But I'll give the Denver media guys at least this much credit. At least it was the second question that got asked. That's fair. I think there was at least a little side eye of like, are you serious?
One person, all I need is one person in that room to be like, oh, Jesus, that's the first question I'm going to ask. Well, then maybe they should have been one to ask it though. Well, I got jumped in. Like, you know he that was the we're going to give you the honor of the first question because we know you're not going to ask it tough one.
But also we've done enough of these things. Sometimes you want you want just to get that softball in that first easy one. It's kind of warmed up a little bit. So to speak.
Yeah, something I noticed by Sean Payton at Press Conference is now this year. Not the long hoses like we've heard in the past. Oh, speech coach. I don't know because I listened to quite a bit of the watch to two the press conference didn't notice that nearly as much.
So I don't know what the deal was there, but it was the second question he was asked. But he says, well, we don't really we don't control this right now. It's just it's you know, it's we're going through the league's protocol and yeah, you do control it because you could just cut him if you really wanted to. If you wanted to, you could do that.
You would tell the union like bring it on. Like you're going to look bad. You really want to look that bad? Well, this is all said and done.
Yeah, I ran to somebody yesterday here in the building and and it came up and they're like, well, he'll get through it. It'll be fine. I go, do you realize? Like, what he alleged to have done and I told this individual, I said, well, they took her to the hospital.
She was checked and hypoxia had she was strangled. Oh, well, I'm not reading that ago. Well, I don't know what she's been reading, but that's by leading that out. That's incorrect.
That's in the report. That's in the report that we support that there were signs of strangulation hypoxia and strangulation. I go, she didn't like it. She didn't do that to herself, right?
And this person just looked at me a gas that well, but that's not what I've been reading. Well, I don't know what you've been reading. You mean where you get your news is it inaccurate? I was just they were flabbergasted.
And I was just like, oh, he said she said, you know, little, little, you know, dust up, you know, no big deal. This will just go away and it'll be fine. I'm like, eh, there's more to it than that. Way more to it than that.
He also violated her straining order. We still stay away from her. Not have contact with her. You violated that.
So I just I just found that interesting that there was this kind of where I'm getting there. That's that's not what they're telling me. Instead of, oh, I didn't hear that. It was you can't possibly be right because I haven't seen that.
Yes. Very much. Twenty twenty six. That's how the world is.
Yeah, I was I was rather. Yeah, it's not while we get information in different places. That's unfortunate for society. It's you can't possibly be right because I read a headline.
You read the whole story, but I have all of the information. Yeah. And I mentioned where I, you know, Denver Post reporting this and and there's a little bit. Oh, well, OK.
Not like it was OK that, you know, it was the Denver Post. It was that made them were credible. It was. Oh, really?
OK. But they follow the Broncos. They they may not follow the Rockies anymore. Yeah, there's no building.
I mean, I'm not Patrick Saunders, but they do have their ear to the ground pretty hard on what's going on with the Broncos. So anyway, I thought that was it was an interesting moment where I'm going to go in. What are you talking about? Like like like they just had this verbal spat and that was all there was to it.
It's like, no, you're apparently not following this nearly as closely as we are. I have three guesses as to who this person might be. We're not if we won't play the game on the air. We're not going to play the game on the air.
No, we're not going to do that. Then there's a down to one person. I think we're not playing that game on the air. All right.
Seven oh six. It'd be a fun game though. Really a quick game. Not as quick as Broncos practice was yesterday.
Oh, the activation period out. Oh, Nick's working with the first team. They got a little seven on seven little red zone. Just take what the names to the Ricky's forehead and call it good.
That's all we need to know. There we go. So anyway, we'll talk about the Broncos coming up around the NFL top of the eight o'clock hour. We'll have the comments from Sean Payton about Jonathan Cooper, but also about Michael Wilhoyt, the assistant coach too, that he was the asked about his return after allegedly punching a police officer at the I and getting tased and charges were dropped though charges were dropped.
So we have to make sure we acknowledge that we don't leave that out of what's the truth about what happened with Michael Wilhoyt. All right. Seven oh seven Jim along with the Buckeye boy today coming up top of the nine o'clock hour I'll have a throwback Thursday. We're gonna go back to 2005 when now district 51 athletic director Sean Marsh was the head coach at Grand Junction High School.
They played the state championship game played it then in Vesco Field at my first state championship game ever at the Broncos home stadium back in the day in 2005. So we will talk with Sean Marsh about that. We'll bring back that conversation. We have a Sean Marsh about that for more.
What's your football showdown? I was going to bring back the sideline interview conducted from that game as well with Pat who conducted an interview with Beetle and did not look at him once and had a cape and his arm had to be stretched to its full length and beetles not like me. Yeah, which is kind of short arms. He's a he's a tall dude.
Yeah. And his body guy, whatever was holding body guy was like he told me was like you got it, you know, get a certain distance away. You get any closer. You're gonna move the team to San Antonio, which once you get pappling did a lot of really good things the Broncos.
But I still think I think that I think back to that. I'm like, wow, that was rather tell to Bravo. Yeah. Yeah.
You think he's gonna breathe on him or too much or what? I don't he's gonna Wyoming on me. I was just still still in state of shock. He's gonna get a thousand air on me.
Because he doesn't look like what? Because I have to extend arm fully as far as I possibly can to get the microphone close to you. All right, God bless, Pablo. No, he did a lot of good things.
A lot of good things. That was not a great moment. He'll touch him. That's a good thing.
That was probably a good thing. No offense. All right. So Rocky's losing San Diego to Padres Gabriel Hughes.
Give up three runs, but I thought give him once again a pretty good effort yesterday. Rocky's offensively just couldn't get anything going. So they end up losing like three total runs in the two games. Yeah.
Yeah. So Padres, they have another really close matchup with San Diego and unfortunately, now the Padres are over six of a co there. Oh, for six of a co there. Oh, for six of a co there.
Yeah. Oh, for six there. Hard to believe. All right.
So we can still take some of your comments about the Cooper. Should he be a practice right now? Give us your thoughts on that on the comma's team line 97024230. Do you have a rookie that you're pulling forward to make the team guy?
I like Red Murdock. I've kind of learned to to embrace the whole Red Murdock hype. Mr. Relevant.
I like to call him an awful lot, but love me some Red Murdock. So if you have a favorite rookie, you get a guy that you're kind of pulling for to make the team. You can send it to us on the comma's team line 97024230. All right.
It is time for what's happening. What's happening? All right. Lay things off with the Denver Broncos open training camp Wednesday at Broncos Park as they started an acclimation day.
The short notepad's workout that included some seven on seven and red zone work was starting quarterback. Next, your quarterback's coming up. Thank you. I'm John Paytal.
He's seeing from next. Do I think he's going to continue to improve? Yes. Man, I'm pleased with the shape he's in and the timeline relative to everything we've discussed injury wise is falling into place.
It's good to have him back out there in the team periods. Also at camp was Ed. Richard Jonathan Cooper, Cooper was arrested twice in June on domestic violence related charges involving a licensed sultan, his girlfriend paid the dress of Cooper situation after practice. Staying the course with the league.
We're saying the course with league protocol club protocol relative to what we're advised to do. We're working away from the building and we'll continue to do that and monitor it. We're supportive and yet I'm very much aware of the seriousness of these type of things. And catch Brock is training camp reports Mondays and Wednesdays at a 20 in the morning and 420 in the afternoon on the team sports network.
They're different word other than fantastic. He might have been able to use their. Yeah, that was that was poor choice of words when he's been doing the things we've asked him to do. He's doing the things that he needs to be doing.
He's putting the words supposed to do whatever. Fantastic. Fantastic. Fantastic.
That's his girlfriend. She probably have a little bit of opinion on that. All right, Rocky's fell to the Padres three to one Wednesday at Petco Park giving us the same Diego perfect six-0 record at home against Colorado. Both teams were scoreless for three and a half innings when San Diego played all three of the runs on the bottom of the fourth.
We're keeping pitcher Gabriel Hughes when five innings, winning six hits and three earned runs. That's huge, huge learning experience for a young pitcher to be able to give up a three spot like that. First of all, limited to three after bases loaded nobody out and it bounced right back out there and put up a zero like he did and then give us this six. Rocky's manager Warren Schafer both the Rockies and Padres had six hits back up.
Catch up red something played yesterday. The only rocky with two hits in the lone RBI. Colorado's off today. They return to Coorsfield for a series against Kansas City that starts tomorrow night.
He's pitched at 640 pregame at six tomorrow night on the team sports network with Jack Corrigan and Zach Goodman. Greg Schutcher, Tiger, softball team has a dominant arm and transfer Chloe Donnie who became the last season while Donnie was playing high level club softball and being recruited by division one programs. She still averaged over eight strikeouts for appearance and 17 starts. Coach Scott Els says Donnie who should get rolling a bit earlier this season.
Matthew is a little bit stressful because that's a big recruiting season in the kitchen with pitching so much. You finally hit her right at the end but now this year it will last. We'll play a few left tournaments since you've already committed season good health. She's incredible leader as well.
Just extremely positive. Tigers open up the season next month. As the rest of the day are the big Southwestern champions by the way and softball. Scott Els heads into his second year of coaching the Grand Junction softball team.
Right. Also we've been talking with the fall sports, winter sports coaches throughout the course of the summer for the monument to former football Wildcats assistant girls basketball coach Lindsay Shaw has officially taken on the program and is guiding the Wildcats to their first summer together. That includes getting some time in the court with returning standouts like now senior Haley Wagner and sophomore Olivia Hopkins Shaw says she feels fortunate to be able to coach the team that she's seen this summer. Super lucky to be able to coach both of them and then we've got a bunch of other returners that stepped up over the summer and some incoming freshmen.
So I think we've got a really special group coming in. We've got a ton of potential. Shobs and assistant coach to Michael Wells before he became the first one boys basketball coach right 714 and that's a look at what's happening. All right.
Jim along with the Buckeye boy from the Beaux Art Miller Chevrolet, New York studios and most trusted name in automobiles. We'll give you a chance to play the piles favorite game on a Thursday later on this morning, which is of course, and I regularly feel Colorado sports trivia as well. See, you got a question from Jim D on the Commonwealth's team line. Good morning guys.
I'm wondering why Razorback suckers not playing home games here. The contract they had with the city was for what? 1718 home games for 17 home games, but also with the way the pickles league does their playoffs. They're so far spread out that the higher seed hosts all of the games and the they were a wild card team.
So unless they play the other wild card team, which they won't, but they won their series they finished off their first. So my understanding was though, they wouldn't have played here regardless. I don't know about that specific because of the using the stadium for high school football got to have a lot of us at that's my understanding was the regardless of what I know they had to do in their division to even get a chance at home games. If they were a wild card, they're on the road.
Anyway, my understanding was the contract of the city kept them from from hosting. That could be and Ryan Ryan Ryan, while I kind of confirmed that that that the stadium was not available. That's something they said they would like to talk to the city bad going forward. I don't know how that's not going to work.
And now that may so be able to use that as the more their practice facility for football, though they typically miles coach over the coach they do it in the mornings, but they're there's some potential there's potential conflict with high school football coming up. So that my understanding was the contract did not include any postseason games here because of the stadium and parking and all those things being part of it. I just want to. I believe you.
Yeah, I'm just I'm just going to what what understanding. I'm just going to what understanding out there. That's the nodding. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah, that's what makes sense. Yeah. That was what I've been led to believe.
You know, can be wrong. It'll be the first time will be the last time, but that was what I understand that was part of not just the wild card. Yeah, I didn't know the city side of it. I knew the playoff format pretty much once they were out of the division running, precluded them from being a home team.
Exactly. And I've been talking with Ryan while he's just their field manager. He's not not, you know, the team is owned by the pay goes league that there they've got a lot of stuff to work through before next year in terms of another season playing here in limited number of home games in less home games than most of the pay goes league teams played this year, like quite a bit. Yeah.
I was looking I think for the pay goes league, every team played more road games than on the team, which is weird, which is how that math works out. They also have a Texas team that doesn't play any game in the tech. What they have a team from Austin that is only from Austin never in Austin. They play in the California.
I was people. It's a goofy league. It's it's wonky. Yeah, it's a pretty goofy league, which that's one of the cool things about it a baseball, right?
Yeah, goofy and weird wild stuff. Do some wild out of the out of the box thinking kind of stuff. All right, 718 Jim along with the Buckeye boy. We will take a break and we'll come back.
Rockies drop both games in San Diego. We'll lose a couple of tough contests. The Padres. We'll talk more about that next.
I like all their takes. They're legit solid takes most of the time Western Colorado. Welcome to the Jim Davis show on the team sports network. Welcome back 721.
Yeah, I'm just looking at some of the information. The agreement was for 18 home games. That's it. So they got one left.
It's happening because I only played 17, but that was the initial. That's for the parade. I think it's for the pickles. The pickles lead and they win the pickles championship.
All right. So, um, come on Iraqis. They're not going to be winning a championship in 2026. Yeah, that's just going to go out there and I'll live.
Okay. And I get a little prediction seven o'clock. They will not win the World Series this year. The Rockies dropping both games in San Diego to go to games set against the Padres of Petco.
They end up losing both games like three total runs. Yeah, that's better in the first series. Yeah, exactly. Or they got what walked off twice though.
They got walked off twice, but one was a seven three loss because of a grand span. Yeah, which made a little worse than it actually was. But the Rockies use six different pitchers. It was a bullpen day and Rockies had six hits in the game.
They potteries also had six hits in the game. But Gabriel Hughes, let's talk about Gabriel Hughes for a moment. The young man, they're working from Gonzaga. I think they've got something there with him, don't you?
I do. I think there's a lot of positivity to be had for Gabriel Hughes, at least in my mind. I mean, he fits pretty well. Like, you know, we give Michael a Renson a lot of grief.
They're both thinking of the Padres. They can misspoke. I'm sorry. Okay.
Open gave him the Padres. Yeah, they read out like six or seven different guys. Five strong, like, I mean, three earned runs. He only had the two strikeouts.
He wasn't overpowering. But for the most part, he, I mean, he kept him in the yard, which is good. And you had what the Tatis double was pretty sharply hit, but other than that, the other two hits or the other five hits weren't, you know, like they were streamers or rockets. That was only extra base hit.
Yeah, you know, so he did a good job. He just doesn't get any run support. And the Padres are a better team. Like they're there one through nine is pretty good offensively when they can all get cooking.
Top five had a hit. I mean, when you got Tatis Crowe with Matato, Machado, Tye, France, Jackson, Merrill. Five like, yeah, you're going to give up some hits, especially if you're a rookie. Those guys will eat rookie pitchers alive and to get out of there with six hits and three earned runs is not bad.
That's pretty good, honestly. Yeah, he was a base loaded situation. Ends up giving up three runs, but he was able to limit damage. One walk for the entire afternoon.
Like so for Rocky's pitching, you get out of there, you give up three runs, six hits. You're pretty solid with that with a rookie on the mound. Yeah. And after the game, Warren Schafer spoke with the media about Hughes performance.
That's huge, huge learning experience for a young pitcher to be able to give up a three spot like that. And then it's a three after basis loaded, nobody out and it bounced right back out there and put up a zero like you did and then give us some to six. Brett Sullivan had two hits. He's the only guy with a multi hit game.
He drove in the lone Rockies run yesterday. And for the Rockies, they went down one, two, three in the ninth against Mason Miller. Yeah. That happens.
Mason Miller's got standout stuff. It's got his 28th state with that, by the way. The thing that bothers me is like you, you know, a couple of ground outs in the tie. It's half of the first you get two on and Willie Castro doesn't even get the bad off his shoulders.
Two on two out. Like you are you could get after Kyle Hart knowing it's a bullpen game, put pressure on Craig salmon to use more guys than he's wanting to in that situation on that day. And you don't even get the bad off your shoulders. If you're really good.
And then at that point, it's just kind of like, all right, well, we're going to go out there in the next inning and see nine bitches and then we're going to go out there in the following inning after that and see nine more. Now all of a sudden Kyle Hart in a bullpen day, which was advertised beforehand is through three relatively unscathed. Yeah, he goes two and two thirds and gives up a couple of hits and that's it. And for the Rockies, Bernadino was good on the pin yesterday couple of a little bit longer.
And he was really good. Honestly, both the both of those guys were pretty sharp and he was with the exception of that third was really, really good. And and you look at right now, you know, his ERA in five appearances, clearly four starts. Yeah, three point three three.
Not bad for a rookie pitcher getting his first taste of stepping on the rubber, you know, at the big league level. And now it's going to be for the next two months for him to make that next step in his development, which is getting getting himself a putaway pitch. I'm not I'm not saying he needs to focus on strikeouts, but when he's up one, two in account, he needs to be able to put guys away. We saw that in the inning, they scored their runs.
Like he had the first three hitters either behind in the count or two to a worst, I think. And he didn't get any of them put away. They had single single and he hit croninworth. That sounds right.
But so like three guys got in that was your basis. I was you were talking about like he had a chance to put all of those guys away and it's nitpicking, especially for rocky stitching, right when his area is what you said it was. It's nitpicking to be like, well, you know, let's get some outs, but it's like it's just that next step is what they need from him over the next two months. Now he's been really good.
He could be so much better if he's just able to put guys away and not let him hang around in at bats. And I think that is a rookie. That's that's part of the maturation learning process. And I think there's certainly a lot to be excited about.
Yes. And hopefully Chase Dolander before he got hurt. We saw Dolander. I thought for the most part, pitching really well for the Rockies.
I thought so. Yeah. So the future is bright on that front with guys, young guys in the organization. So the Rockies, they drop both games at Petco and they're back home after day off today.
Take on Kansas City. Tomiuki Saginaw, Rockies first 10 game winner of the season. We'll get the ball from the Rockies tomorrow night. We don't know who's going to get the start for the Royals.
And it's Ryan Felton on Saturday. And then Kyle Freeman to wrap it up on Sunday then after and then on Monday, Rockies get right back at it, taking on the leaders in the American League East, the Tampa Bay Rays. So Rockies get to get a struggling Royals team and then they get one of the better teams in baseball with Tampa Bay coming in on Monday. But we'll have coverage tomorrow night with the Jack Oregon and Zack Goodman, Rocky's on deck at six, first pitch at 640 right here on the team, sports network.
All right, Jim along with the Buckeye boy from the Bose Arthe Miller Chevrolet and Little Buick studios and most trust and name in automobiles. So trade rumor wise, have you heard anything new in terms of anything in regard to the trade rumors of the Rockies? We know that Hunter Goodman, that's not happening. We kind of addressed that ad nauseam.
I haven't I haven't seen anything new. Like I know that Hunter Goodman's not going to happen even though there's interest. So like I'll put it at like 98% not going to happen. Yeah, I think that's fair.
You know, there's always that chance, especially Paul de Podesta. I'm even tickling 99%. Yeah, that's probably safe. There's always that chance that somebody's going to call them and there's going to be a guy you can't refuse.
I hate that. I don't even want to go down that road because I'm tired of guys from my teams getting traded away, especially on the Diamond mainly more so on the shores of Lake Erie than in Denver. But that would suck for this side. Everyone I think pitching is available from all the things I've read.
There's no can't have there. Exactly. And the trade deadline, by the way, is Monday at four o'clock. So that is the trade deadline.
Orrin Schaeffer said, they've talked about it openly in the clubhouse. It's just a fact of life. Guys get traded. And they've managed he feels like to stay relatively locked in.
Particularly those guys like a McCarthy and a Moniac that there's been a lot of chatter about them possibly going someplace else. Step aside from the Rockies for a moment, the Terricks Google nice to his 1000th career strikeout in his last start before the deadline. Will Terricks Google still be a tiger after Monday comes and goes? I think his bullpen just sent him out of town because they jumped out to a seven nothing lead through six and lost.
Yeah. Like Terricks Google was like leading seven and nothing starting the seventh departed six and two thirds of 300 runs last night. We got that thousand strikeout. I think he had like six or eight total and they lost that game.
That's the Orioles. By the way, school will reach the mark in eight hundred fifty seven innings topping. Do you know who for the fastest 1000 strikeouts with the Tigers in franchise history earlier? No, you're in the right territory though.
Scherzer max Scherzer. Nin hundred and forty four and two thirds. School will also the fastest fastest left hitter to a thousand strikeout in major league history behind O'Raldis Chapman, Billy Wagner, former Tiger Robbie Ray and Blake Snell. So one of those guys is a starter.
Well, Robbie, so two of those guys are starters. The other two were really Wagner and a rollers Chapman. A whole of a favor. Probably when it's all said.
Yeah, feels like going up there when it's when it's all over. All right, seven thirty three. Jim along with the Buckeye boy. Text to call us on the Cowboys team line nine seven zero two four two thirteen forty.
All right. It is time for sound check. Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention? I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story.
I need all of you to stop what you're doing and listen. What was big 10 media days this last few days in wherever they were? I think maybe Chicago. Chicago and well Ryan Day met the media and while I do get on the fire, everyone bandwax second for Ohio State, I do kind of like Ryan Day.
And one of the things I do like about him is he will put the rivalry ahead of money. We talked about the JP Morgan Chase Jersey patch for Ohio State and Ryan Day had he pumped the brakes initially with Ross, York. I do want to say in full disclosure, when I first heard about this, I knew about the reputation of JP Morgan Chase and I was excited, but then I saw the logo and I said, absolutely not. We're not doing this.
And then Ross said, no, no, it's not going to be blue. We're going to do it in white. I said, okay, then it's a whole different deal because that was absolutely not going to happen. That's right.
We're not putting blue on those jerseys. Oh, wow, now it's not going to happen. No, no, no, no, no, no. Glad they found an alternate color that was.
As long as that we put the cross over the am in Morgan, we're good. The exit. All right. Put the rivalry ahead of money.
That's what we like to see in college football. It's so much about right. Over the course of time. Yep.
But clean old fashioned hate ahead of money. As well, it should be. Yeah. Like sport take, not really.
Well, yes, sports ain't not really. All right. So since you talk about the Ohio State patches, which we discussed out the other day, Notre Dame, they announced a partnership with SoFi to put patches of the financial services companies logo on Notre Dame jerseys, including, of course, the school football uniforms. So it's supposed to bring 18 to 20 million annually.
And Ohio State signed the same or someone we just referenced with Chase Bank for $17 million. So it's Notre Dame's went well. Look, look, we're getting more money than Ohio State. Look, we're not going to be in a conference.
Look, that's a benefit of not being in a conference. Teams can begin to spline up to two logo patches, no more than four square inches each on uniform starting on Saturday and one patch on equipment. I'm surprised it's taken this long to be totally honest. But only if head coaches in the sideline interview at halftime talk like NASCAR.
We want to thank the JP Moore and J. Buck. I think they were fantastic. They're the first changer.
We brought in our JP Morgan, Chase offense. I'm waiting for that to start naming like their short yardage or whatever, the JP Morgan, whatever. I'm waiting for the no fees on the no fees or minimum capital impact guy to do a sideline interview. Exactly.
Totally, totally unrelated. It's kind of related because Canadian football league, they were patched as they have for quite some time. Something I've noticed watching a Canadian football league now for a while, the backup quarterback short yardage guy, you don't see that in the NFL. No, I can tell you don't because they also only have three downs.
So they're more in a position to go for it in some of those cases. They have a guy pretty much it's a guy. It's Tim T. Bo Chris Leak very much Tim T.
But Chris Leak it's usually it's a it's a more it's a running quarterback, usually a big guy like 6465, 225 that is quoted back up, but they pretty God that he doesn't play because it's a couple of times. But Chris Reveler, the play for the Jets, one of those guys. That played in the CFL for a long time that could throw it a little bit. It's very Tim Timmy, Timo could have had a career in the CFL if he really would have wanted it because he would have been the perfect guy for that.
I was watching the game the other day. I'm like, every team has this guy, but they get to like, it's sucking down in a yard or no or third down and third down and you know, third down one, third down and two starting quarterback shots off the field. And it comes a big and they because they do it a lot more obviously. And so that's the reason why they utilize it's there's value in that roster spot.
I just thought that was so interesting that you just see the big old back of quarterback coming. I mean, he might have been able to play the team. I want a great cup. He would have wanted to be like headlines more than football.
Now, seven 38. Jim, love the Buckeye boy. Love you here from you today on the Commonwealth's team line 97024 to 1340. Koopu, Woonie and crazy.
The Jim Davis show on Colorado Sports leader. Welcome back 742. Jim, along with the Buckeye boy. All right, we talked to college football before the break.
Keep it on college sports in total with the current work that's going on on Capitol Hill in regard to the college football protect college sports act that they're trying to get to a vote on August 7th. That is a bipartisan bill with Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz and co-sponsor Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat from Washington state, trying to get it to a vote before August 7th. It's the last day of the Senate meets before going on break. And then the Senator's turn for the second half of September before breaking for all of October.
And then of course, got the midterms coming up in November. So there's not a lot of time from a Senate standpoint here to really devote us to bill and get it pushed across the finish line. So if they have two breaks between now and thanks, three breaks between now and Thanksgiving, I mean, the wrong industry. No kidding.
It should be running for Senate. So earlier this month, the SEC and Big Ten put out a paper outlining 10 common sense improvements for the protect college sports act the first two and three of the 10 on the list that deal with a couple of issues. The conference is seeking answers on whether the increase in revenue share would impact rules governing third party payments to players. Also question of whether as an increase would comport with the house settlement, the $2.8 billion settlement that dictates rules around revenue sharing that the plaintiffs to turn it, Jeffrey Kessler said that he would like to see the language before weighing in on whether it impacts the settlement.
So part of this, you know, that's not in it was mentioned of rewrites regarding anti-trust protection or presumption of state laws. So some other topics that have been addressed in negotiation include adding flexibility to requirements over how much Olympic and women's sports programs some schools should have and relaxing language over conference expansion, while it leads to grew up to 19 teams. There have also been language designed to prohibit private equity investors from paying schools to form a super lake bill to conference is good. See, you know, refinement of that language.
So going to the flexibility to requirements over how much Olympic and women's sports programs some schools should have. You're walking into timeline, aren't we? Yeah. Or what used to be until they have it.
Yeah. One of the things that I mentioned before, John Weber, the Colorado State Athletic Director, has a concern about is one of the things I just mentioned. The limit on conference has been able to add other programs and other schools because John Weber brings up the point, you know, which is a little wonky considering they're just starting playing the Pac-12 this season, the newly reformed Pac-12. We'll say what if somebody, what are the big 12 wants is.
But the Protect College Sports Act would potentially prevent them adding a Colorado state that the Rams could not move up to a power for conference because those restrictions, not that that's likely to happen anytime soon until football gets really, really Boise State good. That's not going to happen. Yeah, they're not going to be coveted that much. I don't think.
No, not at all. And so. And it took Boise State being 15 years of good. So I don't know if it's going to happen in the current regime.
Yeah. And so, but he's trying to not paint themselves in a corner and I get that understanding. But you know, long term, you don't want to do that to yourself. You know, the likelihood of CSU moving on to that, you know, highly likely, but you want your options if you're CSU going forward.
One of the chances that gets passed, let's say before 2027 to zero, then it gets passed at all ever a version of this. 10%. Yeah. And that might be generous.
I give it five. It's probably closer to the truth. Yeah. I think we have a hard time getting this through and because you're going to have.
I think we have a lot of representatives for, you know, that are from parts of the country that, you know, the SEC and the big tenor and you know those guys, Petiti, Sankey, they're calling senators going, Hey, unless there's some major changes here. Boy, this is bad for us. Yeah. It's bad for the fans.
It's bad. They'll sell it on that. I mean, anymore, they don't even really have to do that. They just have to have a top 10 donor in their conferences footprint.
Call the senators office. That kind of influence as well. You're like, Hey, you know, you're going to vote this way on this thing for a sizable contribution to your next campaign. Yeah, whether it's Petiti or Sankey phone call or like said, enlisting the many boosters.
Yeah. And it should be nice to have the SEC support behind your next campaign, wouldn't it? Exactly. So now if they're change is favorable to those two conferences, well, then all of a sudden, we're talking about a different story here.
That is the same conversation. Wouldn't it be great to have the SEC in your corner in your next campaign or the big 10 in your corner? Yeah. But right now, this does not benefit them, does it?
Right now. How it's currently constructed. Also, since we're talking honestly on the field, we're off the field stuff with college sports. College sports commission, they've approved the NIL deal that was what $7.5 million for 18 Nebraska players.
They're initially denied by the college sports commission this year. So Nebraska restructured then resubmitted the deals funded through playfly, the school's multimedia rights partner after an arbitrator in May upheld the CSC decision. So it's the reason why this means anything is it was the first major challenge of a ruling by the college sports commission, which is created by the power conferences in the wake of the 2025 House versus in silly settlement to police payments to college athletes. So initially, the CSC rebuffed the deals because it categorized playfly as an associated entity of the school, similar to an NIL collective.
The deals were restructured to avoid the CSC definition of warehousing and type of payment prohibited by the House settlement. So what does warehouse and what does that mean? A company purchased the NIL rights of an athlete without issuing specific deliverables. Well payments to the 18 impacted athletes we made according to sources that the newly specified after the newly specified responsibilities are melt or mad, excuse me, the parameters that were established by the House settlement from its schools to pay up to 20.5 million per year in revenue, sharing directly to athletes.
Many athletic departments are turning to third party NIL deals to exceed that revenue cap. So this challenge by Nebraska, the first, but certainly far from the last one. Yeah, I think it's going to break open the dam, to be honest. And so the college sports commission, are they going to be able to have more authority, more impact on college sports in the instant place than able to have in some of these things?
I'm not sure. Yeah, I don't know. Because kind of the route is going to be the same, I think. We don't like this decision.
So we're going to take it to court. I just don't know whether you're going to be able to have in that world any sort of firm ground to stand on it for either of them, honestly, the commission or the NCAA. I don't know if they're going to be able to have more in effect, I guess, is what I'm trying to do. Yeah, I'm not sure either.
We haven't we haven't seen it material. We haven't seen it. We haven't seen it have the opportunity to really police some of these things for a long period of time. And when they're about policing them is, you know, enforcing rules that exist, like, there are very few rules that exist for the NIL stuff at this point.
You know, they're going to have to get everyone to agree on some of these standards and rules and all this thing and then enforce violations outside of that. That's going to take a long time. All right. So one of the things from this from college, sports and college football, we talked about Michael Lombardi being on paid administrative leave as the general manager of the North Carolina football team for Bill Belichick.
So Belichick was asked about Lombardi being put on administrative leave, how they're dealing with that. He said, we're working through some things. We're in a particular time of year now where there are certain things that are in play and certain things that aren't in play. We're taking a day by day and you know, working through the things that are on the table now.
Can we throw in a few more kind of cliched comments in there, Bill? I'm sure he could if he tried. It doesn't really seem to try. What a mess.
What an absolute mess. So the university issued a statement as a result of concerns behind allegations that led to the personnel action regarding Michael Lombardi announced on July 27th, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its office of university council was in the process of investigating this matter. And because it's a personnel issue, they will not be talking about their investigation going forward. College sports is a mess, isn't it?
Yeah. It's just kind of a mess. We've been talking about the last several minutes. We need federal intervention, allegedly, to fix college sports.
We have players getting players getting paid a lot of money. Yes. We talked about their 20 guys that played college basketball. They're getting paid more than LeBron James will.
You've got this mess in North Carolina. Well, it's a traditional mess though. This is an old man behaving badly. That's traditional for college football.
That's on brand. Yeah. But this is also guys that have ties to the NFL that thought they could go into college football, take what they learned from the NFL, Michael Marty, long time front office guy, Bill Belichick, and give me first ballot Hall of Fame coach that they thought they could take what they'd learned at the pro level. And it's just going to be seamless team 33, right?
Yeah. Well, the thing that works for Bill Belichick at the NFL level was knowing the rule book inside and out and being able to exploit loopholes or vagueness. There's no rule book to speak of in college football right now. So like the NFL is very governed.
Yeah. And exploiting the loopholes is one thing. College football is pretty much ungoverned. There are no loopholes to exploit.
It's it's a Wild West. It's it feels feels like somebody's getting worse, doesn't it? In some ways, because it is because it is. All right.
We will take a break out. We're coming up on the Jim Davis show on the team sports network.