Clydesdale Media Podcast

We take out lunch break with all of you to hang out and talk about a variety of topics of the day.  In today's episode we talk about the rumors around Ricky Garrard. Dave continues his week in review episodes and keeps them short and sweet, College Football Playoffs are back for quarterfinals starting tonight with Penn State vs Boise St.  How essential is streaming for the WFP?
00:00 Introduction
00:39 College Football Playoff
03:35 Gauntlet Style comp
05:42 Loyalty
15:38 Streaming CrossFit a Priority?
26:03 Dave's Week in Review
28:50 Favorite Interview 2024
34:33 Favorite Content of the Year 2024
36:35 Wrapping it up

Kaitlyn Johnson Interview
https://www.youtube.com/live/Gl31KUJlVKU?si=6DK05VJB9cFACJO-

All Access: A Behind the Scenes Look at the CrossFit Games
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4ZfchumTSCywtQomT6OWIHWoOTmFC1vp&si=a8NgcgbzB7Zkc7-X

What is Clydesdale Media Podcast?

We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.

what is going on everybody

it's tuesday afternoon time

for some lunch with the

clydesdale uh it's a big

day here you know what day it is it is

college football playoff

night starts off tonight my

beloved penn state nittany

lions taking on boise state

seven thirty p.m eastern

time tonight in the first

game of the four

quarterfinal matchups to

happen tonight and tomorrow

when I was a kid I loved

that my birthday was on new

year's day and I could just

hang out and watch football all day long

And the fact that my Nittany

Lions are in the playoffs

and they get to play around my birthday.

My birthday is not until tomorrow.

Celebrate tonight, hopefully,

with a victory.

Get to enjoy tomorrow with all that.

So super stoked about that.

Good afternoon, Corey, Jay Birch, Holly,

Jody.

What's going on, guys?

And happy anniversary, Jay Birch.

Today is his thirty-year

wedding anniversary.

I'm getting close, man.

I'm right behind you.

I am at twenty-seven.

Twenty-seven years, I think.

This May.

I should probably do the math more.

But yeah.

Holly says,

happy anniversary to Jay Birch

and an early happy birthday to me.

Thank you so much.

I'm pretty stoked about it.

Got a lot of cool plans for the year.

And Corey has made it six years.

Hey, got to start somewhere, man.

I remember those first years, man.

Those were probably harder

than the later years.

So super stoked for tonight.

Hopefully Penn State plays well.

Their defense can tackle the

best running back in the country.

Really stoked about that.

I think they can do it.

If they can tackle him early,

then the game becomes much

easier because they are

kind of a one-trick pony.

But yeah.

so uh really stoked for that

I know I'm saying stoked a

lot I don't know why I'm

that's happening uh today's

the last day I work for a

week uh because we have

some procedures coming up

and I just took a couple

days off in between uh but

yeah so today's my last

work day so this is my last

work lunch hour we'll do a

couple more uh throughout

the week as we kind of uh

finish up the the year and

start the new one um but I

wanted to talk about a few things today

While we were on the air

last night with Sunday

Night CrossFit Talk on a Monday,

which was a great show,

lots of participation last night,

getting some workouts in on

our traveling gauntlet-style workout.

Now they're starting to flow

in a little bit more,

and you can get your name into the...

You can get your name into

the drawing for one of our

either water bottles right there.

It's got the little pop-up straw on it.

It's stainless steel.

Keeps your drink cold.

And it's got the cool

Clydesdale Media logo on it.

You can see that there.

we also have the the the

coffee mug uh same color

same stainless steel makeup

just a little small smaller

so if you win you get to

pick which one of those you

want and we'll get that

sent out to you uh but we

have we now have a handful

of entries uh into the

traveling gauntlet and if

you go back and listen to

last night's show at the

very end we get into like

much more detail about what

we are trying to accomplish

here what we think someone should do

And what like CrossFit

should do or some

organization should do to

get the community to come

back together and do some events as a big,

large community.

But we get into more details

about the details of all

that and what we're kind of looking for.

So make sure to check that out.

And it's probably in the last ten minutes,

the last ten minutes of the

show from last night.

If you want to know more

about that and how to enter

to win one of those prizes.

So Judy always needs reminded by Jody.

It's nice to have that

personal concierge that

takes care of you.

But is the notifier not working for you,

Judy?

My notifier didn't work today either,

actually,

because usually I get a pop-up

on this other screen saying

that I'm going live,

but I didn't get it today.

So that's weird.

So the main thing I wanted

to talk about today is loyalty.

And where has it gone?

And if I'm doing some self-evaluation,

I would say that one of my

fatal flaws is that I am

loyal to a fault.

I will hang on for longer than I should,

even when things aren't working.

So...

But, but because I'm that way,

when people aren't loyal, I get,

I get upset.

And I,

especially when it's with my friends

involved.

And so what I want to talk

about is last night, the barbell spin,

maybe it was last night.

I don't know, but I'm,

I'm behind on my Instagram.

So

where he said no underdogs

in the bio and it's Ricky

Gerrard's athlete profile on Instagram.

And then, you know,

the little emoji like this.

And so why,

why this affects me so much in this case,

um,

I'm going to have to be a little bit

talking elite fitness here and I,

and I don't mean to be,

but I need to do it for context.

So in I was at the west

coast classic in Las Vegas.

After that was over,

I was invited to dinner at

Justin Kotler's house with

him and his wife and his family.

At that dinner, Cat was with me.

We were there having dinner,

and they approached Cat and

I with a question.

If given the opportunity to

coach Ricky Garrard,

would it make sense to do so?

it was a very tough decision

for justin to make and what

I learned that night is he

was actually approached by

ricky to be a coach um and

if you remember he's coming

off a four-year suspension

for peds um he was trying

to rebuild an image um and

it was it was a difficult

decision to say do I take

this person on and at the

time justin was coaching

bethany danielle and carrie

as well as a handful of others.

And they were,

they had just swept the West

coast classic.

Those three women took first, second,

and third at that semifinal that year.

So Justin is at the top of his game.

Ricky comes to him and asked

him to be his coach.

And he has to make that

decision with all the

baggage that Ricky brought to the table.

He makes that decision to take on Ricky.

And since then,

when Ricky has been healthy,

he has podiumed at the games.

He has won Waterpalooza.

He has done all those things.

What I find...

infuriating is now now it

seems and this is not

official this is just the

barbell's been putting this

out we've heard nothing

from ricky so if he is not

leaving underdogs then all

of this is moot but if he

leaves underdogs and you

have a person that stuck

their neck out for you when

you were at your lowest

trying to come back and

rebuild your image in the

sport and you did so

You and him put together a

package where you came in

and you were successful and

you finished second at the games.

You podiumed.

You won Wadapalooza twice.

You've done all these things.

The only times you have not

performed well are when you

decided to go mountain biking,

jump off a ramp,

and break your collarbone, shoulder,

whatever it was.

or when you were doing chad

came off the box turned

your ankle and it forced

you to change the way uh

you could perform through

the rest of the games now

uh you're deciding to go

with another camp if the

rumors are true to proven

Now, I get it.

Tia is in Australia right now.

You get to train with her there.

Jay Crouch, Maddie Sturt.

It's a pretty good training

situation there.

But Justin has not failed you in anything.

And I posted my feelings to the post,

and I'll show that real quick.

Because someone responded,

and I have this platform,

so I'm going to respond back.

Uh, and so you can see here's my,

when you're at your lowest

and people help lift you up,

your answer should not be

to turn your back on that person.

If true, no longer a fan.

So one of the responses was

Clydesdale Media,

change is not always bad.

A change of scenery,

training with the GOAT

could be a great opportunity.

Wouldn't call it turning

your back on someone called growth.

I don't know how this is growth.

You have been completely

successful when healthy

with Justin Kotler.

And what athlete has gone to

train with Tia

Other than Matt Frazier,

who was already successful

before he went there,

what other athlete that has

gone to train with Tia been

successful or gotten to a

point where Ricky wants to get to?

Didn't work for Saxon Pancheck?

Didn't work for Brooke Wells?

You name the athletes,

they have not done well

once they have gone and

worked out with Peruvian.

So, I...

I don't know.

I'm just at a loss.

I know that in this world today,

loyalty is not what it used to be.

You know,

my dad worked at the same company

for forty plus years.

That just isn't even heard of today.

Right.

We bounce from the best

opportunity for ourselves.

And maybe that's what he

feels like he's doing.

But it just seems like when

someone took a chance on

you to walk away seems to be.

uh not not a great decision

uh jody said maybe cutler

increased his coaching

price um I don't think it

is a coaching price I think

it is a percentage of uh

what the athlete earns but

I don't don't quote me on

that I think I heard that

somewhere at one point uh

jay birch says ricky might

be a little too arrogant to be loyal

Judy Reed says,

maybe he was kicked out like DBE was.

I don't think anybody could

be kicked out like DBE was.

And that's just because I

know a little bit of the backstory there.

Aaron Frazier says,

Jay Crouch has certainly

made some big leaps in the past two years,

but don't think he has the

same potential.

I wouldn't disagree with you,

but I don't think that Jay

trains with Tia all the time.

I think that Jay and Maddie

train together and they

occasionally get together

to train with Tia.

And I would argue that Jay

was on the Ascension and

signed to Proven right

before the twenty twenty

three CrossFit Games where

he did really well.

He wasn't even with he was

signed between Torian Pro

and the games in twenty twenty three.

He had that top ten finish

barely being with Proven

for a for a month, I think, at the time.

Yeah.

Joey says, I hear you.

Seems disingenuous on Ricky's part.

And again, none of this is confirmed,

so we don't know that he's

actually doing this,

but there is a lot of smoke

around this story for sure.

And Aaron comes back with,

but I agree with you about loyalty.

There's no loyalty in this sport.

And maybe it's

I mean,

loyalty is less sports a long time ago.

Nobody stays with the same

team from the beginning of

their career to the end in football,

baseball, basketball, whatever.

I mean,

LeBron James has been switched

teams four times and three

different organizations.

Uh,

and he's one of the greatest players in

the world.

You never,

you never saw that with Michael

Jordan until the end.

And that's just because he

probably shouldn't have

retired and not come back to play.

Um,

But it was just,

it was weighing heavy on my mind because,

and I will admit,

I am good friends with Justin Kotler.

I love that man.

I think he is awesome.

And so it's probably hitting

me a little bit differently

than it would if it was

Kiefer or Max Elhaj or Matt

Frazier or any of the other

leaders of an organization.

But I have a close

relationship with Justin, and so for me,

it just stings a little bit more is all.

So with that,

that's kind of my loyalty

speech with that today.

I also have been kind of on

this little riff about

I read this story about how

well the the jake paul mike

tyson fight did on netflix

and that the nfl games on

christmas day blew up um

got five times the ratings

of the nba uh on the same

day and so the more I

thought about it and um pat

midgley helped me a lot with this

is that you have these shows

on Netflix like The Physical One Hundred.

Now on Prime,

you have the Mr. Beast games.

You have all these like this

event programming that the

streaming services seem to

get behind and market and

make it a more popular

sport or a more popular contest,

whatever you want to call it.

with that I think that that

is an avenue that if you

either the wfp or the

crossfit game season should

explore trying to get a

deal with one of those

streaming companies to go

in and film a season where

they can tell a story you

also have like uh the golf

show on netflix I think it's um

Uh, I don't even,

my brain is fried as I'm

almost done with work for the week.

Um, but, but it has the,

like the golf show where

you can follow the golfers

through a season.

It has the F one show where

you can do the same thing.

Full swing.

Thank you.

Understand.

Uh, the F one has a show as well.

Uh, more and more sports are doing this.

You could say the WFP packages,

a deal where you, um,

where you film the season

itself in addition to the

athletes prepping.

You have the twenty males

and twenty females that you

know are participating in every event,

and then you have some

challengers that you can

kind of shoot in there as

well that I think would

make amazing storytelling

and would be an awesome way

to look at different ways

of a revenue source in

addition to better coverage

and a different coverage.

We've been talking on this

show forever that the same

broadcasting group gets the

job for the CrossFit Games

every year and all the big events,

and nothing has changed

with the coverage of the sports.

You get the same angles.

You get the same close-ups.

You get all that stuff.

Wouldn't it be cool to have

someone like a Netflix

production company to come in

look at it and film it from

a different perspective and

a different angle and a different,

just to see what's possible.

Um,

Jay Birch says,

is there enough money in

the ecosystem to do that?

Well,

WFP is touting fifteen million

dollars and that they have

other investors available.

If you can sell it as a storyline,

then maybe the production

company helps with the cost

of that so that they have a

show to broadcast.

Andrew Sten says,

not sure the sport has the

personalities for something like that,

but something different needs to be done.

I disagree.

I think that.

that they do have the

personalities to do that.

And we've seen it with some

of the alternative

coverages that have

happened over the last two years.

with Sivan doing the semifinals,

with Taylor versus the world on that,

with the kill Taylor.

I think you have

personalities throughout

the sport that are willing to talk smack,

that are willing to let you in,

that are willing to do all these things.

They just need to be given

the opportunity to do so.

All that media that used to

do that has gone away.

And except for...

in fairness be friendly and

savan who have gone out and

done alternative coverages

that's where things are if

you got someone

professional like a prime

or a netflix or somebody

like that to do something

very similar I think it

could be sold to them

especially in the wfp

format that makes um the

season a very condensed and

um easily understood season

And I think that is key to that.

Where CrossFit has a

drawback is nobody knows

what these in-person semifinals are.

Are they regionally based?

Are they not regionally based?

We have that in addition to

an online version of it.

So...

The CrossFit game season is

a whole bunch of if-then-else statements.

If you've ever worked in IT,

that seems to be where we're going,

where the WFP is go to this event,

earn points, go to this event,

earn points, top-thirty, go to this event,

and earn double points to

see what the leaderboard is

at the end of the year.

um anderson asks is the

sport too small or niche

for it to work f-one and

pga are huge and have been

around for a very long time

there are shows like the

physical one hundred that

have been hugely successful

on netflix um that are even

more niche than what crossfit is

And people tune into that all the time.

I think if you tell the

story correctly and you get

interest in some of the characters,

just like Savan,

nobody knew who Taylor self

was before all of this stuff.

Savan took him, told his story,

which is fascinating.

And this,

and he had an ability to be the

underdog who could come up

and beat people.

Colton Mertens is the

ultimate underdog where we

now know his complete backstory.

And when you tell that story,

now you have someone to root for.

And it's even cooler when

you find those people in

the challengers who are

trying to get and gain the

pro card and get into that

top twenty so that they

have a contract the next year.

Everybody loves the underdog story.

If you do good storytelling,

it can be successful.

And the other thing,

all these shows that Netflix puts on,

they put their own

marketing arm behind it and push it.

And right now,

the way it's done is we

lazily just throw it up on

YouTube and hope people come to watch it.

This way,

you throw it up on Netflix or

Prime and let them do the

hard work of marketing it

and getting people to come watch it.

Pat Midgley says, Andrew, maybe,

but a show like this,

if a big streaming service

bought it and produced it,

would take it to a new level.

And I agree.

Now, again,

I think the WFP and the way

it's organized makes more

sense at this point to do this.

But if you can do it as a proof of concept,

I think it's definitely doable.

Chris Beesterfield says,

ten years too late.

It probably is,

but better late than never.

If they would have done

something like this in two

thousand seventeen or two

thousand eighteen,

I think that the streaming

services would jump at the chance.

But in all seriousness,

the streaming services

didn't know the effect of

event programming until the

last couple years.

They're the ones that I'm

reading the articles on.

They're looking for event

programming because they're

finding that it is cheaper

to produce than original

movies and TV shows,

and it's pulling in massive ratings.

Best bang for the buck.

So that's where I'm getting

this idea is I've been

reading some of the

business sections of

different newspapers and

online places over the last few days,

talking about how the big

streaming companies are

looking for event programming.

It's just cheaper to produce,

and it's more bang for the

buck on a ratings scale.

that's where I've kind of

dove down this rabbit hole

over and it really happened

uh this all came out after

the nfl was on netflix on

christmas day and then

everybody's talking about

with the boom of event

programming that's what the

streaming services are

going to be looking for uh

so yeah so philip I would

say you could rewind and

check it out or that we're

talking about instead of

instead of crossfit or the

wfp going after espn or cbs

as a broadcasting partner

go after a streaming

service that's going to do

more to market your brand

than cbs or espn we talked

last night I think it was

or yesterday afternoon that

um cbs aired rogue over the

weekend and none of us even

knew it we just some of us

accidentally came across it

so cbs did not even

promote it didn't um

announce that it was going

to be on um and so I think

it would be better to

partner with a streaming

service who are going to

market their shows

especially their original

shows uh on on the services

that's all it's just been a

rabbit hole I've died down

dove down and have just

been excited to talk about

so there's that

I want to finish up with a couple things,

and then we'll be back

tomorrow for kind of a

year-end podcast show.

And so what I'm going to

finish with is Dave's Week

in Review came out last

night while we were on the air.

Good point, Corey.

Neither did Rogue, for that matter.

I caught it at the bowling alley,

for Christ's sake.

Yep.

Yep.

So Dave's Weekend Review

came out last night.

It appears that he is really

just dipping his toe in the

water getting back into

these weekend reviews.

The first one was only three minutes long.

The second one is...

The second one is about four minutes long.

Last night,

I had a really hard time hearing him.

He wasn't using a mic.

He was outside.

But he really just talked

about going to Greg

Glassman's to hear a new

presentation he's giving as

part of the Broken Science Initiative.

But he hasn't really got

into any kind of game stuff,

any kind of competitive

CrossFit stuff in his first two weeks.

And I know he said he's just

trying to get the muscle memory back.

So hopefully over the next few weeks,

we'll start learning a

little bit more about those things,

which he did kind of

address at the end of this,

that that stuff would be coming.

But he's doing a lot of

traveling in addition to that this week.

So, yeah.

uh so hopefully get another

one next week and we start

getting a little bit more

news out of those weekend

reviews so tomorrow's show

I'm gonna do like some

year-end podcast stuff like

my favorite shows I'm gonna

count down my top ten shows

of the year um things like

that but what I'm gonna do

today is I'm just gonna

share a couple of my

favorite moments for the year um

So I live in the land of blimps.

Akron,

Ohio is just about an hour and a

half away.

And that is where the

Goodyear blimps are housed.

And what's creating my house

is right in the flight path

to Ohio State.

So every time there's a big

game at Ohio State,

the blimp flies right over

top of my house.

And that'd be cool.

Big Clydesdale Media logo on

the side of the blimp.

That'd be fun.

If we're dreaming.

Oh, you want it to be CrossFit,

CrossFit blimp.

Oh, I want it to be a Clydesdale blimp.

Yeah, Kenneth, I'm in the blimp belt.

That's where I am.

Um, so these are a couple,

these are two shows or two

things that happened this

year that I was really,

one is just my favorite

show that I did this year

and it's not like full on CrossFit.

So I wanted to share it today.

I won't put it in my top ten.

Um,

but one of the shows that was my

favorite this year was I had, um,

come across a story about a woman who.

was a a really good swimmer

had made it to uh the

olympic trials I think she

retired from swimming she

started doing crossfit she

added one day of uh

swimming back into her

routine did a couple meets

and accidentally qualified

for the olympic trials but

by primarily doing crossfit

And so I reached out to her.

I got to know her.

And that is my episode with

Caitlin Johnson.

And I'm going to share a

screenshot of that right now.

So this was our episode with

Caitlin Johnson.

This was done back before semifinals,

I believe.

But this is her picture of

her at the Olympic trials.

And I'll just play.

The funny thing about this

story is that I reached out

to her not really knowing a

lot about her history.

And then when I reach out to

an athlete or a guest,

then I do a deep dive

research thing into them so

that I am prepared when they come on.

Come to find out,

she grew up in Western

Pennsylvania just like I did.

She went to the college where I,

when I was a swimmer in high school,

had private lessons.

And we had some of the same coaches.

So we got to share a lot of

experiences in this

interview about the people

that taught us how to swim.

And I'm just going to play a

little snippet for you.

Not too much, but...

CrossFit and yet so swimming

because you've got the big,

the big swimming thing behind you,

but you're doing the

CrossFit handstand picture

outside of Lucasville stadium.

Yeah.

My friends were real troopers.

I was like, guys,

I need to take this picture.

Like where was the perfect picture here?

So I like three friends,

like take all kinds of

pictures trying to get the

best one for me.

So got all the angles.

Yeah.

Um, so yeah, that, that's really cool.

And then,

Let's get into your swimming

career so people know how good you were.

So that's just a little snippet from it.

We go on to talk that she

grew up in Western Pennsylvania,

that we had the same coaches.

And it was really a fun

interview and kind of fun

for me to go back and kind

of relive some of my

swimming days with her and

sharing the same coaches.

And it just was fun.

And she went to...

we both ended up going to

the same college at some point.

I'm much older than she is.

So I was there way earlier.

Uh,

but we talked about like restaurants

and stuff that,

and things that we would do in that town.

Uh, and it's a little division two school.

And the funny thing was that

my dream was to swim for that school.

They, they had won like.

Ten straight national

championships as a division two school.

And I wanted to swim for

them and I could not, I could not, um,

I was not good enough to make their team.

I ended up swimming.

I was recruited by some

division one schools and I

ended up walking on at Ohio

state and I swam for Ohio

state for a brief amount of time,

but I could,

I was not good enough to swim

for this division two school.

She was there.

She won like she was as many

championships as you could win.

She did.

She was that good at that

division two level.

Um,

And she ended up winning...

She's in the Hall of Fame

at the school now.

She's... A lot of cool things.

A lot of cool things with her.

But she also competes in CrossFit now.

And so she's competed at Wadapalooza.

She's competed at different big events.

TFX.

Things like that.

But she's actually... She

moved since this interview to Austin,

Texas.

And is training down there now.

But yeah...

Super fun interview.

Kenneth says it's episode

eight ninety four.

I think I'm going to take

his word on that.

Because I do not know for sure.

Let me go to the beginning here and see.

Dang, I don't know.

It is eight ninety four.

Good call.

Kenneth, you are the man.

You're the man.

Judy Reed.

I can't do it.

I went to Ohio State for a

brief amount of time.

My experience there was not awesome.

And it's a Penn State day for me.

It's Penn State.

Can't do it.

I know that you are loyal to

your Buckeyes.

Your son is there.

They play tomorrow against

the number one team in the country.

That's going to be an awesome game.

Can't wait to see that as well.

But, yeah.

So,

Kaitlin Johnson was my favorite

interview of the year,

really just for personal reasons,

not for CrossFit reasons.

But I wanted to just share that.

And then my favorite thing

of the year was –

the eleven part documentary

I did at the CrossFit

Masters CrossFit Games.

This was a labor of love.

This took eleven weeks to

get through to build and huge thanks to

Jonathan Ortega for editing

all of the workout videos

in the middle of these.

Thank you to Ellie Hiller

for getting the interviews with me.

But then it was editing it all together.

And I just,

even reliving it through the

editing process was awesome.

This is the favorite thing

that I've ever done from a

work perspective in my life.

Holly was awesome with the

graphics and she is not biased at all.

She said it turned out so well.

It is literally the most

favorite thing I've ever

done with this channel in

addition to my whole working life.

I've never been prouder of

anything that I've done.

And this was just a blast.

And I hope I get to do

something similar to that

this year once we know more

about the structure of the season.

But dang.

And then Caitlin Walters as well.

She was also a videographer for me.

So I don't want to leave her out either.

So Caitlin Walters, Jonathan Ortega,

Holly Dugan, Ellie Hiller,

that team put this together.

And I am so proud of each

and every one of you

because this is by far my

favorite thing that I have ever done.

Kenneth is asking who's number one.

We have to tune in tomorrow.

Oh, number one in the country.

That's Oregon.

Oregon.

Oregon.

I thought you meant number

one show that I'm going to

be revealing tomorrow.

And I wasn't giving you a sneak peek.

So those are two of my

favorite things from the year.

And that's just a preview of

kind of what we'll talk about tomorrow.

Um, uh, rogue is going back to Aberdeen,

Scotland, October, the first to November.

Second, just announced, uh,

barbell spin did the

background check on the

hotels in Aberdeen, uh,

and kind of leaked this early.

So apparently rogue has

announced it officially now.

Uh, clock.

How is it possible?

Oregon's first game is against OSU.

Certainly one of the top

three teams in the bracket,

but Penn state gets to

skate into the semis

playing SMU and Boise state.

Uh,

I think that the first year

of the college football

playoff is flawed in.

Oh, so many ways.

Um,

I think that the conference champions

getting automatic by our

will be done after this season,

because now you see that

the seating is not right.

Um, they should get,

if you win the conference,

you should get in,

but not necessarily a buy

and into the second round.

Um,

And I think that's why we

had blowouts in the first round,

because you had teams like

Penn State and Texas that

may have been in the top

four and really should have gotten a buy.

And then let the other teams

kind of scrap it out to get

to the Elite Eight and then

take on the teams that

should be ranked in the top four.

Yeah.

But I will say as a Penn State fan,

I'm not mad today that we

get to take on Boise State

instead of Oregon.

I will say that.

And I'm not mad that Ohio

State and Oregon have to

play and one of them will

be knocked out before the

national championship game.

Not mad about that.

So just saying.

So with that, check in tomorrow.

I'll be counting down my top

ten shows of the year and

revealing those to you guys.

And if anything pops up news-wise,

of course, we'll talk about that as well.

But what I want to tell you

guys is I appreciate your

loyalty to the show and the

way you guys always show up.

And if you weren't here for the beginning,

that is great.

That is what we talked about

off the top in the Ricky

Gerard situation.

But I love that you guys are

loyal to the show and that

you come in and hang out every day.

These lunch hour shows have

been awesome to just kind of sit back,

chat, no real format, no real prep,

just kind of talking into a

microphone and answering

your questions or showing

your statements and responding to that.

It's been a blast.

You guys are awesome.

And Judy Reed is mad about what...

about osu and oregon having

to play each other and uh

holly I think nowhere near

a championship but we

finally won a bowl game and

if you don't know holly is

a a graduate or an attendee

of nebraska university of

nebraska um the corn

huskers and they've had a

rough couple years so yeah

winning a bowl game for

them is probably pretty cool

with that guys as always

it's been a pleasure

hanging out with you today

I will be back tomorrow for

my birthday as we count

down my top favorite shows

of the year and uh yeah who

knows who knows what's

gonna happen we will um

we'll see you guys all then

thank you so much bye guys