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Hey everybody, and welcome to another episode of sports prep live, sports prep live, where we unbox the bike and talk excellent in athletics.

What is going on everybody? Welcome back once again to sports prep live. I'm your host, great and Prescott. Today it is the Monday following the most famous and most important golf tournament every year, the Masters Championship, which is played at Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Georgia. This year, my favorite golfer in the world right now, Rory McIlroy took home the victory, beating Justin Rose in a one hole playoff. I got my man. KB, here, we're going to talk a little bit about the Masters, or a lot bit about the masters. Yes, we're also going to have some things to say. WNBA draft is tonight, 430 pacific time and 730 over on the east coast. And then we're going to have some things to say. Another n, i L, situation similar to that of Matthew slooka Right here at UNLV, but a little bit higher magnitude, a little bit more famous school, a little bit more famous conference in football. So we have some things that we need to address there. So we got WNBA draft, we got masters, we got NCAA and I L issues. Kb is here. Welcome back to the show. Per usual, glad to be here. Going on this weekend. Yeah, a lot going on this weekend. So we're going to start it with my the event that had my attention for the duration of the weekend, Thursday through Sunday. Yes, this is the masters. Of course, a lot of people picked Scottie Scheffler to win the Masters. He's a bad boy. A lot of people may have picked Bryson D Shambo to win the Masters the 2024 US Open winner, as well as the 2020 US Open winner. Yes. And that, you know, people picked others. I personally picked Roy McElroy Justin Rose had us wrong with you, yeah, but he wasn't one of the favorites. Just he's a 44 year old. He hasn't won a major since the 2013 US Open. He's come close. He actually finished second in the Open Championship last year, nine months ago, but I picked Roy McElroy, second ranked player in the world. He's won twice this season already at Pebble Beach and at TPC Sawgrass at the Players Championship, but the green jacket has eluded him, notoriously, for the duration of his career. What is it? 17 attempts, his 17th attempt at winning wild jacket. Wow, started on Thursday, and I felt great about my pick for Rory to win, not just because he's my favorite golfer, but also because I think that he's played not I think he has played better than every other player on the door so far this season, and he was just due he kind

K.B. 3:00
of seemed coming into this like a CRO a crowd favorite. I mean, he had a lot of good will out there on the course. Yeah, and, oh, I found out your girl was there as well at Augusta weekend. Notorious in a good way. Hooper, also an avid golfer. Yeah, yeah. She was right. She was Caitlin. Caitlin Clark was in the house, yeah? Augusta taking in the master. So shout out to

Graydon Prescott 3:21
Caitlin, yep. So on Thursday, I'm feeling great, by the way, yes, Rory is four under through 14. Things are looking great. Double bogey on 15, double bogey on 17, and he finishes even, which is tied for 26 Yeah, he didn't make it easy. Now I'm just gonna let you guys know the roller coaster of emotions that I went through this weekend trying to cheer for you were really invested in this very, okay, very, and I probably had a heart attack on like 12 different occasions, two of which were the double bogeys on Thursday. Because,

K.B. 3:52
much like Caitlin, you are a Hooper and a golfer. Yeah? Ad bit golf. Yes, I love golf. Yes, I've seen you out on the range. Nice. Yeah, I can swing it a little bit. Okay, okay, so now we know where this passion is coming from. Yeah, yeah. You expect

Graydon Prescott 4:05
a golf Absolutely, all right? And Rory getting into golf for me, you know, Tiger was the guy, just because he's been the most famous player, he's the greatest player of all time. But as of players that are active right now, I drew, I really had a liking to took a liking to Roy McElroy, because of his swing, I think he has the best golf swing that I've ever seen. Sure he has, it's just beautiful. It's perfect. Now, can it go wayward? Sometimes? Yes, which is probably why he has struggled to win at Augusta, because he's he's a big hitter. That's a place where you cannot afford to go wayward, especially on that back nine, where there's water. I'd love to

K.B. 4:39
know his fairway accuracy over the course of a season. He's tight. Rory, yes. So

Graydon Prescott 4:43
going into the Players Championship this year, this I know for a fact he was hitting 51.6% of the spare ways. That's not high, no, not at all. It was like in like 119th on tour, yes, yes, buddy. That's pretty long. And at Pebble Beach, he won because he hit some fairways at TPC. Sawgrass, which is where they play the Players Championship. He actually shot 67 in the first round. We're getting respectable. Yeah, he shot 67 but he hit 22% of the fairways. So he was just brilliant out of the rough, out of the sand, out of the pine. Chat to me. Yeah, 22% and he shot five under. But TBC, sawgrass, unlike Augusta, is a little bit more forgiving, other than some holes, like number 917, is not forgiving at all, because that's just an island green, but TPC Sawgrass, there's not as much run out on the fairways greens are going to be softer than they are at Augusta, and you can there's not as much pressure. It's not the Masters, it's the Players Championship, which is considered the quote, unquote, the fifth major. But it's not a major championship. He had already won it before, so there's a lot less pressure for him, right, right? So you can get away with missing some fairways. It's a much more forgiving course, right now. It is still one of probably the hardest 10 courses on, sure, but it's, it's not Augusta. It's not Augusta, yes. So after round one at the Masters, Roy is tied for 26th but he played a good round, other than two holes. So me, I'm thinking, Okay, if he can just not make those same mistakes that he did in the first round, sure maybe he'll have a good second round. Second round, he shoots 66 and now he's third So, okay, now he's six under he's in third place. Only dhambo and Justin Rose are ahead of them, right? I'm feeling pretty good. And I think Rory would probably be feeling pretty good because he was, in fact, I saw him, he did an interview with Scott Van Pelt, yeah, after the second, yes. So he was feeling good about his game. He felt he played a little bit more under control. He did feel like things got away from him on that first day, and he was able to kind of rein that in. Yeah, go ahead. And then, So day two was kind of smooth sailing. Yes, I think he was bogey free. Day three, he had a couple of holes, not no double bogeys, but he had a couple of bogeys that I didn't think were necessary on Saturday, and still shot in the 60s. And still shot, yeah, he shot another 66 Yes, he had on on 15. This was Saturday. He hit it dead center of the fairway. It was a perfect tee shot. And he had a tee shot that was so reminiscent of Tiger Woods, T or approach shot in 2007 now, Tiger didn't win that tournament, but this is there. He has this legendary Sunday approach shot on 15 where he hits it. It's, I think it's 215 yards. And he club twirl immediately. He starts walking after, okay, the camera just feeling good about it, yeah. And the camera just points at him, walking and flipping and doing his club twirl, just looking up at the ball, and it lands like two feet from the hole. Rory had a similar situation. He didn't do a club twirl, but he hit it almost the same exact spot. He had a six iron, and he just started walking after it, just looking at it, and he hit it to like four feet, and then he put it for Eagle. So after that, I'm thinking, oh yeah, this dude is gonna win this thing like he's he's got all the momentum. He's 12 under. He's the outright leader going into Sunday, and he just played three stroke lead, yeah, two stroke lead going into Sunday. And then Sunday happens. And in typical Rory McIlroy fashion, double bogey on one right. And it was the most unnecessary double bogey I've ever seen. It was him trying to be a little bit aggressive on the tee. Shot hits it into the bunker, and just couldn't escape. So he missed the green, got on two putts from there double, but Bryson birdied and took the lead in one hole. And then, well, no, he PARD one, and then he birdied two. Yes, Rory PARD two, so Bryson was one under. Rory was two over, which meant Bryson was 10 on 11 under tourists, 10 under sure after two holes. Now I was actually at golf galaxy. When this was transpiring, I was looking at some putters, and I look up at the scoreboard, and I almost lost it. I completely just lost all faith in this dude's ability to close out a major championship, because the same thing happened in 2011 with the Masters, and the same thing happened last year in the US to lose confidence, huh, right? And then third hole hits a good tee shot again, and then he hits this great shot on approach. It was no more than 85 yards, and kept it low. And then he hit for birdie, and Bryson, I think, Bogey three. So two shot swing. Now Rory is back in the lead. And then he played a solid round up until nine. He birdied nine, birdied 10. So now at this point, after the 10th hole, he has like a four shot lead, right? 13, nine, yeah. So because rice and rice and has had some, some unfortunate boat, correct, yeah, a couple, yeah, his iron play kind of betrayed him, and he spoke to that after the round. He just said, you know, his irons weren't very dialed this week, and that's what kept him from being even closer into course. He was final round. He had a

K.B. 9:27
couple bogeys when Rory was was getting or not Eagle, a couple birdies. So there were two, two that I recall, two, two stroke swings. Yep, yes. So he goes in to getting ready to play this back nine with a 13 nine. You know, 13 under for eight and nine under for di Shambo,

Graydon Prescott 9:45
yep, he shot one under on the front nine, and then he birdied 10 to get to 14 under. Okay, so he had a for a moment there he had a five shot lead. What? Right? 12. Okay, understandable bogey. It was not a great Bogey, but it was understandable why he. But it was a safe bogey. It was he did a tough hole. Yeah, yeah. He wasn't trying to be aggressive, yeah. This is the first hole of amen corner. Yes, or or 11. My apologies, it was 11. And then he parsed 12. The par three hits the perfect tee shot, middle of the green, just like Jack Nicholas and Tiger have stressed so much, just hidden into the middle of the green, the mistake that Jordan Spieth made in 2016 and then 13 good tee shot middle of fairway lays up, not playing aggressive, good. And then his third shot to get onto the green on the par five, and he hits it into the water, ends up with a double bogey. Wow. That was hard to watch. He made a seven on a par five for the second time. Sure, sure. So that was his fourth double bogey of the week. And there was, he wasn't gonna make it easy. There was the stat himself, never there was the stat that Rory or before Rory, nobody had ever won the Masters while making four double bogeys in a week. Nobody. That was his fourth. So he went from 13 to 11, and then he bogeyed 14 right after. And he's 10 under now. And Justin Rose at the same time a few holes in front of him, surging is making a charge, yes. So he's at 16. He birdies 16 to get to 11 under now Rory is down. He was just up by five shots three holes ago. Right now he's down by one. Justin Rose, luckily for Rory, bogeyed 17 and then birdied 18. So he ended his round at 11, but he could have easily made par on seven, sure, sure. He had a pretty it was a tricky putt because the read was difficult, but it was like a six footer. And then he made like a 35 footer on 18, but, and

K.B. 11:30
then true to the play. And I by play of the day, I mean the way that he was playing during that day, kind of true to form. He gets to 18. Rory. Rory. Hold

Graydon Prescott 11:40
on, hold on. We can't skip over. We cannot skip over 15 and seven, okay, okay. So 15, he hits his drive near a tree, right? It's still fairway, but he's behind a tree. He It looks like he has no angle. He's gonna have to lay up incredible shot coming out of there. And he hits probably one of the five best golf shots I was ever amazing. It was amazing, I think because he won that tournament and he went on to make birdie on that hole, I think that will go down as one of the five greatest golf shots of all time, his second shot, 15th hole. I was watching it in real time, seven iron, 207 yards, a 50 yard hook around the tree to five feet. Yes, one of the best shots of all phenomenal. Then he had another one. And then he parsed 16, so He's 11 under then he hit another great approach, good tee shot on 17. Little bit back, far back, though, at 184 yards to the green, and he hit a nine iron up a hill. And he was yelling at it, go, go, go, go, go. He hit it to two feet, and then tapped in for Brady. Okay, so he's 12 under, then 18. And of course, Rory has a one shot lead because of his heroic shots on 15 and 17, he's built himself a one shot lead. Perfect tee shot on 18. I'm thinking he's got this in the back. All he has to do is just put it on the green from 125 right and the tournament is over. He will two putt and get a park. And where does he put it on the green? In the bunker. Wow. He puts it in the right bunker, he pulls it to the right, and now it's he has to get up and down for par to win, and he has to get up and down for bogey to force a playoff. So he hits a pretty solid shot out of the bunker, and he gave himself about a six footer to win the tournament. Five. Six is generous. Yes, he gives himself about a six footer to win the tournament. My heart is racing. I've had four heart attacks. So I had four.

K.B. 13:24
I think everybody and their mama thought he was going to make this play. Well, I'm getting ahead of the story. Well,

Graydon Prescott 13:30
well, there is, I would argue no, because of what happened with him last year at the US Open. I understand

K.B. 13:37
that, but his short game today or yesterday, his short game yesterday was pretty darn

Graydon Prescott 13:43
it was. But he on 15, he missed a seven footer for Eagle, okay, after his but for Eagle, yeah, yeah. But again, it took one of the greatest golf shots of all time to get him in that position. So cool. And then he tapped in for birdie, but this one is for par. It's a lot different, and it's to win the tournament. Sure he knows if he makes it. He wins if he misses. It's a playoff. If he makes the next one, it's a different, different set of Nourse. And it was low the whole way. It was not he didn't make a committed stroke at it. It was low. It was kind of a lazy stroke, and it looked like he was scared of it. So he missed low motion tree. Rick, I could just hear, you know, the trees just piling up so he missed it and he he tapped in for Bogey, and he ends up 11 under par, same as Justin.

K.B. 14:26
Justin Rose was through the roof, but although he tried to seem subdued, yeah, yeah, and, but he was Justin

Graydon Prescott 14:31
Rose, who had been warming up for the past 25 minutes because he his he shot. He was, he was thinking, you know, maybe, yeah, yeah, maybe he entered Friday five under par, because he shot a seven under par first round, then a one under par second round, then a 75 Yeah. He shot a 65 Yes, then a 75 in the third round, and he's five under. He has no shot of winning the tournament. Rory is 12 under. He's seven strokes back. And then he fires up a 66 on Sunday, and Rory shoots one over 73 and now they're tied. So. They go to a playoff hole back at 18, Rory hits almost the exact same drive that he hit on the 18th hole, going into correct before the playoff. Justin Rose hits it in the fairway, but he's 30 yards back of Rory, because Rory is one of the biggest hitters in the world. Then Justin puts his shot on the green like you would expect him to, because your stroke, because he he's just playing some of the best golf, I'm sure. And then Rory hits this approach shot in the playoff hole, not as I will say this. It will probably be remembered as one of his more legendary shots. It was amazing because of the magnitude of the situation. Justin hits a great hit, a really good Justin hit a great shot, yes, and Rory hits the same, same, almost the exact same shot he had that he just, not even 15 minutes ago, put it into the bunker, 25 yards too far to the right, and he hits it past the hole onto the slope, master stroke, probably three

K.B. 15:53
or four feet inside of Yeah, Justin Rose's shot. And Justin Rose had

Graydon Prescott 15:57
an incredible shot back on back towards the hole, and stops three feet. Yes. Now it's like, okay, Rory, you got to tap in birdie pretty much if he makes it. Because we've seen last year at the 16th hole in the 18th hole that Pinehurst at the US Open that he has, and the pressure switches a little bit because now, because you know, the the golfer that is closer to the hole. Goes second, yeah, so he puts down his ball marker, uh huh, and Justin, Justin Rose has to come up and put I fully expected Justin Rose to, I think everybody did. I it was probably 15 feet. Not an easy putt, yeah, but he's put away. He was playing golf today or that day, yeah, birdie after birdie after birdie. He made 10 birdies, yes, I and he made one an hour before. From 35 feet on 18, he was putting very worse the playoffs, sure. So he's a great, great putter. I fully expected him to make it. He missed it by an inch, and then he made his par, and Rory finally got his moment. Then he tapped it in for birdie to win the Masters, and collapsed. Yeah, it was a great thing. It

K.B. 16:59
was, I don't you know, because we've got a lot of basketball fans that listen to the show. It was reminiscent of what Steph Curry did a couple of years ago. Right when he won, he knew he was going to win the MV the Finals MVP after beating the Boston Celtics, when no one thought, I think it was a 93 to 7% chance after the first game which Boston won, so no one expected him to win it, and he just emotionally lost it. It drained him. What Rory did was reminiscent of that, and it was just as big, if not a bigger, moment, because curry had

Graydon Prescott 17:30
championships. Yes. Now for Roy, I think this was as big of a win for a certain for an individual player that you could have had at the Masters, maybe other than Tiger Woods in 2019 to get his fifth after all the drama or the scandals after the injuries, yes, right. I think this is second biggest in the win for second biggest individual win, just for the sake of that person's legacy. He really wanted it other than the tiger one, and it would have been bigger, because Tiger already had four Green Jackets. But if it weren't for the the scandals, yes, and the injuries, could have easily broken. Jack Yes, major record. Tiger Woods, Tiger sitting at 15. Yeah, Jack is sitting at 18. Tiger Woods had 14 majors when he was 33 Yes, like, come on, yes. Rory is an all time great. This was his fifth, and he's 35 Correct? Tiger won his 14th at 32 Yeah, he was in 2008 he was born january 30 or December 30 of 1975

K.B. 18:28
huge. We love him, but just Man, what a waste of several years, yeah, because of all of the BS and right? You know, his personal life was in shambles, and his golf game really paid for it. But

Graydon Prescott 18:40
the larger point being for other other than that. Wayne in 2019 which meant this was big to him and everybody. This is probably the biggest win, and it

K.B. 18:50
was big for golf, and I think that's why there was golf so much to

Graydon Prescott 18:53
see Rory McIlroy back in the winter, I agree. And now I personally think that he is going to be prime for another couple of majors. Yeah, yes, because the monkeys off his back around the pressures off, he doesn't have to worry about, there's no more drought. You're the reigning major champ. You're the reigning masters champion, which makes everything a lot better. You've completed the Career Grand Slam, which only six people, yes, one of six. Uh huh, Tiger Woods in that class. Yes, he did it three times over, which is ridiculous. Jack Nicholas in that group. Rory has put himself in the same conversation as these guys. Maybe not on the all time list, but he's put himself in a category to where he is undeniably under the 10 best

K.B. 19:33
entire Nicholas and Hogan. Pretty incredible. Yeah,

Graydon Prescott 19:37
there's no more. Rory is in the same category as guys like Brooks KEPCO, correct? There's no more of that Rory, right. He's up there with the greats now because of this win. And I think since all of that pressure is off of him, I would not be surprised if Rory wins one or two more majors this year. Agree, because now that all the pressure is off of him, I really think when he's playing without any. Pressure just based off of how he's played this he's, I think he's the best golfer in the world. He's playing free. You bet he is the best golf better than Scotty, better than Bryson. Rory McIlroy is the best golfer in the world when he's playing free. He was the best player for out of the 72 holes, 67 of Sure, he was the best player for 67 of 72 other than his four double bogeys and a pointless bogey on 14 on Sunday, but, but

K.B. 20:25
Augusta is all about, and I think this is probably what, what helped him, you know, get across the finish line here. Augusta is all about course management. Like, like you really, like you were, you were alluding to a little bit earlier, where Tiger was told by Nicholas, like, you can't go into some of these greens and try to be too aggressive, right? You have to be content to say, You know what? On this par three, I'm going to expect, or shoot for a par and be good with it. Yeah. And some of these young guns, we were talking about, Jordan Spieth a little bit earlier, some of these young guns try to feel like, okay, well, you know, maybe I can, I can throw convention out of the window. I'm going to attack it and see if I can get a birdie out of it. And it ends up in a disaster. Ends up in a disaster form, as it did. You just talked about short and speed, which I did not know. That's pretty incredible. But yes, course management is really, really important at the Masters. It is an exceedingly difficult course, if you are not judicious. Yeah,

Graydon Prescott 21:16
and Rory, historically, Jack, he sat down with Jack Nicholas and Nicholas this week before the before he won, sure, he said in an interview, because he's always present at Augusta, he said that he believed that if Rory was disciplined and managed the course well, he had a very good chance of winning this tournament. And he also second. He also said that Rory issue has been that he wasn't very disciplined about how to write about the course correct. This is the man who's won the most Green Jackets. And some people six, yes, six of them. And some people consider him to be the greatest golfer of all time. I can't really argue with that. I've got 18 majors. I personally think it's Tiger. But the argument for Nicholas is as strong as any. It's, you know, it's kind of Jordan LeBron, sure, sure. Because they both have such a strong argument. I'm a tiger guy. I think a lot of people my age, a little bit older than me, are Tiger people. And

K.B. 22:07
Jack Nicholas was smart enough not to put away three or four or five years away. Jack golfers

Graydon Prescott 22:11
winning majors at 45 he was winning the masters at 45 so

K.B. 22:15
Tiger really stubbed his toe. Yeah, professionally, with respect to some of the years that he was not available for golf, but

Graydon Prescott 22:20
this isn't about Tiger, it's about Rory. Congratulations to him. This was the biggest moment of his career by far. He got it done. It was great to see emotional roller coaster, I think, for a lot of people, but it was so great to see him get it done. And now I really think he is going to be a force in the upcoming majors, at the PGA Championship, where he's the odds on favorite, absolutely, at the US Open, at the Open Championship back in in the United Kingdom, he's going to be one of the odds on favorites to win, sure all of these tournaments. I agree. I agree. Now before we wrap up here, we we do have a duty to talk about things. NCAA, sure. And things and I L related, especially because of what happened right here at UNLV, Matthew seluca, just last year, Coach Barry Odom, who's no longer here. So the player I alluded to earlier, I'm not going to try to say his last name. You know what? I've heard it, and it's I, A, M, a, L, E, A, V, A, so I think it's a maleva first name, Nico. Nico, but, but people have been making a play on his last name, like I am, I'm gonna leave you. I'm gonna leave you. I'm gonna leave you, Nico, I'm gonna leave you. So Nico makes quarterback at Tennessee, Tennessee SEC school goes 10 and two great school college football playoff, gets to the citrus bowl, runs into Ohio State, correct? Who won the national championship comes out as understandable, MVP, uh huh. And then we're going into this season, and Tennessee's head coach is like, where's my head quarterback? I'm at practice. I'm trying to get a hold of him, where's my quarterback? Has

K.B. 23:51
2.4 million in n i l money and coming guaranteed. Nico,

Graydon Prescott 23:55
he says, Hey, I have 2.4 million coming guaranteed to me. Correct? I deserve four already signed the deal. Yeah. Sign sealed, delivered. Yes. Stevie Wonder, signed, sealed, delivered on yours, right? This money is his. He it is guaranteed money, unlike the slooka situation, correct, this is guaranteed $2.4 million 24 times the amount that Matthew sluka, correct, like, come on. We left for Yeah, come on, dude, yes, he wanted 40 times the amount. He wanted, $4 million he did and,

K.B. 24:25
and he did something that has never been done in the history of collegiate sports, a holdout. He became a holdout. Yep, um, again, you know, we questioned the advice that Matthew sluka was getting. And I think it was very appreciative of us to to question that advice. You know, I think he's at what Holy Cross right now, and I'm not sure how that's going to work out, yeah, but I am with Nick Saban, who said that young man has probably destroyed his football career, yeah, and that was for $100,000 and at the time, you know, obviously that's a lot of money for most people. $100,000 is nothing for a division one quarterback, right? He should have never. To entertain the idea of throwing his football career away for $100,000 right? Well, guess what, when you are a d1 quarterback in one of the most powerful conferences in the country, $2.4 million $2.4 million is not enough money to potentially throw your football career away. This guy is 662, 120 pounds. He, I believe, through for 3000 No, 2616 yards this past season, 19 touchdowns, rush for 358 yards. Freshmen. This dude is a baller, yes, with three TDs, and he's only 20 years old, a four star coming out of high school, Warren, high school in California. Yeah. So just potential out the wazoo, $2.4 million that he agreed to, and because someone else got more, he and his agents, or his agents on his behalf, along with his father, and it seems like there's always a dad involved in this, these cluster F's, uh, he, along with his his his father and his agents say, Nope, you know, we're not going to show up unless you give us $4 million and Coach Josh huple called him to have a conversation. Well, guess what, he was advised, I guess, not, to pick up the phone. So Josh did what I think everybody in America probably believes he should have done, yeah, and went to his team and said, I tried to get him on the phone. He didn't pick up the phone. So guess what? He's no longer a part of the program, yeah, so you go your way and good luck to you. We appreciate what you did for us. And they did some stuff for him too, because he was going to be ineligible coming into this last this past season, yeah, and they went to bat for him and made it so that he could play this season that he just had. And his stock did increase, but he signed the deal. He should have honored the deal. The question isn't whether or not he's worth the $4 million maybe he is and maybe he isn't. The problem here is you signed your name to a deal, and you didn't honor that deal, and because you didn't honor that deal, now you look kind of funny to any program out there that you thought may have entertained your services. So I'm not sure. I think he thinks his potential landing spots, or what's being reported is UCLA, USC, North Carolina. You know, you know, we know who's coaching out there. Uh, Maryland and then Oregon. I believe of these five schools North Carolina is not gonna happen. Four have said, You know what, we're good and going for it, we're good. So again, another case where, you know, these guys need to be careful about thinking that just because someone else gets something, that I am entitled to it. That's not how the world works. Yeah. And so it'll be interesting to see if he finds a landing spot, and he is a good quarterback, and I just feel like he got some really bad advice here, and he's a young man. I don't even really blame him. I blame kind of the adults in the room, but he is. He's kind of a grown man now, so he's got to take some accountability. So yeah, this is another case, unfortunately, of an athlete going out there and kind of miscalculating what his value would be. And I agree with what Josh hugle did. Coach Hugo, it was like, Yo, you got to go. You got to go, and we got to go see ya. And I wouldn't want to

Graydon Prescott 27:53
be you. Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I really think that you can't have that type of toxicity and selfishness in your locker, correct as at a division one program. And honestly, if I'm a coach now, I'm not checking for Nico, a top

K.B. 28:05
division one program, right? It doesn't get much better than Tennessee. Yeah.

Graydon Prescott 28:09
So I think this, this is on him and his agents. This is on a little bit on the NCAA, sure, for not making these rules clear, correct, absolutely, for not making these rules direct. They need to get a hand on this just just two weeks ago. Obviously, I'm still high school kid. Yeah, I had a debate in my class for English, I recall, and we talked about, n i L, is it good for college sporting is it bad? And I had to argue the bad side, and I didn't want to argue the best. I wanted to say it's a good thing. But It's situations like this that helped me win that debate? Sure, because you can point to, okay, sluka. Now we got this dude who, you know, I wish this would have happened before my debate. Sure, a great example, yeah. But the point being, it's stuff like this that makes people want to say and I L, is bad. Get rid of it. Correct? It's not good for college sports. Leave the money to the professionals and let the kids just play the game without having to worry about all of this stuff. And

K.B. 29:05
they are hurting their pockets. They don't understand it now, but yeah, there are going to be some rules, some parameters that they're not gonna they're not gonna like, and

Graydon Prescott 29:12
a more direct way they're hurting their pockets. These dudes could be 150 $200 million quarterbacks in the NFL some day, and they're gonna ruin their careers over less than 10 million. Yes, not even a quarter of 10 million, sometimes, yeah, quite a bit less than that. Yes, I got nothing left to say. So thank you everybody for tuning into this episode of sports prep live. I'm great impressed, Scott. We had a lot to talk about today, but we will see you all next week. Thank you for tuning in. I'll catch you next time. Thank you for tuning in to this episode of sports prep live. I'm Graydon Prescott, and don't forget to catch all of our episodes on Apple Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, and be sure to follow us on Instagram or Twitter at sports prep live. Thank you.