Hour 2 – Michael Strahan isn’t being disrespectful, Charlie Baker

Published Nov 13, 2024, 5:29 PM

Dan weighs in on the controversy over Michael Strahan from the Veteran's Day weekend. NCAA President Charlie Baker joins the show and answers Dan's questions about the tumultuous state of college athletics.

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It's our two on this Wednesday, Dan and The Dan E's Dan Patrick Show. We couldn't get the president of the NCAA for probably over a decade. We got the new president, Charlie Baker's going to join us coming up. Todd very persistent. We were like the old president, Mark Emmert, was just never available, never available, kind of like the NFL Commission.

Things.

Yes, but the new one, Charlie Baker's going to join us. He's got a few questions to talk to Charlie about. He'll join us, coming up here in a little bit. The calendars are out and they are dare I say in fuego available at danpatrick dot com. Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of The Dan Patrick Show. Sunday Night, Bengals Chargers in Los Angeles, must win, certainly for the Bengals. Sunday seven Eastern on NBC and Peacock All here ready to go eight seven to seven, three DP show. We'll get to your phone calls coming up. I do have the latest odds from DraftKings on NFL MVP Lamar Jackson is the big favorite right now. Bennett's Josh Allen and then Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts and Kyler Murray.

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If I would have told you to start the season, Kyler Murray would be in the top five candidates for MVP. Might be surprised at that, but they've played well. Jalen Hurts the Eagles, sneaky good. Mahomes, he hasn't played great, the numbers aren't great, but he is undefeated and you got to factor that in. Josh Allen has been wonderful and certainly Lamar Jackson putting up better numbers than he did last year. All right, eight seven seven three DP Show operator Tyler sitting by will take your phone calls. We got a lot of people waiting to talk about college football playoffs.

The fact that you know.

The new format came out, the matchups that we would have and people are already having a problem with this. Don't go apoplectic yet, Okay, still a lot of football to be played out. The initial rankings and who's going to be in and who's not going to be in. Georgia would not be in the playoffs today if they played today, Georgia would not be in Boise State would bump Georgia. We'll talk a little bit more about this coming up. Watched basketball last night. The NBA Cup is underway. Did watch a lot of Dallas against Golden State. Now Shak's going to join us tomorrow. Shack had this to say on The Big Podcast. He said that the ratings are down because we're looking at the same thing. Everybody is running the same place. Steph Curry and those guys met it up. I don't mind Golden s the day shooting threes, but every team isn't a three point shooter? So why is everybody? Why does everybody have the same strategy? I think it makes the game boring. Okay, he's right about that, that we can watch you shoot, I want to watch you make and it feels like in the NBA there's a lot of I'm watching you shoot threes, I want to watch.

You make three.

But I do think we'll get to the point where there will be teams, maybe a team that will be have a counter attack that they will not be shooting threes. I mean, Golden State's not shooting the threes the way they once did, and I think you're going to have somebody who will be kind of a counter to that, almost like the Ravens. I said, we're going to eventually have a run first team in the NFL again, because the way defenses are built, you know, they don't stock up the you know the front four, you got your edge rush. Everybody is thinner, quicker. You don't have beef upfront the way you once did. Why not take advantage of that, and then when you need to pass. This is what teams in the sixties seventies did. Your quarterbacks through maybe fifteen times run the ball, use your advantage you do throw. They have to have the element of run on their minds, and you know you might connect with nine to fifteen for two touchdowns.

I mean, that's the way it used to be.

Greatest team, one of the greatest teams of all time, the Packers with Vince Lombardi going to run that football, and then when you were throwing it, Bart Starr would throw to Max McGee, Carol Dale. I believe they had a few of these guys, but that's what it was. Even when Jim Brown was playing, you still had a quarterback Frank Ryan, who was a good passer. It feels like today everybody wants to throw it thirty forty times. But I do think you're going to have teams, and we've seen this with the Ravens that they're kind of counterintuitive to that, and I think the NBA will have that as well.

It's like baseball.

When I brought this up, I would have a ballpark that I would build my team for that ballpark, and I would love to have a team that cared about pitching and defense and speed like the Cardinals did back in the eighties. Nobody was like that, and if you had somebody so you have to play. You have to face our advantage every single time you come to our ballpark. And I do think that you'll see teams do that can not everybody can find Aaron Judge or show heyo Tani, Okay, what can you do?

All right?

We're going to be defense, pitching, and speed okay, and then you take your chances. But you do have an advantage a lot of these teams. You don't have an advantage because you're not as good as the teams who do have the money, who do get those stars. You're not going to be shooting as well as Golden State does or did, but everybody thinks they can't. Boston is that's their weapon and they are really good at it, and they have everybody on the team who can shoot threes.

Yeah, poling, Yeah, the Celtics are averaging fifty point fifty point eight threes attempted per game. They're the only team in the league above forty five attempts per game. But they're also in the top ten of percentage at thirty six and a half. Here's an interesting team you said is counter The Denver Nuggets are second to the lowest in the league and three point attempts per game. They're fourth in the league in scoring, so they're actually scoring really well without shooting a lot of threes. They're also second in the league in three point percentage, so they don't take a lot, but they make and they're a high scoring team and they're a winning team.

By the way, Jokers having crazy, crazy numbers this year. We moved on from him, it feels like, but if you're check his numbers, I don't think he's gonna win another MVP, but he might still be the best player in the game. Actually, I think he is the best player in the game still, and I think he's gotten to that point where you kind of take him for granted. There's certain players where they graduate to the oh what did he have? He had forty twenty two and eleven. Okay, that used to be Oh my god, dude, you see what this guy had. There's certain players where you just go, Okay, that's nice, that's it.

Yeah, Paul.

His stats are actually way up. He's averaging thirty points a game, that'd be the best of his career by three points. He's averaging thirteen point seven rebounds a game. That's leading the league, and that would be the best of his career by a tie for best. He's also leading the league and assists at eleven point seven, which would be two and a half assists more than any season he's had. It's early, but it is ten full games.

But he has to be this great this season because I don't think their team.

Is thirty fourteen and twelve. That's silly.

If he ended the year, Let's say they're not a great team. Let'd say they're a good team. Let'd say they get to fifty three fifty wins, and he puts up those numbers. Would they dare vote him MVP? Now they probably won't. But those numbers crazy, Yeah, Mark.

If no one else has crazy numbers like that, then yes, he won a MVP. I think they were the six seed. I think his first MVP award. They weren't a great team. Yeah, but he was just so unbelievable that season that they had to give it to him. And he's already won a championship too, so you could throw that out the window also as an excuse.

Seton what's poll question for hour two on this program?

Uh?

Well, we got one off of the topic we had last hour. I who would you give the twelfth spot in the college football Playoff two? Boise State or Army. I think this is overwhelmingly going to be Army. I don't think that that means that they get.

It though, Oh I agree with you.

Yeah, I think people would look at Boise State as a better team. They have a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate.

When you're giving these two ops, since it almost feels like you're not allowed to say.

Boys, yeah's you are? You are allowed to say boys? You're still a patriot? Not really? Yes? You are really just veterans thing? Yeah?

Would you see the fallout from Fox pregame show Michael's strayhand. So I think they're on an aircraft carrier and they're playing the anthem and everybody's got their hand over their heart and Michael has his hands down and his dad was I think a colonel in the army, and they're like, this is a This became a big deal, and you know, Jay Glazer has to stick up for him and say, hey, you know he is he does so many things for the veterans. I don't know how you could be around Jay Glazer and not do things for the veterans. But he's say, I mean, do you put your hand over your heart whenever you hear the anthem? Like I haven't done that. I mean I'll put my hand over my heart sometimes, but usually it's somebody that i'm with does it, and then I do. I mean, my dad was a marine. I'm not showing disrespect with it or but Michael Strahan has to explain himself, yes, PAULI yeah.

Michael Strahan this morning posted on his Instagram that he was caught up in the moment and thinking about what was going on around him. Then he looked up and saw that he didn't have his hand on his heart and he did. If you would have kept showing him, you would have seen that. He said, it was not a protest in any way. It was just a moment where he was in his own head thinking about things.

Yeah, I'm like, there's other things that people have done in our country that show they're not patriotic. This is not something where I go, boy, man, he's taking a stand. Because when I saw the headline and then I saw the video, I go, that doesn't really match up. But I felt bad for Mike because there were reporters staking on his house.

Ah, they wanted they wanted an explanation to this. Yeah.

I remember a while back there was this like controversy over people wearing American flag pins on their lapel and it was just like, why doesn't Why doesn't you know so and so have the flag pin on their lapel, And now everybody has to have one.

If you're on TV, you have to wear one.

It's one of these weird things that you have to check off this box or else a huge portion of the population is going to get very upset.

Yeah.

I felt bad for him. His dad was a decorated colonel. It's stupid. I no, he's not Patrion what he gotta have your hand man. There's so many other things that are so so much more important than this, but I did.

I felt bad for him. I watched Kentucky and Duke Cooper. Flag is that guy. For thirty nine minutes and thirty seconds last night, he was the best player in America. It's those final thirty seconds where he still looked like he was a seventeen year old man.

He is great.

He can take you off the dribble, off the bounce, as they say. And the fact that they went to him in the final thirty seconds tells you everything. They went to him twice, he had turnovers, allowed an offensive rebound, and give credit to Kentucky. Kentucky picks up the win. But I think Flag was what twenty six points twelve rebounds.

He's legit.

I mean he is you know, I know there's people are going to be tuning in and be like, oh it is he?

Is he another Christian Latner?

No? No, no, no, far more athletic. Now, does he have the clutch gene that Christian Latner has? Is he a killer? Because Latner is one of the top five most decorated players, maybe one of the top five college basketball players of all time. But Cooper Flagg going to be one and done. But they went to him, and you know, he didn't do well. But that's that learning process here, and they're going to go to him the next time as well.

Yes, Paulie, your boy.

Khan Kinnippl also chipped in with fourteen points and shoot man, any reason to drop the name?

I love caniple. You always have free the caniple.

He was exposed last night.

WHOA, here you go sit on that one?

WHOA, alrighty suck? Yes, No, I don't think that's gonna be the case. It's failing for flag. I think, yeah, failing for flag. Watched a little bit of the Pistons. I like Cad Cunningham, I do. I think he's a I think he's a good player, stuck in Detroit and uh he he just he puts numbers up across the board.

Uh yeah, so I'm flipping around.

I watched mactionin last night as well, you know, full full lineup, had some tequila, had a nice cigar, sat there by myself, got interrupted occasionally by my daughter, my wife. What are you watching? I'm watching? It's mac football? How do you spell that?

Oh god, m A C.

Where's the K I go, this is this is smaller college football? What do you mean smaller? Like a smaller player? I'm getting And I finally had to say to my wife, I said, hun, not now not now? You know, maybe ask Siri. That's a good idea, like can we have Siri for those questions that so we don't have to answer those. It's so male, show vinistic right now, Yes, the show s H O W show nistic.

Yes.

I had a brother in law over a couple of weeks ago and Russell Wilson's playing. He goes, Russell Wilson's on the Seahawks anymore, He's two teams back, and I just go, I just want to watch the quarter.

That's not acceptable.

Yeah, yes, Marvin.

How many athletes current athletes? Does your wife know? Because I always use the term wife famous like Cooper Flag my wife I knew because he almost went to the Yukon, but she knows like Lebron and.

Well that's specific to the college she went to. Okay, just in general, yes.

Probably not many. But but I don't want to talk sports when I go home. I'd rather talk about anything other than that, because that's all I do.

If you went by pure name recognition, right now, Travis Kelcey's off.

The charts, Yes, off the chart, but only because he dates correct.

But whatever reason. From age seven to seventy, people know who Travis Kelsey is.

True? Is he the most famous athlete in the world right now? By proxy of Taylor Swift? Who is more famous than him? Like just around the world.

If you held up a picture, like to a classroom of seven year olds or a group of seventy five year olds, Hi, Tiger Woods is still there?

Yeah?

Weirdly, Yeah, I would think that saying Travis Kelcey is the most famous person in the world is like a uniquely American.

Uh viewpoint. Yeah, but she's known around the world. Yeah, and that's her boyfriend. So by proxy, yeah, I mean she might be the most famous person in the world. Taylor Swift or I guess on the list. Yeah, no, she's certainly on right. Yeah, so by proxy he would probably be. I saw where John Krasinski from the Office he was just named the sexiest man of the year.

Wow, yeah, Jim from the Office.

You imagine the odds you could have got on that twelve years ago.

Yes, yeah, I would have taken Dwight shrut tah. Yeah, you got snubbed again.

I know.

I don't even make the issue. Yeah, and being a Silver Fox, I.

Thought special issue, you know I did.

When I saw Jim Parsons, he goes, man, I love the hair, keep it coming.

And I said, well, thank you, Jim, thank you.

He said bazinga, thank you to Okay, we'll get some phone calls here, but finally have the NCAA President Charlie Baker and Kurt Warner will join us next hour. We'll talk about the mess that is the Chicago Bears, more on the college football playoff format. We'll take a break back after this Dan Patrick show.

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President of the NCAA, Charlie Baker, will join us here momentarily. By the way, a judge recently granted approval to a two point seven billion dollar legal settlement that would transform college sports by allowing schools to pay players. And they're going to probably have a final hearing coming up next year in April. It's convoluted. I don't want to get caught up in all the detail here, but former college athletes as far back as twenty eighteen would be able to apply for their share of two point five billion dollars set aside for them to recoup money that they could have made from NIL deals, which weren't allowed until twenty twenty one. This is last call. It's like the concussion settlement in the NFL. Last call for trying to get your share of the money. There's going to be rev share, There's still going to be nil. Colleges are going to start paying players pretty soon. You're going to have payment for players. You're still going to have nil, You're still going to have the transfer portal. So there's a lot going on with college football. And you got the twelve team playoff and at some point they'll expand that as well. March Madness, there was talk that are they going to go to ninety six schools anytime soon? We bring in Charlie Baker, the president of the NCAA. You've been on the job for eighteen months. Now, what's the biggest surprise.

The scale and the size of college sports. You know, five hundred thousand students eleven hundred schools, an incredible amount of competitive opportunity, you know, literally from one end of the country to the other. And I you know, I'm a father of two kids who played D three football, and I'm certainly familiar with the fact that there's a lot of schools playing in the space. But to me, I think that was in some respects until you actually have to deal with the enormity of the whole thing. Like I said, I wanted to meet with all ninety seven conferences in my first hundred days. That was an completely idiotic idea. But I managed to get to all of about one hundred and fifty days. And I think one of the things we're trying to do here is to is to try to land this thing in a place where we are acknowledging the differences that exists between you know, an Alabama and a Colby College.

You know, okay, but how do you do that?

Can you allow you know, the big, big programs to seceed from the union? Does that make it easier to govern the NC double A how you want to do it?

Well? My goal is to keep the I say to people all the time that I want to keep the unhappy family unhappy and together, but happier than they were before. And I think the settlement, which is sort of an unprecedented level of collaboration and cooperation certainly across D one, which got the vote in support of you know, basically all the reps from all the communities across D one, is a pretty good example of an opportunity to create what I would describe as a framework that can work for you know, the power schools and work for the others as well.

How does the election results from last week affect you and your job at the NC double A.

I do think the president elect has demonstrated he's a huge college sports fan. He doesn't just talk about it, he actually goes to the events. He went to the wrestling championship last year. He's been to a bunch of the football bowl games, He's gone to the basketball stuff. I mean, this is somebody who clearly appreciates what college sports is about. And I think that will help too.

Is education playing a big enough role to keep the student in student athlete at these big time programs?

Yeah, I mean, look, obviously for a lot of the kids who play at that level, there's a hope that they'll be able to continue to play that sport professionally when they get out of school. But the percentages that actually play professionally are incredibly small. I mean incredibly small. Even if you take the very top tier, you're still talking less than one percent that actually end up playing professionally. With a lot of the work that some of those big time programs do. Now you have kids getting their degree in three and a half years because they're spending a lot of time in the summer taking classes, and many of them are starting graduate programs when they play their finding year of eligibility do I think that this is one of the reasons why I think a lot of the student athletes don't want to be employees because they don't want to confuse this question. They know at the end of the day, it's the degree that's going to launch whatever comes next for most of them, and I think it and they want us to focus on that just the same way they do.

He's Charlie Baker, NCAA president. Is the job too big for one person?

I don't think it's too big for one person, But I definitely believe that the work we're doing here to try to to try to create a segmentation to some extent of of the of the way it works is a really important element in this puzzle. And and I do think the and I do think that's going to be you know, our ability to pull that off is going to be a big part of how the future unfolds. But I think the look, I think the I think our ability to succeed is going to be driven to some extent by our ability to make it possible for the big schools to be what they are and who they are, and to make sure that the other schools have the ability to be what they are instead of trying to think about all of them as being the same. Is there not?

Where do you stand on an NFL model for college football conference realignment?

Can you tell me Dan sort of what that means.

Let's say I took the top fifty schools, Yes, however you wanted to rank them the top forty, and you actually get back to regional UCLA and USC should not be traveling cross country.

That's silly. Col should not be doing that cross country. I mean we know that, right, that's silly.

So if you do where you have geographical matchup, just like you do in the NFL, you know, Kansas City's playing Denver and playing Los Angeles. You know, so you just do that, you do little pods all over America, and then you get you break that down and then you play one another and you might get first round buys, host a game, whatever it is. Maybe you have relegation in there. You could really spice this up. Everybody's going to be happy. Everybody's going to make a ton of money. I mean, for years, Charlie I was saying, four teams, there's so much more.

You had a winning lottery ticket.

All of a sudden, everybody goes, we're going to twelve teams, and I go, you won't stay at twelve that month that long?

Because you know how much money is going to be made.

Why don't we just get rid of all of that and get forty schools, divvy them up geographically, and they eventually you're going to have a super Bowl of college football.

I think part of that comes down to whether you think, over time there's only going to be forty schools. Who should be part of the conversation.

I mean, you can make it more.

I mean I don't want it to be the NCAA tournament, Like I don't need ninety six.

But let's say you did fifty. Wait are you going to ninety six?

Scoring the most we'll ever go to?

It was someone seven seven. Okay, caliber is very very how.

Many games you can slam into that period of time. My point is just that if you just take this year, for example, look at Indiana, right, I mean, nobody would have thought coming into the year that Indiana was going to be ten and oh at this point in time, if you carved it down to a smaller number, Indiana might not be in your fifty. Georgia Tech beating Miami over the weekend. I just to me, what's happening right now in college football in particular is a sense that there are a lot more games that matter week to week than matter two or three years ago. And I don't know if that's a function of the transfer portal, or the quality of the coaching or what, but it feels to me like there's a lot more competitive opportunity there than there was a few years back. And I'm glad that. I'm glad to see if he made the decision to go to twelve twelve teams because and you may be right, I mean I was on a panel with Nick Saban a few weeks ago, and Nick said that, you know now that year twelve, you people start talking about a bigger number, and he's you know, that may in fact be where people go. But but I kind of appreciate the fact that the folks who oversee the CFP are careful about about some of these decisions they make, because once you make them, you can't undo them. Right.

Yeah, I agree, And I love an underdog story. We always we all do.

But like Army might be in the twelve team playoff, like you can get in there. But I just think we're headed towards that. I don't know if it's in five years or whenever. It just feels like follow the money and you know, well the thing I really.

I mean, that's an interesting I guess I can't really I need to think about like getting the settlement finished, because this is going to be our opportunity to put a working model in place that I think can work for everybody in D one and preserves kind of the comedy cl m. I t y that that we need not just for football, but for the other sports that the NCAA overseas and works with all the schools and conferences.

And if you need help, I'm here, Okay, I really I do.

I very much appreciate that, Dan, that's important.

It's a special advisor. Two hour flight, I can be there. I'm from Ohio and go home for the holidays, you know.

Stop them from Where are you from in Ohio?

Outside of Cincinnati, Mason, Ohio.

My my daughter went to Miami, and my son who played football at Dennison went to Dennison. And I have a ton of family in Chagrin Falls, which is what it's like Cleveland.

I had two daughters. I had two daughters who went to Dennison.

Did you really yep? Yeah, it's a great place. My my son got a huge kick out of the fact that he got to rub his head.

But the statue what, of course not? Yes, exactly.

One other thing I love that you're taking trying to take prop bets out of college football, like that stuff makes me nervous me too.

And the amount of abuse that shows up online that's directed at kids, you can tell a lot of it is about prop betting, and you know, we've had kids literally say I had a really good game, our team won, I played well, and I got just an avalanche of grief coming at me on social media because I quote didn't deliver on the prop Bet. I don't ever want kids thinking about that way when they're playing a game.

It's great to talk to you.

Trying to get somebody from the office for years now just to do this, just let people know this is these are questions we have, and you know, I'm just glad that you got wi Fi there. Apparently that was the hold of with previous presidents and something.

I'll tell you what, why don't we get together sometime early in the basketball season to talk about the basketball season because that's I love football. I got two kids who played it, but but I was a basketball player and I'm pretty excited to be here for that.

And once again, we're not going to ninety six anytime soon.

For Mark s Vendas, No, we're not. But we're going to go to into seventy.

We'll get into I think the committees have some work to do here, but I think there's there's room to go to something like seventy two or seventy six.

Yeah, right, fair enough, great to talk to you, Thanks for joining us, Good luck, Charlie. Okay, all right.

So we're going to seventy two teams add four maybe a little bit more. All right, made a little news there with the president. See, he should do more of these interviews, because it always felt like with the NCAA there was somebody named Mark Emert.

We never had him on.

It was like Kaiser SoSE I get, I don't know if he exists, and they and they weren't. There wasn't any transparency. I like that he came on and at you know, able to at least ask some questions to him, yest Tohn.

He seemed very personal, wasn't contentious. He was aware they had to ask some less than comfortable questions, and I thought he was pretty for coming.

Well, thank you, Tony, welcome, good job with thank you. I appreciate that. Well you're the one that kept calling the nc doublea. So ye and hold on? How about how about Wednesday?

The fact that the former president was never available and Paulie always says, hey, tell him. It doesn't three in the morning.

I would say, Dan will be awake day or night, will have a live zoom up at all times, He'll be ready to go.

I can never take that as an excuse. The guy's not available like forever, like like can I drive there.

Yes, Tom, Even when they say someone's out of the country, what does that even mean In the world of technology and zoom and phones and everything else where, you can talk to people outside of the United States there thing.

Yeah, that's that's what I wanted, was like, I'll do it just to call their bluff. He's not available ever, Like he's never going to be available ever.

Okay, yes, Paulie.

So the NA president basically told you they'll go to seventy six teams at some point likely then say tournament. Yeah, there are three hundred and fifty two Division I basketball programs, seventy six teams making the tournament be twenty one percent of the field. Sixty four is like nineteen percent. It doesn't change that much. And I think was there one hundred and twenty five college football teams at BSh right about there, and now twelve make it? So that's ten percent if I do my math is correct about ten percent.

Okay, all right, let me take a break. We'll get to more phone calls, update the poll results. Kurt Warner will stop by the Hall of Famer try to figure out the Bears players apparently wanted Caleb Williams bench I found that remarkable. Now he hadn't played well, but still you get a better chance when he's not playing. So he'll join us. Coming up all right back after this.

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Brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of The Dan Patrick Show. Steve and Illinois joins us on the program. Good morning, Steve, what's on your mind?

Hey Dan? I think it's ironic and timely. You're gonna have Krit Warner on to talk about the mess that the Bears are. It ties into the mess that my bank account is now and it has nothing to do with betting on the Bears this weekend. It's just the fact of going to the game and wondering if you want to play a game over under how much you think it cost to take a family of three to a Bears game? And watch that nonsense?

All right, let's go closest to the hole. This is tickets, this is parking, concessions, everything.

Steve, and one night hotel s day, oh oh oh, one night hotels day. All right, through a curve ball in there for how many three? Marvin, you want to give a ball park figure?

Seventeen hundred dollars day, Paul eleven hundred and fifty dollars.

Todd eighteen fifty, Seaton fifteen fifty, fifteen fifty. I'm going to go eleven hundred and twenty five dollars.

Steve, you all win the showcase by being under the grand tot is two thousand, one hundred six dollars and seventy eight cents.

And all I get out of it is.

A crying twelve year old all the way back to the Quats City, one hundred and seventy miles of fire Shane Wells and Fireman the Abrish flues, tears. It's just this poor kid. Kid take it anymore? And as a good dad, I am a die hard, you know full discloder Diehard Packers, but I seed it up.

Wow wow, die hard Packer fan taking the kids to a Bears game there? Thank you, Steve. Do you realize how many flat screens you could buy for twenty one? Could fill your man cave full of that?

Uh?

Corey in Kansas City, Hi Corey, what's on your mind?

Hey?

Dan?

Appreciate you giving me a call back for sure?

Sure?

Mark Seaton wu tang forever guys and second poor side you comments once addictions number one Stefan's not Stevens. Need to relax. It's Stephanie, not Stephenie.

Thank you, Corey? Anything else? Yeah?

Secondly, not sure how this has missed, but when breaking new Polly is literally the only member of the Eye team. Don't let them infringe on your territory, Polly.

No, there's only one member of the Eye team, and there's only one eye with the E team because Pollie has a bad eye. It's getting better, your bad eyes getting better, but it won't ever be a good.

Eye, right, Okay, I don't know why I'm laughing at you. Griffin in Cincinnatis, Mack Hi Griff.

Hey, Dan, I had a question for you. But first, being an Indiana grad. It's just a hilarious exercise for me to watch the college football playoff bracket reveal and to see Alabama potentially coming to Bloomington, Indiana in a fifty five thousand capacity stadium. It's just funny to me, even though it doesn't matter right now, it's in a few weeks. But the question I wondered, if you could take us behind the scenes of the making of the opening of the show. I think on Peacock and on radio the guy Bob, who is Bob and kind of how all that is put together because it was very funny today.

Dan, all right, well, thank you Griffin. That is the genius of Bob. Bob puts together the openings on the radio and he's in Los Angeles, so he gets up early to be able to do this.

And his name is Bob Schmidt.

He is.

He's really brilliant with what he's done, and it has fun and he listens so intently with the show and pulls clips constantly the history of the show. He is an archivist when it comes to, you know, trying to do these opens and they're always different, they're clever, funny. We really appreciate his dedication to the show Lucas in Texas.

Hey, Luke, what's on your mind today? Okay, good morning, good morning.

I've got a Kentucky basketball stat that's pretty fun. But first, you've been mentioning the Chiefs and Bills. My last count, the Chiefs are nine and zero. I've been running the numbers like Todd did a few days on the cat. I'm pretty sure if they win their next game, they're going to go ten and zero. That's I'm still working the mask, but I'm trying my hardest on that one.

PAULI, would you check that?

Yeah, that's confirmed.

Okay, thank you, Okay.

Thanks appreciate that. No, I really enjoyed watching that Kentucky game last night, a lot of fun. And you could just tell there's a different emphasis I guess you could say by Mark Pope versus Caliperry. The stat it just blew me away. It said that although all twelve members of the Kentucky team are new to the roster, this team has more combined collegiate starts than the first six Kentucky teams Cali Perry coach combined.

Yeah, I'm not surprised. Yeah, but he needed this. We said this you can have great freshmen coming in, but they're going to be freshmen.

At some point in a game, they're going to act like their freshmen. I mean Cooper Flag, I think he's still seventeen years of age, and he acted like he was seven at the end of the game. Prior to that, he acted like he was twenty seven. I think he turns eighteen in a month. Yep, Oh my god, you'd buy that stock.

Ugh, Yes, Marvin.

Yeah.

Watching a Kentucky game, I was like, man, that guy looks familiar. And it was a guy that was on Purdue that went to the national championship game. I was like, genius, and Mark Pope took the best player from his bye squad and brought him with him.

Yeah, but this is what we said, John Caler Perry had more talent than probably any coach in NCAA history and produce less results of He won one national championship and look, he's a great recruiter. But being a great coach, you got to have the players that can help these younger players. It's just, hey, you brought in this unbelievable group. Okay, what happens and we would see this it'd be first round you get knocked out, but they won one title and all of that talent.

Because he'd always come on and he'd.

Say, hey, you know I've had over a billion dollars in salaries in the NBA.

Play on my play at Kentucky. Great.

If I'm a Booster, I'd be like, yeah, what did we get out of that?

We got one title?

He probably had more talent with less big time results than any coach. And now at Arkansas feels like he's getting those transfers. Now he's getting some recruits. But you got to sprinkle in some veterans in there, some guys who aren't wanted done.

Yes, Mark, Yeah, If I'm a Booster, or if I'm a Kentucky fan, I'd be furious. Seven out of the twenty four NBA All Stars this past year went to Kentucky.

Hey, I'm going to give you a stat of the day.

Oh thanks, But.

That's where you have to stay there you go, Ron Bergen Due.

Marvin gave us a come what status day? Alrighty, when we come back, Kurt Warner, he'll join us. We'll talk about the Bears situation. Were they really wanting to bench Caleb Williams. Is that going to make things better. More on the college football Playoff Final Hour on this Wednesday, coming up right after this

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