HOUR 2 - The Midway

Published Jan 8, 2025, 10:08 PM

Doug Gottlieb reacts to the news that the Bears will interview Pete Carroll, and he and Dan Beyer explain why they don't see Carroll returning to the NFL with Chicago. Mick Cronin rips his players in a wild press conference that you need to hear. In this edition of The Midway, the crew reacts to the wildfires in Los Angeles and discuss different natural disasters they have lived through. Plus, if you had to evacuate your home with minutes notice, what would you take?

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It's technically the middle of our day. We have a podcast that's pod only. By the way, if you want to download the podcast, just type in Doug Gottlieb every download podcast and you can get it right after the show. So we do really three hours of work a day, and this is the middle of that those three hours. It's also the middle of the week. It's a Wednesday. It's also the middle of the day in La more middle of the day than here in Wisconsin, where it's three o'clock. But again, all depends on your day. You wake up at ten, this is smack dab in the middle. You wake up five like I do, not so much in the middle, but it's a long day anyway. We called this portion of the show the Midway. We can go anywhere with the Midway. Dan, I think you had the plan for today's midway.

Correct.

Let's get it going, Doug, he's not getting.

It's time for stuck in the middle. The Midway.

Thanks to take it from here. Yeah, the djacent Stewart line. Now, I'm glad. Actually I do get to start this. This was my idea, but there's I did want to preface something and I actually think that there's something that we have to address that you mentioned at the start of the show, something that I didn't know until you said it. You would send some pictures along while I was making my way to work.

But you lost you lost a vehicle in these fires.

No, okay, So my vehicle has been located and is driveable, but it'll probably be determined to be a total because a friend of mine was using it on Sunset Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard right near the Word where Brentwood becomes the Palisades and got out of the vehicle, had to leave it and kind of run to safety. And when it was left behind, I thought it would get bulldozed off the street, but instead it just the front end is melted.

Wow.

So I don't I don't even know how i'd file that claim, but that's what I'll be doing after the show is done.

Yeah, And the reason why I do want to have this conversation. And I'm sorry to hear that that stinks, and I hope.

You'll honestly, I like, literally, Dan, I have I am not, I have no Like, it's not just it's a car.

Sure, right, Like who cares?

Absolutely?

You know? Anyway, go ahead, so you're not offending me in any way.

After seeing the devastation and whether this happens here or it's happened in northern California in many parts of the country, this stuff is awful. I'm dealing our power was shut off, you know last night. That's the least of you know. I mean, that's you know, our house is still standing, thank goodness. And oriyan Berschinger as well dealing with some power outages. But I just I don't want to make it seem like we are making light of.

Any of this. I also, it's not it's not a competition. This is also something.

I mean, it's just a couple of miles from where the crow flies from our studios where all of this devastation has happened. I mean, it's we we aren't affected because it's on the other side of the hill, if you will, but it is not very far. So I just wanted to lay that out there as we have this discussion about natural disasters and what we've all experienced, because we're all from different parts of the country or have lived in different parts of the country, and there's always different things that you have to deal with, and wildfires now being one of them. So Doug, when you talk about natural disasters, worst that you've ever had to deal with or maybe scariest.

Is there any any that stand out?

Wildfires, earthquakes, that sort of thing now or earthquake? Yeah, is this always a big one.

I don't know, these these these fires I've I've been apart. I've been in a hurricane, not one of the really bad ones. Earthquakes, yes, tornadoes, yes, fire, Yes, this is the first ever damage whatever and again just a car. But I have a friend who lost her house and animals as well died. They believed animals died in the house fire. So we do what's like the worst.

Angelic experience, you know, I'll give you an example of mine. I've I've never had the deal with a true tornado. But one of the things that was most shocking to me was I was driving. This is when I lived in Wisconsin, and I was driving on the west side of town. For those that are familiar West Town, mall right, you know right where I was driving Mineral Point Road, heading back to my apartment. And there were storms coming and you could tell. But I had a little moonroof sunroof on my Nissan Ultima, and I could see cloud circling and I had never seen that before, and that's what I had always heard of, Like that's what a tornado, you know, a tornado is like. And the winds then started to pick up. And that was the craziest thing about me is when I would grow up and I would see tornadoes, it's always the massive tornado that's in the field that you're afraid of. But what was so shocking to me was how fast the debris flies when there isn't even that funnel cloud there. Like it was like like trees are being bent over at ninety degrees. I got out of it, it was fine, but the tornado ended up touching down like a half mile later in the city. As crazy as that was, it was such an eye opener and a shocker to me to just see on how high those winds could get and what they they're just bending over a tree, taking over a sign and flying, you know, fly across the street. I had seen it on TV, never registered until I actually lived it at that point. And again, I really wasn't in danger. I wasn't in the middle of the funnel cloud, but something was starting and was just very very startling to actually see that in Mother nature, and it's you know, real form.

If you will.

I think I think the tornado is the scariest. I don't know, I mean a wall of fire coming at you I obviously couldn't be has to be scary as well. The hurricane. The problem with the hurricane is there have been so many times in which we've been told the hurricane is going to be bad and it's not that bad that people try and ride it out.

And then for most of us who.

Don't live in hurricane areas, just sitting there going like, why wouldn't you just listen when they tell you to evacuate, Like well, you know, like, look, it takes a lot to gather up all your stuff and your dogs and your belongings or whatever. But the hurricane does generally give you advanced warning, right generally? Does you know everyone knew there was going to be extreme fire danger?

But I don't. And that is close to Malibu.

That area burns a lot, and you had record setting rains last year and then record setting drought this year, so you had to think. Earthquakes are really really scary at Knockwood. Hasn't been one in California a long time, you know, so it's hard for us to think back in but a tornado. I remember the May it was called the May third tornado, which was an F five in More, Oklahoma. And Moore's been hit I think four times directly by a tornado.

And we went down.

We were flying out the next day in the afternoon. We went down the morning just to see and I had never seen anything like it, like as much as the devastation. I'll send you guys some photos at my friend's house. It's it's terrible, just there's nothing there where the house was. The only difference is and they both go in a second, I guess is that tornado? You know, like there was parts of it where the asphalt was missing. Asphalt was missing. Now, the one thing about a tornado is you can if you have a cellar, you can get to the cellar and ride that thing out, Whereas if you're I guess you could.

Probably ride out a fire in the cellar too.

I don't know if the smoke would be Yeah, I want to I don't know what that would be like.

Yeah, it's definitely an oxygen issue. Yeah, you know, I don't think that you could.

Yeah, I don't know how that would work. I don't know how would work I've been all bad.

Yeah, yeah, your time in Oklahoma. I wondered if Sam's as well, if Iowa was the same way with tornadoes and those.

Oh, absolutely, but I do. I do just want to comment on fires.

They just seem to be the most destructive, just because everything burns and it's not like, you know, you have a tornado, you can maybe rummage through your stuff, find some possessions. Fires, you know, and you know, a torn it was scary to look at, scary to see coming towards you. But like I remember the imagery from I think twenty seventeen where there's this you know that they call it going over the hill, either getting into the valley or out of the valley, the four h five Pass, the Sepulvida Pass, and to see on both sides these very steep like Mountain Hill hill, I don't even really steep hills, both on fire on both sides, it looked like you were driving into hell. I mean, it's just some of the most you know, mind boggling imagery I've ever seen. And you know, I was seeing some stuff from last night and just sert people surrounded by flames and just trying to get like horses out alive, and I don't know. Fires to me just are I think are the most overwhelming and just soul crushing just because of they just destroy everything. That being said, I'll go back to when I was a freshman at Iowa in two thousand and six, my hometown of Iowa City and where the university is Iowa City, where the University of Iowa is is in Iowa City, and it got hit by an F two tornado on an evening I think it was in May, and.

I was in a.

Dorm and I remember for some reason, instead of like going to a safe area, like we were all told like the tornado was across the river, and we were we were told we could like go outside and like look at it. And so we all went outside, all the people in this dorm, and we look across this like open view of the river and then the other side of Iowa City, and we could see this tornado like literally drop down and move across like the horizon like across our our view, and it was ripping the roofs off of sorority houses and destroyed at church. And it wasn't like an F five but an F two, And we had really never experienced that. I hadn't in my lifetime of a tornado hitting Iowa City and it caused a lot of damage.

It was really scary.

I remember a lot of people like went out that that night and they just looked at all the damage or cars turned over, and so that was certainly a scary night. And you know, I've survived two floods. You know, jeez, there's a flood of nineteen ninety three.

The floods are I was gonna mention that they're had mentioned floods right, floods in Iowa. It seems to happen all the time.

Two thousand and three, I'm sorry, two thousand and eight ninety three were the big ones. And you know what, they're really bad, but they're kind of, like you said, Doug, a cyclone, I'm sorry, a hurricane where you can kind of like the water levels are rising and you have some time to escape, but it can be you know, incredibly devastating, and so you know, survive those two.

So Ryan Bursinger, I do have a story with I've I've had to evacuate only one time for a fire, and that was the Wolsey fire in twenty eighteen.

If you guys remember and people might have heard of the Wolsey fire. That was the last time Malibu especially got hit really hard. That was a big fire that went from Malibu and Inland and hit places like Aga Hills and Oak Park and Westlake Village really hard. Took out a lot of people's homes. I had to I lived in Thousand Oaks at the time, and it got close enough where we were in an evacuation and I evacuated. My area was totally fine, but you know, places about a mile away were taken out and it was awful. That fire was on November eighth of twenty eighteen, and I evacuated that night. On November eighth of twenty eighteen. If the name Thousand Oaks rings a bell to anybody across the nation, that is where the Borderline shooting happened. The shooting, the mass shooting at Borderline Martin Grill, which happened on November seventh of twenty eighteen. Oh Man, So that was that day was just an absolute whirlwind because that night the shooting happens, and given that I was a few years out of college at this point, but I had been to Borderline before multiple times. Dan you and I were at Borderline once to see j Moore do stand up.

Didn't make it that night, but so yeah, I'm glad that I was remembered enough.

But yeah, no, I know, yeah, people many people have been there.

Yes, yeah, it was a very popular place for for people in my area, so I knew people who frequented Borderlines. So that was a really wild experience, spending the entire next day watching the news seeing if I was going to know somebody. Sure when as the list of victims was slowly coming out as I'm watching the news covering this, then in the corner they're like, oh, by the way, this fire is now breaking out of Malibu. And then the fire got so bad that now suddenly that's taking over the news coverage. And by the time I had to evacuate that night just kind of numbed everything at that point.

Once once we.

Were in the evacuation zone, I'm like, yeah, of course we are, Like, of course, this is just this is how, this is how things are.

We were sitting in.

The dark lass night in our in our house with a flashlight on, and I've got my mini Holme. It's up on the wall, prominently displayed and I was just thinking, like if we needed to get out of here in ten minutes, where would I go? Yeah, and and as I'm prominently displaying those mini helmets, like it would have been you know, four hundred and twelve on the list of things that I you know, it within the within our home of everything that we would we would want. It's such a you know, even in just watching all these things, and Doug, the pictures that you sent are just absolute heartbreaking. For for the videos, like I mean, just to have none of that like available, Like I just I saw a video of of firefighters carrying stuff out of a house, like two firefighters carrying a grandfather clock because they were able to save it. The house wasn't going to be saved, but they were inside trying to do what they can. And yeah, just oh so heartbreaking and deva.

Okay, listen, if you what do you grab?

I mean, look, your kids, your animals, That's what matters the most, right.

Your critical life. Doocs like birth certificates, social Security card, your passport, your ID, you know things like that that are I mean they are though because those are so hard to replace. You have to that that proves who you are as an American wallet, I know, but you don't. I don't carry my Social Security card around. I don't carry my I have my own birth certificate. I have my Social Security card because I moved out here and I had to get a driver's license with the DMV. So I am in possession of all those things that used to be in a uh what do you call it, a a savings box or a you know, a what do you call it at a bank? You know the yeah, yeah, yeah, used to have one of those. But yeah, I have them all lot with me, So I've definitely grabbed that.

And okay, okay, so say you have that envelope, you gotta grab that. Okay, what else do you got?

Clothes?

You know, to medicine, pharmaceutical medicine, you grab clothes, Well, you gotta grab a change of clothes. I would think, yeah, replaceable, Well yeah, I know, but you have to have something.

I'll say, this is and this is exactly like I get what Sam is saying, like I'm gonna need clothes medicine. More realistic about it, Like you can always buy clothes, but like that's where like my mind would be like, oh my gosh, what's gonna happen. If I leave here, I'm gonna need something to wear the rest of the week. Instead of thinking like I get it, like I totally get it, and I'm thinking like, gosh, look at these all these helmets when I just take them all and I'm like, why would I waste a bag for all.

Of every single one of these?

You're not taking your helmets could be like every single one of them could be replaced.

Like taking a garbage bag and just shoveling the helmets into the garbage bag as fast as you can.

You're like, my collection. Alice is sitting there going like, how about a wedding photo. You're like, but I got this right here.

I still got you.

I got the collection here. Do you know how hard it was.

To take thirty seconds shore.

To get this this helmet?

This is the forty nine ers mini helmet that they only had for like a day in the nineteen nineties.

You understand your said, Bill Wallash, He's a legend. This is the mini helmet of the you. Meanwhile, she's like, what are we have? Five minutes? Okay, so okay, you you you can you can't. There's no trash bags. You can only grab what you can have on your in your hands and you have to run as well. Right, So again this is where like if you have a dog, hopefully the dog's running alongside you. You have a cat who's gonna be hard. Cat don't only be carried. Let's pretend like the animals are out, safe animals and kids, without any question, take presents over everything. Okay, then what only your hands and maybe you could stuff your pockets and then you gotta go phone in my pocket.

I'd take our wedding photos.

I would take those, and even.

The ones you don't like.

I don't like that one. We just a photo, I look it. I don't like how I look in that photo? Like that one could ye out.

You could have.

Don't you have many of your wedding photos, a lot of you know, digital somewhere on the cloud.

Yeah yeah, I mean like, well.

There's but again, you don't have time to think this thing out forget to the cloud.

It's in the cloud. It's in the cloud.

Yeah, something like that.

Okay, so what do you grab? Real question? There're no wrong answers. This is Miny Helman. Might be a wrong answer, it is absolutely might be wrong.

The wrong question. Yeah, there'd be keep Gosh, there'd be yeah, it would be. There would be keeps keepsakes from you know, back home, from my mom or from my.

Y.

Yeah, I mean this, I I know exactly in this house. I have two letters my daughter Harper wrote me one recently. I'm running upstairs to get that. My passport happens to be right next to it, so that actually helps me. Guys with that's a that's a great suggestion. Obviously, my dog probably take my comrax right like I take that thing everywhere with me comraes. By the way, for those of you not in the business, that's how I broadcast from wherever I broadcast from.

It seems really easy.

Only you'd be amazed now when people go Ethernet line, I don't even you mean internet, no Ethernet, Internet, Ethernet never mind anyway.

Medication too, I mean, if you're if I'm not a medical I know, but if you take something every day and you don't have to have to deal, you know, I would say, yeah, yeah, you gotta take care if you take insulin or whatever you might you know hear uh blood thinner's uh blood pressure medication. You gotta grab that's some you know, that's some critical to you grab that.

So so you didn't, So, uh, what about you, Ryan?

What would you grab?

There's uh, there's there's a picture I have with my grandfather that I would take. Uh, you pass away a little over a year ago, and that's that's special. And then a couple of small things that are special to my fiance and I. We have a scrap book I would I would take. And then yeah, a couple of practical things like grab passports and stuff like that.

Yeah, my my uncle who passed away about a year after my dad says about nine years ago. He had a pipe collection that I have that I have up here on my mantle in Wisconsin. I mean, I'd like to think that I would grab like the pipe collection if I had a bag, But again, like it's it's you know, and I love it and it's special to me. And he was the family member outside of my immediate family I was closest to. But I don't know if that would make the cut. No piece of sports memorabilia would make the cut. Gosh, I'm trying to think what else I would take. I'm with Dan. I think it would be you know, I have a watch, somebody really important gave to me. I have the letters, a letter, two letters that my daughter wrote to me.

I'd make sure to have Brodie's blanket.

Yeah, if you don't have the lovey.

Yeah, that's the complete melt out, because you know, I mean, that's where that's honestly what my friend is dealing with the most, which is loss of likely loss of animals. They're searching shelters and then just the kids like that, our home is destroyed, the animals are gone.

It's just devastating.

So we weren't trying to make light of it, but it's a conversation that people have. Let's not shy away from the reality of the conversation. And that's our version of the Midway The Midway Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. My thanks to you, Dan, great topic and Ryan and Sam for sharing your thoughts. Right, let's get back to sports. The Bears may may be considering bringing one huge name back to the NFL.

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Dan.

Did you see this where the Seahawks former head coach Pete Carroll is talking?

And I know the Bears are talking to everybody, right.

Which I have a take on them, but that I would love to go. Here's my issue with the Bears talking to everybody.

Bears talking to everybody? Okay, well do Bears talk here? They're talking to everybody? Go ahead, Dar, Dan, what do you got on that there?

And maybe the Jets are talking to more I you, I don't know. It feels like the Bears that are talking to everybody. This is why you fire. One of the reasons why you fire your coach during the season is to have a sense of what direction you want to go. So then when you enter the hiring cycle that we are in now, you are kind of three or four steps ahead of everyone because you have all of your ducks in a row. Not only did the Bears fire their offfensive coordinator during the season, but then they ended up firing Matt Eberflus, and now feel like talking about everybody, and you've got everything in place, so we think with your quarterback, with your skill positions, you're gonna have to upgrade the offensive line. It's just finding the right person to lead that direction. And I'm just like, what have you been doing over the last month and a half it's been going on.

I would guess one of the reasons you fire your coach during the season is because you want somebody to come in and Jeff Saturday essentially did this with the Colts.

Not that it end up, you know.

Nailing the next hire, but hey, what's really going on there, What do we really need, how does it really look, et cetera, et cetera. I would guess I think ibra Flus was fired just because they felt like they had to. I don't think it was done because they wanted to or they had this let's fire him now and take the last month and have somebody go in there and look under the hood and see what's going on. I think they did because I remember they went after the Washington game. They didn't win a game this week.

Yes, right, and they fired him after the Thanksgiving debacle against the Lions.

There was just debacle after debacle after tobacco after debacle, and like you know, at some point, head's got a roll.

Let's let's let's get the head guy. Yeah.

And look, talking to a bunch of people is getting that opinion of what would you do?

What would you do? How would you see it? And that what vision they become aligned in. Uh. In regards to Pete Carroll, no one has.

Watched more Pete Garrel coach Seahawks games than you would you say that would be a good hire.

I think that he would foster a healthy environment for Caleb Williams to thrive in. It's just are you going to get the right people around him? Because that was the issue in Seattle in the later years when their offense was actually cooking post legion of boom pre Shane Waldron Brian Schottenheimer was the offensive coordinator. Then there seemed to be some difference between Carroll and Schottenheimer and what they wanted to do. So Schottenheimer left and they brought in Shane Waldron with Russell Wilson's input. That's who you got to take care of and so that would be up to Pete Carroll to then find the person to take care of Kayleb Williams. But I don't think that he's the right higher number one again and his name popped up early, Doug.

But I joke.

Leave it to the Bears to find to hire the two guys who would hire Shane Waldron as their offensive coordinator, and it would be Pete Carroll and Matt Eberflus, and that's who the Bears two head coaches would be. I think you got to find an offensive guy at all costs to just make sure that this thing works over the next two or three years. And if it doesn't, then you can start over and hit your reset button and call this all a colossal failure. But Pete Carroll isn't that guy. I think that he would foster a nice environment for Kayleb Williams to work in, But yeah, I just don't. I mean, he's for as energetic as he is, he's still in his seventies, so how long is that road gonna take? I just I don't see that happening.

I don't see it either. I don't see it either.

I understand you hired an inexperienced head coach in ebra Flus and it didn't work out, and.

So everybody goes, well, we got.

We got inexperienced defensive guy, let's bring in experience. Well, Pete Carroll's a defensive guy. But you know, he's been able to go with the you know, win with the times and change an ebb and flow.

I'm with you.

I do think not that the game has passed him by, but I think Kingsbury honestly is probably the guy. And then you have to hire somebody to handle the defense, because Kingsbury's like head coach. Guys like him but more offensive coording to as head coach than anything else. And you can do that, You can pull that off, but you gotta find the right guys that he will work with and wants to work with. Vance Joseph was his guy when he was in Arizona. I honestly think Kingsbury gets a bit of a bad rap, only in that they were getting better and better and better, and then his last year. Look look at the records. They improved every year. When they had the debacle in the playoffs, they didn't have Nuke Hopkins in the playoffs against the Rams and Kyler just looked completely overwhelmed, and the next year Kyler got hurt and he got fired. I would say that would be the guy. He's done a great job with Daniels in DC. He's been a head coach a couple times over and before people go to the well, you never want anything at Texas Tech with Pat Mahomes like, Okay, their offense was insane, and it's Texas Tech like, it's really really really hard to win there, really hard to win there, especially before the days where you could just buy guys better. Now I think with buy guys they could actually I think Texas Tech coul compete with anybody bet online.

By the way, doug Hess Cliff Kingsbury right now the second shortest odds to be the Bears head coach at N two. That's plus four point fifty right now, Ben Johnson sitting there one to one.

So yeah, I mean Ben Johnson gatt. Now, the problem is that Ben Johnson like, okay, you got New England. You know Jacksonville. Jacksonville has a quarterback. New England has a quarterback, and this could be you know, dealer's choice, which one does he like? And then again there's also that possibility of maybe he goes you know, I like this being the offensive coordinator thing. I just get to draw plays in the dirt.

Well, it wouldn't be interesting if Ben Johnson doesn't accept any job in this cycle. The Patriots' job is the only one that came up again. But I think he had six or seven last year, and now you've got six this year. So we're talking about ten or eleven teams or so ten to twelve teams. You've got the Lions that he's a part of right now. Now that could be a possibility, but it almost feels like he's eliminated half the league that he doesn't want to be the coach of, And so then you're wondering, well, what teams do you want to be the coach of? I actually thought he probably would have wanted to be the Chargers head coach, but they ended up with Jim Harbaugh and that was the direction they went. He backed out before he could even speak with the Commanders. Seahawks ended up going spoke with him, but then he withdrew and the Seahawks ended up hiring Mike McDonald. But Ben Johnson would be turning his back on a third of the League and maybe more, and you just wonder on what job he would want, you.

Know, it's it's it's really interesting. Okay.

I think it was was it you who said it's about, you know, taking a job with a quarterback. I mean, like, look, yeah I will, if I'm completely honest, taking a job when you're a first time coach in May in college basketball, it's I don't know, risky is the word. It's it's it's suboptimal for your first year. Suboptimal for your first year, especially in this day and age, because your guys can all leave, but no one else's can once they are decided where they're going, you know, or you know, the portal has been open and it's just been ransacked. If you will now going back, would I make the same decision?

Sure?

Would I make some other different decisions. Absolutely, But it does come to the if you're Ben Johnson and you already have a job, you can be super, super selective and go hey, I always think that the funny part to the Ben Johnson thing is some of some people would go like, hey, you're only going to be a hot commodity for so long. You could lose a lot of peace in the off season. Just the mentality that right now Ben Johnson is white hot. Right last two years, their offense has been awesome. So if they have a nine and eight year next year, is Ben Johnson a dope all of a sudden not worth They're getting a job that doesn't make any sense to me.

One other thing that I just want to bring up, and I don't know, it would be probably ninety five to five, but if Detroit, if Dan Campbell was like, Okay, if we win the Super Bowl and right off into the sunset, Ben Johnson slides on up. I know it's not going to happen, but it's more of the if you're a Lions fan, would you want Dan Campbell to stay or Ben Johnson to stay?

Dan Campbell?

Yeah, And I think that that is the overwhelming thought process of it. But I think in what you have in the NFL five what you would have had in the NFL five years ago when when Mike McCarthy, when Kellen Moore was actually running the Cowboys offense at the time and Mike McCarthy was the head coach. I was one who advocated for Kelvin Moore to just want you to just promote him and move McCarthy out, then more left and McCarthy ended up having a you know, record setting top of year leading their offense as the head coach. But just saying, I don't know, I know, Dan Cambell's the hot you know, it's the culture and everything that's the trend now, But five years ago, I think everybody would want the offensive guy.

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Let's get to the Press with Dan Byer.

The Press, Doug. Just to tie up some loose ends from last night. What a night in Big Ten basketball? You had Nebraska tying it at the end of regulation against Iowa, but the Hawkeyes end up getting a ten point victory. Yeah, and then you had number twenty four Michigan run away from number twenty to UCLA ninety four to seventy five. That did not make Bruin's head coach Mick Cronin too happy.

We're soft, So don't tell me you want to win. Like, just don't tell me you want to win. It's crazy, and it's every day.

I'm tired of it. It's every day.

I have the most energy of all of anybody at practice. Every day I'm upset with everybody in that locker room, my assistant coaches and my players. I mean, I don't need to do anything else. I almost got five hundred wins. I'm only fifty three. I mean, it's a joke. It's a joke. But yet I come in and I have more passion and energy and pride than everybody, and that's the problem. So what the truth of it has been, it's really hard to coach people that are delusional. The hungry dog gets the bump. We got guys that think they're way better than they are. They're nice kids, they're completely delusional about who they are.

Harsh words from the Bruins head coach about not only as players, but assistants as well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here here's the good thing about mixed deal as opposed to my deal. His it was not taken out of context. It's been presented in its raws form.

Right.

Nobody created a false narrative like they did against me. I understand everything he's saying. I can't speak to his assistant coaches, obviously they are probably not very happy with that. But like the delusion, I mean, that's a real thing, you know, because if you walk into a college locker room, even mine, how many guys are gonna play in the NBA? You know, of the thirteen scholarship guys, I think they all think they could play in the NBA, there's four hundred and fifty spots in the entire world. Probably not happy I have one player, I mean, he's currently injured Anthony Roy He's got a shot, but even that'll be hard, and he's a nation's leame scorer, so the delusion is real.

I just.

I yeah, I just saying the parts you think out loud and then saying like I have five hundred wins, like, well, you're part of the wins just as much as part of the losses. So I respect Mick. He is a tough dude. His teams always have been tough and physical, but the two key consecutive years of meltdowns and calling everybody else out, like at some point in time, it's it's like us, like, I know I've been doing the right things, but you are what your record says you are, and you have to own all the performances, not just the good ones.

Sitting next to Notre Dame, i'd coach Marcus Freeman, Penn State had coach James Franklin had this to say about Notre Dame and conferences.

I think it should be consistent across college football. Again, this is no knock at coach or Notre Dame, but I think everybody should be in a conference. I think everybody should play a conference championship game, or no one should play a conference championship game. I think everybody should play the same number of conference games. Just the numbers are going to make things more challenging if you're playing one more conference game.

I just think things need to be consistent across college football.

That sounds great, it's never going to happen and it's never been consistent. And even playing the same number, you're not playing the same schedule. Like ask James Franklin, Hey, when it was East versus West or Guardians and whatever. You know, we always talked about this with Wisconsin and Iowa, like is it easier to be Penn State and play Michigan and backa Michigan State was good in Ohio State every year? Or play Minnesota and Nebraska when they've been down in Illinois and Indiana and.

Produe, et cetera.

So James Franklin's kind of full of crap in this thing that just because you replicate the numbers, you can't replicate the championship games, or that means you're only take teams that go to the championship game to go to the playoffs. All right, more on this tomorrow we get t ready for the college football Playoff. Download the podcast just type in Doug Gottlieb Show. This is Doug Gottlieb Show. Fox Sports Radio,

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