Ep 1106 | Bruce Pearl's Daddy Issues Worse Than Deion Sanders' & LeBron James' | WNBA Players Split

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My name is Ohio. Here's a deal. Are we going to select the 68 most deserving teams? Or are we going to

select the 68 Beth's teams? If we're selecting the 68 best teams, then my more house going to have

to win their tournament to qualify as a champion, because as and at large, they are not one of the

best teams in the country, and that's going to be a difficult choice for the community to make.

Here's a question that I have for the group here. What is more valuable, the conference tournament

or the regular season, winning out the regular season? I think it's regular season, because I think

you got a larger body of work. I think they play well, but the unfortunate part of being a

mid-major is you've got to handle your business, not only in conference, but also the tournament.

Yes. My son played at the University of New Mexico, and they actually snuck in and won the conference

tournament. That throws off everybody. They win and they lost the Clemson, but at the end of the day,

I think you just got to take care of your business if you're a mid-major team. I don't know if the

zero at the end of the season makes a difference, unless they win out their conference.

Here's why it's crazy. The Mac has not had multiple teams, multiple bids, since 98, 99, so that's

almost 30 years ago, and the strength of schedule for Miami, Ohio, 321.

What are we doing? It's called the Big Dance, and we shouldn't be letting Bruce Pearl with his

daddy issues comment on Miami, Ohio, because what he's really champion is Auburn, the team

his son now coaches. Bruce Pearl retired, quit, very close to the beginning of this season or

during the off season, late in the off season, so that Auburn would have no choice but to promote his

son to head basketball coach at Auburn. Auburn is 15 and 14. They have no business being in the

NCAA tournament, but they're on the bubble and people are talking about they deserve to be in the

tournament more than Miami, which is like 29 and 0, and in the mid-American conference. Do I have

a slight bias having played football at Ball State and being a fan of the mid-American conference?

Absolutely, but I'm also not an idiot. They call it the Big Dance. You know why they call it the

Big Dance? Because it's about Cinderella storylines. Obviously, Cinderella's don't normally

win the Big Dance. They don't win the NCAA tournament, but that's a major part of the allure

of the NCAA tournament. And to have someone sitting on national TV arguing against Miami of

Ohio protecting his mediocre son's performance as the head coach at Auburn.

This is ridiculous by TNT. This man has daddy issues just as big, worse than Deon Sanders,

worse than LeBlanc James. You thought LeBlanc James forcing his son into the NBA was bad? You thought

Deon retiring his son's jersey was bad? Let's go look at Bruce Pearl. Here's the difference

between Bruce Pearl and Deon Sanders, one of the 10 greatest football players of all time.

Charles Barkley, one of the 20, 25 greatest basketball players of all time, and Bruce Pearl.

Hello, what college basketball coach? No national championships. He's not one of the 20, 30, 40,

50 best college basketball coaches of all time. He had a nice career as a college basketball coach.

Did some nice things at Auburn. Did some nice things at Tennessee. Now, he's jamming his son.

Down our throats, down Auburn's throats, and disrespecting a Miami team that has done what his

son's team and his former team cannot do, compete at a high level consistently within their

conference. Do I care that Miami, like I like the 265th best schedule in college basketball?

Well, it's mediocre. It's terrible. But I don't care. They've expanded the NCAA tournament

to 68 teams. And you want to eliminate one of the best Cinderella stories in recent college

basketball history, all because you want to get your son in the tournament. Are we putting the

68 best teams in the tournament? That's never really been the standard. Once they went to this

first four deal where they went from 64 to 68, that's what this whole thing should be about.

The first four should be four Cinderella teams placed in the tournament because they had great

regular seasons. Doesn't matter whether they're one of the 68 best teams. Because what we know is

there's 20 good teams, probably 10 to 12 teams that have a chance at winning the NCAA tournament.

Everybody else is just there to drive the story. I don't mind rewarding teams that win 21, 22,

23 games have good conference seasons and deserve a reward. Hey, you're an NCAA tournament.

You had some things. Go your way. You had some things. Not go your way. You finished third,

fourth, fifth, sixth in your conference. I believe Auburn is the 11th team in the SEC.

They belong in the NCAA tournament over a 29 and O Miami team. I don't care if Miami, I think,

has two games left in the regular season. I don't care if they lose one of them and I don't care if

they lose in their postseason tournament. They've had an amazing season. I just watched their last game

against Western Michigan. They're playing without their starting point guard. Their best player

files out with six or seven minutes left. They're down five, seven points with three, four minutes

to go and they close it out and won the game on the road. Because they're a mate, a well coached,

amazingly coached team and they just have this togetherness and just guy stepped up. It's an amazing

story. This is what college basketball and NCAA tournament is about. It's about Cinderella.

And Bruce Pearl loudly leading the bandwagon to eliminate Cinderella is in sanity. Let's play

another clip from Bruce Pearl where he I think talks about his Auburn team being on the bubble

and Miami possibly isn't at large. Team play the clip back to the Auburn Tigers. The Auburn

Tigers with a tough loss the other day six and ten in the SEC. It's now probably going to be

an uphill climb. Can they make that uphill climb? You know, it's a let there are last four in

and you never want to be in the last four in because any upset in the tournament and you're the first

four out. So they got LSU tomorrow. They've got to be the LSU. The last regular season game is at

Alabama. And that's going to be that's going to be hard. Now we did win their last year, but Alabama's

playing really well. They're a team right now that as you're looking for who might be a sweet 16

team that can slip into the elite eight. The way Alabama's playing. And so I don't know that they

get that one. Here's what Auburn's going to do. They're going to beat LSU at home and they

probably need to win their first round in the SEC tournament. They've got five quad one wins. They've

got the best win in college basketball on the road at Florida as far as that margin. It's either

the best or one of the best. So they got a little bit more to do. And then you're going to throw on

your Ohio shirt and you're going to be rooting for them in the tournament. And I'd love to be behind

closed doors. If you have the cast of vote in its Auburn or a one loss Ohio team from the tournament

and see which way this vote goes because I got a feeling I know which way is going. But there's

there's no there's no love of my son. I mean, I mean, there's no nepotism involved here.

Oh, I'm not bringing out of the world. Some day, you'll give it to your son. Some day,

you'll give it to your son. Guys out of the closet, Dave Portanoi making a mistake. He's talking about

Miami of Ohio. He keeps calling them Ohio, but it's Miami of Ohio. Bruce Pearl's not hiding

what he's doing here. It's nepotism. And the whole nepotism thing in sports, there's a larger

story being told right before your eyes about what this whole woke liberal Marxist new order,

new world order. And all these people that believe like, oh man, we need a little taste of

socialism. We need a little bit more woke this week. It's about eliminating the little guy.

It's about eliminating the the underdog, the Cinderella, the guys like me that

daddy didn't graduate high school started out working at Chrysler as a factory worker. Mama

for 30 years as a factory worker, I come from when I say I come from nothing, I come from

great parents and I come from obviously Jesus Christ, but I come from the bottom.

We started out in the ghetto. I'm a Cinderella story. I want to protect the opportunity

for the little guy to move up in America. This entire conversation, what sports has always been

about and how they've changed sports and how everything favors the elites, favors the rich

and the powerful. Auburn has a chance in the SEC to prove itself to be worthy of an NCAA tournament

bit. They've gone six and 10. No one's going to miss them. No one cares about their storyline.

No one cares about Auburn because no one thinks Auburn can win anything. And look,

Miami, Ohio can't win the NCAA tournament, but it's a great story. It's something we would watch

let's say they're a nine or ten seed. We would watch them in their first round game,

try to take on a big name program. And even if they got the brakes beat off of them,

it would be fascinating. It would be interesting to be worth tuning in for.

It's part of the story. It's part of the brand for the NCAA tournament, the big dance.

If you start eliminating all the Cinderella stories and now the only Cinderella's come from

power conferences that are flush with money and cash, you don't have a big dance.

You have a tournament for the elites. There is no underdog story. There is no little little guy

story. What are we doing? All because Bruce Pearl wants to champion his son who's had a

disappointing season. I don't get it. Bruce, Bruce Pearl's son, just like Deon son,

just like LeBlanc son, they're born sliding into home plate. I'm not saying they're

born on third base. No, they're born sliding into home plate.

And the outfielder doesn't even have the ball out of his hands yet. You can't miss.

Bruce Pearl is a multi-millionaire. He's fast-tracked to son into the coaching profession,

handed him a power for head coaching job. This is Deon Sanders and LeBlanc James all over yet,

except Bruce Pearl is less qualified. And now he's sitting on TV campaigning for his son.

There's a certain kind of privilege that this is. And I know this is going to irritate you.

But we've built a system where black people and Jewish people have a privilege

that others do not. Because trust me, if this were a white coach doing this for his white son

as flagrantly and as openly as Bruce Pearl is. With Bruce Pearl's mediocre

in comparison to Deon and LeBlanc with his mediocre record, it would be getting called out.

No one would tolerate this conversation. He would sound foolish arguing that Miami has no

business in the NCAA tournament. Like whoa. This is crazy, but there's a privilege that has been

carved out from whining and victimhood for black people and Jewish people.

And they want to pick and choose who gets the benefits. And it's always their sons,

their relations, people that are born on third base, sliding in the home plate. Let's make life

easier for them. Travis Steele and what he's accomplished because the reality is

Travis Steele and Miami and Akron in the Mid-American Conference. Akron's one lost one conference

game. And that was to Miami. Akron is coached by Travis Steele's half brother, by the way.

Both of those teams belong in NCAA tournament. St. Louis University at 26 and 3.

Whether they win the 8, 10 or not, they belong in the NCAA tournament. The first four

should be the four Cinderella teams. Let them play on Tuesday. The Cinderella four.

Let them play on Tuesday to open the tournament. Then two of those teams advance into the NCAA

tournament. That's the real solution. There shouldn't be a single conversation going on

about a 6 and 10 Auburn team. A 15, 6 and 10 in their conference, 15 and 14 overall.

I'm going to bring in Mike DeCorecy from the sporting news. He's covered college basketball

for three decades. We'll continue the conversation with him. We got some other great stuff going on

in today. Show Steve Kim will be here. Matt McChesney is going to join us as well. We'll

take Colorado. Deon opens up a spring football this week. I believe maybe today. They start

spring football with a revamped coaching staff. We'll talk with Matt McChesney about that. We'll

talk with Steve Kim about Luke Cornett, San Antonio Spurs Scrubb, who has spoken out against the

Magic City Strip Club night. The Atlanta Hawks are planning on March 16th. Todd McChes says that

Ty Simpson is a top 15 pick. Luther Campbell is whining about white coaches. We'll talk about that.

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Mike DeCorsi.

Hey, this is Sarah Gonzalez. If you're watching Jason, you already know that what we're dealing with

in this country goes way beyond politics. It's about culture, values, and the lies we're told to

excuse bad behavior and bad ideas. On Sarah Gonzalez unfiltered, I take on the stories the mainstream

media refuses to cover honestly from radical ideology and government overreach to the cultural decay

that's affecting families, kids, and everyday Americans. I don't do spin, I don't do excuses,

and I don't pretend the truth needs to be softened to be heard. If you're looking for commentary

that's blunt, fearless, and unapologetically honest, you can watch Sarah Gonzalez unfiltered

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All right, welcome back. Mike DeCorsi joining us. Mike, I just ripped into Bruce Pearl. I don't like

the fact that he's talking against Miami. I don't care about their strength of schedule. You go 29

and 0 and or become a Cinderella story. I don't care if they lose one of their final two regular

season games. I don't care if they lose in the first round of their postseason tournament. Miami's

a great story. It's the embodiment of the Cinderella story that the big dance has been built upon.

I think Bruce Pearl is out of his mind here and trying to find a way to create enough space

for his son's mediocre Auburn team to make the tournament. I do think that there is an element of

concern relative to Auburn in his speaking. I don't think that at this point, first of all,

let's look at Auburn just to sort of clear what up their circumstances. They are now 15 and 14

in the entirety of the expanded bracket era began in 1985 when they expanded the field to 64 teams

now 68. There have been only two teams that made it in even two games over 500. 1991 Villanova

team that I covered closely at the Pittsburgh press when I was covering pit for the Big East and

then in 2001 Georgia from the SEC and I covered some of their games as well at the sporting news.

And those teams played profoundly difficult schedules. We're in extremely deep and balanced

leagues and managed to finish two games over 500. At the moment, Auburn's only one game over 500.

So there's their biggest problem is that the relative to 500, they're only a game over,

they're not getting in at that. And I don't think that their schedule and performance

warrants getting in at two games over 500 either measured against the history of that particular

designation. So what Auburn really needs is to perform at a level where there are three four

games over 500 and they haven't done that recently. And if they got there, Miami's not even in their

way. Miami's the least of their concerns. It crowds the field a little bit for them, but if they

with their metrics and with a significant record, they wouldn't have any trouble at all.

So it's, Miami's not their problem. Now look at Miami. Look, I do think that they need to,

I think it'd be very helpful for them to win their final two regular season games and go into

the Mac tournament undefeated. No team has finished the regular season undefeated.

And been left out of March madness that at least not in the expanded bracket there. I haven't gone

past that. But the number of teams that have been able to do that, that have been able to go into

even their own conference tournament undefeated is so short that I know them all off the top of my head.

It just doesn't happen. Indiana State 79, Vegas 91, St. Joe's in 04, Wichita in 14 and Kentucky in 15.

Pretty sure that's the entire list. If you can join that club, there is no way they're keeping

you out of the tournament. And now it would be helpful to get all the way at least to the conference

tournament final so that more than likely if you do lose, you're losing to a terrific Akron team

that could easily make it into the field. If you weren't, if there were no Miami, Akron would be

the overwhelming favorite to win the Mac. They're outstanding. If you lost to them, I don't even know

that it would ding their seeding that much. I'll say Jason, I'm one of the only bracket analysts

that has Miami right now as a single digit seed. There are well over 100 either professional

or informed amateur bracket projections at the at the bracket matrix dot com right now. And

I think there are only eight or nine right now that have them as a single digit seed. But I just

don't see how when that history that I gave you, that's that's the seeding era. They didn't seed

in 76 when when Indiana Rutgers made it into the tournament undefeated. In the seeding era,

every one of those teams that I just mentioned is a one seed. And I'm not arguing for a one seed

for Miami, but I'm certainly certainly arguing that if they get to the conference tournament undefeated,

they should be at least a single digit seed. I think what Bruce Pearl fears,

which I think should happen because look, Akron is probably just as good as Miami.

They lost by three points in their regular season clash.

Odd fact that I think is an amazing story is that Travis still is the half brother of Akron's

head coach. And I for some reason, I can't think of Akron's head coach. John Gross.

John Gross. That's right. Yeah. And I think both of those teams belong in the tournament. And I

really mean that sincerely. It's a great story. And it's Mike. It's funny. It's one of those

deals where I believe like narrative should drive a little of the decision making where is like,

hey, this is made to brothers dominate a conference. There's one loss in the conference between

them. This deep into the conferences put both of those guys in the tournament. It's a great story.

And to me, Mike, I would like to make the first four about the Cinderella teams every year.

I would identify four Cinderella teams from non major conferences that play on Tuesday.

And two of those teams play themselves into the big dance. I think it's important to protect

the Cinderella stories and not just have this this tournament be flooded or completely

dominated by a power conference teams. And then what is it? 14 or 15 other or conference

champions or whatever. Oh, it's more than that. It right now. And this is why I don't think that

that the mid majors are necessarily getting a terrible deal here in general.

The field is, let's say now, if we restrict the major conference conversation to five,

then you have 26 automatic bids for mids. If you add in the Mountain West and the Atlantic 10,

if you want to do that, then you're still at 24. So if you look at it, if you do it,

mathematically, the mid majors get automatically, I believe it's 36 or 37 percent of the

bids to the tournament. So they're getting well more than a third of the bids to the tournament.

And I'm being totally honest here, they don't have a third of the best teams.

If you if you stage this thing in an all out deal, like the old Indiana state high school

tournament used to be, most of the team standing at the end would be high major programs.

So I love the structure as it is now. I just want the teams to be judged on what the

standards are. And the standards have been over the last couple of years more oriented now toward

what some people refer to as record-based metrics. I think that's needlessly wordy. So I call them

resume metrics. And what those metrics are, they basically measure what you achieve relative

to your schedule. And it doesn't matter how many points you win by. Every one point win is a win,

every one point loss is a loss. And that's the way I believe it should be done, because I always say

only takes six one point victories to win the national championship. You don't get jumped

around if you win by 30. You still have to play the next game. So I like this approach. And if

you look at those metrics, Miami is 30 second right now, which puts you as an 8C if you did it that

way. So they're firmly in the field as of now. Again, that's why I, it's best for them if they

finish out the regular season. They've got Toledo coming in on Tuesday night. They've got to go to

Ohio University in Archrival, certainly, and not having their best year at Ohio U. But those are

solid mid-level Mac teams that they have to defeat on their way to that finishing with perfection.

But as of now, they are firmly in the field. And I think that those who want it to be about

scheduling, they are the ones who are most concerned about this. Some of them I think are

protecting their own territory like Bruce. And some of them are just looking at the pure schedule

metrics and not what do you achieve against that schedule. As far as as the as the wins above

bubble metric, which is the the newest, the newest addition to a team's official resume and one that

the NCAA committee seems to put a lot of investment in. Miami has won 2.21 more games against their

schedule than an average bubble team would. That's what that metric says. And Auburn in their

circumstance has won point one game. So one tenth of one game more than an average bubble team would

as of now. So who's playing better? Okay. Yeah. Miami played three D2s. Shouldn't do that. I agree.

But against the schedule that they played that is D1, they are significantly outperforming

what an average bubble team would do. And Auburn is not.

Do you buy some people are saying I think I saw Dan dockets say this this week that and I think

the AD maybe it but that that big 10 teams aren't scheduling Mac teams anymore because they don't

want to risk the loss. Do you buy that argument? Well, I think that happens. Yes. It could be the

Mac. It could be the Valley. It could be it could be someone like like Stephen F Austin which

has become such a nice team or or McNeese State which had a great year last year got in as a 12

and won a first round game. And then it's back and playing a very strong level just in that league

with Stephen F Austin. So it's going to be tough to see who gets that. I think there's a lot of

that but one of the things that I've argued gosh now for 20 years Jason is for those teams that

are complaining about that instead of complaining about it play each other because those wins count a

lot. And I'll tell you right now that as I look at my bracket the one I've projected when I try

to put teams together in particular games for like the first four my last four teams in the

first they have to play one another in Dayton and I have to project it and then I want to have

VCU play say St. Louis excuse me not St. Louis New Mexico. I can't do it because they've already

played and I keep finding that among all the teams that are at the end of my field that are mid majors

they all played one another because they were smart they listened to that and said look if we can't

play number 40 Ohio State we can not play number 50 New Mexico and it really helps us and those

teams are seeing that rewarded by the nature of the current of my current bracket projections of

other current bracket projections as well as the metrics the committee is using to decide these

things if you look at a team like like say at this point Belmont they're at 53 in the projected

metrics VCU which is a team that I have in some others don't they're at 46 New Mexico it's 45

it this is all in the wins above bubble ranking New Mexico is right behind Texas A&M Texas A&M has

played there nearly a full schedule in the SEC which has given them lots of opportunities lots of

exposure to other NCAA tournament teams and they're this far ahead slightly above New Mexico at

this point so it shows you the value of those programs playing one another can you bat a thousand

like might you schedule a team let's say like Toledo which has been really good over the years

and say okay let's play Toledo and then it doesn't turn out to be as great a game as you thought

sure but that happens in with the high majors too you could play Northwestern which made two NCAA

appearances in the last three years and finished second in the big 10 two years in a row but then

this year they're not having a great year so you got them on your schedule it's not helping you as

much as you hoped it happens at all levels it but if more of these mid major teams played one

another I think that they would they would enhance their own schedules to the point where okay it's

not the same as playing Duke but you're probably not beating Duke whereas if you're VCU you might

beat New Mexico St. Louis University they're 26 and 3 got a good chance to win the A10 but if they

don't the same the slew make your tournament yeah I don't I mean again I haven't looked at their

schedule in particular for the rest of this regular season but if they finish reasonably well as

would be expected no worse than one and one and then do anything in the in the A10 tournament

that would be expected again at least when your quarter final game I think they absolutely make it

they might trend back toward a double digit seed at this point if they were to do the the least

that would be acceptable but there what usually when you get to this time of year teams do what they

are they accomplish what they are like Arizona goes out on Monday night against Iowa State

and they play like Arizona because they're they're playing at home the opposition doesn't matter

that much if they play to their level they're going to beat most teams at home and that's what they

did Duke Duke same thing they they they are significantly better than NC State they go out and they

handle it and that's true of of bubble teams as well which we saw a truckload of bubble teams lose

over the weekend teams that like California has pit come in pit's not good at all and they're

on they're all the way on the west coast they they were out there for a little while it wasn't

their first game out there they played Stanford but they got they got beaten by Stanford in the

pre prior game then they play cow a team that I had in the tournament as a Friday and cow never

really had a chance to win the game I mean pit controlled at the entire way that's what bubble

teams do and that and the same with Auburn Auburn has Ole Miss one of the poorest teams in performance

level in the SEC this week on their own home floor and all they have to do is win that game to stay

a couple of games above 500 and they lose and that's that's what bubble teams do at this time

a year the successful ones win and get in the unsuccessful ones lose and stay out

Seth Davis said something interesting let's read the tweet I think we're at the point where we

can say Kansas has been better this season without Darren Peterson than with him he had 24 points

21 shots today and they lost by 23 I still think this team has a high ceiling but I'm losing my

faith it will reach it uh Darren Peterson projected to be the number one pick in the draft most

talented player uh he's been a bit of an enigma uh he's he can score but in terms of impacting

whether or not they win or lose who knows what to think what do you make of Seth's comment that

they're better without Darren Peterson I think first of all it's interesting that he mentioned

the shot attempts because uh we had a we had like a Twitter thing several years ago 2018 when

Trey Young went to uh in a game against Oklahoma State one of the one of their rivalry games

back in uh back in 2018 and in that game I think Trey Young took 43 shots to score 41 points

and there was a lot he was among many analysts who were uh enraged or upset or bothered or whatever

phrase you want to use relative to that shot attempt number I grew up in the Austin Carr era the

Pete Maravitch so I don't have a big problem with the best player taking the most shots

and I didn't have a problem I obviously you'd want him to be more efficient than he was that day

but the shot number got big in that day uh because at that point they were down and he was

their best player and their only way back in the game was was through Trey and they got to

overtime in a game that they were down in and they ended up losing so I from that's that I think

that forms the core of his argument but the the the part about better without is a fair point

because they had a significant they've had some significant results without Darren the Arizona

home win uh at at Alan a couple of weeks ago would be an example of that and I think it's fair to

look at that and say uh that some of their best results have been achieved when he's been absent but

some of their other best results have had significant input from him the BYU victory that they got

he did play the first half and he helped basically stake them to a huge lead he scored 18 points

in the first half that's 36 for the game if he finishes and finishes in the same style so

he he had a significant input input into that into that BYU win the the problem for Bill

self has been all year having to coach two different teams the one with Darren and the one

from which he's absent and it's really hard to get that right in any circumstance you see teams that

get back players that are significant in all sports they get them back at a at a point in time

where they found a way to win without that player and now all of a sudden you have to completely change

because this player uh whether it's uh football or basketball hockey might be a little bit less

and baseball probably not as much because everybody's just kind of playing their own deal

when they're at the bat uh or pitching to them yet it's not quite as much but in basketball and

football where you have that chemistry and that rhythm and the formula and then all of a sudden

you completely change the formula because you add in this player who is going to take a lot of shots

and going to to to have a big impact and and a big role because it's too talented not to

it's hard to get that rhythm right and the fact that you get him back and you say okay here's

what we're gonna do and then you do that and you're successful and then all of a sudden he's gone

again and sometimes within the same game it's really hard for them to get it right so I think it's

less about how he plays or that he's present as then it is about sometimes he's present sometimes

he's absent he's now played three consecutive games I believe in which they haven't played well

but he's played 30 plus minutes and so if you can rely on that you can gradually get back to

what you need to be with Darren Peterson in the lineup and and be more successful in March

then you could certainly be without him you're not going as far with the group that they have

minus Darren as you would with the group that they have plus Darren. I'm going to stay in the Darren

Peterson lane but I'm going to bring Chad Baker, Mazzara into the conversation. Darren Peterson's

draft value might benefit from him not playing anymore because when Bill's self can't get

the best out of you if I'm an NBA head coach I'm like holy cow Bill's self that's all he does

is develop players and get people to actually over achieve and he can't get it out of Darren Peterson

maybe Darren Peterson should go to Chad Mazzara route and quit. Well I'll say this that first of all

that in general I mean you can't know every scout every personnel executive league what they're

thinking but I've had multiple conversations with NBA people and the only thing the only concern

they have about Darren Peterson is availability and passion for the game and that's it. They know

that's a long list I don't think those are like two important deals. They're two very important things

absolutely but but if it weren't for those issues this would not be a hard call as great as AJ

DeBonza is and he is great and if like from my 10 years in Indianapolis got a little affection for

the Pacers and if I if I were like getting a magic deal where I could take anyone out of this draft

for the Pacers I'd want AJ because I think he fits perfectly into who they are and what they do

and they don't need that ball dominant score that Darren's going to be but he is Darren is that

great at prospect that they don't have other concerns about him can he get to the rim oh yeah

can he shoot from deep yes can he shoot off balance yes like everything technically they love

but then they saw what happened with the cramping issues in January and they start the exact

I talked to most recently started to wonder and and told me if he were to sit down with there

and he would only have two questions for him what's the deal medically and how did you feel when

you were sitting there in January watching your teammates play so many games that's what he wants

to know so you're right that they're huge issues that that are central to a player's potential

greatness Jason I I will say this with great admiration in my time covering the sport now I don't

cover a lot of NBA I've been around the the fringes but in summers going out to various summer

camps and and tournaments and that sort of thing every now and then I'd bump into an NBA player

LeBron James Kevin Durant not not your average NBA players but guys that had already made it we're

already stars all stars now they hadn't made it like LeBron wasn't yet worth a billion dollars

but but he was he'd already made it he certainly was worth nine figures by the time I saw this

and I watched him work out and I just was astonished that like you could be anywhere in the world you

have all the money there is and you could do anything you want right now the seasons doesn't start

for another three months and he's in the gym and he's putting himself through the necessary

paces to make himself greater and that's the separator that guys who want to be NBA players

they work really hard guys who want to be NBA superstars they have another gear they have

another they have that unyielding desire to be great you can't get Kevin Durant away from

a basketball floor what is he played in now four olympics you can't get him away and they need

they want to see that from Darren and he says he loves the game and he really wants it wants to be

great and the physical issues are not under his control and so that's that but they have to be

sure of that that's the only thing they have to be sure of and if he did walk away I think that

would introduce a level of anxiety in those first few teams that might lead to him slipping a little

bit I think he needs to be on the floor those past three games even though they weren't Kansas'

best I think they were great for him and I do think that if he continues on this path and they

eventually get that formula that it'll be it'll be the best thing for Kansas as well

Mike I only got 60 seconds here do you have any insight into what the heck happened with Chad

Baker-Mazaar how did that the you got any clues on that yeah it was it was an odd thing he took a fall

in Saturday's game against Nebraska and he did not return and it was it did not seem like

a decidedly injurious fall when he went down probably didn't have didn't didn't feel great

but it didn't look like he had been significantly injured and he subsequently wound up sitting

adjacent to the bench not on the team bench and a day later it's announced that he's leaving the

team I I don't think that they were excited about how all that looked at USC I don't think Chad was

super excited this is just inference that about the arrival of Elijah Arenas and how many shots he

was taking away I did wonder how they would work together and it's a shame they didn't have a

full year because if they did they might have been able to find something really special but because

it was so because Elijah was hurt most of the year introducing him late I think created a difficulty

in establishing a successful formula there Mike thank you so much we'll see you next time thank you

thank you thank you Matt McChesney Caterato's spring practice opens we'll talk with

Matt McChesney about it thanks

all right welcome back Steve Kim joining us from Los Angeles the Korean Koseo Steve we have someone

now willing to complain about the Magic City strip club night Luke Cornett a scrub a bench player

for the San Antonio Spurs he's seven foot one he's been in league six seven years though

he's got some status he has issued a complaint here I think hold on do we have the do we have

his words is that am I looking at that yeah I see that but I don't I don't see I don't see where it starts

I see this week this is the headline Graham this week the Atlanta Hoax announced a special one night

collaboration to celebrate the city's iconic cultural institution Magic City during the team's home

game against Orlando on Monday in his press release the Hoax failed to acknowledge that this

place is as the business itself boasts Atlanta's premier strip club given this fact I would like to

respectfully ask the Atlanta Hoax cancel this promotional night with Magic City the NBA should

desire to protect and esteem women many of whom work diligently every day to make this the

best basketball league in the world we should promote an atmosphere that is protective and

respective of daughters wives sisters mothers and partners that we know and love allowing this

night to go forward without protests would reflect poorly on us as an NBA community specifically in

being complicit in the potential objectification and mistreatment of women in our society regardless

of how a woman finds her way into the adult entertainment industry many in this space experience

abuse harassment and violence to which they should never be subjected this white boys got a pair

I get what what is it I'm not you're a honky again I think this is not your typical honky he

speaking out here and taking a risk by speaking truth to the NBA and black culture see if you

got any advice for Luke Cornett yeah turn off your comments if you have social media because you

know what's gonna happen next Jason you're gonna get the don't you speak about our business right

is anytime someone that's not the same skin tone as a critique or a comment that is not in line

with the accepted message you're gonna get the old who are you to speak about us never mind those

same people speak about everybody else I have a question though it doesn't completely surprise me

that a white guy has said it now I wish it would have been wimpy but I don't think he was going to

do it at this stage of his career he's a very young guy I think it took a veteran to do it but

can we be honest Jason I think if a black player said it he'd get a lot more heat wouldn't he

yes let's say I was sitting here thinking of like what if Anthony Edwards did this but I think

Anthony Edwards has a baby mama that's a strip one or two and and so you open yourself if you

stand against it you open yourself up for hey or you're a hypocrite you know you're who's your

baby mama or just open yourself up to an attack and I think a lot of these guys don't want to do

that but again this is Adam Silver that should swap this down not the NBA players

Anthony Edwards would not only not protest it he would endorse it in fact he'd probably ask

for more NBA cities to participate in it can we be I and there's nothing wrong with that I'm not

making a judgment Adam Silver has lost control I would argue he never had control this is the

problem with the slippery slope and this goes for all walks of life in sports like I'm one of the

few boxing riders who said I hate these novelty fights when Floyd Mayweather fought Conor McGregor

back in 2017 everyone thought it was great for boxing and I said guys this is a slippery slope

that has no end game or no bottom now you see all Xander Lucic fighting a kickboxer in the pyramids

of Egypt this is the problem you give an inch you end up giving up the football field

it's here's I want to play this clip of Taylor Rooks who works for Amazon Prime and she's the new

it girl she's the next charisma Thompson she's the next Aaron Andrew she's the next big star

but you know she doesn't seem to have a problem with this strip club night toy it's like

if the women are complaining why should the men let's play the club it was my first strip club

experience so good time let's do a demo let's run through it I wasn't all let me tell you that

you see some things in there that make you say wow it's great no no favorite magic city stories

that's what the trot is never been never been never been in trot is wings now where you all more

cheetah guys you were five yeah I was your flight I was four seasons guy you know resting for the game

got it next night yeah I mean I just I don't know what to do with this because I'm a former

strip club addict but I nothing is left private anymore nothing is beyond the pill everything

is mainstream now including strip clubs that that was I just am I just an old man am I just

out of the loop should I just go with the flow the ball Jason you don't have to say that's

a little harsh that's it's like it's wrong cocaine you're an addict I would say you were more

of a connoisseur I would say addict yeah things got really uncomfortable on that set I mean

well let's be honest unless your name was AC and green you were going to the same club let's be

honest I mean I look we know the reality of life on the road okay I don't think anyone is that

naive anymore but I think there's a fine line between acknowledging it and then amplifying it

to this level where it's uncomfortable I mean a lot of those guys may be married now and and

I was Taylor Rooks yeah and so and by the way ladies there's nothing empowering about you saying

you're ever ever at a strip club honestly they it's so empowering in what way I don't really know

how you know with that said this is the society that we are in now and and I've said this before

sports mirror society and society mirror sports Steve we're living in a world where

four people three men and one woman are having a discussion and only the woman is bold enough

to say hey I've been to a strip club and you know I've been to Magic City Baba where the men are

actually embarrassed wanted meant to it won't cop to it and like this is the mainstream I know

it's Amazon Prime but this is the mainstream media this is the brand promoting the NBA or the

company or the media platform promoting the NBA I just with and look the race card has been played

over Twitter you know that never takes long and it doesn't take much impetus but

I this this whole branding of this this is black culture and I'm like the NBA has what 20% 25% white

players they probably have 96% white in house in arena fans you know half the coaches the executives

this whole deal that the NBA is this black Lee and that strip clubs or platter black culture none of

it adds up it none of it is based in reality in my opinion it may not be but I wonder we should look

up the Atlanta Hawks attendance like where does it rank like are they having problems getting

people consistently into that building look you do anything you can but I remember they used to

just give away penance phone fingers they never give away a poll it is a new one you know I look

at that that got me thinking one of Chris rocks most famous risk when he was still funny and bold

he said as a father what's our number one go as a father keep him off the pole think about it so

that was what 96 97 right late 90s so if you were to told me Steve freeze right there in the less

than 30 years we are going to have NBA franchises have basically a strip club night think about would

you think about that or look upon that as progress or degradation of our society it's degradation I'm

going to keep it moving talk a little football talk a little NFL draft Todd McShay is now suggesting

that Ty Simpson the Alabama quarterback only 15 starts but might be a top 15 pick despite ending

the season poorly let's play sought number four a big tie Simpson family despite the six one the

injuries and and the the 15 starts but I'm already starting to hear people that could he go as high as

Cleveland really sitting there six and I hope for Ty Simpson he does not become a Cleveland Brown

they don't have the protection they don't have the weapons I'd love to see him with the Rams they

pick at 13 to the first of the two picks but it's fascinating to see a guy who has guessed

straight us got beat up all year long his number one wide receiver disappeared in Ryan Williams

they like the 126 best rushing attack at Alabama which like Bear Bryant's rolling over in his grave

and it all fell apart at the end of the year but I just I think he's different and I think that

there's some teams out there that are just trying to be really quiet about it because everyone's

talking about Mendoza and then the rest of the quarterback suck it's just not the deal and

Ty Simpson is going to go somewhere in the first and it won't shock me if it's in the top 15

pick for Ty Simpson with just 15 starts it's like we come up with these rules that oh man's the

number of starts matter and then the draft turns around and everyone throws the rules out and

says well number of stars don't matter these teams are like and I know you've been there

late in the night you've taken a lot of gambling hits and what do you try to do you break all your

rules right don't you load up that's what teams do with quarterbacks I mean one of the hard fast

rules and I think Bill Parcell's really was a believer in this he's the first guy I ever saw

that really stated this if I'm going to drop the quarterback really high he has to have at least 30

starts he had other benchmarks did you graduate where your team captain what's your GPA stuff like

that but the number of starts he thought correlated into how quickly you were ready to play I'm going

to say something and I'm not going JB here I'm not going to that level I don't believe Fernando

Mendoza is a Troy Ackman John L. Way level number one if I was the Raiders I would trade that pick

and parlay that into more players okay and then beyond that I'd actually try to see what type of

market there is for Max Crosby to rebuild so what I'm saying is if I don't believe Mendoza

is that sure fire number one that's ready to play from day one I don't think Ty Simpson is either

now to be fair I saw a lot of Alabama games offensive line could not drive block they did not run

the ball well as Todd McShay said he has very good field vision that's one thing I do like but I did

not get the sense that guy's ready to play near one in the national football league I think a lot

of times when stuff like this happens there's a certain team out there perhaps it's Cleveland that's

trying to create the narrative and the consensus that hey we took Ty Simpson here but we're not over

drafting him didn't you hear Todd McShay didn't you hear how the conversation you know that he's

actually worth it and so that's why Todd McShay is like nah I feel confident this guy's going

on the top 15 pick because someone has told me that and I'm out here to float that trial balloon

and create the narrative that he's worthy of that right and someone talked themselves into Anthony

Richardson now again I believe Ty Simpson is much more NFL ready than him that I never understood

how he was even in the discussion for a top 10 pick Chris Ballard is lucky to have his job

based on that draft that's one of the worst I've ever seen now Cleveland's at what top five or six

I think six yeah so if I'm the Browns I think it's a pretty good year for offensive lineman

guys that could you could plug and play right away just trade it for one didn't it okay

yeah but it takes five though yeah there's five offensive lineman away from having a good offensive

line so you need another one okay get the guy to Utah or my guy Mauinoa I don't think I think

those are solid plug and play guys but maybe they want a splash but again when you're talking about

Cleveland you know who's out there you know who's the third string quarterback or the second string

quarterback and they've paid a lot of money or put a lot of money into the Sean Watson I'm not

so sure they really want to move off of that just economically I want to go back to your Fernando

Mendoza point because we had Bucky Brooks on yesterday and we he was at the combine all week and

we talked about how good sunny styles looks and projects we talked about Jeremiah Love

who's is it the safety out of Ohio State that he's down yeah that there's a lot of like really really

good players and I agree with you and I'd like Fernando Mendoza but if there's a can't miss six

foot five inside linebacker that runs a 4 4 40 in sunny styles if I'm the Raiders I'm like I'm

going to solve my defensive leadership play making ability deal this sunny styles is can't miss

there's some real risk to Fernando Mendoza and it just again they can't take Jeremiah Love

because they've already taken asked and genty but there's some can't miss prospects out there

that you know we're going to be starters day one and make an impact I would go that route

yeah if you're the Raiders and they were bad there's a reason why they're picking number one

you're probably about what 35 legitimate good players away from being where you want to be

you need a haul I mean I go back to what Jimmy Johnson did in 89 he said I had one player that

was worth anything Herschel Walker and I could have squeezed out three four wins that year with Herschel

right what did he do he con Mike Lynn into giving him a bunch of players that he converting the draft

choices and then Jimmy Johnson in the three-year stretch made 51 or 52 trades Jason you know the rest

of the NFL made about 49 together so you if you want to ramp up the process and you do not believe

that Mendoza is that John L. Way type of guy I think you got to parlay that into multiple picks and

I would say number one the number one pick that I get one of them has to be a top five to 10 pick

so I want to stay in the top 10 so this way you're in line for one of those Ohio State guys or one

of those offensive lineman right then number two I'm going to need at least another pick or two

within the top 50 and maybe a draft pick or two next year along with a starter again you've

got to leverage this and make this into multiple players quickly Steve some news today this morning

actually the Lions have traded David Montgomery breaking up Montgomery and Gibbs they trade running

back David Montgomery to the Houston Texans good pick up for them like that Montgomery average played

all 17 games didn't starting but average four and a half yards per carry last year he's 28 years

old there's still some tread left on his tire all Houston had to give up was a fifth round pick

what do you think of the Lions moving away from their two headed running back monster

to now just leaning fully into Jamera Gibbs well they did that last year Jason you know me I'm a big

damn Campbell guys I watch a lot of Lions football and I thought it was strange there were games where

Gibbs was going good but that came at the expense of David Montgomery and there were games where I

felt like there's something wrong there so it is clear to me based on what I observed halfway

through the season last year they said you know what Jamera Gibbs is not big but you know what we

got to ride this guy he's a game breaker so someone has to have their carries taken up and that was

David Montgomery I'm actually surprised that it was only a fifth round draft choice it's a very good

tackle to tackle physical runner and now you say we got to replace David Montgomery there's one

thing that the Lions have done the last four years very well for the most part with Brad Holmes they

draft very well so you could find a running back a Jadarian price who loves teammate at Notre Dame

I think he fits that culture very well and I saw something Jason yesterday where they listed all

the skill position players of the Houston Texan they put this big graphic up with all these names

now including Montgomery and they said who's gonna stop this Texan's offense and I said probably

CJ Stroud that's who can stop that offense based on what I saw in the playoffs I was wondering where

you were going there and you landed about where I expected I want to switch up go a little bit more

college football Mississippi the state of Mississippi has passed some law no taxes on NIL money trying

to give themselves and advantages from on the site on three the Mississippi House has passed a bill

there would exclude athletes NIL earnings from the state's income tax Arkansas passed a bill in

2025 to exempt NIL money from income taxes Florida Texas and Tennessee or other states with

our other states with SEC schools that have no income tax this is just a leveling of the playing

field but it also like man what a precedent we're setting bending what we're NIL and college

athletics has taken some of these states seems crazy to me that we're bending over this backwards

for college kids that provide a little entertainment but nothing else there's teachers money gets taxed

everybody else anyway your thoughts on the escalation and just benefits for these athletes

there's an old phrase it takes a village to raise a child right we've all heard them well it takes

a state to win a national championships that's what we're finding out here I don't you know it's

funny when the NIL came into prominence everyone said well these kids better learn how to pay taxes

like hell they do not anymore not in a program that's trying to be serious see that's the difference

between a program and a program see a program thinks they're just here to play ball but but a

state that's here to help you win a national title and take your taxes off the table that's a

program Mississippi is programming respect to them I Steve I hear you and it does put a little

smile on my face but it just it says something about the priorities of his country man of course

that not good it says bad things of course it does there's no I look the Robert Smith one of the

great thinking athletes of the last generation the running back right I have a lot of respect for

that guy he was he actually quit the Ohio State football team because one day on a road trip he

has lights on he was studying for a medical test because you actually going to be a doctor and

there's running back coach said hey lights off and he said well we'll wait a minute I'm in my room

I'm studying and I think the running back coach is Elliott oozalak and he told Elliott Elliott I'm

going to study I'm not turning out and basically that led to his departure from Ohio State he was

actually a student athlete and he has once I think he once said years ago here's a problem with America

and I'm an athlete he goes you people care more about your season tickets being raised but what

about your taxes to fix your roads and bridges something to that effect you're right we do have an

outsized expectation and I would believe a focus on athletic sports and entertainment instead of

stuff that's probably much more important in the big picture no argument there look they don't

pay taxes they don't have to go to class anymore because everything's online they're paid enough

money and trust me I know this that they can sprinkle enough money around campuses it's

sorority houses tutors that they don't have to do their own work if you're making five hundred

thousand dollars trust me on a college campus you pay somebody a hundred two hundred dollars to

write a paper for you take a test for you do anything for you this is this is nothing to these guys

we're requiring less of athletes and giving them more it's just a bad recipe man

well we're gonna see what happens and can't could you imagine though what a half million dollars

does for you in Starkville wow and with no state income tax and yeah what are you probably

giving up with about 36% to the feds or 35 I don't I don't know what that number is but yeah

that money goes a long way in Starkville be a good time it and you wonder why these guys are asking

for sixth seventh and eighth years of eligibility can we be honest with lock do you blame them at

this point I would love to reclaim some eligibility and see double A and go but get that

untaxed money uh and and that's why this next topic and I'm bringing this up because

he's one of your Miami boys Luther Campbell a bad influence on college athletics but here's

Luther with all the stuff we're giving athletes you know no taxes online classes tutors and people

they can pay off to do all their work Luther Campbell is still railing that you know this system

is so racist and rigged against these black players and these white coaches are taking advantage of

here's Uncle Luke your Miami booster railing against white I want this Mario crystal ball to see

qualify as a white coach let's play the clip soon as he got his ass out of college football right

for the Senate sorry if you don't believe me look at some of these look at some of these coaches

they all support Donald Trump they all would deal with D.I. I don't know one white coach

in power five football that gives up about these kids they have used car settlements

I'm just giving them a bump I hope that HBCUs get this shit together

these presidents who want to be the football coach who want to be all in the video who want to

do all this here I still think if they shit together I'll HBCU alumni don't think that could you

buy a ticket to the game no start put money into the collectives is so we can get our kids back

and our kids can play for these HBCUs when these black men give them give them about these kids

and you can get your a great HBCU education and marry your great HBCU still still

I'm sick of it I'm sick I'm sick of it name your white coach they give them five black players

name me one of these people who don't care for Donald Trump they love him kisses ass on flagless

street doesn't mean well for African-Americans it's a business deal for them y'all need to realize it

that's why they're trying to ask off to do what stop these black kids for reaping the benefits

that they should be reaping Steve I know you're not a loom nigh at Miami

I am not a loom noughty either loom noughty a couple things here Jason I think that video or what he

said may have had a little bit of validity maybe 30 years ago before the NIL aren't they

getting paid my god it's like by the way they're getting paid back then it was just under the table

I'm reading my one of my next books that I'm going to be reading is from Armand Catey and raw

recruits I don't know if you've ever read that I have it through it Jason everyone had their hand

out this whole notion these players were not yeah they were paid they they were absolutely had

their hand out for every college they went to everyone played the game let's get that over with

here's the issue that I have with Uncle Luke number one thankfully you've gotten off our wide

receiver coach Kevin Beard that's a good man and a good coach we got to practice we got to focus

on spring ball in a week or two number two Luther when you were a high school coach at Edison

how many of your players many of whom have played division one did you specifically push

to the HBCU Howard Bethune Cookman Hillman loved around the world I mean how many how many of your

players I could have gone to any school did you say you know what though no no no no we're not

doing the PWI would how many of did you push to the HBCU how many the other thing that's really

interesting to me is that you yourself as a football fan you love jumping on the Miami bandwagon

when they're good and they're good again you're back to being a number one fans you're you're not

working against our staff which he's done before but I do have a question that's a serious

his cancer I have a question how many Florida in M games do you go to in lieu of Miami Florida state

what's all I'm going to ask I think you raised great questions I you know I think obviously Luke

wants the traction or whatever but I don't he knows enough about college football he knows

that these athletes have been getting catered to, painted to compensated all this some of these

guys show up and can't read or write on a college campus and I say that without an ounce of

derision because like I know some guys that showed up to college not being able to read and write

and seen a college pour into them and provide them all kinds of support and help and elevate them

and to sit there and I've seen white college coaches that in dealing with me trying to prevent

me from doing the dumb things that I did that harmed me in my career the guy I just don't understand

these lies that have to be told for cloud it's embarrassing Jason how about this I'll throw down

a challenge I looked at Miami schedule this year and the players that we are bringing back

I'm gonna say it right now playoff on all the way we were gonna make another run but with that said

Luke don't go to any Miami games with Mario Cristobal all right with that PWI and Coral Gables

not really Miami every week I want you to campaign and be at an HBCU game and do some shows there

and razel every week right be the message that you are screaming because we talked about this

about three years ago Jason the HBCU agenda that everyone was pushing with Jackson State

and Dion it became the Malcolm X hat it became a fad you were into it there's that famous picture

of you that was 1991 I remember that right but I don't know I think Malcolm X words resonate more

than ever I have great respect for that man I would never turn him into just a fad or something

that was the pet rock so Luther Campbell with all due respect please don't go to a Miami game

every week week one through week 12 HBCU would love to see you and let's spread this message

it's all I'm saying I think me and the X hat is either 1992 or 93 I think I was in Ann Arbor

Michigan at the time 91 I was still in Bloomington Indiana okay and I got in our Charlotte

North Carolina yeah yeah yeah the top on did you get that like you were wearing an outfit from like

chess king so I'm like yeah early 90s chess king the shirt was from chess I knew it the rayon

the rayon silk I saw Steve I want to move you to my my favorite topic the WNBA and it seems like

things are coming to a head here with these collective bargaining agreement

and it seems like it's going to split I don't think most people are recognizing this but

the white girls are ready to end this whole deal and sign the deal they don't want to they don't

want to strike the black girls are still holding out and they're oppressed and they want to play

this to the bust you got Kelsey Plum you got Brianna Stewart basically saying hey look we need to

play this season it's important we don't need to strike and then you have ladies like Natasha

Cloud so do we have a picture of Brianna Stewart by the way hold on grab a picture of Brianna Stewart

grab a picture of Kelsey Plum and and then you know there's some pictures of Brianna Stewart where

she's pretty manly she dresses as a man she's a lesbian but I want to juxtapose like all we

need is Kelsey Plum I'm sorry we don't need Brianna Stewart Kelsey Plum versus Natasha Cloud

this is the New York Liberty I believe point guard or we or we read can we play the clip of the

New York Liberty point guard yeah let's play the clip of Natasha Cloud talking about what she wants

to have happen are still not making enough that middle man potentially still not making enough

for housing to also be taken off at the table I'll know this New York market that though that

$200,000 jump that players are going to make that's before taxes that's before what they would

have to pay for a potential housing market in the state of New York so we just I still am focused

on our middle man again I think it's a starting point I'm happy with them finally coming back to

us with a proposal but I think there's a lot more that we can do to protect our middle man even with

our jump of salary that is the black Megan Rapinoe there still drawing a hard line in the sand

about this and so we could end up with a strike because the black girls won't finally fold shop

and say enough is enough and the white girls are like hey let's get this money we cut a hell

of a deal we play 40 games no one really cares about us other than Caitlin Clark we've done

enough here the white girls like we've done enough we're getting away with highway murder are the

black women capable of talking them into jumping off the bridge first of all I want to rebut what

that stud said the average American salaries about what 55 to 60,000 yeah no one is going to feel sorry

for someone that cannot live within their means a 200,000 before or after taxes bottom line

that I told you this three years ago and people gave me heat once again I'm ahead of the game

they're the most unlikeable league with the most unlikeable participants by far so let me get

to straight Jason I've been listening to some Ben Daniel John liquidator got to bring those guys

so I have been seriously yeah well that's my guy oh that's my guy I'll probably watch it

right now he DMs me all the time on Twitter me too yeah yeah um so you're saying that the white

girls are being reasonable and mature and they're gonna rescue this they're gonna pull them back

right yes meanwhile the other side is gonna just be a hard line and just sink this whole thing

okay with that said my two choices I got to roll the sisters black girl magic stay strong

very strong women come on safe the fearless audience needs you hold the line please

I'm almost there with you I'm almost there with you but I do want my Kaitlyn Clark back I do want

to watch Kaitlyn drain some threes and hopefully play more efficiently uh I but I'm just gonna say

as confident like they've done an amazing job some of these women are gonna get paid a million

dollars right and for a 40 game 44 game season that no one watches they're gonna be vastly overpaid

they're flying uh private to these games and a league that it doesn't really matter

and it's not surprising that there are some women in this league like that Natasha cloud

wants to be a man she's dressed up as a man she lives in fantasy land 24 or seven I'm not

surprised and there's a bunch of other players like that in the WNBA that those players are ill

logical and we'll push this to the brink uh because again it's not about making money it's not

about treating being treated fairly it's about staying on message and proving that they're oppressed

and that the white man and the white woman is oppressing them they'll blow this thing up I would

not be surprised uh yeah you know Jason as a sports fan me and you lived with a lot of strikes

right there the NFL strike in the early 80s and 87 where they brought in the replacements that

was awful 1994 me and Tony Gwynne we were on our way to 400 and they pulled the plug on us

terrible right so we all regret it so there's even with the NBA whatever labor strike they have

there's still a group of fans a large majority of of people or a group of people that would miss

the NBA can we be honest Jason it's a sliver of the American population that would actually care

if the WNBA sat out locked out or just struck right so they better be careful here what they wish for

uh finally Steve uh Charles Barkley uh blames the media uh for the controversy around team USA

hockey list play side 7 I'm proud of the United States men I'm proud of the United States women

you should invite it both of them to the White House but it shouldn't been disrespect massage

like yo man why do y'all have to mess up everything everything is not Democrat Republican

conservative conservative a liberal that's why we got this divided screwed up country stop it man

because you know the public they're idiots they're fools they don't they can't think for themselves

so you know what y'all I know y'all said stuff to trigger them y'all say stuff y'all know they're

gonna be fools no Steve uh I need you to bail me out here I'm gonna go the bathroom while you

react to uh Charles Barkley all right well hurry up but first of all I just want to say one thing

it's someone who loves American God bless this great country I'm with Charles in in one sense

the media is the one that made this into a negative story there are the ones who gave it this

connotation that somehow that there was an error made by that team and taking the phone call

going to the White House but here here's the reality the media framed it and they put all of these

athletes for about two weeks in the Olympics on the spot as if to say you hate America right

I mean really I mean that's what terrible well what else are they gonna say most of them are

gutless and the other ones don't really know how to react the reality is that Charles's point is

it's not the media as a whole it is the activist brand or the leaning lefty loony liberal media

that is anti-American and Marxist that pushed this agenda so and right then they're already

a fan the flames it kind of reminds me of what's going on Sean Strickland I don't know if you guys

know him very outspoken individual with the MMA fight the UFC you ask him a question he will

give you one of the most unfiltered answers you'll ever see and couple weeks ago he said a lot

of things that were controversial to a lot of people so he wins a fight and Dana White another guy

firecracker right they asked him were are you afraid or are you learned by what Sean Strickland

says at time and Dana White gave a great answer he says no you morons eat the stop asking

these dumb questions about bad buddy yeah you're right if I'm Sean Strickland some guys trying to

mold my head the last thing I'm thinking about is bad bunny so yes I think Charles has a point

it but it's not all of the media it's certain media are you back I am back thank you awesome job

I'm sure everything you said there was tremendous it was Steve I'm going to let you go great job

as always and before we get out of here we'll take a couple of minutes hearing from my peanut

gallery Luke Justin and Peyton Luke what was the best part of today's show oh today's show you

missed an opportunity whenever Steve was talking to say the word JB talked you pause pause did he

make a gay reference he said something about writing some man or something I'm like Jason you got

to say pause there pause Steve pause I probably should have said pause to myself even bringing up

Natasha Cloud that was probably the gayest thing on the show today but yeah I probably missed an

opportunity to be hip and cool there also random talking about Natasha yeah they're using the word

stud that was not me that was Steve yeah but like there's got to be a top five like make name

whatever you call that I don't know is she what that there's a girl's on a Minnesota links to

call themselves the stud buds or something like that it's not Natasha Cloud though because she plays

for the Liberty I can't remember the two manly women that play for the Minnesota or any Williams

is one of court oh Courtney where we go there's Justin Courtney Williams is definitely one of them and

the other one I think comes off the bench Justin what's the best thing we did today

oh man well any conversation about strip clubs you know got my ears perked up

I will say though I think I think the the hawks are doing that because the strip club businesses

are going down young people aren't going there anymore that's a fact so you think they're promoting

magic city now the listen the ticket sales for this at hawks game is actually gone through the roof

that they've been struggling I bet it is listen magic city is probably top three for you

I don't know I wouldn't know no magic city is not top three for me again I went I've gone to

magic city several times and I have had the wings but I was more of a pink pony or a cheetah's man

in Atlanta that's the only well never the left as I think they're trying to get younger people to

go so this is their opportunity I cannot be right let me let me let me Justin's wrong here Justin

Grand Hill owns a piece of the Atlanta hawks a small piece the the magic city is owned by two former Duke

football players they're old in their 60s they may be 70 by now but yeah two

former Duke's I think that's part of the connection and just the pandering to the hip hop crowd

hip hop runs everything this is pandering the TI and all of that and they just it's it's the

this scene is the pro black thing to do I don't think there's any great mystery here and they're

selling tickets the tickets yeah through the roof of this valley the tickets have gone through the

roof the the hawks are like incredibly just mediocre middling every single year they don't

no one wants to go to those games do they still have trade young you know they got pretty much

no intrigue essentially and they're in the middle of the plane again and they need you know

march ticket sales yeah hardly just to win the rich cabaret is the the strip club we're not

mentioning I think that's a chain that's yeah New Orleans oh that's a New Orleans dance

strip club knowledge is not the flex you think it is but the idea they're trying to get young

people to go there there's no well you blame me Peyton Peyton's the one you know or was that a

shot at me or was that a shot at Peyton did you take a shot everybody I guess everybody all the

smoke Peyton best thing to happen on this show today um well I think anytime we can talk about

mid-major basketball I just let you know that it's March and that it's one of the most underrated

I think a good topic is the one one of those underrated sports months of the year is March into

early April with Masters and the NCAA tournament and that's I mean I'm a obviously football over

everything pretty much but when it comes to March madness I mean you know I don't think there's

anything better I think that Mike DeCorsi has gone to the Chad Jackson school of public speaking and

these guys uh man they can they can eat some innings we learned about bubble metrics and different

scheduling nuances which you know I I find fascinating and I know I'd speak for all of our viewers

so that's that's good well anyway uh thank you guys uh thank you all for watching uh that's it

and that's all for us today we'll see you tomorrow

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