Mailbag, Part✌️How NIL works behind the scenes; most overrated stats in 🏀 and the list of every school where GP & Norlander have covered a game📝
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What topics are introduced in the opening segment of the mailbag?
Hey there, I am Gary Parish. Welcome back to CBS Sports, my own college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting, dodo birds, and leaky black. Matt Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube, honor Brandon Davies. The only way he would appreciate, and that's by smashing the like button. If you haven't yet, Subscribe to the Ion College Basketball Podcast. Please also do that wherever you subscribe to pods like Apple and Spotify. Let's get into it. Today, we're doing part two of a lengthy mailbag designed to cover things while Norlander is away on vacation. Norlander, that's what this is, isn't it? We're just covering things for when you're away.
Sure, why not? In fact, yes, we are taping this before my trip to Chicago with the wife and kids. I'm going to be at the Bears' home opener against the Vikings. Let's predict the score for fun and see how terribly wrong we get. I'm going to be very optimistic. I'm going to say we get to see a Bears win. Give me like... I scored 59 last week. I can't go that crazy. Give me 31... 31-17 Bears win. If you think the Vikings win, by all means, don't cuss it up for my sake. If you believe in the team in purple, I don't want to hold you back. What's your prediction here?
Bears 60.
Okay.
Vikings 34. It's a blowout inside Soldier Field.
I would sign up for 60 to 34 right now. But I'm also guarded against the idea that they start one-on-one and we get on a plane and go make this fun little four-day family trip to Chicago and come home with it all. But they got the win in week one. So anyway, yes, we are two-part mailbag. And we got some good ones here, some random ones. And then we got a fun thing we're going to wrap this show with that I think listeners will really like.
All right, so let's start it with Baxter. He's in the District of Columbia. He's confused. Here's what he writes. He says, a very important question.
What is the story behind the camel‑fighting, dodo‑bird and Leaky Black email?
Here's the intro. Camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black, or camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black. I've been a listener for years and still don't know more of us. Let's stop right here. I think what he's hearing maybe is me just sort of cruise through the sentence, and he's wondering – Are we going to discuss camel fighting? Pause. Dodo birds? Pause. And also Leaky Black. Or are we going to discuss some camel fighting dodo birds?
Right. Dodo birds that fight camels. It's
modified. I would love to see that.
Camel fighting. That's a hyphenated camel fighting dodo birds.
Like you meet a dodo bird. I'm trying to get this right. Imagine meeting a dodo bird. Right. Which
was last sight. Trivia time.
Last
known sighting of the dodo was?
1888. I
think we're like, it's 1662. So you're not even close.
Hold on. Just imagine you walk into a bar and you meet a dodo bird. And you're like, hey. That old yarn. How are you? I guess that's what you would say. Something like that. Maybe what up? You'd be like, you
talk English to the
dodo bird. Yeah, I would. Yeah, I would. That's the way I've been. I've been around this whole world. I make everybody speak English to me.
Well, they're they're originally from the island of Mauritius. I believe they were native to that. And let's see what the native language is in Mauritius here. Hold on one second,
because if you're going to
walk into a bar and see a dodo bird, I hope it's southern English official. How about this?
Yeah.
Official languages are Mauritius. There are none. De facto are English and French. So there you
go. Dodo birds speak English. I knew they did. They
don't exist anymore, but if they did in this hypothetical,
at
least you're doing okay.
They would speak English. So you meet a dodo bird in a bar, and you're like, hey, fella, what do you do? And he says, I fight camels. That's what we're talking about here. It's a dodo bird that fights camels. I've never even considered that as a thing. I'm only referencing the time I watched camel fighting and then talked about it. The time I... stumbled into, thanks to Norlander, Dodo Birds, and then Leaky Black. You know, we could end up on a Leaky Black conversation at any point.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What topics are introduced in the opening segment of the mailbag?
0:14–2:06
2
What is the story behind the camel‑fighting, dodo‑bird and Leaky Black email?
2:06–22:04
3
Why was James Franklin’s press‑conference interaction so awkward?
22:04–37:58
4
How do college‑basketball programs actually pay players under NIL rules?
37:58–47:12
5
Is a Duke‑Kansas home‑and‑home series possible and what would it look like?
47:12–52:46
6
Which college‑basketball statistics are most overrated according to the hosts?
52:46–1:06:37
7
What schools have the hosts covered games at and which have they never visited?
1:06:37–1:09:59
8
What are the top five arenas the hosts still want to see in person?
1:09:59–1:28:53
Speakers
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