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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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So right around noon, you're going to get some names coming off the board, and you'll be listening to Evan, Tiki, and Sean, and then the carton show starting at 2 p.m., and then we'll break stuff down tomorrow morning, and then we'll probably get some breaking news, and it's going to be tremendous because football's offseason never rests
It never rests, and I just got the update from Fanatics that their Fanatics flag football classic that was supposed to be played in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has been moved to L.A. And on the same day, so it's going to be March 21st, 2026. It was supposed to be there. Tom Brady was playing and all that stuff. So Tom is still playing. He's going to return to the field.
But it's going to be moved to BMO Stadium. And that's the home of LAFC, the soccer team out there. And I guess they're expanding it too, actually. It sounds like. that they're adding a lot more people to it and a lot more players to it. And, of course, this will mark Tom Brady's first foray back onto the field since his retirement in 2023. He's got to chill out, man.
Why, maybe he should come play quarterback for the Jets. He'd never. He would never sully his reputation in that way. So Tom Brady making his post-retirement, I'm reading this, now obviously returned to the field alongside names like, now this is interesting. Okay. These are the guys that are playing in this. Saquon Barkley, C.D. Lamb, Christian McCaffrey.
I don't know if Tyree Kill is ready to play in it. Odell Beckham Jr. is playing. Rob Gronkowski and others. Coaches Pete Carroll, Sean Payton, Kyle Shanahan. It's hosted by Kevin Hart, and it's going to be broadcast on Fox Sports and Tubi. To be. To be, yes. All right, so this has nothing to do with the Olympics team, though, right? No, no.
This move is confirmed by all the NFL sources, and it's because, obviously, of what's going on in the Middle East. Yeah, got to move that thing to L.A. They don't want one of those Scud missiles flying over there and landing right in the middle of the field. Yeah, need to protect Tom Brady at all costs. Make sure that he is safe and secure.
Speaking of all that stuff that's going on, you got all of that. And in the middle of that on Friday, and I was looking forward to this. I wanted to hear what some of the people had to say that was a part of it. President Trump put together a commission to save college sports. And he had all these people involved, the NCAA, head by Charlie Baker, the former governor of Massachusetts.
He was a Republican governor. And I think I told you this. I interviewed him when he first got the job to become president and CEO of the NCAA. And the reason they put him in there is because he's a political guy and he can get both sides to put all of this together. And he, Randy Levine, Nick Saban, people like this, We're all a part of this commission on Friday. And I'm sitting here.
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Chapter 2: What is President Trump's new commission aimed at in college sports?
And just think about how bloated the athletic departments are. How many levels of people are working in the athletic departments? A lot of bloat. So you got each of the teams, and then you got the final team, which is the athletic department that probably has 50 to 70 people working in it. Yeah, two less at Michigan now. Yes. Again. A lot of bloat going on at that place. By the way.
Yeah, so you think that this committee is going to actually get something done? Because committees generally don't get things done. Yeah, but I kind of feel like they got the right people in the mix here to get it done. And as long as it's bipartisan and not political, because I think for the most part, as I understand it, everybody loves their college Saturdays. They do.
And now it's even going to be more pronounced because here we are, March Madness. Of course, which is the greatest. And thank God St. John's has the money to be able to compete. And now we're going to have back-to-back years in the tournament. Hopefully this year you get to at least the Sweet 16. Kevin in Oakland, New Jersey. Kev, what's happening, brother? Hey, what's up, boys?
Last night at like 2 in the morning when I couldn't sleep, I was watching an E60. And they actually had everything you're talking about for the transfer portal, nail and all that. And they interviewed a whole bunch of players. And basically Texas Tech has these two billionaire guys.
that played football there that made their money in oil and spread the money throughout, not just the football program, but to all their programs. And they interviewed the lady who basically came up with the idea for the transfer portal, not having to sit out like you used to. And it was real interesting because she was like, that's not the intended purpose.
And they even had this basketball player, I don't know his name, but he started out at St. John's, then he went to another team, then Kansas, and now he's at Ole Miss. He's in his fourth school in four years. And They had the Notre Dame college player, the girl who they said she would have went number two in the pick in the WNBA, but she would have made 75 grand only.
And she went from Notre Dame. I forget where she went. Probably either LSU or Iowa or somewhere like that that was going to pay her. They've seen the success of women's basketball at those programs. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. It's a problem. It's a real problem. I mean, I know you don't care. I don't. But I just found it to be very interesting that they chose last Friday.
Yeah, with everything going on. I'm sure it was on the schedule for months. Yep. I will tell you, though, that as a St. John's basketball fan, I don't care where these guys came from. It doesn't mean a thing to me if they win. You're rooting for the laundry. Of course I'm rooting for it. And the white suit. Hell yeah. That's what I'm rooting for. That's what you're rooting for.
I mean, those guys can go down in St. John's history. I don't care if they were here for five minutes or five years. Go win something for us. Just win, baby. Damn right. It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. Hi, Boomer and Geo on the fan and CBS Sports Network. It's a Boomer request right here? Yeah, it was, yeah. Jacking this up and listening in the office this morning? I was. Nice.
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Chapter 3: How does NIL money affect college sports dynamics?
Okay. Male dogs. Men. What we do. Pee on things. Let you know it's ours. I'm the man right now. All right, Jerry, what's going on over there? By the way, over 1,500 national days. So between three and five a day. So stupid. Yes, agreed. We are brought to you by Chef IQ, precision cooking, effortless results, chefiq.com. I know you like station stuff, so Cap, tip me off to this. Oh, wait, hold on.
We got breaking Jets news. Oh. Adam Schefter, let me get the details here. Breaking New York Jets news that they have made a trade. Oh, boy. Uh-oh. The Jets have made a trade. The Dolphins are sending Minka Fitzpatrick to the Jets. In exchange for a 2026 7th round pick from the Chargers. I don't know how that works. The Jets will sign Fitzpatrick to a three-year, $40 million deal.
Now, Micah Fitzpatrick went from the Dolphins to the Steelers back to the Dolphins. I know that he's been in the league for a while now, so he's not a spring chicken, but he is certainly someone who's going to calm that defense down and a veteran presence who knows what's going on in the back end of that defense. Interesting. Yeah. Well, here we go. We're off and running. Yeah.
Well, we were off and running on Friday, legitimately, with all the stuff that happened over the weekend. And now things are going to start coming pretty quickly, I think. Yeah. So there you go. Minka Fitzpatrick, who is how old now? Let's see. I mean, he was like, he's like 28 or 29. I feel like he's older right now. I would have said 30 myself, so right about where you're at. He is 29.
He'll be 30 during the season. So, yeah. You know where he was born? Old Bridge, New Jersey. How about that? A couple towns over from me. Yeah.
the Dolphins by the way releasing Tua as well so they're very active this morning let me play this this is just one from Max Crosby then I'll get back to the station stuff from his podcast that it's really hit him that he's gone and off to Baltimore one thing I could say above all else is that I gave y'all everything I got and I have no regrets about that I put everything into trying to win as a Raider damn
I'm not trying to get emotional already, but it's tough, man. Well, he said a 12-minute goodbye on YouTube on his The Rush podcast as he heads out to Baltimore. As for the station stuff, Cap tipped me off to this over the weekend. Gordon Dahmer on the air. Overnights here on The Fan. Gary in Michigan wants to talk about McDonald's. Let's get Gary in here. Gary, what's going on, pal?
Hey, great show. When I was a kid, I knew the kids that worked at McDonald's. I'm like 12 years old. I used to go in and tell them, make the Big Mac with the quarter pounds of beef, and they would do it for me. So I guess I'm the originator of the original Big Mac made out of quarter pounds.
But the thing is, it's just what the— But, Gary, the thing is, go Buchanan, go Buchanan, go Buchanan, go. I got you. I got you for a change. How do you like it? That's good. He was able to sniff it out. That's pretty good. Now, what is the clue? It's his voice. The thing is, is certain something that he says. But you could definitely hear the voice. Okay.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the transfer portal in college athletics?
He waited too long to pounce. Yes. He kept going with his comment. He should have hit him right away. Well, sometimes he does full, long sports phone calls. He used to do that with C-Mac. And then get you at the end. And I'm like, this is the Buchanan guy. He's like, I know. So he likes to talk sports with me. Just very strange. So C-Mac would know. Yeah. He would just let it go.
He would just let it go. Yeah, he'd have a different name for him every time. And that's what made him so hard to get because there'd be times he was a legitimate caller and times he'd hit the go, Buchanan, go. There's times he did Wildebeest. Right, so the Wildebeest and the go, Buchanan with Moose. Were those like real conversations or did he hit Moose pretty quick? No, he hit him pretty quick.
Yeah, wildebeest, wildebeest, wildebeest. And then he was the guy who then Moose then took a much quicker call and had the bad call. Yeah, go out over the air. Yeah. Right. How many times a day do you bleep, mad dogs bleep right over the air? Right. Kevin Burkhart was doing overnight updates that day. Think about how far he's come. Yeah, he's done okay, that Kevin Burkhart. Not too bad.
Well, I mean, you just got to swim in the pool a little bit and then get out of the pool. And then all of a sudden, next thing you know, you're on national television doing Super Bowls in front of 200 million people. Yep, working with Tom Brady. All true. Lakers beat the Knicks 110-97, 35 for Luka Doncic. Here was Doncic. It's a feather in their cap beating this Knicks team.
It's a pretty awesome win for sure. They just came, they beat Nuggets by 40 in Nuggets, so I think it's a pretty big win for us. It gives us a lot of confidence moving forward. In the loss, Jalen Brunson and Carl Anthony Towns, 25 for Towns, Brunson 24. LeBron did not play in that game yesterday. Austin Reeves had 25. Knicks take on the Clippers tonight.
The Nets home for the Grizzlies on the fan at 730. And congratulations goes out to one Chris Carino, the recipient of the Basketball Hall of Fame's Kurt Gowdy Electronic Media Award. Nice. Congratulations. Very cool. I think he's going to be on with Evan and Tiki coming up somewhere between 10 and 2. Evan has landed. He's not here yet, but he has landed. And I believe Hoff has landed as well.
So it does look like that job is safe. Hopefully they get caught in traffic. Well, Hoff's got until 2 o'clock. Evan's the one until 10. So then it would be, I guess it would be Tiki and Rosenberg. Sean's still not back from Disney? Is that where he is? Yeah. Okay. He's posted every inch of that vacation. Exciting. Yeah, I did not post a single thing from Disney while I was there. Yeah, no.
Live your life. Yep. Or whatever. But no, I do not believe he is back yet today. WBC, Team USA plays Mexico tonight. So we know Paul Skeens is going to make the start for the U.S. Who is Mexico starting? Mark DeRosa, the manager of the Team USA, doesn't really care. Honestly, I think we have the best 30 players in the world in that clubhouse, and they're coming together as a team, so...
I don't really think it's going to matter who he starts. We're going to put a lineup out there and get after it. Yes, and probably bludgeon them. Both teams are 2-0 through their first couple of games. The U.S. beating Brazil Friday. Great Britain on Saturday. The Dominican Republic, they went over the Netherlands on, was it yesterday? I guess it was yesterday.
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