WEBVTT - HOUR 2- Dan Woike Sep 16, 2020 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:07.400 Sports Radio Our two on this Wednesday, Fast and Furious. 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:10.160 Come on in. Looks like we got football in the 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.080 Big Ten. What's more surprising that Monday morning when I 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:15.920 told you the Big Ten in Pac twelve we're not 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.840 going to play football this season, or this morning where 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.040 the announcement has been made that there will be Big 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.639 Ten football and everybody is going to play. That's the 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:30.520 news that everybody's going to play because they were divided, 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.400 and my source told me two days ago it's going 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.400 to be contentious when they all get in the room 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.040 and they all start to discuss what they want to do, 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.199 how they want to do it, who's in who's not. 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:43.280 It's a bad look. This is what I was told 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.880 this morning, that the presidents realized it was going to 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.600 be a bad look if your school did not play 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.239 in the Big Ten and the other schools did. I 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.400 didn't know what was going to happen state by state 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.160 allowing these universities to be open for business when it 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.760 comes to football. But some things have transpired in the 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.679 last forty eight hours, and it has to do in 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.440 large part to the testing that then they've been able 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.640 to come up with. I don't know what happens with 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.160 the PAC twelve because the PAC twelve has to be 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:17.200 looking at this saying we're in conjunction with, in unison with, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:21.280 in lockstep with the Big ten, because the PAC twelve 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.360 wanted the Big ten to be the first to say 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.559 we're not playing, because the PAC twelve didn't want them 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:28.960 to be singled out and go, you know, typical PAC 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:34.040 twelve soft and not relevant, and the Big ten took 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:35.640 a bullet and said we'll do it, and then the 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.560 PAC twelve followed up, which is exactly what I told 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.240 you back in August. But my source said that things 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.000 were pushed back two weeks because initially he told me 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:50.080 they're targeting October tenth, targeting, and that's when people said, 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.480 you said they're coming back October tenth. I said, that's 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.200 the target date. That was the plan. Things have changed 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.120 so much here. You have to understand. There's every time 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.240 i'd get some inform, an hour later I'd get different 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:06.640 information or more information. And we had fourteen schools. I 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:11.160 was told you're probably getting nine schools. You needed nine votes. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.560 Now you got everybody who's on the same page. That's 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.200 the news. That's the big surprise here. Justin Fields, the 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:24.760 Ohio State quarterback, just tweeted, let's go exclamation point. Pat 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.000 Forty from Sports Illustrated does a great job in covering 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.079 college sports. Big Ten is lost as much high end 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:37.080 talent to opt outs as any league. Micah Parsons, Sean Wade, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:42.239 the defensive back at Ohio State, Rondel Moore, Wyatt Davis. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.000 Are they able to opt back in? That's the other 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.639 question that I have. All schools are playing and now 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.800 they've moved it back the twenty third and twenty four, 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.880 so Friday Saturday, and I don't know as they move forward, 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.600 are they going to try to take over Friday night? 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.080 Is there a way that they have a TV deal 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.679 that provides some extra revenue here? I don't know. I'm 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.760 trying to find all this out in real time, but 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:12.040 they're going to do it. Twenty third, twenty fourth, They're 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.000 still going to have the Big Ten title game. And 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.160 then the next day is when you have the selection 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.360 committee picking its final four, and the Big Ten knows 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:23.080 that they have a potential final four school in Ohio State. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.920 But that's where we are right now. There's been some 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:30.639 great reporting on this following this. But I haven't steered 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.160 you wrong. Everything I've said to you happened now. I 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.560 did point out there were schools that weren't going to play, 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.880 and I know the Michigan fans, Michigan State fans took 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.120 it personally when I said that yesterday that I was 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.840 told they weren't on board with this. Northwestern was not 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.960 on board with this, Illinois wasn't on board, Maryland because 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.800 it was a hot state, Rutgers being in New Jersey 0:03:55.040 --> 0:04:00.960 another state. You know that tad issues with quarantining. So 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.760 the fact that they could get all together, and I 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.840 told you that they were voting on Monday, they voted 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.120 Monday night. I know that people have refuted that, but 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.839 from what I'm told that they kept this quiet. They 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.680 did a great job in keeping this quiet. And I 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.720 was shocked because I was trying to get more information 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.279 of did everybody vote yes? And then it turns out 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.000 that is the case. But you got I'm told that 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.159 Sean Wade, who is probably a top ten pick, the 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.320 best cornerback in this draft at Ohio State, was going 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.159 to sign with an agent this morning, and I don't 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.040 know if he did, and if you opted out? Can 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.640 you opt back in? I hope that those given what 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.720 those kids have been through, I hope they give them 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.400 the opportunity. Even if Wade signed with an agent, they 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.200 should still let him opt back in because these kids 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.840 have been through an awful lot, and I applaud them 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.320 they did not give up. I hope it works out well. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.039 And I don't know what you could be thinking. If 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.520 you're in the PAC twelve and you're Larry Scott, their commissioner. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.800 You've got some bigger issues in those states. You got wildfires, 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.279 what's happened in California, the state with the virus. But 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.920 this came down to, from what I'm told this morning, 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:13.880 the availability of rapid testing. That's really really important here, 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.760 and I think that changed a lot of people's minds. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.279 You know, I had my source telling me about liability yesterday. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.240 That's still an issue with some of these presidents and 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:29.480 some athletic directors. This was last night. Presidents and some 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.800 ads in the Big ten field. It's too risky. But 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.440 the last two weeks have been hard for them to 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:39.120 watch others schools play. It's important for Michigan to play. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.720 If there's medical support in testing protocols and if they 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:47.440 improve to their satisfaction, then Michigan will play. Yes. The 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.400 one thing that I keep coming back to that's just 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.680 really difficult to get any kind of answers for is 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.560 how can everybody else play but they can't? Yeah, you know, 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.320 everybody else in the state is playing football or soccer 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.240 or what else is going on, but they can't. That's 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.599 just a real tough one to explain away. And that's 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.440 what I kept coming back to. High school football in Ohio, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.640 high school football in Michigan. They were playing pro football 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.440 in those states were playing. That's what I didn't understand 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.320 when it came to the Big Ten, and I thought 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:20.440 that they let me go back to when they had 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.440 this vote, and then I found out what the vote 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.839 was and told you that Monday morning there were coaches 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.240 and athletic directors who did not know what was going on, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.919 And I said, did you do everything? Did you exhaust 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.120 every avenue to try to come back? And that was 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.479 my criticism with the Big Ten. I don't think they did. Yeah. See, 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.479 in a funny way, it feels like this is gonna 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.560 We're gonna find out how crazy we all are, just 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.440 based off of how this football season goes because either 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:48.720 what are we crazy? Why in the hell were we 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.520 letting them play? Or you know how crazy were we 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.160 that we didn't we considered not letting them play. I 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.320 think that a lot of things have happened transpired since 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.760 the Pac twelve and Big ten announced they were closing 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.800 up shop. And I think it has a lot to 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:06.960 do with testing and having this data available. And you know, 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.440 yet ed Org you run at LSU's saying, I think 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.280 our whole teams had COVID, like, okay, now we can 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.640 start to play football here, Alabama, Clemson, the number of 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.000 positive towns. But that happened what a month ago, maybe 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.800 even longer, and gave them that opportunity. And now you're 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.960 going to have football coming up in the SEC. You know, 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.160 Big twelve is starting, ACC has already started as well. 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.440 The Pac twelve probably not, but the Big ten is 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.400 going to be ready for business. It looks like here 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.320 on a Friday night. I don't know what the schedules are. 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.080 I don't know how they decide who's playing whom. And 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.080 it looks like there's an eight game schedule here and 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.560 you know, do you have the final game of the 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.320 regular season Ohio State in Michigan, Like, I don't know how, 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.960 you know, they usually it's Thanksgiving, but you're stretching this 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.360 out into December. Then you have the Big Ten title game. 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.680 So that's the information as we have it right now. Yes, Poet, 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.520 you know I can't wait for is a mid December 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:06.040 bloodbath disagreement between SEC and the Big Ten. When a 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.760 team like Ohio States eight no or seven and one, 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.280 and then there's a team like let's say Georgia who 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.680 plays ten games, not eight games, they play ten and 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.600 they're nine and one, and the debate, well, well they 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.920 played more games, their records better, but they're the third 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.400 team in the SEC. Wait for that in mid December. Yeah, 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.360 But what I was told is that Ohio State is hoping, 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.280 according to my source, that they'll pass the look test, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:31.440 that they're not going to have the same number of 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.360 games as the other conferences, but that the committee will 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.040 look at Ohio State and say they look like a 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.920 Final four team. That's what their hope is because they 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.600 can only play so many games in this window, still 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.120 play the Big Ten title game, and then get ready 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.080 for the playoffs. Phone calls are welcome. Eight seven seven 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.400 three D p show email address DP at dan Patrick 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.480 dot com. I took the Clippers to task in the 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:57.120 first hour because Paul George, after last night's loss, had 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.760 this to say, It's obvious pressure, you know, to to 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.920 live up to the title expectations. But as a player, 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:08.080 I mean, you want that like you want that again. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.439 It's first time I've I've been in that situation where 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.040 we're expected to win. But you know, it is what 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.600 it is. Um, it's it's it's no cop out. Um. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:21.640 The fact of the matter is we didn't live up 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:26.160 to that expectation. But I think internally we we we've 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:30.400 always felt, um, this is not a championship or bus 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:35.120 year for us. That's surprising. We'll check in with the 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.880 Clippers coming up in about ten minutes from now. Because 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.800 this season was a failure. I know a lot of 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.920 things happened shut down, the season went into the bubble, 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.840 but so did everybody else. And you can't tell me, Hey, 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.600 you know what the changing parts here on the roster 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:55.280 you brought in Paul George. The Lakers turned over their 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.920 roster to bring in Anthony Davis. I haven't heard any 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.960 excuses out of the or chemistry issues with them. Of course, 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.520 nobody went to get Chicken Wings out of the bubble either, 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.920 But Kawhi and Paul George are one season away from 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.960 having the option to enter free agency. That's why this 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:18.440 was Championship or bust. Also, they gave up a really 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.640 good player in Shay Giljis Alexander unprotected first round picks 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.760 twenty two, twenty twenty four, twenty twenty six. They swapped 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.640 picks with Oklahoma City twenty twenty three, twenty twenty five, 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:35.040 and you're bringing in Kawai and Paul George. And then 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.280 the Clippers traded away their twenty twenty first round pick 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:44.200 for Marcus Morris, who soon to be a free agent. Yes, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.920 this was Championship or bust. And welcome to the bright lights, 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:54.760 Paul George. It's not Oklahoma City, it's not Indiana. It's 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.800 the bright lights. How about you make it to the 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:01.720 conference finals? Maybe not championship or lost, how about Western 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:06.559 Conference finals? Yes, my club, are we overrating like all 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.920 this depth? Like I was looking at they're all second 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:10.800 round picks who played in the G League except for 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.920 Paul George, Like every single one of these guys, all 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.760 the rushers, Zubos, Harold Ja, Michael Green, Lou Williams, Beverly 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.960 journeymen and former g leaguers like they know the Lakers 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.520 got Journeyman the Lakers too, I know which is but 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.800 the Lakers have I would argue with Anthony Davis have 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.360 are a little better. But we were talking about the 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.920 Lakers chemistry a lot like when they first started the bubble. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.920 We're like, oh, I don't know, remember when Rondo was 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.200 out and it was like there was some issues they had, 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.719 Avery Bradley who didn't play Rondo was out and they 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.920 held it together definitely. Yeah, See, it's weird that we 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.520 keep going back to it in some ways anyway, But 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.880 how important is Kuzma gonna be? Then he could end 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.720 up being like the difference makers somehow we keep waiting, 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.360 we keep waiting for him, and I don't know. I 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.360 just don't know if he can be. You know, it's 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.640 hard to find your spot with Lebron and certainly a 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:02.160 d and I think Kuzma. When it wasn't Anthony Davis 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:03.920 on the team, it was a little easier for these 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.120 guys brandon Ingram to kind of find their spots there. 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.840 It's a little bit tougher now, but I'm waiting for 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.480 Kuzma to be a great player, well, a very good 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.480 Blair player, maybe a consistent player, how about that? Yeah, Paul, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.120 would you who would you rather want? Who would you 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.840 rather have on your team right now? Kyle Kuzmer, Tyler Hero? 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.800 I probably take Tyler Hero. That's kind of the point. Yeah, 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.240 but you know Tyler Hero. We you have to watch 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.480 the Miami Heat play. He's not afraid. You can shoot, 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.200 he can defend. He's a good player. But you have 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.040 to go out of your way to watch some of 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.600 these teams. And that's what I loved about the Miami 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.120 Heat because usually it's a seven o'clock game, and I 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.360 got to watch them during the regular season, and they're 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.480 a good team. And if they beat the Celtics, you 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.439 should not be surprised. People were surprised when they beat 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.880 the Bucks. I will not be surprised if they beat 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.120 the Celtics they wanted in overtime. Last night, Jimmy Butler 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.000 hit a big shot. Bam Adebayo had a block for 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:06.960 the Ages, and Miami picks up game one. Kemba Walker 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:12.560 liability offensively and defensively. No NBA, no NFL, But you 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.880 have sixteen baseball games coming up. But the big news 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.960 this morning, the Big Ten will be playing Vincent and 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.320 Wisconsin joining us today. Hi, Vincent, what do you have 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:26.120 for me today? Thanks? Don listen. I live just southam Addison. 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:33.040 Elementary schools, middle schools, colleges are all closing around our area, 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.320 just several of them in the la past week. We 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.400 aren't even a month into the school year, and I 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.720 have a news currently a freshman at Wisconsin blocked in 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.720 her dorm room, not able to go anywhere. There's reports 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.439 of myam kurditis with this COVID nineteen. It just seems 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.520 to me how many schools they are on half to 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.520 close before we say, you know what this experiment of 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.680 having kids come on tampas that have sailed because here 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:03.160 in was it's not looking great, especially if you have 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.720 kids that are doing, you know, trying to go back 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.079 on campus and are now being told to go home. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.840 Whether it's at the like I said, elementary school level 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:15.559 or college level. Yeah, this is gonna be a You're 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.640 gonna know a whole lot in a couple of months. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.920 But these are football players. They're not students. They're football players. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.880 And don't confuse the two. Certainly not this year, because 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.640 these presidents and chancellors and aletic directors have made it 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.200 perfectly clear. You're not to read between the lines. These 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.000 are football players, they're not students. They're coming back because 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.680 they are big business and the Big Ten needs them. 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.640 Dave in California, Hi, Dave, what do you have for me? 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.400 You mentioned a couple of weeks ago that if some 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.600 of the Big Ten teams set out, they wouldn't get 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.760 a piece of the pie. And now everybody tell me 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:53.800 back you think they're trying to preach their piece of 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.480 pie by having more teams else, look for some of 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.440 these smaller bowls you know, before the whole Yeah, so 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.760 now you know all these all these chances or business 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.800 people like you said, follow the money, and so that 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:11.280 gives them more opportunity to get teams in these smaller bowls. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.120 If you follow the money, you're rarely wrong. Thank you, Dave. 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.640 But this is about if somebody plays in the National 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.000 Championship Game, the conference benefits bowl games. I'm told there's 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:21.600 going to be bowl games this year. I don't know 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.000 how many, but I'm told there's going to be bowl games. 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.920 There's more revenue here. This is very transparent. This is 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:32.040 a business deal. Everybody come back. We're going to roll 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.400 the dice. We have rapid testing. We're gonna try this. 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.160 Maybe we're gonna have the same approach as the sec 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.800 acc in Big twelve, but we're going to play. But 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.360 make no mistake about this. They're coming back because of 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.960 the money. It's like I send my daughter to school. 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:53.360 She's on campus and she doesn't go to class. Why 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.720 this is about big business. This is a transaction of 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.480 you're gonna pay even though you don't your child does 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.160 not get the full college experience, but we want you 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.160 on campus, so you're going to pony up the big 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:09.840 ticket item there. This is business and these are professional 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.120 football players who are going to go out there and 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.440 play on Saturday. Make no mistake about it, because that 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:20.360 with these chancellors, athletic directors, presidents are saying, we need 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:24.040 you back, We need you back, go make us some money. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.720 Now we'll take a break. We'll check in with the Clippers. 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.400 What is the next move for the Clippers in the offseason? 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.520 Is Doc Rivers jobs safe. We'll have that for you 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.480 coming up. 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More phone 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.120 calls coming up, mcleven, didn't we settle on our poll 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.240 question today? Yeah? I have up which team is most 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.439 likely to make the final four? Of Alabama, Clemson, Ohio 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.480 State in Oklahoma. It's still Clemson, but actually Alabama just 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:29.119 overtook Ohio State. It's a second place. No one's got Oklahoma. Okay, 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.280 once again, if you're just joining us the Big Ten, 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:34.920 they're all in. All fourteen are coming back to play 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:36.960 football in the Big Ten. I don't know how they're 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.280 going to do the schedule but it looks like eight 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:43.640 games we're going to have a conference title game. There's 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.600 a press conference going on right now, and I love 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.520 to know what was happening behind the scenes, because my 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.320 source has been telling me all along it was gonna 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:56.240 get contentious. That story will eventually come out. I don't 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.080 know if my source will have that, but I was 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.320 told it was going to get ugly there because not 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.240 everybody wanted to play, and some of these governors of 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.879 these states didn't want their schools to play. From what 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.400 I'm told, then you had the presidents and the chancellors 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.040 involved in all that. But we'll let you know what 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.960 we know when we know it. Dan, Wake, Oh, look 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.520 who's back La times he covers the NBA also covers 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.920 the Clippers, and you've got a smile on your face. 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:21.800 But you might be the only person involved with the 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.040 Clippers with a smile on your face. If I told 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.080 you two weeks ago we'd be having this conversation today, Dan, 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.600 what would you have said. I said, I've seen this 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:31.840 movie before, Dan, is what I would say that I 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.360 was there in twenty fifteen when they were up three 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:39.800 one against the Rockets, and I've seen this team faced well, 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.760 this organization be faced with success and kind of run 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.720 in the opposite direction for whatever reason, whether something out 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.200 of their control has happened, or you know, in this case, 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:55.080 seemingly the pressure just got to them. And to see 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.120 what happened three games in a row. To see this 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:03.080 team below forty seven points worth the leads and elimination games, 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.879 it is just stunning. It truly is. And then on 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.639 top of it, to watch sort of the seemingly the 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.680 collective of the NBA dance on their graves in the aftermath, 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:19.000 and itself is almost another indictment. So it's a It's 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.040 been a rough night for the Clippers, that's for sure. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:22.879 I mentioned this in the first hour, and you know 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.520 better than I would, but it felt like these Clippers 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.720 almost felt like they had won titles. You know, Kawhi 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:30.840 had won a title and docketed one a title. It 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.080 felt like the other guys acted like they had won 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.760 a title before that. We somehow are on the easy 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.400 pass at Disney World to get to the conference finals. 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:41.880 And then all of a sudden, I thought that they 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.720 were in trouble against Dallas. I thought Dallas had the 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:48.320 potential to upset them in the first round, nobody was 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.919 heating any of that advice or warning. And then all 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:53.360 of a sudden, you see these next two series here 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:56.480 we love to point the finger here, where do you 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.760 point the finger? First? Here on blame? Well, to me, 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:03.240 it starts with the stars. Um that that's who the 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.080 stuff falls on in the playoffs, and Kawhi Leonard and 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:09.120 Paul George were nowhere near good enough last night. Um, 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.880 I think you know, Kawhi Leonard looked really tentative. Late 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:16.000 in the game, Paul George is wide open from the 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.240 corner and shoots the three off the side of the backboard, 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:23.919 a pretty pretty stunning moment. And then I think, you know, 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:26.399