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Speaker 3: So it is a football Friday.
Speaker 4: You know we're here, right, we're doing It's Friday, then
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Speaker 2: It is a football Friday here and we are talking
Speaker 2: hold on, give me a second, all right, give me
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Speaker 2: go anywhere. You holding out, all right, So it is
Speaker 2: a football Friday here. We talked about the Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: sit down with Pat McAfee starring AJ Hawk and just
Speaker 2: sort of airing out the New York Jets and the
Speaker 2: clown organization.
Speaker 4: That is the New York Jets.
Speaker 2: Earlier in the show, also heard in the sit down
Speaker 2: with Pat McAfee was Aaron Rodgers discussing what the future
Speaker 2: could look like. Obviously, there's been rubblings about the Steelers.
Speaker 2: He even pointed to that that he went to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: He drove a Chevy Malibu that he got from a
Speaker 2: rental car spot from another airport to drive to the facility.
Speaker 2: He talked about his relationship with Kevin O'Connell. They've been
Speaker 2: friends for a long time. All of that was being had.
Speaker 2: He talked about Brian day Ball, said he's got a
Speaker 2: beautiful football mind. All of that being said, but this
Speaker 2: was Rogers discussing where he's at on his career and
Speaker 2: what his thoughts are in the future.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm in a different phase of my life.
Speaker 5: I'm forty one years old. I'm in a serious relationship
Speaker 5: off the field, stuff going on that requires my attention.
Speaker 5: You know, to make a commitment to a team is
Speaker 5: a big thing, whether you're a first year player or
Speaker 5: a twenty year vet. I've been straight up with these
Speaker 5: teams from the start about where I was at, you know,
Speaker 5: starting with the money thing. You know, I told every
Speaker 5: single one of the teams I talked to man about
Speaker 5: the money I'll play for ten MS, but also the
Speaker 5: conversation about where I was at in my personal life,
Speaker 5: the stuff I'm dealing with off the field, in my
Speaker 5: inner circle, that that has to take my attention right now.
Speaker 5: And so I wasn't, you know, stringing anybody along. I
Speaker 5: wasn't holding anybody hostage. I was honest from the jump
Speaker 5: about where I was at mentally and some of the
Speaker 5: constraints that I have in my life right now that
Speaker 5: have to moreant my attention. So yeah, you know, I've
Speaker 5: come open to anything and attached to nothing. So so yeah,
Speaker 5: retirement still could be, could be a possibility, But right
Speaker 5: now my focus has been and has been and will
Speaker 5: continue to be in my personal life.
Speaker 2: So translation is going to be a little while. It's
Speaker 2: going to be a little while before we get an answer.
Speaker 2: It seems like from Rogers, I.
Speaker 6: Think one of the things that this is a dirty
Speaker 6: truth of the NFL is the NFL and the teams
Speaker 6: and the organizations they want you to be desperate. They
Speaker 6: want the only thing you care about to be football,
Speaker 6: and look, I don't I don't have a problem with it.
Speaker 6: That's the business that they're in. You know, it's cutthroat,
Speaker 6: it's winning and losing, and they want their players to live, eat, sleep,
Speaker 6: breathe everything football. And I understand a lot of fans
Speaker 6: out there too would say, well, that's how they should be,
Speaker 6: considering that's your profession, it's your livelihood. You're getting paid
Speaker 6: handsomely to do so. But there's another element to things
Speaker 6: when you've played for twenty years. And I think the
Speaker 6: writing's on the wall for Aaron Rodgers at this point.
Speaker 6: Outside of getting another Super Bowl, he's going to be
Speaker 6: a first ballot Hall of Famer. He's accomplished already a
Speaker 6: ton in this league. And it's not the same I'll
Speaker 6: call it desperation. Maybe there's not even the same motivation
Speaker 6: when he was in his first few years and he
Speaker 6: was trying to replace a Hall of famer, step in
Speaker 6: to the shoes left behind a Hall of famer and
Speaker 6: Brett Favre, or win that first Super Bowl, or get
Speaker 6: that first MVP, or even prove the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 6: wrong after they draft Jordan Love. And he've been winning
Speaker 6: back to back MVPs. It just doesn't feel like there's
Speaker 6: the same desperation or motivation as he once had, and
Speaker 6: that to many teams is ridiculously unattractive and it bothers them.
Speaker 6: And I think the only reason that Pittsburgh Steelers are
Speaker 6: entertaining this is in part the relationship that Mike Tomlin
Speaker 6: has with Aaron Rodgers, but also their desperation to get
Speaker 6: a quarterback because they went through one of the guys
Speaker 6: that was a free agent in Russell Wilson. He was
Speaker 6: already there another guy who ended up going to the
Speaker 6: New York Jets, the other New York team, so they
Speaker 6: already had that. And outside of if this falls through,
Speaker 6: maybe Kirk Cousins trying to make a trade for him,
Speaker 6: they're not really in a great spot the draft one.
Speaker 6: They're probably have to use draft capital to trade up
Speaker 6: or hope someone falls to them, and then you're relying
Speaker 6: on a rookie. So when you really look at the
Speaker 6: landscape for Aaron Rodgers and Pittsburgh really being the only
Speaker 6: suitor at least at this moment, maybe maybe Minnesota sneaks
Speaker 6: back into it, right with how that was talked about
Speaker 6: in the past months, But you hear this and you
Speaker 6: just go That is part of the reason why he's
Speaker 6: a bit polarizing to a lot of teams out there,
Speaker 6: because it's not everything for him anymore. He's got a
Speaker 6: personal life, He has an inner circle people he cares
Speaker 6: about that at this point in time during the year
Speaker 6: is more important to him than maybe football. And I'm
Speaker 6: not saying that's a bad thing. I'm not saying that's
Speaker 6: a good thing either. It's just how he chooses to
Speaker 6: see it at this point time in his career, in
Speaker 6: his life, when.
Speaker 4: I chose love, No, I ain't gonna go there. I
Speaker 4: ain't even gonna go there. I'm not even gonna go there.
Speaker 4: You know what though, he kind of sounds like Nick Cage,
Speaker 4: doesn't He Like I started hearing like I started having
Speaker 4: memories of con Air when he was writing like letters
Speaker 4: due to his uh it was it his daughter that movie,
Speaker 4: so he was going to come see his daughter and
Speaker 4: stuff like that. He kind of sounds like Nick Cage
Speaker 4: reading the letters to his daughter. You know what I
Speaker 4: took from that was he's a calculated dude, very calculated,
Speaker 4: and I think he takes tremendous pride and being wired
Speaker 4: the way that he is, and why shouldn't he him
Speaker 4: throwing out a figure. The things I find out to
Speaker 4: be a tapeit peculiar. I feel like he's talking directly
Speaker 4: to somebody, and I don't think it's the Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 4: and I don't think and that could be. I've been
Speaker 4: trying to figure out why he hasn't signed with the
Speaker 4: Steelers yet. Why you at the meeting, If you walked
Speaker 4: away from the meeting feeling good about the meeting, why
Speaker 4: don't you just sign with the team and get it going.
Speaker 4: If you don't want to be around and you want
Speaker 4: to be with your family and deal with your personal
Speaker 4: stuff and all that, just let them know that coming
Speaker 4: into it, that that's what you want to do. But
Speaker 4: I'm a sign here with y'all and we're gonna make
Speaker 4: this thing work. Why not do it that way? I
Speaker 4: think there's something more to it. I'm starting to believe
Speaker 4: that I don't think he wants to play for the
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers. For one, I think that may be a lass,
Speaker 4: maybe like a last decision, last made decision for one.
Speaker 4: But for two, I think he's just too calculated to
Speaker 4: have just, you know, just lobbed out there, what the
Speaker 4: amount of money he would play for. I think he's
Speaker 4: talking directly to somebody, and I don't know if that's
Speaker 4: the Minnesota Vikings. I don't pretend to know who that's
Speaker 4: being directed at, but I am my estimation hearing someone
Speaker 4: as calculated and is as well spoken as he is
Speaker 4: and stays in character. As I mentioned earlier on the show,
Speaker 4: he lobbed that out there to somebody that was put
Speaker 4: out there intentionally that had something connected to it, And
Speaker 4: I just wonder, is it Menacela or who is it?
Speaker 4: Who is it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the ten ms, I don't know, Like I didn't
Speaker 3: even know that was a term for a million.
Speaker 4: It just seemed like it was kind of crow Bard
Speaker 4: in there, do you know what I mean? Like, let
Speaker 4: me just let it be made known to you in particular,
Speaker 4: I'll do it for ten ms. It's not about the money.
Speaker 4: It kind of comes across to me like maybe it's
Speaker 4: Minnesota he's talking to, but maybe there's a team out
Speaker 4: there that could use him that he would want to
Speaker 4: play for, and he doesn't want it to turn into
Speaker 4: we're not going to talk to you because of the
Speaker 4: money aspect of it. Maybe that's what he I don't
Speaker 4: know what he was going for, but that was directed
Speaker 4: directly at somebody.
Speaker 2: Do you think that if the options were better, he
Speaker 2: would have already made his decision?
Speaker 4: Yes, I kind of think if Minnesota wanted him, he's
Speaker 4: signed with Minnesota right now, agreed, agreed, So.
Speaker 6: Like that, he's got a spot right now on Lake Minnetaka.
Speaker 6: He's probably you know, getting the dock all set up,
Speaker 6: getting the boat all set up, maybe opening up the
Speaker 6: pool to there. Ah, probably already has a spar hots
Speaker 6: up going. But you, I would say, and he's getting
Speaker 6: the grill ready, you know, not trying to let the
Speaker 6: rain ruin the rub barb as they'd say up there.
Speaker 3: Good call on that. So this is really an indictment
Speaker 3: of the Steelers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, c Yeah, he sounds like him too. He don't
Speaker 4: just look like him, he sounds like him. Gee crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, but isn't this sort of an indictment
Speaker 2: on the Steelers situation that it's not good?
Speaker 4: I don't think it's a positive glowing effect that comes
Speaker 4: off of what the Pittsburgh Stealers represent right now, that
Speaker 4: if you're an organization that players want to be a
Speaker 4: part of, and they are clamoring to come be a
Speaker 4: part of what it is that you got going on.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's handled this way.
Speaker 2: I mean we made the we made the comp to
Speaker 2: you know, you're at a bar. There's that one that's
Speaker 2: ready and willing at ten pm and then they're still
Speaker 2: there at one thirty one forty five and they're doing
Speaker 2: last call and you're like, all right, fine, that's crazy,
Speaker 2: like and it's just stealing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like to be that to like and that person
Speaker 4: at the bar, they know they're the bottle caps person. Okay,
Speaker 4: I guess you know that's why you do stuff like,
Speaker 4: you know, you make a mess of a person's hotel
Speaker 4: room or they're they're home, or you know, you you
Speaker 4: do some stuff like that happens in the forty year
Speaker 4: old Virgin or whatever it may be. You know, you
Speaker 4: are the bottle cap choice. You are not the sober
Speaker 4: cap choice. You're not the sober You're not you're not
Speaker 4: the sober choice. You're looking through bottle caps.
Speaker 6: Should we have Lee actually waiting on this if we're
Speaker 6: talking about you know, drunken sober.
Speaker 3: Lee knows he's the bottle caps guy.
Speaker 7: Lee.
Speaker 4: You do know, if you get a good looking person
Speaker 4: at the bar, and it's at the end of the night.
Speaker 4: It was because you were the only choice that was left.
Speaker 4: I ain't do really. Yeah, I don't complain about that.
Speaker 4: I'll take it. They gotta know, really why, they gotta know,
Speaker 4: because you're still gonna get the same results. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: you just don't have to take it as far as
Speaker 4: you would with the person they really liked.
Speaker 6: Maybe they get enchanted with Lee's you know, his eyes,
Speaker 6: or his his overall general aura around him A great
Speaker 6: he's got that magnetic personality.
Speaker 4: You had to be good enough to be an option.
Speaker 4: Keep that in mind. You gotta be good enough to
Speaker 4: be an option. You just aren't as good as the
Speaker 4: first or however many options there are in between the
Speaker 4: first option to you, and you gotta be okay with
Speaker 4: accepting that. I've been that guy before. I've been that
Speaker 4: guy before. Some of my closest friends are pretty mother lovers.
Speaker 4: They are. I ain't as pretty as them. But one
Speaker 4: thing that you find out when you're not the prettiest
Speaker 4: dude and your crew is that they attract a lot
Speaker 4: of pretty people and y'all can't have him. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6: You get some leftover come on over, Come on over.
Speaker 2: And why do you think pigeons hang out underneath the
Speaker 2: table at a park because they can't.
Speaker 4: Hey, you can only eat so much. Something's dropping something,
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna get it. One of them crumbs is
Speaker 4: gonna be free with my name on it. You just
Speaker 4: gotta be okay with it.
Speaker 2: By the way, we're using these comps for a first
Speaker 2: ballot Hall of Fame quarterback.
Speaker 4: At the Steelers. That's great.
Speaker 3: One of the greatest organizations in sports.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 6: And also you keep going back to the Nick Cage thing,
Speaker 6: which have an eerie similarity.
Speaker 4: To its crazy kind of crazy.
Speaker 3: What's he up to? Is he doing movies still?
Speaker 2: Lee?
Speaker 8: He has got a movie coming out called Surfers. I
Speaker 8: believe that looks awesome.
Speaker 3: You know, so I didn't say he's doing good movies.
Speaker 4: Nick Cage has done some good movies. Did you do
Speaker 4: a movie about himself? Yeah? Him and Petro Pascal.
Speaker 3: Did watch that, Him and travolt To do Face Off.
Speaker 4: Wasn't a movie?
Speaker 3: Wait, what range he did one about himself?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I can't believe he got snubbed by the Oscars.
Speaker 6: Let's go back to Face Off. That movie was way
Speaker 6: before it's time. I mean, yeah, I ever ripping off
Speaker 6: people's faces putting them on each other. Where's our technology there?
Speaker 6: If we're not be able to do that, we can't.
Speaker 4: I mean people do I time, now you do.
Speaker 2: Didn't even have to be the face. Things have really progressed.
Speaker 2: Oh they really have.
Speaker 4: So it was before It's time. Yeah. I like that movie.
Speaker 6: It really really was.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: Had the love interest in that movie? Remember at a
Speaker 6: young age watching that thing that she was pretty hot?
Speaker 4: I forget. I don't know Lee, why Dominique Swain. Maybe
Speaker 4: you should Brunette dirty Blood, I don't remember.
Speaker 6: Definitely like that.
Speaker 8: Oh I know who you're talking about. Lisa Boyle, Cindy.
Speaker 8: She was Nicholas Cage's girlfriend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, m that's that's how he got in trouble in
Speaker 4: con Air. Girl didn't there wasn't somebody pushing up on
Speaker 4: his chick and then he like put the dude's you know,
Speaker 4: nose bone in his brain or something like that and
Speaker 4: that movie and went to jail because he was a
Speaker 4: military man. I liked the movie actually good. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: was pretty good. Great. They had some great actors and
Speaker 4: Simmy was in there. Yeah, who else was in there?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It wasn't. It wasn't Ring was in there, John John Malcovic,
Speaker 4: wasn't virus Cyrus the virus. It wasn't Vin Rams And
Speaker 4: I mean there was some good names in that movie, man. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was a cult classic.
Speaker 3: Good names on the Jets last year too, they sucked.
Speaker 6: Dang.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, John Cusack, John Cusack. Chappelle's in there. I
Speaker 4: forgot about Dave Chappelle. I knew Vin Raimes. Yeah he
Speaker 4: is in there.
Speaker 3: Danny Trejo, he's in there.
Speaker 4: You know, the dude with the chick with the afro
Speaker 4: tattooed on him?
Speaker 3: Those Lee.
Speaker 6: Oh well, by the way, uh Lee, are you done
Speaker 6: celebrating your birthday?
Speaker 3: It was still going on, still going baby an.
Speaker 6: Yeah, which night did you get the most hammered? I
Speaker 6: think on your actual birthday? On tax Day?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was Taco Tuesday?
Speaker 4: R Tuesday.
Speaker 8: It's a good time. Where'd you go Morrison's for Taco Tuesday?
Speaker 4: Five dollars?
Speaker 3: Margerita sounds like a Hispanic name.
Speaker 4: That's very far away from being a Spanish name.
Speaker 2: Where'd you go to Jamal's on Saint Patty's today?
Speaker 4: What you're trying to say, Dang, what you're doing, Jonas.
Speaker 3: Where are you going to celebrate? Celebrate?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you show your true colors here, Hun, dang, what
Speaker 4: are you talking about? That vampire talko?
Speaker 6: God?
Speaker 4: All right, take us a break, man, cool, get us
Speaker 4: out of here. That'll wrap up our coverage of Aaron
Speaker 4: rod Aaron Rodgers do in Pittsburgh by now, if he
Speaker 4: wanted to be there, that's just what everybody needs to
Speaker 4: be aware of. And I think that that's the moral
Speaker 4: of this story and whoever it is he's talking to
Speaker 4: that he's going to go play for Listen, I'll come
Speaker 4: play for you. I want to play for you. I'll
Speaker 4: do it for ten million. That's That's all I need
Speaker 4: is ten now ms. I'm letting you know I need
Speaker 4: ten ms.
Speaker 3: By the way, how rich are you that you call
Speaker 3: it ten ms? Like ten ms?
Speaker 6: I think it was more like locker room talking to
Speaker 6: the dudes in locker room.
Speaker 4: I agree, I wish would be sweet. Cats call them bands?
Speaker 4: You know, what's that? Like? A g G? What's a
Speaker 4: g grand? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: Man?
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Speaker 4: Let's to look ahead too.
Speaker 8: We have Easter Sunday falling on a four to twenty,
Speaker 8: so who knows what happens there.
Speaker 4: They're going to get a lot of high people celebrating Jesus. Yeah,
Speaker 4: who knows what's in that egg? And recapping an interesting
Speaker 4: night for me last night? And yeah, we'll see what happens. Oh,
Speaker 4: that's good. All right. That's good.
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Speaker 2: the Syracuse head coach, was talking with w T L
Speaker 2: A a M. And had this to say about paying
Speaker 2: wide receivers in this new nil landscape.
Speaker 11: All the respect to everybody in the country, to every
Speaker 11: wide receiver, to everybody that's doing all this stuff. Like
Speaker 11: if you want to make two million out wide receiver,
Speaker 11: that's to blow a homie over at Ohio State. Ain't
Speaker 11: nobody else making that money given no wide receiver, No
Speaker 11: two million dollars playing in college.
Speaker 4: No, that ain't me. I ain't doing that. I can't
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 7: Unless they tell me that we get a chance to
Speaker 7: have Travis Hunter. He could come back to college and
Speaker 7: he could come here and play for Ards.
Speaker 4: Then he gonna get some of my yet.
Speaker 7: But I ain't paying nobody two thousand this year not
Speaker 7: to meet two million whatever I just said.
Speaker 4: He ain't giving nobody that so least. You know, he
Speaker 4: sounded like he's from where I came from. He from
Speaker 4: straight the way. What's his name? Where's he original from?
Speaker 4: He talks like Brown, the head coach of Syracuse. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I would wonder where he's from. Let me look up
Speaker 4: where fran Brown is from. He talked like he from Homewood.
Speaker 6: Man, He's originally from Camden, New Jersey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, same deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Camden is like Homewood.
Speaker 12: Yeah about thousand oaks. He wouldn't be like a thousand
Speaker 12: California guy. Okay, No, he did a hell of a
Speaker 12: job in his first year, I know that. And he's
Speaker 12: recruited his ass off wherever he's been.
Speaker 6: You know, he did a Georgia George did a hell
Speaker 6: of a job, even during this time of Rutgers for
Speaker 6: their standards. But he's not wrong. I mean, there's here's
Speaker 6: the thing about an I l and not that we
Speaker 6: have to keep pounding the pavement on this entire conversation.
Speaker 6: I just said, you guys, by the way, really interesting
Speaker 6: article that just came out in regards to the transfer
Speaker 6: portal and Division one basketball players. But there's only one
Speaker 6: percent of the players that are taking the lion's share
Speaker 6: of what's out there. And I think that gets lost
Speaker 6: sometimes in regards to really what a lot of these
Speaker 6: student athletes are making. And I also think and I
Speaker 6: gets a bad rep because we see a situation like
Speaker 6: niko Ea Malaiyava and we watch how it plays out
Speaker 6: and we scorn the NCAA and everyone else involved as
Speaker 6: part of the process. And whether it's you know, blaming
Speaker 6: the parents, blame the agents, wherever it all goes, the
Speaker 6: truth is you're looking at a world where there are
Speaker 6: no boundaries. Like people act like you want to do
Speaker 6: the same thing if you're in their shoes. And as
Speaker 6: I sit here today and look at what some of
Speaker 6: these players are asking for or taking the just the
Speaker 6: opportunity to go out and see what their market value is,
Speaker 6: a lot of people probably do the same thing. So look,
Speaker 6: there is only one player in the country, a wide
Speaker 6: receiver that deserves to get two million or maybe even
Speaker 6: more than that, and that is Jeremiah Smith at Ohio State.
Speaker 6: All Right, he is the player that's going to be
Speaker 6: considered when he is draft eligible to be the number
Speaker 6: one overall pick because he is that good and he's
Speaker 6: that ready for the NFL. He would be the number
Speaker 6: one player maybe taken in this year's draft if he left.
Speaker 6: And he's coming off as true freshman season. So I've
Speaker 6: had high praise for him since I watched him in
Speaker 6: high school. He's rare. That's a once in a generation
Speaker 6: talent and young man who's ready for that sort of
Speaker 6: competition at such a young age. But ran Brown's not wrong.
Speaker 6: And unfortunately, the truth is there's players who are going
Speaker 6: to test it to see what they can make, to
Speaker 6: try to line their pockets while they can and take advantage.
Speaker 6: And there's some who don't prioritize that. And by the way,
Speaker 6: there's some that don't. It's not some, it's more the majority.
Speaker 6: I think it's interesting. I was talking to man man
Speaker 6: like because we're living it right now.
Speaker 4: We're in then io age and my son is a freshman.
Speaker 4: He's not even a true freshman yet. He's an early
Speaker 4: and row lee in school and we just were having
Speaker 4: the conversation and you know the one thing that I'll
Speaker 4: say every one of these kids out here and every
Speaker 4: one of these families out here aren't bent on trying
Speaker 4: to get as much out of nil as they possibly
Speaker 4: can squeeze out of it, I will say, and having
Speaker 4: the conversation with him, just listening to his mindset and
Speaker 4: some of the guys that are you know, in and
Speaker 4: around that that are in this college landscape, there really
Speaker 4: are guys that truly are focused in on keeping the
Speaker 4: main thing, the main thing, which is getting their education
Speaker 4: and playing at the highest level that they can play at.
Speaker 4: If you're a four star, five star guy coming out
Speaker 4: of high school, or you're in college and you're you've
Speaker 4: become an All American or you've all you're All Conference,
Speaker 4: there are going to be a lot of opportunities for
Speaker 4: you to make appearances, for you to do things that will,
Speaker 4: you know, get you a check. I just think that
Speaker 4: it's nice to know that there are still a lot
Speaker 4: of young aspiring talents that are just going there to develop,
Speaker 4: going there to want to go figure right, leave a
Speaker 4: lasting impression on on the college landscape of what it
Speaker 4: was that they were able to do and impact the game.
Speaker 4: I think the young people that are able to do
Speaker 4: that and it's not you know, corroded or diminished by
Speaker 4: greed of people that are outside of you know themselves
Speaker 4: that you know, it could be parents, it could be
Speaker 4: managers or agents or whatever it is that that you know,
Speaker 4: these guys have these days. I think if they continue
Speaker 4: to keep the focus in on what it really represents
Speaker 4: to go to college and play ball there, I think
Speaker 4: that I think that that's a very very commendable, a
Speaker 4: commendable thing. And so while it's like so much Nil talk,
Speaker 4: Nil Nil, there are a lot of young people that
Speaker 4: are in college right now that aren't looking to try
Speaker 4: to take advantage of a coach, or trying to take
Speaker 4: advantage of the university, or you know, trying to leverage
Speaker 4: all these different things that's going on. And I thought,
Speaker 4: I think that that should be stated because I really
Speaker 4: feel as though NIL has really opened up a very
Speaker 4: very negative type of approach to talking about college sports anymore.
Speaker 4: And we were so inundated with the Nico you know,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna leave you know, stories that are out there
Speaker 4: and what may take place with this player or who's
Speaker 4: making this much money in this that and the other.
Speaker 4: Like Q said, there's a small minute percentage of people
Speaker 4: that are commanding the type of dollars that are being
Speaker 4: taughtund and yet there's an entire narrative that is it
Speaker 4: has really developed and has taken shape and taken hold
Speaker 4: of college sports, college football.
Speaker 3: And I don't know that that's necessarily true.
Speaker 4: There are a lot of stories that would not only
Speaker 4: balance out, but would really drown out the amount of
Speaker 4: attention being put on the greedy ones, I'll say, the
Speaker 4: ones that are looking for those big ass paychecks and
Speaker 4: all those different things. Sure, that's becoming polarizing and commanding
Speaker 4: headlines and getting clicks, but there are a lot of
Speaker 4: young dudes out there that are doing this thing the
Speaker 4: right way and still look at it as I want
Speaker 4: to be a dope football player first, and it's not
Speaker 4: just about trying to get the money out of the
Speaker 4: universities and all that stuff. I'm here to play. I
Speaker 4: want to have a great relationship with my teammates. I
Speaker 4: want to have a great relationship with the community that
Speaker 4: I'm a part of. I found that to be pretty
Speaker 4: refreshing to hear that from my own child in the scenario,
Speaker 4: because a lot of this conversation is circulating not only
Speaker 4: in the media, but it's circulating amongst them as well,
Speaker 4: and it's a matter of how they're able to internalize
Speaker 4: and digest what's being put out there and what's being discussed,
Speaker 4: what's realistic and what isn't. And I think that that's
Speaker 4: something that should be stated.
Speaker 2: Brady mentioned this the article from Ross Ellinger speaking of
Speaker 2: the situation in college. Ad Advisor is, a consulting firm
Speaker 2: for athletic departments, released today a comprehensive study on the
Speaker 2: basketball transfer portal dating back to twenty nineteen. In it,
Speaker 2: they found that approximately sixty five percent of all Division
Speaker 2: one basketball playing student athletes who enter the transfer portal,
Speaker 2: regardless of the competition level their career begin at, either
Speaker 2: transferred down a level or did not find a new
Speaker 2: home at the highest competition level. In the study, the
Speaker 2: Power for Conferences in the Big Ee, seventy percent of
Speaker 2: student athletes who entered the portal transferred down or did
Speaker 2: not find a new home. At the lowest competition level,
Speaker 2: which was the majority of D one programs, sixty one
Speaker 2: percent of student athletes who entered the portal transferred down
Speaker 2: or did not find a new home.
Speaker 6: For those two but we got to put into context
Speaker 6: because there are some things that aren't pointed out, like
Speaker 6: you don't know the eligibility issues or rules, which could
Speaker 6: have been a reason why they actually ended up not
Speaker 6: finding at home. Okay, that's one problem issue with this
Speaker 6: that I think everyone's trying to sort out too, how
Speaker 6: you can simplify it but also make it easier for
Speaker 6: student athletes if they do want to transfer, to still
Speaker 6: keep the main thing the main thing, and that's to
Speaker 6: get their degree, so they're not leaving after their athletic
Speaker 6: career and having nothing to really go off of into
Speaker 6: the business world. There's also a thought that, well, if
Speaker 6: they're moving to lower ranked teams, it's kind of how
Speaker 6: it works. There's players who are transferring from teams that
Speaker 6: are higher ranked, better teams they're not either playing or
Speaker 6: there's people who are offering them more on other teams
Speaker 6: that need it. So you know in reading that it's
Speaker 6: like a jarring stat but it's also not paying the
Speaker 6: entire picture, like, of course you're gonna have players even
Speaker 6: in football, for example, who leave Ohio State, who leave
Speaker 6: Notre Dame, who leave like Penn State top programs and
Speaker 6: go to smaller schools to play, or they might be
Speaker 6: getting offered more money there because they're more valued there,
Speaker 6: So that doesn't stand out to me so much. I
Speaker 6: think if you had an exact percentage of players that
Speaker 6: didn't find a home that would be that would be
Speaker 6: more of what I would focus on from this article
Speaker 6: that I think is significant is figuring out how you
Speaker 6: can educate young people to say, like, maybe it's better
Speaker 6: to stay and see this out. Maybe you get an opportunity,
Speaker 6: maybe you don't, but at least you have a degree.
Speaker 6: In the end.
Speaker 4: That should be at least you have a degree. You
Speaker 4: have the opportunity to get the degree that you gain
Speaker 4: that knowledge, you gain that understanding, you have direct connection
Speaker 4: to your community. I always tell guys and I tell
Speaker 4: my kids this, Now, make sure you have your job
Speaker 4: lined up before you graduate. I don't know who confused
Speaker 4: you on thinking you should be one of these trust
Speaker 4: fund babies, which they are. But you're not going to
Speaker 4: go travel for ten years, fifteen years and then decide
Speaker 4: what you want to do. That's not how we're going
Speaker 4: to do it. In our house. You have your job
Speaker 4: lined up, you have your people lined up, You have
Speaker 4: your your conversations, your allies, your connections, your relationships, you
Speaker 4: have all those things lined up before you leave school,
Speaker 4: because the moment you get that degree, the moment you lead,
Speaker 4: depending on what line of work you're in, you're already overqualified.
Speaker 4: You're not going to get a job that you're looking
Speaker 4: for just going out there in the regular market, because
Speaker 4: they're gonna look at you like, yeah, you're too qualified
Speaker 4: for us to bring you in at this entry level position.
Speaker 4: We're going to go with this person over here, whatever
Speaker 4: it may be. Leverage your community because even after you're
Speaker 4: done playing I did not go to school for media
Speaker 4: media broadcasts. I did not. I took classes, I studied it,
Speaker 4: I worked at it to get better at being able
Speaker 4: to do it. But that's not what I went to
Speaker 4: school for. I wanted to be a counselor, and so
Speaker 4: once I got done playing ball, even while I was
Speaker 4: playing ball, the reason why I got opportunities to do media,
Speaker 4: it was always a Penn State ard that was hiring me.
Speaker 4: And that's a true story. Every single time. Early on,
Speaker 4: I had no experience, none of that. And the person,
Speaker 4: the person Sam Sam happens to be his name not
Speaker 4: Iyo Sam, Penn State Sam. He was a Penn Stater
Speaker 4: and he worked at CBS radio, and he gave me,
Speaker 4: gave me the opportunity to do radio and learn radio.
Speaker 4: He taught me how it worked and all the different
Speaker 4: things that went into it. And he's a Penn Stater.
Speaker 4: You know, a lot of the opportunities that I see
Speaker 4: and I'm able to take advantage of are just conversations
Speaker 4: within my Penn State community. And we all have that opportunity.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot more value there than just going
Speaker 4: there and being a mercenary and having them pay you
Speaker 4: and they don't pay you enough, you go play somewhere else.
Speaker 4: Even if you don't play a whole lot, there's tremendous
Speaker 4: value to staying there and being immersed in the community
Speaker 4: that you're attending the school for. It's just simple arithmetic,
Speaker 4: if you ask me. Even if it doesn't play out,
Speaker 4: and even if it does play out well for you
Speaker 4: plan on the field, you're still going to most likely
Speaker 4: live more life than you did playing at the professional
Speaker 4: level six seven years. If you have a fifteen twenty
Speaker 4: year career, that's that's rare. But what one great enjoy that.
Speaker 4: But the reality of it is is that your value
Speaker 4: is what you build relationship wise within the community that
Speaker 4: you're servicing, especially as it applies to the college institution
Speaker 4: that you attend.
Speaker 2: All State College led you to a radio listen to college.
Speaker 2: I'm Brady's radio mentor, and I worked at Chunky Cheese.
Speaker 2: See dang, it's all the same thing.
Speaker 6: Well that which is surprising again going back to one
Speaker 6: of our conversations earlier in today's show again walking out
Speaker 6: of Radio Roads super Bowl and then you know Lvar
Speaker 6: with his swag, you know it kind of how I walk,
Speaker 6: probably with a little bit of a limbit because I
Speaker 6: messed up feet. And then there's Jonas it looks like
Speaker 6: the damn tin man. I mean, you had to have
Speaker 6: a little bit of a wiggle in order to be
Speaker 6: the rat at Chucky Cheese, and you've got to shake
Speaker 6: that asse at some point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean I'm suffering the side effects of
Speaker 2: all that. You know, it's a daunting task, adn job,
Speaker 2: and it's good to see, man, you know, to fight
Speaker 2: through all that, and plus the amount of weight that
Speaker 2: I lift, like Brady, come on, man, you know the
Speaker 2: joints have seen some damage.
Speaker 4: So it happens. Bud.
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Speaker 8: Well, before we get to the weekend ahead. Last night,
Speaker 8: I wanted to share a story I went to go see. Well,
Speaker 8: first of all, my dinner was canceled. My birthday dinner
Speaker 8: was canceled, so that was a shame.
Speaker 4: Ended up going to go.
Speaker 8: See the first Imax showing of Sinners, which it comes
Speaker 8: out this weekend with Michael B. Jordan, and had a
Speaker 8: nice little surprise. Ryan Coogler, the director, came out. He
Speaker 8: gave a little speech beforehand. If you don't know Ryan Kugler,
Speaker 8: he's directed the likes of Black Panther, uh and Creed
Speaker 8: movies all that stuff.
Speaker 4: So yeah, well Conda forever, man, let's Ryan Kugler. Dude,
Speaker 4: Come on, man, will Conda forever? You all know who
Speaker 4: Ron Cougler is. Come on, man, space jab Lebron's space
Speaker 4: jab there he is right there.
Speaker 3: That's called the movie is called Sinners.
Speaker 4: Yeah, great movie. Go see. It's like like a almost
Speaker 4: like a horror flick kind of sol.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't want to give away the big surprise
Speaker 8: in it, but yeah, how do you know those surprise
Speaker 8: because he went to see it?
Speaker 4: I went to see it.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you get that access that you shouldn't get.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he can't tell Nodays movies.
Speaker 8: Movie's actually, you know, premiere around three pm or seven
Speaker 8: pm on Thursdays now instead of Fridays.
Speaker 3: Were you on that liver loop while you're in the
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, I passed out at the end. I missed
Speaker 4: the end, missed the end. So how do you know
Speaker 4: it again? I don't want to go see it.
Speaker 3: I don't want to give away the ending. Oh don't worry.
Speaker 4: I didn't see it.
Speaker 3: By the way, did they know this is how you behave?
Speaker 2: You're supposed to be like watching their movie and discussing it.
Speaker 3: Do they know how you behave?
Speaker 2: In there?
Speaker 8: This one was open to the public. I'm free to
Speaker 8: do whatever whatever I want.
Speaker 3: Well, you got, Butchered admits the ending.
Speaker 4: I did. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: I don't want to give it away.
Speaker 4: I gotta go see it.
Speaker 3: Oh, don't worry. He can't give it away enough to
Speaker 3: know I was very tired.
Speaker 4: How much?
Speaker 3: How what did you drink?
Speaker 4: We went to get sushi.
Speaker 8: Before and the lady who was at the sushi bar
Speaker 8: was very nice. She kept on pouring us rice wine.
Speaker 8: So we had a couple of hot soaks, some beers,
Speaker 8: and some rice wine.
Speaker 3: Okay, and that's it. Well, and I was just really tired.
Speaker 3: Who were you with?
Speaker 4: I was with of course Todd? Okay, okay, did you
Speaker 4: bring a flask in? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I did, so you had more than this.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's a litt tequila there too, some tequila in
Speaker 8: the flask.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Did some people know the new audience it's an interrogation
Speaker 2: room because there's always more that you could squeeze out
Speaker 2: of this.
Speaker 6: You know that.
Speaker 3: You just got to keep asking questions.
Speaker 4: You know. There was a beat box in there too.
Speaker 3: Was there at a beat box too?
Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, that was for the movie. Yeah, I
Speaker 8: gave you the pregame during the movie. You had a
Speaker 8: beat box.
Speaker 4: And well, there you go. That makes it all make sense, Rady,
Speaker 4: that's your guy, that's my guy.
Speaker 8: And then of course I got in trouble with the
Speaker 8: lady Fred because she wanted to see the movie with me,
Speaker 8: and I went.
Speaker 4: Without her, and I saw Ray Cougler. She's very high,
Speaker 4: And weren't you excited that you didn't take the lady
Speaker 4: with you? I was excited I got to see Ryan Cougler.
Speaker 4: That was cool. Didn't make you happy that you felt
Speaker 4: the freedom of hanging with Todd void of any type
Speaker 4: of drama or any type of confusion or conflict. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And he introduced me to chicken bake from Costco. What
Speaker 4: is that? What is that? It's like so good?
Speaker 8: It's uh, I describe it kind of like a hot
Speaker 8: pocket but better.
Speaker 13: It's like a roll of bread that's been stuff with
Speaker 13: like chickens, Caesar dressing and bacon, all the healthy stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that doesn't sound healthy to me. No, definitely was not. Huh.
Speaker 13: All right, it's so good. It's a good five dollars.
Speaker 13: It's like four dollars and can get it like hot
Speaker 13: and just right away.
Speaker 4: Rank everything's cheap there. So enjoy WrestleMania forty one, Easter
Speaker 4: and four twenty. I'm gonna enjoyed these.
Speaker 8: John Cena, looking to surpass Rick Flair for the all
Speaker 8: time record seventeen world champion.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to bet on WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: Oh I got the inside on. I'll let you know
Speaker 4: when we get off air. Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: Because John Wrestling isn't it's not real. But I just
Speaker 4: sent you oh joking, I'm joking. Do have a great weekend.