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Speaker 1: by best and worst of the weekend poll question from
Speaker 1: the first hour seat and what's on tap for hour two?
Speaker 2: Dah.
Speaker 3: We had biggest win this weekend right now, Fritzie conquering
Speaker 3: Bridgeport is at thirty seven percent of the vote, followed
Speaker 3: by the big twelve, then Sweden over the US women's
Speaker 3: national team, Bryson Deshambo not really getting much love for
Speaker 3: his live golf performance. We also put up there based
Speaker 3: on Todd would you rather be confident or talented? Right now,
Speaker 3: sixty two percent of the audience would rather be talented.
Speaker 1: And you're saying that Todd is confident, Well.
Speaker 3: I believe that was the quote you had from somebody
Speaker 3: in the band said, Uh, well, he's certainly confident. I
Speaker 3: don't know how talented he is, but he's definitely confident.
Speaker 3: And it made me wonder, would you rather be super
Speaker 3: confident in your abilities or really talented but maybe not
Speaker 3: as confident.
Speaker 1: I'll take I'll take talent. Yeah, yeah, I'll take talent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's an interesting question though.
Speaker 4: I know people who are talented, guys I grew up
Speaker 4: with I thought were extremely funny or great singers, but
Speaker 4: they didn't have the confidence to try it. Fritzy is
Speaker 4: like maybe a sea level talent, but a B plus
Speaker 4: on the confidence level to try things.
Speaker 1: Not like a must see talent. No, you're talking about
Speaker 1: a sea level Yeah, like a grade See.
Speaker 4: There's some people like you know, we've talked about Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4: He might need to not be the best athlete of
Speaker 4: all time, but he has superior confidence and it worked
Speaker 4: for him for a decade.
Speaker 3: All right, it is It is more of a thought
Speaker 3: provoking question than you think.
Speaker 5: Yes, it is on the surface.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I lack confidence growing up and probably should
Speaker 1: lean towards the confidence part of that, but I still
Speaker 1: having talent. I can gain confidence by having talent. If
Speaker 1: I have confidence, I don't have talent, then eventually it's like,
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe I shouldn't be doing this.
Speaker 3: Yes, you can waste all of that talent though by
Speaker 3: not having the confidence too.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, yes, Tom.
Speaker 6: There are people in various industries. We've all worked with them.
Speaker 6: We don't have to name who they are. But you
Speaker 6: could have a lot of confidence in charisma. You may
Speaker 6: not have a lot of talent, but you could somehow
Speaker 6: brainwash people into thinking that you're you're the man, and
Speaker 6: you're in charge, and they follow you along and you
Speaker 6: hire people that will handle all the talented work that
Speaker 6: needs to be done, and you could be the figurehead
Speaker 6: and be the big president of a company whatever. And
Speaker 6: I don't know how much talent you have, but you've
Speaker 6: kind of tricked everybody with your charisma and confidence into.
Speaker 1: Thinkning soundost like you got some people in mind.
Speaker 7: Nobody like this person.
Speaker 6: He or she must really know what they're talking about
Speaker 6: if they had to do it themselves. You know, they're
Speaker 6: smart enough to hire the people that know how to
Speaker 6: get it done, but they can and then take credit
Speaker 6: for it or whatever.
Speaker 4: Yes, but also, average talent can be developed with hard work.
Speaker 4: You can not have like Dan, you have a good voice,
Speaker 4: There's a lot of people on here who don't have
Speaker 4: good voices, but they have good control of their broadcasts.
Speaker 4: Like I worked for years with Chris Fowler, and I
Speaker 4: don't know if Chris Fowler had a great voice when
Speaker 4: he started in this business. He developed a thick and
Speaker 4: rich voice, but I know he was always prepped and
Speaker 4: always worked to prep for the broadcast, which I think
Speaker 4: goes a long way to make you talent.
Speaker 1: Fritzie just sent me a tweet. Thank you Fritzie for
Speaker 1: putting a smile on my face. My mom passed away
Speaker 1: last night. As I'm crying going to work, you guys
Speaker 1: make me smile. Thank you.
Speaker 7: How nice is that? How many jobs in the world
Speaker 7: can you make?
Speaker 5: That mom passed away?
Speaker 1: But it's it sounded like death on Friday night listening
Speaker 1: to Todd though.
Speaker 7: You have to turn her into that one.
Speaker 6: She's getting past losing her mom because we made her
Speaker 6: laugh at her.
Speaker 1: She loved it soon.
Speaker 4: Wow, did he get to hear the audio?
Speaker 7: That's too bad?
Speaker 1: Yeah, too bad for her? Oh that's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't believe you got up and did that.
Speaker 5: Man, that's unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Kept his hands in his pocket, the whole time.
Speaker 7: I got a lot of those Fritzy pocket pool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if your hands over to your pocket, I know, Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 8: There was a woman about two rows ahead of me
Speaker 8: and my wife and she was tearing up and she
Speaker 8: was saying, he's just doing such a great job. I
Speaker 8: don't think she even knew Fritzy at all, and she
Speaker 8: was tearing up. Or maybe he was, you know, crying
Speaker 8: from you know the pain.
Speaker 1: Yes, Todd.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like you sang better in sound check
Speaker 3: or in the like, actual live performance.
Speaker 7: That's a good question.
Speaker 6: I thought I sounded a little better in the live performance,
Speaker 6: but that may be my mind tricking me, because the
Speaker 6: audience seemed to be into it. That they were clapping
Speaker 6: and dancing and singing along to the words, which I
Speaker 6: wasn't expecting any of that, and that that alone made
Speaker 6: me feel really good, eve even if my singing was bad,
Speaker 6: that they.
Speaker 1: Here's another cut from soundcheck, watching Watching, Watching.
Speaker 9: Watching.
Speaker 3: A question, I'm going to do that.
Speaker 7: Lass line they watch you every more? Girls?
Speaker 10: That helpful?
Speaker 7: Or just to end it there, what I wonder we're
Speaker 7: trying to sort it out. Do you just stand there
Speaker 7: and we'll let.
Speaker 1: You know when it's tip to making suggestions. They quick
Speaker 1: question because they made one.
Speaker 6: Suggestion which sounded very high school musically, and that's not
Speaker 6: how the song goes. And I didn't want to get
Speaker 6: into a whole thing with them because they're awesome and
Speaker 6: I'm gonna do whatever they want me to do.
Speaker 1: But it was they were like, hold on, you just
Speaker 1: you will not let people help you, the people who
Speaker 1: do this for a living.
Speaker 6: I had just listened to the song so many times
Speaker 6: I knew, like what all the exact words were, and
Speaker 6: they go, how about watching you, watching you, watching you
Speaker 6: prav it ees and like ended like that, and that's
Speaker 6: not how the song goes, and it just that sounded
Speaker 6: weird to me, but I guess it's helpful for them,
Speaker 6: and our instruments were to end on that particular note.
Speaker 1: You guess it's helpful.
Speaker 6: So I say, you want me to do three watching
Speaker 6: news and then just say private eyes and like ended
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 8: Wait, wait, hold on, Fritzy, did you want it to
Speaker 8: fade out like it does on your album?
Speaker 7: Exactly what I want? I want to watch and you
Speaker 7: watch you, you watching you, watching.
Speaker 1: You maybe, and that's how it was going fade out.
Speaker 7: But it sounded weird to go private eyes.
Speaker 5: It sounded weird, all right.
Speaker 6: I'm not criticizing it, but I'm just I just wanted
Speaker 6: to sound exactly.
Speaker 5: Like it agreed with the artistic direction of the performance.
Speaker 6: I just wanted it to be the way it sounded like,
Speaker 6: growing up to how the exact record goes.
Speaker 7: Yes, just know how the song goes.
Speaker 1: And it would have been better if we just played
Speaker 1: the record.
Speaker 5: Darry'll take it, Yes, let's take.
Speaker 7: It from the top. Fritzie jumped it again. Just be Pacer,
Speaker 7: you're sinking too fast.
Speaker 1: You know. I'll take some of the blame because I
Speaker 1: I'm the one that made the bet with Darius that
Speaker 1: Dolphins would win the Super Bowl, and if they didn't,
Speaker 1: then you got to sing two songs. If the Dolphins
Speaker 1: had gotten to the super Bowl, then he got to host.
Speaker 7: None of us thought that ever was gonna actually come
Speaker 7: to Fruition.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think he remembered. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden I had to remind him.
Speaker 5: He really let Todd get up there and do that.
Speaker 7: Yes, in the middle of his set.
Speaker 6: It wasn't like before getting it over at six thirty
Speaker 6: seven o'clock.
Speaker 5: This is what he does for a living.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know, yes, Marv.
Speaker 8: And when you send us the set list, and so
Speaker 8: I'm looking at my phone and just looking. I was like,
Speaker 8: all right, this is oh my fritz He's up next.
Speaker 8: And my wife's like, oh my god, he's really up next.
Speaker 8: You know, She's like, I kept this is really happening.
Speaker 8: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I kept counting down. I think it was seven songs,
Speaker 1: and then Fritzi was coming up, and I go, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I got three more, two more, one more.
Speaker 1: And then my wife goes, I can't watch this.
Speaker 6: And it wasn't a New Year's countdown or the start
Speaker 6: of the NFL season. This was like the Grim Reaper
Speaker 6: is hiding around the corner and coming to get me.
Speaker 7: Countdown.
Speaker 4: Yes, From where Marvin and I were sitting, you could
Speaker 4: see the wings of the stage and I could see
Speaker 4: you and Fritzy and I think it was Fritzie's wife
Speaker 4: or your wife. I'm not sure clearly for the first
Speaker 4: seven or eight songs. So I'm just sitting there with
Speaker 4: my wife and you know, Matthew Berry from NBC, the
Speaker 4: Fantasy Football guy, and he's next. We were like they're
Speaker 4: right there. I wonder what they're talking about. I wonder
Speaker 4: they're having a simple waters Fritzy had to go to
Speaker 4: the bathroom. We're kind of breaking it down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were. We were trying to encourage him. I think,
Speaker 1: just positive thoughts there, and you were, you were locked
Speaker 1: in thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers, yes, Marph.
Speaker 8: And the smart thing by Darius or whoever put it
Speaker 8: together the setlist. Let Her Cry was the next song
Speaker 8: right after, just in case people were like, Oh.
Speaker 7: I know that sucked, but we're gonna do letter Cry,
Speaker 7: pretend to stop booing, stop booing.
Speaker 11: Letter h.
Speaker 1: The scene, man, it was I can't believe that happened.
Speaker 5: I I know, unbelievable. I know unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, take some phone calls here, Best and Worst of
Speaker 1: the weekend. We'll talk some college football on realignment and
Speaker 1: Bruce Feldman from the Athletical Joines coming up a little
Speaker 1: bit here. Let's see Buddha down in Baja Hi, Buddha.
Speaker 12: Win of the VP. Fritzy did it, Dan, Fritzy and
Speaker 12: his plums of steel got up there. He put his
Speaker 12: hands in his pockets and he pulled it off. Congratulations Fritz.
Speaker 12: Best of the Weekend, Best of the weekend was There
Speaker 12: was a few fights this weekend, but the best one
Speaker 12: was on the Diamond on Saturday between Hosei Ramirez and
Speaker 12: Tim Anderson. And the call is just as good. I
Speaker 12: don't know if you got to see that or hear that,
Speaker 12: but it was awesome worth the look worst of the weekend, Dan.
Speaker 12: You know, it's a lot of layers like an onion, Dan,
Speaker 12: the US women it's just not a good look. I
Speaker 12: thought it with a bad Starry with the whole good
Speaker 12: luck with that mantra, and you know, just it's a
Speaker 12: shame that went down, and it's a shame that people
Speaker 12: were going and rooting for that.
Speaker 1: So thank you, Bud. Yeah, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: advertising dollars attached to the US women's team and commercials,
Speaker 1: and now you know it's in Australia. You're you were
Speaker 1: losing the American audience anyway, and now you don't have
Speaker 1: the US in there. You've lost a couple of the
Speaker 1: marquee teams there, but not having the United States. Harry
Speaker 1: and San Francisco. Hey Harry, what's on your mind?
Speaker 12: Hey?
Speaker 11: Dan Patrick Man, I get to play hooky in elementary
Speaker 11: school to watch you on TV for hours all right,
Speaker 11: next to take my call.
Speaker 12: Sure, Hey, two.
Speaker 11: Things soccer here. Obviously, two major events went down, not
Speaker 11: only do the women unfortunately, I thought it was a
Speaker 11: great selection. I know they didn't have the best showing
Speaker 11: throughout the tournament, but they went out in style. They
Speaker 11: went out as me anyone who watches the sport, Sweden
Speaker 11: is one heck of a team and it was a
Speaker 11: tough way to go out. But hey, I'm still proud
Speaker 11: of them. I know. Anybody that's upset with them going out, listen,
Speaker 11: they're probably an armchair or there's some political in their mind.
Speaker 11: They probably don't even watch soccer that often. Anyone who
Speaker 11: watched the sport should appreciate the way they went out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean they had a great opportunity. They
Speaker 1: were the better team. Thanks for the phone call, Harry.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, Megan Rippino can be polarizing. She's
Speaker 1: off putting, and she wasn't. She's not a good player anymore.
Speaker 1: She's a legend. But it felt like they were holding
Speaker 1: on to some memories there by having a couple of
Speaker 1: players out there who probably shouldn't have been Yeah seen, yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean the they had some injury problems too, so
Speaker 3: that kind of messed up the squad. But it shouldn't
Speaker 3: be lost that winning two back to back is a
Speaker 3: tremendous accomplishment and it is sort of the end of
Speaker 3: a golden generation, you know, where a bunch of the
Speaker 3: players that we've known for years and years and years
Speaker 3: are on their way out.
Speaker 1: Now. Yeah, you got Alex Morgan, Arlie Lloyd, Megan Rappino.
Speaker 3: Even Julie Arts is probably out. There's a bunch, so
Speaker 3: there's like a new generation coming in. It's just too
Speaker 3: bad because what you want is obviously you want to win,
Speaker 3: but especially Sophia Smith, who she's sort of the next one,
Speaker 3: She's the next great.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 3: This was sort of her moment to pass the torch
Speaker 3: to her, and unfortunately she had a chance to win
Speaker 3: the game and miss the p K. That's just a
Speaker 3: real bummer for her.
Speaker 1: Gus in La, Hi, Gus, what's on your mind?
Speaker 13: Good morning, mister Patrick Fritzy tipping the cap to you, brother.
Speaker 13: I don't know if I'll ever I would ever do that, period,
Speaker 13: no question, if I'd ever do that. Best and worse
Speaker 13: at the weekend, got a couple of best best My
Speaker 13: Dodger's going down to San Diego and proven once again.
Speaker 13: Wide to the Little Brother and another another Best of
Speaker 13: the Weekend. This one kind of means spirited, but it's
Speaker 13: best to me. The Angels have lost six in our
Speaker 13: b They are now seven games out of the final
Speaker 13: wildcard spot. Art Moreno, you played yourself. You thought that
Speaker 13: you would write the ship, and yet all you're doing
Speaker 13: is playing Otani right to Dodger Blue. Thank you for that.
Speaker 13: A couple of worst of the weekends. Worst of the
Speaker 13: weekend is the demise of the pac twelve man. I mean,
Speaker 13: I grew up in Mace, Arizona, in the backyard of
Speaker 13: Arizona State, and then I grew up to be a Trojan.
Speaker 13: And seeing this conference just totally just dismantled, almost in
Speaker 13: like like within a summer has been something hard to
Speaker 13: watch because all the great basketball that's been played, all
Speaker 13: the great football has been played, and you know, now
Speaker 13: it's all gone and everything. And then the little bonus
Speaker 13: of a Worst the weekend, Cincinnati Red's rookie pitcher first
Speaker 13: two pitches of his major league career go for home runs.
Speaker 13: I hope it is a little bit of a precursor
Speaker 13: to a Cy Young Award. Winning career for that young man.
Speaker 13: You boys have a great we.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Gus. Yeah, you know, we used
Speaker 1: to get caught up in tradition, remember the bowl games,
Speaker 1: like the Big Ten and the Pac twelve. Like you
Speaker 1: can't get rid of that, you know. I was told
Speaker 1: that when I said, look, they're trying to exponite the
Speaker 1: playoff system. And then they're like, well, you know, you
Speaker 1: can't give up these bowl games. You can't give up
Speaker 1: these matchups and the Big Ten and the Pac twelve.
Speaker 1: And I go and everybody kept telling me all these
Speaker 1: college football and centers, there's contracts. Do you know that?
Speaker 1: Do you follow the sport? I'm like, dude, I'm kicking
Speaker 1: your ass on the exclusive that they're moving this up.
Speaker 1: They don't care about those contracts. Do you think Florida State,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you got a contract for the next
Speaker 1: twelve years, Clemson, you'll get out of these contracts. And
Speaker 1: we saw that. But the tradition, that's what you know,
Speaker 1: we grew up with that. There's no tradition. They don't
Speaker 1: even care about rivalries anymore. It's about the bag. As
Speaker 1: Dion says, yes.
Speaker 3: It's going to say that the whole tradition thing seems
Speaker 3: a little overplayed. There's a couple of great traditions in
Speaker 3: college football, but it was really just up until recently
Speaker 3: that we're like sort of randomly assigning who was the
Speaker 3: national championship. You know, by well, strength of schedule, you
Speaker 3: beat these guys, so you're the one that won.
Speaker 1: Or the one year I think it was Colorado and
Speaker 1: Michigan shared the national title, right co national chair was
Speaker 1: that Georgia Tacker.
Speaker 3: I don't think that that's the great tradition that we're
Speaker 3: missing at the dah. What are we going to do
Speaker 3: about the history of randomly assigning who's the winner?
Speaker 1: But this is what college football brought upon itself. Nobody
Speaker 1: saw it coming until they realized they couldn't get out
Speaker 1: of the way of it. And it's just an avalanche
Speaker 1: tsunami where you're going, oh my god, we're in trouble now.
Speaker 1: I'm sure these other schools are going, we got out,
Speaker 1: we get a bigger payday. Everybody was worried about that.
Speaker 1: I thought that the fact that you had more playoff
Speaker 1: spots would mean that there would be less realignment, that
Speaker 1: you would stay in your conference, you'd win your conference,
Speaker 1: you would have an automatic berth and Oregon and Washington
Speaker 1: are quality programs, but they're not going to stick around
Speaker 1: because you go, wait, what is our business model here?
Speaker 1: And you found out they didn't have a business model.
Speaker 1: It was based on you getting subscriptions. Hey, we need
Speaker 1: you to buy into Amazon here or Apple or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. You're going, what no linear TV? Crazy?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Mark?
Speaker 8: Should the Rose Bowl just be the Big Ten championship game?
Speaker 1: Now? Well, from what I'm told, whether it happens or not,
Speaker 1: because this is all fluid, I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: to get you know, chastised, as I normally do whenever
Speaker 1: I speak out of my lane with college football. But
Speaker 1: can you have a Big Ten title game in the
Speaker 1: Midwest and then change it the following year to the
Speaker 1: West coast? Alternate?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, just that's been thrown out, thrown out. I just
Speaker 1: want to lend everybody I'm not reporting that.
Speaker 8: Minnesota, Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: Yes, first he reported Lincoln Riley took an NFL job.
Speaker 1: Now he's doing this. Yeah, I get that. Stay in
Speaker 1: your lane, you know, SportsCenter boy? Okay, yes, Bruce Feldman,
Speaker 1: he knows more college football than I do. He'll join
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Speaker 1: college football. I thought that when we had expansion, therefore
Speaker 1: we might not have realignment as far as the playoff expansion,
Speaker 1: that maybe more schools would stay together, and then you
Speaker 1: try to win your conference, then you have an automatic berth.
Speaker 1: Obviously that didn't work out, And the question is what's next.
Speaker 1: It's about your footprint. Where is your footprint? And the
Speaker 1: map of the United States? And if you're the Big
Speaker 1: ten and you could get into SEC country, would be
Speaker 1: ACC country with Clemson in Florida State. But still you're
Speaker 1: going south and you can't say, well, that won't happen,
Speaker 1: because nobody thought UCLA and USC wouldn't happen. And what's
Speaker 1: the SEC do? Does the SEC say, you know what
Speaker 1: Big Ten's interested? In these two schools. Why don't we
Speaker 1: take these schools or maybe take one of the two schools.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I don't think you can say,
Speaker 1: you know, that's off the board. Yes, I know you
Speaker 1: got the contracts with the ACC, but we've seen contracts broken.
Speaker 1: Bruce Feldman covers the sport, the athletics, National college football writer,
Speaker 1: Fox Sports College football reporter as well. Where do you
Speaker 1: want to start with this, Bruce?
Speaker 10: I mean, I think it's such a vast landscape that
Speaker 10: we're talking about, Dan, where everything is getting overturned, and
Speaker 10: I think you hit on it where whatever somebody said
Speaker 10: two weeks ago, who's in a position of leadership You
Speaker 10: almost have to take it with a grain of salt.
Speaker 10: In fact, you do because we've seen this time and
Speaker 10: time again. It's the money that drives everything. And I
Speaker 10: know we use it from conference realignment. It's really conference
Speaker 10: consolidation and the smaller, smaller, non glamorous, non maybe big
Speaker 10: brand programs are getting squeezed now because there's TV money
Speaker 10: and it's the tea the influence that's driving a lot
Speaker 10: of this. And full disclosure, like you said, I worked
Speaker 10: for Fox Sports, but I think it's also it's like
Speaker 10: a killer be killed vibe right now in college athletics, but.
Speaker 1: You start to look at what's next. It's Florida State
Speaker 1: and Clemson. Is that what's next? If that even happens.
Speaker 10: I think those are the that's right now what everyone's
Speaker 10: kind of keeping an eye on. Florida State's leadership has
Speaker 10: really been vocal about trying to get out of the
Speaker 10: grant of rights that it has with the ACC, which
Speaker 10: by the way, ESPN is heavily involved in. So you
Speaker 10: wonder is ESPN going to go bid against itself? You know,
Speaker 10: much like like the the Big Ten has heavily influenced
Speaker 10: from Fox, the SEC now has extremely big influence, you know,
Speaker 10: by ESPN. So it's it's a really complicated dynamic because
Speaker 10: you have a bunch of other schools.
Speaker 2: In the ACC.
Speaker 10: You know, I think you'd include Virginia North Carolina in
Speaker 10: terms of those states and what their TV rights could
Speaker 10: mean from those states. I don't think that the fact
Speaker 10: that North Carolina is a great basketball has great basketball history,
Speaker 10: and some of these programs that are probably more basketball
Speaker 10: schools and football schools, I don't think.
Speaker 2: That that drives the bus.
Speaker 10: We saw that the last decade from the conference moving around.
Speaker 2: But I definitely think.
Speaker 10: The ACC is really the last thing at this point
Speaker 10: before I think we start to see do some of
Speaker 10: the TV drivers end up saying, hey, it's really sure
Speaker 10: about this school the schools that are already in the conference,
Speaker 10: and whether they're in the SEC, whether they're in the
Speaker 10: Big Ten. You have to wonder if those other schools
Speaker 10: don't really drive TV revenue, are those the ones who
Speaker 10: eventually get squeezed where this killer be killed game you
Speaker 10: know keeps unfolding.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I was wondering about this that you
Speaker 1: got Purdue and Illinois and Maryland and Rutgers and nobody
Speaker 1: cares about their do you know, has a pretty good
Speaker 1: history there. But the other schools, do we really care
Speaker 1: about their football programs? Can you say, hey, we have
Speaker 1: some nice parting gifts for you, but we want to
Speaker 1: move on and bring in somebody else besides these programs.
Speaker 10: I mean, at some point, you know, back in the
Speaker 10: USC sanctions days, USC you know a lot of money
Speaker 10: people at USC were very frustrated, Why are we getting
Speaker 10: the same raid as Oregon State and Washington State.
Speaker 2: They don't drive the eyeballs we do, and.
Speaker 10: They're along, you know, we're we're along drive and everything,
Speaker 10: and they're just along for the ride. I think if
Speaker 10: the leagues make these decisions, because honestly, one of the
Speaker 10: things that logically you looked at when you saw, you know,
Speaker 10: some of the move momentum for Washington and Oregon to
Speaker 10: join the Big Ten late last week, and I could
Speaker 10: I was like, oh, I could totally see why this
Speaker 10: makes a lot of sense, especially if it works into
Speaker 10: a Friday NV package that's tied into it. But if
Speaker 10: you're those other schools Indiana, you know, you rattled off
Speaker 10: a bunch of them, Purdue, Illinois, Northwestern, you just got
Speaker 10: further away from from the top by adding you know,
Speaker 10: Phil Knight's program and Washington. I mean, they both have
Speaker 10: played in the playoff, not that long ago. One played
Speaker 10: for the national title. One you know, one has been
Speaker 10: won a national title, you know, in the nineties. So
Speaker 10: I think that is a question that they have to
Speaker 10: be asking themselves, because obviously they went along for what
Speaker 10: they think is in the best interest of the Big Ten.
Speaker 10: I'm not ultimately sure if it's in the best interest
Speaker 10: of their own schools, But right now, what choice do
Speaker 10: they have if you're sitting there looking at what happened
Speaker 10: to Washington State and Oregon State and Stanford and cal.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Bruce Feldman. He works for the Athletic
Speaker 1: National College Football Writer and also is a sideline reporter
Speaker 1: for Fox Sports their college football package. How could the
Speaker 1: PAC twelve have prevented this?
Speaker 10: I think they had one commission who seemed like he
Speaker 10: never in Larry Scott, who kind of lost track of
Speaker 10: keeping the main thing the main thing and was so
Speaker 10: excited to like chase innovation at the expense of reality.
Speaker 10: And then they went with another outside the box hire
Speaker 10: in George Kleavkov, who just really kept on. You know,
Speaker 10: I hate to use this analogy, but it's the one
Speaker 10: that kind of came to mind as I watched this,
Speaker 10: where it's like, there's an old Seinfeld episode where George
Speaker 10: Costanza seems to bluff his future in laws all the
Speaker 10: way out to the Hamptons for something that doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: That's kind of.
Speaker 10: How this felt for the PAC twelve, where it's like, hey,
Speaker 10: you know, I saw this stuff late last week. People
Speaker 10: were saying on Friday morning, PAC twelve schools are cautiously
Speaker 10: optimistic quote unquote that this is going to work out.
Speaker 10: They've been cautiously optimistic for months, and almost everybody else
Speaker 10: was like, Hey, this thing is falling apart right in
Speaker 10: front of us. Do you really buy it? And they did,
Speaker 10: and I just think, you know, it's that expression. He
Speaker 10: just did not read the room right. They went down
Speaker 10: this road, you know, with this Apple distribution deal that
Speaker 10: I think it concerned especially Oregon to look at it
Speaker 10: and go, you know what, a couple of years from now,
Speaker 10: we can still have a path to the playoff. We
Speaker 10: stay in the in the Pac twelve because of the
Speaker 10: way things are set up, but eventually people will not
Speaker 10: be able to see our games. And if recruits can't
Speaker 10: see you and their families can't see you, you really
Speaker 10: can't keep recruiting those kinds of the same caliber of kids.
Speaker 10: They're going to go someplace else and the money gap
Speaker 10: is going to widen. There was no guarantees into the deal.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 10: We reported a lot on this over the weekend with
Speaker 10: the Athletic about just what the money was.
Speaker 2: And I think that whole thing.
Speaker 10: Again, I just think they really did not evaluate the
Speaker 10: TV media landscape, at least the way Brett yor Mark
Speaker 10: Who's also a relative and new commissioner did for the
Speaker 10: for the Big Twelve. He was very aggressive and I
Speaker 10: think he had a better feel for the for what
Speaker 10: was going on around him in terms of the media landscape,
Speaker 10: whereas the PAC twelve once again seemed to be really
Speaker 10: asleep at the wheel.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know how they could have been cautiously
Speaker 1: optimistic on Friday morning when I was told Thursday night
Speaker 1: that Washington and Oregon around that that that that they
Speaker 1: weren't even showing up for that you know, conference call
Speaker 1: or whatever it was, they were done, and that you know,
Speaker 1: then the PAC twelve they were cautiously optimistic, And I go,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're optimistic about because now you're
Speaker 1: you know, you're losing two of your marquee schools there.
Speaker 1: What do you do with these other four schools?
Speaker 10: Now, that's a great question, because I don't know if
Speaker 10: they do some kind of partnership in some way with
Speaker 10: the Mountain West schools. I mean San Diego State. There
Speaker 10: was a dance with San Diego State that's gone on
Speaker 10: for months. Obviously, that's Southern California. They have a new
Speaker 10: football stadium, really good basketball program, as you know, I mean,
Speaker 10: that's into the southern California market. It's that's a legit program.
Speaker 10: I don't know if they grab SMU, which is kind
Speaker 10: of floating. I don't know how SMU fits in geographically,
Speaker 10: but it's a good football program obviously in big market,
Speaker 10: big media market.
Speaker 2: Then you look at like UNLV. We see UNLV.
Speaker 10: You know, the Pac twelve has had a relationship with
Speaker 10: them moving the moving both their media day and their
Speaker 10: basketball tournament to Vegas. I don't know if they try
Speaker 10: to get Boise State, try to get Colorado State. I'm
Speaker 10: not sure what's in it for the Mountain West schools
Speaker 10: to go, hey, we like our leadership there. Now we're
Speaker 10: going to go over here where things seem to be
Speaker 10: falling apart. You know, if I was the fourth remaining
Speaker 10: schools who kind of been left holding the.
Speaker 2: Bag, I think they have to look at it and go, you.
Speaker 10: Know what, maybe we look at the Mountain West. They
Speaker 10: have survived some of this. Where the reality is I
Speaker 10: think right now it's a hard reality. But I think
Speaker 10: both Oregon State, who by the way, just won ten
Speaker 10: games and that's a legit football program, and Watchhington State,
Speaker 10: which has had a lot of success in the last decade.
Speaker 10: I don't know if they say, you know what, we're
Speaker 10: more like Boise State. We're more like Colorado State. Those
Speaker 10: other guys left us behind. We're going to go ride
Speaker 10: with them. I don't know exactly how this plays out
Speaker 10: for Cal and Stanford. They've had all sorts of issues
Speaker 10: internally and from a resource standpoint, and maybe Cal maybe
Speaker 10: Stanford looks at it goes you know, we are an
Speaker 10: elite athletic programming all these other sports WHEREUIN championships and
Speaker 10: produce Olympians.
Speaker 2: Maybe football is something.
Speaker 10: We have to reevaluate because it's just not as viable
Speaker 10: the way this landscape is shaping up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Stanford football has not been good and nobody's showing
Speaker 1: up for that. I'll leave you with this. I have
Speaker 1: no information on this. I just speculated on this. You're
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley, You're getting ready to go to the Big ten.
Speaker 1: You got one more year, you got Caleb Williams. Could
Speaker 1: you see a scenario where Lincoln Riley goes pro.
Speaker 10: If you know, I'll give you scenario. One of my buddies,
Speaker 10: Brady Quinn, who you know. I think we had this
Speaker 10: conversation offline once. If the Washington football team. Commanders are
Speaker 10: awful this year and they end up with the first pick.
Speaker 10: Caleb Williams is from there. He is a He would
Speaker 10: be a huge, huge get. I think he would have
Speaker 10: been the first pick in the draft this year if
Speaker 10: he could have come out. I don't you know, again,
Speaker 10: I don't know if Lincoln wants. I think he knows
Speaker 10: the NFL will always be there for him. I don't
Speaker 10: think the idea of taking the USC to the Big ten.
Speaker 2: Is daunting it all to him because I think he knows.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're going to see what happens with you.
Speaker 1: But I thought it was daunting better when he was
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma. Wasn't there a little bit of pushback of
Speaker 1: joining the SEC when he was head coach at Oklahoma?
Speaker 10: I mean, that's been that's been speculated a lot, and
Speaker 10: I think a lot of people who are you know,
Speaker 10: especially on the Oklahoma side, are not thrilled with him
Speaker 10: that he bolted.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's you know, how real that was.
Speaker 2: I do think though, if.
Speaker 10: You know, somebody said to him, hey, you can coach
Speaker 10: Caleb in the NFL, I think that would probably be
Speaker 10: something he would certainly have to think about. But again,
Speaker 10: I don't know if he's ready to jump out of
Speaker 10: USC after just two years either, I mean, moved his
Speaker 10: family all the way across country, young kids. I don't
Speaker 10: know if he's definitely going to make that move. But again,
Speaker 10: if if you start seeing the Washington team end up
Speaker 10: going like you know, oh and eleven, I could definitely
Speaker 10: see them looking at it going you know what we
Speaker 10: can get Caleb. We get Caleb's you know, play caller
Speaker 10: and a guy who knows him better than anybody.
Speaker 2: We can really sell that as a as a new future.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 10: Maybe it's like a Jimmy Johnson Dallas deal where it's
Speaker 10: like we're going to offer him something he can't refuse.
Speaker 10: But again that's just that's just a lot of speculation
Speaker 10: at this point.
Speaker 1: And that's all it is. It was just me musing
Speaker 1: out loud. I don't don't want anything attached to this
Speaker 1: other than I'm thinking out loud. Bruce, great to talk
Speaker 1: to you, great work this weekend, Thanks for joining.
Speaker 2: Us, great see and thank you Bruce.
Speaker 1: The Athletic National college football writer, Fox Sports College Football reporter.
Speaker 1: It's all about the networks. TV networks, That's it. They
Speaker 1: have been running the show. I mean ESPN has been
Speaker 1: running college football for a long long time. You noticed,
Speaker 1: have you heard anything from the home office of the
Speaker 1: NC double A. Has anybody he heard anything from any exactly? Oh? Yeah, toothless.
Speaker 1: They got nothing to do, nothing to say, just uh,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Who went where? Okay, Well, let me
Speaker 1: finish my sandwich.
Speaker 4: We're gonna bust Wyoming for giving a kid a milkshake?
Speaker 1: Yes, set.
Speaker 3: But the thing I don't understand about the TV contracts
Speaker 3: is that it's coming down to when the TV contracts end,
Speaker 3: what conferences get to survive. If you if say the
Speaker 3: PAC twelve had done a you know, an eight year
Speaker 3: deal instead of twelve year deal, they probably would have
Speaker 3: been the ones leading now. But because somebody else had
Speaker 3: a shorter deal, now they're out of luck.
Speaker 5: I don't understand how that's.
Speaker 1: Like, well, there's no there was no exit fee for
Speaker 1: these these schools to leave the PAC twelve the other conferences.
Speaker 1: If you're leaving, you go, oh, we got to pay.
Speaker 1: I mean San Diego State had an exit fee to
Speaker 1: leave the Mountain West. These schools were like, uh, we're
Speaker 1: ready to go, we can leave.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Pauling the ESPN deal with college football with the playoffs,
Speaker 4: blah blah blah. It ends after the twenty five twenty
Speaker 4: six season the current contract.
Speaker 1: But then you have the ACC with their conference with
Speaker 1: their contract except for another twelve years something crazy like that.
Speaker 1: Florida State. I mean, they're saying the things out loud
Speaker 1: that you would think they would be saying behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: Let's get out of here, you know, ACC, Let's go,
Speaker 1: And it feels like that that's the next step if
Speaker 1: somebody takes that step in college football. The other stuff
Speaker 1: it's sort of ancillary, like Washington State joins with who
Speaker 1: the Mountain West? Okay, if you had Florida State and
Speaker 1: or Clemson try to secede from the ACC, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a big deal. That's a big deal.
Speaker 8: Yes, college football seems like there's no more secrets. The
Speaker 8: best part about college football for me, especially when I
Speaker 8: was younger, was man, that guy's in a new Range Rover.
Speaker 8: That guy's in a new whatever. No, no, no. Spencer
Speaker 8: Rattler was on his Twitter page, Hey everybody, come to
Speaker 8: this dealership. I just got myself a new Range Rover.
Speaker 8: Sure before he used to be like hash into paper bag.
Speaker 8: Now it's the wild West. NCAA is like hands. We
Speaker 8: have nothing to do with any of this.
Speaker 1: Let me take a break. We'll come back. We'll give
Speaker 1: you our best and worst of the weekend. More phone
Speaker 1: calls to update the poll results as well. Back after this.
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Speaker 1: Jade the poll results if you can see, and then
Speaker 1: we'll give you best and words to the weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a few of them going right now.
Speaker 3: We have would you rather be confident or talented? Right now,
Speaker 3: we've got about a sixty to thirty split talented over confident?
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: We also put up another one. The US women's national
Speaker 3: team getting eliminated from the World Cup made you happy
Speaker 3: or said right now? Fifty eight percent it made them sad. Okay,
Speaker 3: still an uglier number than I'd like, but at least
Speaker 3: it's on the right side.
Speaker 1: I didn't really have any kind of reaction. I was
Speaker 1: not surprised, and my family as friends with Alyssa nai Or,
Speaker 1: the goaltender, so I wanted her to do well and
Speaker 1: then she played great. Didn't deserve to be on the
Speaker 1: losing end of that. But it just felt like there
Speaker 1: was a youth movement. There were injuries, and there were
Speaker 1: some older players with the US team. Not really a
Speaker 1: great combination. Just felt like they were off by a
Speaker 1: year or so, and they do have a great future,
Speaker 1: But keep in mind, so does so do these other countries.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of these countries never even had
Speaker 1: programs for women did.
Speaker 3: The South African team is electric. They were absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 3: It was fun to see them get knocked out because
Speaker 3: they were sort of undersized, but crazy fast, super skilled.
Speaker 5: They were a ton of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: And then didn't you have a go fundme page for
Speaker 1: one of the countries to.
Speaker 3: Make Yeah, yeah, but I mean that's the thing that
Speaker 3: like the US not to start a thing. But the
Speaker 3: US women's team has sort of benefited on the fact
Speaker 3: that other countries haven't invested nearly as much in women's
Speaker 3: sports as we have. So like the Jamaican team, they're
Speaker 3: still not really investing much money in the women's game,
Speaker 3: just as obviously by the GoFundMe.
Speaker 1: You know, all right, best and worst of the weekend, Todd,
Speaker 1: I'll start with you.
Speaker 6: My best of the weekend other than performing at Daris's concert.
Speaker 6: New Hall of Famer DeMarcus Ware's moving speech over the
Speaker 6: weekend in Canton had tributes for former players that passed
Speaker 6: away to Marius Thomas, Ronnie Hillman, Marying Barber. He said,
Speaker 6: I held some seats in my heart for you guys
Speaker 6: here today, keep resting in peace, fellow. So he left
Speaker 6: three empty seats by a way who was making a speech.
Speaker 6: I thought that was pretty awesome.
Speaker 7: Worst.
Speaker 6: Your Reds have now lost six straight games and their
Speaker 6: quest overtake the Bruis in the L Central. Three losses
Speaker 6: at the Cubs, three straight l's at home against the Nationals.
Speaker 1: Okay, they played in the National League Central. What did
Speaker 1: I say, America League Central?
Speaker 6: I said, overtake the Bruis in the AL Central. That's correct,
Speaker 6: that would be the NL Central.
Speaker 1: Right, And he spent too much time rehearsing here. Something
Speaker 1: might have been it Seaton O'Connor. Best and worst of
Speaker 1: the weekend.
Speaker 3: The best of the weekend is messy. Watching that dude
Speaker 3: plays like the most fun. It's like watching a guy
Speaker 3: who he's like, just a great player, just showed up
Speaker 3: at a charity event or something and he's just having
Speaker 3: so much fun.
Speaker 5: No offense to the players, No offense, oh, no offense.
Speaker 1: Okay. Is this similar to when Stefan Marbury went to China?
Speaker 1: It might be similar, and he was averaging forty seven
Speaker 1: a game, and able to statue he was a big
Speaker 1: deal in China.
Speaker 3: He's just Messi plays like there's absolutely no pressure whatsoever,
Speaker 3: Like he'll he'll deliver these passes like he'll put it
Speaker 3: on a platter for a dude just to all you
Speaker 3: have to do is tap it in right like it
Speaker 3: happened last night. And this dude hit the ball twenty
Speaker 3: yards away from the goal. It was terrible, a terrible shot.
Speaker 5: And Messi just turned around and walked away because he knows.
Speaker 1: He knows.
Speaker 3: I'm like, wow, that dude's probably not on the level
Speaker 3: of what I'm used to or whatever. That guy, as
Speaker 3: soon as he missed the shot, looked right at Messi like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, is he mad. He didn't even care.
Speaker 3: He's just running out there smile and laughing. There's also
Speaker 3: this kid, he's eighteen years old named Ben Kramashi. He
Speaker 3: plays for Inner Miami, and he's like a supposed to be.
Speaker 3: He's a really good player. He's like the one of
Speaker 3: our next big things. He I can only imagine what
Speaker 3: he's going through right now because he's he's taken very
Speaker 3: seriously as a player, and now he has Messi at
Speaker 3: some of the Bousquettes. Some of these other guys coming
Speaker 3: in his career is really going to take off. My
Speaker 3: worst of the weekend is a listed Neare. She didn't
Speaker 3: deserve for the game to end that way. She played
Speaker 3: so well, she had a couple of big stops. She
Speaker 3: was she put in a penalty kick for the team
Speaker 3: ahead of some of the other players.
Speaker 5: She absolutely did not deserve that. That was just really
Speaker 5: really unfortunate.
Speaker 1: Marvin Best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 8: First, best of the weekend. I went to my first
Speaker 8: country music concerts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yep, and it was really good. I like
Speaker 1: when you saw Darius after the show, like.
Speaker 8: And so he kind of kind of looked at me.
Speaker 8: I was like, oh, man, I replaced the mclove and
Speaker 8: he goes, oh yeah. He was like, man, finally got
Speaker 8: another brother on the show. He's all right good. So
Speaker 8: it was great me and him. Super duper nice. Matthew
Speaker 8: Berry super nice. I saw Paul Paps there, I saw
Speaker 8: Todd Fritz there, and I saw Mario.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wait, these are your best or worst?
Speaker 8: I like all these people I just mentioned other best.
Speaker 8: I met Chris from the Wire, the actor that played
Speaker 8: Chris from the Wire. I was at working in New
Speaker 8: York Liberty game yesterday in Brooklyn, and he was there
Speaker 8: and so I'm kind of near the camera guy and
Speaker 8: he's over front row. I said, oh man, big fan
Speaker 8: couldn't have been a nicer guy. And so he's on
Speaker 8: another show called Power and he goes, you know, I
Speaker 8: don't hear that very much because he's expecting me to
Speaker 8: say I love you on the wire. Because so it
Speaker 8: was like, oh man, it's nice to hear because you know.
Speaker 8: So that was it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna start with the negative. The La Angels. Last
Speaker 4: week when we left you, they were four games out
Speaker 4: of winning the division. They're making a play on the
Speaker 4: Texas Rangers. In less than a week and actually a
Speaker 4: week they're ten and a half back. They've lost six.
Speaker 4: The Rangers are one to six. It's I wouldn't say
Speaker 4: it's over, Johnny, but it's real close to over. Best
Speaker 4: of the weekend, the Tim Anderson and Jose Ramirez baseball fight.
Speaker 4: A couple of things I like to Rarely do you
Speaker 4: see fights in baseball actually happen. They start to happen,
Speaker 4: Then the pile hits whoever the umpire was second base said.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let this play. Oh he's stepped away.
Speaker 4: It reminded me of those hockey official officials when until
Speaker 4: they hit the deck and there's you know, skates, and
Speaker 4: they let him brawl and he just goes, let's see
Speaker 4: what happens here. And it was a real, actual fight
Speaker 4: for eight seconds.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved it. Tim Anderson going down
Speaker 1: was awesome. Shut him up. And Ramirez is like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm tired of you disrespecting the game. And then so
Speaker 1: when Anderson takes off his gloves and he's like squaring
Speaker 1: up and I'm going, oh wow, this guy looks like
Speaker 1: he can fight. Yeah, and then he takes the first
Speaker 1: swing and Ramirez is being held back and sort of
Speaker 1: wildly just goes wham and Tim Anderson goes down, goes Anderson.
Speaker 1: Final hour on the way, more of your phone calls