June 12, 2025 • 31 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler, Dick Fain and Jackson Felts react to Oklahoma City losing game three of the NBA Finals last night, then Joe Knight, Executive Director of Dawgs Unleashed, joins the show to discuss the new NIL world at UW, plus reactions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Would you rather hear whatever we have planned between now
and five o'clock or this on.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Loop all day? You thunday? I mean, god, Darty, we
just home? How about that?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
How about the Indiana Basketball Pacers, Yes, sir, with a
win last night over the Thunder, two games away from
the NBA Championship. Can you imagine the tightness on those
suns of bitches if they win game far four? Excuse me,
I say far. I almost said game cleaning. I got
copy between three and four. If they win Game four
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on Saturday night in Indiana and go up three games
to one, do we proclaim it to be over?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I don't think we do at all, because we don't
want to jinx it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
But I don't know how many teams did the Heat
come down, come back from three games to win?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Somebody came back from three games to one.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Bron Lebron, Yes, thank you, Yes, the calves right to
win the NBA Championship. So it ain't gonna be over
if they win Game four on Saturday. But it's pretty damn.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Close to me. And I mean honestly, this is.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It's not rocket sides to predict, but the winner of
Game four is gonna win the series. I mean, it
just feels like the winner of Game four is gonna
win the series. Now, having said that, I would put
a lot of money on Indiana not winning.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Gambero right, Yes, which I'm going to do. But hey,
it's fun.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
All they've done, They've at least given us a reason
to watch, right, Jackson said Jackson, if you started watching
yet because you said you weren't gonna.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Watch until you thought that they what they got to be?
Like halfway through game number Oh, I've made it very
very clear.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
To make it clear again, Indiana.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
When Indiana has three wins, I will start watching.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Okay, Well that means if they win Saturday, you'll start watching.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Done.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Actually the games tomorrow? Right game game? Yes, tomorrow they
win tomorrow, you're watching watch game five? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well but okay, so but here's the problem though, because
I'm kind of really getting into the whole like Jinx.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Thing and all that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You know right now, I know you believe in all that, Jason,
you haven't watched the damn game. If they win tomorrow
and they go up three games to one, we don't watch.
I don't think anybody wants you to watch it. Sacrifice
you're not allowed done, You're not allowed to watch a second?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You got it, all right? Yeah? Are you?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Are you with us for the community, for every one
of America, for Americas?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But you know what that's like.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
You know, that's like telling us that we have to
watch some random soccer game that we don't care about. Right,
if it works, he doesn't care about watching the basketball game.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So it's not like it's he said he would tune
and if they go up three games to watch, hold
on to say, I don't.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
You're putting a lot of words in my mouth right now,
and I don't want that my mouth.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Jackson.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Obviously, if you really cared about the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You would have watched it some time out And so
for you, yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
We have to have a lot of time that has
to play every.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Single minute, but we've now played almost one hundred.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Minutes of basketball.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
There's a difference between caring about Indiana winning and caring
about okay see los. I very much care about okay
see losing. I don't give a lick about Indiana winning exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It's not about who wins, it's about who loses. So
as long as I have it confirmed that in this
next game.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Okay See could have everything fall apart from them.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm gonna watch the Parland Timbers could be playing Oklahoma
City and he'd be rooting for the Timbers.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It doesn't matter who wins, who loses.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
How bad would Jackson field though, if he started watching
A three one and Oklahoma City won three games and
he never That's why I won't watch, said you'd watch
if Indiana one.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
We just we just figured it out. We just literally
figured that out. Five second time. I'm dave, I said something.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Our names are Softy and Jackson. Nice to meet you, mister.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I'm so confused about all the crap he's playing over
here every five seconds.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Waits one click, over and over again.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Young with you.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That is a fun thing. What would I least rather want?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Would I want to have happened Indy or sorry okay
See to win the or win the championship, or Portland
to win a championship?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Portland, I'd rather the Timbers win because.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Because we never lost a soccer team that became the
Portland tee. And look, no disrespect to the MLS, but
the NBA is a much bigger animal than the MLS.
And I think the NBA and the thunder mean a
lot more here. Then there'd be a lot more angst
from your brothers and sisters that you call neighbors and
friends in Seattle than there would be if the Timbers
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won the championship. With the Timbers win the championship, we
can just stick our heads in the sand, and right
Oklahoma wins the NBA title. O God, the world falls
apart me. So yeah, I mean, pretty cool what they
did last night. They just they kicked our ass in
the fourth quarter. That was not even close. I mean
it was it was just a blood bath in the
fourth quarter by them. And I don't know about you
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watching that game and you're doing the Storm game. Big
win for them against the Links last night. By the
way I came, I love it. But they they looked
like they had no idea what they were doing, and the.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
The Pacers looked like a team.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I know they've got some playoff experience, but they don't
have the finals experience, obviously. Pascal Siakam, he was on
the Raptors when they won the title, Is that right, Okay,
so he's got some finals experience. Carlisle's got some finals
experience obviously.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Back in the day with Dallas, so he knows what
he's doing.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
From a coach's perspective, they looked out coach, and they
looked outplayed, and they looked overwhelmed. They looked nervous, they
looked like they were about to pee their pants in
the fourth quarter of that game last night.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
It was unbelievable and I loved it. It was I mean,
there's no question there's a coaching advantage. And we talked
about that, Jackson. We went through player by player last week,
let's remember, and what we came up with was like,
there's not when you just go player by player, there's
not a significant thunder advantage, and there is a pacer
advantage when it comes to the coaching. But when you've
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got a guy like Ben Matheren coming off the bench,
remember this guy was the PAC twelve Player of the Year.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I remember remember him at Arizona. He was a bad
man at Arizona.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Bad man and he was the sixth pick in the
NBA draft and he was an All Rookie team member.
This isn't just a fluke that he comes off the
bench and scores. He does this every you know month
or so. Now he's probably not going to do it again,
but he has been able to step up. Other guys
have been able to step a TJ. McConnell's been able
to step up. Whereas what's Chet Holmgren done in this series?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
How much? What's Jalen Williams done in this series?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
It's been it's been Shay putting a lot of weight
on his own shoulders, and he hasn't gotten the help
from his quote unquote deep team.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Like everybody thought that he would get you, all of them.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Hope they get kicked in the balls on Saturday and
go home limping down three games to one. Maybe they'll
lose Game five in Oklahoma City and lose it in
front of their own fans, fat faces. How fun would
that be to see the Pacers weren't a title in
Oklahoma City right in front of them, right in front
of in front of Clay Bennett, every freaking redneck, inbred
freak in Oklahoma City who somehow bought enough gas to
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get free tickets for the game. They get to go
watch the Thunder lose on their own arena next week.
That'd be tremendous. I'd pay a lot of money to
watch that. So I just say this that we're behind them.
The show is behind them, America is behind them, Humanity
is behind them. Anybody who has a soul is behind
the Indiana Pacers. And if they get this done, throw
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on them. Mount rushmore of sports allies. As far as
I'm concerned for the two Oho sis, we.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Did the bracket right of teams, we rooted for the
most and like I don't, I think Auburn against the
Oregon Dust Mile State right that one. So I think
now whenever these things come up, we always have to
match it against Auburn. So if the Indiana Pacers were
to win, right, don't want to jinx any things. If
if right they were to win, does this Indiana Pacers
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team beat the Auburn team, Yes, because remember remember it
just depends on go ahead the Miami Heat in twenty twelve,
that didn't even make our final.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Right, which is kind of weird, right, But you can
only have two teams in the finals, so they would
be in the top four they were, they'd be in
the top three, top four, so the top four would
be the Chiefs team that beat the Niners when the
Niners were up ten in the fourth of the two thousand,
the cam Newton Auburn team that beat the nose Picker
Darren Thomas and the Oregon Docts. I was the winner,
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the Miami Heat that beat the Thunder in the NBA
Finals four.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Who was the fourth team?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You remember Io State State Oregon this last year, the
first time that So then where would the question is
if the Pacers win this thing, where would they then
be on that list? Would they be number one? Would
they be number two? We gotta do the bracket over again.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
We gott to revisit the bracket at least the final four.
Where does the Pacers show up? I think because it
would be such an upset. Huge. Yeah, the Heat, the
Heat Thunder wasn't an upset, right, they were prohibit of favor.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Like we we went into that going, you know, yeah,
the Thunder got here, but Lebron's going to take care
of business right now, and he did, right.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
We did not think even though even though we said.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Hey, the value at plus five hundred maybe on the Pacers,
that doesn't mean we think the Pacers are going to
win this series. That just means we'd rather put our
money on the Pacers plus five hundred and okase minus seven.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Guys, if you put one hundred dollars on the Thunder
to win the title a week and a half ago.
You know how much it would have paid one hundred bucks?
It would have paid fourteen dollars and thirty cents because
they were the Thunder and minus seven hundredth right to
win the NBA Finals. I don't know if there was
like updated series odds or not. I don't know if
they do that when there are no now they're to
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know what they are? Did there minus two hundred right?
Well they were minus set.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
It was.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
It was just a waste of money to total waste
of money. Like you would have to bet so much
money to have anything of significance come your way.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
It's just not worth it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I mean huge favorites, like would you say there's only
been four or five teams that were bigger favorites than
the Thunder were. So I don't know, man, this game,
this game tomorrow, man, I uh, it's gonna be fun
to watch if they can get up three three games
to one, and I just you know, bring everything you
got boys, everything the kitchen sick. Rick Carlisle has been
sitting on some crazy scheme. He hasn't brought out some
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crazy matchup he hasn't brought out yet in the NBA Finals.
I can't wait to see what they throw their way
tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
So we're doing phone with Audio four thirty today where
we have a tyrese Haliburton versus Stevens dispute, right, And
I think, you know, if anything, this is only gonna
put more momentum behind how good?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Oh, absolutely, he's gonna say.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
You know what you're gonna come at for me, stephen
A watch me go win a tight.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Well, look what happened when Halliburton was voted the most
overrated player in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Somebody needs that guy to telling me sucks before the game.
He feel him for a whole month. Good, good, good,
let's go. I got my Pacers T shirt already that
war for Game two. I was a little bit worried though,
when you tweeted that out. I was like, is that
gonna be the jinx? No? I waited.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I think I waited to send it out until the
Pacers were up like seven points with forty seconds to
go or whatever. It wasn't much you mean talking about
the first time I twisted. Yeah, yeah, the first time
I sent it out. I just want a credit for
buying the damn thing because it cost me forty eight dollars. Okay,
you know why, because everybody's doing the same thing. Honestly,
How ready freaking Pacer T shirts is Amazon sent to
Seattle in the last three or four days? Some idiot
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in some warehouse somewhere is like, that was all these
Pacer shirts.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Going to Seattle? Well, we got that going on.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Joe Knight is the new director of Dogs Unleash, the
in house NIL program.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Now over at you Dub.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You heard Jedfish yesterday at six o'clock talking about the
new rules and how they're going to handle stuff from
now on. Bottom line is, guys, every school can give
players up to twenty point five million dollars and that's
every sport. And Jedfish told us yesterday they think about
fifteen million of that is going to go to football,
roughly seventy five percent.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And they'll need more money than that for the players. Right.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
But the money can't come from the school. The money's
got to come from NIL. The money's got to come
from people that own businesses. The money's got to come
from endorsements the kids get. So with Montlake future is
eventually going away. Everything now happening in house. The easiest
way I can explain this is that Washington, just like
every other program in America, the athletic department, not the
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football team, is going to have an in house sales
team like we have here at the radio station, that
will go out and get deals for kids right while
they're being recruited, I'm certain, and while they're on campus,
to keep them from going to another school. Like Jed
said yesterday, he's got an up and coming offensive lineman, right,
or a running back or a wide receiver. You got
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to keep these kids happy and they need deals. So
Joe Knight is the director of basically that new sales
team called Dogs Unleashed over at UDUB that's in charge
of getting endorsements for players. He will join us next segment.
Bill Krueger is going to join us at four o'clock
this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Oh man, I love to talk to Bill right now.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Well, yeah, you know his thoughts on what's going on
with the Mariners, who all of a sudden have lost
eight of nine. They're under five hundred, and I do
want to ask you guys, and ask Bill, do we
feel like this is a blip on the radar for
this baseball team, or do we feel like there's bigger
problems at hand, because Larry Stone said yesterday he feels
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like this is an issue, like the first month of April,
you were relying on guys and he's exactly right, like
Hore Polanco, like Dylan Moore for example, and even in
some ways cal Rowley right who at one point was
on pace for like sixty five home runs and he's
cooled off a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
That were playing way over their heads right.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Like yesterday, or excuse me, last year, how many times
did I say to you, Dick, these guys are not
playing to the back of their baseball card.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Eventually they'll step it up.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well, in the first month of April, they were playing
over what the back of their baseball card said, and
now they're calming down.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
So are we seeing the real Mariner offense?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
The pitching staff you can't even judge it because it's
so banged up. Right, Let's wait until those guys are
healthy again, and we'll see what kind of effect it
has in the bullpen.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
But are we seeing the real Mariner offense right now?
I think we're seeing closer to the real mirror our offense.
But what is really bothering me is where is this
great approach that we saw in September of.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Last year and April of this year, where you're running.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Where you're moving runners along, where you're scoring manufacturing runs.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
They haven't done that the entire month of May and
into June, and I don't understand why.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, yeah, well it's a good question for Bill. We'll
talk to him at four o'clock courtesy of our friends
obviously at the Queen Ann Beer Hall. What's happening behind
the scenes that you dub to get players commercial endorsements
and get some commercials on this radio station.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Maybe Demon Williams wants to sponsor the text line At
four nine, four to five one, Joe and I, the
new director of Dogs on Leash, will join. We got
Stanley kopp Pack at five as well. Coming up on
ninety three three KJRFM, a US Open update from Oakmont
with our buddy Witt Watson right.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
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Speaker 2 (15:06):
All right, boys that girls back here in a busy Thursday.
Bill Kruger will join at for courtesy of the Queen
Anne Beer Hall of the brand new Occidental Hall by
the way, opening up very very soon. I believe within
the next week to ten days that Puppy is going
to be public outside Luominfield, So check that out. We'll
talk to Bill at for Stanley Cup Hockey at five.
But joining us right now in the radio show. You know,
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they say, Dick that Jed Fish is the man that's
most responsible for the future of Husky football, and that
is just not true at all. All the pressure in
the world is on this man's shoulders to make sure
that Washington football is getting what it needs commercial endorsement wise, TV, radio,
social media. If and when U Dub finds themselves again
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playing for the national championship anytime soon, it's this man
that you'll be thinking. The new executive director for Dogs Unleashed,
our friend Joe Night joining us on the show.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Joe, how are you man, Softy VI.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I'm excellent, excited to be chatting with you both, and
what an intro. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, Well, listen, it's a heavy burden and there's only
a few men that can handle the pressure, and we
know that you are one of that.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Jo.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
I think he said the same thing to my He
said the same thing to mine ear about two years.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Ago or too. And then he quick by the way
he couldn't have it.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Monny, If it goes well, blame it on me. If
it goes poorly, blame it on someone else.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Well, let's let's first of all, talk about what Dogs
Unleashed is. I mean, I think by now some people
understand that the NIL thing is getting moved indoors inside
UW's campus. You got a team responsible for finding endorsements
for players, But tell us more, tell people what Dogs
Unleashed is going to be all about.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, so this dates back to August of twenty twenty four, really,
when Pat Chun came to me and said, this landscape
is shifting. We're gonna need an in house unit to
represent our student athletes and third party NIL. Do you
want to head that up? And I said, of course, obviously,
But what does that mean? And we spent the last
few months really shaping what this thing will So house
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was finally passed, meaning that we'll finally and officially share
revenues with student athletes. But coming with that is stark
regulation to third party nil, which which how we know
it now is pay for play and philanthropic dollars going
to student athletes that will be outlawed come July one.
It is corporate sponsorship that will persist. And we've created
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dogs Unleash, this sort of internal full service agency for
our student athletes to represent them in their pursuit of
third party NIL. And again that's that's getting with businesses
big and small, local, national, to find opportunities for compensation
and promotion and growth with our student athletes to go
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find that third party nil.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Joe, tell us about your background. Why did Pat Chun
go to Joe Nike to head us up?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
So?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I'm a Husky, I'm a lifer. I grew up in
the area. I went to you Dub and then after graduating,
I found a job at Seattle U and worked in
their athletics department and ran their corporate sponsorship portfolio. And
then four years ago, let's say, jumped on a fundraising
job at you Dubb came over. But I've always just
kind of wanted to find opportunities to continue to grow
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within the department, and I feel lucky that Pat tapped
me for this one. And I think it's probably a
little bit of my proximity to Husky Nation, my background
and corporate sponsorship, and my ability to work with our donors,
so a little bit of everything. But again, I feel
pretty darn lucky to be tapped to leave the summer Well, I.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Mean, look, we've got a sales team here at iHeart
Right that goes out and finds endorsements for guys like
me and Dick and Jackson, you know, Beury and Toyota,
the Ram, Taco Time, Lexus, you know whatever, higher construction,
which are our clients. So hands off, by the way,
But is that basically what we're talking thing about is
going to be going on that You're going to have
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a sales team and you can tell us how many
people who's going to be a part of it that
will be reaching out to the community, making cold calls,
going after commercial endorsements for your players.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Exactly. And I think dating back to Montlake Futures, where
they've been a bit hamstrung, is a they're primarily they've
primarily been a philanthropic entity. They've gone out and fundraised
for nil We've all seen it through the memberships, through
major giving. They also aren't technically a part of the university,
and I think that's messy and so us being able
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to bring this internally and say this is direct representation
of our student athletes. Hey, we want to take X
number of football players and go get them car deals.
We want to partner all of our student athletes with
the local hotel so they can put their parents' family
friends up when they're in town for games or matches.
This is our representative effort to go ensure that our
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student athletes are a able to land looke and opportunistic partnerships,
be that they're safe in doing so. And see what's
probably the most exciting is they're leveraging the UB brand
and reach in doing so.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Joe tell us about the transfer of resources both from
Montlake Futures to now Dogs Unleased, and then also, will
Dogs Unleash act purely as a marketing broker for the
athletic department and for the students or will they be
a bank as well holding funds?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, so we will not hold fund so any monies
that the university and we're part of the university shares
with student athletes. That constitutes revenue sharing and that goes
into that twenty and a half million dollar tap. We're
talking about anything dogs Unleash does. We will broker deals,
we can help draft contracts and help execute those contracts
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and get them through NIL go the clearinghouse, but we
cannot accept nor distribute fund So this is all agreements
between entities and our students league. We're just here as
a safeguard and to represent and procure these opportunities for him.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Joe Knight, the new director of Doug's Unleash, the in
house NIL program over at dub is get in formed
to find commercial endorsements for players and not just football,
but everybody, right, I mean we're talking basketball, baseball, softball, golf, soccer,
the whole spiel. You guys will be representing everybody. But
tell us, Joe and I don't know what's allowed and
what's not allowed. If you're gonna if it's not allowed,
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but you'll do it anyway. Just wink twice, okay, pal,
but just we'll keep it off for you. Are you
guys allowed to get involved in the recruiting process? For example,
if Jed's got a running back from Texas.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
That all right.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
He's got his revenue sharing deal already in place with Jed.
He knows what the school's gonna pay him. But you know,
Billy Ray Jackson from down there in the Houston area,
he's gonna he little something something. He's gonna want a
couple of net Jet passes for his mom and dad,
or a hotel, or he's gonna want a new car.
He's gonna want, you know, a big old team for
his condominium on Lake Union. Are you guys allowed to
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be a part of the recruiting process and pursue endorsement
deals while kids are in high school?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yes, and no, we are allowed to be part of
the recruiting process. Dogs Unleash is certainly a talking point
throughout the recruiting process. We cannot recruit or promise third
party nil. Sorry I should say we can't promise third
party nil to recruit. What we can do and what
coach Fish, what any of our coaches can do is
sit down with recruits in their families and say this
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is what Dogs Unleashed has done. This is where the
corporate interests lie with Husky Athletics. We think that you
as a student athlete, profile well with brands X, Y,
and Z, and we can even say what we've been
able to put together with those brands in past. But no,
until a student athlete is enrolled as a student athlete,
here we dogs unleashed cannot represent them in their pursuit
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of third party nil. But you know my goal is
not for these corporate sponsorships we procure to die with
the when the student athletes graduate. We want renewable opportunities
because that is where this thing is going to be
dynamite for the Huskies. Is you think about Seattle our backyard.
I think these companies want to work with Huskies, and
we just want to be able to kind of recycle,
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rinse and repeat and bring them just a new crop
of awesome, awesome promoters of their businesses year in and
year out.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Finally, Joe Soft, you mentioned cold call. Will you cold
call business and ask whether they're interested in participating with
any athlete or will you be more targeted? Will you
find an athlete that needs something and then go match
that corporate sponsor with that athlete.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
We'll do both. There are broader strokes where hey, can
you have help? Fifty one hundred all six hundred student
athletes in some capacity. There will also be hey, we
got to take care of student athletes X, Y and
z and find them opportunities to really engage with this community.
I will say, though, Dick, I don't think I'm ever
cold calling because we've got the club, We've got our
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multimedia rights holder, Learfield, the Husky Sports Properties team, and
all those connections married where so much of our donor
base owns businesses, so much of the Husky Sports Properties
partnership base wants to get into nil and wants to
work with our student athletes. So for me, it's identifying
how do we leverage our student athletes, names, images, and
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likenesses as a greater growth opportunity for the university at large.
So I think they marry pretty darn well.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
So just quickly, if anybody has a business, they should
call you, they should email you. What's the best way
to get ahold of Dogs Unleashed if they want to
be a part of this.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Absolutely, we've got a website, dogs Daft Unleashed dot com.
You can go to go Huskies dot com and you'll
find plenty of information about us. My info's on there,
are team's info is on there. We're a team of five,
and we're out hitting pavement, like you said, and going
to any businesses, any entities in Seattle that want to
partner with student athletes, and that can be task deals
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that can be in kind. You know, I mentioned car dealerships, hotels, restaurants.
Those are going to be some of the categories there
we have and we'll continue to go after heavily.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
All right, man, go get him great stuff and good luck.
We'll talk soon, buddy.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Appreciate it, man, absolutely, Dick Softy, thank you, Thank you
guys so much for you got Joe Knight from Dogs Unleashed.
Uh you got to look at his Twitter profile picture.
By the way, I didn't realize he was only twelve
years old. He's a young kid man, but hey, he's aggressive. Right,
that's great.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
So he said, they got five people over there.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
They'll be working hard to find deals and endorsements for
players and not while they're being recruited.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Link wink.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
We'll see if that actually doesn't happen around the country.
But with the transfer portal, the recruiting process is constance
and they're gonna need to be doing this just to
get kids to stay on campus from year to year.
We'll get a break Bill Krueger. What the hell is
going on? When a matter is we'll find out A
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Pretty soon.
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Speaker 3 (26:43):
So he'll join us.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Next segment talks to Marin or Baseball, get his thoughts
on what the hell's going on with these guys? Man
Luis Castillo, George Kirby Emerson Hancock going over the weekend
limping home. They've lost eight of nine. They've lost five
of their lack's last six series ziziz and six of
their life seven. So this feels like a pretty important
couple of weeks, or maybe a week or so to
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ten days for this baseball team.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
So we'll talk to Bill about all that.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
The Pacers up two games to one on the Oklahoma
City Thunder. I thought the stuff with Joe Knight last
segment was great. I mean, just think about the people
that will be working now Dick behind the scenes and
how much pressure there is gonna be on them. I
mean we say that kind of sarcastically to Joe, but
there is pressure. Oh there's been a team of five
people that will have to literally go out, And I
(27:30):
almost wonder where the pressure is more intense. Is it
more intense with the players that will be coming into
UDUB or the players that you have to convince to
stay every year on campus? Jet Fish comes to you
and says, hey, look, I can't lose my left tackle.
He wants a car, better go find it for me.
I mean, honestly, there's some pressure there. I think there's
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probably more pressure and retention. I agree, you can't.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
You cannot lose the stars now, you can lose the
secondary guys because you can always recruit over them, right,
particularly if they're a junior. Let's say they're a let's
say they're an honorable mention All Big Ten type player,
and they're going to be a junior, but they want,
you know, they want big time money. And you've got
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a guy that's a freshman that's on your roster right now,
that you know is going to be better than this
guy anyway and is just not playing. Those are probably
the guys that you can afford to lose, But you
can't afford to lose the all first team All Big
Ten guys who need those deals, and that's where the
competition will be for those guys that are established stars
and have you know, multiple years left of college football
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and basketball eligibility. I totally agree, and I just you know,
what I would love to see is people step up
in the business world and say, you know what, I
don't care who the player is. I want to make
sure that every offensive lineman's going to truck as long
as they're here whatever, right, something like that, Right, I
don't care who the player is. I want to make
sure every player in that secondary has a free suite
at my hotel for his mom and day for every
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home game.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
You're talking whoever it.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Is, right, because then when you go to somebody's house
and you talk to mom and dad and just say, look,
that's already taken care of it. Sure we can promise
you that because we already have it in writing.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
You just say, hey, by the way, just say, you know,
wink wink. Every defensive back on the football team has
been getting X y Z right, you know, And we
can't promise it directly because we'll get in trouble, but
you get my point, right, So yes, absolutely, that's what
I would love to see happen at some point in
time where businesses step up and do that.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I just wonder again, how prevalent are we going to
see the voices and the faces of these athletes? Are
we going to start to hear them on this radio station?
You know, see them on TV? And I know that
you can't use this as recruiting inducements. It will absolutely
be a part of the recruiting process, there is no
question about that. That's where deals like what we just
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talked about can really maybe come into play and play
a big role. So you know, again, guys will have
multiple year deals. You heard Jedfish talking last night about
that about guys like them on Williams and others, and
other guys will be on one year contracts and have
to prove themselves and they may want to stay on
one year contracts. But I mean, if you're a salesperson
and you want to go work for you Dub, i'd
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give Joe Nid a buzz say look, I'm on it man,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And by the way, I just found out that they're
not working on commission either. There's no commission for these people.
They're not going out and taking money out of the pockets.
They're salaried. Buy you Dub, and they're going to be
working just on a salary.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
There's not going to be any commissions. Now.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
The agents that represent these players that bring deals to
dogs unleashed to make them go through the system, so
they're kosher. I can't speak for them. Some of them
are taking commissions, there's no question about that. But I
think that's pretty cool that the majority of the money,
if there's any money coming out of an athlete's pocket
for a commission.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
It ain't going to be from somebody who works for
the school.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
No.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
And when you think about like a radio spot, like
a weekly thing or a weekly podcast or what have
you know, normally you would think about the stars, right,
normally thinking of the Demon Williams Show, the Denzel Boston Show, whatever,
the Tcario Davis Show. But it doesn't necessarily have to
be those guys, because what if Jed is like, dude,
I've got this guy. I mean, he starts for us.
He's not a star, but he is the most entertaining
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person on the entire roster. That could be a home run,
and the guy may be the thirtieth best player on
the team. But if he's a total home run, it's
good for the radio. It's good for him. We're gonna
break Bill Krueger. Is good for us because we need
some therapy.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Man.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
The Mariners they suck again. Man, there's no other way
around it. They absolutely right now are playing terrible baseball
and really on every single side.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Let's be honest with you.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Bill Krueger is going to join us next segment and
tell us what the hell is going on with the Mariners?
Coming up on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Oh no, we suck again.
Where we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Would you rather hear whatever we have planned between now
and five o'clock or this on.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Loop all day? You thunday? I mean, god, Darty, we
just home? How about that?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
How about the Indiana Basketball Pacers, Yes, sir, with a
win last night over the Thunder, two games away from
the NBA Championship. Can you imagine the tightness on those
suns of bitches if they win game far four? Excuse me,
I say far. I almost said game cleaning. I got
copy between three and four. If they win Game four
(00:33):
on Saturday night in Indiana and go up three games
to one, do we proclaim it to be over?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I don't think we do at all, because we don't
want to jinx it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
But I don't know how many teams did the Heat
come down, come back from three games to win?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Somebody came back from three games to one.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Bron Lebron, Yes, thank you, Yes, the calves right to
win the NBA Championship. So it ain't gonna be over
if they win Game four on Saturday. But it's pretty damn.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Close to me. And I mean honestly, this is.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It's not rocket sides to predict, but the winner of
Game four is gonna win the series. I mean, it
just feels like the winner of Game four is gonna
win the series. Now, having said that, I would put
a lot of money on Indiana not winning.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Gambero right, Yes, which I'm going to do. But hey,
it's fun.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
All they've done, They've at least given us a reason
to watch, right, Jackson said Jackson, if you started watching
yet because you said you weren't gonna.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Watch until you thought that they what they got to be?
Like halfway through game number Oh, I've made it very
very clear.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
To make it clear again, Indiana.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
When Indiana has three wins, I will start watching.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Okay, Well that means if they win Saturday, you'll start watching.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Done.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Actually the games tomorrow? Right game game? Yes, tomorrow they
win tomorrow, you're watching watch game five? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well but okay, so but here's the problem though, because
I'm kind of really getting into the whole like Jinx.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Thing and all that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You know right now, I know you believe in all that, Jason,
you haven't watched the damn game. If they win tomorrow
and they go up three games to one, we don't watch.
I don't think anybody wants you to watch it. Sacrifice
you're not allowed done, You're not allowed to watch a second?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You got it, all right? Yeah? Are you?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Are you with us for the community, for every one
of America, for Americas?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But you know what that's like.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
You know, that's like telling us that we have to
watch some random soccer game that we don't care about. Right,
if it works, he doesn't care about watching the basketball game.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So it's not like it's he said he would tune
and if they go up three games to watch, hold
on to say, I don't.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
You're putting a lot of words in my mouth right now,
and I don't want that my mouth.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Jackson.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Obviously, if you really cared about the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You would have watched it some time out And so
for you, yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
We have to have a lot of time that has
to play every.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Single minute, but we've now played almost one hundred.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Minutes of basketball.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
There's a difference between caring about Indiana winning and caring
about okay see los. I very much care about okay
see losing. I don't give a lick about Indiana winning exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It's not about who wins, it's about who loses. So
as long as I have it confirmed that in this
next game.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Okay See could have everything fall apart from them.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm gonna watch the Parland Timbers could be playing Oklahoma
City and he'd be rooting for the Timbers.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It doesn't matter who wins, who loses.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
How bad would Jackson field though, if he started watching
A three one and Oklahoma City won three games and
he never That's why I won't watch, said you'd watch
if Indiana one.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
We just we just figured it out. We just literally
figured that out. Five second time. I'm dave, I said something.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Our names are Softy and Jackson. Nice to meet you, mister.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I'm so confused about all the crap he's playing over
here every five seconds.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Waits one click, over and over again.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Young with you.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That is a fun thing. What would I least rather want?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Would I want to have happened Indy or sorry okay
See to win the or win the championship, or Portland
to win a championship?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Portland, I'd rather the Timbers win because.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Because we never lost a soccer team that became the
Portland tee. And look, no disrespect to the MLS, but
the NBA is a much bigger animal than the MLS.
And I think the NBA and the thunder mean a
lot more here. Then there'd be a lot more angst
from your brothers and sisters that you call neighbors and
friends in Seattle than there would be if the Timbers
(04:28):
won the championship. With the Timbers win the championship, we
can just stick our heads in the sand, and right
Oklahoma wins the NBA title. O God, the world falls
apart me. So yeah, I mean, pretty cool what they
did last night. They just they kicked our ass in
the fourth quarter. That was not even close. I mean
it was it was just a blood bath in the
fourth quarter by them. And I don't know about you
(04:49):
watching that game and you're doing the Storm game. Big
win for them against the Links last night. By the
way I came, I love it. But they they looked
like they had no idea what they were doing, and the.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
The Pacers looked like a team.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I know they've got some playoff experience, but they don't
have the finals experience, obviously. Pascal Siakam, he was on
the Raptors when they won the title, Is that right, Okay,
so he's got some finals experience. Carlisle's got some finals
experience obviously.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Back in the day with Dallas, so he knows what
he's doing.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
From a coach's perspective, they looked out coach, and they
looked outplayed, and they looked overwhelmed. They looked nervous, they
looked like they were about to pee their pants in
the fourth quarter of that game last night.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
It was unbelievable and I loved it. It was I mean,
there's no question there's a coaching advantage. And we talked
about that, Jackson. We went through player by player last week,
let's remember, and what we came up with was like,
there's not when you just go player by player, there's
not a significant thunder advantage, and there is a pacer
advantage when it comes to the coaching. But when you've
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got a guy like Ben Matheren coming off the bench,
remember this guy was the PAC twelve Player of the Year.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I remember remember him at Arizona. He was a bad
man at Arizona.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Bad man and he was the sixth pick in the
NBA draft and he was an All Rookie team member.
This isn't just a fluke that he comes off the
bench and scores. He does this every you know month
or so. Now he's probably not going to do it again,
but he has been able to step up. Other guys
have been able to step a TJ. McConnell's been able
to step up. Whereas what's Chet Holmgren done in this series?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
How much? What's Jalen Williams done in this series?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
It's been it's been Shay putting a lot of weight
on his own shoulders, and he hasn't gotten the help
from his quote unquote deep team.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Like everybody thought that he would get you, all of them.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Hope they get kicked in the balls on Saturday and
go home limping down three games to one. Maybe they'll
lose Game five in Oklahoma City and lose it in
front of their own fans, fat faces. How fun would
that be to see the Pacers weren't a title in
Oklahoma City right in front of them, right in front
of in front of Clay Bennett, every freaking redneck, inbred
freak in Oklahoma City who somehow bought enough gas to
(07:01):
get free tickets for the game. They get to go
watch the Thunder lose on their own arena next week.
That'd be tremendous. I'd pay a lot of money to
watch that. So I just say this that we're behind them.
The show is behind them, America is behind them, Humanity
is behind them. Anybody who has a soul is behind
the Indiana Pacers. And if they get this done, throw
(07:21):
on them. Mount rushmore of sports allies. As far as
I'm concerned for the two Oho sis, we.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Did the bracket right of teams, we rooted for the
most and like I don't, I think Auburn against the
Oregon Dust Mile State right that one. So I think
now whenever these things come up, we always have to
match it against Auburn. So if the Indiana Pacers were
to win, right, don't want to jinx any things. If
if right they were to win, does this Indiana Pacers
(07:45):
team beat the Auburn team, Yes, because remember remember it
just depends on go ahead the Miami Heat in twenty twelve,
that didn't even make our final.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Right, which is kind of weird, right, But you can
only have two teams in the finals, so they would
be in the top four they were, they'd be in
the top three, top four, so the top four would
be the Chiefs team that beat the Niners when the
Niners were up ten in the fourth of the two thousand,
the cam Newton Auburn team that beat the nose Picker
Darren Thomas and the Oregon Docts. I was the winner,
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the Miami Heat that beat the Thunder in the NBA
Finals four.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Who was the fourth team?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You remember Io State State Oregon this last year, the
first time that So then where would the question is
if the Pacers win this thing, where would they then
be on that list? Would they be number one? Would
they be number two? We gotta do the bracket over again.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
We gott to revisit the bracket at least the final four.
Where does the Pacers show up? I think because it
would be such an upset. Huge. Yeah, the Heat, the
Heat Thunder wasn't an upset, right, they were prohibit of favor.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Like we we went into that going, you know, yeah,
the Thunder got here, but Lebron's going to take care
of business right now, and he did, right.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
We did not think even though even though we said.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Hey, the value at plus five hundred maybe on the Pacers,
that doesn't mean we think the Pacers are going to
win this series. That just means we'd rather put our
money on the Pacers plus five hundred and okase minus seven.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Guys, if you put one hundred dollars on the Thunder
to win the title a week and a half ago.
You know how much it would have paid one hundred bucks?
It would have paid fourteen dollars and thirty cents because
they were the Thunder and minus seven hundredth right to
win the NBA Finals. I don't know if there was
like updated series odds or not. I don't know if
they do that when there are no now they're to
(09:34):
know what they are? Did there minus two hundred right?
Well they were minus set.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
It was.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
It was just a waste of money to total waste
of money. Like you would have to bet so much
money to have anything of significance come your way.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
It's just not worth it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I mean huge favorites, like would you say there's only
been four or five teams that were bigger favorites than
the Thunder were. So I don't know, man, this game,
this game tomorrow, man, I uh, it's gonna be fun
to watch if they can get up three three games
to one, and I just you know, bring everything you
got boys, everything the kitchen sick. Rick Carlisle has been
sitting on some crazy scheme. He hasn't brought out some
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crazy matchup he hasn't brought out yet in the NBA Finals.
I can't wait to see what they throw their way
tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
So we're doing phone with Audio four thirty today where
we have a tyrese Haliburton versus Stevens dispute, right, And
I think, you know, if anything, this is only gonna
put more momentum behind how good?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Oh, absolutely, he's gonna say.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
You know what you're gonna come at for me, stephen
A watch me go win a tight.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Well, look what happened when Halliburton was voted the most
overrated player in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Somebody needs that guy to telling me sucks before the game.
He feel him for a whole month. Good, good, good,
let's go. I got my Pacers T shirt already that
war for Game two. I was a little bit worried though,
when you tweeted that out. I was like, is that
gonna be the jinx? No? I waited.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I think I waited to send it out until the
Pacers were up like seven points with forty seconds to
go or whatever. It wasn't much you mean talking about
the first time I twisted. Yeah, yeah, the first time
I sent it out. I just want a credit for
buying the damn thing because it cost me forty eight dollars. Okay,
you know why, because everybody's doing the same thing. Honestly,
How ready freaking Pacer T shirts is Amazon sent to
Seattle in the last three or four days? Some idiot
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in some warehouse somewhere is like, that was all these
Pacer shirts.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Going to Seattle? Well, we got that going on.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Joe Knight is the new director of Dogs Unleash, the
in house NIL program.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Now over at you Dub.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You heard Jedfish yesterday at six o'clock talking about the
new rules and how they're going to handle stuff from
now on. Bottom line is, guys, every school can give
players up to twenty point five million dollars and that's
every sport. And Jedfish told us yesterday they think about
fifteen million of that is going to go to football,
roughly seventy five percent.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And they'll need more money than that for the players. Right.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
But the money can't come from the school. The money's
got to come from NIL. The money's got to come
from people that own businesses. The money's got to come
from endorsements the kids get. So with Montlake future is
eventually going away. Everything now happening in house. The easiest
way I can explain this is that Washington, just like
every other program in America, the athletic department, not the
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football team, is going to have an in house sales
team like we have here at the radio station, that
will go out and get deals for kids right while
they're being recruited, I'm certain, and while they're on campus,
to keep them from going to another school. Like Jed
said yesterday, he's got an up and coming offensive lineman, right,
or a running back or a wide receiver. You got
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to keep these kids happy and they need deals. So
Joe Knight is the director of basically that new sales
team called Dogs Unleashed over at UDUB that's in charge
of getting endorsements for players. He will join us next segment.
Bill Krueger is going to join us at four o'clock
this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Oh man, I love to talk to Bill right now.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Well, yeah, you know his thoughts on what's going on
with the Mariners, who all of a sudden have lost
eight of nine. They're under five hundred, and I do
want to ask you guys, and ask Bill, do we
feel like this is a blip on the radar for
this baseball team, or do we feel like there's bigger
problems at hand, because Larry Stone said yesterday he feels
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like this is an issue, like the first month of April,
you were relying on guys and he's exactly right, like
Hore Polanco, like Dylan Moore for example, and even in
some ways cal Rowley right who at one point was
on pace for like sixty five home runs and he's
cooled off a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
That were playing way over their heads right.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Like yesterday, or excuse me, last year, how many times
did I say to you, Dick, these guys are not
playing to the back of their baseball card.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Eventually they'll step it up.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well, in the first month of April, they were playing
over what the back of their baseball card said, and
now they're calming down.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
So are we seeing the real Mariner offense?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
The pitching staff you can't even judge it because it's
so banged up. Right, Let's wait until those guys are
healthy again, and we'll see what kind of effect it
has in the bullpen.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
But are we seeing the real Mariner offense right now?
I think we're seeing closer to the real mirror our offense.
But what is really bothering me is where is this
great approach that we saw in September of.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Last year and April of this year, where you're running.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Where you're moving runners along, where you're scoring manufacturing runs.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
They haven't done that the entire month of May and
into June, and I don't understand why.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, yeah, well it's a good question for Bill. We'll
talk to him at four o'clock courtesy of our friends
obviously at the Queen Ann Beer Hall. What's happening behind
the scenes that you dub to get players commercial endorsements
and get some commercials on this radio station.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Maybe Demon Williams wants to sponsor the text line At
four nine, four to five one, Joe and I, the
new director of Dogs on Leash, will join. We got
Stanley kopp Pack at five as well. Coming up on
ninety three three KJRFM, a US Open update from Oakmont
with our buddy Witt Watson right.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
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Speaker 2 (15:06):
All right, boys that girls back here in a busy Thursday.
Bill Kruger will join at for courtesy of the Queen
Anne Beer Hall of the brand new Occidental Hall by
the way, opening up very very soon. I believe within
the next week to ten days that Puppy is going
to be public outside Luominfield, So check that out. We'll
talk to Bill at for Stanley Cup Hockey at five.
But joining us right now in the radio show. You know,
(15:27):
they say, Dick that Jed Fish is the man that's
most responsible for the future of Husky football, and that
is just not true at all. All the pressure in
the world is on this man's shoulders to make sure
that Washington football is getting what it needs commercial endorsement wise, TV, radio,
social media. If and when U Dub finds themselves again
(15:48):
playing for the national championship anytime soon, it's this man
that you'll be thinking. The new executive director for Dogs Unleashed,
our friend Joe Night joining us on the show.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Joe, how are you man, Softy VI.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I'm excellent, excited to be chatting with you both, and
what an intro. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, Well, listen, it's a heavy burden and there's only
a few men that can handle the pressure, and we
know that you are one of that.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Jo.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
I think he said the same thing to my He
said the same thing to mine ear about two years.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Ago or too. And then he quick by the way
he couldn't have it.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Monny, If it goes well, blame it on me. If
it goes poorly, blame it on someone else.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Well, let's let's first of all, talk about what Dogs
Unleashed is. I mean, I think by now some people
understand that the NIL thing is getting moved indoors inside
UW's campus. You got a team responsible for finding endorsements
for players, But tell us more, tell people what Dogs
Unleashed is going to be all about.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, so this dates back to August of twenty twenty four, really,
when Pat Chun came to me and said, this landscape
is shifting. We're gonna need an in house unit to
represent our student athletes and third party NIL. Do you
want to head that up? And I said, of course, obviously,
But what does that mean? And we spent the last
few months really shaping what this thing will So house
(17:10):
was finally passed, meaning that we'll finally and officially share
revenues with student athletes. But coming with that is stark
regulation to third party nil, which which how we know
it now is pay for play and philanthropic dollars going
to student athletes that will be outlawed come July one.
It is corporate sponsorship that will persist. And we've created
(17:33):
dogs Unleash, this sort of internal full service agency for
our student athletes to represent them in their pursuit of
third party NIL. And again that's that's getting with businesses
big and small, local, national, to find opportunities for compensation
and promotion and growth with our student athletes to go
(17:54):
find that third party nil.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Joe, tell us about your background. Why did Pat Chun
go to Joe Nike to head us up?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
So?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I'm a Husky, I'm a lifer. I grew up in
the area. I went to you Dub and then after graduating,
I found a job at Seattle U and worked in
their athletics department and ran their corporate sponsorship portfolio. And
then four years ago, let's say, jumped on a fundraising
job at you Dubb came over. But I've always just
kind of wanted to find opportunities to continue to grow
(18:24):
within the department, and I feel lucky that Pat tapped
me for this one. And I think it's probably a
little bit of my proximity to Husky Nation, my background
and corporate sponsorship, and my ability to work with our donors,
so a little bit of everything. But again, I feel
pretty darn lucky to be tapped to leave the summer Well, I.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Mean, look, we've got a sales team here at iHeart
Right that goes out and finds endorsements for guys like
me and Dick and Jackson, you know, Beury and Toyota,
the Ram, Taco Time, Lexus, you know whatever, higher construction,
which are our clients. So hands off, by the way,
But is that basically what we're talking thing about is
going to be going on that You're going to have
(19:02):
a sales team and you can tell us how many
people who's going to be a part of it that
will be reaching out to the community, making cold calls,
going after commercial endorsements for your players.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Exactly. And I think dating back to Montlake Futures, where
they've been a bit hamstrung, is a they're primarily they've
primarily been a philanthropic entity. They've gone out and fundraised
for nil We've all seen it through the memberships, through
major giving. They also aren't technically a part of the university,
and I think that's messy and so us being able
(19:37):
to bring this internally and say this is direct representation
of our student athletes. Hey, we want to take X
number of football players and go get them car deals.
We want to partner all of our student athletes with
the local hotel so they can put their parents' family
friends up when they're in town for games or matches.
This is our representative effort to go ensure that our
(19:57):
student athletes are a able to land looke and opportunistic partnerships,
be that they're safe in doing so. And see what's
probably the most exciting is they're leveraging the UB brand
and reach in doing so.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Joe tell us about the transfer of resources both from
Montlake Futures to now Dogs Unleased, and then also, will
Dogs Unleash act purely as a marketing broker for the
athletic department and for the students or will they be
a bank as well holding funds?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, so we will not hold fund so any monies
that the university and we're part of the university shares
with student athletes. That constitutes revenue sharing and that goes
into that twenty and a half million dollar tap. We're
talking about anything dogs Unleash does. We will broker deals,
we can help draft contracts and help execute those contracts
(20:49):
and get them through NIL go the clearinghouse, but we
cannot accept nor distribute fund So this is all agreements
between entities and our students league. We're just here as
a safeguard and to represent and procure these opportunities for him.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Joe Knight, the new director of Doug's Unleash, the in
house NIL program over at dub is get in formed
to find commercial endorsements for players and not just football,
but everybody, right, I mean we're talking basketball, baseball, softball, golf, soccer,
the whole spiel. You guys will be representing everybody. But
tell us, Joe and I don't know what's allowed and
what's not allowed. If you're gonna if it's not allowed,
(21:28):
but you'll do it anyway. Just wink twice, okay, pal,
but just we'll keep it off for you. Are you
guys allowed to get involved in the recruiting process? For example,
if Jed's got a running back from Texas.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
That all right.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
He's got his revenue sharing deal already in place with Jed.
He knows what the school's gonna pay him. But you know,
Billy Ray Jackson from down there in the Houston area,
he's gonna he little something something. He's gonna want a
couple of net Jet passes for his mom and dad,
or a hotel, or he's gonna want a new car.
He's gonna want, you know, a big old team for
his condominium on Lake Union. Are you guys allowed to
(22:03):
be a part of the recruiting process and pursue endorsement
deals while kids are in high school?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yes, and no, we are allowed to be part of
the recruiting process. Dogs Unleash is certainly a talking point
throughout the recruiting process. We cannot recruit or promise third
party nil. Sorry I should say we can't promise third
party nil to recruit. What we can do and what
coach Fish, what any of our coaches can do is
sit down with recruits in their families and say this
(22:32):
is what Dogs Unleashed has done. This is where the
corporate interests lie with Husky Athletics. We think that you
as a student athlete, profile well with brands X, Y,
and Z, and we can even say what we've been
able to put together with those brands in past. But no,
until a student athlete is enrolled as a student athlete,
here we dogs unleashed cannot represent them in their pursuit
(22:54):
of third party nil. But you know my goal is
not for these corporate sponsorships we procure to die with
the when the student athletes graduate. We want renewable opportunities
because that is where this thing is going to be
dynamite for the Huskies. Is you think about Seattle our backyard.
I think these companies want to work with Huskies, and
we just want to be able to kind of recycle,
(23:17):
rinse and repeat and bring them just a new crop
of awesome, awesome promoters of their businesses year in and
year out.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Finally, Joe Soft, you mentioned cold call. Will you cold
call business and ask whether they're interested in participating with
any athlete or will you be more targeted? Will you
find an athlete that needs something and then go match
that corporate sponsor with that athlete.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
We'll do both. There are broader strokes where hey, can
you have help? Fifty one hundred all six hundred student
athletes in some capacity. There will also be hey, we
got to take care of student athletes X, Y and
z and find them opportunities to really engage with this community.
I will say, though, Dick, I don't think I'm ever
cold calling because we've got the club, We've got our
(24:01):
multimedia rights holder, Learfield, the Husky Sports Properties team, and
all those connections married where so much of our donor
base owns businesses, so much of the Husky Sports Properties
partnership base wants to get into nil and wants to
work with our student athletes. So for me, it's identifying
how do we leverage our student athletes, names, images, and
(24:23):
likenesses as a greater growth opportunity for the university at large.
So I think they marry pretty darn well.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
So just quickly, if anybody has a business, they should
call you, they should email you. What's the best way
to get ahold of Dogs Unleashed if they want to
be a part of this.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Absolutely, we've got a website, dogs Daft Unleashed dot com.
You can go to go Huskies dot com and you'll
find plenty of information about us. My info's on there,
are team's info is on there. We're a team of five,
and we're out hitting pavement, like you said, and going
to any businesses, any entities in Seattle that want to
partner with student athletes, and that can be task deals
(24:59):
that can be in kind. You know, I mentioned car dealerships, hotels, restaurants.
Those are going to be some of the categories there
we have and we'll continue to go after heavily.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
All right, man, go get him great stuff and good luck.
We'll talk soon, buddy.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Appreciate it, man, absolutely, Dick Softy, thank you, Thank you
guys so much for you got Joe Knight from Dogs Unleashed.
Uh you got to look at his Twitter profile picture.
By the way, I didn't realize he was only twelve
years old. He's a young kid man, but hey, he's aggressive. Right,
that's great.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
So he said, they got five people over there.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
They'll be working hard to find deals and endorsements for
players and not while they're being recruited.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Link wink.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
We'll see if that actually doesn't happen around the country.
But with the transfer portal, the recruiting process is constance
and they're gonna need to be doing this just to
get kids to stay on campus from year to year.
We'll get a break Bill Krueger. What the hell is
going on? When a matter is we'll find out A
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three to three kJ a RFM.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
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Speaker 2 (26:12):
All right, Bill Kruger, you're going to join us in
about ten minutes from now, courtesy of the Queen and
Beer Hall. They soon to be open Occidental Hall, Moss
Bay Hall in Kirkland.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
They're going to have a Pullman Hall, a Spokane Hall,
a Columbia River Hall, Eugene Hall.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Corvallis Hall. They're taking over the world.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Man, so big, thanks to my friend Juice over there
for sponsoring this shindig and meeting at Bill Krueger's gigantic
financial demands that were negotiated by his people and our people.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
So he'll join us.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Next segment talks to Marin or Baseball, get his thoughts
on what the hell's going on with these guys? Man
Luis Castillo, George Kirby Emerson Hancock going over the weekend
limping home. They've lost eight of nine. They've lost five
of their lack's last six series ziziz and six of
their life seven. So this feels like a pretty important
couple of weeks, or maybe a week or so to
(27:05):
ten days for this baseball team.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
So we'll talk to Bill about all that.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
The Pacers up two games to one on the Oklahoma
City Thunder. I thought the stuff with Joe Knight last
segment was great. I mean, just think about the people
that will be working now Dick behind the scenes and
how much pressure there is gonna be on them. I
mean we say that kind of sarcastically to Joe, but
there is pressure. Oh there's been a team of five
people that will have to literally go out, And I
(27:30):
almost wonder where the pressure is more intense. Is it
more intense with the players that will be coming into
UDUB or the players that you have to convince to
stay every year on campus? Jet Fish comes to you
and says, hey, look, I can't lose my left tackle.
He wants a car, better go find it for me.
I mean, honestly, there's some pressure there. I think there's
(27:52):
probably more pressure and retention. I agree, you can't.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
You cannot lose the stars now, you can lose the
secondary guys because you can always recruit over them, right,
particularly if they're a junior. Let's say they're a let's
say they're an honorable mention All Big Ten type player,
and they're going to be a junior, but they want,
you know, they want big time money. And you've got
(28:17):
a guy that's a freshman that's on your roster right now,
that you know is going to be better than this
guy anyway and is just not playing. Those are probably
the guys that you can afford to lose, But you
can't afford to lose the all first team All Big
Ten guys who need those deals, and that's where the
competition will be for those guys that are established stars
and have you know, multiple years left of college football
(28:38):
and basketball eligibility. I totally agree, and I just you know,
what I would love to see is people step up
in the business world and say, you know what, I
don't care who the player is. I want to make
sure that every offensive lineman's going to truck as long
as they're here whatever, right, something like that, Right, I
don't care who the player is. I want to make
sure every player in that secondary has a free suite
at my hotel for his mom and day for every
(29:00):
home game.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
You're talking whoever it.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Is, right, because then when you go to somebody's house
and you talk to mom and dad and just say, look,
that's already taken care of it. Sure we can promise
you that because we already have it in writing.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
You just say, hey, by the way, just say, you know,
wink wink. Every defensive back on the football team has
been getting X y Z right, you know, And we
can't promise it directly because we'll get in trouble, but
you get my point, right, So yes, absolutely, that's what
I would love to see happen at some point in
time where businesses step up and do that.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I just wonder again, how prevalent are we going to
see the voices and the faces of these athletes? Are
we going to start to hear them on this radio station?
You know, see them on TV? And I know that
you can't use this as recruiting inducements. It will absolutely
be a part of the recruiting process, there is no
question about that. That's where deals like what we just
(29:50):
talked about can really maybe come into play and play
a big role. So you know, again, guys will have
multiple year deals. You heard Jedfish talking last night about
that about guys like them on Williams and others, and
other guys will be on one year contracts and have
to prove themselves and they may want to stay on
one year contracts. But I mean, if you're a salesperson
and you want to go work for you Dub, i'd
(30:11):
give Joe Nid a buzz say look, I'm on it man,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And by the way, I just found out that they're
not working on commission either. There's no commission for these people.
They're not going out and taking money out of the pockets.
They're salaried. Buy you Dub, and they're going to be
working just on a salary.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
There's not going to be any commissions. Now.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
The agents that represent these players that bring deals to
dogs unleashed to make them go through the system, so
they're kosher. I can't speak for them. Some of them
are taking commissions, there's no question about that. But I
think that's pretty cool that the majority of the money,
if there's any money coming out of an athlete's pocket
for a commission.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
It ain't going to be from somebody who works for
the school.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
No.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
And when you think about like a radio spot, like
a weekly thing or a weekly podcast or what have
you know, normally you would think about the stars, right,
normally thinking of the Demon Williams Show, the Denzel Boston Show, whatever,
the Tcario Davis Show. But it doesn't necessarily have to
be those guys, because what if Jed is like, dude,
I've got this guy. I mean, he starts for us.
He's not a star, but he is the most entertaining
(31:16):
person on the entire roster. That could be a home run,
and the guy may be the thirtieth best player on
the team. But if he's a total home run, it's
good for the radio. It's good for him. We're gonna
break Bill Krueger. Is good for us because we need
some therapy.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Man.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
The Mariners they suck again. Man, there's no other way
around it. They absolutely right now are playing terrible baseball
and really on every single side.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Let's be honest with you.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Bill Krueger is going to join us next segment and
tell us what the hell is going on with the Mariners?
Coming up on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Oh no, we suck again.
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