The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Vs Kings Tonight! Texans Start Prep For Chiefs, Chris Paul Is Told to Leave

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

Rockets Vs Kings Tonight! Texans Start Prep For Chiefs, Chris Paul Is Told to Leave

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-1 in H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Tuesday, no, a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That happens. Look, the reality is this. You take a donut day off? It's kind of a weird to have a Tuesday off.

It frankly sucks. I'll be brutally honest with you. But I will say when the plane touched down, at 3.30 in the morning on Tuesday morning. I was like, thank God I don't have to do a show. Not that I don't enjoy enjoying the show with you. And we've done a few sleep. And you hate us.

It's okay. No, no, no. But you just have to be realistic. And I was like, if I go to bed and get home, I got my bed, my head hit the pillow at 420. They would just, it would have been the worst show ever. I mean, it would have been one of the worst shows in the history of sports. So I figured, you know what, Ross, you can handle it. And you did a great job.

Yeah, thank you. All my Aggie friends, like five. Oh, really? We're like, can we get enough of this Texas LSU crap off the radio? I'm like, bro, I'm off today. Leave me alone. Yeah, Gordy was in, so we were talking some college football. We were talking big news.

Lane Kiffin, we're talking about Longhorns getting into the playoff. I mean, hey, this is big news, baby. Aggies are already in, so you enjoy your time. Yes, you dropped a couple of spots, but nothing to worry about. You're good. We did find out that Texas is not good and not going to get in, which is, I don't think it's any new surprised, and they didn't get any help on Saturday. Yeah.

And Hunter Eurecheck, former athletic director at University of Houston, very low reviews as so far the ADA to Arkansas, but basically was asked yesterday. He said, hey, what went wrong for Texas? And they said, your loss of Florida crushed you. And I don't think that's no surprise anybody. It's not. And look, I'm sorry. It's almost like I have to do like a public service announcement for Longhorns fans who are, they are throwing fits right now. We're not going to, we're going to cancel the game against Ohio State.

year, we're going to cancel the future. They have a future home and home with Michigan or Notre Dame or something. Like, we're going to cancel the wall. Like, okay, throw your hissy fits, but you can win these big games. Texas scheduled Michigan in a big home and home and won that game. You can win next year against Ohio State. You can beat Florida. You can beat Georgia.

If you're saying we're Texas and we're Tier 1 college football program, go beat Ohio State. Go beat Georgia or don't lose to Florida. And that game wasn't even close. the final score was. And as I said, and I'm going to get lectured from Longhorn, what's his name, Scott. They almost lost to Kentucky. They almost lost to Mississippi State. This is not some, no doubt about it, top five team in the country. It is a fringe case. And wherein you're on the fringe, sometimes you don't make it in. And they didn't, they're not going to make it in. It is what it is. Stop throwing a hissy fit over it. I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to get you starting this But I mean, I know You can't need to be safe Riled up at 103 I didn't want to I have to play that back Oh we can play that You know

To peel the curtain back Before I got here in 2010 They would The old show would take segments of their show And just re-record them right off the air I was producing that show I would record it I'd be like what are y'all doing

If let me take it Excuse me If you repeat a segment of the show And you don't edit it or you don't clip it. Like, if you have interviews that you play, like, if we have somebody out at 1030. Hey, I was following instructions.

You shouldn't be doing radio. You should be embarrassed. And that's why those people are gone for the reason. You just can't be that lazy. We only get people calling in like, hey, why are y'all replaying this from earlier in the show? Oh, just terrible. I'd be like, I don't have an answer.

I'm just part-time. Now, interviews are one thing. Because audience has changed all the time. Audiences change and interviews are interesting. And you only get, like, for example, the head coach of the Houston Rockets is a big get. He'll be on tomorrow's, as a matter of fact. so I'm looking forward to that, yeah.

All right, so yesterday, I'll be honest, I listened to about 70 seconds of the show because I was hunch drunk. That's fine. Sleep deprived. Wasn't so my mom yesterday after. Chris Corey poked his head in here. Yeah, so Lane Kiff for life.

Lane Kiffin for, I bet he was, is he insufferable right now? He was getting a little upset with me when I was like, what has Lane Kiffin won? Uh-oh. Because he pulls that card on Sark. Sark hasn't won anything. Sark has at least won a power four conference championship. Lynn Kiffin hasn't won anything to that stand.

Didn't y'all go like the two national semifinals? Yeah. I mean, you got nothing to sneeze out of there. Funny how that's good. And then he said, this is the best part, Matt. He said, I call it down the middle.

I take my LSU hat off. Oh, my God. He is the biggest homer I've ever met in my life. Love you, Gord. Oh, not the biggest, but he's up there. He's close. Okay, he's definitely top six. All right.

On the radio show today, we're going to have Shut your ball ass up at 1130, which I'm sure people could be calling in on that. Can't wait. We've got the news at noon. Calvin Samson is going to drop by at 1.30 for a little quick visit. The Cougars playing Florida State this weekend at the TOTA centers. We'll talk to him about... Huge.

Playing that and talk about the player. Are the Nulls any good? You know what? Sam Cassell Jr. on the squad? I guess I should know that. I did watch actually Florida Duke yesterday. Okay. Carlos Boozer's son, Camry, is really good.

I know. Longhorns found out about that game one. Yeah. And I didn't shed a tear with Florida losing the game, although they beat me in the national championship. They didn't meet you, Matt. They beat my school. They beat me to flying to San Antonio and nearly dying over it.

COVID beat me during that. That was the worst part of it. Not only did my team lose a championship, but I got sick as soon as I got back. That sucked. I'm sorry to hear, Matt. Yeah, that's fine. All right.

And then coming up at about 45 minutes, our clock's not working. 45 minutes from now. We're going to talk to Gretchen Shears. she's a president of business operations for the rockets. People have been asking, you know, look, oh, there's our, we have a fire alarm going off on our car. Yeah, but we can't go anywhere. No, we're stuck.

I mean, hopefully we're going okay. It's some alarm. Point being is this, a lot of people have, you know, cut the cord and doing the streamings. And one of the byproducts of that, unfortunately, for a lot of people is you can't watch Space City Home Network. They're now offering an app, a pay, and a pay app service that will allow you to now watch it whereas you travel. I will tell you, this is very intriguing to somebody.

who wants to cancel Fubo and doesn't want to go back to Xfinity. So you'll be an interesting participants at the interview. I've got a lot of questions for Gritch. I bet you do. I bet you so Gritch will join us at 1050. We mentioned Texas

getting the word yesterday for a hundred euro check that apparently in the room when the door was shut they looked at everybody's losses and they said Texas you have the worst one. And the counter argument is good. Look, you should look at the wins as well. Three top ten wins is huge. Right. And are the

Longhorns, one of the top 12 teams in the country and should they be in, I say yes. But to cry foul like it's some human tragedy if they're not in, no. Texans get ready for the practice field probably as we speak starting their week preparation for the chiefs game on Sunday. We have a

startling bit of a little NBA news that's not going to resonate here in Houston, but it certainly resonates around if you're a fan of the sport and one of the greatest all-time players who happened to be a former rocket is, well, was told at 3 o'clock in a morning to leave, which is a really odd scenario.

We'll talk about what's going on in that. We were talking about college. The number one recruit in the country was an LSU kid from Louisiana, and he has decided to hold off on his early signing. He wants to see what LSU staff looks like. I don't know if I believe that. Make me an offer. I need more. added extra zero

I don't know if he's waiting for the assembled coaching staff I don't know if this number one kid named Lamar Brown is worried about who the special team's coordinator is going to be for LSU football I think he's worried about if that's going to be a five or a six because they're keeping the de-coordinator and Lane Kiffin's going to call plays right I mean what else are we waiting for

I guess Charlie Weiss Jr. is going back to Ole Miss to coach okay but I think he's still going to LSU at the end of the day I don't know I'll lose track of these things I don't, doesn't really matter. I don't care. Yeah. Rock is by the Kings tonight. Looking forward to that.

That should be a nice way to get rid of the wounds that was the game against Utah Jazz. It was fine. It wasn't great. Well, you have to, you know, I always, my belief is you have to have, you have to try to have less than five. Oh my God. Did we really lose that game in games? Well. You've only one so far.

That's only one so far, but we were literally talking on the show like, hey, no bad losses for the Rockets yet. And it happened. Yeah. Well, it's funny because I asked EMA, a doke in the pregame visit that I always have. I said, you know, how do you get away from the, well, we just kicked their ass for 28 points? And he's like, I think we're going to be ready to do this. And I don't know if Stephen Adams not playing was a huge factor, but it certainly was a factor. It was part of it.

And you were cold from three and the jazz shot 40% from three. And they have, I mean, I was talking about this yesterday on the program, Matt. Even the worst NBA teams, like, Lori Marketing is an all-star. I mean, Yusuf Nerkich is like a, you know, 18 and 10 kind of guy. Fiati George scores 25 points a game. Guante George is good. Ace Bailey is starting to come along. Like, they are, even the bad NBA teams these days have four or five players that can make you say wow here and there.

Yeah. So we will get a little bit of that. We have to get into a story that was told by one former NBA player that owns a steak restaurant in New York. Former NBA player owns a steak restaurant in New York. And he had to kick out somebody out of his restaurant that was a former NBA player as well. And a guy he competed against. You're saying, well, what did you do to get kicked out? I think I'm going to save it for a little bit.

But what he did was gross. So I'm going to see if you can finish the puzzle pieces. Okay. NBA owner finds out, or restaurant owner owns, finds out that a player in the NBA who you used to compete against was at his restaurant and had to physically pick him up and carry him out of the restaurant. Okay. Hmm. And it was a, I find myself with these, with the Twitter clips, listening, you know, there's like,

there's nine, I'm going to pull the curtain back for just one second. There's nine million athlete podcast. Everybody in their mother is doing these podcasts now. Yes. Very few of them. I mean, less than one percent are sustainable because the athletes don't really care. It's, it's a lot of times. It's a lot of time.

They're great storytellers, but they can, they don't do it on. daily basis. They don't, I mean, doing 20 hours is fun for us. It's the greatest job we've ever had in our lives, but it is a job. It is a responsibility. These athletes that just sit in front of a microphone and tell old stories,

that's going to run out after a while. You can only hear so many Gilbert Arena stories. You know, Matt Barnes can only drop so many F-bombs on his podcast. They're not sustainable. They have little clips, and some are more successful than others, but largely they go in and out. But that's what these trends in hours

as you're seeing these athletes, these former athletes doing these podcasts. No one's listening all the way, but they're enjoying these little 90-second clips, and I'm happy one of them, so I just happen to hear one and go. That was pretty funny. What else going on?

What did y'all get to yesterday? Anything juicy besides fighting with Lock on LSU? No, we didn't really fight that much. We were mostly in agreement about everything. Okay, by the way, Zion Williamson, out another three weeks. Oh, wow. So that we'll check the box another 70s. We're on a next year.

Seventy game schedule. I mean, he played 71, so. already, but... Did he overextend himself getting in the best shape of his life? Probably so. And that's just the NBA now. Everybody's got these Steve Kerr was talking about. All these soft

tissue injuries are happening everywhere. Yeah. And we also got to talk about tri-tips. Okay. Delicious. Yeah. That's good. Tri-tip greater than brisket. You heard me. You heard me.

Okay. And what's the other nickname you give yourself? Mr. America? You call yourself Mr. Texas. Let me take you something right now. See, now nobody's listening right now, so we have to get it to this later. Are we on? Anybody out there, literally anyone?

I know you all come around at noon? We'd love to have to be 10 o'clock. You know what I'll start doing? We don't start giving some prizes away for the 10 o'clock audience. That's actually a good idea. Just rando gifts. It's a matter of Frank.

You know what? I'm going to start today. I'm gonna say something in the 10 o'clock hour you just came on this airwaves you call yourself Mr. Texas and then you just said tri-tip is better than brisket it's delicious we're gonna put this you know what

can we put a moratorium on your food opinions stop I as Mr. Texas I'm gonna try to get more tri-tip in this state oh my lord okay here's what we're gonna do you go buy some tri-tip you ready for this I use it in chili that's good I'm gonna we're gonna say something in this 10 o'clock hour and at noon today we're gonna

I'm going to give my personal tickets to the Rockets game away today. Okay. How about them? But it's going to be something that we said in the 10 o'clock hour. Okay. So if you didn't listen, if you're listening now, you definitely want to listen at noon. Okay. Because I'm going to ask.

At 12 o'clock? Before the news at noon? Somewhere in the 12 o'clock hour. I'll say, hey, remember what we've talked about in the 10 o'clock hour? Okay. And if somebody remembers what it is, they're going to get my tickets for the rocket. It should be that bombshell you just dropped. Very well, it could be.

You never know. All right. All right. 713-212-5-7-90 if you want to join the conversation today. And again, just want to make sure this is working, you know? Yeah, we're on. It's all good. Kids will just want to check sure.

7-13-212-5-7-90. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. We did something on the show Monday that everybody else is doing now in Houston Sports Radio, I believe. I'll tell you what that is next. Wow. What you and I talked about on Monday was nothing breaking news, Nothing that was organic to this show only, but it's just something that I've noticed

that a lot of people are putting out on the Twitter streets is 100% accurate. If the Houston Texans make the playoffs, if they do, they've got just as good a chance as anybody else to win the whole damn thing. Yes, they do. AFC's vulnerable. When did anybody ever think that

when the Texans were first for O and three? And did anybody ever think that before the season began when you thought about Buffalo? You thought about Kansas City. You thought about the Baltimore. Ravens. You thought about maybe a healthy Joe Burrow was Cincinnati. I mean, you thought, well, maybe, okay, Pittsburgh's got a better quarterback situation with Aaron Rogers than they had in previous couple of years. This, that's why you just can, that's why every NFL season, every, every sports season is so fascinating.

And that's why I think we love sports and we love our jobs because we don't, we don't repeat ourselves ever. No. Buffalo, I mean, granted, did beat the crap out of the Steelers in the second half of that game over the weekend. but the first half they looked average. We saw firsthand how porous their offensive line wasn't trying to protect Josh Allen a couple weeks ago. Their run defense was notably horrific. Kansas City, I mean, I don't want to say you're going to bury them, but you're pretty close to bearing them if you beat them this week.

New England is fresh and interesting, but you're not sure. Jacksonville is the biggest fraudulent eight and four, maybe in the history of the NFL. I like that you're saying that. Denver? Good, but when they came to town, they didn't look like world beaters. Bo Nix does not scare me under any circumstance. So, again, the heavy lifting hasn't been done yet.

I mean, I guess a lot of the lifting is done, but the heaviest lifting is doing something you've never done before. You've got to go to Kansas City on a Sunday night, on prime time, on NBC, and be one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play in the game. Yes. You have to realize they aren't the dynastic chiefs that they have been. They are vulnerable, but at the end of the day, it is Andy Reid, Pat Mahomes, and the Chiefs in Arrowhead in a night environment. Right. So it'll be a good test. And Travis Kelsey has always seemed to have good games against him.

Now, Travis Kelsey is about 75% of what he was. First career breakout against the Texans. Yeah. He's always crushed. And look, the Texans have a history of the last 10 years. Not that that should be indicative of this year's defense, but the Texans have typically had horrific time stopping tight ends. I mean, Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez, I mean, just among Dallas Clark, I mean, I can go on and on with guys. have crushed the Texans.

I think I expect to hear Dallas Clark's name on the show today. Frank Whitechek, let's go. That's not a Frank Whitechek. That would be a little bit. There's been a lot of tinns over the years. I mean, any titan is,

yeah, it's been rough. But again, that's all in the past. Rossi, you are Battle Red? Yes. And I respect the hell out of that. Woo! You'd, but you got to go win this game. Oh, it's a must win game?

Hold on. No, no, no, no. Hold on. I didn't say that. Hold on. I think you could. you really want to build momentum. Because here's the reality of it.

I said this like five weeks ago. If you get to 10, you're in. Yes. They can lose this game and get to 10. They can get to 10. But it will be significantly more difficult because you're going to get into a messy, tie-breaking situation. And unfortunately, one of your remaining victories that we're all considering layup is Arizona coming up.

And that's a non-conference win. Yeah, but it's still a way. A win. A win is a win. If they get it. It's not guaranteed. But if you have a muddied group of 10 3 or 4 teams sitting around 10 wins, conference record is going to matter. It'll be nice to win. They're only 4.5 point dogs.

I called for the upset. Got feelings yesterday. Did you really? Yes, I did. Jonathan, what do you have about this? I know who you have, Jonathan. Oh, is Jonathan working today? It's a blank screen. It's our our screen is off. No, I'm like that. You know, let me restart this. No, pass me the question. What's going on?

Who's winning Chiefs for Texans on Sunday? Is this a serious question? Get them, John. The Texans, I don't have the... You know what? I might as well be Battle Red Jack Hay over here. I like that. I like that a lot.

That's funny. By the way, I also made a gut feeling yesterday. My co-host at the time did not like. I said LSU and Ling Kiffin part ways in unfavorable circumstances within four years. Your thoughts on that? Ooh, four years. Within four years. Okay.

Let me give you, if you gave me the end result, I'm going to, can I tell you why? Yeah. DeBoer leaves Alabama. Ooh, okay. Alabama's a better job than LSU. It is. Ooh, if LSU gets big broed by Alabama, that would be tough. So that's one scenario.

Okay. Number two, I mean, how long is a leash for him? You're already paying out Brian Kelly. Yes. The 84 million. They're still paying, Ogeron, I read. The $84 million is guaranteed for Kiffin. That's nice.

I mean, I know Louisiana, you like running water. You'll have to have the faucets turned off for several hours a day. Get to pumping the well. Because the state will not be able to pay its bills. If you want, what did you say again? You said four years? Unfavorable circumstances within four years. As in there's an NCAA infraction or there's some sort of scandal or he's just not good enough.

The standards are too high because Brian Kelly went 9 and 3, 10 and 3, 10 and 3 and 5 and 3 and got let go. Because people didn't like him. People don't like Lynn Kiffin. Have you heard of seeing all these stories coming out after he's leaving? Oh, he's a douche. Yeah. Oh, you know, excuse me. I'm sorry, he's a ho.

Oh. By the way, did you see the new shirts that are being printed? Ho, H-E-A-U-X. Oh, I like that. You Louisiana's always figuring out why to put E-O-X. It's very simple. I mean, it's against anything that ends with. an oh sound you just put e-a-u-x on like villa rea we can't do that villa roe ho thomas hoe yeah well

some people have said that so while i like we are going i'm going to have to not buy into your gut feeling okay i think for i mean he was in old miss for six i just got it it's literally a gut feel i got a bad gut feeling about this like we're all everybody's falling all over themselves acting like lane kiffin is god's gift to coaching no no no ls you people are doing everybody else despises him. Period. It's interesting. We'll see. Time reveals all truths, Matt. Like, for instance,

if, what's a better job at this point? Alabama, that's it. But let me ask you this. Is Alabama a better job? They don't have the NIL money that LSU money has. I don't, I don't have the ability to answer that question fully.

Alabama's a bigger job, historically I guess, but LSU's better. It's Texas adjacent. And LSU is a great fertile recruiting ground. We got to stop doing though, and I think I'm as guilty about this as anybody else.

We have to stop thinking about what's a better job now because changing everything. Like the number one high school quarterback, I believe, for the... Well, he was going to switch to Vandy, but now that's... We're not sure.

You're talking about that? I did see that, yeah. Okay. Because then he put on his Twitter account that that's not true. What were he supposed to go? Georgia, correct? Yes. I was like, Georgia to Vandy.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Well, because the, I think, think the Georgia quarterback is going to stay there. And that's why guys are switching allegiances because of incumbents are possibly staying. That's what also I had been reading. So it could be situational.

And then, yeah, everybody can get in the game now when it comes, because now you can inject the money. NIL. Good for the overall health of college football. What we have to do is we have to stop thinking about what job is better because of what they've done in the last five years. Unless it's like Texas.

That's true. For Ohio State. Well, A&M, too. I mean, AM's got now great money and they now have it will be in the college football playoff. Okay, so anything else on the gut feelings that I,

that you guys ran through that I wouldn't. Aggie Matt. Sorry, what? Anything else on gut feelings? Let's see. Oh, Gordy said Sark will be gone within four years after I said what I said. It's notki-all were bitter like stepbrothers.

It wasn't. It was good. It wasn't contentious. Jonathan can testify, I think. No, yeah, it wasn't, though. It was fun. Okay. And Jonathan had, what was your biggest one?

It doesn't have the Hoosiers upsetting the Buckeyes. A little CFB action, you know? Oh, man. And I have Georgia covering easily against Alabama, which could be wrong. We'll see. Yeah. By the way, a lot of people are rooting for Duke hard, by the way.

That's going to create even more chaos. Correct. Don't do the automatic qualifier. Top 12 teams are in, let's move on. That's never going to happen. I know. Well, it's not going to ever happen because they're going to 16 next year. you. But my point is that I

I think you and I have argued about this. I like if you win something a guaranteed slot. Why? I just do. You have to play for something. Yeah. If Duke upsets, who are they even playing, Virginia or whatever? In the ACC championship, yeah. If an 8 and 5 team

pulls off, they get a couple pick sixes and a muff punt and they pull off an upset, they should be in the playoffs. You win your stupid. No, it's stupid. The rule is if you win if you win your conference championship, if you are the conference champion, you deserve in... If you want to call it, if they don't have a conference championship game,

then you can go 500 in the league and then get lucky in one game, I would be with you. If it were win the regular season, like for example in the old Big 10 or Big 12 where everybody played each other and you win that conference and you're in, I get that, but you get lucky in one conference championship game and you're bumping some other team out, you're bumping a Miami or a Vanderbilt or whoever out?

No. No. Yeah, I'm okay with it. Just like in conference tournaments, If you have some nine seed in the five C in the Mountain West tournament Yeah, that's a dumb rule too Oh, love it. It's drama. You got Tom Pinders and the Cougars getting hot in the tournament.

Hey, that did happen. We did lose the Maryland. And Matt, be careful, man. You got our Roll Tide over here getting texting me upset with you. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Who's that? Cole.

Oh, gosh. Text Matt. Or did he? Who's Roll Tide? Cole Tide. Oh, is that what he calls himself? Yeah. Yeah, I'm more offended by the amount of videos with his face on that are shrung on my timeline.

He's a hot take canon. He shoots videos and they're like these enormously long, big-pictured videos, him wearing his backward caps. By the way, you can't trust anybody who wears a backwards cap. That's number one. That's all right. Well, all right. 1031. It is the Matt Thomas Show at Raw.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-79. Your calls are next. All right, let's talk to some lovely people, shall we? It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross, and of course, Ross with me being back in studio today. I did not sign into my computer, so I'm going to have you go to line number one and say hi, you're new here. I know, I'm a fraud. James with us on 7.9 at 1035.

James, good morning to you. Yeah, earlier this week, one of your guys said something that kind of made me wonder. He said that he was recruited by Oklahoma, but didn't end up going to Stephen F. Austin. Did he not like Norman, Oklahoma, or he just wanted to be a limbojack? I don't understand why he didn't go to Oklahoma. Probably entrance requirements. It was Jonathan. Oh, you're talking about me, James?

Oh, no. He was recruited by OU. I was recruited by OU and Western Kentucky. And then I had chose West Kentucky because I got a full-rise scholarship. Oklahoma was only giving me 60%. And I went there and I transferred out of West Kentucky because of team problems and I wanted to go to a bigger program. Okay, that made sense.

I just didn't, I wondered why he picked Stephen F. over Oklahoma. It just didn't make any sense to me. Could this have been off-air conversation? I don't know what this is bringing to the show right now, James. I think it's interesting. I don't know. I don't know.

We're learning about Jonathan's lore. I'm glad he spurned the Sooners. Is this a Matt Thomas show with Matt? Are you okay? James sucks. He just does. Love James. Thank you, James.

James, we don't thank you. Yeah, Jonathan was telling a story about possibly going to OU. I think it was yesterday. Tell the reason why you really went to Western Kentucky. That was the reason. You partied way harder at Western Kentucky. You didn't even if you party harder than Norman? Really?

No, they got moonshine. They've got all sorts of things. Norman gets down. I went to three parties in my visit. Oh, there you go. And did you meet that special someone at any of those three trips? You know, I was trying to be low. I had a girlfriend at the time.

I couldn't do anything crazy You said you tried to be loyal Which I you know That means I did I just you know I flirted there Here and there You know

They said sir I heard your nickname Hognuts Is that accurate Oh my God Something is wrong with you Something is wrong with me Let's fix it

Let's fix it with Roger On line 4 at 1038 Roger good morning to you Good morning Good morning Way too early For a hobnuts

Jeff Anyway way, Matt, I've talked to multiple people about this, Brands, Associates. I just feel like we're going to play for second place this year in the NBA of Oklahoma, didn't start losing games. I just feel like, I don't feel like they're that much better or special than anybody else. They just have a certain mix.

It just seems to be working for them. And I feel like that loss against Utah was just like something I thought we were going to be able to board this year but apparently not you know we're all human yeah that's right that's what roger let me ask you this Oklahoma City was the best team in the NBA going to the playoffs last year right well yeah how many games did they have to go to to win the western conference last year you have to go all seven and how many times today how many games had to play how many times i'd have to play indiana to win the championship seven times yeah so yeah look they are the best team in the NBA it ain't even close right now but regular season championships aren't guaranteed

team anything. Now, will they be the heavy favorite? Had they been there and done that? Of course. I'm respectful as hell of them. I want them to lose. It doesn't feel like it's going to happen much this year. But just because you rattle off 65, 68 wins does not guarantee a clear

and breezy path towards an NBA championship. Whether it's the Rockets or somebody else. You're right. I despise that franchise because they had three generational players. And then they all left. And then they get this super team again. And they're all young, young. You know his fault

it is? It's the Clippers' fault. It's Clippers' fault. They, Kauai Leonard told the Clippers, go get me a star. All right? We'll go get you, Paul George. What do you have to do? Well, we're going to have to give up five first round picks, give Doe Oklahoma City, and give him

Shay Gildes Alexander. I blame the Clippers with the minds of today's NBA. And now look, they're dumping again. They're dumping all their old veterans again. Yeah, good for them. Anyway, so on to the text, I know it's kind of early 20 Wednesday. Kind of want to get my final statement on Friday, but hey, just, I just feel like, you know,

Mahomes has a big bag of church, a huge bag. It's going to take two people to carry that bag on to that field, and so we can take them out. I just feel like we, I just don't want us to go into that trap like last year, all these pump fakes, all these, I'm going to, am I going to run, am I going to slide? am I going to throw the ball? I just don't want to get that that little dance that he does. And I figure that the rest are not really on the side this year. I just feel like their team is what it is.

Their offensive lines is in shambles, and their defense can't attack anybody. So I just want that to just be the case and not all these other middling stuff. Well, I'll say what, if he wants to, thank you for the phone call. If he wants to do that, what do you, you know, the big move and stay in bounds, go ask Jackson Dart how that's doing for him. Hmm.

He said he's going to keep playing the way he plays, Jackson, Darkland. Of course, his brain will be of scrambled eggs in a very short period of time. He said, check my high school tape. This is how I've always played. Not in high school anymore, Jackson. Jackson, you won't remember high school in about two weeks. Real quick, let's go to Gary on 790. Gary, good morning to you, sir.

Hey, good morning, guys. I'm on the Texans real quick, but I want to comment on that coach signed with LSU. hell yeah he's going to four or five years he's going to go to another guarantee 10 year contract and you get the money from lSU and them if anybody's stupid enough to continue that cycle but man that guys you got to give him credits because man look what he's got going on he just signs 10 years works for and get paid for 10 over and over so but yeah he'll be gone if somebody's dumb enough to get him on the texans i tried to get in my gut feelings yesterday but i called too late and i sure want to win your tickets there matt today but i won't be listening to

listening as 12. So on the Texans, I'm a loyal Texans fan, but I'm more of a realist, and you've got a team here that knows how to play when they have to play. And this is a playoff game going on, especially for Kansas City. And you have a wounded wolf bear, whatever, you have backed into a corner. And that's what's going to happen, unfortunately. I look for Kansas City to come out with a win. I'm going to say 27 to 20-ish. but unfortunately I think Kansas City is going to take it

but exciting football coming up and sure wish I was going to be listening to take some basketball tickets for me. I know, well, that's what we're going to. Thank you, Gary, for the phone call. I appreciate it. Let me tell you something. We love you 10 o'clockers.

Even James and Klein, we love the 10 o'clockers. Yes. Because we just don't. Yeah, I mean, you're turning a new leaf over in five minutes. No, James call still sucks, but it doesn't mean we can't appreciate it. Thanks to James, Gary, and Roger for calling it. Yeah. We love the tenant.

We, you know, and again, if we'll be giving me my rock, my personal rocket tickets at noon today. Mm. Beautiful. So you had to be listening sometime this hour. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. There is something called direct-to-consumer app that is making breaking news in the world of sports television. We'll tell you about that next.

1043 on Sports Talk 790. It's 1049. on Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you here until 2 o'clock today. We got shut you of Omas up at 1130. The news at noon. Calvin Sampson University Houston coach is going to drop by at 130. Cougars will be inside TOTA Center for the game against Florida State this Saturday.

Meanwhile, we will be in Toto Center tonight for the game against the Sacramento Kings. 6 o'clock launch pad hosted by Ross Vittereal. That is correct. How'd you know that? Because you mentioned to somebody. Oh, okay. I don't look at the schedule typically. Thank you.

but I promoted it. I appreciate you. When Dan or Gordy does it, I don't mention it. I mean, generally during the week, if I'm not on vacation, you can assume it's me. Yeah, it's fine. You deserve some time off. I thank you. Whether you get paid for it or not, it's a different issue.

Well, we'll see. 713-212-5-7-9. If you want to chime into the conversation, that's 7-13-212-5-7-90. And if you want to reach out to us for your Twitter. By the way, Twitter is they're doing some cleansing. I think I'm down 300 people You are? Yes

I didn't even notice Yeah And a lot of it's because of Deactivated accounts Oh really Yeah Oh mine looks stable Well

You know what I want an authentic Use At sports RV I mean your porn account Still very Very very active You know

Try to go to the Instagram At Sports RV as well And the Instagram is doing really well I'm over 1300 now I'm largely approaching 3100 That's great, man. I don't even putting bikini pictures of myself up there.

Yeah, well, yeah, that would really explode it. I think you should do it. I don't think so. Let's say how to our friend Gretchen's here. She's the president of business operations for your Houston Rockets tonight at home against Sacramento Kings. And Gretchen's with Ross and myself here. Gretchen, good morning. You have some exciting news for those people that have said, I want to travel and hang out and be at a restaurant or be at a bar or maybe just be at home.

I don't watch my rockets on my phone. You can now do that, correct? You can. Sorry, I got distracted joining whatever conversation you guys were happy now. It's really your fault for jumping in late. I have to admit that. All right, so the name of the, it's called Space City Home Network Plus. Is that correct?

Yes, S-C-H-N-plus, if you're looking at it through the app store or on your TV. Okay. And it is a pay service that, frankly, a lot of other network. have done in other parts of the country. You guys have been working on this with the Astros for several months now, correct? Yes, we have. I mean, we acquired the network two years ago with the Astros, you know, we were super fortunate that ownership came together to make sure that we had a stable, regional option

that stayed consistent for fans. So our biggest priority was making sure that we kept that programming, we kept the talent, we kept the technology, we had all of their relationships with the cable and lending your distributors in place and then that got us ready to to launch the digital and streaming version which we did today all right scmplus.com is the website or you can go right to your app store we're talking about basically if you add the astros and the rockets together about a dollar per game correct you can do it monthly and also a yearly subscription is that accurate that is accurate okay and it's all it's all the other programming on the network as well but yes primarily the

the live broadcaster, what we know drives the viewership. Well, I would say this. If you got rid of the A team, probably would have some more viewers. I don't if that show has done much, but it certainly has heard our image here at the radio station. So I'm just teasing boys. Hey, and the best thing is, for someone like me that is a direct TV subscriber, I get the app as part of the package, correct? Correct. So through your direct TV, your Uverse, Fubo, we're working closely with Xenity.

We're not quite there with them yet. You can log on to Space City Home Network Plus, use your existing linear subscription if you already get the channel and you will be able to access it through both places, through what you currently have, through your cable and your satellite, and also through Space City Home Network Plus. You know, Gretchen, I don't know how many people, sports fans pay attention to the sports business side of things. But I will say the world of television when it comes to the new TV deal, the NBA assign what we're seeing this in other sports. how much of the local, regional, national stuff really occupies your plate and maybe not so much on a day-to-day basis, but it feels like it's always a conversation piece with every sports league, including the NBA right now, about where the future is when it comes to revenue and distribution and placement. It feels like this was something that, while it gives you more outlook,

it also gives you a lot of people a lot of uncertainty about where to find games and educating people about such things. yeah i mean it's the the world of technology and media is changing super fast and has been over the last several years look as we all all sports are global and are continuing to grow the NBA particularly especially our brand but at the end of the day we are the houston rockets and we are a hyper local team and franchise who is you know very very engaged in our local community making sure that everybody who loves this team has the opportunity to watch it has always been our top priority. It took us a little bit to get everything worked out, to be able to do it in a way that was well done from a technology standpoint, but also that was going to last for years

to come so that there wouldn't be multiple changes year over year, which you were seeing in other markets. And we're really fortunate through the Fritia family and with the partnership with the astros that we will have this stable network both on linear and now now through the streaming app for a long time what are geographic restrictions as far as within the country and and really without the i mean there's rockets fans throughout the world yeah so i mean throughout the world like the the way that not to go down a rabbit hole in terms of how sports leagues and media rights work but for the NBA that the easiest way to describe it is about 150 miles from Houston is the local territory that Space City Home Network is allowed to show Rockets games for.

For baseball, it extends a little bit more. It extends into Louisiana and Arkansas and a little bit more into the state. But the territory itself is the same as what the network is on regular TV. And then anything outside of that kind of belongs to the leagues. And you can see that in other places. So if you are a Rockets fan in New York, this is a local option. for fans. So outside of our territory, you would still need to go to other options, whether that be league pass or other ways to access the NBA's broadcast. Well, I'll just say it. Yeah, it does. And I'll say this. Looking at social media today, just a huge sense of relief because look, Gretchen, when we were growing up, it was cable over the

air and we were lucky to have cable if we had it. Now you've got everybody trying different ways to watch television and, you know, everybody's got to spend their own money, their own way and what they want to buy and what not buy. But this now gives the option for people that are like, I like this particular carrier, but it doesn't carry Rockets games or Astros games. I'm kind of screwed. Yeah. Optionality is the best thing, and this provides every single person that is in Houston and is in our broadcast territory now has the option to access our games.

Hopefully they choose to do it, but everyone now has access regardless of what decisions they're making on how they consume media. And again, if you are a current cable subscription, subscriber, satellite streaming provided. The linear channels remain on the providers, as they do today. There's no additional charge on that. It just gives some other folks, some options that are not mainstream, like direct TV or cable folks, plan B. So it is, again, the website is s-ch-nplus.com, or you can go right to the app stores and

available. And you're saying that Apple TV and Amazon Fire are currently available, correct? Correct. and we're expecting Roku momentarily this week. Just technology stuff, it should be ready soon. And then we're working on others as well. Okay, very good. Gretchen, thank you for the visit.

And congratulations on this service. And a lot of folks are very happy about it. And we will see you tonight for the game against the Kings. Thank you. And please don't post bikini pictures. That's not going to happen, Gretchen, under any circumstance. Thank you very much for the safe place. Those are for the private reel.

That's enough from you. Thank you, Gretchen. Appreciate it. You heard her. She doesn't want to see him. You said you were going to post him. I said, I don't. Imagine my count if I did, though.

Don't even bring that up. Your block count? Stop. 1058 of the bad time of show at Ross. You did this to yourself. You're right, I did. It's totally my fault. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-90. We got shut your bum-ass up in a half an hour. I think I'm going to tell myself to shut my bum-ass up. You probably should. I'm going to tell Exfini to shut their. her bum ass up. I didn't want to ask her because I don't know if it's private negotiations but it'll get fixed. I need that

app on Xfinity. It's all going to happen. Xfinney's always getting fights with everybody though. Can we all just get along? No. They don't because they all want more money. More billions and billions and billions and billions. Come on Xfinity. Let's go. We're happy with you. Are you okay?

Okay. Did you have to eat some molasses just now? This is the Matt Thomas show. With Ross. ESPNU is looking for some serious programming. They're replaying a game between Yukon women in South Florida from yesterday. It's five minutes left to go in the second quarter

and Yukon lead South Florida 54 to 21. You couldn't find something better than that to put on? Yukon women back on top. They are. At least for right now. Yep. Used to be better for a while, LSU for a while. You know who's number two after,

beating two top three teams in one week. Does it rhyme with the University of Mexico? Hook them on! Geez. Let's go, baby. At least you're good and something. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's not that bad.

By the way, I saw... Women's basketball on TV. I've watched women volleyball final fours is good stuff. They're going to be going, yeah. Yeah. Look, my football team's not going to the playoff, but it's... You're going to the Rizit Bowl, apparently. Cheese at Citrus Bowl, I think.

Yeah. That's against Michigan, maybe. Okay, my take on this, because we don't, you hate when I food takes? Oh, here we go. I think cheez-its are disgusting. I don't like chees-its. I agree with you. Thank you.

I don't think they're disgusting. Like, I'll eat, if they put a bowl of cheese-its out and you're like, have some, I guess I'll have some, but it's not going to be my, I'm not going to purchase them. I'd have to be, like, gone to eat them. Oh, you'd be like dying. Not dying, but, I mean, it would be, it's just, first of all, anybody over the age of eight. I'm from blood sugar issues, okay. Yeah. It's just gross.

Okay. Yeah. Gordy liked them. Because we were talking about cheese It yesterday And we know Adam Planton loves him Yeah He's also

His palettes are ridiculously worse than mine Oh it is He doesn't like ranch dressing Or sour cream It's worse than yours Thank you You got some work to do Mr. Tri-tip over biscuit

I didn't say that You did say that You did say that You know why I like it Tender Smoked Delicious flavorful You could

overcook a try tip it's impossible you overcook a brisket it tastes like you can't overcook brisket yeah because a lot of people most part it takes 12 hours nothing's worth all right let's move on let's move on

I'm trying to help you it's funny you know you're losing credibility with the Texas streets let me tell you this is your Texas streets the streets say Mr. Texas great heavy back that's not true yes they are I try to save you quite often on this show I'm trying to save you right now

I don't think so. Put the tri-tip take on the back burner. I love tri-tip. Don't bring that up in this state. Just don't. You know what? Let's go sit down with some tri-tip and brisket. People like, man, this, we don't.

People just don't any tri-tip here. It's more of a Western thing for some odd reason. Yeah. All right, let's move on. Yeah. 7-1-3-212-5-790 if you want to join us. Shet's one chicken. You're making me hungry.

Gosh. I'm sorry. I just see you during the show. I know. It's fine. 7-13-21-2-2-5-7-90. We mentioned Rockets and Kings tonight. Texans are on the practice field taking on the

Kansas Chiefs. It's been great. We haven't had to really worry about an injury report for quite sometime. Remember last week it was whether or not Jaylen Petrie and C.J. Stravord and Clear Concussion Protocol. That's been a big part of, I mean, it is a big part of why I picked

the Texans to upset the Colts last week and why I'm very confident against them against anybody. If you have this defense fully healthy, they can slow down anybody and now the offense is picking up it's getting a little bit better

Woody Marks is playing better you've got some I mean Jaden Higgins has been making more plays and Dalton Schultz has come along and that offensive line Matthew 21st I saw Oh you did? I didn't mind the research

Did you see today's though No Is it getting into the teens It's got to because you're obviously smiling Who told you? The offensive line was going to improve as a The season went along. Who told you that, Matt?

Does he still work here? Yes, he does. He's sitting right across from you with a smiling face. Jonathan's not smiling right now. He's not sitting across from you. Okay. Yeah, it's, look, it's coming together. And again, how much of that is vastly improved?

How much of it is a regression by others? It doesn't really matter. You're judged by who you go against. 18th. The Texans offensive line. Okay. I never thought I'd be ready to. party in the streets.

If we have bitched and moaned about the 18th best offensive line, imagine how there are 13 worst ones? Yes. And I one of and I believe will be the one we see on Sunday, correct? It's in Kansas City, you consider a below average offensive line? Let me look.

Because they're not happy up there in Kansas City, but they have them 12. Really? Now remember, it's pro football focus, as we always say, just one metric. It's one data point. And they do spend more time and we do agree that we thought they were virgins for large part but we've come to find out they're all poohenhounds actually i don't know why that is relevant to their

football acumen well uh it really isn't but it's just it's not at all it's a conversation yeah you you fixate on it and that's okay for whatever reason well because i i want to get analysis for my life about a variety of things i won't well run the people i don't like guys just staring at computers all day long guys who are staring at computers are running all of these sports leagues. Not very well. Some of them. Okay. Sometimes the human eye works. Every NFL, every NFL major league baseball and NBA team has an analytics department. Yes, they do. But some believe in the seeing eye test too, and I'm all for that. I am, I am not going to ever go away from seeing eye. And seeing eye says the Texans'

offensive line has kept CJ Stroud upright. Okay. And did Davis Mills solid two. Sometimes the seeing eye lies, Maddie. Like when, like when Chris Gordy sees Lane Kiffin get hired to LSU, he's the best and when if the seeing I saw him go to Florida, he'd be a douchebag. Should we suspend Gordy for horrific takes? He came in here all upset for those who don't know when I look about my Lane Kiffin takes. And we'll see. Lane Kiffin can win at LSU. I'm not saying he's horrible.

You get players and you get a good play caller. You can win. Something I don't feel right. Something's rotten in Denmark. Well, first of all, he has a pattern of this. Second of all, you don't believe a word he says. Did you see the comments from yesterday? How about him being run outside of the road or something?

No, well, that, but also I don't know what my contract is here. That's a lie. Rossi, we've been doing the show since 2010. How many times do I tell you about the average person lying? And frankly, in sports is higher. It's okay to lie because as long as you make you sound good, people tend to believe you. Like, I lie here on the show all the time. Yeah, I believe that.

And people find it to be rather believable. politicians lie some of your BS is unbelievable like I don't like mac and cheese guess what we had so at Thanksgiving mac and cheese was in the kiddie section because that's what kids eat on that Macon on Thanksgiving Mac and Cheese delicious well we didn't have mac and cheese at my Thanksgiving because actually were you okay

were supposed to tear up I had mashed potatoes cornbread dressing broccoli rice casserole absolutely fantastic let's go just carve it up there was a green bean casserole off at my thanks Thanksgiving. Got contentious. Okay, not to over to indulge on this, but green beans,

mushroom soup, and fried onions. What else we're going with here? One had bacon, yes. And one had fresh, blanched green beans, which is, I voted for that one to win. The other one was canned green beans. What that fresh green bean taste, Matt? It's all good to me.

See, this is your fault. I'm getting hungry. I'm smelling your food. As long as there's at least, if you know the French front onions is not a green main casserole. I agree. Okay. Okay, one more college thing before we... I love this show. Because there are guys moving left and writing college football,

and most of them you guys don't care about. You're talking about it? You're talking about it? Coaches. Okay. So, oh, by the way, Colin Klein is leaving A&M's offensive coordinator. Is that happening? Is that done deal? I think it's pretty much done deal.

Which is no surprise. Colin Klein was destined to coach at Kansas State because he played football there. He beat Texas a couple times, I think. So Kalini Sataki, and I know him. a little bit because he has been a long time coach at BYU. He's been there a while. Long, long time.

He was seriously in the mix and maybe was the favorite for even a short period of time, at least when I was in Salt Lake a couple days ago, to take over at Penn State. Now, BYU is an excellent job. BYU is recently just like University of Houston entered the P4 category. Huge

crowds. They got some big donors. Large national band base. The chairman of the board of Crumble Cookies is a devout BYU. fan so you know there's money there but as we talked about last hour maybe going off of legacy doesn't matter because

Penn State and BYU are not in the same category when it comes to the legacy of football programs Kalani Sataki told Penn State thanks but no thanks I'm going to stay at and he got a re-up at BYU you right or he's going to. He did and that endless chocolate chip cookies for the rest of his life

Penn State is getting turned down by a lot of people. Penn State is not as big a... It's funny, they're kind of finding out they're not as big as deal as they thought they were. You know why? Because off of a little bit of legacy here, they're the third best team year and year on the Big Ten, and that doesn't mean as much that you see.

It's like when you become single and you go on dating apps, you're like, man, I'm being pulling all these nines and tens, and then you're like, I'm not... This is not going the way I thought it would. You're getting rejected by fours. Yeah, exactly. That's what's happening in a Penn State right now. there are men out there in this world that drop their girlfriend and say,

I'm getting an app, so I can give me a nine or a ten. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I don't want to meet that person. It's Penn State. You know what? Because even, what's the guy's name in the breast? James Franklin's, though, seven. At least, maybe at eight.

And those Penn State recruits are not going there, apparently. Yes. So don't sleep on Virginia Tech next season. Sometimes you don't know what you got till it's gone, Penn State. I feel like a song you could write about that. Yes. Yeah, so who's the guy at Nebraska that was at Baylor 2 And with the Carolina Panthers

I'm drawing a name blank on their head coach at Nebraska Matt Rule? Matt Rule Matt Rule No, don't need Penn State What's his face, Lane didn't even think about it going up there He's like, I'm not going north No

It's pretty incredible how Penn State is mid I mean 100,000 people every game you when they play like Akron. This is the guy that propped them up. James Franklin came in there. They got you dressing nice, cut your fingernails, got you some new cologne. Correct. Got you looking good.

And then you try to dump them for the next big thing. Yes. And turns out James Franklin was the one propping you up. Yeah. Yeah. It's incredible. I think we're going to see now in the next five years. It'll be Penn State this year, maybe other jobs down the road,

that you may not be as sexy as you think you are. Because of NIL, Vanderbilt keeping quarterback, Vanderbilt relevant. Vanderbilt five years ago, Ross, I remember you and I even having a conversation about this. Why bother? Why are you doing this? Why are you in the sports? You don't mean, it felt like to me, Rice, Vanderbilt was closer to Rice. Vanderbilt's closer now to LSU and Florida. Yeah, it's crazy. In Georgia. Yeah, well, speaking of Florida, the job search didn't go the way they wanted.

Apparently Arkansas fans are like one in a stage of protest. They already did. No, they did. They did like a YouTube live feed. We can't have this happen. Yeah, we're the hogs. We're the Razorbacks. Everybody in college football thinks they're bigger than they are.

Yeah, everyone. Arkansas football, what? Seventh in the SEC every year, maybe? Yeah. We're the hogs. We got national championships. Yeah, in 1971. I mean, Ken Hatfield ain't walking through those doors tomorrow.

I'm saying it's a little bit different. Who's the greatest Arkansas player of all time? Greg Cook. McFadden? Darren McFadden is well. Yeah, Peyton Hillis. God, who is? good. Arkansas great

football players. I'm sure there are plenty, but... Probably. I don't know. Let's stop. We don't think about it. We want to keep what audience we have left. 1115 of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Lance Allworth. Steve Atwater. Yeah, you're talking... Ryan Mallet.

Ooh, not Ryan Mallet. 50 years ago. Yeah. You know what? Arkansas and South Carolina are about the same. Oh, Jerry Jones. 11.21 a.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas show with Ross, with Matt Thomas. We got the news at noon coming up at, you guessed it.

Noon. We got ain't nobody got time for that slash shut your bum ass up coming up at 1130. You folks can get in for that at 713-212-5-797. 213-21-2-5-7-90 and it just seems increasingly year after year we're talking more and more about college football and it's more and more about things that are happening off the field rather than on the field with college football and that kind of makes it more interesting i would say in theory because we talk about this with matt thomas or other people off air that that people do like college football talk and they do want to talk college football but it it can be difficult here in houston to where if you spend a few minutes on the Longhorns and Aggies are getting upset, you spend a few minutes on the Aggies, Longhorns are getting upset, then it's Texas Tech, then there's U of H, and there's Baylor, then there's National Big Picture. You've got LSU fans.

I mean, it's such a big melting pot here in Houston, Texas that unless you're making big overarching talk about rankings and the playoff and those types of things, it's tough to get into the nuts and bolts of college football. But we've had more than enough to talk about when it comes to kind of just the state of the union when it comes to what's going on with these coaches and the ecosystem that's ever changing as we were talking about earlier. Like Vanderbilt, now we're not sure yet because apparently the recruit has gone back on what he said on his Twitter, but it was reported that Vanderbilt was flipping the number one college quarterback recruit from Georgia. If I'd have plopped you from a time machine or you woke up from a 20-year coma and I said the number one quarterback in the country is flipping from Georgia to Vanderbilt, you would have been like, what are you talking about?

You would have called me a liar. There's no way you would believe what I'm saying. Five years ago, I would have said that. Five years ago. Yeah. And right now I don't believe it. I don't know. But I do.

I do, but I don't. Because Vanderbilt's been very good the last couple of years. Everybody is, I mean, again, you would have told me two years ago. Texas Tech could have a great defense? Like, whatever. That's another good one. Stop. And I how many spins?

How's Cody Campbell feeling over there? They creeped into the top four, did the Texas Tech. Red Raiders. They're very, everything's going really well for them. Is Texas Tech going to win at all? I know Red Raider fans won't care. How are we going to feel about that? Camp's going to the game this week.

Oh, he is? Yes. Where is it? Dallas, Arlington. Oh, okay. That's cool. Yeah. Tech, BYU.

I wonder how the crowd's going to be like for that. Because BYU will travel. But do you, and think about this, there, we were, I was just in Salt Lake City. Yeah. We got to get them in the tournament. Like, you're not getting the CFB. You want to get in the CFP. You're going to have to beat Texas Tech.

Yeah. Because you've got, well, if you're a tech fan, you've got to scrounge up ticket money and bail money. So it's be a little difficult. I wasn't ready for that. I'm sorry. I'm kidding. Can you get both? I wonder what the get-in price is for that.

Red Raider and a BYU fan in the same stadium. That's interesting. Do you think like if you're Jerry Wars, you're running Jerry World and you pay for money for that, don't you want BYU not to be there? BYU's not going to drink.

That's what I'm saying. But they're going to eat. They're going to eat. Everybody's going to eat. That's true. That's what I'm saying. Like, you're missing out on alcohol sales. You have to be if you're hosting the Big 12 championship game, you have to be praying BYU doesn't make it. But let me ask you this If it was Iowa State who drank

Or BYU that doesn't drink But who's going to more people in the stands I mean BYU is going to travel more than Iowa State would I feel like you spend double at a stadium When you in fact are in alcohol That's funny That's a great question I wonder with privately the Big 12 office was thinking

When they had BYU at that game Oh it looks like you can get in for 130 It's not bad I could go if I wanted to Rockets for the Mavericks I don't know what get in at A&M, Texas ended at, because I already secured tickets, so I stopped checking. But at the middle of the week, it was $3.50 to get in. That's all secondary market stuff?

Yeah. Yeah, it looks like it's about $1.50. One 50 can get you in. But that's good. I mean, I've never been to the stadium for a game. I've been inside it, but not for the stadium for a game. One 50s, that's a super high up, right? I've been there for a boxing match, and I've been there for high school football, like working.

But inside the stadium. Don't you want to spend in $1.50? You could just stare at the screen for three and a half hours. Yeah, that's what happened to us. In the box, our tickets for the boxing match, we had decent second level seats. And they were like, I think, $250,300 at the time. And we just, it was a box. It's also a boxing ring.

It's small. Right. We stared at the screen the whole time. I was like, we wasted our mind. It's almost like when you go to concerts. I want to get to do myself, you know, if you're in the upper levels of a... I try not to do that. I went and saw Paul McCartney at Dickie's Arena in 4th and 4th, the three war seats in the entire

building we had, and I spent the entire looking at the screen. I know. I think I'm done with concerts for the most part. For the most part. For the most part. Okay, yeah, because I mean all your faves are dead or dying. They're dead or dying or can't speak anymore.

Yeah. You know what that's good. You're not, you sticking to the 70s and music is going to save you money in the long term. Yeah, because I'm not going to go see 85-year-old sing anymore. Paul McCartney, he doesn't sound like

Paul McCartney anymore. He doesn't. And by the way, he's never like he had some big verbato voice. So I was in

Salt Lake for those two Rocket Jazz games. And, you know, Journey's last tour is going on. Again. Everybody's on

their last tour for the fifth time. Yeah. I'm sorry. And I'm sure the lead singer is a very nice person. And he's been doing it

for a long period of time. Uh-huh. But it... No good. I'm not going to go pay crazy money to see Journey

without Steve Perry there. It's just not going to happen. Yeah. He is. He is. I'm sorry.

You're right. And I know he's been gone a long time. Mm-hmm. And I've stomached it because my wife wanted to go see Def Leopard when they were to a journey one time. Uh-huh. So you sucked it up and listened to Journey for half an hour. That Journey's good. They have hits, but it's just not the same.

You're right. Steve Perry makes the band. But him in the band in forever. He's gone a long time. It's like going to see Queen without Freddie Mercury. I did see that. And it turned out really well. I was very pleasantly surprised about that.

Okay. I've seen Journey with this guy and I'd, yeah, no thanks. Okay. So back to Vanderbilt So back to Vanderbilt Doing well Number one quarter Or number two quarterback

Depending on what service you believe I'm glad Texas At least ahead of Vanderbilt Who they beat head to head Not ahead of Oklahoma Who they beat head to head That's fine I was looking at the computer ranking

Computers really like Notre Dame In recruiting or in the general No she's in general Oh why is that? I don't know Because they're non-conference Some people We were talking about this yesterday with Mr. Lockdown SEC about bringing back a computer element.

I think you should. I think human element is open and too many biases. I think there should be some sort of computer element. I just don't know how you, how big is this EFP committee? Is it 12 people? I have no idea. But whatever they remember. It's somewhere around there.

If it's 4, 6, 8, 10, it's hard to get unanimous views on anything. No. You can't get 12 people to decide where they're going to go eat, much less deciding who the 12 best teams are in what order they put them in. 13 member committee. I mean, I'll say this, if they've gotten the tournament, excuse me, the NCAA tournament right for the most part, basketball wise. Yeah, for the most part. And if you're, it's the fringe, like when Buzz Williams was, what was it last year, he was like, he was sanding out stat sheets and crying at the podium when it hit him didn't make it in. Oh, well, all that stark bluster from last week, that was just bluster, right?

He was, I mean, you, you don't believe half what he was saying. You know, you lobby for your team. Yeah. And he made, I mean, if you're only talking about the positive points, he makes a good case. If you're, you know, when you're only stumping one guy and there's nobody there to counteract what you're saying, you can make good points. Like, the points are three top ten, you'd want to reward, you don't want to discourage teams from, from scheduling big non-conference matchups, all that stuff. But the bottom line is, go win more. I would say this if I was Texas, to wrap this up on, don't get really.

of these series games you've already got scheduled. But if you want to go a little more conservative with your future scheduling, I don't necessarily blame you. The rest of the schedule was San Jose, Utep, and Sam Houston. It's not like they were running a gauntlet. You can do one out of four games, Ohio State. And when you schedule it years and years ago... As you brought up to your audience,

take care of your fan base. Yes. Yes. My brother is a season ticket holder. Next year, Ohio State is the marquee game on the slate and is not even close. out of that the next biggest game is like Florida I mean I can bring up the home slate it's not good why you've got to come to Houston and catch the market

and it's always going to be the case when it comes to Texas and OU because Texas OU is always in Dallas that's always a marquee huge matchup and that's always going to be in in Dallas so I mean it kind of is what it is all right time for you to tell some people to shut their bum asses up you want to do it yes you got some things that are on your irritation list you can tell long more fans

shut their bum asses up? I'm okay with him. Somebody could. No, I'm actually all right. Look, we're just, you got your passion about your fan base. I don't want to get lectured anymore. Who's lecturing you?

Are Horn fans not not getting on you? Yeah, probably. That's not nice. You don't need one message board piss off at you at one time. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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Matt Ross with you here. Jonathan, our producer. Great to have all of you with us today. I'm giving away my rocket tickets in the noon hour. What could I possibly ask at noon to give away those rocket tickets? Hmm. I've got one idea. I know.

I don't give another one. Okay. 713-212-5-7-90 ain't nobody got time for that what in your life has irritated you does something happen at thanksgiving that pissed you off let's go no you want to tell somebody to shut their bum-asses up we're here for you 713 212 5790 7-1 3212 5790 if there's somebody at the office that brought up his wife's future colonoscopy what Yes Respectfully

Ain't nobody got time for that Wishing her the best Of course I was not hoping for bad results But colonoscopies are a tough conversation piece to begin with Your spouses Colonoscopy Probably not on my wish list of conversation topics.

I will keep that person's name out. I have a very good guess, I believe. You get one guess and one guess only, and you would be absolutely correct. Now that I find out she's having it, it's her first one. That's not one for the thumb. That's good.

I just don't know I've had one of my life I'm due for one probably pretty soon here I'm not going to be a huge part of the conversation on this radio show my personal life my profession I'm gonna kind of keep it to myself

and I hope I hope that you'd respect my decision on that Ross okay thank you Matt all right Jonathan what's the matter with you this week anything not that I can think of actually I think I'm pretty good right now I know what it is

I got a job of memory. I think we've got, it's the holidays. I think we're just generally speaking nicer people. I got one. Go ahead. Aggies fans. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

Here we go. Let's go. With the cope. Okay. Oh, this is Texas's Super Bowl. We lost. We don't care. We're moving on.

We only lost because it was Texas's Super Bowl. Shut your bum ass up. You came and spent all your money and came to the stadium and you're all invested. And it was a big game. and it's a rivalry game. Texas was hosting the number three team in the country, looking for their last sliver of hope to get into the college football playoff, and of course it was a rivalry game.

Don't even try to cope by saying, oh, this was all Texas cared about was being A&M. Yeah, they wanted to win a big game against the top five team, and they won it, and you're trying to cope with the loss by going, well, the only one because it was their Super Bowl. Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. take your L

if you're an Aggie fan making up excuses you do have to shut your bum ass up is all over them Twitter streets you are going to the playoff and you deserve it and you deserve it and selfishly because of my son and his frayed mental state when they lose

I want them to win the national championship but you're not going to get over the little brother syndrome until you beat the big bro and you got to beat him on paper you were a better football team than Texas was. On the field, two different

animals. DK.K.R. Love boisterous. Let's go. I lost my voice. Now, can I say to those Texas fans that are losing their mind because their squads not in the top 12? Shut your bum ass up. I've done it. Shut your bum ass up, man. And I just said that for both of us. I don't want

I don't need to HornsFans.com coming after you too hard. Shaggy Bevo's coming after you. Is that one of the people on there? It used to be Shaggy Bevo, but then Steve Patterson, when he was AD, got that shut down, even though it was a message board for years. I think now it's Shaggy, Texas, or I don't even know if it's still around. Shaggy Bevo. Yeah, what do you do for living?

I write for Shaggybevo.com. Hey, it was a good website. Well, Lane Kiffin, not saying you don't know how much money you're making. Shut your bum ass up, man. Seriously. That's terrible. Just terrible. Wait, hold on. We're forgetting something.

For anybody that thinks tri-tip is better than brisket, man, shut your bum-ass up. Shut your bum-ass up, man. You can't be Mr. Texas and call tritp tip better than brisket. Yeah, you're right. Shut your bum-ass up.

Let me tell you, shut your bum-ass up, man. We're going to go have dinner and some tri-tip, and you're like, damn, this is some juicy meat. Tri-Tip is good. I've had it in California.

Yeah. I had it in Utah. It was delicious. Did it come with a kale salad? No. No. He had some brussels sprouts, right? I didn't have brussels with it. I like Brussels sprouts. No, I'm not hating. I'm not hating. Yeah, yeah. Don't hang on Brussels sprouts.

This one are sauteed, a little bacon in them. Mmm. Delicious. All right. 713-212-5-790. Let's go to Ray. Ray, what's the matter with you? Just one thing. Sports radio guys get paid to talk about sports and they get to the point where they think they know everything. and for Cole to say No, no, I'm serious, man

and for Cole to say that D'Amico didn't know what the hell he was doing. Cole, shut your bum ass up. You talk too fast and you talk too much. Shut your bum ass up until you start coaching a Pop Warner League or a college or an NFL team. You should never set NFL coaches don't know what he's doing, Cole.

That doesn't make any sense. And I wish you would stop talking so fast and talking so much. I just don't get it. Shit your bum ass up, man. I just don't get us tomorrow Weekday 6 to 10 Right here on Sports

The Morning Drive With Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson Make sure you tune in We call it room radio Zoom zoom boom Zoomers Hey nobody got time for it If you call them to the morning drive

Are you a driver? I think they are the two youngest hosts On this station Yeah They're both Well Dan's old Okay

Wow Out of shape Matt What He's getting in better shape With Cinergenics TRT MVP.com.

Okay. He's looking good, dropping weight. Is he how much, where does he drop? That's a question for him. I didn't, I didn't check his scale. Would you like to guess? No.

I'll put it in the four to five pound range. T-R-T-MvP.com. All right, is this, is this line one, James? We already had James on the show earlier today. He had asked me if he go again. Well, I love to him. If he's going to tell Matt to shut his bum mess up,

I say yes. All right. This is probably coming my way in three. James what's the matter with you James the crowd was too hostile day went into the big house and beat Michigan shut your bum ass up Elko shit your bum ass up man

very good thank you very much for that you didn't get out probably I'm worried about Mike Elko he he's I don't mean a fat shame here but God bless it he doesn't look healthy Mike Elko yeah so you've been gaining weight I didn't He's always been heavy I saw him

was very upset when the did you see the video him getting upset when the door got opened at the so guess who fessed up to that Stuart Mandel? Stuart Mandel from SS is like I'm the one to open the door he opened the door he thought it had already started I mean hadn't started yeah that's going to happen

quite a bit I think in press conference atmosphere I mean because remember press conferences now not they most of the mainstream media doesn't go anymore it's the fringe media it's the people that think they're meat it's the college fan sites it's the students that are

in the cloud. I mean, even at U of H games, 75% of the media that attend UH press conference are students or of cougarfan.net or whatever the hell it is. So we just didn't teach people. We didn't teach. There are some untrained professionals. There are a lot of

and there's some, actually, Frankl, the Texans didn't let media in there that aren't media. And that's another issue, but that's a different issue for a different time. We've just lost the training of professional media. I mean, I went to college, I learned, I made my mistakes, and I also learned my mistakes

being young in broadcasting and knowing what to do and not to do. I unfortunately still make those mistakes here at 1144. You're doing great, Matt. We're all proud of you. Are you sure? Yes. I don't think I have very proud of me. Well, most of us. All right, thank you. Joe, Mike, and Koso, we'll get to you

in a matter of moment. It's 1144 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. If you want to chime in, 7-1-2-5-7-90. And if you're on Twitter, want to follow us there. We'd love to have you at Sports. SportsMT at SportsRB. 1151 on Sports Talk 790 and is Matt and Ross with you. The news at noon is coming up.

We'll give you an update on what's happening on signing days. The University of Houston is kicking ass. Oh, really? Number one quarterback in the country this year's class. You're welcome. Cut that check. I don't care. Look, we've got to cut checks.

I don't know where it's coming from. but I can't afford it. That's great. Willie Fritz. Great coach, as I've always said. Great hire for the University of Houston. Whoever rolled up his contract, by the way? $350,000 in bonuses since they got the nine wins.

That's good. Pay the man. Let's go. Longhorn's seventh in national recruiting class. That's not great. It's fine. What are you talking about? These are dime a dozen class.

That's below standard. So if it's not in top five, you don't want to hear about it? I didn't say that. I don't want to hear about it. Just saying it's below standard. Last year was number one. Let's see. What was the year before? Well, number one, with your schedule next year.

The year before is number six. Never mind. It'll be fine. Tough schedule next year. Yeah. Ohio State. I mean, of course, oh, you every year, A&M every year, at LSU, at Tennessee.

Ooh, baby. LSU to the Kippin. Of course, this year. hopefully not a massive failure a year like this year was a massive failure it was not a massive failure no yeah it was no one massive failure didn't win a championship massive failure now again as i will stand by if you don't go to national championship three years it's a big disappointment yeah massive disappointment yep not failure massive failure nope disappointment let's go to uh mike on 790 1153 mike good morning to you

what's the matter with you hello gentlemen how are you good thank you i'm calling for Kansas City. I'm here getting ready to watch Chiefs play. I'm trying to play in Texas this weekend. I made to talk a couple weeks ago. I haven't been able to get in. But this is Orlando. The guy who

suggested that we have a little bit of controversy that he was convinced in L's for a baby and CJ. I also had the same conversation with somebody that I thought was a happy to tell us a football person, but Orlando, shut your bum ass off.

There you go. We'll let you go there because you've got a little bit of a warbly line there. I think it's not us in that case. He said somebody with a quarterback controversy. Yeah, here. People are trying to create quarterback controversy. Yeah, I know. They should shut their bum asses up.

And you know what? I got one now. Now they just reminded me. Sure. I jokingly said after the Texans game, well, Davis Mills would have won this game with 375 yards and four touchdowns. If you do not have the mental capacity to realize that is sarcasm, Number one, you're an idiot.

And number two, some guy said, this is blockable. And then he blocked me. And I was like, you're so stupid that you can't realize I'm being sarcastic. And then you block me so I can't just say, hey, jackass. This is a sarcastic comment. You don't have the mental capacity to pick up on this. Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man.

You don't think about doing. How is that not obviously sarcasm? We should get sponsored. Today's, who's blocked you of the day? I mean, has Davis Mills thrown for $300? 75 yards and four touchdowns in his career? I'm going to say no. Like, there are people out there on Twitter that have blocked me.

I have never met them a day of my life. I have no idea who they are. Yeah. So shout out to those of you that have blocked me. Yeah, Mills has never thrown for four touchdowns. He's never thrown for even 350 yards. It's very clearly a joke. But there's not Davis Mills truthers out there.

Oh, yeah. There's a lot of them. Some people are actually agreeing with my tweet. Like, yeah, I know. those people need to shut their bum asses too I was typing that tweet and I was like this is for yeah this is enough people to know this is sarcasm four touchdowns 375 and

and idiots didn't pick up when have you figured out that sarcasm not a lot on Twitter I know I'm you know what I'll shut my bum ass up exactly for giving people too much credit no I'm shutting your bum ass up I'm trying to be sarcastic yeah my bad shit your bum ass up man's in my DNA though Kso what's the matter with you can you hear me all right yes sir okay so matt as you know or may have forgotten i work here at the wonderful university of houston main campus okay i work in IT and part of my job is to help those in my department uh get new computers so that's just a small part of my job i we get a new employee in

um i'm setting them up with one of our standard laptops he tells me that He wants a new laptop. I go, all right, well, let me go see if we can place an order. So, he placed an order. I'd show him the invoice and go, hey, yeah, I got you a new laptop. He'd be coming in whenever. He comes to me and he says, I do not like this laptop. He says, what?

He goes, I don't like this laptop. I think it's too big and I want it to be smaller. I said, well, we already placed the order. I'm sorry to something I do. He goes, well, I reached it. out to the purchasing department. I told he to cancel the order. I go what? He goes,

yeah, I did this on Friday. This was he was telling me this on a Thursday. So almost a week later, I'm looking back in my invoice and sure not, there it is, cancel. So what I say to you for doing that, from going on my back, going behind IT's back, and thinking

that what you know is better, shut your bum ass up, man. Shit your bum ass up, man. Take the computer, bro. It's the work computer. Yeah, be happy that you're going to work in Peter. Yeah, I'm happy. I couldn't believe I got one. You know, Kaisal might have the best such a bum-ass-ups ever, like week by week.

Do you know what? They're real. They come from his heart. They come with passion. And usually you don't ever go, man, I kind of side with the other person. That's crazy. Good for you, Casey. He went behind his back and canceled the order.

And told him about it. For his free work laptop. That's crazy. There's some wild people out there. Can I tell you a little bit of a hot take? Go ahead. In case you're the exception. There are a lot of people in central campuses of schools around this country that have horrendous communication and real life skills.

Like the professors that I had when I was at the University of Houston, I love you of age. But they never dealt in reality. It's like college professors, and this could happen in every school in this country. They get in their little college of whatever, and they don't. They stick their head in their books or they stick their head in research or they only talk to their fellow professors, but they have no sense of real life. Out of touch. They're completely out of touch, not to go hold on oaths on you. Okay.

But they're out of touch. So, and I would like to see today's professors at every institution around this country be a little more human, a little more, you know, with the times. Okay. I don't know why I brought that up, but I apologize. all my professors. I didn't have an issue with anybody, but I also didn't go to class much. I had issues with several of them. Because I was in the business. I was literally

in radio. And this one professor, I won't mention his name, Dr. Musburger, insisted on using a turntable as part of our audio production class. I said, it is 1996. We are not using turntables anymore. Yeah, but we still used the

nuances of it. No, no nuances of it. It's not being used anymore. You're not making it using your A track I had major issues Oh, I only had one professor that I liked in college And he's, and this is like in 1995 He's like, you know what, guys,

there's just something you guys are going to love It's going to be called HD TV And it's going to change the way you watch television And he was right I remember the first time I saw 720P I thought I was looking through a window When I saw the whites of people's eyes on TV I was like, this is incredible

He's like, kids like Jonathan Darnham. Man, y'all make me feel so young right now. Yeah, you are young. Woo. 720. Don't waste the youth. You know what? You were born with 1080, weren't you?

No, no, no, no. I had VHS and Veggie tails and stuff. Vegetals? Vegetiles. I haven't heard that in a while. I haven't either. Let's go quickly. I got a couple more to get to.

Joseph and Lake Jackson. Joseph, what's the matter with you? How you doing? I'm just to do a bummed ass story here. This background, I work with a bunch of Aggies. I mean a lot of Aggies. I made seven different bets for that game. And one of the bets was, at the end of every day,

we have a meeting at work and you close a meeting out, and this guy was supposed to say, hook him. Instead, he gives us a 10-minute lecture about how Bevo got his name when they ain't unbeat him. I was going to tell that guy, shut your bum-ass up and say hook him, man. Shut your bum-ass up, man. You're talking about the 13-0 story. That is a myth. that is a debunked A&M myth that they does I think the myth is like A&M painted 313 and O on him because they beat Texas 13 and O and O and they changed it to B-Vo that's that's a myth.

Dang, that's an Aggie myth. Good story too. Now, on line four, does Joe want to do a show your bum ass up? We just want to talk Aggies in general. I think he just want to talk Aggies. All right, we're going to hold you Joe to the other side because we know you want to get into a little more deeper on the Aggie conversation. Brian, apparently, really quickly before the news is. at noon. Brian, what's the matter with you?

Yeah, so every college coach today or athletic director or whatever, tell me you got every player you targeted. Man, shut your bum ass up. You know, there were a bunch of guys who you wanted to come to your school who said thanks but no thanks, but

yet you're going to sit here and tell me we got everybody we wanted, we got the best class we've ever had. Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up. I 100% agree. 100% agree. I would love to be able to hear a coach go up in front of the podium and say, ladies

gentlemen, my coaches, we suck. I don't know what the hell we're doing. We did that before. We have done it before. You had me call in as North Texas A&M's coach or something. Oh, it's a Walmart. Yeah, I'm glad you remember that. Yes. Yeah, we're next to the Walmart, Matt. And the carts keep getting into our

practices. We try to integrate them. I can't remember what it. Yeah. Could you imagine your coach going, yeah, we try for these great quarterbacks. Our administration doesn't have any money for these guys So we got we're SOL It's like our recruiting class is terrible guys Matt, none of these people can play

Yeah, we'll be lucky to win two games next year We're scheduling down Nobody had a bad recruiting class At least some power four Everybody got all their guys They're the best Wonderful recruiting class couldn't have gone better Everything we wanted

Good quality, high character guys Are you looking to go look at that list today Because in one year's now We don't look at stars Matt We're not looking at stars We're looking at guys who could play on the field. Yeah, and then when they play for their second school, three years down the road. 12.02, the news at noon, and Joe wants to talk some Aggie football.

We always want to talk Aggie, because we are your unofficial home in Texas A&M football. I know. Aggie Matt. Ready to take your calls. Aggie Matt's fine. I can be Longhorn, Matt, too. You never know these things. Transfer Portal works in different directions.

1203 on SportsSark 7-90. Now you're going, Mac Brown. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 12.7. It is the Matt Thomas Show and Ross. And we have the news at noon. I'm going to go first. It's not like an A-list story, but it's something we kind of talked about. It is about television ratings. Oh. Did you see?

No, I didn't. There was talk last week that the game between the Pittsburgh or the Dallas Cowboys and the Kansas City Chief was going to surpass 50. Million viewers, Rossi. Yeah. Well, the word is out. It was a good, close game. Last Thursday's game between the Chiefs and the Cowboys on Thanksgiving.

I didn't see this. I will gut feeling they did. They set the record. The all-time record was set on Thanksgiving. Okay. 57.23 million people watched that game. Yeah, because they changed the rating systems. They count more streaming numbers.

now or something like that, so that seemed like a cinch. Most watch regular season game ever shattering previous record by 36%. At its peak, 61 million people are watching the game. Now, what is the U.S. population? 250, right? I think it's close to 300 these days. Okay, so even if that's the case. 3.42.

We're healthier out there. So, okay, so really, at some point, again, rating systems are very, flaw we can tell you that certainly for radio yes one out of every six people that was in front of a television that sounds about right was watching that game how do you count groups so especially in thanksgiving you don't that's why and what if i've nodded off from turkey is that in exact signs and do i count as a person when i've when i'm taking a post thanksgiving meal nap if your television is on and you're a rating system absolutely tv's on and i'm snoring i still count okay did you did you fall asleep in the game no i don't know i did have i would tell you was i was so tired

after watching the Cowboys. I barely watched Insanid Baltimore. I thought I was wait to see Lamar Jack and throw several picks. I, huh. Yeah, he, did he throw several picks? He threw two and then there was like four or five turnovers, yeah. Yeah.

So, yeah. He's not moving well. He's not looking good. Their Ravens aren't going to, they're looking like they're. So you were saying the AMS, he's wide open. Yeah, like, I mean, how healed up is he going to be? He had, what was it?

Knee injury, hamstring injury, knee injury, and ankle injury. Bow, oh, by the lake, shut your bum ass up to the TV station in Salt Lake City for choosing the Niners-Browns game over Texans Colts. Niners, Browns. Yeah, because I figured there was a large part of the West was going to want to watch the game. I'll decide to use a legal stream to watch the Texans, allegedly. No, I definitely did that. I'm sorry, I use legal streams.

No, me coming after me. I mean, I haven't come up. I thought you had Sunday ticket. I have Red Zone. I don't have Sunday Ticket. Oh, okay. Although Sunday Tickets. Red Zone's not a bad option when you can't get the game you won't watch.

Although Sunday tickets is not $49 to the rest of the season, that's not a terrible deal. By the way, did you see the news we were talking about this yesterday? Remember how we talked about Red Zone? They're like, hey, guys, it's just one minute of spots. I saw your tweet. And then all of a sudden, within 12 weeks in a couple months, it's up to five minutes or eight minutes of advertised content, five minutes of spots. Where's Adam Shep? to carry the water for the NFL.

You know what? I'm late on this. Shut your bomb ass up, Adam Schaefter. Hey, guys, it's only one minute of spots. I don't know why everybody's freaking out because you're carrying the water for the shield. The orders came down from Roger Goodell's ivory towers to back this up.

I want to see you circle back on this. Shifty, you shill. Sorry. Can you name somebody that doesn't chill for a league? They have to. And I know. It's part of the game. We all have to do it.

Everybody. Yes. Make sure you download the free I Heart Radio app. Yes. And we are non-A-I. Yes, we are guaranteed humans. Yes, we guarantee it. All right, what else are you got in the news?

We do our shilling, but yeah. Matt, did you see what's going on with the L.A. Clippers? Yes, I do. Clippers, Chris Paul. Ostered. How do they call this an ouster? Stunning ouster is what they're saying in this ESPN article. It's not like it was a military coup.

Can we relax? He's just a point guard who's faded. Chris Paul was not on speaking terms with L.A. Clippers head coach Tailu for several weeks before his ouster from the team according to ESPN's Sam's Sharania.

Paul and his leadership style clashed with Lou and the Clippers, according to sources, who told Sharania the 12th time All-Star was vocal and holding management, coaches, and players accountable. They felt did the Clippers that Chris Paul style had become disruptive.

He is a free agent, and it's already been floated on Rocket's Twitter. Bring him home. Now, you can see two sides of this. If you have a malcontent, and Chris Paul clearly was a malcontent, there's only so much bitching you can do before you say, if you don't like it, get out, right?

I mean, that's in life. You have to sometimes say your peace, but if you continue to be belligerent about what you're unhappy with, And they say, well, we don't need you around. It would have been different if Chris Paul would have been Chris Paul of 15 years ago. But Chris Paul is faded. In the last year, he's going to retire at the end of this season.

He was not playing starters minutes. He has really, his overall game has regressed in the last five years. Not because he doesn't care about it. He just is old. And lost foot speed and can't do the things that he did when he was younger. So as much as you may side with. Chris Paul and saying, how do you do this to one of the OGs, one of the greatest of all time? At a certain point, even if you have a disruptive organization, whether it's a workplace at the office with your sales department, or it's a MBA team, or it's a grocery store, if you got somebody just tells you how horrible you are, what are they supposed to just sit there and take it?

And if you can't, and if the employer ye can't talk to the boss, one of the bosses, where's this house is supposed to be rectified? You don't think Tyrone Loo didn't try to get it with Chris Paul and say, hey, can you back off a little bit? And Pyron Lul's probably going, I'm done, I can't do this anymore. I can't have Chris Paul yelling at everybody. I know we suck. We know we're disappointing. But my guess is Chris isn't helping. Who could have thought getting four guys like 38 years old and older?

And Kauai Leonard was a degenerative knee issue. Right. Wouldn't be successful. Yeah. That's all I'm saying. It's that, look, my guess is it's 99% the Clippers' fault. but I don't want to say I get it but if you have somebody that's just so unhappy

every time he comes to your office you just kind of say let's move on one more quick thing Matt did you see who was the latest suggestion for the Penn State head coaching job is somebody we know and like Ben Rothlessberger

on his footballing with Ben Rothlessberger podcast that's not a joke so you're telling me a guy that's had zero coaching experience said that Mike Tomlin he's suggesting Mike Tomlin oh I thought he was suggesting himself okay

Rothelsberger saying on his football with Ben Rotholing with Ben Rathesburg podcast I can't get over that name funny don't you it's so bad I like coach Tomlin I have a lot of respect for coach Tomlin maybe it's best for him too

a fresh star for him is what's best. Maybe go be Penn State's head coach. Nope. Would not work. I mean, they had a red-ass NFL head coach there once. That wasn't that bad. Oh, but congratulations to Bill O'Brien before he has been accepted to stay around at Boston College of the 2020s. He's trying to build something. You know, you're always bringing these negative questions. I'm trying to build something here, guys. We're trying to win. Rockets and Kings tonight, by the way. Seven o'clock, right here inside Totis. Lovely. Can't wait. I can't make the arena today.

You actually could. Very busy. Not really. I'll be there Friday. But you're not coming tonight. I'm doing three games this week. I don't have to come to the arena. We can, we can bond if you wanted to.

We hang out for like eight minutes when I go down there. And six of those, the coach is talking. That's eight minutes left for your life. You'll be even me. 1215. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you want to chime in, 713-212-5-790, 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you want to follow us on Twitter, we'd love to have to

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Now, the only way you're like, well, Matt, how do I win the tickets? Will you hear to listen to 10 o'clock hour? We're rewarding 10 o'clock listeners. We're going to make sure the 10 o'clock audience is out there because we think it's largely a wasteland, but we're going to try to fix that. Yes, I like that, Matt. We're being about solutions, not about problems. Yeah. Be solution-oriented in your life.

You start listening to show at 10 o'clock every day. Good things are going to happen to you. Good. But we'll take you all four hours, for sure. All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. Kings and Rockets tonight over T-C. We're going to visit with Kelvin Sampson coming up in just a little over an hour from now.

Cougars are going to take out in Florida State this Saturday in a game at the TOTA Center. And we've got the Texans back on the practice field. We have championship weekend in college football. Anything else really going on that we've failed to discuss? We haven't talked about the big Sunday night football game. Oh, yeah. It's working out well. It's a must-win game.

Not a way. Now, again, you know what? You can lose this game and still get to 10 and 7. Yes. And I think that, again, I've always said 10 get you in. You can lose this game and still get to 11 and 6. Okay, let's go through the schedule really quick. Yeah.

Kansas City. Yes. Home Arizona. Mm-hmm. Dub, dub. Home Vegas. Yes. At Chargers.

That's going to be tough. Home Colts. That cold game went from, hey, the Colts are going to rest their starters to they're going to play. It changed up a little bit in a couple of weeks, didn't it? We were like, hey, Colts will be resting their starters. They'll be playing Anthony Richardson. Well, actually, he's hurt still.

I don't know where their backup is these days. What's the Sam Allenger up to? He's still, I heard his name this past weekend somewhere. Okay, somewhere. It might be with, I was on with the colds. Does he still think Texas is back? As do most people do, for sure. But, okay, so let's.

The Broncos, that's right. So let's say, here's my thought. You can't have, the Texans defense, can they really play another five weeks of this incredible football which is in the previous five? They can. They just have to stay healthy. there's no dud in that mix anywhere you don't see

like it can happen we just didn't show up we were flat it's the NFL they gave up they gave up 29 points to the Jaguars was there any defensive scores in that game I don't think there was I was at home 29 points to the freaking Jaguars I mean uh yeah stuff can happen oh it was a punt return touchdown that's what it was let me ask you this if you're a attack

Texan's defensive player, and you put together this run, are you in the back of your mind going, man, we are so good, this is so much fun, and at the, and we're going to root hard for our offense. We're going to get, we're going to, we're going to do whatever we can to help them. Or is there a part of you like, man, we're giving you the absolute best, and we are barely squeaking out these wins. Man, I think it would depend because if, if you're losing games like 13 to 10, you probably are feeling like that. Yeah. It hasn't been that. I mean, well, the Titans, the Titans, I'm sorry.

Yeah, if you're losing games, 13 to 10 is what I'm saying. Then you start getting mad about the offense and their lack of production. They have been winning, and the offense has been giving them enough. It's been four straight one-score games. That's kind of where the worm has turned for the Texans. All five of their losses are by one score, and all four of their recent wins are by one score. Because you know what? I got terrible news for people out there that are trying to create storylines.

That's what the NFL is largely. that's why we watch that's why it's the greatest sport in America it's so compelling you never know what's going to happen any given Sunday the margins are so thin between two teams and that's why my biggest concern going forward is going to be the game management of

Demico Ryans I mean offense I get it but I'm talking about like when you get into the playoffs and stuff like that I'm worried about these bad challenges or these bad use of timeouts or play calls randomly not kicking the ball at the end of the second

half against the Colts when Kimee Fairbairn has the leg to try for 64 yards. Those little things come to light in the playoffs. They always become storylines because playoffs are going to be close. You're playing the best of the best.

Yep. I'm a little worried about it. And see, the thing of it is is that, you know, and we had a caller, what was our buddy in Miami Ray called. It's like, you know what, tell Cole to shut his bummed, I said he'd be totally ever coach. We are allowed to, as sports fans,

dissect what we can do and some people have better perspective than others because they've either played or coach before and I respect that but it doesn't necessarily

mean it's a requirement to have an opinion about how your football team is coached or how the players play. I probably can't run the country or the state or the city but you criticize

whoever's in office at the president whoever is in office as a governor whoever's a mayor you criticize them and that doesn't mean they're infallible or beyond reproach you've been mad of the economy being bad

well guess what I don't see your economics degree Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? We're talking. Oh, no, from a more informed position, of course, you being in the business for as long as you have, and me being a lifelong sports fan in the business for 16 years. I mean, we have a little bit of, I'm tempered by it. Yeah. I'm not going to, I mean, maybe 24-year-old Matt Thomas would have screamed and yelled about a variety of things. But now that I've been done this for 30 plus years, I can see both sides of things. I would say if you were to grade out D'Amico's coaching performance this year, it's probably a B.

B is good I just would like him to be more aggressive or and just the game management aspect of it. I'm not thrilled about over conservative play calling. I'm not, I am not thrilled with this timeout management. I'm not thrilled with

challenge isn't. But you know what, friends, 31 other cities are having the same problems. Just win, baby. He believes, and he's not going to change his stripes on this. He believes in his defense that they can win him game. and so far recently, he's been proven right.

Last three games, 13, 19, and 16 points given up. And they've been holding opponents to under 20 points routinely. And he also believes in C.J. Stroud, which you should too. Even three of their losses, they held the team to under 20. With a little help of a better offense, I mean, this, this, which can still round into shape. Their offensive line rankings, pro football focus is not everything, but they keep going up. So that means there's got to be some kind of improvement. they're not 32nd, they're 18th this week.

Now, if they also give up five sacks this week, they're going to drop like a bad. I don't think they're going to, but they could. We didn't talk about Lincoln Tomlinson getting released. Oh. Do we need to have a funeral? RIP? I didn't do a, what was your favorite Lincoln Tomlinson as a Texan moment?

You should have. Come on. I feel like I'd let you all down. All right. George, John, and Connor, Hank tight will get to you in a matter moment. 713, 21, 2, 5, 7.9. Now, all three of these lines say tickets on them. two of the three so you don't even know where the question is i don't and you and i are going to create this question we come back because there's one painfully obvious one but there's something we need something anymore my nuisance all right fine seven one three two one two five seven ninety all right twelve thirty five sports talk seven outy all right we're going to

get away some tickets here that i got a pair of my personal tickets for tonight's game if you want to win them um how do we want to do this we got three people that are on the line. Do we want to make them eligible for this or what do you want to do? We didn't really make rules by this. What do you say? You're biting your lip. I say getting in early as a disservice to the people who did not have the opportunity. All right. I'm sorry. Oh, okay. So we'll see if John, Connor, and Andrew drop. Sorry, you didn't say to call in for tickets. And if you got in early, I mean, you know, you jumped the gun. Yeah, I didn't say, do it now. You can hang up on them. You can hang up now if you want to. We want you to stay on your

talk to us but yeah we'll take these calls if they're there there there are rules in this life people and then we will clear them and then we'll go to try to give away the tickets here in just a minute let's talk to some people first uh let's go to a george in cypress george thank you for waiting good morning good afternoon you're on the 790 matt thomas show with ross how are you uh i'm good how are you guys doing amazing if you want to give away those tickets right now go ahead i'll take them all right what's the answer then uh uh well Well, I have a question, actually, that's why I call it. All right.

I've seen this morning that Chris Paul was let go. You think the Rockins may kick the tires on that again? Just a question. You know, I mean, do they have a conversation about it today? Sure. What does Chris Paul have left in the tank? And that I'd have an answer for. So what I say, do they talk about it?

Yes. Did they laugh and giggle about it? I don't know. Are they serious about it? No. They don't, I mean, he'd have to come here for pennies in the dollar. You'd have to trade for this. My understanding is, yeah, you would have to.

He's not part of the team. Because he, even vet minimum, which of course he is a vet, would put them over a hard cap, I thought. Yeah, the second apron. Yeah. Whatever that is. Or does that alleviate come December? I don't know. I don't know all the rules.

I just don't. So to answer your question, George, I don't think that. Chris Paul's name will be associated with the Rockets, but hell, I could be wrong. Okay, I was just wondering, because I've seen that, I didn't know if he got cut. I know they say send him home, so that's what I saw this morning on ESPN. Yep. Yeah, they sent him home. That doesn't mean he's still on the active roster.

When they say, when they put a lineup card out there, his name will be on there. It'll just be D&P, not with team. Like Carmelo Anthony. Well, like PJ Tucker, the last two years of his career. Yeah. Where's PJ now? I don't know. But there's been a lot of DMPs in Aruba.

DMPs, spending time with fam. That's not bad. I mean, getting paid and not showing up. Chris Paul, I mean, John Wall did a whole season of it. Made 40 plus Millie to hang out. Did he look at that check and go, damn, I feel terrible about this. Nope. No.

Not at all. Let's talk to John on 790. John, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Matt. I'd like to take a guess at your answer as well. Go ahead. Give it a try. Try to. That's not it. Not a bad guest, though. Well, I hate to take you for listening.

Your evaluation is incorrect. John, thank you very much for listening. It means a lot that you listen to us in the 10 o'clock hour. You bet. Hey, so I met you last year at a high school volleyball game. Your beloved Kingwood played my Barber Seale Eagles. And Barber Hill won, correct? Yes, sir. My daughter, she is playing at a little school up in Oklahoma, a little D-2 school, and tomorrow night they play in the NCAA tournament. So I just want to give a shout out to Oklahoma Baptist.

Wow, that's nice. Congratulations. John, it's great. Yeah, we're flying to Nebraska. Oh, by the way, it's like 23 degrees in Omaha today. I don't know if you're aware of that, but you dress warmly. it's terrible yes so Ross you big Texas fan me

I'm a big Texas fan Matt he's not but that's okay everyone's ruling Texas out of the playoffs the teams that are ahead of them is there what do you think they're likely

I mean if if Alabama gets handled pretty handling by Georgia I don't see them putting in Alabama over Texas. I see, and a couple of other teams, a BYU type team or something like that, I can't see some of them getting in over Texas. Nobody travels. Nobody shows up like Texas does on events like that. Yeah, well, Notre Dame's schedule is done. BYU and BYU losing and Bama losing, they could drop, they could jump them, but they would still be 11th and they would get, they would

get jumped by the two conference championships champions who are not in the top 12 so they would still be out who would who is that most likely to be it will be virginia and then i think two lane and you really think that so those are auto bids i mean there's nothing you can do about that okay so they're obligated to take that right that's just terrible okay yeah i mean look it's going to be a friend team 13 team 13 is always going to to be upset and it's looking like Longhorn's going to be Team 13. I mean, I really don't see a scenario where they can

get in there. I don't either. And I think Hunter Eurecheck, who's the CFP chairman, said as much yesterday. He's like, they don't play a game, they can't move, and frankly, if all the favorites win, that still puts some of the outside. Maybe a Sark can lobby harder. Get you a spot. Maybe he can buy some political time. Yeah, there you go.

Right in the middle of like an American Idol episode. Maybe you can buy a debate, like a shark tank situation. He can go in front of the committee and then make his pitch. Ooh. That's actually not bad. We could televise it, but on ESPNU there we go. Better than this Yukon women's game. That's all right.

We've got some Real Madrid action for you. All right. Let's talk to Connor on 790 at 1241. Connor, good afternoon. What's going on? Hello, Connor. Hey. Yeah. Time for the tickets. All right, Tom. What is your answer, please?

shirt ribs of a brisket shirt ribs of ricket is not the answer that was an excellent that was that was really unintended to be funny but yet we're following it's pretty good I love that

all right when we come back no it's through now oh come on oh you want to do it okay yeah people are getting really pissed you can be mad at me I did it All right. I will give out the question.

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summer. Okay. We had to use summer of fun because the Astros were so bad for so many years. We had to kill time in the summertime because it wasn't breaking down Astro games. We brought in people from other shows to play games, right? Right. When we played password here one time? What was the one I won against the Adams? Password.

Was it password? And the clue was Oh, what was the one that was terrible? It was a ping pong and he's... Clan? I can't remember Pug. Pug. He gave the answer of the clue. And he's like, I was supposed to do that.

I'm like, no, you weren't, you dork. That's why he's banned from playing games. Well, most importantly, I beat Clinton and Wex. And I won. Here's the question. 10 o'clock hour of the show, we were talking about Instagram. Yes. And I suggested putting up photos of myself wearing something.

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Andrew, do you know the answer? I believe it's the swimsuits or bikinis when you interviewed the lady. I believe it's a swimsuit. Is that correct? Please know that's correct. Andrew, it is correct. I'm so happy. First of all, thank you for being a 10 o'clock listener.

By the way, did you see all the people that dropped off? They had no idea what the question was. You are very, very we are thankful that you're a 10 o'clock listener to the show. Thank you, Andrew. Guys, absolutely, and you guys are a great show and y'all are hilarious, and y'all are better than the A team. Just letting y'all know.

So stop. That way of me. Well, we know that. You've already kissed enough of our ass. We're happy. I mean, that's obvious. So, Andrew, you're going to give your email and your phone number to our producer,

and I will send those tickets to you after the show today, okay? All right. Appreciate it. Have fun. All right. That's Rockets and Sacramento. Kings tonight inside Tota Center. Are you going to say sack of tomato?

How do you know me as well as you do? I know you better than you know yourself. I can say sack of tomato. Can I also say Sacramento? Sacramento? That's after the game. That's right. If they come here, win? Light the beam red? That's something Craig would do. Can I give you a quick story? And this is, this is, it's, we've got a bunch of people calling in. Thank you for all for listening.

Thank you. Thank you, 10 o'clockers. You know, we'll do this occasionally. I will start giving way more prizes. And we'll do it in the 10 o'clock hour. We're just for more people that are listening at that point. We're going to make you sit around and wait sometime. But today was to say... We should make you sit around.

Yeah, we can. Okay. So I will tell you that on Sunday, or it was it Monday, we were finishing up the Utah Jazz game. And it was, Ryan was sitting in one spot. Craig was next. There was a space in between. And it was me.

Yes. As a matter of fact, people were actually saying they could hear each. each other bleeding into their broadcast. That is accurate. We were right, Nick, I mean, how could we not? Right. Okay.

So this just shows you, this was a moment in time that made you kind of go, okay, Matt, your blank does stink. What do you mean? This, a particular person's dad came over

and introduced himself to Ryan and Craig. Uh-huh. And said, hey, I watch you guys all the time. Y'all are great. Uh-huh. And Ryan and.

Craig, we're like, thank you for mention. It means a lot. You said that to you. Safe travels. Hope you had a happy holiday. This particular person's had a relative on the team, and we were talking about how good the player was. And he said, guys, thanks a lot. We'll see you later. I'm right next to Craig. This one guy just took off. Didn't even say a word to me, didn't acknowledge who I was, nothing at all. Well, Craig's on TV, Matt. That's what I said. And, I mean, and Craig, and Craig, and I I saw what I did a slice of humble pie. I stuck up my hand.

Oh, you did? Okay, you didn't say this part. I did it after he left. I did it as a joke to Craig. I just like, I should have my hand out. Yeah. I said, I'm Matt Thomas and maybe he didn't see you. No, he, I was right next to them.

You make eye contact? I don't remember. The guy was bald. I thought I was bald guys. Make a loving eye contact? I don't think it was loving eye contact. Okay. But point being is, is just sometimes it humbles you that out of towners don't necessarily.

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Yeah. All right. So, yeah, we were talking to 10 o'clock hour about tri-tip. Everybody thought tri-tip would have been the question. Yes. Which we appreciate y'all from listening. For a man who's calling himself, Mr. Texas says tri-tip is better than brisket. Your reaction, please. Let me tell you right now why Mr. Texas works. Because when I bring more tri-tip to Texas, you're going to be like, this is a nice kind of meat. I like I like ribby. I like New York strip. I like filet mignon. I like sirloin. You like it all. You like it all. but brisket is king mattie you're in texas baby come on i think a real person like myself can admit when something is not as good like you were told as a child you must like brisket that's not true that's not true i i choose in and out over what a burger you that's just a wrong choice though no it's not it's a right choice

guys that is stop that's such a that's such a that's a non-texas answer to yeah it's a non-texia i don't be unbiased i don't know i don't I don't remember my food over what state I live in. I love quality. That's like telling, saying a different gas station is better than Buckees. That's just a non-Texis answer. No, it's fine. You can be an answer if it's the right answer.

You got to not have biases in your life, Jonathan. That's why tri-tip is delicious. You cannot be blind. You can't say, no, SFA is going to beat U of H. And then they get their ass wonks, you know? You got to learn these lessons. You can even cross a 50-yard line. The first half looked pretty promising.

Not across a 50-9. Shut you my ass in. You got to learn about these homer picks. I know those people with me. I know this should be a poll again. I know we did the last time we're in Texas. Let's do the poll in California. By the way, I was in L.A. and every In-N-Out burger I came across had a line down the street.

It was crazy. Blows my mind. You can't, and the waterburger lines down the street because the service is slow, slow. That's different. Let me tell you. Let me tell you. Oh, you know, it's slow. terrible. Let me tell you right now, I do like Rutter Ruger.

I love it. That's the thing. But I'm telling you, Rutter Ruger, your 45-minute drive-thew line ain't worth it. It ain't that good. It's always worth it. I like that. Then that's the thing. You can love two things in this life. I can love Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Alba. You know what, Jonathan, I can be torn between two lovers. And I can occasionally feel like a fool. And sometimes you've got to love them. more is breaking all the rules just saying and if you can't be with the one you love

love the one you're with I'm like something it's like I'm finishing your lines that was kind of poetic okay guys maybe we should write a song about it that was kind of yeah if I played this song torn between the two lovers on this show

you folks I don't know that song would have me fired you should get crushed it is the most campiest slow number one hit song that maybe ever made. I don't even know who did it or what song that is. You want to hear it coming back? No, I don't.

No, no, no. We're not starting the new hour. We're not starting the final hour of this show. Getting fired up with some crappy folk song. No, don't do it. Okay, stop. Jonathan, listen to it off air and tell Ross how bad it is. Because I'm even bothered it.

Who's it by? It's not even the system. I go to YouTube. It's called Torham Between Two Lovers. And I want to believe it's Maureen McClure. Governer than saying, I'm Mary McGregor. Close enough. Close enough. Listen to that song for 30 seconds.

It will make you want to find an ice pick and gouge your eyes out. Oh, written by Peter Yarrow. But it was a number one song, I believe. If I'm not mistaken. Peter Paul and Mary. It was a worldwide number one hit in

1973. 76. It came out in November of 76. It's about this girl talking about shacking up with two guys at the same time, and you can't decide which one she was. loves because both them are good in bed. Why don't you just do the three ways?

I guess you could do it. There's free love in the 70s. Seventy's three ways are all over the place, right? Probably. Not necessarily much in 2025. Right, Jonathan? Right, me? I'm asking you.

I need job for advice. I got to ask a college athlete. Yeah. I need a job for advice. I heard about those all you parties. Hey, they are good parties over there, I will say. I heard you were topping some hills. Oh, no, no, no.

You know what you are. are the hilltopper that's what you are that's exactly what you are you are the hilltopper all right back to back to relevant sports conversation i swear a guy will do it here to start the final hour of the matt thomas show with ross 1258 on sports talk 790 this is the matt thomas show with ross all right 102 sports talk 790 this is the final hour of the show we've got kelvin sampson's coming up in a half hour to talk some cougar basketball Cougars is taking out in Florida State this Saturday at the Toyota Center.

Texans, our Texans reporter, Adam Wexler, is out at Texans today. And what is he reporting? Not our insider. Remember, I'm the insider. But what is the reporter reporter? Texans insider, Adam Wexler, breaking news on Texans for us, is out at practice. And he says there are a number of notable starters missing from the media viewing portion of practice.

No Will Anderson, no Woody Marks, no Kamari Lassiter, no Trent Brown, no Danico Autry. Well, I've learned that I'm not worried about this on a Wednesday game.

No. Number two, the injury reports, if you were to go back in years past, around this time of year, are going to be significantly longer because we're talking about teams that have played 11, 12, 13 games. bruises are beat guys being beat up

are going to be more prevalent when it was in the previous game or just over the summation of the entire season. So yeah, I'm sorry. Let's look at this list on Friday and start to panic. Okay. I'm not panicked.

Good. I'm glad you are. But yeah, they buy week a little bit early week six this year so they have been playing let's see, seven games in a row without a week off. We are in December, by the way. You know the Patriots?

and the Panthers are both off this week. I don't know. The NFL's got to do a better job of, this is too late in the season for an off week. Now, granted, maybe the folks in New England and Carolina are loving this, but I'm not talking about fantasy football purposes. I'm talking about just in the ebbs and flow, I mean, shouldn't you have all of the teams off weeks done by about maybe week 11th,

the very latest? You'd figure, but, I mean, you go up to 17 now. So, I mean, I think, Are there buys next week, too? No, this is it. This is last week, yeah. All right, 713, 212-579. If you want to chime in, 713-1-2-1-2-5-7-90.

We're going to get to what, Ross, 18-week schedule. Two-by week, two, not bias. They're off weeks. Byes would be, would you advance in a buy, off weeks. That's going to make it a 20-week season. Is that mean we're going to have mid-February Super Bowl? Are we starting the NFL season in mid-August now? I would think they would go towards the starting earlier as compared to trying people will this year wasn't it near president's day aren't they trying to do that but you are adding if I hear I'm presuming a second off week was right you're going to have to if you're playing 18 games you need a second off week do you not you would figure but I don't know are they going to do that what's one more game throw a little log on the fire I'm sorry in this particular case

the players are going to are going to greatly benefit from this i'm not going to feel sorry for them i'm and maybe i'm callous about this i just don't i just look charging for three exhibition games does a fan base of a service and if it takes an 18th game with a second buy week now granted i don't think you i don't think you can play any more than that because then you're physically talking about wear and tear of enormous uh links but 17 to 18 to me doesn't feel like that that's that dramatic a difference, especially with the second off week. They're going to get more money, and they're going to do it eventually. I mean, I don't know when, I don't know how much pushback.

They got pushed back from the players when it came to 17. Yes, they have. When it was 17, there was pushback and eventually got passed through. I think you're going to, I think the ultimate game plan is to go to 18 weeks. I think you're going to have at least everybody's going to play one international game. You're going to have now, you know how we used to have we have noon games, 325, games, 730. You're going to have once per week an 830 or 9 o'clock in a morning start. we're going to see games in London, Madrid,

I don't like getting enough for those games, man. They're not asking you to do it every week. You're only going to do it, Franklin, when you care. Even if you've got fancy football players, you're still not getting up early for it. Yeah, I'm not. I'm talking to the general population. I mean, when the Vikings put the Browns,

did anybody get up super early for that? No, they did, of course not. Now, the fans in those two towns did, but other than that, they didn't. It's only going to matter to the people that they're trying to reach, which is a huge segment of population, which is going to have 85,000 people. Now, by the way, it's going to be nationally broadcasts on

Sky TV. I mean, they're NFL ain't stupid. NFL doesn't, I mean, the reality is this. They weren't able to overcome the blatant disregard for NFL player safety for many decades.

And as soon as they got caught and they were sued and there were class actions, they fixed it. Yeah, well, yeah, they're covering their asses. from lawsuits. They're not doing it because they care about player safety or they wouldn't be adding 17 and 18 games. They're only doing that for money.

If you really cared about player safety, they wouldn't be doing these things that they're doing. If they really cared about player safety, if somebody lay hits a quarterback, then they're out of the game. 15-yard penalty is you get thrown out for two now. Here's my point, though.

What happens when you watch an NFL game and your favorite quarterback runs a little bit longer and gets hit? The flag comes out. What do people go, oh, no, I hope he's okay or, oh, 15 bonus yards. Let's go first down. Yeah, we like it. And then is he okay.

Yeah, the okay is part of it, but it's not the main part of it. It's just 15 bonus yards. When a player gets hit on a late hit, you don't worry about whether or not that guy's going to get up. It's, hey, it went from the, that was an incomplete pass on 3rd and 11 to 1st and 10. We're hypocrites. We're hypocrites about everything. We're hypocrites about arguing about NIL and. player distribution of cash.

On Saturdays, I'm not saying you. I'm just saying in general. Pay them, baby. I went to the barbershop yesterday. They're all complaining about players getting paid. I don't know. Saturday, it's going to be 100,000 people at AT&T Stadium. Georgetown or whatever they're playing at the

Mercedes Ben Stadium in Atlanta for SEC, 85,000 people. All are going to be full. Rating is going to be up. College football, it's going to have massive ratings. By the way, the NFL announced their week 16 schedule. some of their games were scheduled for the Saturday of the CFP. Oh, that's right.

And the NFL's like, you know what? We are so much better than you are. We're going to put our games against yours. They're not even giving college football its own run. It used to be illegal or something like that, right? Or there's a Friday night on that was illegal. That I can't take. But to be brutally honest with you?

Not illegal. Would you rather watch an NFL game or a 512 college football matchup? Depends on what the matchup is I'm going to tell you this I'll be watching both And the NFL has zero problem with you watching both Because at the end of the day You probably have money on the game

And fantasy implications on that game Way more than you won in a college football game Between say SMU and In general I'm a bigger Longhorn fan Than I am a Texans fan But in general I'm more of an NFL fan Than I am widespread college football

It's just too much to keep up with Yeah because you You just I mean Virginia versus Miami sounds somewhat sexy. It sounds cool. It doesn't do anything for me. I'll flip it on.

Yeah. Doesn't anything for me. Right. But I'm not going to. But if you want to tell me, if you got Chargers Chiefs, I'm watching. Guess what has impact on the AFC?

And it certainly has the impact on the team that we talk about it. Do they have the, so they named which games they're playing at which times? They did. There were two games. One was terrible and one is really good. Eagles, commanders, Packers Bears? Yeah, Packers Bears is the night time game. That should be good.

Packers Bears are going to do. destroying any college game at that point. Are the Bears the most anonymous 9 and 3 team in football history? I think Denver Rays would like to raise their hand in 10 and 2. That's pretty good. Do you notice in the NFL how many

are you serious? Are way up high? Chicago. Then you have Denver. And then you have something called the Jacksonville Jaguars who we make fun of constantly on this show. I mean, even the Patriots have been a joke for years. I mean, they were

Post Brady, post Brady and Belichick. Right. Proves the point that we've been talking about for weeks now. It's wide freaking open. Feeling good.

I wouldn't say I'm feeling good, but I would say I'm not feeling bad. I'm feeling more as optimistic than I was the last four weeks before that. So you went from a world of 0 and 3 to his Casero gonna lose his jaw. Yes. To they're still out of the playoffs.

But the notion around the NFL streets are, if the Texans get in, they'd be as difficult to vis-out as anybody else. Nobody's going to want to face this defense in the playoffs. The offense, maybe they're okay. Offensive feeling, you know, we got that. I mean, if you're Pat Mahomes, you are hoping for 35-34. Because you don't think the Texans get to 34. Offensive lines, getting better, though, Manning.

We'll see how Woody Marks hurt his foot and came back in the game on Sunday, so that is one I'm keeping an eye on. When he went out and went to the 10, I'm like, oh, my God. What's left? And, yeah, he came back out. I don't think you had really many big runs after that. No. It is, quite frankly, amazing, ladies and gentlemen,

that you have a football team at 7 and 5 that is getting as much run as it is. And it's not even in the playoffs yet. Ooh. Was it 4.5 before? Because it's 3.5 now. I don't think America's buying in on the Chiefs. Jonathan's Chiefs haters number one.

You know what? And Wex, I was listening to, I told Ross, I was listening to him the other day when he was on the morning drive with Cole and Dan, he thinks the same way the Chiefs aren't the same Chiefs that they used to be. You know what I mean? They're still great, but they're not topping the AFC. You know what I mean? Well, I don't need Wex to tell me that. We all have eyes. We know what's going on. We've watched him play. Wex is making some good points. Yeah, yeah, your Chiefs lover number one. I'm just saying don't sleep on them. You want to go take a nap and nappy nap on them? Go ahead and knock that out.

Do you know what you got to do this week, Ross? Let's let's bury them. Let's put them away. Yeah, I like that. You beat them on a Sunday night in their home building when you're already down a game with them and you would lose not only the head-to-head, you lose the AFC tiebreaker and you'd be two back of them. Woo!

Put them on the misery, Ross. Got a feeling. Texans pull it off. you said that every week though that's not true it was the last time you said the Texan are going to lose I don't know six months ago

training camp probably against the Rams week one maybe the Niners I mean all five of their losses are by one score I said they were going to lose the Seahawks that was true you know I said they were going to lose the Seahawks by double digits and they didn't

I got news for you I'm not making a prediction of the game oh you've been saying that stop stop with your fence sitting every week and then you buy Friday Friday at 2 o'clock. You're making one. Nope. I swear to God. You're such a fraud. I am not making it. How the Toro is doing, by the way? All four playoff spots are already been clinched.

Oh, really? Yeah. Sorry about that. Am I in there? No, you are dead last place. Really? Dead last? Dead last? Yeah, my team blows. Because I have two quarterbacks both on an off week this week, so I had to go pick up some genius roster construction. Excuse me, I'm in the playoffs. So with all due respect. Oh, shut up. Oh, shut up. Oh, please.

Because the champ is back. I like that. You've never won the championship, so how are you the champ? The playoff man is back. The league's been running since 2010. You got zero chips. The league? Zero.

The consistent leader is back. I got four of the last six. Son, you got none this year. You owe for 25. 713-212-5-7-90. We are going to go to the phones in a minute. We got Kelvin Samson in 10 minutes. Really quick.

I brought this up very early in the show. So Charles Oakley was on some player podcast. It'll last in about another two months before it goes away. And he was talking about owning a restaurant in the Miami area called the Red Steakhouse. Okay. And I would play the whole thing, but it's about two minutes, too long. So I'm going to paraphrase here. Apparently, Oakley was in Miami, where he and Robman were invited to an event held at the one hotel in Miami, on South Beach.

After the program, Oakley went to say hi to a friend who owned an establishment nearby. Meanwhile, Rodman said, hey, Oakley, why don't you meet me at your restaurant? Oakley's like, okay, I'll meet you there. So he goes to his friend's restaurant first, and the manager of Redd, calls his boss, Oakley, and says, hey, you got to get over here. And Oakley's like, well, why do you have to go here? Because Rodman's here. And he's like, okay, that's no big deal. He goes, but there's a major problem.

Okay. Rodman is going to people's individual tables and eating food off their plate. Now, we don't know when this happened, but this was the storytelling, he's saying. According to the restaurant manager, Robin was caught eating food from other customers' plates. At first, Oakley couldn't believe what his manager said, but when he arrived, he was shocked to see Robin causing a stir with his disrespectful behavior. Quoting him, this is quoting Oakley. I looked and peeped at the window I said oh blank

So I go in I went like the same way I went to Barclay I went straight to him And grabbed him by his neck And pulled him out of there Wow I pulled him out and said If I ever see you again

You better be in a police car I threw him out and it was just crazy He walked around eating out of people's plates He probably thought it was funny That's bad You know like how that's funny So yeah it was crazy Like damn he's walking around

He's really doing this Hmm I will say this If Dennis Rodman came to your table, one of the greatest rebounders in NBA history, one of the most interesting people ever in sports history and took one of your chicken's fingers, would you be horrified by it or would you think it was funny? I'd break him in half. You went out.

And I would kick his ass. Absolutely. He wouldn't stand a chance. Of course not. I'm like, yes, sir, Mr. Rodman, this is your chicken finger. Right? Right? I don't know.

I don't know how can he react. You'd be shell-shocked. I mean, this was in the 90s or when was this? No, this was within the last 10 years. Within the last 10 years, I would have figured he's homeless then. What's Rodman doing these days? Is he still in North Korea? I don't know.

On a basketball tour with Kim Jong-il or whatever? Let's say you're having some yogurt at a restaurant for breakfast. And Cindy Sweeney sat down and said, can have a buddy of yogurt. Yeah. That's a different scenario. Okay. Maybe there were some ladies at Oakley Steakhouse. Like, I'll go a piece of my rib eye to him.

What? Maybe there were some people that were honored that Robin won't be eating dinner off their plates. I don't know. First of all, I'm not eating chicken fingers at a steakhouse. I was just throwing that as an example. I mean, he's got to get a knife and a fork to get my rib eye. So the question then would be, does he bring his own fork and knife to the table? Or does he literally pick the fork and knife off the people's plates and start eating it?

I don't know. He'd just grab your steak and start chewing on it? I would like a refund. Like a non on a keyboard. I'm not causing a ruckus, but I would like to speak to the manager. I'd give up some of my Ogrot and potatoes for him. I would not. For Dennis Robin, sure, why?

He can afford, he's a multi-millionaire. Yeah, but who are? He shouldn't be stealing my food. I don't know if you would say, uh, Robin had a bottom of my ribeye. I don't want to tell that story. That story sucks. That means Dennis Robin put his lips and tongue and mouth all over my food.

But he's been with Carmen Electra. Yeah, exactly. I don't know what's been... I don't know what kind of diseases I'm getting. He's touching my food. He's been with Madonna. Again. As I said, I don't know what kind of diseases. Yeah. I'm not helping his case out. Ryan, with his

7 out of 8.125. Ryan, how are you? Good, good, gentlemen. I would 100% be psyched in think it was hilarious if Dennis Rodman ate off my place. See, I don't think it's nearly as bad as you think it is, Ross. I will agree with you. Go ahead. So, I hate to admit this, Matt, but I've never been to a Rockets game. I'm 33 years old. I've lived in Houston my entire life.

But as I've gotten older and I have my adult money, I've spinning on Astros tickets all the time. Okay. And I have this opportunity with a buddy of mine who got tickets from his job. I say, hey, you want to go with me? And I said, sure. He goes, all right, we've got to get there super early. And I was like, so this is Friday, they're playing the sun. So I was like, okay, what times do we need to get there? He goes, we got to park it.

We got to be there at 445. And I go, why do we have to be there so early? He goes, I don't know, they set the tickets. We have to park somewhere at and be there at 445. And I go, no, no, no, you are getting, you are. No, you're, no, you don't to be there. It's called a court side experience. I know nothing of this, but I can tell you that there is an assessment.

single soul that's sitting in the arena that is parking his spot at 4.45. Not happening. That's what I thought. So I'm not crazy. No, what I would do is this. If he has, it's probably when it opens or something. No, the arena, you can't even literally walk in the arena until I'm in the garage. Yeah, I would find out what kind of enhanced package you're getting here. If there's something special, like a pregame eat or something, then that might be a five o'clock 530 thing? There are packages you can get where they come to early, they come to shoot around

and you can sit and shoot around. So he said something about court side. If I'm sitting court side, I'm going to lose my mind. But I just want to let you know, I'm going I have no idea what to think and I was just wondering. I've been to Ashow's games. I've shown up to the happy hours. I've done all the other

fun stuff you can do at Ashrow of the games, but I was like, I don't see why we need to be at the Toyota Center, 445. I need you to find out where you're sitting and do some more research with your buddy because I think you're getting some bad information. Okay. Also, I was wondering, could I say hi to you at the game?

If you got time? I'm just kidding. Yeah, I would say, yeah. $14, $15, you know, something like that. Maybe buy me a pregame cocktail or perhaps a pretzel? He doesn't want to say that. No, I'm just kidding. I am on the, no, Ryan, come by and say hello if you can.

Now, the section where I'm in is you have to be, you have to have East Club seats for that. So I don't know if that's going to get you in or over there or not. But if you're in the East Club, I want to come say hello, I'm a bi-section 119. Okay. And that means for anybody, if you're going to the game, I want to come say hello. I'm good. You're not going to the game.

Yeah, you're right. I'm coming Friday. I'm very busy. You didn't mail it in. I'm very busy. Mail it in Villarreal. A lot of us. I'm working three post games this week.

Dan Matthews will be there at the game tonight. No, he won't. Unless he's got your tickets. No, my listeners have the tickets. Okay. Calvin Samson is going to join us after Ross tells you about the incredible folks at Cinergenic. Very pleased for the first time this year to spend 10 quality minutes with one of the finest human beings and basketball coaches you will find in this great country of ours. We say hello to Kelvin Sampson, head coach of our Houston Cougars.

This Saturday, we're taking on Florida State inside Toyota Center. Coach, thank you for the time, as always. And I got to get with the NBA because every time you guys play, we're playing too. So I have been bored of seeing you in person. And from all the looks of things, Vegas was a good trip. I know you wanted to go 3-0, but what great competition you faced there at that players-era tournament? Yeah, good to talk to you, too, Matt Thomas. Yeah, that was a good trip in a lot of ways.

I don't know that I can say that we left there playing great, but, you know, November basketball is what it is. You're throwing some new guys out there. You're trying to mesh. You're building chemistry. your defense, you're figuring out, can we do this or can we do that. You know, the players are still trying to find themselves, and as coaches, we're still looking at what's best for this team.

You know, you can practice for four or five, six weeks. But until you get in the game and see how the other coaches are defending you or the actions they're running that you're struggling with, then you can go back and try to work on it and fix it. I think we're still in that stage right now, but I like this team, Matt. I'm excited about where we can be as time goes on.

We're in December now, so we've got to start making some hard decisions on whether it's what we're doing or personnel, but that's the fun part of coaching is trying to solve the issues as they pop up, and at the same time, seeing these young kids we have developed and grow, and I'm really, really proud of our leadership we have on this team. Calvin, you have been able to adapt to the times, some of it very good,

some of it a lousy part of the world that is college athletics. You have two amazing young freshmen, Flemington Cinnick, who have helped you out, but knowing you for as long as I have, you know that freshmen make freshman mistakes, and sometimes they need to grow, and maybe it's half. into conference play before they can do that. And I don't want to talk about the two young men, Chris and Kingston by themselves, but just in general, are you Calvin Sampson having to adjust how you treat your freshman because of the fact that your recruiting classes are as phenomenal as ever?

You're having another great one here and you have with these guys. Have you had to change a little bit about your philosophy, about playing time, way you teach, maybe you're teaching faster, knowing that these guys have got, you know, big time aspirations beyond, obviously helping the University of Houston winning a national championship? Well, I think it goes all the way back

a little deeper, Matt, and the kind of kids they are, their backgrounds. You know, we want to help them develop and be the best they can be so they can get to the next level, whatever that level may be. It's not always the NBA.

I mean, there's a lot of basketball played around this world. You know, Malik Wilson, And J-Wan Roberts popped in when we got back from Vegas. They were on their way back to, Malik was flying back to Budapest and Hungary. That's where he's playing. Jay-Wan is playing in Berlin and Germany.

Justin Gorman, Fabian White, Josh Carlton, Collar Edwards, Tajay Moore, no, I'm leaving somebody out. They're playing professional basketball. Rob Gray is doing really well. but for some of these guys they do want to play in the NBA and the adjustment the adjustment is I think more patience than anything else because they're going to make the mistakes that you know freshmen make but we still have championship aspirations now whether or not we can be champions

I have no idea but I know that developing these kids and throwing them in the deep end early gives us a much better chance later. Maybe not see the results today, but I think down the road, it's really going to help them, but also help us. But, you know, Emmanuel

Sharp, Milo Giuseanne, Jojo Tuggler, Ramon Walker, Mercy, Chase, Ced, Cordell. You know, we've got a lot of returning players, and just watching these kids go against those

guys every day is really is really helping them our practices are um they can be intense you've seen them right but but it's it's been helping these freshmen make their mistakes and then when they come to get in the games they've had they have that experience to build off calvin sampson our guests here on the matt thomas show with ross again you of h going to play florida state coming up this saturday inside totus center already finishing off a trip to los vegas have a visit to a coming up soon to take on Arkansas. Scheduling, too. Look, you know,

I love who you're playing, what you're playing for, the non-conference schedule. Have you been able to quantify that as to, man, that does pay off for us in January and February, or is, look, the Big 12, just a different animal in itself? No, there's always got to be a balance

for how we schedule. But Syracuse is a good team. They beat Tennessee last night. Notre Dame beat Missouri last night. A lot of times, if we don't play well but still win, a lot of times you may say, well, that team wasn't that good. You may not have the information to know whether that's a true statement or not, but I knew that Notre Dame was a good team.

Missouri is a good team. We play Tennessee, so we know they're good. And, you know, they lost to Syracuse. So all these teams are good enough to beat you. And if you continue to get better, we're good enough to beat them, too. But you're right about the Big 12. We saw Iowa State out in Las Vegas. They're really good.

Kansas is Kansas. I mean, they're always outstanding. Texas Tech, BYU. But, you know, the strength of this league this year is teams like Oklahoma State is undefeated. They won some big games. So is Colorado. Colorado is much improved. You know, we had a good win in Birmingham against Auburn.

You know, and Auburn beat St. John's the other day, and St. John's is a good team. Auburn's a good team. So if you're playing quality teams, you know, you want to be playing good enough to win. win the game. But you also know that there's a lot of things that we can get better at. And our hope is that the schedule we're having, we're playing now, can put us in a position when we get to January in conference play. We're able to go compete, whether it's at home or on the road with teams that are, and I think the best conference in the country this year for sure. We bragged about your freshman a minute ago. Let's get to Emmanuel a little bit,

shooting 37% from three. Uzan, just a great ball distributor per usual. You're getting 30 plus minutes from him. Jojo, as long as foul trouble does become an issue, has been as good as expected for you. You mentioned a minute ago about your rotation. Are there some serious questions right now? Are there a few more minutes to be shaved or added to a couple of guys?

How competitive right now internally is it with your guys that feel like can go by eight or nine deep comfortably here? We've been playing. nine um um you know solid nine but you know i could go down to eight or it could stay at nine it just depends on how these kids continue to uh develop you know i was watching um duke and um who was that they were playing florida last night that was a hell of a game that was a hell of a game but those teams are playing seven or eight yeah um depth always sounds better always sounds good But at the end of the day, coaches are going to play who they think can impact winning in the minutes that they get.

By last year, we had Terrence and Malit that came off the bench. Some nights Terrence had it, and the other nights Malik had it. So you say, well, we're not going to continue to play them both, which one's playing the best? And so you don't want to take your best players off the floor, especially if they're not in foul trouble, and it's a choppy game, and maybe they don't need to come out. So you have a tendency to play your main guys. Up front, I think, is where we're still a work in progress. Chris is a freshman, still makes freshman plays. I don't say mistakes.

He makes freshman plays. He's playing a position he's never played, so it's not an easy transition for him. Everybody wants to play a position down. Fives want to be fours. Fours want to be threes. threes want to be twos and twos want to be ones. Ones are just, ones I guess, are only ones that are happy because that's what they are. But he's playing in a position he's never played.

Probably stands out more defensively than offensively. He played really good against Auburn, maybe not so good against Tennessee. But that's, you know, that's a board you're going to have to ride with those guys. You know, Kaysen was really good against Tennessee. You know, not very good against Notre Dame and probably just average or below against Syracuse. But I know that that when we decided to do this, that that's part of the deal. You're going to have a little bit of a roller coaster effect. But Jojo, Milos, and Emmanuel, they're also dealing with different roles.

You know, last year, Emmanuel was probably our third and some nice, our fourth option. There's some nice these are first or second. So that's a different role. Milos was usually our fourth or fifth option last year. This year he's our first or second, so that's a different role. Kingston was at Brenham High School in San Antonio. Chris was at Link Academy in Missouri, and Isaiah Harwell was at Wasatch Academy coming off at ACL.

So that has our team a little bit kind of in a, you know, patience mode where we just got to keep plugging, keep showing up every day with the right work at. being a pay attention learn follow instructions be attentive and figure out how we can take a complete possession the offense to the defense defense to the offense and then just continue to repeat that over the course of five minutes or six minutes or seven minutes and we're still working toward that for a let your run I want to go back to the Auburn game because I thought that was even though it was a mid-November game The game was technically a neutral site, but you know, Birmingham and Auburn, that's right around the corner. That got some hair on some guy's chest going on that road and getting that victory.

Would you not agree? Yeah. Especially the two freshmen. Kingston was outstanding that day, and so was Chris. You know, Chris has struggled with his shot, struggled offensively here and there. But the one thing he's been solid with is rebounding. And if you can find one thing that can be your baseline, then you'll be your baseline, then you can grow from there. I said, Chris, your rebounding is keeping you on the floor.

Don't let up in that area. And now we can just start building off that, you know, whether it's defensively or offensively or making the right play, helping Jojo if he's out of position, or if somebody gets beat off the dribble, reading it early and getting over and being a REM protector. There's so many things that don't show up on the scoreboard that you want the freshman be able to do. You take a guy like Javier Francis or J.1. Roberts or some of the really good bakes we've had for granted. But they were in there, you know, for J-1, it was his third, fourth, fifth year.

Same thing with Javier, his third, excuse me, second, third, or fourth year. You know, these guys aren't going to be as good as those guys. You know, the pro-aspirations, notwithstanding, that's down the road. you're not a pro today, you're a college player and you're an experienced college player so don't say well he's an NBA player he's not an NBA player we don't have an NBA player on our team

we have guys that could be one day but they're certainly not today they're college guys trying to fit into a system that can help them understand what it takes to win impact winning and being a player that finds out or figures out

what is it that I'm good at and how can I build from here So, but that's the beauty of coaching. That's what my staff and I hang our head on, and we'll just continue to work at it. I don't have any aspirations long term with this team right now. We just come in every day with these young kids, the veteran guys, and trying to get them to mesh and be a good team.

Calvin, thank you for the time, friend. The Toyota Center's been super cold this year, so you may want to wear like a heavy sweater because it's going to be pretty chilly for that Saturday night game even though there's a roof on it. But so be prepared for that. Best of luck against the Seminoles. And it's great talking with you as always.

Okay, Matt. Thanks having me all. You got it. All right. Take care yourself. Calvin Sampson with this University of Houston head coach. We've taken his Cougars over to TOTA Center this Saturday for a game for a game for a game for a game. For a game for a game for a game for a game.

For a TOTA fan that can't get into Fortita because of limited seats, well, plenty of good seats still available for the game with the Seminoles this Saturday inside TOTA Center. Believe it or not is up next. 145 is our time. Ross, what is today's category, and believe it or not? College coach related. Ooh, sounds Googlable. Perfect. 713-212-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game. shall we simply call it B, believe it or not, and here's how it works. Your call 713-212-5-790.

That's 7-13-212-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe or not is... What is this about? College coaches in general? Recent hires in college coaching. I'll read your statement about these coaches. David's completely utterly accurate. You'll say this.

Believe it. If a statement is the erroneous, Fulibon, committed up, you will say this. Not. Two believer or nots in a row. Win your prize. And today we are playing four. are you ready for this wait for it wait for it still looking oh here it is either a 790 t-shirt a pair of tickets to see the trans-siberian orchestra at toad center december the 19th or a four

pack of tickets for astros light up the park presented by houston methodist those tickets are available at astros.com so we're going for astros light up the park at minute at deycon or trans-syberian orchestra at toadena or a 790 t-shirt which first got to play believe it or not 713-212-5-790 that's 7-13-212-1-2-5-790 and let's start with my screener is not working ross where the hell are you hope you have been a great day thank you very much ross and we'll start with bill hi bill hey how's it going man i'm depressed right now i don't care Arkansas coach ryan silverfield started his coaching career very early he quit football his senior year in high to join the coaching staff. Believe it or not? Believe it. Believe it.

Now for some holiday cheer, Bill. Kentucky head coach Will Stein played college quarterback at Louisville, where his major was sports administration. Believe it or not. You know, I'm not even trying to win, but believe it. Believe it. Yeah. A low watermark in the history of the show. Dave on 790, Dave, you ready to play Believe it or not?

no believe it will stine has never been a head coach at any level believe it or not not that's a believe it quick wikipedia check on that one john on 790 john what's your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show actually saw baby let's go UCLA head coach bob chesney has a jm u.mu logo tattoo as he promised his players he would get one if they won the fcs national championship believe it or not believe it No, he wouldn't be that stupid. Joe on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, and man, I had the answer at 10. No second caller.

Thank you. Ole Miss head coach Pete Golding was fired as defensive coordinator for Alabama before joining Lane Kiffett at Ole Miss. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, he left on his own. He wasn't fired. Thank you, Joe, for listening.

Travis on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In 2022, Pete Golding was arrested for DUI and Alabama. Believe it or not? Not. That's a sadly believe it. Thanks, Ross, for giving us the details on that. Let's believe it.

Lance on 790, what was your fair part of today? Send the two radio show. Calvin Samson. Florida coach was, Florida coach is whom? Oh, sorry. Oh, it's the guy that Tulane. John Summall. I'm sorry.

I must have copy of face. Florida coach John Somerall was a standout linebacker at Kentucky, but he retired due to spinal stenosis. Believe it or not. not that's a believe it thank you for playing now uh let's go to cabin on 790 ready to play believe it or not believe it believe it or not believe it john summerall's first coaching job was a video coordinator for his first head coach mark stoops believe it or not oh believe it no you shouldn't have that was a nice try though ross good work today thank you up next clinton wexler the two talk to you at seven for rockets and kids

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