It’s time to talk College Football and the Huskies got a much-needed win over Illinois at home on Saturday. They’re on bye next weekend and if they can win out, it’s not out of the question to think that they could end up in the CFP. Meanwhile, Jedd Fisch bristled at the idea that he is looking elsewhere with the big program head coaching opportunities that are out there. He’s earned the reputation, but we like seeing him scoff at the idea of leaving Montlake. Once again, college football is evolving and now coaches are getting fired and paid out by big donors when they aren’t achieving the goal. How long can this last? :30- JACKSON FELTS joins the show ahead of tonight’s Sounders game. It’s round 1 of the MLS playoffs and the Sounders have a tough matchup with Minnesota in the best of three. :45- Here comes Halloween!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But it was more than just a nice win for
Washington on Saturday to beat.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
A ranked team.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Sure it was at home, where you have certainly played
better in the Jedfish era than you have on the road,
but you'd very impressive against a lunch pale kind of
effort that Illinois gives every single week. It was pretty
close there in the first half, but the Dogs pull
away in the second half and move to six and
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two on the season, and you do have the opportunity
here this morning to think about, in my opinion, the
possibility of making the playoff. I mean, you got to
run the table in order to do it, and that
includes the beating Oregon in the last game of the
regular season. But the next three weeks are games that
you should handle and then who knows what kind of
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momentum you'll have and where Oregon sits a month from now.
But nice win for Jedfish yesterday or see me Saturday
over the five a line eye and a much.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Needed win for the program.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Quite frankly, they needed to get one of those big
wins over a ranked.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Team, whether it was home, road, whatever the case might be.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, I mean, if you have you know, if you're
still entertaining the idea of making the playoff, which it
being expanded. You should be thinking about that. Then this
was a kind of a must win. You drop that game,
that that whole dream is over, and yet you get
that one. Now all of a sudden, you have a
couple of games that seem really really doable, and then
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even UCLA doable. But they're kind of a Jekyll and Hyde.
We've seen two different versions of them this season alone
before a big matchup against the Ducks. But they got
to come play at earplace. So take care of everything
one week at a one week at a time, and
this last week, this last weekend was a big win
for them.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, just looking at the both schedules kind of for
Oregon in Washington are kind of similar, Like Oregon has
Iowa and Minnesota and USC, so I think you could
be yeah, well that's a.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Lot harder than you Dubs schedule.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Well, yeah, Iowa was a lot I was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yeah, and depending on which UCLA you get, then the
USC game could be a lot harder.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
But as yeah, as we were just saying, it's you
never know.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
What team you're going to get, but yeah, you got
to take care of what you can control and take
care of your own thing before you can even start
thinking about it, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, I mean Jedfish bristled a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I guess he'd heard enough from everybody talking about whether
or not he was going to stay or go, and
he bristled a little bit as the week progressed about
that narrative that was being spread as we discussed with
soft Ye last Thursday. Look, I don't think anybody at
this radio station is saying Jedfish is listening to offers.
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But I do believe that the conversation that we had
with Softy on Thursday, I'm not gonna I'm certainly not
going to back away from You've kind of earned this reputation.
You joked about at the moment that you arrived at
Washington that you are a bit of a vagabond and
that you will bounce from lily to lily Pad for
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a little better of an opportunity. Rumors to the NFL,
rumors to Florida have always swirled around Jedfish's visor for
years in wherever he's been, whatever program that he's been with.
So that reputation you've earned yourself, and so when coaching
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holes are created in college football, and there have been
a lot of them that have been created here recently.
Jetfish's names just going to come up, and you're gonna
have to deal with that. You're going to have to
make sure your players don't listen to the noise, to
the chatter, read the things that might not be true
on social media. But Jedfish has certainly gotten dragged into
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a number of these college football vacancies that have been
created here in the last four weeks between UCLA and Florida,
and now you've got Penn State and you've got LSU
as well. This is straight weeks in college football that
a big time program has a head coaching vacancy created
midway through the season. So Jedfish, along with a lot
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of people, are being rumored as possibilities for these programs,
and you're the only person that can just snuff it
out and say and I'm not gonna go anywhere. So
it was nice to see him bristle a little bit
at some of the rumors over at the end of
last week.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, well, I mean it's just right now is so
weird in the college coaching world.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
I mean, the the how cutthroat. It kind of is.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I mean, Brian Kelly being the most recent one at LSU,
it's that we're five and three.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
That's disappointing for them. But he's been good there.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I mean his win record, win loss record is good,
but he hasn't won the SEC title since like twenty
nineteen or something like that. I mean, it was it
just as odd that now all of a sudden, you're
seeing big time programs. They're willing to pay fifty sixty
seventy eighty million dollars in to go away.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
You just go somewhere else. We want somebody else.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And yet they didn't have money to pay players for
eight hundred years.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Yeah, ye, yeah, yeah, I think they figured interesting. Huh, Well,
that's one.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I mean, basically they lose, you know, this weekend they
lost A and M, and the crowd is chanting fire
Brian Kelly there. So it becomes now more of a
we're there's a little bit more impatience if you're gonna pay,
regardless of if you're paying him ten million dollars a
year and you have to pay him sixty million dollars
to go somewhere else and bring somebody else in that
you think is going to be better. It's like this,
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we don't have time to wait around. We don't have
time for mediocrity. If you're one of these blue blood
and I mean there's eight teams that are now going
to be looking for coaches just in power, in the
power flour level. And so to me, it kind of
brings two sides of every coin. If I am somewhat
happy or if really happy, let's just talk about jet
Fish really maybe likes you, Dub and likes his house
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and likes the weather and the greatest setting and all
this stuff, and maybe likes where it is heading right now.
Gold sweaters, he likes gold sweaters. I don't like the
gold sweater, mustard colored sweater.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
He's into it. Hey, you do you?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
But I think maybe there's some coaches then some are
going to be like I will leave where I'm at
to go coach at LSU. The prestige that what that
what that university means. And then I think there's others
that maybe or a guy like even Jetfish who does
hop around, that are like, boy, I got a really
good gig here, and if I go somewhere that maybe
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I consider a step up because I hate to break
it to people. There is teams that are considered a
step up, Alabama being one of them. I don't blame
people for taking something like that, but what what that
What comes with it is the raised expectations to some degree,
whereas you you basically and they're not going to be
crazy patient with you. There's not going to be a well,
you had a bad first year, you lost a lot
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of guys to the NFL, and the transfer portal's hard
to get your hand you wrap your hands around. I
don't think you get that at some of these other schools.
And he has that here and he's turning the thing around.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well, it's very strange.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I mean, I don't know if we understand how many
twists and turns are still ahead of us with college football.
When this brave new world that we entered with paying
players and nil and a transfer portal that you didn't
have to sit out a year. I mean, there have
been surprises, and I don't think we're done with the surprises.
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How is this all going to impact this sport for
the next twenty five years. I think we're going to
continuously be surprised about it. So register under this under
the category of the thing that I'm most recently surprised
about with college football because I thought, with all of
the players being able to move around so easily that
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coaches might actually hold on to their jobs longer, that
it was going to be important for programs to introduce stability.
So if we got players moving in and out, then
the players need to know that where they're going is
going to be rock.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Solid for them.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And it's it's now turned into and maybe it won't persist.
Maybe maybe we'll learn that this is a mistake what
we're doing right now. But now it's turned into like
nobody's job is safe now, it's not just guys wanting
to leave. Like if we're going to pay you money
and I am going you're gonna ask me, You're gonna
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call me up and say, I need a million dollars
for a strong safety out of southern California, and he's
the difference in the program, and I'm gonna give you
a million dollars. What they've done is they have empowered
all of these million dollar plus donors. They now want
to say and how the program goes, And so the
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moment that they're not happy with how their investment is
being used. They're threatening to pull the millions of dollars
back if you want more of this than I want
to say on who's coaching the team.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And so it sounds to me.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Like, based off of a conversation they were having on
game day on Saturday, that this seems to be the
issue right now. It is the multimillion dollar donors who
aren't getting return on their investment and are used to
getting return on their investment, and they want to tell
the university who's going to be the head coach or
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in these cases, who's not going to be the head
coach anymore. So for us to be at a time
twenty twenty five, mid October, late October of twenty twenty five,
just a couple short years into this new world of
ours in college football, and to see programs that have
cried poverty for my entire life now willing to write
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a check for sixty million dollars to get rid of
James Franklin just to have him not coach the team,
fifty four million to get rid of Brian Kelly. Neither
of those guys have had a bad season.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Look at and Riley, he's fine, and he's been terrible seasons.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Well, you would think he would be mad.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I thought he would have been gone.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
But I think his buyouts around that sixty million dollars.
And this doesn't come from the Yuarsiversity. These are the people.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Apparently Adidas is the one that paid off James Franklin's
contract or at least that's what we'd heard. And who
knows who's playing off Brian Kelly's contract. But that's how
much money is involved in this thing. Is that here
are programs or alums or donors or whoever is taking us. Say,
sixty million dollars is nothing to me compared to watching
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my team suffer the indignity of being five and three.
That's the world that we're living. And as I said before,
I don't know if it's going to persist. I don't
know if it will be as hard turn the other way,
because there's no way to keep everybody satisfied, no no,
no matter who you hire, just it's not just one
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guy that's right in the check for fifty four million dollars.
You have several people that are donating a million here,
two million there, whatever the case may be. You can't
keep them all satisfied. You can't get them all in
a room and they're all going to agree on the
next LSU head coach. And then the moment that he
goes five and three, who's taking their money out and
then threatening. So maybe it reverses, and maybe it does,
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just like everything else, kind of smooth out and become
a little more consistent. But right now we are in
the phase in this new world where the donors have
so much say now, they're not gonna sit around and
give millions and millions of dollars to a coach they
don't trust to use it the right way. So that's
where we are, and it's gonna get it's gonna get
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more dramatic. Yeah, before it rains itself in. I mean,
this is probably just the tip of the iceberg. The
only thing is we don't know what that iceberg looks
like underneath the surface. It could be massive and it
could be very easy to manage going for it. Maybe
it does reverse itself at some point, but right now
it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
That is crazy eating fifty four million plus.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Whoever you hire is probably gonna make a ten to
fifteen million dollars per year salary.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You gotta find somebody better than Brian Kelly.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That means you got to go.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Ten to fifteen million dollars on somebody and take him
from somebody else, probably who then has to replace him
on the backside. I mean, Lane Kiffin probably wasn't interested
in Florida. I bet he's interested in LSU. So you're
gonna get Lane Kiffn twelve million dollars a year to
jump over when you're already paying Brian Kelly ten million
dollars a year, and then ole Miss has to replace
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lane Kiffn.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
But at least they're replacing him. At least somebody else.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Is paying his salary now and they're not having double
down on it. Ole Miss might be like, please.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Take lane Kiffin.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
We'll get a cheaper coach now he's on. He really
hasn't gotten us into the tournament. So it is insane
right now, and I don't think it's gonna slow down
anytime soon. It's gonna get crazier. It's gonna get crazier
first before it starts making sense.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, I think there's a part where I don't. I mean,
it's it's we're getting some sort of.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Rules, right.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
We have the twenty million dollars that salary cap type thing.
But then there still is other ways where you can
make it as long as it's fair market value. So
to me, while they're wrangling in some sort of rules,
it still is not one hundred percent sure what that's
going to look like. And so I think it creates
certain there's certain programs out there that they just flat
out expect national championship or bust. Like and I LSU
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this year went out and spent They were one of
the top teams in the transfer portal, and then they
spent a bunch of money.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
They have been crying.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Wolf of oh, we're so poor for years, and then
this year they're like, nope, we're jumping out on top
of this. We're gonna spend the money. And then you
end up losing a bad game at home against a
mediocre team, and next thing you know, you're on the
outside looking in. I do think there's gonna be some
if you're one that gets players poached from your program,
that you're going to get more leniency. But if you're
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one that is poaching from others and you're constantly bringing
people in, if you're one of those top teams, then
you've got to put up or shut up, or they're
going to move on from it. I mean, obviously, the
fact that we've seen these big time coaches get paid
tens I mean over fifty million dollars to leave is
crazy to me.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
It's almost like college football survivor, like you just get
voted off the island. When we were talking about this earlier,
I was.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Saying, you know, I Arch is out.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Yeah, right, we were talking about it earlier, though, I
was saying that, you know, I don't know if it's
because of the Mariners that I just don't have I
didn't have the passion like feeling in just in sports
in general in this past week. But I also think
and I said it was a no fault of the Huskies,
but I do think there is a certain fault in
college football because I will say, over the last two years,
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my fandom has definitely waned.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
I'm just not as into it as I as I
used to be.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I don't think they care, no, because everybody else's attention
has gone through the roof. Like the sports never been popular.
The product over the last three years has probably not
been better in my entire lifetime.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And and obviously they are rolling in.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
The cash otherwise you're not just you know, farting away
fifty four million dollars because you're not happy with five
and three. So the sport and the product itself is
on fire. Yeah, but I this obviously can't sustain itself.
To Bucky's point, you know you're gonna you're it's championship
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or bust. That's the mentality of all of these suddenly
empowered millionaire donors. All right, and we're not a championship team,
then your my money's not good here. Okay, only one
team wins the championship. So are you just gonna do
this every year?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Every year that you're out.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Of championship contention? You're gonna pay off the coach you
just hired. That certainly is not sustainable. How could it be?
And yet this is kind of where we're at right
now in the moment, where we're in this mode of
firing pretty successful coaches, buying them out, and then preparing
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yourself to spend even more so a fifty four million
dollar buyout, an eighteen million dollar payroll for a roster
that at LSU that again, not bad, just not as
good as you hoped it would be when you invested
in it if you are one of those LSU investors,
And now who are you going to replace him with?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That guarantees you.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You're going to be a championship team next year. Man,
who's got that? Like Nick Saban, right? I mean who
you get? I mean North Carolina thought they had their
guy and Bill Belichick. They're the laughing stock of college
football right now. We just got the best coach in
the history of football, laughing stock of all of college football,
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North Carolina football right now. So, I mean, that's a
lot of money to be rolling, rolling the dice on
something that might not even be better than what you
have right now. And yet you've made it very clear
if you're not the best, we're not gonna stand for it.
It's unsustainable. It just cannot continue. But I do think
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it will get, as I said earlier, crazier before it
starts making sense.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, well, I think some I would be willing to
bet that some of these big rich dudes that are
donating to this stuff that then all of a sudden
now want a voice and have a voice and can
express their displeasure and possibly get somebody fired.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
And regardless of the ripple effect and all of.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
The things, you have to do after you get rid
of one a guy like Brian Kelly, for example, that
now you have to replace him with somebody better. I
wouldn't be surprised if some of these boosters are understanding, Yeah, no,
I'm going to donate and we're gonna be up there
at that twenty million dollar mark. And then we're gonna
be doing the other stuff, you know, the back door
stuff a little bit, so that we have consistently good
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players and we consistently get more bites at the Apple,
whether or not it turns into a national championship or not,
we just need to.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Be moving in that direction.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And then you're gonna have others like LSU who did
not compete in the transfer portal the same way until
this year, and then they go get eighteen different guys
and spend up a near that twenty million dollar mark,
and then you you lose three games, some of which
you don't think you should have lost, and they're like, not,
I have no patience, you know what I mean. I
don't think every organization is going to be as impatient
as that one is. I Now that said, I do
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think that there's still some that will will do that,
like you know, Sarkasian's not going to be able to
just have two or three years of not turning your
your you know, team into the powerhouse that they're being
paid to be. If you don't do that for very long,
boom you'll be out too. And so I do think
that there is a lot more heads on the chopping
block than in years past.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Oh, interesting stuff, all right, Coming up next tonight there.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Is a playoff game to be viewed and we will
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Speaker 2 (18:56):
Six o'clock. The start time.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Minnesota is the location and the guy we trust more
than anybody else in America to talk about the Sounders
with us, Our own Jackson Feltz, joins us here on
the radio program.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Good morning, sir, Good morning, Good to be with y'all.
How are you feeling today?
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Nervous? It's playoff time, baby, HiT's.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
This is the time we wait for all year in Sunderland,
and it's a very very good team we're facing in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
All right, Well, tell us about the opponent. So why
would the Minnesota United make you feel nervous about this series.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
They're a weird team is probably the best way to
say it. They're a very very good defensive team. They're
actually worse than Seattle offensively. They're the four seed in
the West or the five seed in the West in
this first round, best of three series.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
They're a weird.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Team because they basically run a style under a thirty
three year old head coach. They're head coach Eric Ramsey
is my age Chuck, and he runs a system that
basically says, we're just gonna sit back defensively, account for
you to make a mistake, which MLS teams you know
sometimes do occasionally, and when you make a mistake, we're
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going to capitalize on that mistake. We're going to get
you on the other end, and we're going to take
advantage of set pieces and basically just you know, count
on you all making mistakes and you know credit. This
guy is Eric Ramsey's a former assistant with Manchester United
in England. He basically probably looked at the Major League
Soccer quality and system and said, I know they're going
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to make mistakes, let's capitalize on that.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
And it's worked all.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Right, Well, then give me Jackson give me a number,
Give me the name number of a dude that we
that if I'm watching tonight, when I'm watching tonight, that
I'm like, that guy better be marked the entire time.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
I think we look at one thing and that's going
to be the set pieces. When Minnesota gets corner kicks,
when they get free kicks, and those balls are going
into the box, and there's a couple guys.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Joaquin Carrera is somebody who scored.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
On us in the game at Minnesota just a couple
of months ago. He's one of the ones that'll take
those free kicks. Six goals, eleven assists on the year.
He leads their team in assist He can send a
ball in with those set pieces and get to one
of those big bodies, and there are a lot of
big bodies who can send them in. You have Anthony Markanich,
who's a defender who has nine goals this year, very
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very good on set pieces. Michael Boxall is one of
their defenders, very good on set pieces. And it's those
guys when they send those balls in for set pieces
that we have to mark them. Jackson Reagan, Yamar Gomez
Androti are center backs. They have to be on their game,
and they have to be kind of honestly perfect because
Minnesota is a Historically they are better scoring on set
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pieces then pretty much. According to my data, and that
goes back pretty far, they're the best team in MLS
history when it comes to scoring on set pieces in
terms of how often they get them and how often
they score on them.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Jackson Feltz is with us.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Join him this evening five thirty pre match six pm
kickoff on nine to fifty AMS. The Sounders get started
with their postseason against Minnesota at Minnesota, Let's talk a
little more about our guys, the good guys. Considering sort
of the ups and downs this season and a couple
of the big injuries that this team had to deal
(22:22):
with this year, is it safe to say the Christian
roll Done may have had his best season as a Sounder.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
That at age thirty, he might actually be getting better.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
I think you got You're onto something there, Chuck. I
think because of everything else, the Sounders have lost in
certain moments where you have Albert Rusnak out for a while,
you have Jordan Morris out for a very long while,
you have Pedro de la Vega who's been in and
out and now injured again. He fractured his patella in
the last game of the regular season, so he's out
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for six months. And everybody who's been out here and
there and Christians just kind of in the iron man
and looking at what.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
He's done over the course of the year. It's not
the statistics.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
He's not, you know, racking up a whole bunch of stats,
but it's just what he's meant to the team on
both ends of the field. And then you look at
what he did with the United States national team. You know,
I frankly think that based on what he did over
the last month, he may have locked up a spot
on the national team for the World Cup. In a
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a in a World Cup where the United States is
going to be playing a game in Seattle, and it's
the middle game of those three games. I said on
Sounders Weekly last week, if I was a betting man,
I would put money down that Christian Worldon starts in
Seattle for the United States in the World Cup next year.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Oh wow, Well, Jordan Morris is back, right, I mean,
a bad season as far as the injuries go. So
what do you expecting out of a guy like him?
Even though he hasn't gotten logged a whole bunch of
minutes this year.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Yeah, no, Bucky exactly.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
It's it's been a tough year for him because of
these injuries, and it's just kind.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
Of been a one after another.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
And the shoulder thing is such a freak injury where
a shoulder injury of all things pops up and keeps
him out for a couple of months.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
But now he is back and he was kind of.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Playing I would honestly say without much confidence going into
a couple weeks ago. He scores in the final game
of the regular season, and you do see sort of
his reaction to the goal very much was all right,
the monkey's off, the back of the weights off. And
now you hope that going into this playoff game he
looks like the classic Jordan Morris because I mean, they're
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gonna need him. This Minnesota team is so good defensively,
he's gonna have to get creative with his runs. He's
gonna have to, honestly just keep making runs. And I
know Jordan deals with type one diabetes. He obviously you know,
it just works his ass off out there, and he's
gonna have to recycle runs, keep making runs, run run, run,
and I want you know, if there's one thing the
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Sounders need out of this game in order to score,
it's probably Jordan Morris to be tired as hell at
the end of this game, because he just has kept
running and kept forcing the Minnesota backline into tough situations
the entire game.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Thirty three year old Jackson felts our guests right here
on Checking Buck in the morning. If you want to
follow him on Twitter, do so at Jackson on radio
and look as the found fan base that this is
a championship organization. They like their championships. The organization wants
to talk about what's it going to take to win
the whole damn thing. I mean, I'm reading that Philadelphia
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might be unbeatable and I also have MESSI for an
entire postseason that everybody's gonna have to deal with. So
how do the Sounders compare in terms of being able
to take the whole damn thing?
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Yeah, I think even before talking about the Eastern Conference,
which is pretty good this year, the Western Conference is
also pretty good this year.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
I do like how the bracket sets up for Seattle.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
It's Minnesota in the first round, it's likely San Diego
in the second round, and San Diego is an expansion
team who's had an amazing first year, but they aren't
playoff tested like the Sounders are playoff tested, and they're
dealing with a couple of big injuries as well. So
you know, frankly, if it's Sounders san Diego, I like
the matchup there. Sounders actually beat San Diego earlier this year,
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and then in the West Final you'd be facing either
Vancouver or LAFC, and that is where I think the
major major challenge. Frankly, even with MLS Cup, I think
the major challenge would come with Vancouver or LAFC. LAFC
brought in this guy named Sun from Tottenham in England
earlier this year and.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
He's a spectacular player.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
He's basically made LAFC nearly unbeatable on the offensive end.
Vancouver has had their greatest season ever. They finished second
in the Western Conference. They brought in some weapons. Either
of those teams in a one off West Final would
be very, very difficult to get past for Seattle. But
then if you somehow did, You're right, Chuck, it's Philadelphia.
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It's Miami on the other side, and yes, Sounders beat
Miami they're out.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
For something to play for.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
For sure, Philadelphia is an incredible defensive team, even better
than Minnesota, only thirty five goals allowed in thirty four games,
so that would be an enormous challenge. But from my
eyes right now, it's just LAFC or Vancouver in a
West Final theoretically would be about as hard of a
West Final as we would ever have.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
The nervous Jackson Felts woke up this morning chewing on
glass to get ready to get tough for this postseason
run which begins tonight. Anything else I need to mention
five point thirty pre match six o'clock kickoff, Anything else
that we need to pump up for Jackson this evening.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
Yeah, No, it's listen, guys, it's playoff time. And Brian Schmitzer,
if there's one thing he does better than anything else,
it's getting guys ready to play playoff soccer. This team,
when they're not injured, they generally fight for championships. Last
year we came out of nowhere to make the Western
Conference championship. Yes, this team is dealing with a big
(28:00):
injury to Pedro, but I think it all comes back
to Brian Schmitzer and he gets these boys ready, and
if there's one reason the Sounders would get to an
MLS Cup, it would be him.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Thank you, sir. Enjoy it all and we appreciate you
joining us.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Thank you, everybody appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
There is Jackson.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Belts joining us right here on Chuck and Buck in
the morning. Sounders to start at six o'clock tonight against
Minnesota United coming up next. There's another major event this
week and it has to be discussed. Sports Radio ninety
three point three kh arfm. Halloween falls on a Friday,
which means your children can get home and not worry
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about getting up for school the next day. They can
get drunk on peanut butter cups. They can be hungover
on a Saturday morning from a candy rush.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Oh man, this.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Is living if you're a nine year old in Seattle
on Friday. Now, it's gonna rain a little bit, but
I would hope that your children are pumped.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yeah, oh yeah, Minor, I can tell you that they already.
There was a trunk or treat thing. Oh, I think
it was on Friday this last Friday at the pre
Funk Prefunk trunk or treat where you basically a lot
of parents will decorate the back of their car and
you kind of go. But it was dump and rain
and so they moved it into the gym and so
it was good fun. I mean, obviously the kids love
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dressing up and love getting the candy. I'm kind of
pumped about the dad tax that's coming.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I got a lot less excited about the tax because
I can't eat half of it because I can't eat
the chocolate, so I just steal the sour candies.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
She doesn't like them anyway.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Oh boy, you're really in a good position.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Then, Yeah, it's decent.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
We did a Halloween dance on Friday, fourth and fifth
grade Halloween dance, so all the kids got to wear
their costumes.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
It's pretty entertaining to watch a good time.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
But you had it like at the school.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Yeah, oh yeah, they had the dance.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Dude, then you had like a party of your house already.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
We had Palmer's softball team over to decorate pumpkins or
carve pumpkins, dumpkins, dumpkins in some case. That's what we did. Yeah,
that was on Thursday. So we've already I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
You've already we've been. Now you're getting ready for the crescendo, Yes,
your finale.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Yeah we dismount, Yeah we are.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
And I will say I had we had an interesting
moment in our house the other day because the Calloween
roll of toilet paper is still in Palmer's bathroom.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I'm glad it hasn't been used. It hasn't been used
because you can't make another one.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
You can't. Nope, it's impossible.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
And I went to use her bathroom and there was
no toilet paper, and I said.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Uh, Palmer, Palmer the Great said yeah. I said, can
I use this Calloween roll the toilet paper? She's like no.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Mom said, well, you need to go into the garage
then and get toilet paper for your bathroom.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
There's none of it's going to be preserved through time.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
It has to She's like, I understand, technically Calloween is over, Mom,
but it's not over till the end of the month.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
All right, what are the kids going as this year?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Baron is Cody Roads, a wrestler, Okay, And I think
the person that might get the most enjoyment out of
Halloween is my wife. She loves making the costumes. And
then Grace is a Roomy, which is a K pop
demon hunter it's a children's TV show or movie, and
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so it's a big thing. And so she has this
big purple braid that goes in her hair. And and
yet Kate then went all out like, well, she's got
to be warm. So I got her some like long John's,
like fluffy long John's that. Then I did puff paint
that imitate the skin and the whole thing, and then
made this Cody Rhodes jacket. It's just a plain red
(31:41):
long jacket like he wears, but it's got all the
wings on the back and the I mean dazzled little
shoulder thing.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
It's did you ever make you one?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Too?
Speaker 6 (31:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
No, wrest.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Yeah that was easy though. That was just a Goldberg mask,
black underwearing a belt. Yeah, and I rocked it.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You support your son. You can go with this tag teammate.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Yeah, I'm not going to do that again.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Maybe I will. How much I drink before we go.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
See, that's the real joy for parents is that Halloween
is on a Friday.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Because we don't have to wake up the three of
us at the butt crack of dawn. We get to enjoy.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Halloween, right, It's called drunk or treat.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Gold Yeah, noticed it wasn't trick or drunk or just
because I don't want one of those options, either.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Going to get old, drink drunk or tree probably drunk
and treat.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
It is the best when you go to a house, though,
and they do give out many shots for the parents
that are taking their kids out.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Oh yeah, I'll promise you that.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Yeah, and doing that?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (32:47):
It's fun?
Speaker 6 (32:47):
All right, kids around the neighborhood where we'll be right here.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I heard roomy at first, and I'm like, Grace is
gonna go? Is just like a unshowered buddy eating your chips.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
And not paying the rent.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
That'd be a pretty good costume too, have a mismatch
name on the chips.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
I saw that costumes that purple braid.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Now I'm glad you said that, because I saw that
we had a Halloween tournament softball tournament this week and
one of the coaches was wearing that.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Yeah, we've been fully immersed in Halloween. Do you have
been five days?
Speaker 8 (33:20):
Now?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You're going to be burned out by Friday? I already am.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
I might just sit home and drink.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Okay, what is paulmer the Gray?
Speaker 5 (33:26):
She's going as a witch.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
As a witch old school like that. I like I do.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I mean, I love it, I love it all, but man,
I like a good old school.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
It's nice. It's easy to find a costume for it.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Oh yeah that's true. Yeah all right, well happy Halloween.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Did Happy Halloween?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Some fun this week? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Coming up next on the program, we'll find out what
Ryan Heay is going to go as for Halloween. Plus
we'll talk some Mariners exit interviews, and also we'll talk
about the World Series.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R f M
But it was more than just a nice win for
Washington on Saturday to beat.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
A ranked team.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Sure it was at home, where you have certainly played
better in the Jedfish era than you have on the road,
but you'd very impressive against a lunch pale kind of
effort that Illinois gives every single week. It was pretty
close there in the first half, but the Dogs pull
away in the second half and move to six and
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two on the season, and you do have the opportunity
here this morning to think about, in my opinion, the
possibility of making the playoff. I mean, you got to
run the table in order to do it, and that
includes the beating Oregon in the last game of the
regular season. But the next three weeks are games that
you should handle and then who knows what kind of
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momentum you'll have and where Oregon sits a month from now.
But nice win for Jedfish yesterday or see me Saturday
over the five a line eye and a much.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Needed win for the program.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Quite frankly, they needed to get one of those big
wins over a ranked.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Team, whether it was home, road, whatever the case might be.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, I mean, if you have you know, if you're
still entertaining the idea of making the playoff, which it
being expanded. You should be thinking about that. Then this
was a kind of a must win. You drop that game,
that that whole dream is over, and yet you get
that one. Now all of a sudden, you have a
couple of games that seem really really doable, and then
(01:31):
even UCLA doable. But they're kind of a Jekyll and Hyde.
We've seen two different versions of them this season alone
before a big matchup against the Ducks. But they got
to come play at earplace. So take care of everything
one week at a one week at a time, and
this last week, this last weekend was a big win
for them.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, just looking at the both schedules kind of for
Oregon in Washington are kind of similar, Like Oregon has
Iowa and Minnesota and USC, so I think you could
be yeah, well that's a.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Lot harder than you Dubs schedule.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Well, yeah, Iowa was a lot I was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yeah, and depending on which UCLA you get, then the
USC game could be a lot harder.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
But as yeah, as we were just saying, it's you
never know.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
What team you're going to get, but yeah, you got
to take care of what you can control and take
care of your own thing before you can even start
thinking about it, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, I mean Jedfish bristled a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I guess he'd heard enough from everybody talking about whether
or not he was going to stay or go, and
he bristled a little bit as the week progressed about
that narrative that was being spread as we discussed with
soft Ye last Thursday. Look, I don't think anybody at
this radio station is saying Jedfish is listening to offers.
(02:41):
But I do believe that the conversation that we had
with Softy on Thursday, I'm not gonna I'm certainly not
going to back away from You've kind of earned this reputation.
You joked about at the moment that you arrived at
Washington that you are a bit of a vagabond and
that you will bounce from lily to lily Pad for
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a little better of an opportunity. Rumors to the NFL,
rumors to Florida have always swirled around Jedfish's visor for
years in wherever he's been, whatever program that he's been with.
So that reputation you've earned yourself, and so when coaching
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holes are created in college football, and there have been
a lot of them that have been created here recently.
Jetfish's names just going to come up, and you're gonna
have to deal with that. You're going to have to
make sure your players don't listen to the noise, to
the chatter, read the things that might not be true
on social media. But Jedfish has certainly gotten dragged into
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a number of these college football vacancies that have been
created here in the last four weeks between UCLA and Florida,
and now you've got Penn State and you've got LSU
as well. This is straight weeks in college football that
a big time program has a head coaching vacancy created
midway through the season. So Jedfish, along with a lot
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of people, are being rumored as possibilities for these programs,
and you're the only person that can just snuff it
out and say and I'm not gonna go anywhere. So
it was nice to see him bristle a little bit
at some of the rumors over at the end of
last week.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, well, I mean it's just right now is so
weird in the college coaching world.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
I mean, the the how cutthroat. It kind of is.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I mean, Brian Kelly being the most recent one at LSU,
it's that we're five and three.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
That's disappointing for them. But he's been good there.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I mean his win record, win loss record is good,
but he hasn't won the SEC title since like twenty
nineteen or something like that. I mean, it was it
just as odd that now all of a sudden, you're
seeing big time programs. They're willing to pay fifty sixty
seventy eighty million dollars in to go away.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
You just go somewhere else. We want somebody else.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And yet they didn't have money to pay players for
eight hundred years.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Yeah, ye, yeah, yeah, I think they figured interesting. Huh, Well,
that's one.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I mean, basically they lose, you know, this weekend they
lost A and M, and the crowd is chanting fire
Brian Kelly there. So it becomes now more of a
we're there's a little bit more impatience if you're gonna pay,
regardless of if you're paying him ten million dollars a
year and you have to pay him sixty million dollars
to go somewhere else and bring somebody else in that
you think is going to be better. It's like this,
(05:31):
we don't have time to wait around. We don't have
time for mediocrity. If you're one of these blue blood
and I mean there's eight teams that are now going
to be looking for coaches just in power, in the
power flour level. And so to me, it kind of
brings two sides of every coin. If I am somewhat
happy or if really happy, let's just talk about jet
Fish really maybe likes you, Dub and likes his house
(05:55):
and likes the weather and the greatest setting and all
this stuff, and maybe likes where it is heading right now.
Gold sweaters, he likes gold sweaters. I don't like the
gold sweater, mustard colored sweater.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
He's into it. Hey, you do you?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
But I think maybe there's some coaches then some are
going to be like I will leave where I'm at
to go coach at LSU. The prestige that what that
what that university means. And then I think there's others
that maybe or a guy like even Jetfish who does
hop around, that are like, boy, I got a really
good gig here, and if I go somewhere that maybe
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I consider a step up because I hate to break
it to people. There is teams that are considered a
step up, Alabama being one of them. I don't blame
people for taking something like that, but what what that
What comes with it is the raised expectations to some degree,
whereas you you basically and they're not going to be
crazy patient with you. There's not going to be a well,
you had a bad first year, you lost a lot
(06:50):
of guys to the NFL, and the transfer portal's hard
to get your hand you wrap your hands around. I
don't think you get that at some of these other schools.
And he has that here and he's turning the thing around.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well, it's very strange.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I mean, I don't know if we understand how many
twists and turns are still ahead of us with college football.
When this brave new world that we entered with paying
players and nil and a transfer portal that you didn't
have to sit out a year. I mean, there have
been surprises, and I don't think we're done with the surprises.
(07:22):
How is this all going to impact this sport for
the next twenty five years. I think we're going to
continuously be surprised about it. So register under this under
the category of the thing that I'm most recently surprised
about with college football because I thought, with all of
the players being able to move around so easily that
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coaches might actually hold on to their jobs longer, that
it was going to be important for programs to introduce stability.
So if we got players moving in and out, then
the players need to know that where they're going is
going to be rock.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Solid for them.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And it's it's now turned into and maybe it won't persist.
Maybe maybe we'll learn that this is a mistake what
we're doing right now. But now it's turned into like
nobody's job is safe now, it's not just guys wanting
to leave. Like if we're going to pay you money
and I am going you're gonna ask me, You're gonna
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call me up and say, I need a million dollars
for a strong safety out of southern California, and he's
the difference in the program, and I'm gonna give you
a million dollars. What they've done is they have empowered
all of these million dollar plus donors. They now want
to say and how the program goes, And so the
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moment that they're not happy with how their investment is
being used. They're threatening to pull the millions of dollars
back if you want more of this than I want
to say on who's coaching the team.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And so it sounds to me.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Like, based off of a conversation they were having on
game day on Saturday, that this seems to be the
issue right now. It is the multimillion dollar donors who
aren't getting return on their investment and are used to
getting return on their investment, and they want to tell
the university who's going to be the head coach or
(09:22):
in these cases, who's not going to be the head
coach anymore. So for us to be at a time
twenty twenty five, mid October, late October of twenty twenty five,
just a couple short years into this new world of
ours in college football, and to see programs that have
cried poverty for my entire life now willing to write
(09:46):
a check for sixty million dollars to get rid of
James Franklin just to have him not coach the team,
fifty four million to get rid of Brian Kelly. Neither
of those guys have had a bad season.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Look at and Riley, he's fine, and he's been terrible seasons.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Well, you would think he would be mad.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I thought he would have been gone.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
But I think his buyouts around that sixty million dollars.
And this doesn't come from the Yuarsiversity. These are the people.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Apparently Adidas is the one that paid off James Franklin's
contract or at least that's what we'd heard. And who
knows who's playing off Brian Kelly's contract. But that's how
much money is involved in this thing. Is that here
are programs or alums or donors or whoever is taking us. Say,
sixty million dollars is nothing to me compared to watching
(10:34):
my team suffer the indignity of being five and three.
That's the world that we're living. And as I said before,
I don't know if it's going to persist. I don't
know if it will be as hard turn the other way,
because there's no way to keep everybody satisfied, no no,
no matter who you hire, just it's not just one
(10:58):
guy that's right in the check for fifty four million dollars.
You have several people that are donating a million here,
two million there, whatever the case may be. You can't
keep them all satisfied. You can't get them all in
a room and they're all going to agree on the
next LSU head coach. And then the moment that he
goes five and three, who's taking their money out and
then threatening. So maybe it reverses, and maybe it does,
(11:19):
just like everything else, kind of smooth out and become
a little more consistent. But right now we are in
the phase in this new world where the donors have
so much say now, they're not gonna sit around and
give millions and millions of dollars to a coach they
don't trust to use it the right way. So that's
where we are, and it's gonna get it's gonna get
(11:42):
more dramatic. Yeah, before it rains itself in. I mean,
this is probably just the tip of the iceberg. The
only thing is we don't know what that iceberg looks
like underneath the surface. It could be massive and it
could be very easy to manage going for it. Maybe
it does reverse itself at some point, but right now
it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
That is crazy eating fifty four million plus.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Whoever you hire is probably gonna make a ten to
fifteen million dollars per year salary.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You gotta find somebody better than Brian Kelly.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That means you got to go.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Ten to fifteen million dollars on somebody and take him
from somebody else, probably who then has to replace him
on the backside. I mean, Lane Kiffin probably wasn't interested
in Florida. I bet he's interested in LSU. So you're
gonna get Lane Kiffn twelve million dollars a year to
jump over when you're already paying Brian Kelly ten million
dollars a year, and then ole Miss has to replace
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lane Kiffn.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
But at least they're replacing him. At least somebody else.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Is paying his salary now and they're not having double
down on it. Ole Miss might be like, please.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Take lane Kiffin.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
We'll get a cheaper coach now he's on. He really
hasn't gotten us into the tournament. So it is insane
right now, and I don't think it's gonna slow down
anytime soon. It's gonna get crazier. It's gonna get crazier
first before it starts making sense.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, I think there's a part where I don't. I mean,
it's it's we're getting some sort of.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Rules, right.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
We have the twenty million dollars that salary cap type thing.
But then there still is other ways where you can
make it as long as it's fair market value. So
to me, while they're wrangling in some sort of rules,
it still is not one hundred percent sure what that's
going to look like. And so I think it creates
certain there's certain programs out there that they just flat
out expect national championship or bust. Like and I LSU
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this year went out and spent They were one of
the top teams in the transfer portal, and then they
spent a bunch of money.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
They have been crying.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Wolf of oh, we're so poor for years, and then
this year they're like, nope, we're jumping out on top
of this. We're gonna spend the money. And then you
end up losing a bad game at home against a
mediocre team, and next thing you know, you're on the
outside looking in. I do think there's gonna be some
if you're one that gets players poached from your program,
that you're going to get more leniency. But if you're
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one that is poaching from others and you're constantly bringing
people in, if you're one of those top teams, then
you've got to put up or shut up, or they're
going to move on from it. I mean, obviously, the
fact that we've seen these big time coaches get paid
tens I mean over fifty million dollars to leave is
crazy to me.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
It's almost like college football survivor, like you just get
voted off the island. When we were talking about this earlier,
I was.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Saying, you know, I Arch is out.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Yeah, right, we were talking about it earlier, though, I
was saying that, you know, I don't know if it's
because of the Mariners that I just don't have I
didn't have the passion like feeling in just in sports
in general in this past week. But I also think
and I said it was a no fault of the Huskies,
but I do think there is a certain fault in
college football because I will say, over the last two years,
(14:41):
my fandom has definitely waned.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
I'm just not as into it as I as I
used to be.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I don't think they care, no, because everybody else's attention
has gone through the roof. Like the sports never been popular.
The product over the last three years has probably not
been better in my entire lifetime.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And and obviously they are rolling in.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
The cash otherwise you're not just you know, farting away
fifty four million dollars because you're not happy with five
and three. So the sport and the product itself is
on fire. Yeah, but I this obviously can't sustain itself.
To Bucky's point, you know you're gonna you're it's championship
(15:22):
or bust. That's the mentality of all of these suddenly
empowered millionaire donors. All right, and we're not a championship team,
then your my money's not good here. Okay, only one
team wins the championship. So are you just gonna do
this every year?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Every year that you're out.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Of championship contention? You're gonna pay off the coach you
just hired. That certainly is not sustainable. How could it be?
And yet this is kind of where we're at right
now in the moment, where we're in this mode of
firing pretty successful coaches, buying them out, and then preparing
(16:02):
yourself to spend even more so a fifty four million
dollar buyout, an eighteen million dollar payroll for a roster
that at LSU that again, not bad, just not as
good as you hoped it would be when you invested
in it if you are one of those LSU investors,
And now who are you going to replace him with?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That guarantees you.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You're going to be a championship team next year. Man,
who's got that? Like Nick Saban, right? I mean who
you get? I mean North Carolina thought they had their
guy and Bill Belichick. They're the laughing stock of college
football right now. We just got the best coach in
the history of football, laughing stock of all of college football,
(16:43):
North Carolina football right now. So, I mean, that's a
lot of money to be rolling, rolling the dice on
something that might not even be better than what you
have right now. And yet you've made it very clear
if you're not the best, we're not gonna stand for it.
It's unsustainable. It just cannot continue. But I do think
(17:06):
it will get, as I said earlier, crazier before it
starts making sense.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, well, I think some I would be willing to
bet that some of these big rich dudes that are
donating to this stuff that then all of a sudden
now want a voice and have a voice and can
express their displeasure and possibly get somebody fired.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
And regardless of the ripple effect and all of.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
The things, you have to do after you get rid
of one a guy like Brian Kelly, for example, that
now you have to replace him with somebody better. I
wouldn't be surprised if some of these boosters are understanding, Yeah, no,
I'm going to donate and we're gonna be up there
at that twenty million dollar mark. And then we're gonna
be doing the other stuff, you know, the back door
stuff a little bit, so that we have consistently good
(17:48):
players and we consistently get more bites at the Apple,
whether or not it turns into a national championship or not,
we just need to.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Be moving in that direction.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And then you're gonna have others like LSU who did
not compete in the transfer portal the same way until
this year, and then they go get eighteen different guys
and spend up a near that twenty million dollar mark,
and then you you lose three games, some of which
you don't think you should have lost, and they're like, not,
I have no patience, you know what I mean. I
don't think every organization is going to be as impatient
as that one is. I Now that said, I do
(18:18):
think that there's still some that will will do that,
like you know, Sarkasian's not going to be able to
just have two or three years of not turning your
your you know, team into the powerhouse that they're being
paid to be. If you don't do that for very long,
boom you'll be out too. And so I do think
that there is a lot more heads on the chopping
block than in years past.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Oh, interesting stuff, all right, Coming up next tonight there.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Is a playoff game to be viewed and we will
chat with the face of Sounders Hockey. Excuse me, Sounders
Soccer Now is going to be in Sports Radio ninety
three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Six o'clock. The start time.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Minnesota is the location and the guy we trust more
than anybody else in America to talk about the Sounders
with us, Our own Jackson Feltz, joins us here on
the radio program.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Good morning, sir, Good morning, Good to be with y'all.
How are you feeling today?
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Nervous? It's playoff time, baby, HiT's.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
This is the time we wait for all year in Sunderland,
and it's a very very good team we're facing in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
All right, Well, tell us about the opponent. So why
would the Minnesota United make you feel nervous about this series.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
They're a weird team is probably the best way to
say it. They're a very very good defensive team. They're
actually worse than Seattle offensively. They're the four seed in
the West or the five seed in the West in
this first round, best of three series.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
They're a weird.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Team because they basically run a style under a thirty
three year old head coach. They're head coach Eric Ramsey
is my age Chuck, and he runs a system that
basically says, we're just gonna sit back defensively, account for
you to make a mistake, which MLS teams you know
sometimes do occasionally, and when you make a mistake, we're
(20:10):
going to capitalize on that mistake. We're going to get
you on the other end, and we're going to take
advantage of set pieces and basically just you know, count
on you all making mistakes and you know credit. This
guy is Eric Ramsey's a former assistant with Manchester United
in England. He basically probably looked at the Major League
Soccer quality and system and said, I know they're going
(20:33):
to make mistakes, let's capitalize on that.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
And it's worked all.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Right, Well, then give me Jackson give me a number,
Give me the name number of a dude that we
that if I'm watching tonight, when I'm watching tonight, that
I'm like, that guy better be marked the entire time.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
I think we look at one thing and that's going
to be the set pieces. When Minnesota gets corner kicks,
when they get free kicks, and those balls are going
into the box, and there's a couple guys.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Joaquin Carrera is somebody who scored.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
On us in the game at Minnesota just a couple
of months ago. He's one of the ones that'll take
those free kicks. Six goals, eleven assists on the year.
He leads their team in assist He can send a
ball in with those set pieces and get to one
of those big bodies, and there are a lot of
big bodies who can send them in. You have Anthony Markanich,
who's a defender who has nine goals this year, very
(21:23):
very good on set pieces. Michael Boxall is one of
their defenders, very good on set pieces. And it's those
guys when they send those balls in for set pieces
that we have to mark them. Jackson Reagan, Yamar Gomez
Androti are center backs. They have to be on their game,
and they have to be kind of honestly perfect because
Minnesota is a Historically they are better scoring on set
(21:46):
pieces then pretty much. According to my data, and that
goes back pretty far, they're the best team in MLS
history when it comes to scoring on set pieces in
terms of how often they get them and how often
they score on them.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Jackson Feltz is with us.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Join him this evening five thirty pre match six pm
kickoff on nine to fifty AMS. The Sounders get started
with their postseason against Minnesota at Minnesota, Let's talk a
little more about our guys, the good guys. Considering sort
of the ups and downs this season and a couple
of the big injuries that this team had to deal
(22:22):
with this year, is it safe to say the Christian
roll Done may have had his best season as a Sounder.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
That at age thirty, he might actually be getting better.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
I think you got You're onto something there, Chuck. I
think because of everything else, the Sounders have lost in
certain moments where you have Albert Rusnak out for a while,
you have Jordan Morris out for a very long while,
you have Pedro de la Vega who's been in and
out and now injured again. He fractured his patella in
the last game of the regular season, so he's out
(22:55):
for six months. And everybody who's been out here and
there and Christians just kind of in the iron man
and looking at what.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
He's done over the course of the year. It's not
the statistics.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
He's not, you know, racking up a whole bunch of stats,
but it's just what he's meant to the team on
both ends of the field. And then you look at
what he did with the United States national team. You know,
I frankly think that based on what he did over
the last month, he may have locked up a spot
on the national team for the World Cup. In a
(23:26):
a in a World Cup where the United States is
going to be playing a game in Seattle, and it's
the middle game of those three games. I said on
Sounders Weekly last week, if I was a betting man,
I would put money down that Christian Worldon starts in
Seattle for the United States in the World Cup next year.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Oh wow, Well, Jordan Morris is back, right, I mean,
a bad season as far as the injuries go. So
what do you expecting out of a guy like him?
Even though he hasn't gotten logged a whole bunch of
minutes this year.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Yeah, no, Bucky exactly.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
It's it's been a tough year for him because of
these injuries, and it's just kind.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
Of been a one after another.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
And the shoulder thing is such a freak injury where
a shoulder injury of all things pops up and keeps
him out for a couple of months.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
But now he is back and he was kind of.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Playing I would honestly say without much confidence going into
a couple weeks ago. He scores in the final game
of the regular season, and you do see sort of
his reaction to the goal very much was all right,
the monkey's off, the back of the weights off. And
now you hope that going into this playoff game he
looks like the classic Jordan Morris because I mean, they're
(24:32):
gonna need him. This Minnesota team is so good defensively,
he's gonna have to get creative with his runs. He's
gonna have to, honestly just keep making runs. And I
know Jordan deals with type one diabetes. He obviously you know,
it just works his ass off out there, and he's
gonna have to recycle runs, keep making runs, run run, run,
and I want you know, if there's one thing the
(24:53):
Sounders need out of this game in order to score,
it's probably Jordan Morris to be tired as hell at
the end of this game, because he just has kept
running and kept forcing the Minnesota backline into tough situations
the entire game.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Thirty three year old Jackson felts our guests right here
on Checking Buck in the morning. If you want to
follow him on Twitter, do so at Jackson on radio
and look as the found fan base that this is
a championship organization. They like their championships. The organization wants
to talk about what's it going to take to win
the whole damn thing. I mean, I'm reading that Philadelphia
(25:29):
might be unbeatable and I also have MESSI for an
entire postseason that everybody's gonna have to deal with. So
how do the Sounders compare in terms of being able
to take the whole damn thing?
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Yeah, I think even before talking about the Eastern Conference,
which is pretty good this year, the Western Conference is
also pretty good this year.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
I do like how the bracket sets up for Seattle.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
It's Minnesota in the first round, it's likely San Diego
in the second round, and San Diego is an expansion
team who's had an amazing first year, but they aren't
playoff tested like the Sounders are playoff tested, and they're
dealing with a couple of big injuries as well. So
you know, frankly, if it's Sounders san Diego, I like
the matchup there. Sounders actually beat San Diego earlier this year,
(26:14):
and then in the West Final you'd be facing either
Vancouver or LAFC, and that is where I think the
major major challenge. Frankly, even with MLS Cup, I think
the major challenge would come with Vancouver or LAFC. LAFC
brought in this guy named Sun from Tottenham in England
earlier this year and.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
He's a spectacular player.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
He's basically made LAFC nearly unbeatable on the offensive end.
Vancouver has had their greatest season ever. They finished second
in the Western Conference. They brought in some weapons. Either
of those teams in a one off West Final would
be very, very difficult to get past for Seattle. But
then if you somehow did, You're right, Chuck, it's Philadelphia.
(26:56):
It's Miami on the other side, and yes, Sounders beat
Miami they're out.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
For something to play for.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
For sure, Philadelphia is an incredible defensive team, even better
than Minnesota, only thirty five goals allowed in thirty four games,
so that would be an enormous challenge. But from my
eyes right now, it's just LAFC or Vancouver in a
West Final theoretically would be about as hard of a
West Final as we would ever have.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
The nervous Jackson Felts woke up this morning chewing on
glass to get ready to get tough for this postseason
run which begins tonight. Anything else I need to mention
five point thirty pre match six o'clock kickoff, Anything else
that we need to pump up for Jackson this evening.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
Yeah, No, it's listen, guys, it's playoff time. And Brian Schmitzer,
if there's one thing he does better than anything else,
it's getting guys ready to play playoff soccer. This team,
when they're not injured, they generally fight for championships. Last
year we came out of nowhere to make the Western
Conference championship. Yes, this team is dealing with a big
(28:00):
injury to Pedro, but I think it all comes back
to Brian Schmitzer and he gets these boys ready, and
if there's one reason the Sounders would get to an
MLS Cup, it would be him.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Thank you, sir. Enjoy it all and we appreciate you
joining us.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Thank you, everybody appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
There is Jackson.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Belts joining us right here on Chuck and Buck in
the morning. Sounders to start at six o'clock tonight against
Minnesota United coming up next. There's another major event this
week and it has to be discussed. Sports Radio ninety
three point three kh arfm. Halloween falls on a Friday,
which means your children can get home and not worry
(28:37):
about getting up for school the next day. They can
get drunk on peanut butter cups. They can be hungover
on a Saturday morning from a candy rush.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Oh man, this.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Is living if you're a nine year old in Seattle
on Friday. Now, it's gonna rain a little bit, but
I would hope that your children are pumped.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yeah, oh yeah, Minor, I can tell you that they already.
There was a trunk or treat thing. Oh, I think
it was on Friday this last Friday at the pre
Funk Prefunk trunk or treat where you basically a lot
of parents will decorate the back of their car and
you kind of go. But it was dump and rain
and so they moved it into the gym and so
it was good fun. I mean, obviously the kids love
(29:19):
dressing up and love getting the candy. I'm kind of
pumped about the dad tax that's coming.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I got a lot less excited about the tax because
I can't eat half of it because I can't eat
the chocolate, so I just steal the sour candies.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
She doesn't like them anyway.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Oh boy, you're really in a good position.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Then, Yeah, it's decent.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
We did a Halloween dance on Friday, fourth and fifth
grade Halloween dance, so all the kids got to wear
their costumes.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
It's pretty entertaining to watch a good time.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
But you had it like at the school.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Yeah, oh yeah, they had the dance.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Dude, then you had like a party of your house already.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
We had Palmer's softball team over to decorate pumpkins or
carve pumpkins, dumpkins, dumpkins in some case. That's what we did. Yeah,
that was on Thursday. So we've already I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
You've already we've been. Now you're getting ready for the crescendo, Yes,
your finale.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Yeah we dismount, Yeah we are.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
And I will say I had we had an interesting
moment in our house the other day because the Calloween
roll of toilet paper is still in Palmer's bathroom.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I'm glad it hasn't been used. It hasn't been used
because you can't make another one.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
You can't. Nope, it's impossible.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
And I went to use her bathroom and there was
no toilet paper, and I said.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Uh, Palmer, Palmer the Great said yeah. I said, can
I use this Calloween roll the toilet paper? She's like no.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Mom said, well, you need to go into the garage
then and get toilet paper for your bathroom.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
There's none of it's going to be preserved through time.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
It has to She's like, I understand, technically Calloween is over, Mom,
but it's not over till the end of the month.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
All right, what are the kids going as this year?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Baron is Cody Roads, a wrestler, Okay, And I think
the person that might get the most enjoyment out of
Halloween is my wife. She loves making the costumes. And
then Grace is a Roomy, which is a K pop
demon hunter it's a children's TV show or movie, and
(31:20):
so it's a big thing. And so she has this
big purple braid that goes in her hair. And and
yet Kate then went all out like, well, she's got
to be warm. So I got her some like long John's,
like fluffy long John's that. Then I did puff paint
that imitate the skin and the whole thing, and then
made this Cody Rhodes jacket. It's just a plain red
(31:41):
long jacket like he wears, but it's got all the
wings on the back and the I mean dazzled little
shoulder thing.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
It's did you ever make you one?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Too?
Speaker 6 (31:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
No, wrest.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Yeah that was easy though. That was just a Goldberg mask,
black underwearing a belt. Yeah, and I rocked it.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You support your son. You can go with this tag teammate.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Yeah, I'm not going to do that again.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Maybe I will. How much I drink before we go.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
See, that's the real joy for parents is that Halloween
is on a Friday.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Because we don't have to wake up the three of
us at the butt crack of dawn. We get to enjoy.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Halloween, right, It's called drunk or treat.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Gold Yeah, noticed it wasn't trick or drunk or just
because I don't want one of those options, either.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Going to get old, drink drunk or tree probably drunk
and treat.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
It is the best when you go to a house, though,
and they do give out many shots for the parents
that are taking their kids out.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Oh yeah, I'll promise you that.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Yeah, and doing that?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (32:47):
It's fun?
Speaker 6 (32:47):
All right, kids around the neighborhood where we'll be right here.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I heard roomy at first, and I'm like, Grace is
gonna go? Is just like a unshowered buddy eating your chips.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
And not paying the rent.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
That'd be a pretty good costume too, have a mismatch
name on the chips.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
I saw that costumes that purple braid.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Now I'm glad you said that, because I saw that
we had a Halloween tournament softball tournament this week and
one of the coaches was wearing that.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Yeah, we've been fully immersed in Halloween. Do you have
been five days?
Speaker 8 (33:20):
Now?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You're going to be burned out by Friday? I already am.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
I might just sit home and drink.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Okay, what is paulmer the Gray?
Speaker 5 (33:26):
She's going as a witch.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
As a witch old school like that. I like I do.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I mean, I love it, I love it all, but man,
I like a good old school.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
It's nice. It's easy to find a costume for it.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Oh yeah that's true. Yeah all right, well happy Halloween.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Did Happy Halloween?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Some fun this week? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Coming up next on the program, we'll find out what
Ryan Heay is going to go as for Halloween. Plus
we'll talk some Mariners exit interviews, and also we'll talk
about the World Series.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
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