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That's what I'm talking about, man.
Straight from the streets of Ohio.
It's getting fired up here for a Monday Brady Quinn.
You and I, babe.
Okay.
So far, Aarrington, a much deserved day off for Old Stick City, but it's Brady Quinn
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He's celebrating a PGA championship with old Brooks.
He kept that's right.
How about Brooks kept, huh?
Yeah.
How many people in the PGA you think were so bitter to see how him dominate, especially
in the final round?
How many people just in PGA, all those blow hard to criticize his decision to go to
live golf and there he is in the final round, just teeing it up, hitting the
snot out of the ball and then winning another trophy.
Is this his third PGA championship?
It's his third.
That's right.
It's fifth major.
I love hearing you talk about golf just because you're so down on this.
I don't know that there's that as many people who are maybe salty about the win
given his affiliation with the Live Tour as they used to be.
I think those feelings have changed.
I think there's some PGA tour players who would never admit it publicly, but
privately they realize the impact Live has had on the PGA tour and improving
things for the PGA tour players.
And look, people like Brooks.
He's a good guy.
Like he's, I'm sure many people are happy for him.
He went through a number of injuries over the past few years that has led him
now to this point.
And I think after what happened at the Masters and dropping a lead like that
and taking all of it, he said it before yesterday, he wasn't going to take
us the same mental approach.
He knew what he did wrong and he was able to basically wire to wire,
especially the way he started.
Pretty much leave not much of an opportunity for anyone to beat him.
So congrats to handle.
It was awesome to see that.
I mean, the story of the entire, as great of a win as it was, it got a little bit
overshadowed by Michael Block and his performance and then that story.
PGA Club Pro and what do you finish 15?
So he'll be invited next year.
He's going to be back in the day.
Yeah, he's going to be in the invitation back.
He actually just got invited to an event I believe next week.
But how about a whole one?
I mean, it's not very often you get that to play with Roy McElroy and you're
showing up the guy you're playing next to him and he went up in the favor
instead of another guy's been an ambassador for this story.
And I think what he says, oh, yeah, I couldn't figure out what Roy was
hugging me because he didn't know the ball actually went in and then he looked
and said, Oh my God.
Yeah.
So congratulations to Michael Blond.
Supposedly kept go walked up to him and said, I heard you're buying the drinks
tonight.
So there's that.
You know, so it's a big obviously now Brooks kept goes to South Florida guy,
correct?
He lives in South Florida.
I mean, I mean, a lot of the guys live in South Florida.
A massive weekend for South Florida sports because how about those Miami heat?
Just given the Boston Celtics a beat down in game three of these years.
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What the F man?
All of the betting odds, all of the prognosticators, all of these people talking
about, you know, the Miami heat are just happy to be here and this is going to be a
fantastic, fantastic, fantastic, fantastic, fantastic, fantastic, fantastic.
And the first thing that I think is going to be a fantastic team.
I think the one thing we've seen in all these series is you've got a mix of
guys stepping up and playing some big time roles.
I mean, last night, Gabe Vincent was lights out and there at times when you
look at the spine, he team the way it's constructed, dunked and robbed and
played extremely well too.
He had a great shooting night last night and others pitched in.
So it's not only like Jimmy Butler carrying this team or time at times Kyle
Lowry.
You've got some role players who step up in a big way.
Kayla Martin was fantastic.
You know, at a bio had a few like highlight post to Rio kind of plays that I think
almost just changed the momentum of the game.
And that's what it's been like this heat team is well constructed where, you know,
they signed Kevin Love what right before playoffs basically.
And he scores the first five points of the game.
You know, it just it's a interesting roster construction around what they
feel like are cornerstone pieces.
And they're able to have success versus a team like the Celtics, which was
one of the better teams in the NBA this whole entire regular season.
So I know what the betting odds might have said because you were big
deep into that.
You're a huge boss and Celtics fan.
That's just that was never the feeling of how sports fans fell in South
Florida.
Now, granted, you say, of course, because they're biased.
But I think for a lot of people who watch the heat this year, they knew this
series is going to be really even.
This was an even series during the course of the regular season.
So they found a lot of value in placing those bets in favor of the Miami
Heat because most people like you who've got those, you know, green colored
glasses on because your Boston Celtics fandom more live.
They weren't willing to overlook the fact that Boston outside of, you know,
Jason Tatum and what he's capable of doing.
But he like who's going to step up if he has a bad night?
Jalen Brown, I don't know if he's going to do it consistently enough.
Yeah, I, I've been saying this for weeks now.
The Celtics are overrated.
Anybody that's watched this team play throughout the course of the regular
season, you saw how inconsistent they were.
Their defense has just disappeared at times, which was really what they were
built on last year.
And then you go and you just look at this matchup against the Miami Heat.
If you, if you took away whatever the little number was next to the teams
remaining in the postseason and you just said, all right, who are the best
teams in the NBA playoffs?
Miami is right at the top of the list.
And we've been saying that the idea that everyone thought that Boston was
going to run away with this.
And this was going to, like they, Miami just was in a finals, a bubble finals
granted a couple of years ago.
They just took Boston to game seven last year in the Eastern Conference
finals.
This is a really good team.
They dealt with some issues during the course of the regular season.
Injuries have been a factor, but they've been the better team, the most
consistent team on the Eastern side of the bracket when it comes to the
NBA playoffs.
This is not surprising whatsoever.
And seeing Eric Spolstra have his guys ready to go and his guys ready to
play and Joe Missoula not.
I'm telling you, man, there's a really good chance of this goes the way
that it's going, that Joe Missoula is going to get clipped after this series.
Like if they get swept, there's a really strong likelihood Joe Missoula is not
going to be back with the Boston Celtics because it is a mess.
And he never, he just doesn't seem to have the answers.
He doesn't seem to be able to pull the right.
34 years old.
I don't care if he's.
He's a hundred.
He's got a horse that into the position.
I feel like it's like an overreaction and where, like, I mean, really the Eastern
Conference finals because they get swept.
Yes.
It's been a look.
If you go into this season and you've got this team who is two games away from
winning a championship and you bring a lot of the same pieces back and you
upgraded by adding Malcolm Brogden, who's a guy who plays defense.
Derek White's a second team, all defense guy and all of a sudden your defense
just disappears in the postseason and it looks like this.
And there were points during the regular season where they would give up massive
leads. They'd have a double digit 20, 25 point leads and just give them up.
And then everything falls in your lap.
Everything's right there.
You've got home court because Milwaukee gets eliminated and then you show up and
in a must-win situation, you completely mail it in in the second half.
Like you go through some of the X's and those, his timeout, his decision making,
when it comes to clock management, all of that stuff.
I think Joe Mazula might get canned, man.
I think that's the biggest excuse for players for not showing up, especially in
the NBA, where you could talk about scheme or X's and O's at times.
I mean, every coach is going to make a mistake here and there.
There are also things that, at least on the outside, aren't always known where
maybe there are some that the coach wanted the player didn't do or didn't
execute. So that sometimes falls in that category.
But for a guy who took over as an assistant and was thrusted into becoming
the head coach, they're, they are the number two seed.
I understand they're not, you know, maybe achieving to what you thought last
year. But I feel like they also met a buzz saw as far as a heat team through
this playoffs that you'd be hard pressed to say that anyone's played better than
Miami Heat, the entire NBA finals, I should say the playoffs so far,
headed into the finals. But I don't know. I mean, I, I think he's, he's a young,
bright mind. I think he should get more of an opportunity. If you're just going to
judge him based off one season and not going to hold anyone else accountable on
this roster and just put it on him.
All right. Good luck. But that's the sort of time type of decision making that I
think ultimately is going to lead you to be in the same exact spot in the future.
Yeah, Nick, what would make you think that anything's going to change in the
future if you keep moving on from coaches who again, thrust it into position, did
a pretty damn good job. It's not like they really, you could say they took a step
back is what they're inconsistent this year. They're the two seed.
Like what are we talking about? They're back in the Eastern Conference finals.
They've underperformed in this particular series. Outside of that, I mean, yeah,
you're going to get some mistakes that come along with a first time head coach,
young head coach in this spot, at least at the NBA level. I know he's got some
experience back in his college days, but you know, still, I just, I think that's
a drastic overreaction from what sounds to be a Boston Celtics fan.
I mean, we've seen it in the NBA all, all the season though. I mean,
boot and holes are got canned. Doc Rivers got canned. Monty Williams got canned.
And those are canned. Like Monty Williams is a good candidate. Nick Nurse is out
there. Look, if you're asking me to bet since we're talking about betting,
if I had to bet whether or not Joe Mazzoula would be back, I would say probably
my money would be on that side, but it's, it's also Boston. And we've seen the
Celtics make a, you know, a quick reaction move like they did with Emey Udoka who
still, I can't understand why that guy was fired. It doesn't, it doesn't make
sense to me. I get it. It's a bad look. The optics are bad. The guy had an
affair and he fooled around with a female staffer and all that stuff. All of that
that's not my business. That's, that's Emey Udoka and whatever he's got going on.
But what was the bazula named coach of the month at some points throughout the
season? I mean, big deal. I was named, you know, elementary school kid of the week a
couple of times, you know, and then you got to just saying you've, you've, you've,
I think you're really being a little emotional here with your reaction out of the
series has gone. Like it's not like he's done that bad of a job for his first
year again, getting the coaching job at the beginning of the season or whatever
that happened. I mean, he's been with the organization for a while. I mean, look,
the biggest thing you, or case you could make for why they would move on from
Joe Missoula, which, and if they did fire him, you'd have to, you'd have to say
that he's not going to like go back to an assistant role in the staff. He probably
would just say, okay, like pay me the rest of whatever I mode and I'll go find
another opportunity somewhere else. Yeah. But it is because Monty Williams is out
there. He's had a lot of success. You know, Boone Holzer, whoever you want to point
to, there are a lot of other potential candidates. I just wonder if the structure
of the Celtics organization is one that they're going to look at and say, whoever
you put in that position, we want to have control over. And, and obviously Joe
Missoula is someone who they will have control over, at least at this point in
time, because of his lack of experience and his age until he grows to a point
where they get over the home and they can get past Eastern Conference, Conference
Bottles, two in NBA finals and end to win one. So I'm sorry your Celtics are
down to three right now. My Celtics, I told everybody that he were going to win this
series. Told everybody. Why, why do you act like though they're not your
Celtics? They're not my Celtics. Okay. At one point in time, I may have had a
Celtics hat as a child at one point in time. Who is your favorite team, Rood
for grownup? For which sport? Basketball. I just liked everybody. Like I like
rooting for every single team. It was a big fan of those are all my teams. I
didn't have anybody specifically in mind. Like there was nobody. I just I wanted
whatever is going to be better for the sport. That's what I rooted for. So
okay. So what would have been best for the sport for the NBA finals?
Uh, look, I said months ago as we were talking about this, you and I were. Yeah.
So Brady now we're talking about this month, months ago. I said, Hey, the teams to
watch in the NBA are Denver and Miami. You don't recall me saying that? I don't.
In fact, I'm almost positive. You didn't say that at one point, but you've been
really hoping for a Lakers Celtics series because professionally for you would
work out great. You know, I mean, for ESPN, clearly and for the viewership, but
for you as a fan of the Boston Celtics, then also being able to continue to talk
about the LA Lakers on radio. Those that was really your we're lost. That was
really hoping reckless allegations from one brand. Quinn here on a Monday
morning, but nonetheless, congratulations to Miami Heat. Just go ahead and wrap
this up. If Denver could go around for people to watch South Florida have so
much success at this point. Yeah, I was going to ask you that. Do you think people
look from afar and go? So they got all the weather and everything else and they've
got the best teams in sports. It's just between March Madness having two teams,
especially like I drove by FAU yesterday and look at the camps I go. I mean,
it's like it's such a small little place and to be a part of March Madness for
the first time ever and maybe even their last who knows how that's going to work.
Moving forward, but there's a lot of East Coasters who moved down to South
Florida and I was out of dinner last night and you kind of see some people and
there's almost like a sense of bitterness. Like a lot of them have
transplanted their lives for various reasons. It could be professionally. It
could be politically things that are going on up north, but now they're down
here and they're like very, very bitter, which is odd because they're in a place
where they moved for, I don't know, better opportunity or whatever the case is,
but they're still a New York sports fan or they're still like a Northeast
sports fan. So they're having a really, really hard time digesting that everyone
being so excited about everything else going on in hockey, in the NBA, even
during March Madness. And now you've got this little run right now where it
looks like the heat very well, at least the way they're playing could have a
shot winning the NBA finals. Be sure to catch live editions of two pros in a
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I think Jim Ursay might have been in Happy Hour on Friday just based on just some of his
activity on social media. Okay.
So we talked about and you talked about your experiences with the great Jim Brown who passed
away at the age of 87. And so Jim Ursay decided to pop on social media on Twitter like he likes
to do and said on my list of top five greatest NFL players of all time in our 103 year history.
My top five is Jim Brown, Tom Brady, John Elway, Deacon Jones and Reggie White.
It's a great list. Great list. All great players. And I think a lot of people look at those guys
and goes and they say to themselves, hey, can't argue with a lot of those except for the
fact that you know, Peyton Manning was nowhere to be found.
He went on to say that yeah, no doubt because I think he got some pushback because Peyton
Manning did play there for quite some time there in Indianapolis that no doubt Peyton Barry Sanders
and Jerry Rice are in the top 10. It's just that Elway didn't have great offensive players
around him till the end when he won two in a row and his feet were remarkable from baseball
talent. So he defended and doubled down putting John Elway on his top five list over Peyton
Manning, the same John Elway who refused to play for the Colts organization back when Jim
was down and he was around and owned the team. But still that's the same guy that you would
put in over one Peyton Manning. So, I mean, look, it's his top five list who cares. He can
say whatever he wants, but it just, I do wonder if there's some sort of an issue there between
him and Peyton Manning, Jim Mersey feels like there's a little bit of a divide there between
those two. I mean, let's go back to when Peyton Manning left. I mean, they did release him.
I mean, the bottom line is you can look at that however you want. When you're released
from a team, there's another term they call it Jonas. You know what that term is?
Cut.
Cut. You know what the other term is? What's that?
Fired. Okay. That's what it is. When they bring you in, they bring your playbook, right?
Like that whole conversation, they are releasing you. They are cutting you. They are in essence
firing you because you're under a contract. You're no longer, they're no longer under
any obligation to pay you for your services. That's what that is. So we can call it a bunch
of different things, but they did part ways in an amicable way. And the neck injury and
the, I guess maybe hesitation to commit to Peyton moving forward given that they had
the number one overall draft pick. Andrew Luck happened to be that generational prospect
that they were going to go draft. All the stars aligned for the Colts to at that moment
move on. And I think Peyton going to Denver, doing what he did in Denver, getting the two
Super Bowls winning one, having it, maybe the greatest season we've ever seen or one
of the greatest seasons we've ever seen during his time there. But really putting together
an offensive, you know, firepower with that group was pretty remarkable. And it almost
was maybe even showing Jim Erse like, yeah, I still, I still got this. I could still do
this. Denver still or excuse me, Peyton still lives in Denver to this day. He's been going
to the Western Conference final games. So I kind of look at it and think, yeah, maybe
there's some, a little bit of bitterness there or discontent, just with the how things ended
and how he had to transition to another team. But it's just odd. I mean, someone who has
meant so much, especially not only to the franchise, but just to Jim Erse specifically.
And you put Tom Brady on there who obviously is going to be on the list because he's arguably
the greatest of all time. But that was your arch nemesis, right? Like if Jim Erse came
out, had Peyton ranked ahead of Tom Brady, like everyone would be understanding. You
know, like I don't think they would have, you know, sat there and really second guessed
anything. So it's just, it's a bit odd that he felt the need to do that. I know it was
motivated by the past of Jim Brown. And then so obviously it was paying a compliment to
Jim Brown, but you know, Peyton Manning didn't have to catch a stray just because Jim Erse
wanted to put out a put out a tweet. It's just, it's weird. I mean, and if you just for
anything other than the fact that like, where were the Indianapolis Colts before Peyton Manning
arrived? They were just kind of whatever. Like, I mean, they were, you know, they didn't
have a 10 win season for like 20 years or 30 years or no, it was 20 years. And then Peyton
Manning got there and they had that down year, his rookie season. But I think everybody felt
like, okay, but at least they're heading in the right direction. So they go from a 20
year run where they're winning at best nine games a year, Peyton Manning gets there and
all of a sudden they're a perennial Super Bowl contender pretty quickly and we're a Super
Bowl contender for over a decade. He was there 13 years and he was only in Denver for
four. And to your point, it feels like there's a more, more of a connection with Denver in
his four years spent there playing than there was Indianapolis when, look, he got him a Super
Bowl. They went to another one. I just, I don't understand. Like I really don't it like,
and if it was, if it was an amicable split, you would think Jim Erse would be happy about
the fact that, hey, look, Peyton Manning went on, he had success elsewhere, but we're both
in agreement that he's going to walk away and he's going to go find work elsewhere.
And then it's not like you were sitting there searching for a quarterback. You had Curtis
Painter and company when Peyton Manning was out that year with the neck injury and you
ended up landing Andrew Luck and sorry that Andrew Luck decided to retire early on the
sidelines of a preseason game. But it felt like everything the transition was set up smoothly
on both sides. Yet for some reason, Jim Erse still has some sort of a bone to pick it seems
like.
I'm not going to go that far, but I think he hates his guts. How about I go that far?
I mean, that's how you basically let off the show. I'm not Joe Masulek in can. Still haven't
really gotten over that.
Tell him truth here.
Well, the truth is if you think about just how humans typically react when, I mean, look,
there was a lot of teams who threw in their hat, he were clamoring for Peyton Manning.
There was only a handful that ultimately truly he was probably going to go to or maybe was
interested in. And Denver ended up being the team that was able to give him everything
he wanted. You know, John Fox and John L. Way and Adam Gaze, the rest of the crew who
brought him in, they were willing to adapt. Mike McCoy is a part of that group. They were
willing to adapt to the offense that paid him one to bring. And I don't know that many
other places were willing to do that. They took a chance on him knowing that there could
be a potential issue with his neck. He had to have a number of surgeries. And but they
were the ones to be able to invest in him, take a chance in him, build that roster around
him. I'm sure he had a ton of influence and into what they were doing to in the front
office. I mean, everything. And and he probably looked at that thinking to myself, man, like
that, and by the way, it's an awesome place to live. Not saying Indianapolis isn't, but
it was more of like that city, that team and organization opened themselves up to him in
his most vulnerable time. If there was ever a time where Peyton Manning, he felt vulnerable
in his career, it was coming off the neck injury. And the Denver Broncos opened up. They gave
him everything he wanted. And ultimately they had he had a ton of success during that that
time frame. And I think that's to where you see now, it's like it's it'd be hard to look
back at India and not, you know, feel a little bit of discontent or bitterness, even with
all the success and all the time that he's spent there, as just human nature.
But I'm looking at paid mannings run like his first three years in Denver. Good God, man.
It was incredible. Like good God. I'm just and it was really that three year because the
final year, obviously he dealt with the he was injured when they finally won that Superbowl.
But from 2012 to 2014, like he lit the league up. Yeah, like it was MVP twice, I believe
art. Did he did he win MVP? I know he won once. I know he was all pro, but two of those
three years pro, obviously, for all three. But yeah, I mean, he's he played as good as
anyone when you throw for 50 almost 5,500 yards. Like, yeah, that's pretty ridiculous.
55 touchdowns, 10 picks, unbelievable. Like you just you go back and you think about that.
I can't believe it's been a decade, by the way, but you go back and you just think about
how great those teams were with, you know, Demarius Thomas and Eric Decker and those guys
and when I think you wouldn't want MVP was second. Yeah, second. Yeah, I'm seeing that
here. So, but yeah, so apparently that is the situation. Jim or say, I would like to
fire off some tweets and and ruffle some feathers on social media from time to time.
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Hey Brady Quinn you see that sneaky little move. Sneaky little move over the weekend.
Late on a Friday the old Friday news dump from USC.
Yeah I did.
Bye bye to the Bonarino.
Mike Bone, Athletic Director at USC been there since 2019 abruptly resigns.
Now he did release a statement at the time.
So let's first take a look at this statement.
Very humble this Mike Bone who said quote, I will always be proud of leading the program
out of the most tumultuous times in the history of the profession and at USC with a restored
reputation and national milestone accomplishments.
I led the process to join the Big Ten Conference, hired marquee head coaches, produced the highest
graduation rate in school history and won numerous national and conference championships.
You know then went on to say that I have been fortunate to have had so many wonderful opportunities
and met so many terrific people. I depart wishing the very best to all whom I worked
with and served and moving on it is important now that I focus on being present with my
treasured family, addressing ongoing health challenges and reflecting on how I can be
impactful in the future.
And then the LA Times did a little digging and as it turns out the old Bonarino allegedly
there were some criticisms about you know the treatment of certain staffers, made female
staffers feel uncomfortable by making comments about their weight and their physical appearances
and all that stuff that came along with it.
There was also some reports that he would just not show up to certain meetings or certain
events.
He missed national championships and other sports.
A couple of coaches said Mike Bohn is the reason why they took jobs elsewhere.
So the nice little Friday news dump and the presentation that they tried to give us Brady
Quinn.
Apparently now that we start to do a little bit of digging there was some stuff going
on there with old Bonarino at USC.
Yeah I mean there's obviously some truth to what he said as far as where he's guided
Southern Cal to at this point.
He was able to bring in Lincoln Riley who has been huge for their football program and
not only recruitment but trying to turn things around.
He helped navigate a you know school going to the Big Ten and securing up their financial
security for the future and what that's going to look like moving forward as so many other
schools are trying to figure out what their future even looks like, what conference they're
going to play in, what kind of revenue they can generate.
He was able to lock that up for them which as much as other sports maybe frustrated with
maybe his lack of involvement around their you know their school at least at this point
he's given them the financial ability to support it and sustain moving forward.
So there's a lot of truth to some of the things that he pointed out.
The tough thing is when you hear something like this and some of it immediately resigns
you know you worry that it's a health concern.
I think that was the initial thought for a lot of people and then when you dug into it
more you heard okay maybe there were some things going on in Southern Cal maybe there
are some things that even dated back to his time at Cincinnati.
I would expect the LA Times to have something more substantial to report on probably this
week but the odd thing is is you know it's such a it's such a fumble by Southern Cal
considering like if there was a history of something back at Cincinnati how did you not
know like how is it possible that you didn't figure this out through the background shack
and in the hiring process and it just it feels like time and time again when you look
at their most recent athletic directors and some of the fumbles they've had if there's
a reoccurring theme and then they finally kind of went outside the box and who they went
to go higher but there's still an issue with their process of just even figuring out who
the right person could be or the right fit is you know for them but you know I wouldn't
be I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't either see a familiar face come back but this
will be a coveted job especially considering the position now that Southern Cal is in.
Mike Bone did a lot of the hard work that needed to be done or maybe some of the nasty
work or tough work that needed to be done in order to position USC in a spot where they're
safe moving forward.
Now it's just about how an athletic director is going to be more involved in a lot of the
other things going on around sports with NIL and the potential of student athletes
being to look at as employees.
God USC has provided so much material like over the years like everything from you know
cast members from full house going to prison to bums fielding punts at practice and Clay
Helton wasn't aware because he was too busy on his golf simulator that he had a homeless
guy roaming the hallways there practice like to the old Bonarino like all the other just
like it's one thing after another when it comes to USC and I know it probably is a heartbreaking
situation for you with how fond you are of USC and that whole program to see them continually
find themselves stepping in it on a national scale.
Oh I'm not I'm not going to be one of those guys who's going to dance on you know this
sort of situation.
Okay this is there's a lot of people impacted by this obviously yeah especially if you're
a coach and gets hired by an athletic director that AD is no longer there you go through a
bad season it's tough like you can be concerned about your job security the leadership of
an athletic director impacts obviously the student athletes there's a lot of people involved
here I will say this this is the least surprising school though if something like this was going
to happen that it happened at Southern Cal.
Right right now I got to ask you in you in what order when something happens.
Like this USC which continues to pop up it seems like every year to 18 months something
pops up at USC in what order does your potential needling or inquiring about what's happening
there go from like do you go petros first and then liner and then Reggie Bush or what
order are we looking at when it comes to read I don't need to anyone you don't have to they're
already getting it from other people are like they just turn the USC brethren they go here
we go again right once again we got to deal with this again we answer about this I mean
it's it's always something I mean that's the thing is it happens so often you don't
have to say anything it's just a part of it and a lot of people on the west coast get
upset by me saying this it's no hatred towards USC it's not opinion it's just a fact it's
the truth it's always something yes I'm sorry like there's nothing to be said because you
just laugh every time you're like oh wait you're only at the weather now wait 20 minutes
like something else is gonna happen here it's just like yeah it's just there's always something
bad like this is there's no there's no you know Notre Dame USC stuff go like these this
is the facts every single 12 to 18 months something pops up all the time and if you were
to just if you were to see a story like this or the Aunt Becky story or the the bum it practice
like any of you just said all right we'll give you two three guesses which team do you
think or which program do you think had all this going on like USC is gonna be one of
the top guesses and you're going to be right like this these are all facts all of this
happen and I cannot wait until Wednesday morning when Petros comes on because hopefully between
now and then more of these details come out and then that's one where you just throw Petros
the ball and let him run with it just let him run his face off because he'll talk on
and on about what a disaster USC is but they did make sure years ago to make sure that
Petros was no longer going to be the PA announcer at the basketball games because they weren't
happy about you know some of his criticism of the program so yeah so there's all that
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