The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: As There's A Drive Into Deep Left Field By Castellanos

Episode Date: August 19, 2024

Greg Cote spoke with University of Miami Head Football Coach Mario Cristobal for 20 private minutes and has some strong thoughts on how this season can and should go for the Canes. Is this the year Mario Cristobal finally takes UM over the top? Then, Happy 4-year Anniversary to the Thom Brennaman-Nick Castellanos call, Stugotz stakes his claim as "The King of Clark," the Greg Cote Show Father-Son Olympics, and Shelly's new boyfriend. Plus, there are some rumors swirling about John Ruiz and his involvement in UM's NIL Collective, so as Mike clears that up, Dan, Stu, and Greg discuss NIL's impact on college athletics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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New Jersey. Please drink responsibly. Welcome to the big suey presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this show. A podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there.

That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face and the habitual liar. Great. You know one thing that we didn't discuss about drones, aside from the taxis and how we were saying back there that we're worried about, if drones do replace Ubers, who's gonna enforce it?

Because as it is, people are crashing into each other on the earth, and there's lines painted on the ground that you have to follow. What is gonna happen if you're in this lawless society where people are just flying around at any height crashing into each other and coming crashing down to earth? What are we gonna do one thing that we didn't discuss though Greg is you know because of drones I don't really think

that there's aliens I just assume that every UFO is a drone you know I mean mm-hmm that's not a bad theory and I can't disagree with that really I just I don't see you can I don't see the need for drones there's a snake in the middle of that I was deflating the tire I was deflating because he's engaged He's engaged Greg here, and it's not normally on Monday. It's Tuesday It's not normally when he comes back from vacation so you can hear that he's got a bit of sprawl to him in general Yeah, and by the way on this air. I'm the one who first plumbed Billy for information about his pole vaulting career and at the time you made fun of me huh you're like what are

you doing who cares about Billy's pole vaulting I thought it was a gold mine and and it continues to be because this is the only college athlete among us I think I didn't play sports in college not counting my career as a backup goalkeeper on a club team. Stu Gotts was a college athlete. I played lacrosse, I mean. That's true.

In fact, I got very accomplished lacrosse. Yeah, he was, he was good. You continue to be a top 10 scorer. Yes, at Clark University. No, I am, I have several records. Check this out eight years ago, you didn't magically get more goals. No, I saw it, I saw it in the record book.

Check it out right now, I guarantee you. You were so prolific that they switched you to goalie. We I saw it in the record book. Check it out right now. I guarantee you. You were so prolific that they switched you to goalie. We already did this. We done this show like 10 years ago. Your team was 1 in 15. He did that selflessly. I know, but that was five years ago.

And five years later, I'm still in the top 10 in many categories. More records will get broken. And someone had to play goalie. I do what I have to do for the team. I mean, that's sad. Our goalie was hurt. I will give you credit there.

Thank you. I'll say I was also the first one to plum Greg on his opinions on drones. Thank you. Getting back to that, thank you Billy. You guys now have, just to be clear, like the Jetsons and like the movie The Fifth Element, you guys have drone cars flying all over space age, no longer on highway soon, which is something that they've thought about in the cartoon since the 1970s that has not yet arrived here yes i remember watching george jetson i was

enchanted by the idea that somebody could fly in their own private little yeah individual plane and now that's coming to fruition but it's not though it very soon that's gonna happen right around the corner i'm not lying what do you mean it's here you know maxwell smart used a shoe phone yeah which foretold the iPhone, the personal phone. Correct. I know it's passe to admit how much you like oral sex, but to all the ladies in the 1800s, I would.

All right, enough of that because I don't know why it is that you continue to do this. Greg Cody. Donnie O. Had an exclusive interview with Mario Cristobal and for those of you interested in college football it really is hugely fascinating to see how the business of it has gotten so brazen and crass that Cristobal can say yep this is the team now stronger and bigger and better than any I've had because I'm a great recruiter and that it can be as brazen as I've pretty much got three years to do this now ten-year

contract or not this is this is the team that he is telling us is what he built at Oregon that he's telling us that I've now had three years and that the overhaul was complete and and he's using other and complete rebuild uh... we've just endured what mario cristobal would have us believe are the worst two years of the cristobal tenure because he had to fix everything yes that's that's exactly what he wants to get across you know you can argue whether he's just covering his own ass but uh... i sort of believe and he is a great recruiter and he's been great with the portal you can argue he isn't a great sideline

coach a great game day coach I would argue that okay and and you could with justification but he has had three straight top ten recruiting classes including the 25 class which is also top ten at the moment. And he just got Cam Ward from the portal, who a lot of people consider to be the prize of transfers. So I think he's done that right. I think he has a foundation now. I think he has layers of talent in a way that he didn't before. I think the construction of the roster looks great in terms of, you know, traditional recruits, portal seniors, youthful players. I think he set himself up.

He did win a Rose Bowl at Oregon, and now the pressure's on him because with the increased 12-team playoff, I think it's legitimate to think that he might be in the mix for the playoffs. Well, what a monster first game, and I know Mike's been saying that for the business of it, it's the biggest one in program history,

but Stugat, if you've been following college football, Florida and Miami are in the same position. This is an enormous game for where the program's been and what it's failed to be the last 15 years, because Florida's got similar expectations when you go back to spurrier times. And Billy Napier is under the same kind of microscope that Mario Cristobal is down here with Miami.

But the recruiting classes aren't as good there. No, Miami's has been better. I'm happy that Mario is saying this is the year where I need to start winning. And Greg is also saying that as well because it is, Dan. We're three years into this thing, he's recruited well, and he needs to start winning. But Billy Napier needs to start winning too, and that's why it's such an intriguing three game. That's why it's a monster because FSU passed them.

FSU passed them both last year, turned it around quickly when we all thought Norville was going to be out of there. Like it looked like he was done there. It looked like he was on the thinnest of ice and he survived it. But the new model now, Mike, and the business of this is I know Miami has to play this out with Cristobal because they can't afford seven year buyouts. That's not the program they are. That's not the NIL deal that they have.

But three years in it's surprising to see everything get fast forwarded that fast in college football. That's not even a cycle of four years of recruits. Yeah but I also don't think that that's not a new school development. As long as I can remember, you got a new coach in, you can't really make a call on him until year three. Now, the new thing in college football

is if you have a bad year one, you're going to have plenty of message boards and plenty of people on important platforms maybe calling for your firing. Because especially in the modern day, you can change things so quickly with the Transfer Portal. You mentioned Mike Norvell. There's a great case there on how the Transfer Portal

can change your fortunes quickly. But this would be the first time in program history that they would have back-to-back-to-back-to-back top 10 recruiting classes. It's the type of team that he wanted to build along the trenches, and that's how he got his results in Oregon. I think he showed you, proof of concept,

much like the transfer portal, you don't have questions that much about Kim Ward because you saw him do it. It gets held against him and I understand it because yeah, he showed you last year. Game day coaches in a close game, he might lose you one. And that is a sin that is almost insurmountable

what happened in that Georgia game. You cannot look past it. Georgia Tech. Yeah, I'm sorry, Georgia Tech. But there are a lot of good coaches that have won national championships that those questions have been asked of. Ed Orgeron won a title, Les Miles won a title,

recruiting-based coaches sometimes take a while, and the hope is that Mario Cristobal is indeed that guy. But I think if you do have one major concern about this season, it's not a a personnel grouping it's the coaching staff. I mean for what it's worth Chris Aball thinks he finally has the coaching staff that he loves, that he trusts. What's he gonna say though? Well that's fair. He hired him. Well I think I'm gonna say anything if he doesn't believe. But it's not just words in that he hasn't been here for very long but usually there's turnover if he's unhappy with the coach

there's cohesion now across the coordinators second-rate year in both their coordinators programs he is happy with the coordinators i want to celebrate just great cody cornering christoball in getting four private minutes that we had we had twenty a little over twenty did you did you do the coaching his office column overlooking the the field or how did you do? Which column did you do there? Minutes in a corner in a meeting room. Where did you put it all together?

Actually with my podcast in mind, we we actually did it by zoom because I wanted the audio I wanted the visual And I'm not smart enough to do all that by myself and you know selfies and what am I doing so we did a it was it was fine with Mario I told him I'll come down there and sit in your office if you'd prefer it and he said no zooms this is a new and improved down levatar show with the stugas gambled on by draft kings summer's the best time to run the way you want dial it up with new challenges and programs and bring your workouts with you to make the way you want. Dial it up with new challenges and programs and bring your workouts with you to make the most of outside sunny days.

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Call yourself a runner with Peloton at OnePeloton.com slash running. Don Lebatard. A quiet man. Yes. You know, I'm a married man. I don't cheat on my wife despite that gratuitous line in back in your house two gods I wish you were here my wife I really miss her no I don't that's the thing about being married you know you're not allowed to say I don't miss my wife I've been gone two days I've

been gone long enough to miss my wife I'm sorry I call her 30 seconds you know on the phone with her for 30 seconds. You know, what am I? Hello. All right. All right. We'll see you. All right. And then, you know, I'm going to see her in two days. I was jumping Charlie. Good. This is the Don LeBathardt show with the Stugarts. A very happy four year anniversary to this. Castellanos to lead things off. Jim Day is going to be taking us the rest of the way through this game. As Holland takes over on anniversary to this. If I have hurt anyone out there, I can't tell you how much I say from the bottom of my heart, I'm so very, very sorry. I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith, as there's a drive in a deep left

field by Castellanos that will be a home run. And so that'll make it a four nothing ballgame. I don't know if I'm gonna be putting on this headset again. I don't know if it's gonna be for the Reds. I don't know if it's gonna be for my bosses at Fox. I'm gonna apologize for the people who signed my paycheck for the Reds, for Fox Sports Ohio, for the people I work with, for anybody that I've offended here tonight. I can't begin to tell you how

deeply sorry I am. That is not who I am and never has been and I'd like to think maybe I could have some people that they could back that up. I am very very sorry and I beg for your forgiveness. Jim Dale, take you the rest of the way home. I know that we're not allowed to have a sense of humor about these kinds of things. That is better as a dismount than Michael Jordan hitting the shot over Byron Russell as the end of a career. Now, I know Brennanman's coming back just like Michael did. CW. But that would have

been a great dismount if we could just laugh for eternity on the dumb things that human beings do because they're human. That, I will now, Nick Castellanos is a very good baseball player. He's got at least a couple, you know, he's got a couple of big seasons. He's got at least one 30 home run season. This is what i will remember him for and i think that goes for everybody listening to this as well nick castellanos is i was in his thirties was that a ten-year career that bounced around a little bit detroit and sincinnati

and and now he's in philadelphia's got a big contract but i won't associate him with anything else like this is the fit the fact that he interrupts moments with home runs historic moments, he bounces outside of baseball because of the comedy of that specific time during the pandemic when we were all looking to laugh. Everybody needed a little bit of a laugh.

That is a totally empty pandemic ballpark. He is making that apology at the end of his career in a hollow, in a dugout, echoey barn of a stadium that there are only concession workers in and they're not needed because nobody's there to buy food in a dugout, echoey barn of a stadium that there are only concession workers in, and they're not needed because nobody's there to buy food except the players and a couple of people. There's nobody in that ballpark.

It would be weird to have concession workers if no one's at the ballpark. It would be weird. So it wasn't even that? Ice cold beer, here, here, here! Cracker Jack! So who was in the stadium? There was nobody in the ballpark except people to get food for the broadcasters?

Maybe like some security posted outside, but the concession workers are there to serve the people and if there's no people... Fair enough. What's the point? Cracker Jack! Not caught! I found out this weekend you mentioned Nick Castellanos, so he's been in the major leagues for 12 years now.

I was watching a game and I just looked it up, under 10% and I heard it was close to 6% of baseball players play 10 years in major leagues. Only 6%, that's crazy. Because Emilio Bonifacio's been in major league baseball for like 14 and I wouldn't say he's in the top 6% of baseball players ever. It may seem like he's still in major league baseball.

He might be. He was for that one day though. I mean, had a day. He is not in the big leagues still. One of the great marvels of my life is that Emilio Bonifacio was able to play more than a decade in the league. You think it's surprising that only 6% of players

would have a 10-year run through baseball because I would imagine it's pretty damn hard to be able to keep 21-year-olds off of you once you get into your 30s. That's surprising to me I mean it's you know it's not a violent sport I would imagine more guys lasted longer in baseball I just I figured they would. You always have that guy that's just on a team always and it's just because like baseball's lazy and it's like oh we need a someone on the bench who do we get oh you know Billy Butler's out there let's sign him oh, we need someone on the bench. Who do we get? Oh, Billy Butler's out there, let's sign him.

You know what I mean? Just yesterday, it came out, Johnny Quedo was called up again for the Angels. Johnny Quedo was called up in the year of our Lord 2024 to play for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The last time we saw Johnny Quedo, he was a disaster for the Marlins. And sure enough, someone signed him to a minor league deal and then you need a spot start or whatever

who do we call up? Ah, Johnny Quedo's there let's bring him up. The other thing about this is front office is like the screw around with service time so that's one of the reasons why you don't see a lot of longevity in that. Well I would I would also just think that the averages are brought down because the last 12 guys on your roster none of them played 10 years. Like the cup of coffee guys. I mean, just you've got a bunch of averages that are skewed by the majority of your rosters not playing 10 years.

We have to close a loop on the Sugat's athletic achievement front. What happened? Because we went, we dug deep and at first we were a little, we were a little like curious as to why there hadn't really seemed to be an update since the 2020s, but that just means Clark has fallen on some hard times, apparently. But Stugats, kudos to you.

Thank you. For points in a season, your 1992 season is still ranking top 10. Tied for fourth. Thank you. 58 points. Yeah. He had a 92. Is Stugatsch was right?

Holy **** Stugatros, right? Holy s**t, Estugatros, right? Hallelujah, hallelujah. Goals in a season, you are sitting at eighth presently. Thank you. Congrats. Yeah. Now, how is it that we have over time crippled him here, right? Because he said he played against Method Man,

and Method Man School wiped the floor with you guys. That was high school, he said he kicked my ass. I mean he did, but we won the game and we won by a lot. The problem with my college career is the individual stats are great, the team stats, horrific. We won like five games in four years there, I mean, but I got mine, that's all that matters. But like, wait, hold on.

Winning five games in a season wouldn't impact your career goals. Five games in four seasons. Yeah, but I'm saying, you're saying that the reason your stats aren't better is because your team was horrific. I mean, your individual stats could have still been living on. Well, if he's got bad teammates,

his points would be affected by that. Yes, correct. Are you in the Clark Hall of Fame or no? I should be, I'm not. You should be. Yes. Let's get that, let's make that happen. They haven't asked me yet. Damn right they will. that in a commencement speech. I mean you should do that I'm deserving of one. It's Clark University. Yeah

You're the king of Clark's Clarkson's Caitlin You can't be trusted to write a speech. What do you mean like adhere to necessary guidelines and Taylor would do it? Yeah, he would yeah, they don't want to hear from Taylor like you're just nodding your head What do you mean? And adhere to necessary guidelines. And Taylor would do it. Yeah. He would. Yeah. But they don't want to hear from Taylor. You're just nodding your head.

Yeah, I absolutely wouldn't write my own commencement speech. I'd put my own spin on it and make it funny. I mean, I would. Yeah, no, kind of like how Trump goes. I actually think it's a lot more than 100%. It's a number that is better and greater than 100%. I honestly don't want to give the commencement speech,

but I should be a Clark University Hall of Famer. It's not like we're churning out athletes in Worcester, Massachusetts. We're not. Can we commend Greg for saying the greatest Clark since Caitlin when I thought he was going Kent? I thought he was gonna go Lewis And. Well, I'm modernizing the reference.

I'm all about today. You're not all about today But you all you are all about yourself and earlier you were talking about your podcast and the double-dipping you did so that people Would hear your exclusive Mario Cristobal interview on the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Co He's also writing a book that is coming out shortly that you can pre-order that is so about not being for today that you can pre-order that is so about not being for today. Yeah, but the back of my day thing, see people mistake it that I'm anti-technology. I'm not anti-technology. What I am is pro nostalgia. Okay? I hate the idea- Greg, you asked for an iPhone with a button on it.

You hate drones. It's a good spin. Hear him out. Okay, okay. But I also hate the idea that my granddaughter, who's six and a half years old, will grow up never having loose change in her pocket, never knowing what a wall phone is, never hearing a typewriter clack. These are things that we need to keep in the mainstream, keep in the memory, and appreciate, and that's what Back in My Day is all about. Now, my Mario Criswold interview is not in the current episode of The Greg Cody Show that dropped today. We talked to Field Yates, the ESPN fantasy football expert

who gives you intel to help you win your fantasy league and also the Father Son Olympics Crescendo with two great events, the pool noodle javelin and the omelet cook-off. So it's an action packed episode. Did you check for snakes? I did not but I look I look through the hole I couldn't find the hole I mean I couldn't find the hole did not go through you look through it didn't go through it and it's because until I held up the tube so it was level your neighborhood sounds

insane like one week you guys are throwing dye with your toes, then you're doing something with pool noodles, some neighbors flying drones all over the place. Like what's going on? There are people cutting lawns in the background. That's normal. Warren Smith drives by in his 40 year old Chevy Suburban. He's had that thing for 20 years.

Oh at least. Classic Warren. Can I make a proposition for you, since you're worried about Graceland growing up without knowing all these things? You should turn your house into a functioning museum. You should just use older day technology. You should have the wall phone.

You should have a typewriter. Get rid of the computer. What do you need that for? That's a good idea. Because then she'll know. Well, we're in the process of trying to buy 1440 and turning it into a Greg Cody Hall of Fame. We are? Yeah. Nice. No, we are. We're looking into that. By the way, speaking of my neighbor, Shelley Quintner, who I once said was eaten alive by a shark in Australia. Oh yeah, what happened? Okay, Shelley comes up to me the other

day. She's alive. She's alive. She had heard that. She had heard me reference that. Oh, thank God. Like a daughter of hers or a son-in-law of hers or something had heard it mentioned. And I had to, I was sort of embarrassed. I had to explain to her that a woman in Australia who looked exactly like you was eaten alive by a shark, so thank God you're alive. You must have been so relieved to see Shelly. I was. It's amazing.

It's like a ghost. Yeah, it was fantastic. Yeah, it was great. Yeah, it was great. Thank God she's alive. I wanna see what 1440 is going for. If we put the address out there though, someone might buy it though and swoop in. Yeah, yeah, no, let's not do that.

Cyber squatting. What's the opposite of sorry for your loss? Cause that's what I want to wish you. That's true, yeah. I almost hugged her. I thought that would have been a little forward. Really? Yeah. Yeah, she just got a new boyfriend. She thought that would have been a little forward really yeah

She just got a new boyfriend Shelly did she's a great guy big fan of mine. She was married big fan of mine. No Oh, he passed away not because of a shark he was eaten by a shark no he was not Yeah, I mean it's no laughing matter what What's the boyfriend's name? Believe me, it was no laughing. Marvin. Oh, Marvin. No, Marvin is her ex, her late husband. Oh, yeah. He was eaten by a shark. Sorry for your loss. No, he was not. What happened to Marv? Natural causes. He passed away. Marvin, what a name. Rest in power. It's not any of our business, much like Abraham Lincoln's private relationships. Okay. What are you thinking the first thing to go into the Greg Cody Hall of Fame is going to

be? I mean, I was looking at my house the other day. I still have the goalie glove I used at FAU. Of course, the aforementioned dye from the 1967 Stratomatic game, which is now the color of unbrushed teeth. I've still got a soapbox derby car from when I was in Cub Scouts. Excellent.

And my dad is a Scoutmaster wearing short pants. Really? It was a sight to see. Not shorts. While Bill Cody dressed like a Cubmaster. The Cubmasters have this sort of modernized look. I'm sorry. I mean, come on. I respect the grown men who want to be cub masters, but they dress like Cubs scouts. You clearly have not read or watched any of the documentaries recently on the Cubs scouts.

No, I haven't. What happened? A bit of a PR crisis. Okay, well I was a cub back in the good days. Some not-tying incident. Let's just move on to other subjects. You're talking about the outfits though, right? Yeah. The thing that Greg Cody just did there that you guys all missed was,

he's a great guy, he's a big fan of mine. It's true. Those are the qualifications of being a great guy. If you want Greg Cody to say that you're a good person, just tell him what a big fan of his you are, and you'll be golden with him forever please tell us more about the greg cody show featuring greg cody's olympics father-son where and where we're about to end here this

this month long summer long uh... extravaganza right i i go into the last day you gotta listen to the episode to uh... uh... to find out but i go into the last two, you gotta listen to the episode to find out, but I go into the last two events trailing five to three and needing to sweep these events to form, to force a one event Olympic off. Must wins for you, huh? Yes. And so the pool, did I win the pool noodle?

Did I win the blind taste test with the omelet cook off with my wife as a judge? Listen to find out, but I'm telling you one thing, the Greg Cody Father-Son Olympics might not be over. What is that? What one thing are you saying? It might be over. It's just a bit of a tease there. Can you give us any information on the pool noodle javelin throw? Can any any tease there? Do we have a video of it or no well you would have asked for that before hand if you wanted it i don't know where you think we get video from that stuff has to be planned in

some way not everyone here lives here every beck and call it and like if he watches the tonight show the celebrity guests are always surprised yeah whether or not to do we have a clip i had an independent thought just now does everyone have video to support it immediately? I hired two producers and you know I guess none of them stepped up to the plate but the pool noodle was interesting because it was a windy day in the hood and pool noodles are very very light but yet we had a victory I will say this

wait a minute, a victory? someone won, Somebody won! Somebody won! So let's just say 7-6 now. I will say this much. It was controversy into who won the pool noodle javelin. So what happens if it ends up being a tie? Is there a tiebreaker?

This is a fatal flaw in these Olympics that it can be 5-5 after 10 events. It's just ridiculous. It could be. fatal flaw in these olympics that it's gonna be five five after ten events it's just ridiculous it could be in which case we gotta come up with a baffo tiebreaker what was that? and hypothetically if we had to what would be some good tiebreaker competitions we could do? a baffo one

we need to come up with something right so it is a tie yeah get on that ok guys as soon as you get the video get on whatever it is this podcast has to be about make sure to handle that I have no idea how this ended. It's got none of your names in it It is Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody To get his podcast ready for consumption publicly, but again the crystal ball double dip is not in this episode It's the next episode of the double dip so next next week you get an interview that's one week old.

That's right. Unless there's a tie breaker. Well done. It also is, that's like, the UM game is next week, so the interview will come out right as. It's still risky. Wait, did you say next week's a best stuff, so it's not Cristobal?

No, it is next week. Oh, okay. Yeah, ahead of the opener in Gainesville. Right. But just so we're clear, all the words that Cristobal spoke that were were interesting he already put in the miami herald i may have saved a safe zone right save the good stuff reading that herald's not gonna be happy and we'll tell you that they have saved up

they have saved the best that you guys don't know greg cody's priorities in terms of what he wanted him to succeed the most it's the podcast but he's reverse engineering this the thing he respects the most, it's the podcast, but he's reverse engineering this. The thing he respects the most is the paper, so all the good shit's going in there. Most of it. Yeah. Not all. Not all.

The debris, the remnants, after you flushed a toilet and there's still stuff left in it, that's going in the podcast. Yeah. Well, the problem is I couldn't record all of the podcasts. So only- This is a great story. Only about half of the Zoom, I recorded the whole thing for the herald column. I wasn't there for this and my dad's zoom is not the I had like 30 minutes

So you got all the audio the Crashing on you he's using he's using a temporary zoom He doesn't have a full range doesn't have limitless zoom he's got a half hour and then crystal the computerized voice is saying video is done now it's crazy shut off right so I called Mario he stuck with the audio we talked you know we did the last part of the interview by phone because they zoom crapped out on me but but so the zoom only is available in the podcast next week that kind of thing zoom didn't crap out you went cheap on zoom well I didn't realize that and zoom did what it was supposed to just ran out of time 30 minutes how

good was the after zoom situation was good because he had some stuff he wanted to get off his chest oh say easier on the phone podcast I had her on video one who wanted to call me and finish the interview well yeah they're going to thank you without mario by the way he knows i'm on the side well your homer your everyone knows that you're a spectacular homer anytime a team is above average in the market you think they're going to all

no i don't think that might be the way at all i do think they have a chance to play in the a cc title game because i think clinton that good and i think they have a chance to play in the ACC title game and because I don't think Clemson's that good and I think they have a chance to make the 12 team playoff I really do so then why are you stopping there like schedule is friendly by the way but why are you stopping there once you've put on a probably Ohio State probably let's do it Oregon I think they're that good I don't know how Mike feels about it the Golden Cane but when I look at their schedule I

see an upside of 11 and 1 I see a downside almost of 10 and 2. Unless they start losing games that they should win, two of their three most difficult games are at home. So Florida, let's just- They're favored. Florida. In the swamp. They are. WL Florida.

Yeah. Can we convince you that there'll be a Final Four team, perhaps a national championship team? Can we push it that far? I won't go that far. I will. All right, your words mean nothing. When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. That's why you have to check out LinkedIn Jobs. LinkedIn Jobs has the tools to help find the right professionals for your team, faster and for free. As Metal Art Media continues to grow as a content studio, we strive to hire only the best and most qualified candidates. Thankfully, with LinkedIn, they have made it easy for us to find them. LinkedIn isn't just a job board. LinkedIn helps

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Don LeBataard. You are a fool. You're nobody. You are an infant. You have no thick skin. I literally put together a freaking stage for your toenail. I am your career right now, pal. Look at me. I am your career no

still guts you have messed with me David and now you're messing with me and I'm more dangerous pal this is the done libertar show with a still got Let's get some information from somebody who's actually informed here because what's been going on with John Ruiz recently is interesting and I will tell people as Mike has gotten into the fabrics of the business here. You're going back to Greg. No, I'm going to get to someone who's informed here as opposed to a homer and somebody who's as Mike has gotten into the fabrics of the business here. You're going back to Greg. No, I'm gonna get to someone who's informed here as opposed to a homer and somebody who's just gonna go

to the position of taking, win the championship. Someone had to do it. No, it's not necessary. Greg, talk to the coach. Mike Bryant. How about no breast on John Ruiz? Don't act like I don't know who it is. I know the controversy he's in.

Well, this is the thing about John Ruiz that, Mike, please, I would like correction if I'm malinformed. season well he this is the thing about john ruiz that might please i would like correction if i'm malinformed uh... but john ruiz has been a typical cartoonishly caricature cuban blowhard pretending that he's got more money than he has more power than he has and is representing as if he's running n i l cuz that serves him for mi, but he's not actually. And so what's happening publicly with his company where a lot of people are laughing at LifeWallet, what's accurate there and what's not accurate?

Well, the way that it's being reported by the Miami Herald and Sun Sentinel, like I understand why he's a headline grabber and a lot of this is his own fault, but it's kind of being reported through the prism of his connections to Miami and everyone's reading an aggregated headline trying to deduce what that means for Miami. John Ruiz was with LifeWallet at the very beginning of NIL signing contracts. I think maybe that final four run in basketball doesn't happen without LifeWallet's contributions there, but he hasn't been really that involved with Miami's NIL for far longer than he was.

He might contribute to the collective here or there. He's not a golden cane. John Ruiz is not what he himself projected himself to be, but I think if you pay attention to his socials, that's been really fewer and further between. Everyone still has this idea that he is the face of Miami's NIL and he is shaping all this stuff. It couldn't be further from the truth.

And I'm not a financial expert, but I did ask other people. And while I am not personally bullish, I'm not making any predictions on life while it's future or anything, that's a pretty standard disclosure that about 40% of publicly traded companies have. You have to have working capital for 12 months. Not a lot of companies have that.

So even that is overblown. I think it's a big nothing burger. And I was kind of, well, I'm confused as to why, because if you actually do the journalism on it, and Miami's not incentivized to come out and hold a press conference and say, you don't wanna dissuade someone that was good to your program and continues to donate.

So that's why you still have this thing running out there. But it's just not fact, it's fantasy. Let me ask Greg and Stu gots this because the entire world has changed under their feet. They grew up in a time of CIS boom-bom, Notre Dame, we're gonna pretend it's all amateurism. When the conversation is crystal ball year three yep you better bought all the good players in the conversation is miami made a final four run in basketball

when john ruiz and have that life wallet and it was at the ready i've never had any issue with all of this being out in the light show everybody that's just the purchase of players now it's just out in the light show everybody yeah it's just the purchase of players now it's just out in the open I'm surprised that you two don't have an objection holding on to previous times the way that you do to see college football and college basketball this brazen about the commerce all of it in your face where it's like if Miami Spens they will have a top 12 program in

basketball and football and if they don't they will not I mean I like it because I've always felt like the kids bring more value than the colleges were kind of giving off and the NCAA So I'm good with the kids being able to make money to monetize their name image and likeness and you know Really to be able to leave if the coach leaves So and if they don't have an opportunity like you go in as a freshman and as a quarterback and you're a top 10 quarterback freshman year doesn't work out, they bring in two more quarterbacks and you feel threatened, your job feels threatened, you can now go to a different school.

It's like Syracuse has the Ohio State quarterback from last year. Syracuse never gets that quarterback. They do now because they have the money. It's more professional football. I love it. Indisputably. Yeah, but there are some things that aren't so professional. Darren Heitner went to social media. He is one of those guys that was there at the forefront of NIL and NIL reporting and says there are a lot of collectives that are coming up

short and not honoring deals. I think across the board, there needs to be more transparency here for the kids and for the collectives themselves, because there are, in both directions, people breaking deals left and right. Thankfully Miami has honored every single one of those life wallet deals with its collective. If the reporting is to be true around John Ruiz you can see how he could struggle with some of those longer term ones. Miami's collective slid in there, made sure that none of that reporting would

come to light because you can't say that about Miami they've honored their NIL deals. I don't celebrate the death of amateurism but I'm resigned to it because it's not just colleges it's the Olympics and just about everything else the problem is the inequity of it okay the star quarterback he's getting his how about the backup guard is he getting anything you know or is the swimmer the average swimmer on the team is she making money on n i l i i i i don't know how that works more money is what you want more money for more i'm i'm i'm not fair in this case if you're gonna pay pay college athletes it shouldn't just be football and the other side it's not

fairness they're still crowdfunding all of this money this is not college football using its television dollars on the players. You were asking what Greg wants and I was just telling you what Greg wanted. That's unfair. Well, what Greg wants is what the NCAA wants too, but it also caps people to really maximize their own value. When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role.

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