and I was
just telling you this off the air, we go to
the very top, the furthest seat away from the court.
(10:47):
Now at the time they're getting ready for Bruno Mars.
You can see the video at follow out of May
on YouTube. I put together a four minute cut of
the entire experience, and you'll see the view from the
very top, the bird's eye view. But it's not the
basketball court. It's Bruno Mars. But you can steal as
much as they have played up the fact that you're
(11:09):
forty five feet closer in a lot of these seats
than you were at Crypto dot Com Arena. Now at
into it Dome, you really can't do it justice. Without
being there, you feel so much closer, even in the
furthest point away from the floor. It's unbelievable. I've never
experienced anything like that because it's all angles, man, it's
(11:30):
just figuring out how to build it up. And they
were so efficient with the space. Everything they do is
about efficiency there and you could just tell there was
so much thought put into this. It is going to
be the best place on earth to watch a basketball
game for I'd say at least ten years before somebody
else comes out with some say of the art thing.
But this is Steve Balmer's gift to Clipper Nation, and
(11:53):
he's a Microsoft guy, so you would expect it to
be all high tech like nothing else you've ever seen,
but it starts with just being close to the action
and there's really truly not a bad seat in the house.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Now, Kevin, that's incredible, and I know it's something that
he talked up. And the video board is something that
I saw and I don't know if they were able
to turn that thing on and show you how it works,
but that's the thing that looks amazing, and it's basically
from what I can view from the videos I've seen
a bit of a smaller version of the Oculus screen
that they have at SOFI Stadium, but a lot more
bells and whistle, so many things, stats and facts and figures,
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and the lights go and sync. The lights look like
they're attached to the seats or something, or to the
floors in the stands, and they all go in sequence
along with the video board.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It looks incredible, Kevin.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
There's T shirt guns on the video board. They can't
hit anyone in the arena. It's not just a select
view that can be reached. Now, any seat can be
hit with a T shirt. Oh, by the way, you
have a remote control at your seat, so I guess
you can play some of the video board games and
(13:01):
do some of the polls using the little four button
remote control.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
Wait, like a seat in an airplane where you have
your little individual monitor like that?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Mmmmm wow, it's just I didn't like that.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
And everybody gets them. There's a quality even in the
three hundreds or whatever it is. The furthest away seats
have all the amenities. You want to wow, now.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Did it the person that gave you the tour? Because
I know you couldn't do this during a tour situation.
They really have to wait until actual events start happening.
But the concessions and how that's supposed to work, where
it's a grab and go and you get it, gets
debited from your account or credit it to your credit
card account or whatever. Did they explain exactly how that
situation is going to work. Do they use facial recognition technology?
Do you have to scan something? How is that gonna work?
Speaker 6 (13:43):
So you can choose whether or not you want to
use your phone if you're too afraid of the sign
of the beast or whatever, and times by using yes,
facial recognition.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Oh so it is that.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Okay, that is an option.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
And it's as simple. I did this with the flagships
buying a couple of hats. You sign up for it,
you put your credit card in, and then it takes
a shot of your face and when you walk in,
it's not like you have to scan it like it's
mission impossible and it takes forever, and there's that little
red laser that goes up and down your face.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, you could pretty much just walk.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
By and it will say welcome back at him or
welcome in Adam. I don't know how it picks it
up so easily so quickly there, But it seems yes,
very very intuitive, and I don't know, like technology I
didn't think we had at this point.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know, I still feel like voice to text could
be better.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
So I'm a little skeptical when it comes to self
driving cars and all these things when we can't even
get that shit right. But in this case and into
it dome, things were working well and things were working smoothly.
Now do I expect there to be some hang ups
in the first event on Thursday for the Bruto Mars concert.
Of course there's going to be. It's the first it's
the opening ceremony for the arena, and it's probably not
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gonna go as smoothly as you would hope.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
As any opening event goes.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
There's gonna be, you know, some hitches, but it is
going to be optimized by the time I think the
season starts at least, and it is Kevin. I'm talking
about the sweets now and there's less sweet levels, so
there's more seats out there and better views because of
this nice So it's just Crypto, I believe has three
(15:30):
different rows of suits.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
This is just one.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
But then you have the club levels, which have their
own outside of the seating area inside the arena. You
also have assigned seats and tables at the club level
where you can go and hang out there, lounge areas,
and then there was the Lexus Lounge, which is a
court side view, the court side Lexus Lounge.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
And what's interesting there is first of all the just
high level.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Fancy dining room that you have there, but still casual
enough for everyone to be comfortable. But it's definitely a
premium spot. It's all luxury, it's posh, it's beautiful. But
like it Dallas when the Jerry Jones Dome opened and
there were those seats where the team runs in right
next to going into the arena, the same thing happens.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
There's a shoot.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
There's a hallway where Clippers fans run by on their
way in or into the practice facility or into the
media room. So you can be eating, you can be
drinking right there, and players are walking by right next
to you.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
That's what's really cool.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
That's obviously, you know, a high end situation if you
can afford the court side Lexus Lounge.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
No, that's a great perk.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
I experienced that they have that at the Bemo Stadium
for LAFC games and if you were able to add
a friend of mine that had to sea.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
He was a seasoned seat holder.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
And they basically have their own version of It's kind
of like the Dugout club at Dodger Stadium, and they
do adjacent to where all the food and seating area
is is exactly what you described. That is the tunnel
where the home team walks in and out. So if
you're sitting there before the game and a lot, it's
an event, you know, thirty minutes or an hour before
the game, whatever it is. When the players are coming
out into the field, you can actually line up on
the railing as they walk by an enter into the stadium.
(17:18):
It's it's really cool and that's a phenomenal innovation. I'm
glad that into it picked it up. This is some
exciting stuff. So the big question lest I bury the lead?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Okay, so whot so one.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Am I getting my tickets? Where you hooking the brother up?
I mean, come on tickets?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
What exactly? I gotta go? No exactly?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
He was like, that's the I worked for the Clippers, Like, nah,
I was making that up. That's all right. Now, this is.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
A few games under my belt. You bring the family.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
No, No, it's all right, it's all right.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
But it's I even more so than even so far
because of all the innovation and all the build up
and how much they talk this up, and just seeing
the few videos I have seen, I don't know if
I've ever been more excited about the opening of a
stadium or an arena. And I am about this one,
I really am. And the fact that you have to
see it was a really really cool and I'm looking
forward to getting in there. It probably won't be opening night,
(18:07):
which I I think. I read the other day that
the Clippers are opening against Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Did I see that?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Bree October twenty third into a dome opening it up
against the rival of the Clippers. You can say they've
beaten the Clippers three times in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Clippers fans do not like the Phoenix Suns so well.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
It's good that they have that section that they will
not allow any fan wearing other jerseys and paraphernalia.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Now, how is that gonna work?
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Are they just gonna have a bunch of like big
muscly guys wearing sunglasses looking like CIA agents are just
grabbing people and throwing them out if they're wearing opposing
team jerseys.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
How is that gonna work.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
I think you have to sign up for what's being
called Chuck mark, and that makes you verify being a
Clippers fan by something you have bought before, a jersey
or something like that. So, yes, there could always be
ways to try to get around this stuff, but I
think for the most part, it's gonna be well handled.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It's gonna be easily done.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
What I'm interested in, and that's the wall area correct,
where it's just fifty rows of seating, no suites. It
is gonna be loud, a college level atmosphere, pandemonium there
for the loudest fans, and I think by the way,
you know, everything's measured in there, so if you're the
loudest fan that night, you can win something. You know,
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at the decibel levels. The audio is all.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Being I don't know how it's done. I don't know
how it's being recorded or what.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
There was that Beatles documentary where they're able to get
all that lost footage using new sound technology. Maybe they
have this Peter Jackson hooked them up. But what I'm
really interested in is the festivities outside at the plaza
because all that stuff is already open and that's where
the flagship store is. But there's the court, you see,
there's all this crazy artwork. People are already hanging out there.
(19:48):
What's that gonna be like on a game day? It's
gonna be a tailgate situation. It's it gonna be like
Jurassic Park up in Toronto with the Raptors.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
That's gonna be really cool too.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
That's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
And then I love the tribute to the high school athletes,
the great history of high school sports that we've had
in this city. And they're gonna have murals sprawled the
cross I think, really the entire arena, I believe correctly
Adam in all of the hallways where you can see
dedications to great high school athletes who performed in LA.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
They have a jersey from every high school in California
sans seven right now, there's still seven that they have
to track down.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
It's the entire state that's insane.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It is unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
If you want to see the video again at follow
out of May on YouTube, it's called Private Into It
Dome Tour, and it was that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I'm like that, all right.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I understand it.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
We will.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
We'll out ballo at your feet.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
I wonder if they have our next guest jersey from
his Peninsula high school football days off. His jerseys is
one of the ones that's hanging in the hallways there
at the Intuit Dome.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
We'll see.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
But right now I want to get into college football
with our special guest for today, Adam.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Let's go Alan Drag and Dug thank you guty Well.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
With week zero of the college football season less than
two weeks away, with Florida State and Georgia Tech kicking
off in Ireland, we thought we'd bring in someone who's
like from there, or at least you'd think so, with
his vast knowledge of Irish culture, like how Saint Patti's
day is really about the patron Saint Patrick driving the
snakes out of Ireland, like how our guest has been
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trying to drive the snakes at a USC for years.
It's college football expert Petros Papadakas back on the f
Anda podcast. You'll see him on Fox calling college football
games all season long, and of course you continue to
hear him daily on the Petros and Money Show.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Pee, how are we doing?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Good morning, Hello, everybody. Hello, Hello to the f and as.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Let's start with this, you know, scheduling conflict a couple
of weeks ago when we were trying to get you on.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
But I gotta follow up.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
If you're a player and your coach bombs that bad
on stage like my guy, Deshaun Foster, former Panther did,
does that matter at all? Are you like he can
even talk or is it like, hey, you can't talk.
He's got that too much dog in him. He can't
talk at all. That's what we want.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yeah, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I mean, most every head coach that you ever come
across in the world can go up on a stage
and talk for in a minute or two. Right, That's
obviously part of the job that is escaped to Shaun
Foster so far.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
He's not super media trained, And.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
In some ways, if I was a player, I might
find it refreshing to feel like the coach feels a
little bit like me, you know, when all the lights
are on and all the cameras are on. Because talking
to there are guys, and whether they're.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Media guys or.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Former players that are media guys or whatever, there are
people that can really communicate about football and with football
people and then when the cameras start rolling, they have
a really hard time. And I'm not just talking about
while this guy played at Middle Tennessee State and we
had a great conversation at the bar, Marcus Allen. People
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like that, like you talk to him and it's inspiring,
or you see him talk to a team in a
room where there's only football people, and then the camera's
role or the light comes on and it's a different story.
Some people are just that way that it's not for everybody.
The media stuff in today's day and age, you do
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have to be able to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And the fact that he doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Seemingly any of those skills right now or want to
deal with doing it and getting better. Because they canceled.
They were supposed to be at our event on Friday,
and they canceled day of because I think they were
a little uncomfortable. And I told them, I said, you
have to trust me. I'm going to take care of
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your coach. This is our job is to get along
with college football coach. It's not our job to upset
the man. But ultimately it didn't work out, so I
think they're trying to get him out there, and I
think it's a real push.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
And pull for all of them.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
But if I was a player, it really doesn't matter
because as a player, you don't really notice what your
coach does in the media unless he's saying something about you,
and you have many other concerns like camp and the
grind of camp. So I don't know really what it
means for their season. I don't think if UCLA is good,
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it's not because Deshaun Foster can't talk to the media,
And if they're bad, it's not because Deshaun Foster can't
talk to the media. But it's certainly something concerning for
the long term.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Well, how good do you think they potentially can be
this year their first year going into the Big Ten?
They lose they're a great defensive coordinator across the street
to USC there certainly have some talent on the roster, obviously,
but this is a whole new beast with the guy who,
if we're to be quite frank was not their first
choice a head coach. Him Kelly basically left high and
dry as late in the process as you possibly could.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
And they had to scramble to find someone.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
I guess based on what you know what would be
your prognosis for UCLA season this year?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Well, uh, they got Hawaii to open. They're at Hawaii,
which is a tricky trip, and Hawaii won a few
games last year. They're not bad. Timmy Chang knows what
he's doing. Then Indiana's coming to the Rose Bowl. Then
they got LSU at LSU by the way.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Yeah, and Oregon then comes to the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Then you're at Penn State. I mean, it just keeps
on coming.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, I mean it's gonna be uh, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
But the thing is, i mean everybody keeps asking everybody
what's this year going to be like? When it talking
about USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, Colorado. You know,
all of these teams in different conferences, all of these
different things happening. No one really knows what the year
is going to be like. Nobody knows what any of
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these teams are going to be like or what they're
going to perform like in these places. I would imagine
it's going to be not as bad as you think,
but probably not as good as you'd hope for any
of them. And that's just situationally where the teams are
as well. But everybody's approaching the year like a kid
going to the beach for the first time and you
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run away from the water and then you touch the
water a little bit. I mean, it's very trepidacious time
because anybody that tells you they have this all figured
out and what the year is going to be like
as a liar, I don't expect UCLA to be great.
I hope they can make a bowl game. I think
that would be a pretty good accomplishment for Deshaun if
he can. They got to keep one quarterback going, and upright,
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that would be Garber's who's like one hundred years old,
like a lot of these guys. So we'll see how
it shakes out. But I'd worry about them in Hawaii
because right now, just on paper, Hawaii's got much more
of an identity than UCLA football, and that's a weird
place to play. So if they can get through that,
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then we'll reassess. But I think we got to see
week one for everybody, which is not much of a
tell tale anyway. But this year is a real mystery when.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
It comes to usc because you mentioned them a second ago,
and Weikie before we get into this season, just more
of a broad picture scope because Lincoln Riley, I guess,
made some headlines at Media Dad when he hinted at
the fact that they might think about doing away with
the Notre Dame rivalry because their schedule is so tough
in the Big Ten one, do you think that's something
that's actually feasible that would happen, And do you think
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it actually would be through to their advantage to lighten
up their schedule in the non conference considering how good
the Big Ten is.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I don't care. I don't really care.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
If USC lost every game in the season, if they
didn't play Notre Dame, then go ahead and just change
the name of the team, call them the Southern cal
Torriadors or something.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Thing.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
If we had a two game or two team BCS
system for years and years and USC played Notre Dame
every year, there was a playoff, and USC played Notre
Dame every year, Now that there's a twelve twelve team playoffs,
suddenly USC's not going to play Notre Dame anymore. Should
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we have a twenty four team or thirty two team
playoff to make Lincoln Riley more comfortable. Lincoln Riley shouldn't
talk about scheduling. He should say that that's Jen Cohen,
the athletic director's job, and leave it at that. I
don't know who he thinks he is. He's seven and
seven in his last fourteen games at USC, and that's
with one of the best quarterbacks general consensus, in the
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history of college football. And that's what people say about
Kayleb Williams. And you were seven and seven in your
last fourteen games, and now you're going to tell us
that you can't play Notre Dame anymore, one hundred plus
year old rivalry that means everything to both teams that
are involved, because you're joining the Big Ten and you
don't even know what that's going to be like. And
you have a reputation for leaving Oklahoma because you didn't
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want to be in the SEC. Whether that's true or not,
this is terrible. It's a terrible thing for Lincoln Riley
to say. It's a terrible thing for anybody at USC
to entertain. And USC has money and donors and power
for people that care about the Notre Dame rivalry, not
a bunch of millennial broke people who don't who don't
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know anything and think that Caleb Williams was the height
of USC football. I'm serious, this is a bad look.
They spend all summer trying to get out of the
LSU game that they're opening with, and now suddenly they
don't want to play Notre Dame anymore, or they're starting
to talk about that. I don't care. If we don't
have USC Notre Dame, we don't have college football. And
(29:52):
I know that we're trending away from almost everything. And
I know that geography and a lot of these rivalries
were ruined over the years. West Virginia Penn State or
West Virginia pitt the Holy War for a while, Texas,
Texas A and m all of these things. You know,
we've talked about over the years. But this is not feasible.
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And for Lincoln Riley to sit there and say that
is really disturbing, I think for a lot of USC people,
and it shouldn't be said. All the great USC teams
of all time, from Pete Carroll all the way back,
have scheduled bravely, and the fact that you might have
to play Rutgers or Maryland instead of Washington State or Arizona,
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and now all of a sudden, you can't play Notre Dame.
It's a travesty. It's an absolute travesty and it should
never be talked about. And it's really disturbing than Lincoln.
But it's not a shock. Lincoln Rally's not from here.
He has no connection with the place. He has no
connection with the Midwest or the West Coast. He's a
complete and total tech as football coach with roots and
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Mike Leach. And the fact that even would talk about
the schedule in that way is really disturbing.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Considering he doesn't have Caleb Williams anymore.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
And it covered up a lot of the issues us
he's had the last couple of seasons.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
I know about it.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
They were seven and seven, Well, the last fourteen games.
And how's that covering up your issues?
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Well, imagine how Bathy be without him, I guess, is
my point?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Maybe maybe maybe better, right, I mean, maybe he's a
better offensive coordinator when he's calling plays on time. And
you know that's what he did with Baker Mayfield and
a lot of these other guys.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
They ran the offense.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
And as the years went on and on, Caleb Williams,
you know, he did less and less than that. He
was less and less protected he trusted the offensive line
less and less, and he freelanced more and more and more.
And that's kind of like going out to the bars.
It's a lot of fun for a year or two,
but year three or four, you go seven and seven
and you lose the too late. So you think that's
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a possibility. They could be better this year without Caleb Williams.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Then they have to be.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
If they're not, then Lincoln Riley's not going to be coaching.
I mean, they have to be better. They have to
be a better team, Kevin. He can't just be a
guy running around like a chicken with his head cut
off and feast or famine. That's not how That's why
they ended up being five hundred, because they just depended
on one guy and his talent. They have to be
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a more balanced football team.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Will they be? I have no idea. I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I mean, Lincoln Riley is a play caller and an
offensive coach.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Is he a program builder? No?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Not proven. He didn't do that in Oklahoma. And what
does he have. He's got players, a small offensive line
and a small defensive line. They can not be improved
in one year. No, I mean, they didn't do it
in three years. Dean Lind's a good coach, Matt enz
is an excellent coach. Doug Belk is an excellent coach.
(32:53):
I mean, they hired some really good defensive coaches. Are
they going to fix everything and the culture of USC
football and find the way to pull everything in the
right direction with this new amalgamation of staff and players.
I have no idea, and anybody that tells you that
they do is a liar. Miller Moss is going to
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be the starting quarterback. They paid a kid of Mayava,
I think from you and to.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Be the backup.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
And look us, he's got plenty of nil money and
they have a hard time spending it in some of
these ways. Lincoln Riley, he might suffer a little bit
from what Deshaun Foster does. You know, Does he have
the Colts of personality? Can he really be that guy
on the West Coast that makes USC football relevant Past
(33:43):
an individual award, which is what he did at Oklahoma,
Heisman trophies. We'll see, but I don't have much of
an idea on what the season is going to be
like at all, but I am interested to see him.
That one point of Miller Moss like the bowl game,
you know, running the play is that the guy calls,
and we'll see if they have a more balanced attack
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in that way.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Now, one thing you did allude to is that he's
not going to be here if things don't turn around.
There was a prevailing thought because of how much money
they gave him, that he was not on the hot
seat this year. You think if this year goes off
the rails, they might consider letting him go. How much
they owe them. I think that he might make it
easier for them a right. I mean I thought that
that was this year. I thought that he wanted out.
(34:27):
They coached last year like they wanted out. They thought
that they were going to ride Caleb Williams the staff
or whoever he's really close with on the staff, thought
that they were going to ride that to the bear's
job or something like that.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Remember all the talk about that.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
I do.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, they really thought that. They really thought that, and
the year didn't end up like that. So now they've
got to fix USC football and we'll see if they're
up for it. But I think might like Cliff Kingsbury,
there's probably an NFL coordinator job in his future if
things don't work out at s SE.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Petros Papadakas is our guest here in the FNA podcast.
P you mentioned USC having to adjust to life in
the Big ten, a more physical brand of football. What
about the rest of the Patch twelve? What about Oregon
and Washington? The Ducks have traditionally struggled against more physical
teams even when they were at their best. Just have
they They've lost to Isle State before LSU, they've lost
(35:23):
the trenches.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Well, yeah, but that's those are Chip Kelly. I mean,
Organ's built differently. Oregon and Washington have a better Well
look Washington, no one knows they lost a well, they
had a giant turnover. So Jedfish, the Washington coach, is
sitting there and saying like, Hey, we're this, We're that.
We just played in the playoff. We're the only team
(35:44):
in the West Coast to make the playoff twice. We've
got this pick, We've got that pick, panics, blah blah blah, doonza.
And then he sits there on the other side of
his mouth and says, we've had more turnover than anybody
else in college football. Well, which one is it? Are
you the great team that Caitlin de boor built or
are you just this mishmash? But look, he raised up Arizona.
No one thought he could do it, he did it.
(36:05):
And Will Rogers is a pretty good quarterback. I saw
him when he was at Mississippi State, So we'll see
where that goes. But you have to respect what Fish
did in Arizona. I don't know what Washington's going to
be like, but I like their chances maybe better than
sc and Ucla, just because what Fish has been proven
to do somewhere else, and as a program builder right
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where there was nothing, he made something Now. Oregon, on
the other hand, they've been built from their offensive line
and defensive line since Christball was really there, so they
can compete at the line of scrimmage. Oregon is built
much like UCLA basketball. Joining the Big Ten, everybody's like, well,
what's it going to be like? Well, UCLA plays a physical,
defensive brand of basketball. They're already built for it, right,
(36:52):
And I guess I would say the same thing about
Oregon football in the modern era. Will they win a
game against Ohio State or whatever, I don't know, but
they're fine on the line of scrimmage. There's a reason
everybody likes them. In the top five, and Dylan Gabriel
is a hell of a player and a really mature,
(37:13):
strong athlete like the guy they had before bon Nix.
So I like Oregon and I think that they're probably
the best of the four by far, so.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Of the teams in the PAC twelve since the disbanded
that are moving on to new conferences. I know you
said it's hard to project and no one really knows,
but you've seen these teams up close.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
I sure will.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
Who do you think has the best chance of making
the biggest impact showing themselves the best and their new conference,
whether it's Utah, whether it's SC and UCLA, which we
talked about. The prevailing thought is Utah going into the
Big twelve. Who do you think makes the most immediate
positive impact and shows themselves well in year one?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Utah and the Big twelve is going to be a bear.
But the Big twelve has great coaches. Matt Campbell's a
great coach, Climban's a great coach, Leipol is a great coach.
Whittingham's going to have his work cut out for him.
Mike Gundhy's a great coach. I mean, it just can't
be denied. What that guy does every year, whatever his
roster looks like, they win ten games or nine.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I like Utah, I like Oregon right now, just to
look at it. But there's a surprise in there somewhere
that we don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Dion. Yes, that's a podcasting in and of itself. I
don't have time for getting to that one.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Well, Dion can't have it both ways.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Oh yeah, he's another one. Trust me.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
You can't have like the nineties betting, debting, fighting and
guns in the locker room and the real loyalty and
the bullying and all.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
That in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
You can't have that and have modern day college football.
You can't have the trial by fire and the hazy
you know, all that stuff that happened when I was
a kid with an open transfer portal and players making money.
It just doesn't work that way anymore. And he's caught
in his own conundrum. I mean, the season hasn't even
(39:05):
started yet, and he's fighting with reporters and making headlines
in that way. So I'll say the same thing as
always said about Colorado. It's a great story, but it's
hard to see it ending.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
Well, there last one for you here, Pe, you were
at the Fox symposium or conference or whatever. How do
you think Brady is going to do it as a broadcaster?
Sucks for Greg Olsen, he was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
In today's media, whether something's good or not, it doesn't matter.
Everybody just celebrates something and we're all supposed to get
in line, So it might be like that. I'm sure
he'll be fine. I mean, he really is a striking presence,
you know, to be around him. It's not like sitting
next to Urban Meyer and you're like, oh, oh, there's
Urban Meyer, you know. I mean, it's he's it's like
Magic Johnson, who I don't like much, but he's a
(39:52):
striking presence. Right when you're in a room with Magic
Johnson and he's smiling and talking, it really draws peace
in a way that I mean, there's a reason the
guy's nickname was Magic. So, uh, he's got a little
bit of that and it'll be interesting to see if
it translates on the air. But I think he'll be
I think he'll be a lot better than people anticipate early. Uh,
(40:16):
But I don't know. I mean I never thought i'd
live in a world where people were making tens and
tens of millions of dollars almost per game to call football,
so it's so subjective. It's just weird, you know, the
Tony Romo thing and all that. It's just really odd.
Speaker 7 (40:34):
So yeah, Petros is one of them, and we thank
him for a take time to come on our show
for free haf A podcast again. Catch him on The
Petrols and Money Show weekdays on a five to seventy
LA Sports, and catch him on Fox and FS one
this season for college football coverage.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Pee as always, we appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
We'll talk to you later, all right, have a good one.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Everybody is again to Petros Papadaegas.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
That was a lots of fun.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
And I know we're still just about two weeks away,
a week and a half away from college football starting, but.
Speaker 7 (41:05):
Never too early, kind of excited at least for me,
never too early to talk college football at him.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
I know you have something called a week zero.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
Probably should start prepping at this point.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
And my god, did he go in hard.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
On uic oncol Riley.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I know it's four years.
Speaker 6 (41:20):
Petros is well known for his USC rants, where he's
first guessed.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
A lot of things and has ended up being right.
Speaker 6 (41:27):
And now you see guys like Paul Finebaum and the
national media guys jumping on and talking about what's going
on with USC. They were always late to the game,
uh and trailing Petros.
Speaker 7 (41:38):
I mean, Petro's basically cost himself a job as the
basketball PA guy because he went so.
Speaker 4 (41:42):
Hard after the university. But he doesn't care. He wants
to tell the truth and respect him for that.
Speaker 7 (41:46):
So thanks the thanks the oldp for that, Thanks to
Toy for his voicemail from like nine years ago that
we finally aired.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
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We say today today we got Tom cuz.
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Today I don't have time back. Thanks, I go see
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That impersonation was so good. You even ate your words
just like he does, like he was so hyped up.
Beautifully done. Frank Cally, I know eats your damn heart out.
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Do we ever confirm whether or not that kid died
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Those are reput like, oh, he's dead, and then I
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We live in a world where somebody would try to
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that dude that probably tried to fake the bad actor
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I'm a follow Adam a.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
He he's at kfig one at fna's show on Twitter, Facebook.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And the Gram.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
We do not have a TikTok currently, although I guess
I do now I'm a week.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Yeah, I know Adam's to TikTok.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
He's doing dances and he's doing all sorts of cutups
and montages good stuff.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I like it a fool. I am ashamed, but I'm
playing the game. I have decided, Kevin, I will give
it a year of really making a push on social media.
So at what is it? Clippers Talk is where you
can find me on TikTok. I also have a YouTube
now at follow Adam a that's for Clippers Talk. I'm
(02:37):
trying to just take the show and make it into
a visual a vodcast because I've been doing the show
for so long and I don't know, there seems to.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Be some interest. We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
But I even did a TikTok where I had my
shirt off talking about how I'm trying to get to
ten percent body fat.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Oh I saw it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Hey, I'm sorry, I'll scrolling on Twitter.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
I was like, Adam thirst trapping right now on Twitter,
what the hell's going on?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I thought I could tie it as like a gimmicky.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Thing to be like, follow my journey of trying to
get a ten percent body fat before the Clipper season starts.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
I always thought it was like one of those models
like oh my god, I can't believe can you believe
these shoes that I have on? And I was like
you're wearing shoes. Really, you know what you're doing when
you post that stuff, sistem. You ain't fooling me.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Yeah, it is a sad world that I'm trying to
be a part of at the moment.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Hey man, that's what the world is. That's how you
make it out here.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
So a year from now, when you have over a
million followers or are making ten million dollars a year,
just don't forget about your boy.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
I never would. It will also never happen. I'm just
trying to piggyback off of Carlo Jimenez. I work with
a guy who's got two hundred k followers on TikTok.
I feel like there's some connection there. Maybe I should
try to ride the gravy.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Train or something like that.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
You know, you should, Yeah, and do what I can.
Take advantage of the moment. If you can't beat them,
join them, because that's where it is right now. If
you don't have a social media presence, my guess is
at some point it's just gonna be a job requirement
for everyone to have a social media presence.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Kevin, I'll tell you this. I speaking to someone who
works in our industry. I want to get too granually here.
But there was a job posting for a radio gig
and someone I know who has a lot of radio experience,
and there's many others who applied for this job that
had years of radio experience for an on air job,
and they were passed over for someone who is an influencer.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
They had no experience whatsoever.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
And the companies now are like, we'll teach you radio,
We'll teach you the media stuff, bring us your following.
That's what it is. They want to get the younger audience.
They want to get the people that already have a
high profile. We can teach you all the other stuff.
That's kind of where yes, well, and now TV is
is your phone, you know, YouTube, TikTok, all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So that's where that's where our world is going right
now at TV.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
The Truman Show very prescient, very prophetic. It is the
wild wild West, but it's not going anywhere. There's not
only more radio happening every day, and.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
I'm not hating on it, it's adapter die Like the
companies know what they need to do nor to stay
of float. So that's that's where the world is right now,
So that's what you want to do. That's what you
have to do.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You know, a man evolve or dies what I always said.
Back in Colorado. More on Colorado coming up in a
little bit. We have Petros Papadekas coming on.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
We'll talk about the state of the what was the
PAT twelve that's now defunct and where those teams went
scattering like the Tower of Babbel situation. Right, we'll tell
you about that with Petros. He's the college football expert.
But we could start things off here with a voicemail, Kevin,
if you want.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, let's do it. Let's go back into the archives.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
We've had this voicemail and our apologies for for not
playing this for a while. We've just we've had shows
and we've been kind of up against it the last
few weeks, so we weren't able to get to it.
But we still encourage you to send in your voicemails
at nine four nine four seven eight eleven ninety seven.
So let's get to this voicemail that we've been squatting
on for a while, Adam, and see how relevant it still.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Maybe I have no idea what's going and going on
in my great Lake State.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Is there a.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Scamdal going on with Mommy Williams? Why do you get
fired after one year? Please tell me the story. Somebody
the roundtable help me out. I don't know what is
going on. This is a freaking disaster. The draft is coming.
We got young players drafted high that now has no direction.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Me. Okay, I'm sorry, I got that bit jo next
call now, this is our fault.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
We should have gotten to this earlier.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
But when I hear the draft is coming, I feel
like it's dated enough where we should start to cut
off that call for sure now.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
And if you guys aren't familiar, I'm sure you are.
You were talking a lot of FNNBA fool on this show.
Monny Williams signed a massive contract as the head coach
of the Detroit Pistons got fired after one year, like
Tory mentioned, and I will say, Trey Jon Langdon, their
new general manager from all reports and intends and purposes,
took that job as GM with the assumption that he
was going to be working with Monty Williams as the
(06:59):
head coach. And this came from above him and came
from ownership Tom Gores. So I remember asking myself at
the time, Adam that what exactly happened between Mani and ownership,
because from everything that I was hearing and reading, the
general manager of the basketball people in the front office,
you know, they put all their support behind Minnie Williams
when they took that job.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It was curious.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
It was a head scratcher when somebody gets what almost
eighty million dollars becomes the highest paid coach of all time,
because it seemed like that's what it took to lure
him to a place like Detroit correct and you were
petting was someone you were getting someone who was I
don't know, thought about is maybe a top five coach
in the NBA. He at least had a lot of
(07:41):
recent success with the Phoenix Suns getting to the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Of course they blew a two to zero lead.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Sorry, Breebrie feel better, but he had I guess the pedigree. Yeah,
so something must have gone horribly wrong behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And now they have JB.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Bickerstaff and luck to the Detroit pisted into a.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Full rebuild, a perpetual rebuild.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Yeah, at the moment, it's been a long long time.
They made the playoffs that one year with Blake Griffin.
But outside of that, it has been an absolute dumpster
fire since I don't know.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
They had those back to back runs to the NBA Finals. Yeah,
they went back to back titles.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
If they actually cover Robert Orry or something, you know.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Thank god, turns out covering a guy named big Shot
Bob should be a priority. All right, before you get
to petrospapadakas quickly here more fn n B A.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I went into a dome. Oh, I'll tell you all
about it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Let's do it. This is great it, let's rock.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Because I know they opened up the doors to some
select media members a few weeks ago. I wasn't sure
if you were a part of that media horde or
not very jealous. Well, so do tell.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
I don't want to toot my own horn too much here,
but I may have gotten a private tour.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Oh excuse me.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, just recognize who you're talking to, is all I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
All right, I mean, this is the guy that taught
Noah Eagle everything that he knows. It's a big superstar
for NBC doing the Olympics in college football and such.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Hell of a call the Golden dagger on that shot
from Steph Kurry pretty good over Nico, but toom over
a double team over Wemby. The dramatics were there, but yes,
we look forward to some of those calls coming up
from Carlo Jimenez. Now it into it, Dolmas. It was me,
Chuck Mockler and Will Updyke the CEO, Clips and Dip
(09:34):
Cruise Dips.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
The whole crew made it.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
That's great.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
It was us three getting a private tour. I'm not
gonna lie Kevin. There was a point where we were
passing a group of people, maybe thirty or forty people
season ticket holders that were getting a tour, and we
felt pretty special that it was just us three.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And then when they shattered us out and said.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Yeah, clips and Dip, we were like, all right, all right,
we almost feel like royalty here for a second.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Oh you guys are gonna get so much clips and
Dip podcast, you know, as.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It's un all those groupies.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
I think I think it was also cool that Steve
Bomber gave you guys the tour himself.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I think that was pretty nice of them to do that.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
I can't say who did give us the tour, okay,
but I will say it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Was not Steve Bomber, gotcha.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I'm not gonna play it up that. But however, I
can't say enough about how Steve Bomber delivered. And I
know everybody's gonna say your accompany men. Of course you're
gonna say that you.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Work for the Clippers.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Yes, I do, and I always make sure I say
full disclosure and put that out there so you know
where I'm coming from. Obviously I know where my bread
is butter. But guys, you are going to be blown
away because the first thing we did, and I was
just telling you this off the air, we go to
the very top, the furthest seat away from the court.
(10:47):
Now at the time they're getting ready for Bruno Mars.
You can see the video at follow out of May
on YouTube. I put together a four minute cut of
the entire experience, and you'll see the view from the
very top, the bird's eye view. But it's not the
basketball court. It's Bruno Mars. But you can steal as
much as they have played up the fact that you're
(11:09):
forty five feet closer in a lot of these seats
than you were at Crypto dot Com Arena. Now at
into it Dome, you really can't do it justice. Without
being there, you feel so much closer, even in the
furthest point away from the floor. It's unbelievable. I've never
experienced anything like that because it's all angles, man, it's
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just figuring out how to build it up. And they
were so efficient with the space. Everything they do is
about efficiency there and you could just tell there was
so much thought put into this. It is going to
be the best place on earth to watch a basketball
game for I'd say at least ten years before somebody
else comes out with some say of the art thing.
But this is Steve Balmer's gift to Clipper Nation, and
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he's a Microsoft guy, so you would expect it to
be all high tech like nothing else you've ever seen,
but it starts with just being close to the action
and there's really truly not a bad seat in the house.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Now, Kevin, that's incredible, and I know it's something that
he talked up. And the video board is something that
I saw and I don't know if they were able
to turn that thing on and show you how it works,
but that's the thing that looks amazing, and it's basically
from what I can view from the videos I've seen
a bit of a smaller version of the Oculus screen
that they have at SOFI Stadium, but a lot more
bells and whistle, so many things, stats and facts and figures,
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and the lights go and sync. The lights look like
they're attached to the seats or something, or to the
floors in the stands, and they all go in sequence
along with the video board.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It looks incredible, Kevin.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
There's T shirt guns on the video board. They can't
hit anyone in the arena. It's not just a select
view that can be reached. Now, any seat can be
hit with a T shirt. Oh, by the way, you
have a remote control at your seat, so I guess
you can play some of the video board games and
(13:01):
do some of the polls using the little four button
remote control.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
Wait, like a seat in an airplane where you have
your little individual monitor like that?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Mmmmm wow, it's just I didn't like that.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
And everybody gets them. There's a quality even in the
three hundreds or whatever it is. The furthest away seats
have all the amenities. You want to wow, now.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Did it the person that gave you the tour? Because
I know you couldn't do this during a tour situation.
They really have to wait until actual events start happening.
But the concessions and how that's supposed to work, where
it's a grab and go and you get it, gets
debited from your account or credit it to your credit
card account or whatever. Did they explain exactly how that
situation is going to work. Do they use facial recognition technology?
Do you have to scan something? How is that gonna work?
Speaker 6 (13:43):
So you can choose whether or not you want to
use your phone if you're too afraid of the sign
of the beast or whatever, and times by using yes,
facial recognition.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Oh so it is that.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Okay, that is an option.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
And it's as simple. I did this with the flagships
buying a couple of hats. You sign up for it,
you put your credit card in, and then it takes
a shot of your face and when you walk in,
it's not like you have to scan it like it's
mission impossible and it takes forever, and there's that little
red laser that goes up and down your face.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, you could pretty much just walk.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
By and it will say welcome back at him or
welcome in Adam. I don't know how it picks it
up so easily so quickly there, But it seems yes,
very very intuitive, and I don't know, like technology I
didn't think we had at this point.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know, I still feel like voice to text could
be better.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
So I'm a little skeptical when it comes to self
driving cars and all these things when we can't even
get that shit right. But in this case and into
it dome, things were working well and things were working smoothly.
Now do I expect there to be some hang ups
in the first event on Thursday for the Bruto Mars concert.
Of course there's going to be. It's the first it's
the opening ceremony for the arena, and it's probably not
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gonna go as smoothly as you would hope.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
As any opening event goes.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
There's gonna be, you know, some hitches, but it is
going to be optimized by the time I think the
season starts at least, and it is Kevin. I'm talking
about the sweets now and there's less sweet levels, so
there's more seats out there and better views because of
this nice So it's just Crypto, I believe has three
(15:30):
different rows of suits.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
This is just one.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
But then you have the club levels, which have their
own outside of the seating area inside the arena. You
also have assigned seats and tables at the club level
where you can go and hang out there, lounge areas,
and then there was the Lexus Lounge, which is a
court side view, the court side Lexus Lounge.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
And what's interesting there is first of all the just
high level.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Fancy dining room that you have there, but still casual
enough for everyone to be comfortable. But it's definitely a
premium spot. It's all luxury, it's posh, it's beautiful. But
like it Dallas when the Jerry Jones Dome opened and
there were those seats where the team runs in right
next to going into the arena, the same thing happens.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
There's a shoot.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
There's a hallway where Clippers fans run by on their
way in or into the practice facility or into the
media room. So you can be eating, you can be
drinking right there, and players are walking by right next
to you.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
That's what's really cool.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
That's obviously, you know, a high end situation if you
can afford the court side Lexus Lounge.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
No, that's a great perk.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
I experienced that they have that at the Bemo Stadium
for LAFC games and if you were able to add
a friend of mine that had to sea.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
He was a seasoned seat holder.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
And they basically have their own version of It's kind
of like the Dugout club at Dodger Stadium, and they
do adjacent to where all the food and seating area
is is exactly what you described. That is the tunnel
where the home team walks in and out. So if
you're sitting there before the game and a lot, it's
an event, you know, thirty minutes or an hour before
the game, whatever it is. When the players are coming
out into the field, you can actually line up on
the railing as they walk by an enter into the stadium.
(17:18):
It's it's really cool and that's a phenomenal innovation. I'm
glad that into it picked it up. This is some
exciting stuff. So the big question lest I bury the lead?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Okay, so whot so one.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Am I getting my tickets? Where you hooking the brother up?
I mean, come on tickets?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
What exactly? I gotta go? No exactly?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
He was like, that's the I worked for the Clippers, Like, nah,
I was making that up. That's all right. Now, this is.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
A few games under my belt. You bring the family.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
No, No, it's all right, it's all right.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
But it's I even more so than even so far
because of all the innovation and all the build up
and how much they talk this up, and just seeing
the few videos I have seen, I don't know if
I've ever been more excited about the opening of a
stadium or an arena. And I am about this one,
I really am. And the fact that you have to
see it was a really really cool and I'm looking
forward to getting in there. It probably won't be opening night,
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which I I think. I read the other day that
the Clippers are opening against Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Did I see that?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Bree October twenty third into a dome opening it up
against the rival of the Clippers. You can say they've
beaten the Clippers three times in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Clippers fans do not like the Phoenix Suns so well.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
It's good that they have that section that they will
not allow any fan wearing other jerseys and paraphernalia.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Now, how is that gonna work?
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Are they just gonna have a bunch of like big
muscly guys wearing sunglasses looking like CIA agents are just
grabbing people and throwing them out if they're wearing opposing
team jerseys.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
How is that gonna work.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
I think you have to sign up for what's being
called Chuck mark, and that makes you verify being a
Clippers fan by something you have bought before, a jersey
or something like that. So, yes, there could always be
ways to try to get around this stuff, but I
think for the most part, it's gonna be well handled.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It's gonna be easily done.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
What I'm interested in, and that's the wall area correct,
where it's just fifty rows of seating, no suites. It
is gonna be loud, a college level atmosphere, pandemonium there
for the loudest fans, and I think by the way,
you know, everything's measured in there, so if you're the
loudest fan that night, you can win something. You know,
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at the decibel levels. The audio is all.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Being I don't know how it's done. I don't know
how it's being recorded or what.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
There was that Beatles documentary where they're able to get
all that lost footage using new sound technology. Maybe they
have this Peter Jackson hooked them up. But what I'm
really interested in is the festivities outside at the plaza
because all that stuff is already open and that's where
the flagship store is. But there's the court, you see,
there's all this crazy artwork. People are already hanging out there.
(19:48):
What's that gonna be like on a game day? It's
gonna be a tailgate situation. It's it gonna be like
Jurassic Park up in Toronto with the Raptors.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
That's gonna be really cool too.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
That's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
And then I love the tribute to the high school athletes,
the great history of high school sports that we've had
in this city. And they're gonna have murals sprawled the
cross I think, really the entire arena, I believe correctly
Adam in all of the hallways where you can see
dedications to great high school athletes who performed in LA.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
They have a jersey from every high school in California
sans seven right now, there's still seven that they have
to track down.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
It's the entire state that's insane.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It is unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
If you want to see the video again at follow
out of May on YouTube, it's called Private Into It
Dome Tour, and it was that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I'm like that, all right.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I understand it.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
We will.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
We'll out ballo at your feet.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
I wonder if they have our next guest jersey from
his Peninsula high school football days off. His jerseys is
one of the ones that's hanging in the hallways there
at the Intuit Dome.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
We'll see.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
But right now I want to get into college football
with our special guest for today, Adam.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Let's go Alan Drag and Dug thank you guty Well.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
With week zero of the college football season less than
two weeks away, with Florida State and Georgia Tech kicking
off in Ireland, we thought we'd bring in someone who's
like from there, or at least you'd think so, with
his vast knowledge of Irish culture, like how Saint Patti's
day is really about the patron Saint Patrick driving the
snakes out of Ireland, like how our guest has been
(21:22):
trying to drive the snakes at a USC for years.
It's college football expert Petros Papadakas back on the f
Anda podcast. You'll see him on Fox calling college football
games all season long, and of course you continue to
hear him daily on the Petros and Money Show.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Pee, how are we doing?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Good morning, Hello, everybody. Hello, Hello to the f and as.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Let's start with this, you know, scheduling conflict a couple
of weeks ago when we were trying to get you on.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
But I gotta follow up.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
If you're a player and your coach bombs that bad
on stage like my guy, Deshaun Foster, former Panther did,
does that matter at all? Are you like he can
even talk or is it like, hey, you can't talk.
He's got that too much dog in him. He can't
talk at all. That's what we want.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yeah, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I mean, most every head coach that you ever come
across in the world can go up on a stage
and talk for in a minute or two. Right, That's
obviously part of the job that is escaped to Shaun
Foster so far.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
He's not super media trained, And.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
In some ways, if I was a player, I might
find it refreshing to feel like the coach feels a
little bit like me, you know, when all the lights
are on and all the cameras are on. Because talking
to there are guys, and whether they're.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Media guys or.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Former players that are media guys or whatever, there are
people that can really communicate about football and with football
people and then when the cameras start rolling, they have
a really hard time. And I'm not just talking about
while this guy played at Middle Tennessee State and we
had a great conversation at the bar, Marcus Allen. People
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like that, like you talk to him and it's inspiring,
or you see him talk to a team in a
room where there's only football people, and then the camera's
role or the light comes on and it's a different story.
Some people are just that way that it's not for everybody.
The media stuff in today's day and age, you do
(23:29):
have to be able to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And the fact that he doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Seemingly any of those skills right now or want to
deal with doing it and getting better. Because they canceled.
They were supposed to be at our event on Friday,
and they canceled day of because I think they were
a little uncomfortable. And I told them, I said, you
have to trust me. I'm going to take care of
(23:57):
your coach. This is our job is to get along
with college football coach. It's not our job to upset
the man. But ultimately it didn't work out, so I
think they're trying to get him out there, and I
think it's a real push.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
And pull for all of them.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
But if I was a player, it really doesn't matter
because as a player, you don't really notice what your
coach does in the media unless he's saying something about you,
and you have many other concerns like camp and the
grind of camp. So I don't know really what it
means for their season. I don't think if UCLA is good,
(24:35):
it's not because Deshaun Foster can't talk to the media,
And if they're bad, it's not because Deshaun Foster can't
talk to the media. But it's certainly something concerning for
the long term.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Well, how good do you think they potentially can be
this year their first year going into the Big Ten?
They lose they're a great defensive coordinator across the street
to USC there certainly have some talent on the roster, obviously,
but this is a whole new beast with the guy who,
if we're to be quite frank was not their first
choice a head coach. Him Kelly basically left high and
dry as late in the process as you possibly could.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
And they had to scramble to find someone.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
I guess based on what you know what would be
your prognosis for UCLA season this year?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Well, uh, they got Hawaii to open. They're at Hawaii,
which is a tricky trip, and Hawaii won a few
games last year. They're not bad. Timmy Chang knows what
he's doing. Then Indiana's coming to the Rose Bowl. Then
they got LSU at LSU by the way.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Yeah, and Oregon then comes to the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Then you're at Penn State. I mean, it just keeps
on coming.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, I mean it's gonna be uh, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
But the thing is, i mean everybody keeps asking everybody
what's this year going to be like? When it talking
about USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, Colorado. You know,
all of these teams in different conferences, all of these
different things happening. No one really knows what the year
is going to be like. Nobody knows what any of
(26:04):
these teams are going to be like or what they're
going to perform like in these places. I would imagine
it's going to be not as bad as you think,
but probably not as good as you'd hope for any
of them. And that's just situationally where the teams are
as well. But everybody's approaching the year like a kid
going to the beach for the first time and you
(26:25):
run away from the water and then you touch the
water a little bit. I mean, it's very trepidacious time
because anybody that tells you they have this all figured
out and what the year is going to be like
as a liar, I don't expect UCLA to be great.
I hope they can make a bowl game. I think
that would be a pretty good accomplishment for Deshaun if
he can. They got to keep one quarterback going, and upright,
(26:47):
that would be Garber's who's like one hundred years old,
like a lot of these guys. So we'll see how
it shakes out. But I'd worry about them in Hawaii
because right now, just on paper, Hawaii's got much more
of an identity than UCLA football, and that's a weird
place to play. So if they can get through that,
(27:08):
then we'll reassess. But I think we got to see
week one for everybody, which is not much of a
tell tale anyway. But this year is a real mystery when.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
It comes to usc because you mentioned them a second ago,
and Weikie before we get into this season, just more
of a broad picture scope because Lincoln Riley, I guess,
made some headlines at Media Dad when he hinted at
the fact that they might think about doing away with
the Notre Dame rivalry because their schedule is so tough
in the Big Ten one, do you think that's something
that's actually feasible that would happen, And do you think
(27:40):
it actually would be through to their advantage to lighten
up their schedule in the non conference considering how good
the Big Ten is.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I don't care. I don't really care.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
If USC lost every game in the season, if they
didn't play Notre Dame, then go ahead and just change
the name of the team, call them the Southern cal
Torriadors or something.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Thing.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
If we had a two game or two team BCS
system for years and years and USC played Notre Dame
every year, there was a playoff, and USC played Notre
Dame every year, Now that there's a twelve twelve team playoffs,
suddenly USC's not going to play Notre Dame anymore. Should
(28:24):
we have a twenty four team or thirty two team
playoff to make Lincoln Riley more comfortable. Lincoln Riley shouldn't
talk about scheduling. He should say that that's Jen Cohen,
the athletic director's job, and leave it at that. I
don't know who he thinks he is. He's seven and
seven in his last fourteen games at USC, and that's
with one of the best quarterbacks general consensus, in the
(28:46):
history of college football. And that's what people say about
Kayleb Williams. And you were seven and seven in your
last fourteen games, and now you're going to tell us
that you can't play Notre Dame anymore, one hundred plus
year old rivalry that means everything to both teams that
are involved, because you're joining the Big Ten and you
don't even know what that's going to be like. And
you have a reputation for leaving Oklahoma because you didn't
(29:08):
want to be in the SEC. Whether that's true or not,
this is terrible. It's a terrible thing for Lincoln Riley
to say. It's a terrible thing for anybody at USC
to entertain. And USC has money and donors and power
for people that care about the Notre Dame rivalry, not
a bunch of millennial broke people who don't who don't
(29:29):
know anything and think that Caleb Williams was the height
of USC football. I'm serious, this is a bad look.
They spend all summer trying to get out of the
LSU game that they're opening with, and now suddenly they
don't want to play Notre Dame anymore, or they're starting
to talk about that. I don't care. If we don't
have USC Notre Dame, we don't have college football. And
(29:52):
I know that we're trending away from almost everything. And
I know that geography and a lot of these rivalries
were ruined over the years. West Virginia Penn State or
West Virginia pitt the Holy War for a while, Texas,
Texas A and m all of these things. You know,
we've talked about over the years. But this is not feasible.
(30:15):
And for Lincoln Riley to sit there and say that
is really disturbing, I think for a lot of USC people,
and it shouldn't be said. All the great USC teams
of all time, from Pete Carroll all the way back,
have scheduled bravely, and the fact that you might have
to play Rutgers or Maryland instead of Washington State or Arizona,
(30:38):
and now all of a sudden, you can't play Notre Dame.
It's a travesty. It's an absolute travesty and it should
never be talked about. And it's really disturbing than Lincoln.
But it's not a shock. Lincoln Rally's not from here.
He has no connection with the place. He has no
connection with the Midwest or the West Coast. He's a
complete and total tech as football coach with roots and
(31:02):
Mike Leach. And the fact that even would talk about
the schedule in that way is really disturbing.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Considering he doesn't have Caleb Williams anymore.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
And it covered up a lot of the issues us
he's had the last couple of seasons.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
I know about it.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
They were seven and seven, Well, the last fourteen games.
And how's that covering up your issues?
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Well, imagine how Bathy be without him, I guess, is
my point?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Maybe maybe maybe better, right, I mean, maybe he's a
better offensive coordinator when he's calling plays on time. And
you know that's what he did with Baker Mayfield and
a lot of these other guys.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
They ran the offense.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
And as the years went on and on, Caleb Williams,
you know, he did less and less than that. He
was less and less protected he trusted the offensive line
less and less, and he freelanced more and more and more.
And that's kind of like going out to the bars.
It's a lot of fun for a year or two,
but year three or four, you go seven and seven
and you lose the too late. So you think that's
(31:54):
a possibility. They could be better this year without Caleb Williams.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Then they have to be.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
If they're not, then Lincoln Riley's not going to be coaching.
I mean, they have to be better. They have to
be a better team, Kevin. He can't just be a
guy running around like a chicken with his head cut
off and feast or famine. That's not how That's why
they ended up being five hundred, because they just depended
on one guy and his talent. They have to be
(32:21):
a more balanced football team.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Will they be? I have no idea. I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I mean, Lincoln Riley is a play caller and an
offensive coach.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Is he a program builder? No?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Not proven. He didn't do that in Oklahoma. And what
does he have. He's got players, a small offensive line
and a small defensive line. They can not be improved
in one year. No, I mean, they didn't do it
in three years. Dean Lind's a good coach, Matt enz
is an excellent coach. Doug Belk is an excellent coach.
(32:53):
I mean, they hired some really good defensive coaches. Are
they going to fix everything and the culture of USC
football and find the way to pull everything in the
right direction with this new amalgamation of staff and players.
I have no idea, and anybody that tells you that
they do is a liar. Miller Moss is going to
(33:15):
be the starting quarterback. They paid a kid of Mayava,
I think from you and to.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Be the backup.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
And look us, he's got plenty of nil money and
they have a hard time spending it in some of
these ways. Lincoln Riley, he might suffer a little bit
from what Deshaun Foster does. You know, Does he have
the Colts of personality? Can he really be that guy
on the West Coast that makes USC football relevant Past
(33:43):
an individual award, which is what he did at Oklahoma,
Heisman trophies. We'll see, but I don't have much of
an idea on what the season is going to be
like at all, but I am interested to see him.
That one point of Miller Moss like the bowl game,
you know, running the play is that the guy calls,
and we'll see if they have a more balanced attack
(34:04):
in that way.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Now, one thing you did allude to is that he's
not going to be here if things don't turn around.
There was a prevailing thought because of how much money
they gave him, that he was not on the hot
seat this year. You think if this year goes off
the rails, they might consider letting him go. How much
they owe them. I think that he might make it
easier for them a right. I mean I thought that
that was this year. I thought that he wanted out.
(34:27):
They coached last year like they wanted out. They thought
that they were going to ride Caleb Williams the staff
or whoever he's really close with on the staff, thought
that they were going to ride that to the bear's
job or something like that.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Remember all the talk about that.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
I do.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, they really thought that. They really thought that, and
the year didn't end up like that. So now they've
got to fix USC football and we'll see if they're
up for it. But I think might like Cliff Kingsbury,
there's probably an NFL coordinator job in his future if
things don't work out at s SE.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Petros Papadakas is our guest here in the FNA podcast.
P you mentioned USC having to adjust to life in
the Big ten, a more physical brand of football. What
about the rest of the Patch twelve? What about Oregon
and Washington? The Ducks have traditionally struggled against more physical
teams even when they were at their best. Just have
they They've lost to Isle State before LSU, they've lost
(35:23):
the trenches.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Well, yeah, but that's those are Chip Kelly. I mean,
Organ's built differently. Oregon and Washington have a better Well
look Washington, no one knows they lost a well, they
had a giant turnover. So Jedfish, the Washington coach, is
sitting there and saying like, Hey, we're this, We're that.
We just played in the playoff. We're the only team
(35:44):
in the West Coast to make the playoff twice. We've
got this pick, We've got that pick, panics, blah blah blah, doonza.
And then he sits there on the other side of
his mouth and says, we've had more turnover than anybody
else in college football. Well, which one is it? Are
you the great team that Caitlin de boor built or
are you just this mishmash? But look, he raised up Arizona.
No one thought he could do it, he did it.
(36:05):
And Will Rogers is a pretty good quarterback. I saw
him when he was at Mississippi State, So we'll see
where that goes. But you have to respect what Fish
did in Arizona. I don't know what Washington's going to
be like, but I like their chances maybe better than
sc and Ucla, just because what Fish has been proven
to do somewhere else, and as a program builder right
(36:29):
where there was nothing, he made something Now. Oregon, on
the other hand, they've been built from their offensive line
and defensive line since Christball was really there, so they
can compete at the line of scrimmage. Oregon is built
much like UCLA basketball. Joining the Big Ten, everybody's like, well,
what's it going to be like? Well, UCLA plays a physical,
defensive brand of basketball. They're already built for it, right,
(36:52):
And I guess I would say the same thing about
Oregon football in the modern era. Will they win a
game against Ohio State or whatever, I don't know, but
they're fine on the line of scrimmage. There's a reason
everybody likes them. In the top five, and Dylan Gabriel
is a hell of a player and a really mature,
(37:13):
strong athlete like the guy they had before bon Nix.
So I like Oregon and I think that they're probably
the best of the four by far, so.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Of the teams in the PAC twelve since the disbanded
that are moving on to new conferences. I know you
said it's hard to project and no one really knows,
but you've seen these teams up close.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
I sure will.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
Who do you think has the best chance of making
the biggest impact showing themselves the best and their new conference,
whether it's Utah, whether it's SC and UCLA, which we
talked about. The prevailing thought is Utah going into the
Big twelve. Who do you think makes the most immediate
positive impact and shows themselves well in year one?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Utah and the Big twelve is going to be a bear.
But the Big twelve has great coaches. Matt Campbell's a
great coach, Climban's a great coach, Leipol is a great coach.
Whittingham's going to have his work cut out for him.
Mike Gundhy's a great coach. I mean, it just can't
be denied. What that guy does every year, whatever his
roster looks like, they win ten games or nine.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I like Utah, I like Oregon right now, just to
look at it. But there's a surprise in there somewhere
that we don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Dion. Yes, that's a podcasting in and of itself. I
don't have time for getting to that one.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Well, Dion can't have it both ways.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Oh yeah, he's another one. Trust me.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
You can't have like the nineties betting, debting, fighting and
guns in the locker room and the real loyalty and
the bullying and all.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
That in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
You can't have that and have modern day college football.
You can't have the trial by fire and the hazy
you know, all that stuff that happened when I was
a kid with an open transfer portal and players making money.
It just doesn't work that way anymore. And he's caught
in his own conundrum. I mean, the season hasn't even
(39:05):
started yet, and he's fighting with reporters and making headlines
in that way. So I'll say the same thing as
always said about Colorado. It's a great story, but it's
hard to see it ending.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
Well, there last one for you here, Pe, you were
at the Fox symposium or conference or whatever. How do
you think Brady is going to do it as a broadcaster?
Sucks for Greg Olsen, he was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
In today's media, whether something's good or not, it doesn't matter.
Everybody just celebrates something and we're all supposed to get
in line, So it might be like that. I'm sure
he'll be fine. I mean, he really is a striking presence,
you know, to be around him. It's not like sitting
next to Urban Meyer and you're like, oh, oh, there's
Urban Meyer, you know. I mean, it's he's it's like
Magic Johnson, who I don't like much, but he's a
(39:52):
striking presence. Right when you're in a room with Magic
Johnson and he's smiling and talking, it really draws peace
in a way that I mean, there's a reason the
guy's nickname was Magic. So, uh, he's got a little
bit of that and it'll be interesting to see if
it translates on the air. But I think he'll be
I think he'll be a lot better than people anticipate early. Uh,
(40:16):
But I don't know. I mean I never thought i'd
live in a world where people were making tens and
tens of millions of dollars almost per game to call football,
so it's so subjective. It's just weird, you know, the
Tony Romo thing and all that. It's just really odd.
Speaker 7 (40:34):
So yeah, Petros is one of them, and we thank
him for a take time to come on our show
for free haf A podcast again. Catch him on The
Petrols and Money Show weekdays on a five to seventy
LA Sports, and catch him on Fox and FS one
this season for college football coverage.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Pee as always, we appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
We'll talk to you later, all right, have a good one.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Everybody is again to Petros Papadaegas.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
That was a lots of fun.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
And I know we're still just about two weeks away,
a week and a half away from college football starting, but.
Speaker 7 (41:05):
Never too early, kind of excited at least for me,
never too early to talk college football at him.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
I know you have something called a week zero.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
Probably should start prepping at this point.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
And my god, did he go in hard.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
On uic oncol Riley.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I know it's four years.
Speaker 6 (41:20):
Petros is well known for his USC rants, where he's
first guessed.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
A lot of things and has ended up being right.
Speaker 6 (41:27):
And now you see guys like Paul Finebaum and the
national media guys jumping on and talking about what's going
on with USC. They were always late to the game,
uh and trailing Petros.
Speaker 7 (41:38):
I mean, Petro's basically cost himself a job as the
basketball PA guy because he went so.
Speaker 4 (41:42):
Hard after the university. But he doesn't care. He wants
to tell the truth and respect him for that.
Speaker 7 (41:46):
So thanks the thanks the oldp for that, Thanks to
Toy for his voicemail from like nine years ago that
we finally aired.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
Four seven eight eleven ninety seven nine eight eleven ninety seven.
We will start getting to them earlier on the show,
so we make time for it, and we make sure
to do it in a timely fashion.
Speaker 7 (42:04):
So programming notes, as they like to say in the industry,
I myself will be taking a bit of a sabbatical
from the show, from the public spotlight.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
We'll say, for the next few weeks.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
What about your TikTok? Though I got one gets.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Well, that's what it is.
Speaker 7 (42:19):
I'm signing off of radio so I can go build
my TikTok career and then we'll see if I even
want to come back and do this anymore.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
That's what it is.
Speaker 7 (42:25):
No take us up time off. But the F and
A Show will not be going away at all. Adam
is going to be here. It might be Adam and
Friends like the old Hartman and Friends back in the
day Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Who knows a little launching pad action.
Speaker 7 (42:37):
Yeah, maybe he'll find Maybe Adam will find Pat O'Brien
and put him on the show.
Speaker 6 (42:40):
I'm sure Bob Schmidt will help out. I'm sure Eric
Lark Rebri of course will be here. We'll have you
guys covered while we wait for the return of the
King and k Fig to come back.
Speaker 7 (42:52):
It's very sweet of you to say, appreciate that. Appreciate
All you guys is love and support. Not for the
final time, but for the last time in a while.
This has been another edition of the at least for me,
another edition of the F and A Podcast. We'll talk
to you guys coming up soon straight and bever send
how y'all played them last ship shopping my demo where
I was trying to shine.
Speaker 8 (43:12):
So you guys don't know too much about uc LA
but our football program. But we're in LA, it's us
in usc We I'm just basically excited. Really, that's it.
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