August 28, 2024 • 20 mins
Petros Papadakis of Fox Sports in Los Angeles joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about the allegations and situation between Colorado and Oregon, Deion Sanders banning a reporter in Denver, ESPN firing two top college football broadcasters, and much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Nakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid. Brought to
you by Sweet James Accident Attorneys forty one years.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
I don't know.
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Boo Now with Petros Peer's Dave's Softy Muller.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Alrighty, boys and girls, here we go the Wednesday before
the Husky opener. What a thrill, What an opportunity, What
a blessing to have this man joining us on the
radio show. No better time than the present to talk
to the Prince of pig Skin in Southern California, sports
talk radio legend and one damn fine Greek American baby.
(00:56):
It's our buddy, Petros Papadocus, brought to you, bah yeah,
ye yea yea yea yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, the one and only Sweet James Burgner, the dense
beard of justice, a man that can come through for
you if you've ever been in a car accident, perhaps
a motorcycle accident, maybe a dog has bitten you in
your balls.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Whatever it is, Sweet James knows exactly what to do
to get the money you deserve from the insurance company.
So give him a call eight hundred nine million. Your
call will not fall on deaf years. They're they're twenty
four to seven, eight hundred nine million, or sweet James
dot com? Who's the balls? You believe that? Did you
(01:38):
hear about Dion Sanders accusing Orgon of cheating? I did not,
Dan Lanning, Dan Lanning the Grady accused. Wait, he's playing
North Dakota State this week, right, so there is any
to do with organ It's not even on their schedule.
I don't believe so. Uh. Following a forty two six
(01:58):
Colorado loss to Oregon last year, I report from Front
Office Sports. Yeah, that was there in Hollywood. We were
on the grass, gotcha and neither were true? Got Trent
Boulder and we are on turf. Okay. They say that
the Buffalo's flagged some potential breaches of the team's online
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service that stores practice footage and other data, and they
say that Oregon may have broken in and breached it
before their game broke it did what ripped off data
and practice film? I got no idea. I'm just reading
the story. Colorado contacted the PAC twelve, but Oregon having
hang on hang on unauthorized access to practice film and
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data following their forty two to six loss. They are
a bunch of cheating bastards in Eugene. I don't know.
I mean, that's not how I look at football. I
don't look at football like, wow, we ripped some of
your data on the or we had some dorky almost
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teenage guys stealing signs with a horse last name and Stallias. Yeah,
that's not football to me. I mean, to me, is
you get pushed. It's like the Florida State Georgia Tech game.
Everybody in Dublin, everybody expected Florida State to win the game.
Florida State's the ranked team. Those of us that have
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seen dj Ungalle week in and week out were not
super surprised. But that being said, after that game, you
look on X or whatever and everybody's like, oh, Florida
State blew it. They blew it, and Danny Canal's having
a conniption fit. And I mean, if you watch the
game and everybody did Florida State got pushed around. They
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sure did, and that was the most surprising thing because
they had some guys back on the line right that
they got pushed around for four quarters. Georgia Tech hit
him in the mouth and continue to do so. Florida
State pulled out a great touchdown drive to tie it,
and then Georgia Tech just marched right down the field
and kicked the field goal. It didn't look that hard.
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They ran the ball beautifully, And to me, that's so
does it matter if Georgia Tech had a couple of
their signs or if they saw some practice film on
a computer. It's like, no, it's me versus you in
the hole, and that's the moment of truth and you
either turn it down or you don't. Well. But yeah,
but hang on because Michigan may end up going on
probation because of all that. No one respects the NC
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double A and their toothless and short fingernail punishments. I'm
gonna do anything to Michigan that's real. That should be
a classification. This is a Tier one short fingernail punishment.
They all are now the NC DOUBLEA. Look, the NC
double A is not in a position to cripple their
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blue bloods like they were twenty years ago, twenty five,
you know, excuse me, nineteen years ago or whatever when
the USC stuff happened. You know, that kind of stuff
just doesn't happen anymore because they're losing their grip and
control on the sport. It's not an amateur sport anymore.
Everybody's getting paid. Teams are trying to figure out a
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structure for how to play, pay players that pay for play,
not just the stupid donors paying the players and the
fan base that has no business having to do that,
but real universities making real money on college football paying
the players. So it doesn't even it shouldn't even go
under the umbrella of the NCAA anymore. So we're in
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a transitional period and I don't care what they think. Well,
if it gets Oregon busted, I care about it. Why
not ever busted? Why not going to happen? Death penalty?
Death penalty? I think you break into somebody's server, you
should do prison time. Sure, yeah, that's what I think.
By the way, did you see what Dion Sanders Dion
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did to that writer, the Denver Post guy. Yeah, he
caused Sean. I thought this was funny. He refers to
Dan as the Bruce Lee of BS plan. That's all
and stuff. I mean, the guy's columnist. He's gone after
the guy. What's he comes across as a hypocrite if
you ask me, wasn't he the same guy going after
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players on Twitter like six months ago? Yeah? He This
is not a good look. It's never a good look
to ban a member of the media because it makes
you look thin skinned, and it makes it makes it
looks like, luk, you're not keeping the main thing, the
main thing. I heard that like five times yesterday you done,
by the way? Yeah, because of The Bachelor. That's right,
(06:36):
it says one guy that says it over and over.
Is that where they got it from? Uh huh? Come on, yes,
I'm telling you this year on the Bachelor, like the villain,
this guy Sam says keep the main thing, the main thing,
over and over again. Are you sure? Yes? And he
says stand ten toes down. He says that too. I
stand on that ten days. So what if I hear
somebody saying that's ally said it and over and over again.
(07:00):
Because he had a real inability to express himself and
it finally caught up with him. Well, well, Will Rogers
said it Times yesterday. Yeah, he's not gonna be with
that little tiny Asian girl that the other guys are
vying for. He got rid of she got rid of him. Uh.
Will Rogers might have a girlfriend that watches The Bachelor
and the Bachelor. Keep the main thing, the main thing.
(07:21):
Are you still doing like weekly Bachler Bachelor RHTT and
Bachelor updates on your program? Yes, sadly it's I tried
to like, I skipped one the other day and the
heir to the Carl's Junior Fortune texted me and said,
my mother, Carl Karcher's daughter is very unhappy that you
did not do the Bachelorette report last night. Please advi.
(07:44):
I was like, damn, okay, I'm honest. Well, if the
Carl's Junior heiress calls you then or text you, then yeah,
read some gift cards, get off. Hell yeah you do
double Western baked cheeseburger for light. I think Dion just
looks stupid and I'm generally done generally a saying of Dion.
To be honest, I think he's good for college football,
he's good for sports, and I think you know, he's
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doing a lot of good things, no question for his players.
I saw this story about he's getting each of them
like two grand to start a checking account from a
bank or whatever, and then he goes and does something
like that that, as you said, kind of just makes
them look soft. Yeah, it's not much of a double
edged sword anymore though. It's like one side of the
sword is really really really sharp and the other is
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like a hammer. I mean, it's not It doesn't balance out.
It doesn't and it's not going to end well in
my opinion. But it is interesting because what is the
equity of our sport? What it used to be wins
and losses. You know, you win ten games a year,
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you're you're a hero. You do that consistently, they'll build
a statue of you. Unless you're Cooper and you can't
beat Ohio State or whatever. But it's true, right, but
Dion doesn't win. He hasn't won. I don't think he's
gonna win. But so much of our time and the
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sport is spent talking about him, and then that kind
of switches what the equity is, doesn't it. It makes
you think, well, just having the attention and the clicks
and the nil and the bank accounts and the sunglasses
and the rappers and the Big Noon and College Game
Day and RG three halfway up your ass. All of
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that is equity. And when does it balance out? Like
when do all the losses take that equity away? I
mean it happened last year somewhere in October, right, yeah,
and people stopped caring and they became a mockery. And
then the further away they got to the field again,
the hype train started up again, and we'll see how
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long it goes before it is broken or derailed like
it was last year. But it's interesting because I cover
a lot of Air Force football and they're right there
in Colorado as well. And you could say Colorado State's
been down in the j norvel transition. They might beat
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Colorado this year. But Air Force wins like nine ten
games a year. They have no nil they have no transfers,
they have no red shirts or graduates fifth year type guys.
They have none of that. Yet somehow they line up
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and compete and nobody cares, and they don't have any money.
Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah, and they do win.
I mean they win nine ten games a year, So
maybe the equity of winning is not as important as
it used to be if you have like a clown
as the head coach. But how long is that going
to be the case? Yeah, well, if they get off
to a rough start, they may eventually start to turn
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on the guy. But yeah, Jim Lambright's lot. Jim Lambright's
last game was against Air Force. May he rest in peace.
In the old of Wahu Bowl, I would say, well,
factoid for you, thank you for that. And I'd say
the same thing about Lincoln Riley when they would lose
and they wouldn't let Caleb Williams talk, or Kayleb Williams
wouldn't talk, and then they wouldn't let anybody talk because
Caleb Williams wouldn't talk, And they tried to sit there
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and get out of the LSU game all summer. And
they they did the same thing with a journalist, a
beat writer, for God's sakes, for talking about a transfer
rumor about a player who ended up transferring with a
shock Ray Leak Brown who's now at Arizona State and hurt.
So that's clown behavior too. And in today's day and age,
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the coaches don't feel as accountable to the media because
they don't have real media that covers them. I mean,
you get covered by Paul fine Mom or something from Afar.
Columnists are tough, but the beat writers have been replaced
with Purple Rain twenty one, you know, like the website,
you know what I mean. Or people that work for
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the team, right like in house, you know, we people
hype people propagandist, which is what it is, right and
totally people that run websites, pay sites, who never used
to even be able to get a credential are now
suddenly like your new beat writers. Well, if you're paid
by the team to cover the team, you have zero
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credibility whatsoever. You want to write me a fluff piece
on somebody or get an interesting human interest story on
somebody's cat or dog or whatever. The less newspapers, less
and less people embedded with a team, so these coaches
are held less and less accountable, so they become very
briskly when somebody calls them out. And then you add
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that to the hypocrisy and the bravado of what's going
on in Boulder, and you have kind of a bad situation.
I've said this to you since it began. I don't
see it ending well. But then again, the attention and
the amount of time we spend talking about it is
exactly what they want. But if you don't win games,
how long does that go? It's it's kind of like
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a House of cards or building your house on the sand.
The wise man builds his house on the rocks. Oh yeah,
until it falls into the ocean and the cliff just collapses.
The sand is worse, is the point. It's from the
Old Testament. Aren't you Jewish? Jesus? Yes? I am all right,
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what else do you want? Danny Canell's on the show
on Friday. I love Danny Cannell. I think he's a
great guest and he's not without humor, you know, he
has a fun kind of way. Speaking of that, I
think Shadoor Sandards or Shiloh or one of them, or
the older son that just does the social media called
him a pure hoe last year on social media. I'll
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have to bring this up on Yeah. So we're like, hey,
it's Danny Canell, the pure ho joining us right now.
He loves it. There you go. Well, he's on the
air on Friday at three twenty. Curtesy a bet online
dot Net. I'm sure when he comes on your show
he's Curtesy a bet online dot net. Hey, you mentioned
h you mentioned just call him every once in a
while because he's a lot of fun. Well, he's great.
A pure ho, pure pure ho, A pure ho. Uh.
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You mentioned RG three. Why did he get fired? And
along with Samantha Ponder from ESPN, did they go to
did they criticize the the woke brigade or that's what
Klay Travis thinks. Well, who you Ponder? Yes, Samantha Ponder,
they fired her and they fired RG three, but they're
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on either side of the political spectrum. I very much.
Are you sure? Yeah, Okay, I think I thought RGIE three.
I honestly have no idea why they were fired. I'm
just bringing it up. Well, I think RG three got
taken off the NFL stuff because the NFL probably said
get this guy off. Why would they say that because
he was a he was an idiot. I mean he
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he's like an advisor for Lamar Jackson and spent week
in and week out going to the mat for the
guy saying stupid stuff and I didn't. I mean, it's
a college football game, there's kids watching. I know that.
I sound like an a hole saying that because of
what I say on your show and stuff. But at
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college football game, it's it's non national TV and big
Panix Energy. Yeah, we get it. You don't have to
say it thirty times. Beat up the Beaver. Yeah, we
all used to say that when we played Oregon State
in nineteen ninety six. Shut up, you know, it's it's
a stop it, you know. I like, I thought he
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was just on the cross. Well, I thought he had
great potential. I mean, if you're really asking me, I
am at the lowest rung of the ladder of the
Fox analysts alphabet. I will tell you, but I have
been doing it a long time. I will tell you.
When he started, I thought he had unbelievable potential to
be a really good color analyst. And they paired him
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with Mark Jones, who really is a stone cold idiot.
Well he's an a hole Jones. He's just he's you're
talking about arrogant, cocky, you know what. He's the worst
of our business. Well, the only guy that's what. From
an attitude perspective, he's horrible. Gilmour is awful on the
air as well, and he wrecked wrecked RG three, just
absolutely wrecked him. And then they tried to move him
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on from that, but it was too late. But I
think the NFL stuff probably was he got taken off
the money that football stuff because the NFL said, get
him off there you don't like it, just like the
NFL got Playmakers canceled, which was a hit for ESPN.
So because ESPN has money at football and that's basically
everything they have is put into that, And with the
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Ponder stuff, maybe it was the same. Maybe they said
she's too political, get rid of her, or they did
it because they get paid too much money. I mean,
it happens all the time. People get moved on from ESPN.
Trey Wingo acted like an ass during a draft during
twenty twenty, and they got rid of You got that
Ponder gout Let go for the whole trans athlete debate.
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But maybe that's somebody else. Yeah, well, you know, I
can't keep track anymore. Heyd God forbid, somebody call out
something obviously weird. Hey I've said that on the air.
I don't think I'm you know, pushing new ground with that.
My god, I mean, what are we doing? But people
lose their mind over stuff like that? What are we doing?
Weaber state Saturday. Baby, here we go. Get over yourself.
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The jed Fish train is going to start up on
Saturday and roll right through college football and you can't
stop it. Keep the main thing, the main thing. What
was the other one? Ten toes on the ground? Ten
to I stand ten toes down on this, and that
doesn't help me because one of my toes from my
terrible foot injury in the nineties sticks almost like way
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up really yeah, like over the other two like and
I have to like push it down to make it
touch the ground. Yeah. I cannot stand ten toes down
on anything. Didn't you have? You should get a nine
I'm about nine eight and a half toes down. You
should get a Twitter account dedicated just to your freakish toe.
I think wasn't there a Twitter account dedicated to one
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of your moles? Yeah, but it was removed the Twitter
account of the male both. Maybe the account might still
be actual. So are you excited? You're gonna go do
the pregame show and butter everybody up with Margarine and
do your husky by the lady. We're not doing that.
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We don't that. That'll wait until after the before the
Michigan game. Every every Washington football game. All I ever
think about is the book Still Life with Woodpecker. Tell
me about it. Well, it was by a guy I
think his name is Tom Robbins who went to U DUB.
And he writes a lot about you Dub. And in
the book, I think a cheerleader is thrown into the
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air and has a miscarriage right there on the track.
Jesus man. What Yeah, but with the big W on
the chest and on that this is an act? Is
it fictional? Yeah? Okay, who thinks of that? Tom Robins,
the motivational speaker. No, it's the same guy that wrote
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hold On. I have to turn around about the actor. Well,
that's Tim Robbins. No, he wrote even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Yeah.
I'm looking at him right now. Yeah, is it Tom?
He's ninety two years old, he's still alive. Yeah, and
he went to U DUB. He's a Northwestern rider. How
do you not know about him? He's from Connor. Yeah,
Northwest has a lot of great riders. Boredom blowing rock,
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North Carolina. He grew up in le Connor, Washington. I
remember reading that book when I was playing football and
then like running onto the field at the track at
U dub and being like, oh wow, this is where
the cheerleader. Yeah yeah, yeah, should not be like where
you at this weekend? You got Wyoming Arizona State, Arizona
State in Wyoming, Arizona State's a lot deeper. Wyoming won
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nine games last year. So is that the depth of
your analysis? No, I can go deeper, but You'll start
making fun of me, and then I'm gonna start swearing
and you spend a lot of time entity. All right,
have fun this weekend. Are you Are you actually on
site this year or are you stuck in a studio?
So well, I hope to never have to travel again.
Good for you, Thank you, Good for you. We will
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never make fun of you ever again for being stuck
in a studio calling a college football game. Also, I'm lying.
All right, we'll talk in a week. I hope Weaver
State beat your team. See you, man. Petros Papadaca is
with us. Gotta break. Larry Stone on what the hell
is going on with the Mavenders at five courtesy of
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to the Prince of pig Skin in Southern California, sports
talk radio legend and one damn fine Greek American baby.
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ye yea yea yea yeah.
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dot com? Who's the balls? You believe that? Did you
(01:38):
hear about Dion Sanders accusing Orgon of cheating? I did not,
Dan Lanning, Dan Lanning the Grady accused. Wait, he's playing
North Dakota State this week, right, so there is any
to do with organ It's not even on their schedule.
I don't believe so. Uh. Following a forty two six
(01:58):
Colorado loss to Oregon last year, I report from Front
Office Sports. Yeah, that was there in Hollywood. We were
on the grass, gotcha and neither were true? Got Trent
Boulder and we are on turf. Okay. They say that
the Buffalo's flagged some potential breaches of the team's online
(02:19):
service that stores practice footage and other data, and they
say that Oregon may have broken in and breached it
before their game broke it did what ripped off data
and practice film? I got no idea. I'm just reading
the story. Colorado contacted the PAC twelve, but Oregon having
hang on hang on unauthorized access to practice film and
(02:43):
data following their forty two to six loss. They are
a bunch of cheating bastards in Eugene. I don't know.
I mean, that's not how I look at football. I
don't look at football like, wow, we ripped some of
your data on the or we had some dorky almost
(03:04):
teenage guys stealing signs with a horse last name and Stallias. Yeah,
that's not football to me. I mean, to me, is
you get pushed. It's like the Florida State Georgia Tech game.
Everybody in Dublin, everybody expected Florida State to win the game.
Florida State's the ranked team. Those of us that have
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seen dj Ungalle week in and week out were not
super surprised. But that being said, after that game, you
look on X or whatever and everybody's like, oh, Florida
State blew it. They blew it, and Danny Canal's having
a conniption fit. And I mean, if you watch the
game and everybody did Florida State got pushed around. They
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sure did, and that was the most surprising thing because
they had some guys back on the line right that
they got pushed around for four quarters. Georgia Tech hit
him in the mouth and continue to do so. Florida
State pulled out a great touchdown drive to tie it,
and then Georgia Tech just marched right down the field
and kicked the field goal. It didn't look that hard.
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They ran the ball beautifully, And to me, that's so
does it matter if Georgia Tech had a couple of
their signs or if they saw some practice film on
a computer. It's like, no, it's me versus you in
the hole, and that's the moment of truth and you
either turn it down or you don't. Well. But yeah,
but hang on because Michigan may end up going on
probation because of all that. No one respects the NC
(04:32):
double A and their toothless and short fingernail punishments. I'm
gonna do anything to Michigan that's real. That should be
a classification. This is a Tier one short fingernail punishment.
They all are now the NC DOUBLEA. Look, the NC
double A is not in a position to cripple their
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blue bloods like they were twenty years ago, twenty five,
you know, excuse me, nineteen years ago or whatever when
the USC stuff happened. You know, that kind of stuff
just doesn't happen anymore because they're losing their grip and
control on the sport. It's not an amateur sport anymore.
Everybody's getting paid. Teams are trying to figure out a
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structure for how to play, pay players that pay for play,
not just the stupid donors paying the players and the
fan base that has no business having to do that,
but real universities making real money on college football paying
the players. So it doesn't even it shouldn't even go
under the umbrella of the NCAA anymore. So we're in
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a transitional period and I don't care what they think. Well,
if it gets Oregon busted, I care about it. Why
not ever busted? Why not going to happen? Death penalty?
Death penalty? I think you break into somebody's server, you
should do prison time. Sure, yeah, that's what I think.
By the way, did you see what Dion Sanders Dion
(05:56):
did to that writer, the Denver Post guy. Yeah, he
caused Sean. I thought this was funny. He refers to
Dan as the Bruce Lee of BS plan. That's all
and stuff. I mean, the guy's columnist. He's gone after
the guy. What's he comes across as a hypocrite if
you ask me, wasn't he the same guy going after
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players on Twitter like six months ago? Yeah? He This
is not a good look. It's never a good look
to ban a member of the media because it makes
you look thin skinned, and it makes it makes it
looks like, luk, you're not keeping the main thing, the
main thing. I heard that like five times yesterday you done,
by the way? Yeah, because of The Bachelor. That's right,
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it says one guy that says it over and over.
Is that where they got it from? Uh huh? Come on, yes,
I'm telling you this year on the Bachelor, like the villain,
this guy Sam says keep the main thing, the main thing,
over and over again. Are you sure? Yes? And he
says stand ten toes down. He says that too. I
stand on that ten days. So what if I hear
somebody saying that's ally said it and over and over again.
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Because he had a real inability to express himself and
it finally caught up with him. Well, well, Will Rogers
said it Times yesterday. Yeah, he's not gonna be with
that little tiny Asian girl that the other guys are
vying for. He got rid of she got rid of him. Uh.
Will Rogers might have a girlfriend that watches The Bachelor
and the Bachelor. Keep the main thing, the main thing.
(07:21):
Are you still doing like weekly Bachler Bachelor RHTT and
Bachelor updates on your program? Yes, sadly it's I tried
to like, I skipped one the other day and the
heir to the Carl's Junior Fortune texted me and said,
my mother, Carl Karcher's daughter is very unhappy that you
did not do the Bachelorette report last night. Please advi.
(07:44):
I was like, damn, okay, I'm honest. Well, if the
Carl's Junior heiress calls you then or text you, then yeah,
read some gift cards, get off. Hell yeah you do
double Western baked cheeseburger for light. I think Dion just
looks stupid and I'm generally done generally a saying of Dion.
To be honest, I think he's good for college football,
he's good for sports, and I think you know, he's
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doing a lot of good things, no question for his players.
I saw this story about he's getting each of them
like two grand to start a checking account from a
bank or whatever, and then he goes and does something
like that that, as you said, kind of just makes
them look soft. Yeah, it's not much of a double
edged sword anymore though. It's like one side of the
sword is really really really sharp and the other is
(08:26):
like a hammer. I mean, it's not It doesn't balance out.
It doesn't and it's not going to end well in
my opinion. But it is interesting because what is the
equity of our sport? What it used to be wins
and losses. You know, you win ten games a year,
(08:47):
you're you're a hero. You do that consistently, they'll build
a statue of you. Unless you're Cooper and you can't
beat Ohio State or whatever. But it's true, right, but
Dion doesn't win. He hasn't won. I don't think he's
gonna win. But so much of our time and the
(09:11):
sport is spent talking about him, and then that kind
of switches what the equity is, doesn't it. It makes
you think, well, just having the attention and the clicks
and the nil and the bank accounts and the sunglasses
and the rappers and the Big Noon and College Game
Day and RG three halfway up your ass. All of
(09:34):
that is equity. And when does it balance out? Like
when do all the losses take that equity away? I
mean it happened last year somewhere in October, right, yeah,
and people stopped caring and they became a mockery. And
then the further away they got to the field again,
the hype train started up again, and we'll see how
(09:54):
long it goes before it is broken or derailed like
it was last year. But it's interesting because I cover
a lot of Air Force football and they're right there
in Colorado as well. And you could say Colorado State's
been down in the j norvel transition. They might beat
(10:14):
Colorado this year. But Air Force wins like nine ten
games a year. They have no nil they have no transfers,
they have no red shirts or graduates fifth year type guys.
They have none of that. Yet somehow they line up
(10:35):
and compete and nobody cares, and they don't have any money.
Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah, and they do win.
I mean they win nine ten games a year, So
maybe the equity of winning is not as important as
it used to be if you have like a clown
as the head coach. But how long is that going
to be the case? Yeah, well, if they get off
to a rough start, they may eventually start to turn
(10:56):
on the guy. But yeah, Jim Lambright's lot. Jim Lambright's
last game was against Air Force. May he rest in peace.
In the old of Wahu Bowl, I would say, well,
factoid for you, thank you for that. And I'd say
the same thing about Lincoln Riley when they would lose
and they wouldn't let Caleb Williams talk, or Kayleb Williams
wouldn't talk, and then they wouldn't let anybody talk because
Caleb Williams wouldn't talk, And they tried to sit there
(11:18):
and get out of the LSU game all summer. And
they they did the same thing with a journalist, a
beat writer, for God's sakes, for talking about a transfer
rumor about a player who ended up transferring with a
shock Ray Leak Brown who's now at Arizona State and hurt.
So that's clown behavior too. And in today's day and age,
(11:41):
the coaches don't feel as accountable to the media because
they don't have real media that covers them. I mean,
you get covered by Paul fine Mom or something from Afar.
Columnists are tough, but the beat writers have been replaced
with Purple Rain twenty one, you know, like the website,
you know what I mean. Or people that work for
(12:06):
the team, right like in house, you know, we people
hype people propagandist, which is what it is, right and
totally people that run websites, pay sites, who never used
to even be able to get a credential are now
suddenly like your new beat writers. Well, if you're paid
by the team to cover the team, you have zero
(12:27):
credibility whatsoever. You want to write me a fluff piece
on somebody or get an interesting human interest story on
somebody's cat or dog or whatever. The less newspapers, less
and less people embedded with a team, so these coaches
are held less and less accountable, so they become very
briskly when somebody calls them out. And then you add
(12:48):
that to the hypocrisy and the bravado of what's going
on in Boulder, and you have kind of a bad situation.
I've said this to you since it began. I don't
see it ending well. But then again, the attention and
the amount of time we spend talking about it is
exactly what they want. But if you don't win games,
how long does that go? It's it's kind of like
(13:09):
a House of cards or building your house on the sand.
The wise man builds his house on the rocks. Oh yeah,
until it falls into the ocean and the cliff just collapses.
The sand is worse, is the point. It's from the
Old Testament. Aren't you Jewish? Jesus? Yes? I am all right,
(13:29):
what else do you want? Danny Canell's on the show
on Friday. I love Danny Cannell. I think he's a
great guest and he's not without humor, you know, he
has a fun kind of way. Speaking of that, I
think Shadoor Sandards or Shiloh or one of them, or
the older son that just does the social media called
him a pure hoe last year on social media. I'll
(13:54):
have to bring this up on Yeah. So we're like, hey,
it's Danny Canell, the pure ho joining us right now.
He loves it. There you go. Well, he's on the
air on Friday at three twenty. Curtesy a bet online
dot Net. I'm sure when he comes on your show
he's Curtesy a bet online dot net. Hey, you mentioned
h you mentioned just call him every once in a
while because he's a lot of fun. Well, he's great.
A pure ho, pure pure ho, A pure ho. Uh.
(14:18):
You mentioned RG three. Why did he get fired? And
along with Samantha Ponder from ESPN, did they go to
did they criticize the the woke brigade or that's what
Klay Travis thinks. Well, who you Ponder? Yes, Samantha Ponder,
they fired her and they fired RG three, but they're
(14:39):
on either side of the political spectrum. I very much.
Are you sure? Yeah, Okay, I think I thought RGIE three.
I honestly have no idea why they were fired. I'm
just bringing it up. Well, I think RG three got
taken off the NFL stuff because the NFL probably said
get this guy off. Why would they say that because
he was a he was an idiot. I mean he
(15:04):
he's like an advisor for Lamar Jackson and spent week
in and week out going to the mat for the
guy saying stupid stuff and I didn't. I mean, it's
a college football game, there's kids watching. I know that.
I sound like an a hole saying that because of
what I say on your show and stuff. But at
(15:24):
college football game, it's it's non national TV and big
Panix Energy. Yeah, we get it. You don't have to
say it thirty times. Beat up the Beaver. Yeah, we
all used to say that when we played Oregon State
in nineteen ninety six. Shut up, you know, it's it's
a stop it, you know. I like, I thought he
(15:45):
was just on the cross. Well, I thought he had
great potential. I mean, if you're really asking me, I
am at the lowest rung of the ladder of the
Fox analysts alphabet. I will tell you, but I have
been doing it a long time. I will tell you.
When he started, I thought he had unbelievable potential to
be a really good color analyst. And they paired him
(16:08):
with Mark Jones, who really is a stone cold idiot.
Well he's an a hole Jones. He's just he's you're
talking about arrogant, cocky, you know what. He's the worst
of our business. Well, the only guy that's what. From
an attitude perspective, he's horrible. Gilmour is awful on the
air as well, and he wrecked wrecked RG three, just
absolutely wrecked him. And then they tried to move him
(16:31):
on from that, but it was too late. But I
think the NFL stuff probably was he got taken off
the money that football stuff because the NFL said, get
him off there you don't like it, just like the
NFL got Playmakers canceled, which was a hit for ESPN.
So because ESPN has money at football and that's basically
everything they have is put into that, And with the
(16:53):
Ponder stuff, maybe it was the same. Maybe they said
she's too political, get rid of her, or they did
it because they get paid too much money. I mean,
it happens all the time. People get moved on from ESPN.
Trey Wingo acted like an ass during a draft during
twenty twenty, and they got rid of You got that
Ponder gout Let go for the whole trans athlete debate.
(17:14):
But maybe that's somebody else. Yeah, well, you know, I
can't keep track anymore. Heyd God forbid, somebody call out
something obviously weird. Hey I've said that on the air.
I don't think I'm you know, pushing new ground with that.
My god, I mean, what are we doing? But people
lose their mind over stuff like that? What are we doing?
Weaber state Saturday. Baby, here we go. Get over yourself.
(17:38):
The jed Fish train is going to start up on
Saturday and roll right through college football and you can't
stop it. Keep the main thing, the main thing. What
was the other one? Ten toes on the ground? Ten
to I stand ten toes down on this, and that
doesn't help me because one of my toes from my
terrible foot injury in the nineties sticks almost like way
(18:01):
up really yeah, like over the other two like and
I have to like push it down to make it
touch the ground. Yeah. I cannot stand ten toes down
on anything. Didn't you have? You should get a nine
I'm about nine eight and a half toes down. You
should get a Twitter account dedicated just to your freakish toe.
I think wasn't there a Twitter account dedicated to one
(18:21):
of your moles? Yeah, but it was removed the Twitter
account of the male both. Maybe the account might still
be actual. So are you excited? You're gonna go do
the pregame show and butter everybody up with Margarine and
do your husky by the lady. We're not doing that.
(18:43):
We don't that. That'll wait until after the before the
Michigan game. Every every Washington football game. All I ever
think about is the book Still Life with Woodpecker. Tell
me about it. Well, it was by a guy I
think his name is Tom Robbins who went to U DUB.
And he writes a lot about you Dub. And in
the book, I think a cheerleader is thrown into the
(19:05):
air and has a miscarriage right there on the track.
Jesus man. What Yeah, but with the big W on
the chest and on that this is an act? Is
it fictional? Yeah? Okay, who thinks of that? Tom Robins,
the motivational speaker. No, it's the same guy that wrote
(19:26):
hold On. I have to turn around about the actor. Well,
that's Tim Robbins. No, he wrote even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Yeah.
I'm looking at him right now. Yeah, is it Tom?
He's ninety two years old, he's still alive. Yeah, and
he went to U DUB. He's a Northwestern rider. How
do you not know about him? He's from Connor. Yeah,
Northwest has a lot of great riders. Boredom blowing rock,
(19:48):
North Carolina. He grew up in le Connor, Washington. I
remember reading that book when I was playing football and
then like running onto the field at the track at
U dub and being like, oh wow, this is where
the cheerleader. Yeah yeah, yeah, should not be like where
you at this weekend? You got Wyoming Arizona State, Arizona
State in Wyoming, Arizona State's a lot deeper. Wyoming won
(20:11):
nine games last year. So is that the depth of
your analysis? No, I can go deeper, but You'll start
making fun of me, and then I'm gonna start swearing
and you spend a lot of time entity. All right,
have fun this weekend. Are you Are you actually on
site this year or are you stuck in a studio?
So well, I hope to never have to travel again.
Good for you, Thank you, Good for you. We will
(20:34):
never make fun of you ever again for being stuck
in a studio calling a college football game. Also, I'm lying.
All right, we'll talk in a week. I hope Weaver
State beat your team. See you, man. Petros Papadaca is
with us. Gotta break. Larry Stone on what the hell
is going on with the Mavenders at five courtesy of
the Ram right here on ninety three to three KJRFM
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