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00:00:01what's happening y'all if the pre-show energy is any indication this is going to be a weird one

00:00:06why does your hair look like that today does it look good today or bad not really what do you

00:00:10mine looks bad too no i think both of our hairs look pretty damn good both of our hairs

00:00:16this might be our worst show mine's really bad today i'm having a rough hair day but look the

00:00:21point is it's going to be a fun show we got an nba draft we got rob stone's going to

00:00:25come by we're

00:00:25going to talk a ton of world cup throughout the show today we got connor griffin's grip ends in

00:00:29we got the baseball bonanza and we got brandon walker being an old curmudgeonly brewers fan

00:00:34what more could you want out of a single wake-up bar stool it all starts now on fs1

00:00:59like in this episode no way what's happening y'all welcome back to wake up bar stool hope you're

00:01:04having an excellent morning hope you got a fine steaming cup of coffee and caffeine running

00:01:10through your veins mine's quite cold all right we're just gonna do this all day guys just nobody's

00:01:15gonna be on the same page for the next two hours we're just gonna everybody's gonna be sniping and

00:01:19undercutting one another at every single turn i've been out of this the whole pre-show stuff i don't

00:01:24know what what i walked into talking so loud that is true am i loud i don't i don't think

00:01:28wayne's watching am i coming in hot in the mics but that is true you've been so out of it

00:01:33that

00:01:33brandon demeaned you before the show and you laughed and dapped him up i did he made a good

00:01:38roast about my shirt i had to give him props although yeah i think i gotta unbutton one button i

00:01:42think

00:01:43yeah yeah you gotta yeah let's let's let's pop a beasy next commercial break i'll pop a beasy for

00:01:47wheezy i like show up a little chest yeah wayne's watching i mean i don't know how the the show's

00:01:53so

00:01:53goofy and and and weird energy today because last night we were treated to one of the premier uh sports

00:01:59calendar days of the entire year and that is round one of the nba draft guys might be overstating it

00:02:07a tad hell yeah you're right because the only thing more exciting round two of the nba draft so

00:02:13tonight our a block is we're previewing round two yeah yeah who's your best available on the

00:02:19board right now t bob you know can i say there's a lot out there it's tough to say tough

00:02:25to say can

00:02:25i say something about the nba draft yes absolutely go ahead floor is yours first of all no real surprises

00:02:31i think it's a loaded draft of the first four kind of went like you thought it might except for

00:02:35maybe

00:02:35peterson and boozer if you thought boozer was going to be the safer pick there then the next four

00:02:40guards not a whole lot of surprises here not a whole lot but what happened to the nba draft i

00:02:45love man what happened to the crazy suits what happened to the uh the moms and girlfriends or the

00:02:51dads making it all about themselves what happened to the spectacle around the nba draft these guys were

00:02:56just sitting down there on the on the floor in their little green room just they'd get drafted

00:03:00they'd say okay just calmly walk up grab their hat go up to that alien adam silver and say hey

00:03:05man

00:03:05uh what's up good to see you what happened to the nba draft i love where's the where's the

00:03:10characters where's the histrionics where's the craziness it would have been it would have been

00:03:15a good opportunity for somebody to claim some real estate by bringing back the early 2000s big suits

00:03:20the big suits the hakeem olajuwon tuxedo you know something somebody do something a bit shocking that

00:03:25wasn't done actually because that's like the in fashion i was going to say it's kind of as we're

00:03:29kind of rebounding back that direction somebody should have gone full extreme into the spectrum no i mean

00:03:34look it's but then okay so the nba draft even and and and it's almost like if this one can't

00:03:40be

00:03:40exciting then which one can because there's so much uh premier talent in this one that said

00:03:46everybody right now is suffering from the black hole that is the world cup it it is sucking up all

00:03:54interest i and we're gonna get there in a second but but but real quick on the thoughts here um

00:03:58aj davanson goes one to the washington wizards wizard back i it's crazy man i

00:04:04it's a sad place to be as an nba fan where you have a team that you cheer for and

00:04:11you find

00:04:12yourself jealous of the washington wizards yep and yet that's how i sit here today feel your envy

00:04:18seething out of you i mean they they they've got it's going to be incredibly exciting anthony davis

00:04:24will at least give you like 36 badass games well trade young signs long term for 53 million dollars

00:04:31a year uh for a lot of money t-bob guys like us wizards fans like me we've been waiting

00:04:36long long

00:04:38time somewhere over a month and a half for this moment for for for this team to be back and

00:04:43it

00:04:43feels so good t-bob so debonta is is very very interesting he is both he both has a very

00:04:49high

00:04:49ceiling a high floor but at the same time i don't know that he has he's not lebron he's not

00:04:55he's not

00:04:55he's not he's not that type of number one pick but peterson behind him with the red flag like i

00:05:01think

00:05:01peterson's the best player in the draft potentially but he has the red flags and debonta is both safe

00:05:06and appealing at the same time like he's a weird mix of oh my god the ceiling could be this

00:05:10i also

00:05:11know he's very very safe yeah yeah his intangible like everything you read about demands before the

00:05:16draft is that teams were very impressed like his competitiveness intangibles leadership all that

00:05:20like he he wants to leave it all out there there's questions of peterson this is one of my favorite

00:05:25uh

00:05:26day after the draft traditions though which is reading who had the best draft and it's just a

00:05:30bunch of writers being like well i had this guy going here and he went here so that means that

00:05:35was

00:05:36an incredible draft a lot of that with darren peterson as like it was actually the jazz because i had

00:05:40peterson as the best overall i think he is the best uh the best potential nba player he has

00:05:46some shot making and some scoring that a lot of people don't have he's he's the best maybe scoring

00:05:50guard pure scoring guard since kobe like he's very very very good but then again could stay on the

00:05:55floor of kansas or wouldn't stay on the floor of kansas yeah so if the guy couldn't make it through

00:06:00a 30 game college season uh at a place like kansas if he couldn't be reliable there why do i

00:06:06think he's

00:06:06now all of a sudden going to be reliable in an 82 game season that gets tougher competition playing 40

00:06:10games a year at altitude yeah it's it's it's it's it's a worthy question but i if i'm the jazz

00:06:16all

00:06:16of a sudden by the way the jazz got a lot of young exciting talent but but like if i'm

00:06:21the jazz i think

00:06:22i do take the risk i do take the swing just know the swing could end up costing them in

00:06:26the long run

00:06:27i i and and you know to to kind of make fun of myself here and how smooth he is

00:06:31do a bit of a thing

00:06:33that i was just kind of uh tongue-in-cheek making fun of the writers for doing if i'm a

00:06:37memphis

00:06:37grizzlies fan and i'm about to move john morant we're exiting that era which started off so full

00:06:43of excitement and hope and promise and ended in just like a like a car with the wheels falling off

00:06:49a bit disastrous it has to feel fantastic to get boozer through yeah because i mean again and i know

00:06:55this has been the tagline here but these are guys in like camp boozer peterson who would be number one

00:07:01in a majority of drafts so you're telling me you come away at three with him and then caleb wilson

00:07:07as well so like yeah big winners there uh for both the the grizzlies at three and as you said

00:07:13the the

00:07:14bulls at four they're getting wilson where it went sideways and i don't think it went sideways i

00:07:17shouldn't say it like that but i did i was interested in the middle of the draft the first four

00:07:22went like

00:07:22the first four was always going to go then you get to five and keaton wogler goes ahead of guys

00:07:27like

00:07:28a cuff ahead of guys like flemings i had of uh who went six oh i got it right here

00:07:32uh yeah mikhail

00:07:34brown jr so you go what this this group of guards right there wogler brown a cuff flemings you know

00:07:39i'm just using my eyes and what i saw in college basketball i think a cuff has the highest ceiling

00:07:45there i think a cuff is the guy you put the ball in his hands it's the most exciting but

00:07:49they went

00:07:50wogler number five and then mikhail brown before him so that was interesting to me the way that

00:07:54foursome shook out also brown way more inconsistent this year than a cuff was had a back injury

00:08:00whereas it does seem like a cuff the run that he went on especially in march like was insane but

00:08:06if

00:08:07you're the kings you got to be super happy that he fell all the way well didn't what wasn't a

00:08:11cuff

00:08:11like actively out there campaigning to go to sacramento as well yeah the one player in draft

00:08:16history we've seen that's ever been like i want i need that was a mutual sacramento don't sleep on

00:08:22the bucks here at 10 a day after trading yannis and and you know kind of starting over they get

00:08:27a

00:08:27guy i mean i think the mavs did them a huge favor by taking more as johnson jr and not

00:08:31taking

00:08:32brayton berries there i think um i mean darius acup jr is going to win rookie of the year too

00:08:37right

00:08:38playing in sacramento he's going to have the ball constantly i mean tyree kevin's did it there back

00:08:42in the day i mean debons is getting right into that rotation is going to be a key piece immediately

00:08:47peterson you got to think if you're drafting it too you're just saying hey we believe in you go out

00:08:51and

00:08:51score 20 a game so i i i think there's going to be a lot and and boozer is immediately

00:08:56the

00:08:56cornerstone of that organization so i i think there's going to be a lot of players here and then

00:09:01by the way at 12 at 12 you got the thunder yeah i know i don't even want to ask

00:09:06about that and they

00:09:07a day tomorrow falls to them then they get uh the the third guard starts like he's going to be

00:09:12the

00:09:12most hateable guy in the league now that he's on the thunder like there's there's just the good teams

00:09:17know how to draft like the spurs got um terris reed jr late last night right yeah like they get

00:09:22these winning teams draft winners and they keep winning how do you let morris slip all the way to

00:09:28the thunder i mean like because you knew that they wanted him but i also wonder from the the thunder

00:09:33perspective specifically specifically pardon me from the the holmgren perspective like this is a guy who

00:09:41who shrunk in the big moment against wemby and now he's going into this off season where you have

00:09:47all these people questioning his chet holmgren actually is advertised and then his own team now

00:09:52goes out and gets another player who's his height and i don't know exactly yeah but they got but he's

00:09:57a back he's gonna be no i know i don't think oklahoma city has any questions about chet holmgren

00:10:02correct but it does hopefully you know maybe this is a little bit of a kick in the arse maybe

00:10:07like yeah

00:10:08i gotta be add another navi what did you say yeah he said what you said we're on national

00:10:13we're on national television why'd you say arse kicking the arse i don't know if i could say the

00:10:17other word um is it soccer is that an english term is it soccer is that more is that not

00:10:21canadian

00:10:23what's all right that's british british arse yeah um i i i noticed something um no jalen's drafted in

00:10:30the top 10 the nba has a lot of jalen's wow jalen's um three juniors drafted in in the top

00:10:3510 there

00:10:35oh wow bloodlines i think they're freshmen yeah there you go huh i'm curious what is the nba the

00:10:41most junior heavy league along as the uh with the most jalen heavy league jalen i would say possibly

00:10:48yes it's it's gotta be there's there's a lot every porter a lot of juniors in baseball but per capita

00:10:55i guess basketball yeah i've got good news for you you can bump that juniors up from three to four

00:10:59because the j and aj is for junior wow yeah the the government name last night huh

00:11:05i think everyone was taking a back they didn't tell us that was coming what's that well adam silver

00:11:10announced the number one pick it was anise davansa oh yeah i mean look i don't yeah i don't know

00:11:16did

00:11:16you did you watch hell no okay all right i mean what are you talking about he's a night

00:11:21two guy that's what i'm saying dude it's world cup you'll watch it's world cup time yeah i told you

00:11:28witch doctor curse england and and and and recap the ronaldo uzbekistan game as ronaldo finally

00:11:36entering the party after a week of headlines about is he bad for the team all sorts of drama back

00:11:42on

00:11:43the domestic home front ronaldo shows up and within the first 15 minutes manages to put one in the net

00:11:49there was a goal of great quality like right like it couldn't have been a penalty that that wouldn't

00:11:54have solved the problem it had to come in the run of play and the fact that this finish man

00:11:59out the

00:11:59air off the bounce near post just threading the needle you could see the relief on ronaldo's face

00:12:07and then uh look it was just a perfect night for portugal you talk because like what was the entire

00:12:12storyline ronaldo's sucking up all the oxygen in the room he's too much of a distraction i thought it

00:12:17was poetic then that the second goal and the free kick is caused because of the distraction of

00:12:22ronaldo he sets up his teammate with the gravitational pull you and i were watching

00:12:27that one together yeah and it was a big moment everybody was locked in everybody's locked in

00:12:31like ronaldo oh they're absolutely gonna let him kick this right and then he's just used as a decoy

00:12:36what a pass and it's a it's a beautiful free another great finds the back of the net yeah

00:12:40it was a great one for portugal that being said ronaldo was a little too surprised after that first

00:12:45goal i think well it was a little too surprised how long it had been since he had scored a

00:12:50non-penalty

00:12:51goal in a major international play i gotta be honest no i don't know yeah and obviously just

00:12:56i've read this it's it's been since 2021 so we're talking half a decade that's a lot of football for

00:13:01him to play without finding the back of the net like he did twice yesterday so like after this goal

00:13:06you can see him too very clearly saying i'm back i'm back so like he had this weighing on him

00:13:13this was

00:13:13a burden that was lifted off of his shoulders yesterday big time good for him and now he joins the

00:13:19part now it is his bucks 10 but you know you gotta you gotta do what you gotta do and

00:13:23uh it'll be

00:13:25interesting to see if there's a knock-on effect and if this kind of unlocks him the rest of the

00:13:29tournament going forward uh the other major game yesterday ghana and england a nil nil tie the only

00:13:38game of the tournament that didn't feature a shot and goal in the first half uh ghana played some

00:13:44excellent defense scrappy kind of parked the bus we're gonna make this thing hard we're gonna make

00:13:49you suffer and england got close here it is in the 86 i'm trying to start with jake malicek on

00:13:55that

00:13:55one like that one that that you're you're you're eight feet away you missed by you've missed by 40

00:14:02feet hurricane deserves the ridicule for that miss is what you're saying i i believe so i mean look at

00:14:07this but i think he's getting it from fans of the club no or it's not i guess it's not

00:14:14harry kane's

00:14:15fault though he had a he had a curse put on him did y'all see this uh that's the

00:14:20one uh nanakwaku

00:14:21bonsum is a witch doctor out of ghana who has very famously and notoriously uh claimed that he put a

00:14:28curse on ronaldo back in 2014 which led to a knee injury and made him miss the game against ghana

00:14:34back

00:14:34then and while he said this year he said quote about harry kane i'm not wishing him serious injury

00:14:40it will be just enough to stop him against my country i will do my work so that it can

00:14:45help ghana

00:14:45and sure enough look what ends up happening in this game and it was announced today that bonsum is

00:14:52releasing harry kane so it was a one-game curse all right it's not a tournament-wide curse so if

00:14:57you

00:14:58want to double down on kane the curse is over can we get this guy on staff i know what's

00:15:03stopping us

00:15:04from hiring him oh because he actually works um so if you're this witch doctor right yeah put the

00:15:11curse on kane yeah got the draw yeah what's stopping ghana from winning the world cup

00:15:18also why would he use this is his powers for a draw why not why not say i would also

00:15:22like to curse the

00:15:23england goalkeeper to give up five well i mean look i don't want to be i i i don't want

00:15:27to get too

00:15:28much over my skis given that i don't have a lot of experience with uh modern day hoodoo voodoo

00:15:36magic but i would say that he never claimed to affect the kind of the overall score or have control

00:15:45over that he seems to have maybe to like a voodoo doll or some sort to totem he seems to

00:15:50have some

00:15:50sort of influence over an individual's fate and so it was all tied to harry kane and thus harry kane

00:15:56coming up short in a couple of big moments in which he had really good opportunities

00:15:59kyle are you familiar with witch doctoring i have i can provide limited operational value in this

00:16:05context thank you kyle the uh dan housen situation with the knicks is that like uh i think i think

00:16:13dan

00:16:14housen is doing a little bit of stolen valor against oh he's got actual culture here it is this guy

00:16:20did

00:16:20it first dan housen did it first i i don't know wrestling enough well you better be careful

00:16:25dan housen i didn't say that for the record for the record i did not say that he's doing

00:16:31he bob he's doing we had nothing to do with that he's doing a a witch doctor nope work nope

00:16:38it's not

00:16:38a shoot right it's a work am i wrong here so look guys as if the world cup hadn't been

00:16:45overwhelming

00:16:46and fun and entertaining enough we are in a race to the finish for these group stages so the next

00:16:51four days we'll have six matches a day okay so lock the hell in scotland brazil gonna be going

00:16:59down to miami is that gonna be the funniest crowd on crowd matchup of all time could be

00:17:04i like that one a lot all right ton more to get to don't go anywhere more wake up barstool

00:17:12i'm telling you right look if you've never seen christiano's adam's apple we gotta get you

00:17:16educated on christiano's adam's apple educated yeah it's massive educated it's the sharpest adam's

00:17:23apple i've ever seen it's starting to burst through the skin at any given moment if he gets a hat

00:17:28trick

00:17:28you make it so excited manly quality i'm not having the is ronaldo hot discussion on a wednesday

00:17:33morning yes ronaldo's hot come on what are we doing move on but again we're judging on the grade

00:17:39of soccer players who for my money are the most attractive athletes that we have in the entire

00:17:44world so in in you have the adam's apple yeah give me the adam's apple guys give me the adam's

00:17:51apple

00:17:51thank you thank you this is excellent work for production here going ahead and making this

00:17:55happen out of nowhere as we're about to talk about yannis and the celtics and dusty may what you know

00:18:01brandon had to be tickled pink to watch dave portnoy's favorite coach abandon dave portnoy's favorite

00:18:07team to head to the nba gotta be just the michigan man michigan i'm desperately filling time as we

00:18:15try to do this adam's apple bit look at that thing brandon you know how they say it's the size

00:18:20of a

00:18:20baby's fist yeah unbelievable you could play elite highlight with that what what's that highlight i

00:18:29compared his adam's apple to a larger sports ball okay you're unfamiliar with highlight you don't know

00:18:37highlight i don't think i do know what that is we got to get you educated highlights it's a thing

00:18:41with

00:18:42the the scoop the scoop yeah one of the most dangerous sports they like launch that thing you

00:18:47could probably play in the star wars universe on like uh what are those things the bb8 you're

00:18:51riding the bb8 with your arm droid yeah droid um anyway shout out to shout out to christianos

00:18:58adam's apple but also shout out to brandon walker because again brandon you had to be

00:19:04really pleased when you saw dusty mays leave michigan in the lurch it was very just bad timing

00:19:10to head to the dallas mavericks very very disappointing that our monday show with dave portnoy

00:19:15ended at nine central time dusty may was announced at 903 that he was going to the dallas mavericks

00:19:20it was surreal by the way last night watching dusty may just there at the draft being part of the

00:19:25mavericks and not not 24 barely 24 hours earlier he was michigan's head coach and then you have the

00:19:30number nine number 10 and number 12 all no number 9 12 and 13 all michigan players i got it

00:19:36maybe 9 11

00:19:37and 12 whatever but dusty may is there and he watches all those michigan guys come off the board

00:19:42i found it very interesting that dusty may goes to the mavericks and his first pick is

00:19:47more as johnson jr it was not mara yeah it was not lindenburg it was i was wondering about that

00:19:52how much i mean does may have any like like at that point is that pick already made essentially

00:19:57like does he get any did he get the best thumb on the scale for that pick to get hired

00:20:01one day and

00:20:02then you're like yeah let's get this one he definitely he definitely has some input in

00:20:05okay didn't they cut to mora or didn't they cut to him after mora got drafted yeah very excited

00:20:09like slamming on his knee or almost i don't know exactly what the reaction was whether it was

00:20:15excitement or yeah it was anger that he was going to the thunder i don't know i thought that was

00:20:18excitement for the guy yeah i think yeah he's got to be pumped for his voice i think he said

00:20:22uh hell

00:20:22yeah at the end right okay oh and shout out once again to um john calipari for just knowing how

00:20:27to

00:20:27get on camera yeah too had nothing to do there acuff gets drafted then i believe when debonsa was

00:20:32getting picked somehow calipari's in the shot the whole time so nobody nobody has ever known where

00:20:38camry did we talk to cal on the wednesday show here because oh no i would have okay because i

00:20:43would have said something that would have gotten me fired that was the most charismatic man i've i've

00:20:47ever met in my entire life he's a charmer and there you go i mean talk to him brandon try

00:20:51not to be

00:20:52charmed i've talked to him before uh i've been a salesman you'd say those pants will be on the

00:20:56floor before you can blink what could he sell like uh he's like any oil to you or anything i

00:21:00i i have a

00:21:01yeah he said he said it was like reptile maybe like snake based or something yeah um i do have

00:21:08a question about that great question what is snake oil what's that what yeah what is snake oil let's

00:21:14get our best guy on the origin of the snake oil kb can we get the etymology of snake oil

00:21:18the phrase

00:21:19originates from 19th century america when traveling salesmen peddled bottled mixtures known as patent

00:21:24medicines these tonics were widely marketed as miraculous cure-alls for every imaginable ailment

00:21:29from arthritis to cancer did that give you an answer well explained so so well i would say

00:21:34it's a derogatory term for a deceptive product i think so i think i knew all of that my question

00:21:42is

00:21:42what is actual snake oil like how do you produce oil from the snake it's a colloquial label for a

00:21:49con artist okay well i know i understand yeah i think the point the point is there's no snake oil

00:21:54correct okay fugazi it's a wazi it's a woozy it's fairy dust okay well okay i have a question

00:21:59about dusty may and this is a debate that is raging online uh and by that i mean i read

00:22:04two

00:22:05different opinions is uh is dusty may leaving for the nba just more about the opportunity for him to

00:22:13go get the coach cooper flag the maps and everything and and you know it tests himself in the biggest

00:22:17league or is it more of a commentary on the current state of college basketball well number one it's

00:22:23clearly uh a snapshot of the corruption and rot inside michigan's program a coach gets to the top

00:22:30of the mountain he immediately wants to leave michigan no that being said i think it's more

00:22:34about this i believe basketball coaches and basketball lifers grow up wanting to get to the nba

00:22:41and believing the nba is the ultimate destination more than any other sport like i feel like you can

00:22:45in football college football coaching especially in the sec or maybe like impassionate fan bases

00:22:50that can be the top of the mountain yeah i don't think there's any place in college basketball even

00:22:55if it's duke even if it's kansas even if it's any of those where it's viewed as the top of

00:22:59the

00:22:59mountain over an nba job at some point these guys get the itch to prove themselves in the highest

00:23:05league in the land how much of an added burden is it in the era of the transfer portal and

00:23:11nil for

00:23:12these college coaches well these coaches don't like the the nil and transfer portal for the burden

00:23:17that puts on them because you're all the time you have 12 players on your roster but you're recruiting

00:23:20them at all times you're playing defense on them at all times you're trying to keep them happy at

00:23:23all times and it's a 365 day a year job now what makes me what makes me reticent about this

00:23:30one is

00:23:30dusty may was the best at it he was the best he had all the resources in the world he

00:23:34was the best

00:23:34at nil like he had it figured out so if he says oh i don't want to deal with this

00:23:39crap anymore i'm

00:23:39on the nba he's either lying or it's a systemic real real real issue i think it is an issue

00:23:45i do

00:23:46think i i think it can be overblown a bit i mean i thought fanna had some great perspective on

00:23:51this

00:23:51yesterday where he's talking about hard work and he's like yeah that's that's hard but they're they're

00:23:56they're paid a lot like real hard work is like out there you know yeah grinding construction or or or

00:24:02trade or working the power lines after big storms like whatever suck it up i and and yes there are

00:24:09no simple answers like may's decision is absolutely a combination of the two but to me it's just all

00:24:16about like kind of what brandon's getting at the opportunity to get to the nba and in a friendly

00:24:20spot taking over cooper flag and a new era of this mavericks franchise that looks like it even though it

00:24:27should not by no right should a franchise that got rid of jalen brunson and luka dodgich be in this

00:24:32position but like it's a pretty friendly spot for dusty may to join i mean you say that but he's

00:24:37leaving

00:24:38uh you know he could be michigan's coach for the next 20 years yeah he's leaving one of the most

00:24:42rock solid probably spots he could be in in college basketball and he's going to an organization that

00:24:46has been the topsy turviest in in professional sports the last three years like they had brunson

00:24:52they they let him go they had donchich they let they trade him bizarrely in the middle of the night

00:24:56and then one of the weird and then they get lucky and they get flagged but just because they got

00:25:00flagged doesn't mean that ship is is righted for the next 10 years this but this organization

00:25:05can mess up it does feel like mark cuban is kind of getting more getting back involved the team a

00:25:10little bit no and that's fine yeah trying to reach stabilize the organization it could be a good a

00:25:16good gig what about this concept i'm going to blow your mind yeah where's mark cuban uh what what

00:25:22college does he support indiana where did dusty may come from yeah so he wants him to fail so that

00:25:27then later cuban can recruit he's backdooring him to indiana okay yeah that makes him out of

00:25:32michigan right mark cuban trades cooper flag in the middle of the night like he purposely sinks

00:25:38he's backdooring him to indiana there there's no downside risk to a college coach going to the

00:25:44nba yeah the job security isn't great in the nba but you get fired and you're you're instantly the

00:25:50number one candidate for any college job you want country especially you can wait it out too so it's

00:25:54like if there's nothing in the cycle you want you can wait for the next cycle to pick up a

00:25:57job

00:25:57or you end up in a front office i i think it's a no-brainer if you're a college coach

00:26:02to make the job

00:26:02uh before we get to griffins and outs i do want to touch on and we'll save yannis for later

00:26:07but i

00:26:07do want to touch on the jalen brown awkwardness yeah uh so you know brad stevens is putting on kind

00:26:13of a very big public show about oh we don't actually want to get rid of brown that was just

00:26:16about the

00:26:17availability of a player like yannis but it seems like like the celtics have to trade jalen brown at

00:26:23this point right it would be hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube especially a guy that got

00:26:29a taste of

00:26:29being the number one option this year as jason tatum got hurt jason tatum's gone all year jalen

00:26:35brown puts the team on his back and gets them to where they got this year and the playoffs were

00:26:38disappointing but still they had a good season because of him and their responses immediately

00:26:43dangle him in trade offers choose him to be the one that uh they break that breaks up the tatum

00:26:48and

00:26:49jalen brown like i don't know how you go to jalen brown saying like man we believe in you because

00:26:53you clearly don't you clearly think something better is out there potentially whether it's a disbelief

00:26:59in jalen brown or belief that yeah they just need to get better they recognize they are nowhere near

00:27:04where they need to be to get back to winning a championship they just won a championship no but

00:27:09they lose to the sixers they would have gotten railroaded by the knicks i think they lost in

00:27:14seven games to the sixers tatum came back he was injured all year he comes back whatever but you can

00:27:18tweak i think this roster needs tweaked it doesn't need a complete blow up like getting rid of jalen brown

00:27:23derrick white needed to be better this year you need to have a little bit no no more super reliant

00:27:29on their missing draw there were a lot of things you can tweak this roster and get them back to

00:27:33a

00:27:34championship level jalen brown being gone is the is the biggest panic that i've ever the nba team

00:27:39seemed to sprint to just blow it up for no reason you know this is one of the more shocking

00:27:44again given

00:27:45like the the the recency in which they won a championship this is one of the more shocking re like

00:27:51let's let's rework it that i that i've ever seen i think in my entire career doing this i know

00:27:55they

00:27:55lost to the sixers this year in seven games but if if one role player is better this year they

00:28:00win

00:28:00that series like this team is not far off you can re rework and tweak and get this roster back

00:28:06to the

00:28:07championship i really believe that but how many teams are out there i think of the timberwolves i think

00:28:12of uh you know are one star away from being championship contenders if you've got jalen brown with

00:28:17anthony edwards and now you got something over there there's a lot of teams i think they're

00:28:21secretly kind of squirreling away some cap room to make a run at jalen brown i don't think he's a

00:28:25celtic next year yeah to t bob's point they lost a lot of their identity when drew holiday was no

00:28:30longer there when al horford was no longer there i just think they need to and those are their

00:28:33identity yeah no exactly rework their identity they do it as maybe somehow tanks both the milwaukee

00:28:39bucks and the boston cell yeah brought them championships and then uh they couldn't quite figure out

00:28:44how to fill that void six are great people forget all right coming up uh pelican great as well people

00:28:49forget also like you can never replicate where porzingis went to two years ago right he was the

00:28:55way he was playing for like for like three weeks he was one of the best players in the league

00:28:58and they

00:28:59won a title and then that was over wait brandon you need to shut up because it's time for your

00:29:03favorite part of every single week that's right connor's griffins and outs on the other side of the

00:29:07break what are you buying what should you be selling what or that's not true it's what are we

00:29:11taking it whatever griffins and outs next screw that up what is it's not stock market stock you

00:29:15should i wanted to dap you up real fast oh look at the tulips wait hold on connor you like

00:29:19tulips

00:29:19i do like tulips this has to be old i thought tulip season was already over not for you buddy

00:29:27what's happening guys this is wake up barstool and this is the best segment we do every single

00:29:32week this is connor griffins griffins and outs what are we leaving behind this week and what are

00:29:38we taking in next week with us connor take it away thank you t bob first one it's a little

00:29:44bit

00:29:44of a throwback but it's back in right now and i'm specifically talking about nickelback throwback

00:29:48nickelback look at this photograph uh we'll pull it up right now here's john gruden he's just getting a

00:29:54little bit of a walk run in on father's day weekend just having a great time he's blaring some music

00:29:59in

00:29:59his headphones and there was a follow-up tweet where somebody says hey coach what are you listening

00:30:03and chewing your headphones and he says nickelback hell yeah so he's blaring some nickelback on the

00:30:09beaches also keep in mind this is right after taylor swift and her crew sitting courtside at the

00:30:14games they all had the custom nick shirts one of them said nickelback it's coming back into the

00:30:18mainstream nickelback very much in brandon you seem confused well there's only so many nick puns you

00:30:24can make so don't act like nickelback being one of the nick puns is is a sign that they're back

00:30:29i think you can make a bunch of different and john gruden probably knows like four songs

00:30:33but there's yeah we all the he's the target audience yeah we all know four nickelback songs

00:30:39so and they're all awesome john gruden knows four songs total oh oh yeah i just got a kick out

00:30:43of

00:30:43seeing that i thought that was a great tweet by coach we having a blast father's day weekend

00:30:48blaring nickelback griff i'm with you we love to see two things first off we love to see sincerity

00:30:54in this cynical age in which we live and i love it even more when it's about something that it's

00:31:00become so trendy to hate on so i've got a list of things the internet went overboard on hating

00:31:06hating on okay the internet loves the internet loves the internet loves to absolutely be like oh i always

00:31:12first of all if everybody always hated nickelback they wouldn't have been as popular as they were

00:31:15yeah they're awesome uh nickelback arby's these are things creed people people act like they hated

00:31:21creed for a while yeah like the people act like they hated these things but these things were all

00:31:25massive you're all lying about that's why people hated them i think they're a victim of mass

00:31:30overexposure on the radio and also i think it was more of an inside joke nickelback is the worst

00:31:35um and that turned into like a meme to hate yeah i don't know if it's sincere i think people

00:31:40they're sonically pleasing agreed yeah i like nickelback i agree i think they're pleasing to listen to okay

00:31:46good well they're back in so that's the first thing of the day hell yeah glad we could all agree

00:31:51on it in the end my first out it's the tyler kolik disrespect i don't know if you guys saw

00:31:58this this

00:31:58video at the knicks parade last week speaking of the knicks we were talking about taylor swift and

00:32:02the nickelback and everything here he is he's off the bus and he's going and he's hanging out with

00:32:06these fans and dapping them up giving them high fives security comes over they think he's a rogue fan

00:32:11that got over the barricade and they're swarming them and they're like sir you you have to leave

00:32:16there's a second angle of this uh i don't know uh to be fair tyler kolik looks like a knicks

00:32:22fan

00:32:23yeah that's the least nba player i've ever seen in my entire life that's racist this was a guy

00:32:29who put up what was it like 54 points combined between playing in the g league and then the next

00:32:35same night he goes on later in the day and he plays for the actual knicks and he scores there

00:32:39too in

00:32:39the fourth quarter like this is a legend uh of george mason university yeah he's great

00:32:46and fellow george mason alum he was he was posting stuff after the win last week where he's like you

00:32:50know when you contributed nothing to the group but he took this in good spirits right yeah i think so

00:32:54like he's a jokester he's got a good sense of uh humor but yeah i saw that i was this

00:32:58is crazy it's

00:32:59tyler kolik wait you mentioned taylor swift is that i was in a video i think taylor swift performed at

00:33:05tight end you she did yeah i said i got a video sent from katik last night oh that's crazy

00:33:10dude

00:33:11yeah she was doing uh did katik and dana meet taylor swift hi there's a world out there where i

00:33:16think

00:33:16there's a prop there it's definitely it will literally there's a non-zero chance that dana

00:33:21beers and michael katik were hanging out with taylor swift by the way george kittle massive lord of the

00:33:28rings fan no kidding love to see it yep dana gave me the inside scoop okay there you have it

00:33:34that's

00:33:34lord of the rings eternal end okay love it eternal you know who doesn't like lord of the rings

00:33:38hell connor never seen the movies yes i saw i saw all three eternal out connor griffin i saw all

00:33:45three

00:33:45of the the originals he said he liked every other fantasy yeah except for that he said harry potter

00:33:52greater than greater than greater than lord of the ring i said specifically i i'm not a huge fan of

00:33:56harry potter but i'll watch it he said what is this narnia whatever okay we're moving on on the topic

00:34:01of

00:34:02championships and parades and whatnot i am very in on reunions i need to see more of these in sports

00:34:08the 2016 cavaliers team this was some of the best content on the internet in a minute in terms of

00:34:14the

00:34:14nba just they're they're back together they're golfing they're drinking they're partying they

00:34:18recreated the the end credits of the hangover where they're like okay we're gonna look at these pictures

00:34:23one last time and then we're wiping them and they're just having an absolute blast obviously there

00:34:29was a whole controversy with oh why isn't kairi irving there but put that aside it was nothing

00:34:34but good vibes well kairi's not there because kairi chose not to be there right like jr smith was

00:34:39very publicly clear about that yeah and then kairi came back later and was saying how much love he's

00:34:44got for the team and whatnot so i don't know but i just i thought this was great content every

00:34:49single

00:34:49video i was watching time and time again it was hilarious we all hope more championship teams need

00:34:55to do this we all hope to reach that point in life where you could have some sort of reunion

00:35:00with your boys as you're older and you've got money and you take one of these trips yeah that's that's

00:35:07that is the male dream what those guys just got to do correct is there a hypothetical franchise that

00:35:13could have more of an impact on their respective city than the 2016 calves on cleveland i don't think so

00:35:20and that's why what about the 2026 new york knicks there we go no i mean new york's too new

00:35:29york is

00:35:29too big and right that but that's why it's such an impact did you see the parade no i agree

00:35:34but

00:35:34you got you got jp morgan exec stealing trash cans you were shot millions of people that don't care

00:35:39like from on a per capita standpoint that affected more people in cleveland even than new york with how

00:35:45i afraid look while the knicks haven't had success in terms of winning a championship in a long long

00:35:50time the entire city of cleveland hadn't had success like that in a long long time you know who needs

00:35:56something and i was talking to chef donnie about this the state of minnesota yes they do i mean the

00:36:03most brutal they don't get talked about but the professional franchises there they are the most

00:36:09long suffering fan bases that have maybe ever existed everybody who leaves they gotta dine a

00:36:15hockey dude immediately they gotta dine that that kind of feeds into my next out though t bob uh because

00:36:20my next out is vandalizing rocky obviously there is the the rocky statue in philadelphia right by the

00:36:26art museum this has been a long curse where you had viking fans who put a vikings jersey on it

00:36:32back in

00:36:33the nsc championship game in 2018 and the eagles wound up thumping them then then the uh who was

00:36:38it was it the 49ers after that yeah they did the same connor what am i looking at here i'm

00:36:42gonna get

00:36:43to that and then the the commanders they did it they thumped them too it's a long tradition for

00:36:48opposing teams to come to philadelphia and put their own team's merch on the rocky statue defacing it

00:36:53and so brazil fans in the world cup they said we're not doing that they're oh wow their own brazil

00:36:58fans

00:36:59for putting brazil merch on rocky because they're well aware of the curse and they do not want to

00:37:04curse their team ecuador put ecuador merch on rocky they wind up losing their first game to ivory coast

00:37:09so brazil kudos to them they're saying we're not vandalizing rocky it's one of the biggest signs of

00:37:14disrespect possible uh that's out you don't have any play what was your favorite rocky moment as a

00:37:19philadelphia fan what do you mean oh in terms of the spankings that we would then lay on people

00:37:24no no just just no like he's a cultural hero like what it like your favorite rocky moment

00:37:29like because he saved you yeah how many how many rocky movies you've seen i've seen creed one no

00:37:37i've seen rocky one i saw four because we learned we saw that in my history class actually because it

00:37:42ended the cold war and then i saw the first creed you saw three of nine rocky movies yes i've

00:37:47never

00:37:47can't talk movies anymore i was never huge into rocky but obviously exactly what are you saying

00:37:52iconic running up the steps what you're saying i ain't saying you you covered your mouth and said

00:37:56something no i was coughing i should have coughed into my elbow you don't like rocky either no i i

00:38:01like rocky i've only seen one of four all right well hey we'll move on we'll move on because my

00:38:08my

00:38:08next day in my last in still with soccer brandon walker solo show next week it's foundational pieces

00:38:14the foundational pieces are very much in right now oh dude he looks so cool well of course talking

00:38:20mauricio pochettino he is just like unbelievably cool and casual on the sidelines people were

00:38:26mocking this to start it looks like a gas station yeah that's hugo boss brandon that's an awful style

00:38:32hugo boss fit and he's gonna overcharge you to change your oil that is an awful outfit he looks so

00:38:38chill dude you don't talk crap about poch not now i don't crap about his outfit you know can do

00:38:42anything

00:38:43the last two buttons are undone jeremy because it's called style yes he was wearing this in the first

00:38:48game the u.s one he runs it back for the second game u.s one he's a big superstition

00:38:52guy i'm assuming

00:38:53we'll see it tomorrow as well 100 very excited i i think it's so good to look over at the

00:38:58sidelines

00:38:59and as we're just pasting these teams see a coach who's dressed so just casual and like it's nothing

00:39:05to him so shout out to poch has anybody else adopted the the lemons no he's a big believer in

00:39:11lemons cleansing negative energy and cleansing the air i've started keeping a giant bowl of lemons in my

00:39:17kitchen now and well i haven't noticed the effects yet no but it's going to i'm feeling positive about

00:39:24where it could go love that actually we do need to get some lemons in the studio carson could you

00:39:28get

00:39:28some lemons thank you i listen i i go for some lemons right now so we get fruit flies also

00:39:34i was

00:39:34gonna say you what what was that in you said foundational piece foundational pieces oh big for

00:39:39the wardrobe uh speaking of wardrobe i can't get enough of the norwegians uniforms they are good i mean

00:39:46the home kits are great but that all black away kit with the nordic runic script might be my

00:39:52favorite uniforms in any sport ever well we're gonna focus specifically here on america who also

00:39:57has great uniforms yeah rocky three is great rocky three you guys didn't see the first creed i saw the

00:40:04first i've heard they're great we'll get back in the sidetrack first creed's the best rocky movie hey

00:40:08listen my my last out it's calling soccer football i i got so many europeans in my comments on tiktok

00:40:16uh saying oh you can't be a fan of the sport if you call it soccer it's football look at

00:40:21this scene

00:40:21in america right here yeah on fox sports we're gonna have rob stone in the second hour this is

00:40:27an insane environment people are rallying around the sport of soccer we're showing that we've arrived

00:40:32and we're now 2-0 in the group stage won the group going to the knockouts america you know

00:40:39through the knockouts technically we got just as good as scenes like in a random saturday in

00:40:43champaign illinois but we're bringing that to soccer yeah bring that energy do you know do you

00:40:48know the the origin of soccer no it's uh a shortened version of association football really yeah

00:40:56because there was rugby rules football and association rules football that's how soccer we

00:41:01they went with the sock part not the ass how does that make sense where does the ur come from

00:41:07no idea t-bop

00:41:11food for thought i waited 30 minutes to get into a bar for that uf skin

00:41:16it was worth a line no it was a minute guys it's a big show we're going to commercial we're

00:41:21all about

00:41:21it t-bop forgot yeah

00:41:28and that's welcome back great create the best rocky movie create the best rocky movie is he right

00:41:33you can go on twitter hashtag ask wub and you can rank your rocky movies as brandon walker right

00:41:39that creed is actually the single best rocky movie uh speaking of maybe some funny opinions to be

00:41:46uttered out loud yaksl lindenborg gets drafted to the golden state warriors last night and here's what

00:41:51yaksl had to say as uh he takes the podium on his biggest night ever it's uh it's a full

00:41:58circle

00:41:58moment for me you know i've been saying this every time i get asked this question but uh 2016

00:42:02i'm a big hyrie guy so i used to hate step curry

00:42:07uh i love that i i i some people are you know is this smart like when you're no that's

00:42:12that's great

00:42:12man that's fun i'm sure steph gets a kick out of that as well uh yeah that you know steph's

00:42:18in

00:42:18unk status right now so this is going to be some fun kind of hazing with the rookie when i

00:42:22would

00:42:22i would be interested to find out when he stopped hating steph like last night about 9 30 yeah or

00:42:27or

00:42:28like two years ago they said they formed a little bit of a relationship over the years and

00:42:32lindenborg was like yeah steph's a great guy and whatnot so yeah i don't think there's any

00:42:35to be fair to yaksl he was only a freshman in college in 2016

00:42:39they've done a lot of maturing also didn't we all hate steph curry in 2016 oh i despised him i

00:42:45mean

00:42:45again i certainly did not not i'm saying not from a personality standpoint but if you cheered for a team

00:42:53that had aspirations steph curry was the single most terrifying player to go against in my life

00:42:59he's such a unicorn he's such a he's such a unique player that uh changed the basketball like i don't

00:43:05know how i could i could never hate steph i started closing my eyes when he would shoot threes

00:43:09because i knew what was going to happen when the ball was in the air and i couldn't bear to

00:43:14watch

00:43:14there was a bit of a heel turn for that entire warriors team once lebron came back from 3-1

00:43:19yeah

00:43:19and then it was compounded when they go on to get kevin durant but i never felt into villains i

00:43:24never

00:43:24felt like steph curry was the villain of that team the steph curry just that you know he's he's what

00:43:29six two he's out there changing the way basketball is played there's no it's undeniably cool to watch

00:43:34him like it was he was just brutal to be cheering against him like you knew he was going to

00:43:38rip your

00:43:38throat out yeah and he was he's just not a hateable guy it's not possible to hate him to me

00:43:42um well

00:43:43tell it to yaxel because look at the quote card right there but he doesn't anymore and now they're

00:43:47going to be teammates well he says he says he doesn't anymore he said that's true it could be lip

00:43:52service all right guys hour two coming up we got the baseball bonanza we got rob stone coming on

00:43:57talking a ton of world cup so we still got a lot more to get to on today's wake up

00:44:02but stew

00:44:03what what did you say the wake up but stew

00:44:08back hour two of wake up bars we say goodbye to kb so if you don't hear from the rest

00:44:13of the show uh

00:44:14rest in peace he's a good guy um yeah and i mean for today like he just left he'll be

00:44:20he'll be back

00:44:20he went out doing what he loved yeah talking sports randomly chiming in every 15 minutes i was

00:44:27to say honestly this is probably the thing that kb least loves oh yeah he hates doing this yeah

00:44:33he hates doing that but we love it with good reason nonetheless and so t's and p's to our good

00:44:38boy kb uh cables that's what i call him well said uh the nfl brendan soarsby did you see this

00:44:45yesterday

00:44:46so so i okay and and i think i was talking with jeremy our producer for the show and maybe

00:44:52i did a bad

00:44:53job of explaining this last week how the supplemental draft works right but it only takes place if there

00:45:00is a player that has to enter it that garners enough interest from nfl teams so it does not take

00:45:07place

00:45:07every year it doesn't have to take place however given the fact that brendan soarsby was viewed as

00:45:12kind of a consensus second round borderline first round guy we all kind of assumed yes brendan you

00:45:19assumed it i corrected you last week this assumption that he was a first round guy

00:45:23no no no no no no no no no no again that's you're wrong you did this last week no

00:45:28no full stop full

00:45:29stop you're you're having different conversation if we want to debate where he's viewed from a pure

00:45:35talent perspective that's a fine conversation we can have and like i can point you to endless draft

00:45:40guys that are going to disagree with you i don't care about that what i'm talking about though

00:45:44even you would say this is a guy that in a vacuum removed the context that got him here

00:45:51would garner enough interest to create a supplemental draft fair or not i'm not arguing about if he's no

00:45:57because i don't think he was ever that guy i don't think he was ever at cincinnati he was never

00:46:01a guy

00:46:01if he if t-bop if he had been a first round pick if he had been a consensus first

00:46:06round pick if he had

00:46:06been a 60 first round pick he would have gone on the draft last year like this is a guy

00:46:11who was

00:46:11clinging on to he he got an opportunity to go to texas tech and he was going to be able

00:46:16to compete

00:46:16in the playoff spot and he was going to improve his draft position if he were as good of a

00:46:20draft

00:46:20prospect as people seem to think he would have gone to the damn draft that's just period yeah

00:46:27look then look i i am someone i don't commit my life year round of the draft right i'm not

00:46:32grinding

00:46:32type year round of the draft so at certain points you have to be willing to lean on experts

00:46:37those experts also told you will levis was going to be a first round pick like those guys are idiots

00:46:41too okay yeah if i still think we're having a different conversation than the one i'm actually

00:46:47trying to have but connor you wanted to chime in here i was gonna say yeah like brandon comes at

00:46:53it

00:46:53from solely an opinion perspective based off what he's seen you're coming at it from what the experts

00:46:58the draft experts have seen yes they could get it wrong but there seemed to definitely be some

00:47:02interest for this guy where are these experts round second who are we talking about espn writers

00:47:07athletic writers i mean uh solac kiper like all all the draft people i don't know i would agree

00:47:14with you in the sense that if he didn't have this baggage massive baggage of all the gambling stuff

00:47:20coming with him then yes this would be a guy so the overall point shut up shut up this would

00:47:27be a

00:47:27guy you would want yes we're having two different conversations again like regardless of what your

00:47:31opinion is of soresby's talent he is a player that normally would gardener's humble on the draft

00:47:36but the nfl yesterday came out and was very pointed yeah in their rebuke of soresby you can see it

00:47:42here

00:47:43uh basically telling him look the world doesn't revolve around you your petition filed three business

00:47:50days before the deadline you got a little that kind of a little subtle shot without any sport

00:47:54information or documentation and only after abandoning your recent litigation effort to avoid ncw

00:47:59sanctions does not provide a basis for the league to alter those plans my then create a supplemental

00:48:06draft uh they would also later get after him about how uh what was the second quote he said

00:48:14uh you sought to avoid the consequences of the ncaa's determination through litigation rather than

00:48:20accepting responsibility for your actions and you pursued entry into the nfl only after banning those

00:48:27efforts so that's the key phrase right there i think i don't know that anything has ever backfired

00:48:32more than soresby going and getting a texas judge to to circumvent the ncaa's punishment i i think facing

00:48:40the punishment as a man and facing that and then fighting through that and fighting the long road back to

00:48:45get to the nfl draft would be way more impressive than what he did which is try to go get

00:48:50a sympathetic

00:48:50judge and and try to say uh try to try to make an exception out of him that didn't show

00:48:56the character

00:48:56the nfl's want to want to going to want to see the nfl is an organization that if you mess

00:49:02up

00:49:03but you fight back through the proper channels and you put yourself back together they will give you

00:49:07a second chance but if you try to circumvent everything and try to be special nfl's not going

00:49:11to go for that are you saying it's a bit childlike to just be like you can't put me in

00:49:14timeout like

00:49:16someone should be like go over the corner send timeout and he's like you can't put me in source

00:49:20these people source these people misplayed this the the entire way and kudos to texas tech for bailing

00:49:26out when they did and they said listen you know we're washing our hands of this the nfl now although

00:49:30i do think the nfl's a little full of it with that first line when they said your petition filed

00:49:35three

00:49:35business days this were a guy that they did think was a surefire you know number one you know first

00:49:41round pick it wouldn't matter if he filed that thing three minutes well if he didn't have the

00:49:45gambling baggage right it is it is the nature of the baggage and then as you and evo were talking

00:49:49about his response to said baggage looking a little petulant looking a little bit like

00:49:56everything revolves around me and the shield's gonna humble you like the league will will always go out

00:50:01of their way to humble you and and you know that's why when we go back to his draft stock

00:50:06and status

00:50:08all the intangibles and the things that the nfl don't like about what he's doing that would have

00:50:13come out in the background yes and the personality the guy i just don't think the guy was ever a

00:50:17draft guy uh and and i and i i just i just don't see it because uh it what comes

00:50:23to what's done in

00:50:24the dark always comes to the light they would have found out that he was not a guy they wanted

00:50:27to be

00:50:27in business with and that's what they feel it's it is it or it's because i mean you talk to

00:50:32katie

00:50:32and katie said he's like an incredible locker room guy all this other sort of stuff but

00:50:35so so the point is though he his eligibility to because of a weird legal quirk of his own lawsuit

00:50:44against the ncaa to try to enter the supplemental draft he cannot get his ncaa eligibility back

00:50:50he's been like it's the ban has been reinstated so he's done he'll have to try to enter next year's

00:50:56draft and if he's going to let's put up the list of quarterbacks in next year's draft and let's uh

00:51:02see

00:51:02where you would rank brendan soresby arch manning dante moore cj carr julian st trinidad chambliss

00:51:09leading the way i would either put him right before or right after trinidad chambliss probably

00:51:15right after i would go arch manning dante moore cj carr those are the three uh no brainers to me

00:51:20um sand needs to show me a little bit more this year chambliss is old and probably missed his best

00:51:26opportunity to go last year but he's still going to be better i think i don't like sellers has to

00:51:31improve so much mestemaker minza um i don't know if i would take him in this draft because i think

00:51:36he probably needs more starts they just started playing quarterback but i think of the names on

00:51:40this list i think drew mestemaker is the most interesting yeah well he's like one of the more

00:51:44exciting stories we have in all of where it's like you never he didn't play quarterback until the bowl

00:51:48game two years ago and then he lit it up yeah for north texas i think he's really interesting he's

00:51:54a

00:51:54walk-on he's making the big jump he's now going to be a walk-on to your point he never

00:51:58played

00:51:59quarterback to now he's making four million dollars him and morris teaming up to try to bring

00:52:03the oklahoma state back is fun but i don't know but i don't know but again this is the difference

00:52:08with soresby the traits the size and the speed with like the natural arm strength he has a lot to

00:52:17work

00:52:17on but if we're talking pure traits yeah like him and lenora sellers are probably the top two guys

00:52:25on this list i'd say mensa as well i'd put arch above and arch as well yeah um leadership though

00:52:32is a thing yeah no i'm talking physics sorry when i say traits i'm talking raw physical size and

00:52:36ability can i steal a moment here just since this list is looking at us can i just say something

00:52:40yeah

00:52:42i'm not as high on dante moore as a lot of people are i like every time the defense got

00:52:46good on the

00:52:47other side he got real bad real fast and and that's a problem to me now if he takes a

00:52:52big step forward

00:52:53against high level competition but every single time the defense on the other side was good he was

00:52:58not and i that troubles me i just put him in a second i think it's too high for him

00:53:04well i think you

00:53:05are betting a bit because i mean but let's go through moore's entire path because i think in the

00:53:10same way that resource these path maybe reflects poorly on him sure i kind of love moore's path

00:53:14right he he goes to ucla because he gets upset about them bringing was it nicks whoever they brought

00:53:19in to i can't remember which organ quarterback it was at the time but he leaves he's like well

00:53:23i'm gonna ucla i'm good enough i want to play immediately he gets humbled he then it comes

00:53:27back he accepts a subservient role okay i'm gonna study i'm gonna learn and then we got to remember

00:53:32like last year was his first year starting right so like in the context of first year starting he's

00:53:37pretty damn good but you're right if you like the next step is to perform at a higher level in

00:53:42those

00:53:42biggest games but i i could see the argument for betting on more yeah because of the maturity that

00:53:47he's shown along the path here yeah maybe last year he wasn't as good as people were saying he

00:53:52was but if he takes a step forward like you expect him to he can absolutely be the all these

00:53:57guys have

00:53:58another year to prove it so so more does have a chance to prove it to me if we're just

00:54:02bringing

00:54:02him so far i i can't see him in them who so far is one i i think and and

00:54:08this is uh this is almost

00:54:09contradictory to what i just said because he was so bad in september but by october november arch was

00:54:13really good i think arch is the complete package you're talking pedigree you're talking arm you're

00:54:18talking legs like he he's got everything he was really really really really bad in september and

00:54:24by october he started to figure out and by november he was really good and i think this year he's

00:54:28going to be great i i think chambliss tell that arch chambliss falls under the category of like

00:54:32elite college quarterback who is like crazy and chaos but i don't know if he's a true be 25 years

00:54:38old

00:54:38we'll see we'll see yeah but i mean the age thing though like if tyler shuck has a big year

00:54:42this year

00:54:42we're gonna have to start and and and i i can go through my brain brought your brain's probably

00:54:47better suited brand i know there's more examples but like the older quarterback thing like bo nicks

00:54:52seems to be working out for guys i don't mind an older quarterback but i really need to see him

00:54:56without lane kiffin and uh the offensive coordinator yeah yeah weiss jr like like i think they were doing

00:55:02some some heavy lifting there he's good he's really good caller in all of college but if he does if

00:55:06he if

00:55:07trend out chambliss is just as good this year without lane kiffin now we got a real real eyeball this

00:55:11list real quick give me who's playing in the college football playoff who could you see playing

00:55:15in the college football out of this list oh cj carr arch manning dante morris cj carr julian saying

00:55:22um and that yeah that and darry minsa minsa yeah i've been in there uh i mean look cj carr

00:55:29to me and

00:55:29i don't know what his nfl prospects are i've i haven't specifically read anything there but like

00:55:35cj carr coming online the way that he did last year and kind of representing something that notre

00:55:41name hasn't had in a long time or almost never has um if they can surround him with like cj

00:55:48carr is a

00:55:48player that i'm very excited to watch this and there's some names not there that were interesting

00:55:52like gunner stockton's not there like i i think he's got a chance to play himself into being a an

00:55:56nfl

00:55:56guy well we put that list up three times and not once did anybody mention mayava is there a reason

00:56:01for

00:56:01that i think just usc it's just fine that he's there but usc is just so kind of there you

00:56:08know like

00:56:08they're not they're not a difference making program there were some good stats last year

00:56:12yeah jade maavo was really good it's it's it's it's not about it's it's a good question by you

00:56:18connor that i don't know that i have a great answer he was the one person we didn't talk about

00:56:21yeah

00:56:21going over that list and can lane can lane uh rescue sam levitt i don't know the answer to that

00:56:25question this is uh i know we started this as a supplemental draft talk but i i the college

00:56:32football it's just sitting so good right i'm going on vacation next week when i come back

00:56:37yeah we're all go are you going to buy are you going to buy one of the magazines for vacay

00:56:41buddy i started looking yesterday i stopped at my local jewel osco and my cv i saw the lindy

00:56:47it's a lindy or is it out lindy's out i saw it in hudson news at the airport that's a

00:56:51good

00:56:51like yeah you know i wanted it so bad i went to athlonsports.com last night

00:56:55the fifa world cup rolls on with a triple header on fs1 bosnia and herzgovina gets cut

00:57:07at 3 p.m today we got morocco haiti at 6 and south africa south korea at 9 that's all

00:57:14today

00:57:14on fs1 we got six games total three fs1 three fox it's going to be a fantastic day of coverage

00:57:23and who better to talk about or to talk with the man who's at the center of it all okay

00:57:29good friend

00:57:30of the show he's been on multiple times but no time in which he's been busier than right now i

00:57:36could

00:57:36only be talking about rob stone rob what's up man how's it going thank you for doing even more on

00:57:42camera work than you're currently doing uh how's your tournament been thus far dude been an awesome

00:57:47tournament uh you know the fact that a lot of folks out there who don't love soccer and don't know

00:57:53much about world cup are absolutely leaning into it and talking about it wherever they are

00:57:57uh it just brings a stupid smile to my face you know whether you know i'm at the airport or

00:58:02at the

00:58:03hotel gym and people are talking about like the bosnian back line like they're deeply you know

00:58:09embedded with the the program and can't wait to see what the midfield of congo is going to do

00:58:13that stuff cracks me up and i love the fact that um it's in a lot of people's veins not

00:58:18just mine right

00:58:18now uh no it's it's absolutely insane and at least here on the home front uh a lot of the

00:58:24reason why

00:58:24is the literal unprecedented success that we've seen out of this men's national team through two

00:58:33group stage games back-to-back wins um already poch tied for bruce arena most wins as a as a

00:58:40manager

00:58:40and and u.s men's team history um it's it's it's been pretty unreal what's been your biggest takeaways

00:58:48from the u.s performances thus far well everything has gone right there hasn't been any adversity for

00:58:54them right getting early goals and back-to-back games you know they've played with the lead for

00:58:59majority of this tournament but they've been able to play you know with their heart out you know with

00:59:04that confidence with that swagger and that home field advantage has been real you know it was amazing

00:59:09in their opener here in la versus paraguay but it it got bumped up big time in seattle i'm sure

00:59:15you

00:59:15guys saw the images and heard the noise and you know there's a path right now really logical and

00:59:21sensible path of the u.s not only getting to the round of 16 but playing that game in seattle

00:59:26should

00:59:26they win the round of 32 game on july 1st so you know first up is turkey on thursday but

00:59:32the fact that

00:59:32a nation is absolutely behind this team uh is is is really kind of generating them and pushing them

00:59:40along brings a smile to my face as a as a dude who's been covering american soccer for decades you

00:59:45know to see that turnout that you're looking at right now in seattle um you know there was a reason

00:59:50i spun i spun my my back to the camera right because i wanted the show was behind me i

00:59:55wanted to see

00:59:56that crowd that atmosphere and listen to it and and they turned up and it was very much a big

01:00:01noon

01:00:02kickoff type vibe uh in seattle and we're expecting it again in la on thursday uh when you you look

01:00:09at

01:00:09there's so many different like pieces and elements of this team that we could put to the fore i think

01:00:15it's kind of insane that we've arrived here where uh palisic could miss the game right and yet you

01:00:21don't miss a beat and and you still control it in a style that we've never seen out of this

01:00:26men's

01:00:27team before where it's not defensive counter-tagging it is constantly applying pressure uh y'all y'all

01:00:33y'all are close to this team you're you you have all of the access are you getting the sense

01:00:38that this

01:00:39is a team that is rapidly starting to gain in confidence and believe themselves so you know what

01:00:45like maybe we can be a bit of the bully here yeah you know number one i think you hit

01:00:50the point when

01:00:51you said it's a team right it there there have been teams that aren't teams in the past no matter

01:00:56what the sport is right and particularly at a at an event like a world cup where you are with

01:01:00these

01:01:01dudes for weeks on end and they're the only people you see and the only break you get is if

01:01:06coach gives

01:01:06you a day off and you have like a family barbecue or something right but this team is has come

01:01:11together i don't know when it happened i don't know what triggered it but they definitely feel like

01:01:15a unit again i i think a lot of the home field atmosphere and home field advantage

01:01:19has been a big part of it um you know what this nation has done to to throw throw themselves

01:01:25at

01:01:25the feet of this team has has been a blast to see um the fact to your point though that

01:01:30we're on the

01:01:30front foot that we're attacking people it's not just the possession game and the u.s has dominated

01:01:35possession the first two games for me it's the fact that they're they're absolutely going at teams

01:01:40yeah you know um serginio dest is taking dudes on non-stop and and others aren't afraid to do that

01:01:47and

01:01:47there's been a big gap if you're an american soccer fan where you didn't see a whole lot of that

01:01:51and now we're getting it in in bushels and it's fun to watch and it's it's not arrogant it's confident

01:01:58it's energetic um and it is an evolution of a team for sure we are not bunkering down right now

01:02:04but

01:02:05listen there are going to be hopefully there are going to be days down the road where the big boys

01:02:10come into town right and and that's where the u.s has kind of hit that roadblock in the past

01:02:15at the

01:02:15world cup level is getting by one of those quote-unquote big boys the frances the germanies

01:02:19you know the argentinas the brazils the spains the whatnot but right now we're not there yet and

01:02:24and we're enjoying what they are delivering and they're playing a style i think this is more to

01:02:28your point that any fan would appreciate particularly american like they're going in hard they are

01:02:33hustling they're a blue collar but they are showing some flair and they're showing you know these

01:02:38little hints of i'm taking you on bro and that's the biggest thing in soccer if you take a dude

01:02:43on

01:02:43one v one it breaks the whole team down if you're successful and the u.s hasn't done it for

01:02:48years

01:02:48but man they are doing it at this world cup it is fun to watch hey rob it's uh brandon

01:02:53walker the

01:02:53number one college football media personality in the world uh first of all miss you uh secondly

01:02:59um the u.s team here in america is the coolest story i mean we're all buying into it we're

01:03:04all on

01:03:04board with it and everything the second coolest story i've seen out of this world cup this is just me

01:03:08i'm just a casual fan i'm not a soccer fan i'm casual i'm watching it but the days that we've

01:03:14had the three big stars mbappe messi holland and those guys doing what they're doing all scoring

01:03:19multiple goals multiple times like that has been the coolest subplot i have seen um what do you think

01:03:26about that subplot or that day when when those guys are taking center stage how awesome is that

01:03:30yeah it's it's amazing how the schedule worked out and how the shows the stars showed up right

01:03:37yeah you can even you can even go back to harry kane in game one with what he did you

01:03:40can go to

01:03:41what ronaldo did yesterday but you're right those those are the big three right now you know i've been

01:03:46able fortunate enough to see messi in person both games i've seen all five goals that he scored and

01:03:52and his godlike uh hold on his team and his nation which is surreal and then holland the future of

01:04:00this

01:04:00game you know it's kind of like past present future you know messi like let's enjoy him folks because

01:04:06this is it this is last call right with holland you know boy he's the next mega star but then

01:04:11you

01:04:12got killing mbappe doing just just things that that make you pull yourself out of your seat and he's at

01:04:18his absolute prime right now so you know tip of the hat to the schedule makers who just totally got

01:04:23lucky right with the dumb dumb luck blind draw but to have those three dudes on you know on your

01:04:30screen

01:04:31back to back to back essentially it it has been amazing amazing to see it's it's must see tv for

01:04:37us

01:04:37on those days i mean all those guys the other day seem to have the ball in the string and

01:04:42bob may

01:04:42had plays where he didn't score that remind me do you do you think well i mean it it's it's

01:04:47wild like

01:04:48he would have become the world cups all-time leading scorer here already in his third world cup if it

01:04:54wasn't

01:04:54for messi breaking the record himself uh do you do you think when this is all well i was gonna

01:05:01ask

01:05:02if you think mbappe eventually gets that record but i don't think that's a very relevant question

01:05:05no no he does i don't know if he gets it this summer and again there's no guarantees that you're

01:05:10gonna play in another world cup four years down the road right but you know the the way it's trending

01:05:14right now you see him where he sits right now tied with miroslav klosa i wouldn't i wouldn't put it

01:05:20against either of these guys you know no listen i don't think a lot of people had messi scoring five

01:05:25goals in the first two games on their bingo card uh so clearly something is going right with him and

01:05:32right with his nation but the way mbappe is playing and you know i i think they're the favorite right

01:05:37now france from what i've seen from them from you know top to bottom uh but hey man rick flair

01:05:43to be

01:05:43the man you got to beat the man and right now the man is lionel messi in argentina uh but

01:05:48i i think

01:05:49for me at least france france is the favorite at this moment but again you know everybody's only

01:05:54you know played two games and now today we we start to close things up with the group stage and

01:05:59simultaneous matches and we start to really kind of get a better idea of what the paths are forward

01:06:05for you know the the few nations that have moved on already which of course includes the united states

01:06:10well and and and i do want to revisit the u.s in a second but to stick with a

01:06:14couple more of the

01:06:15favorites uh england and portugal stories up to this point kind of similar in that you have one

01:06:21result where i'm not i'm not sure they should have then you have the other result where it's like oh

01:06:26my god yes we wanted let's start in the portugal side cristiano yes it was uzbekistan but cristiano

01:06:35needed this after the week of news that they had really after the half decade of not finding

01:06:40the back of the net in run of play in these major international games do you think portugal was

01:06:45kick-started yesterday or are you still betting that that game one performance is more the truth

01:06:50of the squad side no no no no i'm on the kickstart you know you could throw spain into that

01:06:54conversation

01:06:55as well you know they they didn't launch themselves into this tournament with that surprising draw but

01:06:59they did in in game number two and again you know we have limited points of data to look at

01:07:05during

01:07:06these tournaments right so every game you know is so over analyzed but you guys know it you know look

01:07:12at a march madness look at a college football season you know it's not so much how you start it's

01:07:17how you

01:07:17end right and you don't want to peak too early you want to keep building yourself up so i think

01:07:22portugal is building themselves up they have that confidence i love that image you're showing right

01:07:26there where it was ronaldo not like hey guys come to me when i score i'm coming to you i'm

01:07:31coming to the

01:07:31bench i'm embracing you i i think that's maybe an element that has been missing with with him with

01:07:37the national team where it's very me oriented and and not as we oriented as it should be and he

01:07:42needs

01:07:43that team to succeed uh more than probably any of those other stars um so i i think i i'm

01:07:50scared for

01:07:51portugal i think their their midfield might be the best in the world i still think they're one of the

01:07:54top

01:07:54five favorites for sure let's see what they do in their next game in miami uh where they have a

01:08:00real

01:08:00test coming their way but i i like how they are trending for sure and and to get ronaldo

01:08:05back and happy um he's a different player when he's when he's smiling and doing these celebrations

01:08:12than he is when he's a little bit disgruntled because things aren't going his way that's my one

01:08:16concern about portugal is again less me more we and portugal is going to be just fine and so with

01:08:22england uh same story different ordering of the chapters there fantastic against croatia yesterday

01:08:30frankly very lucky i i still don't understand how that wasn't a penalty and we've seen plenty

01:08:36of own goals this tournament that might be the only own save that i've seen out of the ghana game

01:08:41yesterday but how are we feeling about uh the english after after they end up with the draw

01:08:48not i'm fine you know should they have won yes our expectations were should they win yes ghana's a

01:08:53really good team and again you know i think you saw the real england in game one versus croatia and

01:08:59the depth they have and the talent they have on the bench again this is the biggest longest world cup

01:09:04in history so you're going to need more than just 12 guys or 13 guys you're going to need to

01:09:08get

01:09:09like a real 15 16 type deep i think england's going to be just fine i'm not worried about them

01:09:15uh every nation at a big tournament like this is going to have one of those days right and it's

01:09:21what you do with it it's how you overcome it england's going to be fine i'm not worried about

01:09:25them for me they are a guaranteed quarter finalist i would even say they feel kind of like a guaranteed

01:09:31semi-finalist damn wow uh well rob shifting back to america i don't know exactly how to phrase this

01:09:39question so i'll just say that off the top but you were talking about how that crowd in seattle like

01:09:44it

01:09:44felt like a a big noon kickoff type of crowd there's been a lot of talk about how do we

01:09:49grow

01:09:50the game in america obviously having it here on u.s soil this tournament is a great thing for that

01:09:55but

01:09:55did you feel that that moment on when when was what day was that in seattle was it thursday did

01:10:01you feel

01:10:01like that was a real inflection point and how do we as a nation kind of capitalize on that passion

01:10:07and that just rowdy atmosphere and that love for u.s soccer how do we bring that more so into

01:10:13future

01:10:14tournaments into this next stage of u.s soccer yeah it's an absolute moment that that will resonate

01:10:21and stay with that program and that fan base for sure and and listen it's going to stay with fox

01:10:25sports right i've seen that shot that sweeping shot of the fans i've seen this shot right here with

01:10:31them jumping and cheering behind our set you know that's going to be on a whole lot of our clip

01:10:36reels which

01:10:36means it was good right which means it resonated which means it hit and it popped and it made an

01:10:41impact and i guarantee you the players saw these images whether it was before the game or after the

01:10:47game things get shared and fed with them and you know you know family and friends are like you

01:10:52should have seen the scene outside and what this fan base was doing and seattle is notorious for this

01:10:57like this is where the u.s wanted to be that's why i'm so excited for them to potentially have

01:11:02around

01:11:02a 16 game in seattle because they were at 10 on that day they're going to find 12 and 14

01:11:08right on

01:11:08the volume meter so it yeah i think it was a moment listen i i've been saying for a long

01:11:15time you know

01:11:16the greatest parallel to college football and sports out there is soccer right it's it's they're they're

01:11:21kissing cousins right they're they run in the same type of circles they have the same friends they like

01:11:25to go to the same bars they like to do the same kind of thing right college football and soccer

01:11:30for me

01:11:31we're always always this and i love the fact that we are taking our show to the road to the

01:11:37fans and

01:11:38giving them this opportunity to do what they do so damn well particularly at a world cup so yeah i

01:11:44think

01:11:44that that was an absolute moment uh for u.s soccer and 100 there's a part of them in the

01:11:49back of their

01:11:50head that's saying hey man you know like let's take care of turkey on thursday let's take care of the

01:11:55round of 32 in the san francisco bay area but let's get our tails back to seattle and create

01:12:00another memory go full spinal tap this one goes up to 11. i don't know i watched i watched spinal

01:12:06tap the other day for the first time in like 15 years uh still very funny okay let's i i

01:12:11got a few

01:12:11rapid fire ones here uh let's talk path right because you've kind of been alluding to it but as

01:12:17this is breaking things feeling pretty damn friendly for this u.s team we project for the

01:12:23knockout stage because you're one year group you're going to get a third place finisher it's going to be

01:12:27the winner of cutter bosnia hurts convenia today or if they tie there's a few different options but

01:12:33you'll be favored then i believe in the round of 16 you would get the group g winner which is

01:12:39that

01:12:39egypt right now like this is this is if you could script it out everything seems to be breaking

01:12:47the u.s's way yes and and that that gives me pause and and that scares me but listen you

01:12:55know we're

01:12:55we're still u.s soccer and i don't mean that in a negative way but we haven't earned our stripes

01:13:00yet

01:13:01you know we yes we got to a semi-final that was 1930 the first time there was ever a

01:13:05world cup you

01:13:06know how you got to the world cup you got there on an ocean liner so if you could afford

01:13:09it then you

01:13:10could go to the tournament right so we could afford it and we we had to run to the semi

01:13:13-finals

01:13:14congratulations to that team but this is not modern day soccer so the last time we've done

01:13:18anything on the modern world cup stage is 2002 and that was a run to the quarterfinals right

01:13:23for me a run to the quarterfinals is is an absolute winner that is a huge banger i i know

01:13:29there's

01:13:29obstacles to come i look at that path as well and i too get giddy and excited and then i

01:13:35i find that

01:13:36handbrake and i pull it back a little bit like hey man again let's get through turkey on thursday

01:13:41you know let's get out of here healthy let's keep the good vibes going let's keep the rhythm

01:13:46and the momentum and let's keep the nation behind us as well and keep moving on um it's only going

01:13:52to get bigger it's only going to get louder the team has handled it great so far but yes i'm

01:13:56with

01:13:56you the path on paper right now looks fantastic

01:14:01but but but weird things happen in this sport and and i've seen it too many times to get cocky

01:14:06well and and it's one of those things where like and and this wasn't my proponent of so i kind

01:14:11of

01:14:11don't love that idea but i just did but like we should enjoy the journey because this is as much

01:14:16fun

01:14:16as i've ever had watching a team now one of the breakout stars that has led to that fun has

01:14:22been

01:14:22flo baligan and i want to get into a couple of questions about strategy against turkey he's sitting

01:14:27on a yellow he wants to play he's in the golden boot competition baligan police okay like strategy wise

01:14:34what are we doing with the starters come uh tomorrow's game yeah it's a fascinating question

01:14:39again you know it's it's this it's this rhythm versus rest type debate if you're on a yellow card

01:14:45and you get another yellow card thursday that means you're out for the round of 32 game that for me

01:14:51is

01:14:51a non-starter you're on a yellow right now you're sitting done that's easy to me that's a really easy

01:14:55decision the christian politic one is interesting again only played the opening 45 minutes of the first

01:15:00game he's had you know i don't know what the date is i feel like it's it's like double digit

01:15:05days to

01:15:06to get back i i talked with bob bradley greg berhalter bruce arena former u.s men's national team

01:15:12coaches on a podcast i'm doing for the during the world cup and they all agreed like listen if he

01:15:18is

01:15:18ready to go if he is cleared by the trainers you play him yeah that's not saying play 90 minutes

01:15:23that's probably like 45 minutes but get out there that's what i would do that's what the coaches would

01:15:28do i think that's what mauricio pochettino will do and then at some point probably in the second

01:15:34half you you take out those normal starters again you got old man tim rehm your captain in the middle

01:15:39of that back line he's played every minute of this tournament can you keep it going the guys the

01:15:44coaches you know they want that rhythm the players want that structure they want to they want to keep

01:15:49playing right and it's not like these guys have two days off three days off it's at least five days

01:15:53or

01:15:53six days going forward so i think if you're on a yellow card you're not playing you're going to

01:15:58play as many of your starters as possible while trying to bleed in some other talents a great

01:16:02opportunity by the way for a guy like geo reina to probably get a big run 75 or 90 minutes

01:16:08um you

01:16:08want to keep those vibes those good those good feelings going not only in the locker room but

01:16:14you know i think outside of the locker room you know this nation is now as you guys have talked

01:16:18about a buzz and they want to win and they want more energy and they can't wait to build to

01:16:23that

01:16:23july 1st round of 32 game in the bay area so i think you play it as normal as possible

01:16:29without

01:16:30risking any injuries and without risking guys on yellow cards well uh speaking of keeping the good

01:16:35vibes going rob uh y'all have done just that and then some uh the production of the entire tournament

01:16:41just been world-class top to bottom and you as the lead there doing you know no small part of

01:16:48that

01:16:48so thank you for making time for us today man and giving us some excellent insight happy to guys

01:16:52enjoy the tournament enjoy those six games today that's fine wait college football in two months

01:16:56that's right okay relax okay we got we got we have plenty of football to be excited i'm enjoying it

01:17:03but college football in two months yeah it's gonna be sick all right coming up next good segment evo look

01:17:09no eyebrows oh i can add them i'm saying you know i don't know okay close the answer next

01:17:17welcome back to wake up our stool let's close out the show today with a little

01:17:23yannis into the compo yannis traded to miami and and i gotta be so i i thought rusillo had an

01:17:29excellent take on yesterday's wake up where a lot of people seem to be painting this is like

01:17:35what does it actually do for the heat you know they're still the 14 the 15 and and that's not

01:17:39wrong

01:17:40but i do think if you take a step back and you just look at price paid for a player

01:17:47of yannis's

01:17:48caliber then it's easy to see like okay well in that context this is a big win for the miami

01:17:53heat

01:17:54so you could weigh in there brandon but the kind of extension here is do you think that yannis ends

01:18:00up

01:18:00winning a championship in miami no but you what matters now is the secondary and the third steps they

01:18:07take to put together a championship roster but ultimately the first step is the most important

01:18:11step they have they've taken the first step you you get him and you get bam you have an elite

01:18:16defensive team you have elite sides you have elite length good culture this is a good culture like

01:18:21this is the signal to the fan base and the nba we are serious about winning a title i think

01:18:26we're in

01:18:26one of the most competitive areas in the history of nba basketball they not only have to go through

01:18:30five or six teams in the east that are already in better shape than them they then have to deal

01:18:34with

01:18:34the west who's probably got five or six teams that are in better shape than them so there's

01:18:37it used to be easier to go get a star and immediately put yourself in championship contention

01:18:43now going to get the star is a guarantee of nothing yeah sure and and and i think that just

01:18:48speaks to how good the modern nba is it kind of reminds me of when the lakers uh first got

01:18:53luca

01:18:53where you could tell like oh this is really exciting but the pieces don't really make a lot of sense

01:18:58to

01:18:59win in the short term this team set up right now is not meant to win in the short term

01:19:04it's just a

01:19:04matter of whether or not they could put together a roster maybe the next cycle or the year after

01:19:08that whatever the case is however the main difference between the luka situation and the

01:19:12yana situation is that yana is older has well as injuries recently half injuries but we'll see if

01:19:20that can work out let's also be clear he didn't play a ton last year 36 days what he did

01:19:25play he was

01:19:26incredible and this the streak broke because of last season but before that seven years in a row he's

01:19:33on an all nba team yeah so like he's not like he's 31 yeah i i i yeah let's not

01:19:39overstate maybe

01:19:41the age is there one of luka's teammates that he joined in la lebron james he's kind of reentered

01:19:46the new cycle imagine that should lebron go to miami should lebron bring it back and go to his back

01:19:53to his second home i i you say that i love the idea of an all-family team get get

01:19:58the nasus get brawny

01:20:00get lebron alex how many how many uh how many brothers does john has get them all down there

01:20:06all four of them right yeah get all get all the family honest and then all of family brawn they're

01:20:11left behind in this whole thing the thing is miami's not going to be able to afford you and me

01:20:15to fill out this roster let alone lebron james no this this would just be lebron james being like

01:20:21i have enough money and i think it's fun to go play in miami again and see what i can

01:20:25do sure

01:20:26i think he'd more likely go to cleveland though i mean right if you're returning somewhere yeah

01:20:30but he already did the return to cleveland do another one i know i don't want that good luck

01:20:34getting from the southeast that's all i gotta say the wizards are taking over that division so good

01:20:38luck buddy let's get wizarded ha let's get wizarded he ball i mean nobody six games today guys

01:20:47i tweeted that yesterday it really didn't hit i thought more people would like it so i deleted it

01:20:50look at that he deleted the tweet oh wow i deleted a tweet oh wow brandon wonger emo connor griffin

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