The Bobby Bones Show - 25W: Bobby Feuds with Someone on Instagram + Oregon Head Coach Dan Lanning From Eugene + The Latest Update from the WSOP Investment

Episode Date: July 19, 2024

After posting some content of his bench press on his visit to the University of Oregon, Bobby gets into a feud with someone on Instagram because they questioned the weight he was putting up. Plus, Oregon head football coach, Dan Lanning sat down with Bobby & Eddie to talk about his career journey, why he thinks everyone should work in the service industry, and much more! And Bobby gives an update on his investment into Nate Forrest who played in the World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas.    Follow the Show: @25Whistles Follow the Crew: @MrBobbyBones @ProducerEddie @KickoffKevin @MikeDeestro @ReidYarberrySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Thank you. We have been on the road a lot. About 10,000 miles over the past four or five days. Going to Oregon was super cool. I'm going to be honest with it. It's a long trip. Yeah. There's a reason I don't go up there every day.

It took a long time. It took four and a half hours from Chicago. Why would you go there every day? It's awesome, but you're right. I would like to go up there more. But yeah, we went up for Oregon to go hang out. And we're going to actually start with the interview here in just a second. I'll tell you where I got irritated and I shouldn't.

But on my Instagram, I have posted a video, just raw pictures of some of our trip in Oregon. I'm throwing the football. I'm sitting with Coach Lannning. but the third slide in the carousel is of me bench pressing and I'm bench pressing two green plates and those are 45s there their plates are green and yellow

like their colors so the 45s are green and so and their linebacker Jeffrey Bosset was spotting me he was like working out with me not just whatever he was helping me and you see in the video

I get the weight up and I wasn't cold, but I was coolish. It's not like we were there. Long we stretched your arms and didn't. Not much. George Burge, who's a friend of mine, country artist. George Burge, no, well, he's not the hater. Oh, okay.

George Burge has, like, got my mind on you, got you on my mind. He writes 225 like nothing, which is what that rep was. It was 225. Some jerk, one Alex underscore Hendren writes 145 like nothing. Those plates are 25ers. Oh, get out of here. Come on Alex. He doesn't know.

I'm pretty immune to people online saying things about me because it's happened my whole career. I was pissed when I saw this. He doesn't know. No. He's wrong. And the greens were 45s? Yeah. And the yellows were 35s, I believe, right?

I don't know if that's true. No, I think those were 25. But the greens were 45. I never saw 35s. I think they had 40s. No, they just had 25s and then little 10-pound plates. They don't do that over there? Don't do 35?

I was so insulted. this dude who knows nothing. Alexandrine, you piece of garbage. Oh, wow, wow, wow, okay. All right. He knows nothing. And if I'm going to push that hard on 145, I don't think I'd be flexing that on camera.

Yeah, I would. That's fair. But not you. 145 like nothing. Those are 25 platers. I said, no, they aren't. They're 45s. They're green.

Like the green means anything. Yeah. I just wanted to say that. I was insulted by that. You should be because you lifted that. We were all there. We saw it. and we're proud of you.

People tell me all time you're not funny. Okay, you're ugly, okay, whatever. Okay, sure. I guess because that's opinion. I am on cam. This is not AI. This is not a deep fake. And you don't know what you're talking about,

stupid guy in the internet. He's obviously he never worked out there. But you have. Obviously. That's a good point. That's a good point. So, yeah, no, I wrote that. If you go to that,

I prefer if you've replied to his and be like, you're a stupid idiot. I learned to count. You stupid idiot. Anyway, I was very insulted. And I don't get insulted that much. And usually you get insulted by dumb things. That one, that's validated.

All he has to do is ask Dylan Gabriel. We got around. Oh, that's right. Yeah, you won't hear that in this one, but you're right. Dylan Gabriel, Haism a frontrunner, who we talked to as well. I was like, hey, I heard you threw up a 245. 2.25. 2.25.

Which means they were talking all about it here at the... I'm waiting for an offer. I keep waiting for Coach Cole. We had a great time in Oregon, and we're going to start with that interview. This is our sit-down with Oregon head football coach Dan Lannning, which, by the way, it is weird when a head football coach at a major school that's a national championship caliber program is younger than you are. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And making a lot more money than I am. That's everyone. Notice he didn't say you. He said, I am. I was about to be insulted. I was looking at what Dan Lennon made. Dan Lennon was awesome. I mean, he was so great.

again, but it was a little weird because he's younger. That's so cool. Imagine being in your 30s and being the head coach. Or imagine like Sean McVeigh with the Rams. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But I feel like a college program, you have more responsibility than an NFL program

as far as things you have to do. Because NFL, there's a lot to do, but it's pro. It's just football. College, you have to like cultivate relationships. Call kids, make sure they feel special. Raise money. Yes. I feel like that job, like the air,

the surface area, there's more to do, and so it'd be harder to do if you're younger. NIL now. Yeah. Yeah. He's coached under Nick Saban, Kirby Smart, Coach Rovellian at Florida State. He's 22 and 5 in two years as Oregon's head coach. His team has the fourth best odds to win the championship this year, according to Vegas. He was awesome, though.

Very cool. He's big. And not think he was that big. And if he threw up two green plates, I'd be like, shout out. I wouldn't be like, those are 25s. This dude, though, went straight at me and I was offended. I was offended, I say. Here he is.

Head coach, Dan Lannning. Coach, thanks. Appreciate you being here. Actually, we're here. I guess you're already here. So I appreciate us for being here, right? Thanks for coming. I got a couple questions for you when I was looking at kind of your history.

You went from being a GA, obviously, to a position coach, but then back to a GA at Bama. Was that a tough call for you to take a step back, but the program was a step up? Yeah, it really wasn't. I knew I had more to learn. Certainly financially, it didn't make a lot of sense. But from a professional development standpoint, it was definitely the right move. I was with Coach Prime.

We played a softball game together a couple days ago. And he was saying some really wonderful things about you. Now, earlier in the year, before that game, that blew up. And I did not expect Coach. He was like, where are you going? I said, we're going to see Coach, you're going to love him. You're going to love him. I guess I didn't know that he loved you.

I think both of us have a lot of admiration and respect for each other. I think something completely got blown out of proportion. I certainly appreciate him and what he's done for the game. And it's hard not to appreciate what he did as a player. It's unbelievable what he did as a player. And now to see what he's done for the game of football. It's a lot of fun to watch. You're not even 40 yet, correct?

Not yet. So you've got to be playing NCAA college football. Not not yet. You know, we just had a walk through this morning, had some guys on the field, and there's a lot of chatter going on. So the guys will come over to the house later night, and maybe we'll hook it up, but I doubt I'd get on the sticks. It's been a long time for me. What was the last stick you got on then?

Whenever COVID happened, and we were all kind of locked in our basements, I used to tell my wife I'm going downstairs to recruit, and I'd hop on call on call of duty and try to play. That was like my last experience, and I got smoked. So sometimes I put my son on there. He'd play, and I would be on the headset talking like I was the guy, you know, backing it up. The problem with the headset, though, because I would play a little bit with, like, Randos that you just link up with. But it's like 12-year-olds who dominate me and then make me feel worse as a human than I already do. Yeah, it's embarrassing when you're getting smoked in that game. So this Oregon, it's awesome.

I mean, it's everything you could want as far as, like, facilities, as far as the resources that go into it. People love you here. You've been killing it as a head coach. but I assume even as good and as great as you do, there's always that pressure because they're providing the resources for you to keep knocking it out of the park. Is that true?

Yeah, there's always pressure. With any job, you know what? I hope there's pressure. It means you're not in the right spot, right? You don't want to be comfortable. And we all have goals and aspirations. This is certainly a place that you can accomplish them, but it's not supposed to be easy.

So it's fun to be in a place where we want to compete. Do you look at the preseason rankings? No, you already say no. Who cares? I hear you. Who cares? Amen. But like one eye, you like blink at it for a second, just to see.

No, no, it doesn't matter. I mean, the opinions of everyone outside of this room, no offense, the opinions of you guys, it doesn't matter to our. Ours are great, though. We have really good ones. Good opinions? Well, I'm sure. But I'll tell you this, we don't pay a lot of attention to them because they don't

affect the outcome on the field. You know, the people on this program, they're going to affect the outcome on the field. So we try to focus on us. Twelve teams in the playoff this year. It doesn't really affect you guys, because you guys are always in the anyway. So your thoughts on the expansion of the playoffs because it feels like to me Oregon just got to play a couple more games now. I think it's great for college football. From the standpoint, there's going to be a little bit more interest at the end of the season than there has been.

But at the end, the goal hasn't changed for us. Just win. How much do you say when it comes to what uniforms are going to wear or what uniforms are going to be created? Do you ever see one that doesn't even get to the players' eyes because you're like, that one is not good? Sometimes there's a no. But once we have the go, that's kind of where I step out, right? So I get to see them in advance, but our creative team, our design group, they do an unbelievable job. And then they get a lot of feedback from our players, right? Kenny Farr does a great job working with Nike and, you know, those guys that create some awesome

get-ups for our guys. But a lot of times we get to the game on Saturday when I walk out the tunnel, that's when I see it the first time. No way. Not the very first time. But I'm not. That week, I'm a lot more worried about it. the opponent than what we're going to wear to the game.

I feel like my number one party would be jerseys. Jersey's. So do you have like a guy that will say to you, hey, this looks great. This does it. Is there an aesthetics, head of aesthetics here? No, we have an equipment manager. You know, and he's on top of it. He does as good job as anybody in the nation. In fact, I think he's the best in the nation when it comes to piecing this together. It's Kenny Farr. And again, he does a great job of meeting with our players, collaborating with them, collaborating with Nike. to create some really cool setups for our guys.

Coach, the network loves highlighting your excitement and you pumping up the team. There's always a video montage somewhere during the game. Do you sometimes go home and watch and be like, oh, man, like, went too hard? I went way too hard. You know, I don't normally watch the TV copy. You know, at times we might go back and, like, peel through it for, you know, to make sure we don't put any signals on film or things like that.

But I don't spend a lot of time watching that. And I'm never going to be – I'm never going to apologize for Pat. I think the players are going to match your energy and enthusiasm, so that's something I always want to carry on the field. You mentioned you're not going to watch signal, possibly, because signals could be out there, but that's not a really a thing anymore. I think it'll still exist in college football, just because there's still going to be some teams that carry tempo. And if you're, you know, reliant to just giving the call to one guy in the field, you're probably going to be short. You know, you want 11 guys playing the same call on both sides of the ball. So at times, I think signals will still exist.

Is are you advocating now that every player has communication to their helmet? Because that's what I hear. Yeah, I'd be great with that. There's probably some guys that there's such thing as too much information to when you get on the field. Your best players, you just want them to be able to play. But yeah, I think there's probably a benefit to just to where everybody can hear the call. And that would certainly help things. What if everybody also could talk back?

Because I worked to Hobby Lobby for a while. No, no chance. And they gave me a speaker. I was on thing all the time. And I didn't need to say anything I've needed to hear. You ever been on a walkie-tokie where the other guys? guys always talking and you can't ever. Yeah, that was me at Hobby Lobby. They would be like, hey, go down and set up this display and I was like, hey, guys, look at three. Like, I'll three,

like she's got, you know, that kind of stuff. So, yeah, that probably wouldn't be good. Yeah, it would not be a good thing. Do you ever feel like you'll change your offense or defense based on personnel that comes in if the talent is so strikingly, let's say, you know, you run wide open, but let's say a guy comes in and is a straight-ahead runner and maybe doesn't need it as wide open. Will you change your offense at all for that? Absolutely. I think a coach's job is to match the talents of his personnel. And that's going back to being a high school coach.

I think you have to look and see what your players do best and try to make sure you're utilizing their talents. When you were your first GA job, what was the goal for you there? Was it to be a head coach in a major university? Yeah, I mean, that was a goal early on. But early in my career, I think I was a goal. I figured out just be the best at where I'm at and try to do jobs that nobody else wants to do. When you're a defensive coordinator at Georgia, I hated you, man.

I hated you. Who's your team? Arkansas. Yeah. Yeah. I hate, oh my God. You get that coach? Yeah.

And, you know, not every OC or D.C. is known, especially when you're under somebody like a Kirby Smart or a Nick Sabin, two guys that you've worked with, right? Both those guys. I hated you because there was no opportunity. It was ugly. When you have the players like that and you're playing. I don't know, let's just make up a team, R Arkansas. And they're pretty weak. Do you know like this game, all we have to do,

if we do exactly what we've set forward, it is going to be over, they are not going to get anything. You know, the great thing about football is you never really feel that way. And I get nervous before every single game. Certainly we have more talent than Arkansas when we played them. Rarkinson. No, no.

We're talking about hypothetical R Arkansas. Yeah, Arkansas. How's the talent for Rarkansas? No, no, no, no. It's been better. It's been a better, coach. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think any time you go in there,

knowing that if you don't accomplish your goals and really operate on the same page, you've got an opportunity to lose in college football. And that's part of what makes the game so great. So we try to prepare for every game the same and hope that we go play our best. And the result hopefully takes care of itself. When you walk into a mom or a dad or a grandma, whomever raises the athlete that you're trying to recruit, what do they know about you once you're gone that makes them want to come here?

Once I'm gone. Yeah, once you leave the room, once you leave the house? Just that I'm authentic. Like I'm the same guy today that I was 20 years ago. I hope that's what people can always say about me, that just because positions have changed and situations change, that I'm the same person. And that family matters to me.

I think if you're in the room with me for 10 minutes, you're probably going to hear about my boys and my wife. And that's something that's important to me and that we treat the players on our team the same way. Sometimes I'll see, and I have a little warehouse. I have a little clothing line. We do a lot of charity work with our clothing line, and we have one of those little machines that prints out the shirts.

I feel like here there's like one of those, you know, apparel printing machines. You just get anything you want printed. Is it on campus or do you have to have a ship to you? Because it's nonstop. Everything's Nike, Oregon, everything. Yeah, it's a good setup. You know, we've got an awesome relationship with Nike. I don't know about.

There's a warehouse here, though, right? I couldn't answer that much. It's secret. I know this. When I show up to my locker and I open it up, there's new stuff in it. And that's pretty awesome. Like I said, Kenny Farr does a great job of taking care of our staff and our players. But yeah, we don't run out of gear.

I didn't used to consider myself a shoe guy. and now I've got too many shoes. Without identifying anyone, were there ever colors that you just didn't like wearing because you didn't like the colors? Not here, not Oregon. I'm talking about other schools you've been at. Because if I had to wear orange, I'll be honest with you. Burnt or Tennessee orange, I might quit just for that.

Yeah, I guess I've just never been that much of a fashionista. I'm not a big fan of purple, but beyond that, I'm pretty good with any color, I guess. So light purple probably wouldn't be your jam. Not my jam. Like the UCA bears. You wouldn't go coach at UCA. I would go, I'll coach where there's a job. I'm not going to make my decisions based off of color.

But luckily for me, I found my last job. You know, played at UCLA was Coach Norville at Florida State. That's right. And you worked with Coach there. What was he like? Yeah, he's awesome. Like relentless, you know, works his tail off, extremely intelligent, willing to get in there and coach.

We'll coach every position on the field. You know, unbelievable family. You know, whenever I work with coach, It's the same time my wife got diagnosed with cancer, and he was really good for me and my family then. I'll run through a couple of them then, Coach Sabin, what did you learn from him? Consistency.

You know, the guy's a robot. Every morning he was rolling in the office the exact same time. We're going to have a staff meeting the same time. You know, his routine was really impressive to see whether it's what he's eating every morning or every lunch. The way he operates day in and day out was really impressive. Coach Smart? Yeah, just enthusiasm, passion,

intelligence, ability to adapt, always thought he was on the cutting edge of things and always looking for an edge. I mean, Bones is rolling through all these great coaches that you worked with schools, but he's forgetting Sam Houston State. We're probably the best school in America. Did you go to Sam? How about the donut shops in Huntsville? Oh, they're the best. They're the best. And I think we're people. Per capita, donut shops, per town. I think it's got to be one of the high. What was your, I mean, what was that experience like at San Francisco State?

Because a lot of people are going to want to hear about this. Yeah. Flip this for social. Yeah, so I worked with Casey Keeler was the head coach there, and that was a great coach to be under. He really gave you an opportunity to figure out how you wanted to do things. You know, he let his coach's coach's coach. He'd push you, he'd question you, but he gave you an opportunity to go, you know, make it what you wanted to make it. So your DB meeting that day, your corners meeting that day, it was, you know, how do you want to build it?

What do you want to look like the drill work you did on the field? And you make some mistakes, but you also learned a lot in the process. So I love my time there at Sam. And it's, you know, it wasn't the bus league at that time, but you take some long road trips. You know, you do hop on a charter bus from time to time to get to places. And, you know, that's something that I think everybody should experience in their coaching career. Going to Sam Houston? Yeah, keeping it right.

No, I don't think everybody should go to Sam Houston forever. That's the start of that career. That's all I says, everybody must go to Sam Houston State to coach. At some point, no, I think, you know, my wife and I have this discussion, too. We met at a restaurant. We worked it out back steakhouse together. And I think the other thing that everybody should do is some point you should work in the service industry. You should get stiffed at some point. You should get an unbelievable tip at some

point. You should, you know, learn how to, you know, make the people at your table happy and learn how to deal with, okay, the food came out late or it came out. And it's not like a waiter's fall. But sometimes you have to be the same. It's like the head coach. Like, it ain't always your fault, but you got to take it and go and take responsibility. Can you solve a problem? Yeah. Can you solve a problem? So that's something else that, you know, I'm a big believer in that everybody should have to do that at some point. Or an eight top when they wanted a high chair. I'll wait a tables forever. So you know what I'm talking about? And they want to Crackers? Have you been stiff?

I would be stiff to the point of, you know, they would do zero, zero and leave me a tip of like, how about get a new job? Yeah, watch you look both ways when you cross the street, something like that. Yeah, so that would suck. And then having to clean the crackers up after a baby just went full high chair. That's not their parents' fault, but okay. I mean, the baby does that. What does the parent do?

Like, it just happens. It's part of the job. The hard part about a baby is, you know, already coming in that they're not going to order a meal, but you're serving them anyway, right? So you're not going to get a great tip from that. Let me ask you this. Now that you've been a server, are you a good tipper? Oh, two things have happened to me.

One, I was a server, so I was a good tipper. I've been very fortunate in my career now that I am wildly rich. I'll just say it. It's amazing. It's great because I grew up very poor. I usually tip like 100% just because of those two reasons because I relied on my bills to be paid by other people. and I needed that blessing from them in order to just pay my bills. So now that I have money, I'm glad I serve because I understand the plight of what the people are going through serving me.

One of the greatest feelings in the world is be able to give somebody a great tip, right, and know how much you probably change their day and make them feel better. Don't get it twisted, though. He only gets appetizers. Well, 100% a half-office here, like $23 bills. Do you have Sonics up here? I don't know. Portland, probably.

The worst is when you go to, and I love Sonic fan. Sonic's my favorite, and I'm just going to flex on tips. It's a great point. And I'm honest about it. So I love tipping because I needed the tips. So if I go to Sonic and I get like a drink or something and I give them $100 bill, and when they just look at it and don't like, give me the extra smile, I get a little offended, coach, I'll be honest with you.

I need like that. Thanks. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, that's what I wanted to know. I just need you to, because I once dropped a whole tray of drinks on it. And let me tell you this. It's a bad one. I want your worst story.

I had a whole tray. of drinks. Drinks and probably not really food, maybe a couple. And I walked and I did a little trip. I dropped it all on a guy at the table. And it was probably a seven or eight top. And spilled it all over them. And I was so embarrassed, I got him a towel.

And at the end, when he left a tip, he left me a large tip and said, hey, make sure when someone does this to you, hopefully you treat them the same way. Wow. Change my life. I wrote about it in my first book. Change my life because I was like, well, I screwed up as much as I possibly could have and this guy still wanted to make that a learning lesson for me in a positive way. So miserable day, wonderful outcome, and I've kept that with me.

Did you ever really screw up waiting tables? I think everybody spilled a drink on someone before. That's certainly bad. I mean, I feel like one of my worst days as a server was I had to work Super Bowl Sunday and the Super Bowl is going on. And I had like a $200 bill and I got stiffed on it on Super Bowl Sunday. But nothing too bad, nothing you couldn't solve. I felt like I should tip them right now just so we can like.

Give them money. I'm running short. I haven't helped. No, good, thanks. Expectations on the program are high. They should be. Expectations are a wonderful thing because you've earned them and deserve them. What are the expectations internally and what do you tell your team you expect from them day in a day out?

Yeah, this is going to be that coach answer that you probably don't want, but they're best. I just want our players best. Whatever this team's capable of, that's what I want to see them achieve. And I don't know that we know that. that until we see what teams we're going to be facing and line up across from them. But we expect when we step on the field to play the best game we can possibly play, hold ourselves to a higher standard, and again, let the result take care of itself. I was looking at the schedule, and Maryland is the team that would be the farthest,

but Maryland is here, which is nice. And, you know, with you guys switching conferences, you really don't have to go that far in your first season. That's pretty fortunate, right? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think so. I mean, getting to play in the Big Ten, something is pretty exciting. We're going to go to some venues that I've never been.

been to before, but we'll travel to Michigan. We'll travel to Indiana, or excuse me, Purdue. You know, we'll travel. I'm trying to think. But no ruggers. No, no Rutgers. No, no Maryland. Yeah, Wisconsin. That'll be a fun road trip for us. And then everything else is still remotely close to where we would have been before. You're not going to answer this. I'd like for you to answer it, but I'm going to ask it anyway. You know, your first couple of games, it's, I forget who the first. I know. Yeah, then it's Boise State. So sure, you're getting ready for those, but do you have guys already looking at the conference game scouting those teams? We all look ahead. So the summer's a great opportunity to kind of jump ahead and look and see what's going to be different that you haven't seen

before, what you haven't faced before. So you can kind of make sure when we get the fall camp, our hope is that we can kind of put everything in that'll apply to our teams throughout the season. So you absolutely look ahead, try to plan for the future. But then when you get, you know, to game prep and game week, you're focused on that next team. Do you do, we talked about in helmet communication, when you guys hold signs up, do you hold pictures of things? up we have in the past uh i'd like to offer one i'd like to i'd like to here we go here we go for us i knew this is coming well it's just we did a trick play deal with the team last year it's pretty cool i would like it and they did it they did it and i would like to offer a pick a picture of my head

with big glasses and it's like you want to call the dorky dive you want to call like you know a nerd on three and it's the one time one game that's the sign my head with glasses all right we'll look into him oh he gave me the work that one My people will call your people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's only one of the plays that has a picture in my head in Arkansas. The basketball games, they hold it up, you know, they do that thing. But that isn't not really for a play.

So I'm offering that. I will not sue you. No intellectual property. We're able to use that. We have free rent. One game, even if it's a fake, even if it's, you know, the indicator for the next sign. Okay. You are able to use my head for a sign.

So we could use it once. If we use it more than once. If you use it once, what's your favorite? What charity are you involved in here? Oh, HSU. It's a, you know, a local cancer research hospital. If it shows up $10,000 from my pocket, then consider it down. Now we're talking. If it shows up and we see it. Now there's incentive. Yeah, I will donate $10,000 to that charity and I think we both win.

Yeah, I think that's a win now every time, 10,000. No, no, no, no, we don't need 30 times a game. This is going to be a really, this could turn into something really special. It's for kickoff. He holds it up for kickoff. It means nothing. Stop, Goge. No, God. I love it. That's awesome. We'll definitely do it. I can promise you that. Very cool. I hear that you're like a foodie. Are you a cook? I like to cook. I'm not great at a lot of meals, but I like to cook. We did steaks last night at the house. Do you do the whole take pride in how you marinate a steak? Or do you just grill it up? No. Yeah, more grill it up. Put the right seasoning on it. It doesn't take a lot working in a steakhouse, salt and pepper. And, you know, you're pretty good.

See, some other stuff on there. Yeah, we did garlic butter last night. Some garlic butter. Yeah, it's more about making sure it's cooked right. What's your go-to, though, when people come to the house, you're like, oh, let me, this is my best meal that I can cook someone. Yeah, I can do steak. I mean, that's kind of my steak potatoes. I like doing the, you know, wrapping the potatoes in aluminum foil, throwing some onions and stuff inside, cooking it for a long time.

You're doing it in the grill of the oven? Yeah, both. I'll do both. Usually I'll do the potatoes in the oven, but I've done both. I also like jalapeno wrapped, you know, like stuffed jalapinos with bacon wrapped around it. That's hard to be. And listen now, he says jalapinos, man. You hear that?

I know. I always feel like I'm... You say jalapeno? How do you say? Well, I'm from Arkansas, but I'm... I also feel like I'm extremely too Caucasian to accent that if I don't accent the rest. Because I have friends that are like, hello, my name is Jimmy. Would you like a tortilla?

I'm like, that doesn't work. A tortilla. Like I get Or when they're talking about the countries for the soccer, and they're like, hey, would you like to watch soccer? It's going to be America versus the Geregrue. And I'm like, that doesn't feel legitimate. I like it, but to me, I can't do that. Maybe it's because.

my wife's Cambodian. Oh, for sure. You have full, you know. Absolutely. Okay, five questions left, Coach. Let's go to this. Give me your musical Mount Rushmore, the four artists that you love all time that you put up there.

This is tough. I like Mumford and Sons a lot. Probably throw the cranberries on there. I know that's kind of one. Out of nowhere. Yeah. I like the crambers. Now, I don't know if they have enough bangers,

but they got like three all-time bangers. Yeah. Classic. Zombie Zombie That's a jam That's great Fleetwood Mac

would probably be in there And they're kind of that same category They don't have a million But they got some really good ones You didn't want to do a Fleetwood Mac song I can't sure You can go your own way

And then I don't know I'd probably go something new You know I went to a Zach Bryan concert recently and he was unbelievable So I'd probably throw him on there Is it weird having bosses Older than you? No I think that's normal right

Yeah yeah bosses are usually older than you. Okay, how about this? But you're bossing people. Okay, how about this? You're bossing people around that are older than you. Yeah, not really. I think if you came and watched our program, you'd see we work really well together.

It's not about just bossing. Sometimes you've got to make the tough decisions. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't feel like we're bossing a bunch of people around here. That's why I'd say too, but that'd be awesome. I guess I kind of was that, though, for a lot. I was like 23 and running something, but not like this.

And you're kind of my boss too, and I'm older than you. Yeah. Coach, we're like, we're dying breed. Like youngsters that run everything? Yeah. More aging quick. Yeah, these kids don't even know. I don't know anything.

Three coaches left. I have four boys. One of them says he's going to be a receiver's coach for the Dallas Cowboys, and that is his peak. Like, that's what he wants to do. What would you tell, like, a kid, like, if you want to be a coach, this is where you start. Yeah, start coaching. As fast as you can start coaching.

It's more about getting your feet wet. You don't want to be bad at your first job, right? So you've got to go somewhere where you can get the opportunity to do it. And it doesn't really matter where you're at. It's about getting out there and learning. My first coaching job was Park Hill South High School. I was an elementary PE teacher, and then I coached high school football. And I started coaching receiver.

I played defense my whole career. I was coaching wideouts first. So I think it's first about just getting there and getting your feet wet. And then don't worry about the next step until you've done a great job at the step you're at. You bring up something interesting. You had never played wide receiver, but you coached it. I have friends that are teachers. And they're like, I don't know anything about World War II.

They're like, I don't know anything about World War II. They're like, before they have to give their lessons. Listen, when you switch to coach wide receivers, are you just learning as much as you can before you go and take that job? Yeah, you spend all your time studying. We did a lot of blocking drills at Park Hill South. I always told our wideouts, the catching the ball was a privilege. We'll do that before and after practice. But during practice, we're going to be really good at blocking.

So I'm sure they didn't love that. That's good. Let's do Mount Rushmore favorite athletes growing up. When you were a kid, who were your favorite for? Yeah, Derek Thomas for sure would have been. Kansas Chiefs? KS8 Chiefs. Michael Jordan, for sure, probably Nolan Ryan.

Yeah, I grew up in a really cool era with the Chiefs, so Neil Smith would probably be on that list as well. So I was a big Chiefs fan. Actually, I'd say Bo Jackson. Got to go Bo. He played for the Royals. We just cut a new head into Mount Rushmont's five. Yeah, that's okay.

That's all right. If you have to remove Neil and throw Bow in there. I like them both, but both. Sorry, Neil. You've been eliminated. Yes. But the baseball bat swing after a sack was the coolest thing ever. Did you have one of those as a linebacker?

No, no, I just ran back to the huddle. Man, what would you do now? I had a sack, but yeah. What would you do now if you could have like a bit? Yeah, run back to the huddle. Yeah, yeah. Same thing. Is that what you tell you guys too?

Just run back to the huddle. No, I mean, you have to be you. I always tell them this. You don't want to get a penalty for celebrating on our team. That's going to equal a lot of running the next day. So we don't do that. We don't punish ourselves. My final question has to do with the rule change that I think that college football should make,

and I would like to hear your opinion on it. So he scored touchdown. It's time to kick the extra point. I believe the person that scored the touchdown should have the opportunity to kick the extra point. And if made, it's worth two points. Yeah, it's an interesting thought. I'd have to put some thought into it. Yeah, exactly.

Stumped them. It's going to make you think more about who you want to score your touchdown. Right. Right? Like, you know, you get down to the two-yard line. But you don't have to. Your kicker can kick for one. But for an extra point, for one more point.

I think you're going to be trying to force the ball to a guy that's got a decent foot. And what about any kickover 50 being worth four points? Yeah, I'm down for that. Yeah, yeah. These are all good rules. Yeah. We see you can get to the front. And the real one would be sensors and balls so you would know if the ball actually cross the plane.

Because if the cameras can't see, but if the knee is down. Please. But the sensors. That's probably coming, right? I think you're ahead of your time there. But I think that's something that'll exist here sooner than later. Coach, we really appreciate the time. What you've done here is amazing.

Final bonus question. When you're the defensive coordinator, you added an extra Mount Rushmore? Yeah, that's when I felt like we were open to another question. You cheated, we cheat. Whenever you're D.C. at Georgia and you guys are killing it, obviously, how quick does it all happen that you're the head coach here? Is it a call? Well, we're off.

Yeah, it's fast. It's fast. We were in the process of recruiting at the time, so I was actually in Miami when the process kind of, kind of got started. And then on the flight back, you know, from Miami, it kind of even went faster, a long night. Could you believe it? No, I still pinch myself. That I get to do what I get to do. I was really content, really happy where I was at and enjoying it, but I never thought this would be as fulfilling as it's been. We really appreciate the time. I'll be watching it from my head.

Dude in like one of the games, it don't matter, too. Like, it doesn't matter, you know, as long as this national TV and national championship game, who cares? Why would you offer that? What? You want the big game, you said, yeah, it doesn't matter as long as this national. National TV. TV and national championship. All right. Or maybe college football playoff or Ohio State. It doesn't matter as long as one of those games. Maybe we can do like regular season, $10,000 and then if we do one in the playoff,

that would be a nice. Kids, this is called a negotiation. Now that I would do, and especially if everybody, you had T-shirt night where everybody had my head on it. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Yeah, that would cost a little dope. Yeah, probably cost a little bit.

Yeah, I agree with that. Coach, amazing what you've done here. Thank you for the time. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. Awesome. Appreciate it.

All right. Thanks to Coach Lannning. We'll have the video. It'll be up soon. It'll be up today. It'll be up now. Because we're putting this up Friday. Oh.

Oh, it'll be up now, yeah. Yeah, it'll be up now. As you're listening. Yeah. So, is there reason we shouldn't put this up today? Friday wink? Nope. Friday wink?

Okay, good. Hey, well, you guys tag Sam Houston State on that? No. Tag him. Let him know. Shout out. That's pretty cool, man. We talked about Sam Houston State.

Little old Bearcats. I don't think you knew except Kevin told you. What are you talking about? He put it in the prep. He was like an assistant receiver. No, I know, but I think, didn't he remind you, like, hey, don't forget Sam Houston State. Oh, yeah. And you're like, well, I didn't read the note.

He did tell me that, yeah. Still cool. So, yeah. Okay, cool. Let's take a break. We will come back. I'm John Green. You may know me as the author of The Fault and Our Stars.

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Sidebar. Why did you get hard sales to? instead of beer. They had a bogo. Well, then you got it. Do you want a white collar or something here? Just take it. Oh, what are y'all doing?

Microphones? Are you making a rap album? Oh, I would. Come on. Could you believe? I would buy it. Cuts through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake. That sounds delicious.

Oh, you're lucky. I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic. You are. I'm not a killer. I love this team, and I'm really trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh. Oh.

Listen to soccer moms on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, a couple things I wanted to mention. First of all, an update on our poker player. He didn't win any money. He did not. He lasted. I think there were 10,000 people. He lasted into the 3,000 left.

Yeah. Like, you'd be like 70% of the field. It's really good. Did not win us any money, though? We were on a group. Did you see me leave the group thread? No, no, no, no, no. As soon as he lost, I left it.

There's too much chitty chat in there, and I kept getting little bubbles. I don't like bubbles on my stuff. I felt bad, too, because it says, like, red or seen or whatever by whoever, and when he was in play, it was like, everyone. That response, look, look, look. As soon as he said, I'm out, I just ignored everything. Yeah, I thought it would be like a text where it's like, Bobby's left the message. I just, as soon as I was like, boop. No, I never said that.

Audi 5,000. But he made it to the top 3,000-ish, good run, did not make it. If he came back again and said he was going to do it next year, would you reinvest? Yeah, because he seems like a smart player from all the updates he had. He had a good role, but once those blinds get big, like... Well, you have to have money. You've got to build up. Kevin, you're shaking your head, no.

Yeah, I don't believe him. I think next year you would... Oh, you don't believe what you mean. Yeah. It was fun, though, to follow him, right, Bones? Like, just to kind of see where he was. I didn't realize they were 10,000 players. Like, I know he told us that.

But then you told us that, so that's when you should have realized. Yeah, but I didn't even think. That's when I got out. How crazy that is. I would hop in again with him. Yeah. He made it beat 70% of the field. I think he needed to cut that in half again to 1,500 to make money.

I think he's a pretty good player. So I would reinvest with him if he was doing it. Imagine if you had good cards. No, it's not really, it's about the cards, but it's not really about the cards. It's about the decisions you make with the cards that you have. Right. And I feel like he did that this time around, like made really good decisions with mediocre cards. No, I didn't say he had mediocre cards.

Because sometimes you'll get, you'll hit pocket kings and you'll understand. you probably have to fold. Pocket Kings, that's two kings? Yeah, nobody else can see. If there are like three diamonds on the board, you know, there's just a lot. So I didn't see the cards, so I can't call that situation.

I'm going to assume everybody gets equally good and bad cards and it's decisions made with the cards you have versus what the people are doing. Yeah. He did not win. I would reinvest with him next year. He's not asking right now, but... Do you think he'll do it again?

Yeah, I think it paid for half his entry fee. Heck yeah. I should go play it. And this is what he does. It's not like a hobby, you know? Right. Do they have craps tournaments? No, it is kind of a side thing.

I think it is a hobby. I don't think it's a professional poker player. He has a job. He taught people how to play poker. Is that what it was? Yeah, but he has a job. He's like a media or like marketing. Marketing.

Yeah. Right, Katie? You that right? Yeah, it's marketing. Okay, John Leppley update. John Leppley is the minor league baseball player that I texted. Yes. I remember I was like,

the only person who ever give me an autograph as a kid. Oh, yes. I've heard nothing. He played for the Arkansas Travelers? I think he just changed. his number because it came back green. So I think we find his his page again. What was it? LinkedIn. A LinkedIn with the email. I think it is email the LinkedIn email now instead of text it. So the update there is I've got nothing back but I'm going to email that now. If something

can find that page again, that'd be cool. His LinkedIn? Yeah and I'll just email that on there. I've got three updates. Another update, D' Andre Hopkins. Yeah, DM. Oh. So Katie's advice was to follow him. Yeah. But just be cool about it. And then maybe he'd see it and follow back, right? Oh, no. He doesn't follow me back. Oh. I'm about to unfollow him.

So he's the receiver for the Titans that I met when I was on a work trip in France, of all places. And I DM'd him. He'd DM me back. And then I was like, oh, what do I do? So I followed him. He did not follow me back. We are not going steady. Darn.

Best case scenario is that he saw it right away and didn't want to be too eager and waited. See, but you're planning these. these ultra positive seeds in my head that are not going to ever grow anything. I'm just trying to help. Yeah. Okay. You find it over there, Kevin?

How did he sell his last name? I think it's L-E-P-L-E-Y. He is a... Is it a whining spirits guy now? Do you remember that? Yeah, that is him. That's what we said? Wine and spirits?

Mm-hmm. Yep, I found him. That's what he's doing now. Hook it up. Savannah, Georgia. I'm up for auction now. They just put it up. It is the...

I don't even want to say what it is because I don't want somebody to beat me on it. Something you're trying to get. Yeah. Okay, if everybody listening promises, they won't go get it. No, you can't promise that. But I want to know what it is, so tell us. Come look at it. I'm on my way. I think it would be cool to have, although I don't know what I would do with it.

But that's everything you have. What do you do with it? Okay, but should I share what it is, or will the listener take it? And should I just, should I get it and then say what it is after? Yes. Get it first. Don't let anyone, the risk of people taking this is not, it's, You don't want that. And you need this. Do you know what it is, Katie?

Have people guess. Do you know what it is? Oh, wait, I could probably look and see what it is. It's not on eBay, loser. Oh, never mind. I think it's safe to say no one will ever guess. Reed's like, I can do it. Because Reed and I, Reed helps.

We do the eBay account together. I always see the stuff that he's looking at. Oh. I always see stuff Reed's looking at, too. Bose, I'm telling you right now, dude. I was like anime girls and bikinis. Oh, come on. No, it's not.

It's not. Read. Go ahead. That's crazy, Liz. No, I'm very passionate about this. I think this is something that you definitely need. It'd be cool to have. I just don't want to say it because I don't want somebody beating me for it.

Right, right, right, right. And I don't think the bidding is going to go way up unless I don't think so either. Highlight the fact that it's not. Okay. Boom. That's cool, though. Okay. And then the only other thing that I was going to mention before we take a break and was that,

Caitlin Clark shut the record for assists in a game period of any player ever. Was that last night? Yeah. I watched it. They lost, but she had 19 assists. Wednesday, yeah. Wednesday night. But so when we record this part, yes.

She had 19 assists. It's not like a rookie. record that she's breaking. Caitlin Clark sets the WMBA record with the 19 assists and lost two wings. Caitlin Clark broke the record. They lost. And what's good about breaking this record

and in a loss, if you break a points record in a loss, it's like, well, stop being a ball hog, maybe you could have won. You break an assist record. It's like you're trying everything to get everybody involved. They lost.

It's the last game league-wide prior to the month-long Olympic break. Speaking with slight bias, I think she is now a top 15 player in the WMBA period. Not just rookies. She's had rest. They haven't played back to backs.

They went straight from the end of college to draft, game start, no break. She's now thumping people. A rookie year. She no doubt she won't rookie of the year. Angel was in the second. She should not even be close. But she's killing folks now. And imagine a month break.

I did sell the autograph. I bought the autograph for $450, put it on eBay. I knew it would go off for more than that. Read what I go for. That's what I'm looking up right now It's sold for I think it was like 598 close to it Pretty good

598 yep That's a good little profit Nice Just so I knew that card shop had messed up By leaving it priced at 450 So Bought it for 450 You're like a flipper

You're a card flipper I don't feel like I can do that enough I just felt like that was something I saw the value Yeah But then I got nervous because like the day of There was like one bid But they all just waited to pounds

Clark got 24 points Clark got 24 points, 10 for 19 shooting. She had 19. That's crazy. And stylish passes, too. I didn't see a ball. I mean, we watched. Who says stylish passes?

Yeah, what does that mean? I don't know, Papua. You want to go to the mall shop? Is there a word for it? Like, what's the word for it? Where you throw cool passes under your legs behind the back. Just be like, dude. Like, I don't know.

Style, man. It was style. Yeah. But you know what, though? I hadn't watched her play yet. And me and the boys, we sat down and watched the whole game. No. No, we saw the Iowa game.

Was she chunking threes? Yeah. Was she any of them? But she would get covered quickly, and then she would pass it off, and then they would hit threes. Stylish? Stylish threes? No, regular threes. Stylish passes.

Dude, and she's fast. Yeah, she's fast. I didn't realize how fast she was. She's bulldog, man. She'll fight you, too. Yeah. I'm big fan. I don't know if I mentioned that over the past.

Nah, you never did. Never in the history of this show. But I'm a big fan. Okay. We're going to take one more break. We'll be back. I'm John Green. You may know me as the author of the fall.

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Do you want a white collar or something here? Just take it. Oh, what are y'all doing? Microphones? Are you making a rap album? Oh, I would. Come on. Could you move?

I would buy it. Cuts through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake. That sounds delicious. Oh, you're lucky. I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic. You are. You are.

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I'd like to have here. Brandon Ayuk requested a trade from the 49ers. The highest paid player, as far as wide receivers, goes, Justin Jefferson, $35 million a year. AJ Brown's at number two. What's crazy is NBA salaries next to NFL salaries? Like, you can be a middle-a-road NBA player. Like a seventh man and make what Justin Jefferson makes a year.

Now, granted, it's only five spots or even starting. It's five spots versus 22. So that does make sense. But Justin Jefferson, A.J. Brown, Monrault, St. Brown, Tyree Kill, Jalen Water, those are the top five. I could probably list you somebody from the Timberwolves that comes off the bench, plays three minutes a game that makes equally what these guys make.

But where does Brandon Ayuk fall into these receivers? Is he a top 10 receiver? No. You don't think so at all? I would do 25. I didn't ask you how much you would spend because you don't have it. No, top 25. Oh, okay.

Then you feel like 25 million? No, I don't have that money. What are you talking about? Yeah, we're talking about money. No, no, no, the ranking. Top 20, way better than top 25. You think so? I mean, I would say...

Not Debo Samuel. Brandon Ayuk. I know. I'm familiar with the two names and the different letters and they mean different people. Making sure. I would say right around in the top 9, 10, 11 range. I would say, too, when given the opportunity, and he was given opportunities, he played extremely effective.

and at times, sensational. But again, that ball, they only have one ball. And they've got McCaffrey, Debo, Kiddle, we could go through all the way.

He was like the fourth weapon there. I think he's probably in that eight, nine. I think he's a top ten receiver. You? Yeah, right on the edge, right there. Justin Jefferson's better. Jamar Chase. Jamar Chase is better.

AJ Brown's better. The fact that Amon Ross St. Brown played with a broken, the rib separated or the lung. Crazy. Crazy. Have you guys watched receivers on Netflix? Not yet. Yeah, either.

Haven't. I mean, I didn't finish quarterback, so I'm thinking, like, why am I going to like receivers? I'm going to try it. Tyree Kill is probably three in my list, though, if we listed them in order. So those guys, Devante Adams, just has nobody to throw him the ball, but it's still a monster. Cooper Co. Yeah, it just hurt. It feels like he's always hurt, doesn't it?

Just last year. The last couple of years. Ever since they won Super Bowl. Okay, what about like a Devontas Smith? It just hasn't proven himself, I don't think, really. Middle the road. A lot of hype coming out of college, but middle the road. Yeah, a lot of hype, you know why?

Heisman. Yeah, it's true. What about like a Nico Collins? See, that's where I think... Where he is in that second... Yeah, right there. Right there. In the Smith and Collins area.

Speaking of football, NFL, the Bears, everybody's wondering because those rookies hadn't signed deals yet. They reach their deals with Caleb Williams and Rhombadoon Zay, which is good. now camp starts. That'd be awesome to be a good start quarterback NFL. Oh, it'd be amazing, man. Yes. Like, what I wonder is,

this is what my head really goes with being a quarterback in the NFL. Are they like, oh man, this is going to hurt. Every day they're going, or are they like, this is going to be so much fun? Or are they like, I'm really prepared and, yeah, like when I play the softball game.

I knew I could probably tear, I could probably pull on hamstring or something if I'd stretch right, or I have tendonitis in my feet, which I could see rounding third at one point I pulled up a little bit I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I'm like, I'm probably gonna hurt myself a little bit but I can get through, like, do they think that every game or is it just like fine? So you're talking about like a rookie or like just a starting quarterback? Like do they go every game going,

oh man, this is going to hurt, let's just see if we can, or is it like they're just looking forward to it and they don't feel anything. I feel like every game's like, oh, this is a chance for me to be like a highlight, an awesome star.

Like this is my, another, another chance for me to prove how awesome I am. I feel like a lot of them are like, I've been the best athlete my entire life, and then you get to the pros, it's like, oh, this is going to be reality. I feel like everyone's like,

oh, this is going to hurt. Going into every game, like, how do I not feel pain? See, I wonder what the rookies think because they never get hit in camp. And then their first game in the NFL, like what's Caleb Williams thinking? Like, oh, boy, like, when I get hit.

That's a great point, because even in practice in the NFL, they're not letting their AA guys get hit hard. Their first real, real, real hit is going to be in, not even in camp, it'll be in, I was going to say spring training. O-T-A.

Yeah, yeah, because they play the whole team. Yeah, they're nothing. Even if they're doing the two teams with each other, those defensive guys still are not going to crush the franchise quarterbacks. Jordan Addison arrested on suspicion of DUI. Dumb. And then I play college football. I played the first time this morning.

How was it? Okay, so I've only played once. And I'm Arkansas. And we're like 82. We're okay. We're good enough to build off of. I've played Madden so long. The gameplay is similar.

It's not the same. So it's definitely not a repurposed Madden, which is what it used to be back in the day. So it is a bit different. I would say the gameplay itself, if Madden is the baseline, we'll say Madden is an A. I would say this is an A minus gameplay.

However, everything around it is a freaking A plus plus plus from the recruiting to the portal, to the crowd, the different, the announcement. the game is so good only one day of play watching a lot of TikTok videos

it's so good the game play itself is good but everything around it makes it so much fun who's the announcer Herb Street like I got a pipeline my pipeline is Central Texas up through Arkansas and so that's where I get a lot of my recruits from it's that detail it's that detailed

I can't wait to hear you ask these college coaches as we continue too much access hey what you got some recruiting tips for me Exactly, because that'll be the next. You mean like, talk shop? You know, I'll tell you some stuff that's working for me. I used to do for 50 points, I send the house.

I offered eight scholarships blindly without even recruiting him. I know what I was doing. I know what I was doing. And so I was just like, that kid looks good. Offered eight scholarships. And I hit one of them accepted immediately

because I offered him so early. And it was a three-star kid with an X over the diamond, meaning it wasn't as good as the one. What do you? I know. But I'm loyal. All right.

I'm riding. All right. riding with him. All right, we're out. Thank you, everybody. We're going to be back early next week. We have an interview with Steve Young coming up. An awesome interview.

It was. Brigham. Awesome. So cool. He's the greatest. I think he's the new leader in the clubhouse. Greatest guy ever. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ever, yeah.

I mean, I came home and told my wife every single story he told us. And I'm sure she didn't care one bit, but it was awesome. Steve Young will be next week. We have, even like the Dylan Gabriel interview at Oregon. Yeah. We have so much. We just don't want to give it too. you now because we need content sometimes.

Hope you guys have a great weekend and anything I'm missing. We all feel pretty good. Yeah. All right. We will see you guys next week. We'll do West lighting. All right. Bye, everybody.

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