November 5, 2025 • 19 mins
Petros Papadakis from Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about the Dodgers’ World Series title over the Blue Jays, the joy of seeing Toronto fans suffer defeat, and some college football including USC’s successes under Lincoln Riley.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Enekas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Now with Petros, here's Dave Softy Muller Loss and girls.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Here we go on a busy Wednesday afternoon right here
on ninety three to three KJRFM. And what an opportunity
every single Wednesday, you know, the drill. We get a
chance to talk to let's face it, one of the
founding fathers of sports talk radio on the West Coast.
He is a hero to dozens of USC football fans
out there. He's always my husband of the month, father
(00:59):
of the year, brother of the day, one damn fine
Greek American at a Southern California football legend.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
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Speaker 4 (01:10):
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Speaker 3 (01:34):
How are you, man? What's going on down there?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Are you basking in the glow of yet another Dodgers
World Serious championship? I saw I saw the footage of
the parade on TV, and dozens of people showed up
for that thing down there.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It was a pretty big to do.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
The parade last year was big, and then the parade
this year was even bigger. I mean there is a
lot of people, tons of people in the streets of
Los Angele, and then they filled the stadium for a ceremony.
So yeah, overall it was pretty gratifying, I guess, and
sort of a day after Christmas Piel. Now that it's
(02:11):
all over, As you know, the season ends abruptly and
poorly for everybody but one team. And I mean the
games were so wild and so emotional, as I know,
you can relate that. I think people were just exhausted
when it was all over. I think the Dodgers were exhausted,
being their age that they are. You know, most of
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their guys are thirty something guys, their leaders and those guys,
I think that eighteen inning game blew them out, and
Toronto had a lot more energy the next couple of
nights and they sort of reset themselves when they went
back to Canada and won it all. But you have
to give the Dodgers credit. I mean, they have older players.
They started the season in Japan, they started last season
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in Korea. They've been at it longer than anybody, and
then they ended it in Canaday. Wild World Series and
hard to put in perspective some of the wild performances
that we saw.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, well, we'd like to thank you, by the way,
uh and we feel like you really made up for
your performance, your behavior on this show two weeks ago
by going the opposite way and dispatching humanity of those
bastards from the North known as the Toronto Blue Jay fans,
the most insufferable fan base in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
What makes them so unsufferable? I don't know, kind of
I mean, I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
They were kind of cocky, and then they after they
after Game seven, they were like, well, the better team
lost the series, which is kind of hard to say
for a seven game series. We had a bunch of
opportunities to put the Dodgers away, But yeah, they did
seem kind of smug about it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Very smug, very arrogant.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And the bunch the biggest bunch of keyboard cowards I've
ever run into in my life. Really close. Yes, and
that's more so, by the way, Petros than Oregon fans.
And here's why. Oregon fans at least have the balls
to show you their faces and share with you their names.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Doo J fans want nothing.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I literally got four or five different emails, maybe from
the same person for all Lio admitting that they were
hiding behind a burner account because of how unhinged and
heavily armed Americans are and they had no desire to
mingle with us on social media whatsoever. Forty nine er fans,
Oregon fans, hell, even Houston Astro fans have more guts
(04:24):
than these clowns do.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
So it was very gratifying. Just so you know nothing,
you give it, damn, But it was very gratifying for
us in Seattle to see you take them out and
break their hearts and stop on them the way you did. Well,
I didn't do anything, you know, I just I'm saying
the Dodgers. Yeah, No, they looked great and everybody's happy.
And now they're going to run it back with the
older guys again. And some of these guys are under
(04:47):
contract to like twenty forty, right, so we'll see how
it all shakes out. But certainly, I mean, it's the
first Dodger team to ever go back to back in
their long, long story history.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Which is wild, right.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I don't know, I mean, it doesn't happen very often,
but I guess yeah. I mean from Brooklyn to La
and all that. Very very interesting to watch guys like
Yamamoto pitch with no rest and oh Tawny doing what
he does. And how surprised were you when that ball
went out with Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I mean I was.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I looked up at Gina, and I would have been
less surprised if I looked over and saw Giraffe sitting
on the couch. I'm not kidding you, man, how stunning
was that Rojas home run?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Well before that game, I think he had a hit
earlier in that game. But before that game, he hadn't
had a hit all since like October first, right, so
and you know he had not been playing, and he
kind of strained his groin or something tagging a guy
out at third I think earlier in like the NLDS.
So yeah, I'm very unlikely hero. But it wasn't just
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that he made a bunch of the whole team. They
made a bunch of crazy defensive plays. And I think
you really got to see the margin of victor and
how small it is for that kind of competitive series.
And it literally was, you know, a couple of inches
or a very split second. So it was it was
something to behold. There's no doubt about it. And congratulations
(06:13):
to the Dodgers. They're a well run organization. Seems like
they do the right thing with their money and they
bring in the right people. Yeah, and they've been able
to stand on top of the mountain a couple of
years in a row.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Is this bigger than a Lakers championship in LA? Yeah? Yeah? Why?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah? Because people have more of an opportunity to be
at the games, People have more of an opportunity to
understand the product. There's more games. They're not though it's
not inexpensive. They're not priced out of the stadium completely
like you kind of are for Laker games. You don't
really have load management, the players are a lot more relatable,
(06:51):
and the Latino fan base makes it pretty pretty gigantic
as well. So yeah, all of those things make that
an emphatic yes, much bigger than a.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Although the Lakers are playing, well, much bigger than a
Laker championship.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, Petros Papainaka is with us, as you know, courtesy
of our friends at Sweet James dot com.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
And here we go.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
The initial for twenty twenty five CFP rankings came out yesterday,
and look a here you Dubs sitting there in the
top twenty five man with a chance to maybe run
off a few wins. Here they're twenty third, six and
two with a terrible Wisconsin team, a terrible Purdue team,
and a not very good UCLA team before they play
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the Ducks in late November and Seattle. What do you
think you think in the Hoskis are going to run
off three wins here and go nine.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And two and make that Oregon game mean something or what? Well,
it's certainly possible.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I mean, they they look pretty good, right, and they
have a lot going for them as far as the
schedule goes. And you get by Illinois, who's tough and
on the road, and got a little bit exposed there
on the road at Michigan, and they look very strong.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I don't know if they're a college football playoff team
in the Big Ten.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
There there is there a path. I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
They'd obviously have to beat Oregon, right, and Oregon would
have to beat USC and so on and so forth.
But very impressive. And you got to give Jedfish credit.
They've had a very good year. They lost to a
couple teams that you figured they'd lose two Ohio State
and Michigan, but everybody else they've taken care of business.
(08:32):
And that's other than Penn State, of course, and that
is pretty well. That was last year with Penn State.
So Penn State they got hammer last year. This year,
you had it right the first time. Ohio State, Michigan. Yeah,
So I mean you gotta give them, you gotta give
them their flowers.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I know the schedule sometimes can be confusing for men
of our age, and I'm right there with you, man.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I still dude to check the Husky schedule.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Sometimes I still go to like the PAC twelve standings
to click on Washington.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Where are they? They're not here, for God's sake? And
speaking of that, what the hell happened to the Coogs man?
The Kugs went on the road to play a terrible
Oregon State team and lost ten to seven. You see
the b fans rushing the field in Corvallis on Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Well, I'm glad for Rob Akey. He's somebody we all
know from the area and we've seen him coach at
Idaho and beyond, so I.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Was happy for him.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
And look, in college football, you can't just because Team
A beats Team B, that doesn't And then team C
played Team A and they beat that doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
It doesn't.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
These are different, different teams kind of every week. They're
young people, they're inconsistent. These coaches have a job to
make them consistent. It's not an easy job. And they
all have problems that seemens aurnmountable until you win a game.
When you win a game, all the problems that you
displayed in the game, which you did don't seem like
(10:05):
they actually exist. But they do, and when you lose
a game, it's usually the same problems that pop up.
But I don't think the Beams were as helpless as
everybody thought week in and week out. Yeah, they're not
good and they've had a bad year, but that doesn't
mean that people can't beat you. I mean, Houston was
on track to be a Big twelve champion or one
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of them right in the MiGs and they lost to
one of the worst teams in the conference, West Virginia,
at home last Saturday. So it's been happening forever and
I'm never surprised when I mean, look at Alabama and
look at Florida State, and look at the way the
season started between those two teams. So there's always just
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wild circumstance that goes into it. And that being said,
that doesn't mean Washington can't blow it to Wisconsin or
UCLA or Purdue or anybody like that, as those teams
are playing down the stretch and trying to get right.
So we'll see how it shakes out. But I do
think Jed Fish deserves a ton of credit for taking
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this team where they've been this year with an inexperienced
quarterback and a great running back and winning a bunch
of games in a very tough what's considered to be
a very very tough conference. Should have had a bit
of a favorable schedule, but they played the two big dogs,
Michigan and Ohio State, and yeah they lost. But at
the same time, they've done everything else you've asked them for. Well,
(11:35):
here's the thing about Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
They have scored seven points in three games on offense
of their last thirty drives.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That's actually true. I'm not making that up.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Of their last thirty drives, they've had two drives go
fifty yards or more and only one of them has
gone for a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That came against the Oregon Ducks. However, I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
If you're Luke Fickel, you've got to be looking at
this U dub game. Is maybe kind of a little
bit of a break because the last three games you've
played Oregon, Iowa, Ohio State, Petros.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
That's three of the top five defenses in the country.
I mean, you're still facing a pretty good up defense,
but not that good.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
So I don't know, man, this game.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Maybe it's just the the skeptic in me, Maybe it's
the paranoia in me. There's a little part, small part
of this game that scares me a little bit going
to Madison on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Well, they should all scare you, and the We've talked
about it all year long too. It's like the going
to a big stadium in a foreign place. You just
saw it happen to Illinois, right. You go into one
of these places and you spend a lot of time
looking around and you just can't get over the hump
in the game if something bad happens to you. And
(12:47):
that's something to worry about. Although they are so anemic offensively,
as you mentioned, it would be very hard to imagine
Washington not being able to outscore them when their current form,
and it makes you wonder. I mean, Luke Finkel was
one of the hottest coaches in America a couple years back,
and now he's probably gonna get fired along with the
rest of these giant FBS programs that are firing people
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almost every single week or every single week. So that
happens more and more now with the college football playoff.
And look at Jed Fish, I mean, he's having a
great year, so give him credit and remain vigilant, it
would be my advice, but I congratulate you. I know
that it's been a rough year watching the Mariners lose
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the way they did in seven games. I know it
wasn't easy, and I know I've compounded the problem, but
finally something to be happy about in the aftermath.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Well, I will be honest with you, there was a
healing process that was happening after that Blue Jays Alcs loss,
and frankly to visit with you a couple of weeks ago,
just open that scar back up and set the healing
process back days.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Okay, Well I'm sorry again, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
But again the scar was not fully closed, but almost
all the way closed. With the way that you ripped
our hearts out like the temple the Doom and showed
it to them when they were four.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Strikes, I wouldn't know that serious championship. Oh you know you.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I would go that far, for as painful as it
was for us to blow that lead. And the seventh thing,
are you kidding me? Being two outs and four strikes
away at home from a World Series title, and Miguel
Rojas and Will Smith just reach in there, pull out
their beating heart and just hold it up in the
in the air for all of the world to see
and just burst into flames, like in the second Indiana
(14:39):
Jones film. Yeah, which was not as popular as the
number one and number three, but much better than number
four and number five.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I think we can all agree.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Number four, number five, the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
should never have been made.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Dial of Destiny, whatever the hell it was called. Huh.
So you'd rank them, you'd rank them two, one, three?
Is that how you'd go? No, you'd rank them one, three, two,
four and then five? Got it? So you'd put the
last crusade over the Temple to doom? Interesting? Correctly interesting?
(15:15):
Is that because of the appearance of Sean Connery. Why
yeah Connery?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Okay, hey, are people Benson Man will pass you know,
Penitent Man Nils before God?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You know that was good stuff, That's right.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Are people backing off Lincoln Riley now after he got
a big win in Lincoln over Nebraska. They're in the
top twenty five, they're ranked I got some big games
against Iowa Oregon coming up.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Do you think that Jen Cohen? Let me ask you
a question.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You think Jen Cohen secretly wants Lincoln Riley to stumble
so she can fire him, or does she want him
to do well so she can save all that buyout money.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I think she wants him to do well so he
can take another job and a pace that he's more comfortable.
I got it, Oh right, Like what if Sarti goes
to the pros like the Tennessee Titans or something, and
then Jen Cohen and then and then Lincoln Riley goes
(16:12):
to Texas and then Kaylin de Boor wants out of
Alabama and comes to usc A. You know, I don't know,
but the carousel is gonna get crazy. And we were
actually just talking to Scott Frost about it. I mean,
there's it seems like there's more jobs than there are
coaches with the with the big time coaches that are
(16:35):
getting let go so early. And it's not like the
university is the one spending all this money, you know.
And it happened at Penn State. It happens in all
these places. Somebody buys these people out, Somebody uses it
as a tax rite off, spends a ton of cash
and buys these guys out. Somebody who's a billionaire that
(16:57):
cares about that type of stit. That money is just
not sitting there. They have to go, right, that from
somebody like that kind of desire, right, Yeah, they don't
just open up the Scrooge McDuck vault and pull out
the fifty million to buy this guy and all his
assistants out and hire new people and get everything in place.
It just it just doesn't work that way. So, uh,
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it's it's a crazy thing, and it's it's I don't
know what the sustainability is if this year is just
kind of a one off with the way this is gone,
or if it's Signetti getting everybody fired because of how
quickly he turned Indiana around. But you do see like
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the teams that are like brand new teams that have
sixty new players, seventy new players, they they don't have consistency, right,
And it's hard for those coaches to create consistency. And
they're usually a lot better the next year. And that's
just the product of what are doing in college football.
(18:01):
It's just it's just the sign of the times, I guess.
But I would take the third option for Jen Cohen
and USC with Lincoln Riley continue to win, take the
Texas job or something like that. And I know he
likes palas Verdi's I don't know how much he likes
Los Angeles, and I think he's a much more comfortable
(18:22):
guy in the Big twelve or the SEC.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I think.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Well, I'll tell you what, man, it seems like there's
more job openings at programs that demand big time coaches
and names than there are big time names available in
college football. All the Florida, Penn State, Oklahoma State, whatever,
blah blah blah, All these schools are gonna think, you know,
we deserve and demand a big name guy with a
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track record, and those guys just aren't out there.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
So I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
There's gonna be a lot of movement, all right, man,
Really great stuff, incredible analysis, and we'll expect more out
of you.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Jam you think more. Yeah, it was good. It was
really really well done, really well done. Wow, thanks for
being so nice and supportive. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I was concerned because how busy your schedule is this week,
but you really you really brought the heat today.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Man. Well, hopefully things will be better next week. God will.
We'll see in a week.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Bye, Thanks Softy, Bye Petros Papadakas with us, we're gonna break.
Kevin Harlan's gonna join at five o'clock tonight, right here
on ninety three three kJ RFM,
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Enekas.
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Speaker 4 (00:35):
Here we go on a busy Wednesday afternoon right here
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every single Wednesday, you know, the drill. We get a
chance to talk to let's face it, one of the
founding fathers of sports talk radio on the West Coast.
He is a hero to dozens of USC football fans
out there. He's always my husband of the month, father
(00:59):
of the year, brother of the day, one damn fine
Greek American at a Southern California football legend.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
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Speaker 3 (01:34):
How are you, man? What's going on down there?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Are you basking in the glow of yet another Dodgers
World Serious championship? I saw I saw the footage of
the parade on TV, and dozens of people showed up
for that thing down there.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It was a pretty big to do.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
The parade last year was big, and then the parade
this year was even bigger. I mean there is a
lot of people, tons of people in the streets of
Los Angele, and then they filled the stadium for a ceremony.
So yeah, overall it was pretty gratifying, I guess, and
sort of a day after Christmas Piel. Now that it's
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all over, As you know, the season ends abruptly and
poorly for everybody but one team. And I mean the
games were so wild and so emotional, as I know,
you can relate that. I think people were just exhausted
when it was all over. I think the Dodgers were exhausted,
being their age that they are. You know, most of
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their guys are thirty something guys, their leaders and those guys,
I think that eighteen inning game blew them out, and
Toronto had a lot more energy the next couple of
nights and they sort of reset themselves when they went
back to Canada and won it all. But you have
to give the Dodgers credit. I mean, they have older players.
They started the season in Japan, they started last season
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in Korea. They've been at it longer than anybody, and
then they ended it in Canaday. Wild World Series and
hard to put in perspective some of the wild performances
that we saw.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, well, we'd like to thank you, by the way,
uh and we feel like you really made up for
your performance, your behavior on this show two weeks ago
by going the opposite way and dispatching humanity of those
bastards from the North known as the Toronto Blue Jay fans,
the most insufferable fan base in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
What makes them so unsufferable? I don't know, kind of
I mean, I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
They were kind of cocky, and then they after they
after Game seven, they were like, well, the better team
lost the series, which is kind of hard to say
for a seven game series. We had a bunch of
opportunities to put the Dodgers away, But yeah, they did
seem kind of smug about it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Very smug, very arrogant.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And the bunch the biggest bunch of keyboard cowards I've
ever run into in my life. Really close. Yes, and
that's more so, by the way, Petros than Oregon fans.
And here's why. Oregon fans at least have the balls
to show you their faces and share with you their names.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Doo J fans want nothing.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I literally got four or five different emails, maybe from
the same person for all Lio admitting that they were
hiding behind a burner account because of how unhinged and
heavily armed Americans are and they had no desire to
mingle with us on social media whatsoever. Forty nine er fans,
Oregon fans, hell, even Houston Astro fans have more guts
(04:24):
than these clowns do.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
So it was very gratifying. Just so you know nothing,
you give it, damn, But it was very gratifying for
us in Seattle to see you take them out and
break their hearts and stop on them the way you did. Well,
I didn't do anything, you know, I just I'm saying
the Dodgers. Yeah, No, they looked great and everybody's happy.
And now they're going to run it back with the
older guys again. And some of these guys are under
(04:47):
contract to like twenty forty, right, so we'll see how
it all shakes out. But certainly, I mean, it's the
first Dodger team to ever go back to back in
their long, long story history.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Which is wild, right.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I don't know, I mean, it doesn't happen very often,
but I guess yeah. I mean from Brooklyn to La
and all that. Very very interesting to watch guys like
Yamamoto pitch with no rest and oh Tawny doing what
he does. And how surprised were you when that ball
went out with Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I mean I was.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I looked up at Gina, and I would have been
less surprised if I looked over and saw Giraffe sitting
on the couch. I'm not kidding you, man, how stunning
was that Rojas home run?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Well before that game, I think he had a hit
earlier in that game. But before that game, he hadn't
had a hit all since like October first, right, so
and you know he had not been playing, and he
kind of strained his groin or something tagging a guy
out at third I think earlier in like the NLDS.
So yeah, I'm very unlikely hero. But it wasn't just
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that he made a bunch of the whole team. They
made a bunch of crazy defensive plays. And I think
you really got to see the margin of victor and
how small it is for that kind of competitive series.
And it literally was, you know, a couple of inches
or a very split second. So it was it was
something to behold. There's no doubt about it. And congratulations
(06:13):
to the Dodgers. They're a well run organization. Seems like
they do the right thing with their money and they
bring in the right people. Yeah, and they've been able
to stand on top of the mountain a couple of
years in a row.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Is this bigger than a Lakers championship in LA? Yeah? Yeah? Why?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah? Because people have more of an opportunity to be
at the games, People have more of an opportunity to
understand the product. There's more games. They're not though it's
not inexpensive. They're not priced out of the stadium completely
like you kind of are for Laker games. You don't
really have load management, the players are a lot more relatable,
(06:51):
and the Latino fan base makes it pretty pretty gigantic
as well. So yeah, all of those things make that
an emphatic yes, much bigger than a.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Although the Lakers are playing, well, much bigger than a
Laker championship.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, Petros Papainaka is with us, as you know, courtesy
of our friends at Sweet James dot com.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
And here we go.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
The initial for twenty twenty five CFP rankings came out yesterday,
and look a here you Dubs sitting there in the
top twenty five man with a chance to maybe run
off a few wins. Here they're twenty third, six and
two with a terrible Wisconsin team, a terrible Purdue team,
and a not very good UCLA team before they play
(07:31):
the Ducks in late November and Seattle. What do you
think you think in the Hoskis are going to run
off three wins here and go nine.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And two and make that Oregon game mean something or what? Well,
it's certainly possible.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I mean, they they look pretty good, right, and they
have a lot going for them as far as the
schedule goes. And you get by Illinois, who's tough and
on the road, and got a little bit exposed there
on the road at Michigan, and they look very strong.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I don't know if they're a college football playoff team
in the Big Ten.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
There there is there a path. I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
They'd obviously have to beat Oregon, right, and Oregon would
have to beat USC and so on and so forth.
But very impressive. And you got to give Jedfish credit.
They've had a very good year. They lost to a
couple teams that you figured they'd lose two Ohio State
and Michigan, but everybody else they've taken care of business.
(08:32):
And that's other than Penn State, of course, and that
is pretty well. That was last year with Penn State.
So Penn State they got hammer last year. This year,
you had it right the first time. Ohio State, Michigan. Yeah,
So I mean you gotta give them, you gotta give
them their flowers.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I know the schedule sometimes can be confusing for men
of our age, and I'm right there with you, man.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I still dude to check the Husky schedule.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Sometimes I still go to like the PAC twelve standings
to click on Washington.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Where are they? They're not here, for God's sake? And
speaking of that, what the hell happened to the Coogs man?
The Kugs went on the road to play a terrible
Oregon State team and lost ten to seven. You see
the b fans rushing the field in Corvallis on Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Well, I'm glad for Rob Akey. He's somebody we all
know from the area and we've seen him coach at
Idaho and beyond, so I.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Was happy for him.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
And look, in college football, you can't just because Team
A beats Team B, that doesn't And then team C
played Team A and they beat that doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
It doesn't.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
These are different, different teams kind of every week. They're
young people, they're inconsistent. These coaches have a job to
make them consistent. It's not an easy job. And they
all have problems that seemens aurnmountable until you win a game.
When you win a game, all the problems that you
displayed in the game, which you did don't seem like
(10:05):
they actually exist. But they do, and when you lose
a game, it's usually the same problems that pop up.
But I don't think the Beams were as helpless as
everybody thought week in and week out. Yeah, they're not
good and they've had a bad year, but that doesn't
mean that people can't beat you. I mean, Houston was
on track to be a Big twelve champion or one
(10:27):
of them right in the MiGs and they lost to
one of the worst teams in the conference, West Virginia,
at home last Saturday. So it's been happening forever and
I'm never surprised when I mean, look at Alabama and
look at Florida State, and look at the way the
season started between those two teams. So there's always just
(10:49):
wild circumstance that goes into it. And that being said,
that doesn't mean Washington can't blow it to Wisconsin or
UCLA or Purdue or anybody like that, as those teams
are playing down the stretch and trying to get right.
So we'll see how it shakes out. But I do
think Jed Fish deserves a ton of credit for taking
(11:12):
this team where they've been this year with an inexperienced
quarterback and a great running back and winning a bunch
of games in a very tough what's considered to be
a very very tough conference. Should have had a bit
of a favorable schedule, but they played the two big dogs,
Michigan and Ohio State, and yeah they lost. But at
the same time, they've done everything else you've asked them for. Well,
(11:35):
here's the thing about Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
They have scored seven points in three games on offense
of their last thirty drives.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That's actually true. I'm not making that up.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Of their last thirty drives, they've had two drives go
fifty yards or more and only one of them has
gone for a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That came against the Oregon Ducks. However, I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
If you're Luke Fickel, you've got to be looking at
this U dub game. Is maybe kind of a little
bit of a break because the last three games you've
played Oregon, Iowa, Ohio State, Petros.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
That's three of the top five defenses in the country.
I mean, you're still facing a pretty good up defense,
but not that good.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
So I don't know, man, this game.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Maybe it's just the the skeptic in me, Maybe it's
the paranoia in me. There's a little part, small part
of this game that scares me a little bit going
to Madison on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Well, they should all scare you, and the We've talked
about it all year long too. It's like the going
to a big stadium in a foreign place. You just
saw it happen to Illinois, right. You go into one
of these places and you spend a lot of time
looking around and you just can't get over the hump
in the game if something bad happens to you. And
(12:47):
that's something to worry about. Although they are so anemic offensively,
as you mentioned, it would be very hard to imagine
Washington not being able to outscore them when their current form,
and it makes you wonder. I mean, Luke Finkel was
one of the hottest coaches in America a couple years back,
and now he's probably gonna get fired along with the
rest of these giant FBS programs that are firing people
(13:11):
almost every single week or every single week. So that
happens more and more now with the college football playoff.
And look at Jed Fish, I mean, he's having a
great year, so give him credit and remain vigilant, it
would be my advice, but I congratulate you. I know
that it's been a rough year watching the Mariners lose
(13:33):
the way they did in seven games. I know it
wasn't easy, and I know I've compounded the problem, but
finally something to be happy about in the aftermath.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Well, I will be honest with you, there was a
healing process that was happening after that Blue Jays Alcs loss,
and frankly to visit with you a couple of weeks ago,
just open that scar back up and set the healing
process back days.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Okay, Well I'm sorry again, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
But again the scar was not fully closed, but almost
all the way closed. With the way that you ripped
our hearts out like the temple the Doom and showed
it to them when they were four.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Strikes, I wouldn't know that serious championship. Oh you know you.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I would go that far, for as painful as it
was for us to blow that lead. And the seventh thing,
are you kidding me? Being two outs and four strikes
away at home from a World Series title, and Miguel
Rojas and Will Smith just reach in there, pull out
their beating heart and just hold it up in the
in the air for all of the world to see
and just burst into flames, like in the second Indiana
(14:39):
Jones film. Yeah, which was not as popular as the
number one and number three, but much better than number
four and number five.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I think we can all agree.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Number four, number five, the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
should never have been made.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Dial of Destiny, whatever the hell it was called. Huh.
So you'd rank them, you'd rank them two, one, three?
Is that how you'd go? No, you'd rank them one, three, two,
four and then five? Got it? So you'd put the
last crusade over the Temple to doom? Interesting? Correctly interesting?
(15:15):
Is that because of the appearance of Sean Connery. Why
yeah Connery?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Okay, hey, are people Benson Man will pass you know,
Penitent Man Nils before God?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You know that was good stuff, That's right.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Are people backing off Lincoln Riley now after he got
a big win in Lincoln over Nebraska. They're in the
top twenty five, they're ranked I got some big games
against Iowa Oregon coming up.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Do you think that Jen Cohen? Let me ask you
a question.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You think Jen Cohen secretly wants Lincoln Riley to stumble
so she can fire him, or does she want him
to do well so she can save all that buyout money.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I think she wants him to do well so he
can take another job and a pace that he's more comfortable.
I got it, Oh right, Like what if Sarti goes
to the pros like the Tennessee Titans or something, and
then Jen Cohen and then and then Lincoln Riley goes
(16:12):
to Texas and then Kaylin de Boor wants out of
Alabama and comes to usc A. You know, I don't know,
but the carousel is gonna get crazy. And we were
actually just talking to Scott Frost about it. I mean,
there's it seems like there's more jobs than there are
coaches with the with the big time coaches that are
(16:35):
getting let go so early. And it's not like the
university is the one spending all this money, you know.
And it happened at Penn State. It happens in all
these places. Somebody buys these people out, Somebody uses it
as a tax rite off, spends a ton of cash
and buys these guys out. Somebody who's a billionaire that
(16:57):
cares about that type of stit. That money is just
not sitting there. They have to go, right, that from
somebody like that kind of desire, right, Yeah, they don't
just open up the Scrooge McDuck vault and pull out
the fifty million to buy this guy and all his
assistants out and hire new people and get everything in place.
It just it just doesn't work that way. So, uh,
(17:20):
it's it's a crazy thing, and it's it's I don't
know what the sustainability is if this year is just
kind of a one off with the way this is gone,
or if it's Signetti getting everybody fired because of how
quickly he turned Indiana around. But you do see like
(17:40):
the teams that are like brand new teams that have
sixty new players, seventy new players, they they don't have consistency, right,
And it's hard for those coaches to create consistency. And
they're usually a lot better the next year. And that's
just the product of what are doing in college football.
(18:01):
It's just it's just the sign of the times, I guess.
But I would take the third option for Jen Cohen
and USC with Lincoln Riley continue to win, take the
Texas job or something like that. And I know he
likes palas Verdi's I don't know how much he likes
Los Angeles, and I think he's a much more comfortable
(18:22):
guy in the Big twelve or the SEC.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I think.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Well, I'll tell you what, man, it seems like there's
more job openings at programs that demand big time coaches
and names than there are big time names available in
college football. All the Florida, Penn State, Oklahoma State, whatever,
blah blah blah, All these schools are gonna think, you know,
we deserve and demand a big name guy with a
(18:47):
track record, and those guys just aren't out there.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
So I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
There's gonna be a lot of movement, all right, man,
Really great stuff, incredible analysis, and we'll expect more out
of you.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Jam you think more. Yeah, it was good. It was
really really well done, really well done. Wow, thanks for
being so nice and supportive. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I was concerned because how busy your schedule is this week,
but you really you really brought the heat today.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Man. Well, hopefully things will be better next week. God will.
We'll see in a week.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Bye, Thanks Softy, Bye Petros Papadakas with us, we're gonna break.
Kevin Harlan's gonna join at five o'clock tonight, right here
on ninety three three kJ RFM,
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