WEBVTT 00:00:04.890 --> 00:00:20.289 JTS. Yeah. Just in time sports. Life is good. 00:00:20.969 --> 00:00:24.089 Look. This is just a town sports. Come and get 00:00:24.089 --> 00:00:26.250 your weekly takes. His opinion from the heart. 00:00:26.329 --> 00:00:28.589 He can never show you fake. If you winning or 00:00:28.589 --> 00:00:30.390 you losing, he gonna tell it to you straight. 00:00:30.510 --> 00:00:32.850 How we talking basketball without a Jordan Brown 00:00:32.850 --> 00:00:34.990 to base? If you got the hottest dicks, you better 00:00:34.990 --> 00:00:37.130 come and make your case. If you win a couple 00:00:37.130 --> 00:00:39.969 games, he might even show you grace. JCS on every 00:00:39.969 --> 00:00:42.390 platform. We grow the adaptation. Numbers going 00:00:42.390 --> 00:00:45.200 up the charts. We create the separation. Louisiana 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:47.340 till I die is where I'm from, I can't replace 00:00:47.340 --> 00:00:49.479 it. Some people minds are obtuse, but I like 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:52.299 to be adjacent. Giving my opinion like I'm Nick 00:00:52.299 --> 00:00:54.759 Wright or I'm Jason. ESPN better watch out cause 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:57.020 I'm coming for the spaceship. We even tweeting 00:00:57.020 --> 00:00:59.500 on Twitter, you can meet us in the spaces. Highlight 00:00:59.500 --> 00:01:01.600 clips of sports news, yeah, you gotta embrace 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:04.079 it. We never had it easy, we just came from the 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:06.379 pavement. I might be controversial, but I like 00:01:06.379 --> 00:01:09.180 to make my statements. This is just a time sports, 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:13.739 come and get your weekly takes. His opinion from 00:01:13.739 --> 00:01:15.959 the heart, he can never show you fake He can 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:18.299 never show you fake, he can never show you fake 00:01:18.299 --> 00:01:20.680 If you winning or you losing, he gon' tell it 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:22.739 to you straight He gon' tell it to you, he gon' 00:01:22.780 --> 00:01:24.540 tell it to you, he gon' tell it to you This is 00:01:24.540 --> 00:01:26.540 Just In Time Sports, come and get your weekly 00:01:26.540 --> 00:01:29.439 takes Come and get it, he gon' tell it to you 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:38.299 straight, to you straight Welcome into the show, 00:01:38.700 --> 00:01:42.219 welcome back The Just In Time Sports Podcast 00:01:42.219 --> 00:01:47.760 is back. Our first show since October 8th. It's 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:52.200 been over four months. Sorry about that, guys. 00:01:52.340 --> 00:01:55.140 Sincerest apologies. We're going to get back 00:01:55.140 --> 00:01:57.359 to our regularly scheduled shows. We're going 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:00.739 to come back to you every week. However, a lot 00:02:00.739 --> 00:02:03.599 of things happened. Great football season ended 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:07.540 up coming in second in the state. the holiday 00:02:07.540 --> 00:02:09.860 season and just a lot of stuff happened. And 00:02:09.860 --> 00:02:12.060 then when football season was winding down, my 00:02:12.060 --> 00:02:13.740 football season was winding down. There was so 00:02:13.740 --> 00:02:17.259 much to go on. I missed a lot. I missed a lot, 00:02:17.300 --> 00:02:19.020 which I would have been able to talk about with 00:02:19.020 --> 00:02:21.300 you guys at the time. As far as the NFL season 00:02:21.300 --> 00:02:22.740 and kind of breaking down what happened towards 00:02:22.740 --> 00:02:26.439 the end and kind of my excitement for that. The 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:28.960 transfer portal was insane being an LSU guy. 00:02:29.139 --> 00:02:30.680 I think the last time we talked, I think Brian 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:34.300 Kelly was still the head coach of LSU. Obviously 00:02:34.300 --> 00:02:38.030 that is no longer the case. The NBA hadn't even 00:02:38.030 --> 00:02:40.810 started yet. Women's college basketball was not 00:02:40.810 --> 00:02:43.509 even a thought process. The WNBA actually had 00:02:43.509 --> 00:02:46.710 hoped to start their season on time. A lot of 00:02:46.710 --> 00:02:50.409 things occurred in the four months we've been 00:02:50.409 --> 00:02:54.629 away. But I am back. I am excited to be back. 00:02:54.729 --> 00:02:56.689 This is, of course, your owner and host, Justin 00:02:56.689 --> 00:03:00.090 Jackson, coming to you from the JTS studio. This 00:03:00.090 --> 00:03:05.550 is Justin Time Sports Season 7, Episode 1. I'm 00:03:05.550 --> 00:03:08.610 excited to be back with you guys. Coming to you 00:03:08.610 --> 00:03:10.689 locally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I don't 00:03:10.689 --> 00:03:11.830 think I've ever mentioned that. I think I've 00:03:11.830 --> 00:03:14.370 mentioned, like, the state or whatever. But coming 00:03:14.370 --> 00:03:16.469 to you locally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the 00:03:16.469 --> 00:03:20.289 heart, of course, of LSU football. Of course, 00:03:20.310 --> 00:03:22.969 South Louisiana. Of course, I keep my eye on 00:03:22.969 --> 00:03:25.030 the Saints because I'm a Patriots fan. For those 00:03:25.030 --> 00:03:26.349 of you who are new, some of you could be new 00:03:26.349 --> 00:03:28.330 to the show, kind of want to get our bias out 00:03:28.330 --> 00:03:30.819 there in Front Street. I'm a huge Patriots fan. 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:33.639 I'm a huge LSU fan. Those two topics would never 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:37.900 be unbiased on this show. I don't care if I say 00:03:37.900 --> 00:03:39.699 in future episodes, hey, guys, this is going 00:03:39.699 --> 00:03:41.599 to be an unbiased moment for me regarding LSU 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:45.840 football or regarding the Patriots. It will never 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:48.259 be unbiased regarding those two topics. Now, 00:03:48.379 --> 00:03:51.620 LSU basketball, LSU baseball, LSU women's basketball, 00:03:51.780 --> 00:03:54.419 if track and field comes up on this show, obviously 00:03:54.419 --> 00:03:58.789 those will be a little more unbiased. Not a whole 00:03:58.789 --> 00:04:01.169 lot of unbiased, but they would be a lot more 00:04:01.169 --> 00:04:03.610 unbiased than LSU football. LSU football would 00:04:03.610 --> 00:04:06.849 never be unbiased on this show ever in life. 00:04:06.949 --> 00:04:08.710 Let's just get that out of the way. Now, the 00:04:08.710 --> 00:04:11.310 New England Patriots topics. I think I'm a fairly 00:04:11.310 --> 00:04:16.389 unbiased fan. However, I always think it depends 00:04:16.389 --> 00:04:18.689 on the team expectations. For instance, I wasn't 00:04:18.689 --> 00:04:21.230 on for four months, but I feel like I would have 00:04:21.230 --> 00:04:24.779 been very unbiased regarding. the Patriots this 00:04:24.779 --> 00:04:27.579 season because I didn't have a ton of expectations 00:04:27.579 --> 00:04:32.399 for us. So I thought, I said going into the season, 00:04:32.500 --> 00:04:34.399 you guys remember, I said going into the season, 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:38.259 let's fight for a playoffs fight. Bills are going 00:04:38.259 --> 00:04:41.120 to win our division. Okay, that's fine. You know, 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:42.920 that's probably one, maybe two more years of 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:45.560 them doing that where they'll be, to me, clearly 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:47.480 the best team in the division. One or two more 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:49.500 years is kind of their Super Bowl window. So 00:04:49.500 --> 00:04:51.180 they're going to be clearly the best team in 00:04:51.180 --> 00:04:53.500 the division. That's fine. We're not fighting 00:04:53.500 --> 00:04:55.800 for that right now anyway. We're in year one 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:58.600 of a head coach, year two of a quarterback. Like, 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:00.899 we're fine. This is the first year to me of the 00:05:00.899 --> 00:05:03.360 rebuild. The Gerard Mill year didn't count. Kind 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:05.259 of how I felt about the Urban Meyer year in Jacksonville. 00:05:06.459 --> 00:05:09.360 Kind of how I felt about another one -year dud 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.279 somewhere. I didn't even count towards that rebuild. 00:05:12.459 --> 00:05:15.079 Like, it didn't count. To me, Raheem Morris with 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.480 Atlanta last year was like a lame duck coach. 00:05:17.660 --> 00:05:22.230 That almost didn't count. But Gerard Mayo and 00:05:22.230 --> 00:05:25.129 Urban Meyer's years were like, oh, Pete Carroll 00:05:25.129 --> 00:05:27.550 in Vegas. That didn't count. Like, it was a stopgap 00:05:27.550 --> 00:05:30.910 year. The intent was there. The intent was fine. 00:05:31.410 --> 00:05:33.949 It's just the intent didn't come through. It 00:05:33.949 --> 00:05:36.870 felt like a stopgap year, right? So, to me, in 00:05:36.870 --> 00:05:39.310 New England, this is year one of the true post 00:05:39.310 --> 00:05:42.389 -Bella checking era. Gerard Mayo was almost, 00:05:42.629 --> 00:05:46.029 didn't count, kind of got scapegoated, kind of 00:05:46.029 --> 00:05:48.470 got sent out, you know, to kind of take the brunt 00:05:48.470 --> 00:05:52.160 of the blame. I truly think, along with how he 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:53.579 acted at the head coach, a lot of reports came 00:05:53.579 --> 00:05:56.459 out. We're going to have to re -talk about that 00:05:56.459 --> 00:05:59.600 and re -discuss that. I truly think what happened 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:03.920 to him was that last game of the season. As far 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.079 as winning that Buffalo game, losing the number 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:10.680 one pick. And then, now, granted, we ended up 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:14.540 with Jack May. So, it all worked out in the wash. 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:18.319 But, having the control of the number one pick. 00:06:19.150 --> 00:06:21.550 Or do we have Drake May already? No, we had Drake 00:06:21.550 --> 00:06:23.829 May already. We lost to the number one pick. 00:06:23.889 --> 00:06:26.949 We were going to trade it because a set man played 00:06:26.949 --> 00:06:30.949 Milton. We were going to trade it and have control 00:06:30.949 --> 00:06:32.970 of the draft and didn't end up falling back. 00:06:33.689 --> 00:06:36.029 Again, it worked out in the wash anyway, but 00:06:36.029 --> 00:06:38.350 having the control of the pick would have been 00:06:38.350 --> 00:06:41.930 a lot better situation. Regardless, I look at 00:06:41.930 --> 00:06:44.230 it kind of as, again, I look at this year as 00:06:44.230 --> 00:06:46.490 our first year of our real post -Belichickian 00:06:46.490 --> 00:06:51.170 era. I say anything over nine wins in the playoff 00:06:51.170 --> 00:06:53.209 spot I'm good with. Then I kind of said, okay, 00:06:53.310 --> 00:06:55.149 the only playoff game I expect to win is the 00:06:55.149 --> 00:06:56.930 Chargers game because I knew what we did well 00:06:56.930 --> 00:06:58.949 on defense was send pressure. I knew what they 00:06:58.949 --> 00:07:01.490 didn't have was off its line. So we beat them. 00:07:01.629 --> 00:07:02.949 I said, okay, anything after that is lame. I 00:07:02.949 --> 00:07:05.129 knew about Houston's defense. Then I knew about 00:07:05.129 --> 00:07:07.170 Denver's defense. Even though with Jared Stidham, 00:07:07.170 --> 00:07:09.829 I said, they have an amazing defense. And then 00:07:09.829 --> 00:07:14.639 I knew what Seattle brought. Right? And so. Super 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:16.480 Bowl loss, I'm perfectly fine with. I was good 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:18.600 with. So this is probably the most unbiased of 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:20.600 seasons you will ever see from me as a Patriots 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:22.879 fan. And none of you heard it because I wasn't 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:26.779 on for four months. But I am back. Enough of 00:07:26.779 --> 00:07:29.540 what you missed. Enough of what I could have 00:07:29.540 --> 00:07:33.939 talked about. Because I had an NFL topic in here. 00:07:34.060 --> 00:07:36.839 And I'll discuss kind of the NFL season as a 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:41.959 whole really quickly at a certain point in the 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:44.680 show. I kind of touched on it a lot there, kind 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:47.920 of talk about how I felt regarding several people. 00:07:48.579 --> 00:07:53.139 However, let's actually get into what we are 00:07:53.139 --> 00:07:59.100 not talking about. The JTS Quick Touch is our 00:07:59.100 --> 00:08:02.779 new segment. So anytime we have a new kind of 00:08:02.779 --> 00:08:04.680 a overview of topics kind of going around the 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:06.379 sports world, I think you guys may want to hear 00:08:06.379 --> 00:08:10.579 about. I will do the JTS Quick Touch. What that 00:08:10.579 --> 00:08:13.769 means is we'll just quickly touch. on any of 00:08:13.769 --> 00:08:19.370 the variety of topics that are out there. The 00:08:19.370 --> 00:08:21.290 number one, of course, being the Winter Olympics. 00:08:21.529 --> 00:08:22.769 We're not going to talk about the Winter Olympics. 00:08:23.009 --> 00:08:24.850 You guys often don't care about the Winter Olympics. 00:08:24.990 --> 00:08:27.230 The most interesting story about the Winter Olympics 00:08:27.230 --> 00:08:29.649 so far has been the condom shortage. You guys 00:08:29.649 --> 00:08:31.149 generally don't care about the Winter Olympics. 00:08:31.730 --> 00:08:34.490 I like certain events. For instance, I fall in 00:08:34.490 --> 00:08:37.049 love with curling for two weeks every four years. 00:08:37.580 --> 00:08:39.340 I don't understand it. I don't get the scoring 00:08:39.340 --> 00:08:42.000 aspect. I don't understand what a foul is. Apparently, 00:08:42.100 --> 00:08:44.279 that was a cheating scandal. Apparently, they 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:46.419 did the same cheating scandal previously. I don't 00:08:46.419 --> 00:08:48.919 understand it, but it's a very fun thing to watch. 00:08:49.220 --> 00:08:51.600 I feel like there's always some new death -defying 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:54.360 ski event that's always interesting. I used to 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:59.240 be a huge Winter X Games fan, so the X Games 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:02.379 events that are in the Olympics, I'll watch. 00:09:02.779 --> 00:09:10.039 So, Super Pipe, Big Air, Any of the racings, 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:13.240 of course. Ski and snowboard, I'm pretty much 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.179 in. If you have skis on your feet or a snowboard 00:09:16.179 --> 00:09:18.519 on your feet, I'm pretty much in. I'm out on 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:20.639 the skating. I'm out on the figure skating. I'll 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:24.179 watch the hockey a little bit. Most of the events, 00:09:24.220 --> 00:09:25.980 I'm out, right? Because there's a lot more of 00:09:25.980 --> 00:09:28.139 what the Summer Olympics has for gymnastics, 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.899 they have for skiing, I mean, for skating. I'm 00:09:31.899 --> 00:09:34.529 just not interested. I don't get the bobsledding. 00:09:34.570 --> 00:09:36.970 I don't get what makes you fast. It's a very 00:09:36.970 --> 00:09:38.549 simple concept to me. Whoever gets down the hill 00:09:38.549 --> 00:09:41.350 fastest. Very simple concept to me. I don't understand 00:09:41.350 --> 00:09:42.750 the techniques. I don't understand what makes 00:09:42.750 --> 00:09:44.789 you fast. I just don't get it, right? I don't 00:09:44.789 --> 00:09:51.110 know what it is. I'll also quickly touch on men's 00:09:51.110 --> 00:09:52.610 college basketball. We're not going to get into 00:09:52.610 --> 00:09:55.009 it today. However, there will be a topic that 00:09:55.009 --> 00:09:56.549 will come up. March Madness is around the corner. 00:09:56.789 --> 00:09:59.450 The conference tournaments are four to six games 00:09:59.450 --> 00:10:02.860 away, depending on your schedule. The men's college 00:10:02.860 --> 00:10:05.740 basketball games. There are a lot of talented 00:10:05.740 --> 00:10:09.139 players in it. A lot of, lot of talented players 00:10:09.139 --> 00:10:10.860 in it. We've got A .J. DeBansta. We've got Darren 00:10:10.860 --> 00:10:15.159 Peterson. Caleb Love at Carolina. I messed up 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:16.940 by naming players. I'm going to have to get people. 00:10:17.340 --> 00:10:18.779 But there are a lot of, I mean, it feels like 00:10:18.779 --> 00:10:21.019 every day somebody else is going for 40. I mean, 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:23.340 there's a lot of talented players in it. I think 00:10:23.340 --> 00:10:26.240 NIL is helping. And we'll actually talk about 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:28.740 NIL regarding college football later in the show. 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:30.240 So I don't want to dive too far into it because 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:34.059 I'm sure I'm going to tie it all together. But 00:10:34.059 --> 00:10:36.039 there's a lot of talented college basketball 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:39.759 players in there. And college baseball is starting 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:42.720 as well. So if you're a big college baseball 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:46.620 fan, as obvious as an LSU graduate, there is 00:10:46.620 --> 00:10:48.639 an atmosphere that beats the box, maybe besides 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:52.120 Omaha. But out of the box stadium and Tiger Stadium 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:54.019 is already up and running. Jay Johnson on his 00:10:54.019 --> 00:10:56.059 title defense. Again, I probably won't be very 00:10:56.059 --> 00:10:58.919 biased to them either. Or very unbiased to them 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:02.750 either. It is what it is. College baseball is 00:11:02.750 --> 00:11:09.929 back. But let's get into the actual show. You 00:11:09.929 --> 00:11:11.789 guys have been here 11 minutes, and so far what 00:11:11.789 --> 00:11:15.450 you've heard is an amazing intro song by B -Roy, 00:11:15.610 --> 00:11:18.490 a good friend of mine, a rapper out of the Northeast. 00:11:18.850 --> 00:11:20.610 Check out his stuff on Apple Music. I feel like 00:11:20.610 --> 00:11:23.250 he's always dropping some heat every few weeks, 00:11:23.309 --> 00:11:27.409 it feels like. But amazing rapper out of the 00:11:27.409 --> 00:11:32.100 Northeast. uh philly area uh b -roy is his name 00:11:32.100 --> 00:11:34.879 and we'll link uh his album in the episode description 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:38.279 or his project music episode description um and 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:40.019 you've heard what i'm not talking about in kind 00:11:40.019 --> 00:11:44.000 of updated life but you are here for my commentary 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:47.779 on a variety of options on a variety of topics 00:11:47.779 --> 00:11:50.059 the main topic happening of course right now 00:11:50.059 --> 00:11:53.559 is the nba so let's get right into the nba and 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:57.149 the big thing was the all -star game so There's 00:11:57.149 --> 00:11:59.370 been a lot of different commentaries on it. The 00:11:59.370 --> 00:12:02.909 All -Star game has been, I kind of feel like 00:12:02.909 --> 00:12:04.509 I've seen the peak of the All -Star and I kind 00:12:04.509 --> 00:12:05.789 of feel like I've seen the death of the All -Star 00:12:05.789 --> 00:12:08.769 game all at one time. To me, I feel like I've 00:12:08.769 --> 00:12:11.549 seen the peak of All -Star weekend and I've seen 00:12:11.549 --> 00:12:15.269 the death of All -Star weekend. So let's talk 00:12:15.269 --> 00:12:19.570 about the peak. To me, the peak was 2016 to 2020, 00:12:19.610 --> 00:12:24.960 give or take. 2016, of course, to me is the greatest 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:26.759 slam dunk contest of all time. That is Levine 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:30.120 Gordon 1. That is where Levine does windmill 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:34.480 from the free throw line, the lob from the free 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:36.000 throw line, and the between the legs from the 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.419 free throw line. He also does the between the 00:12:38.419 --> 00:12:42.120 legs backwards. That is Aaron Gordon's sit -down 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:46.019 dunk, the 360 catching windmill off on the mascot, 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:52.289 the double pump. Levine Gordon 1. To me, it's 00:12:52.289 --> 00:12:55.769 the greatest dunk contest of all time. Easily 00:12:55.769 --> 00:12:59.090 the best. I mean, to me, there's mystique behind 00:12:59.090 --> 00:13:01.629 like Jordan Dominique, where Dominique does the 00:13:01.629 --> 00:13:05.190 from vert to overhand windmill. Jordan freaks 00:13:05.190 --> 00:13:08.610 online, dunks it for the first time, and creates 00:13:08.610 --> 00:13:11.809 the Jordan logo. Like, you know, there's mystique 00:13:11.809 --> 00:13:14.809 contests. But as far as quality of dunks, there's 00:13:14.809 --> 00:13:19.159 nobody beating Levine Gordon one. And then I've 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:20.639 seen amazing three -point contests. Three -point 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:22.899 contests, to me, just the shot go in. Like, it 00:13:22.899 --> 00:13:24.700 was the Clay, Damon, Steph three -point contest. 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.940 It was insane. To me, that always is to do the 00:13:28.940 --> 00:13:30.799 shots go in. If the shots don't go in, it doesn't 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:35.419 matter. But then the all -star, I remember the 00:13:35.419 --> 00:13:36.700 celebrity all -star games used to be, like, fun. 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:39.139 Like, Bieber, Terrell Owens, Kevin Hart, Monet 00:13:39.139 --> 00:13:43.059 Davis. You'd get, like, active senators and congressmen, 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:45.220 like, actively playing in the game. Like, it 00:13:45.220 --> 00:13:47.440 was a fun game. Obama almost played that one 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:51.070 year. And somebody was like, who's going to guard 00:13:51.070 --> 00:13:52.450 the president? Because you filed the president 00:13:52.450 --> 00:13:54.590 as a threat to national security. Like, you know, 00:13:54.590 --> 00:13:57.149 the All -Star Game used to be a fun thing. Or 00:13:57.149 --> 00:13:59.309 the Celebrity All -Star Game, rather. It used 00:13:59.309 --> 00:14:02.809 to be this fun event that kind of you looked 00:14:02.809 --> 00:14:04.529 forward to on Thursday night or whatever they 00:14:04.529 --> 00:14:06.269 did. Because it was like enough celebrities. 00:14:06.309 --> 00:14:08.669 You knew the celebrities. You knew the people. 00:14:09.889 --> 00:14:11.809 The WNBA would be the only players on the floor. 00:14:12.049 --> 00:14:14.409 But they were, like, jogging. Because they weren't 00:14:14.409 --> 00:14:16.629 even in season, you know. Or, no, they're not 00:14:16.629 --> 00:14:19.009 even in season. They're an all -star. They're, 00:14:19.110 --> 00:14:21.250 you know, a month or something before they even 00:14:21.250 --> 00:14:23.509 go to training camp. So they're on the floor. 00:14:23.769 --> 00:14:25.690 They're jogging. They're laughing. They put a 00:14:25.690 --> 00:14:27.230 couple moves on people and go to the rim, kind 00:14:27.230 --> 00:14:31.129 of laughing and joking. And then the all -star 00:14:31.129 --> 00:14:33.269 game itself. I remember the all -star game in 00:14:33.269 --> 00:14:36.230 Jerry World, you know, where they had the all 00:14:36.230 --> 00:14:39.990 -star game. And then, of course, to me, the peak 00:14:39.990 --> 00:14:42.190 of the all -star game was the Kobe Memorial all 00:14:42.190 --> 00:14:44.049 -star game. Right after Kobe Bryant had died. 00:14:45.129 --> 00:14:47.889 The numbers, each one team wore 24 for Kobe. 00:14:47.950 --> 00:14:52.710 The other one wore two for Gigi. And it was the 00:14:52.710 --> 00:14:55.230 first year of the Elam ending or the target score. 00:14:55.690 --> 00:14:57.590 They can't use Elam ending because that's from 00:14:57.590 --> 00:14:59.690 the basketball attorney that did have that trademarked. 00:14:59.970 --> 00:15:01.909 But target score, that was the first year of 00:15:01.909 --> 00:15:04.110 the target score too. It was whatever the highest 00:15:04.110 --> 00:15:07.649 team plus 24. And that game was amazing. It ended 00:15:07.649 --> 00:15:11.149 anticlimactically because it ended with Anthony 00:15:11.149 --> 00:15:12.649 Davis getting fouled and shooting free throws. 00:15:13.529 --> 00:15:15.950 And that's how he got the target score. It wasn't 00:15:15.950 --> 00:15:18.889 a buzzer beater. I think LeBron had the first, 00:15:18.950 --> 00:15:24.330 like, real shot to end it. But, you know, we 00:15:24.330 --> 00:15:26.269 had, I mean, there's iconic photos from that 00:15:26.269 --> 00:15:29.929 game. LeBron walking down, you know, and Giannis 00:15:29.929 --> 00:15:31.990 is in front of him, checking him up. And you 00:15:31.990 --> 00:15:34.309 see Spike Lee and the Migos and everybody standing 00:15:34.309 --> 00:15:35.610 up in the background, like, basically leaned 00:15:35.610 --> 00:15:38.970 over the court like some big -time AAU or high 00:15:38.970 --> 00:15:40.950 school local basketball game. Everybody's on 00:15:40.950 --> 00:15:42.950 their feet and leaned over the court. Because 00:15:42.950 --> 00:15:45.990 Giannis got a chance to win it. I mean, LeBron's 00:15:45.990 --> 00:15:47.610 got a chance to win it. Giannis is guarding them. 00:15:47.649 --> 00:15:50.629 And it was just the spirit of competitiveness 00:15:50.629 --> 00:15:52.990 was at an all -time high because they were basically 00:15:52.990 --> 00:15:55.870 playing for Kobe. You know, and they always, 00:15:56.149 --> 00:15:58.750 you kind of go back and reference that Kobe's 00:15:58.750 --> 00:16:02.769 the reason why these events were as competitive 00:16:02.769 --> 00:16:05.710 as they were. Kobe brought USA Basketball back 00:16:05.710 --> 00:16:07.970 because the first person Jerry Colangelo and 00:16:07.970 --> 00:16:11.710 the Colangelos went to to fix it was Kobe Bryant. 00:16:12.139 --> 00:16:14.200 Which, of course, led to a lot of players like 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:15.759 LeBron, D -Wade, so on and so forth. Don't have 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:18.559 to re -talk about that either. But what I mean 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:20.519 is that All -Star game had the spirit of Kobe 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:22.620 all through it because they were basically playing 00:16:22.620 --> 00:16:24.240 for Kobe. They were playing in honor of Kobe. 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:27.820 And then the next year, I believe it was a LeBron 00:16:27.820 --> 00:16:31.220 fadeaway game winner. And then it trailed back 00:16:31.220 --> 00:16:34.059 off. It was almost like that spirit of Kobe one. 00:16:35.509 --> 00:16:37.009 Everybody was going hard. I mean, people were 00:16:37.009 --> 00:16:39.409 sweating, fouling at the end. Like, the collar 00:16:39.409 --> 00:16:41.710 took a charge. Like, people were playing basketball. 00:16:42.929 --> 00:16:46.389 And then the next one still had that remnants 00:16:46.389 --> 00:16:49.490 of the target score, and then it faded back off. 00:16:52.169 --> 00:16:54.789 And then the last couple years, I mean, literally, 00:16:54.950 --> 00:16:58.149 they've been walking into, like, consecutive 00:16:58.149 --> 00:17:00.389 possessions of just walking down the court, side 00:17:00.389 --> 00:17:02.000 of the half court, shooting a three. Walking 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:03.419 down the court, seven -half court, two to three. 00:17:03.740 --> 00:17:05.079 Walking down the court, seven -half court, two 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:07.059 to three. Somebody's going to steal. They wouldn't 00:17:07.059 --> 00:17:09.079 even do the big charter for the big boom dunk. 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:10.680 They would, like, land the ball casually. You 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:13.500 know what I'm saying? Like, it had lost all the 00:17:13.500 --> 00:17:14.980 flair. It lost all the juice to the point people 00:17:14.980 --> 00:17:16.140 were talking about, man, let's not even stop 00:17:16.140 --> 00:17:18.059 doing it. They haven't even done any full all 00:17:18.059 --> 00:17:19.720 -star game in about three years. They've done 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:23.859 these mini -games. But the problem with the mini 00:17:23.859 --> 00:17:25.279 -games is, like, LeBron played two minutes and 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:27.500 checked out. Like, I know there's a COVID one. 00:17:29.349 --> 00:17:30.869 lebron didn't really play because it's supposed 00:17:30.869 --> 00:17:32.549 to be in somewhere they moved to atlanta and 00:17:32.549 --> 00:17:34.470 lebron barely played and it was you know you 00:17:34.470 --> 00:17:39.609 get these excuse me you get these moments do 00:17:39.609 --> 00:17:41.869 it all so the past three years been a joke anyway 00:17:41.869 --> 00:17:46.750 they introduced usa versus world the reason why 00:17:46.750 --> 00:17:49.769 this is a good timed idea i think the timing 00:17:49.769 --> 00:17:55.390 was impactful i don't know if it works next year 00:17:55.390 --> 00:17:59.859 well it might but I'll start off with, the timing 00:17:59.859 --> 00:18:01.880 was respectful because we just had the Olympics. 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:05.400 The Summer Olympics were, we just had the Paris 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:10.779 Olympics in 2024. So the Olympics kind of remnant 00:18:10.779 --> 00:18:14.019 was kind of still on it. Because this is the 00:18:14.019 --> 00:18:16.420 first all -star, really, that you implemented 00:18:16.420 --> 00:18:19.319 USA versus the world aspect. Well, what's coming 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:22.259 down the pike is 2028. So you're at 2024, you 00:18:22.259 --> 00:18:24.880 just had LeBron, Steph, and KD on the court for 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:29.680 Team USA. Beating France, in France for the gold. 00:18:30.380 --> 00:18:33.680 You kind of come with that 2028 Olympics is coming. 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:37.740 It's in LA now. It's in the USA. It's in that 00:18:37.740 --> 00:18:40.180 building. The feeble tournament will be held 00:18:40.180 --> 00:18:45.920 in the Intuit Dome. So, you kind of, again, the 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:51.000 remnant is kind of still on you from 2024. The 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:53.640 build -up 2028 is still kind of hanging in there. 00:18:54.339 --> 00:18:58.599 So, because of which, that USA versus world is 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:00.880 kind of, okay. Because for instance, if you're 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:04.319 looking, if you're an international player, the 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:09.200 Americans are in trouble. 2028 will not have 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:12.160 LeBron James. 2028 will not have Stephen Curry. 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:15.700 2028 will not have Kevin Durant. Well, the three 00:19:15.700 --> 00:19:17.519 main players on the USA team won't be there. 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:20.420 So you think about it, take them three off, keep 00:19:20.420 --> 00:19:24.900 the nine that were there. At that point, you 00:19:24.900 --> 00:19:28.920 add maybe a Derrick Queen, a Jaden Duran, and 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:33.779 A .J. DeBansta might be a 2028 squad. You know 00:19:33.779 --> 00:19:34.960 what I'm saying? Like, it's going to be a very 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:38.339 young team as far as 2028. And that's not even 00:19:38.339 --> 00:19:39.779 saying like a Tyus Halliburton doesn't again. 00:19:39.900 --> 00:19:41.279 But Halliburton, who will actually be an important 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:43.180 player this year, he wasn't at first in 2024, 00:19:43.460 --> 00:19:45.500 but he'll be the important player this year. 00:19:45.619 --> 00:19:47.880 Like, Tatum didn't really play much. You're going 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:51.259 to need him in 2028. So there's a lot of stuff 00:19:51.259 --> 00:19:53.220 happening with Team USA. But anyway, that kind 00:19:53.220 --> 00:19:56.069 of – And then who have been winning, who's been 00:19:56.069 --> 00:19:58.029 dominating the awards? International players. 00:19:58.269 --> 00:20:00.009 I told you to list the top five players in the 00:20:00.009 --> 00:20:04.230 NBA. At least four of them are foreign. The MVP, 00:20:04.349 --> 00:20:07.089 Shea Goods Alexander, is from Canada. Giannis 00:20:07.089 --> 00:20:11.690 is Nigerian by way of Greece. Jokic is Serbian. 00:20:11.890 --> 00:20:16.809 Luka is Slovenian. So four of the top five players, 00:20:16.910 --> 00:20:20.440 at minimum, are foreign -born players. And the 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:23.420 best player in the Young Bucks, to me, is Wimby. 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:28.420 He's French. The best Young Buck American is 00:20:28.420 --> 00:20:32.160 Ant. But I'm saying, like, so as far as that 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:36.599 trajectory in two years, the best, it might be 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:38.819 the best five players in the world could be foreign. 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:42.779 You know, Giannis' health and so on and so forth. 00:20:42.819 --> 00:20:44.599 But the best five players in the world could 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:47.220 be foreign with Ant fighting to be in the top 00:20:47.220 --> 00:20:51.680 five. Team USA versus the world gets announced. 00:20:52.700 --> 00:20:56.339 You know, each team has a pool. USA will be divided 00:20:56.339 --> 00:20:59.059 into squad stars and stripes in the world. We'll 00:20:59.059 --> 00:21:01.079 have their team, and then the round robin style, 00:21:01.099 --> 00:21:05.259 whatever. I think two things matter. When Benyama's 00:21:05.259 --> 00:21:07.579 effort, he came out and blocked somebody's shot 00:21:07.579 --> 00:21:09.079 early. Like, let him know, like, because when 00:21:09.079 --> 00:21:10.640 he's been talking, like, I'm going to bring the 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:12.859 competitiveness back. Or I'm going to embarrass 00:21:12.859 --> 00:21:15.700 you. Either I'm going to dunk everywhere and 00:21:15.700 --> 00:21:19.690 block your body shot and whatever. or you're 00:21:19.690 --> 00:21:21.869 going to play basketball. And I still might do 00:21:21.869 --> 00:21:27.430 it, but you're going to try. And he came out 00:21:27.430 --> 00:21:30.970 early. It was block, dunk, three. And his team 00:21:30.970 --> 00:21:33.089 kind of went, oh. He was serious and ain't even 00:21:33.089 --> 00:21:34.869 said it after the game. Like, no, it was him. 00:21:35.009 --> 00:21:37.869 It was Victor. Like, Wimby made me play. Because 00:21:37.869 --> 00:21:39.849 when Wimby was coming so hard, I had no choice. 00:21:40.529 --> 00:21:43.829 Either I'm going to get embarrassed or I'm going 00:21:43.829 --> 00:21:47.619 to play. Ultimately, Wimby's team, Didn't win 00:21:47.619 --> 00:21:52.220 because two of his teammates didn't play. I mean, 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.339 they went into the game down four starters. Shea 00:21:56.339 --> 00:22:00.539 Gildas -Alexander didn't play. Luka Doncic and 00:22:00.539 --> 00:22:02.980 Nikola Jokic did the old baseball wave your cap 00:22:02.980 --> 00:22:06.019 moment and say, oh, I'm in the game. They waved 00:22:06.019 --> 00:22:08.900 to the crowd briefly. They played five minutes 00:22:08.900 --> 00:22:10.220 in the first game, didn't play in the second 00:22:10.220 --> 00:22:12.539 one. And even when they played, they were barely 00:22:12.539 --> 00:22:16.829 moving. And Giannis didn't play. So if we look 00:22:16.829 --> 00:22:19.109 at it, when I said those five best players in 00:22:19.109 --> 00:22:21.750 the world and four of them are foreign, all four 00:22:21.750 --> 00:22:24.089 of those four best players didn't play on the 00:22:24.089 --> 00:22:26.589 world team, and they lost by a total of five 00:22:26.589 --> 00:22:28.329 points in two games, and one of them in overtime. 00:22:31.109 --> 00:22:34.690 Like, so, it would have been very interesting, 00:22:34.769 --> 00:22:36.990 the level of competitiveness if the world team 00:22:36.990 --> 00:22:39.950 was fully healthy. If they ruled that starting 00:22:39.950 --> 00:22:42.670 lineup out of Shays, Luka, Jokic, Wimby, and 00:22:42.670 --> 00:22:46.440 Giannis. because there was no size on the Stripes 00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:48.900 or Starks team, LeBron and the team. And Stripes 00:22:48.900 --> 00:22:51.500 only had one center in Jalen Duran. So it would 00:22:51.500 --> 00:22:53.740 have been very interesting to see how they would 00:22:53.740 --> 00:22:58.480 have made that work regarding the world team 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:01.960 and trying to defend them. But to me, honestly, 00:23:02.180 --> 00:23:03.420 the All -Star Game was competitive. The mini 00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:05.759 games helped. It was only a quarter. Now the 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:08.720 Vets, old men burned out because they played 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:11.200 three games in a row. They played game two against 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:15.069 the Young Bucks. Then played the basic elimination 00:23:15.069 --> 00:23:18.549 game against the world team and then played the 00:23:18.549 --> 00:23:20.910 Young Bucks again. They basically played three 00:23:20.910 --> 00:23:26.890 quarters in a row. The Young Bucks played three, 00:23:27.170 --> 00:23:31.049 but they played one and two set and then played 00:23:31.049 --> 00:23:37.369 the third one. So the OG, I think this guy. you 00:23:37.369 --> 00:23:39.990 know, tired and legs were dead. But you got three 00:23:39.990 --> 00:23:42.549 competitive games. We had an overtime game, a 00:23:42.549 --> 00:23:46.670 buzzer beater, and effectively another buzzer 00:23:46.670 --> 00:23:49.329 beater in the first three games. And then the 00:23:49.329 --> 00:23:53.650 young dudes just, the old guys, the young dudes 00:23:53.650 --> 00:23:56.210 had to warm up and the old guy had to re -warm 00:23:56.210 --> 00:23:59.329 up. And the young dudes figured it out first. 00:23:59.410 --> 00:24:01.210 And when they went up 15 -1 or something like 00:24:01.210 --> 00:24:03.130 that, whatever, it was over. But at that point, 00:24:03.150 --> 00:24:04.730 they were laughing and running and having fun 00:24:04.730 --> 00:24:06.869 and going full speed. And the old guys were like, 00:24:06.910 --> 00:24:09.190 look, we ain't got it in us no more. Like, the 00:24:09.190 --> 00:24:10.349 point we're proving, we're still better than 00:24:10.349 --> 00:24:12.210 the world team. Like, that was almost it. It 00:24:12.210 --> 00:24:15.289 was, you know, I listened to a podcast, and I 00:24:15.289 --> 00:24:17.529 think it was Vince Goodwill suggested, like, 00:24:17.549 --> 00:24:21.269 what if the world USA team has, like, a non -European 00:24:21.269 --> 00:24:24.089 group chat? And they were like, no, we got to 00:24:24.089 --> 00:24:26.210 make sure they don't win. Like, or some of the, 00:24:26.269 --> 00:24:27.369 you know what I'm saying, like, suggested, like, 00:24:27.390 --> 00:24:29.069 no. Like, whatever happens between us, we'll 00:24:29.069 --> 00:24:31.799 figure it out. They can't win. And that's what 00:24:31.799 --> 00:24:35.099 made them play harder. But I think we kind of 00:24:35.099 --> 00:24:37.859 fixed All -Star. I think 2027's All -Star would 00:24:37.859 --> 00:24:40.380 be very interesting. If we keep the same USA 00:24:40.380 --> 00:24:43.299 versus world. Not a lot of the players spoke 00:24:43.299 --> 00:24:45.480 about they'd rather East -West. I know LeBron 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:48.180 said he wanted East -West. His last All -Star 00:24:48.180 --> 00:24:50.480 is probably next year. So I know LeBron said 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:54.920 he wanted East -West. Kawhi said whatever the 00:24:54.920 --> 00:24:58.019 fans want. He's down. Very diplomatic answer 00:24:58.019 --> 00:25:00.549 from Kawhi. He kind of said whatever the fans 00:25:00.549 --> 00:25:02.529 want, whatever gets them interested, whatever 00:25:02.529 --> 00:25:06.150 would have them watch it, he's down. You know, 00:25:06.170 --> 00:25:07.589 it's kind of with a general sentiment. Heard 00:25:07.589 --> 00:25:09.829 East -West or whatever the fans want. Nobody 00:25:09.829 --> 00:25:12.009 really had a suggestion outside of East -West 00:25:12.009 --> 00:25:15.130 or whatever the fans wanted. Me personally, I 00:25:15.130 --> 00:25:20.470 like East -West with something on the line. I 00:25:20.470 --> 00:25:23.250 think East -West allows you to put something 00:25:23.250 --> 00:25:27.390 on the line. For instance, the All -Star Game. 00:25:29.220 --> 00:25:31.339 is usually made up of a bunch of players on a 00:25:31.339 --> 00:25:36.599 bunch of teams fighting for titles. Right? Nobody 00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:40.579 on the court played for a losing team. Norman 00:25:40.579 --> 00:25:43.759 Powell, maybe. But, like, because the Heat are 00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:45.640 already tied. But, like, nobody else on the court 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:48.519 really, I mean, the Pistons had their guy on 00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:50.660 the court. He's first in the West. You know what 00:25:50.660 --> 00:25:52.400 I'm saying? Like, Spurs had a guy on the court. 00:25:52.420 --> 00:25:53.779 So on and so forth. Like, these guys were top 00:25:53.779 --> 00:25:57.859 six in their conferences. Something to imagine 00:25:57.859 --> 00:26:00.539 with playoffs either. I've always said if you 00:26:00.539 --> 00:26:05.240 want a game, either put a bunch of money, like 00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:07.220 $8 to $10 million a player for the winning team 00:26:07.220 --> 00:26:11.039 and nothing for the losers, or home court advantage 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:14.119 in the finals. Remember they said the MLB All 00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:20.099 -Star game used to be a game. A, baseball, you're 00:26:20.099 --> 00:26:24.000 pretty safe besides freak injuries. And B, it 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:25.359 was home court in the world. It was home field 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:28.259 in the World Series. So they used to go at it. 00:26:28.259 --> 00:26:29.579 Especially the game, like, you know, kind of 00:26:29.579 --> 00:26:32.559 early. Like if they had a legend, they'd feed 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:33.779 him one down the middle and let him pop it over 00:26:33.779 --> 00:26:35.799 the fence, something like that. But if it's 5 00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:40.779 -4 or 3 -2 or 8 -8 in the seventh inning, it 00:26:40.779 --> 00:26:42.880 became baseball because they were trying to get 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:46.839 home field advantage in the World Series. Put 00:26:46.839 --> 00:26:49.299 home court advantage in the finals up. And with 00:26:49.299 --> 00:26:51.519 that game one and that game seven is in the other 00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:54.180 team's building now. That matters. You know what 00:26:54.180 --> 00:26:56.200 I'm saying? I think if you're going to go east 00:26:56.200 --> 00:26:58.980 -west, you have to re -incentivize what is going 00:26:58.980 --> 00:27:01.839 to get them to play. Like I said, you know, boatload 00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:04.119 of money. The NBA's got sponsorships everywhere. 00:27:04.460 --> 00:27:06.440 Have somebody every year. You are the official 00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:09.359 whatever, whatever, all -star, blah, blah, blah, 00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:11.460 sponsorship. Make it one of them banks. They 00:27:11.460 --> 00:27:14.500 give $100 million, and the winning team player 00:27:14.500 --> 00:27:17.000 pool splits it. The coach gets $2 million off 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:20.900 top. Every assistant coach gets, you know, $1 00:27:20.900 --> 00:27:22.519 million off top, and then the players divide 00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:28.420 the rest. That'll get interesting. See what happens 00:27:28.420 --> 00:27:31.000 then. Put a whole bunch of money on the line 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:33.279 and see what happens then. Or, like I say, make 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:35.319 it where it's a home court advantage type situation 00:27:35.319 --> 00:27:39.680 regarding the NBA All -Star. And then, quickly, 00:27:39.799 --> 00:27:42.079 we'll jump through some first half things that 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:47.119 are happening in the NBA so far. So, we have 00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:49.920 our title contenders. To me, this is an interesting 00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:53.240 year because there's no outright number one. 00:27:55.049 --> 00:27:56.650 And you might say, Justin, there's the Oklahoma 00:27:56.650 --> 00:27:59.210 City Thunder. And I would push back at you and 00:27:59.210 --> 00:28:04.130 say, is there? Is Oklahoma City Thunder the runaway 00:28:04.130 --> 00:28:06.670 number one team in the NBA this year? I would 00:28:06.670 --> 00:28:10.390 say no. The San Antonio Spurs have a plan for 00:28:10.390 --> 00:28:12.049 them, and they have been dominating them. They 00:28:12.049 --> 00:28:14.670 beat them three out of four times. Now, am I 00:28:14.670 --> 00:28:16.390 saying I'm going to pick anybody from Oklahoma 00:28:16.390 --> 00:28:19.069 City to win the title? The answer is no. At this 00:28:19.069 --> 00:28:20.509 current juncture, I would pick Oklahoma City 00:28:20.509 --> 00:28:23.109 still. What I'm saying is it's not those years 00:28:23.109 --> 00:28:26.250 where, We rolled out of bed. I think this is 00:28:26.250 --> 00:28:27.849 a very Adam Silver -like thing, unlike David 00:28:27.849 --> 00:28:31.410 Stern. We rolled out of bed and said, okay, it's 00:28:31.410 --> 00:28:33.509 October 31st. The Cavs and Warriors are going 00:28:33.509 --> 00:28:38.329 to meet in the finals. It's 2016. The Cavs and 00:28:38.329 --> 00:28:40.190 Warriors are going to meet in the finals. Let's 00:28:40.190 --> 00:28:41.670 just find out who they're playing to get there. 00:28:43.349 --> 00:28:45.569 Which is the general sentiment. A lot of times 00:28:45.569 --> 00:28:47.950 when I grew up, you knew one team. Some years 00:28:47.950 --> 00:28:49.470 you knew both teams that were going to be in 00:28:49.470 --> 00:28:52.890 the finals. You know, injuries would be the only 00:28:52.890 --> 00:28:55.160 thing that would derail it kind of thing. This 00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:57.500 year, I have no idea. There's so many different 00:28:57.500 --> 00:29:02.960 ways you can go. And just people don't understand. 00:29:03.059 --> 00:29:05.400 I think Kevin Durant was on Twitter, you know, 00:29:05.400 --> 00:29:07.559 a while back. And I won't go into Kevin Durant's 00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:10.380 Twitter activity on this show. But Kevin Durant 00:29:10.380 --> 00:29:13.140 was on Twitter recently on his actual account. 00:29:13.359 --> 00:29:16.000 And he was discussing some of my title contenders. 00:29:16.359 --> 00:29:18.920 And, you know, one of the famous things that's 00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:22.519 always happened to Kevin Durant's career is what 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:25.210 happened. happens if his toes are on the line 00:29:25.210 --> 00:29:29.049 now people have romanticized it and even i did 00:29:29.049 --> 00:29:31.269 a little bit that that shot would have put them 00:29:31.269 --> 00:29:34.990 in the finals that shot was a second round series 00:29:34.990 --> 00:29:39.190 shot to go game six to go to the next game to 00:29:39.190 --> 00:29:41.289 then try to go to the conference rounds to then 00:29:41.289 --> 00:29:43.650 try to go to the finals in my head that shot 00:29:43.650 --> 00:29:46.309 has been romanticized in a lot of people's heads 00:29:46.309 --> 00:29:49.700 romanticized to If his toe is the inch behind 00:29:49.700 --> 00:29:52.160 the line, that shot puts them in the NBA Finals. 00:29:54.500 --> 00:29:57.279 Kevin Rambe says, dude, we were cooked. Kyrie 00:29:57.279 --> 00:30:01.019 was out with the hamstring or something. And, 00:30:01.160 --> 00:30:04.599 or with a foot, with something lower body. And 00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:07.599 then Harden was out with the hamstring. So he 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:09.559 was like, the odds of us winning Game 7 and then 00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:10.839 turning around and winning the Conference Finals 00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:13.180 was almost impossible. I mean, people have romanticized 00:30:13.180 --> 00:30:15.339 the shot as if they were going to win the title 00:30:15.339 --> 00:30:17.869 after that. They lost to Milwaukee, who the Milwaukee 00:30:17.869 --> 00:30:21.250 turned around and beat Phoenix. If Giannis doesn't 00:30:21.250 --> 00:30:23.609 go for 50 in game seven, Phoenix beats Milwaukee. 00:30:24.430 --> 00:30:25.950 You know what I'm saying? And Chris Paul retires 00:30:25.950 --> 00:30:27.990 with a ring. Shout out Chris Paul. First battle 00:30:27.990 --> 00:30:32.190 Hall of Famer. Retired recently. But New Orleans 00:30:32.190 --> 00:30:34.509 Hornets legend. I mean, I couldn't call it a 00:30:34.509 --> 00:30:40.009 public legend, but Hornets legend. You know, 00:30:40.069 --> 00:30:41.869 they were going to, you know, Giannis, it's like 00:30:41.869 --> 00:30:43.569 Giannis having one of the greatest game sevens. 00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:46.559 might be the greatest Game 7 in an NBA Finals 00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:48.880 individual performance ever to beat Phoenix in 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:52.700 that Game 7, including guarding both halves of 00:30:52.700 --> 00:30:57.500 a lob late. I mean, like, so, what I mean by 00:30:57.500 --> 00:31:01.640 that is, you know, KD talks about, and my point 00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:04.339 of this is, KD talked about how hard it is to 00:31:04.339 --> 00:31:07.099 win series, how hard it is to win the first round. 00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:09.829 Okay, well, it's exponentially harder. to win 00:31:09.829 --> 00:31:12.170 the second round. Well, it's even harder to win 00:31:12.170 --> 00:31:13.869 the third round. And it's nearly impossible to 00:31:13.869 --> 00:31:16.869 win a Finals game, nonetheless a Finals series. 00:31:17.150 --> 00:31:19.990 He's been on both ends of it. He got beaten five 00:31:19.990 --> 00:31:23.829 as a young man by the Big Three Heat for LeBron's 00:31:23.829 --> 00:31:27.069 first title. He's beaten LeBron in four. You 00:31:27.069 --> 00:31:29.130 know, he swept LeBron out as a member of the 00:31:29.130 --> 00:31:30.750 Warriors. He's been on both sides of the coin. 00:31:33.130 --> 00:31:35.390 Here's how hard it was to even win a game in 00:31:35.390 --> 00:31:38.069 the NBA Finals. And that's what makes this year 00:31:38.069 --> 00:31:42.720 so interesting in the NBA because who's won a 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:48.740 title in Detroit? Who's even gone far in the 00:31:48.740 --> 00:31:53.980 playoffs as a key contributor in Detroit? Nobody. 00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:58.500 Okay, let's take a look at Cleveland. Harden 00:31:58.500 --> 00:31:59.700 has been there. He's been there a couple times. 00:31:59.779 --> 00:32:02.059 He's been there in the finals as a young man 00:32:02.059 --> 00:32:06.400 on that Thunder team. He's a hamstring away. 00:32:07.660 --> 00:32:09.319 potentially from being back in the finals with 00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:11.299 Houston, not even his hamstring, Chris Paul's 00:32:11.299 --> 00:32:13.480 hamstring, go away, from being in the finals 00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:15.859 with Houston. And even then, if they don't miss 00:32:15.859 --> 00:32:18.440 27 straight threes, they might still get in the 00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:21.359 finals. Who knows? They win because, again, Harden's 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:22.839 hamstring was gone. They probably lose to LeBron 00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:26.940 and so on and so forth. But, I mean, Chris Paul's 00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:28.339 hamstring was gone, and they probably lose to 00:32:28.339 --> 00:32:32.680 LeBron. It doesn't matter. Donovan Mitchell, 00:32:32.740 --> 00:32:36.450 I think he's been to the finals maybe once. And 00:32:36.450 --> 00:32:40.150 that's it. Look at Boston. They're very, very 00:32:40.150 --> 00:32:42.869 experienced. They just won, right, two years 00:32:42.869 --> 00:32:44.910 ago. A lot of that core, that one is still there. 00:32:44.970 --> 00:32:47.130 You don't have Porzingis, obviously. But a lot 00:32:47.130 --> 00:32:49.369 of that core is still there. But they don't have 00:32:49.369 --> 00:32:52.809 Jason Tatum yet. But if Tatum comes back, that's 00:32:52.809 --> 00:32:56.789 probably my pick. That becomes my pick. If Tatum 00:32:56.789 --> 00:32:58.950 comes back, he's 85 % of what he was. That's 00:32:58.950 --> 00:33:04.609 my pick. And then I look at San Antonio. I love 00:33:04.609 --> 00:33:13.779 Area 51. However, I just don't see it. The only 00:33:13.779 --> 00:33:15.960 way I don't see it is who on that team, again, 00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:19.380 is a key contributor, has had a long run. Is 00:33:19.380 --> 00:33:21.720 Harrison Barnes still there? If Harrison Barnes 00:33:21.720 --> 00:33:23.539 is not still there, then the answer is nobody. 00:33:25.220 --> 00:33:27.400 Especially your two main players, being Castle, 00:33:27.500 --> 00:33:29.059 Fox, three of your main players, Castle, Fox, 00:33:29.140 --> 00:33:31.759 and Wimby. None of them have made that long run. 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:33.960 Wimby has done it internationally with France. 00:33:34.539 --> 00:33:37.470 He's not done it in the NBA. Fox has never done 00:33:37.470 --> 00:33:40.430 it. And neither has Tafon Castle, obviously. 00:33:40.589 --> 00:33:46.789 So, I don't, the only team with a boatload of 00:33:46.789 --> 00:33:48.970 experience, which is why a lot of who was picked, 00:33:49.029 --> 00:33:51.269 that'll be them in the playoffs start, that are 00:33:51.269 --> 00:33:55.130 in that kind of that mix, is the Cavs. Not the 00:33:55.130 --> 00:34:00.309 Cavs, OKC. They just did it. We just saw it. 00:34:02.209 --> 00:34:05.650 We got to hypothesize, can they? We just saw 00:34:05.650 --> 00:34:07.910 it. It is the rare year where there's not two, 00:34:08.070 --> 00:34:11.289 three, or four groups that have done the conference 00:34:11.289 --> 00:34:14.230 final run like the Lakers. If they got their 00:34:14.230 --> 00:34:17.030 act together, could. You've got Luka, who's been 00:34:17.030 --> 00:34:19.730 to the finals. Lost to Boston. That Boston championship, 00:34:19.789 --> 00:34:21.409 actually. Luka's been to the finals. LeBron, 00:34:21.489 --> 00:34:25.469 of course, has been to the 10. You know, those 00:34:25.469 --> 00:34:30.900 two guys alone, if you can get them there, would 00:34:30.900 --> 00:34:33.599 be a menacing sight to see on the other side. 00:34:34.139 --> 00:34:37.320 However, no one else on the team has done it. 00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:40.639 Aiden, no, Aiden was in the finals, the Giannis 00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:43.019 finals. Aiden's been there. Aiden was there in 00:34:43.019 --> 00:34:46.780 the Giannis finals. He was half of the play that 00:34:46.780 --> 00:34:51.699 Giannis blocked. You know, but Austin Reeves 00:34:51.699 --> 00:34:55.099 has not been, Jake LaRavia has not been, Luke 00:34:55.099 --> 00:34:58.599 Kennard. not as a key player, at least has not 00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:00.880 been. J .J. Redick, as a coach, has not been. 00:35:01.340 --> 00:35:03.519 He's been there as a player on the Atlanta 19 00:35:03.519 --> 00:35:06.860 and lost to Kobe, but he hasn't been there as 00:35:06.860 --> 00:35:11.139 a coach, obviously. So as far as experiencing 00:35:11.139 --> 00:35:13.719 groups and just that discussion of it's really 00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:16.280 hard to win playoff games, it's really hard to 00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:18.179 win playoff series, and it's almost impossible 00:35:18.179 --> 00:35:21.139 to win titles. Oklahoma City would have to be 00:35:21.139 --> 00:35:24.199 the primary contender just because of the experience 00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:26.480 factor. They've done it. They've got one of the 00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:28.920 best five players on the planet. And the whole 00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:33.780 group they have just did it last season. So that 00:35:33.780 --> 00:35:36.059 would probably be the early pick. Early MVP, 00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:38.420 I don't know. It's all over the place. I'll talk 00:35:38.420 --> 00:35:40.199 on this quickly. Kind of all over the place because 00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:42.400 of the 65 game rule. I don't know. Yoke is probably 00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:44.199 going to be ineligible. Shays are going to be 00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:48.820 getting close to the limit. It might be Jalen 00:35:48.820 --> 00:35:50.420 Brown or something. You know what I'm saying? 00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:53.739 It might have been Jalen Brown or Cade Cunningham 00:35:53.739 --> 00:35:59.199 or Wim Benyama might get one earlier than he's 00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:01.019 supposed to because it's just a 65 -game rule 00:36:01.019 --> 00:36:03.500 knocking out so many of the top guys from being 00:36:03.500 --> 00:36:09.019 able to get it. But that is all I have regarding 00:36:09.019 --> 00:36:12.880 the NBA. Now we're going to jump into college 00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:35.239 football. Welcome back into the show. I hope 00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:37.099 you got your fill of basketball there. I hope 00:36:37.099 --> 00:36:39.380 you got your fill of basketball as we entered, 00:36:39.579 --> 00:36:42.780 exited the first half of the season. That pre 00:36:42.780 --> 00:36:45.460 -All -Star and coming down the stretch into post 00:36:45.460 --> 00:36:47.840 -All -Star. But now we're getting to college 00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:49.719 football. So college football a lot of times. 00:36:49.820 --> 00:36:51.519 Obviously, congratulations to Indiana. I want 00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:54.340 to say that. Indiana wasn't on when Indiana won. 00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:57.739 Congrats to Indiana. Congrats to Chris Ignetti. 00:36:58.139 --> 00:37:00.599 Pulling off the greatest turnaround. arguably 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:03.420 sports history but definitely college football 00:37:03.420 --> 00:37:05.960 history i mean indiana was the losingest program 00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:12.800 in the country indiana was routinely a laughingstock 00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:18.340 of the college football world and now the kings 00:37:18.340 --> 00:37:20.239 of college football and look like signetti ain't 00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:24.079 slowing down um and because of which congratulations 00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:28.719 huge congratulations to indiana for that however 00:37:30.219 --> 00:37:32.599 Coming out of that season, we got a lot of discussion 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:35.179 about the calendar. So the Cosmo Ball National 00:37:35.179 --> 00:37:36.860 Championship game for the next couple years, 00:37:36.940 --> 00:37:39.360 date has been released. It's like January 26th 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:41.960 and 27th. It's ridiculous. We've somehow added 00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:44.960 even more time to this dumb calendar. And if 00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:47.260 I get impassioned about this ahead of time, this 00:37:47.260 --> 00:37:49.539 shouldn't be a 30 -minute segment, but if I get 00:37:49.539 --> 00:37:50.900 impassioned about this ahead of time, I'm sorry. 00:37:51.099 --> 00:37:52.559 I'm a little more aggressive than what you guys 00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:54.820 used to hear me talk. This calendar is stupid. 00:37:55.460 --> 00:37:58.000 All right, let's figure this out. Let's figure 00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:00.190 this out. Let's everyone put on our adult pants 00:38:00.190 --> 00:38:02.329 here. Let's everybody figure this out together. 00:38:03.650 --> 00:38:06.449 Okay, I feel like we're adults. I feel like we 00:38:06.449 --> 00:38:10.369 have the ability as adults to put this thing 00:38:10.369 --> 00:38:16.530 together as a collective. I feel like we have 00:38:16.530 --> 00:38:19.690 the ability to do this. Because right now, this 00:38:19.690 --> 00:38:21.690 is stupid. You want to know how I know it's stupid? 00:38:22.289 --> 00:38:24.320 You want to know how I know it's dumb? I know 00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:28.139 it's dumb because no one in any suggestions about 00:38:28.139 --> 00:38:31.199 the calendar said, hey, let's keep the calendar 00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:33.719 the exact same way it is now. No one said that, 00:38:33.780 --> 00:38:37.260 which means it's stupid. Even bad ideas at a 00:38:37.260 --> 00:38:44.679 certain point get support. Awful ideas at a certain 00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:48.840 point get support. Plain and simple. Even really, 00:38:48.900 --> 00:38:54.449 really bad ones get support. So primarily what 00:38:54.449 --> 00:38:57.309 Cotswold will tell you is the reason why the 00:38:57.309 --> 00:38:58.969 calendar gets so long at the end of the year 00:38:58.969 --> 00:39:00.710 is because they're basically ducking the NFL. 00:39:02.610 --> 00:39:05.449 That they do all this maneuvering, hee -hawing, 00:39:05.469 --> 00:39:08.730 and so on and so forth in order to try and dodge 00:39:08.730 --> 00:39:11.670 the NFL. And they will tell you that openly. 00:39:14.590 --> 00:39:16.389 They'll tell you, like, I mean, pretty much the 00:39:16.389 --> 00:39:24.320 NFL steals our Saturdays. And so we aren't able 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:34.539 to really and truly take control of our calendar 00:39:34.539 --> 00:39:41.139 because we lose the ability to have Saturdays 00:39:41.139 --> 00:39:42.880 in December because the NFL jumps on and they 00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:44.639 start taking NFL Saturdays for playoff games, 00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:48.880 so on and so forth. Okay, fine. Here's what you 00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:53.159 do. You either. work with the NFL, or you shorten 00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:56.300 this thing down. Talk to me about it. The NFL 00:39:56.300 --> 00:39:59.579 plays 17 games and they have one bye week. College 00:39:59.579 --> 00:40:01.079 football plays 12 games and there's like three. 00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:03.400 You don't play week zero or week one. There's 00:40:03.400 --> 00:40:04.480 another bye week somewhere in the conference, 00:40:04.820 --> 00:40:06.320 and then every conference gives you a bye week. 00:40:06.500 --> 00:40:08.460 So typically you have three bye weeks and the 00:40:08.460 --> 00:40:10.880 Army and Navy are going to back in. So there's 00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:14.440 15 weeks. Week zero is a week. So 16 weeks to 00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:17.059 play 12 games, you have four byes. Army and Navy 00:40:17.059 --> 00:40:20.250 week, unless you're Army and Navy. But if you're 00:40:20.250 --> 00:40:21.510 Army and Navy, you get an extra week in there. 00:40:21.889 --> 00:40:24.650 Week zero or week one, you're non -conference 00:40:24.650 --> 00:40:27.650 buy and you're conference buy. You end up with 00:40:27.650 --> 00:40:30.630 four buy weeks. You end up with a month of not 00:40:30.630 --> 00:40:34.030 playing football, regardless. Okay, so here's 00:40:34.030 --> 00:40:37.670 my calendar fix. Okay, so let's mark it down. 00:40:38.530 --> 00:40:41.250 Let's talk about producers. Let's get this segmented 00:40:41.250 --> 00:40:43.550 out. I'm going to fix this thing, and I'm going 00:40:43.550 --> 00:40:47.309 to fix it in the next probably three minutes 00:40:47.309 --> 00:40:51.079 or so. So we're going to mark it down at 40 minutes 00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:56.079 and 50 seconds of when I fix the calendar. I 00:40:56.079 --> 00:40:57.619 fix gospel ball in general in the next five minutes. 00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:01.400 Pay attention. Calendar's stupid. First of all, 00:41:01.420 --> 00:41:05.420 you start week zero. You mythically made a week. 00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:10.079 Week zero. You tie it into week one. Week one 00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:11.800 this year, unaffiliated starts August 29th. Okay, 00:41:11.900 --> 00:41:14.079 no week zero, sign everybody up. So everybody, 00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:16.500 that bye week no longer matters. We're going 00:41:16.500 --> 00:41:19.380 to fix it from the end of the season to the start 00:41:19.380 --> 00:41:22.019 of the next season. So pay attention. Week one 00:41:22.019 --> 00:41:24.539 starts August 29th. So that weekend, everybody 00:41:24.539 --> 00:41:27.559 plays the game. Week one. I'm taking away the 00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:29.900 non -conference bye week. So that's two weeks 00:41:29.900 --> 00:41:33.340 we've now made up. Army, Navy, you no longer 00:41:33.340 --> 00:41:35.159 have your own week. Sorry to be the bearer of 00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:37.860 bad news. You no longer have your own week. So 00:41:37.860 --> 00:41:40.360 that's three weeks we've now made up. So now, 00:41:40.460 --> 00:41:42.320 instead of the playoff game, the championship 00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:45.739 game being January 27th, We've slid it three 00:41:45.739 --> 00:41:49.059 weeks up to January 6th. We are already much 00:41:49.059 --> 00:41:53.780 better. I have done nothing but take away week 00:41:53.780 --> 00:41:56.800 zero, slide week one up, tie the whole calendar 00:41:56.800 --> 00:42:00.179 up, take away Army -Navy, and take away the non 00:42:00.179 --> 00:42:02.800 -conference buy. That's all I've done. You still 00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:07.619 have your conference buy week. Okay? There is 00:42:07.619 --> 00:42:11.019 also a week gap between the playoffs starting 00:42:11.019 --> 00:42:13.960 and the conference championship game. Which is 00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:16.199 the reason why, and we've seen historically, 00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:21.340 the bi -week teams that sit the bi -week, the 00:42:21.340 --> 00:42:24.500 automatic bi pretty much, then the first round, 00:42:24.599 --> 00:42:28.519 they sit like 21 to 30 days between games, they 00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:35.139 lose. That week is gone. So in my calendar, it 00:42:35.139 --> 00:42:39.340 goes week 14, Army -Navy, the Army -Navy week 00:42:39.340 --> 00:42:42.369 no longer exists. They get a prime time slot 00:42:42.369 --> 00:42:44.010 on either Friday, Saturday, Sunday, they can 00:42:44.010 --> 00:42:49.389 pick. When nothing else is on, Army, Navy. They 00:42:49.389 --> 00:42:52.750 play that game, week 14. Where week 15 used to 00:42:52.750 --> 00:42:56.130 be, it's conference championship week. The next 00:42:56.130 --> 00:42:58.670 week is the first round of the playoffs. The 00:42:58.670 --> 00:43:00.949 very next week. And you know what I got to do 00:43:00.949 --> 00:43:02.949 with the NFL. The beautiful part about college 00:43:02.949 --> 00:43:06.510 football is you can play that sport on a Thursday 00:43:06.510 --> 00:43:09.150 night. And it's going to be packed on college 00:43:09.150 --> 00:43:11.650 campuses. You can't tell me it isn't because 00:43:11.650 --> 00:43:14.289 I've seen it all season. Thursday, Friday, they 00:43:14.289 --> 00:43:15.570 will play conference championship game. They 00:43:15.570 --> 00:43:18.889 will play the first round. So if you're worried 00:43:18.889 --> 00:43:23.010 about the NFL destroying you on wild card weekend, 00:43:23.289 --> 00:43:25.469 I don't think at that point wild card weekend 00:43:25.469 --> 00:43:27.630 would even exist yet. I think actually you'd 00:43:27.630 --> 00:43:30.809 still be in an exclusive window. Let's double 00:43:30.809 --> 00:43:33.989 check. I'm pretty sure you'd be though. Bowl 00:43:33.989 --> 00:43:38.090 week starts December 12th -ish. Somewhere in 00:43:38.090 --> 00:43:44.159 there. I'm almost positive you would still be 00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:47.679 exclusive righted by the NFL. But let's say you 00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:52.699 are not. And I'm looking this up now as we speak. 00:43:52.739 --> 00:43:56.420 So excuse me if I don't have it in front of me 00:43:56.420 --> 00:43:59.679 right this second. Wild card round was January 00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:04.900 7th to the 13th. Okay, perfect. So we're avoiding 00:44:04.900 --> 00:44:08.820 the NFL entirely. Great. And I thought I was, 00:44:08.820 --> 00:44:10.219 but I was making sure. So wildcard weekend was 00:44:10.219 --> 00:44:12.239 January 7th to January 13th. That was wildcard 00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:14.900 week. Remember, I've already slid the national 00:44:14.900 --> 00:44:21.260 championship to the sixth. So with no other adjustments, 00:44:21.539 --> 00:44:24.000 we're not running to the NFL, which means we 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.079 still have our Saturdays to us. Perfect. First 00:44:26.079 --> 00:44:29.219 round play, Friday night into Saturday. How do 00:44:29.219 --> 00:44:30.820 I do it now? They play that first game on Friday, 00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:32.300 and then they kind of run them straight through 00:44:32.300 --> 00:44:33.860 on Saturday. Perfect. The NFL's not there yet. 00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:37.980 Run them through on Saturday. That next week, 00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:41.260 there's only four games now. Same concept. One 00:44:41.260 --> 00:44:42.760 Friday, and then you can run them through on 00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:49.420 Saturday. The next week, you run. You only have 00:44:49.420 --> 00:44:54.219 two games, 4 .30, 7 on Saturday. You have that 00:44:54.219 --> 00:44:56.940 time off for Christmas, and then you play January 00:44:56.940 --> 00:45:00.900 1st in the Rose Bowl every single year. College 00:45:00.900 --> 00:45:03.400 football calendar is fixed. I have just fixed 00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:06.780 it. I have just fixed it. And it took five minutes. 00:45:07.300 --> 00:45:11.500 And it took no other complications. Get rid of 00:45:11.500 --> 00:45:14.360 week zero. Slide everything up a week. Because 00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:17.099 you need four weeks. Get rid of week zero. Slide 00:45:17.099 --> 00:45:18.719 everything up a week. There's your first week. 00:45:19.139 --> 00:45:21.480 Get rid of Army Navy week. There's your second 00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:24.059 week. Get rid of the bye week in the non -conference 00:45:24.059 --> 00:45:28.059 schedule. Every major conference has one. Get 00:45:28.059 --> 00:45:30.679 rid of it. There's your third week. So now your 00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:33.960 regular season has gone from 16 weeks to 13 weeks. 00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:36.280 And then get rid of the week between the conference 00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:37.579 championship games and start the first round. 00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:40.440 There's your month. And you play January 1st. 00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:43.320 Whenever January 1st falls, you play January 00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:47.099 1st in the Rose Bowl. College football is fixed. 00:45:47.260 --> 00:45:50.440 And you are done. Because guess what? The transfer 00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:54.840 portal window will not open until January 2nd. 00:45:57.059 --> 00:46:00.099 I don't care. It is a two -week window from January 00:46:00.099 --> 00:46:05.800 2nd to January 16th. So now, You're done. Oregon's 00:46:05.800 --> 00:46:08.019 coordinators are not working two jobs trying 00:46:08.019 --> 00:46:10.460 to recruit Ole Miss coordinators and Ole Miss 00:46:10.460 --> 00:46:13.480 office staff. It's not coaching in the Sugar 00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:15.900 Bowl, and instead of going to the bus, instead 00:46:15.900 --> 00:46:17.840 of going on the plane to Oxford to the right, 00:46:17.960 --> 00:46:20.960 to the east, they're getting in black SUVs and 00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:23.880 going to LSU for Ops to the west to go to Baton 00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:26.639 Rouge and start recruiting for LSU because their 00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:28.780 season would have been over before Christmas. 00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:30.659 They would have already been introduced to LSU 00:46:30.659 --> 00:46:32.940 staff, and when the portal opens January 2nd, 00:46:33.280 --> 00:46:35.900 They're only at LSU colors already. Lane Kiffin 00:46:35.900 --> 00:46:37.739 wouldn't have had to make a choice of finishing 00:46:37.739 --> 00:46:40.519 for Ole Miss or coming to LSU. The season would 00:46:40.519 --> 00:46:44.039 have been over already. It is done with the easiest 00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:48.099 of changes. It takes all of five and a half to 00:46:48.099 --> 00:46:50.320 six minutes to fix the calendar. It does. You 00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:52.380 do nothing else. You're out of the NFL's way. 00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:54.940 The NFL has football exclusivity starting January 00:46:54.940 --> 00:46:57.280 2nd, which is right in time when that wild card 00:46:57.280 --> 00:46:59.989 weekend hits anyway. the only thing you run into 00:46:59.989 --> 00:47:02.949 is that week 18 and your championship game weekend 00:47:02.949 --> 00:47:06.289 will be right around the same weekend oh well 00:47:06.289 --> 00:47:09.909 seven prime time jay went prime time new year's 00:47:09.909 --> 00:47:11.789 day in the rose bowl cosplay national championship 00:47:11.789 --> 00:47:17.769 every year simple it is really easy and that 00:47:17.769 --> 00:47:20.429 way the rose bowl still is the rose bowl because 00:47:20.429 --> 00:47:22.889 remember that man if you move the calendar around 00:47:22.889 --> 00:47:25.150 you may lose the rose bowls prestige or whatever 00:47:25.150 --> 00:47:28.559 no you don't the rose bowl is a national champion 00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:32.559 every single season and you rotate the others 00:47:32.559 --> 00:47:39.340 simple it is easy peasy lemon squeezy the national 00:47:39.340 --> 00:47:41.800 championships in the rose bowl every year january 00:47:41.800 --> 00:47:46.079 1st transfer portal opens up january 2nd it goes 00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:49.840 january 16th it closes most school enrollment 00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:53.300 dates about january 20th so it closes you go 00:47:53.300 --> 00:47:56.780 from then Then you shift. You have spring ball. 00:47:56.880 --> 00:48:00.039 Spring ball doesn't change. Run and change. The 00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:03.639 portal opens up again because college semester 00:48:03.639 --> 00:48:06.139 ends a little weird. The portal opens up again 00:48:06.139 --> 00:48:10.199 the day after all colleges are out of school. 00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:13.619 It opens up again for one week. So now you know 00:48:13.619 --> 00:48:15.300 position battles. It opens up again for one week. 00:48:15.340 --> 00:48:18.579 You have a week to enter. In order for you to 00:48:18.579 --> 00:48:23.230 be eligible, For the 2026, say, and it gets enacted 00:48:23.230 --> 00:48:25.050 this season, in order for you to be eligible 00:48:25.050 --> 00:48:30.510 for the 2026 season, you must be enrolled in 00:48:30.510 --> 00:48:36.349 your school for the fall semester by July 1st. 00:48:37.909 --> 00:48:40.409 Meaning, you got about two months to find a home. 00:48:40.949 --> 00:48:42.829 And then you're not playing college football 00:48:42.829 --> 00:48:45.889 in the next season. You have to be enrolled in 00:48:45.889 --> 00:48:49.980 university by July 1st. Easy. And then you go 00:48:49.980 --> 00:48:51.960 right into the New Year calendar, and everybody 00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:55.260 is fixed, and nobody is complaining, and no one 00:48:55.260 --> 00:48:58.559 is crying, and no one is boo -hooing that their 00:48:58.559 --> 00:49:00.019 coordinators are working two jobs, or that the 00:49:00.019 --> 00:49:01.619 players are stressed, or the portal window is 00:49:01.619 --> 00:49:04.219 in the wrong spot, or none of it. All you did 00:49:04.219 --> 00:49:06.019 was compress the regular season, take out some 00:49:06.019 --> 00:49:10.059 unnecessary bye weeks, make two official portal 00:49:10.059 --> 00:49:13.159 windows, and end this bad boy on January 1st. 00:49:14.059 --> 00:49:17.139 It's simple. It fixes the portal. It fixes the 00:49:17.139 --> 00:49:20.000 calendar. Oh, and by the way, with the NIL stuff, 00:49:20.219 --> 00:49:23.460 people coming by the NIL, easy way to fix that 00:49:23.460 --> 00:49:26.460 too, guys. Sign freshmen to multi -year contracts. 00:49:27.099 --> 00:49:29.780 The buyouts are here. So if we're going to play 00:49:29.780 --> 00:49:32.559 in the buyout era, where a guy signs a contract 00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:34.340 and then he can't transfer because he has to 00:49:34.340 --> 00:49:35.619 be on the buyout line of his new school, some 00:49:35.619 --> 00:49:37.219 schools are doing it. But, like, I know Francis 00:49:37.219 --> 00:49:40.320 DeMond Williams was coming to LSU. Can almost 00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:42.480 guarantee that. He was a Washington Husky coming 00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:44.719 to be the quarterback at LSU. He signed with 00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:46.260 Washington, and then a week later, he was like, 00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:47.579 oh, I'm going to the portal. They were like, 00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:51.199 no, you're not. And they could have had they 00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:53.340 bought him out of his contract for like $4 million. 00:49:54.260 --> 00:49:56.119 Excuse me. And they paid him another $5 million 00:49:56.119 --> 00:49:59.019 to come to LSU. He wasn't worth $9 million. LSU, 00:49:59.039 --> 00:50:00.139 they'll be getting the same amount for five and 00:50:00.139 --> 00:50:05.219 a half. Whatever. But if I want my freshman to 00:50:05.219 --> 00:50:07.340 stop getting in the portal after one year and 00:50:07.340 --> 00:50:09.380 chasing him back, I'm going to sign my freshman 00:50:09.380 --> 00:50:14.099 to a two -year or three -year deal. where at 00:50:14.099 --> 00:50:16.699 least the new school's got to buy me out. You 00:50:16.699 --> 00:50:17.880 know what I'm saying? At minimum, they got to 00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:20.400 pay the money back. If they want me to go into 00:50:20.400 --> 00:50:22.900 the portal, something. You know what I'm saying? 00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:25.940 Like, I'm not just going to just allow my, I 00:50:25.940 --> 00:50:27.400 develop a kid, develop two kids. Like, especially 00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:29.159 out of Southeastern. When we were in Southeastern, 00:50:29.179 --> 00:50:31.199 for example, I went there, graduated there. They're 00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:35.320 an FCS school, pretty good one. If you don't 00:50:35.320 --> 00:50:38.699 want, you know, Jalen Dominique, I think it was 00:50:38.699 --> 00:50:40.119 his name, then I'm going to Wisconsin to leave 00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:42.449 you. When he walks on campus, make sure he's 00:50:42.449 --> 00:50:45.090 on a two -year or three -year deal. So now at 00:50:45.090 --> 00:50:46.909 least Wisconsin's got to pay you a little bit 00:50:46.909 --> 00:50:49.710 for him. Something. You get compensation. Maybe 00:50:49.710 --> 00:50:52.849 you get cash considerations or something. Like, 00:50:52.869 --> 00:50:54.289 you know, the guy don't just walk out of your 00:50:54.289 --> 00:50:56.530 building after you develop into an all -conference 00:50:56.530 --> 00:50:59.329 receiver. So I think that's the way to fix the 00:50:59.329 --> 00:51:03.670 NIL stuff. Man, sign him to a deal. At that point, 00:51:03.750 --> 00:51:07.389 it's any other business. It's any other professional 00:51:07.389 --> 00:51:09.329 business. It's no different than when in the 00:51:09.329 --> 00:51:14.539 NBA, Player X gets traded to the Cavs, and the 00:51:14.539 --> 00:51:16.739 Cavs, they agree to a buyout, and then he signs 00:51:16.739 --> 00:51:20.179 with the new team. Perfect. You know, whatever. 00:51:20.260 --> 00:51:22.820 People get bought out of contracts all the time. 00:51:23.219 --> 00:51:26.639 The issue is you've got to have a system in place 00:51:26.639 --> 00:51:29.179 to where the buyouts are how they move, and they 00:51:29.179 --> 00:51:31.179 can't just enter freely and set free agency whenever 00:51:31.179 --> 00:51:33.440 they want, which is kind of where it sits now. 00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:38.559 And so that's kind of how you fit college football. 00:51:38.969 --> 00:51:41.369 I fixed the calendar, I fixed the portal, and 00:51:41.369 --> 00:51:44.190 I fixed NIL, and it took me 12 minutes. I'm not 00:51:44.190 --> 00:51:46.070 sure the problem is by the big wigs outside of 00:51:46.070 --> 00:51:49.750 control. Your 12 -team playoff is still there. 00:51:49.889 --> 00:51:52.550 My model even allows a 16 -team playoff because 00:51:52.550 --> 00:51:54.090 it's the same amount of games. We're not doing 00:51:54.090 --> 00:51:57.289 24. But, like, you can even do a 16 -team playoff. 00:51:57.349 --> 00:51:58.809 First round's on campus, and you go into the 00:51:58.809 --> 00:52:01.309 bowl system. Between the sugar, the peach, the 00:52:01.309 --> 00:52:02.590 cotton, and the orange, those are your bowls, 00:52:02.670 --> 00:52:05.030 and then the Rose Bowl is your natty. Like, it's 00:52:05.030 --> 00:52:11.159 really simple. I just, it's really simple. But 00:52:11.159 --> 00:52:12.820 I guess I'm the smartest guy in the room. And 00:52:12.820 --> 00:52:14.579 that tends to happen. You know, it tends to happen 00:52:14.579 --> 00:52:16.139 when it comes to these things. I guess because 00:52:16.139 --> 00:52:18.159 I have a vested interest in what works and not 00:52:18.159 --> 00:52:19.559 what necessarily makes a whole bunch of money. 00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:22.360 Which, by the way, having your sport on every 00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:24.340 single week would make a whole bunch of money. 00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:28.800 That's just me. Especially knowing that, you 00:52:28.800 --> 00:52:30.900 know, like Lane Kiffin finishing this thing off 00:52:30.900 --> 00:52:33.199 at LSU, at Ole Miss, before even going to LSU, 00:52:33.260 --> 00:52:36.760 would have been a story for the ages. You know, 00:52:36.800 --> 00:52:41.340 like. So, I think, you know, in the interest 00:52:41.340 --> 00:52:45.019 of this sport, it would be a 2025 National, or 00:52:45.019 --> 00:52:48.320 this year, 2026 National Champion gets crowned 00:52:48.320 --> 00:52:51.719 on January 1st, 2027. And so that person is the 00:52:51.719 --> 00:52:54.860 reigning champion all 2027, and the new champion 00:52:54.860 --> 00:52:57.820 gets crowned in 2028. And so on and so forth. 00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:04.179 You're out of the NFL's hair early. Like, you 00:53:04.179 --> 00:53:06.519 got exclusivity in some parts of the calendar. 00:53:07.079 --> 00:53:09.519 It's perfect. Would college football do this? 00:53:09.639 --> 00:53:15.179 Of course not. But it is perfect. But moving 00:53:15.179 --> 00:53:18.300 on to our last topic we're going to get into 00:53:18.300 --> 00:53:21.119 today. We're not going to do a sound break, just 00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:23.280 a typical sound break. Just going to, you know, 00:53:23.300 --> 00:53:25.780 segment it out. Kind of already talked about 00:53:25.780 --> 00:53:28.179 the NFL and their offseason is really just getting 00:53:28.179 --> 00:53:32.539 started. So we'll bring them up next episode. 00:53:32.719 --> 00:53:37.069 But what I really wanted to get into. Today, 00:53:37.069 --> 00:53:39.969 just quickly, is women's college basketball and 00:53:39.969 --> 00:53:41.670 women's basketball in general. Obviously, the 00:53:41.670 --> 00:53:45.130 WNBA is going through their CBA negotiations, 00:53:45.630 --> 00:53:49.010 which has led to some high -intensity action 00:53:49.010 --> 00:53:51.750 with Unrivaled. Unrivaled being a three -on -three 00:53:51.750 --> 00:53:53.949 league with a smaller court, and it's a bunch 00:53:53.949 --> 00:53:55.889 of scoring, and it's really, really dope. It's 00:53:55.889 --> 00:53:58.150 all player -owned, like Nafisa Collier, Brianna 00:53:58.150 --> 00:53:59.929 Stewart, the main two owners of it, along with 00:53:59.929 --> 00:54:02.429 their partners. And then, like, Paige Beckers 00:54:02.429 --> 00:54:04.010 has a piece, and, like, I think Angela Reese 00:54:04.010 --> 00:54:06.969 has a small piece in it. I think Juju Watkins 00:54:06.969 --> 00:54:09.929 has a small piece. Flagey Johnson has a small 00:54:09.929 --> 00:54:12.869 piece. Like, it's very player -owned kind of 00:54:12.869 --> 00:54:13.809 thing, and they're going to start throwing over 00:54:13.809 --> 00:54:17.449 the country soon, whatever, right? But the WNBA 00:54:17.449 --> 00:54:21.130 is in their contract negotiations and their CBA 00:54:21.130 --> 00:54:23.070 negotiations, and what makes it contentious is 00:54:23.070 --> 00:54:25.809 the fact that the players have power. Any time 00:54:25.809 --> 00:54:28.949 that the labor, I don't want to sound harsh, 00:54:28.989 --> 00:54:31.650 but the labor, being the players, have power, 00:54:31.809 --> 00:54:33.730 it makes the labor negotiations contentious. 00:54:33.849 --> 00:54:36.849 The reason being is they're the product on the 00:54:36.849 --> 00:54:40.070 court making all these decisions, so therefore, 00:54:40.389 --> 00:54:43.789 they are going to put into play what they have. 00:54:44.010 --> 00:54:46.570 I mean, Sadler thinks you're going to go $240 00:54:46.570 --> 00:54:49.510 ,000 max north of a million. We just seen how 00:54:49.510 --> 00:54:51.409 hard the players win the Unravel 1v1 tournament 00:54:51.409 --> 00:54:55.469 because $200 ,000 was the prize. Everybody competing 00:54:55.469 --> 00:54:57.389 there made less than that in the WNBA season. 00:54:59.010 --> 00:55:02.059 So, You know, the max salary is going to be north 00:55:02.059 --> 00:55:03.239 of a million dollars. And they're going to get 00:55:03.239 --> 00:55:04.440 all these different cares. And they're going 00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:05.760 to get league pass free. And they're going to 00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:07.880 get all this different stuff that they didn't 00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:11.260 get before. But it's not enough in the sense 00:55:11.260 --> 00:55:13.219 of they just want a similar revenue structure 00:55:13.219 --> 00:55:16.079 to the NBA. Who knows if they get it? We're going 00:55:16.079 --> 00:55:17.860 to find out. It's going to be a very contagious 00:55:17.860 --> 00:55:20.300 labor negotiations. Because their calendars, 00:55:20.360 --> 00:55:21.880 speaking of calendars, is going to get very compressed. 00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:23.719 Because they started being free agency by now. 00:55:23.940 --> 00:55:26.639 Or right about now, free agency. Or deep into 00:55:26.639 --> 00:55:30.440 free agency. There's no labor. And 90 % of the 00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:33.659 league is for agents. There's two teams coming 00:55:33.659 --> 00:55:35.480 in that needs expansion drafts. Like, this is 00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:38.920 going to be very interesting. The next couple 00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:40.659 of months, even get the WNBA started on time, 00:55:40.739 --> 00:55:44.219 because they usually get started in late April, 00:55:44.219 --> 00:55:47.300 May -ish. They start playing games, and it's 00:55:47.300 --> 00:55:50.139 like, it's middle of February, and they haven't 00:55:50.139 --> 00:55:54.210 gotten there yet. So, we're going to see. What 00:55:54.210 --> 00:55:55.949 I want to touch on is the women's game primarily. 00:55:56.409 --> 00:55:58.550 And I want to focus specifically on the SEC. 00:55:59.250 --> 00:56:01.630 We spoke about the SEC a lot in terms of football. 00:56:01.809 --> 00:56:03.909 And I'm in SEC country. Like I said, I'm in Baton 00:56:03.909 --> 00:56:07.550 Rouge. I'm in SEC country. This is going to be 00:56:07.550 --> 00:56:10.309 the greatest conference tournament in women's 00:56:10.309 --> 00:56:12.650 basketball history. And the only thing I'm not 00:56:12.650 --> 00:56:14.829 saying in college basketball history, because 00:56:14.829 --> 00:56:16.210 some of those Big East tournaments were insane, 00:56:16.489 --> 00:56:20.449 like Kimba's run with the UConn. There's like 00:56:20.449 --> 00:56:23.550 eight ranked teams in the SEC. There's South 00:56:23.550 --> 00:56:26.289 Carolina. There's Tennessee. There's LSU. I'm 00:56:26.289 --> 00:56:28.150 going to forget people. There's Ole Miss. There's 00:56:28.150 --> 00:56:32.530 Vandy. There's Texas. Georgia's ranked. But there's 00:56:32.530 --> 00:56:34.190 going to be like seven or eight ranked schools 00:56:34.190 --> 00:56:37.030 in the conference tournament. It is going to 00:56:37.030 --> 00:56:40.530 be a bloodbath in the conference tournament. 00:56:40.590 --> 00:56:44.750 To even survive the SEC tournament, that's going 00:56:44.750 --> 00:56:48.889 to be harder than winning a tournament game, 00:56:48.969 --> 00:56:52.280 probably the Elite Eight. Unless you run into 00:56:52.280 --> 00:56:56.039 another SEC school before that. It is going to 00:56:56.039 --> 00:56:58.900 be downright brutal. There are teams in the SEC 00:56:58.900 --> 00:57:01.619 with four losses, and the only losses are to 00:57:01.619 --> 00:57:05.880 other SEC schools. It is going to be insane, 00:57:06.159 --> 00:57:09.920 this conference tournament the SEC ladies are 00:57:09.920 --> 00:57:12.510 going to put on. I personally cannot wait. I 00:57:12.510 --> 00:57:14.409 mean, you have Kim Mulcahy who's trying to get 00:57:14.409 --> 00:57:16.070 over the Dawn Staley hump. You have Dawn trying 00:57:16.070 --> 00:57:18.230 to keep her eye and grip on the conference. You 00:57:18.230 --> 00:57:24.130 have Coach Yo putting on a show now at Ole Miss. 00:57:24.309 --> 00:57:26.090 You've got Texas, what they're doing over there. 00:57:26.369 --> 00:57:28.849 You've got Georgia. You've got Vandy, what they're 00:57:28.849 --> 00:57:32.269 doing over there. I mean, there is a lot of talent. 00:57:32.329 --> 00:57:33.869 I'm sure I missed somebody, and I apologize ahead 00:57:33.869 --> 00:57:35.869 of time if I did. But there's a lot of talent 00:57:35.869 --> 00:57:39.190 in the SEC. It is going to be a show in that 00:57:39.190 --> 00:57:42.869 conference tournament from round two on. It is 00:57:42.869 --> 00:57:45.909 going to be an absolute show in the conference 00:57:45.909 --> 00:57:51.070 tournament. But that is all I have for you guys 00:57:51.070 --> 00:57:54.710 today. We'll get into some more, a lot more in 00:57:54.710 --> 00:57:59.789 the next few weeks. Happy to be back. JTS Season 00:57:59.789 --> 00:58:03.789 7, Episode 1 is a wrap.