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I love the chase and the hunt,
and I set the pace when I'm running.
I always take what I want,
and I always give it one hundred.
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Play the game like it's nothing.
I'm always thankful for something.
Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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It's not working out,
maybe it's the chemistry.
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We know what time it is.
it's lunch time what is going on everybody
welcome to lunch with the clydesdale where
we take a break from the busy work
day catch our breath hang out with friends
and talk about the world of sports and
entertainment and specifically crossfit
So I am sure you've all heard the
big buzz around the sports world,
and that is that Sharon Moore has been
let go from the University of Michigan as
head coach due to an inappropriate
relationship with a staffer on the
University of Michigan football team.
My understanding is that that person was
someone that was hired under the Jim
Harbaugh administration and then promoted
once Ron Moore got the job to his
assistant position.
There's a lot of rumors going around as
to what happened, what transpired,
why it became public knowledge.
And then the story gets weird.
Immediately after that, there was a call.
to the local authorities that some that
there was an alleged assault happening and
then uh the police came out they they
eventually find him at a location in
conjunction with two different authorities
they arrest him and they put him in
jail where he is still today um
There's rumors whether he was there for
his own safety.
There's rumors whether he was there for
other safety.
And no charges are supposed to be filed
today.
We probably won't even know anymore until
tomorrow.
But what in the world?
What in the world?
Like...
We went through all of this stuff over
the past ten years where people should
have learned that you can't be dangling
around in the workplace and expect to get
away with it.
You just can't do that anymore.
We are in a world where there is
so much information and so many recording
devices and so many people listening in on
things.
You cannot get away with this stuff
anymore.
It is mind-boggling that there are still
people out there that think they are
powerful enough or that they are above the
system enough that they can get away with
things like this.
I am just flabbergasted over this.
David Reed,
cheating in Michigan seemed to go
together.
It was so funny.
I'm watching Get Up this morning and you
have like Adam Schefter and Taylor LeJuan,
both who graduated from Michigan,
talking about they need to make sure they
hire the person that upholds the standards
of Michigan.
What is that standard now?
Because in the last few years,
you've had the sign stealing scandal.
Both of your coaches have served
suspensions while working for the team.
Now this coach is fired because he's
diddling around with his assistant.
What standard are we talking about
anymore?
Sivan said, was he married?
He is married.
He has four children.
Just had a newborn baby this summer.
Amir says it's an ego thing.
They think nothing will happen to them.
Well,
I think there is evidence over the past
several years that things are going to
happen to you.
You just...
There's too many people with...
axes to grind with recording devices with
it you just can't you just can't anymore
um mark phillips makes a great point uh
the interim coach that was named at
mission michigan his name is biff poji
maybe the greatest name ever in college
sports
Biff Poggi.
And if you don't know his story,
what's completely wild is this dude,
through investing,
is like a huge millionaire.
Huge millionaire.
And he just loves football so much that
he coaches it for fun.
He has made so much money in the
stock market that he just does this
because he likes to.
But yeah, I love the name Biff Poggi.
Chad,
a new fee currently in a social psychology
course.
And this is just an incredible case you
could dive into.
Yeah, like, yeah.
When you're that much in the spotlight,
it's bound to come out.
Dumb move.
Well, and especially in college football,
because you are competing with other
schools to get top-end talent.
And other schools will rat you out for
everything you have ever done to get that
kid to sign with you instead of them.
It is ruthless.
It is cutthroat.
It is savage.
And in this line of work, you cannot...
go that far outside the bounds and not
expect it to come back and bite you
at some point.
Paul Cain, it's a testosterone thing.
I didn't want to just put it into
just males because there are a lot of
males that have done it,
but females do the same thing.
Females cheat at work.
Females get into power positions and they
use that for their benefit.
The timeline of when the university found
out versus when the wife did along with
signing day is interesting too.
Yeah, from the accounts on the internet,
it sounds to me like the wife didn't
find out until he was fired.
And that may be what triggered then the
police arrest.
I don't know that for a fact,
so I don't want to like...
I don't want to say that for sure,
but from everything I'm reading on the
internet,
it does seem like the wife did not
find out until the arrest or until the
firing.
And then there was an argument that then
led to his arrest.
Mark Phillips says,
real name is Francis Xavier Poggi.
Still super cool.
Yeah.
If my name was Francis Xavier,
I would go by Biff as well.
Uh, Jonathan Ortega,
people just got yelled at in my office
and it's awkward in here now.
Yeah.
Don't you hate that?
Uh, N L E M N L M.
I don't know.
I'm going to figure it.
I don't know.
As someone who has worked their whole life
in HR,
I've never seen a relationship cheating or
not be successful.
That started at work,
especially with a power imbalance and
roles like this.
problem is people are not thinking with
their minds in in those moments generally
um yeah i saw this as well train
olive apparently bryce underwood removed
the michigan tag from his ig transfer
portal is about to be busy yeah they've
got to get someone what the transfer
portal opens the beginning of january so
they're gonna have to get someone in there
someone to meet with the players and it
better be someone big that convinces those
players to stay or they're gonna lose a
hell of a lot of players
Chattanooga.
There was a tweet nine days ago from
some guy saying exactly what happened.
Rumor is the school knew and withheld it
until after signing day.
Yeah.
I'm hearing,
I'm hearing conflicting things that the
school had done some investigations,
but they didn't have anything concrete
enough to fire him with cause until
yesterday.
And I don't, so I don't know.
I don't know the truth.
I don't,
In this world of college athletics,
it would not surprise me that people would
wait until after signing day.
But the fact of the matter is in
college sports,
the minute you let go of your coach,
you are let loose from your letters of
intent immediately.
So all those people they sign to their
class can now go to any other university
in the country because their coach is
gone.
And because the coach is gone,
that means everybody on the team is
eligible for the transfer portal and
everybody is let out of their letters of
intent.
So it really opens up everything.
Waiting till after signing day does
nothing.
Does Penn State still need a coach?
No.
They signed Matt Campbell last week.
And it actually turned out to be a
good hire considering they took forever to
do it.
But yeah.
So.
Just wanted to hit with that.
I did look at the rule book a
little more in depth last night,
and I don't see Lito in the chat,
but she had that question about what
happens if you're a Masters athlete,
you do the online semifinal,
And then you do the French throw down
and you qualify for the games there,
which one counts.
And if you read the rule book,
it says just like last year,
their rank will be passed over.
Let me see.
From the first competition for which they
qualified,
their rank will be passed over in a
subsequent competition,
in-person semis or online semis.
So it will be the last place where
they qualify.
And just like last year in the Elites,
because the online didn't certify for
three weeks if you then qualified in
between there that's the one that counted
and then the online you got bumped out
and someone else got that that spot um
The athlete needs to request being
released from their national letter of
intent and national letter of intent is
bound to the school, not the coach.
The request change came in.
I I'm just David.
I'm just quoting what I heard on get
up this morning that wet because of the
coach being fired.
There is a clause where the national
letter of intent becomes null and void,
but I, I, I could be wrong.
um savan says and that's why women
shouldn't be allowed in the military i'm
not sure i would go there for that
um i don't have a problem with women
in the military just don't have sex on
the job i think that's an easy solution
So, and anyway, to answer Lito's question,
if you qualify at the French throwdown and
then the certification of the online
happens two weeks later,
your French throwdown counts as your
qualification, not the online,
even though you did it first.
That's the way I understand it.
David, more like don't cheat on your wife.
Yeah, all that stuff.
Well, and I mean, honestly,
when you're on a job,
aren't you there to do something,
not have sex, not have a relationship?
Um, I mean,
I worked for the state of Ohio.
We've had people fired before for having
sex in the stairwell for, I mean,
it happens.
It's dumb.
Being in the military isn't your job,
it's your life.
Okay,
I kind of see where you're coming from.
I still, I mean,
all the family members I have in the
military still look at it as their job.
So I don't know.
Interesting point.
How do you even cheat when you're the
coach of a big school?
Married, have four kids.
I don't know how you cheat,
especially a newborn.
It's selfishness.
It's ego.
It's a lot of things.
Mark Phillips, in the Army, it was life.
Maybe Air Force is a job.
Most of my family members are in the
Navy,
and that's the experience that I know.
So.
A couple other things I found in the
rule book overnight.
Team eligibility has changed a little bit
this year.
You have to be a registered member of
the affiliate again.
This time it has to be by the
close of the first weekend of the open.
And you have to do all of the
workouts at the affiliate unless you are
competing at Wadapalooza and you can do
twenty six point three at Wadapalooza.
But all other workouts have to be done
at the affiliate where you are registered
as a member.
They have expanded public review this
year.
Public review will not just be for elites.
They're expanding it to the age groups and
adaptives.
Adaptives don't do semifinals online,
but the age groups will now have their
videos up, posted,
and be available for public review as a
way to narrow down the...
to narrow down what they look at further.
And then the one thing I just wish
they would change is the affiliate and
good standing.
And maybe it's just coordinate better with
the affiliates themselves.
Affiliates...
I've heard too many cases where affiliates
turn people away from doing open workouts
or quarterfinal workouts last year or
semifinal workouts last year who tried to
come to an affiliate in good standing to
do their workouts.
If you're going to make a requirement,
then it has to be accessible for people
to be able to get in there.
That's all.
I hate that.
The other quick thing I wanted to talk
about is,
and then we can dive into whatever you
guys talk about in the chat.
Mark Phillips is asking, shoot.
My mouse died.
Anyone heard if you can comment on why
you mark needs review on a video review
yet?
Boz said yesterday on the Sport of Fitness
podcast that your information as a judge
is now visible to them when they're
reviewing.
So if they see like a mass amount
of negatives about somebody and there is
no reasoning,
that they can flush that out this year
where they couldn't last year.
So apparently, it will track who you are,
why you've done it,
if what Boz said yesterday is completely
accurate,
which I don't have any reason not to
believe him in that.
I think they saw that as a limitation
last year where people were just marking
it and they didn't have to put their
name on it.
Now, all of that information goes with
your remark as to why it was Mark
needs review.
And you can check that out on the
sport of fitness podcast with Boz
yesterday.
He did talk about that during that
conversation.
So last night on the spin,
Brian spin said,
announced that he has had a fifty eight
minute conversation with Wayne Deebner,
the guy allegedly in the process of
purchasing CrossFit,
that they had a very long conversation and
that
the way Spin put it on the show
last night is that the way it came
across is that Wayne Diebner does believe
he is the sole person left,
him and his partner,
can't remember his name now,
are the last people left in the purchase
of CrossFit and that he believes it will
be done by Christmas.
So,
I'm really just tired of the rumors,
honestly.
Um,
but it does seem like it does seem
like if he's willing to have that
conversation with Brian and talk about it
that long.
And Brian did say he shared his vision
with him.
Um, yeah, thank you, Vicki.
It's Mastrov, uh,
Mastrov and Diebner are the,
the purchasers of,
are supposedly the purchasers,
purchasers of CrossFit.
Um,
it sounds to me like spin truly believes
that this sale will be done by Christmas.
Um,
it may not be like completely signed over,
but the,
the letter of intent or whatever it might
be will be done by Christmas.
Um, and it may,
and it'll leak into the new year,
just finishing up all the details.
Uh,
but it's just crazy to me that we've
gone this far and,
and here we are that, uh,
the purchase looks like it's going to be
done by guys who do the globo gym
thing that crossfit has fought against for
years and years and years i i i
don't even know how to react to that
without knowing their vision it's really
hard to even buy into any of this
um
but I'm not optimistic.
Maybe I've just become too cynical,
but I'm not optimistic off the,
off the get go on this one.
Wade is batshit crazy and has nothing on
the table.
Okay.
That's what, that's, what's crazy.
That's,
like there are these people that truly
freaking believe that they are in the
business of,
are in the process of buying this thing.
And then you hear other stories from
people inside that there's nothing on the
table.
There's no proposal.
There's nothing like,
how can it be so extreme from one
end to the other,
other than one of them is batshit crazy.
So I guess that, that is the reason,
um,
I don't know.
It's just...
It's a wild world we live in, man.
It's a wild world.
Sivan also comments on the fact that the
videos will be up for public review.
This means lots of new content for Andrew
Hiller and many masters getting prolapsed.
I hope what it means...
Not that I do not disagree with you
at all, Siobhan.
What I hope it means is that people
will be more careful about the videos they
post,
knowing that people like Killer are going
to be out there reviewing it.
So they're going to make sure they hit
depth.
They're going to make sure that their wall
balls hit the target.
They're going to make sure that they
follow all the rules that are out there.
But I am sure there are a ton
that will not do that as well.
I love the public review.
I love it even more now that you
have to put your name on the public
review.
I think that that is,
I think it cleans things up naturally
because people don't want to be picked on.
So they're going to work like hell to
make sure that their videos are in good
shape and that they have hit the standards
before they submit the video.
But the fact that you have to submit
every video of every workout and put it
out for the public to watch,
I think makes it cleans up a lot
of the mess that we get year over
year.
just by having to do that itself.
Whether there is a review by CrossFit or
not,
the public outcry enough will clean things
up a lot more than we've had in
the past.
So I'm stoked that they have improved that
process and are going to continue that
process.
I think it is the way to clean
up a lot of the online issues that
we've had in the past.
The last thing I wanted to talk about
is
It's something else outside of the
CrossFit space,
but I don't know if you guys have
saw,
there was a big announcement that Netflix
has bought Warner Brothers and HBO.
They made this big announcement that it
was a big thing to increase their library
with the quality content that HBO has been
putting out.
And their historic library,
like The Sopranos, like Deadwood,
like The Wire,
all of those shows then become the
property of Netflix to be able to
distribute globally with this purchase.
It was a long-fought bid between Netflix
and Paramount Plus over buying Warner
Brothers and the HBO production.
And in the end, Netflix wins the bid.
The interesting piece is that Paramount
said, screw you,
we are now going to
a hostile takeover you wouldn't let us buy
it so now we're going to attempt to
buy enough stock to take to do a
hostile takeover and take over warner
brothers that way and put a kibosh on
the deal between netflix and warner
brothers i find that stuff fascinating in
business
It is so competitive and so cutthroat that
here you are in a bidding process and
you're going back and forth and Warner
Brothers decides, hey,
we're going to sell to Netflix.
And Paramount says, well, screw you.
We're going to buy up all your stock
and we're going to take you over.
it is going to be interesting to see
if they can pull it off just because
you say you're going to do it.
Doesn't mean you can,
and doesn't mean you will.
So it's going to be interesting to see
if Paramount can put the funds together to
buy up enough stock to then take over
Warner brothers before the sale to Netflix
is final.
And I know from talking to you on
the chat, we all stream,
we all stream shows.
We all stream movies.
Um,
I don't like the fact that we're getting
back to some form of monopoly in all
of this stuff,
and then the price is going to go
up, I'm sure.
on everything because it just can.
I mean, Netflix goes up every quarter.
It seems like I get an email.
Hey, we want to bring you the best.
We're going to up your monthly
subscription by another two dollars.
And I don't even watch Netflix that much.
It just it frustrates me because I
my mom who is eighty we pay for
her Netflix she watches it all the time
if she wasn't on my bill I think
I would just say screw it and drop
them with as much as they up the
price but they have me because I don't
want to take away my mom's entertainment
um
But anyway, I just found that interesting.
I don't know if you guys do.
I think it's going to be fun to
watch to see if Paramount can pull off
the hostile takeover.
But yeah.
Just got a breaking news from ESPN.
Sharon Moore is expected to appear in
court for arraignment on Friday.
So that means we will hear the charges
against him tomorrow when he is arraigned.
tomorrow,
but we probably won't hear any more
definitive as to what actually happened.
Just probably more speculation rumors as
to why he was arrested until then.
But if you have Twitter, if you have
I mean,
I found out a lot just on Twitter
last night about what was going on with
him.
Now, whether it's confirmed,
whether it's true,
who the hell knows with AI and all
that stuff out there,
you just never know what's real anymore.
But there is a lot of cooperating stories
on Twitter as to what happened after the
firing.
And it's pretty ugly at times.
So...
The only thing the police have officially
said is there wasn't they were called on
an alleged assault.
And and there we are,
the guys in jail and he will be
arraigned tomorrow.
So.
Anything else going on with you guys?
No.
Other than this,
it's been a really freaking slow week
trying to come up with things to talk
about this week.
I was looking at Legends today.
They start tomorrow.
And one thing I did find interesting,
if I can find that story again,
if you've ever been to Legends,
it's a really cool venue in Arizona at
Arizona State University.
And they've changed the floor setup this
year.
I'm almost there.
Here we go.
So if you look at the floor setup
in the past, so here it is.
So this is taken from a balcony.
And what was cool in the past is
the rig was right below the balcony.
You could get really great shots of people
climbing the ropes from above right off of
that balcony.
And so this is a basketball floor.
And in the past,
they had the rig horizontally this way
across the bottom.
Now this year they have flipped the rig
and now it goes up the side.
I don't know if it's that to make
it wider or what.
And then here in the back,
you can kind of see a second floor.
So they have this floor.
They have a floor in the back that
could run simultaneously.
And there is generally hockey glass.
separating this floor from this floor so
it actually mutes down the sound a little
bit and and then if you go out
to the right that's where the olympic
swimming pool is and it is fifty meters
wide but they use it as a twenty
five yard pool and so they go across
it the width wise instead of the length
wise um
It's a great facility.
Just curious why they flipped the rig this
year.
But our boy Cowboy,
Cowboy Corey is out there.
He's flying out this morning.
I know Denise Moore is going.
I know a couple of our other listeners
are competing out there.
And so we wish them all success.
The best of luck.
It's a great competition.
I know that Joe and Bob get dogged
a ton about hosting the games.
But when they're hosting this event,
this is their baby.
And they can make it whatever they want
to make it with programming.
And people know what it's going to be
when they're heading there.
So I think it's a great event for
that.
my only beef with them is when they
run the games and they don't consider
trying to find the fittest on earth when
they're programming and they don't
consider others.
They don't ask for help,
I guess is the best way to put
it.
So Jonathan Ortega, they left you on red.
Yeah,
I don't know if I will ever get
back to having any access again with them.
We'll see what happens in the future.
really disappointed about what happened
with the games this year and the very
limited access we had.
Um,
but they did that with all third party
media.
They only let their own media people on
the floor.
They only let their own media, um,
in the warmup areas.
Um,
and everybody else were just like a fan.
You got to sit in the stands.
Uh, um,
Yeah,
they said we will contact you last year.
Yeah.
They don't understand the value of
third-party media and how it's free and
how they put out and promote your event.
They think it's old school and they can
control all of that.
Yep, Hercules only.
They pay Hercules a shit ton of money
to come out and do packages and stuff
for their athletes.
It makes no sense to me.
It makes absolutely no sense to me why
you would pay for a media company to
come in and do photo packages when you
could just let third-party media come in,
do a bang-up job,
and not have to pay a cent.
It's like the old school way of getting
your yearbook picture taken by a
professional and they're the only ones
allowed to take your yearbook picture.
What are we, children?
Oh, well.
But anyway.
I saw your text, Jonathan.
Joe actually told me something different.
But maybe it was just to brush me
off.
Anyway.
All right, guys.
have a one o'clock meeting today so i
only have a couple minutes left um we'll
keep following the strong more thing um i
will keep reading into the rule book but
really i don't see much changing um it
looks very similar to last year with a
little bit of sprinkling in of twenty
twenty four um where they i think they
made changes and they went back to what
they what worked better in twenty four
But, hey, we have everything.
It's December eleventh.
December eleventh, we have the rule book.
We have the timeline for next year.
We have the schedule.
We have just about everything we need for
the season.
That has never,
ever happened before in my time covering
CrossFit.
I don't know.
Maybe back in the regionals days,
they were better at that.
But it is...
It's crazy.
We have everything we need to follow the
season on December eleventh.
So shout out CrossFit.
Nice job getting us everything early.
Now just hope they don't sell to these
as Sevan put it batshit crazy people and
we can continue on with the plan and
not have to do something different because
they took over and wanted to change
things.
but we will,
we'll see what happens with that.
I'll keep following along and we'll talk
about it then.
So I will jump off now.
Hope you guys all have a great rest
of your day.
Jay Birch says maybe they have finally
have a team together to get it done.
I think there was just a good focus
this year.
I don't know.
We'll see.
With that, guys,
I hope you have a great rest of
your day.
I'm going to go back to work.
You knuckleheads get back to work as well.
And we'll see everybody tomorrow on Lunch
with the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.