WEBVTT 00:00:00.330 --> 00:00:04.950 Portions of this show are recorded. Strap in 00:00:04.950 --> 00:00:07.429 and be prepared. For Oregon fans that are listening 00:00:07.429 --> 00:00:09.929 to our little radio program, just say a silent 00:00:09.929 --> 00:00:12.429 prayer that Dan Lanning is your head coach. Because 00:00:12.429 --> 00:00:15.050 with all that's going on in the world, I think 00:00:15.050 --> 00:00:18.429 the last person that anyone has to worry about 00:00:18.429 --> 00:00:21.129 is gonna be Dan Lanning. Interesting guests. 00:00:21.289 --> 00:00:24.030 Kelly Gray, Mike Parker, Coach Mark Wasikowski, 00:00:24.230 --> 00:00:26.530 Noah Eagle, Melissa Lombardi, Kenyon Barnard, 00:00:26.789 --> 00:00:29.429 Jonathan Stewart. Sharp opinions. Reeser Stadium, 00:00:29.550 --> 00:00:31.969 the Valley Football Complex, is really nice. 00:00:32.189 --> 00:00:34.270 It's incredible. It's not just, it's nice for 00:00:34.270 --> 00:00:37.329 Corvallis. It's nice. And some smiles. Yeah, 00:00:37.369 --> 00:00:39.149 that's talking about Oregon football somehow. 00:00:40.289 --> 00:00:43.509 365 days a year, baby. It's Danny Havel. Listen, 00:00:43.549 --> 00:00:45.469 I was out on Sam Darnley. By the way, another 00:00:45.469 --> 00:00:48.609 fun fact, he is going to be the first quarterback 00:00:48.609 --> 00:00:51.869 from USC to ever start a Super Bowl. That is 00:00:51.869 --> 00:00:54.229 shocking. Justin Grossweiner. I just felt like 00:00:54.229 --> 00:00:57.409 they have some dynamicism on defense, especially. 00:00:57.530 --> 00:01:00.479 That's a great word, dude. I think he just made 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:02.380 it up, but I think that's a great I don't think 00:01:02.380 --> 00:01:05.700 I made it up, but we can check on that dynamicism 00:01:05.700 --> 00:01:09.200 Danny and Justin starts now on Fox Sports Eugene 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:31.859 and Fox Sports Newport Hello and welcome high 00:01:31.859 --> 00:01:34.459 atop the Delta Tri on the Crystal Palace live 00:01:34.459 --> 00:01:36.859 from the Bigfoot Beverages studios Fox Sports 00:01:36.859 --> 00:01:38.939 Eugene Fox Sports Newport this is the little 00:01:38.939 --> 00:01:41.019 Danny and Justin radio program you can find us 00:01:41.019 --> 00:01:45.480 on Twitter and Blue Sky Danny and Justin also 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:48.159 over there wherever you podcast yeah whether 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:54.060 it's Apple or Amazon or Podverse or I think RSS 00:01:54.060 --> 00:01:56.480 stream has also got like a .com. You can find 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:57.819 us on the public site there. Whatever back wherever 00:01:57.819 --> 00:01:59.780 you're at. Danny and Justin are the fastest 60 00:01:59.780 --> 00:02:01.400 minutes in sports. You can find us right there 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:05.939 like and subscribe. As we roll through a Tuesday. 00:02:05.939 --> 00:02:10.219 It is already February 3rd 2026, the year of 00:02:10.219 --> 00:02:13.360 our Lord. Thanks for tuning in over there running 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:17.740 the control board is intern Dom in his Virgin 00:02:17.740 --> 00:02:20.879 flights. To push all the buttons and make us 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:25.680 sound good over to my right in a very Is my tag 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:27.979 -team partner. I'm Danny. That's Justin. We call 00:02:27.979 --> 00:02:31.199 him baby J. What a boy Well, I'm feeling a little 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:34.020 beat up today. Why would you want worked out? 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:36.939 I played basketball played pick -up basketball 00:02:36.939 --> 00:02:39.560 for the first time. Have we discussed this why 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:41.770 you shouldn't do that? Well, I'm starting to 00:02:41.770 --> 00:02:44.270 learn I'm starting to figure it out because my 00:02:44.270 --> 00:02:48.449 body is not treating me very well and My my calf 00:02:48.449 --> 00:02:50.349 feels very sore. It's already feeling sore during 00:02:50.349 --> 00:02:53.270 the game your young spry 30 year old body. Yes, 00:02:53.270 --> 00:02:55.490 not feeling great Well, it's not as young spry 00:02:55.490 --> 00:02:57.930 as it used to be so I literally physically like 00:02:57.930 --> 00:03:00.930 feel like I need to recover today So that's where 00:03:00.930 --> 00:03:03.569 I'm at spry is not a word that you use to describe 00:03:03.569 --> 00:03:07.009 youth Spry is what you do when you see somebody 00:03:07.009 --> 00:03:09.889 who's 82 years old and they're running all over 00:03:09.889 --> 00:03:12.650 the place and go, that person's spry because 00:03:12.650 --> 00:03:17.490 you don't use it a lot. Quicker than fast. Good 00:03:17.490 --> 00:03:19.669 show for you today. We hope as always in the 00:03:19.669 --> 00:03:21.990 fastest 60 minutes We're gonna have a friend 00:03:21.990 --> 00:03:24.509 of mine and it will fast become a good friend 00:03:24.509 --> 00:03:26.830 of the program Cole Linehan former Oregon duck 00:03:26.830 --> 00:03:30.270 defensive lineman who is now the head coach of 00:03:30.270 --> 00:03:36.590 the well has been since 20 2017 Somewhere around 00:03:36.590 --> 00:03:39.650 there at Banks High School the banks Braves brought 00:03:39.650 --> 00:03:42.550 them a state championship in 2018 is also athletic 00:03:42.550 --> 00:03:46.520 director up there as a part of the program podcast 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:49.580 with our good friend Dusty Hara. So we'll have 00:03:49.580 --> 00:03:52.319 him on the program because tomorrow it's snuck 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:56.740 up on you because of NIL and because of the portal. 00:03:57.180 --> 00:03:59.819 It is actually National Signing Day. Tomorrow 00:03:59.819 --> 00:04:03.139 so yeah kids because actually national signing 00:04:03.139 --> 00:04:05.360 day means a lot less It doesn't really mean anything. 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:08.099 Yeah, it doesn't mean much anymore So we'll have 00:04:08.099 --> 00:04:10.379 coal on the program lots to talk about with the 00:04:10.379 --> 00:04:13.740 NBA trade deadline. Just two days away A nice 00:04:13.740 --> 00:04:16.100 award for one of the oregon women's basketball 00:04:16.100 --> 00:04:18.079 players. We'll talk about that a cool story that 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:21.620 I picked up um, and yesterday we didn't even 00:04:21.620 --> 00:04:25.240 talk about that it was Groundhog day yesterday 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:28.240 one of my favorite movies of all time me and 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:31.269 me as well It is a all -time great movie. It 00:04:31.269 --> 00:04:35.149 may be the best like family film out there It's 00:04:35.149 --> 00:04:37.470 that's i'd have to think about it, but it's up 00:04:37.470 --> 00:04:40.410 there for me. All right, so One of the things 00:04:40.410 --> 00:04:43.129 that I I like dropping my super bowl fun facts 00:04:43.129 --> 00:04:44.990 Which I will drop a couple more and we'll have 00:04:44.990 --> 00:04:46.769 dad joke in the last segment as well as always 00:04:46.769 --> 00:04:49.889 Uh, I was at lunch today with a couple of dear 00:04:49.889 --> 00:04:53.069 friends Mike allegor who came in and sat in the 00:04:53.069 --> 00:04:56.069 studio a few weeks ago I do a lot of OSA broadcast 00:04:56.069 --> 00:04:58.250 with him, the 5A tournament, and I've done the 00:04:58.250 --> 00:05:01.069 2A tournament in the past in football. And voice 00:05:01.069 --> 00:05:03.029 of the ducks, Jerry Allen, who was my mentor, 00:05:03.069 --> 00:05:05.189 who was the guy who got me into this business, 00:05:05.769 --> 00:05:07.810 thank goodness, all those years ago, many, many 00:05:07.810 --> 00:05:10.389 years ago for both of us, when he was at 610 00:05:10.389 --> 00:05:13.689 KYJC. And we were talking about Groundhog Day. 00:05:14.490 --> 00:05:17.250 The movie, or just the holiday? The holiday, 00:05:17.449 --> 00:05:21.410 Groundhog Day, and about how we see our shadows 00:05:21.410 --> 00:05:24.189 as well, possibly. We weren't talking about that. 00:05:24.250 --> 00:05:28.029 But here's something that was interesting that 00:05:28.029 --> 00:05:32.250 I found. Is a bold prediction regarding the winner 00:05:32.250 --> 00:05:36.389 of Super Bowl 60 dropped yesterday. You know 00:05:36.389 --> 00:05:39.689 what it is? It has to do with Punxsutawney Phil, 00:05:40.129 --> 00:05:43.910 America's beloved groundhog, awaking from his 00:05:43.910 --> 00:05:45.649 winter nap to see his own shadow and sharing 00:05:45.649 --> 00:05:48.029 six more weeks of the season, which winters can 00:05:48.029 --> 00:05:50.420 last however long it lasts. I don't know why 00:05:50.420 --> 00:05:52.019 they always do that and my friend Mike said that 00:05:52.019 --> 00:05:53.779 to us today at lunch and it was just like it 00:05:53.779 --> 00:05:56.519 kind of rung a bell with me, but it alludes to 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:01.980 a New England Patriots win over the Seattle Seahawks 00:06:01.980 --> 00:06:03.939 Sunday. It had to be the only reason why this 00:06:03.939 --> 00:06:06.720 was interesting, right? Yeah, because I think 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:09.319 everyone has everyone is picking the Seahawks 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:10.899 as far as I can see. I think they're a four and 00:06:10.899 --> 00:06:12.019 a half point. Now they're four and a half, which 00:06:12.019 --> 00:06:14.680 is pretty big in a Super Bowl. Five of the six 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:17.839 years that Phil has seen his shadow. The Patriots 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:21.980 have won the Super Bowl now. Including their 00:06:21.980 --> 00:06:26.079 Super Bowl win over the Seahawks in 2014. That's 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:28.000 what put that in your pipe These are these trends 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:30.500 that intern Dom's into he's coming with all these 00:06:30.500 --> 00:06:36.019 like Has to go and be away or go west and even 00:06:36.019 --> 00:06:38.639 if it's very one mile they've lost six out of 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:40.139 seven or something You know when I don't like 00:06:40.139 --> 00:06:42.899 trends like that is when it's a team that I'm 00:06:42.899 --> 00:06:45.819 rooting And they're going against it or just 00:06:45.819 --> 00:06:47.779 like they have it like, you know Just there was 00:06:47.779 --> 00:06:49.420 the whole thing like even with the football program. 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:52.500 They haven't Lost a road contest in the Big Ten 00:06:52.500 --> 00:06:54.740 in X amount of years. He's like really you're 00:06:54.740 --> 00:06:56.860 doing that into the Iowa game You're talking 00:06:56.860 --> 00:06:58.720 right about that. Well, it's the same thing back 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:00.680 to the Pac -12 or whatever You don't say no hitter 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:02.680 on a broadcast. You just don't like that. That's 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:05.720 the announcers superstitious jinx that you can 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:10.819 put on it really happens rarely happens so The 00:07:10.819 --> 00:07:14.879 trade deadline coming up for the NBA and the 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:18.160 Yanis Stuff that we talked about the other day 00:07:20.780 --> 00:07:24.220 What I'm seeing and reading now is kind of interesting 00:07:24.220 --> 00:07:28.160 to me is that there are now a groundswell of 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:30.939 folks that are experts in this. I'm by far not 00:07:30.939 --> 00:07:33.860 an expert because, as I've said over and over 00:07:33.860 --> 00:07:36.519 again, I'm not a huge NBA fan. I was an NCAA 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:38.920 basketball fan until, you know, the Portal and 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:42.399 such. Now you just cover it. Now I just cover 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:46.709 it. I still enjoy parts of it, but... That that 00:07:46.709 --> 00:07:48.750 Yanis might not get traded this whole thing might 00:07:48.750 --> 00:07:51.629 just eke out and go to the summer till after 00:07:51.629 --> 00:07:53.149 the season's over with Yeah, summertime. Are 00:07:53.149 --> 00:07:55.329 you hearing that? I have been much more in tune 00:07:55.329 --> 00:07:57.670 to that than I am Yeah, I mean that's that's 00:07:57.670 --> 00:08:00.610 sort of I've been hearing as well. I mean it's 00:08:00.610 --> 00:08:03.829 It just seems like the from what I've been hearing 00:08:03.829 --> 00:08:06.110 in terms of the blazers at least is that they 00:08:06.110 --> 00:08:09.500 they is in the Bucks Want the Celtic or the the 00:08:09.500 --> 00:08:11.500 Blazers picks to be involved because then they 00:08:11.500 --> 00:08:13.800 can control if they can tank it or not Does that 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.079 mean that the Blazers would be the team that 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:20.060 you honest would go to? Probably not maybe It 00:08:20.060 --> 00:08:21.920 seems like it's it's a possible destination, 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:24.180 but I wouldn't say that that's incredibly likely 00:08:24.180 --> 00:08:26.360 But it would definitely be smart for the Blazers 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:28.639 to get involved if they can get some assets out 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:31.139 of it And you saw today with a lot of these trades 00:08:31.139 --> 00:08:34.360 for instance The Timberwolves made a trade with 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:36.740 the Bulls where the Timberwolves literally got 00:08:36.740 --> 00:08:39.179 nothing in a three -way trade. They traded away 00:08:39.179 --> 00:08:40.799 a contract. They traded away Mike Connelly. That's 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:41.860 what they're doing right now. They're dumping 00:08:41.860 --> 00:08:44.120 some money. They're dumping money. So they obviously 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:46.039 that's what they're getting is flexibility and 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:47.679 maybe they're doing it for Yannis. I mean, that's 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:49.500 one of the teams that has been looked at as a 00:08:49.500 --> 00:08:51.960 possible Yannis destination. But I do think that 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.039 there's a chance that Yannis will last until 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:56.379 The next summer because he's under contract so 00:08:56.379 --> 00:08:58.740 there's deadlines for action, and this is a trade 00:08:58.740 --> 00:09:00.820 deadline But his contract isn't under the deadline, 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:02.980 and so it's possible. They just don't want to 00:09:02.980 --> 00:09:04.840 let him go So the biggest pieces out there if 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:07.960 you follow the game probably James Harden And 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:12.419 the Clippers trying to send him away Anthony 00:09:12.419 --> 00:09:15.899 Davis in Dallas possibly possibly Memphis is 00:09:15.899 --> 00:09:18.360 John Moran could be the biggest pieces still 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:20.440 they're out there And then there's gonna be a 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:22.379 bunch of players that unless you're a fan of 00:09:22.379 --> 00:09:24.860 the team or the player itself you're not going 00:09:24.860 --> 00:09:26.679 to know who they are and there's going to be 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:28.799 a ton of those and I will start seeing more two 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:30.840 and three -way deals meaning two teams three 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:33.059 teams involved because again the money is going 00:09:33.059 --> 00:09:36.320 to start moving around okay well it's with this 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:39.399 CBA the contracts have to match and like it just 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:41.779 becomes a lot harder with with trades so Thursday 00:09:41.779 --> 00:09:43.980 or Friday we're not sure which right now we're 00:09:43.980 --> 00:09:46.539 going to get the mayor Travis Demers from the 00:09:46.539 --> 00:09:49.019 Blazers I think we can decide let's fine let's 00:09:49.019 --> 00:09:51.059 let's shoot for Thursday then because it'll be 00:09:51.059 --> 00:09:53.629 right the deadline Now, I'm not sure when all 00:09:53.629 --> 00:09:55.190 the announcements come out, but the deadline 00:09:55.190 --> 00:09:59.509 is noon on Thursday. So perfect. 3 p .m. on the 00:09:59.509 --> 00:10:01.710 right coast. It's noon on the left coast. So 00:10:01.710 --> 00:10:04.110 it'd be a perfect time to have Travis on. Okay. 00:10:04.190 --> 00:10:07.330 Perfect. We'll do that. That's set then. What 00:10:07.330 --> 00:10:09.809 do you want to do first? You want to do the award 00:10:09.809 --> 00:10:15.549 and then the broadcast? Ahisa Tutte helps propel 00:10:15.549 --> 00:10:18.769 Oregon to a 2 -0 East Coast trip. Including the 00:10:18.769 --> 00:10:20.850 win over number 16, Maryland. So she was named 00:10:20.850 --> 00:10:23.230 Big Ten co -player of the week Congratulations 00:10:23.230 --> 00:10:26.309 career high 17 points go along with nine boards 00:10:26.309 --> 00:10:30.509 in the win over Rutgers and Then just three days 00:10:30.509 --> 00:10:34.110 later the Luxembourg product shattered her career 00:10:34.110 --> 00:10:36.750 high poured in 26 points got the double -double 00:10:36.750 --> 00:10:40.309 11 rebounds in the Ducks 68 61 win She was 10 00:10:40.309 --> 00:10:43.409 of 15 from the floor 6 of 8 from the line her 00:10:43.409 --> 00:10:46.129 fifth double -double of the season you really 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:49.480 like Ahisa Tute. I have very much liked Ahisa 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:51.759 Tute. You've been on this train for a while now. 00:10:51.779 --> 00:10:53.279 I have been ever since last year. I was trying 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:54.700 to figure out which game it actually was. Maybe 00:10:54.700 --> 00:10:57.000 it was Northwestern. She had... Turned the corner 00:10:57.000 --> 00:10:59.559 for you then? Yeah, she just like, she's just 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:01.799 a really good rebounder. She's... Great with 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:04.519 her leverage. She's not the tallest player. So 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:06.759 I think there's some teams that just matchup 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:09.120 wise she doesn't fit against. But for teams that 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.960 don't have a six, seven post. And this is my 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:13.659 opinion. Coach Gray's could come on here and 00:11:13.659 --> 00:11:15.139 say, I'm totally wrong. But this is just my opinion. 00:11:15.259 --> 00:11:17.220 I just think that there's some matchups where 00:11:17.220 --> 00:11:19.580 she is a real problem. She can rebound and she 00:11:19.580 --> 00:11:22.299 can score extremely efficiently on the inside. 00:11:22.500 --> 00:11:24.799 And that'll lead you to win games at times. Well, 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:26.980 it takes pressure off players like Katie Fiso 00:11:26.980 --> 00:11:29.360 and others that they don't have to feel like 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.259 they're having to. pull the load when it comes 00:11:32.259 --> 00:11:35.779 to scoring. So the Ducks return to MKA tomorrow 00:11:35.779 --> 00:11:38.320 night against the Fighting Illini of Illinois, 00:11:38.379 --> 00:11:41.179 6 p .m. It'll be on Big Ten Plus. And speaking 00:11:41.179 --> 00:11:45.200 of that, Big Ten Plus, there is going to be an 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:48.080 all -female crew to work the broadcast from the 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.879 University of Oregon, which I think is outstanding. 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:54.379 I agree. National Girls and Women in Sports Day 00:11:54.379 --> 00:11:58.559 is tomorrow, if you didn't know. And calling 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:03.139 the game... Sophie Fowler. She's gonna be one 00:12:03.139 --> 00:12:05.960 of 17 women contributing to the broadcast. So 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:08.600 everybody from the production folks, camera, 00:12:08.860 --> 00:12:12.960 director, talent. They're all talented, but when 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:14.899 we call it talent, it's the people who are gonna 00:12:14.899 --> 00:12:19.259 be speaking to you on the TV. So she's gonna 00:12:19.259 --> 00:12:23.299 be teamed up with Olivia Arsenega, who's gonna 00:12:23.299 --> 00:12:25.440 be doing the analyst work, and then McKenna Roman's 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.539 gonna be on the sideline. And then also... Someone 00:12:28.539 --> 00:12:30.720 who's a double major in advertising and planning 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:32.919 public policy and management and is far smarter 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:35.919 than I The director charged with overseeing the 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:38.639 broadcast is Shailor or Kia. I hope I'm pronouncing 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:41.100 all of your names correctly and if I'm not Text 00:12:41.100 --> 00:12:46.000 Justin and let him know and then they blame Danny 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:51.379 I think that is outstanding. So hooray for all 00:12:51.379 --> 00:12:53.659 of you that are doing that and go knock it out 00:12:53.659 --> 00:12:56.299 of the park How about that? I completely agree. 00:12:56.500 --> 00:12:59.580 And I hope that we get to a point where something 00:12:59.580 --> 00:13:03.139 like this isn't something notable. Well, I agree 00:13:03.139 --> 00:13:05.980 with that. But I think the more we talk about 00:13:05.980 --> 00:13:07.779 it, though, the more it becomes commonplace. 00:13:07.940 --> 00:13:09.200 Right. I think it's important. You know what 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:12.080 I'm trying to say. Get the most talented people 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:15.360 in front or behind this stuff that we do in the 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:17.279 media, because this is just... Right. Exactly. 00:13:17.809 --> 00:13:20.210 It's it's a obviously a love and a passion of 00:13:20.210 --> 00:13:22.049 ours. We're all sitting here and turn Dom's, 00:13:22.090 --> 00:13:23.809 you know, he's the baby in it You're like the 00:13:23.809 --> 00:13:26.330 middle child and right. I'm the old grandpa with 00:13:26.330 --> 00:13:28.370 my stick on the poor middle child. So who's the 00:13:28.370 --> 00:13:31.090 oldest? Well, I'm sure there's gonna be somebody 00:13:31.090 --> 00:13:35.970 else that walks through the door No, he's probably 00:13:35.970 --> 00:13:39.049 not the older child could be the older child 00:13:39.049 --> 00:13:43.110 if I had a child at 12 Something like that. So 00:13:43.110 --> 00:13:46.610 alright enough of that. We're veering The Danny 00:13:46.610 --> 00:13:48.389 and Justin radio program, if you miss any of 00:13:48.389 --> 00:13:50.389 this tomfoolery, you can go back and listen to 00:13:50.389 --> 00:13:52.370 it on the pod, Danny and Justin or the fastest 00:13:52.370 --> 00:13:54.950 60 minutes, like and subscribe. Coming up in 00:13:54.950 --> 00:13:58.120 a few moments, Cole Linehan. We'll talk signing 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:00.320 day for the Ducks. We'll get his opinion on what 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:02.500 the Ducks need to do or you know how they're 00:14:02.500 --> 00:14:07.139 fairing and The I wouldn't say recruiting I would 00:14:07.139 --> 00:14:08.940 say well I guess it is recruiting because if 00:14:08.940 --> 00:14:10.559 you're in the transfer portal and trying to hold 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:12.440 on to kids you lose some kids and They then you 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:15.360 get other ones back into backville I guess that's 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:16.759 still recruiting as well because you're recruiting 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:19.899 your own team anymore to keep writing people 00:14:19.899 --> 00:14:22.559 But Oregon doesn't lose starters They they're 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:26.080 losing the team that is behind the team or within 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:32.480 the team Truly, I mean The way these guys will 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:35.039 go out the the ones that were backups are seeing 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:38.360 the field at times in a rotation I will almost 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:40.200 tell you mostly on the defensive side as well. 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:42.960 They're gonna be seeing the field Right now as 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:45.019 a starter for other teams for other teams and 00:14:45.019 --> 00:14:46.960 what will happen inevitably what will happen 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:49.860 are Some of those guys will end up being better 00:14:49.860 --> 00:14:52.679 players then some of the guys to the Ducks keep 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:54.559 as starters and there's no way to know that is 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:55.980 the thing because they're not getting playing 00:14:55.980 --> 00:14:59.980 time and you're not going to necessarily if the 00:14:59.980 --> 00:15:01.639 guy stays on the roster then you're going to 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:04.200 give him a chance but I just think I think it's 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:05.720 inevitably going to happen where a player leaves 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:07.820 Oregon and people are going to get a big like 00:15:07.820 --> 00:15:09.759 oh my god like how did you let this guy go but 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:11.240 that's the reality of college football these 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:13.240 days well and especially you lose your offensive 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:15.600 and defensive coordinators who've built relationships 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:18.850 with players other recruits down the line but 00:15:18.850 --> 00:15:21.210 Dan Lanning his focus and he said it over and 00:15:21.210 --> 00:15:23.570 over again as people query him about recruiting 00:15:23.570 --> 00:15:26.549 is that not one coach is in on a recruit you 00:15:26.549 --> 00:15:28.529 have multiple people that are involved in the 00:15:28.529 --> 00:15:30.950 recruiting process so if somebody is Promoted 00:15:30.950 --> 00:15:32.529 or decides they want to go a different direction 00:15:32.529 --> 00:15:35.629 as a staff member that you've got multiple people 00:15:35.629 --> 00:15:37.289 involved So it's not like well that guy goes 00:15:37.289 --> 00:15:39.269 so I know I'm not going there now because I just 00:15:39.269 --> 00:15:41.909 had the relationship with that person So, and 00:15:41.909 --> 00:15:44.350 by the way, speaking of that, I got a unique 00:15:44.350 --> 00:15:46.169 opportunity. I touched on it the other day a 00:15:46.169 --> 00:15:47.769 little bit, but I was thinking about more and 00:15:47.769 --> 00:15:51.690 more. Lydia Gibbs, who's the director of on -campus 00:15:51.690 --> 00:15:53.870 recruiting, basically. She's the one that walks 00:15:53.870 --> 00:15:56.129 everybody around all the buildings and mama bears 00:15:56.129 --> 00:15:58.250 and stuff like that. It's very interesting to 00:15:58.250 --> 00:16:00.370 see the intricacies of what goes on behind the 00:16:00.370 --> 00:16:03.009 scenes when a player is being recruited. It is 00:16:03.009 --> 00:16:06.070 not just merely the talent or what they're going 00:16:06.070 --> 00:16:09.480 to do in the classroom. what I keep seeing over 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:12.240 and over again and the word I'm gonna use is 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:16.000 the word character and Oregon from what I see 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:20.159 and what I hear and what I feel is that they're 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:25.320 recruiting kids with good character and giving 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:29.259 them the right opportunities to fit so when I 00:16:29.259 --> 00:16:31.480 see someone like Ms. Gibbs walking them around 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:33.759 campus and i say you know what's the one thing 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:35.259 that they really want to see the most and it's 00:16:35.259 --> 00:16:37.240 like they want to see the jack was center because 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:38.779 it's where they're going to be sitting there 00:16:38.779 --> 00:16:42.120 studying and honing their classroom skills to 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:43.740 get them ready it's not the weight room it's 00:16:43.740 --> 00:16:45.440 not the other stuff like that it's the jack was 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:47.519 center so go ahead and oregon does a really good 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:51.519 job selling them on what they can do and i i 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:53.299 don't have the perspective of an athlete but 00:16:53.299 --> 00:16:55.080 i do have the perspective of having one of these 00:16:55.500 --> 00:16:57.440 i'm sure the tour is a little bit different for 00:16:57.440 --> 00:16:59.440 an athlete than just a transfer student but when 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:01.039 i transferred to university of oregon they gave 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:02.980 the tour and they didn't give us a tour of the 00:17:02.980 --> 00:17:04.700 jacobs center but they basically did like the 00:17:04.700 --> 00:17:07.059 whole campus thing and yeah man it was like a 00:17:07.059 --> 00:17:09.759 super rainy day in eugene and you still fell 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:11.279 in love with it yeah it was awesome i was like 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:14.779 oh my gosh like the facilities and Just everything 00:17:14.779 --> 00:17:17.279 that was available in terms of like, you know, 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:20.799 nutrition and like just like the ability to live 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:22.779 your life. You know, I could see it. And that's 00:17:22.779 --> 00:17:24.859 why I think I'm sure for the athletes, it's that 00:17:24.859 --> 00:17:27.559 times 10. All right. So we're going to take our 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:30.440 first break because we want to bring coal on. 00:17:30.779 --> 00:17:33.500 I got a couple of things. There's also there's 00:17:33.500 --> 00:17:37.079 offseason baseball that affects the left coast, 00:17:37.140 --> 00:17:40.930 including the team that's up there in. the the 00:17:40.930 --> 00:17:43.950 bay by the bay at the san juan islands i'm talking 00:17:43.950 --> 00:17:46.809 about seattle goodness gracious they acquire 00:17:46.809 --> 00:17:49.970 a infielder an all -star infielder from the cardinals 00:17:49.970 --> 00:17:51.529 we'll talk about that in the last segment but 00:17:51.529 --> 00:17:54.529 next on the old radio program colinahan former 00:17:54.529 --> 00:17:57.009 oregon duck current banks brave head coach and 00:17:57.009 --> 00:18:00.329 athletic director is going to talk to us about 00:18:00.329 --> 00:18:03.809 signing day what was his experience getting recruited 00:18:03.809 --> 00:18:07.630 to become an oregon duck when we come back we'll 00:18:07.630 --> 00:18:16.910 talk to We'll finish off the program with a little 00:18:16.910 --> 00:18:22.430 baseball and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Again. 00:18:23.829 --> 00:18:26.950 And it's another New England Patriot who gets. 00:18:27.170 --> 00:18:31.470 Yes, it was. I'm not laughing about that. I'm 00:18:31.470 --> 00:18:37.460 just saying how if it's intertwined. it's like 00:18:37.460 --> 00:18:39.039 this is another reason why we need to get some 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:42.359 of these guys that are voting for these hall 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:47.680 of fames to be reexamined and or or be transparent 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:50.259 which i think is the best tell us who you're 00:18:50.259 --> 00:18:52.579 voting for what's what's the what's the harm 00:18:52.579 --> 00:18:54.859 in that well there's accountability in that for 00:18:54.859 --> 00:18:56.759 sure okay but you're also you're this is the 00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:59.279 one hall of fame you're getting lobbied they 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:00.920 they actually come up and make presentations 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:02.640 to the entire panel and say this is why this 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:05.470 person should be in i didn't know that So you 00:19:05.470 --> 00:19:06.829 learn a little fun fact. And we're also going 00:19:06.829 --> 00:19:08.410 to have a fun fact about the Super Bowl, another 00:19:08.410 --> 00:19:10.130 one. But let's head on over to the Oregon Man 00:19:10.130 --> 00:19:12.289 Clinics hotline first right now and welcome in 00:19:12.289 --> 00:19:14.890 a guy I got to know over the last few years as 00:19:14.890 --> 00:19:17.549 I'm calling games in the OSAA, a former Duck. 00:19:18.210 --> 00:19:20.509 Really impressive product on the field with his 00:19:20.509 --> 00:19:23.430 Banks Braves as he coaches them is now, I believe, 00:19:23.609 --> 00:19:25.269 the athletic director up at Banks. Correct me 00:19:25.269 --> 00:19:27.250 if I'm wrong, Cole Linehan joining us on the 00:19:27.250 --> 00:19:28.950 Oregon Man Clinics hotline. Cole, how are you, 00:19:29.029 --> 00:19:32.230 buddy? I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Happy 00:19:32.230 --> 00:19:34.779 to be on. Happy to talk Ducks all day. That's 00:19:34.779 --> 00:19:37.400 right. So Windsor, the middle name Windsor. What's 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:38.900 the background on that first? We got to get a 00:19:38.900 --> 00:19:41.240 little personal information. Okay, yeah. So that 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:43.579 was just a family name. So I think it was my 00:19:43.579 --> 00:19:48.279 great, great, great grandfather. You know, they 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:49.880 came over here. They've been in Banks actually 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:54.579 since 1963. Came over on the Oregon Trail and 00:19:54.579 --> 00:19:57.400 kind of got a plot of land. And this was before 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:00.740 Banks was even a town. But they were one of the 00:20:00.740 --> 00:20:04.140 original people in this area that was just kind 00:20:04.140 --> 00:20:05.920 of get things started. They helped get the post 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:09.859 office started. And then from there, you know, 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:12.140 our family's just kind of been around. And so 00:20:12.140 --> 00:20:14.940 one of them around the process, or many of them, 00:20:14.940 --> 00:20:17.700 I guess, was named Windsor or I have a couple 00:20:17.700 --> 00:20:19.740 of uncles with the middle name Windsor. And so 00:20:19.740 --> 00:20:22.579 it's all part of the family. All right. So, by 00:20:22.579 --> 00:20:24.480 the way, had lunch today with Voice of the Ducks, 00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:26.660 Jerry Allen, who wanted to make sure I said hi 00:20:26.660 --> 00:20:29.230 to you. Oh, absolutely. I love Jerry. He came 00:20:29.230 --> 00:20:32.009 on the podcast this year, and he's, I mean, obviously 00:20:32.009 --> 00:20:34.910 an Oregon legend, right? Yeah. And no one knows 00:20:34.910 --> 00:20:36.910 more about ducks than he does, so he's a good 00:20:36.910 --> 00:20:38.529 guy I'm sure to have lunch with. Yeah, you're 00:20:38.529 --> 00:20:41.170 one of his favorites as well. So, yeah, he wanted 00:20:41.170 --> 00:20:42.890 to make sure I said hi. So one more thing on 00:20:42.890 --> 00:20:44.829 the family, and then we're going to get into 00:20:44.829 --> 00:20:47.730 the nitty -gritty about NIL, Portal, National 00:20:47.730 --> 00:20:50.289 Signing Day, which is tomorrow. Just snuck up 00:20:50.289 --> 00:20:52.109 on us. Shocks, Danny. Yeah, I'm still shocked. 00:20:52.230 --> 00:20:54.230 I'm still shocked by it. You had two brothers. 00:20:54.850 --> 00:20:57.829 So or have two brothers, so who won the backyard 00:20:57.829 --> 00:20:59.769 battles because I mean I know you guys were all 00:20:59.769 --> 00:21:02.190 playing games and stuff like that So who was 00:21:02.190 --> 00:21:05.109 the one that normally came out on top? Well, 00:21:05.109 --> 00:21:08.170 you know, it's the oldest one always usually 00:21:08.170 --> 00:21:14.609 for a while ends up And so Josh has always been 00:21:14.609 --> 00:21:18.089 the biggest to a little taller than me the bigger 00:21:18.089 --> 00:21:21.259 than me Uh, and he's, he's just kind of, uh, 00:21:21.259 --> 00:21:23.240 you know, when we were younger, he was the bully, 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:26.259 right? He was the hammer. Uh, and so it was, 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:28.359 he was kind of the guy you didn't mess with and 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:31.079 you learn that very quickly. Uh, Gabe was the 00:21:31.079 --> 00:21:33.259 young pop and he's the athlete, you know, he 00:21:33.259 --> 00:21:35.900 played quarterback in high school. And so we 00:21:35.900 --> 00:21:37.819 always thought he was soft for that and then 00:21:37.819 --> 00:21:39.759 went on and, you know, was put, he put his hand 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:42.500 down some of the time being a tight end in college, 00:21:43.380 --> 00:21:45.220 but, you know, those guys want to catch touchdowns. 00:21:45.220 --> 00:21:48.160 They want to celebrate. And so, uh, we were just 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:52.970 all. We were all different, I would say. Cole 00:21:52.970 --> 00:21:55.690 linehan joining us part of the the program with 00:21:55.690 --> 00:21:58.549 dusty harry a dusty harry I don't wear that camper 00:21:58.549 --> 00:22:00.890 with dusty tell dusty. I mispronounced his name 00:22:00.890 --> 00:22:03.349 He's gonna love that the program with dusty harry 00:22:03.349 --> 00:22:05.970 has got 94 wins as a head coach at banks high 00:22:05.970 --> 00:22:08.210 school He joins us now. Let's get into it when 00:22:08.210 --> 00:22:11.630 you were recruited You started as a duck in 2004 00:22:11.630 --> 00:22:14.329 you took a red shirt year you graduated in 2008 00:22:14.329 --> 00:22:17.529 when you were recruited It was a wildly different 00:22:17.529 --> 00:22:21.430 era than it is now has national signing day become 00:22:21.430 --> 00:22:24.390 this kind of afterthought now with the portal 00:22:24.390 --> 00:22:28.089 and NIL? I think so. I mean everybody obviously 00:22:28.089 --> 00:22:30.390 had the signing day circled on their calendar. 00:22:30.829 --> 00:22:32.490 It was the one time you had to break out the 00:22:32.490 --> 00:22:35.109 fax machine or find a fax machine just so they 00:22:35.109 --> 00:22:37.990 could get you that deal. And then I think you 00:22:37.990 --> 00:22:39.950 know you hear stories of coaches literally hanging 00:22:39.950 --> 00:22:43.490 around fax machines as they come in and celebrate. 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:46.960 Isn't the thing they put on Twitter or X or tick 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:50.420 -tock, you know or go on national TV and do these 00:22:50.420 --> 00:22:53.519 things They literally waited around for an old 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:56.660 -school facts and then they celebrated and so 00:22:56.660 --> 00:22:59.420 And it was a thing like you'd have you'd have 00:22:59.420 --> 00:23:01.839 celebrations at school and you would be a fun 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:04.480 deal and you'd have a Deadline and what you've 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:07.200 got that deadline. He was like, hey, I know where 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:09.920 I'm gonna be for four to five years You had a 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:12.440 sense of relief that you went through the process 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:14.859 and you thought you did everything right to make 00:23:14.859 --> 00:23:17.599 sure you picked the right school. And it wasn't 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:19.720 really an option to leave unless you were willing 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:22.420 to give up a year or two of your eligibility, 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:25.440 which just wasn't the case for many of us. And 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:26.940 Cole, first of all, thanks for being here. I 00:23:26.940 --> 00:23:30.009 really appreciate your time. What do you ever 00:23:30.009 --> 00:23:31.710 think about what things would be different? Like 00:23:31.710 --> 00:23:34.130 for you if you were coming out in today's day 00:23:34.130 --> 00:23:35.769 and there is the NIL and the transfer report 00:23:35.769 --> 00:23:37.369 on all that like obviously you're an Oregon guy 00:23:37.369 --> 00:23:38.750 like I'm just curious about your recruitment 00:23:38.750 --> 00:23:41.309 to Oregon and how you think it might have been 00:23:41.309 --> 00:23:42.609 different and things might have been different 00:23:42.609 --> 00:23:45.730 for you if you came out today. Well, I think 00:23:45.730 --> 00:23:48.269 it might have been a payday involved. Right. 00:23:48.970 --> 00:23:52.990 Right. It's just I don't think I almost don't 00:23:52.990 --> 00:23:55.769 think I would put as much stock or like thought 00:23:55.769 --> 00:23:59.869 into where I was going. Because I could remember 00:23:59.869 --> 00:24:03.369 just going back and forth for weeks and talking 00:24:03.369 --> 00:24:05.890 to mentors of mine, talking to my family, talking 00:24:05.890 --> 00:24:08.430 to my brother about this decision because it 00:24:08.430 --> 00:24:10.650 felt like the biggest decision of my life at 00:24:10.650 --> 00:24:13.890 that time, right? Because of the stakes were 00:24:13.890 --> 00:24:17.289 so high. And I honestly believe now if we were 00:24:17.289 --> 00:24:19.630 going through the process, it would be like, 00:24:19.670 --> 00:24:22.849 hey, I'm going to go to this school for as long 00:24:22.849 --> 00:24:25.200 as I like it for. And then if I want to leave, 00:24:25.380 --> 00:24:27.160 and there's a better opportunity, or there's 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:28.579 an opportunity to make more money, then I'm going 00:24:28.579 --> 00:24:30.420 to leave. And I don't think it would really give 00:24:30.420 --> 00:24:35.240 you that same sense of pressure or, you know, 00:24:35.559 --> 00:24:39.039 accountability for making these decisions. And 00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:41.099 I think that that does take a piece off of it. 00:24:41.140 --> 00:24:43.900 But we always joke, and we had Max Four on the 00:24:43.900 --> 00:24:46.819 pod, and he runs the NIL Collective, and he's 00:24:46.819 --> 00:24:49.500 the expert on it now. And I always ask him, I'm 00:24:49.500 --> 00:24:52.619 like, dude, tell me what I'm worth. Tell me what 00:24:52.619 --> 00:24:56.000 I'm worth. He'll just kind of joke about it and 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:00.880 say, well, you know, overachieving, undersized, 00:25:01.160 --> 00:25:04.319 not very athletic lineman. That might be a hundred 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:07.349 grand for you somewhere. Wow, there you go. Do 00:25:07.349 --> 00:25:09.390 you think that would put kids at a disadvantage 00:25:09.390 --> 00:25:11.930 nowadays if instead of looking at things and 00:25:11.930 --> 00:25:14.450 saying uh Hey, we're gonna basically like be 00:25:14.450 --> 00:25:16.549 at the school for four years and it's it's really 00:25:16.549 --> 00:25:18.329 hard to transfer You have to sit out a year whatever 00:25:18.329 --> 00:25:20.910 the you know, the case is, you know Do you think 00:25:20.910 --> 00:25:23.890 it puts kids at a disadvantage? To not look at 00:25:23.890 --> 00:25:25.970 somewhere as a long -term destination rather 00:25:25.970 --> 00:25:27.450 than just sort of hey like we're gonna be here 00:25:27.450 --> 00:25:29.410 for now And then we're gonna take off whenever 00:25:29.410 --> 00:25:33.109 it's basically convenient Yeah, I think it does 00:25:33.109 --> 00:25:35.430 a few things to kids where it just doesn't allow 00:25:35.430 --> 00:25:38.029 them to deal with adversity Well, you know you 00:25:38.029 --> 00:25:40.910 think about you think about them the the lows 00:25:40.910 --> 00:25:42.829 that people might have had through college I 00:25:42.829 --> 00:25:45.309 know I had them at times where maybe I wasn't 00:25:45.309 --> 00:25:47.990 as happy with my role I wasn't happy I'm being 00:25:47.990 --> 00:25:50.829 away from home or whatever the case is but she 00:25:50.829 --> 00:25:53.630 just figured out right you find ways to cope 00:25:53.630 --> 00:25:57.029 you find the you find ways to get through it 00:25:57.029 --> 00:26:00.150 and then the light at the end of the tunnel is 00:26:00.150 --> 00:26:02.470 is is that you're better off for it, right? Um, 00:26:02.549 --> 00:26:04.789 you know, I will say I do like I did like the 00:26:04.789 --> 00:26:08.130 idea of a one -time transfer Because you know 00:26:08.130 --> 00:26:10.329 you sometimes you do make the wrong choice Maybe 00:26:10.329 --> 00:26:12.789 the maybe the coaches leave or maybe your coach 00:26:12.789 --> 00:26:14.910 left and and you're not comfortable there or 00:26:14.910 --> 00:26:17.630 there's something that had happened But it's 00:26:17.630 --> 00:26:20.210 now it's just a wild wild west about you know, 00:26:20.289 --> 00:26:21.809 some of these guys are going to go to literally 00:26:21.809 --> 00:26:24.210 five schools sometimes six with the covid year, 00:26:24.210 --> 00:26:28.619 right where That was it. It's just, oh, things 00:26:28.619 --> 00:26:31.140 aren't going well. I'm out. And so I honestly 00:26:31.140 --> 00:26:34.720 believe that teaches kids the wrong lesson. When 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:36.579 they have the opportunity to leave and make a 00:26:36.579 --> 00:26:39.339 ton of money, that has a whole other side to 00:26:39.339 --> 00:26:41.880 it. But there's all these pieces that we're going 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:44.119 to look down the road and kind of see how this 00:26:44.119 --> 00:26:46.339 affects kids in the long run. And I think that 00:26:46.339 --> 00:26:48.680 their inability to deal with hard things will 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:51.500 be one of them. A multiple -year winner of the 00:26:51.500 --> 00:26:54.559 PAC -10 Conference Academic All League honors, 00:26:54.900 --> 00:26:57.220 it's Cole Linehan joining us. Yes, and I said 00:26:57.220 --> 00:27:01.119 PAC -10. That's right. Back in 2005, 6, 7, and 00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:03.700 8, it was still the PAC -10, and now the PAC 00:27:03.700 --> 00:27:06.960 -12 comes back in another form this year. But 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:09.579 let's talk about the Ducks right now, Cole, and 00:27:09.579 --> 00:27:12.920 what you think that the Ducks have done, need 00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:16.000 to do, where they're at and positioning. Obviously, 00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:20.160 they've done another wonderful job of pulling 00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:23.299 in the right pieces, we think, in certain areas, 00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:27.339 retaining some pivotal pieces coming forward 00:27:27.339 --> 00:27:29.440 with Dante Moore, especially at quarterback Evan 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:32.559 Stewart coming back, and others. But there's 00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:34.619 always that next step, and there's always that 00:27:34.619 --> 00:27:38.420 next thing you look for. So speak first to, holistically, 00:27:38.500 --> 00:27:40.960 how you think Dan Lanning and his staff has done, 00:27:41.019 --> 00:27:43.079 if you want to give them a grade or whatever, 00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:47.500 up to this point coming into signing day. I would 00:27:47.500 --> 00:27:50.180 say absolute A when you consider just like you 00:27:50.180 --> 00:27:52.759 said there they retain their entire roster and 00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:55.099 we're going to hear about backups leaving now 00:27:55.099 --> 00:27:57.700 that's just the name of the game these days but 00:27:57.700 --> 00:28:00.680 we didn't have a starter leave in fact we had 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:03.339 not only no starters lead we had a quarterback 00:28:03.339 --> 00:28:05.240 that was projected to be potentially the number 00:28:05.240 --> 00:28:07.900 one pick overall if not the number two decide 00:28:07.900 --> 00:28:10.200 to stay because he wanted to be a part of one 00:28:10.200 --> 00:28:13.220 more year Now, whether that be for reasons for 00:28:13.220 --> 00:28:15.480 himself, because he thinks he's developed, or 00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:18.039 he wants to be part of where Coach Landon and 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:21.259 staff are going, either or, we got QB1 back. 00:28:21.779 --> 00:28:24.799 And that goes, you show me a good team, I'll 00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:27.339 show you a good quarterback. And so that right 00:28:27.339 --> 00:28:31.240 there, I know all Oregon fans around the nation 00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:34.740 were celebrating when they heard that news. But 00:28:34.740 --> 00:28:37.279 then you have all those receivers come back in 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:40.440 a full receiver room. And the biggest thing for 00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:43.099 me, obviously I'm biased, but when all four of 00:28:43.099 --> 00:28:45.559 our D linemen that are going to potentially be 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.680 first day picks, if not top three rounds, all 00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:53.279 four of them decide to come back together, that 00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:56.980 just shows us where we're going. You know coach 00:28:56.980 --> 00:28:59.220 landing has proved himself to be a outstanding 00:28:59.220 --> 00:29:02.720 recruiter and he'll round out that roster But 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:05.940 you know, I i'm thrilled where we're at. I'm 00:29:05.940 --> 00:29:07.759 you know, I love this coaching staff I love what 00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:10.279 they're doing. I love just I feel like they're 00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:14.019 the right people for this job and And it shows 00:29:14.019 --> 00:29:15.940 in the way the kind of hard work they put in 00:29:15.940 --> 00:29:19.180 How important to you as a player? Is it for a 00:29:19.180 --> 00:29:22.960 head coach to promote from within? From a position 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:26.799 coach and both these guys were co coordinators 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:28.500 on the respective sides of the football and Chris 00:29:28.500 --> 00:29:35.420 Hampton and Drew Marringer. So how important 00:29:35.420 --> 00:29:39.740 as a player it is to you that they were promoting 00:29:39.740 --> 00:29:41.799 from within to keep some continuity within the 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:44.910 program? Yeah, it helps on a few few levels one. 00:29:44.930 --> 00:29:47.230 It's just you know the players know them they 00:29:47.230 --> 00:29:49.450 they understand the terminology You're not bringing 00:29:49.450 --> 00:29:51.450 in somebody completely new there's gonna be a 00:29:51.450 --> 00:29:54.430 lot of the same factors going into it Right and 00:29:54.430 --> 00:29:55.950 those kids have already those coaches have already 00:29:55.950 --> 00:29:58.049 built relationships with all the kids that are 00:29:58.049 --> 00:30:00.410 still on the team You know and people I know 00:30:00.410 --> 00:30:03.549 people weren't really they might work maybe wowed 00:30:03.549 --> 00:30:05.630 by these hires But what I always my response 00:30:05.630 --> 00:30:08.369 to that has coach landing let us down on a higher 00:30:08.369 --> 00:30:11.630 yet I mean, you've got to give these guys a chance. 00:30:11.950 --> 00:30:13.690 It's just like when Bellotti hired a guy named 00:30:13.690 --> 00:30:16.470 Chip Kelly. No one knew who this guy was from 00:30:16.470 --> 00:30:20.450 New Hampshire. He turned out to be OK. And so 00:30:20.450 --> 00:30:25.029 you can nitpick a hire, but Coach Landon is with 00:30:25.029 --> 00:30:28.730 these guys every single day. And he is a defensive 00:30:28.730 --> 00:30:31.210 guy for himself. So he's obviously had the standard 00:30:31.210 --> 00:30:34.130 set. And so I always just say, let's see how 00:30:34.130 --> 00:30:36.250 this plays out, because he has not let us down 00:30:36.250 --> 00:30:39.400 yet. It's a kind of the Dan landing seal of approval 00:30:39.400 --> 00:30:41.420 if he's gonna be willing to hire this guy like 00:30:41.420 --> 00:30:43.319 we should probably listen because Dan landing 00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:44.740 knows what he's doing It's kind of the same thing 00:30:44.740 --> 00:30:46.339 as a lot of different things in this program. 00:30:46.339 --> 00:30:49.019 I think Yeah, absolutely. You know, Dan Lenny 00:30:49.019 --> 00:30:51.400 is a defensive minded coach and it's proven I 00:30:51.400 --> 00:30:52.839 mean the first time I ever met the guy was at 00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:55.259 a coaching clinic where a lot of coaches step 00:30:55.259 --> 00:30:57.720 in and say, hey, this is how you build a program, 00:30:57.859 --> 00:31:00.599 or this is about culture. No, he got up there 00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:03.720 and did X's and O's for an hour straight. I don't 00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:06.200 know if he took a breath. Wow. Right? And so 00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:08.859 you just instantly knew that he was all about 00:31:08.859 --> 00:31:11.819 football in a big way. And that's what impressed 00:31:11.819 --> 00:31:14.769 me the most of my first impression of him. The 00:31:14.769 --> 00:31:16.710 pride of Banks, Oregon, it's Cole Linehan joining 00:31:16.710 --> 00:31:18.869 us on the Oregon Man -Clinics Hotline, the Danny 00:31:18.869 --> 00:31:20.809 and Justin radio program, Fox Sports Eugene, 00:31:20.890 --> 00:31:24.849 Fox Sports Newport, for a Tuesday. So Cole, we 00:31:24.849 --> 00:31:27.089 just talked all around it, we talked through 00:31:27.089 --> 00:31:30.210 it. What are the pieces now you think this football 00:31:30.210 --> 00:31:32.670 team needs to break through, they got close, 00:31:32.730 --> 00:31:35.369 one step closer, to a national championship game 00:31:35.369 --> 00:31:37.829 and to win a national championship? What do you 00:31:37.829 --> 00:31:40.529 want to see and where does it have to come from 00:31:40.529 --> 00:31:44.299 for Oregon this next season? Yeah, I mean, we 00:31:44.299 --> 00:31:45.700 just have to, you know, we're looking at the 00:31:45.700 --> 00:31:47.759 defense, right? We were so young in the secondary 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:49.740 and all those guys are coming back. And so you 00:31:49.740 --> 00:31:51.900 feel really comfortable about that. You know, 00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:54.839 obviously our D line, all the starters are back. 00:31:54.940 --> 00:31:57.420 We got to fill out the depth there. I mean, everybody 00:31:57.420 --> 00:31:59.319 else, we're looking at the linebackers. You know, 00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:01.539 you'll lose Bryce Betcher, the guy who led us 00:32:01.539 --> 00:32:04.180 in tackles, I think every single game, if maybe 00:32:04.180 --> 00:32:07.480 might've been out tackled one time, right? And 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:10.349 he was the leader of the defense. So. who's gonna 00:32:10.349 --> 00:32:12.990 be our guy in the middle that kind of sets the 00:32:12.990 --> 00:32:15.269 tone and somebody we can really look to to make 00:32:15.269 --> 00:32:18.890 those cross field tackles and just be a dude 00:32:18.890 --> 00:32:21.690 for us. And then offensively, for me, it's just 00:32:21.690 --> 00:32:24.170 all about the offensive line. We struggled at 00:32:24.170 --> 00:32:26.730 times with our offensive lines throughout the 00:32:26.730 --> 00:32:29.539 year, whether it be picking up. pressures or 00:32:29.539 --> 00:32:32.059 picking up simulated pressures, then near the 00:32:32.059 --> 00:32:34.759 end, Dante Moore got hit a little bit. And it 00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:37.420 was, obviously any quarterback that's getting 00:32:37.420 --> 00:32:39.920 hit or having guys in their face is not gonna 00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:42.720 be as effective. And so how do they round that 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:44.859 offensive line out, which they're bringing in 00:32:44.859 --> 00:32:47.180 the recruits to do so. We have a great offensive 00:32:47.180 --> 00:32:50.220 line coach. And so I'm confident in that, but 00:32:50.220 --> 00:32:53.099 those are the kind of the two areas I would say 00:32:53.099 --> 00:32:55.710 as an outsider looking in. Things that we need 00:32:55.710 --> 00:32:57.650 to make sure they're are shirred up and ready 00:32:57.650 --> 00:33:00.190 to rock and roll I want to circle back to the 00:33:00.190 --> 00:33:02.829 NIC the NIL conversation just a little bit and 00:33:02.829 --> 00:33:05.150 I'm just curious things have changed so much 00:33:05.150 --> 00:33:09.029 and around in Eugene obviously there's conversations 00:33:09.029 --> 00:33:10.509 with what's going on in the high school ranks 00:33:10.509 --> 00:33:13.849 and with players Transferring and all this stuff 00:33:13.849 --> 00:33:16.549 the NIL, you know The conversation seems like 00:33:16.549 --> 00:33:18.349 it's trickled into the high school ranks a little 00:33:18.349 --> 00:33:20.569 bit leaking down Yeah, absolutely. Is there anything 00:33:20.569 --> 00:33:23.289 like that in your world that you see as the head 00:33:23.289 --> 00:33:26.559 coach of banks football? You know, I have not 00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:30.140 seen anything at our level as far as kids getting 00:33:30.140 --> 00:33:34.160 offered to, you know, paid. I mean, the way Oregon 00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:36.319 high school football works, and I shouldn't say 00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:39.980 works, but just is, is you just don't have the 00:33:39.980 --> 00:33:43.200 sheer numbers of prospects like you do, you know, 00:33:43.299 --> 00:33:46.460 in Florida or Texas or California where you might 00:33:46.460 --> 00:33:51.680 have 35, you know, D1 prospects in two schools 00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:54.059 that are five miles away from each other. Right. 00:33:54.259 --> 00:33:56.579 And so it's a little bit different, I guess, 00:33:56.759 --> 00:34:00.420 as far as the dynamics of it all. And I just 00:34:00.420 --> 00:34:02.559 haven't heard much around Oregon and where it's 00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:06.960 going. But you do hear bad stories of kids, you 00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:10.460 know, getting money from people that they only 00:34:10.460 --> 00:34:12.760 have to pay back is that they make money later 00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:15.860 on and then it gets circling back. And so I just 00:34:15.860 --> 00:34:18.420 hate the idea that there are sharks out there 00:34:18.420 --> 00:34:20.340 that are going after these 17 -year -old kids 00:34:20.340 --> 00:34:22.900 that haven't even signed with a college yet and 00:34:22.900 --> 00:34:25.340 are trying to offer them money to sign with them 00:34:25.340 --> 00:34:28.340 later on. The self that we dealt with in college, 00:34:28.500 --> 00:34:32.340 right, with guys like that before the NFL offered 00:34:32.340 --> 00:34:34.659 us money and those kind of things, only if you 00:34:34.659 --> 00:34:37.710 do these things. We were at least 22 years old, 00:34:37.909 --> 00:34:40.489 21 years old. Now that's happening to 16, 17 00:34:40.489 --> 00:34:45.030 -year -old kids. Maybe they're going after families 00:34:45.030 --> 00:34:47.389 that maybe don't have the means, or all they're 00:34:47.389 --> 00:34:52.510 seeing is this number. Something has to be regulated, 00:34:53.210 --> 00:34:56.130 because when you go after young kids that clearly 00:34:56.130 --> 00:35:02.010 don't know much about anything, finances are 00:35:02.010 --> 00:35:05.349 big -time choices like that. That's a concern 00:35:05.349 --> 00:35:08.309 of mine as a high school coach and just where 00:35:08.309 --> 00:35:10.739 it's all going. Well, Cole Linehan joining us 00:35:10.739 --> 00:35:13.780 from Banks High School, the head coach and athletic 00:35:13.780 --> 00:35:16.099 director of the football program there, and never 00:35:16.099 --> 00:35:18.480 has had a losing season, by the way, Baby J, 00:35:18.619 --> 00:35:21.920 as Banks High School football coach and a perennial 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:25.119 participant in the postseason. Coach, you're 00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:28.019 going to a little business here on your football 00:35:28.019 --> 00:35:30.920 team itself. So for a last year, actually last 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:34.940 few years, the new classification came out. It's 00:35:34.940 --> 00:35:36.599 all based, if people don't know, it's based on 00:35:36.599 --> 00:35:39.539 attendance, enrollment and such. off lines and 00:35:39.539 --> 00:35:42.179 it looks like for 2026 season you're dropping 00:35:42.179 --> 00:35:46.260 to the 3a level so your thoughts on that and 00:35:46.260 --> 00:35:50.320 and what you you thought of it Well, it's flipped, 00:35:50.500 --> 00:35:52.920 right? Oh, sorry. The last four years have been 00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:55.059 a 3A school. Sorry, right. Now we're jumping 00:35:55.059 --> 00:35:57.699 up to 4A. And, you know, that's 4A is where we 00:35:57.699 --> 00:35:59.860 started. When I first took over, we were a 4A 00:35:59.860 --> 00:36:03.099 school. We actually won a state title in 2018 00:36:03.099 --> 00:36:07.119 at the 4A level. And then with COVID and enrollment, 00:36:07.300 --> 00:36:09.039 they do this every four years, right? They set 00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:11.239 the number. They set the number last time, and 00:36:11.239 --> 00:36:15.159 we were, you know... a 3A school, the biggest 00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:18.199 3A school. And so now it's time to go back up. 00:36:18.360 --> 00:36:21.199 And so the OSAA has decided that the number to 00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:25.599 go back up is our exact number. And so it's time 00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:27.400 for us to go up. And I'm looking forward to it. 00:36:27.420 --> 00:36:31.340 And we had a lot of success in 3A and all sports. 00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:35.320 So if I put my athletic director hat on, it was 00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:38.159 good for everybody. And I think that we'll still 00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:41.099 compete. But I'm just looking forward to it. 00:36:41.050 --> 00:36:43.250 a new challenge, get back into our original league, 00:36:43.610 --> 00:36:45.690 our traditional rivals that we've always had, 00:36:46.429 --> 00:36:48.849 and we just kind of roll with it. So, you know, 00:36:49.469 --> 00:36:51.690 it's good stuff all around. All right, Coach, 00:36:51.730 --> 00:36:54.710 last question for you. Are you, as a former player, 00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:58.059 Are you now welcome back to the program? Because 00:36:58.059 --> 00:37:00.940 there was a period of time where it seemed like 00:37:00.940 --> 00:37:03.239 there was a distance between the alumni and the 00:37:03.239 --> 00:37:05.820 football program. And then off of that, I want 00:37:05.820 --> 00:37:07.840 to ask you another question off it. It's the 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:10.260 curse of somebody asking two questions in one 00:37:10.260 --> 00:37:12.039 area, but I'm going to do it anyway. And then 00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:15.420 your thoughts on the Ducks moving into the Big 00:37:15.420 --> 00:37:17.260 Ten and how you think that's working out for 00:37:17.260 --> 00:37:19.840 them. So first ask the answer the alumni question 00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:22.599 and then the Big Ten. Yeah, absolutely. So there 00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:24.840 was a time, you're absolutely right, when we 00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:27.900 were done, obviously, I left with Baladi. Baladi 00:37:27.900 --> 00:37:30.599 and I's years were the same. We're the last years 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:34.579 together, right? And when Chip came in, that's 00:37:34.579 --> 00:37:37.179 where things kind of went haywire with the alumni 00:37:37.179 --> 00:37:39.780 and just him not really caring about bringing 00:37:39.780 --> 00:37:44.130 guys in. It just wasn't part of his... his deal, 00:37:44.409 --> 00:37:47.829 right? And so a lot of guys felt like they weren't 00:37:47.829 --> 00:37:50.190 accepted back. And then we kind of went on a 00:37:50.190 --> 00:37:52.710 little bit of a run with multiple head coaches. 00:37:53.250 --> 00:37:55.309 And I will say Coach Landy has done a really 00:37:55.309 --> 00:37:57.750 good job of trying to bring the alumni back, 00:37:57.789 --> 00:38:01.510 right? And whenever you're around them, they're 00:38:01.510 --> 00:38:03.190 engaged. They want you to come to practice. They 00:38:03.190 --> 00:38:06.010 want you to be a part of it. And a lot of these 00:38:06.010 --> 00:38:07.929 guys that played here, I mean, we don't expect 00:38:07.929 --> 00:38:11.309 much, right? We don't expect them to roll out 00:38:11.309 --> 00:38:14.849 the red carpet and to, you know, celebrate us 00:38:14.849 --> 00:38:17.170 every time we come back, right? But whenever 00:38:17.170 --> 00:38:19.269 you spend a lot of time and place and you feel 00:38:19.269 --> 00:38:21.389 like you're a big part of a program, you just 00:38:21.389 --> 00:38:23.849 want to feel like you have a place still there. 00:38:24.489 --> 00:38:26.949 And I don't want to speak for everybody. That's 00:38:26.949 --> 00:38:29.789 the way I feel, right? And so I don't need... 00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:32.139 I don't need this extra love and celebration, 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:35.159 right? But when I talked to Coach Lanning, he 00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:38.559 loved to talk about times when we played there. 00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:42.320 He always brings up the fact that, hey, you're 00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:44.800 a part of this program. You were part of the 00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:46.780 growth of this program. We want you to be around 00:38:46.780 --> 00:38:49.260 the athletes. We want you to be here. And that 00:38:49.260 --> 00:38:53.250 goes a long way with a lot of former docs. So 00:38:53.250 --> 00:38:56.050 they just did a really good job at that. And, 00:38:56.050 --> 00:38:57.949 you know, it answers your next question about, 00:38:57.949 --> 00:39:00.989 you know, jump into the Big Ten. You know, we 00:39:00.989 --> 00:39:03.289 were throwing out a lifeline, right, when the 00:39:03.289 --> 00:39:07.050 Pac -12 was crumbling, and I think we chose the 00:39:07.050 --> 00:39:09.980 best route possible. You think about where we're 00:39:09.980 --> 00:39:12.079 at compared to a couple schools that were part 00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:16.900 of the Pac -10, or sorry, Pac -12. Whether them 00:39:16.900 --> 00:39:20.519 being in the new Pac -12, or having to do the 00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:24.760 ACC route, or the Big 12. The Big 10 has the 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:27.280 most tradition. It's clearly the best conference 00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:30.239 there is in college football right now. And for 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:32.579 us to be there, not just be there, but win the 00:39:32.579 --> 00:39:35.539 thing last two years ago, and to be in the mix 00:39:35.539 --> 00:39:38.099 this year. You know, we couldn't ask for a better 00:39:38.099 --> 00:39:41.199 situation. And it just gives people it's fun, 00:39:41.340 --> 00:39:43.960 man. It's fun to have new go to new places and 00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:46.920 new rivals and and have, you know, teams. I mean, 00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:49.260 people want to travel to Penn State and Ohio 00:39:49.260 --> 00:39:51.480 State to see these games. I mean, it just adds 00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:55.099 a whole nother element to something new. That's 00:39:55.099 --> 00:39:58.219 a lot of fun. And obviously winning is fun as 00:39:58.219 --> 00:40:01.539 well. Absolutely. Cole, thank you so much for 00:40:01.539 --> 00:40:04.019 the time. Look forward to seeing you in the postseason. 00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:05.980 You can have a postseason team this this year. 00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:10.300 Well, that's always the goal. We've got to put 00:40:10.300 --> 00:40:13.000 the work in off -season to make sure that happens. 00:40:13.460 --> 00:40:14.840 All right. Well, hopefully we'll see you on one 00:40:14.840 --> 00:40:17.260 of those semifinal or final games. Would love 00:40:17.260 --> 00:40:19.579 it. Love it. All right. Thanks, Cole. We'll have 00:40:19.579 --> 00:40:21.719 you back. Appreciate you, man. Awesome. All right. 00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:23.840 Thanks for having me, guys. Yeah, you bet. The 00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:26.840 great Cole Linehan, a former duck, and you're 00:40:26.840 --> 00:40:32.260 always a duck. From 2004 to 2008. and currently 00:40:32.260 --> 00:40:35.019 the head football coach, he's gonna eclipse a 00:40:35.019 --> 00:40:38.059 hundred wins in high school football this season 00:40:38.059 --> 00:40:40.500 for the Banks Braves. When Justin and I come 00:40:40.500 --> 00:40:45.099 back, another snub by the Pro Football Hall of 00:40:45.099 --> 00:40:46.820 Fame. We'll talk about that next on the Danny 00:40:46.820 --> 00:40:51.639 Justin radio program. If you missed any of our 00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:56.099 interview with Cole Linehan, The head coach and 00:40:56.099 --> 00:40:58.380 the athletic director at banks high school in 00:40:58.380 --> 00:41:01.780 a former duck and he also co -host a Podcast, 00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:04.880 it's a good listen the program with dusty Hara 00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:07.539 Who's the sideline reporter for Oregon football 00:41:07.539 --> 00:41:10.179 and the Oregon Sports Network? It's it's up there 00:41:10.179 --> 00:41:12.780 every week. You can also find us if you find 00:41:12.780 --> 00:41:16.690 the program You can find Danny and Justin. That's 00:41:16.690 --> 00:41:18.829 an easy way of doing it. Tag team. Or vice versa. 00:41:18.969 --> 00:41:20.650 You can just like and subscribe to both if you 00:41:20.650 --> 00:41:22.949 haven't already. So thanks again to Cole for 00:41:22.949 --> 00:41:25.130 coming. He'll be back as well. Plenty of times. 00:41:25.349 --> 00:41:29.070 He'll be back. Really? Sorry. No, wait a second. 00:41:29.409 --> 00:41:32.869 I'm used to being over... You're way closer to 00:41:32.869 --> 00:41:36.469 me then. It's almost uncomfortable. I'm going 00:41:36.469 --> 00:41:38.369 to have to get used to this as well, because 00:41:38.369 --> 00:41:40.510 I don't have to have men sitting there next to 00:41:40.510 --> 00:41:42.449 me in the studio, which is great radio, by the 00:41:42.449 --> 00:41:43.769 way, as we're describing where we're sitting. 00:41:44.150 --> 00:41:46.150 You and I next to each other and interned. We 00:41:46.150 --> 00:41:48.349 could do some do some play by play. Inter producer 00:41:48.349 --> 00:41:50.050 done over there on the board. He's doing a great 00:41:50.050 --> 00:41:53.969 job. So more fun facts of the Super Bowl before 00:41:53.969 --> 00:41:57.309 we get into the snub. And as we finish off the 00:41:57.309 --> 00:42:01.389 program here on a Tuesday. What has never happened 00:42:01.389 --> 00:42:03.750 in a Super Bowl Super Bowl history? That's high. 00:42:04.769 --> 00:42:10.190 Okay, what else is never? Actually was pretty 00:42:10.190 --> 00:42:14.730 good you smart alec what has never happened Context 00:42:14.730 --> 00:42:17.050 for this so you know I almost lots of things 00:42:17.050 --> 00:42:19.710 have never happened I almost want Dom to go ahead 00:42:19.710 --> 00:42:22.289 and guess Dom crack your mic open you get your 00:42:22.289 --> 00:42:25.269 debut on the program You know which microphone 00:42:25.269 --> 00:42:28.570 to hit see this is learning. Yeah. Yeah, you're 00:42:28.570 --> 00:42:31.190 number one, right? Try it. You're are you turned 00:42:31.190 --> 00:42:33.650 up testing testing turn up a little bit higher 00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:35.619 Right here, right here. Okay, what's never happened 00:42:35.619 --> 00:42:39.099 in the Super Bowl? Um... Oh, I thought you had 00:42:39.099 --> 00:42:41.219 the answer. No, I didn't have the answer. I was 00:42:41.219 --> 00:42:42.760 sitting here and I was trying to think. I was 00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:44.360 like, I don't know. I'm sorry, I don't want to 00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:46.539 put you on the spot then. There has never been 00:42:46.539 --> 00:42:49.239 a punt return touchdown. Oh, wow. In Super Bowl 00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:52.559 history. That's surprising. All right, so what 00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:56.280 is the longest kick return touchdown, yet bonus 00:42:56.280 --> 00:43:00.099 points for the player? How many yards it was 00:43:00.099 --> 00:43:04.059 and in what Super Bowl it was though? Okay, so 00:43:04.059 --> 00:43:06.880 you guys can tag team and if you want you want 00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:11.079 to huddle together and you could not Desmond 00:43:11.079 --> 00:43:13.619 Howard no wrong. Okay. Well, I don't know. I 00:43:13.619 --> 00:43:16.360 believe it's Jacoby Jones got it, right Ravens 00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:18.840 Yeah, I believe it was a hundred and ten yards 00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:24.349 or no a hundred and nine No, it's 108. Yeah, 00:43:24.369 --> 00:43:25.969 you only can go one. Oh, yeah, you can only go 00:43:25.969 --> 00:43:27.409 one away It was I think he had his foot like 00:43:27.409 --> 00:43:29.670 right next to the line. Basically very good. 00:43:29.769 --> 00:43:32.230 You got the Super Bowl team, right the person 00:43:32.230 --> 00:43:35.170 right and You were just off on the yardage. Yeah, 00:43:35.170 --> 00:43:37.349 like I'm gonna be fair Desmond Howard did have 00:43:37.349 --> 00:43:40.889 the record at the time Now you're gonna reinvent 00:43:40.889 --> 00:43:43.329 no, it's the but it's the all -time yet. No, 00:43:43.329 --> 00:43:46.710 I know Okay, he was more recently correct more 00:43:46.710 --> 00:43:49.829 Super Bowl fun facts as we had to the weekend. 00:43:50.170 --> 00:43:52.710 And by the way, both Fox Sports Eugene, Fox Sports 00:43:52.710 --> 00:43:54.449 Newport, if you're in our listening audience, 00:43:54.469 --> 00:43:57.150 in our ears, you can listen to the Super Bowl 00:43:57.150 --> 00:44:00.750 right here on these radio stations. So, you know, 00:44:00.769 --> 00:44:02.030 I know a lot of people are going to be hanging 00:44:02.030 --> 00:44:03.449 out, you're going to be with your mom in Portland. 00:44:03.889 --> 00:44:05.309 Dom, where are you watching the Super Bowl at? 00:44:05.429 --> 00:44:08.639 Are you going to have like the... 8 000 guys 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:10.940 in crammed in a dorm room somewhere watching 00:44:10.940 --> 00:44:13.460 the super bowl or what? Um, we have a little 00:44:13.460 --> 00:44:15.260 side yard in my house So I believe we're just 00:44:15.260 --> 00:44:16.800 gonna put a tv out there so we can have more 00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:20.139 people It's gonna be 14 degrees outside. Is it? 00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:22.639 I don't know possibly. It's been pretty sunny 00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:24.380 lately So i'm counting i'm banking on the weather 00:44:24.380 --> 00:44:27.030 report is out for this week Well, look at the 00:44:27.030 --> 00:44:28.710 weather report before you start dragging things 00:44:28.710 --> 00:44:30.230 around Dom I don't want I don't want you coming 00:44:30.230 --> 00:44:32.329 in here like frostbitten or anything like that 00:44:32.329 --> 00:44:35.170 on Monday So I will be at home probably just 00:44:35.170 --> 00:44:37.429 chilling making pizzas or something. You don't 00:44:37.429 --> 00:44:38.809 have a bunch of food You're making I don't I 00:44:38.809 --> 00:44:40.670 don't know if I'm gonna have the I'm kind of 00:44:40.670 --> 00:44:42.030 recovering still a little bit I don't think I'm 00:44:42.030 --> 00:44:43.849 gonna have a ton of people over this year. Mm 00:44:43.849 --> 00:44:45.889 -hmm. I might have just it was fun last year, 00:44:46.130 --> 00:44:48.309 though I had a blast. We did the bingo. We did 00:44:48.309 --> 00:44:50.869 all that stuff I like I like throwing a party 00:44:50.869 --> 00:44:52.789 for for the friends, but I like their own parties 00:44:52.789 --> 00:44:55.800 in general Well, I like having good people around 00:44:55.800 --> 00:44:58.659 you. Is that a sin? I don't mean that in a negative 00:44:58.659 --> 00:45:01.380 way at all. Did it sound like it was like... 00:45:01.380 --> 00:45:03.039 Did it sound like that was an insult? Thank you. 00:45:03.179 --> 00:45:05.539 We have someone that can arbitrate. Are not having 00:45:05.539 --> 00:45:07.360 a lot of people? Yeah, what I said, did it sound 00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:08.820 like I was insulting him? Because he took it 00:45:08.820 --> 00:45:12.000 as an insult all of it. No, I don't know. Maybe 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.079 I'm just being too sensitive today. Maybe. I 00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:18.119 don't know. I might be. Maybe I'm just upset 00:45:18.119 --> 00:45:22.190 for Robert Kraft. Maybe i'm just upset words 00:45:22.190 --> 00:45:26.670 that have never been spoken before Are bill belichick 00:45:26.670 --> 00:45:28.510 and robert craff now going to hold hands and 00:45:28.510 --> 00:45:30.969 have like a redemption tour together They might 00:45:30.969 --> 00:45:33.050 as well new england's patriot's owner robert 00:45:33.050 --> 00:45:36.750 craff like his former head coach Has not been 00:45:36.750 --> 00:45:39.369 selected into this year's pro hall of fame class 00:45:39.369 --> 00:45:41.989 Craft was a first -time hall of fame finalists 00:45:41.989 --> 00:45:44.530 did not receive enough votes So you need you 00:45:44.530 --> 00:45:47.409 basically need 40 out of the 50 people to vote 00:45:47.409 --> 00:45:51.239 for you. There's 50 votes each Person gets only 00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:54.679 three votes. So they'll have like five people 00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:57.139 on the ballot and you can only select three out 00:45:57.139 --> 00:46:01.239 of those five so The class will be announced 00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:05.179 by the way Thursday night in San Francisco So 00:46:05.179 --> 00:46:07.639 the there and this is a new voting requirement 00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:11.400 apparently So because Kraft and Belichick were 00:46:11.400 --> 00:46:15.070 actually competing for votes So they used to 00:46:15.070 --> 00:46:17.190 have that like segment a little bit like a coach 00:46:17.190 --> 00:46:21.050 You know was over here and then the former players 00:46:21.050 --> 00:46:24.650 were over here And so Roger Craig Craig can Anderson 00:46:24.650 --> 00:46:28.250 and LC Greenwood were the players so I mean I 00:46:28.250 --> 00:46:29.969 don't know what the suspense is if they've already 00:46:29.969 --> 00:46:31.849 leaked it out that Belichick didn't make it Kraft 00:46:31.849 --> 00:46:34.389 didn't make it and There are three players that 00:46:34.389 --> 00:46:37.050 were left on the ballot or whatever They all, 00:46:37.070 --> 00:46:39.030 well, I guess they could have left him off. They 00:46:39.030 --> 00:46:40.389 could have just not voted for him, yeah. Yeah, 00:46:40.489 --> 00:46:41.909 but I would think most of those... Well, I think 00:46:41.909 --> 00:46:44.130 the irony here is that you could make an argument. 00:46:44.570 --> 00:46:46.849 I think it's pretty strong that Bill Belichick's 00:46:46.849 --> 00:46:48.469 the greatest head football coach of all time. 00:46:48.730 --> 00:46:50.849 And you could make an argument that Robert Kraft 00:46:50.849 --> 00:46:53.570 is maybe one of the greatest owners of all time. 00:46:53.670 --> 00:46:55.250 I mean, he's just taken another team. Eleven 00:46:55.250 --> 00:46:57.170 Super Bowls. That's what I'm saying. I mean... 00:46:57.170 --> 00:47:00.030 And Jerry Jones is in the Hall of Fame. Exactly. 00:47:00.170 --> 00:47:03.769 So chew on that for a second. Isn't that pretty 00:47:03.769 --> 00:47:06.349 amazing pretty egregious? I would say so kind 00:47:06.349 --> 00:47:08.670 of say listen. That is the snub of all snubs 00:47:08.670 --> 00:47:10.750 I grew up hating the Patriots just like everyone 00:47:10.750 --> 00:47:14.550 else just like you hate this program You know, 00:47:14.550 --> 00:47:17.530 it's a strong word and I meant it you were Alabama 00:47:17.530 --> 00:47:20.690 and New England part of that very long time the 00:47:20.690 --> 00:47:23.289 Dodgers man So you have have you picked a team 00:47:23.289 --> 00:47:25.670 in every major sport that you just have a visceral 00:47:25.670 --> 00:47:27.969 dislike I would say they pick themselves almost 00:47:27.969 --> 00:47:31.730 you know, you have nothing to do with it I would 00:47:31.730 --> 00:47:33.449 say that I have something to do with it and who 00:47:33.449 --> 00:47:36.889 I root for but those teams make themselves very 00:47:36.889 --> 00:47:40.929 Easy to spot they ride anything with Ron or or 00:47:40.929 --> 00:47:43.409 push down to the bottom exactly by the way I 00:47:43.409 --> 00:47:45.409 did didn't want to mention that the Mariners 00:47:45.409 --> 00:47:48.989 signed a player in the offseason here infielder 00:47:48.989 --> 00:47:51.409 All -star infielder Brendan Donovan from the 00:47:51.409 --> 00:47:55.449 Cardinals was signed yesterday evening He's a 00:47:55.449 --> 00:47:57.949 left -handed hitter three team trade also included 00:47:57.949 --> 00:48:00.929 the Rays And they didn't give up much. So the 00:48:00.929 --> 00:48:02.969 mayor is not a little stronger. So they get a 00:48:02.969 --> 00:48:06.010 switch picture a Switch picture. Yeah, isn't 00:48:06.010 --> 00:48:09.070 that crazy? Yeah. Wow. All right. Let's do some 00:48:09.070 --> 00:48:13.329 dad joke. Oh a joke I got a fire from the bank 00:48:13.329 --> 00:48:15.769 today woman asked me to check her balance. So 00:48:15.769 --> 00:48:20.269 I pushed her dad jokes All right, so I gotta 00:48:20.269 --> 00:48:25.530 I gotta do another little Voice thing, okay ready 00:48:25.530 --> 00:48:28.130 the other day. So here we go. All right, so we're 00:48:28.130 --> 00:48:30.820 started off like this A pirate walks into a bar 00:48:30.820 --> 00:48:35.800 with a towel on his head. And the bartender says, 00:48:36.159 --> 00:48:38.139 hey, what's the deal with the towel on your head? 00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:45.619 The pirate goes, I have a bounty on me. Like 00:48:45.619 --> 00:48:48.360 a bounty towel. Yeah, the brand. I got it. I 00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:52.280 got it. All right. That's it. Sometimes they're 00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:54.340 winners, kids. Sometimes they're not. That's 00:48:54.340 --> 00:48:56.900 all there is to it. They just, you know, they 00:48:56.900 --> 00:48:59.079 come out. one way, they come out the other way, 00:48:59.119 --> 00:49:00.840 that's how there is to it. All right, let's close 00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:03.260 out the program with letting you know I will 00:49:03.260 --> 00:49:05.800 not be here tomorrow. It's gonna be Goose and 00:49:05.800 --> 00:49:08.780 I. And you're gonna have a guest, it's going 00:49:08.780 --> 00:49:13.960 to be the GM, the new GM of the Drifters, it's 00:49:13.960 --> 00:49:15.780 Jake Willard gonna be on the program, I'll be 00:49:15.780 --> 00:49:18.079 back on Thursday. Put a smile on your face, someone 00:49:18.079 --> 00:49:20.159 else's, they deserve it, so do you. God bless, 00:49:20.199 --> 00:49:22.519 thanks for listening. For Baby J, for Intern 00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:24.159 Dom, I'm Danny. Peace.