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Ryan McGee

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
429 total appearances

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Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

They've overhauled the cars significantly. They're not spec cars, but they're โ€“ yeah, they are. The cars are almost identical. But that's good for racing. It's great. No, it's great. And I would argue the same thing about NASCAR, which is y'all only stock cars. Now you've really got stock cars as a result.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

They've overhauled the cars significantly. They're not spec cars, but they're โ€“ yeah, they are. The cars are almost identical. But that's good for racing. It's great. No, it's great. And I would argue the same thing about NASCAR, which is y'all only stock cars. Now you've really got stock cars as a result.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

They've overhauled the cars significantly. They're not spec cars, but they're โ€“ yeah, they are. The cars are almost identical. But that's good for racing. It's great. No, it's great. And I would argue the same thing about NASCAR, which is y'all only stock cars. Now you've really got stock cars as a result.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

It's kind of like that, right? Kind of like that. And also, and I think this is true in NASCAR too, in IndyCar, the talent level is through the roof. You know, you have all these guys that were on the Formula One track. that jumped to IndyCar because there's money in it now, and there's fame in it now, and now you can go from IndyCar to Formula One if you still want to.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

It's kind of like that, right? Kind of like that. And also, and I think this is true in NASCAR too, in IndyCar, the talent level is through the roof. You know, you have all these guys that were on the Formula One track. that jumped to IndyCar because there's money in it now, and there's fame in it now, and now you can go from IndyCar to Formula One if you still want to.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

It's kind of like that, right? Kind of like that. And also, and I think this is true in NASCAR too, in IndyCar, the talent level is through the roof. You know, you have all these guys that were on the Formula One track. that jumped to IndyCar because there's money in it now, and there's fame in it now, and now you can go from IndyCar to Formula One if you still want to.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

But the cars are, particularly in Indianapolis, where they're qualifying at averaging 230 miles an hour, which are the speeds that you and I used to see back in the day. But IndyCar ripped itself in half. I lived through all that and covered all that in the late 90s. I say this all the time.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

But the cars are, particularly in Indianapolis, where they're qualifying at averaging 230 miles an hour, which are the speeds that you and I used to see back in the day. But IndyCar ripped itself in half. I lived through all that and covered all that in the late 90s. I say this all the time.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

But the cars are, particularly in Indianapolis, where they're qualifying at averaging 230 miles an hour, which are the speeds that you and I used to see back in the day. But IndyCar ripped itself in half. I lived through all that and covered all that in the late 90s. I say this all the time.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

in terms of collegiate athletics, which is NASCAR made a lot of really bad decisions in the mid-2000s and ran a lot of people off. IndyCar ripped itself in half. I mean, killed the goose looking for golden eggs. And I always throw those out as cautionary tales.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

in terms of collegiate athletics, which is NASCAR made a lot of really bad decisions in the mid-2000s and ran a lot of people off. IndyCar ripped itself in half. I mean, killed the goose looking for golden eggs. And I always throw those out as cautionary tales.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

in terms of collegiate athletics, which is NASCAR made a lot of really bad decisions in the mid-2000s and ran a lot of people off. IndyCar ripped itself in half. I mean, killed the goose looking for golden eggs. And I always throw those out as cautionary tales.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

Yeah, and I throw these things out as cautionary tales to our friends in collegiate athletics because โ€“ All of these things are done with the assumption of your core audience is just going to โ€“ we can't do anything to run them off. Yeah. Yeah, you can.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

Yeah, and I throw these things out as cautionary tales to our friends in collegiate athletics because โ€“ All of these things are done with the assumption of your core audience is just going to โ€“ we can't do anything to run them off. Yeah. Yeah, you can.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

Yeah, and I throw these things out as cautionary tales to our friends in collegiate athletics because โ€“ All of these things are done with the assumption of your core audience is just going to โ€“ we can't do anything to run them off. Yeah. Yeah, you can.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

You totally can. Or they age out. And so the question isn't, you know, what are you doing to make the gray-headed guys and the colored Blazers mad? The question is, what are you doing โ€“ to make the 20 year olds decide they want me to do something else.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

You totally can. Or they age out. And so the question isn't, you know, what are you doing to make the gray-headed guys and the colored Blazers mad? The question is, what are you doing โ€“ to make the 20 year olds decide they want me to do something else.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

You totally can. Or they age out. And so the question isn't, you know, what are you doing to make the gray-headed guys and the colored Blazers mad? The question is, what are you doing โ€“ to make the 20 year olds decide they want me to do something else.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

And so it's, it's a really, I use it. I wrote when Oklahoma, Texas, when the sec, I wrote that, or no, it was during the, is when USC and UCLA went to the big time. I wrote that column, like be careful because you think, uh, They'll just stick around no matter what. But the reality is if it looks too far away from what they grew up loving, then they will 100% go find something else to do.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 2 - Ryan McGee

And so it's, it's a really, I use it. I wrote when Oklahoma, Texas, when the sec, I wrote that, or no, it was during the, is when USC and UCLA went to the big time. I wrote that column, like be careful because you think, uh, They'll just stick around no matter what. But the reality is if it looks too far away from what they grew up loving, then they will 100% go find something else to do.