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Speaker 1: the weekend, What you saw that you like to didn't like?
Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll check in with Bruce Feldman, he covers
Speaker 1: college football for Fox Sports. Can the Big Ten somehow
Speaker 1: pull this off? Having football? Sometime later on this year,
Speaker 1: we'll check in with the Lakers and the Clippers, and
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Speaker 1: Play of the day, stat of the day. All to that.
Speaker 1: Coming up, Bucks close out the Magic. Doesn't it seem
Speaker 1: like it was a month ago that Orlando took Game
Speaker 1: one against Milwaukee. The Clips close out the Maps. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about the MAVs as they move forward in the
Speaker 1: off season, and the Lakers close out the Blazers, but
Speaker 1: maybe a little tension from the meeting the players only
Speaker 1: meeting with Lebron James. We'll talk about that story as well,
Speaker 1: heating the Bucks Rockets in the Thunder coming up later
Speaker 1: on today. NBA playoffs are back, but I'm not sure
Speaker 1: it's business as usual. Coronavirus made sure that it never
Speaker 1: was really business as usual. But after last week's stoppage,
Speaker 1: staying focus has to be more difficult than ever, because
Speaker 1: you know, the players are trying to figure all of
Speaker 1: this out. They're trying to use their platform to promote
Speaker 1: social justice, and there's no easy answers, and even as
Speaker 1: they narrow in on actionable items, they're engaging in a
Speaker 1: short term and long term battle. And that's one thing
Speaker 1: about sports that's easy. The clock hits zero, there's a winner,
Speaker 1: there's a loser, you get to celebrate, you have a parade,
Speaker 1: everybody goes home. Social issues don't work that way. Players
Speaker 1: are trying to come up with short term, long term
Speaker 1: strategies while playing basketball at the same time and playing
Speaker 1: at a high level, and you're trying to set the
Speaker 1: tone for the entire sports world. A champion is likely
Speaker 1: to be crowned this season, but that's only part of
Speaker 1: the reason that this will go down is the most
Speaker 1: unique postseason in history. So you have the games coming
Speaker 1: up tonight. The Cabs lost to the Clippers. Give credit
Speaker 1: to Kawhi Leonard. That's what you want a great player
Speaker 1: to do. Stepped up big time and took over that game.
Speaker 1: The Mavericks in the offseason are probably going to look
Speaker 1: for a player who has been a thorn in their
Speaker 1: side in this postseason, and that's Marcus Morris. You need
Speaker 1: a little bit of toughness in there, and you're probably
Speaker 1: going to need a couple of veterans in there. But
Speaker 1: as you move forward, as long as you can keep
Speaker 1: Kristaps porzingis healthy, I don't know if you can get
Speaker 1: a third star in there, and maybe you get somebody
Speaker 1: who is on the cusp of being a star. But
Speaker 1: I will pose this question, if you're a young star,
Speaker 1: do you want to play with Luca don Chick. Now,
Speaker 1: before you say, well, of course you do. It's a
Speaker 1: ball dominant guard and you have to be a certain
Speaker 1: of a certain mindset and maybe at a certain point
Speaker 1: in your career, either early in your career or later
Speaker 1: in your career, because everybody wants their money, everybody wants
Speaker 1: to be a star. But if you can find somebody
Speaker 1: like Eric Gordon is with Houston where he knows his role,
Speaker 1: James Harden ball dominant guard, Luca was great Morris, you know,
Speaker 1: got thrown out of the game, ejected for a flagrant foul.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's any coincidence that it was a
Speaker 1: flagrant foul because he did target, in my opinion, Luca's
Speaker 1: ankle earlier in the series. But as the Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: move forward, if they want to be a championship contender,
Speaker 1: and now's the time you got to shore up your
Speaker 1: defense got to be a little bit tougher because you
Speaker 1: basically need a guy who was going to protect Luca,
Speaker 1: and the MAVs didn't go after Kauai. I didn't understand this.
Speaker 1: If you want to play tough, playoff basketball, hard fouls,
Speaker 1: then I would have gone after Kawai. Wayne Gretzky always
Speaker 1: had a protector. The great one had had Dave Simenko.
Speaker 1: He was the guy, his job, he was on the
Speaker 1: roster to protect Wayne Gretzky. If you went after him.
Speaker 1: You had to go through Dave Simenko, and not many
Speaker 1: people got through Dave Simenko to get to Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 1: Morris is a protector and enforcer. He's a Draymond Green type,
Speaker 1: not as good, and that's probably what Dallas is going
Speaker 1: to need, someone like that who will step in front.
Speaker 1: You know, Kris stops Porzingis tried to do it, but
Speaker 1: you know the Clippers didn't you know, even flinch when
Speaker 1: that happened. They're like, get out of here. But I
Speaker 1: think the MAVs as they move forward, Lucas got to
Speaker 1: improve on his shooting, three point shooting, his free throw shooting,
Speaker 1: down on turnovers. But I'm nitpicking because at age twenty
Speaker 1: one he was spectacular, has been spectacular, and I think
Speaker 1: he has an MVP or two in his future. The
Speaker 1: question is are they going to be a great team?
Speaker 1: And I think this is where you get that playoff
Speaker 1: experience and it's so valuable. All the great players will
Speaker 1: talk about this. You don't know what the playoffs are
Speaker 1: like until you're in the playoffs and you've seen teams.
Speaker 1: The Bulls could never get past the Pistons. The Pistons
Speaker 1: couldn't get past the Celtics, but then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden it changed and then you got past them, and
Speaker 1: then you never look back. And that is something that
Speaker 1: happens with these younger teams. I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is going to happen with Denver or Utah or Dallas.
Speaker 1: Portland went to the conference finals last year, and I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not ready to say, hey, let's make a
Speaker 1: change at the coaching position with Terry Stotts. You know,
Speaker 1: they were thrown together and that's still a very talented roster.
Speaker 1: They got to play defense in the playoffs. You must
Speaker 1: play defense. At some point, you have to play defense.
Speaker 1: I don't care what sport it is. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this with the NFL. Kansas City Chiefs won the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl because they played defense at the biggest moments of
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, they played defense. Patriots look at some
Speaker 1: of those Super Bowls where they won the Super Bowls.
Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler, he won a Super Bowl. He played defense.
Speaker 1: And in the NBA Finals, somebody is going to come
Speaker 1: up with a big defensive play, or the defense will
Speaker 1: be a big difference here, or the difference maker you
Speaker 1: can have offense, and that's that's what the regular season
Speaker 1: is really built upon go out there and have fun
Speaker 1: come playoff time, no matter what it is, we talk
Speaker 1: about pitching and defense in baseball. We can have home runs,
Speaker 1: you can have home runs galore, but come postseason time,
Speaker 1: somebody's going to step up because you're getting a great
Speaker 1: pitching performance. And that's where I look at some of
Speaker 1: these younger teams in the NBA. The next step you
Speaker 1: make add toughness a veteran or two, but also understanding
Speaker 1: the learning process of being in the playoffs and when
Speaker 1: you lose, being able to learn from that. And hopefully this,
Speaker 1: you know, incentivizes angers Luca don Chick to go out
Speaker 1: and become even greater. And then can you get somebody
Speaker 1: to join that team? McLevin, you got a pull question
Speaker 1: for me. By the way, I do have an update,
Speaker 1: and I had this over the weekend, but I've been
Speaker 1: trying to get more information on this. The Jags just
Speaker 1: release Leonard Fournette, just letting you know that. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's going to play again. But I
Speaker 1: saw this from April that the Jags were going to
Speaker 1: release Leonard Fournette or trade him. There's a chance they
Speaker 1: had him with Buffalo, the Dolphins, Lions. Those were the
Speaker 1: three favorites than Steelers, Colts and Chiefs. That's from April
Speaker 1: at twenty four seven Sports. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette, I don't know if he ever loved football.
Speaker 1: He got paid, But this is a team that basically said, hey,
Speaker 1: last name that you recognize leaving the building, turn out
Speaker 1: the lights because Yannick and Goquay got traded to the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings, and Minnesota is the team to beat, certainly
Speaker 1: in that division. And I think this was a great
Speaker 1: pick up for them. Daniel Hunter, they lost Everson Griffin,
Speaker 1: but Minnesota picked up That's how much in Goackway wanted
Speaker 1: to get out of Jacksonville because he took a pay
Speaker 1: cut to get out of Jacksonville. But they're all in
Speaker 1: on Trevor Lawrence. I don't think there's any mistaking there. Yes, McLevin, Now,
Speaker 1: I know you didn't like the process in Philadelphia, but
Speaker 1: you gotta like what Jacksonville is doing. I mean, how
Speaker 1: could if you're a fan and your team doesn't do this,
Speaker 1: would you be upset? No, it's fine, but I did
Speaker 1: like it a couple of years ago when they were
Speaker 1: almost in the super Bowl. I like that a lot better.
Speaker 1: You know that that's long gone. I know. But if
Speaker 1: you're saying, what's cooler, Hey, we're almost going to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl too. Do you know anybody besides Gardner Minshew
Speaker 1: on this team? Yeah. See. Part of the reason that
Speaker 1: that run with the jack with the Jaguars is gone
Speaker 1: is because you've gotten rid of it. Literally everybody who's
Speaker 1: gotten you there. I mean, they've completely dismantled that team
Speaker 1: just a year out a lot so Leonard Fournette was
Speaker 1: released by the Jacksonville Jaguars. All right, here's something I
Speaker 1: had on college football over the weekend from my source.
Speaker 1: This is the same source who told you that the
Speaker 1: Big Ten and Pac twelve we're going to close up shop.
Speaker 1: What I got from him yesterday was told that the
Speaker 1: Big Ten Thanksgiving started as a very long shot. More
Speaker 1: support for late January and an eight game schedule, A
Speaker 1: number of players will opt out, and twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: fall season will be adjusted with the amount of padded
Speaker 1: practices in contact. The Big Ten is trying to save face,
Speaker 1: but they missed their window in the fall. Going now
Speaker 1: only complicates everything. And then I ask about Jamar Chase,
Speaker 1: the LSU wide receiver. He decided that he was going
Speaker 1: to skip this season and get ready for the Combine
Speaker 1: and he'll be probably a top ten pick. And my
Speaker 1: source said, if you had Joe Burrow still there, Chase
Speaker 1: would have stayed. The lack of a quarterback at LSU
Speaker 1: made Chase's decision easier to pass up this season at LSU.
Speaker 1: But you know, Leonard Fournette was hurt in college. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he ever really loved playing. I think
Speaker 1: he was good at playing, but I don't you gotta
Speaker 1: love it. When you get to the NFL, you better
Speaker 1: love it. It's nice to get paid, but at that position,
Speaker 1: you gotta love it. And I don't know if Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournette ever did. And this comes from people who are
Speaker 1: around him and a former teammate. They just don't know
Speaker 1: if he truly loved it. He was good, But what
Speaker 1: was that fourth overall pick by jack You look at Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: they take Leonard Fournette, they take Blake Bortle's third overall.
Speaker 1: They did get lucky with some of these draft picks,
Speaker 1: and they build something there. They were on the cusp
Speaker 1: of really making things nervous for the new England Patriots
Speaker 1: in the AFC, and now if they're not tanking, like
Speaker 1: at least say yeah, we're looking forward to next season here,
Speaker 1: because if you say no, no, everything's good here. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm mclovin. I love a good tank, but I got
Speaker 1: him at the London aspect makes me a bit nervous.
Speaker 1: I just can't see Trevor Lawrence playing so many games
Speaker 1: in London and Yahoo at nine AM like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: is there something fundamentally? Are they gonna be able to
Speaker 1: build this well? I think if if if jackson Bill
Speaker 1: gets Trevor Lawrence, you want him on display in whatever
Speaker 1: continent you can put him on display because you got
Speaker 1: to create am I'm not gonna say global brand, but
Speaker 1: you have to be relevant and Trevor Lawrence is gonna
Speaker 1: make your relevant. Although PAULI is at him and he says,
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is even if he's drafted, he's not going
Speaker 1: to play for Jacksonville. Nope, he's gonna pull an Eli
Speaker 1: maybe more likely Carolina, you think that uncan yes, mcleode,
Speaker 1: we really never know. I mean, some quarterback could get
Speaker 1: injured tomorrow. We could have a new bad team. It's
Speaker 1: not that easy to tank. For number one, Look what
Speaker 1: the Dolphins screwed it up last year? Well, Jacksonville seems
Speaker 1: like they're tanking. I'm just saying that NOBE. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: tanked and they won five games. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: you had Ryan Fitzpatrick, who can be Joe Montana and
Speaker 1: then he can be Joe Blow like you just I
Speaker 1: don't know if Ryan Fitzpatrick got the memo because he's
Speaker 1: at the end of his career and he goes out
Speaker 1: there like the first week of the season, then they
Speaker 1: be the beat the Saints. He throws five touchdowns or something,
Speaker 1: he fits. He easy with all those completions. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: they played hard for Brian Flores. I will say that.
Speaker 1: So that's the information I have with college football and
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Bruce Feldman about this. Also, John Thompson
Speaker 1: passed away. The legendary coach at Georgetown, and he would
Speaker 1: come on our show once a year, once every other year.
Speaker 1: But during his twenty seven year tenure at Georgetown, he
Speaker 1: won thirty four NCAA tournament games, reached three final fours,
Speaker 1: and reached three national title games, won one title in
Speaker 1: eighty four, and all the other seasons in the program's history,
Speaker 1: Georgetown had a total of thirteen NCAA tournament wins, reached
Speaker 1: the final four twice, never reached the championship game. He
Speaker 1: was a larger than life presence literally figuratively, and he
Speaker 1: could intimidate. But he did some pretty amazing things and
Speaker 1: probably is underrated in sports history with the stance that
Speaker 1: he took, stands that he took. And I just reached
Speaker 1: out to Patrick Ewing to offer my indolences, and he
Speaker 1: said he really appreciated that the coach meant everything to him.
Speaker 1: It was like a father figure to him. You had Alonso,
Speaker 1: you had to Kembey, you had Patrick Ewing going through there,
Speaker 1: Reggie Williams, you had Alan Iverson, had a lot of
Speaker 1: talent that went through there. But John Thompson passing away
Speaker 1: earlier this morning. Phone calls are always welcome. Eight seven
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Speaker 1: of pull question are you thinking about today? Okay? Which
Speaker 1: team is most likely to be a pull A second
Speaker 1: round upset? The Rockets against the Lakers, the Jazz or Nuggets,
Speaker 1: whoever wins at against the Clippers or you're Miami Heat
Speaker 1: starting today against the Milwaukee Bucks. I'm gonna say the
Speaker 1: Rockets because Westbrook's coming back and I still think they're fascinating.
Speaker 1: It could go horribly wrong and they could get swept,
Speaker 1: but I I just don't look at the Lakers as
Speaker 1: just being impenetrable. You know, it feels like it they
Speaker 1: can be great, but it also feels like they can
Speaker 1: be really average there and the Rockets are the same way.
Speaker 1: The Rockets, you know, could make thirty threes in a game,
Speaker 1: or they can you know, miss twenty three out of
Speaker 1: twenty five like that in a previous game. What else
Speaker 1: do you have? This is one that I've been sitting
Speaker 1: on for months. Bigger surprise the San Diego Padres Jamal Murray.
Speaker 1: You never see those two guys are the same ball. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know what people thought the expectation level was
Speaker 1: with the Padres this year. So I would say the
Speaker 1: Padres because they're all in, like they're making deals, They're
Speaker 1: fun to watch, and you know they're gonna be a
Speaker 1: tough out come playoff time. Jamal Murray is a first
Speaker 1: round draft pick. If it's just he plays in Denver,
Speaker 1: you really have to go out of your way to
Speaker 1: watch one of his games. I mean, he only averaged
Speaker 1: eighteen a game this year. It's not where you go.
Speaker 1: He's putting up Devin Booker numbers. I think he averaged
Speaker 1: eighteen a game, but man, is he making up for
Speaker 1: lost time. Thirty four game in the postseason. Pretty incredible. Also,
Speaker 1: I think he has scored. Let me see if I
Speaker 1: have this right, here's one. You know what, I'll take
Speaker 1: a break here. It's a pretty amazing stat about Jamal Murray,
Speaker 1: and it's teasworthy, I think. But we'll settle on a
Speaker 1: poll question. I like the one that you had there, mclovin,
Speaker 1: about which second round opponent could pull off this surprise. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was ready for you to say Heat. Well. I
Speaker 1: love watching the Heat. It's just I have my Milwaukee
Speaker 1: fans that are like, oh, you're always picking on the Bucks.
Speaker 1: You don't like the Bucks. What's what's wrong with the Bucks?
Speaker 1: The Bucks are fine? I mean, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just like the underdog and the heater are really interesting.
Speaker 1: Team Bucks aren't exciting. They're boringly great, sort of like Kauai.
Speaker 1: They're like a mid range jumper. No, that's it. It's okay.
Speaker 1: You can be boring and win championships. There's bad teams
Speaker 1: that are exciting, and I tend to you know, I'm
Speaker 1: looking for the mess sometimes. That's why I root for
Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings. For God's sakes, you can't call me
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Speaker 1: possibility the Big Ten can pull this off and still
Speaker 1: play football. Also, we'll settle on a pull question in
Speaker 1: a great Jamal Murray stat for you as well, just
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Speaker 1: here's my Jamal Murray's stat. He has scored one hundred
Speaker 1: forty two points over his last three games. Only two
Speaker 1: players in NBA history have scored more points over a
Speaker 1: three game span in the playoffs, Jerry West and Michael Jordan,
Speaker 1: and right now Jamal Murray trying to make himself a
Speaker 1: household name because he was overshadowed by former Kentucky Wildcat
Speaker 1: Devin Booker. And even in this series, I think there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people that looked at Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: as the other guy in this series playing for the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets. But that's been very entertaining. You got basketball
Speaker 1: coming up today and tonight Rockets, thunder Heat and the Bucks.
Speaker 1: I mentioned about ten minutes ago from my college football source.
Speaker 1: This is the person who told me that the Big
Speaker 1: Ten and Pac twelve we're going to shut things down
Speaker 1: before anybody else had that information. He told me that
Speaker 1: the Big Ten Thanksgiving started as a very long shot.
Speaker 1: More support for late January and eight game schedule. A
Speaker 1: number of players are going to opt out. The twenty
Speaker 1: one fall season will be adjusted with the amount of
Speaker 1: padded practices in contact. The Big Ten is trying to
Speaker 1: save face, according to my source, but they missed their
Speaker 1: window in the fall. Going now will only complicate everything.
Speaker 1: It's bringing the great college football writer for the athletic
Speaker 1: Bruce Feldman, who joins US. Bruce, thanks for joining us,
Speaker 1: who leaked this story on Friday that the Big Ten
Speaker 1: was looking at maybe somehow trying to salvage this season
Speaker 1: morning Dan's. I think it's been something obviously a lot
Speaker 1: of powerful Big Ten coaches have tried to mobilize some
Speaker 1: strong opinion on and it's a plan that look ads
Speaker 1: in the conference as well as a lot of coaches
Speaker 1: are really pushing for. And I think so you can
Speaker 1: start there. I think a little lot of what you
Speaker 1: said a minute ago is probably on point. I think
Speaker 1: some of the challenges. If you're looking at a potential
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving start, it would give them, they hope, ten games.
Speaker 1: It would also give them a little more flexibility in
Speaker 1: terms of not having the feeling that they'd be piggybacking
Speaker 1: potentially two seasons in twenty twenty one, you know, potentially
Speaker 1: up against a regular quote unquote fall season. And then
Speaker 1: the other element of this would be if the if
Speaker 1: the regular students were to go home for finals after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: It's not a bubble environment, but it probably gives them
Speaker 1: the feeling that, Okay, there's there's less risk around the
Speaker 1: regular students because they would be home and then you
Speaker 1: could start up and the hope is that testing would
Speaker 1: be more efficient at that point. But again I think
Speaker 1: it's it's a stretch to expect it, but that's one
Speaker 1: of the models they're looking at. It's real right now,
Speaker 1: at least in terms of the discussions. How did the
Speaker 1: Big Ten get to this point though, where you had
Speaker 1: athletic directors and coaches who had no real say. From
Speaker 1: what I'm told that this is basically presidents and a
Speaker 1: commissioner who decided to make this decision. And I don't
Speaker 1: know why they didn't try get why not try at
Speaker 1: least that was or give the impression you're at least trying.
Speaker 1: They didn't even try to get this season started. Well
Speaker 1: the part I think that's different. You know, you have
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve, which hasn't made its own announcement, like
Speaker 1: about an hour after the Big Ten did. The PAC
Speaker 1: twelve I think did a much better job of having
Speaker 1: an alignment. They had a very detailed zoom call with
Speaker 1: their medical experts the Monday night before all their coaches
Speaker 1: were on and all their ads were on, and Larry
Speaker 1: Scott was on it, and they got they have a sense.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just Okay, we need to ramp up all
Speaker 1: the testing. In some cases in the PAC twelve there
Speaker 1: were five hots plots that they identified and said that
Speaker 1: they would need to have testing daily and we can't
Speaker 1: get to that point. They talked about their concerns with
Speaker 1: hard issues and honestly, the Big Ten, because the Big
Speaker 1: Ten was more back to football than a lot of
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve schools are. At that point, the Big
Speaker 1: twelve had had at least been dealing with what exactly
Speaker 1: does this mean in real terms than what the PAC twelve,
Speaker 1: which had really been hearing about what the Big Ten
Speaker 1: and some other people had been dealing with. But I
Speaker 1: think it really came down to the medical experts that
Speaker 1: this particular conference, they had their presidents feeling a certain way.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it was strictly a liability
Speaker 1: sense or a moral obligation saying, hey, we just don't
Speaker 1: feel comfortable putting our student athletes out there when we
Speaker 1: don't know enough. But I think the difference between them
Speaker 1: and let's say the SEC, the Big twelve and the
Speaker 1: a SEC we're still pushing forward, is their medical experts
Speaker 1: are telling something, telling them something different. They're honestly viewing
Speaker 1: things through a different lens and it's very complicated. Right now.
Speaker 1: What do you think happens this week with the Big Ten?
Speaker 1: Probably nothing. I mean, I would imagine like this has
Speaker 1: been a pr disaster for them on top of all
Speaker 1: this other stuff. When Kevin Warren, the new Commissioner, had
Speaker 1: the dance and was pressed on issues by Dave Revson
Speaker 1: on DTN, he didn't really offer any specifics, and they
Speaker 1: offered a little bit more detail like a week and
Speaker 1: a half later. But at this point, I don't know
Speaker 1: what information changes things for the Big ten presidents in CEOs,
Speaker 1: that's who's got to make the decision. Their boards may
Speaker 1: be more political, they may try to exert more pressure
Speaker 1: on them potentially, but I don't think anything's going to
Speaker 1: change this week. Just because they saw some high school
Speaker 1: games where by the way, they're not actually testing, or
Speaker 1: they saw an FCS game in Alabama. I don't think
Speaker 1: that made them say, oh, well, if it's okay for
Speaker 1: them to get a game off without Hitch, we can
Speaker 1: just push forward. Now. Maybe this changes down the road,
Speaker 1: but I think they're going to be looking at a
Speaker 1: lot of different scenarios, especially how these cases are in
Speaker 1: different parts of their footprint. Any hiccups with the accsc
Speaker 1: Big twelve hopefully not. You know, there are places where
Speaker 1: they're a sizable number of cases, first in the towns,
Speaker 1: but then all in the college towns. But also you know,
Speaker 1: some programs have a sizable number. Texas Tech had said
Speaker 1: it had over twenty active cases. There are teams that
Speaker 1: have had issues with certain position rooms. But at this point,
Speaker 1: I think they are going to keep their fingers crossed
Speaker 1: and keep pushing forward until they get some definitive, maybe
Speaker 1: really disturbing evidence internally that makes that forces their hand.
Speaker 1: Haven't heard any official word on this. Maybe you can
Speaker 1: help me. Is there going to be a Final four?
Speaker 1: Is there gonna be a national championship game? That's the
Speaker 1: optimism right now. I think so much is up in
Speaker 1: the air in terms of how's this going to play
Speaker 1: out scheduling wise. We've already had three games get shuffled
Speaker 1: back to later later in the in the fall. I
Speaker 1: think the thing is, let's see how this gets through.
Speaker 1: That is the plan, though, just because the Big ten
Speaker 1: in the PAC twelve who are not are not playing,
Speaker 1: are not scheduled to play this fall, I don't think
Speaker 1: the rest of the college football is going to say, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna leave a ton of money on the table.
Speaker 1: If we feel like we can play and it's safe
Speaker 1: for our student athletes, We're going to try to do it.
Speaker 1: And the TV partners are gonna, you know, in this case,
Speaker 1: he skin with the playoff. They're gonna love that programming
Speaker 1: because it's not like college football fans are going to
Speaker 1: go away. Bruce, good to talk to you as always.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, my pleasure. Thank you. Dad. That's
Speaker 1: Bruce Feldman, Fox Sports and a college football writer for
Speaker 1: The Athletic. My source just told me Wisconsin was the
Speaker 1: leak on Friday. Oh Badgers. Yeah. So, I mean there's
Speaker 1: a lot going on behind the scenes in the Big Ten.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you leak that to pressure
Speaker 1: the commissioner, because it certainly felt that way or feels
Speaker 1: that way, because there was a lot of buzz on
Speaker 1: Friday going into the weekend that maybe the Big Ten
Speaker 1: was going to make this work. I was just hoping
Speaker 1: that they would at least give the presentation of trying
Speaker 1: a little bit harder. Maybe deep down they didn't want
Speaker 1: to do it, and look the decision by the Big
Speaker 1: Ten is really going to depend on what happens with
Speaker 1: the other conferences. In two months, we're going to know
Speaker 1: if the Big ten was right, because you're either going
Speaker 1: to have the sec acc in Big twelve in full bloom,
Speaker 1: or they're gonna be shut down as well, or you're
Speaker 1: gonna have some schools playing in some nt PAC twelve.
Speaker 1: Nobody brought up the PAC twelve. It's like, all that's right,
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve decided not to play. Yeah, we'd like
Speaker 1: to say it's a power five. It's not a power five.
Speaker 1: It's like a three and a half four, But I'll
Speaker 1: give you a four and a half maybe not power five. Ye,
Speaker 1: that just sets up everything even better, just for a
Speaker 1: playoff and four nice and easy clean. Yeah, yes, good Paul.
Speaker 1: It's sure. It was fun Saturday night to watch your
Speaker 1: Austin p governors in Central Arkansas bears. Oh, I settled in.
Speaker 1: I was watching high school football on Friday night out
Speaker 1: of Indiana, and then all of a sudden Saturday night
Speaker 1: and I said to my wife, I said, hey, God,
Speaker 1: we went to dinner and I said I got to
Speaker 1: be back by nine. What's on? I said, college football? Wait?
Speaker 1: I didn't think there was college football. I said, Central
Speaker 1: Arkansas and Austin pe are playing at nine o'clock. I
Speaker 1: went in, sat down, flipped it on. Next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: first play from scrimmage, touchdown, and I was like, yes,
Speaker 1: I didn't know if the game was going to last,
Speaker 1: but I knew that we at least got a touchdown
Speaker 1: in there. It was back and forth there. It was
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Speaker 1: coming up. I got another stat of the day. Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournette released by the Jags. He was the first running
Speaker 1: back taken in twenty seventeen. Let me run down the
Speaker 1: other running backs went after him, Christian McCaffrey, Delvin Cook,
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon, Alvin Kamara, Kareem Hunt, James Conner, Terry Cohen,
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack, Aaron Jones, Chris Carson, undrafted Austin Eckler. That's
Speaker 1: why the philosophy is, don't take a running back too high,
Speaker 1: ya glove it? Well, the Jags are smart. I mean,
Speaker 1: all these teams have to pay these running backs now,
Speaker 1: and the Jags are not gonna have to wait. It's
Speaker 1: cap space. Like McCaffrey got paid. Dalvin Cook is going
Speaker 1: to Wow, that's a that's a problem right there. Kamara
Speaker 1: is gonna get paid. Wants to get paid too. He
Speaker 1: might hold out, like all these guys are in bad spots. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but out of this group, I mean, who's great. Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones had an unbelievable year last year. But the other guys,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, what are they going to
Speaker 1: cost you? McCaffrey cost you big money. Alvin Kamara feels
Speaker 1: like you're gonna have to pay big money. Kareem Hunt
Speaker 1: missed out on his opportunity. James Connor is a good
Speaker 1: running back, Cohen mac carson, But Aaron Jones is the
Speaker 1: one who could be a big ticket item here for
Speaker 1: Green Bay. Yes, McLeman, yeah, I also mix him wants big,
Speaker 1: big money. Yeah, but let me come on, he's a
Speaker 1: good player. You never know with that team, they got
Speaker 1: to spend on somebody. It feels like you could find
Speaker 1: another Joe mix It. I'm just saying, I don't know
Speaker 1: out of those running backs, who is special other than
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. Yes, bully, And if you look at the strategy,
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack was a surprise for the Colts. He's been
Speaker 1: a really good player. But you know what they did
Speaker 1: and the second round they took Jonathan Taylor, the running
Speaker 1: back out of Wisconsin. They'll plug him in. Mac will
Speaker 1: fade away and never get his contract, and they'll keep
Speaker 1: the cycle going. Did we settle on a pole question? McLeman? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I put up which is the most likely second round upset?
Speaker 1: And I do. I got a note on Twitter the
Speaker 1: Rockets haven't off the Thunder yet, so I chucked out
Speaker 1: Rockets Thunder and by the way, that series, I mean, gosh,
Speaker 1: who knows they haven't offt them yet? Well, you could
Speaker 1: put either one in there. I mean, I Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: is you know, they're they're alive. They're not exciting, but
Speaker 1: they're alive. So out of fairness to them, and I
Speaker 1: guess you could put them in there. But the Jazz
Speaker 1: Nuggets is an option that seems like they said, they're
Speaker 1: basically the same team, same same market appeal, same all
Speaker 1: offense and their defense. Yeah, let's be nice here. Don't
Speaker 1: don't be ripping by I would you know? I think
Speaker 1: the Clippers are gonna have a tough Are the Clippers
Speaker 1: that good? I kept watching them against the MAVs. I
Speaker 1: couldn't decide if the MAVs were that good or the
Speaker 1: Clippers were just incomplete. I thought the MAVs could could
Speaker 1: beat the Clippers. When the series started, I said, everybody's
Speaker 1: talking about Portland because it's against the Lakers, and therefore
Speaker 1: you get clicks when you're talking about the Lakers. I said,
Speaker 1: if the Lakers were playing the MAVs, we would be
Speaker 1: trumpeting the MAVs the way we did the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 1: And Portland came in there, they weren't completely healthy. Uh.
Speaker 1: It felt like Dallas was on a little bit of
Speaker 1: a role. They were a very high scoring team, and
Speaker 1: it felt like, if you're the Clippers, all right, we
Speaker 1: got the MAVs. We're looking forward to the next next round.
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think the Lakers were looking
Speaker 1: past Portland. It's just Portland didn't get the unit to
Speaker 1: play in a cohesive way because of injuries, trying to
Speaker 1: get everybody back there. You know, they surprised him in
Speaker 1: Game one, but they ran out of gas. And so
Speaker 1: I said to you, they're either going to be still,
Speaker 1: you know, ready to go high on those playoff fumes
Speaker 1: of just getting in, or they're going to be dragging.
Speaker 1: And it didn't take long before they were dragging. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Pay When you're watching these games, though, there's always a
Speaker 1: moment where you find a player like where did he
Speaker 1: come from? Where brad Wanamaker the guard for the Celtics.
Speaker 1: He's hitting jumpers yesterday. I've never heard of this person.
Speaker 1: He played a pitt. He's thirty one years old. He's
Speaker 1: got a hairline like mine. Yes, McLevin. Yeah. And all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they try to add Robert Williams. Remember
Speaker 1: that guy who had the hot tournament for A and M.
Speaker 1: The big guy, yeah, is seven footer. I actually tell
Speaker 1: one of the background guys, I'm off the NBA. If
Speaker 1: the Celtics are going to win the time, Dad, I
Speaker 1: can't as a Sixers fan, I just can't handle them
Speaker 1: me that good. Wow, what are you a Bucks fan?
Speaker 1: I'm a Bucks fan? Okay, yeah, but I'm afraid if
Speaker 1: the Bucks face the Celtics. Gosh, the Celtics quick world
Speaker 1: beaters yesterday. It's one game. I know, I know. But
Speaker 1: that's how NBA. That's how No, that's how you react,
Speaker 1: that's how we all react. Remember we were ready the Blazers.
Speaker 1: We're gonna beat the Lakers the Magic. We're gonna knock
Speaker 1: the Bucks off after one game. Well, no, we didn't
Speaker 1: think that. We did. We did done, We did not.
Speaker 1: I just want to see Bam out of Bio against Jannis.
Speaker 1: I do want to see that matchup. I think that
Speaker 1: that could be far more entertaining than you would think.
Speaker 1: I think Bam plays him really well. Now watching go
Speaker 1: out and light him up for forty. Yeah, nice defense, Bam.
Speaker 1: I'm on the Bam out of Bio bamdwagon. It's a
Speaker 1: BAM wagon. Yeah, Todd, wake up, Todd. Eat that on
Speaker 1: a Monday, Hey, bagel boy, eat that one. A lot
Speaker 1: of social media about bagels stuff, Well, you had a
Speaker 1: meltdown on Friday, dude. They were concerned about her. I
Speaker 1: was concerned about you. It's not healthy to get like that.
Speaker 1: It's not healthy eat a lot of bagels either, But
Speaker 1: it's not healthy to get upset about the type of
Speaker 1: bagel if they don't have like that's just passionate. As
Speaker 1: I've ever heard you, and I've known you for a
Speaker 1: long long time. I just I just found it very
Speaker 1: bizarre how one after the other. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: rehash it, but to not have four different bagels I
Speaker 1: wanted and to do away with onion, you're gonna rehash it.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to, but you are bagel boy,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, maybe we get a sponsorship. Maybe
Speaker 1: somebody can step up with Onion Bagels and help you.
Speaker 1: I would be lovely if they would do that. Yes, boy,
Speaker 1: it kind of drove me crazy as well, Todd said,
Speaker 1: he goes, you know, there's no other places in my
Speaker 1: town to get a bagel, And it took me about
Speaker 1: forty five seconds to find a really nice bagel place
Speaker 1: in todd'stown that's a block away from the one that's defunct.
Speaker 1: But the thing that did concern me about this place
Speaker 1: was that they listed all the bagels they have, and
Speaker 1: I didn't see Onion on there either. So there must
Speaker 1: be some kind of onion shortage or some then I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm gonna take a break here. COVID related
Speaker 1: another bagel place without onion. Bales didn't make sensets too
Speaker 1: Play the Day is up next. We'll get to your
Speaker 1: phone calls as well, and we'll check in with the
Speaker 1: Lakers coming up. Just heard from Jim Beheim, Syracuse head coach,
Speaker 1: and we reached out see if he wanted to join
Speaker 1: us do reminisce about the passing of the former great
Speaker 1: Georgetown coach John Thompson. He'll join us in the final
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Speaker 1: released by Jacksonville now doesn't mean he's not going to
Speaker 1: get picked up because there are teams that could probably
Speaker 1: use somebody like Leonard Fournette, and he had a strange
Speaker 1: season last year. Leonard Fournette ranked sixth in the NFL
Speaker 1: in scrimmage yards with sixteen hundred. He tied for one
Speaker 1: hundred thirty sixth in the NFL and total touchdowns with three. Yes, McLevin,
Speaker 1: that can't be right. Did he really have that many
Speaker 1: yards last year? Total yards from scrimmage sixth memory started
Speaker 1: catching passes sixteen hundred yards last year. Perfect time to
Speaker 1: get cut by the Jaguars. Three. Yeah. Hey, he's starting
Speaker 1: to play well. We better get rid of him. We
Speaker 1: might win a game or two. Yes, mcleven. The coach
Speaker 1: apparently said this morning that we tried to trade him
Speaker 1: for months and there wasn't a single taker. Not anyone
Speaker 1: would call us. Well. The word is that he doesn't
Speaker 1: love football. Now, he did play well last year, but
Speaker 1: that was a knock on him even in college. And
Speaker 1: even the source told me that this morning when when
Speaker 1: he was released, he said injured in college. Doesn't love football.
Speaker 1: That's just the word. Whether it's real or not fair enough,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. Phil and Indiana joins us to
Speaker 1: lead us off on this Monday. Hi Phil, what's on
Speaker 1: your mind? Hey? Dan? Always a pleasure, appreciate it. Rest
Speaker 1: to the weekend for sure was college football. I think
Speaker 1: it's great to have that back, he Dan, real quick.
Speaker 1: I heard Tannenbaum on ESPN this morning reported that he
Speaker 1: thinks the Jags are going to make a hard run
Speaker 1: at Dabo Sweeney and bring Sweeney and Lawrence in together.
Speaker 1: I think that's a risky proposition in that Sweeney's got
Speaker 1: a pretty sweet deal in Clemson. You can never count
Speaker 1: on that. And then Dan also tanking a lot of
Speaker 1: times never works out. So I wanted to get your thoughts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Phil, I would be really surprised
Speaker 1: if Dabo Sweeney left Clemson. If he leaves Clemson, the
Speaker 1: only place I could see him going would be Alabama.
Speaker 1: But even then, I've said before, he's got it better
Speaker 1: than he woulded Alabama because you're following Nick Saban. He's
Speaker 1: created his own legacy there and he has to look
Speaker 1: at this as hey, you want to come here. I
Speaker 1: don't need to go to Alabama what I'm doing at Clemson.
Speaker 1: You got it easier in the ACC, and it's almost
Speaker 1: like you punch your ticket to the ACC title game,
Speaker 1: you get to play for national championships. You go to Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Seems like a devotion, yes, Seeton. I wonder how many
Speaker 1: college football coaches are considering are more strongly considering making
Speaker 1: the jump to the NFL now after the pandemic, Well
Speaker 1: you have to have an opening there. First of all,
Speaker 1: what jobs are going to be open? And what job
Speaker 1: are you leaving? Like Lincoln Riley, I thought if he
Speaker 1: went to the Cowboys, that's a great move for him. Here,
Speaker 1: you know, the Cowboys aren't going to be open for
Speaker 1: a while because of Mike McCarthy. So if I'm a
Speaker 1: marquee coach who's like Ryan Dade Ohio State, how long's
Speaker 1: he stay? Does Jim Harball give this second thought? But
Speaker 1: there's only so many openings each year, and you know
Speaker 1: that that would be the difference maker of trying to
Speaker 1: get And you have to look at this. Is this
Speaker 1: is a one year that I have to deal with
Speaker 1: this for one year? Or is this going to impact
Speaker 1: me for a couple of years? Yeah? See, except right,
Speaker 1: I mean I agree, But now you're looking at all
Speaker 1: of these other factors that come in. You know, like
Speaker 1: recruiting's got to be hard enough when you're say a
Speaker 1: Pac ten school or a Big ten school. Now try it.
Speaker 1: You know, after just all of this nonsense that's happened
Speaker 1: and all the back and forth, I just wonder if
Speaker 1: the stability of the NFL is a little more appealing
Speaker 1: and a little less of a risk. Well, it might
Speaker 1: be stable from the standpoint of playing football, but it's
Speaker 1: not stable with job security though. But I wonder if
Speaker 1: you said, hey, Dabbo Sweeney is available, Jim Harball is available.
Speaker 1: Who else do you want to throw in the mix?
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley, Ryan Day. I'm sure I'm missing a couple
Speaker 1: of coaches there, Lane Kiffin. No, but good try there, mclovin.
Speaker 1: You know, there's probably five coaches right now where a
Speaker 1: team would go. You know, on second thought, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get rid of you. They're current coach, and then you
Speaker 1: bring these coaches. Yet, but a lot of these coaches,
Speaker 1: they make so much money. They got it. It's so
Speaker 1: you can control a lot more in college than you
Speaker 1: can in the NFL. Yeah. Polling Dabbo to me seems
Speaker 1: like Steve Spurry or fifteen years ago. He was cruising
Speaker 1: at Florida and he takes the Washington job, which is
Speaker 1: an uphill battle, and then he got the South Carolina job.
Speaker 1: No problem. Dabbo would be the same thing if he,
Speaker 1: let's say, he coached three years at Jacksonville, got fired,
Speaker 1: which most coaches do. There, he would have just about
Speaker 1: his pick of college jobs that are open at that time.
Speaker 1: That you know, Michigan doesn't always open, Alabama's not always open,
Speaker 1: Texas isn't always open. Yeah, mclovin. Dabo's got the behind.
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is at dj ukulele guy too good? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the top quarterback for the next four years. Isn't
Speaker 1: that the guy that I came in on a Monday
Speaker 1: and I said, I just saw this guy, and I
Speaker 1: don't know how good he is, but he looked like
Speaker 1: he was a man out there compared to everybody else
Speaker 1: in high school. All Right, we'll take a break. More
Speaker 1: best and worst of the weekend. We'll give you hours.
Speaker 1: We'll check in on the Lakers. One hour in the books,
Speaker 1: two more to go on this Monday, Dan Patrick's Show,