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"You get reconnected and it works out. And then we have that. We will take a break. More to come two hours and change remaining. What's it like to be one of the most sought after basketball players in the nation? Say hello to Billy Preston. You turn into a star damn near. Preston. We want Billy, we want Billy. Until somebody had caught the NCAA anonymously. The federal probe has turned up widespread fraud and corruption in college basketball. Listen to the bag game from 30 for 30 podcasts. We all got mud on us, man. All of us. Saturday May 6th. The UFC returns to Newark. This is crowd go nuts. Bantamweight champ Al Jemaine Sterling looks to defend his strap. Sterling monumental win tonight. Against the former two division king, Henry cejudo, making his long awaited return to the octagon. And you believe it. Don't miss UFC two 88 Sterling versus, only on ESPN+. You were listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast. Hey, we're back. Peggy is in on the next one. Hey, Peggy. Yeah, it's still cold down here and seeing the sea about you after. It's cold. Yes, it's just a little abnormal. That little bit of a fire going. I just want to tell you something. I worked on they just shout out to Leicester. From Alabama, national shows are made in Friday at the exit here that refugees and wages got to talking. I had a taste to say shirt on and he gave me about my hat and he said like every time you get on, but I thought you know. What was he suggesting? Telling you he didn't like your shirt. UK. Oh, okay. You taste your dog. And so, you know, each time he's from Mexico, and we got talking music and I went, oh my gosh, you know, is telling me they have that recording studio, you know, I went down my gut almond bathroom center and all that and I said, but the sound record of album art and he said well, you know, he's probably died in my sense. I don't know if that well, he's probably down 50 a little bit out of the sun. Anyway. So we really just had to snobs conversation and I remember the day when the words were just having talking to somebody from Alabama was just weird and do you know do not so I said, you're from Alabama. I'm sure you grew up and are you listening to profound and he's just like, oh, yeah, that's my guy. You guys, oh, I love. So we talked about that and I talked about how I learned about the iron bow and got us a bit you know after during that I have just because I wanted to not be more than just saying I'm confused because of you, Paolo. I went and researched and found things out. I found out about the beginning of UT and about knife and hardy. And. He's going to play with these name and you know the Indian that was our quarterback. I think he might have been going to husband. I need an end of that step because of you. I educated myself and I've developed this love for the SHC. And I had the best time sitting and talking with Lester from south Alabama and so I told him I'd give him a show there. And I just want to thank you so much. It's just so enjoyable. We are doing things in friendships and we're glad we could help. From Peggy to Emily up next to hello, Emily. Hi. Hi there. Hey, what do you think about me? Yeah, Mike, I think Joe Milton has a chance to have a very big season. What do you think? Well, I went to the orange a lot game and he looked good. Well, there's a reason for that. I think he's got a lot of talent. It hasn't always shown it, but I think it's now developed, and I think Tennessee's in for a big year. Chris is in New York. Hey, Chris. Hey, how you doing? Okay. You want to talk jets football or what? Not really? No. Oh, well, you know what? Let's talk some Tennessee that are texted. I think arch man and sucks. Why do you say that, Chris? I think he's a bump. He's not going to beat him. The guys, the guys from New York, thought he was calling and one of these fan radio in New York, everybody's a bum. Aaron Rodgers. He's a bum, march Manning. He's a bum. Call them. Call mad dog. He's on for four hours a day. Just call him doggie. Do we need that on the show? No. Do we need young people being called bombs before they even play it down? That's what Griffiths for. We don't need callers doing that. Paul is up next in Georgia. Hey, Paul. Hey, Paul, how are you doing today? We are doing great. Thank you. I just wanted to call and say, love your show. Thank you. And also big NCC fan from Georgia's first national championship and we just love the SEC. And we love to pull against them and we love to pull for them. And we love the job that you're doing with radio show. Well, that means a great
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"Taters and Georgia and you are on the air hello. Hey, Paul. Hey, good afternoon to you. Hey, good afternoon to you. Hi, man. I just basically want to call you and tell you, thank you so much for your show. I really enjoy it. I am a Gump buddy of mine that we sit here and watch it every day. We'll see who gets worse off, layer your legs and his direct more that day. And Jim, he needs to be on medication. I'm so pleased to hear that you watch and I agree with you on Jim and I'll kick in some of my Medicare to help pay for the Bill. You may tell you how much we really enjoy your show. Thank you very much. You be well, you guys, you guys have a great day. We still have about 6 minutes, about ten minutes left in the polling. It could change, probably won't, but Kat Denny remains a little bit under a 10% lead in what many political pundits are calling the upset of the century. We'll talk to the winner of the poll a cadet likely winner in a few minutes right now. We'll see if legend has anything to say. Legend is up next. Legend coming to the podium. Let it play in the cloud journey.
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"Bryce is up next in Alabama. Hey Bryce. Hey. Paul. Man, Cal then. What he was going to do. I really wasn't sure. Oh, come on. You knew he's going to say trash Alabama, any chance he got a chance to do. Now, my opinion is this, okay, the cops interviewed those people that were involved in this, and they liked what they heard. And allow me, how do you know they liked what they heard? I don't know that they like what they heard because they wouldn't go to press any charges, okay? Bryson. Do you have any idea? Do you have any idea the difficulty of what it takes to press a criminal charge involving a murder? You just can't just slap it on somebody. It takes a lot of information and I understand that, sir. Okay, well, you're forgetting that. I'm just a layperson at home here, but do you think this means anything to the university of Alabama, basketball program or not? Do you think it's just trivial? Well, the thing I hate most of all, there was an innocent person who lost their life. Okay. Hey, Bryce, we are well aware of that. There's a dead person here. What about the living people behind? Well, that's the case of two people, two cowards that couldn't be made at each other instead of their difference another way. Now, unfortunately, because what does that mean, Bryce? What does that mean? Yeah. Why did they want to shoot each other? What had just added out like adults? Absolutely. I mean, let's just. Let's fight it out like man versus I mean, listen, I don't know what happened. But I think there was a gun on the other side, wasn't there shooting back and forth? Yes, he shot first. Okay. So by the way, I'm not trying to I'm not trying to dispel your theory in the end. That would have been a better idea, but apparently the two people who are now in jail, they may have been aware that there was a gun on the other side. I don't have any idea. Yes. That was my question. At some point, these two guys who are now charged with capital murder, one of them, his teammate, texted the person that we are discussing to ask him to bring a gun. So what there had to be a reason why he felt like he needed a gun. For protection is what they said this morning. That's what the defense argued this morning. They had breaking news. Who had it on whose show? Gay Harris. Did you catch that name? Gary hey. Gary Harris. Yes, I know, Gary. Don't go anyway. I don't know what Gary Harris did. It really doesn't matter, but let me bring in William, who is a lawyer, by the way, William of Merrill. Welcome back to our show. Oh, hello, Paul. I finally call in to meet you. Maybe have a little interest in. I thought that's how Bryce's call was idiotic. I think and argue made some good points. I do agree on what he said about intent. But let's play this out. It's a Saturday night, your buddies out, you're somewhere else and your buddy says bring me a gun. Now, one or two things could be going on. I think he's in trouble and he's being attacked by somebody and you're going to defend him or he's on he's going to get in trouble you're gone. And they've got these guys, they must have these guys phones and they're sweeping these phones and who was with Brandon Miller when he got the text to bring the gun. And what did he think the gun was for? And I think that the fact that he was there and he brought the weapon that was used to kill this young lady. I think he should have been suspended. And I think at this point, Nate oats should be suspended for the way he is covered this up. I mean, bringing the gun to a murder scene is a serious charge ball. Again, it wasn't going to the range, they were out on a Saturday night and his buddies said bring me a gun and then he shoots some or gets a gun battle and a young lady gets shot. That is very, very serious. And. I think it makes it even more incredible to think of I have to ask the question why NATO said what he did today. I couldn't understand half of it. I mean, NATO is one of you from Detroit, you should have a little bitter street sense of some of this. But yeah, the whole thing being in the wrong place will be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's when you're innocent bystander, not a participant in bringing bringing the item that's used in the commission of murder. And I mean, the fact that his windshield was shot out, I guess, by the guy that was in the car or the boyfriend or cousin of the young lady that we shot, he is involved in this and NATO has covered it up. Because he's his best player. We will pick this up in a few minutes. Thank you very much. Unfortunately, we're out of time. We have another attorney coming on. Talk about something totally different, something that's in court right now involving the NCAA. We are back with more after this. Thank you for listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast. The Paul fine bomb show airs weekdays on the SEC network beginning at three eastern.
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"Question for you. I know that the one kid that talked about and he happens to be a black man black young black man. Or the rest of them of the same race. You know whether or not now Quinton, let me ask you, you're asking all the people the players all black, is that what you're asking me? Yes, sir, yes, sir. Let me double check before I answer your question. Okay. Whether or not it's been outrageous and has been out of hand, but we got to do something about these guns, man. We got to do something about this gun. And it really doesn't matter what the players are black or white. But I'm just speaking from Quinton, I agree with you a 100%, but remember one other thing about this case. Do you remember what Nate Oates said on his radio show? The day two days after the story first broke, do you remember that? He said that he sought counsel from Ray Lewis from Ray Lewis. Who? Everyone is well aware was investigated for murder 20 years ago. It wasn't charged. I don't get it while. And then we got to remember that it's a young lady who lost her life involved in all of this. And we got to keep our family in mind and keep our family in our prayers, but just the senselessness of it all. But. There are so many different layers, but ultimately that's one that can't be ignored. Yeah. We got a partner breaks on this, man. Seriously, and then for NATO and the craziest part about it is, I don't know whether or not he knew the full story before he made his statement on his radio show. I can not, I can't imagine he wouldn't have known the whole story, how could you not have known considering that these two players in addition to the other two were. There? Not there. They were there at one point. Let me make it clear. And then to think that this wouldn't get out. Listen, thank you. There have been plenty of rumors out there from the beginning about Miller. Rumors that you did not want to report because it would be terribly defamatory to him if it didn't turn out to be a 100% true, which now has been confirmed that it is. We're up against a break. A lot to unpack today. We'll talk to the reporter. One of the reporters covering the story in Alabama and we will be back with your phone calls right after this. Saturday, March 4th, the UFC is back in the fight capital of the world. Las Vegas, the goat, John Jones, makes his long awaited return to the octagon, as he moves up to heavyweight to take on former interim champion.
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"To follow the story out of Tuscaloosa and when more information becomes available, we will certainly report that. But as of the hour, NATO's statement is the controlling conversation from that university at the moment will talk to Carol Robinson a little bit later about what her reporting has indicated. Let's continue with Mike in Chicago. Hey, Mike. Hey, Paul, hiding, David. We were doing great. Thank you. Hey Paul, I just want to ask you about the NATO situation. I know it came out pretty recently. I'm a Tennessee ball for life, you know, Rick Barnes is a great head coach for us. And I just want to question about NATO's answer. He basically said that boys will be boys essentially. You know, and he can't control what his team does, you know, outside of practice. I just want to know you're kind of opinion on that. And isn't the head coach of a high major university, supposed to have control over his own team? Yes, I mean, there's a lot of complexities to this story and we obviously done as much reporting on as we can. First of all. Why would you ever make a statement like that about something as serious as this? Is really beyond anyone's imagination, it was terribly insensitive and his best player right now is being linked to the story, not listen, you can say directly or indirectly, but he clearly was more involved far more involved than NATO's or anybody at the university of Alabama has led on. And another player was also apparently in the vicinity and NATO actor like there are a couple of guys who were. Rehearsing horsing around with an open beer can. It's an incredibly insensitive comment considering how it worked out, but again, I'm just a commentator. I don't have all the facts right now. All I know is what NATO said today. And I can make you a prediction, though, that you've heard some of the criticism of NATO. It's going to go to DEFCON one by tomorrow. Once the rest of the national media picks up on this, there's no way that NATO comes out of this well. Or his program, just in terms of criticism, not that that means anything to him or anybody else, but it's a terrible look. And by the way, it was also a story that had gone away. I think the media had acted very had reacted very sensitively to the magnitude of the situation 5 weeks ago. When it first broke and that's all going to boomerang today. Thank you very much for the call. Appreciate it. I'm Ann is up next. Hey, good afternoon, folks. This terrible story in Tuscaloosa. And for what was discussed here today, it seems that three or four basketball players were involved in the intimidating and harassment and some vehicles kind of not allowing the vehicle that the girl was in, it was I guess the exit was obstructed or something, but there's several players that were involved in the harassment of this thing. Give me one second if you don't mind. I just want to read a couple of lines from Carol Robinson's article because I realized a lot of people are just really confused. All we've done so far is share a headline or two. And I can't think of anything any other better way. It's because I'm not proficient with the story like she is. This is her story that just broke. She writes, Alabama's freshman basketball standout Brandon Miller, everyone knows who he is by now, arguably the best player in college basketball or one of the two or three best. Brought the gun used on the Tuscaloosa strip killing of a woman that led to capital murder charges for his now former teammate Darius miles in 20 year old Michael buzz Davis, according to law enforcement testimony, miles contacted Miller, he's the player, miles was on the team, and asked him to bring his gun to where they were according to police. When Mac Miller got to the scene, miles told Davis, the heat is in the hat. According to Brandon culpepper, who is a detective, meaning that the gun was present, miles added, there is one in the head, that culpeper said meant a round was in the chamber. Miles moved his girlfriend back to get her out of line of fire, Miller's windshield was struck twice by gunfire in the shooting police testified. Another Alabama basketball player, Jaden Bradley, was also at the scene of the shooting according to testimony. So that makes three players based on my accounting. Asked by L dot com why Miller was not charged. Tuscaloosa chief deputy DA whitley said that's not a question I can answer. There's nothing we could charge him with. NATO to court said today that Miller is not in any kind of trouble. So this is I didn't mean to interrupt your call. I remember, but that better explains what we are talking about here. Exactly. And just I'm just sitting here thinking and because all of this is new to me as it is to you. But you know, at some point, I don't understand why these kids are and I'm not saying they did anything other than harassing their presence and that kind of thing because, you know, boys will be boys. And they were the wrong place at the wrong time. But there may not be anything legally, but had this happened to any other student in school, it would have gone before the student council group, and they would have probably voted these people out of school and the administration were to win along with that. Yeah, I mean, let me stop you right there. You've raised a very salient point. Let's forget the law for a second, okay? Right. Alabama has a carry law that where he's 20. So he could legally carry that gun. So that's not an issue. Another question is, is he an accessory? It's a very, it's a very thin case, but clearly he's involved. Is he not? I mean, he brought the gun that was used in what ultimately turned out to be a murder. So even if he's not legally charged with being an accessory, some other charge, then you have a whole other set of questions. Let's forget this, forget the school for a second, okay? Should he or should he not remain a member of the basketball team? I think has to be asked. Does it not? It has to be. Okay, we have that answer already. Nate Oates is shrugged his shoulders at the whole thing. And then is there a student conduct question? I have no idea the way the university of Alabama works. But you would think that, by the way, it looks like they've known about this from the beginning. How could you not know that they were present? Greg Byrne, who's the athletic director, went with the team on the trip to Nashville. I remember he tweeted some pictures of he and NATO's eating at some convenience store or restaurant on the way back. So he's in the loop. Everyone at the university is in the loop. So nothing that came out today, 5 weeks and two days after the story first broke comes as a surprise to anyone on that campus. Well, and let me ask you this because we hear about it all the time with coaches winning the press conference. That is when that press conference. He looked really nervous. No, he looked for us. There's no getting around that. You know, I don't know how this works out, but it's not a very good look. And then end of all this, there's an innocent girl in Birmingham, Alabama is absolutely nothing wrong. I have a good day. Quentin was up next in Georgia. Hey, Quentin. How are you doing? We're doing great. Thank you. Good to have you on. I'm listening to your show what I just called it. I got a
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"Wrong bringing a gun resulted in the death of a human being isn't quote unquote wrong spot at wrong time. This is more from John talti from male dot com. I'm still flabbergasted NATO to actually use those words to describe the situation. We will have much more on this story a little bit later on with one of the top reporters in the state covering the story. But that is not all that is going on, but that is certainly the biggest story of the day. On the football side of things, a change at LSU, special teams coordinator Brian polian transitioning to off the field role. He will become essentially the general manager. Could be a new trend as college football is starting to resemble the NFL more every day. NCAA amateurism case roasted by hot bench in federal appeals hearing will have the latest on that from our legal analyst, Michael McCann. And the story that broke yesterday from Sports Illustrated college football executives considering major changes to shorten the game. So what are they prohibit consecutive timeouts? No extending first and third quarters for untimed downs on defensive penalty clock runs after first down except inside two minutes. Clock runs after incomplete pass once ball is spotted. Nothing about the length of halftime more of the amount of commercials that run. Pro selling joining us and Ross, thank you so much for being here. We can't wait to catch up with you on all of this. Tell us more about what seems like a long overdue change in college football. Good afternoon. Afternoon Paul, thanks for having me. Yeah, I don't hold your breath on TV commercials or halftime being decreased. The band directors, I think, would in the band parents and the band members, as you might expect, would not appreciate that. I think it's something that's been broached the last several years. And let's just say it's not going to happen. And then the TV commercials, as you know, Paul, the driving factor for TV media rights deal. So that's not going to happen either. So how else officials are exploring how else can you shorten a college football game? The college football games continue to get longer. Three hours and 21 minutes. This past season. That's 5 minutes longer than it was. In 2018, it was three hours and 16 minutes. So they're trying to find ways and they've been exploring this for a while. Several years, but specific to those for proposals you put out there, they've been exploring those for the last couple of years. And last year was pretty serious, but just didn't have enough support. I think to get the votes to, for those to pass this year, feels a little different, partly tied to the expansion of the college football playoff going to 12 teams, go two extra rounds, 8 more games, more head exposures, a risk of injury to players. So that's part of this too, right? There's two real main I think three main issues here. Why you would shorten or why they want to shorten a game. One, I think it's obviously fan engagement audience engagement attendance, you know, expand experience. You don't want one 5th of college football games, Paul went over three and a half hours last season. And some years that's one third of college football games go over three and a half hours. You don't want that. I think the second thing is pace of play, no interruptions, things like that. You want to limit the interruptions. And of course, you know, the last thing is the health and safety of football players, especially with the concussion litigation ongoing. You want to just limit exposure. So these four proposals, the first two that you mentioned, which were consecutive timeouts. That falls in line with the NFL rule kind of considered non controversial. A lot of people expect that when to kind of get on through and be implemented season. The no end timed down after a defensive penalty in the first and third quarters. Again, non controversial. I think that will also pass through. It's three and four, where there is some debate. You know, stopping the clock after or keeping the clock running after a first down, keeping the clock running after an incomplete pass when the ball was spotted. Those are the two that will want the most debate. Ross, assuming that two of these get passed or all of them, which seems unlikely based on what you're saying, what do you think we're talking about in relation to shaving more time off the game? Well, the first two you would think won't be really impactful. The consecutive timeouts, I don't know. How often does that happen? You know, you see icing the kickers, a decent amount, but maybe a couple of times a weekend, you see that, right? The whole untimed down after a first and third quarter is really in somewhat insignificant. So setting those two aside, let's look at proposal three, because I think it's got a good amount of support. It sounds like. Where you run the clock after a first down. Again, it would fall in line. That one would be NFL does. They run the clock after a first down. And a college football would have the stipulation of you'd stop the clock after a first down inside of two minutes of the halves. They did a study this past season Paul. The results were that about 7 to 8 plays would be eliminated from a game if you kept the clock running after a first down. So the fourth proposal running the clock after an incomplete pass once the ball is spotted, would obviously be the most significant. And it could take out, it depends on who you talk to, right? Take out 12 plays from a game, it could take out 15 plays from a game. I think there's less support for this proposal. I think there's a sentiment that three of the four, the first three has a good enough support maybe to pass through, but that fourth one, although it'll get some debate, might not have the support because you got to think in a way it could change football, you know, could change offensive football in coaches have pushed back against it a little bit. And so, you know, you could imagine a hurry up offense if the clock continues to run after incomplete passes once the ball was spotted. That could really change the approach. You could change the game drastically. And again, it could shave off upwards of 12, 15 plays a game. So that's what we're looking at as far as how much time will be saved. Ross, before you go, I know we had you on the other day after breaking the story about Oklahoma and Texas. But you were certainly very close to this story, everybody speculating on what the permanent rivals are going to look like. Give us the lay of the land on that. Where are we in how much work is there left to be to be done before we know how this is going to actually work?
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"So, you know, you wonder just kind of what the ripple effect of this is going to be, not just the human loss, but beyond that and it's a hard, hard thing to deal with. I feel for obviously the family of the victim and for the teammates of dairy smiles who saw one of their own, you know, let off in handcuffs with a capital murder charge just a terrible turn of events. It's incredibly tried to immediately go from that to Alabama has a game tonight in Nashville. They are really one of the better teams in the SEC, if not the best team right now. This is going to sound crazy to ask you to talk about that program, but fans do care about what happens on the court as well. What has been your impression of Alabama this year on the court? Yes, as far as the actual basketball program, they're fantastic. I mean, a great team, they are incredibly athletic. They're long. They're fast and shooting their fearless, you know, and they defend, I mean, there are a lot of fun to watch. Brandon Miller, you know, could be like a top 5 pick come the summer, you know, I mean, they've got a lot going for them. NATO's is really kind of captured, I think, both the new way to play basketball and cause basketball and the new way to build a roster saying he's really put together a really good one here and Alabama has had a long history of March, we'll see what kind of shape they're in when we get around to tournament time, but right now you put them on paper. They are a national championship contender. Pad 40, before you go, I would like to return back to Los Angeles 8 days ago. I really don't want to return to Los Angeles. I think it's still raining out there. But I'm curious because we haven't had a chance to talk to you since then. About the Georgia dominance, not all of a sudden, because it's been building, but what we're currently seeing within the SEC, is the changing of the guard. What exactly are we watching here with Kirby smart and Georgia? I think it is a changing of the guard. I really do. I think that Kirby has mastered it right now the way Nick Saban that was mastering it a decade or more ago. You know, he's figured it all out. The one thing with Kirby was I wasn't sure he was a great in game coach. And I think he's gotten to the point now where he is he has gotten over that hump. He can recruit. He can motivate. He can game plan and now you put him in that crucible and he starts pressing all the right buttons with great players and look out. I mean, they've won two in a row and they should be really good again next year. They have to obviously have to replace arguably the best quarterback in school history, but still everything else is in place. And I think they're just going to be an absolute force for the foreseeable future. Great stuff from pad 40, as always, I appreciate the time. We head to the break now. We have the former commissioner. I was about to say commissioner, although it's always impossible to look at Roy Kramer and not think of him as the commissioner. He'll join us in the next hour. He just recently was selected to the college football Hall of Fame. We'll talk to the committee right after we come back from the next hour in a few minutes. You are listening to the Paul finebaum show podcast. We
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"And always great to see what we just saw pat 40 the other day, but then it was the day before the other day. He was a Sports Illustrated and so many things to talk about, pat, as we say, who are you, but I do want to begin with Harbaugh. I thought I thought I thought the clock had been turned back a year when I noticed yesterday that he was staying at Michigan again. Did I miss something? Good afternoon. Really, you didn't miss anything because it is the same story as last year, basically. You know, Harbaugh is works in mysterious ways, but he does work. It works for Michigan. I think this is a good thing for Michigan. We'll see if he and his athletic director can get along, but keeping him in the fold, and I guess putting off the heart NFL hiring cycle for another year is a good thing for the wolverines. Yeah, his brother has had some bad luck lately and so has Jim. But you mentioned you mentioned his athletic director. I noticed a tweet yesterday from the school president. Is this a new normal pat we see presidents tweeting out that they hear from the coach and then they contact the athletic director or something? I used to see it. Doesn't it used to be the other way around? It did. And I think in a high functioning chain of command, it would be the other way around, but I don't think Jim Harbaugh and ward manual are completely on the same page at this point. You know, there had been some stress over his contract. He took the pay cut. He got some of that restored last year, but not necessarily to the point. I think where he was expecting it to be. I think there's been more negotiation about continuing to enhance the contract and you're throwing an NCAA investigation and I think the president kind of stepped in and played intermediaries here and Santana popular charismatic guy and certainly not afraid of being out in front of things. It's pretty interesting when the president is tweeting out the news. I remember just the other day, it seemed like the Tennessee Chancellor was firing a football coach for breaking NCAA rules or being accused of it. And now you've got a guy who's accused of breaking NCAA rules in the president's doing hugs with him on Twitter. Is that more of a more of a sign of where the NCAA is or did I miss something there too? Well, it's a sign of where the NCAA is and it's a sign of Michigan's one loss record the last two years. All things can be forgiven if you're beating the crap out of Ohio State and going to the playoffs. Those two things count for a lot. And yeah, I mean, NCAA rules. The thing, you know, people want to gloss over Michigan's situation here, but this is not an. IL happen. Players should be paid sort of situation. This was recruiting during a dead period. That was a well established rule that everybody had agreed to during the COVID period and people have broke those rules ticked off competitors. That's for sure. Talking to pat for the pat Kevin Warren introduced today as the bearers and will spare him because I don't really care to talk about him any longer, but I am interested in what the Big Ten is going to do next. Good question. I think there will probably be at least strong consideration for going back to a more traditional commissioner, a campus guy, so to speak, whether that's gene Smith if you would like to move from Ohio State to the Big Ten office whether that's Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman, whether that is Jim Phillips from the ACC, there's some other possibilities there. Or if they want to stay outside the norm, a mark silverman from Fox Sports who was with the Big Ten network and certainly knows the league very well. Mark Lazar, I'm sorry. But there's a lot of options. Plenty of options there and it's not a hard job. I don't think at this point because they've already taken care of the TV contract and expansion. I think you're sitting in a pretty flush spot. Pat, it seems like the other day, it was under two weeks ago, I think, or maybe a little bit longer, we were talking to you about John calipari and, you know, it just goes to show you, you can never count Cal out just when you, you were about to, it's the other guy who gets out coach Saturday at Knoxville, Rick Barnes looks like the full versus John caliper. What happened Saturday? Boy, that was very interesting. I will give Kentucky credit because they were staggering in there off of, you know, a couple of bad losses and cow was past the breaking point with a lot of fans. They fall behind 8 zero. Crowds going crazy, Tennessee's the better team on paper. And then they turn it around and win the game. And great resilience by Kentucky, some real defensive fortitude, which they haven't shown much of. And yeah, I just an atrocious offensive game from Tennessee. I mean, they didn't move. They didn't pass. They didn't attack the basket. Well, they missed, I don't know how many layups. And it does it, you know what? That's the state of college football college basketball this year, Paul is like, who is good and for how long? More than the game, more than two games at a time, not many. I'm sure a lot of Kentucky fans are asking the question if you can go to Knoxville, one of the top teams in the country and do that. Why can't you do it at home against teams at Tennessee just got through beating by nearly 50 points, I don't want to make you answer that because we need John calipari to answer that, but help us understand it better. Well, it's not a great Kentucky team by any means, you know, they have probably one first round NBA pick, pork, Kentucky, only one top ten pick. Right. In the case of Wallace, Oscar shibe is a great college player. Beyond that, they just have a bunch of guys. And they haven't yelled in caliber he hasn't coached them well, and they're offensive. It's been a mess and defensively. They've lapsed in and out. You know, there's been a lot of problems. And you can pin them all directly on Cal. But he has shown an ability to fix problems as they go along. The thing that drives Kentucky fans crazy, you know, this is become a February March sport. You know them. They don't want to wait till February and March to be good. They want to be good every game. And I think they're just tired of this process of flailing around for a couple of months. And this year, even longer than that, before they put it together. And you can get everybody back on the page and happy and excited to come march if you're on a roll, but there's a lot of angst and terminal that goes along with that. And it's kind of wearing everybody out. Pack 40 with us from sports illustrate pat in your many, many years. You've covered some just terrible scandals in college basketball. Really, that are still difficult to talk about, but I want to bring you to another one that is underway. And I realize there's some separation, I'm speaking of the Darius miles situation in Alabama. We don't have all the facts, but we have enough facts. And obviously the school had enough facts to immediately cut him lose as a member of that team. What do you know about this? And beyond the legal issues, the impact it could have on the program at least a perception of the program as well. Yeah, I mean, just a horrible, awful situation. And one that certainly didn't seem to ever have to make any sense. I mean, just a senseless act of violence in a minor altercation turns into a gun battle and this is what you end up with and lost life and. We don't know what the impact will be long-term. We, as you said, we don't know all the circumstances here, Darius miles had been kind of in and out off the team, he had gone home for a personal matter. He had been suspended a couple of times NATO said yesterday those were completely unrelated matters to this, but we do know yes, as you said that Alabama not only moving from the team but moved him from campus
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"Remember him being described as a tailback because he directly devoured snap directly to the tailback generally. Right. There have been a full back then it would have been a blocking back that generally lined up behind one of the guards and their wing back that would be lined up just outside of the tight ends. By the way, by the way. I stand corrected on that and I've seen most people we talk about play college football. I never saw coach major. So I appreciate you sharing that with us. Yes, you're from the Memphis area, I believe. Correct. Memphis Catholic ran in high school ran that single wing for a long, long time and I believe I'm correct. I believe we can not and George canali that played for Catholic high. Sure. Wound up playing the same positions at the university of Tennessee when they were still running the single wing. You know, Bobby, I remember growing up hearing those guys named, so yeah. And one other name, I'm going to let you go. I'm not going to take your time. But one of the names I want to mention for the Memphis area, little younger than you, but was really Fletcher from south side was an outstanding high school for banking. Billy played at Memphis state, didn't he? Yes, that's correct. He went to old master start with and of course in those days they recruited a number of quarterbacks likely change in a lot of them to other positions, but just most coaches in those days have put their best athlete at quarterback, but it was outstanding athlete and started on the freshman team there. I think you were about ten quarterbacks, but Billy was the starting quarterback and was projected to probably be definitely a contender for the varsity. Bobby, we're talking what? Are we in the 60s here with Billy Fletcher? I'm trying to be in the 60s. I believe I believe Fletcher probably trying to put this together. His life season, high school season would have been 60, so he would have been a freshman at Oman 61 and then came back to Memphis and the reason was he got married and helped me out who would have been the OS coach then. Well, that would have been John vaught. Yeah, great. John vault. I don't think he would let his players marry or at least try. You know, you're right. I remember that that was pretty much the rule back then. I'm trying to remember I was interviewing Billy Payne a couple of years ago and he told me a similar story that he wanted to go to South Carolina, but he was married and they wouldn't let him. I can't remember so he ended up going to Georgia. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, I'll let you go. I wouldn't be a nitpicky about this. I should know better. But and by the way, the guy was the guy was technically correct. Based on how you described a single wing, but you brought back a lot of memories about Memphis state growing up because I remember watching Billy Fletcher. Now, where did you go to high school? Now, interestingly, my first two years, I was at CBA chess. So that's where that's how I understand the Catholic connection. Bishop brothers. Big robbery. There was kind of a sort of back in those early 60s, the Fletcher days, the big robbery was south side and central are south side and Christian brothers are Catholic entered into that. It was sort of 14s there that were really, really tough teams. Bob, do you remember? Do you remember Tom nix, the head coach or Christian brothers? Certainly do. Yes. I'll tell you a quick story. My first, my first year at I was there at 9th grade and we had PE class with coach nicks. And it happened to be the Monday after the opening game, which I believe was against south side and they lost a game, which was unusual for Christian brothers. And to put it mildly, I was not exactly a great physical specimen. And he was all over me, and I was starting to get sick. I mean, I was like physically ill. And he stood over me and said, he says, he asked me for my name because they didn't know it and I told him. He said, fine, bomb. He said, he said, you're as pathetic as my football team. And I've never forget that as long as I live. And we later became good friends. I know he died a couple of years ago and he was such a great man, but he was outstanding coach. I joked with him about that one time when I went back to town and he did not like losing that opening game. I'm not sure how many years it went on, but for a long while, south side and Christian brothers would play at crump stadium there, of course. Thanksgiving Day. Oh, I don't remember that. Some huge crowds. I'm talking about huge crowds for high school. I'm afraid to mention a figure, but no. Well, hey, I can't thank you enough for taking me back to an era that I didn't think I still remembered, but you never know what you remember. When you're proud to, hey, thanks so much, Bobby. Call again, love the conversation. 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"July and he's got another list out. This one about the upcoming college football season Bill is joining us now. And Bill, let's look at this because I think so many people are just automatically figuring out who's going to win, but you break down with great expertise, who are the real contenders. I think too often we think there's two or three contenders for the national championship. There may only be, but you have length in that list a little bit. Good afternoon, tell us your process and the conclusions that you have come to. Yeah, I mean, if we really wanted to stick to three teams, I think we know the three teams the best odds of playing for the title here at the end of the same theory we've been talking about, but one thing I've always enjoyed doing and I do it each year for ESPN dot com. Look at just how many ifs does it take? If this, if that, how many ifs does it take for you to turn somebody into a national title contender? And while Alabama only needs a couple, Georgia, only needs a couple. It's always kind of informative to look at that and see who else may be has a little bit of extra advantage compared to the rest of the deal. So we know Alabama, we know Georgia, we know a House state. What don't we know? Well, we don't know for sure that Alabama's they're receiving core has quite what they need. We think we know we're not completely sure that Georgia obviously needs some more front 7 stars. We think they'll have that. Outside that, you know, there are four teams in the playoff where we just mentioned three. I have no idea for the fourth team could be there. Constant has so much offensive improvement to undergo. Texas a and M needs a quarterback. Notre-Dame needs a quarterback. It's really kind of an interesting place. It feels predictable because of the top, but just about anybody in the country, it seems like it could be number four. And I mean, when you get beyond that, listen a couple of schools, I want to go back to Ohio State for a second though, because I'm wondering if we're just not missing the obvious competitor to Alabama because on paper they look unbelievably good. Yeah. Yeah. The defense, the amount of overall experience on both sides of the ball that they return is kind of unheard of for a team that recruits as well and did pretty well last season. They're in the top 25 of my returning production rankings. Now, if we saw them last season, we know that physical teams were able to push them around a little bit. And just because they got a new defensive coordinator doesn't mean that's all going to be fixed, but there were pretty inexperienced, especially a linebacker. And this year kind of seems like if Jen can just kind of institute a certain level of improvement, the offense is going to take it from there because the offense is absolutely loaded. So Bill, you're beginning to circuit today with us and other shows. And you'll get this question, I'm sure you may have already had it so, bill, you've done a deep dive. Who's that one team? We are not thinking about. That's a very ESPN like question. Don't ask me how I know. So who is it? Yeah. There are the Notre dames in a and M's, but that's not a very fun answer. One team I'm looking at that has a really interesting path if they can, if they can play really well at the very start of Utah. If they can be Florida, your cam rising really is what we saw last two months of last season, their defense should be good, their offense will be efficient. They have a nice path for the playoffs. That doesn't mean they're going to win the playoffs. But they really could be a team that's just sitting there right in the top 5 or 6 for most of the season if they can get off to a fast start. Part of that depends on what Billy and the APR has to offer in Florida. They might actually, if you get the Anthony Richardson going in there suddenly a top 5 or ten team maybe two. So that's one of the more underrated week one games. I think the winner of that one's going to be in a really interesting spot. No, I don't want to sound like a prosecutor here, but I'm going to, I mean, you said you talk could be a national championship contender if they get by Florida team that has a first year coach that fired its coach after losing to everyone down the stretch. I know it's Florida and we've all been there. But is that game? Is it such a fine line between getting out of the swamp alive and then becoming a contender? Well, I don't know if I'm looking at it like that. What I'm basically trying to say is we don't know what Ford is going to have to offer. Certain first year coaches, they make the most of what they inherit and billion AP are certainly did that at Louisiana. So if Florida is a top ten or 15 caliber team that obviously they're going to give Utah trouble. Maybe they're not and you tell wins by 17. We'll see. But that one is just Florida has a very high margin for error here. There's a lot of different things that can happen on Florida. So that's kind of why I'm not necessarily counting on them as an easy win there. So beyond Utah, Cincinnati was last year's surprise team, everyone loved them and they didn't they went on and ran the table through the regular season. They opened at Arkansas. Is anyone really taking Cincinnati seriously when you consider, I'm talking about for the national title and considering what they lost and what they have to, and what they have to open up against. Yeah, that's kind of the tricky part there is whatever they are. They could be really good again this year. My number is my S two plus projection still have them kind of borderline top 15, but starting there at Arkansas. That's awfully tricky. Even before you get into a couple of tricky road trips in conference, if they're want to know if they can beat Arkansas, Arkansas is another team that they have so much nuance defense. We don't quite know what to expect from them. It's Cincinnati starts want to know then suddenly 13 it looks pretty good for them. So I think if there's going to be one of those group of 5 darlings, they're the most likely maybe Houston, but I'd say Cincinnati is the most likely candidate if they get to want to know. Bill, I'm working my way back to some of the names we've already heard because I sat there Thursday afternoon in Atlanta next to Jimbo Fisher and I just I saw the confidence exuding through his pores. I mean, you wouldn't think this guy is coming off of a really other than being the number one chamber of the country, a pretty disastrous season. That calzada had basically one awesome game last year and it happened to be against Alabama. That's not really the way that's supposed to work, but if they have a quarterback. And that has been the Jimbo Fisher quarterback of choice for the last 7 years has had an average total QBR ranking 45th. They've just been very by national title standards they've been very subpar at the quarterback position. Aside from last year's Alabama game. And it's all about that at Mac Johnson comes in and thrives and if Jimbo is really committed to throwing down the field for it, they do kind of get conservative quite a bit. You know, there's potential there. And if they have a quarterback, they really might have everything else. It's so much turnover on the defensive line. You can't even pretend to worry about that because of all the candidates they have there. It all just comes down to whether they can make big plays when they need to. And that wasn't the case last year.
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"We had our we had our bag lunch on the weekend. And there's an attorney in the group. And he made a very good point. He said that there are cases floating through the courts to make the athletes employer employees of the school. Yes. So that might be a good thing. Because by the way, it may be, it may be the only way they can get around this. And you're a 100% correct. Yeah, he says, once they're an employee, they've got an employment contract. So the NIL goes back to us. And the portal would be governed by the time of the contract. He's right. You think the schools would be pushed them for it. Because they can't sustain everything you heard save and complain about last week and others. I mean, everyone said the same thing. He just is the most prominent, can be rectified by your plan right there. That center interesting, well, again, we missed it for two weeks here. At least up in West Virginia. Well, thank you very much. Hope you're feeling go up. You're feeling good. I'm feeling great. I was not sick, by the way. I was out. This was not a break predicated by illness. Pat is in Georgia helipad. Hey, Paul, thanks. This is the reason I called, but I do think Jeremy Pruitt needs I'll say an indefinite period for show cause. And I don't want the athletes that are there now and the fans are there now to be penalized by this. Maybe a 7 figure fine imposed on Tennessee. And then move on and let it go. And amen to the family of collars and the catharsis that's there. You said that very well.
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"Thursday at 9 p.m. eastern on ESPN and ESPN+ presented by Capital One. You were listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast. And welcome back to the program Bill Conley joining us shortly gentry yes this covers the vows he'll give a counter to what 40 just had to say and Dan Murphy on what could be the biggest story of this week at Big Ten media days. Mike starts us off from Kentucky. Hey, Paul, good afternoon. Good afternoon. Well, I think Jeremy frew is future might not be completely over, he could always admit himself into the air or maybe he'll get accepted into the mix Saban clinic for wayward coaches. What do you think, Paul? Mike, I don't mean to be difficult here, but did you hear the previous interview we had? Yeah. Amazing. You know, what did you hear in that interview that would make you think that Nick Saban would be able to get within a hundred miles of this guy? Well, Butch Jones did it. No, no, Mike, I hate to do it. Mike, would you stop from one second? I don't mean to be a monster. I actually, if you just give me 30 seconds, and I'm going to let you host the rest of the show since you obviously are good listener. If quoting pat 40, he believes that Pruitt is going to get between a ten and a 15 year show caused by the NCAA. What does that mean? That means that he will not be allowed on a college campus to coach. That also forbids him from going to Alabama as much as Nick Saban may want him and let me tell you right now, Nick Saban would hire Jeremy Pruitt in a second. That's how much he thinks of Jeremy Pruitt. But I don't think Nick Saban can get the next I even wanted to hire you for each a couple of years ago and the SEC office pushed back pretty hard. Wow. Okay, I didn't hear that part of the interview. I'm just tuned in a couple of minutes ago. That's okay. By the way, there's no reason, this is not a classroom, even though I would fail Mike. Trey is up next. Hey, how are you doing, my friend? I'm not failing you at all. I can tell you that right now. I want to tell you, I'm feeling a lot better. I want to say something to Joe from red bay and talking about his problems like he has done has really helped me a lot because I go through a lot of things to I have PTSD from being able to see, and I've had some help problems. So just listen to other people talk. I don't know if he knows it, but it showed us helpful. Tray, I'm really glad to hear you say that because I think Joe has been one of the biggest stars of the year for this show and not what he says about Alabama. That's humorous, but he got everybody's attention a few weeks ago right before the summer break and it was extraordinarily moving and talking about what this show meant to him, but I would counter by using you as exhibit a, what he has meant to so many other people. And one more thing, Trey. We get criticized. I was just in Atlanta and I could hear the Snickers as I walked around radio row of all these know it all radio hosts who blow the 8 for four hours, giving you their opinions. And they talk like the fine bomb show. I mean, the host rolls in, he kicks his feet up. And reads a book for four hours. What makes this show better than any other show, in my opinion, Trey is what you just said. The callers are family, they learn from each other, and that's why we have something unique here that no other network or no other show is going to have. Well, Paul, you have something very special. I told you before I was in the hospital. I've had to watch your show on my own because I don't have the SEC network, but yeah, you're absolutely right. But I have two really good questions for you. And again, thank you very much, Joe. Can you I've been thinking about weekend? Can you decipher it or can you tell me what a safe, safe Friday? I didn't understand a word he said. If I could be honest, Trey, when AC calls, I take out my ear stuff and put it in my ear pods and listen to music. Okay, one other question is this with USC and UCLA going into the Big Ten, always gradually fixing to get rid of the normal everyday, I mean, I can't see people from workers trying to USC or USC plan to see what you're saying. So are we going to take into normal average day American citizen fans out of college football by all this realignment? And I'll hang up. Thank you very much. Well, what you said, there's been so many things going on the last couple weeks. But ultimately, I think you have identified what could be the most serious problem. There is a tremendous disconnect between the fan who supports this game and makes it great versus what the suits are currently doing. They just don't care. I know that's not a popular thing to say at a place like this, but they talk a good game, but they really don't care anymore. It's about making money. It's about piling hundreds of millions of dollars upon each other and one of the Big Ten announces its new deal. It will likely get into the billions. Thank you for the call. Appreciate it, Ken. Is in West Virginia. Hello Ken. Hey, Paul. How are you doing? Good to see you back. Hey Ken, thank you very much. Yeah, we missed you a lot. Hey, I'm a bag on the bag man from West Virginia. We had our we had our bag lunch on the weekend. And there's an attorney in the group. And he made a very good point. He said that there are cases
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"Of thing to brag about, but with Chad Morris. And Chad Morris record is worse. No doubt. But Chad Morris didn't leave a trail of 18 level one allegations, you know, and while I do believe they will probably escape without postseason bans. That doesn't mean they're not going to get scholarship reductions and other things that do impact the program going forward. And when they finish vacating victories from Pruitt, his record might look a lot like Chad Morris. Yeah, and again, I personally want to push back on Mike price at Alabama, but that wasn't, I mean, he was really a good hire on the day that they hired him. He was getting ready for the rose bowl with Washington state. What happened afterwards really had nothing to do with his hiring. It was also very entertaining if you're a voyeur. Watching it from a distance. Just in terms of your understanding of the NCAA, which is difficult to comprehend what they're up, what they do these days help us look at this case for what it is, what Tennessee has done, what they'll argue, obviously. And you alluded to it a minute ago with no postseason, but how tough could they be from a scholarship standpoint? Well, it's a good question. I mean, we are entering into the great unknown as we usually are with the NCAA, but even more so now, because the transformation committee is going to change or recommend changes to the penalty structure and what they really want to lessen is penalties that impact athletes that weren't at school when that happens. So that's one reason they don't want to postseason ban a team in 2023 for something that happened in 2018. So I think Tennessee is frankly lucky that that's what the calendar kind of dictates. The other part where they have retroactively gotten a bit fortunate as they got credit for exemplary cooperation for uncovering a lot of these things. But what they were really probably trying to do was to get out of that $12.6 million buyout. So Tennessee's desire to be cheap helped him help them out by smoking out all these violations and then the NCAA on the back end can say, well, look how hard they tried to find these. And so, you know, I think Tennessee will get credit for cooperation. And finding a lot of this stuff, but it's just really hard to say what the level of sanctions will be in this new NCAA era when we don't know that we haven't gotten to a case that this will be probably one of the first ones to come under the new at least recommendations from the transformation committee about what penalties should look like. Pat in the old days, if we were sitting around 20, 30 years ago, we would have said, this guy's never working again, but we have both seen too many people who were officially declared dead given last right, who are currently coaching in either basketball or football, so it brings me to the Jeremy Pruitt conundrum. What does his future look like? Yeah, the problem for Jeremy is that he wasn't good to begin with. You know, like, okay, Hugh freeze, well, he did beat Alabama twice and had some pretty good years, so maybe he gets another chance. Rick Pitino, as many chances as you want, man. Doesn't matter how many times you've been in trouble. Jeremy Pruitt doesn't have that track record. So I have a feeling it's going to be really hard for him to get a job. Somebody would have to, I think you're looking at probably a ten, 15 year show cause. Which could take him, I'm not sure how old he is now, but theoretically could probably take him into his 60s and I just don't know how attractive a hire he would be. Yeah, that might be too long and he's 48 years old, pat. So the math is pretty easy to do. He would be in his early 60s, and the problem is that his number one benefactor, Nick Saban, well, I probably shouldn't say he won't be coaching in 15 years. I'm sure I'll get some blowback from Alabama fans. Sure, he's just getting started. Yeah, he's feeling good. He's got at least 12 more national championships. That always a pleasure. You take care of yourself. We'll see you soon. All right, thanks, Paul. One of the best pat 40 pretty much giving the unofficial eulogy for Jeremy Pruitt's career, even though I swear it's been given before. We will take a break.
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"sports illustrated" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Today we are back, yes, normalcy has arrived after we were last week in Atlanta. We appreciate all of you being here. On a Monday, we began to move out of July. When we were here the other day, the big story came from Tennessee and not much has changed. A lot of people still wondering about how Jeremy Pruitt could go so wrong as the UT head football could rule breaking while serious is a relic in the NIL future. That's the opinion of one of our guests today. In other words, no big deal. And pat 40 from Sports Illustrated, Tennessee, fans got their way. Now the chickens have come home to roost. So it is definitely a different era. Things are different, but remember, the Tennessee allegations all happened before NIL. Does that mitigate it? Does it matter that the school took proactive measures? We're going to find out pat 40 joining us with some very strong comments the other day in his column. About the legacy of Philip foley, there's no reason to use the word legacy in Jeremy Pruitt in the same sentence because that is not going to happen. Pat, great to have you with us. Appreciate it very much. I wish I could have watched you writing that column. If you had as much joy riding and as I did reading it, we would both be very happy. Good afternoon. It wasn't a difficult one to write. That's for sure. You know, I thought when you're reading 18 level one violations and you go back and look at all of the activities at Tennessee that led up to the hiring of both Phil fulmer as a D and Jeremy Pruitt as football coach. Well, this is what they earned. And let's talk about that, pat, because I think we're so we're all guilty. Well, maybe not you, but I am saying, so no big deal, different era. Those are that's yesterday, but let's talk about how we ended up Tennessee ended up with Jeremy Pruitt. I mean, I basically remember the end of it when Philip fulmer chose Pruitt over Mel Tucker a name that has been very prominent lately, but that's leaving out the subject of that conversation with the Greg schiano fiasco in so many other aspects. Yeah. I mean, this was originally, I mean, this was a populist coup at Tennessee a fan revolt, but removed John curry, the athletic director. And before that blocked his hiring of Greg schiano, I'm not going to sit here and say that Greg schiano would have been a great hire, but everybody that says he would be a terrible hire doesn't know either. Nobody knows how Greg shiana would have done, but his track record of going 11 and two at Rutgers is pretty similar. I think the James Franklin going 9 four at Vanderbilt. It's pretty darn good. But then beyond that for curry to be pushed out when he was negotiating or talking to Mike leach and then bring in an absolute administrative know nothing in Phil fulmer and for them him to hire a simpleton in my opinion in Jeremy Pruitt. Well, I mean, this was just one bad decision that compounded another. And while it may have felt good to say, we're taking back our program, we're putting a Tennessee man in charge, the Tennessee man in charge didn't know what he was doing. And that, of course, Phil fulmer, who's a legacy, he had a brilliant career until he got fired as a football coach. And this pat was a make good. Listen, we love coach fulmer. We're sorry it ended badly. The fact that lane kiffin replaced him, mitigates the firing a little bit because that was an equal disaster and so I was and so was Butch Jones. So let's bring him back and forget what happened at the end when he looked the other way on recruiting. And let him be the man and I fell for it. Now I could be my blood, but I thought he was going to resurrect the program. And did he ever pat? Yeah. He did, sure. I mean, you know, that's the thing. Look, a lot of people have good feelings for Phil fulmer. And for good reason, could you use a very successful coach there? He won the last national championship Tennessee one. But that doesn't mean he's going to be a good administrator. That doesn't mean he's going to run a good coaching search. That doesn't mean he's going to make good decisions there, including giving Jeremy Pruitt an arrays and an extension after going 8 and 5 in a year when they lost to Georgia state. That's what helped push his buyout up to the 12.6 million dollar Mark. I mean, I didn't see Phil former do anything well and during his time as an athletic director. Pat in terms of Pruitt, I don't want to lose sight of him, you've done some stellar investigative reporting in your time. Just compare and contrast what you learned in reading this report to what we normally see programs investigated for and I'm not trying to turn anything into garden variety because in the L world, just because players are legally receiving money, doesn't mean coaches can illegally break the rules, which clearly the NCAA is accusing Pruitt of doing. Yeah, I mean, one of the misnomers here is that, well, this is all legal now. No, actually, every single thing that they're charged with in that notice of allegations is not legal. You can not have recruits in and pay their expenses on an unofficial visit. You can't have men on during a dead period. And coaches can not hand wads of cash to recruits or their families. Even now, even in the NIL era, those things can not happen according to the NCAA rules. Pruitt was usually, you know, these things go. The head coach is like three layers removed and said, I didn't know anything was happening. Well, it's kind of hard to say that when you and your wife are accused of literally being part of The Batman batwoman group. So it is incredibly sloppy. It's unbelievably brazen. Yeah, the dollar figures don't jump out when we're talking now about possible NIL deals of millions of dollars, but this is pure out paying recruits to come to school there. And it is one of the more lengthy and I would say embarrassing notices of allegations. I've seen yeah, and pat, I don't know, misses Pruitt. But I do know my wife and no matter what I was doing, she would not cheat to help further my career. I really want to know what the motivation was here. And especially considering she was once a compliance officer at Florida state. I don't know what that says about Florida state, but I do know what it says about Tennessee, and it was a disaster. Yeah, no, that's the other added wrinkle. It's like, she worked in rules compliance. IE her job was to make sure Florida state and Troy university were following the rules. Now she gets Tennessee. She's one of the ones breaking the rules. I mean, this one falls into the category of you really can't make this up. Nor can you make up the stupidity and the abject failure in real time and in retrospect of Jeremy Pruitt's tenure. For those of you who did not see your piece, you described it in historical terms. Would you mind sharing that with us here today? Yeah, I said he's the worst. Worst SEC football hire the 21st century. I know, I immediately heard significant blowback from Arkansas fans who said, no, we want to take a stake the claim to having the worst hire, which is an interesting sort
The Eric Metaxas Show
Editor Joel Berry Describes His Comedy Influences
"Folks I am talking to Joel berry not to be confused with crunch berry or really any berry, Joel berry you're your own man, and you grew that beard of your own volition. Did you grunt it out in hopes of landing a gig with the Babylon bee? Because I know that if they see an unbearded youth walk in, they just think like he's probably not reforms enough for us, right? Yeah. Well, I was hired and I started reading spurgeon and like the next morning, it just was incredible. I'm going a beard virtually all the time. But I just shave it off before anybody notices. But I want you to know that it's there. You know, it's happening, basically. It's happening as much as your beard is happening. It's growing about the same rate. See that sometimes. I think you should the next few years. If you take certain vitamins, you could like grunt it out in four days. It's unbelievable. Okay, so here's my question for you. When you were growing up, like ten minutes ago, who were your heroes? Who were your comedy heroes? Is there anything that influenced you or what's your comedy thing? Well, you know it came a little bit later in life. I'll be honest. I was homeschooled very sheltered. You know, I grew up in the world where you know you don't watch The Simpsons, you know, you stay away from The Simpsons. So I had to kind of play catch up later on. But I want to know what level are we talking? It's one thing to avoid The Simpsons. It's another thing to turn your own butter. Like where were you on that spectrum? You were maybe a step above churning our own butter. We were pretty long Jean skirts on the ladies. Oh yes. And like a whole Holly hobby kind of aesthetic? Yeah. So those early Apple on B jokes where we would talk about the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, introducing its first baptist supermodel in the long Jean skirt. Those jokes were also too good. It's too good. So yeah, so what did so when did you I mean, was it reading the onion? What was it? What were you reading that made you think I want to do this? Unless it was the B itself. Yeah, it was the B itself, you know? I think the bee was originally inspired by what the onion did. Our founder Adam Ford, he read an onion headline shortly after the Alberta fell decision when they redefine the meaning of marriage at the Supreme Court. And it was something to the effect of forced Supreme Court Justices suddenly realized that they will be the villains in an upcoming Oscar winning movie. You know? And that's a pretty good headline, right? Yeah, it's very good. And I think Adam at that point, he read that. And even though he vehemently disagreed with the point of view of the onion, he had to respect the joke. Why aren't we doing
AP News Radio
Reports: LSU, coach Orgeron to part ways at end of season
"Ed Orgeron reportedly is leaving LSU at the end of the season Sports Illustrated was the first to report that the school and the head coach have agreed to part ways after this season the news comes twenty one months after Orgeron led the Tigers to a national championship Orgeron is forty nine and seventeen in six seasons of baton Rouge but he won five in five last season and his foreign three so far this year Orgeron received a six year contract extension after the twenty nineteen season that team went fifteen behind Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Joe burrow capping the season by beating Clemson in the title game I'm the ferry
The Jump
Brooklyn Nets Open With NBA's Highest Season Win Total
"Here are the nets notable matchups for this upcoming season. Richard in interview with sports illustrated. James harden said quote at full strength. Nobody nobody can beat us in hardened battle. The hamstring injury for the latter part of last season kyrie sprained his ankle in game. Four of the eastern conference finals missing the last four games of that series. According to caesar sportsbook brooklyn has the highest over under win. Total at fifty four and a half game so richard. It's okay well you know what this means is health and that's biggest threat hundred percent. Yeah but only person that can beat them is them and their own bodies. They are healthy and they are playing eighty minus basketball. Then they are pretty much unbeatable. Unless you have the lakers hundred percent healthy playing the best basketball possible but yeah. I don't think it's the biggest threat. I think it's the only threat. There's another team out there. That can compete with them at full strength roll through the playoffs that they are full strength
Asian Enough
Interview With Model, Actress, Dancer, Activist, Leyna Bloom
"So you're a dancer. A model an actor an activist. You were the cover model on. The sports illustrated swimsuit cover It's a famous pop cultural institution. But it's one that's historically been seen. I think in the mainstream through a straight male gaze and in this year's edition there was like an intentional effort to celebrate an inclusive spectrum of women. And i think i understand you shot it before you learn. You made the cover along with tennis player. Naomi osaka and rapper meghan stallion. But what were your hopes going into the shoot and what did you want to convey images. Well anything that i do sense. Being in these spaces of representation is fairly new to argos system. All around the world. I think for me. It has to be some type of cultural shift. Has the part of something that is not just based around vanity orc gluttony. It has to be something that has a message in yes. I have beaten suit on. Yes i'm in. My muslim informed bites what i stand for. And why i was chosen to be part of the issue and then be on the cover was because of what i wanna do with everything i do in the bible being In the past a lot of the models are beautiful. Yes what is a story what is fighting for. What are they really rooted and makes them who they are. And the reason why. I've gotten up to this. Point is not because meek just being beautiful. It's me fighting the system it's me. I'm being blacklisted. It's me saying no. I don't wanna do. This is saying it's not what you say. Yes you is what you say no to that builds character. So what we doing. And what i do with this issue is to invite people who think differently. And that's why i was session for a moment winning a transient on the cover. Because are every single. Day being brutalized murdered sexualize. Harass already has been thirty three on some of cases of trans women especially of color being murdered in america so when that is happening society is imperative in his responsibilities to have moments like
The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"sports illustrated" Discussed on The Gerry Callahan Podcast
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The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"sports illustrated" Discussed on The Gerry Callahan Podcast
"The gerry. Callahan podcast. This is very exciting here. Khurana berg site. It's only a matter of minutes before. Jeff bezos and his brother head up into space. I'm i'm a big space guy. I'm pretty yeah. Yeah yeah. I mean i love the fact that heading into space. My only problem is his is. Why does he have to come back. Kenny just just stay up there and float around for the rest of eternity. I do have a problem with a couple of things and maybe two i don't even know your stance on space if you want to say you love space. Are you excited for the big launch blue origin. Jeff bezos the second billionaire who will head into space this month. Both of them Apparently beating elon musk. The spacex guy. Who's always shooting rockets into space. But anyway jeff bezos is heading into space. There are four people in this pilotless aircraft. And i'm looking at their picture right now and i'm not happy and i don't think anybody should be happy. There is very little diversity on this on this voyage. I don't know if you noticed. There is no are no people of color there are no transgender space. Astronauts on this and i am disappointed. Pesos is the ultimate super woke. Stir he owns the washington. Post the media wing of the woke mob. That's his little play plaything and he owns amazon. Obviously and they they don't they don't sell controversial books and they they are super super woke and i cannot believe. Rock is going into space with no people of color. No transgender astronauts. Hell we got a transgender person on the cover of the swiss swimsuit issue. And we'll get to that but no one in. Jeff bezos has rocket. but there is. There's the first of the of aids though you got an eighteen year old in you've got an eighty two year old woman. He's got an eighteen year old from the netherlands and even know why they picked him in an eighty two year old woman who was in the space program in the sixties but was denied a chance to go into space because of her gender and now she's the chance but don't you worry if the thing blows up in in what i call it re reading up i mean this. I mean the eighty two year old of a good long life but the eighteen year old. I'm sorry if that's if i'm mom or dad. I don't want my kid going up into space with chip as owes But that's happening any moment now in all the space nerds or excited. And how long was he in. He's going to be in-space for like ten minutes. Yeah very long at all. They're just gonna float around like like the branson richard branson's people did urging. They were without gravity. What do you call that when you're floating around the spaceship. Yeah the three minutes. It was like three minutes. That was for richard branson and then they came back to earth and they all survived and everyone all the space nerds were very happy but they had their last meal. Jeff bezos made. It made a funny. He joked about having their last meal before heading to space. And there's a big media contingent. I'm sure they're all just. They probably all one way or the other work for jeff pesos. All there to to write and talk about what a bold brave explorer chip as those is in what a great. What a great american. But we will keep an eye on that for our our facebook and era and our to viewers. Who are watching live. It's happening in fifty six minutes. I'm pretty excited But i really don't care how you're you're excited but you're not excited. No i think it's cool. I think i think in the in this regard elon. Musk is right that that humanity is fragile being on one planet and so establishing another call me on. Mars is a good idea up. Sure that's going to happen like a week from tuesday. We're gonna start calling on mars. This is just an ego trip. Twenty years this has nothing to do with established got calling on. Mars is plenty of room on this planet. Bezos is just one of these billionaires and branson and elon. Musk and you know they're bored. Basis building a five hundred million dollars yacht biggest you out in the world. I'm sure it'll have a massive carbon footprint but they'll probably be like a windmill on it or some kind of composting station will say look. It's green. He's concerned about the environment. It has a tender boat that has a helicopter landing pet. Not just the yacht. The tender boat also has a helicopter psycho bounds. Yawn and paul allen is not in basis league anymore financially but he has a submarine on his yet so he can drop down the cruise around submarine. These guys are running out of things to do to buy to keep their you know to keep their interest and excitement on fair. I honestly i think that's unfair. I think part of that is they want the adventure. But i also think i do believe that. Ilan believes that there are at this fragile. You've seen the earth. Get to extinguish. Life from earth has been extinguished a few times in the history of the planet and for humanity and survive another comment. We need another planet. So earth is fragile. And you're going to build a five hundred million dollar yacht. We'll just ask dateline musk. Musk he's all that's true. We invented the tesla so we can't do whatever produced the tesla so we can't knock musk. Musk musk as as a kind of a kind of a rabble-rouser he's always like that. I can't. I can't just a little a little dangerous. I can't wait. I can't wait to spend my last few days on of my life on mars. I think that'll be a good way to end his good goodwin to end your life. Go to mind one. I'm ninety five years old. I got nothing left to go. See the red planet and peacefully. Hawaii wouldn't you rather just go to hawaii would go to mars. I think i'll do both your surfer. Wouldn't you rather go to australia. Then go to mars. There's no surfing mars. You can visit these places in. I'm saying when i'm past the point of being able to serve when i'm an old fragile man. Ninety five years old. I'll die peacefully more after. Say you're you're smart guy. You seen bamboo stuff together. But you're not a kid. You're not a kid anymore you're in your forties and you're going to surf camp with your there. That's that's what you do when you're eighteen or even thirteen. I want to have a little bit of adventure. When i was away. I didn't wanna just sit around reading a book for a week. That's not that adventurous. Going to the beach in new jersey irving though not just not just on the beach. But i'll tell you what to new jersey and play mini golf. You ate ice cream. That's not that adventurous. What do you do for adventure you. I didn't say. I don't want to go to space. I need space. I like going to the beach. You know i like go to the beach. I like playing golf and not many regular golf. And i like traditional summer fun. I love summer. i don't wanna go to mars. I don't even want to go to rain the summer. Let go to montana. I have a couple friends that go to.
The Lead
Allyson Felix's Transformation After the Nike Fallout
"Felix is the most decorated athlete in track and field history. She's won ten national titles eighteen world championship medals including thirteen golds. That's more golds at world's than any track and field athlete ever including you sane bolt nine olympic medals six golds three silvers two world records. She's currently tied for the most olympic medals and track and field and one more in tokyo would make her the most decorated woman in olympic track and field history. That's so exciting. She's quite the athlete that i don't think people realize how would you say that. She was known to fans of the us olympic team or the american public in the earlier part of her career. Yeah i mean her. Reputation was really for coming on scene. Super yacht maybe as the successor sprint star for the united states allyson felix. He's only eighteen years old. She already has been on the cover. Sports illustrated how about that at eighteen years old. You know she. She burst onto the scene as a senior in high school In two thousand three. She broke marion. Jones is national school record In the two hundred meter she was in high school athlete of the year that year
Esports Minute
FaZe Clan on Sports Illustrated Cover
"Moment for Esports says, for the first time in its publication history, Sports Illustrated has an e sports team on their cover. FaZe Clan Has graced, the sports magazines front page as they highlighted the organization's home. It's Unique stream, team branding and of course that says lifestyle, it's a cover featured nickmercs temper and rug as well. As the addition of Arizona Cardinals quarterback, Kyler Murray as phase K1 off Ron James, his own son bronny. Has phase brawny. Check out the whole story on the East sportsnetwork.com is Justin a mean, has a full ride up on that story.
TechStuff
The HBO Story
"This episode. The hbo story part two originally published on may seventh twenty fourteen and We are just going to jump right in and get back into. The story goes oh. Hbo has entity has heavily influenced. What cable television is and what entertainment delivery services are in general. If it hadn't been hbo our landscape would be dramatically different today. So that's why we're doing it in fact think about it without hbo. You don't have a cable. companies cable. System operators pushing cable copper cable into cities anywhere near as quickly right. You might not have seen it happen or it might have taken a decade longer. Which means you would not even have the infrastructure that the internet relies on today for high speed internet. We'd be using telephone lines still. Yeah you might. Furthermore not have had people adopt as quickly the idea of using satellites to beam information at television information out too many far spread networks. Exactly so like we said landscape very different without. Hbo whether you love it or hate it. It's a large part of why the world is as far as the cable world and entertainment world's why things are the way they are so so A little tiny bit of back story very tiny. Hbo owned by time. Yes time inc. Not not time the the physical entity like the actual not father time not the progression of changes throughout a the dimension. Know that we know of. I'm inc the company that owned time magazine or still does time magazine fortune magazine sports illustrated etcetera etcetera correct so in nineteen eighty time a second pay. Tv channel called cinemax primarily as a competitor to the less expensive showed. Yes so there were a couple different ways to compete against showtime was. Let's try and grab as much exclusive content as we possibly can that showtime can't have and thus people will say hey we want. Hbo because they have these movies and showtime doesn't whoever that's really expensive.
Ageless
Superhero/Supermodel Nina Agdal
"This week. We have our friend nina. Agdal on the podcasts. You probably know her from sports illustrated but she is also a health and wellness guru. She has the doll method. Which is her fitness app and hosts classes in the hamptons. She is amazing. So we hope you guys love this episode as much as we loved her courting it and let us know your thoughts over on instagram. So let's just jump right into it with nina. I want to hear first about your health and wellness journey and how you first got into fitness. Oh my god. I mean dad journey honestly goes back to when i was so little like i grew up with a soccer dad like he trained my brother to to play soccer. My brother went semi pro and my family has always been so active like they were like you know. We weren't so into music or traveling like he was like playing sports like entering competitions. Always trying something new like my dad was like try something like if you're good at it continue doing it if you enjoy continue doing it but just keep trying new things so i basically grew up with that and started dancing. Competitively then started. Playing basketball again tried. Every single sport and played it started entering my teenage years where other things in life start happening like parties. And you know you wanna do other things than going to basketball games and dancing competitively. So i kinda like didn't do as many sports then. But that's when i was discovered to do modeling to and obviously modeling comes with a certain responsibility. Like i like to describe it. It's like you know you have to be a professional athlete. 'cause it's definitely moving towards the direction where the body and the sizing and the measurements are not as important thing god. We're getting there. But when i started. What is that thirteen years ago. It was not a thing where with okay to be like different sizes which is a completely different topic conversation. But that's when. I got into fitness where i really had to like. Educate myself on how to take care of my body which is also process. Because there's so many ways to do it like you know that just living in new york it's like there's a gym and a method and a right and a wrong way on every single corner and how to how to train yourself and how to get in shape and
FOX Sports Radio Weekends
Trevor Lawrence Reaffirms His Dedication to Football
"Controversy that broke out this week. I mean, the kind of stuff that when you really think about it could affect opinions. Apparently, Trevor Laurence doesn't have it ship on his shoulder. Now, um, let's think about the absurdity of this for just a moment, Miss all came from a Sports Illustrated article. In which basically I guess if you really wanted to read into it, which A lot of you sure did. Kind of thought that this questioned the overall passion. For Trevor, Laurence and football and I quote It's not like I need this for my life to be okay. I want to do it because I want to be the best I can be. I want to maximize my potential. Who wouldn't want to You kind of wasted if you know. He added. Whenever asked about Maintaining a healthy attitude without finding extra motivation in every actual or perceived slider. Disrespect. Dr Lawrence said. Hard to explain that because I want people to know that I'm a passionate guy and I'm passionate about what I do, and it's really important to me. But Don't have this huge chip on my shoulder. Don't have this huge and ship that everyone's out to get me and I'm not trying to prove everybody wrong. I just don't have that I can't manufacture that. I don't want to. I think that's unhealthy. To a certain extent. Just always thinking that you've got to prove somebody wrong. You've got to doom or you've got to be better. By the way, when I first read that I kind of thought that's a shot of Baker Mayfield. I'm just being honest. That's the first thing that came to mind because what is my man? What a six always have in Cleveland. He got chip on his shoulder. And it might even be manufactured, but he is always He is always going to play up the fact that he's being disrespected
The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard & Rob Parker
Trevor Lawrence Responds to Critics
"Want to transition a little bit of nfl because obviously the next big thing on the nfl draft calendar or on the sports counter really is the nfl draft. And it's kind of crazy because there are so many different narratives that are popping up mack. Jones moving updraft boards justin field potentially moving down draft boards. So narratives going on. And so what. I kinda wanna do. That was a new piece of information that came out today. That really leads to an older piece of information from earlier this week that i want your opinion on and so listen. It's draft season. You hear all sorts of crazy stuff but there was a report out a lengthy report from the athletic earlier today which which which interviewed a bunch of anonymous gm's and coaches and stuff like that and so it said in this athletic report. You told me that justin field was going to be better than trevor lawrence and five years. I would say yes that could happen. That was an anonymous. Gm told that to the athletic. And so i thought that quote was kind of interesting in the context of what happened earlier this week with trevor lawrence. I know you and chris touched on it briefly but for the audience. That hasn't fully heard the quotes. I'll read it really quick robin than i want your response but trevor lawrence of course the presumptive number pick. Since the beginning of time no one has ever debated his place as the best player in this draft. He sat down for a pretty lengthy interview with sports illustrated and he said a few different things where he said. It's hard to explain that. Because i want people to know that i'm passionate about what i do and it's really important to me but i don't have the huge chip on my shoulder that everyone's out to get me and i'm trying to prove everybody wrong. I just don't have that. I can't manufacture that. I don't want to and i think that people mistake debt for not being competitive. I think that's unhealthy to certain extent. He's talking about that chip. Just always thinking that you've got to prove somebody wrong. You've got to do more. You've got to be better
ESPN Daily
The Surprising Science Behind Epic Athletes
"Dave in the interest of full journalistic disclosure. Here it feels important to mention that long before you became this new york times bestselling author and podcast host and the best sports science reporter in america. We worked together at sports illustrated in the mid to late two thousands and we used to share a wall yet in full disclosure. I believe i have a winning record against you in office table ping pong. That's stats to verify that i'm sticking with that. I recall destroying but maybe there is revisionist history. Oh that's so funny. So we both legitimately believe that another episode on cognitive biases. I am glad dave to have you here to clarify something else. Which is that in private for years. I've basically used you to help me understand what the very best athletes in the world are teaching us about ourselves in the human body and i get to that in public now on this podcast with you here because in your two books the sports gene and in range you tumble down into the rabbit. Hole of what is called performance science so before we get into all of that and double down with you. How did you get there in the first place. That is an interesting question. And i have to give a little bit of a disclaimer here. There's a sad part to the story. But i played a bunch of sports football basketball baseball in high school. Before i got into into running and ran track and field in college i started getting interested in physiology basically a lot of runners do but also had this sort of tragic event where a young guy who was a training partner mind. One of the top rank is in the country in his event. Eight hundred meters. Yeah i and family of jamaican immigrants. Who is going to go to. College actually died at the end of a race a few steps after race in my local newspaper he had a heart attack and i kind of wondered what does that. What does that even mean. And this sort of long story short set me on a path toward investigating physiology and it turned out. He had this genetic condition. That was sort of misdiagnosed. I'm interested in genetics. Which one thing led to another and ended up writing the sports team.
The Paul Finebaum Show
As Broad NCAA Change Awaits, College Football Is Facing a Recruiting Reckoning
"Is national signing day. Better college football reporter out there than our next gas. Ross dellinger from sports illustrated. He has written today about the ever. Slow changes of college football especially under the heading is brought into change a wage college. Football is facing a recruiting reckoning ross. Great to have you on and it seemed like a normal day nick. Sabin got all the siamese and everybody else was left to watch but Before we get to your piece just your reaction on a fairly quiet national signing day. Yeah it is. I think we're probably going to see more of this as we as we go through the year too it's just it's signing day is going to be quieter in quieter In already worst pretty quiet because the december national signing period but now you throw all of the transfer portal stuff With coaches holding spots for transfers and in the bigger news has been has been transfers. You know so not only did the early national signing day in december Kind of cake Take the spotlight away from the old school signing day but now you have transfers doing the same think at last check do we have. We have a number on how many tennessee players are in the portal. Well the number. Last week when i did compilation for that story you mentioned was nineteen And i figured there'd be tops in the nation but they are not They're number two Western kentucky has twenty one players in the portal freight a freight ask. What's going on there. But i'll look into it after you're off the air. Let's talk about your piece today. And and every time we talk to you you you you. You have your handle on on where college athletics is. And where is it going so look ahead as you report have reported on this subject and and what is likely to change in the future right. It's to put it simply politics. It's a mess It really is a messy situation right now when it comes to roster or management's It all starts because of the the influx of transfers. You know when when there were reports were out there that the ncaa was gonna pass the one time. Transfer exception and allow allow players to transfer without that one year sitting out penalty. Obviously players jumped in the transfer portal and their or at least by my count around thousand scholarship players. Transfer portal and about fifty percent of those Do not have a home right now. There could be hundreds more joining the spring and the summer when the dog officially pass it and they will pass it by april Shane lyons The d. one Oversight football oversight chair tells me they will pass it by april so you'll you'll have a bigger influx. What happens there when you get more transfers out there. They had fewer and fewer homes to go to You you've got transferred from the power. Five paul dropping down to the group of five or the fcs. 'cause there's not any room and then there's some transfers and the poodle that won't play football again. I mean that's been documented In fact i wrote about in lsu player who two years ago with no transfer portal in. Never play football again. Because there wasn't a spot for them so and wives and their spot because as you mentioned scholarship limitations. The ncaa has the schools can carry eighty five scholarship. Players can sign twenty five new players a year only can't get go above that twenty five and because of the influx of transfers there's talk of increasing or just in some way that twenty five man spot because what a transfer does all there's so many of them What happens is if you if you get a transfer day. When they leave that school they. They're in a way penalizing that school. That's an open scholarship. That school cannot fill In an adjoining their new school. And they're taking up a to precious twenty-five chinese you know initial counters. They call them. So there's a lot of issues for sure going on
Beyond The Baseline
2021 Predictions, Latest Headlines
"Everyone's got to work on. This week's sports illustrated kenneth podcasts. Happy twenty twenty one. I i cast of the year. I'm joined by jamie real tennis chat because there are a real match it Jamie good morning happy new year. Good morning having here. I'm i'm good. It's it's strange to Wake up in the morning and actually have match results from flitting across your screen along with Your georgia election results were talking on wednesday morning and Already the women are at play dhabi. The men are qualifying in delray even Nevermind cobain just nice. Nice to have tennis back it It's been a while since we've Been in a position to actually talk about some tennis in not just guessing game about the calendar or try to Find other ways to to fill time. We wait for tennis. Return so good. Good sport back with us tom. I thought we would do a few things today. One of them is We talk with sam query. The other day The told us why he made his escape from russia. And that seems to have generated a fair amount of attention pro and con. Maybe we can talk about that and then we get a column of projecting twenty twenty one and someone suggested we actually instead of just answering. Why don't we provide some logic. And some reason talk through some of the choices we made in terms of prognosticating. Twenty twenty one so. I thought you and i would do that this morning. How does that sound sounds good. I will say the same query interview As you said. Got a lot quite a lot of responses. I think for awhile. We didn't hear anything from him at all. And of course the up investigation concluded and the suspended fine came down And so i think a lot of people were really interested to hear his side of the story. Though i think people are still very much divided on where they stand. Yeah exactly and I mean remember when this news first broke in october. This was a few days after the the twenty twenty french open The atp had a very strongly worded statement and there was even. I mean i had people that were deep inside these discussions inside tennessee. Look democrats may have played his last match. This is a serious breach. This could be you know a six month. Suspension even a one year suspension. Same query already mid thirties. This could have sealed his career and turned up. Not the case at all and This is a as you say he got suspended. Twenty thousand dollar fine which basically means he only needs to behave himself with respect to cove it if he gets in a dispute with a chair umpire. That doesn't count. This is only health and safety related So such this was a slap on the wrist. And i you know. I think this divide people and i am sam. A lot of credit for essentially saying look at the facts are really in dispute. It's just a question of interpretation and in. here's what i went through and put yourself in my shoes and if you disagree with me disagree and Some people took took great offense and still do about what he did other people sympathize but he basically said you know. Here's the story. It's not really not much in dispute. Factually you know. In a lot of these cases you would necessarily extend this platform to To an athlete without trying to find some balance from the other side. But i think it's not really a question of facts being disputes. Just a question of application of law and how severely you want to sanction him Sam laid out what happened and sort of gave us a tiktok and essentially said here. The facts now go ahead and judge me armed with all the facts and as as you say jamie. Some people still take Offense to this his leaving country going to another country breaching protocol You know a lot of people look at you. Run the risk and You knew what you were signing up for. And i think other saw as as you alluded to who's in a fairly You know fairly desperate situation in a in a foreign country with kobe tests and not a lot of clarity. In terms of how the next few weeks would shake out with a seventeen month old until and you know candidly. I tend to land there as well. Not not an ideal set of circumstances and you wish there had been another option a little more communication in there. But i don't think you can really fault someone for being in russia not getting a straight answer having kovachev having the possibility of being separated from your wife and seven month old and basically saying. I'm gonna do this safely as i can. But i i gotta get the hell outta here. Consequences be damned so I don't know if there were other things that struck you reading his piece but I have a hard time. Dredging up a whole lot of outrage. Honestly you know it's interesting. I think a lot of people say And we sort of talked about this briefly on podcast before this That you know why. Why bring your family in the first place right. you know. it's a pandemic you know you're going to a different country. You have an infant. There's a lot of reasons there. And i know in his initial hugh he he basically said he was going to be a longtime away from my family and he wasn't prepared or ready to to be gone for that long
Beyond The Baseline
2021 Predictions, Latest Headlines
"Everyone's got to work on. This week's sports illustrated kenneth podcasts. Happy twenty twenty one. I i cast of the year. I'm joined by jamie real tennis chat because there are a real match it Jamie good morning happy new year. Good morning having here. I'm i'm good. It's it's strange to Wake up in the morning and actually have match results from flitting across your screen along with Your georgia election results were talking on wednesday morning and Already the women are at play dhabi. The men are qualifying in delray even Nevermind cobain just nice. Nice to have tennis back it It's been a while since we've Been in a position to actually talk about some tennis in not just guessing game about the calendar or try to Find other ways to to fill time. We wait for tennis. Return so good. Good sport back with us tom. I thought we would do a few things today. One of them is We talk with sam query. The other day The told us why he made his escape from russia. And that seems to have generated a fair amount of attention pro and con. Maybe we can talk about that and then we get a column of projecting twenty twenty one and someone suggested we actually instead of just answering. Why don't we provide some logic. And some reason talk through some of the choices we made in terms of prognosticating. Twenty twenty one so. I thought you and i would do that this morning. How does that sound sounds good. I will say the same query interview As you said. Got a lot quite a lot of responses. I think for awhile. We didn't hear anything from him at all. And of course the up investigation concluded and the suspended fine came down And so i think a lot of people were really interested to hear his side of the story. Though i think people are still very much divided on where they stand. Yeah exactly and I mean remember when this news first broke in october. This was a few days after the the twenty twenty french open The atp had a very strongly worded statement and there was even. I mean i had people that were deep inside these discussions inside tennessee. Look democrats may have played his last match. This is a serious breach. This could be you know a six month. Suspension even a one year suspension. Same query already mid thirties. This could have sealed his career and turned up. Not the case at all and This is a as you say he got suspended. Twenty thousand dollar fine which basically means he only needs to behave himself with respect to cove it if he gets in a dispute with a chair umpire. That doesn't count. This is only health and safety related So such this was a slap on the wrist. And i you know. I think this divide people and i am sam. A lot of credit for essentially saying look at the facts are really in dispute. It's just a question of interpretation and in. here's what i went through and put yourself in my shoes and if you disagree with me disagree and Some people took took great offense and still do about what he did other people sympathize but he basically said you know. Here's the story. It's not really not much in dispute. Factually you know. In a lot of these cases you would necessarily extend this platform to To an athlete without trying to find some balance from the other side. But i think it's not really a question of facts being disputes. Just a question of application of law and how severely you want to sanction him Sam laid out what happened and sort of gave us a tiktok and essentially said here. The facts now go ahead and judge me armed with all the facts and as as you say jamie. Some people still take Offense to this his leaving country going to another country breaching protocol You know a lot of people look at you. Run the risk and You knew what you were signing up for. And i think other saw as as you alluded to who's in a fairly You know fairly desperate situation in a in a foreign country with kobe tests and not a lot of clarity. In terms of how the next few weeks would shake out with a seventeen month old until and you know candidly. I tend to land there as well. Not not an ideal set of circumstances and you wish there had been another option a little more communication in there. But i don't think you can really fault someone for being in russia not getting a straight answer having kovachev having the possibility of being separated from your wife and seven month old and basically saying. I'm gonna do this safely as i can. But i i gotta get the hell outta here. Consequences be damned so I don't know if there were other things that struck you reading his piece but I have a hard time. Dredging up a whole lot of outrage. Honestly