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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You can't have a tour bus John Madden style without
air conditioning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well it got us here, man, We're at the all
over the Place tour live at ninety nine Craft Pizza.
Just drive north and smell. Put your nose out, you
smell it.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You walk inside this place, smell deliciousness. I cannot wait
to taste this ninety nine Craft Pizza. Happy Fresh State
Friday to you and yours as well.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
So very excited. It's a home game tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You know, this is what we live for, filling up
Valley Children's Stadium, seeing the Red Wave, getting everybody excited
about what's gonna happen this Saturday tomorrow morning. It's gonna
be like Christmas for these football players and members of
the Red Wave.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Football players like pizza, don't they sure do. Our next
guest here, Thank you c K for inviting so many
people onto this show, Isaiah Green, Sir, Welcome Fresno Stak Cornerback, Buffalo, Pittsburgh,
and you're gonna be trying some Detroit style pizza here
in a moment.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Man, I am excited.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I just fasted all day just so I can enjoy
this piece.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You're still in shape. Man, do you still work on it?
Do you have to? You know what?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
No, his shape looks different nowadays.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Man, I like to go and enjoy my strolls, get
my walk in, man, just making sure I'm catching some
fresh air.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, first time I met Kenny Wiggins, I go, what
I like to get hit by another human like that?
And there were a few bigger than him that hit
you out on the corner, didn't they?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
And you know, Kenny Wiggins is one of my favorite
guys in the world, especially in Freslen State history. And Man,
I used to hit Kenny wigging around and push him
around all the time. Man, you could tell him I
say it that too.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Now, Hey, I was reading your background and football. You're fast,
but you were also on the track and you ran
in places around the world as a youngster, didn't you.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I did you know? That was a gift that I believe.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I've been blessed with man some speed, and you know
say they say speed kills, and so had the opportunity
to travel around the world. Actually, when I was fifteen
going to Long Beach, Hi, I was one of thirty
two youth to be uh to represent the USA OPRAH
in Morocco Africa came home with a gold medal as well.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Man, So, uh, I think I still have a little
bit of Speechka, you want to go test it out
real quick.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You know what I mean. We can get out there.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
We can do a quick maybe twenty twenty twenty. Okay,
you can't do it thirty. I could probably get twenty
in and then maybe the hamstrings going pop.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah, give me about an hour to stretch man twenty steps,
twenty steps, you know, quit twenty and then there you go.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I mean, I'm probably gonna lose. I'll go ahead and
test the speed. But here's the thing I do know.
And everyone says this. You were the fastest guy on
the team.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Man, and I you know, I respect that and I
appreciate that. Man. That was one of the things that
I honed in on, and it got be paid.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I will say that it paid the league absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Isaiah Green, you were two thousand and seven twenty eleven
Fresno State. Back us up on that calendar. Take us
back to the nineteen hundreds. When when did you first
put on the pads? Was it Pop Horner? It was
it was Pop Warner. It was Pop Warner. About eight
years old.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I remember playing flag football with the PAL program, like
the police Police Athletic program. And my mother used to
always ask me, Isaiah, what's your purpose? What's your purpose?
And I used to say, Mom, I want to play football.
I want to play football. I want to go to
the NFL. So it started about eight years old, playing
flag football, just running around the park, running around the neighborhood,
and it turned into something excellent, and so it was
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a great journey.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
This just popped in my head. He said, eight years old,
his dream. She came on the radio. What how were
you when your dream hit? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I had the dream of playing in the NFL. I
had the dream of basketball, right, Oh, I had those
dreams when you were getting smoked high school. When did
you start thinking about radio? It was it was college, okay, Yeah,
I never grew up thinking about getting into radio. Radio
was something I just lucked into. I just happened to
be at saying Woa Quing Delta College and someone was like, hey,
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you know, we have a radio class, so you can
come in and you can say what you want, play
what you want. I'm like, that's not true. No one's
gonna allow me to do that. They said, yeah, go
ahead and try it. So I walked in. Sure enough,
I got bit by the bug and I've been doing
radio ever since.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Okay I say all of this, I'm bringing it back
around to Isaiah. In football, I was ten years old
in a production room with my dad. Really so, but
here's the thing, we still get to do this at
our age, right, Isaiah, what I feel sorry for. I
see why Brett Favre cried at the retirement. I mean,
it's been your whole life and then you're still such
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a young man, and then it's.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Absolutely it's over, you know what. And a lot of
people don't talk about that enough. And by the way,
c K you are one of the best to do it.
So I think you fell into your gift man, So
thank you. I appreciate your blessing us with your gift.
And not a lot of people don't talk about the
transition right. And I do have a few podcasts out.
I do have working on a few things, a book
and a few more things to talk about how to
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support athletes in transitioning from sport. Because you said it right,
you spend majority of your lifetime playing the sport that
you love. Over twenty plus years and then all of
a sudden, it ends.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
What was that first September August? Not going to camp
like it was?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It was challenging. It was challenging.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
You didn't know what depression looked like until you really
realize like, wow, damn, I don't have a motivation to
get up and exercise and you know, do the things
that I've loved doing.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
For the past.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm sure the Steelers laid you on the couch and
gave you counseling and told you how to deal with this.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
They wish bring it out, I wish, I wish. No,
it's a handshake, thank you for your efforts and goodbye.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
That was it.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Yeah, pretty much, pretty much. And that's and nobody, well,
I wouldn't say nobody. There's a lot more conversation that's
being had around supporting athletes transitioning out of sports, because again,
it's a journey in itself, and it's a process in itself,
and I think that's.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Something that needs to happen. I mean, you look at
what just happened this past week. The fifty three man
roster team came out, and then you have so many
players that instantly went from possibly living their dream to
go into the practice squad. Even that is something that's
a little bit devastating when you put it into perspective.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Absolutely, you talk about almost sixteen hundred fleets going into
the NFL the preseason, into the final cuts, and only
about a quarter if that. I don't even think it's
that many folks actually make the roster. You're talking about
making a fifty three man roster. Then you have additional
folks that are making the practice squad. It's a very
few and very small percentage. And you know, one of
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the challenging thing is is you have to learn to
become a civilian again, which is something that you've never
done prior to this level of sport and so definitely
a process.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Our guess is, I say, a green captain of the Dogs,
weren't you?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I was my senior year, I was voted by my
peers as one of the team captains.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Absolutely, played in Buffalo, played in Pittsburgh, and transitioning back
to being a as he called it, a citizen. I
like that, you're a busy citizen. I looked at Assistant
Deputy director. Since our Calvinia Regial Advisor Board member for
a housing board member United Way, fro Zide, Madera Counties.
I could keep going, tell us where's the drive for that?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Where I mean? And it's just giving back, just giving back.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I think that's one of the biggest things that One
of the things that I asked to ask myself once
I retired from football was twenty seven, when I retired
from football, and just asking myself, where do I want
to add value to the world. Where do I want
to serve? That was one of the questions, the biggest question.
Twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
That's two years after insurances were responsible. That's still really young.
So you have the world in.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Front, literally had the entire world in college. I'm major
in communication, so very broad. But I think it's paying
off now, right, You're a good speaker, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I think so. I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
And so again I just started asking myself the question
where do I want to serve? Where do I want
to add value? And it was a scary time and
it was an exciting time because the world was your
canvas and you really had to reidentify and relearn who
you are and some of the gifts outside of sports
and utilize some of the terrible skills that you did
learn in the sport.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
And so the drive is really to serve. The drive
is really to serve.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Scripture says that the greatest among you'll be a serving
and so you know, the driver is to serve.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I'm giving amen on that, Amen, Bishop c K.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So you gotta understand I work with Isaiah Green all
the time. If you listen to the postgame show, this
is my co host on the postgame show. And on
top of that, tomorrow you're gonna be doing the pregame
and halftime show with me.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I'm excited, man, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I mean, I'm a big fan of Isaiah Green and
you know we go way back, man, isay?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Let me share with you a question I asked K
just one on one this week. I said, how hard
is it to do a post game after a thumping
like last weekend at Kansas and tell everybody what you
told me? Because I'd never really kind of heard that
he went into the I don't care. It's the community.
It's just coming together.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You have to look at it like this. There were
some positives that take away from the game, but the
big positive is this we're back at home. We only
get six times a year to go to Valley Children's
Stadium to gather, to congregate, to root on the dogs.
There's something real special about going into Valley Children's Stadium,
seeing the red wave, hearing the great Frison no State
chance that just makes the most noise that you've ever
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heard in Valley Children's Stadium history. And then you look
up and you think to yourself, all forty thousand plus,
we're in this together, and it doesn't matter if we
get one touchdown or six touchdowns. Believe me, the energy
is electric. Everyone's excited, and you know, Valley Children's Stadium
is gonna be close to another sellout tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
There's what he told me, community. And this is a
guy that was kind of upset when the lockdown went away,
because he said in his community, they all suddenly the
community came together more and when everybody got back to life,
it kind of dispersed.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Me. Yeah, and everyone kind of dispersed went their own ways,
But there was something to be said for the community
and everybody coming together and saying, hey, you know what,
we're in this together. And that's what you get tomorrow
when you get to Valley Children's Stadium. You're in this together.
You're gonna see that tomorrow in the red light the
blue lots when you go to Bulldog Boulevard. We're gonna
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be out there starting at three. Our broadcast will start
at four thirty. You're gonna see that we're all in
this together. When that band walks through every single tailgate
and they're playing that Frisne State fight song. You feel it,
you love it, and you know it's Saturday, the dogs
are playing and Frisne State.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Football is bad time to go. See k Man just
got me amped up. I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Ready, Well, that's why he's out on the field. I'll
hear the broadcast on the radio, and I'll hear a
voice behind Paul Leffler and then c k out on
the field with that Mike getting them all amped up.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Man, he's the best at what he does. I'll tell
you that I have a good time.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I have a good time. Okay this Isaiah tell everybody
why we need to go to break.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
We need to go to break because we just got
some beautiful good peace is droid Stoll.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Wow, Hey, did you uh, what was your favorite pizza
on the road, Because, oh you remember what town you
know right here, right now, let's about it. Let's go good.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Hey, kick off tomorrow at six point thirty. It'll start
cooling down around then. The home opener, the Dog's take
on Georgia's Southern And if you want to go to
the game, Cek wants to put those tickets in your hand.
What you're gonna do is come by and play cornhole,
which on President State Friday is called corn dog hole.
Corn dog Hole, corn dog Hole. You come by play it.
Where we are at ninety nine Craft Pizza at Palm
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and Nieesa Trevor Nation all over the Place Tour twenty
twenty five. Back there in the studio, can you guys
run a best of last week? Wow? Yeah, because we
got to eat this pizza. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Ninety nine Craft Pizza, Isaiah.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Two s thousand pizza.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
That way, time a minute, go ahead, I'm going to eat.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I need a description of this. Isaiah. Hand your mic too,
if you don't mind, I know you don't mind. Look
at him, He's like, here, take this mic. Let me
keep eating here. John Cleveland, Sir, Owner ninety nine crap,
what is Isaiah eating? What is that one there.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Isaiah is eating our Heat and Sweet, which is strips
of bacon jlapanos with a drizzle of hot honey. And
this comes our partner out of Palo Alto State of
Mind Pizzeria. We just lifted this right off their menu
and one of my all time favorite pizzas.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
All right, just keep talking for another five minutes and
then we've got Are you ready to get into the
deep dish? Tell me?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Tell me what I'm gorging on over here. I wish
I was like Isaiah in fast sins like yesterday at
lunch or something.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Man, one of my That is our Pinnacles PBR, which
stands for Pepperoni Beza ricata.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
We're also drizzling some honey on that.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Now, this is our Detroit style, which has that caramelized
cheese crust called a frico crust along the edge, and.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
That means buttery, brown, crispy to me. That's freco. Is
that what I call that? Now? Hey, free co? That
up a little bit more in the air. Frar Is
that the word we use? Free code?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It sounds good to me.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, So it's all free code and all four corners.
What I like, I was telling John about up in Detroit.
They got this place called Jet Pizza, and I'd always
try and get the corner piece. All of your pieces
you make them in four mediums.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
The largest we have to throw in the middle unfortunately, okay,
but the mediums you're gonna get it four all will
have a corner piece.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, that is the way they do. It is unbelievable,
you know what.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I also want to say this, I had no idea
that you were Steve Cleveland's brother. Just so you know,
for everyone that's listening, Steve Cleveland played at Frisnee City Coast,
at Clovis West Coast, at Frisnee City and then coach
the Dogs, I want to say for about six years.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Yes, yeah, unbelievable that that's my brother, my coach.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
What you he was your coach?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Really?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I mean I.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Believe the time ago, long time ago? Huh six four
six four?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Did you play ball with your brother?
Speaker 6 (13:59):
I you know, I played a few years at the
community college when he was there, played it close west.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
You know, back in a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You still doing pickup games every now?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Absolutely not?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
What made you go on to pizza? I mean, let's
talk about this for a minute, because this right here.
Anyone that can hear my voice, if you have not
been down a ninety nine Craft Pizza, stop what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Get over here. This makes me want to go into
pizza ricotta. I never It's like it's lasagna on a
pizza cond.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Pretty much.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Isaiah, you haven't had a slice of hours yet. You're
still working on that one. He likes the what is
it spicy?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
So this one's a heat and sweet and sweet, heat
and sweet and uh and then we did have a
one here.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
This is our Giroy garlic right. So it may not
pack the excitement of these, but very good as well.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Very I'm willing to try.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I definitely drive, definitely more offerings coming.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Love that.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
If you hear smiling at five point twenty two, it's
because I packed it on, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Whoo John, thank.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
You, Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
By the way, we're giving away tickets out here. We
have Fresno State merchandise that we're giving away. We're talking
with Isaiah Green, former captain of your Fresne State Bulldogs,
who is now enjoying this delicious pizza right here at
ninety nine Craft Pizza. If you can hear our voices.
Get down here. We want to make sure you understand
we're excited for Fresne State football tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
All right, I gotta work off this food here. I
think the best thing to do is corn dog.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Hol it up?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
First, corn dog Hole?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Let's do?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Should we do?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I cheer? Well, we'll get people. We got to set
it up. We have people here.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Let them play.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Give them an opportunity to it's already right here in front.
Win some tickets. Yeah, set up. Does somebody want to
try and play?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Go ahead, little corn dog hole? You want to do
a four pat?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Try?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
He's a Yankee fan probably as long as he's a
Aaron Judge fan, that's all that.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Matters, all right here, Yankee man?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Well, well, let you let's say if he hits two
of three and we'll give him a four pack. What's
your name, sir? Victor? All right, Victor?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
How far back does Victor have to stand? Back in
the kitchen. He's got an arm, I can tell you,
and he has to do with his eyes closed. Pull
that Yankee hat down over your eyes and fire away.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Two out of three?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
All right, and we are done?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
One?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh? All right? Hey, thanks thanks for playing, Hey, good effort,
good effort. Should we tell him last last week at
the mall with what that three year old did? He won?
Three year old was the first winter day. My first
winter of the day was three. I'll tell you what
I want. One more story though from Isaiah here before
we go to break and finishes this pizza. Tell us
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what I was talking about his Yankee hat. Tell us
about your on fire hat?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
There? You know what?
Speaker 5 (16:50):
So this on fire hat was actually gifted to me
for my thirty sixth birthday by my family. I was actually, uh,
this is a hat that is only two hundred of
these hats were made. Right here has the bulldog, has
the bulldog symbol on it, got the V for the
valley Valley V. And this is number twenty nine out
of two hundred. Man, and it's a beautiful hat.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Here is my dad is eighty and he just sent
me pictures of all his hats on the wall. He
had them all put up on the wall in the bedroom.
Like there that was me.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
That was me. I used to Uh.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
One of my college teammates, Nico Harret and I we
used to always compete about who had the best hats.
And I don't know, I think I was trying to
hide my hairline, But honestly, I still do think I
had the best hats man.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You know what, when we come back, I want to
talk to him about opening day. What it's like to
walk down the ramp, Bulldog Stadium at the time, now
Valley Children's Stadium.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
What's that energy feel like when the red wave.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Is yelling at the top of their lungs, the dogs
come through the tunnel and everybody lets them hear it.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Well, well, you don't know how to say what that's like?
Well ask him only sure do all right? And forget
that out there running and racing stuff after this food.
So it was ready to race him until I ate
the pizza. Yeah, then I'd rather sit here and eat
the pizza.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I think I would have got him for the first
five steps.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I might have been tying my shoes for the first
five if he was sitting in here and you were
out there when the gun fired, maybe the first five steps.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It's a tremordation all over the place. Tour twenty twenty five.
We are live at ninety nine Craft Pizza at paulmer Knees.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, don't forget, it's right next to the shell station.
You see the shell station, You're close.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
That's it, Trevor Nation all over the place, tours and
ck as you were telling everybody if you're coming up,
let's just say forty one and get off on Fryan,
hang a left take them from there. Hang a right
on knees.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And make the right. Make the right on knees. You're
gonna go right past that shell. And once you see
that shell, Isaiah.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Make a left, make that left right into that platform
right in here.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
That is the best way to get right. And city
Councilman Nick Richardson is gonna be on after five. I'm
gonna ask him about this intersection right over here.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
This is a intersection right design that that intersection is
something else.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Does anybody understand it? We have a resident here, do
you understand it? No one can figure out that intersection,
not at all. Let's go back to the question that
you posed right before the break, and now that we
got some pizza, we're back to being normal broadcasters. I'll
tell you right now, that's not even nine craft piece.
It's so good that white needs at a moment got
me out of focus. I forgot where I was. I
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was in pizza heaven.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Right, people are like, hey, you know what, it's good
that you guys are eating piece and enjoying yourself, but
can you get back to what you do on the radio. Yes,
And you know what the thing is, We're trying to
get you fired up, excited, making sure that you're gonna
be inside Valley Children's Stadium tomorrow night. And I want
to ask you this, Isaiam, because to me, it's one
of the best walks in all of college football, the
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walk from where you guys get dressed, all the way
to the stadium.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, all the way down to the doghouse. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Man, it was I'm sitting here trying to mes just
what it felt like. And of course you had to
walk up and back a few times because you got
to go out early warm up prepare for the game,
which was always you were in your own zone, you
got your headphones on, your music going.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Did you ever have the flu?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Never had a flu game? Never, never had a flu game,
Never had a flu game. But if I did, you know,
I'll try to Kobe Bryant that day. But it was
it was such a thrill once you got in that
tunnel and when you got got the opportunity to line
up next to all your soldiers with you, man, and
that missed and that just kind of went off and
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you got to just run out that tunnel, man, and
the lights were off, and man, it.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Was those night games were always more fun.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I think just being able to play under the lights,
you know during the daytime when those at one o'clock games.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Man, you talk about that heat, Oh.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
My goodness, you know, but you've been going all summer
though with those practice condition it was and we did
it intentionally, and I remember that was one of the
you know, the elements that folks had to come in
and play in the heat, right like, you know, that
was something at Fresno State. We hung our hat on that.
We were those bad boys that played in the heat.
And if you wanted to come Fresno State, man, you
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had to come play in that one hundred and ten
degree weather with all those paths on.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Now, a lot of times that could be a benefit,
like when people go play the Broncos with elevation. The
Broncos are used to it. Absolutely, come from back East
where they've been almost in fall practice where it's a
little chili and then bam.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Absolutely, and you know, we have the best fans here
at Fresno State. I will say that nobody got a pass.
Every time an opposing team came down that ramp looking
to play US.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Man, our fans would give on top of hell, on
top of them, would give them hell.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
And that is something I love and tomorrow about these
fans here at Fresno.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
They never let up. And so that's what we're looking
forward tomorrow too. We need that innery. We need folks
to show up, show out and bark loud while we're
down there in that stadium. And here's the thing, We're
really gonna need the red wave tomorrow. The one thing
I do know is Georgia Southern made a points of
come out early because not only are they playing US
this week, but they got USC next week. So they
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decided to come out early, get acclimated, and they're staying
the entire time. I guess that makes sense for travel
Yeah yeah, and I mean Clay wants to win that.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
By the way, the head coach of their team is Clay.
Clay Helton used to be the coach at USC, so
it's a big game for him. Indeed, so they shouldn't
be taken too lightly. I know, no, no, No, this.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Is gonna be a good game. This is gonna be
a good this is a good Georgia Southern team.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Now we saw Warner. I think you even said at
some point you hadn't really seen a whole lot of him.
I haven't seen anything until last week. Yeah, and your
take on that is, let's forget that. Let's move on
to the next game.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You go back to that first drive, that first drive
where we scored the touchdown. There were so many elements
that I liked. We used three different running backs, we
saw improvisation. He I think if he goes back to
that first drive and plays within himself, because this is
gonna be a shootout of a game, I think EJ
is gonna be all right tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Uh well, I said when I first started back here
in newstalk in California the PD, I said, my first show,
I said, give me a one to ten. What'd you think?
He said two? I said, no, no, tim being the best,
and he goes no, two two. So what I had
a second day and I did better.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'm not gonna say anything about the performance as a whole,
but what I will say is you usually see great
improvement from week one to week two.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Well, I hope we do, or it'll be sixty to seven. Yeah,
and that's what.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
We don't want. We don't want, we don't want.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I mean, I'm excited to see how we show up
here at home for the first game of twenty twenty
five season. Coach inc you know, he's coming into this
thing brand new. I think Fresne States is unique. I
think our culture is unique. I think our fans are unique.
I think everything about Fresno is uniquely different. And so,
you know, I was doing some homework prior to this
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and understanding that a lot of the great coaches that
came through Fresno State have been here a little wild
and we know that the trajectory of college football is
kind of in and out, you know, rotating. As far
as right now, it's about cats making money. It's about
players making money who can generate the most revenue at
this time. But I'm hoping that coaching comes in and
(24:15):
brings that coulture that he had at what was it
North Dakota, Yep, it was in North Kota, bringing in
that that coulture he had there, man, and it sort
of shifted and make it what he needed to be
in order to get that win tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
It would be fun to see. It will be fun
to see.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I must win. I will say that our guest is
Isaiah Green. Played at for US on State captain two
thousand seven to eleven captain. You said you're last year
eleven just to play with the Bills the Steelers as well.
I was talking to Paul Luffler about uh oh no,
it was eight athletic director class yesterday. He came in
on the show. It's like fifty new players from seven
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until eleven. The team probably grew each season together, like
when we watched Hard Knocks and when that's the only
inside I've ever had. But you had time to grow
as a team. Now you know a star player.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
And be like a we're not winning them out, I'm
out and then and that's detrimental to any culture, right
That's it. That's detrimental to any culture, any any program
that that's trying to develop and win for a long
period of time. But again, the landscape college football is changing,
and so it's about coming in and winning right now.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
They called it the wild wild West, but I said,
in the wild wild West, at least there were some
sheriffs who's controlling this And it seems one sided at
the moment, like you can jump in the portal and
go off. Okay, what about you're a young freshman. We're
offering you this, this scholarship, here's what we guarantee you
with money, but you gotta stay. You're gonna sign two
years or three where you're not gonna bounce. Is anybody
(25:42):
put some restrictions on it? Yeah, put some restrictions on it. Absolutely,
you got you gotta give them a minimum. You have
to say, once you signed with a team, you need
to be there a minimum of two years or you
can only transfer one time. And that's it.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Nobody was screaming about this a couple of years ago
from I don't think anybody I knew that this was
gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I mean, really, what happens right now is you look
at say a Frisno State, even look at a Georgia Southern,
even look at Kansas from last week. Many of those
players jump ship to get more money. Many of the
players say, well, hold on a second, if this is
how much I can get at a mid major, but
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the power for they're giving me this much more.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
They're gonna jump ship.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
They want to get that guaranteed money, and they want
to make sure at the end of the day they
get the biggest bang for they're playing football because tomorrow's
not promised. That's the one thing we have to respect.
Tomorrow's not promised for any of these players, and their
football career could.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
End in just one play, a blink of an eye.
I would be so afraid to be a college senior,
like captain of my team in twenty and eleven, out
there hitting and bumping and practice going. I could be
one injury from not going to the Bills or the Steelers.
Isaiah in your head back, then.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Well you gotta you gotta understand. Football is a violent game.
And so you know, if you ask anybody that played
the sport, coach to sport, it is one hundred percent
guarantee that you will get injured.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
That is just the fact it was your worst my worst.
Oh man. I was a sprinter.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
I was a fast guy, so I always had a
bunch of soft tissue issue injuries. But I will say this,
before CTE was a thing, we played with concussions all
the time. I will say, like you're your stomach feel
and I mean you know, you get hit you because
smelling salt. Yeah yeah, I mean, you know, you start seeing,
(27:37):
you know, your vision gets a little blurry, your head
hurts a little bit. But that was natural. It was normal.
You you know, you got your bell rung. You line
up and you do it again. You line up and
it again, and you look back and you're like, dang.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, you look back at that and even you think
back to Pop Warner, you think back to high school.
Coach just lifts you up and then the coach would
just hit you on the help you got this son.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
And you just keep you just keep going out there
and is keep going.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
So no, no real major injuries, you know, thank god,
no real no major surgeries.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
A lot of soft tissue injuries, but those concussion were
a real thing.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You your involvement with youth and with government now and
all of that. Do they preach enough to the to
the players these days that hey, you might make some money, name,
image and likeness, but for most of y'all, the football
is not going to continue because that shock. That that's
a shock. So like when a lot of guys get
out of the military and they go back to the
civilian world.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Shock, it's a shock. It's a it's a huge shock,
and it's a huge adjustment. It takes time. I think
I've been retired for shoot, almost eight nine years now,
and I'm just now feeling like I'm starting to hit
my stride, Like I'm just you.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Got to play up later on you were in the NNFL.
But I'm sure that same shock for is the college
thing too, Like what it's over everything about me? Who
am I now?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Absolutely? I mean there's different levels of transitions.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
You talk about high school players who don't move on
to play at the level that you talk about collegiate
players who don't get the opportunity to move on to
the NFL and then so on from there. And so
at some point you have to transition. And I think
that programs are doing a much better job with trying
to equip athletes with preparing them for the transition, especially
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now that young athletes are getting paid a lot sooner.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
So you have to sort of equip and develop.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Them mentally, emotionally, and financially in order to be able
to succeed. And again it's being talked about more now
than it has been before.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Okay, Isaiah Green, thank you so much for all this
insight that you're giving us here as well as we're
moving into this that I see somewhere where you're managing
and did that mean athletes?
Speaker 5 (29:43):
You know what I've did? I see that I managed you.
I manage a few I manage a few programs. I
manage a few programs. I'm currently working was appointed by
our current governor to manage support manage at Central Valley
when it comes to supports a businesses of about nineteen
different program or nineteen different counties here in the Central
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Valley that I support.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
And uh, I still work with youth.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
When it comes to athletic development, and so I still
try to keep my hand in the game as much
as I possibly can.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Well, I would say that is a very busy man
with your management skills, your football skills, name, image and likeness.
Why aren't you Drew Rosenhaus right now? You know what?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
We're working on something. Trust me, we're working on something.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
If he's working on something, I'm working on something with him. Hey, ck,
two years ago, what did I do? I came into
his studio and I said, Hey, there's gonna be a
lot of b athletes. Yeah, let's I said, let's Jerry McGuire,
Are you with me?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Come on, let's go need our money, baby.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Absolutely. It is the wild wild West, and uh we
live in the West and Detroit is famous for it's
Detroit style pizza. But let's have a competition. Well, we
need to have it with Detroit with this pizza, With
this pizza we just put into our mouth. Should we
go with a There's still some under a napkin here.
I think that's the Gilroy garlic.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
The Gilroy Gilroy garlic. So I'll have to give it
a taste here. And you know what, I'm excited that
we have a lot of people inside ninety nine Craft Pizza,
just kind of hanging out, watching and enjoining pizza, enjoying
some beverages, and just getting ready to win some Fresno State.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Jeffrey, jeff Jeffrey, you want to give it a toss
to win a four pack Presnel State, Give it to
Jeffrey Jeffrey. Hold on, he might he might not be interesting. Yeah,
I was gonna say, you had pizza down. All right,
We're gonna do a corn dog horn Dog horn Dog Hall.
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Let's go, Jeffrey go.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Jeffrey hit two out of three in and uh.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I know you said two out of three. But here's
what I'm gonna say. Last week it rolled like it
you know it would get on there. And because it
was wood, this is more difficult than last week.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
All right, it's surprised right here from the sports station,
right where we were last week. Okay, Jeffrey, go ahead,
let's give it. Let's give it a throw. First throw
is a all right, you go bucket hit what? Okay,
you already got a price here, but we'll move it
up to now. Hit two out of three and you
get a four pack of tickets.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
All right, let's see he's got two more chances. Let's go,
jeff come on, oh man, we need this one. He
will go, Jeffrey, buddy, Oh hey, but you're still a winner.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Whatever you anything on the table? Anything? We got a
flavor fla did you see the flickers? Got the chain?
Did you go to shows down in South Central you
grew up as a kid or did mom keep you inside? Man?
Speaker 5 (32:37):
No, we were shoot man, we were on that football
field and the school. That's you know, we have to
make it work.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
You know, hey, Jeffrey, that looks good. Man, got the
hat looks yet the Bulldogs had on love it. Jeffrey
looking good, looking good, Jeffy looking good. We'll let you
get back to your pizza it is. We're gonna be
right back. We got more. I'm going till six o'clock
c k On Sports, Fox Sports thirteen forty out here,
we're doing the second week of our Simon second week.
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We'll keep this going.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
This is fun. It's just fun.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
It is Trevor Nation all over the place Tour twenty
twenty five, that deserts.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
That deserves.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Oh that just hit out of nowhere, John, that just will.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Shout out to the ninety nine Craft Pizza.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Okay, Paulman knee free, I call this sticky microphone from
all the sugar there on those stocks. What was that about?
After the pizza? What's he trying to do to it?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I have no idea, but what I will say is this,
they have the full glowing endorsement ninety nine Craft Pizza.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
If you have never tried this, get down here right now.
I gayron to you. I will not be hanging a
right on fright on weeknights. I'm gonna be hanging a left.
And when you come down telling their gpsck you gotta
get over here. Once you see the Shell.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Shell Gus, I think the gas.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Station right there at ingramd Like you know, you make
that left at Ingram Yep. Once you see the Shell
gas station, then you know you're there at ninety nine
Craft Pizza. You just go right around. Wow, there's a
little liquor store right next to I just don't know
the name of the letter store.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
You did notice, I didn't notice that. Yeah, you'll be
leaving here in how many minutes? I am done in
about five minutes.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
The weekends, that three day weekend and ready for the
game tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
That is not on his mind at all, y'all. Will
be starting at three thirty or a little earlier out.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
On you know what tomorrow Bulldog Boulevard opens up at
three thirty, but we will be starting the iHeart Bulldog's
Tailgates show at four thirty. And I just found out
they were also gonna be giving away tickets out there
as well, So anybody that wants to win tickets gonna
have a chance to get tickets tomorrow the iHeart Bulldog's
Tailgate Show.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
All right, Isaiah Green, thank you so much for coming by,
and so much of your work after you left for US.
You stayed after you left the NFL, And I'm proud
to read this. I just saw this today. Fresno State
spent rate number two in the entire nation by Washington
Monthly as the best college for you for your tuition
and tax dollars ranking. They say, your world class education
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at an affordable price number two.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
That's a that's a that's a hardmark right there. That's
a staple. Come on down to Fresno State, y'all.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
How hard was it to have to practice and stay
in shape and memorize plays and go to school and
try and have some pocket money? Uh? How did you
do that? Pocket money?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
What was pocket money? What was pocket money?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Man?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
We had a scholarship.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
We got enough money just to pay our rank and
pay a phone bill.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Man, that was about it.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Man.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
These kids walking around with thousands.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
And that was back when you would have to call
after seven on a cell phone to make it to
make that.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Oh yeah, and rollover minutes and everything. Oh no, I remember,
but it was you know what.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
The transition from high school to collegiate football was wild
because everything you did focused around football. At Centric football,
I remember job summer camp was just football to two
days and it was like, damn, I'm dreaming about football.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
What is this?
Speaker 4 (36:05):
You know?
Speaker 3 (36:06):
But it became routine.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
It created so much structure and discipline, and it was
just one of the best times. And I've met some
of my best friends to this day going through Fresno
State and going through collegiate football.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
But I will say this, this is the reason why
I'm a big fan of nil because of what you
just said.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
When you got to Fresnoe State, it became a job.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Absolutely, it was something that you lived, you breathed. Oh
and by the way, I still got to go to
class and I still have to make the grades. But
then I gotta make sure I know the plays. I
gotta practice two times a day, I gotta go lift weights.
Everything was all football.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
And then he didn't have enough money sometimes to even
wash clothes.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
No, man, we had just enough.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
We used to go over to the I can't even
remember what it's called, but we got we got breakfast, lunch,
and dinner at the same spot over there on Fresno
State campus and that was enough. We needed all we
needed and it was up practice in the next morning.
So it was a great experience. Loved every bit of it.
Coach Pat Hill was amazing again met some of the
greatest individuals. Pat Hill used to tell us all the time,
(37:10):
these are the best days of your life. You would
meet some of your best friends in this time of
your life. And he was not lying about that thereon.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
It's just downhill from your early twenties. Gets better. Man,
I like to think it's good better. I like to
think it gets better. Well, let's be honest. He was right,
you were. We were all living our best days. Then
that's it is. So you young UN's out there, listen
to what we're telling you.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Listen up, listen up.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Hey, I want you to take some of this pizza
with you. Maybe we can get you some more cinnamon
rolls to go as well. Thank you, Isaiah, it's a
pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Man really was thank you. Likewise and a great communicator.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Assistant Trevor Jerry Show, London Valley's Power Talk
You can't have a tour bus John Madden style without
air conditioning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well it got us here, man, We're at the all
over the Place tour live at ninety nine Craft Pizza.
Just drive north and smell. Put your nose out, you
smell it.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You walk inside this place, smell deliciousness. I cannot wait
to taste this ninety nine Craft Pizza. Happy Fresh State
Friday to you and yours as well.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
So very excited. It's a home game tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You know, this is what we live for, filling up
Valley Children's Stadium, seeing the Red Wave, getting everybody excited
about what's gonna happen this Saturday tomorrow morning. It's gonna
be like Christmas for these football players and members of
the Red Wave.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Football players like pizza, don't they sure do. Our next
guest here, Thank you c K for inviting so many
people onto this show, Isaiah Green, Sir, Welcome Fresno Stak Cornerback, Buffalo, Pittsburgh,
and you're gonna be trying some Detroit style pizza here
in a moment.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Man, I am excited.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I just fasted all day just so I can enjoy
this piece.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You're still in shape. Man, do you still work on it?
Do you have to? You know what?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
No, his shape looks different nowadays.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Man, I like to go and enjoy my strolls, get
my walk in, man, just making sure I'm catching some
fresh air.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, first time I met Kenny Wiggins, I go, what
I like to get hit by another human like that?
And there were a few bigger than him that hit
you out on the corner, didn't they?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
And you know, Kenny Wiggins is one of my favorite
guys in the world, especially in Freslen State history. And Man,
I used to hit Kenny wigging around and push him
around all the time. Man, you could tell him I
say it that too.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Now, Hey, I was reading your background and football. You're fast,
but you were also on the track and you ran
in places around the world as a youngster, didn't you.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I did you know? That was a gift that I believe.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I've been blessed with man some speed, and you know
say they say speed kills, and so had the opportunity
to travel around the world. Actually, when I was fifteen
going to Long Beach, Hi, I was one of thirty
two youth to be uh to represent the USA OPRAH
in Morocco Africa came home with a gold medal as well.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Man, So, uh, I think I still have a little
bit of Speechka, you want to go test it out
real quick.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You know what I mean. We can get out there.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
We can do a quick maybe twenty twenty twenty. Okay,
you can't do it thirty. I could probably get twenty
in and then maybe the hamstrings going pop.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah, give me about an hour to stretch man twenty steps,
twenty steps, you know, quit twenty and then there you go.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I mean, I'm probably gonna lose. I'll go ahead and
test the speed. But here's the thing I do know.
And everyone says this. You were the fastest guy on
the team.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Man, and I you know, I respect that and I
appreciate that. Man. That was one of the things that
I honed in on, and it got be paid.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I will say that it paid the league absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Isaiah Green, you were two thousand and seven twenty eleven
Fresno State. Back us up on that calendar. Take us
back to the nineteen hundreds. When when did you first
put on the pads? Was it Pop Horner? It was
it was Pop Warner. It was Pop Warner. About eight
years old.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I remember playing flag football with the PAL program, like
the police Police Athletic program. And my mother used to
always ask me, Isaiah, what's your purpose? What's your purpose?
And I used to say, Mom, I want to play football.
I want to play football. I want to go to
the NFL. So it started about eight years old, playing
flag football, just running around the park, running around the neighborhood,
and it turned into something excellent, and so it was
(03:24):
a great journey.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
This just popped in my head. He said, eight years old,
his dream. She came on the radio. What how were
you when your dream hit? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I had the dream of playing in the NFL. I
had the dream of basketball, right, Oh, I had those
dreams when you were getting smoked high school. When did
you start thinking about radio? It was it was college, okay, Yeah,
I never grew up thinking about getting into radio. Radio
was something I just lucked into. I just happened to
be at saying Woa Quing Delta College and someone was like, hey,
(03:53):
you know, we have a radio class, so you can
come in and you can say what you want, play
what you want. I'm like, that's not true. No one's
gonna allow me to do that. They said, yeah, go
ahead and try it. So I walked in. Sure enough,
I got bit by the bug and I've been doing
radio ever since.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Okay I say all of this, I'm bringing it back
around to Isaiah. In football, I was ten years old
in a production room with my dad. Really so, but
here's the thing, we still get to do this at
our age, right, Isaiah, what I feel sorry for. I
see why Brett Favre cried at the retirement. I mean,
it's been your whole life and then you're still such
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a young man, and then it's.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Absolutely it's over, you know what. And a lot of
people don't talk about that enough. And by the way,
c K you are one of the best to do it.
So I think you fell into your gift man, So
thank you. I appreciate your blessing us with your gift.
And not a lot of people don't talk about the
transition right. And I do have a few podcasts out.
I do have working on a few things, a book
and a few more things to talk about how to
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support athletes in transitioning from sport. Because you said it right,
you spend majority of your lifetime playing the sport that
you love. Over twenty plus years and then all of
a sudden, it ends.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
What was that first September August? Not going to camp
like it was?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It was challenging. It was challenging.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
You didn't know what depression looked like until you really
realize like, wow, damn, I don't have a motivation to
get up and exercise and you know, do the things
that I've loved doing.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
For the past.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm sure the Steelers laid you on the couch and
gave you counseling and told you how to deal with this.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
They wish bring it out, I wish, I wish. No,
it's a handshake, thank you for your efforts and goodbye.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
That was it.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Yeah, pretty much, pretty much. And that's and nobody, well,
I wouldn't say nobody. There's a lot more conversation that's
being had around supporting athletes transitioning out of sports, because again,
it's a journey in itself, and it's a process in itself,
and I think that's.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Something that needs to happen. I mean, you look at
what just happened this past week. The fifty three man
roster team came out, and then you have so many
players that instantly went from possibly living their dream to
go into the practice squad. Even that is something that's
a little bit devastating when you put it into perspective.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Absolutely, you talk about almost sixteen hundred fleets going into
the NFL the preseason, into the final cuts, and only
about a quarter if that. I don't even think it's
that many folks actually make the roster. You're talking about
making a fifty three man roster. Then you have additional
folks that are making the practice squad. It's a very
few and very small percentage. And you know, one of
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the challenging thing is is you have to learn to
become a civilian again, which is something that you've never
done prior to this level of sport and so definitely
a process.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Our guess is, I say, a green captain of the Dogs,
weren't you?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I was my senior year, I was voted by my
peers as one of the team captains.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Absolutely, played in Buffalo, played in Pittsburgh, and transitioning back
to being a as he called it, a citizen. I
like that, you're a busy citizen. I looked at Assistant
Deputy director. Since our Calvinia Regial Advisor Board member for
a housing board member United Way, fro Zide, Madera Counties.
I could keep going, tell us where's the drive for that?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Where I mean? And it's just giving back, just giving back.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I think that's one of the biggest things that One
of the things that I asked to ask myself once
I retired from football was twenty seven, when I retired
from football, and just asking myself, where do I want
to add value to the world. Where do I want
to serve? That was one of the questions, the biggest question.
Twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
That's two years after insurances were responsible. That's still really young.
So you have the world in.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Front, literally had the entire world in college. I'm major
in communication, so very broad. But I think it's paying
off now, right, You're a good speaker, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I think so. I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
And so again I just started asking myself the question
where do I want to serve? Where do I want
to add value? And it was a scary time and
it was an exciting time because the world was your
canvas and you really had to reidentify and relearn who
you are and some of the gifts outside of sports
and utilize some of the terrible skills that you did
learn in the sport.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
And so the drive is really to serve. The drive
is really to serve.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Scripture says that the greatest among you'll be a serving
and so you know, the driver is to serve.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I'm giving amen on that, Amen, Bishop c K.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So you gotta understand I work with Isaiah Green all
the time. If you listen to the postgame show, this
is my co host on the postgame show. And on
top of that, tomorrow you're gonna be doing the pregame
and halftime show with me.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I'm excited, man, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I mean, I'm a big fan of Isaiah Green and
you know we go way back, man, isay?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Let me share with you a question I asked K
just one on one this week. I said, how hard
is it to do a post game after a thumping
like last weekend at Kansas and tell everybody what you
told me? Because I'd never really kind of heard that
he went into the I don't care. It's the community.
It's just coming together.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You have to look at it like this. There were
some positives that take away from the game, but the
big positive is this we're back at home. We only
get six times a year to go to Valley Children's
Stadium to gather, to congregate, to root on the dogs.
There's something real special about going into Valley Children's Stadium,
seeing the red wave, hearing the great Frison no State
chance that just makes the most noise that you've ever
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heard in Valley Children's Stadium history. And then you look
up and you think to yourself, all forty thousand plus,
we're in this together, and it doesn't matter if we
get one touchdown or six touchdowns. Believe me, the energy
is electric. Everyone's excited, and you know, Valley Children's Stadium
is gonna be close to another sellout tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
There's what he told me, community. And this is a
guy that was kind of upset when the lockdown went away,
because he said in his community, they all suddenly the
community came together more and when everybody got back to life,
it kind of dispersed.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Me. Yeah, and everyone kind of dispersed went their own ways,
But there was something to be said for the community
and everybody coming together and saying, hey, you know what,
we're in this together. And that's what you get tomorrow
when you get to Valley Children's Stadium. You're in this together.
You're gonna see that tomorrow in the red light the
blue lots when you go to Bulldog Boulevard. We're gonna
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be out there starting at three. Our broadcast will start
at four thirty. You're gonna see that we're all in
this together. When that band walks through every single tailgate
and they're playing that Frisne State fight song. You feel it,
you love it, and you know it's Saturday, the dogs
are playing and Frisne State.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Football is bad time to go. See k Man just
got me amped up. I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Ready, Well, that's why he's out on the field. I'll
hear the broadcast on the radio, and I'll hear a
voice behind Paul Leffler and then c k out on
the field with that Mike getting them all amped up.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Man, he's the best at what he does. I'll tell
you that I have a good time.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I have a good time. Okay this Isaiah tell everybody
why we need to go to break.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
We need to go to break because we just got
some beautiful good peace is droid Stoll.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Wow, Hey, did you uh, what was your favorite pizza
on the road, Because, oh you remember what town you
know right here, right now, let's about it. Let's go good.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Hey, kick off tomorrow at six point thirty. It'll start
cooling down around then. The home opener, the Dog's take
on Georgia's Southern And if you want to go to
the game, Cek wants to put those tickets in your hand.
What you're gonna do is come by and play cornhole,
which on President State Friday is called corn dog hole.
Corn dog Hole, corn dog Hole. You come by play it.
Where we are at ninety nine Craft Pizza at Palm
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and Nieesa Trevor Nation all over the Place Tour twenty
twenty five. Back there in the studio, can you guys
run a best of last week? Wow? Yeah, because we
got to eat this pizza. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Ninety nine Craft Pizza, Isaiah.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Two s thousand pizza.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
That way, time a minute, go ahead, I'm going to eat.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I need a description of this. Isaiah. Hand your mic too,
if you don't mind, I know you don't mind. Look
at him, He's like, here, take this mic. Let me
keep eating here. John Cleveland, Sir, Owner ninety nine crap,
what is Isaiah eating? What is that one there.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Isaiah is eating our Heat and Sweet, which is strips
of bacon jlapanos with a drizzle of hot honey. And
this comes our partner out of Palo Alto State of
Mind Pizzeria. We just lifted this right off their menu
and one of my all time favorite pizzas.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
All right, just keep talking for another five minutes and
then we've got Are you ready to get into the
deep dish? Tell me?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Tell me what I'm gorging on over here. I wish
I was like Isaiah in fast sins like yesterday at
lunch or something.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Man, one of my That is our Pinnacles PBR, which
stands for Pepperoni Beza ricata.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
We're also drizzling some honey on that.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Now, this is our Detroit style, which has that caramelized
cheese crust called a frico crust along the edge, and.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
That means buttery, brown, crispy to me. That's freco. Is
that what I call that? Now? Hey, free co? That
up a little bit more in the air. Frar Is
that the word we use? Free code?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It sounds good to me.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, So it's all free code and all four corners.
What I like, I was telling John about up in Detroit.
They got this place called Jet Pizza, and I'd always
try and get the corner piece. All of your pieces
you make them in four mediums.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
The largest we have to throw in the middle unfortunately, okay,
but the mediums you're gonna get it four all will
have a corner piece.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, that is the way they do. It is unbelievable,
you know what.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I also want to say this, I had no idea
that you were Steve Cleveland's brother. Just so you know,
for everyone that's listening, Steve Cleveland played at Frisnee City Coast,
at Clovis West Coast, at Frisnee City and then coach
the Dogs, I want to say for about six years.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Yes, yeah, unbelievable that that's my brother, my coach.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
What you he was your coach?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Really?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I mean I.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Believe the time ago, long time ago? Huh six four
six four?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Did you play ball with your brother?
Speaker 6 (13:59):
I you know, I played a few years at the
community college when he was there, played it close west.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
You know, back in a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You still doing pickup games every now?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Absolutely not?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
What made you go on to pizza? I mean, let's
talk about this for a minute, because this right here.
Anyone that can hear my voice, if you have not
been down a ninety nine Craft Pizza, stop what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Get over here. This makes me want to go into
pizza ricotta. I never It's like it's lasagna on a
pizza cond.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Pretty much.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Isaiah, you haven't had a slice of hours yet. You're
still working on that one. He likes the what is
it spicy?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
So this one's a heat and sweet and sweet, heat
and sweet and uh and then we did have a
one here.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
This is our Giroy garlic right. So it may not
pack the excitement of these, but very good as well.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Very I'm willing to try.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I definitely drive, definitely more offerings coming.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Love that.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
If you hear smiling at five point twenty two, it's
because I packed it on, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Whoo John, thank.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
You, Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
By the way, we're giving away tickets out here. We
have Fresno State merchandise that we're giving away. We're talking
with Isaiah Green, former captain of your Fresne State Bulldogs,
who is now enjoying this delicious pizza right here at
ninety nine Craft Pizza. If you can hear our voices.
Get down here. We want to make sure you understand
we're excited for Fresne State football tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
All right, I gotta work off this food here. I
think the best thing to do is corn dog.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Hol it up?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
First, corn dog Hole?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Let's do?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Should we do?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I cheer? Well, we'll get people. We got to set
it up. We have people here.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Let them play.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Give them an opportunity to it's already right here in front.
Win some tickets. Yeah, set up. Does somebody want to
try and play?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Go ahead, little corn dog hole? You want to do
a four pat?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Try?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
He's a Yankee fan probably as long as he's a
Aaron Judge fan, that's all that.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Matters, all right here, Yankee man?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Well, well, let you let's say if he hits two
of three and we'll give him a four pack. What's
your name, sir? Victor? All right, Victor?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
How far back does Victor have to stand? Back in
the kitchen. He's got an arm, I can tell you,
and he has to do with his eyes closed. Pull
that Yankee hat down over your eyes and fire away.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Two out of three?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
All right, and we are done?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
One?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh? All right? Hey, thanks thanks for playing, Hey, good effort,
good effort. Should we tell him last last week at
the mall with what that three year old did? He won?
Three year old was the first winter day. My first
winter of the day was three. I'll tell you what
I want. One more story though from Isaiah here before
we go to break and finishes this pizza. Tell us
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what I was talking about his Yankee hat. Tell us
about your on fire hat?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
There? You know what?
Speaker 5 (16:50):
So this on fire hat was actually gifted to me
for my thirty sixth birthday by my family. I was actually, uh,
this is a hat that is only two hundred of
these hats were made. Right here has the bulldog, has
the bulldog symbol on it, got the V for the
valley Valley V. And this is number twenty nine out
of two hundred. Man, and it's a beautiful hat.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Here is my dad is eighty and he just sent
me pictures of all his hats on the wall. He
had them all put up on the wall in the bedroom.
Like there that was me.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
That was me. I used to Uh.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
One of my college teammates, Nico Harret and I we
used to always compete about who had the best hats.
And I don't know, I think I was trying to
hide my hairline, But honestly, I still do think I
had the best hats man.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You know what, when we come back, I want to
talk to him about opening day. What it's like to
walk down the ramp, Bulldog Stadium at the time, now
Valley Children's Stadium.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
What's that energy feel like when the red wave.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Is yelling at the top of their lungs, the dogs
come through the tunnel and everybody lets them hear it.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Well, well, you don't know how to say what that's like?
Well ask him only sure do all right? And forget
that out there running and racing stuff after this food.
So it was ready to race him until I ate
the pizza. Yeah, then I'd rather sit here and eat
the pizza.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I think I would have got him for the first
five steps.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I might have been tying my shoes for the first
five if he was sitting in here and you were
out there when the gun fired, maybe the first five steps.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It's a tremordation all over the place. Tour twenty twenty five.
We are live at ninety nine Craft Pizza at paulmer Knees.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, don't forget, it's right next to the shell station.
You see the shell station, You're close.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
That's it, Trevor Nation all over the place, tours and
ck as you were telling everybody if you're coming up,
let's just say forty one and get off on Fryan,
hang a left take them from there. Hang a right
on knees.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And make the right. Make the right on knees. You're
gonna go right past that shell. And once you see
that shell, Isaiah.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Make a left, make that left right into that platform
right in here.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
That is the best way to get right. And city
Councilman Nick Richardson is gonna be on after five. I'm
gonna ask him about this intersection right over here.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
This is a intersection right design that that intersection is
something else.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Does anybody understand it? We have a resident here, do
you understand it? No one can figure out that intersection,
not at all. Let's go back to the question that
you posed right before the break, and now that we
got some pizza, we're back to being normal broadcasters. I'll
tell you right now, that's not even nine craft piece.
It's so good that white needs at a moment got
me out of focus. I forgot where I was. I
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was in pizza heaven.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Right, people are like, hey, you know what, it's good
that you guys are eating piece and enjoying yourself, but
can you get back to what you do on the radio. Yes,
And you know what the thing is, We're trying to
get you fired up, excited, making sure that you're gonna
be inside Valley Children's Stadium tomorrow night. And I want
to ask you this, Isaiam, because to me, it's one
of the best walks in all of college football, the
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walk from where you guys get dressed, all the way
to the stadium.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, all the way down to the doghouse. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Man, it was I'm sitting here trying to mes just
what it felt like. And of course you had to
walk up and back a few times because you got
to go out early warm up prepare for the game,
which was always you were in your own zone, you
got your headphones on, your music going.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Did you ever have the flu?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Never had a flu game? Never, never had a flu game,
Never had a flu game. But if I did, you know,
I'll try to Kobe Bryant that day. But it was
it was such a thrill once you got in that
tunnel and when you got got the opportunity to line
up next to all your soldiers with you, man, and
that missed and that just kind of went off and
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you got to just run out that tunnel, man, and
the lights were off, and man, it.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Was those night games were always more fun.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I think just being able to play under the lights,
you know during the daytime when those at one o'clock games.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Man, you talk about that heat, Oh.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
My goodness, you know, but you've been going all summer
though with those practice condition it was and we did
it intentionally, and I remember that was one of the
you know, the elements that folks had to come in
and play in the heat, right like, you know, that
was something at Fresno State. We hung our hat on that.
We were those bad boys that played in the heat.
And if you wanted to come Fresno State, man, you
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had to come play in that one hundred and ten
degree weather with all those paths on.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Now, a lot of times that could be a benefit,
like when people go play the Broncos with elevation. The
Broncos are used to it. Absolutely, come from back East
where they've been almost in fall practice where it's a
little chili and then bam.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Absolutely, and you know, we have the best fans here
at Fresno State. I will say that nobody got a pass.
Every time an opposing team came down that ramp looking
to play US.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Man, our fans would give on top of hell, on
top of them, would give them hell.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
And that is something I love and tomorrow about these
fans here at Fresno.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
They never let up. And so that's what we're looking
forward tomorrow too. We need that innery. We need folks
to show up, show out and bark loud while we're
down there in that stadium. And here's the thing, We're
really gonna need the red wave tomorrow. The one thing
I do know is Georgia Southern made a points of
come out early because not only are they playing US
this week, but they got USC next week. So they
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decided to come out early, get acclimated, and they're staying
the entire time. I guess that makes sense for travel
Yeah yeah, and I mean Clay wants to win that.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
By the way, the head coach of their team is Clay.
Clay Helton used to be the coach at USC, so
it's a big game for him. Indeed, so they shouldn't
be taken too lightly. I know, no, no, No, this.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Is gonna be a good game. This is gonna be
a good this is a good Georgia Southern team.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Now we saw Warner. I think you even said at
some point you hadn't really seen a whole lot of him.
I haven't seen anything until last week. Yeah, and your
take on that is, let's forget that. Let's move on
to the next game.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You go back to that first drive, that first drive
where we scored the touchdown. There were so many elements
that I liked. We used three different running backs, we
saw improvisation. He I think if he goes back to
that first drive and plays within himself, because this is
gonna be a shootout of a game, I think EJ
is gonna be all right tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Uh well, I said when I first started back here
in newstalk in California the PD, I said, my first show,
I said, give me a one to ten. What'd you think?
He said two? I said, no, no, tim being the best,
and he goes no, two two. So what I had
a second day and I did better.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'm not gonna say anything about the performance as a whole,
but what I will say is you usually see great
improvement from week one to week two.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Well, I hope we do, or it'll be sixty to seven. Yeah,
and that's what.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
We don't want. We don't want, we don't want.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I mean, I'm excited to see how we show up
here at home for the first game of twenty twenty
five season. Coach inc you know, he's coming into this
thing brand new. I think Fresne States is unique. I
think our culture is unique. I think our fans are unique.
I think everything about Fresno is uniquely different. And so,
you know, I was doing some homework prior to this
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and understanding that a lot of the great coaches that
came through Fresno State have been here a little wild
and we know that the trajectory of college football is
kind of in and out, you know, rotating. As far
as right now, it's about cats making money. It's about
players making money who can generate the most revenue at
this time. But I'm hoping that coaching comes in and
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brings that coulture that he had at what was it
North Dakota, Yep, it was in North Kota, bringing in
that that coulture he had there, man, and it sort
of shifted and make it what he needed to be
in order to get that win tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
It would be fun to see. It will be fun
to see.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I must win. I will say that our guest is
Isaiah Green. Played at for US on State captain two
thousand seven to eleven captain. You said you're last year
eleven just to play with the Bills the Steelers as well.
I was talking to Paul Luffler about uh oh no,
it was eight athletic director class yesterday. He came in
on the show. It's like fifty new players from seven
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until eleven. The team probably grew each season together, like
when we watched Hard Knocks and when that's the only
inside I've ever had. But you had time to grow
as a team. Now you know a star player.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
And be like a we're not winning them out, I'm
out and then and that's detrimental to any culture, right
That's it. That's detrimental to any culture, any any program
that that's trying to develop and win for a long
period of time. But again, the landscape college football is changing,
and so it's about coming in and winning right now.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
They called it the wild wild West, but I said,
in the wild wild West, at least there were some
sheriffs who's controlling this And it seems one sided at
the moment, like you can jump in the portal and
go off. Okay, what about you're a young freshman. We're
offering you this, this scholarship, here's what we guarantee you
with money, but you gotta stay. You're gonna sign two
years or three where you're not gonna bounce. Is anybody
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put some restrictions on it? Yeah, put some restrictions on it. Absolutely,
you got you gotta give them a minimum. You have
to say, once you signed with a team, you need
to be there a minimum of two years or you
can only transfer one time. And that's it.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Nobody was screaming about this a couple of years ago
from I don't think anybody I knew that this was
gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I mean, really, what happens right now is you look
at say a Frisno State, even look at a Georgia Southern,
even look at Kansas from last week. Many of those
players jump ship to get more money. Many of the
players say, well, hold on a second, if this is
how much I can get at a mid major, but
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the power for they're giving me this much more.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
They're gonna jump ship.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
They want to get that guaranteed money, and they want
to make sure at the end of the day they
get the biggest bang for they're playing football because tomorrow's
not promised. That's the one thing we have to respect.
Tomorrow's not promised for any of these players, and their
football career could.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
End in just one play, a blink of an eye.
I would be so afraid to be a college senior,
like captain of my team in twenty and eleven, out
there hitting and bumping and practice going. I could be
one injury from not going to the Bills or the Steelers.
Isaiah in your head back, then.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Well you gotta you gotta understand. Football is a violent game.
And so you know, if you ask anybody that played
the sport, coach to sport, it is one hundred percent
guarantee that you will get injured.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
That is just the fact it was your worst my worst.
Oh man. I was a sprinter.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
I was a fast guy, so I always had a
bunch of soft tissue issue injuries. But I will say this,
before CTE was a thing, we played with concussions all
the time. I will say, like you're your stomach feel
and I mean you know, you get hit you because
smelling salt. Yeah yeah, I mean, you know, you start seeing,
(27:37):
you know, your vision gets a little blurry, your head
hurts a little bit. But that was natural. It was normal.
You you know, you got your bell rung. You line
up and you do it again. You line up and
it again, and you look back and you're like, dang.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, you look back at that and even you think
back to Pop Warner, you think back to high school.
Coach just lifts you up and then the coach would
just hit you on the help you got this son.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
And you just keep you just keep going out there
and is keep going.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
So no, no real major injuries, you know, thank god,
no real no major surgeries.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
A lot of soft tissue injuries, but those concussion were
a real thing.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You your involvement with youth and with government now and
all of that. Do they preach enough to the to
the players these days that hey, you might make some money, name,
image and likeness, but for most of y'all, the football
is not going to continue because that shock. That that's
a shock. So like when a lot of guys get
out of the military and they go back to the
civilian world.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Shock, it's a shock. It's a it's a huge shock,
and it's a huge adjustment. It takes time. I think
I've been retired for shoot, almost eight nine years now,
and I'm just now feeling like I'm starting to hit
my stride, Like I'm just you.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Got to play up later on you were in the NNFL.
But I'm sure that same shock for is the college
thing too, Like what it's over everything about me? Who
am I now?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Absolutely? I mean there's different levels of transitions.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
You talk about high school players who don't move on
to play at the level that you talk about collegiate
players who don't get the opportunity to move on to
the NFL and then so on from there. And so
at some point you have to transition. And I think
that programs are doing a much better job with trying
to equip athletes with preparing them for the transition, especially
(29:16):
now that young athletes are getting paid a lot sooner.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
So you have to sort of equip and develop.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Them mentally, emotionally, and financially in order to be able
to succeed. And again it's being talked about more now
than it has been before.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Okay, Isaiah Green, thank you so much for all this
insight that you're giving us here as well as we're
moving into this that I see somewhere where you're managing
and did that mean athletes?
Speaker 5 (29:43):
You know what I've did? I see that I managed you.
I manage a few I manage a few programs. I
manage a few programs. I'm currently working was appointed by
our current governor to manage support manage at Central Valley
when it comes to supports a businesses of about nineteen
different program or nineteen different counties here in the Central
(30:03):
Valley that I support.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
And uh, I still work with youth.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
When it comes to athletic development, and so I still
try to keep my hand in the game as much
as I possibly can.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Well, I would say that is a very busy man
with your management skills, your football skills, name, image and likeness.
Why aren't you Drew Rosenhaus right now? You know what?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
We're working on something. Trust me, we're working on something.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
If he's working on something, I'm working on something with him. Hey, ck,
two years ago, what did I do? I came into
his studio and I said, Hey, there's gonna be a
lot of b athletes. Yeah, let's I said, let's Jerry McGuire,
Are you with me?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Come on, let's go need our money, baby.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Absolutely. It is the wild wild West, and uh we
live in the West and Detroit is famous for it's
Detroit style pizza. But let's have a competition. Well, we
need to have it with Detroit with this pizza, With
this pizza we just put into our mouth. Should we
go with a There's still some under a napkin here.
I think that's the Gilroy garlic.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
The Gilroy Gilroy garlic. So I'll have to give it
a taste here. And you know what, I'm excited that
we have a lot of people inside ninety nine Craft Pizza,
just kind of hanging out, watching and enjoining pizza, enjoying
some beverages, and just getting ready to win some Fresno State.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Jeffrey, jeff Jeffrey, you want to give it a toss
to win a four pack Presnel State, Give it to
Jeffrey Jeffrey. Hold on, he might he might not be interesting. Yeah,
I was gonna say, you had pizza down. All right,
We're gonna do a corn dog horn Dog horn Dog Hall.
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Let's go, Jeffrey go.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Jeffrey hit two out of three in and uh.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I know you said two out of three. But here's
what I'm gonna say. Last week it rolled like it
you know it would get on there. And because it
was wood, this is more difficult than last week.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
All right, it's surprised right here from the sports station,
right where we were last week. Okay, Jeffrey, go ahead,
let's give it. Let's give it a throw. First throw
is a all right, you go bucket hit what? Okay,
you already got a price here, but we'll move it
up to now. Hit two out of three and you
get a four pack of tickets.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
All right, let's see he's got two more chances. Let's go,
jeff come on, oh man, we need this one. He
will go, Jeffrey, buddy, Oh hey, but you're still a winner.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Whatever you anything on the table? Anything? We got a
flavor fla did you see the flickers? Got the chain?
Did you go to shows down in South Central you
grew up as a kid or did mom keep you inside? Man?
Speaker 5 (32:37):
No, we were shoot man, we were on that football
field and the school. That's you know, we have to
make it work.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
You know, hey, Jeffrey, that looks good. Man, got the
hat looks yet the Bulldogs had on love it. Jeffrey
looking good, looking good, Jeffy looking good. We'll let you
get back to your pizza it is. We're gonna be
right back. We got more. I'm going till six o'clock
c k On Sports, Fox Sports thirteen forty out here,
we're doing the second week of our Simon second week.
(33:03):
We'll keep this going.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
This is fun. It's just fun.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
It is Trevor Nation all over the place Tour twenty
twenty five, that deserts.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
That deserves.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Oh that just hit out of nowhere, John, that just will.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Shout out to the ninety nine Craft Pizza.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Okay, Paulman knee free, I call this sticky microphone from
all the sugar there on those stocks. What was that about?
After the pizza? What's he trying to do to it?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I have no idea, but what I will say is this,
they have the full glowing endorsement ninety nine Craft Pizza.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
If you have never tried this, get down here right now.
I gayron to you. I will not be hanging a
right on fright on weeknights. I'm gonna be hanging a left.
And when you come down telling their gpsck you gotta
get over here. Once you see the Shell.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Shell Gus, I think the gas.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Station right there at ingramd Like you know, you make
that left at Ingram Yep. Once you see the Shell
gas station, then you know you're there at ninety nine
Craft Pizza. You just go right around. Wow, there's a
little liquor store right next to I just don't know
the name of the letter store.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
You did notice, I didn't notice that. Yeah, you'll be
leaving here in how many minutes? I am done in
about five minutes.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
The weekends, that three day weekend and ready for the
game tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
That is not on his mind at all, y'all. Will
be starting at three thirty or a little earlier out.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
On you know what tomorrow Bulldog Boulevard opens up at
three thirty, but we will be starting the iHeart Bulldog's
Tailgates show at four thirty. And I just found out
they were also gonna be giving away tickets out there
as well, So anybody that wants to win tickets gonna
have a chance to get tickets tomorrow the iHeart Bulldog's
Tailgate Show.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
All right, Isaiah Green, thank you so much for coming by,
and so much of your work after you left for US.
You stayed after you left the NFL, And I'm proud
to read this. I just saw this today. Fresno State
spent rate number two in the entire nation by Washington
Monthly as the best college for you for your tuition
and tax dollars ranking. They say, your world class education
(35:12):
at an affordable price number two.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
That's a that's a that's a hardmark right there. That's
a staple. Come on down to Fresno State, y'all.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
How hard was it to have to practice and stay
in shape and memorize plays and go to school and
try and have some pocket money? Uh? How did you
do that? Pocket money?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
What was pocket money? What was pocket money?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Man?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
We had a scholarship.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
We got enough money just to pay our rank and
pay a phone bill.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Man, that was about it.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Man.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
These kids walking around with thousands.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
And that was back when you would have to call
after seven on a cell phone to make it to
make that.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Oh yeah, and rollover minutes and everything. Oh no, I remember,
but it was you know what.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
The transition from high school to collegiate football was wild
because everything you did focused around football. At Centric football,
I remember job summer camp was just football to two
days and it was like, damn, I'm dreaming about football.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
What is this?
Speaker 4 (36:05):
You know?
Speaker 3 (36:06):
But it became routine.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
It created so much structure and discipline, and it was
just one of the best times. And I've met some
of my best friends to this day going through Fresno
State and going through collegiate football.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
But I will say this, this is the reason why
I'm a big fan of nil because of what you
just said.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
When you got to Fresnoe State, it became a job.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Absolutely, it was something that you lived, you breathed. Oh
and by the way, I still got to go to
class and I still have to make the grades. But
then I gotta make sure I know the plays. I
gotta practice two times a day, I gotta go lift weights.
Everything was all football.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
And then he didn't have enough money sometimes to even
wash clothes.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
No, man, we had just enough.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
We used to go over to the I can't even
remember what it's called, but we got we got breakfast, lunch,
and dinner at the same spot over there on Fresno
State campus and that was enough. We needed all we
needed and it was up practice in the next morning.
So it was a great experience. Loved every bit of it.
Coach Pat Hill was amazing again met some of the
greatest individuals. Pat Hill used to tell us all the time,
(37:10):
these are the best days of your life. You would
meet some of your best friends in this time of
your life. And he was not lying about that thereon.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
It's just downhill from your early twenties. Gets better. Man,
I like to think it's good better. I like to
think it gets better. Well, let's be honest. He was right,
you were. We were all living our best days. Then
that's it is. So you young UN's out there, listen
to what we're telling you.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Listen up, listen up.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Hey, I want you to take some of this pizza
with you. Maybe we can get you some more cinnamon
rolls to go as well. Thank you, Isaiah, it's a
pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Man really was thank you. Likewise and a great communicator.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
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