The Doug Gottlieb ShowOn a Tuesday edition of The Best Of The Doug Gottlieb Show: Doug reacts to comments made by 49ers' owner Jed York as the team is all-in on Brock Purdy after an off-season so far of clearing roster space.
Court colors are the subject of this week's "Beyer's Remorse". Doug is joined by former major league All-Star and World Series Champ Matt Holliday to talk about the Torpedo bat and the first week of the MLB season.
Doug weighs in on the coaching carousal in college hoops as Buzz Williams is leaving Texas A&M for Maryland.
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To be.
What the San Francisco forty nine ers have been. They've been the model for how to create a great roster in the National Football League. And what you do is you get a quarterback who, in this particular case was mister irrelevant, the last pick of the NFL draft, and if you can develop it, if you can play him, if he can be a starter. Everyone else is paying now forty to sixty million dollars a year. You're paying him bub Kiss a million dollars a year, and you use all that money elsewhere. It's fascinating to me on how there have been so many other negotiations with quarterbacks that have gone awry and they've gotten ugly at the end when this one. Listen, this is Jed talking about his quarterback and the potential for getting a deal done.
And you make the decision that you want to pay a quarterback that has obviously been underpaid for his first three seasons in the NFL. When you make that change, you have to make sacrifices somewhere. It's a decision that we made collectively, and we're hoping that we make somebody the highest paid player in the history of our franchise. And that was a decision that we made. I mean probably in the middle of the season. I have every hope and every expectation that Brock is going to be a forty.
Nine er for a long, long time.
Yeah, so Luksen, they've gone all in. This is our guy, He's our next Montana. Remember Joe Montana was also a late late draft pick as well. The issue with it is like, can brock Purty be Brock Party if he's not surrounded by an all star cast? Right? Can brock Purty be brock Purty if he's not surrounded by an all star cast? And what they'll have to do? And look, some of the guys they've had to part ways with or past their prime and they needed to move on anyway. But the Niners were so many people's pick to come out of the NFC for the Super Bowl the past couple of years in no small part because of the overall ensemble cast, not because of Brock Party, not because of Brock Party. And look, it's not any different. Even in my position, You're like, wait, what, you're a college basketball coach for a mid major. Sure, but we have a budget, just like they have a salary cap. We have a budget. How much we can spend. Are we better off building it with one or two star players? Knowing that again, in free agency the hit rate's probably going to be thirty three percent, or are we better off being good across the board and just being solid. And if you can get, you know, a discount on one of your best players, can you then use that, use that to sprinkle in other places. It's not the niners fault that he was underpaid the past couple of years. It really isn't. Rock Party wasn't valued by the league. Every team in the league had at least four chances to draft him, And you're like, wait, there was you know, seven rounds. Yeah, but not everybody picks every round. Okay, some teams don't have picks, so I would teams had at least four, if not six, or seven or eight or nine chances to draft him. None of them did. The Niners did, and he got to play far sooner than anybody thought, and he was better, but he was also surrounded by all these really good players and just this is going to be fascinating, And the Niners do appear to be doing something because because that's how it's always been done, that makes sense. Why are you paying him so much money? Well, that's always it's always been Okay, has anybody thought, well, what would happen if he walks? WHOA if he walks or if you say, we're not gonna pay you sixty million. We're gonna pay you thirty five million, and I'm gonna guarantee it for five years. Will somebody else outdo them? Maybe? Are you really that concerned about it? I wouldn't be. I wouldn't be. Maybe that's wrong, But does anybody believe I want your honest belief? Pat Mahomes or brock Party, come on, Lamar Jackson or brock Purty, come on, Josh Allen or brock Purty, come on. Now you could sit there and go, hey, he's right in our system. He's a really good run. He may not be Lamar, but he's really really athletic he is. He may not be Pat Mahomes, but he's good running around out of pocket he is. Does he have a big time cannon for an arm?
Is he?
Josh Allen? No? If you put him on the bills, would they get as far as they got?
No?
So I I'm not saying he stinks. I'm not saying get rid of him. I'm saying, why do we have the need to make guys the highest paid ever ever?
Ever?
When what's made brock Purty brock Purty is he hasn't made a lot of money, so you've been able to give him an all star cast of players and now look, and some of it's a good excuse because I'm guessing the Niners are like, we'd love to move off of off of Deebo Samuel, Right, Deebo Samuel overpaid, Brandon Ayuck overpaid, gets hurt, would love to move off of that. You know, some of this is a good excuse to you know, they were kind of overpaid. We want to get out of those deals. It allows us to do it and then say, hey, brock Purty's contract is the reason why. But how we view brock Purty from this point forward is going to be far different because he won't be viewed as the man I don't care what you're getting out of him. He was mister irrelevant. So the fact that he can even tie his cleats and throw a football and get a play in it's a win. Now he'll be viewed as the sixty million dollar man that changes the team's expectations of him, fans expectations of him, and obviously changes the supporting cast around him. Put me down for the I've said this for the last three years. Brock Purty is really really good, but he is the classic trailer, not the truck. He is part of the ensemble cast, not the star of the show. And when you pay a guy who is really good that kind of money, he gets held to a standard that he can't live up to. That's my guess. This is the Doug Gottlieb Show. You're on Foxsports Radio. It's coming to you from the ti rack dot com studios. Tractor Supply knows what a winning season takes. It takes practice, teamwork, and it can do attitude. Thankfully, when you have a neighbor like Tractor Supply, teamwork comes easy. Whether you're caring for pets, chickens or a few acres, our team members will help you succeed season after season. Tractors Supply for Life out here. Be sure to check out Tractor Supplies Fox Sports Radio Bracket Challenge at foxport Trade dot Com. See how our hosts are doing with their picks and who the top ranked listeners are. The listener with the best bracket foxport trade dot com who win a twenty five hundred dollars gift card to Tractor Supply. Yes I am place, Yes I had four Number one seeds. Yes it was boring. Yes I'm better than you because not because I know anything more about the sport that I coached and used to cover, but because I simply went by, for the most part, who spent the most money.
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Some have remorse, I.
Am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior.
I engage come on, but.
There's nothing quite like Buyer's remorse.
Doug.
I could start out with lawn care, because that's my true remorse is I'm trying to do my front yard, trying to redo the grass, on it.
I did not like the grass that I previously had.
And I'm midway through the project and I'm realizing that it's going to take a little bit more elbow grease and maybe some equipment that I.
Don't have on hand to do unbelievable.
So a little bit more of the projects that I maybe i'd bit off, a little bit more that I could chew.
Just don't tell my wife.
I think everything will look great in the end, but I think I need to till some of the dead grass spots that I killed off. I thought I could just throw some round up kill it. No, then to thatch it.
No, I wanted to one of those market catchers.
You can't throw the round up on. Did you throw round up on stuff?
Well, yeah, yeah, the grass is dead. It needed to be killed, I know.
But if you throw round up on it, nothing grows on it.
That is not true.
You have to wait a certain time if you get the if you get the kind that's like four month round up or the heavy strength stuff, that is true. But I should be able to plant seed within the next couple of weeks here as it's been a few weeks. But I took my neighbor's to thatcher and scarifier. Some call it scarify it. I go with Scarifire and it did a great job, but there's still these base roots in my lawn that I did the job rid of. It's fine when I'm trying to talk Sam, I don't want to be doubled up with myself and I leave the rops okay. Then back to the market covers up the point.
That I'm trying to make. Grant.
I also I also have a problem, and it's not more of my remorse, Doug, it's more with NC Double A did a great job in realizing their era from years back and having courts look the same. Then comes Sweet sixteen and Elite eight action this weekend. The only thing that was different was the mid court out of bounds by the scores.
Table that was either blue or gray.
And again they didn't even span out to have four different expand out they have four different colors, they.
Just had two of them.
All of the courts again looked the same and something that we talked about a lot here on Fox Sports Lady on the Doug Gottlieb Show, These great NC DOUBLEA tournament moments are usually to find out where they play, and the NC Double A this time around just went to two courts that basically looked exactly alike four courts, and it was I was very, very disappointed in the NC Doublea's decision with that a cannon one blue, one red, one green, one gray. I mean, mix it up, That's what every morsel.
I got some remorse.
The court.
Though Doug me.
Dan and I have discussed this before. We both truthfully think they should go back to the hometown court, right make him different. I'm a court snob. Okay, There's lots of things like I our court gets redone every year, and I'm like, we need to peel that sucker way back. I want the wood lightened like the white white maple of Galagheriba. But we have lighter wood on our practice court and on our court at the Rest Center. I want the crest to be lighter. I want the State of Wisconsin outline logo gigantic and then Green Bay. I don't just want Green Bay and the GB in the middle. I want to say green Bay. So you know, again, I'm a court snob, so I agree with most of his sentiment, but at the at the court just like, let him have the local courts. I think that's a really cool thing.
Heck, they make a new court for the arena for those games. Yep, you could just do it in the.
Colors of that city or that school that's hosting it, whatever the case may be.
But it would at least add some variety.
And that Spider's remorse. It's the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio, and anytime we need baseball and in this case, hitting technology. I've never met anyone who's more invested in the sport than my boy Matt Holliday, seven time All Star, four time Solar Slugger, and a producer of current and future baseball stars as well. He joins us in the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. The torpedo bat. Have you used it?
No? So this offseason Orioles sent Jackson a bat that is similar in theory. Wasn't as torpedo ish, but the weight had been moved lower in the bat, which is, you know, a sort of the reason to have this torpedo bat is to slide the sweet spot down closer to the hands as opposed to the end of the bat, to take some of the weight and move it around a little bit. So he had a bat that that basically was the same concept in his hands this offseason. Hit with it some in the cage. I didn't, and feeling the bat it is is not noticeably different. Obviously I didn't take any swings with it. But so I think that that teams have been onto this sort of theory, with a lot of the analytical people starting to look into two different ways to to sort of modify the bat and how they can optimize each guy's you know, sort of profile and what kind of bat fits them best based on analytics and the data that they have. So I don't think this is necessarily super new, but I do think the the visual of more uh or pito ish bat, if you will, is caught people's eye.
Is there a way to adjust how you pitch to somebody based upon these bats?
I don't think it's that big of a deal. I don't think this is We're going to require sort of a chess match of if you do this, we do that. I don't think it's this big. I mean, obviously the Yankees hitting a ton of home runs this you know, this series, but I think that has more to do with the Brewers and the fact that Aaron Judge is a monster than necessarily uh, this torpedo bat being the cutting edge new sort of I don't think this is I think it has more to do with that. So I don't think that there's going to be a Well, they're using this bat that's closer to the hands, so we need to pitch the ball away more to have them hit it off the end of the bat, and and and so I don't I don't think so. I don't think that there's any I don't think it's that big of an adjustment. I think it's more hype meet for me than necessarily substance.
Matt Holiday, John us Year Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. You mentioned Brewers pitching and how bad it appears to be. I mean, this is a team that with all kinds of injuries last year still made it to the playoffs. This year, it looks like they have they have no shot. It's very early. How fixable are their pitching issues.
Well, a lot of them are injured and not currently pitching, and they have Santana who they find late, who's going to be probably a little bit more time to ramp up to the pitch count of the starter. So I don't think this is the staff that you're going to see even in probably two to three weeks. But I do think it's concerned. I do think that they aren't as last year they had a lot of angles and different types of pitchers in their bullpen, which is effective because they they're not very They weren't they weren't stock, you know, they aren't arms and angles that you see every day, so they can be effective and guys are not used to different angles and pitch types. But I do think it's concerning, But I think it's too early to sort of judge their their capabilities, you know, moving forward for the entire season.
S Doug Gotlib show here on Fox Sports Radio in in college basketball, and I frankly think in college football, I think they screwed up the bracketing. But there's just there's just the haves and the have nots. And you know, forever in baseball you've had, you know, teams like Tampa that have been able to compete despite the defective or Oakland been able to compete, just not as much, not as often in the playoffs. Of course, a couple of years ago when the Dodgers won the World Series in uh, during the COVID year. They they made it all the way to you know, to the World Series. It's it's happened before. Uh. It does feel like the Dodgers and maybe the Yankees are close to figuring that out. That just a level of dominance because they have so many more resources. Is that real or is it still baseball? So anyone still can win this thing?
Well, I think it definitely guarantees you into the playoffs. I mean, I think when you have this kind of roster, the Dodgers, you know, probably the easiest bet that they're going to make one of those spots. So they're they're you know, they're they're going to get into the playoffs. Now, once the playoffs start, you know, teams can get hot. You can run into a you know, the Dodgers could run into a hot team that you know, wins the first game and now there's pressure on the Dodgers and anything can happen again. So that kind of thing can happen. I do think these kind of roster talent depths, I do think that they they all but guarantee you into this current playoff situation because there are you know, two more wild cards and opportunities to get so I think it does guarantee you that. I think in the Dodgers case, probably more so than the Yankees, they went out and signed bullpen guys that other teams were using as closers, and now they're pitching in the sixth and seventh inning for the Dodgers, which I think gives them a distinct advantage over the rest of the league that they can spend that kind of money on their sixth and seventh inning relievers and they can go out and get guys to come in and fill those roles that are used to being closers because they can afford to overpay or not maybe not overpay, but maybe pay those salaries to pitch in those innings. So I think that that's an advantage. I think the Dodgers do a tremendous job of developing their own talent too. I mean, I think that they despite the fact that they usually don't pick very high in the first round or you know, and as the drafts goes that they stay in the back of each round. I think they do an amazing job of finding good talent and developing it, and they spend money in the minor leagues, and they spend money on the minor league players for development, and they cut no corners. And I think that that's an advantage because when you can develop your own players, they become great trade bait and and you don't have to spend as much in pre agency because you're developing your own, uh, you know players. And so I think they're doing a lot of things really well besides just going out and signing you know, high end free agents. So, uh, they seem to have a really good thing going and and you know the rest of the organizations are you know, trying to figure out how to keep up.
Obviously we're you know, for them, we're six games in other teams are three, four or five games in early returns go through with spring training and with early season stuff. Who's a team that you think is going to be better than most people think?
You know, I like the Reds and and that you know, they're young players. Elie de la Cruz is obviously a superstar and and I'm his ceiling is tremendously high. I think Terry Francona is a really good manager and a really good with young players and how to handle expectations for young players. So I think that's a really good ad. I think that they're better. Uh they got you know, they they traded for singer who pitched really well last night. To me, it'll depend on how well they they pitched the ball. I think they're young position players are good. But I like their team. I think in that division they have a chance, especially with the you know, sort of the birds pitching situation at least currently, that's going to be an interesting division. And then I think, you know, the Royals, despite making the playoffs and everybody you know, they they they I think that they have a good team and I think that they're going to be a team to watch, even though maybe people already know that they're pretty good because they were in the playoffs last year and beat the Orioles. So those are a couple of teams that that, you know, I think stand out here in just the first few games that that I think could make some make some hay and in the playoffs.
Uh that last thing when you watch obviously your brothers a coach at at Oklahoma State, you're watching about you're as big a basketball fan rank as I am, right, good thing or bad thing? What we're seeing in the best of the best are the only ones that succeed in the NCAA Tournament.
I mean, I I don't love it just because I like the underdog story. I mean, I like to watch teams that get hot and maybe players that I didn't know about because I don't you know, you don't see them in mid major conference games and they're just not as as as talked about. I liked that. I liked, you know, some of those final fours were Butler and some of these schools that that that you you, you know, you start to get fascinated by their story. So and I think I will miss that. But I do think that it is has a lot to do with the transfer portal and and uh and it seemingly is is has not been as many upsets and and the rosters that that are super deep and have the best players are are winning. So I don't know, I'm what do you think. I don't. I don't love it. I like, I like to have the Cinderella stories. But it is good basketball. I mean, if they really are playing high level basketball.
Yeah, and it's because they're getting smart right where they can get guys to transfer up level they're older. It's really good basketball. I do think that's one of the parts of it that's missing. It's it's just not I don't know us say fair or even or whatever. And it it's really interesting. What's happening in the sports is the migration to the big conferences. And look, we we sell that here right last two years before I got here and you're here, our best player is going to transfer up and make a ton of money. So it's it's it's part of kind of my job here is to get a guy a better job than the one I'm giving him. But it's still there's something about playing for your school, playing with guys, playing with guys for multiple years that feels more like what it's about, you know, so I think, yeah, I mean, I think you got to have guys sit out a year or one free.
It feels like the one the year to year, you know, guys going two to three to four schools and.
Playing against teams in your league is crazy.
To me, Yeah, like you sports used to. But no, no.
No, well yes, yes, And it's a great point because everybody thinks when you say that, you're just talking about the money. No, it's not that collegiate What makes collegiate sports special, right one, you have built in rivalries, built in rivalries, right well, now kids play for one, play for you know, Rodney Gale played for Ohio State last year, Michigan this year. You know, we've had it with Oklahome State guys playing for Oaklaham Like you would never do that ever, ever, no matter how big the check was. So that that's part of it. Additionally, you don't have the ability to see guys grow, right, and and then we'll really get screws the high school kids because like, why would I recruit a high school kid? Don't care how good you are? You know, don't don't care how good you are. So I'm it's interesting, interesting times. How'd Jackson do?
He's doing great, looks good, off to a good start. Uh, you know they're uh they split, so I think they're three and two off day to day and and so he's he's playing well, looks good and uh so yeah, excited to watch him this year, looking forward to it.
How much different is he this year as he's full time on big club? Last year of course, uh struggles early on before you know, time of the minors and then coming back how different is he as a player in human being?
Yeah, I mean I think, look, you're more comfortable. I mean you go in with the expectation of you know your routine, you know your teammates, you know you're you know, there's not as much seemingly, there's not as much pressure because you know you've you've already played and and uh, And I think he made some adjustment that he's very confident in that that will help him, uh with some of the things that I think that that he was concerned happened last year. And so I think he feels confident. And it's always good when the things you worked on in the off season carry over to spring training and you're able to go out and execute the things you've worked on and they you have positive results. So that builds confidence. And so I think he's in a really good place. Confidence slides, and you know, is doing some of the things as far as they wanted to steal more bases and maybe bump the ball a little bit, and so you know how he did some of that in spring training, and so I think he's in a good space as far as just all the adjustments and then the comfortability of having spent sixty games in the big leagues and knowing your role on the team and sort of your place in the clubhouse, and all those things go into you know, sort of being able to go out and just freely play the game that you love and the way you grew up playing it and take the pressure off and just go out and play the game and enjoy it and play to win and do the little things and find a way to help your team win. I think that's something that he excels at.
Thanks for your time, man, I really appreciate it. Thanks for our guest on Fox Sports Radio.
Yep, thanks for having me.
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Yes, Jason Stewart, question for you a current Division one head basketball coach and a basketball enthusiast Dan Buyer here, I think between the two of you you can give me a good answer to this. I was reading over the weekend where Nate Oates was considering Maryland reportedly because of his he's disenfranchised with the revenue share and the SEC, the financial model and the e SEC. Is is it that much more desirable than the revenue share? And what's the downside of a revenue share?
Wait, what was the question? What's the downside of revenue share? Explain that again? Who's unhappy with the SEC revenue share?
I was reading over the weekend where Nate Oates was considering Maryland because of these concerns the LCC's media revenue share compared to whatever the ACC does. What's the downside of revenue share?
I don't know what Nate's talking about. I think it may be revenue share within the football and basketball program. So I think is it twenty two million dollars? I believe that that is the rev share That is the most you can spend. So it's twenty two million dollars, and you can split it up however you'd like within a university. Right, how much goes to football, how much goes to basketball, how much goes to all your other sports? And my guess is at Alabama, one of the things that SEC schools do is baseball is important to them. I know gymnastics is important to them. I don't think women's basketball is important to them, So I don't know if they spend any money there. But the point is that we know the football is getting there. Chunk of chunk of change, and so basketball your revshare can be between I think it's between like low twos to three and a half million, and then you can still have your collective. So I think what Nate is probably saying is, Hey, at our school, we're at the low end with the rev share and we don't have a huge basketball collective because all the collective money goes to football and then some goes to baseball, and they're really good gymnastics in other sports. Maybe that's what he's talking about, But what's the downside to the rev share? The downside is again it's all baseball what your revenue actually is. And you know there's a I'll tell you, like financially, the Atlantic ten is actually those schools are considered to be in a better place than a lot of American Athletic Conference schools, even though American Athletic Conference schools have football, but with a similar revenue share, football gets a huger chunk of the pie. So you're better off at a basketball only school because they have the revenue share that the basketball gets the bigger chuck of the back.
Yeah, I think that was a part of it, the football aspect of it.
I would also say that if you're a have as opposed to a have not, revenue sharing is probably something that you're not on the side of, right, I mean in terms of like the ACC is actually gone the other way in saying like, Okay, Florida State, Clemson, you guys will get more because you provide more. And I think any professional sport that does have revenue sharing would if you're if you're a HAVE in that league, would love what the ACC is doing. And I would think that if you're a HAVE in the SEC, and I think Alabama football and Alabama basketball are now halves, if you have to split that league in between eight and eight that I'm sure they wouldn't mind more in that scenario, correct, just because of what they produce, like you know, to use the obvious you know, the obvious point of Vanderbilt, I mean SEC football or excuse me, Alabama football and basketball is worth more than Vanderbilt football and basketball.
So I don't know, I'm in I'm intrigued by it. But the uh, the.
The Big Ten, by the way, is also going to be doing revenue sharing, So I don't know if going to a Big.
Ten school, yeah, I don't understand, well, I can I've changed anything.
And remember Kevin Willard was a little upset with how they spent. But the difference is at Maryland they want to be good at football, they want to be a good basketball and I don't know if anything else they they're trying good to anything else. Like again, I can tell you like at Oaklhama State, like they try and be good at wrestling, and wrestling is doing very well. Baseball they got to raise, you know, they've lost a bunch of their baseball players to SEC teams. They want to be good at football, which is really expensive. They won't to be good at basketball, which is really expensive. They want to beg at softball, Like softball is huge in the state of oak Homa, and they want to be competitive with oh you all this all this cost money golf as well. So it's sometimes it's the actual amount of dollars. Oftentimes it's the split within the university. And then let's just call it sweetener. And I've asked like, hey, what are the collectives look like moving forward? And people believe that in these SEC schools that even though the basketball will only spend you know, three and a half million dollars, that the collectives will then have you know, two to three, three and a half million dollars as well, and so you're gonna have, you know, you have like six million dollars to spend on your team, which just seems insane. It's just if you knew our numbers and what it takes to be successful in our conference and you knew that one, you'd be like what what oh, But you're like, look, Buzz is an interesting one. He does a great job with the media, He does a great job of social media. His teams play really, really, really hard. He does specialize oftentimes on guys that some people missed on hungry kind of junkyard dogs. But if we're being fair, he's been in the SEC, and you can if you want to make the football school thing, that's fine. But so is Auburn, so is Florida, so is Tennessee, so is Alabama, so is Texas, and even so is Texas Tech. I know, not in the SEC, and they're all having more success in college basketball than Buzz was having.
He just reminds me of like the friend that you have that just always moved, like, no matter what, they're in a spot three years gonna move. I'm gonna go to a different spot. And I think his history would show that. From Marquette, you know, Virginia Tech. Now A and M gets a six year deal at Maryland, so just yeah, I'm moving.
He's trying to coach in every Power five league before he retires.
You No, he's been the ACC, the SEC, and now he's in the Big ten, Big East. He was in the Big East at Marquette as well. There you go. So there is no more PAC twelve, so the Big twelve is only one that's next, all.
Right, who's gonna be possible?
Possible? That's also called restarting the shot clock, right, like, how long has it been an A and M? Five years?
Yeah, it's twenty nineteen too, now, so.
Five years you're like, yeah, okay. Then he goes somewhere new and you're there for four or five years, and you know, there's a coaching expression, you make an enemy every year. Make an enemy every year.
He's a Texas guy.
That's the thing that was I guess looking at it as a little surprising thing is when you thought that, Okay, well, this is this is a spot he's gonna he's gonna be at
Nope, oh do it you can't do it.
