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Together, let's give it to them. Visit edc.ca to learn more. I'm dismayed by where my relationship is, long-time relationship is with Greg Cody on this show, and otherwise did any of you guys hear the conversation that Greg and I were having moments ago about his list of catchphrases? Was anyone close enough to listen to what was happening there?
I listened, and it made me feel really uncomfortable. Did it make you feel bad for me that I'm sitting there begging Greg Cody to share his 24th catchphrase on our show and embargo his 23rd for his show, because we have a killer thing that works with him, where we can go through all his catchphrases and just have one more. Tony, why are you shaking your head? That's not how this works, Dan.
Okay, this is a man of process. This is a man of words. This is a man of dignity. And you're going to ask him to go forego his own stuff to just get your little fix.
No, sir, absolutely not. It's a classic Dan move of like, that's awesome. Let's do more of that. But then what would we do next week?
Because then there would be no anything to update. I think you need to just acknowledge this was a great idea by the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody. Thank you. They get me.
I was setting them up, but whatever, and you just have to promote that. Get the rundown when we get it and not force it on your show, because straight up, Dan, you want to steal this. You're trying to steal it for our show and I get it. It's good.
It's good. But you can't jump ahead of the podcast that invented it. You got to wait for that to play out. How much would you pay my dad to do number one on this show?
No, I don't want number one. I don't want number two for 15 years. I acknowledged yesterday that I was wrong about how great a bit that was. And I called him after the show yesterday to laugh about the fact that he has successfully executed what is going to be a months long joke.
But the conversation, if you'd heard me begging him for number 24, just so that I can make him read quickly, the other 26 beforehand, what you would have heard is him say, but I don't know what number 24 is yet. Like part of the whole thing is that it's, well, that's the argument. The argument wasn't that he wanted it for his own show. It was that no, this needs to be spontaneous.
I'm like, you really don't know what the last 24 are, do you? I don't recall a top whatever type of list that is spontaneity. Usually thought goes into these. Well, that's the beauty of it though.
And Tony use the word process. He gets it. He understands. And you asking me to provide number 24 right now, it's like asking Julia Child to take a souffle out of the oven before it's done.
You don't do that. You just don't do it. I don't think people appreciated enough yesterday that Greg Cody, after summoning Casey at the bat as the most famous baseball thing ever written in 1888, he then went to the original prank show and had the perfect show host name, Alan Funt, to rhyme with punt. Yes, fun.
You don't have a lot of options throughout history that will allow you to find other than Helen Hunt something that rhymes with punt. Funt! There aren't any. Funt is...
I forgot. Yesterday's what were yesterday's? The others, they all learned from me. Oh, and there's like, don't go showering.
I'll try to please me. This is the Dan Leberter Show with the Stu Gatspotcast. Chris, if not for Defending Champion, MLS Champion, Enter Miami. Perhaps for the World Cup, soccer is backjack.
Soccer is backjack because we have to get ramped up for soccer here. The world is coming to town and coming to the United States, and it's going to be a giant event, and we have the Defending MLS Champions here. Witting Ham. I've been trying to reach Witting Ham.
Let me do this here. Chris, Witting Ham is a fancy lad. My wife has been calling him a wedding ham because he's engaged. How many of us are going to end up going to that wedding?
Because I don't believe a group of us have been to a wedding in a really long time. So I would assume that this wedding would get a contingency from here. This is so classic, Dan. I mean, two season situation he thinks everyone's getting invited.
You don't do that, dude. You don't do that. You don't reveal it. I know it's on like his IG or whatever.
But you just let people... It's always like shining monument right next to you. Well, I'm not shining. You have a monument right next to you as to why you don't do the things that you did right now.
It's like you're talking to a bunch of people right now in this other studio. Odds are, and I don't know, but Odds are maybe not everybody's invited. You're going to make some people feel like some time. That would be invited, but that's cool.
Why don't you go on IG with this announcement? You can't be bringing that on me and complaining about me. All right, let's focus on the second part. Assuming everybody's invited to the wedding.
Yeah. Now, I'm invited, but everyone else might not be. Yeah, as soon as you said that, I was thinking to myself, geez, I don't really assume I'm going to be invited to the wedding. No, you won't be.
Okay, thank you for that. What is the last wedding that the show went to as a group? Because it was mine. Was I was the last one to have a group of people from here together in a place?
Yeah, when I juggled for Dan Patrick, him and the nuts with the orange. It was pre-covid. No matter what, it was pre-covid. But thanks for your question.
Won't be this one because not everybody's invited to my dad. My dad and I holding court with Pat Riley. That was a good night. Yeah, big night.
You don't think I'll be invited, huh? To wedding? To wedding? No, this is awkward.
See, you've done Dan. I ran into him at a Mexican restaurant a few weeks ago, and we had a buffalo reunion. Like we hugged. You mentioned how happy he was to see you.
If he wasn't, he faked it. It was a funny way to both of you tell someone else about seeing someone. That is fun. That is your dad.
It wasn't. I was so happy to see him. Your dad's narcissism is so much so profound that all of us would say it was nice to see someone else. The way he frames it is, he was really happy to see me.
I mean, he was. I don't know why. But you weren't? But usually you would say I'm really happy to see him.
I was really happy to see him. Is the way anybody else in the world would say that? Well, I don't know about that. Like anybody in the world who just ran into Chris Whittingham and they reunited and both of them were happy, because I'm assuming both of you were happy.
The way that they would frame that is, I was so happy to see him. Not he was so happy to see me. Okay, he initiated the happiness. Uh-huh.
Still leaned in for the hug. Yep. He initiated the reunion. I did a double take because he's with his family.
I don't know his family. Who are these people he's like? What? I think mom and dad.
They're invited to the wedding. A bunch of people were invited to the wedding. We're there. They were all going to the wedding.
But he didn't ask for my address, so I assume I'm not going. What do you, if you're listening? No hard feelings. It was good of you to see me that night.
And be happy to see him. I appreciate that. I mean, do you know the name of the corporate sponsor on Inner Miami Stadium that they have rushed? And I don't, I have to salute them because I did not think in Miami something could be built anywhere.
Never mind there next to the airport in time for a season. That was my question because that bridge still isn't finished. And as long as I've been coming to Miami, they've been working on that bridge. And this stadium, I feel like it went up like in the span of a few months.
David Sampson does any number of crazy, willful things, running seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. He has had no greater achievement in his professional life than building a stadium in this town on time and on budget. You wanted to know the name of Inner Miami's new stadium? I wanted to know if a mean new stadium.
I didn't say that. I said if I asked if he knew the new corporate name for the place where Inner Miami is playing. I did not say the new stadium. I asked for the corporate name.
You're asking me for the corporate name of the new stadium? I did not ask for the new stadium. I did not ask for the new stadium. I asked for the corporate name of the place where Inner Miami is playing.
Do you know it? No, the old one? No, the new one. New stadium.
Tell me the name of the new stadium. The new stadium. It's new, right? Yeah, it's new.
Yeah. So I take it. You did new? Oh, hold on.
You're asking for the brand name? You want the brand new stadium? Yeah, well, the reason I'm asking for the new stadium. Someone tell me.
The reason I'm asking is because of the wonderful double redundancies here. Because it's not just that it's new new stadium and everyone who says it is going to sound like they're stuttering. It's also brand new brand new stadium. That's right.
Because the brand is new. What's in the brand? It's new. It's young.
The brand is new and you. And I what? You didn't know. You didn't knew.
I got the impression that you didn't knew. He knew. You could call it brand new brand new stadium and you can call it new news stadium. I can't believe they got it built.
Like I really can't. You have to understand. We sent Zazlo out the other day in a driverless car and he went in circles until he ran into a traffic like that didn't work because Miami. It's always something like that in Miami.
Tony is right when he says they have screwed up our traffic in and out of the beach here for many years because they're building an arch. No one needs to hold up a bridge that will be needed when all of South Florida is under water. But they've been building this for so long. It should be easier to build this than it is a stadium near the airport.
But you guys are surprised as I am that Miami's infrastructure is going to get to this game and we're going to have a functioning new news stadium brand new stadium brand new. I don't know. I don't know if Miami is going to be able to get to the stadium because this was a very aggressive timeline. I'm not surprised that they got it done because we were asking the same exact questions with the dry pink formerly known as dry pink stadium up in Fort Lauderdale.
And that thing went up in like what seemed like seven months. And I'm done doubting the Moss family when it comes to anything. But one thing is very clear while the stadium looks ready to go now finally all the seats are installed. It wasn't that long ago that there were no seats installed.
Honestly, it was a matter of weeks. The area surrounding the stadium is not quite ready for show time. And the messaging is already getting out there. Please take public transportation.
There is a metro rail stop that takes you to the airport that isn't too far away from where the stadium is. But the signs are there that this is going to be a bit of a cluster bleep at least for match day one. But the day is finally here. But it's a reach to say that they finished the stadium before the season because the season is like two months old already.
Right. And it's also a reach to say that they finished the entire stadium project because it is an act of construction sites. The part that I'm surprised by is they are going to house Mezzie. Like that's going to happen.
Mezzie's going to play in a game in Miami and new news stadium. And they're going to have achieved this on time. Little Mezzie. It's Italian.
The parts of this that Mike has right is for those of you who do not know this area before we put that stadium there between three p.m. and seven p.m. That's the worst place in South Florida to be for traffic. The worst there there is none worse than that.
I'll give you some I 95 as a competitor. But around the airport between three and seven I don't go anywhere and have not gone anywhere for two years because I know I'm going to get caught in two hours of traffic. This is before you put a soccer cluster bleep doesn't begin to describe what's about to happen here. And while you can say you're done doubting the MOS family unless they're bringing everyone in by helicopter that's going to be a nightmare.
No one's going to get to that stadium on time. Well sure it's going to be a nightmare logistically. But for the fact that them putting up an entire stadium and what felt like kind of like a blink of an eye that just talks about their power in building and construction which they have a massive construction company which is where they made all their money or we're talking about the arch which is you know city of Miami the Miami-Dade council and like a stuff that's going there that's probably not as fast and not as limber as the MOS family. Great at construction not great at construction sites.
Am I saying anything that's incorrect here and and I know we've been talking for a while. Your customer stadium experience doesn't matter anymore. Like most of these places don't care whether or not you show up to the game soccer not yet there in America but among our big sports whether you go or not they've got their TV dollars and the customer matters less. The people who are going to this game physically will not enjoy the getting there because it's going.
Mike you love this team you know this is a special night these are defending champions you used to have season tickets until you got douched out on price will you go and if you were to get tickets with the thing that kept you from going only be that it's going to take three hours for you to get there. They used to take me three hours to get there before so this is a tremendous upgrade and I can take and I can take a metro rail there and I intend to when I do go to the stadium I don't have tickets to opening day on Saturday those tickets tend to find me a little bit but if you want to go check out the new stadium the second match is available for like a pretty fair price and I think that no matter what and yeah I get the worries about it being next to the airport thankfully MLS games aren't during like peak travel times they'll figure it out just like they had to figure it out at the dry pink because that was a mess getting to park at the stadium because it was their first time doing that kind of thing I imagine this will be a mess getting in and out of that stadium at least for the first couple of weeks but then I'll find it it's groove. Mike you know I have one rule to live by right. Don't place parlays on multiple long shots don't say a game is one when it hasn't hit triple zero.
Always drink your Jaeger Meister ice cold that's the rule everything else is merely a suggestion everything else everything else wearing clean underwear every day well that's just a personal decision brushing your teeth obviously smart but not a rule never pee pee on an electric fence okay maybe there are two rules but the one that is a hundred percent that I insist on completely Jaeger Meister must be drank ice cold or don't drink it at all damn that's cold exactly you're finally starting to get it drink responsibly Jaeger Meister liquor 35% alcohol by volume imported by mass Jaeger Meister US White Plains New York hey boy buddy you know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody altogether in unison knows to stand up on their feet oh absolutely yeah you've been at many big time sporting events you know that moment quite well that's what it's like when you take your first sip of Quairvo delicious it's the signal that says we're not checking the time anymore pal is when small talk turns into stories Quairvo man it's at high five a random stranger effect that's right the game is popping you're hugging people you never met before that's the kind of energy that Quairvo brings it's so smooth so delicious that's the Quairvo effect keep it Quairvo let me make this very clear Mother's day it's huge in my household I got my mom I've got my wife I mean they're both the greatest I'm so lucky I got the best mom and I got the best wife I can't mess that up I've lived in both ways my mom did everything for me growing up and now I watch my wife do the same thing that's right for me and my boys the patience the sacrifice the stuff that doesn't get nearly enough credit flowers are fine but they can't feel like an afterthought that's why I go with 1-800 flowers they've been doing this for over 50 years they know what they're doing when that box shows up my wife my mother they know oh my god the fresh full like you put effort into it that's right now this is easy you order a dozen roses they double it to two dozen for free that's how you take care of mom and your wife the right way Mother's Day of Sunday May 10 and bouquets are selling out fast trust me don't wait to claim your double roses all for before they're gone visit 1-800 flowers dot com slash Dan that's 1-800 flowers dot com slash Dan 1-800 flowers dot com slash Dan don't live a card what do we got here I got a magnum condom um we won't get that out that's shocking still gots here's a picture of Christopher when he was like three years old right next to the condom yes that's a reminder yeah never forget this is the done live at our show where there's two guards yeah I'm going Saturday and uh I'm not looking forward to the traveling nervous about that I mean god Saturday will be fine so it's not more just about the infrastructure this is this is the mine market it's inner Miami okay the the previous stadium where this protein this MLS changing play that was 15 minutes away from Boca Raton this is huge to have it this close and yeah will it be annoying getting in and out yeah not nearly as annoying as driving up to Lockhart Stadium so Dan you said something that I got to push back on it that oh the stadium experience doesn't matter and I would say no it does matter because that's the stuff you don't have to share right you share the revenues obviously the national TV deals you share the revenues on your local TV deals that doesn't apply an MLS because it's all through yeah and it should be noted that attendance is a huge part of the business plan in MLS they don't have this big booming we don't know that all the particulars of their deal with Apple but the business model is get people into the stadiums I was one thing that MLS was really good at while their TV reach wasn't anything to be impressed by their stadium capacity their ability to actually reach die hard soccer fans in this country was always supportive but even in the major four sports attendance is still a huge lifeline right one of the parts about the you know the move to shorten an NBA schedule the big obstacle is because owners don't want to give up those home dates because if you look at it there's a way to do it where the national TV people don't lose any games you can have the same number of national TV games which means same amount of inventory same amount of rights deals money but you know the local deal is the one where that would get the haircut that's not the part where people are saying no or the owners are saying no they say no because hey you're that's concessions that's parking that's however many how many million dollars a generate every single home game it's still a huge lifeline for all the major sports I think you're using outdated information here this is not my opinion though I presented it as mine I have heard Samson and Skipper talk about what business people are doing with these streaming dollars on the sporting class and they say that the customer is reduced here who goes to the stadium because of how much money is involved with the high end that the ticket price on this stuff is not as valuable as the multiples they're getting because they've gotten entirely they've gotten all these new streams because all of these owners when you talk about daily attendance on these games it pales compared to the 500 million each of these is going to get when you get one expansion team where they get to share all the money of the 10 billion dollars in expansion money the dollars are so crazy with television that even your over-inflated ticket prices are worth less than they've ever been in the mind of the people who are running these games they're not worth as much as the dollar the streaming dollars with tv rights deals but they're still worth something you're making it into an absolutism like oh because we have this money I'm doing it because of the pandemic and how it is not able to do sports without us in the stadiums that's not how it's happening right like you are conflating hey this isn't quite as big a deal as it once was with it's nothing i don't need it at all and that's not the case there's not then if you look across every single major sport two things are are true number one average ticket prices are higher than they've ever been number two the customer experience is way more extravagant than it's ever been you can't tell me even 10 years ago the things that we see as common in all these stadiums across the country were common 10 years ago it's not true they're the existence of the tv rights money and whatever streaming money whatever you want to call that it does not devalue the in-game experience otherwise we would do what a daily team did about 20 years ago which is hey we're gonna have like a hundred seats we're gonna sell the hundred seats for an school an extraordinary luxurious experience at a high dollar now and we don't care about having an in-crowd in arena crowd experience that's not happening in any of the sports and so Samson and Skipper can say that because yes this thing is getting bigger but it's like saying hey now that I have $500 I don't care about this $100 bill regardless it doesn't apply to MLS because MLS is still a very young league that is very dependent on people going through those turnstiles when you say we're not there and you're right I shouldn't be absolute about these things it's not that the customer doesn't matter at all it's that the customer matters a lot less and while you're saying that they're improving the in-house experience and Mike you're also right then I mentioned that in the in the preface to it when I said soccer is different than our four major sports when Skipper talks about the Super Bowl being on pay-per-view all of this stuff within the next five years we're headed there and you're feeling it now the way that the customer gets reduced to hey you realize that we just need the television dollars and your eyes and your interest we don't need you necessarily buying our hot dog anymore we'll charge you the $50 for parking we're gonna keep making it so that your experience at home with sports is better than your experience at the stadium I don't think it's too hard to connect these conversations what I mean is trying to say is when you look up Super Bowl tickets they're $20,000 but like the ticket prices are increasing and there is a premium now put on luxury experience hospitality experience across all majors sports because they're trying to get the big money in there the the in fan the in arena experience for all the majors has certainly been accentuated recently with all these new stadiums I guess what I'm saying to you is when I say again for now what do you think the beginning of that looks like if not for we're presently living it like if whatever it is you're fearing here because yes once yes the Super Bowl ticket is absolutely that expensive wait till I put it on pay per view and they can get those dollars and see what happens to the ticket price when no one wants to sit at the stadium anymore because it's what's happening with the television dollar you can't have all these other oil wells where then the companies of the future Amazon Netflix everyone else is competing for your eyeballs as we're sitting there watching NFL on Sunday at home because it's more fun to watch it at home because getting to the stadium is a pain in the ass I'm I'm talking about Mike when it comes to you and your relationship with inner Miami I and you said public transportation you are using public transportation in Miami a whole hell of a lot of people are not if I had to make it a three-hour drive for you all of a sudden your interest in going to the game of the defending champions would be less I would assume I mean I went for several seasons and I made that drive once a every couple of weeks to watch inner Miami play and ultimately I got priced down and I decided to like refocus some of those ones to the University of Miami but now that they're playing closer it's something that I'll look at again I want to be able to take my daughter to to a soccer game down here I think the MLS product is is enjoyable I for what it was a prefab stadium but for what it was the Moss family in inner Miami tried to make the hospitality areas something that was impressive certainly impressive for MLS I think since this is a permanent structure I haven't toured the stadium or seen what what it's like but I think that they're putting a lot of effort into that because this is a David Beckham own team they like their VIPs it's a big part of this whole brand so I imagine it's going to be impressive it's gonna be covered it's gonna be a cool place to watch a game it's soccer specific I'm excited to have a permanent structure in which our champion MLS team can be playing in and I'm very excited to not be driving 10 minutes outside of Oakland return for it this was not a dream location for them I think that should be pointed out like eight years ago when David Beckham stood over here at the Perez Art Museum introducing this whole thing in the whole dream they envisioned a waterfront stadium across the causeway near the port near off Biscayne Bay waterfront they didn't get that so they built the stadium where they are but the the Moss family their expert money makers and they're brilliantly taking advantage of what could be the last year of the messy era that's why they rushed to get this stadium built because they have to grow a fan base I think the franchise is probably terrified and rightly so that when messy is no longer in uniform interest in the franchise may go down and one other thing I would point out is that inner Miami recently and fairly quietly I don't know how much publicity this got they started an entertainment wing an entertainment arm of the whole business operation they've already booked major concerts for that stadium they plan to be a year-round magnet for for crowds so so they they know what they're doing in terms of making money when you say that though and I don't want to worry about 10 years from now because 10 years from now it's very unlikely that any of this is going to mushroom cloud into what it is we'd all like it to mushroom cloud into you lose messy he signed for much longer than next year but because they just they just resigned him but what Greg Cody is saying this this part is really interesting to me the history of this what they envisioned versus what they got David Beckham strides in international soccer international icon Miami glamour and glitz and I say to him eight years ago best case scenario for this what's the best case in it years he's like there's no way it's the best player in the world is defending champions and we've got a new stadium where's it gonna be by the airport like they whatever David Beckham imagined here was not in it was not in bokeh it was not in Fort Lauderdale it was not by the airport he imagined something glitzy and waterfront because they've delivered on all the things you would need to have the monster event thing that you would want to have going into the stadium you have the defending champions you have the best player in the world you have an event town and you have a new stadium in the center of an event town is this going to be one nighters are going to be 10 years because is it going to be one season or are they playing for the next 10 years because that stadium is going to be there long after Messi's gone look they were they were an expansion team and they had good attendance before Messi I know you could say well that's expansion your excitement but also it's very far from the customer base they were trying to reach so I think soccer is always going to have a home down here in Miami I think there's always going to be people interested in going to see professional soccer and while Messi is not going to be in that shirt forever built into the business plan is going out and get somebody that's marketable that can wear that shirt it's one of the bigger brains already in the Americas and while if you ask David Beckham what's this going to look like in eight years he would have been wrong because it took 10 years like but it yeah he wanted waterfront initially but I drive by the parcel of land in over town which they were supposed to capitulate and play at and the airport is way better than that plot of land so I think they actually spun this into quite a win can I be me maximum here and ask is this going to affect me get into the airport I think if you're trying to leave on match day the first match day they're probably not going to have all that stuff worked out just the same way that they didn't have it worked out at the formerly known drive pink it takes a couple of weeks for that infrastructure and those logistics teams to get a good read on that to get read on traffic flows but I do think ultimately and not that it's going to be super seamless because it is a part of an airport but it's not the only stadium that's near an airport if anything the airport infrastructure could be spun to actually helping this stadium if done right I imagine with time it won't be nearly as bad as match day one will be Saturday helps they're fortunate that it's not a weekday night game because that's going to be a problem those really don't exist in MLS unless you're in concacap champions cup usually most of the games are on weekends avoiding peak travel times hey it's Mike Ryan and I want to talk to you about the random midweek king that you have with your friends maybe it's an NBA game you get a text hey come over you want to watch the game and maybe you're like I don't know I kind of just wanted to stay home and then you think about it after your buddy hits you up and you know just the thing that'll make that regular hang that regular midweek hang around the basketball game into a special time into a miller time that's right this happened to me just last week I grabbed a six pack of 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worst hitter that first or like going for two when you're down three with a second ago it wouldn't make any sense so don't let the team down when it comes to jagermeister break it all break it all jagermeister damn that's cold break responsibly jagermeister the courer 35 percent alcohol by volume imported by master jagermeister US white planes to New York Don Libertard he has been great he's made great hires I said all we've said he's in all that everything you're saying it's all been said okay you gotta understand one thing still gots me maximum that's right so I say it hasn't been said whoa okay understand that until I say it hasn't been said VCC Don Libertard show with their still guards the other investment in business and sports that hummed back to life this week was the University of Miami football team because these are two interesting things trying to get the foothold in this town that the marlins never have even with two champions right because when mike says where you put things like the the customer base that inner Miami is going to be drawing from the University of Miami is the closest thing we've ever had down here to a professional team that's not a professional team until recently they were bigger than the entirety of the panthers everything going on five championships University of Miami football mario christoval it can be said now like he has the conversation has ended about is the you back that's over it was boring old for 20 years it was everybody who said yes was wrong for 20 years but is the you back yes obviously like that's been answered and now is mike Ryan is Greg Cody are you mensome members like because they now have they have now a quarterback that to me when I watched him play is in the mold of the things you look for in Carson back in camward wait I'm dropping someone in right now who's like very close to being a professional and I'm letting him run my professional team the way that a quarterback has to run a professional team when he's a veteran when he's poised when he's somebody who's played big games even if they're at Duke this is what did you see at spring practice I saw the guy that I saw in film who's really good at rolling out and throwing a pro throw to the sidelines very accurately and that's what I wanted to see in person that's what I saw I think you'll have the best offensive line in the best wide receiver room he's ever had I mean they took Duke's leading receiver and they added him to this room and last year we were really worried about the receivers and that depth got tested especially when Daniels went down the receiver room is really impressive here mens says exactly who I thought he would be Jackson Cantwell is a freak now I don't think that the offensive line is gonna be the same or as good as last year's but it's still gonna be the best that mens has ever had and I think the coolest part is seeing the community take to Malachi Tony Malachi Tony and camward he was the number one pick but he came in from Wazoo he didn't have this fanfare this is the biggest star that I've seen at Green Tree in my adult life the way that kids look at Malachi Tony the way that high school recruits are maybe two years younger look at Malachi Tony like there's something there he's tapped into something with this community because if you're familiar with his story this guy's been a local football legend for like eight years people have been talking whispering about baby Jesus and sharing highlights of baby Jesus he's a prodigal son right and he believed in this process the way the Jeremiah Smith did it and to see people whip out their phones and quiet shush people when Malachi Tony has this presence around them that's the type of energy that I haven't seen at Green Tree in a very long time yeah they may have to pay to keep them I'm imagining but Mario Chris of all yep they already did they did yes came confirm reports Malachi he's a great recruiter obviously and he's owned the portal for with three excellent quarterbacks in a row he owns the portal but everybody forgets in 2017 I think it was Mark Rick had the number two ranked team in the no they were they were number one so my point is the you was back unquestionably but now it's about sustainability now it's about not having three laws that wasn't this okay they were number two and if they beaten pit they would have been number one and they lost against pit but we all knew that Stephen Morris and all of that was bandages and nonsense that's not what we're talking about now right four first round picks four first round picks first of all yeah that's debatable it'll probably be three okay but still when when's the last time when's the last time they had a couple of those on the same team never mind the same pass rush the the thing about the formula to me that is impenetrable is they're now dropping seasoned quarterbacks who want to play into the professional cauldron of do you want to get better it's better for you here than it was it do dukes actually won the conference and we actually haven't doesn't matter we're the place where the first round picks go we're the place that's going to get you to the pros we're the place that the quarterbacks want to be you want to know why because we got a number one pick and came award because Carson Beck is just flown up the draft here when we we watch him play big games for four years the last of them at Miami they just got a quarterback that they're know is good even though we don't know how much the surrounding talents around him was good at Duke we know now what Malachi Tony is your number one receiver but you got to go and steal the guy who's got chemistry to make him your number two like the guy he's got chemistry with he played with all of last year you're just dropping him into a receivers room that didn't really have a number two last year everything you say is undeniable and nobody's arguing about it my point is right now they're dealing with expectations moving forward that they haven't dealt with for a quarter of a century they have to win now the expectation is torqued up the pressure is torqued up they're the betting favorite to win the conference ahead of SMU so now the expectation is when the AC is gonna get easier now though Greg because the hard part's done the hard the hard no Greg what do you mean what do you mean the hard part is done it's getting the first round picks to choose your school once you prove you can do that everyone wants to get to the money like that the problem that they had for 20 years is the first round picks weren't either being developed here or found before they were first round picks now it's not refutable one of your chief concerns if i tell you last year's team you know national runner-up great season they lose i think it's going to be for first round picks gan thay scott's pro day was outrageous and and i know people that are at the uh the coaches meetings right now and he's certainly a buzz about name you lose four first round picks naturally the worry is how are we going to replace these guys that's not my worry when i go to practice we got the guys to replace these guys the problem is going to be replacing that mentality because those four first round picks were absolute psychos mario chris ball would not agree with you that the hard part is done the hard part is living up to expectations sustaining expectations winning a national championship they're on the precipice they haven't done it yet Greg you can't assume you can't assume that the arc is you're both right mario chris ball will say this is a unique challenge and trust me he's talked to other coaches across sports how to deal with this and look we got 40 these guys weren't on that team you know they have this expectation but respectfully the hard part was digging this program out of where it's been for the last and you on and well you say no doubt but you just argued with it like that you are really underestimating okay mario chris ball comes in for four years ninety million dollars and everybody says what are they doing what are they doing they're making a ninety million dollar down payment on nope we're gonna play in this every year like we're gonna you're gonna know that we're gonna compete for this every year why because the pros play here now like that is you say what's the what's the hard part winning a national championship is hard but i can make the argument with four first round picks you under achieved Indiana doesn't have four of those oh they might have three like people like to do this thing with Indiana yes not as talented as Miami plenty of talent okay but Miami had a bunch of first round picks one year and got beat by ohio state who didn't have a bunch of first round picks but had like 14 players drafted not a bunch of first round picks but had a bunch of pros on the field Indiana's older my point is that you just played against the team that had the best college resume in the history of the sport for the national championship and you now have what link if and said Alabama had every time they walked onto the field which is you walk onto the field and you're like our guys are all bigger than theirs we have like the whole thing is built on for all of the guys that we're talking about being drafted okay the whole thing's built on we're gonna be more physical than you up front they haven't even gotten the skill guys there yet cam Ward was one of them but they haven't actually gotten the receiver room the tight end room that's one place that's the one hole on on the scene that I see that and who's gonna be to Kobe Thomas there's gonna be Kiante Scott who's gonna be Ruben Bain who's just an absolute psycho about winning we'll see how that plays out during camp is saying the one hole is in the tight end yeah that's what I'm saying Greg likes it you think that digging them out of the hole they were in for 20 years that there's something harder than that because they were trying for 20 years to dig out of that hole once you get to that game and are the number two team the leap from there isn't a very large one like you now expect you say expectations are a different thing you now expect you m to win the conference you now expect you m to play a playoff game yeah I do and you got to live up to it but you know how different that is but you know how different you know how hard it is to get that like they've gotten to that and Mike was at spring practice and and Mike can be lightheaded about these things because he said Carson Beck looked better than cam Ward last spring but what did you see did you see an appreciable difference in what it is you're watching now versus what it is you were watching three years ago yeah over three years ago like I've been a practice is a green tree since Mark Rick era and I've been lightheaded and I've not known the way that it's supposed to look and now borrowing off my past experience like I've been pretty level headed and also pretty right about the University of Miami it looks a certain way the same way that it did last year there's not a talent drop off if anything the talent across the board has gotten better you hear me it's gotten better despite losing four first round picks I would say you know the biggest challenge for this program isn't even having success in the CFP anymore it's winning the conference something that they haven't done they've only gone to Charlotte once I've told this story before but it's interesting to see Mike have the perspective from the other side where you're watching what you have has been for 20 years close up on the field and you're like I don't think that looks how it needs to look and then you see what the pros look like and you're like oh okay that's what I missed my first time in a locker room the guy I'm talking to is Jerome Brown the first guy I'm talking to is a fellow student is a human being who's not a student and that's my 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