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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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In the future as they would say, or in the future,
So hello from the future.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Good and talk to see you, right? Is it? Good morning? Right, Shane,
Welcome into it, Shane German. I know we had a
good first German. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We had Joseph Hoyd to the Dallas Morning News just
covering the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I think he broke it down to guests. I'm almost
a Cowboy fan, not really, I'm not, no.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
But I think you appreciate the more like, you know,
intellectual side of it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I do, because there's a business aspect of what Jerry
Jones is doing, but what I love too, and I'm
gonna applaud every cowboy out there. Hey, Micah, Yes, we
know what's gonna happen, right, it doesn't doubt like it
is right, you know. Jerry Jones, like he said yesterday,
came out, spoke to the crowd left right, and so
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the you know reporters like, hey, we'll talk to you
about Micah. Jerry knows this, you know. And when they
do sign them, they'll sign them. Yeah, you know, I
mean it's money.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, And we got preseason coming up this Thursday, and
we are less than a month away.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
From count does the Hall of Fame game? Count?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I count it because it's like it's like if you
if you if you're someone who does drugs and you
go and you go off the wagon for a little
bit and then you go back.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You really really want your fix. So preseason is kind
of like your fix. Okay, the more you know, kids,
but by the way, don't do drugs.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I didn't say do drugs. I'm saying this is your brain.
This is your brain on drugs. You don't want to
be a friend to do much. Just sits there.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, I know, but it's just you know, it's one
of those things.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So you know, we are less than a month away
from college football.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And yes, Mike Bartlett, week zero counts as college football does.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Because does in Texas play Ohio State in Week zero? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
No, No, I think the big game that week is
like Kansas State versus or something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's something like that. It does count, It does count.
But he doesn't think it counts because he's a long horn.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
For him, if collegeetball doesn't start to the long horns.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
If you're someone who's like me and I recognize that
football has a very finite time in the year, you
watch every game, he can.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I am very picky about Mike Longhorn fans. Okay, there,
I'm fine. It's called allergies.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It sounds like the coffee is like hitting the back
of your foot. He has some water on.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But no, because I was about to get angry about
Longhorn fan Mike.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You know, so, what are we like thirty days away?
Like twenty seven?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I think, yeah, So did you see the move about
Memphis this week?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Memphis says, hey, Big twelve, Memphis been in the news
a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I know, Hey, Big twelve, I got two hundred million dollars.
What did Big twelve say?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
They swiped right. They were like, we're not interested. They
just said, you know what, we're going away.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I think a lot. I mean, do you think and
I want to put.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
This question out there because I know we were talking
about it, is it time for you to move into
a conference that has a name such as the Big twelve,
such as the SEC for playoff purposes?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I mean, yeah, the fit makes sense primarily just because
the Big Twelve's best comp best sport arguably is basketball,
right men's women's basketball. They are very good at that,
and Memphis has been a very good basketball school right
or objectively, as football goes, they have been solid. But
football is also the biggest money generator in any college
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conference everywhere, and whereas Memphis, I think that they're attached
to I think FedEx or something like that, like so
they have that pipeline. But I think also I read
somewhere that the price to get them out of that
conference before twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven will be
close like thirty million dollars. So I think it sounds
like because really the Brett back he said not at
the not as of this time.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
He didn't say necessarily no, just not yet.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Because I think they're waiting for that price to go
down before they buy any more new members realistically.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
You know who I think I think they actually might
go for sooner.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It would be someone like Louisville, just because I don't
know how much the a CEC.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
To me kind of feels in flux, right.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I feel like that's a ticking time bomb.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Sure, because they brought in teams from the pac twelve
that are way too far west, and I feel like
did that as well?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, but I feel I feel like.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
If you're in California, you'd rather you'd rather fly to
someone like Wisconsin as opposed to Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Who distance was who on their I don't pick Wisconsin
for vacation.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Not vacation, just for travel distance to watch a.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Kid pull that'll be flying.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Flying to Milwaukee's gonna cost you less than it is
to fly to Miami.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Oh yeah, flying to Milwaukee. Yeah, I agree everyone everyone,
everyone in the Midwest.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Essentially cheese heads on our heads. Huh yeah no, I don't.
I mean it's Milwaukee. I mean they got beer, right,
I do like beer. You know, I think they have pretzels. See,
I'm a squirrel.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Shit, folks, I think that and just bring up commersar
re alignment. You saw you see the news earlier this
week that North Carolina reportedly want to drink the SEC.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, and they should, of course they should because they're
good basketball school, they're good baseball school.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Football.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
They are too inconsistent.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, why would they bring it up? Now?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Their head coach chick right, how old is he?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
He is so old that if you if you took
his girl friend's age, multiply by three.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He's sold on that age is just a number, and
that number is way too big. It is way too big.
That's weird. Age is just a number. That'd be like cheese,
Dayton milk, hey, like Wisconsin. See how we tie it
all in, folks.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
This is what we do.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But I think it's important to join these conferences because
we talked about it earlier. The SEC, the Big ten,
they're going to make these moves where they're going to be,
you know, having five or six schools in tournaments. We
saw it in the March madness, right, because we had
sixteen teams of the SEC join it, and you were
very upset about that.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I thought the only thirteen of those teams really, Oh,
you deserved a shot ou Vanderbilt, Texas, like we're all
twiner schools at best, and like like first of all
then six ye all schools lose in the first round. Anyway,
school made it all the.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Way to the ELI eight. Lord, let me tell something.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
School make they was that stitch were doing stitch?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah? Yeah, the moans farmer little and the farmers the ferns.
But here's Thember the frog.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
No, I can't talk like Patrick Mahomes anyways, Memphis is
uh so Memphis says, no, you got these other schools
like you mentioned Louisville, you know, North Carolina you mentioned,
but we're all you're mentioning basketball schools. But you're right
because it is about football. Because football gets you paid, right.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Which is why Florida State is gonna be the SEC.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Thank you you were going to go there.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, I think Florida State really would thrive well on
the SEC.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They would do a lot better. I think they would
be state rival would mean a lot more to it.
Would It would come down and you could see it
potentially twice. It's kind of like when Texas and O you. Right.
The big part about Texas and O You is they
have to travel together in a conference because if you don't,
then you don't get these rivalry games, right, because Oklahoma
State was so mad when OU left. Sorry, we just
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you know left because you're not anything to us, because
bedlam wasn't really bedlam because it was more like you know,
dominant beating.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, beat them and they would be like.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
These last time Oklahoma State beat Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I think like nineteen two.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Was it like the year after Ret Bomar got caught
for what?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
No, they beat him in the Gundy years. It's been
a long time. As the point, right, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Matter because that game is gone. But now you have
OU Texas and you have it in the Red River.
You have Texas Texas A and M right, and so
you have these rivalry games and you're right, Florida State
Florida with the SEC logo on the field, Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That's just sexy. That's just sexy.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I saw somewhere also, And I'm curious what you think
now that the Pac twelve added their eight football school,
their ninfe school overall with Texas State, the.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Concept might be that they try and add another the
Pac twelve. Okay, the Pack six whatever it matter, Pack States,
that's what they should call it. Because everything's a state.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It is the state. Cool O, Oklahoma.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I saw I saw an article.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
About this, and I'm curious what you think that because
now they have a Texas school, they have that Texas pipeline.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Do they grow it even further?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Do it they add schools like UTEP do they add
in North Texas or do they come here Santonio getting UTSA.
I would think that just because if it feels like
they're trying to move closer this way anyway, and just
for Texas states, like for their travel purposes, you wouldn't
need a closer school.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'm going to eliminate UTSA.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
The reason why is because I believe UTSA belongs in a
bigger conference later on down the road. It's like I'm
going to tie this into the project marvel Idea. Okay,
because remember UTSA uses the Alamodome right now. Some of
the plans I've seen UTSA or the Alma Dome is
actually gonna have a you know, open air arena, which
would be great a for concerts, because look, man, I
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love the Almaldome to death, but concerts there suck.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Suck. It is not that you no, I'm.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
So not UTSA.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Hold on, sorry, I had to backtrack there because I
just remember a concert in my head. But if you're
able to make this stadium sexy, yep, you have the
downtown facility. UTSA is in the city of San Antonio,
population side of the United States number seven. Why not
take UTSA, which is a huge school. It is a
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big school, don't get me wrong, and you let them
join the Big Twelve. Would there be money enough there?
Would they want to do it? Because the Big Twelve
no offense is pretty weak. I know you have the
Raid Red Raiders there, you're Texas Tech Red Raiders. But
you had Arizona State win the Big Twelve in their
first year. No one saw that coming, No one, because
(09:37):
I think they were picked last. If I'm not mistaken. Yeah,
but just cause people pick you last, I mean you're
you're supposed to just be that way, just because of
quote unquote experts.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Say one thing that I mean, you can't overcome it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I mean, the Saints aren't going to do anything in
the NFC South, right, you agree.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Because everyone says they shouldn't, and then what happens if
they do?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I get excited, and then I get the Twins.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Weren't supposed to win the Super Bowl in two thousand
and one.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
They were picked last in the AFC because they come
off a five and eleven year Drew Bledsoe was a
lame duck quarterback at that time. He was three years
in his contract. And what happened. They won the Super Bowl.
Things can happen like that.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Arizona State found a guy named Sam Levitt who is
actually a pretty decent quarterback. So Ham is a really
good coach. Things like that like this can happen. You're
the Memphis athletic director. How do you feel? What's your
approach now, Shane? Like the Big twelve just told you no.
Do you do you just go back in your hole
and play in the American Conference and just go away?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Or do you like trying?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
It's not like they're trying to get out.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
So I feel like the next logical move is to
check in with the ACC because the Big Ten is
not going to take you.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
The Big Ten's not going to take you. No, the
Big Ten.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
If they're going to bring in a program from another conference,
it's going to be from another power conference that has
either brand behind it or at least has like some
sort of like positive sports that they can bring alongside
with it's basketball, football, whatever it is. I would say
a school like Kansas could be poaching the Big Twelve
to the Big Ten before Memphis would go to Big Ten.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
But Kansas loves being Big twelve.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, but they're a really good basketball school and the
Big Ten is a good basketball conference.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That's the point.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Outside of football, KANDUS.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Could do stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But here's the thing, and I always say this about
ou Is, like I kind of wish they wish to
stayed in the Big Twelve because you know, that's where
we were and we dominated and it was just one
of those things. So I think conference alignment is very
very important. I think Memphis, you know, shot its shot.
I mean people shoot their shot and they get lucky, right,
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people shoot their shot.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And it gets you know, rejected. I mean that's what
happens in life.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But I think if you're Memphis, you're trying to get
into these conferences, guys, because those are the ones that
are going to get into the college football playoffs. Don't
argue with me that, well, they have a basketball school.
I get basketball, that's all figured out. But in college football,
you want to be in the playoffs because you want
to be relevant, you want to be able to get
money for your university, and I just don't think these
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smaller conferences are going to be able to hang with
the bigger universities as far as that matter. But coming
up next, I want to get into some college football moments,
because again we are team minus forty days from the
college Football Ruckus that we're going to have for the
next I don't know how many Saturdays, But coming up next,
we'll get into those top college moments that the fanatics
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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In the future as they would say, or in the future,
So hello from the future.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Good and talk to see you, right? Is it? Good morning? Right, Shane,
Welcome into it, Shane German. I know we had a
good first German. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We had Joseph Hoyd to the Dallas Morning News just
covering the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I think he broke it down to guests. I'm almost
a Cowboy fan, not really, I'm not, no.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
But I think you appreciate the more like, you know,
intellectual side of it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I do, because there's a business aspect of what Jerry
Jones is doing, but what I love too, and I'm
gonna applaud every cowboy out there. Hey, Micah, Yes, we
know what's gonna happen, right, it doesn't doubt like it
is right, you know. Jerry Jones, like he said yesterday,
came out, spoke to the crowd left right, and so
(01:15):
the you know reporters like, hey, we'll talk to you
about Micah. Jerry knows this, you know. And when they
do sign them, they'll sign them. Yeah, you know, I
mean it's money.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, And we got preseason coming up this Thursday, and
we are less than a month away.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
From count does the Hall of Fame game? Count?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I count it because it's like it's like if you
if you if you're someone who does drugs and you
go and you go off the wagon for a little
bit and then you go back.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You really really want your fix. So preseason is kind
of like your fix. Okay, the more you know, kids,
but by the way, don't do drugs.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I didn't say do drugs. I'm saying this is your brain.
This is your brain on drugs. You don't want to
be a friend to do much. Just sits there.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, I know, but it's just you know, it's one
of those things.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So you know, we are less than a month away
from college football.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And yes, Mike Bartlett, week zero counts as college football does.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Because does in Texas play Ohio State in Week zero? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
No, No, I think the big game that week is
like Kansas State versus or something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's something like that. It does count, It does count.
But he doesn't think it counts because he's a long horn.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
For him, if collegeetball doesn't start to the long horns.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
If you're someone who's like me and I recognize that
football has a very finite time in the year, you
watch every game, he can.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I am very picky about Mike Longhorn fans. Okay, there,
I'm fine. It's called allergies.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It sounds like the coffee is like hitting the back
of your foot. He has some water on.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But no, because I was about to get angry about
Longhorn fan Mike.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You know, so, what are we like thirty days away?
Like twenty seven?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I think, yeah, So did you see the move about
Memphis this week?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Memphis says, hey, Big twelve, Memphis been in the news
a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I know, Hey, Big twelve, I got two hundred million dollars.
What did Big twelve say?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
They swiped right. They were like, we're not interested. They
just said, you know what, we're going away.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I think a lot. I mean, do you think and
I want to put.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
This question out there because I know we were talking
about it, is it time for you to move into
a conference that has a name such as the Big twelve,
such as the SEC for playoff purposes?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I mean, yeah, the fit makes sense primarily just because
the Big Twelve's best comp best sport arguably is basketball,
right men's women's basketball. They are very good at that,
and Memphis has been a very good basketball school right
or objectively, as football goes, they have been solid. But
football is also the biggest money generator in any college
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conference everywhere, and whereas Memphis, I think that they're attached
to I think FedEx or something like that, like so
they have that pipeline. But I think also I read
somewhere that the price to get them out of that
conference before twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven will be
close like thirty million dollars. So I think it sounds
like because really the Brett back he said not at
the not as of this time.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
He didn't say necessarily no, just not yet.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Because I think they're waiting for that price to go
down before they buy any more new members realistically.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
You know who I think I think they actually might
go for sooner.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It would be someone like Louisville, just because I don't
know how much the a CEC.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
To me kind of feels in flux, right.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I feel like that's a ticking time bomb.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Sure, because they brought in teams from the pac twelve
that are way too far west, and I feel like
did that as well?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, but I feel I feel like.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
If you're in California, you'd rather you'd rather fly to
someone like Wisconsin as opposed to Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Who distance was who on their I don't pick Wisconsin
for vacation.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Not vacation, just for travel distance to watch a.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Kid pull that'll be flying.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Flying to Milwaukee's gonna cost you less than it is
to fly to Miami.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Oh yeah, flying to Milwaukee. Yeah, I agree everyone everyone,
everyone in the Midwest.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Essentially cheese heads on our heads. Huh yeah no, I don't.
I mean it's Milwaukee. I mean they got beer, right,
I do like beer. You know, I think they have pretzels. See,
I'm a squirrel.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Shit, folks, I think that and just bring up commersar
re alignment. You saw you see the news earlier this
week that North Carolina reportedly want to drink the SEC.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, and they should, of course they should because they're
good basketball school, they're good baseball school.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Football.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
They are too inconsistent.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, why would they bring it up? Now?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Their head coach chick right, how old is he?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
He is so old that if you if you took
his girl friend's age, multiply by three.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He's sold on that age is just a number, and
that number is way too big. It is way too big.
That's weird. Age is just a number. That'd be like cheese,
Dayton milk, hey, like Wisconsin. See how we tie it
all in, folks.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
This is what we do.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But I think it's important to join these conferences because
we talked about it earlier. The SEC, the Big ten,
they're going to make these moves where they're going to be,
you know, having five or six schools in tournaments. We
saw it in the March madness, right, because we had
sixteen teams of the SEC join it, and you were
very upset about that.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I thought the only thirteen of those teams really, Oh,
you deserved a shot ou Vanderbilt, Texas, like we're all
twiner schools at best, and like like first of all
then six ye all schools lose in the first round. Anyway,
school made it all the.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Way to the ELI eight. Lord, let me tell something.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
School make they was that stitch were doing stitch?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah? Yeah, the moans farmer little and the farmers the ferns.
But here's Thember the frog.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
No, I can't talk like Patrick Mahomes anyways, Memphis is
uh so Memphis says, no, you got these other schools
like you mentioned Louisville, you know, North Carolina you mentioned,
but we're all you're mentioning basketball schools. But you're right
because it is about football. Because football gets you paid, right.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Which is why Florida State is gonna be the SEC.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Thank you you were going to go there.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, I think Florida State really would thrive well on
the SEC.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They would do a lot better. I think they would
be state rival would mean a lot more to it.
Would It would come down and you could see it
potentially twice. It's kind of like when Texas and O you. Right.
The big part about Texas and O You is they
have to travel together in a conference because if you don't,
then you don't get these rivalry games, right, because Oklahoma
State was so mad when OU left. Sorry, we just
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you know left because you're not anything to us, because
bedlam wasn't really bedlam because it was more like you know,
dominant beating.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, beat them and they would be like.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
These last time Oklahoma State beat Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I think like nineteen two.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Was it like the year after Ret Bomar got caught
for what?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
No, they beat him in the Gundy years. It's been
a long time. As the point, right, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Matter because that game is gone. But now you have
OU Texas and you have it in the Red River.
You have Texas Texas A and M right, and so
you have these rivalry games and you're right, Florida State
Florida with the SEC logo on the field, Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That's just sexy. That's just sexy.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I saw somewhere also, And I'm curious what you think
now that the Pac twelve added their eight football school,
their ninfe school overall with Texas State, the.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Concept might be that they try and add another the
Pac twelve. Okay, the Pack six whatever it matter, Pack States,
that's what they should call it. Because everything's a state.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It is the state. Cool O, Oklahoma.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I saw I saw an article.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
About this, and I'm curious what you think that because
now they have a Texas school, they have that Texas pipeline.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Do they grow it even further?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Do it they add schools like UTEP do they add
in North Texas or do they come here Santonio getting UTSA.
I would think that just because if it feels like
they're trying to move closer this way anyway, and just
for Texas states, like for their travel purposes, you wouldn't
need a closer school.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'm going to eliminate UTSA.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
The reason why is because I believe UTSA belongs in a
bigger conference later on down the road. It's like I'm
going to tie this into the project marvel Idea. Okay,
because remember UTSA uses the Alamodome right now. Some of
the plans I've seen UTSA or the Alma Dome is
actually gonna have a you know, open air arena, which
would be great a for concerts, because look, man, I
(08:46):
love the Almaldome to death, but concerts there suck.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Suck. It is not that you no, I'm.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
So not UTSA.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Hold on, sorry, I had to backtrack there because I
just remember a concert in my head. But if you're
able to make this stadium sexy, yep, you have the
downtown facility. UTSA is in the city of San Antonio,
population side of the United States number seven. Why not
take UTSA, which is a huge school. It is a
(09:16):
big school, don't get me wrong, and you let them
join the Big Twelve. Would there be money enough there?
Would they want to do it? Because the Big Twelve
no offense is pretty weak. I know you have the
Raid Red Raiders there, you're Texas Tech Red Raiders. But
you had Arizona State win the Big Twelve in their
first year. No one saw that coming, No one, because
(09:37):
I think they were picked last. If I'm not mistaken. Yeah,
but just cause people pick you last, I mean you're
you're supposed to just be that way, just because of
quote unquote experts.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Say one thing that I mean, you can't overcome it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I mean, the Saints aren't going to do anything in
the NFC South, right, you agree.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Because everyone says they shouldn't, and then what happens if
they do?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I get excited, and then I get the Twins.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Weren't supposed to win the Super Bowl in two thousand
and one.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
They were picked last in the AFC because they come
off a five and eleven year Drew Bledsoe was a
lame duck quarterback at that time. He was three years
in his contract. And what happened. They won the Super Bowl.
Things can happen like that.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Arizona State found a guy named Sam Levitt who is
actually a pretty decent quarterback. So Ham is a really
good coach. Things like that like this can happen. You're
the Memphis athletic director. How do you feel? What's your
approach now, Shane? Like the Big twelve just told you no.
Do you do you just go back in your hole
and play in the American Conference and just go away?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Or do you like trying?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
It's not like they're trying to get out.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
So I feel like the next logical move is to
check in with the ACC because the Big Ten is
not going to take you.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
The Big Ten's not going to take you. No, the
Big Ten.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
If they're going to bring in a program from another conference,
it's going to be from another power conference that has
either brand behind it or at least has like some
sort of like positive sports that they can bring alongside
with it's basketball, football, whatever it is. I would say
a school like Kansas could be poaching the Big Twelve
to the Big Ten before Memphis would go to Big Ten.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
But Kansas loves being Big twelve.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, but they're a really good basketball school and the
Big Ten is a good basketball conference.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That's the point.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Outside of football, KANDUS.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Could do stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But here's the thing, and I always say this about
ou Is, like I kind of wish they wish to
stayed in the Big Twelve because you know, that's where
we were and we dominated and it was just one
of those things. So I think conference alignment is very
very important. I think Memphis, you know, shot its shot.
I mean people shoot their shot and they get lucky, right,
(11:28):
people shoot their shot.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And it gets you know, rejected. I mean that's what
happens in life.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But I think if you're Memphis, you're trying to get
into these conferences, guys, because those are the ones that
are going to get into the college football playoffs. Don't
argue with me that, well, they have a basketball school.
I get basketball, that's all figured out. But in college football,
you want to be in the playoffs because you want
to be relevant, you want to be able to get
money for your university, and I just don't think these
(11:53):
smaller conferences are going to be able to hang with
the bigger universities as far as that matter. But coming
up next, I want to get into some college football moments,
because again we are team minus forty days from the
college Football Ruckus that we're going to have for the
next I don't know how many Saturdays, But coming up next,
we'll get into those top college moments that the fanatics
(12:16):
have picked for you right here on ticket seven sixty
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