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Graydon Prescott 0:35
What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of sports prep live. I'm your host, graden Prescott, and today we get to talk about a divorce. Well, not really a divorce, because they were never married. Dave Prescott is going to be a topic of discussion today. I got KB here we're gonna talk Dave Prescott a little bit. We're gonna talk about some UNLV basketball on the men's side and the women's side as the mountain west conference tournaments get underway. And then we will also be talking about some negotiations in Congress, about n, i L and college athletes, yes, that have been taking place in Washington, DC, and then hopefully we can get to the updates on the WNBA. CBA agreement got a full plate because that their their goal deadline for that is tomorrow, tomorrow? Yes, yeah. Big, big things going on right now in the world. So we'll start with Dave Prescott and his fiance, Sarah Jane Ramos. They called off their marriage recently. They have two daughters, one is two years old and one is nine months Yes, and yeah, at a joint bachelor bachelorette party in the Bahamas, they got into an argument, and now they called off the marriage, and what's reported is they couldn't agree on a prenup,

K.B. 1:53
or she didn't agree to a point, she didn't, I don't know if it was a vague Yeah, or she didn't agree he was a prenup, And he's got the bread, so she didn't agree, right? And right

Graydon Prescott 2:04
reports say the prenup wasn't very aggressive on on DAX attorneys part, it was just your standard prenup. He protects his assets. She keeps what she came into the marriage with. He keeps what he came into the marriage.

K.B. 2:18
But I think a lot of people would say that is particularly aggressive, right? If you've got, you know, he's had a $300 million contract. He's in the middle of a like, a $240 million contract somewhere in there. And your attorneys walk into the room, and their starting position is, you know, we're not going to be particularly aggressive in this prenup. We're just going to say, you take what you had when you came into the relationship, and I think she was a bartender or a hostess line expert, okay, sommelier, right? So you take what you had when you came into the to the relationship, and Dave, you know, one of the highest paid athletes in sports, he's going to take what he has, and you have a couple of children already in the household. I think her attorneys might have been justified in saying, WTF. Like, come on, you're saying it's not aggressive. Why? Because you're not taking any of her assets, or you're not asking for her assets. So I do. I am of the mind that that is a particularly aggressive move. However, I stand with Dave, yeah, yeah. I stand with Dave's peeps because, you know, she knew who he was before she got into this relationship. I am sure she was not confused about not only who he was, what he did, but what he earned and so his lawyers in doing their job, I just don't think they needed to say we're not being aggressive. I think that

Graydon Prescott 3:47
was a throwaway. The exact verbiage was, let's see, the prenup wasn't very strict. Everyone basically kept whatever they had before the marriage. It was pretty straightforward, yeah, that's ridiculous. That. No, no, that's it was pretty I feel like that's prenat wasn't very strict. Everyone kept what they had before the marriage. It was pretty straightforward. I don't think that's incorrect verbiage. No, that's pretty straightforward to me.

K.B. 4:11
That is straightforward, but it is also ridiculous to say that's not strict, because what, what is saying, by inference, is, if there is a divorce, he if there, we don't even know about the questions of infidelity, right? Like, usually a strict prenup gets into all these areas. You know, if there's infidelity, if it goes on for if the marriage goes on for this long, you get $5 million you know, three years, five years, whatever. If it goes on for 10 years, you get another $5 million if there's infidelity, you get $15 million right? That's a strict prenup, but a prenup that says, no matter what happens, you take what you had when you came in, and I'll take what I had when I came in, independent of what caused the dissolution of the marriage to me. That's pretty strict. It's ridiculous for attorneys to say that that's not strict. I think, you know, that's a little bit of word play. It's being a little too cute by half. So I don't agree with the language, and I don't agree with the throwaway line that, you know, it's pretty a straightforward prenup. That's pretty aggressive to be to be quite honest with you again, having said that I am with his attorneys, I think the notion that she did not know, and of course, she hasn't said this, who Dave Prescott was, what he earned, what he was all about, what his career, earnings trajectory was going to look like, is utterly ridiculous. Right now, they do have a couple of kids. So for me, that changes things. Now she's going to get child support, because she said it's called off for good, but there will be no alimony, which happens, of course, you know, under the confines of a marriage. So she's going to the I would imagine the kids are going to be well taken care of, yeah, but yeah, I'm with his attorneys on this. I think it's a ridiculous position for her attorneys to say, or his attorneys to say what they said. But I also think, you know, and we kind of took an internal poll over at SPL about this, and had about 500 respondents on it, and Overwhelmingly, people came down on the side of Dave Prescott, I think you know Emmanuel Ochoa, I believe his name is, who was a former NFL player. He actually came down on the other side of this thing and said that he thought prenups in situations like this were a bad idea, and they were destructive from the outset. And he used a really ridiculous scenario to try to airplanes, yes. And then I think, you know, his co host, oh, my

Graydon Prescott 6:55
daylight savings time, right? That's what it is, yes.

K.B. 6:58
LaShawn McCoy, two time Super Bowl champion, you know, he kind of paralleled, you know, a prenup to taking out insurance on your vehicle, right? Yeah, you have to have insurance you're going to drive. You don't expect to get into an accident when you get behind the wheel, but in the event that you do right, you're covered, right? And so that's to him, the prenup was, was tantamount to that, because I think one of the references that he talked about was

Graydon Prescott 7:24
Tiger Woods. Yeah, he lost $100 million

K.B. 7:27
Tiger Woods got, got, as they say, exactly right, like he paid Ellen $10 million I think that's definitely and I think she was like a babysitter when they met, yeah, pretty much. I mean, Gasper part of its kids, if I believe them,

Graydon Prescott 7:43
that's got to be example number one subject, a of the why athletes should protect their assets when they head into a marriage. I think Dave's situation, well, it makes sense. I also come down on the side of Dave Prescott and his attorneys. I think that

K.B. 8:03
I wonder if the women in our audience are like, surprise, surprise, surprise, right? Well, we're both of us.

Graydon Prescott 8:10
Because here's the thing I think, if it were to go the other way Caitlin Clark right now is, you know, she has a relationship with Conor McCabe. Caitlin Clark were to suggest a prenup, and he doesn't sign it and it blows up. I'm coming down on the side of Caitlin. A lot of people should I'm I'm not on the side of the man. I'm on the side of protecting the assets of the person who's worked their life to make generational wealth Sure. Right? So Dave Prescott, he's going to make in his NFL career. He's on pace to make half a million half $1,000,000,000.05 100 million dollars, yeah, so you need to protect that, and you don't want to make $500 million and in the case of a divorce, no matter what happens, give up 250 is gone. Wow. Like, just like that. So do I think that there could have been some like, you said, more strict, sure, you know points to the prenup. Yes, I think you know, like you said, five years, 10 years, 15 years, if there's infidelity, whatever it may be. But I also think the lawyers were just trying to do right by their client and protecting his assets, and there's nothing wrong with that, from the point of view of DAC, from the point of view of the lawyers, and I think it raises the question, if you're Sarah in this instance, why can't you sign that paper like now,

K.B. 9:33
I will say, I will take issue a little bit with how the lawyers presented this, because I don't think that you're serving your client well. And I'm talking about his lawyers. If your take is the woman that you have two children by, takes what she has when she came into the marriage, which was, you know, compared to him, nothing, but compared to most Americans, nothing, right? She takes what she had when she came into the marriage. You take what you have when you come into the marriage. Now. Where they're not kids, I may come down come at this a little differently. I do think that kids changes things. It changes the calculus, but I also think that the lawyers would have served him better had they been a little bit reasonable, right? And maybe it was a quote unquote aggressive prenuptial agreement, if there were markers, right? And if we last a year, you got a million. It's no sweat off of his balance statement, right? If we last three years, you got five, 5 million, right? If we last 10 years with no problems, then maybe 15 million, whatever. 1520 if there's infidelity, maybe on the part of, either, if there's infidelity on your part, maybe you don't get anything, or if there's infidelity on my part, you get a little bit more, right, that I think she probably and her team would have probably thought was fair, and that, you know, I don't know exactly where those numbers work out, but I do think that that seems more fair, and as a Lawyer, it seems more responsible to the client I'm trying to protect, to put out something that is reasonable, right? I think under these circumstances, what the lawyers did may have contributed to the dissolution of this, well, marriage and their her being his fiance, you know, she, she walked and said that it there's it's irreconcilable. Yeah, we're not going to get back together. I think the lawyers played a part in this that that maybe they weren't thinking through. So I agree with him in terms of, Hey, these are my assets. I have to protect them. But I do agree with her team that this was wholly unreasonable, and I don't think Dave Prescott was served well by his attorneys.

Graydon Prescott 11:43
Yeah, I agree with that sentiment. It's great. And Prescott here on Sports prep live, and today we get to talk about the Mountain West Conference tournament, along with the WNBA CBA agreement, slash negotiations. And now we're going to talk a little bit about the Mountain West in in both men's and women's basketball, the women are in a good spot. Yes, they're the two seed in the Mountain West. For a second there, it looked like they could drop all the way to four, right, right? They had a little rough match, but, but they got two. So it's just it's going to be them in San Diego State, right? They have advanced to the semi finals in the Mountain West, and the men, on the other hand, are not in as great a good a position, a situation. Gibbs law horn continues to dazzle. Yeah. Another 30 point game last week, shot 50% from the field, 32.2 rebounds, three assists, three steals. He's pretty much proven himself to be one of the conference's elite players, if

K.B. 12:51
not the country's Yeah, yeah. But he's balling out. It's to the point where it almost scares me if I hear that he had a game like he's been having, because it is more evidence that other fears are going to come calling, and I don't know,

Graydon Prescott 13:07
especially without staying there, especially with how the season is going for them, because they just played the number two seed in the Mountain West, which, which is San Diego, state, and they lost that game by three, and he had another 30 point game, another 30 piece? Yes, yeah. So it again, it's not, and this was at San Diego State too.

K.B. 13:25
So even more impressive, yeah, but on someone else's home floor,

Graydon Prescott 13:29
but if he had maybe a little bit more help around him. I mean, Tyron Jones was fantastic. So it wasn't everyone that wasn't able. He didn't have to carry the load all. Yeah, you know, Jones had 22.6 rebounds and three blocks. So that's, that's, yeah, that's good freshman too, yes. So that's huge. But you know, maybe a couple more guys can go get you 16, and then you're going to be in a great position. Or 12, right? Yeah, even, yeah, a couple of guys getting you 12. If you get five players that get over 10, you're going to win the game. 85 90% sure. UNLV hasn't done

K.B. 14:02
especially if one of them's given you 2530, plus, right, right.

Graydon Prescott 14:06
UNLV hasn't done that the whole season, basically. But hey, draw Gibbs law horn has been absolutely fantastic. UNLV has got the eight seed in the Mountain West Conference tournament, so they're gonna play the ninth seeded Wyoming. Last time these two met, Wyoming won by 32 Wow.

K.B. 14:27
So, yeah, you know, I've said it before. I even said it earlier this show. I'm really nervous about this because you take, you know, just to use as an example, calandrea, right, who was the quarterback for UNLV rebels football team, and that program had a heck of a turnaround under their their new head coach. And you know whom you've interviewed? Yeah? Coach Mullen. Yes. Coach Dan Mullen, great interview. They had a heck of a turnaround under. Or under their new head coach. And I did not see that coming. Yeah, right. I thought Colin Draya would be here. They made a heck of a push. They had a great record. They signed this, I believe, new $11 million sponsorship deal recently. I thought they were in the cat bird seat, and then they lose their starting quarter starting quarterback because other programs came calling, or maybe he just had that interest in other programs. So I didn't see that freight train coming, right? I'm going somewhere with this. I see where you're going with this. This freight train. It's coming on this track. I see a freight train.

Graydon Prescott 15:38
You ever seen the movie? Unstoppable,

K.B. 15:41
rental, Washington. Correct? Yeah, this is a freight train that we see coming. Dre is bawling out. And as you alluded to a few minutes ago, if there were consistent help, they would have won more games.

Graydon Prescott 15:59
They wouldn't be 16 and 15, correct? They'd be 22 and seven, or 22 and 923, and eight, right? Somewhere in there. So they're the eight scene in Mountain West. They're they do have a home game to start off the tournament on Wednesday, so people, if you can, let's come out. Yeah, that'll be at 12pm and they will play Wyoming, whom they lost to by 32 point, correct, correct. And then the winner of that game is going to have to play the one seed in tournament. That's Utah State, who has looked, at least in the Mountain West, pretty unbeatable. San Diego State might be the team that can challenge them the most, but if UNLV plays their best, they've kind of been able to challenge anybody right, at least with the play of, you know, with Dre, yeah, so that's the men's side and, and is it looking great? No, but they have a chance. If dude continues to play the way he's playing, if he can get a little bit of help, they will have a

K.B. 16:57
chance, which will be a blessing in the curse, if he continues to play the way he's and

Graydon Prescott 17:01
if they somehow, miraculously, miraculously win the Mountain West, then they'll have, you know, an automatic ticket into the NCAA tournament. If not, then it's probably going to be the NIT for them this year, if anything. So they got to, hope to, to make a huge push, at least to the semi final West, and probably to win it if they want any chances of any further postseason play beyond the Mountain West Conference.

K.B. 17:28
You know, you know. And I've talked a little bit about whether or not you know, he could end up leaving this program because, you know, he's just been so good in that that backcourt. But I will say this, if he is motivated by his ability or his opportunity, right, to showcase what he can do, maybe, maybe he doesn't go anywhere. Yeah, kind of like Caitlin Clark at Iowa, right? Like Caitlin was recruited by a lot of schools, but some of those schools were not going to put her in the position as an incoming freshman to just go whenever she wanted to go right, to score, to shoot, to be as prolific. And you know, they had systems to be as prolific as she wanted to be, or as her her talent would allow her to be. She wasn't going to be in that position at every school. And so, you know, playing under with Jansen and that squad that that well led team that gave her the opportunity to hone those skills and become the player that she is. So if, if Dre values that, that that ability to come out and be the best version of himself, then maybe he stays. But man, am I worried, yeah,

Graydon Prescott 18:40
right now, on the women's side, it looks a lot better, and they're in a position now where they're probably the favorites to win the Mountain West to win the tournament with the shocking upset of San Diego State at the hands of the ninth seated Air Force. So on the women's side, I'll just cut to the chase. We're down to four. It's Air Force, UNLV, Colorado State and Boise State. Air Force will play Boise State. UNLV, the two seed, will play Colorado State, the three seed both of those teams 15 and five in the conference. Okay, UNLV is the two seed because they've already beaten Colorado State this year. So that's the difference. They're coming off a 14 point win at Thomas and Mac Center, where you know the top players on that team, Destiny, Leo meadow Roland and Shelby brown shot 11 for 17 on threes between the three of them work, yeah, 64%

K.B. 19:31
that is prolific.

Graydon Prescott 19:33
And Roland shout out to Meadow was named all Mountain West first team and all defensive first team ended with 19 nine rebounds and, you know, three assists. She's been fantastic all year. Yes, yes again, yeah, right. She's been absolutely fantastic all the year. So they're in the semi finals. This is five straight years now, under Coach Lorac that they've been in the semi finals in the Mountain West Conference tournament. They are now. The highest seed remaining in the tournament. And if they win against Colorado State, they will either be playing a five or a nine for the championship. That's a good position to be. It's a great position. They just have to beat the three first, right, right? And that game is tonight at that yeah, that game is tonight at 7:30pm but yeah, Sandy San Diego states out so UNLV is the favorite to win this tournament. They will win this tournament. Knock away. Yes, yes. But you know, I have full confidence in our rebels to get this job. Rebels are a great basketball team coach. Lorac, fantastic. And of course, with the way those her basketball. And I think regardless of whether they win, they will probably be in the NCAA Tournament. If they win, of course, they'll get a higher seed. If they don't win, they're still I mean, with the way they played Baylor, there's no way you can leave them out. Yeah, so that, I think I can say with confidence that we're going to see that more we expected March Madness, right in the postseason. Men's not so sure. Now, while we're on the topic of women's basketball, we got CBA negotiations, and it's getting spicy. Yeah, it's getting really spicy. The clock is ticking. Now, we said this last week that the clock is ticking. It's really ticking. Now the final hours, right? We got until tomorrow to come to an agreement. March 10, the players are now asking for 25% of the league's gross revenue, correct? And the league is sticking to that 70% net revenue. Yes. WNBA is not really budging off of that right now. The players are sticking to their gross revenue. Their proposal started at what, 28% 28 or 27 five or something? Yeah, it moved back to 26 five. Now we're at 25 and, you know, it's a direct it's a more than a direct disagreement on numbers. It's about what teams can spend on players as well, right? So salary cap 10 million versus basically 6 million Yeah, it's nine and a half to 5.75 the players, of course, proposing the $9.5 million so our salary cap, the league proposing the 5.75 now here's the argument for the players. The WNBA is growing exponentially. Yes, attendance is up 48%

K.B. 22:20
because of the players, right? Not because, yeah,

Graydon Prescott 22:23
right, right. Um, $2.2 billion media deal is about to kick in. Yes, it is, and the growth should justify the larger share in revenue and higher salaries for the players, absolutely. And they have leverage, and here's their point of leverage. We got to talk about it a little bit last week. We can get into more detail today, and that's unrivaled, right? Unrivaled. Pulled in $50 million last year. The year before that, in their inaugural season, it was, what, 40,000,035 somewhere.

K.B. 22:54
I think it was even less than that. So I think they jumped from, if it may have been 25,000,020

Graydon Prescott 22:59
5 million to 50 million to nearly 50 million, so in one year, year over year, growth, yeah, right. So that's double. That's insane. And they're not getting any smaller, and they're pulling in, you know, huge names. Chelsea Gray is the goat of unrivaled so far. But the larger point is, there is a place where these players can go, right, where they are not going to be treated as numbers, and they are the priority, and they are getting paid and unrivaled is going to get a huge media deal too. Sure, sure. So now that's a pressure point for the WNBA, and something's going to have to give, and it's going to have to give by tomorrow, or we're gonna see a situation that we haven't really seen in either of these leagues since 2011 which when there was a lockout and 1999 when there was a lockout. Yeah, so I come down on the side of the players. Sure. I think a lot of people, I think a lot of athletes, come down on the side of the I think the only people that really are coming down on the side of the league and the owners are the billionaire owners of sports. It's really the only people. I think anyone who's played sports understand sports will come down on the side of the players. In this case, myself included, I think unrivaled is a fantastic basketball product. It definitely challenges the WNBA. And you know, the winners are split $600,000

K.B. 24:30
$1,000 to the winning team, to the winning team. There's, I think, five players,

Graydon Prescott 24:34
uh huh. And you know, in their first season, it was $27 million that's up to nearly $50 million

K.B. 24:40
and last year. The winning team split $300,000 right? So they really treating their players in this exact league very well, and

Graydon Prescott 24:49
of course, it's run by Brianna Stewart and afisa colleague, yes. So of course, they're going to treat their players well, and I think they're also they're really putting on an example of how the players need to be treated.

K.B. 25:00
So Well, not only are they treating them well, they are also providing a model, yeah, for kind of how this could go right now, I do think that this would be going better for the owner and the owners representation, which is Kathy Engelbert, who is the Commissioner of the WNBA. You know, Kathy has stuck her foot in. She needs to get out several times. Yeah, now she I don't think that she said anything untoward recently. I don't think she basically diminished Caitlin Clark. I don't think she can recover like she may not be able to. I think she needs to resign as the Commissioner. And we said this last season, all the way back to last season, when the ACES won the championship and she got booed, right? Yeah, she's just but I do think she has Adam Silver support, who is the Commissioner of the NBA. She has his support, but I do agree she's probably not the person that should be in that room or seated at that table, because I think there's just

Graydon Prescott 25:57
a lot of bad energy. Yeah, the relationship is almost completely seven

K.B. 26:00
comes with her, I will say I don't think the players are going to win out on this. I did just I can't see the ownership giving them 25% of gross revenue. Yeah, I don't see that happening. And even though the players have come down from the 28% basically down to 25% for the ownership, that number 70% of net revenue has not budged right, and so something's going to have to give over the next 24 hours, or we will learn a lot with respect to whether there's going to be a lockout or not. There have been a couple of players that have come out probably said some things that they shouldn't have said, a kind of gotten danger of that whole divide and conquer strategy that many negotiators try to employ when they're dealing with a mass of people on the other side. And I don't even know that the WNBA tried to get the divide and conquer. They did this for themselves. They did this to themselves. Yeah, with Kelsey Plum and Brianna Stewart coming out and saying, hey, you know, we don't feel like we've been included in the discussions, and just some things that probably would have been better left, said privately, right. So it will be interesting to see what happens over the next, the course of the next 24 hours, I do think there's going to be movement. It would be interesting if there's a lockout. I don't want to see that. But the the women players in this league do have leverage that the NBA players eons ago, when they did a lockout, they just didn't have that. Yeah, even with Michael Jordan, Larry Bird magic, they did not have this leverage. Yeah, there was no other place to go, right?

Graydon Prescott 27:31
So, and of course, the March 10 deadline being tomorrow, a lot of reasons for that. The draft is in a month. Yes, April 13, the season is scheduled to open may 8. They better put the agency open soon. And there are still over 100 players that do not have a contract right now. So this is, we're in the ninth hour. We're, we are. It's, it's time to go

K.B. 27:54
ninth hour in like 52 minutes. Yeah, right.

Graydon Prescott 27:57
So it's definitely time to go for the CBA negotiations, and will the players be able to leverage this unrivaled rising market value to secure a deal, or will the owners just not budge, and will there be a lockout? So we're going to learn a lot in the next 24 hours, and I'm definitely going to be tuned in next week. We'll have a lot to say, yes, yes about it. So thank you everyone for tuning in to this episode of sports prep live, featuring the CBA negotiations, unlvs Mountain West Conference pushes and Dave Prescott's inability to get married. I'm great and Prescott, everybody, we'll see you all next week. 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.

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