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Speaker 1: his family, but he will be back on Monday. Coming up,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Matt Ryan in the Atlanta Falcons a
Speaker 1: couple of things talk to him about. And Pat Forty
Speaker 1: covers college sports for Sports Illustrated. You've had some news
Speaker 1: here with the ACC and the SEC. We're waiting for
Speaker 1: Pac twelve, Big twelve, Big ten to decide what they're
Speaker 1: going to do. And I'll go back to I guess
Speaker 1: it was in April when I was telling you the
Speaker 1: audience that these conferences are going to do just Prince games.
Speaker 1: There's not going to be out of conference games from
Speaker 1: what I was told, and I think you're seeing most
Speaker 1: of these conferences following suit with that. But we'll talk
Speaker 1: to Pat Forty about that, and maybe the SEC is
Speaker 1: holding out was holding out of having a non conference game.
Speaker 1: I'm curious if you're still going to have Georgia, Georgia Tech, Florida,
Speaker 1: Florida State. Those are the games that I'm curious about, Clemson,
Speaker 1: South Carolina. So we'll talk to Pat Forty, he'll join us.
Speaker 1: Coming up a little bit. NBA debut last night, Jazz
Speaker 1: beat the Pelicans, Lakers beating the Clippers tonight. Six NBA games,
Speaker 1: thirteen baseball games, ten NHL games coming up this weekend.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time since we've said the following.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I'm going to fit in all
Speaker 1: of these games, because that's what's happening this weekend. Over
Speaker 1: sixty games, baseball, basketball in the NHL, and usually late
Speaker 1: July is really quiet. You usually just have baseball because
Speaker 1: hockey's over, the NBA is over. Preseason football is a
Speaker 1: week later. But we got a lot of action coming
Speaker 1: up this weekend. Watching the Lakers and the Clippers last night,
Speaker 1: it wasn't great basketball. I'm not expecting great basketball, Utah
Speaker 1: against the Pelicans was not great basketball. You had great
Speaker 1: endings and you had the Zion Williamson curiosity of he
Speaker 1: wanted to play more minutes, but the Pelicans didn't want
Speaker 1: him to play more minutes. Have more on that coming up.
Speaker 1: But Lebron James didn't start out well, but it ended
Speaker 1: well for Lebron and the Lakers in He scored thirteen
Speaker 1: of the lakers twenty seven fourth quarter points, played great
Speaker 1: defense on Paul George in the waning seconds, actually guarded
Speaker 1: Kauhi then Paul George and Paul George had the ball
Speaker 1: in the air to win the game. But the Lakers
Speaker 1: pick up the victory, and there there was a certain
Speaker 1: feel to that game. It wasn't just a hey, let's
Speaker 1: kind of get readjusted to real gamelike situations or that
Speaker 1: feeling that you have there that had playoff basketball an
Speaker 1: atmosphere to it. As for Zion Williamson, it was a
Speaker 1: game time decision. He played the first five minutes of
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter but didn't come back. He was subbed
Speaker 1: out with seven nineteen to go in regulation, and then
Speaker 1: the Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry told the reporters that Zion
Speaker 1: was on a minute's restriction. Okay, why is he on
Speaker 1: a minute's restriction because Williamson said he wanted to play.
Speaker 1: But if you know that Zion can't play more than
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, which he did last night, how about you
Speaker 1: use those minutes later in the game if you happen
Speaker 1: to need him. I don't need him in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: I could have used him in the fourth quarter, because
Speaker 1: every one of these games matters for the Pelicans, if
Speaker 1: they truly matter to the Pelicans, I would have you
Speaker 1: know if you have a minute's restriction, don't I want
Speaker 1: my best player at the end of the game. He's
Speaker 1: riding the bike. When he's not in he's riding the bike.
Speaker 1: But what is Zion Williamson's status now. Zion said he
Speaker 1: hasn't suffered any recent medical setbacks, and he denied he
Speaker 1: had to sit because of conditioning issues. They got to
Speaker 1: get their story right here. Zion said, this is the NBA,
Speaker 1: these are the best players. You want to feel comfortable.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hurt my team more than I
Speaker 1: helped them in a sense. But if there's any risk
Speaker 1: of him getting hurt seriously, then why is he playing.
Speaker 1: If the Pelicans decided not to play, I'm fine with that,
Speaker 1: But if you're going to have him go out and
Speaker 1: play three or four minutes each quarter. I'm more concerned
Speaker 1: about that than I am if he play twenty five minutes,
Speaker 1: because I can tell this. I tell you this from experience.
Speaker 1: When you get into a game and you know you're
Speaker 1: not going to stay in the game that long, you
Speaker 1: try to go crazy. You try to do everything possible.
Speaker 1: You're playing great defense, you want the ball, you're going
Speaker 1: to the hoop, you'll take a charge. You're playing in
Speaker 1: short burst and that is really dangerous in my opinion.
Speaker 1: But are you going to play him or not? Now
Speaker 1: what happens the next game? Is he on a minute's restriction?
Speaker 1: You have to win these games? Do you want to
Speaker 1: win those games? That would be my question because you
Speaker 1: got the Clippers coming up next. And at what point
Speaker 1: do the Pelicans shut down Zion Williamson. Let's say they
Speaker 1: lose their first three, do you shut down Zion Williamson?
Speaker 1: I like the experience. They're they're in kind of a
Speaker 1: playoff basketball situation, and it's a young team, and I
Speaker 1: love the future of the team. All in on the
Speaker 1: Pells absolutely, you know they need a little bit more depth.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna have Reddick around much longer by the
Speaker 1: way he's He's made the playoffs every single year of
Speaker 1: his career. And is Reddick in better shape than Zion Williamson.
Speaker 1: So so JJ Reddick at thirty six is in better
Speaker 1: shape than Zion Williamson. And I know Zion. You know
Speaker 1: he took off the time off with the medical emergency
Speaker 1: with his family. He was quarantined for four days. But
Speaker 1: why am I having him out there to do these
Speaker 1: little cameos. If you if you don't want to, if
Speaker 1: you worry about the risk of injury, then don't play him.
Speaker 1: But they lost last night to the Utah Jazz and
Speaker 1: there was a moment where I thought Utah was in
Speaker 1: serious trouble in that game. But man, do I love
Speaker 1: when I'm seeing with Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram talk
Speaker 1: about why watching them, a great weight was lifted off
Speaker 1: your shoulders. Players want to go to Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: play for the Lakers. And I go back to what
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller said, Brandon Ingram and Lonzo Ball will do
Speaker 1: better outside of Los Angeles. And Brandon Ingram has grown
Speaker 1: into a great basketball player, but he's also he's made himself.
Speaker 1: He's improved a lot of guys get to the league
Speaker 1: and then they don't improve, and it's small things that
Speaker 1: you improve upon. He's added a little bit more weight,
Speaker 1: he's added more range. He's only twenty two, and if
Speaker 1: he can model his game after Kevin Durant, you know
Speaker 1: that size, that length, he's a smooth player. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you know he's got a killer instinct to him.
Speaker 1: But he's improved his free throw shooting. He's become a
Speaker 1: legitimate three point shooter. Lonzo Ball looks like he got
Speaker 1: away from his dad, got away from you know, the Lakers.
Speaker 1: You know that heavy cloud that hangs over you when
Speaker 1: you're young, and it was not a great environment for
Speaker 1: those younger players. And you know, for him to get
Speaker 1: out of that, get away from Lebron, let Lebron try
Speaker 1: to win his title, and then they can kind of exhale.
Speaker 1: It feels like they're playing fun basketball. And then you
Speaker 1: add Zion to the equation here. They're not far off
Speaker 1: with that nucleus there. You know, there's a couple other
Speaker 1: things they need to add. But you know, JJ Reddick, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's uh, he's playing. He was playing great. So it
Speaker 1: was fun and fun to watch that last night. Here
Speaker 1: is Lebron James. He had the game winning shot and
Speaker 1: the game winning stopped. Uh and he talked about that
Speaker 1: last night. I love the ball as you know, the
Speaker 1: game tie, game being down, being up. You know, we
Speaker 1: had a better three point game, like forty seconds ago.
Speaker 1: We got a you know, a great look for Danny.
Speaker 1: He missed it. Paul George came back and hit it,
Speaker 1: hit it three to tie the game for me. Shot up,
Speaker 1: you'll be aggressive. You know, I feel like I got
Speaker 1: some contact at the elbow, you know, by by Marcus Morris.
Speaker 1: I didn't call it, but you know, like you know,
Speaker 1: like you was sold. He was a kid a start
Speaker 1: playing basketball. There's no whistle you keep playing on. So
Speaker 1: I was able to follow him up the shot and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, put us up and put us up for good.
Speaker 1: Here is Frank Vogel, the Lakers head coach, talking about
Speaker 1: Lebron's final sequence that possession right there. We didn't want
Speaker 1: to call time out and you give them the ability
Speaker 1: to sub. So you know, he's been great in that situation,
Speaker 1: targeting the defender that he wants to go at. H
Speaker 1: got to the paint, got a good look and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, just followed a shot, the
Speaker 1: great competitive spirit play and you know it's the defense
Speaker 1: on the last possession obviously helped secure the game. But
Speaker 1: all throughout he's been he was. He was trivid on
Speaker 1: the ball and as always just a quarterback of our
Speaker 1: defense with his voice calling out of coverages. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a great defensive segment for him because you got
Speaker 1: Kawhi and then you switch off to Paul George, the
Speaker 1: presence of mind to notice how much time was left
Speaker 1: on the clock, forcing Paul George into help, forcing him
Speaker 1: to his left, and then the contested jumper. Here's Doc
Speaker 1: Rivers talking about the mistakes that were made by the Clippers.
Speaker 1: We were shorthanded and we made too many mistakes. Like
Speaker 1: it's a good lesson for your team. You can't make
Speaker 1: us many mistakes if we've made in one game and
Speaker 1: be shorthanded, Like, well, when you don't have guys, you
Speaker 1: have to execute. We didn't execute many plays tonight. Offensively,
Speaker 1: we had twenty turnovers, we gave up offensive rebounds, we
Speaker 1: lost guys in coverage, defensiveility. So in that way it
Speaker 1: was disappointing. The positives are that we had every opportunity
Speaker 1: to still win the game, and that would have been
Speaker 1: a sweet win for us. What our guys have gone through.
Speaker 1: And I started to wonder about this last night. You know,
Speaker 1: the Lakers, I think pride ego they want to be
Speaker 1: the number one seed, but there's really no home court advantage.
Speaker 1: My question and would be, do you want to be
Speaker 1: the number two seed instead of the number one seed?
Speaker 1: Because everybody, it feels like, is fearful of the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 1: If the Blazers are that eighth seed that gets in,
Speaker 1: do you want to face them in the first round?
Speaker 1: What the Lakers rather face Dallas, Utah than the Portland Trailblazers. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I get the feeling that Lebron's gonna keep the pedal
Speaker 1: to the medal there and hey, let's just keep winning
Speaker 1: because they were playing great basketball before everything shut down.
Speaker 1: They had beaten the Clippers, they had beaten the Bucks.
Speaker 1: I think back to back games. They were playing great
Speaker 1: and you've got to get that restarted here. And it's
Speaker 1: not one of those where you can go, we just
Speaker 1: flip a switch. They're still getting to know one another
Speaker 1: on that team. Now you have different rotations with Avery
Speaker 1: Bradley and Ron Jon Rondo not playing now, it's different
Speaker 1: there and the Clippers will be formidable. We know that
Speaker 1: when they get everybody back and healthy. That's his deeper
Speaker 1: rosters you'll find in the NBA playoffs. Alex in North
Speaker 1: Dakota joins us. Hi, Alex, what do you have for
Speaker 1: me today? Hey? Six two two twenty five. Um, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to say you're talking about JJ Reddick. I
Speaker 1: just think he's a super underappreciated player in the league.
Speaker 1: I mean he's been he's been super consistent, he's been
Speaker 1: very healthy, and I mean if you see are watched
Speaker 1: in the last couple of games, he comes off the
Speaker 1: ball extremely well. That three's that he's shooting, he's fading
Speaker 1: away and everything I see. Will still think he's super
Speaker 1: valuable asset, and especially a big veteran that's been in
Speaker 1: the playoffs every single year. Yeah, I don't I just
Speaker 1: don't know how long he's going to play. But thank you, Alex. No,
Speaker 1: Reddick is a He's a great player. He's a player
Speaker 1: that every team would love to have because he's an
Speaker 1: unbelievable shooter and you know free throw shooting as well.
Speaker 1: He's one of the greats in bold time, and he's
Speaker 1: got that ability. He understands the game and I played
Speaker 1: on the big stage at Duke Pro. Career started out slow,
Speaker 1: but he's a great knockdown three point shooter. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a forty five percent three point shooter. And to
Speaker 1: have that where you can space the floor and then
Speaker 1: kick it out to JJ Reddick, you know, that's the
Speaker 1: value that you have with him. Yeah. Point Reddick's thirty six.
Speaker 1: He had his best year of his career last year
Speaker 1: at age thirty five vers eighteen points a game. He
Speaker 1: has never made an All Star team. He's not going
Speaker 1: to either. He kind of reminds me of Jamal Crawford's career.
Speaker 1: Remember out of Michigan, Yeah, where he started kind of slow,
Speaker 1: but he's always been a very good score and a
Speaker 1: very tough player. But he bounces around a little bit.
Speaker 1: Jamal Crawford, I think was sixth Man of the Year
Speaker 1: a couple of times. Just got this word. Brewers Cardinals
Speaker 1: game postponed tonight due to positive test at least one Phillies,
Speaker 1: Blue Jay's, Marlins, Nationals Cardinals Brewers are not playing today
Speaker 1: because of COVID nineteen. So that means twenty percent of
Speaker 1: the league is not going to be playing due to
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. All right, well, baseball finally came out, and
Speaker 1: remember I told you I go, you know, I'm hearing
Speaker 1: that there that this was brought up. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was a text or a conference call. What
Speaker 1: about seven inning games for a double header? I didn't
Speaker 1: know it was going to happen. Next thing I know
Speaker 1: yesterday it's baseballs agreed to have double headers and their
Speaker 1: seven innings each And I went, why aren't we thinking
Speaker 1: about this prior to all of this? Hey, what happens
Speaker 1: if a team has somebody test positive? What happens if
Speaker 1: they You know, we have to postpone or cancel some games.
Speaker 1: We got to make those games up. And how are
Speaker 1: we going to do that? We've already started our extra
Speaker 1: inning games in the tenth inning with a runner at
Speaker 1: second base. You already have pitching staffs that are getting
Speaker 1: depleted with injuries. Here, how about we just throw out
Speaker 1: some more ideas. Quirk bats. Well, I like home run
Speaker 1: derby to settle extra innings. You get one player, it
Speaker 1: gets ten pitches and most home runs and then you win.
Speaker 1: It's like peaks. Yeah, penalty kicks here. I feel like
Speaker 1: the commissioners listening to the show, and I'm worried if
Speaker 1: I throw out something that's a little too goofy, they
Speaker 1: might pick it up. How about free beer to everybody
Speaker 1: next season? Yes, Todd. If these things keep popping up
Speaker 1: and it sounds like it is, can they shorten the
Speaker 1: season any further of They'll never get on the same
Speaker 1: page the players, the Players Association, and the NMLB about
Speaker 1: like we gotta like move this along. We can't keep
Speaker 1: we can't reschedule these games. We're running out of time.
Speaker 1: Do we play a forty game season? Fifty game season?
Speaker 1: What do you do? I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the hell is going on, and I don't think
Speaker 1: Baseball knows what the hell is going on, because this
Speaker 1: is now going to come down to winning percentage. The
Speaker 1: Marlins aren't going to play sixty games. I'm guessing most teams,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe a handful of teams get to sixty games.
Speaker 1: But all Baseball wants this is all a charade, it's
Speaker 1: all show. It's sixteen games. Let's get to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Let's have sixteen teams in the playoffs. Let's make some money.
Speaker 1: Can we limp to October. That's what we want. Those
Speaker 1: are the T shirts like the promos October baseball players
Speaker 1: looking like the Fife and drum Bugle Corps. What with
Speaker 1: mask on limping to October? Just get us to October,
Speaker 1: Just get us to the money. That's what we want.
Speaker 1: Hold on for dear life, limping to October. Oh, man,
Speaker 1: you agin when you'd love to have a live camera
Speaker 1: Rob Manfred commissioner Manfred this week. Every day there's like
Speaker 1: the email inboxing you that no, no no, no, no, shut
Speaker 1: it down, no calls? Are the Marlins gonna? When did
Speaker 1: the Marlins play again? I think it's I think next
Speaker 1: Tuesday is the earliest that they can play. And I
Speaker 1: guess half the team is now tested positive. Over half
Speaker 1: of the team is tested. Post shows the lack of
Speaker 1: team unity. Yeah yeah, what about those other guys? You
Speaker 1: call yourself Marlin's locker room split question not a true
Speaker 1: Marlin clubhouse. Phone calls are welcome eight seven seven three
Speaker 1: D P show email address DP at Dan Patrick dot com,
Speaker 1: Twitter handle the DP show. What's the poll question? Mclovin
Speaker 1: is not here today, so Seaton has to do those honors. Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this uh, this poll question. By the way, it's been
Speaker 1: a real doozy all day, Dan, Yeah, yeah, yeah, as
Speaker 1: you're searching for it. If you were twenty two, which
Speaker 1: team would you rather play for? It's been split right
Speaker 1: down the middle fifty fifty all morning. So would you
Speaker 1: rather play for the Lakers or the Pelicans? Yeah? Who
Speaker 1: would go? Lakers? Here? Todd sentative as I am about
Speaker 1: getting yelled at by Lebron because learning from him and
Speaker 1: being able to have the experience of playing with Lebron James,
Speaker 1: and the experience of dealing with the media in a
Speaker 1: big market and all that at a young age, you
Speaker 1: would think it can only be easier as opposed to
Speaker 1: more fun right away, I understand that the argument with
Speaker 1: the Pelicans, but I want to say, real reasons. You
Speaker 1: get moved back to Plia del Rey and be next
Speaker 1: door to Sechuan Palace. Nice to boot barn, San Bernardino. Yeah,
Speaker 1: get some boots, got a nice chicken and broccoli and
Speaker 1: low main thing right down the hill area by the
Speaker 1: You could not you could not take the heat. I
Speaker 1: probably couldn't the media. You couldn't do it. But on
Speaker 1: paper it sounds like the bell. But if it wasn't me.
Speaker 1: If I'm someone else had a tougher shell LA and
Speaker 1: experience playing with Lebron, that seems like the thing to
Speaker 1: sign up for and a chance to win a ring
Speaker 1: Seaton Man. But there's something about aside from playing with
Speaker 1: to say, like Zion and a bunch of younger dudes, right,
Speaker 1: that'll play a pretty exciteing branded basketball. You don't have
Speaker 1: all of these ghosts around you all the time reminding
Speaker 1: you to make sure that you're great. You know, hang
Speaker 1: that that pressure is just Kobe Bryant got criticized on
Speaker 1: a daily basis. He's one of the greatest basketball players ever,
Speaker 1: and he got too criticim Lebron. Like, for me, it's easy.
Speaker 1: I don't like traffic and I love Cajun food. This
Speaker 1: I don't even care if they play me. I would
Speaker 1: play for the Pelican. We'll take a break here. Pat Forty,
Speaker 1: who covers college sports for Sports Illustrated. The SEC set
Speaker 1: an all conference game schedule starting September twenty sixth. I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if it's smarter to start the season sooner and
Speaker 1: then build in a couple of bye weeks there, just
Speaker 1: in case that's what Oklahoma was trying to do. But
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Pat forty about this, you know, with
Speaker 1: the other leagues and kind of hit the reset button
Speaker 1: on college football here. What exactly is happening and what
Speaker 1: does he expect to happen here in over the next month.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk to Pat and Matt Ryan join us.
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Speaker 1: mean I put a nice picture that there's a picture
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Speaker 1: daughters were born, but he's on the verge of tears.
Speaker 1: As Getty Lee retweets something that PAULI sent with his
Speaker 1: birthday greeting. If the guys from Rush walked in here,
Speaker 1: I think I would probably m I wouldn't make it M. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: I like to imagine sort of being on the other
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Speaker 1: your birthday, and then you're just scrolling through the Rush
Speaker 1: Twitter feed and you see, like, Wow, look what this
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Speaker 1: it's a second that I took from kicking ass uh
Speaker 1: Tiffany and Los Angeles. Then we'll talk to Pat Forty
Speaker 1: from Sports Illustrated. Good morning Tiffany, Good morning Color, long
Speaker 1: time listener, And I heard you guys just say that
Speaker 1: Paul used to go to Safalon Palace all the time.
Speaker 1: I've lived in La my whole life and grew up
Speaker 1: going there. It just closed due to coronavirus, and we
Speaker 1: were very sad to see it go. So if he
Speaker 1: had any other Chinese places he'd liked, Nla, I'd love
Speaker 1: his advice. All right, Well, thank you, Tiffany. It was
Speaker 1: Fritzie who sees Uan Palace? How was my place right
Speaker 1: down the hill and apply a doorway? And when we
Speaker 1: would go to Los Angeles and you know, we would
Speaker 1: drive by there, it felt like a couple of times
Speaker 1: during the week when we would stay out there and
Speaker 1: Todd would always say the same thing, Sejuan Palace. I'd
Speaker 1: always go there. I'd order from there so much that
Speaker 1: at the end of the order, if I forgot something,
Speaker 1: they would immediately say, no dumplings of time. How embarrassing
Speaker 1: is that you're going that, but that they know exactly
Speaker 1: what you orderism They know if you left out the
Speaker 1: little Maine or something that was pretty good. Pat forty
Speaker 1: covers college football and college athletics were Sports Illustrated, and
Speaker 1: he's joining us on the program. Here, where do you
Speaker 1: want to start with this, Pat, Because it feels like
Speaker 1: you're always the bearer of bad news. So do you
Speaker 1: have any good news for college football fans? Let's see
Speaker 1: the Pack twelve will announce the schedule today, as has
Speaker 1: obviously the the ACC and SEC of allows scheduling models.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna at least schedule games. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: we're gonna play them, Dan, but we are going to
Speaker 1: schedule them, okay, but gives people something to talk. What's
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve schedule going to be. It'll be ten games,
Speaker 1: it'll be conference only. You know, they're adding one league
Speaker 1: game per team, so that everybody's playing an even five home,
Speaker 1: five road. I'm not sure start dates yet, but that's
Speaker 1: that's been a really interesting thing, and I heard you
Speaker 1: allude to it before the break there about where some
Speaker 1: conferences are looking like, hey, let's go early. Others are like, no, no,
Speaker 1: let's push it back and go late. That's to the
Speaker 1: point that I don't think anybody knows what's the right
Speaker 1: thing to do here. And I don't think we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a bull season. I'm starting to look at the
Speaker 1: time frame if you're gonna play like the SEC conference
Speaker 1: title game is what December nineteenth? Here? Do you think
Speaker 1: we're gonna have bull game a bull season? I think
Speaker 1: if we they have a season, we'll have bowl games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if they can get to the end of the season.
Speaker 1: I think we will. They'll push them back, they'll schedule
Speaker 1: them wherever and whenever, as you know, the worldwide leader will,
Speaker 1: we'll find places to put bowl games. It's funny yet,
Speaker 1: because December nineteenth, normally that would be the weekend when
Speaker 1: they would start with like five bowl games. Now that's
Speaker 1: going to probably be a conference championship weekend. You know,
Speaker 1: they'll stash the Camelia Bowl on mid January if they
Speaker 1: need to, if they think it'll work. You mentioned that
Speaker 1: the ACC had a preemptive strike where they were not
Speaker 1: going to be the bad guy in these rivalry games
Speaker 1: that they have with the SEC at the end of
Speaker 1: the season where it's Florida, Florida State, it's Clemson, South Carolina,
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech, Georgia. So explain what the ACC did and
Speaker 1: then what the SEC then tried to counter. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a lovely bit of skullduggery. And this just goes
Speaker 1: to show these Power five programs that I think we
Speaker 1: use the analogy the five crime families, that's what they are.
Speaker 1: You know, they kind of kind of get along, but
Speaker 1: when it comes down to rubber hitting road, they're all
Speaker 1: in it for themselves. So at three thirty On Wednesday,
Speaker 1: words starts getting out that the ACC or the SEC,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, has finalized its schedule that they only want
Speaker 1: to play conference games. At about four o'clock four twenty,
Speaker 1: the ACC suddenly puts out a blast to its members,
Speaker 1: we are releasing our schedule. They weren't going to do
Speaker 1: it that day. They had agreed on it earlier in
Speaker 1: the day, but they were not going to release it.
Speaker 1: But they wanted to get it out ahead of the
Speaker 1: SEC news and then make it and portray the schedule
Speaker 1: and show, hey, we have this open date for a
Speaker 1: non conference game played in our home state, which obviously
Speaker 1: is for those games to accommodate those games. They wanted
Speaker 1: to put that out there and paint the SEC into
Speaker 1: the corner as the ones that are saying, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're not going to play Florida, Florida State. We're not
Speaker 1: going to play Georgia, Georgia Tech, Clemson, South Carolina. It's
Speaker 1: played every year since nineteen thirteen. Now we're not going
Speaker 1: to do it, Louisville, Kentucky, etc. So I was quite
Speaker 1: a deft little maneuver by the ACC. Notre dame in
Speaker 1: the ACC, is this a temporary relationship. I think it is.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure, hey, the a CC will continue
Speaker 1: to leave the port slide on for that wandering bachelor
Speaker 1: that is Notre Dame. They go, they're gonna get them.
Speaker 1: They're gonna share towels, they're gonna share dishes, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna share a bank account for one year. But I
Speaker 1: think it will not last beyond that. I think that
Speaker 1: Notre Dame so cherishes its independence, its ability to schedule
Speaker 1: nationally and recruit nationally, that it will say thank you
Speaker 1: very much. But now we are going back to our
Speaker 1: bachelor pad. I'm getting more concerned about the Big Ten.
Speaker 1: If the Big Ten has football, what do you think? Yeah,
Speaker 1: legitimate concern. I mean, they put out a memo to
Speaker 1: the league members yesterday and the first paragraph says, we're
Speaker 1: still not sure we're going to play. That's the baseline
Speaker 1: starting point right there. They said, if protocols are in
Speaker 1: place and things are going well next week, we will
Speaker 1: probably go ahead and green lights starting camp. That's if,
Speaker 1: and then after that we'll see how it goes and
Speaker 1: world maybe release the schedule next week. It could leak
Speaker 1: out earlier, but I would think that will be next
Speaker 1: week as well, they are. They've been very cautious about
Speaker 1: this going forward. I mean, you look at Rutgers in
Speaker 1: the situation there and in New Jersey not even sure
Speaker 1: where the people can travel into or out of the
Speaker 1: state to play them. There's travel restrictions in Ohio, there's
Speaker 1: travel restrictions in Pennsylvania. There's problems all over the place
Speaker 1: that I think they are certainly more wary of or
Speaker 1: willing to acknowledge than the other conferences. Though, what did
Speaker 1: you think of my idea of maybe moving the season
Speaker 1: up and then having the ability to have buy weeks
Speaker 1: where you could almost hit a reset button for these
Speaker 1: these colleges, these students. Yeah, I mean, you know that's
Speaker 1: there's two competing schools. The thought there's that which the
Speaker 1: Big Twelve looks like they're going to do. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're pushing up games to August twenty ninth versus the
Speaker 1: SEC going to September twenty sixth. SEC's reasoning is, we're
Speaker 1: gonna bring everybody back to campus in mid August, all
Speaker 1: the students, and the virus is just gonna blow up
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have to shut things down for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. So let's delay our start, but you
Speaker 1: delay your start, you also push further into flu season,
Speaker 1: traditional flu season, and what people think will be traditional
Speaker 1: COVID season eventually. So I would think, really, if you
Speaker 1: feel like you can start earl start early and then
Speaker 1: you just hang on through whatever's going to happen, you know,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. When it comes to you know,
Speaker 1: all these the Power five conferences, it felt like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're in it together. Let's try to figure this out.
Speaker 1: Like what are you guys doing and what are you
Speaker 1: guys doing? All of a sudden, the ACC it's that
Speaker 1: game I don't know if it was World of Warcraft
Speaker 1: or when le Roy Jenkins where the guy is talking
Speaker 1: about you know, they have strategy, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the guy yells at Lee Roy Jenkin like he's going
Speaker 1: all in to ruin their strategy. That's what it felt like.
Speaker 1: The ACC was like, Lee Roy Jenkins, we're going all in.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's my name's called I'm going no. I
Speaker 1: mean truly, that's you know, the Big Ten's the one
Speaker 1: that chanked everybody to begin with. But you know, I've
Speaker 1: worn it together and they're like, now we're just gonna
Speaker 1: announce our schedule. We're not even gonna tell anybody else.
Speaker 1: Then the PAC twelves like, oh, I guess we'd better two.
Speaker 1: Then the other three we're allowed now worried it together,
Speaker 1: and then the a SEC pulls the stunt with the SEC.
Speaker 1: So everybody's mad at everybody. Nobody can trust anybody gets
Speaker 1: college sports if you had a better week's pay. Will
Speaker 1: the Big Ten play football this fall? I'm gonna say yes.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure everybody will, but I think that the
Speaker 1: intention is there, and I think that they will start.
Speaker 1: What do you mean with everybody every school in the
Speaker 1: Big Ten? Right, I'm not you know. I mean again
Speaker 1: like Rutgers, Let's wait and see what happens there. Now
Speaker 1: they've got they've gotten their testing numbers under control. But again,
Speaker 1: travel situation there is going to be difficult, you know.
Speaker 1: I think there are people within the Big Ten that
Speaker 1: would like to play in the spring, and they may
Speaker 1: say we can't play now, but I think the majority
Speaker 1: will want to play in the fall, and we'll try
Speaker 1: to play in the fall. My problem with the springtime
Speaker 1: football is you're gonna be playing two football seasons in
Speaker 1: a span of nine months, and you're gonna have some
Speaker 1: mar key players who are just gonna say no, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do it that close to the combine and
Speaker 1: that close to the draft, and I just can't see
Speaker 1: how you're gonna cram that in. And then you know,
Speaker 1: five or six months later, you're gonna start the season again,
Speaker 1: a new season. Yeah, you remember, way back a long
Speaker 1: time ago, when like concussions we're an issue, when people
Speaker 1: were worried about that, and you're gonna play. You're gonna
Speaker 1: try to play a schedule in the spring and then
Speaker 1: turn around and get everybody through that and then back
Speaker 1: into contact again a couple of months maybe later, and
Speaker 1: have enough season. I agree that that's problematic. And yeah,
Speaker 1: players opting out play, you know we're gonna see some already.
Speaker 1: We did saw the Virginia Tech cornerback opt out, and
Speaker 1: I think we're going to see more of that. You
Speaker 1: push it to the spring, and I think you will
Speaker 1: see dozens and dozens of players out. I think your
Speaker 1: next column you gotta leads with something positive. Do your best,
Speaker 1: and I'm not talking about positive test. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: something positive. Pat Okay, I'll do my best. I'll see
Speaker 1: what I can come up with that I've been encouraged
Speaker 1: to do to be more positive and less realistic. Oh
Speaker 1: I get that every day on the show. Yeah, stop
Speaker 1: being realistic, be positive. I'm like, okay, great to talk
Speaker 1: to you. Thanks again, Pat. That's Pat forty Sports Illustrated
Speaker 1: Senior writer. I don't know where I got Leroy Jenkins from.
Speaker 1: That was a pull of the week, Are you unbelievable reference?
Speaker 1: Because it felt like that's what the ACC did. That's
Speaker 1: old school because I love that build up. Is that
Speaker 1: World of Warcraft or I think so? Okay, But I
Speaker 1: just loved hearing that because I don't play those video games.
Speaker 1: My son plays World of Warcraft or some combat or something,
Speaker 1: and he said, I know you don't like these video games,
Speaker 1: but you gotta listen to this. And all of a
Speaker 1: sudden I listened to that, and I said, now that
Speaker 1: is awesome because you got these guys are really serious
Speaker 1: and they're talking about this and they got their strategy. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're gonna take the left quadrant, get your blasters on, stun,
Speaker 1: we'll probably need some type of cloaking device to get
Speaker 1: past the guards, and Tommy, you go ahead and take
Speaker 1: the right side. And then all of a sudden, this rogue.
Speaker 1: This guy goes rogue, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you hear these guys going, what's he doing? God? Damn it?
Speaker 1: Lee right, Oh, best, I would play the whole thing,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that we have it censored because
Speaker 1: I think that there's curses in there. Oh, I think
Speaker 1: I remember correctly. I don't want to wing it either. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: not now, we shouldn't do that. Yes, PAULI, what's the problem, Danny.
Speaker 1: I team just heard from Andrew mclovin Pearloff, who's on
Speaker 1: the coach to Cape Cod. Well, should we wait? Should
Speaker 1: I take a break here? I'm trying to book him
Speaker 1: and do my best? Wait, I don't want mclovin on
Speaker 1: the show. Problems off? What well? What is he he
Speaker 1: wants to come on the show because he didn't offer
Speaker 1: I wanted to. I wanted the shark report. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I could just have Ethan on and have Ethan give
Speaker 1: us a couple of stats. You know, it's a the
Speaker 1: likelihood of getting a shark sighting two times in a
Speaker 1: row as two point. He just did stack Guy voice
Speaker 1: classic stack Guy voys. Is that is that how you
Speaker 1: think Ethan sounds? Yes? That could double us it guy
Speaker 1: voice as well. Because we've never met Ethan. We don't
Speaker 1: we know what Ethan looks like, but we have this
Speaker 1: image in our mind. You have to give it a character.
Speaker 1: You know, Ethan probably just speaks like everybody else though.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's yeah. Statistically, yes, yes, the Marlins are
Speaker 1: going to sit out at least eight days and they
Speaker 1: won't play until next Tuesday at the earliest. That's the
Speaker 1: earliest that they can play. Okay, all right, I'll talk
Speaker 1: to you later. All right, we'll take a break here.
Speaker 1: And oh, Ethan just sent me a stat maybe. Oh,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break back after this. Thanks for listening
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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show once again to reiterate what Pat forty
Speaker 1: was alluding to when we had you on some Big
Speaker 1: ten intel. Via multiple sources, the Big Ten has advised
Speaker 1: members it still might not play this fall. Decision on
Speaker 1: whether to start camp on time will be made in
Speaker 1: the next five days, but with testing protocols in place,
Speaker 1: that is the expectation schedule release is to be determined.
Speaker 1: Boy maybe and I don't know what will happen in
Speaker 1: five days. That is going to give you a little
Speaker 1: bit more clarity here. The smaller story to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on is the smaller schools. Smaller conferences are probably
Speaker 1: going to opt for spring football. Now they could do
Speaker 1: it under the veil of safety, but they could also
Speaker 1: be looking at this as the opportunity to spring football
Speaker 1: get a TV deal. Might not be about money as
Speaker 1: much as it is exposure for some of these smaller schools.
Speaker 1: You know, the IVY League is looking to do that.
Speaker 1: Football is not a big revenue producing sport for the
Speaker 1: IVY League, but you're going to get exposure. That's why
Speaker 1: when you look at the MAC, mac would play on
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, the MAC would play you know, Monday morning.
Speaker 1: But you want exposure and it did work. Maction turned
Speaker 1: out to be a great promotional vehicle for that conference,
Speaker 1: and that's what everybody's looking for real estate. But if
Speaker 1: you're going to be in the spring, super Bowls ended
Speaker 1: and you have college football, even if it's IVY League,
Speaker 1: Before you go nobody's watching Princeton and Dartmouth. Oh, think again,
Speaker 1: because you will as opposed to no football. Remember the XFL. Oh,
Speaker 1: people are gonna watch it. Okay, you watched it. It
Speaker 1: wasn't very good, but you watched it. I'd rather watch
Speaker 1: the Ivy League or some of these other smaller conferences.
Speaker 1: Maybe they get a chance on the bigger stage. But
Speaker 1: that's something to keep an eye on. Smaller schools, smaller conferences.
Speaker 1: Everybody is looking for what makes the most sense for us.
Speaker 1: You want your student athletes to be protected, but you
Speaker 1: also want to strategize. Instead of losing the season, we
Speaker 1: can postpone the season and move it to the springtime.
Speaker 1: And I think you're going to see more and more
Speaker 1: schools that try to do that. Phil in Indiana, Hey Phil,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me? Hey? Dan, it's always
Speaker 1: a great pleasure to talk to you. I wanted to
Speaker 1: get your thoughts. There's been so much success health wise
Speaker 1: with the NBA bubble. Why couldn't Major League Baseball DAN
Speaker 1: have gone to four regional sites and do a similar bubble.
Speaker 1: I think it would have avoided some of the Florida
Speaker 1: Marlins things that are going on now. As always, Dan,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. You're a great man. Thanks buddy, Thanks Phil.
Speaker 1: I know they considered it, and then we wondered, can
Speaker 1: you do Arizona and Florida. Now that doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have an outbreak in either one of those cities,
Speaker 1: because Scottsdale and surrounding cities, Florida surrounding cities, these are hotspots.
Speaker 1: Trying to get a central location is the key. And
Speaker 1: you know with basket ball, I can stagger starts, I
Speaker 1: can have triple headers on a day. You know, the
Speaker 1: real estate that I have there, Disney everything is you know,
Speaker 1: included there, and they've done a great job setting up
Speaker 1: all these protocols, safety precautions, getting in the bubble, can't
Speaker 1: leave the bubble. But those games, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: basketball court, it's not a baseball field. You've got to
Speaker 1: find places where you have that ability to be able
Speaker 1: to house all these players and actually have fields for
Speaker 1: them to play on. And are they broadcast quality for
Speaker 1: you know, you can have a spring training game there,
Speaker 1: but is it broadcast quality with It's like these minor
Speaker 1: league parts, you know Toronto with their Buffalo Stadium, their
Speaker 1: Buffalo Minor League affiliate. You know, they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: have modifications there to be able to have a game there.
Speaker 1: The lighting is going you know, is it different? You're
Speaker 1: gonna have night games? Do you have these spring training
Speaker 1: sites where the lighting is going to be good enough
Speaker 1: for TV. There's a lot of things that you have
Speaker 1: to factor in here. But I did think Baseball was
Speaker 1: looking at that model. But that could have been disastrous
Speaker 1: as well. Let's be honest, what's going on in Arizona,
Speaker 1: what's going on in Florida? In those hotspots, it might
Speaker 1: even be worse than it is right now. Yeah, point,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stories swirling, and without getting too
Speaker 1: much into it with the Marlins about how this outbreak
Speaker 1: could have happened. There's a lot of baseball reporters hinting
Speaker 1: at that there may have been some type of team
Speaker 1: activity at night that was not approved, if you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Well, Bob Nightingale of USA today was
Speaker 1: not hinting. He was saying, yes, that the Marlins went
Speaker 1: out on the town. I believe in Atlanta, it's I know,
Speaker 1: baseball in the Marlins are partners. But if the Marlins,
Speaker 1: you know, broke protocol to basically take down the sports.
Speaker 1: They're got to answer for that. They I mean, the
Speaker 1: owner of the Marlins will have to answer to Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball and say, like, look, we had a plan
Speaker 1: in place. They did have a plan in place. It's
Speaker 1: working for a lot of other teams. Your twenty dudes
Speaker 1: went and screwed it up for everybody. It doesn't just
Speaker 1: stay in the house. You brought it to everybody. And
Speaker 1: they may have I mean that Chris could be five
Speaker 1: millions of dollars if it's proven to be true, they
Speaker 1: could bring down the entire sport. Yeah, and the hundreds
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars at stake here. And they've already
Speaker 1: done some you know, maybe not severe damage, but they've
Speaker 1: they've damaged the sport because now you're not going to
Speaker 1: be able to play sixty games. These other teams they're
Speaker 1: how are they gonna make up those games? Who's gonna
Speaker 1: want to go to Florida to play the Marlins? And
Speaker 1: then do you want them at your ballpark like Kit's.
Speaker 1: And this is where the NFL is saying to its leaders,
Speaker 1: you must police your team. They have to understand what's
Speaker 1: at stake here. Yeah. See, it's like, how do you
Speaker 1: just convince people to just be an adult, Just be
Speaker 1: a team player, just look for the bigger cause here
Speaker 1: for a short period of time. How do you it's
Speaker 1: just temporary. Just do it for a little while, do
Speaker 1: it for a couple months so we could get back
Speaker 1: on our feet. Just be an adult. How is that
Speaker 1: so difficult? But I'm saying to guys who come in here,
Speaker 1: and I have young guys, I have guys who were single,
Speaker 1: and I said, you can't go out because if you
Speaker 1: go out, you come in, you test positive. If we
Speaker 1: get it, I get it, then we shut this down.
Speaker 1: You just have to be smart and you can't take
Speaker 1: chances here and you can't say, well, i'm young, I
Speaker 1: won't get it, and if I get it, I'll be asymptomatic.
Speaker 1: That's not the way it works. Bob Nightingale USA today
Speaker 1: talked about this. The litmus test for baseball and the
Speaker 1: Baseball Players Association was always the first two weeks of
Speaker 1: the season, since teams would be traveling for the first
Speaker 1: time after spring training. Now thirty games have been postponed
Speaker 1: this week because of COVID nineteen and the Marlins are
Speaker 1: indefinitely grounded. Maybe text Bob Nightingale there, Fritzie, see if
Speaker 1: you'll join us here, because I don't know what else
Speaker 1: would have to happen where baseball has to seriously consider
Speaker 1: pausing the season or pausing the Marlins. Matt Ryan will
Speaker 1: join us as well, So final hour on this Friday
Speaker 1: coming up here, Dan and the Danettes