The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Very Interesting CFB Weekend, Mariners Win Game 1, Cowboys Lose To The Panthers!?

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

Very Interesting CFB Weekend, Mariners Win Game 1, Cowboys Lose To The Panthers!?

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. Our man, Rossville, O'Reale, it is in a phenomenal mood today. I'm not in a bad mood myself. My beloved Houston Cougars got to a five-in-one record after beating up Oklahoma State. It was the game of the week between the state of Texas and the state of Oklahoma, for sure. I mean, no, it wasn't. No, okay, I was maybe embellishing.

a little bit, but I can do these things. And then got on the plane, didn't get to watch a massive chunk of the game, got to see the first half before we left Stillwater, where that was a field goal affair with a lot of frustrations on both sides. Watching

John Meteer play just frankly a very poorest game. I blame, frankly, Brent Venables for trying to play the kid. I mean, obviously it wasn't 100%. And look, your defensive line stepped up, and then I got in the car, landed a hobby, got in the car, listen, to Craig Way. Big kickoff.

Big kickoff return. A post game show was on for a while, too. The post game show just ended 20 minutes ago, ironically. Yes. There was a legal block on the back on the kickoff return, but that's on the hearing of the air. It looks good to me. No, I'm sure it looked great to you. Look, it's clean to me, baby. Okay, take the 7 out of the board.

Go ahead. Doesn't matter. Then what? That's right. Then what, suck us? You weren't going to score. Suck it, OU? Yeah. So if you're an OU fan, you want to come in and get your ass kick, let's go. 7-1, 3,21, 2, 1, 2, to 5, 790. You know, Gordy asked you, how surprised were you?

You said 1 to 10, you said 5. I'd put it about 5 too. First of all, Texas is not void of talent. Correct. Number one. Uh-huh. Number two, it's the rivalry game, and I think you have to throw records out

because, look, it's OU, Texas. It's 50-50. And three, there was an act of desperation. That Texas team had underperformed to Florida. It was time to bounce back. And you were going against a quarterback. It was fresh off of injury. Who didn't look good.

Well, if you had looked at the spring, spread, Matt. You had had a good handle on how close the game was supposed to be. And it opened up as the Longhorn's two and a half point favorites, which shocked me. But then it let my expectations know that Longwood's had a shot in the game. And well, they clearly had a shot on Saturday

as they won the game. Well, it's funny because the spread did not have Northwestern competing with Penn State on Saturday, and yet Northwestern won. Yes. So the spread doesn't always tell us everything. No, it doesn't always tell, but you can tell your expectations. My expectations were that Northwestern was going to get to ask

And it didn't. Anything got a weapon? And it won't have cost to a coach's job. So what a strange weekend. We got lots of coaching vacancies. They're not great ones. I mean, Penn State's the most attractive, but UAB is looking for work.

Oregon State is looking for work. We've already know that Arkansas made a change. UCLA? UCLA made a change. I mean, there's some interesting jobs out there. I just would say, as advice from and from many good sources,

if you're a college football coach, the first thing going to make sure is you got a good general manager to handle your salary cap because that's what it's going to take. You want to turn things around pretty quick? Spend, spend, spend, and spend it the right way. Doesn't hurt.

Texas Tech doing okay. Speaking of against the spread, 6 and 0 against the spread, the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Yeah, I thought they were going to play Arizona State for the Big 12 championship. That may be in doubt because Arizona State got its ass kicked at Utah over the weekend.

So that's the next opponent for the Cougars. That's a shame. No, no, we got Arizona first, then Arizona State. It's confusing. What's Arizona? What state? The cactus sun, desert. I don't believe that's accurate.

Coyote State. I should know. Should I know this? No, I don't think so. Do we know what, like we're the lone star state? I feel like I can name maybe 10 of them. Show me State. We can save us for tomorrow.

Tomorrow's believe it or not. No, maybe not. It's the Apache State. Hmm. Like Utah. I would have never got that. I got to Utah right away. I think I had the same state, right?

It's a beehive state. Oh, the beehive state. Excuse me. Yeah. Okay. I wouldn't have been thought that. Florida is, of course, the meth state. Uh-huh.

California is the smug state. You mean, is the arrogance? Yes. Yeah, the smugness. Okay. There's a smug state and then there's a small state. I got you. I got you.

All right. On the radio program today, we are mostly open line. By the way, happy. Oh, wait. No, it's the Grand Canyon state? Oh, hold on. Wait a minute. Which one is it?

It's the Grand Canyon state. I guess that's the official one. It also says Copper State, Valentine State, Apache State, Aztec State, the baby state. Oh, because they're the newest? Is that true? That's not true. I thought Alaska or Hawaii is the latest. Hawaii.

Alaska and Hawaii are the latest. When was this Wikipedia updated? Oh, it's the newest contiguous state. Duh. Everybody knew that. The Italy of America? Arizona? No way. You're just making things out.

Okay. We're going to do it. We can do. Look, I'm telling you right here, the Italy of America. That's crazy. That's crazy. All right. So today is happy Columbus Day, everybody. Yes. And so I would assume there are many more of you. Or Indigenous People's Day? I did not know that. Okay. Yeah, you wouldn't. What do you mean I wouldn't? I'm just kidding. Eesh. You kept all guns of blazing here. You insult me.

I've been up for two hours. I got actually get some energy in the first hour. That's funny. All right. So we've got open line most of the way today at 713-212-5-790. We have to tell the truth coming up at 1130. I've already written them. So I'm kind of proud of myself. You have knocked out?

Yeah. You know when you can't sleep at night, you just start looking through stuff. I thought, well, you know, I'm going to put together to tell the truth. That's awesome. So I got that 1130 today. How many do you believe? I believe three of them. Okay.

One I do not believe. Okay. Okay. All right. Is it harder for you? for you to figure out which of the four I believe or which one I don't believe. I would say it's harder when you make up three, usually it's easy to suss out one or two. Sorry, Matt.

You ask me a question. No, I ask the answer. No, I should just lie. Every time I'm asked the question, if the cheese sticks had great flavor or whatever, I should just lie when I'm asked a question. You're really going to die in that hill still. No, I should just lie. Sorry. Sorry for being truthful.

The truth sometimes is not that you. Well, you ask me the question and answered honestly. Yeah, but that's okay. In this particular case, I can live with. Okay. I can live with this. I think it's more difficult when you're only making up one. Yeah.

So I'm only, I have only making up one here. Okay. It'll be 1130. At 1050 today, there is a new Twitter account. It's not a new account, but I just happen to find it because it was on the 4U tab. I'm obsessed with. Okay. And I'm not going to tell you what it is. What's her name?

It's not a girl. Thank you for asking. I mean, that's a for you. feel somewhat fair? You know, I can understand that. But generally speaking, it is a, I will only tell you this, it involves a college. That's all I'm going to say. It involves a college. Oh, I already know. Don't even say. I think you were talking about this the last couple of weeks, I thought. Maybe I had. I thought you mentioned it. Okay. I might have. Now you gave it away. To me, I think most people are confused. Okay, well, good. 10.50 today. We're just going.

1050. And so when we play the music that's associated with this account. Okay. It'll be very easy to recognize what I'm talking about. Now, my computer is completely frozen right now. Something is going, it's doing a bio setup. I told you not to download those viruses, Matt. Yeah, whatever. I told you have to click on those links. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right, we got to tell the truth. You're going to duck away for a few minutes at 11 o'clock. Yes, I am. We have a great sponsor of ours, Dr. Witt, Winston, who thinks that he needs you to help him with commercials. Yeah, I got to take care of some business. Yeah, and then I got to take care of some business about 115 because I'm going to the airport. court. Okay.

I thought you told it was something else. Well, I mean, that may have before one. I did have a Wopper Jr. away coming in, so that may be an issue too. You got a Wopper Jr.? Wopper Jr.?

Okay. How'd you get that? Cheese? No cheese. No lettuce. No lettuce. I love lettuce on my hamburger. But if I'm eating at the car,

I don't want lettuce falling in your own. You're going to dribble it on yourself. Right. Manays or mustard? Mayanase. Okay. But I like both. Yeah, that's fine.

I prefer mustard, but I'll eat either. There's something good about the ketchup mayonnaise combination on the Wopper Jr. You put mustard in there and then you got yourself some fry sauce. That is actually accurate, yeah. Well, actually, no, ketchup and mustard people make fry sauce with that too. Yeah.

I'm not a big fry sauce guy, but that's not in the here and no. It's okay. Yeah, it's usually only in Utah. Did you get any onion ring sauce? No, I just got that. All I got was a, we're going to be eating on the plane, so I didn't want to eat too much. Oh, okay. Yeah. We've been everywhere this segment. It's a holiday. I mean, Texans haven't played. How about this?

We did a lot of NFL stuff to One week from today, the Texans will still have not to play the game. That's correct. They're playing at 9 o'clock a week from tonight. Now, those of you that are worried about, oh, it's on ESPN Plus. Need not worry, it'll be on Channel 13. No, I'm not worried. ESPN Plus, huge platform.

Monday night football game, stand-alone game for your Houston, Texas. I haven't looked at the spread. Have you? Three points? I was thinking the exact same thing. I was thinking three. I think it's, I mean, a matter of fact, I might have actually accidentally seen it. So, it's okay.

I'll still give you full credit. Thank you. You're supposed to lie to the folks, Matt. I wouldn't do that, do y'all? Three and a half. Oh, really? Okay. It started three and a half or it started three?

Seahawks have been playing good ball. Jackson Smith and Jigba is great. They went to Jacksonville yesterday and Jacksonville's good. And I'll tell you what, I know that... Look, we're all big Red Zone fans. Those of us that have it. Love it. I went in my office.

Rossi, I watched Red Zone for seven hours. I actually stepped away for a few minutes towards the very end. I'm jealous. Because the games... I only watch it for about four and a half hours. The NFL, to me, needs to put at least four games on in the three o'clock hour. For your red zone viewing pleasure. I mean, it's purely selfish.

But here's the thing. You have... If you have three, you've just got a greater shot of them all sucking out. Tennessee, Las Vegas was atrocious. Couldn't watch that. Your boy wasn't doing much on the ground. Action Gentie? Yeah.

You got a touchdown at least? 75 and in touch It's not bad It's 23 carries Their offensive line is horrible Yeah He's fine 75 and a touch

He's pacing Yeah yeah I should have said 1,200 yards That was a loss of my part Well he messed up Cincinnati Green Bay The Bengals just can't move the ball I mean that's just the reality of it

Six games in he's got 424 yards Ashton Genty Six games in four 12 So he's going to be close If he plays the full 617 games If he plays the full 4th, 17 games If he plays the full 17, he is pacing for 1,200 yards. Yeah.

So what I should have done, you know what I was thinking? Frankly, I would like a little bit of a technicality on this. Well, you need a little, no, you're not getting anything. You need a high ankle sprain is what you need. No, because 1,000 yards now for a running back, even when it was 16 games. Nobody made you say that. We were talking about Boise State and how good they are and you were trying to diminish them and their accomplishments. And you said, Ashen Gentee's no good.

He's not even going to run for a thousand yards. You said he sucks and you said it's not true. You said he runs like he's got two fake legs? Here's the thing that hurts your credibility. You embellish on things. I wouldn't do that. Well, that's right. You don't have any credibility.

See? You start with no credibility. Yeah. You can say things half cock and be fine. Yeah, what's the issue? That's true. Let's get to the college site because a very interesting weekend. Oh my gosh.

My first trip ever to Oklahoma State. Got to tell you about that. Okay. You didn't run into the wall. Did you? You all right? Did you see my Instagram video? No.

I ran into the wall. Oh, for real? I was kidding. You're actually... Seriously. You're putting content on your Instagram? I'm shocked. Folks.

I didn't know. I put content on there. Okay. And it wasn't like a volleyball pick? Well, that's going to be on there too. Okay. Thank you. Shout out to Channel 2 and Channel 11 for doing stories of my daughter yesterday.

You guys are the first family of Houston. Sports. Houston sports first family. Yeah. We're the Mannings of Houston. Yeah. You're the Manning's of Houston. the Thomases. The Thomases.

So, yeah, if you want to see me running into the wall at Oklahoma State, and by the way, we'll talk more about this coming back. We get that. If you went to OU Texas... Man, see, it's close. And Rossi, I got to ask what your life was like not being at the game. Okay. You've told me all fair, and I'll let you sit on there.

You frankly regret not going. I mean... Yeah, I should have gone. But it was too pricey, man. It was pricey. 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-7-90 our time is 1014 I don't see you running out of the wall in this video

is at the end yes you have to watch the whole thing I'm sorry it's 2025 you can't have an attention span over eight seconds my video's like a minute three oh that's too long what do you mean a minute three oh we gotta get that down to 33 now you gotta get that down like 15 tension spans are getting worse and worse my last Instagram video was nine minutes

yeah and you always have pictures of your face of you with the stats behind it It looks like it's like a 1989 Community College Close Circuit Channel, like a local cable screen, Matt. Chroma key, baby. That's 2025. What are you talking about?

Chroma key or chroma chrome. Breaking it down like nobody's business. Yeah, well, people seem to like it. I don't know why, but teach us on. Follow me at Sports RV. If you had to follow me on SportsMT, you'd have sent me running into the wall. Let me let me drop a lot.

You didn't run into the wall. I'm all the way up. All right, it's Matt Ross in this Columbus Day. I did an AI update. Who's off today and who's not? Banks are closed. What do you mean AI update? I just want to see what AI I had to say, but who works and who doesn't.

You're talking to AI now? Sadly, probably too much. Okay. I mean, federal employees. Well, is the government still shut down? I think it is still shut down, I think. So federal are like, I don't know. I'm just asking.

Yeah. Don't ask. But, yeah, some schools are closed. daughter is on a fall break. So, yeah, what's what the kids get in fall breaks now? It's planning to me. It's to start school earlier. And we start school earlier. And you get a week into, you don't need it. Hey, back in my day, we didn't get no dang fall break and we was just fine. Of course, grammar was an issue during your time as well, apparently. That's how they told us how to say. All right, I got you. Yeah, it's a fall break. You started the second week of August.

And they just start. It's like October. You've been in there for two months. And then they get a bunch of wine. Thanksgiving week, Christmas. Oh my God, and you're off for a week in a month? They get off a week in February, spring break, and then they graduate. These kids are soft. Soft. I'll let you tell them. I'll tell them.

Seriously. And so I'm so far removed from it, but I'm like, I had a much harder run toward, like, they have block schooling one day a week. We had to go in the snow. And they have, you shut up. Barefoot. Okay. You weren't growing up in North Dakota, Ross. And then they have late start on.

most Thursdays. They start late on, they get to sleep on on Thursdays? Yeah. Not every one of them, but a lot of them. Wow. Okay. That's not bad. I don't think it is.

Maybe I should go back to school. Certainly, it wouldn't be the worst thing for you. Yeah. A little education. Yeah. All right. Resumies a little thin. Okay, so I'm surprised, well, yeah, it's been at one spot.

Although the resume, you can add to it. You've done a lot of things here. Thank you, Matt. You're just trying out. You have... I was surprised. Like at 930 you said I decided not to go. When was the...

You had to have made the decision before that. Oh, in the morning? No, we were looking at tickets. My brother was looking at tickets in the morning. They just never went down. Get in midweek was 260. It actually went down like 230. And this is literally for the nosebleeds and the nosebleeds.

Of the cotton bowl. Which isn't really bad. But do you want to spend $230 to be in the 90 degree heat? I think it got up to like feel like 95 or something like that. Blassing in the sun and it's just been, it feels like the kickoff time has been over 90 degrees

like three of the last four years. Yeah. You can find the temperature, kickoff temperature over the years. It's getting worse and worse, unfortunately. Yeah. Well, if you play the game later in the year, you play it at 230. Well, yeah. I mean, but second week of October, it shouldn't be 94 degrees. That's true. That is.

It is true. But anyways. Okay. So you made the decision out to go. You went to our buddies at Big City Wings. That is true. Yes, I did. It's good.

It's good. Mm-hmm. I had the cilantro lime chicken salad. Oh, you went with a salad? Uh-huh. Nicely done, my friend. Well, yeah. Just as a base layer.

I mean, there was some other fries. Yes. And dessert? No dessert. Okay. Yeah, I, I didn't want you to go because I just thought it would be, I was prepared for you to really aggravated and I can't have you aggravated this early in the week. It was a 50-50 game.

You can't go in your favorites every time. All right? I've been twice on their favorites. I'm sorry, underdogs. And I think the other four, the other three times they're favorite. Yeah. But it was a good game. Again, I missed about 30% of it.

We were in flight and unfortunately, the charter we fly design of internet. So we were unable to get even updates on the game cast or whatever. But I landed and you guys were up. And I heard that Arch would be a game. manager will be a fair assessment or is that not polite enough interesting there were a lot of his completions if you look at the completion percentage people are like yeah it's great well yeah a lot of that was screen passes and big 29 yard run like he did make some big throws especially there's a third down when they're on their own end and he was under pressure and there was somebody wrapped around

his waist and he made a great throw to the right boundary so he made some good throws but a lot of quite frankly, we're off schedule where he's keeping his eye, there was a little bit of pressure and then he's keeping his eyes down field and basically it's a scramble drill and then he finds somebody in a pocket of the zone. That's good and all. I would like him to make some more

throws within the rhythm of the offense some easy one, two, three within the rhythm of the offense type of throws. But overall it was, I mean his best game of course relative to the competition all season long and wasn't close. Yeah. I mean, look, it wasn't pretty,

You wouldn't put on a Heisman reel, but got the job done. I think a big part of it was Contravean and Wisner was back and he looked good. And I think him as a running back for me, at least to the level of Texas, where you've had some great running backs, of course, Bijon Robinson, Roshan Johnson, some others who are Jaden Blues in the NFL right now. You've had a lot of NFL running backs there lately. And Wisner's not of that level to me, but he had probably his best game all year. And he's also been hurt as well.

and he had a bunch of big runs, including a 37-yarder. So getting the run game, hey, crazy. You get the run game going, you get some clean pockets. Offensive line held up for the most part. And then you can have Archmanning looking a little bit better. So it was everything. Everything was better. Special teams made a difference as well.

Obviously the big kickoff to return towards the end. And look, again, I'm not going to say I watch every bit of the game, but John Mottier looked like he needed to be off. I mean, you don't have hand surgery and then come back two weeks later. I just, it just seems to be that was a way too, again, I know the moment is big. If the kid says he wants to go, I understand being, you know, the tough soldier, but he looked out of sorts. Yeah, only they can answer how close to 100% he was. He just, he didn't look good.

I mean, he especially started the game, though. He was throwing some darts, some tight spirals. And he was also under duress for a lot of the game and made some bad throws. Well, yeah, I mean, if he's playing UT San Antonio, he's probably having a great first game and excited about it. but to come back against that Texas team, again, I do believe talented teams that are desperate are dangerous to play. And I felt like the Longhorns were sick and tired of hearing about how everything sucks when they shouldn't suck. Yeah, he threw the ball away three times.

Texas won the turnover battle three nothing, but they didn't get any point. They had two missed field goals and then one of them was the end of the half. Yeah, but two of those field goals were long ones, right? Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm saying. They didn't capitalize off the turnovers. Yeah. All right, we're going to get to the phone calls.

Everybody, Ray in Miami wants to talk about the MLB playoffs. and some college football. Go Blue Jays. I felt good after that very first swing. And that was it for Toronto. Been a bunch of nothing. Seriously, folks. If we think Seattle fan is tough to deal with now.

You know what, can we talk about them too at some point? Please, we can't. They're all in my mentions this weekend. Loser fan base. Yeah. I want to talk about my quick trip to Oklahoma State and the improv attempt at sending a Guinness Book of World Record. For you?

Not for me. It was for the few fans that were in Stillwater. That place was empty. At the start of the game? At the start of the game. And people have said they haven't never seen Stillwater at Boone Pickens Stadium so happy. Who's their head coach now? I assume as a Gundy family member.

It's Doug Meacham, who was a former TCU offensive coordinator. U of H was there for a while. He's going to just finish this out and they're going to clean house. I'm telling you, and I don't have a dog in the fight. Oklahoma State fan was very nice to us, by the way. that's a program that should not have dropped to the level that it is. I don't know what they're going to do because they got money, I would assume. I don't know.

How's the T-Boon-Binth? I mean, I don't know the Pickens feels. Pickens family. You built them a stadium. I mean, you should have some money in the back. But also there to the heights that they were because of Mike Gundy, right? I mean, they reached their biggest heights with him. Right.

So, yeah, if I'm an OSU fan, I'm very much concerned about, A, where the money is and, be who we're going to replace them. 713-212-5-7-90. Man and Ross with you on this Monday edition of the radio program. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Hope you guys had a really good weekend. So I did go to Oklahoma State for the first time.

I did run into the wall. You can find me running into the wall on my Instagram at SportsMT. I'm only 50 away from 3,000. So come join the celebration. We'll have a major, major party at 3,000. I don't know what we're going to do because we've got no.

budget, but we're going to have some sort of party in 3,000. You can't afford it. Let's go. I really can't. I'm trying to hold on every dollar here, my friend. Thank you very much for asking. Thank you for pocket watching a little bit. At SportsMT, if you want to follow me on Instagram. I do follow you on Instagram. Thank you very much.

I even gave you a like. Thank you. And again, okay, so I told you the building was basically I would say 40% full, which is hard to believe because that's... What does it hold? 60, 65? No, it's already 50 or 50? Yeah. By the way, there are some big-time P-4 schools that are struggling with attendance beyond Oklahoma State.

SMU's a top-20 program. Do you see their stadium over the weekend? I did not. They played Stanford, which they were in kick Stanford's ass. The building was empty. Hmm. What happened? They got to, well, no, they have money.

They don't have fans. Yeah, it's a private school, right? They have more money than God. Southern Millionaires University. Yeah, Southern Millionaires University. Beautiful school. That once around is impressive. I mean, being brutally honest.

What do you mean? When you get in the car and you do it once around campus? Did Gerald Ford go there? No, this is Gerald J. Ford. Oh, somebody different. Gerald J. Ford Stadium. Gerald Ford, our former president, went to Michigan. Yeah, that's what I thought.

Yeah. You played football there. I think it's Gerald J. It's like, hey, get away from me. I thought maybe he got his NBA from S&U or something. Like Cal did it, right? Yeah, exactly. I got you.

All right, so I went to Oklahoma State. And so they were getting there, asked if you had jumped onto a 7-0 lead, by the way. And then we put it on them for about three hours. Two or three guys went to an empty section and started taking their shirts off. Yes, I saw this. Yes. And then that section kept growing and growing and growing.

Mm-hmm. Can I just tell you how uncomfortable it is to see, I don't know, five, six hundred. Now, were they just, you tell me, were they doing their shirts the whole time? Or was it like during, I got to be honest, every time I check with them, they were doing it. They were frankly bored. So, yeah, it grew from like two guys to like a whole set. A whole section, yeah, of, I would say generally speaking, very out of shape, young men. Really?

I should be young. A lot of. At the Oklahoma State game? No tone. No six-pack. And you, so you wanted to see six-packs? No, I just wanted to see decent guys. If you're going to take a shirt off, there's a rule.

You have to be able to not be embarrassed by it, but apparently they were not, they didn't worry about it. Clearly, they were suffering zero embarrassing. Jonathan, a lot of flabby man breasts were out there. I don't know how you feel about that. they were all pasty white as hell too which again if you're working on a sun tan it was a hot day in Stillwater so at least you got a tan out of it

but to see several hundred out of shape Oklahoma State young men waving their towels while their teams getting their ass kick This is incredible actually You wouldn't join in if you have eights You wouldn't join in? First of all we don't get our ass kicked

What if you were 20 years old and drunk? I knew what my body looked like that 20 I like how the ushers just don't care everybody get over there I'll tell you the reason why they didn't care. There were no ushers. They're like, that section's empty. Let them be.

Dude, it ends up being like over a thousand people. Yeah, it kept growing. So Oklahoma State was having, they were, their Twitter accounts for various were like, we're about to sit the record for most men not wearing a shirt. There's no record such of this. Yeah, it says most record most probably. Yeah, they weren't keeping track. Again, I give them credit for at least figuring out what to do to kill some time.

This is hilarious. But Rossi, you is, it was like. And they just twirl their shirt. shirts the whole time. That's got to be taxing on the arms and triceps. It was like ants finding some candy or something. Yeah, they all showed up. They kept growing. And we were, the score was going higher. The deficit growing larger. Their section was growing larger. That is hilarious. But I'll say this. And again, I'm not an endorser of Oklahoma State. The first time I've been there, but great little college town. It's not, frankly, it's not far from Tulsa or Oklahoma City.

if you were up in the area. Beautiful campus. Nice, very, very nice people. Just a very bad, undisciplined, talentless football program right now. And I don't know, at the Pickens family even cares at this point, but they need a cash infusion.

Remember that? Remember where, isn't it where Mike Gundy said he's going to put the tags, their, their codes. Their codes in the back of their helmets so you can zap into their QR code. Yeah.

How does that go? Not well. Oh. Yeah. You think it's kind of a sunk cost? I mean, Cody Campbell's making the, not a, I mean, it's going pretty well in Lubbock. Yeah, I mean, you could pick, if you have rich people associated with your school, it doesn't matter what school, what school it is or where it is. Yeah, I guess basketball is really good in Lawrence, Kansas.

Well, that's just outside of Kansas City. That's not very far. Okay. It's not what you sounds like. Lawrence, Kansas to downtown Kansas. It's like 40 minutes. Okay, but Kansas City, it's not like it's some kind of basketball hotbed. I don't know.

The Midwest seems to do okay. All right. I mean, Iowa is all right. Iowa State's fine. Kansas State, not really, but, you know. IU. By the way, speaking of IU, Kirk Signetti, he's a jerk. Yes.

I hope he takes another job. Oh, you're telling me a high-level college coach is a jerk. Yeah, remember when we were talking about how awesome will he is? Curseignee is the opposite. He's winning an epic proportions at Indiana. I mean, I give him credit for that.

They have two top 10 wins this year in program history before this year. They had four. They went to Eugene two weeks ago on Saturday and won that game. Yeah. I mean, that's very impressive.

They're number three in the country, the Indiana Hoosiers. That means on an A-hole. He reminds me. You know he reminds me of Franklin. Urban Meyer. Oh, really? That stuff eventually fizzles out.

Well, you win championships first. I don't think Indiana cares this point. No. Did Urban Meyer win a championship at Ohio State? He did, right? He definitely won in Florida. Two at Florida. Two at Florida and I think maybe one at Ohio State?

Yeah. But again, his path, he was an assistant under Sabin and Alabama and got this job. And I mean, I think he's had somebody in between. But yeah. Yeah, two at Florida for Urban Meyer and then won at Ohio State. Mm-hmm. I mean, look, Signetic can coach.

He was obviously a Bear Bryant coach to your finalist last year. It's, I wouldn't say impossible to win in Bloomington, but it's not the neck of the woods. You'd have to recruit literally outside of the state for every one of your individual players. They've done a good job. Credit to him.

But he still, he comes across as a guy. I would not want to. This is not a good guy. Okay. But you know, who cares? Do you think IU fans care? I don't think they care. They don't care at all.

And you know, the funny thing is Signetti said, year. He says, look, we may be in Indiana school, but guess who funds a program? Us. What does that mean? Oh, Big 10 TV money. 45,000. The stadium is compared to, you know, whatever assembly hall seats. And they are number three in the country. Ray and Miami on 790 at 1042, Ray, good morning.

Good morning. I just want to say, I'm rooting for King Tucker. I hope he get a big contract, but you know, this guy, you know, he couldn't even bat 200 in the playoffs. It was embarrassing. And, you know, the two guys, it over the weekend, and I'm really impressed with. Riley, you know, they eliminated us and everything, but that guy is a clutch player and Drake May. And I wish you guys to speak on that. Kyle hit 259 in the playoffs.

One home run. Yeah. He said he couldn't hit 200. Oh, well, yeah, right. Yeah, you got to be careful on that. Don't just assume numbers, because Willow is usually back. I got it for you. $259 on base at $375.

I'm sorry, a 37, yeah, 375. And I feel like we have to repeat this every single day just for new people that listen to show. You and I have a bet that the Kyle Tucker contract, I have it at under eight years. You've got it over eight years. Seven and a half. Oh, excuse me, seven to half years. So an eight year means you win, seven unless I win. Ross is so confident he has a fork and knife in his shirt pocket.

I've got a bib on right now. I'm ready. He hit, he's got a shirt and says, Saki for Saki. It's funny. You're the one that gets it squirted in your mouth. I don't know why you're trying to bring that up with me. That was a one off.

It was a one off, you sure? Yes. You tried it once and you won't do it again? No, I've only had Saki squirted in me once. 7.13, 2,1, 2, 5, 790. What? I'll see you on Friday. That one.

He's already writing down. Turn around. Stop writing stuff in that journal of yours. Five walks for Kyle Tucker, 27AB, seven hits. 259 with a 745 OPS. Not terrible. But not great.

It's not like he's Vladdy Jr., but it's true. Not like he's George Springer. Ooh, George Springer. All right. Up next. My new favorite Twitter account. Oh, okay. Do you know what it is?

I'm pretty sure. Once you said it was a school or associated with a school. All right. My new favorite Twitter account. We'll read some tweets off of that next. I have found not a new Twitter account, but a new Twitter account that I'm obsessed with. Okay. It is TAMU Police.

Texas A&M Police. Yeah, this has been a great follow during college Saturdays. Now, does Texas have something like this? I have no idea. So I'm late to the game on this, but apparently they're very actually. they're very active at giving us updates on what happens on game day at Kyle Field. 104,000 people. They want to make sure all y'all know what's going down at Texas A&M on game days.

Okay. This first one I'm going to read to you is at 453. The game didn't kick off until 6 o'clock. So they wanted to give everybody a chance to get all warmed up, right? MIP, PA 102. I don't know if it's Section 102 or something around there. Subject holding twisted tea saw officer and ran into tent stated she was quote holding it for a friend.

Citation issued hashtag BTHO Florida. Beat the hell out of Florida. Okay, so BTHO is after every one of these things. Let us continue. M-I-A-P-A-100G. Subject saw officer and put drink on table and walked off. Citation issued. Okay.

M.I.P. Kimbrough Boulevard utility plant. Subject saw officer and dropped his two red solo cups. Citation issued. Like a minor in possession? A lot of these. Public intoxication. Subjects stumbling away from group released a sober friend who called a ride. That's nice.

Yeah, I think normally they try to release to sober friend. Hashtag BTHO, Florida. Next. MIP natural light bear in pocket. Citation issued. Now they're dropping references of the type of alcohol they're drinking. That would be ejected from the state. stadium, I guess they're talking about?

Ejected, yeah. You know what? You should be ejected if you're drinking natural light to begin with. Oh, come on. No, you're in college. Maddie-Ly-Ly-Ly. Oh, shut your up, bum-ass up. You're in college you can drink Natty life.

All right. Come on now. I might have had a few butt-ice back in today. Come on, Nell-Bush Late. Next. M.I.P. Bush-Lice beer in back pocket. Citation issued and ejected.

You got some bush-lates on campus? I ain't hating. Next. Uh, oh. Three natural. light, beers, and one twisted tea in the pocket. Citation issued ejected MIP. People like this

twisted tea. It's not for me. It's good. I don't like it. Continue. Respond a report of in tax-geted subject Section 333. Released to EMS, so that's getting to bring the ambulance involved on that. Next. Hopefully they're okay. Failed to ID. Section 235.

Contacted and subject who was stumbling. Provided wrong date of birth to officer three different times. Arrested. Oh, come on. What are you, me? If you're going to go drink and not provide the idea, at least have some consistency about what year you were allegedly born.

And LIP is just a ticket, right? Just give your date of birth. Take your ticket and move on. Public intoxication at Aggie Park. Contacted subject to eating a sandwich with a water jug of whiskey. This was the best one. Blood alcohol level was 0.337. All right.

For those of you playing at home. Oh, my. Is it 0.08 the legal limit? Yes. Therefore, it used to be 0.3.1. So this is over triple. How is this person alive? Release the EMS.

Clearly. Not a lot. I don't know. Next. Public intoxication. Legacy lounge. Subject kept trying to enter the lounge without credentials. Release a sober friend.

Ejected. All right. Next. Public intoxication. Section 234. Release a sober friend. Ejected. Next.

Public intoxication. Subject had blood on shirt and nose. Declined medical treatment. Arrested. beat the hell out of Florida. All right, I just pulled up this blood alcohol content chart. What is point three? 0.08 to 0.1 is legally impaired.

Drunk is point 1-1.1.1.6 is very drunk. 0.25 is stupor. It says 0.31 and up is coma. Like, how are you alive? Level of surgical amnesia, onset coma, possibility of acute alcohol poisoning or death due to respiratory arrest, likely in 50% of drinkers. They're just chilling with a sandwich at a 0.337.

God, that's crazy. All right, here we go. Public intoxication, level seven concessions, subject to asking people to buy him alcohol, arrested. This next one hurts. Public intoxication section 129, released to sober father ejected. Ouch.

Hmm. All right, son. Public intoxication section 332, release a sober friend ejected. Texanan and police says vaping in the seat ejected. Next, public intoxication, Kyle Field Plaza. Subject stumbling through Plaza. When it asked for ID, she handed officer a credit card. Release a sober mother.

Oh, no, mother got involved now. Next. Respond to fight in progress. Dr. on Tom Chandler Drive, citations issued for assault. And that, my friends, is this week's edition of the TAMU Police at Kyle Field are in an existing area. I feel terrible that I did not find this account a lot sooner than I did.

We could have fun with this every Monday after a game. Yeah. This has been pretty entertaining every week. I'm glad you found it, that. A point 337, he was chilling too. Well, he said the jug of whiskey. A jug of whiskey. Is that like, I mean, do you see Mexican with it?

It said water jug of whiskey. I don't know what that means. Like a jug. They say jug instead of water bottle? That's a large. I don't think of, I think there's a difference between bottle and a jug. That's what I'm saying. 0.338.

And he's alive to talk about it? Or we don't know. I mean, I'm assuming they said release to the ambulance, right? Yeah, EMS, yeah. EMS. Okay, so I'm going to, if any of you are Texas fans, let us know what you all got. Because there's got to be, I mean, I don't know if U of H has this. I frankly hope we don't because it could be a little more severe over there.

Just saying. Yeah, that's true. A lot of arms. You know, don't, robbery. Ah! Gunshot guns. I said you. Not you.

Clack, clack. Stop, both of you. Let me, let me, let the A&M have its own shine. You brought you vets them. Yeah, they call them the clacking cougars. Well, you know what? In fairness to the show, next Monday, now we're playing at 11 o'clock in the morning.

I can't imagine it'd be much trouble. Yeah, you can get going at 11 a.m. You can tailgate for an 11 a.m. game. As long as you're dedicated, as long as you're married to the game. Y'all better be there. Full crowd, expecting Arizona, Houston. Let's go.

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Now, you mentioned briefly that you are getting some Seattle Mariners slander. Oh, yeah. I had one person. One person? Yeah, that's it. Oh, well, you took it easy. So, I mean, I was watching the game. And first of all, I didn't watch the entire game.

I tuned in maybe like the eighth, ninth inning on that game on Friday. Oh, yeah. The one was 15. It went to 15 innings. And so I was, I think I tweeted something like, oh, my Mariners hate watches advanced to the ALCS. And then all of a sudden, this is why I root against the Mariners. And on its face, it makes sense. Like, okay, yes, they're this franchise in the Northwest who's never won anything, never been to a World Series,

root for the underdog rather than the evil empires of the Dodgers and Yankees or whatever. But it's their smug, ridiculous fans who are all with, They, like, five or six of them came into my mentions, like, calling me soft, softer than baby bleep and calling me bitch made and all this other. And I'm like, can I get their accounts? Yeah, go ahead if you'd like. I may follow them. I don't know.

That's okay. And it's like, dude, you went out of your way to find my account. You either A-searched Mariners. And one guy was like, well, it showed up in my algorithm. I'm like, okay, then you didn't have to show up and start calling people names. just because I made a joke about hate watching the Mariners. And it's not even that big of a deal. It's like, all right, I'm going to mute you and move on.

But their fans are so, like, they're so mean. And they're so arrogance as well. It's like, dude, you root for the Mariners. What are you doing? Let me ask you this question. Because I do believe Seattle's in this rarefied air, just like Ranger fan is. Have we run into a group of fans, whether it be against our favorite NBA team, our favorite football team or our favorite baseball team

that we went, you know what? You know, some pretty good, pretty good dudes. Do we, do we, doer fans? Do we default call all of the other teams, douchbacks? Let's see. Yeah, Cougar fans, losers. So let's do this. Aggie fans, horrible.

Let's run through the 10 teams in the last, I'm going to give you 10 random teams. Okay. How do we feel about Golden State Warrior fan? I don't like them, but they're not the worst. Okay. how do we feel about Adam Clinton would

This is actually more a question for Adam Clinton Because he interacts with all these sandbases more than anybody I hate him I hate him They're the worst Okay San Antonio Spurfan I don't really have a huge problem with Spurr fan

I'm going by sport by sport Okay Laker fan there really isn't a Laker fan Because they're a lot of Lakers fans Yeah there's Lakers fans too though That's true Okay so let me go Anybody else on the NBA side

I can't really think of anybody I mean, I don't think Wolf's fan is obnoxious. I'm not thinking Portland Trailblazer guy is really a bad dude. All right, NFL side. We don't, how do we feel about Titans fans? I mean, we hate the ones in Houston. Yeah. Because it's like, dude, they're in Tennessee.

They're not the Oilers anymore. Being a, yeah. I mean, look, if you should have done what I should have done Titan fan that lives in Houston. Just disassociate yourself. Find a different team or go teamless. I'm telling you, Franks, since the older. have left and I'm still hurt they are. It's a terrific.

Like I watched seven hours of Red Zone and I didn't have a dog in the fight except for my fantasy players. It's terrific. And when the Texans win or when they lose, I can give a couple nice polite claps. It's like going on opera. You know, you

clap when things are going well, but if they don't do well, yeah, you're fine. It's not like, go, what? When do they lose the opera? There could be somebody who's Is it going to overtime? If the woman has a... If the Metso Piazzo has a laryngitis, this is a loss. If he misses a note, forgets the words, this is a loss.

I guess a wonderful comparison. Thank you for asking. This is Monday. We'll give you a pass on that analogy. No, it's a great analogy. But I have no emotions towards the Texans at all, so it kind of makes me feel good about that. Okay, we're talking about a fan. Jaguars fans, non-existent.

Colts fans, we don't hate. Cowboy fan is just delusional. Yes. Those poor guys. How do you lose to Carolina? Price Young and Carolina. Carolina's won a couple in a row. They're three and three.

I mentioned this on Twitter. And I shouldn't be this person because I told you I was going to swear off fantasy. God bless you, Roto. See, Dr. Roto is saving my bacon. You're such a fraud. Yeah, I'm one in five. Should I quit the league?

Where my players are hurt. I don't like Tennessee football. I'm going to quit the league. No, that was me. I'm going to hit the waiver wire. I'm going to try to improve and sneak into the playoffs. You're asking you're going to be a man. You're done.

Yeah, you got to resist. Just write that check for me right now. You can't resuscitate that. I can't write a check to myself. I'm the commission. Write the check to at SportsMT. That's fine. I've been cashed checks, baby. So, all right, any other jet fan, it's just obnoxious New Yorker, Patriot fan a little bit.

Well, they got kind of saucy when the Texans and Patriots were playing every year. Patriot fan, obnoxious, for sure. But I don't think Buccaneer is a fan. Bill's fan. Bill's fan you want to party with. They're a lovable loser. Yeah, I mean, anybody wants to throw themselves on a table made of fire? Exactly.

Yeah, I respect that. You eat a trash plate, throw yourself on a table that's been set ablaze, and then watch your team disappoint you in the playoffs. If you do all the above things, you hook up with somebody twice your weight. All right. On the baseball side, Seattle fan, douche, Ranger fan Dush

Yeah but more concerned About the Cowboys Yankee fan Dush Horrible Red Sock fan I feel bad for A's fan Are there any A's fans

There were Like 4,000 Remember they did the reverse Boycott and like 27,000 showed up Yeah But we didn't get mad at At Ray's fan

During the playoffs Philly's fan We got along with Pretty well National fan It was there Nationals fan Tiger fan

Seemed pretty nice Yeah it's just a select few. In Mariners fans, you suck. They cheer when Jose Altuve nearly gets decapitated by a pitch. And they act like they've won a bunch and they get in everybody's mentions. They're the worst fan base on Twitter. Did you hear, by the way, the Tigers announcer in the 15th inning, a couple nights back? No, I did not. Oh, the recap thing? Yeah. Somebody sent that to me, yes.

What did he basically say? This is horse bleep or something. I don't want to do an effing recap. Yeah. Let me tell you, Dan Dickerson. trust me we've been there look that happened to me which it could have ultimately happen in my career I wouldn't want to do a recap either 15 inning loss it's so great though he apologized like

he's supposed to do you're not supposed to swear everyone's like man we felt the exact same way it was almost like he gained a new following because of that now I wouldn't suggest doing that no because he can't get you in trouble even though it's ridiculous do you think we should lighten up the FCC

I mean because we as regular human beings talk way differently. We've talked about this before. Why is there curse words and not curse words? Well, the problem is... How can I can say buck, truck, and luck, but if I put an F in front of it, it's a bad word. Why? Yeah.

And I guess the question would be this. I wouldn't do it a lot, but I wouldn't... I'm not trying... And I wouldn't try to do it to... How don't I want with this? And it's basically every culture, too. It's very interesting. We need to get a linguist on.

Figure this out. An entomologist. Mm. Very impressive. I don't know if I want to hear it a lot. I guess the questions if you let if you let it go free rain that you would have every station just using swear words left and right. And look, I don't like my kids swearing. I know they do. It doesn't make me a big fan of it.

But I guess there's a certain level to say, all right, at 16, 17, 18 years old, you do what you want to do? But at 9 and 10, do you want a 9 and 10 year old to be listening to people on the radio commanding such? language. So I guess we're trying to protect the children, as I'm trying to say. For the children. And as someone that you have children, I can somewhat respect that. And I have children now. They're going to be cursing anyways.

Yeah. I've got to learn sometime. I was watching R-rated movies when I was six. I turned out just fine. Hmm. Why are you looking at me like that? I mean, I'm just trying to connect the dots. And they're connected quite well. Brian on 790 at 11-11. Brian, good morning. Good morning, guys. Matt, the fact

you have just now discovered the ANM police blotter, especially having a son who went there. Not saying he would have gotten in trouble, but he wouldn't have brought it to your attention sooner. It's absolute incredible. It's one of my get, like I've been following it for years, obviously as an alum,

but it's just great Saturday game day follow along with, you know, anything else related to the game. Go back and look at the last three or four games. There are some great ones in certain keystone, all the good beers and that. But yeah, the point 337 that's that's impressive i mean i i partied my in back when i was there that is

impressive i don't think i ever got to that to that level but uh yeah it's it's a solid follow um you just laugh especially now um because you're just like what a bunch of idiots you're like yep did that did that while i was there um but no mariner's fans by far the worst simply because they started it back in 2022 when they finally made the the playoffs for the first time in two decades, and Yordaun ended them with one swing in game one, and I think they kind of realized we're not there yet. This year, obviously, they take into account the fact that, you know, they're a lot better, and I will give them their do it. I was so disheartened at that 15 inning game. You know, I was up tweeting with you at 1.30 in the

morning because I'm going up for the Texans Seahawks game with a couple of buddies on and the last thing I wanted is to hear Mariner fan while we're up there watching a Texan game just chirping in my ear but you know I'll probably wear my World Series hat just to be like all right hey we we got two of these y'all have none you've never even been there so call them call them your judge but no by far I think they are they have been the worst and most insufferable especially last year when Calioli was like always nice when the Astros lose right and then they blew a 10 game lead. So, yeah, I think it just permeates throughout the fan base because they haven't been there in almost, you know, 25 years. So they're by far the worst.

Yankee fans aren't bad. I don't feel like Red Sox are near as bad. But yeah, by far Mariners fans are the worst. And Ross, I will give you credit. I arch looked a lot better this weekend, especially in the second half. Oh, thank you. I deserve all the credit. Thank you.

Well, I did pick against them in my gut feeling. Nice. I did say that I thought Arch was still transferred by the end of the year. Oh, my God. I'm big enough man to say, hey, they proved me wrong. But I thought the best throw Arch had all the day when it was like a third down something, he was back towards his own goal line and was rolling out of the pocket and hit the receiver. Third and seven, yeah.

Right on the sideline for like a 25-yard. Yeah. that to me was his best throw and that's where I was like, okay, this is what I expect out of him. And, you know, it was it was one game. You know, you want to see what he does, but

I give him credit, they came to play and they beat the snot out of you. But, yeah, good show, guys. Have a good week. Talk to you later. Thank you, Brian, for the phone call. Thank you. Yeah, it was an improved game. It was still only 166 yards, one touchdown.

and they scored 16 offensive points. So it's step in the right direction, but it's not like he's light the world on fire. And we're getting the Heisman campaign rolled back up. But at least he didn't cost them the game, which I wouldn't say that he cost them any other game necessarily. But the running game was going well, and he played well within the offense.

I need my big, I don't worry about individual awards. I need my quarterback to step up in big moments and big games, and that's as big as against me. That's the rivalry game. That's the one you needed to get your mojo back. I should have gone. No, that's too much.

Too much money. Too much. Go to Kentucky this weekend. You get some good seats there. I bet you'll get a good section. You know what? Lexon's nice. Yeah. Nice people.

Let me see what the get-in prices for that. Plenty of cigarettes available for you? 1115 and the Matt Thomas. Bourbon? Yeah. I mean, you're going to do fine there. You know people. 713, 212, 5, 790.

You can run with Gordy. Is he going? Yeah, he's going? Yeah, he's going. Now, his wife's going too, I'm assuming. Oh, get in there is 70 bucks. Oh, see? It was 250 in Dallas.

Flood of Louisville, drive the rest of the way. How close is it? Hour. Okay. You can fly in Lexington. How far is it? Much more expensive. Drive in Kentucky, take a road trip.

14 hours and then 2 hours to Lexington, yeah. Okay, 16? That's too far. That's too far. I don't want you to drive. I don't take a week off. You've already got plenty of time coming up.

116 on sports. Me more. You know, you do. 7.11, I'm taking, I'm getting on. 7.13.212.5.7.90. Time now for a little Houston Cougar update. It is presented to you by our friends of the joint chiropriker, the official chiropractor of the Houston Cougars. Guess who's the number two team in the land is according to the Associated Press.

Now, granted, this poll means absolutely nothing, but it's just a gauge. It's a metric, as Rossi would say. Yes. One data point among many. Ken Palm says the Cougars are number one. Solicator Press says the Cougars are number two. Do you know who Ken Palm has number two? I do not know. The reigning national champions.

Florida Gators. They got Purdue number three. I think Purdue's number one in the, is the coaches poll out or is the AP poll? This is the AP poll. Okay. By the way, do never ever value the coaches poll in football or basketball. They don't have time. Yeah, some assistance doing it.

Yeah. So there you have it. So the Cougars are going to be number two in the poll. Kansas, not Kansas. Purdue number one. Okay. That's fine. Although there is a strong correlation, actually, between there's a,

apparently, now I don't know if it's still true. This is a few years ago I heard this. There's a stronger correlation between national championship success and tournament success. The first poll stronger than the last poll. Because a lot of times the first poll goes on talent. And talent proves through in the tournament. What do you think about that? I think you should write that on a t-shirt.

Oh, that's a little wordy for a t-shirt. Number one, Purdue, Houston Cougars number two, Florida, I mentioned three. Let's go down the list a little bit. Duke at six, if you care. BYU. Oh, yeah. The number one NIL player in the country goes to BYU. Yes. I forgot that young man's name.

A.J. D. Batson, DeBatsa, whatever. D. Y, B-A-N-T-S-A. Number one in the ESPN 100. Okay. Kentucky number nine, by the way. Texas Tech number 10. Where the longhorts? Texas Tech, how about this just shows you how crazy NIO can do in Transfer Portal?

Texas Tech is number 10, the country coming in. They have three players in our projected starting five that played somewhere else last year. That's normal, honestly. Didn't Kentucky get rid of all five of their starters last year? Probably. Yeah. Yeah, this is just, that's how it goes. Arkansas 14. Iowa State, Big 12, 16, Tennessee 19, 18, Kansas 19, Auburn with the new coach at 20,

in North Carolina at number 25. Others are receiving votes? I don't have it on my list. I'm just asking. They're 39th in Kempom. That's okay, baby. I like it. Laying in the weeds.

Ready to pounce. Can I tell you laying in the weeds is okay? Yeah, I'm okay with it. Being a star, cost you money. They're spending money I'm talking about costing somebody money Okay

Me Okay Matt It's always about me At the end of the day I know I've been knowing this for many years I know That's why I'm obnoxious

What they call me What was that Mr. Arrigan from last week Yeah First game Is this true First game of the season For the Longhorns

Is against Duke Oh come on Come on man You're going to hold Hawaii too, right? Yeah. Now, Craigway doesn't give me his travel schedule. In Charlotte?

Oh. Oh, that's a loss. You can't win in Charlotte against Duke. The Dick Fidel Invitational? So I think Craig White is going to do a Thursday game in Hawaii, a Friday women's game in Minnesota, then fly back to Hawaii for a Saturday and then do a Sunday badminton match somewhere. Yeah, they do the Maui Invitational.

They'll play Arizona State, and I can't remember who else is in there. You know, Shamananah and the boys. I don't, you could play Mississippi Valley for all the Washington State or Chamanad. It's not a great list, is it? I think it's not the best. Do you know why it's not so hot this year? Why? Because that players era tournament in Las Vegas at 16 teams now.

They guaranteeing all the NAL money. Longhorns weren't good enough. You know, I'll say this. And I'm surprised that it's worked out as well as it has. It's only been around one year. But why don't you play and everybody play, I would extend the college. basketball season and I would extend the college football season one week and play an NIL game. What do you mean?

Meaning that the proceeds of that game go to the NIL. I'd put I'd put logos on these kids. I'd let them do their sponsors. I mean, look, we got to reinvent the wheel on this because you're going to bleed out these schools or these schools boosters. You might as well think of, you might as well go outside the box. And I would say one basketball game a year, if you are Jonathan Allen, and you are this outstanding point guard, and you've got a motor oil company that wants to put,

you attach to them, put your logo on your shirt for that one game. That would be good for recruiting things, recruiting wise as well. Well, the only issue you're going to be run into, let's say that Thomas Motor Oil wants to be your guy, Jonathan. Right. But you have Johnson Motor Oil is the official motor oil of said university's athletic department. Then you're going to run in a little bit of a,

of an issue because you don't want to counter you don't want two companies fighting after the same person. Well if it's on the jersey and then like say the if they sponsored an event that logo would be on like the court or you know. Yeah but I mean but I think if you create an NIL game you let

the kids do what they want. Now I wouldn't make the jersey's NASCAR related you know where they have stuff all over their stuff. Yeah yeah yeah. But maybe one on the left sleeve and one on the right sleeve? I think it's a good. Actually I really think that's a good idea. I'm not. I again I think you're going to ultimately have to be able to start figuring out ways to re-invigorate the financial NIL model and not involve

the alums who have to pay for everything all the time. Let me go to Mike in Richmond at 1126 on 790. Mike, good afternoon. Good morning. Thanks for holding. What's going on? Yeah. My emails have been vindicated. They got rid of all those people. I said they should have. except for the manager Astro manager but they got the hitting coaches the medical

general math I just think it's a great thing I thought I was crazy when I would send those but Mike you wanted them fired in April I mean come on you you are not of sane mine

when you write those emails you kind of defend them so much and defend them do you listen to show what have I said multiple times about the hitting coach I said there was going to be changes. Why? I didn't defend the trainers. That's ridiculous. You're you are painting my friend

with a broad stroke and I will not allow this. Okay, fair enough. And then, uh, my Purdue guys, I just, it's about the only thing I have to look forward to that's all. You boiler makers, you got something. Yeah, my other team circuit. We're going to let you run because you got a bad phone connection there, but thank, thank you for the phone call. Yeah. Purdue. Was there, football? I don't even know what their football team. Are they any good? I can't imagine. I never seen my national TV, so they must suck. Yeah, right? I don't know. They're, are they, are they, uh, are they, uh, hot dog water as, uh, people? They're like at the level. I wouldn't say WKU now because they're pretty good this season, but like,

oh, look at you dropping a WKU reference in the middle of the show. I'm just saying, but that, you know, they're around that type of, you know. Let's take a look at all, uh, nobody else in a marketplace is going to give you standings for the Wisconsin, for the Purdue watermakers. Uh, they are this year, Purdue football is, Oh, they're 2 and 4 and they're 0 and 3 in the Big 10. See, you know, they're... Yeah, they're WKU. That's fine.

WKU, by the way, is 5 and 1 and 3 and 0 in Conference USA. Man, poor Sam Houston State. They want to go to FBS. Well, they want to go to the FBS. And you know what they're doing this year, too? They're playing their home games at Bell Energy Stadium. Wait, why? Because they're refurbishing their stadium in Huntsville.

Still? I don't know if it's done on. I thought that's been the day. So what I would have done, and I know that I got some bear cat listeners to us right now, I'd have gone and played in Tomball at the high school stadium. I know you're like, well, we're going to play in a real stadium.

They ain't drawn flies at Bell Energy Stadium. I saw a photo like in middle of the second quarter. Jonathan, there may have been 200 people there. Yeah, because no one's driving to that. That's my point. If you're going to try to do this on the cheap while your stadium is being refurbished, Tomball Stadium off of the Grand Parkway is a double-decker stadium. It's got nice turf, good enough facilities.

You're not going to, you're there five or six times tops. You're embarrassing yourself putting these, putting your stadium playing these home games in Houston. No, first of all, you're a hundred times drawing people at Sam Houston, much less coming to Houston and playing at the big soccer stadium. I mean, damn, Sam Houston, you've got to be better spending than your money. All right. Now look, Ross had to step away for a few minutes. We normally would play the tell the, you know what? Should we do to tell the truth with the listeners this week? Like, what do you mean like how you do instapal and like you just? No, no, no. We should, we should have a little contest.

Okay, here's what we can do. What do we got going for tickets this week? We got one second. We got, you of H, right? Yeah, we got U of H for sure. We got what else we got? I know we got something besides that. Let me look at my prize vault here. We got Monster Jam this week as well, four pack. Okay, so let's do this. Let's do the Monster Jam four packs. Okay.

And we can take, what, five listeners at once? Is that how the most we can go down there? Pretty much, well, as long as the lines are decent. Yeah, we can get six. All right, so if you guys want to play to tell the truth, everybody that gets it right gets Monster Jam tickets. And if we run on a Monster Jam tickets, we'll give you the Cougars versus Arizona tickets.

Does that seem fair? We'll knock this out today, as a matter of fact. So anybody that wants to play to tell the truth, And for those of you that aren't familiar with the game, I will give you a bunch of sports takes. I will believe three of them. One, I do not believe. Which one of the four do I not believe?

If you want to play for Monster Jam tickets or Cougar tickets, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-5-790, we'll play to tell the truth next at 1131 here on 790. Oh, but I do, Jonathan Allen and all the great listeners on the line. your chance to win either Montcham tickets or Cougars versus Arizona but first you must be able

to tell the truth. All right. To all the folks that are on the line, I'm about to give you four sports takes. Three of them, I believe. Which one of the four am I lying? So Jonathan, how many lies

am I telling? One. There you go. I was a little nervous for a second. Which one of these four am I lying? Take number one. Jonathan, did you see the drama between Detroit and Seattle in that 15 inning game to decide the American League Division Series winner in the baseball of the weekend?

Friday? I watched the whole thing, actually. You know what the best part of it was? even though I am team, I thought I was team Manfred Man Rule. The added layer of not having to worry about a guy scoring so quickly and adding drama to it. Yeah. I got news for you. I think I'm going to change my mind. I think I want to get rid of the Manford Man Rule.

As a whole. As a whole. Okay. That's take number one. Number two. Do you know that Penn State was playing the semifinals of the National Championship? championship football series last year, the college football playoff, right? And I know this season sucks.

They've lost the Oregon game. They lost the Northwestern. And they've lost three straight in a row. But Penn State is going to have to cut a check to James Franklin for about $50 million. You're not supposed to, I know you're supposed to win 10 games, 11 games every year, but sometimes it just doesn't happen. I think Penn State made a mistake by firing James Franklin. Am I a James Franklin fan?

Not especially. Do I think he's overpaid? Yeah. But you guys went to the CFP last year. You're in a tough stretch. You've lost some games. And you owe the dude $50 million. I mean, how much, and I know that Adidas is going to pick up a tab on this,

but you are still going to have to suffer through that. And even if you wanted to get rid of James Franklin, why are you doing it in the middle of the season? What productivity do you get out of that? I would say right now as it is. Not saying that James Franklin was on solid ice ground over there, but I think him firing him in the middle of the season was a terrible, terrible mistake.

Number three, Jonathan, did you see Kirby Smart with that big time out? I was going to wait for Thursday for this. I mean, oh, no, no, I was clapping my hands. And they replayed it. And they replayed it. I think it is such a, BS move.

If I was the SEC and I made my officials look like ass like they did, this may be a crazy take, but it's one I believe, or do I? I wish to spend Kirby Smart for the first half of their next game for that ridiculous situation. That was an highly, highly embarrassing situation

to try to deek out the officials or not or whatever the case may be. The officials are going to face their own criticism. I know that for a fact. But unbelievable. how smug this guy is to try to circumvent. So not only does he get his keep his timeout, but he had a chance to regroup the guys

because they were sitting there arguing whether or not was a timeout or not. Shame on you, Georgia. Shame on you, Georgia. Shame on you, Kirby Smart. SEC, I would suspend Kirby Smart for the first half of that act. All right? Okay, these are some good ones.

Okay. And number four, the names being talked about about replacement at Penn State. One of them happens to be your fighting tech. Zaggy coach Mike Elko. If Mike Elko wants to go to Penn State, A&M fan, I'd let him go. I like Mike Elko. He's winning some games.

You guys are undefeated. You're a top 10 team. But you can find replacements for Mike Elko. He is not this amazing generational coach. You've got enough money in that program. Your facilities are good. The money is coming. you could find somebody.

I don't think Mike Elko should leave because I don't know if Penn State's even a better job, honestly. But if Mike Elko wants to go, if I'm an A&M fan, I'd say, all right, go on do your thing. So life would go on for me if I was an Aggie fan if Mike O'OO was not the head coach.

And those are my four takes. Which one of the four do I not believe? And I'll recap them again. Number one, get rid of the Manford, man rule because the playoff game one was awesome internet. Number two, Penn State should not have fired James Franklin. Number three, I would suspend Kirby Smart for one half of that ridiculous fake timeout call.

And number four, if Mike Aga Goal wants Penn State, I'd let him go. I like him, but he is certainly replaceable. Which one of the four am I not telling the truth? John, then, you can go first. All right, y'all don't tell me. Y'all don't tell me, but The Manfred rule, you have a good point. I mean, it was really nice. It was just thrilling to watch playoff baseball like that, and I wish it probably was the same.

But, and then, honestly, if my gut feeling right now is that your fourth pick, letting Mike Elko go right now, A&M hasn't been this good since I've been grown up. All right. Johnny Manz. So I'm going to go with four. So you think I'm saying if Mike Elko goes, it's okay in my mind.

That's a lie. You think it's a lie? Okay. That's my lie. I don't think you, I do think you believe so you think if you're fired. So you think I'm lying on that one. Okay.

I got you. All right, let's take our six listeners really quick in no particular order. Scott, which one of those four takes am I lying about? Not to be boring, but I also believe the same thing because I know you like a speedy game for the baseball regular season. So I'm going number four is a lie. Number four is a lie. right let's go. Shea, which one am I not telling the truth? I'm not trying to follow suit with everybody else, but I'm going to go with number four as well, same as Jonathan and the previous

caller. You think that I think that Mike Elko needs to stay under all circumstances. Okay, very good. Number three, Gio, which one of those four takes am I lying about? Lying about number one, man. You like speedy games. Okay, thank you very much. Let's go to Moses. Moses, which one of those four takes am I lying about? I am also going with number one. Number one. I think you like speedy games. All right.

I do or do I not? I did like it before, but man, that game, that was so much drama to that. Pedro, which one of those four takes am I lying about? Number one. Number what? Wrong game. Oh, number one. I said number one.

And Travis, which one of those four am I lying about? I'm going with number four. Number four. All right. Let me quick, quickly. Because Ross, are you back with us for good now? Yeah. Okay.

Really fast. Okay. Number one, I want to get rid of the man for man rule because the drama in that game tonight was awesome. Well, I love the drama like that in baseball. All right. Number two, Penn State should not have fired James Franklin. Okay.

Number three, I would suspend Kirby Smart for one half of that ridiculous fake timeout call. Okay. And number four, if Mike Elko wants to go to Penn State, I'll let him go. I like him, but he's replaceable. Which one of the four am I lying about? Okay, you're only lying about one? Only lying about one. Number one.

Number one. All right. Here we go. You're ready? I'm not the biggest James Franklin fan, but you owe him $50 million. And remember again, you were playing for the national semifinals for the championship. Firing him yesterday was ridiculous. I don't think he made it be there four or five years from now, but the money that you owe him, $49 million.

I round up to $50. Well, Adidas apparently Adidas said they'll pony up a lot of that. We'll cut that. But still, I think there's. There's serious damage with that. All right. So I do believe they do believe that he's not have shot or not have fired him. Okay?

So that's an accurate one. I would absolutely suspend Kirby Smart for that for a first half for that ridiculous non-fake call. He embarrassed the officials. He embarrassed everybody. He embarrassed his team and he embarrassed the ability for a coach to call a timeout on the sideline. That was atrocious what he did. So I absolutely believe he should be suspended. Now, I like Mike Elko.

I think it's really good for Texas A&M. But if he wants to go, let him go. You're freaking text A&M. So the one I was not telling the truth about, and all of you that said number one, you are correct. I love the man-for-man rule. Come on, this is easy, folks. I'm sorry.

That game five on Friday night was game five. That's why there was drama. Yes. I don't need a game in May and June and July. Yeah, come on, guys. That was, no. The man-for-man I'm still a fan of. I sniffed that.

I was like, is he doing three? He doesn't believe when you said that one first. So all of you that chose ever won and Jonathan, you lost, sorry, but. I told him not to tell me, but, you know, I look. All of our winners, get him on the line there. So we'll take, do that. Come back, 1145 here on Sports Talk 790. Sports Harvey, there are three guarantees in life.

There are death. There are taxes. And anytime I bring up the SEC, it's gorgeous coming in here. What did you just say again? you have to stop what just happened. You suspend that coach. Absolutely. What a pud move.

I have a talk with my refs and go, it's either a delay a game or you're charging him a timeout. You don't let him go. But you know what? He has to handle that responsibility. He should be better than that. He flat out lied.

Everybody saw what he did. That's a turd move. Suspend him. First of all he's a small a hole to begin with. He wins, but you know, that's what SEC football is all about. Do you remember the old John Lovitz? SNL character, the liar. Yeah, that's the ticket. The pathological liar?

I was just clapping, you know. I was running up the sideline, clapping. What did you think of the whole thing when it went down? I actually didn't know about it until you were actually talking about it. But I'm seeing the video, yeah, this is bad. He's not clapping at all. He's calling a timeout. And so he lied to the officials.

Explain this to me like I'm five. They stopped play. The clock was ticking down. Georgia had one second on the clock. They were not going to get the ball off. they stopped the talk and they go oh wait i thought he was calling a timeout turns out he wasn't so nothing happened they just resume play as if the clock did stop by the way don't forget that okay well this is cheating it gave them a first time out this is cheating yes yes yeah the refs

but it's on the refs the refs the refs should have incurred it's either a five-yard delay of game no curvy smart shouldn't have been a scumbag and lied to them it's not on the rest that you got lied to by coach well how about you like what does this say about Kirby's reputation that he's such a... It says he needs to be suspended. It's been a reputation. But like, in other words, if this were Clark Lee at Vanderbilt, they got, nah, coach you word, it was a timeout. I'm saying anybody that did it.

But especially Kirby Smart, he was trying to circumvent the system. He's getting a benefit of the doubt because he's this great coach that's won multiple national championship. I get, well, he's getting the benefit of doubt because he went and lied really hard. I mean, this would be like your fans throwing a bunch of stuff on the field and the rest getting together. Don't you throw shade that. That's okay.

No, no. They're so weird. The idea is. the SEC reps need to be better. The idea is that he should not be a scumbag in light of the referees like this. But the referees shouldn't even... Well, they have to go back and review it?

Hey, Gordy, you stop all this by suspending somebody. And I'm not saying a full game, but make a note. If anybody suspended, I suspend the refs saying you didn't enforce the rules. They're going to ultimately have to pay a price as well. But for Kirby's smart to be, well, I told you guy.

You guy, you're... Did you see you? He did it. Then he lies about it. And then he talks about lying about it after. When they won, he got up on the trainer's table and, like, riled up his fans that made the trip to Auburn and was like, yeah, let's go. But this is on the heels of them missing the call when Jackson Arnold broke the plane.

It should have been 17-0 in Auburn. Instead, they rule, no, he was short and the ball was fumbled and it's Georgia football. Yeah, it's, I don't know, man. Conspiracy theorists, you want to go down that road? No, no. I want to go to the road of saying, I never want to put my officials in this position again. And I'm not, you know what you can do a better job. No, it's on him.

It's on it. Those guys have to worry about a hundred different things. For them to be doing deciphering hand signals, give me a break. Suspend his ass. He was so adamant. I understand why the referee is like, I don't know, I guess we missed this. We can't mess this up guys. But as you charged with the timeout, regardless.

You made us stop the game. You were charged the time out. I'm sorry. Come on. Regardless of what you were yelling. Cordy. I didn't expect Kirby smart defense. I love you for so many things, but this is not one of them.

I'm saying, like Kirby, yes, he deserves some blame, but it's the refs who ultimately... He deserves all the blame. If he wouldn't... 100% the blame. I don't remember a coach in the history of college football going to a referee and saying, no, I was not calling a timeout, I was clapping. But if you're not on Kirby's smart... But if you're the

ref, I don't do anything that looks like it was supposed to be calling him out. Yeah, the referees have never seen this before. So they're going to take him at his word. This is never happened. I don't recall this ever happening. We do the honor code in coaching? Like, why... You know what you do? You know what you're so... You know what you want to do, John? Gordia, why don't we just give the not allow the coaches to have the ability to call timeouts?

There'll be no confusion. That should be, yeah, I don't know. Seriously. How many coaches yell, like, they tried to call a timeout and the ref didn't see it in time. They're like, sorry, we didn't see it in time. That happens all the time. Right. What he is doing is this lying.

Flat out lying. He's doing a T, making a T. I'm looking at the video. Yeah. He's lying. He's lying. I'm with you guys. I agree that he was in the room.

No, you're not with them. I say suspended and you're like, no. is equal to blame. The call shouldn't be. There should be repercussions for this. And there's no penalty. There should be repercussions for this. This is ridiculous.

Wow. Locked on Gordy. Locked on SEC. Hey, shout out to Texas for showing up. Yeah, that's a good win. The season isn't dead. I don't run your show, but that's what you need to talk. You could do a whole show on this.

I guarantee, I mean, you don't think Fimbombs talking about this for 90% of a show today? They are more pissed about the Aubur fans are pissed about the Jackson Arnold touchdown that should have been. on replay, even Greg McDonough, they replay him and Sean McDonough, they go back and they go, it breaks the plane. And by the way, Sean McDonough and Greg McAvoy never get it wrong. If those guys were pissed about it, then they should be, they should change the rule. If they score that touchdown like they should have, and it's 17-0, Georgia doesn't come back in that game.

Auburn was so flustered that they called it a non-touchdown. They didn't recover the rest of the game. I understand that. I mean, George is a better football team. I mean, Auburn's good, but Georgia's better. Auburn's probably going to look for a new coach at the end of the year.

He'll be with everybody else. Here's a prediction. Texas is going to win their next couple of games. They're going to go into Auburn, I'm sorry, into Georgia, mid-November with a chance to, if Texas can win that game,

they will be playoff down. And you know what I'm doing? I am rooting hard. I'm going to wear Texas. They win that game and lose A&M. They're not going to lose to the Aggies in Austin. I'm telling you, I'm rooting for Texas to do it. But you're so adamant.

It makes me feel like you're wrong. Can I wear Texas gear for a week? I got a picture of you in Texas gear. I'll do it. I am anti- Your picture on my phone is you an anti-Curvy smart in that fake attempt to call a timeout. Oh, what about against the Aggies?

What's that? What about against the Aggies? You can wear Texas gear? No. Why not? Is Arch the first quarterback to throw for 160 yards and wave to the crowd? Oh, geez.

See you later. Here we go. That was a 29-yard run, folks. In a rivalry game, absolutely he's allowed to. Played well. I just put up Ryan Mallet You're just hater gordy

I like arts I have it on my Hizmann list preseason That's fine Oh you have a Hizman list I should have got one Oh you should take him off As of this weekend As of this weekend

I'm officially a Bolitnikov Award Oh wow Which LSU receiver you voted for You know look I can't leave the gate a guy Was such bias I thought Ryan Wingo would be up there He's not

Parker Livingstone Parker Livingstone's ready I see they pronounce it Livingstone The E is silent Okay whatever Good talk everybody Get Gordy out of here I brought you in here

I'm just more mad at Kirby Smart I got defenders from him From you He's the first person that I've seen Defending Kirby Smart But also I just heard about this Oh let me tell you Atlanta Radio's defending him My guess right

It's not defending him It's just saying the refs need to do a better job No they don't They've got 40,000 on things to worry about Oh I'm so sorry maybe get things right Oh, I don't know, maybe have a universal sign for timeout Like I saw the T that meant timeout? How about we don't hire 60-year-olds to run around on the field like zebras?

How about we get some young, youthful people with good eyes on the average person. I was 60 years old. God, terrible. God, there's a strong man Gordy over here. Last week, one of the games, they had a 10-minute pause and play because the old man moving the chains got knocked down and they were like, had to get a stretcher for him. I'm sorry, don't let old-ass man do that job.

You've been caught up in those chains before? It's not good. Get some 20-year-olds in shape fit to be referees. With good eyesight and get everything right. All right. Now this is getting ridiculous. This is getting absurd. I'm done with you.

Goodbye, Gordy. Look forward to tomorrow. You'll listen to you and babble this on. I'm going to lockdown SEC to hear this. Dribble. I swear I am. Dribble. There's no chance.

All right. 1158. Let's get to the news at nude next here on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Trouble Ford. town. This is our number three of the Matt Thomas show with Ross and it's Columbus Day. No, believe it or not today, I'm going to bug out a little early to head to Birmingham, Alabama. Look at Jackson, over there.

Rodhampton, like, too. Do you even people know who Keith Jackson is? What a goat. I think so. I think you do a great key. That's one of your great impressions. You got to keep it around. I do too. Keep Jackson and Bill. Stop, stop. See, I knew you're going to do it. Go ahead. I won't do it. I want Jonathan to, Sean, then knows who Bill Cosby is, right? I got to hear this. I know what Bill Cosby is. I don't know. You're like

17, man. I'm smiling here. Hold on. He's been blind. He's been blind. Sorry, go ahead. Go ahead. This Bill Cosmo, give me some of them jello pudding pops. What do you say that? What do you think, John? One to ten. Rate the impression, Joe. Ten. Ten. Oh, my God. It's a zero.

I'm so surprised. Stop. Stop. Oh, the Temple Owls for the football game. Good. All right. It's not a zero. It's like a one and a half. It's at least a seven and a half. Oh, my God. Let's do an insipole. No, no, no, no, no.

We already know. Bill Cosby's not on the insipolar. That's okay. Jonathan liked it and he's laughing. That makes me happy. That's what's important. Time down for the news at do it at 1205. On the Kirby Smart Apologies Network. Goodness, Gordy.

Seriously, Gordy. Come on. It's a first coach in the history of time who was trying to try to to griff the referees. And so, yeah, they weren't prepared for it. And they fell for it. Like, well, he's so adamant. I guess we're going to give him the benefit of the doubt. Terrible.

He lied. All right, anyways. Well, let's start with the big news from the weekend that your Texas Longhorns defeating the American's Longhorns. 203 to 6. They're back in the playoff hunt. Well, actually, they basically don't have much margin for error.

I think they can afford no more losses as they go along. But, you know, early season losses cannot be forgiven in the polls. We'll see what happens from there. 23 to 6. The Longhorns were able to get the victory. They only gained a 302 yards on the field. But that was enough. They also had, of course, the big punt return for a touchdown by Ryan Niblet.

Tad, three times fast. Who talked after the game, he wanted to transfer out and hit the portal multiple times. But Coach Sark wanted him to stay. believed him in, believed in him, and he had the big touchdown against the Oklahoma Sooners this weekend, Matt. I have a college sports portal slash money take. I want to get to you right after you're done with the news, man.

So let me make sure I'm ready to do that. Elsewhere in college football, Ohio State, with a big win over Illinois on the road. How about those Indiana Hoosiers? They defeat the Oregon Ducks on the road as well. Two top ten wins this season. They had only had four in their entire program. Graham's history before this week.

You also have Georgia defeating Auburn on the road. And the fighting Texas Annum Aggies, 34 to 17 over those pesky Florida gators. SEC is looking pretty stout. Yeah. As per usual. By the way, people on Twitter today, not just people, there are a few people on Twitter that are bemoaning that college game day has either been in an SEC or a Big Ten venue every week all season long.

Duh. Well, maybe they'll get to a... And the reason why they'll bring it up... Well, the reason why they're going to bring it up is because they're going to... Big noon Saturday, which is like the competition. They're going to be Utah, BYU, and they're like, well, thank you very much, Fox.

Well, Fox also is carrying that game, too. I mean, it all depends on what you're carrying. And by the way, the best matchups, pound for pound have been the SEC in the Big Ten. Someone who loves a big trouble like I do. I even get that. I mean, I get it. I know, man. I'm sorry. The Cougars in the top 25 poll?

Got some boats. In football? Yeah. In which? I don't know. They got four. I mean, one very many. They got somebody. Oh, okay, isn't the coaches poll. Must have been Willie Fritz. I think we're number 17. All right, coach. Appreciate you.

Why are you making that face? don't impersonate my favorite man on earth right now. I thought Kelvin Stamson was your favorite man on Earth. Okay, 1A. All right, elsewhere, Matt, we heard the reports of Bill Belichick possibly wanting to leave UNC. Of course, he has denied them. He said, reports about my looking for a buyout

or trying to leave here is categorically false. There's zero truth to any of that. I'm glad I'm here. We're working toward our goals. We'll believe very much in the process. We just need to keep working and grinding away, and that's exactly what we're. we're doing. Believe him.

We're not. Now, the report was some guy with the Guardian, which is a British paper, but the U.S. Bureau of the Guardian. I'm not even worried about who wrote the story. The question's going to be, if they finished the year four-n-eight. Do you say run it back, or do you go,

you know what? Just like when Steve Springer tried to go coach the Redskins or like Nick Saban tried to go coach the dolphins, the eject policy is pretty quick. Bobby Retino left for the Falcons very quickly. I'm going to say this. You know what? I'll save it for tomorrow. But I don't think Belichick leaves at the end of this season.

Unless the university is like this guy is causing us too much trouble. The girlfriend's a hot mess. By the way, the 80s name at North Carolina is Bubba Cunningham. I mean, Bubba Cunningham? Do you think Bubba's going to do anything? Get rid of anybody after one year? I guess not. So, no, I think he's,

stays. Hey, elsewhere in college football news, Matt. What do you know about Mike Asty? Reporter. I've never heard of him. Managing editor at West Virginia Sports Now and Pittsburgh Sports Now. He is reporting that the Penn State

firing of James Franklin was helped along by Adidas. The apparel juggernaut recently signing a 10-year, $300 million deal with Penn State that begins next year. Adidas reportedly committed to paying the majority of the nearly $50 million buyout that James Franklin has.

Now, let me ask you this. Now, I don't know the inner workings of this. They were on Nike school for the longest time, moved over to Adidas, 10-year $300 million deal. Could that deal have turned into a 10-year, $349 million deal? Did Adidas say, go ahead and get rid of this guy and we'll help you out? Is it legal? NCAA-wise, I guess it is. Why wouldn't they?

You go to boosters to get contracts paid out. That's true. So with Adidas is a booster, they're certainly giving you a boost. That's what it sounds like to me without me knowing many of the details. That's what losing to Northwestern at home will do for you. Apparently, Adidas behind the firing of one James Franklin. Of course, there was a big NFL weekend, even though your Houston Texans were not involved. They will not be playing until next Monday night against the Seattle Seahawks.

But you had a number of big games, including How about them cowboys Losing it to the Panthers 30 to 27 You also have the Raven scoring three points Matt they're one in five Are they going to be on the outside looking in And save flowers with two fumbles in one game for me

Oh my gosh I was wondering how you'd make about you And oh by the way Rico Dottle Who's on my fans team as well Said I want to get back my old teammates And was like yeah you're all good You got over 200 yards again last Yesterday between receiving and rushing

Yeah that's your guy RICO Dowdle Love me some I'm team Rieckin'L Speaking of one in five, the Miami Dolphins are one in five. And, well, to a tongue of a low, did you hear his postgame press conference, Matt? Did not necessarily sell the culture particularly well. I said basically that it starts with the leadership. It's like, you're the quarterback on the team.

Shouldn't, aren't you part of that leadership? Well, apparently there were some meetings that were people who were skipping or getting late to. Well, then also a report. A report. The athlete is weighed in. Said, hey, don't be telling everybody I'm late to these meetings. Yeah, so we're talking about team meetings, but also people were thinking it was like team only, players only meetings. But a B reporter is clarified and said, no, they were talking about like positional team meetings.

That's even worse. Yeah, I think that is worse. Yeah, but players only meeting, players are typically late to things anyway, but if a coach tells you to be somewhere and you relate to that, hmm. And by the way, lastly, Seattle 3, Toronto won. American League Championship series. I have to bring that up. By the way, how good were you feeling when George Bernard hits the very first pitch of the game? Great.

Toronto was up 1-0,000, feeling good, big crowd going crazy. They're showing hotel rooms at Rogers Center. People are having relations there after every hit, and there's not much up with that. Yeah. Logan Gilbert, back on the hill for Seattle. He pitched a relief on Friday. Toronto had a minus 1-35, Seattle plus 115. Is it a must-win game?

for the Toronto Blue Jays. It is not. Okay. Thank you, Matt. I appreciate that. By the way, as much as I did enjoy the drama of the game 5 between Detroit and Seattle, I fell asleep. I mean, I don't want to fall asleep in my sporting events, but it was 11 o'clock,

and I'm like, my eyes are heavy. And I woke up an hour later and they're still playing. I mean, I don't know if I want my games like that. The Manford Man has ruined me. I was kind of like, they should just put somebody on second after like the 13th. Let me tell you, I was in Oklahoma going 4.000. 14th inning. Can we do home run derby here? And that's how, that's how bad it was.

I still don't want the Manford Man rule in the playoffs. I agree. But I kept looking like, where's the automatic runner? Like two different times, I was like, why is there a guy on second? Oh, yeah, it's the playoffs. Yep. I got confused. More on college football coming back.

Things I hear from college athlete that I do not believe. I'll explain mere moments. What about from college podcasters? I think Gordy believes his own take. I know he does. That may be the worst part of it. He believes it. 713-212-5-7-0-7-0.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right, so I interview college kids occasionally, but mainly I watch them on the sports centers and that kind of thing. You know, the college game days. And maybe it's just a cynic in me sports Harvey, but when I hear about why a particular kid goes to a particular school, 15, 20 years ago when things you presume to be above board, like, you know, education, facilities, the coaches of dad figure, like, I was it, man, I love Bobby Bowden because he treated me like one of his sons. Or I loved, let me think, well, Nick's tape him because he was tough.

He's all about family. He's all about family. He was tough love, but he made me a better man. That's why people said Mac Brown. He's all about family. Mac Brown, great example. in 2025, they're saying kind of the same thing. But you know what I'm thinking by the back of my mind?

What? They offered me $275,000. Straight cash, homie? And the other schools only offered me $125. Hey, it's working in Lubbock. It's working in well, of course, Texas and Ohio State and everywhere else. Right, right. Somebody got mad at me.

If a Red Raider fan got mad at me for a single line out, Texas Tech. No, no, no. And again, if you've got 10 schools that are offering the same, then you can then separate it. Yeah, but you've got to offer. premium, depending. We have a neighbor of ours. I don't know the kid.

Kim, Carly does. She goes to high school with. He's a junior. He's the number one offensive line in the country. Okay. Sark came in on the helicopter. Oh, really?

Yeah, yeah. That's how big this guy. I thought that was to see Carly. Well, I mean, I would be all for that, but they don't know that for volleyball kids, but thank you for asking. I'm guessing this kid's going to,

you know, again, you can be, you've got a pie that the schools can split up to give you as much as you want for a certain player and they can say, well, then we're also going to give you some NIL too. So there's two different ways to feed the boy, any boy, for that matter. That's good.

But I'm just thinking, his kid's going to have 25, 30 places to go, and he's probably going to get simple. I mean, I'm going to assume that Alabama's going to offer him the same at Notre Dame would offer him, the Texas would offer him, then A&M would offer him, right, don't you? At that point, if you are so highly

recruited, aren't you saying, aren't you exchanging figures? I imagine bidding wars break out for sure. Yeah. I mean, I don't think everybody's offering the exact same. You know, that's interesting. I want, we'll have to find out. I mean, I don't know if you'd be privy to those things, but I'm curious if the average student that gets money to go to a school or gets side NIL deals, if the money is comparable. Are the Texas Tech kids getting so much more money in Lubbock than they would somewhere else?

Now, we had somebody who had a running joke on social media saying, yeah, Texas has got a pay double. because it's Lubbock. I thought there was like there was a credible source. Somebody said they got to pay like 30% more. Yeah. That's what I saw the same thing you did. But going back to my grandiose point,

it makes me think, man, it isn't about, well, that coach is a father figure. You know what? That coach has gave. It's what he gave. It's one of the on three sports recruiting guys that does NIL stuff saying they have to do,

they have to pay 30% more. Yeah. So it's not about being the father figure. It's not about how good the cafeteria food is. it's the Lubbock text. The Lubbock, yeah, the surcharge, if you will. I mean, I think it's all those things. Yeah.

It's maybe more, it's part of it. Not as much. Yeah. But it's, to me, I was this, I was the warm and fuzzy sports reporter going, man, what separated? Because I'll be honest with you, I did the coach Willie Fritz show a couple weeks ago, filling in, and I asked the two student athletes, what made you choose Houston?

They had the same comp answers. You know, great atmosphere, close to home, love Willie. And I told you how much I respect Willie and how he's just the atypical coach. But I would think finances probably had to do something with it as well. Yeah, it's interesting. I actually wanted to talk about it because you'd kind of brought it up with your, to tell the truth topics, one of yours, which was Mike Elko is replaceable. Yes.

Because in theory, I mean, if it feels like everybody's replaceable. Now, I'll say this. Because here's a. reason why I would say that Mike Elko is replaceable. First of all, Mike Elko, people love Mike Elko. They've turned that program around a very short period of time. But, however, however, if you start lumping five and six year extensions in for crazy money and Mike Elko go seven and five one year, are you going to love Mike Elko as much?

This is what I'm, this is the interesting thing that I kind of wanted to delve into because I'm saying you're right in that maybe to an extent everybody's replaceable. Steve Sarkeesian is this genius coach last year. and then for the five offensive linemen as far as their top offensive linemen leave, Archmanning doesn't look that great. And all of a sudden, he's not necessarily on the hot seat or anything like that,

but he's not that much of a genius. Once the players aren't that great. Mario Cristobal, remember he lost his first year at Miami. All of a sudden, they start ponying up a bunch of NIL money and Miami's undefeated in the top five. All of a sudden, Mario Cristobal is a genius. Joey McGuire, remember when he was hired at Texas Tech, we're like, who's Joey McGuire?

And this guy's going to be around for two years too. Yeah, we're like, Joey McGuire. He's a fine last from Limerick. Like, we didn't know who he was. He opens up an Irish spot. I love it. And look how crazy it is. You start cutting some NIL checks.

All of a sudden, he's 6 and 0 and number 7 in the country. So what you have to do is you have to have a qualified coach. Right. But that's what I'm asking. That qualified coach doesn't have to be Nick Saban. Qualified coach has to be a very good college coordinator or a head coach at a smaller school. that gets a few new toys to play with,

i.e. a piggy bank and do what you did at the University of Akron and win some games on a bigger stage. I don't know if I'm going to out- if I'm going to outspend other schools with my coaches knowing that it's probably about the money that you spend towards the athletes that make the difference,

not necessarily your charm and charisma. How much of an outwire is Indiana and Kurt Signetti? Signetti, yeah. Are they getting players, and we just don't know about it, or is he just winning with guile and gumption? Well, as I said, his pedigree is excellent. His pedigree is excellent.

He is a Sabin disciple. Yeah. I clearly the guys love him. Clearly, he doesn't take any bull. He was attacking the officials at halftime. Indiana, Oregon. She's wearing them out. Oh, Lord.

So, yeah, I mean, it's just interesting. It's just like a whole different ballgame. So let me, let's use Kurt Signati, Signati, the head coach in Indiana. if you don't want Kurt to go anywhere he's going to be up for Penn State he's going to be up for he'll be up for the Auburn job he'll be up especially with the SEC ties he gone

Arkansas Arkansas I don't know you take you leave an Arkansas I would say yes historically okay but you where has the Arkansas money been but historically they're a powerhouse so is Indiana going to say we want you to stay signetty we're going to add four million dollars

to your contract and add seven years to it that feels that feels rather pricey. I think you strike while the iron is hot and leave Indiana, quite frankly. But I'm saying, what about the other side of it? What if Indiana says, look, Kurt, you may be a jerk, but you're our jerk and we love you? And we've been more relevant in football the last two years we've been relevant the last 40? I think you can be the hot name and then you can fall off rather quickly.

That's why if I'm a university coach, I would, I mean, if I was an university president, I would have a threshold. I kind of Jim Crane it. I said, I love you, I value you, I want you to stay, but I can't go past a certain dollar amount or a length. Because here's what you're doing. I don't care if Adidas picked up the check or not. There's going to be some ripples because of Penn State. By the way, wouldn't it Penn State think they were anything more than what they are?

They're really good. James Franklin got them top five every year. That's the counter argument. Like, hey, they weren't winning like that. They went to the national semies last year, right? Yeah. Yeah. They won two playoff games.

That's what I'm saying. You went from national semis to a three-game losing streak and you're fired? Now, there are two playoff wins, though, we're against Boise and some other bad team. No, Boise and was in other bad team. It was, oh, SME, wasn't it? Yeah, I think so. But point, you can't. Ross, you can't fire a coach for a three-game losing streak. They did.

And by the way, his record against top ten teams was sucky last year. You just added one more sucky to the one this year. See, I mean, add them to the list is what I told you. It's hard. You have all these teams. who say we need to be winning the championship and it's just not that easy. Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Penn State,

Michigan, I mean, you add up the list and it's like 15 teams. For me and my... Who's fan base and their boosters and their sponsors think they need to be winning the national championship every year. Honestly, when I think a Big Ten, not that we're in either part of the country at all,

I think of Michigan, I think of Ohio State, I think of Oregon, and then number four is... Wisconsin back in the... It used to be. I don't think... And Penn State. was like that fourth team but never thought about it in the top three.

Well, they disagree. Whether USC ever gets back in the mix, who knows? They'd be Michigan over the weekend, so something else there. All right, I just want to throw that out there that. Today's kids, they can say, I love that coach. You're a father figure. Father figure also gave me more money and a better Rolls-Royce. 7-13-212-5-790.

7-1-2-1-2-7-9. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We have a serious conundrum in Major League Baseball we may be facing in a week or so. I'll discuss it next here on 790. Matt and Ross with you on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. So I was back and forth between Detroit and Kansas City and the baseball game between Seattle and Toronto.

I wonder, is not a question of how bad? It's going to be how, how bad? How bad did Detroit, Kansas City NFL kick the ratings ass of the American League Championship series? We'll probably don't know until tomorrow. A couple of days, yeah. Is there trouble to you on that or do you go, that's just the byproduct of how powerful football is? I think they look at your own ratings.

If your ratings are up and down from year before, stuff like that. And then there are other factors, like you said, what night a day was it? How much were your audience is taken away? Because the NFL's king and everybody knows it. Yeah. And they've been scheduling. We were like, why are they doing five and eight o'clock? Well, because Thursday has football is seven.

Because baseball knows their role. And, by the way, there's a new pie graph that comes out once a year about how sports teams make their money. And I'll explain to you why NFL television remains the king. I'm very interested in that. And I'll have it for you the next segment. So, Houston, we love the Astros. We rarely tolerate other teams, right? I think we are rooting for Toronto.

Not that we have a large Canadian fan base here. I would say 85% of the Astros fans I know and talked to are rooting for the Blue Jays. Well, I think it would be even higher than that. Yeah. So. And then we've got the bro. We have no ties to the brewers whatsoever. Milwaukee's a lovely city. It serves great beer, great brots.

People are nice. But there's no tie. What? You know I was going to say something. I'm so proud of you. You didn't say it. You know, I might have been thinking it, but I'm not going to say it. But the reality is...

I know you too well. We might be facing a... Don't say it. There's a possibility of... Dodgers Mariners. I put this out on Twitter. I don't hate the Dodgers. like I used to. I just don't.

2020 was a Mickey Mouse ring, so you kind of make fun of that. Like, how, you guys haven't won once since the 80s. But they won last year. And they're playing a different ball game. They just are. Financially and payroll-wise. And with deferred money and allowed, by the way,

by a major league baseball. Allowed by a major league baseball, they have that big TV deal. They spend billions and billions of dollars, it feels like they make billions and billions of dollars. So it's like, it's almost like, If you are Texas State and it's like rooting against Texas,

they're playing a different sport almost. It's the same sport, but financially it's just in a completely different league, is what it feels like. But the difference between that is that Texas State is going to play Texas 50 times. They'd be lucky to win five. Astros can play the Dodgers and win a five or seven game series as much as anybody. But year over year after year, they're just, they're in a different league. basically them and you could toss the Yankees in there as well, maybe the Mets and whoever.

But as far as the resources that they have and their development, their player development has been great. Their pitching development has been great. That's also allowed them to make trades for the players that they have now, Muki Betts among others and stuff like that. But it's just, it feels like to me I can, and maybe this is just me coping with how good they are. But to me, it's like they're just playing a different sport. They won last year. I'm not going to root. I'm rooting for Shoha Tani.

I mean, because he is just the great. show on earth in terms of athletes today. If there's one guy I want to pay a ticket to, especially, you know, when he's pitching, the two-way athlete excellence that is Shohay Otani is to me the greatest show on earth. I just don't hate the Dodgers anymore. I don't. Not to the level that I did, certainly. I'll root for the Brewers, but I'm not going to be going crazy over it if they win.

It's like, you know what? Hey, it's the Dodgers. They got Shoehontani in this ridiculous lineup and these ridiculous. They have a leg up signing every pitcher from Japan. wants to play on the West Coast and wants to go to the highest bidder. Guess who that is? It's the Dodgers. Never the Giants. So, yeah, it's the Dodgers every single year.

So they basically get their pick of the litter from the, the best pitchers in Japan is basically their farm system. They get to sign everybody from there. They have Shoahotani. They can go over the luxury tax. They deferred like a billion dollars worth of contracts. It's insane. They have all these inherent built-in advantages to wear. To me, I mentally separate them from basically everyone else.

You are stronger than I am. You still got hate? You still got a hate for them? I can't do it for a variety of reasons. Is it what I say makes sense? So it's like, you know what? No, no, whatever. That's a logical, thoughtful conversation.

And at least have one half the show has this. I mean, hey, go Brewer. Don't get me wrong. Go Brewers. But I don't want Bill Plasky to write nice articles. Oh, yeah, that's true. That's a good one. I don't want to have to hear about every time the Astros for the Dodgers,

every time that game is on national television, it feels like at least one, if not two of them are on national television. The cheating scandal gets brought up. I don't think a Dodger, I think the Dodger fan base, generally speaking, has more criminal activity than any of the 29 teams. Their fans are the worst. So while I appreciate what happens on the diamond, the off the diamond stuff still irritates me to know when.

And so if it's the Dodgers and the Mariners, I'm not saying I would not boycott the World Series, but it would be, I think I would catch up on my old episodes of Young and the Ruses before I start watching that series. I'll keep it on. It's got big TV2 energy. Oh, yeah.

But in the background. Yeah. It's like we have a TV in our bathroom. Turn the show. What? You're watching TV in the bathroom? You can. I mean, I don't sit there.

You sit there and watch an episode or something? How long do you in there? You have a bathtub. Your legs falling asleep? The candles are lit? What are we doing in there? Mania on your own business? Come on now.

You brought it up. I'm just saying the TV is on, but if the shower is going, you don't see very much because you've got the steam that's knocking it out of it. You didn't get the anti-steam screen. Well, I mean, if you're taking a bath, you get a full opportunity to watch everything. You got a big bathtub? It's fairly good size. I don't take very many baths.

I like to take baths. Okay. care, what's up? No, I'm not anti-bath. Bubble bath. Have some salt. I'll let you, boy. I got one for you. Do you take baths in hotels? Absolutely. Okay. Well, if it's like a bad, like a nice one. Not the, but that bad type of

it may. Wait, wait a one west Palm Beach. Not of the greasy Motel 6th studio. With the blood stains. No. No, Matt, that was Rust. I have a great friend of mine. I'm like, this is blood. I have a great friend of mine who will not, I will not name him out loud. Okay. Or rhyme his name. only takes baths.

Only takes baths. Now that's in like 1876 stuff right there. That's a lot of work. Yeah, come on, man. You got to, no, that's, no. You're telling me, you're getting ready for work, you're brushing your teeth, and you're drawing a bath? I'm not doing it.

My friend is. Ain't nobody got time for that. Apparently he's got time for that. What? Back to my central point. Does he have rubber duckies? I don't know what's in his bathtub. I'm not trying to shame a man for bed.

Like I said, I take a bed, the occasional bath. It's not occasional. It's very soothing. It's everywhere. Hotels, home, everywhere. Full bath. To my point, I can't separate the on-field success with the off-of-field. Now, what L.A.'s got going for them is their stadium, despite the fact it's 60 years old, is still majestic.

Their uniforms are pristine. I appreciate the history. Yes. The greatest baseball announcer, maybe the greatest announcer of all-time broadcaster game for 50 years. Some of my favorite players, frankly, that are non-astroes, are. are Dodgers. I love Fernando Valenzuela growing up as a kid. Love Steve Garvey. I'm going to get you on my side, I think.

No, because Bill Plashky is a dirtbag. Well, here we go, though. Please. Dodgers, Mariners, World Series. Who you got? I'm going to give you five seconds, and I'm going to count. Hold on, hold on. I'm giving you five seconds.

Dodgers, Mariners World Series. One, two, three. Dodgers. Dodgers. See? I got you. to my side. But you actually use your full voice.

Fine. Dodgers. Dodgers. I'll say it that way. I will say seven rainouts. Season too late. Earthquake? No, no, no. I don't have earthquake. Last time we had earthquake in World Series. It costs a lot of people. No.

Nobody did die. Oh, they died? Not at the stadium. No, I'm saying you don't want people to. No, I don't want people to die. I'm not saying they didn't. I'm saying, I don't want them to. But you want a month long rain in the Pacific Northwest and down. in the south? I'm okay with that. All right. How do the leagues make their money? We'll tell you about that coming up in a minute.

1244 on Sports Talk 7-9. Today on the radio program we were doing T-A-M-U police tweets and a couple old ones got sent to me. This is from 927. Rossi, public intoxication, unable to walk. Give an opportunity to call a sober friend, but he locked himself out of his phone, arrested.

How do you not remember your code? Even when you're really that blanked? I've locked myself out of my phone even when I've known my code. I just keep hitting over and over and like, oh wait, one more time, I'm probably out. And then, yeah, you've got to wait for a minute. This one on the 4th of October. I can't even lie. Public intoxication times two.

Times two, okay, same person. Responded to report of intoxicated subject in men's restroom near section 334-335. He called a sober from. friend. Sober friend arrived. Intoxicated. Yeah. Arrested. Happens. The good old days. Good old days. This one, by the way,

jacked up at the stadium. This one from A&M police about the contracted subject eating a sandwich with a water jug of whiskey. BAC was 0.337 released to EMS. Yes. 38,000 likes, 3,800 retweets, 780 comments, 7.4.4.4.4. five million impressions. He's going to be a legend on campus.

Well, I hope he's alive. And Google said that was coma. Dude, Google said it was comatose. I hope he's alive. He wouldn't tweet it if he wasn't, you know, right? I hope not. Hope not. Hopefully the, isn't the blower inaccurate?

That's what my DWI lawyer told me. You know what? I was going to ask for advice, but I'm not going to ask for advice. It's just a bad situation. Okay. So, I have, I'm always. Look, we don't have a lot of piping hot sports takes from the world. The weekend.

We talked about A&M. It was good, but I want to just, we got a whole hour left to go on that. Okay. But I just always, sports business always intrigues me. Every year, they come out with a pie graph, a pie chart of how leagues make their money. I don't think we really care about the energy. Did you see this? It was tweeted out.

Yeah, by who? Football greatest moments. It's got 200,000000 followers. So it is what it is. Football's greatest moments. Yeah, I mean, they're on the revenue watch. I don't know.

Pocket watch is somebody. I thought it'd be, you know, Dan Marino's no, sports business daily is what you're looking for. Exactly. So I'm sure he cheated from, oh, this is from Sportico.

Sportico, all right? It was about how each sports league makes its money. NBA and Major League Baseball in 2003. That's the latest revenue they have. They both made 10.9.

million dollars. Now, billion? The NBA is going to have a higher deal because their television deal is going to be higher than what major league baseball is about to sign. 10.9 billion. 41% of that comes from TV deals. The national TV deals.

26% ticket sales, 13% local TV and media, 12% team sponsors, 8% concessions and parking. Hmm. Okay. 8%? That's actually pretty, pretty. pretty heavy there, parking concessions.

Yeah, that feels really heavy. 26% ticket sales. I would have thought that been a lot lower. Baseball, $10.9 billion. $31% ticket sales, 26% national TV and media, 23% local TV media,

which that's going to start going down because these local TV networks are going away. 10% team sponsorships, 10% concessions in parking. That's Major League Baseball and the NBA are 10.9 billion. Now hold on to your MF and hats on this one. The NFL in 2003, in revenue, $18.7 billion. Where they getting it from?

66% from national TV media deals. How much was it for NBA? The percent for you? NBA percentage, 41, baseball 26. Wow. There will be even greater discrepancy between the NBA. in baseball with this when this new TV deal comes into play for the NBA.

Two-thirds of the money the NFL makes is from their television deals. Yeah, they don't have local TV network revenues. No, they have none. Yeah, it's 1%. That's the, that's basically Channel 13 being the official television home of the Texans. You know, all their little shows and stuff from preseason games.

But you're right, it's a very small amount. 17% from ticket sales. They don't care up the buildings, or not. 10% from team sponsorships, 6% from concessions and parking. Part of that reason is because people are tailgating and getting in and getting out. But if you want to know how a sport is run, go look at how the television deals are put together. Two-thirds, that's why you've got NFL network putting games on. That's why you've got Peacock. You're going to have an exclusive game. That's why you've got Netflix doing games. That's why you've got extra packages.

That's why I think the NFL will ultimately go to an 18 game schedule because they can create another package of games. Every time there's a package of games available, there is a TV partner ready to step in. The NFL is supposed to end their current TV deals, I think, in the next handful of years, including 20, 30, I think for NBC. They're going to reopen the deals for the Sunday night games.

This is how the NFL rolls. We can sell tickets. That'd be great. We can ask you to buy our gear. We can ask you to drink our beer, but at the end of the day, what are most football fans doing? They're not going to games. They're not buying a lot of gear. They're just simply watching the product on television.

66% of the money the NFL makes is on television deals alone. That's crazy. That's why it's so powerful because every time you put an NFL game on, like tonight. Now, you and I may be different, but is the average Houstonian going to be jumping on Buffalo versus Atlanta? If you got fantasy implications or a bet, maybe. I think it will still be probably the highest rated program on television tonight. Well, or will it be the Bears of Commanders, which starts an hour later on ABC? Why are they still doing these staggered doubleheaders, week seven, six?

Have you not listened to me? I kind of got some like mini breaking news right here. Oh! It's like real small. Does it one sounder? Is it one sounder? No. Oh, I don't know that.

Wrong button. Wrong button. What do you got? If you're going to do it, you're going to do it. Come on. All right. It's part ways with head coach Brian Collin. Whoa. No, that's two. I had another one on that one. It just happened like 40, like I was got to post for a nine minutes ago.

He didn't even survive a season. Dang. Okay. Didn't I tell you how he sounded? He'd been sounding like an idiot. Don't you feel like when a guy's in the postgame press conference, adamantly arguing that an elbow down is not a catch for a wide receiver? and you're like, dude, have you watch one NFL broadcast in the last 30 years? An elbow down is a catch. He's like, no, it's not.

I'm like, that kind of gives you this moment where you're like, this guy's not very smart. This guy could be fired. Can I add two more names of the list? Go ahead. Mike McDaniel. Well, honestly, he was the odds-on favorite. I can't believe he's not gone.

And I hate to do this to you because it's your high school. Hey. How long is Aaron Glung to be in New York? Hey, dude, they gave him justice. Fields is their number QB1. Was that Aaron Glenn's call? This is not right. Justin Fields and Tarad Taylor? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Aaron Glenn could have kept Aaron Rogers. Aaron Rogers, could he have? Did he say no? I think he did. Okay. Well, that's fine. Aaron Rogers is not very good. I'm just saying, you can't. Okay. The 40-year-old who barely played and wasn't very good. Just throwing out there.

Oh, I got you threw away a Hall of Famer. Wait a minute. in his prime and his team is five and one. Just saying the Steelers? Yeah. Oh, okay. Maybe they're an off week. Okay, yeah, they beat the Browns.

Yeah, but I'm just saying they beat the Browns and the Vikings without their quarterback. Patriots is a good win, actually. Patriots are looking kind of good. Yeah, they are. And the Jets. With my final with my fantasy quarterback. Let's go.

Oh, my gosh. I mean, we're keeping a buck right now. We ask. Thank you, Brian Kelly. Seriously, why is Mike McDaniels to the coach there? I mean, they keep losing a lot of close games, Matt. They're close. Is that what it is?

Yes. Okay, that seems fair. I don't know. This is Brian Callahan. Okay, no, this is his second year there. That's right. He's done. Oh, he was there last year.

I thought he was the first year coach. He and 14 last year. Ooh, Lordy. Amy Cronk-strunk doing her thing. Suckers. I love rooting against the Titans. As their former older fan, I hope they lose every game for the rest of their lives.

Good. Yeah, that's right. They fired their GM in the offseason. And got rid of their immediate relations person, too. Oh, really? Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah, it's anecdotal.

All right, final hour of the Matt Thomas show. You can't spin us into looking like a good team? No, again. No more PR. Yeah, no more PR. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We've not heard from some folks in a little while, so if you want to chime on anything,

whether it be is Archback. But was that being a D when I said, Texas blank, blank, dot, dot, dot on my Twitter. I'm not worried about you. Are you sure? I told you. I will not say Texas is back until they win a literal national championship. Ooh, so they'll never be back until that happens.

Is that what you're saying? You will not hear me say it. I'll put it that way. Really? Okay. Okay. Yeah, you're not back until you win it all, baby. Let's go.

Expectation levels are high. So going to the Alamo Bowl for the seventh time in the last eight years will not be going back. That's not true, Matt. They were in the semifinal two back-to-back-to-back. years. Okay. Shut your bum ass up. My bad. I'm on Sports Talk 790. Now look, I'm going to be jetting a couple of times

over the next few months, a little early, and one of those days is today. Oh, I'm sorry, was my mic on? Thoughts and prayers to me or to you? Yeah. Okay. To everyone. Look, when I leave a jettison at one or one, today I'm saying an extra second because I'm going to be able to get to the airport in relatively

decent time. Oh, really? I mean, I could have loved now, but I wanted to hang with you one more second. I appreciate you, Maddie. I want you to call Ross. Yes. Take shots at me if necessary. We could do that. It's all for the bit of the show. I will be liberally plugging my Instagram at Sports RV every time you're gone. I just want to let you know. Well, okay. So can I get my last plug out of the way for today? Are you serious? Let me see. I told you I started the day at 2950. I am right now at 2959. I got nine new ones today.

You did? Yeah. Oh, this is pissing me off. Why are you mad? Why are you mad, bro? You know why? Because I started promoting my Instagram. You didn't say a word about having an account for years and years and years. Then I start bringing them up mine and then you have to start pimping yours. It's ridiculous. Yeah. You know, you're shameless, quite frankly.

These are all accurate terms. So follow at SportsMT. All right. Headlines. Mention Monday Night Games. Your Texas Longhorns, that's a headline. Can I do this? Can I...

What's up? I'm going to the airport, okay? Can I... Look, Aggie fans call... It's really Aggie Doug, but there have been Aggie fans that have called over the years. Bitching and moaning are happy.

Okay? I got a Red Raider fan that will come after me. Which for no reason, because my oldest went there. By the way, he's got a big job interview today. Good luck to him. Oh, wow. Good look.

Good look. Watch this. Wish into the best? You put in a good word for him? I don't know that anybody with this group. Oh, wow. It's even better. It's probably for the best.

It's probably for the best. you. What's I going with? I don't know. I fight with LSU fans of California with Gordy. Texas fans just don't ever come on the audio radio streets. I was Scott called to bitch

at me last week. I don't remember what I did wrong. You were criticizing Archmanning too bad, I think. Oh, that's right. You were too tough on Arch. Hey, Arch was, oh, he'd been so fantastic all season long. My point is this, best game of the season considering the circumstances. I want to hear in the next couple of segments of my wake,

make my way to the airport. I want to hear some Texas fans come in and love. Y'all can do a little love fest. Okay, Longhorn Love Fest. Longhorn Love Fest. That would be good for our listenership. Well, I mean, we are the home of the Longhorns. That's true, actually.

I mean, look, the tag way on. The Texans don't play until next Monday, which is weird. The Astros haven't done anything except. Aggie's got a big win. Aggie? Those four de gators are pesky. That's a past me. Ooh, so we're going to do the six degrees of separation.

No, you don't. That doesn't work in college football. That means an A&M is going to beat that Texas ass. Well, the game is in Austin, though. It'll be a raucous, loud, drunk guy screaming at least one than I know of. We've got to start time for that yet? I don't think it's 6.30, yeah. I think it's a night.

Darryl K. Late November, 630 at night. It would be 60 degrees. It would be a Friday night? Oh, it's a Friday night? Oh, it's a Friday at Thanksgiving, right? Mm-hmm. We don't have a game that day.

We need to book those hotels. Let me text one. I will be there. There's no doubt. There was doubt about the OU game. I didn't go. There was no doubt. I will be at that game.

Well, okay. You already got your tickets or no? Yes. Who'd you get them from? That's none of your business. Why are you asking? Why are you always asking personal questions? You're the prior.

I think somebody's trying to cover it up, Jonathan. I'm trying to pry in on people. You know what? I'm an investigative reporter. Yeah. Sorry. You're the insider. You're the crowbar.

I'm an insider and an investigative reporter. There you go. Oh, real quick. You're a habitual line stepper. I want to tell you, Matt, for your daughter, because you know, you say NIL doesn't give for, like, nonprofit athletes. Yeah. I just got $50 for being an IL athlete back in track from 2020. That's what I'm talking about.

But I'm just saying, like, you should tell your daughter that you can still definitely, like, get, like, I was going to donate for her to promote sports RVs Instagram. You know what we could have done is we could have, I could have sold sponsorships in the Channel 2 and Channel 11 stories. You should have. She could have a word a patch. Yeah. What were you thinking? about me. That's my fault.

About you? She's still in high school. I guess they have high school. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, dang it. Missed opportunity. Dang it. By the way, I was at a football game and they, all the, they were running commercials with the athletes speaking for rudder rigger. I like you. What? Yeah, exactly. You're learning. Rudder rigger. By the way, did you see there's a Texans player that was getting

slammed for his in and not love over rudder rigger? Oh, my God. Well, people give it over. It's better. No, he's not. It's not. It's bad. It's better. Jonathan, it's better. I'm sorry. Houston, can you please call in? I'll scream you immediately.

No, no. We're not going to call in. This is a bias. No, we're doing Longhorn love the rest of the way. This is called, what do they call it? Sample, some kind of bias. Not recency. No.

Shush. Morgan Rick has always been better than the internet. I don't know where this came from. Sorry, wrong, you lose. Goodbye. Selection bias. That's what it is. That's when you go, when you say something from Texas and say,

I'll ask a bunch of people in Texas whether or not it's the best or not, you're going to have everyone in Texas, of course, is they're going to be homers. You're from Texas. Yeah, I know, but I'm called Objective. That's why you know you can come to me for objectivity. When it comes to sports, movies, food, I am Mr. Objective. As the Longhorns march towards the national championship this year with Arch Manning winning the Heisman. Wait, Matt, you agree with them?

Everything except the last thing he said. Of course, I was kidding about that last part. In and out's better. I'm Mr. Objective. Yeah, I like Waterberger. I like this. By the way, Waterburger, Waterburger, I got to use your biggest. You're being biased.

I do like you, Waterburger. It's good. Your drive-thru lines way too long. Sorry, I just said it. You know what? It's a redrop. Goodbye. See, but that's another thing.

I can say one thing's better than the other and like both. It's okay. I like chocolate. I like vanilla. Hey, go ahead. I like Coke and Pepsi. Oh, well, now you're a great day. I'll talk to you tomorrow from Birmingham.

Yeah, but you hate Dr. Pepper, which is why. You know what to do. Every segment you're gone, I'm going to be talking about how you're not Mr. Texas and plugging my Instagram. Mr. Texas is driving on the Texas roads. Get this out of here. You're not going to the Texas road. You're going to fly.

You're going to like Birmingham or something. All right. Anyways, I am Mr. Unbiased. Oh, here. You coming back again? No. I thought he was coming back to the microphone. Matt keeps packing up.

Matt is gone. All right. Oh, here we see. Here he comes. Sports empty and Instagram. No, follow. Don't do that. Follow Sports RV on Instagram

If you want actual content Oh Matt actually is putting up content So I'm actually happy for him I know I'm proud of you I'm proud of you I gave it a like I gave it a like Anyways what were we talking about All right Matt Thomas is gone

You want to talk about anything We got the big college football weekend Nice win by the Aggies They are in the top five in the country You have the Longhorns bouncing back Arch Manning How we're feeling about him As a quarterback big NFL weekend as well

A lot of storylines I mean James Franklin was fired You have NFL storylines to get to as well. Anything you guys want to get to, you can. A couple of segments without Matt Thomas. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross, but without Matt Thomas, as I said, y'all can get in 713-213-5-790.

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Recent news, Brian Callahan, Tennessee Titans coach, fired after a 1-and-5 start. And also somebody pointing this out, I think it was awful announcing. literally about an hour ago on the Pat McAfee show on ESPN. You had Adam Schaefter saying he doesn't think that Brian Callahan is going to be fired.

Well, an hour later, something changed. Don't know what happened. And also, it kind of doesn't make sense to me that if you're going to pay the guy to coach why you would toss him out this early in the season, it's not like the Titans think that they're going to be able to rally around this and make the playoffs or anything like that. But Brian Callahan out somewhat.

unexpected, but not that unexpected. Like I said, just a couple of things that he said just didn't seem like he was the smartest guy ever to me. But he is out. Anything you guys want to get to, of course, mention the college football weekend, the NFL weekend as well. Texans not playing the Seahawks until Monday night. 713-212-5-790. And somehow, some way, we got on Burger Talk as to happens on this show.

Bonnie Joe was saying to me, she is from Texas. and a native Texan, but still going with Whataburger over in and out. And that's okay. Thank you, you, you're a Californian, Jonathan. Now, how long did you live in California? So my mother. Break it down for me. There's not that many years because you're very young.

All right, you got to get older and wiser and a little bit of seasoning. So I tell you, I have very lot of experience with this. My grandpa was a UCLA Bruin football player. But I'm talking about where you live. I'm talking about your whole family lineage. I live in England until five. Okay. And then I moved to Texas.

Okay. So you're really a Texan. Yes. I'm really in Texas, but my family is really, you know, from California. You get what I'm saying? All right. I know the war. You get on me?

Yes. Okay. And then you went to, you were in Kentucky for a while. I don't know what kind of burger joints they got over there in Kentucky. Dude, like a chicken shack. Oh, shake-shack? Shake-shack's good. It's okay.

It's all right. People from New York and the northeast will say shake-shack. Oh, White Castle is horrible. They all said that over there by the line. Oh, it's so bad. So bad. All right. Somehow we got on Burger Talk and Steve wanted to get in on that.

that. What's up, Steve? Hey, now compare and contrast a Champ Burger that you and Jonathan went to, I think that the other day, and in and out. Now, see, that's these kind of different categories, because one is kind of like a, to me,

it's a drive-through fast food joint is different than like a burger stand, certainly like a home style. I'd probably go Champ Burger in that instance, but also it costs more. Yeah. And then the place that we went to... Chant burger? Yes. Champ burger costs more? Oh.

really? I think. No. Really? Oh, yeah. I was surprised. Actually, yeah, you're right, Ross. Yeah, I had a double, double down. This is also you get the off-the-off menu. I get the double-double mustard fried with the onions. And then I get the

fries. Actually, somebody gave me this tip, this, this, this, a friend of mine that lives in California, you can get the fries well done, but you can also get them light well done, which is pretty good as well. Because the fry, if you want to argue fries, I'm with you guys. and out fries are terrible.

But if you're going by the burger for burger, I'm talking about only burger. Don't shake your head. All right. We're not talking about chicken fingers. No, it's called What a Burger. It's not called What a Fries. Okay?

It's called In and Out Burger. Not In and Out fries. So when we're arguing burgers, I go in and out. You want to go for the whole restaurant, then it's What a burger. That's a different conversation. That's all I'm saying.

Okay. Well, now, I've never been to, I've yet to go to an In-N-Out, but I just think Waterburger is just... Wait a minute. Oh, you think it's bleh? But Waterburger, yeah.

I've never thought Waterburger is any good. I said, Johnnie to throw hands right now, Steve. Jonathan wants to throw hands right now, Steve. How do you feel about that? I can't believe it. He said Burger talking. He's dissing me. I can't believe this.

It's just... Well, the thing I... Okay. The problem with the Waterburger, in my opinion, is it's a horrible road burger. because they dice up the onions, right? Oh, so you can't eat it on the road? Exactly.

Right. Oh, right. He's making a valid point. Don't they dice up the onions, basically? Where I guess maybe Wendy's doesn't? No, you got rings at... It's the rings, yeah. Maybe if they would...

But the other thing about the waterburger, man, when you eat that water burger in your car, that water burger sent it there. Oh, yeah. So what? Yeah, you should pay for another spray can, Steve. Steve, you should be thanking them. No.

Look, here's the thing. You should be. I do not want my car smelling like a water burger. I don't know how many. I just don't get all this waterburger love that and I don't get the, the, the, where are you from, Steve? The rookie, the rookies love. All right.

Where are you, Steve, we're going to kick you out of the state. Where are you from? You should, you should run for Mr. I'm in native Eustonia. You should run for Mr. Texas with Matt with takes like that. You don't like, you don't like, you don't like, Ruckies and you don't like Rutter Ruger? Well, I don't get that.

Tell me, I went to the Ruckies and I've been. And I think I walk around and I think, what is the deal? Why do you think... Okay. First and foremost, we'll start. Did you go back in the day? Would you went recently or did you go back in the day before they got super commercial and huge?

Oh, no. I went within the last year. How about that? Okay. I will say to me, it's certainly more commercialized first now, but... But first and foremost, it's a clean bathroom on a road trip. And if you've been on Texas road trip, Steve, you know it's not always easy to find a clean bathroom. You get some guy who's giving you some key and it's on a hubcap and you go to this place and there's like crack pipes and meth stuff.

And it's like, you know, stuff, you don't even want to know what's splattered all over the walls in there. And you're like, this is not great. So first and foremost, the Ruckies is a great place for a pit stop, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah, no, I understand. Yeah. But other than, but that's not what, what is it, but it's almost what I don't get the, the draw of other than the bathroom, which I get. Yes. It's just like a huge convenience.

Yeah, exactly. Well, you're saying that's a bad thing. You, okay, where else are you going to stop for the cleanest bathrooms in the state? You're going to get a barbecue sandwich. You're going to get a slice of peanut butter fudge, a couple of collageysys and a breakfast taco and some Rockies nuggets and send it go on your way. Now, of course, that's going to cost you about $85. Yeah, right.

Exactly right. See, now it's pretty commercial. I thank you, Steve. Appreciate you making the call. Thank you for getting it. Now it's much more commercialized than it was and much more expensive. It used to be like you get in there, you get a chopped beef sandwich and some some nuggets, and then you get a very clean bathroom and you're out of there for like

15 bucks. Now it's much more expensive. They have all the knickknacks and stuff like that. Like, they're trying to sell you. you like a $3,000 drum meat smokers and stuff like that. It's a little out of control now for sure. But certainly the appeal to me starts with the bathrooms. And then they have a bunch of really good stuff for you to eat.

But now it's really expensive. And quite frankly, it's a little bit too much when they make them. They're giant now. It's kind of absurd. Just saying. I'm not saying they jumped the shark. Just saying it's not what it once was. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number if you want to get in 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90

Stephen in the Heights next up on the phone lines what's up Stephen hold on I'm having I got to say hey Ross yeah go ahead I got to say Matt Thomas is not Mr. Texas all the day already he he doesn't understand barbecue well enough number one yes that that you know and if you go to Texas is if you come here, you've got to try Texas barbecue. Absolutely. He doesn't like bris.

We go to barbecue places and he doesn't order brisket. I mean, come on, man. So what's, you know, he's not, you can't, that disqualifies you automatically. Agreed. You know. So next I wanted to say, you're right, in and out is better than Waterburger. I agree on the fries. My only thing is, the only thing I would take better than in and out at Waterberger is like the patty melt.

But otherwise, I'll go to in and out every day of the week. But if one burger is quantifying your, if one burger is quantifying your whole menu, then your menu is terrible. Yes. And it's not always available. It's a limited time offer. Right. Okay.

And then the next thing I was going to say is you of age football may not win another conference game this season. Okay. Well, I can't speak to that. But. And you've got to tell Chris Gordy to put Jordan. Tyson on his Belinda Cov watch list. Okay. I will tell him. Okay. Jordan Tice?

Or Tyson? Tyson from Arizona State. Okay. Thank you. Oh, this is, is this, uh, that's Arizona State, Stephen. Did you hang up on him? Was that you, Jonathan? I thought he was that. That's my bad.

I thought he was done. I thought he was done. I thought he was that. All right. There was a vote for in and out over what. You got two callers came in and, and went against you, Jonathan. You know, to ignore my pain right now, you know the barbecue spot in Madisonville called Rudy's?

Rudy's? Woodies, really. Woodies? No, I'm not familiar with them. Why? You haven't been there? Because Fred was just talking about good barbecue spots you need to go to. And I used to go there all the time going down to Houston and Dallas.

Y'all haven't been there before. Y'all should. Okay. Wow. There you go. Jonathan with the plus. A whole segment with Texas food. Texas food.

All right. We're going to take a break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. You know what? if you want to just go ahead and call in and say that Matt Thomas is not Mr. Texas, I'll take those calls if you like. Anything guys want to get to? Somehow we ended up talking burgers. We're talking some college football. We've got NFL stuff to get to as well. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. The Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas with you until 2 o'clock.

Matt Thomas Show with Ross continuing here on Sports Talk 790. 713-2125790. The phone number, if you'd like to get in, 713-212-5-7-90. Somehow ended up on some burger talk in the last couple of semagasy segments. How did that even come up initially, Jonathan? I want to blame Matt. I think one of you guys brought up in and out being better than Waterburger, and I was like, no. And that's when you got very upset.

Yeah. And then everyone called in and they told you you were wrong. Not everything. How do you feel about that? That's okay. They just hate me a little bit. It's okay. No, nobody hates you, Jonathan.

Everybody loves you. Everybody thinks you're great. Yeah, whatever. Whatever. I'm telling you, we go out in the road. We get a lot of compliments for Jonathan. Injecting a little youth into this show. Much needed.

And they should have said Waterberg if they want it. You know what? I'm not going to screen. I'm going to remove those callers too. No, you're not. Well, both of them were named Stephen. I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right. 713-21-2-5-7-9 to the phone number if you want to get in 7-13-21-2-5-7-9 we had the Arizona State fan stumping for his guy we had Chris Gordy on earlier we were talking about the whole Kirby smart situation if you missed that with him trying to call for a timeout a lot of college football stuff going on and thankfully my Texas Longhorns getting the victory over the Oklahoma Sooners really for my own mental health and just for my confidence in being able to walk the planet. Okay, maybe that's a little bit of an oversell. But 23 to 6,

the win for the Longhorns. And, you know, there's if you look at the final stats, and I think Gordy was kind of hinting that as well. Like, oh, Arch Manning is over there, waving by-bye to the crowd. Yes, he did run for, it was a 29-yard run that was basically

ice in the game, and he waved by to the crowd, and he only got 166 yards. But Archmanning did, basically, he didn't have to will the Longhorns to a win. And right now where he is in his career, that's basically what he needs to be asked to do. If he has to put the team on his shoulders and he has to go out there and win a game, he doesn't have that capability. And really didn't see that routinely from Quinn Ewers in the last couple of years, who unfortunately was like this five-star all-world, no doubt about it, quarterback.

And that's what Arch Manning was supposed to be. That's why it's funny when people like, what is going on with the recruiting services? What happened? I thought there was a can't miss quarterback. Yeah, Quinn yours was supposed to be a can't miss quarterback. Dude was a seven-rounder, seventh rounder. Before that, I mean, we can go back to the Garrett Gilbert's of the world.

Five-star can't-miss quarterback. And, well, he didn't end up being much of anything either. I think he knocked around briefly in the NFL as a backup. But, yeah, there are five-star can't-miss, no doubt about it, quarterbacks who don't work out. And right now, maybe. Yards can improve. And everything around him was better in that

Oklahoma game. That's why he was able to thrive to the level that he did. Again, not that he put the team on his back. They scored seven from the punt return. 16 on the offense. A lot of drive stalling out. Missed a couple of field goals as well, but they were really long ones, which by the way,

I am encouraged by the, at Texas kicker, Mason Shipley. He's a dog. He was short on the 55-yarder, which I have. I think they should have gone for. Was it like fourth and three there? Yeah, fourth and four.

Yeah, I like Mason Shipley. He doinked the 52-yarder, but that was like at the top of the upright. That bad boy could have gone from 60. It almost banked in, honestly. It almost banked in. And I think the thing UT is just missing is their office. Like three phases of the game, their offense is just lackluster. Their special teams and their defense is just absurd.

I have to give them respect. I was watching that game and I was generally surprised. Yeah, on the road in Florida, there were breakdowns and protection. They couldn't get anything going on. the running game and then yeah Arch Manning is not a quarterback who's just going to win the game for you. I know it's all the Heisman hype and all that type of stuff which again I'll go back to.

Arch Manning wasn't going in front of microphones and saying guys make me number one for the Heisman. I'm ready to take over the reins. He was like I got to go out there and prove it. That's what he was saying. But what happened that weekend and that game in Dallas is basically the formula.

Great defense. Maybe some special team plays for some turnovers. Run game with Contravean Weisner was actually working. He had the long 37-yarder, but he was getting some chunk play, five, six, seven, eight-yard runs where a lot of times he was, he was down the field two yards before getting contact. And before in the Florida game, and especially in the Ohio State game, it was just, the run game had nothing going. And what happened to Wingo? I thought last year he was this dog that was going to be, you know, is just because Arch isn't, you know, giving him the ball?

That's part of it. He loves Parker Livingstone. They also get some run with the tight ends as well. Ryan Wingo's good, but it's not like he's incredible. And also Arch Manning had been running for his life a lot of the game. And I will also say this. Most of the plays that Arch Manning was able to make. We talked about the third down was third and seven. They're basically at their own end zone. That was a big one to get a big chunk play. I think was that play to Ryan Wingo. I can't remember on the right side. I think that was living. Or maybe it was Livingstone. But either way, the big play that he made a couple of big plays. I would like to see him make more plays within the rhythm of the offense, where it's, you know, a three-step drop, five-step

drop, boom, first second read, find the guys and not necessarily scramble. That's good that he has that mobility, that he can show the legs a little bit, get that 20-yard run, make some plays off schedule, find guys in scramble drills and stuff like that. I would like to see a little bit more within the rhythm of the offense because that has been one of the knocks on him, is that he's kind of a first-read guy, first read isn't there, start scrambling around, And you can make plays like that, and that's great. But what NFL scouts want to see, and that's not necessarily relevant to the college game

and what they want to see. There are college quarterbacks who can make plays off schedule, and that's great. So he can at least show that ability. I would like to see a little bit more. And I think that's one of the reasons that Quinn Ewers was starting over Arch Manning last year. And one of the things that I talked about a lot, it's like, yeah, if he's so good, why couldn't he pass up Quinn Ewers?

Because Quinn Ewers was playing a little bit better within the rhythm the offense, he just would miss some throws. The accuracy issue is there. And you saw, did you see, I don't know how much of the game you watch out of it? Did you see him kind of like wrenching his arm? I'm talking about me? Almost like, yeah, like he was pumping it up with like a, like a, what do you call it? Air pump.

I told you, the Florida game, when I saw it wrapped, I was like, okay, and I came, you know, his shoulder's been wrapped. There's the video of him wincing. I'm wondering if, because he had a little extra zip on the ball. Yeah, I would like to talk to like people. who break down college football film because I'm just more of a casual watcher of the college football game. It seemed like there was some tight,

like he'd been throwing a lot of dead ducks, especially in Florida, a lot of wobblers, a lot of dead ducks, a lot of like a lot of Colt McCoy specials out there. He had a little show a little zip a couple of times in that game with some tight spirals. So I wonder if maybe there was some sort of injury of the start of the season

and maybe he's getting a little healthier. Or is that something you say he has a bad game, he's hurt. He has a good game. He's healthy. So I don't know. What's their next game coming up? That'll be at Kentucky this weekend. There are a 10 and a half point favorite against Kentucky. Winnable games coming up. You have at Kentucky, at Mississippi State, then you're home for Vanderbilt,

then at Georgia, home for Arkansas, home for Texas A&M. That's the rest of the schedule right now. Winnable games, baby. Winnable games. At Georgia. home for A&M. Obviously, the two biggest tests. Home for Vanderbilt isn't going to be any, you know, nothing to sneeze at either. We know the quarterback over there, Diego Pavia, has been very good the last couple of years for the Vanderbilt Commodore.

So we'll see what happens in those games. All right, we're going to take another break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. You guys want to get in, you can't. 713-212-5-790s. Oh, man, Trevor Mock, even talking about his brother, Chance Mock, Woodlands, five-star quarterback can't miss. Yeah, and then V-Wy-Wy. I showed up. Sorry, Trevor, but we always remember fondly that comeback against Texas Tech. We shall not forget. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number if you want to get in.

7-1-3-212-5-790. Final segment of the Matt Thomas show with Ross coming up next here on Sports Talk 790. 1.47 p.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Ross v. We are we out with you? Final segment of the show without Matt Thomas. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross, but without that guy. He had to duck out early. He is getting on the Rockets plane. They are going to be in some preseason action. I think, did he say, I'm going to be honest.

I kind of zoned out. They're going to be in Birmingham, right? Yeah, he's in. Birmingham and then Atlanta, I think, for the Rockets preseason. I don't know how much everybody's going to play. But in a general sense, the Rockets under Coach Udocha have taken the preseason pretty seriously. I was at that game on Wednesday against it's the Utah Jazz. It's the preseason.

There's like two minutes left before half. And Yonka's like, nope, time out. We've got to start chewing everybody out because Utah Jazz scored a couple of buckets. They take it very seriously. Or at least under Coach Udoka, they take it very seriously. It's listed as a Rockets home game, but it's versus the Pelicans in Birmingham, Alabama. I guess we'll call that a neutral site game. And then they have a game against the Atlanta Hawks.

And then real games begin October 21st. Rockets involved in the Ring Night for the Oklahoma City Thunder. They're hoping to spoil ring night. That game will be on NBC and Peacock, a 630 start here on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number if you want to get in.

7-13-212-5-7-90. Larry and New Orleans has gotten in. What's going on in Nola, Larry? Hey, Ross. Thanks for having me on second time. A couple things, but real quick. The hamburger, I think a lot of it is what you grow up with. I know like Waterburger.

I lived in Houston a long time, lived all over, lived in California. The Waterburger, to me, the onions, I didn't like that at all. I never tried it again. But any list doesn't have in and out either at the top or two. Or maybe at the lowest three. I heard a list last week that had five guys but didn't have in and out on it. So I don't, you know, I remember what that was a lot. To me, five guys is a different category as well.

It's not a drive-through joint. It's a fast casual. And then you walk out. You get fries and a burger there and you drop about $23. Make it 50. Yeah. Yeah, I think it and I think it was, you know, it's kind of like maybe it's an upscale of in and out. Fast casual.

I would call it fast casual. Yeah, that's, yeah. So the, the arch thing, I've been living in over here in New Orleans for, you know, often on 20 years. The one thing in the back of my mind when the whole arch thing started was there must, you almost had somebody over here that raised the flag of him playing not at the top. flight competition level. And, you know, was it just, was it just an overreaction to the Manning name, which we all love and respect over here? And it's just such a great family.

But there must have been somebody over here that said, you know, you need to wait and see. He, you know, he hasn't really played that, that high level 5A competition over here. Was there somebody that raised the flag over there? A number of people have said that, talking about the level of competition that he faced, even though, of course, it was the same school and same competition that Eli and Peyton went up against. A lot of guys who come out of there. Yeah, Odell Beckham, Jr., I think, is one of the famous, yeah, Odell Beckham, Jr.

and then the Manning brothers, and then I guess anybody with the last name Manning at this point. Yeah, it's, you know, it's, you know, it's just one of those overreactions. But anyway, thanks for taking the call. I'll call back some time. Thank you, Larry. Appreciate it. Yeah, I don't think, I think if you've got the talent, you've got the talent, and then you'll figure it out.

But maybe there is an adjustment period. Maybe there is, I mean, Arch Manning this past weekend looked about as good as he had. And, but he wasn't looking good against San Jose. Didn't look super great against U-Tap. And then Sam Houston. I mean, my goodness. Although I do say, Sam Houston State, the best O-N-6 team in football. Okay.

just making that up. No, they've been getting their ass kicked by everybody. They just lost a Jacksonville State. Ooh, man, Bearcats, what happened, man? They want to go to FBS so bad. Beautiful. Oh, and six. Woo.

All right, anyways. So, yeah, look, to me, first and foremost, five-star quarterbacks, no doubt about it, can't miss five-star quarterbacks are not. No doubt about it, can't miss quarterbacks. Was there extra hype because of his last name? in all likelihood. Could it be social media as well? Social media hiked him up?

Yeah, it's not his social media. I think he's tweeted a couple of times. No, not him, but like, yeah, yeah. His first tweet was like, I'm committing to Texas, and then he had a couple more with like some sponsors that he's had. Talking about Arch Manning. But yes, the social media age. You had Paul Feinbaum in the offseason

was calling him like the most talented quarterback that we've ever seen in college football since Tim Tebow. Like, what are you talking about? That's ridiculous. go through any number of great quarterbacks. I don't know. Baker Mayfield, who's been the best college football quarterbacks in the last over? Jaden Daniels was great.

Caleb Williams. Oh, Cam Newton. What a beast he was. Yeah, we can go on and on and on the list. And for a guy who had only made a couple of starts, and again, I will keep coming back to, could not pass Quinn Ewer's on the debt chart, despite Quinn Ewer's getting benched.

What was in that first Georgia game, I think? He got benched at the end of the end. the second half or the first half and then the second half he didn't really show much and they went back to Quinn Ewers. They were looking for a little spark, a little life, a little show me something and he didn't seize the opportunity. Now of course it was a

small sample size and all that type of stuff, but he can continue to build and get better. He's going to need the team around him to be great as well. Defense was incredible. Pass rush was very good. Secondary got Malik Mohamed back and he got a couple of picks as well. So, I mean, you add it all up.

The Longhorns, which unfortunately has been the M.O. the last couple years, get enough from your defense, or sorry, excuse me, get enough from your offense while the defense holds everything down and don't make mistakes, don't turn the ball over. Longhorn didn't turn the ball over. They got three of them.

They won the game 23 to 6. Very simple. That's kind of funny when you think of, Sark is supposed to be this, you know, tempo and offense and great play caller, inventive football mind. that's a couple years, just been like, oh my God, I hope our defense can hold this because we are not doing anything offensively. Well, last year, you even saw the Texas offense have that tempo, even late into the playoffs and stuff, even with 10 years, you know, like he was going boom, boom, boom, first down, first down.

In the big games, especially like Ohio State and then the Georgia games, it felt to me like Sark played more not to lose. But also, I mean, even though you had both of your tackles were draft. Kelvin Banks was in the first round, and then his name is escaping me. it was a second rounder as well. Both of your tackles got drafted in the top, and they were still playing scared, and they still didn't get much from the run game. Hopefully, C.J. Baxter can get back.

I think he can be an X-Factor running back, and I saw a lot from Quintravean Wisner in this last game as well, where he was, sometimes he was not getting hit until he was a couple yards down the field, and he was making six, seven, eight-yard runs, but a lot of times he was making his own yards. So me personally, color me encouraged by the nice win

over the Oklahoma Sooners. All right, that's going to do it for the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. My name is Ross Vireel. Thanks to all of you for listening. I really do appreciate it. Thanks for those you called, tweeted, got involved in the show directly, and followed me at SportsRV on Instagram. Thanks to Jonathan Allen, produced, do it a great job. As always, Matt Thomas will be back from Birmingham tomorrow. Right now you get not only one Adam, it's two Adams. They call themselves the A team.

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