The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Final Show Of 2024: Round 2 Of CFP, Rockets Trade Rumors, Who Will Win 'D Of The Year'...?

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" present the 2024 nominees for "D Of The Year." Matt and Ross also:preview the second round of the college football playoffreview trade rumors surrounding the Rocketsgive their latest "Gut Feelings" and more.

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10.02 at H-Town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the final Matt Thomas show with Ross of 2024. I mean, we're holding on for near life over here. Trust me. But we'll be back on Thursday.

Will we flip to Tejano at midnight tonight? We'll see. Yeah. Which neither one of us could actually be on the show. That's correct. Yeah. It is nice to have you with us on this shorter. edition of the show. We used to go three hours.

Then we were given fourth hour. Now I don't have to pace myself. You just go full throttle? Full bore, baby. Let's go. So you're going to have the good energy for the entire 180 minutes. We'll see. I'll wake up in about an hour. I got you. You did get us coffee. That was nice. So that's good.

Yeah, Conardee's like, he didn't drink coffee, but he will eventually. Everybody will eventually be a coffee drinker. To the dark side. I didn't drink when I was his age either. Coffee, I mean. Alcohol I did. And look what happened to you. Yeah. Your lover is a hot mess right now. That's not true. We're doing all right.

It's been a rough month on my liver, though. I bet you. A lot of vacation, New Orleans. Today is a very important day. It's a day that we hold... Even these truths to be self-evident? It's very important. It's a responsibility that we as major market radio host have to take on.

Others have tried but failed. We here at the Matt Thomas Show Ross for, oh, God, 14, 15 years have handled this responsibility very well. Do you know the anniversary date of this show? Yeah, January 3rd, 2010. Third? Yes. Okay. I'm just curious. I don't know. And the reason why I know that, real quick story, is that it's, I spent New Year's Eve in some BFE town in Kansas. Okay.

And the next morning, I get the BFE, that's Bucci Falls East. The next morning, I get in the car and I drive the rest of the way from that town in Kansas. I think I want to say I was a Lathie, but I'm not for sure. I did go through Canada. I was originally going to spend the night in Kansas City, but I was making good time. So I said, well, I'll just continue to go. And then about 7 o'clock at night, I started getting dark. It was this is New Year's Eve.

And I called Kim, and I, she was already in Houston. I said, can you get me? I don't know, maybe she was in Minneapolis. So, yeah, I said, just find me any town on 35 and just find me a hotel. And so she found myself. So it was kind of a depressing. December 31st, 2009 was very depressing because, I'm in the middle of this Kansas town.

I've never been to. About to move to Houston. Yeah. Well, I'm going to be working with people that I don't know and probably don't like. What did dinner? What was open? I had Chinese. Okay.

In a small town, Kansas? I mean, how was it? I mean, I like Chinese. It's like sex. You know, some is better than others, but generally speaking, you'll always take it. Okay. It's four minutes in, I think. You know what I'm saying?

It's like sex, Chinese and pizza. said in a hundred different things. Okay, pizza. Pizza. I'll fix it. Pizza. It's like a slice of pizza. You'll have, you'll always,

there's something better than others. Where's like all of this? I don't know. I start calling you Horn Dog Thomas. Okay, so January 1st, our assistant program director at the time is named Al Farb. So front of the show. Yes. Called and said, hey, happy new year.

I'm like, thanks. He goes, I said, you know, yeah, I'm going to probably get to Houston late. It says on a Saturday. Uh, late. And he goes, good. Well, we're ready for you to start on Monday. I'm like, you are? I wasn't ever.

to start on Monday. So it was, I want to say Monday, January 3rd. No free days off of this company, Matt. No, no. Monday, January 3, 2010. Well, yeah. The 8 teams, by the way, not working today. There's a stunner. They didn't work Christmas Eve.

Correct. They're not working today. Correct. They're not working tomorrow. Now, granted, all of us are not working tomorrow. Thank God. We're going to watch football. We're working.

Oh, yeah, I got rockets. I'm doing pre-imposed. Oh, that hurts. I'm sorry. That was a sense of, I shouldn't have brought that up. Why? Because, I mean, that's, rockets are. my second job. Yeah. That's my choice. You were given that assignment. Poor kid. It's okay. It's called

being a team player. January 1st, I'm working, maybe. So really, frankly, whoever's not working with me on Rockets, Clinton or Rexor could have assumed the January 1st spot for you. That's correct. But they're not going to. That's fine, too. So yeah, we will double check the anniversary, but if it is, I believe it'll be Friday we'll celebrate. So if it's 2010, and we're going to be in 20, 25, is this starting our 16th year or starting our 15th year? 2025 will be starting the 16th year. 16 years will be completed. So the 15th year anniversary of this radio show will be on Friday, I think.

I'll double check it. 12, 13, 14, 14, 15, 6. Yeah. 25 is the 16th. It will use your fingers like that. Thank you. 713-212-5-790. as Connor goes to the notepad.

He's already He's probably got four things already in the first segment of the show. We'll see you on Friday. There's a person on Twitter that hates his show and tells us how goofy we are. Just mute him.

Just move on. I thank him for a service though. Block them or mute him? I can't block because he still gets to see my stuff. I know. That's why they meet button's your friend. You won't see their stuff. Yeah.

So I did thank him for a service though. That's okay. That's great. Would they work at Target or something? No, he used military service. Okay, great. Yeah. All right. So in one half hour, we will make the grand declaration of the four nominees for D of the Year.

Wow. D of the Year. As is usual the case. Three of them will be sports related. One will not be. Okay. One is on a tweet. One is from a singular tweet? One is from a singular tweet.

Okay. From a person I did not know, but it was so bad that I hashtag the D of the year way back and I have it in my archives. Okay. So if you hashtag in your archive it, you have to use it. Okay. That'll be one of them. Two of them are governing boards of sports. Okay.

And one is one individual. Okay. Who I believe will, hands down, no if, ands or buts will be the D of the year. D of the year. Okay. Now, you cannot call Jeff Passing D of the Year. He's like a D of the Year. He's a D of the Year, OG.

He's always going to be a D of the Year. He's in the Hall of the Fame. Stop saying that phrase. Okay, Mark Davis, the official who, don't say it. Mark Davis, who threw out E. May and Ben Simmons is, Ben Simmons. Is Mark Davis his candidate? Ben Sullivan, he's not a candidate. You can't give one here on December the 29th or 30s.

Angel Hernandez in retirement, Siddemoff. That's a blessing, frankly. Yeah, I mean, he should go in the O.G Hall of Fame on that one. That's right. So we'll get to that. So we will have the nominees at 1030 this. morning and then we'll let you guys vote. The voting will close tonight at 1159. By the way, tonight, y'all, first of all, be really careful, whatever you do.

And number two, this is going to fall on deaf ears. For any of you that have dogs, this is their worst day of the year. So when you go get your homemade fireworks, which I think are a complete travesty to begin with, just don't go get them. I'll just say that. Because our poor pups, and we are, we are a house sitting a dog sitting. Oh, you are? We have three in the house this How are you doing with that? Great. He's great. But the point is, we got three of them. They're going to lose their mind tonight.

Yes. So just be respectful of the pups because the pups don't like the fireworks. We'll see you in the emergency room, folks. You're a great example of that. Yeah. That's why I hate fireworks. Think about how normal you would have been if not for that accident way back in the day. It did scar me.

Well, more ways than one, for sure. I mean, physically, it's one thing. Literally on my lip. Yeah. My little niece was like, how come you have a bald spot on your lip? Yeah, because I got hit by a fireworks. Yeah, I love the fireworks ceremonies. You know, the grandiose, the ones that are at the ballpark.

It may have made it really cool. Yes. But I couldn't be more anti-made fireworks or local down-the-street fireworks. To me, in general, the benefits. I know Connor McGovern loves fireworks. I hope he blows a digit off tonight. It's just the risk award's not there. but that's fine

If you want to do it I won't be near it And by the way What happens One of them Flares off into somebody's house And it catches fire I mean

Yeah starts Literally starts fires There's trash all in the streets Trash in the street And I live in a cul-de-sac So everybody runs in our house Oh yeah You go straight to the cul-de-sac

Yeah So That's fine You'll just be careful tonight And just Be respectful of us as humans And the dogs Because they just don't like it

To each his own Not really in this case No To each don't do it And you know what? I will also say this. It's fine. Are we doing Chet Joe about mess up this week?

No, Thursday, yes. Okay. Well, I guess I'll save that. But people, if you want to do it on the 31st, that's fine. You want to do it July 4th, that's fine. But it's been all Christmas week. I've been hearing fireworks. Yeah, I love going to stadiums.

I love going to like downtown, like Miller outdoor theater. When I was a kid, we used to go all the time, great fireworks. With music behind it, I mean, it's, and the Friday night fireworks at Minute May, or whatever, like, Diken Park. It's going to take some adjustment. It's going to take some well. Spectacular.

But the homemade stuff where your hands can explode and you can start forest, you can start fires in people's neighborhoods. Yeah. It's not homemade, but I don't you're saying. You know what I mean. Home use. Like down the street with a guy that's got like four teeth. He's like, man, I got a check.

You get that one. You get 19 free. Dude, we're your gums, dude. What are those molars? Taken out by an M80. I mean, I'm not talking of stereotype, but, you know, it is what it is. All right. So, you won your fantasy league.

Our fantasy league. Yours, I'm out. I'm out. I was not unsure if I was going to win. Quite frankly, it was a pathetic performance by my team. I got lucky. I mean, there's so much luck involved in fantasy football. A salesperson of ours, Rob Reese, had the far and away, no doubt about it, best roster all year long and the playoffs. And I got lucky. I beat him last week. And you beat our former producer Trey.

And I beat Trey and now I'm champion for back to back to back years. Now, Trey has a hard time paying his bills, but you're still going to take second place. What do you mean? I mean, he could have used the first place money. Oh, I just saw on Instagram that he just bought a house. So I think he's doing okay. I'm not worried about him. By the way, if y'all don't follow Kill Tony Instagram, you'll find out Trey at once in a while showing up there.

It's hysterical. I don't know if that's making him money or if the comedy's taken off or what. And his girl was on there too. ladies doing cupcake business and all that. So I don't know what's happening, but, hey. So he should be, so we shouldn't feel sorry for it. I ain't feeling sorry for him. Okay, I got you.

I'm okay. I need the cash too. I'm still reeling from that Korea trip. Fair enough. By the way, I don't mean to horribly, I'm not going to horribly segue because it's been a bad, bad month for like airplanes. Do you see the Gonzaga plane almost ran into the Delta jet yesterday at L.A. or two days ago at L.A.X.

I mean, what is going on with our air, with our air system? This is not good. Yeah, another, yeah, I don't know. I get weary enough in there. I used to be when I first would fly, I would get a little worried off takeoff and landing. But now I'm in pretty good, but now I might get worried again. Yeah, I have to start drinking more on planes.

I mean, it's all out of our control anyways, Matt. It is. You're going to die on the plane? We're going to die on the plane. It's not like you're going to go into the cockpit and start making moves. It's true. Like, hey, y'all are doing a bad job. I think with my zero experience, I can help playing this plane a little bit better.

Landing gear won't got, I got this. But even in the movie airplane, Robert Hayes' character was a World War II fighter pilot. Okay, that's true. But you weren't. And then the co-pilot was a blow-up. Yes. Or then Roger Murdoch was there or whatever his name was.

No, he got sick. Oh. He ate the fish. He ate the fish. Why aren't the Jalen Rose Dings coming in? I just movie reference. That's a full damn Matthews right there. Has Connor McGovern seen Airplane?

the funniest movie I've ever made period into story I have not okay it's good I like to make fun of a lot of Matt's taste

and a lot of things airplanes is hilarious and cannot hold up oh no no it can't make you know not in 2020 no chance

certain elements would not appear in the movie today the entire movie the entire movie could not hold up oh yeah this is a good one from Joan and you idiot is shooting guns in the air

yeah that's another one we'll save it for 30th Day. Yeah. All right. As far as sports is concerned, Detroit and San Francisco, high scoring game,

the coach of 2024 class, 23 class, reside in Detroit. Love C.J. I love D'Amico. You're talking about Nimitz legend, Aaron Glenn, defensive coordinator. Oh, I mean, I was thinking of one of his close friends.

713, 570 on the program. We're only here to 1 o'clock today because we've got LSU football. They're playing a huge game. Where's Gordy? Is Gordy here today? I don't know. He was in New Orleans at the Sugar Bowl. It's not for a couple more days, I don't think. Okay. I guess he's hanging out. Pre-game Sugar Bowl.

He sent us an email yesterday. I'll be in the office Tuesday. There's no sign of him here. Do you think he did that to pacify his bosses? Oh, was he doing Sugar Bowl coverage and he didn't say for the game? He's got to be coming back. That hits his beloved LSU Tigers He's got some well-earned vacation Is it 230 today, right?

Yeah. And we're carrying it. Hey, okay. This will be the only station in town that has the Texas Bull. So if you want to listen to the game on the radio. Your exclusive home of the Texas Bowl. For your Baylor Bear fans. No, we're doing the LSU version.

I mean, well, yeah, but they can still hear the game. I mean, good, but they will be able to understand all the consonants and vowels that are not being used. I'm sure, you know. Uh-huh. Yeah. At a first at 10. Do your gauge it up.

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I just texted him to tell us to call it. We need a full breakdown. We need what to eat from him. Rossi, we need some serious smack talk, Baylor Smack Talk. We do? I mean, that's what bowl games are about. I mean, Baylor versus LSU Smack Talk. Talk? Why not? Sure. Sign me up. I'm all for it. All right. 1023 on sports talks. The drama is building in the community.

It is? Not for the Texas Bowl. Nobody cares. I was like for what? For the D of the year. For the year. I thought it was for a cold front. Oh, that's what I want the drama in Chile. I will agree with you on that. Jeez. See, I am and I'm so the opposite everybody. Everybody loves it when it gets colder here. If you want to give me 85 degrees 12 months a year, I'm more than happy. Because again, I lived in Salt Lake City for two years. We had four seasons, so it was okay. But in Minneapolis, it was three years of 97 with high humidity because of the lakes or 12 below.

And there was no middle ground. And the middle ground to me is 85 degrees. It just is. Yeah, but when it's 85 and humid on Christmas, that doesn't feel right. It's New Year's Day. You'll never know. You'll never know. Play with your presence.

We suffer all summer long where it's like 105 degrees and the feels like temperature is 120 and it also feels like you're walking through the ocean because it's so humid. So we're supposed to get a little chill. I'm not asking for it to be 13 degrees. I'm not asking for a big freeze to roll in. I'm asking for under 70 degrees. All right, here we go.

64 for high for the next four months. That's great. and 52 furlough. That sounds perfect. That sounds perfect. Hodies. Let's go hoodies. Yeah, hoodie weather.

Huddies. I'm just asking not to be sweating in shorts on December 28th. That's all I'm asking about. The moment, December 29th, 30th, 2009 when I left Minneapolis, and it was a great place to live for three years. I said, I'm never bitching about the heat. I'm about to enter. I'm not. You're going to be consistent.

The heat is horrible. You can't even walk outside. So I'm asking for, why these pasty white legs don't get sun. A little relief. All right. It's all I'm asking. I think you're going to get some. Good.

Like this next road trip I'm going on next week, Washington, Minneapolis, or Washington, Memphis, Atlanta, it's all 30s, the whole trip. Yeah, I don't want any of that. See what I'm saying? That's why I come back and I enjoy the warmth. The weather, the women, and the culture. Okay. Not the traffic of Houston. Everything else is great.

By the way, today was a piece of cat come into office. Yeah, it's New Year's Eve. I think I want to work every holiday. All of the true people dedicated to their craft are working. Yeah. If you don't work on a hospital. You're just not a real professional. Especially in radio.

I mean, you and I were here yesterday? I don't know how I can't. Yeah, we were. We're going to be here in the second. We'll be here tomorrow. Well, I mean, we'll be working tomorrow. We'll be working tomorrow. I'll probably go Sunday.

It's an interesting week. Wednesday, tomorrow night is Dallas. Friday is Boston. I'm not working Friday's game. And then Sunday's a link. I'm not going on that one. I'll probably go Sunday. By the way, happy birthday to LeBron James yesterday, turned 40. Yeah, I mean, I might end up getting drunk tonight, so I'm probably not going to go to the arena tomorrow.

He says LeBron says he wants to play five to seven more years. Are you serious? You know what? I'm going to tell you this right now. I totally believe him. He's insane. I mean, he could obviously, first of all, my guess is physically he can do it. Not a lot of guys can do it, but I mean, he's slowed down at 40, but he's by no means slow.

All right, conspiracy theory on this, not necessarily conspiracy theory, but believe me or not. Okay, please. In LeBron James's mind, he has always been chasing the ghost, his words, chasing that ghost of Michael Jordan. Right. He knows he's not getting six rings. So if he wants to enter the argument not in a championship way, the way to do it is longevity. And he knows that.

And that's why he's going to continue to play as long as he can. To continue to compile up stats to get into that argument. Some people have them as the greatest of all time. I would say the majority of people have Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time. I think five years ago, the final vote was tallied on both sides. I think five years ago we knew that the bronze next five, which are the five we just finished. Which were incredible, by the way.

We're incredible, but we're not going to lead to championships. Well, he went in 2020. Okay, so my point is this, that when he won his last, that was a bubble championship, that the LeBron's final champion, unless he was to go jump on a team late as a seventh, eighth guy off the bench kind of thing. He could be the, nah, he's the second or third best player on a championship team right now. He's just not the best. But I mean, he's, no one's concerned the last.

Lakers would be a championship quality team. They didn't think about it last year. They're not going to think about it next year. I mean, that whatever he does is not for championships anymore. It's for the individual accolades. I just don't think, I think that if you are a basketball fan, you made up your mind five years ago about LeBron. I don't think there's anything that LeBron could do in the next five years

that would change a Jordan fan into a LeBron as number one guy. No. No. No. I've moved him as high as 1A or 1B. I can call him 1B. But to me, Michael, six championships, saved a league, along with Magic and Larry. But it was more about Michael than anything else.

To me, it was the greatest. But LeBron is a solid, solid number two, no matter what goofy-ass things he says off the court, I judge him as an on-the-court individual. And for me, he's the second-greatest player of all time. And I think I've been consistent about that for a long time. Okay. And I think if you're a LeBron guy, you haven't changed your mind about taking him off the pedestal.

Where are you? My thing is there's argument for three and I'll accept all three. Who's your third? Kareem. Six MVP's played till he was 40. Probably the greatest most prolific big man of all time. Six championships. He checks all the boxes.

I mean, you're talking about UCLA as well. Yeah. If you're starting a franchise with one of them, I'll tell you this. If I'm starting a franchise with one of those three, I'm picking Jordan last. Is that because you think Jordan would be harder to adapt to 2025? No. It's just because the value, LeBron is being the engine of an offense. Same thing with Kareem as a man on the low block with the unstoppable skyhook.

Yeah, I would probably start a franchise with LeBron if I had to of the three. Yeah. But that's not what the category is. Yeah, exactly. So it's a different argument. The greatest basketball player. Steph is the greatest shooter of all time, but he's not anywhere the defender that any of those guys were. Ladies and gentlemen, I need to get your pens and papers out,

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Houston, Texas, the home of the 2024 D of the Year. D of the Year. We present your host Matthew Lewis Thomas. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. No, no, no, no, no. People are applauding.

You hear that? Oh, I'm sorry. Yay. They're giving me a standing ovation. Thank you. Thank you. Now, you're going to those sexs ball. You can't be one.

You can't be here. I'm on the way to the Texas Bowl now, baby. They're seven-craw-fish, you're too fed in Section 600? Excuse me, sir. Can you know what the cracklers are? Stop. I thought no raging Cajons win this game now, man. Bailor Bears are like,

is there any sprite? I've been better. Sprite Zero, please. I bet the Bada Bears can drink a few beverages, too. Oh, geez. Someone's dancing. It's making me uncomfortable. Those girls have way too much.

Not enough clothing on. All right, can we get back to the year? Let's get my focus here. Folks, I wanted to announce there's Bible study in Section 121 at halftime if you want to come. Why does Mac Browns like he's being there? Well, we're having an absolute great time at the Texas Bowl. All right, here we go. nominee number one for by the way last year's winner was amy crunk strunk okay she didn't have my vote

she had my vote she had america's vote every year she does she's a she's an ogyer as well she's the hall of fame uh my our first nominee is this year's non sports d of the year okay and it's the year of some douche name the block spot on twitter okay the funniest, rawest, crassest. Is that word crassus? Most crass? Most crass. Most successful roast ever in the history of roast took place this year in 2024.

It was at the fabulous form in Los Angeles, Inglewood, California. It was too long. It was on Netflix. It made a lot of money for anybody and everybody involved. It was wildly watched, and it may have been too long. It was six and a half hours long. I enjoyed everybody of it because, you know, I love it. roast. But this

D of the year candidate, the block spot said on May 6, 2024, every racist loved the Brady roast. Every homophob love the Brady roast. Every misogynist love the Brady roast.

Every anti-Semite love the Brady roast. And then he goes into all caps. This is a problem. Stop giving hateful content a platform. Exclamation port, exclamation port. And then there's like four or four. five more exclamation points.

You, Sam Block of at the block spot, our nominee number one for D of the year. D of the year. Please have a little sense of humor. I mean, just a smidge. You know what America needs to do more in 2025, Rossi? What? Laugh.

Hmm. Wow. You know, let's put that on a T-shirt. Okay. We need more laughing in 2025. It's the best emotion out there. It's one of the best verbs. Hmm

Thank you, Matt All right. Number two, this governing body introduced, well, I didn't introduce, it just sat and watched this happen, and it's called name,

image and likeness. And instead of rewarding kids for hard work done and schools trying to take advantage of their abilities, this was a way to pay these players money they should have been

probably paid for for many, many, many years. Instead, it's become an open recruiting tool. There is no legislation. There's no regulation. It's running rampant throughout sports. You have schools that are promising money that they can't promise. You have donors who now are carrying bigger sticks because they are the ones giving the money to these kids. And there is absolutely zero oversight over something that could have very easily helped the sport. So to the NCAA for literally turning a blind eye to the out of control nature that is right now,

name, image, and likeness, the NCAA, you are a nominee for D of the year. D of the year. I've got to disagree with this one. NCLA can't get involved. Why can't they? Because the Supreme Court is going to strike them down for amateurism. they're already pretty much striking them down. If they get involved in their regulation,

then they're basically admitting that they're a for-profit institution, which they can't do. They're not going to do. Then we're going to continue to have this the rest of our life in college athletics? I don't think so. I don't think it's, I think the end game on this is disastrous. It hasn't come yet,

but it's going to. You're going to see more lawsuits by kids suing schools. You're going to have more people promising things they can't deliver on. and it's going to get uglier and messier. Why don't we blame the coach for lying to his players? Well, but that isn't the case every single time. We're just talking about one example there. Apparently Leonard Hamilton at Florida State lied to the kids instead of we get the money.

Let's play him Leonard Hamilton. Yeah, you're not big enough for D of the Year. Number three. D of the Year. Something is being watched more and more than ever in professional baseball. the strike zone. We have websites. We have Twitter accounts.

We have instant replay. We have television networks. We have technology. That continues to see the evaporation of excellent ball strike calling by home plate umpires. Mistakes are happening more and more often. Umpires are getting testier and testier. And it is ultimately really causing a lot of problems for us that love America's pastime. And I know that Major League Baseball is going to experiment with the computer in next year,

which is a good sign. Let's go. But full ABS. But however, since we're talking about 2024. Okay. And how Major League Baseball continue to say everything is going great. Major League Baseball and the disintegration of what turned out to be a very worthwhile position and it's the Home Planet Empire because calls are being missed in an all-time high. Generally, the numbers are getting better. I don't think so. From when they started tracking. The complaints are getting a lot higher. Yeah, well, yeah. We like to complain.

I watch your Twitter account. You complain every night. That's not true. You do. You do. That's not true. You can play six days a week. That's not true. Six days a week. Under. I say, major league baseball, your continued blind eye to the human error that is becoming balls and strikes

makes you a nominee that make you the winner, but a nominee for D of the year. I like that. And last, but certainly not least, we go to college station, we go to Austin, and we get the audio that we heard this summer from Omaha. And at that time, A&M head coach, Jim Slosnagle. Coach, with respect to the difficult outcome tonight, but with the rumors circulating today about a specific job opening, what do you have to say about your future in Aggie land?

Yeah, I mean, I think it's pretty selfish of you to ask me that question, to be honest with you. But I left my family to be the coach at Texas A&M. I took the job at Texas A&M to never take another job again. And that hasn't changed in my mind. That's unfair to talk about something like that. That'd be like you asking Montgomery if he's going to sign in the draft. But I understand you've got to ask the question. But I gave up a big part of my life to come take this job.

and I've poured every ounce of my soul in this job, and I've given this job every single ounce I can possibly give it. It's right that. Oh, yeah, right that! I present to you with complete prejudice. Now you know, you're a longhorn hater and a closet, Aggie. No, I'm a closet regular... I'm not at front, decent human being.

No, you came out of the closet. It's fine. Jim Slossnagle as our fourth and final candidate for D. of the year. A worthy candidate based on that. I mean, that just wasn't right. It's pretty funny. So if you'd like to vote,

the Twitter polls will be open here at the top of the hour. If you'd like to comment on any of them, if there's somebody else that we have missed on our day of year candidates. I feel like we've missed some people. Well, that's why the floor is open. It's 713-212-5-7-90. If we've missed somebody, let us know. 713-212-5-7-9.

It could be you could vote for D of the year for Alabama fans that are just bent that their team did not make the college football playoff. D of the year. And basically made fun of SMU getting their ass kicked by Penn State and made fun of Indiana losing their ass to Notre Dame. And maybe Kirk Herbsters getting some late run. He's getting some late run. D of the year.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3. 212 570. 1045. This is Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas. Ross Villarreal. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. 1051, Sports Talk 790. We have the Rangers with a new edition. We'll be hearing from him coming up at the top of the hour. I mean, I know Astro fans aren't going to be big fans of what the guy's going to say, but my question to you is what is he supposed to say? We'll discuss that coming up at the top of the hour. We've got feelings at 1130.

Yes. The poll is open for D of the year votes. If you'd like to vote, it. D of the year. It closes at midnight tonight. So is your clanking champagne glasses or whatever you happen to be drinking of choice? Okay. Kissing your girl?

Kissing your guy? Sure. Both? I mean, you do what you want to do there, Ross. You want to celebrate New Year's and who you're doing with this? Yeah, Matt, don't judge me. If you want a multiple kiss, that's fine. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Let's go to Geo in Atasca Cita, 1052 on 790. Geo, thanks for waiting. Good morning, gentlemen. So I want to give a nomination for D of the Year. Actually, this is a fairly, there we go. This is a fairly new acquisition for D of the Year, and I want to nominate Tyler Hero for what happened.

That's a good one. Okay. I got you. I don't care. You know, he was given, you know, I'm in the business all game, yes. But the reason I nominate him is because he acted like he didn't get thrown like a ragdoll. And then after the quote that he gave the press about, you know, this, that and the other, yeah, that's just really debaggaged to me, man. So, yeah, he's a nomination in my book.

All right. Thank you, Gio. Happy New Year, my man. Thank you for listening. We appreciate your support all the year long. I get mad too. I get mad too. Yeah, late comer for D of the Year.

Tyler Hero. The of the year. Yeah, I mean, here's the thing. I wish that he would have followed up games against, like, Charlotte and New Orleans. A man Thompson's going to miss a couple of games, I think, on this. And it's Dallas and freaking Boston. I mean, you need to be a full guns of blazing for those games, don't you?

Yeah, certainly since you already lost the first two games, this important homestand. Ugh. Dare I even look where we're. we are in the standings. Yeah, still third. Okay. Game and a half in front, I think, of Dallas at four. Okay. By the way, Sacramento beat Dallas last night. Okay, that's good. And that was the first win for Doug Christie replacing Mike

Brian and Sacramento. Yes. Congratulations to King's legend, Doug Christie. Yeah, I am, and I am the only one doing this. But I am standings watcher. Wait, I think I watch standings in sports way earlier than anybody else does. Yeah, you are. I was watching the Astros American League West standings like June 9th. You shouldn't have been. I'm just saying I just do it early. By the way, if you look at the Big 12 standings in basketball, the Cougars are right up top where they should be after pouncing and destroying Oklahoma State last night. Oh, that's great. Congratulations to them. Ooh, they're killing it. Wonderful. Oklahoma State's terrible. Oh, are they? I don't know why they're terrible. I mean...

I feel like Oklahoma I feel like Oklahoma State for the last 30 years in sports has done a really good job of winning at everything. Football wins about nine games a year. Basketball goes a tournament. Baseball feels like they're always

the college World Series once every seven or eight years. What's the Mike Gundy situation in Oklahoma State? He was fired and then getting rehired. He's back. Okay. Still has a mallet, apparently. Okay. They got a new coach with the basketball team.

I didn't know who he was. Didn't really matter. But yeah, the Cougars... They have a lot of history. I mean, they got... Good facilities. I mean, didn't T. Boone Pickens for he died, give him every dollar he had? Pretty much, and it still wasn't enough.

Yeah, it still wasn't enough. That's exactly right. Yeah, exactly right. So last night, the Cougars, the Cougars allotted 47 points. Could you imagine being a fan of a college? And you drive up to Stillwater or any of the college towns, and you sit down and you spend your money and you get your popcorn, you get your Coke, or whatever, you're drinking and eating. and you watch your team score 47 points in 40 minutes of play.

That's not the craziest thing in college basketball. Yeah, but I mean, it goes to further show you how bad really college basketball can get. Oklahoma State, Rossi, shot 26% from the floor. 2-6. Now, I respect my Cougar defense because it's ferocious, but it also means that's a team full of terrible shooters. Oh, let's see. Oh, they put up, they put up 86 on Oral Roberts.

They put up 66 on Tarleton State. Yeah, maybe they're not that good. Joanne Roberts, 2011 last night. Thank you very much, the double-double machine that he is. Congratulations to him. L.J. Cryer had 16.6 of 15, shot 4 of 8. Cougar shot 42% from the floor. That's not great either.

How about Rick Barnes and the boys, the number two in the country? or number one. Excuse me. Tennessee is number one in basketball? And I guess people care they have like a 20,000 seat arena, don't they? That's huge. Yeah, they're 12 and 0.

All right, so the Cougars are 9 and 3, 1 and 0 of the Big 12. That update brought to you by our friends of the joint chiropractor, the official chiropractor, University of Houston Athletics. I think Oklahoma State's going to need a chiropractor after that beat down.

Oh, look at you. 60 to 40, 47 points and 40 minutes of play. Great. job to the University of Houston Cougars. By the way, my middle son, Peyton, is going to go up to a college station this weekend. Apparently, the Aggies and Longhorns are going to get after it for the first time? Yes, in basketball at the Reed Arena. Historic Reed Arena.

What I mean, a historical? A lot of losing. Oh, I don't think that's the case. I'm sorry. The program's never made in Elite 8. Sorry. Okay, but that doesn't mean there's a lot of losing. When somebody says a lot of losing, you think 8-20 year after year?

No. Okay. I mean, they're a good squad, wishing them the best. No, you're not. You want them to lose by 15 this week. That was a complete lie on your part. Longhorn basketball not great this year. What's your record? I don't even know.

It's like 8 and 3 or something like that. The women's basketball team, we got to the arena that our night before the Rockets game that was on the big screen inside the media dining room. Apparently, a lot of people wanted to see UTWM women take on UTRGV. I was close. Oh, so you're telling me your team is down in 11 and 2. Yeah. Typical, arrogant University of Texas.

What does that even mean? When you say, oh, we're down and 11 and 2. Oh, you want to hear your last four wins? Oh, I can't. Go ahead. Fire them off. New Orleans? New Orleans. Arkansas Pine Bluff. Oh, God.

New Mexico State. Oh, my. And Northwestern State. How embarrassing are you right now? Hey, how come on now. They beat Syracuse. That's good. Lost Ohio State.

Ohio State. Ohio State. Okay. That's not bad. Beat NC State. That's good. And lost to Yukon. And the game wasn't even that close.

So read off the last four teams you played again. New Mexico State, Arkansas, Pine Bluff. Now this is after playing NC State and Yukon back to back, Matthew. New Mexico State, Arkansas, Pine Bluff, New Orleans, and Northwestern State. All at the Moody Center. I believe all four of those schools are also open enrollment. Yeah, probably. But at Texas A&M, home for number two, Auburn, and home for number one, Tennessee coming up.

And then at number 12. If you had a ticket, if you sit next to Payton, would you go to the game with him? No. All right. Five straight games against ranked opponents coming up. At A&M, home for Auburn, home for Tennessee, at Oklahoma, at number six, Florida. That all sounds good to me. I'm ready for good college basketball season.

I'm looking forward to it. You can catch Longhorn basketball here on Sports Talk 790. Now, when's Gordy calling in? I know his Gordy's checking in yet. He's fine. No, he's got a tailgate. He's tailgating, for real? Well, I would think so.

The game's at 230. those functioning alcoholics from Louisiana probably are tailgating. You mean to tell me if Texas was playing the Texas Bowl, you wouldn't be out there tailgating right now? I didn't tailgate. Now, I was hammered at the, when they got crushed by Arkansas. I was at the Texas Bowl, and I've been to a lot of Texas Bulls, too, Matthew. Don't

sleep on the Texas Bowl. I saw them lose to Arkansas. So if there was a Hall of Fame for fans, would you go to the Texas Bowl or would you go on the, I think you're going to the Alamo Bowl Hall of Fame first. I've gone more Alamo Bowls. Yeah. I've been to, when they lost to Arkansas, and then I was there when they beat Drew Locke and Mizzue.

Uh-oh. And Tom Herman was mocking Drew Locke on the sidelines. All right. Hour two of the show begins with Jock Peterson, the newest Ranger. You're saying, well, why would you open up with him? Well, he said a couple of things. Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 if you want to jump in on the conversation.

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Yes. And we'll be getting a game preview from Gordy coming up. Wonderful. Is there any chance if Gordy calls in that he's got Baderwinning the game? I would say 0.0% chance. It would be like having on like Billy Lucci telling me

that the Aggies are going to lose their bowl game or like having what's his face Chip Brown having him on and saying well the Longhorns are not going to win their college football playoff game. I'll take your word for it. I'll consume his content. Yeah.

So we will get a completely straight down the line non-biased opinion of the game Hopefully when Gordy calls in. I tell him to call us in, he's not confirmed whether he's going to call him or not.

Baylor is favored by three and a half. Okay. By the way, we got a college football playoff game tonight. I'm telling you, are you doing anything for New Year's? You do anything crazy?

Or do you're chilling at the house? I'm going out. Are you? Okay. Where are you headed? None of my business? That's fine. Okay, that's fine.

I understand. I didn't get the invite either, so that's fine. I get that too. Oh, please. Matt, you can come out with me if you want. Where are you going? Where are you going?

I'm, that's what I want to say. That's fine. We're going to Midtown area. Okay. Whoa. Are you going to Uber everywhere you go, hopefully? Are you going, and this is a very important question. With the lady or without?

With. Oh, yeah. At this point, they're together. That's fine. I didn't deny that. We are. Although you guys didn't spend any time together on Christmas, correct? Yes, that's the next step.

She was at the Texans game. Oh, that's right. You guys were, yeah, yeah, yeah. Have she met your folks yet? She met my mom at the Texans game. As your dad was not feeling well. And then she's going to meet everybody else tonight. And the initial response from mom was,

thumbs up. That's good. Mom's the hard one to win over. Oh, yeah, dad's using the pushover. You better take care of my baby boy. That's what Conner's mom sounds like? I didn't like that. And why?

Was it too accurate? No. Do that one more time? Oh, I don't take care of my baby boy. Connor McGovern, my baby boy. Is your mom from Dublin? I didn't realize that. buy him a nice pint of Guinness.

All right. So we got the Texas Bowl at 230. Tonight, Penn State, Boise State. That's the Fiesta Bowl down in Tempe. Part of my gut, I've got two gut feelings off of that game today coming up at the bottom of the hour. Okay, wait. There really is, there's playoff games today. Just one, 630.

Which one is it? Penn State, Boise State. Oh, okay. They're like, yeah, let's just throw this one on New Year's. Okay, there's a game that already, it's just about to start. It's Alabama, Michigan. if I would have told you Alabama, Michigan was playing in a bowl game today, or playing in a bowl game this year, you'd have thought, wow, this is New Year's 6,

this is a playoff game, they're playing in something called the ReliQuest Bowl. I couldn't even tell. Relia Quest? Relia Quest? Yeah, Relya Quest. That's today? It's in Tampa. Oh, good for them.

I mean, 76 degrees down there. Oh, they're playing right now. It just started. Don't watch it. Why not? I guess you can watch, but I get to listen to us. Oh, okay. I mean, I have it on.

I'm not going to listen to you. The Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl starts at 1 o'clock. Excuse me? Yeah. That's been a couple years. It's brought you by the cereal, but it's not really. It's a cereal mascot? Well, you know, it's, it's, it's,

Kellogg's is the company that makes the frosted flake. Right. We've done Fantasy 5 and Cereals before. I think. I think you want. Yeah. Frosted Flakes is a top three for me. Absolutely.

I mean, it's highly, highly unhealthy for you. Very unhealthy. But. Damn, it's delicious. Yeah, it's most cereals. Yeah, it's true. I was a cereal addict. Oh, that's right.

He had an addiction. You mean like you almost ate too much cereal? Mm-hmm. Like multiple bowls. Yeah, he had to go to CA, not cocaine anonymous. Cereal Anonymous? Cerell Anonymous? Yeah.

Hi, my name is Connemer Goverin, and I've had six bowls of cinnamon toast crunch today. And then something in the back said, they're great. Come on. You liked it. No, it's not bad. It's not bad, but the fact that you loved it. You always crush me for laughing in my own joke, so I'm going to do the same to you. Okay, here's one for you.

South Carolina plays Illinois at the Cheese at Citra Bowl. By the way, cheese at suck. Terrible. Gross. It's a child snack. It's not good. And then you have Baylor, LSU at the Texas Bowl. O'Connor McGarman, big Cheez-It's fan?

What are you 11? Do you like goldfish? No. So you don't like any cheesy snack? No. Okay, it's fine. No, I like cheddar sour cream chips because I'm an adult. You know what's really good?

Flaming hot cheddar sour cream, you won't regret it. Thank me later. The greatest chips on the planet. Well, I get some antacin's as part of this. Yeah, yeah, you don't like spicy. You're a spice wuss. Let me tell you, I love spicy. You just can't.

Right. The body doesn't. The body says, Matt, you're in an age where you shouldn't be eating that. So, yeah. Flaming hot, cheddar and sour cream. And then the Penn State, Boise State game is at the VRBO. Fiesta Bull. Are we calling it Verbo or VRBO? I thought it was Verbo. That's the fake air and B&B, right?

You're different than Airbnb somehow? It's like Lyft and Uber, basically. Is that what it is? Yeah. Yeah, same deal. Sure, why not? Okay. So that's what we got going on. All right. Jock Peterson of Los Angeles Dodger fame. Yes. Sign a contract with the Texas Rangers. So they've been, he's the one that got slapped over fantasy football, right? Yeah, I don't, yeah, he's had issues. Tommy Fam slapped him. Yeah, he's played with the Dodgers, the Cubs, the Braves, the Giants, and Diamondback. Jesus, what's your name?

Yeah. Last year, he batted 241. Actually, that's not true. His career batting average is 241. He played last year with the Diamondbacks. Most of his career with the Dodgers, but has moved around a bunch of different places since 2020. Now he's a member of the Texas Rangers. And he was asked about, you know, playing in this division.

and whether or not the Rangers have a shot at winning the American League West again, like they did a couple of years back. I played the Astros a couple times in the World Series, and they put together a nice little run, and it's coming to an end, and it's time for us to take over the West. Astro fans losing their mind over that. They are.

Yeah. A couple things here. Didn't the Rangers win the West two years? No, they didn't, I guess. Didn't the Rangers win the World Series two years ago? Yeah. Does the Astros run, the Astros have. Rangers have won more recently in the Astros have.

How many times the Astros by the Dodgers in the World Series? Once. He said a couple times. Well, he was on the Braves when... Oh, that's true, that's true. He personally did. That's true. That's true. He comes across the D, but I just... What was he supposed to say? I mean, he's playing to the DFW media.

Was he supposed to go up on the stage and go, yeah, you know, the Astros have run this American League West for the longest time. I'm kind of afraid of him. I'm going to try to do my best, but if we don't win, it's because the Astros are better. I mean, what are you expect him to say? Wow. He led the league and hit by pitches last year with 18. Imagine that. So you know, Craig Bezier's got mad of respect for him. That was, you know what? That's a little applause for you, Matt. That was funny. 908 OPS. OPS plus a 151. He was seriously good last year.

He'd get on some good juice or something? That's way better in his career. So wait a minute. So they've lost Jack Peterson, Arizona has and Christian Walker in the same year. And they weren't very good to begin with. And they won the National League two years ago. Yes. How? I mean, well, it's all Brent Strom.

Who's now not there anymore? Yes, correct. Yeah. Remember everybody who's like, look, Brent Strom's got the Diamondbacks in the World Series. We need Brent Strom back. All right, play that as sound bite again,

and Ross judge it for the audience, please. Played the Astros a couple times in the World Series, and they've put together a nice little run, and it's coming to an end, and it's time for us to, to take over the West. If the Astros, I would feel a lot more confident. I'd be on this, in this

microphone, going, you know what, Jack Peterson, you got another thing coming, here come the Astros. But Kyle Tucker's gone and Alex Brugman's probably gone, and I don't know who's going to, is Chad McCormick and Jake Myers at Dubon to the outfield, and I don't know what's happening with the pitching staff, so I'm not going to be that cocky about it. But, way, are we

bothered by Jock being spelled JOC? It's, I don't care for it. Very broskey, right? It is very bro. Hey, this is my bro, Joe Peterson. Yeah, man. If somebody's named Jock, it's J-O-C-K, correct? Yeah, man. He's Fidel Pledgemaster this year, bro.

He chugs a beer faster than anyone I'd seen. Check it out. I dare you. Help me out, Connor, because you're one of the broskeys. Name some guys that shorten their name up that shouldn't shorten their name by, like, one letter. Hmm. Like, Jock is a great example. J-O-C-L-K, like the great jock you and may, rest in peace.

Jock Landel J-O-C-K Good dude Yeah That's with a K It's a K What is What is Jock Landell

Short for Is his name Just literally Jock? I mean They hit the nail on the head He's a professional Basketball player Yeah

Give me some names That have been shortened By one letter That comes across A douche I don't know Like I know there's

There's names out there Help me out There's got to be Some people that have names That shorten it by one letter because they want to sound really cool. And Chalk is the classic example of that, right?

I guess so. All right, I'm going to think about this for you. Yeah, isn't there, I don't remember. Oh, like, DAC. That's short for Dakota. Yeah, but, I mean, D.A. No, if your role name is like D-A-C-K, D-A-Miller. What?

And then they spell a D-A-C because they want to be cooler that way. Okay. that's a poor example but that's my trying Matt I'm just trying Matt I'm I mean this is not let's take a quick time out damn live radio what am I supposed to do I know I'm not coming up with the name I trust me on this Malcolm to like Mac

that's not one letter but yeah yeah yeah I get you all right 713 212 5790 713 219 712 719 we'll come back give you the update on the D of the year voting and that is with you we got gut feelings coming up at the bottom of the hour the news at noon and then we are out at o'clock or hopefully we'll get a live report from the tailgate who is tailgating better if you're at

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I'm going to give you an out, Matt. I'm going to let you do something here. Go ahead. Because a few weeks ago, you put your name on it. You said Ash and Gentie was never going to have any sort of NFL career. That is correct. You're sticking with it? What is measurable?

Go ahead and give me the measurables again? Hold on. Now, we also need to define what you think his career is going to be in the NFL and what mine are. 5-9-216. Okay. Let's narrow it down a little bit here. he will never rush for a thousand yards in the NFL in a single season

in a single season and that's a low watermark frankly for a 17 game season used to be it when you were when you were coming out of college years ago you wanted to rush for a thousand it was a big done that's more like 12 hundred just a guy in the NFL

yeah I would say less than a thousand yards as a running back in the NFL makes you just a guy okay would you agree with me on that no I think he'll have a I think I'll have a thousand yard season at some point. Okay.

Well, then write that, type that in there. Okay. Okay. All right. D of the year voting is going right now. You have until midnight. D of the year. Midnight and tonight.

In last place. He's enjoying this. He's got a little smile on his face every time he hits the D of the year. Sounder. Now he's off. Probably texting his girl. D of the year. Block spot on Brady Roast is getting the least votes 7%.

That's fine. My New Year's resolution is more time. to you, baby. Is that what he's saying? He's not saying it that way. I think he's normally speaking to her. I don't think he goes like, this is all this, baby. What's up, girl? He's not saying that? I don't think so.

Speaking like the bass singer and boys to men? I get to meet the girl on Sunday. Okay. Oh, I know why. Don't mention why, because I've already received 30 requests. You know what, I'm proud of Connor McGovern. he's growing up before our eyes yeah he's he's he's gathering our bad habits and

learning from us every day 7% the block spot on Brady roast second in place 24% on the MLB horrible strike zone D of the year 33% NCAA NIL non-regulation and the number one spot Jim Sloss Nagle at 36% so voting is still wide open at this point

I gotta go vote anybody but Schlaas you really You can't, you know what? You're being such a homer. You can't even defend it. I didn't. How much, if I'm not defending it, that's how's that me being a home? Then you need to vote for him as day of the year.

Because that was the Dish move of that. That was one thing that he did one thing. But it was a big thing, Ross. It's like saying, well, he only did one crime. He only murdered one person. Yeah, exactly. Let OJ go. Oh my God.

Just terrible. Just terrible. By the way. Just crushed one reporter. and basically lied in front of a national audience and then took a job with the hated rival. I mean, my goodness. He got called up to the big leagues, baby.

That was a tough day for Aggie fan that calls Texas Little Brother. That was a tough day. Poor guys. Yikes. By the way, I was watching the Today Show this morning. And I don't know if we want to do this or not. This year is a tough year for us in terms of losses in the world of sports. like people passing.

I mean, we've lost this year was a tough, tough year for losing sports celebrities. Just in the last week, we lost Ricky Henderson. Greg Gumble. Greg Gumble. O.J. Simpson.

Is that a rest in peace or a rest in something else? I don't think he's enjoying much peace. To be brutally honest with you. Or I believe his M&M would say rot in pieces. Yeah. Okay. I just put Carl Weathers. I got a list here a little bit.

Please do. Hold on. Do you want your music for this? Do we want to do that or no? No, we're almost done. All, go ahead. Chris Mortensen? Yep.

One of the goats of NFL reporting. Oh, I forgot about. Yeah, cue the music. Hit it. He's, give me a second. Man, I forgot about this one. Jacoby Jones. Oh, this is bring me down too much.

Find the Sarah McLaughlin. I will remember you. Oh, this is really sad. This almost makes you cry. I'm going to start bawling on air. I don't want to do that. Nobody wants to hear that. When they say Memorium, you're trying to give them a little bit of run saying, hey, we celebrate your life.

Yeah. And Sarah probably helps out a little bit better. Oh, this one's like, oh, this is better. It's not great, but it's better. Franz Beckenbauer? Never heard of them. Wasn't that a tennis player or something? Well, what else?

No, Germans. That's sorry. The soccer player. Not same difference. My bad. I should have known that. Carl Weathers Did I say that one?

Yep Jim Otto Bill Walton Oh Big Red Oh man Tough tough loss On that one

Larry Allen The Dallas Cowboy Lyman Yeah Okay Jerry West The logo Willie Mays

Oh Say hey kid Juan Chichie Rodriguez Dude this list keeps on going I forgot I told you

when I saw the list. I'm like, damn, this is tough. Dekembe Matumbo, Pete Rose, Louis-Tiant. Louis-Tiant, yeah. Fernando Valenzuela. Oh, God. Oh, my God. Oh, this is terrible. I mean, we're being serious.

This is a tough year. Lou Carnaceca. Joe Jellybean Bryant. Monte Ciffin. And you mentioned Ricky Henderson and Greg Gumble. That's tough. We lost Biggreens. Red.

Bill Walton. A bright shining light of the world. And the home of the Ask One Question, you're done with the interview. Well, if he comes on. He was a little sick when he was supposed to come on the Matt Thomas show. He had just finished four previous interviews.

He was sick. He was sick of doing interviews. Yeah. He didn't know you. No, he didn't realize he were Houston. He probably had a lot of back pain, foot pain. I mean, the guy went through a lot. But he went on Albuquerque Radio, just fine. No, he wasn't Albuquerque. He was on serious X-Im with somebody more famous.

It might have even been Greg Gumble. It was not Greg Gumble. Gumble and Bill Walton are not doing a segment. They were partners on NBA games. See? Matter of fact, 98 Kiss of Death shot was Mario Ellie with Greg Gubble and Bill Waltman on the call. Who was the, it was a Fox Inn Studio host guy. Terry Brentshaw.

No. And he had a serious X-M show. He's way more famous than you. But I can't remember his name right now. I'm sure he's that famous. All right. 1128. Sports Talk 790. Let's go to

Danny in Cyprus on the Matt Thomas show. Ross, Danny, how are you? Kurt Minifie. Yeah, he's alive. No, I'm saying that's who he's interviewing with, I think. Hi, Danny. Hey, how you doing? Good. All right. Hey, I need some, I need your help on my price picks for the weekend.

Who's playing what? I mean, who's going to play all game long? I don't have CJ Stroud playing maybe until the halftime. but the bills, the Ravens, all of them, do they have anything on the line where they would play their players all four quarters? And I'll take y'all's answer off the air. And you'll have a happy New Year, guys. Same to you.

Thank you. Well, I mean, let's face it. Who's playing for things this weekend? The Ravens are playing for the division. Green Bay and, excuse me, Minnesota and Detroit are playing for the division and number one overall seed. Mm-hmm. Well, let's just...

Wait, who'd you say? No, Minnesota and Detroit. Minnesota, I said Green Bayton and fixed it. Minnesota, Detroit. Yeah. Games that make a hill of beans. I saw a tweet on it. I'm trying to find it.

It's very minimal, actually. Right. It's easier to tell you who's not playing for anything. Texans, Titans, nothing to play for. Falcons have something to play for against the Panthers because the Falcons have to win to keep it alive, and then the Buccaneers have to lose

the Saints at home, which I don't think it's going to happen, but the Bucks have something to play for. Bills don't. Jaguars, Colts, no. Commanders, I don't think so. Eagles don't have to. Okay, I got a list.

I found the list. Please, go ahead. Teams that need to win. Ravens need to win to win the division. Bingles need to win to get in the playoffs. Steelers need to win to win their division. Broncos need to win and they're in. Dolphins have something to play for.

Lions and Vikings playing each other, as you mentioned, and then the Buccaneers and Falcons. Those are the teams with something really on the line. Okay. Just seating only on the line would be Chargers, Packers, commanders, Rams. So it feels like half the league has got something to go forth. So just got to just look at who's playing for something meaningful. That's the way we can answer that honestly.

Play the CJ Stroud unders or are the on the board. Oh, I would, yeah. And we'll come back with gut feelings on the result of that game on Sunday. Hmm. I know where you're going. Why? Would I have a bet on the line on this one? Why would I?

You know, you're always. clouded by your biases. Why won't I do that? 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. The next couple segments here on the show are gut feelings, where you make predictions about what's going to happen in sports. If you can tell us what's going to happen, and you can brag about it, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It's 1130 here on 790.

Listen up, girls and boys. This has been so appealing. Goes Russ and Matt Thomas' Thomas' This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. All right, I was not with you last week, or was I? I don't think I was. It was Christmas Eve. No, we worked together with Christmas Eve.

So let's go through how we did last week on gut feelings. Gut feelings is a weekly Tuesday segment at 1130 here on Sports Talk 790, where you will call 713-212-5-790 if you'd like to. 7-13-212-5-7-90 and tell us what's going to happen in sports predictions. I have quite a few today. Let's see how we did last week. and then we invite you to join us again at 713-212-5-790. Oh, I remember.

I was about to ask Connor if I forgot to write his down, but then he was after the segment, he was like, no, you guys didn't even ask me, so I didn't give one. Oh, Connor, I'm sorry. I was ignored. It's because Matt was on the road. He gets distracted.

Oh, fumble for Jalen Millrow. That's a shame. By the way, Jeline Mill Road, not an NFL quarterback. Sorry. I would agree with that. Yeah. Athlete. Good call him. Cubie.

Yeah. Does he stay at Alabama? No. Does Quinn stay at Texas? That's standby for that. Oh. You were reading my mind. Okay.

Well, let's go to last week. Matthew, you had the Texans losing by 10 plus. It was close. It was close in the first quarter. It was close. It was 10 to 2, right? This one is also TBD. You have Alex Breggman as a New York Yankee.

Yeah, and I feel like I continue to waffle on that, but I think I'm just going to stay with that one. Just to stay with it. That's fine. It's good feelings. Good feelings are fluid, Matt. Yeah, thank you. I said the Texans will keep it within nine and a half.

I was being a pie-eyed optimist. They did a kickoff. Yeah, they did for a little while. I didn't say when they would. And I also made another prediction, Matt. I said that I would win and be the back. Two-back! Too-back!

I-hard Houston fantasy football champion. On behalf of all of us in Houston, the six million that potentially could listen to this show, we don't care. That's fine. And by the way... You and Adam Planton are crying and taking her... ball home and quitting the league, correct? I've been with the league for 14 years.

It's plenty of time. It's time. It's time. And I'm retired. No. Come on. No, it's done. It's Finito finished. The injuries won't be that bad this next year. You can whatever. The injuries this last year were unprecedented. We're moving on. What else we got?

And that's all I got. All right. Connor, we do not want to neglect you. Connor first. So, Connor, you're going first. Okay. Texan starters, they play at least till halftime. And whether they win or lose, they're done after to the half. and the Texans will lose to the Titans.

Hmm, okay. Okay. The first one's going to be hard to quantify because you're theoretically talking about 22 people here. I'll talk about, I'll say Stroud, Mixen, Collins. The important Sharks. Stroud, Mixon, Collins. All right, I will, I'll piggyback on that. CJ Stride will not finish the first half, but he will play.

Will not finish the first half. Okay. So if, if Money Mills takes a snap in the second quarter, that means it's a gut feeling hit. I think you're on the right track. Okay. I will agree with that. Shee J. Stroud.

I will say plays under five series, or how does that? That's about the same. Join me on this. Join me in that. Then he doesn't finish the half. I'll play four. I say four series or under. Okay.

Well, you really are getting nitpicky on that. I respect that. Why not? By the way, Tennessee does win the game. I got another one with that. Yeah. Okay. Davis Mills throws a touchdown.

That's not terrible I'm not ready to say that I'm going to go Tennessee wins the game In a game it means absolutely zero It does mean I collect on my Under 9 and a half victories They are favorite in the game

Okay I got some more if you want to think about it Okay I'm trying to I'm trying to get too happy With my Damien Pierce prediction 713212 570 Damian Pierce

Oh Jesus Leads the team in rushing Is that to his crazy to say? No. But you may write it down. I will. 713212-5-790.

7-1-3-1-2-5-7-90. Penn State wins by double digits tonight. Ashton Genty does not run for 100 yards in the game. Oh! I love this. I just absolutely love this. I'm not anti-him.

I'm just... It seems like you are. I'm very pro-Pensate in this game. Okay. I love it. Okay. Let me give you some more here. On the bowl games. Michigan's up 13 to nothing on Alabama. Let's see here. You want to make a Texas ball prediction?

My Texas bowl prediction is Gordy gets drunk? No, I say Gordy's Day Sober. It's New Year's Eve. He's from Louisiana and LSU's in town. But it's 2.30. He's got to pace himself. Have you seen Louisiana folks? All right. They're plastered by 10.30 a.m.

When the game is a night game. I will say this. Here's my gut feeling. A Baylor fan cannot walk 25 yards without vomit in the way. From an LSU. They'll be dodging LSU vomit. Okay. Is that okay with that one?

Yes. All right. Let me give you some more. I got Georgia beat Notre Dame, even with the backup quarterback. Okay. What? Nothing. I got Texas cruising past Arizona State.

They will cover the 12-and-a-half. I got no comment. Wishing the best. And I got... You know what? I'll take Texas... I've hit 14 pollets in a row. I'm taking the long ones in a money line.

Ohio State is two and a half point favorite against Oregon, the number one seed. And Oregon already beat them. And Vegas has not feel very good about... I got Oregon beating Ohio State. So let me give you the winners. Make it easier that way. Okay. Texas, Oregon, Georgia.

Hold on. Let me write this down. Texas, Oregon, Georgia. Texas, Oregon, Georgia, and Penn State. And Penn State. That's your final four. That's my final four. I mean, I could see that.

Okay. I mentioned the Texans. I got Ashton Genti. I've got Penn State. I've got those other things. I got Davis Mills playing in the second quarter. I think that's plenty right there. That's a lot of gut feelings.

Okay. And I still have Alex Breggman being in New York Yankee. Although the Detroit Tigers could be a sneaky. And I think I went tigers very early in the gut feeling wars, but I've changed my mind twice since then, so I can't go retro back to the Tigers. Yeah. Oh, you can flip flop like that.

Come on. No, no, no. But I'm staying with the Yankees. It's a fluid situation. But I still feel very, very confident that we're going to be at worst case, Dutch in the lunch at six years. Boise State covers the 11 and a half. Okay.

You got an Ashton Genty prediction? No, I'd have to go look what his player prop is. Okay. Anything else? I'm good for right now. Count anything else for you. The St. Louis Blues beat the Chicago Blackhawks and the Winter Classic today.

Where's that game? That is in Chicago in Wrigley Field. They put ice on Wrigley Field. They've done that before, yeah. It happens every year. Not in Chicago. They've done Wrigley before, though. They've done Wrigley before, yes.

You know it'll be really cool if they went somewhere warm and did it. They played it in Dallas before. And they were able to keep it, the ice cold? Yeah, the cotton bowl. No, I think they had to switch to field hockey at the first intermission. There were blades of grass going to the ice. They had to bring a lawnmower out between intermissions. Yes.

Okay. And anything else? Oh, this one I don't like. I think a man's going to spend it for two games. I think that's right. That's a nail on the head. I'll put a man Thompson to two-game suspension, and I'm going to go Fred Van Vleek. Oh, my God. Hold on, man.

What? You're like 76 predictions. Yeah, I got Freddie getting suspended a game. Oh, really? Yeah, I don't want them to. But I hope I'm wrong on that. I think the objection's enough. I really hope I'm wrong on that one.

Okay. All right, 713, 212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We'll get your gut feelings next. It's 1144 here on Sports Talk 790. We have the news at noon coming up in about 15 minutes. Right now, a short time out. We'll talk to James and Gary next.

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Ross and Matt Thomas. Yo, they got a good feeling. Lunch timers, gut feelings continue now on the Matt Thomas show. By the way, I forgot one more gut feeling. You'll like this, Rossi. I don't have to worry about a quarterback competition next year. Quinn Ewers will be playing somewhere else next.

season. Oh, your gut feeling. Gut feeling is Quinn yours does not go to the NFL. Quinn yours, transfers. Wow. Takes a guarantee in the NIL from somebody that probably will be able to pay him, unlike Leonard Hamilton and Florida State. My gut feeling will be that he does declare for the draft.

Okay. But he's not going to be a day one pick. Why would you declare when you're not a day one pick? Go ahead and get it over. I mean, not get it over with, but start your career. I mean, what is he going to learn in one more year playing for... It isn't learning. It's about taking them bigger money.

Yeah, he'll get more money. He'll get more money in one year in the colleges and he'll get it for his NFL contract. Okay. That's my thought. If he's got, if there's, again, it's Twitter reports, so it's going to take it with a grain of salt. Yeah.

There's a Twitter report says $6 million. Six million. Okay, if he's getting $6 million to go somewhere, then yeah, your gut feeling is going to be right. Why is anybody in a place... You know what? Maybe I'm just spoiled. because Quinn Ewers is a bad quarterback.

He's a good quarterback, actually. And just, I guess I just keep waiting for him. Because he was the number one quarterback recruit coming out of high school. He was supposed to be the all world, everything, five star, one of the greatest quarterback recruits of all time. And he just has not lived up to that billing. He has one year of eligibility left after this year, right? Yes.

So you're telling me, again, that Twitter can be largely erroneous. But if it's true, there's one school out there that's going to pay him $6 million for one year of college football? When's he going to hit the portal? Because it'll be next semester? It'd have to be, yeah. All right, let's go to the phones.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-78. Look who's online to our buddy. It's our buddy our buddy James. All right. Look at it be a little added production value there. Hi, James. Hey, how's it going, Governor Thomas? And listen, happy New Year to everybody out there.

To you, to Connor, to RV, everybody over there and all the fans. Listen, I got a couple of quick picks for sure. The Detroit Lions is going to take down the Viking. That's going to be a war, but the Lions got them. They're going to gobble them up in the end. And I'm also predicting that Bengals are going to make the playoffs. And despite what everybody might think, it's not the popular way. want about Sequin Parkley, he's going to get that record. I don't care about Mr. Dickerson

crying in his tea or whatever he likes to drink, you know, while he's smoking a blunt, whatever the cases, that record's going down. And also, I still disagree with you. I believe that guy, Bregman, is going to head to the rest of us. But I hope and pray that Tucker doesn't follow him next year. I still are holding out hope that he could come and become a Yankee because he's an important fixture similar to the one that played for the Yankees, Paul Neal. He's got the same kind of game and everything, and he's a great player.

Anyway, thank you for taking my car. I'm heading with my wife to Miller's Cafe to enjoy a good lunch. Take care, fellas, and I'll talk to you in the upcoming year. Thank you, James. By the way, you know, we have not mentioned, with Michigan being up 16-0-0 in Alabama. Wasn't this Alabama team supposed to be the one-up? was supposed to play in the college football playoff because they got robbed because of SMU.

Well, it's early. It's early, Matt. Let's not dunk. That's one thing we do on, not we, but a lot of people do on Twitter. I'm not saying you're doing this, but yeah, if this stays the way it's going, obviously Alabama's going to get waxed. And it made fun of except by Paul Feimbaum. Is Kirk Kerrb Street going to come out and talk about how strong Alabama was and they still should have been Michigan? Oh, that hurts. Just wondering.

Why is Herbie taking it? Which, by the way, back in the Quinn Ewers thing, if Texas wins the national championship, he's going to try. transfer out? You're trying to add logic to this. Okay. Again, if it's saying you're wrong. If it's true, if it's $6 million, how do you not? I'm not personally attacking you.

I'm talking about it in general. I'm trying to think about this. Like, that would be insane. There is no way in the world he's a first round pick. No way. So if that's the case, he's going to lose the extra year that you would get as a quarterback. Can he, yeah.

Can he be a fourth round pick? Even if, Rossi, if he's a fourth round pick, picking someone offers him $3 million to play next year. You take that and give yourself, you take the cash, and you hope to improve your draft status. Last year's, I don't know where his draft status is going to improve. I wonder if he's just going to want to get the ball roll. I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen.

He could very, I just think it would be insane. Now, if they lose like this weekend to Arizona State and he transfers out, that makes a lot more sense to me. But it's just funny to me to wrap my head around a quarterback winning a national championship and then transferring out. What if it's Arch Manning leading the way to the national championship? What if the hot hand... It gets hurt or whatever? Yeah, I mean, yeah, that would obviously trend more towards him transferring out. I'm just telling you, I have given up on trying to make sense of how something of a championship.

Like, oh, gosh, we've seen this, I don't know, we've seen guys win championships and leave right after them. coaches have done it? A third round contracts the last year's draft around between 5.5, 6 million. Total. Total.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Over four years. Yeah. That's a third round. If he goes in the fourth round, it's between 4.8 and 4.5 million for four years.

I'm going to the portal one more time, transferring one more time, collecting the check. I'm going to say gut feeling he's going to declare. Yeah, gut feeling is he's going somewhere else

for a paycheck. Gary, a college paycheck. Gary in Spring on 7-9. Hi, Gary. Hey, guys. Happy New Year. Same to you. My guts telling me that the Texans are going to fix them to go on a two-game winning streak.

They're going to win in Tennessee, then they're going to come home and win the opening game of the playoffs at NRG. That's from talking about. And their new receiver, is it Johnson? Is that his last name? Deonti Johnson. Uh-huh. Yeah, he's going to be a positive influence in both those games. and what jersey number does he wear?

83? It's 80 something. 80 something. Okay, as long as it's not 80, we're in good shape. Oh, no one's won 80 again. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Yeah, we're done with it.

Nobody better not wearing 80 again. I don't care what it is. Our friend Adam Wexler put it out. Let me go find it. Adam J. Wexler, make sure you follow him. For lots of information. Yeah, absolutely. 82. Okay.

All right. Two game winning, that's somewhere within a realm of possible. That very well may hit. Rossi, they're going to beat Pittsburgh. They can beat Denver. They're not looking like they beat them. They're not going to be. You have to pray for the Steelers to come here.

I'm not saying they're going to. I actually am going to say they're going to. They're going to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers. They would not beat the Chargers. They would not beat the Ravens. And they could beat Denver too. We'll see. Any given Sunday, baby.

Let's go. Any given Sunday, except against the Chargers and the Ravens. We'll see. All right. News at noon is next. We get a live report from Energy Stadium coming up. Really? Yeah, we don't mess around here on the Matt Thomas show.

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as we present to you the news at noon. Okay, Matt, we're here on the news at noon. Stop at 9. Stop. The Matt Thomas show on. Keep it normal. All right, we're going to start with an unprecedented special field report. This Texas Bowl report brought to you by Dewey Blanchett's Raccoon Bites. Here is Chris Gordy with the latest.

That's not nice. On the Texas Bowl. Gordy, don't listen to him. What's up, Jens? Welcome from the Kinder's Texas Bowl down here on the field. Get you set for a huge matchup between LSU and Baylor. And how many, how was the Baylor tailgate? I did not see one.

Got there so early. There were not many tailgates going on. Wait a minute. You're telling me there were no LSU tailgating. There were people who were tailgating at 4 o'clock this morning, I guarantee you. I mean, there's some, but I got here before the credential window even opened. So not much happening just yet. Why? Well, you know, we had to come get some great pictures down on the field from the Kinders, Texas Bull.

You're such a whore. It's awesome. I respect his horror game. It's really good. He learned from the best. He did learn from it. Okay, fair enough. That feels appropriate.

All right, Gordy, what are your keys to victory for both sides, please? Keys to victory on both sides. Well, obviously, there's some guys out on both sides. Got to have to declare from the draft, got to get the transfer portal, LSU, a little fit at safety. Baylor, pretty decent offense or quarterback, Sawyer Robertson, but pretty good all year. So I think an offensive shoot-up, I think first one to 40 is going to get the win today. Wow. First of 40.

That means if you're going to Vegas or like, Charles, you take the over. 62 and a half. You heard what he said. First of 40. You don't think it's going to be 39 to 7, do you? I'm just saying. All right. And because your objective, who do you have in the game today, LSU or Baylor won in the game?

Well, I mean, just removing all objectivity and forgetting that I went to LSU and forgetting that our big bosses all went to LSU and basically half the people on our sales floor went to out. LSU. I'm taking my I'm taking my biased cap off and I'm going to say LSU wins by 30. Oh my God. I like it.

You know, that's what I love about Gordy. He calls it straight. Yeah. So you went to the Sugar Bowl media Frankish yesterday. Is that fair? Is that accurate? Oh, yeah. We were at the Sugar Bowl Media Day is the most accommodating. They give you a

full hour in a room with any player you want, one-on-one. I mean, it's It's the best, most accommodating. And Georgia, by the way, I think they're going to win it all. Oh, you hear that, Ross? SEC is going to win it all. Okay. That's fine.

We'll see what happens. There were a few people who predicted they think it's going to be a rematch between Texas and Georgia. Georgia goes three and oh against. Third times a charm, baby. And that was me. I said you're going to play each other three times this year. I did say that. I know.

That was a gut feeling you had like in August. Thank you very much for that. By the way, what were the media treats that were offered to you as you? you had the media availability of an hour yesterday. Did you offer, you offered Beny's, coffee, water, coax, or nothing, none of the above? There was Dr. Pepper, I think, the official sponsor of the Sugar Bowl as well as Allstate. So they didn't hand out any free insurance, but I will say the media gift from the Sugar Bowl. They give really nice sweatshirts out.

My buddy who just covered the Tech, the New Orleans Bowl a week ago said they gave you a water bottle. Oh, now, by the way, what are you wearing right this second? objectively an locked an SEC reporter. What are you, what is your current garb? I am wearing my long-sleeved black sports talk 790 sweatshirt. There you go. There you go. Representing. Thank you very much. No LSU Beanie or anything like on your head or anything like that, nothing? Maybe later when I go into the stances.

Oh, so he's temporary guy. Okay, I got you. And how was the World War II Museum in New Orleans? Very educational. Do you guys know that the World War II took place both in Europe and in the Pacific didn't know that Wait, are you serious? You would at the museum too, did you not? Yes, I did. Why didn't you give us that

anecdotal thing? Gordy did. I thought everyone knew that. You know, why, because Gordy paid attention. I knew that. You had your earphones on heading, you had Kendra-Lamar music out in the background as you're walking around. I knew that in sixth grade. You just did not. Fraud. Well, Pacific Theater, the European Theater? You had

Kendrick Lamar in your earbuds as you were watching walking around the theater. Walk around there. Okay. 15-time Grammy winner, Super Bowl. What's wrong with that? Pillets or Prize winner? All right. More relevant in American history than Jimmy Carter.

I get it. I get it. Nobody said that. You're so weird. All right, Gordy. Thank you very much. And anything else you want to add, Ross? Are we going to let him go?

No, I'm good. All right. Well, you guys don't talk too long here. I mean, you've got to be off by one because Chris Blair and the LSU Sports Radio Network are taking over our airwaves. Brought you by Fred's Boudan and Cracklins We already did a simulcast

With him earlier today I don't have you heard that or not We did it We were good See you Yeah All right See ya

Good luck He's like yeah Okay LSU football Down there Ooh Daddy Ah yeah

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They have a roof on this thing I never seen nothing like this now. Magic putting a big old roof on on Tiger Stadium. That wouldn't be very nice. You can't have to let the Tiger loose. You can't put it under the roof now, baby. Unbelievable.

The bail of bail. Now, what do you think of winning a real fight? A tiger or a bail? So we got the LSU report. Yes. We did a bailer report. Okay. If there's any Baylor Bear headed to the game right now,

we need a Baylor smack talk back to LSU guy. He's got LSU. by 30. Ooh. Did it even Bader Smack Talk at all? No, the only time they smack talk was when they were defending Art Bryles.

What else happened? That didn't happen. What else is happening at the news at noon? Asswear of the news at noon, Matt. Of course, the Texans are getting ramped up for their weekend matchup against the Tennessee Titans. We had, Demico Ryans.

Was this yesterday? I'm losing track of all days and what is happening. I don't even know what today is. Talking about the starters playing yesterday and the game against the Baltimore Ravens not being representative of what they are. Yeah, going into this game, as I mentioned to all our guys, that everybody has to be ready to go. And that's where we are. Everybody will be out there playing and we'll, you know, we'll see how the game goes.

But for us right now, we got to go play better. And our last outing on the field was not good enough, not representative of who we were, are defensively, offensively. just it's not a good representation of our team entirely. So we got to go out. We got to play better football. It's going to wipe that taste out of the mouths. The starter's going to get a look how much we shall see. And they're going to play, which is the best thing we came out of yesterday's press availability.

Yes. Well, also yesterday talking about C.J. Stroud and not being 100%. The piece about CJ being banked up is, you know, I think that's real. And that's real for everyone in the league at this time of the year. everybody is banged up the amount of games guys that play the snaps that they play like everyone is banged up that's what it is that's NFL football this time there you go that's NFL that's what it is says to me so again i don't think i don't think he's going again i don't know his body but my point is i don't think he's suffering through anything else that any other quarterback who's played 16 games going through we don't know that but i'm not going to say it okay i don't i don't think he's running around with a separated shoulder okay does it make some pains yes But when I look at CJ's

I don't go, my God, he can barely walk. He doesn't look like he's moving as well as he was earlier than his season. To me. That's because his offensive line sucked and Nick Ocero said it was fine. Well, he's been getting beat up. And yes, they were fine at the trade deadline. Or he didn't want to give up any draft capital. He's like, we're not getting anything anyways.

And we're probably not going to be Kansas City, Baltimore or Buffalo anyway. Do you think it was part? They did beat Buffalo. Do you think it's part of what he was thinking is that? No. Even matter what I make do at the trade deadline or nothing but the 4th, past team? No.

What was you think of the trade deadline? At the trade deadline they had a pretty good record by them, didn't they? What was their record? They were scuffling on offense. They had lost Diggs for the season.

Offensive line was a hot mess. Yeah. Well, now Dells Long gone for the season. You're missing two of your top three receivers. That's why they'll pick a lot of offensive line issues. By the way, I had a previous gut feeling that I think I want to put back in the mix. Okay. Did they go get T. Higgins after all?

Oh. Remember that one from Alaska? year. I do remember that one. I don't know if I'm ready to say that just yet. Okay. Let it marinate. I'd love T. Higgins. I know. I don't know why. Why are you such a big T. Higgins fan? I don't know. I don't know why it is, but I think he'd be great. He's good. I think it'd be great as a Texan.

He'd be great as the number two wide receiver. All right. 1213 sports talk 790. That was the news at noon. We are looking for a Baylor smack talker to call the show. Maybe we're not very, maybe our demographic is not great Baylor fans. If you're a singular Baylor fan or you know somebody that's a Baylor fan, call in right now and smack talk while you're going to beat LSU in a couple of hours at the Texas Bowl. 713212-5790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. The Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk 790. On the side, Harold Osadoe, this is Henry J. Tipano.

This is your LSU pre-game to the pre-game. Ooh, man, them cracklings. And the pre-prie game, and the pre-game. In the pre-game, Cracklands and Section 294. Calvin Hannah charged $19 for a set of cracklings. The Cracklands or crackling? Hand me some of them boiled peanuts. Yeah.

Man, we're going to be great. We got to get the eminent perspective. Okay. Immany. I mean, in a... It don't hurt yourself now, now, they all. I mean, intimate perspective. Whatever your name was, Dale?

It's a high Herald T. Austin, O. Okay. We go to the Baylor Network. We've got a line two. I've got a line one. What kind of hog-wash song is this? Now Mike the Tiger can't dance to this. This is not bad.

It isn't bad, actually. Terry College footballie. What would you expect? Do you want a fifth of Beethoven? Is that what you want or is that what you want or what? I know that's what you want. You're not so exactly I don't want. David.

Are you calling us live from the Texas Bowl? with Baylor Smack Talk. David, you're on Smack Talk. You're on Bear Down. How are you, friend? Good. How are you guys? All right now. So give it to us right now. How is Baylor going to do against LSU today? Well, listen, man, it's going to be a close game. Baylor's going to pull it out because you've got to remember the intangibles here. You got Coach Miranda with his LSU background, but going to Baylor, you know, there's a special win waiting to happen for him and Baylor's on that role. I mean, look at the winning streak. How is that going to stop today? It's not. You guys are playing the best.

football in the Big 12 back half of the year, honestly. Better than Colorado. Yeah, it's, well, I mean, you know, Prime has got the flash, but they definitely didn't have a good showing in the San Antonio, right? Nope, nope. Yeah, I think Oranda, he got them especially, you know, he was on the hot seat early in the season, as we all know,

but he's really turned it around. And when you look at this eight win and this current role, I mean, it is good. You know, Baylor wants that SEC matchup, so we're going to find out if it matters more in the SEC or not today. It won't point. Yes, we will. Now, are you in the stadium right now, or are you outside the stadium?

I'm outside right now. We've got a good crowd here. Lots of people, a lot of activities, a lot of food, lots of staying in line for 45 minutes to spend a wheel. But, you know, it's all good. People having a good time. All right. All right.

What is the current Baylor tailgate spread right now? Well, I'm going to go with Baylor 21, LSU 17. That's an under. That's a heavy under. Now, what time did you get to the stadium? You know, we got here early. We got here about, I'd say, about 1130. Okay, so what do you all been eating?

And do you all drink or y'all been just eating right now? Just eating so far. Otherwise, I wouldn't call into this program, which might respect we would want to have for it. Thank you very much. But I'll tell you, there's lots of good food, lots of, lots of different, you know, vendors. Of course, Kenders got there. You spend their wheel, you can get a shot of barbecue sauce. So that's not necessarily this shot you might be thinking of.

No, no. A lot of good food out here. A lot of Texans have a good setup with some great kids activities. You can bring the whole family out there. Nice. Weather's perfect. Perfect Houston Day for the weather for the crowd. And the crowd's getting bigger.

It's looking good. I'd say the fan mix, though, is surprisingly about half and half. Okay. I know Houston's a good LSU town as well. Oh, yeah, for sure. Lots of green and gold and lots of purple and gold, I guess, it is. Well, thank you very much, David. I appreciate the report.

That's live report from David the Baylor Smack Talk. It was very polite, as you expect from Bailey. Look, I'm a big fan of MacBrow's. I thought a director at Baylor. He used to be at University of Houston. And so I wish him the very best. You know, look, we work with a lot of LHU people. I know Gordy wants his tigers to win.

He doesn't hate on the Cougars like you do, so I'm kind of rooting for his squad tape. I don't hate on the Cougars. You do. What did I say? You hate the Cougars daily. No, I don't. Wishing them the best.

Okay, so I'm going to buy you a shirt this week. Okay. You of age Cougars. quarter zip will you wear it? If I go to a game or something I'll get you some tickets I'm not gonna, that'd be like I'm gonna buy you a longhorn quarter zip, are you gonna wear it? Of course

I would. Why would you? I'm not anti-Texas. Yeah, but why would you represent a team that you should don't have any feelings? Because I like nice quarter-zips. I'm a quarter-send. I'll get you one then. I will absolutely 100% wear it. 100% wear it. Okay. Now it'll make my son's that mad at me.

Yeah, we're taking pictures. Ross, do you want a Mizzes? one? I'm good. Okay. I don't need a U of H one. I don't need a Missou one. I don't root for them.

I don't hate Mazoo. I don't hate U of H. Y. Y'all believe that? I got a problem with some of their fans. Well, I got a lot of problem with your fans. Why?

Delusional, arrogant, obnoxious. No, I don't think so. They throw things? Humble. Yeah. Now, they did throw bottle water bottles. That was the kids.

And then the exhaustive report from Chris Don't We found, we couldn't, couldn't attach anybody's name to them. Those are the kids. I can't be blamed for the kids' actions. What are those, 19, 20-year-olds in the student section, throwing water bottles? The kids are out of control. As I've told you, though.

And it happens everywhere. As I've told you, I want Texas to play for the national championship. Okay, why? Because it's, first of all, it's good for the show. Secondly, when one of our teams that we love is doing really well, there's just a better energy. Like when my Cougars went to the final four You know how big deal that was for me Even though it was the COVID year

Even though we went to Indianapolis I got our ass kick by Baylor It was fantastic It was not fantastic being there It was wonderful But I was going there was fun Yeah So I want you to have that same experience

Well they were in the final four last year And you went And went to the game And they got their ass kick Well they can get their ass kick We didn't lose that badly Make one freaking throw to AD Mitchell One throw Quinn

Where's the Where's the same? How many finals this year? The Texas would be playing in the Cotton Bowl. You're going to go? I might. Probably not. There's 110,000.

No, they don't see 110 at 18, too. Well, they see about 105-ish. Okay. And then where's the national championship game? If you get my, if you get back in Atlanta, right? And then, yeah, I'd be back in Atlanta. What date is that a game on the national championship? I can't remember.

I'm going to look at it up a quick. Because I might be in Atlanta that weekend. Okay. I can see you stay with me. If you give me a room, I'll do it. Well, think about it. How long is it How long does it drive to Atlanta?

No, no, no, no. The national championship is just January 21st. God. January 20th. They're playing deep in the year. Or am I on January 20th? Well, it's MLK Day. We have a Rockets game that day.

Hmm. Okay. Where? In Houston? Yeah, they're playing Detroit. Yeah, let's see. The simile finals are at the Cotton Bowl and the Orange Bowl. Longhorns, if they beat Arizona State, would be taking on Ohio State or Oregon.

And you're a 12.5 point favorite on this. Yes. So on the devastation ladder, would you be like, damn, we lost a college football playoff game? I'm upset. But Arizona State props to them, or do you go, damn, Arizona State with 12.5 point favorite, we lost to them? That's a, I feel like, so when I, if you ask me right now, I would say I wouldn't care that much. But if you ask me in the fourth quarter of the game and it's close, I would be going to going nuts. So my investment level is high, obviously. Oh, I would be high too. Yeah, for sure.

But I would say I'm really, really, at this moment, I don't think Texas is going to win at all. I don't think you're going to get into a shootout. I think the Texas defense is going to make life miserable for Arizona State. And scat-cad-a-cam scataboo? Him too. I'm going to get super-invested come semi-final time. That's when I'm really going to start. Oh, by the way, we have some good news. I think you're going to get a reformed CFP next year. Same requirements, same elements to get in. But you're not going to be locked into a top four if you're a conference champion.

Yeah, I mean, having Boise State and Arizona State locked into three and four is just absurd. I think this is going to be, you're going to get in the same way. Yeah. But you're going to be ranked based on what the community thinks you are. I would also say if we do this 10 years in a row, this would be, this is more of an outlier type of year. Yeah, because who was the conference that got knocked down? out. Was it the ACC that didn't have the highest? No, it was a it was ACC. Yes, and Big 12. Yeah. I mean, well, no, Big 12 knocked out, uh, ACC. Yeah. So yeah, I think, I think you're going to get,

we're going to make one subtle change. And honestly, who is this supposed to irritate? Nobody. Unless, unless you believe the committee has a bias towards your school. And I will say, again, I think they should reseed. Um, I, I'm, I'm indifferent on that. I like brackets, but I could also see you reseeding. Reward the best teams. Especially in a format like this, where you're talking about teams from across the country, I would like reseeding. Yeah, I could.

I could see either way. I could really good. All right. Let's update you on the D of the Year votes. They're coming in fast and furious, Rossi. Are they? Well, furious, but not fast. D of the Year.

If you've not voted for D of the Year, we'll take care the candidates are next. 1227 Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas and Ross B. Riel. Two guys extremely passionate about Houston sports. You can tell them to go get a room. We've shared a hotel room. But they already have. And then I've shared a bed.

Truth be told. That's true. Thanks for the visual. Pillow in between. There's no pillow between you and more lunchtime Houston Sports Talk on Sports Talk 790. 37 seconds remaining in the first half, Michigan leading Alabama 16 to 7. Come on. Is that Gellon Milrow? Yes, it is.

Jaylon. Down to the right side. Down to the 50, 40 and 35 or something like that. Can you do an Alabama accent? I don't think so. You should do Keith Jackson, don't you? You do a good Keith Jackson, Matt. Let's hear it.

Milro on the outside of the edge. It's 25, 30, 35, 40. And down the sideline he goes. And Michigan reckons him down after a huge Miller Millro again. You've got to start with the Woe Nellie. Oh, d'allie. Okay, I'll try to do it here. This is not great radio.

This is fantastic. He's dead. May he rest? You're honoring the dead, Matt. Yeah, that's true. If you wouldn't any good, well, actually, we'd probably still be impersonating him. But this is an homage. All right.

Ferdatatat at the, Alabama, at the Michigan. We got on it. Ooh, the big fellow from Birmingham to the sideline. He's supposed to be about greasy here or somebody. Hey, Matt. Now, what you want to do here is you want to make sure you're keeping an eye on the timeout and the clock situation. It's imperative that Alabama get out of bounds in these next couple of plays to try to get a field goal

and build some momentum coming into the second half. And a field goal kicker for Alabama. His name is Matt Smith. It's not Matt. Something Nicholson. Nicholson. From the 46-yard line, first down in 10, Alabama. Inside a Michigan territory.

Millrow from the shotgun. Steps in a pocket and throws a. deep down the right sideline is caught by number five at the 10 slides where to the six-yard line. And the narrative for Alabama should be in a college football playoff is back in play. Absolutely horrible defense by Michigan. You want to play the boundaries in a situation like this where they're in the two-minute drill, completely asleep at the wheel, Michigan there, allowing the huge gain. Now second and goal after the clock stoppage.

This is terrible, by the way. What? Alabama coming back. I told you. Dunk on them too fast. We did dunk on him too fast. America dunked up. Twitter's dunking.

I know. By the way, did you see, people are mixed about Stuart Mandel, business guy, Stuart Mandel. Some people don't respect him and whatnot. The writer?

Yeah. I think he's good. I don't have a problem with it. Oh, you know, who's the other guy? Who was the, Darren Rovel is the one that people are making. Oh, Darren Rovel is the one that's a nerd. You can get into a bowl game, a championship quarterfinal game for under 40,

bucks a couple places. Yeah, I think the, I think the peach bowl is really cheap. Oh, did he catch that? No, he did not. Yeah, why is it? Why is a peach bowl so cheap? I mean, Texas fans were just in Atlanta, and then they'll go to Atlanta, and then you'd have to go back to Atlanta in two weeks if they make the final.

I think there's a little bit of people waiting to see if they, there's, you have to budget. I mean, my God, you're going to the SEC championship game. There are some Texas fans who went to college station. Those tickets were a pretty penny. And then you're going to the SEC championship game. Then you've got the first game in Austin. Then you got another game in Georgia.

Then you might come back to Dallas. People are probably saving their money for that. Because then you might have to go back out to Georgia again. It's too many games. It is a lot of games. And, oh. We got to focus on our show. That's going to be a field goal.

Sorry, we're watching the Alabama. Michigan Games, bad radio. It's going to be 1610. That's a punch of chance right there. Yes. All right. Earlier in the show today, we announced the candidates for the day of the year. And here are the four nominees, and your votes do matter.

You have until midnight tonight to put those votes in. This guy named Block on Twitter that ripped the Brady Rowe saying if you watch the Roses and you liked that you were a racist, homophobic, and what else were you? Massaginist. Yeah. He's got 5% of the vote. Okay. Next, basically the NCAA turning a blind up.

literally to the NIL and the non-regulation. Now it's out of control this year. That's 35% of the vote. That's a lot. It's way more than I thought it was going to be. MLB for a horrible strike zone this year by its umpires at 22%. And Jim, Jim Sloss-Nagel, the new coach at Fightin, Texas University, at 38%, the baseball coach, for his destroying the young reporter at the college world series saying that he is an Aggie for life and then he leaves the next day to go take the job at Texas. write-in entries for Jeff Passon for carrying the water of the Dodgers

Got that right Right-in entries for who else Mark Davis The official that threw out Fredman Bleas That's a good one And EMAIDOCA And Angel Hernandez is always on the list Yeah real quick on the Rockets

And I believe I'm in the minority on this I am over fascinated with all the rumors that are out there This NBA This trade deadline Oh it's been Deer and Fox in that And what else? But it's everybody. Sacramento looking to move players.

Utah's looking to move players. The Lakers are looking to acquire players. Brooklyn looking to move players. It feels like every other minute, there is somebody that's got a rumor mill out there that says that they're going to be looking, that teams are looking to trade. And everybody keeps putting the Houston Rockets on the top of the trade list.

Well, they have some trade chips. They've got lots of first round picks still. Is that trade, is that the trade? from James Harden that just keeps on giving over and over again? I mean, what a fleece that they got from Brooklyn on that bad boy. Thank you for your service, Brooklyn. But isn't it crazy how every team is attached? And every time I try to kick the tires, and I'm doing a lot of it because that's their business?

Oh, wow. You're vetting your sources? No, I'm not vetting. I'm just saying, hey, is there anything to it? Everything I keep hearing is they love the young core. Now, if there's a trade that makes them go, ooh, wow, they'll trade a young core piece. I would do it for Deeran Fox. Would you, it's Deeran Fox. I mean, he got a coach fired.

If you could just do a one-for-one swap of Deeran Fox and Jalen Green, this team gets better. But you can't trade Jalen Green. Can you know? I don't think you can trade Jailen or Alpe at this point. I know. So how do you involve a, how do you get a significant, unless you're giving up all those first round picks? But even so, if you're getting the Rockets' first round picks, you're looking at what, 22, 23, 24, right?

They just need their own players to shoot better. If somehow Jalen Green shot 38% from 3, this team would be so dangerous. I would pick them to go way more deep in the playoffs. And Fred Van Vleet's three-point shooting coming back to where he is for a been of his career. He was over 38% last year. Is he still around 30% this year?

He's had a couple of really good games. But his career, his number is 37. So I keep waiting and waiting for his numbers to go back up. It hadn't necessarily happened yet. Yeah. There's a huge part of me that says this team is super close, Rossi, and I want to go see what they can do. And there's also a part of me that says,

are they close because of what the Corps is already here and doing? Last year, Fred Van Vleet, 38.7% this year, 32.5. Career 37.2. So he's well off his career right now. So, you know, it's going to come back. All right. They're shooting better. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-2-5-7-7-1. 90 Rogers with us on the Matt Thomas show. Ross, Roger, good afternoon. Good afternoon, fellows, and a great new year, or start of the New York's year. After the New Year begins, of course. It's about the trade talk. Well, the reason why Rockets are on the trade talk, because they need a closer. They need a guy who can score points.

They're great defensively. They are great offensively until five minutes of the third quarter, in the fourth quarter, and it's go time and they get stagnant. You've seen the last few games, you're on the call for the last few games. And, you know, when that better talent gets on the court with them, they get a little stagnant and they don't have a go-to guy, but they do have a lot of trade chips. Who would be your number one target?

You know, maybe a 3-and-D guy, maybe a guy who can play both ends of the court, maybe Gianne Fox, the butler is an older cat. I don't know, but we do need something, and I'm not sure if we have to bring up a core guy to get that, or do we have enough trade shifts as far as draft, draft stop to pull something like that off? I know the GM doesn't really like to let go of his core guys.

Right. We're going to have to do something here. I appreciate it. Thank you very much, Roger. Appreciate it. Thanks, same to you. Was he swimming? In the shower?

It sounded like they might be in a rainstorm. Is it raining here? I don't think so. Okay. Or a dust bowl or something. Cam Thomas. Not my son. Okay.

33 minutes a game for Brooklyn. They are 12 and 20. Average is 25 points a game. I don't know if he's in a mood to be moved. 39% three-point shooter this year. It'd be the best on the team. Let me, without giving a particular name. I would like, how many 40% shooters in the NBA are available right now?

I'm just saying metaphor. You don't have to put that out there. Can you go get me a 40? You, the GM, de facto GM of the Rockets, can you go get me, can you see a player out there that would be traded by the deadline? The Rockets could give up first round picks and maybe one or two of their pieces, maybe one piece. That can get me a 40% three-point shooter.

And play where for who? I mean, I would say top eight rotation. I mean, it could be a guy off. bench. I don't know. I mean, maybe, maybe they like Fred and Dylan being the veteran starters in that group. I mean, can Cam Whitmore be that guy? I don't know. Can Cam be a 40% career three-point shooter?

These are the guys that came off the bench for the Astros for the Rockets yesterday. I'm in Thompson. You don't want you, want him in there. Cam Whitmore, Stephen Adams, Aaron Holiday. Aaron Holiday, obviously replaceable, but I mean, he's pretty good three-point shooter. And also, he's been getting Reed Shepard's minutes. Yeah. We're going to have to, well, we'll see what happens tomorrow,

but we'll have to ask coach about Rechepard on. On Thursday when he joins us. What's going on if it's a G-League time or what? So to answer Roger's question, I want a 40% shooter to join this team. You're not taking Alpern-Singoon out of the starting lineup. He's not a good three-point shooter, unfortunately. Fred Van Vleet's been bad.

Charghargyn's been coming on. How are their numbers so bad? When it doesn't seem like they're that terrible. Because here's the thing is when Fred is on, he's 5 of 9 and it looks awesome. And then there'll be two or three games where he may go 2 of 9 or Jane will go 1 of 8. And that's where the numbers come in. Jabari is 35% on the year. Bill Brooks has been good.

There's another part of me, Ross, honestly, as I'm talking out loud here, thinking out loud, this team's still 10 games about 500. Yeah, but they can still get better. They still can get better. The question is, how much can they narrow the gap with one player? Because right now, Oklahoma City is the Crem de la Cremma of the Western Conference. I don't know how the NBA feels about this, but the two best teams of the NBA, frankly, not even close, are Cleveland and Oklahoma City.

Record-wise, yeah. I would say Celtics are still. But the Celtics, that's, those are your top three, and I think everybody else is down a level. If I had to pick a finals right now, I would say, under Celtics. That'd be good. I mean, I don't want it, but it'd be good for the league. Does the NBA try to push Oklahoma City on the

national on the marquee, if you so to speak? They need to. Absolutely. They've got stars. They did it when it was Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant leading away. They were huge stars. They were on commercials and on, I mean, all over the place. Does Jalen Williams get some notoriety? Does Shea Gilger's Alexander?

Does Isaiah Hartenstein, when Chad Holmgren comes back, Isaiah Joe? I mean, they're not recognizable names, that's for sure. But damn, they're good. They may lap the entire Western conference before long. With what? Their record. The Rockets? No, Oklahoma City.

Okay. I was like, I got confused. So the question is, that's what I think the Rockets are going to be thinking. I'm in the war room with the Rockets. I close the door. Are we one player away? from getting Oklahoma City. That's the question I've got to answer.

1246, back to wrap things up in a moment. Do not go anywhere. Join us here, the final segment of the show for the year at 713-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. So, December 31st, many moons ago,

I was in Atlanta at the Peach Bowl. where my cougars destroyed Florida State and their third string quarterback That's because the first two were afraid to play us Beat Jimbo Fisher Which everybody apparently beats Jimbo Fisher It's going to happen I saw a meme somewhere

It was just Jimbo waving saying Make sure you send that check I saw that exact same one too All right So David Bassidy was the sports information director At the University of Houston at the time Now he works for the Atlanta Falcons

Chris Good friend of mine He knows how much you love soccer. I'm glad you brought this up. So he sent me a photo of the game program from the U of H Florida State Peach Bowl game, where I buy out all the broadcasters. Yes. And it says I host a show 11 to 2.

11 to 2 days. 11 to 2 days. Preimposed for the Rockets and the Astros. Now just the Astros because I'm doing the Rockets games. I was the 4-N-P announcer for the Rockets. I worked in Minneapolis in Utah. And then in the last paragraph goes is this. Nicknamed Matt Socker Thomas.

He can be found in his off time watching the world's beautiful game. Often wearing a Chelsea scarf and rooting for the blues. His passion for the game is evident on air, as well as dedicating time to talking about the world, about the sport, especially leading up to and during the World Cup. That's wonderful, Matt. We do call you Matt Soccer Thomas. No, you don't.

Nobody calls me that. Okay, maybe you're right. Or Peachback. or any of those things. A peach basket people do call you. Dozens of people have called you peach basket. That's because you've proud of them too. I'm more of a...

My favorite one is probably High Horse Matt. What am I on the High Horse for? Oh, please. By the way, Ira Windermann, who is the beat writer for the Miami Heat... Ira Windermann. One last one for the year? You know what? I'm going to stay away from this one just to be politically correct.

I'm going to let you handle it. Why? Iro Winderman Might as well Go ahead, knock it out You get the last one Because you're better than I am What? I wrote

I got nothing You can't do Ira Winderman? Sure, I'll try Windermen Was a humble man From Potee Oklahoma And he was selected Into the Army

During World War II where he was sent off to the European theater and was amongst the men who landed at Omaha Beach on that faithful day on June 6, 1944. He and his brigade broke through the German lines, where he was then someone who took over a German tank and slaughtered 47 Germans. mercilessly.

After that, they settled in a French village where he bedded three French women in one night, which they say is a record that Steele stands today. He fathered many children with these French women, who we all

took all of them as wives. This is not going well. No, it's going to end it. This is pretty, just going. And we're going to get yet for this one. Thank you. Thank you. Ira Winderman says, Tyler Hero. Iro Wendamondeman. Yeah. You try.

The French fondler. Ira Winderman says that Tateau Hero says he's got a small bruise on his right hip from being flipped in Houston. What? Yeah. Oh, come on. He says he's got no hostility towards the rockets but enjoys getting under people's skin. He also says that Jimmy Butler says it doesn't matter if he prefers a trade. Ira Winderman is on the own.

Ira Winderman says Brian Winhorse's cousin? Asked if he wants to be here. Butler says that's a good question. Butler also says he'll put. play on tomorrow. And then he says he tweaked his ankle against the thunder. Then he also says he wish that Jimmy Butler

says he wish he could have gotten involved in the melee mix in Houston. Asked if there was any talks between the agent and Pat Riley Butler said next question. Jimmy Butler had a lot to say. I like Ira Winderman's Twitter handle. Ira Heatbeat.

It's pretty good. Gotta make sure you said it nice and slowly. Happy New Year, everybody. Go vote for the year. Hmm. D of the year. He was ready. That was perfect.

Talk to you all on January 2nd, Sports Talk 790. NSU football. Who'd have? Up next.