Will Cain Country - What Four College Football Teams Will Take Advantage Of Realignment Turmoil?

Episode Date: July 12, 2024

Story #1: These four college football programs will capitalize on realignment. Hint: the common thread is the letter O! Story #2: Guys being dudes and telling the truth: Mike Gundy & Novak Djokovic.... Story #3: Malice at Copa! Uruguay goes into the stands. Did sports in America used to be more like this? Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing WillCainShow@fox.com   Subscribe to The Will Cain Show on YouTube here: Watch The Will Cain Show!   Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:33 We'll bring you sound from the world of tennis. But to balance it all out, we're going to bring you the mullet. Mike Gundy, but let's start with the four college football programs set to capitalize on the new world order. Story number one. It's a brand new world in college football. We have conference realignment with USC and Oregon. UCLA and Washington joining the Big Ten. with Texas and Oklahoma joining the SEC, and the likes of SMU joining the ACC.
Starting point is 00:02:07 This is the ACC threatens to implode with perhaps Florida State and Clemson, heading off to greener pastures. And on top of that, we move into the era of the 12-team playoff. If that's not enough, for the licing on your cake, we now are knee-deep in the world of NIL. College football is changing dramatically underneath our feet. And I think there are four programs set to benefit the most from this new world order. We are in the dog days of sports. That is, I guess, unless you're in to soccer, and I am.
Starting point is 00:02:42 So we're set for an England, Spain final in the Euros while we see Argentina and Colombia heading toward a final in the Copa. And we'll get into soccer a little bit later here on the Wilcane show. But when you're in the dog days of summer, when you're in the dog days of sports, you've got to consider the ways to fill your time. And I'm going to do something that I rarely do, which I think I'm going to go all in. I think I'm going to double down on a video game.
Starting point is 00:03:09 I think I'm going to go in on EA's college football 25. There's really only one video game in my rotation right now, and that's FIFA, soccer. I like to play it with my boys. I know how I'm competent enough that I win enough to then talk trash and have debates. You know, I mean, like, I'm not good enough to where I dominate. And I'm not even sure I'm good enough that I win a majority of the time.
Starting point is 00:03:38 But I win enough, you know, that it's a fun thing to do, both before and after the game, talk trash, and then have a competitive game during. I wish I played NBA 2K, and I let Madden go several years ago. But I think I'm going to go in on EA's College Football 25, which releases this week. and the player ratings are out. Shadour Sanders is the top quarterback in college football, according to EA. He's just ahead of Georgia's Carson Beck and then on a slightly higher level than Texas quarterback, Quinn Ewers. He's not.
Starting point is 00:04:14 Shadour Sanders is not the best quarterback in the country. He is somebody that's going to help them sell video games. I mean, they need Colorado to be good. And Colorado having a high-powered offense is something that's going to be fun for people to play. play with, I might be choosing when I'm not playing with Texas, which will be most of the time. I might play with Kansas. Jalen Daniels, who I think has the highest running score of a quarterback. And I'm going to guess in EA College Football 25, you need a dual-threat quarterback. So I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up playing with some Kansas.
Starting point is 00:04:48 Travis Hunter, Colorado's DB and wide receiver, rated high. I think he's a 94, a 95 on the game, so he'll be one of the players that you want to play with. So outside the video game, you start looking how to get ready for a new world of college football with all of those conference re-alignment and 12-team playoff. And I thought, I'm going to give you my four teams, my four programs that I think are set to benefit the most from all of this change, from this new world order. And there is a theme. It is the letter O.
Starting point is 00:05:19 So who stands to benefit the most? I'm going to start in the Big Ten with Oregon. I think of the teams joining the Big Ten, Oregon is best set to come into a new conference, if not dominate, compete at the highest levels, and make themselves an annual participant in the 12-team playoff. I think coming into the Big Ten, there's really only one program that has a foot up on Oregon, and that is Ohio State. Look, Michigan has only been good for a couple of years now. The Michigan of prior to the past three to five years was a disappointment who couldn't beat Ohio State. And now they've lost Jim Harbaugh, I don't have any real confidence that Michigan's going to
Starting point is 00:06:05 stay there at the top of the Big Ten. And Penn State just hasn't broken through. Hasn't broken through until on that same level of not just Ohio State, but on the same level as Michigan. But here comes Oregon into the conference. And I think it's interesting that Oregon is actually set to dominate. the four pack 12 teams
Starting point is 00:06:26 heading to the new conference. I know this is a year coming off Washington being in the national championship game and everyone loves the idea of Lincoln Riley at USC. But I'll just tell you this
Starting point is 00:06:35 as a Texan as someone who keeps up with college football recruiting on a daily basis. I see Texas kids. I see virtually none of the top recruits in Texas being a top
Starting point is 00:06:49 three state in high school football with Florida and California. California. None headed to USC. None. In fact, Texas is pulling from California more than I can see those California schools pulling top talent from Texas. But I see Oregon a threat every year. Oregon just took the number one 2025 wide receiver recruit in the nation. And he might be the number one overall recruit in the nation. He's a receiver from Texas named Decorian Moore. And I thought for sure he was headed to Texas. He just committed to Oregon.
Starting point is 00:07:24 Now, there's a long road between now and commitment day, so we'll see where that goes. But I've seen this over and over. Oregon, if they're listed among recruits, top five programs, is a real threat nationally. And I think Oregon is set to come in and put themselves in a position ahead of Michigan and Penn State. They got Dylan Gabriel as their quarterback for this inaugural year transfer from Oklahoma. They've got stud five-star recruits, by the way, transferred in. and recruited directly, right behind Dylan Gabriel. They keep adding talent.
Starting point is 00:07:58 And I think in this world where you can expect the Big Ten to annually put at least two teams in the college football playoffs, you're looking at Oregon being one of the biggest beneficiaries of this new world order. Let's stay in the Big Ten. I think another beneficiary is the one team ahead of Oregon, staying with the letter O. Ohio State. Listen to this stat from the Athletic. only once in the past 19 seasons have the Buckeyes lost more than two regular season games. So almost 20 years of two losses or less.
Starting point is 00:08:34 And that means they would have made the 12-team playoff in all but one of 19 years. And if they're in a 12-team playoff, they probably pull off an extra national title or two, according to the athletic. I think Ohio State is going to dominate the Big Ten. Same thing with recruiting. Ohio State is the program, and I would say at this point, more than even Alabama, certainly more than Georgia, that comes into the state of Texas and pulls big-time recruits. I believe right now, if you look at the top 10 recruits in the state of Texas, two are going to Ohio State, two are going to Oregon for 2025.
Starting point is 00:09:15 I don't think a single top 10 is committed at the University of Texas. and this is fresh off coming off a college football playoff semi-final appearance. This is with Steve Sarkeesian, clearly having Texas, on the right path. Ohio State is a national player, not just for recruits, but for transfers, always. Wide receivers, quarterbacks year after year. I think we're set up for at least a half a decade, perhaps a decade, of Ohio State becoming the next Alabama, the next Georgia. dominating college football. Let's stay with the letter O.
Starting point is 00:09:52 My next, my third team, set to take advantage of this new world odor is a program where you have to go to the Big 12. And it's Oklahoma State. Here's my rationale. Someone is going to come out of the Big 12. Some program is going to get a path to the college football playoff. Who's that going to be?
Starting point is 00:10:13 Let's just run through the programs really quickly in the Big 12. BYU, the athletic, by the way, thinks that BYU is set to be a beneficiary. I don't think so. What's the BYU's recruiting base? California? Utah? Cincinnati. No.
Starting point is 00:10:31 Cincinnati's competing against Michigan and Ohio State and Penn State in that area of the country for recruits. I don't see Cincinnati being somebody who on an annual basis is going to be winning the Big 12 and going to the college football playoff. UCF, Baylor, Houston, Kansas State. I do think that some program is going to benefit from Texas and Oklahoma leaving the Big 12 and thus, to some extent, inheriting a recruiting base for that conference. I think most of the big recruits from Texas in this area will still go to Texas, Texas, A&M, Oklahoma, and go play in the SEC. But somebody's going to emerge in that region and have an argument to recruits,
Starting point is 00:11:10 we put you in the playoffs on a regular basis. Now, is that going to be Texas Tech? going to be Baylor? Is that going to be TCU? I have my doubts. Because here's what I think is going to happen. And here's a hint at my fourth pick into this beneficiary programs. I don't have anybody from the SEC. No Texas, no Georgia, no Alabama. Because I think it's going to be too deep and too competitive. I think the new look SEC is going to be problematic. I still think they're going to get two, maybe three teams into the playoff every year. But it's going to be a rotation. It's not going to be any one every year. There's too much.
Starting point is 00:11:45 any good programs. And I think one of the teams that could be hurt the most is Oklahoma. I think Oklahoma could be hurt more so than Texas by going to the SEC. Why? Because Oklahoma has won a conference championship, I think, like, half of their existence in the Big 8 and the Big 12. That ain't going to happen in the SEC. That's been putting them into the conversation for college football playoffs,
Starting point is 00:12:11 or back in the day the BCS. now, even if they are a top third program, and a top quarter program in the SEC, that's not going to put them in the playoff on an annual basis. And if Oklahoma loses that argument, they lose their recruiting pool into Texas in this area. And someone's going to benefit. Someone's going to benefit from neither of those programs playing the Big 12.
Starting point is 00:12:40 Someone's going to benefit from some program being in this hotbed of recruiting by default, if nothing else, being at the top of the Big 12. And someone's going to benefit from Oklahoma's fault, even if it's only slight. My argument to you is my pick for being that beneficiary in the Big 12 is Oklahoma State. And finally, my fourth team, my fourth program, to benefit from this new world order of college football. Perhaps the biggest beneficiary. is not cutely a program that also starts with the letter O, but it is over into the SEC.
Starting point is 00:13:20 And it is somebody that I think, I know I've focused a lot on Texas recruiting here, is somebody I think can benefit from the recruiting, vacancies in Texas. And Clemson's inability or unwillingness to go into the transfer portal or Florida state's desire to leave the ACC. It's SMU. Oh, Will, what are you doing, Homer, Texas?
Starting point is 00:13:45 No, SMU has gone from a nothing burger, not even on the map, into the ACC. And by the way, you say, oh, they're going to get crushed. I don't know if you keep up with recruiting and what's going on. SMU's pulling recruits. They're pulling quarterbacks. They're pulling wide receivers. Red Lashley's doing a good job at SMU. this is going to be like the long shot bet you play.
Starting point is 00:14:14 So you want to put a bet on your college football playoffs in the next couple of years that no one else is thinking about. SMU, one of the biggest beneficiaries of this new world order of college football. All right, let me know what you think on X at Will Kane on Instagram, C. Wilcane. Let's get into it. Guys being guys, telling the truth in story number two. Speaking of Oklahoma State, Oklahoma State running back, Ali Gordon busted for driving while intoxicated, driving under the influence. And his head coach declined to boot him from the program, put the heavy hand of discipline on Ollie, Gordon, who might be the top running back in the country next year.
Starting point is 00:14:59 Mike Gundy said this about why. He took it a little easy on Gordon. So I looked it up on my phone. what would be the legal limit like in oklahoma is 0.08 and ollie was um point one so i looked it up and it was based on body weight not to get into the legal side of it but i thought really two or three beers or four i'm not justifying what all he did i'm telling you what decision i made well i thought i've probably done that a thousand times in my life and and i you know it's just fine So I got lucky.
Starting point is 00:15:35 People get lucky. Ollie made a decision that he wished you could have done better. But when I talked to Ollie, I told him, I said, you're lucky. You got out light because you make a lot of money to play football. That's really made some people mad. And the truth is, it's just the truth. Mike Gundy's just telling you, I've probably done that a thousand times. if we're being real
Starting point is 00:16:04 most of us would say regarding drinking and driving there but for the grace of God go I or the mistakes that I've made in the past which I would I'd like to think don't make in the present and hopefully not in the future but he's like two or three beers
Starting point is 00:16:21 and drive home probably happened a thousand times Jimmy Johnson you know former head coach of Dallas Cowboys just to say there's not one uniform rule there's a rule for certain level of talent there's a certain rule for another level of talent If you are the 53rd man in the roster and you fall asleep during a meeting, cut.
Starting point is 00:16:37 If you're Emmett Smith and you fall asleep during a meeting, not cut, which is the way of the world, the real world. So Gordon, first of all, it's going to have a different level of discipline than anyone else on this team. But I think that Gundy is just like he's apt to do, by the way, and his mullet is just in glorious fashion right now. It's out of control. I don't even know what you call that.
Starting point is 00:16:59 It's a pompadour and a mullet. with maybe like a burst fade a little bit. I don't know what he's got going on, but it's glorious. What's up? No, it's a really, I was going to say about the hair. I was listening to him,
Starting point is 00:17:15 but then I got caught up in what his hair looked like, so it was really good. But yeah, it's tough for these guys. Does that involve... Go ahead. Does that involve a hairdry and hair spray? I think so. I think it has to.
Starting point is 00:17:26 It's like a blowout. It's like a blow up at it like the kids do with those haircuts. They put a hat on and like, blow their hair up. All right, real quick. I told you guys this earlier. He might be mad at me.
Starting point is 00:17:41 So I took the youngest son to get a fade. He's got a friend in from out of town, okay? He's got a friend in from out of town. I think it's apropodos said to the story. His friend's black. And his friend wanted to get a fade, and he wanted to bleach his hair. And I was like, dude, I can't have you down to Texas.
Starting point is 00:18:00 have you get your hair bleached and send you back home to your mom. So the whole thing, like, your mom needs to be 100, 100%, 100% on this. And she was not. And he begged me and he begged her. And finally I was like, I texted her and I said, I'm really sorry. I put you in a bad position. I will fall on the sword on this. I will 100% say I'm the one unless she goes, no, it's fine.
Starting point is 00:18:25 And I said, Nina, it's not fine unless you are 100%. because it was all fun in games, like, in the conception in my head, like when they were like, we want to do this. Like, oh, that would be fun because hair is hair. But once you're in there, dude, it's scary. Like, changing all that to, anyway, she said 100%. So his friend gets, gets, he didn't want to fade, by the way. He wanted to taper.
Starting point is 00:18:48 So I had to find a black barber, which I don't have a black barber, and I'd never been to a black barber. But I had to find one. And my son's like, I'll do it with you. And I'm like, I'll let you. Okay. I guess I'm not, despite my efforts on this show to be precise in my use of language, I guess I didn't know what I was talking about. Because I was like, yeah, he's just going to bleach it.
Starting point is 00:19:09 But she's like, what do you want? And I'm like, I don't know. Like, I think she said, what color? And we were like, I don't know, blonde, you know? Light blonde, like icy blonde. I think that word is where I went wrong. Ice. Because my son has silver hair.
Starting point is 00:19:26 Like, it's not bleached blonde. And he has a fade, which kind of looks cool. But he has silver gray hair like an old man, like an anime character, like Tom Cruise and collateral. Like James said it earlier, like if you're on Fortnite and you're putting your character together, it's like, whoa. Yeah, white hair. And it is a controversy in my household. Yeah, he got the old man look. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:57 I mean, he looks dope. it's different i would like to share it but i need his permission to share it on the show yeah he's not going to say yes and i think we're going to get it fixed next week uh but yeah back to back to gundy he's got a blowout of some kind and i think some hairspray but you were saying yeah this is this is he's just telling the truth on these guys and his approach to discipline and i think he's showing empathy i love the math he did on that he's He's like, you know what, we got a running back here, probably 170 pounds with a very low body fat percentage. Like, two beers probably pits him a lot differently than it does your average dude.
Starting point is 00:20:37 That's true. What, like his blood alcohol content goes higher, quicker because of that? Yeah, drunker faster, yeah. When you have no, and you have no fat to absorb it, because he's probably shredded, hard as a rock. It's tough. Is that true? I've always heard that too, but I'm not sure that's true. I've heard that too.
Starting point is 00:20:55 Like, fat keeps your blood alcohol content down? I don't know if I buy that. Well, look at all those, like, Burt Kreischer, those guys who drink a ton. Like, they're heavier dudes. I think they don't get drunk as fast. Honestly, when I'm heavier, my tolerance is not great. In a too high way. Yeah, but heavy, but you see the thing, like, you're saying, like, heavier.
Starting point is 00:21:16 Like, Ollie Gordon's a big dude. Not fat, but big. No, body fat. And so I think his tolerance, you think it's body fat. Body fat, which is probably like 5, 6%. And he might be, he might be 170 pounds, but every single bit of its muscle. And his metabolism is churning through. I don't think body fat, which would lower your blood alcohol, you think.
Starting point is 00:21:36 If your metabolism is burning, you're burning through that alcohol faster. Who could we talk to at Foxx? I just don't, I don't think body fat has a correlation to tolerance. I think that you're going in reverse order. Like, Burke Kreischer has body fat, because. Because he has high tolerance. You see what I'm saying? Then it's spirals.
Starting point is 00:21:58 Not he has high tolerance because he has body fat. Like you drink a bunch, you build tolerance while you're building body fat. I looked it up. For instance, a person with a higher percentage of body fat will be slower to absorb alcohol than someone with less. Slower to absorb. Yes. So your BAC is going to go up slower. So you absorb alcohol faster if you have less body fat.
Starting point is 00:22:31 All right. So Ollie Gordon has two beers and says, I can drive home, and he's wrong, where the fat guy can drive home at that moment. But an hour later, but an hour later, Ollie's burned through that alcohol and he could drive home, but the fat guy's just now starting to absorb the alcohol? Correct. That's a timing thing. Yeah, exactly. Great example of this, Will, you were a swimmer, is. we had swimmers in our fraternity in college
Starting point is 00:22:55 and at the end of the seat last two to three months of the season they'd go completely dry they'd cut weight they'd be in great trip they wouldn't drink and then their first day back drinking they'd have two drinks and they'd yeah act like buffoons you were in a swimmer frat swimmer baseball and then non-athletic
Starting point is 00:23:14 regular folks swimmers I'm gonna be honest they're goofy dudes yeah swimmers swimmers are crazy like I mean yeah you get a good They party in weird ways, you know what I mean? Because they used to being naked, I think.
Starting point is 00:23:29 I think that's what's going on. They would have these swimmer-only parties that, I don't know, we didn't have an urge to go to. But the stories that would come out of that were, don't kiss and tell them. Weird. All right. I'm with Mike Gundy. I'm with his forgiveness. I'm with his analysis.
Starting point is 00:23:48 I'm with his truth. Here's another bit of truth from Wimbledon. Novak Djokovic was booed during his quarterfinding. match. And I'm going to be honestly, I didn't see the match, but this is some epic trolling of the crowd at Wimbledon. Listen to Novak Djokovic after his match. And to all those people that have chosen to disrespect the player, in this case me, have a good night. night. Very good night. He is giving it to them. I mean, and I don't know what they were saying to him.
Starting point is 00:24:33 Do any of you guys know back in the Wilicia? I don't know what they were saying to him. I think it was playing a guy named Rune. And I don't know if they were saying Rune or they were booing or they were saying good night. But Djokovic is really, really comfortable being the villain. And by the way, in the age of mass psychosis as we talk about on the Will Cain show, He's, like Aaron Rogers, you know, perfectly fine saying, I'm the villain, but you guys are all actually the ones in mass psychosis. You know what I mean? Like, he's okay being in the minority, even if they think he's the villain. Didn't he have a tough time having tough skin?
Starting point is 00:25:09 Didn't he kind of like go off on people? It doesn't have that reputation. And now he's kind of building a tougher skin the older he gets. Maybe. Yeah. I mean, he got it. He and Aaron Rogers. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:22 They've taken a thousand arrows. I mean, at this point, how could you not have thick skin? But playing tennis, it's an individual sport, too. Playing a team sport is different. People are attacking just you, not your entire team. People are just attacking Aaron Rogers. Yeah, but, I mean... I'm talking about this is all issue-based.
Starting point is 00:25:42 By the way, those two guys are really similar. Yeah. Like, there's something about them beyond their whole vaccine stance, which reminds me of each other. Like, their personality, their disposition. They're very similar. Cerebral.
Starting point is 00:25:56 Very cerebral. What got them to that level? Cerebral, but also prickly. Yeah. Prickly. Like if you're at the bar with Djokovic or Rogers, I do think you'd have to wonder how he's receiving every comment. Do you what I mean?
Starting point is 00:26:13 Like, I don't think he's on the exact same wavelength as you. And so you're saying things, and he's not smiling. And you're like, that was a moment where we were supposed to have some levity. and he's not in on it. And that's someone that's usually inside their own head analyzing what you just said and trying to figure out what they're going to say next. You know, if someone gets quiet like that,
Starting point is 00:26:34 but it's kind of annoying about a conversation like that. A hint of self-centeredness. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like the whole time you sit there going, is he a Rick?
Starting point is 00:26:45 I'm not sure if he's a Rick or not. He might be. He might be. Am I not funny? Or am I just not funny? All right, there's a bit of truth, a bit of guys being guys. Novak Djokovic and Mike Gundy. Listen to the all-new Brett Bear podcast featuring Common Ground,
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Starting point is 00:27:35 make sure to check out my podcast kennedy saves the world it is five days a week every week download and listen at foxnewspodcast.com or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast story number three America, Uruguay versus Columbia, semifinal, to take on Argentina in the final. Devolved after a Columbia 1-0 win into a fight in the stands. The footage from this is absolutely amazing if you're listening to us on podcast. You have a hard time seeing this, but this is several Uruguay and players, including star Darwin Nunes, who plays for Liverpool, literally like. Like, Ron Artesse and the malice in the palace, in the stands, throw in punches with the Colombian fans.
Starting point is 00:28:30 It's ugly. And at first, you're like, oh, my God, this guy needs to be suspended forever. Like, this is terrible. But then as you read more about it, the story goes, and I don't know if it's an excuse or a legit story at this point, but the drunk Colombian fans begin harassing the Uruguayan players' families, setting these Uruguayan dudes absolutely off. Later, you could see a lot of these guys holding their babies and their kids on the field. But in that moment, they're saying they thought their families were threatened,
Starting point is 00:29:02 and they went straight up in the stance to defend their wives, defend their children. And after you start reading about it a little bit, I'm like, I'm not sure this is the malice in the palace. I'm not sure this is just simply, you know, run our test laying on a scorers table and having a beer chunked on it, which I've seen at soccer matches. I've seen Christian Polisich had a beer dumped on him from the corner kick position by a Mexican fan. Those guys are used to this. This is something more.
Starting point is 00:29:31 And the truth is, this is South American fandom. Actually, this is South American sports. If you watch Cop America, you notice two things versus Euros. Euros is pretty soccer. It's, for the record, objectively better soccer. If you watch Netherlands, England. are you this week and you watch England, Spain. It's better soccer than what's being played in Copa America.
Starting point is 00:29:57 But Cop America is like, you can't tell if it's a knife fight or a really dramatic high school play. What I mean like is everybody's laying around the ground, every other minute injured. Like they just got shot in the back by a sniper rifle. The next thing you know, they're up playing. But it is actually kind of ugly at times, too. They're taking shots. I mean, this is the home, you know, Uruguay. Cup America, although it was in the World Cup.
Starting point is 00:30:23 Luis Suarez, when he bit the dude's ear. Y'all remember that way back in the day in the World Cup? And this is how sports used to be. Passions and tensions run high. In America, we're the ones to be real that have sanitized it to the point. And I'm not saying it's wrong. We should. But we should understand that we're on the cutting edge of sanitizing sports.
Starting point is 00:30:43 Like, they still have hooliganism in England. They're still running edgy, right? And when they run end-racism campaigns in Europe, it's because people are saying legitimately racist things. Not always, sometimes. In America, like, we got nothing. We had some, like, Oklahoma City Thunder fan who said something clearly, I don't remember the details, but not racist to Russell Westbrook, or a kid at the Chicago Cubs playing the Circle game, and we turned it into one of the biggest racial reckonings of our time that makes Theo, what's his name,
Starting point is 00:31:15 shiver to his bones. Remember that story? The kid playing the circle game behind the camera, and they said it was the white supremacist okay symbol. What's Theo's last name? Theo GM that engineered the Red Sox and then the Cubs of Championships. He said he was shook to his bones. That's the kind of controversy we deal with America. Yeah, Theo Epstein.
Starting point is 00:31:37 And the rest of the world, they got real hooliganism, real brawls, real racism, real issues. That's what we see here in Copa America. Meanwhile in America, we can't get our act together. We can't figure out how to fight. We've now fired Greg Burrhalter as the head coach of the U.S. men's national team. Good. Good first step. But in lists that have been put out on who are the top candidates for the U.S.,
Starting point is 00:32:05 they will decidedly make you not very optimistic for the future. I mean, it's a bunch of MLS coaches and former U.S. players. We have to go full Euro. We got to get a top manager from a top program in Europe. Some of these names are on here. Thomas Tuchel, who was Chelsea and Byron Munich. Maricio Pachitino, who is also Chelsea.
Starting point is 00:32:34 Get them over here. Revamp U.S. soccer. But the biggest name on this list is Juergen Klopp, former German guy, former Liverpool coach. but reports are he has already said he's not interested which is just super embarrassing we got to get a big timer
Starting point is 00:32:51 I know we're American we're not that we're not a destination in soccer but we got to get somebody big so we can develop passions like the rest of the hooligans in this world all right fun hanging out with you today on a
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