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"ryan mcgee" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"But I do look at Mississippi state as the team that is maybe making the biggest move to ascend nationally and there's a lot of folks that had Kentucky. They had Tennessee. They had Arkansas and that discussion for the third best team in the conference. I think you can make a legitimate argument right now that Mississippi state is that team and it's because they've evolved offensively. They are now willing to run the football last week. They had their first hundred yard rusher since Mike leech has been in starkville. The defense is playing really well, particularly in the red zone, but for whatever reason, the home team has dominated this series. I think that getting will levis back is going to be a big shot in the arm. I'm actually taking the home dog here with the Kentucky wildcats knocking off the Mississippi bulldogs. Yeah, interesting. Well, we have one more to ask you about, and that's the one here. In Knoxville. Alabama touchdown favorite against Tennessee. Yeah, you say touchdown favorite, but doesn't it feel a little bit to me to you as well? It's almost as if Tennessee is the favorite. I've heard people everywhere talking about this being the year that Tennessee knocks off Alabama and having the better offense, maybe the better more efficient quarterback and some circles I've heard said as well. But to me, it feels a lot like that Georgia game and the SEC championship last year where everybody was on the Georgia train in Alabama just soaked up kind of being disrespected and overlooked a little bit and the next thing you know, Nick Saban's in front of the microphone and the postgame talking about how yummy the rat poison is. I get the feeling it's the same sense around there this week. I think the game's very simple though. It comes down to whether or not Bryce young plays. The real Achilles heel of this Tennessee volunteer team is the secondary. Anthony Richardson lit them up for four 50 plus. If Bryce young is able to go and he's a 100%, you know, I think this receiving core is going to have a big day. I think they'll win in a high scoring shootout, but at the end of the day, I do think that they win the game by double digits. Well done. Thank you, Chris, some great predictions there. And we will take a break. We have a few minutes remaining, and it's your final chance to get in right here, 855-242-7285. We wrap it up from Knoxville. We are officially out of time for this program. We appreciate all of you for being a part of it. Some really interesting guests today will see you right here tomorrow. Thank you for listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast. The Paul fine bomb show airs weekdays of the SEC network beginning at three eastern.
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"ryan mcgee" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"It got Batman next week. Do they beat Kentucky tomorrow night? And we're back. And Chris Dorian joining us to begin to widen things down here on an eventful Friday afternoon in Knoxville Chris. Let's start. With the strangest game of the weekend, Arkansas limping badly right now, and they didn't find a good opponent. BYU out in Provo, take it away. Yeah, I mean, you're right. First and foremost, weird to step out of conference at this point in the season and to have a trip out west. This is a team right now that's facing a lot of negativity from its own fan base. What an amazing swing of expectation from where we were in the last season of Chad Morris's tenure there to where we are now where are we talking about some of these fans calling in wanting to fire Barry Odom, like Barry Odom has been one of the real reasons why the expectation level has gotten to where it is, but I think it speaks to how poorly the defense has played this year. Paul, I had a lot of questions about Arkansas heading into this season. Losing what they did with trailing Burke's on offense, losing grant Morgan, Hayden Henry on the defensive side, clearly they've been affected by it by injuries, particularly in the secondary this year. But it's just, to me, I don't understand how there can be such a disconnect from the way this defense played the last two seasons to the way they're playing now. Tackling is amongst the worst in the country. Big plays, particularly in the passing game, have been a plentiful for opposing offenses. And right now, they're the most desperate team in the conference. The three straight losses, they have to find a way to win, but they're going to go out there, as we said, a very good team. They're going to fight the altitude, which is going to be a factor as well. So I do think they find a way to win, but I just really have surprised at how negative this entire fanbase have been. And I think partly because of Sam Pittman's own fault, the success so early in his tenure there has created a little bit of an unrealistic expectation for that group. Yeah, and he's done such a good job, though. I think that gets out of whack, but that's the nature of fandom. Let's go to speak speaking of that a whack. The auburn tigers have had a bad stretch here and it's not likely to change at all mister tomorrow. Isn't it crazy Paul to think about it? I mean, auburn's won the last 6 in this series and yet we're talking about odds makers having old installed at a two touchdown are more favorite. Like you said, it just speaks to where auburn is right now. But when you try to handicap the game, is there anything that you can point to that you feel really good about? I mean, what do you hang your hat on if you're looking at auburn? It used to be the running back group, which I think is still really good, but they've been basically negated because of their lack of touches. Defensive line has typically been a strength, but that even has let them down this year as well. So I think it speaks to where these two teams, where these programs are in general, old miss on an upward trajectory, although I do think there is some concern about how much we really know about old miss, given the schedule that they played to this point in the season, but I do expect old miss to win. I think they roll and a lot of it has to do with what the defense has done this year. Hats off to Chris partridge and Maurice crumb, the co defensive coordinators who've done a nice job and picking up where DJ durkin left off. Okay, so we had to Gainesville. LSU, Florida. We all know about this rivalry. It's nasty. It's also very important tomorrow night. What happens? It is amazing, isn't it? This game, first time I can remember in a while where neither team is ranked, but it's really one of the most anticipated games in a while in Gainesville, tickets are hard to come by, excitement because ESPN's there 7 o'clock under the lights. So it's gonna be a game that Florida desperately needs to win. But I think the storyline really more so than breaking what's been a bit of a dominant streak for LSU the last ten years has to do with these two coaches. I mean, these two coaches are the only two new coaches in the league this year. They will forever be intertwined as long as they're at their respective schools because of the dynamic around it. Like Billy naper was right under LSU's nose and yet they chose to go elsewhere or rather than head to Lafayette. They go get Brian Kelly, very different hires, very different strategies as it came to the respective athletic directors. But I think Billy Napier is going to be extra motivated for this. I've been really impressed with the way that he's gotten this team to play as hard as they have this year. I think the Brian Kelly factor, I haven't seen him have the impact that I thought he was. I think he inherited a much more talented roster than what Billy Napier did at Florida, but I think they have had a lot of issues, obviously, as we've seen in the first game against Florida state and last week against Tennessee, both with the way that they've been inconsistent, the penalties, and giving up a lot of big plays as they did last week. So I'm going to go with Florida here, cautiously, but I think what you're looking at are two teams that look in the mirror and are identical with how inconsistent they've been this season. So we don't have much left, but we do have mississippian Kentucky before we get to the big one here. What do you like in Lexington? Yeah, Paul, you know, I was really high on Kentucky and I almost feel like I got cheated last week with levis being out of the lineup. South Carolina took advantage of an offense that kind of limped without having their signal collar in there.
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"ryan mcgee" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Know, and I'm saying this, not really believe it, Kelly's lived it, but in the 8 years that I've been here, I don't think there's a better fan base in what we have here. And so through the years, it's been unbelievable about how it helps our recruiting. And I think they would tell you, too, the basketballs help them and just like baseball, it's a university where when we have a visit, so many people get involved with it, but this weekend is special and obviously we've got a lot of people coming in and they're going to see something that might be once in a lifetime in terms of the atmosphere and hopefully the game goes our way, but it's special being a volunteer. And coach certainly when you were here this university, it was fairly standard fare that the Tennessee was, I don't know what happened after that, but it did. But it seems to be back. When you were on this campus, how did all this intersect what's your life on a football weekend? Yeah, absolutely. First off, when I was an athlete here, I was here when we won the national championship. And so a lot of fun. Obviously what I'm really excited about for our players in particular is they get to enjoy what I got to enjoy. It's amazing to have that environment, that atmosphere. And it does, it permeates through the whole department of the whole campus, the whole community and you can just fill the energy. It's good for everyone wearing orange. Well, let's talk about what also is good in terms of this campus and that's basketball because being up here and experiencing some heyday and then seeing it so often that when you guys really kind of resurrected those feelings a couple of years ago with a number one ranking where is your program right now other than really good? You know, the fact is we want to be there every year. We will never take anything for granted. I do think that we've got a good group of guys that really have, they've done everything that we've asked them to do. We've had a good all season, but as you know, you start over every year and. Again, I go back to our fan base. I had no idea. I mean, I knew that we'd played here with Kevin Durant years ago and obviously it was a full house, but coming here and in those early years when we were really trying to build it, I was shocked at how we could have 16, 18,000 people in the building. And we weren't very good. And as we've gotten more consistent and we are given our chance, a self a chance every night, it's just grown and it's exciting to be a part of it. And you're in a different position, a coach, because a lot of what coach Barnes has been doing recently. Had not been done for a while and had not been done very many times. Not the case. With women's basketball and you're a big part of that. Well, I think, you know, when you, when you think about lady bald basketball, obviously think pat summit, but you think of what she did, and that was bring championships back to Knoxville. And the standard is just really high for our program for a lot of programs, but when you walk into your practice facility and you see championship banners, 8 of them in the rafters, it means something, but also it's a reminder of what the standard and what the expectations are. When you come to be a lady of all you're coming here, in part to win championships. And I know at some places the past is treasured and it's mentioned sometimes it's mentioned just because it's the right thing to do. But when I drove in past that statute today, I mean, it does have an effect. And there's nothing you can do other than embrace it because it's a part of who you are and a reason why you're here. But what is it like to deal with that? Because it still feels as real today as it was back then. Absolutely. You know, and it's very powerful. I think it's, I do think it's easier for me as a person who played for pat and who loved her and I had her on a pedestal. And so it's not as heavy. I'm not trying to feel her shoes, you know? And I'm just trying to be me and trying to be the best that we can be. So we can honor all of those players that came before in one championships, players, coaches, and everyone. I think we embrace, we embrace the tradition, our players, our staff, but we also know we have to live in the present. And I think we have to find that delicate balance and. No better place to do it than here. Coach Barnes, in terms of the SEC, it's almost become here a lot next week and you'll keep hearing it about where this league gives. As somebody who has had great success outside of this league in some of the best leagues, what is it like on a day to today basis? Because it is almost become suffocating in terms of the ability, the prowess and the success. You know, I go back to my first head coaches meeting and commissioner sankey came in and he had a really heartfelt talk about where SEC basketball was and said that, you know, you look around our conference produced in champions everywhere and there's am basketball wasn't where it needed to be and basically telling the coaches at the time. You know, you guys want to do a better job and what you're doing and obviously the recruiting change drastically. We are recruiting not just us. Everyone recruiting at a high level with you go back over the last couple of years. I think our leagues put as many guys into the NBA as anyone. And it is competitive, but that's what the SEC is all about. I mean, in every sport and at the time, you really think about it. It means basketball probably was lagging behind, but the last couple of years, as we've made great progress, I think him hiring Dan Libra bitch and I mean, he's put an emphasis on it and I do think the coaches in the league have done their job. And it's one of the unfortunate parts of the business that demands success and I don't ever remember this league going through the turnover that we had last year. I mean, it got coach, you got difficult to remember who was where. And that's usually not a problem in a league like this. You know, many years ago when I was at Texas with the lost Dodds. He said one day he said, you know, the more time you put in the league is going to be harder to hold on to your job. He said you need to beat somebody. And as we keep talking about expansion, I do think it's going to get more difficult and it's going to get even harder if you're taking a program that's down to get it going. And so you don't have to have a good administration who believes in what you're doing. And I've been blessed here. I've certainly, since I've been here, I've felt a support from everybody from the top and allowed us to build a program. And now it's up to us to try to not just keep it there, but keep taking it further. And coach Harper, this is observational, but it feels like your program is just on that the edge about ready to plant the flag. How would you describe where this program is right now? Now we're really excited about this team. We have a lot of talent. We're very deep now. There's more to it than just talent. You have to go out and work together and you have to have great chemistry and you have to continue to get better throughout the season. I think that's a big part of success in basketball. But I love our team. Absolutely love them. And they work hard. They have great energy, they're fun to coach and it's a great start. We have a long way to go. And we know that. But man, I'm looking forward to this ride. It's great to hear optimism in October. Coach, it's so great to see you and coach Barnes and it means a lot to be able to have this opportunity to say hello. Well, thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. Thank you, coach. Thank you. We are going to take a short break. We have 30 minutes remaining up here. On rocky top. With one of the best savings rates in America, banking with Capital One is the easiest decision in the history of decisions, even easier than deciding to listen to another episode of your favorite podcast,
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"ryan mcgee" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"There is no white tablecloth at the restaurant of college football. I want to be clear about this. There are plenty of locally sourced ingredients, some real farm to table dishes, also some of that really expensive raw stuff that gets flown in special from across the country. But at the risk of stating the obvious, this season, like every season, is about to be a giant shirt staining better clean up the table with peroxide kind of mess. So today, ahead of week one, and for your dining pleasure. Ryan McGee prepares for us a multi course menu, where the beef is plentiful. And mostly organic and he tells us why you might as well unbuckle your sun belt. Right now. I am Pablo Torre, it's Thursday, September 1st. And this is ESPN daily. So I want to start in your neck of the Woods in the SEC in the barbecue sauce amid the smoke. And we're not going to start here, I think, Ryan, with Alabama, which is a historic event in its own right. We have to start with the team that beat Alabama in the title game. Georgia on the mountaintop. Demons be gone and the drought is over. National champions at long last. And I guess the question is pretty simple, right? Can Georgia just do this again? Can they win the title one more time? They can. I mean, it's interesting to me because obviously this was an historic defense. And there were so many guys on the defense in the NFL. And oh, by the way, the first team that they're facing is Oregon in Atlanta coached by Dan lanning, who oh, by the way, was the defensive coordinator for that historic defense. So not only did he lose the dudes, they lost the dude to coach the dudes, but it's Georgia and no one has recruited at the level that really there's four teams over the last decade. It's Alabama. It's a House state. It's Clemson in the Georgia. The four of them have recruited at a level that no one else has even come close to. And so because of that, they're just going to reload. The answer is, yes, they can repeat his national champions. The problem is, is their biggest issue is right there in their own conference, which is the fact that we're talking about the team, they beat more than we're talking about, the team to win the game. Right, right. I did kind of sneakily do the thing I said I wasn't going to do by mentioning Alabama before saying we're going to talk about Georgia first. And so now we are here at Alabama. I mean, they're number one, right? I mean, let's just be very blunt about this too, right? They get Bryce young back, you want the Heisman. They do lose John meat and James and Williams, their star wide receivers. So what to you looks different about the meal that Alabama is trying to serve up. Well, all due respect to Bryce young, who is going to, he's the latest guy to try to repeat that no one's done it. Since way back when in the 70s. But the best football player in America is on that team and he's not the guy who won the Heisman. It's will Anderson. What's to the right pressure up the middle and driven down again by a completely inspired menacing will Anderson. And will Anderson on defense who has said openly that he wants to win the Heisman. So really the two leading Heisman candidates, most people you talk to are on the same football team. That uses doesn't work out so well when you start splitting votes at the end of the year, but that's just that's how good they are. And here's the thing. Will Anderson they're outside linebacker who is unbelievable. Yeah. And just mention him to Mel Kuiper. And watch me eyeballs pop out of his skull. Watch his hair also begin to vibrate. It's ridiculous. But they're so good. Here's how good Alabama is. Alabama in this transfer portal deal, you talk about the wide receivers. Jermaine Burton was at Georgia on the team that beat Alabama in the national championship game, and now he has transferred to Alabama to play wide receiver. And Eli rix was an all American corner for LSU in 2020 and now he has transferred Alabama. So they're so good in the brand is so big. They're getting guys coming from the teams that they have competed with for national championships, in like the last three years. If you're around the SEC, if you're not George and not Alabama, who is plausibly a contender beyond those two teams, given that sort of disparity you've just outlined. Well, on papers, text saying them. And Texas a and L obviously they beat Alabama a year ago. The first time that a saving assistant had finally beaten same in a former saving assistant in Jimbo Fisher and then of course Kirby smart did it right after that. But a and M finally got over that hump. And then they just tripped over themselves in the last month of the season. They didn't capitalize on the fact that they finally beat Alabama. There was so much focus on when are we going to get past Alabama? Here's the thing. I throw this stat out all the time. It drives the a and M, people crazy. They have the facilities. They have the coach. They have the roster. Now they have the win over Alabama, but the last time they won a national championship, I looked it up. The number one film at the box office, going with the wind. The last time they won a conference championship was in the 90s. So they have all the toys. They have all the money, every time you go there, there's construction cranes from one side of college states to they're all building athletic facilities, but until they win the trophy, I believe they could be a national title contender, but I need them to actually be one before I'm going to believe. Yeah, and somewhere right now, Jimbo Fisher is saying, frankly, McGee, I don't give a damn. Yeah, that's what he said to saving. So I'm sure he has no problem saying it to me. So I want to shift to the other neck of the Woods that you tend to frequent because the ACC has another sort of just like, okay, there's a team we all know at the very top, clubs it. They won ten games last year, but last year, this is very important for people who fell asleep to know. They missed the playoffs for the first time. Since the playoffs started back in 2014. So how is dabo Sweeney feeling right now? Well, he's never lacked for confidence. And so that's the air that he is putting on right now. They recruited this incredible level. You mentioned, been the playoff basically every year. And here's the problem down in Clemson. What Nick Saban has always been able to do is replace coaches that he's missing all the time. He has a revolving door of coaches. At Clemson, they have kept the same staff together. Pretty much through this entire incredible run of success that they've had. That's not the case any longer. We saw some cracks in the armor a year ago when one of the offensive coordinators left to be the coach at South Florida well, now Tony Elliott, the other offensive coordinator has left to go beat a head coach at the University of Virginia. Not only that, Brent venables, the defensive coordinator really the guy who changed everything and Clemson, he's the guy that they brought in after they got destroyed in the orange ball out West Virginia a decade ago. It's going to Oklahoma. And so the question about debo Sweeney has always been, we know he's a good CEO. The question is, how good of an actual X's and O's football coach is he? And he's the only as good as his staff. Well, that's staff is not the old staff. And so we saw problems with that last year consistency wise. And that's only got worse. So we'll see. Everyone has clips to sit in that four spot right behind the big three. I need to see them play a little bit before I'm ready to declare them back
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"ryan mcgee" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Honor tradition. You have to and don't be a prisoner of the current state of whatever. Like Alabama, Tennessee is a perfect example. The history of Alabama, Tennessee, third Saturday in October, has always been written in streaks. Tennessee, one 6 years ago and Alabama went 8 years ago. Right now, as well documented Alabama has the longest winning streak in the history of the series. Do not be a prisoner of that moment. And throw out something that means a lot a lot to a lot of people. Listen, you and Alabama wins that game. There's old guys still pull out the cigars and smoke them. 'cause that's what generally did. That's what Bear Bryant did. You have to be careful not to be a prisoner of the moment and go, well, that game is not a big deal because Tennessee Hank competed in a while. It is a big deal. It's been a big deal since the late 1800s. Just don't throw too many of those things out. And the example I was used, I mean, I'm standing at the racetrack in the house right now. Example, I always use this motor sports. In this motor sports that came cool, Jeff Gordon, NASCAR, all that night. They left their base. Way too far. There's nothing wrong with doing these stuff, but you can't do it too much new stuff at the expense of the old stuff. And you know, there's an entire generation of kids that don't think that Texas tech saying it was that big of a deal. Just because granddad watches it on YouTube doesn't mean anything to an 18 year old because they haven't played that game their entire lives. And so just be careful with the scheduling. Just don't be a prison in the moment and throw out games that mean a lot to a lot of people just because the current state of the programs are what they are. Talking to Ryan McGee. I know you got to go. I'm going to get two things out of you. One, with no context, I want to tweet something right now. I've got my computer up. I want to tweet something right now that makes me sound really smart on the Indy 500. You know that I am open about my lack of knowledge about NASCAR. So shoot like what's the thing I can tweet right now that everybody's gonna wonder if somebody's hacked my account? I would tweet, man, they're sure a lot of rookies in this field, but gosh, they don't feel like rookies, do they? That made a good one. Jimmy Johnson is a rookie. Roland grassing, a Formula One driver that we all remember from the Netflix show of walking out of the flames in the season for now a few years ago. Start almost 241 races. Those guys were rookies in this race. They're not really rookies. Neither one of them will probably win the race, but they certainly could. So yeah, tweet that right there, people will be like, oh, okay. Yeah. Okay, fits. Race fan? All right, I'm tweeting it out. Man, there sure are a lot of rookies in this Indy 500 field, but they don't feel like rookies. We good? I'm good with that. There you go. That's it. It's tweeted. You see where this goes. And of course an honor of Memorial Day, I got to ask you, what's the one thing you have to have when you show up at the gathering and everybody's bringing food? What's the one must have? I worked. Every moment all day, my adult life. I've either been at the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte or I've been at the Indianapolis 500 in Indianapolis and a lot of years I've been there, but both races. I got a one in the morning and one at night. And my routine is, I'm by myself at midnight in the courtyard by Marriott by an airport somewhere, and I go get a pull up to the drive through and say, give me the quarter pounder supersize whatever you got because I burned 10,000 calories a day. So that's my go to. Everybody else, and you know I'm a girl and guy. But I will grill out on a Monday when I get home. I'll smoke. I'll smoke a pork butt, but Sunday Night, in my exhausted hotel room, it'll be me, captain Morgan in the quarter pounder. That's why I love you. Ryan McGee, check out Marty and McGee, check him out, cover in the Indy 500 this weekend. As always, my friend, I appreciate your time, have a great and safe time out there in Indy. Yeah, man, Marty, I'll be live for the racetrack tomorrow. And so, yeah, he has to wear a car because he's working for sports center. I might have on a T-shirt and boxers. Oh, that's what makes it work. Give Marty a hug for me and y'all cross that broadcast. She always do. I appreciate you hanging out, brother. See you tomorrow. That's just rhyming. One of the best of the best. You guys attacked the lines. You always do. 855-242-7285, a bunch of you guys wanna chime in. I'll let you take over. It's not really Paul show. It's your show, so we'll get some of your thoughts next, 855-242-7285. The Paul fine bomb show, Jason Fitz, filling in for Paul. You were listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast. Street games and they were almost like sport extensions of the black party. 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"ryan mcgee" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Bomb show on ESPN radio. I'm Jason Fitz, filling in for Paul. Not that anybody can fill in for Paul, but I'm trying my best. Big shoes to fill. What little shoes he's not a particularly huge guy, but still big shoes overall to fill. I love you guys chiming in on Twitter at Jason Fitz. It's in. I'm sorry if I'm not saying that right. Points out to my last point that the coaching staff probably has worked for little or no money for many years, got good at the craft. And now we're rewarded for it. I don't disagree with that. I just don't see how that's any different than the discussion on the players. Players work for years to get good at what they're doing. And then they have the opportunity to get rewarded for it. So I'm just saying that if we're going to try and suppress the earning potential of one based on the theme of competitive balance, why doesn't it apply to everybody? Also Williams says we got an Alabama hater on SEC network this week. I don't hate any college football program. I genuinely don't. I don't root for or against any college football program. That is absolutely not true. So I might be a realist, but I'm not here to hate on anything. One thing that I could never hate on is the great Ryan McGee, Ryan, you can check out across the SEC network. He's a superstar. I'm just a guy Ryan. First and foremost, are you at the Star Wars convention in Anaheim? And if the answer is no, what happened? What happened is, and I literally was just having this conversation with the guy 5 minutes ago. So I'm like, the Kenobi show, the problem is celebration is usually Memorial Day weekend. And I don't know if you know this or not, but they run this little race in Indianapolis. That I always go attend and cover. So yeah, so there was actually a group of us, a bunch of fit to some of your old ass that showed up at a movie theater in Indianapolis, watching Top Gun: Maverick at 11 o'clock last night. And we were all having that conversation, like we would like to be a celebration, but in Indianapolis motor speedways. I can't complain. Well, I mean, you wouldn't complain anyway. You're too good a dude. And all I'm asking is, if I ever get the chance to go to celebration with you, I want to be Han Solo, you can be whoever you want. But I'm dressing up like Hannah. Okay. This is going to come as a real shock to you. I have an entire like Jedi, like the whole road,.
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"ryan mcgee" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"The pride passion then pageantry of college football lives here. This is the Paul Fein bomb show hour three podcast. And we're back second half the show live from Knoxville. Yeah, that's smokey there. You see a lot of smokey replicas on the campus of the university of Tennessee, which is where we are. We have made it back to rocky top on homecoming weekend, the dogs are in town and we are here. We've had a great show. We just had Tim Tebow on Josh lane joining us. He's the sports editor of the daily Beacon. And it is a delightful to welcome you Josh. Good afternoon and thanks for being here. Paul, thanks for having me. So excited to be here. Let's talk first about this campus right now. It seems different than any time I have experienced it in a long time. And I want you to tell us from a student perspective, you cover the team at the UT daily Vega in the school newspaper. What's it been like to watch all this unfold and especially to see the excitement for the first time in a long time? Yeah, the word you said describes a perfectly just exciting. I mean, everybody's talking about the football team again. It's always big around here on campus, but now that they finally have a good product or at least better than it was to ask last couple of years, I think everybody just excited about it. Obviously, fast paced often set scores points. That's going to get eyes. It's going to get attention. But I think excitement is just the best word to use everybody's talking about the program now. As a student sports writer, you're obviously you want they're still getting around. This is your school. You want them to do well, but you've also had to cover as the rest of your colleagues. A lot of disasters. What has that been like in the ensuing months leading up to the hiring of Josh hyper and all the other? Within a couple of days, the head coach was gone. The legendary Hall of Fame athletic director who won a national championship was gone. It seemed like everything that could go wrong did. Yeah, it really did. I kind of was lucky that when I first started as an editor, it was at January right when Pruitt was fired and hypo is hired. So the very first thing I did as an editor was we had a special issue come out about that. So that was pretty challenging. I kind of set the tone. It's kind of been more relaxed and kind of the first thing I was doing was writing about everything that happened with Peru and looking into the investigation and all this. And then we hire hypo a couple of days later. So you're writing about hand, you're looking into him. So it was kind of a tough way to start, but you know, here we are now. In terms of that investigation, and I know we don't hear a lot about it. But it is out there and there are some concerns not to dampen the spirit. But whatever happens there could affect recruiting moving forward. What are you hearing? Not much right now. Obviously, a couple of weeks ago, there was the news that Jeremy Peru was calling out some of the coaches. I don't know if that was just made or what I haven't heard much since then about that as far as Rick Barnes and everybody else, they get what's called out. So I assume there wasn't much stalking in that. But it's just in the back of everybody's mind, of course, recently, Tennessee decided not to self impose a bold band. I guess that's kind of the right move considering that they think most of the guilty parties, including in coach and players are gone now. So just doing that kind of protecting the innocent players that are still here. There's still looking into it a little bit, and they have some smaller punishments and the size of maybe the recruiting pullbacks like you mentioned kind of limiting that or limiting scholarships or whatever the case may be. Just kind of those smaller penalties. But I do think it'll have an impact on recruiting. Since they're not doing a bold band, they're going to impose those other panels there in that area. Talking to Josh lane who's a sports editor of the school paper. Josh, let's talk a little bit about your role. Before the season, we had the opportunity to talk to I think we talked to somebody from every different school newspaper leading. And it was so cool. And as you do your job, I know your contact and concert often with others. What is the mood out there among campus reporters, especially in the aftermath of what happened in Oklahoma where you had someone that does what you do, literally break the biggest story of the year by sneaking in, not sneaking, but he legitimately climbed on top of a building or something and looked in and found out what was happening with Spencer Rattler and Caleb Williams in Oklahoma. Yeah, I think he's kind of as you mentioned earlier when you came in and spoke with us is that that idea that we don't get much respect. And obviously, you know, you can debate with the other figures that feel like that. But with student journalism, it's always just kind of been behind just behind everything else just because of the fact that we are students. Obviously, we try to be as professional and treated just like any other journalist would be, but at the end of the day, we are students. And even though most other people in the media are very kind and very helpful to us, they're just in the back of everybody's minds. I feel like they think, oh, they're just students. So they're not as important. You know, they're not as credible or whatever the case may be. So to see, and to hear that story, what happened in Oklahoma, students taking the next step in breaking a story before anybody else and doing it in that crazy way. I think it just goes to reinforce that student media student journalism is a big thing and it is legit. It's not just students on the side just doing whatever they want to. It is an actual really can break news just like anybody else. And you mentioned. Earlier, and I want to thank you and your entire group for having me back to a building. I did know how to get there. It was so cool. Not to opine about my own experiences, but to be able to spend a considerable amount of time with you and your colleagues at the school newspaper. And then we had what I thought was a big surprise. We had the Chancellor. Ploughman dropped by and I had never met her before but I felt like I knew her and I told her I said the reason I feel like I know you Chancellor is that she's been on the front and center so often with a machine she's the one that went all in on Jeremy Pruitt. How did that play on this campus? When she did that. I think the mindset with everybody was kind of what you were alluding to earlier was just that it's a nice change because a lot of schools could have just swept this under the rug. It's very minor compared to some of these other scandals and things that happen. So the fact that they brought it out, they brought it to light, they call it. There's some schools that will not even acknowledge that they're under investigation, right? Yeah, that's what he just flat out said. That's guilty. That's what made it so different was the fact that she said that to the public, and then they fired through it immediately. They looked into it and now they've been so open and honest about the whole investigation since they've been working very closely with the NCAA. And I think that's just a nice change from what you normally hear about administration and kind of involved in interfered with the athletic program. Let me wrap up here in a second, Josh talking about what you're doing. And I will, for those who have never been in a position, I mean, you are in such a unique position. You're at this great university with football what it is. You got Georgia here this weekend. How do you approach your job knowing that there are a lot of young people who are reading you keeping up with you, however they are and not let all that affect what.
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"Today. Who says I'm not? You know what I did hear this recently? So if someone asks you how old you are, you automatically say 20 years older than you are, and then people are like, oh my goodness. Look amazing. So in your case, you would say, well, then I'm a 101. I had a guy. That's funny. I had a guy many years who graduated 25 years before me at Tennessee. He would always go, we were in the same class. No we were. That was even more yet. Yeah. So in my case, I'd be like, ask me how old I am. So how old are you? I'm 53. Oh, you are. Wait, is that right math? Yes, I'm 53. I say what you think. I say this was the most respect. Because I don't believe a man should ever comment on a woman's look. But you look really good for your age. Thank you. Right, you guys, I guarantee you. Hey, let us know if you try this at home, let us know how it goes for you. People have no choice but to say, oh, wow, you look amazing for that age, you know? I'm doing the math on my age. Well, it's a 97 years old. Basically a 101. As I said, well, and I just barely missed the Civil War. Yeah, you know, listen, you've seen a lot of history. It just adds to your wisdom and all of these great things. You're such a sage. I heard this the other day in Alabama fence at ages and number because Nick Saban is turning 7. 70. Yeah. Or Sunday? Yeah. Did you see, right, isn't that so random as birthdays on Halloween? I don't know why I think that's weird. But that was easy to remember, though very spooky. Did you see the photo that they posted of him in those glasses and what he looked like? Things having the greatest time ever. Yeah. Hey, when you make a lot of money, you can look good at that. If you made what he made at 70, you'd be happy to look like I was 50. Exactly. What is we have to worry about? Nothing, right? Although, you know, it is. One thing he doesn't have to worry about. He no longer have to worry about losing to an assistant for the first time. It's happened. Thank God. You know what? We haven't had one. We do have an album. I know. He was asking me to say roll tide earlier and I told him I couldn't because I didn't want to get in trouble. Oh, okay. But that's mainly because I didn't want to get in trouble with you.
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"Interesting is the day of the Florida game when they turned it around, we were talking off the air that there were stories all over the place, a guy who didn't want to play anymore. I literally told you my friend said told me that LSU is about to buy him out. Before we go, I told you that. And then it happened the next day. And we look up and they won the game. I made more of an indictment of Florida. Completely because they couldn't stop him at all. It's not like they did anything different. And now you look up and they lose the old miss. And I just don't know. I clearly don't know what I mean. And I guess there's an end to all this and we'll end it here. They're going to Alabama next week. They're going to Alabama. And Nick Saban is certainly taking no mercy. No. No, he's going to try and put up 45 50 easily. And he remembers the last time he had always run was in that building. Yes, where, you know, everybody heard the quote and everything after the game and all those things. So yes, all that will not that Nick Saban takes things personally. Well, you will never hear about it in front of the camera, but I'm sure he's one of the most competitive people we all know if you actually know him personally. So he takes it serious and it's a highly competitive within his program. That's gonna be a big game in Alabama, clear cut a better team than LSU this year. I don't know if they're gonna be able to physically dominate them up front. But Alabama's putting a score a bunch of scores and bunches gonna be a good opportunity for Alabama to improve their defense have a great game. Build some confidence. Roman Harper joining a stateside here for seaside. I.
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"For 4000 reasons. No, and I'd be lying for 303,990 of those. But the trajectory or your opinion of either team will really go to different direction, whichever team wins this game. If all been finds a way to win this team, you look up the two losses that they have were to top ten pin state team at the time and the number one team in the country. Auburn is a much, much better team and goes way higher in the book than we actually initially thought they were at. Despite their unorthodox winning, the LSU game that didn't look pretty, but they wanted, and then you got old miss, who's just kind of been riding along riding the wave defensively. They've been up and down offensively. We know they're juggernaut. But they're not throwing the ball and putting up great numbers like Matt Carl has in the past. I mean, everybody can say this, but this is true. I mean, I'll miss easily could have two more losses. Yes, but not even trying. But the fact is that they won those games. So you look at old miss like, well, maybe they're mature and maybe in lane keeping second year. They turn the corner. They know how to win those tough games where last year in the past, their defense would have gave up that last second touchdown or the defense would allow Tennessee to get a touchdown and take it in overtime and now win the game. So maybe old misses growing up right in front of our own eyes and we're not ready to commit to that yet. And also the same other in the other hand, we could look at over a lot better of a team than what we all said that they would be. Knowing that, but they win this game. It sets up really well for them going forward. And that iron bowl is going to be a hell of a matchup. Yeah, to me, the auburn thing is so interesting. If they win this game, you're right. And if they lose this game, that's lost number three. They've got a and M next week on the road. They have Alabama. All of a sudden it goes from it goes right down the drain. It goes right down the drain and you don't respect anything. You're like, oh, auburn, they kind of are who they we thought were 7 and 5. Right, 7 in 5, exactly. But if they win this, it's very unique. And I don't know what I love about auburn either. I couldn't tell you one nailed down one thing, oh, arbon does this so well. Outside of their running backs, I don't love anything in particular. I just think they always find a way to win a game. I think their coaches have done a really good job of really.
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"Georgia won the game. So that dynamic right there alone kind of makes everybody excited. And even the one lonely Florida fan we have here, who everybody in the world is telling him that dude, you guys have no chance. He's like, y'all always lay eggs. Y'all might as well give it to us tomorrow. So he's more confident than anything. I think that's emblematic of the gator attitude. And you know that, we're in games a little 6, 7 weeks ago. They never, they don't care who the coach is. They still, they're like Alabama in that regard. They really are and Paul, we've talked about that. You know, you look at Florida as a program as a university. You always think Florida is the head or the top of the SEC. They're one of those teams that are always going to be right there. The threshold of winning the championship. But when you actually look at the numbers, they're not. They lost a lot more games than probably everybody else would think that they have. Their records in lats since last year's not that great. They already have three losses this year. You might looking at being four and four or 500 team at this point in the year, nobody would have thought Florida was going to be like that. So I don't know. I'm still wondering and questioning who is this Florida team going to be in the future? And it's got to fall on Dan Mullen, Dan Mullen has to get this ship going in the right direction. I think offensively, they're doing some really unique things. I think offensively, he's a great play caller, but defensively, they have not advanced and defensively they're not making the strides that we thought that they could. They played a really good second half versus Alabama team. But after that, you can't allow illus you to run the ball for 300 yards against you. When LSU hasn't been able to run for 300 yards the whole year long up until that point, or the week before where they have some success. Those other things that I have a lot of question marks through this comes this Florida Gators team. I want to ask you this because you played defense and the easiest thing in the world hearing it at Alabama this year. It's just bypass the head coach who obviously does not know what's going on anywhere on the offense or defense, and just pile on the defensive coordinator. And in this case, it's Todd grantham who's been everywhere. He's been with Dan mall in a long time at state and here. And in talking to gator fans, even in Gainesville in September and today, they're after him. They're after him. But they don't talk as much about Dan Mullen. Tell me, is it Todd grantham's fault? He's the one that's calling the plays. And if you're calling the plays and the guys are blowing coverages or they're not fitting defenses right, is it because the defense that you're calling? So maybe you need to dumb it down a little bit and I don't mean like they're not smart enough to handle the play calls, but we need to simplify things. Not as much thinking. We need guys to play faster. You want guys to feel like when I watch Georgia play defense, they overwhelm teams with their speed and their size. And if you do not have the size, then you need to at least have the speed in Florida has speed. They have speed. So they have to be able to overwhelm you and play faster. Less thinking, play faster. So now it looks like you're playing with 12 or 13 players. When you're only really playing with 11, I don't think they play fast enough. And when they get there at the point of attack, they're not making the plays that they happen. Is that fundamental? It's all fundamentals, Paul, it's all about how you fit the run. How are you coaching these guys to getting the right positions to make sure that they're right and addressing the right things? Are their eyes in the right places? I understand they lost ventrilo very key to that defense in their linebacker and probably their emotional leader. But your Florida, nobody cares about your injuries. Just like if Georgia had some injuries, nobody cares. You still supposed to win the game. If you're Alabama, you still gotta win the game. Nobody cares. So there's no excuses in injuries are easily built in excuse, but nobody wants to hear about outside of your program. Nobody cares. A lot of big games are. I know this is where we are currently residing and it's a huge game. But there's another game I do want to ask you about. And that's a Jordan hair stadium. Because that's the most unique intriguing game. Of this weekend when it comes to the SEC Paul. And that's because either team could win, and I really couldn't tell you at this very moment which team I think there's not like, hey, who you like. I like auburn.
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"Rudy. Remember we about these things over here. This fall raiders play all. Nobody just tested tour. Oh i know what arkansas needs is trailing burks to play like the best receiver in the sec. Because he didn't last week. He was in a walking boot. He's the dominating player who can win any match up. He has to play big. Tomorrow has the play if they do the the mckenzie milton story for disney. Yes can i get my friend. Robert deniro bobby. I believe he may be remembered. Yeah pacino we could get an air. Pacino's been on football coach before on. The silver never played football coach. Yeah no no. He's the greatest american living american act. Who's this way for the for the audience. That doesn't know what we had dinner years ago. Running joke telling stories dinner. We've had within about jelly. The restaurant and i thought i thought people die dinner out to dinner with the two of us should be desert recently. Sec media and it was memorable. Well you're a wonderful host. You're you're a wonderful dinner companion. You're so conversant It's always a joy when we go out to dinner because listen we s. We talk football. Yes we talk our business but conversations can go in any direction. You're you're such a tremendous writer..
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"Bring us together when we're still because if we're focused on the next move we don't have to worry about what's behind us goodyear more driven back we're live in fayetteville and joe chest tour has arrived so the everything i was just thinking yesterday. We seems like yesterday. We were sitting here together with jerry jones. We've had some great times here through the hall country we had jerry. Jones wants sitting between us. And marcus if i recall the story. Marcus mentioned something about jerry. Shoes how expensive the shoes were. And and jerry turn to him and said why gave you enough paychecks by some nice shoes too while he was looking at him. Jerry took off shades very famous day and i grabbed them them on. Now jerry worth oh please. Well i mean the cowboys are one of the most expensive franchisees in the world billions tens of billions of dollars and he looked at me like i had just wiped causing sacks account. Cross the line. W like if i was in london and i grabbed the queen's i i mean that's pretty much the equivalent it america. That's the equivalent taking jerry jones. Forty thousand dollars sunglasses would commit reaching it. Hey hey queenie you got some gum there and you'll be the hope we didn't notice he did. Jerry is going to be here tomorrow. So stephen jones so i mean this is a huge one. Listen you say what you want about a lot of different games that you can put on the schedule right. and rivalries that have been dormant. There is something about texas arkansas. That i'm not sure the rest of the nation gets and then you come here and the hogs fan the razorbacks fans racially. I believe that there is a certain generation of razorback fans that hates texas more than themselves. Well it's interesting Coach by earlier and he made he he. He alluded a statement. He made earlier this summer. That these guys texas. That's that's the biggest rival. Some fans didn't know it is. It is see what i love about the what i love about the game that we're broadcasting here. Saturday night is that it's got a lot of the past. It's got a lot of the present but it's got a very very attractive future because the past is nineteen sixty nine and winning the national championship. Richard nixon's nineteen eighty-one lou. Holtz upsetting number one texas. It's two thousand four and the presence is the anticipation of all of this right. The present is the ascension of two programs. Getting back to where they deserve to be in the future is that we're going to have tremendous sec. Rivalry the rebirth of a rivalry. And you're going to have it in the sec. So joe yes. Paul still thinking about stealing something from mcqueen which retains his sunglasses the man you also were in dunking throwing. The ball was tim. Yeah yeah he's he's part of the east part of the sec excellent I know you've been gone. You've been hanging around billionaires but we were still here. Nothing's changed for those who don't know what we're talking about. And that would include. Probably most of the audience. Joe tested tori. Who's sitting right. Here was the original host of trivia question because laura rutledge has taken over the world. Like the biggest star in all media. She's you know she. She's her own solar system personality..
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"It'll teach you how to do your taxes. And and all that stuff. So i don't. I don't see a downside paul. Not on the same front but a similar front It seems like a month ago but it was a it was just monday. That the austin case was adjudicated. And and and there's so much reaction to it and you know so many predictors of of doom and gloom. So i ask you andy as somebody who watches all of this. What is going to happen. narrow and in the future with the ncw what what does it. What do you think it's going to look like was so many people coming effort. It's going to be. They're going to have to come up the say i don't mean the ncw in the schools because let's face it. The schools are the aa. The schools are going to have to come up with rules that will survive and antitrust challenge. Or they'll have to collectively bargain with the athletes because collective bargaining agreements are not capable of being challenged on antitrust grounds. So it's you have to decide one or the other which is going to be less painful for. And i don't know the answer to that i don't think anybody does. I think if you read read those opinions now that the the brett cavanaugh opinion was certainly much fire. A much more fiery but not the one. Everyone signed their name. Neal gorsuch opinion is one. Everyone signed their name to but if you read them close they say basically the same thing in. That's we ruled on the. They're very narrow thing before us. But if you bring this mess to us again in another form we're gonna probably rule the same way so adjust accordingly and that's why you see you know. Nfl is not related necessarily to that case but the schools were waiting to see what happened that case before they came up with more laws and what the solution that has been proposed that kind of bare bones solution basically puts it on the schools and says hey guys good luck don't get sued and so the ncaa. The schools have to figure out. Do they want a strong governing body. That has rules that. Cover everybody if they're gonna do that. They gotta make rules. That are not going to be challenged all the time in federal court. They can't they can't collude they have to act like competitors and that's gonna be the tricky part. I i almost think it'd be better if every conference had its own set of rules for everything. Which of course would be tough to stitch together. A national proposition in terms of competitiveness. But at least then you could say hey. We're different from that other league. You know we're not colluding and but the other thing is the other way you can do is make the rules more permissive. So that people don't want to challenge them. I still believe if this had happened five years ago. Some of these cases. Never get this far. Because you've given the athletes something you you you you bent you. You made a concession. You made a compromise. They never compromise. They kept saying no no no. We can't do this. This is impossible. It's too hard and then that's how you get yourself in the situation. They found themselves in this week. And finally andy the cfp conundrum. We know there will be a twelve team playoff. We don't know when we heard all the posturing from the administrators on tuesday. What what's your takeaway from from all the bloviating from all the poppycock. When are we going to see this tournament. So i want your listeners to help out here paul i. I don't know if i if i need to make it. Where if i lose this. I have to eat a shoe or have to eat a hat or just a few months ago. Were eight a bunch of nut chicken nuggets and we raise money for charity for each chicken nugget. But if they do not start this thing by two thousand twenty three i want everybody to come up with the most outrageous stakes. They can come up with for me. If i lose this because i bet it starts in twenty twenty three. Because i just can't imagine people like greg. Sankey people like bob boles be people like jackson brick and craig tops in the ones who created this twelve team format. I can't imagine them letting it get out into the world without knowing they'd be able to get it done as soon as possible. The idea of putting this out there. And i know that that ari fleischer the pr consultant. Who used to be the white house. Press secretary was was the one who encouraged him to put it out there. If you put it out there and you don't do it for five years. People are gonna riot. You've you've got everybody excited. You've gotten people on board for a twelve team play. I think i certainly a year ago. It would be like no way these playoffs. But i love most of this thing. And i can't wait to see it if you made me wait five years for it. I'm gonna be so mad. So yeah two thousand twenty three. That's the first year logistically and start. I bet it starts then and if it doesn't then i'm probably eating shoe or something. Okay donate issue. And i know they're a million answers for this final question but you know everybody's posturing most people conventional wisdom seems to be pointing the finger at the rose bowl but If you had to pick one party who could possibly hold this up. Would it be them. Would it be the network that i currently work for. Who would be. Let's talk incentives. Let's let's talk. Who who has the incentive to hold it up the rosebowl would like the best deal the rosebowl can get. The rosebowl would like to to take place at two. Pm pacific time on january first. It's possible at the rose bowl with the significant backing of the big ten in the pack. Twelve may get what it wants. I mean that. That's why you saw the plan say quarterfinals at the bulls which i think is the dumbest thing in the world but i also understand may not be able to get out of that before the end of this current contract so he may have to find a way to work with them. Which i get it. If you have to do that you have to do that. The other parties that i think would be interested in making it. Go all the way to twenty twenty six would be the ones who have partnerships with a network that isn't espn because they'd like to see go on the market and have those networks be able to to have a chance to bid on the playoff in and have a chance to get on espn on the other hand. I'm sure your your bosses have probably mentioned this to you. Paul they would love to have this thing forever. And if you rip up the contract three years early and you make a new deal maybe give you another ten years and maybe espn's willing to pay for that or another fifteen years. Espn would like to lock this thing down as long as possible and the best way for espn to do that is do it in two thousand twenty three show you broken the code here and not to the vinci code but the fox code mike my am i am. I hearing you correctly it could be. Nbc they televise the notre dame games. Oh yeah that'd be forgotten. Maybe it's natural that when you when.
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"ryan mcgee" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"We're talking about rights here. And i'm a arguing. I'm just asking just asking. Ken a i in this type of setting Kennedy can the nc double a. Do that. I guess my question. Well i'm not an attorney position You know the legal aspects of this. However i i have been I've been led to believe that you know private companies. They can make the vaccine mandatory. That you can't come to work. I mean i think we have that hospital in texas In houston as an example where they said no you know if you're going to get vaccinated you're not gonna you're not gonna come to work you're not going to work in this hospital So i do think that you know private corporations such as the nc two. I mean they can make vaccine mandatory and it's the right thing to do. This vaccine is not experimental. It's been proven to be highly effective to prevent a potentially deadly disease. Let me ask you a question. Dr as as a physician. Because i mean i. I see some of these Vaccine rates your alabama the other day. Twenty twenty eight percent mississippi. Thirty one percent fully vaccinated. And i i've always believed in you understand this better than most. I mean it's a it's a personal choice but the information is out there as a physician when you see rates like that and see events like today which i think we all agree could have been avoided what what goes through your mind well. I think.
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"ryan mcgee" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"I mean this is not a unique thing that college world series. It's just so far removed from all of that back in the winter certainly but even march and april. I think everyone felt that they were all clear. This and there's been no issues and baseball. Tournament was sixty four teams over the last one and even in the conference tournament. So it's it's really. It's been a shocker. But they will definitely be shorthanded But you know if stay wins one of these two games. They still play for national champ next week. But a man. It's a lot tougher now than it was when we woke up this morning again. You know. there's there's a feeling the cova dover and obviously this is an indicator that it's clearly not but wh as best you know I realize you're out you're covering baseball. You're not Going deep into the weeds. But you know. What are the protocols for this tournament because it just seemed a lot of people are just flat footed today going hacker. This even be happening with where this country is right now. Well i mean. I can tell you this. It's there have been protocols in place when it comes to for example there have been no face-to-face media sessions that that people know of. I've talked to players. I've talked to coach his face to face. But there have been any official You know all the press conferences we're in the press box and their own zoom From down in the basement of td ameritrade park We're not allowed to go. No one's allowed to go to the team practices at creighton or the local high schools. And in the past. I've always gone to. That's where i've got all my information and interviews and so there's been that separation but at the same time The teams are wear masks No one's in the press box is where mask. Espn employees are But no one else is and And it's you know you go to the hotel. Listen i was staying in the stay hotel and when they would come home after. These dramatic wins. I mean it's shoulder to shoulder everybody in the hotel lobby. But if i want to interview a player coach I had to do that soon. So we're still kind of in that amoeba of water the rules and and i think that this unfortunately for instance state is just a reminder for all of us that we're almost there this this is easily the most normal belt covering a sporting event since march early march of twenty twenty but this is just a reminder that You know it's way better than it was but clearly it ain't over yet. Final question ryan clearly and including this is going to be something that i'm sure athletic officials us in the future but do we have any idea. The percentage of fully vaccinated players on this on the wolfpack team. We don't know. I mean i i have a i have pretty good sources that is certainly not all of them which we just learned You know what i heard. It was behalf and half. Now that's that is that is purely that. I'm i'm not attaching any official reporter status to that. That's just what i've been told. That's pretty standard across the board. But you know we're watching him. I'll be players have to sit out games we're watching. Nba players have to sit out games in the playoffs. And we're now watching nc state. Thirteen kids on the field. Who aren't ready for this game. Certainly not ready to face it kumar rocker and so Yeah there's a. There's a sermon there somewhere. Paul yeah sure. Football coaches around the country are are going to use What you're saying here and what we're watching in real time to which players ryan. I know it's been a crazy day. It's not over yet. thanks for sharing. Whatever information you've had We will we'll be in touch operative. Thanks ryan mcgee joining us with the absolute latest. He's been covering the college world series in omaha. The last Ten days and we will take a break. Try to sort all this sort all this out in a minute before we head to the break. We have a lot to do on the program. I mentioned including the commissioner of the sec. Andy.
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DawgNation's Mike Griffith Makes Wild Accusations About the Potential of Georgia Football
"Going to read you a comment. That danny sheridan gave to us. I think it was about a week ago. Danny was picking the final four and he georgia to go to the final four this coming season and he said i would say the fourteen would be. George think georgia is loaded in. Georgia does not win this year. They are not going to win for a long time. And by that i mean. Get to the final four. Do you think this is the season as georgia is. Getting playoff are bus for kirby smart and his team. Yeah i've heard that the last few years in kirby keeps finding players in georgia keep finding ways to contend being a contender and actually doing. It are two different things. But what georgia's john paul. As they've stayed in the conversation or as curry says you gotta keep getting those at bats and when he finished in the top ten. Four straight years as georgia's don you recruit as well as kirby has you give yourself a chance and georgia's become known as a place that quarterbacks like to come now. The results have not always blossomed. Is much as people would like but you look at this roster now and jt daniels. Looks like one of the best quarterbacks in the country coming back. He's a former five-star they signed broadband. A grip he was a five star. Wants committed oklahoma. Now they've got gunner stockton committed a twenty twenty two five star. I mean my goodness talent is everywhere and now it's just a matter georgia finishing the job on football field. Which brings me one more comment and we don't we. Don't go out looking at other shows to bring you information. We take it from our own program. And i believe those two weeks ago booger mcfarland. We all know boogers credentials. He said this on on our show he said if you are a bulldog fan and you're going to sit there and stare honestly in the eye kirby has done less with more than maybe even mark. Rick how would you respond to that. Wow i guess. I'd say first of all you've got to get more right. You've got to have those recruiting classes in the top two or three. That's a good problem to apple and as far as doing more with less they're less with pernille they're getting ready. You can't if you can't finish the job though mike. That's i mean you're you're you're you're you're playing right in to what these guys are saying georgia out recruit anyone would maybe the exception of alabama But when are they going to finish the job. That's the question that georgia fans are asking. Yeah it's it's been tough when you win the sec. Three years in a row. And you lose to alabama in the sec championship. Game and twenty eight teeny get left out of the playoff for you. Come within one play of winning the national title twenty seventeen. I mean. i can't answer those questions for you. Know it's funny. You had ryan mcgee up there a few minutes ago talking about the late. Great dale earnhardt. He didn't win the daytona five hundred until his twentieth attempt. So those big game. Victories can be kind of a lucid. And i think that's happened for george. Remember paul kirby smart is only forty five years old. This is only year six for him. You look at how long it took guys. Like steve spurrier and nick sabin and they were six seven years into their careers before they got their national titles.
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20 Years Later: How Dale Earnhardt's Death Changed NASCAR Forever
"Ryan mcgee. Espn daily's chief. Paint trading correspondent. Thank you for joining me man. That's me man when i started. Espn a really really long. Time ago and i had this accent there were like. Hey you know about nascar right. I go yes you do. More than just know about nascar ryan you have now reported and narrated a new film for east sixty and it's called intimidator the lasting legacy of dale earnhardt. And i wanna talk to you about it today because it's a lot. It's about a lot more than how transcendent dale was on the track. It focuses on how he radically changed. Nascar's culture when it comes to safety but before we get into that. I do want you to just kinda sketch out for us. Who dale was for the uninitiated here and what made him such a towering figure in the nascar universe well and it's interesting because he's been gone twenty years i mean nascar's more than seven hundred races without del earnhardt and so for those of us of a certain age the idea of having to explain him and and why he's such a big deal seems insane but we saw what the last dance. The last dance ron's and half of twitter was like well. He was good. But you know this jordan character. Yeah we should know about it and we were so offended but bless their hearts. They didn't see him play. And so in this case you know. You have an entire generation twenty years exactly of sports fans who didn't see our heart race but it wasn't just about seventy six wins seven championships and also was just about the presence in the room. Always say with dell earnhardt if there was a thousand of us in a ballroom and we're all looking at a stage and he were to come in the back door when none of us were looking. We'd all instinctively. Just turn around because the air in the room changed. There was just a presence in a way that it carried himself and conducted his business and the intimidator thing that was legit. Every time i will. I know him. And every time i was in a room with him there was a little part of me. That was just trying not to say something stupid or pass out so on the back of the baseball card ryan so to speak. What are the accomplishments. That people should know about what dale did. Well the seventy six winds are really big deal but the seven championships and seventy plus year. The stockcar racing only three people one seven championships the checkered flag bands around their heat waves to them. That checkered card. His greatest success was on the super speedways. the taliban soup speedway and daytona he one thirty four racists and though tone national speedway thirty four nella one of those was the daytona five hundred and that was part of the appeal for him was even though he was this one tough customer and the man in black timid and all those things it took you twenty tries to finally win the daytona five hundred lawson in heartbreaking fashion multiple times twenty years frustration. Taylor that program names on the can't take it off. I guess i love it. He just he was in every man but he also of superman and that was always the appeal and outside of that ballroom. Full of the sports powerbrokers ryan. What was his status. Like regionally among the nascar faithful. How would you begin to describe what he meant to those people. What i hated it. Because when he came along in the late nineteen seventies. and you know it wasn't disrespect. But he didn't back down from. Richard petty from kailua from bobby allison from david pearson from any pissed them off the couldn't stand him and he would recommend a short track race. In martinsville and afro richer. Penn is electric. Listen kid you can't do it like this. And he just kept doing his way.
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Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin team up
"Own race card team, and he's partnering with Sorted Soner, Michael Jordan and bubble Wallace. Hamlin, three time Daytona 500 winner Of the contenders for this year's Cup title, made the announcement Monday on Social media. It will be a single car Toyota entry aligned with Joe Gibbs Racing. As for the driver, Hamlin said. It was easy. That's where bubble Wallace comes in. He will Dr Hamlin's entry into NASCAR, but back to the ownership. There's been speculation for months that Hamlin was organizing some sort of one ownership group. ESPN is Ryan McGee. How in the world is Michael Jordan End up Co owning a brand new NASCAR team? Well, it's not as long a walk as you might think. First of all, Denny Hamlin and M. J R Boys, They have been forever how that happened. Denny Hamlin is the Jack Nicholson of the Charlotte Hornets. He's been courtside forever. Their friendship is so tight. Hamelin actually wears Jordan branded shoes specially made when he's behind the wheel of his race car on the weekend. Second of all, Michael's been a motor sports guy forever. He was a longtime owner of Michael Jordan Motor Sports that competed in the AMA Superbike. Siri's And third of all, there's Brad Doherty, Michael Jordan's old buddy from Chapel Hill in the early eighties, a long time co owner of J. T G. Dori Racing in the Cup series, he has lobbied his friends in MBA forever to invest. In NASCAR. Why's Michael Jordan? Finally doing that? Finally listening. Brad finally listened Denny because of bubble Wallace and the attention the Wallace has received this year and what M J sees is a possibility. To literally change the face of NASCAR. Hamlin expecting NASCAR's business model to become more favorable for team owners when the next Gen car is released in 2022. NASCAR rules do prohibit a current driver from owning a team and driving for another. But Hamlin Working around that policy with Jordan as the primary owner, Michael Jordan became a partial owner of the Bobcats in 2006 bought the team out right in 2010 restoring into the Hornets name and as you heard Hamlin, a longtime season ticket holder, Jordan. Has been in the NASCAR season finale to watch Hamlin race for the championship. And Hamlin is seeking entitled for the first time, Wallace I'll be his driver Jordan, as you heard won't be alone. With basketball ties to NASCAR. Former U. N. C teammate and Cavaliers rival Brad Dougherty, owner of G. Doherty Racing SportsCenter all night,
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Zion Williamson out of Duke-UNC game for knee injury after blowing out his shoe
"With last night's big story and that was the Zion Williamson injury. If you happen to miss it. Of course, he was the big game everybody that was you know, everybody excited going into last night's nine PM eastern tip off UNC Duke. It's one game that everybody gets excited for every year. And especially this year with giant Williamson and everything he has done for the blue devils and thirty three seconds in Zion goes down. He tries to make a move near the top of the key plants, his left foot and his shoe. Disintegrates he blows out the shoe to a point that I don't think I've ever seen anything like that grabs the knee unable to play for the rest of the game. Do goes on to lose big at home. Final is eighty eight seventy two sixty two points of those eighty eight that UNC scored came the paint clearly a huge hole left by Williamson. But the big question that everybody wanted to know after the game was is. I n okay is his left knee. Okay. Coach K, please. Tell US House I doing so mild knee sprain. Nia stable. We don't know how long he'll be out. I think we'll find out more about that. It's crazy that the two games we've lost here. Something's happened in the first part of the game. And the preparation that. You would have for the game is obviously based on. Your players being there, and especially he and Archer who are who are the key guys. And so it puts everyone. State of. Trying to figure it out while while you're playing outstanding team. That's not a good situation. And obviously Duke did not figure that out. That's coach Mike shoshefsky. And this is first and last I'm Gabe Nigel on ESPN radio. But it seems that John is going to be okay. The fact that coach K called a mild knee sprain. Is of just a knee sprain. Seems that whenever there's the potential to be something worse with the knee teams will throw out the generic term knee sprain. But coach K getting a little bit more specific they're calling it a mild knee sprain. Saying that the knee is indeed stable still don't know. How much time Zion is going to miss them guessing going to miss some time. But the fact that it seems that he is going to be okay. Makes it okay that we all made jokes last night about Nike's expense on Twitter and on Instagram on Facebook on social media, and poooest gotta know betterman Puma even sent out a tweet Puma was throwing shade at Nike because the shoe blew out. And every story that I'm reading there was an ESPN dot com. You're you're reading the story. And specifically you see the Nike shoe like Nike just continues to get thrown under the bus, his his his left Nike basketball shoe fell hard as he planted tripling near the free throw line on the opening play. That's from Ryan McGee over at ESPN dot com. And it was blowing up so bad on social media team people going after Nike that Nike had to release a statement this morning. We are obviously concerned and want to wish I on a speedy recovery. The quality and performance of our products are of utmost importance while this is an isolated occurrence. We are working to identify the issue. But then Puma jumped in they deleted the tweet but come on. This is social media. You can't throw up a tweet, especially one that's gonna throw some shade. And not have everybody notice and have people grab screen shots. So while Puma Puma hoops deleted this tweet. Happened in the Pumas Terry Rozier, even getting in on the action come over to Puma. Everybody had jokes about oh, everyone. Adidas under armor there in. That's the those are the shoe company. Science going to sign with after he leaves Duke this year. Seventy having a little bit of fun at at at Nike's expense because the shoe blows up. We're being honest. I think I think Nike's built up enough. Goodwill over the last three decades of basketball shoes. That we can have some fun with it last night. But after that, it's all going to be forgotten that it was necessarily a Nike shoe that blew up on Zion. And I guarantee it has nothing to do with zion's shoe decision. When he heads to the NBA this