Episode #35: Astros Injuries & College Football NIL Chaos

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Welcome back everyone to the Sport Shots pod. I’m Isaiah. I’m here with Kyle. You know us as the most inconsistent podcasters on the internet. Uh, we have full-time jobs and we have life. So those are excuses as of now. But nothing changed with the podcast as in segments. Kyle, what are you consuming today? Whether that be liquids or solids or even just air. That could be a pause on the solids. Um, you could have said herbs. Solids going in, solids coming out, you know. That’s how the system works. Yeah, that is how the system works. Uh, I am drinking water because I have a new medicine that I will be starting later. So I’m gonna be smart. I’m gonna be smart with it somewhat. There you go. There you go. Yeah. Don’t mix liquor or any alcohol. Matter of fact, let me go ahead and do that ’cause I think I got to go ride a forklift later. Okay. I don’t know if that was metaphor or literal. I mean, there is a construction site right outside my window. Oh, that’s right. Yeah. Yeah. Kyle moved. Yay. In a new place. It would be nice. More cozy. Yeah, I got to say, oh yeah, these are some of the laziest Mexicans I’ve ever seen working here. I mean, they start before seven, but they’re gone before three and the roof isn’t really done yet on the framing. Like I feel like the ones in Texas would have had the whole – pretty much would have been doing the flooring right now inside after a week. Oh yeah. For sure. Especially when it comes to structures in Texas, buildings, we get done quick. Now, when it comes to roads, that takes a while. Especially in Texas, you know, contracts take a long while. Yep. It’s a big business. Exactly. Change orders, RFIs, you know, you’re familiar with all the nitty-gritty stuff, man. I’m drinking just some Ultra. My mom came over yesterday and her preferred beer choice is Ultra. So, on the way home from work, I picked up some Ultra and I’m just finishing the rest as a man should.

Say it again. So, look at you being a good son. I know she – But she came over to really see my son. Oh, yeah. Of course. Her grandson. Yeah. I mean, I knew when you said she was coming over, I knew why. Wasn’t for you. Yep. Yeah. Anytime people visit now, it’s just for the baby, you know.

But that’s okay.

Um, what do we have on here? So, we took almost a month off. It feels like it because I was looking at the notes. Was it really over a month? We got to get these gears going. Uh, no, it was technically – it was only two weeks from the last time we recorded. Feels like it’s been – Well, I mean, you’ve had a whole change of scenery almost. So, yeah, man. Talk about that. Oh, wow. Talk about the view. Well, I mean, outside of that small little construction project outside, I wish I could have gotten like the second building if the trees are behind, but I’m happy just to be in. I’m perfectly fine with looking at an unfinished what looks to be a school that’s going to be – it’s definitely not going to be ready in August. But um, yeah, I’m perfectly fine with looking at that because beyond that, it is nothing but green pastures. I really do live out in the rural area now. Um, there’s corn fields on the way to my apartment. I didn’t realize. So yeah. Oh wow. Yeah, that’s kind of how far I live out the city. Now you said – Oh, there’s my son yelling in the background with these – kind of try to cut that up. You want to cut that? Um, you said it’s a school. Well, there’s definitely a little daycare that’s on the other side of it that’s already completed and used. So I’m just assuming that it’s going to be an extension to that. So, um, at least I know after 4:00, I won’t be hearing any noises or sounds because generally speaking, it looks like it’s going to be like an early development school. So, they’re going to be closed before 5. So, I ain’t got to worry about noise.

You know, this is kind of off topic, but I’m thinking about making two changes to the pod. Everything we do is on topic. That’s true. One is um, playing soft background music as we talk like so when there’s that couple seconds of just pure silence like there’s something, you know, but like nothing that’s going to overpower our voices of course but just soft background music and then you know how like Joe Rogan has Jamie just to look up crap for us – the fact checker. What if we – Yeah. What if we – Oh, yeah. For sure. He’s still there. Pretty sure the benefits are great. Um, what if we get your sister to come into a couple of these and like she could be the person that looks us up and chimes in every now and then, you know? Should that just means you can’t talk shit about your sister now, right? ‘Cause she’ll be there. Like that’s ever stopped me. Um, okay. All right. He just said I’ve said it to her face. Um, that’s what I was about to say. Oh, yeah. That’s what I was about to say. She’ll be just correcting me. As she should. No, I’m just kidding.

Just an idea. But I think I am going to add the soft music. So if I maybe it will be to this part ’cause I’m really going to pay attention to editing in this part. You know what I’ve always been – ’cause I didn’t realize. Finish your thought. Good. You didn’t realize. I just realized that when I heard the last episode on YouTube, um, you hear my baby boy clearly just like yelling in the background like crystal clear. And it’s like, oh, I’ve been telling you – saying it first before you even think of saying that. Yeah, but because like I know we have these mics, but then like I don’t think it catches my son through two closed doors and like 80 ft away, but it does. Or maybe your son got some pipes on him. Something. He has that right frequency in his voice where you can just hear him throughout the whole house. No, but one thought that I’ve been having was just having like the – see the licensing issues, you know, just like instrumentals just playing in the background, you know, kind of like if we were – imagine being like if we were like in a room together at the same time. We just had music on, you know, just some shit like that, you know? But just the instrumental of – Exactly. Of a song, not the actual because – Yeah. Like I’m just saying some like lofi shit, you know? Anything like that. Lofi ground. Anything like that. That’s not a bad idea. Yeah. Yeah. Just something in the background soft ’cause I feel like most podcasts. I mean, even when you listen to radio shows, um, you know, there’s always music going on and off in the background. It’s not just the voices. So, right. Because these mics are so crisp and so clear when there’s silence it’s silent or you’ll even hear like my AC in the background or something. You know the sirens in my old apartment passing by which – I heard the wind. I can – that tinfoil ass building. Um, I can assure you at this location there are no sirens. I am off the road surrounded by trees. As a matter of fact, I forgot to mention um that big land pasture out there, that’s an Indian reservation. They ain’t building over there. They ain’t building on that. So, pretty much all – Oh, I had something pretty big happen in my local town. What was that? Um, we have this hardware store that’s been there before I was even born for years. And my dad used to take me to this hardware store. Well, this morning it caught fire and the whole building burned. I’m talking about like a big industrial like hardware store building and someone went on Facebook Live, of course, right? Uh, and to record the fire from afar. The firefighters were on their way, but this hardware store also has guns ’cause of course it’s Texas, right? And the bullets were going off in the fire. And that just turns into a whole different scenario, you know? Yes, people, you can buy guns pretty much from the dollar store in Texas. I mean, it doesn’t matter. Oh, yeah. You can buy them at Walmart. You could get your tires changed at Walmart and buy a gun. You can get your oil changed. You can get food, your medicine, your Clorox. You guys there – and eat at McDonald’s. And eat at McDonald’s and buy ammunition at Walmart in Texas. And if you’re in Louisiana, throw in liquor ’cause they have a full-fledged liquor store in every – Wow. I didn’t know that. Boy, you never been – You never been to liquor stores. I’ve never been to the west side. We got to – Yeah, you never have. We got to plan a trip to New Orleans together. Just me and you. Yeah, we – I think it’ll still be halfway. Like I think you’ll travel a little bit more, but like just me traveling to Louisiana might be almost halfway. Like really, we’re both will be driving a full day except that I will have a few extra hours to go besides you because – Yes. That’s how far down south in Texas you are to north ’cause it’s already like and that’s how big Texas is. Yeah. ‘Cause from – I remember from where I lived in Houston, it took about 5 and a half hours close to six to get into New Orleans. And that’s because you’re running in traffic in Baton Rouge. I mean, that’s a given. Wait, it took you five and a half from Houston. Yes. To get to Louisiana. New Orleans. New Orleans. 5 and a half hours, Kyle. It takes me – It’s 6 hours just to get to Houston. Oh, yeah. You – Yeah. You’re good. Yeah. No. No. For real. You’re – Oh my god. You’re good. 11, 12 hours. Oh my god. I thought it was going to be like an eight hour drive max. Nah, dude. I thought it was going to take me six hours to get to Houston, like two hours to get to New Orleans. Oh man, it takes six – It already takes you about 6 and a half hours to get to ’cause it takes four to get from Corpus to Houston. So tack on from Harlingen. Yeah. Yeah, it does. It does. So now once you get to Houston, now you got another six. Oh my god. What the hell? But yeah. No, for sure. We didn’t taste that authentic Cajun food. Don’t worry, Christie. It won’t get him in trouble. I’ll get in trouble, but he won’t because I need someone to bail me out. Exactly. Um, let’s go ahead and move on to our first topic. Yeah, it’s a good little 13-minute life update. Yep. Uh, that’s not the first topic. Go ahead. No, just what you had to put it up on the video. What you feeling like, you know, with an entire roster on the IL and still five and a half games up in first place. What you feeling like the last two months of the season for that show? I feel good. We’re two games away from first overall and um, we’re doing it with six starting pitchers hurt. McCullers just got on the IL. I don’t know if you saw that. I didn’t, but not surprised. I mean, guys are dropping like flies. Yeah, because every day someone is going or third baseman’s – Yeah, third baseman just got put on the I – That hurts. I’m excited for like what’s coming back, you know? Are they – Peña is going to come back? I hope – Javier, Garcia – Spencer. Ari likes to call him Spaghetti. Yordan. I hope he comes back. I hope Yán comes back. I hope Esau comes back. Coming back to – I was talking to one of my buddies on Instagram. He’s a huge baseball fan and even a bigger Astros fan. Um, he said like the whole medical team should be fired. Oh yeah. And I agree with him. I agree with him. I wanted – There’s no way. Let’s go back to when um, Correa with the broken ribs. Remember that shit? Yeah. Last year Tucker with the – It’s just I don’t understand how you could have this many injuries. And you know, people were not overexaggerating. Go watch a – go watch a quick YouTube video of how many starters are actually hurt. How many prospects are, how many different names I’ve heard this season that I’ve never heard of, you know, and but I won’t lie, those different names are getting it done. You know, they’re helping out. I’m not blaming the coaching staff, but I’m blaming the medical staff. But I just don’t get how we have so many injuries, but by a miracle we’re first in the division and third in the AL. That tells you how much the AL West sucks. That tells you how much annoyed I am at what Seattle – at the shit Seattle was pulling this weekend, hitting our guys and then trying to incite some shit like they always do. And I don’t understand why they keep trying them and the fan base. I mean, even when they make it to the playoffs, they can’t win shit. And we made sure of that. So, like that organization hasn’t done jack squat in over 20 years, even longer. And they think they’re there, but they’re not. They doing all this loud talking. We got literally the entire – we – It’s not even Sugar Land that we got planned for us. That’s Corpus. That’s the – that’s the Houston Hooks and we – It is. It is. We got a bunch of the double-A guys in there. And we still holding that lead. Same goes for the Rangers. Proves every day, every passing day. The further we get, the more it proves it was a fluke.

Yeah. 2023 with no – again. Are you surprised by the Brewers? They’re the NL leaders. They’re – I don’t – I’m kind of surprised by a lot of stuff now. I think I’m more surprised with them than I am with the Tigers. I’m surprised at the Braves that they suck. Yep. The other way. Yep. There’s a lot. Yeah, the Braves are – I’m more shocked about the Braves than I am with the Pirates because the Braves got – I was just frustrated with the Pirates, man. And I’m saying just hurry up and trade Skenes, dude. I think he won that game yesterday. He pitched yesterday. They had to because Detroit got shut out.

I don’t know if he was the winning pitcher though. But nah, they need to go ahead and trade him because it’s frustrating to see. How would you feel if you’re rocking the ERA around one and you can’t win a game to save your life.

Yeah, it’s frustrating because he was the winning pitcher. Okay, I figured – six Ks, six innings, three hits. Um, I mean it shouldn’t hurt. Thank God for the advanced metrics. And this is when I will say that this is going to be rare because I don’t like all of it, but there’s more to tell the story besides wins and losses. Because if this was like 30, 40 years ago, they would have gone off wins and losses at contract time. But then it’s like, hold up, wait a minute. There’s better ways to actually look at the shit and to judge value. Remember that word value because we’re going to segue into that later in the pod. But um, yeah, for Skenes that has to be a heavy weight to carry on the shoulder kind of like Alcantara down in Miami, you know, he – same thing. Wainwright down there, but team in the organization. Although they kind of look like they’re showing flashes that they could make some noise. They’re still trailing because I even texted that to you that they could be a sleeper team that could just come out of nowhere. But yeah, it’s just the Central is so good right now. Every team but the Pirates have a positive record. Same goes for the West. So, except for the Rockies. Yeah. Yeah. The – I’m looking at the standings right now. The Diamondbacks are down one-fifty. So they just – tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. There you go. But um, just – they are a sneaky team. They could maybe sneak into a wild card, but it’s going to be tough, especially when it’s coming down to the wire. Yeah, but especially when you got to jump other teams. But um, the expansion of the wild card is why you don’t see any trades anymore until the very last day of the deadline if at all because prior to them expanding the playoffs you’d see teams already giving up. They already trade – there would have been some big trades that would have happened by now but you don’t see that anymore. Everyone thinks they’re still in it. I mean, even a team like Arizona sitting at .500 right now with a week to go in the deadline, they got to be sellers. Minnesota hadn’t sold yet, they have to be. They have a lot of pieces that they can get back and you know, just go ahead tank on the season. A team that should not sell that sucks right now is Washington. They are underperforming greatly. They are. They are. They have two all-stars on the team, but they just overall – overall they just can’t. Yeah. So, the definite sellers it has to be Arizona, Minnesota, Pittsburgh. Um, who else?

The Pirates. I already – Yeah, I already got them. Yeah, that – Oh, okay. Yeah. I mean, just those will be the ones at the top. You just skin them off and just see, you know, everyone just feed off the remains. The Astros. I think the Astros and Phillies are going to be the most aggressive in acquiring – Astros, they better. Phillies, I say them, they are – they will because that’s a closing window for them and they’ve done nothing but regress since that World Series run that we stopped them, man. Just reminding them. 4 to 2, baby. Your average is 450 dead center. That’s when the game turned upside down, right? It did. But anyway, let’s segue to our next – we’ll call it NBA/WNBA to show some respect. Um, summer league’s over NBA. It’s always exciting for hardcore NBA fans because you get to see, you know, your first round pick suit up a little bit. Cooper Flagg, then Harper, right, etc., etc. Um, I think Cooper on the play – and Dallas was like, “All right, we’ve seen enough.” Yeah, I think it was against Bronny James, too. They, you know, NBA wanted to push that. Probably the most watched. So, because I definitely didn’t watch anymore after that. I watched a couple Spurs summer league games, but that was pretty much it. Just to watch Harper, but he was limited on his first game, then played only two games after that, I think. I don’t know. But yeah, I mean that’s really all you could say. Summer League is short. It’s meant for, you know, the G-Leaguers trying to make it and to get your rookies just in rhythm with the system. And that’s pretty much all I could say on that. I don’t know if you wanted to add anything to that. Probably the only time Charlotte’s going to win anything for a good while. And that’s pretty much all I got.

Yeah. No. Yeah, you’re right. Even if they try to build around Ball, I don’t see it happening. Anyway, let’s move on to our favorite sport. Hang a banner for that before we move. Uh, what was that? Before you move on, do you hang a banner for that? Summer League Champions. Oh, probably in the locker room.

I would – if as a fan if I saw that banner in my arena I would just be embarrassed honestly – very embarrassed. It’s like a NFL team going undefeated in the preseason.

It’s like “oh we’re winning this season.” You know that’s my value. Going to cause a rabbit hole of figuring – of looking up all the teams that went undefeated in preseason to go like 4 and 12 or some shit. I think the Giants – the Giants have gone undefeated there a couple years in a row they went undefeated in preseason. We know how that was recently too. It wasn’t like – exactly. So, you know, maybe they should have played their second string or third string. Maybe they would have turned something around. But anyway, let’s move on to Monica’s favorite league in the whole country, the WNBA. Dude, I actually thought you were about to segue to college football. Oh shit, I’m fucking up. Wow. I was like, “Oh, okay. We’re going to skip.” Wow. He’s like, “All right, good. We’re skipping WNBA finally.” I just put them – No, I kid you not. I kid you not. I seriously thought you was about to say college football.

But yeah, go ahead. Continue.

I mean, they had their All-Star game this past weekend. Um, that’s where y’all could say they were wearing shirts that says um “pay us what we’re worth” or something like that. I don’t know what exactly they say. Something from a collective agreement meeting that was had. I mean, yeah, I saw – I’ll say this. I saw a clip from a podcast that had Shaq in it. And um, he didn’t know how much A’ja Wilson was making, right? She’s making about 200,000 a year. He said she should be making about 10 million, right? And then he found out what Caitlin Clark is making and she’s making, you know, close to 75,000 a year. And he took off his glasses in disbelief, right? And then he said, “You know what? What needs to be done?” He said they should lower the rim by two feet. And he was arguing with the podcast host back and forth like the only thing missing in the WNBA is dunking, right? Once you get dunking in there, there might be a difference. So they do it for volleyball. The men’s net is higher than the women’s, you know, so that it’s not like it’s not existent, right? The women’s tees compared to the men’s tees in golf are closer to the hole. It’s not like it’s already been done. It’s just – softball field than an actual baseball field. A softball field is smaller than a baseball field. The ball is different, you know. It’s not like it hasn’t been done, you know. So, so those men’s argue against that to this day. Exactly. Imagine Angel Reese instead just putting – doing a putback. You know how much better that would look instead of getting offensive rebound and missing the layup. So, those guys that keeps cashing out on those – on that bet whenever they put it in for her missing the – Angel Reese to miss the first shot. Yeah. That means that they’re going to end up – they’re going to lose out. Why has whoever they’re putting that – putting their bet on – like you would think that they would have done something to put a stop to that because these gambling sites don’t want to be losing as much but these guys they keep winning every – I mean it’s hilarious. They win all the time. Yeah. Yeah, which kind of – I also like there was a while I was on Jayson Tatum for a while and I always took the over and he just kept hitting. They put the line the same thing every day. But it’s like these companies make so much because drunk guys or random degenerates have a feeling and they put a big bet because of a feeling and that’s where they get all their money. Somebody said and they do it again. I know a guy – a guy personally that kept putting in money. Kept putting in money. Kept putting in money. I haven’t put money in a – so long time. I’ve just been recycling what I’ve profited. That’s literally what I’ve been doing for the past two years. Recycling what I profited. Don’t bet more than you could afford. That’s the golden rule, right? And once you start winning, don’t increase your bet. Just, you know, whatever. But these people make so much money because you know why they’re making so much money? You never saw PrizePicks commercials back when they came out four years ago and now it’s everywhere because of how much money they’re getting from these people. They’re probably the biggest sports betting app. You remember when – at least in the country, DraftKings and FanDuel went on that blitz like over a dozen years ago where it was just every commercial? Every single commercial. Every – I mean I – it was to the point to where I had to turn my TV off and just – and then I mean when it comes back on – just time it of when the game probably come back on I was like I can’t take this anymore like this has to stop like this is harassment almost the way they was going about that – that was harassment and even the – what was it – was it – What was I going to say? I already forgot what was I going to say, but oh yeah, even the Jaguars’ assistant GM or financial manager putting millions of dollars in FanDuel for betting. Show him. We heard about that story a couple years ago. There you go, dudes. People’s in sports doing it. You know that they’re getting so much money. Just swept that under – the WNBA. Well, that too. Shit. Twice. We did. We did, bro. I don’t know how we ended up here because the guys – the guy’s gambling on Angel Reese. Okay, back to it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah, that you brought up a good point. It should lower the rim. Um, it seriously – it will definitely make a difference because I mean, we can all agree for sure. Miss layups is kind of hard to watch. It’s so difficult to watch. The alley-oop layups is hard to watch. It turns – That’s what I’m like. It turns into volleyball. Yeah. Have you ever seen that meme where people make like a straight face and then it’s a dog like and the dog is just quiet? The dog is just like just straight just like just like closed eyes looking. I love that shit. That – that’s every time every time I see that the U play-up is just like I made that face. It’s hard, man. It’s hard. Like I’d rather watch this new softball league that’s been coming out that I for sure laughed at thinking about when your wife – when you went to your wife saying “hey did you hear about this new league?” Yeah. They’ve played three games already.

It’s like “oh well I support you guys.” Hey at least we heard about it, right? Yeah. That’s true. That’s true. I’m not even updating the video, man. I’m slacking. Jesus Christ, man. But let’s go move on to some – our second favorite sport, college football. Yeah. What I thought you was going to go with – Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead, Kyle. Go ahead and lead us off for us. First in the lineup. Yeah. There was something that I heard and came across that was pretty interesting. And it’s not like could it happen? Could – do you think a college team could be sold to a private equity firm?

I’m trying to buy one right now. No, I’m just kidding. Um, are we getting to that point? I hope not. I don’t want to because of what it could start, you know. Dude, that dam has already been broken. It’s been shattered. There’s no rules in this shit. This is the wild west and you got to pull arms from everywhere that you can when you’re competing with the likes of Texas and Georgia for recruits because right now that’s all it is is UT and Georgia. I mean, I hate to say it, especially as a Cougar fan. Y’all better win. Winning championships is hard. Getting there is hard. We know. We know. Okay. Getting there is hard.

Makes you run, man. We got the QB, we got a fast receiver, we got our running back coming back, we got the defense, we got the right coach, spending a lot of money, but we had like three first round picks go in the draft, NFL draft this past year. Just replace it with some couple five stars from Georgia and have Kirby Smart flipping – shit. Exactly. Yeah. Just get him some Lamborghini Uruses. Call it good. I mean, I’d rather be in Austin than Athens. Just if I was being real. So, you know, and I don’t even care for the Longhorns, but if I was the player and I had to choose between the two, I’d probably go Austin all day. Sorry if it sounds biased being from Texas, but it is what it is. Um, Boise State is exploring getting a PE firm for school. Yeah. They don’t think they could make their money on their own. They don’t – Well, when you got left – they’re like with – Look at the conference that they’re in that just got disintegrated that they’re trying to rebuild. Yeah. And look at all the other schools that just – it’s like man I’m trying to think of a comparison that’s something that’s fat that you keep feeding it. It’s like it’s just some kind of beast you know – is a pig. That’s one thing that you use. Yeah. Yeah. Go. Yeah. Let’s go with that. That’s fine. That’s fine. That’s what I think of you Longhorn fans. I’m just kidding. Uh, whoa. Yeah. Yeah. Boys say they have to – they set up an entity called BAGS – the Bronco Athletic Group Solutions. Okay. And it’s being ran through – this is I’m reading a direct quote. It’s being ran through the athletic department foundation. Uh, they’re basically trying to create new revenue streams by any means necessary. I mean this – remember this is the wild wild west out here.

Um, we’re getting there, man. Yeah. I mean, with the – I think NIL had a start with all this stuff and now it’s just a whole domino effect and now we’re seeing the next domino fall. Yeah. A public institution is about to be controlled – at least with the athletic department – as far as the athletic department is concerned. It’s about to be controlled by PE.

That’s not fun. And what’s this funny story you have about this QB from BYU? What’s his name? I forgot his name again. Uh, let’s see. Played at BYU. I forgot his name. But now is that – too late? Jake Retzlaff. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So he faced a seven game suspension for the honor code at BYU.

For the honor code? Yeah. Did he have sex before marriage? Is that what we’re talking about here? Oh my gosh.

Oh my goodness. It was like deuces. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So, there was actually more to it because I believe the girl tried to sue him. Um, I didn’t look into that part. I was just – Yeah. Yeah. She accused him of rape. Um, of course he denied the allegation. It was consensual. Um, bag chasing as usual. Yeah. It was bag chasing. You know, typical college kids. Um, you know, in this case, I’m not saying that it doesn’t happen, but in this case, it was bag chasing. No. Yeah. Yeah, but in this case when one isn’t rich and the other one is – Come on, you’re BYU, you’re rich. That’s usually what happens. Yeah, someone’s rich in your family. Someone’s rich in your family. They’re on a little scholarship that tuition getting paid somehow. Somehow they’re just trying to get richer. Yep. And this was one way. So it’s just – I don’t know. It’s just – I’m not laughing at faith and religion like that, but we’re 18 year old kids. Isaiah said, “Do you think you could have lasted at BYU?”

I haven’t lasted in high school. I was just being honest, man. Like I don’t see – I don’t see how that’s tough. That’s why a lot of those kids be getting married because I often wondered why every – when I was in high school, you got a – You got to give all those kids chastity belts. Yeah. You watch a BYU game and like you be – you always hear these players are like in their late 20s and early 30s married with kids and I often wondered, you know, what – you know, they go on these missionary trips and everything, then they come back and play. You know, of course I, you know, I’m like in high school trying to figure out where I imaginarily think that I’m going to play college football at and then you come across that is like, “Oh no, crossing that school off the list. I ain’t going to make it. I know me. Ain’t going to work. Not going to work.” Just you just got to be honest with yourself. 18-year-old us would not make it. I don’t know how.

And the other thing about him, no, is that he’s Jewish. What? Oh, no. These Jews are at a Mormon school. Wow. It’s kind of odd. I don’t know if that’s like, you know, I mean, I don’t know how – Would you call that a double agent? A double spy? Is that what that is? I don’t know, man. I’m not an expert in this topic. I just find it funny. I need you to – Yeah, I’m going to write a note down real quick. That’s just – Yeah, I’m definitely not an expert on that. It’s just hilarious to me. You know, they say, “Hey, we found out that you’re having sex on campus and we’re going to have to suspend you for seven games.” Oh, really? Watch this. Transfer portal. Yeah. Done. Thank you, NCAA.

We heard you were doing the nasties. You are gone two-thirds of the season. Is this the second time? And he said, “I am gone. I am gone for real.” This is like the second time we done talked about some crazy shit coming out of BYU.

Besides the bamboozling from Zach Wilson when he disguised how good he was or how bad he was by actually throwing darts in his pro day and going second overall and the Jets doing Jets things. Yeah. Well, it’s awesome. No, but I would put this at the top of the list. He said no because I will commit it again – at too late where I think if you don’t do it you get kicked out of school. Shit might be, you know, but um, yeah so that was that little funny snippet that I got. One more thing I want before we transition off. It’s going back to the money side of it with there’s an interesting little read that I came across where we’re – let’s say for instance we was to sell some because it’s kind of going back to the PE firm and possibly taking over Boise State athletics. Um, imagine if these schools was up for sale and how much you think they would be worth.

Is it fair to argue that some of these will be more than an actual NFL team? Oh, NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL. Like, I could see UT going for more than the Carolina Panthers. They’re number one on this list that for um – Oh, I know that. I have to ask. I have to agree. This is from the Athletic through the New York Times. Yeah. And this is based off a previous three-year revenue stream, TV deals. You know what? Go ahead. We’re gonna make a quiz out of this. All right. I’m going to try to guess the top five. Okay. So, I got one. That’s Texas, right? How much? Oh, you don’t know how much. I’ll tell you. Well, what they have on here. You guess the school. I’ll tell the price. Texas. Okay. So, yeah. Is a projected price of 2.3 billion. Oh my god.

Oh my. Almost 2.4. Uh, it’s funny how you said the Carolina Panthers, they sold in 2018 for almost 2.3.

I was right on all occasions. You was right and right. Um, number two, I want to say Bama, but it can’t be Bama ’cause Nick was gone. So, I’m gonna say Ohio State. They’re number three. Damn it. Ohio State. So, let’s talk about Ohio State. In the last three years, their football revenue averaged 116 million. When you combine that with, you know, the conference, the revenue sharing, the TV deals, the fact that they haven’t had a losing season in the past 35 years, only one, they have a projected sale of 1.9 billion.

To try to guess number two. Man, is number two a Florida team? I mean, Florida is on his list, but they’re not – they’re not – Yeah, I know that they’re not – they’re not top 10. So, who’s number two? Can you tell me the conference? This should not be hard. Okay, I’m going to guess it’s either Big 10 or SEC, right? So, let’s go with that. Um, I’m gonna go Big 10 and I’m going to say Penn State.

Wrong. Penn State, but since you said – But since you said Penn State, uh-huh. They’re not top 10. They’re number 11, actually. Oh my gosh. What about Oregon? Oregon? Nope. We’ll get to them. Oregon is number 14 on this list. Just under 1 billion. You would think with Nike, the Nike brand would kind of help, but also winning the championship would help, too.

Um, okay. Well, okay. Oh, whoa. Come on. Number two is Georgia. Thank you. That’s why I was like, it should not be hard. 1.9 billion. They in the last three years, they average over 147 million. They’re second in revenue behind Texas. Only five losses a season, third in car crashes. Third in car crashes. Uh, let’s see. And then when you add the fact that Georgia is booming in population, they’re only going to grow bigger. It is. Yeah. Yeah. So, so you got the top three. Texas, Georgia, Ohio State. Now round out the top five. Who’s number four? Give me the conference for number four. It’s going to piss you off. That should be your hint. What is it? Is it the ACC? No. It’s going to piss you off.

Is it the Big 12? No.

It’s not the Mountain West, is it? No. Pac-12. It’s going to piss you off because it should be a conference. Oh my gosh. It’s another – Number four, they have their own TV deal with NBC that they just extended. So, it don’t matter who they put on their schedule, they’re getting paid. They’re getting that TV money. Okay. Tell me number five has a conference. Oh, you’re going to love number five. Michigan. There you go. Let’s go. 1.83 billion. Yes, sir. Now they – now it is – you put them – we put them at number five in terms of their worth because they play in the largest stadium. But yeah, what – most winningest team?

Let’s see. It’s a fact. It’s a fact. Five unranked seasons since 2013. Yeah, it’s – I’m not saying I mean what happened this past season? Title defense – three – Well, three years ago, two years ago, they won a national title. I mean, we can’t throw that out. Oh, I didn’t throw it out, but what happened in the title defense here? Yeah. Listen, I’m going for most recent championships. And out of top five, Ohio State and Michigan have the most recent championships. That’s it. All right. You already got Alabama six. Uh, yeah. Let’s see. You want – let’s just round out the rest since you got the five – seven is Oklahoma um, would have guessed that they’re kind of – you know they’re getting their – struggle – they’re struggling getting their foot in with the SEC you know so you know even though Oklahoma has produced great quarterbacks or really good quarterbacks over the past few years but I wouldn’t have guessed top 10 in value. Uh, let’s see if we can go eight, nine, 10 because you haven’t even said these goals so in these position. So, who do you think would be number eight? Can’t even know the conference at least with these. Give me a conference number eight. It pisses me off because conference realignment to the Big 10. To the Big 10. So, they’re in the Big 10. Conference realignment to the Big 10 at number eight. They have absolutely no business being there. Well, I mean Oregon then, right? Remember, they’re 14. Oh.

We’re still in the billions. So it’s – We’re still in the billions. It’s a – It so it’s a team in the West. Then you think of a team that does not belong in the Big 10 that you will have no doubt guessing that will be worth over a billion dollars.

USC. There you go. 1.4. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s see. So uh, let’s see. They said in the last three years they averaged 71.3 million in terms of just football revenue. Um, they’re going to get bigger dollars by joining the Big 10. Bigger conference, bigger buyout, better TV, better TV money, increase value. It’s LA. It’s the Coliseum and it’s the history of USC that keeps the valuation high. Agreed. All right. Number nine. Number nine, conference SEC.

Florida. This team thinks that they’re national champions, but they will trip over themselves every time.

And no, it’s not. And no, it’s not the local one ’cause that would have been the first guess. So, they think they’re national championships but will trip over themselves all the time. It is not A&M. Although it should be them. Auburn. No, I think they kind of know their place now. It’s not them. They’re high up on his list, but it’s not them. Say again. I’m sorry. Okay. Is it LSU? Auburn is high. Is it? No, it’s not. They’re 10. Might as well just go ahead and say that. But who’s number nine? LSU is 10. No. Yeah, LSU is 10. Okay. So, number nine. We’ve already said Texas. Texas A&M. We said Oklahoma. Well, Texas A&M. Tennessee. You said Georgia. Texas A&M, just for everyone to know, is 15. Oh, is it Alabama? We said Alabama at six. Oh, that’s right. So, number nine. Uh, dang. It’s SEC team. And they think they’re good, but they’ll trip over themselves. Home miss. Nope. Oh, I’m running out of teams. That’s too many. But this also shouldn’t be hard. There’s a shitload. Tell you what, they play in a stadium as big as Michigan. As big as Michigan. Yes. In the SEC is – Arkansas. Hell no. I don’t know. I can’t believe – you can’t believe this for you. Well, I mean, I’m naming SEC teams. It’s not – It’s not – It’s not the Gamecocks. No, it’s not. I’m gonna just go ahead and tell you so you can – that’s – wait last guess. All right. Tennessee on the last life. Did I get it? Yeah. On your last life. You got it. Yeah. They average – they have a projected sale of 1.37 billion and their football revenue in the last three years was $124.9 million.

Bro, what the hell are – that’s – We’re not talking about the school. No, this is just football. We’re just talking about a sport that the school has. One sport. One sport. All right. One – 11 is Penn State. That’s crazy. At 1.2 billion, they averaged over 109 million. 109. Who’s – know what? Just who’s last on the list? How far does this list go? Goes down to 30, I believe. Who’s 30? TCU.

500. They’re just there because of where they are. 523 million. That’s for worth. That’s how much – That’s how much they would sell for – 523 million. So then, uh, SMU is up there. Then obviously then if TCU’s there, then SMU has to be on there. No, they’re not top 30. They’re not. You tell me. No, TCU’s there and SMU is not. That’s crazy. It’s the same area practically. Yeah. And it’s richer than TCU. It is. That’s why. That’s why I assume. Um, let me see. Here’s a surprise that’s on here at 28 to me. And it probably be an insult to the people here. Minnesota, they will sell at 562 million. Their football averaged over 80 million in the last three years – their revenue.

Yeah. I mean, I guess I don’t know what to say about that. I don’t agree. That’s it. But let’s see. You know, Florida State just because they’re all the Florida – all the big Florida schools. Maybe Florida and Miami. Okay. I was about to say if Florida State’s in there, then Miami has to be in there. Yeah. Florida State at 18 and Miami was 24. What about the Gators? Gators was 12. They would sell at – that makes sense. They would sell at 1.8 billion. The billion stop – that’s crazy at – even Auburn would sell for 1.6 and they haven’t won a championship since – they haven’t sniffed one since Cam. They’re exactly – just because of the – their last greatest moment is that Iron Bowl game where they took the field goal back to win it. You want to know their football revenue in the last three years? 118 million combined the last three years at Auburn. That’s a lot still. Oregon is at 14 at 990 million and A&M 15 – 973. Washington 16 – 970. Nebraska is at 930. Florida State 18 – 867. Wisconsin 19 – 801 million and Iowa at 20 at 709.

Damn. Yeah. So, these are hypothetical numbers, of course, but this is how much – anyway. Oh, hold up. I didn’t even see the list does continue. Okay, good. Where the hell is Houston? Oh, stop it. You’re not going to see him on there. I better – My heart better not. Their basketball team is probably more worth than their football team. My heart better not be broken. My heart, Dude, I’m still – It’s going to be broken, Kyle. Kyle, you’re still scrolling down. Just stop, Kyle. Your heart’s breaking. Stop it. You’re still scrolling. You stop. I want to know where the hell we’re at. Oh my god. 69. We’re 68. Oh, I was so close. I’m on one today or something. I’m hitting the dark, bro. This is all the way at the bottom. Oh my god. Oh, this ain’t –

Who’s ahead of you? Tell me. Don’t tell me Rice is ahead of y’all. No. Houston finished the list.

That’s just a petty spot. That’s what that is. That’s just – I bet y’all like one of the last Texas teams on there, too. Yeah. Every – Hold up. All right. Let’s see. I’m pretty sure Tech’s on there. I appreciate – Imagine El Paso’s on there or like UTEP. SMU is 65. That’s crazy. Uh where’s Texas? Baylor is 55. Oh my gosh. Baylor in front of you. Uh –

Don’t tell me UTEP is ahead of you. Go. Shut up. Texas Tech. Texas Tech 33. Yeah, of course. Of course. Uh what – I mean if you – No, no. Rice. No. No UTSA. Oh, well I mean UTSA – no too. That’s true. All right. That’s – Gosh, man. They had to put us way at the bottom like that. At least we on the list. Yeah, that’s true. We’re nearing the hour mark. I’m good with capping it off here if you are. Yeah, I kind of want to end on that. You know, I was waiting to see uh at least maybe it go up to 100. They said, “No, let’s just go ahead end it here.” Right at Houston. I think I’m tired of it. No, we’re the only school that’s not in the triple digits. Ouch. Shit – Cincinnati will sell for 106 million.

Thank you everyone for this Sport Shots pod. We’re going to end it on Kyle raging on him venting about how cheap his school is. Just – I just want to let you know Texas. Hold on. Hold on. You want to talk about – You want to talk about being cheap? Thank – go everybody for sleep. How about – How about the Big 12? No.