Has LSU gone full HEEL TURN? Will Wade bolts on NC State to join Lane Kiffin and Kim Mulkey

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Will Wade arrives in Baton Rouge, promising to quote, follow more rules.

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have some great questions and death who is not different laundry the governor of Louisiana

but Jeff right out of the shoot with a very timely question and this is from the other

day when we were talking about the fact that will wait might return to LSU will wait

is now returned to LSU he's left in C state he's returned to LSU and Jeff says will will

wait may return to LSU is the school saying effort and just going full heel faction when

it comes to coaches one more question already before we start answering Jeff's and this

is from ackos here's a thought experiment for you guys for the next mail bag episode

who will get fired first Lane kiffin Kim malky or will wait

the LSU is people tied in pretzels they're tied in knots okay so

yes I think that there's a lot of heels there um the question that I have for you is

is will wait a heel to anybody other than an NC state fan yes he's a heel to dick vital he's

a heel to like you've seen all the the the hand ringing even before this when when he got fired

from LSU the first time the strong ass offer stuff he broke the rules the rules were also illegal

they the rules themselves broke the law of the United States of America but that's okay we won't

talk about that well the actual question that I have for you because it was kind of amusing to me

in the intro there when you were reading off that will wait uh returns and promises to follow

what rules specifically is he you know i'm gonna follow that it's so difficult to follow well

and that's let's play the clip wbrz and baton rouges got this clip of of will weighed returning and

this is an all-time or right here

you're gonna kill me if i start answering what do you want to say to tag a nation rules

and I'm excited to be back i do love that the guy starts to say rules were made made to be broken

and it just stops just stops uh what rule there are no rules now that's the best part of this

like will weighed gets a do over in baton rouges with no rules i mean i guess it's going to hire

somebody who is no longer your coach because they broke rules hiring them back in an environment

where there are no rules is a pretty safe situation because they didn't fire him for losing they

didn't fire him in appropriate conduct they didn't fire him for something that makes you unhierable

they fired him for something that he is now encouraged to do and he did it well so like

i understand there's there's two sex of people the first sect is he broke rules when the rule

existed that makes you not a good hire not a good person you didn't do things the right way

when you're supposed to do it that way who cares what the rules are now and the other type of person

is i don't care what your deal is as long as you bring wins to my university you do it so like

i think that we can probably make a fair discussion and saying that ls u fans are 100 percent

person be now because that's what fans do they kind of you know latch on their current belief

system to what's most advantageous for their their person their program um but like you know

again i don't really feel all that wound up in a negative way about what will Wade was doing

beforehand especially considering the fact that we're probably mature enough to understand and

accept that that most coaches were engaged probably in doing things like that i don't think that

he is unique or the only person that was doing that i think what he was doing was engaging in an

underbelly in the system um that you had to engage in an order to be competitive so um you know

i don't think that you know he really like but but the thing about this is opposing fan bases

are going to hate ls u even more because lane kiffin because of will Wade because of kim mulki

like this is going to it is a heel turn by ls u and this is this is like what i've always said

about linkin riley with the heel turn when he left ocahoma for usc if you're gonna if you're

gonna make the heel turn embrace it and what i love about ls u is they are fully embracing it

well and they get it they don't care what you think about their coaches but let me ask you this

when it comes to will Wade specifically since this is fresh what do you think would

urk the general fan who now hates ls u with no skin in the game more the fact that he broke rules

and got his coaching job back or the fact that he bailed on the place that employed him

oh it's definitely the nc state thing definitely the nc state thing so like i think the rules

thing is kind of ancient history and most people probably don't even really think about that

or remember it maybe they do i'm sure there's a certain sect of people that's very right just

about the rules um and frankly speaking when the rules were the rules like if you got caught

i didn't feel bad for you because i do feel like you should follow the rules um but

but i think there's a big thing in college sports that people are struggling with right now

and i think as time goes on we're going to you know just because there's no normal lines

but there's no loyalty from coaches there's no loyalty from players there's no loyalty from

administration and there's no loyalty from commissioners everybody is out for the best buck

for the most wins and slitting throats along the way get there and that thing is like it was coaches

always been the case it's true but but now that it's not the case with the players

i think that people are hoping for more from coaches because they're highly compensated and treated

well in a way but they all acted this way i'm not saying that everybody has always been

everybody has always been a huge coaching in general is a huge um ladder climbing

situation and like honestly speaking most of the best reporters in our field have always been the

ones that could feed coaches most information about opening jobs so exactly i feel like we like

i know that but like if you are a person who values loyalty if you are a person who who can

root for somebody because they're loyal or because that matters to you in college sports specifically

you're going to be hard pressed to find it from anybody whether that it goes all the way down

from athletic director to player now to high school high school flips there's nobody who's going to

be sticking around so when you do get the rare case where somebody prioritizes loyalty and says you

know what NC State gave me this opportunity when i was down in the dumps people didn't want to hire

me because of my past situation at NC State give me a chance i'm in the ACC i'm in the research

triangle i've got an opportunity to be really good here i'm going to give them my best because they

gave me a shot when i needed it like that that i think is admirable but it's not a pre-rec

and if you don't like everybody who's not loyal and you're going to have a hard time finding somebody

to root for because the only loyalty to people have is to their wallet and their personal interests

yeah well and in buc organ the NC State AD he did not really hold back he basically

basically he basically called him soft on the way to town like and and said you know we'll

wait had his agent email me to say he was done in fairness buc organ is my favorite college football

playoff committee chair of all time that guy gives off a great vibe doesn't he that guy gives you

a vibe of like hey i would like to drink a whiskey with you in Wyoming somewhere looking at a

lake your vibes am i wrong about that i i don't know about that i do know he opened his press conference

with i think philip roger said at the wolf pack ain't for soft people we're going to find a coach

that understands who we are now look LSU fans are looking at going he's not soft he just likes our

job better which is true because this is something we people were asking me the other day when when

it was bubbling up that that he might make the move like is LSU a better job than NC State it's

not a better job than NC State basketball certainly is in football but it's not a better job in

basketball it's a better job for will wait because will wait loved it the first time he was there

because the guy who was his president mcneese state is now the president LSU because he got LSU

to hire his mcneese state ad as a deputy ad who's going to oversee the basketball program

he basically got set up his own personal fiefdom there listen and i also don't think it makes you a

bad person to follow your personal interests we have this conversation all the time if you are a

coach and you enjoyed living in baton ruse you enjoy the people that are around you and you want to

surround yourself every day with those people and in that environment like who am i to tell you

that you're an asshole for doing that um i think that there are certain ways of handling it i

think i might have called the athletic director and had a conversation when you move on from jobs

um you know this has always been me and i'm not like levitating above the rest of us but whatever

i've been in a breakup situation or whenever i've left jobs or done something like i have always had

a sense of loyalty in the sense that if i do pursue my personal interests i do my best to be as

upfront honest and real with the people i'm leaving um and in communicating that so i think that

there's certain rules of engagement like when you do these things or pursue your own opportunities in

order to try to mend fences or to do the right thing as best as you can and i don't think that that

happens a lot of the time and like if you're buu court again when you get broken up with the first

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scorpion stings the frog at the end frog's like what the hell scorpion's like i miss scorpion bro

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i love this because i'm excited to watch the dynamics of this and i love our second question about

the trio of Lane Kiffin Kim Mulkey and Will Wade now from Akos we can get to the how will this all end

but before that i want to talk about what it's going to be like because

these are three coaches who as the WWE people will say can cut a promo like the press conferences

the drama and LSU is going to be incredible incredible and they're going to win like we already know

Kim Mulkey's winner that she's already won a national title there but they're going to win there

they're going to be relevant there they're going to get into situations where controversy ensues

and it's going to be so much fun and people are going to hate them and that it's it's good for

the sport it's good for the other fan bases to universally hate LSU it's good for the LSU fans

to know that the other fan bases universally hate them so that they can say you hate us because

you ain't us and they can galvanize around that it's amazing and it's a question though

yeah i have to ask this because i was thinking about this last night into the morning

so you sent out we're going to start with LSU because obviously LSU is the biggest brand

uh and a lot of crazy stuff is happening and i said what we're going to talk about the Holy Trinity

of unlikable coaches and you're like yes only unlikable if they're not your coach and i think

exactly with you 95 percent of the way there but let me ask you this do you think fans care

ever at any level how their coaches are perceived by others oh they care because they like to argue

about it but ultimately they care if their coach wins that's what they care about that's all they

care about if you are like because i really struggle with this during the Michigan stuff as you

know we talked through all this Michigan stuff and it's like i guess they portrayed that they

did not care how Jim Harbaugh was perceived by the rest of the country given what had happened there

but do you think at night when the door was shut and they were looking in the mirror that there was

a certain lack of purity to everything how no okay i feel like my own personal moments i'd

be like this isn't as perfect as it should be let me explain why my feelings on this subject

are the way they are because when i was younger i did subscribe to the black hat white hat coaching

theory and so young Andy is a South Carolina fan who moves to florida and grows up for the most

part in florida and so i'm living in Orlando in middle school in high school and everybody's like

pick a side florida florida state and i'm like well everybody hates Steve spurrier except the florida

fans and everybody loves bobby bowton so i guess i like bobby bowton i guess i like florida state better

but i don't really like either of them i'm not a fan of either of them i'm a South Carolina fan

and then i end up deciding to go to the university florida because i get an academic scholarship

was not a fan of the school but also i i i had been recruited at a lower level to play football

i was like well i'll try to walk on to the team so i walk on and i meet Steve spurrier and he's

he's my coach and i'm like oh oh oh everybody else hates this guy but when he's your guy

he's the freaking best the best well you know the thing and that's and that's what that's what

changed my opinion on this stuff forever when they're your guy it does not matter what everybody

else thinks that's your guy you know what's interesting about the pantheon of LSU coaches though that

i find fascinating all three people that we've mentioned on the shpodcast are disliked for different

reasons like lane kiffin is disliked because he left a team that he had at the highest level

before their playoff run and did it in the most soap operas way possible right and he's just

like drama queen most you also left Tennessee when he did yeah this is a he he got fired by my next

savin when he was doing the FAU job and the OC job lane kiffin is a scorpion and LSU may be the

frog and we're just haven't gotten there yet so we'll see about that thank you for teaching me

that fable and know something more to will Wade is viewed as a cheater like it or not people

thought that you know he was blatantly cheating during a time in which you weren't able to engage

in those operations and he also left the program at the eleventh hour the other part of this is

all of this stuff that's happening will Wade and lane kiffin is a repudiation of the former ad

Scott Woodward and remember this is Louisiana and Louisiana politics are always tied to LSU sports

and so as uh as my good friend Derek Panamsky who was uh he was a co-joe's right hand man

did a radio show in batteries before that he always says this about

LSU in particular but everywhere all politics are local and you got to remember that

so John Bell Edwards used to be the governor John Bell Edwards politically allied with Scott Woodward

Jeff Landry's the governor now politically allied with the forces that did not like Scott Woodward

when he was the ad so very quickly they moved to get rid of Brian Kelly they moved to get rid of

Scott Woodward they moved to bring back will Wade who Scott Woodward fired and the fans didn't

want him fired so a lot of this is is stuff that's happening even above LSU like in in the governor's

office so it's not just that they're like well we want to we want to win this is also the politics

whipping back around and certain people getting into power that did not have power and were not happy

with the way things went before now before we keep going let's talk about the third horseman

here which is Kimmelkie now as it's got Woodward higher that that has worked out and but people

don't dislike her because she doesn't win the woman wins right right they just like her

intense coaching style yeah her outspoken nature yeah and controversy in handling her players

and there have been reports that she encouraged some of her players to hide their sexuality so that

like goes deeper into like human right and things that aren't anything toxic if you talk to

Baylor people the stories after Kimmelkie left Baylor oh Baylor people said she was hard to deal with

funny that those stories mostly came out after she left but yeah I imagine she's not the easiest

person to deal with not a lot elite coaches tend to not be easy to deal with so

you know what's easy to deal with though she's an easy villain for sure if you're she's not your

coach right so you know I don't know I'm assuming that LSU fans do love her but I think that like

that's the ultimate proof that what Lane Kiffin and Willoway do will ultimately be whether they

win at all because she's happily employed there still so you know I just I think that coach fans

can overlook everything including cheating as long as they win and LSU is probably happy with the

fact that they now have three people that they perceive to be as winners at their most prominent sports

so that said I do think that LSU nationally from a fan perspective is probably an easy place to

dislike if you don't have any skin in the game. They also stole the baseball coach from your Alma

moderate. Yeah by the way what's that Jay Johnson very good baseball coach. Is there baseball

being good? Yeah their baseball teams great. Oh yeah. Oh I think I got cool uniforms and they sell

out every game. So yeah because Paul Schienz was on the team I'm not an idiot. Yeah yeah from

Akos this question though so I it is a fascinating question. Lane Kiffin Kim Melchier will

who gets fired first. I don't think Kim Melchier gets fired she's 63 I bet she retires in the job.

Lane Kiffin and Willoway are probably too young to retire the job just because that's not how

big-time college sports work so how's that gonna end? Football has higher standards and bigger

expectations to perform on a national level in basketball I think but I know. Yes definitely.

So I think that like Lane Kiffin's leash from a year perspective is probably shorter but I also

think he probably has a higher likelihood of succeeding at a high level so I will probably say

Willoway if I had to make a guess that my life depended on it. I think so too because it's not

it's just generally not easy to win in basketball at LSU. You had period like Dale Brown had periods

where he was really good John Brady had periods where he was really good Willoway was obviously

fairly consistent when he was the coach three NCAA tournaments in five seasons and it would have

been four the 2020 tournament hadn't been canceled so let me ask you this though with with Lane Kiffin

so I don't know how familiar you are with the secret lives of Mormon wives but it is an electric

show in you you might be confused we'll get that. I'm terribly familiar I know two of them wound up

on dancing with the stars and I know one of them was going to be the bachelor at but she was caught

on video throwing stools at her the father of her child. Yes well in the show I don't know what

actually goes on in real life the person that she was throwing the stools at has been a long

standing person in her relationship or I mean in her life as a result of a very intense and toxic

relationship okay and that they remained you know together in sports after that event happened

because that event happened years ago and we just found out about it now yeah and I think that

it kind of reminds me too of like these two people are so off the reservation together that they

don't know how to exist alone and part of me wonders if Ellis you in the nature in which that

they went to go get Lane Kiffin is already often to that toxic relationship world where like

you're kind of stuck with each other for a while even if it doesn't even if it doesn't

stuck with each other for a while he's got to win if he if he does exactly what Brian Kelly did

he will get fired yeah okay I didn't know if you thought maybe he gets an extra year because of

this same nature or the way that this is LSU I know it's just a theory that time ago is tiger

I just think all of the shit that LSU went through to get him both financially emotionally

and dramatically that maybe you have a bigger skin in the game and seeing it through because

they spent a hundred million dollars the higher Notre Dame's coach it was a fairly significant

process to extricate themselves from that and they still did it right because like I always

thought about this too with like Scott Frost at Nebraska did Scott Frost get an extra year at

Nebraska because he was there was such a vested interest in him succeeding also

with Jim Harbaugh that he get that extra year instead of being fired if Jim Harbaugh was

anybody else instead of slashing a salary and half and letting him come back for another year

did he get an extra year at Michigan which ultimately turned out into a national championship

situation because he was the prodigal son that came home and was to save the program and there

was a vested interest in his success like I don't know like sometimes I feel like it's easier to cut

bait with somebody that you met on Tinder than your high school sweetheart you know what I mean

like that's all I'm saying well here here's the deal so Pete Nakedos wrote this story this morning

he added it all up LSU has committed over two hundred million dollars to the football and

men's basketball programs if you count up what has been promised a link if and what has been

promised to will wait and the buyouts to McMahon who just got fired yesterday and to Brian Kelly

and two hundred million bucks so yeah it's a big bet but here's the thing if these two guys do not

produce at the level they're expected to produce they will get fired and if they produce at the

level they're expected to produce they will they will be beloved forever a 2021

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probably worth somewhere between 45 and 50 thousand dollars I bought that card or I hit that card

very early on my card collecting career and I could have sold it for four figures multiple times

and I didn't because I was emotionally attached to it and now after all of that I'm left holding

the bag of a career back up what's it worth it's probably worth five hundred bucks now at most

it's somebody would pay five hundred bucks for a Justin Fields card it's a very rare one that's

in her condition and Justin Fields also does have some you know emotional ties to Ohio State

to Ohio State I guess he was successful in all of the states and there were people paying five

hundred dollars for Sam Donald cards before he had the return like people there it's if it's a

rare card and some people might want it it's that's not the point the point is is that I was

emotionally attached to that card in a way that I wasn't emotionally attached to other cards and

I made a poor business decision as a result of being attached to it well here's the thing about LSU

fans and LSU people in general politicians who help control LSU people who run LSU and of course LSU

fans their emotional attachment ends at the win loss record if you win they love you if you lose

they hate you so I guess like they are emotionally attached to Will Wade and to Lane Kiffin right now

they will emotionally detach if they don't win here's the deal and this is actually the right

way to put it in your right about this Andy I agree with you if we're going to use this as like a

toxic relationship trait or an attachment trait losing it LSU is the the relationship equivalent

of being cheated on essentially yes there's no coming back from it you're done that's it

you're your shits out on the lawn if you're winning we can work through this but if you

cheated on me you're out like that's it I guess you're right you're probably right I just but

I do wonder if people get an extra period of time because of attachment and we'll never be able

to prove it because you don't know but like I can guarantee you they won't hear I'm not here and

T but it has happened elsewhere in the past I think but here's the thing their legends good

I'm a good example of this Ed Orgeron is a legend in the state of Louisiana they still turned on

him he's still got fired and he's always going to be a legend because he brought him a title

yeah that's that's probably the best you know he won a title and he still wasn't good enough two

years later yeah listen get on with your sister shirt bro I'm a scorpion I'm a tiger that tiger

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all right let's talk about the games we watched last night because those first two

holy crap that that you know it wasn't quad box it was duo box with the with the iowa

Nebraska game here and the the Purdue Texas game here unbelievable just kind of wired a wire

competitive games yeah yeah i thought that those were the quintessential march madness experience

games and i'm happy that we got them at the same time but i'm kind of sad we got them at the same

time because the next two games weren't as entertaining so it would have been cool to have one at night

and one or like one later and one earlier but i'll take it the Purdue basketball team has been

one of the teams and a lot of the experts thought had a real shot at making a run to the national

championship and like i watched them in their last two games pretty closely and they are really

really good and i know that their scores have been close they move the ball around really well they

have they have a lot of really good pieces and i think that they have a real shot at the moment

of winning it all so but yes very entertaining games my my my son was like does Purdue have a

giant version of braiden smith too because they're they've got a big man who looks like you just

put braiden smith in a in a 3d printer and hit 150 percent it's amazing the beards are incredible

but we do need to talk about in the in the Nebraska iowa game where football did play a slight roll

you want you had the one iowa fan that's wearing the iowa basketball jersey with the with the

iowa football helmet which is amazing but this was a people noticed this last night so

616 left in the game price sanford for an abat braska makes it three to take the lead the broadcast

cuts to the nabrasca crowd which includes nabrasca football coach mat rule

immediately following this nabrasca goes on a five minute and nine second scoring drought

and is out scored 15 to six for the rest of the game and iowa wins and iowa is going to the

elite eight i don't think that rule being shown on the on the tv had anything to do with this but

the iowa fans found this to be delicious why wouldn't have anything to do with it it's a

terrible one sentence and pretty sure i saw Brent Brennan get shown in the broadcast of the

Arizona Arkansas game and Arizona was never in danger of losing yeah so every year

and i don't know if i should start did get shown right before

Purdue took over the the end of the gaming as texas but they've been showing stark the whole

it felt like because stark was right behind the bench so they they were showing him a lot

this is a little bit different because the run was so prolonged too like it was so i'm pretty sure

they showed rule before that again because he's he's kind of right there behind the bench

every single year like i kind of adopt a team because i feel bad for their fan base and i really

want them to have something and i think last year to a certain extent it was a and m um

actually legitimately very good um and it feels like they were one of those why can't we ever

have anything teams into a you know kind of their season ended in a way that made you feel like

that's maybe still the case because you get beaten and lose i'm like like and i don't know because

these people turned on me pretty hard last summer but i feel i kind of feel bad for Nebraska fans

like that's why i want i want good things to happen for Nebraska fans because they're very loyal

and they were really enjoying this basketball run and i'm sure they'll look back on this season

and be be thrilled with it but of course they're going to be frustrated that they led a sweet 16 game

for 38 minutes of the game and end up losing to to a conference rival no less that was seated

lower and you know that these people took it as personally as they would in football too because of

the logos i think that there are some cases where basketball rivalries like the the Ohio State

Michigan rivalry and basketball is not nearly as intense you know having covered and they might

act like it in the moment or whatever but like it's not and the Auburn Alabama one doesn't seem like

it is either even though they they they talk like it but it doesn't a real college basketball rivalry

is like Duke Carolina like that doesn't exist in the in the football versions of the same

same equivalent basketball but like this one feels more personal because it is a it's the

furthest that Nebraska's ever gone in the tournament they'd never want a tournament game before

this year and they finally get to a place where a they're very good they could have won the game

and of course they lost to arrival in the most heartbreaking fashion after showing the coach on tv

like that sucks dude like i'm i'm sorry and i you know i also by the way the the game in Houston

that looked like an iowa Nebraska football game was not the iowa Nebraska basketball game

i was laughing as the illinois Houston games started because it was it was like two to nothing

four minutes in the game yeah it didn't like Houston have like 26 points in the second half at some

point if i remember correctly like illinois just put the clamps on him right it was it was a team

of grown-ass men against another team of grown-ass men and illinois's grown-ass men were just more

grown-ass yeah it's all it was and this was a kind of a surprise too because Houston was was a

you know a team that i think people thought were was a real real candidate to win that but i mean at

this point almost everybody left in the sweet sixteen felt that way like the the first two games

the the Nebraska iowa game and the and the text is pretty good now produce in that group

but the other ones i don't think really were considered to be in that group

illinois Houston st john's duke you know all all the ones basically all the games that are

coming up tonight we could kind of see any of them make the national title

yeah we could kind of see any of them make a run to the national team

st john's in that bucket for sure yeah and they do tonight then i mean they're definitely in it

yeah i've got a weird feeling they're going to by the way uh rick patino's sweet sixteen record

is insane so john shire is going to have to work work with that but i think he's 12 and one

in the sweet sixteen yeah 12 and one in the sweet sixteen games i don't know if you did this by design

but is it time for this you know what that is uh church bells wild cats

look aerosona looked unstoppable if aerosona plays the way they played it and Arkansas is good

let's be real Arkansas is a good team aerosona made them look like a middle school team at times

rest in peace to my horse it got put down like old yellow or last night um it is a uh wait is old yellow

or a dog oh yellow was a dog yes uh spoiler spoilers for the very old story but yeah i don't know

think of a movie where a horse got killed uh that's what happened last night to my horse it is a

pretty cool thing because i think that a lot of people in my life are very fired up and it does feel

like this might be the year for aerosona they i thought that Arkansas was going to give them a

game andi i thought i was going to be entertaining i certainly thought they were going to cover

and aerosona just put the screws to them from start to finish like it wasn't an entertaining game at

any point at least and at least aerosona does not have to play Sean Miller in the elite eight

yeah that was pretty there's a really good chance of that happening

you know what i'm going to do took over that game at the very end for a fan perspective that

would have been badass um and kudos to Sean Miller too because texas wasn't a great team this year

and they they had a really good job they did a good job um and also credit to him um they asked him

about aerosona and i don't know if you saw his answer about how you know you can view you can

burn a house down or that fire it can be like well like Sean Miller who got caught up in the same

thing will way did but Sean Miller let's be real got fired for losing in aerosona or for not

losing but getting them as far as they wanted to go but he could have been he said some nice

things about aerosona and i think that you know for most part he handled that really well on his team

if you're a texas fan you've got to be excited like just to me it's like nobody gives a crap about

how consistent you are in the regular season if you can consistently and routinely get your team

to play above its level in the tournament that's all people care about all right is is john caliperi

better a better coach now than he was in the final years at kentucky or did he just get

Arkansas at the sweet sixteen the two years he's been there and couldn't get Kentucky out of

the first weekend yeah and also getting the sweet sixteen at arkansas feels different probably

than it does at kentucky so um you know i think that's a baseline expectation for kentucky

and i think it's an accomplishment for arkansas and maybe that'll change and i think that the

investment in arkansas basketball program is shown they want more yeah but like i don't

view what happened to arkansas on thursday night as some sort of ram of uh

some black mark on his resume they just lost no yeah no they they lost to the better team i mean

braiden buries 21 points co-opie 21 points but they also had four more players in double figures six

players and double figures for aerosona they have so many ways to beat you and that's what

well mathematically that's the happen you put up a hundred nine i think right unless somebody drops

40 but but that's the thing like they they just have so many different ways to beat you

they have they have a couple really good big men that buries is an incredible point guard

like they they have every piece you need to win a national title now will they put it all together

and do it that's the that's the question but this is this is a roster built to do it

and you know you look at the team that won the national title last year florida they had all the

right pieces too like they they they they fit the puzzle together very well and aerosona is built

in a similar fashion so i i think this will be fun to see we're we've got a really fun elite

that we know about already and then of course we got to talk about these games tonight because

we we just we mentioned duke st johns but you've also got dan hurley against tom iso like

being in washington dc tonight's got to be the greatest thing in the world

yeah and you can just seems to be like a machine but iso is just so consistent i i have no idea how

to captives game and the thing that i think is cool about tonight is that there's only one game

and that's alabama and michigan that that mgm has is more than a three possession game

so um you know it's going to be fun duke is six six points i believe have you seen have you seen

what barstools doing for that game because obviously they're founder Dave portno is a michigan guy

but they've got a guy named rico bosco who's he's like nato's biggest fan he's basically

the mascot for alabama's basketball team if alabama wins they portno has said he will double

this guy's salary and give him a 10 year deal um i think it's insane yeah salary is pretty good

if i were fairly popular i'd probably hit michigan pretty hard i mean that's hard because you

can't hedge you know michigan's minus five twenty five to win um but the uh you know michigan will

probably win you know maybe i think the thing about alabama is so the nato nato's teams very consistently

do the same things and he has been very upfront about he wants three pointers and layups now they've

they've sprinkled in the mid range a little bit as the analytics have changed because nato's believes

in analytics but if they're hitting everything then you you have to try to beat them in a

shootout you're gonna score on them though like they've got to be hitting shots or or they're done

so it really will will come down to can alabama hit shots eight and hollow it and make the trip by

the way so uh also our guy a producer river staying up late Friday night his balls against iowa

state and tj otzel burger not going anywhere uh you you saw jamey paul or their ad very quickly

came out and said hey we know other schools might be interested in tj we're going to make sure he

stays here and you've heard uh like our friend jeff goadman at field of 68 basically he he talks about

tj's a different cat like whereas a lot of coaches would crawl across broken glass to go to north

carolina tj's probably happy at iowa state yeah even though he's somebody north carolina might

be interested in so that's that's but but quick quick bring big rib up on the stage and tell us how

he feels tonight yeah how are we feeling river how do we feel big riv um the jeperson is jep

simplayan do we know does it matter they did pretty well with that last time maybe it doesn't but

you know if we can hit some shots bishop boswell had a really nice game uh last time are you going

to be able to inbound the ball against their defense because well are we going to return and

Kentucky over like crazy and and you guys almost lost because you could not inbound the ball

we also couldn't we ran baseline whenever we had to stay stationary when they didn't score when

we threw it in so like we tried to lose that game but um i mean it's nerve-racking it's all it is

so joshra jefferson is a game time decision tonight okay okay so we'll see we neednate a mint to just

take over a game let's take over where we're going help in the natural tonight to watch it or

are you a cone of solitude watch it i'm staying in i'm staying right now he's he's got it he's got to

sweat it out he needs his jerry tartanian towel to treat types of people out there who like their

solitude and they're they want to watch the game in their own environment and control the sound

into really immerse themselves in it and there's other people who like to go out in public and drink

and publicly cheer and get into the game but you never know with the public too you words the tv

sometimes i like to go out but last weekend i had enough of that this weekend i just got to stay

home let me ask you this if the tenancy football team we're playing in the national championship

game would you watch it your house or would you watch it in public he'd be there because he'd be

working but yeah yeah okay um probably that that would be in public that i'd go out for that

i don't think if you raise the national championship game i don't know what rivers are going to do

we're going to give him the night off yeah like you can just go watch the game like because he's

one of the movie games in the past while we're working and it's like river we can't not have you

so in chicago it would require two hundred dogs to win but you could have a tenancy alabama

elite eight game which would be unbelievable unbelievable but i did love i did love by the way so you

you've got tj ozl burger at ios state dusty may and natives all people who we when we were

talking to Greg Barnes he named as as people north carolina might be interested i just explained

why tj ozl burger isn't isn't going anywhere i don't think they don't this is going anywhere i don't

think dusty may is going anywhere but they were all getting questions about it and then rick barns

comes up and somebody asks him like hey you're the only person here that north carolina is not

interested in he's just like hey i'm from north carolina rick luke decock from hoops hq i think

you're the one coach who's not going to get asked about the carolina opening for

i'm from north carolina there's a there's a little history there i think the history that is is

i believe he and deans met did not get along and so yeah there's no shot also he's got a lifetime

contract tenancy and he's blocked there and has found his bliss so yeah finding your bliss in life

is good hopefully i want you to help me find find my bliss because you have you you asked a question

earlier this week that you wanted to pose on the mail bag show and i need you to ask it because

i've been i've been stewing about this for years for years and you let it on now well i i want

no i want the soapbox i want you to hand me the soapbox that i can then stand on and scream

sure because i don't know the answer to my own question andy if you were in charge of college football

and you can change one rule with the snap of your fingers and it goes into effect immediately what

would that rule be and why let's do it let's do this when a player catches the ball or falls down with

the ball and they've not been touched by anyone they can get up and keep running

it's the most violent sport in the world why do you blow the plate dead because a guy diving caught the ball

like there is a level of football where if you make a diving catch and no one touches you you can

get up and run with it and no one has died so when you catch the ball and you hit the ground and

no one touches you you should be able to get up and run with it okay quarter back like

fumbles a snap and has to go down on the knee to scoop it up he should be able to get up and run

with it okay so you're just saying eliminate all instances where the only reason you're down is

because your knee touched the ground correct you have you you need to be touched touched down you

need to be physically tackled yes just NFL rule ported in and if you come at me with

and he's trying to turn coach football in a NFL do not give me that soft crap

that rule shouldn't exist okay it's a very violent game

yeah the same person who who's like let's bring out the flags when they when they do anything

with the targeting rule there this is the same person you'd be like you're just trying to turn

to coach football in the NFL no no no it's common sense it's common if you're gonna let people just

knock the living crap out of one another and that is part of the game and it's part of the game

we celebrate then let them stay up with the ball after they made a diving catch make it the entire

game yeah yeah where's your what okay I think I mean I it really hasn't impacted me enough

either way to feel like that like it drives me insane I don't really you have a diving catch

on the two yard line the DB's beaten by 10 yards all the guy has to do is roll into the end zone

but he's down and now you and now you're gonna have to run you're probably gonna want it running

three plays inside the goal lining it's stuffed and have to kick a field goal let that get up

and score I'm happy I'm just happy that your rule wasn't something like NIL doesn't exist anymore

because that's that was like a lot of the answers to the question no that's fantasy land

this is a rule you can change where where it makes sense you need two feet down for a catch rule

I like one foot down I think it makes it more interesting the skill levels higher in the NFL

it should be a little bit harder okay it's in college skill levels not as high let's let's give him

as many chances to move ball down the field as we can yeah and also it does create more exciting

results at times right it's like that didn't think only get the who caught the ball in the end of

the Indiana Penn State game it always his name always Omar Jacobs Omar Jacobs that's right who's

gonna be a high draft big yeah if he he only got one foot down and it's like that was exciting

and I think that like that play would suck if it didn't get to count um so we get more moments more

things to freak out about all those things right Omar Cooper sorry Omar Cooper yeah what'd you say

I said Jacobs I don't yeah Omar Omar Omar Jacobs is somebody that's an athlete somewhere

what about the fumbling the ball into the in zone out of the in zone touchback rule nope that's

the rule that's that's how that's how out of bounds works Omar Jacobs played bowling green by the way

so yeah I'm okay with that and it's terrible bad luck when someone's going for the pylon

and the ball gets knocked out and it rolls through the in zone and out the corner and maybe spends

you know two feet of actual distance travel in the in zone but that's that is how

it works the rest of the way like if you have the ball in the in zone and you down it it's touchback

if the other team works down the ball or you know it's how the game works if you can't if you intercept

a pass in the in zone and your knee hits the ground comes out of the 20 so yeah um don't do it the

in zone like the goal lines live can I get on my soapbox about not wanting to change one rule that

everybody was kind of mentioning sure people were saying that they prefer the overtime rule in the

NFL and I find that to be absolutely insane I think college football's overtime is insanely compelling

and well done that you both yes especially especially now because it's really hard to get to penalty

kicks yeah but like in the NFL regardless of how many possessions each team gets it's not fair

from a field position standpoint one team receives a kickoff and then how they move the ball

determines your field position all in college football it is a 100% 50 50 you start at the same

spot you get the same amount of chances you to do the same exact thing and the

red zone or on the edge of the red zone think compelling because you have the opportunity to kick

a field goal if you're sacked you're screwed like all these things are amazing about it I think the

NFL should start with college rules and start at the 40 or 50 I think that would be fun yeah

because their kickers are so good you probably have to start at the 40 but I think I also and this

is not going to this is not going to be a popular opinion I think the the dueling two point

conversions is very dramatic I I understand completely if you say well that's but that's not

really football but Ari I was about to be peeing my pants watching Georgia and Georgia tech

fears I did not pee my pants because I went to the bathroom in between every overtime but Andy

do you think like it should be I don't actually know this if the national championship game went

to overtime and it got to how many over times is it four three three over time would they do that

in the national championship game oh yeah I think that it should be like hockey where if you you do

it and then at the end of the year in the playoff you well the NFL has the NFL now has different

overtime rules for the playoffs I'd be fine with that like I don't want the national championship

decided by that but at the same time if it were decided by that how compelling would it be

you right but you could do that and it like mate just and the reason they did this is the seven

overtime A&M LSU game it was barely football by the end of it everybody was so gassed and it

was not safe so I understand why they did actually think that it was amazing and glorious and

it was an amazing game for sure but it probably wasn't safe so but if you just did that in the

playoff I think that would be fair yeah and it does and what's that one game out of a million like

it doesn't happen often where it would go that way so I think how many over time playoff games

if we see if he games we have how many over time games in general in the regular season have gone

to seven overtime by by the way I thought it was funny when you when you said if you get sacked

you get screwed in college overtime and perhaps the most famous college overtime ever to a tongue

of I low it took a sack into your rule too because there have been this isn't college football where

a quarterback has fallen down on a loose ball and had to be down where he was yeah it came out

of field goal range and was never actually touched by anybody yes oh like and that's that's happened

yeah like like you said that has happened to people in overtime were like they've been

had a field goal range by bad snap and you and the fumbled snap where you bend over to pick it up

in your knee inadvertently ground right as the play start plays dead yeah I think that kind of

here's here's the other thing and this is this is where I'm going to get really wonky and and

tiki tack on this the holder is allowed to run a fake field goal after catching the snap the

holder is allowed to spin around and run with the ball or throw it to someone the holder's knees on

the ground but it's okay on that play so let's just make it consistent I never thought about

he touched because his knees on the ground before the snap or his knees on the ground

because he doesn't have to pick up his knee when he catches the ball he can get up he can get up

that's wild that's that that's inconsistent that's that's frustrating let's go fix it fix it

it drives me insane that one thing drives me insane it's it's the one I've never understood

and I realize it's that's the rule in high school too as someone who watches a lot of

high school football these days at a at a you know somewhat lower level oh I'm okay with it how about

this for a rule Andy if you are running away for a touchdown in the closest defender is 20 yards

behind you and you're walking into the in zone you drop the ball before you go into the in zone you

either your scholarship or as a touchdown like you have to pick this up yeah listen I don't

want to lose you lose your scholarship side on that one I realize we will make it happen again

yeah because I find that to be the most infuriating thing that happens and I feel like it's not

fair because all you have to do is cross that line with the ball and then you can celebrate however

you want you know but it's just like it's so clearly a touchdown and it's so punitive and it's so

unexplainable it's just but I feel like I feel like a stupid tax is is a good thing sometimes

and that is the ultimate stupid tax but it keeps happening stupid tax do you think we're getting

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I was at the Santa Monica period yesterday and there's a small merry-go-round on there

and we got I took my daughter there and you know how on the merry-go-round there's horses and

slaves where you can sit now yeah go up to the person and I and I buy a ticket for my daughter to

go on the merry-go-round and she goes sir do you want to go on the merry-go-round and I asked her

like do you mean like to ride it or do you mean to like stand next to her and she goes well

do you want to ride it and I'm like look at me what are we doing here but I said she would like

to go on and herself she can get on herself I'll stand to the side as she does it or I'll go on

depending on whether or not you will need me to be on and she goes well for children under five

we suggested the plate parents go on the ride and I said okay great I'll go I sat down on the

sleigh next to the horsey picked because I was told I had to go on it then she stops the ride

in the middle of the ride when she sees me and she gets on the thing and says sir if you sit down

on the sleigh you need to pay to go on the merry-go-round

Andy I don't know where this is going you know me and I did not handle that well

long story short I asked her you're not welcome back to Santa Monica Pier

I just like it's just a bizarre like why did we go through either charge me and to say you both

need a ticket to go on or don't make me go on or let me and here's the funniest part

we were the only people on the merry-go-round and I just asked her what is the point of any of

the interactions that we just had she'd make a great NCAA investigator the rules of the rules

buddy it just reminds me of like the the human interactions that I have on a daily basis with people

who are ill equipped to be a society so you know and I don't know if that's the case for people

who don't know and you just answer your own question as to why people keep dropping the ball

iteration before they cross the goal line but I feel like if I were a college football player I

could be a person who drops the ball because I would be you know oh yeah in high school football

because you're a complete lunatic yeah one time in high school football I was the left guard and the

quarterback through a like was being sacked and like was arm went forward but the ball

and I caught like hard illegal touching but sure okay yeah I ran always was deflected though if

it's deflected by a defender you're good I can't remember if it was deflected or whatever all I

know is the ball ended up in my hands and I advanced it like two yards maybe making it back to

the line of stress I don't even know if I gained the yard and I got up and I like flexed in like

was celebrating like I made a play and it was a penalty I wasn't allowed to touch the ball so

so it wasn't wasn't deflected by a defender I have lost my mind on a football field I can

understand how that could happen um listen are you're an athlete ball comes at you catching

yeah and you advance it that's right all right let's advance the show because we've been completely

derailed all right this question comes from Lisa we got a question from Lisa and a question from

Michael they're similar questions coming from different angles so Lisa says do you believe

that SEC commissioner Greg Sankey when he claims he didn't move the SEC denying conference games

as an expected quid pro quo for expanding the playoff to 16 teams that the move was totally

independent I don't believe him not at all Sankey got played by Tony Petiti the big 10 commissioner

at all in my opinion Michael asked it differently you've probably already answered this already but

why did the SEC add another conference game to its school's football schedules was it to make

the conference schedules more comparable for every team won't the additional conference game along

with another power conference non-conference game just more likely keep SEC schools out of the 12

team playoff so here's the thing everybody keeps thinking this had something to do with the

size of the playoff and with the SEC in the big 10 and their negotiations over the playoff format

that was a tiny part of it I'll give you the history lesson so Lisa doesn't believe Greg Sankey

when he says that I do because I know the history of this so I'm going to take you back to 2019

2019 Texas A&M proposes this is the first time an SEC school is proposed this Texas A&M proposes

moving the conference schedule from eight to nine games why to make more money to sell more tickets

because home schedules have gotten stale and the divisional play with the the seven teams in each

division did not allow for much rotation in the other division so at that point and still at this

point Georgia has never played a conference game at Kyle Field they've never played any game at Kyle

but Texas A&M has been in the SEC since 2012 they played 14 SEC seasons and Georgia has never

played at Kyle Field so it was the SEC schools and there were other SEC schools that agreed Florida

was one Georgia was one that said hey we would love to freshen up our schedules so let's go to

nine conference games now that changes a bit when they're about to do it and a certain

Nicholas Lou Sabin who was an advocate of nine conference games for a while decides he's not

an advocate anymore when Alabama's three permanent opponents are going to be Auburn Tennessee

and LSU and he's like that's not fair that is going to be very difficult ever here for us

and so there's a back and forth it gets tabled it gets delayed it doesn't get approved

get to now yes it's part of the discussion between the SEC and the big 12 in terms of

expanding the playoff but the big the big 10 also wants a bigger playoff they just want a much

bigger playoff than the SEC but the big 10 more than anything else wants automatic bids to the playoff

so it wasn't a you go to nine conference games will okay a 16 team playoff that was not a quid pro quo

but what was a quid pro quo is remember the SEC does its TV deal with ESPN and Disney

and they get a certain amount of money became more valuable the big 10 does its steal afterward

and gets way more money because they negotiated a different kind of deal they they said okay well

remember Fox kind of owns everything and sub licenses it but they they did some defox some to

CBS some to NBC and they kept some for the big 10 network and they made more money than the SEC

and the SEC is like well how do we make more money now well the only way to make more money was

to add another conference game so that's really why it happened it had a lot less to do with the playoff

a really good job of using the playoff stuff publicly to make it feel more reasonable like I think

the reason people are confused might have even been by design don't you there's a way to to rationalize

the the real motivation for this is to make more money because I think Greg Sankey probably wanted

night games all along uh did yeah and then if he didn't want it all along then what's the best way to

try to convince people of doing it well this will help position us better in the playoff and all

these things and I think that was actually like a public a public ploy in my opinion so um I think

people are misunderstood by this because the playoff was used as a way to position the move that

actually ultimately was all financial well and I said this all along the SEC will eventually go to

nine conference games because of money not because of anything else and that is exactly why they did

and you know when they do it may be harder if the SEC schedule is harder than the big tens

it will be but I promise I know that there's some there's a lack of faith in this that the system will

reward the teams that persevere through those so like it's and I'm happy that the big 10 and the

SEC are just playing by the same rules to a certain extent so like we'll see how it plays out but

I don't know that teams that are good enough to win the national championship or to advance in the

playoff are going to be that affected by this well and that's what we talked about it's like

our discussion of the Oklahoma win total where you're like oh their schedule's really hard this year

and they got nine SEC games their schedule was really hard last year and they won 10 games so

teams that are good will be good and they will make the playoff whether the committee will adjust

and I hope they do I hope the committee will adjust and reward the teams that schedule hard

like Texas and Ohio State playing each other should be rewarded for playing one another

Oklahoma and Michigan should be rewarded for playing one another

they will be and they are well sometimes they are sometimes they're not last year Miami got rewarded

for playing Notre Dame now they had to because it's part of the ACC's agreement with Notre Dame but it

was a non-conference game so it was the reason Miami made the playoff because if Miami had played

whoever an FCS team or a group of five team and won that game and then gone 10 and 2 with the

losses they had they would not have made the playoff so it does work sometimes the scheduling

the harder games but that's why so you know you can think they got hoodwinked they didn't get hoodwinked

they were doing this for a reason that reason still is valid they still wanted the schedules to

look the way they're going to look so they could sell more tickets and they're going to sell more tickets

because of that and if they got more money from ESPN which I think they did

that was the only way to do it I think he knows what he's doing like he knows what he's doing

he does and so yeah I don't the the playoff discussion is this ever changing beast that I kind of

wish they'd stop discussing it let it play out for a while and then come back when all these

TV contracts are ready to be renewed and then decide how you want to do it instead of just trying

to Frankenstein at every single year but we shall see are you one more question it's a suggestion

and a question two suggestions and a question actually from from Ethan great idea for an alternate

RE punishment if archmaning does not get to New York that does not involve running

he must admit to his wife that the mystery underwear were in fact his not a mistress not a

secret lover his own personal pair of panties if you don't remember the mystery panties well

I don't know what you're doing here because you're at the hour nine mark so these are the die

hearts you know the mystery panties an actual question from Ethan though can the groomers finally

be put to rest after this year it seems like if there was every year for John Gruden to come to

the college game it would have been this past years historic coaching carousel love the show so

much and appreciate all you guys do keep it up so yes the groomers are interesting because when

the groomers were in full force which is you know when Jeremy Pruitt got hired at Tennessee

when Bush Jones got hired at Tennessee and Tennessee fans were wishing John Gruden was their coach

that was that was fan bases and it wasn't just Tennessee fans there were other fan bases that had

openings that wish John Gruden would come coach their team it was that it was fans wishing for it to

happen this carousel you heard his name come up it's because he wanted it to happen and there

weren't a lot of of interested parties because one he's not he's not coached in college he's not

coached in a while so I think that's that's part of it now is John Gruden a national treasure when

it comes to football still yeah I guess his stuff that he does now is still really good I don't

know if you saw the clip of him and saw your Robertson are you sure Robertson yeah gifts John

Gruden a Mike leech play call sheet and John Gruden it's not an act like he is genuinely touched

that he gets to keep this Mike leech play call sheet and this is a guy who's won a super bowl

he doesn't have to care this much but he does yeah he just loves it so yeah probably and I you know

also don't know to like the way that he was fired for the grounds of which he was fired out of

the NFL have any impact on his future or whether that's been I mean I know I don't think I don't

think I would stop any college team from hiring him I just think that what's stopping them is

they don't think he would be an effective coach right now yeah update on the panties by the way

do you want it oh well yes right all means when I was in Vegas last weekend I was with the

couple or two other couples in my life do I do I want to hear the end of this I love how we have

the panties there they are rivers is a wizard he might he might have kept those first personal

collection but I was wondering well I got brought up again because one of the women that went to

Britt with Britt to Paris on that trip was there and the panties got brought up at dinner I

showed the panties picture to the husband of one of the women that was on the trip with Britt

and he goes those are her panties what sitting there and she said no they weren't so there's

a public dispute at the table in front of Brittney about whether the panties belong to her and I

think that she's probably the betting favorite she might have forgotten she might not have had

their your wife's own panties and did not realize that they were no no no no the other woman okay the

other woman that was on the trip they're not Brits okay the husband of the woman that was on the

trip with Brittney said they were his wife's panties which means they had to be they had to have come

from someone else's trip so there was a small break

in the case I think the mystery just deepened but I think the husband would would remember I

remember every single one of Britt's panties I don't remember because I as someone who folds

laundry we all take turns fold laundry in my house there's so many there's so many well

you remember the good one it's not your wife's panties is when they're the laundry

that's true I remember the panties that Britt was wearing the okay stop this is not that kind of

show you you've already gotten us into the secret lives of Mormon wives like this is we're going

in some strange directions but I want to bring it back to our guy Ethan he says PS producer river is

not wrong hyping up the golden dairy in Rogersville Tennessee if we're going to be there he said but

if we do that we also as a swing by yodors in bulls gap Tennessee which is across the county

and get the BLT special he's attached to photo there's a photo if you're watching the YouTube

version this BLT is about nine inches thick and most of it's bacon I'm in I'll take it

that sounds great that looks great that feels great probably taste good let's check it out

wait yeah so bulls gap Tennessee here we come like we're going to get R.E. to his first

game at Neal and Stadium we're going to hang out in the Walmart parking lot in Rogersville

we're going to the golden dairy and yeah we're going to yodors in bulls gap

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